Tag: Soup Kitchen

This Rye’s Own collection brings together articles connected with Soup Kitchen, drawing news, memories and magazine features into one path through the archive. Stories such as “Pauperism in Rye”, “How Dare They”, and “A Victorian Christmas in Rye” give the collection its range and its distinctly local texture. It is a collection to browse for both the main story and the small, telling details that a local magazine notices.

A Victorian Christmas in Rye

What was a Dickens 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 … Continue reading A Victorian Christmas in Rye

Rye in Edwardian Times

  By Ken Clark Pauperism in Rye remained an unresolved social problem at the opening of the twentieth century. Social reform is this country was confined to filling the most glaring gaps in the existing social system. The bed-rock of social provision was to be found in the Poor Law, first enacted in the time … Continue reading Rye in Edwardian Times

Jimper’s Jottings May 2005

April Showers April lived up to its usual self. A taste of days to come then the following day the weather we experienced was cold and dreary. Haze from the water turned many a night into a wonderland hanging above the marsh and letting the tops of the bushes of thorn and willow grace the … Continue reading Jimper’s Jottings May 2005

Pauperism in Rye

Late Victorian & Early Edwardian Rye By “Rya” Pauperism remained an unresolved social problem at the opening of the twentieth century. Social reform in this county was confined to filing the most glaring gaps in the existing social system. The bed-rock of social provision was to be found in the Poor Law, first enacted in … Continue reading Pauperism in Rye