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This photo shows the beach at Admiralty Walk and Preston Parade..... with Joy Lane and the London-to-Thanet railway line skirting the coastline.

The enlarged extract below focuses on the unique houses that are wedged between the rail track and the shingle at Preston Parade.

Another extract shows a similar view of Admiralty Walk but it also includes The Battery Bridge which spans the rail line at Joy Lane.....

Most of the properties along Joy Lane have been with us for many years. However, in the past, they were fringed by substantial swathes of countryside. From the 1960s, substantial development has seen much of this disappear and there is now little open space between the coastline and the Thanet Way to the south. The extract below shows some of this development and it is interesting to note the pattern....

While discussing Peter's Tankerton photos, I mentioned the grid iron pattern of roads that developed in the 1920s and 1930s. Things were a little different from the 1950s through to the 1970s. The large housing developments of these decades included grid irons but they were augmented by sweeping curves and circles. They can be spotted very quickly on town maps..... and aerial photos!