The community website of the village of Fulking, West Sussex
October 18th — a traditional Harvest Festival Service at 11.00am will be followed by our ever popular harvest picnic — bundles of harvest/ploughman’s food tied up in a knapsack and eaten inside or if fine in our grounds, allowing us to take a little ‘time out’ and relax and enjoy our surroundings.
Picnics (£6.50) should be ordered in advance — phone Jane on 07812-465-559.
Apple Pressing, Sunday 11th October at Poynings Village Hall. Pressing starts at 11:30am. Have your apples pressed at 50p per litre. Bring containers or buy 1 litre bottles — 25p.
Best Apple Cake Competition. Entries 11:00am — 1:00pm Poynings Village Hall (£1.00 per entry). Judging 1:00pm — 2:00 pm (followed by trophy presentation). Open to Poynings, Fulking and Newtimber residents.
Music from ‘Sold As Seen’. Refreshments, Stalls, Apple Bobbing, Toffee Apples in aid of various charities and events.
Enquiries — sheila@oakpoynings.freeserve.co.uk
Sheila Marshall
Ian Everest talks to the Beeding & Bramber Local History Society on Wednesday October 7th at 7:45pm in the Village Hall, Upper Beeding.
Oxen were still in use at Chyngton and Exceat Farms in Seaford until the mid-1920s and were reckoned to have been in use on the Sussex Downs for over one thousand years before. The talk includes photographs of them at work in Seaford, Bishopstone, East Dean and Lewes, together with some of the more unusual non-agricultural work that they were used for. Following the demise of the oxen in Sussex, the talk looks at the evolution of farming to horses and steam power, the rioting when the threshing machines were introduced and the arrival of the first tractors.
[GJMG notes: I attended a different talk by this speaker in Henfield a couple of years ago. It remains the best local history talk I have heard. Ian Everest was brought up on one of the farms he discusses and he really knows his stuff. In addition, he is an excellent speaker with well organized material.]
Nyctophiliac writes:
I hope someone brings an O Light M3XS-UT — we can test out the 1000 metre throw! It’s just about that from the car park to the village of Fulking in the valley — so we can light them up ..
Join mycologist Martin Allinson for a day of recording as many species of fungi as possible across Newtimber Hill on Friday 9th October from 9:30am to 3:00pm. Wear suitable clothing and bring lunch. Tea and cake will be served upon return to Saddlescombe. Supervised children are welcome. Booking essential. Click the image for more information.
To be held at St. Andrew’s on Friday 2nd October at 7.30pm. The singing will be led by The Pyecombe Village Choir and tickets, priced at £10, include supper of bangers, beans and baked potatoes and a welcome drink. Numbers will be limited. To buy tickets, or for more details, please email StAndrewsEdburton@yahoo.co.uk, or phone 07812-465-559.