By Arthur Woodgate When I awoke on 13th June 1930, my bedroom window was full of flame (A sight not unusual ten years later). This was out beloved Windmill, by the River Tillingham, on fire. A different sight than that on the Rye’s Own Christmas card. By the time I dressed and got out … Continue reading The Day the Mill Burned Down
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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.