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VIVALEWES<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
If only, I’ve often thought, the Argos carpark could be<br />
turned into a pub garden for the John Harvey Tavern,<br />
then <strong>Lewes</strong> would have the chance to make something of<br />
its riverside location.<br />
But when you think of it, we’ve pretty much done our<br />
best to turn our back on the Ouse, in recent times. If you<br />
get the right seats at either of the cafés in the Riverside, you can see a stretch of water, and the<br />
Harvey’s ‘cathedral’ is in a fine location, but beyond that, the only business that really makes<br />
the most of the river running past it is Tesco.<br />
Which is one of the reasons why the redevelopment of the Phoenix Industrial Estate is such a<br />
hot topic. Whatever you think should happen there, you’ve got to agree that increasing public<br />
access to the river must be one of the developers’ priorities.<br />
We’ve made ‘water’ the theme of this issue, and it’s been a blast researching it, especially since<br />
our succession of mini heatwaves has made splashing around in the wet stuff such an attractive<br />
proposition. We join some all-weather swimmers in Seaford, we go out to sea with the RNLI,<br />
we mull over the benefits of wild swimming, and we go back in time to the Pells Pool, fed by a<br />
supply of fresh spring water from the aquifer below.<br />
Will the summer of <strong>2018</strong> be a hot one? The Express promises a ‘SCORCHER’ (as they always<br />
do): whatever the weather, we hope you get the chance to spend some of it by the water’s edge.<br />
Enjoy the issue…<br />
THE TEAM<br />
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THE ‘WATER’ ISSUE<br />
CONTENTS<br />
Bits and bobs.<br />
Mary Fellows on the making of this<br />
month’s colourful cover (8-9); Chris<br />
Oakley’s <strong>Lewes</strong> (11); into the brine with<br />
the Seaford Mermaids (19), and various<br />
other clocks and snaps and plaques and<br />
books and pubs and bobs.<br />
8<br />
Columns.<br />
Our columnists go to the pictures…<br />
Chloë King is left holding the baby<br />
(27), while David Jarman gets zero for<br />
conduct (29).<br />
On this month.<br />
mr jukes dismounts his Bombay bike at<br />
Love Supreme (31); William Andrews<br />
gets us in the mood for Edinburgh<br />
Festival (33); it’s Dallowday at Monk’s<br />
House (35); we look forward to the<br />
South of England Show at Ardingly<br />
(37); we talk to Richard Power Sayeed<br />
about the false promise(s) of 1997 (39);<br />
one-offs and festivals at the Depot<br />
(41); Annika Brown sympathises with<br />
the devil… and John Agard (43), and<br />
there’s plenty of classical music, from<br />
New Sussex Opera (45) to the <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Chamber Music Festival (47).<br />
Art.<br />
Patricia Thornton is on the move at<br />
Martyrs’ Gallery (49), and there’s plenty<br />
more on our gallery walls, in <strong>Lewes</strong> and<br />
beyond, from Jason Tremlett to Alison<br />
Wilding (51-55).<br />
Listings and Free Time.<br />
If it’s on, it’s in, basically. We bring<br />
you a smorgasbord of economists and<br />
comedians, shows and booze-ups,<br />
quizzes and festivals, gardens and gin,<br />
plays and walks (57-63).<br />
Photo by Alison Buchanan
THE ‘WATER’ ISSUE<br />
Plus a super-full classical round-up<br />
(64-65) and a fine array of live bands,<br />
including old punks Spear of Destiny<br />
and, excitingly, The Members (67-69).<br />
Then there’s sick stuff from legends<br />
catering for the town’s U16s (71-73).<br />
Food.<br />
Vegan pulled pork and legendary<br />
banana bread at Trading Post (75);<br />
barbecued mackerel, Mamoosh-style<br />
(76-77); falafels at the Friday Market<br />
(79), and all the other food news (81).<br />
86<br />
The way we work.<br />
Alison Buchanan gets taken out to sea<br />
by the brave chaps (and chapesses) of<br />
the Newhaven RNLI, asking them:<br />
what do you do on dry land? (82-85).<br />
Features.<br />
Ryan Kearley, Barcombe boat-builder<br />
(86-87); Michael Blencowe suggests<br />
wariness towards water shrews (89);<br />
Todd by the lake (91); the health<br />
benefits of wild swimming (92), and<br />
Mark Bridge on stoolball, a game he<br />
liked so much he was almost tempted to<br />
play it (95). Plus John Henty out loud<br />
(97), and Business News (99).<br />
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Photo by Alison Buchanan<br />
Photo by Chloë King<br />
Inside Left.<br />
A trip back in time to the Pells Pool,<br />
1966/67 (114).<br />
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THIS MONTH’S COVER ARTIST<br />
“It’s a very visual theme, water,” says Mary Fellows,<br />
this month’s cover artist. “I thought about it in<br />
my head for quite a long time, and then when I<br />
sat down to work on it, it was that unexpectedly<br />
hot weekend in May, so I wanted to do something<br />
summery and pretty.”<br />
We love the way Mary layers bold graphics and fonts<br />
with more intricate patterns and details to create the<br />
attention-grabbing designs that many people in<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> will be so familiar with. “I’m used to screen<br />
printing,” she says. “With screen printing you can<br />
create lovely big solid chunks of colour, but when<br />
you use other types of print, especially digital, sometimes<br />
those areas of colour just don’t work as well.<br />
By putting those layers and textures in, I’ve found a<br />
better way of working within the restrictions of the<br />
process.” Over time she’s built up a library of patterns,<br />
drawn by hand and digitised, which she can<br />
draw from when she’s working on a design. “I have<br />
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MARY FELLOWS<br />
my favourites,” she says, pointing out the matchboxstrike<br />
honeycomb pattern layered across the <strong>Viva</strong><br />
masthead, which she’s borrowed from her illustration<br />
Waste Not Want Not.<br />
This is Mary’s fourth <strong>Viva</strong> cover; it follows her Rodin’s<br />
The Kiss in a snow globe in February 2010,<br />
her festive Babycham reindeer design for Christmas<br />
2013 and her retro soapbox-style cover for our<br />
‘Keep it Clean’ May 2015 issue. Since we last spoke<br />
to her, Mary made the big decision to shut up shop<br />
at the Needlemakers and relocate her business to a<br />
new premises, Sun Studios, tucked away on Mount<br />
Place. “I loved the shop,” she says, “and I still love<br />
the shop, but there was just never enough time to get<br />
everything done. Now I don’t have so many people<br />
coming in, I’ve got a bit more time to be creative and<br />
make things. I’ve been able to get my hands on some<br />
clay again…”<br />
One of her new ventures now that she’s moved into<br />
Sun Studios is designing and producing promotional<br />
mugs for local businesses. “I get asked to do commissions<br />
a lot, but because I’ve always screen printed my<br />
designs onto transfers, I’ve had to do them in batches<br />
of 100. Now I’ve started working with a digital<br />
printer, which means that I can print just a couple of<br />
sheets at a time, so I’m able to offer people small runs<br />
of mugs.” Mary designs the artwork herself, at no<br />
charge, and the company simply pays for the mugs.<br />
“I like that challenge of creating something that is<br />
essentially a promotional product, but that someone<br />
actually wants,” she says. If you’re interested in<br />
commissioning a design for your business, or to see<br />
Mary’s other products, go to maryfellows.co.uk. RC<br />
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MY LEWES: CHRIS OAKLEY, CHARTERED SURVEYOR<br />
Photo by Alex Leith<br />
Are you local? Brighton born and bred. My wife<br />
Helen always says ‘you can take the boy out of<br />
Brighton, but you can’t take Brighton out of the<br />
boy’. I started my estate agent business there 25<br />
years ago – we’re celebrating our anniversary in<br />
Shoreham, as we have just opened there. I moved to<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> in 2000, and set up a branch here in 2007. So,<br />
yes, I guess I’m local.<br />
What did you think of <strong>Lewes</strong> as a Brighton kid?<br />
My first memory is that we used to go to Piltdown<br />
in the car at the weekend to mess about on boats<br />
my dad made for us, and I always remember driving<br />
through <strong>Lewes</strong> past what was the YMCA in the<br />
bottleneck singing Onward Christian Soldiers with<br />
my four brothers. It’s funny, that, because Helen and<br />
I ended up buying the building to renovate and live<br />
in, when we first came to <strong>Lewes</strong>!<br />
What do you do for exercise? <strong>Lewes</strong> is a<br />
wonderful place to be a runner. I’m getting more<br />
into cycling, as well. Myself and some colleagues<br />
are just back from a charity run from Brussels to<br />
Brighton, which included an attempt to get in the<br />
Guinness Book of Records for cycling for a mile round<br />
the i360 pod, while in the air, the most people to<br />
do a mile in the sky on a bike! We’ve raised over<br />
£50,000 so far for the Brighton Mayor’s charity.<br />
I’ve also recently got into paddle boarding on the<br />
Ouse, which I love.<br />
Does <strong>Lewes</strong> turn its back on the river? It has<br />
done in modern times, but things are changing,<br />
and we’re starting to realise that it’s the life blood<br />
that runs through our town. That’s why we’re the<br />
main sponsors of Ouse Day, which is a fantastic<br />
annual event, taking place this year on July 1st.<br />
I went to the first one two years ago and it was<br />
great to see the whole community together on<br />
the riverbanks – and in the river! We decided it<br />
would be good to sponsor it, which we did last year<br />
and are doing again this year. It’s a way of saying<br />
thank you to the town for all the support it’s given<br />
Oakley over the years.<br />
Tell us about your favourite pub, and restaurant,<br />
and building. My local is the Pelham Arms, who<br />
do great food and are within convenient stumbling<br />
distance. My favourite restaurant is Lemongrass,<br />
lovely atmosphere. My favourite building is Pelham<br />
House. I sold it for the County Council when they<br />
finished with it, and I really got into the history of it.<br />
If you were an all-powerful mayor, what would<br />
you do? Make the Phoenix development happen,<br />
and quickly. The development will focus the town<br />
onto the river and help support local businesses with<br />
the extra chimney pots.<br />
Where would you live, if not here? In New<br />
Zealand. I toured around there for my 40th, and was<br />
really blown away by the beauty. It’s like going back<br />
into England of the 1950s, and the landscapes are<br />
spectacular. Interview by Alex Leith<br />
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PHOTO OF THE MONTH<br />
SPELLBOUND<br />
<strong>June</strong>’s winning entry, from Sam Crawley, comes<br />
with a heart-warming story attached. ‘I’ve been<br />
recuperating after a period of serious ill health,’<br />
says Sam, who is 43 but ‘I’ve been feeling more<br />
like I’m 100’. She’d been on crutches since<br />
Christmas, but by mid-April was starting to feel<br />
a lot better, and so took her first trip for a month<br />
without their help on the 19th (‘the first of our<br />
heatwave days’).<br />
‘I was walking up the hill from town via the<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Arms on my way home to Keere Street,’<br />
she adds. ‘As I was walking home I was filled with<br />
great optimism and confidence, thinking how<br />
good it was to be living in <strong>Lewes</strong> and to have such<br />
great neighbours and generally feeling that life<br />
was going to get better and better - which I am<br />
happy to report it has! As I was thinking and feeling<br />
so happy walking up the hill, this scene came<br />
alive in front of me - the sight of the sun setting<br />
through the trees and the shadow of an unknown<br />
other human walking towards me. I whipped out<br />
my phone and caught it - just like that! It was<br />
a magical moment I will never forget because I<br />
had been struggling for so long and then BAM!<br />
that beautiful scene was there to lift me. I was<br />
spellbound!’<br />
It sounds like a magical moment, which we hope<br />
will be made more magical when Sam opens the<br />
magazine, and sees the fruit of her efforts printed<br />
on the page: her quotes come from an accompanying<br />
email and that will be the first she knows<br />
of winning the prize. In the meantime we’ll leave<br />
you with the send-off of her message: ‘There really<br />
is startling hope and beauty… even if we have<br />
to wait a while to see it.’<br />
Please send your pictures, taken in and around<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>, to photos@vivamagazines.com, or tweet<br />
@<strong>Viva</strong><strong>Lewes</strong>, with comments on why and where<br />
you took them, and your phone number. We’ll<br />
choose our favourite for this page, which wins the<br />
photographer £20, to be picked up from our office<br />
after publication. Unless previously arranged, we<br />
reserve the right to use all pictures in future issues<br />
of <strong>Viva</strong> magazines or online.<br />
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BITS AND BOBS<br />
OPEN GARDEN FOR SATURDAY CIRCLES<br />
There are plenty of local open gardens in <strong>June</strong>,<br />
which we round up on pg 63. There’s one in<br />
particular that we recommend making a trip out<br />
of town for on the 24th, in aid of Saturday Circles<br />
(<strong>Lewes</strong>) Club, a social club for adults with learning<br />
difficulties. It’s a cottage garden with densely<br />
planted borders: roses, honeysuckles and clematis.<br />
Plus a wide range of perennials are on view as you<br />
walk along meandering paths, some ending with<br />
secluded seating. Colour-themed borders have<br />
been planted for year-round interest. There’s a<br />
fruitcage, large productive greenhouse, and raised<br />
vegetable beds, including two trial ‘no dig’ beds.<br />
Pots of tea and home-made cakes will be served on<br />
pretty china, with delightful table cloths.<br />
David Jarman<br />
Sunday 24th <strong>June</strong> (11am-5pm) 1 Rose Cottage,<br />
Chalvington Road, Golden Cross near Hailsham,<br />
BN27 35S. Admission £4, children free. No wheelchair<br />
access. rosecottagegarden.co.uk<br />
CHARITY BOX: CHAILEY HERITAGE FOCUS RUN<br />
Chailey Heritage Foundation<br />
was established in<br />
1903 by Dame Grace Kimmins,<br />
who took over a former<br />
parish workhouse in rural<br />
East Sussex and created the<br />
first purpose-built school for<br />
children with disabilities. Today<br />
we have an international<br />
reputation for our work and<br />
support hundreds of children, young people and<br />
families by providing a range of services, especially<br />
for those with a neurological motor impairment<br />
such as cerebral palsy. Our aim is to provide an<br />
environment where young people develop life<br />
skills in preparation for adulthood.<br />
The off-road Focus Run is the first of its<br />
kind to take place in the beautiful grounds of<br />
Borde Hill Garden. We are raising funds for the<br />
DREAM Centre Appeal. We want to build a stateof-the-art<br />
environment where our community can<br />
come together to take part<br />
in sports such as wheelchair<br />
football, trampolining,<br />
drama and dance. The<br />
activities in the DREAM<br />
Centre will enable young<br />
people to gain confidence<br />
by being able to express<br />
themselves and develop<br />
relationships with their<br />
peers. If we raise the funding, we’d like it to open<br />
by spring/summer 2019.<br />
The Focus Run will be chip-timed, and there’s<br />
a 10k and 5k option, or a mini-mile for children.<br />
If you want to help but aren’t keen on running, we<br />
do need volunteer marshals. And donations via our<br />
website are very welcome too!<br />
As told to Emma Chaplin by Simon Everest<br />
3rd <strong>June</strong>, 10am-2pm, Borde Hill Garden, Haywards<br />
Heath, RH16 1XP. For entry fees and to sign up,<br />
visit runchaileyheritage.org.uk/enter<br />
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BITS AND BOBS<br />
CLOCKS OF LEWES #19: LEWES PRIORY SCHOOL<br />
In keeping with the ‘water’ theme<br />
this issue, Priory School is not<br />
only adjacent to the Wave Leisure<br />
Centre swimming pool and<br />
built on flood plain, it also has a<br />
splendid green clock tower – the<br />
colour a copper patina, the result<br />
of exposure to the elements. It’s<br />
one of <strong>Lewes</strong>’s finest horological<br />
landmarks, from when the building<br />
was constructed in 1937. It’s<br />
just a shame it’s dead.<br />
Indeed, it’s not worked for<br />
decades. One former student recalls it working in<br />
1987 or 88, when they “climbed up the internal<br />
ladder and into the loft space to have a poke about<br />
with the clock.” School bursar Ian Fine says he’s<br />
“been here over 20 years and it’s<br />
never worked during that time”.<br />
The clock is in a sorry state, its<br />
classic faces, white with black<br />
numerals, even missing hands.<br />
Still, the school roof has another<br />
great feature now: a 35kW array<br />
of solar panels, installed by<br />
community-owned renewable<br />
energy group OVESCO in<br />
2012. Images of investors on<br />
the roof, with the panels and<br />
clock tower in the background,<br />
became somewhat iconic.<br />
Given the state of public finances, the clock is<br />
unlikely to be repaired. Still, the solar panels have<br />
given the roof new import. Daniel Etherington<br />
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<strong>Lewes</strong> residents Norman and Fiona Moles took us along<br />
on their week-long trip to Rome. Here’s Fiona spreading<br />
the word with our ‘word’-themed April issue at the<br />
Colosseum. ‘We love <strong>Viva</strong> <strong>Lewes</strong>’ they tell us, ‘keep up<br />
the good work!’ We’ll do our best.<br />
Here we are with<br />
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PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
CARLOTTA LUKE<br />
THE SEAFORD MERMAIDS<br />
Meet ‘The Seaford Mermaids’, a group of intrepid<br />
all-year swimmers who take a dip off Tide Mills or<br />
Buckle Beach in Seaford – depending on how calm<br />
the sea is – every single morning of the year (unless<br />
it’s really rough). Carlotta Luke joined them, for<br />
a special swim celebrating organiser Ruth’s 85th<br />
birthday: “There was a visceral feeling of joy and<br />
love of life for the people swimming,” she reports.<br />
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BITS AND BOBS<br />
TOWN PLAQUE #39: PINWELL FOUNTAIN<br />
In her 2012 book The Twittens of <strong>Lewes</strong>, Kim Clark<br />
notes that ‘the wellhead of the ancient Pinwell Spring,<br />
a powerful source of fresh water’ was first recorded in<br />
1280. In A Day’s Ramble in and about the Ancient Town<br />
of <strong>Lewes</strong> (1846) Gideon Mantell wrote: ‘Across the<br />
way from the Friends’ Meeting House… is a perennial<br />
spring that bursts forth from the chalk ridge and<br />
rushes into the neighbouring brooks’.<br />
Subsequently it appears to have been channelled to a pump and in 1874 this was moved to the opposite side<br />
of the road and a drinking fountain was erected by subscription. It stands at the eastern end of All Saints’<br />
churchyard, beside a fifteenth-century archway, once part of Greyfriars, situated further along Friars Walk,<br />
which was reconstructed here in the nineteenth century. The fountain was restored by the Friends of <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
in 1981. Marcus Taylor<br />
THE OUSE IN NUMBERS<br />
The heyday of river navigation upstream of <strong>Lewes</strong> was in the early 19th century, when 19 locks were built<br />
over 22 miles to enable boats to reach Upper Ryelands Bridge at Balcombe by 1812. This was used for the<br />
construction of the Ouse Valley viaduct at Balcombe, which carries the railway across 37 arches and is now<br />
designated a Grade II* listed building. Completed in 1841, the viaduct required 11 million bricks from the<br />
Netherlands, which were brought up the river from Newhaven to Balcombe. The coming of the railways,<br />
however, caused river traffic to cease by 1868 and the locks fell into disrepair. Sarah Boughton<br />
GHOST PUB #44: THE WHITE HART TAP, HIGH STREET<br />
In keeping with this month’s theme of ‘water’, I bring you the<br />
White Hart Tap. Many hotels had a tap ‘out the back’. The Star,<br />
Crown, and Bear Hotels in <strong>Lewes</strong> all had one, and the White<br />
Hart’s was by the stables at the rear of the hotel. These taps had<br />
their own landlords, who often doubled up as the stable keeper. Sarah<br />
Miles ran the White Hart Tap with her sister Caroline during<br />
the 1850s. In 1862 she married her assistant James Rusbridge, and<br />
they ran the pub together until James retired due to ill health in<br />
1878. The couple were well respected in the town. However, in 1868 Sarah was caught illegally selling beer on<br />
a Sunday morning. PC Higginson had dressed in plain clothes and entered the pub with ‘a local celebrity called<br />
‘Shalligo’ and a youth’, and caught her out by ordering a beer. The Gardner family then ran the Tap and the<br />
stables, remaining for over thirty years. Around 1903 the White Hart Tap became known as the ‘White Hart<br />
Shades’. Frank and Rosina Holford took over in 1926. During the war Rosina donated her Christmas money<br />
to help those affected by the Blitz in Coventry, Portsmouth, and other towns. This small gesture inspired many<br />
people, and soon Rosina was collecting donations from people all over the town. This photograph shows Frank<br />
and Rosina serving the last beer at the White Hart Shades on 31st August 1954. Mat Homewood<br />
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BITS AND BOBS<br />
RESCUE PETS OF LEWES #1<br />
Name(s): (left to right) Jade, Jesy, Perrie<br />
and Leigh Anne. This gang of adorable<br />
miniature ladies have been named after the<br />
members of girl band Little Mix.<br />
Background: Adopted from Raystede as<br />
a foursome, they’re now living out their<br />
golden years in a luxuriant open-topped<br />
run watching Flashdance on repeat and enjoying<br />
unfettered access to alfalfa sprouts.<br />
Likes: Brian Blessed, Pak Choi, triangles.<br />
Dislikes: Hard house, namedropping,<br />
ironic cross stitching, the male gaze and<br />
nail clippings in the bath.<br />
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LOCAL LITERATURE<br />
LEWES DOORTRAITS #1<br />
Steve Ankers is a<br />
serious writer with a<br />
comic touch: think<br />
Chris Stewart with<br />
a social conscience.<br />
Northern Soles is his<br />
fourth book: he’s<br />
penned two satires<br />
on the world of<br />
planning (!) and a<br />
memoir about being married to a vet. This<br />
one is about a coast-to-coast walk he did<br />
from the Irish Sea to the North Sea – a total<br />
of 200 miles. He chose the route (through<br />
the industrial heartland of Northern England)<br />
so as not to make his wife, staying at<br />
home, too jealous. By the end, his feet were<br />
killing him. Alex Leith<br />
Jo Jackson, from the blog theleweshome.com, snaps a<br />
front door in <strong>Lewes</strong>, and asks the owner a nosy question.<br />
If you could give your door a characteristic what<br />
would it be? Secretive: it’s hiding the clutter within.<br />
Office Space to Let<br />
At the beginning of July <strong>Viva</strong> <strong>Lewes</strong> will be leaving their<br />
offce base in Pipe Passage where they started 12 years ago, to<br />
move into bigger premises in central <strong>Lewes</strong>.<br />
We will have office space to rent in the centre of <strong>Lewes</strong>.<br />
The floor which <strong>Viva</strong> <strong>Lewes</strong> currently occupies is in a<br />
lovely wooden beamed room in an old building just off<br />
the High Street. It can be rented in one piece or could<br />
be rented as individual work spaces which the room<br />
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BITS AND BOBS<br />
REFILL LEWES<br />
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE<br />
Refill <strong>Lewes</strong> – part of the nationwide Refill campaign –<br />
launched on Saturday 26th of May at Pell’s Pool, and to mark<br />
the occasion, they set themselves a challenge: to get together<br />
the largest number of Phils at any one time in history. We’re<br />
interested to know how many Phils turned up!<br />
That idea was a bit of fun, but the campaign behind it is<br />
deadly serious. The idea of Refill is to wipe out the need for<br />
single-use plastic bottles by creating a network of refill stations<br />
– bars, cafés and other businesses – where passers-by<br />
can drop in and fill up their reusable water bottles. Participating<br />
venues pop a sticker in their window to let you know<br />
that they’re part of the scheme, and will appear on the Refill<br />
app, so when you’re out and about you can easily locate your<br />
nearest one. The Brighton scheme launched in autumn last<br />
year and there are already more than 200 businesses signed up. To download the app – or to sign your business<br />
up to become a refill station – visit refill.org.uk.
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COLUMN<br />
Chloë King<br />
Scream test<br />
It’s lovely having a small<br />
baby, and even more<br />
precious when there’s a<br />
long-enough gap between<br />
your first and second that<br />
you had almost entirely<br />
forgotten how crap people<br />
can be.<br />
Like when you’re walking<br />
your dog and buggy and<br />
you tuck in to let another<br />
person hurry past, and<br />
then you turn to hear<br />
them mumble loudly,<br />
plugged into headphones,<br />
that you’re using too much<br />
pavement.<br />
Or when a man pauses to watch you struggling<br />
to get your buggy over a 30-degree curb at the<br />
brow of a hill, only to offer bits of advice like: “it’s<br />
because it’s all weighed down with shopping Luv.”<br />
And when you’ve nipped into the library for<br />
some respite on a rainy day, to read a board book,<br />
change a nappy and give baby a feed, happy as<br />
Larry. And you put babe in the buggy and buckle<br />
her in, and she squeals for maybe 20 seconds, and<br />
when you stand up to leave you meet a face peering<br />
at you over a bookcase.<br />
“Excuse me,” the face says. “Some of us are trying<br />
to work.”<br />
If you are ever in doubt as to where society’s most<br />
insidious priorities lie, try being out with a pram<br />
or, better, a wheelchair. Only then can you assume<br />
the position of being simultaneously invisible and<br />
taking up too much space.<br />
Bearing in mind how burdensome us carers of<br />
small children can be, it’s pleasing to find dark<br />
places in public buildings in which we cannot<br />
pose too much of a menace.<br />
With my first, I pilgrimaged<br />
every week to the Big<br />
Scream parent and baby<br />
screening at the Duke of<br />
York’s. I’d never been so<br />
up-to-date with the latest<br />
releases, which has plenty<br />
of benefits. You can still<br />
appear cultured, for one,<br />
and if you have the pleasure<br />
of watching a psychological<br />
thriller like Beast, which I<br />
highly recommend, tense<br />
moments are elevated by<br />
the appearance of someone<br />
else’s strange-looking<br />
offspring appearing from behind a seat.<br />
Now the Depot has one, at noon on Tuesdays,<br />
and I needn’t even bother getting the bus.<br />
The thing about the Depot, however, is they<br />
seem to think that all parents of under-ones<br />
have a predilection for second-pop rom coms,<br />
end-of-life dramas, and documentaries. This isn’t<br />
always an issue. I really enjoyed Even When I Fall,<br />
a documentary about a Nepalese circus troupe<br />
comprised of victims of child trafficking.<br />
The dilemma is, of course, that most daytime<br />
cinema audiences are composed of people of<br />
retirement age. It’s hard enough trying to tell<br />
them that carers of under-ones have priority on<br />
Tuesday lunchtimes. I’ve heard it myself – groans<br />
of “ugh, will we even be able to hear it?” in the<br />
ticket queue.<br />
It just so happened, however, that the same person<br />
left the film that day, loudly praising the gaggle<br />
of snoozy babies for being the most pleasant<br />
audience they had ever shared a cinema with.<br />
But shhh, don’t spread the word, or I’ll have<br />
nowhere left to hide.<br />
Illustration by Chloë King<br />
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COLUMN<br />
David Jarman<br />
Lindsay who?<br />
In July 1990 the film director Lindsay<br />
Anderson wrote an article in the<br />
Independent on Sunday entitled L’Atalante,<br />
the Forgotten Masterpiece. Jean Vigo’s<br />
film had been ‘devotedly restored’.<br />
Anderson’s tribute began in<br />
characteristically caustic style: ‘I<br />
was talking the other day to a<br />
young film-maker, a graduate<br />
of our National Film School<br />
and already the author of two<br />
reputable features. I mentioned<br />
the name of John Garfield.<br />
“Who’s John Garfield?” He<br />
had never heard of Jean Arthur<br />
either and had no idea what films<br />
Capra had made. I was startled.<br />
I began to wonder how many<br />
distinguished names, knowledge<br />
of whom we would assume to be an essential<br />
for cinematic literacy, were unknown to the<br />
talented young of today. “Have you ever”, I<br />
asked, “heard of Jean Vigo?” “Jean who?” he<br />
asked.<br />
Anderson concluded: ‘I know we have to accept<br />
that today nobody knows anything, and is quite<br />
happy that way’.<br />
Doubtless things have only got worse since<br />
then, so it was encouraging that someone<br />
at the Brighton Festival had the wit to show<br />
Anderson’s best known film, If…., released fifty<br />
years ago, in an intelligent double bill with<br />
Vigo’s Zéro de conduite. Intelligent, not only<br />
because both films are set in rather anarchic<br />
boarding schools, but because Anderson<br />
acknowledged the debt that If…. owed to<br />
Vigo’s film. Seeing them together enabled<br />
me to appreciate the many correspondences<br />
between the two.<br />
When my friend John Cartwright was<br />
running the British Council’s film<br />
department he had many<br />
dealings with Lindsay Anderson.<br />
Listening to John’s anecdotes<br />
over the years, I have concluded<br />
that the thing you were most likely to<br />
hear Lindsay Anderson say was “well, it’s<br />
not very good, is it?”. John once showed me<br />
a postcard from Anderson that was typically<br />
brief and dismissive: ‘John –<br />
Did I tell you I went to Turin?<br />
Nice city – quite silly Festival<br />
as usual. Greetings. Best for<br />
1992. As always – Lindsay’.<br />
Alan Bennett published his Memories<br />
of Lindsay Anderson in July 2000. In it he<br />
recalls acting in a 1964 revival of a Ben Travers<br />
farce with, among others, Arthur Lowe,<br />
Nicol Williamson and John Osborne. It was ‘a<br />
disaster’. Bennett continues: ‘I suppose Lindsay<br />
must have seen it (Arthur Lowe was one of his<br />
favourite actors) but it would have been with<br />
a good deal of heavy sighs, looks of despair to<br />
his neighbours and even groans, a visit to the<br />
theatre with Lindsay was generally something<br />
of a pantomime.’<br />
My one experience of Lindsay Anderson at the<br />
theatre (actually there were two though there’s<br />
no reason to mention that) was at Notting Hill’s<br />
Gate Theatre Club in 1989; the occasion the<br />
world premiere of Bulgakov’s Adam and Eve.<br />
Written in 1931, it had been banned by Stalin.<br />
Anderson was sitting in front of me. The play<br />
wasn’t very good. As he got up to leave, after<br />
two long hours, Anderson muttered to his<br />
companion: “Stalin was right”.<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: MUSIC<br />
mr jukes<br />
Freewheelin’<br />
“I made the decision to end it,” says Jack Steadman,<br />
erstwhile front man of Bombay Bicycle Club, now<br />
the inspiration behind the much funkier mr jukes.<br />
“It was a terribly difficult decision,” he continues,<br />
down the phone from his North London home.<br />
“We’d been together since school. We’d grown<br />
up together in the band. But both musically and<br />
personally I couldn’t have done anything else. I had<br />
to listen to what my heart was saying. Otherwise<br />
we would have made a really mediocre Bombay<br />
Bicycle album.”<br />
Jack was the creative one of the group, the one<br />
whose ideas they all worked on and fashioned into<br />
guitar-rich indie-soaked pop songs. So you get the<br />
feeling the decision has been a good one for him,<br />
but not necessarily the others: their last album So<br />
Long, See You Tomorrow was UK no 1, and their<br />
previous two had made the top ten.<br />
“A lot of bands lose touch with the fact that they<br />
haven’t got anything to say, and I could feel that<br />
creeping up,” he continues. He talks about the<br />
loss of the sort of “burning desire” that fuelled the<br />
making of their first two albums.<br />
It was while on a cargo ship sailing from Shanghai<br />
to Alaska that he came up with the name for his new<br />
project. He was reading Joseph Conrad’s Typhoon. “I<br />
liked the sound of the name of the First Mate,” he<br />
says. “I thought an album by ‘Jack Steadman’ would<br />
have sounded like a folk album.”<br />
“Also having another name gives you an alter ego<br />
that affects the way you perform… as mr jukes I<br />
become very energetic; it’s a weird contrast when<br />
I go backstage afterwards and resume my normal<br />
personality, sitting in the corner being quiet.”<br />
One limitation Jack wanted to overcome in the old<br />
band was his own voice. “I was singing all the songs,<br />
and I’d listen back and wish someone else was able<br />
to take them off into a different direction.” As mr<br />
jukes he’s forged collaborations with the likes of<br />
Horace Andy, BJ the Chicago Kid, and De La Soul.<br />
“Suddenly I had the freedom to choose anyone in<br />
the world… I was like a kid in a candy shop.”<br />
The band he’s touring with are a nine-piece, with<br />
a brass section, and three other singers. “But not<br />
backing singers,” he says, “if anything I’m the<br />
backing singer”. And who goes to the gigs? “Some<br />
people like the style of music we’re doing: jazz, funk,<br />
hip-hop. Others are Bombay Bicycle fans who have<br />
heard a thread from before that’s been continued.”<br />
So could a reconciliation with his old band<br />
members ever be on the cards? “It’s healthy in some<br />
relationships to spend time apart and to come back<br />
stronger having got that ‘grass is greener’ thing out<br />
of the way. So I’m not ruling it out… we just have to<br />
wait until that burning desire is there again.”<br />
Alex Leith<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: COMEDY<br />
William Andrews<br />
Stand up… and be counted<br />
I’m madly excited to be putting on two days of<br />
live comedy this summer (one in <strong>June</strong> and one in<br />
July) and as I’ve gone around bangin’ my drum<br />
I’ve been struck by people’s idea of what the live<br />
comedy scene is like. It’s often way broader than<br />
folk realise. It’s rich with fruitcakes doing the most<br />
amazingly inventive, creative and theatrical things.<br />
I truly love it.<br />
I did my first stand-up gig in a dingy basement<br />
at the top of the Grassmarket in Edinburgh,<br />
something like 20 years ago. I go back to it in fits<br />
and starts, a part-timer I suppose. The rewards<br />
when you get it right, well, it’s like flying. When it<br />
goes badly it’s also like flying, but into the side of<br />
a mountain.<br />
Full-time professionals are a different breed: up<br />
and down the country they go, into clubs, festivals,<br />
corners of bars, night after night after night. Those<br />
folks have something genuinely wrong with them,<br />
I think, and thank God they do, because the UK<br />
comedy scene is insanely good, and broad.<br />
‘Alternative’ doesn’t quite do justice to the scope<br />
of what’s on offer now. The term comes with baggage<br />
of its own, rooted as it is in images of Alexei<br />
Sayle, French and Saunders et al. As a side note, it<br />
might interest you to know that one of the founders<br />
of that scene lives here in <strong>Lewes</strong>, the inimitable<br />
Kit Hollerbach, who, along with Mike Myers,<br />
brought and taught an American style of improvisation<br />
to the Comedy Store players including Paul<br />
Merton and Jeremy Hardy. The Chicago Method<br />
is what formed the basis of Whose Line Is It Anyway<br />
and its off-shoots.<br />
But maybe the left field is not your thing, and why<br />
should it be? The best comedians on the more<br />
traditional circuit are a true joy to watch: it’s a real<br />
skill, and it can be tough. You try making a crowd<br />
of 300 people – made up of office parties, stags and<br />
hens – laugh. Big stars have come out of that scene.<br />
Michael McIntyre was a club comic, and a good<br />
one. Dave Johns too, actually – and if you don’t<br />
know Dave from gigs, you might know him as having<br />
the starring role in Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake.<br />
Funny old world.<br />
In reality the lines are blurred and continue to be.<br />
At David Mounfield’s superb Comedy at the Con<br />
Club (this month on the 7th) you will see masters<br />
of the club circuit alongside acts who would challenge<br />
most people’s expectations of what a comedian<br />
should be like - well, apart from the obvious<br />
one - you know, #funny.<br />
‘Little Edinburgh’ (my event at the All Saints) is<br />
a cohort of talent gearing up for the Edinburgh<br />
Festival Fringe. Each of these brilliant comics will<br />
preview their entire one hour Edinburgh show<br />
for just £6.50/£4.50 or you can pay a £13/£9 to<br />
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Should be a laugh.<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: LITERATURE<br />
Dallowday<br />
Celebrating Virginia Woolf<br />
Virginia Woolf’s modernist novel<br />
Mrs Dalloway details a day in<br />
the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a<br />
high-society woman in post–<br />
First World War England. It<br />
follows her as she takes a walk<br />
through London to prepare for<br />
a party that she will host that<br />
evening, and begins: ‘Mrs Dalloway<br />
said she would buy the<br />
flowers herself’. We speak to Alli<br />
Pritchard, operations manager of<br />
Monk’s House in Rodmell, once<br />
Woolf’s home, about her drive<br />
to establish an annual ‘Dallowday’<br />
to celebrate Woolf, in the<br />
way that ‘Bloomsday’ celebrates<br />
James Joyce.<br />
You’re a big fan of Virginia<br />
Woolf? I really am. I’m a<br />
Woolfie. Age 13, I saw the film of<br />
Mrs Dalloway, bought the book,<br />
then started reading everything<br />
else she’d written.<br />
Tell us about Dallowday.<br />
The aim is to celebrate and raise the profile of<br />
Virginia Woolf. Over the last couple of years,<br />
some celebrations have taken place in America<br />
and London, but there wasn’t one agreed date, or<br />
indeed name. Woolf’s novel takes place in mid-<br />
<strong>June</strong> 1923, but not on a specified date. We’ve now<br />
agreed that, henceforth, Dallowday will be on the<br />
third Wednesday of <strong>June</strong>.<br />
What will be happening at Monk’s House?<br />
We are essentially holding our own garden party.<br />
We’ll decorate the house with extra flowers and<br />
bunting with Woolf quotations. We will be offering<br />
refreshments in the garden, something we don’t<br />
normally do. We will have readings from the novel<br />
in the garden. We’ve also got Ink<br />
Spot Press printers coming, so<br />
visitors can make book marks and<br />
greetings cards with a selection<br />
of quotations. Although it can be<br />
hard to find short ones.<br />
So she wouldn’t have been on<br />
Twitter? Well, I don’t know.<br />
She and Leonard loved the latest<br />
technology. She’d definitely have<br />
a Mac.<br />
You clearly remain a fan. I do.<br />
Many people visit who know very<br />
little about Virginia or Leonard<br />
Woolf. Most people seem only<br />
to know the salacious elements<br />
of her life. They think of her<br />
as a gay icon. They know that<br />
she committed suicide and was<br />
depressive. That’s far from the<br />
whole truth and part of the joy<br />
of the job is filling in the gaps for<br />
them. She was formidable and<br />
complicated, but also incredible<br />
fun, and vivacious. Above all, she<br />
was a supreme talent whose work is thoroughly<br />
deserving of this annual celebration each <strong>June</strong>. We<br />
often hear people say that they’ve attempted but<br />
failed to finish her novels. But even if people don’t<br />
like those, her diaries demonstrate how funny and<br />
wicked she could be. I defy anyone not to love<br />
them. Interview by Emma Chaplin<br />
Dallowday, Wednesday 20th, 12.30-5pm, at Monk’s<br />
House, Rodmell. Free, but normal admission charges<br />
apply. Also at Monk’s House in <strong>June</strong>, Sunday 17th,<br />
book signing and talk with Nino Strachey, author of<br />
Rooms of their Own, which explores the homes of<br />
Virginia Woolf, her lover Vita Sackville-West, and<br />
Vita’s first cousin Eddy. nationaltrust.org.uk<br />
Photos by Lizzie Lower<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: COUNTRY SHOW<br />
Atkinson Action Horses<br />
At the South of England Show<br />
We speak to Mark Atkinson<br />
of Atkinson Action<br />
Horses, whose live show<br />
will be the new main<br />
arena highlight of the<br />
South of England Show.<br />
You’re horse master<br />
for a lot of TV shows,<br />
such as Poldark, Peaky<br />
Blinders and Victoria.<br />
What’s a horse master?<br />
Someone who’s in charge<br />
of all the horses on set,<br />
making sure everyone is safe. I assess the abilities<br />
of the actors and decide what they are capable of,<br />
and which of our horses would be most appropriate<br />
for them and the scene. We can train actors to ride,<br />
and we also have stunt doubles. The hero horses<br />
have their own identical stunt doubles, sometimes<br />
two. Seamus our Irish draught hero horse for Poldark<br />
(‘Darkie’ in the show) is very famous. We get<br />
journalists coming to Cornwall to spend the day<br />
with him. Both leads, Aidan Turner and Eleanor<br />
Tomlinson are very able riders. Victoria is filmed<br />
near where we’re based in East Yorkshire which is<br />
great for us.<br />
What do you enjoy most about your job? I enjoy<br />
teaching the actors, and the challenge of delivering<br />
on set what the director wants. When the production<br />
stretches over a few months, there’s such a<br />
good atmosphere.<br />
What is most challenging? Teaching the horses to<br />
stand still. Filming involves a lot of waiting around.<br />
What makes for a good action horse? Patience,<br />
bravery, charisma and personality. We’ve got some<br />
beautiful horses, and some common-bred ones.<br />
They all have their place.<br />
Where do your riders come from? All over<br />
the place. Most start as ground crew and can ride<br />
already. We teach them<br />
gymnastics, but occasionally<br />
we’ve recruited gymnasts<br />
and taught them to ride.<br />
All must be incredibly fit.<br />
How did you get into<br />
this line of work? My<br />
dad was a farmer, and I<br />
carried on the business<br />
when he retired. My<br />
hobby was show jumping,<br />
and 28 years ago, my wife<br />
Jill suggested we diversify<br />
into more horse-orientated work. We started offering<br />
livery services, opened a riding school, then<br />
began doing re-enactment and Sealed Knot work,<br />
went onto jousting with English Heritage, and it’s<br />
snowballed since then. It’s a family business. Jill<br />
does the logistics. My son Ben trains the horses and<br />
choreographs the live shows. He’s just come back<br />
from training horses for a Bollywood film. His wife<br />
Katharine is heavily involved, and our daughter<br />
Lucy works with us part of the time too.<br />
What can people expect from the live show?<br />
Thirty minutes of extremely exciting, entertaining<br />
live action by our team of eight male and female<br />
riders, and our fantastic horses. Expect trick riding,<br />
airs above the ground and liberty, which is when<br />
the horse has no tack.<br />
Which horses are you bringing? A mixture, including<br />
Spanish stallions, famous for their skills in<br />
Spanish High School, and some of our film horses,<br />
all of whom have a huge following on Instagram.<br />
Emma Chaplin<br />
Atkinson Action Horses will be performing two live<br />
shows per day at the South of England Show 7/8/9th<br />
<strong>June</strong>, 9am-6.30pm, Ardingly. Under 16s enter for<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: TALK<br />
1997, and all that<br />
‘The future that never happened’<br />
What have New Labour, The<br />
Spice Girls, the Young British<br />
Artists and Britpop got in common?<br />
And where do the Stephen<br />
Lawrence enquiry and the Royal<br />
Family’s reaction to Diana’s<br />
death come into the equation?<br />
In his book 1997 – The Future<br />
That Never Happened, journalist<br />
and broadcaster Richard Power<br />
Sayeed argues that the year in<br />
question was one in which “a<br />
series of huge characters had<br />
an enormous impact on our<br />
culture.” Unfortunately, these<br />
‘characters’ were not all they<br />
seemed, he tells me down the phone: a lot of<br />
powerful people were using seemingly subversive<br />
messages as a smokescreen to make money, or to<br />
promote reactionary or power-boosting agendas.<br />
This was the year, of course, when ‘New Labour’<br />
were overwhelmingly voted into power, and, if<br />
the book were to have an index, the ‘Tony Blair’<br />
entries would take up a couple of pages or more.<br />
And Sayeed doesn’t give him an easy ride: he sees<br />
the Brexit fiasco and the post-2007 austerity drive<br />
as direct results of the failures of Blair’s tenure in<br />
office. There was enormous hope surrounding his<br />
project, but its seeming subversion of the status<br />
quo proved to be illusory, and its many failures<br />
have “led to huge social, political and cultural<br />
upheaval”.<br />
There was something in the air, obviously. The<br />
Spice Girls’ watered-down feminist message was a<br />
positive one, but it was used as a vehicle enabling<br />
them and their management to get enormously<br />
rich. The Royal Family were forced into acting<br />
more ‘humanly’ after public reaction to how they<br />
dealt with Diana’s death, but the PR machine<br />
they built around them has since<br />
enabled them to consolidate their<br />
power and wealth. The YBAs<br />
were not really rebels: in causing<br />
a massively inflated art market,<br />
they merely helped “make reaction<br />
seem subversive”. And then<br />
there was Oasis.<br />
But it was New Labour who<br />
were the biggest exponents of the<br />
faux-subversive trend. “I would<br />
absolutely acknowledge what a<br />
political operator [Blair] was and<br />
the fact that in many ways he had<br />
a positive impact, it’s just that he<br />
never used his enormous political<br />
capital to fundamentally change the free market<br />
system that had been left behind by Thatcher.<br />
Neither did he use it to challenge the creeping<br />
nationalism in British politics.”<br />
“When you disappoint people so severely, and<br />
when supposedly liberal ideas are used to justify<br />
an exploitative economic system, it’s not surprising<br />
that there’s a backlash not only against the establishment<br />
and the political elite but also against<br />
the marginalised groups and the ethnic minority<br />
communities”.<br />
But there’s an upside to all the shattered hope, in<br />
Sayeed’s opinion. “There was nonetheless something<br />
very valuable about having aggressive radical<br />
ideas brought so centrally into the mainstream,<br />
even if [they] got watered down... When you look<br />
at ‘woke’ culture - pervasive liberal progressivism<br />
in terms of young people’s attitudes in the UK - I<br />
think what you are seeing there is the impact of<br />
progressive ideas being fashionable a couple of<br />
decades ago.” Alex Leith<br />
Richard is talking at the (open to all) Labour Party<br />
event, Sat 9th <strong>June</strong>. Tickets via Eventbrite.<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: CINEMA<br />
Left-right: London to Brighton, The Bromley<br />
Boys and She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry<br />
Film '18<br />
Dexter Lee’s <strong>June</strong> round-up<br />
If you’re reading this mag in time and you are a<br />
Depot fan, you’ll want to know that they’re having<br />
a first birthday show on May 31st: they’re showing<br />
the Charlie Chaplin classic City Lights, with a<br />
buffet and a DJ-fuelled party afterwards.<br />
Followers of <strong>Lewes</strong> FC will be interested in the<br />
film The Bromley Boys, a coming-of-age movie<br />
about a gawky teenager who finds acceptance on<br />
the terraces of his local non-league team. The film<br />
is on for a week from May 30th; the first screening<br />
includes a Q&A with local (Seaford) screenwriter<br />
Warren Dudley.<br />
This month’s dementia-friendly screening is the<br />
Elvis Presley film Blue Hawaii (Tues 5th), in<br />
which our Elv swaps his sarge stripes for a lei. Another<br />
one-off on the same day is the documentary<br />
A Cambodian Spring, charting the wave of land<br />
rights protests in the South-east Asian country,<br />
and their tragic consequences. Afterwards there’s a<br />
Q&A with the director and ‘Media Monk’ Venerable<br />
Loun Sovath.<br />
The Education Course this month features films<br />
set in Sussex: the first, on May 29th, was Wish<br />
You Were Here; it continues with Paul Andrew<br />
Williams’ brutal drama London to Brighton<br />
(<strong>June</strong> 5th), and Philip Trevelyan’s brilliant cult<br />
documentary The Moon & the Sledgehammer<br />
(9th, highly recommended).<br />
Another three-film series is the latest from the<br />
U3A lot: this time the theme is ‘music’ and the<br />
movies are Louis Malle’s jazz-rich debut Lift to<br />
the Scaffold (10th), Chico & Rita (17th) and<br />
Whiplash (24th). More music from the <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Chamber Music Festival, who are holding an<br />
open rehearsal in the studio on the 13th, and<br />
screening the noir classic, starring Orson Welles,<br />
The Third Man, on the 15th, presumably chosen<br />
for Anton Karas’ mesmeric zither score. On the<br />
same day, aptly enough, The Piano, directed<br />
by Jane Campion, starts a week of screenings to<br />
celebrate the 25th anniversary of its release (that’ll<br />
make a few of us realise our age!).<br />
Meanwhile <strong>June</strong> sees four of the six films in<br />
Depot’s Queer Film Course: it kicks off with the<br />
documentary My Genderation (7th), followed by<br />
Beginners (with Christopher Plummer and Ewan<br />
McGregor, 14th) Female Trouble (a John Waters<br />
film starring Divine, 21st) and Desert Hearts<br />
(directed by Donna Deitch, 28th).<br />
<strong>June</strong> sees the 20th celebration of Refugee Week<br />
and Depot are marking this with two films, The<br />
Idol (15th-21st), about the Palestinian version of<br />
Pop Idol, and Those Who Jump (18th), a rather<br />
more hard-hitting documentary about refugees<br />
who attempt to get into the Spanish city of Melilla<br />
(an enclave on the north coast of Africa) by scaling<br />
the wall which divides it from Morocco.<br />
On the 25th, in conjunction with Ditchling<br />
Museum of Art + Craft, there’s a two-film series<br />
connected to their exciting exhibition about the<br />
graphic designer/nun Corina Kent, She’s Beautiful<br />
When She’s Angry (25th) and Citizen Jane<br />
(26th). And finally, on the 26th, the pod doors<br />
open on another anniversary: this time a 50th,<br />
with a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece<br />
2001: A Space Odyssey.<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: PERFORMANCE ART<br />
Annika Brown<br />
Sympathy for the devil<br />
Cabaret singer and<br />
storyteller Annika<br />
Brown joins local<br />
legend John Agard<br />
on a double bill at<br />
the All Saints Centre<br />
this month.<br />
Tell us about the<br />
show… John’s play,<br />
Pushkin’s Half Hour is<br />
a satirical homage to<br />
Alexander Pushkin’s<br />
novel Eugene Onegin,<br />
whereas mine is a<br />
homage to the devil archetype. The connection is<br />
that between my songs I’m performing a selection<br />
of poems from John’s From The Devil’s Pulpit.<br />
Doing so takes the audience on a journey, much<br />
like a play.<br />
What is The Devil’s Storybook? It’s the name<br />
of the album I released last November, which<br />
includes predominantly what I’d call ‘story songs’.<br />
After having recorded it, I decided to develop<br />
a show, performed in the character of the devil,<br />
singing songs from the album, framed by John’s<br />
poems, which creates a narrator – and a narration.<br />
What made you decide to use his poems in<br />
your show? I stumbled upon them by accident.<br />
I had wanted to turn my set into a cabaret-esque<br />
show, but at that time I had no clue how to do it.<br />
The moment I read the poems I knew they were<br />
the missing piece of the puzzle. They just seemed<br />
to fit in perfectly.<br />
What’s John Agard like when he’s not stage?<br />
I’ve mostly been living in and around <strong>Lewes</strong> over<br />
the last 12 years, but I didn’t actually know John<br />
before I contacted him about performing his work.<br />
What’s he like off stage? Is one ever off stage? As<br />
captivating and mischievous as on stage, I’d say.<br />
Can you explain what you mean by the ‘devil<br />
archetype’? Apart<br />
from being considered<br />
the root of<br />
all evil, the devil<br />
archetype is mostly<br />
known for hedonism,<br />
for temptation<br />
and excess. On a<br />
deeper level it’s<br />
also the force that<br />
questions the status<br />
quo and instigates<br />
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Photo by Xavier Clarke<br />
be preferable to accepting an insufferable state of<br />
affairs. You could see the devil as the voice of the<br />
people, if you will… showing solidarity by marching<br />
through paradise holding up signs saying:<br />
‘Rights for Mankind’ and ‘Knowledge for All’.<br />
How did this project start? Music’s always<br />
been my passion, along with words, and I’ve been<br />
engaging in both from a very young age. I spent<br />
about ten years performing as a singer/songwriter<br />
until I felt something was missing, and in this<br />
project I found the change I was looking for – to<br />
start charting new, unexplored territory.<br />
Are you playing the devil’s advocate? Satan is a<br />
mythological construct. I don’t believe in a devil.<br />
It’s important not to project our own shadow<br />
onto something or someone else, and to own it.<br />
‘This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine,’ as<br />
Shakespeare wrote. In other cultures that force<br />
isn’t banished into the underworld; it’s considered<br />
necessary to maintain balance in the world. Dark<br />
gods and trickster gods are worshipped alongside<br />
the ones we’d consider more acceptable. You can’t<br />
have light without shadow.<br />
Interview by Ben Bailey<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: MUSIC<br />
New Sussex Opera<br />
Forty years young<br />
‘How refreshing, how delightful, to be resting by<br />
the ocean, factor twenty five sun lotion and a glass<br />
of lemonade.’<br />
Not only has New Sussex Opera director David<br />
Foster transformed the setting of Donizetti’s The<br />
Elixir of Love from an 18th century Italian village<br />
to a contemporary Sussex beach, he’s also made a<br />
few lyrical changes to suit the new seaside location.<br />
“The story is a timeless theme of love, jealousy and<br />
greed”, David explains. “This was an opportunity<br />
to make it a bit fresher for people who might not<br />
normally go and see what they might consider to<br />
be a stuffy old opera from the 1800s. It’s also quite<br />
good because it’s funny and it doesn’t end up with<br />
everybody dying.”<br />
The tour starts at the All Saints centre in <strong>Lewes</strong>,<br />
where NSO’s first-ever performance happened 40<br />
years ago. The group previously existed as Breaky<br />
Bottom Opera, performing at the local vineyard,<br />
before moving and changing its name. If you’ve<br />
missed the opening night in <strong>Lewes</strong> on 26th May,<br />
you can still catch the show when it moves along<br />
the coast to venues including Brighton (Saturday<br />
2nd <strong>June</strong>) and Eastbourne (Sunday 3rd <strong>June</strong>).<br />
Next on the agenda is a special invite-only anniversary<br />
celebration, again at the All Saints centre,<br />
on 1st July. This will include songs from previous<br />
shows as well as an auction of NSO memorabilia. In<br />
addition, there’ll be more details of the company’s<br />
forthcoming autumn show: The Travelling Companion<br />
by Charles Villiers Stanford. “It’s an opera that<br />
hasn’t been put on since the 60s”, says David. “It<br />
was his last opera – he’s mainly known for choral<br />
music – and he never saw it performed. So it’s quite<br />
an exciting adventure from our point of view.”<br />
Whilst The Travelling Companion will be a major<br />
production with a full orchestra, professional soloists<br />
and a professional director, The Elixir of Love is<br />
described as a New Sussex Opera Chorus production.<br />
It’s an opportunity for the whole chorus to<br />
perform and lets other company members develop<br />
their talents. “Our soloists are professionals but<br />
they’re all very young; a couple are still at college<br />
and a couple have just left college.” David honed<br />
his own skills on these in-house shows. “I hadn’t<br />
directed anything since I was at school”, he says.<br />
“There was always that nagging thing of ‘nah, I’ve<br />
left it too late’”. However, the chance to be an assistant<br />
director on NSO’s production of King Arthur<br />
in 2016 led to him directing Trial by Jury later that<br />
year, followed by Orfeo ed Euridice in 2017 and now<br />
the current production.<br />
Current opportunities with NSO include the chorus<br />
– “particularly tenors”, says David – as well as<br />
backstage help and people with a passion for stage<br />
direction or design. “We’ve been around for forty<br />
years but obviously we still need to attract more<br />
people to come and see us – and to come and join<br />
us. It’s always that challenge ahead of us.”<br />
Mark Bridge<br />
newsussexopera.org<br />
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<strong>Lewes</strong> Chamber Music Festival<br />
Bengt into shape<br />
A conversation on the other side of the world<br />
first brought Swedish pianist Bengt Forsberg to<br />
the <strong>Lewes</strong> Chamber Music Festival. Although<br />
he’d visited the area previously – “I was here with<br />
my family many years ago for a performance of<br />
Carmen at Glyndebourne and we fell in love with<br />
your town”, he tells me – it was a chat in Australia<br />
that led to him returning as a performer. Viola<br />
player James Boyd mentioned “this festival of<br />
interesting, not always well known music” run by<br />
violinist Beatrice Philips; Bengt was convinced<br />
and made his festival debut in 2015.<br />
This year, Bengt, Beatrice and James are all<br />
back in town as part of a three-day festival that’s<br />
now a well-established part of the classical<br />
music calendar. Over twenty artists – a blend of<br />
internationally-acclaimed professional musicians<br />
and some of today’s top young performers – will<br />
be presenting seven concerts in historic buildings.<br />
“Chamber music is in no way less intense in<br />
emotional impact or passion than music written<br />
for larger forces, such as a symphony orchestra”,<br />
Bengt explains. “The only actual difference is the<br />
number of players involved; and you can really<br />
come close to the audience in a smaller room.”<br />
Playing with a group of other musicians is “very<br />
much a shared venture”, he says. “You always have<br />
to find a mutual understanding of the music.”<br />
Last year, some of Bengt’s rehearsals were open to<br />
visitors. For <strong>2018</strong>, there’s a formal open rehearsal<br />
ahead of the opening night. I wondered how<br />
comfortable he was with an audience hearing what<br />
could be thought of as an imperfect performance.<br />
He tells me the process is inspiring: “There is no<br />
such thing as a ‘perfect performance’; interpreting<br />
music is an ongoing process of finding hidden secrets<br />
and revealing possible truths in it.” His definition<br />
of a good pianist is similarly broad and relaxed.<br />
“Someone who can think ‘outside the box’, so to<br />
speak; who enjoys discovering also the established<br />
masters... and, above all, feels great joy in music<br />
making; but that goes for all musicians, I believe.”<br />
The musical theme for this year’s festival is<br />
‘Exploring Vienna’, which Bengt describes as<br />
“a subject very dear to me”. It’s Beatrice who’s<br />
chosen most of the music “but I might have come<br />
with some suggestions”, Bengt adds. He’s become<br />
known as someone who enjoys uncovering and<br />
playing lesser-known works: does he have any interest<br />
in composing for himself? “No, not at all –<br />
there is too much music composed today. I prefer<br />
to discover exciting but dead composers who can’t<br />
defend themselves; there’s so much fantastic music<br />
out there waiting to be played!” Mark Bridge<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Chamber Music Festival runs from 14th to<br />
16th <strong>June</strong>. leweschambermusicfestival.com<br />
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AT ALTITUDE<br />
AN ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION NATIONAL PARTNER EXHIBITION<br />
AND<br />
OMER FAST: 5000 FEET IS THE BEST<br />
2 JUNE – 30 SEPTEMBER<br />
FREE ADMISSION<br />
townereastbourne.org.uk<br />
Image: Mishka Henner, Unknown Site, Noordwijk aan Zee, South Holland, 2011.<br />
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London, Courtesy of the artist. © the artist
ON THIS MONTH: ART<br />
Focus on: ‘On Foot’<br />
By Patricia Thornton. Oil on primed paper, 20x16cms<br />
What’s the subject of this picture? I did<br />
a residency with Rachael Adams and Robert<br />
Littleford at Martyrs’ two years ago, about<br />
‘periphery’ and ‘journeys’ and I’m still working<br />
on those themes. I’ve been preoccupied with the<br />
theme of refugees – of people on the move – since<br />
the upheaval in the Middle East started. I’m always<br />
interested in narrative – in open-ended stories.<br />
Did the image come out of your head? No. I<br />
like to work from images I find on the internet, or<br />
photos taken on my mobile, however badly, and<br />
go from there. This came from a series of pictures<br />
I found of a group of refugees walking on the side<br />
of the autobahn from Hungary to Austria. I was<br />
moved by the desperation that must have driven<br />
them to leave their homes, and the hope they must<br />
have carried in their hearts about a new future.<br />
Does it have any personal relevance to your<br />
family history? Perhaps, indirectly. As a child, I<br />
never knew where half of my family came from,<br />
and I recently did a DNA test, with fascinating<br />
results. It seems that some of my ancestry is from<br />
Turkey, Yugoslavia and the South Mediterranean,<br />
so my relatives might well have been displaced.<br />
Do you always work in oils? Along with other<br />
materials: there is often an element of collage to my<br />
work. I like the way I can move oils around, it gives<br />
me time to change my mind, and acrylics dry too fast.<br />
Has anyone directly influenced your work?<br />
Peter Doig comes to mind, among many others.<br />
Tell us about your working practice… I work<br />
in a converted garage in the summer, and in a<br />
spare room in the winter. I usually start with some<br />
music on, and I get so absorbed that often the<br />
cd’s been finished an hour before I notice. I don’t<br />
wear special clothes, with unfortunate results, but I<br />
always turn my jumper inside out.<br />
Take us to a gallery… We’re spoilt for choice<br />
around here, even if Brighton should up its game.<br />
The Towner has a wonderful collection, as does<br />
Pallant House. But, because of its rural setting,<br />
let’s go to Farleys Farm to see some Lee Miller. I<br />
particularly admire her war photographs. AL<br />
Patricia Thornton, Maps and Dreams, Martyrs’<br />
Gallery, <strong>June</strong> 2nd – 22nd, Thur-Sun, 12-5pm (PV<br />
<strong>June</strong> 1st, 6pm)<br />
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ART<br />
ART & ABOUT<br />
In town this month<br />
Street, an exhibition of photographs by Vic Hind, is at<br />
21 Priory Street on the 2nd and 3rd. Always a keen<br />
photographer, Vic has recently turned her camera – and<br />
her voyeuristic eye – on those around her. “This exhibition<br />
is about what we see when we’re out and about;<br />
what people are doing, wearing, how they move, how<br />
they communicate.”<br />
From the 1st until the 3rd you can<br />
catch the open studio of classically<br />
trained painter Jason Tremlett, who<br />
teaches a traditional approach to<br />
drawing and painting from life from<br />
his Fisher Street atelier. This informal<br />
exhibition will showcase the<br />
best of the twelve students’ work, as<br />
well as pieces by Jason himself.<br />
[jasontremlett.com/studio]<br />
Exodus 2<br />
Maps and Dreams, an<br />
exhibition of paintings<br />
about great journeys by<br />
Patricia Thornton, is at<br />
Martyrs’ Gallery from<br />
the 2nd until the 22nd.<br />
More on pg 49.<br />
Ursula Stone<br />
Ursula Stone<br />
is the featured<br />
artist at Chalk<br />
Gallery from<br />
the 11th, exhibiting<br />
works<br />
including her<br />
popular drawings<br />
in Chinese<br />
ink. Meanwhile,<br />
some of the<br />
other Chalkies<br />
decamp to the seaside, exhibiting their work at Grey Walls Gallery,<br />
in The Laughing Dog at Brighton Marina. Janice Thurston,<br />
Leila Godden, Lyndsey Smith, Nadia Chalk, Sue Collins<br />
and Susan Lynch are amongst the artists who feature in the fourweek<br />
exhibition opening on the 2nd.<br />
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ART<br />
Out of town<br />
Newhaven Open Call is an artist-led initiative inviting local<br />
people and visitors to the area to make a new piece of art, in<br />
any medium, about Newhaven. Works should be based on<br />
a personal experience of being in the town, responding to<br />
locations, artefacts, nature, or social and political agendas. One<br />
piece by each artist will be exhibited at UTC Harbourside,<br />
as part of Artwave in August. Workshops for would-be but<br />
inexperienced artists will be held during July. Find more<br />
details at the Newhaven Town Council office in Fort Road, the<br />
Newhaven Museum at Paradise Park or at newhavenprojects.co.uk from the 1st of <strong>June</strong>.<br />
Annemarie O’Sullivan<br />
And there are more opportunities to get making. Monk’s House has a<br />
programme of events that includes twilight tours, a bookbinding workshop<br />
and a wood engraving weekend with Keith Pettit [nationaltrust.org.uk/<br />
monks-house]. Over at Charleston, meanwhile, there’s an Introduction<br />
to Basketry coming up, where you can create your own ‘Sciathog’ basket,<br />
with Annemarie O’Sullivan. And now is the time to book places on the<br />
Young Bohemians Summer School in July, with drawing, painting,<br />
collage, printing and sculpture courses for 8-17 year olds [charleston.org.uk].<br />
Open every Sunday from April - October <strong>2018</strong><br />
Experience the extraordinary atmosphere of the Sussex<br />
home of the Surrealists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose<br />
whose friends and guests included Picasso, Carrington,<br />
Man Ray and Miró. We open to visitors on Sundays from<br />
10am, offering 50 minute guided tours, exhibitions in our<br />
gallery and a sculpture garden to explore.<br />
Muddles Green, Chiddingly<br />
East Sussex, BN8 6HW<br />
Tel: 01825 872856<br />
www.farleyshouseandgallery.co.uk<br />
@ FarleysHG
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SAVE THE DATE
ART<br />
Out of town (cont)<br />
Anita Chester<br />
Anita Chester has been<br />
collecting plastic rubbish<br />
from the beach since 2011.<br />
She uses it to create textile<br />
hangings, printed designs<br />
and three-dimensional<br />
works, with the underlying<br />
and timely message that<br />
we should be very worried<br />
about our throwaway<br />
culture. Fretting, an<br />
exhibition of her work, is at Devonshire Collective<br />
Café and Gallery in Eastbourne from the 5th-9th.<br />
Worthing Artists Open<br />
Houses takes place on weekends<br />
from the 16th of <strong>June</strong> until<br />
the 1st of July, with over 325<br />
participating artists presenting<br />
their work in 57 different<br />
venues throughout the town<br />
[worthingartistsopenhouses.<br />
com]. Further west, Virginia<br />
Woolf: an exhibition inspired by<br />
her writings continues at Pallant House. Featuring 80<br />
female artists working from 1854 to the present day,<br />
the selected work ‘seeks to show how her perspectives<br />
on feminism and creativity have remained relevant to a<br />
community of creative women across time’.<br />
If you’re heading<br />
east, visit three<br />
award-winning<br />
galleries in one<br />
day on the Coastal<br />
Culture Trail. The<br />
Towner Gallery<br />
in Eastbourne, the<br />
De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill and the Jerwood<br />
Gallery in Hastings are all within 17 miles of each<br />
other and an easy cycle or train ride (or an intrepid<br />
weekend’s walk!). Visit coastalculturetrail.com to<br />
explore the options. There’s much to see.<br />
Anna Vartiainen, Venue 11<br />
Assembly by Alison Wilding<br />
Mishka Henner, Unknown Site, Noordwijk aan Zee,<br />
South Holland, 2011 Arts Council Collection,<br />
Southbank Centre, London, courtesy of the artist<br />
At Altitude is at Towner Gallery from<br />
the 2nd. A book illustration from 1786,<br />
A Circular View from the Balloon at its<br />
greatest Elevation, is considered to be<br />
one of the first ever ‘real’ aerial views and<br />
sets the context for this exhibition, which<br />
explores ‘how our experience of landscape,<br />
space and territory has been transformed<br />
through new aerial perspectives of the<br />
world’. Once again working in partnership<br />
with the Arts Council, the exhibition brings<br />
together painting, sculpture, photography<br />
and film around the theme.<br />
Continue<br />
on down to<br />
De La Warr<br />
Pavilion for<br />
an exhibition<br />
of new and<br />
existing works by leading UK sculptor and<br />
Royal Academician, Alison Wilding. From<br />
the 23rd, Right Here and Out There unfolds<br />
both inside and outside of the gallery, with<br />
works selected in response to the landscape<br />
and the light. In her own words, ‘The sharp<br />
lines of the building reflect the sharp lines<br />
of the sculptures, and the flatness of the<br />
horizon… the sculptures seem to hold the<br />
same weight as those ships’. The exhibition<br />
continues until the 16th of September.<br />
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Sussex Community Festival<br />
Join us for a day of free<br />
entertainment, fun and discovery<br />
SUNDAY 24 JUNE <strong>2018</strong>, 11AM–3PM<br />
UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX CAMPUS, FALMER, BRIGHTON<br />
Our beautiful campus is nestled in the South Downs countryside right next to Falmer Station.<br />
We invite you to a fun-filled day of free activities and entertainment for all ages.<br />
COME ALONG TO ENJOY:<br />
bands and music research demos treasure trail workshops children’s activities<br />
sports tasters bouncy castle face painting fun experiments aerial circus skills<br />
storytelling food stalls World Cup football shown in our campus bar<br />
FIND OUT MORE AND BOOK YOUR FREE TICKETS:<br />
www.sussex.ac.uk/festival
JUNE listings<br />
SATURDAY 2 & SUNDAY 3<br />
THURSDAY 7<br />
Comedy at the Con. With<br />
Pierre Hollins (right), Paddy<br />
Lennox, Dave Fensome and<br />
Andrea Hubert. Con Club,<br />
7.30pm, £8-£12.<br />
THURSDAY 7 – SATURDAY 9<br />
Living History Festival. Weald & Downland<br />
Living Museum, Chichester, 10.30am-5pm,<br />
£6.50-£14 (family ticket offers available).<br />
SUNDAY 3<br />
Chailey Heritage Focus Run. Raising funds for<br />
the DREAM Centre Appeal (see pg 14). Borde<br />
Hill Garden, £5-£20. runchaileyheritage.org.uk.<br />
MONDAY 4<br />
Greening Tomorrow. Alan Simpson, adviser on<br />
sustainable economics to the Shadow Chancellor<br />
John McDonnell, opens a <strong>Lewes</strong> Labour discussion.<br />
Phoenix Centre, 7.30pm, free.<br />
TUESDAY 5<br />
Attempting Green Living in a Sussex Wood.<br />
Chris Yarrow provides a brief résumé of British<br />
forestry. Council Chamber, <strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall,<br />
2.30pm, free.<br />
Headstrong Club talk and discussion. Guy<br />
Standing speaks on ‘Basic income and how we<br />
can make it happen’. Elly, 8pm, £3.<br />
WEDNESDAY 6<br />
Gardening with the Best Beloved. Talk with<br />
Val Bourne, writer for The Telegraph and author<br />
of books including The Living Jigsaw. St Thomas<br />
Church Hall, 7.30pm for 7.45pm, £3.<br />
South of England Show. The best of British<br />
countryside living: the biggest such jamboree in<br />
the South East, in Ardingly. See page 37.<br />
FRIDAY 8<br />
Gin tasting and book reading. An evening<br />
of botanical gins, readings and lists inspired by<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>ian Lulah Ellender’s book Elisabeth’s Lists.<br />
AS Apothecary, 7.30pm, £25 (tickets limited).<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Barbican Rotary Annual Quiz. General<br />
knowledge quiz, teams of up to six. Bring a picnic,<br />
bar available. Kingston Village Hall, 7.30pm, £5.<br />
SATURDAY 9<br />
Never in a Million Years. Astronomy presentation<br />
with Jane Green FRAS. Willingdon Community<br />
School, Eastbourne, 7.30pm, £5-£12.<br />
Corbynism. <strong>Lewes</strong> Labour meeting with Guardian<br />
writer Zoe Williams, Momentum’s Laura<br />
Parker and author Richard Power Sayeed (see pg<br />
39). Town Hall, 10.30am, £5.<br />
SATURDAY 9 – SUNDAY 15 JULY<br />
Waterlily Festival.<br />
Enjoy the waterlilies<br />
on the lakes at<br />
Sheffield Park and<br />
Garden, through<br />
a variety of tours,<br />
events and workshops.<br />
See<br />
nationaltrust.org.uk/sheffield-park-and-garden.<br />
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<strong>Lewes</strong> Castle<br />
& Anne of Cleves<br />
House<br />
Anne of Cleves House<br />
Princess & the Pea<br />
29 th May, 1pm -4pm<br />
Drop in for storytelling,<br />
dressing up & craft activities.<br />
Tudor Weekend<br />
14 th & 15 th July<br />
Discover how the Tudors lived;<br />
dance classes, cooking demos,<br />
textile making & much more!<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Castle*<br />
Digging for Treasure - 31 st May<br />
Dig, sort, draw & make your<br />
own treasure to take home.<br />
Ages 4-8. Adult to stay.<br />
*Tickets £5 per child<br />
*Booking required for<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Castle activities<br />
www.sussexpast.co.uk<br />
Half<br />
Term<br />
Fun in<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong><br />
WEALD & DOWNLAND LIVING MUSEUM<br />
2-3 <strong>June</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 10.30am-5.00pm<br />
Singleton, Chichester,<br />
West Sussex PO18 OEU<br />
wealddown.co.uk<br />
01243 811363 |
JUNE listings (cont)<br />
Image courtesy of<br />
Dave & Albert ‘Les’ Scott<br />
MONDAY 11<br />
History of the<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Workhouse<br />
Building. Mat<br />
Homewood tells the<br />
story of the <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
workhouse building<br />
and its various uses from construction in 1868 to<br />
demolition in the 1950s. King’s Church, 7pm for<br />
7.30pm, £1/£3.<br />
WEDNESDAY 13<br />
The Life and<br />
Work of Puccini.<br />
Illustrated talk<br />
exploring how<br />
Puccini’s career<br />
exemplifies the<br />
fracturing of European culture at that time.<br />
Uckfield Civic Centre, 2pm, £7 (members free).<br />
THURSDAY 14<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Needlewriters/South Downs Poetry<br />
Festival Special. Poetry surgeries, open mics<br />
and readings. See needlewriters.co.uk.<br />
The Brighton of Aubrey Beardsley. Illustrated<br />
talk with Alexia Lazou. The Keep, 5.30pm, £5.<br />
The Tempest. Shakespeare’s play performed in<br />
the open air by The Lord Chamberlain’s Men.<br />
Charleston, 7.30pm, £20/£18.<br />
THURS 14 – SUN 17<br />
Brewers Arms Inaugural Cider and<br />
Perry Festival. ‘Meet the Producer’<br />
talk and tasting with Matt from Ascension<br />
Cider on the 14th at 7.30pm;<br />
the festival runs throughout the weekend. Brewers<br />
Arms, free (£10 from pub for talk, including tastings<br />
and nibbles from Richards Butchers).<br />
Patricia Thornton<br />
Maps and Dreams<br />
2–22 <strong>June</strong> • 12–5pm • Thu–Sun<br />
Private View • Friday 1 <strong>June</strong> • 6pm<br />
www.martyrs.gallery
<strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Little<br />
Theatre<br />
The Home of<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Theatre Club<br />
The Merchant of Venice<br />
Written by William Shakespeare<br />
Directed by Shaun Hughes<br />
Friday 29 <strong>June</strong> - Saturday 7 July 7:45pm excl.<br />
Saturday 1 July and Sunday 2 July evenings.<br />
Matinee Saturday 1 July and 7 July 2:45pm.<br />
£12/Members £8<br />
www.lewestheatre.org<br />
Box Office: 01273 474826<br />
Written by<br />
WILLIAM<br />
SHAKESPEARE<br />
The<br />
Directed by<br />
SHAUN<br />
HUGHES<br />
Mer<br />
chant<br />
of<br />
Ven ice<br />
Trading Boundaries<br />
proudly presents<br />
Puccini’s<br />
La Boheme ′<br />
in association with<br />
Opera D’Amore<br />
Saturday 7 July<br />
Featuring a cast who have<br />
performed at Glyndebourne,<br />
English National Opera and<br />
the Royal Opera House.<br />
A rare opportunity to witness a<br />
professional production of one of<br />
the most popular operas in such<br />
an intimate, atmospheric venue.<br />
Enjoy dinner by candlelight<br />
and then experience the cast<br />
performing around you while<br />
they use our whole restaurant<br />
as their canvas.<br />
For tickets and information<br />
on all upcoming concerts:<br />
BOX OFFICE: 01825 790200<br />
TRADINGBOUNDARIES.COM<br />
Sheffield Green, Nr Fletching,<br />
East Sussex TN22 3RB<br />
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'Summer is a-coming in'<br />
Mid-Summer Concert on <strong>June</strong> 23rd<br />
at 7.30pm in Piddinghoe Parish Church<br />
featuring the Ouse Valley Singers<br />
and student band 'Funktionality' from<br />
Southdowns College, <strong>Lewes</strong>.<br />
A celebration of summer with<br />
a medley of music including<br />
Classical, Folk, Pop and Funk.<br />
Entry £5<br />
children under 12 free.<br />
Tickets on the door or from<br />
Vanessa Giles 01273 965663.<br />
G A R D E N<br />
There’s something for everyone<br />
A Summer of Music<br />
Operatic High Tea<br />
Sun 1st July, 3-5pm<br />
An elegant High Tea, glass<br />
of fizz and operatic<br />
highlights *BE Sponsored by<br />
A Boundless Summer<br />
Sat 7th – Sun 8th July<br />
UB40 and The Gipsy<br />
Kings headline this music<br />
festival in the parkland.<br />
Purchase a ticket at the<br />
shop *BE<br />
Bordehillgarden<br />
@bordehillgarden<br />
Open Air Opera<br />
La Bohème Fri 27th July<br />
The Marriage of Figaro<br />
Sat 28th July<br />
Two evenings of<br />
summer opera<br />
performed by<br />
Opera Brava. *BE<br />
Musical Picnics<br />
Sundays in August,<br />
plus 2nd Sept<br />
Bring a picnic and enjoy<br />
live music in the Garden.<br />
Free (normal admission<br />
applies).<br />
*BE – Booking essential at<br />
www.bordehill.co.uk/events<br />
Bordehillgarden<br />
Tel: 01444 450326 www.bordehill.co.uk<br />
JUNE listings (cont)<br />
SATURDAY 16<br />
Sussex Gin & Fizz<br />
Festival. Supplier stalls,<br />
talks by industry experts,<br />
free samples, food and<br />
live music. Southover<br />
Grange Gardens, 11am-<br />
6pm, £15.<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Castle Rotary’s sponsored walk. Raising<br />
funds for Chestnut Tree House. Registration opens<br />
8.30am at Southover Church Hall. Contact <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Castle Rotary for more details: 07957829997.<br />
Little Edinburgh. Four comedians prep for Edinburgh<br />
Fringe. All Saints, 4pm-9.30pm, £6.50 per<br />
show or £13 for whole day. See pg 33.<br />
MONDAY 18<br />
ABCD in Palestine & Palestine Community<br />
Co-operative talk about their work to help women,<br />
families and communities in Palestine. White Hart,<br />
7pm, free.<br />
FRIDAY 22<br />
The Turbulent Pub Life of <strong>Lewes</strong>. A Friends of<br />
Anne of Cleves’ House talk by <strong>Viva</strong> contributor Mat<br />
Homewood, the authority on the history of <strong>Lewes</strong>’<br />
boozers. Anne of Cleves, 7.30pm, £8/£5.<br />
FRIDAY 22 & SATURDAY 23<br />
South Downs Beer & Cider Festival. Nearly 90<br />
real ales, plus ciders and perries,<br />
plus hot and cold food.<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall, 11am-<br />
3pm & 5-10.30pm (Friday)<br />
and 11am-6pm (Saturday),<br />
£4-£7.<br />
SATURDAY 23<br />
Table-top book sale. Fundraiser for Freedom from<br />
Torture East Sussex, selling books on the theme of<br />
travelling/walking. Cliffe precinct, 10am-2pm. >>><br />
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S T P E T E R & S T J A M E S H O S P I C E<br />
SATURDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 7PM<br />
Wakehurst<br />
Ardingly, Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH17 6TN<br />
Join us beneath the stars as we take a walk to remember this<br />
September. Enjoy a sponsored stroll through Wakehurst’s<br />
beautiful botanic gardens and lay a lantern alongside<br />
hundreds of others to remember and celebrate the people<br />
you love. As your glistening lantern brings light to dark<br />
hours, you’ll help our hospice nurses do the same.<br />
Entry is £15 before 1st <strong>June</strong> and £18 thereafter.<br />
Under 16s £5.<br />
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JUNE listings (cont)<br />
SATURDAY 23 (CONT)<br />
Summer is a-coming in. Mid-Summer concert<br />
featuring the Ouse Valley Singers and student<br />
band ‘Funktionality’ from Southdowns College,<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>. Piddinghoe Parish Church, 7.30pm, £5<br />
(kids under 12 free).<br />
MONDAY 25 TO FRIDAY 29<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Skittles Tournament. Money raised<br />
provides funds which enable the Rotary Club to<br />
support charities and local people in need. Entry<br />
will be £30 per team (teams of 6), see lewes-rotary.<br />
org/skittles for details.<br />
TUESDAY 26<br />
The Alternative Alice in<br />
Wonderland. Set in the surroundings<br />
of the college grounds.<br />
Eastbourne College, The Dell,<br />
8.15pm, £5.<br />
Open Gardens<br />
SUNDAY 3<br />
Rodmell Open Gardens. Proceeds to<br />
St Peter’s Church and other village clubs<br />
and societies. 2pm-3pm, £5 (accompanied<br />
children free).<br />
SATURDAY 9 & SUNDAY 10<br />
Southease Open<br />
Gardens. Take the<br />
chance to look at<br />
their beautifully restored<br />
church tower.<br />
12.30pm-5pm, £6<br />
(children free).<br />
SUNDAY 10<br />
Fletching Garden Trail. Funds raised benefit<br />
Fletching Church of England Primary<br />
School. Fletching, 11am-5pm, £6 (kids free).<br />
Southover Open Gardens. Proceeds to<br />
Southover Bonfire Society. 2.30pm-6pm<br />
(some gardens to 6pm), £5 (accompanied<br />
under 16s free).<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Live Lit double bill: John Agard and Annika<br />
Brown. See page 43.<br />
FRIDAY 29<br />
Free NHS Health Checks. For 40-74 year olds<br />
living in East Sussex. Check includes BMI, blood<br />
pressure and cholesterol. Phoenix Centre, call<br />
0300 303 3624 to book an appointment.<br />
FRIDAY 29 – SATURDAY 7 JULY<br />
The Merchant of Venice. Presented by <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Theatre Club and directed by Shaun Hughes. See<br />
lewestheatre.org.<br />
SATURDAY 30<br />
Knowlands Farm<br />
Butterfly Walk. A<br />
talk and walk with<br />
conservationist Nick<br />
Lear. Knowlands<br />
Farm, two walks at<br />
12pm and 2.30pm,<br />
£15/£10 (accompanied children free).<br />
SUNDAY 24<br />
Rose Cottage Open Garden. In aid of<br />
Saturday Circles Club <strong>Lewes</strong>. 1 Rose Cottage,<br />
Chalvington Road, Golden Cross near<br />
Hailsham, 11am-5pm, £4, children free<br />
(see pg 16).<br />
SATURDAY 30<br />
Open Garden in<br />
aid of Alzheimer’s<br />
Research UK. High<br />
Trees, 83 Firle Road,<br />
Seaford, 11am-4.30pm,<br />
£6 (kids free).<br />
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MUSIC<br />
Classical round-up<br />
SATURDAY 2, 7PM<br />
Thibaut Garcia. Evening concert with the Franco-<br />
Spanish guitarist as part of Glynde Place Concert<br />
Series. Programme to include the JS Bach Chaconne<br />
from the solo violin Partita in D minor.<br />
Glynde Place, £30/£15<br />
SATURDAY 9, 7.30PM<br />
Doctors for Nepal Charity Concert. Summer<br />
fundraising concert with proceeds toward improving<br />
healthcare in rural Nepal. Julia Bishop (violin),<br />
Howard Beach (harpsichord), Ana-Maria Rincon<br />
(soprano) and the University of Chichester Baroque<br />
Orchestra. Music will include Handel’s Concerto<br />
Grosso op. 6 no. 6, Bach’s Oboe and violin double concerto<br />
in C minor and <strong>Viva</strong>ldi’s Cello concerto in C minor.<br />
St Anne’s Church, £15/£8<br />
SUNDAY 10, 4PM<br />
Corelli Ensemble. Features the winner of the<br />
Segovia Competition, Paul Gregory, playing <strong>Viva</strong>ldi’s<br />
Guitar Concerto and Cavatina from the film The Deer<br />
Hunter. The Corelli Ensemble’s musical director,<br />
Maeve Jenkinson plays the theme from Ladies in<br />
Lavender. Programme will also include Elgar’s<br />
Serenade for Strings, and Holst’s St Paul’s Suite.<br />
St Pancras Church, £12/£10 (children free) >>><br />
Paul Gregory (Corelli Ensemble)<br />
GLYNDE PLACE<br />
CONCERT SERIES <strong>2018</strong><br />
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists<br />
Andrei Ionita (cello)<br />
with Naoko Sonoda (piano)<br />
Saturday 7pm, 7 July 2017<br />
Beethoven•Schumann•Rachmaninov<br />
Tickets, info and other events - glyndeplace.co.uk<br />
12 May -Mariam Batsashvili (piano)<br />
2 <strong>June</strong> - Thibaut Garcia (guitar)<br />
House Open<br />
May & <strong>June</strong> - We, Th, Su & BH Mo<br />
Aug -26&27 Sep - 1 & 2 for Artwave<br />
MOTETS<br />
Bach and beyond<br />
Choral works by<br />
Bach | Bruckner | Duruflé | Copland<br />
Esterházy Chamber Choir<br />
Conductor: Richard Dawson<br />
Saturday 23 <strong>June</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 7.30pm<br />
St Anne’s Church, <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Tickets £10 in advance from <strong>Lewes</strong> Tourist<br />
Information Centre or from our website.<br />
£12 on the door (under 16s free)<br />
See www.esterhazychoir.org for more details
MUSIC<br />
SUNDAY 10, 6PM<br />
Musicians of All Saints. Candlelit concert with<br />
Anne Hodgson (Flute) Clare Worth (Oboe)<br />
and Russ Robinson (Viola). Including works by<br />
Holst, Hinchcliffe, Graebner and Telemann.<br />
Hamsey Old Church, £12/£9 (under 18s free)<br />
THURS 14 – SAT 16<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Chamber Music Festival. Three days<br />
of chamber music in <strong>Lewes</strong>, featuring works of<br />
Schonberg, Korngold, Beethoven, Mozart and<br />
Schubert (see pg 47). Various venues, see leweschambermusicfestival.com<br />
for full programme<br />
SUNDAY 17, 6PM<br />
Musicians of All Saints. A quartet from MAS<br />
plus two soloists perform Haydn’s String Quartet<br />
in B minor, Op.33 no.1; Holst’s Four Songs for<br />
Voice and Violin; Peter Warlock’s Complete Songs<br />
with String Quartet, and Beethoven’s String<br />
Quartet in F major.<br />
Hamsey Old Church, £12/£9 (under 18s free)<br />
SAT 23 – SUN 1 JULY<br />
Villages Music Festival. Celebration of live<br />
music in the villages of Ripe, Chalvington and<br />
Laughton. Highlights include masterclass with<br />
Dame Felicity Lott, Brighton Film Quartet,<br />
Baroque flute with Neil Maclaren and the Magnard<br />
Ensemble’s Revolting Rhymes and Marvellous<br />
Music, based on the work of Roald Dahl.<br />
See villagesmusicfestival.org<br />
SATURDAY 23, 7.30PM<br />
Esterházy Chamber Choir. Performing<br />
motets by Bach, Bruckner, Duruflé and Copland<br />
with conductor Richard Dawson.<br />
St Anne’s Church, £10<br />
Magnard (Villages Music Festival)<br />
LEWES<br />
FESTIVAL OF<br />
SONG<br />
6-8 TH JULY<br />
<strong>2018</strong><br />
St. Anne’s Church, <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Friday 6th at 7.30pm<br />
YOUTH AND DREAMS<br />
Mahler, Berg, Caplet and English songs<br />
Saturday 7th at 1pm<br />
NOCTURNE: CELESTIAL MUSIC<br />
Schubert and Debussy<br />
Saturday 7th at 7pm<br />
WOLF’S ITALIENISCHES<br />
LIEDERBUCH<br />
A battle of the sexes in forty-six<br />
miniatures<br />
Sunday 8th at 1pm<br />
‘IF WORDS BE MADE<br />
OF BREATH’<br />
songs with guitar<br />
Dowland, Britten, De Falla, Brett Dean<br />
Sunday 8th at 7.30pm<br />
SACRED RAPTURES<br />
songs and à cappella choir<br />
Barber, Britten, Macmillan, Weir,<br />
Pärt, commission by Orlando Gough<br />
Festival Pass £60<br />
Evening concerts £15, lunchtime £12<br />
Under 16s half-price<br />
BOOK ONLINE<br />
www.lewesfestivalofsong.co.uk<br />
or from <strong>Lewes</strong> Tourist Information<br />
Centre (01273 483448)<br />
Patron: Mark Padmore<br />
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GIG GUIDE // JUNE<br />
GIG OF THE MONTH: THE MEMBERS<br />
(SUPPORTING JOHNNY MOPED)<br />
We have grown accustomed to the Con Club spoiling us<br />
with at least one legendary punk gig a month, and we are<br />
not disappointed with the line-up for <strong>June</strong>. The mighty<br />
Members are supporting Johnny Moped on 16th <strong>June</strong> and<br />
we can’t wait. The spiky-haired foursome were founded<br />
in Surrey 1977 (and reformed in 2007); those who were<br />
around at the time will remember their satirical commentary<br />
on suburban life and true-to-punk maverick style,<br />
encompassed in their 1979 hit The Sound of the Suburbs - a<br />
classic single. For those who weren’t around, if you’ve a<br />
penchant for an ‘eclectic mix of punk, reggae, surf, pop and anthemic songs’ head along and check them out.<br />
As an added bonus, the night of punk nostalgia is headlined by Mr Moped, something of a legend in his own<br />
right. Saturday 16, Con Club, doors 7.30pm, £15 Kelly Hill<br />
FRIDAY 1<br />
Jonathan Toubin Dance Party. Supercharged<br />
RnB. Con Club, 8pm, £12<br />
SATURDAY 2<br />
Bob Kenward. Folk (songs from Kent). Elly,<br />
8pm, £6<br />
Love Action. 80s night presented by Fruitful<br />
Soundsystem. Swan, 9pm, free<br />
SUNDAY 3<br />
Spear of Destiny. Post punk. Do you believe in<br />
the West World? Con Club, 7.30pm, £16<br />
MONDAY 4<br />
Aurora Chanson. Jazz. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
FRIDAY 8<br />
Too Many Crooks. Ska. The Con Club,<br />
7.30pm, £10<br />
SATURDAY 9<br />
Nancy Kerr. Folk (English trad & modern). Elly,<br />
8pm, £9<br />
SUNDAY 10<br />
Open Space Open Mic. Music, poetry and<br />
performance. Elly, 7.30pm, free<br />
MONDAY 11<br />
Robert Fowler. Tenor sax. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
FRIDAY 15<br />
AYU. Eight-piece funk band. The Con Club,<br />
7.30pm, free<br />
SATURDAY 16<br />
Johnny Moped + The Members. See Gig of<br />
the Month<br />
Fourgone Confusion. Folk (contemporary).<br />
Elly, 8pm, £6<br />
SUNDAY 17<br />
The Contenders (in the bar). Rock blues. Con<br />
Club, 3.30pm, free<br />
MONDAY 18<br />
Gabriel Garrick. Jazz. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
>>><br />
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JUN<br />
@<br />
LEWES<br />
CON CLUB<br />
1 JONATHAN TOUBIN DANCE PARTY<br />
15 83 SPEAR OF DESTINY<br />
TOO MANY CROOKS<br />
AYU FUNK BAND<br />
16 JOHNNY MOPED/THE MEMBERS<br />
17 CONTENDERS<br />
22TOWN OF CATS<br />
24ARCELIA<br />
29 LAZY SUSAN EVENT WITH GUEST DJ<br />
30 LOOSE CABOOSE NIGHT<br />
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SATURDAY<br />
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A COMMERCIAL SQUARE<br />
BONFIRE LTD EVENT<br />
LOCATION: BN7 1UU<br />
TICKETS<br />
ADULTS: £8.00 in advance<br />
£10.00 on the gate<br />
CHILDREN 5 to 16: £3.00<br />
Under 5s: FREE<br />
GATES OPEN - 3:00pm<br />
MUSIC STARTS - 4:00pm<br />
FINISH - 10:00pm<br />
FEATURING THREE BANDS<br />
The Supreme Collective<br />
Soultastic<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>, Glynde &<br />
Beddingham Brass<br />
Afternoon start,<br />
night-time finish<br />
Firework finale<br />
Licenced bar<br />
Barbecue food<br />
Side stalls<br />
ALSO SUPPORTED BY<br />
TICKETS AND MORE: www.promsinthepaddock.co.uk<br />
TICKETS ALSO AVAILABLE FROM THESE LEWES OUTLETS:<br />
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GIG GUIDE // JUNE<br />
FRIDAY 22<br />
Jack Allsobrook & The Middleways. Performing<br />
debut album. All Saints, 7.30pm, £12<br />
Town Of Cats. Afrobeat/ska/funk. Con Club,<br />
7.30pm, free<br />
SATURDAY 23<br />
Ramekins. Folk (sea songs). Elly, 8pm, £6<br />
SUNDAY 24<br />
Arcelia (in the bar). Soulful folk. Con Club,<br />
3.30pm, free<br />
MONDAY 25<br />
Terry Smith. Jazz guitar. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
FRIDAY 29<br />
Lazy Susan event with guest DJ. Con Club,<br />
7.30pm, £4 (members free)<br />
SATURDAY 30<br />
Loose Caboose Night. Northern soul. Con Club,<br />
7.30pm, £5<br />
The Old Firm. Music hall songs & monologues.<br />
Elly, 8pm, £7<br />
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ADVERTORIAL<br />
The Alternative<br />
Alice in Wonderland<br />
25-29 <strong>June</strong>, Eastbourne College 8.15pm<br />
Eastbourne College presents their annual Summer production in<br />
the grounds of the college and their outdoor theatre The Dell,<br />
a fantastic adaptation of Alice in Wonderland in the promenade.<br />
Eager to help the Rabbit,<br />
Alice dashes to his rescue<br />
and encounters strange<br />
and fascinating characters,<br />
all in the surrounds of<br />
the college’s grounds.<br />
Faithful to the madness<br />
and the lively humour<br />
of the original, this revisitation<br />
of Lewis Carroll’s<br />
classic has unique twists.<br />
The setting is Eastbourne<br />
College’s wonderful<br />
school, allowing it to be a gateway to the<br />
imagination. Will you follow the Rabbit?<br />
Claudine Sinnett, who is Eastbourne<br />
College’s new Director of Drama,<br />
and Gavin Robertson, their resident<br />
practitioner, have adapted and directed<br />
this great classic and worked closely<br />
with the cast and technical team to<br />
create a magical landscape of characters<br />
and surroundings for the audience to<br />
immerse themselves in in<br />
the final Summer show,<br />
ending the academic year<br />
on a high.<br />
The audience will<br />
encounter a fantastic<br />
set in the beautiful<br />
Dell Theatre which was<br />
originally built in the 70s,<br />
deep in the heart of the<br />
school.<br />
The Drama department<br />
has recently updated<br />
their programme of events and now has<br />
approximately 7 productions per year<br />
including inclusion into the Edinburgh<br />
Festival, Shakespeare Schools Festival<br />
and they readily invite professional<br />
theatre companies in to enrich the<br />
learning of the pupils.<br />
All of our productions are in support of a<br />
registered charity and ‘Alice’ is supporting the<br />
mental health charity MIND.<br />
Starts outside the Nugee building, refreshments available from 7.45pm<br />
Bring a blanket. Tickets £5<br />
boxoffice@eastbourne-college.co.uk
FREETIME<br />
UNDER 16<br />
êêêê<br />
SAT 26 MAY – FRI 1 JUNE<br />
Magical Mayhem: Unicorn and Dragon<br />
Week. Meet and groom the magical unicorn,<br />
join in with the unicorn and dragon show, and<br />
unscramble the letters on the trail to win a treat.<br />
Spring Barn Farm, see springbarnfarm.com.<br />
SUNDAY 3<br />
Family Art Activities. Drop-in hosted<br />
by volunteers; from paper lampshades to<br />
clay models, inspired by the art and lives<br />
of the Bloomsbury Group. Charleston,<br />
12.30-4pm, free.<br />
Look Think Make. Look at the<br />
artworks, think about the ideas<br />
behind them and be inspired to make<br />
creations. De La Warr, 2pm, £1.<br />
SATURDAY 23<br />
Midsummer<br />
Festival.<br />
Exhibitions of<br />
work and crafts,<br />
sideshows, walks,<br />
lunches and cream<br />
teas. Michael<br />
Hall, Forest Row,<br />
11am-5pm, free.<br />
SUNDAY 24<br />
Sussex Community Festival. Fun-filled day of<br />
activities and entertainment for all ages. Sports<br />
tasters, face painting and fun experiments for<br />
kids. Bands, research demos and World Cup<br />
football in the bar. University of Sussex campus,<br />
Falmer, 11am-3pm, free.<br />
SATURDAY 9<br />
Defender of the Realm:<br />
King’s Army. Book<br />
launch and signing with<br />
Nick Ostler and Mark<br />
Huckerby. Bags of Books,<br />
11am, free.<br />
Iford and Kingston<br />
School Summer Fair.<br />
Tackle the inflatable<br />
assault course, get close to a reptile, try for a<br />
prize at the hook-a-duck, and enjoy tea and cake<br />
(or BBQ and beer). Iford & Kingston C of E<br />
School, 12pm-3pm, £1 (kids free).<br />
MONDAY 11<br />
Isfield Village Fête. Novelty dog show,<br />
‘Mousetown’, Scalextric, stocks, tug-o-war, egg<br />
throwing, ‘traditional’ school sports, stalls, beer<br />
tent, tea & cake, wood-fired pizza, ice cream,<br />
BBQ and more. ICE Field behind Laughing<br />
Fish Pub, Isfield, 12pm, £1.50 (50p kids).<br />
Tales for Toddlers. Stories, songs and<br />
imagination-inspiring activities. De La Warr,<br />
10.15am & 11.15am, £1.<br />
Raystede Summer Fair. Including bar, BBQ,<br />
games and dog show. More details to be<br />
announced, check raystede.org.<br />
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THE MULBERRY BEES êêêê<br />
The Mulberry Bees is a children’s picture book<br />
inspired by the view outside author Bethany Moore’s<br />
office window. It’s a nice view, to be sure: a square of<br />
lawn, backed by a steep-roofed flint building, dominated<br />
by a large and obviously ancient mulberry<br />
tree. She’s the Development Officer at Glyndebourne<br />
Opera House.<br />
Every year, Bethany has told us, the tree is visited<br />
by a swarm of bees, who subsequently produce<br />
purple honey. This has inspired a narrative of said<br />
bees infiltrating the concert hall, and disrupting a<br />
performance of Figaro. The singers and orchestra<br />
are forced into the garden and decide to<br />
carry on performing the opera, underneath<br />
the mulberry tree. With,<br />
as it happens, rather disastrous<br />
results.<br />
The book was written<br />
– in rhyme – by<br />
Bethany and her<br />
office-mate Rich<br />
Joyner, and illustrated,<br />
rather beautifully, by Rich.<br />
Alex Leith<br />
MidSummeR<br />
FesTivaL<br />
Saturday 23 rd <strong>June</strong> <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 />
www.michaelhall.co.uk<br />
Kidbrooke Park, Priory Road, Forest Row. East Sussex, RH18 5JA<br />
Tel: 01342 822275 - Registered Charity Number 307006<br />
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KINGSTON KESTRELS: #SQUADGOALS<br />
êêêê<br />
Local U14 boys’ football team<br />
the Kingston Kestrels have raised<br />
an incredible £1,000 for Brighton’s<br />
Clock Tower Sanctuary.<br />
Mat Head, who co-manages<br />
the team, says: “As a finale to<br />
a great season, we organised<br />
a trip to play a tournament in Holland over the<br />
Easter weekend. One of the dads, Pete Maguire,<br />
suggested the boys raise some money for the tour<br />
and a local charity at the same time, so the idea<br />
of a sponsored dribble was born.” Between them,<br />
the 14 members of the squad dribbled a football<br />
all the way from the top of Ditchling Beacon into<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>, raising the £600 they needed for their trip,<br />
and donating the rest to the charity.<br />
“The trip to Holland was fantastic,” Mat says.<br />
“The boys were unbeaten and had a great time together,<br />
and since then the squad<br />
has visited Clock Tower to<br />
present them with the cheque<br />
and learn about the work they<br />
do with young people in less<br />
fortunate circumstances.”<br />
“We’ve enjoyed a brilliant season<br />
with the boys and their experiences through<br />
the club this year have been profound. Not only<br />
have they become a great team of footballers<br />
(division champions and cup finalists), but their<br />
esprit de corps has resulted in an incredibly strong<br />
bond amongst them both on and off the pitch.<br />
The sense of achievement and understanding<br />
gained from the connection with Clock Tower has<br />
also had a really positive effect. We’re all looking<br />
forward to many more seasons together.” RC<br />
kingstonfootball.club<br />
SHOES ON NOW: TEAM RED VERSUS TEAM BLUE<br />
We were armed. We were dangerous. The artillery<br />
of The Blue Team was impressive: Super<br />
Soaker Blaster guns, 50 water balloons and two<br />
old washing up liquid bottles. The Red Team was<br />
similarly armed, albeit with a slight advantage, as,<br />
somehow, they had managed to acquire almost<br />
double the stash of water balloons, a sprinkler and<br />
a rather ominous bucket full of water. A whistle<br />
was blown, and it was Game On.<br />
The five-year-old became an instant target, his<br />
girth and lack of speed making him an easy hit.<br />
Mum and Dad also got blasted with water several<br />
times for much the same reasons. The older boys<br />
attacked with their superior collection of water<br />
balloons, blasting The Blue Team with a speed<br />
and ferocity they somehow lack when asked to<br />
wash the dishes.<br />
But Team Blue had some<br />
secret water balloons hidden<br />
near the fence at the<br />
end of the garden so just<br />
when Team Red was running<br />
out of water, Team<br />
Blue struck. Oldest child<br />
was pummelled with ten<br />
water balloons one after the other - I may have<br />
been getting carried away - whilst middle child<br />
was negotiating with his dad to show mercy.<br />
Soaked, battered and much in need of a change of<br />
clothes Team Red and Team Blue retreated into<br />
the house with each side declaring victory. Sometimes<br />
in the busy-ness of life, it’s simple pleasures<br />
that remind me why I became a parent in the first<br />
place. Jacky Adams<br />
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FOOD REVIEW<br />
Trading Post<br />
Vegan pulled pork... and banana bread<br />
“Apparently the banana bread there<br />
is really good,” says Kelly.<br />
“I’ve heard the banana bread is really<br />
good…” I wonder if we’ve got<br />
our facts from the same person.<br />
We’re heading down to Cliffe<br />
to try out the new Trading Post<br />
Coffee Roasters, which has taken<br />
over the old Real Eating Company<br />
premises. The space has been totally<br />
transformed, with a big coffee<br />
bar to the left and an impressive<br />
copper roaster in front.<br />
We go up to order. There are five<br />
different coffee blends to choose<br />
from: “Green Monkey is the one<br />
we roast here,” says the friendly<br />
girl behind the counter, “the others<br />
come from our Brighton roaster.”<br />
We go for two Green Monkey flat<br />
whites (£2.50 each) and sit out in<br />
the garden.<br />
“I don’t know what to eat…” I say, scanning the<br />
menu. Kelly already knows she wants a Benedict<br />
(there is a whole Benedicts section on their<br />
menu). She goes for the Salmon (£8.75). I like the<br />
sound of the Vegan Pulled Pork Sandwich (£8.25)<br />
but I’m so hungry that I’m worried a sandwich<br />
won’t do it.<br />
“We’ll have cake afterwards,” Kelly reminds me.<br />
Who could forget about the banana bread? I go<br />
back up to the bar to order. Shortly after I get back<br />
to our table, the coffees arrive.<br />
“That’s really rich,” Kelly notes.<br />
“Very smooth,” I add. I never really know how to<br />
describe coffee, but this one is good.<br />
Before long the waitress emerges with our food,<br />
and my anxiety about the sandwich not being<br />
enough diminishes. It’s halved<br />
and stacked on a wooden board,<br />
standing at almost half a foot tall.<br />
“Wow.”<br />
Kelly’s Benedict also looks<br />
amazing, generously drenched<br />
in hollandaise sauce and prettily<br />
sprinkled with little red shoots.<br />
But back to my sandwich.<br />
The three layers of sourdough<br />
are stuffed with ‘pulled pork’ (seasoned<br />
jackfruit), freshly made slaw<br />
and slices of avocado. It’s huge and<br />
messy and absolutely delicious.<br />
I’m pretty stuffed, but, I think, imagine<br />
the review if I didn’t actually<br />
end up trying the banana bread.<br />
So I go back to the bar. The same<br />
lovely girl is there.<br />
“We’ll have a slice of carrot cake,<br />
and…” I look back at the menu in<br />
that way that we seem to do, even<br />
when we know exactly what we’re ordering.<br />
“The banana bread?” she offers.<br />
“Yes - I’ve heard it’s really good.”<br />
“It is,” she says. “It’s vegan and gluten free, but<br />
you wouldn’t know. It’s so good, the first time I<br />
had it I almost wept.” Wow. I sit back down and<br />
await its arrival.<br />
A few minutes later the waitress is back. She sets a<br />
board down on our table, with two thick slices of<br />
toasted banana bread and a small dish of espresso<br />
cashew butter. We take a slice each, and… it’s not<br />
like any banana bread I’ve had before. It’s not too<br />
sweet, but sweet enough. It tastes good for you,<br />
but not in a bad way. It is delicious.<br />
So I didn’t quite weep, but it was really good.<br />
Rebecca Cunningham<br />
Photos by Rebecca Cunningham<br />
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RECIPE<br />
Barbecued mackerel with charmoula<br />
Einat Chalmers from Mamoosh, throws some mackerel<br />
on the barbie – Moroccan style – to eat with her famous pitta bread<br />
I trained at one of the top cookery schools in the<br />
States, The French Culinary Institute in New<br />
York. I was young and restless, but I learnt all the<br />
basics of French cuisine, which you can apply<br />
to anything you do. In my family, everyone has<br />
a business. Everyone is doing their thing, and<br />
we’re all in the catering industry.<br />
I grew up in a kibbutz in Israel where my<br />
dad worked at the fish pond and my mother,<br />
for many years, organised all the catering<br />
events. My dad left the community because<br />
the establishment wasn’t for him, he wanted<br />
to be a free bird, and he went on to have many<br />
restaurants. The last became one of the most<br />
iconic institutions in Tel Aviv, a traditional<br />
Middle Eastern fish restaurant named Barbunia.<br />
When I came to the UK, I worked on and off at<br />
Real Patisserie. I wasn’t doing all the pretty little<br />
things - I was mainly making croissants. I always<br />
wanted to learn how to make proper bread. I was<br />
doing it at home, for myself, and then friends<br />
asked if I could make bread for them as well.<br />
My dad is my biggest supporter; he couldn’t wait<br />
for me to start my own business. Opportunities<br />
came, people asked if I would sell my bread but I<br />
wasn’t ready, and then I watched a documentary<br />
called Six Feet from Stardom and something<br />
clicked, I thought I should just go for it.<br />
I launched Mamoosh nearly three years ago,<br />
and it’s going well. I sell my bread at markets<br />
and wholesale to shops like Hisbe and Sussex<br />
Produce Company. In <strong>Lewes</strong>, you can find<br />
Mamoosh at May’s Farm Cart and Talicious at<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Food Market.<br />
What my dad is, is very much what I am. We like<br />
simple, fresh food. Generally, I make classical<br />
Israeli salads and pittas, which are my speciality.<br />
I combine my knowledge of French baking with<br />
what I learnt at home.<br />
I took this recipe from a restaurant I worked for<br />
in New York, where we cooked sardines with<br />
Moroccan charmoula. I’m using mackerel instead<br />
because it’s local, sustainable, affordable, and<br />
because <strong>June</strong> 16th is Newhaven Fish Festival. It’s<br />
a brilliant event, and yes, there’ll be a stall selling<br />
my pittas and salad boxes!<br />
Ingredients: 4 whole mackerel, gutted; 20g<br />
coriander, finely chopped; 10g parsley, finely<br />
chopped; 3 garlic cloves, crushed; grated zest<br />
of one lemon; ½ tsp sweet paprika; ½ tsp hot<br />
paprika (optional); ½ tsp ground cumin; 80ml<br />
extra virgin olive oil; salt and pepper.<br />
Method: Light the BBQ. Mix the chopped<br />
herbs, lemon, spices and olive oil in a bowl. Rinse<br />
the mackerel in cold water and pat dry with<br />
kitchen paper; slice each side diagonally two to<br />
three times, rub with olive oil and season. Place<br />
the mackerel on the barbecue or in a hot, dry<br />
grill pan. Cook one side until the skin separates<br />
easily – don’t be tempted to move the fish before<br />
it is ready. After about ten minutes, turn over and<br />
cook for another five minutes.<br />
Smear the cooked mackerel with charmoula and<br />
serve with tahini dip and warm Mamoosh pitta.<br />
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FOOD<br />
Talicious falafel<br />
Thank **** it’s Friday<br />
“Have you eaten falafel before?” says the lady who<br />
serves it to me. “Make sure you don’t get any on<br />
your clothes.” I’m first-wearing a white linen shirt,<br />
as it happens, so I make a good note to be careful.<br />
I’m in the Friday Market, and said lady has just<br />
made the falafel roll in front of me. She’s heated the<br />
unleavened bread, smeared on some Harissa, then<br />
a splodge of home-made hummus, then carefully<br />
placed four falafels on top. This is covered in salad,<br />
and a big squirt of tahini, and a couple of bits of<br />
pickled vegetable. Then she carefully folds it up in a<br />
sheet of brown paper.<br />
There’s a guy behind her, frying up the falafels:<br />
as I hand over my money, he puts a fresh batch in<br />
a brightly coloured tajine. This lunch is going to<br />
be fresh. I walk back to our office on Pipe Passage,<br />
holding the wrapped up falafel in front of me, like<br />
an ice cream.<br />
In the office, I’m very careful about how I eat it,<br />
which is difficult, as it is gobble-up delicious. You<br />
have to bend over your plate, for fear of it all coming<br />
down your front. It’s worth all the effort: a mix<br />
of tastes hits all sides of the palate, and there’s an<br />
interesting cross of textures, too. All for £6.<br />
Afterwards I realise that in my eagerness to eat the<br />
thing, I’ve forgotten to take a photo, and I’ll have to<br />
get another one a week later, on deadline day. ‘Oh<br />
dear,’ I think, happily. ‘Never mind’.<br />
Alex Leith<br />
Photo by Alex Leith<br />
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We’re sad to say that Panda<br />
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after more than three<br />
decades and it’s true<br />
that <strong>Lewes</strong> High<br />
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Jason and family will<br />
be sorely missed but<br />
we warmly welcome Castle<br />
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Congratuations to Robin Van Creveld who has<br />
done brilliantly to win funding from The People’s<br />
Projects to roll out his Man with a Pan cookery<br />
courses for widowers and male carers. Well<br />
done to Bake Out, as well. Their white seeded<br />
sourdough won best sourdough and best overall<br />
loaf in the Britain’s Best Loaf Awards. And while<br />
we’re talking ovens be aware that Flint Owl are<br />
starting up baking courses.<br />
As summer approaches, so the events diary gets<br />
filled, starting with the South of England Show<br />
in Ardingly from 7th-9th <strong>June</strong>.<br />
Food Rocks street food will come into its own at<br />
the Precinct on the 10th. Try the Sparkling Wine<br />
Tasting at Harvey’s Unwins Arms on the 15th;<br />
Barcombe Supper Club on the 16th; Kimchimaking<br />
at The Blue Kitchen on the 26th or<br />
Cook the Books at the <strong>Lewes</strong> Arms on the 27th,<br />
the theme is ‘Fragrant’.<br />
On <strong>June</strong> 16th, there’s the fabulous Newhaven<br />
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THE WAY WE WORK<br />
This month we gave wedding/portrait photographer Alison Buchanan an<br />
exciting brief: take a trip out to sea with the Newhaven RNLI.<br />
She captured four of the team at work, asking them:<br />
‘What’s your day job, and how long does it take you to get<br />
to the boat from there in an emergency?’<br />
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Lee Blacknell, 2nd Coxswain<br />
Day job: Port Authority Pilot Coxswain<br />
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Katie Dusart, prospective crew<br />
Day job: Paramedic Practitioner<br />
Response time: 9 minutes
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THE WAY WE WORK<br />
Nick Gentry, Navigator and Training Coordinator<br />
Day job: Retired (formerly Finance Director)<br />
Response time: 10 minutes<br />
A message from the RNLI: The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We rely entirely on<br />
donations from the public and an incredible team of volunteers to keep our 238 lifeboat stations<br />
operational around the coast of the UK and the Republic of Ireland. We are recruiting at our<br />
Sussex stations for volunteers and welcome enquiries from people wanting to join the RNLI.
Ryan Kearley<br />
Wooden boat builder<br />
Sometimes I can’t move<br />
for boats, I just shimmy<br />
in between them. At this<br />
time of year, I get more<br />
and more varnish work. It’s<br />
a bit like dipping boats in<br />
amber, all high-shine, high<br />
gloss varnish.<br />
I used to build scenery,<br />
but everything used to<br />
go in a skip at the end of<br />
a show. I wanted to do<br />
something that lasted<br />
longer, that involved more<br />
craftsmanship. I walked<br />
past a boatyard in Richmond<br />
upon Thames, and<br />
soon I was working with<br />
the owner, Mark Edwards<br />
MBE. I was one of those<br />
nerdy teenagers... I recognised<br />
the place because I’d<br />
seen a documentary about<br />
Mark building a submarine<br />
out of wood.<br />
There’s magic in boats.<br />
They have spirit to them,<br />
and they’re just immensely<br />
sculptural, curvaceous<br />
things. If you get books on<br />
woodworking, they describe<br />
what tools you should have<br />
and what woods you should<br />
use… boatbuilding does all<br />
the things you should probably<br />
never do with wood.<br />
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MY SPACE<br />
I started working on hundred-year-old<br />
skiffs. No-one can build like they did then,<br />
with the speed and the skill. There’s a tradition<br />
of building here which is slightly broken but<br />
there are still old boys you can pick up fragments<br />
of information from.<br />
There’s nothing like someone showing you<br />
something through sleight of hand. You can<br />
show someone with a gesture something that,<br />
if you tried to explain it in words, it might take<br />
hours to figure out. It’s wonderful if you get<br />
the chance to work alongside other people who<br />
know what they’re doing. We’re interested in<br />
preserving objects, but we should also think<br />
about preserving methods.<br />
You never earn a lot of money as a boatbuilder,<br />
so you don’t have impressive tools.<br />
Most of my boatbuilding life I’ve relied on a<br />
decent paring chisel and a block plane. You<br />
often have to modify tools. It’s painstaking,<br />
there’s a lot of carefully prying things apart<br />
so there’s a bit of abuse of chisels, using them<br />
for levers and things, and my best secret is my<br />
bicycle spoke drill bit.<br />
I’ve always worked next to a waterway. I<br />
probably think about water in a different way<br />
to a lot of people. It amazes me that people<br />
don’t think about where their drinking<br />
water comes from, that fresh water is a finite<br />
resource. At the end of the day, when you’re<br />
a child you’re 80% water, when you’re an<br />
old crinkly you’re 60-70% water, so I’m 70%<br />
constituent River Ouse.<br />
I take a walk every morning along the Bevern,<br />
which feeds into the Ouse. There are seals<br />
that come up to the high tide mark… sea trout<br />
travel about 30 miles upriver to spawn. Eels<br />
come here as elvers from the Sargasso Sea. You<br />
have this overlap between the sea and the land<br />
which is just tremendous. You might not see<br />
these things, but they’re there, and the more<br />
you walk around here, the more you’ll spot.<br />
There’ll never be a boat that’s more attractive<br />
than a tree. I do love my work, but<br />
perhaps the natural world is always best.<br />
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Water Shrew<br />
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water<br />
I love Jaws, the 1975 movie which sent three men<br />
out into the Atlantic on a fishing boat in search of<br />
a marauding Great White Shark. There’s another<br />
aquatic monster hunting in the ponds and shallow<br />
streams of Sussex. But to find a water shrew…<br />
you’re gonna need a smaller boat.<br />
Water shrews weigh 15g and measure just 16cm<br />
(and for that you get the head, the tail, the whole<br />
damn thing). Unlike other shrews they have an<br />
amazing ability to swim and hunt underwater.<br />
They’re covered in dense fur – vital insulation<br />
against the cold and wet. This sleek wetsuit also<br />
traps air bubbles, transforming the shrew into a<br />
furry Aero, helping it stay buoyant. Powerful, extra<br />
hairy hind feet propel this tiny torpedo through<br />
the water.<br />
Water shrews and great white sharks have a common<br />
feature which sets them apart from their<br />
close relatives. They both have a striking demarcation<br />
between their dark upperparts and their white<br />
underparts. Looking from above their black backs<br />
blend with the pond bottom or seabed. From<br />
below their pale bellies make them invisible in the<br />
sunlit water. It’s a submarine survival strategy that<br />
helps conceal both hunters and hunted. And the<br />
water shrew is both.<br />
With sharp, red-tipped fangs, shrews’ jaws are as<br />
fearsome as any shark’s. But the water shrew has<br />
a trick up its teeth. It’s Britain’s only venomous<br />
mammal. When it bites it injects a stupefying saliva<br />
which subdues its victims. In Jaws the grizzled<br />
skipper Quint (Robert Shaw) relates the chilling<br />
true tale of the torpedoed WWII cruiser Indianapolis<br />
which sank leaving hundreds of sailors adrift<br />
in shark-infested waters. Well, my mate Barry was<br />
once bitten by a water shrew in Newhaven and<br />
his finger went all tingly for about two hours. OK,<br />
it doesn’t exactly compare to Quint’s tale about<br />
being bitten in half by a shark but the fact that a<br />
tiny shrew can make such an impact on a human is<br />
pretty impressive.<br />
Slice open a dead shrew’s stomach and rummage<br />
inside and you’ll find bits of beetle legs, snail<br />
shells, and fishbones. They are relentless, frenetic<br />
hunters. If the shrew goes without a meal for more<br />
than an hour it will die. What we are dealing with<br />
here is a perfect engine, an eating machine. All<br />
this machine does is swim and eat and make little<br />
shrews. Between April and September the mating<br />
of the shrew can produce 2-3 litters of 3-15 young.<br />
They live a fast, brief life. Few of them will survive<br />
for more than a year.<br />
The best way to see a water shrew is to sit by a<br />
Sussex stream as the sun sets. Bring a couple of<br />
friends and some apricot brandy, share some tall<br />
tales and wait for a shrew to strike.<br />
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#16 Arlington Reservoir<br />
I think I’ve discovered what it must be like to be<br />
an A-list celeb meeting the fans. Every time I pick<br />
up Todd from his owner Andy, I am greeted with<br />
squeals and whines of doggy delight, a slobbery<br />
tongue licking every undefended area of bare skin<br />
and a tail that wags with such fury that the whole<br />
woolly mass is soon writhing in pleasure. Quite why<br />
the human species hasn’t seen the light I can’t quite<br />
fathom.<br />
On my walk today I am joined by my mate, Miguel,<br />
whose two spaniels, Daisy and Ruby, give me an<br />
equally ecstatic reception, this time bringing out<br />
slippers and their dog basket blanket as welcoming<br />
gifts. In line with this month’s watery theme, I’ve<br />
suggested to Miguel that we check out the walks<br />
around Arlington Reservoir. We’ve both driven<br />
past it a thousand times along the A27 but now our<br />
curiosity has finally got the better of us.<br />
It’s strange how easy it is not to see the treasure in<br />
your own backyard. Ahh! those sunlit uplands in the<br />
distance look so tempting. But, hey, what’s this right<br />
here in front of us? A beautiful lake surrounded by<br />
wildflower woodlands and bird-watching hides with<br />
hand-holding couples wandering by as we take in<br />
this unexpected Eden.<br />
An information board tells us that the reservoir was<br />
excavated in 1971 when a dam was built flooding a<br />
meandering section of the Cuckmere River. Later,<br />
30,000 native trees (oak, birch, wild cherry, hazel)<br />
were planted. It’s now a magnet for migrating birds<br />
with up to 10,000 wildfowl spending the winter<br />
here. It’s also home to rare butterflies, weasels and<br />
deer. Hardly surprising then that it’s been designated<br />
a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).<br />
The footpaths and bridleways surrounding the lake<br />
link up to a network of connecting footpaths heading<br />
off to nearby villages. The dogs, while we are<br />
on the paths surrounding the lake, have to be kept<br />
on their leads to protect the wildlife but there is an<br />
atmosphere of tranquil calm in the air as they pad<br />
along quietly beside us.<br />
We stop for a bite to eat in the garden of the<br />
welcoming Yew Tree Inn in Arlington. “Apparently<br />
they found the tusk of a woolly mammoth and the<br />
skull of a 250,000 year-old woolly rhinoceros when<br />
they were digging out the reservoir,” I tell Miguel.<br />
“I think I prefer taking these three for a walk,” he<br />
replies. “I’m not sure the welcoming committee<br />
would have been quite so enthusiastic back then.<br />
However woolly they were.” Richard Madden<br />
Map: OS Explorer 123. Distance: 3 miles. Terrain:<br />
Lakeside pathways, woodland trails and meadows.<br />
Directions: From the reservoir car park, take the<br />
lakeside path or bridleway north or south around<br />
the lake before following the footpaths across the<br />
fields to Arlington. Complete the circuit back to the<br />
car park. Halfway Pub: Yew Tree Inn, Arlington. NB:<br />
dogs must be kept on leads along the lakeside trails.<br />
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HEALTH<br />
Wet and wild<br />
Messing around in the water<br />
What increases circulation,<br />
boosts the immune system,<br />
promotes weight loss, alleviates<br />
depression and even<br />
improves your sex life? The<br />
answer, according to its advocates,<br />
is wild swimming.<br />
And they have scientific backing.<br />
Studies carried out by<br />
NASA in the seventies found<br />
that swimming outdoors<br />
causes ‘cold adaptation’, which<br />
lowers blood pressure and<br />
cholesterol, reduces body fat,<br />
inhibits blood clotting, and<br />
increases fertility and libido.<br />
Daniel Start is the author<br />
of Wild Swimming and has<br />
had a passion for freshwater swimming since<br />
childhood. “There are a lot of health benefits,”<br />
he enthuses. “One of the greatest things about<br />
jumping into a river or lake is the endorphin<br />
kick. After you’ve got over your initial fears about<br />
what might be lurking in the water, you feel<br />
enormous exhilaration. It’s the perfect way to reboot,<br />
and you will always feel better afterwards.”<br />
Cold adaptation is triggered by both the water<br />
temperature and the body’s full immersion, he<br />
explains. “Your whole body comes alive, and<br />
it’s really good for the immune system. In fact,<br />
studies show that people who swim outdoors<br />
regularly have much stronger immune systems<br />
and suffer half the amount of colds as others.”<br />
But it’s not just physically advantageous, he continues,<br />
as wild swimming also offers emotional<br />
benefits. “It has a strong effect on mood and<br />
wellbeing and is known to be good for depression.<br />
Beyond that, there’s the impact of getting<br />
out in nature and spending time surrounded by<br />
dragonflies and kingfishers.<br />
Gaining a frog’s eye view of<br />
the world is a wonderful form<br />
of mindfulness meditation.”<br />
Lifelong wild swimmer Beryl<br />
Round agrees. “For me it’s<br />
about having your nose at the<br />
same level as the wildlife and<br />
feeling a part of it,” says the<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> grandmother. “I also<br />
love the stillness and silence,<br />
as there’s always noise if you<br />
go to the swimming baths.<br />
Above all, though, there’s a<br />
sense of freedom. I’ve always<br />
loved it. When I was a child,<br />
if it was wet, I’d get in it!”<br />
“The river at Barcombe is a<br />
lovely place to swim,” she adds, “and I sometimes<br />
go there with my daughter and grandchildren, as<br />
it’s great for families. My dog, Fleck, loves it too.<br />
She always comes in with me.”<br />
Beginners tempted to dip a toe may want to enlist<br />
a (non-canine) friend, Daniel suggests. “Take<br />
someone with you and choose a place where<br />
there are others swimming, to inspire confidence.<br />
The easiest places are often rivers, as most lowland<br />
ones have natural beaches in the inside of<br />
their loops, where you can start by paddling and<br />
then gradually go deeper. Smaller rivers often<br />
have weirs where you can find deeper, stiller<br />
waters. If you’re nervous about what might be<br />
underfoot, wear old trainers or sandals. And<br />
imagine you can swim a tenth of the distance that<br />
you can indoors, as it can feel very different to<br />
start with.”<br />
So why not come on in? The water’s lovely…<br />
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WE (DON’T) TRY...<br />
Stoolball for all<br />
Turning the joint upside down<br />
I like working as part of a team. I’m less happy<br />
about playing in one. So I’m already feeling uncomfortable<br />
when my editor proposes an article<br />
about stoolball. Things take a turn for the worse<br />
when I receive an email from Ian Goldsmith of<br />
the <strong>Lewes</strong> Arms stoolball team. “You can take part<br />
in the warm up if you like”, he says. “If you look<br />
promising, you might get a game.”<br />
I’m wearing trainers and an unpromising expression<br />
when I arrive at The Paddock. The team<br />
plays there at 6.30pm on most Wednesdays from<br />
May to early September. Team member Rick<br />
Mason explains the rules. He’s on the management<br />
committee of Stoolball England, the sport’s<br />
national governing body, so he should know.<br />
“The majority of the game is the same as cricket.<br />
The major differences are that we bowl underarm<br />
from ten yards away, the ball doesn’t bounce on the<br />
way to the batsman – and it comes through at about<br />
shoulder height. The idea is to hit the ball away<br />
from the fielders and run to the other end. Our<br />
wicket is a white one-foot square at about shoulder<br />
height and the ball looks like a rounders ball.”<br />
Adam Frost, who’s been with the club since it<br />
was formed, says the simplicity of the game is its<br />
attraction. “Just about anyone can play it. It doesn’t<br />
require a lot of equipment and it’s easy enough to<br />
pick up. I mean, I played cricket and wasn’t particularly<br />
good but I’m quite adequate at stoolball!”<br />
It turns out that the most complicated detail is<br />
the club’s history. The team started at the Black<br />
Horse pub before moving to the <strong>Lewes</strong> Arms<br />
and changing its name. “About ten years ago we<br />
stopped being associated with the <strong>Lewes</strong> Arms<br />
pub”, says Rick, “but we’re still called the <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Arms; it’s the arms of the borough – and we’re<br />
now an independent mixed team that plays friendlies.”<br />
Teams usually consist of eleven players but<br />
the <strong>Lewes</strong> Arms team expands to fit the number<br />
of people that turn up.<br />
The history of stoolball can be traced back to the<br />
fifteenth century, with men and women playing<br />
the game in churchyards. Folklore suggests the<br />
name comes from milkmaids using their milking<br />
stools as a target. Rick says history is clearer from<br />
the late 19th century, when the first stoolball<br />
clubs were formed in Sussex and the rules were<br />
written down by the Reverend William de St<br />
Croix of Glynde.<br />
Here in <strong>2018</strong>, I’ve turned down the offer of a<br />
game. Despite this, the <strong>Lewes</strong> Arms stoolball<br />
players are treating me like an old friend. If I was<br />
looking for a team sport, this is certainly the place<br />
I’d start.<br />
The <strong>Lewes</strong> Arms team will be in action on<br />
Wednesday evenings in <strong>June</strong> at the Paddock.<br />
There’s also a stoolball league on Thursday evenings<br />
at the Convent Field. Mark Bridge<br />
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COLUMN<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Out Loud<br />
Plenty more Henty<br />
Let’s be clear, when I reach<br />
the Queen’s age, I will not<br />
be inviting Frank Skinner<br />
to play the ukulele at my<br />
92nd birthday bash. No, on<br />
Saturday, March 25, 2028, I<br />
shall hire <strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall<br />
and invite my favourite<br />
band from San Francisco,<br />
Fee Waybill and The Tubes,<br />
to perform for me.<br />
Fee will be 77 years of age<br />
himself that year but he<br />
is still touring and, if anything,<br />
age has improved his<br />
outrageous performances.<br />
Make a note of the date.<br />
For a range of reasons,<br />
tickets will not be on sale<br />
from the Tourist Information Centre but a few may<br />
be available on the door.<br />
Frank, of course, backed by the finger plucking<br />
George Formby Society, was obliged to play the<br />
Formby favourite When I’m Cleaning Windows for<br />
HMTQ. Catchy little number – bit saucy – and I<br />
found myself singing along to it recently when doing<br />
just that – cleaning our windows.<br />
It’s one of my lesser known domestic duties, along<br />
with deadheading, and requires a large amount of<br />
this month’s teasing topic, water – buckets of it.<br />
Andy, my window cleaning pal, need have no fear<br />
of hustling Henty moving in on his precious pitch.<br />
My job is very occasional and smeary windows are a<br />
speciality – ask my wife!<br />
As a kid, I always enjoyed splashing about in<br />
water, whether it was Purley Way swimming pool,<br />
Croydon, or from the beach in Eastbourne. Our<br />
illustration shows a joyous moment when a water<br />
main burst during the long, hot summer of 1976. An<br />
original cartoon, probably<br />
in the Daily Mirror<br />
newspaper, by regular artist<br />
Keith Waite.<br />
One warm afternoon<br />
towards the end of April, I<br />
decided to attend a cabinet<br />
meeting of <strong>Lewes</strong> District<br />
Council in Southover<br />
House. As a young reporter<br />
starting out in journalism<br />
over 50 years ago, covering<br />
council meetings was not<br />
one of my favourite assignments.<br />
They were always in<br />
the evenings, long-winded<br />
and seemingly devoid of<br />
any humour.<br />
In contrast, the <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
meeting was over in half an hour. Affordable housing<br />
was the main topic on the 36-page agenda and<br />
business was conducted in a very civilised manner.<br />
My only disappointment – I had expected tea and<br />
biscuits and what, by the way, is a District Pot on<br />
page 13? Pot holes perhaps? Plenty of those around<br />
to discuss I surmised.<br />
As our friend Alice Cyr’s photograph appeared in the<br />
April edition of <strong>Viva</strong>, I decided to send her a copy<br />
of the relevant magazine and popped into the post<br />
office in WH Smiths with the package. Katy, from<br />
Eastbourne, was on duty and looked at the unusual<br />
address to assess the postage. “Where’s the Yukon?”<br />
she asked her colleague. After consulting his tablet,<br />
he said “Yukon territory, North Western Canada”.<br />
Alice always had a better answer I recall. “North of<br />
ordinary” she would say.<br />
Finally, the British Music Hall Society’s Day by the<br />
Sea is at the Royal Hippodrome, Eastbourne, all day<br />
on Saturday, <strong>June</strong> 2nd. Unmissable! John Henty<br />
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The big news is that which we ‘stop pressed’ with<br />
last month: Stevie and Jamie Freeman, who set<br />
up Union Music Store on Friars Walk in November<br />
2010, are moving on… but the shop will<br />
continue, under the same name, with a different<br />
pair of musos at the helm. Said pair are Del Day<br />
and Danny Wilson, who together run the record<br />
label Maiden Voyage: each has enormous experience<br />
in the industry, Del as jazz buyer for HMV<br />
and roots music PR man, and Danny as lead<br />
singer of Danny & the Champions of the World.<br />
I’ve heard it on the grapevine that the shop won’t<br />
be such a niche country/Americana/folk outlet,<br />
and there’ll be a bit more soul and funk on offer.<br />
More ‘get on up’, less ‘yee hah’, in other words.<br />
Stevie and Jamie will continue to run their Union<br />
Music record label, still based in the offices below<br />
the shop.<br />
In other news it’s all change opposite the station,<br />
which has seen more churn recently than Lurpak.<br />
What used to be the newsagents is being taken<br />
over by the storage space company as their admin<br />
office; their old office is being taken over by Station<br />
Wines, who are expanding into the space,<br />
which should give a welcome bit more elbow<br />
room while you’re queuing for your Tyskie.<br />
The deconsecrated church on Station Street,<br />
meanwhile, is up for sale. Simon, who has run<br />
the antiques business inside for donkeys’ years, is<br />
planning to move to Cliffe, but in the meantime<br />
is fielding a number of interested potential buyers.<br />
Just over the road, what used to be the café<br />
PJ’s@Thirty (and various other incarnations)<br />
is turning into a paint shop, which includes, we<br />
hear, the house variety and the art variety. “Colour<br />
makes people happy,” the new owner told us:<br />
expect a whole lot of hues from some time in July.<br />
Over to School Hill now, and the message on the<br />
window of the SCDA, ‘<strong>Lewes</strong>’s newest charity<br />
shop’, is no longer true; what was Brats next door<br />
has become Charlotte’s Dragon, run by Carol<br />
Mercer (formerly co-owner of Seasons vegetarian<br />
restaurant) to raise money for the Teenage<br />
Cancer Trust, in memory of her late daughter<br />
Charlotte. Carol informs me that because she<br />
doesn’t actually represent the registered charity,<br />
but is more informally raising cash for them, she<br />
needs to pay normal rates and rent: any contributions<br />
of clothes, books etc are therefore more<br />
than welcome. Brats, meanwhile, continue to sell<br />
off their stock in <strong>Lewes</strong>iana.<br />
Finally well done to Bake Out: their bakery,<br />
Foodhaven, won the Britain’s Best Loaf award<br />
for their White Seeded Sourdough, which also<br />
won the sourdough category, natch. The annual<br />
award ceremony, organised by British Baker, took<br />
place on April 16th at NEC Birmingham; there<br />
were over 200 entries so the 12 judges, all involved<br />
in the industry, had quite a task choosing!<br />
Alex Leith<br />
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Podiatry/Chiropody<br />
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What will you be doing this summer to<br />
improve your health?<br />
Give up smoking | Lose weight<br />
Exercise more | Eat healthier foods<br />
Look out for the up coming event "BEAT THE<br />
STREET" game in our window, and "CALORIE<br />
CREEP". You will be able to collect your beat the<br />
street cards from the pharmacy, and other<br />
campaigns to improve your health will follow.<br />
Visit NHS Choices for ideas on healthy eaang<br />
and exercise plans and oneyoueastsussex.org.uk<br />
for support with weight loss, stopping<br />
smoking and alcohol advice.<br />
(Closed between 1-2pm)<br />
HERBALIST<br />
Kym Murden<br />
BA Hons Dip Phyt<br />
Weaving wellness together<br />
whatever your age.<br />
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Appointments 07780 252186<br />
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Lin Peters - OSTEOPATH<br />
VALENCE ROAD OSTEOPATHS<br />
for the treatment of:<br />
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stiffness • sciatica - trapped nerves • slipped discs<br />
tension • frozen shoulders • cranial osteopathy<br />
pre and post natal<br />
www.lewesosteopath.co.uk<br />
20 Valence Road <strong>Lewes</strong> 01273 476371
CLIFFE OSTEOPATHS<br />
complementary health clinic<br />
Anthea Barbary<br />
LicAc MBAcC Dip | Hyp GQHP<br />
Both acupuncture and hypnotherapy<br />
are a gentle, safe, effective and natural<br />
way of helping many conditions such<br />
as IBS, pain, fertility issues, menopausal<br />
symptoms, anxiety, stress, panic<br />
attacks, addictions, insomnia,<br />
headaches and many more.<br />
I have 21 years of experience as a<br />
therapist, 16 of those in <strong>Lewes</strong>.<br />
For more information, or for a 20<br />
minute free consultation, please<br />
contact me on:<br />
07981 491942<br />
antheabarbary@gmail.com<br />
www.antheabarbary.com<br />
OSTEOPATHY<br />
Mandy Fischer BSc (Hons) Ost, DO<br />
Steven Bettles BSc (Hons) Ost, DO<br />
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Julie Padgham-Undrell BSc (Hons) MCPP<br />
PSYCHOTHERAPY<br />
Julia Rivas BA (Hons), MA Psychotherapy<br />
Tom Lockyer BA (Hons), Dip Cound MBACP<br />
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HOMEOPATHY, COACHING, NLP<br />
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Appointments at The Cliffe Clinic<br />
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01273 480900
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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 superviser<br />
Mark Vahrmeyer (MA Psych UKCP Reg.)<br />
Psychotherapist and superviser<br />
Dr. Simon Cassar (DProf UKCP Reg.)<br />
Psychotherapist and superviser<br />
Jane Craig (MSc ClinPsych HCPC Reg.)<br />
Clinical psychologist and superviser<br />
Magdalena Whitehouse (MA HCPC Reg.)<br />
Drama therapist and superviser<br />
Thea Beech (MA TGA UKCP Reg.)<br />
Psychotherapist and Group Analyst<br />
David Bor (MPhil ACP Accred)<br />
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist<br />
GUITAR LESSONS<br />
with Guy Pearce<br />
For all ages and abilities. Fully CRB checked<br />
• Lessons and Grades in Electric and Acoustic guitar.<br />
• Mobile Tuition<br />
• Guitar restringing service.<br />
07504173888<br />
guypearceguitarlessons@gmail.com<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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Ages 16 and up from an experienced, qualified teacher<br />
Contact: Lucinda Houghton BA(Hons), AGSM (GSMD), FRSM<br />
Kingston, <strong>Lewes</strong> (Ample parking)<br />
07976 936024 | canto-voice.org
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07960 893 898<br />
I’m a drum teacher, but that’s not all I<br />
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instructor.<br />
I became passionate about the drums in my<br />
early teens and started having drum lessons<br />
at the age of 17. I’ve been really fortunate to<br />
have shared the stage with some really talented<br />
musicians and had lots of mentors including<br />
the late, great Bob Armstrong.<br />
A drummer needs a wide skill set. Keeping<br />
a regular rhythm requires a good sense of timing,<br />
which you can develop, with practice. You<br />
need a very good ear, and empathy with what<br />
the rest of the band is doing.<br />
People progress in different ways, but everyone<br />
hits a wall, whether it’s right near the<br />
start or after a few years. Whenever it comes,<br />
it’s important to punch through that wall.<br />
You’re never too old to learn, and can get<br />
started early. My youngest student is five, my<br />
oldest over seventy. Drumming is good for<br />
your mind – musicians are smarter - and therapeutic:<br />
a friend of mine compares it to Sudoko.<br />
The most important thing I’ve learnt about<br />
teaching is to genuinely care about whether<br />
the student’s going to get good or not. Keep<br />
involved and you will feel proud of what you’ve<br />
achieved together.<br />
Steve Gadd is my favourite drummer. If he<br />
does a drum part for a song, that becomes the<br />
part every drummer will be trying to learn.<br />
I’m absolutely fine with the neighbours! I<br />
do most of my lessons in the students’ houses<br />
and do 50% of my practice on a pad.<br />
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INSIDE LEFT<br />
COLD COMFORT<br />
If you don’t look carefully at this picture, you<br />
might imagine that it was taken during our recent<br />
heatwave, but it’s actually over 50 years old, from<br />
1966, or 67. It was found in the family collection<br />
by Peter Gray, ten years old when it was taken.<br />
There are a few giveaway clues as to the date: the<br />
two sets of changing huts (known originally as<br />
‘boxes’ and constructed in the 20s) have gone, and<br />
– says Pells committee member Rob Read, who<br />
kindly sourced and researched the picture – the<br />
water is a lot murkier than it usually gets nowadays.<br />
The pool then had a springboard at the deep end,<br />
and a fixed 3ft diving platform. The boards were<br />
removed in the late 80s/early 90s, due to (not<br />
unreasonable) safety concerns.<br />
Rob put a post on <strong>Lewes</strong> Past asking for memories<br />
of the pool in this period, and was inundated<br />
with replies. Many <strong>Lewes</strong>ians learnt to swim<br />
there: primary schools would take pupils down<br />
for lessons, when this was the only swimming<br />
bath in town. The pool also played host to many<br />
swimming galas.<br />
Marcus Street – whose father ran the pool for<br />
many years - tells us admission in those days was<br />
4d for a child, 1/3d for an adult. “The pool would<br />
open at 9am, with an ‘adults-only’ at lunchtime<br />
during the week. It closed when everyone left,<br />
when the weather was too wet and windy!”<br />
For a period after this photo was taken there was<br />
a lowered section – the ‘hole in the wall’ which<br />
allowed people to buy ice creams from a van that<br />
would park up outside. There are also memories of<br />
the ‘slabs’ next to the deep end of the pool, where<br />
the cool kids would hang out. And it was common<br />
practice for teenagers to climb over the wall and<br />
use the pool after hours – keeping an eye out for<br />
‘Blondie’, the local bobby – to go skinny dipping.<br />
People recall how cold the water was, with the<br />
temperature, chalked on a board outside, commonly<br />
being as low as 58 degrees Fahrenheit (16<br />
degrees Centigrade). Its leaky pipes and pool tank<br />
(now replaced and repaired) meant it had to be<br />
topped up daily with water from the spring below<br />
the pool, which comes in at around 13°C. The water<br />
is still sourced from the spring, but is nowadays<br />
reliably a much warmer temperature.<br />
The Pells Pool opened on May 5th this year. Open<br />
weekdays 7-9am (adults only), daily 10am-7pm<br />
(from <strong>June</strong> 2nd, before that 12pm-7pm). £4.50/£2.20<br />
see pellspool.org.uk for more details.<br />
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