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
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Lamb House provides the setting for this group of Rye’s Own articles, where buildings, people and events meet in the magazine’s record of the district. Among the pieces gathered here are “Three Star Hope Anchor”, “Gilbert Fabes”, “Back to 1930”, and “A pocket full of Rye”, each adding its own detail to the story. Read together, the articles show how public events and private memories become part of the town’s shared story.
Back to 1930
The BBC’s second adaptation of E. F. Benson’s Mapp & Lucia books is being produced in the streets of Rye through the summer. Whole streets have been been given a 1930 make-over and turned into film sets. E. F. Benson was Mayor of Rye for three years from 1934. He wrote the Mapp & Lucia … Continue reading Back to 1930
Lover’s Seat
BY TONY MAY I have been in a somewhat romantic mood of late and as I approach my 49th birthday as a Batchelor I have been spending rather more time than is healthy perhaps reflecting on the course of my life so far.
A pocket full of Rye
By Miss J Dwyer There’s a pull here felt. And felt again. Pictures have it. That arrest… This pull is a place. And if you please; a picture.
Three Star Hope Anchor
One of Rye’s favourite hotels, The Hope Anchor has recently been awarded a Three Star rating.
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.