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contents Editor’s Letter 4 Local History 6 Adopt a Pet 8 MindBenders 8 What’s on 10 Highcliffe On Sea Traders Association 13 Clubs, Classes, Groups & Societies 14 Christchurch Chamber of Trade 19 Blue Plaque Trail 20 Highcliffe Rotary 23 Quest for Sensory Space 25 Teen Column 29 Coffee Break 30 Tucktonia 31 Kids Page 36 Recipe 37 Garden View 38 Puzzle Solutions 41 Mum’s the Word 41 Regent Listings 42 Local Gig Guide 42 Useful Telephone Numbers 46
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The Christchurch Eye recently received a letter from reader Mike Marsh, who was asking for photographs or information related to his home in Fitzmaurice Road in Jumpers. (See Reader’s Letter in the January issue.) The area now known as Jumpers fell just outside the Old Borough of Christchurch in the Manor of Hurn. For centuries it was mainly an expanse of wild heath and land serving a small settlement at Grove that had been in existence since at least the early 12th century. The first major development in the area seems to have been Jumpers House on the bank of the River Stour a short distance upstream from Iford Bridge. This grand residence is generally dated to the mid 18th century, but photographic evidence suggests that it may have had medieval origins. Its former Lodge House survives as part of the Crooked Beams Restaurant, and Stourvale Avenue follows the route of its driveway. Jumpers House itself stood between present-day Cedar Avenue and Chestnut Avenue. Do the back gardens in this area ever reveal evidence of this substantial building, which was demolished in 1955? The origin of the name Jumpers is uncertain. One theory is that it is derived from the juniper trees that grew in the grounds of Jumpers House. However, it is recorded that a ‘William Ballye, alias Jumper’ was a Christchurch landowner in the late 16th century, though it is not known if he or his family were ever associated with the Jumpers area. Another major development came in 1858, when Christchurch Cemetery was opened in Jumpers Road to cater for the town’s growing population. This land north of Jumpers Common had been a field called Grove Corner belonging to Grove Farm, and was leased to the Burial Board by Lord Malmesbury of Hurn Court. Until that time Jumpers Road had been little more than a cart track leading across ploughed fields! Edged on the south by Barrack Road, Jumpers Common once covered over 30 acres between Jumpers Road and Grove Lane (today The Grove). The last vestige of open land in this area is now the 3½ acre public recreation ground still known as Jumpers Common, which was granted legal protection as a Queen Elizabeth II Field in Trust in 2012. However, the 1844 Tithe Map shows that this piece of land had actually been part of a field called Green Close, which also belonged to Grove Farm. Road and house-building on Jumpers Common began towards the end of the 19th century. In the 1890s a Sunday school was started in the Fitzmaurice Road home of laundress Elizabeth Whiteley. This venture had the
approval and support of the Vicar of Christchurch, the Rev Thomas Bush, and other local notables. A few years later permission was given for the Portfield and Jumpers Mission Church to be erected on the north side of Fitzmaurice Road on the site of an old gravel pit. (This is where Mike Marsh’s home was later built.) In 1909, plans for a new church were approved and a secondhand corrugated iron building was brought in pieces from Brighton by railway. This ‘tin church’ was erected on the south side of Fitzmaurice Road, on the corner with Jumpers Road (Photo). However, it was soon clear that a larger building was required and an appeal for funds was launched. The foundation stone for the present St George’s Church was laid in 1927. Why is Fitzmaurice Road so-named? Shortly before his death in 1824, Benjamin Bullock, the owner of Jumpers House, bequeathed the house and land to his adopted infant daughter, Jane West. During her long life Jane was twice married and widowed - both times to doctors! Jane resided with her first husband, John Gardner, in Malvern Link, Worcestershire, but after his death in 1846 she returned to Jumpers House. Over 25 years later she remarried, her second husband being James Fitzmaurice, an Irish-born doctor living in Bridge House, Castle Street. They subsequently resided in Stourville, a sizeable villa with extensive grounds situated on Barrack Road where The Stourvale public house and The Hurdles housing estate are today sited. James Fitzmaurice died in 1878 and the twice-widowed Jane continued to live in Christchurch until her own death in 1904. Her two husbands were commemorated in the naming of Gardner Road and Fitzmaurice Road.
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Tuesday 7th April Christchurch Priory New Tour 2015. 6pm - 8pm. Roof space, medieval paintings (103 steps, some narrow spaces) Ground Floor, Saxon Crypt, Malmesbury Vault. Tickets £10 (£5 children over 8) in advance from the Vergers Tel: 01202 485804, email vestry@christchurchpriory.org Tuesday 7th April Table-Top Sale At the Regent Centre Christchurch every Monday & Saturday throughout the year. 10am – 3.30pm Selling a variety of items: Affordable costume/vintage jewellery plus accessories, award winning homemade cakes, bric-abrac, etc… Wednesday 8th April Christchurch Memory Café 2pm - 4pm- If you have dementia or are caring for someone with dementia, you’ll be welcomed at our Memory Cafe. St Joseph’s Parish Centre, 67 Purewell, Christchurch BH23 1EH. Every second Wednesday of the month. Thursday 9th April Craft and Table Sales 11am – 3pm Sale of craft and gifts at Druitt Hall Christchurch behind the Library. The Friday Crafters every Friday. Friday 10th April Christchurch Floral Society 2pm - 4pm. Meeting at Priory Hall Princess Avenue. Demonstrator Michelle Davis. Mad Hatters Competition, Mad Hats Plant Stall. Doors open 1-30pm, All Welcome. Saturday 11th April RNLI Coffee Morning 10am 12.30pm in Highcliffe Methodist
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Christchurch Central W.I. Wednesday 1st April 10am – 12.15pm. Meetings are held in the Druitt Hall, High Street on the first Wednesday of the month. This month is a review of the past year, followed by the AGM for the election of committee members and President. All Welcome, please call 01202 386813 for further information. Arcado Chess Club. Every Tuesday 2.30pm 5pm Meets at Arcado Lounge, 71 High Street, Christchurch. All ages and skills are welcome. Just turn up! Stay for as long or short as you want. Contact John 01202 427523 Christchurch Probus Club. Tuesday 7th April 10.15am – 2pm. Meets 1st Tuesday monthly at the East Close Hotel, Lyndhurst Road, Christchurch. A very friendly welcome awaits all retired professional and businessmen. Interesting speakers and excellent lunches! Contact the Secretary, Robin Haggett on 01202 482528 Christchurch and Bournemouth Dorset Wildlife Trust Group. Local branch of the Dorset Wildlife Trust meeting every third Thursday of the month (Sept - May) at Christchurch Baptist Church Hall, Bargates 7.30pm - 9.30pm. £2 charge including refreshments. Walks arranged May-August. Southbourne Chess Club @ Arcado Lounge Bar. 71 High Street, Christchurch, BH23 1AS. Every Tuesday 2.30pm to 5pm. All ages and skills are welcome, even beginners. Just turn up! Chess is FREE over a drink and/or food in a relaxed environment. Contact John 01202 427523 Email: southbournechessclub@yahoo.co.uk Highcliffe Flower Club. Come and watch
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Art and Craft Family Explorer Day: Spring into Sketchbooks. Tuesday 14th April 10.30am - 3.30pm. Come to the Red House and design & decorate your own sketchbook. £2 per person all ages welcome. No need to book. Highcliffe Art Fellowship meets at 2.30pm in the Methodist Hall, Highcliffe on Wed 1st April when award winning artist Ali Lindley will demonstrate in watercolour and mixed media. Visitors welcome £3. See www. highcliffe-art.info Craft and Vintage Fayre Saturday 4th April 10am - 1pm. Over 30 stalls of local handmade crafts, foods and vintage finds. Bransgore Village Hall, BH23 8AY. Perfect for that Easter gift! Homemade cakes and refreshments. FREE ENTRY, Free
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Christchurch U3A Singers will stage their annual Spring Concert at St Christopher’s Church, Arnewood Road, Southbourne, on Saturday, 16th May, at 7pm. The 50-strong choir, conducted by Anne Hewetson, will present a varied programme from songs from the shows to opera choruses, and will be joined by guest artistes. Admission £4 including refreshments. Contact Eileen Clegg on 01425 273765.
Children New Beginnings Toddler Group. Fridays (term time only) 10am - 11.30am at Christchurch Christian Centre, Millhams Street, BH23 1DN. Play, craft, songs, refreshments. 50p per family - first session free. Just turn up or contact Charlotte on 07979 941100 Ballet classes with Carousel Dance and Drama. Ballet Classes for children 3+, Portfield Hall, Christchurch, BH23 2AQ. Tuesdays and Thursdays after school. Classes are fun and creative with an emphasis on building confidence, coordination and concentration.
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The proposal is for a retail development of over 8,000 sq. metres to consist of six sizable units. Permission has already been granted for food retail for part of the site. The proposal now is for clothing and footwear outlets as well. And we’ve been told the names of the possible tenants. Aldi and Majestic Wine for the food and drink retail stores; TK Maxx, Sports Direct and Matalan for clothing and footwear and Bathstore taking the final unit. The applicants state the units will improve a rundown site and result in 156 new jobs for an area of town that has above-average unemployment levels. What about trade diversion from the town centre? The developer has prepared detailed tables which indicate that Christchurch residents spend £65 million a year on clothing and footwear – but 90% of this is spent outside the borough. Their telephone survey found only 7% of us buy our clothes and shoes in Christchurch high street; 38.3% of us go Bournemouth town centre; 24.5% go to Castlepoint and the rest to Southampton, Boscombe and diverse other places. The developers suggest the town centre is failing to meet the needs of the Christchurch residents for clothing and shoes and the customers for the new units will come from people who currently shop in Bournemouth and Castle Point. They add that clothing and footwear outlets account for only 8% of the shops in Christchurch (18 shops in total) and argue that any diversion of trade will not have a great effect on the town centre. A suggestion that the owners of those 18 shops are unlikely to accept.
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Christchurch Blue Plaques by Stephen Roberts No. 3 - Where’d our gate go?
gatekeeper, whose job was to close the massive wooden doors each night.
This time, we jump to the Middle Ages, an era redolent of Thomas Becket, Chaucer’s Pilgrims, the Black Death and kings buried under municipal car parks. The Normans left their mark on Christchurch with the Priory and castle, both in situ by the early 12th century. The place still needed defending, so there would have been an imposing gateway, aligned roughly with the old Saxon walls, blocking off the town’s northern entrance. It would have been approximately in line with today’s Bow House (on the right as you look south up the High Street).
In a sense our Bargate is not completely lost. Its name is preserved in the road Stephen ‘Bargates’, leaving the site of the Bargate behind it as it heads north to the rail bridge. Before the by-pass of the late 50s you could walk from the High Street into Bargates without need of a subway. At the High Street’s northern end that ‘narrowing’ corresponding with the line of the old Saxon wall and probable site of the Bargate would still have been discernible.
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Some sources claim the Bargate, as it was called, was late Saxon, but our plaque says 12th century (probably). This history is not always precise. It was a stone gatehouse, ‘straddling and constricting’ the High Street, which sounds painful and akin to a contortionist. The Saxon gate may have been an earlier one in a slightly different place. We have a plaque (betwixt Lovett and Dragon Palace at the High Street’s north end) but sadly no Bargate. It was unceremoniously removed around 1744 on the orders of then mayor, Thomas Jeans. Depictions of the gate suggest other buildings butting up against it and some kind of dwelling above. If you want to see something similar head for Southampton, which still has its own Bargate (considerably larger than ours would have been) and other gates, including God’s House Tower, resembling our lost gate in having something above, the ‘town gunner’ once residing on the 1st floor. We would have had a
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And why was it called Bargate? Interesting. In York they have four main gatehouses called ‘bars’. They were used for restricting traffic in Medieval times, extracting tolls and being defensible in time of trouble. Maybe our Bargate literally meant ‘Gate-Gate’. Oh, and why did the mayor pull our gate down? Well, it was probably just the traffic at that time, and this, long before the school dash demanded an armoured personnel carrier and a half-mile hop to buy ‘fags’ from the local store required a car journey. Tut-tut. Steve Roberts - www.steveroberts.org.uk / @ SRChristchurch (Twitter) References - Christchurch Blue Plaques Millennium Trail Map by Mark Fudge, reproduced courtesy of Dorset Life Magazine Christchurch High Street through the Years (Allen White)
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Paul Harris, together with two of his friends, was the founder of the Rotary worldwide organisation in 1905. The main ideal established was “Service Above Self” based on the principles of Philanthropy and Fellowship. In 1957 the Paul Harris Fellowship was established as recognition for those who ascribed to his ideals, and it Mike remains today as the highest accolade that can be awarded by a Rotary Club.
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Rtn. Christopher Forbes-Ritte joined Highcliffe Rotary Club in 2007 having been a member of Slough Rotary Club since 1997. Chris is a Past President having always been a stalwart of the Club living up to the Rotary motto of “Service Above Self”. Chris developed, and now maintaines, the Club’s Health and Safety Policy, ensuring appropriate checks are completed for every activity in which the Club is involved, particularly for the annual Community Fete. We are also delighted to welcome John Spencer of Highcliffe to our membership in the knowledge that he will give us added experience and valuable fellowship and service.
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As a not-for-profit organisation, new equipment is largely funded through donations or fundraising. This year, Helen and her team of volunteer parents aim to build a brand new Sensory Suite in the grounds and equip it with a full sensory package, including a Borealis Tube, Softplay Cube, Acrylic Mirrors, Solar LED Projector, Mirror Ball System and more. Sensory Suites are proven to be hugely beneficial to children’s
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TUCKTONIA: THE MAKING OF TUCKTONIA Written by Alex McKinstry
In 1975, Harry Stiller decided to sell the Tuckton Golf and Leisure Park in Stour Road to Grand Metropolitan Hotels Ltd., a major pub company looking to make further inroads into the leisure industry. He regrets the decision to this day. It came about after endless wrangling with Christchurch Borough Council over planning permission for ‘Tucktonia’, a model landscape to be erected at the back of the park. Harry did agree, however, to stay on for two years as a consultant in the project, and vividly recalls the challenges involved in bringing Tucktonia to fruition.
The models were to be assembled on four waterlogged acres towards the river, formerly part of the driving range. A condition of planning consent was that this land had to be raised 2 ft. 3 in. as a safeguard against flooding, which meant draining the area, filling it with 18,000 tons of hardcore and 2,500 tons of concrete, and then, to give the landscape a realistic, contoured feel, topping it
with 12,500 tons of earth. This work alone cost an estimated £250,000. Water was then channelled back into the site to provide Tucktonia with its undulating river, with the cream of Britain’s heritage, industry and natural beauty spread out in miniature either side. The models, right down to the pigeons surrounding Nelson’s Column, were built to a 1:24 scale, meaning that St. Paul’s Cathedral, one of the first models to arrive, was 16 ft. high: as Harry recalls, ‘They had to bring it down from Lowestoft on a flat-bed trailer.’ The model-making contract initially went to a Bournemouth company, KLF Ltd., but its director, Peter Kellard, subcontracted the work to 24 To advertise please call 01202 477214
model-making firms across the country. The assignment posed special problems, not least because Harry was trying to avoid a static landscape: vehicles were to tootle along the motorway flyover, while Concorde took off hourly from Tucktonia Airport. These animated features were powered by a hidden switchboard, 250 kW in capacity, rigged up to ten
miles of armoured, medium and low voltage cable installed underground. The models also had to withstand all types of British weather, while some – Tower Bridge, or the Cornish fishing village – had to spend their lives partly immersed in water. These challenges were met by building the models from opepe, a resilient West African wood used in boat-building and dock construction. Some of the nicest touches at the site came about by accident. The fishing village was built by Colin On, who had difficulty sourcing a suitable material for the village stonework. ‘Then one day, by accident, I spilt some resin on the concrete floor of the workshop … When we came to remove it, it peeled off the surface concrete, forming exactly the pattern we were looking for.’ The booklets issued to promote Tucktonia as ‘the best of Britain in miniature’ only give some idea of its sheer ambition; indeed, when I asked Harry Stiller if he intended to replicate the scope of the Madurodam model landscape in The Hague, which first inspired him, his reply was ‘I wanted to make it bigger!’ When the first models began arriving in August 1975, it was reported that forty new jobs would be created at the site, sixteen for maintenance purposes alone. The effect of the attraction on other local traders was also favourably anticipated, and certainly Christchurch was the focus of all eyes when Tucktonia opened, with Arthur Askey as its miniature MC, on 23 May 1976. Highcliffe Eye • April 2015 • 31
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HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? APRIL - PROJECT PLEASURE
April is a great month for a garden project; one which can be achieved in a morning or an afternoon, and which improves a few square metres. You’ll feel you’ve achieved something wonderful and if you break the whole garden into a series of small projects it suddenly appears more manageable. Here are three to get you started. Strawberry Pots You don’t need a huge patch to enjoy growing strawberries. Plant a few in pots as a treat. Buy young, rich green plants which have been certified virus-free. Plant 3-4 in a 12 inch (30cm) clay pot. The crowns (where shoots meet roots) should be level with the compost surface. Water them in and stand in the shelter of a house wall. If you have a greenhouse or a cold frame they will establish more quickly and fruit earlier. Pinch off any runners which form. Grass Lawns always look bedraggled after the winter. Remove dead grass by raking the surface with a wire toothed rake. Improve drainage on heavy soil by spiking it with a garden fork every 6 inches (15cm) or so, to a depth of about 4 inches (10cm), giving the fork a good wiggle each time. Sweep sharp sand into the holes with a 38 • Highcliffe Eye • April 2015
broom. Then mow the lawn with the blades set on high and remove the clippings. Two weeks later apply a combined weed killer and fertilizer. If you’re lucky it will rain within 24 hours. If not just water it in. Mow weekly to keep the lawn thick and healthy. Seating Don’t forget an all weather seat so you can sit and contemplate all your hard work over a cup of tea or a nip of something stronger. Teak from renewable resources is fantastic but cast iron or aluminium is also good, though you’ll need a cushion to protect your posterior on cold days! Position it in a sunny area. Buy a few flowering daffodils, tulips and pansies and plant them in a pretty pot next to the bench, then sit back and enjoy.
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Mum’s the Word As I write this it is International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate all those women who achieved so much, from the smallest of things to the biggest.
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Applying this to day-to-day life, I often look at so many women who achieve so much without really realising it. For instance, the several local ladies I know running businesses from a shop or home, from artists to gift shop owners; our town seems to be brimming with talented women (and of course men!). Ask around, I almost guarantee someone knows someone who supplies or makes what you’re looking for! Then there are all the amazing women working and raising their families simultaneously and those who dedicate their time to raising their children full time. All, I think, we should take our hat off too.
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Business & Professional Miller Bros & F.P Butler Ltd Coles Millers Solicitors LLP MA Accountancy Services Williams Thompson Solicitors
4 11 18 18
Care Homes/Help & Retirement Apex Care 8 Inter-County Nursing Care & Services Ltd 16 Silverways Nursing Home 21 37
Cleaning Services New Forest Carpet Clean No1 Carpet Cleaning Christies Window Cleaning
21 23 27
Food & Drink Fire & Ice Cafe 7 Ye Olde George Inn 17 DINE IN 22 Garden Services Chris Oliver Tree & Hedge Cutting Specialist 1 Apex Tree Surgeons 2 New Forest Drive Clean 25 Southern Tree Specialists 37 Broomhill Garden Buildings Ltd 40 Health, Beauty & Lifestyle All Mobility 13
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Children, Pets & Education Stepping Stones Pre-School
Tracey Butchart Foot Health Practitioner 13 Host Families Wanted 19 Kellear Hearing 19 Dorset Denture Clinic 23 Godfirst Christchurch 29 Red Rose Records 33 Dear Beneficiary by Janet Kelly 39 Court House Clinics 43 Specsavers Optical Superstores Ltd 45 Highcliffe Dental Practice 48 Home Improvement Ashley Blinds UK 3 Morgan Electrics 4 Dunkley Tiles 5 Plumbers Online Ltd 7 South Coast Roofing Ltd 7 Roof Exchange 12 Build Exchange 12 Plumb Exchange 12 Flair Interiors 24 WBC 247 Heating & Plumbing 28 Comfort Rooms 26 Paul Belton Construction 29 Revitalize Windows 32 Shaun Welling Artificial Grass 34 Shaun Welling Patios & Driveways 35 J Murphy Electrical 41 WBC 247 Electrical 47 Motoring, Boating and Travel RIBS Marine 27
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Local Libraries Christchurch 29 High Street Christchurch BH23 1AW 01202 485 938 Monday 9.30am to 5.30pm Tuesday 10am to 7pm Wednesday 9.30am to 1pm Thursday 9.30am to 7pm Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm Saturday 9am to 4pm
Highcliffe Gordon Road Highcliffe BH23 5HN 01425 272 202 Monday 10am to 6.30pm Tuesday 9.30am to 5pm Wednesday Closed Thursday 9.30am to 1pm Friday 9.30am to 6.30pm Saturday 9.30am to 4pm
Local Chemists Lloyds 01425 274291 248 Lymington Road, Highcliffe Mon-Fri 8.45-5.30 Sat 9-4 Day Lewis Pharmacy 01425 613222 4 Old Milton Green Parade Christchurch Road, New Milton Mon-Fri 9am-1/2-6pm Sat 9am-1pm Sainsburys 01425 277885 1 Lyndhurst Road, Christchurch Mon-Fri-7am-11pm Sat 7am-10pm Sun 10am-4pm Wessex Pharmacies 01202 482197 186 Somerford Road, Christchurch Mon - Fri 9-1.15/2.15-5.30 Sat 9-1.15 Rowlands Pharmacy 01202 484840 136 Purewell, Christchurch Mon-Fri 8.45-6.30 Sat 8.45-1 Mudeford Pharmacy 01425 272798 94 Mudeford, Christchurch Mon-Fri 9-1/2-5.30 (Weds ‘til 1) Sat 9-1 46 • Highcliffe Eye • April 2015
Police/Crime Police (Emergency) Police (Non-emergency) Crimestoppers Neighbourhood & Home Watch
999 101 0800 55 51 11 01202 222 222
Medical/Health Services Dorset Out-of-Hours/NHS 111 Bournemouth A&E Bournemouth Hospital Christchurch Hospital British Red Cross Loan Service
111 01202 704169 01202 303626 01202 486361 01202 484074
Local Council & Services Christchurch Borough Council 01202 495000 Dorset County Council 01305 221000 Christchurch Information Centre 01202 471780 Regent Centre 01202 499199 Bournemouth Airport 01202 364000 Post Office 0845 722 3344 Dorset Family Information Service 01305 221066 Pet Care RSPCA - Ashley Heath Cats Protection
0870 010 1849 0845 3712 762
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