ELECTION ‘69
Rye people do care how local government is run. This point was driven home at the council elections on May 8th. when a near record 54 per cent poll was recorded. Continue reading Rye Election 69
Category: Personalities
Down Rye Way – John Hacking
W. J. Hacking
By Nan King
The name of Hacking has been associated with the town of Rye as long as most residents can remember, and when William John Hacking was installed as Mayor on 24 May 1965. he was following on a family tradition of service to the Borough as his father had been a member of Rye Council from 1912 to 1919 (though away on active service through the war years) and his mother became the first lady councillor in 1926. and the first lady to be elected as an alderwoman in 1945.
When he became Mayor. he stressed that the prosperity of the Borough depended on Rye continuing to thrive as a market town, and that it was the surrounding farming community that were important, as it was these people who provided the Continue reading Down Rye Way – John Hacking
Down Rye Way
The Rebel Farmer – And One of the Most Interesting Men I ever Met
By Jim Hollands
Farmer Jack Merricks of Icklesham. often called the Rebel farmer. is surely one of the best known of local personalities. His clashes with various Government Continue reading Down Rye Way
Oliver Kite Tribute
“OLLIE KITE”
He often went a-wandering,
His knapsack on his back,
And on T.V. we followed him
Over the beaten track. Continue reading Oliver Kite Tribute
Mrs Smith – Teacher
“RYE’S 0WN” PAYS ITS OWN SMALL TRIBUTE TO A GREAT SERVANT OF RYE.
Lilian Smith – Teacher
BY A.G.PAGE
I have already written—well or badly I do not know—several such articles for this magazine. Sometimes I have been satisfied with the manufacture and sometimes not. Never have I felt, except perhaps in one case, that I did not do justice to the subject at hand. Even more, I have never felt that I had no chance of doing so before I ever started. Continue reading Mrs Smith – Teacher
Miss Rye’s Own 1968
The Finalists
The five young ladies pictured are the finalists in the 1968 Miss Rye’s Own Competition. You, our readers, are asked to judge the final. Continue reading Miss Rye’s Own 1968
The Potters of Rye
Walter Cole
By A. G. Page
The life of Walter Cole the Potter is fairly decisively divided into two parts. Before the War he built a reputation in London as one of the few British specialists in stoneware. whose popularity, in the sophisticated thirties, had declined because Continue reading The Potters of Rye
Old Rye – New Faces
Humphrey Lestocq
by James Humphrey
Humphrey Lestocq of Radio, Television, Stage and Film fame, is now a popular business man with two flourishing shops in Rye. Yet he only came to Rye four years ago to recuperate from an illness. Continue reading Old Rye – New Faces
Built to Fly
IT’S A MODEL WORLD No. 3
Albert Victor Sanders of Mill Place, Rye has been a keen Aircraft Modeller for thirty years. He first built solid models for display but then progressed to the skeleton type covered with a thin skin and capable of being flown. Continue reading Built to Fly
Captain Cory’s Own
A scouter recalls the early years of the Boy Scout Movement and of the man and woman who founded the first Troop in the District
All organisations derive great benefit and incentive when they have a figurehead to look to or to look back upon. Continue reading Captain Cory’s Own