All the best people live in Rye Some of the great Rye Characters from the 1960s – Some still with us – others gone but never forgotten. Football teams, scouts, Cyclists, mayoring money, banquet at The George. Mayoring Day Rye 1968
Tag: Jim Sargent
This Rye’s Own collection brings together articles connected with Jim Sargent, drawing news, memories and magazine features into one path through the archive. Readers can move between “Exciting Times for the Wheelers”, “Ewe & Lamb Sprint 1962”, and “Rye Characters of the 1960s”, 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.
Ewe & Lamb Sprint 1962
They used to race, in days of old, from the Ewe & Lamb at Wittersham to Tenterden and back. This race, filmed in 1962, was supported by seven tricycles and one single (Rye Wheeler Jon Ashdown.
Exciting Times for the Wheelers
Wheelers in the News The Rye & District Wheelers have been in the news quite a lot recently. Their Marathon Charity Roller Ride for ARRCC got publicity in the Rye Observer and an