Category: Festivals

Scallop Festival

Celebrate the Scallop! If you’ve never watched a scallop race then you could be in for a real treat as the ancient Cinque Ports town of Rye, East Sussex heads towards its 11th Rye Bay Scallop week. The hilarious What a Load of Scallops race sees teams running around the town with barrow loads of shells, competing for the acclaimed Scallop Trophy. This is just one of the dozens of quirky events organised to celebrate the delicious shellfish for which Rye is justifiably renowned. Continue reading Scallop Festival

James Bond or Del Trotter

The record crowd of several thousand spectators were delighted by one of the rafts entered in this year’s Annual Rye Raft Race organised by Rye and District Lions Club. Unbelievably, the raft crewed by Woody Plant Hire, was an actual Reliant Robin car. Continue reading James Bond or Del Trotter

Maritime Festival 2013

Crowds Flock to The Strand

The town was heaving with activity on Sunday 11 August as thousands flocked to the town, including many from Hastings, New Romney and Hythe, to see the best ever Rye Maritime Festival. Continue reading Maritime Festival 2013

Folkestone Air Show Free To All

                Count-down to take-off

WITH six weeks to go before the Folkestone Airshow, preparations for the several-hour flying programme and three days of ground events and activities which will make it ‘the biggest and best ever’. are in their final stages. Now, says organiser Folkestone Town Centre Management the focus is on money matters. Continue reading Folkestone Air Show Free To All

The Madonna Car

From Rye’s Own April 2013 issue

This fabulous Rolls Royce Cloud 2 convertible reputedly carried Madonna to her wedding to Guy Ritchie at Skibo Castle on 22 December 2000 will be featured at The War & Peace Revival at Folkestone Racecourse in July. Continue reading The Madonna Car

Best Scallop Festival Ever

What many locals proclaimed as “The best Rye Scallop Festival ever” came to a close with masses of praise being heaped on the shoulders of event organiser Oliver Campion and the many helpers he bulldozed into helping him realise such a great success. Continue reading Best Scallop Festival Ever

New Home For War And Peace Show

The journey to War and Peace Revival from the heart by Show Organiser Rex Cadman It is reassuring to see the amount of talk about War and Peace, which underlines the incredible affection this show is held in. It has been a major part of mine and Barbara’s lives for 25-years and has given us some of our best memories, some of our toughest times and introduced us to some amazing and wonderful people. Continue reading New Home For War And Peace Show

Rye Fawkes Night 2012

The Show Went on at Rye

Rain has affected and even cancelled Sussex Bonfire events with many fire-sites sodden and extremely muddy. Rye was no exception and the Pyro crew had their work cut out setting up on Saturday and keeping everything dry.

The whole of Rye Bonfire are no strangers to hard work and fund-raise tirelessly each year to stage Rye Bonfire. Their costs are rising so were extremely pleased Continue reading Rye Fawkes Night 2012

Wild Boar

LAST FOUR DAYS

Wild boar is a regular feature of the woods around the beautiful medieval town of Rye, and this year Rye goes ‘wild’ about boar, celebrating this local delicacy of the field, from 27 October – 4 November 2012. Continue reading Wild Boar