Local Heroes

– an occasional series by William Shepherd

No. 1. Alfred Horner

I chanced across Richard Horner in Jempsons the other day as I was reading my copy of the March edition of ‘Rye’s Own’ and we got to chatting about this and that. In passing I remarked that there was plenty of mention of the Horner name Continue reading Local Heroes

The Tenterden Flyer

 

 

“THE RAILWAY HISTORY OF RYE AND DISTRICT”

Part 1 — The Rother Valley (Light) Railway

TENTERDEN FLYER’

by E.R.Y.

The demand for a railway in the valley of the River Rother had reached crescendo pitch long before the end of the last century. The South Eastern Railway had completed its main line from London to Folkestone via Reigate and Tonbridge by Continue reading The Tenterden Flyer