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Welcome to the September edition of Queens Park Living!
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I have to admit I am writing this super early in an attempt to get this September edition to the printers before heading off to France for the family holiday.
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At the time of writing, the summer so far has been amazing with lots of sunshine and soaring temperatures. I hope that that still applies for you as you read this!
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So what have we for you this month? Well, good question! There should be the usual old photo of the area, as well as the next in the series of local history articles detailing the buildings around the park and the people who lived in them.
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You know, I am sure there is loads more but I can’t tell you what!! Put your feet up, have a flick through and see what you find!! Have a great September!!
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The Italian Villa, that later became the Xaverian College and has since been replaced by flats.
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Here is an account by a local resident of being a choir member in a local community choir...
We-Bop Community Choir When the choir is performing, there is a moment at the start when Rachel raises her hands, smiles conspiratorially, lets the pause settle to silence, and counts us in. The last minute throat-clearing magically stops, our mouths magically open, and the pleasure of singing takes over from the nerves and fidgets of anticipation. different way to a gig - very relaxed, sociable and fun. No matter how much we have rehearsed, the blend and contrast of voices and acoustics always feels brand new at a gig. Adrenalin heightens both the fear and the fun of it all. We rehearse from September to July, performing gigs throughout the year, welcoming new members every term as well as losing a few to life’s changes. We have sung in the streets, parks and churches of Brighton, at festivals and fetes, in pubs, at Brighton Station, in nursing homes, on tiny, cramped stages, on the seafront, and at the Dome and Corn Exchange. Every gig feels like a new adventure. The choir members include teachers and educators, nurses, consultants, pensioners, students and mums, as well as a copy writer, psychotherapist, lawyer, ceramicist, homoeopath, and Samaritan. If you would like to join us, why not come along to our next free taster session, Wednesday 17th September 7.30 to 9.30pm at Park Hill Evangelical Church, Park Hill, Queen’s Park, BN2 0BT. Just turn up, or if you’d like more information contact Rachel (email: rachelmyer@ntlworld.com or tel: 07788885669). Jane Thorp, choir member since 2008.
The combined energies of 40 a cappella voices in four-part harmony has a momentum of its own, a bit like swimming with the flow of a large and fastmoving river. We-Bop is an all-female community choir. There are no professional singers apart from our Musical Director, Rachel Myer. A community choir is made up of people from all walks of life, people who may have joined for a variety of reasons, but one thing is common to all – the sheer pleasure of singing. Singing utilises the whole body and simply makes you feel good. And all these individuals come together to focus their separate energies into one musical whole (albeit with a few stutters along the way but that is part of the process). Rachel arranges most of the songs, and we sing anything and everything from doo-wop and gospel to pop. The work we do in weekly rehearsals is enjoyable in a
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Music and Wine at St. Luke’s St Luke’s Church, Queen’s Park Road, Brighton BN2 9ZB. We hope you have been enjoying the lovely summer. There are two concerts happening this month before we start our winter series. On 12th September the Rose Flute Trio (Flute, Violin and Piano) will make their first appearance at St Luke’s with an exciting and varied programme of music to include works by CPE Bach, Mozart, and local Brighton composer Barry Mills. Their programme ends with Franz Doppler’s Andante and Rondo, originally written to display the virtuosic skills of Franz and his flute-playing brother, in lively Hungarian Gypsy style. Please note the change from the original programme. The flute and harp duo will appear on 13 March 2015. On September 26th pianist Edyta Lajdorf will take you on a trip around Europe. You will hear Austrian composer Franz Schubert’s Sonata in A major D664, Polish folk music by Ignacy Jan Paderewski and narrative Polish poetry in Fryderyk Chopin’s Ballade in G minor. This is followed by impressionist tonal colouring with Preludes by the French Claude Debussy. The journey will finish in the United Kingdom in 2010 with Benjamin Ellin’s Amuse Bouche. Information about our upcoming winter series, October
2014 – April 2015, will be available very soon. Please email us if you would like to join our mailing list to be kept informed of the most up to date concert information. Tickets are £7 / £5 concessions / £3 under-12s. Tickets are available on the door. Disabled access. Wine and refreshments served. For more information, please visit www.stlukesconcerts.webeden.co.uk To donate or volunteer or get involved with Music and Wine at St Luke’s, please email musicandwineatstlukes@gmail.com or phone 01273 510595.
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The third in a series of articles detailing the history of some of the houses and people who have lived around the park...
11 West Drive Once the vicarage for St Mary’s, Rock Gardens There have been a succession of clergymen living at this address since the 1950s, and it has been the meeting place for the laity and a family home. The first occupants were Walter Burgess, born in India in 1854, and his wife, Rosalind. Their initials WB & RB are inscribed in the stained-glass windows on the stairs. In 1911 Rosalind had a lady’s companion and a maid to work in the large house. Rosalind died in 1913, followed by Walter in 1922 in Mont Boron, Nice. They named the house ‘Roswal’, the abbreviations of their names, and their silhouettes were once painted on the mantelpiece in the living room. In 1922 the house was sold to a Frederick Evershed, a candle and soap manufacturer. His tallow factory was in Eastern Road, where the car park of the bingo hall is now, on the west corner of Sutherland Road opposite Brighton College. It must have been quite smelly, as probably was the maltings of the brewery on the opposite corner. By 1901 Frederick Evershed, Mary his wife, and their three daughters, were all living at the house. Frederick later died in 1929 at the vicarage, and haunted the house until he was exorcised. The soap factory was taken over by their son, Henry Evershed, and the business eventually moved to Shoreham. Mary Evershed and her daughters lived on at the house until 1940. Frances died in Hove in 1955. They were well known at St Mary’s Church at that time and there are commemorative plaques in the church to them. It was thanks to the family that the house was given over to the diocese for use as a vicarage. A neighbour, as a child, remembers the somewhat dotty maid, who would be seen on her hands and knees scrubbing the pavement outside the house!
The next family to live at the vicarage was Rev Herbert John Kingston MA, born in 1894, and his wife Winifred and two sons. Rev Kingston served in WW1 London Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant in France. He walked with crutches, possibly a result of a war wound, and was known as Rev ‘Jack’ Kingston. A Cambridge man, he had a spell in Tilbury docks in the 1920s and took office at St Anne’s, Brighton, and between 1940-42 he was Rector of St James’. Later in 1944-1957 he became Vicar of St Mary’s, moving to Fishbourne, where he was rector until 1968 when he retired and moved to Donnington, Chichester, dying in 1972 aged 78. In the summer of 2011, three generations of the Evershed family came to visit the vicarage, bringing a wonderful photograph album of the family when at West Drive. It showed photographs of all the family and some of the rooms and garden of the vicarage. In 1958 Rev Bacon arrived with his wife and three girls. Ruth, the youngest, was ordained at Lichfield Cathedral in 2011. The cost of upkeep for large vicarages is now too great and the house has been sold.
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Appeal... Admittedly this is not a Queens Park story but a local Brighton girl in desperate need of support from the wider community...
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Niamh is a brave eight-year-old girl who lives in Preston Park, Brighton. She is a bright, caring little girl who loves animals and dreams of owning a puppy. In January 2012 she was diagnosed with Wilms’ tumour, a rare childhood cancer. Niamh (pronounced ‘Neve’) has undergone major surgery several times, has had radiotherapy and over 70 weeks of chemotherapy. Earlier this year came the devastating news that the cancer had returned. Niamh is now coming to the end of treatment currently available in the UK. Niamh faces the challenges before her with immense courage and a maturity beyond her years. She has amazed everyone with her brave, strong spirit, cheeky sense of humour and sunny smile. The nurses and doctors often remark on how well she copes. Gilli, Niamh’s mum, says, “Niamh accepts all she has gone through with such good grace, but cancer has stolen much of her childhood.” We’ve set up Niamh’s Fund so Niamh can access treatment that isn’t available on the NHS, both in the UK and abroad. We need to raise at least £100,000. Please help with donations of whatever you can spare to uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/NiamhsFund If you would like to help with fundraising ideas and/or want to volunteer to join Niamh’s Fundraisers’ Team, please contact Catherine Spain at cat.spain@btinternet.com You can spread the word by liking us on Facebook www. facebook.com/niamhsfund and following us on Twitter @niamhsfund There are many exciting fundraising events planned for the autumn. To To advertise advertise e-mail e-mail info@queensparkliving.co.uk info@queensparkliving.co.uk or or call call 01273 01273 551021 551021
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The second in a series of articles uncovering some of the treasures and stories of the Royal Pavilion...
A micro-masterpiece...by Caan Walls Legend has it that, when the Royal Pavilion was purchased from the Royal Household by the Brighton Corporation in 1850, workmen who were exploring the cellars found many intriguing articles including hundreds of empty wine bottles, dusty tomes…and a large, square stone, face down on the floor.
As it was turned, to the workmen’s surprise, the underside revealed a head and shoulders portrait of the Prince Regent dressed in robes of the Garter. Upon closer inspection the portrait turned out not to be oil on canvas as first thought but rather a micro-mosaic formed of incredible detail and skill.
In 1819 Pope Pius VII requested from Sir Thomas Lawrence a replica of the portrait of the Prince Regent which Lawrence had painted of him and exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1818. Lawrence made several copies of his standing portrait of the Prince Regent, one of which hangs in the main entrance of the Royal Pavilion. Lawrence duly sent a replica to Rome which now hangs in the Vatican Galleries. Pius VII ordered the head and shoulders of the replica to be copied in marble mosaic in the Vatican workshops by Domenico Moglia with the intention of presenting it as a gift to the Prince Regent. Born in 1780 in Cremona, Domenico Moglia
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was a designer, sculptor and woodcarver in the Vatican workshops. He later became a professor of design and was responsible for the ornament of the Arco della Pace in Milan. Pius VII died in 1823 and Moglia, as shown by the signature and date, didn’t complete the mosaic until 1829. The following year George IV also died and the portrait made its way to England only after the King’s death. It is said to have been sold to an anonymous buyer for £4,000. Whatever the true early history, we know from records kept in the Royal Pavilion archives that the mosaic was purchased by the Brighton Corporation from a Dr Willington in June 1888 at the cost of £150, who had received it as a gift from one of his patients, who we can assume was the original anonymous buyer. Whilst the early history of the mosaic is intriguing, most fascinating is the portrait itself which is formed out of half a million marble and semi-precious stones such as cornelians, lapis lazuli, beryl and corals for drapery and skin, and other rare stones for the jewels of the Order of the Garter. Each piece of stone is no more than a quarter of an inch long and an eighth of an inch wide. The eyes, being the centre-piece of this masterwork, contain hundreds of the tiniest pieces imaginable. It is considered by connoisseurs to be one of the finest Vatican mosaics in the world and is a masterly example of the use of stones to imitate paint. It took seven years to make and is in near perfect condition with no stone being lost. The original cost of the mosaic in 1819 is estimated to be £20,000, it is framed in iron-gilt and weighs around half a ton. The micro-mosaic is one of the most beautiful objects in the collections here at the Royal Pavilion, being a favourite of designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen among others. The only shame in this story is that the Prince Regent, who was such a patron of the arts and lover of beautiful and unique objects, did not get to see the finished portrait before his death. The portrait is currently on display in the Yellow Ante Room of the Royal Pavilion – SEE IT FOR FREE AS A MEMBER! Call 01273 295898 to join.
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