Peartree Cottage is our house and now restored to the Late Medival dwelling it was originally. It had an open first bay which was probably a workshop with open-hearth (the walls backing onto the smoke bay are sooted right up to the underside of the thatch). Originally the house was 'pre chimney with a smoke bay; smoke would escape through gablets at each end of the thatch ridge. The smoke bay and gablets are still intact as is Peartree's timber frame with wattle and daub infill. We have found a small part of the original earth floor in the first bay, now preserved under glass. The front and side elevations were replaced with flint in the 1700s with stone quoins. The back of the house is still timber-framed with its early outshot and cat slide. There is a Victorian extension at the east end with knapped flint which is galleted. The front bay extensions were added in about 1910 when the house was divided in two for a short while. Thank you Richard Vobes for including our house in your valuable and informative walks
William Blake was born in Soho and died in Charing Cross just a mile apart. So his stay in Felpham for nearly 4 years when he was 43 in 1800 was to work as an illustrator for the works of William Hayley a poet living in Felpham at the time. Blake settled near him for three years to engrave the illustrations for the Life of Cowper.
My Grandmother lived in the detached house at 0’40. It was called Thatched Roof and she lived there from the mid-1950s for around ten years before moving to Culver Cottage which today is No.1 Culver Road. Her name was Beatrice Settatree Rush and you can see her headstone in St Mary’s churchyard. She is buried with her sister May Williams who passed away three years before her in 1969. My parents were married in the church in January 1957. My brothers and I have the fondest memories of holidays by the sea with our Grandmother at Felpham. Our own parents passed away in 2021 and we have recently rediscovered Felpham and its charm. The sound and smell of the sea as you turn the corner from Culver Road to the seafront is so evocative. Thank you for a marvellous video.
Excellent film Richard. Felpham is a lovely part of the Bognor Regis area, which many people either don’t know about, or visit. The beach, and the various cafes, have a relaxed, welcome feel about them. Before my retirement, when working in that area, I would go for a swim in their lovely indoor pool, at the nearby Beachcroft Hotel. The water was always clean and warm, plus the staff were always very friendly and made me feel welcome. The views from the hotel, and along the coast, are stunning and possibly the best in Sussex. I love the area.
An excellent video Richard. As a former resident of Felpham I think you have shown some of the more interesting parts of the village. As far as I am aware, Blake's cottage has always been a private house and never been open to the public.
Another beautiful morning in a beautiful village. What a wealth of history. All the houses and cottages amazing. Loved the graveyard with the old higgledy piggledy gravestones with the early morning sunshine. So peaceful. Fab vlog. Thank you do much.
This video has made me want to go back to Felpham to relive the memories of this video !! Thank you so much 😊 I can’t believe that I had a pint in that pub that William Blake went into fantastic lol
Really well put together Richard. A lot of us who live close to Felpham may not have even known some of the properties history that you have highlighted. Great music.
Thank you Richard for the walk around Felpham with its lovely cottages, and the information about William Blake. BTW I checked on wikipedia and apparently William Blake was cleared at Chichester Assizes of all charges relating to the dragoon due to a lack of evidence.
Great to see William Blake getting a generous mention in this. Yes, a genius and a visionary. Father of Romanticism and Neo-Romantic painting in Britain.
So pleased you enjoyed Felpham which is one if my especial favourite places on that part of the coast. I think it has a lovely ancient and unusual ambience about it. You can well imagine Blake experiencing his visions there! The Blake windows in the church are gorgeous. Glad you showed parts of them. Our history and ancestry should be available to everyman as you are and for everyone to enjoy not fenced off and made private and inaccessible.
I have lovely memories of Felpham. Thank you so much for bringing them alive again and all your efforts in the production. Hopefully I will revisit soon.
Nice to see Felpham again, use to spend summer holidays as a child. I had a great aunt who use to live in one the older houses / cottage by the church, I can remember it had a old well in the garden. My grandparent have a memorial stone in the graveyard by the church. I use to spend many a day on the beach and can still remember the boathouse, the bench seats, the fish and chips they severed and having proper coffee in the 80's. So many memories
Great video, Richard. I loved the movement of the camera at around 11:25; it was as though you had it on rails, it was so smooth! I had a friend at school whose father was the rector at Felpham church!
A lovely video, thanks for posting, very enjoyable. There are substantially built Coastguard Cottages all along the Coast, A huge organisation in the days before telephone, radio and cars watching our long coastline for all manner of things not least ships running or blowing ashore and often wrecking where navigation was rudimentary and ships followed the wind wherever it blew them. It was an appropriate second career for many who left the Royal Navy through age or injury. There are lines of old cottages everywhere on the coast, built to last and usually close to the beach or atop a cliff.
Yayyy another Border walk, and another fab video, a lovely little village with some lovely buildings, looks like felpham is a lovely place.some great info too thanks once again Richard. :)
Had to have a giggle at the 17 minute mark "never eat, shredded wheat". Always a useful phrase for walking and directions! Great video again, the history of these places are fascinating.
I so enjoyed the tour of the village especially the oldest building thank you for the explanation about the changes it has “endured”? I enjoy as always the trips down to the beaches which leads me to my question I live a few minutes walk from the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick , is Fundy a name given to any water feature like a bay or cove in the water between England and France or Portugal ? When I googled Fundy all that came up was the Canadian Bay. The word is said to be a corruption of either a French or Portuguese word. No worries if you have no idea, I can live with that, do not waste any of your time looking. Oh I have been meaning to tell the lovely Julia how much I love glimpses of her hair it is my favourite colour! Thank you for all the work you put into making these videos.
Brilliant & well researched video, having been a Londoner for the last decade it's lovely to revisit my home village Felpham in a new light, especially with the lockdown restrictions this Christmas. Thanks and keep up the good work. P.S I would also chime in with previous comments that it is usually pronounced 'felfam' by locals
I was married in that church - quite a long time ago (my wife was then a 'spinster of the parish')! It's extremely venerable building and has a gallery in the tower where the bell ringers stand and are visible to the congregation whilst pulling the ropes. Moving to the secular, the George is a nice boozer! I never understood why the 'Thatched House' pub has a tiled roof.
you walked right under my bedroom window lol above the what was estate agent next to st Marys Church although I have only just moved in :) I hardly ever go out these days but have fished at the local beach and I must say , it really is a beautiful village and its lovely having a little roof garden that looks over the rear of the church and graveyard the blackbirds are almost deafening at 5/6 am , Thankyou for the video , i saw more in this than i have for real an i have been here 2 weeks anyway i have subbed and look forward to some more of your walks :) Baz
Limmer Lane! that's on my regular coastal bike ride in order to reach the superb coastal route along to Bognor and further West. Thanks for sharing, that area kept me sane through lockdown!
AM just amazed how much history you know sooo well, and can explain all this history without any notes, on every single video. Wow! Am impressed, as that would require so much research, and study for every video.
Superb Richard -my wife works in Felpham and it is a lovely place with some beautiful houses and this film highlights this well , We live in Middleton on sea and thank you for your words at the start of the film , we moved down here from West London five and half years ago and the people in this village are really friendly and we have never felt uncomfortable walking through the Private estates at all -Keep up the good work and looking forward to your Bognor episode
Thanks, Andy. I am sure Middleton is full of lovely people - my comments were from an outsider's point of view coming there for the first time. I cannot help myself - I do prefer older buildings. The pressure is on to do Bognor now! Eeek!
Another excellent video Richard. I was just thinking... further along the border at Lynchmere you'll also pass Shulbrede Priory where Jerusalem was later transformed into the hymn. What a nice sense of completion! But the story of Jerusalem doesn't end there... when you've come full-circle and your weary legs finally reach the end of their journey, you'll be at the exact spot where Richard Vobes will at that very moment spontaneously re-imagine Jerusalem into its final, definitive version: the MC Vobez Jerusalem Techno Remix featuring Julia; which will immediately be universally proclaimed the pinnacle of not only musical but all artistic endeavour by all humankind.
Great Vid. As for people being upset about how you felt in your previous location - If that is how you felt, that is how you felt. Not sure that ranting at you would have made you feel any more welcome. :-)
An interesting video thank you. William Blake wrote of the house in Felpham that it was "of cottages the prettiest" and he considered Felpham men to be "the mildest of the human race". One of the families who went to Upper Canada with the Petworth Emigration Scheme in 1832 was Martin Martin, his wife and children. Martin had at one time been landlord of The Fox inn.
ON THE BORDER (verse 19 of ???) For every sandgrain on the beach a distant star exists Ungraspable such magnitude yet theory persists Just one small step it may be in a universe sublime Explorer Richard struts his stuff across the sands of time. JB20
ON THE BORDER (verse 18 of ???) Old Felpham crammed with Englishness has the Richard gushing From Tudor to Blake, straw thatch to slate with schoolboy keenness rushing A place ten pounds in value just before 1066 Yet still they came from misty seas its humble 'wealth' to pick. JB20
Great memories, but it's pronounced 'felfam' or that is what we who lived there called it Sorry, that sounds arrogant, not intended, just informative 😊
Peartree Cottage is our house and now restored to the Late Medival dwelling it was originally. It had an open first bay which was probably a workshop with open-hearth (the walls backing onto the smoke bay are sooted right up to the underside of the thatch). Originally the house was 'pre chimney with a smoke bay; smoke would escape through gablets at each end of the thatch ridge. The smoke bay and gablets are still intact as is Peartree's timber frame with wattle and daub infill. We have found a small part of the original earth floor in the first bay, now preserved under glass.
The front and side elevations were replaced with flint in the 1700s with stone quoins. The back of the house is still timber-framed with its early outshot and cat slide. There is a Victorian extension at the east end with knapped flint which is galleted. The front bay extensions were added in about 1910 when the house was divided in two for a short while.
Thank you Richard Vobes for including our house in your valuable and informative walks
Thanks for the extra info Mary - I am glad I got some of my blurb right!
Vobes at his best - brilliant.
Thanks so much. I did have fun with this one.
William Blake was born in Soho and died in Charing Cross just a mile apart.
So his stay in Felpham for nearly 4 years when he was 43 in 1800 was to work as an illustrator for the works of William Hayley a poet living in Felpham at the time. Blake settled near him for three years to engrave the illustrations for the Life of Cowper.
Richard, this mini-series is the best thing you've done so far.
I wonder what you will do next :)
Thank you so much - the best is yet to come - I hope! :)
What a very beautiful village! I especially liked the large thatched home in the begining & Pear Tree Cottage. A very enjoyable walk!!!
I knew you, Lisa, would love this one :)
My Grandmother lived in the detached house at 0’40. It was called Thatched Roof and she lived there from the mid-1950s for around ten years before moving to Culver Cottage which today is No.1 Culver Road. Her name was Beatrice Settatree Rush and you can see her headstone in St Mary’s churchyard. She is buried with her sister May Williams who passed away three years before her in 1969. My parents were married in the church in January 1957. My brothers and I have the fondest memories of holidays by the sea with our Grandmother at Felpham. Our own parents passed away in 2021 and we have recently rediscovered Felpham and its charm. The sound and smell of the sea as you turn the corner from Culver Road to the seafront is so evocative. Thank you for a marvellous video.
Excellent film Richard.
Felpham is a lovely part of the Bognor Regis area, which many people either don’t know about, or visit.
The beach, and the various cafes, have a relaxed, welcome feel about them.
Before my retirement, when working in that area, I would go for a swim in their lovely indoor pool, at the nearby Beachcroft Hotel. The water was always clean and warm, plus the staff were always very friendly and made me feel welcome.
The views from the hotel, and along the coast, are stunning and possibly the best in Sussex.
I love the area.
An excellent video Richard. As a former resident of Felpham I think you have shown some of the more interesting parts of the village. As far as I am aware, Blake's cottage has always been a private house and never been open to the public.
Both Blake and Samuel Palmer are very underestimated English artists. Enjoyed today's walk very much.
Thanks so much, Michael.
Another beautiful morning in a beautiful village. What a wealth of history. All the houses and cottages amazing. Loved the graveyard with the old higgledy piggledy gravestones with the early morning sunshine. So peaceful. Fab vlog. Thank you do much.
I am ashamed to say I had never been and was impressed by the wonders there. Thanks for watching, Shirley.
This video has made me want to go back to Felpham to relive the memories of this video !! Thank you so much 😊 I can’t believe that I had a pint in that pub that William Blake went into fantastic lol
Really well put together Richard. A lot of us who live close to Felpham may not have even known some of the properties history that you have highlighted. Great music.
Thanks, David - very much appreciated.
That was a lovely video, a beautiful morning, nice to see a bit of sunshine and some more fantastic houses. Sussex at its best.
Yes indeed - thank you.
What a lovely place and thankfully you had some lovely weather by the look of it. Another place I must go to. The Church is beautiful.
Thank you Richard for the walk around Felpham with its lovely cottages, and the information about William Blake. BTW I checked on wikipedia and apparently William Blake was cleared at Chichester Assizes of all charges relating to the dragoon due to a lack of evidence.
Thanks for the additional info. Glad you liked it.
This is extremely good, one of the best so far!
I enjoyed myself making this one. Thanks Poj!
A delightful and interesting tour! I particularly liked the shell shaped canopy above the pub door.
Thank you very much!
This was a great video Richard. Makes it sound grand that I have a 'collection' lol
Thanks for the loan of your collection, Linda.
Great to see William Blake getting a generous mention in this. Yes, a genius and a visionary. Father of Romanticism and Neo-Romantic painting in Britain.
Happy to do so - would love to learn more about him.
Another great video, packed with information, now I want to go to Felpham!
So pleased you enjoyed Felpham which is one if my especial favourite places on that part of the coast. I think it has a lovely ancient and unusual ambience about it. You can well imagine Blake experiencing his visions there! The Blake windows in the church are gorgeous. Glad you showed parts of them. Our history and ancestry should be available to everyman as you are and for everyone to enjoy not fenced off and made private and inaccessible.
I totally agree. Thanks so much, Jean.
I have lovely memories of Felpham. Thank you so much for bringing them alive again and all your efforts in the production. Hopefully I will revisit soon.
Nice to see Felpham again, use to spend summer holidays as a child. I had a great aunt who use to live in one the older houses / cottage by the church, I can remember it had a old well in the garden. My grandparent have a memorial stone in the graveyard by the church.
I use to spend many a day on the beach and can still remember the boathouse, the bench seats, the fish and chips they severed and having proper coffee in the 80's.
So many memories
The Boathouse cafe brings back memories of having prawn cocktail with advacado! Coming from the north I’d never heard of advacado 😃
I am not a fan of avocado myself, but glad it brought back memories.
Great video, Richard. I loved the movement of the camera at around 11:25; it was as though you had it on rails, it was so smooth!
I had a friend at school whose father was the rector at Felpham church!
i used to re cloth pool tables for about 14 years then got made redundant and the Thatched Cottage Pub pool table was the last one i ever did
Happy memories there then, I hope.
I love your old format of the Sussex border walk,also the fill in music is so atmospheric, keep up the good work Richard
Thank you very much
Really enjoyed this episode. Visually for the traditional buildings and the story connected to William Blake. Lovely.
Glad you enjoyed it
What a lovely village! Wonderful properties and church too!
It was lovely.
A lovely video, thanks for posting, very enjoyable. There are substantially built Coastguard Cottages all along the Coast, A huge organisation in the days before telephone, radio and cars watching our long coastline for all manner of things not least ships running or blowing ashore and often wrecking where navigation was rudimentary and ships followed the wind wherever it blew them. It was an appropriate second career for many who left the Royal Navy through age or injury. There are lines of old cottages everywhere on the coast, built to last and usually close to the beach or atop a cliff.
You have got to love those old coast guard cottages.
You're the best traveller thank you for your videos , by the way we all appreciate travelling with you.
Thanks so much - that is really kind.
That was terrific exploration of the delightful Felpham.
Thanks, Nigel.
Have you ever been through Dorset following the route of the unnamed hero in Geoffrey Household's book, Rogue Male?
I read that book at school and loved it - and reread it fairly recently. I haven't retraced his footsteps, but what a great idea.
Yayyy another Border walk, and another fab video, a lovely little village with some lovely buildings, looks like felpham is a lovely place.some great info too thanks once again Richard. :)
It is a lovely place and I enjoyed filming that one.
What a ;lovely village Richard and some nice history too. I like the Jerusalem lyrics by William Blake.
They are inspiring lyrics.
Had to have a giggle at the 17 minute mark "never eat, shredded wheat". Always a useful phrase for walking and directions! Great video again, the history of these places are fascinating.
I love that little phrase - good old shredded wheat!
I so enjoyed the tour of the village especially the oldest building thank you for the explanation about the changes it has “endured”? I enjoy as always the trips down to the beaches which leads me to my question I live a few minutes walk from the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick , is Fundy a name given to any water feature like a bay or cove in the water between England and France or Portugal ? When I googled Fundy all that came up was the Canadian Bay. The word is said to be a corruption of either a French or Portuguese word. No worries if you have no idea, I can live with that, do not waste any of your time looking. Oh I have been meaning to tell the lovely Julia how much I love glimpses of her hair it is my favourite colour! Thank you for all the work you put into making these videos.
Fascinating - vernacular architecture is so interesting
I love architecture - thanks for watching.
Dam, I can't believe I missed you visiting my village.
I am the stealth-master :)
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@@carladoe5357 did you live near the traffic lights and have chickens ?
Brilliant & well researched video, having been a Londoner for the last decade it's lovely to revisit my home village Felpham in a new light, especially with the lockdown restrictions this Christmas. Thanks and keep up the good work. P.S I would also chime in with previous comments that it is usually pronounced 'felfam' by locals
Glad you enjoyed it
Been through Felpham many times but didnt know it had so much to see. Thanks Richard.
Thanks for watching.
I was married in that church - quite a long time ago (my wife was then a 'spinster of the parish')! It's extremely venerable building and has a gallery in the tower where the bell ringers stand and are visible to the congregation whilst pulling the ropes. Moving to the secular, the George is a nice boozer! I never understood why the 'Thatched House' pub has a tiled roof.
you walked right under my bedroom window lol
above the what was estate agent next to st Marys Church
although I have only just moved in :)
I hardly ever go out these days but have fished at the local beach
and I must say , it really is a beautiful village
and its lovely having a little roof garden that looks over the rear of the church and graveyard
the blackbirds are almost deafening at 5/6 am , Thankyou for the video , i saw more in this than i have for real
an i have been here 2 weeks anyway i have subbed and look forward to some more of your walks :)
Baz
I really enjoyed this!
Lovely video and so full of history.
Thanks so much
Really interesting stuff, Richard. What a lovely village!
It really is! Thanks for watching.
Limmer Lane! that's on my regular coastal bike ride in order to reach the superb coastal route along to Bognor and further West. Thanks for sharing, that area kept me sane through lockdown!
Good stuff - glad you enjoyed it.
AM just amazed how much history you know sooo well, and can explain all this history without any notes, on every single video. Wow! Am impressed, as that would require so much research, and study for every video.
One of your very best. Lovely buildings.
Very kind. Thank you.
Very interesting! Thank you
Glad you liked it!
Another lovely video Richard, beautifully filmed. 😊 👍
Thanks, Damian.
Superb Richard -my wife works in Felpham and it is a lovely place with some beautiful houses and this film highlights this well , We live in Middleton on sea and thank you for your words at the start of the film , we moved down here from West London five and half years ago and the people in this village are really friendly and we have never felt uncomfortable walking through the Private estates at all -Keep up the good work and looking forward to your Bognor episode
Thanks, Andy. I am sure Middleton is full of lovely people - my comments were from an outsider's point of view coming there for the first time. I cannot help myself - I do prefer older buildings. The pressure is on to do Bognor now! Eeek!
Dialog and scenery excellent.
Bravo.
Very kind.
Richard, what a pleasant video! That William Blake chap chose a nice place to reside; no fearful symmetry there...
Absolutely - a lovely place - would love to see in side the cottage.
Another excellent video Richard. I was just thinking... further along the border at Lynchmere you'll also pass Shulbrede Priory where Jerusalem was later transformed into the hymn. What a nice sense of completion! But the story of Jerusalem doesn't end there... when you've come full-circle and your weary legs finally reach the end of their journey, you'll be at the exact spot where Richard Vobes will at that very moment spontaneously re-imagine Jerusalem into its final, definitive version: the MC Vobez Jerusalem Techno Remix featuring Julia; which will immediately be universally proclaimed the pinnacle of not only musical but all artistic endeavour by all humankind.
Now that is something I want to hear! :)
What a beautiful.
Brilliant brilliant brilliant
Very kind.
A vary good video.
Thanks so much
We lived in the village for 35 years,it was a lovely place to bring up our children one lives in Elmer,the Fox was earlier called the Revenue Cutter.
Not surprised it was called the revenue cutter with the coastguard down the road.
very good, well made
Thanks very much.
Great Vid. As for people being upset about how you felt in your previous location - If that is how you felt, that is how you felt. Not sure that ranting at you would have made you feel any more welcome. :-)
Absolutely Richard...you can only honestly say what you feel...
You are walking faster than I am viewing. I must catch up. :)
I have had to pause for the lockup period.
Good job ! Loved it :)
Very kind.
Ah. Going past my childhood home.
Lovely stuff.
An interesting video thank you. William Blake wrote of the house in Felpham that it was "of cottages the prettiest" and he considered Felpham men to be "the mildest of the human race". One of the families who went to Upper Canada with the Petworth Emigration Scheme in 1832 was Martin Martin, his wife and children. Martin had at one time been landlord of The Fox inn.
Fascinating stuff - thanks for that, Leigh.
ON THE BORDER (verse 19 of ???)
For every sandgrain on the beach
a distant star exists
Ungraspable such magnitude
yet theory persists
Just one small step it may be
in a universe sublime
Explorer Richard struts his stuff
across the sands of time. JB20
ON THE BORDER (verse 18 of ???)
Old Felpham crammed with Englishness
has the Richard gushing
From Tudor to Blake, straw thatch to slate
with schoolboy keenness rushing
A place ten pounds in value
just before 1066
Yet still they came from misty seas
its humble 'wealth' to pick. JB20
Great memories, but it's pronounced 'felfam' or that is what we who lived there called it
Sorry, that sounds arrogant, not intended, just informative 😊
I get a lot of 'it's pronounced ...' in my videos.
Agreed - was going to mention this too!
I hate all that exclusivity..nice people or no. Closed gates really bug me!
Yeah - me too!
Who else here was waiting how the name of the town was pronounced?
:)
Glad it’s a ‘p’ and not a ‘c’ !!
I always knew as “Fel-fum”