What was Rye really like in the six or seven years prior to the War? It is after all less than 75 years ago.
Tag: Further Education Centre
Further Education Centre runs through this selection from the Rye’s Own archive, linking individual reports and recollections into a broader picture of local life. Stories such as “Rye Movie Society”, “Lion Street School Saved”, “Recollections of Mrs. Michell”, and “Rye In The 1930’s” give the collection its range and its distinctly local texture. The result is less a formal history than a lively bundle of evidence, voices and remembered moments from the magazine’s pages.
Rye Movie Society
The Technicians Before the days of video cameras and digital equipment which includes sound as an incidental, hours of recording time on a minute electronic chip and computer editing, there was cine film.
The Very Heart of Rye
First Published in the November 2003 Issue of “Rye’s Own” The old Lion Street School, now the home of the Rye Library and Further Education Centre, has a question mark hanging over it’s future existence.There are proposals for the Library to be re-sited in a new building on the old Central Garage site, there are … Continue reading The Very Heart of Rye
Recollections of Mrs. Michell
As recalled by Rye nonagenarian Charles de Salis Soon after my wife and I moved to Rye in 1980, I took over a French conversation class at the Further Education Centre. At the first lesson, the students told me about Mrs. Michell, an old lady in her nineties who normally attended the class, but … Continue reading Recollections of Mrs. Michell
The Home Front
by Jo’ Vincent. Volunteers of The Rye Museum Association put on a magnificent display of memoirs of World War Two on Saturday 9 March at the Further Education Centre. Patrons were required to have a National Registration Identity Card which was duly filled out with the help of an assistant dressed in the fashion of … Continue reading The Home Front
Lion Street School Saved
Regular readers of “Rye’s Own” will know how this magazine has always fought for keeping community assets for the use of Ryer’s, often against great pressure and determination of elected and unelected bodies who have had ‘other plans’ for our precious land and buildings.