LATE RYE NEWS AND FEATURES 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 … Continue reading Late News Extra November 2012
Tag: Smugglers
Smugglers runs through this selection from the Rye’s Own archive, linking individual reports and recollections into a broader picture of local life. The trail includes “Mermaid Street”, “My Trip to the Mermaid Inn”, and “Late News Extra November 2012”, offering several ways into the subject rather than a single potted account. The result is less a formal history than a lively bundle of evidence, voices and remembered moments from the magazine’s pages.
My Trip to the Mermaid Inn
Written by Tia-Jade Polley aged 11. One sunny day in the beautiful town of Rye I awoke to feel butterflies in my tummy knowing I was going to the famous Mermaid Inn for a ghost tour.
A Rye Childhood – Part 1
By Noel C. A. Care. More Buildings and Games. There were other buildings which found their way into our games. Brought up, as we were, in a town full of old buildings, we took little notice of them unless they affected us.There were two in Mermaid Street that became, even if only by implication, … Continue reading A Rye Childhood – Part 1
Mermaid Street
Mermaid Street The haunt of artists, and one of the most widely known streets in the world. This old street leading, as it did, straight down to the Strand Gate, has