The news that St. Anthony of Padua, the beautiful Catholic Church in Rye’s Watchbell Street, was about to close came like a bolt out of the blue to Rye’s Catholic community.
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St Anthony runs through this selection from the Rye’s Own archive, linking individual reports and recollections into a broader picture of local life. Readers can move between “A Rye Childhood – Part 1”, “Editorial March 2015”, and “John Bath, Composer and Conductor, 1915-2004”, 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.
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
James Duffy
James (Jim) Duffy passed away at the Conquest Hospital on November 30. He was a well known character in the town, cycling around in his familiar hat going to and from his numerous gardening jobs.
John Bath, Composer and Conductor, 1915-2004
Vocal parts of a lost Mass, written for the Catholic Church in Rye by the composer John Bath, have been found a week after his own Requiem was held there. A significant figure in both the church, where he was choirmaster and organist in the 1940s and 1950s, and the Rye Singers, he wrote hundreds … Continue reading John Bath, Composer and Conductor, 1915-2004