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    Mar 25, 2022 4 minutes

    Peter Love, Kelsey Publishing Ltd, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent ME18 6AL Tel: 01323 833125 peterlove@madasafish.com

    LAMBERT’S IN MINIATURE

    Dear Editor

    I hope that the enclosed picture is vaguely familiar to you. It is part of the layout I’m building of Horsmonden station and the surrounding area in N gauge (2mm to the foot).

    Being a former resident of the village, I regularly walked through Chris Lambert’s yard from my earliest years and loved seeing his magnificent traction engines and rollers parked up or being made ready for work. Being a couple of years older than yourself, it was my father that told me about Chris’ annual parade of his “Old Gentlemen” and unfortunately

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