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Vintage World

Vintage World Spring 2019

The SPRING issue of our new magazine VINTAGE WORLD Will be available soon.  It is a SUBSCRIPTION ONLY HARD COPY PUBLICATION delivered to your door anywhere in the United Kingdom for £20 per year (four seasonal issues).

Order your magazines by PayPal button below, or by cheque for £20, made out to Cinque Ports Magazines Rye Limited. Send to Guinea Hall Lodge, Sellindge, Kent TN25 6EG.  Alternatively send name and address and pay £20 direct into our bank  20-02-62 Acc. No. 83865096.  The SPRING issue will be with you at the end of March.

The Spring issue contains articles, features or pictures pertaining to the following.

Jive Aces : Featuring  The Big Beat Review.

Model Girls from the Swinging Sixties : Original photographs taken at the 1964 Photo Fair

Yellow Rolls Royce : Pictures and feature on this fantastic car with the Dulcettes

Victoria & Holly of the Dulcettes: Are our Cover Girls

THE DULCETTE BAND

Scott Elvis Feature : Is Scott the best  Elvis?  Two page article on Scott and ‘The King’.

Scott Elvis

Many pictures from Past War & Peace Revival Events:  pictures of Adam Hoffman,Holly Chambers, Victoria Bass, Viv the Spiv, Rosie Apples, Holly Foster, Kitten Von Mew, Amy Baker, Jive Aces, Cassidy Jansen and so many others.

War on your doorstep: Richard Holdsworth’s photographs of Rocker Rod of the Cinque Ports Lindy Hoppers, Viv the Spiv, Gypsy John, Paulette Merrimen, Kevin Quaife, Richard Holdsworth and the Battle of Britain Flight

Pictures from the Golden Age of Steam

Grassington Dickensian Festival: Tony May,  Hastings Town’s favourite journalist, illustrates a four page feature article with pictures from the Yorkshire Dales  popular annual festival.

1929 Bentley Visits one of the most famous Inns in England

The Bentley was valued at £1500 in 1964

Rallycross the Television Sporting sensation of the 1960: Featuring Champion Rod Chapman and the story of how the event was specially created for television.

Cassidy Jenson: West End Musical leading lady and fabulous singer of vintage music who often performes with the most active band in the land The Jive Aces. Photographs by Katalina Kat

Invasion of the Mods: The story of a sunny weekend in Hastings in 1964. Including picture of singer Karen Moses on the actual original Lambretta used in the film Quadraphenia

Police were brought to Hastings from Brighton to help deal with the situation
Hastings was Swamped with Mods
A policeman buts in and stops an argument between young men

 

 

 

 

 

 

Six Spoons – Like it or lump it: The story of a WWII Evacuee by Richard Holdsworth.

Catalina Kat – Roving Photographer

Coachlines: The man who paints coachlines on Royal Vehicles.

The Barnes Wallis Motorcycle : Ridden by singer Karen Moses

 

Cinque Ports Bulletin March 2019

 

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2017 War and Peace Revival will not be held at Folkestone Racecourse

A Return to the Hopfields

It seems the imminent house building plan that Shepway has for the area has driven the War & Peace Revival away from the area and back to Whitbreads Hopfields Showgrounds at Beltring.

The show, which was immensely popular for the past four years at Folkestone Racecourse and responsible for attracting a huge amount of trade to the area from all over the country and the continent, is to be staged at Pembury in 1917 and beyond.

A long term contract has been signed which will see the show at Beltring for at least the next four years Continue reading 2017 War and Peace Revival will not be held at Folkestone Racecourse

Read About the New Aldington Memorial in Cinque Ports

At Last – Aldington Gets a Memorial

 

Cinque Ports magazine is packed with stories, events and nostalgia from the Cinque Ports and adjoining areas. The latest issue features the Opening of the fine new War Memorial at Aldington, telling the story of how it came about and recording the event with many pictures.

Cinque Ports August Cover
Cinque Ports August Cover

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Twin Swing are a Sensation on Day Three

In the “Victory Marquee” at War & Peace Revival

So here they are, Twin Swing, the identical Twin Sisters, inspired by the infamous Dolly Sisters of the 1920s. They are helping to bring back the great era of ‘swing’ made famous in the Roaring Twenties. The twins are hoping to help make swing as popular in  2020 as it was 100 years before.

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Day Two at the War & Peace Revival 2016

Public Pour in to the Revival at Westenhanger

The sun shone again for the second day at the massive War & Peace Revival at the old Folkestone Racecourse but a cool breeze made conditions much more comfortable than the heat wave of the first day. Continue reading Day Two at the War & Peace Revival 2016

Steam Tractor Stops for a Drink at Sellindge

Film Clip of Traction Engine on the Way to War & Peace Revival

 

A new attraction at the War & Peace Revival will be Steam Traction Engines. Including this magnificent example and others, including a Steam Roller.

steam rally

 

Steam Traction Engine
Steam Traction Engine

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Albert has Died

It is with deep sadness we report that ‘Albert’ the “Rye’s Own” mascot has died.

The little dog we adopted as our mascot when he was just three months old, had a kidney disorder that meant that he was on a special diet from that time. The prognosis of a life expectancy of “weeks rather than months” was forecast at the time. Continue reading Albert has Died