Caring 4 Sussex Magazine - Spring 2015

www.caring4sussex.co.uk

No. 29 Spring 2015

THE MAGAZINE FOR PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT SUSSEX

Capture the moment – Images with a story to tell

LEISURE • HEALTH • NEWS • COMMUNITY • SERVICES

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Companionship, privacy, security and independence – you’ll find them all, and much more, in an Abbeyfield home.

The Abbeyfield Ferring Society has two houses both serving freshly prepared meals.

Cornwell House accommodates twenty residents in its residential home which is close to local shops and the sea.

Old School House provides supported accommodation for eleven residents in the heart of the village, adjacent to the library and Doctor’s surgery and close to the shops.

We aim to provide quality care in a warm, friendly environment. Respite care can be provided, subject to availability.

We also have a domiciliary support service for people who require some assistance to remain in their own homes. l Friendship, privacy and practical support l Fully trained and caring staff l Residents treated with dignity and respect

Please contact Ruth on 01903 240313 for further details

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Contents 4 Caring 4 Scoops Three photojournalists tell

us how it used to be done 7 Caring 4 You 10 Caring 4 Books A selection recalling past times

Spring 2015 12 Caring 4 Services 14 Caring 4 Heritage A look at the National Archive 16 Caring 4 Directory

11 Caring 4 Voting Looking at the history of elections 18 Caring 4 Health

From the Editor Regular readers will have noticed that often our features are inspired by chance findings of various items at the back of my garage or wardrobe. Cocoa tins filled with old pennies, threepenny bits and farthings, old frocks changed from crimes of fashion into ‘vintage pieces’ using a bit of thought and creativity.

The latest was a tiny black and white photograph of me, aged about three, teddy in tow, standing in a village made of shells – goodness knows where, probably taken by Dad using his ancient box camera. Eventually it was upgraded to a ‘Brownie’ with hot cube flashes, then an awful disc camera – let’s not dwell on that one – all

Of course while amateurs were snapping away over the decades, the professionals were busy travelling to important events around the world documenting history and producing images that have become iconic.

They were serious ethical photojournalists, respecting their subjects and were part of teams of reporters recording wars, royal events and popular celebrities of the day.

For our main feature we’ve picked a sample of just three of those people who all now live in Sussex.

Just off now to download yet another boring picture of the cat, taken on my mobile ‘phone – all those years ago we wouldn’t have believed it!

If you’d like to read back copies of the magazine, see our page-turners online via our website – www.caring4sussex.co.uk

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Dr Sarah tells it like it is in A & E

Janet Bell – our cover artist

It was November 2007 when Janet Bell and her husband Sean opened the Janet Bell Gallery in the pretty town of Beaumaris on the Isle of Anglesey. But it was in Brighton Janet sold her first painting.

“I moved there in 2001 having graduated and worked in an interiors shop in the Lanes,” she tells us.

“A gallery opened next door and I took some of my very early paintings in. They sold one that day so I carried on and had a very successful 2 years with them. Many other galleries found me and that was the beginning of my Art career. I left Brighton in 2003 to make a life in Cheshire, where I’m from originally.”

The Gallery started out as Janet’s studio where she painted and sold a couple of her originals, prints and cards and has since grown into the gallery she dreamed of owning one day.

Janet and Sean didn’t have a master plan. They started selling other bits and pieces that complimented Janet’s own art work, stocking only items they would have in their own home, from handmade artists and designers they loved.

If you visit Anglesey and find yourself near Beaumaris Castle, do drop in to the gallery at 15 Castle Street. They’ve won three Anglesey Tourism Awards for Best Arts and Crafts and work closely with the community in organising events and bringing high profile attractions to the town.

For more information or to order prints, visit www. janetbellgallery.com or call 01248 810043

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London terraced houses.

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In this issue we are delighted to feature three photojournalists – all now living in Sussex – who began their careers taking pictures on film in an era before the notoriety of paparazzi and privacy invasion. Photoshop was unknown, so they had to get it right first time. They were all fortunate in being able to capture images unavailable to others. See pages 4-6

John Periam

John Jochimsen

Marilyn Stafford

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Capture the moment Wendy Greene talks to three Sussex photojournalists who have recorded history

John on board HMS Mersey – with Lt Commander Sarah Oakley

John Periam is best known nowadays for his involvement in the RAFA Shoreham Airshow.

When he left college, his dream was to be a journalist and photographer.

“In three years I was taught by the best and then moved in a different direction. For 40 years I travelled a lot as a veterinary and medical sales person in the days when selling paid well and expense accounts were good. I saw most of the world and fell in love with the Falklands and Nova Scotia – by accident, both these countries inspired me to get my camera out again.”

John moved from Southwold in Suffolk to Shoreham.

“I’d seen the lifeboats in both towns go to sea several times and felt I would like to be involved. Soon I was greasing the slipway and washing the lifeboat down in all weathers, in an induction period that new crew members go through.

“My first call came for the inshore lifeboat and as my confidence grew I was invited to go to sea more. Crews are a

John Periam: Lifeboat at sea

close knit team, with boathouse life extending to social life. I felt part of the community in Shoreham.

“One day I went on a fellow crew member’s boat to see the Red Arrows display at Brighton.

That day changed my life. One of the Hawk Aircraft hit the mast of a yacht and we rescued the pilot, Squadron leader Steve Johnson.”

An invitation to RAF Kemble led to a friendship with the Reds still retained to this day.

I purchased a Nikon and before I knew it my pictures were getting published in magazines and regional press – I reached places others could not.

“The Senior Air Traffic Control at Shoreham Airport Peter Dickerson asked me to help with the then Shoreham Airshow. I started to write words to go with my images.

Peter was my mentor – he gave me confidence!”

Several years later Don Bean MBE and Peter Eager founded the RAFA Shoreham Airshow and invited John to be their Media Spokesperson.

The All England Jumping Course at Hickstead – founded by the late Douglas Bunn – gave John a new direction, and before long he was seeing his equestrian images published.

Some 26 years later he’s still writing features on Riders and Veterinary Surgeons.

“I’ve now extended my horizons into Polo where I have strong links to Hurtwood Park Polo Club in Surrey owned by Kenney Jones – drummer with The Faces Rock Group. Prince Charles to Rod Stewart have filled my camera lenses, often behind the scenes.”

John’s book ‘Shelley the Lifeboat Labrador’ is on Amazon Kindle and now he’s going back to sea to write a book on the History of Shoreham Lifeboat – commissioned by the RNLI. John is Correspondent writing for ‘Fishing News’ with over 300 features published on the state of the Fishing Industry. Many fishermen are lifeboat crew members.

2014 saw the 25th Anniversary of the Shoreham Airshow – now one of the best in the UK – and John is Press Officer. What started in the corner of the airfield and raised £1,300 has now raised just over 2 million pounds for RAFA Funds. As with the Lifeboats, the whole team are volunteers.

“I still use film as my format for taking photographs. It makes one’s mind work more – photography is an art form and every time I take an image that is what I try to achieve. I’ve made many friends in the Media World. Life is all about trust.

I never publish any feature until the subject approves it.”

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Exclusive shots Our second photojournalist also shows high moral standards.

John Jochimsen, now resident in Southwater, was covering the honeymoon of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip in Kenya when news came that her father had died and she was now Queen.

Here was John’s chance to take the first picture of the new monarch, but as she left The Royal Lodge – in respect for her wishes – the three photographers present put down their cameras.

John, the son of a Times newspaper journalist, was born in 1929 in London.

“I witnessed the Depression and saw out the war with my mother while my father continued to work in Fleet Street.

At 16 I joined the government’s Colonial Film Unit, part of the Ministry of Information, moving to its successor, the Central Office of Information after National Service and a period with the News of the World. Then I became Chief Photographer of the PR Branch of the UK Atomic Energy Authority.”

By his early 20s, he had been trusted with high-profile and sometimes dangerous assignments as Britain struggled to hold her colonies together as the end of Empire approached.

During a four month tour of East Africa and the Sudan, he witnessed the start of the Mau

Mau uprising by being shot at.

He captured political struggle and civil unrest in Malaya, Singapore, Borneo and Sarawak where he lived with the headhunting Dyak tribes and became involved with the pirates of Borneo. Other tours took him to Malta, Cyprus, Libya and Liberia.

“In the UK,” John says, “I went behind the scenes at military installations for the Ministry of Defence, gaining a privileged view of the armed forces at work and compiling my unique portfolio. I’ve also photographed Haile Selassie, Winston Churchill, Soviet premiers Khrushchev and Bulganin, US Presidents Jimmy

Carter and Ronald Reagan with his wife Nancy, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, The Queen and Queen Mother, the Shah of Persia, King Hussein of Jordan and the King of Saudi Arabia.

I even covered the building of the QE2 for Cunard over six years.”

John published a war-time adventure and romance, King’s Flight in 2010 before releasing his memoirs 80 Years Gone In a Flash in 2011. His latest book is a picture anthology, Through the Lens of a Photojournalist (2013).

Having retired at 67 to a farm in Slinfold, West Sussex, John, now 85, has been a Sussex police volunteer for more than 18 years. John Jochimsen in Africa

John Jochimsen, today

John Jochimsen: A stack of Puma Helicopters of 33 Squadron at RAF Odiham

John Jochimsen: Churchill with Haile Selassie

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Capture the moment continued

American-born Marilyn Stafford lives in Shoreham where she has been an active Wordfest contributor. Her friendship in Paris with the photographers Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson in the 1950s encouraged her to follow photography as a career, starting as she meant to go on by taking pictures of Albert Einstein. Since then she has photographed and often made friends with many of the world’s most famous people.

Chichester Ship Canal – an outing with a difference A beautiful accessible retreat close to the city sometimes described as the “green lung” of Chichester.

Photograph: Andy Bayes

Chichester Ship Canal passes through 4 miles of open farmland from the Basin to Chichester Harbour at Birdham. It’s a very attractive stretch of water for rowing, canoeing, angling and walking.

At the Basin, there’s Chichester Canal Centre which offers local residents and visitors refreshments, souvenirs, educational and tourist information and boat trips. This is one of the most beautiful locations in the city centre to relax and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. The cafe also offers hot and cold light refreshments, ice creams and confectionery. There’s ample indoor and outdoor seating, both with good views of the activities in the Basin.

Adjacent to the cafe there’s a Visitor Centre located in a 19th century old stable which has been refurbished to provide information about the canal and its history.

Boat trips also depart from the Basin. As well as scheduled daily trips, the boats are available for charter for social occasions including lunch, dinner and evening cruises. Passengers of all abilities are welcome and there is disabled access on both boats.

Watch out for our Fish and Chip cruise, sailing Friday evenings and Wednesday lunchtimes in the summer.

www.chichestercanal.org.uk Tel: 01243 377405

She dined with Eleanor Roosevelt, socialised with Edith Piaf and discussed supporting abused Bangladeshi women with Indira Gandhi after the war there.

Other notable subjects include Joanna Lumley, Twiggy, Sir David Frost and Sir Richard Attenborough.

Marilyn has worked internationally as a photo-journalist doing features, portraits and fashion for Vogue, Harpers/Queen, Albert Einstein by Marilyn Stafford BBC Arts Features, stories…”

The Observer, International In 2013 Marilyn was awarded Herald Tribune and many other an Arts Council grant for her international publications. retrospective exhibitions in As few women were working London, Arundel Museum, as photo journalists in Britain Shoreham (Shoreham Wordfest/ in the early 60s when she Brighton Photo Fringe) and came to live in England, her Worthing (International work helped pave the way for Women’s Day 2014 with today’s generation of women Women’s Hub). Many of her photographers. pictures have been archived In the preface to Marilyn’s in such prestigious collections book on Lebanon, “Silent as The Jean Muir Museum in Stories” (see page 10), writer Scotland, St Martins School of and Prix Goncourt winner Venus Fashion and The Royal Institute Khoury-Ghata says, “Marilyn of British Architects. takes photographs in ways that another person might write.

Her photographs are mini Twiggy by Marilyn Stafford

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It’s more than just hearing There’s a link to memory loss and other health problems For most of our lives, if we are sensible, we have one or two dental checks a year. If we have glasses we will get our eyes checked every other year. Yet how many of us think about taking up the offer of a free hearing test?

Angie McConnell of Ferring Hearing Centre explains, “It may just be that you don’t hear as well as before, but recent studies have shown that as the extent of hearing loss increases, so may the risk of developing dementia.

Hearing loss is a gradual process and the knock-on effect can mean you avoid social occasions as you can hear people speaking but cannot process the words that have been said.

Equally if you are having to strain to hear people or the TV,

your brain is focusing on trying to hear and has less chance of remembering the content of the conversation or programme.

Hearing professionals have long been aware of the negative effects of untreated hearing loss – including social isolation.

Further studies have found that individuals who used hearing aids reported improvements in many areas including their relationships with friends and family members, self-confidence, social life and self esteem. Identifying and treating hearing loss sooner rather than later may have farreaching benefits of reducing the risk for developing Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia and maintaining a good quality of life – for life.

Complimentary hearing tests are carried out in a soundproofed booth at Ferring Hearing Centre or in the privacy of your

home if it is difficult for you to get out. You have nothing to lose – we can reassure you if

nothing is wrong or enable you to learn the options if you do have a hearing problem.

Teeth checked. Eyes checked.

What about your hearing?

Get your FREE Hearing Test Today!

Ferring Hearing Centre, 32 Ferring Street, Ferring, BN12 5HJ Tel: 01903 500636 www.ferringhearingcentre.co.uk Opposite the Library, free parking in front.

Open Saturday mornings. Full Disabled Access.

Welcome In Worthing Community Programme

A Welcome Break for Carers The Friends of Worthing Hospitals are a long established registered charity, formed in 1949 working for the benefit of patients, relatives and staff in the Worthing Hospitals.

We provide medical and non-medical items to enhance the patients care, comfort and stay in our local health care hospitals. Our funding is mainly from bequests, donations our shop, members subscriptions and fund raising.

We aim to supplement the comfort and well being of Patients, Relatives, Staff and Visitors in the 3 local trusts we support:

The Welcome Break aims to provide carers with the opportunity to take a break. While the person being cared for enjoys a sociable morning of activity, the carer can take time out at home or in town.

We enjoy outings to places of interest in the area.

Recently we've been to Broadbridge Heath and Portsmouth historic Dockyard, The Bluebell Railway and other places of interest.

The group is based at 9-13 Crescent Road, Worthing and we meet Tuesdays and Thursdays 10.00am – 3.30pm.

Our shop has moved from the West wing to the main reception area. It is open Monday to Friday from 7am to 7.30pm and Saturday from 8am to 5.30pm The trolley shop provides service on the wards.

Join us and support our work. Help us to make a difference and make YOUR hospital special.

Membership of The Friends of Worthing Hospital costs as little as £5 per year.

Contact The Welcome In on 01903 234497 for more information www.worthingsalvationarmy.org.uk

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Your home could be sold to fund care home fees “We have worked hard all our lives to leave something for our children and grandchildren. Why should the Local Authority get it all?”

It pays to plan in advance, says Glenys Laws at CLS If you have to go into care and you have assets that total more than £23,250 (including the value of your home), you will have to fund your care in full.

A care home could cost to £600£1,000 a week or more. The reality is that your children could end up with very little. Although care might seem only a distant possibility right now, there are important steps you should take now to protect your home.

Married Couples If you and your husband/wife currently have ‘Mirror Wills’ or ‘Joint Wills’ you risk leaving

your share of your home to your husband/wife for it simply to be swallowed up in care home fees. A legal trust arrangement within your Will could save your family tens of thousands of pounds and ensure your hard earned wealth passes to those you choose.

Widowed/Single The options available to you to protect your home are fewer and it is vital you act now.

“I’m protected, I’ve signed my house over to my children” Have you considered what will happen if your child/

children experience marital difficulties and your home forms part of a divorce settlement?

What will happen if your child/ children experience financial difficulties and enter bankruptcy?

Did you know that Capital Gains Tax is payable on second homes, meaning a potentially huge tax bill when your home is eventually sold by your children?

It’s not too late to put it right – just contact us for advice.

protect your home and savings to ensure that you pass as much as possible to your loved ones.

For a free informal consultation at home, or for more information, call Glenys Laws on 01903 200982 or 07931 512448

The good news is that by arranging your legal affairs in advance, you can plan and

Craft sessions for older people in Sussex At Sixty Plus With Us we have fun with craft. We provide specialist craft sessions for older people in Sussex.

There’s something to suit everyone – from jewellery making to needle felting and everything in between.

We host group sessions in care/nursing homes, in sheltered housing complexes, in our open community groups, or even in your own home on a 1:1 basis. We even arrange craft parties to celebrate your special day with friends or family.

We’re a friendly small team with many years’ experience in supporting older people and sharing the joy of creative activity, along with the many benefits that being creative can bring:

• Social inclusion – join in with a group, chat and meet new friends • Mood boosting – create in a supportive and positive environment • Relaxing – immerse yourself in a therapeutic craft activity • Physical health benefits – boost your fine motor skills and keep joints moving • Learn something new – many projects available – choose from our extensive ‘Craft Menu’

We carry specialist equipment to make creativity easier – and our quotes cover all materials.

If you are an establishment, we also provide Outcomes Reports which are useful evidence for client files and for inspections.

Call us now for a friendly chat and a no obligation quote on 07766 310384

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We put you first, and treat everyone individually, offering help and support when you need it, how you need it.

Staff are fully CRB checked, referenced and qualified in Health & Social Care.

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Sixty Plus With Us, 6 Elm Road Portslade, East Sussex BN41 1SA Tel: 07766 310384 www.sixtypluswithus.co.uk Like us on Facebook at ‘SixtyPlusWithUs’

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Are you living with dementia?

There’s help and support available nearby Thanks to recent exposure in the media – with soap storylines and news items from celebrities – Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia are no longer the misunderstood, taboo and needlessly embarrassing topics they once were.

The confidence of those experiencing or caring for people with dementia has strengthened to a large extent because of the work of Alzheimer’s Society. The charity champions the rights of people living with dementia and the millions of people who care for them and supports people to live well with dementia today and funds research to find a cure for tomorrow.

Alzheimer’s Society’s West Sussex Coastal office, at 27 Stone Lane, Worthing offers a range of services for people living with dementia.

West Sussex Dementia Support Service, dementia support workers offer information and practical guidance to help people understand dementia, live with day to day challenges and prepare for the future. Also provides support groups for carers with activity groups for people with dementia running alongside them.

The Centre Club provides a range of activities to promote physical and mental well-being for people diagnosed with dementia at an early age (under 65) and operates on Tuesdays and Thursdays within a familiar and safe environment. Alz Café, for younger people with dementia their carers families and friends, bi-monthly, the cafes provide an opportunity for people to relax, socialise,

meet other people living with dementia and get much needed support in an informal and comfortable setting.

The Dementia Care and Support Service, home care, providing flexible personalised and friendly one-to-one care and support registered with the Care Quality Commission.

The registered manager will work with you to assess your needs and discuss the choices available. Over the past 20 years the service has developed ways to deal with complex needs of those with dementia and their carers, including respite options.

Everything is tailored to your own special wishes and needs.

As one client says, “My mother gets to see another person she can trust and socialise with on the visits. And I have advice

West Sussex Dementia Care & Support Service

For more information phone 01903 262666 27 Stone Lane, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 2BA www.alzheimers.org.uk

Alzheimer’s Society – South East England

and support if things get too difficult.”

All the highly skilled home support workers receive specialist training enabling those they visit to carry on with their lives at home, with personal care delivered in a dignified way. The service is available throughout the West Sussex Coastal area.

The team’s dedication to the standard and continuity of care has been recognised at the 2014 Great British Care Awards.

They’ve won both the National Dementia Care Award and South East Dignity in Care Award.

If you have any questions about dementia or require information about services contact the Sussex Helpline on 01403 213017 between 9.30am – 4.30pm Monday – Friday with a call-back service offered outside these hours.

• Available 8.00am – 11.00pm 7 days a week • Personal Care • Assistance with getting up and going to bed • Preparing and cooking meals • Assistance with shopping • Daily visits available • Accompanied trips out and activities outside the home • Respite for carers

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Behind The Counter

By Pamela Horn Published by Amberley Price £9.99 paperback ISBN 978-1-84868-884-1

Railway Architecture

By Bill Fawcett Published by Shire Books Price £7.95 paperback ISBN 978-0-74781-445-0

A well-researched history of retail, from cottage-based businesses, hawkers and itinerants to supermarkets.

Here’s an excellent book for those tracing the lives of their ancestors, as it tells of the changes and problems encountered by successive generations of proprietors, workers and customers.

Throughout we find that, in some respects, nothing changes.

Every new venture threatens the livelihood of its predecessor, just as the huge out of town supermarkets and Internet

This is a perfect acquisition for anyone who avidly follows Michael Portillo’s railway journeys. On every page you can find pictures and information about railway station buildings from the majestic city terminus to the smallest village halt, from the 1800s to the present. Bill Fawcett, sales threaten small town high streets today. We also learn of the seven-year apprenticeships for drapers, grocers and others, enabling employers to pay little or nothing – often just supplying bed and board – with no promise of work at the end.

a professional engineer, is a keen conservationist.

Books by Marilyn Stafford

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Afternoon Tea, homemade scones, clotted cream and jam available everyday between 3 – 5pm £5.95

Full Afternoon Tea with piano, 2nd & 4th Wednesday of each month £12.50

Stories in Pictures

– A photographic journey through Lebanon in the 1960s

– a photographic memoir.

Published by Saqi Books London.

Forward by Simon Brett.

Limited edition for Shoreham Wordfest 2014.

See Wordfest website for details.

Marilyn’s books are full of poignant photographs many with their own stories captured on film.

Various other Tea Menus available upon request

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Elections past and present in Sussex

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Weird, wonderful and worrying facts

Mid Sussex Election, South Street, Worthing 1910

Kevin Newman – local historian, consultant, tour guide and teacher from local history and heritage support organisation All-Inclusive History – has been tasked with finding the most weird, wonderful and worrying election facts and stories to entertain historians, politicians, journalists, or even just quiz buffs attending the Sussex Elections Past & Present gameshow at The Ardington Hotel on Election Night.

For many years until the Great Reform Act of 1832, Sussex had far more than its fair share of representation in Parliament, with tiny places like Steyning and Bramber each voting in two MPs at elections when huge new industrial cities like Leeds and Manchester had none.

In addition, Sussex had a claim for helping to start the whole concept of representative democracy in Britain, with the Battle of Lewes in 1275 leading Simon de Montford to summons representatives from all over the country for the first time.

Sussex could also have been the scene of a more worrying first if we fast forward from 1275 to the 1930s. The anglocentric rightwing UKIP now have their first parliamentary seats, but back in the days of the Blackshirts and Mosley’s British Union of Fascists, the extreme right wing had their eyes on Worthing becoming their likely first constituency.

Their would-be parliamentary candidate, William Joyce told an audience in Worthing in 1934 that he would thrash Lord Winterton, the town’s Tory MP at the forthcoming election.

Thankfully, the arrest of both Mosley and Captain Charles Bentinck-Budd, Worthing’s fascist leader and town councillor, for inciting riotous behaviour, seems to have scuppered his plans.

Joyce went on to be known as the infamous ‘Lord HawHaw’ who broadcast antiBritish propaganda from Nazi Germany to his home nation throughout the war, and as a result was hanged by Britain in 1946 for treason.

Bramber’s MP in the early 1800s, unlike William Joyce, was not only successful in becoming one of the town’s MPs, but also leader of a much more noble movement than the BUF. We mean of course, William Wilberforce, who eventually led Parliament to abolish the slave trade in 1807. There can be little doubting his moral compass, but his geographical knowledge was perhaps a little more questionable. A famous tale tells how, when travelling through Bramber, Wilberforce, not knowing where he was, asked a local. When told, he replied: “Bramber? This must be the place I’m member for!”

This seems very different to today, when many cannot name the MP who represents them.

Wilberforce’s time as MP for Bramber was the time of ‘rotten’ and ‘pocket’ boroughs where few or no electors in a constituency meant election results were often a foregone conclusion. As Richard Childs says in An Historical Atlas of Sussex, elections were often uncontested – so much so that between 1734 and 1832 no more than 190 out of England’s 489 seats in Parliament had more than one person running for election.

Steyning was one such place where the number of electors was small, leading to corruption and allegations of voters being brought in from outside the borough. These ‘imported’ voters would apparently buy pots and

kettles in the High Street and make a great show of doing so and boiling up with them to show they were inhabitants of Steyning. It would be great if the residents of Steyning were once again to get their pots and kettles out on show on May 7th, to resurrect this old tradition – at least it would make election day more entertaining and people visiting Steyning might get a nice cuppa.

However you spend election day, and whichever party you support, we hope you can join us in the Ardington in Worthing for our election night party.

All-Inclusive History organises events, talks, tours and quizzes for local organisations and care homes. For details, please contact Kevin Newman info@allinclusivehistory.org 07504 863867

We aim to engage people of all ages and backgrounds in heritage and history by supporting organisations of all types.

Adult Learning After school clubs Assemblies Breakfast clubs Campaigns Consultancy Educational Entertainment Exam Preparation Resources

Outdoor Education Plays Research Shows Summer schools Talks Tours Training Trips Workshops

07504 863867 info@allinclusivehistory.org

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Spring clean your legal & financial affairs Having a ‘spring clean’ of your legal and financial papers is a positive step. It may be something you’ve been putting off, but spare a thought for your family who will be the ones left to sort out everything after you have passed away. The exercise could prove to be invaluable – it will definitely save time, and in some cases money, if your family has to employ professionals to assist with administering your estate.

Ten practical steps to dying tidily 1. Shred all out of date paperwork 2. Only keep tax records going back seven years 3. Store all passbooks, share certificates and deeds safely

4. Record usernames and passwords for your laptop/PC, mobile phone, online store accounts and subscriptions – securely, but where your family will find them 5. Ask someone to take on your pets 6. Buy a funeral plan and include details of your wishes in your Will 7. Tell your children where your Will is stored 8. De-clutter your house and loft and make gifts of unwanted items (i.e. charity) 9. Keep your address book up to date 10. MAKE A WILL and keep it up to date Carry out these steps and enjoy the peace of mind that comes with knowing your affairs are in order.

For more information on the services offered at Spofforths or to make an appointment please contact Philip Lansberry on 01403 253 282 or email philiplansberry@spofforths.co.uk.

Care at Home At Melrose, we understand that most people hope to stay independent in their own homes for as long as they can.

Our expert and friendly team are able to make this possible for you with our attentive care and support.

Our care at home service includes: • Personal care • • Housework • • Shopping and light cooking • • Respite services for carers

Companionship Assistance with medicines Assistance with travelling to appointments

Melrose Care gives you and your carers options, we ensure that you are able to choose where you receive your care and to what level you would like us to adapt this care to suit your needs.

Contact our friendly Home Care team to discuss your needs

Diane Heward

Louise Bruce

Liz Seymour

Domiciliary Care Co-ordinator

Owner

Care Manager

“The carers who come to my home are wonderful!”

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Southbourne Supporter Group, near Chichester, raised over £800 at their Winter Supper last November, inspired by BBC TV’s ‘Allo ‘Allo Series.

At any one time St Wilfrid’s Hospice in Chichester cares for around 200 people in the south western part of West Sussex, offering support to their families and friends. In fact, since opening in January 1987, they’ve cared for over 13,000 local people – yet they rely on public support for 88% of the annual running costs. This year they will need just under £6.7 million.

One of their key areas of support comes from 17 local Supporter Groups, made up of friends or colleagues who come together to raise funds – last

year totalling just over £60,000.

The Supporter Groups have been helping the Hospice for over 30 years – long before the Hospice was even built – and although the Groups remain very successful, there’s a real need for new members with new ideas and new energy.

Could you spare some time to join an existing Group or even start one of your own with friends or colleagues?

Fundraising activities range from managing local collection boxes and running raffles, to organising events such as quizzes, music and dance events, coffee mornings, shepherd’s pie lunches and much more. If you can bring some time, enthusiasm and even new fundraising and event ideas – whatever you would like to organise – and bring much-needed support to the Hospice, they’d love to hear from you. The Fundraising Team

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Call Julie Longman, Events and Community Manager on 01243 755827 or email julie.longman@stwh.co.uk

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Visiting the National Archives Nicola Sheeran writes about the exciting genealogical and historical world tucked away at the National Archives in London

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The National Archives at Kew in London contains around 1000 years of nationally important historical documents. Visiting is a must for those of you who

have researched your family history and want to take your discoveries further.

Your first visit may be daunting – many of us have

seen the celebrities standing outside the Archives on family history television programmes.

I recommend their website – www.nationalarchives.gov.uk – for hints on what is necessary before your first visit.

The Archives hold military records – service history and operational records – and family records such as wills, divorce papers and criminal records. There are experts on hand to help you with your research.

A word of caution – you may not always like what you find.

Divorce papers for a distant relation showed a turbulent relationship, with all of the distressing details laid bare.

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Imara-Uganda Education Fund A Sussex-based group helping children to a better life

New Library at Abia Primary School

Uganda suffered twenty years of war. The rebel army destroyed communities, diseases like malaria and HIV spread and many families were broken and unable to pay for education – the future for their seriously disadvantaged children seemed hopeless.

Imara-Uganda Education Fund found, despite everything, the children have the energy and enthusiasm to learn. Money

raised now enables thirty-six beneficiaries to attend school.

“In 2009 our first target was to help five beneficiaries in the first year. With prayerful support and generosity this jumped to twenty-one.

In January 2012 seven scholarship students were added and each year the number grows. Our commitment is to maintain support throughout their education, including University.”

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which is their home.

The Rebel Army captured Jaspher. After two years being forced to act as a porter, carrying army loads from place to place, Government forces rescued him.

Now 22, Jaspher is doing really well at secondary school and hopes to become a teacher.

In 2011 the Jill Sutton Prize, a Disabled Person Scholarship, was created, commemorating the life of Jill Sutton. Two disabled girls – Mercy and Lydia now have life changing scholarships.

In 2014, Phase 1 (Library) of our new build Resource Centre Project opened and Phase 2 (IT Room) opens in 2015.

To contribute or hold a fund raising event please contact Norman Horsley MBE 01903 369523 normanhorsley@talktalk.net or visit www.imara-ugandaeducationfund.co.uk

Saturday 13th June is Worthing Churches Homeless Project’s annual Flag Day collection where volunteers spread across Worthing Town Centre, Goring, Findon and Broadwater. There will be live music at two locations in the town centre.

To volunteer call 01903 286480 or email info@wchp.org.uk

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Dr Sarah’s Party Political Broadcast by the Common Sense Party Unless you’ve been living with the Amish, you won’t have escaped the news coverage this winter about Emergency Medicine, Accident and Emergency Departments and the ‘pressures’ or ‘crisis’- depending on what you read- therein.

I couldn’t really miss the opportunity to tell it like it is.

You’ll be hearing a lot more about all this in the next few months as politicians of various flavours vie for your votes, using our NHS as the football. As usual.

No one goes into Emergency Medicine for an easy life, a fast buck or glory. It’s a tough specialty. Of course I am biased but I happen to think it is the best job in the world. It’s a bit like having children. Sometimes it’s inexplicably exhausting, totally infuriating, there are a lot of bodily fluids, jangled nerves and tantrums, but the rewards are huge, second to none.

We are, in a sense victims of our own success. I remember the pre 4-hour-target days.

People did wait on trolleys or in the waiting room all night.

The public now expects and deserves better than that.

People don’t always make the wisest treatment choices which means we do spend a lot of time seeing problems that do not remotely constitute emergencies.

But people want seeing, and they want seeing now. I do understand. Why would you run the gauntlet of the GP receptionist’s impertinently personal interrogation for

hours on the phone (I’ve had less difficulty booking a table at a Gordon Ramsay restaurant), only to be offered an appointment in 2 weeksyou’ll be dead or better by then- when you can just walk in to any A&E, no questions asked, and be sorted in less than 4 hours? And even supposing you try to do the right thing and phone 111 (don’t start me off), people often find they are carted off by ambulance, when all they wanted was some sensible advice. When I was a kid, an ambulance in the street was a very bad sign.

Mrs Moggins probably wasn’t coming home again.

There are often failings in other services too. If an elderly person attends later in the evening, with little or no social support and we cannot guarantee getting them home safely- there is no ambulance transport at night- then we have to admit to hospital.

Hundreds of acute hospital beds are occupied by people with social, rather than health needs.

This is because Health and Social care budgets cannot provide the support our increasingly elderly population needs. It’s not a flying visit or two by a harassed carer that’s really going to help.

If folk cannot be discharged at one end, then it stands to reason in a closed system of finite bed numbers, we cannot admit at the other. You’ll have heard a lot about the failings of the Emergency Department.

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Dr Sarah Honess trained in Medicine at King’s College, London, and moved to Worthing in 2003, where she trained in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care. She now works at the Accident and Emergency Department at Brighton Hospital.

The reason this makes us so mad is that it is rarely true. It’s a problem of ‘flow’ through the department that leads to delay.

Most of our patients will have been seen, treated and either discharged or referred to an inpatient team well within 4 hours. They might still be there 6 hours later because we cannot move them to a ward. Our problem? Yes. Our fault? No. I feel our MPs are kicking the NHS around to serve their own

purpose and that depresses me. Yet vote I will, because people died and chained themselves to railings so that I can. Because millions of people around the world would love to and can’t, and because not voting as an act of ‘civil disobedience’ à la Russell Brand is indistinguishable in practical terms from just sitting at home in a onesie, too apathetic to go out and vote for something.

(Views expressed are Dr Sarah’s personal opinion)

Keep your ticker pucker Cardiac Rehab Support West Sussex helps heart patients in West Sussex

Heart-related conditions can be worrying and stressful – and that’s not really helpful. So it’s good to know you can turn to someone who understands and can give advice.

Cardiac Rehabilitation Support West Sussex (CRSWS) aim to address needs of West Sussex patients who suffer, or are recovering, from a cardiac condition – as well as helping their families or carers, by providing support, advice and information.

As a registered charity, they work with Worthing & Southlands NHS Trust to help run exercise classes for heart patients and provide a ‘buddy’ support service run by former patients. They have funds to help NHS staff, local organisations and individuals tackle heart disease, for example, by providing defibrillators for local fitness trainers, paying for NHS nurses and physiotherapists to go on

specialist training courses and making sure that up-to-date leaflets are available free for cardiac patients.

CRSWS Trustee, Geoffrey Taylor says, “We raise money to help local people who have heart disease. So, if you, or someone you know, could benefit from our help or just someone to talk to about it, we would love to hear from you”.

It’s easy to access this help.

For information visit www. cardiacrehabsupport.org.uk or call Hayley Fairclough, Cardiac Rehab Senior Physiotherapist, on 07765376618.

If you or your organisation deal with heart patients and would like to know how to apply for a grant to help you, visit www.cardiacrehabsupport. org.uk or write to: The Trustees, Cardiac Rehab Support West Sussex, Cardiac Rehab Dept., Southlands Hospital, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex BN43 5TQ.

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