Uckfield Entrepreneurs: Philip Eves of PP Estates PP Estates is not only Uckfield’s but Sussex’s own independent purveyor of garden tools and machines, whether electric, battery-charged or fuel-driven. While lawnmowers of all types and sizes form a large part of the shop’s sales and showroom area, PP Estates sells tools for almost every job undertaken […]
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Save Money; Buy Quality! – Philip Eves
Uckfield Entrepreneurs: Philip Eves of PP Estates PP Estates is not only Uckfield’s but Sussex’s [...]
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Local, Sustainable, Healthy : Lizzie Smith, The Oast Farm, Buxted
Uckfield Entrepreneurs After the Smith family bought the Oast Farm in 2014, significant changes [...]
Continue readingUckfield Entrepreneurs After the Smith family bought the Oast Farm in 2014, significant changes were made and the long-standing Pick-Your-Own character of the farm gave way to a more sustainable and cost-effective processing of the fruit harvest. A bustling shop and a lively café offered home-made jams, juices, jellies, chutneys, and fresh seasonable vegetables, […]
Uckfield Entrepreneurs After purchasing the Cock Inn, Ringmer, in 2005, for their second venture, the Ridley family looked at several opportunities in the Uckfield area, where the family has lived since 1986. They acquired The Highlands in 2014. The place wasn’t successful before they bought it. Now it is. The site sits squarely across the […]
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I walk into a café at the top of the High Street, wondering if I am going to have just a coffee or a full breakfast. My attention is caught by a poster on the wall, that reads: “Eat or we both starve”. I glance around and sit down. There are other fragments of wisdom […]
Uckfield Entrepreneurs There is a remarkable shop on the corner of High Street and Church Street. Many have driven by, vaguely wondering about its name – Pipedreams. But the customers and the cognoscenti know. Pipes can mean more than a crusty noxious smoking implement. Pipes and half-pipes are familiar to those who enjoy winter […]
Uckfield Entrepreneurs Timpson has been a family business since 16-year-old William Timpson started a shoe shop 160 years ago in Manchester. The business now concentrates on shoe repairs, with over 2,000 branches around the country, also offering key cutting, engraving, watch repairs, dry cleaning, shoe-laces, and sundry bits, bobs, and pieces. The company also […]
Uckfield Entrepreneurs Genevieve Gresset has built an exceptional career as a professional matchmaker and relationship coach, and is the owner of The Lounge, located at 80, New Town. With her partner, Steve, she bought the venue in August 2024, then called The Pamper Lounge, and rebranded it as The Lounge, transforming the it into […]
Uckfield Entrepreneurs Jack O’Neil of Underground Fossils, Uckfield High St Jack O’Neill’s early interest in fossils became a hobby which turned into an online business and resulted in the unique Uckfield shop Underground Fossils. This is one of just a small handful of shops in the entire country that concentrates almost entirely on selling […]
Uckfield Entrepreneurs Claire Davies is an amateur genealogist and a sometime hot air ballooner. She has also been a top hairdresser and stylist for over 36 years. After training at Brighton Technical Collage and completing courses at L’Oreal, Wella and Vidal Sassoon academies, Claire worked as a stylist in three salons, before she became […]
Uckfield Entrepreneurs Town Criers are the original broadcasters of community news, arguably the first of Mercury’s winged messengers, spanning the long period of civilisation that started with significant news given out to communities of largely illiterate people and is ending, sadly, with online tweets to sceptical people. It’s exactly why we all need to go […]
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