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BROADSTAIRS , a watering-See also:place, in the Isle of See also:Thanet See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Kent, See also:England, 3 M. S.E. of See also:Margate, on. the See also:South-Eastern & See also:Chatham railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district, Broadstairs and St See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter's (19or) 6466. From 1837 to 1851 Broadstairs was a favourite summer resort of See also:Charles See also:Dickens, who, in a See also:sketch called " Our See also:English Watering-Place," described it as a place " See also:left high and dry by the See also:tide of years." This seaside See also:village, with its " semicircular sweep of houses," See also:grew into a considerable See also:town owing to the influx of summer visitors, for whose entertainment there are, besides the " See also:Albion " mentioned by Dickens, numerous hotels and boarding-houses, See also:libraries, a bathing See also:establishment and a See also:fine See also:promenade. Dickens' See also:residence was called Fort See also:House, but it became known as See also:Bleak House, through association with his novel of that name, though this was written after his last visit to Broadstairs in 1851. Broadstairs has a small See also:pier for fishing-boats, first built in the reign of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VIII. An archway leading down to the See also:shore bears an inscription showing that it was erected by See also:George Culmer in 1540, and not far off is the site of a See also:chapel of the Virgin, to which See also:ships were accustomed to See also:lower their See also:top-sails as they passed. St Peter's See also:parish, lying on the landward See also:side of Broadstairs, and included in the urban district, has a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church dating from the 12th to the end of the 16th See also:century. Kingsgate, on the See also:North See also:Foreland, north of Broadstairs on the See also:coast, changed its name from St See also:Bartholomew's See also:Gate in See also:honour of Charles II.'s landing here with the See also:duke of See also:York in 1683 on his way from See also:London to See also:Dover. Stonehouse, See also:close by, now a preparatory school for boys, was the residence of See also:Archbishop See also:Tait, whose wife established the orphanage here.
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