Ferring History Week - August 2000

	. SCHEDULE OF TALKS
AUGUST	11.00 a.m.	2.30 p.m.	7.30 p.m.
Friday 18th	Highdown Saxon Cemetery Dr Sally White	The Making of the Ferring Parish Map Wendy Ross	Sundrie Diverse Instruments for Popular Musick Mike Uridge
Saturday 19th	School at the Tudor Close Hugh Marshall	Ferring Families Walk & Talk Kath Worvell	Family History Evening Tracing Local Ferring Names Fish & Chip Supper £5 For Tickels tel. 249136
Monday 21st		FADS, Fact & Fantasy Slide Show Joyce Cooper	Victorian Costume Ann Wise, Worthing Museum
Tuesday 22nd	Wartime Ferring Victor Barnard	Early Ferring Kath Worvell	Big Ben & Other Clocks John Warner Followed by clock & watch valuations
Wednesday 23rd	Ferring by Maps Ancient & Modern Frank Leeson	Sussex Tokens Ron Kerridge	A Funny Sort of Place - Ferring in the 30s Videos of Ferring Geoff Claridge
Thursday 24th	Tracing the History of your House Frank Leeson	The Making of the Ferring Parish Map Wendy Ross	FADS, Fact & Fantasy Slide Show Joyce Cooper
Friday 25th	PICNIC IN ILEX WAY, 2.30 - 5.30 p.m. Walk & Talk with the Ilex Conservation Group (Kath Worvell) and David Smith (Bats & Birds)

REACTIONS TO THE FERRING HISTORY WEEK

The email below was received from Jim Jenkins, who was born in Ferring but currently lives in Steyning. Our thanks for his email - and I hope he tells his brother in South Australia to keep in touch via this website - that way, if he can't be here, at least he can keep up-to-date with current events and perhaps browse through the tapestries and residents' comments.

And by the way, Jim Jenkins' brother, we'd love to hear from you!

From: Jim JENKINS, Rookery Nook, Clays Hill, Bramber, STEYNING, West
Sussex. BN44 3WD. Telephone 01903 813076

THANK YOU ALL
I would just like to express my thanks to all those involved in the organisation, preparation and presentation of the Ferring History Week.

I was fortunate to have been able to attend three events, and only wish I had known about the event earlier so that I could have participated more. My brother Tony, who lives in Adelaide, South Australia says he would have come over had he known in time!

Your events provided a unique opportunity for former inhabitants to remember their time in Ferring and to meet people they had lost contact with.

I was born in Ferring in 1934 and my earliest memories were of the 1937 Coronation procession. It was fantastic to see the whole event on Mr Claridge's film, especially as it included my Dad's lorries.

Please put me on your mailing list. If you produce any publications or archive videos please let me know.

Thanks again.

Jim JENKINS.

Email from Tony Hobden

Please pass on our thanks to all involved in the Week just finished. A large & interesting range of exhibits coupled with a varied & interesting selection of talks, and obviously a lot of hard work before, during & after by "a small group of friends". Whoever "found" Mr Claridge & his films is a genius!

We have one gripe though I'm afraid, & that is the running time & the content of the video. Half an hour would have done more justice to a village of this size. We felt it would have benefited from the inclusion of more people (more potential buyers!) and were surprised at some of the omissions (Library, local businesses & anything north of the railway line).

One last thought, does the Parish Council have any thoughts on taking advantage of The West Sussex Gazette's Parish Photo scheme?

We hope that you are all very satisfied with the interest & community feeling generated during these past few days.

Wendy & Tony Hobden.

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