Cinque Ports January 2021

 

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The January 2021 Cinque Ports is available now from selected local newsagents priced at £1.00 only.  This issue carries the first installment of the brand new novel by David Weston, using the background of the recently brought to light facts of the ‘Secret Spitfires’ built at Sailsbury in the Second War, as a background to the fictional story that will keep you enthralled for the next seven month. Cinque Ports carries the very first publication of the novel before it is produced in book form.

https://library.myebook.com/CinquePorts/cinque-ports-january-2021/3080/

Cinque Ports is packed with stories, news, information and pictures. £1.00 for Hard Glossy Copy of free on the internet via Cinque Ports Facebook Group

Vintage World Winter 2021

The Winter 2021 issue of Vintage World is packed with good things in spite of there being very little activities, events or shows taking place in these Covid ridden times.

If you are a subscriber your winter issue will be in the post to you by the end of the month – If not do get your £20 on its way to us to ensure you get it and the rest of the 2021 magazines.

Become an active part of the magazine by sending in your stories and memories of the days pre- 1980. Anything to do with Vintage Fashion, Vehicles, Pin-ups, Burlesque, Transport, Music (including retro), Vintage shows and events. Vintage History, stories of heroes from wartime, post war, pre war, twenties, Edwardian, Victorian. Anything you feel would interes our readers

 

Captain Tom

An inspiration to the nation

 

Captain Tom Moore reached one hundred and has become an inspiration
to the whole nation after beating Covid19 and raising £30,000,000
for the NHS in a sponsored walk around his garden.

He captured the imagination of people locked down in an effort to
stem the endless list of death that we are reading on a daily basis.

Captain Tom Moore served his country in WW2 in the jungles of Burma,
he saw Spitfires and Hurricanes “Flying in anger” in those dark wartime
days.

Now, in a few short weeks leading up to his 100th. birthday, the veteran
of WW2 has served the nation again, bringing not only a vast thirty
million pound boost to the NHS but a much more valuable commodity
to each and every one of us – optimism, faith and hope that this terrible
invisible enemy can be beaten. He is so convincing and his message
that “Tomorrow will be a good day” has been seized upon by people
who have been so confined and to doctors, nurses and all the essential
workers who have carried on despite personal danger.

Today (30 April 2020) he has been honoured on his birthday by The
Prime Minister, his regiment, who have promoted him to colonel, the
Royal Air Force with a Battle of Britain Fly-past and the MCC who
have made him a member of the English Cricket Team. On his birthday
he also became the oldest person ever to become Number One in the
music charts with Never Walk Alone.

A small connection with Rye – The 150,000 cards that Captain Tom received
for his birthday were sorted at Bedford School. It was to a school
in Bedford that Rye Grammar School was evacuated to in 1940.

Here at Rye’s Own we offer our own congratulations to Colonel Tom
Moore and also congratulate the BBC who have covered the story from
the start in such a dignified way. The BBC have come under a lot of
criticism of late but no one could fault their coverage of Captain
Tom and his families epic fund raising feat.

Jim Hollands

Miss Holiday Swing

Miss Holiday Swing Singer of Vintage Songs

By Jim Hollands

It was the hottest late summer Bank Holiday ever recorded and the crowds were out in force at Folkestone for a special double vintage event based on the famous Grand Hotel on the Lees Cliff.

The Oldtimer Rally, run by the ‘Grand Oldtimers Car Club’ is an established annual event, except for the war years, a car rally has been a feature in Folkestone since 1896

 

Inside the Hotel there was a Vintage and Craft Fair with an amazing variety of interesting artifacts, clothing and crafted products to entice the hundreds of buyers who passed through between 10am. and 4pm.

On the huge stage at the far end of the third stall filled gallery, the seemingly diminutive figure of top class vintage star, Miss Holiday Swing, was singing classic

vintage songs from far off times when the world wa s  younger . Amongst the numbers Holly sang were songs that made you laugh, songs that made you want to sing along and love songs that stirred the memory to recall past romances.

Nostalgia is a very powerful emotion. Yet in the sales area, deals were being done and sales were being made and the only time it was evident the people in the room were aware of the music was the large amount of impromptu applause that came at the end of each song. To be able to perform in a hall where there is split interest is one of this singers great assets. Holly has been performing in front of all types of audience since she started out at the age of  fourteen. Whether she is performing in front of an audience of thousands at a military event, hundreds in a packed theatre or just a handful at a residential home Holly will always give 100% to every number she sings.

Miss Holiday Swings appearance is always as immaculate as her voice. Her special interests have always been in vintage music and fashion. For the event at The Grand she chose this stunning dress by Aurelie & Rose of Eastbourne

Outside the sun blazed down on the priceless collection of oldtimers. Ian Benson’s 1935 Bentley Le Mans Vandem Plas. GX 1229. was the centre of attraction. This beautiful car is the centre of attention wherever it goes Ian told me. It evokes childhood memories of exciting books on car racing with a similar car featured on the cover.

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