East Grinstead Living September 2020 Issue

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The Bluebell Railway celebrates its 60th birthday

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Whats inside this month

Dear Residents, Welcome to the September issue.

We hope you’re having a lovely Summer so far, and fingers crossed for an Indian Summer this year, we deserve it!

As the Bluebell Railway celebrate its 60th anniversary, we bring exciting news about goings-on.

The Llama park in Ashdown Bluebell Railway Bursts Back to Life Forest has a wonderful story about a baby-boom happening this Summer. It is well worth supporting, so please do pay a visit if you can.

Mystery Explosion

Thank you for supporting our local businesses, I’m sure they appreciate it more than ever.

Please do send through any events and if you are a local charity or community group please drop a line.

East Grinstead student produces incredible metal work

EG man starts SpeedQuizzing craze

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Chicken & banana korma recipe This mild chicken curry is packed full of flavour and it’s healthier than a standard takeaway korma.

Ingredience • 2 tsp vegetable oil • 500g skinless, boneless uncooked chicken breasts, chopped • 1 large onion, chopped • 1 apple, cored and chopped • 2 cloves of garlic, crushed • 2 tbsp korma curry paste • 400ml vegetable or chicken stock • 25g sultanas or raisins • 25g chopped ready-to-eat apricots • 300g easy-cook long grain brown rice • 1 tbsp cornflour • 1 banana, sliced • 4 tbsp plain yoghurt • 1 tbsp fresh coriander, chopped (to garnish) • 1 pinch ground black pepper

Method Heat the vegetable oil in a large saucepan. Add the chicken, onion, apple and garlic, and cook for 2-3 minutes, stirring often. Add the curry paste and cook for a few seconds, stirring.

Add the stock, raisins or sultanas and apricots.

Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer, partially covered, for 35 minutes. Add a little more stock or water, if necessary.

Brown rice takes 30-35 minutes to cook, so put it in plenty of simmering water.

Just before serving, blend the cornflour with 2 tbsp cold water and add to the curry, stirring until thickened. Slice in the banana, cooking gently for another few moments. Check the seasoning, adding pepper, if needed.

Serve, topping each portion with 1 tbsp yoghurt and accompanied with the rice.

Garnish with coriander, if using.

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Anyone remember a very loud, very huge, mystery BANG that happened in East Grinstead in 1957? It made the papers and had Greenwich observatory wondering if it was a meteorite and locals wondering if it was a plane crash or bomb… well, after all these years, Martin Horsfall reveals the cause:

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EG man starts a SpeedQuizzing craze for charity An East Grinstead quiz host is raising money for two local charities through a series of increasingly popular virtual SpeedQuizzes.

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16 quizzes later, Rob has succeeded in raising £1052 through a combination of him donating £1 for every quiz ticket sold and the winning teams donating their prize money which is being pledged to the local NHS Charities Together and East Grinstead-based Jigsaw South East.

Rob said: “I’ve been running popular SpeedQuizzes in a couple of local pubs for over a year now, so when the lockdown happened, I decided to take advantage of the SpeedQuizzing Live platform, and host virtual quizzes, primarily for my regular players.

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He was quite small for a male llama and did not settle in very well and so we were quite disappointed as most of the ladies just ignored him and did not respond to his advances, or so we thought... .... until Sunday 19th July this year (a year to the day that we bought him) when late in the afternoon we discovered twin baby girl llamas, known as "crias", in a paddock with their mum Skye who is 9 years old.

The birth of twins is exceptionally rare in 'camelids', 30,000 to 1 chance, so this was a major surprise to us and has made waves in the llama-world. One of the babies did not look well and so we got our lovely vet to have a look at her and some friends of ours who are local Alpaca breeders, Vicky and Chris Agar, provided us with some camelid plasma which was given to 'Spotty' and she has been doing very well ever since.

We called her sister 'Polo' and 'Spotty' has been renamed 'Beth' after one of our lovely livestock girls.

Then to our great surprise on Tuesday 21st (just two days later) we had a third birth. The mother is 'Lulu' who is also 9 years old.

This was another little girl 'cria' who we have named 'Farah' after a dear friend of ours.

Well, we thought, that is amazing as we had not expected anything from Leo and had thought he was shooting blanks.

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Now we had four baby llamas which we had not expected and Casanova is now worth a fortune... However, the story does not end there as on Saturday 1st August another one of our lady llamas, Rhea, who is 12 years old and the biggest of the female llamas (so no pushover for a small stud like Casanova) gave birth to yet another very pretty female cria who has yet to be named but has very nice 'white socks'.

So, we all asked, is Rhea the last of Casanova's lady friends to give birth?

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We still have four females who have not (as yet anyway) fallen to the charms of Casanova so who knows what might happen next.

At the park we have a very big marquee with socially distanced tables. We are using this as our restaurant for now. All the food and drinks are served in disposable containers.

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The Meridian Rotary Club, which has served the town for 35 years, continues on as usual, providing support to the many local and further afield charities. If it is possible, all the Christmas cheer they bring to the town and surrounding communities will continue this year.

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Bursts Back to Life Alex Venton waves green flag © Bluebell Railway

Last month the railway resumed running steam trains which coincided with its 60th birthday celebration.

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Founders who started running the steam trains again, all those years ago, were present.

In a ceremony to mark the reopening after a 20-week closure, Mr. Hunford said: "It was on this very spot 60 years ago – on 7th August 1960 – that the first passenger train left this station as the dream of railway enthusiasts to operate their own line came true. They were pioneers of the heritage railway movement, paving the way for groups across the country to open disused lines and run standard gauge preserved railways."

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Young Bluebell enthusiast and guest of honour One train-mad youngster who gave all his saved-up pocket money to save the steam railway he loves had the honour of waving the green flag to see off the first train as the line reopened. Six-year-old Alex Venton was a special guest and blew the whistle as trains began running again on the 60th anniversary re-opening day.

Alex has been keen on trains since the age of two and is a member of the Bluebell Railway’s club for juniors. Many locals will know that the Bluebell, which is not-for-profit, launched an emergency appeal in March to provide enough money to recover from the closure and retain key heritage skills in the area.

Alex read about the appeal in the railway’s newsletter and decided to give all his saved-up money (he wanted to buy a new coach for his collection) to the appeal instead.

Trevor Swainson, the funding organiser, said: “We were touched that Alex had emptied his money box

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special the Bluebell is to so many people.”

The appeal has raised nearly £400,000 so far which was enough to allow it to reopen but it is still asking for donations because of continued uncertainty.

Elton John fans chance to recreate album cover It’s been a long time coming, but now you can tell everybody there is the chance to follow in the footsteps of Sir Elton John and be pictured in the same spot as one of his album covers.

It’s been many years since the singer visited the Bluebell for the cover of his 1970 album Tumbleweed Connection, when he and Bernie Taupin were photographed by Ian Digby Ovens, with the Victorian station used to inspire the album's rural Americana concept.

“They proceeded to take photos with the gentleman sat in the exact spot Elton sat. It’s exactly 50 years since the album was released and we are celebrating 60 years, so we thought it would be a good idea to encourage Elton's fans to come and take their picture at the scene.”

The museum team painstakingly reset the enamel signs that were outside the building in 1970 in the exact positions and cleaned them ready for the photo opportunity. These include signs for Sunlight soap, Rowntree’s chocolates, Mazawattee tea, Shelvey’s mineral waters and Rajah cigars.

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Museum curator Tony Drake said: “Late one afternoon I was locking up the museum when a young couple came along and declared, ‘It must be here’. I inquired as to what was ‘here’ and they told me the story of Elton John and the cover for his album Tumbleweed Connection. © Bluebell Railway Martin Lawrence

Visitors have now started recreating the album cover and the Bluebell is encouraging them to share their images on social media.

Tumbleweed Connection was Elton John’s third studio album and it reached No. 2 in the UK album charts.

Sir Elton is one of many singers who have visited or used the Bluebell’s period stations for promotional filming. Others include Cilla Black, Ringo Starr, Sheena Easton and the Pet Shop Boys.

Further, the railway is known as “The Line to the Stars” because hundreds of films, TV programmes, music videos and advertisements have used it as a backdrop; among them, Downton Abbey, Poirot, Muppets Most Wanted and The Woman in Black.

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Our fantastic recliner chair range also includes a range of styles and many fabrics to choose from.

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Including a memory mattress - 15 year guarantee Lifting weight 28 stone - Wireless remote control Simply to use with 3 memory storage - Under bed lighting 2’6” RRP £4272 SALE £3631 5’0” Twin RRP £8274 SALE £7032

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3’0” RRP £4422 SALE £3758 6’0” Twin RRP £8424 SALE £7160

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Featuring a deep buttoned back, supportive sit and stylish scroll arm. Available in 4 chair sizes in fabric or leather.

Available matching sofa’s - 5 year guarantee Single Motor Petite, Compact and Standard

Dual Motor Petite, Compact and Standard

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Single Motor Grande

Double Motor Grande

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