“Rye’s Own” will be in every local newsagents on Friday Morning (31 July 2015)
Packed with features and pictures including :- Continue reading Rye’s Own August Issue
Category: Rye
Rye is a medieval town in East Sussex.
Faces From the Past
A random collection of photographs – All Rye related. Many Characters and personalities from 1955 – 2015
Inauguration Speech
The New Mayor of Rye & Speaker of the Cinque Ports, Councillor Bernardine Fiddimore’s Inauguration Speech
The first time I stood in this Chamber I was just seventeen and I had recently been crowned Miss Rye. Continue reading Inauguration Speech
Rye News May 2013
Fifteenth Rotary Walk
For the fifteenth straight year in a row Rye &Winchelsea Rotary Club are inviting applications for their annual Charity Walk. Participants are being sought for one of the 3, 6 or 10 mile circuits that take walkers close to several local sites of interest. Continue reading Rye News May 2013
Happy First Birthday To Salon 15
It is now a year since mother and daughter team Karen and Chloe took over Salon 15 and what a year its been!! Continue reading Happy First Birthday To Salon 15
Rye Bay Scallop Week
Saturday 2nd – Sunday 10th February 2013 School for Scallops
The medieval town of Rye, on the Sussex coast, is home to one of the biggest scallop celebrations in Europe. From 2nd – 10th February 2013 the ancient Cinque Ports town gives itself over to the mouth-watering shellfish during the Rye Bay Scallop Week. Continue reading Rye Bay Scallop Week
Lions Boost Demelsa
From “Rye’s Own” April 2011
Demelza Hospice Care for Children provides hospice care for over 600 children with life-limiting illnesses and their families across Sussex, Kent and South London. The charity has two hospices, an eight-bedded one in Sittingbourne and a six-bedded one in South East London and a base for nurses and staff at Magham Down near Hailsham. Continue reading Lions Boost Demelsa
Sheri Shows the Way
This magazine has always championed small business so we are doubly delighted when we see young people making a success in the tough world we find ourselves in today. Continue reading Sheri Shows the Way
Bombed by Both Sides
by Graham Watson. From the November 2010 issue of Rye’s Own
I was born in Rye East Sussex, in May 1936, and lived at Godfrey’s Row which was a terrace of five houses situated opposite the Pipemaker’s Arms Public House, in Winchelsea Road. In 1940 the first kits of the Anderson shelter, the outdoor type, which consisted of a large hole dug by the householder, with curved sections of corrugated iron bolted together and placed in the hole to form the walls and roof . The earth which had been dug out to from the hole was then thrown back over the shelter to give it added protection. Continue reading Bombed by Both Sides
Rye Bonfires of the Past
Recapture Moments from the Past, Worthy of Preservation.
Sixty years ago in 1945 the Second World War had just reached it’s terrible conclusion with the discovery of the death camps in Europe and the dropping of two atom bombs on Japan. Continue reading Rye Bonfires of the Past