Cyclist & Printer
One of Rye’s best known personalities and a man whose ideas have influenced the town’s ways of life is Mr. Jim Foster of Udimore Road. Continue reading Down Rye Way Jim Foster
Category: Personalities
Ernest Hatter
40 years with East Kent Born in Cinque Ports Square, Rye in 1900, Ernest Hatter, one of a family of nine children, was educated at Mermaid Street School. The cottage where he spent his childhood was one of many situated behind where the Continue reading Ernest Hatter
Down Rye Way – Tom Upton
Tom Upton
On many hot summer evenings Special Police Sergeant Tom Upton does traffic duty in Rye keeping the flow of traffic passing smoothly through the town from the seaside beaches of Camber and Winchelsea Beach. To see Tom Upton in action, competently marshalling the hundreds of cars, its difficult to believe that this upright, fit looking man is over 70. Continue reading Down Rye Way – Tom Upton
Down Rye Way – Bob Woolley
by “Elaine”
He guarded the Bank of England
Robert Woolley first saw the light of day in 1894. He was born in the Mint.
Bob, as he has always been called, first went to school at Mermaid Street then going on to the Lion Street school for the second part of his education. Before leaving school he took a job as a Hot Roll Boy delivering bread rolls around the town for Mr. Clark who had a bake-house in Needles Passage. The rolls, sold mainly for people’s breakfasts, were 1d. each or 7 for 3d. Bob Woolley also did a milk round at this time and he completed both jobs before he started school in the Continue reading Down Rye Way – Bob Woolley
Balloon Channel Crossing
Balloon Channel Crossing
History was made at historic Rye on Saturday, 4 February, when a Hydrogen balloon, piloted by Malcolm Brighton of Farnham, Surrey, took off from the Salts—its destination was France. Four hours later the balloon with its five occupants made a successful landing at Berck-Plage, 10 miles south of Le Touquet on the French coast. Continue reading Balloon Channel Crossing
Hetty Brenchley
For our personality this month we went to the new flats at Badger Gate where we found Miss Hetty Brenchley.
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. Continue reading A Fireman Retires
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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 Continue reading Down Rye Way
He Worked on Rye Barges
Oliver Kite
Kite’s Country comes to Rye
Major Oliver Kite, better known to many thousands of television viewers as “Ollie Kite”, recently came to Rye to make a film for one of his programmes. Continue reading Oliver Kite