East Grinstead Living September Edition

East Grinstead

Living

September 2012

Š Paul Crowther

Local History Notes: Thomas Palmer Beauty Tips The Phoenix Comic Business Directory & Community News Is Belgium in East Grinstead?

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Dear Residents, Welcome to the September Issue.

Alterations

This issue is jam-packed with articles of local interest including 2 ‘local history notes’ features!

Art

Did you know that in 1752 England lost 11 days in this month, find out why in our article.

We’ve more ‘Beauty Tips for Thrifty Times’ for all of us who need some ‘me-time’ - while trying to juggle everything...

There are other bits and bobs featured throughout the magazines this month to keep you amused, including exam questions and hilarious real-life answers.

We’ve teamed up with the Brilliant Phoenix Comic chaps to bring you a cartoon page every month, my kids are already loving it and hopefully it will put a smile on your face.

There’s plenty of local businesses on board with new ones being added monthly; so we hope you’ll be able to find all the services you need in our directory.

Please get in touch with us with any community/charity local news and we’ll help.

Wishing you a great month.

Tally & Chris

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Contents

Iron Making in the East Grinstead Area 6,8 The English Language 8 Beauty Tips for Thrifty Times 10 Chequer Mead Competition 12 Meridian FM Presenter 12 Miss Moneywise 12 Hilarious Exam Answers 14 Flix in the Stix 14 The Phoenix Comic 16 Local History Notes: Thomas Palmer 18,20 Did you know?

22 Pocket Money Comp/Sudoku/Quiz 26 EGG speriment 28 Edward/Ellie 29 Recipe 30 EG 10K 30 History Notes: A Passion for Cricket 32,34,36 Nature Games 36 Gardening Tips 38 What’s On 40,42 The Majority of our Businesses are East Grinstead Based

East Grinstead Alterations

We pride ourselves on promoting quality local businesses as seen by the fact that a majority of our advertisers are local to EG. Although this publication does not vet advertisers, a number of complaints will mean that businesses will be barred from further advertising.

East Grinstead Living Notice: East Grinstead Living prints various articles, features, and advertisements. Although these appear in East Grinstead Living, any opinions expressed are the opinion of the author, these are not necessarily the opinion of the publisher. © Copyright East Grinstead Living 2012. The contents of this publication are written specifically for our readers, no part may be reproduced elsewhere without express and prior permission.

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Financial Advice Sovereign Finance

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Food/Drink Alfresco BBQs 41 Wiltshire Farm Food 41

Fitness/Health/ Wellbeing Lotte Berk 10 Family Chiropractic Clinic 9 Atlas Profilax 9 Mobile Massage – Marcus Woodman 11 Feet First 11 Ali Creelman Massage /Spin Classes 11 Hire Fitness 9 Foot Lady 10 Electrolysis/Minor Blemishes 11

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Hair Care Home Maintenance Services & Products Fernwood Polishing/Wood Restoration 31 Mid Sussex Timber 2 Bailey Bridge Refurb/ Construction 31 Beeches Builders 22 Paint it Now 31 AI Plumbing 35 Kiwi Plastering 31 DK Woodhouse 27 Scott Maynard Plastering 33 James Lowe Plumbing 35 Allzones Roofing & Building Services 3,5 Gutters & Soffits Cleaning 33 Heat Tek Plumbing & Heating 37 John Bloom Plumbing & Heating 35 Gary Spurle Bathroom & Heating 35 MM Roofing Contractor 27 MRM Plastering 29 Steve Willis Electrician 33 MDH Painters & Decorators 31 James Mundy Decorating 33 MM Walker Home Maintenance 27 Amdega Building Services 25

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Iron Making in the East Grinstead Area

by Jonathan Prus

technology have been found within five kilometres of the centre of East Grinstead.

Most of what we know about this old industry has been discovered by members of the Wealden Iron Research Group “WIRG”.

It’s not obvious today but the area around East Grinstead and points south east and west used to be an important centre of iron making. Look closely and you will see the scars of iron-ore mining and the remains of massive woodlands that used to be so carefully managed to provide a constant supply of charcoal for the local furnaces. Look at the place names and you will see more signs of a once-vibrant industry. Names like Brambletye Forge (Forest Row) tell you that iron was refined there and manufactured into useful items.

Sweet Minepits (Nutley) is the name of a place where iron ore was once extracted in quantity. Mill Place Furnace (East Grinstead) once had a blast furnace where liquid iron flowed into moulds. One of the more important cast-iron products of the blast furnaces were the guns they supplied to the Navy. Gravetye Furnace at West Hoathly is just one of these gun foundries.

WIRG members each follow their own range of interests. Some do historical research using libraries and archives.

Others do experimental archaeology, for example making iron in replica furnaces (photo). One group of members carries out archaeological field work, including walking over any potential iron working site and, sometimes, excavating them and publishing the results (photo). Some have recently started to compile a database of people involved in the iron industry between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. This promises to be an important family history resource. Many common local names turn out to be French or Belgian in origin and first arrived with the immigrant workers who brought over blast furnace technology.

Iron making in the Weald lasted for more than two thousand years. It began in British pre-history during the Iron Age and the last remaining furnace was blown out at the

But the history of local iron-making goes back much further even than the first blast furnaces (Buxted and then Newbridge were started up in the forest in the fourteennineties). Go to Smythford in Worth and you can find the remains of a much more primitive furnace dated to about AD 70 (archaeomagnetic dating). About twenty other furnaces using the same early

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Iron Making in East Grinstead continued beginning of the nineteenth century when local iron making was outclassed by bigger and more efficient producers in the parts of the country we now think of as “industrial”. For most of this time iron making seems to have been organised as a cottage industry producing iron for sale in batches of just a few kilograms. Surprisingly little was ever written down, and the few descriptions that survive throw a tiny beam of light on an important local industry. For people who enjoy problem-solving the study of wealden iron is a delight. Anyone who would like to be included in future activities can contact jonathan@avens.co.uk or look at the WIRG website: www.wealdeniron.org.uk

The English Language

Proverb: Every Cloud has a Silver Lining Meaning: Every difficult or depressing situation has hidden positives. One always has hope even in the most desperate of situations.

The farside of the darkest cloud reflects the moonlight and gleams silver, a sign of hope.

Origin: The proverb has its origin in John Milton’s masque COMUS (1634): ‘Was I deceiv’d, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?’

It was Dickens, just over 200 years later, who brought this to popular attention with his reference to ‘Milton’s Cloud’ in his novel BLEAK HOUSE (1852): ‘I turn my silver lining outward like Milton’s cloud’ Several other appearances were made and with this momentum , W S Gilbert makes reference to it in THE MIKADO (1885) which brings it to it’s modern day meaning: ‘Don’t let’s be downhearted. There’s a silver lining to every cloud’.

During the dark days of World War 1 people would sing to keep themselves light-hearted. It now became a proverb on the tip of people’s tongues, as in one of the most well-known wartime songs, KEEP THE HOME

FIRES BURNING (Ivor Novello and Lena Guilbery Ford, 1915): There’s a silver lining Through the dark cloud shining, Turn the dark cloud inside out, Till the boys come home And then at the end of war, to keep the spirits up: Look for the silver lining When ‘ere a cloud appears in the blue Remember somewhere the sun in shining And so the right thing to do Is make it shine for you.

A heart full of joy and gladness Can always banish sadness and strife So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.

(Jerome Kern, LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING, 1920) From great literary beginnings it has now become a slightly over-used cliché. Recently it has dropped out of such frequent use, possibly being phased out by: ‘When One Door Closes Another Door Opens’. It remains, however, the answer to the universal need for hope so we’re sure it won’t drop out of use fully any time soon.

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Getting the kids ready to go back to school… stress levels mounting, oh for a bit of “Me Time”!

A facial perhaps? It’s not difficult and won’t cost much.

Your skin type will either be mature, average or youthful and within those categories you will either be dry, combination or oily, thus giving six different skin types, each requiring slightly different treatment.

We’ll start with oily skin, though this facial mask is good for all skin types. The up side of oily skin is that you are less likely to get wrinkles, the down side is that you are more likely to get breakouts.

The main problem you will encounter is that the surface cells tend to stick in the excess oil, so gentle, but effective exfoliation is needed.

You will need a papaya (possibly not in your cupboard!) which contains enzymes that work on the impacted surface dead cells and release them, brightening and smoothing the surface. And honey,

which is highly beneficial, being anti-bacterial, soothing and cleansing. Firstly, peel the papaya, remove the seeds and drop into a blender. Add 2 tablespoons of any kind of honey and whiz until well blended. Take a small, clean paintbrush and brush the mixture over your face and down the neck. You can go further down onto your chest if you wish. If you have a couple of used, but cool teabags, you can use them as soothing eye pads while you lie back and chill for 10-15mins. When the time is up wash off very well with warm, but not hot water. Please be thorough as the papaya juice if left could give an orangey tinge! Dry and put on your favourite moisturiser. Your face will now not only look brighter and smoother, but feel refreshed and relaxed.

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Chequer Mead Competition:

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From an early age I have always loved music, and so it was inevitable if I wasn’t performing music, I would at least be playing it. I was a mobile DJ for many years, perfecting my trade at weddings, discos and outdoor events, but after getting married 15 years ago, and the arrival of Thomas and Lucy, I hung up the headphones and “settled down”.

That was up until May 2011, when I was delighted to be asked to present a weekly show on Meridian FM. Whilst I love music from across the decades, the 80’s have always been my decade.

Every Thursday from 8-10pm I blow off the cobwebs, of some 80’s classics, some 80’s hidden gems, I play two tracks from an album of the week, try and stump the listeners with an 80’s teaser, and throw in some Did You Know’s and a bit of fun and banter along the way.

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Hallarious real life examples of exam question answers:

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Q: Name one of the Romans’ greatest ever achievements A: Learning to speak Latin Q: Use an example to prove Tracey is wrong (in a maths test) A: She’s a woman Q: Where was the American Declaration of Independence signed?

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On Saturday 22 September at 7pm a film club for the local community will begin their monthly screenings. The club opens with a showing of the critically acclaimed The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (12) featuring local resident Dame Judi Dench.

Film Club steering group member Sally Cole says, ‘We have wanted to host a community film club for a long time here at the Lingfield and Dormansland Community Centre. “Flix in the Stix” will offer great films locals may have missed or have become classics that movie goers may wish to see again’.

Sally adds, ‘As we develop our film programme we hope to provide a diversity and give locals a chance to discover a cinematic gem’.

The Help (12) will be screened in October.

September’s opening night includes free refreshments.

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Local History Notes THOMAS PALMER and Sons

© East Grinstead Museum, reproduced with their kind permission.

Before word processors, typewriters, Biros, fountain pens and steel nibs there were quill pens. Used from early times, these quills were from the wing feathers of large birds, mainly geese and swans. The ends were shaped into nibs using a knife, hence the term; “pen-knife”.

Thomas Palmer, senior, born in 1751, originally moved to the town from Eastbourne to become the master at Paynes Grammar School in 1775.

The school was held in a house next to St. Swithun’s Church. When the church tower fell down ten years later, the school moved to his own house in the High Street. He introduced fee-paying pupils alongside the ten free boys stipulated in the original bequest. He also took boarders into his home, doubtless also for a fee!

Palmer was an acute business man. In addition to his school duties, he expanded his interests and set up a stationer’s business in the town. It was as an expansion of this that he began making the quill pens himself, instead of buying them in. The quills soon earned a reputation for excellence and they were granted a Royal Warrant. Legend explains the granting of this warrant saying that an unspecified Royal Duke stopped en route to Brighton to change horses at the Dorset Arms.

Noticing that the windows on the shop at the eastern end of Middle Row were shaped to

resemble nibs, he purchased a quantity of quills from Palmer. He was so impressed by their quality that he arranged for a warrant to be granted.

Whether this is true or not, it is a good story.

Unfortunately the windows were replaced at some time after 1904 by more conventional ones.

Luckily, however, a photograph does exist which shows them very clearly.

He was joined at some stage by his oldest son, also Thomas, born in 1775 and another son, William. He then started a printing business, became the postmaster and was an insurance agent for the Phoenix. He also acted as a local correspondent for the Sussex Weekly advertiser.

Thomas junior took over the printing part of the business when his father died. He printed advertising pamphlets written in verse. One names all the traders, craftsmen and professional men in the town. Written in 1799, he starts off with the clergy: BOSTOCK and WALKER are divines, Who preach to us in these hard times.

The family business then features prominently on the front page: “If stationery you would buy, Palmer can your wants supply.

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THOMAS PALMER and Sons continued

© East Grinstead Museum, reproduced with their kind permission.

Here, too, the Post Office is found.

If from fire you’ve ought to fear The PHOENIX reigns triumphant here.”

It ends, appropriately, with: “PAYNE’s the sexton in Church Lane, When death doth break life’s thread in twain.

Thomas junior also followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming, master of the Grammar School. In 1816 he was appointed Warden of Sackville College and the school was moved into the Common Room there. In 1839, after complaints from the inhabitants of the College who were concerned about the loss of their amenity, the school finally closed. The collegians had a point. At that period they did not have any cooking facilities in their rooms and had to use the common room for this purpose. It must have been very inconvenient for them to have the pupils there. During Thomas’s stewardship of the College many improvements and repairs were carried out, including putting a pump on the well. By time he died in 1844 he left the College with both the building and the finances in very good shape.

William Palmer, Thomas junior’s younger brother, continued with the stationery business and added ‘chemist’ to his repertoire. He had possibly noticed in the verse (mentioned above) that the town,

while having every trade and profession you could imagine from clockmakers to rat-catchers and wig-makers to a town crier, there was no chemist.

When William died in 1861 his nephew, Thomas Jackson Palmer, then ran the business until his death in 1883.

W.H. Dixon had started working for the firm in 1878. He then bought the business from Thomas Jackson Palmer’s estate. At that time the chemist’s shop was operating from the premises at the entrance to the church, and was known as Palmer and Dixon’s. W.H .Dixon was also a manufacturer of mineral waters. In 1870, John Tulley, set up a chemist’s shop and printing works at the junction of London Road and Glenvue, (now Railway Approach). I am not sure why printers and chemists are so closely related. It may be that some of the chemicals were common to both trades, but it does seem to have been a common practice in the nineteenth century. They were very much less regulated than they would be today. Dixon took over Tulley’s premises and continued trading there as a chemist until the 1970s. When this business finally closed, we lost our last direct link to a family which had played such an influential part in the history of our town.

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The Month of September Did you know?

In 1752 11 days were lost! In England September 3rd was immediately followed by September 14th.

This was because we’d just adopted the Gregorian Calendar, so named after Pope Gregory XIII who had introduced it by decree on 24 February 1582. Up until that time we were using the Julian Calendar – named after Julius Ceasar.

The Gregorian Calendar had already been adopted by all Roman Catholic nations across Europe but due to being a ‘non-catholic’ nation, with strong protestant-reformation leanings we ignored the decree for a long time and were thus one of the last Western European countries to accept it. By the time we did there was 11 days difference between the two Calendars.

The motivation for the Gregorian reform was that the Julian calendar assumes that the time between vernal (springtime) equinoxes is 365.25 days, when in fact it is almost exactly 11 minutes shorter. The Gregorian Calendar’s year, however, is exactly 365.2425 days - 365 days 5 hours 49 minutes 12 seconds. The discrepancy in the Julian caledar steadily accumulates at the rate of about three days every four centuries with the equinox moving earlier and becoming out of synchronisation with the seasons. Because the spring equinox was tied to the celebration of Easter, the Roman Catholic Church considered this movement in the date of the equinox undesirable.

In the Gregorian calendar there is a leap year every four years (or more precisely, 97 leap years every 400 years). This means that the year corresponds closely with the astronomical year (365.24219 days) so that it is just one day out every 3300 years! - easily corrected in years to come…

We weren’t the last to change calendars in Europe though, Russia and Greece held off changing until the the 20th century, they then had to drop 13 days.

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Is Belgium in East Grinstead?

By Simon Kerr

I’m never one to brag about my show biz chums, well perhaps just a little bit every now and then.

Quite a lot really, in fact I do tend to go on about them quite often, but the mystery must remain – are they really my best buddies?

Now I ask this because someone came in to see me at work the other day and asked how my old friend Michael Winner was. I must have looked a little puzzled upon hearing this question, because he then leaned over my desk and added. “You said East Grinstead was the setting for his first feature film in that talk you gave last year, don’t you remember?”

Of course! it all came flooding back to me. I must have spent months going through dusty news cuttings and probing the darkest recesses of obscure parts of the internet. All in order to produce a mammoth new presentation wittily titled “Why East Grinstead?

– Well why not?” It was a labour of love, and on the way we discovered more connections between East Grinstead and the rich and famous, than the National Grid has power sockets.

And the very first person I discovered, who had all sorts of connections with East Grinstead and its surroundings, was none other than Mr Winner, still these

days famous for his often quoted catch phrase ‘Calm down dear, it’s only a commercial.’ Back in 1956 Winner was at the start of his career and directed one of his first movies with what must be the world’s most boring title ‘This is Belgium’. Sadly for a host of financial and metrological reasons he couldn’t actually film in Belgium, and chose East Grinstead as a backdrop instead. History records that no one noticed, but I can tell you that we do have a suspiciously high number of Belgian visitors every year, and perhaps they too can’t tell the difference between Bruges and our wonderful High Street. Winner later claimed that “It featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the only movie about Belgium shot in East Grinstead”.

A few years later Winner was trusted with a rather larger budget and trio of top names, Orson Wells, Oliver Reed and Carol White. He must have remembered East Grinstead, as he set one of the scenes in his 1967 movie ‘I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname’ on the Bluebell Railway just outside the town. Cruel gossip from the trade press claimed that Winner (a noted fan of fine food) only used the Bluebell as it was handy for frequent lunches and dinners at the nearby Gravetye Manor.

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The classic shot from the film was of a steam engine and carriages all sprayed white, pulling into a blindingly white station, which was specially constructed for the film.

The next connection gets more tricky as it joins together another local resident Jimmy Page, he of Led Zeppelin fame, who not only at one time part-owned nearby Hammerwood House, but also was a London neighbour of Michael Winner. Accordingly Page wrote the score for the second of the highly successful Death Wish movies directed by Winner.

You have to wonder if they both celebrated with a meal at the Gravetye afterwards!

Sadly that seems to be all the connections between Mr Winner and East Grinstead, or does it? Casting my eyes over some of his old restaurant reviews – something that he concentrated on after his movie career peaked – He reviewed the restaurant del’ Isola Comacina on Lake Como in Italy including the following appreciation of the building’s architectural charms. “It’s ugly, rebuilt in 1963 like an East Grinstead roadhouse”.

Ah, my show-biz chums, always ready with a witty quip about our town!

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Healthy Family Recipe

Serves: 6 adults Time: 30 minutes

Here is a recipe for the next edition of EG Living from us here at the East Grinstead Children and Family Centre.

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¼ of each a red, yellow and green pepper

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Then season with black pepper, mix well and serve.

EG 10K RACE This year is the third running of the 10k. It is at 10:00 am on 23rd September, starting as before, from Imberhorne Upper School. We are expecting to reach the race limit of 400 before the day, like last year. We are currently on course to achieve that, showing the popularity of the event. It is now a firm fixture in EG’s sporting calendar.

Once again, we are raising funds for ‘Prostate Cancer UK’ and ‘Wooden Spoon’. As you know from previous years, the race is subtitled ‘The Andy Ripley Memorial Race’, which is why we continue to support these charities. Last year we donated £750 to each of them from race proceeds.

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Local History Notes A Passion for Cricket

As the Bluebell Railway line will shortly be coming to East Grinstead, we’ll have quick links once again to Sheffield Park. Although not close to an existing village, it is believed that Sheffield Park Station was chosen as a stop for one of the Bluebell Railway line’s first promoters: the 3rd Earl of Sheffield. Once a shining star in the early days of cricket in this country, Sheffield Park was given easy access by the Bluebell Railway when famous games were held there. Indeed the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia was named after the 3rd Earl of Sheffield. This article sheds light on Sheffield Park’s interesting history: The 3rd Earl of Sheffield - Henry North Holyrod - (1832 - 1909) succeeded to the title of Earl of Sheffield on the death of his father in 1876. From 1857 - 1865 he represented East Sussex in the House of Commons. He is best known however as one of the great patrons of cricket and with the help and advice of his groundsman, William Moore, he laid out one of the finest cricket grounds in the country at his home - Sheffield Park. Large gangs of local men were employed in the great Park which had been little altered since the great landscape architects “Capability” Brown and Humphrey Repton landscaped it for the Earl’s grandfather.

It was here the visiting Australian Cricket Teams opened their tours in 1884, 1886, 1890, 1893 and 1896.

On May 12, 13th and 14th 1896 the Australian Touring Team played their opening game of the season against Lord Sheffield’s First Eleven at Sheffield Park, this match of 1896 was the grandest to take place at Sheffield Park.

The Prince of Wales consented to perform the opening ceremony and stay the night at Sheffield Place. When the royal train pulled in

at a beautifully decorated Sheffield Park Station, the Prince and his retinue were greeted by the Earl and were then driven through a series of great arches of roses which spanned the road from the station now known as the Sheffield Bluebell Station to Sheffield Place.

All the National school children were given an admission ticket; amid scenes of great pomp and ceremony, special trains brought men, horses and gun carriages to Sheffield Station and by the afternoon of the first day, it was estimated that there were 25,000 spectators at the Park.

An ornate Pavilion of wrought-ironwork was erected on the cricket ground and fitted out regardless of cost. A second one was later built for the ladies which was particularly sumptuous.

It had marble floors and wash basins complete with gold-plated taps. The pavilions were made locally at the Phoenix Iron Works at Lewes.

The Earl was so proud and happy with the success of all his arrangements he allowed the photographers to take a picture of him walking beside the Prince with a pavilion covered with roses in the background. This was extremely

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unusual as the Earl did not like to be photographed.

This rare poster (see page 36) was for the first ever game at Sheffield Park in 1845 between the Gentlemen of Fletching and Newick against the Gentlemen from Chailey and Newick.

The Sheffield Shield, still the premier trophy in Australian cricket was presented by and named after the Earl of Sheffield.

World famous cricketers such as W G Grace and Prince Ranjitsihi played at Sheffield Park.

Money flowed through the Earl’s hands like water. Part of that steady stream was directed into giving practical help to his tenants. The children, the old, the sick and the needy all benefitted from his generosity, particularly during the hard cold winter months.

The Earl had developed heart trouble and was growing increasingly depressed and irascible. Disputes arose between him and the Sussex County Cricket Club of which he was President. Various people wrote unkind comments about him in the press and he received “poison pen letters.”

He had several long holidays in France in the hope that a warmer climate would improve his

health, but all to no avail.

The Third Earl of Sheffield died at Beaulieu on 21st April 1908. The carriages of the aristocracy were conspicuous by their absence in the long cortege that followed the Earl’s coffin on his journey from Sheffield Place to Fletching Church. The exception was the presence of his niece, Edith, Countess of Winchelsea.

Soldiers and Volunteers came from all over the county to pay their last respects to their Honorary Colonel and he was given a grand military funeral.

Three thousand of his tenants and villagers lined the route of the funeral procession.

The Earl was interred in the Holroyd Mausoleum in Fletching Church, there to lie with his parents, his grandparents, his great-grandparents and (the most famous of them all) his grandfather’s closest friend, the historian, Edward Gibbon.

Cricket continued to be played on the ground up until the World War One when it was dug up and put down to wheat. After the War it was resurrected and local cricket was played on it until

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the Second World War when the area was occupied by Canadian soldiers. After this War the area became a tree plantation. When these were eventually cleared various plans were considered by the National Trust for the reinstatement of the ground.

Move forward in time now to 2006. The Armadillos Cricket Club, which was founded in 1983 by gentlemen who wished to play country house cricket, was looking into the possibility of acquiring its own ground.

Committee members were introduced to the National Trust management team and several meetings took place.

Once all negotiations had been completed, a lease was signed in 2008 and plans commenced for the restoration of the ground.

A top quality square was laid and the surrounding meadow was painstakingly converted into the outfield. A new pavilion was built of Oak and the sites of the two exotic Victorian versions were established and identified.

The year 2009 saw the first season of cricket being played at Sheffield Park for sixty nine years

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and an inaugural match on 28th June between Lord Sheffield’s Australian XI and an Old England XI with the Sheffield Shield on display (only its second excursion out of Australia). On 17th July 2011 another major match was organised between an Old India XI and an Old England XI. Otherwise the fixture list comprises twenty five games, some involving the Armadillos and others played between visiting teams.

The ground is at the far end of the property from the mansion and all matches are watched by several spectators who have wended their way through the beautiful gardens to get there.

The Club name came about in a moment of inspiration, out of nowhere, in the Green Man Public House in Horsted Keynes, when our opposition and hosts declared that they needed a name for the opponent for their fixture card. The name is descriptive of most of the Club’s members, as observed by Rudyard Kipling in one of his stories about armadillos. He describes them as being “stickly-prickly, slow and steady, low to the ground, gregarious, and with a long tail - a description of most of the Club members.

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This month is a good time for planting out container grown trees and shrubs.

When planting ensure the bottom of the hole is broken up and some well rotted compost is incorporated into the hole.

Keep well watered particularly if it is warm and dry.

Plant Spring Cabbage, Kale and Savoy’s.

Harvest Sweet Corn and Onions. Sweet Corn is ready to harvest when the silks have turned from golden to brown and onions are ready when the tips of the leaves begin to turn yellow. Any unripe tomatoes should be hung upside down in a cool dark place still on the vine to ripen.

Lawns Rake fallen leaves and other debris from your lawn. Aerate the lawn with a fork or Lawn Aerator. Apply Autumn Lawn Feed following all the instructions on the box.

September is a good month for sowing grass seed.

Roses Prune your rose bushes and remove the last of the flowers once they have withered. Tie in climbing and rambling roses ready for the winter.

Miscellaneous Plant spring bulbs including tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and crocus Compost your summer bedding plants once they are over. Continue to water the garden during dry spells.

Cut and store marrows before the frosts arrive. Rhubarb, Raspberries and Strawberries can be moved this month.

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What’s On: September 2012 East Grinstead Society Local Heritage Week Thurs 6th September

‘Death on the Somme’, 7 – 9pm, Tickets £3 (available from library). An illustrated talk, by information librarian, Tim Stanton, on the involvement of three young local soldiers, who were killed in this historic battle. Tim will use their stories to illustrate methods of tracing your own family tree. At East Grinstead museum.

Fri 7th September

‘Another Night at the Museum’, 7:30 – 9:30pm, £10 to include wine and light refreshments. A dramatic performance of scenes from East Grinstead’s history, organised by the Friends of the Museum. Tickets, from the Museum, are limited so book early to avoid disappointment.

Thurs 6th September

Walk from West Hoathly to East Grinstead, 10:30 –1pm. Meet at St Margaret’s Church Lych-gate. High Weald landscape traverse. Bus 84 from East Grinstead or Crawley. Free parking.

Fri 7th September

Visit to Ashdown Park Convent, near Wych Cross, 9:30 – 10:30am. Meet Upper Car Park, Ashdown Park Hotel.

Home to Sisters of the Order of Notre Dame from 1920 to 1970, the convent has a series of 14 windows, by Harry Clarke. Private cars please. Free parking.

Fri 7th September

Visit to St Margaret’s Convent, East Grinstead, 11:30 –12:30pm. Meet in entrance car park. Grade 2 listed buildings, mainly by G E Street, begun in 1865.

Quadrangle, cloister and chapel. Private cars please.

Free parking. Parts with wheelchair access.

Sat 8th September

Standen Open Day, West Hoathly Road, 11 – 4pm.

Grade 1 house built 1892-94 of local materials by Philip Webb, a friend of William Morris, for James Beale. Decorated with Morris carpets, wallpapers. Bus 473. Free Entry and Free Parking. Parts of house and garden accessible by wheel chairs with assistance.

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Swithun’s). Guided walk around a 13th century ‘New Town’, rich in timber-framed buildings from 14th century onwards. Now is a conservation area of outstanding status. Parking off Church Lane, free on Sundays. Arduous for wheelchair users.

Sun 9th September

Imberhorne Farm Museum and Gullege, 10am – 12:30pm. Meet Upper Station car park. Walk through 20th century Imberhorne Estate to 15th century.

View Gullege, a timber-framed yeoman’s house and the local field museum. Free parking in Upper Station car park, off Grosvenor Road. Unsuitable for wheelchair users.

Sun 9th September

Baptist Church (Zion Chapel), West Street, 4 – 4:30pm. Grade 2 building, built 1810. Free parking off West Street. Partial wheelchair access. For more information see: www.eastgrinsteadsociety.org

What’s On at Chequer Mead 01342 302000 Thursday 13th Sept to Saturday 15th September

East Grinstead Operatic Society presents. Guys and Dolls. For their 90th anniversary year, EGOS bring you one of the best-loved musicals ever! Thursday & Friday at 7:30pm, Saturday at 2:30pm & 7:30pm Tuesday 18th September

John Noyce - Songs of Yesteryear. John has been singing in local choirs for many years being a founder member of Concordia and The Weald Choir of Crawley. At 1:30pm Friday 21st September

Absolute Bowie. Europe’s Premier Bowie Tribute Band – a 5 piece band faithfully interpreting the music of David Bowie with uncanny accuracy. At 7:30pm Miss Saigon Schools Edition

(see our competition for more information) Performances Tuesday 25th - 29th September at 7:15pm Saturday 29th September at 7:15pm Sunday 30th September

East Grinstead High Street Guided Walks, 4:30 – 6pm (Meet outside the Bookshop)

Seasons of the Heart. A Tribute to John Denver.

Authentic presentations of John’s best-known songs.

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Sat 8th September

Exhibitions

Fri 7th September

10 – 11:30am East Grinstead High Street Guided Walks (Meet outside the Bookshop) Sun 9th September

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Friday 28th September to Wednesday 3rd October

Spectra Textile Artists - Pathways and Places Special places, journeys & memories have inspired this exhibition. Come & meet some of the artists each day.

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What’s On: September 2012 continued Saturday 8th September

by Tony Turner, a local historian. This is the story of a Victorian family living in the Horsham area in 1845 and their fine houses. 7.30pm, Main Hall, East Court. Members £1.00, non members £1.50 and very welcome. Coffee and biscuits included.

Saturday 8th September

Miss Flux Capacitor & The Neighbours from Mars - Live in Concert – A Modern Music show. Dance club atmosphere with live musicians plus video installation.

Book now as tickets are strictly limited! Forest Row Village Hall, Doors 7:45pm, Show 8:30pm. Bar and refreshments. Tickets online or from “The Builders Store – Forge Fast” on Lewes Road. www.missflux.co.uk.

Light a Lantern Celebration. Join us at the Museum between 7:30 and 9pm as we light lanterns to create an illuminated Guinea Pig club logo. Free and suitable for young and old. East Grinstead Museum, Cantelupe Road, Tel: 01342 302233 Hartfield Village Fete and Flower Show. Local craft stalls, Beer and Pimms, BBQ, Jazz Band, Fun Dog Show, Ferret Racing, Morris Dancers, Punch and Judy, children’s sports, sideshows for all the family. Starts noon. For more info: 01342 822377 Until 9th September

Free exhibition:“The Town That Didn’t Stare” explores the story of the Guinea Pigs and present day attitudes to disfigurement. East Grinstead Museum, Cantelupe Road, Tel: 01342 302233.

Monday 17th September

Natural History Society, talk: The History of Peregrines in Sussex – Phil Everett (Ornithologist), 7.45pm. St Barnabas Church Hall, Dunnings Road, East Grinstead. Contact Lesley Berry on 01342 324955 for more details.

Tuesday 18th September

Ashdown Pantomimers: Read Through for the forthcoming production of Snow White (auditions to follow on 26th Sept). Freshfield (large) Village Hall, Forest Row 8pm. New members very welcome. For more info call: 01342 825730 Friday 21st September

‘East Grinstead Society: The Story of Swallowfield’

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Saturday 22nd September

Wednesday 3rd October

East Grinstead Flower Club. 7:30pm - 9:30pm.

Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month - with the exception of Januarys. We start at 7:30pm when free tea and coffee is available and the demonstrations start promptly at 8pm. We hold a competition 4 times a year and so in this time we would also be looking at the competition entries and they are judged prior to the demonstration. East Court, E. Grinstead. Call: 01403 210036 Sunday, 14th October

Yew Lodge Country House: Wedding Showcase You will also be able to talk to a range of wedding suppliers to make your special day absolutely perfect.

Free admission & car parking.12 noon - 4pm. www. yewlodge.co.uk or contact us at: Yew Lodge, Felcourt Road, East Grinstead, RH19 2JX.

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