Viva Lewes Issue #140 May 2018
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VIVALEWES<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
At Priory Upper School, in the early eighties, among a certain<br />
set it was almost de rigueur to wear a long-sleeved stripy<br />
Clothkits t-shirt in the summer. It looked kind of punky with the<br />
right accoutrements and said ‘Made in <strong>Lewes</strong>’ twice, referring to<br />
both garment and wearer. I never had one, dammit.<br />
Where did you get what you’re wearing at the moment, top to<br />
toe, outside to in? In my case it’s: <strong>Lewes</strong> FC shop; British Heart<br />
Foundation; TK Maxx in Brighton; Bone Clothing; heirloom<br />
from father; Intersport. I didn’t dress with this column in mind,<br />
so I’m pleased to say that over 50% of my spending ended up in <strong>Lewes</strong> tills.<br />
And the town has a lot to offer, clothes-shop-wise, whether you want to dress for style (Paul<br />
Clark) or practicality (the Aldi mystery aisle). I mean, hey, even Kim Kardashian wears <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
clothes, as we discover in our article about the super-trendy <strong>Lewes</strong> label, Boom Boom, hidden<br />
away in the Malling Industrial Estate.<br />
This month’s theme is ‘Fabric and Fashion’, in case you hadn’t guessed. In our The Way We<br />
Work section we interview four fashion designers (it was difficult to choose, there were so<br />
many) and ask them ‘what is your most cherished item of clothing?’ Mine’s a faux-fur jacket<br />
called Brian, which I bought in a charity shop in the 80s, for the record. But all that could<br />
change if anyone has got a spare Clothkits stripy t-shirt they don’t want, in the back of the<br />
cupboard. I’d pay top dollar. Enjoy the month…<br />
Photo by Martina La Trobe-Bateman<br />
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THE ‘FABRIC AND FASHION’ ISSUE<br />
CONTENTS<br />
Bits and bobs.<br />
The story behind Michelle Hockey’s<br />
amazing embroidered cover (8-9); what<br />
Tizz thinks of <strong>Lewes</strong> (11); Carlotta Luke<br />
at Arlington stock-car racing (17); books<br />
round-up including Miriam Darlington’s<br />
nature memoir Owl Sense (19), and the<br />
usual patchwork quilt of hats and clocks<br />
and plaques and pubs.<br />
Columns.<br />
David Jarman goes grave digging (27),<br />
and Chloë King buries a sartorial time<br />
capsule (29).<br />
On this month.<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> composer Ed Hughes’ ode to the<br />
Cuckmere at the Brighton Festival (31);<br />
author Blake Morrison at Charleston<br />
(33); Miles Jenner plays his comic hero<br />
Billy Merson (35); agit prop luvvies Gob<br />
Squad at the Attenborough (37), and<br />
what’s on at the Depot (39).<br />
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Art and design.<br />
Casting ‘More Light’ on forgotten<br />
37<br />
Lee Miller photos (40-41); Art &<br />
About explores what’s on the gallery<br />
walls in <strong>Lewes</strong> and beyond, including<br />
experimental glass artist Alison Allum<br />
at Martyrs’ and our former cover artist<br />
Simone Riley at Chalk (43-51), and Neil<br />
Gower on his hero, the late <strong>Lewes</strong>ian<br />
Berthold Wolpe (52-53).<br />
Photo by Jade Mainade<br />
Marco Crivello<br />
Listings and Free Time.<br />
Diary Dates: what to do where and when<br />
(55-59); Gig Guide, including a Sharks<br />
attack at the Con Club (61-62); Classical<br />
round-up with a word or two from Dame<br />
Felicity Lott (63-65); Gucci gigs for the<br />
U16s (67), and Slot Machine Theatre at<br />
Brighton Festival (68).
THE ‘FABRIC AND FASHION’ ISSUE<br />
Photo by Martina La Trobe-Bateman<br />
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Food.<br />
Oodles of noodles at Pestle & Mortar<br />
(71); Philippa Vine’s Southdown<br />
Hogget (73); Carafe, the new Turkish<br />
coffee place (75), and Chloë King’s<br />
Edible Updates (77).<br />
Features.<br />
Boom Boom shake the fashion world<br />
(85-87); Michael Blencowe on his hatehate<br />
relationship with mute swans (89);<br />
Todd goes blue sky walking, Alfriston<br />
way (91); yoga anywhichway you want<br />
it at Soulfit (93); <strong>Lewes</strong>’ human speed<br />
bumps (95); John Henty’s loud and<br />
proud (97) and all the latest business<br />
news (98).<br />
Inside Left.<br />
Charles Morrish & Son Drapery<br />
Emporium, 1942 (114).<br />
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The Way We Work.<br />
Martina La Trobe-Bateman captures<br />
four of <strong>Lewes</strong>’ finest fashion designers<br />
in their working environment and asks<br />
them: ‘what’s the most cherished item<br />
in your wardrobe?’ (79-83).<br />
Photo by Lucy Limage<br />
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THIS MONTH’S COVER ARTIST<br />
This month’s cover was created by local textile<br />
designer Michelle Hockey. Michelle designs handmade,<br />
often embroidered, patterns, which are reproduced<br />
as fabrics for home furnishings and upholstery.<br />
While there’s a good chance you’ll have<br />
come across something with her work on it, you<br />
might not have heard her name before. “It’s a necessity<br />
of the job really,” she explains. “When I sell<br />
one of my designs to a client, I sell the copyright,<br />
so my name isn’t attached to it.”<br />
Michelle sells all of her work through local agent<br />
Alistair Boyd, who brings her designs to clients<br />
around the world. Her patterns have been selected<br />
by brands including Anthropologie, Crate & Barrel<br />
and Pottery Barn, and she’s just found out that several<br />
of her designs have been purchased by IKEA.<br />
“Alistair is a really lovely person to work for,” she<br />
says. “He’s quite unusual in that he’s stayed away<br />
from doing too much digital work. We try to keep<br />
lots of handmade processes involved. I use all different<br />
techniques in my designs – embroidery, collage,<br />
screen printing and painting – and I think<br />
people are really going back towards those techniques<br />
which look more textured and hand drawn.”<br />
Michelle started developing her skills at a young age:<br />
“I was always the one in the family who liked sewing.<br />
I grew up learning from my grandmothers, who<br />
both sewed, and I remember just being fascinated by<br />
it, by embroidery in particular. I went to Brighton<br />
University to do the Textiles BA course there and it<br />
was at my degree show that Alistair spotted my work<br />
and offered me a job. I hadn’t done any furnishing<br />
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MICHELLE HOCKEY<br />
work before because the course specialised in print<br />
for fashion. When you work in fashion textile design<br />
you have to create quite small prints, and you have to<br />
produce a lot of them – you’d usually do ten designs<br />
a week – whereas in furnishings I can concentrate<br />
on one or two a week and spend longer working on<br />
them and get paid more for each design, so it’s not<br />
quite as frenetic.”<br />
Her design for our cover is inspired by the vintage<br />
button cards she inherited from her grandmothers’<br />
sewing boxes. She sewed the piece over a weekend<br />
and brought the finished piece in to be scanned; the<br />
original is a fabric collage, with the details embroidered<br />
over the top. “The bit I found most tricky was<br />
trying to get the buttons to look three-dimensional,<br />
because they were quite small and quite fiddly,” she<br />
says, “but I just couldn’t resist making them all different<br />
patterns. I wanted to use quite an obvious<br />
weave in the background, so I found a very loosewoven<br />
white linen and then laid black fabric underneath<br />
it, so you can see the texture coming through.<br />
It’s completely different from the sort of work I<br />
normally do because it’s so small, which meant that<br />
I could spend a lot of time on each little bit and do<br />
the embroidery by hand. I really enjoyed it!”<br />
Rebecca Cunningham<br />
michellehockey@hotmail.com<br />
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MY LEWES: TIZZ JOHNSON, SHOPKEEPER<br />
What’s ‘Tizz’ short for? Nothing. That’s what<br />
everyone calls me. If people want to make it<br />
shorter, they make it longer, and call me ‘Tizzy’.<br />
Are you local? I was born in Aldershot, but<br />
that’s just because my Dad was in the army. My<br />
great grandfather ran a butcher’s in <strong>Lewes</strong>. They<br />
tell me he was a real gentleman. He was called<br />
Sid Crees. Funnily enough his wife was called<br />
Sid, too, so they were both called Sid Crees.<br />
So you went to school here? I went to<br />
Western Road and then to Priory. On my last<br />
day there they told me I was something called<br />
dyslexic. The teacher I most respected was<br />
Mr Harrington, who taught woodwork and<br />
metalwork. He was a Mod, and really cool. He<br />
also taught me it was OK to be different and that<br />
life wasn’t always what it looked like.<br />
How long has Tizz’s been going? Thirty-one<br />
years. I started selling beads in the Needlemaker’s<br />
and moved to this place four years later. I bought<br />
the lease in 2000 from Mr Bannerman, who used<br />
to run The Gourmet. He roasted his coffee here<br />
before it got trendy. It’s been all sorts of things in<br />
the past: a bakery, a fur shop, a photographer’s,<br />
a launderette, a jeweller’s. At Tizz’s we don’t sell<br />
anything useful, but we sell people what they<br />
want. It’s been a big success and nobody’s more<br />
surprised than me. A lot of that is down to the<br />
girls who work here, Kerry and Becs.<br />
How could <strong>Lewes</strong> be any better for a<br />
shopkeeper? They need to sort the parking out<br />
and they need to make it a level playing field:<br />
it’s all very well people coming here on a sunny<br />
Saturday with their market stall but they don’t<br />
have to pay the rates, or pay for the rubbish to<br />
be taken away, or sit here on a sleety Monday<br />
morning in January with no-one coming in.<br />
What do you do for exercise? I have a dog called<br />
Reggie. If I can’t avoid it I take her for a walk.<br />
Where do you shop for food? I hate<br />
supermarkets, and I’m good at making a fuss<br />
when I have to do something I don’t want to do,<br />
as my partner will tell you, so I don’t spend much<br />
time in them. I like the village shop in Barcombe,<br />
though. I live in Barcombe.<br />
What’s your favourite building? The Bus<br />
Station. You may laugh, but have a good look at<br />
it. It’s one of a kind, and it should be listed.<br />
How do you spend your free time? I’m a<br />
petrol-head. I love old cars. I have six, and a<br />
motorbike. My favourite is a 1960 Daimler Dart:<br />
it’s all in bits at the moment, being restored. I’m<br />
doing it slowly.<br />
Where would you live if not round these<br />
parts? Cornwall. They have a similar ‘won’t be<br />
druv’ attitude. I like people who stand up for<br />
what they believe in and say what they think.<br />
Not that I do… much. Interview by Alex Leith<br />
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Kingston resident Gerry Bennett gave his eyes a<br />
rest from all that spectacular wildlife and those<br />
endless plains of the Serengeti. With thousands<br />
of migrating zebra and wildebeest, and big cats<br />
circling around on the hunt for easy pickings, Gerry<br />
describes the safari trip as ‘truly amazing’. Though<br />
he wasn’t tempted to climb Mt Kilimanjaro like<br />
his wife Carolyn and son Tommy, both of whom<br />
successfully reached the summit. ‘Why not?’ we<br />
asked… ‘Mt Kili!’ came the reply, ‘Too sensible is<br />
my defence, it’s quite a challenge, not to be underestimated.’<br />
And here’s Rowena Easton, who took her <strong>Viva</strong> into<br />
the cockpit of a Spitfire during the Battle of Britain<br />
in WW2. Actually it’s a green-screen simulation<br />
pod in the Cinema Museum in Turin… if you look<br />
closely part of the backdrop has been transposed<br />
onto the cover of the (back-to-front) mag.<br />
Josh Broome, meanwhile, has been volunteering at<br />
a school in Nepal since early December. He’s taken<br />
a reminder of home with him (our October issue!)<br />
and here he is on the very beautiful Panchase trek<br />
Finally a shot closer to home. ‘This picture was<br />
taken of my daughter Georgie, who is 17 months<br />
old, at our home in <strong>Lewes</strong>,’ writes Alexandra<br />
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with the opportunity to meet<br />
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BITS AND BOBS<br />
CHARITY BOX: DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY SCREENINGS<br />
Accessibility is something that the Depot take seriously,<br />
in terms of wheelchair access, Audio Description<br />
headsets available (AD) for the visually impaired,<br />
and subtitled screenings for those with hearing<br />
impairments. They are also putting on a series of<br />
‘relaxed, enhanced dementia-friendly’ screenings too<br />
– which are also ‘friendly’ for people on the autistic<br />
spectrum and those with learning disabilities and<br />
their carers.<br />
The host is Suzy Harvey, who has worked with people<br />
with dementia for many years, and organised the<br />
successful Musical Matinee Club at the De La Warr<br />
Pavilion, on which the Depot series is based. She tells<br />
us: “We’re screening musicals, because they are often<br />
extremely playful, with many opportunities to sing<br />
and dance along. We also use props and costumes<br />
to provide a great way for us all to stay engaged in<br />
the film in our own way. This singing, dancing and<br />
participation all combine to create more possibilities<br />
for connection, laughter and reminiscence.”<br />
To create a dementia-friendly environment, the<br />
cinema and restaurant will have extra, large signage<br />
and trained staff. In the auditorium, the house lights<br />
will be up, the sound down, and it’s fine for members<br />
of the audience to walk around, dance and sing – in<br />
fact it’s actively encouraged. Emma Chaplin<br />
Dementia-friendly screenings, Depot Cinema. 1st <strong>May</strong>,<br />
Calamity Jane, 1st June, Blue Hawaii, 6th July, Gentlemen<br />
Prefer Blondes, 7th Sept, Seven Brides for Seven<br />
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HATS AND BOBS<br />
WHERE DID YOU<br />
GET THAT HAT?<br />
A well co-ordinated hat is a great<br />
addition to any outfit, and Megan<br />
Fairweather’s maroon trilby is<br />
the perfect finishing touch to her<br />
vibrant and colourful ensemble.<br />
She bought it from a stall in<br />
Brighton’s North Laine (of<br />
which there are many!) Megan<br />
was visiting <strong>Lewes</strong> for the day<br />
from Saltdean when I asked her<br />
to pose for this picture, which<br />
features Zak the dog, who didn’t<br />
want to be left out. Kelly Hill
PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
CARLOTTA LUKE<br />
CRASH, BANG, WALLOP<br />
On Easter Monday Carlotta Luke took her<br />
family to the stock-car racing at Arlington, to<br />
see the ‘Bangers’, ‘Historic Stock Cars’ and<br />
‘Rookie Rods’. So it was all high-speed crash,<br />
bang, wallop as the drivers raced round the<br />
360-yard concrete track. “It was a fantastic<br />
experience,” she says, “right up close to the<br />
cars. I bet a lot of <strong>Lewes</strong> people didn’t know<br />
it was just round the corner.” There are more<br />
races at Arlington on the 7th and the 15th<br />
<strong>May</strong> (spedeworth.co.uk); you can see more of<br />
Carlotta’s photos at carlottaluke.com.<br />
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pressed, creased trousers.<br />
Corbynism [kawrbin-izm] n<br />
a movement not an individual;<br />
fundamental shift in system of<br />
ideas; for the many not the few.<br />
A day making new kinds of Labour politics<br />
Saturday 9 June <strong>Lewes</strong> with the help of<br />
Alex Nunns<br />
author<br />
Eliane Glaser<br />
author<br />
Jess Garland<br />
researcher<br />
into changing<br />
Labour Party<br />
membership<br />
Laura Parker<br />
national<br />
coordinator<br />
Momentum<br />
Liam Young<br />
author<br />
Lloyd Russell-Moyle<br />
Labour MP<br />
Brighton<br />
Kemptown<br />
Mark Perryman<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Labour<br />
and author<br />
Monique Charles<br />
writer on<br />
#Grime<br />
4Corbyn<br />
Paula Surridge<br />
analyst of<br />
voting trends<br />
in Labour<br />
target seats<br />
Peter Lamb<br />
Labour<br />
prospective<br />
parliamentary<br />
candidate<br />
Crawley<br />
Richard Power Sayeed<br />
author<br />
Zoe Williams<br />
writer and<br />
columnist<br />
for the<br />
Guardian<br />
When<br />
Saturday 9 June <strong>2018</strong><br />
10.30–18.00<br />
Doors open 10.00<br />
Where<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall<br />
Fisher Street<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> BN7 2QS<br />
Wi th<br />
The Keir Hardie Café<br />
Ideas market<br />
Bookshop<br />
Disabled access<br />
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BITS AND BOOKS<br />
LOCAL LITERATURE<br />
Miriam Darlington is returning<br />
to the town she grew<br />
up in on <strong>May</strong> 25th to give a<br />
reading from and talk about<br />
her latest nature-memoir,<br />
Owl Sense, at the Linklater<br />
Pavilion (see railwaylandproject.org).<br />
You may have heard<br />
an abridged version of the<br />
book being read out on Radio<br />
4 – it was their ‘Book of<br />
the Week’ in mid-February.<br />
Miriam (also author of the<br />
acclaimed Otter Country)<br />
describes seeing a captive<br />
Great Grey Owl on display<br />
in the High Street of the<br />
Devon town she lives in,<br />
and makes the decision to<br />
find out more about this cute-yet-vicious bird. She<br />
vows to ‘scour the twilit woods, fields and valleys of<br />
my home archipelago and then reach further afield,<br />
learning about the ecology and conservation of these<br />
night-roaming raptors, about their presence, rather<br />
than their absence.’<br />
She starts by tracking the near-to-home species with<br />
her teenage son Benji, but matters become more<br />
complicated when Benji contracts a serious and<br />
mysterious illness. Miriam’s Europe-wide quest to<br />
discover more about the lifestyle of the owl becomes<br />
interwoven with another, more urgent, quest to<br />
discover a cure for the illness. And so, it becomes<br />
more than just a book about owls. As Miriam writes<br />
in her acknowledgements ‘it is about our relationship<br />
with owls, with one another and ultimately with<br />
the planet’.<br />
Narrative by Numbers, by Sam Knowles, is subtitled<br />
‘How to Tell Powerful and Purposeful Stories with<br />
Data’. ‘There are two skills that everyone needs<br />
in today’s knowledge economy to thrive and do<br />
their jobs most effectively,’ it begins. ‘These are<br />
the ability to interrogate,<br />
understand, and extract<br />
meaning from data and<br />
statistics, and the ability<br />
to use the insights derived<br />
from the data to move<br />
people to action.’ He uses<br />
a variety of examples in<br />
order to nail his argument<br />
down, in which organisations<br />
- Unilever, PG Tips,<br />
Aviva - have succeeded in<br />
telling good stories to the<br />
public about results they<br />
have understood from data,<br />
to their advantage. It is<br />
written rather like a selfhelp<br />
book, with chapter<br />
titles giving out sage pieces<br />
of advice which are then explored in more detail:<br />
‘keep it simple’, for example; ‘beware the curse of<br />
knowledge’. Knowles has done his homework, and<br />
he’s a good story teller, so the book works, rather like<br />
a self-fulfilling prophecy. Allen Carr meets Malcolm<br />
Gladwell? Not quite, but nearly.<br />
The Fifty Five – A Story Set in Stone, is a book by<br />
David Arnold about what is probably the most<br />
overlooked religious building in <strong>Lewes</strong>, the<br />
Memorial Chapel, within the <strong>Lewes</strong> Priory School<br />
grounds, built in the memory of the 55 former<br />
pupils of <strong>Lewes</strong> County Grammar School (as was)<br />
killed in WW2. The man behind it was the headmaster<br />
from 1930 to 1960, Neville Bradshaw: ‘they<br />
were more than names to him, they were his boys’.<br />
David will be writing an article on the chapel for us<br />
in a future issue.<br />
Finally a mention for the latest edition of The<br />
Frogmore Papers, the quarterly anthology of poetry<br />
published in <strong>Lewes</strong>, which this month includes a<br />
fine short poem by <strong>Viva</strong> <strong>Lewes</strong>’ regular cover artist<br />
Neil Gower. Alex Leith<br />
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‘Fabric and Fashion’ isn’t the easiest fit for<br />
a piece about clocks, but let’s look at <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Bowls Club. Bowls is generally perceived as a<br />
game more fashionable among old folk. Chris<br />
Sykes, secretary of <strong>Lewes</strong> Bowls Club, says their<br />
membership actually includes people from their<br />
thirties to their eighties.<br />
As for fabric, Chris explains: “The game is<br />
played either in ‘whites’ or in ‘greys’ and<br />
the dress code can seem rather rigid but has<br />
been relaxed in recent years to try and attract<br />
younger players.”<br />
Bowls has a long history in <strong>Lewes</strong>. Another version<br />
of the sport has been played on the castle<br />
green since at least 1640, with a club founded in<br />
1753. <strong>Lewes</strong> Bowls Club, which plays lawn or<br />
green bowls on six ‘rinks’, started out as a Men’s<br />
Club playing at the foot of the Mound in 1922,<br />
before expanding in 1926.<br />
A Ladies Bowling Club was founded in 1960,<br />
sharing the pavilion. This was burnt down by<br />
vandals in 1997 but was replaced soon after.<br />
Most importantly for this column, it features a<br />
clock, added a few years ago. It is a memorial<br />
to Peter and Daphne Brown, funded by their<br />
family. Daniel Etherington<br />
Thanks to Chris Sykes<br />
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PIPE PASSAGE PIPE<br />
“I have always been fascinated by the down pipe<br />
on the side of the Freemason’s building at the<br />
entrance to Pipe Passage,” says John Hinitt, who<br />
took this fine picture, “and thought I would try<br />
and create an image which reflects its character.<br />
Being a painter and decorator I should be offended<br />
by its ill-maintained state but no, I realise<br />
that’s what lends it its unique character. I guess<br />
some of you guys (at <strong>Viva</strong>) pass this every day...<br />
for me it always tells me where the entrance is to<br />
your offices.” John is no stranger to our offices,<br />
it must be said, as he’s popped in on several occasions<br />
to pick up the £20 prize money for appearing<br />
in this slot.<br />
“I’ve tried to take pictures of it a few times over<br />
the years, but it wasn’t until I decided to go in<br />
deep for a close-up that I achieved an image<br />
I liked. It’s rather an ugly image in a way, but<br />
there’s a lot to it. When I looked at it long and<br />
hard I realised that you could see faces in it, too.”<br />
John is a big fan of performing a good deal of<br />
‘post production’ to his photographs, and this is<br />
a case in point. “I took the original on my Nikon<br />
600 on a 70mm lens, which allowed me to capture<br />
a lot of detail. I used to play with my images on<br />
Adobe Lightroom, and then on Nik Collection,<br />
but I’ve just upgraded to DxO, which has all sorts<br />
of new functions, so in a way this picture was the<br />
fruit of my experimentation on that.” We love<br />
the semi-abstract nature of the result, and, having<br />
compared a print-out of the image with the<br />
original, can safely say that we will never look at<br />
that down pipe in the same way again.<br />
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PUBS AND BOBS<br />
GHOST PUB #43: THE KINGS ARMS, 47 NORTH STREET<br />
Some older <strong>Lewes</strong>ians will remember the Kings Arms. It<br />
was situated on the corner of North Street and Wellington<br />
Street, and closed in 1965. It had stood there since<br />
the 1820s, and was known as the ‘Kings Arms Inn’ by the<br />
time George Weller took over as landlord in 1840. However,<br />
within a few years other establishments had sprung<br />
up in the area, and in 1859 Hillmans Brewery noted that<br />
‘the house had much decreased in value, owing to the<br />
opening of several beershops in the neighbourhood’.<br />
John Dunstone ran the Kings Arms for ten years. The<br />
police had a constant battle with him, and at a court case in 1856 complained that Dunstone kept ‘abusing<br />
them and calling them names’. He was suspended for a fortnight for selling beer to ‘the roughs’ after hours.<br />
The Kings Arms was one of fourteen pubs designated for closure in the 1907 <strong>Lewes</strong> pub cull. However, it was<br />
one of the two pubs on that list which were reprieved, despite the fact that landlord George Ferguson was<br />
fined heavily for allowing gambling on the premises that same summer. As the twentieth century wore on, the<br />
Kings Arms saw its four rival pubs in North Street disappear one by one, and by 1959 it was the only one left.<br />
This photograph shows where the pub once stood. It is hard to believe so much revelry took place at this now<br />
quiet and innocuous corner. Mat Homewood<br />
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BITS AND BOBS<br />
TOWN PLAQUE #38: FOUNDRY LANE<br />
It is hard now for those who have lived here for a few<br />
decades, never mind those newly-arrived or visiting,<br />
to grasp what an industrialised little town <strong>Lewes</strong> was<br />
until relatively recently. The last century saw breweries,<br />
cement works, iron foundries, chemical works,<br />
quarrying and ship-building – to name the most obvious.<br />
The town immediately after World War II was<br />
recently described as being ‘dusty, smoky and grey’ by<br />
one of our historians, Graham <strong>May</strong>hew.<br />
Cliffe, alongside the river, had most of these activities<br />
and associated pollution and this little street beside the Gardener’s Arms led to the municipal gasworks, adding<br />
both a dominant visual feature and a distinctive odour to the lower parts of town.<br />
No longer obvious, or indeed visible at all in many cases, but nevertheless a vital part of the town’s history,<br />
recalled by this, one of the first plaques put up. Marcus Taylor (who is the Secretary of Friends of <strong>Lewes</strong> – not its<br />
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COLUMN<br />
David Jarman<br />
...digs deep<br />
Sir Thomas Browne, the<br />
author of Religio Medici,<br />
wrote in his commonplace<br />
book that the bones from the<br />
charnel house of Old St Paul’s<br />
were transported in more<br />
than a thousand cartloads to<br />
Finsbury Fields, ‘and there<br />
layd in a moorish place, with<br />
so much soyle to cover them<br />
as raysed the ground for three<br />
windmills, which have since<br />
been built there; grinding food<br />
for the living, on the bones of<br />
the dead’.<br />
Some <strong>Lewes</strong>ians speculate that<br />
the reason why the allotments<br />
alongside Paddock Road are so productive is<br />
that the area known as ‘Hangman’s Acre’ was<br />
the burying ground for those executed at the<br />
Gallows Bank over St John’s Terrace. They<br />
would have been denied Christian burial in<br />
consecrated ground. Well, not between 1726 and<br />
1844 when hangings authorised at Sussex assizes<br />
were always enacted outside the County Jail at<br />
Horsham. After 1845, when public executions<br />
resumed at <strong>Lewes</strong>, first outside the North Street<br />
Jail and then at the new County Prison, the<br />
deceased were interred inside them. Before 1726?<br />
Hangman’s Acre appears on a map in 1618, but as<br />
Colin Brent, our most scrupulous local historian,<br />
commendably fastidious in his aversion to<br />
unwarranted speculation, concluded in his article<br />
on Hangman’s Acre published in these pages<br />
many years ago: ‘though devoutly tended now for<br />
many decades, no skeletons of malefactors have<br />
been reported’.<br />
What of the etiquette of eating in graveyards?<br />
My wife is opposed to the practice and she’s<br />
probably right. But then she<br />
considers my whole liking<br />
for such places morbid. The<br />
narrator of Samuel Beckett’s<br />
First Love, translated by the<br />
author from the original<br />
French, establishes early on<br />
that: ‘Personally I have no<br />
bone to pick with graveyards’.<br />
He continues: ‘as a place for an<br />
outing, when out I must, leave<br />
me my graveyards and keepyou-to<br />
your public parks and<br />
beauty-spots. My sandwich,<br />
my banana, taste sweeter<br />
when I’m sitting on a tomb…’<br />
At the beginning of Muriel<br />
Spark’s novel Loitering with Intent, Fleur Talbot is<br />
sitting in an old Kensington graveyard. A young<br />
policeman approaches her. ‘He only wanted to<br />
know what I was doing… I told him I was writing<br />
a poem, and offered him a sandwich which he<br />
refused’. A sign of disapproval? No, it’s because ‘he<br />
had just had his dinner himself’. ‘He stopped to<br />
talk to me, then he said good-bye, the graves must<br />
be very old, and that he wished me good luck…’<br />
And then there’s the placing of food on the<br />
graves of the dead. The most bizarre example<br />
of this practice I’ve come across appeared in<br />
a letter to the Times. Writing, appropriately<br />
enough from All Souls Lane, Cambridge, a Mr<br />
Ingham refers to the strange escalation of onepenny<br />
coins being laid on Wittgenstein’s tomb<br />
in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground<br />
in the city. His letter concludes: ‘over the years<br />
numerous small objects have been placed on<br />
the grave including a lemon, a pork pie, a Mr<br />
Kipling cupcake and a Buddhist prayer wheel. It<br />
is all very intriguing’.<br />
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Guernsey Sweater<br />
Not to be confused with that other <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
favourite, the Breton shirt. More Guernseys can<br />
be found in our fair town than there are virtue<br />
signals in Brighton and Hove. To some they’re just<br />
jolly knitwear, en masse they are a force to buy a<br />
programme off.<br />
Sensible Walking Shoes<br />
As summer approaches, so do the knee-length<br />
sock brigade. Sensible shoes are a must because<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> has too many hills, hence why our MP<br />
prefers an exercise bike.<br />
The Bum-Cover<br />
A signature <strong>Lewes</strong> Look since the 1980s: Capriccio<br />
can be mined for floaty patterned numbers and<br />
long-length cardigans. Mum once told me that Capriccio,<br />
The Gourmet and Full of Beans proved our<br />
town’s bohemian calibre. This seemed insignificant<br />
until I found myself raising a jaded eyebrow at a<br />
YouTube video of Charlotte’s Cupboard.<br />
Twirlers<br />
String tied just below the knee in readiness for a<br />
sweaty round of Dwyle Flunking. Twirlers are said<br />
to stop rats from ascending one’s trouser leg, or so<br />
I was told as I prepared to demonstrate the sport<br />
for an episode of Al Murray’s gameshow Compete<br />
for the Meat. I confirm no creature has ascended<br />
my trouser leg while wearing them.<br />
Nordic Statement<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> lurves Scandi style. To get the look pop<br />
to The Laurels for a splash of Marimekko and<br />
to Wickle for a quirky pair of short shorts and a<br />
hygge candle. As one ascends the style echelons it’s<br />
good to acquire a Freight sweater, a hyper-local<br />
forever item from Sideline and a felt hat. Best<br />
wear your giant ram horns with a spritz<br />
of Nancy Meiland and a slick of AS:AP<br />
Beauty Balm.<br />
Fluorescent Paint<br />
Not so much since Santon, still some<br />
at Scout Hut.<br />
Cosplay<br />
When a huge percentage of your town regularly<br />
takes part in large-scale ritualised cosplay events,<br />
it’s harder to impress in the <strong>Lewes</strong> Arms Pantomime<br />
Animal race. This year I was told I may be<br />
disqualified for bringing the octopus suit out a<br />
third time. Must. Try. Harder.<br />
Charity Chic<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> already has a fine array of charity shops and<br />
the hotly anticipated Death of the High Street can<br />
only mean more!<br />
Southern Fail Commuter Chops<br />
A geometric jowl, a chiselled brow and the glare<br />
from your mobile device are de rigueur in all regions<br />
serviced by Southern. Console yourself with<br />
the fact that in a Sunday Times: Best Place to Live<br />
your London salary is better at servicing your family’s<br />
needs than the job you want. Plus, artists and<br />
makers need your custom, so get on that bleeding<br />
train (if it turns up).<br />
Beards<br />
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shock.<br />
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Ed Hughes<br />
A moment in a river’s history<br />
How do you capture landscape in music? For<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> composer Ed Hughes, it’s a process that<br />
involves what he sees as much as what he hears.<br />
The colours, contours and edges of the physical<br />
world can all, through Ed’s eyes, be translated into<br />
a musical score.<br />
His latest composition was inspired by one of East<br />
Sussex’s most famous land features. Cuckmere: A<br />
Portrait, a Brighton Festival commission that premieres<br />
this month, is a collaboration between Ed,<br />
who is Head of Music at the University of Sussex,<br />
and acclaimed music documentary filmmaker<br />
Cesca Eaton.<br />
Ed’s live orchestral score and Cesca’s 25-minute<br />
silent film will give audiences a visual and sonic<br />
experience of a year in the life of Cuckmere,<br />
including the Haven, an area of flood plain<br />
between Seaford and Eastbourne where the river<br />
Cuckmere meanders to the English Channel.<br />
“For years I’ve loved walking in that area with<br />
my family,” says Ed. “It’s a place of great beauty<br />
and fragility, which has inspired so many artists.<br />
Its special light, space, shapes and colours were<br />
famously captured by the artist Eric Ravilious in<br />
his 1939 watercolour, Cuckmere Haven.”<br />
It is these qualities that Cesca and aerial cameraman<br />
Fergus Kennedy have captured in her film,<br />
and which Ed has used to create the four musical<br />
movements of his piece to represent autumn,<br />
winter, spring and summer.<br />
“I’m fascinated by how Cesca’s film creates drama<br />
through connecting different views - whether<br />
that’s the meandering of the river, or the flinty cuts<br />
in the chalk landscape, or the gradual curves of the<br />
Downs,” says Ed.<br />
“These all have geometrical, almost rhythmic<br />
aspects, which can translate into shapes in music.<br />
A sinuous pattern in the river could connect to a<br />
weaving motif in a particular instrument, such as a<br />
flute or a glockenspiel. The music and the picture<br />
are creating different languages side by side.”<br />
Ed and Cesca began the project two years ago,<br />
helped with funding from the Arts Council,<br />
and held workshops at local schools, including<br />
BHASVIC and East Sussex Academy of Music, to<br />
encourage young musicians to respond to Cesca’s<br />
film footage.<br />
What makes the project all the more urgent and<br />
poignant are the challenges to the area posed by<br />
rising sea levels and the cost of protecting it, adds<br />
Ed. “This is a portrait of the Cuckmere River<br />
through a year of seasons, but it is also a moment<br />
in its history. The fact that Cuckmere Haven<br />
will change has a powerful effect on us, perhaps<br />
because we long for an experience of beauty that is<br />
somehow permanent.”<br />
The premiere, which will be at the Attenborough<br />
Centre for the Creative Arts at the University of<br />
Sussex on 5th <strong>May</strong>, will be followed by a discussion<br />
on the future of the environmental movement<br />
between Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline<br />
Lucas and author Tony Juniper, whose new book,<br />
Rainforest, draws on his many years’ experience as<br />
a frontline campaigner.<br />
A second performance, on 6th <strong>May</strong>, will include<br />
compositions played by schools that took part in<br />
the Cuckmere Project. Jacqui Bealing<br />
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Blake Morrison<br />
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You’re appearing at<br />
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your latest novel, The<br />
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a good thing – a chance<br />
for writers to meet their<br />
readers and vice versa. The<br />
smaller the festival, the<br />
greater chance there is of<br />
that happening. Charleston<br />
is one of the best organised<br />
and most congenial.<br />
The Executor tells the<br />
story of Matt Holmes,<br />
who is asked by Robert<br />
Pope to oversee the<br />
terms of his will. When<br />
Pope dies suddenly Matt<br />
has to negotiate the rather contradictory<br />
terms of the will and the concerns of Pope’s<br />
widow, Jill. Do you have experience of being<br />
an executor yourself? I haven’t appointed a<br />
literary executor, and though I’ve agreed to act<br />
as one, for a friend, he’s younger than me, and<br />
with luck I’ll never be called on. Many writers<br />
leave behind contradictory instructions in their<br />
wills. Often they’ll ask for work to be destroyed<br />
that embarrasses them but which deserves to be<br />
preserved. If wills were followed to the letter,<br />
then we wouldn’t have Kafka’s novels. Executors<br />
have to weigh up how best to serve the author’s<br />
interests. Sometimes they’re loyal, paradoxically,<br />
by betraying them. After all, if writers really want<br />
things they’ve written to be destroyed, why not<br />
do it themselves?<br />
A lawyer briefs Matt on the law concerning<br />
literary wills in the novel.<br />
How did you research<br />
this? At an academic<br />
conference on ethics and<br />
life-writing at Goldsmiths<br />
a few years back, I heard a<br />
very good talk by a lawyer.<br />
Afterwards I followed up<br />
some of the cases he’d<br />
alluded to as well as finding<br />
a few more – all of them<br />
relating to the eternal<br />
war between the right to<br />
privacy on the one hand,<br />
and freedom of expression<br />
on the other.<br />
Robert Pope’s will sets<br />
off the action of the<br />
novel. You make him<br />
a poet, not a novelist,<br />
a playwright, or a<br />
memoirist. What was it about making Pope a<br />
poet that appealed to you? It wasn’t a deliberate<br />
choice, more serendipity. I wrote the poems first,<br />
over a number of years, didn’t feel they were<br />
really ‘mine’, began to see how they could form<br />
part of a novel, and then developed the character<br />
of Robert Pope – revising the poems and adding<br />
new ones as I went along.<br />
At one point Matt reflects on what makes<br />
a great writer. Have you thought about this<br />
yourself? I think about it all the time, but I don’t<br />
have any answers beyond the obvious. Style,<br />
subject matter, intelligence, a responsiveness<br />
to the zeitgeist that also addresses the eternal<br />
verities – all play their part. John O’Donoghue<br />
Blake Morrison is in conversation with Hermione<br />
Lee at the Charleston Festival, 5.30pm, 20th <strong>May</strong>.<br />
charleston.org.uk/festival<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: THEATRE<br />
Catching Alphonso<br />
The life and times of Billy Merson<br />
When Miles Jenner was 16 he<br />
bought an LP featuring a collection<br />
of music-hall songs, and<br />
was particularly taken by one<br />
track, The Sad Tale of a Spaniard<br />
that Blighted my Life. “That song<br />
sparked a life-long interest in the<br />
remarkable man who wrote it,<br />
and performed it, Billy Merson,”<br />
says Miles, who has written and<br />
is performing in a one-man play<br />
about Merson, If I Catch Alphonso,<br />
Tonight!, showing in Eastbourne<br />
and Brighton in <strong>May</strong>.<br />
Merson, Miles tells me, was one<br />
of seven children born to a Nottingham<br />
lace-maker, and “almost<br />
certainly had rickets: he was so<br />
bandy-legged, they called him<br />
‘Bowie’.” He was an acrobat and<br />
a clown before becoming a comedian,<br />
after which he “took the<br />
music halls by storm.” He went on<br />
to become the first performer to<br />
appear in a British ‘talkie’.<br />
There’s an important local angle.<br />
“In 1910 he first performed his song If I Catch<br />
Alphonso, Tonight! at Brighton’s Theatre Royal,<br />
in a duet with Beatrice Allen. This proved so<br />
popular he turned it into a solo number, which<br />
was the track on the album I bought.”<br />
The song turned him into a superstar, “raising<br />
his weekly earnings from £6 to £125,” but also<br />
led to his downfall. “Warner Brothers made a<br />
film The Singing Fool, with Al Jolson in it, and<br />
they had Jolson sing the song.” Merson sued<br />
Warners, and won the case, but on appeal the<br />
production company got off on a technicality<br />
– the law did not yet cater for copyright protection<br />
in recorded performances.<br />
Merson had to pay the entire costs<br />
of the case. “This came to £15,000,<br />
around £700,000 in today’s<br />
money.”<br />
Rags to riches to rags again, then?<br />
“One of the things I admire about<br />
Billy Merson is that he never gave<br />
up, whatever happened to him,”<br />
says Miles. “And whenever he<br />
came up to a junction in life, you<br />
can find a song which encapsulates<br />
what he had to overcome. We are<br />
performing extracts from 16 of his<br />
songs in the play.”<br />
‘We’ is Miles, who plays the part<br />
of Merson, and Roger Roser, who<br />
backs him on piano. The play will<br />
premiere at the Lamb Theatre in<br />
Eastbourne (9th-12th <strong>May</strong>), and<br />
also be shown at the Unitarian<br />
Church on New Road in Brighton<br />
(23rd <strong>May</strong>), “not a hundred yards<br />
from the Theatre Royal.” There<br />
are also a couple of performances<br />
planned for the Hailsham Festival<br />
in September, and “a show or two in a pop-up<br />
theatre in <strong>Lewes</strong>” in the not-too-distant future.<br />
So how well has Miles got to know Merson, in<br />
the process of writing, producing and rehearsing<br />
the play? “Very well. I have a lot of sympathy<br />
for him: because of his size everyone thought of<br />
him as an upstart and he had to fight for everything<br />
he achieved. I admire him deeply. And he<br />
was such an influential performer, too: you can<br />
see a lot of him in the likes of Tony Hancock,<br />
Norman Wisdom, even Peter Cook and Dudley<br />
Moore.”Alex Leith<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: FESTIVAL<br />
Gob Squad<br />
Thinking inside the box<br />
What is beauty? What is youth? What does it mean<br />
to be old? These are among the questions posed<br />
by theatre collective Gob Squad in their latest<br />
work, Creation (Pictures for Dorian), which comes to<br />
the Attenborough Centre, as part of the Brighton<br />
Festival. Known internationally for producing<br />
challenging and experimental theatre shows, the<br />
Berlin-based company are now looking for local<br />
residents to collaborate with on the UK premiere<br />
of their new show.<br />
“This is a new venture for us,” explains core squad<br />
member Sharon Smith. “We’re looking for three<br />
people over 67 and three people under 22 who<br />
either aspire to be on stage or have spent their lives<br />
on stage. Their body is their currency and they have<br />
invited the gaze, they’re used to being looked at, or<br />
that’s where they want to be.”<br />
Participants will spend two days preparing for their<br />
role in the show. The details are kept a secret, but<br />
it would seem this offer of the limelight might not<br />
be for everyone. “We want to treat these guests as<br />
art objects. We will manipulate and objectify them,<br />
scrutinise them very closely through a camera, or<br />
critique them as we might do a work of art. We will<br />
play with taking away their agency, but ultimately,<br />
I’m sure they will rebel in some way.”<br />
Gob Squad came together as a theatre collective in<br />
the 90s and has since produced dozens of shows,<br />
often featuring audience interaction. One of their<br />
earliest pieces, Close Enough To Kiss, had the performers<br />
inside a mirrored box, with the audience peering<br />
in. “It was a shifting two-way mirror, so sometimes<br />
the audience could only see themselves,” recalls<br />
Sharon. “But sometimes they could see through to<br />
where this group of young and crazy people were<br />
having a party, taking drugs, dressing up. I don’t<br />
know, like some sort of fish tank.”<br />
Twenty years later they decided to bring back the<br />
box, this time as a means of framing and revealing<br />
participants, as if they were paintings. The inspiration<br />
for the show came from the Oscar Wilde novel,<br />
The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as the group’s own<br />
reflections on getting older.<br />
“We wanted to do another piece using the box with<br />
Gob Squad as middle-aged people, which we now<br />
are. So we started off with the topic of ageing and<br />
visibility. And running alongside that was this desire<br />
to work with the book. There are parallel themes:<br />
vanity and morality, ageing and making a pact with<br />
the devil. If you could, would you extend your life?<br />
Would you live forever or stay beautiful?”<br />
Though the participants’ role is unclear, and even<br />
sounds a little sinister, Gob Squad shouldn’t have<br />
any problem recruiting show-offs in a place like<br />
Brighton.<br />
“We’re trying to grab something that’s human,<br />
simple and universal. Whoever agrees to this has to<br />
come on our journey; we’d never force anyone to do<br />
it. It’s a playful conversation. And yes, it’s going to<br />
look amazing.” Ben Bailey<br />
Attenborough Centre, 23rd-27th <strong>May</strong>, £15/12.50<br />
Email melissa@attenboroughcentre.com to apply as a<br />
guest in the show<br />
Photo by Jade Mainade<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: CINEMA<br />
Tomboy<br />
Film '18<br />
Dexter Lee’s <strong>May</strong> round-up<br />
It’s only been a year, but it’s already hard to imagine<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> without its own independent cinema. <strong>May</strong><br />
sees Depot’s first birthday, and there will be a<br />
(ticketed) celebration on the 31st to celebrate, with a<br />
screening, buffet and DJ.<br />
In this space we like to focus on the parts of the<br />
programme you might miss if you blink: on the 1st<br />
there’s a dementia-friendly screening of Calamity<br />
Jane (with Doris Day in the title role) in which the<br />
audience is encouraged to sing along, dance and use<br />
all the props provided in the bag they’re given when<br />
they arrive (see pg 15).<br />
Another series is the ‘Let’s Talk About’ strand,<br />
where a screening on a topical subject is followed<br />
by a talk by experts. This month the subject is ‘gold’<br />
and a screening of the documentary Daughter<br />
of the Lake (date tbc) looking at the horrendous<br />
consequences of using mercury in the gold mining<br />
trade in Peru, is followed by Q&A session with<br />
jeweller Alexis Dove, who recently travelled to Peru<br />
to source fair-trade gold for her workshop, and<br />
author Sarah Carpin. My Bicycle (5th) meanwhile,<br />
is Bangladeshi director Aung Rakhine’s debut about<br />
an entrepreneur who introduces a bicycle taxi service<br />
to a remote Bangladeshi village.<br />
Depot are screening French director Céline<br />
Sciamma’s Tomboy (9th, above) about a ten-yearold<br />
girl exploring her gender identity after moving<br />
into a new neighbourhood, as part of Brighton’s<br />
annual City Reads programme, a mini festival which<br />
encourages Brightonians to read and discuss the<br />
same book. This year said book is Sacred Country, by<br />
Rose Tremain, on a similar theme.<br />
A Chinese director, Xiao Pei, is coming to the<br />
cinema to talk about a pair of documentaries, Our<br />
Marriages, looking at marriages of convenience<br />
between gay men and women in China, and Ivo and<br />
Chrissie, on the lives of a Brighton couple (both<br />
15th). And there’s a Q&A element to Depot’s latest<br />
Sunday afternoon series, which features the work of<br />
the pioneering husband-and-wife animation team,<br />
Halas & Batchelor, with all three films introduced<br />
by their daughter, Vivien Batchelor, culminating with<br />
the masterpiece Animal Farm (20th, 27th, June 3rd).<br />
The Education section of Depot offer a full<br />
programme of events (pick up a leaflet next time<br />
you’re there): <strong>May</strong> sees a series of three ‘screwball<br />
comedies’ accompanied by interactive lectures,<br />
namely His Girl Friday (10th), Top Hat (17th) and<br />
It Happened One Night (24th, £40 for all three<br />
screenings).<br />
Depot’s youth programmers offer a screening of<br />
the cult film Labyrinth (19th), starring David<br />
Bowie, for which they are doing all the publicity as<br />
preparation for taking over the entire cinema for a<br />
day in July. And finally the latest in their sci-screen<br />
series, is Ridley Scott’s return to form The Martian<br />
(29th) starring Matt Damon. Which leaves us room<br />
to wish them many happy returns, say well done to<br />
Carmen Slijpen for a fantastically varied first year<br />
of programming, and give a big thank you to all the<br />
hard-working staff.<br />
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‘Sand dunes, Egypt, 1936’ by Lee Miller<br />
© Lee Miller Archives, England <strong>2018</strong>. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk<br />
More Light<br />
Lee Miller rarities<br />
More Light is an exhibition of rarely-seen<br />
photographs, mostly by Lee Miller, which has been<br />
curated by Lance Downie, the Digital Librarian of<br />
the Lee Miller Archives. Lance has been in the job<br />
for 12 years, and over that time, whilst researching<br />
the vast archive for material for exhibitions and<br />
books, has built up a personal knowledge of littleknown<br />
favourites that deserve more exposure.<br />
“Many of the pictures have never been printed<br />
before; others have rarely seen the light of day,” says<br />
Lance. “It’s almost as if they’ve been asleep, and the<br />
show has woken them up.”<br />
He uses this simile carefully, because, as you might<br />
expect in an exhibition with a surrealist bent to it,<br />
the theme of sleep is woven into the fabric of the<br />
show, not least in a series of shots of empty beds<br />
that Lee Miller took over her career. “There were<br />
enough for a whole exhibition of them,” says Lance.<br />
“She had an almost forensic interest in how people’s<br />
beds looked.”<br />
These shots include a picture of Picasso’s bed, taken<br />
by Miller in 1954. “We’ve carefully researched this<br />
and it must be his bed because his trousers – which<br />
he is wearing in other pictures – are draped over<br />
the chair. There’s something telling about the<br />
untidiness of the room.”<br />
Another bed picture shows a mattress on a cart, one<br />
of the few possessions taken from the ruins of their<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
home by a WW2 refugee. A third (pictured right) shows the<br />
bedroom of a Wren in 1944. “It’s a very poignant picture,”<br />
says Lance, “with the softness of the sausage-dog teddy bear<br />
juxtaposed against the rigidity of the helmet.”<br />
“Lee was also a fine landscape photographer, and I’ve nodded<br />
to that as well in the show,” he continues. “Sand Dunes (left)<br />
is a good example, taken in Egypt before the war. It’s a very<br />
dynamic picture, your eye is taken very quickly across the<br />
dunes and into the distance.” There’s another photo of a stark,<br />
sinister, humanoid tree that would look at home in a Tim<br />
Burton movie. “That was taken just after the war, and perhaps<br />
reflects the effect her war experiences had on her.”<br />
The show includes some pictures by Lee Miller’s husband,<br />
Roland Penrose, and her father, Theodore Miller. Miller Sr’s<br />
exhibits are four portraits of his daughter using a stereoscopic<br />
camera, constituting a pioneering form of 3D imagery (below).<br />
Roland, of course, was great friends with Picasso as well as<br />
eventually being his biographer, and the photograph we’ve<br />
used [right], of a hand ‘oiling’ a leg, was taken by him in<br />
Saint Tropez on what Lance calls ‘The Surrealist Summer of<br />
Love’, in 1937 (you might remember Miller’s famous picture<br />
of a group of artists and friends picnicking at Mougins taken<br />
the same summer). “We think the hand belongs to Picasso’s<br />
chauffeur,” says Lance. “The shot shows Roland’s very<br />
individual sense of humour.” Alex Leith<br />
Farleys House & Gallery, Sundays only, till October<br />
‘WREN’s living quarters, United Kingdom, 1944’ by Lee Miller<br />
© Lee Miller Archives, <strong>2018</strong>. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk<br />
‘Elizabeth (Lee) Miller, Paris, France 1931’ by Theodore Miller<br />
© Lee Miller Archives, England <strong>2018</strong>. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk<br />
‘Untitled, St Tropez, France 1937’ by Roland Penrose<br />
© Lee Miller Archives, <strong>2018</strong>. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk<br />
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In town this month<br />
Simone Riley is the featured artist at Chalk<br />
Gallery from the 21st. You might recall her distinctive<br />
personal style from the beautiful cover<br />
she created for us in April 2017. Made by taking<br />
an original photograph, or combining elements<br />
from several images, her photomontages are built<br />
up from her library of photographed textures,<br />
creating layers and subtle colours that end up<br />
more fine art than photograph. Until the 10th of<br />
June. [simoneriley.co.uk]<br />
In Her Shoes, an<br />
exhibition by experimental<br />
glass artist<br />
Alison Allum, is at<br />
Martyrs’ Gallery<br />
from Saturday the<br />
5th (until the 25th).<br />
Recently shown at<br />
the V&A, Alison<br />
exploits the inherent<br />
qualities of glass – ‘beauty and fragility<br />
versus tensile strength and the potential<br />
for danger’ – to explore the contradictory<br />
experiences of modern womanhood. Gallery<br />
open 12 noon–5pm, Thurs–Sun.<br />
Cinders<br />
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Marco Crivello<br />
Father and son Marco and<br />
Jacob Crivello present Continuum<br />
at Keizer Frames<br />
Gallery in Malling Street,<br />
from the 19th. Jacob will show<br />
his poetic, sculpted landscapes<br />
in bell jars and wall-mounted<br />
microworlds growing within<br />
vintage tobacco tins. Alongside,<br />
Marco presents a final series<br />
of seascapes, as well as a wide<br />
range of new work that continues<br />
to explore themes of improvisation,<br />
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private teaching studio of classically trained<br />
painter Jason Tremlett, has its first Open<br />
Studio from the 1st until the 3rd of June<br />
(11am-5pm). The Fisher Street based studio<br />
teaches a traditional approach to drawing and<br />
painting from life, which stems directly from<br />
the leading ateliers of 19th-century Paris,<br />
and is one of only a few studios teaching<br />
these methods in the country. This informal<br />
exhibition will showcase the best of the twelve<br />
students’ work, as well as pieces by Jason<br />
himself, made over the studio’s first teaching<br />
year. [jasontremlett.com/studio]<br />
20% off<br />
William<br />
Morris<br />
in <strong>May</strong>
Alison Allum<br />
In Her Shoes<br />
5–25 <strong>May</strong> • 12–5pm • Thu–Sun<br />
Private View • Friday 4 <strong>May</strong> • 6pm<br />
www.martyrs.gallery<br />
Open every Sunday from April - October <strong>2018</strong><br />
Experience the extraordinary atmosphere of the Sussex home of<br />
the Surrealists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose whose friends<br />
and guests included Picasso, Carrington, Man Ray and Miró.<br />
We open to visitors on Sundays from 10am, offering 50 minute<br />
guided tours, exhibitions in our gallery and a sculpture garden<br />
to explore.<br />
Farleys House & Gallery<br />
Muddles Green, Chiddingly<br />
East Sussex, BN8 6HW<br />
Tel: 01825 872856<br />
www.farleyshouseandgallery.co.uk<br />
@ FarleysHG
ART<br />
Out of Town<br />
Monk’s House, the former home of Virginia Woolf and her<br />
husband Leonard, in Rodmell, is open for the summer. Visit<br />
the tranquil house and garden or join one of the special events<br />
that include twilight tours, a bookbinding workshop, and a<br />
wood engraving weekend with Keith Pettit.<br />
[nationaltrust.org.uk/monks-house]<br />
Monk’s House<br />
Head over to Splash Point<br />
in Seaford from 11am on<br />
Monday the 28th to join<br />
the seaside celebrations for<br />
The Shoal. The sculptural<br />
seating installation by<br />
sculptor Christian<br />
Funnell is now complete,<br />
with hundreds of fish -<br />
engraved with the names of sponsors whose generosity made<br />
the project possible - now in place.<br />
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ART<br />
Out of Town (cont)<br />
Brett Goodroad<br />
Artistic happenings abound in Brighton this month, with the<br />
Brighton Festival, Brighton Fringe and Artists Open Houses<br />
all taking place. US artist Brett Goodroad has his UK premiere at<br />
Phoenix Brighton. Growing up in Montana, he has driven combines<br />
through the breadbasket, wrangled buffalo in the Gallatin Valley,<br />
and delivered organic vegetables through America’s Southwest.<br />
Now he lives and paints in his San Francisco backyard. (Wed-Sun,<br />
11am-5pm.)<br />
Charity by Sally Muir<br />
We’ll be starting our<br />
Artists Open Houses<br />
Festival at the caninethemed<br />
open house<br />
of Joanna Osborne,<br />
The Dog Show, at 33<br />
Silwood Road (see <strong>Viva</strong><br />
Brighton). Pick up a<br />
brochure (or check aoh.org.uk) to plan<br />
your route through the 14 trails.<br />
Head down to Brighton seafront<br />
to take in the Brighton and<br />
Hove Camera Club’s <strong>2018</strong><br />
seafront exhibition. Presented<br />
in the open air, on stone gabions<br />
right on Brighton beach, the<br />
47 images by 47 different photographers reflect the<br />
scope and range of the club’s photographers and<br />
their diversity of interests. Continues until the end of<br />
September. [bhcc-online.org]<br />
Because every life is unique<br />
…we are here to help you make your<br />
farewell as personal and individual as possible,<br />
and to support you in every way we can.<br />
Inc. Cooper & Son<br />
42 High Street, <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
01273 475 557<br />
Also at: Uckfield • Seaford • Cross in Hand<br />
www.cpjfield.co.uk
VALUATION DAY<br />
Asian Art and Jewellery<br />
Tuesday 29 <strong>May</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
10am to 3pm<br />
Bonhams specialists will be at<br />
The Courtlands Hotel to off er<br />
free and confi dential advice on<br />
items you may be considering<br />
selling at auction.<br />
APPOINTMENTS<br />
AND ENQUIRIES<br />
01273 220000<br />
guildford@bonhams.com<br />
VENUE<br />
The Courtlands Hotel,<br />
19-27 The Drive, Hove<br />
BN3 3JE<br />
A QIANLONG PALE<br />
GREEN JADE<br />
ARCHAISTIC VASE<br />
AND COVER<br />
Sold for £776,74<br />
EARLY KANGXI BRUSH<br />
POT, BITONG<br />
Sold for £125,000<br />
bonhams.com/hove<br />
Prices shown include buyer’s premium. Details can be found at bonhams.com
128mm x 94mm <strong>Viva</strong> Brighton and <strong>Lewes</strong>.qxp_Layout 1 11/04/<strong>2018</strong> 11:29 Page 1<br />
Gardens and Grounds<br />
much more than just a castle…<br />
Formal Gardens u Woodland Walks u Nature Trails u Tea Room<br />
Visitors Centre u Castle Arts Gallery u Gift Shop u Dogs Welcome<br />
Open daily until 28th October <strong>2018</strong><br />
10am–6pm<br />
Adults £6 Concessions £5<br />
Children (4–16 years) £3<br />
Children under 4 free<br />
We offer organised tours at an extra small<br />
charge – the Castle operates as an International<br />
Study Centre so not freely open to the public.<br />
Please check the website for times and prices.<br />
The Castle also provides an ideal venue for<br />
weddings and other private events.<br />
Contact conf@bisc.queensu.ac.uk<br />
or 01323 834479.<br />
Herstmonceux Castle, Hailsham, East Sussex BN27 1RN<br />
Tel 01323 833816 www.herstmonceux-castle.com<br />
Monk's House<br />
Workshops<br />
Add some colour to<br />
your weekend this<br />
autumn at Gibside<br />
Be inspired by the creativity of<br />
the Bloomsbury group at one<br />
of our makers workshops. From<br />
printmaking to bookbinding,<br />
Go crunching through fallen leaves and discover a forest<br />
see teeming our with website wildlife and autumn for colours, a full with walking<br />
routes for all ages and abilities.<br />
programme of events.<br />
Call nationaltrust.org.uk/gibside<br />
01273 474760 for details<br />
nationaltrust.org.uk/monkshouse<br />
When you visit, donate, volunteer or join the National Trust, your<br />
support helps us to look after special places in for ever, for everyone.<br />
© National Trust 2017. The<br />
National Trust is an independent<br />
registered © National Trust 2016. charity, The National number Trust is an independent 205846.<br />
registered charity, number 205846. Photography © National Trust<br />
Photography © National Trust<br />
Images.<br />
Images\Andreas von Einsiedel.<br />
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ART<br />
Out of town (cont)<br />
Dreaming oneself awake, an exhibition of work<br />
by Eileen Agar RA, is at Farleys Gallery<br />
from the 20th. She was the only British<br />
woman to be invited to exhibit her work at<br />
the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition,<br />
which led to a lifelong friendship with Roland<br />
Penrose and Lee Miller and, eventually,<br />
visits to their Sussex farmhouse home. The<br />
exhibition (Sundays only) continues until the<br />
15th of July. Join leading authority on British<br />
Surrealism, Michel Remy, for a discussion<br />
on her work on Sunday 20th <strong>May</strong> (7pm, see<br />
farleyshouseandgallery.co.uk for tickets).<br />
Problem<br />
In Brighton<br />
Agar’s work also features in Virginia Woolf:<br />
an exhibition inspired by her writings; a major<br />
touring exhibition arriving at Pallant House<br />
on the 26th. Featuring 80 female artists<br />
working from 1854 to the present day, this<br />
timely exhibition ‘seeks to show how her<br />
perspectives on feminism and creativity<br />
have remained relevant to a community of<br />
creative women across time…’ Expect works<br />
by Winifred Nicholson, Vanessa Bell,<br />
Sandra Blow, Gluck and many more besides.<br />
Unmissable. (Until September the 16th.)<br />
Courtesy of Redfern Gallery<br />
A Brighton Festival<br />
commission written<br />
and directed by<br />
David Shrigley<br />
10 – 12 MAY<br />
THE OLD MARKET<br />
brightonfestival.org<br />
SUPPORTED BY GOLD MEMBERS: JAMIE & LOUISE ARNELL,<br />
JULIAN & DIANA HANSEN, CHRIS & CLEM MARTIN, MICHAEL WOHL
Berthold Wolpe<br />
Faber & Faber’s cover man<br />
I first fondled a Berthold Wolpe dust-jacket<br />
on a January morning in 2005. Faber &<br />
Faber were planning a lavish book that<br />
year to celebrate 80 years of their groundbreaking<br />
book jackets. They had asked me<br />
to design its cover and granted me a whole<br />
day in their fabled archive to research and,<br />
frankly, to swoon.<br />
I practically whimpered as I eased the<br />
books from the shelves, seeing and feeling<br />
in original paper form jacket designs that<br />
had quickened my pulse since Art School.<br />
They were jewels of graphic art I had<br />
aspired to match, and I felt a personal<br />
creative bond with those discreet BLW<br />
initials. I have since learned that we also<br />
share a <strong>Lewes</strong> connection. Wolpe married<br />
sculptor and stone carver Margaret Leslie<br />
Smith of Plumpton in 1941. Her father ran<br />
a butcher’s shop on Market Street in <strong>Lewes</strong>,<br />
and the couple lived for some years in a<br />
house on Lansdown Place.<br />
An exhibition, Berthold Wolpe - The Total<br />
Man is currently at Snape Maltings in<br />
Suffolk until June 24th. I will be going, to<br />
pay further homage.<br />
Berthold Ludwig Wolpe was born in<br />
1905, in Offenbach. He found his way into<br />
design/calligraphy via apprenticeship to a<br />
firm of metalworkers and the mentorship<br />
of Rudolf Koch at the Offenbach<br />
Kunstgevehrschule. He taught at Frankfurt<br />
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DESIGN<br />
Art School for three years, during which<br />
he worked prolifically as a graphic artist<br />
and devised two typefaces, Hyperion and<br />
Albertus. The latter would subsequently<br />
become the font most closely associated<br />
with Faber, and indeed Wolpe himself.<br />
He emigrated to England in 1935 fleeing<br />
the rise of Nazism, and eventually became<br />
a naturalised British citizen in 1947. In<br />
1939, however, along with other German<br />
nationals resident in England, he was<br />
deported to Australia. With assistance from<br />
eminent typographer Stanley Morison, he<br />
was allowed to return to the UK in 1941.<br />
Faber’s visionary design director, Richard<br />
de la Mare (son of Walter), was quick to<br />
enlist Wolpe as resident jacket designer.<br />
The timing of his arrival proved most<br />
serendipitous during the war and in<br />
its aftermath. His skills enabled him<br />
to thrive as shortages of paper and ink<br />
alongside an increasing demand for books<br />
necessitated resourceful design. His dust<br />
jackets are spare in material terms yet rich<br />
in inventiveness and flair. They have an<br />
intensely tactile quality. In his letterforms,<br />
the brushstrokes on coarse paper are<br />
almost audible but so, on occasion, is a<br />
chisel on bronze. There is simultaneously<br />
a gestural flourish and a taut structure that<br />
chimes with his early grounding in metal.<br />
This exhibition promises to show us<br />
something of the man beyond the<br />
covers and includes drawings from his<br />
private collection. Many of these are in<br />
black Indian ink on poor-quality paper,<br />
corrected in white poster paint and with<br />
hastily written instructions to the printer<br />
in blue pencil.<br />
If you make it to Snape Maltings too, and<br />
hear someone whimpering, do come and<br />
say hello.<br />
Neil Gower<br />
Snape Maltings, Suffolk, till 24th June<br />
Images courtiesy of Et Al Design Consultants<br />
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FIRLE PLACE OPENING <strong>2018</strong><br />
3 RD JUNE - 30 TH SEPTEMBER, 2-4.30pm (last admission 4pm)<br />
Standard open days are Sundays (except 22 nd July), Tuesdays,<br />
Wednesdays, Thursdays and the August Bank Holiday.<br />
On special event days our standard open days and times may vary.<br />
The Tearoom & Terrace are open to non-visitors without<br />
charge on the above dates from 1.30pm-4.30pm. Serving<br />
drinks, cakes and cream teas.<br />
Please visit our website for more information and to find out<br />
details about: Weddings, Private Functions, Clay Pigeon<br />
Shooting, Firle Church & Village.<br />
E V E N T S 2 0 1 8<br />
Firle Vintage Fair<br />
Saturday 11 th & Sunday 12 th August<br />
Firle Place International Horse<br />
Trials & Country Fair<br />
Saturday 18 th & Sunday 19 th August<br />
Firle, Nr <strong>Lewes</strong>,<br />
East Sussex,<br />
BN8 6LP<br />
01273 858567<br />
www.firle.com<br />
Wakehurst’s wonderful woodlands<br />
come alive this <strong>May</strong> bank holiday<br />
Family activities | tree climbing | storytelling | birds of prey<br />
26 – 28 <strong>May</strong><br />
For details visit kew.org/wakehurst
MAY listings<br />
WEDNESDAY 2<br />
Hardy Geraniums. Talk with<br />
Tom Stone on the 1,000 (and<br />
more) species and cultivars which<br />
can be used as ground cover as<br />
well as in a border. St Thomas’<br />
Church Hall, 7.30pm, £3 for non-members.<br />
The Life Cycle of Stars. <strong>Lewes</strong> Astronomers<br />
talk with Bob Turner. Town Hall Lecture Room,<br />
7.30pm, £3 for non-members.<br />
THURSDAY 3<br />
Comedy at the Con. With Daniel Muggleton,<br />
Adam Bloom and Joe Wilkinson. Con Club,<br />
7.30pm, £12/£8.<br />
FRIDAY 4<br />
Let’s Get Funked. Funk, soul and reggae night<br />
for grown-up dance lovers. Drinks half price<br />
between 7.30-8.30pm. All Saints, 7.30pm, £7 adv.<br />
SATURDAY 5<br />
Pells Pool opens. For full opening schedule and<br />
times see pellspool.org.uk.<br />
The Great Green Gig Fundraiser. Three local<br />
bands (Ed and Ella, Dale aka T&G and Hybrid<br />
Kid), dancing and a bar. Organised by <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
District Green Party. All Saints, 7.30pm-11pm,<br />
£10/£8.<br />
SUNDAY 6<br />
Wedding Showcase. Chance<br />
to explore the house and garden,<br />
free goody bag, welcome<br />
drinks and staff on hand to<br />
answer questions. Anne of<br />
Cleves, 11am-3pm, free.<br />
Hit the Downs MTB. Annual off-road cycling<br />
event raising funds for Chestnut Tree House. See<br />
chestnut-tree-house.org.uk for details.<br />
SUNDAY 6 & MONDAY 7<br />
Spring Live. Celebrating all aspects of the great<br />
outdoors, with outdoor pursuits and interactive<br />
entertainment including a new live music stage,<br />
survival skills workshops and inspiring creative<br />
zones. South of England Showground, Ardingly,<br />
9am-5pm, prices vary, see seas.org.uk.<br />
MONDAY 7<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Garland Day. Morris dancing, procession<br />
and children’s garland competition. Dancing in<br />
the Gun Garden (10.15am), procession down<br />
Cliffe Precinct (11am), followed by dancing at<br />
the Precinct (11.15am), The John Harvey Tavern<br />
(12.15pm) and The Dorset (1.15pm). Events<br />
across town from 9.45am.<br />
WEDNESDAY 9<br />
A Potted History of Britain. Illustrated talk<br />
on the history of 6,000 years of British ceramics.<br />
Uckfield Civic Centre, 2pm, £7 (free for<br />
members).<br />
Recording Everyday Lives. Join the Mass<br />
Observation staff team for an afternoon exploring<br />
their collection of day diaries reflecting the<br />
thoughts and experiences of ordinary people from<br />
1937 to the present day. The Keep, 2.30pm, £5.<br />
An Evening of Photographs from the Archives<br />
of Edward Reeves. Fundraiser for Priory School,<br />
compered by photographer Tom Reeves. Photograph<br />
displays and refreshment bar provided by<br />
Friends of Priory. Priory School, 7.30pm, £5/£3.<br />
FRIDAY 11<br />
My Less Plastic Life.<br />
Three local people explain<br />
how they’ve cut out plastic.<br />
Bring along your own<br />
plastic-free living tips and<br />
products. Hosted by Plastic<br />
Free <strong>Lewes</strong>. Elly, 7.30pm, reserve free places at<br />
eventbrite.co.uk.<br />
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sussex<br />
festival<br />
Back by<br />
popular demand<br />
Saturday 16 June<br />
11am - 6pm<br />
Southover Grange Gardens<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong><br />
£15<br />
Buy direct from producers<br />
Talks by industry experts<br />
Free samples<br />
Artisan food stalls<br />
Live music<br />
Buy online or direct from:<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Tourist Information Centre<br />
Seaford Tourist Information Centre<br />
Symposium Wine Emporium<br />
Accompanied children under 14 yrs - Free / 15 - 17 yrs £3<br />
Buy in advance to avoid disappointment<br />
www.sussexginandfizzfestival.com<br />
@sussexginandfizzfestival
MAY listings (cont)<br />
Film: Paterson (15). A week in the life of a bus<br />
driver and aspiring poet and his wife who dreams<br />
of being a country music star and opening a<br />
cupcake business. All Saints, 8pm, £5/£2.50.<br />
SATURDAY 12 MAY<br />
Millions Missing ME Awareness. Caroline<br />
Wright sets up stall to raise awareness about the<br />
insidious illness. More on her blog caraswrong.<br />
wordpress.com. 11am-3pm, Cliffe Precinct.<br />
60s Rayfest. Themed 60s day with live music,<br />
DJ set, dog show, vintage carousel & circus performers,<br />
outfit competition and more. Raystede,<br />
11am-4pm, £5 requested donation (kids free).<br />
MONDAY 14<br />
The Station Street Story. Debby Matthews<br />
shares an update on her research into the street’s<br />
history. King’s Church, 7pm for 7.30pm, £3/£1.<br />
SATURDAY 12 – SATURDAY 19<br />
Dial M for Murder. <strong>Lewes</strong> Theatre Club<br />
present the Frederick Knott thriller. <strong>Lewes</strong> Little<br />
Theatre, see lewestheatre.org.<br />
SUNDAY 13<br />
Food Rocks. Street food, pop-up bars and live<br />
music. Cliffe High Street, 10am-4pm, free.<br />
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Under 16s FREE with paying adult • 01444 892700<br />
South of England Showground, Ardingly, West Sussex RH17 6TL<br />
@SouthEngShows<br />
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ejuvenating<br />
the baths<br />
Help fund the new Community<br />
Centre for <strong>Lewes</strong>, to be opened<br />
at the former Turkish Baths<br />
www.being-in-unity.com/<br />
the-unity-centre-lewes<br />
chuffed.org/project/<br />
unitycentrelewes<br />
A family run business offering speciality<br />
coffee and different coffee brewing<br />
methods, selection of organic loose leaf<br />
teas, freshly baked pastries, vegan,<br />
vegetarian and gluten free options....<br />
29 Station Street, <strong>Lewes</strong> BN7 2DB<br />
SOUTHOVER BONFIRE SOCIETY PRESENTS<br />
THE INCREDIBLE TENTH ANNUAL FEAST OF ST PANCRAS<br />
MAY FAYRE<br />
SUNDAY 20th MAY <strong>2018</strong> 10.30am-4pm<br />
F E A T U R I N G<br />
ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER AND HIS BARNSTORMERS<br />
SWORDS OF ALBION<br />
SPEARS OF ANDRED – VIKING SWORDSMANSHIP<br />
BONKERS GAMES TO TEST YOUR SKILLS TO WIN SOME GREAT PRIZES<br />
SMASH THE CROCKERY ROLL THE SWEDE<br />
SPLAT THE RAT TOSS THE CHICKEN<br />
PRINCESS AURA WILL TELL YOUR FORTUNE MEET OUR PACK OF HUSKIES<br />
STORYTELLERS AND CRAFTSPEOPLE LOADS OF FOOD AND DRINK<br />
PLUS FABULOUS NEW ATTRACTIONS<br />
FUN FOR<br />
ALL THE<br />
FAMILY!<br />
ENTRY: £2.50 ADULTS, KIDS UNDER 12 FREE<br />
LEWES PRIORY PARK – Entry via Cockshut Road, Southover, <strong>Lewes</strong>, BN7 1HP
MAY listings (cont)<br />
The Price of Austerity. A <strong>Lewes</strong> Labour discussion<br />
on the long-term costs of in-work poverty<br />
and benefit cuts with Stephen Armstrong, author<br />
of the recently published book The New Poverty.<br />
Phoenix Centre, 7.30pm, free, and open to all.<br />
TUESDAY 15<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Death Café. Discussion group as part<br />
of Dying Matters Awareness Week. Depot Café,<br />
7.30pm, free.<br />
THURSDAY 17<br />
Georgina Gibson Interiors. Informal evening<br />
showcasing the latest interior trends. Meet<br />
kitchen designer Andrew Nichols and Antares<br />
Wood Floors plus a presentation by Fired Earth.<br />
Drinks and canapés, 4pm to 8pm, Crown House,<br />
4 Market Lane.<br />
FRIDAY 18<br />
Poetry Reading. Local readers will read a<br />
selection of poems by classic and contemporary<br />
poets, as part of Dying Matters Awareness Week.<br />
Waterstones bookshop, 6.30pm, free.<br />
Diverse Music Through Tyme. Friends of<br />
Anne of Cleves’ present a recital by The Pastores<br />
Ensemble at Anne of Cleves’ House, 7.30 pm, £8<br />
non-members (£5 members). Contact<br />
annacrabtree1@hotmail.com.<br />
Headstrong Club meeting. Talk and discussion<br />
with Rachel Oliver, speaking on Positive Money.<br />
Elly, 8pm, £3.<br />
FRIDAY 18 – MONDAY 28<br />
Charleston Festival. For all events and speakers<br />
see charleston.org.uk.<br />
SATURDAY 19<br />
Annual plant sale. Varied and high-quality<br />
plants donated by professional growers and<br />
talented amateurs, in aid of the <strong>Lewes</strong> Organisation<br />
in Support of Refugees and Asylum Seekers<br />
(LOSRAS). <strong>Lewes</strong> Market Tower, 9.30am to<br />
11.30am, free.<br />
SUNDAY 20<br />
Feast of St Pancras <strong>May</strong> Fayre. Southover Bonfire<br />
Society’s 10th year of family fun. Featuring Attila<br />
The Stockbroker, games, food and drink. <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Priory Park, 10.30am-4pm, £2.50 (U12 free).<br />
WEDNESDAY 23<br />
The Beachy Head<br />
Lighthouse. Special<br />
event to mark<br />
the new addition to<br />
the archive of a collection<br />
of lantern<br />
slides showing the<br />
construction of Beachy Head Lighthouse. The<br />
Keep, 6pm, £10/£9 (includes a glass of sparkling<br />
wine or soft drink).<br />
Understanding and Improving Relationships.<br />
Wellbeing Wednesday open event, with speaker<br />
Leilani Mitchell. Sussex Rural Business Centre,<br />
Plumpton College, 7pm-9pm, free.<br />
FRIDAY 25<br />
The World of<br />
Owls. Miriam<br />
Darlington gives<br />
an illustrated talk<br />
and readings from<br />
her latest book Owl<br />
Sense. Linklater,<br />
6pm, free (donations<br />
to Railway Land Wildlife Trust), email<br />
info@railwaylandproject.org for ticket.<br />
FRIDAY 25 – TUESDAY 29<br />
Visit of 60163 ‘Tornado’. Various events over<br />
the weekend, see bluebell-railway.com.<br />
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GIG OF THE MONTH: SHARKS<br />
Supergroup Sharks seemed destined for rock and roll<br />
fame when they first formed in 1972. However, due to<br />
a series of unfortunate events (including the crashing of<br />
their infamous Pontiac Sharkmobile), they were only to<br />
last for two short years. Since then, original members<br />
Steve ‘Snips’ Parsons (who now lives in <strong>Lewes</strong>) and Chris<br />
Spedding have collaborated on many projects, including a<br />
short-lived reboot of the band in the early 90s. Following<br />
the death of Sharks founder Andy Fraser in 2015, the<br />
pair reformed in a third incarnation and have been busy<br />
creating new music, recording an album and even filming a<br />
documentary feature. Before they embark on their tour of Germany this <strong>May</strong> they are treating us to a onenight-only<br />
gig at All Saints, with support from local psychedelic folk band Oh Mama. Kelly Hill<br />
Saturday 12, All Saints, 7.30pm, £15 (£12 adv)<br />
Photo by Aiste Saulyte<br />
TUESDAY 1<br />
A Hawk and a Hacksaw. Eastern Europeaninspired<br />
folk all the way from Albuquerque, New<br />
Mexico. Con Club, 7.30pm, £12<br />
FRIDAY 4<br />
Don McLean. American Pie, and all that. De La<br />
Warr Pavilion, Bexhill. 7pm, £40/£34<br />
The Amy Winehouse Experience. Con Club,<br />
8pm, £15<br />
SATURDAY 5<br />
TwoManTing. Sunshine Afro roots. Lansdown,<br />
7.30pm, free<br />
<strong>May</strong> Songs – Maids of Honour served. Folk<br />
(English trad). Elly, 8pm, £4<br />
Musa M’Boob. African. Con Club, 8pm, £5<br />
SUNDAY 6<br />
Rory McLeod. One-man soul band, poet and<br />
storyteller. Con Club, 7.30pm, £12<br />
MONDAY 7<br />
Terry Seabrook. Jazz. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
THURSDAY 10<br />
Cajun Country Revival. Con Club, 7.30pm, £12<br />
FRIDAY 11<br />
The Monochrome Set. Peel-favourite postpunk<br />
mob, originally on Rough Trade. Con Club,<br />
7.30pm, £14<br />
Yacht Rock Paradiso. 70s yacht-soul-disco floorfillers<br />
& 80s club classics. Lansdown, 8pm, free<br />
SATURDAY 12<br />
Sharks. See Gig of the Month<br />
Joy Lewis & Derrick Hughes. Folk (British<br />
Isles trad). Dorset Arms, 8pm, £6<br />
SUNDAY 13<br />
Open Space Open Mic. Music, poetry and<br />
performance. Elly, 7.30pm, free<br />
MONDAY 14<br />
Pete Long. Jazz clarinet and tenor. Snowdrop,<br />
8pm, free<br />
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GIG GUIDE // MAY<br />
THURSDAY 17<br />
Anda Union. Mongolian music. Con Club, 7pm,<br />
£18<br />
SATURDAY 19<br />
The Hat Man. Multi-hat wearing performance<br />
musician. Lansdown, 7.30pm, free<br />
Jack Hogsden. Folk (English trad). Elly, 8pm, £6<br />
SUNDAY 20<br />
Undercover Hippy. Folk, reggae and hip-hop<br />
singer. Con Club, 8.30pm, price tba<br />
MONDAY 21<br />
Kjell Berglund. Jazz trumpet. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
SATURDAY 26<br />
Slim Chance. Ronnie Lane band alumni. Con Club,<br />
7.30pm, £15<br />
Open Night: The Four Seasons. Folk. Elly, 8pm, £3<br />
SUNDAY 27<br />
The JP’s, Sundays in the Bar. Con Club, 3.30pm<br />
to 5.30pm, free<br />
The X-Men, The Voo-Dooms and The Cretins.<br />
Con Club, 7pm, £10<br />
MONDAY 28<br />
Georgia Parker. Jazz singer. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
THURSDAY 31<br />
The Life and Times of Bob Marley. Visual and<br />
audio + talk. Con Club, 7.30pm, £tba<br />
1MAY<br />
@<br />
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Con Club<br />
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW<br />
3 COMEDY NIGHT<br />
4 AMY WINEHOUSE EXPERIENCE<br />
5 MUSA M BOOB<br />
6 RORY McCLOUD<br />
10 CAJUN COUNTRY REVIVAL USA<br />
11 MONOCHROME SET<br />
17 ANDA UNION<br />
26 SLIM CHANCE<br />
27 pm SUNDAYS IN THE BAR - THE JP’s<br />
27 eve X-MEN + VOODOOMS + CRETINS<br />
31 LIFE AND TIMES OF BOB MARLEY<br />
SEE WEBSITE FOR ANY CHANGES DETAILS AND ENTRY
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CLASSICAL MUSIC<br />
MENDELSSOHN MAGIC<br />
East Sussex Community Choir is joined by the Corelli Ensemble this<br />
month for a performance of three much-loved Mendelssohn works. The<br />
programme ends with the symphony-cantata Lobgesang (‘Hymn of Praise’),<br />
featuring soloists Dame Felicity Lott, Shona Knight and Paul Austin<br />
Kelly. “This is very uplifting music that we’re singing,” Dame Felicity<br />
tells us. “I love Mendelssohn; he’s joyous and raises the spirits.” A Sussex<br />
resident since 1980, Dame Felicity fell for the area after performing at<br />
Glyndebourne: “I used to love the drive out of London and the sight of<br />
the wonderful, rolling, soft Downs.” But what prompted her to fit this<br />
particular event into her international schedule? “I thought it would be<br />
nice to do something locally, for once. I did a charity concert some time<br />
ago with Paul, the tenor, and really enjoyed singing with him.” Not only does Dame Felicity know Paul and<br />
musical director Nick Houghton, she’s also very familiar with the music. “I come from Cheltenham, where<br />
there’s a competitive music festival. When I was a teenager I entered the festival and sang the duet from this<br />
with another young singer. It’s called I Waited for the Lord and I’ve been singing that all my life.” Mark Bridge<br />
Saturday 5th <strong>May</strong> 7.30pm at <strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall; tickets £12 from <strong>Lewes</strong> Tourist Information.<br />
Photo by Trevor Leighton<br />
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St Michael’s Church | All Saints Centre
CLASSICAL MUSIC<br />
SUN 6 TH , 3PM<br />
St Michael’s First Sunday Recital. Nicholas<br />
Houghton on organ. St Michael’s Church, free with<br />
retiring collection<br />
SAT 12 TH , 7PM<br />
Mariam Batsashvili. An evening concert with the<br />
young internationally acclaimed Georgian pianist<br />
kicks off the Glynde Place Concert Series. Programme<br />
to include Liszt, Mozart and Schubert.<br />
Glynde Place, £30/£15. glynde.co.uk<br />
THUR 17 TH , 7.30PM<br />
Eusebius Quartet. Uckfield Music Club host the<br />
local string quartet playing Haydn’s String Quartet<br />
Op. 64 no.3, Schubert’s String Quartet in C Minor<br />
‘Quartettsatz’ D.703 and Dvorak’s String Quartet no.10<br />
in E Flat Major Op. 51. St Margaret’s Church, Buxted<br />
Park, near Uckfield. £15/£2 students/children free<br />
FRI 18 TH , 7.30PM<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Concert Orchestra. Bach’s Fantasia and<br />
Fugue in C Minor (orch Elgar), Sibelius’s Violin<br />
Concerto, Dukas’ Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Elgar’s Wand<br />
of Youth Suite no.2. Ian Gibbs will be the violin soloist.<br />
Town Hall, £10 in advance from Town Hall or £12 on the<br />
door. Under 18 and students £5<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Concert Orchestra<br />
Spring Concert<br />
GLYNDE PLACE<br />
CONCERT SERIES <strong>2018</strong><br />
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists<br />
Thibaut Garcia (guitar)<br />
Saturday 7pm, 2 June 2017<br />
Bach (orch Elgar)<br />
Fantasia and Fugue in C minor<br />
Sibelius<br />
Violin Concerto<br />
Soloist Iain Gibbs<br />
Dukas<br />
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice<br />
Elgar<br />
Wand of Youth Suite no.2<br />
Friday 18th <strong>May</strong> 7:30pm<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall, <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
For tickets & prices visit;<br />
www.lewesconcertorchestra.org<br />
Barrios•JS Bach•Albeniz•Jockin<br />
Rodriguez•Piazzolla<br />
Tickets, info and other events - glyndeplace.co.uk<br />
12 <strong>May</strong> -Mariam Batsashvili (piano)<br />
7 July - Andrei Ionita (cello)<br />
House Open<br />
<strong>May</strong> & June - We, Th, Su & BH Mo<br />
Aug -26&27 Sep - 1 & 2 for Artwave
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UNDER 16<br />
FREETIME êêêê<br />
SUNDAY 13<br />
Little Horsted Family Fun Run. Fun Run in<br />
Isfield, open to everyone with 1k, 5k and 10k<br />
timed runs. Medals for everyone who enters, ice<br />
cream van, bouncy castle and a fun warm up and<br />
cool down by Anytime Fitness. Isfield playing<br />
field, 10am, £10/£5 (£25 family ticket).<br />
SATURDAY 26<br />
Sussex Darkside Theatrical<br />
Ghost Walks. Join resident<br />
ghosts Corporal Cornford,<br />
Tilly Meeching and officer’s<br />
wife Elizabeth Grieve to<br />
hear about the ghosts that<br />
reside at the Fort, together<br />
with some of the best ghost<br />
stories from other forts around the<br />
country. See newhavenfort.org.uk.<br />
SATURDAY 26 – MONDAY 28<br />
Wild Wood Festival. Woodland activities for<br />
all the family with woodland tree-listening, treeclimbing,<br />
birds of prey, fire-lighting and havea-go<br />
archery, story-telling, live music and more.<br />
Pearcelands Wood, Wakehurst, 10am-5pm, price<br />
included in admission (additional charge for<br />
certain activities).<br />
MONDAY 28<br />
Morning Explorer: Clothing. For families<br />
with additional needs. Including special tactile<br />
objects to feel, a chance to try spinning wool on<br />
a wheel, plus garden games and audio described<br />
tours. <strong>Lewes</strong> Castle, 10-11am, regular admission<br />
prices apply.<br />
TUESDAY 29<br />
The Princess and the<br />
Pea. Drop in to hear<br />
the tale of the Princess<br />
and the Pea, brought<br />
to life with tactile<br />
objects, plus dressing<br />
up and hands-on craft<br />
activities. All ages welcome. Anne of Cleves,<br />
1-4pm, price included in admission.<br />
THURSDAY 31<br />
Wild Family<br />
Day Out.<br />
Activity packed<br />
day for all the<br />
family, run by<br />
Circle of Life<br />
Rediscovery.<br />
Woodland site near Laughton, 10am-2pm, see<br />
circleofliferediscovery.com.<br />
Digging for<br />
Treasure.<br />
Holiday workshop<br />
for children aged<br />
between four and<br />
eight. Try some<br />
digging, handle<br />
some artefacts, do a drawing and then make<br />
your own treasure. <strong>Lewes</strong> Castle, 10.30am, £5<br />
per child, call 01273 486290 to book (essential).<br />
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YOUNG PHOTO<br />
OF THE MONTH<br />
Congratulations to Milly Baker-Brown, aged<br />
14, who made the most of a bit of free time<br />
after the Beast of the East had turned our town<br />
wintry white again in mid-March. ‘I took this<br />
picture while enjoying the snow up on the Downs<br />
behind my house on a couple of days off school<br />
- everything was so beautiful - especially the<br />
gorgeous lambs trying to keep warm! ;)’<br />
Molly also sent a couple of colour pictures<br />
of the hills, but we couldn’t resist these little<br />
fellahs, which win her this month’s £10 voucher<br />
generously offered, as ever, by Bags of Books on South Street in Cliffe. Under 16? Send your pictures<br />
to photos@vivamagazines.com, with a message about where, when and why you took them, and you could<br />
see it in this space. The winner gets a £10 book token from Bags of Books in Cliffe.<br />
A BOY, A PIANO… AND A BEACH<br />
“A boy finds himself on a beach, he stumbles<br />
upon something extraordinary, and this takes him<br />
into a completely different universe, where he<br />
has all sorts of adventures…” Nicky Blackwell is<br />
one of the artistic directors of the Slot Machine<br />
Theatre Company, a <strong>Lewes</strong>-based group, whose<br />
new show The Boy, The Piano and The Beach debuts<br />
at the Brighton Festival this month. “We make<br />
multi-disciplinary work for all ages and abilities,”<br />
she says of Slot Machine, “so instead of just putting<br />
on a theatre show with actors and a script,<br />
we’ll have dance, puppetry, acting, projection and<br />
fine art all in one piece.”<br />
“The boy meets creatures from other universes,<br />
he gets involved in a chase and eventually he<br />
escapes back into the real world. It’s a story that<br />
we’re inventing in collaboration with a group of<br />
dancers, a concert pianist and an artist.”<br />
The show is one of only<br />
a handful in the Festival<br />
offering a ‘relaxed’ performance,<br />
which means<br />
“you’ll be able to go in<br />
and out if you need to,<br />
and that people don’t<br />
mind children making<br />
a bit of noise. They can<br />
move around a little bit<br />
more, and no one minds.” There will also be<br />
(free) bespoke touch tours for children who are<br />
autistic or those with impaired sight, allowing<br />
them to come inside the venue before the show,<br />
meet one of the performers and touch some of<br />
the props. These must be booked in advance. RC<br />
Brighthelm Centre, 5th–7th, brightonfestival.org/<br />
slotmachinetheatre.com<br />
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SHOES ON NOW: CONNECT 4, ANYONE?<br />
Having been a parent for<br />
almost 13 years now I’ve experienced<br />
several fads or fashions<br />
in toys. I’m not the only one to<br />
have weathered the Skylanders’<br />
era, sat through the loom band<br />
period and raised my eyebrows<br />
as the bug hotel with all its accessories<br />
was installed in our boys’ bedroom. But<br />
recently I’ve been thinking how three games seem<br />
to have missed the obsolescence memo and are as<br />
popular today as they ever were. Here’s a timeless<br />
trio never to relegate to the loft.<br />
Cluedo - This is a game for the strategists out<br />
there, the double bluffers and the super sleuths.<br />
I’m too distracted to play most times, my brain<br />
too full of ‘did I wash their uniform?’ to have<br />
any space to work out if Ms Blue knocked off Mr<br />
Hatchett in the library with<br />
a baguette, or something like<br />
that.<br />
Connect 4 - There’s nothing<br />
as satisfying for a parent as<br />
out-strategizing your child at<br />
this game. I can feel my heart<br />
pumping full of adrenalin when<br />
I realise my child has not noticed how near I am<br />
to my row of four.<br />
Ludo - Sometimes I’m tired. Dog tired. Yet<br />
never too tired for Ludo, which requires almost<br />
no brain power. For a parent exhausted from<br />
work, children and life, this is a game you can<br />
play almost with your eyes closed. Plus, there’s<br />
something about the orderliness of the board<br />
in contrast to the chaos of real life, that I find<br />
strangely appealing. Jacky Adams<br />
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Saturday 23 rd June <strong>2018</strong><br />
11:00 - 17:00 - All welcome<br />
Exhibitions of work and crafts from Kindergarten to A-Level<br />
Pageant ~ Sideshows ~ Estate & Garden Walks ~ Alumni Tours<br />
Lunches ~ Cream Teas ~ Strawberries & Ice-Cream<br />
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FOOD REVIEW<br />
Pestle & Mortar<br />
Noodles galore<br />
“I need a noodle<br />
partner.”<br />
“That place that used<br />
to be Laporte’s? Excellent.<br />
What time?”<br />
It’s not difficult to recruit<br />
my friend Caroline<br />
as a last-minute<br />
lunch companion, and<br />
having recently travelled<br />
in Thailand and<br />
Vietnam, she’s a good<br />
choice to help me try<br />
out food from that very area.<br />
For ‘Pestle & Mortar’ read ‘Honey and Ed’<br />
who used to run the Asian grocery store in the<br />
Needlemakers. The business has moved to Lansdown<br />
Place and, while they’re still selling Asian<br />
products, the emphasis has moved to preparing<br />
hot food, and in particular bowls of noodles.<br />
Honey, from Northern Thailand, is the chef; Ed,<br />
from <strong>Lewes</strong>, the waiter.<br />
Today’s menu is written on a blackboard, and<br />
there’s plenty of choice, catering for omnivores,<br />
vegetarians and vegans. Caroline and I both<br />
want the same main: ‘Pho with free-range beef<br />
shin, rice noodles, rich broth and crunchy fresh<br />
veg & herbs (£8.95)’. In the interest of providing<br />
variety for this review I decide to switch to a pho<br />
with chicken drumsticks, instead.<br />
Before this arrives we try out three different<br />
starters, and they all go down a treat: first up<br />
two ‘momos’ which turn out to be gluten-free<br />
dumplings filled with mixed veg and Korean<br />
chilli with a sweet chilli dip (£1 each: warning<br />
- don’t try to eat in one go with chopsticks, à la<br />
Caroline, while they’re still piping hot); then<br />
some tofu gyoza dumplings with soy sauce (£3<br />
for 4, could have eaten<br />
them all day), and<br />
finally some prawn<br />
summer rolls (£4.50<br />
for 2, prawns and salad<br />
rolled up in a so-thinit’s-semi-transparent<br />
rice pancake, yum).<br />
“Honey cooks the<br />
same stuff as she cooks<br />
at home,” says Ed,<br />
acting as waiter, who<br />
is a lucky man. “Most<br />
Thai food you get is from central Thailand – all<br />
the Pad Thai and red curries and suchlike. You’ll<br />
probably find this a bit different.”<br />
The mains come, and I can see what he means.<br />
I often find Thai food to be a little over gloopy<br />
and sweet, but this is earthier. Much of the<br />
flavour of the chicken has infused the broth, the<br />
noodles and chicken add interesting textures and<br />
the deal with a pho is that you throw in all sorts<br />
of fresh stuff – in this case chillies and mint and<br />
salad leaves, and lime – to give it added zing.<br />
It’s about 1.30pm by now (it’s a Friday) and I’m<br />
delighted to say there’s a real buzz about the<br />
place, with every seat full and others queuing for<br />
takeaway. We sit out the rush hour with a Vietnamese<br />
coffee, which comes with a metal filter<br />
on top of the cup: you have to patiently wait for<br />
it to stop dripping before you take your first sip.<br />
My only mistake is opting for condensed milk,<br />
as I’m told they do in Vietnam, too sweet for my<br />
taste. Sometimes you can take authenticity too<br />
far, but no matter. Pestle & Mortar is a great<br />
new place for a tasty sit-down lunch: can’t wait<br />
till they open the garden. Alex Leith<br />
4 Lansdown Place<br />
Photo by Alex Leith<br />
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Photo by Chloë King
RECIPE<br />
Southdown hogget with<br />
wild garlic & parsley sauce<br />
Philippa Vine, from Bluebell Farmhouse Kitchen,<br />
likes to keep things simple… and seasonal<br />
My husband Michael rears Southdown hogget,<br />
Sussex beef, chickens and pigs on a small scale to<br />
sell through our shop and at farmers’ markets like<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Food Market. We have a vegetable patch,<br />
and grow edible flowers and herbs to supply our<br />
other business, a cookery school, which opened<br />
last autumn.<br />
We hold seasonal, hands-on cookery and butchery<br />
classes, demonstrations and dining events in<br />
our converted granary fitted with beautiful Esse<br />
range cookers. We want people to feel they’re in a<br />
farmhouse kitchen: the school is relaxed, informal,<br />
and everything we use here is either foraged, from<br />
the farm or from other local producers. It’s all<br />
about the food. I’m greedy and I just love cooking.<br />
I think it’s really important that we share around<br />
the table.<br />
Because we live on the farm we’re so aware of the<br />
seasons. I grew up with this, and so it’s always been<br />
inside me to eat seasonally using what’s available.<br />
The media say it’s coming back but, to me, it was<br />
never lost.<br />
<strong>May</strong> is asparagus season, my absolute favourite,<br />
so for this recipe I called Graham Love in<br />
Herstmonceux. We grow our own asparagus<br />
but because we use lots, I always get more from<br />
Graham. I adore quick-roasting it with good<br />
quality olive oil like Mestó and also plenty of salt<br />
and pepper.<br />
The earlier asparagus is eaten after being picked,<br />
the better - another reason to get it straight from<br />
the producer. The fresher it is, the less time it<br />
takes to cook, and super-fresh asparagus roasts in a<br />
hot oven in under ten minutes.<br />
This recipe is very simple. As soon as we get our<br />
own produce out, I tend not to spice anything<br />
much because I want to taste the main ingredient.<br />
At our farm, we produce hogget, or one-year-old<br />
lamb. Unlike spring lambs that are cereal-fed, ours<br />
graze on grass. Being given time to graze improves<br />
the flavour and nutritional content of the meat,<br />
and this rack is just gorgeous, like fillet steak.<br />
For the sauce, I use garden parsley and wild garlic,<br />
which I also like to wilt in a hot pan to serve on<br />
the side as well, as you might with spinach. This<br />
recipe works just as beautifully with fresh mint,<br />
and if you have red wine and dark stock to hand, a<br />
jus is a welcome addition.<br />
Ingredients: 2 racks of lamb/hogget, French<br />
trimmed; a handful of wild garlic leaves, washed;<br />
5 sprigs of fresh parsley; juice of one lemon; 1tsp<br />
Dijon mustard; 1tsp Arlington honey; 1tbsp capers,<br />
rinsed; 120ml extra virgin olive oil plus more to<br />
serve; salt and freshly ground black pepper.<br />
Method: Preheat the oven to 220°C. Season the<br />
meat and roast in the hot oven for about 15 - 20<br />
minutes, depending on the size. Make a sauce<br />
by simply blending together all the ingredients<br />
in a food processor, or with a large pestle and<br />
mortar, and taste for seasoning. Allow the hogget<br />
to rest for 10 minutes, then carve and serve<br />
promptly with roasted asparagus; buttery new<br />
potatoes and wilted greens. As told to Chloë King<br />
bluebellfarmhousekitchen.co.uk<br />
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Café<br />
Du Jardin
FOOD<br />
Carafe Coffee Roasters<br />
A drip brew in Station Street<br />
It’s 7.45am on a Monday and I’ve decided to start my<br />
week with a bit of a treat: breakfast at the new Turkish<br />
coffee place on Station Street. Carafe opened in February<br />
and is run by Uğur Pekyıldız and his sister. Uğur<br />
is working today and greets me warmly when I arrive.<br />
“What can I get for you?” he asks.<br />
I look up at the board and my usual ‘flat white’ seems<br />
far too boring an answer. Down the left-hand side are<br />
the espresso-based coffees - cappuccinos and lattes<br />
and so on - but down the right-hand side are the<br />
alternative brews, each accompanied by a diagram and<br />
a few words of description. “Which one would you<br />
recommend?”<br />
“If you have time, the V60 is good,” Uğur replies. I<br />
do. And I have time for a freshly baked bourek - a filo<br />
pastry stuffed with spinach and sprinkled with sesame<br />
seeds. I take a seat in the window and get out my book.<br />
Five or so minutes later Uğur brings over my coffee,<br />
served in a carafe, and the warmed up pastry. I ask him<br />
about the name ‘V60’ and he explains that it’s a drip<br />
brew, and that the sides of the dripper are angled at<br />
60°. Today he’s using an Ethiopian bean. The flavour<br />
is intense: citrusy and not at all bitter. It’s the kind of<br />
coffee that even I like to drink black.<br />
After sipping at a luxurious pace, I’m still going to be<br />
the first one in the office this morning. Perhaps I could<br />
start every Monday like this. RC<br />
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Our cocktails are crafted with loving care<br />
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We are really proud of our velvety, house<br />
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We only use the best butter, virgin coconut<br />
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FOOD<br />
Illustration by Chloë King<br />
Edible Updates<br />
First up, great job Ed and<br />
Honey: Pestle &<br />
Mortar on Friars<br />
Walk is looking and<br />
tasting fantastic.<br />
Congratulations<br />
too, The Sussex<br />
Peasant: one of three<br />
finalists in the BBC Food<br />
and Farming Awards. A remarkable achievement<br />
for a young company doing stellar work getting<br />
thoughtful food to rural spots and championing all<br />
the fab ingredients produced near us.<br />
Our newest pop-up, Barcombe Supper Club,<br />
was launched November and is still going strong.<br />
Their next event (19th) offers a seasonal menu and<br />
complimentary cocktail for £35. The club has also<br />
given rise to sister company The Blue Kitchen,<br />
offering home-cooked meals delivered to order.<br />
[instagram.com/thebluekitchen.lewes]<br />
Those on a plastic-free trip may be pleased to hear<br />
about Mintie, a Brighton-based start-up producing<br />
lovely stainless steel lunchbox sets.<br />
[environmentallife.co.uk]<br />
The Depot now has a Friday steak night: two<br />
grass-fed rump steaks and a bottle of Syrah for<br />
£40. Harvey’s Shop host a Beer Portfolio Tasting<br />
on the 4th; Ridgeview Vineyard branch into yoga<br />
brunching on the 6th; and Great British Wine<br />
Tours is a new Brighton company offering local<br />
brewery, wine and food tours that I’m sure will<br />
prove popular. [greatbritishwinetours.co.uk]<br />
Farleys House & Gallery in Chiddingly has<br />
reopened for summer and is well worth visiting<br />
for a glimpse of Lee Miller’s quirky kitchen. Incidentally,<br />
the Farleys cookbook Lee Miller: A Life<br />
with Food, Friends & Recipes has just won an indie<br />
publishing award.<br />
Cookbook fans should check out two Cook the<br />
Books events in <strong>May</strong>, at Bluebell Farmhouse<br />
Kitchen (see pg 72) on <strong>May</strong> 2nd and The <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
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THE WAY WE WORK<br />
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“My most cherished item is the linen macramé necklace which I have<br />
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THE WAY WE WORK<br />
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THE WAY WE WORK<br />
Leanne Williams, Harlow & Fox (harlowandfox.com)<br />
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MY SPACE<br />
Photo by Lucy Limage (@lucylimage)<br />
Boom Boom the Label<br />
Founder & CEO, Alie Mackintosh<br />
I’ve always loved fashion. I’m a very practical,<br />
hands-on person; I love to take something and<br />
make something from it. When I was at university<br />
I found this big box of old fabrics in a charity<br />
shop and just started experimenting with how I<br />
could make those into garments. I only really had<br />
my mind set on making clothes for myself, but I<br />
started getting a lot of questions from other girls,<br />
asking ‘where did you get your dress?’ and that<br />
was really when I realised that there was an opportunity<br />
for me, because people were interested<br />
in what I was doing.<br />
I started Boom Boom the Label in 2012,<br />
while I was still at university. I set myself up a<br />
website and I was working out of my spare room,<br />
making all the dresses on a domestic sewing<br />
machine and carrying them up to the Post Office<br />
to send out. I moved to my first premises in 2014<br />
and now there are 20 of us working from our studio<br />
in Malling. Our clothing is stocked by DASH<br />
- the womenswear boutique owned by Kourtney,<br />
Khloé, and Kim Kardashian - and we were really<br />
excited to see Kim photographed wearing one of<br />
our dresses. Pretty much everyone here is working<br />
on supplying orders, but now, as we’re looking<br />
to grow the company, we’re focusing on how<br />
we build the creative side of the team to support<br />
future growth.<br />
Boom Boom was very much born from social<br />
media. That was – and still is – our biggest >>><br />
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marketing tool. One of the things that we love<br />
doing is researching who our customer is and<br />
analysing their behaviours. It’s been fascinating<br />
to see how the customer has evolved as the<br />
company has, and we find now that we’ve got<br />
two very distinct customer segments. That’s<br />
leading to a new business direction for us where<br />
we’re branching out into two separate brands:<br />
AYM and Silhou. AYM is very much trend led,<br />
while Silhou focuses on timeless, classic designs.<br />
They’re quite contrasting in terms of product<br />
offering, but they’re both very high-quality<br />
products, all made in <strong>Lewes</strong>.<br />
There has been a massive change over the<br />
last few years in the way that online shopping is<br />
happening: the customer wants the items, really,<br />
as soon as possible. We’re now seeing retailers in<br />
London who are able to offer delivery within the<br />
hour – that’s not the norm now, but it will eventually<br />
be. As a small business, we need to explore<br />
creative ways that we can respond to the changes<br />
in the online shopping market’s service offerings.<br />
Our focus will always be on the experience that<br />
we provide for our customer, so we are constantly<br />
looking at ways to improve this even further.<br />
Photos by Lucy Limage (@lucylimage)<br />
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MY SPACE<br />
We don’t need to plan ahead as much as other<br />
brands do. We work on a six-week turnaround<br />
time, so we are developing a collection now to be<br />
launched in six weeks’ time. It’s super agile, so we<br />
can respond to what the customer wants now, we<br />
don’t have to wait for the trend to trickle through<br />
as other retailers would. The main reason for that<br />
is that we’re making everything in-house. The<br />
designer can literally pop next door and speak to<br />
the sample machinist, and the machinist is sitting<br />
next to the pattern-cutter, so the conversations that<br />
could take a couple of weeks over email are happening<br />
instantly. We’re able to really respond to what<br />
the customer wants, which is an amazing benefit to<br />
us and to them. As told to Rebecca Cunningham<br />
Boom Boom won Small Business of the Year in the<br />
2016 <strong>Lewes</strong> District Business Awards. Enter this<br />
year’s awards at lewesdistrictbusinessawards.co.uk<br />
Photos by Lucy Limage (@lucylimage)<br />
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WILDLIFE<br />
Illustration by Mark Greco<br />
Mute swan<br />
Deride a white swan<br />
I’m going to come right out and say it. I don’t like<br />
swans. Never have done. Just seeing them smugly<br />
swanning around acting all hoity-toity annoys me.<br />
And, last week, I took a particular dislike to a pair<br />
of them.<br />
<strong>2018</strong> is the 50th anniversary of the opening of<br />
Woods Mill, Sussex Wildlife Trust’s nature reserve<br />
and headquarters near Henfield. We’ve been getting<br />
the place all ship-shape, ready to welcome visitors<br />
for celebrations throughout the summer. I turned<br />
up for work last Monday to find a pair of swans had<br />
inconsiderately built their huge woven nest right in<br />
the middle of the main path. I was half tempted to<br />
boot it back into the pond where it belongs but I’m<br />
sure I once read that the Queen legally owns all the<br />
swans in Britain and I didn’t want Liz leaping out of<br />
the undergrowth and bopping me with her sceptre.<br />
Perhaps it’s this royal association which give swans<br />
their snooty attitude but I would like to remind<br />
them that the reason that they were once bestowed<br />
this protection was because the Royal Family<br />
enjoyed eating them and didn’t want us common<br />
folk depriving them of a swan supper.<br />
This morning I checked on the swans and found<br />
six whopping great eggs in their haystack nest.<br />
But the parents were elsewhere, arrogantly gliding<br />
about on the pond. Had they abandoned the<br />
nest? Surely the eggs would perish in the cold? I<br />
suddenly became uncharacteristically concerned.<br />
I was half tempted to hop on the eggs myself to<br />
keep them warm until I noticed the swans a-swimming<br />
towards me, their wings half-raised behind<br />
their back (a posture called ‘busking’ which despite<br />
being the archetypal swan pose is actually an aggressive<br />
threat). Before I knew it they were upon<br />
me, hissing and raising their mighty wings. When<br />
you’re being attacked by a swan you really appreciate<br />
what formidable creatures they are. Weighing<br />
up to 13kg, mute swans are one of the world’s<br />
heaviest flying birds. The story that they can break<br />
your arm with their wings is nonsense but I didn’t<br />
hang around, just in case. After giving me some<br />
evil stares Lord and Lady Muck settled back to<br />
incubating and guarding their future family.<br />
They’re still there. Sitting pretty on their throne<br />
in the middle of the path, being photographed by<br />
crowds of admiring visitors while I stand ankle<br />
deep in the mud, muttering curses under my<br />
breath and begrudgingly hammer in a fence to<br />
keep them safe. It’s obvious who rules the roost<br />
here at Woods Mill. Michael Blencowe, Senior Learning<br />
& Engagement Officer, Sussex Wildlife Trust<br />
If you want to see the swans and lots of other<br />
wildlife take a trip to Woods Mill this summer.<br />
Directions are on Sussex Wildlife Trust’s website.<br />
And in the ‘What’s On’ section you’ll find details of<br />
free events being held on the reserve as we celebrate<br />
our half century.<br />
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Walkies<br />
#15 Blue remembered hills<br />
I think I may have forgotten what the colour blue<br />
actually looks like. I have a vague idea it’s a primary<br />
colour and every morning I glance out of the window<br />
to remind myself. That’s right, of course, it’s another<br />
word for monotone grey with a few dark smears.<br />
Perhaps the English winter would be easier if our<br />
senses were dominated by smell and not sight. And, if<br />
we were furry, to keep that 50% chance of rain at bay.<br />
We’ve decided that Todd, our regular canine walking<br />
companion, is perfectly adapted to an ‘average’ UK<br />
weather day.<br />
Except that today is very definitely not one of those.<br />
We seem to have woken into a brave new world. Not<br />
quite Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds but certainly<br />
Van Gogh on the Downs with a Serious Glint in his<br />
Eye. This is wildflower heaven. Brush strokes heavily<br />
laden with paint of every imaginable shade of yellow<br />
have been daubed onto the intense green. And up<br />
above... yes, I’m absolutely certain I’ve seen that colour<br />
before somewhere. The sky is actually blue!<br />
We meet Rachel and her two terriers, Soldier and<br />
Bessie, at the car park at Bo Peep east of Firle and<br />
head off east along the South Downs Way. Rachel is<br />
in training for an epic 26-mile ‘South Coast Mighty<br />
Hike’ from Brighton to Eastbourne fundraising for<br />
the cancer charity, Macmillan (macmillan.org.uk)<br />
and Sarah, Todd and I are doing our bit helping her<br />
to get fit.<br />
It has to be said it’s not exactly an onerous task.<br />
Fellow walkers have swapped the head-down gritty<br />
determination of recent weeks for cheery waves and<br />
“Isn’t it just glorious?” smiles, finally confirming that<br />
we’re not all completely mad for living on Mud Island<br />
in the first place.<br />
Even the dogs are joining in the general bonhomie<br />
with much wagging of tails and sniffing of nether<br />
regions. Just before we start to descend into the<br />
Cuckmere River Valley, we decide to take advantage<br />
of the stupendous views over the surrounding hills<br />
and stop for a bit of ‘Déjeuner Sur L’Herbe’ à la<br />
Manet. Perhaps sensibly, Sarah and Rachel decide to<br />
remain fully clothed.<br />
After a delightful meander - this time through a canvas<br />
by Monet - along the river bank between Alfriston<br />
and the White Horse at High Over where a gaggle<br />
of paragliders are practicing their thermalling skills,<br />
we make our way back to Bo Peep along the glorious<br />
ridge line that overlooks the vineyards of the Rathfinny<br />
Wine estate. It’s one of those walks that will<br />
stick in the mind for years to come. Blue remembered<br />
hills indeed. Richard Madden<br />
Map: OL25. Distance: 7 miles. Terrain: Downland<br />
tracks, fields, riverside paths and some steep climbs.<br />
Directions: From Bo Peep car park follow the South<br />
Downs Way into Alfriston before heading south along<br />
the river to High and Over and following the bridleway<br />
along the ridge back to Bo Peep. Halfway Pub: The<br />
George Inn, Alfriston.<br />
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HEALTH<br />
Flex Appeal<br />
Strike a pose…<br />
Once associated with<br />
dusty church halls and<br />
concerned vicars, yoga<br />
has had a makeover -<br />
and hit the big time.<br />
According to a 2016 Yoga<br />
Journal report, the yoga<br />
market is worth £74bn<br />
globally, and £812m a<br />
year in the UK, while, in<br />
America, some 36.7 million<br />
people practise the<br />
once-esoteric discipline<br />
- you can even do ‘Doga’<br />
with your dog, or (if you<br />
happen to be in LA) try yoga in the nude.<br />
But with so many different types of yoga, how<br />
do you know which to choose? Enter Gyles<br />
and Fiona Abbott. Their new central <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
studio, Soulfit, brings together a variety of yoga<br />
classes, along with personal training and treatment<br />
rooms - plus a range of teas, freshly made<br />
smoothies and healthy snacks.<br />
“When we moved to <strong>Lewes</strong>, I thought, ‘Where<br />
is the yoga?’” says Fiona. “There were teachers<br />
but no central point. It’s so difficult for people<br />
to get time to themselves, on or off the mat, so<br />
we wanted to make it easy for them. We want<br />
them to feel special from the moment they walk<br />
through the door, to be able to find what they<br />
need, and to feel nourished inside and out.”<br />
With up to six yoga classes timetabled every<br />
day, choices include all the most popular styles,<br />
from Ashtanga to Iyengar, as well as some more<br />
unusual ones, such as Y12SR, which helps those<br />
struggling with addiction.<br />
“People ask what class they should do, but it all<br />
depends on what they are looking for and what<br />
they want to get out of it,” Fiona explains. “Some<br />
people want to work out<br />
and others want to relax.<br />
For example, Scaravelli<br />
is really gentle and<br />
calming, while Iyengar is<br />
more disciplined.”<br />
“Vinyasa is probably<br />
the one I love best,” she<br />
continues. “It’s strong<br />
and really opens you<br />
up and tones you. It’s<br />
similar to Ashtanga -<br />
which is strong and good<br />
for building muscle - but<br />
more flowing.”<br />
For those seeking a softer option, she recommends<br />
Restorative Flow, which utilises bolsters<br />
and blankets for extra ease and comfort, and<br />
Mindful Movement, which is aimed at those who<br />
are older or have physical challenges. There are<br />
also classes specifically for beginners, as well as<br />
mother and baby sessions, and pregnancy yoga.<br />
Less familiar offerings include Body and Brain,<br />
which Fiona describes as ‘quite tribal’. “It<br />
involves tapping your body, and moving and<br />
shaking to music, properly letting yourself go -<br />
and there’s a tea ceremony at the end!”<br />
There is also Kundalini, which incorporates<br />
mantra, music and breathing, as well as physical<br />
‘kriya’ exercises, which work to release stress<br />
and generate energy; and Karma Yoga, which is<br />
a ‘community’ class, designed for those who are<br />
vulnerable or in need, and payable by donation.<br />
“Until you actually do it, it’s hard to know what’s<br />
best for you,” Gyles points out, “but here you can<br />
try everything. We want to provide something<br />
for everyone. It’s not a case of one size fits all.”<br />
Anita Hall<br />
wearesoulfit.com<br />
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COMMUNITY<br />
Speed Watch<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>’ human traffic calmers<br />
“This one’s going at<br />
42, dammit!”<br />
I’m pointing a speed<br />
‘gun’ at oncoming<br />
traffic, standing at<br />
the top of Malling<br />
Hill, where vehicles<br />
tend to hit way over<br />
the 30mph limit<br />
as they reach the<br />
outskirts of town.<br />
I’m with Kevin,<br />
David and Miranda<br />
(pictured) who<br />
regularly check the<br />
speed of traffic in a number of different locations,<br />
wearing their <strong>Lewes</strong> Community Speed Watchlogoed<br />
high–vis jackets. “If anything’s doing anything<br />
more than 10% over the limit, plus 2mph,<br />
then we note them down.”<br />
The machine looks like a hand-held video camera:<br />
you look through an eye-hole, line up a red dot<br />
with a car coming towards you, and press a red<br />
button on the side. Pretty soon a figure – the<br />
speed in miles-an-hour the vehicle is travelling –<br />
appears on the screen, too. Anything 36 and above<br />
on this road, and the car’s number plate, make,<br />
colour and offending speed gets noted down on<br />
a form - along with details of the other offenders<br />
recorded that session - and handed to the police.<br />
I say ‘dammit’ because I’m not registered to use<br />
the machine, so in this case the driver gets away<br />
scot-free. I hand the contraption to Miranda, and<br />
watch the three of them go about their business.<br />
Most traffic – especially if it has spotted us and<br />
sussed out what we’re up to - is travelling within<br />
the limit. Occasionally a vehicle hasn’t noticed,<br />
reacts too slowly, or just doesn’t care, at which<br />
point Miranda shouts out the offending speed,<br />
Kevin reads out the first half of the registration<br />
number, David adds<br />
the last four digits,<br />
and they all concur<br />
on the make and<br />
colour of the car.<br />
David jots down all<br />
the information on<br />
a form.<br />
“We usually get<br />
about 30 in an<br />
hour’s session,”<br />
explains Kevin, “and<br />
afterwards the police<br />
write to the offenders,<br />
to warn them<br />
they’ve been caught. The third time anyone is<br />
caught, further action will be taken against them.”<br />
There are a number of participants in the group,<br />
and they stand in various speeding blackspots, including<br />
Nevill Road, Offham Road and Kingston<br />
Road, once a week, or so. “We’re not vigilantes<br />
or do-gooders,” says David. “We’re just decent<br />
citizens who are concerned about the dangers<br />
caused by vehicles speeding on the road, and the<br />
impact speeding cars have on the quality of life of<br />
pedestrians.”<br />
The three all belong to a group with a wider<br />
remit, ‘<strong>Lewes</strong> Living Streets’ who are dedicated to<br />
‘civilising <strong>Lewes</strong> for pedestrians’. “We campaigned<br />
for and secured the 20mph limit in much of the<br />
centre of town, and generally we want to make the<br />
roads safer for pedestrians and cyclists, easier to<br />
cross, less busy and less noisy,” says David.<br />
I wonder if the team ever get abuse for what<br />
they’re doing, and am answered by the passenger<br />
in a van that Miranda clocks doing 48mph, who<br />
gives us all the finger as they pass. The vehicle’s<br />
details go onto the record; the driver’s letter will<br />
be in the post soon. Serves him right.<br />
Alex Leith<br />
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<strong>Lewes</strong> Out Loud<br />
Plenty more Henty<br />
I’d like to start the merry<br />
month of <strong>May</strong> with a big<br />
“thank you” to <strong>Viva</strong> readers<br />
for being part of the audience<br />
at Pelham House Hotel at the<br />
beginning of April for my radio<br />
play Raymond Briggs’s Sofa.<br />
It was a money-raising event<br />
for the <strong>May</strong>or of <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
charities and Mike was there<br />
along with his wife, Monica.<br />
My colleagues who helped me<br />
so much with the production<br />
were Stephen, Derek,<br />
Kevin and John. Others<br />
who contributed to the fun<br />
evening were Gilda, Fiona,<br />
and representing The Oldie<br />
magazine, Chelsea, Elisa and<br />
David. Over £1,000 was raised on the night and I<br />
gather everyone had a good time.<br />
Now I must mention an individual reader whose<br />
letter to me last month prompted a sharp pang of<br />
remorse for this normally conscientious columnist.<br />
You see, in April, I suggested that the common<br />
woodlouse in our gardens was a fine example of a<br />
‘pangolin’ – a word I’d discovered when completing<br />
a codeword.<br />
Paul, who described himself as a part-time pedant,<br />
was not amused! ‘If your, or my garden, contained<br />
thousands of pangolins’ he wrote, ‘I would be very<br />
concerned, given that pangolins are mammals the size<br />
of dogs – somewhat similar to, say, an armadillo.’<br />
Fair comment, Paul, and as you, and the LAW<br />
Society (<strong>Lewes</strong> Appreciates Woodlice) will readily<br />
confirm, woodlice are not mammals. They are<br />
land-dwelling crustaceans akin to lobsters, crabs<br />
etc. The error, by the way, was not deliberate to<br />
see if anyone actually reads my articles. Thank you<br />
Paul, however, I’m glad you<br />
did on this occasion.<br />
Speaking of occasions, I see<br />
that funerals, remembrance<br />
services and wakes are now<br />
available at Southover Grange<br />
in addition to the recently<br />
re-introduced wedding<br />
ceremonies. One such event<br />
caught my eye, as I headed towards<br />
the shops on a weekday<br />
morning.<br />
Clearly, a close family affair and<br />
I was particularly impressed by<br />
a young chap who could only<br />
have been four to five years<br />
old. Talk about fashion! Long<br />
jacket, smart boots and to top<br />
it all, a pork pie hat which he<br />
obviously enjoyed wearing. Where’s my camera?<br />
Other brief encounters this month. A cheery chat<br />
with Gill who lives in <strong>Lewes</strong> and loves it. She was<br />
opposite the Law Courts with her mum, Barbara,<br />
who had travelled from Farnborough in Kent.<br />
They attended a church service together and then<br />
had a carvery lunch in the White Hart. “It was very<br />
good,” they chorused.<br />
And so too was my piece of coffee gâteau which I<br />
really enjoyed in Robsons on School Hill. Thanks<br />
to chef, Matt, and to Amy and Emma. Finally, a<br />
word about our illustration which demonstrates<br />
so well the commercial acumen of illustrator,<br />
Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879 – 1963). This postcard<br />
from my collection shows her designs for ‘nursery<br />
frocks’ manufactured by Ferguson Fabrics of<br />
Holme Head, Carlisle. They boasted fabrics for<br />
lingerie, suit linings and dresses. The charming<br />
postcard is undated but has a 1930s feel to it.<br />
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Photos by Alex Leith<br />
First up a couple of happy birthdays. We were<br />
in very good company celebrating the 30th<br />
birthday of The Runaway café, on Platform<br />
2 of the railway station, on Thursday morning,<br />
April 12th. The Runaway has had a bit of a<br />
rollercoaster last decade, but thankfully is still<br />
going strong, and among those sipping early<br />
morning champers and scoffing beautifully prepared<br />
snacks were former MP Norman Baker,<br />
<strong>May</strong>or Michael Chartier and <strong>May</strong>or Elect Janet<br />
Baah. Congratulations to Jacqueline Elsey and<br />
all her staff.<br />
And a happy 10th birthday to the-stitchery,<br />
the go-to place in the Riverside ‘for all your<br />
haberdashery, fabric and knitting needs’.<br />
After a lot of work by Green councillor Jo<br />
Carter, the Turkish Baths were recently<br />
earmarked for community use, rather than<br />
becoming (yet) another restaurant, and it’s<br />
going to be turned into ‘The Unity Centre’,<br />
an ‘inclusive holistic community centre’ run by<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> resident Sevanti Jo Atwood, who currently<br />
administers a yoga studio on the <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Road in Brighton. The centre will be a CIC,<br />
and as well as offering yoga classes in the main<br />
(22-mat) studio, it will have a couple of treatment<br />
rooms (for acupuncture and other holistic<br />
treatments), facilities for artists and performers,<br />
a vegetarian café, a shop and gallery space, plus<br />
– going back to its roots - a sauna and possibly<br />
a floatation tank. The space offers easy access<br />
for the disabled, aiming to be ‘an inclusive<br />
project… insuring that those from vulnerable<br />
and marginalised groups are equally welcomed<br />
and supported’. Jo is looking for crowdfunding<br />
to help her get it up and running (see being-inunity.com,<br />
campaign runs till June 18th).<br />
And now for the bad news. The national chain<br />
Carpetright have announced the forthcoming<br />
closure of 92 of their 416 UK stores, and sadly<br />
the <strong>Lewes</strong> branch, on Brooks Road, is one of<br />
those earmarked for the chop. An employee at<br />
the store informed us that they will continue<br />
trading for six months.<br />
And if you need the services of the Citizen’s<br />
Advice Bureau, their little office on North<br />
Court in Cliffe is no longer operating. The<br />
service has moved to Southover House on<br />
Southover Street, opening on Monday, Tuesday<br />
and Friday, 9.30am-3pm. The new number to<br />
contact, a sign in the window told us, was 03444<br />
111444. They continue to offer telephone<br />
advice Mon-Fri (9.30am-4pm) and you can also<br />
consult them via e-mail (eastsussexcab.co.uk).<br />
Finally, those looking to add a little ‘je-ne-saisquoi’<br />
to their weekend revelry will be pleased<br />
to know that Café du Jardin, opposite the<br />
Dorset in Cliffe, are now open till 11pm Friday<br />
and Saturday, serving cocktails. And we’ll<br />
drink to that.<br />
STOP PRESS! Just before going to the printers<br />
we learnt that Stevie and Jamie Freeman are<br />
handing the reins of the Union Music Store<br />
to Del Day and Danny Wilson, two <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
musos who run the Maiden Voyage label. The<br />
Freemans will retain their Union Music record<br />
label. Good luck to all concerned!<br />
Alex Leith<br />
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smoking and alcohol advice.<br />
(Closed between 1-2pm)
CLIFFE OSTEOPATHS<br />
complementary health clinic<br />
Lynne Russell<br />
BSc FSDSHom MARH MBIH(FR)<br />
I have been offering women<br />
information and support at<br />
menopause for over 15 years.<br />
I draw on my range of therapies<br />
and experience in considering<br />
the different options and a more<br />
natural approach.<br />
If you would like to arrange a free<br />
15 minute mini-consultation to<br />
see if my approach might suit<br />
you please contact me.<br />
07970 245118<br />
www.chantryhealth.com<br />
OSTEOPATHY<br />
Mandy Fischer BSc (Hons) Ost, DO<br />
Steven Bettles BSc (Hons) Ost, DO<br />
HERBAL MEDICINE & REFLEXOLOGY<br />
Julie Padgham-Undrell BSc (Hons) MCPP<br />
PSYCHOTHERAPY<br />
Julia Rivas BA (Hons), MA Psychotherapy<br />
Tom Lockyer BA (Hons), Dip Cound MBACP<br />
ACUPUNCTURE & HYPNOTHERAPY<br />
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HOMEOPATHY, COACHING, NLP<br />
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01273 480900<br />
Focusing on you<br />
Counselling, Psychotherapy<br />
and Psychological Services<br />
with experienced clinicians<br />
in central <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
We work with individuals,<br />
couples, families and groups.<br />
Sam Jahara (MSc Psych UKCP Reg.)<br />
Psychotherapist and supervisor<br />
Mark Vahrmeyer (MA Psych UKCP Reg.)<br />
Psychotherapist and supervisor<br />
Dr. Simon Cassar (DProf UKCP Reg.)<br />
Psychotherapist and supervisor<br />
Jane Craig (MSc ClinPsych HCPC Reg.)<br />
Clinical psychologist and supervisor<br />
Magdalena Whitehouse (MA HCPC Reg.)<br />
Drama therapist and supervisor<br />
Thea Beech (MA TGA UKCP Reg.)<br />
Psychotherapist and Group Analyst<br />
01273 921355<br />
The Barn, 64 Southover High Street, <strong>Lewes</strong>, BN7 1JA<br />
Third Floor, 6 The Drive, Hove BN3 3JA<br />
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The Family Room @ The Montessori Place<br />
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INSIDE LEFT<br />
MORRISH’S, c 1942<br />
You might have had a pizza in this space in the<br />
last decade or so: we’re looking at the interior of<br />
186 High Street, now ASK Italian Restaurant.<br />
The photo was taken by Edward M Reeves in<br />
c1942, when the building was occupied by Charles<br />
Morrish & Son, Departmental Drapery Stores,<br />
commonly known as ‘Morrish’s’.<br />
Charles Morrish hailed from Chagford in Devon,<br />
the son of a draper. He moved to <strong>Lewes</strong> with his<br />
wife Maria in the early 1870s, to set up his own<br />
business. The couple were in their early twenties.<br />
For a short time he worked from 105, High Street<br />
on the Bottleneck. In 1879 he moved the business<br />
to no. 186, taking over from William Green, who<br />
had also run a drapers there. He posted an ad in<br />
the Sussex Agricultural Express from <strong>May</strong> of that<br />
year, calling the shop a ‘Millinery and Mantle<br />
Emporium’ and promoting his ‘FIRST SHOW<br />
OF SUMMER NOVELTIES’. The ad ended<br />
with the advice: ‘A visit is solicited’.<br />
By that time his son Charles Arthur Morrish was<br />
two years old, and when he reached adulthood<br />
the shop became ‘Charles Morrish & Son’. In the<br />
census of 1911 the family was living above the<br />
shop, along with five assistants and a servant: it<br />
must have been mighty crowded, and Charles and<br />
Maria soon moved out to 33, The Avenue. Charles<br />
died in 1935, aged 86, leaving effects of £4,326.<br />
It was, of course, wartime, when the picture was<br />
taken: note how sparsely stacked the shelves are. If<br />
you take a magnifying glass to the photo, you can<br />
read one sign stating ‘Owing to War Conditions<br />
we are unable to order goods on credit’. Another<br />
reads ‘Elastic will withstand washing. 6d length’.<br />
By this time the shop had been taken over by<br />
Plummer Rodis Ltd, the Eastbourne firm, which<br />
eventually merged with Debenhams. Perhaps<br />
Charles Arthur sold it due to ill health: he died<br />
soon after, in 1943.<br />
The building was Grade II Listed in 1952, and<br />
long-term <strong>Lewes</strong> residents will remember it as<br />
McCartney Stewarts, selling fabrics downstairs,<br />
and Ladybird clothing upstairs. Then it became<br />
Ransoms, a hardware store run by Warren<br />
Ransom, along with his shop off London Road in<br />
Brighton, with a café upstairs. The <strong>Lewes</strong> branch<br />
shut in 1992; the building was empty for many<br />
years before it was converted into ASK. Alex Leith<br />
Thanks to Tom and Tania at Edward Reeves, 159<br />
High Street, edwardreeves.com<br />
114
1 Malling Street, <strong>Lewes</strong>,<br />
East Sussex BN7 2RA<br />
01273 471 269<br />
bespoke@alistairflemingdesign.co.uk<br />
alistairflemingdesign.co.uk