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Your local community lifestyle magazine Covering: Buriton, East Meon, Froxfield, Hawkley, Liphook, Liss, Milland, Rake, Rogate, Steep, Sheet, South Harting
Fashion
Original clothes from local independents
Arts
Meeting local bands at Butserfest
Sport
Highly popular youth rugby at Petersfield RFC
‘Pompey John’ Westwood profile Christmas shopping, pubs, & property
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Contents
ISSUE 7 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007
Contents Welcome Editor’s View: A year to remember Advertisers in this issue; Where to find Life
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News Christmas Festivities, South Downs latest, Littlejohn latest, Santa Strolls
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Profile 'Pompey John' Westwood on his passions, books and football
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Business All About Flooring, Antrobus House, John Jenkins
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Shopping Ready for Christmas: food, jewellery, by Lucy Coates
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Fashion What to wear this Christmas, by Jessica Moon
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Letters Why I like Life in Petersfield; Pedestrianisation:
28
Business News Nutmeg; the Listening Tree, Sun Inn Lavant Rowe Hairdressers
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Business Life Why people love Petersfield for business
32
Eating out Pubs at Christmas
34
Issues A3 tunnel latest
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Community Petersfield Twinning Association Petersfield Society
38 39
Charity Rowans Hospice
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Property Local update, by Nick Keith
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Gardening Best bulbs by Chris Rawlings
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Arts:
46
Local Bands; Local artist Sharon Hurst, Local arts groups’ news
Competition
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Waitrose Christmas Hampers; Winner of Élancé
Sport Junior rugby in Petersfield
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What’s On Including special Christmas Fairs section
54
Directory Local contacts
56
Education School’s Directory
Centre pages, i - viii
Editor: Nick Keith
nick@lifemags.co.uk
Executive editor: Lucy Coates
lucy@lifemags.co.uk
Sub-editors: Cat Jarman, Rosey Briggs Creative director: Andy Burke Art director: Karen Holloway
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Editor’s View
Welcome
Advertisers in this issue
Festive fun Photograph by Anthony Willougby
O
h, no! It’s the Christmas issue
ISSUE 7 NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2007
Advert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page
Academy Arts & Crafts . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
La Piazzetta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
2U Tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Land of Nod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
And So To Bed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Langrish House Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
AnnaRkai Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Lavant Rowe Hairdressers . . . . . . . . . .21
Antrobus Chartered Accountants . . .47
Liss Wools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Arbrook Tree Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Littlejohn Bathrooms . . . . . . . . . . . .OBC
Archway Vets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
LRS (Garden Machinery) . . . . . . . . . . .51
Ark Specialist Services Ltd . . . . . . . . .51
M&L Body Refinishers . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Baggette & Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Mac and Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Ballards Brewery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
MacDonald Oates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 49
Barnard & Cook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
MacKarness & Lunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Bedales School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Siii
Master Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Biscoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Meon Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Blaze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Michael Miller Funerals . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Blue Bell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Mimosa Shoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Bluebird Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
More House School . . . . . . . . . . . . . S vii
Cavanagh Independent Financial
MTS Tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
Advisors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Navigate Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Cheeky Monkeys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Nutmeg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Churchers College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S v
One Tree Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
College Street Dental Practice . . . . . .31
Petersfield Car & Van Hire . . . . . . . . . .5
County Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Petersfield Garage Services . . . . . . . . .51
Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Picketts & Pursers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Cute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Premier Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Derek O'Connor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Primaveris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
Ditcham Park School . . . . . . . . . . . . . S v
Rainbows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Durleighmarsh Farm Shop . . . . . . . . . .17
Reeves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
E.H.D.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54, 45, 33
Resimix Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Élancé . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Review Hairdressers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Executive Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Richard C. Arnold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Far Horizons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Rising Sun, Milland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Field, Moor & Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Rowlands Funeral Services . . . . . . . . .41
Folly Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Seafare Fish and Chips . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Folly Tree Tea Rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Smart Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Folly Wine Bar (Upstairs) . . . . . . . . . . .34
St. Edmunds School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S v
Forget-me-not Florist . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
St. Margarets Prep. School . . . . . . . S vii
Frensham Heights School . . . . . . . . . S v
Stepping Stones School . . . . . . . . . S vii
Grayshott Pottery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Sue Johnson Interiors . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
H.S.A.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Sun Inn (Rake) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Harting Stores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Sussex Guild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Haslemere Wardrobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
The Craft Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
House of Dragonfly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
The Trooper Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Hypnotherapy for Positive Change . .13
Twenty the High Street . . . . . . . . . . . IBC
Indulgence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Village Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Izaak Walton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Waitrose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Jacobs and Hunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
Waterlooville Carpets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
John Jenkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Wear2Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
John Peter Hairdressers . . . . . . . . . . .19
White Hart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Kingscourt School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S vi
White Horse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Kumon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S vii
Winchester Garden Machinery . . . . . .52
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Green Christmas The town’s Festivities Event on Friday 7 December, organised by the Association of Petersfield Businesses (AoPB), has received a warm and enthusiastic response
the Campaign message and offering people practical ideas and advice as to how they can have a ‘Green’ Christmas on 7 December.” Schedule for 7 December: Market and entertainment, the
A
ll three elements of the
They are playing a key role in
Petersfield “Green
“We are delighted with the
Square, from 5pm; procession
helping the AoPB in the final
response so far but there is still
from the Station, 6.30-7; Finish,
Christmas” event – a procession
run up to the event and on the
the opportunity for more
approx 9. For further
through the town, a market and
day itself.
businesses, groups and
information and bookings
individuals to join in,” said Guy
please contact:
entertainment in the square
Some 16 stalls were quickly
linked through the “Green”
booked by mid-October, and will
Cheeseman, Chairman of the
theme – have captured the
offer a wide range of local or
Christmas committee. “This
Farringdon Pets,
imagination of many local
green products, many of them
event is all about the
farringdonspet@aol.com or
businesses and community
festive, from turkeys to tinsel –
community that is Petersfield
01730 263297. Entertainment:
groups.
green of course! The Roc-it
coming together and
Jayne Riley, Wear2Dance,
Petersfield Scouts, who
Dance Company from Bordon
supporting each other. Working
Jayne@wear2dance.co.uk or
celebrate their 100th
will perform, as part of the
in partnership with the
01730 710471. Market stall:
Anniversary in 2008, are
varied entertainment
Greening Campaign, our aim is
Susan Pellet, Anns Prams,
thrilled to be chosen as the
programme, also with a “green”
for this evening to be fun for all
contact@annsprams.co.uk or
charity supported by the event.
theme.
the family whilst underpinning
01730 265522
Procession: Scott & Lisa,
Life
Photograph by Tina Bolton
Downs upbeat The South Downs National Park Inquiry will reopen on 12 February, the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) announced at the end of October
T
he news was welcomed by
England’s finest and one of the
Robin Crane, Chairman of
glories of the English landscape
the South Downs Campaign.
is its huge variety,” he said. “If
“Although it doesn’t resolve the
this beautiful landscape is left
concern of the future of the
out of the National Park, it will
western Weald, it ends some of
run the risk of being picked off
Countryside Agency and
at Chatsworth Hotel, Steyne,
the uncertainty as to what
by developers and lost forever.”
designated some five years
Worthing, 12 February 2008.
happens next,” he added.
The CPRE (Campaign for the
Author, Bill Bryson on a fact-finding visit to the South Downs
ago. It is so important for the
Protection of Rural England)
Government to get it right
Contact: Robin Crane,
announcment is rather vague
has made the case for a South
now.”
Chairman, South Downs
as to exactly what we will be
Downs National Park since the
able to discuss at the public
1920s – recommended in the
inquiry.
Hobhouse Report of 1947. The
“We are disappointed that the
“The Minister (Jonathan
Government’s advisers
Shaw, landscape and rural
designated a boundary for the
affairs) has responded
National Park in 2002 and this
positively to representation
was discussed at a public
about the need to re-open the
inquiry which ended in 2005.
inquiry, which goes to show
The great majority of public
how important it was for people
responses supported the
to write in.”
National Park and many asked
In September, Bill Bryson, author, honorary OBE and
for more land to be included. Bill Bryson asked the
CPRE President, visited
Government to “confirm the
Ditcham Barn on the proposed
original wider boundary,
South Downs National Park on
including the whole of the
a fact finding mission. “This
western Weald, which was so
countryside is some of
carefully worked out by the
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Pre-inquiry meeting, Hove Town Hall, 11 December. Inquiry
Campaign, 01730 812935. Life
Sound of music E xciting new developments
here I am.”
at Write-Angle Poetry
Performers and audience came
Performances (branch of
from Portsmouth and London,
Petersfield Writers’ Workshop)
proving Petersfield is the
include music and professional
‘poetry open mic’ home for
guest poet, Audi Maserati!
prestigious events.
Original songs and music
evenings held every second
performed by the fabulous
Thursday of each month. Peter
Brian Harris. He also lends the
Dew provides The Square
audio equipment and justified
Brewery as a fantastic venue.
his presence saying, ”Leah said
Next events: 15 Nov and 13
‘lyrics are poetry’, so
December 2007. Life
Poetry
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Save water and money Now you can save on your running costs by recycling water from your bath and shower. Littlejohn have become the first UK retailer to offer Pontos Aquacycle water recycling systems
A
t Littlejohn’s Petersfield
UK after an October open day
showroom you can see in
at Littlejohn.
action the superb range of
Littlejohn, which is celebrating
newly installed showers and
its 16th year in business in the
Pontos system from Hansgrohe
town, prides itself on the
in their special ‘wellness zone’.
continuing drive for innovation
The so-called ‘grey’ water is
and customer satisfaction in its
taken from the shower or bath
complete bathroom design and
and recycled for use indoors in
installation service.
the toilets or washing machine, or outside in the garden or for
Contact: Simon Gosney,
car-washing.
Director, Littlejohn, Amey
These systems are extremely
Industrial Estate, Frenchmans
popular in Germany, where
Road, Petersfield. 01730
Hansgrohe is based, and are
231050. Web: www.pontos-
attracting much interest in the
aquacycle.de Life
Littlejohns’ director Simon Gosney
African dreams
Santa stroll
D
On 28 December, local adventurers Ben Southall (Ropley) and Owen Thompson Dredge (Liss) will embark on a yearlong drive through 33 African countries aboard their trusty steed, Ben’s Landrover Defender
B
ress up as Father Christmas and join a
sponsored walk in Queen Elizabeth Country Park in aid of the Rowans Hospice on Sunday 16 December
en and Owen also have set
many of the 180 sites as
tasks to raise money for
possible where the Victoria
their three favourite charities: The Royal Star & Garter Homes
Cross has been won. They have taken three years
Ben (left) and Owen on the roof of their trusty steed
(10am). For a £10 entry fee, The Rowans Hospice offer you a free Santa outfit, a
“We’ll be updating the website
sponsorship form, maps,
(where Ben used to work, and
to plan this trip of a lifetime,
as often as we can to keep you
mince pies and hot
which cares for disabled ex-
called “Afritrex”, which is
in the picture! If you think
chocolate on the day.
Service men & women), FARM-
funded entirely by Ben and
there’s any way you can help
Africa (provide African farmers
Owen. So 100% of the
out – be it with advice, a
provides specialist palliative
with education and assistance
donations made will go straight
product which will make our
care, needs registrations by
to increase their productivity),
to the charities.
lives easier on the road, or just
1 December. For further
a friendly, supportive word –
information and sponsorship
full of excitement, trepidation
then contact me at
forms, go online. Or contact,
and the desire to just get going
ben@afritrex.com.”
Ali George, Fundraising
five marathons, the Comrades
and onto the road. We have
To find out more about
Team, The Rowans Hospice,
Race at 52 miles, climbing five
trained for over a year, which
Afritrex, to sponsor, or track
023 9225 0001. Web:
of the highest African
should hold us in good stead
their progress, go to:
www.rowanshospice.co.uk
mountains, and visiting as
for the challenges ahead.
www.afritrex.com Life
and IDE-UK (supports farmers in the developing world). The tasks include: completing
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Ben says, “We’re now both
The Hospice, which
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Charitable twist Craft You can enjoy a personal and charitable treat at Grayshott Pottery’s exclusive shopping evening on Wednesday 14 November, from 6pm to 9.30pm
V
isitors to Grayshott
Pottery’s gift shop and gallery will be merrily entertained: they will get a ‘goody bag’ and treats;
show Craftsmen and artists of the Sussex Guild will exhibit their hand-made creations at Midhurst Grammar School on 1 and 2 December. One of the most popular shows of the year, offers a good chance to buy a Christmas present
Nikki Vivian uses African seeds and stones
raised in South Africa and Swaziland but trained in England, and uses African seeds and natural stones, combining them with
there will be raffles every 30 minutes with pottery and gifts up
Photo – Phil Bates (left) and Ed Snell with GUTS ‘pig’ collection boxes
A
ll the disciplines
contrasting hand made silver
represented in the Guild
pebble forms; and Colin
will be on display, including
Norgate, from Langrish, who
for grabs; and they can watch
“We have friends and
ceramics; furniture; glassware;
specialises in furniture and
‘pot throwing’ first hand. And
colleagues from all around
jewellery and silversmithing;
sculptural turning, using both
10% of proceeds from the
Surrey and Hampshire who
leather work; metalwork; print
traditional and novel
evening will go to the aid of
have benefited from the
making; stonework; textiles; and
techniques to produce one-off
G.U.T.S, a local charity that
screening that this charity
other woodworking.
designs and small batch
raises funds for bowel cancer.
offers and there is no doubt
Exhibitors include: Sheila
productions.
that it has saved lives.’”
Pearson, from Liss, who makes
Midhurst GS, 1 North St.
and Trustee Phil Bates
Contact: Grayshott Pottery,
richly decorated leather belts
Open: 10am-5pm. Admission
expressed his delight in the
School Road, Grayshott GU26
and bags; jeweller Nikki Vivian,
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Profile: John Westwood and The Petersfield Bookshop Photographs by Anthony Willoughby
16a, its present premises. He built up the bookshop over
book for 50 pence to someone
in travel, fishing and the Far
who loves it as we do from
East (India and Japan). Now
selling expensive antiquarian
The Petersfield Bookshop has
publications. My father wished
widespread interests, including
to encourage people to become
most antiquarian and
book collectors. He got many a
secondhand books on a wide
collector started with his
variety of topics, including:
kindness and his willingness to
naval, colonial, military and
help them.” fairs all over England, from
sports; and early printed books
Exeter to Carlisle; and antique
pre-1700, including Bibles.
fairs from Aldeburgh to Harrogate. The Westwoods also
books including a range of
went to the US, especially New
popular fiction, non-fiction and
York, where it was often
children’s books, and offers a
cheaper to find antiquarian
rapid order service (often next
books, especially on naval
day) for anything not in stock.
subjects.
It also sells Ordnance Survey
John’s gentle reputation as an
maps, antique maps and prints,
antiquarian bookseller is
artists’ materials and has an
exceeded by his fame as a
on-site picture-framing
raucous and talismanic football
workshop. A catalogue of books
fan. His undying love for
for sale is occasionally
Portsmouth FC (Pompey) began
published in addition to an
at the age of 12 when he went
online database.
with a school friend to Fratton
Outside the shop Frank
In 2008 the Westwood family will have owned and run The Petersfield Bookshop for half a century. Here’s their story, chapter and verse, by Nick Keith
His father used to attend book
transport; antique collecting;
The bookshop also stocks new
Pompey chimer
take as much time selling a
the years, initially specializing
natural history; exploration;
‘Pompey John’ Westwood in full Portsmouth regalia
“We get as much pleasure and
Park, the club’s home. He fell in
proudly introduced the special
love with the game, or rather
feature of a canopied forecourt
the club.
where second-hand books can
“It was Boxing Day 1976; the
be bought 24 hours a day, 365
club was in the old Third
days a year – and paid for in an
Division, but over 30,000
honesty box.
people came to watch Pompey
The bookshop has remained a family business since Frank Westwood’s death in January
v. Brighton. We won 1-0, I remember. I was hooked. “I love football both as
2006 and is now run by his
entertainment and as theatre.
widow Ann and their son John.
You take pride in where you
Frank and Ann Westwood had
come from, and being a fan is
three children; David, aged 49,
like having another family.”
is also a partner, but works as a
As his commitment grew, so
conservator for the Royal
too did his range of Portsmouth
n 1958 Frank Westwood
I
she was aged 18. On a day’s
collection at Windsor Castle;
accessories – including tattoos.
acquired The Petersfield
outing to Petersfield they fell in
Mary Ann is 46; and John, the
In 1994 he changed his name
Bookshop, founded in 1918 by
love with the town; the
youngest at 44, joined his
by deed poll to John Anthony
Dr Harry Roberts, an East End
bookshop (then at 1 The
father’s bookshop after he left
Portsmouth Football Club
doctor who had helped set up
Square) needed a new manager,
school. “I started by doing odd
Westwood.
the Panel Scheme (the
and they decided to settle here
jobs around the shop and then
predecessor of the National
in Hampshire.
slowly learned the book trade
the country – and the world.
over time,” he recalls.
When he leaves the serenity of
Health Service). The son of a bus driver, Frank
Soon afterwards, the bookshop moved to 2a Chapel
“Business is so cutthroat
John follows Pompey all over
the bookshop for the terraces,
Westwood trained at Francis
Street. Then the owner, Mrs
today that I don’t think my
he expresses his passion for
Edwards, a famous bookshop in
Field (a member of the
father would recognize it – he
Pompey with wild exuberance.
London’s Marylebone High
Guinness family), decided to sell
was an old-fashioned bookseller
But most other football
Street. He met Ann (Johnson)
her shop. Frank Westwood
with old fashioned values,”
followers see John as a true
and they married in 1956 when
bought it, and moved again to
John said.
fan – passionate but non-
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John and his mother Ann Westwood
violent. He was one of those
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featured in the BBC’s “One
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remove us from the 18th and
wrote a book, called ‘The True
19th century dockyard
Pompey Fan’s Miscellany’. Just
mentality.”
recently he has represented
He adds: “I live and breathe
Portsmouth on Sky TV in their
football, and I think it gives
premier all stars tournament.
everyone an edge in business
John is excited about
do so much for a community –
injection of new money by
and the more success a club
Franco-Russian owner
has, the better people in the
Alexandre Gaydamak, the
town work because they are
acquisition of a strong squad of
happier.”
players, and its high position in the Premiership. “It sometimes
Contact: The Petersfield
seems surreal because only a
Bookshop, 16A Chapel Street,
few years ago we were carrying
Tel: 01730 263438
from dying. Even when we were in the Third Division I knew that, one day, we would be up with football’s elite.” He reckons that the new £300 million stadium, to be built in
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Business
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Pride in purchasing As independent retailers All About Flooring choose the ranges they want to sell. Their purchasing expertise means that prices are always competitive with other flooring retailers
counterparts. Lisa Neill adds: “We are the recommended retailer for Karndean. We have all the latest ranges on display in our dedicated Karndean showroom,
success story and go from
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Ceramics range. In addition we
Gary is excited about two new
have a huge range of vinyl
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natural designs and textures.
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Barr’s daughter, to their team
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of expert fitters – all employed
O
running a team of floor layers.
with partners Philip Barr and
Baldwin who was running a
Philip Baldwin in January 2002.
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Gary had 20 years experience
and interiors shop in Haslemere
Island Limestone Collection, the
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latest addition to their ground-
13 Lavant Street, Petersfield.
before getting together with
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wner Gary Neill set up the business in Lavant Street
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Life
Antrobus House
Business hub One of Petersfield’s business landmarks is Antrobus House. Mike Kirby, MD of Antrobus Chartered Accountants, is also in charge of the business centre
A
ntrobus House, the
Contact: Antrobus House, 18
business centre, is
College Street, Petersfield.
managed by Tracy Woodward. It
Tel: 01730 234500
houses six businesses and
Life
services about 40 mail and telephone accounts, but Mike
A profile of Antrobus
Kirby says that there is always
Chartered Accountants will
room for more, so all enquiries
appear in the next issue of Life
are welcome! In 2008 there are
in Petersfield, January-
plans to give the reception area
February 2008.
a substantial facelift.
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John Jenkins
partnership creates modern
Shop of treasures
versions of Georgian and
John Jenkins has established a resounding reputation for glass and tableware since it was founded over 100 years ago and customers flock to its expansive warehouse shop in Nyewood. Nick Keith reports
shipped round the world,
Regency designs from England and Ireland. These collectible products are mainly to the United States, where the company has its own trade showroom on New York’s
T
he journey to Nyewood,
Holborn Viaduct, London, but
products, from £5 to £500 and
Madison Avenue. Products are
east of Petersfield between
then Tim Jenkins, grandson of
upwards. As well as china and
sold in over 120 shops
Rogate and South Harting, has
the founder, decided to relocate
glass we offer all kinds of
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become a happy habit for the
their head office to their rural
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retreat in Nyewood. Not so
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has worked at John Jenkins for
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much a retreat, more the
accessories to many items for
over 30 years, explained that
Once on the premises, you
launch-pad for continued
the interior of your home and
the business succeeds in its
success.
gifts for all occasions.”
Nyewood shop and in the wider
find yourself on the site of an old brickworks, with many
The retail operations
Alongside the wonderful
Director Paul Bramfitt, who
world because the company
buildings and the large John
manager, Janet Hardiman, was
warehouse shop which
remains creatively aware of
Jenkins warehouse shop at the
extremely busy with the
customers know and love, John
trends and opportunities in the
head, selling a huge range of
company’s October sale when
Jenkins have become
industry.
cut crystal, glass, china,
Life in Petersfield caught up with her in the shop. She has held this position since 1990, and has worked for John Jenkins for 25 years. “There have been many changes in the retail world,” she said, “and individual shops selling china and glass are few and far between today”. At John Jenkins we have become more orientated towards gifts and we offer a huge range of
successful ‘merchants’,
porcelain, ceramics, candles, lamps, mirrors, linens and gifts – everything you might need in the way of tableware, and furniture for the house and the conservatory. One reason for John Jenkins’ success since its foundation in 1901 is that the company has stayed in touch with its market and kept aware of trends. Until 1985 the company was based in
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“We try to offer good deals
supplying bespoke glass to
and a wide range of products in
many of the top hotels and
the shop,” he said. “All the time
restaurants in the UK. In
we are looking for new
addition, John Jenkins is now a
products and new ideas.”
leading supplier of high quality and high value crystal and glass
Contact: John Jenkins
to an international market.
Warehouse Shop, Nyewood,
They went into partnership with
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their in-house technical designer Lisa Gibson, the
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Shopping Guide for Men
Between the Lines
For your partner Buying for women can be a
Life in Petersfield’s Lucy Coates is an ‘honorary man’ when it comes to shopping – especially at Christmas time. Here she offers local men some hints to help make this year’s Christmas hassle-free 1) Keep it local
2) Leave to the last minute!
There is nothing worse than
Shopping is so much faster
going to a big city centre to do
when there are time pressures.
your Christmas shopping. Even
Giving yourself two hours to
getting there is a nightmare as
buy all your gifts just means
the roads and public transport
fewer decisions have to be
are busy – especially on
made, as looking around to find
Christmas Eve when, let’s face
something better is impossible
it, we do most of our shopping.
and you don’t have to spend as
So, stay in the local area.
much on parking!
lot to offer. Jewellery is an
A list is essential. I’ve started
obvious starting point and
one for you which mentions
there are a number of places to
most people not to miss…
go. Trevor Towner on the High Street can create an original piece for you (but obviously
Wife/girlfriend Parents Children Grandparents Aunts/Uncles Siblings In-laws Niece/nephew Best mate Before you even have to leave your mulled wine, mince pie and afternoon’s televised sport, this is what’s available locally…
you do have to arrange this in advance). At the bottom of Rams Walk opposite Waitrose is Picketts and Pursers, where you can also buy a nice watch, some china, silverware, glassware, clocks and antiques. Jewellery can also be purchased at Inside Out on Chapel Street, beside The Petersfield Bookshop. Indeed, Inside Out is a great place to go as Geraldine and Anne have many beautiful things in there and will definitely be able to help you find the perfect gift, Life
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Get ready for Christmas
nightmare but Petersfield has a 3) Make a list
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Life
For parents For dads and father-in-laws, you can’t go wrong with food and drink. My father is particularly fond of chocolate brazil nuts, which you can get in Waitrose, Julian Graves (both Rams Walk), and The Bran Tub (Lavant Street). A nice bottle of something a bit special from Rowan’s Delicatessen, or even a bespoke Christmas hamper full of his favourite goodies, is a
Indulgence
sure winner. But you can always pop back into Inside Out, as they have a number of good, original ideas for men and just down Chapel Street. At M&S Shoe Repair you can buy your dad a Italian leather briefcase or your mum a handbag. Mums and mother-in-laws are obviously more tricky, but it is difficult to go wrong with gift vouchers from a stylish hairdresser. A subtle enquiry –
Cute
such as “Your hair looks nice
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Mum (long-ish pause), “where did you get that done then?” – might work. But a change is as good as a rest and there are plenty to choose from in Petersfield. Try Review, John Peter, Élancé or Lavant Rowe. At One Tree Books the reviews written by the employees provide a good starting point for your book search and they don’t only sell novels. A book on angling for your dad, or a beautifully
M&S Shoe Repairs
Cheeky Monkeys
illustrated cookery book for whether that is a cashmere
engraved. They are usually able
your mum are obvious
in Pages Court off the High
scarf, a beautiful cardigan, or
to do it on the spot so it saves
stereotypes – you get the idea.
Street. Debbie and Amy sell a
something special for a house
the bother of having to send it
or garden.
off somewhere.
Far Horizons is good place to
At Indulgence on Lavant
They also sell sheet music,
large variety of children’s
wrapping paper, jigsaws and
clothes as well as toys –
board games, both traditional
including Wheelybugs. These
go for women who enjoy
Street you can buy your loved
and new, so you might just be
are padded trolleys, which can
travelling as it specialises in
one vouchers for a wide range
inspired. Just around the
be ridden, pushed, pulled and
jewellery from cultures from
of beauty treatments, which
corner, The Petersfield
cuddled. They are extremely
around the world. It is full to
come beautifully boxed and
Bookshop is a treasure trove of
popular with children between
the brim with interesting and
presented. Or wonderful
books, ancient and modern (see
the ages of one and five.
unique pieces which are sure to
smellies from their extensive
page 10).
inspire.
Nougat ranges. A gift wrapping
Between The Lines on Swan Street sell traditional games
service is also available so you
Young people
and toys, while Imaginations on
can get it all done in one go!
Whether you are buying for
Lavant Street sell classic
make it even more so by taking
your own offspring or others’,
collectible Steiff Teddy Bears as
it into M&S Shoe Repair in
the area has a lot to offer.
well as traditional models of
Once you have bought something special, you can
Chapel Street to get it
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A good place to start is Cute
trains and aeroplanes.
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If a specific model is required, try Folly Models in the Folly Market as they sell a fantastic range of cars, trains, planes and much more. Next door at Village Music, Brian Harris is the man to see for musical instruments. He specialises in guitars, and is selling electric guitars and all their equipment as a set this Christmas. If creativity is key, then Bakery Lane’s The Craft Box sells lots of art materials and constructive play kits to inspire children to decorate and create things from scratch. But you could also try Academy Arts and Crafts at the top of
Tack and Togs
J&M sports
Waitrose car park. Cheeky Monkeys, at Pear Tree Barns (east of Durleighmarsh Farm off the A272), is crammed with toys. Richard will enthusiastically show you his range of the most up-to-date toys and a new selection of Imaginations
beautiful party dresses for girls,
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Inside Out
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to be appreciated. You can purchase a nice frame from Inside Out or what about a beautiful walking stick from M&S Shoe Repair. Oh – and your best friend! For your favourite pet, Farringdon Pets on Lavant Street have a selection of treats and toys including stockings and treats which are fit for human consumption such which will spark a beautiful
tea cups, free-hand trays,
as venison and salmon cookies and chicken soup!
nostalgic feeling within you –
Grandparents
trolleys, pick-up reachers,
after all toys just aren’t as good
Classic gifts for grandparents,
electric chairs, as well as warm
as in my day.
such as their favourite bottle of
slippers and comfortable socks
That’s it! I hope that this has
something or some nice
that promote good circulation.
made Christmas a little easier
Tack and Togs on Lavant Street are perfect for a little
smellies, can be found at The
someone who loves horses as it
English Hampshire Lavander
is packed with clothes, mugs,
Company in Selborne.
helmets, crops, jigsaws – all in a horsey theme. Close by, J&M Sports stock all
Knitting materials can be
for you and look forward to
purchased from Ann’s Prams,
seeing you all on Christmas Eve
on Chapel Street, or Liss Wools
at about four o’clock, frantically
on Station Road, Liss.
rushing around the local area
different, it is always worth
Embroidery threads and kits
successfully buying the perfect
popping into Crest Care in the
can be obtained from The
gift for everyone on our lists!
But for something a little bit
manner of sports equipment.
Swan Street Car Park. Here you
Fabric House on Lavant Street.
Merry Christmas and Happy
They also sell beautiful, classic,
will find a wide selection of
If not, a nice photo frame with
(Shopping-Free) New Year!
wooden games by John Jaques,
gifts to help make people’s lives
a photo of you (and other
suitable for all ages.
easier: including double-handed
family members) seems always
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Fashion
Nutmeg
including White Stuff and Crew, as well as Ollie & Nic bags. In
have recently introduced a new
grey, you will find a lovely light-
range of jeans from the United
knit tank-top and satin skirt
States called Tummy Tuck
from Nougat.
Jeans, by Not Your Daughter’s
Despite the blacks and greys
What to wear this Christmas There is almost nothing more embarrassing than turning up to that much-awaited Christmas party and making your grand entrance only to find that someone else, most probably a size smaller and a lot prettier than you, is wearing the same outfit. Jessica Moon seeks local help
Plumage, on Chapel Street,
around, Twenty the High Street
Jeans. These are extremely
have concentrated on winter
popular as they flatten your ` tummy and lift your derriere,
brights, which include colours
making you look a whole size
such as ‘hot pinks’, purple,
smaller – a definite bonus at
bright blues and reds. There is
Christmas time!
also much cashmere available here, ranging from simple knits
To complement your slimming jeans during the day, Sarah
to dresses by
from Mimosa Shoes (College
Diane von
Street), recommends a pair of
Furstenberg
pumps or flat “riding-style”
and Marilyn Moore.
boots as a highly fashionable and practical option for the winter months. Keep warm This winter, keeping warm and keeping
t is good news that
I
for much longer than the
Petersfield boasts a number
season as, they are not only
problem
of independent fashion houses
well made, they are also
because finally
selling a large variety of
timeless in terms of fashion
fashion reflects
different outfits, all equally as
trends. Sandwich, American
the
fashionable but varied in styles.
Vintage, Out of Xile are popular
temperature.
up is not a
choices and for a splash of
Think chunky,
Shades of grey
colour, why not try their red
and think knitwear
Grey is the colour this season.
skirts by Lino Factory or some
Tricot Too have a broad selection in this shade which
colourful knitwear from Amano. Nutmeg is opening at the end
Tiger Rose
for scarves, hats and gloves. Tricot Too stock a beautiful range of chunky knitwear by Avoca, while
are great to pick and choose
of November in Pages Court
from. Rebecca prides herself on
behind Cute and offers a lovely
Plumage have some gorgeous
mix of trendy and elite brands
fur scarves.
stocking clothes that will last
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perfect for dressy
For a stylish and
occasions.
warm coat, Twenty The High Street have a stunning
Dress to
Anais-lambskin
impress
shearling coat
Another place to
by Joseph, the
go is
very popular
Wear2Dance on Lavant Street.
Diane von
Though primarily
Furstenbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
a dancewear shop,
Principessa
Jayne has recently
polka-dot knit
started promoting
jacket, and the
occasion wear with a
stylish Elodia woven jacket, also by Diane von
particular emphasis on prom
Furstenberg.
dresses. These come in various
Beautifully embroidered,
styles, shapes and colours and
velvet coats by Kuddyco are
are perfect to make a real
available at Tiger
impact at a party or Christmas
Rose, which
ball. For something extra
are
special, try AnnaRkai Designs at Durleighmarsh Farm. Caroline and Anne would be happy to design and make a stunning outfit for your ball or glamorous party. They also offer an off-the-peg range of outfits, including beautiful basques, tops and skirts. Twenty is a perfect place to go for spectacular evening dresses by Alice Temperley and the Australian designer
Life
!
Top: Frasers Above: Twenty The High Street
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Fashion !
Life (l-r): Rainbows, AnnaRkai Design, Wear To Dance
Collette Dunnaghan. There are interesting pieces and for something a little more casual, they have collections from Day Burger and Mihlesen, Velvet and fabulous tops by Tea Bags. Tiger Rose is an excellent choice for a less dressy occasion as they have trendy, yet original flirty dresses in silks and velvet by Reny Derhy and their new range, Fever. Similarly Plumage offer a broad range of stylish, flattering outfits. A green, light knit vest and shrug by Little Dye House matched with a chocolate suede skirt by Pomodoro is
nicely complementing the trend for
a great combination and
greys. Pop into Mimosa for platforms
can be dressed up using
and patent leathers, which are both
some of the fabulous
popular and are themes set to continue
costume jewellery also
into next season.
available from Plumage.
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The ethical option We are constantly being encouraged to
colour of the moment,
examine our consciences and think
Life
!
For evening or smarter footwear, black is the
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Fashion !
Life about where our clothes come from. So, for Fair Trade clothing, pop into see Judy at Rainbows in the Folly Market. She has a plethora of colourful outfits for everyday wear. And a number of items can be dressed up for a
and
special
Lyle &
occasion, or
Scott.
dressed down
Experienced
for informal
staff can
parties - as
offer you
well as various
different,
accessories to
yet
help you do this.
desirable pieces â&#x20AC;&#x201C;
A place in the sun
from suits
If you are lucky
to socks! Frasers
enough to be going
also offer a
away to hot climates for the
hire service
festive season, there
for most formal
are resort collections
occasions and
arriving at Twenty in
with its Scottish
November. These
background, the
include kaftans,
staff there are
dresses and fresh tops
uniquely placed to
as well as swimwear by
advise on Highland
Hiedi Klein and Diane
Dress and have 12
von Furstenberg.
tartans available to
Tricot Too are well worth
choose from!
a look too as their American Vintage range are very lightweight â&#x20AC;&#x201C; perfect for the winter sun destinations.
Contact: AnnaRkai Designs:
And for the men
01730 821765
Frasers, on Chapel Street,
Frasers: 01730 263105
specialise in providing fine
Mimosa Shoes:
clothes for
01730 268500
men at
Nutmeg: 01730269949
affordable
Plumage: 01730 264662
prices. They
Rainbows: 01730 269991
offer some
Tiger Rose: 01730 268000
great ranges
Tricot Too: 01730 231218
by reputable
Twenty The High Street:
designers,
01730 265466
such as
Wear2Dance: 01730 710471
Meyer, Van
Life
Heusen,
(l-r): Tricot Too, Mimosa Shoes, Plumage
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Costume Professionals www.haslemerewardrobe.co.uk
Tel: 01428 642202 St Christophers Road, Haslemere, Surrey
GU27 1DQ
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Letters
Why we love Life in Petersfield Our readers and advertisers are full of praise for this magazine, which has just celebrated its first anniversary having launched in November last year Happy birthday to Life I would like to add my congratulations on the first anniversary of this superb magazine, Life in Petersfield. Like many other people I look forward to it eagerly every two months. Then I read it cover to cover, including advertisements. I was pleased you drew attention to the shops and businesses in Lavant Street because here we still have a nice selection of small shops more like our small market towns used to be. What an inspiring and encouraging article ‘Jo’s journey to fitness, health and happiness’ was, and surely will be to other people. Congratulations, Jo, and good luck.
surrounding area, and the people within it, and with the free widespread distribution – we know it is taking our advertising throughout the community, just as we had hoped! So, well done on completing your first year and we look forward to continuing our advertising with you during the next 12 months. Bill Gosney Managing Director Littlejohn Bathrooms Limited.
Thanks for the update on the tunnel at Hindhead. It’s so nice to be kept in the picture. Bygone Buriton was nice. What a thriving place it was. I thought chalk was in this area, which seems to me that the South Downs do indeed extend far beyond where the latest boundary has been decreed for the park. I look forward to your next edition. Mrs M Rachel Sandy Close, Petersfield.
you have proved Petersfield and the surrounding areas can support a top quality magazine. Well done. Mike de Mellow Managing Director Waterlooville Carpets Ltd.
Quality magazine We have advertised in the Life in Petersfield publication from the very first issue. It really has raised our profile and made the readers aware of our services. I can truly say that it has been the single most successful advertising media for us, and we have used many other publications in the last 15 years! I am sure that the quality of the magazine, the dedication of the staff and the wellresearched methods of distribution could work for any type of business. Sue Johnson Sue Johnson Interiors. Living up to expectations Just over a year ago a member of the “Life team” visited me asking me to place an advert in a new magazine called Life in Petersfield to be launched that November. Although sceptical at first, we agreed to take the back page for a year and, 12 months on, we are so pleased we made that decision. The magazine has fully lived up to our expectations. A full colour quality local magazine full of stories about Petersfield and
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Well done Congratulations on your first anniversary -
Happy association Bluebird Care is the leading independent home care provider in the area and we are delighted with our association with Life in Petersfield. The in-depth coverage which Life in Petersfield gives allows us to bring our much-needed care services to people living in their own homes throughout the Petersfield area. Paul Tarsey Group Managing Director Bluebird Care. High praise I cannot praise Sally Puddick and her team at Life In Petersfield highly enough. They provide a top class service and an excellent publication to advertise in. County Windows has been established for 55 years and is very well known in Winchester and surrounding areas. However, we realise that some residents in Petersfield are not aware of our services so the magazine provides a good platform for us to make ourselves known. We look forward to supporting you for many more issues to come. Katrina McDuff Marketing Manager, County Windows (Winchester) Ltd.
Pedestrianisation: Room for creativity Your September issue contains two more letters from readers who are apparently convinced that the pedestrianisation of the High Street would be the death of trade. However, while strongly asserting their views, they fail to identify exactly why the exclusion of vehicles generally will have this effect and who it is that will take their business elsewhere if vehicles are excluded. Clearly cars that simply transit the High Street on their way in/out or through the town can have no direct bearing on trade in High Street shops. It therefore must come down to those relatively few people who actually succeed in parking in the High Street. People who park or attempt to park in the High Street are generally trying to avoid a car park charge or are too idle to walk the extra distance from the car park. Given the disabled facilities provided in Petersfield the incapacity/mobility issue is no defence either. I am constantly amazed at the nerve of people who stop in the narrow section to go into the paper shop on one side or use the cash machine on the other, when they can see that their action has blocked the road. Then there are those that spot a free space on the other side of the road and expect everyone to let them across and then out again when they are completely unsighted and facing the wrong way. It seems to me that those who are so strongly against pedestrianisation are simply facilitating the least considerate and most idle members of our local community! I agree that what we currently have is a disaster but restoring the original road width will do little to overcome the fundamental problem, i.e. that the High Street is unsuited to today’s vehicle volumes and there is a lack of consideration for the majority by a determined few. I suspect that a large percentage of the ‘High Street parkers’ have almost forgotten how to put one foot in front of the other. The sooner we get these people and their cars out of the High street the better, they are a deterrent to shopping in Petersfield not an asset. One possibility I have not seen debated is retaining a one-way system from the War Memorial to the Square with a single bus-wide lane and the existing number of parking and unloading bays on either side. The parking bays should be limited to a maximum of 15 minutes only. This could halve the traffic; overcome the problem of the restricted traffic flow options if vehicles were totally excluded; and make it virtually impossible for inconsiderate drivers to stop other than in a designated parking bay. There is room for some creativity to solve the High Street problems. It is not an all or nothing issue. Trevor J Nichols, Barnfield Road, Petersfield. Life
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New Business
The Listening Tree
Safe space A new venture based in East Meon, the Listening Tree, focuses on unlocking individual potential and empowering people to hear and trust their intuition, their inner voice
T
he company aims to
spiritual dimension of
provide “a safe space”
change.
away from the daily demands
• a corporate facility in
of living to explore in
Jamaica, where companies
confidence what changes they
can rent a fully staffed villla
would like to make in their
which sleeps 15 people. Here
personal and working lives. Founder Anna Wiltshire says: ”Having the courage to take that first step can bring its own
they help businesses to build teams and maximise the potential of individuals. A qualified life coach and
rewards and help take you
counsellor, Anna can see clients
from where you are now to
in their home or workplace, or
where you want to be. The
at her Hampshire offices.
Listening Tree’s approach is to
Telephone coaching is available.
adapt to the needs of the
She adds: “Enrolling for a
Rachel and Neal Pandya at Rake’s Sun Inn
client. All issues are addressed
course of sessions is about
that are reflective of the
making a positive investment in
human experience, including
your future.”
The Sun Inn
New landlords eal and Rachel Pandya are
plenty of experience in the
the new landlords at the
restaurant business. The warm-
Contact: Anna Wiltshire.
N
Sun Inn, Rake, having reopened
hearted couple are determined
01730 823544. Mobile
the pub-restaurant in October.
to attract the pub users back to
The Listening Tree also
07788462102
At the pre-launch dinner, guests
find their place in the Sun!
offers:
enjoyed truly excellent food
• a specialised service in
relationships and achieving a work/life balance. “
annawiltshire10@aol.com.
prepared by Luke Gale,
Contact: Sun Inn, London
marriage coaching – from
web:
formerly the chef at Bloody
Road, Rake. 01730 892115
the practical business of
www.thelisteningtree.com
Marys in Midhurst. Neal
planning your wedding to the
Life
(originally from Lindford) and
See Pub Feature on Page 32
married earlier this year, have
Life
Lavant Rowe Hair Salon
Stylish salon Chris Scott and Stephen Hartshorne are bubbling over with ideas for their beautiful and stylish new salon at 5 Lavant Street
P
etersfield's newest hair
styling for catwalk shows.
salon opened in September,
Business partner Chris Scott
aiming to bring “London-league
adds the business expertise
hair expertise” to the area.
from his time at IBM.
Stephen has 20 years’ experience in the industry,
Contact:
including time as a senior
Lavant Rowe Hair Salon
stylist at Harrods, and
Tel: 01730 266661
managing hair salons on international cruise liners and
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Life
Nick Keith
Rachel (from Haslemere), who
Chris Scott (left) and Stephen Hartshorne
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Smile
about...
College Street & Liss Dental Practice
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Alan Kiff: independent and local
ARK
Energy advice
Smile We offer a wide range of professional beauty and dental treatments that can transform the way you look and feel in subtle but empowering ways. Using safe, proven cosmetic techniques, we can give you the full, soft lips, smooth, clear skin and white, even smile that will let you go into any situation with absolute self-assurance.
ARK Specialist Services have set up in Liss to advise local businesses on energy efficiency and energy management through a combination of audits, surveys and advice
A
rk’s Carbon Trust
part of the new Home
accredited consultant is
Information Pack (HIP) process.
able to provide practical advice
Being local we offer a very
on how to reduce energy bills
good rate and are
as well as carbon emissions. It
accommodating with the time
may be possible to get the work
of the surveys to minimise
paid for by the Carbon Trust
disruption to the householder..”
(depending on the size of the utility bills). Director Alan Kiff added:
Contact: ARK Specialist Services Ltd, 120 Andlers
“Apart from businesses we
Ash Road, Liss, Hampshire,
offer independent advice to
GU33 7LS. Tel: 01730
private individuals who are
891085. Mobile: 07766
often bewildered by the variety
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of renewable energy systems
www.arkspecialist.co.uk
that are now available. We can
Life
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Dr Afshin Khalessi and Dr Bita Farzad
also offer Domestic Energy Performance Certificates as
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Business Networking
Friday on their mind Cat Jarman spoke to some attendees of the October meeting of First Friday to find out why they do business in Petersfield and what they think of First Friday
Name: Jo Jacobs.
First Friday
Company:
First Friday offers a monthly
Benella
networking lunch meeting
Interiors -
for business people in the
house
Petersfield area. Meeting on
doctors.
the first Friday of every
How long in business: 3 years.
month, there is an informal
Works in Petersfield:
networking session, a two-
“Because I have lived here for
course lunch, and then a talk
13 years and I don't want to
from an invited speaker on a
Name: Ros
Name: Keith
move. The location suits the
topical and engaging issue.
Mann.
Thomas.
nature of my business, being
First Friday chairman Gareth
Company:
Company:
under an hour from
Gammon, MD of Navigate
Mackarness
POS
Southampton, the New Forest
Design, established the
and Lunt
Solutions -
and Guildford.”
meeting, together with Anne
Solicitors.
financial
First Friday: “Is one of the
Deakin and Allan Tarver of
How long in
planning.
more interesting and enjoyable
Antrobus House, five years
business: “I've worked here
How long in
networking events. It's also
ago to provide the
since March.”
business:
very well attended.”
Petersfield business
Works in Petersfield: “Because I
One month.
community with an enjoyable
love the town and the people.
Works in Petersfield:
Name:
and interactive way to enjoy
It has a very welcoming
“Approximately three days a
Heather
a glass of wine, meet new
community. You can really feel
week now I have established a
Nichols.
(and some old) faces, and
that there is a lot of pride in
client base. It's so quiet and
Company:
learn about organisations
both the businesses and the
peaceful here and makes a
Trainer and
and people who they
town itself.”
pleasant change from what I
coach,
wouldn't normally be
First Friday: “Is fantastic. It
am used to.”
How long in
exposed to.
gives you the space and time to
First Friday: “Is excellent so
business:
mingle with a diverse variety of
far - apart from having to have
skills and businesses and from
my picture taken!”
14 years.
Calendar of events
Works in Petersfield: “Because
The First Friday schedule of
I live and have many clients
speakers for the next few
Name: Mark
here. There are lots of easy and
months is as follows:
Keohane.
informal places to meet people,
Company:
Company:
like cafes and bars, and the
Antrobus
Lanzerac
people are lovely.
Chartered
Limited -
First Friday: “I don't come
Accountants
business
every time, but each time I do it
Limited.
consultancy.
delivers, and I meet people who
December - Elisa Linley,
How long in
How long in
need my skills in an informal
Marketing Manager, Gun
business:
business:
market place.”
Wharf Quays.
“I've been
1 year.
that evolves many relationships.” Name: Mark Jarrett
November - Commodore David Steel, ADC Royal Navy, Royal Navy Base Commander Portsmouth.
January - Chris Butler, MD,
working with
Works In Petersfield: “In
Name:
the firm for
association with Antrobus
Bernard Kirk.
15 months.”
Chartered Accountants. It is a
Company:
February - Right Honourable
Works in Petersfield: “Because
very pleasant location with a
The
Michael Mates MP.
it offers a great long term
good share of independent
Management
solution for me both in
businesses. Plus my wife likes
Advisory
March - Gary Franklin, FD,
business and socially.
to shop here a few hours a
Group.
First Friday: “Makes it feel
week and my children are
great to be part of an
learning to swim at the Taro
business: 1 year.
If you would like to receive
organisation. It is only my
Centre - it's got everything!”
Works in Petersfield: “Because
information and updates on
second time here but already I
First Friday: “Has got the
I enjoy the quality of life and
First Friday, please email
can see that there are great
balance right between the
am generally happier and less
info@first-friday.org
opportunities in every direction
reason for being here and
stressed than I was since
I look. I'm looking forward to
actually having a nice time.”
moving here from Shrewsbury.”
gathering informally and have
First Friday: “This is my first
enjoyed the very interesting
time but I am very impressed. I
speaker. See you next month!”
many more!”
Orient Express.
How long in
love the idea of people
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Pubs
The Folly Wine Bar & Restaurant Starters
CHRISTMAS MENU 3rd to 24th December lunches & evenings Monday to Saturday 2 Course Meal
£20* 3 Course Meal
Homemade Soup served with French bread Terrine of duck with a spiced fruit chutney and melba toast Crayfish and avacado stack with a Marie Rose sauce Salad of baby spinach, toasted halloumi and pine nuts with a balsamic dressing
Mains Roulade of turkey with a chestnut stuffing and smoked bacon Roast fillet of salmon with crushed saffron potatoes and a salsa verde Venison steak with a redcurrant and rosemary jus Roasted vegetable stack topped with buffalo mozzarella and a sweet red pepper sauce
Puddings
£25
Rich chocolate torte with a scoop of pistachio icecream Homemade Christmas pudding with rum sauce Mulled poached pear with an Irish whiskey cream Raspberry Crème Brulée
www. thefollywinebar .co.uk A discretionary 10% service charge will be added to tables of 6 or more
All main courses served with a selection of seasonal vegetables and potatoes
*Not available Friday or Saturday evening
Coffee and mints to follow
10 College Street, Petersfield
01730 264088
Christmas “cheers...” Christmas comes but once a year, so it is really a duty to leave the house on these cold, wintry evenings and sample some good, old Christmas cheer at the pub. Lucy Coates whets your tastebuds
P
From batter to banter - it is
etersfield and its surrounding villages have
like spending so much time
suit a variety of different
down the pub when they are
moods and tastes. As a result,
such sociable places to go. Whether you want to curl up
we should celebrate this diversity and spend more
by a log fire and have an
time in them, sampling their
intimate chat with a friend,
many, varied delights.
have an intense game of Scrabble with a relative, or to
Beer is always a good
Book now - Tel: 01730 892107 From 1st - 23rd December
DINNER MENU - £29.95 Chef’s homemade Spicy Caramelized Onion Soup Prawn & Crab Stack Crispy Duck & Spring Onion Filo Parcels Stilton, Pear & Walnut Salad Sliced Roast Turkey with Bacon & Chipolata, Seasonal Stuffing, Vegetables and Accompaniments Pan Fried Medallions of Beef in French Mustard, Brandy & Cream Sauce, served with Parsnip Mash and Seasonal Vegetables
BLUE
Poached Salmon Supreme with Duchesse Potato & Watercress Sauce N N I L L
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Choice of Desserts & Coffee
Also LUNCH MENU - £21.95
Thee Bluee Belll Inn,, Westt Lisss GU33 3 6JE
little wonder that we British
a plethora of good pubs which
starting point for a pub. Why
meet new people with a
not try a new local ale for a
shared love of propping up
change - they might well just
the bar and singing “And it’s
surprise you - or if ale is
ney, no, never!” as loud as
really not your thing, sample
they can - pubs can provide
a local cider?
the perfect setting for each scenario.
Great pub food is always brilliant to share with family or
Essentially, you really don’t
friends particularly after a long
need me to inspire you to try
walk through the countryside,
a couple of new pubs this
in the bracing, wintry air.
Christmas. And if you do, then
Whether you want a good,
you’ll have to catch me in
hearty sausage and mash or
person - I’ll be down the pub!
paté on toast, Petersfield’s
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pubs are able to make you go crackers over their delicious Christmas menus.
CHRISTMAS MENU Available throughout the month of December, along with our winter menu
STARTERS Homemade Duck & Armagnac Pate £6.5 with melba toast Smoked Pigeon Breast, Roquefort & Rocket Salad £7 with a tangy orange dressing
MAIN COURSES
Froxfield Hampshire GU32 1BD 01730 827293 www.trooperinn.com PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR FULL INFORMATION
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Fresh Fish of the Day - Market Price Spinach, Chestnut & Mushroom Filo Tart £13 served with tomato & ginger coulis Roasted Pheasant £14 half a pheasant, slow roasted and served with a spiced redcurrant & cranberry chutney and a light Port sauce Sliced Stuffed Free Range Turkey Breast £13 sausagemeat, sage & onion stuffing served with fresh gravy (main courses are served with a complimentary selection of vegetables)
PUDDINGS Tangerine & Cranberry Cream Pot £5.5 SarahsMumPauline's Individual Christmas Pudding £5.5 with your choice of either cream, ice cream or custard (please allow approx. 20 mins)
Thee Masterr Robert n att Buriton Inn Lett uss takee thee hasslee outt off Christmas,, relax,, enjoy y and d comee celebratee Christmass att Thee Masterr Robertt Inn n where a warm m welcomee awaitss you. u withh ourr mouth-watering g selection n off Lunch, Lett uss temptt you Party y and d Christmass Day y Menus. w being g taken n soo book k early y too avoid d disappointment. Bookingss now Livee entertainmentt every y Friday y and d Saturday y throughoutt December k a party y forr 10 0 peoplee orr moree and d thee organiserr goess free. Book
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Thee Risingg Sun Ipingg Road,, Milland,, Nrr Liphook,, Hampshire,, GU300 7NA. 7 Tell 014288 7411 347
Pre Christmas Lunch and Supper Set Menu Three Courses £19.95 Children £12.95
By Pre-ordered Reservation Only; £5 Deposit per Person Starters Butternut Squash Soup with Warm Bread Roll Chestnut, Leek & Mushroom Tartlet with Leaf Salad Chicken Liver Pate with Grape Chutney & Toasted Brioche Smoked Salmon with Horseradish Cream, Endive & Lemon Mains Roast Turkey Crown, Sausage & Bacon Roulade, Chestnut Stuffing, Cranberry Jus Braised Beef in Port and Mushroom Sauce Grilled Salmon with Sorrel & Vermouth Sauce Pumpkin & Ricotta Lasagna Verdi (V) All Dishes Served With Roast Potatoes & Parsnips and a Selection of Other Vegetables Desserts Today’s Selection of Handmade Puddings Local Ice Creams or Rich Figgy Pudding with Brandy Sauce
Sauternes (125ml) £4.75; Fullers London Porter (500ml) £3.20 (great with chocolate!)
or Cheese English & French Cheese Board (including Stilton!) with a selection of crackers & biscuits, grapes, celery, apple & pickle (Dessert + Cheese £4.00 extra) Taylor’s Reserve Port (50ml) £3.00
Coffee & Minced Pie (Complimentary)
Martell VS (25ml) £2.25; Remy Martin VSOP (25ml) £3.50
CHRISTMAS PARTY LUNCH & DINNER MENU
The White Horse
From 1st to 24th December - £21.00 per person
Starters PHEASANT CONSOMMÉ with paysanne of vegetables MIXED SEAFOOD VOL-AU-VENT with tomato and cardamom sauce GRILLED GOAT’S CHEESE set on toasted walnuts, lentils du puy and mixed leaves dressed with white truffle oil DUCK & PINK PEPPERCORN PATÉ with toast and orange & whisky chutney
Main Courses
East Street, Rogate, West Sussex GU31 5EA THE
WHITE HART INN South Harting, GU31 5QB
Tel:01730 825355 Ask us about our
CHRISTMAS DAY MENU
£49.50 per person TRADITIONAL ROAST TURKEY pork & chestnut stuffing, bacon wrapped chipolatas, home-made cranberry sauce and a selection of vegetables Desserts VENISON STEAK TRADITIONAL HOME-MADE with a redcurrant reduction, Dauphinoise potatoes CHRISTMAS PUDDING with brandy sauce and parsnip crisps MULLED WINE POACHED PEARS PAN-SEARED GRESSINGHAM DUCK BREAST with cinnamon ice-cream with fondant potatoes and port & red wine jus STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING GRILLED SALMON FILLET with toasted walnut caramel sauce with lemon grass braised fennel, sautéed potatoes SELECTION of BRITISH & FRENCH CHEESE and tarragon sauce with fresh fruit and biscuits WILD MUSHROOMS in MADEIRA en CROUTE followed by COFFEE and MINCE PIES with champagne sauce
A non-refundable deposit of £5 per person for the Christmas Party Lunch & Dinner menu and £10 per person for Christmas Day Lunch
Pre-Christmas Dining at the
IZAAK K WALTON Enjoy Four Courses for only
£15.95! From 1st December to 24th December inclusive. Served daily 12.00-2.00pm and 7.00-9.00pm
Homemade Chicken Liver Paté with warm Toast Stilton & Garlic Stuffed Mushrooms Prawns wrapped in Smoked Salmon and dusted with Paprika Winter Vegetable Soup with Croutons
Starters
Main Courses
Traditional Roast Turkey with all the trimmings Herb-crusted Rack of Lamb with Mint Jelly Poached Salmon Steak with Hollandaise Sauce Two generous slices of Roast Sirloin of Beef Mediterranean Vegetable Crumble
Christmas Pudding with Brandy Sauce or Rum Butter Fresh Fruit Meringue with Ice Cream Desserts Very Sherry Raspberry Trifle with Cream Sticky Toffee Pudding with Whipped Cream 3 Cheeses with Biscuits and Grapes
Coffee and Mints Call now to book
High Street, East Meon - Tel: 01730 823252
Christmas Menu To Start
Home made Butternut Squash Soup with Nutmeg (V) Traditional Oak Smoked Scottish Salmon with Prawn Cocktail Salad Creamy Garlic Mushrooms in Puff Pastry (V) Game Terrine with Salad Garnish and Chutney
Available lunchtime and evenings from 3rd to 24th December for tables of 4 or more.
Main Course Scottish Salmon En Croute with Creamed Leeks Pithivier of Golden Cross Goats Cheese in Fresh Herbs (V) Roast Turkey with all the Traditional Trimmings Braised Lamb Shank on Honeyed Root Vegetables All Served with a Selection of Fresh Seasonal Vegetables
Puddings Christmas Pudding with Brandy Custard White Chocolate Mousse with Cranberry and Orange Compote Mulled Wine Jelly with Vanilla Ice Cream A Selection of English Farmhouse Cheeses Coffee and Mince Pie
Pre-order only. To book, please phone Trudy on
01730 821333
£19.95
The Sun Inn London Road, Rake GU33 7PQ
Tel. 01730 892115 UNDER GREAT NEW MAGAGEMENT!
Christmas Menu - until 24th Dec (WE ARE ALSO OPEN ON CHRISTMAS DAY - PLEASE ASK)
Starters
Tomato, chilli and basil Soup Ballottine of Chicken on a salad of lambs lettuce and a grain mustard sauce Warm fillet of Gravlax salmon on truffled crushed new potatoes and red pepper dressing
Main Courses
Traditional Roast Turkey with all the trimmings Roasted Breast of Goose on a basil potato puree served with a chestnut chutney and red wine sauce Pan fried fillet of Seabass on a warm salad of egg noodles served with bok choy and sunblushed tomatoes with wild rocket oil Sunblushed tomatoes, baby spinach and lemon risotto topped with a mozzarella and coriander dressing
Desserts
Baked dark Chocolate and Raspberry Tart served with a Lemon Grass Ice cream A selection of Fig and Brandy, white chocolate and baileys and Christmas pudding ice creams served in a brandy snap basket Selection of Cheese and Biscuits, Followed by Coffee and Petit Fours
£25 per head - pre-booking only
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A3 Tunnel Update The main phases at the north end are: The diversion of traffic onto part of the Boundless-Thursley
time. There will be a 50mph speed limit, also for safety reasons, and also enforced with cameras.
Link Road is underway; the
The viewing platform
Under way! The pre-tunnel works are now well under way both north and south of Hindhead despite the mixed weather. Here is the latest news from the Highways Agency and Balfour Beatty, the project engineers
road has been temporarily
Visitor Centre
widened from a single track
The site offices include a visitor
road with passing places to a
centre area displaying posters,
road with one lane in each
drawings, photographs and
direction to allow construction
models of the scheme. The
of the Hindhead Hill and
centre is open Monday-
Greensand Way underpasses.
Saturdays from 9.00am to
Completion of the
4.00pm. Staff will be available
underpasses is expected by
in the centre to answer
February 2008 when traffic will
questions on Tuesdays
be switched back onto the A3,
10.00am-noon, or Thursdays
with a single lane running past
2.00pm-4.00pm, or at other
the site office access, and a
times by appointment.
small section of contra-flow just before the start of the existing
Viewing Platform
single carriageway at
A viewing platform overlooking
Boundless Road.
the north portal has been built.
o the north of the Devils
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embankment earthworks. This
Punchbowl, the A3 traffic
had to be done very carefully to
the scheme opens, will tie in
the route is quite steep, may be
has been diverted onto a single
avoid polluting the
the new northbound
slippery in wet weather, and is
carriageway along the line of
watercourses.
carriageway.
not suitable for wheelchairs. It
the Boundless-Thursley link
At the south end of the
The final phase, shortly before
For safety reasons there is a
Please note that the last part of
is about 1.4 kilometres (7/8ths
road. This is to allow the
scheme work is progressing
40mph speed limit, enforced by
of a mile) from the National
building of the underpasses at
well on the Canadian Memorial
safety cameras.
Trust car park. There is a plan
Greensand Way and Hindhead
Underpass. During the school
Hill in the most efficient way.
holidays a temporary access for
contra-flow work will last until
the Royal School off Hazel
July 2008 during the
Boundless Valley has
Grove, and a new permanent
construction of the Canadian
Contact: Ian Whyte,
concentrated on constructing
access for Amesbury School
Memorial Underpass. The
Community Relations
the earthworks for Boundless
from High Pitfold north, were
contra-flow now operates on
Manager, A3 Hindhead Project
Road and cutting out the
created.
the northbound carriageway
Office, Portsmouth Road,
Work at the north end in
northern entrances ready for
A feature of the early works
At the south end, the present
for another one near the south portal.
and will be switched to the
Thursley. Surrey GU8 6NN.
tunnelling. Both sites have
has been the relocation of
southbound carriageway in the
Tel: 01428 686000. Email
required a substantial number
wildlife including dormice,
New Year.
ian.whyte@bbcel.co.uk
of â&#x20AC;&#x153;soil nailsâ&#x20AC;? to create
adders, grass snakes, slow-
At the same time traffic will
steepened slopes.
worms and lizards, and the
be diverted to the west of the
discovery of archaeological
A3 around the site of the
Planned Timetable in 2008
finds.
Hammer Lane underpass.
Construct Hammer Lane underpass and junction.
A soil nail is created by drilling a small hole into the ground and filling it with
Once the underpass is finished
cement grout and a reinforcing
Traffic management
later in the year most of the
bar. The face of the cutting is
During the day, traffic will
traffic management will be
then covered with mesh and
always be allowed to flow in
removed until mid 2009 when
steel plates bolted onto the
both directions throughout the
the new road layout from the
reinforcing bar. For the
four-year construction period.
Spaniard to Hazel Grove will be
permanent works special
Details of the latest traffic
built.
honeycomb-style boxes are
management layout are
During these phases either
then fixed and filled with
available from Highways
single lane running or contra-
topsoil.
Agency newsletters, available
flow on the dual carriageway
online at:
will be needed for safety
building the embankment in
http://www.highways.gov.uk/roa
reasons to protect open
Boundless Copse by laying a
ds/projects/3836.aspx).
excavations, and allow
drainage blanket over the
Significant changes will be
sufficient working space to
ground to allow the springs to
announced in newsletters and
proceed in an efficient manner,
seep out without affecting the
on local radio.
across one carriageway at a
Work has also started on
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Construct north half of Canadian Memorial Underpass. Construct Hazel Grove overbridge. Start tunnelling from both north and south portals. Start main earthworks in Boundless Valley. Construct Blackhanger Underpass. Open Greensand Way to local traffic. 2011 Planned opening of new A3 http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/ projects/13916.aspx
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Community
Make new friends
local branch of the Embroiderers’
people aged between 16 and 22,
Guild making Christmas
to encourage youngsters to get
decorations for Barentin Hospital.
to know our European
We are especially keen to
neighbours better.
promote youth links: the
A quarterly newsletter helps
Barentin Music School has
to keep everyone in touch and
made several visits to
up to date. Local social and
Petersfield has two twin towns, but many people don’t know what twinning means. Muriel Kent explains
Churcher’s College, and gave
fund-raising events include
two joint concerts with
barbecues, bring-and-buy sales,
Churcher’s musicians in the
and car treasure-hunts. These
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Wahrendorf in July. The
Spring; and this year Churcher’s
events cement friendships
friendships made by these
organised its third highly
between members.
friends, enjoy visits to the twin
twinning exchanges encourage
successful exchange with the
town, and learn more of the
individuals and families to cross
Wahrendorf Mariengymnasium
people of all ages to get
culture of another country and
the Channel frequently on
when musicians from the
involved. We invite everyone to
private visits.
German school came too; and
find out more about the
winning offers endless opportunities to make new
its people. Petersfield is lucky to
The aim of the PTA is for
our junior footballers are
Petersfield Twinning
civilly linked to Barentin in
putting people in touch with
planning activities with
Association, by contacting us or
Normandy since 1992 and
like-minded souls, and we
Wahrendorf youth.
by visiting our website.
have two twin towns, having been
Wahrendorf, Germany, since 2006.
We see ourselves as enablers,
encourage groups, societies,
We hope that twinning will
and schools to make links.
increase work placements for
Contact: Muriel Kent, Hon
Association (PTA) enjoys
These have included sports
young people on both sides of
Secretary, Petersfield
biennial group visits in each
fixtures; an exhibition in Barentin
the Channel. While two
Twinning Association,
direction: the French visited
by the Photographic Society;
Petersfield teenagers were
Rowans, Reservoir Lane,
Petersfield in April this year,
meetings between artists and
working in Wahrendorf this
Petersfield, GU32 2HZ. Tel:
and a party of 27 went from
their German counterparts; and
summer, a German
01730 302862. Web:
here to Wahrendorf in August.
a visit by Wahrendorf painters to
undergraduate spent nine
www.petersfieldtwinningassoc
In 2008 we plan a three-day
the summer PAINT trail with a
weeks at a local travel agency.
iation.org.uk
visit to Barentin at the end of
view to establishing a similar
In 2008 the association plans
May, and a week’s visit from
event in their own town; and the
to launch a travel bursary for
The Petersfield Twinning
Friendship grows In August, 27 members of the Twinning Association made their biennial visit to Warendorf where they were warmly welcomed by their German counterparts
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exist between our two towns. Warendorf & Petersfield are similar in many ways, both are historic market towns with beautiful old buildings, with much of interest for both young
he hugely enjoyable week
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and old. One visit is not enough
of activities included trips
as there is so much to see and
around the region to Munster,
do, and most of our visitors are
Dusseldorf where the group
already planning their itinerary
visited the State Parliament in
for the next trip in 2009!
session. There was also time to explore Warendorf, to sightsee,
The Warandorfers will visit Petersfield next year.
shop and enjoy the excellent coffee and the absolutely
If you want any more
delicious cakes!
information, or wish to join
The Petersfield Association
families, £6 for individuals or
‘Friendship Tree’, to their
£25 for companies), please
Warendorf counterparts, while
visit the Association website
three former Mayors of
www.petersfieldtwinningassoc
Petersfield – Vaughan Clarke,
iation.org.uk or telephone
Bob Ayer and Kenneth Hick –
01730 301925 or 302862
presented a Petersfield flag to the Warendorf Burgermeister, Petersfield Deputy Mayor Vaughan Clarke and Warendorf’s Mayor, Jochen Walter, with the Friendship Tree
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the Association (only £10 for
presented a Robinia, the
Jochen Walter. These gifts highlighted the close ties that
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Back our town If you care about the future of Petersfield and the surrounding area, join The Petersfield Society
project to erect 17 historic blue
voice for the public to influence
plaques around the town.
both the route and the
There are ample opportunities to get involved in debating local issues and to maintain an influence on municipal authorities and the local press. In the debating
construction materials used, thus minimising noise pollution. • South Downs National Park (2000s) – strong support for the inclusion of Petersfield.
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Crafts movement.”
Society depends entirely on the
currently improving our contact
year to hear lectures on local
Key issues in 2007-8 are:
active participation of its
with members so that they are
issues which relate to its aims.
• to increase our membership
members, who attend the lectures
more directly involved in decision-
he Petersfield Society is vibrant. It meets five times a
and decision-making process, the
David Jeffery concluded: “We are
These are: the preservation and
through greater public
free and contribute to the
making, as we rely upon their
enhancement of Petersfield past,
awareness of our aims for the
Newsletter and website
expertise and enthusiasm.
present and future, with special
local area.
(www.petersfieldsociety.org.uk).
reference to planning issues. David Jeffery, the Chairman, told Life in Petersfield: “Our vision is to achieve a high quality environment, safeguarded and
The Society has been influential
experience within our chosen
in many important issues over the
support the public who are seeking
fields of action.
years concerning the built and
some form of pedestrianisation but
rural environment, such as:
would like to see a public meeting
• Future Planning for Petersfield
on the issue, and we are definitely
• to enhance our influence for the benefit of the town.
improved by local planning policies and secured by the active
“We are moving to a more pro-
• to gain even more expertise and
The Society has always taken a
active position. We generally
(1980s) – the Society’s
pro-South Downs National Park –
document “Petersfield - The
but with the original, designated
keen interest in local planning,
Future” – served as a blueprint
boundary!”
design, environment and character.
for later Local Plans, with its
and voluntary sectors to achieve
Its scrutiny of planning documents
complete survey of the town as
To join The Petersfield
our aims. Edward Barnsley was the
complements the official work of
it emerged from a rural to a
Society, contact the
founder Chairman in 1945 and
the local councils, and it aims to
semi-urban stage of its
Membership Secretary, David
there are still close links with
represent local people who wish to
development.
Carrick, on 01730 264836
design and historic building values
air their concerns on such
which originate from the Arts and
subjects. The Society initiated the
involvement of local people. “We work with the public, private
• A3 Petersfield and Liphook
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bypass (1990s) –– providing a
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Charity: Rowans Hospice
Palliative people
Factfile: 1984 Cllr John Marshall, Lord Mayor of Portsmouth, expresses need for a hospice 1988 Charitable company established. Over £5 million raised in 5 years and site
Since the Rowans Hospice opened in 1994 it has cared for thousands of patients with life-limiting illnesses, and their families and friends. Here’s the brief story of unsung heroes in the local community
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he Rowans Hospice
volunteers (who give over
provides specialist
28,000 hours of support).
palliative care to people over
The Rowans needs to find
donated. 1993-94 Public appeal clears capital cost and helps launch. hoists in all bedrooms; new Jacuzzi baths and greater
the age of 16. Palliative care
revenues of nearly £3 million a
outreach into the community
refers to those people whose
year to meet the running costs.
with a ‘Hospice at Home’
condition no longer responds to
In the latest accounts for
service from April.
treatment.
2006/07, the Hospice reports
The fundraising team of
October 1994 The Rowans Hospice opened by HRH Princess Alexandra 2002 Extension opened for physiotherapy, occupational therapy and family rooms.
total income for the year at
Lesley Woodcock and Ali
discriminatory and open to all,
more than £4.2 million, with
George, 12 Support Groups,
whatever their race, colour,
£1.8 million in legacies (45%),
Hospice Travel and other
estimable charity in Petersfield
creed, disability, age, financial
£812,000 in donations from
community groups are behind a
and Liss by stepping forward as
means, ethnicity, and whether
‘thousands
they are asylum-seekers or
of
Rowans Hospice is non-
host of
a leader or member of new locally based Support Group. The Rowans Hospice currently
prisoners. The aims are to
has 12 fantastic volunteer
create an environment which
fundraising Support Groups
supports all people
which collectively
referred to the hospice
contribute on average
– physically, spiritually, emotionally and
£100,000 each year to
socially – and to
this worthwhile cause.
“provide an
If readers are
atmosphere which
interested in volunteering their
promotes rest and
time either locally or at
recuperation”.
the Hospice they should
As well as 19 in-
contact Pauline Wallace or
patient rooms, the hospice has two rooms for
Pat Bryant on
relatives to stay the night; a
023 9223 8538. Ruth White, the Hospice’s first
day care centre (where the manager is Tracy Jeffery); and
events in
matron and now the Chief Executive, says: “This work
a team of specialist doctors and
individuals’ (19%),
nurses, physiotherapists,
and over £720,000 from an
such as a five-day tour of
gives me immense pleasure and
occupational and
NHS grant (17%). However,
Seville from 13 to 17 November,
is compounded further in that I
complementary therapists;
income from legacies is not
the Sponsored Santa Stroll in
share this experience with so
psychologists and social
guaranteed and the Hospice
Queen Elizabeth Park (see
many people in the joy of
workers; a chaplain; a host of
makes careful provision for
News, page 6), the Mad March
providing a service that is
support staff; and 392
income and expenditure.
Hair, the Abseil Challenge in
worthwhile and respected in
April 2008, plus sky diving and
the community.”
Plans for 2008 include: improvements to the day
a variety of fetes, fairs and
centre; the creation of more
entertainments.
therapy rooms and “a resource
Ruth White, from Matron to Chief Executive
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the next 12 months,
The Hospice’s catchment area
Contact: The Rowans Hospice, Purbrook Heath Road,
centre where patients, carers
has recently been extended to
Purbrook, Waterlooville. Tel:
and the bereaved can
Petersfield and Liss, and now
023 9225 0001. Web:
experience a range of
includes more than 650,000
www.rowanshospice.co.uk
therapeutic interventions.”
people. So, as well as donations
Further improvements include
and volunteering at the
air-conditioning and overhead
hospice, you can help this
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Property
Four-bedroom house in Montague Gardens close to the Heath in Petersfield, with Jacobs & Hunt
Popular Petersfield Local agents take a positive view of the housing market in the Petersfield area for the rest of this year and into 2008
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simply to supply and demand.
many different reasons. These
many more people wishing to
include the good schooling
come to Petersfield than there
available and the prospect of
are those that wish to leave.”
etersfield remains a popular place to live for
For some years now there are
life style change from the hustle
As for the Home Improvement
and bustle of London or a much
Plans (HIPs) he believes that
larger town or City. As a result,
they “have just muddied the
house prices in the area are
waters. HIP providers are not
holding up, and will continue to
very quick and the debate as to
do so, although stock is
whether a personal search will
the Petersfield Branch Manager,
generally in short supply.
be accepted by a purchaser’s
reported a less buoyant market
levels of sales are still strong
solicitor has not been fully
than in the spring and summer,
and are still registering plenty
resolved.”
but he did not expect it.
of fresh potential buyers which
James Dodds, at Jacobs &Hunt, said that the local property market “remains
Prospects for next year? “Still
A detached, 4 bedroom house in Stanton Road, Petersfield, with a 32ft living room and refitted kitchen - asking price £450,000 with Haart
“Traditionally the
“However, we are finding the
bodes well! In fact it is
good,” and has not been
good but without the runaway
Spring/Summer months tend to
probably a good time to buy, as
affected by the brief tremors
price increases we have
be the busiest. The slowdown
properties that have been on
experienced in the last two or
we have seen is probably due
the market for a little while are
Northern Rock and the financial
three years,” James Dodds
to the ever-increasing taxes
having to reduce their asking
markets. “That is a genuine
concluded.
this Autumn surrounding
people are paying and the
prices and be more realistic to
answer - not just an agent
recent interest rate rises during
attract buyers.”
trying to talk it up! This is due
the summer.
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At Haart Andrew Woodcraft,
While the stock level is all
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right, Andrew Woodcraft
in the business, especially
However, what is available is
place their property on the
reckons it is “probably down
technology, will keep his branch
becoming more competitively
market. He cites the wide
about 20% from where we
of Haart busy.
priced and well presented, with
choice of HIP providers and the
homeowners now prepared to
competitive prices offered.
would want it. There does seem
“The potential increase in
He summed up: “I feel
to be a lack of four and five
value next year may not be as
consider offers on properties
bedroom houses around and
great as this year but I’m
particularly from buyers able to
confident that an element of
this may be due to the negative
confident we will have a good
proceed with the purchase.”
normality will return to what
media coverage of the HIPs
year. Therefore the public should
earlier in the summer.
be pleased that, if they wish to
change in the market include:
sellers market. There has been,
sell, there should be plenty of
the steady increase in interest
and under the current planning
buyers looking around.”
rates and the growing number
regime will continue to be, a
of homeowners who are coming
high demand from local
“But we are finding our supplier – “Hips.co.uk” – very efficient. To be honest the HIPS
Factors contributing to the
has been in recent years, a
are having very little effect in
Keats have noticed a change
out of very competitive, fixed
applicants and commuters
the market, as the number of
in the volume of activity. “The
rate mortgages and noticing a
looking for properties in
properties that have them is
urgency that was apparent
significant increase in their
Petersfield and the surrounding
still relatively low, and the
earlier on in the year, and
monthly outgoings. “Whilst
area and we may see a levelling
buyers do not seem interested
remained until August, has now
these issues have injected an
out in terms of the demand and
in seeing them.
been replaced by an element of
element of concern, clearly the
supply for a while.”
uncertainty and a lower level of
possibility of interest rate
Financial Adviser in the office
confidence brought about by
stability, as quoted in some
Haart, 01730 265266
(Natasha Beckerson) has
the current national financial
quarters, and the possibility of
Jacobs & Hunt,
started to see several of the
situation,” said Darren
a reduction will encourage
01730 262744
major mortgage lenders reduce
Lambert, Branch Manager
some confidence to return to
Keats, 01730 262826
their fixed rate mortgages
Residential Sales.
the market place.”
recently, which should help!”
“Whilst there is still a strong
“On a brighter note, my
Life
Darren Lambert does not
In 2008, he is confident that
core of potential purchasers
believe HIPs have made a
the desirability of the area and
searching for properties, the
significant impact on the
his firm’s continued investment
choice is not as wide as before.
decision of homeowners to
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Gardening
Top tips for best bulbs
format as you can choose the
4. Nuts about Narcissus
biggest and best bulbs. With
Narcissi or Daffodils are great
Hyacinths you will need to buy
for naturalising in the garden if
the prepared type as these
you have the space. But if you
have had special treatment to
don’t they are just as good in
allow them to flower early.
pots. Probably the most popular variety for pots is
It’s that time of year when the garden is lacking colour. It’s good to have some fun at this point and turn your hand to creating a display of flower that all your friends and family envy. So, after pruning, digging over and clearing space, start to plant your bulbs. Here are a few tips to help you on your way to be the talk of the street
3. Tremendous tulips
“Narcisus Tete a Tete”. You can
Tulips look stunning in the
also plant this variety in the
borders of any garden large or
garden in clumps in the fore
small. There is such a choice of
ground to give stunning results.
colour and form it is sometimes hard to make your mind up.
So enjoy planting bulbs and
Try some of the sure-fire
the wonderful blooms they
1. Buying bulbs
Store bulbs in a cool dry place
winners this year: Tulipa
produce. If you have any
Spring flowering bulbs are
in paper bags to try and stop
“Queen of the night” Tulipa
questions about your gardens
available from garden centres
moisture getting in and causing
“Lilly Chic” Tulipa “Yellow
please don’t hesitate to
and you can buy them in two
them to sweat – which will
Spider”.
contact Hillier.
main ways: loose or pre-
produce poor-flowering.
Tulips also look great in pots.
packaged. Both ways have their
Use good quality bulb fibre
Christopher Rawlings Garden Centre Manager
advantages. For instance, loose
2. What bulbs do well indoors
compost and you will have
bulbs can be individually chosen
You can grow many types
great results, but don’t plant
and graded. Pre-packaged bulbs
indoors, such as Hyacinths or
too early as they can suffer
have been graded and are of a
Paperwhites. These are great
from frost damage. Store in a
saleable quality.
performers and give a good
cool dry place and plant in
scent in the home. Probably the
early winter. Why not try Tulipa
generally the larger the bulb
best way to buy both of these
“Virichic” or Tulipa “Red Riding
the better its performance.
types of bulb is in the loose
Hood”?
Bulb size is important, as
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Hillier, Liss. 01730 892196 Life
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Garden Waste Collection Service Join East Hampshire District Council’s collection scheme and your garden waste will be collected and recycled for just £18 per year, and £9 per year for additional sacks What will you get for your money? • A reusable, durable woven plastic sack with your initial licence. • Fortnightly kerbside collection of garden waste placed in the sack. • A licence showing your personal reference number and the expiry date for the year of service for which you have paid. Note: The service is £9 to residents who receive council tax or housing benefits. Your collected garden waste is turned into Pro-Grow organic soil conditioner, which is available to buy at most of our Household Waste Recycling Centres, or at www.pro-grow.co.uk
Contact Customer Services for an application form on 01730 234295 or visit www.easthants.gov.uk
Advertisement Feature: East Hampshire District Council
Furniture helpline boosts re-use in East Hampshire If you can’t resist those pre-Christmas and New Year sales in the furniture stores, you might be lucky enough to replace your furniture even though the old items are still in good condition.
varied – washing machines,
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beds, chests of drawers, tables
would urge anyone with
id you know that
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success rate, with around 90%
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of furniture and 75% of white
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Arts Signed: Party House Records. Based: Petersfield. Education: The Petersfield School. Van: Old minibus. Influences: Arctic Monkeys, Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Next step: Getting ready to release more in 2008. AOB: We take it seriously but it is not the only thing we do – one of us is an estate agent! Contact: www.splendideddie.co.uk, www.myspace.com/splendideddie Waking Jayne Band members: Kelly Briggs (vocals), Vincent Hearn (guitar), Nick Connors (drums), Andrew Above: Young bands and fans gather at Butserfest. Below: Healthy refreshments from the smoothie van
Fossey (bass guitar). Describe music:
Best bands
Bl**dy, awesome, rock. Signed: No. Based: Petersfield/Liss. Education: The Petersfield School.
Armed with a press pass, shades and wellies, Life in Petersfield’s Lucy Coates and Cat Jarman spent a day at the base of Butser Hill interviewing some of the most talented young performers in the area
Van: Many small Peugeots combined provide enough space for all their kit. Influences:
Alternative Car Park
heard of us so there are
Band members: Si (guitar),
no expectations which is
Mark (vocals), Stoo (bass
really good.” Their claim
2008 plus recording and
in next 6 months.
guitar) and Jerry (drums).
to fame is that they played
releasing new album.
AOB: Many of the band are
Describe music briefly: Brutal,
Glastonbury – albeit on the
Advice: Pull your finger out.
trained musicians. Kelly is
heavy, (hairy?) rock.
back of a van resulting in them
AOB: Big thank you to Steve’s
reading music at Chichester
Signed: No.
getting escorted off the
Mum who has invested a vast
University and Vince is reading
Based: Liss.
premises, thus avoiding all the
amount of money into the band
music at the Academy of
Education: Midhurst Grammar
exit queues!
for next year, to Tony Scott for
Contemporary Music in
School.
Contact: www.acp-online.net,
designing the website, and
Guildford. Starting off as a
Van: An ex-Treloar School van,
www.myspace.com/alternativec
‘Black Dave’ for doing the
covers band, they are now
she is called ‘The Mama Cass’
arpark
artwork and t-shirt designs.
writing their own music,
They have already released
possibly inspired by the love,
and came with a free sticker
Blondie, Jon Bon Jovi. Next step: 6-track EP released
saying “We’ve seen the lions at
Vallenbrosa
their first album and music
which blossomed between Kelly
Longleat”, which was an
Band members: Steve Stidolph,
video and headlined the Watch
and Vince almost from the
absolute bonus!
Russell Smith, Dave Baler, Mike
Out Festival in Italy.
moment they met last year.
Influences: Rage Against the
Taylor-Stokes, Simon McCarthy.
Contact: www.vallenbrosa.com,
Butserfest provided much
Machine, Led Zeppelin, Black
Describe music:
www.myspace.com/vallenbrosa
excitement as people ordered
Sabbath.
Old skool metal.
official
CDs for the first time as well as
Next step: Releasing new stuff
Signed: No – turned it down as
in 2008 including video, then
want to do it on their own.
Splendid Eddie
described the experience as
UK tour and loads of local gigs
Based: Petersfield.
Band members: Kyle Mckiver,
“Awesome! But really strange.”
to support it.
Education:
Sam Marsh, Joe Marsh, Adam
Contact:
AOB: Jerry used to be a
The Petersfield School.
Senior, Barney Town, Adam
www.wakingjayne.com,
classical clarinet player. Within
Influences: Pink Floyd, Eagles,
Hadwen.
www.myspace.com/wakingjayne1
the band, they can also play
Guns and Roses, Metallica
Describe music: Kind of like
classical guitar, flute and
Next step: Touring around
The Police but a modern,
saxophone! “No one has really
Canada and the USA in March
heavier, poppy version.
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asking for autographs. Kelly
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Advertisement Feature: Jacobs and Hunt
How times change
that Be” thought I would be better suited talking to Nelson and I opened their new office in Old Portsmouth. Two years on, the opportunity to return to Petersfield and join Jacobs
I first remember Petersfield when, as a spotty naval recruit, in uniform, freezing outside the railway station, I waited for transport to Leydene and HMS Mercury.
& Hunt Estate Agents came when Associate Director Anne Fenton retired. I am now glad to be back to good old
OW TIMES CHANGE over
H
done that”, (T-shirts were not
fashioned values, good
45 years, little did I think
available then!) I joined
manners and Independency!
then that I would be here in a
Waitrose when late night
different life. My time in the
shopping was one night ‘til
Senior Service was when we
eight, Saturdays ‘til four, and
had a fleet, not just plastic
Sundays were for Church.
boats, when we went abroad
HOW TIMES CHANGE!
for eighteen months, not eighteen days, when wives and
I remember telling my wife
James Dodds, Director of Tim Spencer – now at Jacobs and Hunt
Jacobs & Hunt Estate Agents adds that they are delighted to have the many years of local
“Viewing Figures” and when
experience and market
you wore your “Sunday Best”
knowledge that Tim has been
to go and ask for a mortgage
able to bring with him, and apart from those two vital
girl friends waited for your
that I was halving my salary
of £5,000. My first experience
arrival back. HOW TIMES
and going to be an Estate
of Estate Agency in Petersfield
qualities he has also brought
CHANGE. Then discipline,
Agent! That was nearly thirty
was in 1999 when I joined a
with him an old fashioned
camaraderie, good manners,
years ago, when there were no
now competitor in The Square.
North Country sense of
core values, and respect were
corporates, no banks or
I loved every minute of it,
humour, and a love of strong
the norm. HOW TIMES
insurance firms beating you
sadly though after five
Yorkshire Tea!
CHANGE . Having “been there,
over the head with “Targets”,
successful years, the “Powers
HOW TIMES CHANGE.
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Arts
Fantastical art Local artist SHARON HURST has lived in Petersfield with her son, Justin, and husband, Nick, for 16 years and has exhibited her artwork in the USA, France and more locally. Lucy Coates reports
T
he artwork of Sharon Hurst
modern set entitled ‘Bored’,
is original and engaging,
‘Whatever’ and ‘Bovered’ each
giving the viewer the distinct
with their own ipod, baggy
feeling that they have wandered
trousers and messy hairstyle.
into a recent dream or onto the
Sharon does demonstrations
page of a fantasy novel. She
to art societies across the south
uses bright colours and
at which she starts a painting
beautiful skill to depict various
from scratch to show how the
rushing around my head and I
subjects. Sharon said, “I was
layers and characters evolve.
had never managed to put them
always a big fan of Tolkein when
However, she is also a keen ‘free
onto paper.
I was growing up and the
form’ jeweller, the results of
images of the Rohan travelling
which are absolutely stunning
I began painting again. I started
across beautiful landscapes with
and totally original because she
with landscapes and pretty
their braids, manes and leather
uses fossils and petrified wood
pictures and only relatively
have always stayed with me.
as the centre-pieces which are
recently did I feel I had enough
Windsor Road.
held in place by beads – each
skill to start being able to
And on Monday 26 November:
individually hand sewn.
achieve the images in my head.
Christmas Gifts Sale, 10am-
“There are other influences though. Each painting tells a story, which often originates
Sharon began painting at a
“As soon as I was well enough,
“The feeling that I have finally
9.30pm at Willowmead in Steep
from a myth or legend. I am
young age but was discouraged
managed to achieve my dreams
currently working on Saint
to continue by her dismissive
is phenomenal. I wasted so
Bridget who was tactically
art teacher. She ran her own
much of my life being a human
For more Christmas Fair
canonised because local
business called What A Pickle
doing, rather than a human
dates, please see the local
worshippers refused to give her
making jams, chutneys and
being, so I am glad to have now
diary on pages 54-55
up as an icon when converting
pickles out of local produce.
finally relegated the housework
to the Catholic faith. I have also
And it was not until 15 years
and made painting my number
Contact: Sharon Hurst, 01730
painted subjects such as
ago that she lifted a paintbrush
one priority.”
892662,
Artemis and the Hunter’s
again.
Moon.”
She explained, “I got cancer so
You can see Sharon’s work at a number of exhibitions this
that was a real turning point for
Christmas including:
contemporary edge, indeed
me. I believed I wasn’t going to
Saturday 17th November:
Sharon was recently inspired by
make it and my biggest regret
Christmas Craft Fair, 10am -
her son’s friends to create a
was that I had all these images
4.00pm at The Masonic Hall in
Many of her paintings have a
Marsh.
Sharon@willowmead.org.uk, www.willowmead.org.uk Life
Local arts groups’ news
Much Ado ...
Coleshill or One Tree Books.
participation, that both children
Contact: Vivienne Coleshill,
and adults will love. As well as
Hon. Secretary.
mild Mary and horrid Herod,
Much Ado About Nothing comes to Petersfield in a new edition and PYT enjoy their Christmas show.
01730 821491.
there are some surprising
lion.unicorn@waitrose.com
characters, all helped along by a lively score and PYT’s
he Lion and Unicorn
T
The large and experienced cast
Twinkle Twinkle PYT
Players’ production of
of 22, directed by David
Following the success of PYT’s
Much Ado About Nothing cuts
Francombe, aim to bring you a
Autumn Season, Youth Theatre
performed at The Festival Hall,
the obscure and academic lines
highly enjoyable evening’s
members are now embarking
Petersfield from Thursday 13 –
while preserving the much-
theatre.
on their Christmas production.
Sunday 16 December.
loved wit and vitality.
It will be performed from
Music has been specially
Thursday 8 to Saturday 10
commissioned from TV and film
November at Petersfield Festval
composer, Richard Stubbings.
Hall. Tickets from Vivienne
Follow The Star is an upbeat musical version of the Nativity story, with plenty of opportunity for audience
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infectious energy.
Follow The Star will be
Tickets available from One Tree Books from Monday 19 November.
Life
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What you need to know about Home Information Packs Why have Home Information Packs been introduced?
T
he government is introducing Home
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Clare Dove of MacDonald Oates looks at the introduction of Home Information Packs and what it will mean for home buyers
and selling process by providing
house and details of the heating
all the necessary legal
system, insulation and double
documents at the start of the
glazing).
process when you put your
What does a HIP cost?
house on the market. From the
The total cost of a HIP is in the
10th September 2007 the law
region of £500-£700. This either
requires all homes with three or
has to be paid upfront by sellers
more bedrooms put on the
before marketing their properties
market to have a Home
or finance schemes are available
Information Pack (HIP).
to defer payment until your
What does a HIP contain?
house is sold.
The required documents that
Why should you choose a
must be included in each HIP are:
solicitor to provide your HIP?
An index (i.e. a list of the
HIPs contain a large amount of
contents of the Pack)
complex, legal information and
An Energy Performance
solicitors are best placed to
Certificate
prepare and interpret these
A sale statement (summarising
packs. At MacDonald Oates, we
the terms of the sale)
have already been preparing
Evidence of title (copies of the
HIPs for clients. We believe that a
Land Registry entries or copies
HIP prepared by a solicitor is the
of the relevant title deeds)
right solution for your next sale
Standard searches: a local
as the contents of your pack will
authority search and a drainage
be checked by a qualified lawyer
and water search
and their expertise means that
If the property is leasehold: a
they will know what additional
copy of the lease, information on
information needs to be included
service charges and insurance.
in your pack to help your sale
Other authorised documents can
proceed smoothly.
also be included, such as
A lot of the legal information in
guarantees, warranties, planning
the HIP can be quite technical. If
documents or other searches.
you are thinking of buying a house
What is an Energy Performance
and need assistance interpreting
Certificate?
the contents of the HIP, we will also
An Energy Performance
be able to help you.
Certificate tells prospective
If you need to know more
buyers about the energy
about HIPS or would like us to
efficiency and environmental
prepare a HIP for you please
performance of your home. It has
contact Clare Dove or Jill
to be prepared by an accredited
Williams at our Petersfield office
Energy Assessor who will visit
(01730 268211) or Andrea Dunn
the property to collect relevant
or Karl Smith at our Midhurst
data (including the date of
office (01730 816711).
construction, location of the Legal Life column sponsored by MacDonald Oates Solicitors
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Christmas Food & Competition far north to Hindhead. You can
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order your Christmas turkey
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online or at the shop. and this
Christmas Day & Boxing Day;
service is available to you until
Closed; Thurs 27, 8am-7pm.
15 December (see below for
To shop at Waitrose online or
details where you enter your
www.waitrose.com/branches/
postcode to ensure how to
Tel: 01730 233339
receive delivery).
Life
In the run-up to Christmas you may find that there are times when you are too busy to
COMPETITION
cook for yourself or the family.
Win 2 fabulous Waitrose
So make sure you visit the
Christmas Hampers
excellent range of Waitrose
All food bright and beautiful As we all get ready for Christmas 2007, Waitrose Petersfield has made its own plans to help you keep your cupboards full of goodies
ready meals, such as ‘As good
Life Magazines is thrilled
as going out’ where meals are
that Waitrose, our
home-cooked using all the fresh
distribution partner, has
ingredients available in the
kindly agreed to sponsor
store. Mouth-watering
the Christmas
selections in this range include
competition.
lamb shanks in redcurrant and rosemary, creamy fish pie, and
You can win one of 2
crab and chilli linguine (as well
prizes:
as vegetarian dishes).
1st: The Wonder of
Other lines of ready meals
Christmas Hamper,
include ‘British recipe’ (pies,
worth £99.
casseroles, stews and liver and
2nd: The Joy of Christmas
bacon), ‘Buon Appetito’ (Italian
Hamper, worth £65.
classics), and ‘Easy to cook’. You will find Waitrose price offers on many Christmas goods, and free glasses on loan for your parties (no purchase necessary).
All you have to do is answer three questions about Waitrose and their ‘perfectly balanced’ products:
Waitrose Petersfield, which opened in 1993, offers seasonal
The questions 1. What year did Waitrose
aitrose are proud of their
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December. So watch out for
hampers, from £20 to £150.
specialist staff in wine,
tasting dates, to be advertised in
They make marvellous presents
open in Petersfield?
cheese, meat and fish, and there
the Petersfield store.
or stand-bys for your groaning
2. What are two products
are plans for further tastings in
There is an online service
larder. The Traditional Hamper
in the Traditional
these departments at the end of
which delivers to your door,
(£20) includes mulled wine,
Hamper?
November and in early
around Petersfield itself and as
chocolates, biscuits and fudge.
ÉLANCÉ COMPETITION WINNER
The Feast of Christmas (£150) offers champagne, wine, port,
3. What is the cost of a Feast of Christmas Hamper?
liqueur chocolates, coffee beans and tea, luxury sweets and snacks, biscuits and jams, plus many exotic condiments and sauces. You can also buy hampers online or in-store or by ordering for collection. One way and another Waitrose offer all food bright and beautiful. Christmas Opening times: Winner Veronica Tupman said, “That's really good - I am going to split the prize into four treatments so I can try lots of things I have never done before.” Runners up: Mrs JAC Watkinson; Mrs Rossina Paris. Pictured (l-r): Rachel Davis, Veronica Tupman, Rod Smith
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Send your answers and your contact details to: Life Magazines, 22 High Street, Petersfield, GU32 3JL. Email: info@lifemags.co.uk Terms and conditions Entries must be received by 1 December 2007. One entry per person. The winner will be decided by a draw and announced in the January-February 2008 edition of Life in Petersfield. No cash alternative is available. Employees of Life Magazines Ltd and Waitrose Plc are not allowed to submit entries.
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Sport While the most important
take part, and the club’s family
thing is “to have fun” there are
membership reflects their
also opportunities to: train
desire to get the whole family
with qualified and experienced
involved. Many parents have
coaches; play in matches and
untapped skills, and they can
tournaments; go on tours in the
get involved in organising social
UK and abroad; and attend
events, teams and tournaments.
county assessment centres at Petersfield. The club attracts enough
Young guns under instruction (l - r) Mark Wakeford, Mark Butcher, Alison Butcher, and Rob Litchfield
Fun for all the family Since September 1984, Petersfield Rugby Football Club has attracted a growing number of mini and junior players, both boys and girls. Life in Petersfield learns about the opportunities offered to boys and girls
Women and girls Two girls’ teams (at u-15 and u-
young players to run 19 youth
18) cater for the increasing
teams starting at under-6, in
number of younger women
addition to the four senior XVs.
playing tag and mini rugby
It has a record number of junior
from under 7 and beyond. Up to
county and divisional players.
the age of 12, girls and boys
Apart from PRFC’s Mini Tournament and the Hampshire
play together. The girls have been
County Tournament in
particularly successful in both
February/March, youth rugby is
National 7s and National Cup
non-competitive. Coaching
Competitions, and in gaining
follows the ‘Continuum’
representative honours for the
established by the sport’s
squad’s ambitions.
governing body, the Rugby
The Senior Women’s Rugby
Football Union – a structured
XV play on Sunday afternoons.
approach to teaching the skills
This has provided a focus for
required to play in the full 15-a-
women older than 18 to
side game by the age of 13.
continue to enjoy the game.
This starts with a non-contact
W
version of the game, aimed at
Events
ith 354 youth members
husband, Mark, plays in the
improving ball-handling skills
The Youth Section plays host to
aged from 6 to 18,
senior side. “The youth section
and team play. A different
many high profile events – such
Petersfield RFC aims to
is always open to new
format at each age group level
as the Petersfield RFC Mini
encourage children to fulfill
members, at any time of the
allows youngsters to progress
Tournament (October),
their individual potential as
year,” she said.
towards the 15-a-side game in
Hampshire County Tournament
stages compatible with their
(Feb/March), county age-group
part of a team. The club, which
The club is run entirely by
staged its 18th Mini
volunteers, and the Youth
physical and conceptual
matches, cup finals and
Tournament in October, is one
Section committee meets every
development.
workshops.
of Hampshire’s most active and
month. Each age group is led by
progressive children’s sports
a coaching team and a team
administrative staff provide the
Contact: Alison Butcher,
clubs.
manager. It also plays an active
necessary support to the
Youth Chairman, 07799
part in the community and
players on the field. Qualified
500556. Petersfield RFC,
Butcher has strong links to the
through the Active Sport scheme
and knowledgeable coaches
Penns Place, Durford Road,
club. Her father, Cliff Fairley, is
they have developed close links
supervise all the squads.
Petersfield, GU31 4EP. Tel:
the club president and her
with schools in the area.
Youth Chairman Alison
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The experienced coaching and
Parents are encouraged to
01730 264588
Life
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What’s On
What’s On
children aged 3-10 yrs with an
Venue: St Peter’s Church,
adult
Petersfield
Venue: Petersfield Library,
Time: 7.30pm Info/Booking: 07748 218876
Friday 2 November
Time: 1.30pm
Petersfield
Strange Face Theatre
Info/Booking 01420 511275
Time: 4.30pm
‘The Outlaw Fulke Fitz Waryn’
Thursday 8 November
Thursday 15 November
Interpreting Pink Floyd
Venue: The Studio at TPS
Lion & Unicorn Players
Tamasin Day-Lewis talks
Venue: Studio at TPS
Time: 7.30pm
‘Much Ado About Nothing”
about her new book. Supper
Time: Doors open 7.30pm for
Revised edition of the play
with Tamasin using her recipes
8pm performance
Venue: Festival Hall, Heath
Venue: Chawton House Library
Info/Booking: Stiff Promotions
Saturday 3 - Wednesday 28
Road, Petersfield
Time: 6.30pm
Ticket Hotline 01730 231733
November
Time: 7.30pm
Booking/Info: Helen Thirlway
Exhibition of paintings from
Info/Booking: Vivienne
01420 541010
William Pullen
Coleshill 01730 821491
‘Shrink Floyd’
Company:
Info/Booking: 01730 234641
Monday 19 November Churcher’s College
Friday 16 November
Lunchtime Recital by music
Saturday 10 November
Petersfield Christmas Lights
students
Angela Zanders: ‘Classical
On and Children in Need
Venue: St Peter’s Church,
10am-1pm, closed Saturday 17
Music Brought to Life’
celebrations
Petersfield
November
Venue: Studio at TPS
Venue: Petersfield Square
Time: 1pm
Info: 01730 711511,
Time: 10-11.30am
Time: 6pm
tickets@bedales.org.uk
Booking: Studio Box Office
Venue: The Gallery, Bedales School Time: Mon-Fri 2-5pm, Sat
01730 234641
Venue: Gilbert White’s House & Oates Museum Selborne
Woods Make and take home
Cello/Piano recital
creations for Christmas
‘Treasures of the Rainforest’
Mikhail Lezdkan and Angela
Venue: Gilbert White’s House
Family musical instrument
Zanders
and the Oates Museum
workshop. Suitable for
Music by Schubert, Bach and
Time: 10am
Rachmaninov
Info: 01420 511275
Fungi Walk with Phil Budd in Selborne Countryside
Christmas Crafts with Carole Saturday 17 November
Clothes from far-flung places gorgeous gifts beads - bells - bangles Monday bed canopies & to beaded curtains Saturday 9:30-5:00 ...and so much more!
PETERSFIELD MARKET a wide selection of goods available
Telephone 01730 269991 The Folly Market, College street, petersfield
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Wednesday 21 November
Venue: Studio at TPS
Sunday 18 November
Robert Booth’s ‘Always &
Time: Doors open 7.30pm for
Craft Fair
Only Venice’
8pm performance
Venue: Horndean Technology
Venue: Studio at TPS
Info/Booking: 02392 382888
College Time: 10am-4pm
Time: 7.30pm Booking/info: 01730 261199
Sunday 16 December
Info: Nicky Bugden
Proteus Theatre Company
02392 599753
Wednesday 21- Sat 24 Nov
‘Beauty & The Beast’
Petersfield Operatic Society
Venue: Studio at TPS
Wednesday 14 November
‘An Evening of Gilbert and
Time: 6pm
Shopping evening for cancer
Sullivan’ excerpts from
Booking: 01730 234641
screening charity G.U.T.S. Venue: Grayshott Pottery
favorite operas Venue: Petersfield Festival Hall
Friday 11 Jan – Sat 19 Jan
Time: 6pm- 9.30pm
Times: 7.30pm & 2.30pm (Sat)
(various dates and matinees)
Contact: 01483 408316
Tickets: 01730 268829
Humpty Dumpty by Jim Sperinck
Saturday 17 November
Saturday 24 November
Venue: Petersfield Festival Hall
Christmas Craft Fair
Perfect Alibi - The Pink
Book Tickets: 01730-268829
Venue: Masonic Hall, Windsor
Floyd Tribute
from 19th November 2007.
Road Time: 10am-4pm
Venue: Chiddingfold Rock/Live Music Club Times: 8pm
Christmas Gift Fairs and Markets:
Tickets: 08700 600100
Monday 26 November Christmas Gifts Sale
Sunday 4 November
Venue: Willowmead, Steep
Thursday 29 November
Hampshire Farmers’ Market
Marsh, Nr Petersfield
Petersfield Orchestra
Venue: Petersfield Square
Time: 10am - 9.30pm
Programme including Elgar’s
Times: 10am-2pm
Info: 01730 892662
Venue: Festival Hall,
Thursday 8 November
Sunday 2 December
Petersfield
Christmas Gift Fair with
Hampshire Farmers’ Market
Time: 7.30pm
cookery demonstrations by
Venue: Petersfield Square
Info: 01730 892710
Andy and Alex Wilcox
Times: 10am-2pm
Enigma Variations
Move – Hampshire The Magic Tones
Venue: Newhouse Farm,
Yuletide Festival
Blues Brothers Tribute Band
Northington, Nr Alresford
Seasonal stalls including
Venue: Studio at TPS
Times: 9.15am - 3.30pm
crafts, children’s rides, carol
Time: Doors 7.30pm for
Entrance: £3
singers
8.00pm performance
To book cookery
and Santa’s Grotto.
Info/Booking: Stiff Promotions
demonstration (£15 inc
Venue: Alton Town Centre
Ticket Hotline 01730 231733
entrance): 01962 771208
Time: 10.00am Info: info@gilbert-
or www.stiffpromotions.co.uk Saturday 10 November
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Saturday 1 December
Christmas Gift Fair
seYes - classic YES Tribute
Petersfield and Liss National
Friday 7 December
Venue: Chiddingfold Rock/Live
Childbirth Trust
‘Petersfield Christmas
Music Club
Venue: Petersfield Community
Festivities’
Times: 8pm
Time: 2-4pm
Processions from railway
Tickets: 08700 600100
Info: Hayley Perry 01730
station to the Square where
267227.
there will be a Christmas market and stage with
Saturday 8 December
Best kept secret
Petersfield Chamber Choir
Monday 12 – 13 November
Christmas performances
Christmas Concert
Christmas Fair
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: St Peter’s Church,
Venue: The Manor House,
Venue: Petersfield Square
Petersfield
Buriton
Info: 01730 231515
Time: 7.30pm
Time: 11am-8pm (Mon), 10am – 3.30pm (Tues)
If you would like your event
Saturday 15 December
Entrance: £5 (includes
listed here please email details
Colvin Quarmby
refreshments)
to lucy@lifemags.co.uk Life
Call 01730 263477
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Directory
Natural England (was
Travel Numbers:
Countryside Agency):
General:
0207 932 5800
Public transport information
PC Pete: 01730 269569
line: 08706082608
Petersfield & District Lions
www.traveline.org.uk
Club: 01730 266362 Relate: 02392 827026
Contacts in Petersfield & District Emergency Services:
Pipers Bungalow, 1 Oaklands
Fire:
Road £28-£35: 01730 262131
Hampshire Fire and
Southdowns Country Hotel,
Rescue Headquarters:
Trotton GU31 5JN: 01730
023 8062 4000
821521 80, Rushes Road, £25-£30:
Health:
01730 261638
Petersfield Hospital:
The Holt, 60 Heath Road
01730 263221
£25-£30: 01730 262836
(Petersfield Hospital Minor
1 The Spain, Sheep Street
Injuries Unit: 8am-8pm, 366
£28-£40: 01730 263261
days a year)
Airports:
Samaritans: 08457 909090
Bournemouth Airport:
South Downs Association of
01202 364 000
Disabled People & Shop-
Gatwick Airport:
mobility Services:
08700 002 468
01730 710474
Heathrow Airport:
Southern Water:
08700 000 123
0845 278 0845
London City Airport:
The Salvation Army (local
0207 646 0000
branch): 01730 262820
Luton Airport: 01582 405
Tourist Information Office:
100
01730 268829
Southampton Airport:
Winton House Centre
08700 400 009
(centre for Hospital Cars &
Stansted Airport:
Age Concern): 01730
0870 000 0303
266046 Buses: Leisure:
National Express:
Local walks info:
08705 808080
www.hants.gov.uk/walking;
Stagecoach Coastline:
www.nationaltrail.co.uk/Southdo
01903 237661
wns Petersfield & District
Council Numbers:
Ferries:
Philatelic Society: 01730
01730 267722
East Hampshire District
Brittany Ferries:
264518
The Swan Surgery:
Council: 01730 266551
0870 536 0360
Petersfield Library:
01730 264546
Petersfield Town Council:
P & O Stena Line:
01730 263451
01730 264182
0870 600 0600
Petersfield Museum:
Hovertravel: 01983 811000
01730 262601
Wightlink: 0870 5820202 Red Funnel: 0870 4448898
The Grange Surgery:
Police: Hampshire Police general
Helplines, Support Groups &
Petersfield Rugby Football
enquiry number:
Charities:
Club: 01730 269744/ 01730
0845 045 4545
Alcoholics Anonymous:
265072
0845 769 7555
Trains:
Petersfield Swimming Pool:
Accredited B & Bs and
Childline: 0800 1111
Eurostar: 0870 518 6186
01730 265143
Hotels in Petersfield:
Citizens' Advice Bureau:
National Rail Enquiries:
Petersfield Town Football
08457 484950
Border Cottage, 4 Heath
01730 264887
Club: 01730 233416
Road £35-£60:
Community First East
South West Trains:
Petersfield Town Juniors
01730 263179
Hampshire: 01730 710017
0845 600 0650
Football Club: 07703002676
Downsview, 58 Heath Road
Electricity Emergency:
Steep Lawn Tennis Club:
£26-£32: 01730 264171
0845 770 8090
01730 264999
Heath Farmhouse, Sussex
Environment Agency:
Taro Leisure Centre:
Road £25-£30: 01730
08708 506506
01730 263996
264709
Gas Emergency:
Walk to Health:
Langrish House Hotel, East
0800 111 999
01730 262792
Meon Road, Langrish GU32
Home-Start Butser: 01730
1RN. 01730 263374
233 755
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SCHOOLS
around PETERSFIELD Detailed directory listing of local schools
Meet the Head
Jenny Chapman Rogate CE Primary School
Rogate CE Primary School
achieve their full potential,
Type: Church of England
whilst enjoying a memorable
Foundation School
and very happy childhood. We
Age: 4 years to 10 years
were one of the first to achieve
Gender: Mixed
National Healthy School Status
Pupils on roll: 35
and Dyslexia Friendly School
Web-site: www.rogate.w-
Award.
sussex.sch.uk
Our recent Ofsted (September 2007) describes the school as
ogate School is a small
R
having some outstanding
rural school situated in the
features: “The personal
border area of West Sussex and
development and well-being of
East Hampshire. Parents from
pupils are good and pupils’
both counties choose our
behaviour is exemplary. They
school because of its high
are a credit to their parents
standards of education and
and the school.”
unique ethos. It has been an integral part of
A healthy work life balance is important for all of us and in
village life since it started in
my spare time I sing, read,
1862. Since joining the school
make jewellery, enjoy my
in 2005, my goal has been to
grandchildren and enjoy
ensure that all our children
weekends away in our caravan.
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Detailed directory of Schools in Petersfield This supplement includes as many schools as possible within a wide area around Petersfield. State Primary Schools: Boys and Girls Buriton Primary School (4-11, 88 on roll) Head: Mr D Brown High Street, Buriton, Petersfield Hants GU31 5RX 01730 263526 headteacher@buriton.hants.sch.uk
Clanfield Junior School (7-11, 340 on roll) Head: Shelagh Tomlin Little Hyden Lane, Clanfield, Waterlooville, PO8 ORE 02392 593209 www.clanfield.hants.sch.uk Strongly committed to developing children’s thinking skills and looking at the whole child. Establishing a balance between academic success and emotional and artistic development.
Easebourne CofE Primary School (4-10, 159 on roll) Head: Mr A Bain Easebourne, Midhurst W Sussex GU29 OBD 01730 813266 office@easebourne.w-sussex.sch.uk www.easebourne.w-sussex.sch.uk
East Meon CofE School (4-11, pre-school 2-4, 52 on roll) Acting Head: Mrs Judith Bartlett Head from Jan 2008: Mrs Sharon Taylor Chapel Street, East Meon, Petersfield, GU32 1NR 01730 823218
Froxfield CoE Infant School (4-7, 43 on roll) Head: Mrs Lynne Chester High Cross, Froxfield, GU32 1EG 01730 827251 gayle.adams@froxfield.hants.sch.uk www.froxfield.hants.sch.uk
Herne Junior School (7-11, 408 on roll) Head: Mr Tony Markham Love Lane, Petersfield, GU31 4BP 01730 263746 admin@herne.hants.sch.uk www.herne.hants.sch.uk
Hollycombe Primary School (4-10, 54 on roll) Head: Mrs S Fiske Wardley Green, Liphook Hampshire GU30 7LY 01428 741332 office@hollycombe.w-sussex.sch.uk www.hollycombe.w-sussex.sch.uk
Langrish Primary School (4-11, 210 on roll) Head: Mrs Claire Hanson Ramsdean Road, Stroud Hants GU32 3PJ 01730 263883 adminoffice@langrish.hants.sch.uk www.langrish.hants.sch.uk
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Liphook (CofE cont) Junior School (7-11, 364 on roll) Head: Mrs Claire Williams Avenue Close, Liphook, Hants GU30 7QE 01428 722490 admin@liphook-jun.hants.sch.uk
Liss Infant School
Rake CofE First School (4-10, 48 on roll) Head: Mr John Arnold London Road, Rake, Liss GU33 7JH 01730 892126 head@rake.w-sussex.sch.uk www.rake.w-sussex.sch.uk
Rogate Primary School
(4-7, 169 on roll) Head: Mrs Teresa Offer Hillbrow Road, Liss GU33 7LQ 01730 892666 office@lissinfant.hants.sch.uk www.lissinfant.hantssch.uk
(4-10, 35 on roll) Head: Mrs Jenny Chapman School Lane, Rogate, Petersfield GU31 5HH 01730 821329 office@rogate.w-sussex.sch.uk www.rogate.w-sussex.sch.uk
Liss Junior School
St Mary & St Paul First School
(7-11, 243 on roll) Head: Mr Andrew Burford Hillbrow Road, Liss GU33 7LQ 01730 892292 info@lissjunior.hants.sch.uk www.lissjunior.hants.sch.uk
Midhurst CofE Primary School (4-10, 172 on roll) Head: Mr Ken Ford Ashfield Road, Midhurst, GU29 9JX 01730 813526 office@midhurst-pri.w-sussex.sch.uk www.midhurst-primary-school.co.uk
Petersfield Infant School (4-7, 306 on roll) Head: Mrs Linda Lee St Peter’s Road, Petersfield Hants GU32 3HX 01730 263048 adminoffice@petersfieldinf.hants.sch.uk www.schools.hants.org.uk/peterfieldinfants
(4-10, 89 on roll) Head: Mr Johnny Culley Tipper Lane, South Harting, Petersfield, GU31 5QT 01730 825388 office@st-mary-st-paul.w-sussex.sch.uk www.st-mary-st-paul.w.sussex.sch.uk
Sheet Primary School (4-11, 112 on roll) Head: Mrs Kathy Iles School Lane, Sheet, Petersfield GU32 2AS 01730 263310 jane.fletcher@sheet.hants.sch.uk www.sheetprimaryschool.com
Stedham Primary School Head: Mrs H Morley (5-10, 72 on roll) School Lane, Stedham, Midhurst 01730 813522 office@stedham.w-sussex.sch.uk www.stedham.w-sussex.sch.uk
Steep CofE (voluntary conrolled) Primary School (4-11, 95 on roll) Head: Mrs Angela Morrow 95-97 Church Road, Steep Petersfield, GU32 2DE 01730 263988 admin@steep.hants.sch.uk www.steep.hants.sch.uk
St Matthew’s Church of England (aided) Primary School (4-11, 180 on roll) Head: Mrs Hillman Drift Road, Blackmoor, Hants GU33 6BN 01420 472844 admin@st-matthew,hants.sch.uk
West Meon Primary School (4-11, 74 on roll) Head: Mrs Hilary Hopkins Church Lane, West Meon, Petersfield GU32 1LF 01730 829213 Amanda.davidson@westmeon.hants.sc h.uk
State Secondary Schools: Bohunt School (11-16, co-ed, 1280 on roll) Head: Mr Alan Taylor-Bennett Longmore Road, Liphook GU30 7NY 01428 724324 enquiries@bohunt.hants.sch.uk
Cowplain Community School & Business Centre (11-16, co-ed, 1006 on roll) Head: Mr D R Rowlinson Hart Plain Avenue, Cowplain, Waterlooville PO8 8RY 02392 612020 office@cowplain.hants.sch.uk www.cowplain.hants.sch.uk
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School uniform? Quite the opposite.
Bedales 13–18 Dunhurst 8–13 Dunannie 3–8 01730 711569. admit2@bedales.org.uk. www.bedales.org.uk
Bronze-age Bedales A craft that is over 3000 years old was revived at Bedales School, as students created metal rings, amulets, statuettes and spearheads that would have been familiar to ancient Britons. Artist-in-residence Holger Lönze has reconstructed prehistoric techniques for small-scale bronze-casting. Like the itinerant craftsmen who carried skills from village to village in bronze-age Britain, he brought all his equipment with him in a single backpack. In the course of a week, 70 students from Bedales and Dunhurst (the Bedales junior school) made their own bronze artefacts. Some shaped the artwork in wax and covered it in a mixture of clay and sand – and horse dung, to bind it together. The clay mould was then kiln-fired to harden it and to melt off the wax, leaving a hollow centre to receive the molten bronze. When the metal has cooled, the clay is cracked off to reveal a solid piece of bronze that bears every mark of the wax original.
The casting process is awe-inspiring: all the students gasped at the moment when the neon-orange molten metal was poured from the crucible into the moulds. Ten minutes later, the moulds have been cooled in water, and each bronze artwork is ready to be cleaned and polished. More than 200 Bedales students watched Holger perform this magical transmutation during his week’s residency, turning metal into liquid and liquid into solid works of art.
Bedales Schools comprise Dunannie (age 3–8), Dunhurst (age 8–13) and Bedales itself (age 13–18).
Other students used a startlingly different material for the moulds: cuttlefish, which are easily shaped and highly heatresistant. Again, this technique is thought to have been common in the bronze age. Each fish is sliced into two, and the students carve an image into the two inside surfaces. The two halves are then bound together with leather thongs, leaving a channel through which the molten bronze can be poured. Students watched Holger Lönze making bronze by melting copper and tin in a crucible. Heat comes from charcoal in an open clay furnace measuring less than one foot across. The temperature was raised to 1200 degrees Celsius, using handoperated bellows of leather and wood to force air through the charcoal.
Rose, Gabriel and Richard, pupils at Dunhurst, the Bedales Junior School, showing the artefacts they cast in bronze with the Bedales Artist-in-Residence, Holger Lönze.
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Detailed directory of Schools in Petersfield
Horndean Technology College
The Petersfield School
(11-16, co-ed, 1300 on roll) Head: Mr Glen Strong Barton Cross, Horndean, Waterlooville, PO8 9PQ 02392 594325 general@horndeantc.hants.sch.uk www.horndeantc.hants.sch.uk
(11-16, co-ed, 1264 on roll) Head: Mr Nigel Poole Cranford Road, Petersfield GU32 3LU 01730 263119 school@petersfieldschool.com www.petersfield.com
co-ed, girls 11-18, 492 on roll) Head: Mrs SE Kirkham Anstey Lane, Alton, Hampshire GU34 2NG. 01420 541711 enquiries@alton-convent.com
(3-8, co-ed, 157 on roll) Pre-Prep School (co-ed, 3-8 years) Head teacher: Diane Gardiner Highfield Lane, Liphook, Hampshire GU30 7LQ. 01428 722005. office@brookhamschool.co.uk. www.brookhamschool.co.uk
Midhurst Grammar School
Colleges:
Amesbury Day School
Charterhouse
(16-18, co-ed, 2,000 on roll) Principal: Jane Machell Old Odiham Road, Alton Hants GU34 2LX 01420 592212 www.altoncollege.ac.uk
(2 to 13+ years, co-ed, 325 on roll) Nursery, Pre-prep and Preparatory Education Head: Nigel Taylor MA Hazel Grove, Hindhead, Surrey GU26 6BL. 01428 604322. enquiries@amesburyschool.co.uk www.amesburyschool.co.uk
(boys 13 -18, girls 16 -18, 735+ on roll) Head teacher: Rev JS Witherridge Godalming, Surrey GU7 2DJ. 01483 291501. admissions@charterhouse.org.uk
Godalming Sixth Form College
Barfield School
(14-18, co-ed, 750 on roll) Head: Mr J Barratt North Street, Midhurst GU29 9DT 01730 812451 office@midhurst-grammar.wsussex.sch.uk
Midhurst Intermediate School (10-13, co-ed, 360 on roll) Head: Mrs Christine Dunne Wheelbarrow Castle, Midhurst, West Sussex GU29 9AG 01730 812371 office@midhurst-int.w-sussex.sch.uk www.midhurst-int.w-sussex.sch.uk
Mill Chase Community Technology College
Alton College
(16-18, co-ed, 1650 on roll) Head: David Adelman Tuesley Lane, Godalming Surrey GU27 1QB 01483 423526 college@godalming.ac.uk
Peter Symonds College
(11-17, co-ed, 750 on roll) Head : Mr Steven Mulcahy Mill Chase Road, Bordon, Hants GU35 0ER 01420 472132 enquiries@millchase.hants.sch.uk www.millchase.hants.sch.uk
(6-19, co-ed, 2800 on roll) Principal: Neil Hopkins Owens Road, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22 6RX 01962 857500 psc@psc.ac.uk www.psc.ac.uk
Oaklands Catholic Voluntary Aided Secondary School
South Downs College
(11-18, co-ed, 1087 on roll) Head: Mr Matthew Quinn Stakes Hill Road, Waterlooville Hampshire PO7 7BW 02392 259214 oaklandscatholic@oaklands.hants.sch.uk www.oaklands.hants.sch.uk Intake of mainly Catholic children plus other Christian denominations.
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(14-16 for vocational training, 16-18 for sixth form, co-ed, 5,000 total full time students on roll) Principal: Mr Michael Oakes College Road, Waterlooville, Hants PO7 8AA 023 9279 7979 www.southdowns.ac.uk college@southdowns.ac.uk
Independent Schools: Alton Convent School (2+ to 11,
(2+ to 13, co-ed, 250+ on roll) Head: Mr B J Hoar Guildford Road, Farnham, Surrey GU10 1PB. 01252 782271. admin@barfieldschool.com
Brookham School
Churcherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College (4-18, co-ed, 226 in junior 727 senior on roll) Head teacher: Mr SHL Williams Ramshill, Petersfield, Hampshire GU31 4AS. 01730 263033. enquiries@churcherscollege.com.
Conifers School
(3-18, co-ed, 600 approx on roll) Head: Keith Budge Steep, Petersfield, Hampshire GU32 2DG. 01730 300100. admin@bedales.org.uk
(2 to 11, co-ed, 70+ on roll) Head: Mrs Louise Fox Preparatory School for boys and girls in Easebourne near Midhurst, GU29 9BG 01730 813243 admin@conifersschool.com
Bidbury for English
Ditcham Park School
Bedales School
Individual and small group, professional and general English courses, summer school and boarding school preparation. Heads: John and Shireen Weston Greywalls House, Hillbrow, Petersfield, Hampshire GU33 7QR. 01730 894246. bidbury-greywalls@lineone.net. www.bidbury.co.uk
Boundary Oak School (3-8, co-ed, 157 on roll) Head teacher: Mr BL Brown Fareham, Hampshire PO17 5BL. 01329 280955. headmaster@boundaryoak.co.uk
(4-16, co-ed, day, 349 on roll) Head: Mrs KS Morton Petersfield, Hants GU31 5RN. 01730 825659. info@ditchampark.com
Dunannie (3-8, co-ed, 90 on roll) Head: Katie Potter Alton Road, Steep, Petersfield GU32 2DP 01730 300400 dunnanie@bedales.org.uk
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Frensham Heights “Friendly and inspiring school, achieving its aim of providing good alternative education with lots of freedom but no hint of chaos.” Good Schools Guide
CHARITY NO. 312052
co-educational, boarding & day, HMC school (3 –18))
“Outstanding.” ( Just a word about our recent Ofsted inspection*. )
NEXT OPEN MORNING
THURSDAY 15 NOV 9.30 AM To arrange a visit just for you and your family or to come to our Open Morning, please ring Lynette Kerridge, on 01252 792561. admissions@frensham-heights.org.uk www.frensham-heights.org.uk
St. E dmun d ’s Scho ol
PortsmouthRoad,Hindhead,SurreyGU26 6BH. An independent prep school for boys and girls 2-13. Please call Karen Subba Row for more information. t: 01428 609875. E: registrar@saintedmunds.co.uk www.saintedmunds.co.uk
OPEN MORNING / AFTERNOON 1st November 2 pm 14th November 10 am 26th November 2 pm
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Detailed directory of Schools in Petersfield Dunhurst
King Edward’s School
Mayville High School
St Edmund’s Schools
(8-13, co-ed, 200 on roll) Head: Penny Watkins Alton Road, Steep, Petersfield GU32 2DP 01730 300200 dunhurst@bedales.org.uk
Boarding and day pupils (11-18, co-ed) Offers the International Baccalaureate Head: P K Fulton-Peebles Witley, Godalming, Surrey GU8 5SG, 01428 686735. admissions@kesw.surrey.sch.uk. www.kesw.surrey.sch.uk
(6 months to 16 yrs, co-ed (taught separately), 455 on roll) Head: Mrs L Owens Southsea, Hampshire PO5 2PE. 02392 734847. mayvillehighschool@talk21.com
An independent prep school for boys and girls aged 2-13 Head: Adam Walliker Portsmouth Road, Hindhead, Surrey GU26 6BH. Karen Subba Row: 01428 609875. registrar@stedmunds.co.uk www.saintedmunds.co.uk
Kingscourt School
(2+ to 16, co-ed, approx 400 on roll) Head: Mr CJ Ford Fareham, Hampshire PO14 2EF. 01329 662182. enquiries@meoncross.co.uk
Frensham Heights (3-18, co-ed, day/boarding, 500 on roll) Head teacher: Mr Andrew Fisher Farnham. Surrey. GU10 4EA. 01252 792561. admissions@frensham-heights.org.uk
Guildford High School for Girls (4-18, 930 on roll) Head: Mrs Fiona Boulton Guildford, Surrey GU1 1SJ. 01483 561440. alex.kearney@church-schools.com
Haslemere Preparatory School Day school for boys (4-13 years) Head: K J Merrick The Heights, Hill Road, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 2JP. 01428 642350. office@haslemereprep.co.uk. www.haslemereprep.co.uk
(2+ to 11, co-ed, 160 approx on roll) Head: Mrs J Easton Catherington, Hampshire PO8 9NJ. 02392 593251. office@kingscourt.org.uk
Lanesborough School (3 -13 boys, 335 approx on roll) Head: Mr M Shere Guildford, Surrey. GU1 2EL. 01483 880650. office@lanesborough.surrey.sch.uk.
Lavant House (3 – 18 years, girls, 165 on roll) Head: Mrs Marian Scott Chichester, W Sussex. PO18 9AB. 01243 527211. office@lavanthouse.org.uk.
Highfield School (co-ed prep, 221 on roll) Day or boarding, (8-13 years) also preprep (3-8 years) Head: Mr P G S Evitt Highfield Lane, Liphook, Hampshire GU30 7LQ. 01428 728000. office@highfieldschool.org.uk. www.highfieldschool.org.uk
Lord Wandsworth College (11-18, co-ed, 500 aprox on roll) Head: Mr Ian Power Hook, Hampshire RG29 1TB. 01256 862201. info@lordwandsworth.org
Meoncross School
More House School (9 – 18, boys, 300 on roll) Head: Mr BG Huggett Farnham, Surrey GU10 3AP. 01252 792303. schooloffice@morehouseschool.co.uk
Portsmouth High School (3-18, girls, 600 on roll) Head: Mrs J Clough Southsea, Hampshire. PO5 3EQ. 02392 826714. headsec@por.gdst.net
Prince’s Mead School (2+ to 11, co-ed, 230 on roll) Head: Miss P Kirk Winchester, Hampshire SO21 1AN. 01962 888000. admin@princesmeadschool.org.uk
Prior’s Field School (11-18, girls, 350 approx on roll) Head: Mrs JA Roseblade Godalming, Surrey GU7 2RH. 01483 810551. head@priorsfieldschool.com
Rookesbury Park School (2+ to 13, co-ed, day/boarding, under 100 on roll) Head: Mr PG Savage Wickham, Hampshire PO17 6HT. 01329 833108. enquiries@rookesburypark.co.uk
Royal Grammar School (11-18, boys, 903 on roll) Head: Dr JM Cox Guildford, Surrey GU1 3BB. 01483 880600. office@rgsguildford.co.uk
Seaford College (10-18, co-ed, 520 on roll) Head: Mr TJ Mullins Lavington Park, Petworth, W Sussex GU28 0NB. 01798 867392. seaford@clara.co.uk
St Catherine’s Preparatory School (7-11, girls, 580 on roll) Head: Mrs K Jefferies Guildford, Surrey GU5 0DF. 01483 899665. schooloffice@stcatherines.info
St Catherine’s School. (11-18, girls, 580 on roll) Head: Mrs AM Phillips Guildford, Surrey GU5 0DF. 01483 893363. schooloffice@stcatherines.info
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St Ives School (Mixed nursery, girls 3-11, 150 on roll) Head: Sian Cattaneo Three Gates Lane, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 2ES. 01428 643734. admin@stiveshaslemere.com. www.stiveshaslemere.com
St John’s College (2-18, co-ed, 600 on roll) Head: Mr N Thorne Southsea, Hampshire PO5 3QW. 02392 815118. info@stjohnscollege.co.uk
St Margaret’s Preparatory School (2-11, co-ed, 200 on roll) Head: Sister M Joseph Clare Midhurst, W Sussex. GU29 9JN. 01730 813956. smsadmin@conventofmercy.org
St Nicholas’ School Head: Mrs AV Whatmough Fleet, Hampshire GU52 0RF. 01252 850121. head@st-nicholas.hants.sch.uk
St Swithun’s School (11-18, girls, 480 on roll) Head: Dr HL Harvey Winchester, Hampshire SO21 1HA. 01962 835700. office@stswithuns.com
Stepping Stones School Mixed, non-maintained school for young people with mild learning difficulties (11-16 years) Learning Facilitator: Neil Clark Tower Road, Hindhead, Surrey GU26 6SU. 01428 609083. enquiries@steppingstones.org.uk. www.steppingstones.org.uk
The Royal School Mixed nursery (2-4 years) and Girls School (5-18 years) Head: Mrs L Taylor-Gooby Farnham Lane, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 1HQ. 01428 63052. admissions@royal.surrey.sch.uk. www.royal-school.org
The Portsmouth Grammar School (3-18, co-ed, 1500 on roll) Head: Dr TR Hands Portsmouth. Hampshire. PO1 2LN. 02392 360036. headmaster@pgs.org.uk
The Pilgrims’ School (co-ed siblings 4-6 years, 7-13 boys, 54 on roll) Head: The Rev Dr BA Rees Winchester, Hampshire SO23 9LT. 01962 854189. info@pilgrims-school.co.uk
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Treloar College
Winchester College
(16-25s with disabilities, co-ed, 180 on roll) Head: Dr Graham Jowett London Road, Holyboume, Alton, Hampshire GU34 4EN. 01420 547400. rosie.lewis@treloar.org.uk
(Boys, 13-18 years, 675 on roll) Head: Dr Ralph Townsend Winchester, Hampshire SO23 9NA. 01962 621247. admissions@winchestercollege.co.uk
Treloar School (Mixed, for 7-16s with disabilities, 180 on roll) Head: Mrs Heather Boardman Upper Froyle, Alton, Hampshire GU34 4LA. 01420 526400. rosie.lewis@treloar.org.uk
Wispers School Boarding and day pupils (11-18, girls) Head: Henry Beltran Wispers School For Girls, High Lane, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 1AD. 01428 643646. head@wispers.org.uk. www.wispers.org.uk
Wykeham House School (Girls, 2+ to 16 years, 250 on roll) Head: Mrs LR Clarke Fareham. Hampshire. PO16 0BW. 01329 280178. headmistress@wykehamhouse.hants.s ch.uk.
Twyford School (3-13, co-ed, 300 on roll) Head: Dr D Livingstone Winchester, Hampshire SO21 1NW. 01962 712269. registrar@twyfordschool.com
We will repeat this schools supplement in 2008 so please keep us up to date with any changes in information. E-mail any changes to Info@lifemags.co.uk or call 01730 235669.
Westbourne House (2+ to 13, co-ed, 403 on roll) Head: Mr BG Law Chichester. W Sussex. PO20 2BH. 01243 782739. whouseoffice@rmplc.co.uk
West Hill Park (Mixed, 2+ to 13) Head: Mr EPK Hudson Fareham. Hampshire. PO14 4BS. 01329 842356. min@westhillpark.com
Realise your child’s potential Maths and English After-School Programmes • Boost your child’s confidence
St Margaret’s School Midhurst
• Develop good study habits • Complement the school curriculum PETERSFIELD STUDY CENTRE Mrs Di Taylor
01730 231 287 kumon.co.uk
Every child can shine
Open Day Tuesday 6 November 10 am - 3 pm Co-educational 2 to 11 years Broad & stimulating curriculum Academic excellence
“The provision for children is outstanding” ATTAINING INDEPENDENCE
ofsted report - November 2005
Does your child have special needs? Stepping Stones is a unique and extraordinary school, designed to meet the specific needs of children with hemiplegia and other physical and learning difficulties. A new primary section will open in September 2008. Students are encouraged to develop their independent living skills, so that by the time they leave Stepping Stones, they are equipped not only academically, but with the skills required to cope as young adults in a demanding world.
Stepping Stones School, Tower Road, Hindhead, Surrey GU26 6SU Tel: 01428 609083 Email: neil@steppingstones.org.uk Website: www.steppingstones.org.uk
Extensive facilities 5 acre site & 7 acre playing field School bus service Breakfast club & school lunches Consistent success in obtaining places in senior schools of choice Outstanding pastoral care within a Christian environment
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School Profiles
Initiative & unique
Keith Budge Bedales School
Something special
Andrew Fisher Frensham Heights
individuality, initiative and an enquiring mind. This is why we replaced several GCSEs with unique courses of our own that are more stretching and more inspiring. “We have rules and a timetable, but rules are merely oppressive if they are not underpinned by self-discipline, responsibility and respect. Our students have a great deal of responsibility for organising their work and time. Mutual respect is symbolised by using first-name terms for everyone and the lack of school uniform. years of the Bedales Olivier edales was founded in
B
C
Because everyone here believes
Theatre and public arts
three to 18 years.
quote the Daily Telegraph “of
1893. Keith Budge has
programme, and we have big
Andrew Fisher, headmaster
been Headmaster since 2001.
plans for renewal – though not
here for the last four years, is
a powerful force when driving
“Bedales was founded to be
“We have just celebrated 10
o-educational HMC school for 500 pupils aged from
in it and knows they are part, to something special”. And that’s
for expansion. We hope to win
passionate about Frensham, his
forward our founders’ vision of
different – a humane and child-
another award for our new
family, theatre, music, anything
a community that is truly
centred alternative to the other
Music School (2009), with new
in France, rugby, the outdoors
creative, that is one where
schools at the time.
studios for Art & Design
and jelly beans (must be the
creativity permeates every
following after that.”
Australian variety).
aspect of life.”
“Where they imposed conformity, we have nurtured
“Why do I love Frensham?
Exciting times at Midhurst Jon Barrott Midhurst Grammar
M
y name is Jon Barrott and I was
appointed as Operational Headteacher at Midhurst Grammar School in September 2006. This is a very exciting time at Midhurst. We achieved our best ever GCSE results with 63% 5 A* to C, and we have ‘flown’ out of Special Measures. We have new facilities, including a Sports Hall, a unique
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climbing centre and an
bought so wisely! A
investment of over
championship winning
£120,000 into ICT and
season will make my
computers, in order to
regular trips to Anfield
enhance teaching and
very worthwhile ….
learning. It has only
Another Champions
taken the school one year
League win? That will do
to emerge from Special
nicely too!
Measures and many judgements about the school are now rated as good. It is a tribute to the staff at all levels and the pupils to have made such good progress. It’s also a tribute to Rafa Benitez that he has
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