Warning after fireworks stolen from magazine in Rye Police are warning people to be cautious of anyone offering large display fireworks for sale as Sussex starts to run up to Bonfire Night on November 5. The warning comes after a firework magazine was broken into at Rye in the week leading up to Saturday, September … Continue reading Fireworks Stolen from Rye
Tag: Bonfire Night
The Rye’s Own archive follows Bonfire Night through contemporary reports and later recollections, capturing both the public spectacle and the details remembered locally. Readers can move between “Ye Olde Bell Inn”, “Pen & Ink December 2010”, “Found in Cinque Ports Street August 2000”, and “The Landgate In Old Times”, 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.
Jimper’s Jottings November 2014
November 2014 Nearly every week there is an article in the local paper about the parking of traffic in no parking areas in Rye. The problem has got worse since the Traffic Warden was removed. Why the people in control of the town do not employ another, beats me. The cost, they say, does not … Continue reading Jimper’s Jottings November 2014
Pen & Ink December 2010
Store War The Store war between Tesco and Sainsbury is becoming a farce, neither of these stores should be allowed to build on the lower school site because of the access problems.
Dustbin
Jimper has been a member of Rye Bonfire Society since he was a boy. Here he tells of a bonfire night incident from the past
Jimper’s Jottings December 2008
Jimper’s Jottings November rarely saw the first of the winter winds and rain, bonfire night in Rye was lucky as we had a five hour window of dry weather. With the celebrations over the rain fell from the sky in torrents and the wind rose to storm force. Few
Having Fun for Charity
Nice to see another local business getting involved with events in the town. Rush Witt & Wilson, the Estate Agents at the old Vidler’s building, have taken part in almost every organised occasion in Rye this year from the Raft Race to Bonfire Night.
November the Fifth
BY MICK FULLER While reading the November issue of Rye’s Own, it brought back boyhood memories of life in Rye back in the late 1940’s. I was born at 10 New Winchelsea Road to Jack and Marjory Fuller. Later moving to 46b Udimore Road, where the bonfire night procession used to start. My brother and … Continue reading November the Fifth
Busy Day at Landgate 1887
By Jim Hollands This photograph from the Frank Palmer Collection was taken 130 years ago this very month. More than 20 figures are faithfully captured at that moment in time.
Ye Olde Bell Inn
This photograph taken outside The Bell on Bonfire Night captures the very atmosphere of the place. It has always been known as a meeting place for Ryers and holiday makers alike. It is possibly the oldest pub in Rye, difficult to date historically but some parts are believed to be over 500 years old. A tavern … Continue reading Ye Olde Bell Inn
The Landgate In Old Times
J. L. DEACON F. R. Hist. S. printed the first edition his his amazing “Ancient Rye” early in the 20th. century, the fifth edition hit the bookstands in 1927 and contains this great picture of the Landgate in Georgian times.