The November 2015 Issue of “Rye’s Own” hits the newsagents exactly 50 years after the first copies of the popular little magazine went on sale in 1965.
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Quarter Boys runs through this selection from the Rye’s Own archive, linking individual reports and recollections into a broader picture of local life. Stories such as “The Magic of Rye”, “50 Years of “Rye’s Own””, and “The Californian Way” 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.
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.
The Californian Way
By The Editor A letter received last June from an old school chum in America resulted with me spending Christmas and the New Year in America with another classmate I had not seen for 45 years.
The Magic of Rye
By Jo’ Vincent What gives Rye it’s special appeal? Some say the magnetic quality is centred on the Quarter Boys who guard the Church Clock and ring out the quarters. Old Rhodes did say “The sound of the Quarter Boys will draw you further than gunpowder can blow you”. This has proved the case so … Continue reading The Magic of Rye