Troops have marched through the streets of the County Town today following the inauguration of the new mayor, Cllr John Perry. The civic parade saw members of 36 Engineer Regiment and The Queen’s Gurkha Engineers on the streets of Maidstone with bayonets fixed, exercising a right held as freemen of the borough. At the head of the parade were the Mayor and Mayoress, John and Jan Perry, who led the procession in a horse-drawn landau carriage. With the government planning to close Invicta Park barracks in the near future, today’s celebrations may prove to have been one of the last chances to see …
