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Island Life - February/March 2011

Island Memorial Ploughing
match has Atherfield venue
The Memorial Ploughing Match will be
held at New Wolverton Farm, Atherfield on
Sunday April 3. This will be the third year of
the event, which was originally organised
to remember four members of The Isle of
Wight Traction Engine Club who sadly all
passed away in 2008. The money raised from
the event is given to the Earl Mountbatten
Hospice (EMH) on the Isle of Wight and in
the first two years they have been sent more
than £4000.
This year will see the return of the horse
ploughing competition, the last one
being in 1956. Two new cups have been
commissioned, one in memory of Wallace
Sheath the event organisers' grandad,

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and the other in memory of Phil Legge
from Brickf ields, both of whom were very
successful horse ploughmen. The tractor
ploughmen will be competing for the Steve
Hayles, Den Phillips, John Attrill and Derek
Young memorial cups.
Ploughing will commence at 10.30 and
finish by 2.00pm. Entry to the ploughing
match free, but a collection will be made on
the gate for the EMH. Ploughing entries close
on Sunday March 20.
Contact Karen Sheath on Tel: 07922
783091 or email: karen.sheath@btinternet.
com for more information. www.memorialploughingmatch.co.uk

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