Rye Harbour Image Library

Picture No:	213
Courtesy of:	Mary Lestocq
Year:	1980

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View of the village 1 - about 1980?

Viewed from across the river, this shows an early lifeboat house (right) and the sailing club (left).
Picture Added on 12 January 2007.

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This looks like Jack Doust going to sea to pilot a coaster into the Harbour. The lifeboat house was the first built since the Mary Stanford disaster - probably about the mid to late 1960's; it was equipped with an inflatable inshore rescue boat.
The house to the left of the W.T.C pub, ie the one stepped back, was the home of Jack Tillman, a relation of my Grandma Lee who was a Tillman before her marriage to William Lee; the Tillmans came from Hastings.

The cottage, three buildings to the left of the Conqueror, had its dormer windows added after WWII

Added by Michael J. Doust on 15 February 2007.

I am a decendant of the Tillmans of Rye Harbour. I have heard a story that following the funeral of his son, a local man (Cutting I believe) was walking home in the snow, when he reportedly slipped or tripped and fell into the water where he drowned. Does any one have more details, the incident took place probably between 1915 and 1940.
Added by Penelope Hills on 27 December 2009.

For more information on this subject see the following websites.
Rye Harbour Sailing Club