Bonfire Film (1962) Will be on this site by Friday of this week
Film of the 1962 Rye Bonfire Celebrations is being prepared and will be screened on the Rye’s Own Website Next Week.
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Rye’s Great Annual Events That Still Draw The Crowds
There has been a lot of talk recently on reviving many of the old annual events staged in Rye but which, over the years, have fallen by the wayside.
Rye Sports Day, Rye Medieval Festival, Miss Rye, The Raft Race and Rye in Bloom to name just a few. It is hoped the meeting on Wednesday 9 February will be the start of getting at least two of these old classics back on the Rye Programme. Continue reading Rye’s Great Annual Events That Still Draw The Crowds
Record Bonfire Auction
The Bonfire Society Auction, held at the Mermaid Inn on Thursday 14 May realised a massive £5,100, a record by over £1000 on any previous year. Continue reading Record Bonfire Auction
Bonfire Boys Auction
Rye Bonfire Auction of Promises Antiques & Miscellaneous Items 2015
Thursday 14 May 2015 Mermaid Hotel, Rye Viewing from 7:00 pm – sale at 7.30
Tickets £5.00 including glass of wine and catalogue
Rye Fawkes Night 2012
The Show Went on at Rye
Rain has affected and even cancelled Sussex Bonfire events with many fire-sites sodden and extremely muddy. Rye was no exception and the Pyro crew had their work cut out setting up on Saturday and keeping everything dry.
The whole of Rye Bonfire are no strangers to hard work and fund-raise tirelessly each year to stage Rye Bonfire. Their costs are rising so were extremely pleased Continue reading Rye Fawkes Night 2012
Late News Extra November 2012
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Bonfire Boys Need Your Support.
The Rye Bonfire Society receives no financial support from public funds in the annual Rye Fawkes Festival, which now costs over £10,000 a year to set-up and manage. All necessary funding is raised by voluntary contributions, program sales and advertising, fund-raising events and street collections on the night. Without the support of the town’s traders, citizens and visitors, the event could not take place. If you wish the Rye Bonfire to continue as the premier social event in the district’s calendar, please give generously. Continue reading Late News Extra November 2012
A Night of Tradition and Fire
They came in their thousands, packing the narrow streets of Rye to watch the spectacular torchlight procession that has been an annual event put on by Rye Bonfire Society since time immemorial. Continue reading A Night of Tradition and Fire
Dustbin
Jimper has been a member of Rye Bonfire Society since he was a boy. Here he tells of a bonfire night incident from the past
Great Raft Race of 2010
Rye Raft Race Draws the Bank Holiday Crowds
Rye and District Lions were delighted with the huge crowd of spectators that turned out to watch their 32nd Annual Rye Raft Race on Sunday. Despite many other attractions on a Bank Holiday weekend the public from Rye
and its surrounding area supported the event in record numbers, an estimated 5,000. Continue reading Great Raft Race of 2010
Bonfire Magic
Its 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. The Bonfire Societies are almost exclusively from East Sussex and have a history that goes back even before the fateful night that Guy Fawkes and his cronies attempted to blow up Parliament. Continue reading Bonfire Magic