Tag: Gibbets Marsh

Explore Gibbets Marsh through Rye’s Own, from remembered scenes and historical detail to the news and personalities that gave the place its character. Readers can move between “Travellers to be Evicted”, “Rye Cricket Club”, and “Over the Sluice”, 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 Cricket Club

By Martin Blincow. Rye Cricket Club is the oldest sporting institution in the town, and one of the oldest Cricket Clubs in the world having been founded in 1754. The club started life playing at Camber Castle, before moving to play on Gibbets Marsh. The arrival of the railway then forced a second relocation in … Continue reading Rye Cricket Club

Travellers to be Evicted

TRAVELLERS TO BE EVICTED THIS WEEK Rye’s Own April 2008 Supplement The Motor Home and four Caravans will be removed from the Town Salts this week according to sources close to Rother District Council who are responsible for Rye’s playing fields. An eviction notice was presented last Tuesday and will be enforced by a bailiff … Continue reading Travellers to be Evicted

Travellers to be Evicted

TRAVELLERS TO BE EVICTED THIS WEEK Rye’s Own April 2008 Supplement The Motor Home and four Caravans will be removed from the Town Salts this week according to sources close to Rother District Council who are responsible for Rye’s playing fields. An eviction notice was presented last Tuesday and will be enforced by a bailiff … Continue reading Travellers to be Evicted

Over the Sluice

By Arthur Woodgate Some while ago, Jimper Sutton threw out a challenge as to whether anyone remembers his grandmother. As a fellow ‘sluicer’, of a certain period, of course I remember her and his father and Uncle Spencer, I once caught a glimpse of his grandfather but I will come back to the Sutton Family … Continue reading Over the Sluice