SCOOP FOR CINQUE PORTS The January 2021 Cinque Ports is available now from selected local newsagents priced at £1.00 only. This issue carries the first installment of the brand new novel by David Weston, using the background of the recently brought to light facts of the ‘Secret Spitfires’ built at Sailsbury in the Second … Continue reading Cinque Ports January 2021
Tag: Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill runs through this selection from the Rye’s Own archive, linking individual reports and recollections into a broader picture of local life. Stories such as “Rye 1946”, “Gilbert Fabes”, “Wheelers Open Letter to Tony Blair”, and “Cinque Ports January 2021” give the collection its range and its distinctly local texture. The result is less a formal history than a lively bundle of evidence, voices and remembered moments from the magazine’s pages.
The Cinque Ports Coronation Privileges
By Ken Clarke Although the origins of the Cinque Ports are unknown, their individual beginnings preceded the Norman Conquest, for the Domesday Book records that during the reign of Edward the Confessor the burgesses of Dover.
Mayor’s Report 2015
Rye Town Meeting – Mayor’s Overview of 2014-15 Perhaps the Council’s most popular decision over the past 12 months was the appointment of a town steward for the Parish. In response to numerous complaints over the last few years, Nicky Ledger was appointed in January to help improve the appearance of the Parish and … Continue reading Mayor’s Report 2015
St. Mary’s Bay Camera Club
St. Mary’s Bay Camera Club sent in this amazing selection of photographs, taken recently by members. Among the shots are many of local places. Photography has been a well recognised pastime since Louis Daguerre invented a new way to take pictures back in 1837. It only needed 30 minutes of light exposure, and the image … Continue reading St. Mary’s Bay Camera Club
Nazi Invasion Between Hastings and Hythe
After the evacuation of Dunkirk, there was a period of intense activity to prepare defences against an immanently expected invasion of South East England. The Germans were massed on the French coast after their lightening victories in France and the Low Countries. Now Britain was firmly in their sights. It would only be a matter … Continue reading Nazi Invasion Between Hastings and Hythe
Editorial
Easter comes early this year and, if the weather is kind, Rye traders could get the shot in the arm they so badly need after the hard times they have endured throughout the tough winter weather and financial blizzards that have been blowing through the High Street.
Remembering ‘The Few’
The Battle of Britain was fought in the skies above Rye in July, August & September of 1940. In the immortal words of Winston Churchill “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”
Rye 1946
1945 saw the end of World War Two. VE Day (victory in Europe) and VJ Day (victory in Japan) came and went. Rye, along with towns all over the country, licked it’s wounds, mourned its dead and rejoiced in the return of many servicemen who had been away from their home for as long as … Continue reading Rye 1946
Rye Bonfires of the Past
Recapture Moments from the Past, Worthy of Preservation. Sixty years ago in 1945 the Second World War had just reached it’s terrible conclusion with the discovery of the death camps in Europe and the dropping of two atom bombs on Japan.
Brenzett Aero Museum
Two aircraft stand motionless in the corner of a field near Brenzett round-a-bout. All who pass that way cannot have failed to have seen them. What message have these two relics of a past era got for the young people of today’s modern World?