Contents

• Welcome from the Editor - Kim Spencer
• I was lucky enough to be born in Hastings - Malcolm Saville
• Foreword to the 1951 Holiday Guide to Hastings - Malcolm Saville
• Setting the scene in this port of stranded pride
• So what was Rye really like in 1945 - Frank Shepperd
• Fortifications of Rye and Winchelsea Area - John Pentney
• RH&DR - the world's smallest public railway
• BBC Children's Hour
• 'Hello Children -- Everywhere' - Jenny Aitken
• Looking back -- recollections from 1995
• Sussex Cricket in Fred and Jon's time - Geoff Simpson
• Bibliographical notes on The Elusive Grasshopper
• 'Tanglewood Cottage' -- Sunny Stories 11th June 1956
• Viola Bayley -- the Rye Connection - Julie Makin
• Under the sign of the grasshopper
• Articles in previous Rye Souvenir Programmes
• Acknowledgements