The sun blazed down on Lydd on 16th June when a large crowd turned up to spend the day watching the annual festivities.
Tag: Royal Marines
This Rye’s Own collection brings together articles connected with Royal Marines, drawing news, memories and magazine features into one path through the archive. Readers can move between “Another Camber Railway”, “A Fresh Look At Rye”, and “A Look Back In Time Lydd Club Day 1973”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine. Taken together, these pieces preserve the names, places and passing details that might otherwise slip out of the local record.
A Fresh Look At Rye
Richard Holdsworth, one time local man who has been writing articles in this magazine for years, has moved to Australia but can’t get out of the habit of producing words and pictures he thinks would interest our readers. Here Richard takes a trip to a town that has adopted a name we know only too … Continue reading A Fresh Look At Rye
Another Camber Railway
There was another Camber Tram – in the Falkland Islands. A commemorative set of stamps, pictured right, were issued in 1986.