Latest developments in the shock horror saga of the Monkbretton Bridge repairs appear on page 3. Asked why the work couldn't be put off until the autumn, the ESCC contractor said it was too urgent - "If we don't do it soon," he said cheerfully, "you might find yourselves without a bridge at all!" Now that really would be a front-page story...
Mrs. Lestocq has received a letter from the Deputy Director of the RNLI, Brian Mills. He writes:
"It is with the greatest of pleasure I inform you that in recognition of Humphrey's 15 years devoted service to the Institution as Honorary Secretary of the Rye Harbour lifeboat station, it has been decided to posthumously award him the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum. In conveying this news to you I take the opportunity of once more expressing the Institution's appreciation of your husband's dedicated and valuable services, which will be held in the highest regard for many years to come."
Congratulations to Rye's two new magistrates, sworn in at Lewes just before Easter: Francis Hadfield, of The Grove and Rye Model Laundry, and Tony Wills of Serendipity. (David Smith of Etchingham is also new to the Battle and Rye Court, though he will, we understand, normally sit at Battle.) They join a long and distinguished line of magistrates, people well known in the town over the centuries who have dispensed justice at the Town Hall since it was built in 1743, and of course long before that; Leopold Vidler records that in 1505 Thomas Roose was fined 1/- (5p) "for a fray upon William Bispyn". Doubtless he deserved it, though one feels rather sorry for Henry Whyteman, also fined 1/- "for playing at cards" when John Tyler got off with 8d for underweight bread!
Congratulations to Angela and Douglas Moody, and to Jane and Stuart Moor, both couples married on Easter Saturday.
Angela, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Gasson of Church Square, was married to Douglas Moody (an Irishman from Scotland, we are told); they both work for IBM in Hampshire and will be living at Rowlands Castle. The reception was at the George Hotel, and the whole wedding party of some 100 guests walked in the brilliant sunshine down Lion Street - it must have been quite a sight!
The same afternoon, Jane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Phillips of Rock Channel, was married to Stuart Moor, whose family moved to Maidstone from Icklesham. Jane's cousin from Plymouth was her bridesmaid, and Stuart's brother Glenn was best man. The reception was at the Saltings Hotel. Stuart is in the Army (REME) and is due to be posted to Germany after the honeymoon; Jane will be joining him there as soon as he can arrange for married quarters, and we all hope they won't have too long a wait.
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Two funerals take place today: that of Mr. Donald Boreham of Pottingfield Road at Udimore Church at 11, and that of Mr. Ronald Stoodley of South Undercliff at Hastings at 2. We hope to include in next week's issue obituaries of both men, and also of Mr. Maurice Beevers, who died just before Easter.
Michael Dearing's "mole" has sent him a copy of the train services due to start on Monday week, 14 May. We have already listed the morning and evening trains in issues nos. 77 and 80. The middle-of-the-day trains leave Rye for Hastings at 3 minutes past the hour, and for Ashford at 6 minutes past, arriving at Charing Cross 90 minutes later. On Saturdays, the last three trains to town only go as far as Waterloo East; and there is a sinister rippling line beside the two final Saturday trains and every alternate Sunday one which we don't understand at all. The Sunday service continues hourly in summer and two-hourly in winter. Those of us who live the far side of the railway from the town will have to get used to leaving home five minutes earlier if we don't want to get caught by the gates.
Rye Station says that on Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday this weekend, trains will run hourly instead of the usual Sunday two-hourly, but otherwise it will be a Sunday service both days. Buses are also running a Sunday service - which means not very many.
And we have a bouquet, for a change, for Rye Station, who kindly pointed out to us the advantages of travelling Inter-City on a long journey involving crossing London. It means leaving London before 3 pm; but using Inter-City, the Editor paid £27-odd for a return fare to the other side of Wolverhampton which would otherwise have cost £44 - well worth a bit of publicity, we thought?
The biggest burglary in the town since the Crime Alert scheme started took place on Sunday night, when thieves broke into Strand Antiques. The broken window round the side, giving access to the window catch and thence to the shop, shows how entry was made; and we are very sorry to hear from a spokeswoman for the group who share the shop that "many thousands of pounds" worth of goods, mainly jewellery, were stolen.
Before Easter a radio-cassette player was stolen from a shop in Cinque Ports Street; a ring valued at just under £100 was stolen from a shop in The Mint; and some real meanie stole two Guide Dogs for the Blind collecting boxes (one of them the "dog" which sat outside the pub) from the Ferry Boat Inn in Ferry Road.
Remember the hassle there was with calls into Rye from outside when the new phone exchange opened last year? Now the Icklesham and Pett numbers are being altered. As from 1.15 pm today, forget all about 84 for Icklesham and 86 for Pett. We dial 0424 (for Hastings) followed by 814 plus the normal three-figure phone number for Icklesham, or by 81 plus the normal four-figure number for Pett. Both areas have been absorbed into the Hastings exchange title (as Camber and Winchelsea were absorbed into Rye). We wish them joy!
Rye Museum opened for the summer just before Easter. The exhibits look as lovely as ever after the immensely hard work put in by the team who spend so much time cleaning and polishing them at the start of each year, and we particularly admired the rearrangement of the collection of dolls, who now congregate in a more friendly manner in one large showcase upstairs. The lower floor has a sadly empty case which would have contained the items stolen in the recent burglary; Mrs. Smith and Mr. Southerden have given family medals to replace the missing ones, but these are not yet on view, and there are no replacements so far for the swords, etc. (The new glass in the window has again been broken, apparently by a shot this time).
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On Monday morning between 10.30 and 10.45, 80 cars and small vans crossed Monkbretton Bridge. It was also used by 14 larger vehicles which would quite certainly not have passed the two-metre test which will be imposed by the width restriction later this month; the alternative route for those 14 would be a ten-mile detour along C and B roads across the Marsh, which could well put a long-distance driver outside his permitted hours if he were at the end of a long journey, as well as making life hell for a fortnight for people living along the normally quiet roads.
Our last issue carried the beginning of this story, and a site meeting at the bridge on Monday morning, between bus company staff and ESCC officials, provides us with the continuation. It appears now that the repairs are to be done in three strips. Each outer one will leave a 3m strip of roadway for single-line traffic, adequate for any normal vehicle; but the problem comes with "the little bit in the middle" - while this is being done, nothing wider than 2m (6'6") will be able to cross the bridge. Work on this section is likely to start on 14 May, and the contractor hopes to finish it by the Bank Holiday weekend.
Mr. Wood, Traffic Superintendent of the Hastings & District bus company, tried hard to persuade the men from the ESCC to arrange things differently, but without success. He now has three options: to add 45 minutes to the time of each journey, to abandon the timetable and run a shuttle service, or to load and unload outside Freda Gardham School, leaving passengers to walk into the town. He went back to Hastings to think it over, both on his own company's behalf and on that of Maidstone and District and Southdown, whose services will also be affected - particularly, we would think, the new limited-stop run from Camber to Brighton.
The only possible alternative route during the second fortnight in May, for the diverted heavy traffic, will be along the Military Road and round by Appledore, Snargate, Brenzett and Brookland - not much help for buses which have to serve Camber as well. Mr. Wood wasn't happy about the narrow lanes with tight bends even for his buses, let alone for the huge continental juggernauts which they might encounter on a corner with mutual ill-effects. He was also grieved to discover that the one day the buses don't run to Camber - Sunday, until the summer service starts on 27 May - is the one day the contractors, under regulations imposed by Rother presumably for the benefit of residents nearby, don't work either.
ARC and Brett, the gravel firms, plan to stock up their depots to overflowing - during the next ten days, in the hope they can then avoid the journey entirely until the road is again clear. Unfortunately, Graham's Coaches, based at Camber but with school contracts in Rye, can hardly do this; they have heard nothing official at all so far. Mrs. Trill wonders how they will be able to deliver the Camber children to Freda Gardham, take Thomas Peacocke children up to Leasam for the first class of the morning (and subsequently during the day) and then return the Freda Gardham children to Camber, if they have to go round by Appledore? Davies Coaches have also heard nothing except rumours.
Liaison with the rescue services has also not been good, we hear. The present ambulance is just 2m wide, but the new one expected any day is a little larger - though doubtless they can squeeze it through somehow. The Fire Brigade can't possibly squeeze a fire engine through, so they will have to go round; but they are borrowing a specially equipped rescue landrover which will take four men and breathing apparatus, etc., via the bridge - and they can always call on Lydd anyway for back-up if there is something serious. Skinners Garage tell us that their big breakdown truck is under 2m wide, so there will be no difficulty there.
After the actual repairs are finished, the painting is expected to take another six weeks. This will not involve any width restriction, but it will mean taking up the floor of the footbridge so that the ironwork underneath can be painted.
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The traffic lights which went up each side of the bridge on Monday will operate throughout the whole period, the best part of three months altogether. But the road will also be resurfaced from the roundabout to the bridge, and the bumpiest bits of New Road beyond the bridge patched up, which should eventually reduce traffic noise and perhaps be some consolation to people living beside it.
The last time Monkbretton Bridge - over 90 years old - was repaired was in 1972. No-one seems to remember how these problems were dealt with then - or perhaps you do?
Work on the lookout at the end of Watchbell Street is proceeding according to plan; Ralph Olesen of ESCC Highways says that they have managed to repair the cliff without dropping anything critical into the A 259 below, and it is now a case of tidying up the top. The outer (cliff) edge of the lookout will have standard iron bollards (as on Conduit Hill and Strand Quay) but with a triple rail threaded through them. The inner edge presented a problem; something was needed to prevent cars parking there and spoiling the whole purpose of the look-out. Mr. Hutchings of ES CG Planning Department has therefore designed a mini bollard, about 14" high and based on the traditional quayside type, and nine of these will be erected between the footpath and the lookout at roughly 5' intervals. There was also a slight difficulty about how much the shrubs on the cliff should be cut back, but ESCC hope they have reached a satisfactory compromise between baffling the road noise from below and allowing people to admire the distant view.
The orders necessary to put into effect the parking regulations in the cobbled streets are still not through, but Mr. Olesen, feeling a certain amount of heavy breathing on the back of his neck, hopes that all will be well within the next four weeks or so. The anchor at Strand Quay is also awaiting various formalities, but we are assured it has not sunk without trace!
Telham Forge are expected to insert the handrail into the Conduit Hill bollards this week. If the work is done by Thursday, it will give particular pleasure to two ladies from Rye Harbour who regularly use Conduit Hill after their market shopping, and who can hardly wait for the rail to appear - "so nice" they said "to have something new for Rye at last". (But presumably the bollards will no longer provide a diversion for foreign students who find they can use them to leapfrog up the hill!)
In GAZETTE no. 77 we reviewed very enthusiastically the exhibition at the Ockman's Lane gallery of watercolours by Louisa Paris, painted in the early 1850s. Other people liked it too, and its stay in Rye is being extended till 1 July, replacing the South East Arts collection which was to have been shown during May and June.
At the Easton Rooms until 15 May, Robert Greenhalf shows watercolours, etchings and some batiks, mostly with nature of one kind or another as their theme; upstairs, John Collier has woodcarvings of humans, animals and that much-loved film-star from outer space, E T (the children would like to see that one!).
The Rye Branch of the National Society for Cancer Relief is in need of a Secretary. Rusty Ellis is acting as Secretary to Ruth Lawson-Tait's Chairman as an emergency measure, to keep the Branch going, but she would very much like to retire for good. The recent coffee morning raised £150, so it is an organisation which finds plenty of support in the town but, says Mrs. Ellis, no-one seems to want the responsibility of becoming Secretary. If you might, please ring her on Rye 223XXX.
The Women's Section of the British Legion made £155 selling roses for St. George's Day at the Town Hall on Easter Saturday - not quite as many people came as last year, reports Joan Camier, but that Saturday is always a busy one; they will certainly do it again next year when Easter is well out of the way by 23 April.
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The GAZETTE has got it all wrong, and we are delighted to put the record straight. Introducing Father Edmund's account of convents in Rye (GAZETTE no. 79) we were a little puzzled that he hadn't mentioned the nuns who ran a hospital at Chequer during WWI - clearly remembered, together with the wounded soldiers in their blue uniforms, by the little girl who lived next door. Now all is explained, and we are most grateful to Miss Dann and to Miss Caroline Philpott for their help.
The house now known as Chequer was the one in which the Sisters of La Sagesse set up their convent school in 1903. They rented it and named it La Rochelle, after the town in France from which they came; after three years they departed, but the name stayed with the house. It was run as a WWI convalescent home by a Mrs. Jameson, who lived at the Old Vicarage in Church Square (sadly, her own son Anthony was killed in 1917, and was commemorated by a window in the Catholic Church).
Sometime in the 1930's, Chequer was sold to Caswell Bowen, the dentist, who moved his home and practice there from Mermaid Street. He didn't like the name La Rochelle, and changed it to Chequer. So far, so good.
Just uphill had been a pair of cottages, later turned into a shop and then rebuilt substantially and known as The New House. Just before WW2 Miss Mary Warren bought this, decided that the name no longer applied - and asked her new neighbour whether, since he no longer required "La Rochelle" for his own address, she might use the name for her house...
So there was never a convent at the present La Rochelle; there was first a convent and then a convalescent home staffed by nuns at the present Chequer; and that's how well-intentioned amateur historians get led astray:
(Any further contributions to this complex tale will be most welcome.)
Thursday's Planning Committee approved all three Rye applications: a first-floor extension in Winchelsea Road, a single-storey extension in New Road, and a garage in Lea Avenue.
Recent planning lists include a change of use for 41 The Mint from residential to tearooms on the ground floor with living accommodation above; and an amended application from British Rail for development of the piece of land between the railway, the old Rye Harbour line and the first houses in Winchelsea Road.
The original application last year was for two blocks each of ten flatlets, with a warden's house in the middle, plus 24 garages; the land between the Winchelsea Road gardens and the old railway was described as "amenity land". This application was, as far as we remember, either withdrawn or deferred.
BR's new application is very different; only the plan and not the accompanying form was available at the Rye office, but it showed 15 small two-storey houses dotted about the site, making a total of 30 flats, plus a community centre and warden's flat, an unspecified number of garages, other parking, and "allotments" behind the Winchelsea Road garage - which is what the land is used for at the moment by the owners of the houses. The new plan also offers an ornamental pond and bridge! But as its proposed exit is on to what may well be the bypass roundabout at the end of Farm Lane, it looks as if there may be room for a rethink.
This small and friendly event raised £38 for Club funds last Saturday and, more important, recruited seven new members. Mrs. Monica Oliver, the Chairman, would like to thank all those who supported them. She points out that although the green is for general use, fixtures arranged by the Club bring a number of people to the town who would not otherwise visit us - and they shop and eat here, as well as playing bowls.
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• Architects Le Fevre Wood & Royle were delighted to welcome to Rye, the Thursday before Easter, an outing arranged by the Sussex Branch of the Royal Institute of British Architects to introduce members and guests to the firm's work in Rye. Particular emphasis was laid on the two award-winning schemes at The Strand (Good Design in Housing Diploma, 1974) and Meryon Court (European Architectural Heritage Year Award in 1975). Other stopping points included the three houses in Wish Ward, the group practice surgery in Cinque Ports Street, the new staircase and heating scheme in St. Mary's, and the Council Chamber in the Town Hall - where the party enjoyed tea and a slide show. (The group also visited the Rye Town Model and were much impressed.) The visit was, says Ralph Wood, "a very important day for us because one is always truly appreciative when fellow professionals come to admire something one has achieved". In this case they were doubly honoured because the party of 33 included seven Councillors and four Planning Officers from Eastbourne and a Chief Architect from one of the District Councils.
• Skinners Garage was en fete on Wednesday for the launch of the new Austin Montego car, a candidate for the market vacated by the Cortina and Maxi. (We hear that the forecourt staff were out fettling the place up at 5 am!) This car is said to be designed primarily for the "fleet" trade, but it seems likely to be a private citizen driving the first one in Rye; keep your eyes open for the trend-setter!
• Quarter-Belle Children's Wear in Lion Street has recently opened a new department upstairs, stocking clothes for girls up to size 12 - which means, Mr. Piper tells us, that quite a few of the mothers shop there for themselves as well. (And grandmothers shopping there will be amused to find serving them the very same young lady who used to sell them corsetry when Hide Bros occupied the premises!) Downstairs, Quarter-Belle is devoting the whole of one room to boys' wear, going up to size 38" (and larger to come), with the very attractive range of small children's clothes collected together in the lower room. 80% of the shop's stock is made in Britain; when Mr. Piper does buy from a foreign firm it is on grounds of design rather than price.
• Woolworths have a very good offer going at the moment, until the end of July; for every £5 spent in the store on any one day (keep your receipts if you are likely to go in twice) they give a 50p voucher. This amounts to a 10% discount, and also applies to the quite expensive items available in larger branches - the vouchers can also be cashed in any Woolworths branch.
• From now on, Mr. Easter's confectionery and gift shop at the corner of Market Road will be extending its counters to take over the whole of the Corner Shop, and the cafe has switched off the tea-urn for the last time.
• Vidlers' auction sale on Friday will include an interesting group of paintings by Juliet Campbell. Mrs. Campbell, who lived at Ypres Lodge (and habitually wore a green eyeshade to drive her MG sports car down to the Golf Club of which she was a keen member) took up painting in 1957 when she joined the FEC class. Four years later she had a remarkable success when two of her "primitive" style pictures were hung in the Paris Salon; by 1976 she had shown a total of 23 paintings there. Rosemary Bagley, who kindly looked out this information for us from her collection of Rye Society of Artists catalogues, adds that Mrs. Campbell spent the last years of her life in a St. Leonards nursing-home, where she died several years ago well into her eighties.
The ten paintings include four that are very typical of Juliet Campbell's work - two views across the Rother from the town, a scene at a point-to-point, and a curious dream-piece mingling wild animals, two gnomes and a jet plane! There are also a striking pair of flower paintings. In 1963 a French critic, writing about the Salon in the Revue Moderne, clearly liked her work, saying that it "arrests the eye and excites the mind". Brian Morris of Vidlers feels that anyone buying one of these paintings now might well have some very grateful grandchildren one day?
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• At St. Mary's on Saturday, 300 voices will be raised in song in the Royal School of Church Music Festival. The Rye choir will be hosts, and it is hoped that this may become a three-yearly event here. The day will be spent in practising the music for the service with which the Festival ends: Blessed be the God and Father (S.S. Wesley), Of the Glorious Body (Victoria), The Lamb (Tavener), Prayer of St. Francis (Charles Proctor) and Psalm 121 (Walford Davies), plus hymns. The conductor will be Alan Thurlow, Organist and Master of the Choristers at Chichester Cathedral, with Rye's own Organist and Choirmaster, Charles Proctor, playing the organ.
At 4.15 the day will culminate in a service, to which all are welcome; the preacher will be the Bishop of Lewes.
The Royal School of Church Music was founded some 50 years ago by Sir Sydney Nicholson to help parish churches in their music and to raise standards; it has, says Canon Maundrell, achieved a great deal in this way.
• The following day (Sunday, 6th) sees the Ryesingers Spring Concert, also in St. Mary's, at 7.45 (admission £1). The programme will include Faure's Requiem, and the singers will be thinking particularly of the late Vera Larkin; other music chosen will include some of her favourite pieces, and the choir will also be singing the part-songs learnt for the Blackpool Festival. There will be an opportunity for donations in memory of Mrs. Larkin, to Cancer Research (or possibly to Cancer Relief - we have been given both versions). This concert is always a popular event, but in view of the size of St. Mary's advance booking is not necessary.
• Julia Thomas, at Leasam House, has made the Editor's mouth water (Monday afternoons always being spent by the telephone) with her advance publicity for the Garden Party with an Edwardian flavour at Leasam House on Bank Holiday Monday, 7th, in aid of House funds. For those lucky enough to be able to go, there will be a rare opportunity to wander round the grounds and admire the views - and if the weather allows, there will be a very rare opportunity for one lucky person to admire the view from a most unusual angle, since a trip in the hot-air balloon will be first prize in the raffle. Unless the weather is very unkind, the balloon will be taking off at about 4.30, but the proceedings begin at 2, and there will be cream teas on the lawn, music from the Battle Junior Brass Ensemble, and stalls of various kinds - including one selling off a collection of 300 jigsaw puzzles dating from the 1920s to the present day, given by a generous supporter who has presumably now done them all. Dress appropriate to the Edwardian era when the house was built will be much appreciated but is certainly not essential.
• Those who enjoyed last summer's lecture on homeopathy will be glad to know that the South East Friends of Homeopathy are arranging another talk in Rye, at Thomas Peacocke Lower School (Ferry Road) on Tuesday, 15 May at 8 (not 8th, the date mistakenly sent to Fixtures). The speaker, on "Homeopathy for First Aid" is Dr. Anne Clover - admission 50p.
• Mrs. Hacking sends us the schedule for the Romney Marsh Footsloggers Club foot point-to-point cross-country races at Gateborough Farm (off Winchelsea Road) on Sunday, 27 May. First race is at 3, and the course is approximately three-quarters of a mile, with obstacles - though the relay race for teams of four is run over three miles. There are races for juveniles (under 11 and under 15), a ladies' race, an open race, and a dog-and-runner race in which the dog, on lead, (presumably as well as the runner) has to negotiate all the obstacles!
For the less athletic, there will be a welly-throwing competition. Teas are available, there will be a tote and a raffle, and the car park costs £1.
• Rye Lions Boot Fair turns out to be on Bank Holiday Sunday, 27 May - not this coming Bank Holiday Sunday as we may have stated earlier - sorry! Two Bank Holiday weekends in the same month, with a third a fortnight earlier, really are a bit too many; the Editor would like to see one of them moved to the middle of February, when we could all do with a break...
Thursday, 3rd Thomas Peacocke School's open evening is CANCELLED, owing to< industrial action on a national scale by teaching unions.
Friday, 4th Vidler & Co's monthly auction sale, 10 (see page 6)
Rye Museum Association AGM, with slides presented by Geoffrey Bagley to celebrate the first thirty years, FEC, 7.30
Saturday, 5th Rye Sea Angling Club jumble sale, CC, 2.30
St. Mary's, Festival of Church Music: rehearsals all day, with a service to >which all are welcome at 4.15 (see page 7)
Sunday, 6th Songs of Praise, Tilling Green School, 4.30
Ryesingers Spring Concert, St. Mary's, 7.45 (see page 7)
Monday, 7th Bank Holiday, no school
Rye Mayoring, Town Hall, 11 (but the hot pennies are thrown much later, after the church service)
Garden Party for Leasam House funds, Leasam House, 2 (see p.7)
Tuesday, 8th Rye Town Council meeting, TH, 6
Wednesdays 9th Over-60s Club, Red Cross, 1.45
Rye WI, National AGM resolutions, FEC, 7
• There are likely to be spare seats on the Museum Association outing on 29 May, and those who would like to join Association members on the trip to Firle Place should contact the Secretary, Mrs. Audrey Bartlett.
• Miss Aubrey Smith reports that despite lower numbers than usual due to a chilly afternoon, £174 was raised at the Iden Cottage open garden on 15 April, and she is most grateful to those who by their visit supported the National Gardens Scheme and the Queen Mary's London Needlework Guild.
• The recent coffee morning for Muscular Dystrophy at the Red Cross Centre made £38 for the Society - Gill Wood describes it as "small but painless", thanks to the two members of her committee who were available to help, Barbara Maundrell and Julie Fowle (and family).
• 56 Monday Club members thoroughly enjoyed the first outing of the summer last week - a country drive, then back along the Hastings seafront to a delicious Victorian tea served by Mrs. Sally Ashworth at Fairlight Place.
• It is difficult to express any enthusiasm for the idea of a sponsored Weetabix-eating session, but this is how School House raised around £100 for its House charity, Sailing for the Disabled. The winner consumed, with milk and sugar, 30 Weetabix in 15 minutes, and several runners-up managed 26. (A staff member who shall be nameless was completely defeated at about the halfway mark!)
• We promised not to quote him in context, but we did so like the image created by a correspondent this week: he had, he said, been "ferreting about in the corridors of power"!
• Next meeting of the Community Health Council will be at St. Helen's Hospital at 2.30 on Monday 14 May; members of the public are most welcome.
• The Editor, still recovering from her holiday, apologises to anyone whose "bit" may have been left out this week; any such omission is quite unintentional, and a reminder would be much appreciated.
THE RYE GAZETTE is registered as a newspaper with the Post Office, and published by Mrs. Mary Owen, 94 Udimore Road, Rye (Rye 222303). News items for publication are always welcome - deadline Monday afternoon, Tuesday 9 am for emergencies. The GAZETTE costs 25p weekly, and is delivered to subscribers and pick-up points on Wednesday; extra copies and back numbers can be ordered from 94 Udimore Road, while a few spares are available at Squirrels, 9-13 Cinque Ports Street, Rye. (Copyright Mary Owen 1984)