TR3966 : Plaque on Gate House
taken 13 years ago, near to Ramsgate, Kent, England
King George VI Memorial Park was formed out of the grounds of East Cliff Lodge, the home for over fifty years of the nineteenth-century philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore. The house was demolished in the 1950s but its stable courtyard survives and the early nineteenth-century glasshouse is built against its outer side. Recently the glasshouse has been restored.
The park (now managed by Ramsgate Council) covers a large area of open space with areas set aside to woods and football pitches. It's also the perfect place to have a cup of tea or an ice cream during the summer months in the cafe, to walk dogs, or start a clifftop walk towards Broadstairs or Ramsgate.