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Dear Residents, Whats inside this month Welcome to the May issue. Spring should now be very much here and hopefully we can all discard the thermal underwear at last! It’s a big garden month and we bring you another fabulous gardening article from Imberhorne Lane nursery.

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Mrs Beale’s Special Garden

Inside is a special recipe from the Head Chef at Ashdown Park Hotel, looks truly scrumptious, well worth a try! Standen’s garden have nearly been completely restored to their former glory, find out more on page 6. This year its 150 years since the passing of the renowned college warden, John Mason Neale, and his life will be celebrated this Summer, see page 16.

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Mrs Beale’s Special Garden From the South Downs to the High Weald, the rural surroundings of our county with good train links to London are a definite draw. 124 years ago these reasons were just as appealing for James and Margaret Beale, looking for Article by Jo Grange somewhere to build their country home. With the arrival of the railway to East Grinstead they bought three farms on the south side of town and built their family home: the most beautiful and iconic, Standen. Whilst the house itself was designed in close collaboration with architect Philip Webb, the garden was a combined effort between Mrs Beale, a local landscape designer George Simpson and Mr. Webb. The three had quite different views on the design: George Simpson favoured the Gardenesque style with strict geometric layouts; Philip Webb wanted to carry the Arts and Crafts principles outside by creating distinctive outdoor ‘rooms’; Mrs Beale wanted to incorporate her own sophisticated planting patterns and experimental ideas. The resulting layout and use of the garden was divided into four distinct groups. Highly

horticultural land showcased Mrs Beale’s love of exotic and experimental planting whilst leisure areas provided space for the family to enjoy sports, walking and games. Agricultural areas of the farm, such as fields, barns and tracks provided the infrastructure to the productive areas of the garden and these spaces, such as the kitchen and fruit gardens, supplied the house (and the Beale’s London home) with food. Many large houses of that time would have had these defined areas, but what was special about Standen was the prominence of the agricultural and productive areas; being very much ‘on display’ around the main entrance to the property, compared to the horticultural and leisure areas which were, in fact, more hidden from those first views. When arriving at Standen, visitors would have had to pass through Goose Green to access the house, a busy area with dairy cows passing through to the barn to be milked and other animals grazing on the green. In fact, work started on the gardens even before the house was built such was its importance to the family. Luckily for us, Mrs Beale’s obvious enthusiasm and interest in gardening was recorded in the diaries

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she kept for over thirty years detailing the plants she added, extensive weather notes and experimental planting schemes. Her forward-thinking approach to gardening was quite unusual for a woman of her era. So as well as having seven children between 1871 and 1885, she built a strong reputation for herself as a plantswoman over the years, becoming one of the first to be accepted by the Royal Horticultural Society. She also enjoyed being one of the first to trial new plants, many of which had only just arrived in Britain. Her successes and struggles were recorded; from trying to grow a healthy pink China rose to use as a cut flower in the house, to the continual leaks in the swimming pond. These diaries, along with historical photographs, have allowed us to piece together how the garden would have looked in its prime during the 1920’s. Thus we are now almost at the end of a five year restoration project,

uncovering many hidden gems and restoring features that have got lost over the years. Standen provided the Beale’s with somewhere to unwind, entertain friends and enjoy the outdoors. Visitors today often comment on this relaxed, homely ambience. Part of this can be attributed to the Arts and Crafts interior, with its warm and welcoming furnishings, but also partly to it’s hillside location with fantastic views over the reservoir and beautifully landscaped gardens. Visitors can still see some of the original plants that Mrs Beale planted over one hundred years ago. When the family went on their world tour in 1906-7, Mrs Beale sent back a collection of Japanese maples which still grow around the Sloping Lawn and are now some of the tallest of their kind in the UK. There are also the rare acers, which deliver a colourful display every Autumn, plus the two plantations of trees at the top of the garden which

were the first trees to be planted in 1891. A few have been lost to storms over the years, but they are still serving their original purpose of protecting more delicate plants in the garden from the prevailing winds. With the five year ‘garden revival project’ shortly coming to a close, there is plenty for visitors to see that they may not have seen before. Currently there are 15,000 tulips bursting forth around the formal gardens offering a stunning display of colour and in June there will be the Standen Midsummer Garden Festival, celebrating the glory of the garden and offering visitors the opportunity to learn more about the Garden Revival Project. This hidden gem just down the road is well worth a visit over the coming weeks.

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by Dorothy Hatswell of the East Grinstead Museum Mary Ann Melville was an early pioneer of photography who lived in East Grinstead. She was the widow of East Grinstead photographer, Henry Melville. Born Mary Ann Steer, daughter of William and Sophia Steer, her father was well known in the town. He farmed fifty five acres at Harwoods Farm. Mary Ann was a dressmaker before her marriage to Henry in 1868. The couple lived in Bromley, Kent for about four years and their two oldest children, Sydney and Charles, were born there. Having moved to East Grinstead, Henry and Herbert were born. They lived in West Street in 1870 where Henry set up his photographic studio. Their only daughter, Helena Alice, was born two years later. Henry Melville was in demand as a photographer, despite having some competition in the town. His main competitor, Alfred Francis also known as Alfred John Gear, committed suicide in1874. He lived in Moat Road, quite close by, when Melville moved his studio to Moat House on Moat Road, a house built by his brother-in-law, Edward Steer. However, Mary Ann’s life was soon to change abruptly. Henry died and was buried in St Swithun’s Churchyard on March 4th 1878, aged only 45. The strange thing is that on March 31st, less than a month after their father’s death, all five Melville children were baptised together at St Swithuns. Mary Ann, in spite of her domestic duties, carried on her late husband’s business. She continued in the Moat Road Studio and built up an 10

outstanding reputation for her work. She did general portraits there but also worked outside, specialising in equine portraits, taking a striking, iconic image of the first train to leave the new high level train station. In 1881 she was still living in Moat House with her four youngest children and her eighty three year old, widowed mother, Sophia. Her son Sydney was at this time a scholar, or “Society Boy” at the Marine Society Ship, Warspite, at Charlton Piers. Sadly, Sydney was to pass away only 6 months later. The fact that the Marine Society was strongly Christian may have been the reason for Sydney being baptised so soon after his father’s death. His mother had applied for him to be admitted to Warspite and found that baptism was a requirement. The other children were thrown in for good measure! Mary Ann remarried in 1884. Her new husband was Alfred Francis Mooney. They married in Lambeth. Her death is registered in Holborn in the last quarter of 1892. Her daughter Helena Alice married John Magee in 1901.

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Her son, Herbert Melville, appears in the 1901 Census at 133, High Street, Woolwich. He is listed as a wardrobe dealer. He and his wife, Rosina, had two children, Grace, aged two and Charlie who was one year old. By 1911, they were living at 120a, Plumstead High Street, Plumstead. The household now consisted of Herbert and Rosina ,Grace, Florrie aged 8, Sidney, who was 6 and one year old Herbert. Although Herbert senior, was only a general labourer, they did have a live-in domestic servant. The 1911 census is the first one to ask how long the couple had been married and how many children, both living and dead. Herbert and Rosina had been married for 17 years. They had seven children, of whom only four were alive. Their eldest child, Grace, was born after 5 years of marriage. Charlie, from the 1901 census, does not appear in 1911. He died in 1908, aged eight. The Melvilles also lost two other children, Jane in 1900, whose birth and death were both registered in the same quarter of 1900, so could not have lived more than three months and

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Mary Ann Franklin in 1901. They seem to have adopted a daughter, Jessie Gertrude. Mary Ann’s daughter, Helena, had a family and her granddaughter still lives in the East Grinstead area. Unfortunately, she does not know anything before her mother. If anyone can fill in the details of what happened to Mary Ann Mooney between her second marriage and her death, only a few years afterwards, I would be very pleased to know about it. She was one of early women pioneers in photography and as such, deserves our interest.

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Ann Way, leading to the new houses next to the Old Convent, this road honours the sisterhood’s first mother superior. There are reminders of Neale in St Swithun’s too: the Oxford Movement window has a picture of Neale based on a photograph supplied by his daughter, Katherine Ermenild. Incidentally, she became mother superior of the Society of St Margaret. St Swithun’s church is open daily. There are free guided tours on May Day, and on some afternoons in the summersee boards outside the church. Sackville College is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 2-5pm, from mid June to mid September. Admission is £5 per person, £1 for children.

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A Shared Passion love, anger, joy, grief, and more complex emotions like empathy and compassion. I often think of them as “people” and have found that same sentiment extended to most other creatures in the natural world. Raising three little girls in the bush would seem pretty hairraising to most people. How do you do it?

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With so many animals around, we decided to employ a Ninjananny to help us with the kids – a samburu warrior called Mporian who teaches them all about the wildlife and is there to protect them from the hazards of the bush. And we do home-school, so they are busy from 8:30am until about 3pm doing their lessons. Otherwise, we have to teach them to be bush wise in the same way that one teaches children to be street wise. They have to keep an eye out for elephants, snakes or scorpions, and be as consistent with avoiding getting bitten by mosquitoes as one has to be about brushing one’s teeth. Given the security concerns in Africa the past few years, what are your thoughts on taking a safari with the family in tow? Taking your kids on safari is one of the greatest gifts you can give them, opening their eyes to an entirely different part of the world and a very different way of life. As well as the opportunity to meet animals in the wild living the way they have through the millennia, and of course, nothing beats seeing an animal in the flesh in its natural habitat. As we’ve seen from the recent terrorist attacks in Europe, danger

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