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VIVALEWES<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
Larders. Do any of us even have one? These days?<br />
The definition that pops up when I google reads simply: ‘a room or large<br />
cupboard for storing food’. Of course, pre-fridges, somewhere cool was<br />
needed – to store meat. (The word larder, I think, comes from ‘lard’...)<br />
We could reframe the whole thing ‘kitchen cupboards’? Either way, I like<br />
Galia Pike’s interpretation – on our cover – where ‘WORRIES MISC’<br />
may share shelves with jars of pickle and peanut butter. Certainly, this issue<br />
has plenty of food-filled ‘jars’ sitting alongside others that aren’t.<br />
While we are talking kitchen cupboards, though, let me just mention Lee Miller’s useby<br />
dates, some of which predate use-by dates. And Lulah Ellender’s grandmother’s lists of<br />
eggs (and powder rooms). And Mayor Janet Baah’s account of how she sold butterbeans to<br />
pay her way through school. And <strong>Lewes</strong> Open Door opening its doors to our homeless.<br />
Plus, <strong>Lewes</strong> Farmers Market turns twenty this month, and means to celebrate. We visit<br />
specialist vegetable producers, Namayasai. Hear from poet Lemn Sissay on separation<br />
anxiety. And from critic Robert McCrum on the consolations of reading.<br />
I like Michael Blencowe’s piece on how the hoarding and (occasionally) absent-minded<br />
jay has shaped our skyline. And never forgetting the feast that is this month’s Edward<br />
Ardizzone exhibition – sight of any one of his drawings can send me spiralling backwards…<br />
(to <strong>Lewes</strong> Library, Albion Street, circa 1975).<br />
This has been my first few weeks at <strong>Viva</strong>. Hope you enjoy the fruits of our foraging.<br />
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THE ‘LARDER’ ISSUE<br />
CONTENTS<br />
Bits and bobs.<br />
10-29. Cover art: from the multi-talented<br />
Galia Pike; Mayor Janet Baah’s <strong>Lewes</strong>;<br />
Photo of the month, through the lens/<br />
tunnel; book reviews, from the Moon, to<br />
London Calling, to an exceptional memoir;<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>Light and Rocket FM; Charity box:<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Open Door; Carlotta Luke zooms<br />
in on focaccia; plus, all our regulars.<br />
Columns.<br />
31-33. Chloë King’s car-boot sale: butter<br />
churner, anyone? Meanwhile, David Jarman<br />
seeks out rhymes – with the ‘ukulele’.<br />
10<br />
29<br />
On this month.<br />
35-49. Comedy at the Con Club – with<br />
Dave Mounfield; reviving Ronald<br />
Harwood’s The Dresser; why you need to<br />
see Follies; Lemn Sissay joins forces with<br />
the Brighton Oasis Project; critic and<br />
author Robert McCrum talks death and<br />
books; Lulah Ellender on why we write<br />
lists; and The Godfather plus: cinema<br />
roundup.<br />
Photo by Carlotta Luke<br />
Lemn Sissay and Charlotte Vincent at Brighton<br />
Oasis Project. Photo by Bosie Vincent<br />
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Listings and Free time.<br />
51-65. This month’s dates for the diary –<br />
from <strong>October</strong>Feast, to walks and trips with<br />
The Group, to The Paint Club, to the Go<br />
Wild autumn show, to a talk on Brexit,<br />
to Therapy at the theatre, to Bluebell<br />
Giants of Steam… For the family, a feast<br />
of autumn and Halloween fun, Chris<br />
Riddell’s new picture book, and the kids get<br />
pickling in Shoes On Now. Plus, our Gig<br />
guide, starring O’Connell & Love, and our<br />
Classical round-up, including something<br />
special: an oratorio by Handel.<br />
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THE ‘LARDER’ ISSUE<br />
Art.<br />
66-77. Edward Ardizzone’s prolific talent;<br />
Charleston’s Famous Women Dinner<br />
Service; Art and About, from Vivienne<br />
Lynn at Martyrs’ Gallery, to Susan Lynch<br />
at Chalk, via Keizer Frames’ Bonfire Art.<br />
Plus, further afield, Laurie Anderson’s<br />
Chalkroom, the Brighton Photo Biennial<br />
and many others.<br />
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Food.<br />
79-85. Caccia &Tails proves a big hit; try a<br />
delicious celeriac, beetroot and lentil salad<br />
from The Blue Kitchen; watch Sussex Blue<br />
Gin go pink when we add the tonic. Plus<br />
Chloë King’s food news.<br />
Photo by Emma Croman<br />
The way we work.<br />
86-89. Food and drink producers<br />
photographed by Emma Croman: what’s<br />
your comfort food?<br />
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Features.<br />
91-106. <strong>Lewes</strong> Farmers Market’s trade<br />
secrets at twenty; a peek inside Lee Miller’s<br />
larder; Robin Williams of Namayasai<br />
describes harvest by torchlight; Louise<br />
Anderson on processing grief; fancy gig<br />
rowing? Join the club. Plus <strong>Lewes</strong> FC men<br />
celebrate their 8-1 win; the pink and blue<br />
jay; John Henty stocks up on plums, and a<br />
few business nuggets.<br />
Inside left.<br />
122. ‘Mr Buckwell with grandson and hand<br />
barrow…’<br />
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THIS MONTH’S COVER ARTIST<br />
This month’s cover was designed by Galia<br />
Pike. It’s difficult to sum up what Galia<br />
does: she is, of course, the canine fanatic<br />
behind @dogsoflewes (see pg 17), and she<br />
writes about English wine, for trade publications<br />
and for her own blog, Sussex Uncorked.<br />
Most significantly, though, she’s one<br />
half of multi-award winning ‘toytronica’<br />
duo Psapp, whose music has been used on<br />
a number of TV shows and commercials,<br />
and who wrote the theme song for Grey’s<br />
Anatomy – which is where her illustrative<br />
work came into play.<br />
Galia created “a parallel Psapp universe,<br />
filled with monochromatic cats, imaginary<br />
keyboards and friendly monsters”, which<br />
would grace the band’s album covers,<br />
T-shirts and animated videos. These led<br />
to her receiving all kinds of commissions,<br />
from posters and flyers to tattoos<br />
and comic strips, and even a range<br />
of condom wrappers. She’s painted<br />
murals and built art installations for<br />
French fashion designer Agnès B.<br />
She’s exhibited her work in Paris<br />
and London, and she was Artist<br />
in Residence at the Institute of<br />
Contemporary Arts’ Heavy Pencil<br />
live drawing event. We could go<br />
on and on.<br />
When we asked Galia to design<br />
our <strong>October</strong> cover, we weren’t<br />
sure what to expect; her illustrative<br />
styles are so broad and<br />
varying. “I decided to be really<br />
literal about the theme<br />
‘larder’ and I got out all my spice jars and<br />
started drawing them,” she says. Then,<br />
rather than label them with actual spices,<br />
she decided to invent her own contents. “It<br />
was a total stream of consciousness. I had<br />
‘ultimatums’, ‘worries’, ‘miscellaneous’…<br />
‘Tony Hadley’ – he just popped into my<br />
head – and ‘dogs’, obviously.” We love the<br />
end result: a vibrant and joyful introduction<br />
to this month’s issue.<br />
Working under the name The Monstrous<br />
Pencil, Galia is currently busy creating<br />
risograph prints, jewellery and homeware,<br />
stocked all over the UK. Recently she’s<br />
been working with the<br />
charity<br />
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GALIA PIKE<br />
Global Action Plan, illustrating the<br />
teaching materials for their curriculum,<br />
which “teaches young people<br />
to look at their own morals and<br />
ethics”. She also works alongside<br />
her winemaker husband Adrian,<br />
who runs the Westwell vineyard in<br />
Kent. Galia designs all of the labels<br />
for the wines, which she illustrates<br />
with “super-detailed drawings of the<br />
earth and the vines”. You can see a<br />
selection of her work at monstrouspencil.co.uk<br />
or on Instagram:<br />
@monstrouspencil.<br />
Rebecca Cunningham<br />
monstrouspencil.co.uk<br />
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MY LEWES: MAYOR JANET BAAH<br />
What first brought you to <strong>Lewes</strong>? I come<br />
from Ghana. We arrived at the University of<br />
Sussex in 2001 and lived on campus for two<br />
months when my husband started a PhD.<br />
While there, we decided <strong>Lewes</strong> was the place<br />
to raise our young family. I’ve since completed<br />
a Master’s – in Public Administration – at<br />
Brighton University, and am currently<br />
underway with a PhD in Education at Sussex.<br />
We live in Malling.<br />
You’re the town’s first ethnic-minority<br />
Mayor. What does it mean to you? It’s an<br />
honour. I found my inauguration emotional. All<br />
my years in <strong>Lewes</strong>, I was struck by how elegant<br />
and intimidating this Town Hall was. Never<br />
would I have thought I would be sitting here.<br />
I’m also just back from a trip to Germany; a<br />
world away from the experience of my brother,<br />
who died in Berlin as a student, after being<br />
pushed in a pond. I was blown away by the<br />
levels of interest and respect.<br />
What do you think motivates you? I’ve<br />
always felt compelled to help. Maybe it started<br />
with having a smaller twin sister. By eight, I<br />
was teaching children from our neighbouring<br />
slum to read, and the home-helps employed<br />
by my family. Three went on to school – they<br />
named their children after me! I also wanted<br />
to learn. My father wanted me to train to cook.<br />
But whenever something isn’t right, I’ve always<br />
asserted myself. I sold butterbeans to fund my<br />
schooling, appealed to the town chief to argue<br />
my case, and won a scholarship. My father<br />
was an engineer. My mother, who’s just died,<br />
uneducated, though very bright. That never<br />
seemed fair.<br />
Do you have any specific aims as Mayor?<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> has always been welcoming, and our<br />
three children have done well. But I hope to<br />
give the youth more of a voice. I’m inviting all<br />
the local school councils to come and meet with<br />
me. I want to ask student representatives from<br />
every school ‘what do you want <strong>Lewes</strong> to look<br />
like?’ I’m fifty, and I’m one of the young ones<br />
on the Council. We must engage our youth, not<br />
stigmatise them.<br />
I know inclusivity is key for you, in your<br />
work at Breaking Down Barriers, for<br />
instance... I think people need to focus and take<br />
charge. We recently ran workshops, as a pilot<br />
project, with ‘trouble’ pupils in one school. This<br />
small intervention had an enormous impact.<br />
We surfaced their passions – one wants to be<br />
a musician, one a zoologist, one a mechanic,<br />
and so on. They realised they are somebody.<br />
They discovered how and what to do to achieve<br />
results, the little steps they needed to take.<br />
What do you do to relax? I like music. I used<br />
to play drums and am planning to learn the<br />
trombone. I enjoy watching the <strong>Lewes</strong> brass<br />
band perform. And I like walking: the scenery<br />
helps me reflect on all the opportunities we<br />
have, living here, and on never taking those for<br />
granted. Interview by Charlotte Gann<br />
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PHOTO OF THE MONTH<br />
END OF THE TUNNEL<br />
Lucy Albone took this pic back in the summer.<br />
The tunnel runs under the A27 at Southover,<br />
leading from Cockshut Road to the cycle track<br />
to Kingston. “I took it at dusk while walking my<br />
dogs”, Lucy tells us. “Dusk is a lovely time of<br />
day to walk as everything starts to quieten down<br />
as the light changes, and there’s a sense of calm<br />
from the day”.<br />
“This tunnel has always captured my imagination<br />
– it’s got quite an industrial feel, and you can hear<br />
the roar of traffic. At the same time, it’s magical,<br />
skirted by nature. As you walk through, the traffic<br />
grows quieter and your footsteps louder – reverberating<br />
back to you.<br />
“Tunnels often have connotations around death<br />
– and this one reminds me of a story my mother<br />
read me as a child. Badger’s Parting Gifts, by Susan<br />
Varley. In that story Badger’s ill, and suffering.<br />
There’s a tunnel he walks through that delivers<br />
him – in a peaceful way – to his death. At the<br />
time I took the photo I also saw that the lights<br />
were only working at the end – which made me<br />
smile. There’s that light at the end of the tunnel!”<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>. We’ll choose one, 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 />
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Daniel and Eloise took their <strong>Viva</strong> along to<br />
Dublin, and we were with them when they<br />
met the fallow deer in Phoenix Park. The<br />
pair have been travelling all over the UK<br />
recently – Edinburgh, Bristol, Dublin –<br />
and plan to jet off to South East Asia soon.<br />
We’ve been in more exotic climes too. Jasmine,<br />
Kim and Andy Bryce took us on their<br />
family holiday to St Lucia. And (bottom)<br />
here’s Arthur<br />
Hughes, on a<br />
recent trip to<br />
Mustique, visiting<br />
his uncle<br />
(and one-time<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> resident) Elio, who has been working<br />
there for the last few years. Fittingly, Arthur<br />
was enjoying the ‘adventure’ issue as he gently<br />
bobbed in the clear blue waters.<br />
Keep taking us with you and keep spreading<br />
the word. Send your photos and a few details<br />
about your trip to hello@vivamagazines.com<br />
Name: Willo Goodbrand, 6 or 7. Classic Felis<br />
Catus. Willo was an exceptionally young mother<br />
– having her first (and only) litter at under a year<br />
old. Rescued from Cats Protection a few months<br />
after, Willo was delighted to get away from her<br />
kittens, preferring human children with their<br />
shorter claws and absence of tails.<br />
Loves: Earworms, bookworms, tapeworms,<br />
Wormwood Scrubs.<br />
Hates: Carpeted bathrooms, people who<br />
describe stuff as ‘so random’, Nietzsche.<br />
Cat facts: Female cats can be sexually mature<br />
from 4 months. Fleas can be fatal for kittens and<br />
malnourished strays are particularly susceptible<br />
to bad infestations where blood loss from bites<br />
can cause them to become severely anaemic.<br />
Cats can make over 100 vocal sounds with which<br />
to express their disdain for humanity, while dogs<br />
can only make about ten, all of which mean “I<br />
love you babes”. @dogsoflewes<br />
With thanks to Michael Sullivan at Cliffe Vets for<br />
the cat facts.<br />
If you’re thinking about adopting a cat, check out<br />
Cats Protection, cats.org.uk/lewes<br />
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BITS AND BOOKS<br />
LOCAL LITERATURE<br />
Literary magazines might seem like the small change of publishing. They have<br />
been called Grub Street, which could be just round the corner from Gin Lane.<br />
But I like to think you’ll find them down Magazine Alley. This is where writers<br />
can hang out, even if it’s just an imaginative space. One veteran of Magazine<br />
Alley is Jeremy Page. Editor of The Frogmore Papers for over thirty years, Page<br />
draws on the Alley’s bohemian associations in London Calling, a book of short<br />
fictions and a longish novella.<br />
The novella features Eustace Tutt. Chucked out of university, Eustace ends up in<br />
a squat, complete with Berlin nudists, a wannabe artist, and the reclusive Rodney.<br />
But it’s meeting gorgeous Amy Wildsmith that will change everything. Eustace’s<br />
two ambitions – to become a published poet and lose his virginity, both by the age of twenty-one – hang<br />
in the balance. This picaresque novella made me laugh out loud. But it’s the much shorter Dance Me to<br />
the End of Love that really moved me, and is worth the cover price alone. John O’Donoghue<br />
We seem to be in a Golden Age of memoir. From Blake Morrison’s And When<br />
Did You Last See Your Father? in 1993 right up to recent experiments by Cusk and<br />
Knausgaard, the New Memoir has arguably eclipsed the novel, a reflection perhaps<br />
of our interesting times. Although Clare Best’s The Missing List might seem to be<br />
a story of individual trauma and its aftermath, her memoir transcends the merely<br />
personal. This is because the story it tells – of a sexually abusive father – comes<br />
not from the inner city, but from a family descended from ‘minor aristocracy’. She<br />
collects the fragments of herself contained in diary entries recording her father’s<br />
decline and death, transcripts of his conversation, descriptions of home movies,<br />
lists of his do’s and don’ts, and prose of crystalline clarity.<br />
Best outlines a narrative not just of horror but of survival. She emerges angry, sane, but at peace. She<br />
demonstrates that abuse can come from any quarter, that its effects are terrible and longlasting, that few<br />
withstand its ravages without great damage to themselves. But most of all she shows that secrets unspoken<br />
must yield to their saying. A brilliant, courageous, moving book. John O’Donoghue<br />
I particularly enjoyed the ‘choreography’ of Moon by Robert Massey and<br />
Alexandra Loske. So, the soft hues of Nils Blommér’s 1850 The Water-Sprite and<br />
Ägir’s Daughters face those of Caspar David Friedrich’s 1818 Moonrise over the<br />
Sea. And William Blake’s iconic ‘I want! I want!’ from For the Sexes: The Gates<br />
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who’s nearing the top of ‘a giant beanstalk’. This subtle twinning sits satisfyingly<br />
within a book otherwise marked by variety – a French poster for the 1961<br />
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fine art. A glorious potpourri of all things moon. Charlotte Gann<br />
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Rocket FM goes on air for its annual stint on 15th <strong>October</strong>. From then until<br />
6th November it will broadcast all day, every day. And broadcast on all sorts<br />
of things. “Not just Bonfire”, Rocket FM programmer, Rosie Boxer, is keen<br />
to emphasise.<br />
“The station is operated entirely by volunteers – including all the presenters<br />
– and we’re always looking for new ones”, she says. “Our programmes<br />
cover all sorts of subjects, including local issues and history – I cut my teeth on The History Hour, and loved<br />
it – and Steve Pilfold’s Where in Sussex? quiz, as well as music.”<br />
There are training sessions for volunteers, including juniors – Rosie mentions one nine year old – “it’s<br />
an opportunity for young people to have a voice if they want to”. But volunteers don’t have to go on air,<br />
there’s all sorts to do behind the scenes. “It’s community radio. We’re open to all – just get in touch.”<br />
Of course, the station has its idiosyncrasies. “We have to vacate our two cupboards – the green room, and<br />
the studio – at St Mary’s Social Centre pretty smartish come November 6th, to make way for the pantomime<br />
dressing rooms”, she laughs. “And I have to warn new presenters they won’t be able to get near by<br />
car when it’s Nevill Juveniles.”<br />
But the real charm lies in the medium. Radio. “Alistair Cooke interviewed a child in the 1930s”, Rosie says,<br />
“and that small boy said it all: the best pictures are on radio.” Charlotte Gann<br />
Rocket FM is online from 15th <strong>October</strong> (via rocketfm.org.uk Listen Live or smartphone Apps) and on<br />
87.8 FM from 22nd <strong>October</strong>.<br />
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BITS AND BOBS<br />
LEWES DOORTRAITS #5<br />
Jo Jackson, from the blog The <strong>Lewes</strong> Home,<br />
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CLOCKS OF LEWES #23:<br />
RINGMER CRICKET PAVILION<br />
If you could give your door a<br />
characteristic, what would it be? ‘Grateful.<br />
This house was once a butcher’s shop.<br />
Although the original shop entrance is now<br />
hidden, the owners long ago would have felt<br />
gratitude for all the customers who came<br />
through.’ @theleweshome<br />
On the north side of Ringmer’s village green<br />
are the pavilion and bar of Ringmer Cricket<br />
Club. On the pavilion’s veranda is a clock. It’s<br />
the sort of simple battery-driven device you’ll<br />
find across the country in schools and halls, but<br />
it ties in with the club’s long history. A plaque<br />
below says it’s ‘in memory of EW Groundsell<br />
who died in September 1982 having been secretary<br />
to the RCC for over 35 years’.<br />
The club is 200 years old, with the pavilion<br />
dating from the early days, the walls inside<br />
lined with boards naming significant players<br />
from over the decades. These include Groundsell<br />
himself and Peter Crees, the current club<br />
chairman. EW – Ernie – was a wicket keeper<br />
and “one of those secretaries you didn’t argue<br />
with”, according to Peter.<br />
Peter explained the first memorial clock was a<br />
more traditional one with a clockwork action<br />
but, when it “clapped out”, they decided against<br />
anything fancy, as it would be “vulnerable and<br />
too expensive”.<br />
The clock itself is left up all year. If its battery<br />
dies, a call soon reaches Peter and it’s replaced,<br />
making Ringmer Cricket Pavilion clock one of<br />
the more reliable timepieces we’ve looked at in<br />
this series, over the past couple of years.<br />
Daniel Etherington<br />
Thanks to Peter Crees<br />
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CHARITY BOX: LEWES OPEN DOOR<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Open Door<br />
first opened its door<br />
last December. Its<br />
aim, ‘to support the<br />
most vulnerable<br />
people of our community’.<br />
Based today<br />
in the Westgate<br />
Chapel on <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
High Street – and<br />
not to be confused<br />
with The Open<br />
Door complementary health centre – it runs a<br />
drop-in service every week day between 12.45pm<br />
and 2.45pm, providing a safe space for anyone who<br />
needs it. We talked to Chair, David Griffiths.<br />
Why did you set it up? Because it’s needed. Today<br />
homelessness is a growing problem everywhere.<br />
Some days only one person may turn up;<br />
sometimes there’ll be six or seven. I lived in Reigate<br />
before – I’m a retired management consultant<br />
– and helped at a winter night shelter. When<br />
I moved to <strong>Lewes</strong>, and saw an ad on Facebook,<br />
placed by <strong>Lewes</strong> Open Door founder Thomas<br />
Schorr-kon, I responded. The problem is simply<br />
that there are more people on the streets because<br />
there are fewer services. The Eastbourne<br />
and <strong>Lewes</strong> District Council have just appointed<br />
their first rough-sleep outreach officer – she’s<br />
badly needed.<br />
How is it funded and staffed? The drop-in<br />
is funded purely by donations and staffed by<br />
volunteers. We currently have 40 to 45 active<br />
volunteers. We’d welcome more. A sign outside<br />
invites people in, and word gets about. We also<br />
now have a fledgling website, and an active<br />
Facebook page. People can reach us there if<br />
they’re interested in helping or donating clothes<br />
or bedding, or of course money. Or just pop by.<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Open Door is constituted as a charity. We<br />
hope to become<br />
registered, though<br />
aren’t yet, as we’d<br />
like eventually<br />
to rent premises.<br />
We’re also, just now<br />
– and with winter<br />
coming – looking<br />
into the possibility<br />
of setting up a<br />
roaming shelter –<br />
offering people a<br />
roof for the night, a camp-bed, and a hot meal. I<br />
reckon five to ten people probably sleep rough in<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> most nights. It’s perceived as a safer place<br />
to be on the streets than Brighton & Hove, which<br />
can be very violent.<br />
What does <strong>Lewes</strong> Open Door offer? A safe<br />
place for people living rough to relax, wash, enjoy<br />
food and a hot drink, and pick up clean clothes<br />
and bedding. Sadly, we don’t currently have a<br />
shower, but volunteers sometimes take clothes<br />
home to wash. And we also offer advice to anyone<br />
needing practical help – say, with applying<br />
for benefits. I can think of at least three attendees<br />
who have now referred themselves to the CGL<br />
(Change Grow Live) programme in Eastbourne.<br />
And we will help them apply for Universal Credit<br />
when that rolls out – which could be a nightmare.<br />
For one thing, it’s all online, so you need<br />
easy access to a computer or smartphone. Many<br />
don’t have that. Universal Credit looks like it’s<br />
designed for people who don’t need it.<br />
Most importantly of all, anyone dropping in will<br />
receive a warm welcome. Acceptance is the key.<br />
People’s lives can be chaotic, and they can feel<br />
judged wherever they go. We offer a place where<br />
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LEWES IN NUMBERS<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> offers plenty of choice of eateries and drinkeries, with at least 20 coffee shops, 15 restaurants, 17 pubs<br />
and 10 takeaways. How often, on average, do we visit them? A national survey in 2016 by the Food Standards<br />
Agency showed that 96% of respondents ate out or bought takeaway food, with 43% doing so at least once<br />
or twice a week, men more likely than women (50% vs 38%). The young are more likely to eat out than<br />
older age groups: 60% of 16-24 year olds, and 55% of those aged 25-34. Only 4% never eat out, though<br />
this varies by age and income, rising to 15% of those aged 75+, and 15% of those in low-income households.<br />
In the month before the survey, 67% of respondents had eaten at a restaurant, 55% had eaten takeaway food,<br />
41% eaten in a café or coffee shop and 38% in a pub or bar. How does this compare with you? Sarah Boughton<br />
TOWN PLAQUE #43: PIPE PASSAGE IN DETAIL<br />
For some of the historic plaques in <strong>Lewes</strong> (mostly researched by Friends<br />
of <strong>Lewes</strong> and funded by the Town Council) it is remarkably difficult to<br />
say all that explains the past use and significance of a building – far less all<br />
which one might wish to say! – in under about 45 words.<br />
A good example of this is in Pipe Passage, where there has been a plaque<br />
on the High Street end since 1988, explaining the reason for the name in<br />
just nineteen words. Recently much more of the story of this short passage<br />
has been outlined in an information board (detail pictured) on the<br />
fence behind the Freemasons’ Hall, which was put up opposite the former <strong>Viva</strong> <strong>Lewes</strong> offices just after<br />
the team moved out. Though only part of the remains of the Victorian clay-pipe kiln is now visible, the<br />
manufacturing process is explained through text, illustration and photographs. Marcus Taylor<br />
GHOST PUB #48: THE GEORGE INN, 16 WATERLOO PLACE<br />
In 1851, beer retailer Armisgill Terry bought a property on the<br />
corner of Waterloo Place and Little East Street. This later became<br />
known as the George Inn. In 1875 it was described as ‘a<br />
modern and substantially-built freehold public house … most<br />
advantageously situated in Waterloo Place, and doing an extensive<br />
trade.’ James Anderson had taken over as landlord in the<br />
1860s. However, he died in 1873, aged just 29, leaving a widow<br />
(Sarah), and a baby daughter (Eleanor). Sarah continued to run<br />
the George Inn for the next 30 years, with Eleanor helping out when she was old enough.<br />
Eleanor married Albert Downey in 1891, and he also helped in the pub for a while. Sarah finally retired in<br />
1902, and went to live with Eleanor and Albert in Station Street. The George Inn then had a succession of<br />
short-lived landlords. It hit bad times in 1932, with no official landlord, and a fall in beer sales. Its licence was<br />
finally refused in 1934. The following year, plans were made to convert the building into two flats; the first<br />
floor flat remaining as 16 Waterloo Place, and the ground floor flat becoming 18 Little East Street. Little<br />
East Street was widened around 1970, and the old George Inn had to give way to the tarmac. This photo<br />
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LEWESLIGHT FESTIVAL<br />
Last <strong>October</strong>, more than 10,000 people took to<br />
the streets to enjoy the <strong>Lewes</strong>Light Festival when<br />
it lit up the town’s quirky corners. This year, it’s<br />
back, and we caught up with Festival Director<br />
Graham Festenstein, to ask what it’s all about.<br />
“I’m interested anyway in public spaces”, says<br />
Graham, a lighting designer who thinks our towns<br />
are often let down when darkness falls. The festival,<br />
now in its fourth year, came about after he<br />
returned from work in Alingsås, Sweden. There, a<br />
team of design students, under his direction, prepared<br />
installations across the town. “It’s a project<br />
that’s been going more than fifteen years. Coming<br />
back to <strong>Lewes</strong>, with some photos, I was persuaded<br />
it would be good to try something similar here. In<br />
2015, under the auspices of the UNESCO International<br />
Year of Light, we gave it a go.”<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> has a lot in common with Alingsås: they’re<br />
roughly the same size, with a rich, intimate history.<br />
“I love the town’s sense of community and<br />
the spirit of its people. We rely on these.”<br />
And light is brilliant. “It can emphasise features,<br />
textures, colour”, says Graham. “It can convey<br />
serenity, or drama, sometimes subtle, sometimes<br />
startling. I talk to the individual designers as we<br />
go along, but never quite know what to expect. It’s<br />
great seeing how each interprets our overall theme<br />
– this year, Missing.” Charlotte Gann<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>Light Festival runs 7-10.30pm, 12th, 13th and<br />
14th <strong>October</strong>. Guided walks will start periodically<br />
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had a new angle – Italian and American – and<br />
thought some cooking shots might fit well with<br />
our ‘larder’ theme. She’d also heard they made<br />
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Chloë King<br />
Tit for tat<br />
One thing I’ve learnt<br />
about objects, is that they<br />
make poor company.<br />
They might be pretty, or<br />
useful, or pretty useful,<br />
but the conversation<br />
is non-existent. Most<br />
unhappily, they never<br />
reciprocate the emotions<br />
I pour into them.<br />
Plus, they’re constantly<br />
needing more of my space<br />
and costing me more<br />
money and more time<br />
to look after. And other<br />
people are always remarking on them: wondering<br />
why they look like this or that, or asking me<br />
where they come from – the sort of questions<br />
that no right-minded person ought to be asking.<br />
We’re having a big clear-out at home which<br />
is great. Unless, of course, you’re aware of the<br />
generalised impotence of our recycling system,<br />
or that charity shops throw away a lot of donations,<br />
or the fact that plastic straws get stuck up<br />
sea turtles’ nostrils.<br />
In which case, having a clear-out is as much<br />
guilt-inducing as it is cathartic. But there we<br />
are. We have a mountain of children’s clothes<br />
to relieve ourselves of before they provoke such<br />
powerful nostalgia we are compelled to produce<br />
another carbon-guzzler. And that’s just one<br />
category of items cluttering up our lives.<br />
The only way for it is to boot sale. I think. We<br />
can make some money and give some objects<br />
another chance. Then we can start afresh. We<br />
can live among blissful sparsity with all things in<br />
their right and proper place, and in the words of<br />
my husband:<br />
‘No more shall we fill champagne flutes full of<br />
beads!<br />
No more shall we fill<br />
bird feeders full of<br />
dominos!<br />
No more shall we fill<br />
jam jars full of rocks!<br />
Because, we are better<br />
than this!’<br />
So, on Sunday morning<br />
at 5.30am, the four of<br />
us drive to Polegate to<br />
queue for the Mammoth<br />
Car Boot as mists<br />
disperse over the South<br />
Downs.<br />
The sun is out and there<br />
could easily be as many sellers here as punters.<br />
Each car opens out to display a similar array of<br />
superfluous nonsense: children’s toys, kitchenalia,<br />
books, tools, materials, furniture and things<br />
on wheels. The morning unfolds slowly and<br />
largely unprofitably.<br />
I think men are hovering around waiting for Mr<br />
to leave before they ask for prices on tools. They<br />
want to capitalise on the fact I don’t know what<br />
to charge for 40 metres of rubber tubing.<br />
I buy a packet of heart-shaped Post-its to use<br />
as price tags – this seller drives a hard bargain<br />
(dropping from 50p not to 20p, but to 25p…) I<br />
soon find they don’t stick.<br />
Still, my butter churner attracts a lot of attention;<br />
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“You put double cream in and turn the handle,<br />
then you have butter, and the whey you can use<br />
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“We don’t eat butter,” the man says.<br />
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I reply, going for the hard sell.<br />
“We don’t eat dairy,” he says, walking off.<br />
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Illustration by Chloë King<br />
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David Jarman<br />
‘O City city, I can sometimes hear…’<br />
What is it about people in middle age or<br />
retirement taking up musical instruments?<br />
The editor of <strong>Viva</strong> Brighton, our sister<br />
publication, tells me of a friend who is learning<br />
the cello. In the pages of this magazine,<br />
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age of fifty, she is planning to embark upon<br />
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mentions a friend who has recently retired –<br />
will time hang heavily on her hands? Not a<br />
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younger son reminds me that practically the<br />
first thing William Hague did on standing<br />
down from the leadership of the Conservative<br />
Party was to start piano lessons. Even in<br />
The Archers, not a programme known for its<br />
unerring identification with the zeitgeist, the<br />
retired academic, Jim (‘The Prof.’), is tickling<br />
the ivories again after decades of abstinence.<br />
This might, of course, be a devious strategy to<br />
drive his very unacademic lodger, Jazzer, up<br />
the wall. If so, it may be a high-risk strategy.<br />
Jazzer is Glaswegian. Does he play the<br />
bagpipes? Have we ever been told? If he does,<br />
and he chooses to retaliate against Jim’s rather<br />
laboured scales, he is unlikely to be deterred by<br />
a letter that I once read in the correspondence<br />
columns of The Times: ‘… as an Englishman<br />
living in Scotland, I always understood that<br />
the definition of a gentleman was “someone<br />
who can play the bagpipes but doesn’t”.’<br />
I don’t get the impression that it makes any<br />
difference to anyone which instrument you<br />
choose to take up. Consequently, any revival<br />
of Tom Stoppard’s 1970 play, After Magritte, is<br />
unlikely to still raise a laugh at the point when<br />
one of the characters, Thelma, berates her<br />
husband for being mean spirited to his mother,<br />
and concludes: “the truth is that we are very<br />
fortunate that a woman of her age still has an<br />
active interest, even if it is the tuba.”<br />
Still, I understand that the ukulele is very<br />
popular these days. There’s nothing new about<br />
this. The banjo was all the rage in this country<br />
in the late nineteenth century. The mandolin<br />
took over in the early twentieth. There’s a<br />
photograph of James Joyce playing it. By the<br />
time that TS Eliot started, its popularity<br />
was on the decline. He seemed to see it as<br />
therapeutic. Perhaps that’s the primary<br />
motivation for many middle-aged people<br />
taking up a musical instrument these days.<br />
Writing to Sydney Schiff, from<br />
Margate in November 1921,<br />
during his recuperation from<br />
a severe nervous breakdown,<br />
Eliot claims: ‘I sketch the<br />
people, after a fashion,<br />
and practise scales on the<br />
mandolin’. And a year<br />
later, the instrument<br />
enters The Waste Land<br />
itself: ‘O City city, I<br />
can sometimes hear /<br />
Beside a public bar in<br />
Lower Thames Street /<br />
The pleasant whining of<br />
a mandoline.’ He rhymes it<br />
with ‘within’.<br />
Anyone thinking of writing a<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> follow-up to The Waste<br />
Land, incorporating ukulele<br />
as a rhyme, might consider<br />
‘daily’ or ‘ceilidh’ or even<br />
‘Daniel Waley’, as a tribute<br />
to our foremost historian of<br />
medieval Italy who passed<br />
away last year.<br />
Illustration by Charlotte Gann<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: COMEDY<br />
Dave Mounfield<br />
Comedy compère<br />
Congratulations! I hear<br />
Comedy at the Con<br />
Club is celebrating its<br />
eighth birthday this<br />
month… Actually that’s a<br />
really long time: it’s very<br />
rare for a comedy night to<br />
last more than five years.<br />
We started in 2010, and it<br />
was tough going at first.<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> takes a long time<br />
to decide if it wants something<br />
to exist, but once it<br />
does, it’s very loyal.<br />
How important is the<br />
nature of the venue to<br />
the success of the show?<br />
Hugely important. I used to put a night on at<br />
the Komedia in Brighton, which was the perfect<br />
venue before they changed things round there.<br />
After that finished I went a couple of years without<br />
a venue, and Neil Masters suggested we put a<br />
regular show on at the Con Club. I hadn’t been,<br />
so I had a look, and it was perfect: dark, low, not<br />
too echoey. Like it had fallen off the back of a<br />
working man’s club in Mansfield. When I found<br />
out it was the ‘Constitutional Club’, and not the<br />
‘Conservative Club’, I was sold.<br />
You share the MCing duties with Neil.<br />
Can you describe him in three words?<br />
Californian, wry, ex radio DJ.<br />
How would he describe you? Chaotic,<br />
avuncular, good MC material.<br />
You get a lot of well known acts down here.<br />
How do you manage that? A lot of it is down<br />
to Neil’s connections in London, but also mine<br />
in Brighton, which has got an inordinate number<br />
of big-name and mid-name acts living in<br />
it. Plus, I’ve heard, without<br />
trying to blow my own<br />
trumpet, that <strong>Lewes</strong> has<br />
developed a good reputation<br />
among comedians on<br />
the south-east circuit. The<br />
crowd isn’t too shouty, but<br />
they’re smart, and they’re<br />
opinionated. It’s become<br />
known as a good place to<br />
try out new material: if it<br />
works in <strong>Lewes</strong>, it’ll work<br />
anywhere. Even Moose, the<br />
technician, comes in with a<br />
heckle every now and then.<br />
I’ve never seen that before.<br />
Comedy is well known for<br />
breaking taboos. Is there anything that is<br />
too taboo to joke about? I really don’t think<br />
so. We all value free speech, and comedy is the<br />
free-est that speech gets. In fact, anthropologically<br />
speaking, what laughter actually is, is the<br />
sublimation of a snarl. When you perceive a<br />
threat, and there turns out to be no threat…<br />
there’s no longer any danger, and that’s when<br />
funny happens. That’s how humour works, basically,<br />
and the time when you laugh the most is<br />
the time when you think ‘I shouldn’t really be<br />
laughing at this’.<br />
Remembering this is a family magazine, tell<br />
us a good one-liner… [Consults Neil]. Let’s<br />
go for a family-favourite groaner. Why did the<br />
kid cross the playground? To get to the other<br />
slide! Well, it’s short. Interview by Alex Leith<br />
Comedy at the Con Club takes place on the second<br />
Thursday of every month. On <strong>October</strong> 8th<br />
the guests are Mike Dunn, Jen Brister and Julie<br />
Oliver, with Dave Mounfield MCing.<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: THEATRE<br />
The Dresser<br />
The end of a theatrical era<br />
The Dresser, by Ronald Harwood,<br />
is a play about theatre;<br />
in fact it takes us to the bitter<br />
end of a once-glorious theatrical<br />
era.<br />
It was a West End hit in 1980,<br />
and went on to succeed on<br />
Broadway, too. You might well<br />
have seen the 1983 screen adaptation,<br />
which starred Albert<br />
Finney and Tom Courtenay.<br />
The era in question is that of<br />
the actor-managers, who ran<br />
their own repertory companies,<br />
and toured classic works<br />
– largely by Shakespeare –<br />
around provincial theatres, playing the lead roles<br />
themselves. Notable examples include Sir Frank<br />
Benson, and Sir Donald Wolfit.<br />
Nicholas Betteridge is directing The Dresser<br />
at <strong>Lewes</strong> Little Theatre for the second time;<br />
the first was in 1986. He explains to me the<br />
dynamics of the play. It’s set immediately before<br />
and during a performance of King Lear, in a<br />
provincial theatre, in 1942. The rep company’s<br />
actor-manager, ‘Sir’, a sixty-something veteran,<br />
whose reputation is waning, is in the throes of a<br />
nervous breakdown. His dresser, Norman, has to<br />
persuade him to pull himself together enough to<br />
get on the stage and perform the lead. We watch<br />
the action – explosive in more ways than one –<br />
from behind the scenes.<br />
Harwood was himself for many years a dresser in<br />
a rep company, run by Sir Donald Wolfit, and it’s<br />
tempting to deduce that ‘Sir’ is based on Wolfit.<br />
“He’s always denied that that was entirely the<br />
case,” Betteridge tells me (and certainly an essay<br />
written by Harwood, and included in a 1980 programme<br />
our sub-editor David dug out, confirms<br />
‘Sir is not Donald Wolfit’).<br />
“But he was certainly a man of<br />
similar style, and substance.”<br />
Sir is a complex and deeplyflawed<br />
character. “He is<br />
egotistical. But he believes that<br />
what he is doing – educating<br />
the people about Shakespeare –<br />
is absolutely necessary.” Thus,<br />
he draws some sympathy from<br />
the audience, and The Dresser<br />
is, in part, its own tragedy. “But<br />
there’s more to it than that.<br />
There are some extremely funny<br />
lines in it. It might be argued<br />
that it’s part comedy, too.”<br />
Betteridge, who has been involved with <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Little Theatre since 1963, was tempted out of<br />
retirement to direct the play but, he tells me,<br />
he wasn’t tempted to play the lead himself. For<br />
that he chose another veteran of the company,<br />
Anthony Bannister (pictured), who knows the<br />
play well, having previously played the role of<br />
Norman. The Dresser is “extremely relevant today,”<br />
Bannister tells me, “because theatre’s on the<br />
move again. Young fringe theatre companies are<br />
getting together and touring their own performances,<br />
while Kenneth Branagh and others are<br />
reprising the role of the actor-manager.”<br />
If The Dresser depicts the end of an era, then, it’s<br />
one that’s left a lasting legacy. “This play gives us<br />
a wonderful insight into a theatrical genre that<br />
most people would not know about,” says Bannister.<br />
“And a lot of what we understand about<br />
theatre today is down to the hard work of the<br />
great actor-managers. They were the superstars<br />
of their age.” Alex Leith<br />
The Dresser, <strong>Lewes</strong> Little Theatre, Oct 6th-13th,<br />
lewestheatre.org<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: THEATRE<br />
Sondheim’s Follies<br />
Growing up and looking back<br />
When it opened in 1971, Stephen Sondheim’s<br />
musical Follies was a contemporary tale set in a dilapidated<br />
New York theatre. “A lot of the context<br />
is very topical for that time”, says Thomas Hackett,<br />
who’s directing a version for LOS Musical<br />
Theatre in <strong>Lewes</strong> this month. “We’re setting it<br />
when it was written. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”<br />
We’ve found a quiet spot for a chat during<br />
rehearsals by squeezing into the costume store,<br />
which seems particularly appropriate for a story<br />
about theatrical lives. “It’s about growing up<br />
and looking back at your younger self. Your<br />
course may have changed but that doesn’t mean<br />
it’s wrong.” Before the fictional theatre closes<br />
forever, former members of Weismann’s Follies<br />
reunite on stage for one last time. “They were<br />
showgirls, they’re proper performers”, says<br />
Thomas. This, he tells me with a smile, is why<br />
he’s working with choreographer Star Bray. “I<br />
needed someone who knows what they’re doing,<br />
not just to wing it myself!”<br />
Fortunately, there’s space in the storeroom for<br />
all three of us. “We both wanted to keep the<br />
choreography as part of the story, rather than the<br />
singing and the dancing being separate”, explains<br />
Star. “The music is beautiful. You have the<br />
opportunity for the Charleston, for the 1940s<br />
close-hold jive, for the Shim Sham, and we’ve<br />
got elements of Fosse as well. There are plenty<br />
of different dance styles to play around with,<br />
which has been fun.”<br />
“We’ve been incredibly blessed with the amount<br />
of talent that has rocked up”, Thomas adds. “We<br />
have this abundance of leading ladies with so<br />
many credits to their names – here, Brighton,<br />
Eastbourne – and they’ve brought all that talent.<br />
Every time something happens on stage, it’s a<br />
highlight.” Not only is the show packed with<br />
performers, it’s also packed with Sondheim<br />
songs. “When he wrote it, it was an homage to<br />
Rodgers and Hammerstein, to Oscar Straus…<br />
Obviously Losing My Mind is the big torch song,<br />
I’m Still Here is another big number but, as a<br />
piece, it’s really hard to break it down. I look on<br />
it very much as a whole.”<br />
Although Thomas has kept the show rooted<br />
in the 1970s, he’s made one change from the<br />
Broadway production. “We’re breaking for an<br />
interval”, he says. “When Sondheim originally<br />
wrote it, he didn’t want one, but an interval was<br />
subsequently put in the script. It’s a long time<br />
to sit and focus. And there’s a social side as well;<br />
having a chat at the bar is part of an evening out.”<br />
As I emerge from the costume store, I ask the<br />
director what message he has for those sociable<br />
theatregoers of <strong>Lewes</strong>. “More than anything, if<br />
you don’t know it, you need to see it.” To which<br />
his choreographer adds “And if you have seen<br />
it and you do know it, then you’ll want to see it<br />
again”. Mark Bridge<br />
Follies runs from 3rd-6th <strong>October</strong> at <strong>Lewes</strong> Town<br />
Hall. Tickets via losmusicaltheatre.org.uk<br />
Photos by Finnian Hackett<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: PERFORMANCE<br />
Lemn Sissay<br />
The Art of Attachment<br />
Lemn Sissay and Charlotte Vincent at Brighton Oasis Project. Photo by Bosie Vincent<br />
Lemn Sissay has<br />
lived an extraordinary<br />
life. Born<br />
in 1967, he was<br />
fostered into a<br />
family who were<br />
told - wrongly - to<br />
treat this as an<br />
adoption. When<br />
Lemn was twelve,<br />
his foster parents<br />
placed him in a<br />
children’s home.<br />
The next five years were spent in the care system.<br />
On leaving his final children’s home he was<br />
given his birth certificate, showing the name<br />
of his mother, Yemarshet Sissay, and his true<br />
name, Lemn Sissay. He was also given a letter,<br />
written by his mother, pleading for his return.<br />
He began the search for her and finally met his<br />
birth mother when he was 21. After making his<br />
way as a poet, playwright, and writer, he is now<br />
Chancellor of Manchester University.<br />
When I was asked if I wanted to interview<br />
Lemn I didn’t hesitate. I’m a care leaver myself,<br />
and know well the toll ‘care’ can take. We speak<br />
on the phone, on a sunny autumn day, and in<br />
his warm Mancunian tones he tells me about<br />
the show he’s been working on.<br />
“The Art of Attachment comes from a call I got<br />
from Brighton Oasis Project, a brilliant organisation<br />
that works with women caught up in<br />
substance misuse. I’m choosy about the projects<br />
I work on, but this really spoke to me. I did a<br />
series of workshops where we wrote poetry and<br />
they said things that they’d never said before.”<br />
Lemn has been working on the show with<br />
award-winning choreographer Charlotte<br />
Vincent (also pictured). “Charlotte and I had a<br />
few meetings. She’s<br />
doing a great job<br />
of translating the<br />
women into dancers.<br />
Charlotte’s<br />
using the subject<br />
matter of attachment<br />
and there’s a<br />
lot coming out of<br />
that.”<br />
Something I want<br />
to explore with<br />
Lemn is separation<br />
anxiety. If my Other Half takes her time<br />
coming back from the shops I start to get very<br />
uneasy. “Something that we have in common is<br />
dysfunctional reactions to disappearance. I tend<br />
to think that nobody’s coming back anyway.<br />
Sometimes I’ll leave them before they leave me.<br />
I’ll push them away before they push me away.”<br />
I ask him whether he thinks women get a<br />
rougher time than men about substance<br />
misuse. “I think ever since the care system was<br />
established women have been adversely treated.<br />
Their children have been taken from them,<br />
they’ve been punished from the get go, and as<br />
soon as you step out of the matrix, that punishment<br />
is waiting for you. And this has got to do<br />
with the fear of a pregnant woman without a<br />
man. That’s why they’ve taken their children,<br />
that’s why they’ve put them into children’s<br />
homes. This is not the way for a child to be.<br />
Groups like Oasis are right at the forefront of<br />
change and growth.”<br />
As we finish I realise that Lemn Sissay hasn’t<br />
lived an extraodinary life – he’s still living it.<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: TALK<br />
Robert McCrum<br />
The lives and deaths of books<br />
Why do we recite poems at funerals? Because<br />
words console us. That’s the overall message I<br />
get chatting to former Faber & Faber Editorin-Chief<br />
and one-time Observer Literary Editor,<br />
Robert McCrum, who’s speaking at this month’s<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Literary Society.<br />
‘Consoling narratives must be patched together<br />
from transient fragments of experience’ is<br />
one way he puts it, in his 2017 book Every<br />
Third Thought: On life, death and the endgame<br />
(Picador). This intrigues me, so I ask what is it,<br />
does he think, about narrative that consoles us?<br />
“Storytelling is human. Our brains are wired<br />
to tell stories. We construct narrative from<br />
fragmentary and disturbing data to organise<br />
it into a satisfying shape. Say you’ve been<br />
diagnosed with terminal cancer”, he says, “to<br />
cope, you build a story – something you and<br />
your family can grab hold of.”<br />
In other words, arguably with all experience,<br />
but particularly at hefty or traumatic times, we<br />
compose ‘stories’. “It’s the coherence”, Robert<br />
McCrum believes, “that’s consoling. That’s why<br />
all the rituals around end of life are important.<br />
They help.” And yes, he says, storytelling helped<br />
him when, at 42, in 1995, he suffered a stroke<br />
(which became the subject of an earlier book, My<br />
Year Off). “I know my belief in storytelling came<br />
first”, he says. “But yes, it helped me cope.”<br />
As for McCrum’s stint as Editor-in-Chief at<br />
Faber & Faber in the 80s: was it fun? I can’t<br />
resist asking. “It was tremendously good fun”, he<br />
says. “If I’d understood quite how special at the<br />
time, perhaps I’d never have given it up! Every<br />
week the people coming through our offices<br />
were the likes of Harold Pinter, Seamus Heaney,<br />
Kazuo Ishiguro… And we were all young –<br />
under thirty-five.”<br />
He also thinks it happened to be “a quite<br />
extraordinary moment” in English literature<br />
and publishing – better than what’s come since,<br />
which he calls “grim and depressing and narrow<br />
and un-instinctive. I think history is like this”,<br />
he says. “Times of irrational exuberance are followed<br />
by its antithesis. We must take the longer<br />
view: it’s not for us to decide which books are<br />
really going to matter.”<br />
I mention a piece he wrote in The Guardian<br />
about the Man Booker Prize at fifty: how AL<br />
Kennedy once described it as ‘a pile of crooked<br />
nonsense’. “Well”, he says, “the prizes today are<br />
the least-bad way we have of recognising new<br />
writing. It used to be modulated by reviews –<br />
they were crucial. But with the onset of the ‘marketplace’,<br />
these have been replaced by prizes.<br />
They’re unfair, there’s no doubt, with many<br />
flaws. But in general are, I think, a good thing.”<br />
He seems enthused talking about publishing.<br />
“I don’t really know about death and dying, not<br />
yet”, he laughs. “I do know about the lives and<br />
deaths of books!” Charlotte Gann<br />
Robert McCrum will be in conversation with Nick<br />
Tucker at the <strong>Lewes</strong> Literary Society in the All<br />
Saints Centre on 16th <strong>October</strong>.<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: LITERATURE<br />
Lulah Ellender<br />
Something really true...<br />
Lulah Ellender’s<br />
maternal<br />
grandmother,<br />
Elisabeth, was a<br />
diplomat’s wife.<br />
And she wrote lists.<br />
She wrote them in<br />
a marbled hardback<br />
journal which Lulah’s<br />
mother, Helen, had<br />
always kept and<br />
one day gave her<br />
daughter. “I felt something the moment my<br />
mum handed me this book,” Lulah says. “Why<br />
would someone keep a whole book of lists? It felt<br />
precious. I didn’t know what to do with it.”<br />
What she ended up doing was writing a book<br />
of her own, based around these lists, which was<br />
published earlier this year by Granta.<br />
As our theme this issue is ‘larder’, I ask if her<br />
grandmother’s kitchen lists possess any especial<br />
resonance? “Yes”, she says. Elisabeth’s record of<br />
eggs, for instance, (pictured): “I think this is one<br />
of my favourites. She had two small children, and<br />
bombs were falling: why would you keep a record<br />
for a whole year of every egg laid?”<br />
Another, a picnic list, records: ‘Cigarettes &<br />
matches / ? Fry-pan, lard, sausages etc’. The lists<br />
are both nostalgic, and historically interesting.<br />
There’s also something that draws Lulah about<br />
the human impulse to write lists in the first place.<br />
“I think Elisabeth wrote them to try to control<br />
the chaos”, she says. “To find order. But the lists<br />
also give a permanence to the objects in them.<br />
She often noted ‘flapjack’ on her travelling lists. It<br />
was my mum who told me a flapjack was actually<br />
a powder compact!”<br />
I imagine the charm was partly in the small,<br />
human detail? (‘P.M. Ice-cubes… “Powdering”<br />
room. Tip for<br />
waiter.’) “Yes”, she<br />
agrees. “Unlike<br />
diaries, where<br />
you just might<br />
imagine someone<br />
else reading<br />
them, lists are so<br />
unselfconscious”,<br />
says Lulah. “They’re<br />
snapshots of real,<br />
lived moments.<br />
There’s something really true about them.”<br />
Many of Elisabeth’s lists were absolutely<br />
necessary. As a diplomat’s wife, and often upping<br />
sticks and moving, she also had to throw together<br />
elaborate suppers or cocktail parties at short<br />
notice. She had to put on a very English show –<br />
whether in Beirut or Madrid, in the immediate<br />
wake of the civil war, dogged by food shortages.<br />
Hers was a job that, though unpaid and largely<br />
unacknowledged, was extremely demanding.<br />
And the book also contains heart-rending lists.<br />
The contents of her brother’s flat after his suicide.<br />
Attempts to control and manage her household,<br />
and self, when consumed by unrecognised postnatal<br />
depression.<br />
Elisabeth died in 1957 at the age of 42 from lung<br />
cancer. Her daughter Helen was only nine and<br />
her memories limited. One Lulah does remember<br />
her sharing was of hampers being delivered each<br />
year, then stowed away in the larder. “Mum<br />
remembered the excitement of rifling through for<br />
anything child-friendly”, Lulah says – although,<br />
“sadly, there was usually nothing…”<br />
Charlotte Gann<br />
Lulah will be reading from Elisabeth’s Lists, at<br />
Needlewriters, in the John Harvey Tavern, on 18th<br />
<strong>October</strong>.<br />
Photo of Lulah by Sarah Weal<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: FILM<br />
Left to right: The Godfather 3, Babette’s Feast, Fitzcarraldo<br />
Film ’18<br />
Dexter Lee’s cinema round-up<br />
Last month’s screening of 1959 classic Ben-Hur<br />
(Sept 30th) was the first of a Roman epics season<br />
entitled Harness my Zebras! The other two films<br />
are Stanley Kubrick’s unforgettable 1960 movie<br />
Spartacus (Oct 7th), with Kirk Douglas as the<br />
rebellious Thracian slave (with a cast of thousands<br />
claiming his identity), and Ridley Scott’s 2000<br />
sandals-and-swords revenge-drama Gladiator<br />
(Oct 14th), starring Russell Crowe.<br />
There’s another cracking series starting later in<br />
the month: Francis Ford Coppola’s three-part<br />
adaptation of Mario Puzo’s novel The Godfather,<br />
following the trials of the Corleone family across<br />
two continents. My favourite is The (first) Godfather<br />
(1972, 23rd, 24th), particularly the scene<br />
in which Al Pacino, playing Michael Corleone,<br />
gets involved in the family business. Others think<br />
The Godfather 2 (1974, 29th) to be superior, as<br />
Michael gets caught in a spiral of viciousness. The<br />
Godfather 3 (1990, Nov 7th) divides opinions,<br />
especially the performance of Coppola’s daughter<br />
Sofia (later, of course, a director herself).<br />
The Depot are putting on three events connected<br />
with <strong>Lewes</strong> <strong>October</strong>Feast food festival: on the 6th<br />
there’s a screening of Tim Burton’s 2010 Alice<br />
in Wonderland, followed by a Mad Hatter’s tea<br />
party; on the 14th spirits expert Mark Ridgwell<br />
follows Gladiator with a whisky-tasting session;<br />
on the 21st a ‘long lunch’ in the dining room is<br />
followed by a screening of the dignified 1987<br />
Oscar-winning Danish movie Babette’s Feast.<br />
One more adaptation to report on, and it’s the latest<br />
in the Book-to-Film Club series. This month’s<br />
film is the glorious Audrey Hepburn vehicle<br />
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (4th), also starring George<br />
Peppard, a 1961 movie version of the 1958 Truman<br />
Capote novella of the same name. Note of<br />
warning: Mickey Rooney tries to ruin the film<br />
with his over-the-top portrayal of Mr Yunioshi,<br />
the angry upstairs neighbour. Luckily the rest of<br />
the movie is so classy, he doesn’t manage.<br />
Other one-offs include: a dementia-friendly<br />
performance of the Bing Crosby-Frank Sinatra-<br />
Grace Kelly love-triangle musical High Society<br />
(2nd); a live broadcast from Shakespeare’s Globe<br />
of The Winter’s Tale (4th); Peter Jackson’s<br />
acclaimed WW1 film They Shall Not Grow<br />
Old (16th, with a live satellite q&a with Jackson<br />
afterwards); and two documentaries: Resilience<br />
(20th, about adverse childhood experiences);<br />
and School in the Cloud (20th, 21st), local film<br />
maker Jerry Rothwell’s latest, about a pioneering<br />
teaching method being piloted in an Indian<br />
village and a Northern English town. Plus, there’s<br />
a two-day skating (ie skateboarding) event, with<br />
a screening of the 2005 doc Rollin’ through the<br />
Decades, on the 22nd and 23rd. (All previously<br />
mentioned films at the Depot, lewesdepot.org for<br />
more details).<br />
Finally, there are four fine films at the All Saints in<br />
the <strong>Lewes</strong> Film Club season. Christian Mungiu’s<br />
2016 drama Graduation (5th) explores low-level<br />
corruption in contemporary Romania; Censored<br />
Voices (9th, 2015) explores Israeli soldiers’ reactions<br />
to the Six-day War; and there’s an ‘Exploring<br />
Werner Herzog’ weekend featuring Aguirre, the<br />
Wrath of God (19th, 1972) and, also starring<br />
Klaus Kinski as a wild-eyed explorer, Fitzcarraldo<br />
(21st, 1982). Who could forget that steamboatover-the-isthmus<br />
scene?<br />
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OCTOBER<br />
HIGHLIGHTS<br />
Image from Sue MacLaine: Vessel (Paul Blakemore)<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>Light acknowleges the support of <strong>Lewes</strong> Town Council<br />
www.leweslight.uk<br />
<strong>October</strong> 12 th -14 th<br />
7pm - 10.30pm<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>Light<br />
Festival of Light <strong>2018</strong><br />
Supported by:<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> District Council<br />
Chalk<br />
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Trust<br />
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OCTOBER listings<br />
THROUGHOUT OCTOBER<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> <strong>October</strong>Feast. Grub galore, in all sorts<br />
of venues. See lewesoctoberfeast.com.<br />
TUESDAY 2<br />
The Group. Club for men and women aged<br />
50+. Opportunities for meeting new friends,<br />
walking, eating out, theatre, golf, holidays. A<br />
pub in <strong>Lewes</strong>, see thegroup.org.uk.<br />
WEDNESDAY 3<br />
The Paint Club. Fun, social and relaxed painting<br />
class for all. Fuego Lounge, 7pm, £25.<br />
FRIDAY 5<br />
Film: Graduation (15). Romanian realism.<br />
All Saints, 8pm, £5/£2.50 (£40 for Film Club<br />
season membership).<br />
SATURDAY 6<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Farmers Market birthday. Celebrating<br />
20 years with a special market, family activities<br />
with prizes. Cliffe precinct, commoncause.org.<br />
See pg 91.<br />
SATURDAY 6 – SATURDAY 13<br />
The Dresser. 1980 West End and Broadway<br />
play by Ronald Harwood, directed by Nicholas<br />
Betteridge. <strong>Lewes</strong> Little Theatre, see<br />
lewestheatre.org. See pg 39.<br />
SATURDAY 6<br />
& SUNDAY 7<br />
Growing Citrus Plants. <strong>Lewes</strong> and District<br />
Garden Society present a talk by Emily Rae and<br />
mum Isobel who run their own online family<br />
business ‘Plants4Presents’. Emily will talk about<br />
growing and distributing over 100 different<br />
flowering and fruiting plants, and how we can<br />
make limoncello. Cliffe Church Hall, 7.30pm,<br />
£3 for visitors.<br />
WEDNESDAY 3 – SATURDAY 6<br />
Follies. LOS Musical Theatre present the<br />
Sondheim classic. <strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall, various<br />
times, see losmusicaltheatre.org.uk. See pg 41.<br />
THURSDAY 4<br />
Comedy at the Con.<br />
With Mike Gunn, Jen<br />
Brister, Julie Oliver and<br />
MC Dave Mounfield.<br />
Con Club, 8pm, £8-£12.<br />
See pg 37.<br />
Go Wild. Autumn<br />
show and game<br />
fair with falconry<br />
displays, interactive activities, clay pigeon<br />
shooting and plenty more countryside<br />
experiences. South of England Showground,<br />
Ardingly, 9am-5pm, see seas.org.uk.<br />
MONDAY 8<br />
Capturing <strong>Lewes</strong> History on Camera.<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> History Group talk with photographer<br />
Carlotta Luke, who has been documenting the<br />
renovations of some of <strong>Lewes</strong>’ more interesting<br />
buildings, including Southover Grange and the<br />
Depot. King’s Church, 7pm for 7.30pm, £1/£3<br />
for non-members.<br />
Suzanne Ciani & Martin Messier double<br />
bill. Part of Brighton Digital Festival. Attenborough<br />
Centre, 8pm, £12.<br />
TUESDAY 9<br />
Film: Censored Voices. Israeli doc. All Saints,<br />
8pm, £5/£2.50 (£40 for Film Club season<br />
membership).<br />
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OCT listings (cont)<br />
WEDNESDAY 10<br />
The Jewel in the Crown. The Arts Society<br />
Uckfield, <strong>Lewes</strong> and Newick present a lecture<br />
on the Sainte Chapelle in Paris. Uckfield Civic<br />
Hall, 2.20pm, £7 (free for members).<br />
Driverless Cars – part of a low-carbon<br />
future? An evening of facilitated discussion on<br />
the subject of driverless cars and the effects on<br />
our society. Hosted by Transition Town <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
and Thinking Box. Elly, 7.30pm, donations £3<br />
(tickets on sale at Elly in advance).<br />
THURSDAY 11<br />
Brexit – The Final Act? Talk by Guardian<br />
Journalist Rafael Behr, hosted by EUnity<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>. Elly, 8pm, £5.<br />
Therapy. New play by La La Theatre company,<br />
a combination of farcical theatre and<br />
warped word play. Con Club, 8pm, £10/£8.<br />
FRIDAY 12<br />
A Taste of the<br />
Farmers Market.<br />
Opportunity to<br />
meet farmers and<br />
producers while you<br />
taste their foods. Fitzroy House, 7pm, £10.<br />
FRIDAY 12 – SUNDAY 14<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>Light. A Festival of Light celebrating<br />
culture, history and the environment in and<br />
around <strong>Lewes</strong> through the medium of light,<br />
art and design. Throughout <strong>Lewes</strong>, 7-10.30pm,<br />
see leweslight.uk. See pg 29.<br />
Giants of Steam. Bluebell Railway’s Autumn<br />
Gala with two special locomotives, a special<br />
intensive timetable and Harvey’s Beer Tent.<br />
Further activities and attractions across the<br />
railway, see bluebell-railway.com.<br />
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OCT listings (cont)<br />
SUNDAY 14<br />
Framing the Railway Land. Illustrated talk on<br />
the thinking behind the Linklater Pavilion by<br />
Dr John Parry. Linklater Pavilion, 3pm, free.<br />
TUESDAY 16<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Literary Society talk with Robert Mc-<br />
Crum. See pg 45.<br />
WEDNESDAY 17<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Castle<br />
Morning Explorer - Herbs &<br />
Spices,<br />
Mon 22nd Oct,10.00-11.00am<br />
A time for families with additional<br />
needs to explore the site &<br />
collections. Hands on activities,<br />
stories and guiding.<br />
For more details & to discuss your<br />
needs, call: 01273 405734<br />
Anne of Cleves House,<br />
Autumn Colours,<br />
Tues 23 rd Oct, 1.00-4.00pm<br />
Explore Tudor plants, dyes<br />
and paints.<br />
All ages. Included in admission.<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Castle*<br />
Knights & Dragons,<br />
Thurs 25 th Oct,<br />
10.30 -12pm or 2pm-3.30pm<br />
Ages 4-8. Tickets £5.<br />
*Booking required for<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Castle activities<br />
www.sussexpast.co.uk<br />
Learn about<br />
Stethoscope Massage ®<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Castle &<br />
Anne of Cleves House<br />
Quests for truth in the age of truthiness.<br />
Clare Best reads from her memoir The Missing<br />
List, followed by a presentation by Professor<br />
Lyn Thomas, curator of Life Writing Projects,<br />
and others. University of Sussex, Room 155,<br />
Jubilee Building, 4pm, free. See pg 19.<br />
Sussex Military History Society. The RAF in<br />
the Cold War, with speaker Rob Martin. White<br />
Hart, 7.30pm for 8pm, £3 for non-members.<br />
THURSDAY 18<br />
Needlewriters. Featuring readings from Lulah<br />
Ellender, Liz Bahs and Jan Woolf. John Harvey<br />
Tavern, 7pm for 7.45pm, £5/£3. See pg 47.<br />
FRIDAY 19<br />
If I catch Alphonso<br />
tonight! In his play,<br />
Miles Jenner charts<br />
the life of Music<br />
Hall great Billy<br />
Merson. Performance<br />
in aid of the Saving Berwick Project,<br />
aiming to conserve and restore the Bloomsbury<br />
paintings at Berwick Church. Selmeston Village<br />
Hall, 7.30pm, free (donations appreciated).<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Archaeological Group Talk. County<br />
Archivist Christopher Whittick on Beachy<br />
Head Lighthouse and Belle Tout. Town Hall<br />
Lecture Room, 7.30pm, £4/£3 concessions, free<br />
entry for under 18s, tea/coffee included.<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> FC Quiz Night. General quiz, four<br />
people per team, must book in advance:<br />
nickgeall@tiscali.co.uk. The Dripping Pan,<br />
7.45pm, £2.50 (optional £10 meal deal).<br />
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BENTLEY<br />
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Harveys Lane, Nr Halland, East Sussex BN8 5AF<br />
Photos by Jonathan Watt<br />
Wildfowl Reserve, Motor Museum,<br />
Miniature Railway, Tearooms, Gift Shop,<br />
Gardens & Woodland<br />
“A Great Day Out for the Family”<br />
Tripadvisor<br />
Open 10am-5pm daily<br />
www.bentley.org.uk | 01825 840573
OCT listings (cont)<br />
Film: Aguirre, The Wrath of God (PG). Part<br />
of ‘Exploring Herzog weekend’. All Saints,<br />
8pm, see lewes-filmclub.com.<br />
SUNDAY 21<br />
Film: Fitzcarraldo (PG). Part of ‘Exploring<br />
Herzog weekend’. All Saints, 4pm (workshop<br />
from 2.30pm) see lewes-filmclub.com.<br />
Celebrating Sussex Folk Song… in new<br />
ways. ‘Folksong and you’ workshop 3.30pm<br />
(free), Magog Morris dancing from 3.30pm,<br />
Horsham Folk Band in venue from 6.45pm and<br />
concert at 7.30pm. newmusicbrighton.co.uk.<br />
Habitats Galore! Railway Land Wildlife Trust<br />
present an afternoon of hands-on community<br />
learning about the mosaic of habitats at the<br />
Railway Land Nature Reserve. For adults and<br />
families. Meet at Linklater Pavilion, 2pm, free.<br />
WEDNESDAY 24<br />
The Truth About<br />
Plastic. Plastic Free<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> hosts an evening<br />
of discussion, with<br />
speakers answering<br />
questions about plastic pollution and how we<br />
can each tackle it. <strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall Corn<br />
Exchange, 7.30pm (stalls open from 6.30pm),<br />
donations welcome.<br />
THURSDAY 25<br />
Pumpkin carving. Help set the scene for the<br />
weekend, pumpkins and tools provided.<br />
Lansdown, 6pm, free.<br />
SATURDAY 27<br />
Activism Toolkit. Michael Segalov, author<br />
of ‘Resist! How to be an Activist in the Age of<br />
Defiance’ opens a <strong>Lewes</strong> Labour day of doit-yourself<br />
campaign skills workshops. <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Town Hall, 10.30am-6pm, £5.<br />
The Railway Land Wildlife Trust &<br />
Greencuisine Trust Pop Up Supper. Wild,<br />
cultivated, imaginative, ethical and wholesome<br />
foods. A botanical cocktail with canapés on<br />
arrival, followed by a three-course meal. Feast<br />
on healthy food from healthy soil. Linklater<br />
Pavilion, 7pm, £30.<br />
Halloween Party. Dress up and dance with<br />
Kings Hi Fi. Lansdown, 8pm, free.<br />
SUNDAY 28<br />
Sensing WW1. Exploring the sensory experience<br />
of WW1 in a multidisciplinary arts event.<br />
Illustrated talk by Professor Michael Bull of the<br />
University of Sussex, screening of Stanley Kubrick’s<br />
(1957) Paths of Glory, and a new piece<br />
of gig theatre using original song, spoken word<br />
and sound to illustrate the poetry of WW1.<br />
Depot, 1pm-5.30pm, £10/£5 talk & film, £8/£4<br />
theatre piece, £16/£8 for whole event.<br />
Tea with Laughton Village Choir. A varied<br />
programme of light classical and choral music<br />
with tea and cake. All Saints Centre, 3.30pm for<br />
cake, concert at 4pm, £7.50, contact<br />
info@leweslions.org.uk.<br />
MONDAY 29 – WEDNESDAY 31<br />
‘Dystopia’ Halloween Train. Bluebell Railway<br />
present ‘Dystopia Station’, a place full of<br />
strange and frightening characters. Travel on<br />
an evening train from either Sheffield Park or<br />
East Grinstead, £30 per person (suitable for<br />
age 11+).<br />
TUESDAY 30<br />
Sussex Witchcraft. Local<br />
historian and author<br />
Chris Horlock looks at<br />
the historical aspects<br />
of witchcraft in Sussex.<br />
The Keep, 5.30pm, £5.<br />
TUESDAY 30 – THURSDAY 1<br />
Dracula. Special Halloween preview of<br />
SISATA’s new theatrical production of Dracula.<br />
Café will be open for light refreshments. Anne<br />
of Cleves House, 8pm, £12.50.<br />
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FREETIME êêêê UNDER 16<br />
SUNDAY 7<br />
Family Art Activities. Activities including<br />
paper lampshades and clay models, inspired<br />
by the art and lives of the Bloomsbury group,<br />
hosted by Charleston’s volunteers. Suitable<br />
for everyone aged three and over. Charleston,<br />
12.30pm-4pm, free.<br />
TUESDAY 23<br />
Toy Hacking. Learn how to use different<br />
tools and techniques to make your own mutant<br />
creations reusing toys destined for landfill.<br />
Materials and tools provided, suitable for ages<br />
seven and over. Towner, 11am & 2pm, free<br />
(donations welcome).<br />
Autumn Colours. Explore Tudor plants, dyes<br />
and paints. Anne of Cleves House, 1pm-4pm,<br />
price included in admission.<br />
MONDAY 22 – FRIDAY 26<br />
Raystede school holiday family fun. Free<br />
daily activities for all the family at the animal<br />
welfare centre. See raystede.org.<br />
SATURDAY 20<br />
Time Travelling with Orlando. Storytelling<br />
and drawing with Sian Jones. Listen to a<br />
unique, new story inspired by themes of time<br />
travelling within Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.<br />
Each session lasts about 45 mins. Charleston,<br />
11am, 12.30pm and 2pm, £5 (suitable for ages<br />
five and up).<br />
SATURDAY 20 – MONDAY 29<br />
Spooky half-term fun. Halloween activities<br />
at Newhaven Fort for all the family. See<br />
newhavenfort.org.uk.<br />
MONDAY 22<br />
Morning explorer: Herbs and Spices. For<br />
families with additional needs, with special<br />
tactile objects to feel, a chance to try spinning<br />
wool on a wheel, plus garden games and audiodescribed<br />
tours. <strong>Lewes</strong> Castle, 10am, regular<br />
admission applies.<br />
WEDNESDAY 24 – SUNDAY 28<br />
Bluebell Railway Halloween Scream Train.<br />
Steam-hauled journey from Sheffield Park<br />
Station with Halloween fun for all ages. Horsted<br />
Keynes Station, 12.15pm or 2.45pm, £16.<br />
THURSDAY 25<br />
Go Kid Music’s Spooky Special Family Gig.<br />
Join Al Start and her Beastie Band for spooky<br />
half-term fun. Grab your Halloween costume<br />
and go in fancy dress to win a prize. Live music,<br />
fun and spooky frolics. All Saints, 11.30am &<br />
2.30pm, £7 or £24 for family of four (under<br />
twos free).<br />
Film: Wall-E (U).<br />
Disney hit about the<br />
last robot left on Earth<br />
to clean the planet<br />
after humans have<br />
abandoned it. Towner,<br />
4.30pm, £4.<br />
Wall-e © Disney Pixar
FRIDAY 26<br />
Wild Family Day Out. Activity-packed<br />
day for all the family, run by Circle of Life<br />
Rediscovery. Woodland site near Laughton, see<br />
circleofliferediscovery.com.<br />
SATURDAY 27<br />
Ernest and Celestine © Ascot Elite<br />
Film: Ernest and Celestine (U). Animated film<br />
about the unlikely friendship between a bear<br />
and a mouse. Towner, 10.30am, £4.<br />
Big Autumn Family Fun Party Night. Live<br />
music party with band, supper, cheap bar, games,<br />
prizes, raffle and more. Profits to St Peter &<br />
St James Hospice. Ringmer Village Hall, 7pm,<br />
£12.50 (under 16s £5).<br />
SATURDAY 27 & SUNDAY 28<br />
Halloween Weekend. Traditional family<br />
entertainment, with Punch & Judy, crafts, trails<br />
and a family ghost hunt. Halloween inspired<br />
menu in the café. Michelham Priory, 10.30am-<br />
4pm, see sussexpast.co.uk.<br />
Open Morning<br />
Wednesday 10th <strong>October</strong><br />
from 08:30 - 12:00<br />
Alternatively, book in for a Private Tour<br />
email: contact@michaelhall.co.uk<br />
With its excellent and imaginative<br />
approach, the Steiner Waldorf<br />
curriculum has gained ever-widening<br />
recognition as a creative and<br />
compassionate alternative to<br />
traditional avenues of education.<br />
But just how does it feel to be a child<br />
in this environment, soaking up this<br />
stimulating and rewarding teaching?<br />
www.michaelhall.co.uk/school-open-days<br />
Kidbrooke Park, Priory Road, Forest Row. East Sussex, RH18 5JA<br />
Tel: 01342 822275 - Registered Charity Number 307006<br />
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ONCE UPON A<br />
WILD WOOD<br />
BY CHRIS RIDDELL<br />
êêêê UNDER 16<br />
A new book by local favourite Chris Riddell is always something to celebrate<br />
here at Bags of Books. We’ve loved his Ottoline and Goth Girl series for young<br />
readers for many years now, but for his latest offering he returns to picturebook<br />
format, with his wonderful illustrations providing a visual feast on every<br />
page. Once Upon a Wild Wood follows Little Green Rain Cape (or Green for<br />
short) as she makes her way through the Wild Wood with her straight strong<br />
stick, clumpy comfortable shoes and a rucksack containing a good book (and a few other essentials).<br />
Thumbelina, Rapunzel, Cinderella, the three bears, the seven dwarfs and many other familiar fairy-tale<br />
characters appear in this fun story. The thread that holds them all together is Rapunzel’s party – which<br />
Green and the other characters are all on their way to, apart from Beauty, who hasn’t had her invite<br />
yet. The poor broken-hearted Beast is pining for Beauty, and Green must find a way to ensure they are<br />
reunited at the big fairy-tale bash!<br />
This picture-book is slightly longer than usual and is perfect for children of about 5-8, who are already<br />
familiar with the well-known characters, or who have just learnt to read. Anna, Bags of Books<br />
Once Upon a Wild Wood is one of Bags of Books’ Books of the Month for <strong>October</strong>, which means you can<br />
get 25% off when you buy a copy in store or online this month. bags-of-books.co.uk<br />
SHOES ON NOW:<br />
LET’S GET PICKLING<br />
Coming into autumn, we discovered a glut of figs in our<br />
garden. They didn’t look as good as fruit in the supermarket<br />
– you know, blemished with gnarly bits and some were misshapen.<br />
But we didn’t want to leave them all out to rot on the<br />
ground. Luckily, we seem to have found an answer: pickling.<br />
We were surprised by how easy, and fun, it turned out to be – courtesy of a YouTube video. The boys<br />
carefully cut the figs in half and packed them into heatproof glass jars along with bay leaves for flavouring.<br />
Combining white balsamic vinegar, sugar and salt in a saucepan we (carefully) brought the<br />
lot to the boil before pouring the liquid out – into the fig jars. Once the jars had cooled, we simply<br />
added a lid and popped them away for later consumption.<br />
Emboldened by our first attempts, the boys have now suggested we visit some local farmers’ markets<br />
and find other fruits to pickle at home. It also means we’ve all thought and talked about fruit’s<br />
seasonality – and the produce available changing from month to month. So far, we’ve tried the<br />
pickled figs in cheese sandwiches, and dolloped on top of fresh bread and morning porridge – which<br />
the boys certainly wouldn’t have been willing to do with pre-pickled figs! And all from a few figs in<br />
the garden… Jacky Adams<br />
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Join us for a warm welcome<br />
this Bonfire season!
GIG GUIDE // OCTOBER<br />
GIG OF THE MONTH:<br />
O’CONNELL AND LOVE<br />
‘Folk music with a hand grenade’ was enough to pique my interest<br />
when scrolling through the musical riches <strong>Lewes</strong> has to offer this<br />
month (as it does every month). This is the latest incarnation of<br />
Larry Love (Alabama 3) and his long-time songwriting partner<br />
Brendan O’Connell; the pair are playing with full band and special<br />
guests at the Con Club on 25th <strong>October</strong>. Having enlisted dance<br />
producer Wizard (Dizzee Rascal, Wiley, Chase & Status) to oversee<br />
their 2015 album Minesweeping, in an effort to ‘urbanise’ their take<br />
on all things folk, they have created a sound quite unlike anything<br />
I’ve heard before. Love’s deep, gravelly vocals (which make Alabama<br />
3’s songs so distinctive) pair delightfully with the gritty lyrics and<br />
country vibe. Can’t wait to hear it live. Kelly Mechen<br />
25th Oct, Con Club, 7.30pm, £13<br />
MONDAY 1<br />
Christian Brewer (sax) with Nigel Thomas,<br />
Bobby Worth and Terry Seabrook. Jazz.<br />
Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
TUESDAY 2<br />
English dance tunes session - bring instruments.<br />
Folk (English trad). John Harvey Tavern,<br />
8pm, free<br />
THURSDAY 4<br />
Alligator Swing. Gypsy swing. Pelham Arms,<br />
8.30pm, free<br />
FRIDAY 5<br />
The Curst Sons. Rattle ‘n’ hum Americana.<br />
Con Club, 8pm, free<br />
Yacht Rock Paradiso. Club classics and floor<br />
fillers. Lansdown, 8pm, free<br />
SATURDAY 6<br />
Songs of the Sea. Folk. Royal Oak, 8pm, £3<br />
SUNDAY 7<br />
English dance tunes session - bring instruments.<br />
Folk (English trad). The Volunteer,<br />
12pm, free<br />
Jam Night. Friendly and informal jam session.<br />
Lansdown, 7pm, free<br />
The Sarah Savoy Cajun Band. Cajun. Con<br />
Club, 7.30pm, £12<br />
MONDAY 8<br />
James Osler (guitar) with Alex Eberhard and<br />
Terry Seabrook. Jazz. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
TUESDAY 9<br />
Concertinas Anonymous practice session.<br />
Folk & misc. Elly, 8pm, free<br />
The Sarah Savoy Cajun Band<br />
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EUROPE<br />
BREMF <strong>2018</strong><br />
explores the topical<br />
theme of Europe<br />
with 700 years of<br />
music from<br />
17 European<br />
countries, including<br />
music from the<br />
13th-century <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Priory Breviary.<br />
See the full programme and book tickets at<br />
bremf.org.uk or call 01273 709709<br />
@BREMF<br />
brightonearlymusic<br />
brightonemf<br />
4OCT@<br />
LEWES<br />
Con Club<br />
COMEDY NIGHT<br />
5 CURST SONS<br />
7 SARAH SAVOY CAJUN BAND<br />
11 LA LA THEATRE CO. THERAPY<br />
12 TOTAL STONE ROSES<br />
18 ANCIENT SHAPES<br />
20MEMBRANES<br />
25 O’CONNELL & LOVE<br />
26DIGITALIS<br />
27 LOOSE CABOOSE NIGHT<br />
28 STEVE ’SNIPS’ PARSONS<br />
SEE WEBSITE FOR ANY CHANGES, DETAILS AND ENTRY
GIG GUIDE // OCTOBER<br />
Alistair Anderson. Photo © E. Anderson<br />
FRIDAY 12<br />
Let’s Get Funked. Funk, soul and reggae night.<br />
All Saints, 7.30pm, £8/£6 adv<br />
Total Stone Roses. Stone Roses tribute. Con<br />
Club, 7.30pm, £13<br />
Alistair Anderson in concert – <strong>Lewes</strong> Folk<br />
Festival. Concertina, Northumbrian pipes. Elly,<br />
9pm, £10<br />
SATURDAY 13<br />
Jim Causley in concert – <strong>Lewes</strong> Folk Festival.<br />
Folk & settings of Charles Causley poems. Elly,<br />
8pm, £12<br />
SUNDAY 14<br />
Open Space Open Mic. Music, poetry and<br />
performance. Elly, 7.30pm, free<br />
MONDAY 15<br />
Sam Miles (sax) with Darren Beckett, Terry<br />
Seabrook and Paul Whitten. Jazz. Snowdrop,<br />
8pm, free<br />
THURSDAY 18<br />
Ancient Shapes. Punk featuring Daniel Romano.<br />
Con Club, 7.30pm, £10<br />
David Celia. Alt/folk singer/songwriter. Lansdown,<br />
7.30pm, free<br />
The Feeling. Playing Twelve Stops and Home<br />
in full. De La Warr, 8pm, £25/£35<br />
SATURDAY 20<br />
The Membranes + The Cravats + The Filthy<br />
Tongues. Peel-era punk. Con Club, 7.30pm, £13<br />
Bob Lewis. Folk (Sussex traditional song). Elly,<br />
8pm, £7<br />
MONDAY 22<br />
Jason Henson (guitar), Milo Fell and Terry<br />
Seabrook. Jazz. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
TUESDAY 23<br />
English tunes practice session – bring instruments.<br />
Folk (English trad). Elly, 8pm, free<br />
THURSDAY 25<br />
O’Connell & Love. See ‘Gig of the month’.<br />
Con Club, 7.30pm, £13<br />
FRIDAY 26<br />
DIGITALIS. Electronic duo. Special guests<br />
Battery Operated Orchestra and Kid Ivy. Con<br />
Club, 8pm, free<br />
SATURDAY 27<br />
Loose Caboose Night. DJ night with a mix<br />
of 60s soul, northern, R&B, Latin & jazz. Con<br />
Club, 7.30pm, £5<br />
Halloween with candles & soul cakes. Folk.<br />
Royal Oak, 8pm, £4<br />
SUNDAY 28<br />
Steve Parsons. Sundays in the Bar session with<br />
‘Snips’ of Sharks. Con Club, 3.30pm, free<br />
The Membranes<br />
MONDAY 29<br />
Terry Seabrook Trio with Darren Beckett<br />
and Nigel Thomas. Jazz. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
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BARRY WORDSWORTH<br />
Conductor<br />
BRIGHTON FESTIVAL CHORUS<br />
SHOSTAKOVICH<br />
Festive Overture<br />
HANDEL<br />
Zadok the Priest<br />
PARRY<br />
From Death to Life<br />
ELGAR<br />
Great is the Lord<br />
Overture:Cockaigne<br />
O Hearken Thou<br />
Scenes from the<br />
Bavarian Highlands<br />
Discounted parking<br />
at NCP Church Street<br />
just £6 between 1-6pm<br />
BrightonPhil<br />
Tickets from £12.50-£39.50<br />
Brighton Dome Ticket Office<br />
(01273) 709709<br />
brightondome.org<br />
50% student/U18 discount<br />
@BPO_orchestra<br />
brightonphil.org.uk<br />
25th Anniversary Concert<br />
Glinka<br />
Overture Ruslan & Ludmilla<br />
Ed Hughes<br />
Six Pieces for Orchestra<br />
(first performance)<br />
Tchaikovsky<br />
Variations on a Rococo theme<br />
Solo cello Ivana Peranic<br />
Rachmaninov<br />
Symphonic Dances<br />
Friday 12th <strong>October</strong> 7:30pm<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall, <strong>Lewes</strong>, BN7 2QS<br />
For tickets & prices visit;<br />
www.lewesconcertorchestra.org<br />
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INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC PROGRAMME <strong>2018</strong>-19<br />
Cliffe Building, Sussex Downs College, Mountfield Road<br />
<strong>October</strong> 19th (Friday): Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch Piano Trios by Bloch (Three Nocturnes)<br />
Beethoven (Op. 1 no 2) Dvorák (Op. 65 no 3)<br />
November 23rd (Friday): Martinu Quartet String quartets by Haydn (Op. 64 no 2) Schulhoff<br />
(No 2) Dvorák (American)<br />
January 23rd (Wednesday): Matt Hunt, Alina Ibramigova, Louise Hopkins, Alasdair Beatson<br />
Debussy (Premiere Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Piano) Ravel (Piano Trio) Messiaen ('Quartet for the<br />
end of Time’)<br />
March 1st (Friday): vision quartet String quartets by Ligeti (no 1) Schubert (Quartettsatz and<br />
Death & the Maiden)<br />
March 29th (Friday): Notos Piano Quartet Mozart (K493), Françaix (Divertissement) Schumann.<br />
Concerts start at 7:45pm. Tickets: £60 for all 5 or £15 each, 8-25 year olds, free.<br />
More details and tickets: www.nyslewes.org.uk
MUSIC<br />
Classical round-up<br />
SATURDAY 6, 7.30PM<br />
Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno – an oratorio by Handel.<br />
These four young singers at the start of their professional careers<br />
recently studied Handel’s first oratorio, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno,<br />
at an early-music summer school in France. But they shared<br />
roles with other singers and never got to sing the whole piece. So<br />
they’ve decided to perform it in <strong>Lewes</strong>, with John Hancorn and the<br />
Baroque Collective. There’s no chorus, so the four soloists and fine<br />
period players take centre stage in a tale of ‘conflict between earthly<br />
pleasures and divine grace’. It’s wonderful music, some of which Handel<br />
used in later works including Giulio Cesare. “<strong>Lewes</strong> is always really responsive and knowledgeable,<br />
we knew it would be the perfect venue,” says mezzo Thalie Knights, whose father lives in the town. The<br />
singers, none of whom are taking a fee, are crowdfunding to help with costs. Expect a fabulous evening.<br />
St Anne’s, £12 - £20, ticketsource.co.uk/thalie-knights<br />
PICK<br />
OF THE<br />
MONTH<br />
SATURDAY 6, 3PM<br />
A Celebration of the Life and Music of Malcolm<br />
Lipkin. A memorial concert for the East<br />
Sussex composer who died last year. St Anne’s,<br />
£10/£6, under 16s free. newmusicbrighton.co.uk<br />
SUNDAY 7, 3PM<br />
St Michael’s Recitals. Piano soloist and<br />
chamber musician Yoko Ono has performed all<br />
over the world, from Japan and Europe to the<br />
USA. Programme includes Mozart, Grieg and<br />
Debussy. St Michael’s, free<br />
SUNDAY 7, 4PM<br />
Corelli Ensemble. Soprano Dame Felicity Lott<br />
and tenor Paul Austin Kelly join the Corellis<br />
to perform duets and arias by composers from<br />
Monteverdi to Lehár. St Leonard’s Church,<br />
Seaford, £10 in advance, £12 on the door, children<br />
free. corelliensemble.co.uk<br />
FRIDAY 12, 7.30PM<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Concert Orchestra. Currently celebrating<br />
its 25th anniversary, <strong>Lewes</strong> Concert Orchestra<br />
presents an (almost) all-Russian programme of<br />
Glinka, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, alongside<br />
a new commission by <strong>Lewes</strong>-based composer Ed<br />
Hughes. The cello soloist is Ivana Peranic. Town<br />
Hall, £10 in advance or £12 on the door, under 18s<br />
& students £5. lewesconcertorchestra.org<br />
SUNDAY 14, 2.45PM<br />
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra. In the first<br />
concert of its <strong>2018</strong>-19 season, Brighton Philharmonic<br />
Orchestra is joined by Brighton Festival<br />
Chorus in a programme of Shostakovich, Handel,<br />
Parry and Elgar. Brighton Dome, £12.50-£39.50,<br />
save 25% with a Season Ticket. brightonphil.org.uk<br />
FRIDAY 19, 7.45PM<br />
Nicholas Yonge Society. The <strong>2018</strong>-19 season<br />
begins with the international Trio Shaham Erez<br />
Wallfisch playing Bloch, Beethoven and Dvorák.<br />
Nicholas Yonge concerts are a fantastic opportunity<br />
to hear world-class music and performers,<br />
for a very reasonable price. Sussex Downs<br />
College, Mountfield Road. Season membership<br />
£60 for five concerts, single concerts £15. Free for<br />
8-25 year olds. nyslewes.org.uk<br />
SUNDAY 21, 3PM<br />
Recital – Lucinda Houghton & Sara Gourlay<br />
with Howard Beach. Songs from Vaughan<br />
Williams to Gershwin in Iford’s 11th-century<br />
church. St Nicholas, Iford, £12.50<br />
Robin Houghton<br />
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‘Bathers at the Seaside in Summer’<br />
Focus on: Edward Ardizzone<br />
Pen and ink drawings on show in <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
The artist Edward Ardizzone was born in 1900<br />
and died in 1979. Here’s just a few of the things<br />
he achieved in his lifetime: the penning and<br />
illustration of seven children’s books chronicling<br />
the adventures of ‘Tim’; work for the GPO,<br />
Overton’s Restaurant, Guinness, Moss Bros;<br />
illustrations for Punch, Radio Times and The<br />
Listener; film posters; illustrated war diaries, an<br />
Indian Journal and a memoir of his youth. During<br />
the Second World War his work as an official<br />
War Artist yielded no fewer than 401 pictures.<br />
And all this before one even begins to consider<br />
the book illustrations for which he is best<br />
known. Again, ‘prolific’ is hardly an adequate<br />
description. Ardizzone expert Alan Powers has<br />
calculated that, between 1946 and 1979, the artist<br />
illustrated 165 titles.<br />
For the collector of Ardizzone this ‘embarras de<br />
richesses’ is, of course, problematic. Concentration<br />
on one or more particular aspects of<br />
the artist’s output is essential. And so when, in<br />
2003, Carol Manheim put her own Ardizzone<br />
collection up for sale in London, she entitled the<br />
event: An Exhibition of one hundred first editions<br />
in dust jackets, original drawings, Christmas cards,<br />
posters and lithographs. With her Brooklyn brogue<br />
and a more than passing resemblance to Goldie<br />
Hawn in her late 1960s heyday, Carol Manheim<br />
was a welcome exotic presence in the usually<br />
drab and dingy secondhand book trade!<br />
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ART<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> resident Simon Blaxland<br />
has been collecting Ardizzone<br />
for thirty years. He now has<br />
approximately 120 original<br />
artworks – mostly pen and ink<br />
drawings, but also a number of<br />
pencil sketches, watercolours<br />
and original book illustrations.<br />
They will be on show at<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> House from Friday 5th<br />
<strong>October</strong> to Sunday 7th.<br />
Asked, in old age, whether his<br />
war years had changed his art,<br />
Ardizzone replied: ‘I’ve always<br />
been interested in people, not<br />
necessarily soldiers and people<br />
being killed, but in people. I<br />
love women and I like drawing<br />
tarts, and I like drawing pubs,<br />
I like drawing everything you<br />
know, so it made no difference<br />
in that sense’. And if I had to<br />
single out one aspect of his<br />
work, it would be the many<br />
pictures of pubs and their clientele<br />
based on the Maida Vale<br />
pubs local to Elgin Avenue, W9<br />
where Ardizzone and his family<br />
lived for fifty years (a blue<br />
plaque was unveiled in 2007).<br />
These formed the basis for his<br />
books, The Local (1939) and<br />
Back to the Local (1949).<br />
For another exuberant<br />
expression of Ardizzone’s bon<br />
vivant approach to life, one<br />
more local to <strong>Lewes</strong>, there’s<br />
A Day Out at Glyndebourne<br />
(1960). ‘As the train moved<br />
out of the station a bottle of<br />
champagne was opened for us.<br />
I can imagine no better start<br />
to a festive day’… ‘a round<br />
table in the corner of the main<br />
dining hall was covered with a<br />
forest of bottles and glasses’…<br />
‘At 5.00pm we changed in to<br />
evening clothes. There were<br />
two bottles of champagne to<br />
sweeten the task’.<br />
And the opera? THE<br />
OPERA!? ‘…was Bellini’s I<br />
Puritani… the pretty, tuneful<br />
music gave us all much<br />
pleasure’.<br />
David Jarman<br />
Edward Ardizzone: A <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Collection, <strong>Lewes</strong> House, 32<br />
High Street. sarahokane.co.uk<br />
‘Cometh My Lord Peacably’<br />
‘They Perched Themselves Around Her’<br />
‘Watering the Flowerbeds’<br />
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01273 471647<br />
15 Malling Street <strong>Lewes</strong> BN7 2RA<br />
RACHEL CLARK<br />
www.keizerframes.com<br />
PRESENCE OF ABSENCE<br />
ABSENCE OF PRESENCE<br />
Vivienne Lynn<br />
6–26 <strong>October</strong><br />
Thursday–Sunday<br />
12–5pm<br />
www.martyrs.gallery<br />
Private View:<br />
Friday 5 <strong>October</strong><br />
6–8pm<br />
“A really inviting space that<br />
we love spending time in...”<br />
JOHN MILLER DESIGNS.CO.UK
ART<br />
ART & ABOUT<br />
In town this month<br />
After something of a hiatus,<br />
Martyrs’ Gallery is<br />
back with an exhibition by<br />
the artist, researcher and<br />
critical theorist Vivienne<br />
Lynn. Called Presence of<br />
Absence/Absence of Presence<br />
it ‘opens up new perspectives<br />
… on dementia, via a<br />
matrix of visual evidence’,<br />
(6th - 26th <strong>October</strong>, see<br />
martyrs.gallery).<br />
Slow Fade by Vivienne Lynn<br />
I let go of you and you let go of me by Vivienne Lynn<br />
Helen Turner<br />
As we discover on pg 66, Sarah O’Kane, formerly of<br />
HQ Gallery and St Anne’s Galleries, is putting on an<br />
exhibition of some of the 120 Edward Ardizzone works<br />
collected by <strong>Lewes</strong> resident Simon Blaxland since 1987.<br />
Ardizzone was a twentieth-century printmaker, painter<br />
and author/illustrator of children’s books, probably best<br />
remembered for his illustrations of classics such as Stig<br />
of the Dump and Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain. The<br />
show, Line, Light and Life, takes place from 5th-7th <strong>October</strong>,<br />
below our offices in <strong>Lewes</strong> House. [sarahokane.<br />
co.uk] As we went to press, we learnt that Helen Turner<br />
– a familiar name to regular readers of this column – and<br />
Nick Marsh, who have shared studio space for 27 years,<br />
have teamed up to present an exhibition of their paintings,<br />
also in <strong>Lewes</strong> House, called Under One Roof (13th-<br />
14th Oct).<br />
Veiling by Ursula Stone<br />
Susan Lynch continues<br />
as Chalk’s featured<br />
artist till mid-<strong>October</strong>;<br />
from the 15th the<br />
North Street gallery<br />
highlights Ursula<br />
Stone’s ‘inner landscapes’,<br />
and rather<br />
exquisite Chinese-ink<br />
life drawings.<br />
Laina Watts<br />
Keizer Frames, meanwhile,<br />
are hosting a Bonfire<br />
Art exhibition, from<br />
the 27th Oct - 11th Nov,<br />
to coincide, obviously,<br />
with the annual celebrations<br />
in town. Laina<br />
Watts, best known for<br />
her brilliant satirical map<br />
of <strong>Lewes</strong>, curates.<br />
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ART<br />
Out of town<br />
‘Finally an artform where you can fly, just like in your dreams,’<br />
says Laurie Anderson, of her installation Chalkroom, which is on<br />
show at the Attenborough Centre at the University of Sussex<br />
from <strong>October</strong> 4th-25th. This is a 15-minute solo experience (£8,<br />
see attenboroughcentre.com for booking) created by Anderson<br />
with Hsin Chieng Huang, in which ‘the reader flies through an<br />
enormous structure made of words, drawings and stories’. At the same venue on the 5th and 6th, there’s<br />
another installation by Max Cooper, who merges electronic music and visual art, called Aether, which is<br />
part of the Brighton Digital Festival (£6, booking recommended).<br />
Laurie Anderson<br />
From September 28th to <strong>October</strong> 28th it’s the eighth edition of the Brighton<br />
Photo Biennial with free festivals throughout the city. The <strong>2018</strong> theme is ‘A<br />
New Europe’. Artists include Tereza Cervenová, charting life since the Brexit<br />
referendum, and Émeric Lhuisset & Harley Weir, looking at the ongoing<br />
migrant crisis. Also look out for Donovan Wylie, who explores ‘the geography<br />
of Britain as an island, simultaneously divided yet connected’ (check photoworks.<br />
org.uk for venues). There’s also, of course, the BPF’s shadow festival, the Brighton Photo Fringe,<br />
another trail of exhibitions, of a less curated nature, over the same period. [photofringe.org]<br />
© Harley Weir<br />
Hendall Manor Barns<br />
A beautiful and intimate setting for private family occasions,<br />
wedding ceremonies, receptions, exhibitions, concerts and fund-raising events<br />
www.hendall.co.uk | 01825 732561 | info@hendall.co.uk<br />
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The<br />
Everyday<br />
Extraordinary<br />
and<br />
An Arts Council Collection National Partners Exhibition<br />
29 September <strong>2018</strong> –<br />
6 January 2019<br />
Towner Art Gallery<br />
townereastbourne.org.uk<br />
Free entry<br />
Conceived by Birmingham Museums Trust, in partnership with Towner Art Gallery<br />
as part of the Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme 2016–19<br />
Image: Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Five Heads, 1981. © The artist’s estate. Arts Council Collection,<br />
Southbank Centre, London. Installation photo by David Rowan, courtesy of Birmingham Museums Trust
ART<br />
Out of town<br />
Photo by Axel Hesslenberg<br />
And don’t forget that Charleston’s new galleries have opened<br />
their doors, as we announced last month, with the current set of<br />
exhibitions running till January 6th. Orlando at the present time,<br />
at The Wolfson Galleries, brings together contemporary artists’<br />
responses to Virginia Woolf’s ground-breaking novel. At South<br />
Gallery you can see Zanele Muholi’s LGBTQIA+ black-andwhite<br />
photos, while Spotlight Gallery features the Famous Women<br />
Dinner Service, by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant (see pg 76).<br />
Finally, it’s last call at the Ditchling Museum<br />
of Art + Craft for their two summer<br />
exhibitions, Belonging, featuring Morag<br />
Myerscough and Corita Kent: Get with the<br />
Action. From <strong>October</strong> 20th (till April 2019)<br />
you can see the work of MacDonald ‘Max’<br />
Gill, Eric Gill’s younger brother, an illustrator,<br />
letterer, map-maker, architect and decorative<br />
architect with a humorous twist to his work.<br />
Highways of Empire, Max Gill (1927), private collection<br />
Edward Ardizzone:<br />
Line, Light and Life<br />
Original drawings and watercolours<br />
by a master illustrator<br />
5 th , 6 th and 7 th <strong>October</strong><br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> House, 32 High Street, <strong>Lewes</strong> BN7 2LX<br />
open 6-8pm Friday and 10am-6pm Saturday and Sunday<br />
Simon Blaxland Collection | Sarah O’Kane Contemporary Fine Art | sarahokane.co.uk<br />
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Open every Sunday in <strong>October</strong>.<br />
The last month of the <strong>2018</strong> Season<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<br />
27 High Street, <strong>Lewes</strong> East, Sussex. BN7 2LU<br />
Website: www.cordeliajames.com<br />
Email: info@cordeliajames.com<br />
Phone: 01273 480896
ART<br />
Further afield<br />
The touring exhibition of objets trouvés, The Everyday and the<br />
Extraordinary (see last month) continues at Towner Gallery; from the<br />
13th there’s the first solo UK presentation of the work of Simon Ling,<br />
an edgy plein-air oil painter of both urban and rural settings. Also at<br />
the Eastbourne gallery is the chance to see works by the experimental<br />
filmmakers shortlisted for the <strong>2018</strong> Film<br />
London Jarman Award, including Larry<br />
Achiampong & David Blandy and Jasmina Cibic. And Towner is the<br />
venue for Mainstone Press’s Ink Paper + Print fair on Oct 13th and 14th,<br />
with 55 exhibitors showcasing a range of printmaking, artists’ books, 20thcentury<br />
design, ceramics and contemporary crafts. Another reason to travel to<br />
Eastbourne is the show at Emma Mason Prints of works spanning the career<br />
of print-maker Chloe Cheese, from Oct 6th-Nov 3rd. [emmamason.co.uk]<br />
NADA: Act III – The Exhibition<br />
(2017), courtesy of the artist<br />
Chloe Cheese<br />
Maggi Hambling No.2, Suffolk <strong>2018</strong> © Juergen Teller, all rights reserved<br />
Back in 2005, in the Colony Room in Soho, writer/dandy Sebastian<br />
Horsley introduced painter/sculptor Maggi Hambling to YBA enfant<br />
terrible Sarah Lucas. The network of friends soon grew to include<br />
Lucas’ partner, visual/audio artist Julian Simmons and German fineart<br />
and fashion photographer Juergen Teller. From <strong>October</strong> 20th<br />
Jerwood Gallery in Hastings is showing a collection of works by these<br />
artists, of one another, or influenced by one another’s works. It’s called<br />
The Quick and the Dead; expect to hear more in these pages soon.<br />
André Breton<br />
called them<br />
‘the best and<br />
most surrealist<br />
of all British<br />
artists,’ but, in<br />
1940, Grace<br />
Pailthorpe<br />
and Reuben Mednikoff left that art movement<br />
and henceforth became largely ignored by the<br />
art world. Until now, that is: the De La Warr<br />
are putting on a show – The Tale of Mother’s<br />
Bones – looking<br />
at their role in<br />
‘the birth of<br />
psychorealism’,<br />
from 6th<br />
<strong>October</strong> - 23rd<br />
June 2019.<br />
(Top) Reuben Mednikoff, The Stairway to Paradise, 1936. (Bottom) Grace<br />
Pailthorpe, 1968. Both private collection. Photos by Ivan Coleman<br />
Julian Trevelyan, Home Waters, 1971 © The Julian Trevelyan Estate<br />
There are two events in Pallant House opening<br />
on <strong>October</strong> 3rd. The first survey exhibition of<br />
Julian Trevelyan’s work for 20 years, and a show<br />
by Cathie Pilkington, whose personal selection<br />
of modern artworks from the Pallant House<br />
Collection will be interspersed with 30 of her<br />
bawdy doll-like sculptures.<br />
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Image courtesy of Piano Nobile<br />
ON THIS MONTH: ART<br />
Famous Women Dinner Service<br />
The Charleston plates by Grant and Bell<br />
The last time the Famous Women Dinner<br />
Service was at Charleston was in 1933. Having<br />
just completed the set, before shipping it to<br />
its expectant owner, Vanessa Bell and Duncan<br />
Grant asked if they could hold a tea party –<br />
using the plates – for intrigued friends and<br />
potential customers.<br />
The 50 plates, hand-painted by Grant and<br />
Bell on Wedgwood blanks, depict 49 historic<br />
women and just one man: Grant himself.<br />
“They were largely strong and independent<br />
women who broke ground within their<br />
own fields,” explains Darren Clarke, Head of<br />
Collections at Charleston, “united by having<br />
lived extraordinary or inspirational lives.”<br />
The eclectic rollcall was divided into four<br />
sets: Beauties; Dancers & Actresses; Queens,<br />
and Women of Letters. George Eliot<br />
features, as do Murasaki, Miss 1933, Greta<br />
Garbo, Helen of Troy and Sappho. Each portrait<br />
is surrounded by a distinctly Bloomsbury<br />
border of cross hatching, swirls and circles.<br />
The striking set would have been a real conversation<br />
starter at any dinner party, and yet<br />
the plates are like new, barely used at all.<br />
“They were commissioned by Kenneth<br />
Clark, who knew the artists already and was a<br />
patron of their work. He was an art historian,<br />
the youngest-ever director of the National<br />
Gallery and a bright rising star of the British<br />
art scene.<br />
“There was very much a movement at the<br />
time to encourage artists to design applied<br />
art. Clark commissioned them to make a<br />
140-piece dinner service, which originally<br />
included serving dishes, pepper pots, soup<br />
tureens and soup bowls. We don’t know what<br />
became of the rest.”<br />
Perhaps it wasn’t quite what Clark had had<br />
in mind? “He wrote later that ‘it turned out<br />
differently to what we had expected’, but<br />
there was a lot of correspondence between<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: ART<br />
Clark – and especially his wife, Jane –<br />
with the artists, so I don’t think it was<br />
a total surprise.”<br />
The plates were missing for decades<br />
and only recently resurfaced. The<br />
Charleston Trust is in the process<br />
of acquiring them and they make<br />
their homecoming as a part of the<br />
inaugural exhibition in the new galleries.<br />
“Bloomsbury has been described<br />
as a matriarchy,” concludes Darren,<br />
“about strong women and a feminine<br />
approach to life. The Famous Women fit<br />
perfectly into our current exhibition<br />
Orlando at the present time, which is<br />
about portraiture but also explores different<br />
ideas of gender and femininity.”<br />
Lizzie Lower<br />
Orlando at the present time continues<br />
until 6th January 2019, the Famous<br />
Women Dinner Service will be on<br />
display until summer 2019.<br />
charleston.org.uk<br />
Photo by Axel Hesslenberg<br />
Image courtesy of Piano Nobile<br />
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Caccia & Tails<br />
Just delish<br />
I’ve been eagerly<br />
awaiting the arrival<br />
of Caccia & Tails. A<br />
café serving homemade<br />
pasta and<br />
focaccia, stylishly<br />
branded, and just a<br />
couple of minutes’<br />
walk from the <strong>Viva</strong><br />
office – it’s right<br />
up my street (via a<br />
twitten). I can’t help<br />
but wander past on<br />
opening day, just to see what it’s all about. It’s<br />
small – there’s a bar with a few stools along one<br />
wall and a little kitchen with an enormous oven<br />
along the other – but it’s just my kind of place:<br />
modern and minimal with splashes of parakeet<br />
green and canary yellow.<br />
In the window are trays of freshly-baked focaccia<br />
Genovese and farinata, which, owner Elisa<br />
Furci explains, is a kind of Italian flatbread made<br />
with chickpea flour. They’re stuffed and topped<br />
with various delicious-looking combinations of<br />
ingredients, and there are fresh cannoli and filled<br />
doughnuts too. It all looks very enticing. I try a<br />
slice of farinata, slathered with pesto and sprinkled<br />
with pieces of sundried tomato and pine<br />
nuts (£3.95). It’s just delicious: the bread is dense<br />
but soft, and oily enough to feel quite indulgent.<br />
I have a quick read of the menu board – pasta<br />
served with cavolo nero and dukkah (£6), subs<br />
filled with meatballs or pancetta (£6.95), sides of<br />
polenta (£2.95) or mac ‘n’ cheese (£3.95) fries –<br />
and arrange to meet some friends there for lunch<br />
a few days later.<br />
I arrive first. While I’m gazing at the board,<br />
wondering what to have, Elisa points out today’s<br />
dish on the ‘Speciali’ board by the door: pasta<br />
with feta, yoghurt,<br />
pea, chilli and pine<br />
nuts (£6.95). That’s<br />
the one for me. Jamie<br />
arrives next; a quick<br />
glance at the board<br />
and he’s set on a beef<br />
ragu (£7.50) and<br />
when Sam walks in,<br />
her eye is immediately<br />
caught by the<br />
breads in the window.<br />
She goes for the<br />
focaccia with pesto, sunblushed tomatoes and<br />
olives (£3.95).<br />
“Shall we get some fries too?” I ask, as if it were<br />
a question.<br />
“Ooh, polenta or mac ‘n’ cheese?”<br />
“Both?” We get both.<br />
The three of us watch as Elisa and another chef<br />
prepare our food fresh to order and pack it all<br />
into a brown paper bag like a luxurious picnic.<br />
It’s such a nice day that we take it away to the<br />
Grange to eat in the sun.<br />
My mouth is watering as I unpack the food onto<br />
the grass. I can’t wait to dig in. The pasta is<br />
beautiful: thick tubes coated in the tangy yoghurt<br />
sauce and topped with plenty of feta and grated<br />
parmesan. The fries come with two kinds of mayonnaise:<br />
marmite mayo for the mac ‘n’ cheese<br />
ones and truffle mayo for the polenta. The ragu<br />
goes down really well, and the soft fluffy focaccia<br />
gets great reviews. By the time the last polenta<br />
fry is offered around, we’re all pretty stuffed.<br />
Later on, in the <strong>Viva</strong> office, as I’m raving about<br />
my lunch, somebody asks ‘did you try the cheese<br />
focaccia? That’s really good.’ I guess I’ll be heading<br />
back soon. Rebecca Cunningham<br />
15 Station Street, cacciaandtails.com<br />
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Photo by Chloë King
RECIPE<br />
Roasted celeriac and beetroot with<br />
Puy lentils and toasted hazelnuts<br />
Delia Minoprio of The Blue Kitchen<br />
When I started The Blue Kitchen last January,<br />
I’d say to my friends, ‘drop a dish over’. I’d<br />
then fill it with whatever is on the menu, maybe<br />
lasagne, chicken pie… that way there’s no<br />
waste packaging and all the convenience of a<br />
supermarket ready meal.<br />
It’s like an indie version of Cook, I guess.<br />
I want to provide an alternative with none<br />
of the plastic – to make delicious, healthy,<br />
seasonal food using local, organic and homegrown<br />
ingredients. I want to make good food<br />
accessible, and just bring people some joy.<br />
I have a 94-year-old client who I deliver to and<br />
we sit down and chat. It’s not just about food:<br />
I want to look after people. I really enjoy the<br />
interaction side of my delivery and privatecatering<br />
service – to explain a dish to people as<br />
I hand it over.<br />
The business is still very small. I’m not yet<br />
at a stage where I can produce masses, but<br />
that’s fine. It works with my life and it also<br />
works for other people; the moment that you<br />
industrialise anything, anyway, I don’t think<br />
it’s really as special.<br />
The great thing is, if people trust you and they<br />
love eating your food, then they don’t mind<br />
whatever’s coming up. What happens with<br />
my clients now is, they say “I’m in; whatever<br />
you’re doing, I know it’s going to be good so<br />
sign me up”.<br />
The big family dishes I was making have turned<br />
into more ‘clean-eating’ dishes, because that’s<br />
what I really love to cook. Everyone knows<br />
they should be eating healthy food, but people<br />
don’t have much time. What I intend is to<br />
deliver lunches a bit like poke bowls: a bed of<br />
grains or lentils in their own dressing, topped<br />
with roasted veg, nuts, some sort of raw slaw, a<br />
creamy side and a tangy homemade pickle.<br />
I’m not a nutritionist; for me it’s just common<br />
sense. Clean eating is about cooking with the<br />
seasons, lots of colours, few refined sugars, less<br />
meat, less dairy. I want every mouthful to be<br />
packed full of flavour, delicious, and to offer<br />
something different.<br />
This is one of those dishes. As we slide into<br />
autumn, I like to make salads with grains and<br />
lentils in place of greens. The dressing is redwine<br />
vinegar and extra virgin olive oil, garlic,<br />
and not much else. I like all the individual<br />
flavours to sing, as they say, without sounding<br />
too cringey!<br />
Ingredients (serves four): 1 celeriac, peeled<br />
and cubed; 2 whole beetroots, scrubbed; 60g<br />
hazelnuts, toasted; 200g dried Puy lentils, precooked;<br />
olive oil; a good handful of parsley and<br />
mint, chopped. For the dressing: 1 small clove<br />
garlic; 3tbsp red wine vinegar; 4tbsp good olive<br />
oil; squeeze of lemon, salt and pepper.<br />
Method: Pre-heat oven to 180°C. Dress the<br />
beetroots in oil, salt and pepper then wrap in<br />
foil. Place into a large roasting tray alongside<br />
the seasoned celeriac and cook for 45 minutes,<br />
or until you can slide a knife in easily. Cut the<br />
cooked beetroot into wedges and then combine<br />
all the ingredients in a large bowl. Shake up the<br />
dressing in a jam jar, pour over the completed<br />
salad and serve warm.<br />
As told to Chloë King<br />
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DRINK<br />
Sussex Blue Gin<br />
Turning Sussex pink<br />
It’s fair to say<br />
Harley House<br />
Distillery<br />
are strong<br />
contenders in<br />
the local spirit<br />
game. Not only<br />
do they distil<br />
their gin just<br />
down the road<br />
in Seaford from<br />
a mixture of 15 botanicals, one of which<br />
grows right here on the South Downs,<br />
they even produce their own base alcohol<br />
– which is rare for a small distillery – using<br />
locally-sourced water. But with new Sussex<br />
distilleries popping up all the time, how can<br />
one make sure it stands out from the rest?<br />
Harley House have come up with a unique<br />
idea: Sussex Blue Gin. In the bottle, the<br />
spirit is a deep, inky blue – which already<br />
catches your eye on the shelf. But the real<br />
magic happens when you mix it; the acidity<br />
of the tonic turns the blue gin to a bright,<br />
flamboyant pink. I pick up a bottle from<br />
Symposium (£35) to bring with me to a<br />
dinner party.<br />
To prepare, pour one measure of gin over a<br />
few cubes of ice. (Hold the lemon because,<br />
as the man at Symposium points out, the<br />
acidity causes the colour to change before<br />
you have a chance to add the mixer.) Then<br />
pour over the tonic and watch as the drink<br />
bubbles from blue to purple to pink. Spritz<br />
with edible glitter (optional) and enjoy.<br />
So it is a bit of a gimmick, but it’s a gimmick<br />
that keeps us entertained with every pour.<br />
We polish off that bottle and, although the<br />
flavour is more on the floral side than I<br />
would normally go for, I’d buy it again just<br />
for the magic. Rebecca Cunningham<br />
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FOOD<br />
Illustration by Chloë King<br />
Edible updates<br />
There’s always a feast of events to choose from<br />
in <strong>October</strong>. Firstly, congratulations to two of our<br />
best loved institutions: Harvey’s, for winning<br />
UK Brewery of the Year at the International Beer<br />
Challenge (second year running); and Common<br />
Cause, who turn twenty this year. <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Farmers Market will celebrate with an extended<br />
hours market, bar and family activities on the 6th<br />
(see pg 91), and with A Taste of the Market talk<br />
and tasting at Fitzroy House on the 12th (£10,<br />
Eventbrite).<br />
<strong>October</strong>Feast offers a tempting selection of<br />
pop-up suppers and Depot film specials, (see<br />
lewesoctoberfeast.com). Stand-out events include<br />
the Talking Trees Pop-up Woodland Café (6th);<br />
A Wild Foraged Feast at The Secret Campsite<br />
(7th) and a Regions of France Supper at Café du<br />
Jardin (27th).<br />
Autumn is the perfect time to keep your eyes open<br />
for edible mushrooms,<br />
and thus<br />
Fire & Wild are<br />
offering a Mushroom<br />
Hunt & Feast on Oct 20th.<br />
The Threshing Barn Café at Charleston is now<br />
open, providing an even bigger draw to a favourite<br />
venue. Aurora of Calypso Kitchen is cooking up a<br />
Caribbean menu for The Feature Kitchen (weekends<br />
of 5th, 12th & 19th <strong>October</strong>) and Bus Club<br />
celebrate their first birthday, offering a free glass of<br />
wine with any main meal, Mon-Thurs in Oct.<br />
The Lamb reopens this month, promising<br />
Barrel & Stone pizzas, charcuterie boards and a<br />
wide range of gins. Sadly, Le Magasin has closed<br />
and another sore loss is Spring Barn Farm. Last<br />
up, you have until 24th Oct to nominate your<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> food heroes for the Sussex Food & Drink<br />
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THE WAY WE WORK<br />
This month, to fit in with our ‘larder’ theme, we asked photographer Emma<br />
Croman to visit four intriguing food or drink producers. Whatever exciting<br />
things they create by day, she asked them: ‘what’s your go-to comfort food?’<br />
emmacroman.com<br />
Lucie Hawkes, Wild Alchemy Foods<br />
“A really good roast (the Pelham Arms do a great one)... and raw chocolate!”
THE WAY WE WORK<br />
Merle Moustafa, Merle’s Kitchen<br />
“A flaky croissant with chocolate and hazelnut spread, warmed in the oven.”
THE WAY WE WORK<br />
Andrew Mellor, ABYSS Brewing<br />
“A stacked drippy burger at the Pelham Arms or an authentic Neapolitan Pizza.”
THE WAY WE WORK<br />
Einat Chalmers, Mamoosh Bakery<br />
“Spicy Thai noodle soup with lots of fresh herbs and vegetables.”
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6th <strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Celebrating<br />
20<br />
Years
TRADE SECRETS<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Farmers Market<br />
Twenty years of local food<br />
The <strong>Lewes</strong> Farmers<br />
Market celebrates<br />
its 20th birthday on<br />
6th <strong>October</strong> – when<br />
it promises ‘an extra<br />
special market’. I get<br />
together with Manager<br />
Annabel Frost to<br />
chat about the secret<br />
of its longevity, and<br />
its birthday plans.<br />
Have you been<br />
involved all along?<br />
No, I’ve been<br />
manager for the last three years. For two years<br />
before that, I was a trader – of hand-raised pies<br />
– and before that a customer. The market was<br />
started in 1998 by Common Cause, a not-forprofit<br />
local body which is also responsible for<br />
things like Furniture Now and Compost Doctor.<br />
It’s the second oldest farmers’ market in the<br />
country – the oldest is in Bath. It came about at<br />
the right time in the right town. Six years ago,<br />
it went from once to twice-monthly; and here<br />
we are, twenty years on from the first market,<br />
still going strong.<br />
What do you think is the secret of its success?<br />
We’ve never diluted our brand. There are<br />
many markets springing up these days that claim<br />
to be farmers’ markets but aren’t really – they<br />
sell all sorts of things. Not us. We’re vigilant behind<br />
the scenes. Our producers all need to meet<br />
strict criteria – everything has to be produced<br />
within a thirty-mile radius of <strong>Lewes</strong>, including<br />
ingredients. A lot of people are conscious, these<br />
days, of what they eat. And they know they can<br />
trust the ‘brand’: we guarantee minimal food<br />
miles, and minimal packaging, and our customers<br />
keep coming back. We’re also attentive to the<br />
overall mix of traders on any one Saturday. We<br />
have about forty on<br />
our books, though<br />
some are seasonal,<br />
so probably about<br />
thirty setting up at<br />
any one market. We<br />
make sure there’s<br />
plenty of variety.<br />
How is it, working<br />
with the producers?<br />
They’re great. A<br />
constant inspiration.<br />
I always visit before<br />
they start and, time<br />
and again, I’m struck by what a remarkable<br />
bunch they are: resourceful and resilient. They<br />
have to be. They’re all passionate about what<br />
they’re doing: what else would motivate you<br />
to get up at four in the morning? Or remain<br />
cheerful all day in wind and rain, and even the<br />
extreme heat this summer? They’re each running<br />
a small business and making a success of it.<br />
That takes a certain breed. And they appreciate<br />
the opportunity to trade at our market. Among<br />
other things, it’s a great way to test the water for<br />
their products.<br />
What are your plans for the birthday market?<br />
We usually run from 9am to 1pm every<br />
first and third Saturday (in Cliffe Precinct).<br />
This Saturday (6th <strong>October</strong>), we’ll have an<br />
extension – till 3pm. This means street food –<br />
which doesn’t normally feature. Do come and<br />
enjoy some lunch with us. We’ll also have a gin<br />
bar, courtesy of Tom Cat Gin, and have commissioned<br />
them to create an original Farmers<br />
Market cocktail specially for the occasion. Plus,<br />
there’ll be a quiz for the kids, and live music –<br />
from Edenwood, and maybe a.n.other. Come<br />
along and find out. It should be quite a party.<br />
Interview by Charlotte Gann<br />
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Photos by Tony Tree © Lee Miller Archives, England <strong>2018</strong>. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk
MY SPACE<br />
Lee Miller’s larder<br />
Chicken in gold leaf, anyone?<br />
“This one’s the oldest,”<br />
says Ami Bouhassane,<br />
pointing to a jar in a<br />
high kitchen cupboard.<br />
“That’s a chilli sauce<br />
from 1952. That’s a<br />
pepper jam from 1954.<br />
That’s red currant jelly<br />
from ’55. It’s the same<br />
colour as the plum jam<br />
from 1975… Dad’s<br />
quite brave; he thinks<br />
they should stay where<br />
they’ve always been<br />
but, because of the pressure in the jar, they could<br />
explode, and they are merrily sitting above the two<br />
Picasso lithographs.” The potentially explosive<br />
preserves were made by Ami’s grandmother, Lee<br />
Miller, in her exemplary 1950s fitted kitchen in<br />
Farleys House at Muddles Green.<br />
“When Lee died in 1977, she was a celebrated<br />
cook. She was the equivalent of a celebrity<br />
chef. The world had forgotten Lee Miller, war<br />
correspondent and surrealist photographer.<br />
And now it’s completely turned on its head and<br />
everyone has forgotten about her as a cook and<br />
they remember her as a photographer.”<br />
Every cupboard and drawer in the kitchen is full, as<br />
is so often the case with truly experimental chefs. “I<br />
thought I’d get some of the gadgets to show you,”<br />
says Ami, returning from the larder with various<br />
contraptions. “We have heaps of gadgets. This<br />
is a Legumex which is meant to be one of those<br />
awesome time-saving devices with rubber fingers<br />
for peeling potatoes. But the whole time-saving<br />
aspect is completely destroyed when you have to<br />
clean it.” She picks up another. “An ice shaver. Early<br />
slushies! I don’t think she ever used this one. She<br />
used to buy two of everything – one for Farleys and<br />
one for their London<br />
home – and get her<br />
parents to send things<br />
from America. There<br />
are four boxes in the<br />
larder of weird gadgets<br />
that never made it back<br />
together again after<br />
they’d been cleaned<br />
because they were so<br />
complicated.”<br />
“She would trawl<br />
through magazines and,<br />
if she saw an interesting<br />
ingredient or cooking product she wanted, she’d<br />
cut it out and paste it in her notebook. She once<br />
discovered edible gold leaf, bought in a job lot<br />
and covered a whole roast chicken. That was very<br />
expensive, so she found Reynolds food wrap which<br />
was gold on one side. Much cheaper.”<br />
Whilst you could believe that Lee had just stepped<br />
out, the kitchen is no shrine. It’s still in frequent use<br />
by the Penrose family and Farley’s staff and visitors.<br />
Brighton photographer Tony Tree has been<br />
documenting the house over the past six years and<br />
has had to find moments in between coffee breaks<br />
and mealtimes to record the kitchen contents.<br />
“It being so intact has a lot to do with Patsy,”<br />
explains Ami. “She was Dad’s nanny and she just<br />
stayed on. She ruled, and we never questioned the<br />
contents of the kitchen, so we lived with our stuff<br />
alongside Lee’s. We just knew to check the label<br />
and, if there wasn’t a date, then we knew that we<br />
really shouldn’t use it because it predated use-by<br />
dates.” Lizzie Lower<br />
Farleys House & Gallery is open every Sunday until<br />
the end of <strong>October</strong>, with tours leaving regularly<br />
from 10.30am until 3.30pm.<br />
farleyshouseandgallery.co.uk<br />
Photo of Ami Bouhassane and her father Antony Penrose by Tony Tree<br />
© Lee Miller Archives, England <strong>2018</strong>. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk<br />
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Namayasai<br />
Specialist vegetable grower Robin Williams<br />
My wife Ikuko and I were selling mizuna<br />
and edamame in 2005, when hardly anyone<br />
had ever heard of them. Now, our range is fiftyfifty<br />
English heritage and Japanese varieties. For<br />
instance, we grow purple potatoes, a variety of<br />
beetroots, a range of soft fruits – desert blackcurrants,<br />
gooseberries – and some lesser-known:<br />
aronia berries, haskap, sea buckthorn. It’s fun<br />
trying new things, the more unusual things.<br />
Even with carrots: instead of the regular red<br />
English carrots, we harvest wild ones. They’re<br />
very popular.<br />
We specialise in growing for flavour, nutrition<br />
and freshness. We harvest under torchlight<br />
for delivery (mainly to restaurants) the same day<br />
and we grow almost entirely outdoors. The fact<br />
is, plants grown under stress of the elements,<br />
and those given more time to grow, produce<br />
many more natural chemicals that enhance their<br />
flavour and nutritional content.<br />
I’m not a big fan of labels. People tend to<br />
think about organic and non-organic as black<br />
and white, but there’s so many shades of grey inbetween.<br />
I think people should try the produce,<br />
buy something that’s local and forget about the<br />
label. (We do a vegetable box that we deliver<br />
locally, usually on Thursdays.)<br />
I’d stress the importance of growing with<br />
nature, outside, but there’s no one way of<br />
growing. If you look closely, there’re always disadvantages<br />
to the so-called ‘perfect’ method. It’s<br />
up to the individual really, to do what they feel<br />
is best in their own unique growing environment<br />
and circumstances – and to learn by trial<br />
and error.<br />
Growers, just as chefs, can be a bit like artists,<br />
really. You create your own landscape. Our<br />
garden at home is registered farmland. It’s<br />
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MY SPACE<br />
probably the only residential plot in <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
and, even though we don’t get a subsidy, it’s<br />
on the Defra map. We have much less time<br />
to spend there now, but we still harvest some<br />
crops. It’s almost like a propagating area, and<br />
you’d be amazed what we get in our lawn –<br />
wild orchids, for example.<br />
We learnt a lot this year. It was the first<br />
time we had such a long period of intense<br />
heat and some seed just doesn’t germinate in<br />
those temperatures. But this work is never<br />
routine. There’s always something new happening.<br />
And nature never ceases to amaze.<br />
We’ve seen the greenhouse soil – which<br />
we just left this year, because it needed a<br />
break – as dry as dust. You’d think there<br />
was no life in it at all, but once we put other<br />
crops in, start watering, suddenly there’s lots<br />
of growth from self-seeded crops.<br />
Usually, in the summer, we see the<br />
sunrise soon after we start harvesting. As<br />
it gets later in the year, we see thousands of<br />
stars, and often a strong moon so we don’t<br />
even need torches to harvest by. Time flies.<br />
We might start at two in the morning but<br />
before you know it, it’s 7am, the van’s leaving<br />
with the deliveries and it’s breakfast time;<br />
half the day is gone. As told to Chloë King<br />
namayasai.co.uk<br />
Photos by Chloë King<br />
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HEALTH<br />
Good grief<br />
Moving on from loss<br />
“Loss is a universal. It’s part of the human condition.”<br />
So says Louise Anderson, and she speaks<br />
with some authority. Having trained in Psychosynthesis<br />
Counselling, she now specialises in<br />
helping others to cope with loss, running regular<br />
Life Beyond Loss courses in <strong>Lewes</strong>.<br />
So how did it all start? “I was already working as<br />
a counsellor,” she explains, “and then my husband<br />
died quite suddenly in 2015. His death took me<br />
on a journey, where I began to ask myself, ‘how<br />
can I support myself with this?’”<br />
Her investigations led her to the Grief Recovery<br />
Method – and ultimately to set up Life Beyond<br />
Loss. “It’s not a therapy, as such,” she clarifies, “it’s<br />
a programme, which has distinct steps to take,<br />
through to ‘emotional completion’. There are<br />
always things that have been left incomplete when<br />
someone dies – such as a conversation that hadn’t<br />
been finished, or an issue that hadn’t been resolved<br />
– and those are things we can work with.”<br />
Her course is aimed at anyone struggling with any<br />
kind of loss.<br />
“Loss isn’t just experienced when people die,” she<br />
points out, “but might be the end of a marriage,<br />
children leaving home, loss of health, loss of<br />
employment, even loss of trust, or loss of faith…<br />
We’re all going through something, and sometimes<br />
we don’t have the tools to deal with it.<br />
“Way back in the past, we lived in communities<br />
and could go round to a neighbour to talk and get<br />
support. Now our lives are so busy and full that<br />
it’s hard to find the space, and we don’t always<br />
know how to work through things. We need to<br />
relearn how to get in touch with our feelings and<br />
how to process them in a way that supports us to<br />
move on.”<br />
That type of support is key in the Life Beyond<br />
Loss group programme, she adds. “It suits some<br />
people to work in a group. They can feel very<br />
held in the structure, as each week we go through<br />
certain things, leading up to a final session where<br />
everything comes together. In the midst of<br />
trauma, it’s very common to imagine nobody else<br />
understands what you’re going through, so it’s<br />
quite comforting to realise others are feeling the<br />
same. It normalises what is a very natural process,<br />
and, in a group, you don’t need to disclose anything<br />
you don’t want to, so people can go at their<br />
own pace.”<br />
The group programme includes one-to-one<br />
sessions before and after the seven-week course,<br />
while there is also the option of completing the<br />
whole course individually for those who prefer.<br />
“We need to move on from the shame of appearing<br />
weak or looking vulnerable,” Louise says. “I<br />
firmly believe there’s always a way through, if<br />
we’re open and prepared to ask for help.”<br />
Anita Hall<br />
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FITNESS<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Pilot Gig Club<br />
From the Ouse... to the Scillies?<br />
Photo of the World Pilot Gig Championships at St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly<br />
Local resident<br />
Gary Budd is on a<br />
mission to bring a<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> team to the<br />
World Pilot Gig<br />
Championships<br />
next year. He<br />
founded the <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Pilot Gig Club<br />
just last month<br />
and he has already<br />
secured the lease<br />
on a boat for the club to train in, which will<br />
be making its way to <strong>Lewes</strong> in early <strong>October</strong>.<br />
His plan now is to build up a men’s crew and a<br />
women’s crew, who will train together over the<br />
coming months and be ready to compete in the<br />
races at the Scilly Isles in May.<br />
Gigs are 32-foot, traditionally wooden boats,<br />
which originated in Cornwall in the 18th<br />
century. They were used to transport pilots<br />
and also goods from large sailing ships into the<br />
small harbours; the gigs would race out to meet<br />
a ship before other competitors, and gradually<br />
this racing became an official sport.<br />
A gig crew is made up of six rowers and a cox.<br />
“It’s serious teamwork,” says Gary, who has been<br />
rowing for over ten years. “You’ve got the first<br />
stroke and second stroke at the back, who set<br />
the pace, and everyone else follows suit, watching<br />
each other’s blades so that you’re all rowing<br />
together. As the oars knock against the pins on<br />
the gunnels you hear a click all the way down<br />
the boat, so it’s clear if one person’s out of time.<br />
“Racing the World Championships is just unreal,”<br />
he continues. “This year there were about<br />
135 boats, from all round the UK – Cornwall,<br />
Bristol, London – and from Australia, the US,<br />
Bermuda…” The nearest club until now has<br />
been Newhaven,<br />
but Gary is<br />
determined to<br />
build up a strong<br />
rowing community<br />
here in the<br />
town: “I think it’s<br />
going to be a great<br />
thing for <strong>Lewes</strong>.<br />
We’ve got a lot of<br />
support from the<br />
Cornish Pilot Gig<br />
Association and British Rowing, and the clubs<br />
in London and Hayling Island. There’s a push<br />
to get gig rowing recognised as an Olympic<br />
sport, so they’re keen to encourage new clubs<br />
to get started.”<br />
The <strong>Lewes</strong> club will be based at Seaford &<br />
Newhaven Sailing Club’s inland site, at Piddinghoe,<br />
where the crew will train as frequently<br />
as possible. “The more we can get everyone<br />
out on the water, the better,” says Gary. But to<br />
adapt to the shorter evenings over the winter<br />
months, he is also in the process of working<br />
out deals with a few local leisure facilities,<br />
which will allow the club to train together,<br />
whether through team swims or timed sessions<br />
on a rowing machine.<br />
The club are welcoming new members, with<br />
any level of experience, to attend an open session<br />
and find out more about what’s involved.<br />
The date is to be confirmed and more details<br />
will be released via the <strong>Lewes</strong> Pilot Gig Club<br />
Facebook page. The club meet every Wednesday<br />
at the Dorset at 7.30pm; join Gary and<br />
the other members at the Plastic Free Seaford<br />
Beach Clean on 7th <strong>October</strong>. Meet at the<br />
Buckle at 10am.<br />
Rebecca Cunningham<br />
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FOOTBALL<br />
Ready for any challenge<br />
Darren Freeman, <strong>Lewes</strong> FC men’s manager<br />
Photo by James Boyes<br />
As an opening gambit, in the bar after <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
(men’s) FC’s 8-1 FA Cup win over Moseley, I<br />
wonder whether manager Darren Freeman is<br />
more disappointed with the ‘1’, or delighted<br />
with the ‘8’.<br />
“I’m disappointed we let a goal in, to be<br />
honest,” he says, though I can see, try as he<br />
might, he can scarcely contain a broad smile of<br />
satisfaction. “But I’m delighted with the way<br />
the lads didn’t let them off the hook, and kept<br />
on scoring”.<br />
It’s a measure of the progress of his team that<br />
they should so comprehensively thrash opponents<br />
that were in the same league as them<br />
last year, who came away from the Dripping<br />
Pan with a 2-2 draw less than a year ago. Since<br />
then, of course, <strong>Lewes</strong> have gained promotion<br />
to the Bostik League Premier, and (as we go to<br />
press at least) have started in impressive form,<br />
looking more like promotion candidates than<br />
relegation fodder.<br />
Is it, I ask, a big step up into this league? And<br />
how come we’ve started so strongly? “It’s a<br />
huge step up,” he says. “At every level: the<br />
teams are fitter, and faster, and more physical,<br />
and more skillful. We’ve had some good new<br />
signings, but it’s also about the learning curve<br />
of our very young squad. The players have got<br />
a lot of games in their legs now. They’re improving<br />
all the time. They all know their roles<br />
and their responsibilities, and they’re working<br />
hard and getting rewards.”<br />
“I’m a great believer in letting young players<br />
have a go,” he continues. “And we’re always<br />
looking to the Under 23s and the Under 18s<br />
to see if there’s anyone who’s ready to train<br />
with the first team, and, when they look good<br />
enough, to get a game. Tonight, for example,<br />
there were three youth players on the bench.”<br />
It’s now four years since the 3G pitch was laid<br />
down, and Freeman believes being able to<br />
train on that surface has been a big factor in<br />
his team’s success. “It’s massive,” he says. “The<br />
facilities help to attract better players to the<br />
club, and training on that [top-grade, artificial]<br />
surface has really helped us to develop our<br />
passing game.”<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Women FC play at a higher level than<br />
the men’s team – in the second tier, alongside<br />
the likes of Manchester United and Spurs. Is<br />
that an inspiration, I wonder, for the men?<br />
“We want them to do well, just as I’m sure they<br />
want us to do well. What’s good for the football<br />
club, is good for us.”<br />
Freeman needs to get home, but I manage to<br />
fire one more question to him: does he think a<br />
second promotion might be too far, too soon<br />
for his young squad? “My first priority is getting<br />
the 40 points we need to avoid relegation,”<br />
he smiles. “After that… I mean, people have<br />
babies without expecting to, don’t they? I’ll<br />
make sure, and the club will make sure, that<br />
we’re ready for any challenge that faces us.”<br />
Alex Leith<br />
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WILDLIFE<br />
Illustration by Mark Greco<br />
Jays<br />
Acorn architects<br />
Each autumn a lot of my conversations go like<br />
this: “This morning I saw a weird pink and blue<br />
bird on my lawn.” Me: “It’s a jay.” “There’s a<br />
parrot on my bird table!” Me: “It’s a jay.” “I’ve<br />
just seen…” Me: “It’s a jay”. Spotting such an<br />
exotic-looking bird in the back garden gets even<br />
my most wildlife-averse friends reaching for the<br />
Blencowe bird-identification hotline. Yet, despite<br />
looking like it has flown in direct from the jungles<br />
of Costa Rica, the jay lives in Sussex all year<br />
round. For most of the year it withdraws to the<br />
woodlands and leads an elusive life amongst the<br />
leaves. But in <strong>October</strong> it is time for the jay to step<br />
out of the shadows.<br />
Jays look fabulous. With extravagant pink plumage,<br />
a drooping black moustache and a snazzy<br />
electric blue flash through the wings, it’s no surprise<br />
that eminent Sussex naturalist WH Hudson<br />
called it ‘the British Bird of Paradise’. Surprisingly,<br />
it’s a member of the crow family. But while the<br />
related ravens, rooks, crows and jackdaws all wear<br />
black funereal feathers, the jay obviously didn’t<br />
get the memo about the dress code. Gather the<br />
crows for a family portrait and the jay stands out<br />
like Danny La Rue in full drag amongst a crowd<br />
of coal miners. But when the jay opens its beak it<br />
reveals its family heritage. The song of the jay is a<br />
rough, rasping, nails-down-the-blackboard shriek<br />
which would make any crow proud.<br />
The reason we see more jays in the autumn is<br />
because they are busy. Jays are nuts about acorns<br />
and, at this time of the year, their favourite food<br />
is in plentiful supply. But the jay is a clever bird.<br />
Aware that there are lean times ahead, it starts<br />
making a long-term investment for surviving the<br />
winter. With up to nine acorns jammed in its beak<br />
and throat, the jay flies far from the woodlands<br />
and hides these nuts in nooks and under dead<br />
leaves. With an impressive ability to remember<br />
exactly where he has stashed them, the jay will<br />
return to tuck into these life-saving larders in the<br />
cold days of winter. I’ve employed a similar strategy<br />
many times at parties. Faced with a full buffet<br />
at the start of the night, I hide a few piles of crisps<br />
and vol-au-vents behind curtains and cushions to<br />
help me through the evening.<br />
One jay can store up to 5,000 acorns in a season.<br />
Not all are remembered and retrieved and, from<br />
these lost acorns, mighty oaks grow. I often<br />
wonder how many of the huge oaks we see in Sussex<br />
were originally planted by jays. Through the<br />
centuries these birds have been architects of the<br />
English countryside: a landscape created by the<br />
forgetfulness of a pink crow.<br />
Michael Blencowe, Senior Learning & Engagement<br />
Officer, Sussex Wildlife Trust<br />
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COLUMN<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Out Loud<br />
Plenty more Henty<br />
Whatever your thoughts<br />
about the hot weather<br />
experienced this summer,<br />
and mine were far from<br />
favourable, I have to concede<br />
that our two small<br />
plum trees benefitted big<br />
time – and I mean big.<br />
My photograph shows<br />
one bowlful of the plump<br />
Victorias but there were<br />
literally hundreds of them to choose from and<br />
daily picking was a pleasure – what you might<br />
call a genuine plum job!<br />
It is claimed Victoria plums were first discovered<br />
by a Suffolk nursery owner named Denyer<br />
in 1837, the year Queen Victoria succeeded to<br />
the throne. She was crowned the following year.<br />
The trees rarely get old apparently due to their<br />
high fruit production.<br />
Now I don’t know about you, but I have to say<br />
there is a limit to the number of times I can eat<br />
plums and custard – however delicious. Bottling<br />
the beauties is one answer, of course. Remember<br />
Kilner jars? As a child, our walk-in larder<br />
at home was full of them, together with jars of<br />
home-made jam and pickles.<br />
Come to think of it, what has happened to<br />
larders in this frantic age of freezing and refrigeration?<br />
We even slept in ours, positioned as it<br />
was under the staircase, during the flying bomb<br />
raids over South London. The larder was dark<br />
but strangely reassuring and there was always<br />
the bonus of a handy midnight snack.<br />
While I’m in a reflective mood, and you know<br />
me, a conversation recently outside Boots<br />
the chemist reminded me of the days Salvation<br />
Army members in<br />
uniform would visit local<br />
pubs in an effort to raise<br />
funds and spread the<br />
Gospel message.<br />
Good friend Graham, the<br />
bearded chap with a smile,<br />
himself a church member,<br />
carries on that tradition<br />
with his regular visits to<br />
our town and it is always<br />
a joy to stand with him and note the generosity<br />
of local shoppers. Good humoured too, and noone<br />
leaves without a “God Bless!”<br />
Few though, like <strong>Lewes</strong>ian Terry, pick up a copy<br />
of War Cry, which is a shame because it is an<br />
excellent read. The editorial in my edition dealt<br />
with homelessness in Brighton and Hove but<br />
also had features for Bake-Off fans and those<br />
interested in Skype. There was even an article<br />
about a church service for Goths. The Salvation<br />
Army first published a newspaper called War<br />
Cry in London in December 1879 and it has<br />
appeared every week since then – a remarkable<br />
record. By my reckoning, <strong>Viva</strong> <strong>Lewes</strong> (albeit<br />
monthly) will achieve a similar goal in 2145.<br />
There’s a challenge for our new editor!<br />
Finally, congratulations to all those involved<br />
with Artwave this year. I dropped in on several<br />
exhibitions and was particularly impressed by the<br />
Sussex Guild celebration of fifty creative years.<br />
The Southover Grange Gallery was full of light<br />
and glorious colour on the afternoon of my visit.<br />
With the festive season fast approaching, it’s a<br />
perfect place to find that special gift. Naturally,<br />
we’ll be giving out labelled jars of home-made<br />
plum jam.<br />
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BUSINESS NEWS<br />
Marchand Son have<br />
opened their (beautifully<br />
coloured) doors at the<br />
top of Station Street.<br />
After 16 years in London,<br />
they’ve moved south,<br />
offering ‘our own brand<br />
of entirely natural, ecofriendly<br />
paint made with local ingredients<br />
from the South Downs’. You can find them<br />
at makespeoplehappy.com: they’ve certainly<br />
cheered us up. Welcome too to Ed Gunter and<br />
Jon Neal, founders of Revive Joinery, opening<br />
this month in the Cheese Please premises<br />
by the War Memorial. Revive specialise in<br />
‘turning industrial and commercial materials<br />
into high-end unique furniture’.<br />
Talking revivals, the King’s Head, in Southover,<br />
and the Rainbow, in Cooksbridge, have<br />
been bought up by Revived Inns, also responsible<br />
for the recent refurb of the Royal Oak, in<br />
Newick. The Lamb, meanwhile, is rebranding<br />
as a gin bar… which leaves a Lamb-sized gap<br />
in the local live music<br />
scene. Anyone ready to<br />
step up to the plate?<br />
And Ez Tutty’s ice cream<br />
parlour, in the old Hugh<br />
Rae shop, now plans to<br />
add hot chocolate, waffles,<br />
tea & scones, and oldfashioned<br />
sweets to the menu – and stay open<br />
all winter. Yum.<br />
Need office space? Michael Bell has at least<br />
seven desks to rent in St Anne’s House,<br />
111 High Street, a beautiful Grade II* listed<br />
building. And congrats to three winners in the<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> District Business Awards: Oakley,<br />
for Professional Services; Bake Out for Food<br />
and Drink Producer; and Alexis Dove for Best<br />
Independent Retailer.<br />
Finally, Late Night Shopping is planned for<br />
Thursday 6th December, <strong>Lewes</strong> Chamber<br />
of Commerce Head Clare Crouch confirms.<br />
It’ll run from 6-9pm; this year’s charity is<br />
Rockinghorse.<br />
Photo by Katie Moorman<br />
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INSIDE LEFT<br />
BARROW BOY<br />
We were sent this picture by Tom Reeves, as a<br />
suggestion for the <strong>October</strong> theme, ‘larder’. He<br />
also sent a caption from the archives: ‘Mr Buckwell<br />
with grandson and hand barrow, 1928’.<br />
Down to the record office. There were eight different<br />
Buckwell families living in <strong>Lewes</strong> in the<br />
directory of that year, but this must certainly be<br />
Isaiah Buckwell, a greengrocer, who lived above<br />
his shop at 42 North Street, two doors down<br />
from the Blacksmith’s Arms. Isaiah was born in<br />
1867, which would make him 61 in this picture.<br />
A look at the electoral register of 1911 sees him,<br />
aged 44, already living at the same address with<br />
his wife Annie (40), and five children, Annie<br />
(21), Isiah (19), Ruth (17), Albert (13) and David<br />
(6), as well as son-in-law Hubert Washer. His<br />
occupation is listed as ‘greengrocer’; we know<br />
that he was working in the shop for some years<br />
before that. The building was demolished, along<br />
with many of its neighbours at the town end of<br />
North Street, in the sixties.<br />
There must be a reason he commissioned this<br />
picture and, from the look at the button-hole<br />
flowers and the dapper way both grandfather and<br />
grandson are dressed, we imagine them to be on<br />
their way to a wedding. Chances are this was the<br />
wedding of his daughter Ruth, in the autumn<br />
of 1928, to Frederick J Martin, a corn dealer.<br />
Frederick and Ruth, we can see from the Kelly’s<br />
register, continued to live at number 42 at least<br />
until WW2 began. After Isaiah’s death in 1944,<br />
his son Isiah, known as Ike, took over the shop.<br />
So who is the little chap with the cane? Vanessa<br />
Fielding, great granddaughter of Isaiah, reckons<br />
(via the <strong>Lewes</strong> Past group on Facebook) that<br />
the child is most likely to be one of her uncles,<br />
Stanley or Raymond Buckwell. He looks more<br />
sombre than his grandad, who is replete with<br />
medals, rings and a fob watch, and holding an<br />
unlit cigar. His barrow is full of exotic fruit,<br />
including a pineapple, grapes and some bananas.<br />
The spot the picture was taken has hardly<br />
changed since: we’re talking the little area on<br />
Castle Precincts which offers a view towards<br />
Offham and beyond. We are unable to identify<br />
the two females shyly looking on, but we have<br />
little doubt someone out there will be able to tell<br />
us more. Alex Leith<br />
Thanks, as ever to Edward Reeves Photography,<br />
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