A new exhibition at Roche Gallery in Rye showcases a fascinating selection of portraits by local artist Marina Kim. The exhibition features newly-completed works and earlier commissions loaned back to the gallery by their owners. Many of the faces were familiar to residents of the town and some were at the shop in person! Continue reading New Show at Roche Gallery
Category: Local interest
The Ultimate Kick In The Teeth
Government Inspector Rules Homes Should Be Built
By The Editor
This is one story I dreaded I would have to report but as I have recorded many times in these pages over the past two years, it was a foregone conclusion. Continue reading The Ultimate Kick In The Teeth
The First Wind Turbine
The First Wind Turbine at Cheyne Court Farm
Rye’s Own July Supplement 2008
The first of the Wind Farm turbines are up Each one towers 370 feet above the ground, that’s twice the height of the existing pylons
A Fact Sheet records that the development site extends to very nearly one and a half square miles in two parishes. The concrete foundations for the turbines are well over 100 foot deep and the total amount of earth moved filled over 46,000 (forty six thousand) lorries. Continue reading The First Wind Turbine
Town Crier
News & Gossip Pages By The Editor
Knife Edge Election
The local elections resulted in a knife edge situation with full control of Hastings Borough Council being denied to the Conservatives by the literal tossing of a coin. Continue reading Town Crier
Westward From Hastings Pier
The area around the pier has changed dramatically over the last hundred years, as has the pier itself. We can see from this contemporary postcard by the famous postcard photographer Louis Levy that the Grand Hotel on the left, the municipal Hospital on the right, and behind it. Lady Jocelyn’s house, have all gone. Continue reading Westward From Hastings Pier
How Dinosaurs Were Discovered in Hastings
By Jennie Ridd
In 1832 George Wooll, a lithographer who lived at 5 High Street, Hastings, and George Rubie, local schoolmaster, helped to found the Hastings Literary and Scientific Institute at Rubie’s rooms at 1 Burdett Place, George Street. They were well qualified for the task, since Wooll ran the Repository of Arts from Number 5 and sold the latest literary publications, and Rubie was “Professor of Mathematics, Astronomy, the Globe and Navigation”. Continue reading How Dinosaurs Were Discovered in Hastings
Jack in the Green
By Gemma Pocock Photographs Iain Pocock
What a lovely day it was on the 3 May. I went, with my husband, daughter and step children, to Hastings for the day. On arrival it was really busy, I just thought it was because of the gorgeous weather but later discovered it was all down to “Jack in the Green”. Continue reading Jack in the Green
Pen & Ink
Dear Editor
What a outstanding display in the Old Town for Jack in the Green. The shops really made an effort with the embellishments, there was greenery and ribbons throughout the area. It went really well with the Morris Dancers. Praise for the Old Town. What a shame that some of the day was spoiled by the power cut.
Pam Smith
Bexhill Continue reading Pen & Ink
Extracts from Snapshots of Childhood
By John G Langley
Keen train-lover John remembers coming on holiday to St Leonards-on-Sea as a child. He and his family moved down to Hastings when he was seven. Continue reading Extracts from Snapshots of Childhood
Rye Loses Popular Local Character
Rye has lost a popular figure. Peter “Pip” Sivers, who died very recently, was a well known character in the town. He was best known as a bus driver and was still driving the Jempsons bus very shortly before his sudden death. Continue reading Rye Loses Popular Local Character