171 photos from two days in the historic Cinque Port town of Rye in East Sussex on 16 & 17 July 2024. The majority were taken very early in the morning on 17 July while the streets were still quiet.

The name Rye derives from the Saxon word ieg, which means island; appropriate as the town stands on a promontory, enclosed on three sides by the rivers Rother, Brede & Tillingham. Rye was once a costal town, but by the 16th century the sea had receded due long shore drift which filled the bay and it is now two miles from the sea. When first built in the early 1500s Camber Castle was on a shingle bank, defending the entrance to Rye harbour, but it was abandoned in 1637 when the shot from the cannons could no longer reach the sea.