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VIVALEWES<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
A friend of a friend, visiting <strong>Lewes</strong> for the first time, summed<br />
it up pretty neatly. They'd noticed just how many independent<br />
shops there were here, and how different it made our (already<br />
beautiful) town look from others of a similar size, more<br />
dominated by the garish primary colours of chainstore façades.<br />
“<strong>Lewes</strong> is the town all the other towns want to be.”<br />
Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with chains. I think that most all <strong>Lewes</strong>’ retailers<br />
would agree that a good smattering of them brings people into town, and that those people<br />
are also likely to spin off to the nearby indies. Anyway, how many people can put their hands<br />
up and say they NEVER go to Tesco, or Fuego, or Mountain Warehouse, or Bill’s, for that<br />
matter? It’s often a matter of cost, for one thing: the Farmers' Market is a fantastic asset, but<br />
who can afford to do all their shopping there?<br />
Nonetheless, if you do feel that <strong>Lewes</strong>’ independent spirit is heightened by its independent<br />
shops, we would urge you to appreciate them, by using them as much as you can. Find a<br />
minute to pop in and have a look inside, when you’re walking past. Have a chat with the<br />
person behind the till. Get to know them, if you don’t already. They’re great people.<br />
The theme of this issue is ‘independence’, as in ‘independents’. We want to celebrate the<br />
initiative and bravery of those who’ve literally set up shop here, or taken on and run with<br />
existent independent concerns. Long may they thrive; long may they continue to do things a<br />
bit differently. Enjoy the issue...<br />
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THE 'INDEPENDENCE' ISSUE<br />
CONTENTS<br />
Bits and bobs.<br />
Mark Ellender deciphers his enigmatic<br />
cover (8-9); Chloe Edwards talks us<br />
through her <strong>Lewes</strong> likes (11); how<br />
TRINITY are helping the homeless<br />
(13); Brighton Festival hits Firle (16); a<br />
Cambodian demon reading <strong>Viva</strong> (17);<br />
Carlotta Luke at Seedy Saturday (25),<br />
and the usual rainbow smorgasbord of<br />
clocks and hats and facts and plaques.<br />
Columns.<br />
Mark Bridge bids adieu (27), David<br />
Jarman assesses the meagre canon of<br />
William Collins (29) and Chloë King<br />
returns to this section, much better<br />
organised than she was before (31).<br />
On this month.<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> FC home-and-away man<br />
‘Cynical’ Dave McKay (33); The<br />
Esterházy Choir, celebrating 25 years<br />
with Haydn’s Creation (35); Pinter’s<br />
Betrayal at <strong>Lewes</strong> Little Theatre (39),<br />
and another fine selection of films at the<br />
Depot, including the 1929 classic Man<br />
with a Movie Camera (41).<br />
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Art.<br />
William Blake at Petworth House (42-<br />
3); Cliff Crawford’s mesmeric portraits<br />
of groyne heads at the Martyrs’ (45),<br />
and Lizzie Lower’s round-up of what’s<br />
hanging on which gallery wall, in town<br />
and well beyond (47-51).<br />
Listings & Free Time.<br />
Dates for the diary, including a charity<br />
dash across hot coals at Plumpton<br />
Racecourse, an open day at St John sub<br />
Castro and a footie quiz at the Pan (53-<br />
7). Plus our classical music round-up (59),<br />
our monthly gig guide (61-3), swipe-right<br />
stuff for the under 16s (65), and a literary<br />
event at Skylark (69).<br />
20 Years of Penguin Essentials Vitrine Display (detail). Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, photo by Sam Moore
THE 'INDEPENDENCE' ISSUE<br />
Food.<br />
Pintxos at The Patch (71); a groundnut<br />
stew recipe from The Feature Kitchen<br />
(72-3); al frrrresco fare at the Riverside<br />
(75) and our edible updates food news<br />
section (77).<br />
The Way We Work.<br />
We snap four off-beat independents<br />
fresh on the scene… and ask them why<br />
they’re doin’ it for themselves (79-83).<br />
89<br />
Features.<br />
Michael Blencowe examines the sex<br />
life of slugs (85); Todd drags Richard<br />
and Sarah over Berwick way (87); Anita<br />
Hall discovers why there’s no need to<br />
dread the menopause (89); exciting new<br />
proposals for an NHS ‘Super-practice’<br />
(91); <strong>Lewes</strong>’ at-risk buildings (92);<br />
Alistair Fleming’s Plumpton workshop<br />
(94-5) and John Henty out loud (97).<br />
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Inside Left.<br />
Jenkins and Stripp, one of <strong>Lewes</strong>’ ten<br />
independent newsagents in 1953 (114).<br />
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THIS MONTH’S COVER ARTIST<br />
This month, local artist Mark Ellender is back<br />
with his third <strong>Viva</strong> cover, illustrating our theme of<br />
‘independence’. “It’s about going against the tide,<br />
going out on your own, doing things under your<br />
own steam,” he says. “Have you seen the speech<br />
that Steve Jobs gave at Stanford? It’s fantastic – in<br />
a nutshell, it’s all about following your heart and<br />
striking out on your own. I wanted to somehow<br />
put across that entrepreneurial spirit – ‘everything<br />
else is going on over there, but I’m going this way’<br />
– I think that really fits in <strong>Lewes</strong>.”<br />
We agree, and we love the eclectic mix of images<br />
that Mark’s covers always bring: the Harvey’s<br />
chimney puffing away on top of the man’s hat; the<br />
fish, quite literally, out of water. “A lot of my work<br />
starts as a stream of consciousness,” he explains.<br />
“I just sketch and sketch, and whatever comes out<br />
of that will or won’t find its way into a painting.”<br />
One theme which tends to rear its head fairly frequently<br />
in Mark’s work is Easter Island. “I love<br />
Pacific island art and it’s almost impossible for<br />
that not to show up in everything I do. The masks,<br />
the statues – I remember being struck by them as<br />
a kid, seeing them in National Geographic and just<br />
thinking they were amazing. I’m just absolutely<br />
fascinated by the mystery of how the devil they<br />
got there – some of them are four metres tall!”<br />
Mark finally got to make his trip of a lifetime to<br />
Easter Island back in October; he appeared in the<br />
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MARK ELLENDER<br />
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Mark produces bespoke paintings and murals to<br />
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works. He has also designed and illustrated a children’s<br />
book series. Until now his work has predominantly<br />
been in acrylic on canvas, because of<br />
its fast-drying nature, which allows his hands to<br />
keep up with his mind, but his plans for the coming<br />
year are to build on his digital skills. “I’m not<br />
going to step away from the easel completely,” he<br />
says, “but I’d like to be able to go back and do a bit<br />
of editing. I really like artists like Shag, and seeing<br />
the work they do with it, that’s something I want<br />
to try out.” Perhaps when he’s back with his fourth<br />
cover, it won’t be a painting at all… RC<br />
Check out some more examples of Mark’s work at<br />
markellenderblog.wordpress.com<br />
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MY LEWES: CHLOE EDWARDS, SEVEN SISTERS' SPICES<br />
Are you local? I’m London born and bred. My<br />
partner Charlie and I are life-long renters and<br />
our rent in Hackney increased from £60 a week<br />
in 1996 to £1,600 a month in 2010; we were<br />
priced out and were delighted to find <strong>Lewes</strong> as an<br />
affordable alternative.<br />
So, quite a difference… At first we lived in<br />
Paddock Road, and it was a revelation. The kids<br />
were just five and seven, but we could let them<br />
roam, as long as they kept to the Paddock. I had<br />
time to myself!<br />
Did you change jobs? I used to work in deaf<br />
adult language support, and at first I commuted.<br />
Then my daughter Agi fell ill – she’s fine now – so<br />
I had to find something local to do. I taught myself<br />
to cook with spices, and set up Seven Sisters’<br />
Spices, partially so I could feed the family healthy<br />
food. I was turned down by both markets, so I<br />
decided to peddle my wares from a Silver Cross<br />
pram, on a Friday. Now I also do workshops, and<br />
have developed a product range that I sell on the<br />
internet. And in <strong>March</strong> 2017 I was given the green<br />
light for a stall at the Farmers’ Market.<br />
Is <strong>Lewes</strong> a good place to run an independent<br />
business? According to government statistics,<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> District has the second most microbusinesses<br />
per capita in the country. So there’s a<br />
culture of supporting local business here: perhaps<br />
because we all support each other!<br />
And in that spirit you set up <strong>Lewes</strong> Women<br />
in Business… I’d met a number of women in<br />
the town doing their own thing, but they didn’t<br />
necessarily know one another, and I realised they<br />
really should. With the great support of colleagues<br />
– particularly Marisa Guthrie and Sophie Isachsen<br />
– we’ve now become a 70-plus-member, not-forprofit<br />
CIC. It’s about networking, but also about<br />
learning new skills from other members: from<br />
SEO, to making a business plan, to voice therapy,<br />
to Alexandra Technique.<br />
What’s your favourite pub/restaurant? The<br />
Swan, I’m so glad they’re doing so well there.<br />
Mine’s a glass of dry white wine! We don’t often<br />
eat out, but on special occasions, the food at the<br />
Limetree Kitchen is excellent.<br />
Where do you shop for food? Pestle and<br />
Mortar are great for spices and other Asian food;<br />
the boys selling veg in Cliffe are great value; I<br />
alternate between May’s and Peter Richards for<br />
meat. Bickerstaffs in the Riverside have a wide<br />
range of fish.<br />
What do you do for exercise? We walk the<br />
dog in the wetlands behind the Stanley Turner.<br />
Working on the allotment in Hope in the Valley is<br />
a good work-out. And I do Zumba on a Monday at<br />
the All Saints. What a way to start the week, and<br />
what a laugh we have, bumping around: it really<br />
lifts the soul!<br />
Where would you live if not in <strong>Lewes</strong>? On a<br />
homestead on a Greek island, with livestock and<br />
land to grow vegetables. Interview by Alex Leith<br />
sevensistersspices.com / leweswomeninbusiness.co.uk<br />
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A new Yoga and PT studio in <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
doors opening <strong>March</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
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PHOTO OF THE MONTH<br />
HINT OF CASTLE<br />
‘This photo was taken at 8am in early February, after we had snow,’ writes Emma Chaplin, our former<br />
editor, whose photo we liked so much we decided to disobey our unwritten rule about not using images<br />
from regular <strong>Viva</strong> contributors in this space. There was good reason she was out and about so<br />
early: ‘I think I have the most beautiful walk to work in the world. From the Pells to the Hive on the<br />
High Street, usually up Castle Banks and past the Tilting Ground.’ That certainly beats commuting.<br />
‘Inspired by the wonderful Peter Messer,’ she continues. ‘I observe my surroundings closely. I'm<br />
always looking for something different to photograph, either buds on the trees, new flowers growing<br />
in the beds, or interesting ways to frame a similar, and familiar, view. So I took this shot with my<br />
phone through the gap in the flint wall by Castle Precincts. I like the snow on the wall and the leaves<br />
beyond, with just a hint of castle.’ Knowing that we like to check out the tech in this slot, she tells us,<br />
too, what she took it on: ‘my Moto G5 Plus’.<br />
Please send your pictures, taken in and around <strong>Lewes</strong>, to photos@vivamagazines.com, with comments on<br />
why and where you took them, and your phone number. We’ll choose our favourite for this page, which<br />
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we reserve the right to use all pictures in future issues of <strong>Viva</strong> magazines or online.<br />
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BITS AND BOBS<br />
TRINITY AND HOMELESSNESS IN LEWES<br />
REV JULES MIDDLETON<br />
I’m a Sussex girl,<br />
originally from<br />
Hurstpierpoint. I was<br />
ordained at Chichester<br />
Cathedral June 2016,<br />
and now I’m Assistant<br />
Curate for TRIN-<br />
ITY Church. Not<br />
something I’d thought<br />
I’d be. I had a misspent<br />
youth, and dabbled in<br />
everything.<br />
TRINITY is now<br />
one church which<br />
offers five or six services, varying from traditional to<br />
modern, every Sunday across three locations - Southover,<br />
St John sub Castro and South Malling.<br />
In terms of supporting the community, we run a<br />
number of projects: Southover Community Care,<br />
a care agency; Southover Counselling; lots of<br />
children’s and youth groups; the Monday Club for<br />
older people, helping address loneliness, and the<br />
TRINITY Voices choir of older people. We’ve just<br />
completed transforming the interior of TRINITY<br />
St John sub Castro into a multiple-use community<br />
venue, with a café space, office space, meeting<br />
rooms and crèche.<br />
And we are involved with Re-homing <strong>Lewes</strong>, a<br />
temporary day centre for homeless people. I know<br />
of three rough sleepers who sleep on the streets<br />
of <strong>Lewes</strong> at the moment, but there are a lot more<br />
who don’t have permanent housing. They might<br />
be sofa surfing, sleeping in a car or tent. Some have<br />
problems related to addiction or mental ill-health.<br />
Mental health support and rehab options are<br />
severely under-resourced and can be hard to access<br />
if you don’t have a permanent address, which<br />
creates a vicious circle. Welfare cuts and Universal<br />
Credit mean the problem is only getting worse. It<br />
doesn’t take much for people to drop off the radar.<br />
Re-homing <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
was the brainchild<br />
of Thomas Schorr-<br />
Kon, with the help<br />
of Subud and others.<br />
It’s a drop-in, offering<br />
food, warmth and<br />
somewhere to wash<br />
at 26a Station Street<br />
(part of Subud, up the<br />
steps on the road entrance),<br />
currently open<br />
every day, 1-3pm. It’s<br />
funded by donations<br />
and run by volunteers. We’re open until the end of<br />
<strong>March</strong>, when Subud are having building work done.<br />
We’re looking for premises to use after that. We’d<br />
love more volunteers. And any contributions via the<br />
Facebook page or church would be brilliant.<br />
If people wonder what they can do to help someone<br />
on the streets - perhaps ask? Drying out a wet<br />
sleeping bag could be most useful. Or point them to<br />
SWEP provision. This is short for Severe Weather<br />
Emergency Protocol, normally triggered when the<br />
temperature has been forecast to be zero degrees or<br />
below for three days. <strong>Lewes</strong> District Council makes<br />
accommodation available to those sleeping rough.<br />
Support can be accessed via Southover House,<br />
01273 471600 or housingneeds@lewes.gov.uk. Also<br />
Re-homing <strong>Lewes</strong> drop-in or Landport Community<br />
Café. The café offers a nutritious meal (donation<br />
only, Fridays 5-7pm, Landport Community Room,<br />
2A Horsfield Road).<br />
We’re hoping to put together an information<br />
leaflet. The local PCSOs (police community support<br />
officers) are great at letting people in need<br />
know where they can get help. Emma Chaplin<br />
Find Re-homing <strong>Lewes</strong> on Facebook. Sat 3rd, TRIN-<br />
ITY Centre Open Day at St John sub Castro. Tours,<br />
café, kids’ activities, meet the vicar. trinitylewes.org<br />
Photo by Emma Chaplin<br />
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The Brighton Festival programme was announced<br />
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several Festival events taking place east of our neighbouring<br />
city between May 5th and 27th.<br />
One of the real talking points - The Voice Project’s<br />
The Arms of Sleep – is taking place in Firle Place,<br />
Fri 11th - Sun 13th. This is a ten-hour choral work<br />
composed by Jonathan Baker, Helen Chadwick and<br />
Orlando Gough: punters are given a bed, ‘spending<br />
the night surrounded by sound and shadows, poised<br />
between sleep and wakefulness.’ It’s described as<br />
‘23rd-century vespers’. Pyjamas advised.<br />
We’ve been excited for a while about <strong>Lewes</strong> composer<br />
Ed Hughes’ score for Cesca Eaton’s film<br />
Cuckmere: A Portrait, which will premiere at the Attenborough<br />
Centre on the 5th of May: the music<br />
will be played live by the Orchestra of Sound and<br />
Light; we’ve seen a scene and it’s rather beautiful.<br />
The University of Sussex venue will also host Emma<br />
Rice’s The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk (May 9th - 12th,<br />
performed by Kneehigh, who brought the exuberant<br />
Tristan & Yseult to Brighton Dome last year), poet<br />
Lemn Sissay MBE’s life story Gold from the Stone<br />
(13th), and Gob Squad’s take on Dorian Gray, Creation<br />
(Pictures for Dorian).<br />
And, as ever, Glyndebourne are in on the act, with<br />
two performances, a Baroque programme from<br />
Belgian early music ensemble Vox Luminis (6th),<br />
and Songs of the Sea (13th) an afternoon of ‘evocative<br />
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BITS AND BOBS<br />
CLOCKS OF LEWES #16: THE TOWN CLOCK<br />
With its black and gold face,<br />
gabled roof and weathervane,<br />
the Town Clock looms out over<br />
the High Street on an ornate<br />
cast ironwork gantry from the<br />
Church House of St Michael<br />
in <strong>Lewes</strong>, as it has done for the<br />
past 137-odd years. In this time,<br />
the commercial focus of <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
might have shifted somewhat<br />
but the clock remains emblematic<br />
of the town.<br />
In the mid-19th century, a clock<br />
used to protrude from a building<br />
on the other side of St Michael’s,<br />
but this was demolished for the creation of a parish<br />
school. In 1881, Church House was built, with the<br />
new clock tower. Today, the narrow tower contains<br />
various elements of the clock’s history.<br />
The tower has five bells,<br />
which chime the hours. The<br />
bells were recast by Gillett<br />
and Co of Croydon, dated<br />
1887 – Queen Victoria's<br />
Golden Jubilee. An electric<br />
mechanism was added in<br />
1958, replacing the pendulums,<br />
which apparently hung<br />
in a deep pit under the tower.<br />
Brian Courage, Town<br />
Ranger, says the clock<br />
was restored again about<br />
eight years ago, when local<br />
residents requested the night<br />
chimes be silenced. Despite this partial muting, the<br />
clock still presides handsomely over the top of town.<br />
Daniel Etherington<br />
Thanks to Brian Courage and John Downie<br />
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LEWES IN NUMBERS<br />
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GHOST PUB #41: THE PRINCE OF WALES, MALLING STREET<br />
The present Malling Hill road was constructed around 1830, and the<br />
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and as such would have experienced a fair amount of trade. For almost the<br />
entire period between the 1870s and 1970s, the Prince of Wales was run<br />
by just three families: the Eastwoods, the Bournes, and the Lampers. Albert<br />
Eastwood took over the pub in 1876, and appears to have been quite<br />
a character, hosting events and dinners for many clubs and societies. He<br />
had his own ‘spacious marquee’ at the annual Great Sheep Fair in town,<br />
where he sold luncheons, wines, spirits and cigars. And in 1892 <strong>Lewes</strong>ians<br />
were invited to the Prince of Wales to see a display of Albert’s ‘unusually heavy’ potatoes. Robert Bourne and<br />
his wife Frances (a Ringmer girl) took over the pub in 1897, and remained there for 34 years. It was then<br />
handed over to Stephen and Edith Lamper, who passed it to their son John in 1960. Both Stephen and John<br />
played for the Prince of Wales in the <strong>Lewes</strong> Darts League. Sadly, this lovely old pub closed in the 1990s. It<br />
did open again briefly, but did not last long. The building is now home to a firm of solicitors. Mat Homewood<br />
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COLUMN<br />
East of Earwig<br />
My state of independence<br />
Being a self-employed copywriter in Ringmer is<br />
often a thankless task. This is good. In the past<br />
I’ve crafted letters from various chief executives,<br />
I’ve given voice to a cartoon mobile phone, I’ve<br />
interviewed one of the greatest racing drivers of<br />
all time and I’ve, briefly, become an expert on<br />
international rail travel. All great fun - and without<br />
any sign of Mark Bridge, whoever he is. My name<br />
rarely appears in print. As a result, no-one stops<br />
me in the street to offer their opinion. No-one<br />
photographs me when I pop to the shops wearing<br />
pyjamas and flip-flops. No-one asks me if I’m him<br />
from that thing.<br />
The freelance lifestyle is also unstable. This is also<br />
good. While some of my contemporaries get their<br />
thrills from driving fast cars, kite-surfing and wild<br />
parties, I get my adrenaline rush from wondering<br />
whether my invoices will be paid before our mortgage<br />
is due. This is much safer, with absolutely no<br />
chance of a twisted ankle.<br />
A writer in a big city may talk about working in<br />
a different coffee shop every day for a change of<br />
scenery. Here in Ringmer, fewer choices mean<br />
fewer visits. Ruling out the local pubs - which is<br />
a good idea, because I'd be inclined to stay for a<br />
bowl of chips and a pint when I'd finished my coffee<br />
- I'm left with a choice between Café Ringmer,<br />
an outside table at the bakery and the regular<br />
‘Souper Saturday’ fund-raiser at the village hall.<br />
Quite simply, living in a village saves me a fortune<br />
on my cappuccino budget.<br />
Then there’s the freedom. I don’t have any set<br />
hours to work, as long as I get the job done. I can<br />
stay up late if I want (although, to be honest, I<br />
often start dozing on the sofa before 10pm. The<br />
Newsnight theme might as well be a lullaby.) I can<br />
work at weekends, without any of the annoying paperwork<br />
associated with overtime payments. And<br />
I can even start early, just like most other people<br />
with regular jobs.<br />
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I miss out on the camaraderie of fellow<br />
travellers as we stand nose-to-armpit on public<br />
transport, I don’t see the cheery gestures that<br />
drivers exchange at the Cuilfail roundabout and<br />
there’s no chance for me to boost my circulation as<br />
I sprint through the rain to my desk.<br />
Let’s face it, I am a man of mystery. And I’m about<br />
to become even more mysterious, because this is<br />
my last East of Earwig column. To everyone who’s<br />
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grandson (still delightful) or the late Rupert (still<br />
in his little packet on the bedroom windowsill);<br />
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COLUMN<br />
David Jarman<br />
Not prose ≠ poetry<br />
In as much as the poet William Hayley<br />
is remembered at all these days,<br />
it is not for his ‘bad verses’ but<br />
for his extensive patronage<br />
of the arts; always wellintentioned,<br />
not always<br />
happy in its execution. The<br />
poet William Cowper,<br />
painter George Romney<br />
and sculptor John Flaxman<br />
are the most illustrious<br />
of Hayley’s protégés. And<br />
then, of course, there’s<br />
William Blake. Hayley was<br />
directly responsible for Blake’s<br />
three-year stay in Sussex. It’s the<br />
subject of an exhibition at Petworth<br />
House that we review on pages 42-3.<br />
Hayley was born in Chichester, and in 1795<br />
he commissioned Flaxman’s monument to his<br />
fellow-poet, William Collins, who was born in<br />
Chichester on Christmas Day, 1721. The son of<br />
a respectable vendor of hats, and haberdasher,<br />
who was twice Mayor of Chichester, William<br />
Collins was educated at Winchester and Oxford.<br />
But thereafter, diverse trials and tribulations<br />
bedevilled his short life, not least of which was<br />
a chronic irresolution. Relative to his thirtyseven<br />
years, the undoubted literary reputation<br />
that he achieved in his lifetime was founded on<br />
surprisingly few poems. A tendency towards<br />
dissipation didn’t help, and, as the years slipped<br />
by, recurrent bouts of disabling depression, which<br />
at one time saw him confined to a House for<br />
Lunatics, took an increasing toll on his vitality.<br />
Dr Johnson, in his Lives of the Poets, took a pretty<br />
dim view of Collins’ creativity: ‘He affected<br />
the obsolete when it was not worthy of revival;<br />
and he put his words out of the common order,<br />
seeming to think… that not to write<br />
prose is certainly to write poetry’.<br />
Collins ahead of his time,<br />
perhaps!<br />
But if he did not favour<br />
the work, Dr Johnson was<br />
sympathetic to the man.<br />
One passage, recycled<br />
in Lives of the Poets, is so<br />
eloquent and generousspirited<br />
that it deserves to<br />
be quoted at length:<br />
‘His morals were pure,<br />
and his opinions pious:<br />
in a long continuance of<br />
poverty, and long habits of<br />
dissipation, it cannot be expected<br />
that any character should be exactly<br />
uniform. There is a degree of want by which the<br />
freedom of agency is almost destroyed; and long<br />
association with fortuitous companions will at<br />
last relax the strictness of truth, and abate the<br />
fervour of sincerity. That this man, wise and<br />
virtuous as he was, passed always unentangled<br />
through the snares of life, it would be prejudice<br />
and temerity to affirm; but it may be said<br />
that at least he preserved the source of action<br />
unpolluted, that his principles were never shaken,<br />
that his distinctions of right and wrong were<br />
never confounded, and that his faults had nothing<br />
of malignity or design, but proceeded from some<br />
unexpected pressure, or casual temptation’.<br />
In his declining years, Collins was cared for by his<br />
sister in Chichester. He died June 12th, 1759, and<br />
is buried in St Andrew’s Church in East Street.<br />
Flaxman’s monument to Collins, in Chichester<br />
Cathedral, is to be found, appropriately enough,<br />
close by to the recumbent figures that inspired<br />
Philip Larkin’s poem, An Arundel Tomb.<br />
Portrait of William Collins<br />
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COLUMN<br />
Chloë King<br />
...bites the bullet<br />
It’s late, and small<br />
person is getting ready<br />
for bed, which, in this<br />
instance, means standing<br />
in a doorway licking<br />
the snot from one’s<br />
nostrils for 40 minutes.<br />
This is no exaggeration.<br />
I have been watching<br />
the minutes pass by<br />
excruciatingly as I lie<br />
immobilised by the giant<br />
infant on my chest.<br />
They say time is flexible,<br />
and it’s true that<br />
moments like these are<br />
pretty much the only<br />
ones in my new-found crystalline adulthood for<br />
which the clock slows. The rest of the time, I am<br />
hurtling through hours and days like a slug from<br />
a blunderbuss. This is why the discovery of a new<br />
form of diary-keeping is changing my life.<br />
A friend mentioned the words ‘Bullet Journal’ to<br />
me quietly in the school playground this January.<br />
My interest peaked immediately. What has always<br />
been lacking with previous diaries is a reference<br />
to violence – surely a Bullet Journal will keep me<br />
in line?<br />
A Bullet Journal, it turns out, is first of all<br />
a notebook. A rather expensive, luxurious<br />
notebook with a hard cover available in every<br />
colour of the rainbow. It’s a German design, the<br />
Leuchtterm1917, with bevelled, off-white pages,<br />
corner numbering, a front index and dots. The<br />
‘bullet’ refers to these dotted pages that make it<br />
easy to draw grids and charts to suit your planning<br />
needs, which is the other point of interest<br />
– its brand new notetaking system.<br />
Everyone I have raved to about this has looked<br />
deeply perplexed as I have tried to explain how<br />
the system works. In spite<br />
of holding two communications/colouring-in<br />
degrees, it seems I am<br />
incapable of making a<br />
mind-bogglingly difficult<br />
method seem simple.<br />
Sorry, I meant to say I am<br />
capable of making a simple<br />
method seem mind-bogglingly<br />
difficult. Note to<br />
self: normal people tend to<br />
switch off on hearing the<br />
words ‘hierarchical lists’.<br />
I found the best way to<br />
learn was to spend a weekend<br />
watching YouTube<br />
‘walk-throughs’ by self-styled heroes of timemanagement<br />
and Instagram-friendly calligraphic<br />
script handwriting.<br />
If you can see past reams of washi tape and not<br />
be deterred by the evidence that millennials have<br />
such a luxurious abundance of time they spend<br />
hours decorating charts detailing their daily water<br />
consumption, you will find some handy tips. In any<br />
case, you should certainly watch the summary by<br />
Bullet Journal's inventor Ryder Caroll, at<br />
bulletjournal.com.<br />
I’ve found my Bullet Journal such a boon because<br />
my brain simply doesn’t retain typed information<br />
as well as that which I have written down. We all<br />
know the best way to stretch time is to make better<br />
use of it, and now I can manage more efficiently<br />
my to-do lists; diary and everything I once filed in<br />
my overtired brain, an A6 diary, various notebooks,<br />
my iPhone and on scraps of paper.<br />
In short, it has never been so easy to see how many<br />
small tasks and major life goals I am falling behind<br />
on every God-given minute of the day. I couldn’t<br />
be more pleased!<br />
Illustration by Chloë King<br />
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Welcome to the new-look Royal Oak.<br />
A smart, contemporary pub in the heart of the town.<br />
We have a fantastic range of real ales, premium beers and spirits<br />
and a great selection of wines available by the glass.<br />
Our kitchen provides small plates, sharing boards and<br />
hearty bowls, with a focus on locally sourced produce.<br />
The Function Room can host up to 60 guests and boasts its own<br />
bar. It is available for private hire, parties and meetings.<br />
We even have a secret little garden hidden out the back.<br />
Pop in and say hello. We promise you a warm welcome!<br />
www.RoyalOak<strong>Lewes</strong>.co.uk | 01273 474 803 | 3 Station Street, <strong>Lewes</strong> BN7 2DA
FOOTBALL<br />
'Cynical' Dave McKay<br />
Home and away fan<br />
Photo by James Boyes, McKay centre in denim jacket<br />
If you’ve ever witnessed an away-from-home goal<br />
by <strong>Lewes</strong> FC Men’s team in the last 12 years,<br />
you’ll almost certainly have noticed the unfettered<br />
celebration of one fan in particular, a seriouslooking<br />
fellow with sandy-grey hair who generally<br />
stands at pitch-level, near the back of the goal.<br />
It’s at moments like this when Aberdonian Dave<br />
McKay belies his nickname, ‘Cynical Dave’.<br />
Chances are, the scorer of the goal will run into<br />
his open arms, and a joyful huddle of fans and<br />
players will form, divided only by the advertising<br />
hoarding.<br />
Dave started going to away games in the 2006/7<br />
season. “It was the promotion season, to the<br />
Conference National. I’d been following Middlesbrough<br />
away until then, but I was sick of the<br />
excessive stewarding, meaning that any sign of<br />
emotion was immediately quelled. I decided to go<br />
to a <strong>Lewes</strong> away game against Eastleigh. We lost<br />
3-0, one of our players ended up in hospital and<br />
[manager Steve] King was sent to the stands for<br />
protesting. I was hooked.”<br />
He hasn’t missed many away games since, even<br />
though <strong>Lewes</strong>’ away form has, in the intervening<br />
decade, been pretty dreadful. “The worst game, I<br />
think, was at St Albans in the season we got relegated<br />
from the Conference South: it was bitterly<br />
cold, we barely created a chance, and lost 3-0. We<br />
were so bad I could hardly watch: I’ve never spent<br />
so long staring at concrete.”<br />
This season has been a little different, with<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>, as we go to press, having won 10 of their<br />
17 away games. This has led to something of a<br />
spike in the number of away fans. “In the past<br />
it’s been between 12 and 20, irrespective of how<br />
we’ve been doing. This season there’s been at<br />
least 30 every game, with a maximum of 150 who<br />
went to Bromley to see the top-of-the-table clash<br />
against Cray.”<br />
He describes the average away fan as “male, and<br />
over thirty”. Unlike some, Dave has never made<br />
a list of the football grounds he has visited: he’s<br />
more there for the football, and the camaraderie.<br />
He always travels on the train, meaning he and his<br />
companions can enjoy a “can or two of McEwans<br />
Export” on the way back, to fuel the post-mortem,<br />
or celebrate a win. A drink is had before the game,<br />
too. “We don’t really do any sightseeing, but we<br />
do research the best pub in the area, meaning the<br />
one that sells the best real ale.”<br />
There have been a lot of miserable defeats over<br />
the years, but a smattering of real high points too.<br />
He cites an FA Cup win at John Hollins’ Crawley,<br />
in 2006, as being the best of all. Steve King and<br />
the players ran over to the 250-or-so <strong>Lewes</strong> fans<br />
after the final whistle, to celebrate together, as<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> reached the First Round proper for only<br />
the second time in their history. “It’s that sort of<br />
moment that reminds you why you fell in love<br />
with football in the first place.” Alex Leith<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: CLASSICAL MUSIC<br />
Photo by Ash Mills<br />
Haydn’s Creation<br />
A special anniversary concert<br />
The Esterházy Chamber Choir, named after<br />
Austrian composer Joseph Haydn’s patron Prince<br />
Nikolaus Esterházy, was formed in <strong>Lewes</strong> a<br />
quarter of a century ago. It’s highly fitting, then,<br />
that the choir have chosen Haydn’s Creation to<br />
perform, at <strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall, to celebrate their<br />
own beginnings.<br />
Amateur choirs need to raise money to put on<br />
concerts, in order to pay for the orchestra, any<br />
solo singers that are needed, and the venue hire.<br />
Putting on Haydn’s 1798 masterpiece isn’t a venture<br />
that allows for the cutting of many corners.<br />
The oratorio is a depiction of the creation of the<br />
world as described in the Book of Genesis, including<br />
a musical representation of a lion, a tiger, insects<br />
and a serpent. The choir, 30-40-members strong,<br />
will be joined by a similar-sized orchestra: it<br />
promises to be quite a spectacle.<br />
“We needed to hire three professional soloists, and<br />
we wanted a high quality orchestra, so we hired<br />
the world-renowned London Mozart Players,”<br />
says Matthew Spencer, a first bass who has been<br />
singing with the choir for twenty years. None<br />
of this came cheap, of course. “So we devised a<br />
novel way of raising money, which we dubbed the<br />
Carol-athon.”<br />
There exists a tome affectionately called ‘The<br />
Green Book’ which contains many traditional carols<br />
– over 50 of them – “half of which you rarely<br />
hear sung any more”. The choir raised over £1,700<br />
by singing every note of every carol – in one marathon<br />
session of three hours – in December. “It was<br />
hugely enjoyable,” he says, “but I don’t think we’ll<br />
do it every year.”<br />
The choir has had an injection of fresh blood:<br />
there are three recently joined members who<br />
weren’t yet born when it started up… and its recently<br />
appointed musical director, Richard Dawson<br />
(above, bottom row), is at the beginning of what<br />
looks like a stellar career. Richard, just 26, is the<br />
Deputy Director of Music at Brighton College and<br />
Director of Music at St Paul’s Church, Brighton.<br />
The choir has delighted audiences with many<br />
memorable concerts over the years, under a number<br />
of different directors. When pressed to mention<br />
one concert in particular, Matthew recalls the<br />
choir’s 15th anniversary celebration, at St John sub<br />
Castro, a performance of Bach’s St John Passion,<br />
conducted by guest director Nigel Perrin, a big<br />
star in the choral music scene and formerly of The<br />
King’s Singers. “A member of the choir generously<br />
sponsored that concert instead of throwing a party<br />
for a significant birthday of their own that year,”<br />
he says.<br />
The future sounds healthy, and we can expect<br />
much more from the choir, which performs four<br />
concerts every year: an a capella performance,<br />
a couple of concerts generally accompanied by<br />
piano or organ, and a “flagship” show with a hired<br />
orchestra. This is a flagship performance deluxe,<br />
an apt way of celebrating the choir’s birthday. “A<br />
party’s just a party,” concludes Matthew. “But a<br />
great concert will be remembered for ever.”<br />
Alex Leith<br />
Haydn The Creation, 7pm, 25th <strong>March</strong>, Town Hall.<br />
esterhazychoir.org<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: LITERATURE<br />
Philippe Sands<br />
All roads lead to Lviv<br />
When the barrister<br />
Philippe Sands, a specialist<br />
in international<br />
law, was invited, in 2011,<br />
to give a lecture at the<br />
University of Lviv,<br />
in Western Ukraine,<br />
he thought the place<br />
sounded familiar.<br />
And so it might have:<br />
Lviv is the Ukrainian<br />
name for a city known as Lwow by the Russians,<br />
Lvov by the Poles, and Lemburg by the Germans,<br />
all of whom controlled the city at some<br />
point in the twentieth century. It turned out it<br />
was the home of his grandfather Leon before he<br />
escaped Nazism. Leon’s wife and child also managed<br />
to flee to England: all the rest of his of his<br />
relatives were murdered in the Holocaust.<br />
It was also where two brilliant lawyers, who<br />
spearheaded the prosecution cases in the<br />
Nuremburg Trials, were brought up: Hersch<br />
Lauterpacht, who put the indictment of ‘crimes<br />
against humanity’ into the trials, and Raphael<br />
Lemkin, who indicted, for the first time, against<br />
what he termed ‘genocide’.<br />
“I was having lunch with my editor after I came<br />
back [from Lviv],” I’m told, by Sands, down<br />
the phone, “and I was talking about these three<br />
men’s intertwining stories, and he said ‘that’s<br />
your next book!’ It wasn’t until later down the<br />
line that a fourth character walked into the book:<br />
Hans Frank.”<br />
“Frank is a totally fascinating figure,” he continues.<br />
“He was highly educated, intelligent and<br />
cultured. He was an outstanding pianist, and the<br />
friend of authors, and musicians, like Richard<br />
Strauss. And yet he became responsible for the<br />
murder of countless people.” Frank, Hitler’s<br />
Photo by John Reynolds<br />
personal lawyer, who<br />
became the Nazi<br />
regime’s chief jurist in<br />
occupied Poland (including<br />
Lviv) was tried<br />
at Nuremberg: he was<br />
found guilty of crimes<br />
against humanity, and<br />
executed.<br />
“The big question is,<br />
if a man as ordinary as<br />
Hans Frank can, swept up in a bigger moment,<br />
cross the line into mass murder, then why not<br />
someone like me?” A question, he suggests,<br />
which is ever more pertinent in our changing<br />
political climate.<br />
The book is called East West Street, and it’s a rare<br />
beast: a book on international law, crossed with a<br />
family memoir, which has the suspense and pace<br />
of a detective novel, building up to a climactic<br />
last quarter describing the Nuremburg Trials.<br />
For Sands, the Trials were a massive milestone<br />
in legal history: “This was the first time in which<br />
rules were created so that the power of the state<br />
was not absolute.” Again there’s a current pertinence:<br />
“[The aftermath of] Trump and Brexit are<br />
threatening to push that back.”<br />
The book has led to a film, My Nazi Legacy:<br />
What Our Fathers Did, “directed by my dear<br />
friend David Evans, who also happens to be<br />
the director of much of Downton Abbey,” says<br />
Philippe, who wrote the documentary's script.<br />
The film, being shown at Depot Cinema two<br />
days before his talk in the All Saints, also features<br />
the sons of two prominent Nazis, one of whom is<br />
Niklas Frank, son of Hans Frank. Alex Leith<br />
A Personal Story of International Crimes, <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Literary Society, All Saints, 20th <strong>March</strong>, 8pm; My<br />
Nazi Legacy, Depot Cinema, 18th <strong>March</strong>, 3pm<br />
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BE TRAYAL
ON THIS MONTH: THEATRE<br />
Betrayal<br />
But who’s betraying who?<br />
Photo of Chris Parke (as Jerry) by Keith Gilbert<br />
To begin with, the working title for the play was<br />
‘Unsolicited Manuscript’. And then, because a<br />
crucial scene is set in Venice, it became ‘Torcello’.<br />
Later it was ‘White Wedding’. But before that,<br />
it had been ‘Betrayal’, and, eventually, ‘Betrayal’<br />
it became. Certainly there are many and varied<br />
types of betrayal going on in Harold Pinter’s<br />
play that the <strong>Lewes</strong> Little Theatre are presenting,<br />
forty years on from its opening night at the<br />
National Theatre on 15th November, 1978.<br />
Jerry, a literary agent, is married to Judith, a<br />
doctor. They have two children, Sam and Sarah.<br />
Jerry’s ‘best and oldest’ friend is Robert, a publisher,<br />
married to Emma. Again, two children,<br />
Charlotte and Ned. But oh dear, Emma and Jerry<br />
are having an affair. And by the time Robert finds<br />
out about it, it’s already been going on for five<br />
years. They’ve even set up a love nest in Kilburn.<br />
So, Emma is betraying Robert. Jerry is betraying<br />
Judith. The subject of a new novel that Emma is<br />
reading in Venice, represented by Jerry’s agency,<br />
turned down by Robert, may be betrayal. Robert<br />
believes so. Emma disagrees. But then, as Robert<br />
concedes, he may have been ‘thinking of the<br />
wrong book’. And we’re soon told that Robert<br />
has been betraying Emma, in serial infidelities,<br />
for donkey’s years. So, myriad betrayals, and yet<br />
it would seem that for Pinter the chief betrayal is<br />
Robert knowing about Jerry’s affair with his wife,<br />
and withholding that knowledge from Jerry.<br />
The play is told in reverse, so none of this account<br />
is really giving anything away. Apart from<br />
a rather dumb Italian waiter in one scene (not in<br />
Venice) the only three characters who appear are<br />
Robert, Emma and Jerry.<br />
When the play opened it was rather panned by<br />
the critics. Pinter’s excursion into North West<br />
London adultery was thought to be, how can<br />
one put this, a betrayal of the highly individual,<br />
edgy worlds that he had created in such plays<br />
as The Homecoming and No Man’s Land. But<br />
over the years the play’s standing in the Pinter<br />
canon has improved considerably. Even Michael<br />
Billington, one of its chief detractors when it<br />
opened, has recanted.<br />
And perhaps even Joan Bakewell has forgiven<br />
Pinter. It’s been well known for some time now<br />
that Betrayal was closely based on her years-long<br />
affair with the playwright when he was married<br />
to his first wife, the actress Vivien Merchant.<br />
Not something we perhaps needed to know.<br />
As someone observed at the time, it’s rather<br />
like finding out that Hedda Gabler is based on<br />
Valerie Singleton.<br />
A diary entry in Antonia Fraser’s book Must You<br />
Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter reads: ‘Harold<br />
told Joan about Betrayal in the Ladbroke Arms.<br />
She is “in a state of shock”. He always knew this<br />
was going to be quite a meeting. Me, idiotically:<br />
“Apart from that, did she like the play?” Harold:<br />
“That would be like asking Mrs Lincoln the same<br />
question.” I am a fool.’ David Jarman<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: CINEMA<br />
Man with a Movie Camera<br />
Secret of Kells<br />
Film '18<br />
Cinema round-up<br />
The highlight of the month at Depot Cinema, as<br />
far as cineastes are concerned, has to be the screening<br />
of the 1929 documentary Man with a Movie<br />
Camera (Sun 11th, 3pm), part of the U3A’s Soviet<br />
film season.<br />
The ‘Man’ in question is Dziga Vertov, who presents<br />
a vibrant warts-and-all picture of urban life<br />
in four Soviet cities – Kiev, Khartov, Moscow and<br />
Odessa – through a series of moving snapshots of<br />
the citizens at work and play, starting at the break of<br />
dawn and ending well after the lights go out.<br />
Film critic Peter Bradshaw loves the film’s ‘spirit of<br />
pure punk rock’: Vertov experiments with any number<br />
of pioneering techniques – double exposure,<br />
fast motion, jump cuts, tracking shots et al. The<br />
editor, interestingly, was his wife Elizaveta Svilova,<br />
who must have had her work cut out curtailing all<br />
the footage to 68 rip-roaring minutes, like someone<br />
clearing up after a great party. My favourite scene?<br />
The homeless chap bursting out laughing as he<br />
wakes in the morning to find a film crew in front<br />
of him.<br />
The other film in this three-part series (which<br />
started in Feb with Battleship Potemkin) is Warren<br />
Beatty’s 1981 classic Reds (4th, 2pm), in which<br />
producer/director/scriptwriter Beatty stars as<br />
Communist journalist John Reed (author of Ten<br />
Days that Shook the World), alongside Diane Keaton,<br />
who plays his lover-then-wife Louise Bryant. It’s<br />
something of a monster, weighing in at 3 hours 15<br />
minutes: American critic Roger Ebert called it ‘a<br />
thinking man’s Dr Zhivago… from the other side.’<br />
Another season to report is Depot’s ‘Documenting<br />
Reality’ series of five classic documentaries,<br />
screened in the Depot’s studio, and preceded by a<br />
lecture by University of Sussex’s Wilma De Jong,<br />
with a more informal discussion afterwards. These<br />
started in February 22nd (with Michael Moore’s<br />
Sicko) but there are four more to come in <strong>March</strong>,<br />
starting with Sarah Polley’s raw and intimate<br />
family tale Stories We Tell (1st and subsequent<br />
Thursdays, 7pm).<br />
As ever there’s the chance to do a bit of travelling.<br />
Last month we mentioned Depot’s Japanese<br />
season; this continues with the anime samurai tale<br />
The Sword of the Stranger (3rd, 12pm); Kazura<br />
Shiraishi’s mystery drama Birds Without Names<br />
(6th, 8.30pm) and Shinji Azura’s Where I Belong<br />
(13th, 8.30pm). Nearer to home, on St Patrick’s<br />
Day (17th) there’s a rare big-screen chance to<br />
see the brilliant 2009 Irish animation Secret of<br />
Kells; further afield (and then some) the sci-screen<br />
season continues with The Martian (27th).<br />
It’s Oscars month, of course, but there’s much<br />
more besides Hollywood fare (check out lewesdepot.org<br />
for day-to-day listings of first-run and<br />
other films) including live and as-live screenings<br />
of stage performances including Bizet’s opera<br />
Carmen (6th, 6.45pm); Shakespeare’s Julius<br />
Caesar (directed by Nicholas Hytner, 22nd, 7pm);<br />
The Royal Ballet’s Bernstein Centenary (27th,<br />
7.15pm), and Handel’s Messiah, staged by Tom<br />
Morris (28th, 8pm). Hallelujah to all that.<br />
Dexter Lee<br />
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The Sea of Time and Space, 1821. Arlington Court, National Trust<br />
William Blake in Sussex<br />
Visions of Albion<br />
The three years, from 1800 until 1803, during<br />
which William Blake lived in the village of<br />
Felpham on the West Sussex coast, was the only<br />
time in his life that he spent outside London.<br />
He came to Sussex with his wife, Catherine, at<br />
the invitation of his fellow poet, William Hayley,<br />
whom Blake had visited at Felpham in July, 1800.<br />
Hayley was a great patron of the arts – John Flaxman,<br />
George Romney and William Cowper all<br />
benefitted from his largesse – and the arrangement<br />
that he and Blake seem to have ironed out was that<br />
Blake would take up residence in Felpham and<br />
Hayley would engage him on various design and<br />
engraving projects. And so the Blakes left London<br />
on 18th September, 1800. At first, all went well.<br />
In turning his back on ‘London’s Dungeon Dark’,<br />
Blake was delighted to be ‘Away to sweet Felpham<br />
for Heaven is there’. It was ‘the sweetest spot on<br />
Earth’. In May 1801 he wrote in a letter: ‘Hayley<br />
acts like a Prince’. But the relationship between<br />
patron and ‘patronised’ is always a tricky one. By<br />
January 1803 Hayley had become the ‘source’ of<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: ART<br />
all Blake’s difficulties. Blake felt<br />
increasingly that all the engraving<br />
and other commissions had<br />
encroached upon his creative<br />
independence. By April 1803<br />
Hayley was being stigmatised<br />
by Blake as ‘the Enemy of my<br />
Spiritual Life while he pretends<br />
to be the Friend of my Corporeal’.<br />
Soon Blake had resolved<br />
‘not to remain another winter’<br />
in Felpham, and by July 1803<br />
he had determined to return to<br />
London to ‘carry on my visionary<br />
studies… unannoy’d’.<br />
Alas, on 12th August, 1803<br />
everything got a whole lot<br />
worse. A private soldier in the<br />
1st Regiment of Dragoons, one<br />
John Scolfield, entered Blake’s<br />
garden. Unaware that he was<br />
there at the invitation of the<br />
gardener, Blake ordered Scolfield<br />
to leave. Scolfield refused,<br />
angry words were exchanged,<br />
and Blake manhandled the<br />
soldier out of the garden ‘by<br />
the elbows… and pushed him<br />
forward down the road’. Three<br />
days later, Scolfield went before<br />
the Chichester Justice of the<br />
Peace and accused Blake of<br />
seditious expressions favouring<br />
the French and damning the<br />
King of England, not to mention<br />
assault. Having gone back<br />
to London, Blake returned to<br />
Chichester to stand trial. Fortunately,<br />
several witnesses testified<br />
on Blake’s behalf and he was<br />
acquitted on all charges. Hayley’s<br />
moral and financial support<br />
at this time did much to repair<br />
their fractured relationship.<br />
The story of Blake’s time in<br />
Sussex is told in an absolutely<br />
splendid exhibition at Petworth<br />
House that runs until 25th<br />
<strong>March</strong>. Petworth is proud of<br />
being the only major country<br />
house to hold original works<br />
by William Blake which were<br />
collected in the artist’s lifetime<br />
or, in one case, acquired from<br />
his widow.<br />
Petworth’s own holdings are<br />
supplemented by extensive<br />
loans from, among others, the<br />
Victoria and Albert Museum,<br />
the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge,<br />
the British Museum, Tate and<br />
Manchester City Galleries. All<br />
the court documents relating to<br />
Blake’s trial are also on display.<br />
David Jarman<br />
William Blake in Sussex: Vision<br />
of Albion is at Petworth House<br />
until the 25th of <strong>March</strong>. Entry<br />
by advance booking only: 0344<br />
2491895 / nationaltrust.org.uk<br />
William Blake, William, plate 29 from Milton a Poem, 1804-1811 © The Trustees of the British Museum<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: ART<br />
Focus on: Groyne 76<br />
by Cliff Crawford<br />
So these are the<br />
tops of groyne<br />
posts? Indeed they<br />
are. There are 121<br />
groynes in Bexhill,<br />
and I’ve been photographing<br />
them over<br />
15 years, and particularly<br />
frequently since<br />
2010. I’ve always got<br />
three or four projects<br />
on the go at a time –<br />
using all sorts of different<br />
art-forms from<br />
line drawing to 3D<br />
computer graphics<br />
- but this one’s been<br />
going a long time,<br />
and I’ve focussed a<br />
lot on it in recent<br />
years. I must have<br />
taken over 18,000<br />
photographs. It’s<br />
become something of<br />
an obsession.<br />
Why? I think of<br />
them as portraits. If you look at the change<br />
that happens to them on a year to year basis it’s<br />
fascinating. Just like traditional portraits. Taking<br />
pictures at regular intervals highlights changes you<br />
might not ordinarily notice, because they’ve happened<br />
gradually over a long period of time. Above<br />
you can see one of the posts of Groyne 76, just<br />
west of the De La Warr: you can track the changes<br />
in its condition and appearance over the years.<br />
What are groynes for? For stopping the shingle<br />
from being washed away, which would be a disaster.<br />
There’s a process known as long-shore drift,<br />
which means that the shingle is dragged – usually<br />
from West to East<br />
– laterally along the<br />
shoreline. Pretty<br />
soon we’d be down<br />
to the sticky clay<br />
beneath.<br />
So you spend a<br />
lot of time on the<br />
shoreline… Actually<br />
it’s not really<br />
a line, if you think<br />
of the difference<br />
between high and<br />
low tide, and neap<br />
and spring tides,<br />
and the fact that the<br />
tide comes in much<br />
further through the<br />
shingle under the<br />
surface than it does<br />
above it. A line, conceptually,<br />
has length<br />
and no thickness,<br />
so thinking about a<br />
‘shoreline’ is very<br />
reductive.<br />
Do you wear wellies to work? Actually walking<br />
boots are better, because once water gets into<br />
wellies… I need good light, so I don’t go when it’s<br />
raining, anyway. The light is best in the morning:<br />
I have to stand on the west side of the groyne<br />
to take a picture, so if I went in the afternoon I<br />
would cast a shadow over the subject matter.<br />
What artwork would you hang on your desert<br />
island palm tree? A Rothko, to calm me down<br />
when I started panicking. But I’d rather have pen<br />
and paper: I’d need it to design my shelter. AL<br />
Waveworn, Cliff’s photos and videos of Bexhill<br />
groynes, Martyrs’ Gallery, <strong>March</strong> 3rd-23rd.<br />
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ART<br />
ART & ABOUT<br />
In town this month<br />
Liza Mackintosh<br />
Liza Mackintosh is the featured artist<br />
at Chalk Gallery until the 18th of<br />
<strong>March</strong>. She describes her work as ‘an<br />
open-ended journey into the organic<br />
landscape’ - with the journey being more<br />
important than the destination. The<br />
resultant paintings are visual diaries of<br />
her walks through local landscapes, most<br />
recently Red House Common in North<br />
Chailey. Liza, who works in the studio<br />
with pencil, pastel, bark, charcoal and<br />
carbon paper, says, ‘the paintings are like<br />
a secret knowledge, a new perspective of<br />
the landscape, the more I look at them<br />
the more I see’.<br />
Cliff Crawford<br />
As well as the<br />
exhibition by<br />
Cliff Crawford<br />
at Martyrs’ Gallery<br />
from the 3rd<br />
until the 23rd of<br />
<strong>March</strong> (see pg<br />
45) there’s also a new writers’ group at<br />
the gallery on the 2nd and 4th Fridays<br />
of the month (<strong>March</strong> 9th and 23rd).<br />
Writers of fiction or non-fiction can<br />
use the space free of charge for a calm,<br />
quiet, untutored drop-in session inspired<br />
by the current exhibition.<br />
We learn as we go to press that from<br />
<strong>March</strong> 1st Sarah O’Kane (formerly of<br />
St Anne’s Galleries, and HQ Gallery)<br />
will be showing her circle of artists’<br />
work from Fisher Street Frames.<br />
She’ll be arranging solo exhibitions in a<br />
variety of spaces from spring onwards.<br />
If you are quick, there is a last chance to<br />
check out the Open Art Exhibition at Pelham<br />
House which ends on the 6th of <strong>March</strong>.<br />
The annual exhibition showcases the work<br />
of more than 60 established and emerging<br />
Sussex-based artists.<br />
Goblet and Pears by Barbara Lovegrove<br />
Birling Gap (detail) by Helen Brown<br />
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THE SPRING<br />
SHOW<br />
WAVEWORN<br />
15 years in the intertidal zone<br />
31 MARCH - 13 MAY<br />
10AM - 5PM SATURDAYS<br />
AND SUNDAYS OR BY<br />
APPOINTMENT AT<br />
OTHER TIMES<br />
CLIFF CRAWFORD<br />
Saturday 3 – Friday 23 <strong>March</strong> • 12–5pm • Thu–Sun<br />
Private View • Friday 2 <strong>March</strong> • 6pm<br />
www.martyrs.gallery<br />
111 HIGH STREET, LEWES,<br />
EAST SUSSEX BN7 1XY<br />
www.stannesgalleries.com
ART<br />
In town this month (cont)<br />
It's 25 years since Artwave<br />
began as a small<br />
trail of local artists’<br />
houses in <strong>Lewes</strong>.<br />
It’s grown year on<br />
year, with more than<br />
500 artists and makers<br />
showing their work last<br />
year, across seven different<br />
trails from <strong>Lewes</strong> to Seaford. For the<br />
anniversary year, plans are afoot for<br />
some colourful celebrations, including a<br />
special Art on Film programme, a public<br />
art installation and participatory events<br />
across the area. Online registration is<br />
open for venues and artists who wish<br />
to participate. Visit artwavefestival.org<br />
to sign up and to join the mailing list<br />
or follow @artwavefestival on Twitter<br />
and Instagram to keep up to date with<br />
developments.<br />
S U N D A Y S F R O M<br />
1 A P R I L 2 0 1 8<br />
P L U S<br />
Gallery<br />
Exhibitions,<br />
Events &<br />
Workshops<br />
Photo by Jorge Colombo<br />
The summer<br />
will return and<br />
the cross-channel<br />
arts festival<br />
diep~haven<br />
will too. The<br />
theme of the<br />
<strong>2018</strong> edition is<br />
Terra Firma and 10 artists - Gabriela<br />
Albergaria (pictured above), Matthew<br />
Beach, Ève Chabanon, Sarah Duffy,<br />
Valérie Egles, Azadeh Fatehrad, Freya<br />
Gabie, Essi Kausalainen, John Newling<br />
and Aurélie Sement - have been<br />
invited to work in residence in gardens<br />
and farms across East Sussex and Normandy.<br />
Albergaria, whose work takes<br />
gardens and their history as a starting<br />
point, will be creating an installation at<br />
Sheffield Park until the end of August.<br />
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ART<br />
Out of town<br />
Circa69<br />
Celebrated VR artist Simon Wilkinson brings his immersive<br />
virtual reality performance The Cube to The<br />
Old Market in Hove for two nights on the 28th and<br />
29th of <strong>March</strong>. It joins 17 other VR installations in a<br />
show titled Whilst the Rest Were Sleeping, an ‘augmented<br />
reality trail, live electronic music and AV performance’<br />
about a mass disappearance which happened in 1959 in<br />
America, particularly pertinent to the fake-news-filled<br />
present day. “I first heard of the story as a child in 1982 in a magazine called Mysteries of The<br />
World,” explains Wilkinson. “It wasn't until much later that I heard about Manfred Berry and the<br />
way in which he, as an author, used the media to create these incredibly detailed story universes<br />
interwoven with fact and fiction.”<br />
Alongside the excellent Elizabeth Friedlander exhibition at<br />
Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, you’ll find a display of the<br />
innovative and diverse covers that have adorned the Penguin<br />
Essentials series, which began in 1998 under the guidance of Art<br />
Director John Hamilton. In this display, Hamilton has selected<br />
100 of his favourite, ground-breaking designs, with an additional<br />
selection from the publisher’s archives that includes several<br />
Friedlander book covers and noted designers of their day.<br />
20 Years of Penguin Essentials Vitrine Display Detail<br />
(Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, photo Sam Moore)<br />
Take a trip to<br />
Towner Gallery<br />
this month and<br />
you’ll get an insight<br />
into the mind<br />
of the extraordinary<br />
Haroon<br />
Mirza; an artist<br />
who considers his<br />
main medium to be<br />
electricity. Used to<br />
working with video,<br />
sculpture, light and sound to create large<br />
scale installations, Mirza has selected works<br />
from the Arts Council Collection, as well as<br />
Towner’s Collection, and incorporated them<br />
into a unique display, called We Stared at the<br />
Moon from the Centre of the Sun. An accompanying<br />
season of classic occult and sci-fi films<br />
is screened in Towner’s plush new auditorium.<br />
[townereastbourne.org.uk]<br />
Lis Rhodes, Dresden Dynamo, 1971-2, Arts Council Collection,<br />
Southbank Centre, London © the artist.<br />
If you think Hastings’<br />
reputation as<br />
an artistic hub is a<br />
recent thing, then<br />
think again. Gus<br />
Cummins - Royal<br />
Academician and<br />
long-standing<br />
member of The<br />
London Group -<br />
has been living and working in the town for 40<br />
years. Despite having recently celebrated his<br />
75th birthday, he’s only now having his first<br />
major UK solo show. In Off the Wall Jerwood<br />
Gallery present a major retrospective of his<br />
work, tracing Cummins’ diminutive early<br />
works to the recent, monumental pieces created<br />
in his signature ‘two and a half D’. Explaining<br />
his penchant for creating works that stand<br />
out from the canvas, he says: “I like the idea<br />
of playing with perspective and manipulating<br />
events - interventions with reality, if you like.”<br />
Off The Wall © Gus Cummins<br />
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CALL ME BY YOUR NAME 15 132mins<br />
Nominated for 4 Oscars <strong>2018</strong>. In 1983, the son of a<br />
professor is enamoured by the graduate student who<br />
comes to live with his family. Together, they share an<br />
unforgettable summer that will forever change them.<br />
Friday 9th <strong>March</strong> 8pm & Saturday 10th <strong>March</strong> 5pm<br />
THE DEATH OF STALIN 15 104mins<br />
Nominated for 2 BAFTA’s <strong>2018</strong>. Dark comedy following<br />
the Soviet dictator's last days and depicts the chaos of<br />
the regime after his death.<br />
Saturday 10th <strong>March</strong> 7.45pm<br />
Info & advance tickets from the All Saints Centre<br />
Office, the Town Hall, High Street<br />
www.filmatallsaints.com<br />
All Saints Centre, Friars Walk, <strong>Lewes</strong>, BN7 2LE<br />
01273 486391<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Castle<br />
& Anne of Cleves<br />
House<br />
Storytelling, Dressing Up,<br />
Mask-Making, Hands-on<br />
Crafts, Clay Modelling,<br />
Spinning & much more!<br />
Anne of Cleves House<br />
Spring Greens - 3 rd April<br />
Spinning Yarns - 10 th April<br />
Drop in.<br />
Admission included.<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Castle*<br />
Knights & Dragons - 5 th, April<br />
Dinosaurs & Dragons -12 th April<br />
Tickets £5 per child,<br />
Adult must accompany.<br />
Easter<br />
Holiday<br />
Fun in<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong><br />
*Booking required for<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Castle activities<br />
www.sussexpast.co.uk
MARCH listings<br />
THURSDAY 1<br />
MONDAY 5<br />
100 years on from Votes for<br />
Women. A <strong>Lewes</strong> Labour<br />
discussion with Hilary<br />
Wainwright and Jess<br />
Garland at the Electoral<br />
Reform Society.<br />
Phoenix Centre,<br />
7.30pm, free.<br />
Charleston re-opening. The Bloomsbury<br />
lot's country house opens its doors for the <strong>2018</strong><br />
season. See charleston.org.uk.<br />
Comedy at the Con. Headliners Sean Meo,<br />
Jason Patterson, Kathryn Mather and Tom Little.<br />
Con Club, 7.30pm, £10/£8.<br />
FRIDAY 2<br />
Women’s World Day of Prayer. Service based<br />
on the theme of recycling in Surinam, all welcome.<br />
St Thomas’s Church, 11am, free (ploughman’s<br />
lunch available, £3).<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> FC Quiz Night. Teams of 4 max, advance<br />
booking required. Optional meal-deal £10 per<br />
person. Dripping Pan, 7.45pm, £2, contact<br />
nickgeall@tiscali.co.uk to book.<br />
Film: The Unknown Girl (15). A doctor becomes<br />
obsessed with the case of a dead woman.<br />
All Saints, 8pm, £5/£2.50 (£25 for <strong>Lewes</strong> Film<br />
Club season membership).<br />
SATURDAY 3<br />
Natural Alternatives at the Menopause. Oneday<br />
workshop exploring a more natural approach<br />
at menopause. St Mary’s Church Hall, 10am-<br />
4pm, £50 (concessions on request) see chantryhealth.com;<br />
also see pg 89.<br />
TRINITY Centre open day/launch weekend.<br />
Building tours, café, kids crafts, bouncy castle,<br />
meet the Vicar and more. TRINITY St John sub<br />
Castro, 10am-4pm, free.<br />
TUESDAY 6<br />
Film: Francofonia (U). Director Aleksandr<br />
Sokurov presents a history of the Louvre during<br />
the Nazi occupation and a meditation on<br />
the meaning and timelessness of art. All Saints,<br />
8pm, £5/£2.50 (£25 for <strong>Lewes</strong> Film Club season<br />
membership).<br />
THURSDAY 8<br />
St Peter & St James Firewalk. Fundraiser with<br />
interactive seminar, followed by a dash across<br />
the coals. Plumpton Racecourse, registration<br />
6-6.45pm, £25 per person, see stpeter-stjames.<br />
org.uk for more details.<br />
FRIDAY 9<br />
Aspects of the South Downs National Park.<br />
Talk by Dr Geoffrey Mead. Anne of Cleves,<br />
7.30pm, £8 non-members (£5 members), contact<br />
annacrabtree1@hotmail.com.<br />
Taxes for Peace, not War. Headstrong talk and<br />
discussion with Conscience campaign manager<br />
Shaughan Dolan. Elly, 8pm, £3.<br />
FRIDAY 9 & SATURDAY 10<br />
Film: Call Me<br />
By Your Name<br />
(15). Romantic<br />
coming-of-age<br />
drama. All<br />
Saints, 8pm<br />
(9th) & 5pm<br />
(10th), from £5.<br />
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MARCH listings (cont)<br />
SATURDAY 10<br />
Film: The Death of Stalin (15). Hilarious dark<br />
comedy following the Soviet dictator's last days<br />
and depicting the chaos in the Politburo after his<br />
death. All Saints, 7.45pm, from £5.<br />
MONDAY 12<br />
Flat and Fabulous. A free talk by Gilly Cant on<br />
how she started Flat Friends, a support network<br />
for women like her who chose not to have reconstruction<br />
following a mastectomy. Put on by the<br />
Soroptimists. White Hart, 7pm, free.<br />
The Forgotten War Memorial. David Arnold,<br />
John Davey and their team will tell <strong>Lewes</strong> History<br />
Group members (and anyone else who wants<br />
to come) about the history of Priory School’s<br />
Memorial Chapel (above) and the lives of former<br />
pupils who made the supreme sacrifice in World<br />
War II. King’s Church, 7pm for 7.30pm, £1/£3.<br />
WEDNESDAY 14<br />
Sussex Women’s Suffrage <strong>March</strong>ers. Talk with<br />
author and local historian Frances Stenlake. The<br />
Keep, 5.30pm, £3.<br />
THURSDAY 15<br />
The Ministry of Biscuits. Satirical, musical family<br />
show, about an alternate 1940s Britain where<br />
biscuits are banned. Written by Philip Reeve and<br />
Brian Mitchell. Con Club, 7.30pm, £10/£8.<br />
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LOS MUSICAL THEATRE<br />
CHESS<br />
the Musical<br />
Lyrics by<br />
TIM RICE<br />
Music by<br />
BENNY ANDERSSON<br />
and BJÖRN ULVAEUS<br />
Based on an idea by<br />
TIM RICE<br />
All is fair in love<br />
and cold war!<br />
LEWES TOWN HALL<br />
10th~14th April<br />
TICKETS FROM £12.00<br />
CONCESSIONS FROM £10.00<br />
£3.00 supplement on tiered seating<br />
This amateur production of “Chess (UK Version)” is presented<br />
by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD.<br />
LOS Musical Theatre is a Registered Charity No.1148609<br />
Is it about the game of chess? Is it<br />
a love story? Or a tale of scheming<br />
spies and duplicitous politicians?<br />
Actually, it’s all of these, woven into an<br />
intriguing story by Tim Rice with music by<br />
Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus –<br />
the ‘Bs’ of Abba. One Night in Bangkok and<br />
I Know Him So Well are probably the most<br />
familiar of a wealth of big numbers, ranging<br />
from pulsating rock to beautiful ballads<br />
and soaring choral numbers. Another major<br />
show for LOS Musical Theatre and another<br />
great night out in prospect.<br />
TICKETS AVAILABLE from www.losmusicaltheatre.org.uk<br />
TELEPHONE 01273 480127 FOR MORE INFORMATION
01273 678 822<br />
attenboroughcentre.com<br />
EXHIBITOR SPACES AVAILABLE<br />
Wedding Shows<br />
Sunday 18 th <strong>March</strong><br />
All Saints Chapel, Eastbourne<br />
Luxury & Unique Wedding Venue<br />
30 Exhibitors • Goodie bags for all<br />
Drinks on arrival • Samples & Demonstations<br />
Sunday 25 th <strong>March</strong><br />
East Sussex National, Uckfield<br />
Wedding Show & Catwalk<br />
Beautiful venue with panoramic Sussex Views<br />
50+ Amazing Exhibitors • Stunning catwalk<br />
Don’t miss our evening showcase events:<br />
Sunday 2 nd <strong>March</strong> <strong>2018</strong> • Copthorne Hotel, London Gatwick<br />
Sunday 9 th <strong>March</strong> <strong>2018</strong> • The Ravenswood West Sussex Evening Showcase & <strong>2018</strong> Collections Catwalk<br />
Register in advance via Facebook, on our website www.empiricalevents.co.uk or on the day as you arrive<br />
For our full list of <strong>2018</strong> events visit www.empiricalevents.co.uk<br />
empirical<br />
Tel: 01424 310580 @empiricaleventsweddingshows @empiricalevents EVENTS
MARCH listings (cont)<br />
Photo by Keith Gilbert<br />
FRIDAY 16<br />
Sussex in the Mercian Age: The Archaeology<br />
of Power 750–850AD. <strong>Lewes</strong> Archaeological<br />
Group illustrated talk by Professor John Blair<br />
(Oxford University). Lecture Room, <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Town Hall, 7.30pm, £2-4 (free for under 18s).<br />
Film: Certain Women (12A). Based on three<br />
short stories following the lives of three women<br />
living in small-town America. All Saints, 8pm,<br />
£5/£2.50 (£25 for season membership).<br />
SATURDAY 17<br />
Charity Book Fair. Raising funds for Paws &<br />
Claws animal rescue. <strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall, 10am-<br />
4pm, 50p.<br />
St Patrick's Day Barn Dance. In support of<br />
Brighton Festival Chorus' 50th Anniversary Appeal.<br />
No experience necessary, all dances called.<br />
Affordable bar and snacks. All Saints, 7.30pm,<br />
£10/12 on the door.<br />
Cooksbridge Annual Jumble Sale. Raising<br />
money for community events and projects. Teas<br />
and cakes available. Beechwood Hall, Cooksbridge,<br />
2pm, 50p (kids free).<br />
SATURDAY 17 – SATURDAY 24<br />
SUNDAY 18<br />
Betrayal. A portrayal<br />
of the autobiographical<br />
Pinter classic. <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Little Theatre, £8/12, see<br />
lewestheatre.org for more<br />
details; also see pg 39.<br />
Empirical Events Spring Wedding Fair. All<br />
Saints Chapel, Eastbourne, 11am-3pm, free.<br />
TUESDAY 20<br />
A Personal Story of International Crimes.<br />
Talk with Philippe Sands, human rights lawyer<br />
and professor of law at University College London.<br />
All Saints, 8pm, £10. See pg 37.<br />
WED 21ST TO SAT 24TH<br />
Curtain Call. Ringmer Dramatic Society<br />
presents the comedy by Bettine Manktelow.<br />
An amusingly chaotic day in the life of Alec<br />
Partridge, Manager of the Thurlow Playhouse.<br />
Ringmer Village Hall, 7.45pm, £8, ticketsource.<br />
co.uk/ringmerdramaticsociety.<br />
FRIDAY 23<br />
Red Bead Woman - An Earth that Thinks<br />
in Myth. Story telling with Dr. Martin Shaw.<br />
Subud Centre, <strong>Lewes</strong>, 7pm, £15, contact<br />
mythandstories@gmail.com.<br />
TUESDAY 27<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Death Café. Discussion Group. The<br />
Ram Inn, Firle, 7.30pm, all welcome.<br />
TUESDAY 27 – FRIDAY 13 APRIL<br />
Chris Watson: No<br />
Man’s Land. Sitespecific<br />
celebration of<br />
the sounds, rhythms and<br />
music of the world’s seas<br />
and oceans. Attenborough<br />
Centre, times and<br />
prices vary, see attenboroughcentre.com.<br />
MAUNDY THURSDAY 29 –<br />
EASTER SUNDAY 1 APRIL<br />
Easter church services. Across <strong>Lewes</strong>. See your<br />
local church for details.<br />
FRIDAY 30<br />
Film: After the Storm (PG). Following the<br />
death of his father, a private detective struggles<br />
to reconnect with his son and ex-wife. All<br />
Saints, 8pm, £5/£2.50 (£25 for <strong>Lewes</strong> Film Club<br />
season membership).<br />
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<strong>March</strong> Concert<br />
Walton<br />
Johannesburg Festival Overture<br />
Hummel<br />
Concerto for Trumpet<br />
Soloist Alice Boileau<br />
Offenbach<br />
Overture Orpheus in the Underworld<br />
Prokoviev<br />
Classical Symphony<br />
Saturday 17th <strong>March</strong> 7:30pm<br />
Trinity Church Southover, Southover High Street<br />
For tickets & prices visit;<br />
www.lewesconcertorchestra.org<br />
The<br />
Creation<br />
Joseph Haydn<br />
Esterházy Chamber Choir<br />
London Mozart Players<br />
Soprano Elin Manahan Thomas<br />
Tenor Ruairi Bowen<br />
Bass Henry Waddington<br />
Director Richard Dawson<br />
25th Anniversary Concert<br />
Sunday 25 <strong>March</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 7.00pm<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall<br />
Tickets £20 in advance from <strong>Lewes</strong> Tourist Information Centre<br />
or from our website. £22 on the door (under 16s free)<br />
See www.esterhazychoir.org for more details<br />
St Michaelʼs First Sunday Recitals<br />
SEASON OPENING RECITAL<br />
Pergolesi Stabat Mater<br />
Sunday 4 <strong>March</strong>, 3pm<br />
St Michael’s Church, High Street, <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
<strong>2018</strong><br />
Shona Knight Soprano Rebecca Leggett Alto<br />
String Quartet :Ellie Blackshaw Leader<br />
Nick Houghton Chamber Organ<br />
THE SONG SCHOOL<br />
Singing Lessons Age 16 & upwards, beginners to advanced<br />
Preparation for Diplomas, Examinations and Auditions etc.<br />
Development of Sight-Singing skills, Kodály, Music Theory<br />
VOICE THERAPY<br />
Singing Rehabilitation therapy programmes<br />
If you are at all anxious about your singing voice, please<br />
contact us for advice.<br />
FREE ADMISSION<br />
Retiring collection for the Organ Appeal Fund<br />
LECTURES, MASTERCLASSES & COURSES<br />
Exploring the collaborative voice between Art & Science<br />
through creative and practical events, delivered by invited,<br />
leading authorities in their subjects.<br />
Tel: 07976 936024<br />
canto-voice.org
CLASSICAL MUSIC<br />
SUN 4 TH , 3PM<br />
First Sunday Recital: Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater.<br />
The Sunday recitals season kicks off with this<br />
18th-century piece, sung by soprano Shona<br />
Knight and alto Rebecca Leggett. String quartet<br />
led by Ellie Blackshaw; chamber organ by Nick<br />
Houghton. St Michael’s Church, free with retiring<br />
collection for the Organ Appeal Fund<br />
SATURDAY 17 TH , 7.30PM<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Concert Orchestra. The orchestra play:<br />
Walton’s Johannesburg Overture; Hummel’s<br />
Trumpet Concerto (with soloist Alice Bioleau);<br />
Offenbach’s Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld,<br />
and Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony.<br />
TRINITY Church, Southover, £10 in advance (info@<br />
lewesconcertorchestra.org) £12 door, £5 U18/ students<br />
FRIDAY 23 RD , 7.45PM<br />
Amatis Piano Trio. The Nicholas Yonge Society<br />
host the Holland-based musicians (above), violinist<br />
Lea Hausmann, cellist Samuel Shepherd and<br />
pianist Mengjie Han, performing Brahms’ Trio<br />
no 3 Opus 101, Kelly-Marie Murphy’s Give me<br />
Phoenix Wings to Fly and Schubert’s Trio No 2<br />
in E flat2. Sussex Downs College, £15, 8-25 years old<br />
free, from nys.org.uk<br />
SUNDAY 25 TH , 7PM<br />
Pro Musica Spring Concert. Karl Jenkins<br />
‘Armed Man’ (Choral Suite), and John Rutter’s<br />
‘Feel the Spirit’, based on traditional spirituals.<br />
St Andrew’s Church, Alfriston, £12 (U15 free)<br />
geoffdellis@yahoo.co.uk<br />
Photo of Amatis Trio © Allard Willemse<br />
ST PANCRAS CATHOLIC CHURCH<br />
Irelands Lane, <strong>Lewes</strong> BN7 1QX<br />
www.stpancrascatholicchurchlewes.co.uk<br />
MAUNDY THURSDAY<br />
Mass at 8pm<br />
GOOD FRIDAY<br />
Children’s Stations of the Cross at 10am<br />
Stations of the Cross (Via Crucis) at 12 noon<br />
Celebration of the Passion of the Lord at 3pm<br />
HOLY SATURDAY<br />
Office of Readings and Morning Prayer at 8.30am<br />
EASTER SUNDAY<br />
The Easter Vigil (8.30pm on Holy Saturday)<br />
Mass at 9am, 10.30am, 12.30pm (Latin)<br />
Surrexit Dominus vere, Alleluia.<br />
The Lord has truly risen, Alleluia.
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GIG GUIDE // MARCH<br />
GIG OF THE MONTH:<br />
MAID OF ACE<br />
Fans of The Distillers rejoice, there is a<br />
female-fuelled brigade of punk-rockers<br />
on the scene, and they are coming<br />
to <strong>Lewes</strong>. Maid of Ace, hailing from<br />
south-coast dirty Hastings (their words,<br />
not ours) comprises sisters Alison, Anna,<br />
Abby and Amy Elliot (all with middle<br />
names starting C, literally making four<br />
aces, nicely played Mum and Dad).<br />
They have been playing together as a<br />
sisterhood since a school show in 2005,<br />
and the two albums now under their belt<br />
are jam-packed with kick-ass tunes and<br />
anti-establishment attitude (‘Minimum Wage’, ‘Fight’, ‘Greed’). Their sound is riotous, energetic punk rock<br />
and they are certain to make for a memorable gig. Saturday 31st, Con Club, 8pm, £11.50<br />
Preview and listings by Kelly Hill<br />
FRIDAY 2<br />
Bad Boy Boogie. AC/DC tribute. Con Club,<br />
8pm, £5 (members free)<br />
Lazy Susan. DJ set. Lamb, 8pm, free<br />
SATURDAY 3<br />
Martin Harley & Daniel Kimbro. Blues/folk/<br />
Americana. Con Club, 7.30pm, £15<br />
Open Night with Ken Hobbs. Folk (English<br />
trad). Elly, 8pm, £3<br />
Bassment. Dance grooves. Café du Jardin (near<br />
Pastorale Antiques), 8pm, free<br />
MONDAY 5<br />
Kelvin Christiane. Jazz saxophone. Snowdrop,<br />
8pm, free<br />
FRIDAY 9<br />
SYNTHONY 101. Electronic 80s tribute act.<br />
Con Club, 8pm, free<br />
Lazy Susan. DJ set. Lamb, 8pm, free<br />
SATURDAY 10<br />
Kit Trigg. Blues/rock. Lansdown, 7.30pm, free<br />
Zoot Zazou. Vintage hot swing night. All<br />
proceeds to Hamsey School. Con Club, 7.30pm,<br />
£25/£20 adv<br />
Judy Cook. Folk (US trad acapella). Elephant<br />
and Castle 8pm, £7<br />
The Fruitful Soundsystem. DJ set. Swan, 9pm-<br />
12.30am, free<br />
SUNDAY 11<br />
Open Space Open Mic. Music, poetry and<br />
performance. Elly, 7.30pm, free<br />
Peter & the Test Tube Babies. Punk legend<br />
Peacehaven wild kids. Con Club, 7.30pm, £12<br />
MONDAY 12<br />
Sam Carelse. Jazz vocals. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
FRIDAY 16<br />
Lazy Susan. DJ set. Lamb, 8pm, free<br />
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GIG GUIDE // MARCH (CONT)<br />
SATURDAY 17<br />
Matthew Gest's Boogie Troop. Blues and New<br />
Orleans piano. Lansdown, 7.30pm, free<br />
The Urban Voodoo Machine. Bourbon-soaked<br />
gypsy blues. Con Club, 7.30pm, £18/£15<br />
John Kirkpatrick. Folk (Eng trad). Elly, 8pm, £10<br />
MONDAY 19<br />
Terry Seabrook Trio. Jazz. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
FRIDAY 23<br />
Arcadia Roots. Roots, dance, dub. Con Club,<br />
8pm price tba<br />
Lazy Susan. DJ set. Lamb, 8pm, free<br />
SATURDAY 24<br />
Underscore Orkestra. Balkan/klezmer/gypsy jazz<br />
& swing. Landsown, 7.30pm, free<br />
English Dulcimer Duo. Folk (British &<br />
continental). Elly, 8pm, £7<br />
SUNDAY 25<br />
Kate and Co. Sundays<br />
in the Bar. Con<br />
Club, 3.30pm, free<br />
MONDAY 26<br />
Andy Urquart. Jazz<br />
trumpeter. Snowdrop<br />
Inn, 8pm, free<br />
THURSDAY 29<br />
Oh Mama. Psychedelic folk rock. Lansdown,<br />
7.30pm, free<br />
FRIDAY 30<br />
Curst Sons. Hillbilly blues. Con Club, 8pm, free<br />
Lazy Susan. DJ set. Lamb, 8pm, free<br />
SATURDAY 31<br />
Maid of Ace. See Gig of the Month<br />
Photo (detail) of The Curst Sons by JJ Waller<br />
MAR<br />
@<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Con Club<br />
1 COMEDY NIGHT<br />
2 BAD BOY BOOGIE<br />
3 MARTIN HARLEY & DANIEL KIMBRO<br />
9 SYNTHONY 101<br />
10 ZOOT ZAZOU<br />
11 PETER & THE TEST TUBE BABIES<br />
15 THE MINISTRY OF BISCUITS<br />
17 URBAN VOODOO MACHINE<br />
23 ARCADIA ROOTS<br />
24 LOOSE CABOOSE NIGHT<br />
25 KATE & CO<br />
30 CURST SONS<br />
31 MAID OF ACE<br />
SEE WEBSITE FOR DETAILS AND ENTRY
FREETIME<br />
SUNDAY 4<br />
Art activities for children. Drop-in hosted<br />
by volunteers; from paper lampshades to clay<br />
models, inspired by the art and lives of the<br />
Bloomsbury group. Charleston, 12.30pm, free.<br />
Look Think Make. Look at the artworks, think<br />
about the ideas behind them and be inspired to<br />
make creations. De La Warr, 2pm, £1.<br />
UNDER 16<br />
êêêê<br />
FRIDAY 30 – SUNDAY 1 APRIL<br />
Easter Egg Trail. Carrot-themed trail,<br />
with activities and<br />
opportunities to learn<br />
about carrots and their<br />
wild relatives. Wakehurst,<br />
see kew.org/wakehurst.<br />
FRIDAY 30 – SUNDAY 15 APRIL<br />
Peter Rabbit Goes Wild. Two weeks of Peter<br />
Rabbit-themed fun for the Easter holidays,<br />
with games, crafts and storytelling inspired by<br />
Beatrix Potter’s tales. Wakehurst, see kew.org/<br />
wakehurst.<br />
TUESDAY 6<br />
Tiny Towner. Weekly drop-in session at the<br />
gallery, run by early-years artist educators<br />
Octopus Inc, leading creative play for under 5s.<br />
SATURDAY 10<br />
High in the Old Oak<br />
Tree. Writer, illustrator<br />
and performer Ed<br />
Boxall will perform his<br />
book High In the Old<br />
Oak Tree about a boy<br />
who decides to spend<br />
his life getting to know the strange unseen<br />
creatures in the high branches, together with<br />
other poems and songs. Giant books, projections<br />
and more. Skylark (Needlemakers), 11am &<br />
2pm, free. See pg 69.<br />
SATURDAY 31<br />
Springtime Studio. Celebrate the new season<br />
with an assortment of family-friendly creative<br />
activities. De La Warr, 11am-3pm, £1.<br />
SUNDAY 1 – MONDAY 2 APRIL<br />
Parham Easter family weekend. Garden trail,<br />
face painting, craft activities, storytelling and the<br />
opportunity to meet the Easter Bunny. Parham<br />
House and Gardens, see parhaminsussex.co.uk.<br />
BEATRIX POTTER TM © Frederick<br />
Warne & Co., <strong>2018</strong><br />
MONDAY 12<br />
Tales for Toddlers. Stories, songs and<br />
imagination-inspiring activities. De La Warr,<br />
10.15am & 11.15am, £1.<br />
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April Lambing<br />
at MIDDLE FARM<br />
Witness lambs being born, and<br />
even help bottle feed some of them
UNDER 16<br />
êêêê<br />
YOUNG PHOTO<br />
OF THE MONTH<br />
This month’s top photo was sent<br />
in by Sophie Bannister, aged just<br />
eight. “When I was walking home<br />
from school with my mum and<br />
brother I saw the starlings flocking<br />
near my house,” she tells us. “The<br />
flock was making lots of different<br />
shapes and it looked beautiful.”<br />
Indeed it did, Sophie, as did the<br />
wintry trees silhouetted by the<br />
clear blue sky. Looks cold, though!<br />
The picture wins Sophie a £10 book token kindly offered, as ever, by Bags of Books in Cliffe. Just go along<br />
with an adult, Sophie, and they’ll give it to you.<br />
Under 16? For your chance to win a token and see your picture in this slot send your pics, along with a note of<br />
where, when and why you took it, to photos@vivamagazines.com. Happy snapping!<br />
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TO SWIMMING<br />
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UNDER 16<br />
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SHOES ON NOW: ‘I’LL GIVE YOU A POUND FOR IT’<br />
When you are a kid you don’t have<br />
much economic power, do you?<br />
Maybe your parents give you some<br />
pocket money, but £2 or £3 will<br />
barely buy you a magazine nowadays.<br />
However, there’s one place<br />
in <strong>Lewes</strong> where you can feel rich,<br />
even without very much money -<br />
the car boot sale.<br />
It’s recently been upgraded to a<br />
rather fancier Vintage Market, but<br />
the old stalwarts are still there in<br />
attendance. So, one cold February<br />
Sunday morning, I take two of my boys down to the<br />
back of Waitrose to see what bargains are to be had.<br />
My middle child is a natural haggler. His technique<br />
is to offer a pound less than the asking price then to<br />
gradually increase his offer in ten pences until the<br />
stall holder either gets exhausted<br />
or until his younger brother gets<br />
impatient and starts begging,<br />
‘Please, please, please.’<br />
The sale gives the boys the<br />
opportunity to negotiate in a<br />
safe environment and to have a<br />
bit of fun doing it. We’ve often<br />
got into lengthy conversations<br />
with the stall holders and most<br />
of them have a tale or two to tell.<br />
And somehow, we feel as if we<br />
are supporting a more independent<br />
way of buying and selling. There’s an array of<br />
goods: from large plastic dinosaurs, to old Beano<br />
albums and even a giant exercise ball. Sure, there’s<br />
some tat but part of the fun is sorting through to<br />
find affordable treasure. Jacky Adams<br />
HIGH IN THE OLD OAK TREE BY ED BOXALL<br />
High in the Old Oak Tree tells the<br />
story of a little boy who climbs up<br />
an oak tree and never comes down.<br />
He climbs so high that he can’t see<br />
the ground, and the higher he gets,<br />
the stranger things get. He meets<br />
bears and wolves hiding amongst its<br />
leaves, and when he reaches the top<br />
he can touch the moon with a stick.<br />
The book was written as a poem by<br />
local author and illustrator Ed Boxall,<br />
who will be performing High in<br />
the Old Oak Tree, along with some<br />
other poems and music, at Skylark<br />
in the Needlemakers on the 10th of <strong>March</strong>. “It’s a<br />
very magical, kind of surreal poem,” says Ed, “quite<br />
in the tradition of Edward Lear – sort of nonsense,<br />
but quite melancholy and serious<br />
at the same time.”<br />
“It was inspired by something<br />
quite specific: over near Hastings<br />
there’s a Woodcraft Folk camp<br />
that I took my kids to every year,<br />
and there are these two enormous<br />
oak trees there. I made up a<br />
version of the story while I was<br />
camping there one summer, and<br />
over a couple of years, it slowly<br />
turned into the poem that appears<br />
in the book.”<br />
There will be two performances<br />
on the day: one at 11am and one at 2pm. These are<br />
aimed at children aged five and up.<br />
edboxall.com<br />
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FOOD REVIEW<br />
The Patch<br />
Pintxos? In <strong>Lewes</strong>?<br />
My best friend lived<br />
for many years in San<br />
Sebastian, in the Basque<br />
Country in Northern<br />
Spain. I became a<br />
regular visitor to that<br />
wonderful city, which<br />
is celebrated, among<br />
other things, for its fantastic<br />
food. One of the<br />
highlights of the trip<br />
was dining out in the<br />
old part of town, going<br />
from bar to bar trying<br />
out different pintxos.<br />
These are a kind of<br />
Basque tapas, where<br />
wildly different food combinations are stuck onto<br />
a slice of baguette with a cocktail stick.<br />
And now – on weekend evenings at least – <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
has a dedicated 'pintxos' bar. The Patch, which<br />
has opened up where Fillers used to be, on the<br />
corner of Market Street and School Hill, is a<br />
regular sandwich shop in the daytime, and sells<br />
a variety of craft ales at night. But, from 5.30 on<br />
Friday and Saturday, they will be serving these<br />
little Basque delicacies. "You'd better be quick<br />
though," says Patch, the guy who runs the place,<br />
(you might remember him from the Snowdrop).<br />
"We only make so many, and when they're gone,<br />
they're gone."<br />
We arrive at 5.30.<br />
Patch hasn't been able to perform miracles of the<br />
TARDIS variety to make the place bigger inside,<br />
so I'd suggest that it's not the sort of place for a<br />
football team to drop into after a game, but we<br />
find ourselves a little table by the window, just in<br />
time to witness the unveiling of tonight's pintxos,<br />
laid out on the bar surface – which they fill – on<br />
a black slate. We immediately<br />
fill a plate<br />
with one of each, and<br />
ask for a knife, so we<br />
can share them.<br />
For the record this is<br />
what we got. One had<br />
little pieces of steak<br />
in a gravy with a tiny<br />
dollop of mustard on<br />
top. Another had some<br />
Thai-spiced fish with<br />
diced pepper, onion<br />
and coriander. A third<br />
had a generous slice<br />
of goats cheese on<br />
top of some gherkins,<br />
with a roasted red pepper on top. And finally a<br />
bit of courgette on a bed of mayonnaise with<br />
some chopped up tomato and pomegranate<br />
seeds. They cost £1.50 a shot, which seems very<br />
reasonable.<br />
To wash these down I choose a large glass of Billingshurst<br />
English red wine, at £6, and Rowena<br />
goes for a pint of Vermont Pale APA from Gun<br />
Brewery... Patch specialises in keg ales, and you<br />
can expect him to try out a whole variety of these<br />
– another reason to pay a visit.<br />
Back to the pintxos: it's a mistake to try to cut<br />
them up, we realise: they are best enjoyed one<br />
to a person, so after a bit of a messy disaster<br />
first time round we chomp away happy in the<br />
decision that we're going to buy another plateful<br />
afterwards. Which we do, eliminating the courgette<br />
mixture, and going for two Thai fish ones.<br />
Verdict? A big thumbs up for another <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
first, and we'll certainly be back; I can't think of<br />
a better way to start off a weekend evening (aka<br />
line the stomach). Topa! Alex Leith<br />
Photo by Chloë King<br />
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Photo by Rebecca Cunningham
RECIPE<br />
Groundnut stew<br />
By The Feature Kitchen’s Jacob Fodio Todd<br />
I grew up in Mozambique, then Swaziland, then<br />
Tanzania; my family moved around quite a bit<br />
until I was 13, when we came to <strong>Lewes</strong>. I went to<br />
school here, to Priory. When I left <strong>Lewes</strong> the first<br />
time, I went to Paris for two years and worked in<br />
the Rose Bakery there. Then I moved to London,<br />
where I started a food enterprise with some friends<br />
called The Groundnut, a project looking at African<br />
food. We did a lot of pop-up restaurants and we<br />
published a cookbook.<br />
When I moved back to <strong>Lewes</strong>, I really noticed<br />
that there wasn’t much diversity of takeaway<br />
food available. There are a lot of takeaways, but<br />
they tend to be the traditional Indian, Chinese,<br />
Thai places. It’s really hard for new independent<br />
businesses to open in <strong>Lewes</strong> because property<br />
prices are very high, which is a shame because<br />
we can’t have more speculative businesses, or<br />
opportunities for people to try out their idea and<br />
see how it works.<br />
The idea of The Feature Kitchen is to create a<br />
platform for chefs and food enthusiasts to come<br />
in and cook. They don’t have to worry about<br />
anything except the food; the packaging is taken<br />
care of, the marketing, the logistics. We work on<br />
a menu together, talk about it, cook it, taste it,<br />
and once that works well they just pitch up in the<br />
kitchen and start cooking. I often kitchen assist,<br />
but otherwise it’s up to them. We work from the<br />
Community Kitchen, so I hire that for a day,<br />
pay the chefs a fee and get some drivers to come<br />
and distribute the food. We don’t have our own<br />
permanent space, so the business is kind of fluid.<br />
The menu changes each month. The first was<br />
Ethiopian, the second was Caribbean, then<br />
Trinidad and Tobago, Thai… all over the world.<br />
And the experience of the chefs really varies.<br />
Genet, who did the first month, used to cook back<br />
in Ethiopia so she's very experienced, just not so<br />
much in the UK market. Omolola is a doctor and<br />
she was taking a sabbatical, so she wanted to take<br />
some time to explore her passion for African and<br />
Caribbean food.<br />
This recipe is actually from a friend, who’s from<br />
Sierra Leone. It’s a peanut-based dish which is<br />
common across West Africa, with similar variations<br />
throughout Africa. Serves four.<br />
Ingredients: 2 tins of black-eyed beans, 2<br />
onions (finely chopped), 2 cloves of garlic (finely<br />
chopped), fresh chilli (finely chopped), 2 heaped<br />
tablespoons of tomato purée, 2 tomatoes (finely<br />
chopped), vegetable stock, 2 heaped tablespoons of<br />
peanut butter, ½ teaspoon of white pepper, salt and<br />
pepper to taste<br />
Method: Heat a little oil in a pot. Add the onions,<br />
one of the cloves of garlic and the chilli (I used a<br />
quarter of a Scotch Bonnet, but adjust according<br />
to taste). Cook that all down until the onions turn<br />
golden brown. Add the white pepper and tomato<br />
purée and cook until it starts to burn slightly.<br />
Put the fresh tomatoes and the rest of the garlic<br />
into the pot with the black eyed beans and add<br />
stock to just cover. Stir in the peanut butter and<br />
leave to simmer for 30 minutes. Season with salt<br />
and pepper. This goes really well with rice, bread –<br />
any staple really – and then a nice salad.<br />
As told to Rebecca Cunningham<br />
This month Chloe Edwards from Seven Sisters<br />
Spices will be taking over the kitchen. Her menu<br />
will be available (Fridays and Saturdays only) on the<br />
weekends of the 9th, 16th and 23rd of <strong>March</strong>. See<br />
thefeaturekitchen.co.uk<br />
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FOOD<br />
Riverside Café<br />
Fresh-water croque<br />
Apart from Tesco, I can’t really think of a company<br />
that makes the most of its Ouse-side location. Unless<br />
you count the aptly-named Riverside, of course.<br />
There are a few tables inside the building in both<br />
the Brasserie upstairs, and the Riverside Café<br />
downstairs, which offer a river view out the window.<br />
Outside the latter, if you sit with your back to Cliffe<br />
High Street on the wooden bench at the furthest<br />
table, you get an al fresco perspective of the water.<br />
It’s barely mid-February so despite the sunniness<br />
of the day I’m grateful for the blankets they’ve left<br />
out there, and the outdoor heater. I order some hot<br />
food – an arancini [sic] and a croque monsieur, and<br />
wait with a flat white, wondering if using a knife<br />
and fork with gloves on will be a first.<br />
The food arrives on two separate wooden boards,<br />
each with a little pile of dressed salad, so I eat it like<br />
two courses, thinking what a wasted opportunity<br />
the Argos car-park is (can we have a John Harvey<br />
Tavern beer garden, please!).<br />
The arancino serves to fill me up enough so I don’t<br />
dispose of the main act in two bites. Croque monsieurs<br />
are the most devilish French invention since<br />
the guillotine: this one is nicely browned on the top,<br />
and is in turns crunchy, chewy and soft.<br />
Am I transported momentarily to a bistro on the<br />
Rive Gauche? Well, not really, but it’s the nearest<br />
we have to it: when spring hits you may have to<br />
fight for the spot. Alex Leith<br />
Photo by Alex Leith<br />
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SPRING IS UPON US<br />
Pop down to Riverside for seasonal farm shop<br />
goodies from May’s Farm Cart, chocolate delights<br />
from Poppy’s and a wealth of art and craft kit from<br />
the-stitchery. If you have more time, linger in<br />
The Brasserie for lunch with a view.
FOOD<br />
Illustration by Chloë King<br />
Edible Updates<br />
A couple of promising<br />
changes to the food<br />
landscape: a new Turkish<br />
coffee shop is opening<br />
on Station Street, and<br />
Trading Post Coffee<br />
are opening in what<br />
was the Real Eating Co<br />
premises. Word is the Brighton<br />
branch serves good vegan options and their onsite<br />
roaster will add to their appeal.<br />
Back Yard Coffee at the Needlemakers<br />
convert their operation into a cocktail bar on<br />
Friday and Saturday evenings, serving drinks<br />
with ‘foraged ingredients’ to live jazz and DJs.<br />
Excitingly, Pestle & Mortar are growing their<br />
Asian whole-foods grocery offering with a<br />
noodle bar and cafe in what was Laporte’s on<br />
Friars Walk.<br />
The <strong>Lewes</strong> Arms has had a thorough kitchen<br />
refresh and now offers ‘small plates’ and mains<br />
including a signature pulled pork burger. Mitch<br />
from the John Harvey Tavern has taken over<br />
the Royal Oak and revamped the interior and<br />
drinks list to include Ground coffee.<br />
As the weather warms, look out for a new<br />
horsebox café at <strong>Lewes</strong> Vintage Market on<br />
Sundays. It could be a good year for mobile<br />
grocers with Charlotte’s Cupboard (see pg<br />
83) pitching at Harvey’s Yard on Fridays and<br />
The Sussex Peasant up for a BBC Food &<br />
Farming Award.<br />
In other news, Cashew Catering host a<br />
‘Spring Feast’ workshop on 10th; Kabak,<br />
a Middle Eastern Supper Club on the 24th<br />
(kabakfood.wixsite.com) and The Feature<br />
Kitchen are collaborating with Chloe Edwards<br />
(thefeaturekitchen.co.uk, see pg 72).<br />
Bonus: Proud Country House in Falmer now<br />
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parents the possibility of an uninterrupted<br />
lunch; and Limetree Kitchen are offering<br />
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THE WAY WE WORK<br />
With over 6,000 independent businesses in the <strong>Lewes</strong> District, how to choose<br />
four without offending all the others? We decided to highlight recently started<br />
concerns, which ply an innovative trade. Rebecca King did the honours<br />
with the camera, asking our four entrepreneurial spirits<br />
‘what do you most like about working for yourself?’<br />
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Anna Lane & Nicola Wright, Treatment Tents (treatment-tents.com)<br />
“It creates an equilibrium between family life and career, giving us wonderful<br />
freedom to make our own decisions and choices.’’
THE WAY WE WORK<br />
Nancy Meiland, Nancy Meiland Parfums (nancymeiland.com)<br />
“Listening and acting on my instincts, shaping my own path<br />
and learning all aspects of my business from scratch.”
THE WAY WE WORK<br />
Tracey Horan, Dolly Fixtures (dollyfixtures.co.uk)<br />
“The flexibility means I can usually be there for my family,<br />
even if that means working into the wee hours, catching up!’’
THE WAY WE WORK<br />
Thalassa de Burgh-Milne and Charlotte Cross, Charlotte's Cupboard<br />
(charlottescupboard.com)<br />
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WILDLIFE<br />
Illustration by Mark Greco<br />
Slugs<br />
The slimes they are a-changin’<br />
I’ve had a strange fascination with slugs since I was<br />
a little boy. Back then I believed that they were<br />
homeless snails that had lost their shells. It turns<br />
out I was right. Sort of. The whole eviction process<br />
had started as far back as the murky Mesozoic when<br />
some land snails cast off the shackles of a shell<br />
and evolved into slugs for some truly independent<br />
living. Sure, shells are great for protection and will<br />
help you to avoid drying out but they’re clunky and<br />
require calcium to construct. Without them you<br />
can roam anywhere and (to namecheck another<br />
mollusc) the world’s your oyster. The slug’s shell<br />
has never completely been lost – a fragment still<br />
remains hidden under their skin, a tiny, shrunken<br />
souvenir of their snail ancestry. You can take the<br />
slug out of the shell but you can’t take the shell out<br />
of the slug.<br />
Another link to their slimy dynasty is that slugs, like<br />
snails, are both hes and shes and, as hermaphrodites,<br />
possess both sets of sexual organs. This means<br />
that, if the situation dictates, they can go it alone<br />
and simply self-fertilise to produce their offspring.<br />
A true state of independence. Imagine if our<br />
reproduction process was so simple: no awkward<br />
first dates, no wedding cake decisions – just DIY<br />
duplication. And for narcissists there’s another bonus<br />
– self-fertilisation creates a clone – or in a slug’s<br />
case hundreds of clones. Imagine the possibilities<br />
– an army of Blencowes churning out wildlife<br />
articles for magazines up and down the country.<br />
But the problem with inbreeding (and you can’t get<br />
more inbred than having sex with yourself) is a lack<br />
of genetic variability. Clones all possess the same<br />
weaknesses. An entire slug population can be wiped<br />
out by the same parasites and pathogens. An entire<br />
Blencowe army could be distracted and defeated by<br />
a few crates of Ferrero Rochers.<br />
To produce varied and resilient offspring most<br />
slugs go in for the more old-fashioned approach of<br />
finding a partner for a quick rustle in the undergrowth.<br />
But one garden slug species has turned this<br />
chore into art – a flamboyant celebration of a lack<br />
of independence. The spotted and striped leopard<br />
slugs start their performance with a fair bit of slap<br />
and tickle. The pair chase each other around a tree<br />
giving each other some sensuous strokes and cheeky<br />
nibbles. Then they climb, shimmy along a branch<br />
and descend on a rope made of their own mucous.<br />
Here, hanging in mid-air, the slugs evert their<br />
sexual organs, entwining them to create a moonlit<br />
globe. This graceful, balletic trapeze performance<br />
has to be one of the most mesmerising sights on<br />
our planet. If you search hard enough you can find<br />
beauty in the strangest places. Still, if I was strolling<br />
through the woods at night, I’d hate to walk into it<br />
face-first. Michael Blencowe, Sussex Wildlife Trust<br />
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COLUMN<br />
Walkies<br />
#13 Berwick Circular<br />
Sarah is ‘faffing’. I think faffing is one of those<br />
Mars and Venus things. I’m not saying there aren’t<br />
men who faff but I do reckon that women tend to<br />
faff more than men.<br />
My confidence in this controversial assertion is<br />
boosted by the fact that Todd obviously agrees<br />
with me. He’s pulling on his lead and has let out<br />
a whine and a bark. Quite why there’s this delay<br />
in starting our walk, he can’t quite fathom. And<br />
neither can I.<br />
Not for the first time (or the second for that matter),<br />
Sarah has decided to replace one article of<br />
clothing with another and is now staring up at the<br />
sky which, it has to be said, is giving few indications<br />
of its ultimate intention.<br />
Finally, an alternative anorak, an umbrella, a<br />
woolly hat and a scarf are dragged out of the boot,<br />
stuffed in a backpack, and handed to me. Despite<br />
some dark mutterings from yours truly, it’s clearly<br />
the price that must be paid if we are ever to leave<br />
the car park.<br />
This particular walk from the Cricketers Arms<br />
near Berwick, up onto the Downs, west towards<br />
Firle and then back through Alciston to the pub<br />
is a summer favourite ending in the Cricketers’<br />
delightful garden. In winter, the allure of a roaring<br />
log fire is even more appealing.<br />
When we reach the top of the Downs, the weather<br />
gods are in a particularly fickle mood putting on a<br />
son et lumière worthy of a scene from King Lear.<br />
Within the space of a few minutes we are battered<br />
by high winds, drenched by a cloud-burst, and<br />
then blinded by bright sunshine.<br />
Todd may be in seventh heaven – and would probably<br />
remain so even if the sky fell in and we were<br />
abducted by aliens – but I feel like a man more<br />
sinned against than sinning. If I have to open this<br />
wretched backpack one more time I shall pull my<br />
own eyes out.<br />
On the way back down to Alciston we shelter in<br />
some trees to find some respite from the wind and<br />
rain before making our way along the footpath<br />
towards Berwick. Here we decide to take a look at<br />
the famous WW2 murals in the church painted by<br />
Duncan Grant and Vanessa and Quentin Bell.<br />
I am immersed in an admiring reverie when I hear<br />
a bark from the porch and Sarah’s voice echoes<br />
down the nave. “Come on,” she says. “What on<br />
earth are you doing? Todd’s getting impatient. We<br />
can’t stay here all day.” Faffing, you see. Depends<br />
how you define it. Richard Madden<br />
Map: OS Explorer OL25. Distance: 4 miles. Terrain:<br />
Steep climb onto Downs, views over the Cuckmere<br />
Haven to the sea. Directions: From Berwick follow the<br />
footpath up onto the Downs and then west along the<br />
South Downs Way. At Bostal Hill, follow the sunken<br />
path to Alciston and then the footpath east back to the<br />
pub. Start/finish: Cricketer’s Arms, Berwick<br />
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HEALTH<br />
Period drama<br />
Time for a change…<br />
What affects half the<br />
population, yet is one<br />
of the most misunderstood<br />
– and least<br />
discussed – of all conditions?<br />
The answer<br />
is the menopause.<br />
It’s a term we’re all<br />
familiar with, but<br />
what exactly do we<br />
mean by it? Technically,<br />
menopause<br />
occurs when a woman<br />
has her last period.<br />
More usually, though, we use the word to cover the<br />
time during which declining levels of the hormone<br />
oestrogen cause periods to dwindle, and trigger<br />
other changes and symptoms.<br />
According to campaign group Menopause UK, 13<br />
million women in the UK fall into this category,<br />
with an average age of 45 to 55. And of those<br />
women, a quarter claim their symptoms adversely<br />
affect them.<br />
Symptoms range from hot flushes and night<br />
sweats, to vaginal dryness, insomnia, reduced libido,<br />
aching joints, and problems with memory and<br />
concentration. No wonder the British Menopause<br />
Society reported last year that over half of women<br />
surveyed said the menopause had negatively<br />
impacted their lives.<br />
But while some women clearly experience difficulties<br />
as they go through ‘the change’, problems<br />
aren’t inevitable, and there is plenty we can do to<br />
ease the transition.<br />
So says Lynne Russell, a natural health practitioner<br />
with a special interest in the menopause, who is<br />
keen to challenge assumptions. “So much media<br />
coverage of the menopause is negative, and often<br />
Hormone Replacement Therapy or antidepressants<br />
are the only options discussed, but there is<br />
a lot a woman can<br />
do to help herself<br />
naturally.”<br />
She uses a combination<br />
of different remedies<br />
and approaches<br />
to help her clients<br />
at The Cliffe Clinic,<br />
tailoring treatment to<br />
each individual. “Everyone<br />
is different.<br />
The key is to become<br />
better informed. People<br />
can be desperate<br />
to feel better, but it’s important to gather all the<br />
information, so you can work out what is going to<br />
support your system best.”<br />
To that end, Lynne believes that menopause can be<br />
the perfect opportunity for a ‘life audit’. “Menopause<br />
acts like a magnifier, so anything else going<br />
on at the time will be intensified, whether it’s a<br />
health issue or something emotional,” she explains.<br />
“We tend to wait until we hit difficulties before we<br />
act, but the more you can do to prepare yourself<br />
for menopause, the better, whether that’s in terms<br />
of tackling existing problems or generally improving<br />
your diet and fitness. It’s a good opportunity to<br />
take stock, then act pre-emptively. If you’re in the<br />
best possible mental and physical place, you’re less<br />
likely to experience problems.”<br />
Above all, though, she says, try to stay positive.<br />
“It’s about asking yourself what you can do to have<br />
a better time of it. Menopause can be okay, and<br />
moving onto the next stage of life can be positive<br />
and empowering. You don’t have to be a ‘menopause<br />
goddess’, but it doesn’t have to be a horror<br />
story either.” Anita Hall<br />
Natural Alternatives at the Menopause Workshop<br />
takes place on the 3rd of <strong>March</strong>. For details or to<br />
book, see chantryhealth.com.<br />
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HEALTH<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> 'Super-surgery'<br />
A riverside health campus by 2020<br />
By the early 2020s,<br />
all going to plan,<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> will have a<br />
new ‘Super-surgery’,<br />
which promises to<br />
offer more wideranging<br />
services and<br />
improved efficiencies,<br />
and will replace the<br />
three existing surgeries,<br />
whilst Ringmer<br />
surgery remains.<br />
I'm invited to St<br />
Andrew's Surgery to talk to Dr Jason Heath, a<br />
partner and GP there, who is one of the movers<br />
behind the new plans. St Andrew's is one of the<br />
three practices involved in what is much more<br />
than just a merger, along with School Hill Medical<br />
Practice and River Lodge Surgery.<br />
The site proposed is directly opposite the river<br />
from Tesco, where a number of warehouses from<br />
the old Phoenix industrial site currently stand,<br />
awaiting demolition before the Santon and <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
District Council development – of which this will<br />
be part – is constructed. The plan includes underground<br />
parking. The practice itself along with<br />
other new buildings will be built from first-floor<br />
height up, making it safe from flooding. The surrounding<br />
transport infrastructure will be improved<br />
to ease access to and from the site for both car and<br />
public transport users.<br />
More than just a merger? "We hope this will be a<br />
state-of-the-art centre," says Dr Heath, "providing<br />
a much wider access to health and social care<br />
than the existing surgeries can. It’ll offer a broad<br />
spectrum of services to cater for both physical and<br />
mental health problems, and enable other key services<br />
such as district nursing, midwifery, counselling,<br />
audiology, physiotherapy etc to be located on<br />
the same campus. Being in one place will improve<br />
delivery of care and<br />
serve what is a growing<br />
population into<br />
the next generation."<br />
The 'hub' is also keen<br />
to maintain links with<br />
the Victoria Hospital,<br />
with plans to open<br />
a GP-staffed urgent<br />
treatment unit.<br />
One reason for the<br />
modernisation is to<br />
alleviate what Dr<br />
Heath calls the 'GP bottleneck' whereby patients<br />
see the GP first, even if there is someone else<br />
better placed to help them: to this end <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
receptionists are already being trained to become<br />
‘patient navigators’, to signpost patients to the<br />
most appropriate care options, such as open access<br />
support to children or young people with mental<br />
health worries, benefits advice, or direct access<br />
physiotherapy.<br />
I ask the obvious question: "is this a cost-cutting<br />
measure in disguise?" Dr Heath, who speaks of the<br />
project with great commitment, is quick to dismiss<br />
such a thought. "Not at all. In fact the overall cost<br />
to the NHS for the surgery will be slightly higher<br />
than the current facilities – which are no longer fit<br />
for purpose – are costing."<br />
"The three current practices are stretched beyond<br />
capacity, and the population of the town is growing,”<br />
he concludes. “We are planning something<br />
which is quite pioneering: I believe we will be the<br />
envy, for example, of anyone living in Brighton. A<br />
similar project at Bromley-By-Bow has been very<br />
successful, creating a space where people come for<br />
much more than just to see their doctor, and we<br />
are hoping to create something of real value to the<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> community."<br />
Alex Leith<br />
Courtesy of Axis Architects<br />
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Pretty vacant<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>’ ‘buildings at risk’<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> has many<br />
buildings of historic or<br />
architectural importance,<br />
hundreds of them<br />
having the protective<br />
status of being ‘listed’.<br />
The town is inevitably<br />
subject to change<br />
- changes of use and<br />
new developments. For<br />
a number of reasons<br />
buildings may become<br />
‘at risk’, often for a<br />
short time, occasionally<br />
for very long periods.<br />
Being at risk may<br />
come about because<br />
of vacancy, changes<br />
of ownership or while<br />
redevelopment opportunities are explored and<br />
planning permission sought.<br />
A good example of the latter category is Canon<br />
O’Donnell Hall on Western Road. Many of<br />
us will have a memory of this place, be it associated<br />
with scouts, Western Road School, the Catholic<br />
Church or drama classes… and that is by no means<br />
an exhaustive list! After being empty for years, at<br />
last this building with its Arts & Crafts touches<br />
and in a prominent position, is being converted,<br />
albeit very slowly, into four town houses. Earlier<br />
plans by the owner to knock it down and build<br />
a block of flats were opposed by the Friends of<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> and others on more than one occasion in<br />
an attempt to save it from demolition and preserve<br />
its exterior.<br />
More recently, Lloyds Bank on the upper High<br />
Street – a Grade II Georgian listed building - was<br />
empty for some years, with obvious neglect and<br />
deterioration, whilst development ideas were<br />
pursued. The eventual conversion to a Côte<br />
restaurant, with accommodation<br />
above,<br />
has preserved its fine<br />
interior and put it back<br />
into use.<br />
Fisherman’s Cottages<br />
off Foundry Lane were<br />
in a ruinous state for<br />
years before a radical<br />
conversion brought<br />
them back to a habitable<br />
state, albeit with<br />
the loss of some historic<br />
internal features.<br />
Castle Cottage, tucked<br />
away in Castle Ditch<br />
Lane, appears to be in<br />
a perilous condition:<br />
I believe uncertain<br />
ownership and squatters have been the causes of<br />
protracted delay in its redevelopment.<br />
Sometimes the vacancy is measured only in<br />
months, as with the old Turkish Baths in Friars<br />
Walk, soon to be returned to yet another period of<br />
use in its long history, but St Anne’s Special School<br />
has been empty and deteriorating for a decade<br />
now, with competing ideas for its future being<br />
aired, but the County Council as owners have been<br />
unable to resolve the complex issues involved: a<br />
dreadful waste of a large site with much potential.<br />
Buildings do not have to be historic to be at risk:<br />
Springman House at the top of North Street is a<br />
relatively modern office building which has been<br />
derelict for years, having become surplus to the<br />
needs of its previous Health Service owners. It is<br />
due to be demolished and redeveloped this year<br />
as part of the plan to relocate the fire station from<br />
the North Street Quarter. Marcus Taylor<br />
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I began making kitchens over<br />
35 years ago. Starting out as a<br />
one-man band, with no formal<br />
training beyond an interest in<br />
design and making, I had a lot to<br />
learn. I set up my first workshop<br />
in my late twenties in a barn<br />
in Hadlow Down. I had very<br />
supportive landlords who didn’t<br />
charge me much rent while I<br />
got the business established. Jon,<br />
who has worked with me since<br />
those days, still manages the<br />
workshop now. It’s a far cry from<br />
where we started. There are ten<br />
of us now, designers, cabinetmakers<br />
and fitters. Mark and<br />
Jack started with us as apprentices<br />
and we’re about to take on<br />
another one. We’ve gained a lot<br />
of expertise along the way and<br />
we’re growing!<br />
We had the opportunity to<br />
move to our current workshop,<br />
in Plumpton Green,<br />
back in 2000. It had been an<br />
open cow byre and we got planning<br />
permission to enclose one<br />
side of it and convert it into a<br />
purpose-built workshop. We’ve<br />
recently updated our heating<br />
system, with the help of Bhesco<br />
(Brighton & Hove Energy<br />
Services Co-op) who help to<br />
fund green energy initiatives<br />
for business. Next week we’re<br />
installing solar panels which will<br />
cover our whole roof and help<br />
offset some of our electricity<br />
usage. We try to be as green as<br />
we can and continue to explore<br />
ways to minimise our waste.<br />
Although everything is made<br />
in the workshop, the design<br />
team are based in our <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
showroom and I spend most of<br />
my time either here or visiting<br />
on site. At any one time we<br />
might have 20 clients on the<br />
board, ranging from initial<br />
inquiries, projects in the design<br />
stage, kitchens being made in<br />
the workshop, to final installation<br />
and project completion.<br />
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I still love the feeling that we see the whole<br />
creative process through. If we were buying in<br />
cabinets from China I wouldn’t be interested!<br />
The showroom is our initial point of contact,<br />
where people come in to see what we do and<br />
discuss their projects. As designers, we start with<br />
the dimensions of the space and see what’s going<br />
to work. A design is always the result of a dialogue<br />
between us and the clients. How do they want<br />
to use their space? Is it just a kitchen, a kitchen<br />
dining area, or a general living space? Once we<br />
know a project is going forward we will dedicate<br />
time and consideration to get all the detail right.<br />
Designs are drawn in 3D and give a really clear<br />
picture of what the finished kitchen will look like.<br />
Although we’re best known for our shaker<br />
kitchens, we also do a range of more contemporary<br />
and modern designs, often using innovative<br />
new materials that extend the possibilities<br />
of what is practical to make. Using high quality<br />
board materials (as opposed to MDF or chipboard),<br />
it’s feasible to stretch the practical boundaries<br />
which are a restriction with more traditional<br />
cabinet-making techniques. We enjoy this creative<br />
tension - we’re experimenting all the time!<br />
As told to Rebecca Cunningham<br />
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Photos by Rebecca Cunningham<br />
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COLUMN<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Out Loud<br />
Plenty more Henty<br />
These days I seem<br />
to do a lot of it.<br />
Shopping. Mostly<br />
in <strong>Lewes</strong>, of course,<br />
with the occasional<br />
sortie into Brighton<br />
or by train to Eastbourne.<br />
Walk out of<br />
Eastbourne Station<br />
currently and you<br />
are confronted by<br />
the vast Arndale<br />
Centre which has<br />
grown alarmingly<br />
in the past year.<br />
Where retail business is concerned, I happily<br />
confess to being small-minded. I like small shops<br />
– even ran one myself once – and here in eccentric<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>, we do have our fair share of such enterprising<br />
endeavours.<br />
However, from recent evidence on these very<br />
pages, it is clear that some shops are struggling,<br />
with murmurs of unreasonable parking charges,<br />
rocketing rates and more and more competition<br />
from nationwide chains.<br />
Yet they survive. Thank goodness then for Si of<br />
the records on Station Street, Rick and his Ground<br />
coffee team in Lansdown Place and my favourite,<br />
Bonne Bouche, in St Martin’s Lane. Owner Gilda<br />
Frost (above) could argue that she’s literally ‘in<br />
the pink’ having taken over the tiny shop from<br />
Elizabeth Syrett who first opened it in 1987.<br />
“Friends advised me not to buy the shop” Gilda<br />
told me, “It’s down a side street and so small – how<br />
can you possibly make any money?” She ignored<br />
the friendly advice. “It’s true the shop didn’t make<br />
a huge profit but it has outstayed many other<br />
chocolate shops in the town so Elizabeth must have<br />
done something right.” The doubting friends are<br />
now some of Gilda’s best customers.<br />
I note the<br />
former Brats<br />
premises on<br />
School Hill has<br />
been re-opened<br />
as ‘Charlotte’s<br />
Dragon’ by a car<br />
boot friend of<br />
mine, Carol and<br />
her husband,<br />
Gordon. They<br />
are raising funds<br />
for the Teenage<br />
Cancer Trust, in<br />
memory of their<br />
daughter who, sadly, died from the disease.<br />
Moving from small shops to small talk. One or two<br />
brief encounters now, and where better to start<br />
than the Tuesday market in the Town Hall. Here I<br />
spotted Jean who once sold a gnome to me in the<br />
St Peter and St James Hospice shop. She reminds<br />
me of this whenever we meet. Jolly Jean was trying<br />
on what appeared to be a leopard skin skirt to<br />
match her snazzy cap and boots. I approved. She<br />
bought it.<br />
On the terraces at the Dripping Pan stood June,<br />
on her own. She travels to watch the Rooks from<br />
her home in Polegate. Sometimes with her son,<br />
John. They normally stand on the open banking,<br />
facing the main stand, but not on this occasion. I<br />
can rarely remember a worse afternoon for weather<br />
and I congratulated her on making the journey.<br />
Jean also travels to some away games she told me.<br />
Heading towards Station Street from a cinema<br />
visit in the early evening, I was approached by two<br />
young South London guys who were clearly lost.<br />
“Where is <strong>Lewes</strong> football club?” one of them asked<br />
hesitantly, “We’re down here for training.” “Follow<br />
me” I instructed. “You’re joining a great club. I’m<br />
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On Mountfield<br />
Road, opposite<br />
Priory School,<br />
Flint Barn Fitness<br />
have opened up a<br />
new gym in the<br />
pretty building<br />
pictured right.<br />
We’ll be taking<br />
up their offer of<br />
trying the facilities<br />
out - including obstacle<br />
training - so<br />
expect more soon<br />
on this one.<br />
There are two more empty spaces to rent in the<br />
basement of the Needlemakers. Perrymans are<br />
‘closing their shopfront to focus on design shows<br />
and online sales’ (plus they’re having a baby);<br />
you’ll still be able to get hold of their furniture at<br />
From Victoria, in the same building, and online<br />
(perrymandesign.com). Next door’s Modal are<br />
going too – a sign in the window says they’re<br />
changing their business plan so as to sell party<br />
accessories.<br />
Round the corner in Castle Ditch Lane, in that<br />
pretty little square/car-park outside Martyrs’<br />
Gallery, Louis Browne has set up a <strong>Lewes</strong> office<br />
as a notary public, specialising in helping customers<br />
sell property, do business or get married<br />
abroad. We’ve also learnt that Sarah O’Kane<br />
will be exhibiting her circle of artists in Fisher<br />
Street Frames from <strong>March</strong> 1st.<br />
Fiona Abbott tells us that she’s starting up a<br />
dedicated yoga and personal training studio<br />
on Western Road as a permanent base for her<br />
Soulfit concern. And a big welcome to Clarriots<br />
Care, a branch of the nationwide homecare<br />
service, who’ve set up a new office in town.<br />
It’s all go on Station Street, with rumours of<br />
a Turkish café in what was Tash Tori, and the<br />
Royal Oak looking splendid after an expensive<br />
refurb. Anyone remember those saloon-style<br />
yee-hah swinging<br />
doors?<br />
It’s a long cry<br />
from those<br />
days. While<br />
we’re on pubs<br />
we understand<br />
that the Dorset<br />
is changing<br />
hands, and the<br />
latest managers<br />
of the Rainbow<br />
in Cooksbridge<br />
have called it a<br />
day, after just<br />
three months. We don’t want to double up too<br />
much on what Chloë King has written in Edible<br />
Updates (see pg 77) but it’s worth repeating that<br />
Pestle and Mortar are moving their Asian food<br />
operation into what was Laporte’s, and cooking<br />
hot noodles, too, making us a four-Thai town;<br />
and what was the Real Eating Company (and The<br />
Long Room, and Elphicks) is becoming Trading<br />
Post Coffee Roasters (there’s another branch in<br />
Ship Street, Brighton) run by the people behind<br />
Ooh Ah Café on the seafront.<br />
A few months back we took a visit on this page to<br />
the building works of The Spithurst Hub, outside<br />
Barcombe. This is a state-of-the-art business<br />
centre which will be the HQ of So Sussex, the<br />
company behind the Elderflower Fields Festival,<br />
and much more besides. They offer private<br />
offices, workshop spaces and hot desks to other<br />
businesses, and a conference and meeting space,<br />
too. And there’s a cookery school! It’s all very<br />
swish, for its rural setting.<br />
Finally a mention for the <strong>Lewes</strong> District<br />
Business Awards, set to launch on <strong>March</strong> 13th,<br />
with the winners announced in July. Last year<br />
Wave Leisure won the blue-riband ‘Business<br />
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nominate in <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
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Think about your health come to the<br />
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with you. Contact Quit 51 on 08006226968 if<br />
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During winter we lack sunlight and therefore<br />
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Easter closing: We will be closed from<br />
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INSIDE LEFT<br />
JENKINS & STRIPP, 1953<br />
It’s easy to work out when pictures of newsagents<br />
were taken: just take a magnifying glass to the<br />
publications in the shop window, or in this case of<br />
Jenkins and Stripp at 30 Station Street in <strong>Lewes</strong>,<br />
hanging off the wall.<br />
At first we spotted the Christmas 1953 edition<br />
of Tatler, which came out on November 19th of<br />
that year, then we noticed a copy of the (weekly)<br />
Picture Post, with Queen Elizabeth on the front,<br />
which hit the streets on November 30th. There’s<br />
an ad for Triumph and Tragedy, the last volume<br />
of Winston Churchill’s war memoirs, published<br />
that month: Churchill’s face also fills a November<br />
edition of Life magazine.<br />
The façade has changed significantly, but this is<br />
the building, opposite the Royal Oak, which until<br />
recently housed a café, first the Snack Bar, then<br />
the short-lived PJ’s@30. The building had previously<br />
been used as a newsagent for many decades.<br />
A search through Kelly’s Directory suggests that<br />
F Jenkins and R Stripp took over an existing<br />
newsagent, called ‘HG Hirons’ in 1938; before<br />
that, from at least 1909, Albert Banks had sold<br />
newspapers from the building.<br />
Mr Jenkins seems to have moved to New Zealand,<br />
leaving Mr Stripp (first name Roy, born 1912)<br />
running the shop, and another he later opened in<br />
Malling Street. Before long he was called up and<br />
saw active service in the Royal Navy until 1945.<br />
This photograph, Tom Reeves surmises from the<br />
archive notes, was taken by his father Edward for<br />
‘Newspaper and Stationer’, presumably a trade<br />
magazine. We’re told (by Peter Fellows, on Facebook)<br />
that the well-groomed man is owner Roy<br />
Stripp, the woman his assistant Sheila Cornford.<br />
The Stripps moved to Australia in 1962, running<br />
a shop in the outskirts of Perth. The newsagent<br />
kept its old name until it became ‘JW & JS Stock’<br />
in 1974, known locally as ‘Stocks’, which is how<br />
many will remember it.<br />
In 1953 there were no fewer than ten independent<br />
newsagents in town, and no chains (though WH<br />
Smiths was soon to arrive); we are sad to note that<br />
before our next edition <strong>Lewes</strong>’ last dedicated indie<br />
newsagent – John and Liz Aitken’s – will close,<br />
though they will still continue their delivery<br />
service. Will we ever see another open up?<br />
Alex Leith<br />
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