Talk:Whitstable

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Hello, my name's Tom West, and i own a site about Whitstable called See Whitstable [1] I was looking through your page about Whitstable and noticed your external links section, and followed directions to here, as i was hoping that you might find time to take a look at my site, and see whether you think a link to it from your Whitstable page might be possible. It's a fairly new site, but i'm adding to it steadily and it's been well received so far. Thanks for your time, tom West

Added link to external links Gretnagod 01:07, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Additional information

My query is with the statement "Sadly some of the houses have lost much of their character in recent years as the historical heart of the buildings have been ripped out to make fashionable holiday homes for well heeled buyers from London."

While I happen to agreee with it, it is hardly NPOV, is it? Gretnagod 01:02, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Great Fire of Whitstable

I haven't got a copy of the quoted book at hand, but my memory suggests that this section has been copied completely from that book. The language used seems to be more 1930s than 2000s, and if anyone has the book can they check the Great Fire passage out? Thanks. Gretnagod 01:04, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is the history correct?

The article referred to in the External link "Simply Whitstable" does not agree with the statement "the town was recorded in the Domesday Book": that reference is to the name of the hundred. Later in the same article it makes it clear that the town, which had been simply Whitstable Street became such in the early 18th century. I am not a native, but know it quite well, and it is a pity that this article gives incorrect information.

Further, the town was a harbour and fishing village before the railway arrived; the harbour is still in use, but this was not mentioned. Nice as it may be to talk about the "Crab and Winkle" (and I have amended that to show why it was called that) it takes up quite a bit of space, much of which is on the C&WR article. Peter Shearan 13:43, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

For clarification - while Whitstable was a fishing town before the railway (although far more dredging, to be fair) the actual man-made harbour did not exist before the railway. It was built as part of the railway project - hence it was there for a year or two before the railway opened, but that was it.

Before this time, catches were landed on the beach - often at the Horsebridge. Gretnagod 12:53, 18 August 2006 (UTC)