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Lydd Club Day
Saturday, July 31st, 2010Mayor making at Lydd 17 May
Saturday, July 31st, 2010
- Outgoing mayor and mayoress David and Margaret Kersey
The annual Mayor making at Lydd 17 May 2010.
More to follow.
Lydd Airport meeting
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010The documents and webcast of the meeting of Shepway District Council on 03 March to determine the Lydd Airport planning application are available on the Shepway District Council website. www.shepway.gov.uk
Christmas Party at Lydd
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Some of the 'chain gang' at the Lydd Party
Wednesday 09 December is the Mayor of Lydd, David Kersey’s Christmas Party which I am attending with my friend Sue Dixon. Sue came with me to Lydd day in the summer so recognises many of the people present at the party.
As well as local people, there are mayors from other cinque ports and the chairman of Kent County Council, John Davies. And District Councillor William Richardson is also here.
John Davies, chairman of Kent County Council, Susan Carey, the worshipful mayor of Lydd, David Kersey
The Marsh has been much in the news lately with Lydd Airport’s plans due to come before Shepway District Council onWednesday 03 March and the fate of Marcus the lamb at Lydd Primary school making the national media. The Government’s decision not to shortlist Dungeness for a new nuclear power station also affects Lydd and is one of the issues that people here are talking about. The deputy mayor asks us all to think of those who can’t be home for Christmas thinking of our troops in Afghanistan.
A former mayor of Lydd
Lydd has some very fine portraits of past mayors and it’s good to see the town’s history honoured.
It’s a most enjoyable evening and on the way back we stop off at Dymchurch to look at the shop windows. Why? See the post for 15 December.
Blessing the lifeboat
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Sarah Williams blesses the lifeboat
My last event on Sunday 20 September is the blessing of the lifeboat at Dungeness. The service takes place at the Dungeness lifeboat station itself and it is full to overflowing.
District Councillor, Willie Richardson is the Sea Safety Officer for the lifeboat station and he opens proceedings by reminding everyone that this is a working station and that the boat may have to be launched if a call comes in during the service. It’s a vivid reminder that the lifeboat is needed and ready 24 hours a day.
Lydd vicar Sarah Williams is a nautical vicar as she and her husband sail a yacht; she says they have not yet needed a rescue. Her address is about how Jesus calmed the waves and she illustrates it with a bowl of water, a miniature liferaft and a candle. Then the doors are opened to reveal the boat, Pride and Spirit, on the beach and she blesses it. There is a moment of calm. “Can you hear the waves?” she asks. And we can.
As so often I see several other District Councillors supporting the event. As well as Willie Richardson there’s cabinet member Hugh Barker and local councillor Clive Goddard. The Mayor and Mayoress of Lydd are also there. The Canterbury City band provide a tuneful and spirited accompaniment to our singing and most of Dungeness has crowded in the station.
Coxswain Stuart Adams, Cllr Susan Carey, Lifeboat Operations Manager Chris Usbee, Cllr Willie Richardson and Sarah Williams vicar of Lydd
After the service I assist with presenting awards to those who have served as crew and in support of the crew. As chairman of the District Council I am able to say thank you on behalf of everyone in Shepway to the RNLI and the Dungeness station for their bravery and service to those at sea.
The evening finishes with tea and biscuits and I meet Eric and Jean Cass who funded the Pride and Spirit boat in 1992. They tell me that one of the reasons they chose the RNLI as their charity was that they knew that every penny would be spent on saving lives and nothing on well appointed offices or entertainment.
The Dungeness station is open to the public from early March to mid December (phone 01797 329108 to check times) and is well worth a visit on any tour of the Marsh.
The departing prayer
Deep peace of the running wave to you
Deep peace of the flowing air to you
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you
Deep peace of the shining stars to you
Deep peace of the infinite peace to you
Battle of Britain
Monday, September 21st, 2009
District Councillors Susan Carey, Clive Goddard and Carole Waters
Today, Sunday 20 September, is the Battle of Britain service at All Saints’ church in Lydd. I am escorted by District Councillor Carole Waters. I also see District Councillors Clive Goddard and William Richardson.
The service is an annual event in Lydd and commemorates the victory of the Royal Air Force in the battle for control of the skies with the Luftwaffe in the summer of 1940. The RAF lost 481 pilots and a further 422 were seriously wounded or injured. The Battle of Britain saved this country from invasion and the Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill said of these brave men, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
Air cadets outside All Saints Church, Lydd
I can’t tell you much about the service as I am seated with the pulpit in front of me and a pillar behind and afterwards there is heavy rain so the flypast of the Spitfire at 11 40am is a washout. But the weather does not deter the air cadets who stand in the pouring rain and play for us as we leave the church.
The service is followed by a reception at the town hall where I join the veterans for a commemorative photograph.
Lydd Club Day
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
The Worshipful Mayor of Lydd, David Kersey
Saturday’s event (20 June) is Lydd Club Day which started as a livestock market supported by local shopkeeprs who paid into a ‘club’ to attract people to come into Lydd to spend their money. Today it is a good excuse for fun with stalls, a funfair, floats, fancy dress and a lunch.
The people of Lydd are known as ‘Lyddites’ and at lunch I sit next to the mayor of Lydd who tells me about his magnificent chain which has the names of Lydd’s previous mayors engraved on the reverse. Also at our table is the new vicar of Lydd, Sarah Williams resplendent in pink including her hair. She has been in Belgium for the last 25 years and leans across to Michael Howard to ask him who he is. He replies, deadpan, that he is Michael Howard and the MP of the area for the last 26 years.
The event is well supported by other district councillors. Willie Richardson the councillor for Lydd is here as well as Robert Bliss the council leader and Russel Tillson. And among the stands I find Shepway’s Community Safety Unit staffed by Michelle who is advising people on how to make their homes safer. I also find Terry Preston (a former chairman of Shepway) on the Defend Our Coast stand . www.defendourcoast.org.uk
Cllr Susan Carey with Sue Dixon at Lydd Club Day