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Picture No:67
Courtesy of:Barry Yates
Year:2001
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Mary Stanford Lifeboat House

The audio file is Doris Cutting recalling the night of the lifeboat disaster on 15th November 1928. Recorded by Saffron Summerfield in 2006.
Picture Added on 20 March 2006.

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Was this the orginal lifehouse where the Mary Stanford launched from?

My grandmother lived in Rye Harbour all her life and her brother Charles Southerden was one of the men who drowned.

Is it derelict? I spent many a summer at Rye and the harbour when I was a child and spent many an hour wandering around the cost but never once recall seeing the lifeboat station

Added by Matthew Coleman on 07 January 2012.
Hello Mathew I am Paul Kennedy and my mother Lottie (Betty) Southerden was Charles Southerden's cousin.
Yes this is the Lifeboat House which is midway between the Harbour and Winchelsea.It is now a listed building and a lady from Winchelsea is trying to organise to preserve the building - she is coincidentally, called Mary Stanford. if you need any more info I will try and give you it.
regards
Paul Kennedy

Added by on 13 January 2012.

For more information on this subject see the following websites.
Rye Harbour Lifeboat Station


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