“In 1859”, wrote H. P. Clarke in his “Guide and History of Rye”, printed in 1861, “the houses were numbered and the names of the street were foolishly altered; as events in history often give names to streets. Continue reading The Street Names of Rye
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
Winnie Hollands died on Sunday 10 June 2001. A very brave lady, she prepared two last ‘Adventures’ knowing that the sands of time were running away. They were completed just four days before she was taken from us.
Lying here in Richard’s house at St. Mary’s Bay in a room overlooking the sea I have had plenty of time to think back over 84 years and remember the highlights of my life. Everyone has to die at some point but when you know you have only a very limited time before you reach that point it really does focus the mind. Continue reading Adventures in Rye July 2001
– an occasional series by William Shepherd
I chanced across Richard Horner in Jempsons the other day as I was reading my copy of the March edition of ‘Rye’s Own’ and we got to chatting about this and that. In passing I remarked that there was plenty of mention of the Horner name Continue reading Local Heroes
1030 – Rye (included in the Manor of Rameslie) given to the Abbots of Fecamp in Normandy
1100 – La Rie – La Rye
1105 – Church: Hospital of St. Bartholomew Continue reading Dateline Rye
This wet and windy Winter has taken its toll on the woods around Southern England. The floors of every copse are carpeted in dead wood. Soon this old wood will become infested with fungi, insects and lichen. Over time they will turn all the dead wood into humus for future plants and trees. The decaying wood becomes home for all the insects and upon them the birds will feast the whole year round. The wood being snapped off from the trees has the same effect as the gardener pruning his roses it gives the trees more vigour to grow and in the place of the old bough that fell it is not surprising to find two or more sprouting out. Continue reading Jimper’s Jottings April 2001
Regular readers of “Rye’s Own” will know how this magazine has always fought for keeping community assets for the use of Ryer’s, often against great pressure and determination of elected and unelected bodies who have had ‘other plans’ for our precious land and buildings. Continue reading Lion Street School Saved
The time has come for our police and those that control them to stop playing games and get on with the job they are paid to do.
There has been an endless cry from the police for new resources and an even louder wail from politicians that the force is underfunded as though throwing money at a failing organisation can be any answer.
The resources are there for all to see, the problem is they are being used incorrectly and with little or no imagination. There are more policemen operating in Sussex today than there were in 1966. The problem is they have been Continue reading A Time for Common Sense
Last month Rye’s Own carried a feature about the making of the film ‘Dunkirk’. Many of the sets were in and around the town. Continue reading Dunkirk at Rye 2 February
Sunday 3 September 1939. Everyone had been on tenterhooks for some months but today we should all know for sure. At eleven o’clock Neville Chamberlain was due to speak on the radio. Continue reading Adventures in Rye – The Day the War Started
