The feature on Stirling Moss brought interest on a Rye based motor racing Formula one racing team. Dan Gurney and the Eagle Racing Team joined Weslakes on the Rye Harbour Road and performed at the top level in top class motor racing.
The SPRING issue of our new magazine VINTAGE WORLD Will be available soon. It is a SUBSCRIPTION ONLY HARD COPY PUBLICATION delivered to your door anywhere in the United Kingdom for £20 per year (four seasonal issues).
Order your magazines by PayPal button below, or by cheque for £20, made out to Cinque Ports Magazines Rye Limited. Send to Guinea Hall Lodge, Sellindge, Kent TN25 6EG. Alternatively send name and address and pay £20 direct into our bank 20-02-62 Acc. No. 83865096. The SPRING issue will be with you at the end of March.
The Spring issue contains articles, features or pictures pertaining to the following.
Jive Aces : Featuring The Big Beat Review.
Model Girls from the Swinging Sixties : Original photographs taken at the 1964 Photo Fair
Yellow Rolls Royce : Pictures and feature on this fantastic car with the Dulcettes
Victoria & Holly of the Dulcettes: Are our Cover Girls
Scott Elvis Feature : Is Scott the best Elvis? Two page article on Scott and ‘The King’.
Many pictures from Past War & Peace Revival Events: pictures of Adam Hoffman,Holly Chambers, Victoria Bass, Viv the Spiv, Rosie Apples, Holly Foster, Kitten Von Mew, Amy Baker, Jive Aces, Cassidy Jansen and so many others.
War on your doorstep: Richard Holdsworth’s photographs of Rocker Rod of the Cinque Ports Lindy Hoppers, Viv the Spiv, Gypsy John, Paulette Merrimen, Kevin Quaife, Richard Holdsworth and the Battle of Britain Flight
Pictures from the Golden Age of Steam
Grassington Dickensian Festival: Tony May, Hastings Town’s favourite journalist, illustrates a four page feature article with pictures from the Yorkshire Dales popular annual festival.
1929 Bentley Visits one of the most famous Inns in England
Rallycross the Television Sporting sensation of the 1960: Featuring Champion Rod Chapman and the story of how the event was specially created for television.
Cassidy Jenson: West End Musical leading lady and fabulous singer of vintage music who often performes with the most active band in the land The Jive Aces. Photographs by Katalina Kat
Invasion of the Mods: The story of a sunny weekend in Hastings in 1964. Including picture of singer Karen Moses on the actual original Lambretta used in the film Quadraphenia
Six Spoons – Like it or lump it: The story of a WWII Evacuee by Richard Holdsworth.
Catalina Kat – Roving Photographer
Coachlines: The man who paints coachlines on Royal Vehicles.
The Barnes Wallis Motorcycle : Ridden by singer Karen Moses
Thieves target motor repairs and spares premises in the Hastings area
Motor businesses and garages in the Hastings area have recently been targeted by burglars stealing tools, diagnostic equipment and car parts.
Police are urging owners of such premises to pay particular attention to security and asking the general public to report any suspicious activity in or around such Continue reading Motor Repair Businesses Beware
Dozens more motorists banned for drink and drug-driving offences
Operation Dragonfly
A drink-driver who took out a concrete bollard on Christmas Eve, causing extensive damage to her car, is among the latest motorists to be convicted as part of Operation Dragonfly.
At 5.10pm on 24 December, police were called by a member of public to reports of a single vehicle collision in Sea Lane, Rustington. Continue reading Drink & Drug Driving Bans
In 1962 J E Hollands & Sons the Rye Television firm won a Bentley Open Tourer in an RGD Television Sales Competition.
One of their customers had the value of the Bentley, which at that time was £1,500 and the firm won a further £1,000 for their efforts. Continue reading The Bentley at the Mermaid
The Rye Television business of J. E. Hollands & Sons won this wonderful old Bentley in a television sales competition in 1964. One of their customers also won Continue reading The Bentley
Lorries are being parked on large sections of the M20 in a queue that, at times, has stretched from Folkestone to Maidstone. It is taking as long as 18 hours to get to the Channel Tunnel terminus or the Ferry Port of Dover. Lorry drivers are furious at the slow response of authorities as the traffic jams hold the area in gridlock. The A20, which is taking all non continental lorries and smaller vehicles, is almost at a standstill on occasions and many other road uses have been trapped at home for most of July. Continue reading Operation Stack
Excitement is growing for the “Hands across the Sea” International Weekend organised by the Rolls Royce Enthusiasts’ Club. It is happening at Westenhanger, Folkestone Racecourse, Nr Hythe which is a huge site Continue reading Hands Across the Sea at Hythe
An extraordinary car Bodied By Vanden Plas. The coachwork is a one off and rakish in the extreme. Designed as a hunting car, the roof is of the disappearing kind giving an unimpaired swing of a gun when seated in the rear occasional Continue reading Famous Vehicles for the 2013 War & Peace Revival