GRACIE FIELDS
WANTS A VILLAGE WEDDING. Grade Fields, now Mrs Monty Banks, wants a wedding ceremony in the parish church near her Sussex seaside home when she returns to England. The Norman church in the village of Telscombe, hidden away among the Downs, is nine hundred years old, and the villagers turn out in smocks on great occasions. It was at Telscombe that Grade’s sister married Douglas Wakefield. The rector, the Rev. Henry Martyn Harries, said this week: “I have not heard from Grade Fields yet. The question of a service does not rest with me but with the Bishop of Chicester. I shall do whatever he directs." Mr Harries added: "Grade's home. The Haven, is in my parish, though she docs not live in the village. “There are only thirty villagers, and they all work on the land, but when the weather is fine my church is always full. We have no shop and no inn in the village, but all the villagers belond to the Parish Club. We were cut off for days during the snow .We always keep good supplies of food in case of emergency and our club bar was vzell stocked.” V/hen Grade Fields goes to church her car has to bump two miles over trackless downs from her home, or go ten miles round through Newhaven.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1940, Page 9
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