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Something really rather astounding happened last week - something which within the next few years may alter local employment patterns and prospects, simplify life for people in the villages, and even bring to our quiet district a prosperity hitherto undreamed of. No, they have not struck oil in the Freda Gardham field! But Rye and a cluster of villages round it have just been designated a Rural Development Area - the only one in the south-east including East Anglia, the nearest being the Isle of Wight - and this puts us in the same class in respect of government grants, loans and other help as some of the worst unemployment areas in the north.
Unusually, the Area cuts across the county boundary with Kent. For once, Rye is in the middle of something, instead of on the extreme edge; the half-circle boundary line runs via Icklesham, Udimore, Peasmarsh and Iden and then on into Kent to take in some of the smaller Marsh parishes such as Appledore and Brenzett. This must complicate the administration and may well mean an office in Rye to liaise with the several District and County Councils concerned. Rye and eight Sussex villages are included (ten if one extracts Winchelsea and Rye Harbour from under Icklesham's umbrella), with a further dozen or so in Kent.
The story behind last Monday's announcement goes something like this. For years there has been a Development Commission, funded by the Department of the Environment, which exists to promote jobs throughout the country; certain parts were earmarked as Special Investment Areas, notably in the depressed north, Midlands and south-west. About two years ago the Government decided that this was unfair, some country areas might be just as deprived though in different ways, and it extended the scheme to allow for Rural Development Areas which would be entitled to the full range of grants, etc., hitherto only available to towns.
Last July ESCC and Rother and Wealden District Councils got together to work out a scheme for our end of the county, with help from COSIRA which boosts small industries in rural areas. In March of this year representatives of Rother's Planning Committee and its equivalent from the Kent side were summoned jointly, in the course of a mammoth three-day session for all eligible Councils, to present their ideas to the Development Commission. Rother put forward a case for a rather larger part of its District, to include the area round Robertsbridge; doubtless Kent was also looking for a larger slice. But last Monday it was announced that just nine Sussex parishes were to join those on the Marsh to form the South-East's first Rural Development Area.
Frank Williams represented Rother Planning Department on the presentation team. Rye owes him a lot for the successful way in which he put Rother's case across; it must have meant a great deal of extra work for the Department's staff. To be honest, it must be admitted that Rye itself (as far as we are aware) knew nothing about the proposals or their implications, and even Rother is still waiting to hear what the scheme means in detail. But Mr. Williams says that it could mean 100% grants towards workshop developments; 50/50 grants for industrial schemes sponsored by Rother; 25% grants for the conversion of redundant buildings; and grants, too, for community developments such as bus services, village shops, halls, etc. There will be a report to the June Planning Committee which should throw more light on the prospects.
It will, of course, be months before any firm decisions can be made; but it would help Rother gauge the volume of public interest if people with projects which might come within the scope of the scheme would write to Mr. Williams at Bexhill Town Hall outlining their plans. We hope he will get lots of letters.
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Mrs. Annie Crocker, of Udimore Road, died in hospital last Wednesday after a few weeks of illness. Mrs. Crocker, who was in her eighties, was an independent and indomitable little lady who spent much of her time helping an older neighbour as well as doing her own housework meticulously and, until quite recently, working on her allotment from which she supplied all her friends with vegetables. She came to live in Rye many years ago when her late husband retired from business in London; she leaves five sons, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and her loss will be very much felt in the little community beside the Tillingham bridge. The funeral takes place at Hastings Crematorium tomorrow (Thursday) at 1.30.
Mrs. Nellie Catt, of Udimore Road, died in St. Helen's Hospital on Monday (11th) after a month of illness. The date of the funeral is not yet fixed. Mrs. Catt, who was 68 and a widow, was Miss Apps before her marriage, one of a local family of six. Her small cheerful bustling presence will be greatly missed by her family and her many friends, particularly those at St. Mary's where she was a regular helper; Udimore Road also will not be quite the same without her, walking home up the hill in all weathers carrying enormous shopping bags in each hand.
Several readers have pointed out to us that Mr. A.C. Barnden of Nutley, who died on 4 June aged 86, was a former headmaster of Rye Junior School. He took over the school from Miss Sells when it was still in Lion Street (in the present FEC / Library complex) and moved it down to the new building in Ferry Road a couple of years before the war. One former pupil remembers the difficulties which arose when Mr. Barnden's juniors were joined by Mr. Blackman and his older pupils from New Road, ejected from their own building by the Navy; "it was like two women sharing a kitchen" he said thoughtfully! We understand that the school closed entirely for a time during the war; was there a Head between Mr. Barnden and Mr. Beevers, who came to Rye in 1945?
Again, this week's list has just two Rye applications, one of which may well cause some controversy. The Baptist Church is asking permission to build a new entrance foyer facing on to Cinque Forts Street, replacing part of the present facade. The plan shows a half-round extension running from the main wall of the building almost to the street. Stone recycled from the present entrance will be used for the walls, pierced by tall windows; the roof is of nuralite (which may well be more attractive than it sounds). Inside there are arrangements for lobbies, a creche, and space for coats. The plans, by Le Fevre Wood & Royle, are available in the Council offices for inspection. (The second application is for alterations to the garden room at the back of Tower Forge House, adjoining the Landgate arch.)
All those who are officially Friends of Rye Art Gallery will know by now that the Gallery's Trustees have agreed to continue leasing the Easton Rooms, the High Street art gallery, to the Friends under a new agreement still to be drawn up; the existing agreement has been extended until December 1985, and exhibitions for next year are now being arranged.
However, chairman of the Friends Anthony Sandeman says in a letter to members: "It has become essential to increase the capital of the Rye Art Gallery Trust so that both galleries can operate and develop without the present serious financial constraints and have the opportunity of showing a larger number of exhibitions of major artists". The Friends and the Trustees are therefore proposing to embark jointly on a campaign to raise a large sum of money (we understand that by Rye standards it is a very large sum) and there is to be a meeting of the Friends to talk about this at the Gallery on Monday, 18 June at 8. The Editor is very sorry that she will be unable to attend, and will be grateful for an account of the proceedings for use in the GAZETTE in due course.
The new exhibition at the Easton Rooms opens on Saturday, with batiks by Noel Dyrenforth and etchings and aquatints by Davida Smith (Mrs. Louis Turpin in private life).
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The NSPCC Centenary Concert in St. Mary's on Friday was every bit as good as we forecast and will benefit the appeal by at least £240. Gladys Clarke's organisation was superb (we doubt if anyone in the audience would have guessed that there was no complete run-through of all the items together beforehand). Her narration, based chiefly on children's books over the century which the concert covered, was put across very clearly by Diana James and John Bannister.
Nigel Spooner was at the organ; pianists at different times were Anne Whiteman, Mary Densem and Clifford Foster; Judith Fleet and Jackie Broadway played the cello; and Lois Benton conducted the Thomas Peacocke School Wind Group, who gave a particularly good account of Purcell's Rondeau from Abdelazar. Maureen Bolton, Marion Lovell and Carole Ball sang Walford Davies' Lullaby; and Jenny Hadfield provided the comic relief, first in Humperdinck's Dance Duet with Sue Nye, and then with David Cade in an extract from The Young Visitors.
Ryesingers seemed to set the whole fabric of the church vibrating with their rendering of "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John" early on - later, Janice Reeve was the soloist in the Michael Tippett version of "By and By". Ryefolk sang most charmingly songs by Lennon and McCartney, Bob Dylan and The Seekers. And right at the end, Catherine Collison of Iden - aged just 15 - had the audience very quiet indeed as she sang Geoffrey Burgon's Nunc Dimittis with a confidence, power and control which augurs well for her future as a performer.
It seems ironic that two of the Ryesingers, later that evening, found themselves in the RESH casualty department with their sons - one lad with a broken ankle after an accident at a beach party, and the other, we are very sorry to report, with a broken nose as a result of an assault in Conduit Hill as he was walking home from the concert.
As well as local people, who supported the coffee morning to the extent of some £60, Rye Red Cross had visitors at a high level from County to their Open Day on Wednesday - the first for some 20 years as far as present members know. Mrs. Joan Edwards of Cadborough Cliff, the new Deputy Centre Organiser, was in charge of the coffee morning; Mrs. Joan Crane of Beckley was giving manicures to draw attention to the Red Cross's work in Rye Hospital, Hill House and in patients' own homes giving beauty care to the bedridden and housebound. Other helpers in this field are Mrs. Vera Quick, Mrs. Janet Payne and Mrs. Marjorie Styles, and at the AGM in November there will be a speaker on the subject.
The Red Cross also provides a home library service for people unable to fetch their own books from Lion Street, covering about a dozen clients in the town. And, of course, there is the popular monthly Thrift Shop for buying and selling second-hand clothes, which raises enormous sums in the way of commission for the Centre - and also raised unjustified hopes among those passers-by who thought, seeing the window display, that the shop was having an extra session this month!
Since its revival two years ago, this has been the baby of Mr. and Mrs. Thurston and their regular team of "shop assistants". But we are asked to draw attention particularly to the Medical Loan Service, run by Mrs. Howlett.
The principle of this is that the Red Cross will lend items for not more than three months at a time; equipment should be returned then anyway, and if the user still needs it arrangements can be made through Social Services/NHS. The Red Cross service is only intended as a temporary help, but patients are not always very conscientious about returning the borrowed equipment - sometimes it goes into the attic and stays there for years, or is passed on direct to another sufferer and simply lost to the Red Cross. These things are expensive, and the Centre has a large stock of aids of every description for almost every purpose. The office is staffed Monday to Friday from 10.30 to 12, phone number Rye 223540. If there is something you need, or would like to try out, just ask. But please, please bring it back before the three months run out - or it might just turn back into a pumpkin, and then where would you be?
Saturday, 23 June, is Alexandra Rose Day. Do you know what this is? We weren't sure - it used to be something to do with nurses; but Mrs. Muriel Prescott tells us that nowadays the money collected locally goes to the East Sussex Association for the Disabled, whose Rye Division is responsible for helping disabled people in 14 villages in the area. Thanks to money raised by the street collection, the Division is able to give financial help for fuel, transport and other special needs to local people; but it does desperately need collectors, since the people who benefit are usually not able to collect personally. Offers of help for an hour or two on the 23rd should go to Mrs. Prescott at Iden 296 as soon as possible, please.
Incidentally, it is the Association which is paying half the cost (up to £1,000) of the Conduit Hill hand-rail - which presumably will be completed eventually, though the progress expected during the past few weeks seems to be somewhat ephemeral!
Also on Saturday is the NSPCC Summer Fair, always an enjoyable event, at the FE Centre from 10.30 to 3.30.
• This Sunday (17th) the Friends of the Rye Harbour Nature Reserve have their annual fund-raising event; they always find something enticing, and this year it is the Leasam House Nature Day, from 2 to 5. As we said last week in a different context, there are a number of nature conservation areas at Leasam set up by Colin Green's Rural Studies Department on the land around the boarding house, so it is natural that one of the attractions should be a Nature Trail. Wildlife exhibits include the collection of stuffed birds which normally ornament the main Rural Studies classroom; some of these were the work of Edwin Catt of Iden, but the collection also includes some of the "Hastings rarities" produced early this century by George Bristow, a provenance now thought to be extremely suspect in some cases. There will be a display of farming bygones, a beekeeping exhibit, an exhibition of pictures, the usual stalls, side shows, raffle, and of course refreshments.
Leasam House is reached via the lane immediately beside Rye Memorial Hospital (fork left after the last house, but doubtless there will be signs). Admission is free, the view is superb, and it should be a very pleasant outing.
• The following Sunday, Midsummer Day, two top-of-the-town gardens are open to the public in aid of the National Gardens Scheme (from which money goes to nursing charities) with donations to the Rye Conservation Society and the National Trust. Robert Banks at 18 Church Square (the old police station) is showing his small and beautiful garden, full of winding paths and interesting plants, trees and shrubs; and in contrast Sir Brian and Lady Batsford are opening the Lamb House Garden with its formal borders and wide lawns. Refreshments will be available at Lamb House, where tickets will also be issued (50p, 20p for children) though Mr. Banks assures us he will not turn away those who prefer to start at his end of Church Square.
• The third Sunday brings us to 1 July, when there is a treat for lovers of light opera. The Blackheath Opera, following a rehearsal weekend at Springfield, are once again offering Rye a preview of the production they will be putting on when they get home: this year, Johann Strauss's "The Gipsy Baron". We rather hope it rains that Sunday, so that gardeners will have an excuse for spending the afternoon in the Community Centre.
Several more thefts from cars this week, and two particularly annoying episodes of a less usual kind. On 1 or 2 June someone unscrewed and stole the house number plaque from 4 The Strand. The previous day a thief drove up to a shed in a field beside Military Road, removed 2,500 peg tiles from its roof, loaded them up and drove away - a loss of £550 to the owner, who had not been consulted about their removal.
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Wandering round the former Farnborough buildings in pursuit of the new company which we mentioned last week, we found first of all the most senior of the new businesses which have taken up residence in the complex since John Jempson & Son bought it last year.
Paine Leisure Products makes sunbeds under the trade name of Uvabronze; they also make saunas and import spa baths. Norman Paine and his wife moved their business to Rye in order to have the whole factory under the same roof - until last September they had worked in three separate units in Hastings. They employ around 20 people at present and hope that there will be more jobs available during the coming year.
Mr. Paine has very local roots: a century or so ago his family had the village stores at Beckley, and later they farmed at Brenzett. He came into the sunbed business almost by accident, when his wife took him to look at one she wanted for her hairdressing salon. "I could make one like that" he said... and did.
Now the firm offers thirty different models, with a domestic range and also a commercial range which sells to sports centres; they show at seven or eight trade exhibitions a year, and will be going to Torquay next week to show off their products to customers in the extreme south-west.
Mr. Stephen Hookey, on the other hand, is not local at all; he has just brought his Accura Tool Company to Rye from South London because of the better working conditions. His firm, established for more than 25 years, makes steel moulds for a wide range of industries, including the car and electrical trades. The shop-floor seemed to be covered with machines as far as the eye could see, but Mr. Hookey says that they are not all in use at the same time; he arranges production so that each worker can see a particular job through from start to finish, using different tools at different stages. The firm will be employing seven or eight people once work starts again within a week or two.
Mr. Hookey and his family are now living in Playden, and we would like to welcome them to our neighbourhood; a new business arriving in the town seems a good omen in view of the Rural Development Area announcement on this week's front page.
People aged between 16 and 25 with good ideas for starting in business are being offered professional help and the chance of a £1,000 prize in a new scheme launched locally last week by Hastings Business Ventures. Sponsored by Shell nationally and by several Hastings concerns at local level, the "Livewire" project invites entrants to put forward, on a simple entry form, an idea which would enable them to work for themselves - in their own business, or in a co- operative venture with other people, or in a project to benefit the community; and any of these schemes can be a part-time one, so that people already in a job, or even still at school, can take part.
Local advisers will be appointed to help individual entrants turn their ideas into reality as far as possible, and the best entries will go forward for the local awards and perhaps also for the £1,000 prizes offered at national level by Shell. Hastings Business Ventures say that there are posters in all the places in Rye where the young congregate; for the benefit of parents, there is one in the Council offices, and forms are available from Anglia Building Society in the High Street. Entries must be in by 30 September, and local awards will be presented at the end of October, with the national final a month or so later.
Speaking at the launch of the scheme, a high-up from Shell emphasised the importance of encouraging young people to develop a degree of self-sufficiency now that traditional employment is not always available. Agreed; but it is a happy coincidence that this scheme is launched in the week of our Rural Development Area (we make no apology for mentioning this yet again, it sounds to be one of the most important things that has happened to Rye for a long time!). The two schemes could mesh together to set a young man or woman with enterprise well on the way to major success.
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The season opened on 29 May with a total of 11 teams in the League, including four new ones; this means that they can again operate two divisions for the first time in three years.
Teams entered in Division I are The Professionals (formerly Weslakes), Winters Dairies, The Veterans, The Untouchables (formerly Boys Club 'A') and the RAF Association. In Division II are the Boys Club (their former 'B' team), Iden Putting Club, and the four newcomers: The Queen's Head, The Crown Inn, Rye Fire Brigade Social Club and the British Legion Club.
Matches are mostly played on Tuesday evenings between now and early September. Apart from the League games there is a team knock-out, a two-ball foursome knock-out and individual men's and ladies' knock-out competitions. Each team has six players, so there is quite a gathering, says Chris Waters, when they all meet on the same night!
Presentations are made at the end of the season, and as well as the competitions there are prizes for the lowest score, and the best average score, in League games. Lowest scores so far are from Paul Sargent (39), Ray Johnson (41) and Chris Waters (42).
Rother Council is advertising for a full-time resident gravedigger and caretaker for Rye Cemetery. The work also includes dealing with records, enquiries and fees, attending burials and liaising with funeral directors. The gravedigging part is not very arduous; Colin Hudson of Rother's Parks and Gardens Department, which is in charge of the cemetery along with Rye's other public open spaces, says that there are about 30 funerals a year there. The mowing is, of course, rather more tricky than a straightforward expanse of grass would be. Application forms for the job are available from the Personnel Officer at Bexhill Town Hall and have to be returned by 25 June.
We wonder if when the new caretaker is appointed, he or she might welcome the support of a Friends of Rye Cemetery Group? Rother's staff of course deals with the day-to-day maintenance of the cemetery, but responsibility for actual tombstones lies with the families of those they commemorate - many, of course, now no longer represented in the district. Local contacts might also prove useful in updating records; Rye's corporate memory goes back a very long way indeed.
Vidlers tells us that there was an exceptionally large audience for their rather exceptional sale on Friday, and some high prices were achieved. The lots included two sets of Victorian silver table plate: one (77 pieces, 165 ozs) realised £1,500 and the other (69 pieces, 108 ozs) £1,000. A six-foot antique oak dresser in fine condition went for £1,350. An antique mahogany bureau fetched £540, an Edwardian lady's satinwood bureau £360 and a mother-of-pearl inlaid papier-mache cabinet only 12" x 12" went for £340, while a rosewood and mahogany sofa table sold for £460.
Ann Hamilton tells us that Sunday's Pentecost Party had over a hundred guests, some of them French and German tourists who were delighted to join in. The weather was of course superb, and everything went very much according to plan; lots of symbols - doves (cut-outs to decorate) for peace, a cake for the birthday, and a named candle for each guest, lit at the end of the party to celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit. This final ceremony took place in the church and, says Ann, the candlelight on the children's faces was indeed something to remember.
•Just room at the bottom of the page to condole with two old friends of many Rye people. Will Dunlop of Pett is laid up with a broken arm, we hear; and Jepsons of Robertson Street in Hastings has closed its doors for the last time, or so a rather sad assistant told us as she pushed the bolt across on Saturday.
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• The Arthritis and Rheumatism Council for Research local branch were very pleased with the result of their house-to-house collection and Flag Day in Rye last week: a total of £343, £250 from the Flag Day and the rest from the branch's first-ever house-to-house effort. We are glad to add that the Branch Secretary Francis Barrett of Fair Meadow is on the road to recovery after six weeks of back trouble; he was allowed out of bed to help count the money!
• The 11 am train to Hastings on Saturday morning disgorged a cheerful crowd of people in fancy dress on to Rye platform - they were apparently members of a Morris-dance festival taking place at Appledore, arriving with the intention of "dancing right round Rye". Whether they did or not, the Hastings-bound Editor has failed to discover; but there were lots of them, and it should have been a very pretty sight. Sorry, no-one told us in advance, so that we could have told you...
• The last time the Hastings National New Poetry Society held a poetry-reading at Fletcher's House, as far as we remember, they picked a Thursday evening and had to contend with the bell-ringers' practice! This time they have wisely changed to a Tuesday (19th) and we understand that the reading is open to the public. The Society is inviting entries for its Festival competition on 3 November - details from 80 St. Helen's Road, Hastings.
• Kathleen Goldie-Smith asks if any reader would like to help promote international relationships by being a "family" for a young person from abroad on one of the five-day tennis courses which we wrote about recently. She is looking now for a hostess for a 16-year-old French girl coming for two weeks from 9 July, and there are sure to be more requests, often for boys. Payment is for half-board, with extra for weekend meals - lunch on Monday to Friday is taken at the Club. If you can help, please ring Miss Goldie-Smith at Rye 222815 for more details.
• Another request for help comes from Miss Rosa Cottle, now living at Cap Gris Nez on Hilder's cliff. She shares her house with a friend confined to a wheelchair, and wonders if anyone would be interested in a small part-time job, taking him for outings around the town once or twice a week? Even with the new pavement ramps, we would imagine that this is a job for someone with a reliable back and strong arms; suitably equipped persons might like to ring Rye 223158 before calling at Cap Gris Nez to discuss the matter.
• Great knotting of brows and racking of brains, reports Jeanne Freeman, in the first round of the Rye Group WI Scrabble Competition, played at Playden on Tuesday. Rye WI held its own with 4 players going forward to the next round - Mesdames Hodgson, Playford, Bennett and Freeman, plus Miss Coleman from Iden and Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Ingham from Playden. Organiser was the Group Chairman Mrs. Bennett, and Miss Thomas was worked very hard as the umpire.
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Thursday, 14th Charity Lunch (stalls, etc.) for St. Jude's Women's Refuge, CC, 12 to 2
Voting in European Assembly Elections, 7 am to 10 pm
Friday, 15th Blood donor sessions, Baptist Hall, 2 to 4, 5 to 7.45
Saturday, 16th Rye Memorial Hospital Fete, FEC, 10.30 to 12.30
Sunday, 17th FRHNR Nature Day, Leasam House, 2 to 5 (see page 4)
Monday, 18th Monday Club, Clinic, 2
FRAG meeting, Rye Art Gallery, 8 (see page 2)
Tuesday, 19th Freda Gardham School sports day (afternoon)
Hastings National New Poetry Society poetry-reading,
Fletcher's House, 7.30 to 10 (see page 7)
Wednesday, 20th Thrift Shop (handing-in only), Red Cross, 10.30 to 12.30
Primary Schools music festival, Freda Gardham (morning)
Museum Association tour of Georgian Rye (with Alan Dickinson), Gun Garden, 7
• Congratulations to Colin Clark, of King's Avenue, and Phillipa Wakefield of West Pinchbeck in Lincolnshire, who were married in the bride's parish on Saturday. Colin is in the Royal Navy, and the couple met after Phillipa wrote to him while he was on his second tour of duty with the South Atlantic Force in the Falklands.
• The Sailing Club made over £90 at their jumble sale on Saturday, with the RNLI stall selling £26-worth of souvenirs. The Guides took over £80 at their Summer Fair at the FEC the same afternoon.
• The landlubberly Editor made not just one but two errors in the account last week of the French yachts' visit to Rye. On a visit to a foreign port, says Fred Kurrein, the host country's flag is flown from the crosstrees not the masthead; and what was fluttering at Strand Quay was not the Union Jack but the Union Flag. Apologies to our nautical readers; we will try harder!
• British Rail warn that there will again be buses between Rye and Hastings on Sunday, due to tunnel repairs between Rye and Ore; delays of up to 40 minutes can be expected, they say.
• Bowls: last weekend Rye lost to St. Leonards on Saturday, and on Sunday scored 63 against Sidley tartlets' 98.
• Sixteen pilgrims from all over Britain spent Monday night in Rye en route from Hastings to. Canterbury - walking the route over a week and arriving in Canterbury on Sunday morning.
• Congratulations, in a very small way, to the parents of quads - or possibly quins: the pair of shelduck who were exercising their black-and-white striped chicks recently in the Tillingham between the bridge and the sluice. And if you are wondering where the nest is, they apparently make their home in a rabbit hole!
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(Copyright Mary Owen 1984)