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Lockdown in Padova, Italy during the Coronavirus. We made these signs with rainbows on them and these words and hung them from our balconies. Many children did these pictures with rainbows and the words ‘Andra’ tutto bene’ everything will be okay.…

Images of life under lockdown in one of Oxford's twin cities, Wroclaw in Poland.

Oxford took a fire engine, police car, two buses, two coaches, dustcart and mail van to Leiden in 1989 to take part in a major annual parade through the city, watched by thousands of people. The theme of the parade that year was 'Twinning'.

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…

Photographs of the streets, canal and town hall of Leiden.

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 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.

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.

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…

Members from Oxford and Leiden at a Mad Hatters' tea party during the Link's 70th anniversary celebrations at Begbroke in 2016.