St Margaret's was both bombed and directly shelled from gun sites in France in the Second World War. Over 600 shells landed on the village and many…

Many of the views in the archive are taken from postcards, especially of the Bay which was a very popular postcard subject. In this collection we have…

Despite its small size the village had a thriving tourist industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Local traders produced visitor's guides…

The land under the cliff in St Margaret's Bay was once almost a separate community in its own right. Only the Coastguard public house, originally 'The…

In 2013 the archive acquired a book of photographs of the village which had been collected by and featured members of the Madge family who ran the…