We had to laugh at the ‘Parking Like a Muppet in Rye’ Website.
BUT – Nothing compares to this picture published in Rye’s Own in 1967. Continue reading Parking in Rye
Tag: East Kent
Spotlight On Hythe Milm Dance
By Maggie George
There’s something exciting happening in Hythe on Monday evenings. Instead of sitting in front of their televisions, people are flocking to the Royal British Legion clubhouse to be put through their paces with ballroom dance teacher, Mike Hall. Continue reading Spotlight On Hythe Milm Dance
The Bus Went to the Cinema
The bus that went to the cinema, or almost, as can be seen from the picture (Electric Palace in the Landgate is the building just beyond the bus with the coloured electric light bulbs in the shape of an arch). It was an East Kent converted charabanc on the Camber Rye Harbour service. Continue reading The Bus Went to the Cinema
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 Way We Were
By A Leadbetter
I have been watching the programme on the television “The Way We Were”. This does not go back far enough for anyone in their nineties. Continue reading The Way We Were
More Faces from the Past
Served with the RAF
Richard Edward Giles on the left was the East Kent bus driver for Wright & Continue reading More Faces from the Past
The Bus that Went to the Cinema
Rye Electric Palace Gets an Unwanted Visitor
The bus that went to the cinema, or almost, as can be seen from the picture (the Electric Palace in the Landgate is the building just beyond the bus with the coloured electric light bulbs in the shape of an arch) was an East Kent converted charabanc on the Camber Rye Harbour service. Continue reading The Bus that Went to the Cinema
The Last of the Prewar Drivers
The Last of the Prewar Drivers
By A. J. Leadbetter
I joined East Kent as a driver in 1937 and am now the last of the prewar drivers to survive. I was with East Kent until my retirement in 1977.
I remember back to the 1920’s when Timpsons were running charabangs in Hastings. They then uprooted and moved to Catford. Maidstone & District were running Tilling Stevens Petrol Electric double deckers in the late twenties. Continue reading The Last of the Prewar Drivers
Bus Operators of Rye & District
By Roland Jempson.
The article in the January issue of “Rye’s Own” telling of Rye in the 1930’s has inspired me to write about the Bus Services and their operators in and around the town from the 1920’s. Continue reading Bus Operators of Rye & District
Rye Electric Palace
There has been much interest caused by Brian Hargreaves drawing of the Rye Electric Palace reproduced in the centre pages of last months magazine. The article on the bus services of Rye in the 1920’s and 30’s has also aroused interest. Continue reading Rye Electric Palace