AAH All About Horsham - June2011 edition

AAH ALL ABOUT HORSHAM MAGAZINE

Batty for Baseball How Horsham came to have the most successful Baseball Club in the country

I N SI D E Paul Messis Ho r r i b l e Ho r s ha m Chocolate Focus The Green Man June 2011

Welcome

Ben Morris Managing Director

Firstly, thank you to all who took the time to write or call us after the first edition of AAH was delivered at the end of April.

It was nice to know that the hard work was worth it!

We won’t pretend that everything was perfect - we had some criticism too. You liked the high editorial content, Toby’s photographs and the historic articles.But the graphic designers amongst you noted too many ‘widows’ in the text while some felt the font was too big and bold!

So we’ve tried to right those wrongs for this, the June edition.

We’ve learned a lot in the last month. We know that 10,500 magazines can fill more than half the living room of a two bedroom semi-detached home, and that it takes longer than you

think to deliver magazines to homes along Broadford Bridge and West Chiltington Roads.

But we also know people appreciate having something interesting to read delivered through the door.

For June’s edition, AAH will be delivered for the first time in Storrington in addition to the towns and villages that received May’s edition.

Once again, this is a magazine dominated not by adverts but by editorial features, reviews, news and competitions, with some more stunning photography by Toby Phillips.

That’s him below, in the Phillips Family wing of Horsham Museum.

In this edition you’ll find a focus on the district’s chocolate and sweet companies. Work doesn’t

Editor: Ben Morris editor@aahorsham.co.uk 01403 878026 / 01903 892899

nator), John Lines, and Toby for his quite remarkable pictures.

Advertising Manager: Kelly Morris advertising@aahorsham.co.uk 01403 878026

Printers: Halcyon of Heathfield

Photography: Toby Phillips tobyphillips1@btinternet.com Contributors David Briffitt, Chris Pearce Thank you Jeff Morris, Jeremy Knight and all at Horsham Museum, Jill Shulker (Horsham District Council’s Health Walks co-ordi-

To contact AAH For all enquiries email Ben or Kelly or call 01403 878026.

You can write to us at: AA Publishing Ltd 2 Viney Close Ashington West Sussex RH20 3PT Cover Image: Kyall Parris Smith, an HJBC Yankee. (Pic: Toby Phillips)

You love us! Well, some of you, anyway! seem too bad when you’re tucking into a Cocoa Loco truffle!

We’ve also got in depth features

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on a Billingshurst musician hoping to make waves with his brand of jangly garage rock, a Slinfold artist who has to battle fierce headaches while producing his technically demanding paintings, and an

Ashington motoring enthusiast with a passion for Bond Minicars.

Working with Horsham Museum, we’ve put together a piece on the horrible history of Horsham town. It’s a killer piece.

And we’ve also looked in depth at Horsham Football Club’s plans for a new ground.

Just a final note on advertising we do pride ourselves on producing great editorial pieces and designing colourful adverts. If you think you’re not getting value for money by marketing your business elsewhere, do give me a call.

And if you do visit any one of our advertisers after reading about them in AAH, please do give us a mention!

Ben

AAH is delivered to more than 10,000 homes and businesses in Horsham, Southwater, Billingshurst and now Storrington. We also deliver in many villages, including Partridge Green, West Chiltington, Ashington, Mannings Heath, Slinfold, Copsale, Monks Gate, Lower Beeding, Itchingfield, Barns Green, Coneyhurst, Dial Post and Cowfold.

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Contents

Events Keep your diary busy with our guide for June, including details on a charity Paddlethon

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News Our round-up of the month’s headlines includes the story of a man attacked by a goose

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Art Painter Andrew Vince talks about his technically excellent work

Horrible Horsham We take a look at the district’s gory past, with special focus on the trial of the Acid Math Murderer

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Insight We visit the incredibly successful Horsham Junior Baseball Club

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Business AAH looks at growing number of cake, chocolate and sweet businesses in the district

Music Billingshurst musician Paul Messis is making waves in America with his brand of jangly garage rock

The Review We visit The Green Man in Partridge Green, run by Nick and Becky Illes

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Me & My Motor Nick Mander takes us for a drive in his Bond Minicar Mark C

The Big Issue Horsham Football Club have identified a potential site for a new stadium

Top 10 AAH provides a list of the best spots for a family walk in the Horsham District this summer

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Nordic Walking Why people of all ages are finding benefits in the discipline at Bluecoats

The Big Hard Quiz Name 12 local pubs in our fantastic monthly quiz, featuring a host of great prizes

Group Discussion With the traders at Horsham Local Produce Market

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The Last Word The Under the Fog team prepare to take an ambulance all the way to Mongolia

Horsham’s Day of Dance was held in the town centre on Saturday, 7th May. The free event, organised by the Broadwood Morris Men, attracted more than 20 dance teams sporting a variety of different looks, from the bright and colourful to the dark and rather sinister!

Picture: Toby Phillips

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Where did all that bunting come from? Horsham residents celebrated the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in true British fashion, with a number of street parties. Percy Road, Victory Road and Barrington Road were a sea of red, white and blue on Friday, 29th April, while in Mannings Heath nearly the entire village gathered to celebrate with food, drink, and a huge game of rounders! Don’t throw out the bunting just yet - the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee will be marked on 2nd-5th June 2012...

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Open Evening on Wednesday, 15th June 6-8pm Simply Olive Oils is located within the showrooms of Sussex Kitchen Designs at 1 Brighton Road, Horsham, RH13 5BD. We stock Extra Virgin Olive Oil in a variety of flavours (including Truffle, Chilli, Lemon, Basil and Garlic) as well as Balsamic Vinegars, Balsamic Glazes and Fresh Olives. Simply Olive Oils prides itself on supplying these fine oils at an affordable price and customers can take advantage of a refilling station at the shop.

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Events

Sussex Air Ambulance Open Day Sunday, 12th June Okay, it’s not actually within the Horsham District, but many people will be interested in the Sussex Air Ambulance Open Day, at Dunsfold Park near Cranleigh.

Not only is there plenty to see and do - it’s free too!

There will be helicopter rides, Eurofighter flight simulator and quad bike rides, emergency service displays, funfair, live music, Pimms tent, a hog roast and barbecue.

Visitors can see the emergency

services demonstrate how they work together at an incident scene, as well as enjoy helicopter rides (they’re not free, although most of us are unlikely to experience one at such a low price), open top bus tours around the Top Gear track, live music from ‘Charley Farley Sunday Four’, Fullers Beer & Pimms tent, a kids craft area, Mobile Ark small animal farm, bouncy castles, and flight simulator by UK Simrides.

Once again, there are tours on the 747 based at Dunsfold Park, and other highlights include a Southwater Dabblers model boat display, electric model train rides, Eagle Radio Love Crew, Caterham 7s, trade stands and much more.

Events are held from 11am to 4pm, but do get there in good time if you want to put your name down for a helicopter ride. www.sussexairambulance.com

For more on The Pink Ball go to Page 60 DON’T MISS IT! Midnight Walk Saturday, 11th June Last year’s Midnight Walk in Horsham raised £160,000 for St Catherine’s Hospice.

Organisers are hoping to top that figure this year by attracting 1,300 women to take part in the 13 mile walk.

To sign up visit the website or call Jen Wickham on 01293 447364 www.stch.org.uk/midnightwalk

BBH Music Festival

Looking ahead...

Saturday, 18th June Rudgwick and Barns Green have staged very successful Music Festivals in the past, so why not Broadbridge Heath? Four bands (Throbbing Hood, Chinchilla Zilla, Solice and one TBA) will play at Shelley Primary School, Wickhurst Lane, Broadbridge Heath, at 1-7pm

Elkie Brooks Knepp Castle, Saturday, 16th July

As part of her 50th anniversary tour, Elkie Brooks will be performing a very special summer outdoor concert in the stunning grounds of Knepp Castle, the proceeds of which will be donated to the young people’s charity AMBER. Elkie Brooks is one of the UK’s most successful and respected singing talents and is the most charted female album seller of the last 25 years.

Support acts will be the jazz and blues singer Elaine Crouch from Brighton, local legend Papa Falloon and a performance from the girls of the Creative and Expressive Arts Dept of Millais School.

The concert starts at 5pm with gates opening at 3pm. Guests are invited to bring their own picnics, or can enjoy hog roast, barbecue and beer tent on site. Car Parking is free.

Tickets are £25 with accompanying under 14s free. Premium tickets with a private marquee and champagne reception cost £125.

Tickets are available from Anne Phesse at I DRIVE U on (01403) 865412.

South of England Show

Warnham Village Fete

Thursday 9th-11th June

Saturday, 11th June

One of the best events in the South East, the show is held at Ardingly, attracting thousands of people on each day of the event. Highlights of this year’s programme include The Royal Signals Motorcycle Display Team, The Central Band of the Royal Air Force and an Inter Hunt Relay. For details see www.seas.org.uk

Warnham village fete is held on the Green on School Hill. Stalls include the South Downs Gun-Dog display team, Kidz Fun House, and a World War Two Jeep and drill display. The fete is opened by a procession of Morris Dancers, Ballerinas, Sussex Army Cadets and cubs and beavers who will leave the village car park at 10.45am.

Saturday 11th

Storrington Village Day will be held at 2-9pm, with classic cars, funfair, craft and society stalls, area events, a beer tent and music all on the programme. Events are held on the Recreation Ground.

Tuesday 21st

Horsham Open Studios week begins today. Many of the district’s best artists and makers open up their homes and studios. It’s a chance to buy affordable and contemporary work. Visit the website for more

Southwater Watersports Centre (at the Country Park) hosts a 12 hour Paddlethon today, for ladies, girls and men in pink! Funds raised go to Cancer Research UK. For details see southwatersports.co.uk

All are welcome at the 5th annual Mid-summer HDC Walk. Meet at 10am at Countryman Inn, Shipley, for 5 ½ mile walk through Knepp Park followed by a BBQ. Cost is £10 each. Call Gill on 01798 872939. No dogs.

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Saturday 11th

The Green Man in Partridge Green hosts the second ‘In The Pink Ball’ in a beautiful pink themed marquee set up in the garden. Money raised will be donated to two cancer charities by Becky and Nick Illes.

Saturday 18th

Sussex Game and Country Fair is held at Parham Park on 18th19th and again includes a round of the Mitsubishi Motors World Series Gundog Championship on each day. Plenty of fun for all the family

A Mid Summer Steam Weekend will be held at Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre today and tomorrow (12th).

This extravaganza of agricultural and industrial steam engines offers fun for all.

Saturday 25th

Thursday 9th

Tree walks in Horsham Park, led by tree warden Michael McCabe, started in May, and there will be a walk today at 7.30pm and on the 23rd June at 11am. For details call Michael on 01403 263383

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The Southwater Schools annual village fete is at 12.30 to 4.30pm at the Junior and Infant school, Worthing Road. Features live band ‘The Revivals’, balloon modelling, circus tricks and skate ramps. £1.50 adults, 50p kids

Busybody, a comedy based around a murder mystery, begins a three day stint at the Capitol in Horsham. It stars Tracy Shaw (Coronation Street), Peter Amory (Emmerdale) & Gemma Bissix (Eastenders)

Saturday 25th

Saturday 7th

The close of Horsham Symphony Orchestra’s 2010/2011 concert season sees them perform the exciting William Tell Overture by Rossini. At the Capitol Theatre, Horsham.

Tickets £12 from 750220.

Wednesday 22nd

Events

Washington Coachworks on Old London Road, Washington, hosts a Supercar Sunday, featuring a brand new Koenigsegg Agera as well as other great cars, from 10am-2pm. Food and drink available.

Please send event details for consideration to

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New stellar South Lodge Hotel in Lower Beeding has recently restored the original underground cellar and put it on show to the public during a popular Open Day on 2nd May. The Cellar features a Enomatic wine serving system - and is believed to be the first machine in the country that can accommodate all types of wines.

Compartments can be set to various temperatures, meaning red, white, rose

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and dessert wines can sit for several weeks without suffering spoilage.

The machine itself allows guests of the hotel to try a sample of up to 16 wines, in 50ml, 125ml or 175ml measurements, before deciding which wine to have with a meal.

Prices range from less than £2 for a 50ml glass to more than £20 for a taste of one of the more costly wines.

Dominic Roberts, Head Sommelier at South Lodge, said: “Guests can

Two llamas have taken up residence at Chesworth Farm. Along with a flock of Hebridean sheep, the three-year-old llamas will help maintain the wildflower meadows

pick up a card at reception, put a certain amount on to the card, and use the machine.

“It’ll tell you how much credit you have, and then you just pick up a taster glass and make your selection.

“It’s a great way to try before you buy. For example, one wine is £160 on the wine list, but you can try a shot for £10.65 before committing to paying for a whole bottle.

“I could put any wine in that you like. I could put

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on some Chateau Petrus if I thought it was going to sell, as it’s never going to go out of condition.”

The Cellar will be open from 11am to 9.30pm, so people can visit at any time and choose their wines for lunch and dinner.

South Lodge staff will be applying some finishing touches to The Cellar in the coming weeks, but it is hoped that the cellar will become a vibrant, private dining area soon.

Dominic said: “You can

Southern’s new timetable came into effect on 22nd May. Additional trains are now run on Sundays between Brighton and London Victoria. See www.southernrailway.com

come down and order cheese plates and hams.

We’re going to hang cured hams down here.

“Literally, you can order a cheese plate or a Charcuterie plate, choose your wine, then either sit down here or walk up to the terrace.

“It’s very informal during the day, and formal in the evening. It’s not to be used as a restaurant, more for private dining.”

The Cellar is now open for all people - not just guests of the hotel, to try.

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Conservatives Clean up on

polling day ...and other local news At the local elections held on 5th May 2011, The Conservatives retained control of Horsham District Council.

All 44 seats at Horsham District Council were up for election, with the Conservatives winning 34, the Liberal Democrats eight and Independents two.

The overall turnout was 45.75%.

The local Horsham District results of the national referendum on the alternative vote were 15,039 votes for yes and 33,878 for no.

The full results are online at www.horsham.gov.uk

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The Grenada team will use Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre as its pre-Games training camp in the two to three weeks leading up to the London 2012 Olympic Games.

The Pavilions In the Park in Horsham may also be used as a training base for the team swimmers.

Don’t expect it to be too busy though - Grenada took no swimmers to the 2008 games in China.

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Mary Grange, the lady captain of Cottesmore Golf Club got a hole-in-one in a club competition.

Much coveted by golfers, Mary got her first hole-in-one during a qualifying round for the Ping Women’s Tournament of England.

She achieved this on the very difficult 17th hole over water on the Griffin course.

Mary said, “I wasn’t thinking of a hole-in-one, just concentrating on getting it over the water and up the slope. It’s difficult getting

the ball to stay on the green, so often it runs back down into the water. Luck was definitely with me!”

About 15,000 honey bees swarmed outside the entrance to the nature reserve at Woods Mill, Henfield on 17th May. Beekeeper Amanda Millar from Hurstpierpoint answered an emergency call from Sussex Wildlife Trust and safely removed the swarm from a damson tree at the reception entrance.

Amanda has placed the bees in a spare hive in her garden until a new home can be found.

An 'impact assessment' is underway to find out how reductions in bus subsidies will affect passengers in Horsham and across West Sussex.

West Sussex County Council is reducing its subsidy to bus companies by £2million.

Possible changes include the withdrawal of the Sunday service from Cranleigh (63), withdrawal of peak service journeys on the Oakhill to Horsham route (65) and reduced frequency of buses into town from Ashington (74) and Petworth (76, 77).

The evening service from Roffey to Southwater (98) will be withdrawn as will routes to Haywards Heath (86, 89). Users of Horsham Schools services face a fare increase.

To comment, fill in an online response form on the WSCC website, call 01243 642105 or email buses@westsussex.gov.uk

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Enjoy music at Horsham Cricket and Sports Club as Chinchilla Zilla (left), Joe 90, The UK Rideouts, Not Dave and Abba Inferno perform on Saturday, 11th June.

Armed Forces Day is marked in Horsham on Saturday, 25th June is a chance for us all to show our support for those currently serving. See armedforcesday.org.uk

Jolyon Palmer made a good start in his GP2 campaign, finishing 17th and 9th at two races in Turkey. The Southwater driver then came 18th and 17th in Barcelona

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Quad bike crash was triggered by

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I guess an Air Ambulance paramedic never knows what the day will bring.

So perhaps it wasn’t too unusual to take a call concerning a quad bike accident caused by an attack by a Canada Goose.

Former dentist Jan Pieniazek, 64, suffered an open fracture of his right leg after he lost control of his quad bike and collided with a tree.

He was set upon by the goose as he collected grain near his home in Cowfold on 23rd April. His cries for help were eventually heard by neighbour Michelle Steward who called 999.

He said: “I went next door to pick up some grain for the chickens and I went past the lake where there are a pair of Canada geese. One of them was sitting on her eggs on the island.

“Whenever I go down there the male always flaps his wings and hisses, just being protective. On the way back I went past him again and he followed me all the way round the lake.

“Out of the blue he then landed on my head and I drove straight into a

tree. I heard a big crack in my leg bone and at this point I thought I really should carry a mobile phone.

“I was in the middle of a field 200 yards from the nearest road so I screamed until a lady from a cottage down the road came to help me.”

Paramedics from nearby Horsham Ambulance Station were first on scene before the Sussex Air Ambulance arrived within 10 minutes. Pilot Nick Bramley, Dr John O’Neill and Critical Care Paramedic Justin Carding landed in the garden of the property where the accident happened.

Dr O’Neill said: “His tibia was protruding through the skin so we anaesthetised him, administered a strong painkiller and reduced the fracture. We then splinted his leg and made him more comfortable.”

Jan was taken by land ambulance to Worthing Hospital where he spent the next six days before he was allowed home. He may need plastic surgery but is expected to be walking un-aided within six months.

The mother goose has since given birth to five goslings.

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My favourite Music I suppose I have an eclectic mix of music but I do perk up

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My favourite TV show At the moment it is Benidorm.

It’s a good tonic of laughter, but recently has been quite sad. The chemistry between Sheila Reid and Steve Pemberton makes a huge contribution to the success if the series. I also like a dose of Downton Abbey.

My favourite Book I am not a book reader at all but if I have a book of words to hand it would be a script, so the current one is ALLO ALLO. I am directing the play version of this TV comedy series for Hit & Run Theatre Company at The Capitol in October.

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Herbie Flowers presents ‘Music Box’ at Gary’s Live Music Club at Coolham Village Hall on Friday 17th June.

Doors open at 7.45pm, with music from 8pm. Free tea and coffee, or bring your own refreshments. Tickets £10 from Gary on 01403 785674/ gary.holder@tiscali.co.uk Paul Zerdin gave surely one of the best performances of 2010 at the Capitol in Horsham.

The ventriloquist and comedian returns with Sam, Albert and Baby on 14th October. Tickets cost £17.

The Horsham District Set4Success Scheme, designed to help talented young sports

people who live or train in the district, has been launched.

British Champion Swimmer Karen Pickering MBE presented the first eight Awards.

They went to Elliott Allison (volleyball), David King (badminton), Jared Cox (Baseball - pictured), Jade Brewster (Pole Vault), Chris Bond (Rugby), Ryan Morter (Karate), Tom Laker (Cycling) and Lauren Grinstead (Diving) As part of their on-going ‘ Business in the community’ programme, the staff of Horsham insurance broker Heath Lambert Insurance Services have donated two computers to Crawley Open House, which helps homeless

and disadvantaged people.

They also packed and wrapped 50 shoe boxes to be given as individual presents to every resident last Christmas, and in April donated 50 Easter Eggs.

And to show that they’re also prepared to give up their free time, one of the staff – together with his friends – cooks a monthly evening meal for Open House.

Biffa West Sussex Ltd are playing Broadbridge Heath Cricket Club in a friendly cricket game on 8th June.

Two years ago, the company donated £5,000 to the club through its Biffaward scheme, towards a new non-turf pitch.

Horsham Open Studios events will be held between 18th to 26th June. Some of the district’s best artists will open up their homes and studios and work will be available to buy.

No Jacket Required will be performing Unplugged at the Capitol in Horsham on 16th July. Tickets cost £12.50.

The Human Nature Garden in Horsham Park will be officially launched on Saturday 18th June. There will be opportunities to see the work of artists in wood-carving and a grassed amphitheatre will host Morris Dancers and a choir.

The gates will be open from 125:30pm

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Weddings Perkins and Teasdale

All notices of marriage can be sent by email (with photography) to editor@aahorsham.co.uk All notices and photographs are placed free of charge

Daniel Stephen Perkins and Marie Teasdale, both of Ashington, were married at Horsham Registry Office on 19th April.

The couple later enjoyed a meal at Cote in East Street.

The Bride’s dress was from

Monsoon and the Wedding cake was a Cupcake Tower from Heavenly Cupcakes in Reigate.

They then enjoyed a short break at Celtic Manor, Wales.

Photography by Toby Phillips.

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Cranfold opens new therapy centre in Southwater

Cranfold Physical Therapy Centre, which offers private physiotherapy to insured and self paying patients, has now opened a branch in The Village Surgery in Southwater.

This latest location complements their other branches in Courtyard Surgery, Horsham as well as locations in Dorking and Cranleigh.

Wendyanne Harrison, the owner of “Cranfold Physical Therapy Centre, said: “We are really excited about the prospect of working with the GPs in Southwater.

“The village has a very vibrant atmosphere.

“We are seeking to make it easier for people to have early treatment for their back pains and sporting injuries locally”.

Cranfold started back in 1999 in

Cranleigh with the aim of delivering high quality Chartered Physiotherapy speedily to injured and post-operative patients, as well as those suffering with back, neck and joint problems, but now sees a myriad of conditions.

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“But we are always happy to offer free advice over the phone and discuss people’s problems – many people just don’t know if Physio can help them and are often unable or afraid to ask directly.

“In the last 11 years we have treated over 12,500 patients, so in a short chat we will have a pretty good idea whether we can help you or not.

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“For example, in Horsham we are particularly pleased to have worked with Sarah Dover McCarthy (Sports Therapist) for the last 8 years. We refer many of our sports-people for massage, or our spinal patients into her Clinical Pilates Classes once they are over their acute pain, and this helps maintain their core strength.

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Chanctonbury Ring is a site that’s shrouded in mystery and history.

Local legend has it that the Ring was created by The Devil and he can be summoned by running around the clump of trees seven times anti-clockwise. That though, would be quite exhausting.

Instead, just enjoy the lovely walk up from the Wiston end

and the stunning views it offers across the weald to the north and south to the coast.

Take a picnic to the top and make a day of it.

Just a couple of miles further along the South Downs Way (all of which makes a great day out) is Kithurst Hill near Storrington, best known for having the remains of a World War Two Churchill Tank.

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Walk this Way Many people who live in the town walk in the Denne Hill and Chesworth Farm area.

Walkers start at St Mary’s at the bottom of The Causeway, stroll up Denne Hill and then head on to Chesworth Farm.

Much of the Farm is owned by Horsham District Council and includes ponds, ancient hedgrows and grasslands, as well as grazing Hebridean Sheep and Llamas.

Sullington Warren is a great spot for kids and dog walkers.

The Warren supports a range of heathland habitats, grassland, scrub and woodland, which carries many breeding birds including all three British woodpeckers.

There are some wonderful woodland paths, particularly in an area of Scot’s Pine Trees, and the climb to the memorial seat on the summit of the tumulus is rewarded with great views.

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Warnham Nature Reserve is a pleasant walk all in itself, and fun for the kids too with Bird Hides and a Nature Trail.

It’s always fun to see the sightings board at the entrance to see what’s been spotted!

You can also take a lovely five mile walk from Redford Avenue that takes in the Deer Park, Warnham Manor and the village itself.

See details on the Horsham Society Website.

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The remains of this Norman Castle sits on the banks of the River Adur, and the grounds are a great spot for a picnic.

It can get overgrown in the summer, but the defensive ditch surrounding the motte and bailey makes a nice walk, and there’s even a perilous rope swing (not for kids!) for those brave or crazy enough to try it.

Bramber is also a good spot to start a longer walk on the South Downs Link.

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A walk in Leechpool and Owlbeech Woods in Horsham has become more pleasant for families because of the introduction of a Sculpture Trail in 2010.

The sculptures can be

found on three trails (Woodland Walk, Wetland Boardwalk and Heathland Trail) in the Woods, part of the former medieval hunting forest of St Leonards.

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Don’t forget, another great time to visit Knepp Castle will be when the Dragon Boat Races, in aid of St Catherine’s Hospice, are held there later this year.

Shipley makes for a beautiful walk as not only can you enjoy the Church, Shipley Windmill (sadly now closed to the public but a footpath runs alongside it), and the River Adur, but you can also take in Knepp Castle.

Access is permissive (walkers must keep dogs from grazing animals and respect the monument) but the castle and lake are magnificent, and there are huge herds of deer on the estate.

Rusper is a good base for some easy walks around the three to four mile range.

There’s plenty of pubs too! One walk starts at the Royal Oak pub and takes in the Rivel Mole,

while another starts at the Lamb Inn and goes on a circular route via an alpaca farm and Furzefield Wood.

Ifield Church also makes a good start off point for a nice stroll.

Not quite as appealing for families since the play park was targeted by arsonists, but still an enjoyable stroll.

The park includes a wildlife area called The Quarry, which supports animals such as lizards, Kingfishers, Nightingales and various butterflies and dragonflies.

You can wade into the lake on ‘The Beach’ and The Downs Link Bridleway passes through the park too, making it a base to explore further afield.

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The Horsham District Council run park is off Water Lane, on the A283 Washington Road to Storrington. Just a little further along the road is a lovely walk at the top of the rather bumpy St George’s Lane at Warren Hill.

This area is another one that is popular with dog walkers.

There are many great walks to be found in Horsham and the District, but we’ve tried to find some of the easiest and most accessible for families.

Certainly though, the intrepid walker will find rewards in the rural outskirts of town, in places such as Lower Beeding and at Roosthole on Hammerpond Road, Mannings Heath, or through the open fields between Cowfold and Warninglid.

There are also some great woodland paths in the northern end of St Leonard’s Forest, around Colgate.

For our list, we’ve primarily stuck to places that the whole family could reasonably visit and enjoy, although the Rusper and Shipley routes mentioned would certainly be demanding for most children!

We’ve also discounted anywhere that requires an entry fee, so places such as RSPB Pulborough Brooks and Parham House, lovely as they are, are out. There is a £1 fee for adults at Warnham Nature Reserve, but we let that go!

Just as a footnote, Horsham District Council does run a series of Health walks throughout the year. Visit the Leisure page of the council website to view the full programme.

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Focusing on a rounded education New Headmaster At the end of the current school term, Simon Moll will pass over the reigns after 15 years as Headmaster at Pennthorpe School in Rudgwick.

But he leaves the Independent School for Girls and Boys with a fine reputation for producing balanced and confident all rounders.

Matthew King, an extremely popular teacher and Simon’s

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Simon commented: “Matthew has been here four years, knows the place well and is committed to the school ethos, so I think the school will go from strength to strength.

“It’s a very exciting time for Pennthorpe. “He is a gifted teacher, a natural leader and I have no worries about passing over to Matthew.”

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A Pennthorpe education is diverse, vibrant, often challenging but never dull. Pupils develop skills and enthusiasms both inside and outside of the classroom.

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The Green Man

The Green Man Church Road, Partridge Green

Partridge Green has three pubs, all seemingly heading in different directions.

The Windmill, a Hall and Woodhouse owned pub at the Littleworth end, is predominantly an ale drinker’s pub, albeit one popular enough to produce several darts and billiards teams.

The Partridge, in the heart of the village, is now in the hands of village brewery Dark Star and is trying to balance both the drinking and dining out elements of trade.

Meanwhile, under Nick and Becky Illes, The Green Man in Church Road has put the emphasis firmly on food.

You may well have come across the couple before. They previously ran The Crabtree in Lower Beeding and before that The Bolney Stage. Going back further still, the couple’s first enterprise was The Gables Restaurant in Billingshurst, which Nick eventually sold to a property developer.

Nick is well connected locally too - his father Othmar used to own the 15th Century Restaurant in Billingshurst and then the Cisswood House Hotel in Lower Beeding.

Meanwhile, his brother Carl has run the Chardonnay restaurant in Washington for 15 years.

Having trained under his father’s watchful eye, Nick developed his culinary skills at a series of Michelin starred establishments - the Oakely Court Hotel in Windsor, the Britannia InterContinental Hotel, Hyde Park Intercontinental and finally the Hyatt Carlton Tower Hotel.

So it’s been a long and sometimes trying route to The Green Man, where the couple have been for two and a half years now, building up a solid reputation for good food, with events such as wine tasting evenings and the Pink Ball charity fundraiser also proving

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Nick said: “It’s been very successful for us at and out of the three leaseholds I've had it's been the nicest to work in. It helps that we love the village. If we didn't only live in Lower Beeding we'd move here!

“We were fortunate that we hit the ground running here. We've had premises not too far away so it was extremely busy at the start and that has continued.”

While other pubs place a strong

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price at the moment’ emphasis on sourcing local produce, this is not so much of a concern for Nick.

He heads up to the famous Billingsgate Market in London once a week to source his fish, often bringing back something different for his specials board.

His willingness to take the occasional risk has led to some strange phone calls - one fisherman called Nick directly to say that he had just caught a large Turbot and wondered if he wanted to buy it!

Nick also sources Mussels from a Kent based supplier, but The Green Man does now smoke its own organic salmon.

Nick said: “We've been using our own smoke house for about six months and I think it's bang on!

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We spend a lot of time perfecting it but we reckon we have it spot on. There are certain local smoking firms that have commented on how nice it is.”

Much of the meat too comes from London, with Smithfield being Nick’s market of choice.

He said: “I go to market, buy by the eye and hopefully it's the best. I think you can overkill on buying local.

“I also find that local farmers have a select few people they sell to. I can't get local stuff at a fair price in my opinion.”

Local or not, the food at this 19th Century free house does go down well. And despite some occasional treats on the specials board, it’s still the fish and chips, the Green Man curry and the fillet steak that prove to be the most popular dishes.

To start our meal, as we sat under a few old photos of the pub and local sports clubs from days gone, we ordered several dishes.

Nick’s Own Smoked Salmon (£8.50) was a given, in that it has come in for high praise.

The fish dish comes with lemon and artisan bread and we found it to be an elegant, well textured, grease free offering.

We couldn’t ignore the mussels, served in a thick, creamy white wine sauce that for our own personal tastes was chip soakingly delicious.

With it being a big seller, and because there are not huge num-

bers of places which serve it, I went for the 21 day aged fillet steak for my main.

Having already been informed that Nick buys the best of what he sees at Smithfield Market, I wasn’t surprised to see a well presented, thick chuck of tender fillet, cooked rare as ordered, placed before me.

In my opinion, the Wild Mushroom and Truffle En Cage it was served with did little to enhance the dish, as it also came with steamed vegetables and hand cut chips.

It’s not cheap at £21.95, but Nick may have a point when he points out that at that price it is far better value than any rump served up locally for about £15.

The matter of the pub’s prices is clearly something that has come up before, and the proprietors are quick to defend the cost.

Becky said: “I want to set up a website called comparethepub.com!

“People have said we're expensive, but if you look around our dishes are the same price or cheaper in many cases.”

We also tried out the Breast of Barbary Duck (£16.95), served with a rich black cherry sauce and accompanied by a panache of vegetables and dauphinoise potatoes, which carried good flavour and texture.

To accompany the meal, the

experienced staff suggested a bottle of Merlot from Cotes de Thongue in the Languedoc region, but there is a good wine

list at the pub, with Deakin Fine Wines in Horsham amongst the pub’s suppliers.

We finished off with two superb desserts - the creme brulee and chocolate brownie, and would recommend visitors to try a pudding or the cheese board.

But perhaps the pub’s unique selling point is the staff. Nick, Becky and the front of house team are knowledgeable about food and drink and are happy to chat.

Looking through comments on various local pub websites, it would seem that this is the impression left on many visitors to The Green Man. Along with the likes of The Crown at Dial Post, The Countryman at Shipley and The Fountain at Ashurst, The Green Man is helping to create a neatly laid out rural belt of reliably good, food focused public houses.

We would recommend The Green Man for couples and groups of friends looking for a relaxing evening out.

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On Friday nights we can either be an Indian house or a fish and chip shop! We can rant and rave about our specials and all we'll sell are fish and chips, curry and fillet steak! We also do a lobster linguine that is second to none but it needs to be in season.

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Baseball Mocking the game of baseball seems to be something that comes easily to many English people.

Perhaps it’s the ‘high fives’, perhaps it’s because we didn’t develop the game, or perhaps it’s because we like our innings to last five days - at the end of which we’ll call it a draw.

But that’s not the story in Horsham; it’s not such a great secret these days that we have a baseball club that is probably the biggest and best in the country.

Incredibly, Horsham Junior Baseball Club has, in just six years, swelled to the extent that it now has over 300 members, several representatives in the Great Britain squad and in Jordan Edmonds perhaps the best player in the country.

What’s even more impressive is that the club has been built on the foundations of fair play and fun for all the family. There’s a no tolerance attitude to bullying, and players are taught how to both win and lose with dignity.

Without the element of competiveness seen in other sports, baseball has attracted many youngsters that simply would not be taking part in any sort of physical exercise. You don’t have to be slim to hit a home run or have a great pitch.

On May 7th, the club held its annual open day, which coincides with the first games of the season at the club’s base at Ingfield Manor School in Five Oaks near Billingshurst.

The day gave head coach and founder Robert Burnie (below) the chance to look back at the club’s roots, and the circumstances which led to the friendly,

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anti-bullying stance of the club.

Rob said: “Back in May 2004, my daughter was being bullied in school. She just didn’t fit in.

“We went to Southwater Leisure Centre during one of their Friday activity evenings to see if she could hit the baseball against the people that were bullying her.

“So she did, and the people that were bullying her actually became her friends.”

Rob then started running baseball tasters and Paul Taylor, manager of Horsham Leisure Link services for Horsham District Council, suggested running more baseball events.

Rob continued: “We started going

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to schools, and then during one of the end of term breaks we ran three baseball taster sessions.

“At the first one we had 20 kids, the second one we had 50 kids and on the third one we had 100 kids.”

Soon enough, a club was formed, with 69 of the 100 youngsters attending the third Leisure Link event becoming members.

Then year by year the membership spiralled, to 120, then 200, and by the fourth year HJBC had 300 members.

Robert said: “So many kids have been involved in the club. When I go into Horsham Town Centre, there are kids that are 15, 16 and Continued on Page 29

Avove: Liam James, six, at the bat during the club’s Open Day at Ingfield Manor School Right: The players wear the colours of many of the top Major League clubs such as the Red Sox and the Cubs to make the experience feel more authentic.

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Anna Kettle, 14

Emily Fox, 15 Southwater

Horsham I don’t think I’d be playing as much sport if it wasn’t for baseball - it takes up most of the weekend anyway. Unlike other sports, the whole idea is just to have fun and it’s not that competitive.

It’s good to win, but if you don’t it’s not the end of the world. Nobody picks on you, you win and lose as a team.

Isaac Parsons, 11 Horsham

My cousin had been playing for a year and my aunt told me it was a really good club, so I decided to give it a go. I wanted to try something different and I’d never heard of anyone playing baseball around here. I’ve made so many friends at different schools, and my family get involved too.

I joined the club last year. I liked the sport as I went to America and watched a game so I wanted to have a go at it.

I’ve started to play cricket too but baseball is my favourite. My batting isn’t amazing so my strong points are pitching and fielding. I’ve made a lot of friends since I’ve been here.

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“We’ve been pretty fortunate as we are the largest club in the UK so the governing body BSUK (Baseball Softball UK) and the BBF (British Baseball Federation) are heavily involved with us and don’t want to see anything bad happen to the club.

“The way we’re doing it is positive for the kids - we are as open to girls as we are boys, and there’s no

competition or drive from the coaches. You don’t have to be perfect.

“The game is actually a game that is built on failure. If I hit the ball three times out of ten then I have a batting average of 300, and I would be in the Baseball Hall of Fame making $20million a year.

“I’ve failed seven times, succeeded three times, and that’s amazing, so it’s a great sport to be involved with. You’re going to win and you’re going to lose.”

The club takes on players from the age of four, with teams playing in the colours of top baseball teams in America such as

the Athletics, Red Sox, Mets and the Yankees.

The teams are carefully selected to ensure a good mix of boys and girls and a fair distribution of the more talented players so there are never any complete whitewashes.

There’s great encouragement amongst the players, which stems from the coaching and spreads to watching family and friends.

Rob said: “We create this environment where we introduce kids to the bat, play music in between the innings and make it good fun.

“I’m old school - my philosophy is if the kids are having fun they are going to want to learn more themselves.

“They’re going to drive themselves to be better players. If I’m yelling at a youngster, they will shrivel up, but if you get encouragement you bring your level of play up.

“That’s why we’ve set such a benchmark in the Team GB programme those kids have all been

raised on that philosophy.

“It’s worked as we have players like Jordan Edmonds, who has been invited for major league trials in Europe, which is phenomenal. He had

never played baseball before he started here six years ago and now he is the best baseball player in the country, hands down.”

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Insight: HJBC Continued from Page 29 It would seem that the next stage in the life of Horsham Junior Baseball Club is attracting very young players. With the likes of the North Sussex Football Academy in Horsham Park on Saturday mornings and Horsham Rugby Club also developing players from a young age, there’s no shortage of options for parents and children.

But Robert feels that the future

looks good for the club.

He said: “When we started this up, in my head I had a five year plan. The goal was to have two or three hundred kids, with lots of different leagues so children of all ages could participate, and we have achieved that.

“Maybe the success is down to the environment here - basically we took the system that they have in America and introduced it here. There’s a huge family element here. Everyone from the kids to the grandparents have a great time.”

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Gill said: “When you get people active and using the poles, the benefit starts to kick in and the posture changes.

“I know someone who is 90 years old and used to walk around bent. She uses Nordic Walking and now walks around her home upright!”

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Nordic Walking, one of the fastest growing forms of physical activity in Europe, consists of walking with poles that are similar to ski poles. It grew in popularity as hikers with knee pain discovered they could walk faster and for longer periods with poles.

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She was so impressed that she established a goup at bluecoats which is growing in popularity.

Gill said: “It’s a four week introduction course, which includes getting familiar with the pole, improving your posturing, getting the technique right and then getting up walking.

“We then move on to adventure walks in the grounds of Bluecoats and the surrounding countryside of Christ’s Hospital.”

A class has been establshed for people with Parkinson’s Disease and has proved especially successful, but Nordic Walking can prove beneficial for all. Kit Pearman, a talented young squash player who hopes to become a professional in the game, has been Nordic walking around his home village of Kirdford.

Kit said: “I injured my back, which is quite common in squash. I was sat around and not really able to do anything. Then I heard about Nordic Walking.

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What does the future hold for Horsham FC? These are troubling times for Horsham Football Club. Manager John Maggs and team captain Ben Andrews have left due to financial constraints at the club, which remains without a ground of its own. But there is hope - three years after the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plans for a stadium at Holbrook were scuppered, Horshamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board have identified a potential site in the Hop Oast area. Can the club, founded back in 1871, succeed where they failed before and build itself a brighter future?

Pictures: Horsham sides from 1899, 1936, 1966, 1999 and 2010, action from a game in 1947, a bus parade in 1952, a match day programme from Horsham v Arsenal in 1951, and Gary Charman, one of the best Horsham players of modern times, in action.

(Photographs courtesy of Adam Hammond and John Lines of Horsham Football Club)

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First, an apology - you’re going to finish reading this article feeling disappointed.

That’s because we can’t reveal where Horsham Football Club’s new ground will, if everything goes to plan, be built.

It has already been revealed that the site for the new ground will be at Hop Oast, an area of uncertain borders on the Worthing Road between Horsham and Southwater.

This has led to speculation concerning the site by residents of the town and village, as well as fans of The Hornets.

There will be many twists and turns as the planning process takes its natural course, but in theory the plans outlined by Horsham Football Club seem viable and positive for all parties involved.

So here’s what we know and can reveal in a nutshell.

Horsham Football Club, having sold its Queen Street ground for housing, bought the Holbrook Club from Royal Sun Alliance (RSA) in 2006 for about £2.5million.

The ambitious club, riding the crest of a wave having taken Swansea to a replay in the FA Cup Second Round, had hoped to build a stadium on the site, but hadn’t counted on determined opposition from residents.

Their application was dismissed in July 2008 by councillors on Horsham District Council’s planning committee.

So the club looked for alternative sites, playing their football to ever dwindling attendances at Worthing and then Horsham

End of an Era for Horsham Football Club John Maggs leaves the Hornets after 11 years.

"It is with much regret that my time at Horsham FC has come to an end.

The club, through chairman Kevin Borrett, have fully explained the position the club finds itself in and have outlined the future for the next couple of seasons.

I accept the finances are not there to support what has been in place in the past, however the last three seasons have been really

challenging for me with the cuts that have been imposed.

However, I leave the club still playing Ryman Premier League football, the highest level the club has played in its history, but I feel until a new home is found it will continue to be a struggle.

I would now like to move knowing that my time as Horsham manager has seen some of the best

times in my football career.

The club has something special about it, and there are some really nice people who work really hard at the club. As for the supporters, they are truly the best, to these people I say I will miss you and thanks for always getting behind my players.

As for the players who have played for me, I have been very lucky to have had such loyalty and quality."

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Three years on from the disappointment of Holbrook, and with much of the funds raised from the Queens Street sale eaten up by the costs of running a football club with low ticket sales, the club has identifield a possible new site.

To help fund the project, the club is looking to sell some of the land at the Holbrook Club for housing.

One stumbling block is that RSA has the right to claim back 50% of any profit made by Horsham Football Club when selling any part of the Holbrook Club within five years of purchase. That deal lasts until next March, but to prevent any delay, the club has made an official request to RSA to waive this right.

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plan (and the club is already in discussions with an un-named developer) will raise enough money to build the new ground.

The site of this ground is currently confidential.

Current plans suggest it’s likely to feature a 250 seat stand.

Here, AAH tries to piece it all together.

Is the site at Hop Oast?

Most people seem to refer to Hop Oast as simply being a roundabout and a petrol station, so more specifically the location is south of Horsham.

So it’s not going to be built on the Park and Ride?

Horsham Football Club’s current plan is not to build on the car park. The site would seem an unlikely alternative to the preferred option, as there is no room for a second pitch for training. Should the Holbrook housing plan go ahead as Horsham FC hope it will, it will mean the North Heath Lane sports club loses two pitches.

Planning rules stipulate that the need to encompass two pitches, although these don’t have to be on the same site.

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And there’s no room at the car park?

Apparently not, and the field by the side of Worthing Road in the dip behind the car park is not owned by Horsham District Council. But John Lines, CEO of Horsham FC said: “The park and ride has been mooted by others but it is not formally on the table in any shape or form.”

The Horsham Golf and Fitness Club is also developing South of Horsham, isn’t it?

Yes, the club was granted permission to build a new 18 hole golf course and a junior academy at the site it owns opposite the park and ride. The new course will stretch to land on the eastern side of the A24.

And the work has already started on this course?

It has, and a sheltered driving range was also built recently.

You can read an interview with Neil Burke, co-owner of Horsham Golf and Fitness Club, in which he discusses progress on the exciting new course, in next month’s edition of AAH magazine.

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“I think we underestimated the amount of public objection against building a football ground in what is effectively a residential area.

Technically the application was sound but we were probably not prepared enough to defend that desire to stop us. You had people like Christian Mitchell Conservative Councillor, Holbrook West) continually talking about a 3,500 seat stadium, and it frightened people to death.

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So what happens next?

Horsham Football Club will meet with Southwater Parish Council to discuss proposals soon. But John Lines is hopeful: “If we protect Southwater from being invaded by residential development it has to be a good thing.”

So Hop Oast could become a hub for local sports clubs rather than housing then?

If all these plans get the green light, then the area South of Horsham could become a hub for local sporting activity, maintaining the gap between Horsham and Southwater .

But there will be new homes built in Southwater?

Not necessarily - residents have been fighting proposals for some time. But land to the west of the village is under serious threat, with up to 500 new homes being a very strong possibility. But that’s another story.

Can we know about the plans for the Holbrook Club?

Yes. Holbrook has been owned

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2006. But plans to create a new ground there turned sour, a sad result for the club and its fans.

You could argue that the Hornets have yet to recover from the financial burden they were faced with after losing that application (see box above).

Now they are looking to sell part of that land.

Will the Holbrook Club survive?

It will, although part of the sports field would become housing. John Lines said: “We are talking about three acres, so they’ll have one rugby pitch and one football pitch remaining.

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We hope the area lost will be replaced by 60 homes, of which a number will be affordable housing.”

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Will the Holbrook Club get long term assurances?

The Holbrook Club are thought to be willing to support the club’s plans, provided they are given a lease of 21 years. This would allow the Holbrook Club to apply for grants which would otherwise be unavailable to them.

And what’s the deal with RSA about?

When a business sells a plot of land they would normally include an overage clause.

Horsham agreed a five year period with RSA when they bought the land in 2006, so selling any part of the site now would mean giving half the profit to the insurance giant.

There’s a chance that RSA may waive this fee, as the alternative would only mean Horsham FC waiting six months before progressing. But we could well be talking about six months before anything at all happens.

After the five years is up?

Exactly. Maybe they’ll come to an agreement - sponsorship perhaps. But that’s just us

There will surely be strong objection to building homes at Holbrook?

There probably will be - the club believes they have the support of Horsham District Council though and its financial position (the club recently let go first team manager John Maggs as it could not retain his services on a full time salary) would suggest that Horsham FC would only submit an application if it was confident of approval.

Will the new ground, if it’s built, be as big as the one that was proposed at the Holbrook site in 2008?

John Lines said: “We will be working to a specification in keeping with our current standing in the Ryman Premier League but with scope to expand should a promotion be achieved at a future date. We need to cut our cloth to suit our means and this translates to a main stand with around 350 seats and other covered standing areas around the ground.

There will be a Clubhouse, catering and changing facilities, a Managers Office and possibly a

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“Whilst there is still much work to do, there is a will and a desire by all concerned now to achieve the win win win goal.”

So the dream of higher level football is fading!

John Lines said: “We have to be realistic - Horsham is not a town that can sustain high level football. The Conference South is probably as high as we can go before the cost of running the club would not be compensated by people coming through the gate. We will build a ground that suits our status at a price we can afford. “

What if it falls apart? What happens then to Horsham FC? The message from John Lines is clear - if this proposal fails we could lose the club.

“If we don’t get it this time with the impetus of the council behind us then something is very wrong and the town will lose a good football club.

“The club has been in existence since 1881 and it would be unthinkable to lose it.”

How much will this new plan cost the club?

It’s likely to be something in the region of three million pounds.

The club will have to put some

So what do we have to do?

As a town, collectively, we’ve not been kind to Horsham FC in recent years. We rejected their proposals for a new ground, and quickly forgot about the euphoria of that famous match in the FA Cup against Swansea. If you think it would be a shame to lose the club, go watch a game from time to time.

‘There is a will and a desire by all

concerned to achieve the goal’ money back into the Holbrook Club, and once the usual costs and fees involved in a lengthy planning process are deducted the club hopes it will “come close to breaking even”.

Is this all good enough for the fans?

Horsham’s fans have had a tough time in recent years, and some have expressed frustration with the board concerning the lack of information on any new

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Yes, but on paper, it does all make sense for the parties involved to some degree. Unless you strongly object to new housing at Holbrook. As the CEO stated on the club’s website:

Season’s finished now though!

Yes, but on Wednesday, 13th July, at 7.45pm, supporters will be given an opportunity to acknowledge John Maggs' contribution to Horsham Football Club when his Select XI takes on League One Champions Brighton & Hove Albion at Worthing FC's Woodside Road ground. Gus Poyet has promised to put out a good side.

That’s great. I really want to know where that new ground is though..

It’s probably on Twitter!

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That is Paul Messis, a Billingshurst boy “stuck in a 1960s time warp”.

Paul plays a form of psychedelic garage guitar rock with an authentic, jangly guitar sound.

Like the Beatles then?

A little, but in terms of mainstream bands probably more akin to The Byrds. Paul said his old favourites include The Dovers from LA, and the 13th Floor Elevators from Austin, Texas.

Funnily enough, that’s where his record label is based.

He has a label in America? I’m intrigued...

Yes, Paul is signed to a British label called State Records, and they use vintage recording studio equipment - perfect for Paul’s sound. They asked Paul to record

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a seven inch single, Stuck in Society, which achieved minor success in the niche market of 60s garage rock. This success led to an American deal with 13 O’Clock Records from Austin.

So how ‘niche’ are we talking?

Very niche. It would appear that, while many might complain that “they don’t write them like they used to” when someone actually does, not many people really care. But Paul has been recognised as one of the very best at creating an authentic sixties sound.

Recognised by whom? He can’t be that good if he lives in Billingshurst and I’ve never heard of him!

Popular New York radio station WFMU played one of his records, Time Will Tell once a week for six

weeks. He has also been building up a fan base in Continental Europe. “Spain, Portugal and Italy are where I'm picking up the most interest,” said Paul. “There seems to be a big sixties revival scene there.

What about the UK? Paul is operating under the radar.

It doesn’t help that he doesn’t play live (more on that later) but perhaps his new record will help.

The Problem with Me was released in Mid May, on vinyl and limited to 500 copies.

Just on vinyl?

He’s a bit Old School is Paul. It’s not just the sound of the sixties he is into - it’s the look and the whole recording process too. He’s very particular in recreating an authentic experience. Paul said: “This is my look. I really am stuck

in that era. I'm not trying to be anything - it's just what I'm into and what I'm all about.”

So how did Paul hit upon this sound?

Paul said: “When I was at school everyone was listening to house and garage and that sort of stuff, but I didn't want to be part of that. The sound came about really by not wanting to be like everyone else and tragically I became some sort of social outcast.

But he must have had strong influences...

Paul said: “My Grandfather used to listen to old jazz records, my uncle was into the German electronic bands like Kraftwerk, and my dad was into Pink Floyd. So there were all those different influences. When I started school I

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AAH offers a free design service for advertisers thought I would find something that no one else was into. That took me to indie music, and that inevitably it took me to the sixties. Ever since then I've been trapped in the sixties and trapped in Billingshurst!”

He looks the part though...

Yes, he’s meticulous when it comes to recreating the look and sound, and admits that he might be difficult to work with because of these factors.

So that’s why Paul is on his own in these shots...

It would appear that finding other people in Billingshurst with a love for obscure sixties garage rock bands is quite difficult. Perhaps Paul belongs to a different place and a different era!

So does he play all the instruments by himself when recording?

No, the tracks he has recorded have been with fans of that era at Folkestone based State Records, but they are too far away to commit to regular gigs. Paul said: “I have been in bands and we have played locally but I haven't taken my stuff on the road as I can't find anyone to play with me. Finding someone who has the same influences is really difficult.”

So that’s why we haven’t seen him play live then?

Well, that’s one of the reasons. Paul doesn’t really like the whole live experience. He said: “I find the whole live thing is a bit contrived. I don't really like it as I've had some bad experiences before, playing shows in front of ten people.

You're playing your heart out and what's the point? Plus, I think I might become a bit of a megalomaniac and start shouting at people if I don't think they're playing properly!”

Top: The staff at Truffles in Billingshurst seemed a little concerned about Paul’s eating habits...

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But surely he has to play live to build up a following?

It certainly wouldn’t do any harm. Paul admits “You've got to play live to play the game. That's the hurdle.” But don’t hold your breath on those live gigs. Still though, the jangly guitar sound is working for Paul, and he’s

developing his sound in true Beatles style...

Yellow submarines...

Not quite, but after this latest album his sound could be going more psychedelic. Paul said: “I'm recording some more stuff which is a little more far out. At the moment I've following a strict, three chord raw sound pattern but it's going to head more psychedelic. There will be sitars on the next one!”

So what does Mr Messis hope to achieve?

In true sixties style, commercial success doesn’t seem to be the goal, more of a bonus.

He said: “My initial dream was to produce a seven inch single. State Records have given me a platform to do more than just a single. I've done an album and three singles which have achieved some notoriety in this scene.

And that's what it has been about for me.” Paul also feels a responsibility to educate people about music.

Telling us what we should like eh?

Not as such, but pointing people to music they might not otherwise hear. He’s done it to AAH, with his excellent cover of The Plagues record ‘I’ve Been Through it Before’.

He said: “I hope with this interview there is one kid somewhere, in Roffey or somewhere like that, reading it and thinking 'that sounds interesting - I'll check it out’.

Who knows, we might have some more sixties freaks in the Horsham District!"

Would that be a good thing?

Debatable! But if you’re intrigued, listen to some tracks on his website, or even better check out Paul’s’ videos on Youtube (especially Time Will Tell, which one of Paul’s friends compared to watching an episode of Heartbeat) A real slice of retro fun eh?

Yes, and on Youtube you can also see the rather lovely title track from the album, The Problem with Me, and afford yourself a giggle as even Paul gets ‘out time-warped’ by both his drummer and bassist!

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There was an eighties psychedelic band called Spaceman 3 (founder member Jason Pierce went on to form the more commercially successful band Spiritualized).

They triggered everything for me - being a young kid and listening to that was huge.

Hearing it took me out of my everyday teenage crap. It was escapism through sound.

I liked what they were all about, non conformist with their views and didn't care about getting known.

I really liked what he was all about.

My dad wasn't really into that era of Pink Floyd - he was more into The Wall which I don't really like.

Being young and being into Syd Barrett and fascinated by his story and downfall was a big influence.

He went mad because he didn't want to play the game, and I liked that about him.

I suppose he inspired the look I have too.

I love that 12 string sound and the jangly vibe it has. That was a huge influence on me and the sound I have.

There are so many bands from that era that I love, but of the mainstream acts they are my favourites. I did a cover of a song by The Plagues too, and they actually got hold of me to tell me that it was a very faithful rendition. The other album from that era that everyone should own is The Velvet Underground & Nico.

The Coral are one of the few contemporary guitar bands that have that 60s style.

There's a band in Liverpool called The Wicked Whispers that are sadly unknown but they are really cool and a group from Leighton Buzzard called The Kool Aid Electric Company that are criminally unknown!

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sn’t Horsham a lovely place to live? It’s the sort of place you feel you can’t walk around with a Tesco carrier bag - it needs to be at least an M&S bag or better still a fair trade jute bag.

It’s a town where being ‘anti social’ isn’t lobbing bricks through windows or swearing drunkedly in the street, it’s driving around the Carfax playing house music on the stereo or teenage boys parading around the park without a top on.

There’s not a huge amount of crime, so when something of moderate severity takes place, such as the burning of a children’s play park, it makes the front page of a weekly newspaper two weeks in succession.

But there is a side of Horsham we don’t get to hear too much about.

Some details that were not featured on the Channel 4 documentary which named Horsham the second best place to live in the country.

Thankfully, these stories come from a long, long time ago primarily the 18th and 19th Century, but here’s a rather horrible history of Horsham, with burning, mutilations, incest, pressings and acid baths!

Read on, if you’ve got the stomach for it!

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1735 Death by Pressing You may or may not know that Horsham was the last place in England where someone was put to death by crushing.

The reason for ‘pressing’ someone to death was to make them plead and to do that by ‘peine forte et dure’ - strong and hard pain. The sentence was as follows: ‘…that you be taken back to the prison whence you came, to a low dungeon into which no light can enter; that you be laid upon your

back on the bare floor with a cloth round your loins but elsewhere naked; that there be set upon your body a weight or iron as great as you can bear; and greater. That you have no sustenance save on

the first day three morsels of the coarsest barley (bread); on the second day three draughts of stagnant water; on the third day bread as before, next day water as before; until you die’.

So really, not a very nice thing to have to go through.

The last person to have ever suffered that fate in this country was John Weekes of Fittleworth, who was charged with robbery at Lewes on 14th May 1735 and for the murder of Elizabeth Symonds

in August 1735.

There were three accomplices; one, a boy, turned kings evidence; the other two admitted the crime and were hung at Horsham.

They found spots of blood and stolen property on Weekes. The prisoner was allowed to plead his case but refused to do so although eight witnesses swore in court that he could speak.

The reason for undergoing this and not making a plea to the court meant that the crown could not confiscate all his goods and possessions allowing the family to keep them.

Instead of carrying out the punishment in private it was carried out in full public view in the gaol yard.

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was placed upon him, then one hundred weight more, then a third hundred weight. Fifty pounds more were added when he appeared to be in death throes.

The gaoler, who weighed over 16 stone, laid himself down on the board and killed the prisoner outright.

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husband, James.

Born in 1731, Ann was led astray by friends so her mother thought she should marry. So within 10 days of meeting James Whale, a labourer, she was married. But Ann used rat poison to kill poor James.

where Ann and her husband moved to.

She encouraged Ann to murder her husband. Ann was frightened to buy rat poison, so Sarah bought it instead and encouraged her cousin to kill.

When tried, Sarah hoped “to see

On Friday, 7th August, Ann was taken to Broadbridge Heath Common, by hangman Jack Ketch.

Records say she was “led to the stake and her back chained thereto, she was strangled, the fire kindled and in about five minutes her body was consumed to ashes.”

She was burnt for committing “petit treason” – the murder by the wife of her husband (a husband may murder his wife but that isn’t treason). Only punishment for treason is burning at the stake.

Sarah Pledge was aslo hanged for her involvement in the murder.

Cousin of Ann Whale, she lived at Corsletts in Broadbridge Heath

the young bitch”(Ann) burnt before she herself was hanged” and that she should be hung naked so that the hangman did not get her clothes which he was entitled to.

However, Sarah was hanged first and the hangman got her clothes.

1776 Husband fed to pet cats Ann Cruttenden was another one hanged and burnt at the stake.

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In 1776, Ann cut her husband’s neck and she then “exposed him a prey to her half-staved and voracious cats, whose nose and cheeks they had entirely devoured and left him a most horrible spectacle”.

At the Horsham trial on 6th August she made out she was mad, but she was “tried, seeming in her senses, before dinner” found guilty and taken to the common where she was hanged and her body burnt.

1790 Incest leads to murder Richard Grazemark was hanged and publically dissected in Horsham in 1790.

About 50 years old he “had nine children by his daughter and so violent was his unnatural passion for her, that he could not bear the thought of another possessing her”so on her wedding day Richard burnt down his house in Ferring, murdered his daughter and then slit his own throat.

He survived and was tried at Horsham for incest, murder and attempted suicide. Found guilty, he was hanged and his body given to Messrs Price and Sopay surgeons for public dissection.

The Newspapers reported that “his skin which in some parts was a quarter of an inch thick was given to a tanner of that place for the purpose of manufacturing into leather, and several persons in Horsham have bespoken portions of it for soles to their shoes.

“We do not hear that the young surgeons attempted to give lectures on the body but every one who chose to be present at the dissection was admitted whether led by curiosity or by the love of anatomy.

“In short the whole process was performed in public from the first incision to the boiling of the bones.”

1817 Shipley gang arrested The Shipley Gang attacked farmhouses or mills around the Horsham countryside for three years before being arrested in 1817.

The gang consisted of members from three families; the Rapley’s and the Nye’s, both from Shipley, and the Jupps from Horsham.

Other members included Brown from Horsham, Mitchell and Tilly.

Their indictments noted 19 acts of theft over a ten month period in an area lying between Rudgwick, Pulborough, Steyning, Nuthurst and Horsham.

Over the years misleading stories about them have come about but

man insane, so that he could be buried in an unmarked grave in Petworth. (People who committed suicide were not permitted to be buried in a churchyard).

On March 16th 1818 the rest of the gang were tried at the Horsham

most recent research has shown that they stole from mills and farmhouses and were armed with equipment to do the job.

They did not smash up mills, or carry guns, nor did they adopt Robin Hood-like intentions though James Rapley apparently had such a nickname.

Around 14th August 1817, ten members of the gang were caught and taken to Horsham Gaol by horse and cart. Four members escaped justice, though by 5th December, James Jupp and Daniel Rapley were in incarcerated in Horsham gaol, whilst Sarah Rapley seems to have been allowed to return to Shipley because she was pregnant. James Rapley was never caught.

James Rapley’s father, also James Rapley, was taken from Horsham Gaol to the Petworth House of Correction, where, nine days after his arrest, he committed suicide.

The jury decided to declare the

Assizes on eight counts of burglary, theft and sheep stealing.

Thomas Tilley and Henry Mitchell became witnesses thus escaping prosecution.

The thefts seemed to have been petty involving two or three members of the gang, though even petty thefts carried the death s entence.

The punishment entailed six members of the gang receiving the death sentence, which was commuted to transportation for life. One was sentenced to 14 years transportation and another six months hard labour at Petworth House of Correction.

On about 20th April the gang members destined for Australia were sent to Portsmouth and held on board prison hulks – old warships held in the harbour.

On 19th July 1818 they left England for Australia on board the ‘General Stuart’.

For a full account of this case and

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1835 Teen hanged in Horsham

Horsham has had its fair share of ghost sightings throughout the ages.

Perhaps best known is the Causeway, where a spirit has been seen walking between the road and the churchyard.

A ghostly shadow has been observed sitting by the bar at the Star in Rusper, while at St Andrew’s Church in Steyning a phantom ghost (thought to be a 13th Century lady called Milian, is

said to drift amongst the headstones.

In recent times, a camper in Horsham claimed to have spotted the ghost of a young girl near to St John’s Church in Coolhurst (near Horsham Rugby Club). The spirit of an old man was once said to haunt the Buck Barn Crossroads, but the Paranormal Database reports that sightings have trailed off since the road updates.

Horsham, was not the crime itself but the age old custom ‘of passing the hands of the dead men over the necks of two or three females, as a supposed cure for glandular enlargements, was upon this occasion had recourse to’.

Punishment changes

On 22nd August 1835 John Sparshott, aged 19, was hung at Horsham for committing a homosexual act.

Some three months later, two men in London were committed for the same offence; they were the last three men hung for homosexuality in England.

After 1835 all death sentences were, in practice, commuted and in 1861, the law was changed from the death penalty to either life or a minimum of ten years in prison. However, what attracted ‘The Times’ of 25th August to the hanging of John, and a burglar in

Just outside Henfield lies the village of Woodmancote.

Here, in the reign of Queen Mary (1553 - 58), two labourers were taken from there to Lewes where they were burnt at the stake.

Women were burnt at the stake for common indecency. For crimes of treason, people were hung drawn and quartered.

For crimes known as ‘petit treason’, or ‘petty treason’, such as murdering a husband, the punishment was also death by burning. Death by burning was abolished in 1790. The last known case occurred in 1789.

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History Whipping was a common punishment that grew and then declined in popularity.

The punishment had two objectives; to inflict pain and to humiliate or shame the person.

Floggings were often took place in public, either at a whipping post, or behind the cart.

Judges very rarely gave out an exact number of strokes, so there were two degrees of whipping; ‘… till the back be bloody’ or just whipping.

No one ever died from flogging.

With the passing of the Transportation Act in 1718 (the guilty would be sent to America, later Australia and often sold into slavery) the number of floggings declined, though rose again in the 1760’s and 70’s as transportation was thought to be a worse punishment.

In 1831 a 21 year old described a flogging he received. ‘I felt an astounding sensation between the shoulders, under my neck, which went to my toe nails in one direction, my finger nails in another, and stung me to the heart as if a knife had gone through my

body.’

The last Horsham ‘bloody’ whipping was carried out in August 1772 upon Thomas Wilson, whilst the last whipping at the carts tail was ordered in March 1805. It was reported in the Sussex Weekly Advertiser that the gaoler could not find anyone to carry out the punishment, so a decrepit old man whose lash certainly left no mark on the back of the culprit’.

Going back further...

In the 14th century, two Frenchmen were leaving Horsham Market when they were mugged and robbed of £40.

Some years earlier, the courts at Chichester heard of a wife and her lover killing her husband and fleeing, only to be made outlaws.

Such was the growth of Horsham in the 12th and 13th centuries that in 1306, the Assizes ‘a court’, came to the town for the first time and continued coming to

Horsham for over 600 years.

The 1306 court dealt with 36 civil cases, 22 criminal cases and 31 complaints.

Horsham was a thriving town requiring courts and prisons in which to hold felons.

The large piece of carved wood came from the mid 16th century gaolers house at the northeastern part of the Carfax.

In 1779 the New Gaol or County Gaol opened in what is now East Street/Queen Street. The metal window and iron grid door came from that building whilst the door at the end of the corridor came from the police cell No 2 in Barttelot Road where John George Haigh, the infamous Acid Bath Murderer was held.

The first inmate was the builder who bankrupted himself building the gaol that opened in 1779. In those days you were gaoled for debt. You had to pay for your board and lodgings there.

In 1830, Lewes took the Assizes

away from Horsham and in 1845 the Gaol was sold to Henry Mitchell.

Before selling off the stone, bricks, iron and rubble from the Gaol, Henry asked a local architect, Burstow, to make accurate drawings of the site.

The drawings are so important that the originals are held in the Museum archive, but copies are on display in the corridor.

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History

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In that moment the police brought to an end a six year orgy of crime that ranks as one of the most chilling sequences of killings uncovered this century.

Haigh had carefully selected his six victims, all friends of varying degrees, lured them to a swift execution and then system-

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When Detective Sergeant Patrick Heslin, entered the building in Crawley, he discovered all of Haigh’s working tools: a war time gas mask, a stirrup pump, an enamel bucket, glass jars of acids, a large rubber apron, rubber gloves and wader length rubber boots.

Outside the building was a collection of old oil drums, some of which

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When after many weeks the police had pieced together the full story of his activities, they carried out a bizarre reconstruction of Haigh’s working uniform, inviting a Sussex detective to wear the equipment for an official photograph.

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He goes down in criminal history as the Acid Bath Murderer, but he also picked up another label too: The Vampire of London.

When his six year spree came to an end and he was questioned by senior detectives at Chelsea he told them quietly and calmly that he had not been motivated to kill for money, but had been

compelled to drink the blood of his victims.

His statements describe how he would take a small penknife and slice open the neck of each victim, allowing blood to drain into a glass tumbler.

Whilst this notion was dismissed as sheer fantasy by many, the fascinating thing about Haigh is that all the other stunning revelations he made in his six hour confession - the six victims, the use of acids, the aquisition of their possessions - all proved

AAH: Now delivered in Storrington to be true in every respect whilst even on the day before he was executed he told a close friend that he stuck by every word of his story.

It was Haigh’s “method of disposal” that continues to have a unique place in the history of Scotland Yard.

He always lured his victim to a private place, usually on the pretext of examining a business idea, or some other ruse.

Each of the first three he

attacked from behind with a heavy iron bar across the back of the skull, rendering them dead almost instantly.

The second trio were all shot in the back of the head with a wartime pistol stolen from one of his victims; again quickly despatched.

He kept all their personal valuables, then stuffed the bodies into 45 gallon oil drums which he proceeded to fill with stocks of sulphuric acid kept in small carboys. In order to protect himself from the dangerous fluids and toxic fumes, Haigh donned a macabre uniform consisting of rubber gloves, large rubber raincoat, thigh length boots, a rubber apron and a war-time gas mask to cover the whole of his face.

With a stirrup pump and a small enamel bucket he spent laborious hours completing the grim task,

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Working to a meticulous routine, Haigh always killed on a Friday. He let

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the drum stand through the week-end, returning on Monday to check the contents, or to stir them with a wooden rod in order to speed up the

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Victims one, two and three died in a small basement at Gloucester Road in London, their remains being washed down the drains and into the River Thames.

Four, five and six were killed at a tiny engineering workshop in Leopold Road, Crawley, where the sludge from the drums was spilled out across land where the bits and pieces merely merged with the rubble of a builders’ yard.

Haigh was the fictional Jekyl and Hyde come to life. To everyone around him he appeared to be a smartly dressed businessman, was good looking, had a pleasant manner and sparkling blue eyes.

But beneath the smooth veneer he could conceal another quite ruthless character which went unrecognised by all who knew him. Even those most close to him, his teenage girlfriend Barbara included.

Born in Lincolnshire in 1909, he

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was the only child of fanatically religious parents. He grew up in a small village near Wakefield in Yorkshire, attended the grammar school and became choirboy and later assistant organist at Wakefield Cathedral.

There were no outward signs of criminality then but during his twenties he became involved in a series of frauds which clearly demonstrated how his mind was beginning to turn.

To the immense shock of his parents, he was sent to prison first for defrauding a finance company and then for posing as a solicitor and attempting to sell bogus shares. He received a third term in 1942 after attempting to defraud his landlady.

Whilst inside Lincoln Prison, he began planning “perfect” murders.

Using glass jars from the kitchens, dead field mice brought in from the fields and small quantities of acid taken from the tinsmith’s shop, Haigh carried out experiments to see how long it would take a small body to

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It was not long before he had devised a formula which later could be applied to humans.

On release from jail at the age of 32, he obtained a good job as a book-keeper with a small engineering firm in Crawley and within a year had established his own firm, Union Group Engineering.

In 1944 and 1945 three people perished there: William McSwan, who was about the same age as Haigh and with whom he had become friendly, and that man’s parents, Donald and Amy McSwan. Between them the family owned six homes in London which Haigh proceeded to acquire thanks to another of his special skills, the forging of other people’s signatures.

So perfect were the forgeries that not one solicitor questioned the deeds that transferred the freeholds over to Mr Haigh, whilst he spread more lies to friends and neighbours that the McSwans had emigrated to America.

During the next two years, the killer and conman sold the

properties and lived very comfortably off the proceeds.

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victim again, he began seeking new victims. The next to die were a fashionable London couple who had become friendly with Haigh, Dr Archie Henderson and his former beauty queen wife Rose.

On Friday, February 13, 1948, Archie was invited to visit a small workshop at Leopold Road in Crawley on the pretext of discussing a business venture,

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There Haigh killed him with his own pistol.

On the same day he lured Rose to the building and killed her also, disposing of both bodies in acid. With the same cunning used on the McSwans, he wrote letters to their relatives to convince them that the couple had gone to live in South Africa, kept possession of the family dog and proceeded to forge deeds which gave him access to their home, a shop and a block of flats.

The small fortune obtained from the Hendersons vanished in a year.

Early in 1949 Haigh was seeking out victim number six, and she appeared in the form of a fellow guest at the Onslow Court Hotel in Kensington, London, where he enjoyed a fairly expensive and comfortable room.

Elderly widow Olive DurandDeacon had stocks and shares worth £36,000 salted away and Haigh was soon persuading her that she should invest in a business enterprise manufacturing powder compacts.

On a winter’s afternoon in February, 1949, the lady dressed in her furs and finest jewellery was persuaded to leave the comfort of the hotel to visit the grimy workshop in Leopold Road.

There she was shot in the back of the head, her valuables plundered and her body dissolved in a brand

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new oil drum, specially coated on the inside to resist powerful acids. The killer enjoyed poached eggs on toast at a local café later that day.

In fact, it was to be his last disposal. Whereas none of the other victims had been reported missing, one of Mrs Durand-Deacon’s closest friends visited Chelsea Police station within 48 hours of her failure to return to the hotel.

Horsham detective, Det. Sgt Pat Heslin, was called in to check on his movements in Crawley and after days of painstaking enquiries in the town he arrived at the Leopold Road workshop that Haigh often borrowed from a legitimate engineering firm.

There Heslin found the equipment and also uncovered hundreds of documents, all in the names of people he had never heard of: William McSwan, Donald McSwan, Amy McSwan, Archie Henderson and Rose Henderson. Finally the game was up.

Even after arrest, Haigh continued his trickery. He did his best to provide his defence team with some grounds for a defence.

He was charged with the murder of Mrs. Durand Deacon and appeared before magistrates at Horsham Town Hall on five separate occasions during which the town was brought to a standstill.

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A Horsham solicitor, John Ireland Eager, was appointed as his legal representative and he was later joined by a top team of QC’s whose fees were paid for by The News of the World, in exchange for his exclusive life story.

Horsham magistrates eventually sent him for trial on April 1, 1949.

When he eventually appeared at Lewes Assizes Haigh’s lawyers tried to persuade a jury that he was insane, and thus should not hang. No one believed that.

In less than two days Haigh was found guilty and just after his 40th birthday in the August of 1949 he was executed at Wandsworth Prison.

Next day they put up a waxworks effigy of him at the Madame Tussaud’s waxworks museum in London to which Haigh himself had the pleasure of donating one of his suits and a tie.

It was one of the last gestures he was to make in his bizarre life.

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Group Discussion

‘The vision is Greenwich!’

Horsham Local Produce Market

It’s been a trying period for Horsham Markets.

The town has two markets operated by Horsham District Council; a general market on Thursdays and Saturdays in the Bishopric, and the Local Produce Market in the Carfax on a Saturday.

But there was tension between some stall holders and the council when the Bishopric market was moved from its usual spot in West Street at the end of 2010.

At the time, there was confusion with some traders believing that the market was to be closed.

Retailers on West Street appeared to have dividing views on the market, and it left some of the market traders feeling

unwanted.

But now assurances are being given over the future of Bishopric market, with plans to add more diversity and to re-introduce a proper market on Thursdays.

Meanwhile, the Local Produce Market continues to be a success, attracting hundreds of people each week.

While some stalls, such as Veasey & Sons Fishmongers, bring in regular customers, for others the market is a chance to market their business.

Market Operator PJ Aldred (pictured right) said: “We're just entering into a brand new contract which has given the market a great level of security, with a lot of support from the council so there's no threat of

closure.

“The idea is that both markets expand. We're very keen to get Thursdays back up and running, and the Carfax is such as special

market.

“We have the farmers market element - lots of local produce stalls with cheeses, organic fruit and veg, fish - but we've also got a really nice input of local arts and crafts.

“But we want to expand that over the next six months and really establish Horsham as a proper market town.

“We'd like more traders and even more markets - we’re looking at vintage, antiques, and collectables. The vision is Greenwich. “ PJ hopes that more artisans will come forward and set up a stall, as well as specialist sellers of local produce.

AAH spoke to current market businesses to find out their views on the market...

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We're based in Small Dole and have been doing the market here for about seven years. We grow 250-300 varieties of herbs and about 80 varieties of ornamental grasses, and generally come here from March through to September.

The Nurseries are run by me and my wife Janet, with three people working for us, and most of our customers are pretty regular.

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We're selling organic vegetables grown in Cuckfield.

We (Gloria and I) have been coming here for three weeks but Toos comes here every week to sell her vegetables and she also goes to the market in Lewes. The most popular food in Lewes seems to be rocket but in Horsham the leeks, rhubarb and cauliflower sell well.

We are as busy as we've ever been.

I had to go to the doctor's recently and he said 'you should be retired'. I said that's not a word in my vocabulary! I have not worked as hard in all my life.

Here in Horsham, garden mint, coriander, thyme and basil are our best sellers. We also sell a Mexican Marigold and theMexicans use it instead of Tarragon and that’s worth a try.

Arthur Shearing

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Horsham is a really nice town.

We haven't had the chance to speak to the other market traders too much as our English isn't too good but they all seem to be really nice.

We both got dressed up today for the English Market but we seem to be the only ones that have done it!

Quotes by Pernilla Hrarder and Gloria Grube, pictured

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Niall Harden Cheezerie

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I've been coming here for about a year and really like it. I don't always do Horsham as it's nice to get around the different towns in the county.

We sell a lot of English cheeses mainly from a farm called Allsop and Walker in Mayfield. They make absolutely beautiful bries, camamberts, and some great English takes on European cheeses such as Emmental.

We've had Swiss people say it's better than their Emmental!

We've also got others such as Spanish Manchago, and Gouda

from Holland.

People in Horsham really like the Sussex cheeses, so we always have a good selection of locally made cheese. There are days when I sell out of everything English and there'll be a big pile of European stuff left!

I think compared to other markets my trade in Horsham is good. In Brighton you have a lot of cheese shops and delicatessens, where as here we have regular shoppers who come to us for specific things that they can't get anywhere else.

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Mark Freshman Collaroy Farm Eggs Kings Church Horsham Sundays, 10.30 am Tanbridge House School

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Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re from Newdigate, and I've been doing the market for about ten years.

There are only a couple of traders who have been here longer. We have some very loyal customers who come out, rain or shine.

We find trade is good in Horsham - we wouldn't come if it wasn't! There was a guy before us and he had already

built up a good trade.

We only bring fresh eggs laid in the last two days so the best before date is always virtually a month.

Ten years ago there were a few more stalls, and more crafts people. Nick Shields used to run it, keep the prices down and the council in check. It's going a bit more over the food eating side now.

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Group Discussion Wendy Ray

Signwriter

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but it's the way I wrap it up and present it that makes it a bit special.

The response I’ve had has been good. We just had an order from a major company to provide little baby cakes for staff gifts. I pick up quite a lot of trade at the market, but I look at it more as an advertising opportunity. To be here in the Carfax for a whole day is really worth while.

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Traditionally, a signwriter will become known in their locality and will do it all within an hour’s radius - that is what I would like to do!

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I do the market every other week and I’ve been here for about ten weeks. The business started in 1988 but I relocated to Rusper only a year ago.

Trade has improved as time has gone on. People need to trust you - the first time people see you they are a little wary, thinking 'is she a one minute wonder?' One of the main reasons I do the market is to let people know I exist.

The traditional style of signwrit-

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I started the business in February of this year. I started making nappy cakes for people as presents and it has sort of gone on from there.

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Chris Veasey Fishmongers

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We have a fish shop in Forest Row, and I've been a fisherman for thirty years, since I left school.

A large percentage of our fish here is from our boat. The Veasey & Sons boat goes to sea every day, from Eastbourne and we fish the south coast, as far along as Poole.

The fish we sell is never older than three days. Some boats are at sea for ten days before they even come to shore so the catch can be a couple of weeks old when it gets to super market. This is extremely fresh some of it was yesterday's catch.

All of our fish goes down well in Horsham, so long as it's fresh. It's all about educating people as well, as there are many varieties of fish out there.

All you see in the supermarkets are plaice, haddock and cod, but there are many options and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all here at the stall.

I would recommend any fish that is in season - so right now bream, mackerel, sole, and skate.

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We take a spin with Nick Mander of Ashington, and his 1955 Bond Minicar Mark C

Back in 1988, Muddles took over the scrap yard at Adversane, where cars had been slowly decaying for twenty years.

The re-opening was a big event for classic car enthusiasts, particularly those in the business of restoration, with Austin 7s, Morris 8s and pre war Daimlers amongst the more sought after cars by collectors.

But Nick Mander was after something a little less desirable; a Bond Minicar.

On his third trip to the yard Nick found what he was looking for, a 1955 Mark C Bond Minicar.

There was no engine, no bonnet, and another car had been sat on top of it for two decades, yet it still cost Nick £60 to take it away from the scrap yard, due to the high value of the number

plate, OCG 7.

With the car having been lovingly restored, you can now see Nick driving the car from his home in Ashington to shows all over the country.

Nick said: “Muddles was swarming when it opened they charged people a couple of quid just to go in and have a look. I found this car right down the bottom of the yard on my third visit.

“The car survived because the bodywork is made of aluminium, which stood the test of time.

“I had to take a spade with me to dig it out.

“Most of the money I paid for it was down to the number plate, but we were lucky to keep hold of that number. When we found the car it still had two tax discs on the windscreen from 1963

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and 1964, bought from Billingshurst post office, so somebody there must have owned the car and chucked it out.”

The Mark C Bond was built from 1952 to 1956 and saw the company adopt a new body style to go with the 197cc engine that was introduced for the Mark B. Like earlier Bond cars, the Mark C has no reverse gear, but the steering lock allows the engine to turn through 90 degrees.

Nonetheless, Nick still has to always find a car park space he can drive straight in and out of!

The Mark C era proved to be Bond’s best years, with production rising to 100 cars per week in 1955 and a total of 14,000 produced by 1956. It was all downhill though after the

Me & My Motor arrival of the superior Mini in 1959. Bond survived until 1970 when it was taken over by Reliant, who used the name for a few years until the Bond name disappeared for good in 1974.

Back then, few would have predicted that Bond cars would one day become a head turner,

‘I had to take a

spade with me to Muddles

to dig the car out’ but the Owners Club has over 300 members from all over the world.

Nick’s car always attracts plenty of interest from fellow enthusiasts and former owners, but it took

many years and hundreds of man hours to get the car on the road.

Much of the credit goes to a friend of Nick’s from the Bond club, Rex Grogan, who was presented with the wreck from Muddles after expressing the

need for a challenging restoration!

Rex, of Acocks Green in Birmingham, masterminded the restoration project, enlisting the help of Ron Page, whose incredible aluminium skills restored the body and wings.

Rex sourced the many parts needed to assemble the car and prepared it for the re-spray. The car was painted in its original colour, seen when the rear number plate was removed to reveal a shade of brown!

The car was on the road by 1996,

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Not that he had been living his life without Bonds - he has a garage full of them. Or at least bits of them!

Nick has an extremely rare example of the Mark A, the 48th Bond Car ever made, as well as what is thought to be the only remaining example of the Bond Mark B van, of which only 28 were ever made. It was found under some tarpaulin in a garden after the 1987 hurricane.

Incredibly, he even has the car that started the obsession - his very first car, bought when he was 16 years old.

Nick said: “When I turned 16 I wanted to buy a Lambretta, but my parents didn’t like the idea of me riding around. I couldn’t wait until I was 17 to buy a car, as it seems forever away at that age, so I went to the post office where they gave me a list of all

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“The Bond Minicar was on the list, as three wheelers were classed as motorbikes.

“My Nan bought it for me for £20 and I never did pay her back!”

Nick hopes to get that car on the road at some point, although he admits he may have to bow to pressure and get the Mark B van on the road first.

But for now he just enjoys driving his Mark C, even taking it on tour to Lake Garda with two other Bonds.

He said: “I like the two stroke engine - I feel 16 again every time I drive it - I remember that smell from my first drive.

“I get some admiring glances too - people love to see an old car and the Bond triggers memories for many people as it was transport for the ordinary man.”

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Back in 2005, Sarah Payne was looking for a way to make some money without going back to the company she had worked for before having children.

So she went through some recipe books, baked a few brownies, and placed them for sale on eBay. They sold quickly, so Sarah made some more, using different flavours, and they were snapped up too.

Before long, Sarah’s father had suggested a good name for the business, and Cocoa Loco was born. Just six years on, the company is firmly established in a unit in West Grinstead, producing chocolate products for the likes of Jamie Oliver and Prince Charles’ Highgrove estate.

Cocoa Loco is run by Sarah with husband Rory Payne, who joined his wife at the business after about 18 months.

Having started off with brownies, they now sell chocolate bars, truffles, chocolate lollipops,

flakes and even chocolate coated mango to customers all over the country.

The expansion into other chocolate products started when one of Sarah’s customers from eBay asked if she could make truffles for a wedding.

Sarah gave it a go, and then began a process of experimenting with chocolate that is ongoing!

Sarah said: “I remember when we started we set up a website using some free software with a PC magazine.

“It was quiet for the first couple of months but a writer from Country Living called us up and put in a little paragraph in the magazine and we got loads of traffic from that.

“I was cooking in my Aga for the first 18 months, but we outgrew the kitchen and built a cabin in the garden.

I was there another 18 months while we were slowly growing and the house was becoming

over run with packaging! Our son would come in and try to find a seat somewhere so he could watch TV!” Rory was working in London for

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HSBC but took a “leap of faith” so he could spend more time with his family and joined the business, setting up an office in the living room.

With the family Aga not able to keep up with the growing

company’s demands, Rory and Sarah moved to a new location.

Initially, they could barely fill a quarter of the space available but are now ‘bursting at the seams’ with another full time member of staff and three working part time.

Cocoa Loco use cocoa beans from a Fair Trade co-op in the Dominican Republic. It is processed in Belgium and then delivered to the company in the form of chocolate buttons.

The buttons are then melted down and mixed in with various flavours and packaged.

While they have many buyers from their website, they do have some high profile customers.

Among Cocoa Loco’s biggest customers are Oxfam and Abel and Cole, while they also produce chocolate spoons for Jamie Oliver.

Truffles and chocolate bars they make are sold at Prince Charles’ Highgrove estate and Cocoa Loco products are also available

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at delis and farm shops across the country including Crumbs, Camelia Botnar, Westons and National Trust Gift Shops, as well as two sweet shops in Horsham featured in this magazine.

But despite being surrounded by chocolate, the couple do - for the most part - avoid the temptation of eating too much of it themselves!

Rory said: “I like to go for a truffle mid afternoon and then it’s things like the ginger or the mango I go for. It's all about quality control, you understand!”

“I had a bit of a binge last week, but

Pants are off!

Not every product works, and at Cocoa Loco trial and error has seen them dismiss many ideas.

One idea tried out but not pursued was a chocolate candle, inspired by Heston Blumenthal.

Rory said: “He made edible candles and we thought we'd try it too. So we did, with caramel in the middle and a birthday candle on top, with white chocolate dripping down it.

We made one, packaged it up nicely and people picked the candle up and were excited by it, but didn't buy.

So if we'd have gone to market, invested in packaging and stuck them on the shelf I don't think people would have bought them.

They loved the chocolate

candle, but when are you going to use it?”

The pants egg was a big success for Cocoa Loco for three years, but has been shelved.

Sarah said: “He has run his course. He was always popular but after three years it's time for new ideas.”

you have to be careful as you could balloon outwards!”

The future is looking good for Cocoa Loco. they’re currently making chocolate snowmen for Oxfam’s Christmas range, as well as organic chocolate fish being made for Fathers Day. A number of chocolate with chilli products are being prepared for a chilli fiesta in West Dean later in the summer.

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The most enjoyable aspect of Mr Simms Old Sweet Shoppe is, supposedly, its devotion to recreating the sweet shops of old.

But in truth, none of us ever had a sweet shop as good as this.

While they may wear brown aprons, play Vera Lynn records and personally place the pick ‘n’ mix sweets in brown paper bags, Mr Simms is more than a nostalgia trip.

That’s because it caters for all eras. One moment someone in their eighties might walk in and marvel at the jar of Jap Desserts, and a minute later you could see the same reaction from someone in their thirties picking up a

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Mr Simms has a little bit of everything (well, almost more on that later). There’s Swirly Wirly lollipops, Candy Canes, Love Heart lollies, Millions bubblegum, Highland Toffee, Gobstoppers, Candy Floss tubs, American Cream Soda flavoured Sherbert, nougat, fudge, chocolate, liquorice, truffles, marshmallows, chocolate drops, coconut ice, jelly

beans, chocolate bananas and sugar mice.

And in amongst the 365 jars you’ll find just about everything else - mint humbugs, tum tums, bon bons, and even the 24 biggest selling flavours of Jelly Belly jelly beans in the world!

Mr Simms opened to much excitement just over a year ago, and business has been good enough for owners Anthony and Sharon O’Callaghan to open a second branch in Crawley town centre just last month.

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Kate’s Cakes: A success story

Still people are coming in and discovering the store for the first time, and the couple keep regular customers interested with special events which they promote to more than 1000 ‘friends’ on Facebook!

Sharon said: “Still people’s general reaction is ‘Oh my God!’” “They stand there looking at the jars, saying ‘I remember that’ and they wander around having a look at what else we have. Sometimes

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missed’ they spend 15 minutes in here and don’t buy anything, then come back later!”

“We’ve got the first sweet that came off ration after the war - Jap Desserts. You’ll find a lot of people in their eighties will come in and reminisce, as it was something they remember from their childhood.”

One would be forgiven for thinking that Mr Simms would struggle to maintain the success of its first few months, but the enterprise of the owners has helped generate new customers, while the opening of The Entertainer toy shop nearby has ensured the area draws in youngsters.

Sharon said,“We’ve started

making hampers mainly for weddings as retro sweets are really popular to give as gifts.”

“We try and diversify away from just selling things over the counter to meet people’s needs. “ But they owe much debt to the sweet makers who have survived, despite a huge dip in the popularity of boiled sweets and pick ‘n’ mix as chocolate bars dominated for decades.

Anthony said, “While sweet shops like this went out of fashion in the south they stayed pretty common in the north and the midlands and that is where a lot of these sweet manufacturers are based.”

“A lot of shops became convenience stores, concentrating more on alcohol and food, and sweets fell by the wayside.

But thankfully many of the manufacturers survived and little has changed with how most of the sweets are made.”

But there is one that got away!

Anthony said: “Spangles is the one that is most missed. If I had a pound for every time we were asked about it we would have enough to build a new machine to make them!”

Kate’s Cakes is an incredible example of how a small home-based business can grow into a huge company.

The company was set up in 1989 and found itself well placed to exploit the coffee shop boom in the early nineties.

Kate’s Cakes was born through a simple idea to produce traditional homemade cakes for local sale in South West London.

Kate started baking cakes at home, using only the best and freshest ingredients. The company moved from London to Ashington in 1991 and in 1999 the founders left the company following a management buy-out.

Kate’s Cakes was acquired

by CSM, the owners of BakeMark UK in a deal

worth £32.5million in August 2007.

Today, the company is a multi-million pound, award winning producer of delicious cakes, operating out of three purpose built factories covering over 70,000 sq ft.

The company continues to serve some of the UK’s best loved high street coffee shops, retailers and airlines with handcrafted premium cakes.

Its extensive range now includes impulse slices, cake slices, muffins, cookies, biscotti, tray bakes, whole 8” cakes and wedge packs.

Kate’s Cakes’ has also developed the You Can! food allergy friendly range of impulse and loaf slices specially for people who suffer from food intolerances and allergies.

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Mother knows best!

Sarah Westall’s mum had been insisting for years that her daughter set up her own company.

For years, Sarah had made Brownies at her home in Partridge Green, but never harboured ambitions to make it a business enterprise.

That was until one morning earlier this year, when - after a difficult period at her former place of work - Sarah decided that the time was right, and so was her mother!

Within a day, Sarah’s mum had donated £100 towards setting up and Just Brownies was born.

Sarah said: “I sat down and designed a website, which is something I’d never done. I went live on April 1st and it’s rocketed since then.”

Just Brownies now has Facebook and Twitter accounts, but most of the business is done through

word of mouth. Sarah works part time at The Crown in Dial Post, selling her brownies on the bar, where they are a big hit.

She’s also linked up with Dark Star, the village brewery, to create a Beer Brownie using Old

Chestnut Beer.

Sarah said: “ My favourite though is rose and pistachio nuts.

“My mum and dad used to take us to Turkey when I was little and we used to get Turkish Delight with pistahio nuts running

through it.”

“Then this year I went to a food exhibition and and saw how rose petals count be used to decorate food, and the idea came from that.”

Sarah is well aware how Cocoa Loco (having also started off as a brownies business in Partridge Green) has grown, but Sarah has different goals. Her dream is to get into tea rooms around the county.

She said “ This has been the best decision I’ve ever made, I feel so much better about myself and I’ve met some fantastic people, although on the down side I’ve put on a stone since I started!”

“I want to go into tea rooms eventually - that’s the dream for me. I don’t want Just Brownies to be massive as it has a home-grown feel about it.”

For more details see www.justbrownies.webs.com

Inbetween two dentists...

Ye Old Sweet Shop opened in Market Square, Horsham, last October, but it didn’t initially register on most people’s radar.

Joy Williams had settled into the residential property, and had the idea of turning it into a traditional sweet shop.

“I just thought this would make a really nice sweet shop,” said Joy. “It had the Old Curiosity Shop style windows and I could just see it - so I did it.”

But Joy made a few errors in her applications to the council to trade as a business, delaying the process of setting up her sweet shop. By the time the first customer walked in, Mr Simms had been open for several months.

But still, Joy says it’s been a successful six months for Ye Old Sweet Shop.

“It’s been amazing. What we didn’t take in to consideration is that we’re in between two dentists!

So as a treat children come in here afterwards - it’s like a reward. Most people think it’s really amusing.”

The shop sells traditional style sweets such as bon bons and boiled sweets, as well as a range of fudge and Millions - a tiny chewy sweet popular with children.

Joy said: “The only complaint I get is that there is too much choice.

I find that the children are very polite. Some of the children stand there and don’t know what to do. They’re used to going into a shop, picking something up and taking it to the counter without saying anything.”

“But you see some smart kids, who chat to you and talk about various possible combinations!

We try hard to provide a great variety for a good price here and it seems to be working.”

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He only wants to do one thing with his life, and that’s paint.

He happens to be very good at it too. Vernon Holt, the manager of Horsham Gallery in New Street, which sadly closed several months ago, considered Andrew to be among the district’s brightest artistic talents.

But Andrew has a problem.

The style he has developed, which sees him adopting graphic designing techniques to create perfect detail and symmetry in his work, has two costly side effects.

The first is that it is an enormously time consuming way of creating art.

One small piece on canvas, depicting Tokyo, took him 48 hours to paint, and that was without counting the time spent waiting for paint to dry.

And Andrew’s second problem is that the intense graphical techniques he employs give him crushing headaches!

Andrew said: “I like drawing buildings. I think it’s the fact they don’t move!

“I like sitting at a desk to paint and buildings lend themselves to that. I use a ruler for doing the lines - it’s a very graphical technique. But I’m fed up with giving myself a headache measuring out.

“With something like this painting (of Tokyo) it takes so

much time. For one of the signs to look right you have to get the gaps in between each letter correct.

“I got fed up of measuring it all out. I was getting really bad headaches! I liked the end result but the headaches were too much to bear.”

So instead, Andrew has started to adapt his style.

He now employs his hoursapping methods to smaller objects on a larger landscape image.

He also incorporates animals rather than buildings into his paintings, normally creating a background first in a thick painted, abstract style, then drawing out the animals.

He still adopts his linear

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Andrew on West Pier “I love painting the pier, as it’s in contrast to the sea - it’s very natural with the man made element on top of it and I like that.

I use a Tipp-Ex pen and I thought it looked good on a dark background.

It stands out a bit more.

I used to draw on watercolour paper, using pen and ink, but when I went to canvas it didn’t seem to have the same effect on a white background so I started working almost like a negative, using a black

patterns and geometric markings, but rarely across a full image as he has done previously.

Not only does it save money on Paracetamol, but it could also help Andrew make a few sales.

“I’m lending myself to a more abstract style at the moment”, said Andrew.

“I’ve started to use elements of the graphics style, as you can see with the seagulls in my images, with the lines and geometric shapes. But now I like putting them on top of a textured background.

“Sea scapes seem to sell a lot. I’ve painted eight sea scapes with birds and they sell very well.”

Andrew was raised in Birmingham, taking a foundation course in Art and Design and then studied jewellery and Silversmithing at University. He then moved to West Sussex, and started painting in Brighton, developing his style in striking images of the Royal Pavilion and West Pier.

His talent was picked up by

The Horsham Gallery, and several of his paintings were displayed there in 2010.

Andrew also has several pieces displayed in the cafe at Beales Department store in Horsham, where he works, and this has led to a couple of commissions.

But in terms of sales, like many other talented artists, making money has been a major problem. This has led to Andrew moving away from his architectural paintings and more towards painting wildlife and sea scapes.

Purists may accuse Andrew of ‘selling out’ by veering away from what many may deem to be the source of his best work - the paintings of buildings which give Andrew headaches (both literally and financial).

But Andrew insists that it is not all about money, and that he has a huge passion for painting animals, especially birds.

“I don’t want it to sound like I’m doing it for money, because I’m not,” said

Andrew. “I don’t sell that many paintings compared to a lot of other artists.

“Something like the Tokyo painting wouldn’t get much money if I sold it but I know how much effort I

canvas with white paint.

The Brighton West Pier painting (previous page) is my favourite piece that I have produced.

I painted it six years ago when living in Brighton.

It is one of the first paintings that I did experimenting with lines and pen and ink on canvas.

I have tried to show the rigid structure of the pier using construction lines in comparison to the light free ink wash of the sea.’

Andrew eventually hopes that he can make a living out of painting.

He said: “I do have a passion for painting wildlife and sea scapes, but I’m hoping that I can make

‘People pay per square inch rather than time spent painting’ put into it.

“You get more money for larger canvasses and I need to make a living. I did this (a sea scape image) and the whole background with a few seagulls took me about an hour and a half where as the Tokyo painting took a week and yet would sell for a fraction of the price.

“People pay per square inch rather than time spent painting.

“I don’t feel like I’m selling out. I want to make a living from selling art and I think you have to sell out a bit to make a bit of money.”

money from these and start doing the time consuming pieces and not worry about money.

“It’s not that I don’t like working for Beales, as I enjoy doing it and have good fun putting together the window displays.

“But ultimately, it isn’t the job that I set out to be in - I want to earn a living from painting.

“And if I have to paint pictures that are not necessarily what I want to paint but that sell, in order to make a start in being a full time artist, then that’s what I’ll do.”

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The brewery, which has recently taken over The Partridge Pub in Partridge Green, have donated a crate of beers to our prize haul, so you can taste its award winning Espresso among others

If your business would like to contribute a prize to the Big Quiz, please call 01403 878026 or email editor@aahorsham.co.uk

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We’ve given six businesses in Billingshurst centre a cryptic, alternative name. Can you work out the shop they relate to?

round 3

Intense affection on a narrow road in a good wine year

Bull’s eye By day, the AAH bull is an intergral part of a children’s toy farmyard, but he does have a sense of adventure.

He’s hiding on two other pages in this edition. Can you tell us what pages?

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Horsham Junior Baseball Club has proved that sports from across the pond can be successful over here.

But can you name these six famous American sports stars?

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Are you paying attention?

It’s the round that makes sure you’re not just looking at the pretty pictures. It’s an old fashioned Q&A

AAH had a lovely meal at The Green Man in Partridge Green, and would recommend the steak fillet! But from which market does head chef Nick Illes buy most of his meat from?

Our Musician of the Month is Paul Messis from Billingshurst, who plays sixties garage rock with a truly authentic sound. What is the name of Paul’s new album, released in the middle of May?

Nick Mander unearthed what was left of a Bond Minicar from Muddles in 1988, and after extensive restoration the car is now a favourite at car shows. But how much did Nick pay the scrapyard for the car?

We’ve featured Horsham’s Local Produce Market in which various stallholders discuss trade. But from which supplier does Niall Harden of The Cheezerie source most of his cheese?

We’ve featured the rather grim story of John George Haigh, The Acid Bath Murderer. But what was the name of the Horsham solicitor appointed as his legal representative during his trial in the town?

Horsham Junior Baseball Club has become an extremely popular club over recent years.

But which of its players does coach Robert Burnie describe as “hands down” the best player in the country?

On page 64, we featured the work of Andrew Vince, an intriguing artistic talent from Slinfold. Andrew has his work displayed in the cafe of the department store where he works. What’s the name of the store?

Cocoa Loco based in West Grinstead make their products after melting down chocolate buttons processed in Belgium. But from which country do Cocoa Loco’s cocoa beans originate?

Horsham Football Club has announced plans for a possible new ground on land south of the town, which is the subject of this month’s big issue. Can you tell us which year the club was founded in?

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The Last Word

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking our ambulance to

Mongolia By the Under The Fog team Ashley Dale, Alex Garrow, Luke Gowers, Chris Pearce and Max Stocker are five adventurists from Horsham.

As Under The Fog they are entered to participate in the 2011 Mongol Rally.

The Mongol Rally is essentially a charity rally starting in Goodwood on July 23rd and finishing about five weeks later in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia).

This will involve us driving through 15 countries and covering around 10,000 miles in the process.

The purpose of this event is to raise money for the Christina Noble Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Foundation (CNCF) and we aim to raise in excess of ÂŁ2000 to help children in Mongolia.

Once we get to Mongolia we will be donating our vehicle and equipment for long-term use in the country.

We wanted to take a vehicle that would leave a longer lasting value to Mongolia, and an ex-service ambulance can be used to provide crucial medical assistance in the local commu-

nity.

The level of primary care is extremely basic in Mongolia, Ambulances are few and far between and in most cases are old Russian military vehicles ill equipped for saving lives.

We are looking for corporate sponsorship from companies either in the form of a monetary donation or through donating your products or service.

We need this sponsorship to help with the costs of the vehicle and the cost of getting it to Mongolia such as petrol, spare parts, batteries, tyres etc.

This sponsorship is to be a vital part to our success in donating the ambulance to Mongolia.

We would be massively grateful of any contribution, and in return we will ensure to give recognition of your generosity

Chris Pearce and Max Stocker of Under The Fog

through any media activity, our team website, radio interviews, local fundraising events as well as printing company logos upon the ambulance.

The ambulance will be seen by thousands of people both locally and from all across the world to Mongolia.

This is the adventure of a lifetime and we need local support!

Please help us in getting this gift to Mongolia.

Follow our blog www.underthefog.co.uk To contact us regarding corporate sponsorship underthefog2011@gmail.com 07707 726342 To donate: justgiving.com/underthefog

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