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RYE HARBOUR, East Sussex, UK... (click here for location)

Click to ViewThe Rye Harbour Image Library will contain images and anecdotes about the area. For now there are 258 pictures and 93 comments on the site for you to browse through. The site is designed so that you can add your comments about the pictures to build up the history of the village. You can even send us your photos to be added.

Images can be viewed by YEAR, by ALBUM, by GROUP, or by CONTRIBUTOR, or you can use the simple SEARCH at the top of this page.

Click to ViewWhen viewing the pictures, PLEASE leave your own comments using the form at the foot of each page. You might know a face, a date or a story about the photo. In this way we hope to build an extensive collection of information, reminiscences and anecdotes about Rye Harbour that is easily accessible to everyone.

Click to ViewYou are also able to make your own album of the images here and make this publicly available if you wish.
If you want to add your pictures please send them to us at yates@clara.net.
We are now starting to include sound files and scanned documents - use the search box for "audio" or "pdf". Video will be coming soon.

Click to ViewA BOOKLET is available describing many aspects of the village history through the memories of local people. It was originally published by the Thomas Peacocke School History Group in 1992.
This revised edition was printed in 2006.
Copies are available for £5 + 75p p&p
Click on the image for details.


Click to ViewThis web site is managed by Rye Harbour Heritage, which was established in 2005, around 200 years after the harbour’s first settlement. It aims to record and promote the rich and varied history of Rye Harbour village.

Click to ViewIt is funded by Rye Harbour Nature Reserve and English Nature through Defra’s Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund.

Click on thumbnails to view.

Latest Pictures
Triptych Dedication
Triptych Dedication
Bill Head and FamilyRye Harbour School about 1927Rye Harbour School about 1927Albert Dowding family
The Macnees on the slipwayRupert Macnee outside Harbour LightsOn the ferryFerryman
Rye Harbour Church plansBoats at Rye HarbourGirl at the harbourRye Harbour Lifeboat,
Latest Comments
I believe my grandparents and father were living at rye
Bill was my uncle, and you are right, he was a fantasti
Bill Head was my Great Uncle, my mum's uncle, and is hu
A beautiful picture, i have been asked by a local (Than
This is my Grandfather Dick Cutting, my Mother is Hazel
Hello, my name is Sherry Bowe, nee Seymour, and I was b
I might be wrong but I believe that this is dear old "H
The map attributed to Monica Edwards, the children's bo
My husbands grandmother was Freda May Cutting. His fath
James Cutting is my husband Peter Chapmans great grandf
Latest Pictures
Triptych Dedication
Bill Head and Family
Rye Harbour School about 1927
Rye Harbour School about 1927
Albert Dowding family
The Macnees on the slipway
Rupert Macnee outside Harbour Lights
On the ferry
Ferryman
Rye Harbour Church plans
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