Rye Library customers should by now have now received an email from East Sussex County Council regarding the ongoing improvements to our library. For those without internet access the notification reads as follows:
Dear Customer
As a Rye Library customer we want to provide you with important information about the library. We are in the process of undertaking some maintenance and refurbishment work at Rye Library.
We are unable to complete the works while the library is open as we need to improve the platform lift and install energy saving lighting and windows. Unfortunately, in order to do this we need to close the library for a short period.
Rye Library will close at 5pm on Friday 30 December and reopen at 10am on Monday 30 January 2023
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Your nearest alternative library is Hastings Library.
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We were so close to having our own library,the site was cleared in Cinque ports street,sadly the powers to be renegaded on their promise, now we have an ageing former retail site on Rye High Street, one asks how long before these councils pull the plug on this cash cow, it will not take many excuses, to lumber us a mobile library ,just like the banks who have deserted this town.
A month to install new lighting and windows ? it should be possible to do this in a few days – after all if you think about it when a house has double glazing installed its done within a day . A commercial shop window similarly as far as I know .
The lift surely can be screened off and the library kept otherwise open.
And as regards banks being closed ( as commented on by John Tolhurst ),lets all support the remaining one ( Nationwide BUILDING SOCIETY )and open an account there and use it as otherwise we will loose it
Open as many accounts as you like. It won’t stop the march towards electronic banking for all (except the many without internet access) and the closure of more bank branches.
I’m sure I read somewhere that Nationwide have promised to honour their commitment to stay open until a certain date, not sure of the date but it’s not that far away and it remains to be seen what happens after that.
Had everyone used the banks when they were open then perhaps they would still be open now instead of having to bank on line.
Same could be said for newspapers, more news is read on line these days and a good example that is where you’re reading this.
Life moves on and you either go with it or get left behind..
I’m supporting NW and every time I venture into Rye make a point of going in providing footfall as well as an acount. They are excellent and repeatedly show me how to do my internet banking and repeatedly I fail!
Replying to Tony Edwards comment
Go with it or get left behind.
I don’t know if people realise how much a news paper costs nowadays.
I picked up a times newspaper the other day and got to the till and was informed the cost of the paper was £ 2:50 (for a midweek paper)
I didn’t go with it and the paper got left behind.
What hope is there that the new windows will resemble the older smaller panes of glass (as on the left) and be in keeping with the historical nature of Rye? What was the old Woolworths shopfront is a hideous blot on the high street (along with Boots), and it’s criminal that modernisation was ever allowed.
The old Adage “use it or lose it” is true of the Nationwide, the library, the Leisure centre (and pool) and other local services. There is absolutely no point in bleating about their potential loss if you never avail yourself of these valuable local services. We all could probably try a bit harder!
My heart goes out to the very many older people who do not, cannot use the internet. I struggle sometimes too!
How are they to manage? I pray the Nationwide will stay. It is the one sure place I can get help if I need it.
There is absolutely no substitute for human contact.
Please support our library – I always find them so helpful, its great to save money, save waste and available to all … plus sessions for toddlers etc.
If you take books out by the end of Friday 30 Dec they can date the return for the end of January so you can keep your book for over a month and return when they reopen. Good to stock up for winter reading.