Balmoral Arrives at Rastrum Wharf Rye Harbour Merchant Vessel Balmoral arriving at Rastrum Wharf, Rye Harbour to pick up 800 passengers for a trip around the Kent Coast and up the Thames to Tower Bridge on Friday 17 June 2016. Many pictures of Balmoral leaving in the July issue of “Rye’s Own” on Sale Friday … Continue reading Balmoral at Rye 2016
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Discover Balmoral in the pages of Rye’s Own, where the subject emerges through local voices, historical detail and stories written close to the events. Readers can move between “Balmoral Sails from Rye to Tower Bridge”, “Balmoral Leaves”, and “Balmoral at Rye 2016”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine. Read together, the articles show how public events and private memories become part of the town’s shared story.
Balmoral Sails from Rye to Tower Bridge
400 Sail from the Rastrum Wharf at Rye Harbour About 400 passengers, mostly from the Rye area, sailed from Rye Wharf at Rye Harbour on Wednesday 12 July on the Merchant Vessel Balmoral, bound for the Tower Pier.
Balmoral Leaves
A new venture from the Wharf at Rye Harbour proved to be an outstanding success. The Historic Passenger Ship Balmoral, loaded with hundreds of passengers from Rye and district, sailed on the morning tide of Thursday 8 June.