Category: Rye

Rye is a medieval town in East Sussex.

Town Crier

News and Gossip Pages

By Jim Hollands

Sitting In With G.R.I.P.P.

G.R.I.P.P (Give Rye it’s Proper Policing) invited me to sit in on their meeting at the beginning of the month.

Their reaction to the new initiative by the police to crack down on the local vandals was treated with some contempt in view of the new Gungarden damage and graffiti attacks on the Post Office and other areas in the town that had taken place since the promises were made by District Commander Chief Inspector Brian Mathews. Continue reading Town Crier

World Famous Journalist Visits Ryes Own

World Renowned Journalist Visits Rye’s Own

Joe Schlesinger of the famed Canadian Broadcasting Company programme ‘Newsworld’ was at the Rye’s Own Office on Saturday 22 February to interview Editor Jim Hollands and Copy Reader Jo’ Vincent about their views on the situation regarding Iraq. They also called on Mayor Peter Dyce, Annie Jay of the Magic Wardrobe Boutique and John Izod at the Old Grammar School Record Shop. Continue reading World Famous Journalist Visits Ryes Own

Farewell Spike

“I don’t mind dying as long as I am not around when it happens.”

The words above were one of Spike Milligan’s ‘off the cuff ‘ answers. He also claimed he wanted to outlive Harry Secombe as he didn’t want him singing at his funeral. Continue reading Farewell Spike

Old Pictures Raise £1,500

 

Old Rye Pictures helped to Raise £1,500 at the Riverside

British Aid for Deprived Children

By Martin Carter

Three years ago, Stuart Pope and I joined the ‘Convoy Of Hope’ driving trucks full of locally collected aid to Kosovo. This was run by a small privately run charity called British Humanitarian Aid and comprised of vehicles – small vans, trucks, a coach and an articulated lorry driven by volunteers from all over the country. Continue reading Old Pictures Raise £1,500

Rye Pottery

By Pam Goddard

An Error of Judgement

One day at work we were expecting a photographer from the magazine “Sussex Life” to take some photos of June and I doing our respective jobs. I was going to throw small mugs, once I had finished off things I had made the day before, so didn’t start throwing things until very late in the morning. Continue reading Rye Pottery

The Old Billy

The Royal William  – Camber

By Clifford Jordan

From October 2001 “Rye’s Own”

A late nineteenth century postcard of the original Old Billy Pub situated at Camber opposite the Golf Club House which was weather boarded with a stove pipe chimney on the left and destroyed by fire in 1893 Continue reading The Old Billy

The Man From the Pru

I grew up knowing Archibald Trill as The Man From The Pru. When I met him recently at his Marley Road address and learned he was 95 I was more than surprised, he looked almost exactly as I remembered him way back in the sixties. Continue reading The Man From the Pru

Peter Mitchell

Rye Personality of the Twentieth Century

Peter Mitchell _ Was at the Battle of Jutland and the Sinking of the Bismark
Peter Mitchell _ Was at the Battle of Jutland and the Sinking of the Bismark

Percy Lawrence Mitchell – Seaman & Youth Leader

Percy Lawrence Mitchell, known universally in Rye by the young people of the fifties and sixties as Peter Mitchell was another outstanding Rye character who left his mark on this town. Continue reading Peter Mitchell

Winnie – The Last Article

Winnie Hollands died on Sunday 10 June 2001. The last of this article was written on the 6 June 2001.

Adventures in Rye

By Winnie Hollands

“The war in Europe is over”. When those words came over the radio we all cheered. Rye was ablaze with bunting and naval ratings from their base at the New Road School charged around the town kissing all the girls and attempting to drink the pubs dry. One sailor climbed the front of the The Olde Bell Inn and tied a rope round the bell tongue and sounded the bell for all his might, until the tongue came out, crashed down and almost killed him. Two Navel Officers careered round the town in a red triumph sports car until they hit a curb and broke the front suspension. It was a mad, glorious day. Continue reading Winnie – The Last Article