Category: Local interest

The Rye Ukulele Festival

Sunday 24th May 2015 at the Cinque Ports, Cinque Ports Street, Rye, TN31 7AN from 12.30 onwards.

The Rye Ukulele Experiment is delighted to announce the first Rye Ukulele Festival. Continue reading The Rye Ukulele Festival

We Built at Lighthouse

When the first nuclear power station was built at Dungeness over forty years ago it was suddenly realized that it would obstruct the lights from the old lighthouse to ships approaching from the West. It was decided that another one would have to be built quickly to the East of the old one and further out at a point nearer the sea. The old lighthouse was a manned lighthouse, they decided they would build a new fully automatic one, a prototype of the lamphouse kind. Continue reading We Built at Lighthouse

Jimper’s Early Years

Written for “Rye’s Own in Jimper’s Inimitable Style

The world was in darkness the night I was born, not a light was to be seen, and then, as I grew and could walk and run, the lights came on all over the Kingdom.

The war with Germany was over, the marsh was crying out for laughter and joy to return. Five years of war in the front line had left it scarred by ack-ack gun emplacements, trenches and pillboxes. Continue reading Jimper’s Early Years

Mary Stanford’s Sister Boat

Priscilla MacBean has a new home

Priscilla MacBean – the final chapter. Ion Castro completes the story as the former lifeboat arrives at its final resting place.

After nearly a year of restoration, a magnificent feat of dedication in itself, the 34 ft. former Eastbourne, Kirkcudbright and Maryport lifeboat was moved to its new location, a specially prepared ‘dry dock’ at the bottom of Old London Road at the top of Hastings Old Town on the 86th anniversary of the loss of sister ship Mary Stanford, the Rye Harbour Lifeboat. The event was witnessed by hundreds of enthusiastic onlookers and a list of VIP’s that included Hastings & Rye’s MP, Continue reading Mary Stanford’s Sister Boat

Charity that took to the air

Chris Longfield is no stranger when it comes to addressing Rotary clubs to explain the need for funding of the Kent Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance Trust. For the second time in eighteen months Chris gave guests and members of the Rye & Winchelsea Rotary Club an update of the latest advances and improvements to their service which is now in its 25th year. Continue reading Charity that took to the air

Rye Ukulele Experiment on Radio Sussex

BBC Radio Sussex visited Rye today as part of their Coast and Country roving reports. S i m o n Jenkins, BBC Sussex Reporter was stationed up at t he Ypr es t ower t o present part of the show and to introduce listeners to just some of the interesting aspects of Rye. The Rye Ukulele Experiment were invited along for a brief chat and to play out the show with one of their favourite songs. Continue reading Rye Ukulele Experiment on Radio Sussex