On Sunday afternoons, after the children had been to church service at the Congregational Church and Sunday School, Alice and the family would walk over to the Tollgate House in Winchelsea Road to visit their maternal Grandmother and Great Aunt Sarah. Continue reading The Life and Times of Reg Weeks
This remarkable Connie Linqvist water colour depicts a variation on the Rye Marina Plan that was put forward recently. It shows two new road bridges that keeps the A 273 main coast road running through South Undercliff. Continue reading New Connie Picture Discovered in Archives
Living in the fast world of today I wonder how many older people like myself yearn a little for the good old bad old days of the 1920s and ’30s. No television, stereo units or video recorders no disc players, telephones or vacuum cleaners. The list is endless. Some homes boasted a wireless set which whistled, hissed and crackled most of the time it was on. Continue reading Living In The Fast
Last month Rye’s Own carried a feature about the making of the film ‘Dunkirk’. Many of the sets were in and around the town. Continue reading Dunkirk at Rye 2 February
