Author: Jim Hollands
Some Rye United Teams of Yesteryear
In this time of ‘No Football in Rye’ we thought it might be nice to look back at some of Rye Teams over the years.
We wondered if some of the great players from these pictures, or their sons or grand sons are able to come forward and help John Tolhurst in his efforts to re-establish football in Rye. Continue reading Some Rye United Teams of Yesteryear
Save Tilling Green Community Centre
Another Irreplaceable Rye Community Facility about to be Demolished
The following film “The Future of Tilling Green”, was made a few years ago when the Primary School on Mason Road was closed, the electrics and gas stripped out so it could not be used, and the building was boarded up waiting for an excuse for demolition.
This was the same underhand method that was used with the Ferry Road Primary School. It was abandoned and one building suffered an arson attack. This was used as an excuse to demolish the other buildings. ESCC failed miserably to find a buyer and the community was robbed of a fine site for a library and sports facilities. Continue reading Save Tilling Green Community Centre
Send Your Rye Pictures and News to Rye’s Own
Send Your News Items and Pictures to Rye’s Own as soon as you can to:-
They will be used in the next magazine or here on the Ryes Own Website. Pictures, News, Views, Comments, Drawings and other Art Work, Poetry, Political comments and criticisms are all welcome as long as they are about Rye. Continue reading Send Your Rye Pictures and News to Rye’s Own
The Great Ferry Road Nursery Duck Race
The Town Crier Rang his bell and the ducks were launched in the great Ferry Road Nursery Duck Race. 100’s of ducks were dropped from the Bridge at Ferry Road and raced off down the River Tillingham towards the finishing point at the Railway Bridge Continue reading The Great Ferry Road Nursery Duck Race
Rex & Rita are Diamonds
Rex & Rita – Ryers Through and Through
Rye Town Crier, Rex Swain, and his wife Rita celebrate sixty years
of happy marriage on this very day Friday 1. October as this magazine
reaches the newsagents.
Our front cover celebrates sixty years of dedication to each other
and their fine service to the Town of Rye. The picture was taken the
day that one of Rye’s mace bearers could not make a very important
event in the calendar and Rita stood in at the last moment. Continue reading Rex & Rita are Diamonds
Time has Come to Protect Rye from Rother
The Rother Wreckers
They knocked down headstones in Rye Cemetery – They knocked down the Chapel in the Cemetery and turned it into an ‘Historic Relic’.
Rother have let the famous cobble streets of Rye fall into an abysmal state of repair and the Landgate is in such need of restoration due to their negligence over the years that it will soon be in a state of collapse. Continue reading Time has Come to Protect Rye from Rother
Summers on the Appledore Road World War Two
By Beryl Dale
I was born in May 1938 and when I think of the summers of my early childhood the sun seemed to have shone all the time. It is especially strange as those years were set against the back drop of war and all that entailed. We lived in the outskirts of Rye, close to the Kent border. Continue reading Summers on the Appledore Road World War Two
Evolution of the Sailing Ship Through Seals
The Common seals of the Cinque Ports and a number of other ports are of interest and value in understanding the evolution of European sailing ships in the Middle Ages. Continue reading Evolution of the Sailing Ship Through Seals
The Hastings Arms
By John Hodges
At some time in the seventeenth century Hastings began to expand out of the valley of the Bourne , and odd buildings were erected in an area to the West that became known as the “Suburbs”. It was not until 1811 that this newly developed street became known locally as George Street, and early in the nineteenth century the George Inn was opened. Continue reading The Hastings Arms