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Hugo Meynall School children choose their Christmas tree.
Will started to cut Christmas Trees at Mucklestone last week , Pupils from Hugo Meynall School, Loggerheads, ‘went down to the woods’ to choose and cut their tree. – an 8ft Nordman Fir…
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Plants Donated To Community Nature Reserve
Will Friend of Mucklestone Nurseries has kindly donationed a number of water plants to The Turner Hodgkiss Community Nature Reserve in Hookgate, Loggerheads Please click here for a visit to The Reserve website.
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Cyperus Alternifolius – Thrilled to bits with it
Ann H. of Worcester. Just wanted to thank you so much for sending Cyperus Alternifolius plant here back on March 19th 2015. Thrilled to bits with it. Thank you again
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Here are our own Glastonbury photos last Sunday.
Local folkband the Bubble band playing in our garden and Will dancing the jig! A letter to the local Thanet Gazette from a grateful person! Carole! Glastonbury was nothing compared to Music Festival…
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Friend family Coach
This is the old family coach , that spent 50 years in the barn at East Northdown Cottage , home of the last Northdown Coachman , Jack Durst and then his daughter Winnie…
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Leaseholder to hand back Coach House now Lease has ended in May 2021?
This year, 2021, marks the end of the 35 year term of the lease of the Northdown Park Coach House . The lease was granted to Mr. Peter Miles of East Northdown House…
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Northdown and Friend Family History
Northdown House and the Friend Family The Friend family was – and still is – one of a handful of inter-related Thanet yeoman farming families associated with Northdown: the other families being…
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Thanet’s New Community Farm
Thanet Gazette 2012 – Local Farmer, Will Friend is planning to open up his Farm and Nursery at East Northdown along similar lines to TV hit show River Cottage where old and young…
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Taddy’s Barn at Northdown Nurseries
Now serving Teas and coffees and cakes, hot food etc all at East Northdown Farm. Come and taste!
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Fond Memories of a Friend
Members of the Friend Family, gathered on Sunday (9th Sept.) to celebrate the life of the late Rt. Hon. Lady Mary Crofton TD. Mary Irvine (nee) Friend , was born in Northdown House on the 23rd September…
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East Northdown Farm Plant Nursery – Farmer’s weekly
THERE’S something different about the plant nursery at East Northdown Farm (Northdown farm plant nursery map). For a start there are no massed pots of tender plants hot off a lorry from Holland…
