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Bohemia Village Voice No. 48. June 2007
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The Magic Shop – Chris remembers (p 13)
St Paul’s School – facilities to share (p 4)
Owl lady – Jackie Cullen (p 6)
Karina’s Wool Shop – success story (p 9)
Edward Preston – Independent Church (p 12)
Vivienne Bond – new deputy mayor (p 8)
Little Frog – big splash (p 7)
Andrew Cartwright – happy to be back (p 5)
Midnight Shift – rockabilly band (p 10)
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Editorial Magic Shop memories The Voice offers warm and Bill Third’s article on congratulations to our Edward Preston. two local councillors – Village Directory first to Andrew Cartwright After hearing from readfor snatching victory in ers that they found the the Gensing by-election, directory hard to use, a and second to Vivienne new format is being tried Bond, who has been with this edition: all elected Deputy Mayor. entries are in a single Well done the two of you, alphabetical listing. and we look forward to petty party politics being Mystery put aside in favour of co- Can anyone help identify operation to solve some the dollops of soft brown of our most pressing material decorating our problems. See ‘Mystery’, pavements? With our streets regularly patrolled below. by a vast and growing Local colour army of road sweepers, It’s always a pleasure to street cleaners, street get local stories conbobbies, street wardens tributed by readers. Two and dog wardens it surepriceless examples that ly can’t be dog sh*t – can we would never otherit? wise have known about The editor appear in this issue – the
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In this issue ... Amherst Road houses ........................................ 14 Barnfield Close .................................................. 16 Bedtime Story ...................................................... 16 Bohemia Lighting reopens after flood .................. 8 Bohemia Road planning application .................... 16 Bohemia Road shop gets new (old) front ............ 14 Clive Coleman & Silo ............................................ 6 Combermere Road .............................................. 16 Dripping Spring .................................................... 16 Editorial ................................................................ 3 Edward Preston – article by Bill Third ................ 12 Election result – Andrew Cartwright .................... 5 Hobart Court ........................................................ 16 Hotel Paradiso – short story by Julian Graff ...... 10 In Short .............................................................. 16 Karina’s Wool Shop – one of last 2 ...................... 9 Laura Ripley – help from Falaise Fitness ............15 Letters page .................................................. 16–18 Little Frog makes big splash ................................ 7 London Road valley flats ........................................ 9 Magic Shop – remembered by Chris Jeffrey ...... 13 Married in a Bohemian Castle – part 5 of 8 ...... 11 Midnight Shift & property man George .............. 10 Owl lady Jackie flies to the rescue ........................ 6 Puzzle Corner – puzzle 48 ................................ 14 Roseanna & Brian’s card shop ............................ 16 Saucy postcard – 1925 style .............................. 14 St Paul’s School wants to share facilities ............ 4 Vie de Bohème – part 23 of 24 of serial .............. 15 Village Directory .......................................... 19–22 Vivienne Bond is made Deputy Mayor ................ 8 Winterbourne Close ............................................ 16 Bohemia Village Voice Published and edited by John Humphries at 79, Bohemia Road, Bohemia Village, Sussex, TN37 6RJ. Tel: 01424 430460. Email: editor@bohemiavillage.com Assistant editor: Julian Beecroft. Proofreader: John E Humphries. First published May 2006. © John Humphries. Circulation: 5,000 (unaudited). To receive a free email version of this newsletter, simply send your email address to us. Subscriptions: the cost of a year’s (12 issues) subscription is £12 (Europe), £24 (USA, Canada), £36 (Australia, Japan). Photographs: copies of photographs, size A4: £12 incl post & packing. Printed by Fastprint & Design, St Leonards, Sussex
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St Paul’s head keen to share school’s facilities In recent months the Voice has highlighted what it believed to be a lack of local facilities for youth and other community groups. The response to this appeal has been tremendous, with first the games area at White Rock Gardens and then the YMCA emerging as excellent local venues for young people. Now St Paul’s School has thrown its hat in the ring. The school’s headteacher, Pat Lock, who took up her post at the beginning of this year, invited us to come and talk to her about the playing field and the performing arts hall, both of which she is keen should be used outside of school hours by anyone who needs them. The playing field is a substantial, roughly triangular green space that is easily accessed from Amherst Road. Mrs Lock told us, ‘We’ve currently got an agreement with Horntye Park where local cricket clubs use the field at the weekends, but aside from that it’s hardly used outside school hours. It’s a big space that’s ideal for all field sports. There are no toilets or kitchen facilities, but we’ve got plans to add those. In the meantime, for a small addition to the basic fee, the caretaker can be on hand to unlock the performing arts hall for anyone using the field. There’s toilets, including a disabled toilet, and a kitchenette there.’ The performing arts hall is the newest of the school’s buildings. The well-lit
end of the playing field once funds allow. This would have the double benefit of offering the school’s staff their own car park and easing the weekday burden on Horntye Road, where the staff are forced to park at the moment. ‘We’d also like to build a separate block for people using the playing field, comprising toilets and kitchenette, but we don’t have the funds at the moment. If Pat Lock, head of St Paul’s School, in the performing arts hall we can get some money main hall includes a drama groups. We are coming in from hiring the sprung floor and mirrors planning to put up curfield or the hall, it’ll go running the whole length tains that will pull across towards those projects.’ of one side. There are the mirrored wall, and also two dressing rooms then the hall could even Mrs Lock is keen that the as well as storage space be used for meetings. local community should available for sports and Scout or Girl Guide get first use of the faciliother equipment. ‘We run groups are another possi- ties, and thus there are an after-school karate bility, though we’ve ruled two rates for groups who club in here at the out children’s parties. The want to book either the moment,’ says Mrs Lock, hall’s size and mirrors hall or the playing field – ‘but it’s ideal for dance also make it unsuitable for one is a commercial rate, while the other is a classes and aerobics. ball games.’ Active Hastings used it for The school is currently reduced fee for communia few weeks for the able to provide parking ty groups, for whom, for street-dancing classes space on the school play- example, the playing field they run at White Rock, ground for groups using is available at £8 an hour. when the theatre was either the playing field or The new toilet block and temporarily unavailable. the performing arts hall, car park will not come But it would also be a but there are plans to pro- cheap, however, and the good space for choirs or vide pedestrian access school would therefore music groups who need a and a new car park at one welcome any contributions from local business space to rehearse, or for towards the costs involved. Mrs Lock emphasises, ‘Any improvements we can make will be not only for our own kids, but the whole community. I feel it’s about time schools reached out to the local community. We want families and the community to support us, but we need to reciprocate.’ S t Paul’s 424530. Playing field at St Paul’s School
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ELECTION RESULT
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Triumphant Andrew Cartwright ‘happy to be back’ The Voice spoke to returning Gensing councillor Andrew Cartwright about his plans. ‘I’m happy to be back. It’s great to have a good reason to be talking to so many people. It’s also good to get back to unfinished business from my last term. Of course, I’ve also got a long list of new issues raised by residents during the campaign, but there’s always room for more. ‘Many of the issues raised have been to do with the state of the roads and the pavements. Frustratingly, these are the County Council’s responsibility, but I have to find a way of getting them to deal with it. On a mundane level this is about ‘pavement politics’, but on another level it’s about improving local democracy. I want national government to put power back in local hands. Local people are paying for these things to be done, but they don’t have the power to do anything about it. What Gordon Brown is saying
‘There’s nothing more political than a lamppost’ – ANDREW CARTWRIGHT
Andrew explaining to government minister Hazel Blears the intricacies of scissors, paper, stone
about strengthening local Leonards. ‘Local residemocracy is what I’m dents are upset about it, talking about. and unfortunately I can’t ‘Mr Blair’s government change the decision. But gave us initiatives like the it must be implemented neighbourhood renewal properly. As is often the forums – I am still case, the devil is in the involved with one myself detail, particularly for the – but the Blair years have older parts of Hastings.’ seen only modest successes in strengthening local democracy in Hastings. On that score, I see it as a big part of my role to give people access to information. The Freedom of Information Act entitles people to know more than they sometimes realise.’ Andrew pointed to the perennial problems of litter, antisocial behaviour and parking, but also to the proposed introduction of a twin-bin scheme for Hastings and St
Hands-on Andrew
Andrew’s biggest gripe is with big organisations not taking their share of reponsibility. ‘The bigger the organisation, the more important it is that
they set a good example. The County Council’s failure to look after the town’s roads and pavements properly affects us all, but being only a small part of their overall constituency, local people have a limited ability to make their feelings known. In the end it’s about where you think it’s important to spend the money. I always say there’s nothing more political than a lamppost. If you’re willing to invest money in a lamppost then it means you want to feel safe. Even though it’s their responsibility, the County Council have refused to pay for most of the hundreds of lampposts that have been installed all over the town in recent years. A high priority is doing the things that enable us to have a strong community.’ In the meantime, Andrew says that part of his task is always to be finding out what the issues are. ‘I’d be very grateful to any residents who write to me with any issue. I’ll always follow it up.’ Andrew: 717140.
LABOUR STEALS GENSING SEAT Just in case you haven’t seen a breakdown of the votes for candidates in the recent Gensing ward byelection, here they are: Andrew Cartwright (Lab) 516 votes (34.2%); Simon Corello (Con) 475 (31.5%); Trisha Kennelly (Lib Dem) 332 (22%); Sally Phillips (Green) 92 (6.1%); John Martin (BNP) 55 (3.6%); Mick Turner (UKIP) 38 (2.5%). The turnout was 37.8%, slightly down on 2006, and the swing from Conservative to Labour was a dramatic 11.8%. In 2006, the Conservatives, fielding Dr Daniel Poulter won the seat with 750 votes (47.2%), with Andrew Cartwright, Labour, polling just 417 (26.2%).
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Owl lady Jackie flies to the rescue o w l s , including four-yearold Kali, plus two European eagle owls, a Turkmenian eagle owl and a tawny owl called Ollie. Most of the owls have been reared from fiveday-old chicks that Owl lady Jackie Cullen and Kali J a c k i e If you have lived in Hastings and St Leonards bought from a registered for any length of time then breeder, though Ollie and you’re bound to recognise Shady, one of the Jackie Cullen, otherwise European eagle owls, known as the ‘Owl Lady’. were both rescued. Jackie and her owls are often to be seen walking up Bohemia Road, on their way back from Priory Meadow. Collectively, they make up the shopping centre’s pigeon-scaring team, though they’re just as happy shooing away seagulls. Jackie, who lives in Chapel Park Road, currently has seven owls: three Bengali eagle
Jackie’s work as a bird scarer started by accident a few years ago. ‘I was always going into the Fur and Feathers, a pet shop in St Andrew’s Market. They had a big problem with pigeons, but then one day I went in when Kali had grown just a little bit bigger, and the pigeons all scattered. So Lynn, the pet-shop owner, asked
me to try coming in on a animals for 15 years, and regular basis, and it her special area of knowledge is birds. ‘I started worked like a dream.’ It was around this time with one humble pigeon that Priory Meadow who’s still with me, and I invested in a few robotic now have five in total, all hawks as a tactic to repel of them too maimed to go unwanted birds. Jackie back into the wild. Then, says, ‘The hawks cost as well as the owls, I’ve them a small fortune and got a fluctuating populathey weren’t very effec- tion of rescued seabirds tive. Within a week the which at any one time pigeons were sitting on might include herring their heads. So I said, gulls, common gulls or “How would you like the guillemots. There are also same job done better for a two cats, both rescued, fraction of the cost?” They and four border collies, leapt at it. They gave me a three of which I’ve rescouple of weeks’ trial and cued, and the ferrets, of then it was, “When can course. The pigeons you come back? How ignore the cats and the many days can you do?”’ owls, who ignore them back. But all my animals Jackie also has a good are well fed and secure at relationship with the fire night, and they have their station on Bohemia Road. own kind to play with, so ‘They’ve used my owls to they want for nothing.’ clear pigeons out of the training tower and my fer- Jackie gets a lot of birds in rets to get the rats out of distress referred to her the drains. But it’s not all from various sources. ‘If scaring, of course. I also it’s still alive I’ll rescue it,’ do shows at weekends to she says. ‘I get the dregs raise funds for the Old of what the RSPCA won’t Hastings Preservation deal with – pigeons, seagulls, birds behind fireSociety.’ places. I can’t leave them Jackie has been rescuing to die.’
Jackie & Clive & Silo & the RSPCA
Owl lady Jackie Cullen says she was alarmed but not surprised to read the story about Clive Coleman and his dog Silo (pictured) in the May issue of the Voice. She has had personal experi-
ence of being pursued by the RSPCA, also in response to an anonymous phone call, resulting in a prosecution brought against her being dismissed by the judge. ‘The RSPCA give the wrong impression of their powers deliberately to intimidate people. In fact their powers are nil unless they have a police warrant. They
don’t have power of entry or arrest.’ Jackie is now helping Clive in a campaign to bring his dog home. In the meantime, she has this advice for anyone approached by the RSPCA: ‘Never speak to them or sign anything unless you’ve got a witness, and never let them into your home without a police warrant.’ She also has this to say
to people reporting to the RSPCA owners they suspect of cruelty or neglect: ‘People who don’t know about animals often don’t understand what they’re seeing. They need to think about what they’re doing, and ask themselves, “Am I sure about this, or will I end up doing more harm than good?”’
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Little Frog makes big splash in kids’ bedrooms dren’s bedrooms. Her two-year-old daughter Lucy’s room is a vibrant example of her work – a scene of gently rolling hills populated by wild and farmyard animals.
Anna Blackledge of Little Frog
Anna’s parents are both originally from Hastings, but she grew up in Birmingham. ‘My grandmother still lives in this area, but it was only a couple of years ago that my parents moved back south to Eastbourne,’ she says. ‘I’ve got a family of my own now, so we moved down to be near them.’
Parents of young children might be interested in the work of Bohemia Road resident Anna Blackledge. Anna has a master’s degree in book illustration, but since Anna recently obtained moving to this area last summer she has begun a New Entrepreneur which to turn those talents to Scholarship, helped her with business painting murals for chil-
start-up costs and entitled her to take a course at 1066 Enterprise on Bohemia Road. ‘I found the course very useful, particularly for bookkeeping and the legal side of things,’ she says. ‘But giving birth to my son Davie in May has changed things a bit. As well as murals, I’ve started to do name plaques and other bedroom accessories, which I can make at home and then sell at craft fairs, as well as online once my website is fully built. My first craft fair is at the end of May at the Church in the Wood in Hollington, which is where my parents got married. Then I’ll be doing the baby fair at
Summerfields Leisure Centre in July, followed by the Bohemia Village Fair in August. I’ll be doing a kids’ mural there, too, which the children can colour in themselves.’ Anna says she would welcome the chance to decorate the premises of a child-related business in the local area. ‘I could do it at cost price.’ she says. ‘That way a lot of parents would get to see my work, and hopefully things would take off from there.’ Anna 0845 428 0259 or 07855 869 471, or email her at anna@littlefroginteriors.co.uk.
What child wouldn’t be delighted to have a scene like this to wake up to? An example of a Little Frog mural
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Bohemia Lighting reopens after flood but they denied having drains there and told me to get a plumber in. I knew that was wrong so I persevered, and eventually I got them to come and look.’
Maurice Dunford – pleased to be trading again after the flood
A long-established Bohemia Road business has recently reopened after a flood. Bohemia Lighting and sister business Security First are both run by Maurice and Annette Dunford from the same premises at 71
Bohemia Road. But arriving at the shop on 29th March, the couple found water across the floor. Maurice told the Voice, ‘I phoned Southern Water straightaway. I told them sewage was coming through our back wall,
Annette says representatives of Southern Water came out several times but couldn’t find the leak. ‘Finally they put a camera down the drain and found a cracked pipe under the yard behind 1 Newgate Road. It was then repaired on Maundy Thursday, but we came in the next day, Good Friday, and it was even worse. Southern Water sent out another team, who told us it hadn’t been done properly the first time round.’ The busi-
ness was forced to close for a month after a visit from environmental health officers. The damage to the business has been substantial, and the couple are currently negotiating compensation with their insurance company for the cost of remedial work, loss of earnings and loss of £5000 worth of stock. Meanwhile, the shop has been substantially refurbished. ‘Everything contaminated was removed,’ says Maurice. ‘The walls were replastered, and we’ve put in a new carpet and new counters. Fingers crossed, all the customers we had before the flood will come back now they know we’re open again.’
Deputy Mayor Vivienne worries about twin bins the mayormaking ceremony on Wednesday 16th May having been nominated by Paul Smith. She will still continue with all her duties as councillor. ‘I’m really looking forward to getting out and about meeting Cllr Vivienne Bond – looking forward to people from Deputy Mayor duties the whole of Congratulations to our Hastings, and I’m going local councillor Vivienne to be really busy during Bond on being elected Hastings Week when the Deputy Mayor of Mayor, Maureen Hastings. Lib Dem counCharlesworth, is away on cillor Vivienne was electholiday,’ she said. Are ed by 20 votes to 12 at there any perks? ‘Yes –
I’ll get an £1,800 dress scheme being proposed for the town – both the allowance.’ ‘Because of the changes scheme itself and the brought about after the way it was announced. recent election, I’m no ‘We were told about the longer on the planning twin-bin scheme at the committee. This means Council meeting, but the that I can actually speak Council didn’t stress that more freely at future rubbish would now be planning meetings with- collected every other out breaking the “code of week. They sneaked it conduct” rules. I’ll be able through without discusto represent Gensing sion. Obviously, we all Ward much better and need to be recycling, but will be able to speak out I’m also worried about on our behalf.’ Vivienne the new bagless bins, has made no secret of particularly over the twothe fact that she’d like to week period they’re be mayor one day ... changing to. It’s a recipe she’s certainly on her for spreading disease. I think we need to look at way. this again before it’s TWIN BIN WORRY implemented.’ Vivienne is currently conCllr V ivienne Bond cerned about the twin-bin 720096 or 781035.
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Karina’s Wool Shop is one of last two in Hastings The life of the average trader in Bohemia is sometimes not an easy one, so it always gives us great pleasure to report a thriving local business. Karina’s Wool Shop has been part of the landscape of Bohemia Road for almost thirty years, but the last few years have also seen a boom in trade that shop owner Brenda Garnett puts down to the changing world of fashion. Brenda opened her first shop in 1978 at 102 Bohemia Road. ‘I was just selling babywear and children’s wear,’ she Brenda Garnett – pleased with success of her shop says. ‘Then in 1980 we moved up to 131.’ wool, and at first it was a whose mothers and Over the years Brenda reasonable living. At one grandmothers had knithas had to adapt to sur- point I had 12 knitters ted had no interest in vive, as the big super- making things to order, doing it themselves. A lot markets gradually though I no longer have of the knitting shops closed. Twenty-five years extended their reach into anyone doing that.’ all areas of retailing. The 1990s saw a fall in ago, there were more ‘When Tesco’s started trade as knitwear fell out than a dozen in Hastings doing kids’ clothes, I of fashion. ‘The sweat- and St Leonards – now couldn’t compete. I shirts and designer there’re just two.’ couldn’t even buy them in labels came in, and that Brenda admits that her at the prices they were knocked knitting a lot. It business might also have selling them at. So I grad- seemed very old-fash- disappeared if she hadn’t ually changed over to ioned, and a generation owned the shop, but she
is now profiting from a new passion for knitting, with famous film stars declaring their love for the craft. ‘In the last two years business has boomed. Russell Crowe and Julia Roberts are both knitters. They say it’s stress-busting. And now there are all these specialist wools on the market for the fashionconscious. As well as locals, I have customers who come from as far away as Seaford or Tunbridge Wells. And I’ve sold more kiddies’ knitting needles in the last two years than the previous twenty-five.’ The wool shop is named after her daughter, and Brenda is particularly heartened to see young people taking up knitting. ‘There are a lot more younger customers since the fancy wools started. Some of them came in originally with their mothers, and now they’re bringing their own children. That’s very satisfying.’
London Road valley flats Planning permission is being sought to develop part of the vacant site adjacent to 185 London Road. The site is a large wild valley area descending from London Road toward Woodland Vale Road. Planning permission was granted as long ago as 1988 to create 27 flats in three blocks along the Woodland Vale Road frontage, some of which
were built. The new plan, submitted by RDP Architects of St Leonards on behalf of WAC Contractors of Pett, is to build along the London Road frontage between 185 London Road and the footpath leading down to De Cham Road. A substantial area behind the proposed development would be left as ‘private open space’.
Footpath leading from London Road to De Cham Road
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Property man George rocks with Midnight Shift Europe.’
Most people have more than one string to their bow, but local businessman George Okines has four on his double bass. George, who owns Arko Property Management on Bohemia Road, has been playing in bands for 30 years. He started out on vocals and rhythm guitar, then added the saxophone, before switching many years ago to the double bass. The various bands George has belonged to over the years have all played 1950s rock’n’roll, or rockabilly. His current band, Midnight Shift, has been going for five years, and until recently it was strictly a family affair. ‘My daughter played the drums, my son played rhythm guitar, and my brother Colin played lead. Then about a year
George Okines, left, with his rockabilly band Midnight Shift
ago my son decided to give it up because he’s got a young family, and my daughter emigrated to the United States, so we recruited a new drummer, Brandon, and carried on as a three-piece.’ The band recently played
at the Hastings Arms in the Old Town, but otherwise most of their gigs are further afield at dance or rockabilly clubs. ‘It’s a specialised audience, but there’s still a great following for the music, especially in
George, who is also the lead vocalist, says that the recent spate of TV programmes featuring old-time dance music has brought a new audience to rock’n’roll, to the extent that 1980s rockabilly LPs he featured on with previous bands are changing hands on eBay for as much as £30. Midnight Shift will also soon be recording a CD, which he says they’ll be selling mostly at their own gigs. Any fans of rockabilly music can catch George’s band on the Eastbourne Bandstand on 14th July and 4th August this year, while true aficionados will already know that the trio are headlining the opening night of the rock’n’roll weekender at Hemsby in Norfolk on 11th October.
Hotel Paradiso by Julian Graff This story won the second prize in our ultra-short story competition earlier this year he pigeons came home to roost. So too the vandals of the home-grown, not the corporate breed. Still, there was no satisfaction: where once townsfolk bemoaned the dereliction of a beautiful building, they now shook their heads in disbelief at the state of its successor.
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The genesis was not without promise: once the objections were buried, petitions acknowledged and ignored and deals
stamped by unaccountable committee, the local landmark (formerly workplace of hot-metal minders, engineers, typesetters, scribes, secretaries and executives – bosses, we called them then – the object of acquisition) was reduced to rubble. In its place, glowering and maximising every inch of airspace, a ubiquitous link in a chain of hotels, its facile façade dominating, standing out like a sore, well, like a sore.
Few complained then, when the chamber maids and bright sparks, plumbers of every origin and administrators of all hues and hierarchies had been hired. A boost to the local economy, it was said.
ently. Despite the hitech, the architect, planners and PR, there was this constant booming, a rhythmic pounding.
The sea, perhaps, striving to reclaim its shore. Or the coastal wind, harmonising off-key with the Then the takings shoddy superstructure. dropped, focus groups Only old-timers disdissolved and the clien- cerned the clank of the tele followed en-suite. presses, the ethereal Letters in the paper and enduring agony of revealed all: ‘Never go metal fused with man. back’. ‘Used to love this Only the pigeons didn’t town, but...’ give a hoot. It was that noise, appar-
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I was married in a Bohemian Castle Part 5 (of 8) The Wedding – by Richard Slater St Peter’s Road resident and technical author Richard Slater recounts his days in Bohemia. [Bohemia is the western province of the Czech Republic; the eastern one is Moravia.] In this fifth part, Richard describes the wedding to his wife Eva. My parents, sister and brother drove across Europe to attend the wedding, which, in a communist state, was of course a civil ceremony. However, my wife had discovered that there was a registry office within Karlstejn Castle, so we (OK, she!) chose to get married there, rather than in Prague town hall. Karlstejn is a very impressive structure: if you want to know more about it, just Google ‘Karlstejn Castle’ and visit some of the websites that come up. Richard and Eva’s 1966 wedding at Karlstejn Castle, Bohemia
After the wedding, we flew to
Luhacovice for our honeymoon. While we were there, England won the World Cup (it was July 1966!). This was amusing, too, because it was then (and maybe still is) the custom in tourist hotels to put a national flag on each table at dinner. Since Germany is very close to Bohemia, nearly all the foreign tourists were German. It has to be said that, then at least, the Czechs really hated the Germans: it was only 20 years since the end of World War II, so every adult Czech remembered them all too well and all the children were taught in school. The hotel staff gave us a free bottle of champagne and took great delight in placing a very large Union Jack on our table at dinner that night (I guess they didn’t have a St George’s flag). All the German flags were put out at half-mast!
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Edward Preston – a man for all reasons concert singer – a devotee and performer of repertoire ranging from music hall to opera – he was also secretary of the International Dickens Fellowship for many years. Moreover, he has worked with the Old Hastings Preservation Society in assigning blue plaques to mark the association with the town of many great figures from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Lewis Carroll and, of course, Charles Dickens.
Edward Preston – as minister at the Independent Church [photo: Samuel Lovett]
f the recent Bohemia Bygones exhibition has awakened your interest in the rich local history of Hastings and St Leonards as a whole, then you are in luck. Monday 21st May saw the first instalment of Pieces of the Past, a series of 15 illustrated talks on various aspects of the town’s past, by the same man, at the Friends Meeting House in South Terrace in Hastings town centre. The series, which is now in its 15th year, will take place at the same venue every Monday at 10.30am, concluding on 27th August.
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These talks are not only informative, but entertaining as well. The first I attended, some years ago, on Hastings stagecoaches, was opened with a fine rendition of the ‘Post-horn Gallop’ – delivered not by post-horns, but by Edward’s expert vocal mimicry. As well as being an accomplished
r Preston has another vocation, however, in his work at the Independent Church in Albany Road, where he has been the minister for ten years. The church itself goes back 61 years, having started life as the Hastings Central Mission, and moved to its present location at the top of Albany Road in 1976. It is one of the smallest consecrated churches in the town, and one of the prettiest, set in its own garden. The interior is light, welcoming, atmospheric
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and tranquil. Furnishings are sober, in line with the Protestant tradition, but with some good decorative touches in colour and lighting, and two small, well-positioned stainedglass windows; the one in the eastern gable bears the following words in Hebrew and English: ‘Thy word is a light unto my path, and a lamp unto my feet’.
described in Genesis, to the belief that this was the Stone of Destiny on which generations of Scottish kings were crowned, before its removal in 1296 by Edward I, and subsequent relocation to Westminster Abbey, where it stood until the mid-1990s, having been used for the coronations of English kings for more than 700 years.
t is what takes place in the church that’s important, of course, and this, too, sets it apart. As well as offering spritual guidance, Edward’s Sunday services make you think, because he not only draws on his deeply held faith, his knowledge of scripture and his 35 years as a lay preacher; he contextualises his message by relating it to current events, usually with a notion of wit and humour. He also draws on his other influences and interests. For example, Edward relates Jacob’s pillow in his dream of the ladder to heaven,
his is not to downplay the seriousness of Edward’s intent, or his adherence to the scriptures and his firm belief that they are divinely inspired. Fortunately, the leavening of relevance, understanding and forgiveness offered by Christianity are never far away, not to mention the hymns, currently sung unaccompanied – the last pianist, Cath Williams, sadly passed away on 11th May, so if you are free on Sunday mornings and could offer musical accompaniment, please give Edward a ring on 435849.
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Edward’s Independent Church in Albany Road [photo: Samuel Lovett]
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Bohemia’s Magic Shop
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– remembered by Chris Jeffrey
’m not sure what year I discovered The Magic Shop at 110 Bohemia Road. It must have been around 1960. The shop was owned by Mr and Mrs Spray. Roland Spray had been a professional conjurer until his sight started to fail and he had to give it up. I had been hooked on conjuring since receiving a David Nixon Magic Set for Christmas, and every Saturday as a boy of about twelve or thirteen I used to cycle up to Bohemia Road and spend up to an hour in the company of Mr Spray and his magic. In retrospect it must have been a bit trying for him to have to entertain a small boy every week, but he did not seem to mind. He would demonstrate a lot of the tricks from behind the glass display counter, and to see a brown rubber cigar passed from one hand to the other and then vanishing was amazing. It still sends a tingle down my spine to think about it.
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I bought the cigar, a rubber egg, a stone egg, a set of multiplying billiard balls, Chinese Linking Rings, a black bag for vanishing the stone egg as made famous by Tommy Cooper, and other tricks too numerous to mention. When Mrs Spray died a light seemed to go out of his life, and although he soldiered on alone I wonder whether it was worth the struggle for him. By this
Bohemia’s Magic Shop with (presumably) owners Mr & Mrs Spray
time Mr Spray was nearly blind, and I sensed that maybe he’d had enough when I was finally admitted to the inner sanctum, a small parlour at the back of the shop. Here he offered to sell me some of the props which he had used during his career as a stage magician.
Without giving away any of his secrets I can say that I bought a wooden box with secret panels, a red wooden box with a hidden black bag, and a red cardboard box with a black interior and a concealed flap. There was also a black, velvet-covered circular display stand with hooks for hanging magically pro-
duced watches on. Strange to think that now, almost fifty years later, I still visit the shop of an elderly gentleman in Bohemia Road for a pleasant hour or so on most Saturday mornings. The difference is that the only prestidigitation that you’ll see in Bookman’s Halt occurs when money changes hands.
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Shop gets new (old) front
Amherst Road – the local landscape changes before our eyes
The Voice has been surprised at how quickly the new houses being built on the Amherst Road plot beside St Paul’s School have gone up. Laurence Hulkes of Park Lane Homes told us that the whole development should be completed by November, weather permitting. He also said that the new properties, a mixture of houses and flats, had already attracted a healthy level of interest.
Shane Cuddington of estate agents Rush, Witt and Wilson confirmed to us that of the 20 properties in the development on this side of the road – 11 houses and 9 flats – 5 houses and 3 flats had already been sold, several before they had even been advertised. He also suggested that some of the new owners might be able to move in to their finished homes by the end of the summer.
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door including the characters we pictured, which are only two out of six portraits painted on it, must be regarded as one of Bohemia’s secret treasures. It can be found in garage premises next to 9 North Road. But who’s the painter? We don’t know.
Where in Bohemia can this magnificent clock be found? The prize for the winning entry is the usual £10 token generously donated by Empress Art, to be spent in their shop. Closing date for entries is Sunday 10 June. Answer to puzzle 47 Last month’s question drew a blank with our readers. As such the wooden
Puzzle 47 – strange door
60A Bohemia Road with restored Victorian shopfront
One of Bohemia Road’s prime retail premises has had a major refurbishment in the past month. Sandwiched between S.H. Tackle and Newman’s Cleaners, the empty ground-floor property at 60A Bohemia Road has had its Victorian shopfront restored by owner Alan Kent, but major work has been undertaken throughout. Alan told the Voice, ‘The whole place has been rewired, there’s a new kitchen, new walls, new ceiling.’ Alan also
owns the premises at 99 Bohemia Road, currently occupied by Base Pizza. He bought 60A at auction last year, and believes that the newly renovated property will adapt to various uses. ‘As well as the shop, there’s also another potential office space behind it. So the place could either be used as offices throughout or as a single shop or office with a studio flat attached. There’s a new bathroom too, and a patio area at the back.’
Saucy postcard – 1925 style Here’s what probably passed for a saucy postcard – franked ‘Hastings 28 July 1925’. It was sent to ‘Miss G. Humphries, 218 Grove Road, Bow, E.3.’ It reads, ‘Dear Grace, Having a fine time. Hope you are enjoying yourself also. Love Lily.’ The artist is Dudley Buxton. Are there any other cards out there? [submitted by St Peter’s Road resident]
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Vie de Bohème HowThe Bohemian Club Was Formed – part 23 (of 24). The story so far ... homeless Parisian artist and musician Alexandre Schaunard has been looking for a change of fortune. He meets a philosopher, Gustave Colline, and later two gentlemen, M. Mouton and M. Rodolphe. Schaunard, forgetting he is homeless, invites everyone back to his lodgings, only to discover Marcel, a new tenant, in occupation. After much confusion they share dinner with Marcel, who next morning invites his new friends to lunch. Marcel eventually invites Schaunard to share his lodgings with him ...
cash down.’ ‘I obtained an advance of thirty francs from the cashier of The Scarf of Iris,’ said Rodolphe, ‘on the pretext that I needed to be vaccinated.’ ‘A day of affluence,’ said Schaunard. ‘I’m the only olline and one who’s had no windR o d o l p h e fall: it’s humiliating.’ returned, having ‘Meanwhile, I repeat my met on their way back. invitation to dinner,’ said Marcel and Schaunard Rodolphe. told them of their agree- ‘So do I,’ said Colline. ment. ‘Well then,’ said ‘Gentlemen,’ said Rodolphe, ‘we’ll toss, Rodolphe, rattling the heads or tails, to see who coins in his pocket, ‘I pays.’ invite the company to ‘No, no,’ said dinner.’ Schaunard, ‘I have a bet‘Exactly what I was ter idea; a far better idea, about to have the honour which will spare you to propose,’ said Colline, embarrassment.’ extracting a gold piece ‘Let’s have it.’ from his pocket and ‘Rodolphe pays for the using it as a monocle. dinner, and Colline ‘My prince gave me this invites us all to supper.’ to buy a HindustaniArabic grammar, which I ‘That’s what I’d call a have bought for six sous, judgment of Solomon,’
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the fair virtues of youth, ‘Worse than the Feast of could easily be stirred by the sight or sound of Gamacho,’ said Marcel. beauty. All these four, The dinner was held in a having started from the Provencal restaurant on same point to arrive at the Rue Dauphine, noted the same goal, thought for its literary waiters and that their meeting was its ailloli. Seeing that it due to something other was necessary to leave than the common giveroom for supper, they ate and-take of chance, and and drank in moderation. that it might well be The acquaintance struck Providence herself, up the previous night nature’s guardian of the between Colline and forsaken, who had thus Schaunard, and later brought them together, with Marcel, became hand unto hand, and was more intimate. Each of now whispering to them the four young men hoist- the Gospel’s bidding: ed the flag of his own ‘Help and love one artistic opinions. All four another.’ [To be continrealised that they had ued] equal courage and similar ambitions. As they Vie de Bohème by Henry Mürger, a vivid portrait of the gossiped and argued, ‘Bohemian’ life of the artistic they realised that their quarter of Paris in the ninesympathies were in com- teenth century, was originally mon, that the wits of all published (by Michel Lévy) in four were equally adapt- 1851. The extract above is taken from a translation by ed to the kind of humor- Norman Cameron, published ous fencing that enlivens by Hamish Hamilton. The without hurting, and that illustration is by Dodie their hearts, filled with all Masterman.
Falaise Fitness Centre to help Laura lose weight The Voice was called last month by Karen Burrell at Freedom Leisure. The group runs four fitness/leisure centres in Hastings and St Leonards, including both Summerfields and Falaise Fitness Centre on Bohemia Road. Karen had read our article on Laura Ripley’s (pictured) fight against obesity and wanted to help Laura work out the exercise pro-
gramme she had talked of in our article. We rang Laura and gave her Karen’s number, and a week or so later a delighted Laura came in to see us with her aunt, Salisbury Road resident Anne Williams. ‘I’ve agreed to meet Karen in late May at Falaise Fitness Centre,’ said Laura. ‘She said she’ll show me around and talk to me about my goals, and
then they’ll devise a programme to help me achieve them.’ Laura’s aunt Anne added that her son goes to Falaise Fitness Centre himself, so that should help Laura get used to the place. Meanwhile, Laura has contacted the Jeremy Kyle Show with this news, and both she and Karen plan to keep them up to date with how she’s doing.
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Letters
In short ... Bedtime story The lease on the vacant premises on the south corner of London Road and Tower Road West, formerly occupied by Capital Costing Services, has been taken up by bedding specialist Bedtime. The company has been selling beds, mattresses, futons and bedding for many years from their current premises in Priory Street in Hastings. But the building is threatened with eventual demolition to make way for the Priory Quarter development in Central Hastings, and according to Bedtime’s owner, Don Nolan, trade has fallen sharply in the last six months.
has seen some changes recently. New manager Jason Bingley says the beer garden has been spruced up so that customers can now enjoy a pint in the sunshine.
Hobart Court A planning application has been submitted to convert a three-bed flat in Hobart Court, Ellenslea Road, into a one-bed flat with garden access and a separate two-bed flat. The applicant is London Allied (Hastings) Ltd of Fulham in London.
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The new shop on London Road will open some time in June.
Planning permission is being sought to change an unused store/workshop at the rear of 132–4 Bohemia Road into a one-bed house. The applicant is Mr N. Richards of 134 Bohemia Road.
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Barnfield Close
The conversion into two flats of a maisonette at 10 Combermere Road is being proposed. The applicants are Mr & Mrs Milton of 14 Springfield Valley.
Plans have been submitted to replace a conservatory at the rear of 17 Barnfield Close with a granny annex, kitchen and breakfast room. The applicants are Mr and Mrs R. Hodgson, who live at the property.
Card Shop Brian Cairns of Roseanna and Brian’s Cards and Gifts has told us that large-size Father’s Day cards are now available from the shop at £2.75 as opposed to the previous £3.50 price.
Dripping Spring Tower Road watering hole the Dripping Spring
Winterbourne Close A single-storey extension would be added to the rear of 50 Winterbourne Close under plans submitted to Hastings Council. The applicant is Mr P. Clarke, who lives at the property.
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Aldborough Road Dear Sir, Even though there is a shortage of parking spaces in the Bohemia area, which affects both businesses and residents, the Council is still giving permission for pavements to be lowered for private off-road parking, thus permanently reducing available spaces. May I suggest that one side of Aldborough Road be converted to chevron parking. The pavement could be removed where there are no houses fronting the road. This would allow access for emergency and service vehicles. Painted bays on both sides of the road would also reduce the number of cars which park so as to take the space of two. And please, no more lowered pavements for private parking. Sally Hick Aldborough Road
Where’s Silo? Dear Sir, Your article on ‘Silo’ and her keeper, Clive Coleman, reminded me of a very similar event that happened to a very good friend of mine in West Sussex. His Alsatian also caught fox mange from the adjacent
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fields where she used to run. However, he had a problem as his dog flatly refused to travel in a car. He contacted a number of local vets but they all refused to make a home visit. In the end he persuaded one of them to prescribe a powerful sedative and, together with two friends, was able to coax his dog into his car. At the surgery, the vet told him that the disease was incurable but prescribed a drug that would ease her suffering a little. His beloved dog got worse, and in desperation he again tried to persuade vets in the area to visit him, again to no avail. I was there when the RSPCA and the police arrived to arrest him; they had already taken his dog. It was all very cold and formal. At that time I was a member of the RSPCA and had a sticker on my car windscreen. When I offered my name to the police officer as a witness and pointed out the car sticker, he was very keen but when I later told them that my friend thought the world of his dog and would never let her come to any harm, he decided not to take my details. My friend was carted off to the police station – I was not told where and I was not allowed to follow. My friend never saw his dog again. First he was charged with cruelty, but when his lawyer told him
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that the RSPCA always wins such cases, he was advised to plead guilty to a lesser charge of neglect, although he produced to the court his telephone bill, and pointed out about 16 calls to known vets within a radius of 30 miles. He was found guilty and fined, I think, £600, and told that he could never keep a dog again. This broke his heart, and he eventually moved his business and home to France. I was disgusted, and haven’t supported the RSPCA since. It was inconceivable that my friend could be guilty of neglect, and I found the episode cruel and distasteful in the extreme. I cannot comment on Clive Coleman’s experience as I do not know him or any of the details, but it seems to me that there could be a pattern forming. A dog with fox mange does indeed look very miserable, and it must be easy to jump to the wrong conclusions, but above all it seems a sure way to boost animal cruelty prosecutions. David Russell Chapel Park Road Dear Sir, I think it is an utter shame that Silo has been taken away (for whatever reason) from Mr Coleman. As a lifelong resident of Salisbury Road, I often see Mr Coleman and Silo walking up the road to visit an elderly resident of our road. Silo follows Mr Coleman with utter devotion, never straying from
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his side even when they reach the house of the lady they are going to visit. Silo sits obediently next to Mr Coleman whenever they venture out of their van, and when crossing the busy Bohemia Road Silo never leaves Mr Coleman’s side. The elderly resident whom Mr Coleman visits every morning and every evening is also an avid dog lover, having had animals for most of her married life. As she is housebound she must also be feeling the loss of not having Silo visit her. I cannot believe that Mr Coleman has in any way harmed or mistreated Silo and can only hope that the RSPCA return Silo to his faithful companion in the very near future. Salisbury Road resident Dear Sir, I was flabbergasted to read the piece on Clive Coleman and his dog in the last issue of your Bohemia Village Voice. I have seen this dog myself. In fact I have a feeling that the anonymous call to the RSPCA was my call. I like to get involved in my community, and as someone who holds an important position in my neighbourhood I get people coming up to me all the time with things they’ve seen. I had a few people tell me about this dog before I saw it myself. Then I was driving along Bohemia Road and I saw where this man went in. I saw what state his house was
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clad physicist, working in the field of compact linear collision, I find the publication of Mr Vic Chalcraft’s letter in issue 47 extremely offensive! ‘Vic Chalcraft’ is obviously a thinly veiled anagram of ‘Chav Fart CLIC’ (Compact Linear Collider). As a person devoid of all sense of fun and humour, this slur on my kind is enraging enough for me to have to write a letter about it. I’m sure the sensible thing to have done was to keep my ridiculous views to myself and find somthing better to do with my time, but I’m just too much of a Name and address sup- grumpy old sod to sit back and let this sort of plied thing go on.
in. Perhaps it was dirty inside too. The dog was in a disgusting state. It had a lot of hair missing. I think Mr Coleman was doing his best, but he doesn’t look like he knew what he was doing. The dog was also off the lead, which is dangerous to other dogs. Dogs can be quite unpredictable at times, and I thought it was against the law to be off the lead. I think the RSPCA have got a job to do. Mr Coleman is down on the RSPCA, understandably, because they took his dog away. But I think they were right to take it away.
That picture! Dear Sir, Vic Chalcraft, whom I have known for many years, has voiced his opinions on a wide variety of subjects – opinions, I might add, always worthy of consideration. His comments on the ‘pokey tongue’ painting, however, are little short of rubbish. He has failed to note the ability of the young painter, who clearly demonstrates a mature use of his medium and a good understanding of composition. To describe the painting as ‘almost obscene’ suggests a very sheltered life indeed. Vic, stick to what you know.
Spud Drygloom Bohemia Road
Dear Sir, In response to Mr Chalcraft’s letter about ‘that picture’ I would like to write that I felt it showed a good allround image of life today. Mr Chalcraft only has to walk the streets of Hastings, Brighton, London, etc. to see images even stranger that that. As for ‘that picture’ being forced on him by having it put through his letter box, Mr Chalcraft could have torn the front cover off and put it in the bin prior to reading the magazine. There are far stranger pictures Stewart Buchan and editorials put through Amherst Road our doors and displayed PS – Congratulations to on billboards in today’s the BVV – power to your world. Many people elbow. today feel that tattooing and body piercing are art Dear Sir, As a Burberry- – they even hold compe-
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titions in some countries. I understood that Britain today is a country of free expression both in the spoken or painted word. All I can suggest is that Mr Chalcraft visits the town centre and the Old Town of Hastings, walks around and looks at the people instead of sitting at his computer or desk writing letters of complaint to all the local editorials.
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published as ‘Mr Niccals’ [page 10, issue 47, May 2007]. To my knowledge I am, and have always been, wholly female. Aside from this small error, congratulations on a wonderful publication that is always a welcome feature of this neighbourhood. Efrim Niccals (Miss!) Oops! Sorry, Efrim – ed.
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Name and address supDear Sir, On a recent trip plied to Switzerland I noticed that the dog mess probCongratulations lem has been addressed Dear Sir, I’d like to con- by having not only dedigratulate you on the first cated dog-waste bins but anniversary of Bohemia a well-signed dispenser Village Voice. I must of small plastic bags admit, I didn’t know it alongside the bins for existed until I was doing dog owners to use. This my usual rounds in the obviously encourages Priory Meadow Inform- owners to pick up their ation Centre today. I dogs’ mess. I was would hope that your impressed to find the magazine will be on offer Swiss generally so clean, within Hastings town and this idea was typical centre like the No. 47 of how well-organised May 2007 issue of the they are. I would like to publication. It’s good to know what people think get it by email, but the of it. The warden service printed mag is great for should certainly hear pocket, bag or shopping about it and perhaps the bag. rubbish collection company too. Josie Lawson (Miss) Editor/Founder, Ebb & Flow Community Magazine
Miss Niccals Dear Sir, Though I was delighted to see that I placed third in the UltraShort Story contest – and I look forward to seeing other entries in future issues of the Voice – I was less thrilled to see that my name had been
Pauline Kentli Ghyllside Drive The ‘Voice’ approached Rod Bridger, Senior Warden at Hastings Council, with this idea. He said, ‘Bag dispensers were tried in Alexandra Park and elsewhere in the borough about five years ago, and the bags ended up scattered all over the boating lake on a regular basis, so we
took them away. Now the park rangers keep supplies of bags with them which they hand out to dog owners while on their rounds of the park. People are generally very cooperative.’ – ed. Dear Sir, I live and work in the Bohemia area. It is one of the nicest areas of St Leonards, with a wide variety of shops, bus routes to all Hastings and surrounding areas and a stone’s throw away from Alexandra Park. However, the only downfall is the dogs’ mess on both sides of St Peter’s Road. This is a very busy road at certain times of the day as people use the local school. It’s mainly busy mums with young children and pushchairs. The last thing these busy mums need is to have to clean the dogs’ mess off their carpets that their children have trodden in or the wheels of their buggies have run over. Could our local bobby Andy patrol this area at some point during the day to try to get the ignorant dog owners to clean up after their dogs. You know who you are. Lorrie Quinnell London Road
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equally worried and anxious about these proposals to place a gypsy/traveller’s site there. Your article states that the petitions received were by far the lowest level of objections, as stated in the Council report. I am fed up reading damning reports about the Summerfields site. The area surrounding Summerfields is different from the other two sites in that unlike Sandrock Park and Bexhill Road, there is no nucleus of people to gather a load of signatures from, as the residents are scattered between Winterbourne Close, Barnfield Close and Redmayne Drive, all of which do not have one focal point. Sandrock Park does have a community style and therefore they were able to achieve collecting signatures very much easier. I in fact organised one of the petitions for Summerfields and feel very fed up with the constant referral to low numbers at Summerfields. You were of course repeating what the Council had already reported in their report but I do think you should be aware this matter affected us around the Summerfields site very much with a lot of worry and anxiety involved, and we are all very relieved indeed that the Summerfields site has been rejected, as I know are the residents of the other two sites.
Dear Sir, I wish to make known my thoughts on your recently published article on the gypsy site (page 11, April, issue 46). I am a resident close to the proposed Summerfields site and I know for Name and address supa fact all the residents plied around that area were
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Bohemia Village Directory A free listing for businesses and organisations in Bohemia. Please note: unless otherwise stated, all telephone numbers have the Hastings (01424) area code and all addresses are in Bohemia Village. If you would like your business to be listed here, or to make changes to your entry, please send details to Bohemia Village Voice. Our contact details and rates for extra lineage and small box ads, are given on page 3. 1066 ENTERPRISE Business advice, support, training, Tel: 205500. Summerfields Business Centre, Horntye Park, Bohemia Road. 1066 TYPESETTING Typesetting service. Paul Baker. Tel: 441390. 11 Cloudesley Rd. shepherdmaster@aol.com A21 CAFE Café for lunch and breakfast. 433375. Erkan & Fatma.
A21 Café Eat-in or takeaway 7 days a week Lunch or Breakfast Specials every day Tel: 433375 96 Bohemia Road A&M GLAZIERS Traditional glass and glazing merchants. Tel: 717161. 235 London Road. AIR TAN & NAILS Manicurists. Tel: 461200. Air Tan & Nails, 241 London Road, TN37 6LU. ALEXANDER SCHOOL of speech and drama. For children. Held Friday afternoon at the British Red Cross in Newgate Road. A full range of drama techniques is taught, including mime, improvisation and speech production. The groups also perform plays in local festivals. A single session costs £2.50 per child. Under-12s group, Fri, 4.15–5.15; 12–16s, Fri, 5.30–6.30. Jean Alexander, Tel: 424843. ALLDAYS Supermarket, owned by the Co-op. Wines and spirits, cigarettes, newspapers, groceries and lottery tickets. There is also a Paypoint, where TV licences and bills for electricity, gas and water can be paid for, and phonecards, bus and train tickets can be purchased. Mr Alan Derosa. Tel: 423875. 45–7 Bohemia Road. ANTHONY’S FURNITURE Second-hand furniture. Anthony. Tel: 200650. Anthony’s Furniture Shop, 269 London Road. ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR To contact our local street wardens or the Anti-Social Behaviour Service, ring Amanda, the coordinator on 0800 085 4500 during office hours, or 0845 274 1099 after 5pm. APPLIANCE MASTER New & used washing machines, fridges, etc. Tel: 424282. 74 Bohemia Rd.
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Property-management company managing blocks of flats for freeholders and lessees who want to take over the maintenance of their building by setting up ‘right-to-manage’ companies. Tel: 439786 Mob: 07974 444112 123 Bohemia Road TN37 6RL arkoproperty@aol.com AUTOPOINT HASTINGS Wide range of services for all makes of cars. Tel: 718700. 221–9 London Road. AUTOTEC CAR REPAIRS Servicing, MOT and repairs. Car sales. Dennis. Tel: 07802 648374. Autotec, 30B St Peter’s Road. BARCO BRICKWORK Domestic & commercial work. 0800 169 6995. 26 Salisbury Rd. BARTLETT ARTS Contemporary paintings and prints on canvas, including portraits of people, pets, etc. Tel: 721566. 45–7 Bohemia Road. BASE PIZZA Pizzas, pastas and tortilla wraps, salads. Open: 3pm to 11.30pm, seven days a week. Free delivery after 5pm. Tel: 201120. 99 Bohemia Road. BATTLE ELECTRONIC Services Specialist commercial microwave engineers. Tel: 447799. Fax: 447070. 52 Bohemia Road. BET BET BET 24/7 Independent bookmaker. Robert & Adam Prior, Dan Holmes, Emily Halfacre. Tel: 444044. 43 Bohemia Road. BIZFIZZ Government-funded business counselling service for new businesses. Clive Gross, Tel: 205509. Mob: 07771 645263. BLOOM’S PHARMACY Healthcare products, homeopathic products, toiletries, incontinence preparations for the elderly and disabled, baby products. Mr Stan Steadman, pharmacist. Dispensary tel: 421072; Shop tel: 200255. 55–57 Bohemia Road.
BODY, RICHARD Solicitors who take on criminal defence cases funded by legal aid. Tel: 201301. 66 Bohemia Road. BOHEMIA AREA ASSN Residents’ and traders’ association for Bohemia. Peter Holland, chairman. Tel: 445086. 21 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RA. j-holland-2001@yahoo.com BOHEMIA CONSERVATIVE CLUB Billiards, darts, shove ha’penny, cribbage. Mon, Tue and Sat from 6.30pm. Vic Chalcraft (439827). K Page (436416). R Harris (854779). Upper South Road. BOHEMIA COUNSELLING Offers humanistic, person-centred counselling and psychology. Tel: 722923. 133A Bohemia Road. BOHEMIA FOODMARKET Super-market. Due to be opened 2007. Mr Masood Iqbal. Tel: 07814 866473. 68–70 Bohemia Road. BOHEMIA LIGHTING Lamps and bulbs, including specialist items. The premises also house Security First. Tel: 427550. 71 Bohemia Road. BOHEMIA MOTORS Car repairs and servicing of all makes and models. Mon–Fri: 8.30am to 5.30pm. Tel: 421205. Upper South Road. BOND, VIVIENNE Lib Dem councillor for Gensing ward since 2004 and Deputy Mayor since 2007. Vivienne is also on the Traffic Management Committee, the Youth Forum, the boards of the YMCA, Horntye Park Sports Complex and the Hastings Community Housing Assn. Tel: 720096 and 781035. 13 Aldborough Road. cllr.vivienne.bond@hastings.gov.uk BOOKMAN’S HALT Has been a second-hand bookshop for 50 years, Stocks all kinds of books, public are welcome to bring in any they want to sell. Clive Linklater. Tel: 421413. 127 Bohemia Road. BRACEY & BROWN Decorators, general building, maintenance. Mon–Fri: 8am to 5pm. Tel: 713434. Mob: 07790 983491. 3 Cornfield Terrace.
BRECKLAND MOBILITY Mechanical aids for the elderly and disabled. Tel: 438300 and 0800 783 8205. Mob: 07780 995413. 35 Tower Road. BRITISH RED CROSS Medical loan office. Tel: 425342. 38 Newgate Road. BUCHAN, STEWART Illustrator. Tel: 435922. Mr Stewart Buchan, 77 Amherst Road, TN34 1TX. CAFE 67 Café. Tel: 423291. 67, Bohemia Road.
Café 67 Wide range of eat-in and takeaway meals. Specials every day, including goulash, curry and chilli con carne, and traditional English dishes. Full English breakfast available all day. Mon–Fri: 7.30am to 2.30pm, Sat: 8.00am to 2.30pm. Sue & Loraine. Tel: 423291. 67 Bohemia Road CAKE BOX Wide range of bread and confectionery. Trading under the present ownership since 2006. Tel: 420872. 49 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RE. CAPITAL COSTING Services Tel: 444461. 9, Sedlescombe Road North, Silverhill. CARGO Second-hand clothes and knick-knacks. Open Mon–Sat, 9.30am–5pm. Tina Johnson, 65 Bohemia Road. C A R T W R I G H T, ANDREW Labour councillor for Gensing ward since May 2007. Tel (home): 717140. CASSIDY’S Car Mechanics Car & van repairs. 8.30–6pm Mon–Sat. Tel: 201128 and 07706 916969. Unit 1, Salisbury Yard, Salisbury Road. CHINA KITCHEN Healthy Chinese food to take away. Free delivery on local orders over £13.50. Open 7 days per week. 435279. CHRISTCHURCH SCHOOL Church of England primary school. Mrs Anne Hannay, headteacher. Tel: 422953. Christchurch C of E School, 34 Woodland Vale Road, TN37 6JJ.
Page 20 COMMUNITY INFO CENTRE Run by Gensing and Central St Leonards Community Forum. All incidents of dog fouling, noise nuisance, dumped cars, litter and rubbish dumping, etc. in Gensing and Central St Leonards can be reported to the Information Centre. Sylvia Bennett. Tel: 438291. 16 Silchester Road, St Leonards. CO-OP FUNERALCARE Provides support, care and reassurance to families 24/7. Tel: 444325. 233 London Road. COUNTRY KITCHENS Handbuilt kitchen-unit manufacturer. Tel: 438148. Country Kitchens, 35B Tower Road. COUNTY COURT The court deals with civil cases for debt, damages, repossession and bankruptcy, divorce, Children’s Act cases and family-law injunctions, e.g. domestic violence. Tel: 435128. Law Courts, Horntye Park, Bohemia Road, TN34 1QX. COYLE, BRYAN Accountant. Tel: 438191. 14 Barnfield Close, Hastings. CROWN TAXIS
Crown Taxis Small local family firm offering a good honest personal service. Sun–Wed: 8am to 12 midnight, Thu–Sat: 8am to 3am. 4-seater saloon cars. Any journey within a 200-mile range, incl all London airports.
855855 07900 333829 CURRY HUT Takeaway curry food. Tel: 200451. The Curry Hut, 51 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RE. DELIGHT EXPRESS Fast-food takeaway. Contact: Ali. Tel: 435328. 87 Bohemia Road. DENTAL SURGERY Drs Badrbeigi & Katterman. Tel: 433666. Emergencies: 850792. NHS Direct: 0845 4647. 56 Chapel Park Road. DESTINATION MX Major makes of new and used moto-cross bikes. Tel: 439767. 18B Tower Road, www.destmx@aol.com DOG MESS Fed up with dog mess in your street? Contact the Community Information Centre. DOMINIC’S Barber Shoppe Gents’ hairdressers. Contact: Dominic. Tel: 712252. 119 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RL.
Bohemia Village Voice DRIPPING SPRING A CAMRAaward-winning public house. Jason Bingley, manager. Tel: 434055. The Dripping Spring, Tower Road. EDEN CRYSTAL Healing Crystal healing, reflexology, readings and advice. Evenings. Emma Langley. 07756 434960. Flat 2, 42 Church Road, EMPRESS ART Undertakes all types of picture framing, including mounting, dry-mounting and conservation framing. They also sell prints and greetings cards, as well as vintage photographs of Hastings and original watercolours by local artists. Mon–Fri, 9am to 5pm, Sat 9am to 4pm. Mr Colin Green. Tel: 442000. Empress Art, 3–4 Tower Road, TN37 6JE. ESCC Hastings: 0845 274 1066. General: 01273 747 154. Street lighting: 0845 60 80 193. Trading standards: 01323 418200. Social care (adults): 0845 60 80 191. Social care (children and families): 01424 775599. Education: 01273 481000. ESCC Children’s Services. includes Hastings area bases for the education welfare service, the educational psychology service and the early years service. Antoinette Freeman or Reece Buckley. Tel: 720702. Fax: 428277. Tower Building, Lower South Rd, TN37 6RH. EVERSFIELD FOOD & GIFTS Gift shop. Tel: 437961. Eversfield Food & Gifts, 257 London Road. FAIRYTALE PHOTOS Tel: 420588. 68–70, Sedlescombe Road South, St Leonards, TN38 0TJ. FIRE BRIGADES UNION Administration office. Tel: 447700. Fire Brigades Union, Fire Station, Bohemia Road, TN34 1EX. FIRE STATION Open 24/7, 365 days a year. Mr Mark Webb, station officer. Tel: 01323 462166. Bohemia Fire Station, Bohemia Road, TN34 1EX. FLICKERS Local hair salon offering all aspects of ladies’ and gents’ hairdressing. Peter Feist. Tel: 439621. 16 Tower Road. FLOWER SHOP Fresh flowers, bouquets, wreaths, artificial flowers. Sue. Tel: 423377 and 429464. 46 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RQ. FOSTER, MICHAEL MP for Hastings and Rye. Tel: 460070. Fax: 460072. Michael Foster, DL, MP, 84 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RN. mp@1066.net www.michaelfoster.labour.co.uk
FRYDAYS Traditional fish & chips. Tel: 461391. 53 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RE. GARAGE ON THE GREEN Retail car sales. 718080. The Green. www.garageonthegreen.com GARAGE ON THE GREEN Vehicle repairs and servicing, all makes catered for. Tel: 425599. 12 Tower Road West, TN38 0RG. GARDENER Lady gardener Nicola. £7 per hour. Tel: 443748. Mobile: 07940 374 756. GEORGE STONE Main building contractor, specialising in refurbishment, alteration, renovation and extension. Tel: 436166. Fax: 420603. George Stone Limited, 10 Tower Road West, TN38 0RG. GL SANCTUARY Health & beauty salon. Pamper parties for groups, plus bridal, teen and other packages. Tel: 721890 and 07791 899904. GL Sanctuary, 72 Bohemia Road. GOOCH UPHOLSTERY Re-covering antique and modern furniture. Workshop: 200301. Home: 717129. GORDON BUSBRIDGE Familyowned company, selling quality bedding, carpets, curtains and fitted furniture. Tel: 420368. 289–97 London Road. HASSAN PET SUPPLIES Pet foods and supplies. Mr & Mrs Terry and Anne Adams. Tel: 421358. Hassan Pet Supplies, 105 Bohemia Road. HASTINGS BADGER SOCIETY Badger protection society with small dedicated park in Church Road next to Lidl. Tel: 439168; 431188. Don Wise, 304, Bexhill Road, St Leonards, TN38 8AL. HASTINGS CYCLES Retail and repair of cycles for the whole family. Tel: 446886. Hastings Cycles Ltd, 75 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RG. sales@hastingscycles.co.uk www.hastingscycles.co.uk HASTINGS LOCKSMITHS Lock-smiths and key-cutting service. Safes. Door furniture. Ian Burt. Tel: 432882. 59 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RE. HASTINGS MUSEUM Museum and art gallery. Closed for refurbishment, reopening summer 2007. 0845 2741052. St John’s Place, Bohemia Road.
June 2007 HASTINGS POLICE STATION This is run by Sussex Police. The police station itself is open seven days a week from 8am to midnight. Tel: dial 999 in an emergency, or for non-urgent calls dial 0845 60 70 999. To give information anonymously call 0800 555 111. Hastings Police Station, Bohemia Road, TN34 1JJ. www.sussex.police.uk See also ‘Street Bobby’ HBC ESTATES Estates office. Tel: 451641. Hastings Borough Council Estates Division, Horntye Park, Bohemia Road, TN34 1UT. HERCULES POST OFFICE Post office counter, groceries and lottery. Tel: 712272. 45 Springfield Road. HIGH SPIRITS Newsagents, confectioners, tobacconists & offlicence. Mr Thivakaran. Tel: 460996. High Spirits, 255 London Road. HKS KITCHENS Kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, studies. Gemma Richardson. Tel: 443464. Fax: 719966. HKS Kitchens, 138 London Road, hastings@hks-uk.com HORNTYE PARK SPORTS CENTRE Sports centre, banqueting, conferences, meeting rooms, wedding receptions, parties. seven days a week, from 8.30am to 11.00pm. Tel (reception): 716666. Bohemia Road. kevinmiller@horntyepark.org www.horntyepark.org HYPNOPSYCHOTHERAPY James Caspian. For positive change and achieving goals. Tel: 714647 and 07939 542632. IMPERIAL MOTOR COMPANY Car sales. Tel: 442200. 209–19 London Road, TN37 6LU. www.imperialmotorcompany.com
Imperial Motor Company INDEPENDENT CHURCH Minister: Edward Preston, 63, Bohemia Road. 435849. KARINA’S WOOL SHOP Tel: 712226. 131, Bohemia Road.
Karina’s Wool Shop Stockist of Sirdar & Stylecraft wools, as well as cottons, needles and knitted baby clothes. Mon, Tue, Thur, Fri: 9am to 5pm, Wed, Sat: 9am to 1pm. Tel: 712226. 131 Bohemia Road
June 2007 KC COMPUTERS Computers and accessories, sales and service. Visa, Delta, Mastercard, Switch. Kim Callow. Tel: 203799, 714713 and 08717 500202. 261 London Road, TN37 6NB. sales@kccomputers.co.uk www.kccomputers.co.uk LABOUR PARTY Constituency offices for the Hastings & Rye Labour Party. Voluntary organisation. Estab. at Bohemia Road in 1994. Tel: 424125. Hastings & Rye Labour Party, 84 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RN. LEEVES, SIMON
Plumbing & heating engineer. Corgi-registered. Tel: 444362. Mob: 07940 791116. Fax: 426731. 11 Aldborough Road. LIDL Supermarket Mon–Sat: 8am to 10pm, Sun: 11am to 5pm. Nick, manager. Tel: 0870 444 1234. LITTER or dumping of rubbish in your street or area? Contact the Community Information Centre. LITTLE FROG INTERIORS Murals and wall hangings for children’s bedrooms, plus name plaques and other bedroom accessories. Anna Blackledge. Tel: 0845 428 0259, or mob: 07855 869 471. anna@littlefroginteriors.co.uk www.littlefroginteriors.co.uk LITTLE MILL Bakery. Michael and Claire Hitchings. Tel: 421474. 265 London Road, TN37 6NB.
FOR ALL YOUR BAKING NEEDS M. HALL Motor Services, vehicle repairs. Malcolm Hall. Tel: 07773 216363. Shornden Works, Upper Clarence Road. MAGISTRATE’S COURT Magistrates’ court. Tel: 437644. Hastings Magistrates’ Court, The Law Courts, Bohemia Road. MASQUERADE Fancy dress for adults and children, face paints, wigs, accessories. Bethan, Carol, Hannah. Tel: 720733. 77 Bohemia Road, www.masqueradefancydress.com
Bohemia Village Voice MICK’S KEYCUTTING Dry cleaning, handbags, watch batteries, watch straps, shoe repairs. Mick Triggs. Tel: 201775. 253 London Road.
Mick’s for keys & shoe repairs MUNDAY’S NEWSAGENTS Newsagents, confectioners, tobacconists, greetings cards, newspaper delivery. Credit Union meets here on Mondays, 9 to 10am. Shop open Mon–Sat: 5am to 6pm, Sun: 6.30am to 1pm. Terry Foord. 437233. 54 Bohemia Rd. MUSIC GYM A facility for people with profound disabilities, involving music, movement and images. Friday 10am–12.30pm at Horntye Park. Tel: 444322. enquiries@decoda.org NATWEST BANK Silverhill branch. Tel: 0845 610 1234. 142 London Road. NEWMAN’S CLEANERS Clothes cleaning. Tel: 465006. 62 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RQ. NORTH STAR INN Public house. Food served. Tel: 436576. Clarence Road, TN37 6SD. OPERA SOUTH EAST Local pro-am opera company performing two operas each year. 443316. 111 Bohemia Road. OUTDOORSMAN Outdoor kit for the outdoors man or woman. Nature watching, work, trekking, military, security, shooting, hunting, survival, camping. 9–5.30pm. Alan. Tel: 429343. 122 Bohemia Road. sales@outdoorsman.co.uk www.outdoorsman.co.uk PARK LANE GROUP Residential lettings and property development. Mon–Fri: 8.30am to 5.30pm. Estab. 1988. R.B. Beswick, managing director. Residential letting enquiries: 0870 752 2540. New homes: 08707 522542. The Park Lane Group, 141–5 Bohemia Road. PARK ROAD CHURCH Methodist Church. Church services: Sunday at 10.15am and 6.30pm. Minister: Revd Marion Proud, tel: 422350. Church, tel: 443030. Mike Ward (retired minister), tel: 460727. The church was established in 1886. Park Road Methodist Church, Upper Park Road. PARSONS, BOB Builders. Brickwork, roofing, plastering, painting & decorating. Tel: 200135. Mob: 07979 502842. Bob Parsons Building, 14, Bohemia Road, TN37 6RB.
PAVILLION DECORATING Services. Property maintenance, general building work, painting and decorating services. Free estimates. S.D. Lipscomb. Freephone: 0808 1559546, Tel/Fax: 432255, Mob: 07764 850755. 136 Bohemia Road. PENNY LANE MUSIC Goodquality guitars, amplifiers and accessories. Open Tue–Fri, 10am–5pm, Sat, 9am–5pm. Shaun Matthews, 76 Bohemia Road. PIZZA HUT Pizza delivery and takeaway in the Hastings & St Leonards area. Tel: 728866. Fax: 422806. 172A Bohemia Rd. www.pizzahut.co.uk POST OFFICES Bohemia Post Office closed in 2004. See ‘Hercules’ and ‘Silverhill’ Post Offices. PRESTON, EDWARD Edward is a writer on local history, a minister of religion and a lecturer. Tel: 435849. 63 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RG. See ‘Independent Church’. REGISTER OFFICE For births, deaths, marriages, civil partnerships and celebratory services. Tel: 721722. Horntye Park, Bohemia Road, TN34 1EX. hastings.registrar@eastsussex.gov.uk
RESTO CLASSICS Air-cooled specialists. Original Ersatzteile. Upper Clarence Rd. ROSEANNA & BRIAN’S Gifts and bespoke greetings cards. Tel: 715392. 130 London Road. SADLER, PAUL Garden Care. Private and commercial contract garden maintenance, landscaping, rockeries, arbours, lawns, planting schemes and patios. 17 years’ experience. Tel: 729277. 7a Bohemia Road. SCOTT JAMES Windows, doors and conservatories. Tel: 431422 and 435229. 64 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RQ. jim@scottjameswindows.co.uk SECURITY FIRST Supplies intruder-alarm systems, servicing, and CCTV. Locks, safes, fire alarms, key-cutting. Tels: 427550. 07973 322697. 71 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RG. SELL-IT ON EBAY Second-hand items sold on eBay for customers, £1–2 listing fee per item. Plus items for sale in the shop. Yvonne Aziz, 91 Bohemia Road. Mon–Fri, 10am–8.30pm, Sat 10am–8.30pm, Sun 12–7.30pm. Tel: 429491, Mob: 05602 962526. SELLENS FRENCH Accountants. Tel: 446488. 93–7 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RJ.
Page 21 S.H. TACKLE Angling supplies. Live bait. Tel: 431583. S.H. Tackle Angling Supplies, 58 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RQ. SHELL SERVICE STATION Petrol & diesel supplies, logs, coal, newspapers, off-licence, grocery. Tel: 728950 or 0800 731 8888. Bohemia Road. SILVER RIVER Family-run Chinese takeaway food business. Tue–Thu: 5.30pm to 10.30pm, Fri, Sat: 5.30pm to 11pm, Sun: 5.30pm to 10.30pm. Tel: 433439. 56 Bohemia Road. SILVERHIL POST OFFICE Sedlescombe Road North, Silverhill. SLIMMING WORLD Meets at Park Road Methodist Church Hall, Wednesdays 5:30 and 7pm. Denise: 440293. SOUTH EAST ENTERTAINMENT Entertainment for any occasion, from small birthday parties to stag and hen nights, weddings and concerts. Mr S. Wood. Tel: 446691. 2B Tower Road West. djsw@hotmail.co.uk www.seents.co.uk ST JOHN AMBULANCE Firstaid cover at public events. Youth organisation. Patient transfers. Tel: 421105. ST MARY’S SCHOOL Roman Catholic primary school. Mrs Jane Smith, headteacher. Tel: 427801. St Mary Star of the Sea, Magdalen Road, TN37 6EU. ST MATTHEW’S CHURCH St Matthew’s Road, Silverhill. Sunday services at 10.30am (with children’s activities) and 6.30pm. Revd Mike Coe, tel: 430262. mike@stmatts.co.uk www.stmatts.co.uk ST PAUL’S SCHOOL Church of England primary school. Office hours: Mon–Fri: 8.30am to 4pm. Children’s school hours: 9am to 3pm. Mrs Pat Lock. Tel: 424530. Fax: 717350. Horntye Road, TN37 6RT. office@st-paulscofepri.e-sussex.sch.uk ST PETER’S CHURCH Rev’d Alex Brown. Tel: 445606 and 446606. Mob: 07759 311375. Address (church): St Peter’s Church, St Peter’s Road. Address (vicarage): St Peter’s Vicarage, 10 Blomfield Road. apeter-aidan@lineone.net STEVENS, RICHARD Lib Dem leader on Hastings Borough Council. Ward representative for Old Hastings and Clive Vale and parliamentary spokesperson for the Lib Dems. Tel: 781026. Address (for correspondence): Richard Stevens, The Town Hall, Queen’s Road, Hastings. Home: 11 Bayeux Court, TN37 6RZ.
Page 22 STREATFIELD HOUSE Residential home for adults with learning difficulties or disabilities. Incorporating the Evelyn Juden Day Care Centre. Estab. 1982. Mr & Mrs T. Mahoney, owners, and Mrs G. Clusker, manager. Tel: 439103. Streatfield House, Cornfield Terrace, TN37 6JD. gillclusker@hotmail.com STREET BOBBY To contact our local street bobby Andy Hubbard direct, call 0845 60 70 999 and dial extension 21185. This takes you straight through to Andy. If he’s busy, he’ll ring you back. SUMMERFIELDS’ HOUSE Guest house. Luxury en-suite rooms, family suite, disabled suite, open all year. Tel: 718142. Bohemia Road, TN34 1EX. liz.summerfields@btinternet.com www.summerfieldshouse.co.uk SUMMERFIELDS SPORTS Centre Swimming. Squash. Badminton. Tel: 781777. Bohemia Road. SUSSEX AMBULANCE Service Sussex Ambulance Service, Ambulance Station, Bohemia Road, TN34 1ET. T & D AUTO REPAIRS MOT repairs, welding, servicing. Tel: 07885 719769. Studio Workshop, Upper Clarence Rd. TALAY THAI Thai restaurant. Open seven days a week, 6pm to 11pm. Tel: 721852. 249 London Road. THAYRE, CHRIS Swimming pools. Tel: 439831. Shornden Passage, Upper Park Road. TILE DESIGN Ceramic wall and floor tiles, suspended-ceiling specialists. Free measuring & estimating. Tiling fixing service. Mon–Fri: 9am to 5pm, Sat: 9am to 3.30pm. Mr Barrie Pitman. Tel: 446613. Mob: 07973 176554. 2 Upper Park Road. tiledesign.contracts@virgin.net www.tiledesigncontracts.co.uk TOP GUN CLOTHING Specialist sportswear clothing manufacturers: shooting, sailing and fishing gear. Mr Ron Salt. Tel: 719734 and 719707. 2 Shornden Passage, Upper Park Road. ron@topgunclothing.co.uk www.topgunclothing.co.uk TOWER HOTEL Public house. Tower Road. Tel: 721773. TOWER HOUSE HOTEL Tower Road West. www.towerhousehotel.com TOWER LAUNDERETTE Tel: 447889. 140 London Road.
Bohemia Village Voice TRAVELODGE HOTEL Room rates: £10–£49 per room per night. Open 24/7, 365 days per year. Adam Griffiths, manager. Central reservations: 0870 085 0950. Hotel: 0870 191 1810. Bohemia Road, TN34 1ET. www.travelodge.co.uk TRAVIS PERKINS Builder’s merchants, timber merchants Tel: 424300. Springfield Valley Road, TN38 0RP. www.travisperkins.co.uk TW CAR SALES Car sales. Lowmileage, low-ownership cars. Tel: 719888. 17 Tower Road, TN37 6JE. www.twcarsales.com TYRELL, ALLENA Artist. Tel: 718727. Bohemia Studios, 9 Horntye Road, TN37 6RT. ULTRA SAFE Fire Solutions. Fire extinguishers. Fire-sprinkler systems. Tel: 719563. 263 London Road, TN37 6NB. VISUAL MAGIC DVD & game rental and sales. Seven days a week from 2pm to 10pm. Matt Carter, manager. Tel: 445578. Visual Magic, 81–3 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RJ. visual-magic@hotmail.co.uk www.visual-magic.biz WAVES Ladies’ and gents’ hairdressers. Tue, Thu, Fri: 8.30am to 5pm, Wed: 8.30am to 4pm, Sat: 8.30am to 1pm, closed Mondays. Estab. 1981. Mrs Val Easton, proprietor, and Mrs Chris Harvey. Tel: 426872. Waves Hairdressers, 73 Bohemia Road. WBM INSURANCE All types of business insurance, plus home, private, car and travel, etc. Mon–Fri: 9am to 5pm, Sat: 9am to 12 noon. Estab. 1970. George Ware and Steve Mann. Tel: 434675. Fax: 716420. WBM Insurance Services, Bohemia House, 78 Bohemia Road, TN37 6RN. waremann@aol.com www.wbminsurance.co.uk WELCH, MATTHEW Artist. 443804.194 London Rd. WELFORD, PETER Electrical engineers and contractors. 6, St Paul’s Road. 713611. peterwelford@tiscali.co.uk WHEATSHEAF Public house. Duncan, manager. The Wheatsheaf, 172 Bohemia Road. WILHAMS INSULATION Suppliers of acoustic and fire-protection products to UK and Far East. Don Hammeck. Tel: 717171. Fax: 201000. Wilhams Insulation Group, 117 Bohemia Road. sales@wilhamsinsulation.co.uk www.wilhams.co.uk WINDOW CLEANER Shop or home. 752853.
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