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On Friday, Rye received an envoy from what will be Radio Sussex by the end of this month. David Arscott, who is in charge of what is referred to as "the Eastbourne end" of this Brighton-based station's new area, came to Rye, in effect for the first time, and was quite surprised by what he found.
Miss Alma Fabes was to have taken him on a mini-tour of the town for the record (literally), but she was not well so Mrs. Kirkham stood in. The programme will go out on Monday, 24 October, in the course of the station's Sussex Scene - probably during the first hour of its 11 to 1 slot. (There will be a similar programme on Hastings on the Thursday, as part of the week's tour of five Sussex towns.)
Mr. Arscott took the opportunity to meet some of the people involved in different ways in the running of our community, and explained what Radio Brighton now does and what Radio Sussex will do - with the help, particularly at this Far Eastern end of its area, of local people. They hope to set up, probably in the Town Hall bookroom beyond the grisly remains in the attic, a phone-booth studio so that interviews can be conducted by telephone (but with a special high-quality line). There will be a new studio in Eastbourne, plus a few other "phone-booths" dotted strategically about the area. (If the GAZETTE had a cartoonist, there would at this point be a little drawing of a skeleton with a telephone, saying "Radio Sussex? Breeds, butchers, here!")
Radio Brighton has hitherto been available on two medium wavelengths (258 and 202), but from 23 October we shall be able to get Radio Sussex, probably more conveniently, on VHF 103 and 95. It is not, Mr. Arscott made clear, a wall-to-wall pops programme, and approximates more closely to Radio 4 than to Radio 1 or 2. With a staff of 35 plus only three extra, he said bitterly, to allow for its now vastly increased average, the station puts out programmes from 6 am to 6 pm - at which point, presumably, the switch-over to television becomes impregnable. The output includes national and local news and current affairs, and from 6 am to 8.45 offers a local version of Today. For the next two hours, Collington Plus gives a mix of music and guests, and then at 11 Sussex Scene takes over: a local magazine programme with items running for perhaps ten minutes on local history, the countryside, education, etc., plus regular phone-ins and light classical music. After news at 1, listeners are invited to join (Joanna) Holles At Home - a consumer programme laced with music of the Thirties and Forties. She is followed by Roland Myers from 3 to 6 with more music and guests, dedications ("please play something for my auntie's birthday"), more phone-ins, and so forth.
Before too long Radio Sussex will be visiting Rye again - Jim Parr bringing a "Down Your Way" type of programme. But for those who want to help in the meantime, Mr. Arscott would be very glad to hear of suggestions for a series he is planning on Sussex villages, built round individual oddities (and you can leave your mother-in-law out of this!) which have a story attached. So - any ideas for this, please, to David Arscott, BBC Radio Brighton, Marlborough Place, Brighton BNl 1TU; or phone Brighton 680231 (the studios) or his home, Hurstpierpoint 833657.
As someone said at the meeting, it will be much appreciated that someone from the Far West comes over to meet us here; we hope this visit is the start of a mutually satisfactory relationship.
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Mrs. Gladys Saunders, of Rye Harbour, died in hospital on Sunday after a very short illness. She was the widow of Mr. Jack Saunders and leaves a son and a daughter. Mrs. Saunders was involved in running so many of the village's activities - the church, the village hall, the WI - and even at the age of 84 she was a lively and active member of the small community and will be very much missed. The funeral takes place at Rye Harbour Church today (Wednesday), at 2.30.
(Just to keep the record straight: the late Mr. John Hacking played rugby, not cricket, for Sussex; we are sorry we got it wrong in our obituary notice.)
Thanks to Mr. Blacker and Mr. Hunt, we have now received the very encouraging employment figures for Thomas Peacocke school-leavers to which we referred last week. All the girls who left this summer at the end of their fifth year, after CSEs or O-levels, either have jobs or are undertaking further training, many at Hastings College - except for 11; of these, one has moved away, three are on the Youth Training Scheme, the school has no information on five, and two were suspended from school much earlier in the year. As for the boys of the same intake, only four have no immediate prospects, and a further four are on the Youth Training Scheme. Many pupils from this year have, of course, stayed on into the Lower VIth but these figures indicate that out of well over 200 pupils, only a dozen are not usefully employed in one way or another.
Pupils also leave at the end of their Lower Sixth year. In this category, 17 have gone on to further education, 16 have started jobs, 4 left the district, and there is no information on 4, while just 2 are definitely unemployed.
Surely these figures must reflect great credit both on the school's success in helping pupils to find jobs or go on to suitable further training, and on the local employers who have found room for so many young people in their businesses?
The Easton Rooms have some lovely craft work on show this month, though not at impulse-buy prices; the large and elaborately constructed chest of drawers in the back gallery would cost someone £3,840. It is made by Michael Norris of Heathfield, who is also responsible for the delightful Dutch dolls in the window, a desk, and turned wooden bowls and frames - but not for the carver chair nor the interestingly tiptoed low table, which are the work of Rod Wales. Nic Gray's painted wooden toys, for grown-ups or very pampered children, are always a pleasure to see, and there is a good selection. Also eye-catching is the showcase displaying the work of Robert Birch, who has silver and parcel-gilt tableware which would certainly be a pleasure to use. Patrick Crouch shows intriguing sculptures using the natural growth of the wood. Ruth Lednik has appliqué quilts for lucky children, and Janet Bolton and Hilary Simon also exhibit textiles; and there are rugs, different kinds of ceramics, leather work and other things. But even if all these names are new to you, the show is still well worth a visit - if not to buy, then just to admire the high standard of craftsmanship today.
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Rye's fifteen or so Lions roared to such good effect at the Red Cross Centre last week that their Charity Shop raised the magnificent total of £761 over three days - nearly twice as much as last year, when they were only able to open for two days. Eager staff, interesting goods and a back-up collect-and-deliver service all contributed to this success. Delighted winner of the raffled groceries was the Editor!
It was the end of an era at Rye Magistrates Court on Wednesday, when Mr. Arthur Woodgate sat on the Bench for the last time. Mr. Woodgate, who was born in Winchelsea Road but now lives in Peasmarsh, has been a magistrate for 28 1/2years, and thinks this must be something of a record for Rye. When he was first appointed, in 1955, Edwin Dawes was still Clerk to the Magistrates, as well as Town Clerk, and Chairman of the bench was A.K. Holmes; and the court only sat fort-nightly, on alternate Wednesdays - the day probably being chosen, he suggests, originally for the convenience of the farmer-magistrates who came in anyway then for the market. Over the best part of 30 years, the caseload has grown enormously - Rye Magistrates' Court now sits on Mondays as well as Wednesdays, every week - and there have been great changes in the administration of the law. But even so, Mr. Woodgate's service has been spanned by only three Clerks, with Mr. Logan Edgar in the job most of that time. No-one now left on the Bench served with Edwin Dawes.
Eight magistrates were present in court to hear Mr. Penry-Davey, who had come over from Hastings specially for the occasion, pay a farewell tribute to Mr. Woodgate - who is, however, entitled to sit at the Crown Court for a further two years. In his reply, Mr. Woodgate particularly thanked Mr. Tony Davis of the Clerk's staff for his assistance during Mr. Woodgate's Chairmanship of the Licensing Committee.
Mr. Woodgate attended the Lion Street school (glancing at it from the Town Hall window as he thanked his colleagues for their good wishes) and then the Boys' School in Mermaid Street until he was 14. Apprenticed as a bricklayer with Messrs. Breeds, he has over the years worked for most of the local firms, and some from away, on contracts: he helped to build Freda Gardham School, and the nurses' home at Hill House. We suspect that Peasmarsh will not allow him to lie fallow for long; but at present, he says, it is the first time for 62 years that he has not held a position of responsibility - dating back to the day when he proudly added two yellow rings to his green Wolf Cub jersey!
Rye Players drew full houses for both their shows last weekend, and rightly so.
The chorus line (Janice Reeve, Yvonne and Denise Cotterell, Alison Cade, Pam Peters, Clare Watson, Bridget Mann and Virginia Fox, supported by David Cade, Brian Lovell, Tony Thompson and Chris Waters) sang charmingly and danced a lovely Charleston making the most of the limited space and costumed by Yvonne Beadle to match the elegance of their ballroom surroundings. Marion Lovell and Pat Gawn shared the piano; Jeffery Waters turned the pages. Jim Simpson made a rather more relaxed and intellectual Chairman than we have been accustomed to in recent years; he had also intended to sing two songs, but the family's pet ("very fond of music, our dog") had eaten the score of one of them, so he recited "Have some madeira, m'dear" instead, and later led the audience in praise of "Mud, glorious mud". Tony Thompson beguiled his listeners with "Belle Marguerite" from that delightful musical (how about a revival, TPS?) "Bless the Bride", and joined Janice Reeve in two duets. Clare, Bridget and Virginia gave attractive performances as a pair of waitresses kindly wrecking the love-life of a third. Pam Peters left many things unsaid (or rather, unsung) with a very Edwardian glint in her eye. David Cade's rural reminiscences were much appreciated, but perhaps his most memorable moment was when, army tunic straining at the buttons, he gave his all in a splendid rendering of "The Road to Mandalay". Vicky Short played the clarinet when she wasn't serving drinks; Benedict Lovell settled for serving drinks, just. There was, however, one performer whom we see all too rarely on stage nowadays, and for whom the applause was very special: Joan Parkes, as Mrs. Blodwen Parry Jones giving a real welcome to a vacuum-cleaner salesman (Chris Waters) in a very wild Wales indeed.
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Some of the applications considered at the Committee last Thursday were still within the time limit for objections. However, subject to this, the following permissions were given: for a bedroom in West Street, for the rebuilding of Paygate Cottage in Udimore Road, with garage, for the repainting of Little Sussex House, and for change of use for the ground floor of Eagle House to a photographic studio for business commercial use, for Mary and I to add another photographic studio, and for Mermaid Corner from antiques to cafe. Decisions were deferred on an extension to a house in Ailsworth Lane, off the Landgate, and on British Rail's sheltered housing development behind Winchelsea Road. Permission was refused, again subject to the time limit, for an advertising sign standing in Hylands Yard.
Mr. A.J. Bingham, the D o E Inspector who spared Landgate the prospect of an amusement centre last year, has turned down another Rye appeal recently, backing Rother's refusal to allow a house to be built in what is at present Andrews & Payne's builders yard in West Undercliff. "It seems to me" he writes, "that development as proposed on this small plot of land would be totally out of character with the majority of existing development in the area of great landscape value and would unacceptably extend the neighbouring closely-knit development into this relatively open land contrary to the sound policies operated by the Council" (Rother). He refers to the draft Town Map. This was published in 1967 - we wonder why it is still only in draft?
Current planning applications include one for change of use from antiques to tea-room for "no. 8, High Street". No. 8 is, of course, Adams of Rye, and Mr. Clifford Foster assures us that he has no intention of going into catering - nor, as we all know, does he run an antiques shop. Presumably the shop concerned is on the other side of Conduit Hill, Appledore Antiques - no. 7 or perhaps 7a, since the number also applies to Freight Express-Seacon and the Customs House above. Other applications are for a disabled persons toilet at the Community Centre (the proper term for what tends to be referred to as the disabled loo!); for another storage warehouse at Alsfords' wharf; for a horse shelter on land along the Rye Harbour Road, the application from Mr. P. Webb of Dulwich; and for alterations to the roof of 5 Market Road.
Speaking to an encouragingly large audience of Museum Association members and others on Friday at the FE Centre, Alan Dickinson explained something of the work of the Rape of Hastings Buildings Survey, a project mainly concerned with pre-seventeenth-century buildings but extended to cover the early-1800 houses of Rye. He showed a large number of slides illustrating the development of building techniques from roof to cellar - including one really hilarious back view of a cottage whose owner just hadn't been able to make up his mind about the lean-tos - and emphasising points of construction which would not be apparent to the layman. He reminded his audience that part of the citadel area owes much of its present picturesque exterior to an enterprising developer of the 1920s, who retimbered the houses to their original appearance after many earlier alterations.
Two further treats of this nature are planned for the autumn. Alan repeats his Iden and Playden slide show for National Trust members and others who missed it first time or would enjoy a second look, on Saturday 12 November at 2.30 in the Community Centre. Before that, on Friday 28 October at 7.30 at the Community Centre, Mr. Laurie Band of Rye Harbour is showing slides from his very extensive collection; he calls the show "Rye in the Past, 1860 to 1936", and we are giving plenty of notice of this since we are sure many readers will want to book the date. Entrance is £l, CC members and OAPs 75p, and the proceeds go towards the building of the disabled loo (see planning, above); tickets are available from the Centre during its office hours. Unfortunately, this talk clashes with the Natural History Society's regular alternate-Friday booking at the FEC, where there is to be a talk on "An Excursion to British Columbia, part I"; so on that evening one can be either very local, or a very long way away indeed:
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Could it have been attar of roast lamb with fried onions, wafting into the High Street, that lured so many visitors on a drizzly afternoon to the Grove, where Thomas Peacocke PTA were holding their Michaelmas Fair last Saturday? Certainly, something did, since the afternoon's takings after expenses were around £1,600, enough to pay the final bill for the minibus with something over for the next project.
There was so much going on that it is difficult to report it all - apologies to those whom we never found. However, we can say that Rother House won the Under-13 Athletics Cup, and the Outdoor Pursuits Club team won the splendidly documented Custard Pie Championship, with 40 contestants in all wearing differing degrees of fancy dress. The top raffle prize of £100 went to Mrs. Carol Trill of Camber, with second prize of £75 to young Patrick Channon (and a long string of over 30 other prizewinners). The dear bear was called Clementine and went to Mrs. Capp, who has a daughter at the school. Philip Thomas, demonstrating cricket-bat making, drew plenty of attention to the raffle for a bat generously given by Mr. John Bewbery and won by 2nd-year pupil Simon Collins.
Other attractions included the ever-popular broken-china gallery, and the chance to chuck wet sponges and buckets of water at shivering sixth-formers and staff, firmly anchored in the stocks - several mothers got their own back, though we wonder who had the nerve to douse the Headmaster! The fire brigade, parked peacefully in a corner of the playground, suddenly turned on the son-et-lumiere and zoomed into the arena, set up a "pond" and pumped water out of it to the delight of certain small damp people who raced through the shower and paddled happily in the subsequent flood. St. John Ambulance was also on parade, though actual ambulances were in short supply. Winners' names were not taken at the Pet Show so we can't give them, but everyone got a rosette of some kind and the polecat didn't get the rabbit! In the hall, David Newham once again drew portraits throughout the afternoon, and the stalls overflowed into the corridors; the Sixth Form room provided comfortable accommodation for refreshment-seekers. There was a contest to guess the weight of a cake, and also to guess the weight of a sheep - or so we understand; but we have no results for these. Altogether, despite the unpromising weather, a most successful afternoon for visitors and organisers alike.
One of the widely-travelled copies of the GAZETTE (via Miss Wickenden and her neighbour Mr. Alan Bartholomew) reached Mr. Raymond Balcomb in Oxford. Mr. Balcomb left Rye Grammar School to serve an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering at the Rother Iron Works, and in 1928 joined the staff of Morris Motors. Now retired, he enjoys a part-time clerical job at the Bodleian Library - where, he tells us, there is a copy of Deacon's Guide to Rye presented by Mr. Deacon in 1912 after a visit to the Library, and also the whole run of "Rye's Own".
Mr. Balcomb wrote to us originally in connection with the tollgate cottage in Udimore Road about whose history we had been enquiring on behalf of its new owner. At the time of his birth in 1907, his parents lived at 56 Udimore Road. His mother was ill for some time after the baby was born, and a neighbour, Mrs. Thatcher, took over the washing and pushed out the baby; she must have made a considerable impression, because "the baby" still remembers what she looked like.
The Thatchers then lived at the second of the cottages nearly opposite the toll-gate - known as the "black" cottages because of the tarred western end (it is interesting to note that this, Mr. and Mrs. Osborne's house, is still tarred now). But in 1915 they moved into the Tollgate Cottage, and as far as Mr. Balcomb knows they finished their days there. Mr. Charles Thatcher was an aimable and polite man who worked in the shipyard, starting at 6 every morning; he also played the big drum in Rye Town Band "and, though shortish, was never known to take a wrong turning!"
Mr. Balcomb is a fund of information; we shall be quoting again from his letters before long.
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In the late Seventies, Michael Prince of Udimore Road ran a folk club called Mainly Acoustic, whose sessions at the George drew music-lovers from a wide area. In the end this folded, as things do; but Michael is now arranging a concert in the same tradition at the Saltings on Saturday, 15 October, at 8, and if it is a success, he hopes to have a second, and perhaps a series.
In concert will be two guitarists: Martin Simpson, whose work on this and other instruments is nationally known, much respected and greatly enjoyed, and Roger Hubbard from Battle, who also plays professionally all over the country. The programme, says Michael, will be eclectic (we looked it up, it means mixed) - folk, blues, country, contemporary music and perhaps a little gospel music.
Tickets are now available from the Saltings reception desk, at £2, and as the size of the audience is limited by the fire regulations, those who want to be sure of their places are strongly recommended to book in advance and not leave it till the night.
In view of the local interest in two recent talks in homeopathic medicine, we have been asked to mention that the South East Friends of Homeopathy have a meeting at Tunbridge Wells (St. John's Church Hall) on Saturday, 15 October at 2.30 for 3. After a brief AGM, Dr. L.R. Twentyman will be speaking on "Homeopathy, Related Therapies and You"; the talk will be followed by refreshments, stalls, etc., and admission is free.
We said last week that there would be a public meeting, this time for the whole town, in connection with the Crime Alert scheme. This has now been arranged by the Ratepayers and Residents Association, and will be at the Town Hall on Friday, 21 October at 7.30. Speakers will be Inspector Max Judge of the police Community Relations Branch, and Inspector Don Mobbs from Rye police station, and the crime prevention department will show films.
Rye Chamber of Trade is planning something really special for the Christmas lights switch-on this year. Starting earlier than usual, on Saturday 3 December, and in collaboration with Rotary and the Town Council, Father Christmas will arrive by train just after 5 pm. Preceded by Scottish pipers, he will then switch on the Rotary tree lights in Market Road, the town lights at the George Hotel, and the tree lights at the Town Hall, where there will be carols - led, they hope, by Ryesingers. There is the possibility of late-night shopping facilities that evening if local shops are willing to participate. Since it will be in effect dark by then, the whole event will be much more dramatic than the usual mid-afternoon switch-on, and parents particularly may wish to note the date now.
Arising from last week's reference to parking in Watchbell Street, someone living in that area says that residents would be glad if they were able to park outside their own houses; but during the day, much of the very limited parking space is occupied by people who come to work in the neighbourhood, or even elsewhere in the town. Perhaps there is a case, once the new regulations are established, for a residents' parking permit scheme, as in London?
The same correspondent also wonders, in passing, whether the very small lorry into which the separate-colour bottle banks are now emptied really does have accommodation for the two types, or whether all the glass ends up together!
On Monday passers-by were - almost literally - forcibly struck by the state of the Gibbet Marsh horse-chestnut trees and their surroundings: a billet of wood fell out of a quite unoccupied tree, just missing pedestrians walking along the pavement. It was a machined piece and had obviously been thrown up into the tree earlier by conker-hunting children and then shaken down by the wind. The footpath there is a mess, the fence between it and the dyke is broken down; fallen conkers are free for all, and they all do fall in the end - could the children not wait for nature to take its course, rather than creating hazards for themselves and others?
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When our Museum Curator, Mr. Geoffrey Bagley, learns something new about Rye, his informant must be very well informed indeed! But Mr. Bagley tells us that he has indeed learnt something from the first of the WEA lecture series on Tudor Rye, by Dr. Graham Mayhew of Lewes. We all know that Rye was an important town in Tudor times, but in his introductory talk Dr. Mayhew revealed that it was in fact the most important and the largest town in Sussex (the entire county). Contemporary maps of Rye and Lewes show that the centre of Rye was definitely in existence then, much as it lies now, whereas what made up Lewes? One single street.
The harbour - an entirely different shape then - was a harbour of refuge for a long stretch of coastline, and Camber Castle was built to defend it; and Dr. Mayhew made an intriguing suggestion to his audience about the loyalty of the garrison's commander... Want to hear more? Come along to the next class: Monday evenings at the FE Centre. This is the third year that Dr. Mayhew has talked to WEA audiences about Rye, and we understand that this year's course is likely to appear in due course in book form.
We have been asked if the GAZETTE could always print in full the names of organisations, etc., to which we usually allude by their initials. We could, but we won’t; it takes up too much room. However, for the benefit of the puzzled, here are the full versions of most of our regular abbreviations.
AGM Annual General Meeting
ARC Arthritis and Rheumatism Council for Research
CSRF Civil Service Retirement Fellowship
CC Community Centre
CJSC Cadborough Jubilee Social Club
Cons Soc Rye Conservation Society
D o E Department of the Environment
ESCC East Sussex County Council
Express Sussex Express
EMSDC (now defunct and, we gather, unprintable anyway!)
FG Freda Gardham School, New Road
FEC Further Education Centre
F o E Friends of the Earth
MS Multiple Sclerosis
MD Muscular Dystrophy
Mus Ass Rye Museum Association
Nat Tr National Trust, Rye and Winchelsea Centre
NH Soc Natural History Society
News East Sussex News (the free paper)
NFU National Farmers Union
NSPCC National Society for the Prevention of cruelty to children.
PTA Parent-teacher Association
RAG Rye Art Gallery; FRAG, Friends of...
BRCS British Red Cross Society
RBL / BL Royal British Legion
Rother Rother District Council
RNHR Rye Harbour Nature Reserve; Friends of
RHSC Rye Harbour Sailing Club
RSA Rye Society of Artists
RNLI Royal National Lifeboat Institution
St. J St. John Ambulance Brigade
SWA Southern Water Authority
TH Town Hall
TPS Thomas Peacocke Comprehensive School
WEA Workers Educational Association
YOP Youth Opportunities Programme, now superseded by...
YTS ... Youth Training Scheme.
WRVS Women's Royal Voluntary Service
WI Women's Institute.
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Thursday, 6th Christian Lunch Club, "The Christian Doctor" by Dr. Max Gammon, CC, 12 for 12.30
Friday, 7th Vidler & Co's monthly auction sale, 10
Cancer Relief jumble sale, FEC, 6.30
National Trust, "Lord Hertford and the Formation of the Wallace
Collection" by Peter Hughes, CC, 7.30
Saturday, 8th Rye WI Group Home Economics Show, FEC, 3 to 5 (see below) Cadborough Jubilee Social Club jumble sale, CC, 2.30
Concert, Brahms and Liszt, St. Mary's, 7.30 (GAZETTE no. 52)
Sunday, 9th Attic Sale, CC, 10 to 1
Tuesday, 11th St. Mary's Tuesday Club, Mrs. Pamela Haines talking about the Library, 2 East Street, 7.30
Wednesday, 12th BRCS Over-60s Club, Red Cross Centre, 1.45
Rye WI, "Indoor Plants", FEC, 7
• As usual at this time of year, Saturday's Rye WI Group Home Economics Show is an event not to be missed. The FE Centre will be full of delicious goodies beautifully presented: a real feast, though only, alas, to the eye. Judging takes place in the morning and the show opens to the public at 3.
• There are still a few vacancies for stalls at the Community Centre's Attic Sale on Sunday morning - ring Rye 223917 as soon as possible, in the evening please.
• The Monday Club is holding its annual sale of work at the Ferry Road clinic on Monday, 17 October, at 2; stalls include home-bake, produce, fancy goods, white elephant and a raffle. The Club will much appreciate support from members of the public at this event, which raises money for its activities throughout the year including a whole series of much-enjoyed summer outings.
• Everyone will be pleased that the Landgate Children's Shop is about to become Quarter Belle Children's Wear and move into its long-awaited home in Lion Street - it is almost a year since the negotiations originally began. However, opening day is not this week as advertised, but next Monday (10th) at 9.30, and the Landgate shop will be closed on Friday and Saturday of this week while the change-over takes place. The new shop will continue to close on Tuesday afternoons, as the old one did.
• Mr. Chris Bateman, of Landgate, is looking for a nursing attendant for about one hour morning and evening - actual times can be flexible, by arrangement. If you can help Mr. Bateman over this, or know anyone who might be able to, please ring Rye 223168 between 9.30 and 5, or call at 18 Landgate.
• Confirmation of a Town Diary entry: Hill House Hospital League of Friends holds its Christmas Bazaar in the Town Hall at 10 on Saturday, 12 November.
• Crime: a 5" compass and box were stolen from Sandrock Marine, Rock Channel, between 18 and 21 September.
• Congratulations to Strand Antiques on the impressive change in the appearance of the building (the wooden one with the curved frontage opposite the Garden Shop, where some of us used to collect our supplies of National Dried Milk a long time ago!) following its repainting in dark green and white.
THE RYE GAZETTE is registered as a newspaper with the Post Office. It is published by Mrs. Mary Owen, 94 Udimore Road, Rye (Rye 222303), and news items for inclusion are always welcome - deadline is Monday afternoon, 9 am Tuesday for emergencies. The GAZETTE costs 25p weekly, and is delivered to subscribers and pick-up points on Wednesday; a few spares may be available at Squirrels, 9-13 Cinque Ports Street.
(Copyright Mary Owen 1983)