Rye’s new Mayor, Councillor Sam Souster, was sworn on May Day as the latest in a long line of Rye Mayors stretching back hundreds of years.
Tag: Love Lane
Explore Love Lane through Rye’s Own, from remembered scenes and historical detail to the news and personalities that gave the place its character. Stories such as “Jimper’s Jottings”, “Hop Picking with Arthur Woodgate”, “Heartbreak Hill”, and “Rye’s Allotment Gardens” give the collection its range and its distinctly local texture. The result is less a formal history than a lively bundle of evidence, voices and remembered moments from the magazine’s pages.
We Told You So
“WE TOLD YOU SO” SAY LOCAL RESIDENTS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE NEW SCHOOL OPENS? Seven Local residents who were opposed to the building of the new Primary School on the site adjacent to the Thomas Peacocke Community College. They objected on the grounds that the present traffic problems in The Grove and Love Lane were … Continue reading We Told You So
How to Trace a Water Leak – the Rother Way
Perhaps the Rye Allotments will soon be back under the control and ownership of Rye Town Council. This example of money wasting will then no longer happen. Information collected by the Love Lane allotment holders. (First published in Rye’s Own, summer 2006) Site Visit 1 A plot holder observes a council official on the Love … Continue reading How to Trace a Water Leak – the Rother Way
Hop Picking with Arthur Woodgate
by Arthur Woodgate I have always argued that the villages of the old Rye union of parishes were once part of the Borough of Rye. When I visited the Peasmarsh Spar shop one fine morning at the beginning of September and said it was lovely ‘hopping’ weather, no one seemed to know what I was … Continue reading Hop Picking with Arthur Woodgate
RYE’S NEWSREEL AUGUST ISSUE 2006
How to Trace a Water Leak the Rother way! Information collated by the Love Lane allotment holders Site Visit 1 – A plot holder observes a council official on the Love Lane allotment site. The council officer explains that he is looking for the source of a water leak from the underground pipes feeding the … Continue reading RYE’S NEWSREEL AUGUST ISSUE 2006
Jimper’s Jottings
Let the wind blow and the rain fall, we desperately need it. January was one of the warmest on record and very dry to boot. Most of the moisture in that month fell as snow and that evaporated rather than thawed. The absence of wind reinforces the fact that is staring us in the face, this … Continue reading Jimper’s Jottings
Jimper’s Jottings
By Jimpers Jottings. Let the wind blow and the rain fall, we desperately need it. January was one of the warmest on record and very dry to boot. Most of the moisture in that month fell as snow and that evaporated rather than thawed. The absence of wind reinforces the fact that is staring us … Continue reading Jimper’s Jottings
Rye Allotments
By Arthur Woodgate Mary Smith says she is a relative newcomer to Rye, that I am certainly not and I do know where lots of allotments have disappeared from during the Twentieth Century.
Rye’s Allotment Gardens
Don’t Lose Your Heritage! By Mary Smith I am a relative newcomer to Rye and a keen, if inept, allotment holder. I would like to encourage other gardeners and would-be gardeners to become allotment holders.
Heartbreak Hill
Three Hundred March – 1000 Sign Three hundred people, including Rye M.P. Michael Foster, The Mayor of Rye Councillor Paul Carey, both our District Councillors, Granville Bantick and Sam Souster and almost every member of Rye Council, marched from the Postern Gate Surgery, via the appropriately named ‘Deadman’s Lane’ to the foot of Rye Hill, … Continue reading Heartbreak Hill