Rye medieval hill town

 Last weekend we managed to get away for the weekend to Rye, which is a medieval hill town and cinque port, that's now  a distance from the sea. 

I thought there was quite a bit that might be of interest to those that read this blog and I wanted to keep all the images together, so please, indulge  me!

 There is a  nice medieval gate, the Landgate, a big church, lots of timber framed buildings, some rebuilt in 1420 and a medieval fortification called the Ypres Tower . We went on a nice little walk that took us to another fortification built for Henry VIII,an artillery fort, much like  the Falmouth model but now a ruin , it was interesting to me to contrast the construction techniques of the two fortifications, the earlier tower is rubble except around the arrow slits and door ways which are masonry. In the fort it is clear it was faced entirely with masonry ,because a lot  of it has eroded/ fallen/ been removed? we can  see the rubble and brick structure beneath and also around the gun ports. Indeed there is a row of bricks below one gunport that looks like it's been done with London stock bricks!

I thought the erosion on the seaward side of the fort was also of interest. There were a couple of Georgian 32 pounders on War department garrison carriages outside the Ypres Tower , the other smaller guns didn't have any markings, I  did start thinking I could  maybe make the Ypres Tower out of four pringle tubes, some foamboard and a  bit of rubble type wallpaper but then decided not just yet, try and stay on task and get  some more Napoleonics done! A nice slice of East Sussex  to visit if you're in the area, next post will contain toy soldiers, honest!

All the best 

Iain