Grange Farm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Mrs Tomkins) <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Alfred, Alfred, Alfred !
\nBring me the dusky day
\nSo I may place it
\nWith the other jams<\/p>\n
Grange Farm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Thomas Little – Farmhand) <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
I am frying an egg
\nOn the tin barn roof
\nThe chickens enjoy the view<\/p>\n
Grange Farm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Alfred Tomkins – Owner of the Farm) <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
We are often naked
\nIn our marital bed
\nSurrounded by rational turnips<\/p>\n
Grange Farm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Alfred Tomkins – Owner of the Farm) <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
We rise at 5
\nBreak our night fast at 6
\nBy 7 we are ready for 8<\/p>\n
Tolpuddle Farm (J C Smoth – Owner of the Farm)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Two rivers
\nRun through my farm
\nMy wife (Mary) and I swim separately
\nExchanging our rivers each day<\/p>\n
Cliff Cave – Smallholder <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
I am collecting samples
\nOf the marsh gases
\nFor the winter months
\n(Coal is so expensive)<\/i><\/p>\n
Notice next to the Coroners Office in Greenbridge <\/b><\/p>\n
Keep Out
\nDeep Pond
\nOften Drained<\/p>\n
Lucinda\u2019s Diary (1921) <\/b><\/p>\n
Lucinda Bas-Scott was born in Faversham in 1900 and attended the Slade School of Art . She is best known for her landscapes and collages. She and her husband Gerald Bas-Scott vanished whilst on trip to the Soviet Union in 1937.<\/p>\n
I came across two pages of her diary in a collection of Left Book Club ephemera in a bookshop in Salisbury<\/i><\/p>\n
July 10th<\/sup> <\/b><\/p>\n On summer days Gerald and I visit the downs mainly to sketch and read. Today was no exception. We climbed nearly to the summit of the hill where I sketched the nearby flowers whilst Gerald read a novel by Mr James.<\/p>\n At about two in the afternoon Gerald said to me that he thought that I was his Eve and he was my Adam in the first garden. I joked that no serpent was present. He warned me that serpents were always present but well hidden.<\/p>\n July 12th<\/sup><\/b><\/p>\n We climbed the downs again today. The weather was less sunny but none the less it was very warm. The shadows of the clouds produced a curious kaleidoscope of patterns on the fields below.<\/p>\n Note<\/i><\/p>\n Lucinda\u2019s observations on that July afternoon in 1921 sowed the germ for her Kaleidoscope (Landscape) series of paintings (there were five in all). These were offered at auction in 1962 and have not been seen in public since.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bus Shelters<\/b><\/p>\n A number of bus shelters in rural areas have been painted aquamarine instead of the normal green, Ian Chateris who has responsibility for all bus shelters in the county has denied reports that the contractor involved was colour blind.<\/p>\n From the Greenbridge Gazette\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Twinning Towns <\/b><\/p>\n Sir Jomo Left was in charge of the twinning of Greenbridge with the Serbian town of Kanic in1984. He now lives in Lower Tripping and wants to twin the village again. This time his idea is more radical. Sir Jomo noted the following when I met him recently.<\/p>\n \u201c The twinning of Greenbridge and Kanic in the 1980s was very successful, but very very expensive costing the town some \u00a328.000 a year. Obviously Lower Tripping does not have these funds, so it was decided to twin our village with Upper Tripping three miles away. This has been even more successful than the Greenbridge twinning at a fraction of the cost. We are hoping to twin with Middle Tripping next year so that all the Trippings are twinned. I feel that future generations in the Trippings will benefit greatly with the cross cultural and geographical activities.\u201d <\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Notice at the Apollo Tearooms in Senton <\/b><\/p>\n My Great Great Aunt was the model used by J W Waterhouse in his painting Hylas and the Nymphs. In view of this fact all visitors from Manchester can take advantage of our two for one offer on our delicious cream teas<\/p>\n <\/p>\n George Cordice <\/b><\/p>\n Miss Eileen Test (84) met the poet in the 1950s when he came to live in her village. She remembers:<\/p>\n \u201cHe was a strange sort of man, very tall and with a thick beard. If he met you in the village, he would greet you like a long lost friend. I do not think he had to buy a drink in all the time he lived here. <\/i><\/p>\n He was a great lover of Swinburne and when he found out that I had an admiration for the great man we became firm friends. He began to write poems for me but this was hindered by the fact that he only wrote poetry during anticyclonic periods of weather. He often started poems but never finished them. As the weather in the early 1950s was decidedly mixed he left the village and moved to Trinidad where he was able to complete more poems with only the hurricane seasons to worry him. <\/i><\/p>\n I will read you fragments of the poems that I still have. Sadly I lost some during the years since George left.\u00a0 \u201d <\/i><\/p>\n Celandine <\/b><\/p>\n I shall find you in the sweet-lands<\/p>\n My small illicit flowers<\/p>\n Woven into the decorations<\/p>\n Of\u00a0 your many hidden towers<\/p>\n In the ballroom barns —–<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sweet Eileen <\/b><\/p>\n There be no sugar<\/p>\n In those far hills<\/p>\n All that thee needs<\/p>\n Rests here<\/p>\n A —-<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the Early Morning Mirror <\/b><\/p>\n Many dreams will go<\/p>\n Sadly yours will linger<\/p>\n After —-<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Grange Farm – (Amos Tomkins – Son of the Owner) <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n One of the great pleasures of modern farming is that it enables me to erect fences everywhere.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To be continued\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grange Farm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Mrs Tomkins) Alfred, Alfred, Alfred ! 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