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Hythe Community Cinema

Hythe

Your magazine November 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

Thank you to the Hythe Civic Society for allowing us to reproduce this enthralling booklet first published in 1994. The seven walks will feature over the next few months and the entire booklet will be available to buy after completion. The proceeds from the sale will all go to the Hythe Civic Society. See pages 17 to 31.

Support your local Farmers' Markets

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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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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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We currently meet on Saturday mornings at the Library between 10:00 and 11:00.

This is essentially a drop in service whereby you can make contact with us, and share your views. “Take positive action in a changing world through food, sharing, creativity and wellbeing�.

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.

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I am delighted to inform you that three electronic editions of The Sentinel are now published.

We now produce a Sandgate, Hythe and a Newington version each month.

If you would like to receive a copy of any please email me at: david@davidcowell.net and put the name of the version you require ie The Sentinel Hythe or The Sentinel Sandgate/ Hythe etc in the subject line.

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

To advertise in three The Sentinels with circa 3580 targetted readers and growing please email me at: david@davidcowell.net for a rate card.

Thank you.

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Available to pre order from Amazon

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.

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Clyme Tymes It was always said that you could tell the values of a society by the way it treats its young and old. I have often wondered why an advanced western nation such as ours needs a society to prevent cruelty to its children but undoubtably we do.

governments who have promoted the idea of youth and energy at the expense of age and wisdom and a lot of the blame must be placed on us for secretly or blatantly harbouring views that aging equates to decrepitude in this neo liberal, market led world.

In 2013 a government minister called our treatment of the elderly a 'national shame'.

Following the recent death of a friend I have taken to thinking about how we perceive the elderly in this country. As their (read our) physical and sometimes mental faculties diminish we tend to see them (us) as irritants who impede the fast and immediate pace and demands of contemporary life.

In East Asia, people are bound by a Confucian principle of filial piety, a moral of respect for one's elderly and ancestors; here, elderly parents become the responsibility of adult children. Deeply rooted in traditional values, children are brought up knowing that they will eventually exchange roles with their parents and care for them.

Whilst putting together an eulogy for this friend I was amazed by her richness and complexity and although she was a feisty and opinionated person to the very end of her over nine decades, I never really appreciated, until now, the unique nature of her life.

In Japan, the 60th and 70th birthday are marked with big celebrations where children perform dances and offer gifts and China even has a law that parents can sue their adult children for an allowance and those who fail to comply can face six months in jail.

Some of the blame must be placed on the end of the local community and the extended family where the contribution made by the snoozing old person sitting in front of the fire was known by successive generations through story telling and reminiscences.

In this country we just need to look beyond the fraility and recognise that the elderly have made their contribution and should be respected for having done so.

Some of the blame must be placed on

the editor climbs on his soap box to write an occasional series of articles on his purely random thoughts, observations, reminiscences and concerns about town, district, county, country, nation, world and universe 10

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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

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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.

Paul worked at Crundens and since its closure has provided this excellent service.

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

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I am researching the history of Tynwald House in Hillside Street Hythe and would be most grateful if you could pass on anything you may know about the property. It is now a residential home for the elderly but has been a private dwelling in the past with owners such as Admiral Hall-Thomson and Charles Dynely Twopeny who was Mayor of Hythe between 1919-1922.

Thank you. david@davidcowell.net

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 back page) and I will scan and return them.

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Ticket prices [Friends]

Saturday 2 December 7.00pm

Saturday 21 October Band concert. Details to be advised.

7.30pm Saturday 16 December 7.30pm £12 [£10] Retiring collection Nicholas King – organ Carols for All. recital Bach – Toccata & Tickets available from Brandon Music Shop, Fugue in D minor, 55 High Street, Hythe CT21 5AD (01303 264429), online BWV565 www.friendsofstleonardshythe.org Howells – Psalm or Prelude, Set 2 No 2 at the Church prior to each concert Reger – Sonata No2 in D minor, Op 60 Archer – A Festival Toccata Light lunches available in church after Schumann – Two Fugues on B-A-C-H lunchtime concerts indicated by [L].

Joubert – Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor, Op 35 Franck – Final, Op 21

The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.

Saturday 28 October 7.30pm (Note changed date) £12 [£10] Monteverdi 450 Helen Bailey, Amy McEnroe (sopranos), Fiona Mackay (mezzo-soprano), Ben Thapa (tenor), Jim Clements (baritone), Dale Wills (harpsichord), plus string ensemble Staged madrigals, scenes from operas, instrumental and choral pieces.

Libba Bray - author

In 2015/16, UK libraries had 687,123 visits a day 28,630 visits an hour 477 visits a minute 8 visits a second

Saturday 11 November 7.30pm £12 [£10] Shepway Singers Late Romantic composers.

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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

7th November 2017

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

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If you have any comments to make about this publication please do email me. I would be very interested in the things you like and the things you don't like and the things you'd like to see included.

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 36