All the best people live in Rye Some of the great Rye Characters from the 1960s – Some still with us – others gone but never forgotten. Football teams, scouts, Cyclists, mayoring money, banquet at The George.
Tag: Mayoring Day
Mayoring Day 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 “Arthurs Mayors”, “Two Of The Cinque Ports Finest”, and “Rye Characters of the 1960s”, 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.
Two Of The Cinque Ports Finest
Two of the best loved characters from East Sussex and Kent can often be seen together on ceremonial occasions in any Cinque Port Town.
Arthurs Mayors
ALFRED HORNER by Arthur Woodgate Now I come to a Rye Mayor who was very much ‘one of us’. Alf Horner inherited a general shop in the middle of Kings Street, Landgate. It sold groceries, green groceries, newspapers and all sorts of odd and ends. Alf and his wife Flo ran the business for many … Continue reading Arthurs Mayors