EPW000077 ENGLAND (1920). Cliff Railway, Folkestone, 1920
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| Title | [EPW000077] Cliff Railway, Folkestone, 1920 | 
| Reference | EPW000077 | 
| Date | March-1920 | 
| Link | |
| Place name | FOLKESTONE | 
| Parish | FOLKESTONE | 
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND | 
| Easting / Northing | 621789, 135413 | 
| Longitude / Latitude | 1.1664762590501, 51.074580011533 | 
| National Grid Reference | TR218354 | 
Pins
|  This was also known as the Metropole lift ( built to serve the Metropole Hotel guests ) |   Roscoe | Friday 29th of September 2017 03:10:34 PM | 
|  West lift ( two of three ) |   Roscoe | Friday 29th of September 2017 02:59:34 PM | 
|  Avenue Mansions Hotel, now site of Edinburgh Place |   Paolo | Saturday 10th of November 2012 03:18:49 PM | 
|  Tressillian Hotel |   Paolo | Saturday 10th of November 2012 03:18:03 PM | 
|  Chalk pit.  Chalk taken from here to use as ballast for colliers unloading at the harbour. |   Paolo | Saturday 10th of November 2012 03:17:19 PM | 
|  Top of what is now called the Leas Cliff Railway |   Nicholas Reed | Saturday 20th of October 2012 07:44:08 AM | 
| I thought this was the old West Lift ( long since gone ) |   Roscoe | Thursday 25th of October 2012 09:50:37 PM | 
|  The Manor House, built by Lord Radnor in 19th century |   Nicholas Reed | Saturday 20th of October 2012 07:43:36 AM | 
User Comment Contributions
| there were 3 lifts in the length of the lease  the present one of to sets [now one] a second the bottom of which was close to the toll house on the lower road, and a less steep one which ran from the Sandgate end of the lease across a bridge and ending beside the main sandgate road. this is the central one |   lofty Ailwood | Thursday 18th of July 2013 01:18:06 PM | 
 
             
  ![[EPW000077] Cliff Railway, Folkestone, 1920](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EPW/000/EPW000077.jpg) 
  
                                          ![[EPW000085] The Leas, Folkestone, 1920](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EPW/000/EPW000085.jpg) 
 ![[EPW000586] Hotel Metropole and The Grand Hotel, Folkestone, 1920](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EPW/000/EPW000586.jpg) 
 ![[EPW009198] The Hotel Metropole and Grand Hotel, Folkestone, 1923](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EPW/009/EPW009198.jpg) 
 ![[EPW019066] Hotel Metropole and the Grand Hotel, Folkestone, 1927](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EPW/019/EPW019066.jpg) 
 ![[EPW009203] The Hotel Metropole and Grand Hotel, Folkestone, 1923](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EPW/009/EPW009203.jpg) 
 ![[EPW042867] The Hotel Metropole and Grand Hotel, Folkestone, 1933](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EPW/042/EPW042867.jpg) 
 ![[EPW042869] The Hotel Metropole, Grand Hotel and environs, Folkestone, 1933](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EPW/042/EPW042869.jpg) 
 ![[EPW000583] Clifton Crescent, Folkestone, 1920](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EPW/000/EPW000583.jpg) 
 ![[EPW035413] The Hotel Metropole, the Grand Hotel and The Leas, Folkestone, 1931](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EPW/035/EPW035413.jpg) 
 ![[EPW000594] The Hotel Metropole and The Grand Hotel, Folkestone, 1920](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EPW/000/EPW000594.jpg) 
 ![[EAW024829] Clifton Crescent and environs, Folkestone, 1949](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EAW/024/EAW024829.jpg) 
 ![[EPW000082] Clifton Crescent and Holy Trinity Church, Folkestone, 1920](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EPW/000/EPW000082.jpg) 
 ![[EPW000285] Hotel Metropole, Coolinge, Folkestone, from the south-east, 1920](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EPW/000/EPW000285.jpg) 
 ![[EPW035416] The Hotel Metropole, The Leas and the town, Folkestone, 1931](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EPW/035/EPW035416.jpg) 
 ![[EPW026116] Hotel Metropole and the Grand Hotel, Folkestone, 1929](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EPW/026/EPW026116.jpg) 
 ![[EAW024833] West Cliff, Folkestone, from the south-west, 1949](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EAW/024/EAW024833.jpg) 
 ![[EPW000592] Clifton Crescent and Westcliff, Folkestone, from the west, 1920](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EPW/000/EPW000592.jpg) 
 ![[EPW000366] Clifton Crescent, Folkestone, 1920](http://britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/aerofilms-images/public/100x100/EPW/000/EPW000366.jpg)