Author: LocHist
Brighton City Plan
Never say die:
Mayfield Market Towns, which is proposing a new 10,000-home town near to Sayers Common, raised their own concerns that the plan in its current existence does not address any solutions in either Horsham district or Mid Sussex district.
The developers claim that with Brighton and Hove City Council exhausting all avenues to find land for housing within its borders, decisions on meeting demand elsewhere should not be longer term considerations but an urgent need and that their specific scheme should be included in the plan.
A reminder ..
With blackthorn and wild plum in blossom, early butterflies on the wing and also kestrels and buzzards to spot. April is a magical time to visit Woods Mill as spring takes hold at a galloping pace. A mixture of woodland and meadow with good views of the South Downs, this peaceful nature reserve near Henfield is centered around a large reed-fringed pond.
Mute swan, little grebe and heron can all been seen on the pond and you may even be lucky enough to see a flash of a kingfisher. Removal of fish a couple of years ago has rejuvenated the pond. The water is now clear enough to see the tadpoles of the frogs and toads and grass snakes bask on its sunny banks.
Over the Easter school holiday, we will be running regular drop-in pond dipping sessions with the Woods Mill Warden on-hand to help you find out what you have caught. Newts, water boatmen and dragonfly nymphs all thrive in the numerous ponds.
Woods Mill is free to visit. It has a car park, public toilets and a wheelchair friendly all-weather path .. but no dogs are allowed on the nature reserve.
Partial solar eclipse tomorrow morning
Springtime over Fulking
On the market
On the market
Oldwood occupies the south west corner plot at the junction of Bramlands Lane and Clappers Lane. Originally part of a large apple orchard, it was the third of the five-acre plots bought by Ernest Black. In 1912 an attractive thatched cottage made from an old railway carriage was originally situated on the site, but this burnt down in 1933. Ernest Black then sold the property to an American who used it as a holiday retreat. It was purchased next by Harold Alfred Manhood (1904–1991) — an author noted for his short stories who named the place Manhoods and for some years lived there first in another railway carriage and later in a bungalow with a garage that he had built on the site. Villagers recall that H.E. Bates and Harold Manhood were great friends and it is thought that Bates wrote The Darling Buds of May (later to become a successful TV series) while staying with Manhood in 1958. .. On Harold Manhood’s death the property was sold to a retired farmer who added a barn to store his collection of old, working, farm machinery.
Passage quoted from Anthony R. Brooks (2008) The Changing Times of Fulking & Edburton. Chichester: RPM Print & Design, page 71.
End of an era
Retired computer delivered free to local resident
Midi tower containing Intel Pentium Core2Duo 6400, 2GB RAM, 40GB hard disk, DVDROM drive, audio & two USB sockets at front, audio & six USB sockets at rear, ethernet, serial, parallel, and a M-ATX motherboard with three free PCI sockets. Supplied with UK keyboard and matching optical mouse but no monitor: any old monitor with a VGA connector will do and, if you have read this far, then you probably have one in the loft. Linux (Ubuntu 14.10) with Firefox, Chromium, Opera, Thunderbird and LibreOffice is preinstalled. Not suitable for bitcoin mining, video editing or serious games but entirely adequate for reading email, browsing the web, cropping photos, and doing office chores.
If you live in Edburton, Fulking or Poynings and you have a use for this machine, email hdr22 [at-symbol] fulking [period] org to arrange for delivery.
March PP Published
