Time Out Walks, Book 1, Walk 22, Haslemere Circular. 24/7/13
Another trip around this very pleasant 9 miler in the Surrey countryside.
Shortly after leaving the rail station, it's not long before the walker is entering the South Downs National Park, though much of the land surrounding the town is National Trust owned anyway.
The morning section is mainly delightful mixed woodland walking prior to reaching the village of Fernhurst for the suggested lunch time stop.
After lunch, the scenery is still pleasingly wooded, but with more heathland as the walker ascends past the 'Temple of Winds' (well worth the additional detour!) and onto the highest point in the National Park (and Sussex!), the 919 feet (280m) of Black Down.
A great shorter walk that is a delight at any time of the year.
UK Motorways - A34 - Oxford bypass south to north
In this video , part of the UK Motorways series, we take the A34 Oxford bypass south to north
CRHnews - Titanic parcel posted by Marconi's world first wireless factory
Who has bought the label from a parcel posted from Marconi Hall Street Works to the wireless operators aboard RMS Titanic but missed the boat?
That is the £3,100 question being asked after the label was sold to a mystery telephone bidder from the UK at John Nicholson auctions @Jnauctioneers on Saturday, May 30, 2015.
The successful bidder would also have had to pay 30 per cent of the sale price to the auction house plus VAT for the label.
Had it been aboard the Titanic it would have fetched much more, still, not bad for an address label..
But should it not have been, in the words of Elvis, returned to sender?
After all, if we ourselves had posted a letter that did not reach the intended, would we want it returned to - still no hard feelings, lets keep in with the buyer in the hope of getting a jolly good copy to put up in Hall Street, or maybe they could lend us the original for a special display, plead the beaten bidders!
A team from @BackTheBid2MT who want to buy part of former Hall Street Works, made a valiant bid, but pulled out after it reached £2.600 and watched in awe as two mystery bidders fought it out, one on the internet the other by telephone.
@BackTheBid2MT is attempting to pull off a Mission Impossible to buy part of the Grade Two listed building and turn it into a STEM club to encourage future rocket scientists
They were fronted by Royal Crier Tony Appleton, 80, himself from Chelmsford, who made history by becoming the first crier to proclaim an auction bidding.
Mr Appleton said: It was jolly decent of Surrey auctioneer John Nicholson to allow me the honour of proclaiming the start of the label bidding, its probably the first time ever that something like this has happened.
Although we did not return the label to sender, we are very pleased that it was saved for the nation by a mystery buyer from the UK, so hopefully that means they have saved it for the nation and go on show to the public.
If you want to pledge money to save Hall Street for posterity - it has planning permission for apartments and commercial units - please pledge at the internet crowd funding site , every little helps:
The BBC who broke the original story of the auction reported::
The label from a parcel destined for an officer on the Titanic has been sold at auction for more than £3,000 ($4590).
It was addressed to Marconi Operator, RMS Titanic and stamped on 11 April 1912 - the day after the ill-fated ship set sail from Southampton.
What the parcel originally contained is unknown, but it is believed to have missed the sailing by a few hours.
A spokesman for the auctioneers said there had been a lot of interest in what was a piece of history.
An internet bidder from the UK eventually paid £3,100 ($4740) for the label, after John Nicholson's Auctioneers in Fernhurst, West Sussex, opened bidding at £50 ($764).
The parcel was sent from Marconi's factory in Hall Street, Chelmsford
The parcel was sent by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company in Chelmsford to the radio operator of the White Star liner.
Unsuccessful bidders included a group hoping to turn the old Marconi building in Hall Street, Chelmsford, into a museum
(Sadly the BBC got this wrong - it will NOT be a museum, but a visionary STEM club encouraging youngsters to become rocket scientists - there are already two places in Chelmsford packed with Marconi memorabilia - Chelmsford Museum and Sandford Mill)
The auctioneer's spokesman said the item was of interest to both Titanic and Marconi enthusiasts.
It's a pleasing result - it's got the story behind it, the only thing we don't know is what was in the parcel.
Titanic leaving Southampton on her ill-fated maiden voyage on April 10, 1912
The parcel never made it to Titanic before it left Southampton on its ill-fated maiden voyage
Also included in the lot were photographs of Marconi telegraph operator, Alec Bagot, and the telegraph equipment from on board Titanic's sister ship RMS Olympic.
The label was given to the vendor's mother, who lived in Southampton, by the first officer of the Olympic.