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South Eastern Advertiser Rye Chronicle

Extracts from the

South Eastern Advertiser Rye Chronicle Romney Marsh and District News.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 1894.

Accident.

As the Church Sunday School were passing by the Union at the top of Rye Hill Superintendent J. Brookham, of Ore, was driving past, when one of the banners carried by the children frightened the horse, which turned round and tried to run up the bank, but slipping, it fell over on its side, breaking the shafts. The horse was afterwards got up and found to be little hurt, and luckily the only damage done was the breaking of the shafts. Continue reading South Eastern Advertiser Rye Chronicle

Bargain Hunt came to Rye

Bargain Hunt came to Rye on Friday 15 October and set up camp at Rye Auction Galleries where they put out one of their programmes ‘live’.

Tim Wonnacott fronted a BBC team. Presenters, Directors, Experts, Cameramen, Sound Men, Lighting Technicians, Make-Up Girls, Outside Broadcast People, Editors etc. etc. They even had their own security people. Continue reading Bargain Hunt came to Rye

“Flog It” Returns To Rye

Rye Auction Galleries were packed to the seams when B.B.C. television programme “Flog it” arrived to make two programmes for the popular series. Continue reading “Flog It” Returns To Rye

New Art Gallery at Atlas

Rye Art & Framing Centre and Gallery have recently opened at the Atlas Industrial Park, Rye Harbour. The Proprietor Michael Jon Preston has eight years experience and is a fully trained professional framer. The framing Centre also features a suburb Gallery situated on two floors enabling browsing in a relaxed atmosphere with refreshments available. A ‘while you wait’ framing service is just one of the unique benefits at hand. Continue reading New Art Gallery at Atlas

Jimper’s Book Selling Like Hot Cakes

 

They are used to selling ‘hot cakes’ at Jempson’s Superstore, in fact 71,000 hot cross buns have been cooked and sold in the weeks up to Easter, but Jimper’s book “Jimper’s Journal” from his diaries of the fifties and sixties was going almost as fast. Continue reading Jimper’s Book Selling Like Hot Cakes

Rye’s Premier Internet Site

www.rye-tourism.co.uk

Oliver’s New Innovations Keep it Ahead of the Rest

Rye’s web site www.rye-tourism.co.uk has undergone several changes over the last six months, which has increased the number of individual visitors to the site to as many as 1200 a day – representing roughly 4 million hits per year. Continue reading Rye’s Premier Internet Site

Memories of the Central Garage

Memories of the Central Garage by Gwynneth Harper

I noticed with interest the plans for a new library on the old Central Garage site.It seems that we shall soon see a new library rising from the space in Cinque Ports Street of the demolishing of what remained of the old Central Garage.I have a particular interest in this venture I do hope I shall last out to see it opened. I was born in the flat above the Garage in 1926, 77 years ago, and lived there until 1938 when we moved to Iden. My father Donald Hughes was the foreman at Central Garage hence our occupation of the flat.

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