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PHOTO THE SOUTHERN DOORWAY OF THE MAN OF KENT COFFEE TAVERN AND TEMPERANCE HOTEL HIGH STREET MARGATE ISLE OF THANET KENT . THE TAVERN/HOTEL WAS BUILT IN 1880 BY THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT IN A VERY GRAND FREE-STYLE EACH OF ITS FIVE STOREYS (PLUS TWO ATTIC STOREYS) HAVING DIFFERENT STYLES. THE BUILDING IS MUCH HIGHER THAN SURROUNDING PROPERTIES AND HAS A MASSIVE RECTANGULAR CHIMNEY STACK WITH 15 POTS. THE SIDE OF THE STACK HAS THREE PANELS THE CENTRAL ONE STILL HAVING BADLY FADED LETTERING FOR 'TEMPERANCE HOTEL'. THE OTHER TWO MAY HAVE BEEN FOR PAINTED ADVERTISEMENTS. THE TAVERN MIMICS THE FLAMBOYANT LATE VICTORIAN 'GIN PALACES' IN AN ATTEMPT TO ATTRACT PUB GOERS TO MORE ABSTEMIOUS PURSUITS THE COFFEE TAVERN HAVING AN EXTENSIVE VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES AND FUNCTIONS - READING ROOM DINING ROOM GAMES ROOM A NON-ALCOHOLIC BAR AND OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATION. BY 1895 IT WAS NO LONGER IN TEMPERANCE USE AND SUBSEQUENTLY HAS HAD MANY COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL USES. CURRENTLY THERE IS A SHOP ON THE GROUND FLOOR. THE TILES SURROUNDING THE TWO DOORWAYS WERE MANUFACTURED BY MAW & CO. AND ARE OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY. THEY WERE DESIGNED BY OWEN GIBBONS WHO WORKED ON THE INTERNAL CERAMIC DECORATIONS OF THE VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM AND WHO LATER BECAME HEAD MASTER OF COALBROOKDALE SCHOOL OF ART. THE ORIENTAL FIGURES ARE A JAPANESE LADY MAKING TEA AND A A CHINESE MAN WHO IS A TEA VENDOR. THEIR SIZE MAKES THEM HIGHLY UNUSUAL IF NOT UNIQUE WHILST THE TILES ON THE PILASTERS ARE POSSIBLY THE ONLY SURVIVING EXAMPLES OF THIS DESIGN. COPYRIGHT (Photograph and text in Extra Info) HUGH LLEWELYNPHOTO PAPER THICKNESS NORMAL PHOTOGRAPH THICKNESS
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PHOTO SIZE SIZE 6 X 4 inches
CONDITION: SOME CROPPING OR WHITE LINES TOP/BOTTOM MAY OCCUR DUE TO PHOTO RATIO
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