Broadstairs the 1930s by A.H. Simison (the photographic chemist) entitled "Ramsgate (The Kent Coast at its best) Pictorially Presented", describes Broadstairs town as having approached modernisation and urban development "always with a consistent policy of retaining those characteristics for which it has for so long been renowned". The town has retained many aspects of historical interest, besides its maritime history. Amongst these is its notable religious history, evoked by places such as the Shrine of Our Lady, Bradstowe. Lifeboats arrived in Broadstairs in 1851. News of the loss of the Irish packet with 250 lives, on the sands off Margate on
9: The Last Resort in the closing credits as ""9 - The Last Resort"", leading most people to refer to the game as ""9: The Last Resort"". The title is always written as '9', the numeral, not the word. The name ""9"" refers to the nine muses which inhabit the resort (from Greek mythology). The muses are represented by various characters in the game. The name ""The Last Resort"" is the title of the building in which the game is set. It is a luxury hotel which belonged to a man called Thurston Last, but is also a pun on the term "last resort".