Celebrating 30 years in Rye

Older people at Devonport House in Rye celebrated 30 years since the Queen Mother opened their retirement housing site with a party for friends, family and local people on Friday 8 June. Continue reading Celebrating 30 years in Rye

A Room with a View

Memories of life in a Rye draper’s shop in the early 1920s

By J C Pulford

The stairs that led up to Florence Sparrow’s bedroom above a Rye draper’s shop also led to the roof. Here, ‘off-duty’ hours were often spent reading, sunbathing Continue reading A Room with a View