All this week, workmen have been dismantling the scaffolding over The George in the High Street. They are up there balancing like trapeze artists silhouetted against the sky. They strike balletic poses, calling cheerfully to each other as they go about the business of lowering more than 60 tonnes of metal tubing to the ground.
It has been a long 18 months since our first report in Rye News on Feb 20 2020, and it comes as a great relief to the High Street traders who have borne for the most part phlegmatically with the disruption caused to their businesses. Maybe now East Sussex Highways will move the street repairs to the top of their agenda.
