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DEC-JAN 2016

Rising FROM THE ASHES

Ewell Court House reopens

JAZZ

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Saxophonist Scott Hamilton

Behind THE LENS

with photographer Adriaan Van Heerden

The original domestic goddess � Business award winners revealed � Stage set for festival � Foodbank’s festive appeal � Exhibition of equestrian art

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CONTENTS Regulars 5 Editor’s Tips 12 Guest writer A seasonal offering by Kerry Fisher 15 Coffee Break 16 The Original Domestic Goddess Tips for household management by Mrs Beeton

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Features

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6 Get your skates on Ice skating this festive season 6 Rising from the ashes Historic Ewell Court House reopens

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Celebrating business Winners of Epsom and Ewell Business Awards revealed Helping hand in time of crisis Foodbank launches Christmas appeal Beauty in a fragile world Photographer Adriaan van Heerden Light and shade Lightbulb moment sparks business idea Final Furlong Brett Lohn’s iconic work on display Stage set for arts festival Date announced for Epsom’s arts fiesta

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WELCOME

Deck the halls and your homes with wreaths of red berries this festive season.

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Where have the past 12 months gone?

EDITOR’S TIPS Celebrated jazz saxophonist Scott Hamilton brings his unmistakable musical sound to Ashtead Jazz Club

No sooner are the Christmas decorations packed away than the clock seems to be on fast forward to the end of the year.

As we approach the end of 2015 there is much to celebrate.

For our businesses it has been a year of growth and success, as evidenced by the finalists and winners in this year’s Epsom and Ewell Business Awards.

For our towns and communities there have been many shared memories and momentous occasions and for out&about it has been a year of new and exciting challenges.

The festive season is also very much a time for family, friends and community. With that in mind we pay tribute to the charities and volunteers working this Christmas to help those in need.

One charity - Epsom and Ewell Foodbank - features in this month’s edition, providing a helping hand and a listening ear to families in crisis.

From us all at out&about we wish you a joyous Christmas and here’s to the New Year and all the promise and adventure that 2016 brings.

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Born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1954, Hamilton grew up listening to his father’s extensive jazz record collection.

He tried out several instruments before he started playing the saxophone seriously at the age of 16.

In between regular tours of Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Japan, Spain and Italy, Scott Hamilton and a three-piece rhythm band, made up by Tom Early, Tim Boniface and Ed Babar, will come together for a night of burning swing, sumptuous ballads and much, much more.

Catch them on January 15 at 7.45pm at Ashtead Peace Memorial Hall. Tickets £13, £9 concessions.

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LOCAL NEWS

GET YOUR SKATES ON Reigate on Ice returns There’s nothing more festive than donning hats, scarves and gloves and taking to the ice.

And you don’t have to travel far to experience all the fun of the rink.

Reigate On Ice returns for the festive season with a real ice rink in the heart of Priory Park.

There will also be live music from the Cascars street band and a chance for little ones to meet Snow Queen Elsa.

Held undercover in a big top marquee, skaters can enjoy the ice, whatever the weather, along with festive entertainment and Christmas food and drink.

Reigate on Ice is open until January 3, 2016. Up to December 17 the ice rink will be open from 2pm-8pm weekdays and 11am-8pm weekends. December 18-January 3, 11am8pm daily (closed Christmas Day).

The official launch takes place on Saturday, December 5, when actor Shane Richie will push the button to start a spectacular free firework display in the park.

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RISING FROM THE ASHES Historic Ewell Court House reopens to the community Two years after it was ravaged by fire, Ewell Court House has reopened.

BRUSH STROKES Palette of colour This stunning sunset by artist Shirley George captures all of autumn’s colours in one painting. Shirley, a member of Epsom and Ewell Art Group, paints in watercolours but also works in pastels. Her work, which covers landscapes, animals, abstracts and flowers, has been exhibited at Denbies Wine Estate and Bourne Hall, Ewell, where the art group recently held its autumn show.

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The Grade II listed building, which was built in 1879 but incorporates an earlier building dating back to the 1600s, has undergone extensive renovations.

Fire tore through the roof of the mansion house in December 2013, destroying more than 50 per cent of it. Firefighters were able to stop the blaze spreading to the rest of the building but there was water damage to ceilings, plasterwork, wood panelling and floors.

The public library and children’s nursery on the site reopened days after the fire but the main building remained closed until November 14 when the public were finally able to see the results of the renovations.

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LOCAL BUSINESS

CELEBRATING BUSINESS SUCCESS Best of the best honoured as winners of the 2015 Epsom and Ewell Business Excellence Awards revealed

Entrepreneurial flair and innovation were recognised at Epsom business community’s annual awards.

Winners in each of the nine categories were announced at an awards ceremony with Home Instead Senior Care clinching the Best Overall Business award.

Now in their fifth year, the awards recognise and celebrate business excellence in the community.

Winners: Best New Business – Country Clothing & Store Best Business for Customer Service – B. Radford & Sons Best Business for Commitment to the Community – Home Instead Senior Care Best Business Personality – Geoff & Jenny Masters

Judge and awards sponsor Nigel Stickland, of the best of Epsom and Ewell, said: “We are an absolute advocate of the awards because they promote and identify the very best businesses in the community. The standard increases year on year. There are some really good businesses in Epsom and Ewell now and it was hard to choose.”

Best Young Entrepreneur – Lucie Oliver

The winners received prizes including a tour of the House of Commons, complimentary membership to Surrey Chambers, thebestofEpsomandEwell and the Federation of Small Businesses and £200 Milners vouchers. The overall winner also received £1,000 worth of advertising with Radio Jackie.

Best Business in Ashtead – Jackie Quinn Estate Agents

Epsom and Ewell MP Chris Grayling said: “We had a really good mix of winners who are a great tribute to the depth and variety of the local business community in Epsom and Ewell.

Congratulations to all the winners and runners-up for all their hard work and success.”

Overall Best Business 2015 – Home Instead Senior Care

The winners were announced at Epsom’s University of the Creative Arts on November 26.

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Best Business in Epsom & Epsom Downs – Everest Spice Best Business in Ewell & Stoneleigh – All Things Nice

Best Website or Use of Social Media – Bike Beans Cycle Café

www.epsombusinessawards.co.uk Turn to - Pg 14: Awards finalist Jo Jones talks about the idea for her online business

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LOCAL CHARITY

THE GIFT OF HOPE While Christmas and the new year is a time of celebration for many more the festive season is a time when they struggle to get by In a packed delivery centre volunteers are busy sorting through donations ready to distribute to hundreds of families in crisis.

Every day across Epsom and Ewell people are living with little or no food for reasons ranging from illness to redundancy, delays to their benefits or because they are faced with a large unexpected bill.

“The main reason people come to us is low income. Often they are on zero hour or short-term contracts. When the job finishes they might not have any work for a couple of weeks and they don’t have any money. Some of it is about management and we work with people to help them and support them.”

For the people who come to the Foodbank Jonathan says for many: “It’s the opportunity to be able to have a cup of tea, to stay in a safe place and just be able to talk.”

Christmas can be a particularly difficult time.

That’s where Epsom and Ewell Foodbank steps in to help.

In the three years since it was set up it has fed more than 7,000 people and grown from running two distribution centres to now running five, which open five days a week.

The Foodbank publishes a list of non-perishable food items that it needs each week on its website.

For Christmas it is also collecting donations of small, wrapped gifts and items including treats and toiletries. Donations can be dropped off at the Generation Resource Centre, Ruxley Lane, Ewell.

Foodbank volunteer Jonathan Lees said: “I’m surprised it has continued to increase, especially this year. I thought the demand would level or drop off but we are about 7% up on last year and last year was up on the year before.

“It’s a concern. With the economic upturn we should be doing better but we are not seeing the living wage go up and we are seeing cuts to benefits.”

By the time people come to a Foodbank they have exhausted all other possibilities, says Jonathan.

Vouchers are issued by agencies including the CAB, health and welfare professionals which entitle people to a three-day supply of emergency food.

“It’s very much about crisis. We are not about creating a dependency culture. Part of our drive is that people don’t come back to us.

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www.epsomewell.foodbank.org.uk Foodbank facts Fed more than 7,000 people Been donated almost 89 tonnes of food Given out more than 81 tonnes of food Set up and running 5 food distribution centres Trained 320 volunteers 180-190 hours a week volunteered

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LOCAL TALENT

BEAUTY IN A FRAGILE WORLD Award-winning photographer Adriaan van Heerden steps out from behind the lens to chat to out&about and reveals the less glamorous side to photography What led you to photography?

It was completely different to what I was studying (Adriaan studied a Phd in philopsohy). I had a brief spell with photography when I was in South Africa. That was in the film days. My dad had given me his old camera to go on safari in Kenya. I took some photos, which were reasonably ok.

My camera then got stolen so I never had a chance to develop the pictures.

My interest revived many years later when I came to the UK. I got some money together to buy a new camera.

I always wanted to do something creative, as I got into photography it suited me and I enjoyed doing it.

I started off small, then met some fellow artists. We formed an art group and did some exhibitions together. I got some good feedback and it just went from there.

What do the courses cover?

They tend to be very small groups and it depends on the individual and what their level of experience is. Sometimes people don’t really know what all the settings are on the camera. If they know the basics we can look at composition, depth of field. It depends on the person and what they want to get out of it.

Is photography glamorous?

It depends on the kind of shot. The recent solar moon eclipse was an overnight affair, which isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. I was out in a cold field in Kent surrounded by angry cows.

When you do get the beautiful picture at the end of it then it’s all really worthwhile.

Do you have a favourite photo?

It’s the picture which won the 2015 ArtGemini International Art Competition prize. I was doing my artist’s residence in Kyoto, Japan, in April. Towards the end of the cherry blossom season I was looking for a picture that captured the essence of the season. It’s an explosion of colour that only lasts for about three weeks which marks a period of celebration followed by reflection on mortality and the transience of beauty. I was walking in a temple gardens and saw the cherry blossom petals floating on the water. It is a very special picture.

Did you study photography?

I’m mainly self-taught. A few years ago I did a diploma in professional photography in America.

The more useful things that I have done in developing my skills have been workshops with professionals in different fields. I specialise in wildlife, travel and landscape photography. I love them all equally, I wouldn’t want to do only one. They require very different skills. The challenge for me is to be as good as someone who specialises in one genre.

Does your work take you around the world?

How would you sum up photography?

It has in the past. With a young family it has been put on the back burner for a bit. At the moment I’m doing UK travel and run photography workshops. I did a photography weekend in Northumberland in August and started running a workshop at Denbies Wine Estate, which continues next year. I’m going to do my first wildlife photography day at the British Wildlife Centre in Lingfield on December 8 and also run architecture photography days in London.

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For me it is about creating beauty. The natural world is worth preserving because of its inherent beauty.

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GUEST WRITER

THE ISLAND ESCAPE

Charlie and stomped up the stairs. I burst into our bedroom to find Jonathan in his Y-fronts, face down on the bed, shoulders rising and falling with the rhythm of deep sleep. I shook him.

‘Jonathan. Jonathan. Do you think you could give me a hand to bring the shopping in?’

A seasonally festive extract from Kerry Fisher’s novel

He gurgled and snuffled his way back into consciousness.

There weren’t many days when I regretted setting up my holistic nursery but today, two days before Christmas, was one of them.

My eco-ethos meant I couldn’t fob off the kids with sticking a bit of glitter on a few polystyrene stars. Instead, we’d done a full-scale expedition down to the woods to gather ‘material’ for decorations. This had led to a couple of four-year-olds getting covered in dog poo, a little girl collecting rabbit droppings to use as food for Rudolph and another boy sitting in a puddle pretending he was a duck. The morning had ended up being less about decorations and more about turd control.

By the time I’d picked the girls up from my mother’s and popped into the supermarket on the way home, I was officially knackered. My heart lifted as I squeezed the car in next to Jonathan’s Rover. His company had obviously found a little Christmas cheer and let them go early. He could help me lug in the shopping. I’d fought my way round Tesco trying not to barge into people who’d left it until the twenty-third of December to decide they needed a Christmas pud. I’d got all the basics in place but I liked my vegetables fresh. Immi and Polly had bickered from start to finish: the illogical mind of an eight-year-old pitched against the pedantic tendencies of the ten-year-old. They were still having a ding-dong over who was having the chocolate Santa on the Christmas tree. With the last pinch of patience I could muster I told them to ring the doorbell to ask Daddy to come and help. Charlie eventually came to answer, bringing with him the distinct smell of an unwashed teenager who’s been glued to a screen all day.

‘Where’s Dad?’ ‘He’s in bed.’

‘What are you doing in bed? I need help with the bags. Now would be good.’

Jonathan rolled over and groaned. ‘Can you get Charlie to do it?’

‘I can, but given that you’ve got the afternoon off, perhaps you might like to move your lard and lend a hand rather than tipping up on Christmas Day wondering how the fairies did such a marvellous job. I’ve had a gutful of the girls going at each other, so feel free to chip in.’

He pulled himself into a sitting position and ran his hands over his face. ‘I haven’t got the afternoon off.’

‘What’s the matter with you then? Are you ill?’

‘No.’ He hugged his knees into his chest. ‘I’ve been made redundant.’

Kerry Fisher lives in Lower Kingswood with a very tolerant husband and two teenagers. When she’s not writing novels, she can be seen shouting, ‘chicken’ and running across Reigate Hill trying to avert picnic disasters while her naughty black Lab/Schnauzer practises ‘Talk to the tail’.

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‘Is he ill?’

‘I don’t think so, just said he was really tired and needed a lie down.’

I’d give him a lie down. As usual, Jonathan would rock up to Christmas without writing a single Christmas card or chasing the end of the Sellotape, let alone coming into contact with a supermarket trolley or a vegetable peeler. He’d then dice with death on Christmas Eve by saying, ‘Did we send a card to the boss and his wife?’

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LOCAL BUSINESS

LIGHTBULB MOMENT When Jo Jones was looking for a lampshade to match some bedroom curtains she decided to learn how to make her own. It sparked an idea that has grown into a flourishing business.

It’s a little over a year since Jo Jones was sitting in a class learning the art of lampshade making.

At the end of the four-hour course she came away with the skills to help her create a lampshade and a gem of an idea for a small business.

“I always wanted to do something creative but I didn’t know what. The feedback from customers has been great so I thought I would do it and see what happens. It has just snowballed.”

Jo launched her business last December and now has an online shop selling handmade, limited edition and bespoke lampshades.

She said: “One of the benefits of it is that people are getting something unique to them. They can specify a fabric, a shade and size which makes it more individual.

“I predominantly use fabric remnants which means people are getting something quite high end at very affordable prices but more and more people are coming to me with the fabric they have chosen.”

A mum-of-two, Jo says running her own business has given her the flexibility to fit work around family life but admits that working from home does sometimes have its downsides.

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“I never leave it alone. It’s always there looking at you so you never switch off.

“The thing about selling online is that your shop is never closed.Your phone can ping at 10 o’clock at night as a new order comes in.”

Rounding off her first year in business on a high, Jo was a finalist in the Best New Business category of the 2015 Epsom and Ewell Business Awards.

She said: “I felt really proud. Just being nominated is enough, just having that recognition.”

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Buttercream, Jam, Marzipan, Pastry 4. What in Britain was traditionally mixed into a Christmas pudding “for good luck”?

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LOCAL HISTORY

THE ORIGINAL DOMESTIC GODDESS In its first year sales of Mrs Beeton’s eponymous Book of Household Management topped 60,000 making it one of the most famous cookery books ever published It is over 150 years since the first instalment of Isabella Beeton’s Book of Household Management was published, navigating many a young newlywed through the art of running a household.

In 1845 Henry leased the Grandstand, a building which had been constructed 15 years earlier by Epsom Grand Stand Association.

Aimed at a captive middle class market of women who had little practical experience or household skills, the book gave a step by step guide to carrying out domestic tasks and advice on topics ranging from childcare to managing servants.

It was also the first to format recipes, listing ingredients before explaining how to cook the dish, in a layout that is still followed today.

Henry bought a new printing press and moved his business to the Grandstand basement, leaving his father and sister Lucy to run the bookshop and stationers in Epsom High Street.

Although she had little experience of running a large household much of Isabella’s knowledge was garnered from her childhood.

Born in 1836 in London, Isabella Mayson was the eldest of four children from the marriage of Elizabeth and Benjamin Mayson.

After her father died her mother married Henry Dorling, Clerk of the Course for Epsom races, who ran a successful printing and publishing company in Epsom with his father, William.

Between them the couple had eight children - and went on to have another 13 - so accommodation in the Dorling premises was cramped.

An Unusual Childhood

He began reforms to the building and the races, laying out a new Derby course in 1847 and building a new wing for the grandstand.

As the eldest, Isabella was expected to look after the youngest of the brood who were sent off to live in the vast building which could accommodate 5,000 spectators.

On race days, when the grandstand returned to its original purpose, the children were packed off to Brighton.

In 1856, after a brief courtship Isabella married Sam Beeton, an entrepreneurial publisher who had realised that cheap books and magazines were selling well, because growing numbers of people had been taught to read for the first time.

He also realised that there were two gaps in the market, no-one was publishing anything specially aimed at women or children.

The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine was the first cheap publication of its kind. Sam set essay competitions; commissioned columns and did his best with correspondents to Cupid’s Letter-Bag. Within a few months Isabella had taken over the household hints and cookery columns in the magazine. She added a third on childcare, the arrival of her own first baby did not interrupt the flow of work. Within a month of her debut she had evolved a characteristic style - brief, blunt and clear, supported by epigrams or proverbs.

An Erudite Cookery Book

Isabella spent three years planning the Book of Household Management from the couple’s home in Pinner, and had it issued in parts along with the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine.

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Apart from some training in German pastry making, which she received at finishing school in Heidelberg, and some subsequent lessons at Barnards the confectioners in Epsom, Isabella had never needed to cook herself.

Most of her recipes, though she tested them, came from earlier books. Only one recipe in the book Baroness Pudding, from the Baroness de Teissier of Woodcote Park, has an Epsom link.

The Secrets Of Organisation

The Book of Household Management was the bestorganised publication of its kind. There had been other works on the same subject but none had the same cool efficiency. Isabella had watched her mother cope with 18 children and her father manage 250,000 racegoers, and she knew the secrets of organisation. The success of the book, which remains in print, led to future projects.

In 1861 Isabella was called in to edit women’s features for a new magazine entitled The Queen. Three years later she helped plan a girl’s magazine, the Young Englishwoman, and early in 1865 while working on the Dictionary of Cookery she gave birth to her fourth child.

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She died shortly afterwards from puerperal fever at the age of 28.

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FINAL FURLONG Exhibition provides rare chance to see artist Brett Lohn’s work An iconic painting of the view overlooking Epsom racecourse will be among the works on display at equestrian and landscape artist Brett Lohn’s upcoming exhibition.

It took nearly six months to produce Final Furlong, which shows the finish line at the famous racecourse as seen from Tattenham Corner.

The painting is one of a series of Brett’s more ambitious works which he will be exhibiting to the public for the first time.

Brett, whose studio is based in Headley, said: “Much of my work is produced on a commission basis so it rarely gets to be exhibited. That’s what makes this exhibition so exciting.”

His solo exhibition, at Denbies vineyard, will also feature limited edition prints and greeting cards of some of his better known works.

“There will be several oil paintings on display featuring Surrey scenes. These will include the amazing panoramic view from Box Hill, Racehorses working on Epsom Downs and Frankie Dettori’s first Derby win.

“My art is infused with hope and optimism, really encouraging the viewer to explore their environment and experience the glory that is present in creation around them.

“Beauty is contagious; the more we are exposed to it, the more sensitive to it we become.”

Brett will be at the exhibition to talk about his work and future commissions.

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STAGE SET FOR ARTS FESTIVAL The date has been set for Epsom and Ewell’s first arts festival.

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