Four war veterans, left to right, John Hannis, Don Read, Sydney Scarsbrook and Fred Farley, toured Leiden on the back of a lorry in 2005, to huge acclaim from Leiden people grateful to Britain for helping to liberate them at the end of the Second…
Royal British Legion members regularly visit Leiden with us to lay wreaths in memory of the fallen on Dutch Remembrance Day in May. Pictured left to right are John Foulks, Don Read, John Hannis, Sydney Scarsbrook and Don Read.
The K&G Youth Band from Leiden took part in Oxford's Christmas celebrations in 2010 - they are pictured in Broad Street. They also performed at Blenheim Palace and in Woodstock.
The Feestkapel Decibel band from Leiden, suitably dressed in Santa outfits, led the Christmas lantern procession through Oxford, watched by a crowd estimated at 15,000, in 2009.
The Lord Mayor of Oxford, Craig Simmons, left, and the Burgomaster of Leiden, Henri Lenferink, laid a wreath in memory of UK and Dutch war dead on the Oxford-Leiden mosaic in Leiden Square in the Westgate Centre, Oxford, in November 2019. The…