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- Ramsgate Harbour played an important role in Operation Dynamo both as an assembly point for Dunkirk Little Ships & a disembarkation point for 80,000 troops. Two of these vessels are moored there today & many others return for Dunkirk anniversary celebrations.
- The role Thames lighters & lightermen played in preparing for, delivering & supporting the Normandy landings.
- A look at what we can learn by recording wartime pillboxes. We'll take a look at 'Earwig Villa' on the East Yorkshire coast.
- Details for teachers and home-schoolers for online session and courses with Dr Sam Griffiths, across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
- The Thames sailing barge (TSB) with its readily identifiable sprit-sail rig was a great work horse of Thames-Medway and East coast ports in the pre-war days. It's recorded that sixteen Thames Sailing Barges set out to do their bit in the summer of 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo.
Ramsgate Harbour & Dunkirk 80th anniversary
03/06/2020 | Lawrence Northall
London’s Lightermen at D-DAY invasion of Normandy
03/06/2020 | Gustav Milne
What can we learn from pillboxes?
29/05/2020 | Chris Kolonko
Online Teaching for Classrooms and Home Schooling
27/05/2020 | N/A
Dunkirk 'Little Ships' & the Thames Barge
26/05/2020 | Gustav Milne
