A CARRIAGE that once carried a king along Hythe Pier Railway is currently being restored.
With D-Day approaching towards the end of May 1944, Captain James of HMS Squid – the shore-based Combined Operations Base at Southampton that was responsible for the administration and housing of a considerable number of the Normandy assault squadrons and HMS Squid II, a smaller such base at Hythe – was told of the visit, in utmost secrecy, of King George VI, our new king’s grandfather, to the Southampton base and its craft, to later proceed to
