Events day raised over £3000 in the charity’s biggest ever fund-raising day. The big event started on Friday 29 January at midday when the crew set off on a 24 hour marathon Tandem Ride, which resulted in £2758 being pledged in Continue reading RNLI SOS
Grace meets the Prime Minister
“Our Gracie”, ARRCC Chief Executive – Grace O’Neill, met Prime Minister Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street recently. Continue reading Grace Meets the Prime Minister
Dear Editor
“Good news is that I truly outdid myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever. Great stories. But two things made me take it down. Continue reading A Letter to the Editor
The well known local fishing boat “Llamedos” was recently reported ‘sunk’ in The Strand.The owner of the vessel contacted the RNLI Operations Manager at Rye Harbour requesting assistance with the recovery of his boat, which had sunk due to the wind pinning the boat under the ledge of the Strand wall and with a high tide and excessive flood water coming from the River Tillingham, following a heavy rain fall. Continue reading Sunk in the Strand
The man on the white horse parading at the front of his troop of soldiers is Captain Cory. The Captain, a hero of the Boar War was a great friend of Lord Baden Powell who started the scouting movement. In 1907 he held an experimental camp on Brownsea Island, Poole and Dorset, to try out his ideas. Continue reading 100 Years of Scouting in Rye
Rye & Winchelsea Rotary Club and the Rye & District Wheelers joined
forces to put on their second annual “Tour de Rye et Romney Marshes”
cycle endurance fun run. Continue reading Fun Run Cash Raiser
Everyone in town knows 74 year old Town Councillor Granville Bantick. Many follow his column in Rye Observer and his exploits in cycle races as part of the Rye Wheelers racing team. But what about when he was a young man? Continue reading When Granville was Young
Rod Chapman, Director of Atlas Industrial Park and Rastrum came to the rescue of fire stricken Country Pine Warehouses (CPW) in Rye Harbour Road, which was completely gutted at the beginning of July. Continue reading Fire at Rye Harbour
Southern Cross Travel are delighted to announce that Penny Bones, Their own ‘in-house’ Premier Aussie Specialist, has just been voted ‘Aussie Specialist of the Year 2008’ by Tourism Australia. Continue reading Rye Travel Agent Top Australian Award
Oliver Curd’s young life was cut short, following a long courageous fight against cancer, in November 2007. He was just nine years old.
On Saturday 19 April an amazing knitted scarf was rolled out on the pavements of the streets of Rye. It reached from the Landgate Tower to The Strand, a distance of 805 yards or 2,415 ft. A knitting expert worked out that there would be around 28 million stitches. The original hope was to reach along the length of the High Street but with the Northiam Willing Fingers Group working until their needles were almost melting with the heat and help in the form of six inch blanket squares arriving from all over Britain, the aim of the longest scarf in Rye was upgraded and now some are wondering could it be the longest scarf in the World?
The scarf will be dismantled and made up into blankets which will be given to a charity.
Oliver would have been proud of all the people, inspired by his brave struggle, who had contributed to the spectacular effort of knitting such a magnificent tribute to his memory. The knitters, led by Oliver’s grandmother Fay Curd, raised money that will be added to that of all the other funds raised in a variety of ways, including sponsored events like the recent Hastings Half Marathon when the Cur d family and friends ran accompanied by a Dalek (Oliver’s favourite programme was Doctor Who).
The Oliver Curd Trust is a charity which has been set up by Oliver’s parents, Richard and Sarah Curd, in Oliver’s memory to help other families affected by childhood cancer.
Oliver was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer, Ewings Sarcoma, in April 2006. He completed treatment at The Royal Marsden Hospital in March 2007 but unfortunately relapsed in June 2007 and lost his long, brave fight with the disease in November of that year.
For almost half a mile the hand knitted scarf wended its way through Rye. From the Strand via the Mint, High Street and Tower street to the Landgate and beyond.
The Mayor of Rye, Councillor Paul Osborne and Town Crier Rex Swaine were present for the occasion. Paul’s term of office is running out, this was one of his last engagements.
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