Rye Bay Scallop Queen 2015! Announcing the Rye Bay Scallop Week Queen 2015! Yasmine Clemson was delighted to be selected as Scallop Queen at the events opening night at the Ypres Castle Inn. Yasmine also celebrates her birthday during Rye Bay Scallop Week so there will be double celebrations ahead!
Tag: Rye Bay
Explore Rye Bay through Rye’s Own, from remembered scenes and historical detail to the news and personalities that gave the place its character. Readers can move between “Scallop Queen 2015”, “The Calamitous Storm of 1891”, “Fishing in Rye Bay”, and “Rye Harbour Lifeboat”, 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.
The Calamitous Storm of 1891
SHIPS IN TROUBLE IN RYE BAY AND OFF HASTINGS On 11th November 1891 a powerful storm raged along the Kent / Sussex coast, wreaking havoc on Hythe, Rye and Hastings.
Fishing in Rye Bay
By The Reluctant Mate This is a true account of 8 months as a mate on a Rye Bay trawler, it happened quite by accident when I was made redundant about 12 years ago. My skipper had just lost his boat when it was de- commissioned and he was looking to purchase a small … Continue reading Fishing in Rye Bay
Rye Harbour Lifeboat
This remarkable photograph of the Rye Harbour Lifeboat Crew and Launchers taken between 1890- 1900 at the Lifeboat House in the time of the “Francis Harris”.
The Battle of Rye Bay
The English fleet lay at anchor in the lagoon that stretched from the foot of the hill on which New Winchelsea is built to the cliffs of Rye. The forty or so Cinque Ports built ships were a hive of activity, preparations for battle were well under way. Word had come that a great force … Continue reading The Battle of Rye Bay
Aground in the Bay
Aground in the Bay Old photographs by kind permission of Mr. B. Jones The sea has been a magnet to man since the first recorded history of the world, it first provided food and then presented a challenge. The challenge was accepted, first by the Vikings from Scandinavia then by the English and Spaniards, and