Two of the best loved characters from East Sussex and Kent can often be seen together on ceremonial occasions in any Cinque Port Town.
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Discover Mayor in the pages of Rye’s Own, where the subject emerges through local voices, historical detail and stories written close to the events. Readers can move between “Remembering ‘The Few’”, “Jimper’s Jottings”, and “Two Of The Cinque Ports Finest”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine. Read together, the articles show how public events and private memories become part of the town’s shared story.
Remembering ‘The Few’
The Battle of Britain was fought in the skies above Rye in July, August & September of 1940. In the immortal words of Winston Churchill “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”
Making Contact With Other Ryes
By Councillor Lorna Hall At the recent Town Meeting a resident of Rye bought to my attention the fact that there are quite a number of other towns and villages called Rye worldwide. It was suggested that it might be nice to make friendly and informal contact with them and perhaps swap information, passing on … Continue reading Making Contact With Other Ryes
Jimper’s Jottings
Each year now we suffer from gales of wind in the summer, a thing not thought of thirty years ago. Now, the autumn gales seem not to materialise. It is after the New Year gets a month old that the gales roar in bringing what rain we are likely to get. ‘February Fill Dyke’ was … Continue reading Jimper’s Jottings