By Derek Bayntun Its good that Graham’s Way is at last completed and the vegetation has been cut back, pity about the white lines confusing the edge of the path and kerb at night. That needs addressing.
Tag: Rock Channel
This Rye’s Own collection brings together articles connected with Rock Channel, drawing news, memories and magazine features into one path through the archive. Among the pieces gathered here are “Dredging Strand Quay”, “Busy Day at Landgate 1887”, “On The Waterfront”, and “Bournes UTS Celebrate Dancing Elephant Award”, each adding its own detail to the story. Taken together, these pieces preserve the names, places and passing details that might otherwise slip out of the local record.
Busy Day at Landgate 1887
By Jim Hollands This photograph from the Frank Palmer Collection was taken 130 years ago this very month. More than 20 figures are faithfully captured at that moment in time.
Back Where They Belong
One Year On Just one year on from the fire which destroyed the Martyn Channon premises in Rye Cattle market the family business is back on the old site and trading in newly constructed buildings.
Town Crier January 2007
Tilling Green in Danger Councillor John Breeds sent in these amazing pictures of a river of water running down the very field where building development is being planned.
Bournes UTS Celebrate Dancing Elephant Award
Bournes the Rye removal company have been presented with the famous UTS Dancing Elephant after winning the award for the second time since its conception in 1993.
The Sara Colebrooke Saga
The Sara Colebrooke Saga By Tony Bridgland Browsing through your June 2004 issue whilst in the doctor’s waiting-room, I came across two separate articles which dovetailed together to be of particular interest to me. One was “The Amazing Story of a Rye Shipyard” and the other, by Arthur Woodgate, told how the coaster ‘Sara Colebrooke’ … Continue reading The Sara Colebrooke Saga
Rye Garden Safari
Sunday 22 May is an important date for those interested in beautiful gardens. Four of Rye’s very best will be open to the public for this year’s Rye Garden Safari.
Dredging Strand Quay
Dredging Strand Quay by Peter Etherden This is a cautionary tale and I have cut corners in the telling. Rye’s trawler fleet has been decimated by the European Union over the past few decades and although a new Fishing Quay is finally under construction the part played by the Rye Fishmarket Project in the whole … Continue reading Dredging Strand Quay
Boat Builders of Rye Part 3
The Warship Revival Photographs from the collection of E.G. Pollington (nee Jempson) “A Thirteenth Century traveller from inland, making his way through the gloom of the Sussex forests, might well have paused on the outskirts of Rye to listen to a strange sound, a rhythmic hammering, half-metallic, half wooden in its timbre, which floated … Continue reading Boat Builders of Rye Part 3
Bring Power Back To The Area
Let Rye, Winchelsea and the villages unite to bring power back to the area. by Arthur Woodgate All the recent arguments about the new doctors surgery make one think of the general deterioration of the importance of Rye.