For our personality this month we went to the new flats at Badger Gate where we found Miss Hetty Brenchley.
Category: Personalities
Browse the Rye’s Own Personalities archive for magazine pieces that combine contemporary reporting with memories and historical perspective. The selection ranges across “Mayor’s Report 2015”, “Frederica Tops the Poll”, “Rye Top 30 of the 20th. Century”, “Notable Sussex Women”, and “Captain Tom”, 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.
A Fireman Retires
“Today I am a fireman, tomorrow I shall be a sexagenarian.” With these words, Station Officer Bourn, fireman by instinct and tradition, addressed his men at his farewell party held at the Crown Hotel on Saturday, November 12th.
Down Rye Way
RYE PERSONALITIES by Elaine Peprell John Button John Button was born in Rye 46 years ago. Into those 46 years he has packed more adventures and experiences than any 10 average men put together. He initially attended the Mermaid Street School, but spent some of his later school
Miss Rye’s Own 1966
Down Rye Way – April 1966 – Robert Bayley
by J.P.H. Pushed Handcart to Battle before Breakfast Robert Bayley was born in Rye on the 19 November, 1886 at the Mint, where he grew up. When he was a small boy his father was a sailor. Bob still remembers the good hidings he had for going on his father’s ship, after being told not … Continue reading Down Rye Way – April 1966 – Robert Bayley
Mary Poppins Flies Away
RYE’S OWN MARY POPPINS FLIES AWAY Nineteen year old brunette Jennie Lewis of Tillingham Avenue, Rye, is about to set out on a journey of adventure that can only be rivalled by that of Mary Poppins.
Rye Girl in Beauty Final
Sandra is off to Minehead for the Final On the 15th October local girl Sandra Kewell of Lea Avenue, a pretty seventeen years old, lined up before the judges at the area final of the Butlin’s Princess Competition held at the holiday camp Minehead in Somerset.