We had to laugh at the ‘Parking Like a Muppet in Rye’ Website. BUT – Nothing compares to this picture published in Rye’s Own in 1967.
Tag: Electric Palace
This Rye’s Own collection brings together articles connected with Electric Palace, drawing news, memories and magazine features into one path through the archive. The trail includes “The Bus Went to the Cinema”, “Parking in Rye”, and “Theatre & Cinema in Rye”, offering several ways into the subject rather than a single potted account. It is a collection to browse for both the main story and the small, telling details that a local magazine notices.
The Bus Went to the Cinema
The bus that went to the cinema, or almost, as can be seen from the picture (Electric Palace in the Landgate is the building just beyond the bus with the coloured electric light bulbs in the shape of an arch). It was an East Kent converted charabanc on the Camber Rye Harbour service.
Theatre & Cinema in Rye
Many of these ‘Memories’ came from Jo’ Kirkham’s “Memories” series. We were given the first mention of a theatre by Mrs M. Allen. She described Mr. John West’s visiting ” Rye Theatre”. This was a canvas structure erected on Crown Field, before World War 1. it had a fresh production every night, but soon closed … Continue reading Theatre & Cinema in Rye