Have fun and help others – That should be the motto of the Rye Bonfire Society. Already, just a few weeks after their fantastic efforts on Rye Fawkes Night, where all the money collected is presented to local charities, they are back on the streets raising money to for the 2005 Celebrations.
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.
Rye Fawkes Night
Saturday 13 November is Bonfire Night in Rye. An event not to be missed. Quieter and much less dangerous than years gone by, as Jimper’s Bonfire stories in his latest publication illustrate, but no less exhilarating.
Margaret Apps Then & Now
From the June 2002 issue of “Rye’s Own” Looking back through the old Rye’s Own photo files we discovered many local girls from the ‘Swinging Sixties’. Rye’s Own claimed that Rye girls were better looking than those from any other part of the country. Margaret Apps worked at
Found in Cinque Ports Street August 2000
Found in Cinque Ports Street These Two photographs, along with another two, were found in Cinque Ports Street on Saturday 18 August. The top one seems to show a tableaux from a Rye Bonfire Night procession but I cannot identify anyone in it. The bottom picture is a different story, it is packed with Rye … Continue reading Found in Cinque Ports Street August 2000