At 7:300pm on Saturday 26th July at St Mary’s House, Bramber. Terence Allbright accompanies. Tickets are £25 and include wine and canapés. Book here.
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A barren, flat land
If you click the image above you will be taken to the SDNPA’s “Discovery Map” of the National Park set to display all the viewpoints. As you will immediately discover, there are no viewpoints in the National Park. Obviously, that’s because the South Downs, like the Netherlands, is completely flat. Apart from the hyperbolically named Alice Holt Forest, there are no woods either. There are no art galleries, no gardens and no vineyards. If you are consulting this map in order to “Find out what the National Park has to offer!”, the answer from the Midhurst box-tickers is clear: very little.
Parish Council 10th July 7:00/7:30pm Village Hall
- 7:00pm Public meeting about West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service — draft proposals;
- 7:30pm Fulking Parish Council — agenda.
Agenda updated 3:30pm, 3rd July (one additional item).
A restoration precedent
Work has now been completed on the conservation of a 200-year-old cart shed in Up Marden, West Sussex. The project, a pilot which could be rolled out for other ‘Heritage at Risk’ across the South Downs has been carried out in partnership between the SDNPA, Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, Natural England and the landowner. The museum oversaw a programme of repair works through a new outreach programme giving museum students first-hand experience in masonry and timber frame conservation skills. This was the first conservation project that the museum had undertaken outside the museum grounds. The museum’s new outreach service could help the SDNPA to repair other historic buildings across the National Park. More here.
The Fulking reservoirs and C19 water supply? Summersdeane Farm? Perching watermill? Rat’s Ramble? Perching Hill Barn? Fulking Grange?
Ye Olde Worlde
Anthony Brooks (2014) Ye Olde Worlde Shepherd & Dog 1800-2014, £3.00, collector’s item, just published and available now — but only at the Shepherd & Dog.
Woods Mill Holiday Clubs
Tuesdays 29 July, 5th and 12th August, 9:00am–4:00pm, £30 per child per day. Booking essential. Four further Holiday Clubs are running on Wednesdays 30th July, 6th, 13th and 20th August, 10:30am–3:00pm, £17 per child per day, at Stanmer Park. Children do not need to be accompanied by an adult.
Don’t try this at home
Roger Musselle rescues a trapped swan at Woods Mill this afternoon. Click the photo for the full story.
Rave on (and on)
The Argus reports:
Sussex Police stopped two raves overnight on Friday into Saturday morning and a further two Saturday night into Sunday morning. This crackdown comes just weeks after Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne called for a review into how the police force deals with raves after they failed to stop a 2000 strong event at Devil’s Dyke. ..
Officers were called around 10:00pm on Saturday to Wivelsfield near Burgess Hill as the rave was being set up and people were arriving. ..
At 12:40am on Sunday morning another rave was stopped at Stanmer Park in Brighton where 50 people had attended with more people attending the location. Police attended, seized the sound equipment and arrested three men. ..
On Saturday night at around 10:00pm police were alerted to a large rave being set up in Falmer. Officers attended and arrested six men. ..
A further small rave was also broken up in Rogate, near Petersfield, at 3:00am where approximately 60 people were in attendance. No arrests were made.