By Beryl Dale As a child I lived in the village of Playden, near Rye in East Sussex, close to the boundary with Kent. It is a village where the centre housed the church, village hall and The Peace and Plenty pub. Not far from there was the school which my brother and I … Continue reading The Joys of Owning a Bike
Tag: River Rother
Step into the Rye’s Own archive for stories connected with River Rother, a place viewed through local news, memory, change and the experiences of those who knew it. The trail includes “Royal Military Canal by Canoe”, “Going Home to Rye”, “Flood Alert for Rother”, and “Volunteers Clean Up River Bank”, 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.
Flood Alert for Rother
Flood Alert A flood alert for the River Rother was issued this morning Sunday 3 January 2016.
Summer Holidays at Winchelsea Beach
Barry Floyd Like many families in London after World War I — and with a gradual return to a more normal way of life — my newly-married parents (father had served with the Royal Electrical Engineers in France from 1915 to 1919) began looking from their semi-detached Edwardian home in Palmers Green (North London) … Continue reading Summer Holidays at Winchelsea Beach
A Time Tested Alliance
By Jim Hollands The age old links that bind three of the head Cinque Ports, Hythe, Romney and Hastings, the two Ancient Towns of Rye & Winchelsea and the corporate members Folkestone, Lydd and Tenterden are rooted in the Cinque Ports Confederation, Romney Marsh, Smuggling, Defence of the Realm and the Royal Military Canal.
Going Home to Rye
By Beryl Dale I went down to Rye with my daughter to discover more about the exceptional circumstances which had led to my parents’ house being flooded in November 1960. I had been living in London at the time and had just completed the preliminary exams which took place half way through my Physiotherapy … Continue reading Going Home to Rye
Royal Military Canal by Canoe
The Epic Journey By Jimper Sutton I was only sixteen but bent on making my own history. My mate Chris had seen a documentary on the telly the night before of a couple that had travelled down the Amazon in a life raft.
Volunteers Clean Up River Bank
A joint initiative between Rye Bay Countryside Project, ESCC. and the Rother Environmental Group “REG” resulted in a very successful clean-up of a stretch of the East Bank of the River Rother on Saturday 10th September.
The Monkbretton Road Bridge
By Laurie A. Cooksey As early as 1876, the Highways Board had discussed the suggestion of constructing a bridge across the River Rother just below the the (then) single track swing bridge of the South Eastern Railway, together with a direct road to East Guldeford just over half a mile to the east of Rye, … Continue reading The Monkbretton Road Bridge
Smeaton’s Harbour
When the Rother Changed its Course By Ken Clarke Great changes took place in the marshes from 1250 onwards, but as yet the town of old Winchelsea was apparently not threatened. Matthew Paris, the thirteenth century chronicler, described damage done by the sea in 1250 and 1252 to the neighbourhood of the port, but the … Continue reading Smeaton’s Harbour
Rye in Holiday Mood
Rye— The Holiday Paradise