Rye Museum’s Story

An Abbreviated History


The History of Rye Castle Museum by Allan Downend, slightly adapted from the booklet An Introduction to Rye Castle Museum ( 1999) with some additional information from Geoffrey S Bagley and Kenneth M Clark The Story of the Ypres Tower and Rye Museum (1975). The idea of using Rye’s former jail (the Ypres Tower) as … read more

Geoffrey Spink Bagley


  ‘Geoffrey Bagley, Esq. Ryer Extraordinary’ This was the subtitle of a 1973 Down Rye Way column  by the then editor of Rye’s Own, Christopher Davson.  And as you will see from what follows,  Geoffrey Bagley really was  ‘extraordinary’.        The article  begins:     ‘ It was with some trepidation that your reporter stepped aside from Church Square into one … read more