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Antiques Journal

SPOTLIGHT ON RYE

Friends Francesca Rowan-Plowden and Amy Eastall have fulfilled a lifelong dream to become shopkeepers by opening Ferry Road Store in Rye, East Sussex. Here they tell us why they chose one of the UK’s meccas for vintage and antiques

‘As well as its cobbled streets, sea views, medieval smugglers’ passages and grand Georgian architecture, Rye has a wealth of independent, and vintage and antique shops. One cannot help but be inspired by the medley of eras as you wander around and, with a history of

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