more Rye

My knight in shining armor.

Cheesy - but necessary when right in front of you.

This was tooo cute. If you can see on the privy picture you can see the privy on the left with a guy on it - down below is where it all went and a guy cleaning it up. Really cool.

When it was a goal, they built this little building to house the women prisoners - it was a jail in the 1700s.

Ypres Tower, built in 1249 as part of the town's defences. Over the years its been used as a goal (love the English), as a home for a guy named Ypres, hence the name, a mortuary and finally as a museum. It looks like I didn't get a picture of the prison rooms - tiny and cramped with only a bed - no room for anything else. The doors were deliberately made smaller - so the prisoners had to duck to come out - then the guards would grab them by the neck and jerked them out to overpower them. This is what the guide was telling us. The prisoners were sometimes violent and that's how they subdued them - or killed them.

Some pictures of St. Mary's Church and graveyard in Rye, East Sussex, England.

Cooky and Nancy, these pictures are for you. I couldn't read much on them - no names and the only dates were about 1800. So not that old (to us) and already the names are lost. Sad.

This is the Lamb House where American-born writer Henry James lived. He wrote "The Portrait of a Lady" and "The Turn of the Screw" - neither of which I know anything about - however, he seems to have been a big shot around here.

All the streets are cobbled and really narrow. The sidewalks are so narrow that we walked in the street until a car came by. Can't remember the name of this one. Its on the way up to the church and tower.

Just cute little (ancient) places.

Entrance into another street in Rye.

Just one of the ancient buildings in Rye.

The Faucetts are walking in the street - have to get off when a car comes. This is Mermaid Street in Rye. Medieval town. A shop on Mermaid Street, below.