Tag: Camber Tram

Explore Camber Tram through Rye’s Own, from remembered scenes and historical detail to the news and personalities that gave the place its character. Readers can move between “Down Rye Way – Kenneth Clark”, “Life & Times of Reg Weeks”, and “Another Camber Railway”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine. Together they offer a characterful route through the magazine’s record of local life, memory and change.

Memories of Old Rye

By Arthur Woodgate Situated at the Winchelsea Road entrance to Gateborough Farm Road and surrounded by houses and other buildings stood ‘Gasson’s Hut’, a large timber building, open fronted on the road side, was used for tarring sails. It was very close to Suttons Marine Store and home (later known locally as Sutton’s Yard). On … Continue reading Memories of Old Rye

Rye in Edwardian Times

  By Ken Clark Pauperism in Rye remained an unresolved social problem at the opening of the twentieth century. Social reform is this country was confined to filling the most glaring gaps in the existing social system. The bed-rock of social provision was to be found in the Poor Law, first enacted in the time … Continue reading Rye in Edwardian Times

Life & Times of Reg Weeks

“The life and Times of Reg Weeks”, who lived in Rope Walk and died on 1 March 1993 were compiled by his daughter Daphne Lewellyn of Sidmouth, Devon, from her memories of all the things he told her about his early life in Rye. Reg Weeks was born at 2 Bridge Place, Rye, Sussex on … Continue reading Life & Times of Reg Weeks

Down Rye Way – Kenneth Clark

  It is hard to imagine “Rye’s Own” without Ken Clark. When I mentioned to him, shortly before his death, that I was toying with the idea of relaunching the magazine he was filled with enthusiasm and promised many more articles on the history of this small town he loved so well.