A27 Chichester. Highways England Scheme

Chichester has a problem: it’s highways network is not designed for the 2016 patterns and volumes of traffic and certainly not designed for the 2019 patterns and volumes of traffic once thousands of new homes are added to the City in the coming years. In 2004 the Highways Agency saw this problem coming and proposed […]

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A glimpse of life at Sennicotts during WWII

In the early years of the Second World War a Norfolk girl from Upwell by the name of Kathleen Mary Chapman (W/10633) was posted with the ATS first to the Mitcham Road Barracks in Croydon (1939), before moving further South to Walberton House, West Sussex (1940), then briefly at Fifehead Manor in Hampshire before arriving […]

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Time capsule – sadly empty

The joy of undertaking any work at Sennicotts is you never know what you will find. This week while decorating a bedroom we discovered a builder in the 1960’s had been fuelled by Crosse & Blackwell Meat Soup (Beef). Only he hadn’t just enjoyed the contents but had instead carefully placed the empty tin under […]

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Helpless then saved

I’m not sure I can remember ever feeling so overwhelmingly helpless or for that matter the sense of total dependency as I did on Sunday morning, facing a fire at Sennicotts. We had been camping overnight with friends in a garden in nearby East Ashling. It rained most of Saturday night and so on Sunday […]

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The Red Arrows

For someone who grew up under the flight path of the Red Arrows when they were stationed at RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire there is always something magical about watching this world class display team. The heart beats a little faster and metaphorically I am back in shorts dreaming that one day when I am grown up […]

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Dredging the rain water tanks

There are some jobs for which there is never a good time to tackle them. Today we started a job we have been discussing for at least two years – and putting off. Once upon a time all the rainwater from the house and outbuildings was collected in underwater reservoirs around the house. Over the […]

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This looks like trouble

I was going to post a nice white snowy scene however I thought this photograph was more indicative of this very unusual cold spell. Like many, I’ve been saying, “I can’t remember the last time …” etc. (With so many of us saying the same thing I can already hear a Michael McIntyre sketch in […]

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