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World War Two Week
Part of The Farnham Feast of Food 2010 and Farnham Food Crawl
The Farnham Feast of Food celebrates the importance of buying local produce. Through a fortnight of different activities and events, Farnham Town Council hopes to encourage new audiences to use pubs, restaurants and shops that source food locally, as fewer food miles are travelled which means products are fresh and full of flavour and helps to support local businesses at the same time.
One of the events during the Feast of food is The Farnham Food Crawl. The Farnham Food Crawl gives people an opportunity to discover Farnham's range of eateries, with a different pub or restaurant offering a three course menu for £15 a head every night for two weeks.
The Sandrock once again took part in The Farnham Food Crawl, with a World War Two themed menu. Our Farnham Food Crawl evening was on Wednesday 22nd of September. A £1 donation will be made to 'Help for Heroes' for each World War Two meal sold
Last year we were fully booked within two weeks of Farnham town Council releasing the food crawl dates and menus. As last year was so popular we decided to run our World War Two themed menu for an extra 4 evenings, from Monday 20th to Friday 24th September 7pm to 9:30pm and once again it proved hugely successful.
We would like to thank all of the people that supported our World War Two Themed Week and we hope to see all of the customers who joined us for the first time, again soon.
Pictures from the Week
Customer's War Stories
I was born in France, just north of Paris and have heard many a story from my Grandmother about the war as our village was occupied at the time! Amongst those, one story recounts how my Gran stopped one German officer from living with her family. The German army would choose the best houses for their higher ranks and mark the gate with a chalked cross so that the officer could recognise where to go. A soldier did just this on my Grandmother's gate but as soon as he turned the corner, she went out and wiped it off with her tea towel. A few days later they noticed an officer walking backwards and forwards along the street, obviously not finding the place where he was supposed to stay. He ended up knocking on a lady neighbour's door. I bet she was not best pleased but my family had avoided "occupation". That would have been far too close for comfort, especially with all that black market stuff they had in the house!!
By Marie-Laure Abel
In the war my Dad drove tank transporters from London to Wales for mending or servicing. On one occasion, returning to Wales in the winter, he hit ice in the dark, turned over and ran down a railway embankment. He was injured and covered in battery acid. He was rescued by a farmer who cleaned him up.
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By M Kavanagh
Very late one night my brother and I were awakened by the deafening roar of aircraft engines. We popped out of bed and pulled back a corner of the blackout curtain. It was a bright moonlit night. The sky was full (100+) of "4 engined bombers" towing gliders. I'm not sure whether it was D-ay or Armham, I was only 3! They flew over in lines for what seemed like ages.
By Alan Johnson
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