It’s that time of year again. The Bonfire Boys Flag flies over The Landgate and preparations are being made for the annual invasion of the streets of Rye by pirates, witches, Kings and Queens, skeletons, wenches, Cavaliers and Roundheads. Continue reading Bonfire Magic
Tag: Mermaid Street
Step into the Rye’s Own archive for stories connected with Mermaid Street, a place viewed through local news, memory, change and the experiences of those who knew it. Among the pieces gathered here are “The Strand Gate”, “Recollections of Mrs. Michell”, “Editorial”, and “A Rye Childhood”, each adding its own detail to the story. Taken together, these pieces preserve the names, places and passing details that might otherwise slip out of the local record.
Gungarden as I Knew it
The Gungarden Area as I knew it
By Arthur Woodgate
The Methodist Sunday school had not been there for long when I was a lad. It had been all open ground, the chapel opposite in a recess, but a bit older, it was build on what was quite a valuable piece of ground, the soldiers drilling area, where Continue reading Gungarden as I Knew it
Editorial
Many people have asked about the artist who provided last months cover picture of Mermaid Street . Beat rice Cloake from Hythe is the artist, she has been described as a romantic in modern times who writes poems in watercolour. We could not improve on this description of one of our favourite artists. Continue reading Editorial
Antique or just old?
By Arthur Woodgate
Writing about outside of Rye’s defence wall, it came to me that some of the property inside was not as antique as we might think. Yes there are footings all over where we can see buildings. Continue reading Antique or just old?
The Strand Gate
By Arthur Woodgate
There is not much doubt that Rye was an exciting place to live when it had a lot more water round and about it and was still complete with all its gates and lots of its walls. Continue reading The Strand Gate
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. Continue reading A pocket full of Rye
A Rye Childhood – Part 1
By Noel C. A. Care.
More Buildings and Games.
There were other buildings which found their way into our games. Brought up, as we were, in a town full of old buildings, we took little notice of them unless they affected us.There were two in Mermaid Street that became, even if only by implication, part of our games. Continue reading A Rye Childhood – Part 1
A Rye Childhood
By Noel C. A. Care
This personal account of life and times in the town of Rye, East Sussex, is written some seventy five years later, from memories which are still as bright now as the day they occurred. Continue reading A Rye Childhood
Town Crier
By The Editor
Rother has Failed Us
If proof were ever needed that Rother District Council has failed this town then I ask readers to read the words in the following columns that have been reprinted as they were written in November 2001. Continue reading Town Crier
Mermaid Street
Mermaid Street The haunt of artists, and one of the most widely known streets in the world. This old street leading, as it did, straight down to the Strand Gate, has Continue reading Mermaid Street