Whitstable Harbour Day & Oyster Festival

2006

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chitstable Harbour basin from Deadman's Corner looking along the East Quay

Proud Mum Karen with Crowned Miss Whitstable Rhiannon Champ flanked by Princesses Hydie & Toni Roberts & foreground Deputy Rosie Croft

Karen Champ of Champs Bakery fends off the Compare

Preparing to cut the opening ribbon with local press photographers ready to go happy snapping

Harbour Masters daughter Lauren Wier who made the presentation of gold necklaces to Miss Whitstable, her Deputy & Princesses

Whitstable Sea Cadet Band of HMS Vigilant opening fanfare

The Morris Minor Club making an impressive display this year with a dozen of their best

Some of the Morris Minor Club Members in front of their cars

Bonnet Up on 1970 Moggie saloon

For the Morris Minor Owners Club link here or on the above Club Logo

ForMoggie Mania link here or on the Morris Minor car-toon above

Clown promoting Whitstable Carnival

Whitstable Scouts ever popular cake stall

One of the many exhibitions by competent local artists

Canterbury Model Engineering Society

Their Miniature Steam Train follows the Old Railway Line track bed along the South Quay

The Magic Accordeola Dutch Street Organ

West Whelks Seafood Stall ready for business

Happy customers tuck in to seafood goodies from West Whelks

The Forth Drummer, Forth Engineer & Forth Fighter moored against the West Quay. These vessels are being used for the beach reclamation project at West Beach, Admiralty Walk, Seasalter

The Fitzroy originally the Sue Jan on the East Quay

Built at Woods Boat Yard Whitstable by Bob West brother of Derrick West of West Whelks

Traditional lines she's graceful from any angle

Whitstable Dead Horse Morris joined by performers from other Morris Dancing Troupes from Oxford & from across the South East

The building nearing completion on West Quay is the Wind-farm service facility

Canterbury City Council Inshore Sea Safety Patrol Boat enters Whitstable Harbour sadly not always present as divers Tombstone from the Quays

For more on this dangerous practice see Whitstable Harbour Recent Memoirs

Kingsley Empett Publisher Printer & Tony Blake Whitstable Social Historian show their local books & old Whitstable Harbour prints

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