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65th anniversary of the Dams Raid
A number of events have been planned to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Dams Raid, which took place on 16-17 May 1943. The most spectacular will probably be the flypast by the Lancaster,...
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Two memories
Two more pieces which have been on the interwebnet for a while, but may have escaped your notice. BBC Radio Kent documentary about 617 Squadron’s test runs at Reculver in April and May 1943, including...
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Pride of Kent
If you didn’t get to see the Lancaster/Spitfire/Hurricane flypast in Derbyshire last week, you have another chance to see at least one of these this coming Sunday, when the Kent Spitfire takes part in...
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Recollecting Reculver
The Herne Bay Cultural Trail got off to a rocky start last autumn with controversy about a poorly-worded plaque describing the Dams Raid as ‘infamous’. The plaque had been placed on a new statue of...
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Take the weight off your feet
If you fancy a walk along part of the Oyster Bay Trail, on the North Kent coast, why not relax for a moment or too on the new portrait bench just outside Reculver? It’s the brainchild of Canterbury...
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Barnes Wallis at Reculver, 33 years on
Pic: © Ray Hepner Collection Barnes Wallis had never been back to Reculver in Kent, the place where the final test drops of his “bouncing bomb” took place in May 1943, until he was taken there by Ray...
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Treasure from the deep
Pic: Lisa Clayton Lisa Clayton, who lives in Herne Bay on the north coast of Kent, got a surprise when out for a walk at Reculver beach on Wednesday. She came across a complete endcap from one of the...
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