Raising funds for our own local animal centre charity The Kit Wilson Trust as well as Macmillan Cancer Support who we couldn’t help with a Coffee Morning last year due to Covid 19.
May Book Club Review
The Hadlow Down Book Club Review of the book for May can now be found on the Book Club pages.
Book Club Review – “Klara and the Sun”
The Sun was always very kind to me. He was always kind to me from the start.
This month’s book is “Klara and the Sun” by Nobel Prize Winner Kazuo Ishiguro. I had looked forward to reading this as I really loved “Never Let me Go” when the book club read it some years ago and I knew that the two books had much in common, with their dystopian setting and their themes of sacrifice, solitude and exploitation.
History of Hadlow Down Village Hall
A history of our village hall has been added to the Village Trust Pages:
Hadlow Down’s first village hall, although not named as such, was a large hut obtained from the YMCA and erected on land donated by the Eridge Estate; it was always known as ‘the Hut’ or ‘the Red Triangle Hut’ after its previous owners’ symbol.
Listed Buildings in Hadlow Down
All listed buildings in Hadlow Down can be found on this site:
Book Club Review – April 2021
‘Pachinko’ by Min Jin Lee
‘Pachi
nko is a foolish game, but life was not.’
Our book this month was “Pachinko”, by Min Jin Lee, an American Korean who spent time in Japan with her husband. This was one of the most popular choices among writers offering their summer choices to the Irish Times and a runner-up to the National Book Award for Fiction 2017.
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Book Club Review – March 2021
‘Light Perpetual’ by Francis Spufford
‘Everything ends… doesn’t mean it wasn’t good’.
A few years ago the Book Club read Francis Spufford’s debut picaresque novel ‘On Golden Hill’. Described as a frolicsome, exuberant romp, all of us really enjoyed it and we were therefore keen to read his next novel, Light Perpetual’, a title taken from the Requiem Prayer.
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Neighbours Object as New Plan Submitted for Homes on Village Hall Site
From Uckfield News:
A new outline planning application has been submitted to demolish Hadlow Down Village Hall and build three homes on the site.
Outline permission was given in 2018 for the project- see a previous Uckfield News story: Plans to demolish village hall and build three homes approved – but reserved matters have not been submitted within the three years required.
The same design and access statement submitted for the first application, number WD/2018/0089/0 accompanies the new application, number WD/2021/0471.
Continue reading “Neighbours Object as New Plan Submitted for Homes on Village Hall Site”
The Great British Spring Clean
Save the date: The next Great British Spring Clean will be held in Wealden from 28 May until 13 June 2021.
Our outdoor spaces are more important to us now than ever before. We are once again proud to support Keep Britain Tidy and their Great British Spring Clean campaign to free our outdoor spaces from litter. Close to a million bags of litter were collected in the UK in 2019. Wealden District Council has supported this initiative for the past five years. In the past year alone, volunteer litter pickers in Wealden have been very active, collecting well in excess of 1,500 bags of litter. This Spring, Keep Britain Tidy call on you to join their #MillionMileMission to clean up the country and show some love for those special places that helped us though lockdown. If 250,000 people pledge to pick up litter for 90 minutes each, a million miles of outdoor space would be covered – that’s to the moon and back twice!
New Book Club Review
The Hadlow Down Book Club have added a review of their February read ‘Piranesi’ by Susannah Clarke to the book club pages.
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Suspicious Activity in Village
Posted on behalf of Fiona Thorpe Five Chimneys Lane
My husband had an encounter with ?4 Caucasian men in BMW- v dark black/blue colour GU 54 XWZ approx time 14.30hrs. One man parked against the gate got out and fiddled around then left.
Ages 20/30’s