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contents Local History 6 MindBenders 8 Adopt a Pet 8 Pancake Race 9 What’s On 10 Community Notices 11 Live Gig Guide 12 Clubs, Classes, Groups & Societies 12 Highcliffe On Sea Traders Association 15 Tucktonia 16 Christchurch Chamber of Trade 19 Blue Plaque Trail 21 Highcliffe Rotary 25 Coffee Break 30 Mum’s the Word 33 Christchurch Community Partnership 34 Kids Page 36 Garden View 38 Teen Column 39 Recipe 41 Puzzle Solutions 42 Regent Listings 42 Trades & Services 43 Index 45 Useful Telephone Numbers 46

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We’ve gone and done it again; this month we bring you even more regular, local content!

Firstly, I’d like to introduce Stephen Roberts, a local resident who will be guiding us around the Millennium Blue Plaque Trail and reveals Cheryl to us some of the local history behind each of the Blue Plaques that you see dotted around Christchurch, with a series of articles throughout the year. Secondly, we bring you our new Local Gig Guide so you can find out what bands are playing locally; we’re very fortunate to have such a wide choice of live music here in Christchurch.

This feature is still in its infancy so please bear with us as we get this new feature established.

You may have noticed that our page numbers have grown recently and this is due to more advertisements (this is an independent publication therefore is funded by the adverts). The more adverts we have, the more local content we are able to bring you. More and more businesses are hearing how well the magazine works for them and coming on board and that is due to you, our readers, picking up the phone and using the local trades and services within these pages. You’re also mentioning where you saw them which is great, so do please keep it up, it’s surely working for all of us I’m pleased to say.

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Local History

by Phil Tate

- The Puzzle Tomb

To the right of the main pathway leading to the Priory Church is an old tomb that has for centuries presented a history mystery.

Its inscription reads: WE WERE NOT SLAYNE BVT RAYSD RAYSD NOT TO LIFE BVT TO BE BVRIED TWICE

BY MEN OF STRIFE WHAT REST COVLDTH LIVING HAVE WHEN DEAD HAD NONE AGREE AMONGST YOV HEERE WE TEN ARE ONE HEN : ROGERS DIED APRILL 17·1641 IR

Henry Rogers had died the year before the start of the Civil War, so perhaps his grave was the most notable of those disturbed? The inscription makes no mention of the gender of the ‘raysd’, so maybe his wife was also numbered amongst the ten?

Sadly, there is no strong supportive evidence for any of these theories. As local historian Mike Andrews has commented, the only way to know for certain if the tomb actually contains ten bodies would be to have it excavated – but then the tombstone inscription would need to be amended to read ‘buried thrice’!

Can you offer any alternative explanations for the mysterious Puzzle Tomb?

Henry Rogers was Mayor of Christchurch eight times between 1615 and 1639. The ‘IR’ after his name is believed to be the initials of the stonemason who engraved the epitaph, for these also appear on other tombstones of the same period, including a similar but far less legible stone at the rear of the tomb that records the burial of Henry Rogers’ wife.

One speculative theory to explain this mysterious tomb suggests that ten sailors were drowned in a shipwreck in Christchurch Bay and their bodies were buried near where they were washed ashore. The Lord of the Manor then insisted that these unfortunate sailors should be decently reburied in the churchyard, but Mayor Henry Rogers was reluctant to bear the cost of the multiple reburials. These two ‘men of strife’ finally agreed on a compromise of having all ten men buried in a common grave paid for by Rogers.

In 1797 the young Romantic poet Robert Southey, then aged only 23, was living with his wife Edith in a rented cottage in Burton. He recorded the tombstone in his notebook along with a local tradition that the ten men had been killed by a landfall whilst digging in a gravel pit and their bodies had to be dug out before being reburied.

Southey also noted another local story that the ten men were said to be Royalists ‘whose bones were dug up by Cromwell’ during the English Civil War. Although Oliver Cromwell never personally came to Christchurch, this comment has evolved into the popular theory that the tomb was erected in the wake of the 1645 Siege of Christchurch (see last month’s Local History article), when a small Parliamentarian garrison was besieged within the castle and churchyard for over ten days before their Royalist attackers were compelled to retreat. It is suggested that the desperate Roundheads had excavated ten lead lined coffins in order to cast more lead shot for their muskets.

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Picture: Old picture postcard of the ‘Puzzle Tomb’.

Courtesy of Bev Miller.

The Romantic poet Robert Southey also has a link to another of the Priory’s memorials. After moving from Burton in 1799 he eventually settled in the Lake District where, in the company of his brotherin-law Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lakeland native William Wordsworth, he became a founder of the so-called ‘Lake Poets’. It was in Keswick that in 1811 he first met, and briefly became the mentor of, an idealistic young poet named Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Shelley became noted amongst the next generation of Romantic poets, but in 1822 he drowned off the coast of Italy and his body was cremated on the beach.

In 1851, Shelley’s widow, Mary Wollstonecraft, the famed authoress of the philosophical horror novel Frankenstein, bought a cliff-top home at Boscombe and established a family vault in St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth. This was where Shelley’s heart, which had been snatched from his funeral pyre, was later buried. However, St Peter’s declined a marble memorial commissioned by Shelley’s son, so this was instead installed in the Christchurch Priory Church, where it can still be seen.

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Tossing pancakes in a race for Christchurch Food Festival charity Pancake Day (Tuesday 17 February) will see the cobbled area of Church Street in Christchurch transformed into a race track as chefs, business people and local celebrities grab their frying pans and toss their way to victory in pancake races.

The Christchurch Food Festival is holding the pancake races on Shrove Tuesday in front of the historic Priory Church to benefit its charity, Christchurch Food Festival Education Trust. Races start at 10.30am.

Building on the success of last year’s event, the Food Festival committee hopes to encourage more teams to enter this year to raise more money. Entrance fee for teams of four is just £20 while individual chefs are also being encouraged to enter for £5.

Last year’s event saw Halifax Bank taking the top team prize while Ludwig Spitzer, chef at Loch & Quay, won the individual chef event.

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was amazing how competitive everyone was but we had to disqualify some team members as there was a bit of cheating going on with pancakes not being tossed enough. We’d love even more teams to get involved this year to join in the fun.”

“We’ll also be using the pancake races to launch this year’s Festival which promises to be even better than previous years as we’ll be expanding down to Christchurch Quay with a new Festival Village in addition to the popular High Street market.”

Any teams wishing to enter the pancake races should contact the organiser Cheryl Davies by emailing cheryl@captainsclubhotel.com.

This year’s Food Festival takes place on 9 and 10 May. More information can be found at www.christchurchfoodfest.co.uk.

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Sunday 1st February - 8th March 2015 11am - 5pm Sun to Thurs. 11am 4.30pm Fri & Sat. Guilded Images 2 is a new exhibition of paintings by Christchurch Arts Guild featuring Contemporary, Traditional, Abstract and Impressionist work at Highcliffe Castle. The output of this progressive group is not to be missed for the variety and quality of art on offer.

Monday 2nd February 7.30pm - 9pm Highcliffe Horticultural Society will be holding their monthly meeting at St.Mark’s church hall, Hinton Wood Ave, Highcliffe, when Kevin Hobbs will be giving a talk on Naturalistic planting with Perennials, Shrubs and Grasses. Visitors welcome.

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Saturday 7th February 10am - 1pm Made in Dorset Craft and Vintage Fayre Over 30 stalls of unique local handmade crafts and pre-loved vintage items. Homemade cakes and refreshments. Every 1st Saturday of month. Free entry & free draw. Supporting Julia’s House. Bransgore Village Hall, BH23 8AY. Details 07812 555516 Saturday 7th February 10am - 12.30pm RNLI coffee morning, Highcliffe Methodist Church Hall. Cakes, books, jewellery, jigsaws, souvenirs, bric-à-brac.

All proceeds to RNLI, admission free, donations welcome.

Monday 9th February 7.30 - 9pm and Wednesday, 18th February, 1.30 - 3pm Highcliffe Death Café.

Eat cake and drink coffee whilst talking about death and our own mortality. There has been over 1,442 Death Cafés in 27 countries so far. It is good to talk about this taboo subject.

25 Hinton Wood Avenue, Highcliffe, BH23 5AB. Wednesday 11th February 2.00 pm (doors open 1.30pm) Highcliffe flower club. Come and watch Shelagh Richardson a professional flower arranger demonstration in the Methodist Church Hall, Lymington Road, Highcliffe. We are a friendly group and visitors welcome.

Friday 13 February, 2.30pm Valentine Vintage Tea Party, Christchurch Library. Delicious cakes and choice of teas served on vintage china. Tickets £2, numbers limited.

Thursday 19th February, 2.30pm Home Education; Preparation for Lifelong Learning. A personal perspective by 3 generations of a local family. Highcliffe Library, Refreshments. Phone 01425 272202 or call into the library for tickets. Library Friends £1, Non Members £2.

Thursday 19th February, 2015 RNLI Coffee Morning.

Do come along to our monthly coffee mornings held in the Christchurch Sailing Club and enjoy the beautiful views of the river. You don’t have to be a member of the RNLI to meet with us over coffee and biscuits or enter the raffle with instant prizes and find out more about the RNLI. Thursday 19th February, 7.00 pm Highcliffe W.I. talk on ‘The River Stour, from Stourhead to Stanpit’, followed by refreshments, a quiz and a raffle.

At The Day Centre, Lymington Road. If you would like to join us please contact Barbara 01425 271995 for more information.

Thursday 19th February - 12 March, 10am - 4pm Fashion Fortnight plus One. Exhibition and sale of fashion related items and art by members of CADArts. Bags, scarves, jewellery etc.

The Hayloft Gallery, 14 Wick Lane, Christchurch BH23 1HX. Saturday 21st February 10am - 12noon Coffee Morning with a Raffle at The Methodist Church Hall, Lymington Road Highcliffe BH23 5EG. Everybody welcome, come and make new friends.

Saturday 21st February 10am - 4pm Made in Dorset Vintage Fair.

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and pre-loved items, from homewares & clothes to jewellery & collectables. Homemade snacks and cakes with a real vintage atmosphere. Every 3rd Saturday of month. Free entry. Druitt Hall, Off High Street, Christchurch.

Saturday 21st February, 2 - 5pm The Creature Teachers. Children’s event. Mixed animal encounters/photo opportunities, crafts, refreshments and raffle at Hall on The Hill, Marlow Drive, BH23 2RR. Tickets £5 per person, under twos free, (available from the Launderette, Marlow Drive or www.hallonthehill.org.uk).

Tuesday 24th February, 2pm - 4pm The Priory Church Open Volunteer Day. Open day for Volunteers at the Priory Church, Christchurch. If you have an hour or two to spare a week/fortnight/month then come along and find out more. Light refreshments and a mini tour will be provided.

Saturday 28th February, 7pm Family Fun Quiz Night at Mudeford Wood Community Centre, Pipers Drive, BH23 4TR. Come along and test your knowledge. Tickets £8 & include a fish & chip supper, bring your own drink.

Call 01425 272084 or pop into the office to book.

Monday & Saturday throughout February 10am - 3pm Table-Top-Sale at the Regent Centre Christchurch, selling: Costume/Vintage jewellery, scarfs, etc., DVD’s, special homemade cakes, bric-a-Brac etc..

Until 19 February, 10am - 4pm Spring Fever. A fresh new exhibition of locally made arts and crafts at The Hayloft Gallery 14 Wick Lane, Christchurch BH23 1HX.

Regular Markets Every Monday - Christchurch Market (all year) Up to 100 traders selling a variety of food, clothes, household goods, plants and bric-a-brac in the mainly traffic-free High Street and Saxon Square.

Christchurch Country Market.

Everything home-baked, homemade and homegrown locally. Every Monday 9.30-11.30.

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Integral Yoga Classes with Brahmi Every Sunday. First class free.

Feel renewed and rebalanced by hatha postures, breathing exercises, and deep relaxation.

10am - 11.30 at St Catherine’s Community Hall, Christchurch, BH23 2RD. For more information contact Brahmi 07518 067859 or just come along.

Mudeford Wood Tennis Club Saturdays and Tuesdays, Brabazon Drive, Mudeford.

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League matches played. All weather courts with floodlights.

Club sessions Tuesday 6pm to 8pm, Saturdays 2pm to 4pm. £60 annual membership. Contact Gail 07973 514036 or Debbie 07592 014207.

Art and Craft Susan Knights Watercolour Classes ‘Jump in and Get Wet’.

Small, friendly, informative classes - overlooking beautiful Christchurch Harbour. Contact Sue on 01202 481099 or email susanknights@hotmail.co.uk www.susanknights.co.uk

Children Musical Steps. Mondays during term time. Awardwinning and inspiring music classes for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers held in The Regent Centre Rehearsal Studio. Contact Heather for a trial class. heather.smith@ musicalsteps.co.uk 0845 643 5025 www.musicalsteps.co.uk

Music Join Christchurch and District Concert Band Calling all brass and woodwind musicians. Come and have some

banter with a fun, friendly Wind Band. Rehearsals every Tuesday in central Christchurch. Nice engagements - varied music, great people.

Call 07974 320122 for info or www. christchurchanddistrictband. co.uk Stan’s Blues Jam at The Thomas Tripp Tuesday 3rd February, 8.30 pm - 11.00 pm 10 Wick Lane, Christchurch BH23 1HX. On the First Tuesday Every Month - Free Entry - Backline provided www.stansbluesjam.co.uk

Clubs and Societies Christchurch Probus Club Meets 10.15am, first Tuesday of every month at the East Close Hotel, Lyndhurst Road, Christchurch. A very friendly welcome awaits all retired professional and businessmen.

Interesting speakers and excellent lunches! Please contact the Secretary, Robin Haggett on 01202-482528.

Christchurch Trefoil Guild A friendly welcome is extended to ex-Brownies, ex-Guides and anyone with or without Guiding connections to join us at 2.15pm on the first Monday of the month at Portfield Hall, Portfield Road, Christchurch. Interesting speakers, activities and outings.

Contact May Haggett 01202-482528.

Carbery Machine Knitting Club We meet on the first Tuesday of each month at St George’s Church Hall Annex, Jumpers Road, Christchurch BH23 2JR from 7 - 9 pm. We welcome all machine knitters to join us.

For further information, contact Joy on 01202 489614.

Parkinson’s UK, Christchurch Branch Friendly afternoon get together for Parkinson sufferers and their carers Thursday 12th Feb at 2pm in the Community Hall, Marlow Drive, St Catherine’s Hill. New members always welcome.

Christchurch Central W.I. meet on the first Wednesday of the month, in the Druitt Hall, off the High Street, 10am -12.15pm.

Enjoy interesting speakers, refreshments and Raffle.

Visitors very welcome, more information on 01202 386813.

Highcliffe Duplicate Bridge Club Meets at Greystones House Monday and Wednesday evenings. Friendly welcome for players of all levels - hosts and improvers classes. Phone Beryl on 01425 276191 Monday Social Club at Portfield Hall on 2/9/23 February 2015.

Join us for coffee, lunch and make new friends. For more information call Les Denmead on 01202 470929.

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Christchurch 50+ Singles Club extends a warm welcome to active unattached ladies & gentlemen over 50 to our lively social/friendship group. Come & enjoy many varied activities.

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Highcliffe-on-Sea Traders Association HOLD THE FRONT PAGE! I’ve always wanted to say that since watching all those 1950s American “B” movies in the school holidays, someone would phone the newsroom from a booth with a bi-fold door and bellow down the phone “Hold the front page I gotta scoop”.

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I’m sure you have visited the Christchurch Food Festival in the past and have felt the vibrancy of what has become a prestigious event, well now it is time for Highcliffe to join in and show what we 100 can do. On the 16th of May the Saturday following the Christchurch event, we shall be holding the 95 first ever “Highcliffe Revival Food Festival”.

We want to give our event its own unique flavour and, hopefully, re-establish a sense of community.75The intention is to celebrate all that is great about where we live promoting local produce and the top100 quality food outlets in Highcliffe both new and established.

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The festival, whilst celebrating food, is designed to laud our village, Highcliffe is a lovely place575to live and our High Street is seconds from the sea, which 0 we sometimes forget, so we shall reflect this with decoration, entertainment and just plain good old 25 fashioned fun.

And as for the speed limit petition you can sign it in the Post Office or the Library before the 9th of 0 February.

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TUCKTONIA: BEFORE TUCKTONIA Written by Alexander McKinstry

The Tuckton Golf and Leisure Park was founded by Harry Stiller in 1972, but its origins lay in the golf club that preceded it - the memory of which survives in ‘Fairway Drive’, on what had originally been the site’s northern boundary of the site. Before launching into the history of the leisure park, however - and its main feature, the model landscape known as Tucktonia - a potted history of the district may be of some interest.

The site had been used for agriculture since the nineteenth century, though problems arose from the fact that it was a flood plain; in 1888, for instance, Richard Butler, a tenant farmer, lost 100 tons of mangel-wurzel from the fields here, most

of which were lying in heaps waiting to be carted away. (A few tons were salvaged using boats from the Christchurch Quay area.) In 1908 the land was acquired by the French Gardening Company, who grew salad crops here in the continental manner beneath serried ranks of glass bell-jars known as cloches. After further floods in 1916, however, the company migrated further up Stour Road, where the Douglas Avenue allotments were later laid out. From then on, the land lay fallow until being acquired by a developer, Alfred Curling Hunter, who had developed much of the Broadway area.

He envisaged laying out a small estate here, but in 1931 his company entered voluntary liquidation, whereupon Arthur Vine, a young professional golfer, began renting the site from the liquidator.

The result was the Tuckton Golf School, which opened in 1932 and was distinguished by metal practice sheds fitted with mirrors, allowing novices 16 • Highcliffe Eye • February 2015

to practise their swings even in wet weather.

During the Second World War the site was taken over by the Home Guard and used for exercises, but Vine resumed his hold of the site soon afterwards, draining three ponds to make an 18-hole course and laying out a second, 12-hole course which, in summer months, was lit by eighteen 32-ft. pylons, allowing visitors to play long after nightfall.

This was the first floodlit golf course in the country Vine had welded and erected the lights himself, at a cost of £600 - and it duly impressed Harry Stiller, a twenty-year-old golfing enthusiast, when he arrived in Bournemouth in 1958.

‘He was actually my business partner,’ says Harry Stiller today, ‘because I was a mad golfer, and when Arthur was talking about retirement one day I said I’d be interested in taking the place on.

A year later he became quite ill, and I went into partnership with him - and when he died, I bought out his share from his widow. This would have been 1961.’ One of Harry’s first moves was to procure a drinks licence for the clubhouse which Vine had erected at the site in the mid-1950s. ‘That became The Golfer’s Arms,’ says Harry, ‘and in fact we got the first seasonal drinks licence in the country, allowing us to sell alcohol between April and October each year.’ Such was the site’s popularity; this was extended to an all-year-round drinks licence in September 1963.

This, then, was the gestation of the Tuckton Golf Course, as it had become known by the early 1960s. During that decade Harry Stiller tended to focus on his Formula 3 career, only to abandon the sport in 1969 after two successive accidents testdriving tyres. At this point, he began taking steps to transform the Stour Road site into a full-fledged fun park, something that Christchurch and even Bournemouth lacked at that juncture. We will look at the results, which were to electrify the district, in our next issue.

Alexander McKinstry is writing a history of the Tuckton district. He can be e-mailed at thebankruptcyman@gmail.com

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Business Column It is rare to find the words “pensions” and “exciting” in the same sentence, but the new pension rules in force from the 1st April 2015 are certainly exciting some people locally.

Saving for your pension Peter is one of those things we all know we ought to do.

Tax allowances act as an encouragement but the complex rules when you retire have been off-putting. Indeed, the obligation to buy an annuity, and the recent poor returns due to low interest rates, has put off many from investing at all.

From 1st April, all that is changing. No longer will you be obliged to buy an annuity and, in most cases, you will be able to draw out funds from your pension as you please (subject to income tax payments on the money withdrawn).

The mischievous suggestion that pensioners will all be cashing in their pensions to buy Lamborghinis is an unlikely vision in Christchurch.

But the temptation may be there to do other things.

Withdrawing money from your pension fund to clear the mortgage is certainly the plan for some people I know. After a lifetime of work, one could not blame some for using a bit for a holiday, or a car upgrade or a house improvement.

Of course, where there is money, there are usually relations and the fear is that some might be persuaded to access their hard earned pension monies to help the next generation get on the housing ladder.

From a local business point of view, with the age profile of our area, the availability of funds not previously accessible could give the local economy a boost. The important thing is to make certain there are enough local independent pension advisors available to ensure realistic advice is given and sensible decisions are made. As we are all living longer, keeping money within a pension is also important.

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Christchurch Blue Plaques by Stephen Roberts No. 1 - By-Pass Car Park

The dental hygienist is what most people instinctively think of if you mention the word ‘plaque’, but in Christchurch we have another, happier, connotation.

There are 19 Millennium blue-plaques dotted around the town centre, plus other miscellaneous plaques.

What they have in common is a desire to tell us about buildings and people that made Christchurch what it is.

The blue-plaques were placed courtesy of Christchurch Local History Society, which continues to promote local heritage that sometimes can be taken for granted.

In the first of a series looking at these plaques, I’ve chosen to start with the only blue-plaque north of the bypass, which also happens to commemorate Christchurch’s earliest settlers. It can be found on a brick column just before you turn the corner for Waitrose and recalls that an archaeological dig on the site, now occupied by the By-Pass Car Park, once revealed finds dating back to the New Stone Age. It was clearly a significant spot, for representatives of the Bronze Age, Iron Age and AngloSaxons also left their mark. We should not be overly surprised for it is established that nearby Hengistbury Head was inhabited in the Stone Age and had become a significant port by the Iron Age. Our blue-plaque recalls Christchurch’s earliest cemetery with barrows, burials and cremations, giving intriguing hints as to the lives and deaths of our distant forebears. The Saxons are held to be the true founders of what we know today as Christchurch and they seem

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to have chosen their burial site carefully, honouring dead of long before. It seems burial places were ‘sanctified’ if they had been used since time immemorial and the Saxons were keen to re-use rather than neglect.

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Saxon burials were aligned around Bronze Age barrows; a better life in the hereafter through association maybe. One such is depicted in the Red House Museum and is as close as we will get to looking in on the burial rites of a Millennium ago. Some of the grave goods from ‘Grave 14’ can also be seen, a spear, shield-boss, knife and such like. Acidic soils, like we have here, erode skeletons to the point where the barest trace is visible. Grave goods can be made of sterner stuff, so survive.

The spur for digging was the building of the supermarket and car park in the late 1970s, which gave archaeologists possibly their only chance to discover what lay underneath. Two Bronze Age barrows and over 30 Saxon graves was a good haul by anyone’s standard and yet not even all the cemetery was excavated.

Steve Roberts - www.steveroberts.org.uk / @ SRChristchurch (Twitter) References Christchurch Blue Plaques Millennium Trail Christchurch - The Golden Years (MA Hodges, 2003) Map by Mark Fudge, reproduced courtesy of Dorset Life Magazine

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Highcliffe-on-Sea Rotary Club ROTARY YOUNG CHEF The Rotary Club’s sponsorship of the competition at the Highcliffe School in late November again proved a great success and was this year judged by Peter Leyland-Jones from the Lanes of Lymington restaurant.

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Throughout the year we have worked closely with Food Technology teachers Mrs S. Rowe and Mrs D. Leitch and our sincere and grateful thanks must be publicly acknowledged to the benefit of the students.

CHRISTMAS CAROL CONCERT The annual carol concert, organised by the Highcliiffe Rotary Club was held in St Marks Church on Wednesday 10th December which, as usual, was filled to capacity and the Winton Salvation Army Band gave their usual delightful renditions of carols and other seasonal music which everyone enjoyed. The collection in aid of the Salvation Army, Winton rose in excess of £300 and we are already looking forward to next year’s concert! Make a note Wednesday 9th December 2015.

CHRISTMAS CARNIVAL On Saturday 13th December several Members of Highcliffe Rotary Club helped with the marshalling of the Highcliffe Christmas Carnival route through the High Street. The Carnival was very much enjoyed by all and the members concluded their evening with mulled wine and mince pies.

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Mum’s the Word Two weeks ago, at 10pm at night, I found myself frantically cutting up onions, wrapping them in muslin cloths and placing them in my children’s bedrooms. I had read this was supposed to help the constant coughing that had been keeping the children awake. Did it work? I think so! The coughing dramatically reduced for the rest of the week, bliss! So, with a new found love of onions, I trawled the Internet for more natural remedies.

These next few months are prime cold seasons, I’m not a huge fan, like many, of giving medicine after medicine, so I found some great natural alternatives to gently help along the way. For instance, pineapple juice is said to be more effective than cough syrup by five times, sitting in a steamy bathroom with your little one can help unblock stuffy noses and, it’s said placing a clove of garlic in the bottom of sock before bed will rid the cold by morning!

If raiding your vegetable cupboard isn’t for you, The Bay Tree in Christchurch is a natural health shop, stocking everything from vitamins to essential oils to help you beat the bugs. I popped on their website and they have a free monthly newsletter full of offers, discounts and advice, and as its local it’s easy to pop in for supplies. My own trick is a breezy walk down the beach clearing the chest and that often results in a better nights sleep all round. That, and a massive hot chocolate usually will bring some smiles.

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Christchurch Angels

A CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!

Services of Christchurch Angels are offered to isolated, vulnerable patients registered in all the GP Surgeries in Christchurch. We are particularly looking for Angel volunteers across Christchurch, including those who live in the Highcliffe area, as well as Burton.

Christchurch Angels Project is led by Christchurch Community Partnership and is funded by Dorset Community Foundation, the Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group and Sovereign Housing.

The office is based at Stour Surgery, Christchurch.

Christchurch Angels aims to reach those in our community who don’t have a network of family/ friends to give that practical help and support in times of crisis or illness for a couple of months. It may be a young mum who breaks her ankle and needs help, or an older person who comes out of hospital and needs someone to help them rebuild their confidence in coping.......or any number of other scenarios.

It is the community helping the community and both recipient and donor benefiting from the experience.

The kind of things a volunteer Angel can help with are: • Visiting people in their homes and providing regular contact if needed • Helping and supporting people to use local facilities, activities and resources • Assisting with information and advice regarding other agencies who can provide support • Acting as an advocate when necessary • Helping with paperwork and correspondence • Helping with practical tasks, e.g. getting prescriptions, mowing the lawn, walking the dog on a short term basis • Helping to develop a better social life • Shopping transport via Dial a Bus or Age Concern • Accompanied walks with the Strollers Examples of how our Angels have given help:

• An elderly man lost his wife a few months ago and was extremely depressed, not eating properly and his health was failing. An angel visits him regularly and cooks him a casserole. We are also in discussion with his local medical practice to support him.

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• A lady who relies on her son for support and do her shopping needed an Angel for a few weeks whilst her son was in hospital. He felt greatly relieved knowing someone was popping in to see his Mum on a regular basis. A Christchurch Angel went to see the lady at least once a week to make sure she was coping and that the network of helpers set up by the son prior to his hospital visit was working well.

• An elderly Yorkshire man, recently bereaved,was very lonely and could not go out due to breathlessness and poor eyesight - a male Angel, who also happens to be from Yorkshire, has befriended him. He now has a new lease of life and has started to play the piano again.

Volunteers will not be expected to carry out personal care or housework.

As part of the project there is a list of organisations which may also be able to offer support. www.christchurchcommunitypartnership.org.uk/ christchurchangels VOLUNTEER ANGELS Volunteers are the ‘life blood’ for any community.

We seek to recruit volunteers from a diverse range of backgrounds. You will get the chance to meet new people, make friends and gain confidence; the chance to use your individual talents and skills to benefit your local community; an enhanced CV; the knowledge that you have made a difference to someone’s life a real feel good factor. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer please contact Linda Green on 07443 476798.

Christchurch Community Partnership is a registered charity that exists to improve the quality of life for people in Christchurch. It aims: • To build a better Christchurch • To be the catalyst for change by networking all interested parties.

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The Kaleidoscope Dancers

5 - Arrive at the show venue 4 - Shoes on! 3 - Check the dance floor 2 - Rehearse the steps 1 - Costumes on….DANCE! Tuesdays, Fridays or Saturdays where they learn a blend of ballet, tap and fun dance. There’s no pressure, no exams, but lots of fun and games with gentle steps upwards, as and when ready.

Kaleidoscope children know the drill - and love it! Shows are integral part of their training so there is always a focus for their hard work.

It’s also about caring, because these shows are for the community. Kaleidoscope Dancers can be found at venues from residential homes to carnival arenas.

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Classes are not expensive starting at £2.80 for pre-school children and costumes are hired out at a reasonable price, so membership is affordable.

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HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? THIS MONTH - BLOWSY BEGONIAS

Every gardener has at least one guilty secret: mine is begonias. My mother insists they are vulgar and she wouldn’t give them house room. A gardening friend turned up her nose at my begonia baskets last year, but I won’t hear a word against them. They are the cheerful, cockney barrow boys of the plant world and I love them.

They are pretty easy to grow once you know how, and you can start them off any time now if you have a warm windowsill or a propagator.

One of the reasons I find them so satisfying to grow is that they start life as a rather unprepossessing tuber, which my husband once described as looking like dried dog poo - he isn’t a gardener.

The tubers should feel rock hard when you squeeze them. If they feel spongy, put them back. There is also a right way up and a wrong way up. Take your tuber and examine it. There should be a concave surface - like a little dip - and a convex surface. The dip is the upper surface from which the shoots will grow and the convex surface sprouts the roots.

Fill some 12cm/5inch pots with soil-less potting compost so that the surface of the compost is 2.5cm /1 inch below the rim of the pot. This eventually allows for watering, but at this time of year the top of the tuber should be kept dry.

Push the tubers – remember concave side up - into the compost so that the top of each tuber is still visible. Do not bury them. Keep the pots at somewhere between 15-18C / 60-75F in the propagator, in a greenhouse, or on a bright windowsill, though not in direct sunlight.

Water with care, and when the first flowers appear make sure they are well ventilated.

High humidity and erratic watering can cause the buds to drop off.

Finally, begonias have both male and female flowers. The male ones are far bigger and more showy, so pinch off the female ones, which can be spotted because they possess an embryonic seed pod behind the bud. Doing this will mean that the male flowers last much longer.

You may need to stake them to support the heads. When summer arrives, you will be able to plant up pots and baskets and bask in the flamboyant blowsy beauty of the begonia: Who could resist?

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Teen Column Well it’s February already and that means it’s nearly Valentine’s Day! Did you know that about 1 billion cards are sent every Valentine’s Laura Day? The most popular gifts include chocolate, flowers and jewellery.

More than 35 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate will be sold for Valentine’s Day. 73% of men buy flowers at this time of year and only 27% of women do.

If you know me you will know one of my favorite things is music so when an opportunity arises to play and make music I will take it. But here is something that you may not have known; there is a great music centre on Barrack road in Christchurch by the Fountain roundabout called The Lighthouse Youth & Community Centre.

I recently went there with a friend and it’s amazing! They have a lounge area, 2 practice rooms, karaoke, a games room with darts and a pool table, a recording studio and an outside space that is used for football and team building games during the summer.

It costs 50p per night but the first time you go its free! The centre is for 13-19 year olds and open Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 7pm to 10pm. The staff there are lovely and the other teenagers there made my friend and I feel included and very welcome.

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Put the flour and a pinch of salt into a large mixing bowl and make a well in the centre.

Crack the eggs into the middle, then pour in about 50ml milk and 1 tbsp oil. Start whisking from the centre, gradually drawing the flour into the eggs, milk and oil. Once all the flour is incorporated, beat until you have a smooth, thick paste. Add a little more milk if it is too stiff to beat.

Add a good splash of milk and whisk to loosen the thick batter. While still whisking, pour in a steady stream of the remaining milk. Continue pouring and whisking until you have a batter that is the consistency of slightly thick single cream.

Heat the pan over a moderate heat, then wipe it with oiled kitchen paper. Ladle some batter into the pan, tilting the pan to move the mixture around for a thin and even layer. Quickly pour any excess batter into a jug, return the pan to the heat, then leave to cook, undisturbed, for about 30 secs. Pour the excess batter from the jug back into the mixing bowl. If the pan is the right temperature, the pancake should turn golden underneath after about 30 secs and will be ready to toss to cook the other side.

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Care Homes/Help & Retirement Inter-County Nursing Care & Services Apex Care

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14 23 37

Cleaning Services New Forest Carpet Clean Christies Window Cleaning A Beautiful Clean Pure & Clean

8 23 43 43

Food & Drink Fire & Ice Cafe 9 Ye Olde George Inn 17 The Kings Hotel 28 DINE IN 32 Garden Services Chris Oliver Tree & Hedge Cutting Specialist 1 Apex Tree Surgeons 2 Southern Tree Specialists 33 Chris Oliver Tree & Hedge Cutting Specialist 35 Health, Beauty & Lifestyle All Mobility 4 Dorset Denture Clinic 15 Foot Health Practitioner 19

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Mudeford Men’s Club 24 FitSteps 27 Court House Clinics 44 Specsavers 45 Highcliffe Dental Practice 48

Home Improvement Ashley Blinds UK 3 Paul Belton Construction 4 Dunkley Tiles 5 Dream Doors 7 JP Murphy Electrical 15 A & S Painting Services 19 Flair Interiors 20 Comfort Rooms 22 Plumbers Online 25 Revitalize Double Glazing 26 Morgan Electrics 29 Plumb Exchange 31 Roof Exchange 31 Build Exchange 31 South Coast Roofing 33 Dorset Shutter Blinds 40 Electrician 43 Beds R Uzzz 47 WBC Electrical 29 WBC Plumbing 41

Motoring, Boating and Travel RIBS Marine 14 Maarten’s Taxi 43

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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 • February 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

Helplines Community Safety Issues Trading Standards Citizens Advice Bureau Childline NSPCC Southern Electric British Gas Gas Emergency Environment Agency National Drugs Helpline National Debt Line Alcholics Anonymous Samaritans Age Concern

01202 495111 01305 224012 0844 245 1291 0800 11 11 0808 800 50 00 0845 071 3953 0800 048 0202 0800 111 999 0800 80 70 60 0800 77 66 00 0808 808 40 00 0207 403 0888 08457 90 90 90 0800 00 99 66

Taxi Services Christchurch Radio Cabs Maarten’s Taxis Chritax

01202 484848 01202 484309 01202 470000

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