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CONTRIBUTORS Elvira Adams - Jon Boon - Peter Dean - Alan Humphreys - Dean Juniper - Isobel Murdoch - W&H Peacock - Stephen Roberts - Tim Sharrock - Paul Stickler - John Wright
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SPECIAL • RETURN TO RYE
A stroll along Rye’s enchanting cobbled streets is like a walk down memory lane. “There is not in all England a town so blatantly picturesque as Tilling”. So said E F Benson, of his home town of Rye, East Sussex, used by the author as the setting for his popular Mapp and Lucia novels. Visitors to the medieval East Sussex town of Rye can enjoy the very best of countryside and coast, while an extensive calendar of special events offers something for all tastes and ages.
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• ASPECT OF COUNTY LIFE
Sir Henry Royce - modest mechanic • SERENDIPITY
The home of good ideas • BRITISH TRADITIONS A little of what we love • NATURE NOTES Observations of the past 6 months
• UNDER THE HAMMER Buying and selling at auction
• COUNTY GARDENER
This season’s gardeners’ notes • GREAT ESCAPES
Rye - East sussex • COMPETITION
Win tickets to Heritage Live Concerts • SHORT STORY
Time to relax and unwind • THE LAST WORD
A picture of England 24 CRIME, PUNISHMENT 24
and transportation of county convicts • CRIME IN THE LATE 18TH CENTURY.
Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire provided their share of 136,000 men and 25,000 women transported to Australia since the first fleet arrived in 1788. Steal £1 and you could hang!
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Front cover image copyright Peter Etteridge 2019
photo: Courtesy of 1066 Country Marketing/Clive Sawyer
photo: Courtesy The State Library of Victoria
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