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Nostalgic memories of Lydd's local history

Share your own memories of Lydd and read what others have said

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

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Growing Up In Lydd
I have many memories of lydd some not so great I was brought up in the old police station opp the rising sun just on the right as you go over the bridge of the miniature steam railway. I remember the feilds at the back of the old police station spent most of my childhood across the dykes n feilds picking mushrooms by the railway there was also a caravan site does anyone know about the old police station n what happened ...see more
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Added 24 February 2019

National Service At Lydd Camp.
In March 1954 a lovely spring day saw two new members of the Camp staff arriving at Lydd Station. Craftsman Pankhurst and Craftsman Francis. Stepping out of the train was like stepping onto a silent world. It was very peaceful and quite delightful especially as one is inclined to think the worst of a posting to a place we never knew existed. A truck had been sent to collect us for the short drive to the ...see more
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Added 22 September 2015

Home Posting
I was tour-ex from RAF Butzweilerhof (Cologne) in September 1961 and didn't fancy a sea crossing so I booked my passage on the air ferry. Everything went smoothly and quickly once I got to Ostend but the overnight trip from Cologne is a different story. I had learned to drive in Germany and hadn't been in the UK for 2 1/2 years. The result was that, as I left Lydd airport I drove round the roundabout the wrong way! However, by ...see more
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Added 19 March 2015

My Army Day,S

I was a National Service Concript , January 1947 . ( Coldest Winter for years ) . I was posted to Lydd camp with the 30th Light Ack Ack , Regiment Royal Artillery . 18yrs of age . When I saw Romney Marsh on the Postings Board . I was quite scared . I had just seen the Film Great Expectations , with the swirling Mist , and the Graveyard scene in whch Pip meets the Convict . " My God, " I thought . Not the Marshes .! But, ...see more
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Added 02 July 2014

Club Days & Playing Out
I was born in Folkestone and lived in Lydd til I was sixteen; some of my most vivid memories were the Club Days and dressing up in fancy dress. I also remember being out all day at weekends just playing - I used the church clock to make sure I was in on time. One of my most vivid memories is of falling off my bike on the parade ground and hurting myself on the gravel! I also remember playing in the Dip - does it ...see more
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Added 16 May 2013

From A Lyddite
I was born in Lydd in the 1930s, there are so many things that I remember, so my memories go from 1930s to 1960s: playing in the Gashouse Field when the German planes were flying overhead, Lydd Club Day every June with the parade of floats & the fair in the evenings, all of the shops (nearly all gone now) where you could get just about anything you needed, the soldiers from the army camp marching up the High St. to ...see more
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Added 08 July 2010