East Grinstead Living February 2021 Issue

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Dear Residents, Dear Residents,

Whats inside this month

Welcome to the February issue.

Valentines day is coming this month and what better time to spread some love.

We have put together a larger quiz this month that friends and family might like to join in on.

The East Grinstead Lido Brilliant local illustrator Garen Ewing has news about a project which has garnered much international attention.

Valentine’s Day Roots

The East Grinstead Lido was extremely popular in years gone by before, it was demolished, see our feature about its history.

Plus, find a couple of very easy Local History Notes: C&D recipes you can make with kids of all ages and ability.

Local A La Mode

Thank you for supporting our local businesses for your garden and home needs.

If you run a local charity or community group, please drop us a line any time if we can help to promote it.

All the best for a good February.

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Local A La Mode

One of our local residents is celebrating sustainable fashion in a big way on social media. Anna Kilpatrick, 47, of Forest Row, started her online Instagram account @not.needing. new just over a year ago. She now has a couple of thousand followers, people from around the world who love seeing her put-together, second-hand outfits. She has recently been featured in national media.

The mum of two is a regular treasure-hunter at the Salvation Army Shop in East Grinstead and loves being asked by Sophie’s Fashion

Shop in Forest Row to feature their pre-loved designer clothes on social media.

Anna has a passion for showing that it is possible for women no longer in their 20s or 30s to access fabulous style and gorgeous clothes without having a big budget. The single mum also furnished her small flat almost entirely with midcentury pieces from The Red Cross in EG and from the Forest Row amenity tip, when it was open. She found Danish sideboards and Swedish leather chairs that would have fetched hundreds of pounds with London dealers!

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Answers on page 30 We've got a Bumper February Quiz for you, which you may like to do with friends and family.

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1. Into which sea does the Nile flow?

2. Where were the Summer 2008 Olympics held?

3. What is the hottest continent on Earth?

4. One and a half litres of champagne is known as a what?

5. What is the procedure called where an anaesthetic is injected close to the spinal cord?

6. Who had a hit in the '60s with 'The House Of The Rising Sun'?

7. In which country was Rudyard Kipling born?

8. From which famous movie does, ‘Get to the chopper’ come from?

9. Which sign of the zodiac is represented by the scales?

10. To what country does the island of Elba belong?

11. Pigs are used to sniff out which delicacy in some parts of France?

12. What is the last word in the New Testament?

13. What is the surname of the author of 'For Whom The Bell Tolls'?

14. Who directed The Shining?

15. Alberta is a province of which country?

16. Which English brothers played in the 1966 World Cup Final?

17. In which Italian city was Saint Valentine martyred?

18. What is the national costume of Japan?

19. Who was Kim Kardashian’s famous attorney father?

20. From which country did Sonic the Hedgehog originally come?

21. What is the largest country in the world?

22. Which actor says the famous movie line, ‘Show me the money’?

23. What is the national sport of Japan?

24. What is a baby elephant called?

25. What are the colours of the Olympic rings?

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Top Ten Gardening Trends

The popularity of gardening continues to rise, with research by the Horticultural Trades Association showing that 2020 created another 3 million more gardeners. Now is the perfect opportunity to make your garden, no matter what its size, look its best. Gardening makes many people feel happier, healthier and more in tune with nature. Perfect.

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Best of British Native British plants create elegant and contemporary gardens. They may require less watering and less maintenance too. Plus, you’re helping to support local growers.

Bright Colours People want cheer and joy in their gardens, and an injection of colourful plants does just that. Go for bold, vibrant colours, and make your garden as colourful as you like. Retro plants such as Chrysanthemums, Asters and Dahlias are very popular right now.

Grow Your Own There’s no greater reward than growing your own fresh fruit and veg, people are increasingly conscious of where their food is coming from. Whether you have a windowsill, balcony, patio or garden, everyone can try to grow something edible. Potatoes, chillies, tomatoes, herbs and strawberries are good things to start with.

Peat Free & Eco Compost Demand for sustainable compost has been growing over the last year or so. Choosing the right compost means stronger, healthier plants and bigger, better harvests. There is a wide selection of eco-friendly, peat-free and reducedpeat composts for growing fruit and veg, to planting up containers and hanging baskets.

The classic English Cottage Garden has never gone out of fashion. It’s all about grace and charm, using traditional materials such as brick and paving, and densely planting with a mixture of ornamental and edible plants that look good and attract wildlife such as butterflies and bees too. Try planting classics such as roses, foxgloves, poppies, sweet peas and lavender, as well as vegetables, herbs and fruit.

Houseplants Houseplants have massively increased in popularity over the last few years, and retro plants that were popular in the 1970’s are definitely back in fashion right now. Research has shown that the following houseplants had the highest increases in searches in 2020, so will be very on trend in 2021: • Snake Plant • Cactus • Peacock Plant • Prayer Plant • String of Hearts

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Wildlife Garden Many people are pruning and mowing less, or leaving a patch of their garden wild to create a haven for birds, bees, butterflies and hedgehogs. To encourage wildlife into your garden, add wildflowers, bird feeders, a hedgehog home or bug hotel, and leave out fresh water if you don’t have a pond. Use less artificial hard landscaping and add more plants to create a biodiversity for wildlife to thrive. Also consider adding a ‘hedgehog’ hole in your fencing to allow hedgehogs to travel in and out of gardens in search of food.

Zen Garden More so than ever, the garden will be a place to relax and escape this year. Plants such as acers, eucalyptus and bamboo will give a Zen-like feel to gardens, and expect to see contemporary metal sculptures for the garden as well as wall art.

White Garden For the ultimate in sophistication and if you want your flowers to illuminate your evenings a white garden could be the answer. A quick look at social media will show you why this is so on trend. Choose a dark backdrop, deep green foliage or a dark fence, and add some eye-catching white flowers to fill the space such as delphiniums, rhododendrons, roses or scented jasmine.

Bring the inside out Gardens are rooms to decorate, so just as you would invest in a new sofa or table for the home. Expect to see more modular furniture that can easily change depending on the number of guests. And outdoor dining is a trend that continues to increase in popularity, with people buying bigger and better BBQ’s, and even pizza ovens for their garden.

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The Mediterranean Garden Missing the Med? Bring a touch to your garden by including a selection of plants and herbs to give a laid-back vibe. Use architectural plants such as palm trees, cypress and yuccas to add height and drama. For beautiful scent plant jasmine or lavender, and add agapanthus, osteospermum or ceanothus for a splash of colour. As well as looking good they are low maintenance, requiring little watering. Plant in flowerbeds or in terracotta pots for that blue and ochre look reminiscent of Provence or Italy.

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The Future of Fashion What’s in (& what’s out) for 2021

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The way we shopped for clothes had already been evolving - and the pandemic forced the shift that will see our buying habits change for good.

So where do we go from here?

Thankfully, when it comes to the pastime we all love, the future of shopping is bright - and it will be exciting to see what this seismic change looks like.

Sustainable humanwear…

Last year I predicted gender fluid fashion would be on the rise. It was - and it still very much is.

In Spring, we saw designers - such as Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld and Stella McCartney - launch unisex capsules, and this will continue to filter down to the high street.

Instead of focusing on sex, collections will be launched based on activities - ranges will encourage like-minded people to come together; building a community.

The fallout from the pandemic will also include fast fashion. Many cheap items are only bought because they are seen as a bargain - and an item that can easily be thrown away.

If browsing in-store is restricted, so will the sales of these clothes which do end up ‘costing the earth’.

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Brooklands park once had an open-air swimming pool. A few years ago, we asked what people would most like to see back in the town. The most popular answer was the town’s lido. Here is a little history: The earliest record of swimming at Brooklands was in the late 1800’s when a local group of men (women weren’t allowed) swam in a gravelled stream which was feed by the local spring. At the turn of the last century, they enlarged the stream to make a pool, which then became home to the East Grinstead Water Rats.

The open-air pool was built in the following years and had several additions such as changing rooms and a decorative fountain.

The facility proved very popular as the prewar photographs show (taken in 1939 by my late cousins’ family).

Crowds used the pool in great numbers as was proved on some summer nights, when the pool was open till midnight. One such case was Wednesday 8th July 1959 when a record mid-week attendance of 1326 people swam. I can recall my mother taking my late brother and myself swimming during the school holidays, taking a picnic for lunch as there was plenty of grass banks surrounding the area. The pool was used by the local school children and evenings often had visiting swimming clubs attending galas. Many of the competitors were often seen walking up out of the park, passing the police station to refuel from the Fish and Chip shop at the top of West street - my wife was one of these, as she swam for the Bexhill Swimming club.

Outdoor swimming pools were popular till the late 70’s when more towns had indoor complexes built such as what we see at Kings Centre today. It’s funny how times change as a lot more people are turning back to outdoor swimming in the now heated outdoor pools such as Guildford and the ongoing restoration of the Saltdean Lido. Outdoor swimming’s burgeoning popularity is also due to the mental health benefits as much as physical, as its purported to stimulate natural ‘happiness hormones’.

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Local History Notes: C&D Dorothy Hatswell of the East Grinstead Museum, brings us the next installation, C&D, of her A through Z of local history.

Two closely situated villages in East Grinstead Museum’s catchment area are Copthorne and Crawley Down. They are the last villages to stay together in the Worth parish council.

Worth itself is now subsumed into Crawley borough council. Turners Hill gained its independence in the 1980s. On the borders of their boundary lies Copthorne Common. It was an area outside the residential centres of both villages and was the home of many itinerant and poor people, living in huts and tents, who scraped a living by making baskets and hoops. It was also the venue in the early C19th for illegal prize fighting. The bare-knuckle fights were watched by thousands of people including the Prince Regent. The most famous of these fights was the contest between Tom Cribb and the former American slave, Tom Molyneaux. Cribb won in 55 rounds.

Charles Corbett

Another village which the town museum serves is Danehill. Like Copthorne it has a thriving local history group. It was where the Corbett family lived. Charles Corbett was a local man who stood for parliament in the 1906 elections and was returned the only Liberal MP that East Grinstead has ever had. Both his two daughters were involved with the Suffrage movement in the area, together with his wife, Marie. The older daughter, Margery, became one of the leading Suffragists and went on to have a distinguished career, in her married name Corbett-Ashby.

Cowden, although in the museum’s area, is actually in Kent. It is the site of a small stretch of Roman road which was unearthed by the Sussex Archaeological Society. It can be visited at

any time and is a reminder of the Roman presence in this part of England. Another result of the town lying at the confluence of four counties is that Dormansland, whose railway station, the stop before East Grinstead, was strafed by the bomber that dropped its deadly load on the Whitehall Theatre in July 1941, is in Surrey.

The influence of the Earls of Dorset, are well documented elsewhere, but their presence is still evident on the High Street. The Dorset Arms is immediately recognisable as a coaching inn. The wide entrance to the now car park, once allowed stagecoaches access to the stables at the rear. East Grinstead, at the mid- point of the coaching route between London and Brighton, was which was superseded by the opening of the railway line through

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Three Bridges, that runs from London to Brighton. This depressed the economy of the town and led, ultimately to the branch line, now the Worth Way, being built to link the town to this important route.

Another building which has disappeared is the cricket pavilion on West Street. The developers of this site named the roads, imaginatively. As well as the fairly obvious, Pavilion Way, the best is Dexter Drive named for the famous Sussex batsman and his favourite stroke.

Moat Road was, for many years, the home of Mrs Richard Powell who, before she married, was one of the friends that was dedicated by Edward Elgar in of his Enigma Variations. She is “Dorabella”.

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Christopher Road is named for one of the co-developers of the Art Deco estate which provided much needed employment for local workmen during the depression which hit the whole country between the two world wars. William Christopher was a partner in the catering firm of Letheby and Christopher which still exists today. They held the catering franchise at the Whitehall and gave a new façade to that building as well as a new road off the London Road, providing a cinema and residential houses. Sadly, the Radio Centre and the garage next to it have now been bulldozed. The grandeur of their architecture lives on in photographs.

Harold Connold is one of the town’s best photographers.

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