Tag: Henry James

This Rye’s Own collection brings together articles connected with Henry James, drawing news, memories and magazine features into one path through the archive. Readers can move between “Rye By Any Other Name”, “Town Crier April 2004”, and “Rye Festival Of Music And The Arts”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine. Taken together, these pieces preserve the names, places and passing details that might otherwise slip out of the local record.

Rye By Any Other Name

Mapp & Lucia’s Rye “There is not in all England a town so blatantly picturesque as Tilling”. So said E.F Benson, of his home town of Rye, East Sussex, used by

Rye Festival Of Music And The Arts

This year Rye Festival starts with a bang! By Pat Field The first music on offer is the Ukulele Band of Great Britain. You may never think about music in the same way once you’ve been exposed to the Ukes’, depraved musicology, from Charlie Parker, to the Sex Pistols through J.S. Bach.

Town Crier April 2004

Library Plan “Unimaginative and Badly Designed” March opened with a furore centred on the proposed new building for Rye Library. Councillor Sam Souster firing shot after shot in defence of the revised plan for the building, and telling the objecting Rye Councillors that time was running out if the grant for the site was to be … Continue reading Town Crier April 2004

Gilbert Fabes

Gilbert Fabes was born on January 6th, 1894, in one of the severest winters of the century. His family lived in a small working-class house in Stanford Street, off the Vauxhall Bridge Road, Westminster.