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It seems the imminent house building plan that Shepway has for the area has driven the War & Peace Revival away from the area and back to Whitbreads Hopfields Showgrounds at Beltring.
The show, which was immensely popular for the past four years at Folkestone Racecourse and responsible for attracting a huge amount of trade to the area from all over the country and the continent, is to be staged at Pembury in 1917 and beyond.
A long term contract has been signed which will see the show at Beltring for at least the next four years Continue reading 2017 War and Peace Revival will not be held at Folkestone Racecourse
There are not enough superlatives available to justly describe the remarkable event ‘Days of Old’ or the special people that produced and brought this amazing spectacle to the streets of Rye.
Yes! We know that Rye is a natural background for an event of this kind but importantly, it is Continue reading Rye Christmas Festival Film Part One
Times are changing – When “Rye’s Own” was first published 50 Years ago, there was no internet, no 24 Hour news programmes on television and local media was not even imagined in anyone’s wildest dreams.
Newsagents still sold vast amounts of newspapers and supermarkets were virtually non existent this side of the Atlantic. Retail Price Maintenance had only just been abolished (by just one vote in a free vote in Parliament) and local traders who had stuck rigidly to their own specific trades were still able to make a good living on the High Street, which had not yet felt the effect of the Supermarket explosion. This was made possible by the abolition of RPM, and would slowly change Britain from being a nation of small shopkeepers and turn it into a nation of ever larger and more powerful supermarket chains. Continue reading Rye’s Own Needs Help
It is with great sadness we report the passing of the great Hungarian soccer player Bela Olah. Who became Player Manager of Rye United in the late sixties. I believe he was the first Rye player to receive a wage, something like £4 a week.
He came Britain after the Hungarian uprising against the Russians, which was brutaly put down. He was a Schoolboy International and played top flight football when
The March issue of “Hastings Town” in good newsagents from Saturday 27 February.
Packed with good things including :- Continue reading March Hastings Town
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Hastings Town will be in all good local newsagents on Saturday Morning (1 August 2015)
Packed with features and pictures including :- Continue reading Hastings Town August Issue
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