By Jim Hollands
Thanks to Pat and the Rye Bonfire Society for inviting me to light this year’s fire, it was an amazing experience. Thanks too to Robertsbridge Centurions for getting me safely from Landgate to the Bonfire site, a journey I shall always remember.
This is probably the very first picture taken from the chair. Lots more pictures in the December “Rye’s Own”
Well done Bonfire Boys, a great show.
There is no greater night of the year in Rye and so it has been down the ages.
Rye Bonfire Society put on a fantastic show every year and it is a free show that all the family can enjoy. The Boys (and Girls) work hard all year round raising cash to produce the colourful spectacle that people from all over the World come to see.
The important thing is ALL the money collected in the boxes and buckets goes to help local charities. So please be generous on the night. Give the kids plenty of pennies to drop in the boxes, give the good lady some shiny pound coins and, I have been informed, a five pound note slips through the slot easily. £10 have been known but a £50 would be a first I think.
Have a great night, wrap up well and stay warm.
Enjoy these 80 pictures from 2006 – They can be enlarged. Continue reading Rye Bonfire 2006
Hastings Old Town Carnival Association held its AGM at the East Hastings Sea Angling Association at 10am on Sunday, 15th November. Despite the time and the inclement weather it was one of the best turnout for many years. Continue reading How Faces On Old Town Carnival Committee
Pig’s Can’t Swim, Wild Boar (to the tune of Green Door), Little Piggies and much, much more…. Continue reading A Wild, Wild Boar Night
With Bonfire Night looming Rye’s Own has raked through the archives and found these pictures for your enjoyment. Pictures can be enlarged.
In 1965 Rye Sports Day was a popular local event, attracting athletes from all over the country. But Television was gaining a hold and first class athletics from the White City was showing athletes of International stature. Spectator support was dropping and the difference from 1950, when about 4,000 people turned up at the Cricket Salts to watch the athletic and cycle races to the mid sixties, when Continue reading Carnival Appeal Film – 1965
This piece of film of the 1962 Hythe Venetian Fete comes out of the “Rye’s Own” Archive. Does anyone remember this event?
A meeting at Tilling Green Community Centre kicked off a great idea that could result in the revival of former Rye Annual Events, help existing events and encourage Rye United Football Club to live again. Twenty people, including some of the best ‘committee workers’ in the land, attended and with Councillor Mike Boyd in the Chair.
