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Sandgate October 2019

This magazine is compiled and edited by David Cowell who is totally responsible for content. If you do not wish to receive these magazines please email UNSUBSCRIBE to him at david@thesentinel.org.uk

The Sandgate Market has four types of stallholder: 1. Local produce: meat, veg, bread, cakes, jams, pies etc

Sandgate Farmers Market

2. Local made: jewellery, soft toys, furnishings etc

3. Local enterprise: local residents running a business but selling products not necessarily produced locally but that you might just like to buy for yourself or as gifts 4. Local charities: worthy causes that we support and hope you will too

Local produce

Local made

Local enterprise

Elham Valley Soaps and Candles

Saffron Rose Flowers

New Honey

Marsh Produce

Local honey

Local made

New

New Sandgate Bakery

It's a Florrie Thing

Pauline's hand made toys

Usbourne Books

New Old Hall Farm

Catherine Jordan Cakes

Fire & Roast

Gill Thompson Jewellery

Local charities

New Anji's Interiors

Eco Food Wrap

District Councillors' Surgery Meet your District Councillor

St Pauls Roof Fund

CAFE coffee, tea and friends

Did you know you can pre-order from the Sandgate Farmers' Market food stall holders and collect at the next Market? Stallholder

Produce

Sandgate Bakery

Bread

Old Hall Farm

email and/or telephone number sales@thesandgatebakery.com

01303 246569 marshproduceltd@yahoo.co.uk

Meat/eggs/pies

07479 626754 marshproduceltd@yahoo.co.uk

Marsh Produce Fruit and veg

07479 626754

Catherine Jordan Cakes

Cakes

Saffron Rose Flowers

Special flowers for your special days

text: 07528458444 email: jordan991@btinternet.com

info@saffronroseflowers.com 07767 083381

SANDGATE CREATIVE WRITING GROUP We meet on the fourth Thursday of every month at Sandgate Library from 1000-1200. There is a 'theme' for each month, but this is not compulsory and you are welcome to write a short story on any subject. Poetry welcome too! For more details please contact 07443 896422. 3

Support your local Farmers' Markets in 2019

No job too small Please call to discuss your needs WOW

Hythe Farmers Market

Design-led gifts and interiors 76 High Street Hythe Kent CT21 5AL

Takes place on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month from 10am to 1pm. In the Methodist Church Hall, Chapel Street, Hythe. Parking is available nearby. For more information call Eric Chauvel Market Manager 0781 7521312 eric@thefrenchdelicatessen.co.uk

01303 265340 www.facebook.com/ wowhythe 5

CRAFTS

2019 at The Grand, Folkestone Arts, Crafts & Vintage Fairs

Bank Holiday Monday 6th May (Nostalgia Day) Bank Holiday Monday 26th August (Old Timer’s Rally)

Arts & Craft Fairs

Sunday, 13th October ★ Sunday, 10th November Sunday, 8th December (Christmas Fair) Only quality goods hand-crafted by the stallholders on sale

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FREE ENTRY 10am to 4pm www.caranoevents.co.uk Support local events CaranoArtsCraftsFairs @CaranoEvents

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SANDGATE HERITAGE TRUST

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Have you heard about The Reading Room Sandgate? SANDGATE HERITAGE TRUST REG CHARITY NO. 287281 The Old Fire Station 51, Sandgate High Street Sandgate, Kent CT20 3AH

The Reading Room In The Old Fire Station Sandgate is a beautiful wood panelled room and is an ideal venue for small functions: Birthday Parties, small meetings, studio lighting & photography sessions, music practice, wakes etc. There is seating for a maximum

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of 30 people and there are folding tables for your use. There is a fully

01303 772873

equipped kitchen which includes crockery & cutlery settings and a

Mobile

combination microwave, tea urn, fridge, coffee machine & kettles.

07778773500

E-mail:

Please note there is NO WHEELCHAIR ACCESS. For more information please visit our newly designed website:

theoldfirestation369@gmail.com

Website www.theoldfirestationsandgate.co.uk

www.theoldfirestationsandgate.co.uk Or ring Mike Chalk 01303 772873 or Zoe Varian 01303 248114

Just some of the groups that use the Chichester Hall on a regular basis (contact The Sentinel for details): Tai Chi Yoga Pilates Tamalpa Table tennis Short mat bowls Sandgate Society monthly talks

Rooms to hire in Sandgate

Sandgate Art Group

Need to hire a hall? There's no need to look any further. Sandgate has a room to suit your needs. Chichester Memorial Hall Old Fire Station Reading Room St Paul's Church Hall Tower Theatre The Library Whether for a party, business meeting, music evening, club meeting or annual general meeting, Sandgate has a room for you with space to accommodate from 10 to 300. To see if there is one to suit your needs, do email the date(s) and number of attendees to

david@thesentinel.org.uk. We'll do the rest.

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To advertise in three The Sentinels with circa 2300 targetted readers and growing please email me at:

The editor of The Sentinel is also responsible for sending Hythe, Newington and Sandgate related event information to the Folkestone Herald. If you have an event you wish to publicise it is needed by Tuesday at 17:00. The information should appear in the edition two weeks later although it is not gauranteed.

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for a rate card. Thank you. 15

This is the new Pilates' timetable and it will start Monday 2nd September, check out a couple of new venues and a few changes to classes and times. Any questions give Julie a call on 07825109670

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Even more at the The Tower Theatre

"I wish I'd known about F:ND a while ago. It cost me ÂŁ140 to get a specialist to open my car for me. I found the car key two weeks later" Michael W, Wimborne The answer's at: https://www.the-find-online.com Ian Roberts (see Folkestone & Hythe Birds) will be leading another Bird Walk for us on Saturday 19th October. We will be walking along the cliff top at Capel, looking for outgoing summer visitors such as Chiffchaffs and Wheatears and incoming winter ones like Redwing and Fieldfare as well as any more unusual birds that show themselves. Park along the Old Dover Rd. between Varne Ridge and where Old Dover Rd meets the main New Dover Rd. Meet opposite Varne Ridge CT18 7HX at 10.00. Please let us know (hytheecg@yahoo.com) if you intend to come so that we have some idea of numbers.

Folkestone and Hythe Cats Protection operates a Lost and Found service for anyone who's cat has gone missing, or if a stray cat has been found. Contact 0345 260 1253 for further information 22

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From the cutting-edge London design agency Here Design - writer and poet Philip Cowell, and award-winning designer Caz Hildebrand, author of The Herbarium, this playful, original, beautifully designed book brings to life the punctuation marks we use every day, including: The dashing dash So-called "quotation marks" The colon: and on and on. Kindle edition The shouty exclamation! ÂŁ9.99 Hardback The three dots of... ÂŁ12.50 (Not forgetting the brackets) Great gift And even more

SILENT DISCO At The Grand, The Leas, Folkestone, CT20 2XL Thursday, 17 October 2019 6.30pm - 10.30 pm

Tickets Â£6.50 at the door Bar available for drinks and nibbles

Come and join in the fun and bring everyone with you!! All ages welcome A PERCENTAGE OF TICKET SALES WILL BE DONATED TO THE MEDICAL IMAGING DEPARTMENT AT THE WILLIAM HARVEY HOSPITAL, ASHFORD This event is supporting

Charity Registration Number 1076555 25

If you have any photographs of the area either current or past do send them to me by email and I will feature them in future editions. If you just have prints do drop them round to Clyme House (see below) and I will scan.

I am delighted to inform you that three electronic editions of The Sentinel are now published. We now produce a Sandgate, Hythe and a Newington version each month. If you would like to receive a copy of any please email me at:

david@thesentinel.org.uk and put the name of the version you require ie The Sentinel Hythe or The Sentinel Sandgate/Hythe etc in the subject line.

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If you would like to submit an article or letter please email it to me. I will print almost anything as long as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not libellous, racist or unkind. Name must be supplied but can be withheld if requested. Please put your articles etc in plain text or Word and images should be in .jpg, .tiff or .png. My contact details are: Address: Clyme House, Hillside Street, Hythe, Kent CT21 5DJ Mobile: 07771 796 446; email: david@thesentinel.org.uk