Built to Fly

IT’S A MODEL WORLD No. 3

Albert Victor Sanders of Mill Place, Rye has been a keen Aircraft Modeller for thirty years. He first built solid models for display but then progressed to the skeleton type covered with a thin skin and capable of being flown. Continue reading Built to Fly

Fire & Flood

High Street Blaze

Two dozen firemen with four appliances fought a fierce blaze which did severe damage to three Rye business premises on Thursday, 21st September. Continue reading Fire & Flood

The Tenterden Flyer

 

 

“THE RAILWAY HISTORY OF RYE AND DISTRICT”

Part 1 — The Rother Valley (Light) Railway

TENTERDEN FLYER’

by E.R.Y.

The demand for a railway in the valley of the River Rother had reached crescendo pitch long before the end of the last century. The South Eastern Railway had completed its main line from London to Folkestone via Reigate and Tonbridge by Continue reading The Tenterden Flyer