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The C. M. Booth
collection of
Historic Vehicles
to be seen at:
An es in Rye Rolvenden, Kent TN17 4LP
Falstaff Antiques
63 High Street,
Tel: 01580 241234
www.morganmuseum.org.uk
Open all year
Monday to Saturday
10am to 5pm
we may have to occasionally
Rye, with its ancient buildings, cobbled streets and secret passages was once the haunt of close during these times so it
may be best to call ahead
smugglers and highwaymen and is certainly one of the best preserved medieval towns in
England. Times change and whist it still retains its history, heritage and charm Rye is fast Antique Disc and Cylinder Musical Boxes
becoming the antiques capital for the South East with more than 20 antiques shops and Bridge Garage by Stephen Kember
venues all within a quarter of a mile walk from the centre of this stunning and ancient
Citadel town and many more in surrounding villages. Antiques
Sedlescombe, Hastings,TN33 0QN
(on the B2244)
HG Gasson Antiques selling: china, glass, pictures, records, silver, antique
furniture, military, jewellery and vintage clothes.
9 Lion Street, Rye, tN31 7LB
Open 7 days a week ~ 10am to 4.30pm
Early oak, walnut, mahogany, 01424 871424
fruitwood and country furniture
with associated decorative items NEEDLES
01797 222208 or 07703 349431 ANTIQUES The Rye Emporium Almost without exception, everybody who visits
www.antiquesrye.co.uk Art Deco - Mid Century - Antiques my shop in Rye, smiles when they hear an antique
musical box play. Why do people find them so
An eclectic mix including fireside, china, interesting? Maybe the mood or feeling of an
jewellery, garden, fishing and more earlier era is recreated. The sound produced by
01424 812728 07802 437188 a properly restored musical box is exactly as it
would have been when the machine was new, all
07545 309672 info@theryeemporium.com those years ago. Each one of us has the opportunity
to experience the delight and enchantment felt by
Zone 5, Unit 2, Jempson’s Yard
15 Cinque Ports Street, Rye TN31 7AD say, William Gladstone, a young Winston Churchill
Winchelsea Road, Rye TN31 7EL or Queen Victoria. We can enjoy the entertainment
that was so new in that era.
YOU SHOULD ALSOVISIT: There are two broad categories of musical box,
cylinder or disc. Many variations of each type exist.
RYE AUCTION GALLERIES LTD The musical information, or code, necessary for the
Unit 36,Rye Ind.Park,Harbour Road,TN31 7TE
Free valuations, probate, insurance valuations and house production of the music is provided by either a
Gifts, Toys and Vintage clearances, collections available pinned cylinder or an interchangeable flat disc.
01797 222661 or 01797 222650 Examples can be large or small, plain or elaborate,
info@ryeauctiongalleriesltd.com a cheap novelty or a sophisticated piece of musical
07904 696036 Sales 1st and 3rd Friday of every month technology. Each musical box provides us with
a piece of social and technical history. If these
shop@curiousandcuriouserrye.co.uk TOWER FORGE INTERIORS (EXTERIORS) machines could talk as well as sing imagine the tales
72 The Mint, Rye TN31 7EW Hilders Cliff, Rye,TN31 7LD
79a High Street, TN31 7JN Antique china, glass, hand-knitted woollens Only open at weekends and bank holidays but well they could tell...
www.curiousandcuriouserrye.co.uk 01797 224508 • brian.c.wright@hotmail.co.uk worth a visit Reclaim wood mirrors, statues, fish boxes, Visit my shop in Cinque Port Street (Antiques at
bookcases and fire surrounds made to measure
07505 738107 shop: 01797 229447 Rameslie House) to see what it’s all about.
www.towerforge.co.uk
Please see Town Map (pages 34-35) and Area Map (pages 44-45) for antique shop locations.
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