3-071-076 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Improvements on the Kentish coast: view looking westward from Folkestone over Sandgate to Hythe, showing the new Embankment, 1881. Engraving from a sketch by Major A. Moberly. 'The Hythe and Sandgate Embankment, or the Hythe Marine Parade, which adds greatly to the attractions of that salubrious place of seaside resort, has occupied two years and a half in its construction. Sir John Coode has been the consulting engineer, Mr. H. B. James the constructor, and Mr. H. D. Good the resident engineer for superintendence during the operations. The wall, which is of concrete faced by Kentish rag, has a length of about 6000 ft...Three-quarters of a million cubic yards of shingle have been lifted from the foreshore to form the road and promenade. It completes a line of five miles along the coast to the west of Folkestone, with an uninterrupted and commodious carriage-drive all the way. The Seabrook Estate Company...have laid out this parade to add to the natural charms of the town as a residence'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.