Showing posts with label Rye. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rye. Show all posts
Sunday, February 15, 2026

In which William James uses a ladder to spy on G.K. Chesterton

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In 1907 the American philosopher William James was invited to deliver a series of lectures to Manchester College in Oxford. (It was not then...
Thursday, October 02, 2025

John Rogers discovers the lost city of Winchelsea

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This is a lovely walk – I've done the stretch from Rye to Camber Castle myself.  John's blurb on YouTube says: This walk takes on a ...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

If Enid Blyton was the Beatles then Malcolm Saville was the Kinks

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Now here's a title for a blog post:  The Famous Five vs The Lone Pine Club . It's on the blog Unpopular Culture. I shall resist the ...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

The Malcolm Saville Society plaque at the Hope Anchor Hotel, Rye

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"The Gay Dolphin is almost as old as Rye itself. I am not sure how old it is, but there is no doubt that it was much used by smugglers...
Friday, April 19, 2024

Doleham: The least used station in East Sussex

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I came back from Hastings via Ashford and the HS2 line to St Pancras. I noticed Doleham because it was the only station between Hastings and...
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Saturday, September 17, 2022

My Liberator article on the prospects for a Progressive Alliance

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This article on the prospects for a Progressive Alliance of the non-Conservative parties at the next general election appears in the new iss...
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Friday, September 02, 2022

Rye Arts Festival talk on Malcolm Saville's Sussex

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Elaine Luke will be speaking on Malcolm Saville's Sussex at this month's Rye Arts Festival to mark the 40th anniversary of the autho...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

Dreams and numinous landscapes: How Malcolm Saville made his stories strange

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The other day I wrote about how Alan Garner ran up against the limitations of children's holiday fiction. I should also have emphasised...
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Monday, April 19, 2021

Walking the Rye Harbour branch

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From the description on YouTube: This 1½ mile standard gauge branch left the Ashford-Hastings line just west of Rye station. It can be joine...
Friday, November 30, 2018

A Sixties advertisement for Brede Place near Rye

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Another advertisement from that guide to Rye dating from a 1967 family holiday. It's proving to be the best 1/6 my parents ever spent...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Day trips to the Continent from Lydd Airport in 1967

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Writing about Malcolm Saville and Lydd Airport a few years ago, I said: I have a guide book to Rye, the relic of a family holiday in a...
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Friday, November 09, 2018

When the Monastery in Rye was a pottery

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In 2014 the Monastery in Conduit Hill, Rye, was up for sale. The Rye & Battle Observer told us: The Monastery building was once ea...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

A 1967 advertisement for The Oxney Ferry Inn, Kent

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Another advertisement from my 1967 guide to Rye . The Oxney Ferry Inn is still flourishing , though it seems to have dropped the 'O...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

A souvenir of Rye from 1967

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They say that if you can remember the Sixties you weren't there. But I do remember them and I was there. I even remember the Summer...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

Camber Castle from above in 1931: Malcolm Saville there in 1945

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When they came up to the gap in the walls which once had been a gateway they saw that nothing but the central tower remained inside, Shee...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

The railway from Hastings to Ashford: Part 2

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The waiting is over. On Thursday evening I posted part 1 of a video about the Hastings to Ashford line . Here is the second and final p...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

The railway from Hastings to Ashford: Part 1

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In 1967 my family had a caravan holiday at Winchelsea Beach in Sussex. And I do remember the summer of love: All You Need is Love by the B...
Friday, September 08, 2017

Six of the Best 723

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Vince Cable challenges the Tory fallacy that migrants are taking British jobs and driving down wages: "By implication, unskilled job...
Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Doleham: The least used station in East Sussex

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We had a caravan holiday at Winchelsea Beach in 1967 (the Summer of Love) when I was seven. I remember the train from Ashford to Rye and...
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Friday, December 09, 2016

Why I am a sceptic about the idea of a Progressive Alliance

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Embed from Getty Images Last night, in a Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council by-election, the Conservatives held Trench ward wit...