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Issue No. 37

From the Editor

Like most people, I love the spring.

Regular readers may remember last year’s feature ‘On the trail of bluebells’ – here’s proof I took my own advice and enjoyed the sight and smell of our favourite native wild woodland flowers.

This year I’ve decided to stretch myself a little and am taking Nordic walking classes, a kind of cross-country skiing, reckoning that I could do with exercising my top as well as the bottom half while walking.

The leaflet promised ‘an excellent way to exercise and enjoy the great outdoors – for all ages and abilities – using 90%

of the body’s skeletal muscles’.

I was surprised how much there is to it.

Even the poles were intriguing to learn about, made of light carbon steel, with detachable click-on straps, and pop up rubber paws enclosed around quite vicious spikes.

A whole new world opened up to me, and I definitely had fun too.

I hope whatever your fitness level you’ll find time to explore our beautiful county and get out to smell those bluebells or visit our ponies on the Downs – with or without sticks or poles!

If you missed our feature last spring you can read it online as a page-turner via our website www.caring4sussex. co.uk. Go to back issues, issue 33, and also issue 35 ‘Ten hidden wildlife gems in Sussex’.

Spring 2017

Our Cover Artist: Gerard Byrne We are delighted to feature the work of Gerard Byrne, one of Ireland’s leading contemporary artists, on our cover. Gerard was born in Dublin and first visited Brighton in 2015 when his wife, the Landscape Architect Agata Byrne, was invited by garden designer, Andy Sturgeon, to undertake work experience in his Brighton office.

The couple came down and spent two weeks there, during which Gerard built up a strong collection of landscape paintings of local scenes, including this beautiful plein air painting of The Palace Pier.

Agata was offered a job and a month later they relocated from London. A collection of Gerard’s Brighton and London

inspired plein air paintings will be available for purchase at the upcoming Battersea Affordable Art Fair from 9 -12 March, from The Doorway Gallery, Dublin, stand F2.

See more at: https:// affordableartfair.com/fairs/ battersea-spring Gerard’s works hang in the Irish Government’s Art Collections and in numerous commercial and private collections worldwide.

For more information see: www.gerardbyrneartist.com

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8 Caring 4 Heritage Worthing’s fishing heritage 9 Caring 4 Home Goring Carpets Page

11 Caring 4 You Sussex Housing & Care 13 Caring 4 Nature Sussex meets the New Forest

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15 Caring 4 Books Wendy Greene’s spring suggestions 18 Caring 4 Health Dr Sarah on the current A&E crisis

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Lights, Camera, Action!

Steeped in history with picturesque towns and villages, Sussex is a television and filmmaker’s dream.

Julie Singleton discovers ten locations which have featured in some of our best loved TV series.

1. Brighton Countless films and TV programmes have been set in Brighton throughout the years from ‘Brighton Rock’ to coming of age film ‘Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging’, due to its naturally cinematic quality and cosmopolitan atmosphere.

Channel 4 drama series Sugar Rush, based on the novel of the same name by Brighton journalist Julie Burchill, uses the bright lights of the city as a backdrop to Burchill’s story of 15-year-old Kim’s move to Brighton and her earth-shattering crush for new best friend and bad girl, Sugar.

Numerous locations throughout the city are featured, from the exotic exterior of Brighton Pavilion to the eclectic sights & sounds of the North Laine where Kim and Sugar go on a shopping spree, and the Victorian arches along the seafront where the girls ‘hang out’.

The series showcases the seafront and promenade, including Brighton Pier and the derelict West Pier.

In the last year, ITV crime dramas The Level and Unforgotten have been filmed in the city to provide an edgy and contemporary feel to these two fast paced thrillers.

2. Shipley Windmill, Horsham Shipley Windmill, near Horsham, was the fictional home of magician turned detective, Jonathan Creek, for twenty two episodes of the popular BBC 1 series.

A film crew of forty, with catering wagons, wardrobe, dressing rooms, plus a vast quantity of equipment including camera cranes, descended on the quiet village of Shipley for each episode.

The exterior and interior of the mill were dressed, with the meal floor converted into Creek’s plum coloured study and filled with furniture.

The mill is no longer open to the public but can be viewed from the adjacent footpath.

For more information see: www.shipleywindmill.org.uk

3. Midhurst Several episodes of World War II drama Foyle’s War were filmed in the market town of Midhurst, which was transformed into a 1940s set and embellished with authentic props, including Christopher Foyle’s 1930s Wolseley police car.

Church Hill was used for exterior shots, which meant that the World War Two inscriptions on the war memorial had to be obscured for continuity.

Hastings was also a central location for the drama, including a four bedroom house in Croft Road which was used as Foyle’s home.

4. Bishop’s Palace Gardens, Chichester Gardening super sleuths Rosemary & Thyme found dubious goings-on in Chichester when Bishop’s Palace Garden was featured in the episode ‘In a Monastery Garden’.

The duo ‘restore’ the beautiful formal gardens for a fictitious millennium celebration with Chichester Cathedral, the Deanery and the Treasury in Canon Lane also featured, along with popular shopping spots, South and West Street.

The Cathedral is open every day and all year with free entry, along with Bishop’s Palace Gardens. See: www. chichestercathedral.org.uk for more information.

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7. Rye, East Sussex

TV cops swarmed over Worthing Town Hall and the Assembly Hall when both buildings were used to film court scenes for ITV drama Cuffs in 2015.

The eight part mini-series, which also used Brighton as a central location, portrayed the lives of front-line police officers with Adur Civic Centre in Shoreham transformed into a police station complete with cell block and custody suite.

Worthing Pier featured in 90s comedy series Men Behaving Badly when Gary attends a conference in Worthing, and Dorothy, Deborah and Tony tag along for the trip. Gary Lineker also strode along Worthing seafront in an advert for Walker’s crisps.

The stunning medieval town of Rye was the setting for BBC series Mapp and Lucia, based on Edward Frederic Benson’s witty and satirical collection of novels of the same name.

Miranda Richardson and Anna Chancellor played the title characters Elizabeth Mapp and Emmeline ‘Lucia’ Lucas, while Rye became the fictional seaside town of Tilling.

Lamb House in West Street, where author Benson lived in real life, was featured in the series as the home of Mapp.

It is now owned by the National Trust and open to visitors on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from April to October. See: www. nationaltrust.org.uk/lamb-house for more details.

Worthing Assembly Hall

Lamb House dates from the early 18th century in Rye, East Sussex, © National Trust Images David Sellman

6. Brighton City Airport

8. Arundel Castle

The Art Deco splendour of the listed terminal building at Brighton City Airport was a natural choice for the makers of ITV crime series Agatha Christie’s Poirot.

‘Death in the Clouds’ and ‘Lord Edgeware Dies’, were both filmed in the three storey snowcrete rendered building, which opened in 1936. In the former episode, Poirot arrives at the airport following a flight from Paris, during which a notorious French moneylender has been murdered with a poisoned dart.

More recently, the terminal building featured in an episode of the Netflix series The Crown.

Arundel Castle was one of several locations used for Henry V as part of The Hollow Crown, a series of BBC television adaptations of William Shakespeare’s history plays.

The medieval castle has also featured in numerous films including Young Victoria and The Madness of King George and was even used in an episode of cult sci-fi series Doctor Who. The castle is open to the public from Saturday 1st April to Sunday 29th October, Tuesdays to Sundays inclusive. To find out more, visit: www.arundelcastle.org

Arundel Castle photo: By permission of Arundel Castle Trustees Ltd.

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9. Billingshurst Eighties sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles, starring Richard Briers and Penelope Wilton was filmed in Billingshurst near Pulborough in West Sussex.

Several locations were used for exterior shots, including Dell Lane which became The

Close where the main characters Martin and Ann Bryce lived, along with their neighbour and ex-army officer Paul Ryman. The nearby Six Bells pub featured for exterior shots of their ‘local’ and filming also took place in Littlehampton.

The iconic seafront bandstand at Eastbourne is a popular location for both film and tv, including series such as Foyle’s War, Agatha Christie’s Poirot and Marple.

Eastbourne’s five star Grand Hotel featured in the 2004 episode of Agatha Christie’s Marple, ‘A Body in the Library’, when Miss Marple enters her suite and comments on its extravagancy.

Nearby Belle Tout lighthouse was the main location for 80s feminist series The Lives and Loves of a She Devil, based on the novel

by Fay Weldon. It is now a unique bed and breakfast where you can enjoy waking to a stunning view – see www.belletout.co.uk for more details.

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Worthing’s fishing heritage celebrated Wendy Greene has an inside view of a fascinating project

Worthing’s fishing beach. c.1920.

When Fran Corney and Anne Weinhold decided to write about Worthing’s fishermen, they had no idea how it would grab the imagination of the people of Worthing.

The Last Fisherman Standing project has brought together local fishermen, fish-lovers, researchers already working in the library and on local history topics and many more.

At the first meeting we learned how Fran and Anne’s passion for supporting local trades – and understanding more of the local fishing history – led to the decision to manage the Last Fisherman Standing project. With the last full-time fishermen leaving Worthing’s beach in 2015, Anne saw there

was an urgent need to protect and revive Worthing’s beach fleet fishing history and to share the stories of our long standing fishing families.

Fran told us, ‘I came on board after working closely with volunteers and the fishing fleet in Hastings, restoring two 1950s clinker built fishing boats.’

Anne, known to many of us for her Catchbox scheme supporting local fishermen, and her work with Transition Towns and as a director of local enterprise Food Pioneers said, ‘I was absolutely delighted to learn of the success of our funding bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund to research and celebrate Worthing’s fishing history.’

Worthing fish market. c. 1920 Photos © Terry Child Postcard Collection, West Sussex CC Library Service

A table was laden with local history books, photographs and postcards from the Library’s resources supplied

by Martin Hayes, who gave a talk explaining how items can be accessed by volunteers, or members of the public, through the Reference Library.

Anne and Fran now work together with more than twenty volunteers, local businesses and organisations to capture and share the rich fishing heritage of our town with residents and visitors alike.

The second meeting brought together those volunteers who had started to research and some who would be following up and expanding upon this work. For example, those extracting information from the

census passed it to the family tree experts who will, in turn, hopefully find families currently in the town who can be interviewed about memories of their fishing forefathers. This is a project that is going to grow, bringing in many other aspects including art, textiles, housing and much more.

Says Fran, ‘I’m looking forward to continuing to educate and inspire local people about the importance of our fishing heritage.’

Becoming involved with local heritage projects is certainly the best way to glean information about the town and its inhabitants. It’s also fun and you meet like-minded people.

Follow the project on www. lastfishermanstanding.org.uk

Do let us know if you can identify any of the fishermen with the boat ‘Shamrock’ above, or if your ancestors were Worthing fishing folk.

Fran and Anne

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Sussex meets the New Forest Julie Singleton catches up with some new South Downs Landscapers conservation task of grazing the rare chalk grassland to maintain this precious habitat. In doing so they are also helping to protect the important archaeological features at Cissbury Ring, by preventing the growth of scrub.’

New Forest ponies are particularly suited to the conditions on Cissbury Ring as they are hardy, intelligent and resourceful, browsing hawthorn berries, young trees and thistle buds, as well as grass. This means that wildflowers such as the round headed rampion, known as the ‘Pride of Sussex’, are given the space and conditions to thrive.

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s Car ing 4 Book Wendy Greene’s spring suggestions The Secret Shore

Shoreham Harbour Lifeboat Station

Tales of Folklore and Smuggling from Sussex and Hampshire

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The Secret Shore project began when Chris Hare called together a number of volunteers to study a book intriguingly entitled West Sussex Superstitions Lingering in 1868. It was written by Charlotte Latham, published in 1878, and discussed a number of practices and superstitions, many of which have continued to modern times, others no longer encountered. In 1978 local author/historian Jacqueline Simpson had written her own book The Folklore of Sussex, using written records as its source, but Chris wanted to compile a modern volume using our personal knowledge alongside interviews with local people. It proved a fascinating experience and Chris has pulled together all the research into one book, adding the subject of smuggling, on which he is frequently asked to give talks.

As well as being a historical document, it also makes a great coffee table book. In addition the project is preserving traditional songs and shanties which are being taught across the area. Also available on CD from the address above.

Your Library – use it or lose it I was surprised to discover that many people who use the library for reference, meetings or just to read the papers, aren’t actually members. If Libraries are to remain open, they have to prove their worth and one of the best ways is to have lots of members.

Being a member brings more advantages than just being able to borrow books and music. There are many events and online facilities, including training, open to all members, mostly free of charge. These include business drop-ins, family history drop-ins, talks by authors as well as access to electronic resources, such as Encyclopedia Britannica and Ancestry.

Many people nowadays only buy books from charity shops, which is great for the charity but not for the poor author who has spent months perfecting it. However, if an author fills in an application form, they can claim a royalty from the library for loans. The added bonus to you for borrowing books is that you will soon become aware of all the other events, opportunities and services available, and while you’re there you can join their mailing list to be kept up to date. www.westsussex.gov.uk/libraries

Local favourite, poet Marianne Barber, has brought out a compilation of flower-inspired poems, some from earlier books, some new.

Beautifully descriptive – like a walk through a garden. Entitled A Plant Called Jezebel, it is £5 from Amazon.

This book is informative and exciting at the same time. As well as the specifications of boats, details of crew and historical information, there are action stories of lives saved by the Lifeboat crews. When you read some of the chapters you may well feel you are right there on board – the descriptions are so vivid. These dedicated men and women are all volunteers, many going out in all weathers at a moment’s notice, others working to keep the station in tip-top condition, deal with administration or raise funds. This includes both authors. Credit must also go to the photographers, especially for those fantastic action shots. All proceeds from the book will go to the RNLI. To support the RNLI and receive regular updates, please contact them as above.

Sunday 9th April

Booking essential

EAT, DRINK AND BE ENTERTAINED Yes they’re back! The popular Worthing Wordies present an evening of excerpts from plays, books and poems on the theme of food and drink.

An hors d’oeuvres of words to whet your appetite for the delicious two-course meal to follow.

All this and a glass of wine for just £19.95.

Please arrive by 5.45pm The performance will start promptly at 6pm.

01903 230 451

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Connect to Support Confused about your care options? Connect to Support is a One Stop Shop that can help you.

West Sussex Connect to Support is a one-stop-shop for information, advice, products and services relating to adult social care.

You can find a wide range of information and advice about conditions such as dementia, mental health, disabilities, leaving hospital, health and wellbeing and caring for someone. It also has a directory of local community activities and a marketplace where products and care services can be purchased.

You can complete a selfassessment to help you think about your situation, which you can send to the County Council when asking for an assessment, or you can use it to help you plan and buy your own support.

There is also a financial selfassessment which can help you think about your finances and give you an indication of local authority funding.

If you want to find out how to live independently for longer, support a friend or relative, buy a piece of equipment, look up services in your area or compare care products, West Sussex Connect to Support is the place to start. Visit www. westsussexconnecttosupport.org to find out more or call Adults’ CarePoint on 01243 642121 if you need help to use the website.

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Inform, debate & share issues – a symposium on End of Life Care

West Sussex Partners in Care (WSPiC), the local not-for-profit care association representing care provider services across

West Sussex, is holding a oneday symposium on 20th March in Billingshurst, which will address end of life care in the County.

The aim of the event is to inform, debate and share issues on how we can best support individuals in the terminal stages of life so that they achieve a ‘good death’.

The symposium, which brings together social care and health professions, will include personal testimonies from relatives whose loved one’s wishes on how they wanted to die were supported and achieved, in contrast to cases where such planning and support were lacking.

Attendees will hear about important work being undertaken around West Sussex to support those approaching end of life. Fellow contributors

will address legalities in end of life care, the importance of education and training in supporting those at the end of life, and the part played by supporting excellence in care within residential settings or the individual’s own home.

Places can be booked via the WSPiC website www. westsussexpartnersincare. org (a fee will be levied for delegates from non-WSPiC member organisations). For more information please contact WSPiC via admin@ westsussexpartnersincare.org or call 07801 194091, or visit the WSPiC website.

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Carin g 4 Health

How to solve a problem like A&E Seemingly not a day goes by at the moment without another hospital based drama in the press.

Waiting times are up, four hour targets broken, people dying on trollies in corridors, staff weeping and politicians of all flavours blaming each other.

So what is the truth?

The truth, disappointingly, is complex. There are no easy soundbites or quick fixes. But complexities don’t make easy tabloid headlines, or fit into the ‘News in Briefs’ from Charmaine of Croydon.

In the Olden Days, Emergency Care was just that. You’d had a heart attack or stroke, you’d been plucked from a house fire, from under a train or out of a car you’d wrapped around a tree. The illness was acute (i.e. sudden, immediate and usually life or limb threatening). You were conveyed by blue light ambulance where you were hopefully prevented from dying, fixed and sent home. When I was a child, an ambulance in the street meant some serious sh*t was going down. This is no longer always the case. Thanks to Dr Google, NHS 111, general health paranoia and easy access to 24hr everything, everyone is an expert and expectations are high. It seems as though

everything is an emergency.

As a nation we are encouraged to have every bump and snuffle ‘checked out’ by a medical professional.

Pre-hospital services are stretched to breaking point as they convey many nonemergencies to hospital via ambulance, leaving fewer vehicles available to respond to true emergencies.

Primary care is overwhelmed by the worried well, by selflimiting viral illnesses and soft tissue injuries, leaving chronic health problems and first presentations of more serious illness to wait and so deteriorate. Some politicians would like to blame GPs for the crisis in primary care. If only they would get out of their BMWs and off the golf course and see some patients, it would all go away. I wouldn’t be a GP for every last leaf of tea in China. Their workload is crippling, relentless, lonely and largely thankless.

The real problem in hospital Emergency Departments is FLOW. We generally do see, examine, diagnose and commence treatment on most people well within the hallowed 4 hours. But there is insufficient onward capacity in the rest of the hospital to accommodate

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Dr S a rah’s Case b o ok

Dr Sarah Hone ss trained in Medicine at King’s College , London, and moved to Worthing in 2003, where she trained in An aesthetics an d Intensive Ca re.

She now wor ks with the Sussex Kent and Surrey Air Ambulanc e.

patients after that. The wards are unable to safely discharge patients home because of a lack of social care. This is because social care is not sexy and budgets were cut. Et viola!

So it’s not the fault of the lazy, languid, fat cat GPs, the mercenary locums, immigrants and ‘Health Tourists’. It’s not even the fault of the legions of spirit breaking and energy sapping non-emergency minor ailments that drift through the doors just because they can. It is that the population is older, more complex and more chronically unwell and infirm and the system

outside hospital required to support them needs to be much, much bigger. The problem will only get worse. Today’s elderly are still the stoics and copers of the war years. Lord alone knows what will happen when today’s overfed, flaccid and overentitled youth get old. They’ll need help to open a boiled egg.

The Honess Plan? Get Real.

Open an honest apolitical dialogue. Ring fence money for the NHS, and in particular Social Care. Accept that it will cost.

A lot. And maybe, just maybe, swap Trident for some care homes…?

Views expressed are Dr. Sarah’s personal opinion

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