Dear Editor, Rye’s very Own Dance Talent I would be grateful if you could mention in your pen & ink page Rye Dance Centre. My family and I attended the White Rock theatre in Hastings on February 2nd to watch the “RYE DANCE CENTRE” perform there … Continue reading Pen & Ink
Tag: Oak Inn
Explore Oak Inn through Rye’s Own, from remembered scenes and historical detail to the news and personalities that gave the place its character. Stories such as “The Oak Inn”, “The Oak Inn, High Street”, and “Pen & Ink” 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.
The Oak Inn, High Street
The Pubs of Rye no. 3 By David Russell Very little information has come to light about this fishermen’s beer house located on the High Street. The earliest known date for the Oak is 1870 when Alfred Bourn was the licensee. However, as a beer house, we can be fairly certain it was in existence … Continue reading The Oak Inn, High Street
The Oak Inn
Frank Palmer Collection (1902) This very rare photograph, from the Frank Palmer Collection, is of Rye’s ‘Unknown Inn’. The Oak Inn, situated in the building very recently part vacated by Ollio Books on the right and the Rye Art Galleries Easton Rooms, was active for a period of three years or so a little over … Continue reading The Oak Inn