Spring North Town Field Clear-up
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)
On the market
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.
End of an era
Retired computer delivered free to local resident
Midi tower containing Intel Pentium Core2Duo 6400, 2GB RAM, 40GB hard disk, DVDROM drive, audio & two USB sockets at front, audio & six USB sockets at rear, ethernet, serial, parallel, and a M-ATX motherboard with three free PCI sockets. Supplied with UK keyboard and matching optical mouse but no monitor: any old monitor with a VGA connector will do and, if you have read this far, then you probably have one in the loft. Linux (Ubuntu 14.10) with Firefox, Chromium, Opera, Thunderbird and LibreOffice is preinstalled. Not suitable for bitcoin mining, video editing or serious games but entirely adequate for reading email, browsing the web, cropping photos, and doing office chores.
If you live in Edburton, Fulking or Poynings and you have a use for this machine, email hdr22 [at-symbol] fulking [period] org to arrange for delivery.