The answers to the quiz are:
- Rye Baptist Church opened in 1910
- Adams of Rye have been printers since 1853
- Rye Golf Club was formed in 1894
- John Wesley visited Rye 14 times
- The present cannon in Rye Gun Garden were installed to celebrate the 80th birthday of the late Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother – she was Lord Ward of the Cinque Ports
- On Boxing Day, to score a goal, three teams in Winchelsea try to seize a ball (smaller than a football) wrapped in cloth with a face painted on it, traditionally supposed to represent a Frenchman’s head
- The quarter boys on St Mary’s Church, Rye, don’t strike on the hour. They strike the quarter hours only
- The Romney Marsh landmark opened by The Prince of Wales in 1904 was Dungeness lighthouse
- The name given to the Rope Walk Shopping Centre when it was erected in 1873 was the Agricultural Hall
- In the 1950s Billy Bunter and Mr Pastry were Rye Fawkes and lit the Rye bonfire
- There is a memorial to Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert, on the Landgate Tower. The clock commemorates his death
- In Rye the lightest one weighs 6cwt 5lb and is 19in high; the heaviest weighs 19cwt 27lb and is 48in high. There are eight of them in total. They are the bells of St Mary’s Church, Rye
- William IV’s wife is commemorated in Rye in the name of a public house, now an internet cafe, the Queen Adelaide
- The most direct route from the Crown Inn to the Standard Inn is to cross Cinque Ports Street and go through Needles’ Passage
- There are three officially named passages and one unofficially named passage in Rye. They are Traders, Needles and Mermaid (leading to the hotel); and, unofficially, Landgate
- There are six estate agencies in Rye: Consider It Done, Foxwood Maclean, Standen Hodgson, Reeds Rains, Rush Witt & Wilson, Phillips & Stubbs
- Roads or streets in Rye prefixed with the word The are: The Grove, The Mint, The Strand, The Close
- The odd one out is West Street, the only one of the four named that is cobbled
- Shops currently trading in Rye High Street with Rye in the shop name are: Rye Health Store, Rye Deli, The Rye Bakery (Poppies), Soldiers of Rye, A Pocket Full of Rye, Rye Art Gallery, and Rye Shoes
- All four were gates to Rye: Strandgate, Landgate, Baddings Gate and Postern Gate
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