The community website of the village of Fulking, West Sussex
Brisk walks and bus rides – sounds like just the ticket. The new 77 bus timetable is out for the Dyke to Brighton route. This forms part of the “Breeze up to the Downs” partnership between B&H City Council, The National Trust and SDNP. It starts on 19th April, and from 14th June to 31st August you can, er, “do it topless”. More importantly it now connects with similar services to Stanmer Park and Ditchling Beacon. More details here…
Can’t face hiding those eggs in the garden for the children?
Well, it seems that the National Trust and Cadbury have got together to solve that for you – with three separate Easter Egg Trails on the Dyke over the Easter break.
It’s a fundraiser for the NT: Entrance is £3, and the fun starts at 11am on 4th, 5th & 6th. More details here…
SOLD AS SEEN
Fulking Village Hall, Saturday 28th March 7.30pm for 8.00pm!
Sold as Seen are a ‘South Downs’ Country Band, sell-out stars of last summer’s Fulking Fair, supported by Dave Gee, singing classic Motown, Soul and Swing numbers.
Tickets £5 at the door. Half the ticket sales go to the Village Hall!!
Bring your own refreshments.
The creator of an interesting DVD on the subject of the Devil’s Dyke has been in touch and provided a YouTube link to his video.
Well worth a look.
If you like, you can buy an original copy of the DVD directly from him:-
R. Shaw,
13 Aberdeen Road,
Brighton,
Sussex, BN22 3JA
(running time 45 minutes)
Price £7.00 + £2.00 p+p
Geoffrey Bush writes:-
The Friends of Sussex Hospices Mad March Pub Quiz is being supported by 80 pubs across Sussex. An incredible £5000 has already been raised by just 14 pubs.
The Shepherd & Dog pub in Fulking village staged its Mad March Quiz on Wednesday 11th March.
The evening was a sell out and brought together the local community to support both Sussex Hospices and the popular new publicans, David and Emily. Besides running a very entertaining quiz, David and Emily generously sponsored the event by providing light supper for all contestants, champagne and a round of drinks for the top teams, plus excellent raffle prizes donated by the pub’s local suppliers.
As a result, the Shepherd & Dog is now even more popular with the locals and enabled all of the £300 funds raised during the evening to go to Sussex hospices. The attached photo shows Davie & Emily with some of the prizes.
More information can be found at: friendsofsussexhospices.org.uk
Geoffrey
Saturday March 21st — Please come to the North Town Field for a couple of hours, starting at 10:00am, to help with our Spring clear-up. Bring gardening tools.
John Hazard (957)
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.
