Fishbourne Flat Five 2014 at the Finish
The Fishbourne Flat Five is one of the most picturesque, scenic and flat cross country races on the south coast for runners and walkers.
The race is held in Memory of Beckie and Lucy Hassell who were tragically killed in a car accident in October 2005.
This Video is footage from the finish point at the Woolpack for the 2014 race held on the 1st June 2014.
Rediscovering the Bramley Line | March to Watlington, via Wisbech
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A journey along the former railway between March and Watlington, via Wisbech, to see what remains and what there is to rediscover of this lost line.
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Music:
Ralph Vaughn Williams, 'Dark Pastoral' for Cello & Orchestra. Martin Yates (conductor); Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
Picture Credits
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Maps from Google Maps and Bing Maps
Further Details:
The Bramley Line, Wikipedia page:
Wisbech Rail Reopening Campaign - A group who wish to reopen the line between March and Wisbech as a modern railway:
The Bramley Line Association - a volunteer group whose aim it is to reopen the railway between March and Wisbech as a heritage line.:
The Woolpack Inn
Welcome to The Woolpack at Islip. The Country Pub and Restaurant only a few minutes from Kettering. The Woolpack has been beautifully restored and set a couple of minutes from J12 on the A14. The Woolpack offers a large range of facilities from great dining and excellent bar meals to games rooms, outdoor areas and accommodation.
Woolpack Inn Ruins - St Marys NSW - Historic Old Hotel Pub
A look at the ruins of the Woopack Inn Great Western Highway St Marys 33° 46' 11.66 S 150° 45' 44.42 E On the banks of South Creek, St Saint Marys, City Of Penrith, Greater Western Suburbs, Sydney, NSW New South Wales, Australia.
Historical notes: James Hackett arrived in the colony as a convict in 1826. By 1828 he was working as a groom on John Jamieson's property at Regentville where he became a successful jockey, winning many races for Sir John Jamieson.
In 1835 he received his Ticket of Leave and he married in 1838 whereupon he commenced work as a butcher near Penrith. He held a slaughtering licence from the Penrith Magistrates Bench from at least 1838 to 1842 and he operated as a butcher there for some years. By 1847 he had prospered sufficiently to purchase several parcels of land at South Creek, in the township of St Marys, from the Australian Trust Company, free of mortgage. Hackett relocated his business to South Creek and immediately built himself a house on one of his parcels, adjacent to the bridge which carried the Great Western Road across South Creek.
He quickly added an extension to his 6 room house, bringing the total to 9 rooms and opened the Woolpack Inn. By 1852 he was giving his occupation and residence as Innkeeper of St Marys and by 1857 was calling himself a licensed publican. The site of Hackett's house had distinct advantages for an aspiring publican. It was located in a prominent position, immediately adjacent to a key bridge in the area and along the alignment of a major transport route into the area. Bullock teams regularly camped nearby in Victoria Square. However, a number of other inns along the road also existed at this time and they competed vigorously for the same business.
The construction of the western railway in the 1860s also drew a considerable amount of traffic (and therefore business) away from the Western Road and Hackett's land was flood prone, making maintenance of the inn difficult. The 1860s would prove to be one of the wettest decades on record, eventually resulting in the relocation of crop farming from the St Marys plain to the Cumberland Plain. In July 1860 much of the village of South Creek and the surrounding area was under water and the bridge near the Woolpack Inn had been swept away.
Although the bridge was rebuilt, it was again swept away by flood waters in November, diverting traffic to a bridge three miles up the road. Another flood in 1867 damaged yet another replacement bridge and Hackett's business was so severely affected by the continuing inclement weather that he had ceased to operate the Inn all together by that time. He appears to have turned his attention to his other properties at this time, although he continued to live in the former Inn. Following his death in 1897, the property passed to several trustees including his son,
Charles Albert Hackett with a lifetime tenancy to his sons, John and William. John was still occupying the building in the 1920s. The Inn and its surrounding land (including 20 acres behind) did not pass out of the Hackett Family until 1936 when it was sold to William Dunlop and Myrtle Agnes of St Marys. They subdivided the 20 acres south of Putland Street and began to sell off the allotments.
The Woolpack land and additional 2.5 acres was transferred to Aleksas Eirosius, a boilermaker of St Marys, in 1959. It was transferred again in 1964 to Robert Branch and was finally acquired by the New South Wales Planning and Environment Commission in 1980 as part of the South Creek Special Uses and Open Space Corridor.
Information Courtesy of Michael Hatherly
Gotye - Somebody I Used To Know - Acoustic Cover - Ft. Jess Oyo
Filmed at the Woolpack inn, Fishbourne at one of the monday night open mic sessions. Featuring Jess Oyo on Guitar / Vocals and John on the drums :)