Folkestone commemorates bicentenary of Samuel Plimsoll’s birth
Photo: Samuel Plimsoll’s grave Photo: Ray Duff This year, 2024 is the bicentenary of Samuel Plimsoll’s birth in February 1824. He passed away in Folkestone on 3rd June 1898 and…
Photo: Samuel Plimsoll’s grave Photo: Ray Duff This year, 2024 is the bicentenary of Samuel Plimsoll’s birth in February 1824. He passed away in Folkestone on 3rd June 1898 and…
Memorial gathering for the migrants who lost their lives Photo: Ray Duff – Words by Ray Duff – On Wednesday evening an albeit hastily arranged memorial to the deaths of…
Whitstable Harbour – Photo: Canterbury City Council — The Fishermen’s Memorial Bench, located on the beach west of Whitstable Harbour, was unveiled last week on Thursday 14 March). The splendid…
Constituency matters… a weekly column by the Member of Parliament for Folkestone and Hythe, Damian Collins 28 January 2024. Holocaust Memorial Day Every January we mark Holocaust Memorial Day on…
Bob and Susan Jones with RNLI Dungeness volunteers and their gift alongside the station’s model of the boat Saturday 9 September 2023 is the 90-year anniversary of the naming ceremony…
A Merchant Navy Day service and wreath laying ceremony is being held at the Merchant Navy War Memorial on Marine Parade on Dover Seafront at 11am on Friday 1 September.…
The ceremony in Folkestone Photo: Folkestone Town Council In Folkestone, VJ Day was commemorated on 15 August, by a service and the laying of wreaths at the Burma Star Memorial…
Photo: Folkestone Town Council On Friday 30 June, Folkestone honoured the 305 Canadian soldiers who gave their lives in WWI and rest in the Shorncliffe Military Cemetery. The Canada Day…
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother at the opening of the Memorial in 1993 While locals will know that Capel-le-Ferne is renowned for its microclimate, the weather on Sunday…
The 30th anniversary of the unveiling of the National Memorial at Capel-le-Ferne in Kent, is set to take place in July. The once simple clifftop tribute to the fewer-than 3,000…
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