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The British seaside town of Margate is filled with iconic attractions. There’s Dreamland and the Turner Gallery. There’s Tracey Emin’s neon sign and the café where Pete Doherty ate that massive fry-up. And then there are the Margate Caves. These weird and wonderful underground tunnels might actually be more iconically ‘Margate’ than all that other stuff.
Originally dug out as a 43ft-deep chalk mine, the chambers have had various different functions throughout their peculiar 300-year history. And they are now decorated with rather surreal wall paintings and graffiti.
Photograph: Margate Caves
The caves have been owned over the years by a science-loving schoolmistress, a nineteenth-century gentleman with a fondness for entertaining and a reverend whose vicarage was built above them. And they’ve been used as a wine cellar, a wartime air-raid shelter and possibly even by smugglers as a secret hideaway.