Ashdown Forest Living April Issue

April 2016

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Captain Eric Melrose ‘Winkle’ Brown A Book of the Sackville-Wests The Colours of the Rainbow Philip Henslowe 1550-1616

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Dear Residents,

Welcome to the April issue.

We’ve a wonderful article about real life WW2 hero, Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown, who recently passed away; he lived not far from Ashdown Forest in the village of Copthorne.

We also bring you more gardening tips to give you a hand in the garden this Spring.

A Book of the Sackville-Wests

Captain Eric Melrose ‘Winkle’ Brown

The Hadlow Down based charity Open Hands is a cause we’ve been supporting for many years now. We’re bringing you another fabulous update, see page 28.

Sackville-West is a famous family name in these parts, a book about the women of this family has just been released and we have a Q&A with the author, Juliet Nicolson (who is also a family member), see page 24.

Philip Henslowe 1550-1616

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We hope you can choose one of our many local businesses to help you with your garden/home plans this Spring.

All the best for a lovely April.

Keep this directory handy for when you need it

April Reminders for your Garden

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Pioneering pilot, an extraordinary life the passing of a national treasure.

Captain Eric Melrose ‘Winkle’ Brown CBE, DSC, AFC, Hon FRAeS, RN January, 21st 1919 – February, 21st 2016 eight and his father, a pilot in the First World War took him up in a bi-plane.

In an interview he gave to the BBC in 2014, Brown said of his experience flying with his father in the bi-plane: “There was no second seat, but I sat on his lap and he let me handle the stick.

It was exhilarating. You saw the Earth from a completely different standpoint.”

Pioneering and extraordinary can often be over-used in modern discourse particularly when describing achievements of someone who has just passedaway but with the death in February of Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown the descriptions are more than just apt, they embody his achievements.

Brown lived-out his final years in Copthorne, near East Grinstead, where he wrote various books

about his experiences as a Royal Navy officer and as a test pilot.

During his time as a test pilot he flew more than 480 different types of aircraft, a figure greater than anyone else in history.

Born in Leith, Scotland in 1919 and educated at Edinburgh’s Royal High School, before studying at the University of Edinburgh, where he learnt to fly. His interest in flying is said to have come about when he was

On 3 December 1945, Brown became the first pilot to land on and take off (pictured) from an aircraft carrier (HMS Ocean) in a jet aircraft.

During his time in the Royal Navy he would go on to fly almost every category of RAF aircraft: glider, fighter, bomber, airliner, amphibian, flying boat, and helicopter. During the Second World War he also flew several captured German aircraft, including new jet and rocket planes.

Brown received the affectionate nickname ‘Winkle’ from his Royal Navy colleagues due to his height of 5ft 7in. It was his short stature that Brown would credit to his survival ability – due to his size,

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he said: he had the ability to “curl himself-up in the cockpit.”

He remains a hero among military pilots who today fly far more safely thanks to the techniques and technologies he helped to test often endangering himself and therefore his ability to curl-up in the cockpit would prove to be invaluable in moments of danger.

In an extraordinary life and career, he remains the mostdecorated pilot in the history of the Royal Navy but his exploits are landmark events of the 20th century – he was at the 1936 Berlin Olympic games, he interrogated Hermann Goering and he helped liberate Bergen Belsen concentration camp.

In 1936, he attended the Olympics and in 1939 when war broke out he was teaching in Germany. The SS escorted him to the Swiss border and let him keep his MG car before he made his way back to Britain where he volunteered for the Fleet Air Arm, the airborne branch of the Royal Navy.

Though never a formally qualified test pilot, Brown’s flying ability was so outstanding that he

The high-speed DH 108 VW120 that Brown flew. This aircraft later crashed, killing Brown’s successor at the RAE, Sqn Ldr Stuart Muller-Rowland.

was sent to the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough to take part in trials of the newly navalised versions of the Hurricane and Spitfire aircrafts.

piloting aircraft during hazardous trials in wartime. Between 1944 and 1950, he continued his role of experimental test flying.

Brown held the world record for the most aircraft carrier deck take-offs and landings performed, both of which total more than 2,000 respectively and achieved several ‘firsts’ in naval aviation, including the first landings on an aircraft carrier of a twin-engined aircraft.

By the end of 1943 he had already chalked-up some 1,500 deck landings on 22 ships and in 1944 he was appointed MBE for his outstanding enterprise and skill in

Performing the first landing of a jet aircraft on a carrier, a de Havilland Sea Vampire on the carrier Ocean in December 1945 Brown, said: “that only pilots of exceptional skill like himself would be able to repeat the operation safely.”

During the Korean War Brown was lent to the US Naval Test Centre in Maryland. He introduced to the American’s the new British concepts of angled flight deck. By 1954 he was given command of 804 Naval Air Squadron, flying the Sea Hawk fighter-bomber.

In 1957 he returned to Germany to train-up the new German naval air arm to NATO standards before being promoted to captain and time spent serving in the admiralty as deputy director of Naval Air Warfare playing a key role in the development of new carriers.

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Brown said Goering was “quite charismatic in many ways.” He asked Goering how he saw the outcome of the Battle of Britain to which the reply from Goering was in a succinct response – “A draw.”

Fluent in German and with his expertise on aircraft meant Brown interviewed many important figures during the war including Hermann Goering (pictured)

in the ocean.” Adding it was a game of Russian roulette – “We had one incident every nine landings.”

The US Navy were said to have given one man the specific job of breaking the record set by Brown – “To his everlasting credit he got up to 1,600 and then had a nervous breakdown” said Brown reminiscing about the competition to his world-record.

He retired from the Royal Navy in 1970, becoming the director general of the British Helicopter Advisory Board and later the president of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1982. Last flying in 1994, he said giving-up flying which had been such an integral part of his life was like “drug withdrawal”.

He wrote numerous books of his own about his experiences and provided forewords for other authors on their books on the theme of aviation both before and after his retirement. In 1962, he was ordered to write a short

In 2006 the book was revived and published as Wings on my Sleeve and followed-up on his 2002 book Wings of the Luftwaffe which sold more than 100,000 copies.

In March last year, a bronze bust of him was unveiled at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Somerset to celebrate his achievements.

Despite his age, Brown continued to make public appearances, including an appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs in 2014 and celebrations for his 97th birthday this year when he was joined in London by more than 100 pilots and the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir George Zambellas.

Brown, who had been appointed MBE, OBE and CBE, retained a sense of purpose throughout his life with writing and lecturing engagements as well as answering hundreds of letters by hand, spurning computers. He died at East Surrey Hospital on February, 21st 2016 after a short illness.

Fluent in German and with his expertise on aircraft meant he interviewed many important figures during the war including Hermann Goering and the socalled beast of Belsen Irma Grese, Captain Brown described Grese as the “worst person I have ever met.”

During Allied interrogation of Nazi military leader Goering,

Captain Eric Brown receiving The Air League’s Founder’s Medal from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in May 2015 “for his amazing flying achievements and involvement with aviation during a remarkable lifetime.

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Serves: 4 adults Preparation time: 20 mins Cooking time: 1 hr 25 mins

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2. Heat a large flameproof casserole dish on the hob and add the vegetable oil. Add the lamb chunks, letting them sear and brown before turning them over. Cook for 3-4 minutes until browned on all sides.

3. Add the onion, leek, carrots, lentils, peas, stock, tomato puree, cumin and paprika. Season with some pepper and stir well.

Bring up to the boil, then remove from the heat.

4. Arrange the sliced potatoes in an overlapping layer to cover the surface of the lamb mixture. Cover and bake for 1 ¼ hours, removing the lid for the final 30 minutes to brown the potatoes.

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Tip 2: The cumin and paprika add extra flavour and spiciness, though you could leave them out if you prefer.

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The Lundin family have been cared for by the Sussex-based charity since 2011 when they were seeking respite care for their youngest child.

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April Reminders for your Garden Give some thought to summer bulbs as now is the best time to plant them. The larger varieties are perfect for the border but some of the smaller ones can be great for your patio pots and add variety to the normal summer bedding. Dahlias, Gladioli and Lily all have dwarf options available.

Blue skies and sunshine tempt us all into thinking the good weather is here to stay, but take caution, we’re still susceptible to a few frosts which can do damage to tender young shoots. The mild winter has encouraged a lot of new growth so keep an eye on the forecast and if a frost looks likely then use a fleece to cover any plants you think may be damaged.

Now is the time to tidy your borders before the herbaceous perennials get going. Remove old foliage and debris and then mulch and feed with a good general purpose fertiliser. Any patches of bare ground can be fed in preparation for new plantings, much easier when the growth is low and you can get round the plants.

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April and September are considered by the experts to be the best time for planting evergreens (although if pot grown they can be planted at any time really). Dig a hole twice the size of the rootball and add a good compost and some Fish, Blood and Bone to encourage root growth, heel in well and ensure you keep it well watered during dry periods until the roots become more established.

April is the best time to give your lawn a good feed. Using a lawn dressing can help to control moss and weeds as well as feeding at the same time. You really only need to feed your lawn once a year.

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PHILIP HENSLOWE 1550-1616 Local History Notes

by Dorothy Hatswell of the East Grinstead Museum Those of you who saw and permanent playhouse in the enjoyed the Oscar winning capital. In 1598 Henslowe film, “Shakespeare in Love” recorded payments to twenty will be familiar with the name seven Elizabethan playwrights.

Philip Henslowe who was Ben Jonson and Christopher played by Geoffrey Rush, of Marlowe were among them King’s Speech fame. In the but no mention is made of film Henslowe is portrayed William Shakespeare. However, pleading with Shakespeare Henslowe did stage several plays to write a new comedy for that had the identical titles as him. This is artistic licence those which Shakespeare wrote, “The Taming of the Shrew” and on behalf of one of the “Titus Andronicus” among them. screenplay writers, Marc The Rose Theatre From Norden’s “Civitas Norman. In real life Henslowe So it is possible that some of Londini,” 1600 and the Bard of Avon were in Shakespeare’s plays were staged rival companies and did not

by Henslowe. collaborate much, except possibly for a short period Henslowe was a man of considerable standing in in 1594 when the Admiral’s Men of whom Philip was the community and in the court. He was appointed a partner, joined forces with the Lord Chamberlain’s Gentleman Sewer of His Majesty’s Chamber by Men with whom Shakespeare worked, during an James I. This meant he was an attendant of high outbreak of the plague in London that summer. rank serving meals and seating guests at banquets.

Philip Henslowe was born around 1550 in Lindfield.

Those who served the monarch personally were known as Yeomen Ushers of Devotion. He also had His father, Edmund, had been appointed Master of Game on Ashdown Forest in 1539, a post he held his own coat of arms: a golden lion, guardant on a until 1562. Both Edmund and, later, Philip owned field of red. He also had interests in many ventures property in East Grinstead. Indeed the whole outside the theatre. He ran bear and bull-baiting shows with his son-in-law, Edward Alleyn, who was Henslowe family were widely connected to the area.

Philip’s sister, Margaret, married Ralf Hogge, the a money lender, and was allegedly, a bad landlord.

Queens Gunstone maker, the Ironmaster at Buxted, Edward Alleyn was a famous actor and the founder who manufactured cannon and shot for the Royal of Dulwich College, who married Henslowe’s wife’s Armouries at Woolwich. He was responsible for the daughter from her first marriage. felling of large tracts in the south of Ashdown Forest to feed his furnace at Buxted. The outcry over the devastation caused, eventually led to the charcoal burners coppicing the trees, rather than felling them.

At some time, about 1570, Philip travelled to London. One of his older brothers, also Edmund, owned property in Southwark. Philip himself purchased the Little Rose in Southwark in 1584.

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Henslowe, who kept a diary which is one of the best sources for details of the Elizabethan theatre, was probably the most important theatre proprietor in London. As such he must have been well aware of Shakepeares’s existence, but because of the extreme rivalry between the two companies, did not give any reference to his importance.

Between their two deaths, occurred the death, in Stratford on Avon, of William Shakespeare, our greatest dramatist, on St George’s Day, April 23rd, the generally accepted date of his William Shakespeare birth as well.

Shakespeare’s own will is best remembered for leaving his second best bed to his wife Anne!

Philip Henslowe died in January 1616. He was buried in nearby Southwark Cathedral on the tenth of that month. He left in his will a bequest to forty poor men living in Clink Liberty, a prison near his house.

Unfortunately, I cannot trace this will which might have shed light on his property in East Grinstead. His wife, Agnes died the following July and left money to help eighty women also living in the Clink Liberty.

His wife’s will is available, but she gives her name as Anne, not Agnes. There is no doubt but that she is the same person. She calls herself the “widdow of Philip Henslowe” and after various small bequests, leaves her entire estate to “my daughter, Joan”. Her son-inlaw, Edward Alleyn is the executor. She, however, does not specify any particular property so again we cannot tell what was owned in East Grinstead.

In this year in which tributes are being paid to mark the 400th anniversary of his death, it is pleasing to know that even in a very oblique fashion, Shakespeare had a passing connection to this area.

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A Book of the Sackville-Wests Pepita, her affectionate and yet truth-facing double biography of her grandmother and her mother

Last month the book ‘A House full of Daughters’, by local author Juliet Nicolson, was published. The book takes the reader through seven generations of women which include Juliet’s famous grandmother Vita Sackville-West. For those who may not know, the Sackville (and Sackville-West) family is one of the most well-known and certainly well established aristocratic families in this part of Sussex and once owned much of land about here. Juliet will be speaking at the new Chiddingstone Literary Festival taking place next month and here we have a ‘Q&A’ with her:

What are you hoping to achieve through your book?

I hope that some people may read it and recognise patterns in their own family, as I have now learned to do in mine during the process of writing the book. I hope too that it may give some the courage to break any patterns that are destructive and to ask for help when they need it.

A HOUSE FULL OF DAUGHTERS by Juliet Nicolson is published in hardback by Chatto & Windus at £16.99, ebook available.

You can meet Juliet at the Chiddingstone Castle’s brand new Literary Festival when she reveals the lives of seven generations of women in the SackvilleWest family, who lived (and continue to live) at Knole and Sissinghurst and at Long Barn in Sevenoaks Weald including a very honest account of her own.

This event, along with many others including a theatre performance of The Tailor of Gloucester, will be taking place over the May Bank Holiday weekend, 1st-3rd. Tickets include entry into the castle and its exquisite Japanese and Egyptian collections.

You’ve written a book about your grandmother Vita Sackville-West, what is the most striking part of her life and what legacy did she leave?

Vita Sackville-West was my grandmother. Her life was so varied and in ways so contradictory that it is difficult to pin down one especially striking point. She was a novelist, a biographer a poet and a journalist and at times excelled in all those different areas of writing. Perhaps the most controversial part of her life was her elopement just after the First World War with another women, abandoning her husband and young children in the process. She eventually returned to her family and lived out a long and happy marriage, despite many more ( if less threatening) love affairs. Her legacy to me is resilience, ambition and independence, while her wider gift to posterity is her amazing garden at Sissinghurst

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How did the process of writing this book go from conception to reality?

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The Colours of the Rainbow

by Rebekka Maughan and Simone Wellbrock

Open Hands is a locally based (Hadlow Down) charity which works with children and their families living in extreme poverty in Romania. They support marginalised families to escape poverty, encourage inclusion into society and to lead independent and fulfilling lives.

Charlie Chaplin once said: “You will never find a rainbow if you are looking down”. Chaplin’s words show us the importance of hope. But what does hope really mean for the poorest of Romania’s society?

It is hard to have hope when you live with your children in an over-crowded little shack with a leaking roof, filth and no sanitation. You may never have known a different live. You are so poor that you cannot give your children three meals a day, but are glad when you find food from the local rubbish dump that you can offer your children at night.

In the winter with temperatures as low as -25 degrees your uninsulated shack gets freezing.

Your shack is so small that not all of you can sleep in the make-shift bed so some of your children

have to sleep on the freezing floor. You are an outsider and live in a slum at the edge of your local town. Because you look so poor people avoid you, in fact some hate you. When your children are sick you are unable to afford the medicine.

As a charity we want to motivate families to look up and see that rainbow Chaplin talked about.

Giving hope is one of the most important parts of our work.

Anne Frank beautifully said: “Where there is hope, there is life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.” No matter how hard their lives have been we need them to have the courage to look up and hope for

something better. Where that hope has been lost we want to be that hope. So when we begin working with families we usually ask what gives them hope. The replies are always modest.

One family father desperate to break out of poverty replies: ‘I hope that Open Hands will help me to stand on my feet. I hope that one morning I will wake up and I will have responsibility to go to work for my family, then I will have the feeling that now we are someone in this world’.

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to sing the children the English nursery song ‘Itsy Bitsy Spider’ and accompanied this with finger actions. The children loved this so much that their faces began to light up. Over and over they ask if I can sing the song again - both of them coping my movements and words. I have rarely seen such joy on children’s faces. These children are not used to receive such attention. They need our input now to develop into healthy adults to break the poverty circle.

no health there is no work, every way seems just the same: hopeless.

Their stories make a pattern that may have existed for generations but behind every pattern lies an individual, a face, a hope, a life, which is more than a simple pattern of poverty.

As a charity we have found that the only real longterm way to break circles or patterns of poverty is education.

Our latest project is called: The Rainbow House (in Romanian: Casa Curcubeu) – An Open Hands Learning Centre.

Last year Open Hands purchased a run-down, little house. With an outside toilet and a broken, old well for water access, it really was in dire need of refurbishment. We got to work and The Rainbow House is now completely renovated and furnished inside. We chose the name Rainbow House because we want this house to be a sign of hope. We want the colours of the rainbow to brighten children’s lives.

It will be an education centre and safe haven for traumatised and neglected children, a warm and healthy learning environment for children between 0-16 years. The Rainbow House will support the educational development of children through structured play, songs, arts and crafts, food, hygiene, story time and help with school work.

Our children have so much potential but they need time, love, affection and teaching to develop this.

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Open Hands aims to support 22 children through the new Rainbow House project. There will be three groups: for babies, pre-schoolers and school-aged children. The Rainbow House will open its doors for the nursery aged children this April.

However, to offer all three groups of children to participate in the project, we need to raise an extra amount of ÂŁ24,000 a year. This money will be spent on two staff members to run the groups, hot nutritious meals for the children, the running costs of the house, toys and learning materials. In the summer we would also like to build an outdoor play area for the children.

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Wednesday 6th April Free Fun and Safety Day. Come along and join us for lots of activities including a children’s entertainer, arts and crafts, music and dancing, play equipment, balloon making and lots more. Under 8’s must be accompanied by an adult. At 10am to 1pm. Crowborough Fire Station, Beacon Road, Crowborough, TN6 1AF. Tel: 01323 443275.

Friday 8th April Talk by Guy Woodward and Andrew Hildrew from Imperial College. The longest running, 40 years, detailed study of a watercourse: Broadstone Stream.

As the environment changes so does the aquatic life. A fascinating insight. At 8pm-9pm. Forest Row Community Centre, Hartfield Road, Forest Row, RH18 5DZ. Tel: 01892 661 548.

Friday 8th April Britain’s Favourite Baritone, Sir Thomas Allen.

Accompanied by Joseph Middleton will be singing works by Vaughan Williams and Butterworth together with his favourite traditional songs. At 8pm, St Alban’s Church, Frant, TN3 9DX. Wednesday 13th April “The NGS - All Gardens Great and Small” a talk by Irene Eltringham-Willson. The National Gardens Scheme (aka the ‘Yellow Book’) will be explained, its history and Irene’s role as county organiser. Irene’s talk will take us on a trip round a variety of our beautiful gardens in Sussex that support the NGS - and provide some hot tips about getting in the Yellow Book! Entry £1, visitors £2. All welcome. At 8pm, King Edward Hall, Lindfield.

Thursday 14th April Sticky Tape Moths and Men: the problems they cause and the remedies I use. Jacqueline Hyman gives an insight into the work of a textile conservator and her techniques in preserving canvas and beadwork, lace, costume, fans, banners, ecclesiastical items and full size tapestries. Ashdown Forest Decorative and Fine Arts Society, members free of charge, guests £6. At 2.30pm, Nutley Village Hall, High Street, Nutley, TN22 3NE. Saturday 16th April Lindfield Bonfire Society Vintage Coffee Morning and Tabletop Sale. Tea, coffee and delicious homemade cakes served on vintage china in the Jubilee Hall. The Newcombe Hall will be full of table top stalls selling all sorts of things. An excellent morning out whatever the weather! All proceeds in aid of Lindfield bonfire, procession and fireworks on Nov 5th. Please contact Sarah on 01444 487470 for more details or to book a table (£5 each).10am - 1pm, The King Edward Hall, Lindfield, RH16 2HH.

Monday 18th April Kent & East Sussex Navigation. By Roy Sutton local resident and secretary of the Kent & East Sussex branch of inland waterways association. From 7:45 -9:15pm, The East Grinstead Natural History Society.

At St Barnabas Church Hall, Dunnings Road, East Grinstead.

Friday 22nd April Ladies Lunch. Fundraising lunch for Burrswood featuring Susie Flashman Jarvis, one time Page 3 model and heroin addict, now happily married mother of four, whose life was transformed when she met God. Susie will talk about her life then, and now as a counsellor, therapist and popular author.

Tickets £25 to include 2 course lunch with glass of wine. Call 01892 865985 or email fundrasing@ burrswood.org.uk. At 12:30pm, Royal Wells Hotel, 59 Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 8BE. Saturday 23rd April Open Day Isle of Thorns Bowls Club. You are invited to the Isle of Thorns Bowls club open day.

A free day of fun coaching and refreshments. Take the opportunity of trying out the inexpensive and enjoyable game of bowls. We are a friendly mixed club located next to CATS Protection Centre. At 11am to 1pm and 2pm to 4pm, Chelwood Gate on A275 located next to CATS Protection Centre.

Sunday 24th April Taster Days. Sunday 24th April at 2pm and Sunday 22nd May at 10am. Come and join in a Taster Day and try your hands at a game of bowls. A great way to meet people and enjoy yourself at the same time. We provide all the equipment, all you need are comfortable clothes and a pair of flat shoes (no heels). Help will be given by our club coach for anyone who has not played before. At 2pm, Nutley Bowling Club.

Wednesday 27th April “Kew Gardens, past, present and future”. This informative gardening talk is by Harry Townsend.

The event is organised by the Nutley Horticultural Society, and should be very well attended.

Refreshments will be available, at 7:45 pm, Nutley War Memorial Hall.

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