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Rye, East Sussex
Rye maps
Historic maps of Rye and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Rye maps
Historic map of Rye
Illustrated Victorian map of East Sussex
Historic Map of any Rye postcode
Rye books
Displaying 3 of 14 books about Rye and the local area. View all Rye books
Sussex County Memories
Paperback
£15
Hastings and Bexhill Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
East Grinstead Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
11 Rye photos appear in 4 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Rye
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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
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
East Sussex 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
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
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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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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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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