We have just passed the third anniversary of the first Covid lockdown, when all we were allowed to do outdoors was to take our permitted exercise, everything else was cancelled as we were firmly included in the world-wide pandemic. Getting out for a permissible brief walk really broke the monotony and probably kept a lot of us sane. However, here we are, just over three years later and whilst Covid is still very much around things are beginning to feel like they used to.
The following photographs were all taken whilst taking some exercise on March 30, 2020 and form a pictorial record of an empty Rye. No visitors. No traffic and no visible forms of life on our streets. Empty shops with posters in the windows explaining why they were closed, car parks with no cars, no traffic jams or road works, no delivery drivers, commuters or tourists, just an eerie silence.
It was a time when all our lives changed, our habits had to change and for the foreseeable future we had very little control over our own destinies. The pandemic had a profound effect on the whole population; it was a period in our lives we survivors will never forget and something we hope never to have to witness again.
