It's a lovely and fascinating town - thanks for this video. Eleanor Farjeon's fanciful explanation of the name is that the Mermaid of Rye, who was rather a 'B-grade' mermaid, being been born in a periwinkle rather than an oyster, had a slight speech problem and referred to winkles as 'winchels' ... Look forward to your next production
I had not heard of Miss Farjeon before, and upon reading her biography in Wikipedia I see that her residence in Sussex during WW1 inspired many of her stories. Also that she was an influence upon Japanese animator, Hayao Miyazaki, whose work I am a big fan of! Thanks for mentioning her!
A shingle beach with a pool behind it is a chesil beach which is what old winchelsea town was built on. The storm (a hurricane) laid waist to broomhill and winchelsea town the town was rebuilt inland and was invaded and ransacked by the french and Dutch.
Excellent video. You should take it up professionally😃. I visited Winchelsea with my wife last year and I was fanscinated by the many incredible cellars in the town that were used for storage (probably illegal), dating from around 1290AD. There are 33 that still exist and another 17 that are known about. There are also bookable tours of the cellars which I thoroughly recommend. Thanks for the video.
We wanted to take the cellar tour, but that's available only on the weekend, and we were there mid-week. The cellars might have been used for smuggling later, but when the town was first moved from its original site (now underwater) to the hill, the cellars were necessary due to Winchelsea being an important transshipment point for the (legal) importation of wine from France.
LOL! I kind of ran out of time for everything! I would have liked to cover the cellars of Winchelsea, but we weren't there when the tours were on, so...
Very interesting. Thank you.
Fascinating video, i learnt some interesting history today, thank you 😊
It's a lovely and fascinating town - thanks for this video. Eleanor Farjeon's fanciful explanation of the name is that the Mermaid of Rye, who was rather a 'B-grade' mermaid, being been born in a periwinkle rather than an oyster, had a slight speech problem and referred to winkles as 'winchels' ...
Look forward to your next production
I had not heard of Miss Farjeon before, and upon reading her biography in Wikipedia I see that her residence in Sussex during WW1 inspired many of her stories. Also that she was an influence upon Japanese animator, Hayao Miyazaki, whose work I am a big fan of! Thanks for mentioning her!
A shingle beach with a pool behind it is a chesil beach which is what old winchelsea town was built on. The storm (a hurricane) laid waist to broomhill and winchelsea town the town was rebuilt inland and was invaded and ransacked by the french and Dutch.
I believe I mentioned most all that. Hadn't heard the Dutch were involved, but the Spanish were. Check for _chesil_ at 6:58
Excellent video. You should take it up professionally😃. I visited Winchelsea with my wife last year and I was fanscinated by the many incredible cellars in the town that were used for storage (probably illegal), dating from around 1290AD. There are 33 that still exist and another 17 that are known about. There are also bookable tours of the cellars which I thoroughly recommend. Thanks for the video.
We wanted to take the cellar tour, but that's available only on the weekend, and we were there mid-week. The cellars might have been used for smuggling later, but when the town was first moved from its original site (now underwater) to the hill, the cellars were necessary due to Winchelsea being an important transshipment point for the (legal) importation of wine from France.
Not the only yanker in Sussex
No smuggling history? Not like those dodgy Hastonians...
LOL! I kind of ran out of time for everything! I would have liked to cover the cellars of Winchelsea, but we weren't there when the tours were on, so...