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East Thanet is a British parliamentary constituency in the Isle of Thanet in Kent, represented since 2024 by Polly Billington of the Labour Party.The seat previously existed, under the name Thanet East, from 1974 to 1983, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Ramsgate is in the parliamentary constituency of East Thanet, which is represented by Labour MP Polly Billington. She won the seat in the 2024 general election, representing a Labour win after Craig Mackinlay held the seat for the Conservatives in the 2015 General Election. Before 2015 the MP for Ramsgate was Conservative Laura Sandys.
Polly Billington (born 1967) is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament for East Thanet since 2024. Prior to her election she was an environmental campaigner and had worked as a broadcast journalist for the BBC before becoming a special advisor to Ed Miliband .
Ramsgate Sands in 1854, by William Powell Frith. The Christian missionary St Augustine, sent by Pope Gregory the Great, landed near Ramsgate in 597AD. [1] The town is home to the Shrine of St Augustine. What is now Ramsgate Maritime Museum, 1817. Ramsgate was a member of the Confederation of Cinque Ports, under the 'Limb' of Sandwich, Kent. [2]
The Town of Ramsgate, Wapping in London The Town of Ramsgate public house is located at the centre of the ancient hamlet of Wapping in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets . It features in several [ which? ] books about London inns where it is rated as "a notable specimen of a waterman's tavern."
Pugin bought the land for the site at West Cliff, Ramsgate, in 1841. [1] The house was built between 1843 and 1844 by the builder George Myers. Pugin's second wife died in 1844 and it was only after his third marriage to Jane Knill in 1848 that it became a family home. The interior of the house was finally completed in 1850.
The castle was featured on Zillow Gone Wild, a Facebook page and X, formerly known as Twitter, account, that showcases unique houses for sale all over the world, and people fell under its spell.
Margate is a seaside town in the Thanet District of Kent, England.It is located on the north coast of Kent and covers an area of 2 miles (3 kilometres) long, 16 miles (26 kilometres) north-east of Canterbury and includes Cliftonville, Garlinge, Palm Bay and Westbrook.