Huge thanks for joining us at East Farndon Village Hall on Thursday 6th June 2024 for our special event to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. We had a full house and everyone enjoyed a fish & chip supper, followed by a quiz, a game of heads & tails, and our tribute, which included the lighting of the candle of peace at 9.15pm. Please click this link to see some photos from this event.
The event raised a fantastic total of £365 that we have donated to the Royal British Legion. Thank you everyone for being so generous.
Alan Langley delivered another of his now legendary illustrated history talks on Friday 17th May 2024 in the East Farndon Village Hall, with £58.50 raised for Marriott Green maintenance. The talk focused on ‘How to Deci-pher an Ancient Language: the Solution to a 50-year Mystery.’ The hero of the story is buried in Welford, not far from East Farndon!
Last night, Friday 10th May 2024, saw a spectacular display of the northern lights over East Farndon! What a great thing to see! Please see a few photos attached.
Many thanks to the Village Hall Social Committee for organising such a great Quiz Night on Saturday 13th April 2024 at East Farndon Village Hall. Un grand merci à Tom Knott et Caroline et Russell Burton d’avoir écrit et livré un quiz aussi fantastique! (Also, huge thanks to Tom Knott and Caroline & Russell Burton for writing and delivering such a fantastic quiz.)Click this link to see a few photos from the evening.
The first East Farndon Village Hall was opened in February 1924. To celebrate the major milestone of 100 years of East Farndon enjoying a wide variety of Village Hall events, Alan Langley has prepared a new historical document to add to our ever growing Village History section on this website. You can read this latest interesting article by clicking the link below.
Many will be remember that back in October 2023, Alan Langley gave an illustrated history talk entitled ‘Grand Dukes, Diamonds and a Farndon Polo Ground’. Alan has recently published another article for our Village History section, describing the history of the East Farndon Polo Ground. You can read this interesting article by clicking the link below.
A few people have asked about the location of the polo field. Alan says, “I was told by John Hart (who built Greenfields and was living there at the time), that the polo field was in Oak Tree Close, which is the field between the vineyard and the bridleway, looking to the left of the vineyard from Marston Lane. To me, it doesn’t look flat enough, but maybe the part away from the road has just about enough levelish ground for a pitch. People used to get to it along the ‘road’ i.e. the bridleway, according to the reports in the paper. It doesn’t look like the best field for a polo ground, but evidence points that way, to my knowledge.”
Use this Quick Link to read more on our home pages for Village History.
Many thanks to everyone who attended our Chinese New Year Celebration at the Village Hall on Sat Feb 10th 2024. It was a great event and please click the link below to view a few photos from the evening.
The church gates are part of the village’s World War II memorial and were installed in 1948. Unfortunately, over the years they had fallen into a poor state of repair and were in need of a full restoration. Thanks to the generosity of the village, sufficient funds were raised from the war memorial renovation project to allow this work to be carried out as well. The gates were removed in October 2023 and put back into place in December. Huge thanks to everyone involved in the restoration of this very important village memorial.
Christmas Eve brought the sad news of the death of Marlene Hook, at the age of 85. She had lived her entire life in East Farndon. It is 20 years since her husband John died, but she is survived by her daughter Stephanie and son Andrew.
Marlene lived with her parents George and Frances in a cottage near ‘Sunnybays’ which has since been demolished. It was after she and John were married that they moved to a house in The Lealand. Her parents moved nearby, just round the corner. Throughout her life she supported village activities and there is ample photographic proof of her involvement in the W.I., the fete, Age Concern and generally helping out at village events. No event seemed complete unless Marlene was there, doing her bit. The photos show some of her many contributions to village life.
Marlene had the sort of laughter that set other people off laughing as well. She was the kind of person a community needs, to keep village life going strong. Marlene will be much missed, her funeral will take place at East Farndon church on 17th January 2024 at 12.30.
The photo above shows Marlene at the village fete, around 2000, Marlene is wearing sunglasses as she helps at one of the stalls. The photo below shows Marlene (on the right) at the village May Day celebration in 1949.
The photo below shows Marlene (second from right) helping with the washing-up after an event in the village hall in the 1970s.
Below (extreme right) Marlene is part of the W.I. group clearing the spring in 2000.
In 2013 weather forced some stalls at the fete to move into the church and Marlene (left) was helping, as ever.
Following on from last years 12 Days of Christmas, for this years event, we would love villagers to decorate their house, windows, door, gate, wheelie bins etc with a snowflake and / or star theme. If you can, please join in to help create a festive atmosphere within our village …..and beyond. Launch date, Friday 1st December 2023. If you have any questions, please call Sam using the number on the poster below. Also, please send photos.
