I visited Rye New York in the Summer, and was warmly welcomed by their Town Manager Michael Genito, and Councillors Roz Larr and Jerry Seitz, and Chamber of Commerce President Sally Wright.
Continue reading Rye Town Manager Forges New Links With Rye, New York
Category: Local interest
Jimper’s Jottings
November, and again the streets of Rye will pulsate to the thuds of Bonfire Night on the thirteenth. This year many are pinning their hopes on a record collection. The secret effigy is ready and the celebrity booked. Now we all pray for fine weather so each and all can enjoy one of the biggest spectacles in our town. For a week or two after the place will seem dead, then the Christmas lights go up and another year draws to a close and what a year it has been! Continue reading Jimper’s Jottings
Ready Made Marina
By Jim Hollands
“Why dig a Marina when there is a ready made site on the Camber Road?” Bob Vincent put the question to me the other day. The old pontoon, where beach was dug out in vast quantities, lies between the Golf Course and the Camber Fields. “It would be easy to dig a channel to the Rother and put a lock gate in”. I pondered his suggestion. He should know a bit about water, after all he has been a plumber all his life. Continue reading Ready Made Marina
Potteries Of Rye Society November Meeting & AGM
The next meeting of the Potteries of Rye Society will be held in Rye on Saturday 13 November 2004 at the Stormont Studio in Ockmans Lane. The meeting will include the Annual General Meeting but this will be only a brief part of the programme for the day which is: Continue reading Potteries Of Rye Society November Meeting & AGM
On The Beach
There he was, on the beach being filmed by the BBC demonstrating Keddle Net fishing. He was caught, pushing his cart, by the long lens of the paparazzi. Fame indeed. Continue reading On The Beach
Rye Fawkes Night
Saturday 13 November is Bonfire Night in Rye. An event not to be missed. Quieter and much less dangerous than years gone by, as Jimper’s Bonfire stories in his latest publication illustrate, but no less exhilarating. Continue reading Rye Fawkes Night
News From The TPPC
Peer Support Scheme
A rather exciting development in September at Thomas Peacocke Community College was the introduction of our Peer Support Scheme. At the beginning of the term, some senior students were selected to provide a whole school listening service. These senior students are receiving on going training in listening, counselling and mediation skills and will gain the Duke of Edinburgh Silver sectional certificates in Community Service and Skills for their efforts at the end of the year. Continue reading News From The TPPC
Editorial
A Matter of Priorities
What would the average man in the street think was the greater death risk, visiting Rye Cemetery or riding a cycle along the Rye Harbour Road?
Every single person I asked thought it was a stupid question, without exception they said riding to Rye Harbour. Continue reading Editorial
The “Sprocket” Page October 2004
Late “SPROCKET” News
Kate Takes Club Record
Kate Alexander. New Rye Wheeler Record Holder
In only her second time trial, Rye Wheeler Kate Alexander beat Roma Page’s 10 mile record that has stood since 1957.
Storming round the Thornton Road Club’s Newchurch course on Saturday 11 September in 30 minutes and 2 seconds she knocked almost a minute off the Rye Wheelers Women’s record. Kate plans to get one more ten mile event in before the close of season in an attempt to reduce the record to under 30 minutes (20mph.)
Next year Kate plans to take Roma’s 25 mile record which has also stood since 1957.
Jon Races in France
Rye Wheeler Jon Beasley travelled to Abbeville in France on 11 September to compete in one of France’s biggest Sportive rides of 2004. The course was 130km. (80 miles) with lots of demanding hills. He completed the distance in 4-22-53 and was placed 152nd., out of over 1,000 starters, with an average speed of over 31 km per hour. Jon was also placed 18th. English rider in his age group of 18-29 years and won a silver medal.
Well done Jon.
Adventures of the Rye & District Wheelers Past and Present.
The Tuesday Run. All ages and any bike. Short runs to Pett, Appledore etc
Three Races in Three Days
The racing members of the club were busy over the first weekend in September with some riders competing in threee time trials. The final Tenterden Evening “10” 0f the year was won by the Wheeler’s man of the moment Barry Goodsell. He has been the fastest rider in no less than nine of the Tenterden events this season against riders from all the prominent local clubs. The following morning, Saturday 4, the club’s new lady member Katy Alexander, took part in her first time trial in the Thornton Road Club “10” on Romney Marsh, her time of 31-24 was just 31 seconds outside Roma Page’s 1957 record. The next day was “25” Mile Championship day, the event being incorporated in the V.T.T.A race on the Marsh, Brookland – Ashford, New Romney course. Six riders competed on a bright, calm morning more than any other club save for the famous San Fairy Ann club from Maidstone who had seven starters. The Wheeler’s Champion was Barry Goodsell who recorded a brilliant One Hour, Three Minutes and Forty-four Seconds, just 46 seconds outside the club record. Second was Jon Beasley with 1-8-14 and third Gary Booth in 1-18-55.
Champion for the second year. Barry Goodsell.
Gary Booth was third
Full Result
1. Barry Goodsall 1 Hour 3 Minutes 40 Seconds
2. Jon Beasley 1 Hour 8 Minutes 14 Seconds
3. Gary Booth 1 Hour 18 Minutes 55 Seconds
4. Jim Hollands 1 Hour 19 Minutes 37 Seconds
5. Granville Bantick 1 Hour 28 Minutes 11 Seconds
6. Kevin Hall 1 Hour 30 Minutes 42 Seconds
“Rye’s New” October 2004
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The Life and Times of Reg Weeks
By Daphne Llewellyn
Part Two
On Sunday afternoons, after the children had been to church service at the Congregational Church and Sunday School, Alice and the family would walk over to the Tollgate House in Winchelsea Road to visit their maternal Grandmother and Great Aunt Sarah. Continue reading The Life and Times of Reg Weeks