AAH MARCH 2017

MARCH 2017

5 How did I miss Two Day Run of Terror?

Fox Welfare Society v The Daily Mail

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he News Round-Up is one of the last sections we put together every month.

We are sent press releases or notifications about all manner of news and events and I pick out the most interesting for inclusion.

I make a final check to ensure we haven’t missed anything significant by running a Google News search for Horsham and some of the surrounding villages.

This month, I was surprised to discover that a dramatic event in Storrington had passed me by, despite being covered by The Daily Mail, The Sun, The Mirror, The Metro and The Telegraph.

The story concerned a fox, perhaps suffering from a parasitic disease, biting the ear of a man who had fallen asleep on a bench by the pond after a night’s drinking.

The ferocity of the animal and the amount of ear eaten varied in each publication.

The Daily Mail Online, which named the village as ‘Sorrington’, described a “rampaging fox” that “tore off part of a man’s ear” during a “two-day period of terror.”

The Telegraph was more restrained and downgraded the fox to merely “aggressive.” However, it reported that the animal had “almost entirely severed” the man’s ear.

The Sun described the animal as a “Psycho Fox” that “terrorised the streets” whilst The Mirror claimed that the “crazed pest” had “bit a man’s ear off” after finding him “taking a nap after boozing.”

It added that the police were called as the fox was “marauding” though the village and “attacking a schoolgirl.”

It was a relief to find that I was not the only person who had missed the incident. A Daily Mail Online reader posted: “I live in Storrington and I've been totally oblivious to a mad fox on the rampage.”

There was a striking similarity to all of the reports. Aside from the severity of the victim’s injuries and adjectives for the fox’s behaviour, the story had been presented in much the same way.

They all described how the fox had also “attacked a schoolgirl, a delivery driver and shoppers at

AAH MARCH 2017 Ben Morris: Wrote the Articles Toby Phillips: Took the Photos Thanks: Jeremy Knight of HDC/Horsham Museum for providing images & text for the feature on Horsham gaol Raymond Warren for submitting additional images of his art Emily Summers for the RSPB Pulborough Brooks column Sharon Walker, who actually baked the cake pictured above!

Waitrose,” earning the fox the name ‘John Lewis’. All the reports included the same quote from the victim’s mother (who didn’t want to be named) and claimed that the fox may have saved the man’s life, as he’d fallen asleep in sub-zero temperatures.

Of the five reports, not a single one contained a date or time for any attack, or a single verified quote from an eye witness.

So, as an objective reader, it would be difficult to know if the damage to the victim’s ear could have been caused by something else. One Mail Online reader certainly thought so, writing: “I'll tell you what's happened; this idiot fell asleep and got frostbite.”

A search for the source of the story led me to the website of the National Fox Welfare Society (NFWS), which cares for sick and injured red foxes.

The NFWS regularly posts stories about rescued foxes on Facebook.

However, its story and images of ‘John Lewis’ were taken down when

the tabloids picked up the story a full nine days after the incident in Storrington had occured.

The NFWS posted: “At the time of the rescue, the mother asked that we didn't report on her son's injuries or identity and we have respected this. She helped give us the location of John Lewis on the night, ensuring our team was in place straight away and the fox was caught easily within minutes.

“A photographer based in Brighton, who sells stories and photographs to the press, thought it would be okay to steal photographs from our Facebook page and include these with the 'story' he was offering the press.”

The statement continued: “Despite reports of JL chasing people and 'attacking' them, no other person was bitten. The person with his ear apparently chewed was very drunk and it is difficult to say whether any injuries were incurred before said incident.

‘These incidents were not of a fox attacking lots of people. They

involved a very confused, sick and hungry animal and nobody who was chased or approached - adult or child - was bitten. Sadly, the press like to exaggerate what exactly happened.”

The NFWS contacted newspapers that had published its photos of online and asked that they be removed. Presumably, the Society didn’t appreciate its own photos being exploited for negative news stories, which is understandable.

However, this request had a detrimental effect, as it inspired The Daily Mail to run a follow-up piece by Ross Clark, under the headline ‘A plague on soppy townies who treat these vicious vermin like pets.’

Clark’s article is heavily critical of the NFWS. He wrote that the “beast that menaced a schoolgirl” was now being “swooned over 24/7.” He then insightfully suggests that the society cares more for foxes than humans. As if its name hadn’t hinted at such an ethos.

Clark made no effort to track down the schoolgirl, who may exist solely in the imagination of one hack flogging a hyped-up story for a few quid.

Clark’s rant was rather wonderfully ridiculed by the NFWS through a website post: “The Daily Fail: You wouldn't think for a moment that this one-sided drivel would have anything to do with the fact that we threatened legal action if they didn't remove our photographs?

Ross Clark, if all else fails, I am sure Andrex would employ you.”

Many publications are emphatically fighting for the ‘freedom of the press’ amid calls for tighter regulation of the media.

There’s some great journalists out there. Yet, as just this one example of a local story making national headlines proves, so much of the ‘news’ we read – words that in some cases can influence the opinion of hundreds of thousands of people – is total crap.

Ben

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News Round-Up Proposals for Piries Place regeneration and wildlife photographer talk

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My Story So Far Terri LeFavre recalls her days as a wardrobe mistress in the West End

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Community Mascots and fancy dress at the 9th annual Pancake Races in Horsham

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Meal Review

AAH visits The Roger Tichborne, a rural delight in Loxwood

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How a portrait of his grandfather inspired Raymond Warren to draw

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Business We meet the team behind Gatwick Diamond awardwinners, JubyLee Bakes

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History How Horsham Gaol came to adopt revolutionary new methods

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Letters Should the council be spending money on new BBH leisure centre?

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Leisure The free weekly Parkrun in Horsham has become a huge success

COVER STORY: MARCH 2017 Our March cover features JubyLee Bakes, a business started by a group of young adults with learning difficulties in Horsham.

We had met them in January with the intention of running a feature in February’s AAH. The interview and photo session had gone well, but the young team asked us to return as they had not been wearing their JubyLee Bakes aprons. They also wanted a picture with their giraffe mascot!

So Toby returned for a second photoshoot.

This cover shot shows two of the bakers, Simon Tomlinson and Kate Bentley, taking a fresh batch of brownies out of the oven in the kitchen at St Leonard’s Hall.

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Horsham District Council has approved planning permission for a £35million regeneration of Piries Place in the town centre.

The scheme, a joint venture between Reef Estates and Arcus-PCD, will see

a new independent three-screen cinema built, alongside a 92-bed hotel, shops and restaurants.

The scheme will also deliver new benches, paving and entrance whilst existing office space will be retained.

Construction is due to begin in June this year, with completion scheduled for September 2018, just in time for Avatar 2!

It is hoped the redevelopment will create 150 new jobs.

Ballet Theatre UK perform Giselle, one of the greatest ballets of all time, at The Capitol on Thursday 23 March, 7.30pm.

Set to music by Adolphe Adam, Giselle features a full Corps de Ballet of 24 international dancers, along with the critically acclaimed Principal Dancers.

Tickets £19 from 01403 750220 or www.thecapitolhorsham.com

Amy Baker, featured in February’s AAH, launches her debut book Miss Adventures: A Tale of Ignoring Life Advice While Backpacking Around South America, at Waterstone’s in Horsham on Thursday 16 March, 6:30 - 8pm. www.amybakerwrites.com

The Natural History Group of the Horsham Photographic Society, welcomes guest speaker Ben Hall at The Salvation Army, Booth Way, Horsham, RH13 5PZ, on Wednesday 15 March, 7.30pm.

Ben has gained worldwide recognition as one of Britain’s foremost professional wildlife photographers.

He is a regular contributor to clients including BBC Wildlife,

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Ben’s spectacular images have earned him numerous international awards and his one-man exhibition in Manchester attracted thousands of visitors.

A £10 charge is payable on the evening and booking is essential. www.horshamphotographicsociety.co.uk

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Antiques, Coins & Collectors items Valuation & Buying Day in Horsham Sussex Coin Company are visiting The Holbrook Club, North Heath Lane, Horsham, RH12 5PJ on Monday 20th March, 12 - 4pm

St Catherine's Hospice's flagship fundraiser, the Midnight Walk, celebrates 10 years with three brand new walking routes and the chance for men and children (over 10) to take part for the first time.

Taking place in Horsham on Saturday 10 June, the walk, sponsored by Gatwick Airport, starts at 10pm and offers a choice of seven, 13 or 20-mile routes.

Last year, nearly 400 women walked overnight to raise an

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The entry fee includes a free Tshirt, finisher's breakfast and medal.

We will be buying & valuing coins & banknotes , medals & military items, gold, silver & costume jewellery, old wrist & pocket watches, small antiques, old weapons, old photos & postcards, old ephemera & documents , scrap gold & silver , old car badges & mascots , fountain pens, old corkscrews & many other items.

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The Seven Last Words Ayesha Hazarika will be performing her ‘State of The Nation’ tour in the Studio at The Capitol on Friday 12 May, 7.45pm.

The former special adviser to Ed Miliband and Harriet Harman is now one of wittiest acts on the comedy circuit and has become a much sought after commentator, writing for the Financial Times and The Guardian.

Ayesha lifts the lid on what life’s really like behind the scenes at Westminster with brutal honesty and humour and asks: ‘What's next for British politics?’

Tickets £13 from 01403 750220 or www.thecapitolhorsham.com

Candice Brown, Winner of The Great British Bake Off 2016, will be baking in the Cakes and Desserts Theatre at the Brighton Foodies Festival on 29 April – 1 May. Other highlights of the event include baker Charlotte White, master chocolatier Fiona Sciolti, MasterChef 2016 winner Jane Devonshire and Miguel Barclay, the Brighton chef who rose to Instagram fame through his gourmet £1 meals.

The 2017 Foodies Festival will focus on the art of wellbeing, healthy eating and balanced lifestyles. Tickets are on sale at www.foodiesfestival.com

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The opening concert of the 2017 Shipley Arts Festival is held at St John the Evangelist Church, Doomsday Lane, Coolhurst, on Sunday 26 March, 6.30pm. Andrew Bernardi will be joined by Maria Marchant and Jonathan Few in the Stradivarius Piano Trio with the programme to include Mendelsohn’s Piano Trio in D Minor, Beethoven’s Opus No.1 Piano Trio and a world premiere by Shipley composer George Grinling. Tickets £18.

If the event has sold out, St Mary’s Church in Shipley hosts a similarly exciting concert on Sunday 30 April, at 6.30pm. In addition to a virtuoso

HAODS bring ‘Made in Dagenham’ to The Capitol from Tuesday 4 – Saturday 8 April.

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friendship, love and fighting for women’s rights. Performances are every evening at 7:30pm with a Saturday matinee at 2:30pm. Tickets from 01403 750220 or www.thecapitolhorsham.com

Members of the No Incinerator 4 Horsham campaign group have presented a dossier of information to Nathan Elvery, Chief Executive of West Sussex County Council.

Campaigners are fighting proposals by Britaniacrest for an industrial and commercial incinerator to be built in Horsham. The handover of the objection document took place at County Hall, Chichester. Norman Clark, spokesperson for NI4H, said: “We also presented Mr Elvery a memorandum written by Adam Dracott, Environmental Health and Licensing Officer of Horsham District Council, which questions the accuracy, methodology and lack of cumulative impact the application provides.” A film made by campaigners can be seen at www.facebook.com/noincinerator4horsham

Berkeley Homes has hosted a launch event for Broadacres, a major new development in Southwater.

Broadacres offers a wide range of twobedroom to five bedroom homes, with prices starting from £335,000.

Berkeley has permission to construct 594 homes on land west of the Worthing Road, formerly part of Great House Farm in the centre of the village.

Work on another development of 193 homes, also approved by Horsham District Council, has begun to the north of the village at the Hogs Wood field site off Mill Straight.

Both developments attracted local opposition during planning and whilst both schemes were approved, the Keep Southwater Green campaign has sought assurances that the village will not be burdened by further development.

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The Crawley & Horsham Point to Point will be celebrating 65 years of horse and pony racing at Parham, Storrington on Saturday 18 March, from 1pm. This year, for the first time, the event includes a dog show with classes run between each race.

Judges are Catherine Carver and guest judge Tim Wonnacott. Entry to the Point to Point is £13 in advance (£15 on the gate) from www.parhamptp.co.uk or for dog show details call Susan Humphrey on 07768 958708.

Teachers from a Horsham-based Cuban dance group were recently invited to Russia to teach a master class in the ‘Casino’ style. Having presented their first international workshop in 2015, Nick and Anya Woolley, members of the Guild of Professional Teachers of Dance, travelled to the town of Tambov to demonstrate Cuban Casino. Last December, the duo also gave a public dance demonstration in Havana, at the wonderfully-named Conjuncto Folklorico National de Cuba. www.dancecubano.com 9 99 99 9 99

The Horsham Symphony Orchestra performs its spring concert at The Capitol on Saturday 25 March.

The concert opens with a performance of Schubert’s Six German Dances. This will be followed

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Horsham District Age UK host Strictly Vintage, a 1940s and 1950s tea dance at The Drill Hall, Denne Road, Horsham, on Saturday 18 March, 2 - 5pm.

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The Blunter Brothers perform live at Horsham Sports Club, Cricketfield Road, Horsham, on Friday 10 March, 8pm.

The popular band present a tribute to James Brown, Stevie Wonder and the stars of classic funk, Motown and soul.

Tickets £10 from the club office.

The Blunter Brothers will also be promoting the Horsham Tribute Music Festival to be held at Horsham Sports Club on 24 June. The festival (not to be confused with Horsham Fake Festival at The Holbrook Club, see below) will feature a host of renowned tribute bands, including No Jacket Required.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust is welcoming ‘Nature Tots’ aged 3 - 5 for outdoor family fun at Chesworth Farm, Horsham. Group leader Tamara Jewell fills the Monday morning sessions with activities themed around wildlife and the seasons. There is plenty of art and crafts and children will learn skills from campfire cooking to creating a bird feeder or insect home. The sessions are held on Mondays, 10am – 12pm. Children must be accompanied by an adult and booking is essential. Nature Tots groups and Wildlife Watch groups (ages 5 - 11) are also held in Henfield. www.sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/ naturetots or email tamarajewell@sussexwt.org.uk

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Horsham Fake Festival, a huge success in 2016, returns to The Holbrook Club, North Heath Lane, Horsham, on Saturday 3 June.

Three top ‘fake’ bands play the music of Coldplay, The Killers and Kings of Leon.

Five local acts will also perform in a giant

marquee during the event, from 12.30 – 11pm. The Fake Festival is a family event, with children's inflatables, food stalls and outside bar available to the public. Early bird tickets are on sale until 3 May. www.fakefestivals.co.uk/2017/ Horsham.html St Catherine's Hospice has launched its second overseas adventure, a breathtaking trek along the Great Wall of China.

Taking place between 5 - 13 May 2018, the trip involves participants trekking from Gubeikou to Simatai on a remote section of the wall. Each person’s £3,300 sponsorship will help terminally ill people.

The hospice will host regular events before the trip so that everyone can meet fellow trekkers. For details contact Michaela Clements on 01293 583063 or email events@stch.org.uk

Horsham & Mid Sussex Voluntary Action has several opportunities.

The Amber Foundation, which supports disadvantaged young people, is looking for volunteers to collect food donations from supermarkets and deliver them to a centre in Ockley.

YMCA Horsham is searching for people from all walks of life who could mentor vulnerable young people on their journey back to education and employment.

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Fresh from recent appearances on The Graham Norton Show, Strictly Come Dancing and The One Show, Brit Award winners BLAKE will be performing at The Capitol on Saturday 15 April.

The British harmony trio present a new tour featuring the finest songs from stage and screen, with projections and lighting that bring the cinematic magic to life.

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Horsham District Council’s Horsham Museum & Art Gallery hosts an exhibition of art by Dennis Roxby Bott from 18 March - 6 May. The exhibition features seven stunning watercolours of one of the world’s great cities, Venice, along with scenes closer to home including views of Brighton, London and Oxford.

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was born in London in 1954 but soon we moved to Banstead in Surrey. My dad was a musician and composer who played in several big bands. After the war, he composed music for light entertainment programmes and even worked with The Beatles, combining their songs with classical music.

He died at the age of 48, when I was only 14. After a day spent conducting, he died on the steps of the BBC. He probably would have become quite famous had he lived longer.

I was an only child but did not inherit my father’s musical talent.

I learnt to play the piano and clarinet but wasn’t very good. I wanted to work in the theatre.

My father also arranged musicals and he would take me to the opening night of shows. One that sticks in the mind is Half a Sixpence, starring Tommy Steele.

Teresa LeFavre, who lives in Horsham, recalls her days as a wardrobe mistress in the West End, where she worked with famous names from Judi Dench to Al Pacino.

Whilst at school, I appeared in a couple of small productions but I was never going to be a performer. My dream was to become a stage manager.

When I was 15, I attended a programme that was similar to today’s National Youth Theatre.

Some of us acted whilst others worked behind the scenes. We produced some fairly high-brow plays that went completely over my head, but after that experience I was certain I wanted a career in the theatre.

I joined a local amateur dramatics society, The Harlequins, helping

out on a couple of productions until I joined Mountview in London. It was the only school that would accept a 16-year-old on a technical theatre course. I loved every minute of my time there. We would make scenery, props and costumes and I learned about stage management, sound and lighting. It gave me a broad grounding in all aspects of theatre and because there were only eight students, we all found our individual area of expertise.

I found I loved costumes. I ended up running the wardrobe department and had a wonderful time. We would work all through

the night, taking down one set and building another for the next day. There was so much to do, as the college productions ran alongside those by an amateur theatre group that used the same theatre.

After college, I worked for Nathan's, a costume house in the middle of Covent Garden. It was a wonderful time as there was still a fruit and veg market and the porters would push their wheelbarrows around. If you were an amateur company staging any production, you would send Nathan’s a list of costumes with measurements.

My job was to find them. We had to stock every conceivable size, as some opera singers were four feet tall and almost as wide!

I was always busy as there were so many theatre groups around at that time. The women’s

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Terri (front left) in the lacrosse team; A poster for Jeeves, a rare Lloyd-Webber flop

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clothes took up the whole top floor of the warehouse, with the gentleman’s clothes on the level below. I stayed there a year, earning £11 a week.

My first job in the theatre was as assistant wardrobe mistress on the musical Gone with the Wind, on Drury Lane. June Ritchie played Scarlett O'Hara and Bonnie Langford played the child. I had to work long days, from 10am to 11pm, without lunch or tea breaks.

You worked what you had to and stuffed down a sandwich if you could!

There’s a lot to do on a big production with a cast of 100.

After every show, everything that is washable is cleaned. There’s an awful lot of ironing and every sock must be paired. You would be amazed at how many people put their foot through a hem, break a zip or rip the backside out of a pair of trousers. Gone with the Wind involved hundreds of costume changes, so we had about 30 dressers. I would be running up and down stairs with costumes constantly.

It wasn't the greatest show ever, but it was spectacular, with live horses and the burning of Atlanta.

From there, I joined Showboat at the Adelphi Theatre, starring Cleo Laine. I started off as assistant but when the wardrobe mistress was taken ill, I took over the role and never looked back.

When it comes to the dressers, staff come and go as most are aspiring actors trying to get a foot in the door. But the permanent staff are under contract so cannot leave on a whim. Most shows run for about a year and then you have a few weeks out of work.

That’s life in the theatre. However, you tend to work for management companies and hope you’ll be involved in their next production.

Following Showboat, I worked on The King and I, starring Peter Wyngarde, and then Good Companions at Her Majesty's Theatre. The cast included John Mills and Judi Dench. I met my husband, Peter, who was props master, at the opening night party.

I endured one hairy moment during Good Companions. Six of the leads performed a musical number in bright harlequin costumes. They went off to the dry cleaners and came back a dirty brown colour after being washed with the wrong chemicals. The cast had to wear them that night.

It’s very difficult to hand famous actors a dirty outfit to wear!

However, Judi Dench was lovely and I worked with her again some years later. There were plenty who I wouldn’t name that were not particularly nice.

It could be quite embarrassing as a young woman working in wardrobe. You’d often see male actors who would think nothing of walking around backstage completely naked. The first time it happened, I was a bit shocked, but you get used to it.

I was wardrobe mistress and costume supervisor on Jeeves, which ran for 38 performances and is considered Andrew Lloyd Webber's only flop. There was a lot of cast and directorial changes during the production period and perhaps it was ill-fated, although I thought it was a good show. Sadly, I didn’t work on any of Lloyd Webber’s successful productions.

But I don't think the flop had anything to do with me!

There weren’t many occasions where we were playing to a near empty theatre. Jeeves is the only one that comes to mind. You would peer out through the curtains and see there was hardly anyone there. It was worrying because you know you might be out of a job soon.

‘I worked on Blythe Spirit, starring Joanna Lumley, who is perhaps the most warm and friendly person I met in theatre’

An awful lot of money and hard work goes into these productions and they need to be given time. But I do think theatres are more cautious now. They cannot afford flops so they’re not as willing to take a risk on the unknown.

I enjoyed a spell at St George's Shakespeare Theatre, which focused on education and school parties. They would stage several Shakespeare plays in a repertoire involving lots of costumes, so I was working long hours.

I did miss the buzz of the musicals, although I returned to St George’s for another season a few years later. That was a mistake, as it's never a good idea to go back to something you enjoyed first time around. Things as never the same.

I fell pregnant with my first daughter at around the time I went on tour with Philomena. It starred Joan Plowright and was one of the most star-studded casts I can recall, although most were just embarking on their careers, including Pierce Brosnan and Trevor Eve. From there, I worked on Blythe Spirit, starring Joanna Lumley, who is perhaps the most warm and friendly famous person I met in all my years in theatre.

Theatres were starting to look for new ideas in their shows. One such production was The Black Mikado at The Cambridge, an update on Gilbert and Sullivan's opera with an all black cast. It was great fun, very visual with lots of colourful sequin dresses. A more unusual one was Trafford Tanzi, starring Toyah Willcox, which was set in the wrestling ring. I also worked on The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Lulu and Ernie Wise. It was Dickens' last book and was never completed, so

Terri’s first job at a West End theatre was on a major production of Gone with the Wind

Terri met Peter, a props master, on the opening night of Good Companions

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‘Barrowman’s matador cloak is one of the few souvenirs I collected over the years’

I must have worked in three quarters of the West End theatres.

Wardrobe departments are always on the top floor and very few have lifts so you’d have to walk up five flights of stairs 30 times a day. But when I had a night off work, I would still go to watch a show! I loved ballet and period musicals; anything with spectacular costumes, and would sit on the benches for 50p.

Terri now helps Horsham Museum with its costume and fashion exhibitions

The plays kept coming. I worked with Nicholas Lyndhurst onThe Foreigner, then another play with Judi Dench called Waste. Veterans Day starred Jack Lemmon and Michael Gambon and I also worked on a comedy, Trumpets and Raspberries, with Griff Rhys Jones.

At this stage in my career, I was working on productions where it was easy to maintain costumes, as I wanted to take care of my two young daughters. We lived in Holborn in the West End, but the

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For the next 10 years, I commuted against the traffic, catching an early afternoon train and coming home very late.

I was wardrobe mistress on The Who’s Tommy, although even more memorable was An Evening's Intercourse with Barry Humphries.

Barry’s one-man show involved him taking on three roles, including Dame Edna Everage and Les Patterson. As Patterson, he wore a huge padded suit and every night, we would tip Worcester sauce over it and rub Vaseline into his crutch.

Barry would wear false teeth that were stained brown and he would dribble because of them. Once, I forgot to put them in as the changeovers were so fast. I've never run across the back of a theatre so fast. I reached Barry just as he was walking out on stage.

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Terri (front left) was wardrobe mistress on Strange Interlude with Glenda Jackson

American Buffalo, which came to London in 1984. I didn't have an awful lot to do with him as he came with his own entourage, including his own dresser and chef. The size of Pacino’s entourage was bigger than anything I’d seen from a British actor. I wasn't nervous working with him, but let’s just say I was cautious to get things right!

The Matador with John Barrowman was an interesting play for me as it involved beautiful bullfighting costumes. One of his matador cloaks happen to fall into my bag after the production ended. It’s one of the few souvenirs I collected, as normally everything is returned.

I have seen a lot of changes over the years. Today, the technical work of theatre is computer-based, whereas in my day, if there was scenery to be moved you would have people in the wings pulling on a winch. However, there is still the same meticulous attention to detail on the costume side and as many big, glamourous productions as there’s ever been.

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I still go to London to watch several show a year. I love The Lion King and Wicked, and The Play That Goes Wrong is hysterical, so I recommend people see it. When I look back on those I worked on, I loved Philomena, and had a great time working on Strange Interlude with Glenda Jackson and Brian Cox. I dressed the men as well as being wardrobe mistress on that production. We used to joke around and I remember sewing the hems of James Hazeldine’s (‘Bayleaf’ in London’s Burning) trousers so he couldn't get his feet through them.

Eventually, the spells out of work were becoming longer and the length of productions shorter. I couldn't just keep signing on. Also, I was getting a fed up with the egos of some actors and I thought the time was right to move on.

The cost of commuting every day was also a consideration, so I called time on my life in theatre and took a job managing the Cancer Research shop in Steyning.

After five years there, I decided I wanted a job with no stress and no responsibility! As I’d always liked gardening, I took a job at a plant nursery near Rudgwick. The job surprised me, as it was incredibly hard

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work physically and not at all as I had expected. Still, I enjoyed it and whilst there I gained RHS qualifications.

Whilst working at the nursery, I met a friend whose parents owned a pig farm in Kirdford. We went into business together, setting up a polytunnel there and growing propagated plants. We sold our plants at country fairs and farmers markets and ran a stall in the Local Produce Market in Horsham Carfax on Saturdays. When my partner’s parents passed away, the family sold the farm, and we didn't quite have the heart to start from the beginning again.

For the last 14 years, I’ve worked at Horsham Museum. Initially, I was working on the Visitor Information Centre, but now I’m Collections Assistant. I’m particularly fond of staging costume and fashion exhibitions. Our current exhibition is Twinkle Toes, focusing on dance costumes. We’ve also recently hosted Victorian, 1960s and 1970s

fashion exhibitions.

We have a great selection of shoes in a permanent display at the museum, with every pair in its own drawer, and a room dedicated to head dresses and hats. There’s an awful lot that people can discover.

We are always thinking ahead, aware that in 50 or 100 years, people might want to see an example of what clothes we wear today. I'm afraid it’s a boring era for fashion. It’s been unremarkable since the 1990s, but perhaps we’ll reflect differently in future.

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In the centre lanes stood Peppa Pig and Howie the Hornet, their focus solely on keeping their plastic egg on the spoon. On the flanks, Buster the dog and a giant inflatable milkshake were nervously going through lastminute warm-up exercises.

A hush fell over the arena.

The four icons of the world of fancy dress egg and spoon racing stepped forward, waiting for children’s television presenter Dave Benson Phillips to start the race.

Three…two…one…go!

And to a soundtrack of Yakety Sax, best known as The Benny Hill Show theme tune, they were off…

This was just one of the fun and unusual scenes at the ninth annual Horsham Pancake Races held in the Carfax on 21 February.

Organised by Horsham Rotary Club, the event involves teams of four from local businesses and charities taking part in a pancake

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Making sure that the event ran smoothly – and that overly competitive teams kept to walking and not running between flipping stations – were volunteers from Horsham Rotary.

“The initial idea for the pancake races was the idea of Horsham District Council,” said John Le Rossignol of Horsham Rotary Club.

“Rotary had organised several local events included Kidz Stuff in Horsham Park, which included the world’s biggest ever custard pie fight. So, the council asked us if we would run pancake races.

“Piazza Italia and one or two other key events are organised by Horsham District Council, but they want to offer more to entertain the public and support local business.

“Staging too many events can lead to criticism, as some people believe council money should be spent elsewhere. So, the Rotary Club runs this event as well as the

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The victorious Harris Lord team

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the Samaritans phone, the Nando’s Chicken, Pudsey Bear from Children in Need and Howie the Hornet, from Horsham FC. “Howie has been brilliant with the public and loves this event. Last year, he stole the whole show as he gets so involved with the crowd. But we’re always looking for people who have a mascot’s costume and would like to take part in any of our town events.�

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The team from Action Medical Research, dressed as doctors with tinsel hair, were voted the Non-Stop Party Shop’s best fancy dress team.

The Samaritans won the Waitrose Trophy for the best Over - 40’s team whilst St Catherine’s Hospice claimed the Horsham Rotary Trophy for the winning charity team. Leo Joseph, of winners Harris Lord, took home the Rawlison Butler Trophy for most skillful pancake flipping.

Buster the Search Dog succeeded in winning the mascots race at his first attempt.

John Le Rossignol said: “We’ve had teams that have enthusiastically supported the event year after year, and it would be great to see new businesses stepping up and supporting us next year.

“We know it can be difficult finding a team of four, but the whole event is only two hours and not a huge commitment.

We’re very grateful to all of our supporters and hope that we can make the 10th anniversary pancake races in 2018 the best one yet.”

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Despite startling differences in appearance, the hopeful Lady Tichborne accepted the man’s story. However, other family members weren’t convinced and a court case revealed that the

claimant was in fact Arthur Orton, the son of a London butcher who had gone to sea as a boy!

He was sent to prison for ten years, although some analysts believe there is an element of doubt as to his identity and he may well have been Richard Tichborne.

You may wonder how a Loxwood

pub came to be named after a Victorian fraudster. When Thomas Cramp turned the 15th century building into a public house in 1873, newspaper cuttings from the court case were all over the wall, so he named it after missing heir.

The name remains to this day and the menu still plays on the doubt surrounding the case by depicting a faceless gentleman with a question mark placed in the middle of the pub name.

It makes for a fun and interesting story. But to the locals it doesn’t really matter, as they refer to this popular pub on the village outskirts as simply ‘The Tich.’

We met Gyorgy Vasadi to talk about the pub’s transformation since he took over early in 2016.

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George, what was the situation when you arrived?

The Tich had quite a good reputation, but I felt that there were things lacking on the restaurant side; it felt a little cold. There was too much on the menu for it all to be fresh and the chefs were overworked. We now have a very good team in place at the front and back of house, including a team of eight or nine chefs, and they make it very easy for us to run.

Had you run pubs previously?

I was Operations Director at a company in London that ran three pubs, including The Lighthouse in Battersea, The Roundhouse in Wandsworth and The Cock and Bottle in Notting Hill. From there, I went to work at The Bluebird Chelsea, a fine dining restaurant on the King’s Road. When the owners sold the company, my wife and I decided to move out to the countryside and run our own place.

Were you looking specifically in West Sussex?

The location had to be right for us and the children, so we wanted to live in a nice area. It also needed to be a good business with improvement potential. We looked at many places, as far south as Hastings and Rye, all the way up to Cheltenham. When I walked through the door of The Roger Tichborne, I thought it was a nice pub but a bit dated. It just felt behind the times and I wanted to give the pub what it deserved.

What exactly did you do?

We didn't want to change what wasn't broken, so we maintained the feel of the old pub, which has history dating back to the 15th century. We wanted to change the restaurant to give it character and warmth. The build quality was amazing and yet in terms of design it was dark and felt cold. Our plan was to refurbish immediately, but we found we were busy from the moment we arrived. Eventually,

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37 good wine. We also have our bin-ends, where our regular guests who know their wine can buy good bottles that they wouldn’t find in stores.

Has much changed in the kitchen?

We recently received a ‘Local Champion’ award for using local producers, including John Murray Butcher’s in Loxwood. Most of our meat though is delivered directly from the market, although we have several smaller suppliers including a licenced game hunter.

Darren Todd, our head chef, has

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we had to bite the bullet, although it meant losing four weeks of trading.

Interior designer Clare Hudson came in and we redesigned the whole restaurant with new lighting and furniture. We also upgraded the kitchen, improved the car park and landscaped the garden with new plants and a children’s play area.

Have the changes been well received?

Feedback has been very good. We haven't had a party in – be it 10 people or 100 people - that hasn't had a good time. It is still a work in progress, but our ratings on Trip Advisor are going up.

Have you lost the traditional elements of the pub?

Lots of people still come in just to enjoy a drink. We are not tied in with a brewery and we have very good freeholders who like the changes we have made. We have excellent ales including Young’s and several from local breweries including Firebird, Dark Star and The Crafty Brewing Company. On the wine side, we work with Berkmann Wine Cellars, who provide us with some very

an excellent background having previously worked at The Savoy and The Fat Duck. He now has the team around him to produce what he would like, including a very talented sous chef, Michael Knott.

We all work together on producing the menu, which changes every month.

Have you achieved everything you set out to do?

You can never achieve all your targets as once you achieve one thing, you set another target as you always want to improve.

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Gyorgy Vasadi took over The Tich in early 2016.

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wanted to create a hub for the community where everyone is welcome. We certainly have achieved that and we are also increasingly seen as a destination pub. People know that the service we offer is very good with high consistency and people will travel for good food at a nice pub.

Starters We sat down in what is deemed the restaurant side of The Tich, separated from the pub side which, even on a Tuesday night, is bustling with regulars discussing their day on the golf course or the next classic car on their shopping list.

Whilst the restaurant side was indeed warm with simplistic modern class, we did pine a little for the atmosphere of the pub.

It was some comfort that Gyorgy, who appeared to know the name and occupation of at least half of

the people in the pub, would regularly drop by to check that we were happy.

Despite there being only six dishes on the Starter menu, we had trouble choosing as they all held appeal.

Eventually, I settled on Scottish smoked salmon (£7.95) whilst Toby chose ham hock and chorizo terrine (£6.95) from the daily specials.

My salmon dish looked wonderful, with salmon slices flopped over a smooth, mild salmon mousse and topped with baby capers, pea shoots and horseradish. The subtle smokiness wasn’t quite as pronounced as I like, but it was moist, fresh and delicious.

Toby’s multi-tiered terrine was lovely, served with a piccalilli that was unlike most in that it was almost enjoyable. The dish was served with a generous amount of toasted brioche and pea shoots.

Main Courses Having arrived with the belief that The Tich was an expensive place to eat, it was surprising to note that the priciest dish aside from the rib eye steak was the seared sea trout (£15.50).

Most were pitched around the £12 – 14 bracket and included

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fish & chips (£12.95), liver and bacon (£13.95) and seafood tagliatelle (£14.95) Chargrilled burgers are also popular at The Tich, with the cajun chicken burger and home-made beef burger (both £11.95) among the best-sellers.

Toby enjoyed his pan-fried pork fillet (£14.50) served with sautéed potatoes, pancetta and honeyroasted carrots. The pork was

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The pork was divine, with chunky slices of lean meat soaked in a red wine jus complemented by honey roasted carrots

Puddings As well as a selection of New Forest ice cream for £1.50 a scoop, The Tich menu offers cinnamon rice pudding, home-made pecan pie and cheesecake of the day for £4.95.

Toby devoured his lovely raspberry cheesecake in a matter of seconds, whilst I spent a little more time enjoying each bite of my sticky toffee pudding, seeing as it had cost 55p more.

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divine, with chunky slices of lean meat soaked in a red wine jus, well complemented by the restrained flavour of the honey roasted carrots.

I also enjoyed every morsel of the seared sea trout, a dish that had fantastic colour thanks to a bed of pak choi and a fruity balsamic fish sauce. Like the pork dish, light, subtle seasoning allowed the freshness and natural flavour of the ingredients to shine through.

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It also took a while to scrape up the last of the butterscotch sauce with my finger. It was a fine way to round off a very good meal.

With great food, great beer and the regulars providing a politely vibrant atmosphere, The Roger Tichborne is well worth a visit.

Unlike its namesake, The Tich is the real deal.

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Picture Perfect

Raymond Warren Turns to YouTube for inspiration

Raymond specialises in portraits

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Horsham Museum. Raymond is hoping to build a body of work to stage his own exhibition in future.

We meet the artist at his Horsham home as he puts the finishing touches to his latest portrait.

A study of an eye © Raymond Warren

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very weekday morning, Raymond Warren helps his sons with their uniform, serves breakfast and takes them to school. As any parent will testify, it’s a manic start to the day.

But when he returns home, Raymond can relax. He picks out an audiobook, puts on his headphones and spends the next few hours producing detailed portraits with graphite pencils.

His work recently featured in a pop-up art and craft emporium at

The story goes back to the war…

‘After my father passed away a few years ago, I was going through the various stages of grief and looking

for something more fulfilling to do in terms of work. I was at my grandfather's house and he was showing me photos from when he served in the Army just after after the Second World War. There was a pencil portrait of him, drawn by a street artist in Palestine, which he sent home to his partner, now my grandmother. Upon seeing it I thought I too would like to try drawing.’

The wife knows best…

‘I didn't know if I was going to be any good at drawing. Whilst at college, I studied graphic design, but I then studied economics at university and hadn’t continued drawing at all. I bought some pencils and paper, drew a few things, but

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work, so it’s a great way of learning various styles by many different teachers.’

A dramatic change of career…

really didn’t think they were very good. That might have been the end of it, but my wife saw some potential and encouraged me. I then drew my son’s eye when he was just a baby, which won a competition held by the local Hobbycraft store. That really kick-started everything as the drawing then won the national competition, which gave me the self belief I needed.’

A worldwide network of teachers…

‘I looked at the work of other artists and picked up new techniques from YouTube videos. Soon, things started to click. Art is so much more accessible now. When I was at school, you physically had to go somewhere to see art, whereas now it's all there at the click of a button. Many artists on YouTube allow people to watch them at

‘The next two years is my window of opportunity, where I need to see what I can achieve with art. Most of my working life has been spent in local government. I worked for a city council in North Carolina before returning home to work for local authorities in Tunbridge Wells

and then Horsham District Council. When my contract was coming to an end in Horsham, I had the chance to spend more time at home and concentrate on art, although I still need to do the school run!’

The little things count…

‘I have received requests for pictures of pets and animals, although faces interest me the most. Some people perceive portraiture to be quite a simple

artistic method, but it’s challenging.

That’s why my drawings can take 15 hours. When you are staring at pictures for so long, you notice the tiny details you would never notice in everyday life. I had one commission where a child had a slight imperfection in their eye. Picking that up was vital.

It's not enough just to draw the eye in the right shape. You need to show minuscule changes, like the colours in the iris, because a parent knows those distinguishing features.’

How many wrinkles on an elephant…

Raymond drew this portrait of pop singer Adele between commissions © Raymond Warren

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‘Everyone has features that are unique to them and you need to reveal an individual’s true character in a picture.

There is no room for error. If I added an extra wrinkle to a picture of an elephant, nobody is going to notice. But if I do that to somebody's face or misplace a mole, something won’t look right. I once drew a boy with lots of freckles and it was important to capture them all in the right place. You need to be patient and capture everything perfectly. That is why it’s important to have a good photograph to work from.’

A good image is important…

‘I create portraits from photos, so what I am doing now is experimenting with photography to create the right ambience for each drawing. There have been occasions when I’ve had to reject a commission as the photo doesn't offer enough for me to produce an accurate portrait. Now, I offer to take the pictures myself, as I know how to give it enough character and lighting. It’s all aiming towards producing a better portrait at the end.’

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46: ART It’s not all in the eyes‌ ‘People often think that eyes are the hardest part of a portrait.

However, their shape and depth doesn’t alter greatly. For me, the mouth is the key. A smile affects every part of the face; the wrinkles around the eyes change, as does the shape of the ears and nose.

You need to show how that smile spreads across the entire face.’

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‘My most recent work is ‘John.’ John came to England in the 1950s and built his life here, working in a factory for 30 years.

He has a long Indian name, so his friends simply call him John. I try to imagine what those eyes have seen over their 87 years. Older people have many more features that you need to show if you’re to capture their character. That requires focus, although, I find drawing to be very relaxing. I put on headphones and listen to music or audiobooks, so even

though you are concentrating for long periods it is enjoyable.’

Capturing a unique character‌ ‘In today's culture of instant photos, there is something unique about a commissioned drawing.

They reveal something that cannot be captured in a thousand photos, so people are keen to have one. The feedback to my pictures so far has been lovely, especially from parents who’ve asked for a drawing of their children.’

Sharing his passion with the world ‘I post my work on social media websites like Facebook and Instagram, as it’s a good way of showing people what I can do. It's nice having a two-way conversation with feedback on your work, rather than waiting for something to hang in a gallery. Having learned so much from other artists

47 on YouTube, I have also created time-lapse videos for my own YouTube channel. It’s interesting to watch them back at high speed, as the videos show how layers are built up to achieve depth.’

Dabbling in abstract ‘I may experiment with oil paintings or abstract art in future. It’s not something I’ve tried yet, although I keep an open mind as I didn’t even know I could draw three years ago! Even in the field of realism, there is huge variety in the range of work and I'd like to try and meet up with other pencil artists working locally to share ideas. In terms of exhibiting, I’ve submitted work for an exhibition at Horsham Museum and have entered the Ashurst Emerging Artist competition. Perhaps later this year, I will be able to have my own exhibition if I can build up a body of work on one subject matter.’

‘I have created time-lapse videos for my own YouTube channel’

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Carry on improving ‘I want to carry on with art, whether it’s something I need to do in my spare time or as a standalone career. I can see a lot of progress from my early pictures. I was in the loft just before Christmas and came across my very first portraits. They were not that good, at least by my current standards, so I am fortunate that my family could see some potential and pushed me on.

Perhaps in another few years, I will be looking back at my current work thinking I have improved just as much again.’

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JubyLee Bakes won a Gatwick Diamond competition for start-up enterprises

hen a small group of parents of young adults with learning disabilities first discussed the idea of establishing a business, they could hardly have envisaged the success of JubyLee Bakes.

Having entered a Gatwick Diamond competition for start-up enterprises, the young team could only dream of winning.

But after impressing business leaders in a Dragons Den style presentation, JubyLee Bakes scooped first prize, allowing them to produce promotional material and create a website.

Somce then, the young team which bakes at St Leonard’s Church Hall kitchen in Horsham has gone from strength to

strength.

AAH met the JubyLee Bakes team of Aaron Dawson (21), Alice King (20), James Connell (21), Kate Bentley (20), Simon Tomlinson (21) and Siobhain Lee (24) as well as parent Ellen Tomlinson and Helen Crooks, Chair of Governors at The Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee School.

GIVING THE TEAM AN OPPORTUNITY Several of the young adults involved in JubyLee Bakes first met at QEII School in Horsham, but the business was formed independently.

Several parents established the

49 YOU’RE HAVING A GIRAFFE! With several of the young people enjoying working in the kitchen, it was logical that the new business would focus on baking.

As more and more parents and young people expressed an interest in the project, the business needed a name.

James: “Some of us went to Queen Elizabeth II School and whilst there we decorated a giraffe for a competition (organised by Horsham Rotary

Club). We all did a little bit of the giraffe and then it was auctioned to raise money for the school. The giraffe is called JubyLee as she wears a crown.

It was Alice’s idea to use it as the logo for JubyLee Bakes. I said we should also use a slogan of ‘Special Bakes by Special People’ so we have that on our aprons too.”

THE BASICS OF BAKING With a business name and a logo established, the team

needed to hone their cooking skills. They spent time practicing at home and testing different recipes with the help of parents. Then an evening class at Stooks Café at Newbridge Nurseries helped them to improve.

Aaron: “At Stooks, we learned how to make shortbread. It was hard because we were learning on our own, although by that time we were used to cooking.”

Kate: “As time has gone by and we’ve grown as a business, we've added new things. Now we make lemon drizzle muffins,

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business, as they felt frustrated by the lack of employment opportunities for people with learning disabilities.

Ellen: “The idea was to give them a place where they could develop their individual skills, because they all bring something different to the table. Siobhain loves baking and loves to talk about her brownies, James enjoys the marketing side, whilst Alice has very good administration skills. We want to develop these transferable skills in the hope that in future they can take that into the mainstream arena.”

Simon: “We started our own business because most young adults like us cannot find long term employment. It is hard because some people think that disabled people will be confused by hard work. So, we thought we would set up our own business.”

Our head chef, Mark Rego has created an enticing and delicious menu with many dishes to suit all tastes. We also hold regular events include live acoustic music and quiz nights.

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Dragon's Den style presentation to a panel at Thales in Crawley.

Simon: “When we had finished the pitch, I thought we had done well.

We were nervous, but we all came together when we had to. The experts asked us questions about the company and we were able to answer everything.”

AN ‘AWESOME’ FEELING Several months later, the bakers were invited to a presentation ceremony at Lingfield Racecourse, along with other finalists with their own interesting business ideas. JubyLee Bakes was up against some competitive young entrepreneurs, including university graduates.

Kate: “It was a big surprise for us when JubyLee Bakes were announced as winners. It felt awesome! We all attended on the awards night and went up to collect the trophy together.”

A FLAIR FOR NETWORKING The prize package was invaluable to JubyLee Bakes, as it meant that the young people could utilise the time and expertise offered by various companies. Fast Signs supplied business cards as well as banners, whilst Creative Pod in Crawley helped design an informative website and filmed a promotional video.

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presentation evenings at QEII School and special occasions at Collyer’s. In addition, JubyLee Bakes now supply products to Crowne Plaza Gatwick, the Gatwick office of Norwegian Airlines and generous supporters Collyer’s.

James: “I wrote to Collyers with the help of some of the parents and helpers, and then some of our group went to speak at the college. After that, Collyer’s agreed to sell our bakes. It is very exciting that the business is growing. In the future, I would like us to go to number one on Google, so that when somebody types ‘J’ JubyLee Bakes is at the top of the list.”

HOPES AND DREAMS The group continues to meet twice a week at St Leonard's Hall but it is hoped that the group will soon have its own kitchen space, allowing greater production and an opportunity for others with special needs to benefit.

Helen: “It would be wonderful to have a kitchen that we can call our own as it will allow all of the young people to continue doing what they love, which is cook. Parents have been instrumental in making this happen and it wouldn't happen without them supporting the young adults. However, the young adults have given it 110% and are becoming more independent. They won’t want to be with their parents all of the time, so now it is about helping them make the most of the opportunity.”

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Isolated Incident How Horsham came to have the world’s first prison with a cell for every inmate

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ollowing on from the recent press coverage about prisons, overcrowding and their effectiveness on rehabilitating offenders, we thought it might be interesting to look at a unique prison that once stood in Horsham.

It was the first prison built to the designs of the outstanding prison reformer John Howard, whose name survives in the John Howard League of Penal Reform.

Built in the late 18th century, the County Gaol for Sussex eventually became a tourist attraction before it was pulled down, with parts of it used for building Sussex railways.

A Revolutionary Concept In 1773, the High Sheriff of Bedfordshire, John Howard, inspected prisons in Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, Germany and Switzerland, as well as British prisons including Horsham’s County Gaol.

Horrified by what he saw, he pushed through acts of parliament to abolish gaoler’s fees and improve sanitation at prisons.

Howard’s ground-breaking book

The State of the Prisons, published in 1777, gave an account of each prison he visited.

In Horsham, he claimed to have stopped a gaol break. At that time, the gaol was in the Carfax, where the Post Office stands today, while punishments took place where the Bandstand now is.

Howard promoted circulation of his books by distributing free copies to “all the principal persons in the kingdom, and all his particular friends.”

Howard’s Prison Reform In 1779, Howard advised reformers on a bill to establish a national prison service.

The Act included his four main principles: 1. Secure, roomy and sanitary buildings 2. Salaried gaolers 3. Preventative objectives and regime 4. Systematic inspection by outside public body.

At the time, prisons were a breeding ground for disease and people knew by experience that those in contact with prisoners

Most Celebrated Inmate In 1818, Arthur Thistlewood had asked in a letter to Lord Sidmouth at the Home Office to refund £180. When he didn’t receive a reply, he challenged Sidmouth to a duel.

“I leave the choice of swords or pistols to your lordship. As for time, I shall brook of no delay,” he said.

Sidmouth, fearing the public would think him a coward, did not want to take any legal action, but the Prince Regent and the Cabinet argued him round. Thistlewood was found guilty of causing a breach of the peace and sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment. He entered Horsham Gaol on 28 May 1818.

Thistlewood thought it most unsatisfactory, mainly because of the overcrowding and the excessively strict discipline.

He wrote to Sidmouth, saying that it was truly disgusting for two or three men to sleep in a small cell and asked to be

transferred to Maidstone or Winchester. He said after his release that he preferred the Tower.

In 1819, he was released but his year in Horsham Gaol had changed him. He was much thinner and, though still active and determined, he was anything but cheerful. He would later lead the Cato Street conspirators in a plan to assassinate the entire Cabinet!

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‘One of the first inmates was one of the Griffeth builders, who went into debt whilst building phase one of the gaol’ often caught a fatal disease.

In Horsham, prisoners would be walked through the town to Church every Sunday, where they stood in the middle of the aisle in chains – a great way to spread disease.

John Howard’s methods of running a gaol and his new designs reduced the occurrence of illness and appealed to many people. Also, he drew parallels between disease and moral decay and the effect of prisons on both. As a result, many people although arguing that misery and

appalling living conditions acted as a deterrent - now argued that such conditions harmed society.

Howard’s ideas were considered when designing Horsham’s New County Gaol.

New County Gaol The gaol was built in three phases, with phase one starting in October 1775 and lasting two years.

The architect was Mr Ride and the builders were Thomas and Edward Griffeth, carpenters of

Horsham.

The gaol foundations were “three feet deep of hard Horsham stone” with the building itself built entirely from “burnt stock bricks.”

The prison was 126ft long and 32ft wide with two floors. On each floor, both on the debtors and the felons side, were 10 rooms, with five on each side of a passage 5ft wide. There was also a day room and lodging room for the turnkey.

Each prisoner had a separate cell (10’ 8” in x 7’) with a vaulted brick ceiling.

There were two doors to each cell, one of them latticed.

Surrounding the prison and the two courts was a 20ft high, 18-inch thick wall, enclosing one acre of land.

Phase two of the development, from 1778 to 1779, was completed by a new builder, Ralph Jones, a bricklayer from Horsham.

By April 1779, it was reported that the contracts had been completed and in August of that year the gaol was handed over to the Sheriff.

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(© All Images Horsham District Council/ Horsham Museum)

Horhsam’s County Gaol

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One of the first inmates was one of the Griffeth builders, who went into debt whilst building phase one of the gaol!

The third phase involved the construction of 16 more cells over three years, as well as a large yard on the felons’ side.

The New Regime With a new prison came a new way of managing the prisoners.

There were some 32 regulations, some of which are given below: • That the gaoler be paid a salary of £100 per annum together with the house and garden.

• That he is not to be directly or indirectly concerned in selling beer, wines or spirits to the prisoners.

• That there shall be also provided for each male prisoner a coat, a waistcoat, a pair of breeches, two shirts, two pairs of stockings, one hat, one woollen night-cap, with clothing to be made of the cheapest sort of woollen without plaits or pockets, and to be mixed in pieces of green and yellow.

The regulations went on to say that on arrival, each prisoner was to be bathed and their clothes baked and then stored for when they leave.

The prisoners could buy meat, greens and bedding but not liquor.

Each prisoner had to wash their hands and face twice a day at the pump. If they were not clean then they could have reduced food rations, or be put in chains.

Each cell had a stone pot, a mop, a broom, a leather bucket, a canvas straw bed and two blankets. The cells were to be inspected every

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Solitary Confinement In 1780, Lord Mansfield - a judge at the Sussex Summer assizes - was astonished to find that the gaol was less than quarter full.

“How can your Lord Lieutenant satisfy the County of Sussex that there has not been prodigality and waste of the County money in rearing so stately an edifice three-fourths of which appear to be uninhabited?” he asked.

The reason, he was told, was solitary confinement. Only one prisoner had returned in 12 years.

Horsham Gaol was the first prison in the world to give each prisoner their own cell.

Howard’s reasoning for single cells was given in the third edition of The State of the Prisons: “I wish to have so many small rooms or cabins that each criminal may sleep alone.

Solitude and silence are favourable to reflection; and may possibly lead to repentance.’

He argued that separation at night would prevent plans for escape being hatched, criminals robbing each other and provide safety to those about to give evidence.

Howard, who had been imprisoned in a French gaol in 1756, died of either camp or gaol fever in 1790 whilst with the Russian army in the Crimea.

It wouldn’t be long before Horsham gaol become too overcrowded to maintain his standards, with inmates often sharing a cell.

In 1817, records show that there were 41 felons and over 100 debtors in the County Gaol.

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The County Magistrates decided that Horsham Gaol was no longer viable in 1844.

Serious consideration was given to turning the gaol into a lunatic asylum. However, it was felt by some that housing lunatics in a disused prison was not acceptable, so in 1845 the gaol site was put up for sale.

The story is continued in Henry Michell’s account: ‘1845 is celebrated in my business career for having become the purchaser by tender of the County Gaol. My tender was for £2560.

‘I had every reason to believe it was a bargain as the amount of materials was vast; but the expense of realising was great and arduous. After disposing of the material, I bought some other

On obtaining the gaol, Michell opened it for the public to see, before it was torn down.

Somewhat grimly, the body of John Lawrence, who in 1844 was the last person to be hanged in Horsham, was exhumed and temporarily taken to The Queen’s Head.

Lawrence had been sentenced to death for the murder of Brighton’s Chief of Police. According to Henry Burstow in his Reminiscences of Horsham, the body “excited the curiosity of a good many people, who paid 2d to see it.”

This article was written by Jeremy Knight of Horsham Museum, edited by Ben Morris. If you’d like to know more about Horsham Gaol, there is a permanent exhibition on Crime and Punishment at the Museum. www.horshammuseum.org

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The Gaol’s Final Days

land adjoining and added to the site. They paid me £1000 for what they took and left the rest on my hands to dispose of as I could.

Some I sold for building, on a part of it I built the new Malt house, and some I sold to the Waterworks Company.

‘I suppose from the first to last I made a profit of at least £5,000.”

John Lawrence was the last person to be hanged in Horsham

In August of that year, the Quarter Sessions decided that the gaol should be increased in size. A committee met at The Kings Head in Horsham and 16 more cells were added at a cost of £2,540.

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Write to Editor Ben Morris via email editor@aahorsham.co.uk

LETTERS

To The Editor.

From The Readers.

MIXED FEELINGS ON BBH Peter Ballard writes via email Just picking up on your comments in the February edition of AAH. Quote "I'm frankly relieved it's being built at all, in these times when an increasing number of residents are beginning to wonder when we'll start seeing community facilities and schools amongst the new houses being built."

As a regular user of the existing badminton courts, my feelings on The Bridge are mixed. If you look carefully at the planning applications, you will see that there are in fact four separate applications.

• DC/16/1844 covering the demolition of the existing LC and tennis courts to be replaced by The Bridge and new car park. Also retention of part of the Tube.

• DC/16/1263 covering the erection of five new multi games area pitches with floodlights and fencing • DC/16/2700 covering the creation of three new football pitches, a football pavilion and skate park on land behind the existing leisure centre • DC/16/2272 covering the spectator stands and floodlights for the new football pitches The developers responsible for the new houses, Countryside Properties, are behind application 2700 whilst HDC are responsible for the other three.

We already have a perfectly serviceable leisure centre only built in 1987 which has gym facilities, badminton courts, free weights room, studios for dance, table tennis etc, athletics track and The Tube, outdoor tennis courts, meeting rooms and excellent cafe, so is the money

being spent by HDC on The Bridge money that could be better spent elsewhere (the new Shelley School, for example).

As I see it, the football club are the main beneficiaries since they will be getting three sports pitches with floodlights and spectator stands, together with a £881,000 pavilion.

Users of the The Bridge (such as Horsham Arun Badminton Club) will have lost the only dedicated premier rated badminton hall in Sussex and face an enormous hike in fees to hire courts in The Bridge. Tennis users will also find their recently resurfaced courts being dug up and moved adjacent to the noisy A24 behind the bowls club. Perhaps the biggest losers are the athletics club who will be losing half of The Tube with no obvious like-for-like facilities in The Bridge.

A spot of investigative journalism would not go amiss here as readers of AAH would appreciate the whole story of the Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre redevelopment as surely there must be a budget overspend.

Editor: Some great points, Peter.

We have run extensive features focusing on BBH leisure centre users, including the badminton club and Blue Star Harriers, in previous editions that can be found in our archive editions online.

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SUPPORT FOR ALF SHRUBB Cliff Comber, organiser of the Alfred Shrubb 5km Race, writes: I was so pleased to read your recent article about Alf. Like yourself, I continue to be amazed that this local sporting hero is not sufficiently recognised in his home town.

Surely anyone who reads his biography, The Little Wonder, would also join the ranks of the dismayed. On examination of his fantastic athletics record, both as an athlete and a coach, and the fact that he is included in the British Athletics Hall of Fame, it does make one 'wonder' what one must do to be publicly

recognised in Horsham.

I can only think that the powers that be are not paying attention to public opinion.

Is it my imagination or have I heard that accusation before?

Editor: Maybe a local councillor might be inspired to take up the issue, but don’t hold your breath!

It would be a nice gesture if there was something done to honour Alf in the new leisure centre.

Perhaps a ‘sporting hall of fame’ info board featuring Alf and other local achievers could be created?

I’ll help write and design it free of charge, if anyone at the council thought it a good idea...

NOT EVERYONE’S A FAN! D. Reynolds writes via email: I find your support for an Alfred Shrubb Leisure Centre a little strange. Why is it important to recognise the achievements of an athlete from the Victorian era?

As Alf Shrubb is commemorated by a run (in his home village of Slinfold) and a display at Horsham Museum, it would seem to me

that he has not been forgotten at all. The leisure centre should be named to suit modern times; The Bridge makes far more sense.

Editor: Yes, absolutely, it’s far better to instead name the leisure centre after a concrete footpath over a dual carriageway, linking new housing estates to a supermarket.

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BRITANIACREST FEARS C Morris of Horsham writes: Britaniacrest's claim to plan to build a 'renewable energy' facility is, at best, disingenuous.

Incinerators are not sources of 'renewable' energy.

Renewable energy comes from sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.

Your piece correctly mentions that the (monolithic) size of the proposed building has caused concern. However, the size is a relatively minor concern.

Even assuming emissions were fully monitored and kept within prescribed limits, as well as demonstrating that the proposed operation would increase short and long-term levels of multiple harmful pollutants in the atmosphere and local environment, Table 7.19 of the Britaniacrest Environmental Statement exposes a predicted “potentially significant” long-term contribution to ground-level and environmental concentrations of proven carcinogenic and mutagenic Nitrogen Dioxide, Arsenic, Manganese, Nickel and multiple Polycyclic Aromatic

ALL ABOUT HORSHAM MAGAZINE Hydrocarbons.

As night follows day, increasing levels of carcinogens and mutagens in the environment will increase cancers and adverse genetic mutations in people (and other animals) living and working in that environment.

Their health will become poorer and their life expectancy shortened. That is the really big problem for everyone living and working within the fallout area of such an incinerator.

Editor: If readers would like to know more about the campaign against the incinerator, a film has been put together and can be seen at www.facebook.com/ noincinerator4horsham or visit www.ni4h.org

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How a free Saturday morning run in the Park has become a weekly ritual for hundreds of people

T

he Horsham Parkrun isn’t really about the winning. Nonetheless, the battle for the lead caused a stir amongst participants on 18 February.

Richard Lee-Wright of Horsham Joggers had to give his all to fend off an unlikely challenge from 12-year-old Ethan Scott, who had been snapping at his heels throughout the 5km route.

The pair finished a minute ahead of the field after completing three laps of the course, around the perimeter of Horsham Park.

A delighted Ethan said: “I took part in a few Parkrun events last summer, but this was my personal best time (17.34mins). I was just hoping to set a good time and I was very happy that the other runner pushed on, because it made me go a lot faster than I have done before.”

Ethan, who lives in Surrey and runs for an athletics club in East Grinstead, added: “I recently won the Sussex league cross country event for my club, so I was coming here on good form.

“I came to Horsham as a lot of the course is on grass, so it’s good practice for my cross country. I should think that I'll be coming back soon.”

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reached our highest figure of 488’ “It is a brilliant event, especially as it’s free. When you register, you’re given a specific barcode and this gives everyone their personal time.

“Within a couple of hours, you receive a text message or an email telling you your time, along with a full list of results. It will also tell you additional information, including how many Parkruns you have completed and personal best times. The organisation is excellent.”

THE NUMBERS CONTINUE TO GROW That is partly down to the man finishing in 111th place, a veteran of 131 Parkruns called Phil Liberman (pictured in black top, above left).

With a team of dedicated volunteers who continue to support the event week after week, Event Director Phil was part of the team who established a Parkrun in the town.

Parkrun events had been growing in popularity across the country since the first was founded by Paul Sinton-Hewitt in 2004. Phil believed Horsham had the potential to host one, but needed to raise £3,000 to set-up an authorised Parkrun.

The idea was well received by Horsham District Council and North Horsham Parish Council, which helped bring the event to fruition.

In February 2014, a test run was held so that the council could assess the route and its impact on the park, whilst the Parkrun team could test their new equipment and resolve any issues.

Six months later, with an official website and social media pages up and running, Horsham Parkrun was officially launched.

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one in Crawley and Haywards Heath, but perhaps an event in Billingshurst or Southwater would ease the burden.

“We have created a very good community here and we are blessed with helpers, whereas some events struggle with that.

Many of us head over to Conservatory Cafe after the run to upload the results. Often, participants can see the final results by lunchtime, which I know people really appreciate.”

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Horsham Parkrun is held every Saturday at 9am in Horsham. Register before your first run online at http://www.parkrun.org.uk/horsham/ It is hoped that a Junior Parkrun will soon be established in Horsham.

We hope to bring details in a future edition of AAH.

We’ve made it through those cold, dreary months of winter and now nature is rewarding us. If you’re anything like me, you’ll be rejoicing that the days are slowly getting longer and signs of an imminent spring are appearing. Splashes of colour are popping up on the forest floor as the first spring flowers push through the mulchy mess. Buttery yellow lesser celandines look like stars scattered around your feet while clumped spikes of vivid green bluebell leaves hint at the carpets of purple to come. Queen bumblebees will be emerging from hibernation and searching for the best nest sites, but not before getting their fill of nectar from the pale primroses.

Bees aren’t the only creatures that have been in hibernation. During the cold months, old rabbit burrows have been occupied by something a little less furry than their original tenants, with a few more scales—I’m talking about the adder of course! Although they aren’t everybody’s favourite animal, they are undeniably beautiful with a striking zig-zag pattern of diamonds along their backs. As they come out from hibernation, they are very sluggish and must warm their bodies in the sun before they can function properly, so it’s a great time of year to see them.

They particularly favour sandy areas such as heath land, where they can be seen basking on heaps of bracken or log piles.

Here at Pulborough, we have a special place called “Adder Alley” which, as the name suggests, is a real hotspot for these fascinating reptiles. Always remember to keep a safe distance with adders and look with your eyes rather than your hands!

Emily Summers RSPB Pulborough