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Welcome to Queen’s Park Living! So much has changed in the last month.
Unfortunately we aren’t able to distribute a printed copy of Queen’s Park Living this month due to the lockdown, but if you’re reading this thank you for finding us online and please let other local residents know where they can find our May issue. We hope you find some useful information and do contact us if you have any suggestions or contributions for our June issue, which is likely to again be online-only.
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Information on local essential services... Help
If you need help (eg with food or medicine deliveries, financial support or domestic violence), you can request help for yourself or someone else on the council website at: http://ow.ly/FvSB50z5ENM Brighton and Hove Community Support Telephone: 01273 293117
There is also a volunteer network at: https://acorntheunion.org.uk/corona/ - you can sign up to volunteer or request help.
The Brighton Together NHS Staff Support Hub has been set up at Brighton College. It supplies food and care packages to NHS staff. You can donate groceries (no nuts) and toiletries – please take them to Brighton College Pre-Prep, Eastern Road, BN2 5JJ, east of the Royal Sussex County Hospital, on weekdays between 7am and 6pm. For further information on what they need, visit: https://www.brightoncollege. org.uk/brightontogether/
Pastoral Support
A new phone line, Hearing You, has been set up by the Diocese of Chichester with Together in Sussex to offer pastoral support and a listening ear for the recently bereaved and anyone directly affected by Covid-19. You don’t have to be a church-goer. The number is: 01273 425047 (9am to 7pm, Monday to Friday).
Captain Pig is a vegan shop in Church Street. Email thecaptainpig@gmail.com to request a product list. They offer contact-free collection from the shop or home delivery. Coburn & Baker artisan bakery are stopping their travelling bread van in Islingword Place on Wednesdays at 11.30am. Payments by card only. Check their website (www.coburnandbaker.co.uk) or Facebook page for updates. Hilly Laine wholefood store at 78 Elm Grove is open from 9am-12 noon and 2-6pm Monday to Friday; and from 10am-12 noon and 2-5pm on Saturdays. Starfish and Coffee in Egremont Place are offering home deliveries. Send a WhatsApp message to 07934 785501 to get added to their traybake delivery update list. Sun Harvest, based in the centre of Brighton, are now offering home deliveries of basic groceries: http://sunharvest.focalcreative.uk/. Email info@ sunharvestltd.co.uk / order@sunharvestltd.co.uk or phone 01273 777768 / 01273 697631 The Sussex Peasant (seasonal Sussex produce sold from a van) visit the Pepperpot in Tower Road from 9am to 4pm on Saturdays. See their Facebook page for updates.
Council Services Advice on all council services is available at: https://new.brighton-hove.gov.uk/coronavirus-covid-19
Food and Groceries Here are a few of the local businesses that are currently open. Details may change, so please check each business’s website/Facebook page for the latest information. Berkson Bakes based in Bentham Road are still baking gluten-free cakes, cookies and other treats for home delivery or collection. Contact Sarah at berksonbakes@gmail.com / 07794 269145 / www. berksonbakes.co.uk / Facebook: Berkson Bakes
The Brighton & Hove Food Partnership has information about local farms, markets, wholesalers and shops that can be contacted to provide fresh food delivery services during the period of the pandemic at: https://bhfood.org.uk/how-to-hub/local-veg-
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Hot Meals
Presto deliver nutritious hot lunches (like Meals on Wheels). Find more information at: www.getpresto. co.uk
Funerals
Only a limited number of people may attend funerals – a maximum of 10 mourners are allowed at Downs Crematorium and 12 at Woodvale Crematorium. More information is available at: https://new.brighton-hove.gov.uk/news/2020/celebrating-lives-lovedones-whove-died
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Waste and Recycling Household waste recycling sites are temporarily closed to ensure public and staff safety. Rubbish collections are being prioritised over recycling. Residents with uncollected kerbside recycling can take it to a recycling point or store it at home until normal services resume. 122 new large rubbish containers have been introduced at recycling points throughout the city. If you’re self-isolating or someone in your home has symptoms of the coronavirus, please double-bag all used tissues and keep them for 72 hours before disposing in your household waste. That’s also true of any discarded used masks and gloves. Don’t put any of these items in your recycling. Garden waste collections have been suspended until further notice.
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Woods furniture shop, 75 Edward Street at the corner of Egremont Place, in 1916.
The whole area was later cleared as part of the Edward Street widening.
Thanks to the Regency Society for this image from their photographic archives, The James Gray Collection. You can see thousands more historic pictures of Brighton and Hove at: www.regencysociety-jamesgray.com
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A great idea by Brighton artist Denise Harrison to brighten up our daily exercise‌
Open windows 2020
Openwindows2020 came about as an idea after the open houses were postponed. I was due to show my work at Phoenix Open Studios where my practice is based. I thought it would be great if artwork could be displayed in windows throughout May instead so that people who were on their usual walk would have that walk brightened up by seeing art. It is also about getting everyone involved in creating art, an inclusive project that gives a creative purpose; we are all at home, so everyone in the household can partake. Phoenix Artspace will also be taking part. As we have a dedicated Instagram page, people can follow @openwindows2020 and tag their work #openwindows2020 to be featured; we also have a Facebook page openwindows2020. This means that even those in isolation can still see the artwork and if you live in a top floor flat, you can still show your work, making the project accessible to all. It has become so popular that open house groups from across the country are joining in; we also have three groups in Australia getting involved as well as France, Spain, Scotland and Hong Kong. This means that it has also become a great networking opportunity. If you pass a window with the @openwindows2020 sign in the window, this means that you can find out about that person’s artwork as it will be on the Instagram and Facebook page. Denise Harrison
Email: deniseharrisonart@gmail.com Website: deniseharrisonart.com
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Sources of useful information on the coronavirus lockdown Government advice on what you can and can’t do during the lockdown is available here:
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Information and advice from Brighton & Hove City Council on keeping healthy and well at home is available on the supporting your wellbeing pages and through the Brighton & Hove Healthy Lifestyles Facebook page.
Police advice is available at:
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https://www.sussex.police.uk/police-forces/sussex-police/areas/campaigns/campaigns/coronavirus-our-response/
Free parking is available for NHS staff and social care workers during the coronavirus pandemic. This enables them to park in on-street parking bays and council-owned car parks without having to worry about cost or time restrictions. They need to display either their Key Worker Letter or a copy of their work identification in their windscreen or, when parking in barrier car parks, buzz the intercom and show their pass.
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BTN BikeShare is available for free to NHS staff working in Brighton & Hove during the coronavirus pandemic. Annual memberships, which include 30 minutes of free travel and no unlock fees, are also being offered to care contractor staff working for Brighton & Hove City Council.
Eligible NHS workers should contact their site travel coordinator for information on how to take up this offer. Care contractor staff working for Brighton & Hove City Council should contact their company travel coordinator.
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Rachel Bridgeman looks back at VE Day in Brighton in May 1945…
“My dear friends, this is your hour” (Winston Churchill, 8 May 1945)
On 8th May 1945, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Germany had surrendered. After six years of horror and bloodshed, the Second World War in Europe was over. Due to Covid 19, we are likely to be celebrating the peace and paying tribute to those who defeated fascism whilst isolated in our homes rather than rejoicing collectively as the people of our city did 75 years ago. Sallie will now be unable to share her memories with her community at St Leonard’s Church in West Hove as planned. These are her memories. Across Brighton and Hove, people flooded into the streets to share in the collective euphoria. “We Brits went a bit mad for a day or two.” Thirteen-year-old Sallie and her friend, Mary, walked into Brighton and joined in the jubilation at the Clock Tower. “People were drunk with happiness. Men and women were hugging and kissing each other. Glad to be alive. No more air raids. No more rocket attacks. Mary and I were swept away in a Conga line which took us down West Street. We walked home through the crowds along the seafront, past the smoking remains of a deck-chair bonfire (made by some high-spirited South African troops) and around which crowds had a grand sing-song – a bit like a scout camp. Back at home, we celebrated with Spam fritters and toasted each other with tea. I remember going to bed that night with the curtains drawn back. No black-out needed now. I was happy knowing that there would be no more air-raids. No nasty Nazi bombers.”
Although VE Day marked victory in Europe, it did not mark the end of the war. That would not come until 15th August 1945 with the surrender of Japan. Today, Sallie reflects: “We had yet to discover how devastated the countries in Europe were and how many thousands of people were dead in horror camps. We knew nothing of the horrors that were to come and the use of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” When we can once more freely and safely roam the streets of our fabulous city, why not learn more about their fascinating history? Hove Actually Walk-
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A VE Day party in Lynton Street. Photo courtesy of Marion Wilson, who is at the front wearing a blazer. Many of the children are holding porcelain cups containing the first ice cream they had ever had.
An update on this year’s VE Day anniversary celebrations…
VE Day 75... Many community celebrations had been planned across the country for the 75th anniversary of VE Day over the bank holiday weekend of 8th to 10th May. Unfortunately, the majority of these have had to be postponed due to the Coronavirus lockdown. However, some solo pipers and town criers may mark the occasion from safe and suitable locations. The VE Day 75 Pageantmaster, Bruno Peek, is hoping that postponed events can be moved to the weekend of 15th to 16th August, when we will be able to celebrate both VE Day and VJ Day. For the latest information, visit: https://www.veday75.org/ Some people will be marking the anniversary with a “Stay at Home Street Party” on Friday 8th May by decorating their houses in red, white and blue and having a picnic in the front garden, whilst still practising safe social distancing. For more information, visit Facebook: Stay at home street party Please send your local articles to editorial@queensparkliving.co.uk or call 01273 551021
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Queen’s Park Councillors
The ward councillors for Queen’s Park are Nicholas Childs (Labour), Amanda Evans (Labour) and Clare Rainey (Green). You can contact them as follows:
Nick Childs: Nick.Childs@brighton-hove.gov.uk Tel: 07562 437628
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This article is by Mary Henderson, a doctoral researcher in gut health…
Staying fit and healthy in strange times Here are some suggestions for staying fit and sane through the lockdown. We need to rethink our daily physical activity given that our daily commute and lives have been suddenly disrupted. We all need a minimum amount of activity just to stay healthy, never mind fit. One benefit of fitness centres is being told what to do. Download a fitness app or find a YouTube workout online. Write down your own programme (number of reps, timings) to ensure you don’t give up before fatiguing the muscles. Create a dedicated exercise space in your home or garden to switch to exercise mode. The area of a fitness mat will allow you to do most exercises. Use this event to try an outdoor workout. Don’t be self-conscious. Lots of people exercise outside and are more interested in themselves. Wait till nightfall and head outside?
You don’t need equipment to work out. Bodyweight exercises are effective strength training. Increase the intensity with plyometric, eg instead of squatting, do a jumping squat or ‘ski jump’. Use furniture like steps, walls and bars. Make sure they are dry, stable and safe. Social distancing will have a huge impact on our mental health and wellbeing so think about getting together with friends or family online to do exercise together at home. Mary Henderson
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Save Brighton General Hospital land... The Brighton General Hospital is a brisk 10-minute walk uphill from Hanover. But the land and buildings, gifted to the people of Brighton in 1865, are now set to be sold by Sussex Community NHS Foundation. Why is that bad news and what can we do about it?
The hospital buildings have certainly been poorly maintained by the Sussex Community NHS Foundation over many years. However, selling this prime site to property speculators means losing the land and assets for ever. Meanwhile, there are plenty of social needs that could be met on this site. For example, there is a desperate shortage of ‘step down beds’ for people well enough to leave intensive medical care at the nearby Royal Sussex County Hospital but who need to convalesce before returning home. There is also a major shortage of social housing for local people who are priced out of the housing market including: key workers, single young people, students, couples wishing to start a family and those with mobility problems.
The Brighton General Hospital Action Group (BGHAG) was formed to ensure that, first, the Brighton General Hospital site is retained 100% as public land and subject to public accountability. Second, the group want the site dedicated to two purposes: NHS usage and council housing at social rents. The action group is a coalition between Brighton and Hove Housing Coalition, the Living Rent Campaign, Sussex Defend the NHS and Save Whitehawk Hill. Ty Galvin, a local resident whose rich life story appeared in earlier issues of the Hanover Directory, is fully involved in the action group. ‘We believe that any development on the Brighton General Hospital site should be for the benefit of the people of Brighton and Hove, the people of East Sussex and the local community and not for the benefit of speculators in private health and private housing.’
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He pointed out, when interviewed by Mark Walker on Latest TV, that the action group is not against any re-building but they want it to ‘benefit the local community’ and ‘we need to be involved in the development of this.’ There was scope for quality council housing, well insulated and with a carbon neutral footprint. Award-wining eco-houses like this have already been built in Norwich.
Ty encouraged people across Brighton and Hove to get involved in BGHAG. ‘We have people from all walks of life active… people from all political parties and no political party…people we speak to are in favour of the campaign…and say we are on the right track.’ He argued that the NHS Sussex Community Trust are ‘…adamant that they want to do it their way. They want input from us but they don’t want to listen to us.’ Carolyn Pickering, also from BGHAG, said they were keen to hear from the Policy and Resources Committee about whether the local council could buy the site. Public pressure was urgently needed. There is growing concern that, if this campaign is lost, luxury housing developments will also follow on the adjacent nature reserve and archeological site of Whitehawk Hill. Don’t miss the next ‘Beating the Bounds’ walk led by the amazing David Bangs! And listen out for local singer-songwriter Robb Johnson’s ‘On the Hill’ - launched to support the Action Group.
Contact details
Save Brighton General Hospital Action Group petition: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-thetheft-of-brighton-general-hospital-site-keep-it-public Email: bghactiongroup@outlook.com More information:
Brighton and Hove Housing Coalition https://housingcoalition.co.uk/2019/01/29/brighton-general-hospital-action-group-press-release/ Latest TV: Save Brighton General Hospital, Sussex (Defend NHS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcIAhy9G-zQ Latest TV: Ty Galvin https://thelatest.co.uk/brighton/2020/02/24/the-vote-with-mark-walker-ty-galvin-talks-about-brighton-general-hospital/ Living Rent Campaign: https://www.livingwagebrighton.co.uk/sign-up/ Save Whitehawk Hill: https://savewhitehawkhill.org.uk Sussex Defend the NHS: http://defendthenhssussex.weebly.com/brighton-general.html
What can you do to support the campaign? Get involved in the Brighton General Hospital Action Group, register for email updates, sign the petition (on-line or write to the campaign) and write to your local councillor. Object to the sale of land that was gifted to the people of Brighton and Hove 150 years ago. Mike Aiken
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Event... A stay-at-home event at 10.30am on Saturday 2nd May…
Children’s Parade at Home Brighton Festival and Same Sky are inviting every child to take part in the Children’s Parade At Home to celebrate their creativity and imagination.
The annual Children’s Parade was due to take place on Sat 2 May to officially mark the start of Brighton Festival 2020 but the event had to be cancelled when social distancing restrictions were implemented due to the coronavirus outbreak. In partnership with award-winning community arts charity Same Sky, the stay at home event is open to everyone to have five minutes of fun during lockdown at 10.30am on Sat 2 May. Participants are encouraged to post their photos and videos on social media with #ChildrensParadeAtHome to capture the parade as a digital get-together to share online with friends, family, neighbours and across communities. John Varah, Artistic Director, Same Sky added: “Whether you want to conga around your kitchen, wave a flag from your window, blow a whistle from your balcony, shimmy in your sitting room or dress-up on your doorstep – anything goes at the Children’s Parade at Home! We want to celebrate young people’s creativity in all forms and keep the spirit of the Children’s Parade alive.”
means, not only to the 5,000 children, teachers, parents and volunteers who take part every year but to all the families and visitors who enjoy watching this spectacular community event in the heart of Brighton. As we can’t be together physically, we hope this alternative parade will offer a sense of unity and joy at a time when we all need it the most.” The largest of its kind in Europe, Brighton Festival Children’s Parade has taken place for over 30 years, with more than 10,000 spectators lining the streets of Brighton city centre each year. The Parade is kindly sponsored by Southern Water. Further information is available on Brighton Festival and Same Sky websites (Brightonfestival.org / Samesky.co.uk) and social media. #ChildrensParadeAtHome
Same Sky artists have produced free online art resources to inspire parents and carers to make props with children to wear or play with on the day - from masks to musical instruments – the how-to guides will use recycled materials that can be found around the home. Andrew Comben, Chief Executive of Brighton Festival said: “We know how much the Children’s Parade Please send your local articles to editorial@queensparkliving.co.uk or call 01273 551021
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Our employees empower our learners and help develop their aspirations; preparing them for the future. � ��� � ���� � � �� � ��� � � �� ��� ��� ��� � �� �� � � ����� � �� �� �� � � �� ���2020 � � ����� ������ � 9 As a St. Johnʼs employee you will: � Earn a competitive salary � Develop your career � �Have access to numerous training opportunities � Be entitiled to a free healthcare plan, allowing you to claim back cash on visits to the dentist, optician and more. � Work in an active, challenging and dynamin environment. � �Have the opportunity to utilise your own talents and interests. � �Join a high supportive staff team � Be part of a diverse and forward thinking organisation.
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Visit st-johns.co.uk/work-with-us to find out more or contact our Human Resources team at: ���� � �� � � �� � Recruitment@st-johns.co.uk
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Paul Bott & Co
Sales & Lettings Agent
email: info@paulbottandcompany.co.uk
We stand out from the rest
01273 605530