Category: Places & Travel

A route through Rye, East Sussex and the wider world, following the places that appear across the magazine. Towns, villages, holidays and journeys sit together here, allowing readers to browse familiar neighbourhoods and more distant destinations through local eyes, personal recollection and the wonderfully varied curiosity of Rye’s Own.

Where can I get Hastings Town?

List of newsagents where Hastings Town is available   With so many newsagents in Hastings having closed over the past three years we are often hearing the question Where can I buy a copy of Hastings Town? Here is a list of the Newsagents and other outlets who sell the magazine. Sweet Selection  Robertson Street Hastings … Continue reading Where can I get Hastings Town?

Setting History In Stone-Hastings And Rye (Australia) Worlds Apart

Richard Holdsworth finds a similarity between history preserved in Australia’s tapestry and Hastings’ own Millennium Chronicles… Successive generations will be indebted to the good souls who record our history so that it is never forgotten and I am fortunate that I have come across two such people even though they are twelve-thousand miles apart, one … Continue reading Setting History In Stone-Hastings And Rye (Australia) Worlds Apart

Ray Levett making up for 45 lost years!

This interesting story and picture first appeared in one of our first issues of “Hastings Town”. We have not been able to get in touch with Ray up to the time of printing but hope he and his good lady are fit and well and have a great Christmas. (Editor) By Ray Levett I wondered … Continue reading Ray Levett making up for 45 lost years!

Hands Across the Sea at Hythe

INTERNATIONAL WEEKEND 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 of some 220 acres, so there is plenty of room to enjoy yourself and the spectacular displays of cars that will

One from Lon Castro’s Archive

One from Ion Castro’s Archive Whilst looking for something else I came across this leaflet advertising Hastings – how times have changed – seagull smoking a pipe!!! So politically incorrect on so many levels, and, on the reverse “Every day’s a gay day” – nothing wrong with that but was that what they wanted to … Continue reading One from Lon Castro’s Archive

Dreams Can Come True at The War & Peace Revival

DREAMS CAN COME TRUE BY TONY MAY As a lot of those who keep track with our ‘Facebook’ page will know, I had a whale of a time at this years ‘War & Peace Revival’. Visiting what used to be Folkestone Racecourse and seeing the old place choc full of tents, tanks, military personnel and … Continue reading Dreams Can Come True at The War & Peace Revival

Hastings Week

Pictures & Words By Ion Castro Hastings Week has come and gone, this weeklong celebration of what is probably the most famous date in European history October 14th 1066, the date of the famous Battle of Hastings. Ion Castro, Publicity Officer for both the Hastings Week Committee and Hastings Old Town Carnival Association was there … Continue reading Hastings Week