Tag: Adams of Rye

Explore Adams of Rye through Rye’s Own, from remembered scenes and historical detail to the news and personalities that gave the place its character. The trail includes “Miss Rye’s Own 1968”, “The Oak Inn, High Street”, “Rye’s Own – February 2016”, and “Wild Boar Week”, offering several ways into the subject rather than a single potted account. The result is less a formal history than a lively bundle of evidence, voices and remembered moments from the magazine’s pages.

Wild Boar Week

 

Saturday 21st – Sunday 29th October 2017

 

We’re not Pigging, this year’s Wild Boar Week is Crackling!

As well as a fully stocked menu of boar and game treats in 31 restaurants, this year’s Wild Boar Week has a fantastic line up of 18 live music events!

The Angelo Tristan Band mark the start of Wild Boar Week at the Ypres Castle Inn this evening (Friday). Over the weekend there’s Jazz at the Grapevine and more live music at the Ypres Castle Inn on Sunday with Sound Beach at 4pm.

On Saturday 21st The Gallivant in Camber have a delicious “Forager’s Autumn Feast” from 7pm, booking is essential!

Olde Worlde Wines will be a hot spot for food and entertainment with Kyle Tatner serving up Wild Boar Gumbo with Smoked Sausage and Smoked Prawn and Aromatic Sticky Wild Boar Belly Ribs from midday on Saturday followed by an “Afternoon of Poetry, Music and Miscellany” from 4pm on the Sunday.

On Tuesday 24th October the Rye Ukulele Experiment are performing at The Queen’s Head Inn and Wednesday has Phil Law and Friends at The Standard Inn. Continue reading Wild Boar Week

Wild Boar Week

Saturday 22nd – Sunday 30th October 2016

Where’s Boris?

Each year the businesses of Rye celebrate Wild Boar Week by hosting a children’s Hog Hunt event. With the sad passing of the town’s beloved artist John Izod earlier this year (who kindly supplied the artwork for this event in previous years) we decided to do something a little different.

Where's Boris - Page One
Where’s Boris – Page One

 

Over 100 shops and businesses in the town will be displaying a page from a Continue reading Wild Boar Week

The Oak Inn, High Street

The Pubs of Rye no. 3

By David Russell

Very little information has come to light about this fishermen’s beer house located on the High Street. The earliest known date for the Oak is 1870 when Alfred Bourn was the licensee. However, as a beer house, we can be fairly certain it was in existence well before then, and possibly dated back to the 1830 Licensing Act. The house was then known as the Pig and Whistle. Continue reading The Oak Inn, High Street