The community website of the village of Fulking, West Sussex
October 18th — a traditional Harvest Festival Service at 11.00am will be followed by our ever popular harvest picnic — bundles of harvest/ploughman’s food tied up in a knapsack and eaten inside or if fine in our grounds, allowing us to take a little ‘time out’ and relax and enjoy our surroundings.
Picnics (£6.50) should be ordered in advance — phone Jane on 07812-465-559.
‘Link For Hope’ deliver Christmas boxes to elderly people left alone and the destitute in Eastern Europe, including Syrian and Eastern Ukrainian refugees.
The fact that someone has thought of them, together with the useful items inside can bring considerable joy to those who have lost everything.
You can make up a shoebox for a family or for an elderly person – details on www.linktohope.co.uk or leaflets from Sarah Rushton at Pyecombe Manor. Call: 855 or email: sprushton24@gmail.com.
Please deliver your shoebox to Sarah (or phone her for collection) before 4th November to be in time for shipment.
Link for Hope also collects leftover foreign coins – so don’t forget those coins lurking in the drawer.
Apple Pressing, Sunday 11th October at Poynings Village Hall. Pressing starts at 11:30am. Have your apples pressed at 50p per litre. Bring containers or buy 1 litre bottles — 25p.
Best Apple Cake Competition. Entries 11:00am — 1:00pm Poynings Village Hall (£1.00 per entry). Judging 1:00pm — 2:00 pm (followed by trophy presentation). Open to Poynings, Fulking and Newtimber residents.
Music from ‘Sold As Seen’. Refreshments, Stalls, Apple Bobbing, Toffee Apples in aid of various charities and events.
Enquiries — sheila@oakpoynings.freeserve.co.uk
Sheila Marshall
Ian Everest talks to the Beeding & Bramber Local History Society on Wednesday October 7th at 7:45pm in the Village Hall, Upper Beeding.
Oxen were still in use at Chyngton and Exceat Farms in Seaford until the mid-1920s and were reckoned to have been in use on the Sussex Downs for over one thousand years before. The talk includes photographs of them at work in Seaford, Bishopstone, East Dean and Lewes, together with some of the more unusual non-agricultural work that they were used for. Following the demise of the oxen in Sussex, the talk looks at the evolution of farming to horses and steam power, the rioting when the threshing machines were introduced and the arrival of the first tractors.
[GJMG notes: I attended a different talk by this speaker in Henfield a couple of years ago. It remains the best local history talk I have heard. Ian Everest was brought up on one of the farms he discusses and he really knows his stuff. In addition, he is an excellent speaker with well organized material.]