Sussex Police has released a more recent photograph of Stephen David Lund, 62, also known as Peter James Lund, who is still wanted on recall to prison after his licence for release was revoked.
He was jailed for life at Teeside Crown Court in October 1980 after being found guilty of murder. Continue reading Winchelsea Beach Man Wanted by Police
From a Sussex Police Press Release
Following the air crash off Winchelsea Beach on Saturday (6 August) this photo of the missing pilot, Simon Wells, 44, from Greatstone in Kent, has been released by his brother Anthony Wells, on behalf of his family. Continue reading Missing Lydd Pilot – Simon Wells
Living as I did, and still do on the marsh, one could not go further than two hundred yards without coming into contact with it. Water was all around one; the sea to the south and the River Brede to the north being the two largest obstacles to keep we kids in our area. The whole marsh is fence-less with only the odd gatepost to hinder your view to the hills of the west. The east had massive shingle banks that have in the last forty years been extracted to leave large lakes further east. The River Rother flows to the sea via Rye where my River Brede joins to swell its flow. Continue reading Living On The Marsh
The marshland around Rye when under the sea was the highway to Winchelsea and England. Naturally the soil was full of old rubbish, lost at sea in those days. Continue reading Monument
Continue reading Lad from Winchelsea Beach is “Safe and Well”
”Street Cred’ was not measured by the latest ‘smart phone’ but who could get the largest inflated ‘inner tube’ …. Paul Vincent This publication has always been known for its high ‘nostalgia’ content. Why do our readers enjoy these articles, pictures and memories from the past? Continue reading When The World Was Younger
Made in 1965
Filmed at Winchelsea Beach very close to the Ship Inn.
The first time I stood in this Chamber I was just seventeen and I had recently been crowned Miss Rye. Continue reading Inauguration Speech
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) at favourable seaside spots where a brief summer holiday might be undertaken. Continue reading Summer Holidays at Winchelsea Beach
This publication has always been known for its high ‘nostalgia’ content. Why do our readers enjoy these articles, pictures and memories from the past?
Perhaps it is because they are reminded of their ‘halcyon days’ or could it just be that those less complicated times were better days to live through? Continue reading When the World was Younger
