Memories of life in a Rye draper’s shop in the early 1920s By J C Pulford The stairs that led up to Florence Sparrow’s bedroom above a Rye draper’s shop also led to the roof. Here, ‘off-duty’ hours were often spent reading, sunbathing
Tag: Lion Street
Explore Lion Street through Rye’s Own, from remembered scenes and historical detail to the news and personalities that gave the place its character. The trail includes “Ernest Charles Apps”, “Rye Loses a Great Champion”, “Rye & District Camera Club Report”, and “The Lion Street School”, 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.
Rye Loses a Great Champion
A Tribute to Keith Taylor By Jim Hollands As you go through life you meet just a few ‘very special’ people who are more interested in what they put into life rather than what they can get out. Dr. Keith Tayor was such a person.
Rye & District Camera Club Report
The club resumes activities on Monday 6th September, meetings are held at Playden WI Hall, at 7-30 pm every fortnight. The first meeting is called the “Chairman’s Meeting”, this is when the Chairman invites members new and old, to show the club what they have done over the summer recess.
It’s Carnival Time August 2010
Pictures by Kevin Hall Fair Trade & Fine Weather Rye College brought colour and rhythm to the town on Saturday 17 July when their annual Carnival, supported by other areas of the community, burst in a blaze of colour, through the streets.
Editorial
Popular Wedding Venue Its a long time since Rye’s Own carried a wedding on the front page, 1970 if memory serves us correctly. The delightful picture made by the Town Crier leading newly weds Lianne and Dean Mitchell, with baby son Ruben … Continue reading Editorial
The Lion Street School
An open letter to all those interested in, or connected with, the Lion Street Adult Education Centre. I have been encouraged by a number of people from Rye to make a statement explaining the College’s position over the Lion Street Centre and the current proposals for its future.
Ernest Charles Apps
Ernest Charles Apps (1927-2004) A Rye Character by R Wylson Irascible, intelligent, cantankerous, scurrilous, interesting, perverse, opinionated, cultured, argumentative, frugal, irreverent. These are all adjectives used to describe Ernie Apps, who, by universal agreement, was indeed a Rye character.
2004 Rye Festival Line-Up
The Rye Festival was inaugurated thirty-two years ago and has grown since then from a handful of classical and literary events set on two weekends to its present size – fifty events presented during a full fortnight of entertainment.
Wedding of the Year
One of the most colourful weddings to be held in Rye for several years took place at St. Mary’s Church on Saturday, 13 April, at 2.30. Miss Sandra Osborne, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Osborne of “Cheyne”, 37 Udimore Road, was married to Mr. Robin David Paine, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. … Continue reading Wedding of the Year