If your copy is NOT TICKED THIS WEEK, we shall not be printing, let alone delivering, a copy for you on 2 October unless in the meantime we have received your subscription (£3 for 12 weeks, £6 for 24), which should have reached 2 Cyprus Place by Saturday of this week (28th). If, of course, you have paid and your copy is not ticked, please ring Rye 222303 as soon as possible.Full subscription details were published in GAZETTE no. 145, and repeated last week; this is the third - and final - reminder!
ESCC Highways at Bexhill assure us that the various obstructions in The Mint, both scaffolding and skip, will be gone by the middle of next week, in good time for Bonfire Night. There will be a very brief complication later when the lorry collects the scaffolding from the back, which has to be passed over the roof, but this will be a matter of a couple of hours only; so all's well that ends well - we hope.
Four years ago Bill and Betty Townsend spent a very happy holiday in Mexico. This has now prompted Betty, with support from the local Council of Churches, to organise a collection centre for blankets, warm clothes, bandages, etc., to be sent out to Mexico City through the Mexican Embassy in London. She was talking about the scheme on Radio Sussex early on Tuesday morning, and within half-an-hour had had calls from all over the county; but what she has in mind is a local centre for Rye and the villages.
The collecting point is the Baptist Hall - or the Townsends' house, Cherries in Saltcote Lane - and Stuart Davison tells us that the Hall will be open from about 10 to 3 on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and on Sundays before and after service times. The door to use is the one down the left-hand side entrance (as used by blood donors). Ring him or Betty if you cannot manage those times, or if you want things collected. Drivers to help with the collecting are also required; Bournes have offered to take the bundles to the Embassy in the course of their regular London delivery runs.
The Wings Week Appeal produced just over £1,000 locally this year - considerably more than last year when the RAFA did have a flag-day! The Branch is most grateful to all the generous donors, and to those who helped achieve this splen did total in various ways: in particular to Rae Festing, Tony Conti, Des Turner, Mr. and Mrs. Sherrard-Perry and the George Hotel for the use of their porches; to Robert Peek and the landlord of the Bell Inn at Iden; to the Mayoress and her helpers at the Town Hall coffee morning; and to Nigel Spooner and Pat Baker for mental and physical refreshment at Upper School on Sunday.
Rye Lions report that their weekend Charity Shop in the Community Centre raised just over £700 clear profit, and they are well pleased. Since there were bar gains to be had as well as money to be made, everyone else is pleased too including those who can now get at the back of the garage for the first time in months!
The Bonfire Bonanza at the Town Hall on Saturday raised £150 for the expenses of the Bonfire Night procession, and Bonfire Secretary Joan Yates is most grateful to all her helpers. The cream teas, we can testify guiltily, were delicious. The Rye Fawkes Chair and the banner were on view; Francis Rowe had sponsorship for his walk round the town; and Mrs. Booth had assembled a fascinating collec tion of photographs and newspaper cuttings relating to earlier Bonfire Nights many of them, alas, undated, but perhaps this can be rectified before those who took part forget?
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Mr. John William Doughty, of Camber - Johnny Doughty, the folk-singer - died in hospital on 21 September after some weeks of illness; he was 82. We hope to have a fuller obituary next week. The funeral takes place tomorrow (Thursday) at Camber Church at 2.30, followed by burial at Rye Cemetery at 3.
In response to worries from the Chamber of Trade about parking in the town, especially next summer when the supermarket's own parking will not be ready, a meeting was held at the Town Hall last week. Councillors from ESCC, Rother and Rye were present, as were staff of the departments concerned at Lewes and Bexhill, and representatives of the police, British Rail, the bus company - and of course the Chamber of Trade.
The meeting was called to outline the problems rather than take decisions, but it has resulted in a useful liaison being set up between the various bodies so that consultations continue. Rother's main problem, we are told, is that until the bypass route is announced they cannot be certain that any car-park they construct will not be over-run (and compensation is never 1.22111 given in full for ratepayers' money spent). When the public consultation takes place - early next year, now? - they will at least have a better idea of what areas are not in danger, and something could then go forward; but there is no certainty that this could mean actual parking spaces available by June, when they will begin to be needed.
Gibbet Marsh is being looked at very seriously; as Peter Bridges of Rother's Battle staff told us recently, a great many more cars could be squeezed in there if necessary, and it is not far to walk into the town if British Rail can be persuaded to replace the present kissing-gate on the footpath which emerges at the sluice. Other sites were also discussed (but not named to us - the press were excluded from the meeting).
The meeting ended at 4, and some of the party were down at Station Approach soon afterwards to see the situation there when the Thomas Peacocke children are waiting for their buses home.We are not going into all this yet again in the GAZETTE, but merely reporting that it has now been witnessed by a very useful group of people.,
After considering the suggestions put forward at the meeting, the Chamber of Trade is backing three.
In view of the considerable concern about the effect on Rope Walk of coaches leaving the new railway car park, they propose that the coach parking there should be replaced by more car parking spaces (perhaps a further 60), and that all coaches should have to unload their passengers at a predetermined point and then go on to park on the outskirts of the town (the Chamber suggests Gibbet Marsh).
They also urge Rother to put into effect immediately the plans for parking 56 cars on the land between the railway and the lane to the Mill; wherever the bypass goes, they say, work will not actually start for some years, and they are not asking for a fully-finished car park there, merely a temporary surface until the bypass route is chosen.
In addition, they say that Rother already has permission for a park on part of the land between the Lower School playground and the railway, permission given several years ago; this would accommodate a further 100 cars, with space for coaches too if required. The same argument about a temporary surface applies.
Their first two suggestions could produce an extra 100 or so car spaces - 200 if the third suggestion were also implemented; this would more than compensate for the 200 spaces lost with the Goods Yard park.Though the supermarket site will ultimately have 84 new spaces, the Chamber has always maintained that these should be regarded as extra, to accommodate additional cars brought into the town by the supermarket's shoppers.
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Mr. John Lindsay-Baker was appointed Town Clerk of Rye in 1978. He resigned earlier this year after his tragic accident at Easter, and on Monday the Town Council presented him with a memento of his seven years in office: a 12" plate made by Rye Pottery, suitably inscribed around a central design showing the ship of the Rye Seal and appropriately coloured in maritime blues and greens. On the back it records that it is presented by Rye Town Council in recognition of Mr. Baker's services to the town.
Originally just one guest-house proprietor asked us to thank publicly the staff of the Tourist Office for their friendly and efficient help over accommodation for visitors during the summer; residents waiting to pay their rates will have heard for themselves how much trouble is taken to insure than visitors and beds are well matched. However, this turned into an official thank-you from the Hotel and Catering Association via its chairman Robert Bromley, and we are very glad to pass on both official and unofficial appreciation of the work done in the Tourist Office during the season which ends this month.
St. Mary's Church is the grateful recipient of a £5,000 legacy from Mrs. Winifred Bodilly of Cadborough Cliff, who died in April .Mrs. Bodilly's father, Mr. Sprigg Walker, was the church organist in the early years of this century, and her violinist husband Frederick often played at recitals there in the period between the wars, with Mrs. Bodilly as pianist.
St. Mary's has also benefited under the will of Miss Blanche Rhodes, of South Undercliff, who died on 28 July.
A useful donation to church funds has been made by Gerard Gilham, who has been teaching brass-rubbing in the church during the summer holidays. Mr. Gilham is now locking for a permanent base (not the south transept of St. Mary's) for a brass-rubbing centre in the neighbourhood.
The new bus timetables for Hastings & District winter services starting on Sunday are due out tomorrow, and should be available at the Council offices. We have already warned readers that there will be no buses out of Rye on a Sunday - a nasty shock last week for an Icklesham reader, who told us that there had been no notices to that effect on the buses on the 50 service (though H & D assure us that there are now).
We have an advance copy of the winter timetable, which shows minor alterations on services 40, 44 and 45; the 799 now (as last winter) becomes a stopping bus as far as Hastings and on weekdays alternates with the 50 to provide an hourly service to Hastings and beyond.(But please, if you use the buses, check with the time-table and don't just take our word for all this - it's so easy to miss something.)
There are two new services. Every Wednesday, Canterbury Market day, the 43 bus will depart from Tilling Green at 9.15 and from the station at 9.20, and run right through to Canterbury via Appledore and Ashford, leaving Canterbury again at 13.50 (return fare from Rye, £2.50).On Fridays, the 72 bus will leave Rye at 8.43 and go to Eastbourne via Peasmarsh, Northiam, Sandhurst, Sedlescombe, Battle, Ninfield and Hooe, leaving Eastbourne again at 14.15 (return fare from Rye, also E2.50); this is primarily for the benefit of the villages, but it does give Rye a direct link with Battle once a week, with plenty of time there for shopping and sight- seeing."Continued operation of these two services" says H & D, "will depend on the use made of them".Use them or lose them, in fact.
As for the trains, they would normally run two-hourly on Sundays from now on, as part of the winter timetable; but because of the engineering work, the present Sunday every-hour-no-change-at-Ashford journey continues temporarily, at a different time (crossing here at around 25 minutes past). If you want to be sure, check with Hastings 429325, the official passenger information number for the area.
Notices in the windows of the Easton Rooms and the Rye Art Gallery announce proposed changes in the administration of the Trust which controls the affairs of the Gallery.
The present Custodian Trustee, in charge of the Trust's assets (property and investments) is the General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation, and the first part of the proposal is to transfer the assets from the care of the Corporation to that of the Charity Commissioners; General Accident would be glad to part with this (to them) tiny responsibility, and the Charity Commissioners have recently appointed an Official Custodian for Charities to meet just this sort of case.
The second part of the proposal deals with the appointment of Trustees. As present there are five: Mr. Herbertson, the chairman and the only remaining original Trustee, who was Mrs. Stormont's solicitor and who lives in Sevenoaks; Mr. Bagley, who will be succeeded by Mrs. Monica Oliver as the Town Council's Trustee when his term of office ends in December; Mr. Dax Copp and Mr. Fred Cuming, the artist, both recently appointed by the Royal Academy; and Canon David Maundrell, co-opted some weeks ago.
The new proposal is that three Trustees should continue to be nominated as before, one by the Town Council and two by the Royal Academy. These are the Nominative Members. The other two Trustees would be Co-optative members, andwould be co-opted by the Trustees: they would have to be "persons who through residence, occupation or employment or otherwise have special knowledge of the area of the former Borough of Rye".Nominative Trustees would serve for fouryears, Co-optative Trustees for five, but initial appointments would be staggered so that not everyone came up for retirement at once.All members would be eligible for re-appointment. The chairman would be elected for one year at atime, but would be eligible for re-election.
Some disquiet is being felt about the removal of the Subscribers' Trustee, the only one for whom there is an opportunity for the Gallery's supporters to vote (and we are not going to discuss the complications of this here).However,the new proposals do insist on both the Co-optative Trustees being people with local interests, which may be regarded as some compensation?Anyway, objections to the scheme have to reach the Secretary of the Charity Commissioners at 14 Ryder Street, London SWIY 6AH (quoting reference Ll(E) 310,318/1) before 6 October.
Rye Putting League has no completed its 1985 season, and in the final League table the Professionals came top with 123 points (and the Prebble Cup), followed by the Granary Club with 118 (and the Newman Cup).Then came Winter's Dairies with 95, RAFA with 86, Idea Putting Club with 57, Rye Fire Brigade with 47, the Queen's Head with 42, and Rye Boys Club (who only played 7 games instead of 13) with 20 points. The Horner Shield went to the Granary team. Chris Waters and Paul Sargent of Winters won the Putting League Cup, the Chamber of Commerce Cup for the best average score went to Tony Ferguson (42.64), Marcus Rabenda had the lowest men's individual score (38) and June Woolley the lowest ladies' (43)e Mrs. S. Sutton won the ladies' individual knockout and Paul Sargent the men's. The Norman Hutchings Trophy for the most improved junior went to Stephen Rogers.
Once again this weekend the timing of the Saturday trans is altered, as it always is on Sundays, by work on the Hastings/Tonbridge line.But what about the week after, we wondered, when the timing of the Bonfire Night procession has to fit in with the crossing gates? BR Press Office at Waterloo kindly looked into this for us, which was just as well; the trains will be crossing over at around 25 minutes past the hour instead of five minutes past, and the procession will therefore have to cross the line after the trains have gone, at 7.30 onwards - a better time for hurrying visiting Bonfire Societies anyway.
The name of Meryon is an honoured one in Rye. St. Mary's has the Meryon flagon which recalls the Huguenot days which first brought the family to the town; Meryons were heavily involved in the troubles over the Reform Bill in the 1820s; we have Meryon Court now, and Meryon House at Thomas Peacocke School. But the family's last representative in Rye, Charles Fix Meryon, died childless in his ninth year of office as Mayor in 1879, and his widow, a benefactress of the Grammar School, died in 1906 (she was known, for the most respectable reasons connected with a family inheritance, as Mrs. Brocket).
Now the Meryon family plans a pilgrimage. More than 30 people, some from Canada and Australia, all either Meryons by blood or married to Meryons, will be in St. Mary's for morning service on 20 October.Ed Gibson and Alma Fabes are taking a conducted tour of those staying overnight in the town round all the sights on Saturday afternoon, and Sunday lunch is being taken at the George Hotel - which once had John Meryon as its landlord. There will be a visit to the Model and a chance to go up the church tower.
Organiser of the pilgrimage - reunion, he says, is not the right word, since many of those present will be strangers to each other - is Commander Peter Meryon, of Emsworth in Hampshire. He would be very interested to hear from anyone who has any items of Meryon family interest - pictures, photographs, documents, etc. - which he might be allowed to look at while he is in Rye; phone him.
Dear things, donkeys are. Wouldn't you like to be friends with one sometimes - with no problems about feeding and housing her, merely the pleasure of walking with her once a fortnight or so? We have written before about Kathleen Goldie-Smith's donkey-cart treat for the Hill House School children, and now she is again looking for helpers, for one hour on Tuesday mornings. Four are needed each time (except in August and the depths of winter) - one to lead Maudie, who pulls the cart; two walking beside the cart, to keep an eye on its two passen gers; and one in charge of Maudie's daughter Ruby, who has to come too because she can't bear to be left behind:The smaller children from the school hop with agility in and out of the cart; experienced school staff help the older, heavier and less able ones. Previous experience with donkeys is not necessary either.If you are tempted by the prospect of delighted children and the donkeys' winsome ways, ring for more details.
Welcome to a new and invaluable service shop in the Landgate. Mr. John Scan of Playden opened last Monday his gents hairdresser's, in the former card shop on the left going down. Mr. Soan is not new to the business of barbering, and is hoping to take on a ITS trainee, and perhaps to open upstairs for boys' haircuts later on. His salon is pleasant and roomy, with a television set for thosewaiting their turn (he operates an appointments system just for the last hour of each day).The shop is open from 8.30, with a lunch-"hour" from 12.30 to 1.Monday to Wednesday he shuts at 5.30, at 6 on Thursday, at 7 on Friday; on Saturday he opens at 8 and shuts at 4.30.When we spoke, he wasn't sure about early closing. We wish Mr. Soan every success; his arrival will be much appre ciated, particularly by men living on that side of the town.
The 1st Rye Brownies are going on a Pack Holiday during half-term week, and Brown Owl would dearly like back before then (at 6 The Grove, or normal Brownie meeting) any uniforms no longer required by their owners; they will be paid for if required. Badges are of course special to their winners and should be kept;but everything else will be very welcome, to equip both the present growing Brownies and the 7-strong new entry.(PS Jumble sale organisers, please keep your eyes open for brown tunics and yellow ties!)
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The winter programme of the Natural History Society adds to the other attractions of the coming months. All talks take place at the FEC at 7.30, usually fort nightly, and the season opens on 11 October with a talk on fungi by Mrs. Wynne-Ruffhead. This is followed on 25 October by Helen Proctor talking about her Himalayan trip; Ian Deans on "Wildlife around us" (8 November); David Harvey on marine conservation (22 November); and Ian Rumley-Dawson on the wildlife of the Canadian backwoods on 13 December. First speaker in the New Year is Daniel Owen, showing slides he took last year as a farm labourer in the Falklands (10 January); on 24 January Clifford Dean describes the natural history of Western Australia, on 14 February John Watson is "In the Andes", on 28 February Joan Medlock and Breda and Ernie Burt recall botanising in Hungary, and the Society's AGM is on 14 March.
We have now seen the papers which went before the District Health Authority at its meeting last Wednesday. On Rye Hospital it is reported that "a preliminary examination of the case mix over the last six months indicates that it may be possible to care for about one third of the patients in their own homes, with the remainder having to travel to St. Helen's/RESH, although this change may stimulate the creation of new private facilities in the locality".(This sound interesting?)The report continues: "Rye Hospital in-patient care currently costs about £55 per day which is high for this type of care. The temporary closure would undoubtedly inconvenience patients with relatives having to travel from the Rye locality to alternative facilities in Hastings; however in the longer term it may be possible to adapt Rye Hospital to meet more effectively the needs of the local community particularly with regard to Day Hospital care." (This sounds interesting, too.) A saving of £200,000 would be expected if the hospital were closed temporarily, and the measure is given as the second priority to the closure of Bexhill surgical unit.
The final decision rests with the Regional Health Authority, who provide the money. But "if these cuts are implemented" said the resolution passed at the meeting, "the Health Authority believes that the level of service cuts would be unacceptable".
Enrolment for the Adult Education classes went well last week, Ann Swaine tells us, but there are still some vacancies.The classes began this week (for details of time, place and fees see the booklet at the Library), and Mrs. Swaine suggests that people who would like to join should at this stage just go along to the first class in whatever subject interests them. There are still opportunities in Beauty Care, Dressmaking, French (at three different levels), Photography and Typing. There are two vacancies on the Thursday afternoon course, "The Fascination of Gardens and Gardening", which will incorporate some guided visits to various local gardens and nurseries, as well as dealing with horticulture at all levels."Natural History - a Local Study" has room on Tuesday evenings for more students seeking "an awareness and understanding of the fascinating life of the flowers, birds and other creatures in and around Rye" with slides, sound recordings and notes plus specimens and memberd own finds. Since the course also covers local records, butterfly watching, wild flowers, seed distribution, fossils, bird and insect migration, ringing, weather, fungi and nature conservation, some rather skilled naturalists should emerge at the end of the second term!Ann adds that there is also room on all the one-day Saturday Specials; the first, on 9 October, deals with Needlepoint Lace.
Some material from Thomas Peacocke School archives, which would have been shown at the cancelled Open Day earlier this year, will be on view in the school library on Saturday, during the Michaelmas Fair - not necessarily for the whole time, just for an hour or so in the middle of the afternoon. Those who have not managed to see these photographs, etc., before will enjoy spotting familiar faces - perhaps even their own!
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• Congratulations to Mr. Ernest Wren, manager of Rye Woolworths, who last week celebrated 21 years of service to the company. His staff gave him a party over the shop on Saturday evening, at which he was joined by Mrs. Wren and their three children. The staff gave him a present, too - a hedge-trimmer; the Woolworths management gave him a canto:ma-of cutlery; and we need hardly say that both gifts came, in every sense, from Woolworths.
• The police press book gives a brief reference to a burglary at an unnamed house on Rye Hill during the afternoon or early evening of 11 September, when just two items were taken: a 5' antique oak clock with a brass face, and a gold and dia mond bracelet, total value £450. No other details are available; but if you did see someone loading a grandmother clock (and a gold bracelet, of course) into a car that afternoon somewhere along Rye Hill, the police would be glad to hear from you. Thieves are also still stealing handbags, etc., from cars left empty while their owners are on the beach; be warned.
• Friends and family of the late Miss Constance Smith gave £123 in her memory to be spent on amenities for Badger Gate. The common-room there now has a handsome barometer hanging between the windows, and a charming and nostalgic painting of a woodland scene, with a plaque saying who is commemorated. Mrs. Sinden says anyone is most welcome to go and look at them.
• Rotary report that after all the sums have been done and the bills paid, and despite the abysmal weather on 11 August, the Country Fair did end up just about £100 in the black. They hope for a happier result next year, 10 August.
• Next Wednesday is a very special day for the local RNLI Branch. Some £16,000 will be changing hands then - the final proceeds of the Lifeboat House Appeal presented by Branch chairman Colin Marsh to the Institute's Director of Appeals, Anthony Oliver. The ceremony - at 5.30, following the Branch's normal committee meeting at the Sailing Club - will be only a short one, but Commander Marsh says that any members of the public are most welcome to attend.
• Speaker at the Christian Lunch Club tomorrow week (3 October) is the Rev. Brian Soper of Point Hill. His subject is announced as "Mediaeval Meat"; he was reluctant to elucidate beyond saying that the reference was to St. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, chapter 5, verse 14, but assures us that the talk will be on something more exciting and profound than thirteenth-century cookery!
• Rye WI members much enjoyed the demonstration of "Eggcraft" by Mrs. Blackman at their September meeting, when it was reported that a cheque for 240 was given to the Day Centre for a table; Mrs. Dee and Mrs. Clarke had raised £27 for WI funds by a sponsored walk.
• The chairman and committee of Rye Conservation Society are holding a drinks party for members at the Town Hall on Wednesday, 13 November, from 6.30 to 8. Secret ary Peter Howlett tells us that this gathering is designed to provide both an opportunity for informal discussion between members and an enjoyable social evening. Formal invitations will go out nearer the time, but members are asked to note the date in their diaries now.
• Planning: as well as the application mentioned last week for change of use and alterations for the old phone exchange to become a doctor's surgery, there is an application for the paintwork on the new Anglia office: white and blue, with neat white lettering on the blue fascia board and the side door painted black.
Simmons Restaurant is happy to announce that it is now a family business; Mrs. Simmons'c daughter Janet, formerly of the George Hotel, has joined the staff as assistant chef (and tells us that being interviewed for a job by one's parents is extremely unnerving!).
The call box at the foot of Conduit Hill now has a handsome blue phone unit capable of taking all British coins (except 1p pieces), returning unused ones though it does not give change for part-used ones. Minimum charge for a call is 10p.
Local History Group guided visit to archaeological site at Camber, meet Station Approach 5.45 (see below)
St. Mary’s Harvest Supper, CC, 6.45 for 7
Rye Museum Association talk “Gilpin and the Picturesque” (Stella Pigrome) , FEC, 7.50 (GAZETTE no. 146)
Women’s British Legion jumble sale, CC, 10:30
Craft Market, FEC, 11 to 5
Thomas Peacocke School Michaelmas Fair, the Grove, 2
Methodist Church Harvest Weekend – the church open on Saturday and Sunday for viewing the harvest display
FRHNR work party, meet Rye, meet Rye Harbour car park at 10
WRVS Lunch Club, CC, 12.30
Methodist Church Harvest Supper (tickets from Adams £1.50, £1 for children) Methodist Hall, 7.30
FRAG talk “Fact and Fantasy in the World of Edward Burra” (Dr. Andrew Causey, TH, 8
BRCS Hearing Circle coffee morning, Red Cross, 10.15 to 12
RNLI presentation, Sailing Club, 5.30 (see page 7)
• Congratulations to Wendy Spencer of Military Road and John Rootes of the East Sussex News, who were married in Hastings on Saturday. Wendy, the daughter of Terry and Joan Spencer of Thomas Peacocke School, works as a wages clerk in Hastings, where she and John will be living; John is well known in Rye as the News's advertising salesman for our area.
• URGENT message for Local History Group members; the visit to the Broomhill site arranged for Saturday afternoon has been brought forward to tomorrow evening (Thursday), Station Approach, 5.45.This may suit some members better- if they know in time; please pass word around.
• Attic sale fans should note down Sunday week, 6 October, in their diaries, since Mr. Bill Maxwell is holding one at Jeake's House in Mermaid Street on that day from 10 am, as a preliminary to moving out. He tells us there will be household and garden effects as well as some antique items. Wet or fine, this sale will be indoors; Jeake's House has absolutely no front garden.
• Rye Bowls Club beat Rotary on Sunday in the last match of the season; we hope to have the results of the various Finals played off on Saturday in due course./ The Captain and all the members send best wishes to Mr. George Shipton, who i in hospital for treatment to his knee, and wish him a speedy return home.
• Has anyone got any empty jam-jars with lids? Tanya de Vlam of Udimore Road would like them, to cope with her enormous apple crop; she can collect.
• Bob Bayley of Cyprus Place has a friend in the WW2 Museum Association who is very keen to find out the colour code of Browning machine-gun ammunition; if anyone remembers, please phone.
• We would like to congratulate Rother on the very smart appearance of the four garage doors at one end of Wish Street, newly painted black; would they now like to do something about the peeling green one round the corner?
• The Editor was wryly amused by a comment passed on to us by a reader: "The GAZETTE never gets it right, look how she keeps on apologising!"We don't always get it right, of course; nor do the other papers. The difference is that we do apologise and they don't.
THE RYE GAZETTE is registered as a newspaper with the Post Office, and published by Mrs. Mary Owen, 2 Cypres Place, Rye (Rye 222303).News items for inclusion 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; a few spare copies are available from Squirrels, 9-13 Cinque Ports Street, and back numbers from Cyprus Place.(Copyright Mary Owen 1985)