Swingate Part 1 Marconi, South Foreland and Wireless ...
Swingate Downs had been common land for aeons but in the 18th and early 19th centuries the Dover horse races were held there. A letter from the Swingate Jockey Club circa July 1856, of which only part remains, tells of races being postponed and it is signed by Walter Sutton (1825- December 1856), James Risker Hammond (c1819 – 1879) and Gilbert Eastes …