There was hardly a dry eye in the house when Rex Cadman bade farewell to his beloved War & Peace at Folkestone Racecourse on the final day of this year’s event. Continue reading Rex Bids Goodbye to War & Peace
Despite Operation Stack, which has meant a difficult drive to the event for many, the 2015 event is proving to be the best War & Peace ever.
Just some of the host of entertainers appearing at this year’s War & Peace Revival at the old Folkestone Race Course. Four more action packed days to go – Don’t miss this great day out. Continue reading War & Peace Entertainers
Send your local news and pictures to [email protected] and we will use as many as we can in the magazine or on the website. Old pictures of Rye and Rye people with details are very welcome and add so much interest for our local and overseas readers with memories of the town. Keep in touch with Rye by supporting “Rye’s Own”. Continue reading Send Your Stories and Pictures
Barry Floyd
Like many families in London after World War I — and with a gradual return to a more normal way of life — my newly-married parents (father had served with the Royal Electrical Engineers in France from 1915 to 1919) began looking from their semi-detached Edwardian home in Palmers Green (North London) at favourable seaside spots where a brief summer holiday might be undertaken. Continue reading Summer Holidays at Winchelsea Beach
One from Ion Castro’s Archive Whilst looking for something else I came across this leaflet advertising Hastings – how times have changed – seagull smoking a pipe!!! So politically incorrect on so many levels, and, on the reverse “Every day’s a gay day” – nothing wrong with that but was that what they wanted to say? Continue reading One from Lon Castro’s Archive
Village life in Beckley may never be the same again as one of its last, and oldest, businesses closes on 2nd April, 2015 turning Beckley into yet another Sussex dormitory village. Continue reading Beckley Motors Rememembered
This publication has always been known for its high ‘nostalgia’ content. Why do our readers enjoy these articles, pictures and memories from the past?
Perhaps it is because they are reminded of their ‘halcyon days’ or could it just be that those less complicated times were better days to live through? Continue reading When the World was Younger
By Jim Hollands
During this year of 2014 we shall be reminded of the War of 1914 by many commemorative programmes and the millions of words that will be written. Continue reading Rye At Peace
I envy the girls of today, they have so much more freedom than we of a “certain age” were able to enjoy. Take for instance courtship rituals. In my youth, if you liked a boy you had to wait in the hope he’d notice you and if all went well, he’d ask you out to the pictures. Continue reading Maggie’s Musings
