Op Traverse calls on anglers to be ‘eyes and ears’ to tackle rural crime Sussex anglers are being encouraged to become ‘eyes and ears’ for tackling wildlife crime across the county. The Environment Agency, CEFAS (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science) and the Angling Trust have joined forces with the National Wildlife Crime Unit … Continue reading Tackling Rural Crime
Category: Country Life
Browse the Rye’s Own Country Life archive for magazine pieces that combine contemporary reporting with memories and historical perspective. The selection ranges across “Jimper’s Jottings”, “Things Long Ago”, “Hop Picking with Arthur Woodgate”, “The Birdman of Rye”, and “Herman -Ratted!”, showing the breadth hidden behind the section heading. Together the articles retain the immediacy and individuality of a local magazine rather than reading like a formal reference book.
Mass Protest Over 12,000 Houses and Lorry Park
Gang of Four Motives Questioned by Marchers The ‘Gang of Four’, as Local MP Damien Collins, David Monk, Leader of Shepway Council, and Councillors Susan Carey and Jenny Hollingsbee have become know, must have felt their ears burning on Saturday morning. Hundreds braved a bitter cold December morning to march around Folkestone in protest against … Continue reading Mass Protest Over 12,000 Houses and Lorry Park
Residents to March Against Establishment Again
Establishment Versus Electorate A Press Release Issued by Sellindge & District Residents Association highlights the reasons for the Anti-Establishment vote via Brexit and the American Presidential election. Who will vote for regimes that ride rough-shod over the views of their local electorate? It is claimed they are selling off our heritage to the highest … Continue reading Residents to March Against Establishment Again
New Romney Cinque Port Status Threatened
Petition to the Government – Update at foot of this post. It was the Queen’s 90th. Birthday on Thursday (21 April) and beacon fires were lit all over the country, all over that is, except for New Romney. The Real Marsh Watch Group on the internet went ballistic when it was discovered the New Romney … Continue reading New Romney Cinque Port Status Threatened
Days Before the EU and Health & Safety
To All of Us Born Between 1925 – 1970 That’s Before the Common Market, European Union, Health & Safety and Litigation No matter what our kids And the new generation think about us, we are Special People. Our very lives are living proof of what we have survived and how we enjoyed it all.
The Simple Things In Life Are Best
By Tony May Having been left some money by my Nan and with plenty of operational and space problems to deal with on my existing machine, I took the plunge recently and invested in a new laptop. Now, I am as technophobic as they come and so, on the advice of friends, have always stuck … Continue reading The Simple Things In Life Are Best
Farms
By Jimper Father owned two six miles apart, one in Sussex where we lived, and the other in Kent. This farm was up on top of a hill with a northerly aspect and comprised of orchards, arable and sheep. The trees in the orchards were either apple or old cherries and the trees were enormous … Continue reading Farms
Medals Mystery
By Ion Castro Some years ago I acquired a fine silver medal, 35mm diameter and marked “PRIZE MEDAL OF THE HASTINGS AND ST LEONARDS INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION 1867” and then, recently the bronze version ,apparently struck from the same dies, turned up at auction and I added it to my collection.
Jimper’s Jottings August 2000
Planning Now there is a word to conjure with. I thought it meant planning, but councils don’t seem to grasp the fact that it is not just for today but for the future that real planning comes into its own. Rye is a very old town and to live on into the future it must … Continue reading Jimper’s Jottings August 2000
Jimper’s Jottings July 2015
Everything has done well in nature this year so far. Rye has seen a lot of visitors, the Landgate Arch is in a sad state, At the very top of this marvellous relic there still grows a large, and getting bigger by the day, bush. The old Further Education Centre really has blossomed and come … Continue reading Jimper’s Jottings July 2015