Dates

• Existence: 1870 - 1919

Biography

The Hall by the Sea, was a pleasure garden in Margate, England, which later became Dreamland.

The original Hall by the Sea was a restaurant and dance hall built in 1866, which failed to take off and was purchased in 1870 by the Mayor of Margate, Thomas Dalby Reeve. That same year Reeve entered a partnership to run the Hall with George Sanger and started to buy the land adjacent to the Hall. In 1875 when Reeve died, George Sanger became the sole proprietor of the Hall and started to develop the site into a pleasure garden offering rides, a lake, a menagerie, a skating rink and sideshows.

In 1911 after the death of George Sanger, the site started to decline and in 1919 it was sold to theme park entrepreneur John Henry Iles who turned it into Dreamland.