A very rough and wet evening in Margate Harbour, Thanet, with waves coming over The Pier and into The Harbour in a big north easterly wind/storm.

The original lighthouse was designed by the architect William Edmunds and was completed in 1829. It was destroyed in the North Sea flood of 1953. The design was a round Doric column similar to the lighthouse at Whitby.

A replacement lighthouse with an octagonal column was built in 1955. This lighthouse features on the series G Bank of England £20 note along with the Turner Contemporary.