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2024 Village Calendar

You may have spotted in the village magazine that HDCC have produced a 2024 village calendar.

Featuring photographs and paintings, celebrating life in our village. The calendar is a neat A4 in size and will be sold for £10 per copy, all profits will go to HDCC as part of their ongoing fundraising activities.

Please visit their website here for all the details.

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Notifications to be discussed at 5th December 2023 HD PC meeting

WD/2023/2127/F for LITTLE BROADREED FARM, DOG KENNEL LANE, HADLOW DOWN, TN22 4EL
Proposed external alterations and change of use to existing commercial building and external car parking area to allow the storage and servicing of executive vehicles.
Link to documents: Planning and Building Control – Wealden District Council

WD/2023/7039 for LAND FORMING PART OF TULLEYS FARM, FIVE CHIMNEYS LANE, HADLOW DOWN, TN22 4DX
Agricultural building for the storage of machinery and hay.
Link to documents: Planning and Building Control – Wealden District Council 

WD/2023/1796/F for WILDERNESS COTTAGE, 1 WILDERNESS LANE, HADLOW DOWN, TN22 4HX
Replacement shed. Change of use from garden storage to dog grooming area.
Link to documents: Planning and Building Control – Wealden District Council

 

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Local Theft Alert!

I need to make everyone aware that I have been informed there has been a spate of high value thefts in our area this includes high value vehicles, quad bikes, utility vehicles and high value tools (chainsaws, strimmer’s). Last night in the early hours 5 properties in the Blackboys area had items stolen including a range rover. Two men in balaclavas were caught on CCTV. They also appear to be targeting large rural properties. Other thefts have also happened within the Parish in the last two weeks.
This appears to be co-ordinated and organised crime, please be aware and ensure high value items are not on show, and locked away, and please be vigilant in any suspicious behaviour especially around the rural lanes (as this is how they are moving around) and please report to Sussex Police. Make sure CCTV is working and cameras are clear. Do not approach. Try to capture any vehicle details although I am told the gang are using false plates.
Residents may also be interested that our local PCSO Sue Choppin is attending our next Parish Council meeting on 5th December.
If and when I get more updates from Sussex Police I will update the post.
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Alice Catharine Day  1848 – 1930 Dec. Mini Bio

Alice Catharine Day was born in 1848 to William Day (1787 – 1849) and Anne Elliot Le Blanc (1806 – 1896) of Hadlow House in Hadlow Down which was then a part of the parish of Mayfield.  She was baptized in St. Marks Church, Hadlow Down on the 26th. September 1848.  Her father within a year of her being born.
*Please note that throughout this article the writer has purposely used Miss Day’s correct spelling of her name Catharine spelt with an ‘a’ and not with an ‘e’.
Many Hadlow Down villagers know of Miss Day due to the reproduction of her book Glimpses of Life in Rural Sussex During The Last Hundred Years, which was first published in 1927, in the Millenium village book project of 1999.  In one of her ‘glimpses’ she recalls  visiting a village family in 1883, there are other dates of interviews with villagers including one in 1922  In her book she says she is ‘writing principally of my experiences among them [The Wealden People] during the years from 1874 till 1892’, as the book was published in 1927 a few years before her death at the age of 82, when compiling her book she was no doubt drawing on lots of notes made throughout her time living in Hadlow Down as well as her personal recollections as a young lady. Continue reading “Alice Catharine Day  1848 – 1930 Dec. Mini Bio”