thus able to join in London's colonization of the Kent coast". The house may then have struggled to have been let as a family residence and for this reason became used as a gentleman's club before becoming a lodging house. Albion House was certainly a lodging house by at least 1857 when George Potter, a substantial farmer, was at the property. He is recorded at the property in the 1861 census as a Lodging House Keeper. By the mid-nineteenth century it was being used by the middle classes for holidays with people like the Church family, headed by Edmund Boyle Church, a solicitor visiting. In 1881 the Boarding House Proprietor was Charles Wilkinson. Ten years later the house no longer seemed to be in use as a boarding house and was put up for sale in August 1892. The house was finally sold in 1900 by Montague Kingsford, a solicitor, to Ramsgate Council who used it as its offices until 1974 when it transferred to the ownership of Thanet Council. November 2014 reopened as a boutique hotel. In July 2016 the ground floor restaurant and bar of the hotel were named Townley's, after Mary Townley. Mount Albion House Mount Albion House was built in 1798 by a local miller named John Marshall. It was the home of Augusta Emma d'Este. Dr. John Collis Browne, the originator of the medicine Chlorodyne, died here on 30 August 1884 and is commemorated by a plaque. The Granville Hotel Built by Edward Welby Pugin in 1869, originally as a terrace of eight large houses and later converted into a hotel. The building is now private apartments. Royal Victoria Pavilion The Royal Victoria Pavilion, on Ramsgate seafront, opened in 1904. It has been converted to a pub by Wetherspoons and opened in 2017. It is that company's largest outlet. West Cliff Lodge West Cliff Lodge was originally built by a Mr. Benson and named Royal Villa. He was Helen Lumsden's uncle, and she became engaged to Augustus Pugin after the death of his second wife. Her family told her to break it off, Pugin was most upset and visited Mr. Benson for comfort. Railway station Ramsgate railway station is "possibly the finest New Classical railway station in southern England". It is a Grade II listed building built between 1924-1926 by Edwin Fry. References External links The Church of Saint Augustine of Canterbury in Ramsgate, from