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West Hythe maps
Historic maps of West Hythe and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all West Hythe maps
West Hythe photos
We have no photos of West Hythe, although we do have photos of these nearby places:
Lympne| Dymchurch| Hythe| Saltwood| Sellindge| St Marys Bay| Newington| Frogholt| Seabrook| Smeeth| Etchinghill| Brabourne Lees| Bilsington| Lyminge| Sandgate| Shorncliffe| Romney Marsh| Cheriton| Ruckinge| Littlestone| New Romney| Willesborough
West Hythe area books
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Memories of West Hythe
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Kent memories
Lympne Airport in The 50s
That plane was bright blue! As far as I can remember, the pilot was Polish - left over from the war. He used to keep the plane at the airport, and give stunning free acrobatic displays on bright sunny days. For special events, like the village fete, he would give short flights. My mum paid for me and my brother to have one once - first time I'd ever flown. When we first moved to Lympne (very near the airfield) in 1952, the planes were Silver City Bristol Freighters, with huge front opening doors that swallowed cars whole. Silver City moved to Lydd, and they were replaced by Skyways, with a fleet of Dakotas. The runway was grass, and when Skyways wanted to replace their ageing Daks with HS748 turbo-props, they had to lay a concrete strip because the new planes couldn't land on grass. There was a lady (can't remember her name) who used to excercise her racehorses on the periphery of the field. One of her horses triggered a... Read more
County Members
That pub is the County Members. We lived just round the corner, in the Street, which leads to the Castle. Between us and the pub, was an old farmhouse, which became the Castle Tea Rooms for a short while. My mum cleaned at the pub, which was three old cottages knocked into one, resulting in the living accommodation being at the top of one flight of stairs, but going to bed, meant you had to go downstairs, through the public bar, and then up another flight of stairs between the public bar and the 'snug'
Lympne Castle Stables
I used to have my horse Shogun there and its a real part of Lympne and the castle!
My First Home
I was born in one of the cottages behind the coach in the photograph. Lots of good memories
Iris Sid And Myself
Iris was my partner and Sid was our mad white poodle.
We first had a holiday from 1995 and we liked everything we encountered, the people mostly, whatever we did it was good. We hired a chalet owned by Jim Coker. Sue was his partner and she managed things for him.
We used to go to the auctions and the boot sales further afield, but the good feeling was getting back to Dymchurch for Iris to feed the horses that grazed along the railway line at the back of St Anns Rd, on those balmy summer evenings.
Sadly Iris died just before we were due to go on holiday in June 2004, but I will always be grateful for those happy days and good vibrations,Sid fell asleep 31/12/07.
The Canal.
I was born in Hythe and spent all my childhood there. My brother, sister and I used to walk home from school along the canal bank. In the holidays we would take jam jars and catch tadpoles. In the winter, we would slide on the frozen water.
Deck Chairs
My friends mum ran the deck chair place just to the right of the picture in the 1960's
