After 105 years absence, it was an emotional moment to see a brewery dray enter the Brewery Field that Sunday in August 2017, as two magnificent shire horses, Pride and Griffin, were driven in by John Medhurst, their driver for the past 28 years. Driver John Medhurst and Cllr Peter Jones, then Mayor of Chichester
Month: August 2017
Hidden Westgate Histories 2: The Shippam Stables
By an amazing coincidence, the very week that the dray horses came back to the Brewery Field, if only for an afternoon, a resident was clearing the vegetation back in her garden when she discovered several items hanging on the wall. The first one was this strange item:
Inventory of the Brewery Field Trees
(as of August 2017) There was some disquiet after the opening of the field in August 2017, to see that a rather sculptural – but dead – tree on the Western edge of the field had been felled. The Brewery Field had recently been added to the Chichester Conservation Area. Therefore all the trees were… Continue reading Inventory of the Brewery Field Trees