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Dear Residents, Whats inside this month Welcome to the first magazine of 2017!

We hope you’ve enjoyed a lovely Christmas season, we’re guessing New Year’s resolutions are on everyone’s minds right now so from us to you, we’re wishing you best of luck with these.

We have a really fascinating article about several coincidences of the rich and famous who have lived in our town.

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January can be a slightly uninspiring month so see our feature, Januarys Gone By, to give you food for thought.

One of our local residents won the prestigious Calumet Student Photographer of the Year competition, see his amazing photo published here.

Rebuilding Bodies & Souls Exhibition Fascinating East Grinstead Connections

Thank you for supporting our many local businesses last year and thank you in advance for any support you can give to them in this new year.

We’d like to wish you all the very best for 2017!

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GESTURES OF KINDNESS some it may help.’

Jenna leaves her bouquets in random places with a note attached for the lucky stranger who finds them.

Local florist Jenna of Ivy Florence not only sells beautiful flowers, she sometimes gives them away for free to cheer up strangers!

Here she explains: ‘I heard that there was a ‘National Lonely Bouquet Day’ and thought - why not try to do it more than once a year?

Most weeks I have leftover flowers so I decided to try and make someone’s day with these. It’s not much, but to

One lady found one of these bouquets which Jenna had left by Lingfield Pond. She contacted her to explain what had happened: she’d been out walking with her son, talking to him about how much she missed her mum who had passed away, when she came across the bouquet by the pond. She picked it up and, as her mum’s name was ‘Florence’, it somehow felt as if her mum had sent them to her. She was extremely

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Jenna says, ‘The highlight is when the people who receive the bouquets go out of their way to come and visit me, to personally say thank you. Just shows that some people were so touched by the act that they want to actually meet the person behind it. Also lovely when I receive a picture of the flowers in a vase in someone’s home; that always makes me smile.’

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

January 4th 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.

January 15th 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 24th The first boy scout troop organized here in England by Robert Baden-Powell in 1908.

January 26th

January 7th 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 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.

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.

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.

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SIMPLE, STRAIGHTFORWARD CURRY Warm yourself up this Winter with everyone’s favourite dish made simple. Serves: 2 • Time: 60 minutes Garnish

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1 chicken breast) 1 tbsp plain yoghurt pepper, to taste 130g basmati brown rice 160g cauliflower

2cm cube of ginger, finely chopped 1 tbsp chopped fresh coriander

METHOD 1. Heat the oil and fry the onions until soft.

Add garlic, tomato, tomato purée, chopped chilli and spices. Cook for a few minutes and then add two tablespoons of water and allow to reduce.

2. Add chicken and cook for 10 to 15 minutes on a medium heat, then add the yoghurt, stirring slowly. Season with black pepper and simmer for a further five to ten minutes.

3. Meanwhile, cook the rice following the packet instructions and boil or steam the cauliflower until tender.

4. Garnish the curry with ginger and coriander.

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Fascinating East Grinstead

Connections of the Rich and Famous

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Wisley, Surrey, and presented it to the Royal Horticultural Society!

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.

Hanbury carried out an extensive scheme of planting and landscaping during his ownership of the Brockhurst estate. In 1910 he had already embarked on the construction of a rock garden using stone brought in from a local source. When digging planting holes for rhododendrons, he exposed an outcrop of Lower Tunbridge Wells sandstone which lay close below the surface and which he described as ‘a fine mass of solid rock, some 30 feet thick’ ( ref: The Garden 1924). This he uncovered, 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 COMMUNITY BUSINESS DIRECTORY Liguria, northern Italy. In fact in 1903 the very same Sir Thomas bought the 60-acre estate at 14

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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).

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Fairtrade Fortnight (27th February - 12th March) is a fun-filled highlight of the year for our town, when campaigners, businesses, schools and places of worship show their support for the farmers and workers who grow our food in developing countries.

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satisfaction.

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.

In about 1909 another astronomer from Nottingham called Thomas Bush moved

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’

(Sackville College is open to the public during the summer months: http:// sackvillecollege.org.uk ) 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.

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The author wishes to thank Mr Richard Pearson FRAS for providing much of the material for this article and for his permission to reproduce the photographs of the Brockhurst Observatory.

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!”

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

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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

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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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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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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.

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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

light shine through about a month a year and for only a few hours a day. We set off a smoke bomb to really emphasise the light. I was lucky enough to capture my friend perfectly posed with his dog looking up at the light.’

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

To help celebrate Pooh in his 90th year, this documentary hosted by Alan Titchmarsh just aired on New Year's Eve on Channel 4.

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'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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Western Wanderers by Glenda Law. At 19:45, The East Grinstead Natural History Society. St Barnabas Church Hall, Dunnings Road, East Grinstead RH19 4AT

RSPB East Grinstead Group Amazing Birds – including how tracking devices have revealed facts about migration, feathers, endemism and new species - by Chris Collins. 7:45pm for 8pm prompt start. Main Hall, East Court, College Lane, East Grinstead, RH19 3LT. Further information mdr51@btinternet.com.

WEDNESDAY 18TH JANUARY Mid Week Collectors Fair. Following alterations to the premises, the monthly fair is back for 2017, with 15 dealers offering stamps, coins, postcards, etc.

10am - 3pm, Chequer Mead Community Arts Centre, De La Warr Road, East Grinstead, RH19 3BS. WEDNESDAY 18TH JANUARY The Mid-Sussex Primary Schools Cross-Country Championships are being held on the East Court playing fields. The top runners from the East Grinstead races held on October 9 have been selected to represent East Grinstead in these January races where they will compete against athletes from Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath and the smaller village schools in Mid-Sussex. There will be races for boys and girls, with about 60 runners in each race, and the successful runners in these January races will then be selected to represent Mid-Sussex in the all Sussex championships to be held later in the winter. For more info email lestermedcalf@btinternet.com.

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Mid Sussex Caledonian Society Burns Supper.

A traditional Burns Supper with a 3 course meal and coffee followed by mostly humorous speeches and some easy Scottish country dancing. More information obtainable from secretary@midsussexcaledoniansociety.org.uk or newslettereditor@midsussexcaledoniansociety.org. uk. See: www.midsussexcaledoniansociety.org.uk 6.30 for 7pm, Cottesmore Hotel Golf and Country Club.

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FRIDAY 27TH JANUARY AT 7:30PM Chequer Mead Silver Screen presents The Nice Guys. Set in 1970s Los Angeles, down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March (Ryan Gosling) and hired enforcer Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) are forced to work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. They uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power. Tickets £5, cons £4.

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