Rye is a medieval town in East Sussex.
(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
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
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
I will not go on about the really obvious like a parking space with no time limit, youth or missed chances, for those are things you can never have again.
So, I hear you say, what else is there to miss in Rye?Well for a start, the clock that used to hang in the window of the post office. At times I still look to see the time at that blank window only to realise it went twenty years ago. The two way traffic system into Rye up Kings Street (Landgate) from Rye Hill. A hospital that catered for the silly little cuts and scratches mothers worry over, and the broken legs and arms they diagnosed and set. Continue reading The Things I Miss
Continue reading Celebrating 700 Years of Rye Mayoral History
The January issue has brought great response. It was, according to three readers “The best ever produced”. We must agree that the content was very interesting, lets hope this months publication can match up to it. Continue reading Editorial
The story of the Phillips family of boat builders started well before the turn of the 19th. Century. John Phillips was building boats at the Rock Channel well before 1886 because in 1886 he indentured his son Herbert, who left school at the age of twelve, as an apprentice in the business on the first day of that year. The original document, part of which is shown here, states that John Phillips “Shall instruct his apprentice in the art of Shipwrighting and Boatbuilding” and “Finding unto the said apprentice sufficient meat, drink, lodgings and all other necessaries during the said term.” Continue reading Phillips Boatbuilders
These photographs from the 1950’s will be of special interest to those in them. Are you one of them?
Colin Coppard, The Dobbie Girls, Robert Vincent, Dave Wall, Alan Smith,
Michael Craffer, Harold Boreham, Veronica Vincent, Les Bourne, Hazel
Davies, Donald Williams, Les Ashenden, Evelyn Brown, Peter Hedger,
Sheila Gladwish, Kevin Barry, Harry Milham, ‘Nobby’ Fuggle, Wendy
Yeardy, Jean Booth, Eileen Cannon, Anne Jones, Rita Bath, George Taylor,
David Britt, Peter Barry, Chris Edwards, Sue Jones, Mervyn David,Peter
Fuggle, Vera Care, George Taylor, Margaret O’Brian, Burrington Whiddap,
Tilly Robbins, Colin Ralph, Sue Sharp and Jim Hollands Snr. Continue reading David Britt’s Scrapbook
Alfred Robert Quinton was the best known and most prolific artists working for J. Salmon Ltd. of Sevenoaks. Continue reading Outstanding Vintage Rye Postcards
Rye Mayor and Mayoress meet Mr. Speaker
The Mayor and Mayoress of Rye met Mr. Speaker, on a recent visit to the Houses of Parliament
by Ann Hamilton Would you like to be sure that the producers of raw materials and products from the developing world receive a fair wage for their labour, a fair price for their products and have reasonable working conditions-including permission to join Trade Unions? Continue reading The Bells of St. Marys
