Wheelers Race History Up to April 2004 Frank Brann the barber won the Rye & District Wheelers Hill Climb Championship in 1937 and was runner up in 1938 Jill Catt, the wife of Jim Catt won the Rye & Bexhill Inter Club 10 Mile Time Trial in
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Jon Ashdown runs through this selection from the Rye’s Own archive, linking individual reports and recollections into a broader picture of local life. Among the pieces gathered here are “Ewe & Lamb Sprint 1962”, “Rye Wheelers Race History”, and “Thornton Prize Night At The Ship”, each adding its own detail to the story. Together they offer a characterful route through the magazine’s record of local life, memory and change.
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.
Thornton Prize Night At The Ship
Members of the Hythe based Thornton Road Cycling Club met at The Shi p I nn, Dymchurch for their Annual Prize Presentation Night on Saturday 12 April.