There have been comparatively few royal visitors to Rye when the importance of the town in the middle ages is taken into account.
Tag: Elizabeth I
Discover Elizabeth I in the pages of Rye’s Own, where the subject emerges through local voices, historical detail and stories written close to the events. The trail includes “Rye Bonfire 66” and “Rye’s Royal Visitors”, offering several ways into the subject rather than a single potted account.
Rye Bonfire 66
OFF WITH A BANG It was so wet that even the mermaid had to have an umbrella, but pouring rain throughout the whole of the Bonfire Society’s 1966 Rye Fawkes Celebrations did not dampen the spirits of the thousands who had come to watch the annual spectacle.