Pedestrians could overtake a Dengates Bus on Rye Hill……..provided they didn’t asphyxiate on the exhaust …….Paul Vincent.
Tag: Rye Hill
Explore Rye Hill through Rye’s Own, from remembered scenes and historical detail to the news and personalities that gave the place its character. Readers can move between “A Rye Childhood”, “Oliver Kite Tribute”, “We Told You So”, and “Dengates Bus”, 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.
50 Years The Royal Visit
By Jim Hollands Fifty years seems a long time but looking back to 1965 from 2015 it seems not so long at all. “Rye’s Own” was started with the intention that it should report and support Rye. There can be no doubt that it has always done that, although in those early days Rye Borough … Continue reading 50 Years The Royal Visit
Arthur’s Cinque Ports Street
By Arthur Woodgate The sea until 1300 would have washed the north side of Rye with a causeway across to Rye Hill. Wrecks of ships have been found in streets north of the Town wall and of boats where the town ditch was.
We Told You So
“WE TOLD YOU SO” SAY LOCAL RESIDENTS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE NEW SCHOOL OPENS? Seven Local residents who were opposed to the building of the new Primary School on the site adjacent to the Thomas Peacocke Community College. They objected on the grounds that the present traffic problems in The Grove and Love Lane were … Continue reading We Told You So
A Rye Childhood
By Noel C. A. Care The non human member of the family was a large tabby cat. Although the cat was large its tail was very short. It has, apparently been caught in the front door when it had slammed closed. Although it looked a little ridiculous it did not seem to worry her. … Continue reading A Rye Childhood
Tanks in Rye
By Clifford Bloomfield 1940 Fair Meadow, Rye Hill, at that time was like open parkland and a good number of mature oak trees were spread over it. I recall seeing, when on our Sunday afternoon walks, a tented army camp with vehicles and tanks standing under the trees.
Pen & Ink
Dear Editor, I wonder if anyone could kindly help me to find out what happened to the Craft Club founded in April 1991 possibly at Rye Golf Club. Founded members included Major General Duke, Rear Admiral Robertson and Air Vice Marshal Seabrook The one time Hon. Treasurer T. Mc Millan, would like information.
Rye Hill And Military Road
Rye Hill and Military Road.
White Christmas
In modern times, with all the comforts that the post war world has ushered in, it is, perhaps, hard to imagine the days which Dickens has so vividly recorded for us when the workhouse and the beggar were part of the daily scene and the world was, as Disraeli remarked, for the few – the … Continue reading White Christmas
Fatal Car Crash
The first recorded motor accident fatality occurred in Rye on 25 March 1905. These remarkable photographs by local photographer Mr. Whiteman, and the accompanying report and drawing from a Rye newspaper tell the whole story in vivid detail.