The Sandgate Society Archive

Charles F A Voysey architect of Spade House (1899)for H G Wells

Edith Nesbit author of "The Railway Children"

John B Gough reformed alcoholic and temperance orator b Sandgate 1817

John B Gough temperance orator 1817-1886

John Ruskin stayed in Sandgate from October 1887 to May 1888

Miss Papillion's Soldiers Institute in Chapel Street (now Wilberforce Road)

Pencil portrait of a young woman undated

Portrait of an older John B Gough

Sketch of John B Gough as a young man

Sketch of the cottage, birthplace of John Gough

Sketch of the cottage where John Gough was born 22nd August 1817 situated near the Castle Sandgate

The J B Gough Soldiers Home. John Gough returned to Sandgate to lay the foundation of this building in 1879.

William Wilberforce who visited Sandgate on a number of occasions

William Wilberforce who visited Sandgate with his family 1812,1813,1814 and 1825