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YOu’RE SO VANE #8
St Anne’s church in
Western Road is the
only one in Lewes
with a weathercock.
The handsome gilded
copper bird is 4ft 6ins
from its feet to the top
of the golden ball on
its spindle. When it
was taken down to be
repaired in 1928 it was
found to be stamped,
‘1826 William Balcombe
Langridge, churchwarden. James Diggins, overseer. G
Gurr, maker.’
From Brigid Chapman’s book The Weathervanes of S<strong>us</strong>sex.
Her new book, The Weathervanes of Lewes, will be reviewed in
the next issue.
GARDEN SCuLpTuRE
Ben Autie and his assistant Matt Garton have created a beautiful
garden bench, which they are raffling to raise money for the
Working Horse Tr<strong>us</strong>t in Eridge, a body dedicated to the promoting
and preserving of traditional breeds of working horses.
This beautiful hand-forged, sculptured piece of garden furniture
is worth £3,000, and raffle tickets are j<strong>us</strong>t 50p, so the winner
is going to have quite a bargain
on their hands, and quite
a nice addition to their back
garden. Tickets are on sale
from Lewes Forge in Fisher
Street: the bench will be on
show during Artwave, on the
weekends of Aug 28 and 29,
Sept 5,6 and Sept 11,12.
READER OFFER
We have two lovely foodie reader offers for you to enjoy in
September. One is for afternoon tea at the delightful Newick
Park Hotel, and the other, a ‘buy one get one free’ offer from
the delicio<strong>us</strong> range of ready meals made by Kudos Foods in
Ripe. See page 65.
WE’RE ON TWITTER
b i t s a n d b o b s
As well as our award-winning weekly web
magazine, where you can find up-to-date
listings of what’s on in and around Lewes,
as well as photos and columns, we’ve
finally caught up with the times, and
opened up a Twitter account (which you
can access from the website) which gives
you instant tweets about what’s happening
in town.
LEWES IN QuOTES
“No one can have any idea of the extraordinary
beauty of Lewes, who has only
passed through the station. Seen from
‘The Paddock’, a large field on the northwest,
the town is almost as striking in its
aspects as Edinburgh or Durham; but Edinburgh
is hard and a<strong>us</strong>tere and Durham
dirty, whereas Lewes is soft, homely and
clean…”
Coventry Patmore
‘Hastings, Lewes, Rye and the S<strong>us</strong>sex
Marches’ (1887). Pic by Sue Fasquelle.
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