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Put your Hands Up! to volunteer for Chestnut Tree in the New Year Chestnut Tree is the children’s hospice service for East Sussex. Each year we look after hundreds of local children with lifeshortening conditions and their families.

Our care really is invaluable to the families we look after and we make no charge for this care.

opportunities to volunteer – with fundraising activities, in the charity’s Eastbourne office, at one of our events, or in one of our retail shops in Eastbourne, Seaford or Uckfield - there is something to suit everybody.

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Dear Residents,

Whats inside this month

Welcome to the first issue of 2017 and Happy New Year!

We hope you’ve all enjoyed the Christmas season. Best of luck for a good positive start to your New Year’s resolutions!

If you need a little inspiration, you might want to take a look at our article Januarys Gone By.

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We have a feature about the newly released DVD ‘Tales of Albion’ which was largely filmed on the Ashdown Forest as well as a piece about the Winnie the Pooh documentary which has just aired on Channel 4 and which you can see on catch up.

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Januarys Gone By January 15th

This month can feel a tad non-eventful, so we searched to find some events of significance and possible inspiration...

In 1559 Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England at the age of 25. This ushered in a new golden age of renaissance and 'Royal Britannia'.

January 4th

January 24th

Birthday of Louis Braille in 1809. Blinded as a boy, he later invented a reading system for the blind using punch marks in paper which is still in use today.

The first boy scout troop organized here in England by Robert Baden-Powell in 1908.

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This may not be 'inspirational' but it is significant. In 1788 the British established a settlement at Sydney Harbour in Australia as 11 ships with 778 convicts arrived, setting up a penal colony to relieve overcrowded prisons in England.

In 1620 Galileo Galilei sighted four of Jupiter's moons!

January 10th In 1918 the House of Lords gave its approval to the 'Representation of the People Bill'; this gave woman over the age of 30 the right to vote and was a significant start to fully giving women equal rights to men to vote.

January 27th The birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1756. He was born in Salzburg, Austria.

The child prodigy started composing at the age of five, through to his untimely death at the age of 35. A musical genius the like of which had never been witnessed created over 600 compositions including 16 operas, 41 symphonies, 27 piano and five violin concerti, 25 string quartets, 19 masses, and many other works in his short life.

January 13th (There may be mixed feelings about this one but worth sharing for its great significance nonetheless!) The birth of a new political party as James Keir Hardie united the socialists under the banner of the Labour Representation Committee.

January 15th The birthday of Martin Luther King in 1929.

He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. As an African American civil rights leader he spoke eloquently and stressed nonviolent methods to achieve equality, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was assassinated in Memphis in 1968. In 1983, the third Monday in January was designated a legal holiday in the US to celebrate his birthday.

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Winnie-The-Pooh: The Most Famous Bear In The World

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Titchmarsh sets out to discover why A A Milne, already a successful playwright, changed direction and decided to write for children. What was different about these stories and why did so many parents and children fall in love with them? How did the marriage of A A Milne’s words and E H Shepard’s illustrations add an extra layer of magic dust to the stories?

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Alan discovers that, prior to Pooh, children’s literature had been very different and that one of the reasons that Milne’s books were so successful was that they created a new, warmer vision of childhood.

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‘What is remarkable is that the real setting that inspired AA Milne to write the books looks much like it did 90 years ago.

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Much of the documentary sees Alan literally walk in the footprints of A A Milne and the paw prints of Winnie-thePooh to discover why, after 90 years, we all still love this bear of very little brain. Alan travels to Pooh Country to the Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest to see the locations that inspired the books as well as the Milnes’ family home, Cotchford Farm.

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inspired the stories. When I tell people this on my speaking tours in the United States, they are amazed. And people in the Ashdown Forest area might not think this is important, but can you think of other literary landscapes that are preserved? A few -- Beatrix Potter, Henry David Thoreau -- but it’s not common.

‘There was great creativity and humour amongst the production team on the often cold outdoor “set”. As the author of The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh, I led Alan Titchmarsh to places in the landscape that inspired Milne to write the stories, and sort of chattily interpreted them for him. This included Poohsticks Bridge and The Enchanted Place.’

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OLDE ‘TALES OF ALBION’ Last month saw the release on DVD of a new film.

Nothing unusual about that, except this was an independent feature by local film-makers Joy and Gary Andrews, also known as Egotrip Media Ltd, and large sections of it were shot in Ashdown Forest. The film is called “Tales of Albion” and it consists of 8 tales woven together by a storyteller (Robin of Sherwood’s Sheriff of Nottingham, Nickolas Grace) that re-tell old British myths, legends and folklore.

The writer/director explains:

the darkness – and tell these old tales. Today, this light in the darkness is the TV in the corner, so it seemed to make sense to shoot it as a movie.

The films are set in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales – as well as Ancient Greece and modern Afghanistan – but as a self-financed project we couldn’t afford to travel very far. Ashdown Forest, with its incredible variety of landscapes, gave us the opportunity (with a little sneaky digital addition here and there) to shoot pretty much the whole film locally.”

“We are all familiar with Greek, Roman and Norse mythology but what is not so widely known is that we too have a rich mythology of our own. It’s something that has always fascinated me and I wanted to tell some of those stories. In times gone by, storytellers would sit by the fire – a flickering light in

Indeed, except for a couple of scenes shot on a family holiday by the coast in Cornwall, one day at a Saxon longhouse in Kent and one shoot at the Weald and Downland Museum in Singleton, Ashdown Forest stood in for pretty much everywhere!

Filming began late January, 2013, when the snow was still on the ground, with a scene set in the Highlands of Scotland (actually next to a car park in the woods near Forest Row) and the final shoot (save for a couple of later ‘pick-ups’) was 18 months later, again in Ashdown Forest, filming King Arthur being handed Excalibur by the Lady of the Lake. The cast are a mix of professional actors and local performers, as well as historic re-enactors.

Once the filming was over however, that was far from the end of the process, as Joy explains. “The next 2 years were spent in postproduction, which is where I took over – editing, mixing the sound and adding over 400 special effects shots.”

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break. However, new ideas are always forming and it’s more than likely that before long they will be back out on location at the start of a new adventure. It’s also more than likely that the location will be somewhere in the heart of Ashdown Forest!

She even composed some of the music in the film – with the rest being provided by Cornwall-based Mike Smith of Dragonsong Music and Julie Carter. More locally produced music came from Eleanore

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Frederick Hanbury was naturally very wealthy and, as well as being interested in botany, he was a horticulturist specialising particularly in orchids. His extensive orchid houses were world-renowned and tended by a large staff at Brockhurst (see glasshouses on the 1931 OS map below).

Patrick Moore Aged 13

East Grinstead resident Dr Richard Beeching, the famous (and sometimes infamous) physicist and engineer, responsible for making swingeing cuts to railways in Britain in the 1960s, lived at Brockhurst, a fine arts and crafts house on the Lewes Road, just south of East Grinstead.

WS Franks sitting at the Bush 24-inch telescope in 1928

Many years earlier the house had been known as Ashurst Lodge (OS Map 1875) up until around 1899 when its name was changed to Brockhurst. Frederick J Hanbury had bought the Brockhurst estate in 1908 and over the next twenty years refurbished the house and laid out the gardens, for which the site became renowned.

The Hanbury family were the owners of the well-known Allen & Hanburys pharmaceutical company: one of the first manufacturers of cod liver oil in Great Britain, makers of medicated pastilles as well as being the developers of the asthma treatment, “Ventolin”, in the late 1960s.

The Hanburys were also well known as a family of gardeners. Frederick Hanbury’s cousin was Sir Thomas Hanbury (1832-1907) who laid out the gardens at La Mortola, near Ventimiglia in Liguria, northern Italy. In fact in 1903 the very same Sir Thomas bought the 60-acre estate at

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Bush retired at the age of 84 and entered Sackville College in January 1924 “…at a fee of £100 a year”. (Sackville College is a Jacobean almshouse founded in 1609 by Robert Sackville the 2nd Earl of Dorset and which still provides sheltered accommodation for the elderly to this day.)

Thomas Bush died in 1928 at Sackville College and his fellow “brothers” and “sisters” followed him to the gates before a funeral service in the College Chapel.

quarried, and built up with the help of the head gardener to form a great ravine, cave and rockery. The feature was then planted with a wide range of species, both exotics and natives; the water from a number of springs was harnessed to feed a variety of waterworks. The results of this labour of love must have been a fantastic sight!

Another of Hanbury’s interests was astronomy and he set up an observatory at Brockhurst soon after purchasing the estate, initially with a 6-inch Cooke “equatorial refractor” telescope. He employed a well-known astronomer, William Sadler Franks, as an observer, also in part to host Hanbury’s many guests on visits to the observatory.

down to nearby Dormansland, and started working with Franks to set up a much larger 24-inch telescope at the Brockhurst observatory.

Although significantly larger than the Cooke telescope and despite several modifications, the 24-inch Bush telescope never really worked to Franks’

Interestingly, one of Thomas Bush’s relatives was Noreen Bush who ran the hugely respected Bush-Davies School of Theatre Arts based at Charters Towers - the site is now part of Charters Retirement Village on the Lingfield Road.

The Brockhurst Observatory c1932

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Hanbury’s astronomer William Franks made many detailed observations of the colours of stars and “wide double stars” (published 1914-20), the moon, planets, nebulae and any passing comets over the years of his employment. He also hosted many visits to the observatory by distinguished guests whilst acting for Hanbury, including Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. In August 1933 one of the guests for dinner was his neighbour, a certain Mr Moore who lived opposite Brockhurst in Worsted Lane, accompanied by his wife and 10-year-old son Patrick... Impressed by what he saw, the young Patrick visited the observatory the next week and returned many times thereafter to star gaze with Franks. The later to be ‘Sir Patrick’ said in a subsequent paper of Franks “… taught me most of what I know….” and “…took me under his wing and taught me how to make astronomical observations. He was in his eighties and just about five foot tall with a long white beard and always wore a skull cap so that he looked exactly like a gnome.”

house. The rock garden, for which Hanbury’s scheme was renowned, does survive however, within the gardens to Barton Pines, a house built in the 1950s.

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When Franks died at the age of 85, Hanbury invited 14- year-old Patrick Moore to take charge of the observatory. Sir Patrick further commented, “Hanbury was then over ninety, and he gave me a surprise. Sometimes he needed an astronomer to “show stars” to his guests; would I like to fill this role? If so, I could take charge of the observatory. You can well imagine that it did not take long for me to make up my mind. It is not every 14-year-old who has the chance to be an Observatory Director!”

Patrick carried on this role until the start of the Second World War, when the observatory was dismantled.

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NOT EVERY CHILD IS AN A GRADE STUDENT. WHY WE MUST NOT LET B/C/D BE SHAMEFUL. Local blogger Alice Wilde, halfwavinghalfdrowning.com, brings us her must-read advice for 2017 I’m about to go on a rant. I hate homework.

Controversial, as I’ve been a teacher for 22 years and I’ve personally set hundreds of hours of homework in that time. But I am becoming increasingly aware of a society in which the only results that anyone wants for children, be it parental or for school statistics, are the bloomin’ As and A*s.

I remember knowing that my peers who scored As were those who were exceptional in that subject. An accident of genetics had made them shine at art, or music or maths. They were in the top 2% of the class. That is why they got an A (there were no A*s back then – and that’s another issue – making the top even higher and wider so even more people feel they have to cram themselves in).

I remember feeling happy for them and not feeling worried that it wasn’t me. There were loads of us in the B and C group and we were fine.

want, “the only valid currency” as I heard the Headmaster sadly reflect. Bs and Cs are not good enough any more it would seem (and ‘D’, did you say ‘D’? I’m so sorry). And how the hell do you get normal, happy, perfectly able and fine children to get the As and A*s that really should be awarded to only a tiny percentage of the most naturally able? You make them work, work, work.

You put the pressure on from the age of four. Six hours of school work at school isn’t enough, so you set homework to reinforce and consolidate everything. We can have everything we want at any moment we want it. We are

Yet here we are with A grades being the standard we all

the generation where every desire can be granted - pizza at 3am with one phone call, strawberries in January – so surely it is also possible that all of our children can be leaping in a line and grinning, holding that slip of paper telling them they have 10 A*s on results day? We can make this happen. Can’t we?

We shouldn’t bloomin’ have to. They shouldn’t bloomin’ have to. That’s my rant. We have to find a way to bring the bar back down. NOT to be confused with lowering expectation or hope, and not to say that only the 2% of naturals should go forth and dominate – I just wish

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that we could find a way to allow our children some freedom from this pressure while they are growing and working out how to see themselves. Unless we can, we are sending a MASSIVE percentage of children the message that they are failing. They should be getting As and they are not. NO THEY SHOULD NOT BE GETTING As. We cannot all be good at everything. It’s ridiculous. It invalidates the whole point of an A. No wonder they’ve had to change to a system where GCSE will be awarded levels up to 9… You want to know why? So they can add more to the top, a level 10 / 11 …. They ran into a problem with A, A*, A**; it had started to get silly.

been blessed with the paper recording and memory skills of a Dickensian bookkeeper, you may find yourself dreading homework.

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We survived. Please, please try to send them the message that although it’s good to try hard, it’s also good to be happy in your own skin. The one that fits you best. The one that might be made of Cs, Bs and the odd D. But does that make you a less valid person? It will probably only make you a happier, healthier person and that, surely, is the ultimate goal of parents and schools.

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THE PHOTO THAT WON Last month Turners Hill resident Henry Nathan, who studies at the University of Leeds, beat more than 800 entries to win the highly prestigious Calumet Student Photographer of the Year 2016 competition. Of his win Henry said he was “shocked beyond words”.

Here he explains: ‘The winning photo was taken on a road trip from LA to Vancouver which I took in June this year. We stopped off in Bend, Oregon, on the way back down to meet up with a photographer I know through Instagram. He took us to this amazing cave which only has

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A glance into a January from very many moons ago:

PLASTIC, PLASTIC EVERYWHERE Continued

could always ask the manufacturer to use alternatives and then give the bubble wrap away for free as one of my friends recently did on a Facebook selling site, for re-use.

January, 1795

by Mary Darby Robinson Pavement slipp'ry, people sneezing, Lords in ermine, beggars freezing; Titled gluttons dainties carving, Genius in a garret starving.

Gifts I recently bought from Debenhams were covered in a type of ‘bouncy’ paper that did the job of bubble wrap just as well, but is of course bio-degradable. So it was a thumbs up to them!

Lofty mansions, warm and spacious; Courtiers clinging and voracious; Misers scarce the wretched heeding; Gallant soldiers fighting, bleeding.

One can buy toothbrushes online which are completely bio-degradable; I have yet to hear about electric toothbrush heads that are degradable, but again if the manufacturers see that general degradable toothbrushes are gaining popularity, they will probably take steps to come up with a toothbrush head that is too.

Wives who laugh at passive spouses; Theatres, and meeting-houses; Balls, where simp'ring misses languish; Hospitals, and groans of anguish.

Arts and sciences bewailing; Commerce drooping, credit failing; Placemen mocking subjects loyal; Separations, weddings royal.

Authors who can't earn a dinner; Many a subtle rogue a winner; Fugitives for shelter seeking; Misers hoarding, tradesmen breaking.

And avoid buying products like shower gel and facial scrubs that have the dreaded plastic beads in them.

Taste and talents quite deserted; All the laws of truth perverted; Arrogance o'er merit soaring; Merit silently deploring.

There are probably many more steps we could take, but even small steps in 2017 to cut down on plastic will be positive. Good luck!

Ladies gambling night and morning; Fools the works of genius scorning; Ancient dames for girls mistaken, Youthful damsels quite forsaken.

Some in luxury delighting; More in talking than in fighting; Lovers old, and beaux decrepid; Lordlings empty and insipid.

Poets, painters, and musicians; Lawyers, doctors, politicians: Pamphlets, newspapers, and odes, Seeking fame by diff'rent roads.

Gallant souls with empty purses; Gen'rals only fit for nurses; School-boys, smit with martial spirit, Taking place of vet'ran merit.

Honest men who can't get places, Knaves who shew unblushing faces; Ruin hasten'd, peace retarded; Candour spurn'd, and art rewarded.

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What’s On in January

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THURSDAY 12TH JANUARY

SATURDAY 21ST JANUARY

Ashdown Forest Decorative and Fine Arts Society: The Music Hall from Coal Hole to Palace? Frances Hughes will tell how music halls flourished from 1820-1914 and of the variety of venues from the supper rooms to gilded Palaces and Empires. We shall hear Marie Lloyd, Albert Chevalier, Dan Leno. The music hall was truly the people's art and something has gone from British culture with its demise. Come and see whether you agree and enjoy a hot drink and a biscuit afterwards. Members free of charge, visitors £6 or complimentary if you join the society at the meeting. At 2pm, Crowborough Community Centre, Pine Grove, Crowborough, TN6 1FE.

HoneyLeaf Creative Writing Workshop Playing with Fire. Taking inspiration from nature and the basic elements that provide the foundation to life. Saturday morning workshops in the cosy armchairs upstairs at the Bookshop in East Grinstead: £20 per workshop. To book, email: hello@honeyleafwriting.com. Whether you are new to writing, returning after a break, or a regular, these workshops will get your ideas and words flowing on to the page. For people who want to write stories, poems, journals, blog posts or simply have something to say. 10am - 12pm, The Bookshop, 22 High Street, East Grinstead, RH19 3AW. THURSDAY 9TH FEBRUARY Ashdown Forest Decorative and Fine Arts Society: Image And History - art at the Lansdowne Club. Pamela Campbell-Johnston shows us round the Lansdowne Club and recounts its architectural, social and political history as the former Lansdowne House.

Located in Mayfair, the building fuses 18th century neo-classical architecture with Art Deco style. Hear of distinguished residents and members and stories of intrigue and passion reflected in the collection. Enjoy a hot drink and a biscuit to follow! Members free of charge, visitors £6 or complimentary if you join the society at the meeting. 2pm, Crowborough Community Centre, Pine Grove, Crowborough, TN6 1FE.

MONDAY 16TH JANUARY Western Wanders By Glenda Law. At 7:45pm, The East Grinstead Natural History Society. St Barnabas Church Hall, Dunnings Road, East Crossword Grinstead, RH19 4AT THURSDAY 19TH JANUARY Groombridge Horticultural Society Talk on "Companionable Annuals" by Edward Flint, Head Gardener at Tidebrook Manor. All welcome - free for members and £3 for nonmembers. Tea, coffee and biscuits served. 8pm, Groombridge Village Hall.

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Weekly brochure (8) Track (4) Out of sight (6) Snare (6) Unknown person (4) Snuggling together (8) Ring to enter (8) Present (4) Bookies sign language (3-3) Go to meeting (6) Was noticed (4) Newspaper reporters (8)

RIDDLES ABSWERS Down 1 2 3 4 5 6 13 15 16 17 19 21

Your breath

Meal Portion (6) Ground keeper (8) Outdoors meal (6) Rely upon (6) Notice mark (4) Stress (6) Not the heaviest (8) Boys name (6) Break free (6) One in front (6) Pointer on hand (6) Camp accommodation (4)

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