Tag: Jury’s Gap

This Rye’s Own collection brings together articles connected with Jury’s Gap, drawing news, memories and magazine features into one path through the archive. The trail includes “Wartime Camber”, “Kerry Has The Last Word On the ‘Maanav Star’”, and “Seventy-Six Years Have Passed but Their Heroism Does Not Fade”, offering several ways into the subject rather than a single potted account. It is a collection to browse for both the main story and the small, telling details that a local magazine notices.

Kerry Has The Last Word On the ‘Maanav Star’

Dear Editor . My name is Kerry Ovenden, I am a student at Bexhill College study ing photography and psychology and I thought that you may like to print the two photographs I have included of the Maanav Star when it ran aground at Jury’s Gap. I took these images using a digital camera. I hope … Continue reading Kerry Has The Last Word On the ‘Maanav Star’

Seventy-Six Years Have Passed but Their Heroism Does Not Fade

Seventy-Six years ago the terrible lifeboat disaster hit the small community of Rye Harbour and claimed seventeen lives. A copy of the Rye Harbour, Camber & Broomhill Magazine for December 1928 has been loaned to us by Paul Kennedy, a relative of one of the lifeboatmen lost on the Mary Stanford, who is researching the … Continue reading Seventy-Six Years Have Passed but Their Heroism Does Not Fade

Town Crier October 2004

Festival Triumph What a wonderful Rye Festival. Congratulations to all those involved with this year’s great event. More visitors in the town especially to enjoy what has become one of the best events of its kind in Europe. Sell out events were the order of the day. There was something for everybody and the children … Continue reading Town Crier October 2004

The Fight To Save The Maanav Star

The coaster Maanav Star was washed ashore at Jury’s Gap a few hours after leaving Alsfords Wharf during Saturday / Sunday night 11/12 September. She was under new ownership having been purchased while at Rye unloading her cargo of timber. She came ashore before dawn, apparently without her engines running and was pounded by rough … Continue reading The Fight To Save The Maanav Star