Tag: John Wallbank

This Rye’s Own collection brings together articles connected with John Wallbank, drawing news, memories and magazine features into one path through the archive. Readers can move between “Smells of Yesteryear”, “Rye Sports 1962 – The Day that the Rain Came Down”, and “New Zealand Calling”, 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.

Smells of Yesteryear

  By John Wallbank (New Zealand) The February edition of Rye’s Own was opened in early March, and the contents eagerly perused. Just perhaps a little later than all the Ryers that take the time to digest the monthly quota of memories and facts from both the distant and not too distant past.

Christmas Arrived Early This Year

By John Wallbank I certainly hope that on the evening of the 23rd of December, a lot of Ryers ears were burning! There I was at my place of work here in Wellington, New Zealand, when my wife rang to tell me that one of my old Rye former footballing buddies from way back had … Continue reading Christmas Arrived Early This Year

In Living Memory 2

  By Clifford Jordan. The Visit of The St. John Ambulance Brigade Cadets to Brighton. Seen in the photograph, taken on board Alex Henshaw’s coach, are some of the Rye Ambulance Cadets on their way to the Royal Pavilion Brighton in the summer of 1956 to be inspected by their Colonel-in-Chief Princess Margaret.