Mad March Pub Quiz at the Shepherd and Dog
Geoffrey Bush writes:-
The Friends of Sussex Hospices Mad March Pub Quiz is being supported by 80 pubs across Sussex. An incredible £5000 has already been raised by just 14 pubs.
The Shepherd & Dog pub in Fulking village staged its Mad March Quiz on Wednesday 11th March.
The evening was a sell out and brought together the local community to support both Sussex Hospices and the popular new publicans, David and Emily. Besides running a very entertaining quiz, David and Emily generously sponsored the event by providing light supper for all contestants, champagne and a round of drinks for the top teams, plus excellent raffle prizes donated by the pub’s local suppliers.
As a result, the Shepherd & Dog is now even more popular with the locals and enabled all of the £300 funds raised during the evening to go to Sussex hospices. The attached photo shows Davie & Emily with some of the prizes.
More information can be found at: friendsofsussexhospices.org.uk
Geoffrey
On the market
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)
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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.