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Sandgate Issue 53 February 2017 This newsletter is compiled and edited by David Cowell who is totally responsible for content.

If you do not wish to receive these newsletters please email UNSUBSCRIBE to him at david@davidcowell.net

Thursday, 9th February - two shows 2 for 2.30pm

7 for 7.30pm

A stunning documentary about this highly original entertainer.

From the best selling novel, the story of an artistic colony living in the wilds of Cornwall in the years before the 1st World War.

Enjoy quality films at your local picture house

Sandgate Farmers' Market dates Just some of the groups that use the Chichester Hall on a regular basis (contact The Sentinel for details): Tai Chi Dance Pilates Tamalpa Table tennis Short mat bowls Sandgate Society monthly talks Sandgate Art Group

Rooms to hire in Sandgate

The Secret Drawing Club

Need to hire a hall? There's no need to look any further.

Sandgate has a room to suit your needs.

Chichester Memorial Hall

SANDGATE HERITAGE TRUST

Old Fire Station Reading Room

R EG C HARITY NO. 2 8 7 2 8 1

Have you heard about The Reading Room Sandgate?

St Paul's Church Hall Tower Theatre

SANDGATE HERITAGE TRUST REG CHARITY NO. 287281

The Library Whether for a party, business meeting, music evening, club meeting or annual general meeting, Sandgate has a room for you with space to accommodate from 10 to 300.

To see if there is one to suit your needs, do email the date (s) and number of attendees to david@davidcowell.net.

The Old Fire Station 51, Sandgate High Street Sandgate, Kent CT20 3AH

The Reading Room In The Old Fire Station Sandgate is a beautiful wood panelled room and is an ideal venue for small functions: Birthday Parties, small meetings, studio lighting & photography sessions, music practice, wakes etc. There is seating for a maximum

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of 30 people and there are folding tables for your use. There is a fully

01303 772873

equipped kitchen which includes crockery & cutlery settings and a

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combination microwave, tea urn, fridge, coffee machine & kettles.

07778773500

E-mail:

Please note there is NO WHEELCHAIR ACCESS. For more information please visit our newly designed website:

theoldfirestation369@gmail.com

Website www.theoldfirestationsandgate.co.uk

www.theoldfirestationsandgate.co.uk Or ring Mike Chalk 01303 772873 or Zoe Varian 01303 248114

We'll do the rest.

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W. MARTIN LTD. PET & GARDEN SUPPLIES 73 Cheriton High St.Folkestone.CT19 4HE PET FOODS & ACCESSORIES HUTCHES & RUNS ALL GARDEN REQUIREMENTS Large range of wild bird foods Seeds, bulbs, compost & fertilizers Vegetable & flower plants Concrete ornaments For a great pet and garden shop near you give us a call today on: 01303 275 223 or email wmartin4@btconnect.com

Hythe Farmers’ Market takes place on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month from 10am until 1pm.

In the Methodist Church Hall, Chapel Street, Hythe,

Parking is available nearby.

For more information call (01303) 266118 or 268715

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FINDING EANSWYTHE: the LIFE and AFTERLIFE of an ANGLO-SAXON SAINT The project is about a nationally important heritage connected with the life and times of Eanswythe, a young Anglo-Saxon princess, daughter of the Kentish King Eadbald. Who is believed to have founded the one of the first minsters in England, on a Folkestone headland now ‘The Bayle’ as early as AD 630. Eanswythe is Folkestone’s patron saint but her history and significance are not widely remembered or understood. The Finding Eanswythe project aims to work with the people of Folkestone and beyond to use the latest forms of research and thinking about the past to discover more about Eanswythe and the fascinating heritage that surrounds her.

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Sandgate Farmers' Market 4th February, 2017 10:00 to 12:30

Old Hall Farm

Sandgate Bakery

traditionally reared meat & sausages, rare breed lamb & pork and fresh eggs

Smoked French cheese, freshly baked bread, pies and biscuits and smoked salmon and smoked ham

Marsh Produce seasonal local fruit & veg Gill Thomson Jewellery Handmade jewellery featuring gemstones, pearls and Venetian glass

Nicola Jones Creative

art boards, soaps and candles

Pauline's hand made toys Great gift ideas

Including win a car competition

Florrie's Jewellery Hand crafted jewellery wonderful inexpensive gifts new items each market

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Florrie's Jewellery Hand crafted jewellery wonderful inexpensive gifts new items each market

Old Hall Farm

Marsh Produce seasonal local

Traditionally reared meat & sausages, rare breed lamb & pork

fruit & veg

Pre-order 01797 344430

Pauline's

SPECIALITY BREADS A variety of speciality breads and cakes, gingerbread men, etc. A small artisan bakery based in Sandgate. We only produce bread with no additives all of which is handformed in our cottage kitchen.

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hand made toys great gift ideas Nicola Jones Creative

art boards, soaps and candles

Nice Enough to Eat Flowers, plants and presents for the gardener Wonderful, original gifts for any time of the year

Gill Thomson Jewellery Handmade jewellery featuring gemstones, pearls and Venetian glass

Including win a car competition

FOLKESTONE QUAKERS MEET IN SANDGATE We gather at

ST. PAUL’S CHURCH HALL st

on the 1 , 3rd and 5th Sundays of the month at 10.30am Anyone is welcome to join us.

A Quaker Meeting for Worship is very simple and may be just what you need. It is a coming together in silence in which we ponder the deep issues of life without the constraints of pre-fixed beliefs. Anyone can share a heartfelt thought in the meeting. We don’t answer it or discuss it - we just receive it. In some meetings no-one speaks at all. The meeting ends with handshake and chat over coffee or tea.

We also hold house discussion groups and monthly social coffee chats.

Quakers have always been prepared to speak out on social issues and act on their convictions, resulting in the practical and social action that we have been known for over the years. www.eastkentquakers.org.uk

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The Quakers will be at this week's Farmers' Market

The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

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Saturday 25 February 2017, 7.30pm

THE DARIUS BRUBECK QUARTET

with special choral performance by the Shepway Singers of Dave Brubeck’s Four New England Pieces

' 01303 264470 for further details Tickets £15 available from Brandon’s Music Shop 55 High Street, Hythe, Kent CT21 5AD – ' 01303 264429 and from www.friendsofstleonardshythe.org.uk

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To advertise in three The Sentinels with circa 2300 targetted readers and growing please email me at: david@davidcowell.net for a rate card.

Thank you.

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No job too small Please call to discuss your needs

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www.aridzonaawnings.co.uk For the finest German engineered awnings and glass rooms Installed by a Kent based family company.

Call Sam Ruddle for a free survey on 0330 6600949

To advertise in three The Sentinels with circa 2300 targetted readers and growing please email me at: david@davidcowell.net for a rate card.

Thank you.

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1. Fruit (5) 3. Retail food seller (6) 6. Italian rice (7) 8. Consume (5) 10. Type of lobster (8) 11. Used to season and preserve food (4) 13. Sampled (6) 15. Pestle and ___ (6) 18. Aromatic leaves (4) 19. Thick syrup (8) 22. Cereal grass (3) 23. Pear-shaped tropical fruit (7) 24. Type of cake (6) 25. Very thin pancake (5)

1. Downy fruit (7) 2. Shaped and dried dough (5) 3. Game bird (6) 4. Kitchen appliance (4) 5. Open pastry with fruit filling (4) 7. Sticky candy (6) 9. Heated bread (5) 12. Edible tuber (6) 14. Sweetner (5) 16. Cooked meat or fish coated in egg and breadcrumbs and fried (7) 17. Thick soup (6) 18. Cook slowly in liquid (4) 20. Large edible ray (5) 21. Vegetable (4)

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Our ‘New Look’ Shop Proves a Big Hit!

Address: 139D High St, Hythe CT21 5JL Phone: 01303 238661 www.folkestonehythe.cats.org.uk Hours: Monday to Saturday 9:30am–4:30pm Sunday Closed

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Our refurbished shop is proving extremely popular, with customers patiently queuing outside (well before opening time) for the reopening. A steady stream of well over 200 customers came along on the first day alone and took advantage of the new, improved facilities. Come along and see – we have a very high standard of merchandise, at bargain prices!

CHAMPAGNE BY THE SEA ALL YEAR ROUND Why wait for New Years or special occasions?

We feel anytime is a good time for champagne!

Bar at the Hythe Imperial

Hythe Imperial Hotel, Princes Parade, Hythe, Kent CT21 6AE

Moet & Chandon, excellence from grape to glass. A seductive palette in every glass.

01303 267441

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Did you know that...

The Roman month Februarius was named after the Latin term februum, which means purification, via the purification ritual Februa held on February 15 (full moon) in the old lunar Roman calendar. January and February were the last two months to be added to the Roman calendar, since the Romans originally considered winter a monthless period. They were added by Numa Pompilius about 713 BC. February remained the last month of the calendar year until the time of the decemvirs (c. 450 BC), when it became the second month. At certain intervals February was truncated to 23 or 24 days, and a 27-day intercalary month, Intercalaris, was inserted immediately after February to realign the year with the seasons.

Under the reforms that instituted the Julian calendar, Intercalaris was abolished, leap years occurred regularly every fourth year, and in leap years February gained a 29th day. Thereafter, it remained the second month of the calendar year, meaning the order that months are displayed (January, February, March, ..., December) within a year-at-a-glance calendar. Even during the Middle Ages, when the numbered Anno Domini year began on March 25 or December 25, the second month was February whenever all twelve months were displayed in order.

The Gregorian calendar reforms made slight changes to the system for determining which years were leap years and thus contained a 29-day February.

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New season programme of films 7th February 2017

2nd May 2017

Pride

The Salt of the Earth

7th March 2017

6th June 2017

Raise the Red Lantern 4th April 2017

Tangerines 4th July 2017

Timbuktu

O Brother Where Art Thou

Where The Tin Tabernacle, Portland Road, Hythe, CT 21 6FL. Parking in council car parks (including at Aldi) is free after 6 pm, and there are often spaces alongside the canal. Full disabled access.

When 7.30 on the first Tuesday of the month, from October to July. Doors open 7.00.

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Email: hythecommunitycinema@gmail.com

ÂŁ5 on the door, or ÂŁ3 for Hythe Cinema Card holders.

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Phone: 01303 264914 or 01303 237227

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Sandgate Parish Council update SDC Parking Strategy for Sandgate Shepway District Council is responding to issues raised following the implementation of CPZs in Sandgate. Residents will be informally consulted in April followed by a formal consultation, probably in May. Roads which have been identified as requiring urgent attention are Military Road, Sandgate High Street, The Riviera, Sandgate Hill Enbrook Road St Paul's Way Chichester Road The Crescent Sandgate Parish Council will convene a meeting for the community when the formal consultation is in process.

Kind regards Gaye Thomas and Peter Savage, Clerks to Sandgate Parish Council Tel: 01303 248563 (9am – 1pm weekdays)

If like us, you revisit Sissinghurst Castle and gardens time and time again and always find something different to admire, you'll be pleased to hear about the opening of the South Cottage. This is the house where Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West lived and it accommodated their bedrooms and Nigel's study cum library. As the National Trust web site blurb says "The atmospheric cottage sits at the heart of the garden and has enjoyed the company of a variety of characters. If walls could talk, they’d tell of Harold designing the lime walk, the daily thoughts of its fascinating inhabitants and the tapping of typewriter keys crafting their next book. The South Cottage was built from a fragment of the great Elizabethan mansion of the Bakers. Together with the Priest’s House and the Tower it was one of the first buildings at Sissinghurst to be addressed by Vita and Harold, who drew up plans for an extension to the north in 1932. Today, the cottage remains much as they would have known it and Harold’s description in 1933 reveals his affection for the building: The sitting-room is lovely except that the opening is too big. My bedroom, w.c. and bathroom are divine. The primroses are superb. Dine. Bed. Rebecca* curled up beside me. It's well worth a visit and has timed access. Home." [* his wire haired terrior].

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If you have any photographs of the area either current or past do send them to me by email and I will feature them in future editions.

If you just have prints do drop them round to Clyme House (see below) and I will scan.

If you would like to submit an article or letter please email it to me.

I will print almost anything as long as it’s not libellous, racist or unkind.

Name must be supplied but can be withheld if requested.

Please put your articles etc in plain text or Word and images should be in .jpg, .tiff or .png.

My contact details are: Address: Clyme House, Hillside Street, Hythe, Kent CT21 5DJ Mobile: 07771 796 446 Landline: 020 3239 5828 (via Skype) email: david@davidcowell.net