Category: Preston Nomads

Preston Nomads: licence change

Preston Nomads bar as it once was
Preston Nomads has applied for a change in the way it is licenced. They wish to change from a club certificate to a premises licence. The main differences are as follows:

  • The ability to hire out the premises, provide alcohol and regulated entertainment to non-members;
  • Provision of regulated entertainment — films or recorded music between 8:00am–10:30pm Monday to Sunday, indoors;
  • Supply of alcohol 8:00am–10:30pm, Monday to Sunday indoors and outdoors;
  • Hours of the premises: 8:00am-11:00pm Monday to Sunday.

Further information can, in principle, be found at www.midsussex.gov.uk. Good luck!

St. Andrew’s Day Quiz

St Andrew's quiz
Advance notice: November 28th — this is always a popular event and promises to be a fun evening which will be held once again at the Nomad’s Pavilion in Clappers Lane. Tickets include a ploughman’s supper and sold out quickly last year — so let us know early if you would like to come.

Contact Chris on 01273-857322 or Jane on 07812-465-559 for more details and to enter teams.

Jane Warne

Poynings Cricket Club


Although Fulking hosts a very serious cricket club with a superb pitch close to the centre of the village, there is no ‘Fulking Cricket Club’ as such. But Poynings does have a village club and they are actively looking for new players for league or social cricket. Their senior team starts outdoor training at the Poynings cricket field on 14th April. If you think you might be interested in joining the club, click the image above for more information and contact the club captain Gary Wallis-Tayler:

gary.wallis-tayler@sussexcricket.co.uk

Fulking Parish Council — Meeting Thursday 10th April 2014 at 7:30pm

In the Village Hall. Members of the press and public are welcome to attend.

Agenda

  1. Chairman’s Welcome.
  2. Apologies.
  3. Declaration of Interest.
  4. Approval of minutes 9th January 2014
  5. Matters Arising from the above minutes not on the agenda (to include Planning inc. Old Pump House, Highways Flooding & Operation Watershed, Lady Brook Spring, Footpath 4f update, Winter Management, NTF Trees).
  6. Reports from District & County Councillors.
  7. Preston Nomads
  8. NTF mowing contract
  9. Water Fountain
  10. Fireworks
  11. Financial Matters (including Cheque List & Stubs, Income & Expenditure to date, quarterly bank reconciliation), Financial Regulations.
  12. Annual internal audit.
  13. Annual Parish meeting speaker update & refreshments.
  14. Thank you — Street Light, Table, NTF Trees & Fencing
  15. Comments from the floor.
  16. Dates of next meetings.

Andrea Dickson, Clerk to Fulking Parish Council
01444 451 060 / andreadicksonfpc@gmail.com

Hugh Rapley at Hut Farm

Hut Farm, Fulking c1980, aerial photo by Joe Lancaster
An aerial photo of Hut Farm by Joe Lancaster, taken around 1980. The farm buildings are bottom left, Pippins and Poynings Road are top right.
Hugh Rapley used to live in Clappers Lane and he and his family left many many imprints on Fulking which still echo in the village. Hugh and his brother ran the market garden and dairy from Hut Farm (see photo above). The cows fed in the field which is now the smooth green cricket club pitch (Preston Nomads). Their milk was still being delivered around the village in the mid 1980s. And Hut Farm? Now transformed into Cannonberries, a single storey dwelling precisely on the site of the old farm buildings with extensive and elegant gardens where the long strips of the fuit and veg had grown for years.

Hugh had an interest in clocks especially old clocks. He could mend neighbours’ clocks and he restored beautiful old clocks and sold many of them in the village shop. People were often very surprised having come in for an ice cream to then see these working antique clocks at very modest prices alongside collectible old books, local pottery and paintings, local bread, baked beans, butter and a post office.

Before the war Hugh’s cow field had been the village field, I was told. And our current village field (North Town Field)? That was probably a cow field. And Barn Cottage, in the north west corner of old Hut Farm? Exactly what it says: a bungalow built ‘inside’ a barn when planners said ‘no’ to proposed demolition.

Gill Milner, Old Post Office

Hut Farm, Fulking, 1946
Another aerial photograph of Hut Farm, this one taken in 1946

Preston Nomads Colts Presentation Evening

Preston NomadsWe have been advised by the Preston Nomads Cricket Club secretary that they will be holding their Colts presentation evening next Friday 13th Sept 2013 at their club house. This is an event for all age groups and their families.

The evening starts at 5:45 pm and should end at approx. 9pm.

They think there will definitely be increased traffic in the village and particularly in Clappers Lane.

Preston Nomads Shield

In the case of good weather, it will be an outdoor event.

Nomads still top Premier League [only more so]

Preston Nomads
Sussex Express:

Current Sussex League Champions Preston Nomads improved their placing at the top of this year’s Premier League Table with a convincing win against rivals Horsham on Saturday. .. Preston Nomads decided to insert Horsham after winning the toss at Fulking and the move paid off as the visitors were dismissed for just 83 in 37.3 overs as Kashif Ibrahim took 4 for 18 in 13 overs and Carl Simon grabbed 4 for 36 as he polished off the tail.