Editing Lydd (section)

==Club day==

Lydd Club Day is the annual local carnival held on the Rype. It is the largest such festival on Romney Marsh,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thevillagedirectorykent.co.uk/?p=1426 |title=Lydd Club Day 2011 |access-date=1 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110621024409/http://www.thevillagedirectorykent.co.uk/?p=1426 |archive-date=21 June 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and is held on the third Saturday of June.

It was established in 1868. Apart from a brief cessation during the war years, it has taken place annually ever since.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Club-Day-return-say-organisers/story-14333394-detail/story.html#axzz2PEmejiT5|archive-date=5 May 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505081556/http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Club-Day-return-say-organisers/story-14333394-detail/story.html%23axzz2PEmejiT5#axzz2PEmejiT5|url-status=dead|title=Club Day to return, say organisers|work=Folkestone Herald|access-date=28 September 2015}}</ref> The day features a funfair, boot fair in the morning, stalls and children's dressing up in the afternoon, and floats in the evening.  The evening ends with a firework display and the lit up funfair, as well as the annual crowning of the Queen Elect.

On the Friday evening before Lydd Club Day, a long-standing tradition supports "Test Night,when the funfair opens at reduced prices for the evening.

In the early 2000s, "Pirate Friday" was instituted. Most Lydd residents have no real understanding of what this event is supposed to entail, other than Lydd's pub frequenters dressing in pirate outfits.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} The event was created in 2006 by local residents Jason James, David Usher and Ian Parrot, and friends in the Royal Mail pub. Now an annual event, it has proved so popular that it has been adopted by every pub in Lydd. Since  2011, there has been an entrant in the evening parade of Club Day from residents who have participated in Pirate Friday.