In the early hours of yesterday morning (Tuesday 2 May) the famous fish shop belonging to Hugh Sutton was badly damaged by a car which collided with the building after leaving the road and smashing through the garden. It ended up embedded into the side of the shop, The occupant or occupants from the vehicle … Continue reading Hugh Sutton’s Shop Smashed By Car
Tag: Jimper
Jimper runs through this selection from the Rye’s Own archive, linking individual reports and recollections into a broader picture of local life. The trail includes “Rye Bonfire Report 2011”, “Record Bonfire Auction”, “Jimper’s Jottings from January 2003”, “Words”, and “Hugh Sutton’s Shop Smashed By Car”, offering several ways into the subject rather than a single potted account. The result is less a formal history than a lively bundle of evidence, voices and remembered moments from the magazine’s pages.
February Hastings Town
Great February Issue Who was the 1936 Hastings Carnival Queen? Dee Day Articles in the February Issue Nostalgia Sunny Hastings 1948 Apps Family Business Carnival Queen 1936 Dee Day Files Long Gone Hastings U-Boat at St Leonards Local Music
Farewell Old Friends – Rye Bonfire Fireworks
Jimper & John’s Firework Finale Send Off Thousands attended the 2016 Rye Bonfire Celebrations and witnessed the final Farewell to two of the best people ever to walk the streets of Rye. John Izod and Jimper Sutton were more than Bonfire Stalwarts they were Rye Legends. Between them they have performed miracles
Rye Bonfire Timetable
Get to Rye Early to be Sure of a Parking Space 16:30 – Parking restrictions apply to processional route. 18:30 – Vehicular access restrictions apply. 18:30 – Processional Route to be clear of all vehicles 19:50 – Loud maroon signals the start of the procession from Mason Road, Tilling Green Estate The route is as … Continue reading Rye Bonfire Timetable
Jimper’s Funeral Service
Bonfire Drummers Will Lead Cortège To St. Mary’s Church. One of Rye’s best loved characters will be laid to rest today, Friday 8 July. Jimper Sutton’s Funeral Cortège will be led by Bonfire Society drummers from the Landgate to St. Mary’s Church, Rye for the 11 am. Service. Bonfire Societies from all over East Sussex will be … Continue reading Jimper’s Funeral Service
Jimper’s Funeral Service
Jimper’s Funeral Service Will be at St. Mary’s Church, Rye St Mary’s Church, Rye is the venue for the Funeral Service of Jimper Sutton, who died on Monday 20 June aged 72. Jimper, Fisherman, Farmer, Author, Story Teller, Countryman, Bonfire Boy, was Rye’s best known character in a Town that is famous for it’s long list of … Continue reading Jimper’s Funeral Service
Jimper Will Never Die – He Lives on in His Stories
A Great Ryer and Englishman who had a Heart of Gold and who could bring the the World Alive with just a Pen There are some people you meet as you go along time’s highway that are much larger than life. Jimper was one such person. A country man with an unrivalled knowledge of plants and animals and … Continue reading Jimper Will Never Die – He Lives on in His Stories
Jimper
Jimper Sutton It is with a very heavy heart I have to report the death of my great friend and one of “Rye’s Own’s” finest contributors. Jimper has been writing for the magazine almost from the very start in 1965. His knowledge of country matters and fearless contributions on almost any topic have made him … Continue reading Jimper
Today is Jimper’s Birthday
Jimper is Very Poorly Jimper has been writing articles and stories in “Rye’s Own” since 1966. He has become Rye’s best known character, with followers all over the country and indeed, all over the World. He has met Royalty and Politicians, been on Television on innumerable occasions, written twenty books from which the proceeds have … Continue reading Today is Jimper’s Birthday
The Days Before Health & Safety
Jimper Stories Dance on a Tractor There were twelve of us in a group and together we met each night in the pub. There was little else to do in the week other than go to the new twist club that had started up on Wednesdays or to the local cinema once a week, and always … Continue reading The Days Before Health & Safety