Margate, sat on the north-east Kent coastline, has like many seaside towns been a destination for domestic tourists and day-trippers for 250 years. It also shared the boom-and-decline timeline caused by the rise in package holidays and plummeting price of international flights from budget airlines to European shores.

In this series and looking ahead we are exploring through drawing the notion of international Modernism in relation to tourism and living at the seaside. Understanding the environmental benefits in exploring towns and cities at home in the UK

Margate has defined itself as an aspirational location to live and visit, reestablishing itself as a cultural destination following a coastal regeneration in the late 2000s. The DFL’s (Down-From-Londers) have come on bikes and trains in floods to visit and relocate near to the landmarks and landscape presented in this booklet. Exploring the quality and process of craftsmanship behind this town’s great details, we celebrate what has made Margate.