Viva Lewes Issue #143 August 2018

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Because every life is unique …we are here to help you make your farewell as personal and individual as possible, and to support you in every way we can. Inc. Cooper & Son 42 High Street, Lewes 01273 475 557 Also at: Uckfield • Seaford • Cross in Hand www.cpjfield.co.uk
COLUMN Lewes Out Loud Plenty more Henty Our illustration this month shows the brightly coloured dust jacket for the 1936 edition of Chums Annual for Boys. I bought it locally, over ten years ago, from Bow Windows Bookshop in the High Street. The hefty volume is full of thrilling adventure stories like Red Falcon – The Pirate Hunter and Sheba – The Magnificent by a certain Captain Oswald Dallas. Vividly illustrated in black and white, with four coloured plates, the 400-page publication promised ‘innumerable articles and pictures on adventure and sport’, all for a modest eight shillings and sixpence. Four years later, of course, many of the schoolboys who would avidly read these tales of swashbuckling heroism would themselves be involved in real life and death dramas in the early stages of the Second World War. For me, 1936 was the year my adventures began for, let’s face it, life itself is an adventure into the unknown and only the final phase is predictable for all of us. As a schoolboy, for example, my first trip abroad was to Holland just after the war. For a fifteen year old, that was an adventure. Sailing from Harwich into ‘the unknown’ – well Zandvoort actually – a different language, food and girls, one of whom, Inie, became my pen pal for several years. Remember pen friends? National Service was a two-year adventure in the mid-1950s when, for a good part of the time, I defended the people of Leighton Buzzard from nuclear annihilation with my Olivetti typewriter. Emigrating to the West Coast of America in 1960 was exciting enough and the journey across from New York in a Greyhound bus pre-Palin and Portillo was almost life enhancing. Inevitably, on retirement to laid-back Lewes, things have quietened down somewhat and what counts as an adventure these days is trying to get to St Leonards by train without incident. “Trespassers on the line at Collington” most recently. Back to Eastbourne everyone! Or how about boarding a number 124 bus at the bus station, as my wife and I did early one Saturday morning in June, for a magical mystery tour through the joys of East Sussex? An adventure because we soon discovered that Vernon, our driver, (we were alone apart from one gentleman who was reading a newspaper) had recently moved down to the south coast from South London and was driving the picturesque route to Eastbourne, through Glynde, Polegate and Pevensey for the first time, with passengers. “Makes a change from Lewisham” he chuckled, “Bus replacement tomorrow at Three Bridges!” One or two brief encounters to end with. I enjoyed a decent scoop of locally produced ice cream from ‘Ez Tutty’ on the High Street, served by Sam, who agreed that the ice cream parlour should surely offer a ‘Tutti-Frutti’ speciality. And in Eastport Lane, I checked out the well-being of a woman who was crouched at the foot of the flint wall to Grange Gardens. Chirpy local resident Ali reassured me that she was only sowing wild poppy seeds. Silly me! John Henty 91
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