A True Ryer A pair of magnificent garden gates were recently presented to the Rye, Winchelsea & District Memorial Hospital in memory of a long-standing patient, Arthur Woodgate, who died last year aged 101. Born in 1913, after having served a five year apprenticeship he became a renowned master bricklayer. He rose to become Chairman of … Continue reading Memorial Gates for Arthur
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Arthur Woodgate runs through this selection from the Rye’s Own archive, linking individual reports and recollections into a broader picture of local life. Readers can move between “Local Personalities”, “Unknown Rye Hero”, “Over The Sluice Part Two”, “Memorial Gates for Arthur”, and “Old Time Cinque Ports Dogs”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine. Together they offer a characterful route through the magazine’s record of local life, memory and change.
September Rye’s Own
The September 2015 “Rye’s Own” is in all local newsagents now. This month the magazine features :
Arthur’s Thank You
Arthur Woodgate, who died yesterday gave me this letter on 22 July 2009 and made me promise to publish it to thank everyone at Rye Memorial Care Centre for looking after him so well. I know Arthur had many happy times at the hospital where he spent most of the the last 10 years of his … Continue reading Arthur’s Thank You
Arthur Woodgate 1913 – 2015
By Jim Hollands It is with great sadness I have to report the death of another Rye Champion. Arthur passed away in Rye Memorial Hospital at 6 am. yesterday morning. His death is felt especially here at “Rye’s Own” where we all knew him so well.
Vanishing Mayor Mystery
Where did he Go? The July issue has more answers to the vanishing Mayor Mystery. Where did he go in 1940? What happened to his wife Mary and their four children after they left Tower House? What was the Wartime job that forced him to leave Rye and eventually give up in the mid … Continue reading Vanishing Mayor Mystery
Local Personalities
What’s the difference in being a local personality to being a local character?
England’s Senior Journalist
Arthur is 101 Arthur Woodgate has lived through two World Wars, and was a young man of 17, just starting out as an apprentice bricklayer when The Great Depression came along. Originating in the U.S. after the fall in stock prices that began around September 4, 1929, the problem became worldwide news with the stock … Continue reading England’s Senior Journalist
Unknown Rye Hero
By Jim Hollands When Arthur Woodgate, who at 100 years of age is the magazine’s oldest contributor, mentioned an ‘unknown Rye hero’ in his War & Peace article back in April it was a long shot to expect that after 74 years the identity of the people involved would come to light.
War and Peace
by Arthur Woodgate The phrase “all but the kitchen sink” did not hold out when the Germans smashed Havelock Villas on the Strand for, large as life, there was the kitchen sink sitting on the top of one of the houses of “T square”. As it and the other contents of Havelock were blasted out, … Continue reading War and Peace
Old Time Cinque Ports Dogs
PART TWO By Arthur Woodgate Now, here is a dog I have never met, his name is “Benjy”, he belongs to a nurse in Rye hospital, and they live together in Main Street, Appledore, and her name is Kay. Somehow I got very friendly with them and we would write to each other, she was … Continue reading Old Time Cinque Ports Dogs