By Eric Streeton At a recent post card fair I found the card illustrated above. Written on the back in pencil were the words, “Lifeboat at Rye Sussex”. So my challenge to Rye’s Own readers is to help me positively identify the craft. These are my thoughts on it, but I may well stand to … Continue reading Is This The John William Dudley
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Eric Streeton 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 “My Shipwrecked Ancestor.”, “Freedom”, “Not Much Traffic Then”, and “Is This The John William Dudley”, 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.
Pen & Ink – Rye’s Own March 2004
Who is Daydreamer? Dear Editor They Seek Him Here, They Seek Him There They Seek Daydreamer Everywhere I read with interest Eric Streeton’s letter in February “Rye’s Own”, and in particular, his reference to the possible identity of “Daydreamer”, whose article
Family Tree
Researching the Family Tree By Eric Streeton This photograph was given to me from an elderly relations effects after he passed away in the mid nineteen eighties. Up until this time the thought of researching my family history had never occurred to me.