The other day, I stumbled across a video on Facebook of Margate in the mid-1980s. I was rather transfixed. There’s no commentary, no one telling us what we’re seeing, nothing particularly exciting to witness (there’s not even a glimpse of Dreamland (or Bembom Brothers as it was back then), simply an opportunity to peer through the window of a lens to see how things were 40 years ago. You can see it for yourself if you scroll down. I mention it because in the great ‘wasn’t everything better back in the day’ debates, 1980s Margate is often touted as something of a golden era; one which its curre…
