East Grinstead Living March Issue

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living March 2016

British Wildlife Centre Photo of the Year, courtesy of Ashley Buttle Š Photo taken at the centre, Lingfield.

Looking good in 2016

Attracting Bees and Butterfly’s

Recipes

Quality Timber and Building Materials Softwoods

Hardwoods

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Sheet Materials

Flooring

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Staircases and Accessories

Fencing and Garden Products

Building Products

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Monday 28th March: All Branches Closed

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Dear Residents, Whats inside this month Welcome to the March issue.

Spring will soon be here everyone and we can breathe a sigh of relief.

It’s the perfect time to get things started in the home and garden and we hope many of you can find local businesses

A local view of the Titanic disaster

Attracting Bees and Butterfly’s

here.

This month we have a fabulous article about Weirwood Reservoir, its history and all the wildlife one can find there.

If you are a local charity or community group please drop us a line if you need any extra

Looking good in 2016

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Apple, apricot & sultana squares The perfect treat with a cup of tea. And great for packed lunches and picnics too!

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Ingredients: 100g spread/butter 4 tbsp golden syrup 250g porridge oats 1 apple cored and chopped 50g ready-to-eat apricots chopped 50g sultanas ½ tsp ground mixed spice (optional) 1 egg beaten

2. Melt the remaining spread in a large saucepan with the golden syrup. Take care that the mixture doesn’t get too hot.

3. Remove the pan from the heat and add the porridge oats, apple, apricots, sultanas or raisins and mixed spice (if using). Stir well, add the beaten egg and mix again.

4. Tip the mixture into the prepared tin and level the surface. Bake for 20-25 minutes until firm.

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Attracting Bees and Butterflies We’d all love more wildlife in the garden and what better way to start than planting bee and butterfly friendly plants. With their bright colours and rich pollen or nectar source they create the perfect habitat for these important pollinators.

The best approach is to plant a mix of species so that you can provide habitat from early spring through to late autumn. The pollinators are important for a lot of plants because without them they wouldn’t seed and/or fruit. Sadly our bees and butterfly’s are in decline so every little effort we make in our gardens, however large or small can help reduce this downward trend.

Below are just some of the plants that are good for pollinators but you can visit the RHS website on their ‘Get Your Garden Buzzing’ page where they are providing comprehensive lists for you to choose from.

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Marigolds

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Mint

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Alliums

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Echinacea

Borage

Viburnum

English Bluebells

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Chives

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Geraniums

Now is the perfect time to plan some of these important plants into your planting scheme. Every little effort contributes to the survival of our bees and butterfly’s and the importance of this cannot, of course, be over-stated.

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If you can swim, you can go canoeing with our qualified instructor on the nearby Weir Wood lake from May onwards.

Then stay and have a picnic and go for a walk in the 120 acres of woods and fields in this beautiful part of the West Sussex countryside near East Grinstead and the Bluebell steam railway.

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Open Wireless Networks: the Wild West on Your Doorstep Have you shouted your bankcard’s PIN while paying? No? Yet many of us do the digital equivalent when blithely using public wireless networks found in coffee shops, airports and elsewhere. Here is some digital protection for when you swim with wifi sharks.

There are three main issues when using coffee shopstyle open networks. These are snooping on your communication, infection from another machine and, most challenging, hotspots created to be digital traps.

On an open network other computers can read the insecure data sent to and from your computer. Many websites still do not secure all their communication with you leaving your stream of data open for others to read and modify. Fraudsters may impersonate you to take over your accounts at these websites.

A virtual private network (VPN) makes your data unreadable on the wifi network, safe from snooping and modifying. Heard of the plans to force your broadband provider to monitor your browsing? A VPN prevents them knowing what you do online.

Public networks often allow traffic to flow between users. This means that an infected machine could pass on this infection to your computer. Your computer’s

Finally, malicious wifi hotspots. These may invisibly redirect you to fake websites in order to collect your login details or plant malware on your computer. Wifi protocols still leave you unable to confirm the identity and safety of open networks. Frankly, why do we use them at all?

Safety tips: • Turn off automatic connection to wireless networks.

• Clear your wifi network connection history.

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Looking good in 2016 With the new spring colours beginning to show in our countryside, it’s time to look into our wardrobes and make a few changes.

pictures and those are the colours available this season.

Muted greens, mint, various blues, lemon, pinks, all gentle on the complexion and easy to wear. And while we are on the garden route, be prepared to wear a flock of birds, budding branches, leaves and flowers within the prints of your dresses and tops – not the big floral prints of 2015 but more gentle botanical studies. Prefer something a bit more vibrant?

You’ll find citric green, vibrant yellow, bright red, cobalt blue – plain, or contained within vibrant geometric prints.

2016 is a leap year, when traditionally, if only for a day, a woman can propose marriage, thereby wearing the ‘trousers’.

Most modern day women would argue that we have earned the right every day, but we are not here to debate that point. The fashion question here is, wide or narrow, short or long? And the answer for 2016 is that anything goes. For those wanting a change from the skinny look, you can wear a flare or wider cut with pride, but this year consider the easier styles of elastic waisted, harem type pants in a bright print: an easy holiday look, teamed with a baggy top and either a cork wedge shoe or flat sparkly sandal. Trouser lengths remain fluid: calf length to very long are all acceptable. Fancy culottes or long shorts? This is your year!

Look out for the inevitable patriotic blue, white and red of an Olympic year – and of course, for those who wish to follow the trend, the athletic look with flat trainers and plimsolls. But bling them up – with metallic colours, a bit of sparkle or a bright colour.

With Easter arriving early this year (end of March), maybe consider the yellows and oranges of the season in lightweight knitwear or maybe statement jacket. If the weather stays chilly, these work very well with the navy, black and grey of the winter season but if it’s warm, then team them with white and neutrals – either way you’re still Easter chic!

Worried about those extra pounds you’ve gained from comfort eating this winter? No worries. Tuck them away under the easy fit tops of the season: long line shirts and jackets, layered knitwear, with round and v-necks. Put a faux suede/ chamois jacket on top – maybe quilted jacket or gilet. Trying to get away from trousers? Dresses are still a major look, teamed with a cardigan for cooler days.

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A local view of the Titanic disaster Local History Notes

by Dorothy Hatswell of the East Grinstead Museum Two people who have connections with the East Grinstead area were drowned in the Titanic disaster of 1912.

One of them, Charles Shorney, lived with his parents in the grounds of Heron’s Ghyll, a large estate just south of East Grinstead on the Ashdown Forest.

Charles Joseph Shorney was born in 1889 to Austin, a cabinet maker, who lived in Oak Cottage, Heron’s Ghyll and Margaret Nelson. Margaret Shorney died in 1904 and Charles’s father remarried, his new wife was Mary Anne Naughton. Charles was sixteen at the time and whether the decision to leave home was partly connected to the arrival of a step-mother, is conjecture, but he did spend the next few years travelling the world as a gentleman’s valet. He spoke fluent French and worked in Paris, Cannes and Biarritz. On one visit to America he became engaged to an American, Marguerite Morphy. He wanted to set up a taxi business in New York and returned to England to collect his share of family money to help in this enterprise. He voyaged back on the Oceanic, but had a very rough crossing and he decided to not use the same vessel for his return. He booked on the maiden voyage of the Titanic and sailed on April 12th 1912.

On the day he sailed he sent his father a postcard saying : “This is the boat. She is a peach.... Get to New York next Thursday. Will

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Road. Albert Winser served on the Urban District Council for several years. He was also a keen marksman and regularly won prizes for his shooting. He often shot with his friend, Captain Oxley, of Fen Place, Turners Hill.

Charles’s photograph appears on a family tree website, along with his father and stepmother, Annie. He is described as “visiting” in early 1912.

write again later. Sea quite calm.”

Charles did not reach New York “next Thursday” or indeed ever.

His body was never found.

His father went on to work as farm bailiff at a private mental hospital on Ditchling Common.

The second person who went down with the Titanic when it struck an iceberg and sank, was born in East Grinstead. He was Rowland Winser, a watchmaker and jeweller who lived and worked at 214, London Road.

His father, Albert had also been a watchmaker. Born in Brighton in 1846, Albert married his wife, Emily Day, who was born in Felbridge, in early 1873, and moved to East Grinstead. They had three children, Emily Kate, Rowland and their youngest child, Frank. His business premises were at 17, London

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By 1901, Rowland, now married himself and with a four-month old daughter, Jessie, had followed in his father’s footsteps and opened a jeweller’s shop at 214, London Road. Although both he and his father described themselves as “ watchmakers” the likelihood is that they merely repaired them and did not actually make the watches themselves. Shortly afterwards Jessie had a sister, Gwendolen, born two years after her. They were followed by three sons, Rowland Hibberd in 1905, Norman Eric in 1907 and Jack in 1910.

His younger brother, Francis James (Frank) was also married.

In 1911 he and his wife, Kate Wood, a schoolteacher, also from East Grinstead were living at 88, Putney Road, Balham. He was a dispensing chemist.

For some reason Rowland does not appear on the 1911 census, but his father has retired now to Tenterden, Kent, with his wife, Emily, and their daughter, Emily Kate, also makes an appearence.

Tenterden has a lot of “Winsers” living there at the time. In fact, Rowland does not appear in any records again, until he is listed as “presumed drowned” on the crew

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list of fatalities from the Titanic.

What he did in the twelve years between these two references, is of course, not known but it would seem reasonable to suppose that he was at sea for at least part of this time. His reasons for a change of career are also unclear but in 1911 his wife is named as a visitor at her married sister’s house in Southampton, together with her youngest two children. Rowland’s brother-in-law, James Law, gives his occupation as “ships steward” on the America’s Line. Whether his experiences made Rowland think of a change of occupation is a possibility.

with another two of her mother’s sisters at 35, High Street Rugby.

Ethel Badham, (nee Hibbert) and her husband who is a fruiterer, also living there is Lillian Hibbert, yet another sister, who is working as an assistant in the fruiterer’s business.

Rowland signed on the Titanic on April 4th 1912, giving his address as 2, Nightingale Grove, Southampton. Whether this had been the family home before he sailed in not known. He had previously served as a steward

aboard the Majestic. The majestic was replaced by the Titanic and so Rowland was, presumably, transferred too. He boarded at Southampton and was earning £3.15s pcm. He was known on board under two names: Rowland Winser or George Evans! Again no reasons for this double identity are known. Along with about 1500 others he went down with the ship on the night of April 12th 1912. His body was never recovered. His widow, Jessie did not remarry and died in 1961.

The three oldest children are not living with their mother but were living with various close relations. Jessie Ellen and Rowland Hibbert were living with their maternal grandparents, Tom and Annie Hibbert in Basingstoke.

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Strange Easter Customs Finland

You couldn’t be accused of confusing Finnish Easter traditions with Halloween. In times gone by it was thought that evil spirits and witches would roam around the country, doing mischief on the Saturday before Easter.

This throwback belief is a good reason for a bit of fun. Kids wear old and oversized clothes and headscarves, painting freckles and rosy cheeks on their faces, and whisking birch twigs decorated with feathers and crepe paper.

Knocking on doors, the children cast a good spell on you and kindly ask you to put some sweets and money into a pot. And they thank you with a twig.

At Easter, Olde Worlde Finns would ignite large bonfires to keep the mischievous spirits at bay.

These days the fires still get lite but just as an excuse for a community get together.

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earthenware pots half full of water, from great heights, at precisely 11am on the Saturday while other people look on.

This noisy custom originated in Corfu towns but has extended to the villages. Apparently it was taken from the conquering Venetians who, on New Year’s day, used to throw their old things from the windows in order to receive new ones for the New Year.

The Corfiots drew on this tradition to celebrate the most important Greek holiday, Easter. Nowadays, the ‘old things’ have been replaced by pots and jugs full of water, which make for an even louder noise upon impact. If you plan to visit, stand back people - the street cleaners must be very forgiving after that much merriment!

It is also thought that the peculiar custom may also have partial roots in the biblical passage “Thou, O Lord, raise me up, that I may crush them as a potter’s vessel”, and as Easter falls in the beginning of the plantation season, the time when newly-harvested produce from the land was stored in new pots and the old ones were destroyed.

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Garden Guide this March

What a mild winter it’s been this year, so many daffodils already in flower, competing with the crocus and the snowdrop, but on a blue sky and sunshine day it all looks absolutely gorgeous. The other benefit of a mild winter is how beautiful the camellias are looking, perfectly formed rosettes of colour rather than the brown blobs of frost bitten petals.

Each day I look at the lawn and say, when there is a dry spell, I must get out and mow the lawn… February does seem somewhat early for lawn mowing but the grass is so long - a mix of the wet and mild conditions – that if left it will become mossy and its condition will deteriorate.

There’s always plenty to do in March and it’s worth investing your time now in the garden to tidy everything up and prepare for the months ahead. If you are

planning new hedges now is the time to buy the bare root stock.

Prepare the ground by digging it over and digging in a good compost such as farmyard or horse manure, then plant your bare root stock straight into the prepared area, give it a good watering to bed it in. Likewise with any new shrubs you are planning – now is the perfect time for planting.

This is the last opportunity (until they lose their leaves in the Autumn) to move any deciduous shrubs. Dig them up with a large root ball and transplant into a well-prepared (as above) planting hole. Ensure they establish with plenty of water during a dry spell. Evergreen shrubs are best moved after they have flowered e.g. rhododendrons, the method is the same as moving the deciduous shrubs. This then gives the shrub a growing season before its next flowering.

As well as new plantings you need to get stuck into your borders now to tidy them up and sort them out before everything starts growing again. Remove the weeds, cut old stems back down to ground level, taking care not to damage any new shoots.

Large clumps of perennials can be divided and transplanted and new self-sown seedlings can be moved to more appropriate positions in the border. Gaps can be filled with new plants. Fork over between the plants and then apply a good thick mulch. Always work from the back of the border to the front.

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I have always loved designing borders and creating exciting planting combinations. I was often asked to redesign aspects of my clients gardens, so I trained at Plumpton Horticultural College, gaining a Diploma with distinction in Garden Design.

What do you pride yourself on most in terms of customer service?

I want my clients to feel they have a detailed, comprehensive service from a knowledgeable designer and plants woman. I listen carefully to all their likes (and dislikes) and get a very thorough view of what they want. I can then use this to create an individually tailored design that meets their needs. Some may want a colourful, flower-filled garden that they can potter and relax in. Others want a low maintenance garden to entertain friends. Many clients want a great-looking, family-friendly garden which can double up as a children’s play area with an adult-relaxing space. Good garden design can achieve a great balance of function and form which creates a garden that can be used all year round.

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For instance Lisa and her daughter Olivia undertook the brave fundraising challenge last month to ‘swim the channel’ at Kings Centre, with her sister-inlaw and her sister. And Lisa’s not even that keen on swimming!

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One of the mothers at the Turners Hill Primary School where one of Lisa’s children goes to school, Vicky Crawley, is also undertaking a triahlon challenge to support MDS UK with her friend Rob Summerfield. On the weekend of the 12th/13th March their programme starts at East Court at 7am, then they cycle down Worthway to where it meets the road at the bottom of Tulleys, then take the Balcombe Rd cycle to Horley. From Horley they cycle to Charlwood, then across and back of Ifield, coming out on A264 Wimlands just north of Horsham. Across Horsham pick up Downslink either at Christ’s Hospital or Southwater. Steyning, following lanes west to Washington. There is a lane here that heads up to South Downs just west of Chanctonbury Rings. Walk from here to Eastbourne Pier - South Downs way. This is exactly 50 miles. The cycling should take about 5 hours and they’re hoping the walking will take 22 hours, then an hours drive to East Grinstead and one hour in the pool and they are done! Lisa and her daughter will then join them in the pool for the final swim. Courageous people indeed!

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Weirwood Reservoir:

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Weir Wood Reservoir\View of Nature Reserve from the layby © Bob Johnson

Before human intervention, the Weirwood Reservoir was a valley of the River Medway. By their nature, river valleys are ancient sites, and this valley is no exception. The warmer, wetter climate that followed the last glaciation meant a much greater flow of water into the river. Thus sometime between 6000 and 2300 BC, when people of the Middle Stone Age hunted in the area, they might have seen a broad deep river filling the valley, closely surrounded by a thick forest of oak and alder.

Two Mesolithic flint implements were found in the exceptionally dry conditions of 1976, showing that people were in the area, both were small cutting tools of primitive design.

There is a great gap in the records until the use of the site as an iron works in Roman times. A large slagheap at Walesbeech (beside an inlet on the south bank) marks the precise location. The slag was the residue of an iron smelter or bloomery, which may have been worked for a period sometime between 70 and 210 AD. There was also a late 16th Century iron furnace and forge named “Stone” located by the river at a site now under the west end of the reservoir.

The actual reservoir itself however, originated in 1954 when a stream from the River Medway, in the valley south of Standen House was dammed. Some of the agricultural land became water

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Bird Ringing a young Barn Owl © Peter Johnson

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Whillets Pool & Reed bed taken as seen from the road © Bob Johnson Bird Ringing a Kingfisher ©Peter Johnson

East Sussex council became the sole contractor.

These days the eastern end of the reservoir is given over to sporting activities, sailing, canoeing and fishing in the spring/summer months.

In 1988 the western end was classified as a Local Nature Reserve [LNR] which extended in 1994 to the whole of the reservoir; this LNR is managed by a committee of interested bodies including English Nature - two local nature observers joined this group as they had been recording

Great Crested Grebes in Sussex.

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Male Mandarin Duck © Bob Johnson

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Great White Egret © Bob Johnson Osprey at Nature Reserve © Peter Johnson

The reserve extends beyond Whillet’s Bridge [Grinstead Lane] where grassland is crossed by streams feeding the river and liable to continuous flooding.

In the mid 1990’s some of the observers started assisting the ranger in maintaining the reserve which led in 1996 to the formation of the Friends of Weirwood Society. Increasing volunteer numbers enabled more extensive work in the reserve.

Then in 2013 council cutbacks and financial stringency at Southern Water (the reservoir owners) resulted in maintenance of the reserve being fully taken

over by the Friends of Weirwood Society members, assisted only by a ranger who carries out machine work.

Over time the friends have built up their natural history knowledge and expertise in habitat management, however they always welcome new members especially those with specialist knowledge.

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Friday 4th March

Tuesday 15th March

Afternoon tea and cake sale in aid of Dementia UK. Afternoon tea with the mayor to raise money for Dementia UK. Will include a cake sale. From 2:30pm 4:30pm. Mill View, Dunnings Road, Sunnyside Close, East Grinstead, RH19 4QW.

The Friends of East Grinstead Museum invite you to join ‘The Big Round-up’, grab your lariat and Stetson, round up your partners and friends and mosey on down to CJs for Country and Western evening of fun, food and singalong to foot-tapping country music. In aid of the museum. Tickets available from the East Grinstead Museum. CJs, 5557 High Street, East Grinstead.

Wednesday 9th March East Grinstead Art Society: Demonstration. Sonia Griffin, watercolour techniques. At 2pm. St Swithun’s Church Hall, East Grinstead, RH19 3AZ. Saturday 12th March The Majesty of Mozart. The East Grinstead Choral Society presents Mozart’s ever popular Great C Minor Mass, Symphony No 40 and more.

Accompanied on period instruments by Meridian Symphony Orchestra, leader George Clifford. Adult £14, Student £7 from Bullfrog Music, Ship Street, East Grinstead, online or on the door. Further info: www. egcs.co.uk. At 7pm, St Mary’s Church, Windmill Lane, East Grinstead, RH19 2DS. Saturday 12th March Mansion Market. Parking and admission are free to this interesting and unusual market held in and around an atmospheric 18th century mansion.

Talented local craftspeople; designer clothing; organic produce; plants and much more. Delicious food served all day in the cafe, puppet shows for the children and taster therapy sessions.11am - 4pm, Kidbrooke Park, Priory Road, Forest Row. Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th March Exhibition of Model Railways. Layouts in all gauges. Trade stands. Refreshments. Free Parking.

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Children (5-16) £3.50. Family (2+2) £15. Tel: 01342 314228. www.egmrc.org.uk. At Sackville School.

Saturday 12th March Spring Concert by Coro Nuovo. The Friends of St. Peter’s Church are delighted to welcome back Coro Nuovo together with soloists. The programme includes favourite movie themes. There will be an interval with refreshments. Tickets are £10 in advance or £12 on the night with accompanied children under 16 free. Tickets available on door or from: Fiona Pearl (email fiona.pearl@btinternet.com), Tel: 01825 723135. At 7:30pm, St Peters Church, Chailey Green, BN8 4DA.

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Tuesday 15th March Ashdown Ramblers Lecture. A talk entitled: Himalayan Odyssey by Lynne Dabrowska. At the age of 57, Lynne started trekking in Nepal and has also visited Tibet and Sikkim. She has also been paragliding in Nepal and last year went sky diving to raise money for the Nepal earthquake appeal. At 8pm, Meridian Hall, East Court, East Grinstead.

Wednesday 16th March Mid Week Collectors Fair. 15 plus dealers selling (and buying) stamps, postcards, coins and other collectables at this regular monthly event. At 10am - 3pm, Chequer Mead Community Arts Centre, RH19 3BS. Saturday 19th March Charity Spring Ball at the Felbridge Hotel and Spa in East Grinstead. Includes drinks reception, three course meal and musical entertainment by top band ‘Fever’, singing sensations, the Swingtime Sweethearts and Katherine Samuelson. Plus win amazing prizes at the raffle and auction. Tickets are selling now so don’t miss out. £75* per person - to book your ticket simply go to www.dvlcc.org.uk. At 6.30pm, Felbridge Hotel and Spa. Saturday 19th March A Patchwork Mass. Choral concert presented by Forest Row Choral Society with highlights from major works spanning four centuries. Palestrina, Liszt, Mozart, Vivaldi, Bach, Cherubini, Poulenc, Part, Haydn. Tickets £15 on the door or in advance from Seasons, Forest Row. At 7:30pm, Holy Trinity Church, Forest Row. Sunday 20th March RSPCA South Godstone Animal Centre Easter Fayre. Games and competitions for all the family and Easter Egg hunt for the kids. Every child gets a prize. BBQ, hot/cold food + cakes, there really is something for everyone at our Easter Fayre.

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What’s On in March

If you would like your event on these pages email info@egliving.co.uk for more information.

Entrance to the fayre is free but donations are much appreciated. Easter Egg hunt is £3 per child. Tours of the centre £1 per person, under 16’s go free. All money raised goes directly towards helping animals at the centre. 11am - 4pm, RSPCA South Godstone Animal Centre, Eastbourne Road/A22, South Godstone, RH9 8JB. Sunday 20th March The East Grinstead Sports Relief Mile at the EG Sports Club. Run or walk yourself proud. Enter now at Sportrelief.com.

Monday 21st March Sussex on the Rocks. Geology of the County - by Dr Geoffrey Mead, historian. At 7:45pm, the East Grinstead Natural History Society. At St Barnabas Church Hall, Dunnings Road, East Grinstead.

Wednesday 23rd March East Grinstead Art Society. A workshop where artists can paint/draw together. At 2pm, St Swithun’s Church Hall, East Grinstead, RH19 3AZ. Friday 25th March Good Friday service in East Grinstead High Street. High Street will be closed to traffic from roundabout with London Road to Southern end of Middle Row. 10:30-12:30pm.

Saturday 2nd April Car Boot Sale with Table Top inside. Book and pay for your pitch in advance, at £10 per pitch, by ringing Karen on 01342 302083. Free entrance. Bargains galore! Refreshments available including hot bacon rolls. Sellers may arrive from 7:30am please.

At 8:30am, St Mary’s Church, Windmill Lane, East Grinstead. RH19 2DS. Talks at East Grinstead Library

What’s on at Chequer Mead Thursay 3rd March & Friday 4th March at 7:30pm Rising Stars Adult Theatre Company presents Allo Allo. A comedy by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft. After recent box office success with the play version of Blood Brothers, Rising Stars Adult Theatre Company brings the hilarious play ‘Allo ‘Allo to the Chequer Mead stage.

Thursday 3rd March to Wednesday 9th March Greenstede Gallery. Unique Extraction. Amy Ensing presents the variety of her work in her first exhibition at the Greenstede Gallery. All of her work varies, and the exhibit is her interpretations of what intrigues and excites her!

Thursday 10th March at 8pm The Dreamboys are back and hotter than ever with a brand new show and UK tour for 2016. The Dreamboys are without a shadow of a doubt the UK’s top Male Strip Show, perfect for a girls night out with all your friends.

Friday 18th March at 7:30pm Fisher Stevens is ELVIS. Winner of the International Elvis Masters Championships 2014, Fisher Stevens is renowned as one of the best Elvis tribute artists in the UK. Ever popular with East Grinstead residents, Fisher has performed at East Court live and at Chequer Mead on a number of occasions.

Thursday 17th March at 8pm Bob Fox is The Songman. Since the early seventies Bob Fox has lovingly developed his skills in the performance of folk song in all its various forms.

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2nd March , lunch time talk 1.10-1.50pm.

Sussex Search and Sea Rescue. A free talk.

15th March Pam and her Pat Dog Pippin are joining our regular board games group from 10am-12noon. Free drop in.

15th March Health and Wellbeing talk 1.10pm1.50, free drop in.

17th March Evening talk at 7pm. Suffrage Campaigners. Tickets £3 from the Library.

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