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Sandgate Issue 62 November 2017 This newsletter is compiled and edited by David Cowell who is totally responsible for content.

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

Old Hall Farm

Sandgate Bakery

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

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

Marsh Produce

Anna Stone

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greetings cards

seasonal local fruit & veg

Pauline's hand made toys

Our range of preserves changes weekly depending on local produce availability.

Great gift ideas

Pot & Vessel NE W

Great gifts

Florrie's Jewellery

Gill Thomson Jewellery

Hand crafted jewellery wonderful inexpensive gifts new items each market

Handmade jewellery featuring gemstones, pearls and Venetian glass

Our Kitchen

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Serving delicious cakes

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Florrie's Old Hall Farm Pot & Vessel Jewellery Traditionally reared meat & sausages, rare breed lamb & pork

Great gifts

NE W

Hand crafted jewellery wonderful inexpensive gifts new items each market

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Now also: milk yogurt soft cheeses cheese eggs

Gill Thomson Jewellery Handmade jewellery featuring gemstones,

Pauline's

Marsh Produce seasonal local

hand made toys great gift ideas

fruit & veg

SPECIALITY BREADS

NE W

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.

Sourdough and Rustic mediterranean style breads are our speciality.

Our range of preserves changes weekly depending on local produce availability.

plus smoked ham

Serving delicious cakes

BOOKS

greetings cards

New books added at each Market

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Our Kitchen

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Art and Craft Market

Great range of bread, pies, biscuits, fruit & veg, meat, eggs, cheese and charcuterie, fish, cakes and quiches, preserves and chutneys and confectionery (stall holders may vary between markets).

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Shop Local. www.sandgatebusiness.org.uk

Sandgate Library is open Monday to Saturday 9:30am - 1:00pm (closed Wednesday) For more information call 01303 248563 (mornings only) Sandgate Library, James Morris Court, Sandgate High St. CT20 3RR

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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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The Historic Houses Association (HHA) represents over 1,640 of the UK's privately and charitably owned historic houses, castles and gardens.

These are listed buildings or designated gardens, usually Grade I or II*, and are often outstanding. Many are considered to be iconic symbols of Britain's unique heritage.

Around 500 of these properties open their doors to visitors for days out, special tours, school visits, film locations, weddings and events, or as memorable places to stay. 24 million people a year visit HHA Member properties and there are over 45,000 Friends of the HHA. Members range from iconic stately homes such as Blenheim Palace, Highclere Castle, Castle Howard, Knebworth House, Longleat and Burghley House, to more intimate houses such as Traquair in Scotland, Treowen in Wales and Belle Isle in Northern Ireland. Most are still private family homes.

The Association was established in 1973 to help owners conserve these wonderful places in the interests of the nation and carries out important lobbying, advisory and marketing work on behalf of Member properties.

Sandgate and the Sea Come and see what the sea had done to Sandgate over the years!!!

Weds 8th November 2017- 7.30-9.30pm.

Old Reading Room- The Old Fire Station 51

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From the cutting-edge London design agency Here Design - writer and poet Philip Cowell, and award-winning designer Caz Hildebrand, author of The Herbarium, this playful, original, beautifully designed book brings to life the punctuation marks we use every day, including: The dashing dash So-called "quotation marks" The colon: and on and on.

Kindle edition The shouty exclamation! ÂŁ9.99 Hardback The three dots of... ÂŁ14.99 (Not forgetting the brackets) Great gift And even more 9

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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The editor of The Sentinel is also responsible for sending Sandgate related event information to the Folkestone Herald. If you have an event you wish to publicise it is needed by Tuesday at 17:00. The information should appear in the edition the following week.

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Thank you.

No job too small Please call to discuss your needs

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Support local events

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Thank you.

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Ticket prices [Friends] Saturday 11 November 7.30pm ÂŁ12 [ÂŁ10] Shepway Singers Late Romantic composers.

Saturday 2 December 7.00pm Band concert. Details to be advised.

Saturday 16 December 7.30pm Retiring collection Carols for All. Tickets available from Brandon Music Shop, 55 High Street, Hythe CT21 5AD (01303 264429), online www.friendsofstleonardshythe.org or at the Church prior to each concert

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Clyme Tyme You may be aware that the owner of the two Martello Towers and the escarpment has put them on the market for £750,000 and they have apparently been purchased subject to contract. The original sales contract stipulated that should he sell the land and towers then he had to pay the Ministry of Defence (MoD) ie the tax payer a 50% clawback of the gross profit realised. I recently asked the MoD under the Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) whether they were invoking the clawback clause and they replied:

Disposal of Historic Buildings: guidance notes for government departments and nondepartmental public bodies published in 1999. In this document Departments are warned that they should take care in their handling of private treaty sales since they may well be called on formally to defend the decisions they take in particular cases. They also say that sales by this method are likely to be exceptional.

When asked, once again under the FoIA, for access to the file regarding the private treaty sale I was told there was nothing on file but it had been used because it made sense to sell the land to the owner of the towers.

A search for the information has now been completed within the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and I can confirm that no information in scope of your request is held. Under Section 16 of the Act (Advice and Assistance) you may find it helpful to note that the information will become available upon completion of the sale of the property.

It seems highly likely that the selling of the towers in 2003 and the land in 2005 was part of a cynical scheme with an equally cynical foregone conclusion to the detriment of the tax payer and the Sandgate community.

If the land and towers were purchased for the full asking price of £750,000 then the developer, who has done nothing to stop the deterioration of the towers or manage the land, will make a gross profit of £670,000.

The tax payer should be entitled to receive £335,000 of that money and I look forward to finding out once the sale is completed as, for it to be waived, would be indefensible in this age of austerity and in the light of the fact that the owner delivered on none of his historic building renovation promises.

I am not suprised by this secretive response.

The whole selling of the land and towers was steeped in secrecy. To the informed observer it seemed that an unholy alliance had been forged between the developer, the MoD and English Heritage as it was then called. In February 2003 the advertisement for the sale of the two Towers was placed in the Estate Gazette and Property Weekly both considered to be developers’ trade publications and never seen in local newsagents. Despite the developer, his agent and English Heritage telling me that it was advertised locally I have subsequently discovered that this was not the case. It is hard to believe someone would buy two towers to which they had no access. In 2005 the land was sold by private treaty to, guess who?

Planning was achieved by the use of an enabling development and Sandgate needs to be vigilant and ensure that whoever buys the land and towers complies fully with the terms of the enabling development without which planning permission would not have been given and this valueable community asset would remain untarnished by the persuit of the developers' yearning for a profit regardless of what visual and leisure amenity they deprive the local residents.

The MoD would have been influenced in their selling behaviour by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport document The 17

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LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL VENUE: THE LEAS CLIFF HALL, THE LEAS, FOLKESTONE CT20 2DZ This is a gig so please expect limited seating. If we reach our target of 1,000 people there will be no room for tables however there is seating around the upper tier of the main hall.

• DATE: 7TH DECEMBER 2017 • GIG ENTRY TIME: 7:30PM • GIG FINISH TIME: 11:30PM • ITINERARY: 7:45 - UKULELE SET BY REALM79 8:15 - DJ PLAYING (BBC RADIO KENT DJ PHIL HARRISON) 8:45 - ROCK SET BY REALM79 9:30 - THE MASSIVE RAFFLE 10:00 - ROCK SET BY REALM79 11:00 - DJ PLAYING 11:30 - END

Tickets are £10 per person and £8.50 of each ticket goes to the charity with £1.50 going to the Leas Cliff Hall as they have waived their normal hiring costs to help make this event a huge success.

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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

Entry £5 on the door, or £4 for Hythe Cinema Card holders.

“Bull” McCabe’s family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing endlessly for the sake of the land. But then the widow who owns the field decides to sell it. Richard Harris’s performance in this powerful drama was nominated for an Oscar.

Christoper Null at filmcritic.com writes: Richard Harris’s standout performance elevates this simple fable into a near classic.

5th December 2017

7th November 2017

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

Thirteen-year-old Aisholpan trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle huntress.

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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 make a donation to the Trust to help with the upgrade to the Sandgate free wifi you can do so by clicking here

Thank you 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