Joyland Books

Mock up Dreamland cinema side, incorporated art deco windows.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/55813958@N ... otostream/

I love Firefox browser. makes snagging the URL for these protected pictures easy.

These shops don't look too awful, but having something unified and tasteful couldn't hurt. The example here works better if you squint.
A skim coat of stucco and a unified common marquee would really class this strip up. Also, some (maybe four different) neutral colors on the buildings, maybe with each defined rather than being all one color. The white looks cheap.

Dreamland Cinema splendorous Art Deco

Margate lost utopia
Visions

Know what that seafront need?
TREES.
Nice green trees. It's so barren looking.
That whole build-right-up-to-the-edge thing that was so popular for a few short decades has really cluttered the seafront.
Trees.

They have planted lots of Palm trees along Southend Seafront gives it a touch of the riviera looks very smart.

Sadly the tree huggers hate it!

They wanted indidginus trees only to be planted.

These trees are not part of Southend Borough Council's 2 for 1 tree planting policy where for every single tree is cut down two are planted to replace it, again the tree huggers do not like the policy as the trees being planted are sapling/semi mature and not the fully mature trees being cut down due to disease or in the way of re-development when its pointed out that two trees are better than one its the same old carbon rant that a fully maturte tree takes more carbon out the environment than a growing tree, point out that in a decade or so the new trees will have grown you get the but we might be dead before then so will not see them...

To say wicked thoughts cross my mind would not be a lie...

I rather like the tackiness of the seafront shopfronts. Too much bland ye olde heritage stylee will rob Margate of some of its charm.

It ain't Southwold...

Pleased I'm a tree hugger too. Hate the thought of windswept palms & a faux Riviera. Hate in particular the thought of trees being stuck along the seafront at Margate, soooo very wrong.


As for the cinema, as a Grade II* building I suspect that best conservation practice is prevailing.

http://www.dreamlandmargate.com/downloa ... l_comp.pdf

http://www.thanet.gov.uk/environment__p ... areas.aspx

Yes, I particularly like the flamingo arcade I feel it should be listed, I think the important thing is balance maybe a combination of both, something for everyone.

I bet margate has at least 5x more heritage than Southwold.

Southwold is pretty good too, they are just totally different types of seaside resorts & long may it continue.

Margate has its own charm and historic development.

On the subject of trees, I have heard that dreamland is going to have trees planted with the rides, here is a picture of what it may look like.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... sus_tp.jpg

In this picture of colossus the trees do not look native to the UK.

Of course in dreamland, it will be English trees to please the locals.

Sorry for people who are aware of this place, but I came across this picture on the net today, it defiantly resembles the scenic railway.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... erbird.JPG

There are some very interesting concept ideas here. Personally I think the seafront area would greatly benefit from some greenery and as these photos of Southend and Great Yarmouth show, non-native species can be very attractive.






In fact, it could be argued that visitors to Margate would prefer to see exotic species rather than the usual sycamore, ash and plane trees which can be seen at their local parks or woodland anywhere in the UK.

After all, there used to be lions and tigers at Dreamland, and they are not native species.

How about an exotics zone and a native zone, problem solved.