Rye Conservation Society donates £102 to RNLI Pebble Project A local project is underway to commemorate the ninetieth anniversary of the Mary Stanford lifeboat disaster in 1928. The Mary Stanford capsized during a rescue mission on November 15, 1928, and all 17 men in the crew were lost, practically all the male fishermen of Rye Harbour at the time. The project is to create a pebble pavement alongside the RNLI station in Rye Harbour. The Conservation Society has agreed to don

The Rye Conservation Society Photo Collection In December 2018 the Society was able to purchase two postcard albums from Rye Auction Galleries. Containing over 360 cards from a number of different manufacturers they illustrate Rye from the turn of the 20th Century to the 1970s. They cover the streets and buildings of the town, mainly in photographs but with a good selection of reproductions of watercolours and etchings. Many can be dated from their postmark or the publisher’s