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Welcome to the August Edition of the Hanover Directory
This month we bring you the usual mix of all things Hanover with a new addition. We introduce to you The Gourmet Girls – a group of local ladies who will be touring the local pubs and restaurants each month, both in Hanover and nearby, and writing up a report on what they found.
It is also the month for Zocalo. While last year’s event was slightly hampered by lashing rain, howling winds and an escaped leopard, we’re hoping that this year’s good weather will continue until August 31st for Hanover’s annual neighbour day. It will start at 3pm, so expect the two Davids to be out on the streets with the megaphone midafternoon, encouraging as many of you as possible to take a chair and sit outside and spend a pleasant time with your neighbours. For more information see www.brightonzocalo.com A few more helpers this year are needed. Please email david@cheekyguides.com The Hanover Directory Team info@hanoverdirectory.co.uk www.hanoverdirectory.co.uk
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Publisher: The Hanover Directory 01273 551021 info@hanoverdirectory.co.uk www.hanoverdirectory.co.uk Printer: Gemini Press The views expressed by individuals in any letter or article included at the discretion of the publishers are not necessarily the views of the Editor. Whilst every care has been taken in compiling this magazine and the statements contained herein are believed to be correct, the publishers of this publication will not hold themselves responsible for any inaccuracies. Inclusion of advertisers in this magazine is not necessarily a recommendation but we do hope they give a good quality service. No part of the publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior permission of the publishers and contributors We take complaints you make about our advertisers seriously. We have the following policy on this: First complaint about an advertiser is logged here in our offices, if we receive another complaint we write to the advertiser concerned and notify them we have had two complaints and if we receive another complaint we will no longer accept their adverts. If and when a third complaint arrives we will verify that all complaints received were genuine and inform the advertiser that we will no longer be promoting their business and inform them why.
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The Reservoir
I’d like to introduce you to the Gourmet Girls! We are a group of girls living in Hanover who’ve been friends for between a few years to a whole lifetime. We’re a friendly, dynamic bunch with different backgrounds, jobs and ages. At full strength there are 12 of us and we’re aged between 23 and 55.
Once a month we try to get together locally to have a catchup, eat some good food and have a few drinks. We try to look for good value options. We recently got talking about how it might be fun and maybe useful to review the places we visit. We could share genuine feedback with the good people of Hanover and support local businesses at the same time. So we contacted the Hanover Directory and they said yes and the Gourmet Girls were born. This is our first review! How it works is that we each score three main elements of our evening: food, friendliness of staff and value for money. We award up to five stars for each and then average them out to give the overall Gourmet Girl score!
Sooo, last week 7 of the 12 went for food at the Thai Kitchen, which is at the lovely Reservoir pub on Howard Road. It was a Monday evening, so not the busiest night of the week for anywhere in Hanover, but a good venue nonetheless. The Reservoir is set over two floors with the bar, kitchen and seating upstairs, and sofa seating and more tables downstairs with a patio garden. It’s recommended for its Sussex ales too, although none of us girls are ale drinkers.
All of the food, without exception, was really tasty and excellent value for money. The service was great, food arrived quickly and no mistakes were made on any of the orders. Mark behind the bar was very welcoming and friendly, as were the staff from the Thai Kitchen. Overall we had a lovely evening, so big thanks to the Reservoir - we will see you again soon. Some comments from the girls: “Great food – saucy curries and perfect tofu.” “Very pleasant staff.” “Good food, good pub, good staff.” Scores FOOD: 4**** STAFF: 4 **** ATMOSPHERE 3***
Prices for starters are all £4.95 apart from shared starter platters @ £9.95 and main dishes range from £5.95 to £7.95. Take-away service available but no delivery. http://www.reservoirbrighton.co.uk
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The Thai Kitchen is a small open kitchen so you can see your food being cooked whilst you wait. There’s an extensive menu with 48 dishes to choose from, so something to suit everyone. We ordered starters to share: ‘Mair Kim’s Vegetarian Feast’ - spring rolls, vegetable tempura, Thai golden bags, Tofu Satay and vegetable crackers with a peanut and sweet chilli dipping sauce. It went down really well and very quickly, and good value at £9.95 a platter! We then had an array of main dishes including Pad Thai, Tofu stir fry with cashews, Tom Yum soup and Green, Red and Massamam Thai curries.
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Hanover resident Hannah Vincent is a writer – here she tells us about her debut novel “Alarm Girl”. You have a book being published in August, right? Can you tell us a little bit about it?
Alarm Girl describes two children visiting their father in South Africa for the first time since the death of their mother. It is partly narrated by eleven-year-old Indy, who is confused as to why no-one will speak about her mother’s death. To fill in the gaps in her knowledge she makes up her own version of the truth… It’s a rites-of-passage story, about a girl learning the truth about her family. You live in Hanover – has our neighbourhood found its way into your novel?
I have lived in Brighton for twenty-five years and I have been writing during all that time but I have never set a play or a story here. I tend to borrow certain elements from different places and create composites. I am interested in place as metaphor. In Alarm Girl, for instance, the foreign-ness of Africa for Indy – its heat, the unfamiliar landscape, her dad’s
new house, the strangers she meets - is expressive of her emotional state. Tell us how you came to be published
We are very lucky in Brighton to have Myriad based here. Everyone agrees they are the nicest publisher ever! They are incredibly supportive of new writers and their reputation as people with good taste who are extremely kind and nurturing means they have writers defecting to them from big London and New York-based publishers. When I completed my novel manuscript I sent it to them and they invited me to come in to their office to have a chat. When they said, ‘We’d love to publish this,’ I nearly fell off my chair. Editing meetings take place over cake in a café around the corner from their office, which for me is about the dreamiest scenario ever. Where can we buy your book?
Kemptown Books, City Books and Waterstones have copies and I am hoping Hanover businesses such as Fanny’s, Archers and Hilly Laine might stock it too… Thanks, Hannah! Alarm Girl is published on 7th August.
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HCA is the small charity that manages the Hanover Cen live locally. We always welcome your feedback and sug and have any comments, compliments or complaints. Sock Monsters
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Nadya Derungs will be running a Craft & Textile Workshop at the Hanover Community Centre again this summer holiday for children aged eight and over. The workshop will run from 10.30am until 3pm on Thursday 14th August and the cost is £20 per child. Nadya has a degree in Fine Art and has taught art, craft and textiles to children for over 13 years at many locations including schools, museums and galleries. She is CRB checked and is fully insured.
There’ll be a huge selection of lovely and exciting stuff to experiment with, including mixed fabrics, buttons, beads, ribbons, jewels, clothes to customise, socks for monsters, paints, wool for knitting, pompoms, tassels or pomsters, felt-making stuff, clay and mosaic bits and bobs, and lots more… The children can make a variety of lovely things to take home, or enjoy having a whole day to work on a larger project which will be incredibly satisfying. We’ll be having lunch in the garden and playing games. Please send your child with a packed lunch. I’ll provide snacks and drinks throughout the day. Please call or email Nadya to book a place. Tel: 078 123 98134 nadyaderungs@yahoo.co.uk Magic Moves Summer Fun
Magic Mover Kate entertains kids of all ages with a variety of dance sessions at the centre: Make & Move (2-7 years) 4, 26, 27 August; Groovy Moves (7-11 years) 5 & 26 August; and Making Moves (12-16 years) 28 August. For more information visit www. magicmovesdance.com or call Kate on 01273 600126.
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ntre on Southover Street. The Charity is run by a committee of voluntary Trustees who ggestions, so please get in touch if you’ve attended an event or activity at the Centre
Many of our regular classes take a break during August. Keep an eye on our notice boards for news of summer workshops and one-off events.
And don’t forget - if you’re planning a children’s party, jumble sale or other event between now and September we may have space at the centre during the week as well as the usual weekend times. Just give us a ring or pop in to the office. (See below for opening times).
Beer Festival sponsors are rolling in…
…but there are still plenty of barrels to adopt! If your business or organisation wants to join in, now’s the time! From September the cost of sponsoring a barrel will be £60, but this year “early birds” before An enthusiastic sponsor 31st August pay just £50. Contact Jill for more information – beerfestival@ hanovercommunity.org.uk.
Sponsorship is open to anyone – and if there’s something you want to advertise or celebrate it’s a great way to get the word out. Birthdays, dogs, cats, favourite authors, performers and football clubs have
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Our beer festival is organised and run by volunteers who want to support our charity by giving their time. Every penny raised is used by the Hanover Community Association to maintain and run the Hanover Centre. Can you give some time? We need people from Tuesday 30th September to Monday 6th October to help set up the site, run the event and clear up afterwards. Some tasks – like lifting the barrels onto the stillage on Wednesday afternoon - need more muscle than others – like laminating all the signs for the barrels. Tell us what you can do and when, and we’ll be in touch. Contact beerfestival@hanovercommunity.org.uk or text Pam on 07974 691091. Talk to Us!
If you would like to join in with our projects, run a course, volunteer or enquire about a booking or a class, then please contact us: Hanover Centre, 33 Southover Street, BN2 9UD
Email: office@hanovercommunity.org.uk Website: www.hanovercommunity.org.uk Phone: 01273 694 873 (24 hours) Join our Facebook group: “The Hanover Centre”
Rosemary is in the office every weekday morning except Wednesday, and is happy to arrange an appointment for you outside those times. Please leave a message or email with a daytime phone number and we’ll call you.
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The Church of the Annunciation
To mark its 150th anniversary, the Church of the Annunciation in Washington Street opens its doors to host a festival of art, music and drama. Father Michael Wells, aka Spike Wells, renowned jazz drummer, and Brighton diva Marcia Bellamy, Festival Artistic Director, invite you to discover what is happening at the Annun, the secret heart of Hanover. Adoration of the Shepherds
by the Mafia has greatly increased the value of our copy,” Stephen says. The copy of the painting at the Annunciation dates from the early twentieth century, a gift to the church from an anonymous donor who brought it back from Florence. (It still has the official Uffizi stamp on the back.) It has recently been restored and is now on view at the church as part of the current anniversary exhibition. A Local Saint?
The first vicar of The Annunciation, Father George Chapman, had an enormous impact on the Hanover area. It was his energy that transformed the original
MAFIA helps get the 150th anniversary of the Church of the Annunciation off to an explosive start.
It’s not often the Mafia gets involved in church life in Brighton. But Brighton writer Stephen Plaice, who has written a history of the Annunciation Church in Washington Street to celebrate its 150th anniversary, has discovered that the church possesses one of the few full-scale copies of a famous painting, The Adoration of the Shepherds, by the Dutch artist Gerard van Honthorst, aka Gherardo della Notte. The original of the painting used to hang in the famous Uffizi Gallery in Florence - until 1993, that is, when during a local Mafia feud, one wing of the gallery was bombed, and the painting blown to smithereens. “I think the destruction of the original
whitewashed mission of The Annunciation into the beautiful church it is today. He built up the local congregation to over 300, enabling the creation of the parish of Hanover. A tall, lean figure in his russet and black cassock, he was Father George Chapman often compared to Christ by his parishioners, risking his own health to minister to the sick and to go amongst the poor of the area. Throughout his incumbency, he calmed the sectarian tensions that were prone to break out in the neighbourhood, winning the hearts of local residents with his simple devotional style. Dying prematurely at the age of 44, his funeral procession stopped the traffic on its way to the Lewes Road Cemetery where he was laid to rest in 1891. George Chapman is your local candidate for sainthood. Regular updates on forthcoming events will appear in the Hanover Directory. For more information: www.annunciationbrighton.org.uk or check the notice board outside the church.
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Regular update from HASL - Hanover Action for Sustainable Living
Can we ‘Go Dutch’ in Hanover Over 40% of Hanover & Elm Grove households do not own a car or van, according to the 2011 census . That’s slightly higher than the proportion in Brighton & Hove as a whole, at 38%. As you would expect, with the lowest level of car ownership in the South East, the city also has a low proportion of people travelling to work by car – just 37%, compared to 60% in the South East. However, we are not generally using our bikes to get around instead. Between 7.5% and 9% of people in Hanover cycle to work – pretty high for the UK, and high within Brighton & Hove too (hills, what hills?). But these rates are still nowhere near the rate of bike ownership, which is around 50%, according to the council’s 2011 survey in the area . Why are cycling rates so low? As the BBC found out in a June 2014 poll , the biggest reason is that people are scared to cycle on the roads. And who can blame them, when very little effort is made on most UK roads to keep people on bikes away from terrifying lorries, buses and cars? Cycling in Hanover feels relatively safe (though it’s hard to see round corners, with cars parked right up to them), but once you get to a main road, it’s pretty scary. The idea of kids as young as eight cycling independently to school seems ridiculous. But that kind of freedom for children is something they take for granted in the Netherlands, where nobody is “a cyclist” because everybody rides bikes . Children do ride their bikes to school from around age eight. Parents carry babies and toddlers on their bikes. People carry shopping by bike. Though it seems the most natural thing in the world now, the Netherlands hasn’t become a cycling paradise by magic. It is the result of policy decisions and a serious level of spending. The Dutch decided to make cycling attractive and safe by separating bikes from cars on all main roads, and making cycling dominant on smaller streets.
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I’m excited to be going on a short trip to Assen, in the Netherlands, at the beginning of September, to see how Dutch streets are designed. I’m hoping to come back to Brighton with ideas for how things could be different here, particularly for residential areas like Hanover. If anybody has specific questions they would like me to try and find answers to, please let me know by email (dani. ahrens@gmail.com) or on Twitter (@rebelyarns). 1. http://brighton-hove.communityinsight.org/ 2. http://scotlandstreet.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/ census-and-sensibility/ 3. http://scotlandstreet.wordpress.com/about/
Good Food for Good Causes The Food Waste Collective is once again hosting
Good Food for Good Causes, a day-long event that diverts surplus food from landfill, and instead helps it to reach local charities, community projects and other local good causes. Volunteers are needed on the day to help repackage surplus, generously donated by Infinity Foods and other local businesses, and to deliver food by bike to projects that cannot collect themselves. For more information about any of the roles, please email foodwastecollective@gmail.com with “GF4GC volunteers” in the subject line. Event details: Date: 12th August 2014 Time: 09:15 – 15:30 Venue: Old Municipal Market, Circus Street, Brighton, BN2 9QF Who are we? The Food Waste Collective is a hub for people who are passionate about addressing food waste in Brighton & Hove. We work to support sustainable, ethical alternatives for the tonnes of perfectly good food that is thrown away from retailers, businesses and farms every year. The collective hosts community actions, talks and social events, as well as supporting other local initiatives tackling food waste in Sussex. We are a subgroup of Hanover Action for Sustainable Living. If you belong to a local charity or local business and would like to discuss issues surrounding surplus food or get involved with our events, then please get in contact with foodwastecollective@gmail.com For more information please explore the following: http://www.hasl.org.uk/food-waste-collective.html
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Hanover and Elm Grove Local Action Team
Updates for the Community Neighbourhood survey latest
So far we have had returns of our neighbourhood survey on streets, transport and parking in Bonchurch Road, Lincoln Street, Franklin Road, Toronto Terrace, Hallett Road and Belgrave Street. We are looking for more roads to survey. More results later
We will report fuller results later. Many issues are shared between streets; however there are very different views on the controversial topic of parking controls. It appears that residents north of Elm Grove and east of Queen’s Park Road want to keep things as they are, whereas residents in Lincoln Street, Toronto Terrace and Belgrave Street want to look into controls of some kind. We are hoping to do more surveys
Before starting to see if we can come up with a community plan for those areas that might want some changes, the last HEG LAT meeting felt we should try and survey more roads and try and get a fuller picture of what people want. Recently people in Queen’s Park Road, Holland Street, Baxter Street, Southampton Street, Beaufort Terrace and Lynton Street have come
forward requesting a survey in their road and offering to help. This is great as we are particularly keen to see what people’s views are in the streets between Islingword Road and Elm Grove, and would also like more from roads in between Islingword Road and Southover Street. Would you like your road surveyed?
So if you would like to add your road into the survey AND can help, please contact Chris on greysland@ sky.com or David on davidsg@ntlworld.com Next meeting
The next HEG LAT meeting will be on Monday 4th August at 7pm in The Hanover pub, Queen’s Park Road. The main topic will be the review of local bus services and Mike Best of Brighton and Hove Buses will be there to take questions.
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Hanover Dad...
Not Feeling Motivated
I usually try not to be controversial in any of these articles that I write, and I don’t know if it’s just the time of it I’m having lately, but I am really fed up with work at the moment. Now, I know that the majority of us have to work to support ourselves and families etc, and I am very thankful for having a half decent job. I’m usually not bothered about work, but at the moment I am properly fed up. What bugs me most at the minute is that my boss has told me that she “sees something in me” and that “I need to be challenged” and worst of all “need to be taken out of my comfort zone” – what the hell is that all about? I’m 40, not 25! Now I’m sure that some of you reading this relish challenges at work, and want nothing more than to be noticed, be given the opportunity to shine and to climb the corporate ladder. I on the other hand do not. I’m extremely happy in my comfort zone, and I have enough of a challenge in my day just getting two kids up and ready in the morning, thank you very much! I’m of an age now whereby when I talking, another 20% pretending to take notes and sit in meetings, I probably spend 10% listening, 10% the final 60% hoping that I don’t actually get asked to do anything following the meeting. I’m sorry to be so negative, and I don’t actually want to quit my job, but when I do it’s definitely on a Sunday. Did you know that one day on the planet Mercury lasts 1,408 hours, exactly the same as an Earth Monday? To finish on a positive note though, my little boy has told me that when he grows up he wants to be a Power Ranger. I’m definitely going to push him into power ranging, as every time we watch that show, Complete they never need to fill out a feedback form after Painting every training session. bathroom
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