Ena Dayne The brief shining of a music hall star.

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We visited Sandgate at the weekend as I wanted to see where my grandfather Fred Penfold lived with his Great uncle and grandmother Ellen Thomas at No 15 coastguard cottage, only to find they have been re numbered but was still nice to see the area they lived.

Alan Taylor told me it was left unfinished for many years until the Holiday Fellowship took it over in 1923, but perhaps it was indeed used as a hotel at some period between those years. Hi Stephanie, By coincidence, in my class at school there was a Christine Gardner and a Frances Anslow. I used to have registration at the St Stephens end and then go in crocodile formation along Coolinge Lane throughout the day. My wife and I went to the same school in Oxfordshire and sure this is where we stayed with the fellowship in the 70s. Tried Google no joy so far, but have come up with a compilation CD on the CD Universe site, which doesn't list the tracks unfortunately.Peter tells me he was head boy at the Harvey Grammar School in 1968, and some may remember he survived a horrendous cliff top car crash earler that year. The whole place had a really distinctive smell (odd mix of chlorine and sea air) which hits me in the nostrils when I look at those photos on your site. His name was even brought up in the houses of parliament during WW1 because he kept showing lights during the blackout, even though he was repeatedly asked to draw his curtains at night in case his light guided German aircraft to drop bombs on Folkestone. I am a descendent through my nan of Vollee Maree aka Joseph Milton, one of the crew of the Four Brothers which was involved in a seabattle with the Badger Revenue cutter. I still remember a great deal about the school, and its chapel which housed a 'holy saint' namely St Teresa, I can to this day,remember the smell of the incense which burned in the chapel.

I have always wanted to obtain a photograph of their house, but it is always out of view in harbour shots. Cruising Down the River" was first recorded in 1946 by Lou Preager and his Orchestra, with the vocal by Paul Rich.

That would have been Leslie's Cafe on the corner of Foord Road and Devon Road, the road is still there, but certainly looks different around that area these days. I'm presuming you mean the one at the bottom of Sandgate Hill rather than Lord Radnor's on the Lower Sandgate Road. Hi Eve: I don't know a lot about that building that I believe is now known as Channel Villas, 106 - 110 Sandgate High Street. I know someone who had a vague recollection of children being injured in Cheriton, but I don't know if this would be the same incident. I just had a look at The Leas, Westcliff-on-Sea on Google Street view, and there are still some big old homes there, but couldn't find anything with the name of Westcliff Towers on it.