Many prominent representatives from the Cinque Ports were in Rye on May Day Bank Holiday Monday for the inauguration of the new Mayor of Rye.
Tag: Thomas Peacocke School
This collection traces Thomas Peacocke School across Rye’s Own, bringing formal news together with the personalities and everyday moments behind the name. Readers can move between “Teen & Twenty Oct. 1973”, “Local Victorian Post in Rye”, and “They Throw Away Hot Money at Rye”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine. Read together, the articles show how public events and private memories become part of the town’s shared story.
Local Victorian Post in Rye
Glimpses into Local Postal Services in Victorian Times.The tale of Charles Thomas.By Barry Floyd.Introduction. In the mid-nineteenth century Rye’s post office was located on the High Street.
Teen & Twenty Oct. 1973
Lisa Gilmour -Ellis This month’s personality is 17 year old Lisa Gilmour-Ellis. Lisa has been a pupil at Thomas Peacocke School for the last six years and, living at Saltcote Place, has become more at home in Rye than in her own home town of Brighton.