Channel Crossings 1956

• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
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  4 January 2025     00:15386446
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  (Before they started filling in most of the harbour! )
  
  N.B. It's pronounced 'linkspen'. Enjoy!
  
  
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• Matey

  • Location: Dover
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  4 January 2025     21:17386450
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  Lovely, thanks for sharing!
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• Bob Whysman

  • Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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  5 January 2025     19:21386454
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  Thanks for posting this vintage 1956 video Captain. I remember, in my teens, seeing the Lord Warden at Dover many times.
  
  Never actually travelled on it but, living in Folkestone, the trip to Boulogne as a passenger was made on The Maid of Orleans many times.
  
  It took me back a few years and I could almost smell and taste the smoking funnels of the steam engines!
  
  
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