Life as it was lived 50 years ago in Udimore a small village near Rye as seen by R.D. Symons of Silton. Sasks., Canada I grew up in hearing of the slow, country speech of the people of Sussex. Only occasionally have I heard it over the past fifty and more years, for most of the English … Continue reading South Saxon
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.
Jimper’s Jottings
An article appeared in the press the other day complaining of all the smoke from the house chimneys in the countryside owing to the open log fires that are all the rage with the new life people. How the do gooders forget that once all the country depended on fire to make this England great.
Poor Old Dennis
By Country Boy Poor old Maggots, being the smallest one of us, he always got the muddy end of the stick. Today we lay in wait for him to show up because he had accidently let the boat drift away down the river and we had to make a mile detour along the road to … Continue reading Poor Old Dennis
Jimper April 2003
The Spring Month April a real spring month, one quarter of the way through the year. Summer has got a grip on winter. Snow can be expected any day in April. Lambing is under way on the Marsh although the farmers with sheltered sheep have lambed indoors and the lambs are rapidly growing for the … Continue reading Jimper April 2003
Hot Gossip
by Jill Lowry “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion.” … Continue reading Hot Gossip
Glimpses of the Past
Glimpses of the Past The three photographs on this page were kindly loaned by Mike Whiteman of Peasmarsh who is the personality in this month’s “Down Rye Way” feature. The ship being launched from Hoad’s shipyard at Rock Channel is
Rye in Holiday Mood
Rye— The Holiday Paradise
Jimper’s Jottings April 1967
Rye’s Oldest Inhabitants In and around our old town of Rye we have, living here, one of the most highly developed and intelligent communities. They live with one another a free and easy life, having their own councils making their own laws, which are centuries old, choosing, surveying, building, breeding, feeding and dying. They have … Continue reading Jimper’s Jottings April 1967
16th. Annual Autumn Show
Activity at the Cattle Market If you happened to pass the Market way on Wednesday, 6th October, you would have instantly realised something different was going on down there. Admittedly it was rather foggy and early in the morning, but there was so much activity and hustle and bustle.