Ramsgate's answer to Turner and Tracey     |     Click here to buy the book or look at our other books about Ramsgate and the surrounding area. Ramsgate's answer to Turner and Tracey   |   Ramsgate's answer to Turner and Tracey 2 Ramsgate's answer to Turner and Tracey 2 HENGEST AND HORSA  This picture is monochrome in the book The famous Jutish double-act who arrived at the invitation of King Vortigern some 148 years earlier. The names were probably not their own but came from the German, hengst (a stallion), and the Anglo-Saxon word hors (horse). Locals probably said, 'Hey, here come those horsey guys!'  -  because of the picture of a horse on their shields, i.e. the white horse that is now the symbol of Kent  -  and the name just stuck. Whilst both of these early landings took place at roughly the same spot  -  due to the flat, accessible and sheltered nature of the land at that point  -  they are commemorated in two different places. The landing of the Jutes is marked by the 'Hugin'  - a recently restored replica of a Viking ship that was rowed over from Denmark in 1949, and then permanently moored at Pegwell Bay… …whilst St. Augustine's is marked by a stone Celtic cross next to the railway line. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON - apparently visited his brother, the Marquis Wellesley, at  East Cliff Lodge when he was renting it, and also stayed at 1 Chatham Place during the Napoleonic wars. JANE AUSTEN She visited Ramsgate in 1803 when her brother Frances was a Captain in the Channel Fleet and in charge of the 'Sea Fencibles', an assorted gaggle of volunteers who were meant to stop any invasion by the French.   She obviously didn't like the town, as this sentence from a letter to her sister suggests - 'Ed Hussey talks of fixing at Ramsgate - Bad Taste!'   Ramsgate is mentioned in 'Pride and Prejudice' as the scene of Wickham's attempted elopement with Darcy's sister - 'My sister, who is more than ten years my junior, was left to the guardianship of my mother's nephew, Colonel Fitzwilliam and myself.  About a year ago she was taken from school, and an establishment formed for her in London; and last summer she went with the lady who presided over it to Ramsgate. And thither also went Mr. Wickham, undoubtedly by design, for there proved to have been a prior acquaintance between him and Mrs. Yonge, in whose character we were most unhappily deceived; and by her connivance and aid he so far recommended himself to Georgiana, whose affectionate heart retained a strong impression of his kindness to her as a child, that she was persuaded to believe herself in love, and to consent to an elopement…' - and in 'Mansfield Park' where Tom Bertram goes to visit his fashionable friends, the Sneyds, who were staying in Albion Place - 'When we reached Albion Place they were out; we went to find them, and found them