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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…

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…

Visits to the famous Keukenhof Gardens in Holland are very popular when Oxford parties visit Leiden - members are pictured there in 2011 .

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.

Ian Smith, Roel Dragt and Beryl Craig with the stained glass window they unveiled in Leiden for the 60th-anniversary celebrations. The window was a gift from Oxford. Oxford received a gift of a stained glass window in return, which is installed at…

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.

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

Oxford members with their Dutch hosts on a river trip at Alphen aan den Rijn in 2010.

Oxford members visiting Leiden in 2014 saw an impressive parade of floats emblazoned with flowers passing through the neighbouring town of Voorhout.

Oxford members enjoying a trip aboard The Venturer on the Oxford Canal and River Thames - part of the twinning link's social programme in 2009.