Tag: Rye Grammar School

Rye Grammar School appears here as part of the magazine’s continuing record of local organisations, community effort and the people who kept things moving. Readers can move between “Rye Old Scholars”, “Down Rye Way Jim Foster”, “£6,000,000 New Primary School”, and “Town Crier”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine. Together they offer a characterful route through the magazine’s record of local life, memory and change.

Rye Headlines April 2004

Jim Hollands Asks; Have things changed for the better between 2004 and 2015? Best Value On Monday 8 March a very profound remark was made during the Emergency Surgery Site Debate. Paul Osbourne, commenting on County Council Leader Peter Jones oft quoted remark about the Ferry Road School site that it must be sold for the … Continue reading Rye Headlines April 2004

Roger Breeds

Roger Breeds by Jim Hollands   It is with great sadness I report the news that Roger Breeds, former Mayor of Rye, has died. Roger was a supporter of “Rye’s Own”. He regarded himself as a Ryer and so he was, for he is a direct line descendant of another Breeds who was Mayor of Rye in 1560 and … Continue reading Roger Breeds

Rye Old Scholars

MANY RYE OLD SCHOLARS MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE IN WORLD WAR 1.  By John Breeds. I’m sure that readers will remember the two boards commemorating Rye Old Scholars who died as a result of fighting during WWI.The one on the left, from Rye Grammar School, has 24 names on it and the rather grander one, … Continue reading Rye Old Scholars

Aerial Warfare Over Rye During World War Two

Aerial Warfare Over Rye and Environs During World War II By Barry Floyd My sister and I were evacuees from London at the outbreak of the war, on 3 September 1939, and were accepted as pupils at Rye Grammar School by the Headmaster, Mr. Jacobs. That first hard winter – – there were very heavy … Continue reading Aerial Warfare Over Rye During World War Two

50 Year Anniversary

OLD SCHOOL FRIENDS MEET FOR 50 YEAR ANNIVERSARY Rye Old Scholars Association held a very successful reunion on 24th June at Thomas Peacocke Community College for those who were at secondary schools in Rye in the 1960s and to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the opening of Leasam House in 1956. (This was the boarding … Continue reading 50 Year Anniversary

News – Views and Letters July 2006

Compensation Rye High Street is back to normal again after the upsets of June. Some have applied for compensation from the Highways Agency for loss of revenue during three weeks of mayhem when the whole town suffered from restricted access caused by the road closure between Skinners Roundabout and the Kettle of Fish Roundabout.