28 MAY 1927, Page 3

* * * * Pett's Wood, near Chislehurst, has been

dedicated to the public in memory of William Willett, the proposer of summer time. It is said that Mr. Willett, who lived at Chislehurst, was riding early one morning near Pett's Wood when he noticed how many blinds were still down in the windows of the houses and that he conceived there and then his idea of summer time. It was the same sort of experience which inspired Benjamin Franklin's rather ponderous little essay when he also in effect suggested summer time. In Pett's Wood a sundial of granite has been placed with the apt inscription Hams non ?turner° nisi oestiros.