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West Hadlow?

Hello all.
According to the 1891 census there was once, and possibly still is, a house in Hadlow Down called ‘West Hadlow’. It could have had a name change in the last 100 years? Presumed to be west of ‘Hadlow’ (Now called Hadlow House) The Village Trust would appreciate any information or leads as to what happened to it.
hadlowdown1@gmail.com
Many thanks to anyone who can help.

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Hadlow Down Book Club Review – November 2023

Black Butterflies Priscilla Morris 2023

‘Have you ever heard of such a thing? A human chain to rescue books, a moment of coming together, of resistance.’

Our book this month has particular poignancy in view of what is happening in the world right now. Priscilla Morris’s novel, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize tells the story of the siege of Sarajevo, based on real-life incidents and experiences from her own family.
Zora Kokovic is an artist and Professor of Art at the University of Sarajevo where she lives with her husband Franjo and cares for her 83-year-old mother. As unrest grows, Franjo and her mother leave to stay with her daughter who lives in England, but Zora decides to stay in her beloved city to finish her painting and join them later. She believes that things will soon settle down and that the tanks gathering in the mountains are for their protection.
Despite difficulties, Zora begins to enjoy her solitude and focus on her recent painting.  But soon things worsen, as conflict turns into full scale war. Buildings are shelled, people lie dead in the streets; food, water and electricity become scarce and then vanish. Zora is reduced to catching pigeons on her windowsill and cooking them. Continue reading “Hadlow Down Book Club Review – November 2023”

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Remembrance Day 2023

 

The Remembrance Day service in St Mark’s is at 3.00 pm. Sunday 12th.  November.
Armistice Observance is the day before on the 11th. in the churchyard. Meet at 10.55 am for 11.00 am Silence.

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Marmaduke Pickthall – Oct. Mini-Bio

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall   1875 – 1936
Muhammed Marmaduke Pickthall lived in Five Chimneys, Hadlow Down between 1909 and c.1916/17. Electoral Roll records of 1912 show him owning one quarter of the C16 wood framed house now re-fronted with red brick and the central chimney stacks cemented over but finished with brick tops

Pickthall was born in Cambridge Terrace, near Regent’s Park in London on the 7th. April 1875 the elder of the two sons of the Reverend Charles Grayson Pickthall (1822–1881) and his second wife, MaryHale, née O’Brien (1836–1904).  Mary, of the Irish Inchiquin clan, was the widow of William Hale and the daughter of Admiral Donat Henchy O’Brien, who served in the Napoleonic Wars, Charles was an Anglican clergyman, the rector of Chillesford a village near Woodbridge, Suffolk  The Pickthalls traced their ancestry to a knight of William the Conqueror, Sir Roger de Poictu, from whom their surname derives.

Marmaduke was an English Islamic scholar noted for his 1930 English translation of the Qu’ran, (usually anglicized as “Koran” in Pickthall’s era). His translation is one of the most widely known and used in the English-speaking world. A convert from Christianity to Islam, Pickthall was also a novelist, esteemed by D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and E. M. Forster, as well as journalists, political and religious leaders. He declared his conversion to Islam in dramatic fashion after delivering a talk on ‘Islam and Progress’ on 29 November 1917, to the Muslim Literary Society in Notting Hill, West London. Continue reading “Marmaduke Pickthall – Oct. Mini-Bio”

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Notifications to be discussed at 3rd October 2023 HD PC meeting

WD/2023/2084/FR – NEW FARM HOUSE, STOCKLANDS LANE, HADLOW DOWN, TN22 4EA
Description: Part retrospective application for the demolition of part of existing unauthorised balcony to create an access platform to accommodate newly installed bi-fold doors. Change of description
Link to documents: https://planning.wealden.gov.uk/disclaimer.aspx?returnURL=%2fplandisp.aspx%3frecno%3d163076%26AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport%3d1

WD/2023/2130/F – WILDERNESS WOOD, MAIN ROAD, HADLOW DOWN, TN22 4HJ
Description: REMOVAL OF EXISTING GARAGE AND ERECTION OF NEW BUILDING COMPRISING OFFICE/MEETING ROOM AND APPRENTICE CABIN.
Link to documents: https://planning.wealden.gov.uk/disclaimer.aspx?returnURL=%2fplandisp.aspx%3frecno%3d163141

WD/2023/2173/F – COLES FARM, WILDERNESS LANE, HADLOW DOWN, TN22 5HS
Description: CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING BARN TO CREATE A DWELLING, CURTILAGE, PARKING AND WIDER LANDSCAPING AND ECOLOGICAL ENHANCEMENTS.
Link to documents: https://planning.wealden.gov.uk/disclaimer.aspx?returnURL=%2fplandisp.aspx%3frecno%3d163191

WD/2023/2184/LBR – CLAYLANDS, STONEHURST LANE, HADLOW DOWN, TN22 4ED
Description: ADDITIONAL WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH FULL REROOFING (GRANTED LISTED BUILDING CONSENT WD/2021/2063/LB) COMPRISING STRUCTURAL REPAIRS TO THE EXISTING ROOF STRUCTURE, CHIMNEY REPOINTING, REPLACEMENT CASEMENT WINDOWS WITHIN EXISTING DORMERS, INSULATION TO LOFTS, COPPER PIPE LAGGING AND RETROSPECTIVE LISTED BUILDING CONSENT FOR 2 NO. ‘VELUX’ ROOF WINDOWS AND THEIR REPLACEMENT WITH THE ‘VELUX’ ‘HERITAGE CONSERVATION’ TYPE.
Link to documents: https://planning.wealden.gov.uk/disclaimer.aspx?returnURL=%2fplandisp.aspx%3frecno%3d163202

WD/2023/7033/AD – FORD FARM VINEYARD, HASTINGFORD LANE, HADLOW DOWN TN22 4DY
Description: ERECTION OF STEEL FRAMED PORTAL WINERY BUILDING WITH TWO ELEVATIONS CLAD IN TIMBER AND TWO IN PLASTISOL COATED INSULATED CLADDING.
Link to documents: https://planning.wealden.gov.uk/plandisp.aspx?recno=16330