Margate

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Margate

Margate was a town in England. (AUDIO: Comeback of the Scorchies) It was coastal and was located at the far end of the River Thames. (AUDIO: Nevermore, TV: Deep Breath)

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19th century[[edit] | [edit source]]

The River Belle travelled every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday along the River Thames between Southend and Margate. An advert for the River Belle appeared in an 1890s copy of The Times. (TV: Deep Breath)

In the 1890s, Henry Gordon Jago's elderly aunt Maude lived in Margate. (AUDIO: The Spirit Trap) When he was a child, she used to take him swimming in the town. (AUDIO: Jago & Litefoot & Patsy)

20th century[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ernie Evans once visited Margate on a bank holiday. (PROSE: Amorality Tale)

Ace though that Kirith looked like a wet Wednesday in Margate. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Apocalypse) She once went there with Julian Milton. (PROSE: Lucifer Rising)

21st century[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the summer of 2015, Brian Bonamy performed a concert while working for the Scorchies. Iris Wildthyme and Edwin Turner went to the concert and were captured by the Scorchies. Jack forced Turner to sing Oh my Darling which brought the entire population or Margate to the concert. Iris was forced to sing a duet with Bonamy, which the Scorchies planned to use to steal the souls of every human on Earth. Iris was so bad at singing that she killed the Scorchies with her voice. (AUDIO: Comeback of the Scorchies)

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In his eighth incarnation, the Doctor's TARDIS had a mile of Margate beach with seagulls. (AUDIO: Nevermore)

The Eleventh Doctor initially said Klimtenburg's Cyberman-initiated rainstorms were worse than those of the planet Karn before deciding Margate made for a more suitable comparison. (PROSE: Plague of the Cybermen)

The Twelfth Doctor thought Margate was "rubbish", and offered to take Clara Oswald to a planet in the Phulian Nebula instead. (COMIC: Unearthly Things)