Memories From A Life In Hastings Through Two World Wars (Part 2). By Tony May. One of my Nan’s most remarkable memories from a lifetime in Hastings, concerns the day in (or around) 1930 when, walking the promenade with her mother and father on one of the family’s regular Sunday walks, she saw the Zeppelin … Continue reading Hastings in Wartime Part 2
Tag: German Bombers
Discover German Bombers in the pages of Rye’s Own, where the subject emerges through local voices, historical detail and stories written close to the events. Readers can move between “Rye Through Postcards”, “Hastings in Wartime Part 2”, and “Adventures in Rye”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine. Read together, the articles show how public events and private memories become part of the town’s shared story.
Adventures in Rye
It is five years since Winnie Hollands passed on but her memory remains, reinforced with the words she wrote in her ADVENTURES IN RYE series published in “Rye’s Own”. Some brave words written as she lived in the knowledge of her imminent death are reprinted here as a tribute to a woman who was liked … Continue reading Adventures in Rye
Rye Through Postcards
Both the Ypres Tower and The Landgate Tower have been used on postcards since the end of the 19th. Century.
Rye at War
War Comes to Rye Rye went to war on 3 September 1939 – As war was declared a German Coaster was still tied up at The Strand. The German family who crewed her were well known and liked in Rye, They had been bringing in timber from the Baltic and