The Hoad Ship Building Yard in Rye was famous for the first class vessels produced there but it was George Smith and his brother Thomas who are remembered by some senior citizens of this town as ‘the boat builders of Rye’
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George Smith runs through this selection from the Rye’s Own archive, linking individual reports and recollections into a broader picture of local life. Readers can move between “Faces from the Past” and “The Boat Builders of Rye Part Two”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine.
Faces from the Past
These two picture are from the December 1969 “Rye’s Own” Are they Rye Town Band c. 1910? Plenty of Rye Names – Is your Great Grandfather among them?