Discovery Day at Rye Museum
St. Mary’s Church St. Mary’s Church and Rye Museum combined together to produce an amazing day of fun and discovery for children and parents alike on Saturday 1 November. Continue reading A Day Of Discovery
Marina Plan Has Fatal Flaw
Another Report from November 2003 Issue of “Rye’s Own”
A Marina Plan put forward by Millwood Designer Homes at the instigation of Rye Partnership has a fatal flaw.
The actual proposed Marina for 100 moorings and 100 homes on a site south of the River Brede opposite the stretch of river from Philips Boat Yard to the old Rother Iron Works Buildings, is quite feasible, but the idea of building a lock in the Rother Ironwork Areas to keep enough water in The Strand for boats to float at all times is a non starter and has already caused concern among knowledgable local folk, including Rye Fire Chief Andy Polly. Continue reading Marina Plan Has Fatal Flaw
Thanks Dad
Geoff Goldfinch, a third generation Ryer and local builder is not laying bricks this month. He is recovering along with his daughter Carla to whom he has donated one of his kidneys. Continue reading Thanks Dad
Oh What a Lovely War
From the November 2003 Issue of “Rye’s Own”
Words & Pictures by Jo’ Vincent
Rye Players gave an outstanding performance with their presentation
of Oh! What a Lovely War at the Thomas Peacocke over four nights at Continue reading Oh What a Lovely War
Hazel
From “Rye’s Own” November 2003
Three Interests
Hazel Duckworth, well known Rye antiques expert, familiar to all in
the trade who attended Rye Auction Galleries and numerous Antique Continue reading Hazel
The Very Heart of Rye
First Published in the November 2003 Issue of “Rye’s Own”
The old Lion Street School, now the home of the Rye Library and Further Education Centre, has a question mark hanging over it’s future existence.There are proposals for the Library to be re-sited in a new building on the old Central Garage site, there are also plans for moving some of the educational facilities to this new building.
Bonfire Over the Years
What were those Bonfire Nights in Rye of more than fifty years ago really like? So many stories are passed down by those senior citizens who were there. They tell Continue reading Bonfire Over the Years
When ‘Dunkirk’ Came to Rye
More Previously Unpublished Photographs.
Pictures from the Albert Sanders Collection.
It seemed that half the population of Rye was employed when the film ‘Dunkirk’ produced by was made in the town and the surrounding area in the early summer of 1957. Continue reading When ‘Dunkirk’ Came to Rye
The Final Two Years Of The War In Rye
The Conclusion of Clifford Bloomields Wartime Recollections from Jo@ Kirkhams Rye Memories Series
I am able to give my reader some idea of the events that we, in Rye, were witnessing as I should spend many an hour sitting on the flat shed roof in our garden – on the fine summer evenings and weekends of July and August 1944, waiting and watching for the guns to go into action – at times looking towards the gunsite beyond the end of the houses in our road, some 300 yards away. Continue reading The Final Two Years Of The War In Rye
Poor Old Dennis
By Country Boy
Poor old Maggots, being the smallest one of us, he always got the muddy end of the stick. Today we lay in wait for him to show up because he had accidently let the boat drift away down the river and we had to make a mile detour along the road to cross the bridge to get to the other bank where the wind had driven our Jolly Roger. Continue reading Poor Old Dennis