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Rye, East Sussex

Rye photos

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Rye maps

Historic maps of Rye and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Rye maps

Rye map

Historic map of Rye

East Sussex map

Illustrated Victorian map of East Sussex

Rye map

Historic Map of any Rye postcode

Rye maps
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Rye books

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Sussex County Memories
Paperback
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Hastings and Bexhill Photographic Memories
Paperback
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East Grinstead Photographic Memories
Paperback
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Rye books
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Memories of Rye

Rye memories
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Home Sweet Home

I lived in Rye till i was 11. I still class it as home even though Im 30 now and I miss the place like crazy. Maybe one day I will convince my other half to bring me home.

Shared on 03 October 2007 by Kerry Sherwood.

ancestory

I have just discovered that my great great great grandparents came from Rye so could anyone tell me if a place called Fishers House still exists, and also what a farm baliff was expected to do, or what kind of job did a fly catcher do? Are any family called Wenham still living in Rye?

Shared on 24 April 2007 by Shirley Marshall.

East Sussex memories

Carole's memories.

I was born in the house that lays back just out of view in this photo. The house was built in 1954 and our family were the only people to live there up until my father's death in 2008. I was born in the house, as were both my sisters. At that time the house was a tied cottage to the... [more]

Shared on 22 October 2009 by Carole Watson.

Down House School Northiam Sussex

I spent many a happy term at Down House Boarding School at Northiam from 1946. Is the big house still there?
Please  email richard@marskebythesea.co.uk

Shared on 09 June 2009 by Richard Mann.

Boating lake

I remember the boating lake very well and I loved being taken on it by visiting relatives. The boats were dark red and had rope 'bumpers'round them and at the end of the day they all used to be collected up together in the middle of the lake which used to fascinate me as a small child. They were small motor... [more]

Shared on 17 November 2009

Bottle Alley

I can also remember Bottle Alley which was the St Leonards side of the pier during the 1950's. My Mum sometimes used to take me to the Sun Lounge near Bottle Alley when I was a very small child where she would have a coffee and I would drink orange squash and there was often a pianist playing, even in the... [more]

Shared on 17 November 2009

Bottle Alley

Does anyone else have any memories of 'Bottle Alley'? I think it was on the Promenade and it was a covered walk (built in Victorian times, I believe) of concrete encrusted with bottles, mainly the bottoms, in all sorts of patterns.  Some of my family lived in Ore and I used to visit as a child. My other lasting memory is... [more]

Shared on 28 July 2009

Chapmans Dairy.

This building was Chapmans Dairy and belonged to my family. It was originally two houses, numbers 22 and 23, with a stable at the rear for the ponies. The door now remaining led into the shop and the downstairs windows were bay windows. The whole building was painted white! How it has changed!

Shared on 10 November 2008

Extracts From Rye & East Sussex books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Rye, inspired by Frith photos.

Sussex A Century Ago Photographic Memories

This last view looks along Turkey Cock Lane to the medieval bulk of the Land Port, or gate, which was built in 1329. The single-storey building on the left was replaced by Devonport House in 1905, while the then new Congregational Church received a two-storey church hall in 1894 in the space beyond it. The church now has a ghastly 1960s flat-roofed front extension for the... [more]

This is an extract from Sussex A Century Ago Photographic Memories.
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Sussex Photographic Memories

Thomas House, the timber-framed building on the left, has been well restored, while the corner house was replaced in 1920 by a brick and tile-hung Neo-Georgian Lloyds Bank, a most attractive building fronting the High Street.

This is an extract from Sussex Photographic Memories.
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Sussex Photographic Memories

This is the most famous street in Rye. The immaculate gabled timber-framed house, built as Hartshorne House in 1576, was described in 1863 as 'too dilapidated to allow the lowest to find shelter beneath its roof'.

This is an extract from Sussex Photographic Memories.
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