A Christmas bazaar is scheduled for this Saturday in the Victorian Music Room (see above) at St Mary’s House, Bramber. It will run from 10:30am to 12:30pm with lots of stalls, including home-made cakes, preserves, books and bric-a-brac. Admission is £2 for adults and includes a mince pie and cup of coffee or tea. Children free.
Category Archives: Beeding & Bramber
Cold call burglaries
Sussex Police report:
Since August there have been 26 break-ins at towns and villages across the Horsham district that detectives believe have been committed by the same people. The offences began in August in Storrington but have spread to Coolham, Henfield, Steyning, Horsham, Pulborough, Bramber, Billingshurst, Kirdford, West Chiltington and Ashurst as well as Petworth in the Chichester district. The thieves have escaped with jewellery, cash and unusual household ornaments.
Katy Wood, from the Operation Magpie team, said: “We believe the offenders could be cold-calling at homes to try to work out who is in and whether they are likely to have valuables. We think they are then returning when no one is home — perhaps because the residents have told them they won’t be there — and breaking in”.
The victims closest to Fulking were located at Broomfield Road in Henfield, Kings Barn Lane in Steyning, Maudlyn Park in Bramber, and School Lane in Ashurst.
3Bs in WWI
Beeding and Bramber Local History Society have put on a display about life in Beeding, Bramber, Botolphs and Small Dole during the First World War. The display runs from today, Saturday 8th November, until Monday 10th November, from 10:00am to 4:00pm each day, in the Gladys Bevan Hall, Church Lane, Upper Beeding. This is at the far end of Church Lane, opposite St Peter’s Church. For more information, click the image above.
Bramber tonsillectomy in progress
West Sussex County Council has finally begun to remove all of the speed bumps that have been causing damage to three of Bramber’s oldest houses: Yew Tree Cottage, The Gables and St. Mary’s House. The campaign by residents against the bumps has lasted for over twenty years. Buses are being diverted.
Steyning Grammar School: 400 years of education
A talk to be given at Beeding & Bramber Local History Society by Dr. Janet Pennington of the Sussex School of Archaeology. Dr. Pennington was the archivist at Lancing College for eighteen years and is the author of Chanctonbury Ring: The Story of a Sussex Landmark. At Beeding & Bramber Village Hall, High Street, Upper Beeding at 7.45pm on Wednesday 1st October.
It’s good to touch the green, green grass of homes.
Rydon Homes has submitted plans for 65 houses on a greenfield site adjacent to Pound Lane, Upper Beeding. In anticipation of significant public interest in these proposals Upper Beeding Parish Council has called a public meeting in Beeding & Bramber Village Hall, High Street, Upper Beeding on Thursday 25th September. Plans will be on display from 4pm and the meeting will start at 7pm. Representatives of Rydon Homes, Sussex Wildlife Trust, Southern Water and local councillors have been invited.
Steyning & District Food & Drink Festival
Beeding Flower Show
Beeding and Bramber Horticultural Society are having their summer show in the Village Hall, Upper Beeding, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, tomorrow, Saturday August 23rd.
Mineral Sites Study
The Mineral Sites Study [PDF] is a recently published document deriving from the joint SDNPA/WSCC exercise known as the Minerals Local Plan. Despite four pages devoted to a potential seventy acre gravel pit on a greenfield site in Woodmancote*, there is little in it to interest a resident of Fulking or Edburton. The one possible exception is a five page section [PDF] devoted to Shoreham Cement Works. There’s a lot of chalk left, apparently, and a planning permission for further extraction that runs until 2042, a fact that appears to have come as an unwelcome surprise to the current generation of planners (as it may to future generations of the ‘rare breeding birds’ who have made the site their home). If you feel inclined to respond to the study, then WSCC provide a form here.
*Not our northern neighbour but a different village, located to the west of Chichester.