Saturday 22nd – Sunday 30th October 2016 Where’s Boris? Each year the businesses of Rye celebrate Wild Boar Week by hosting a children’s Hog Hunt event. With the sad passing of the town’s beloved artist John Izod earlier this year (who kindly supplied the artwork for this event in previous years) we decided to do … Continue reading Wild Boar Week
Tag: Rye High Street
Step into the Rye’s Own archive for stories connected with Rye High Street, a place viewed through local news, memory, change and the experiences of those who knew it. Readers can move between “Rye 1947”, “The Faithful Traffic Warden”, “High Street Shock”, and “Yellow Lines”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine. Taken together, these pieces preserve the names, places and passing details that might otherwise slip out of the local record.
The Faithful Traffic Warden
His name was Jim Faithful Grown men were known to have turned and run back to their vehicles and move them out of Rye High Street when they saw him approaching. Shopkeepers would race out and offer him cups of tea, just to keep him off the street for a few minutes. It was said … Continue reading The Faithful Traffic Warden
High Street Shock
Woolies in Administration Woolworths came to Rye in 1936, the year of the Berlin (Hitler’s) Olympics. Since then, through good times and bad, Woolies employed and served local people. Rye High Street without Woolworths will seem very odd but, failing a miracle, that will be the case early in the New Year.
Rye 1947
Have Health & Regulations Gone Too Far? By Jim Hollands The remarkable picture, of Gasson’s War ravaged building at the western end of Cinque Ports Street, was taken just after World War Two. Closer inspection reveals a wartime National Fire Service notice pointing the way to Rye Fire Station.
Lunch With The Lions
A free lunch provided by Rye and District Lions was enjoyed by 97 senior citizens on Sunday. The seniors were collected by Rye Community buses and Lions’ cars and were greeted at the Community Centre with a welcoming drink before sitting down to full Sunday roast lunch with wine, then pudding and coffee and mints.
The Long Journey
By Michael Whiteman As a young fellow from 1936 onward I was working as an under-gardener at Leasam House, Playden, Near Rye. I really enjoyed this work and each Friday morning I used to harness up the black pony onto a buggy trap, going into Rye High Street, to a greengrocers with any surplus vegetables, … Continue reading The Long Journey
Rye January 2006
By The Editor The Lowest Ebb The New Year is a time for reflection and taking stock but as I look around Rye I am seeing things that make me sad when I remember the days of past glory that this town has enjoyed.
Yellow Lines
Its A Fair Cop May Bank Holiday in Rye and the motorbike problem is exacerbated by three bikes from the emergency services ( 2 police and 1 paramedic) parked on double yellow lines.