By Tony May Pictures By Andrew Popkin The sound of the sea lapping gently at the shore, a warm, sunny day in Hastings, blue skies overhead and the piercing cry of seagulls invading your senses. Camera in one hand, sunglasses in the other and with arms outstretched for balance you are creeping gingerly across the … Continue reading Imagine If You Will A Local Hovercraft Service
Tag: Tush Hamilton
Discover Tush Hamilton in the pages of Rye’s Own, where the subject emerges through local voices, historical detail and stories written close to the events. Stories such as “Hastings Beer Festival”, “D-Day White’s Tip and Run Propeller”, and “Imagine If You Will A Local Hovercraft Service” give the collection its range and its distinctly local texture. The archive leaves room for eyewitness detail, strong opinions and the affectionate hindsight that gives Rye’s Own its particular flavour.
Hastings Beer Festival
Hastings Drinks Beer Festival dry for the first time ever! 8,500 attend the event, over 30K raised for local charities. Post event press release by Tim Pilbeam The 2009 Hasting Beer and Music Festival proved to be a huge success with the people of the town with over 8,500 people attending. Chairman Steve Millea “ I am … Continue reading Hastings Beer Festival
D-Day White’s Tip and Run Propeller
A picture taken on Friday 9 May 2008 of the wartime propeller (possibly from a Junkers 88 bomber) dredged up up a while ago by fisherman ‘Podgy’ Ball. It was acquired by Old Towner “D-Day White” to be displayed in the open space at the end of Courthouse Street in the Old Town. From the left, ‘Tush’ … Continue reading D-Day White’s Tip and Run Propeller
Rye’s Water Festival
Rye In Bloom Rye’s Water Festival An exciting new event at Strand Quay. Rye’s very first Water Festival took place from 10am-4pm on Saturday 22nd May. A celebration of Rye’s environmental heritage and its watery past and present was organised by Rye in Bloom as part of its entry in the national Britain in Bloom … Continue reading Rye’s Water Festival