Thursday 18th September - Documentary Screening
Thursday 18th September, 7pm
"Celebrating the Canterbury & Whitstable Railway" (documentary screening)
The evening will start at 7pm and is expected to last approximately 1 hour 20 minutes.
THIS EVENT MUST BE PRE-BOOKED
Phone: 01227 264742 (Thu to Sat)
or email events@whitstablemuseum.org
Whitstable Museum, Foresters' Hall, 5a Oxford Street, CT5 1DB.
Come and join us at Whitstable Museum for the documentary screening of this wonderful film "Celebrating the Canterbury & Whitstable Railway". Released in 2009, the third film in the series, re-captures the mood of past celebrations, drawing widely on the fascinating film, taken, in 1980, of twenty-seven different events that took place over a ten day period in early May.
For 195 years the Canterbury & Whitstable Railway has been celebrated. Initially on its opening on Monday 3rd May 1830 for its pioneering achievements, and subsequently on its closure on 29th November 1952. During eight reigns, from George IV to Elizabeth II, local people have thronged the streets to pay tribute to the railway, none more so than in the years since the closure of the branch line.
With skillful use of archive and vintage film, modern video, and photographs, this film recalls the numerous events that have taken place, both in Canterbury and Whitstable, to celebrate and commemorate an historically significant pioneering railway.
● Recall the grand celebrations on the opening day
● "Invicta", the original locomotive, fetêd both at home and abroad
● The solemnity of "The Last Day of Working
● Extensive Celebrations for the 150th Anniversary in 1980
● Books, Paintings, Postal Covers, China and Shopping Bags
● Exhibitions, Lectures, Picnics and Cycle Rides held since 1980
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