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Looks interesting!
It is currently 29 Mar 2024, 15:44
9fingers wrote:My father used to put his car on Lydd to Le Touquet for business trips through France installing electronic equipment when I was a child in the 50s
Interesting to see the planes in the video.
Bob
Andyp wrote:Brittany Ferries are in a perilous financial state according to our local rag and have had to go cap in hand to the Macron for some state aid. All covid related of course and with something like 85% of their passengers being British the past 2 yrs has been catastrophic.
Would be interesting to know, as Roger says, what the range and speed would be like in anything other than calm conditions.
9fingers wrote:Andyp wrote:Brittany Ferries are in a perilous financial state according to our local rag and have had to go cap in hand to the Macron for some state aid. All covid related of course and with something like 85% of their passengers being British the past 2 yrs has been catastrophic.
Would be interesting to know, as Roger says, what the range and speed would be like in anything other than calm conditions.
I thought the EU did not allow countries to subsidise businesses. I’m sure when uk was in there was some kerfuffle over govt subsidy of a business but can’t recall which
Bob
Woodbloke wrote:9fingers wrote:My father used to put his car on Lydd to Le Touquet for business trips through France installing electronic equipment when I was a child in the 50s
Interesting to see the planes in the video.
Bob
I could cycle to Lydd from our house on Romney Marsh. I recollect that Concorde touched down at Lydd and remember it flying over New Romney - Rob
RogerS wrote:Lucky sod. So how close to the RH&DR were you ?
I do recall spending many summer holidays down there as a kid and a flatter more dismal place I'd ever seen.
Andyp wrote:
These days Romney marsh. Just conjours up images of Pip and miss Haversham.
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