Historic Photographs of the Carnival from the West Collection.

Douglas West moved to Whitstable with his father Stephen in 1914. Douglas took over the Whitstable photographers (now the Black Dog) in 1946 after serving as a photographer in WW2. Douglas West collected many images of Whitstable as early as 1857 and donated all his non-family photographs to Whitstable Museum in 1997. "The Museum holds 1500 photographs in the Douglas West Collection and the catalogues may be viewed by the public when the museum is open and copies purchased to aid museum funds."