WEST HOVE THE
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MONTHLY BUSINESS DIRECTORY AND COMMUNITY NEWS FOR WEST HOVE
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A very merry christmas
CONTeNTS... Page 5 Aldrington War Memorials Page 6/7 Old Photo Page 9 Local Person Page 11 Hove Civic Society Page 12/13 KAWHRA Page 15 West Hove Sports Page 17 Competition Page 19 Gardening Page 22 List of Advertisers
and happy new year to you all... Firstly we have to start with wishing all residents and businesses of West Hove a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year!! We hope you have a lovely festive period and memorable 2015. One thing of note in this edition that may even add to you and your families’ enjoyment of the Yuletide - we have managed to arrange a competition for our Christmas edition you are in with a chance of winning a group of 4 tickets for Cinderella the Pantomime!! Check it out on page 17. Good luck! Many thanks to Lisa Holdcroft for the fantastic cover. Lisa is a local artist and has a stall at the Open Market coming up to Christmas where the cartoon we feature as our cover amongst other great local cartoons are all available as Christmas cards. Have a lovely time and see you next year! The West Hove Directory team 01273 551021 info@westhovedirectory.co.uk
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An article on the men from West Hove who died in the First World War...
ALDRINGTON’S WAR MEMORIALS The memorial boards in St Philip’s and St Leonard’s on New Church Road record the names of 226 men who died in the conflict that became known as the First World War. In preparation for the Centenary Exhibition which we mounted at St Philip’s on November 8/9th, I have been helped by students at St Christopher’s School to research something of the lives and deaths of these men. There are just 24 names on the St Leonard’s board reflecting the relatively low population at the west end of New Church Road at the time. Most were working in unskilled or low-skilled work (labourer, gardener). Typical of the men in the parish was Frederick Barnett (7th Battalion, The London Regiment). He was the youngest child and only son of Frederick (a general labourer) and Rebecca Barnett. His father died in 1907 and his widowed mother (now working as a charwoman) moved her family to share Wish Cottage (then at the southern end of Woodhouse Road) with the Denyer family who also lost a son, Alfred, in the war. Fred enlisted in 1914, when he was just 16 years old. His employment was listed as ‘part-time newspaper boy’. He died of wounds in February 1918, aged just 19 years. The St Leonard’s board also records one of the first homeland air crashes which killed Flight Lieutenants Cyril Crapp and William Vince, whose planes crashed
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over Portland Road in May 1917. They were observers flying from the airport at Telscombe Cliffs as part of the coastal protection forces. At the east end of the parish, population density was much higher and the social conditions were more varied. The men on the memorials were skilled workers – plumbers, electricians, drivers and plasterers. The St Philip’s board contains many men who died on ‘The Day Sussex Died’, 30th June 1916, during an ill-planned assault on the Boar’s Head Ridge designed to distract the Germans from the planned mass attack in the Somme salient the following day. 369 men from the Royal Sussex Regiment died and 749 more were seriously wounded. I recommend reading about this on-line, and particularly the part played by Colonel Grisewood. We have not yet done any research on the Second World War memorials. There are fewer names as the parish was smaller by 1938, and fewer soldiers died. Jane Terry
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LOCAL PERSON... An interview with a boy from West Hove...
Alfie appears in “Gypsy” 12-year-old Alfie Jukes, who lives in Roman Road and is a student at Hove Park School, appeared on stage at the Chichester Festival Theatre throughout October in a sell-out production of the musical “Gypsy”. The show starred Olivier Award-winning actress Imelda Staunton and Kevin Whately, best known as ITV’s Lewis, and it achieved five-star reviews. “Gypsy” is based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. We asked Alfie about his experience. Have you done any acting before? Since the age of six I have enjoyed attending Goldman’s Stage School on Saturday mornings and have performed in annual showcases. These shows tend to include acts from different productions. Some of my roles have included Bruce in Matilda, Danny in Grease and a zebra from The Lion King! What role did you have in the show and what did you have to do? In Gypsy I played the role of Kansas, a young boy who was part of a five-piece song and dance ensemble. In one of the acts I had to master a tap dance routine; this was quite a challenge as I had never tap-danced before. Rehearsals started back in August so I spent a lot of time with the other children in the show and we all bonded really well. Altogether I had 23 performances with three quick changes during every show. In the first scene I also Showtime Productions & Music Theatre 2000 present
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played a clown in a kid’s talent show run by a character called Uncle Jocko. The most exciting performance was on Press Night as we had the anticipation of waiting for the reviews being released the next day. How did you fit it in with school? My school, Hove Park, was extremely understandable and supportive as they gave me permission to have time off school for technical rehearsals and performances. Did you enjoy it and would you like to do more acting in the future? I’m so glad that I got the job in Gypsy as I made loads of new friends and loved every minute of performing on stage in such a good show. It was also a pleasure to meet and learn from the amazing actress Imelda Staunton who has now become one of my idols. I am definitely going to carry on performing arts and auditioning for various things, as I love it with a passion and think I might try and take it on for the rest of my life.
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The monthly article from the Hove Civic Society....
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THE HOVE CIVIC SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING The 53rd AGM of HCS was held on 16 October at our usual venue, Courtlands Hotel. Prior to the meeting some members enjoyed a buffet supper giving us a chance to chat informally. We hope an opportunity to socialise will become a feature of some meetings in future. The AGM commenced with the chairman’s report of last year’s activities. He emphasised the great effort required to keep abreast of planning proposals and where appropriate make comment, supportive or otherwise (see the website www.hovecivicsociety.org). Work on the tree project continues but it has to be remembered that planting can only be progressed with the support of the residents. The chairman made an important announcement that Sir Timothy Sainsbury, the MP for Hove 1973-97, is willing to become a Patron for the Hove Plinth, which is a fantastic boost for the project which continues to occupy much time (see the website). Next the treasurer, Andrew Haicalis, informed the meeting that the finances are in good health. A surplus had been made last year with a healthy increase in donations towards specific projects. The officers and committee were unanimously re-elected (see the website).
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More council consultati X Doesn’t Mark the Spot! Voters living between Norman Road and Middleton Avenue, and Mansfield Road and Portland Villas, have lost their polling station and the council is looking for another. Originally the polling station was in the sports pavilion on the Saxon Road side of Wish Park. It was spacious and had a level entrance so people with prams or wheelchairs didn’t have a problem getting in to vote. However the pavilion was let to a nursery and so for recent elections voters had to join voters living east of Wish Park in the pavilion on the Wish Road side of the park. It wasn’t as good; there are steps up into it and a portable ramp had to be set up for disabled people. However on May 7th 2015 both the General and City Council Elections will take place, and the east pavilion would be too small for the expected turnout. So the city council has been looking in vain for a polling station to replace the west pavilion. Any voter can apply for a postal vote from the Electoral Services Office on 01273 291999 or email electors@ brighton-hove.gov.uk. (They could even decide to vote in person instead by returning their postal vote to their polling station.)
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Welcome to the Exercise - Insanity Class February edition of Fiveways Gardens Regular article about local exercise opportunities by West Hove resident Isobel Muir...
This month I was invited by Dino of Ds12FITNESS to try out an Insanity class at South Portslade Community Centre. I purposefully didn’t look too closely, so I wasn’t completely sure what the class would entail, though I could hazard a guess from the name! I had visions of a circuit-training type affair but much much more hardcore. I was more right than I could have imagined.
Dino told me that each week he does a slightly different variation on the class so as to make sure the routine continues to challenge the exerciser, thus building more muscle and never allowing the class to become easy or routine. With interest in growing ourHooray! own food, and maybe not so much money to go round, why not give it Thethe classincreasing I joined was the 50-minute version. a go this year? But what if you have no spare ground to plant into? Well, how about some carefully chosen nice Basically, Insanity turns traditional training methods bigupside containers in your front garden. Or, even better, get rid of some of that tired looking concrete or paving slabs down. Instead of shorts bursts of maximum I was a little worried that I would conk out before the and plant straight the ground. intensity exerciseinto interspersed with short rest breaks, end of the class, due to having been to the gym twice Insanity combines long stretches of intense activity with in the week already, along with all my usual runnings I’m often asked what’s easy and suitable for growing in them. In about late June/July, you’ll find a lovely crop very short rest periods. The class I went to involved four and cyclings. My worries bore fruit as my poor legs ran limited space. Top of my list are onion, beetroot, carrot of salad potatoes that you can just dig up as and when rounds of three one-minute body weight exercises back out of steam about halfway through. I continued with and a lovely waxy salad potato, such as Charlottes. Nip you want them. Easy, huh? If the whole crop’s dug to back, with a 30-second break every three minutes. everything of course, just stepping instead of jumping, outThere to your local garden centre or chat up friends that upmaking by theother end of July, why not use the space grow a was also a specific ab round in the middle before or adjustments as necessary. That to is the have an allotment, who’ll be able to get you a dozen range of gorgeous late summer flowers – Rudbeckias, getting back to the main circuit. All the exercises were beauty of such a class - you can still totally kill yourself. or the so seed from the verbenas, etc, thatupwill keep smiling usualpotatoes fare you would findallotment in a circuitshop. class. Growing PressEven when asters, you aregrasses unable to keep with the you full-on potatoes is simplicity itself.mountain climbers, sideways throughofthe of summer and well into autumn. ups, squats, tuck jumps, version therest exercise, Dino will suggest an alternative lunges andpotatoes on and on. All the hardest version is just asrecently hard and, as with everything, it is 1. buy seed ASAP. 2. put themand in amost darkintense cold I was atthat a meeting with the council Parks exercises you could hope for. as hard as you make it, which in my case is hard! place (the loft works well for me) for a few weeks to department in Preston Park and I’m chuffed to report
“chit” or sprout. 3. push these potatoes into the ground where you want them to grow and cover with about 3-4 inches or 10cm of your garden soil. 4. relax and go and do some other things for a month or two. 5. when there’s lots of green leafy growth to about 8-12 inches, put another few inches of garden soil (or the bought stuff) onto the growing potato plants. You don’t want to completely cover them up, but this “earthing up” process means you won’t get green bits on your spuds and you’ll get a bigger crop. Do this several times over the early summer months. Keep the plants well watered dry, well seasoned once Delivers there’s plenty of foliage. Youlogs don’tsourced need tofrom feed
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Regardless ofamy own failings, this is to an planting excellentsome class that there’s strong commitment and willofdefinitely get you fit fast if you do it banks wild flowers in the park andwere sometonative regularly. Thetrees. class IBoth attended is at 7pm on a Thursday shrubs and of these measures are greatat South Portslade Community Centre. news for us and local wildlife. For more information about Insanity and the other Happy days services Dino provides, please visit ds12fitness.com or find him on Facebook.
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Win tickets to Cinderella Probably the greatest and best-loved fairy tale of them all: Cinderella - will she go to the ball and meet the prince of her dreams and live happily ever after? Or will she remain in the evil clutches of her wicked stepmother and her two ugly sisters? Find out by going to the Windmill Theatre in Nevill Avenue, Hove. Ten performances of this traditional, magical, musical family pantomime, created and designed by Music Theatre 2000 and Simon Gray and Nathan Potter, for the whole family to enjoy, from Monday 29th December 2014 to Sunday 4th January 2015. Cinderella is bursting with boos, cheers, songs and loads of fun and laughter, with a wonderful cast of singers, actors and dancers, plus a live band which brings this wonderful production to life. Tickets are from only £10.00 and can be obtained direct from cinderellapanto.co.uk , or group bookings and enquiries on 01273 565130. Cinderella pantomime tickets make ideal Christmas tickets - don’t leave booking too late as some performances will sell out quickly. Competition Terms & Conditions Tickets are valid to see Cinderella at The Windmill Theatre on 30th December at 7pm only. Tickets are nonexchangeable. Closing date for entries is 15th Decem-
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LOCAL gardening... Here is our monthly gardening feature written by Nareesa Sulaiman, a local garden designer...
In the garden...december 2014 It’s difficult to potter in the garden when the ground is waterlogged or frozen, so December is a good month to curl up somewhere cosy indoors with a cuppa, a pile of gardening books and a picture in your mind about what you’d ideally like the garden to look like. Consider first if you are happy with the basic layout of the garden; if you are considering changing the structure, speak to a local garden designer or landscaper about your ideas. Assuming that you are happy with the structure of the garden, choose an area that you’d like to enhance; sometimes a bed or border looks tired and needs revamping. On paper, make a plan of the bed, marking the location of plants that you want to keep. Next, consider how the bed could be improved: more colour, variable textures, a greater array of heights? Before you begin to browse the plant books, assess the characteristics of the bed in terms of light exposure, aspect (north, east, south or west facing), and available moisture: dry, moist or wet. Assessing these features allows you to make informed decisions about whether a plant is suitable for the bed. It is also worth noting that, unless the bed has been created from imported top soil, the soil is likely to
have an alkaline pH due to the chalk bedrock on which our city is built. Now the fun part begins; most gardeners love looking at plants and considering which ones they would like and whether they will work in the desired location. Although lots of emphasis is placed on flower colour and flowering months, remember to also consider the flower shapes, eg are they daisy, ball or bell shaped? A mixture of flower shapes works to enhance the overall look of the bed. Additionally, give consideration to the shape and colours of the leaves; will they work with what is already in the bed? Do you want a range of leaf shapes and textures? All these factors highlight the complexity of choosing the right plants but also unveil the challenges that we gardeners love about striving for that perfect border! Make a list of desired plants and sketch where you will locate them onto your bed plan. Save for late spring when the ground is beginning to warm up and the local nurseries have restocked for the new season. Feature plant for December Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’ This deciduous variety of Viburnum has clusters of fragrant, pink flowers on bare branches from late autumn through until spring, a beautiful sight during the winter months! Happy garden planning! Nareesa 07946 527280 info@leafgardendesigns.co.uk leafgardendesigns.co.uk
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