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September 2020 This newsletter is compiled and edited by David Cowell who is totally responsible for content. If you do not wish to receive these newsletters please email UNSUBSCRIBE to him at david@thesentinel.org.uk
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Folkestone and Hythe Cats Protection shop in Hythe is now open: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10am - 3pm. New measures in place to protect customers and volunteers. Stringent cleaning regime and quarantining system to further protect customers and volunteers and only 2 customers in the shop at any one time. Many bargains from £1. Contact shop on 01303 264285 and general enquiries on 0345 260 1253
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Funding Available The Hythe Institute Fund considers applications for funding from local organisations including schools, scouts and guide groups, sports clubs and the trustees of local halls and facilities; who may require funds for maintenance or improvements. The recipients must be in the Hythe parish (including Hythe, Seabrook, Saltwood, Palmarsh, Lympne and Newingreen).
To apply for funding go to www.hytheinstitutefund.org.uk or e-mail us on hytheinstitutefund@gmail.com or call us on 01303 278888. Trustees meet to review applications every four months. The cut off dates to receive applications are: • 10 January • 30 April • 30 September
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All now available in paperback and on Kindle Set in Folkestone in the heady days of the late 60s. They say if you can remember it, you weren't there!
Two plays. One an imaginary meeting between Dylan Thomas and Brendan Behan in a Fitzrovia pub. The other is Caitlin Thomas reminiscing after the untimely death of her husband.
This is the tale of Hana, a young girl who moves from where she was born in London, to the Kent coast. They discover a wonderful area called Prince's Parade which is full of amazing animals, has a beautiful canal and is right next to the sea too! By buying this book you will be helping to protect it. All profits from it will be donated to the Save Prince's Parade campaign which aims to halt plans to develop the area into a housing estate. Did you know that a play set in the garden of a house in the Undercliffe in Sandgate was performed on the stage in New York? This walk through the history of Sandgate to the present day was first performed at the Chichester Hall a decade ago on Wednesday, 9th June, 2010. It is now available on Kindle or in paperback. 12
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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 guaranteed.
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By Laura Sharman 31 AUG 2020
Dad and two sons stumble upon unexploded smoking WWII bomb during beach stroll Oliver Tanton Brown, 40, and his sons Sammy, eight, and Jacob, five, spotted the mortar shell after crabbing at Warren Beach in Folkestone, Kent
The quick thinking trio were praised for alerting coastguards who sent a bomb squad to detonate the weapon at Warren Beach in Folkestone, Kent.
(Image: Oliver Tanton Brown / SWNS)
The family, from Hythe, had been crabbing by the warren on Friday when they spotted the wartime relic and soon realised it was a smoking bomb.
When little Jacob noticed smoke coming from the mysterious object, Oliver took the boys back to the car and called the coastguard. The businessman, who owns Eco Rocks, said: "It was our last day before the boys go back to school so we went for a wander, did some crabbing and ended up finding that."
Oliver Tanton Brown, 40, and his sons Sammy, eight, and Jacob, five, stumbled upon the smoking WWII bomb (Image: Oliver Tanton Brown / SWNS)
"The boys wanted to go to the warren and I was trying to make the walk a bit more exciting for them by telling them how you can sometimes find old relics down there when we stumbled upon it.
"There was dust coming out of it and I realised it could be quite dangerous so then I moved it away and called the coast guard." Oliver directed the bomb squad by phone and the device was identified as a WWII phosphorus mortar. 18
The quick thinking trio, from Kent, reported the relic to the coastguard (Image: Oliver Tanton Brown / SWNS)
Coastguards cordoned off the area to keep people at a safe distance while the weapon was safely detonated in a controlled explosion.
The WWII bomb being detonated in a controlled explosion (Image: Folkestone Coastguard/MCA /
White phosphorus is a dangerous chemical which is often used for naval flares and is capable of causing serious burns.
Oliver and his two boys were praised for their good judgement and the dad-of-two said it was definitely a day they would not forget. A spokesman from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said: "The person who found it did exactly the right thing by calling it in to us." "We'd rather it were called in and turn out not to be harmful that the other way around." Footage shows the bomb being detonated in a controlled explosion before it was safely disposed of. An MOD spokesperson said: “An Army EOD Team were called out to East Wear Bay to assist HM Coastguard with the routine disposal of ordnance." “The device was rendered safe by means of a controlled explosion, and recovered for subsequent safe disposal." “Military personnel are regularly required to assist with the disposal of historic ordnance such as this, ensuring every situation is dealt with as quickly as possible for the safety of the general public."
The family was praised for reporting the find and a bomb squad were sent to detonate the device in Folkestone, Kent (Image: Oliver Tanton Brown / SWNS)
My thanks to SWNS news agency for allowing me to reproduce this article (swns.com).
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