Advance warning supply disruption in Rye and surrounding areas 19/10/2017 We’re currently working hard to fix a burst on a 14.5” pipe, which was discovered in a rural area near Brede in the early hours of this morning. Unfortunately, in order to safely repair it as quickly as possible, we’ll need to interrupt water supplies … Continue reading Water Off in Rye
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Brede runs through this selection from the Rye’s Own archive, linking individual reports and recollections into a broader picture of local life. The trail includes “Police Recover Statute”, “Jimper Gets Political”, “Council Says Yes To Marina Plan”, and “Water Off in Rye”, offering several ways into the subject rather than a single potted account. The result is less a formal history than a lively bundle of evidence, voices and remembered moments from the magazine’s pages.
Two Ways to Hastings
WE ASKED IN OUR MARCH EDITIONS ABOUT MEMORIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF JOURNEYS TO AND FROM RYE, HASTINGS AND HYTHE – EITHER BY TRAIN OR BUS. Roland Jempson from Bristol sent us this account which included these fine pictures
The Marsh Barges
Built in Rye these Shallow Draft Vessels served the towns and villages from Teterden to the north and Hythe to the East While the rivers around Rye, the Rother, Brede and Tillingham, were, sufficiently wide and deep and the ordinary trading vessels small enough to navigate them to their destination without the necessity of any … Continue reading The Marsh Barges
September Wedding
At St. Mary’s Rye Pictures by Pixels Photo Studio
Police Recover Statute
POLICE RECOVER STOLEN STATUE Sometime between October 2009 and February 2010 a statue of a girl was stolen from the Churchyard of St George’s Church, Brede.
The Changing Strand
By Arthur Woodgate It was astonishing that anyone should suggest that gas was not made in Rye, but only stored. IT gave me the thought, however, that the strand in Rye had changed during the 20th Century and was worth recording.
The 1961 Rye Marina Plan
A Town Wall Too! It seems there have been Marina plans for Rye since time immemorial. This plan for Rye by architect Kenneth Browne was originally printed in “The Architectural Review” dated October 1961. No doubt this idea, which also envisaged rebuilding
South Saxon
Life as it was lived 50 years ago in Udimore a small village near Rye as seen by R.D. Symons of Silton. Sasks., Canada I grew up in hearing of the slow, country speech of the people of Sussex. Only occasionally have I heard it over the past fifty and more years, for most of the English … Continue reading South Saxon
Council Says Yes To Marina Plan
Rye Council agreed in principle to the new town plan which includes a Marina and substantial housing on sites to the North and South of the River Brede.
Marina Plan Has Fatal Flaw
Another Report from November 2003 Issue of “Rye’s Own” A Marina Plan put forward by Millwood Designer Homes at the instigation of Rye Partnership has a fatal flaw. The actual proposed Marina for 100 moorings and 100 homes on a site south of the River Brede opposite the stretch of river from Philips Boat … Continue reading Marina Plan Has Fatal Flaw