In my perambulations around Rye since the lockdown, I have been fascinated to see the variety of window dressings that have sprung up, from the shrouded windows of the Black Sheep in the Mint, no lovely wool jerseys or interesting ceramics any more, which is perhaps a metaphor for the strange world we are living in, to Lesley Farrow’s windows in Niche, always worth keeping an eye on, even though we can’t buy anything just now!
It was the shoe shop, Crispin’s, also in the Mint, that first caught my eye, and next I wandered up the High Street where I noticed the display in the Cordelia James clothing boutique which almost made me think it was an antique shop at a first glance.
As I ventured back into Cinque Ports Street, after a trip across the Salts, no shops there, just birdsong and spring flowers, like daisies and dandelions showing up in the grasses, I found Niche had clothes in the window I hadn’t seen when I walked past before, and realised Lesley Farrow was changing the display regularly, which is such a nice touch.
I only had to go a few steps further to find Easter bonnets in the Gentleman’s Quarters barber’s window and of course Sweet Williams and the Rye Butchers open for business as usual.
I am sure there are more than I have here, for example some of the houses are making efforts to brighten up the front doorsteps, and this last picture is of one by the church that I saw around Easter time. Anyone else noticed these little picture windows?
Image Credits: Gillian Roder , Kenneth Bird .