Caring 4 Sussex Autumn 2017

No. 39 Autumn 2017

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From the Editor

Autumn 2017

Dear readers, customers, caring friends of Sussex…

Having had an exciting, varied and interesting career in publishing for three decades, I’ve reluctantly decided to dust off the ever-growing ‘bucket list’ and venture into the unknown world of retirement.

I’ve already taken my first adventure – with the family-run firm Woods Travel, now in their 45th year – and explored a part of the UK I hadn’t visited before. You can read all about my first freedom foray on page 22.

Next on my list are courses – the choices are overwhelming, from art history to caring for ephemera (where did I put that old flyer from seeing Jimi Hendrix when he came to Worthing?).

And our regular readers may remember my attempt at getting fitter by Nordic walking – now to do more of it.

I’d like to thank my loyal readers, advertisers, all the staff and contributors – I’ll truly miss you all.

I’m delighted to hand over the reins to Debbie Mason, who’s keen to take the magazine forward while keeping our ethos and unique style, aiming at seniors and those who care about our beautiful county.

Over to you Debbie…

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A warm thank you to Denise for all she has done with this wonderful magazine – and rest assured, I have no intention of changing the purpose and reach of C4S, caring for and celebrating the county and the people who make Sussex such a great place.

Right from the word go you will notice a couple of additions – a Care News Round-up, a gardening column and a new Health Watch page.

But more importantly, we want to hear from YOU – so we are going to add a Letters page. Please send us your thoughts, observations and, dare I suggest it, your criticisms, so we can find out what matters to you and make sure we cover it. Are there any concerns you have? Anything you have to share? Just send us an email at edit@caring4sussex.co.uk, write to us at the address in the information panel, or pick up the phone.

We are also going to revamp the website – so look out for that – and join us on Facebook and Twitter.

Without further ado, please delve into this Autumn issue of C4S. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did putting it together.

Front cover photos © Jigsaw Design & Print

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Caring 4 Tradition Now hear this! Women town criers cry out for Sussex.

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Caring 4 Loneliness Wired to the world: how modern communications are helping to beat loneliness in residential care homes.

10-11 Caring 4 News Stop Press – UK care news wrap-up.

14-15 Caring 4 Heritage Lord of the manor: Downton Abbey star and Sussex homeboy

Hugh Bonneville tell us there’s no place like home and why the Weald and

Downland Musem helps him link the past, present and future.

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Caring 4 Books On the Shelf: Bookworms prepare to burrow with latest best reads.

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Caring 4 Gardens The season of mellow fruitfulness is ripe for mulch spreading!

Now is the time to prepare your garden for winter.

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Caring 4 Health Health Watch: Silencing the black dog and other tips on how to cope – and beat – depression.

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Now here’s something to shout about!

Sussex leads nation in number of women town criers Bognor Regis follows Arundel and Hastings with an all-‘Oyeing’, all-bell-ringing lady crier.

Bognor’s new Town Crier Jane Smith

Now hear this! Let the good people of Bognor Regis know that the lady in the tricorn hat and ringing the bell is not for whispering.

That’s the message from Bognor’s latest town crier Jane Smith, 54, who joins Arundel crier Angela Standing and Victoria Bartholomew (who shares the role with husband Jon in Hastings) – to prove women have a voice in one of our nation’s cherished traditions.

The traditional role of town crier once combined the work of newsreader and community police officer. Now a ceremonial role and tourist attraction linked to the local mayoral office, 21st century town criers, decked out in their hats, goldbraided regalia and signature

bell, brighten up the high street and public events.

Jane’s appointment could almost be called a bit of a stitch-up. She was employed by Bognor Regis Town Council as seamstress with a special remit to ensure the precious town crier’s attire fitted appointees like a glove.

As Jane explained, when the role became vacant with a drought of applications, she decided to step into the crier’s shoes to keep one of Bognor’s showcase traditions marching on.

“I’ve always enjoyed performing – I have been acting and singing since childhood – as well as dressing up, so this was my perfect role,” said Jane. She’s also

Enhance your events Many Town Criers can be booked for functions and events and charges vary. Some will attend charity functions free but most have either a fixed or suggested fee for private functions such as weddings, banquets and craft fairs.

recently joined Chichester Rock Choir – the perfect place to finetune her vocal chords for her other job.

“My family love it when I’m on a ‘voice rest’ day,” said Jane, who has five children and two grandchildren.

Purple and red regalia are the colours of town criers up and down the land – and as fate would have it, Bognor’s code is purple – which happens to be Jane’s favourite colour.

C4S can reveal it was Worthing’s crier Bob Smytherman who first told us about Jane’s appointment.

So thank you Bob! – proof if needed that town criers still spread vital news.

The addition of the town crest and insignia of the Ancient and Honourable Guild of Town Criers was her own suggestion, with an extra crest on the proclamation roll.

You’re likely to hear Jane at future town events before you see her all dressed up and ready to o-ye the news – but keep your eyes and ears peeled anyway for a walking, bell-ringing and loud note of history.

Town criers – what are they on about?

• A town crier bellowed news and proclamations.

The message was then nailed to an inn doorpost – giving newspapers the term ‘post’.

• The town crier would patrol the streets after dark, shoving ne’er-dowells in the local lock-up or dragging them to the stocks.

• Criers also attended public hangings to announce why felons were destined for the rope.

• The call of a crier, ‘Oyez’ (pronounced Oh Yay), comes from the French ouïr (to listen), and means ‘hear ye’.

• Town criers were protected in the name of the monarch, so their abuse would equate to treason.

• They appear in the Bayeaux Tapestry depicting William the Conqueror’s invasion of England in 1066.

• A group of town criers is called a ‘bellow’.

Source: Historic UK

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Arundel’s Angela Standing

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Now hear this! Latest news from Sussex’s bellow of criers.

Jon Bartholomew emailed to say: “I’m now the reigning UK champion town crier and Victoria and I won best dressed couple at the same competition.”

Congratulations, Jon! You may have a bit of competition from Jane next year.

Angela Standing is a familiar figure at Arundel events.

She tells me, “I’m looking forward to Apple Orchard Day on 21st October. It’s at Herington’s Field and Orchard in Fitzalan Road.”

Jon Borthwick is still town crier in Peacehaven and tells me he was also appointed to Lewes last April, so he is being kept busy.

In Burgess Hill, Neil Batsford has retired after more than two decades in the post, and there is currently no plan to replace him.

We wish him well in his retirement.

Peter White is town crier of Seaford and current Champion of Sussex. He’s celebrating 40 years in post. Find him on Youtube.

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Mr and Mrs Town Crier from Hastings, Victoria and Jon Bartholomew

Ancient and Honourable Guild of Town Criers, said Jane follows in the footsteps of the

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first female crier in England, Mary Ann Blaker.

“Mary took over from her husband Albert in 1914 in Chertsey, Surrey when he went off to serve at the start of World War One,” said Christian, who is Haslemere’s town crier.

Her appointment made global headlines, with the Surrey Herald declaring “the unprecedented instance of a

woman publicly ‘crying’ in England was, like many other things in these times, due to war”.

The Daily Mirror reported that Mrs Blaker “fulfilled her duties most successfully, her voice being quite audible at a distance of fifty yards”.

And newspapers in the US carried the story with the headline: “First Woman Town Crier in England”.

Contact details Jane Smith: Bognor Town Council. 01243 867744.

Bob Smytherman: info@worthingtowncentre.co.uk #cooltowncrier Angela Standing: Contact Arundel Town Hall for a Town Crier booking form. 01903 881560.

Peter White: 01323 897360. peterwhitecrier@hotmail.com Jon Bartholomew: 07712520564. hastingstowncrier@gmail.com Rex Swain: 01797 224172. rexatrye@gmail.com Councillor Geoff Rowe, Hailsham: 01323 841847. rowe.geoff@yahoo.co.uk Jon Borthwick Peacehaven: @Jonoyez on Twitter Jonbee@me.com For more information about Town Criers – www.ahgtc.org.uk

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On-demand modern communications help combat loneliness in residential care – but nothing beats the human factor Never before have we humans and the communities in which we live been so closely connected thanks to digital technology, which allows us to communicate easily across multiple platforms. Yet loneliness is the scourge our times. Recent surveys indicate that almost 75 per cent of older people in the UK feel lonely.

Added to this paradox that overshadows our interconnected world are further reports that claim many nursing home residents suffer depression induced by a feeling of isolation and loneliness; some 60 per cent of those polled said they never receive visitors.

Residential nursing home facilities first and foremost should provide safety and a feeling of security.

But even the best care homes cannot remedy the natural feeling of missing one’s familiar surroundings, and a helplessness in not being able to change

things because of a sense of powerlessness and loss of independence, despite the abundance of human activity and presence of staff and fellow residents.

In well-managed homes with trained and caring staff, such emotions can be allayed through sharing common rooms, meal times, entertainment and a wellstructured care plan.

But once the door of the private room closes, the world can once more become a lonely place. So how best to combat these natural emotions and lessen long-term effects such as depression?

One way is to ensure residents remain in contact from the secure comfort of their own room by offering a range of easy-to-use communication channels, so staff, friends and family are just a click or dial away, and the fast-moving world outside is available to

engage with – or indeed escape from – by surfing the TV’s channels.

Such facilities need to be made available in a personal, convenient way that even bedridden residents can get to grips with.

“Getting out of the room and ideally with regular visits outside the residential care to interact with people, and regular visits from friends, family and volunteers are crucial in combating loneliness” Good nursing homes set the bar in the war on loneliness by taking advantage of modern communications, according to leading care experts.

Affordability, while an issue, should not be an excuse for any care home to deny multiple communications options because digital technology is

becoming ever cheaper and more accessible.

Vicki Rayment, from Age UK West Sussex, said the advent of social media channels, such as FaceTime and Skype, have opened up new lines of communications and can add to the armoury to combat loneliness and isolation.

“But they are only part of the tool kit. Social media and the readily available entertainment offered online, such as puzzles and brain teasers, have a positive impact when residents are supervised on how best to make good use of modern communications,” Vicki told C4S. “Getting out of the room and ideally with regular visits outside the residential care to interact with people, and regular visits from friends, family and volunteers are crucial in combating loneliness.” continued on next page

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On-demand modern communications help combat loneliness Continued from page 7 C4S visited one such connected residential home in Worthing, where all rooms have, as standard, 24-hour highspeed wi-fi, satellite TV, landline handset telephones with personal number if requested, and a two-way intercom alert call button.

“Ensuring our residents are able to contact the outside world, family and friends as well as staff at all times is a priority that we firmly believe helps combat loneliness and isolation,” says Fernbank manager Donna Harwood, a trained senior nurse with more than a decade of residential care experience.

Fernbank manager Donna Harwood

“One vital channel is the option for residents to keep their home telephone number and have it transferred to the personal landline located in their room. This offers a sense of continuity.”

“Human contact is paramount, and as part of our individual detailed care plan we constantly assess who needs more contact” Resident Dorothy Deisch, 87, said the suite of modern communication devices added to her sense of security and independence.

“Having my long-held personal telephone number and own phone adds to the feeling of being at home and having the freedom to make contact when I choose,” she said.

The young don’t have exclusive rights to being addicted to their social media devices, says Donna.

“We have one resident who recently bought a new laptop and is glued to it so we are now having to encourage her interaction with other residents and get her to join in activities that don’t demand a screen – otherwise there’s a risk of her becoming a hermit in her room,” she says.

“Human contact is paramount, and as part of our individual detailed care plan we constantly assess who needs more contact. Offering the full suite of digital communication is must, but it’s only part of the battle to combat loneliness and isolation. Nothing will ever beat human contact and interaction with staff, friends and family, and this remains our priority to encourage and facilitate.”

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Caring and the chocolate factory www.carehome.co.uk A former Terry’s chocolate factory has been re-opened as a luxury care home in what is believed to be first of its kind in the UK, featuring cafes, a bustling marketplace, trees and shops.

The Chocolate Works, owned

by Springfield Healthcare and based on a Dutch model, has a two-storey market square with glass roof mezzanine at the centre, around which trees, walkways, street lamps, shop fronts, outdoor-style cafes and restaurants are laid out – with the public being allowed in sometimes too.

The village, in York, will become home for more than 100 residents who will live in 82 individually designed care suites and eight apartments.

The interactive setting has been designed to be much closer to ‘normal’ life with ‘peace gardens’, a spa and gym, a rooftop terrace and corridors giving residents a greater sense of well-being and independence.

The iconic building was officially opened as a care village by the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, in July.

The Chocolate Works care village provides residential, nursing, dementia, respite, intermediate and rehabilitation care as well as day care.

It is part of the Springfield Healthcare group, which also has a homecare division employing more than 750 people across Yorkshire, Humberside and the North East.

Welcome to C4S’s Care News Round-up, a that you may have missed

Age UK warns of ‘Russian roulette’ choice of care homes Sky News One in four care services are “insufficiently safe” and one in five offer inadequate treatment, according to the largest ever survey of adult social care in England.

The findings of the Care Quality Commission survey of 24,000 providers have prompted charity Age UK to warn that older people are facing a “Russian roulette” choice over care.

The CQC report found 22% of providers were rated as “requiring improvement” or “inadequate” overall, and judged on safety, 25% were rated in the lowest two categories.

The most serious problems were in the country’s 4,000 nursing homes, 37% of which were found to be failing on safety.

The CQC found the homes, which care for around 200,000 people, were struggling to recruit and retain nurses.

Around a third of staff left their jobs within a year, said the report.

Sources of danger to residents included homes not having enough adequately trained staff, residents’ calls going unanswered and insufficient oversight of medication.

Social care is one of the major challenges facing the government, which has promised a consultation in the autumn.

Theresa May’s attempt to tackle the issue, by scrapping a proposed cap on costs and promising no one would be left with less than £100,000 of assets after care costs, ended in an embarrassing U-turn.

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Daily Te Routine brain scanning could improve dementia diagnosis for two thirds of patients, ending years of misdiagnosis, a study has found.

Findings presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in London show that Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans altered the diagnoses for more than two thirds people.

Currently the only way to diagnose Alzheimer’s is to look at the brain of a patient after death.

For living patients, doctors use cognitive tests that monitor memory and everyday skills such as washing and dressing, but the results are often inaccurate.

Scientists find new options for treating arthritis Daily and Sunday Express

Rheumatoid arthritis affects more than 400,000 people in the UK, but scientists may have found a new way to treat symptoms.

The condition usually develops in people between the age of 40 and 50, with women three times more likely to be affected than men. Symptoms include joint pain, swelling and stiffness. It can also trigger tiredness, high temperatures, sweating and weight loss.

Today, patients are given the standard anti-rheumatic agent methotrexate for six months. If they don’t respond they are given a combined treatment of methotrexate and a biological agent that has to be injected every two weeks.

However, the Medical University of Vienna found another, equally effective option – a combination of methotrexate and the chemically synthesised Janus Kinase Inhibitor tofacitinib – taken in tablet form twice a day.

The 1,100 volunteers found the new tablet option produced equally effective results as the current standard combination.

Tofacitinib has been on the market in the USA for some time, but was only recently licensed in the European Union.

Both treatment options contain methotrexate which, according to the NHS, can cause side-effects like nausea, appetite loss, diarrhoea, headaches and hair loss.

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Campaign to recruit carers

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elegraph People with early stage Alzheimer’s can wait up to four years to receive a correct diagnosis because £3,000 PET scans are rarely carried out on the NHS. However PET scans showing the build-up of sticky amyloid plaques in the brain, which prevent neurons from communicating and eventually kill areas, can help with a definitive diagnosis.

Not only do scans pick up problems early, when drugs or lifestyle changes could make a difference, but they could also help reassure people who are suffering mild memory problems that they do not have the disease.

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A minute’s exercise a day could keep osteoporosis away The Independent A study by the Universities of Exeter and Leicester has found that women who do 60-120 seconds of high-intensity weight-bearing exercise a day have a four per cent better bone density than those who do less than a minute.

Women who exercise for more than two minutes develop even stronger bones, with density six per cent higher than those who do under a minute.

After the age of 30, people tend to lose more bone mass than they gain, and the higher your bone density, the lower your likelihood of developing osteoporosis.

You’re also less likely to suffer bone fractures in old age.

The study was conducted on more than 2,500 female

participants, and it’s women who are most at risk of osteoporosis, with bone density declining significantly after the menopause.

According to the International Osteoporosis Foundation, a tenth of women aged 60 are affected by osteoporosis, and this rises to two-thirds of women aged 90.

One in three women over the age of 50 and one in five men of the same age will suffer from osteoporotic fractures.

Lead author Dr Victoria Stiles did say more research was needed to ascertain how best to undertake the exercise to see an improvement – whether short periods of exercise many times a day was better than a longer session less regularly, for example.

“But there’s a clear link between this kind of highintensity, weight-bearing exercise and better bone health in women, and it seems likely that just one to two minutes of running a day is good for bone health,” she said.

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Gillingham News Authorities in Dorest and across the south west are supporting a campaign that raises the profile of care and the positive role of care workers in a drive to recruit the right people to the sector.

Care providers across the country often experience difficulties in recruiting, which in turn affects the availability of care to people who could be living independently at home, or in care homes.

It’s a challenge that local authorities want to address by making people aware of how rewarding and worthwhile care work is as a career choice, and encouraging the positive image that care deserves.

Dorset County Council, Bournemouth Borough Council and the Borough of Poole are joining 13 other local authorities across the south west, and Health Education England to support the campaign, establishing for the first time a regional approach to raising the profile of care.

The campaign website www. proudtocaresw.org.uk features interviews with care and support workers, and links to recruitment portals where care providers across the region advertise their vacancies.

The campaign wants to reach all potential care workers, but is specifically targeting key audiences including younger people and those who have studied for a health and social care qualifications; parents considering a return to work; people aged 50 plus who, with more life experience, might want to give something back to their community; and students seeking employment over holiday periods.

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Put your best foot forward and plan your financial future Many of us don’t think about the need for care until it affects a loved one or we need to consider it for ourselves. Now’s the time to put your best foot forward and ease the worry of paying for care with the help of Carewise.

Set up by West Sussex County Council, Age UK West Sussex, the Society of Later Life Advisers (SOLLA) and West Sussex Partners in Care, Carewise offers people the right advice for their individual circumstances.

Our independent financial specialists have years of experience in supporting people to make well-informed choices about paying for long-term care. Their emphasis is on maintaining a secure income to pay for good quality care, while enabling you to preserve some

assets. To give you added confidence they are all members of SOLLA, approved by Trading Standards ‘Buy with Confidence’ or equivalent local authority scheme, Disclosure and Barring Service checked and trained in safeguarding adults.

Age UK West Sussex offers free impartial advice on a range of issues affecting people in later life. Their Money Advice Service provides confidential information on everything from benefits and budgeting through to debt management.

As we continue to live longer, it’s never been more important to think about our future care.

You wouldn’t take out a mortgage without financial advice. Don’t go without financial advice for long-term care funding.

To find out more go to www.westsussexconnecttosupport.org/ carewise or phone Adults’ CarePoint on 01243 642121 and ask for an information pack.

Did you know October is West Sussex Care Month?

It’s a month packed full of information, events and ideas which will help you to stay living independently in your own home for as long as possible.

As you get older, taking care of yourself can become more difficult. But there are some simple steps you can take that will help make a real difference to your daily life.

Learning new skills can give your confidence a real boost and will keep your mind active.

So why not come along to one of our ‘Digital Tea Parties’?

You’ll find out how to get online, stay safe and make the most of your smartphone, tablet or laptop.

These are taking place at The Selsey Centre, Manor Road, Selsey and at Chichester District Council on October 6 from 2 – 4pm.

As we move into the winter months, it becomes more important to look after yourself. If you’re over 65, visit your GP or pharmacy for your free seasonal flu jab to keep yourself healthy and well.

Perhaps you would benefit from a little extra help and support at home but don’t know where to look? For information, advice, local activities, services and products, visit West Sussex Connect to Support www westsussexconnecttosupport.org.

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Paying for long-term care can be the last thing on your mind until it affects someone you love - or when you need to consider it for yourself. So it’s good to know what information and advice is available when you do need support. Carewise could help you.

Set up by West Sussex County Council, Age UK West Sussex, West Sussex Partners in Care and the Society of Later Life Advisers, it’s there to provide specialist financial advice about care and support options and the most cost-effective ways of paying for long-term care.

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TV star Hugh Bonneville opens £6m museum Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville talks exclusively to C4S about his love for the Sussex countryside, history and his ‘occasional wobble’ on the magnificent South Downs. Debbie Mason also discovers a fine poet residing in him.

This is my land.

Looping birds, and the calls of seas and winds Of names and faces where I loved and roamed and found and lost.

This is my land.

Open armed and hard, flowing and pulsing through the flint and clay, And such sights As the imagination fills a summer’s day.

This is our land.

No flag or border here, no party colour.

Only the hues of tree and field and barrow, The allegiances of man and earth.

By Hugh Bonneville

Either the rumours are true and he is quite a remarkable actor, or Hugh Bonneville really does have a genuine passion for Sussex and its countryside.

The world-famous film and TV star, 53, talks for 20 minutes about his devotion to Sussex, where he lives discreetly with his wife, Lulu, and teenage son, Felix, before we even get to the reason for our interview – his opening of the new £6 million buildings at the Weald and Downland Living Museum near Chichester. More of that in a minute.

But first, I wonder if he’s reading from a script when he describes the county he has adopted as his own.

“You can walk in any part of West Sussex and feel the ruts of history beneath your feet,” he tells me. “You can find paths

South Downs photo by Peter Lovett. www.peterlovetttalks.co.uk

along the furrows that have been there for centuries, on the whale-back downs of the east, to the wooded downlands of the west – and there are so many hidden gems along the way. You feel connected to the countryside. I just walk out of my front door, and there it is.”

Hugh says he is undisturbed by his neighbours in the rural idyll in which he lives: he can go to his local pub without fear of autograph hunters, although the odd supermarket can become ‘interesting’. But it’s the Downs he loves.

“The Downs are connected with topography and there’s no sense of county, or creed. Going up there takes you out of the everyday obsessions and bombardments that you face.

You are forced to be at one

with the terrain around you. In the very simplest terms, you are reminded of nature and the elements and there’s nothing more enlivening and enriching, away from the traffic lights and the entertainment.”

Born in Paddington – the title of one of his many films, when Hugh played Mr Brown in the Paddington Bear movie – Hugh moved with his parents to the Midhurst area when he was 14, and has lived there on and off ever since. His wife comes from Petersfield, just over the county border in Hampshire.

“We are on the border,” he says. “My postcode is in Hampshire, but I pay my taxes to West Sussex.”

In an ode to the area, Hugh recorded some of his own poetry to couple with composer Damian

Yesteryear’s workshops are brought to life today

Montagu’s music on In a South Downs Way, the first album in the series of landscape symphonies Walk Upon England, by Decca Records. In a South Downs Way was released in June.

“I have always been drawn to the Downs and to the West Sussex area as a whole,” he says. “I first became aware of the county in the seventies and I think it’s been wonderful to see it develop as a national park.

The sense of pride that it gives, a sense of preservation and a sense of identity – a sense of place and destination.

“At least once a month I’ll take the dogs for a walk somewhere on the Downs – and occasionally a wobble.”

By ‘wobble’ he means run, I confirm.

“I don’t do it very often – but I do sometimes huff and puff my way

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buildings at Weald & Downland along,” he says. Some of his favourite areas are around Harting Down, near Petersfield. “There are some pumping walks up there.”

Three generations of Bonneville at Weald and Downland Eventually we get on to the reason for our call – the swanky new buildings that Hugh opened earlier this summer thanks to a £4 million Lottery grant and £2 million from other donations.

The additions provide a technical boost to the museum, with interactive screen displays aiming at younger visitors, an impressive collection of artefacts, many more of which are held in archives that can be seen by appointment, and a new café and restaurant.

He is almost as poetic about the museum, which his parents took him to as a boy, as he is about the countryside that forms its backdrop just outside Chichester.

“This fantastic museum shows how we have developed over the millennia,” he says. “It shows how our living circumstances have changed over the centuries – it’s very evocative. It’s a source of imagination, and with all the re-enactments that take place it’s a form of preservation – the crafts, the wool-making techniques.

“I can remember our actual village blacksmith. I used to go and watch him. But this is something that people will not even know existed. This museum memorialises him. It makes us understand more about how today’s generation evolved.

“Even Steve Jobs and Apple grew out of something that came before.”

Hugh has followed in the footsteps of his parents in taking his own son to the museum.

“I can remember wheeling him round and hoping he’d nod off,” he says. Today, in a kind of generational full circle, he brings his 91-year-old father.

“I’ve taken him there and although he’s not in the best of health, it’s a form of solace and reassurance for him,” he says.

“It can affect and touch people of all ages. My parents used to take me in the late seventies.

It’s developed so much – there are always new things being constructed, with techniques in the workshops demonstrated today that were used in the past.

“It’s a living museum. It shows you how the way we live as human beings has evolved – from building roofs over our heads to finding food to put in our tummies. We may not always learn from the past when it comes to politics, but here we learn how culturally and aesthetically our lives have changed.

“The new building is a great new addition. It’s a fabulous new cafe, compared with the old one where you had to wait and hope for the best.”

We don’t talk about Downton Abbey, the ITV period drama about a landed family that became an international hit,

and Hugh’s leading role as Lord Grantham – partly because I was warned off by Hugh’s agent but mainly because it wasn’t relevant.

Even so, next time you’re wandering up a deserted downland track, should you see a man in his fifties wheezing along behind a pair of Tibetan terriers – you might just doff your cap.

Visit Hugh’s website at www.hughbonneville.uk to see the charities he supports, including theatre groups and WaterAid. By accessing online retailer Amazon through Hugh’s website you will automatically donate to charity at no extra cost.

50-year-old museum showcases 950 years of history It took 10 years’ planning for the three new buildings of the Gateway Project to turn from concept into reality – as well as £4 million from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and another £2 million from donations. It was all done with the ethos of the museum in mind, with 60,000 hand-crafted sweet chestnut roof shakes cladding the barn-like structures, which now house a modern exhibition space with interactive displays and a new café.

The museum will celebrate its half century in 2020, when it will mark 50 years since a group of enthusiasts led by museum founder Dr J R Armstrong, MBE, set up a home for buildings they had managed to save from demolition around the southeast of England. Some of these buildings date back 950 years.

The museum’s many buildings are made to work, as well: the cottages have vegetables and fruit growing in their gardens, the mill produces flour, there’s a blacksmith in the smithy and plans are afoot to open a functioning dairy and bakery as well.

“Our museum isn’t a stately home telling the story of lords and ladies – it is a cultural preservation of ordinary people,” chief executive Martin Purslow told C4S. “It’s about saving our cultural heritage, and what makes us English. We want people to look around them, and we hope people go away from here valuing a little bit more that building on the corner in their own communities.”

Hugh Bonneville with museum CEO Martin Purslow.

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s Car ing 4 Book Research is put to the fore in this season’s book review.

Always in My Heart

Jane Austen at Home

Need You Dead

Pam Weaver Published by PanMacmillan Price £6.99 Paperback ISBN 978-1-4472-7592-3

Lucy Worsley Published by Hodder & Stoughton Price £14.99 ISBN 978-1-473-63224-0

Peter James Published by Macmillan Price £20 Hardback ISBN 978-1-5098-1631-6

Few fiction writers put themselves in danger while researching their subject matter, but Peter James admits to having a few scary moments during his sorties with Brighton police. His efforts are worthwhile as all his murder mysteries are full of factually correct police and forensic details. His latest offering is no exception, following detective Roy Grace’s personal life and on-going themes from previous books as well as providing a plot with ever-more suspects as you read on.

This year’s festival of words, entitled Modernism – writing a new world, runs from 28th September to 19th October and tickets are now on sale.

The programme includes the wonderful broadcaster, author and vicar of Firle, Glynde and Beddingham, Peter Owen-Jones, among other artists and writers of varying fame. For children they have a Michael Morpurgo play and storytelling session and there’s a new improved Poetry and Short Story Slam. The finale is an evening with Atilla the Stockbroker and Murray Lachlan Young.

This is the seventh Wordfest and congratulations must go to Rosalind and her team.

Further details of the events can be found at www.shorehamwordfest.com and tickets are at Ropetackle, Little High Street, Shoreham, www.ropetacklecentre.co.uk with brochures available from shorehamwordfest @yahoo.co.uk

Last fisherman – latest news and a mystery solved.

Friday 21st July saw the launch of the Last Fisherman Standing exhibition on Worthing Pier.

Information gathered by volunteers is displayed, alongside the work of local schools, in the panels nearest to the southern pavilion.

Local art group Creative Waves has done a great job in putting the exhibition together. The Heritage Lottery funded project, first brought to you in our Spring issue – still available on www. caring4sussex.co.uk – will run for another year and include workshops, talks and further exhibitions.

Anyone interested in contributing to the project should go to www. lastfishermanstanding.org.uk In the Spring issue we showed a fishing boat called Shamrock but at the time we were unable to find any details about it.

However, at the launch party,

Worthing fisherman Norman Bashford said it had belonged to Mr Dunford of Park Road.

We’d love to know where the boats shown below are now – if you have any information regarding their whereabouts or history, please contact us on edit@caring4sussex.co.uk .

Shamrock, Ophir and Rose on Worthing Beach c 1920

Photograph © West Sussex CC Library Service

I do love a well-researched novel and Pam Weaver never disappoints. This story starts away from her usual Sussex setting, in Canning Town – a poor area of London in the 1930s – but moves back to Angmering and Worthing with the evacuation of the city’s children.

To her own experiences in nursing, Pam adds accurate details of East Londoners’ lives and attitudes in the early years of the war. Readers local to Angmering will recognise the places in the tale of twins, Shirley and Tom, billeted with a cruel farmer and his frightened wife. Although most evacuees were placed with appropriate foster parents, it was a horrific experience to be sent away from home, not knowing where they were going or for how long. These two children were the victims of a man who convinced everyone he would treat them well – but then cruel people are always good at fooling others. It’s a gripping storyline that keeps throwing up surprises right to the end.

Fans of Lucy Worsley who were surprised not see Worthing included in her television programme about Jane Austen will not be disappointed with the coverage in this book. Jane Austen stayed in Worthing, as mentioned in our last issue, at Stanford’s cottage – now Pizza Express – and based much of her final, unfinished novel, Sanditon, on the town and its people. This is a volume packed with information about the places Jane Austen lived and stayed during her short life.

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Carin g 4 Gardens

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The growing season may be coming to an end – but work in the garden certainly isn’t, and winter doesn’t necessarily mean an end to colour. In the first of our new gardening columns, Mike Burton, of the family-run Rotherhill nursery in Stedham, Midhurst, shares his greenfingered expertise on what you should be raking over for the next three months.

“Do a slow-release granular feed on garden trees, hedges and shrubs that have been planted in the last two years to help keep them healthy through the winter,” says Mike. “This makes a big difference when it comes to

healthy new leaf production in the spring. It also helps keep the evergreens looking glossy.

Make sure feed is applied before mid-September.”

It’s a good idea to give your trees and shrubs a health check, marking any dead or reverted branches with a piece of ribbon so that when all the leaves have dropped off you’ll know which branches to cut off during your winter trimming and tidying.

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pot-grown equivalents and more often than not are a better, fuller plant. At Rotherhill Nursery we specialise in root balled-hedging including yew, laurel, beech and more.”

So get your privet in place now, but remember you will need to prune these once or twice a year, depending on how formal-looking you want your hedge to be.

• Plant hedges, trees and shrubs • Feed trees, shrubs and lawn • Spread mulch

• Rake up leaves and add to a pile for next year’s mulch • Mark up any dead branches for chopping off later • Plant bulbs

So how to make it?

You can use anything – modest amounts of grass clippings, bark, those tree branches you’re going to chop off if shredded – but autumn leaves are perfect and of course will soon be abundant. And

Mike also says a good way of strengthening grass roots and keeping your lawn looking great through the winter and give it a head start for the spring is to put down a good autumn feed.

Borders for all seasons “Put a good layer of garden mulch on your borders during the autumn months to improve the soil for the following spring,” says Mike. “It also retains moisture, improves soil structure and makes the borders look very clean and tidy.”

A good layer of mulch will also keep weeds at bay.

If you haven’t prepared your mulch for this year don’t worry, you can use a layer of compost – but rake up those autumn leaves now and get them in a pile so you’ll have a good amount for this time next year.

before you put down your first layer, autumn is a good time to stick in your bulbs, while the ground is still warm and moisture levels are good.

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C4S Health Watch

Welcome to C4S’s new health column, in which we will examine one health problem each issue. For our first column we spoke to Lucy Harmer, director of services at the charity Independent Age, who told us that although more and more older people are suffering with depression, there is help out there – it’s just a case of knowing where to look.

Depression doesn’t have to be a black hole – there is help out there Media reports are full of statistics showing that depression is on the rise, with more antidepressants being prescribed than ever.

The reports cite work, education and relationship pressures as among the top reasons for this growing angst – yet for a retired, older person it is precisely the disappearance of these pressures that can have the same despairing effect, along with an increasing likelihood of bereavement and ill health.

According to NHS statistics, 22 per cent of men over 65 and a whopping 28 per cent of women in this age group have been diagnosed with depression.

Yet many older people tend to suffer in silence.

“Older people grew up at a time when it was less easy to ask for help,” says Lucy. “They can find it very hard to even admit they are lonely and

depressed, and one of the key obstacles to seeking help is they feel they would be adding a burden to others.”

The situation is changing, in part thanks to celebrities like Esther Rantzen, who was the first person to highlight the issue in the media, says Lucy.

(Esther’s Silver Line number is at the top of page 16.)

“People can find it hard to motivate themselves and experience a loss of interest in things they previously enjoyed.

Sometimes they turn to alcohol, or over eat, or their sleeping patterns become disturbed. But there is help out there – they just don’t always know how to find it,” says Lucy.

So where to go if depression sets in? The first port of call should be the GP – and it really is their responsibility to help, so put aside any feelings of embarrassment and make an appointment.

FACTS • In older people (65+) 22% of men and 28% of women live with depression.

• Yet it’s estimated that 85% of these do not seek treatment.

• Depression is not a normal part of ageing. It can be treated.

• 5 key reasons for depression in older people are discrimination, lack of participation in activities, poverty, physical health, relationship problems.

• In 2014, over 65s made up 18% of the population.

“They will have all the necessary numbers to refer people to,” says Lucy. “And if they prescribe medication, that might be worth trying.

There is a stigma attached to antidepressants but they can also have an extremely positive effect.”

Lucy says there is evidence to suggest that more active people do not suffer as much

when it comes to depression.

Just one regular activity a week adds structure and purpose.

Independent Age has lots of advice on its website, www.Independentage.org, and the charity’s helpline number is 0800 319 6789. It also has suggestions for anyone wanting to help, from a weekly half-hour phone call to visits, shopping assistance and giving advice.

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Carin g 4 Travel

T is for Thailand, Tahiti, Tibet – and Telford!

When Denise Tayler decided to retire as Editor of C4S she got out her travel bucket list, snubbed the sun and instead embarked on a journey of discovery into the heart of Britain’s illustrious heritage.

Ironbridge: Built in 1779, the Iron Bridge in beautiful Shropshire is one of the most famous landmarks that pinpoint where the Industrial Revolution began. The village of the same name lies along the River Severn.

Following my recent decision to retire from publishing (see Editor’s letter page 3) I inevitably thought about a trip away to begin my new adventures.

Thailand? Isles of Scilly? New York? All desired destinations, all on the list.

However, as I browsed through my Woods Travel brochure I realised there’s a

whole strip of the UK that has somehow always passed me by – the middle bit.

Before I could say ‘Industrial Revolution’ I found myself and friend transported by taxi to a luxury coach that took us to Telford and the Union Canal for a fabulous five-day tour.

Staying in the beautiful fourstar Telford Hotel resort, set in 170 acres of Shropshire countryside, we were impressed by the friendly staff, fine dining, indoor pool and spa facilities.

We began each day with a lovely swim to kick off each day’s exciting adventure.

Our first tour was to Norbury for a cruise on the Shropshire Star Union canal narrow boat – interesting to think about our industrial heritage, now turned over to wildlife habitat – including the human kind.

This was followed by a guided tour of the gorgeous stately home at Weston Park.

We then travelled west to the ruins of Wroxeter Roman City to discover urban living 2,000 years ago, with a guided tour and wine tasting at the vineyard.

Other excursions included a visit to the Shugborough Estate to see the mansion house, including a working Georgian farm and beautiful gardens.

Each day was different, with plenty of time to explore and enjoy local food and drink.

Then just when we thought they couldn’t pack in any more, we headed south to Ironbridge to gaze over the iconic bridge, before continuing our journey home, making suitable refreshment stops en route.

We could not fault the service of Woods Travel, hotel staff and our driver, and had a real laugh with our fellow passengers along the way.

Now where’s that list for my next adventure?

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