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A woman has described her horror at seeing a brawl involving about 50 people unfold in front of her eyes.
Pictures taken by Tammy-Louise Layne show police on Margate's Sunny Sands beach after the major bust up, in which one man was arrested.
The mum-of-nine, of Margate Road in Ramsgate, was enjoying a day out at Margate beach with three of her children yesterday.
The 48-year-old heard a commotion down the beach and went to see what was going on.
She believes a child was hit in the face with a mobile phone.
It has since emerged a second beach brawl happened in nearby Broadstairs, where four people claim to have been assaulted by a gang of youngsters.
Ms Layne said: "I was with three of my girls and three of their friends.
"We were on the beach, we heard a lot of abuse being hurled a couple of rows in front of us so we went straight over there and saw a little boy with a cut.
"A man hurled racial abuse and another woman with his group was trying to attack a black man.
"We think the man threw a mobile phone.
"Police were on the beach."
She added that a crowd soon gathered to see what was going on.
"I spoke to them with my family to ask if they were ok and they explained what'd happened," Ms Layne said.
"They went to sit on the beach and this white crowd didn't want them sitting anywhere near them.
"We said they were welcome to join us if they wanted.
"It's disgusting, absolutely disgusting. My children were upset about it as well.
"The 1970s are gone. We're in 2019 now and I just think it's awful.
"I'm with a black man myself."
Ms Layne has been with her partner, Peter Layne, for almost seven years.
She added: "We were just enjoying the sun. We like Margate beach, it's very mixed and it's normally very friendly."
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