This is Findon Village — www.findonvillage.com is created by Valerie Martin and contains scenes from her home village of Findon, West Sussex, U.K.

Great Findon Sheep Fair

Watercolour of the Great Findon Sheep Fair on Nepcote Green by Charles William Taylor, Findon Artist, 1878-1960.

This is Findon Village  — the website containing everything you are ever likely to want to know about the Findon Sheep Fair.

Copyright Valerie Martin 2008

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A Shepherd boy at Cissbury Ring early in the last century.

Articles in Chronological date order —

Great Findon Sheep Fair Origins

 1700s and 1800s — The Holford Family's Sheep Fair Days

  1800s and 1900s — Yesterday In The Wattle House
1853 — The Reminder in the Coffin

 The Great Fair of 1906

 Sheep Fair Disaster of 1908

 1910 — Fun At The Wattle House For One Penny

1892/1970s — The Tom Humphrey's Story 
Tom Rusbridge's Nepcote

1920s — Yesteryear's Sheep Fair
The Great Findon Sheep Fair of the 1920s
1920s — The Running Horse
 1927 — Findon Sheep Fair
1930 — John Dudeney the Findon Shepherd
Len Tuppen's Sheep Fair of 1931
1940s/50s — Shep Norgate and Johnnie
1940s — Peter Joins The Fair
1950s — A Good Shepherd Never Gets Wet
1951 — The Southdown Sheep
Sheep Fair 1984

 1999 — Wattle House Drama

 1999 — The 50-50 Chance

 Sheep Fair 2000
The Non Starter of 2001 — the Findon Sheep Fair  
Sheep Fair 2002
Sheep Fair 2003
2003 — Sheep Are Off the Menu
Findon Sheep Fair 2004
Findon Sheep Fair 2005
2005 — Fair Disaster
2006 — Findon Sheep Fair
2007 — Findon Sheep Fair

2008 — Sheep Dip Whisky 2008
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THIS IS FINDON VILLAGE — was launched in January 1999 and will grow to be a historical record of life in Findon, West Sussex, U.K.

E:mail: valeriemartin@findonvillage.com