Bargain Box – Cinque Ports Street
Jempsons – Station Approach
Adams – High Street
Skinners Cost Cutter – Fishmarket Road
Tilling Newsagents – Tilling Green
Jempsons – Peasmarsh
Iden Stores – Iden
Jempsons – Northiam
Salts Farm Shop – East Guldeford
Appledore Newsagents – Appledore
Wittersham Stores – Wittersham
Dee Day Articles in the February Issue
Nostalgia
Sunny Hastings 1948
Apps Family Business
Carnival Queen 1936
Dee Day Files
Long Gone Hastings
U-Boat at St Leonards
Local Music Continue reading February Hastings Town
Cinque Ports magazine is packed with stories, events and nostalgia from the Cinque Ports and adjoining areas. The latest issue features the Opening of the fine new War Memorial at Aldington, telling the story of how it came about and recording the event with many pictures.
Continue reading Read About the New Aldington Memorial in Cinque Ports
Jimper Sutton, our number One contributor since 1966, died just about the time the July Issue of “Rye’s Own” reached the printing press. Too late for even a mention of his sad passing to be recorded in this issue but there are some of his stories included. Continue reading Rye’s Own – July 2016
Times are changing – When “Rye’s Own” was first published 50 Years ago, there was no internet, no 24 Hour news programmes on television and local media was not even imagined in anyone’s wildest dreams.
Newsagents still sold vast amounts of newspapers and supermarkets were virtually non existent this side of the Atlantic. Retail Price Maintenance had only just been abolished (by just one vote in a free vote in Parliament) and local traders who had stuck rigidly to their own specific trades were still able to make a good living on the High Street, which had not yet felt the effect of the Supermarket explosion. This was made possible by the abolition of RPM, and would slowly change Britain from being a nation of small shopkeepers and turn it into a nation of ever larger and more powerful supermarket chains. Continue reading Rye’s Own Needs Help
Packed with good things including :-
New “Miss Hastings” Wanted
Battle of Hastings Celebrations – You Can Help Continue reading April Hastings Town
28 February 2016
Police discovered the shots had caused damage to a door and a window at the front of the multi-occupancy property. No one was hurt.
The March issue of “Hastings Town” in good newsagents from Saturday 27 February.
Packed with good things including :- Continue reading March Hastings Town
February 2016 hard copy issue of “Rye’s Own” on sale at all Rye Newsagents from the first day of February. January issue still available at newsagents until 31 January. Continue reading February “Rye’s Own”
