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Fulking Sunset
Fulking Sunset – 13th November 2013
Photo by Miles Firth
The Mayfield Horror
The first public screening on Tuesday proved to be a sell-out: “so many turned up at Oaklands, Haywards Heath, .. that some had to be seated in an overspill room .. and listen on a sound link” (Mid Sussex Times). BBC Radio Sussex coverage of the screening can be found here (top story — interviews with several of the stars) and here. Fans will have to wait a couple of weeks to find out whether this slasher — arguably the best since Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre — is to be allowed out on general release.
GJMG
Update 16th November: The Mid Sussex Leader has published a review (PDF).
Plus ça change
Readers who were resident in Fulking in 2005 will find that this report from the Midhurst and Petworth Observer evokes a sense of déjà vu.
Farm conversion
The Hampshire Chronicle reports that the SDNPA has just approved the conversion of an entire farmyard into housing:
Eight barns will be turned into dwellings in Twyford, near Winchester, after applicant Hazeley Farm was granted planning permission by the South Downs National Park.
This is very similar, albeit on a slightly larger scale, to what Terry Willis did with the original Perching Manor farmyard twenty odd years ago.
Remembrance Sunday
To the Glory of God and in memory of the men of this parish who laid down their lives in the great war: James Baker, Samuel Baker, Charles E. Sheppard, William Baker, Charles Baldey, Arthur W. Brown, James E. Lucas, Elias Luff, Richard Wearn.
Risk area for flooding
This post is not a flood alert! But you may have thought that river flooding is something that only happens elsewhere in the locality (e.g., along the banks of the Adur and its larger tributaries). The Environment Agency thinks otherwise and marks a strip of Fulking and Edburton that stretches north from Brook House, via Perching Sands, then west past Lower Edburton and Tottington Sands to Woods Mill. This strip is at significant risk of flooding where ‘significant’ means more than once every 75 years. The Agency’s map has been added to the end of the Local Geology page.
