Ship Building By Arthur Woodgate It’s been rather nice thinking about Rye Shipyard since that loving presentation in the Autumn issue of ‘Ryes Own’, and it’s given me a lot to think about. We know that Sussex was covered at one time by a lot of forestry, and there must have been lots of it’s … Continue reading Acorn to Anvil
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Step into the Rye’s Own archive for stories connected with Sussex Oak, a place viewed through local news, memory, change and the experiences of those who knew it. Stories such as “Boat Builders of Rye Part 3” and “Acorn to Anvil” give the collection its range and its distinctly local texture.
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