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@clubman
No it's not a Thanet.
It looks like a very standard mass market frame (Hercules, Phillips, Sun?) that had a respray about 50 years ago with transfers applied at random. (It's quite common for restorers to do this: they've got a newly stoved frame and a box of assorted transfers - they think the frame looks a bit bare with nothing on it, so the apply whatever transfer they happen to have.)
Thanets were very elegant frames, always silver soldered with eccentric features e.g. the seat and down tubes met in a point *under *the bottom bracket shell - some cynics referred to them as 'ploughs'. Hilary Stone (mentioned elsewhere in this column) has published an interesting booklet on the marque.
I'd say the best item on this machine is the handlebar stem which looks like a GB '531'. The chainset is a useable Williams C34 (n.b. the cotterpins are badly fitted - the rule is crank forward, nut upwards). The rims look like Weinmann, but I think they're 26 x 1 and 1/4" so you'll be lucky to find any tyres for them.