Photograph taken at the Annual Competitions Rye Grammar School L to R Standing :- Fred Pawsey, Frank Small, Mick Fagan, Cecil Tiltman, Reg Bailey, Margaret Tiltman (nee Bourne), Bert Southerden, ‘Gemma’ Day, George Fletcher, Arthur Tiltman, Fred Bourn, Joe Vincent, Les Small, Bill Britt and Geoff Curtis. Bottom Row :- Station Officer Frank Bourn, Judge, Division Officer Adams, The Mayor … Continue reading Rye Fire Brigade 1952
Tag: Frank Small
Discover Frank Small in the pages of Rye’s Own, where the subject emerges through local voices, historical detail and stories written close to the events. Stories such as “The Class of 1920”, “Rye Fire Brigade 1952”, and “Rye Fawkes In Our Time” give the collection its range and its distinctly local texture. The archive leaves room for eyewitness detail, strong opinions and the affectionate hindsight that gives Rye’s Own its particular flavour.
The Class of 1920
By Jim Hollands The photograph on the center pages is from the Arthur Woodgate collection and shows him and his classmates as they were about 1920. There will be few who recognise the faces but the list of names is a very different thing. They are old Rye names, almost to a man, and they … Continue reading The Class of 1920
Rye Fawkes In Our Time
Sixty years ago in 1945 the Second World War had just reached it’s terrible conclusion with the discovery of the death camps in Europe and the dropping of two atom bombs on Japan.