At Harry Phillips’ Boat Yard, Rock Channel 1964
Tag: Little Robert
Little Robert 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 “Oliver Kite”, “Boulogne Trip for Small Boats”, and “Albert Hinds Launches the Little Robert”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine. Together they offer a characterful route through the magazine’s record of local life, memory and change.
Oliver Kite
Kite’s Country comes to Rye Major Oliver Kite, better known to many thousands of television viewers as “Ollie Kite”, recently came to Rye to make a film for one of his programmes.
Boulogne Trip for Small Boats
Rye Small Boat Fleets Boulogne Trip Eighteen small boats from the Port of Rye tied up in Boulogne Harbour over the Whitsun holiday and their crews enjoyed a few days on French soil. The small fleet left Rye Harbour in the early morning of Whit Saturday and set off into the stiff wind heading for … Continue reading Boulogne Trip for Small Boats