Category: East Sussex

Rye in Bloom

                 RYE IN BLOOM IN BLOOM PLANS FOR 2005

Plans for Rye in Bloom 2005 activities are already underway.

This year’s Rye in Bloom competition will be judged between 29th June and 5th July by a panel of 8 judges who will, individually, visit all the entries during the allotted week. They will mark each display on its impact, colour, suitability, qua lit y and maintenance, particularly taking note of the year round interest in the resi dential front gardens. The idea for a panel of judges was suggested by one of last year’s entries and will give a very fair overall picture. Continue reading Rye in Bloom

Pen & Ink

Dear Editor

My cousin Eve Brown sent me a December 2004 “Rye’s Own” and I was interested in the article on the efforts on raising money for Rye St. John Ambulance service. Good wishes to them. My father, Ron White, was a member at Rye for many years, he later became a full time member of the Ambulance Service. Continue reading Pen & Ink

Proposed Cycle Path Rye Harbour Road

By Brian Mathews

On August 12th my son Graham aged 22 was hit by a car in broad daylight on the Rye Harbour Road and died as a result at the scene. Continue reading Proposed Cycle Path Rye Harbour Road

Pauperism in Rye

Late Victorian & Early Edwardian Rye

By “Rya”

Pauperism remained an unresolved social problem at the opening of the twentieth century. Social reform in this county was confined to filing the most glaring gaps in the existing social system. The bed-rock of social provision was to be found in the Poor Law, first enacted in the time of the Tudors, and re-enacted Continue reading Pauperism in Rye

The Rye Mill

 

Rye Mill
Rye Mill

Actual documentary evidence on the history of Rye Mill is virtually non-existent. It was the subject of Victorian mezzotints and oleographs, but beyond that visual and literary records are silent. Whether a mill existed on the present site earlier than, say, 1850, is a matter of pure conjecture. We do know, however, that long before the Webb family, who used the mill for baking and bread-making before and after the Second War, came into residence the buildings had been given over to storing grain. Probably the last flour actually produced there was sold either before or during the First World War. Then the bakery was at the Mill Cottage – the old tall chimney of the bakehouse can be seen in the photographs taken in the 1920s. Continue reading The Rye Mill

Ernest Charles Apps

Ernest Charles Apps

(1927-2004)

A Rye Character

by R Wylson

Irascible, intelligent, cantankerous, scurrilous, interesting, perverse, opinionated, cultured, argumentative, frugal, irreverent. These are all adjectives used to describe Ernie Apps, who, by universal agreement, was indeed a Rye character. Continue reading Ernest Charles Apps

Dredging Strand Quay

Dredging Strand Quay

by Peter Etherden

This is a cautionary tale and I have cut corners in the telling. Rye’s trawler fleet has been decimated by the European Union over the past few decades and although a new Fishing Quay is finally under construction the part played by the Rye Fishmarket Project in the whole story has been written out of this shortened account which focuses on our failure to dredge Rye’s Strand Quay…something which has been done every few years since time immemorial. Continue reading Dredging Strand Quay

Amazing Day for Rye St. John

On Saturday 18 December Julie and Neville Bettley of Rye St. John Ambulance stood in open mouth amazement as Reg Walker, Charity Steward of the Rye Masonic Wellington Lodge, announced that “He who laughs last, laughs longest” and revealed a donation of £13,750 to the Ambulance Appeal.

Julie Bettley told me afterwards that they had been expecting a couple of hundred pounds and were absolutely staggered when the amount was announced. Neville told of the relief he felt that this would cover the outstanding sum required by March when the new ambulance would be delivered Continue reading Amazing Day for Rye St. John