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ISSUE 1 SUMMER

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HytheLife Magazine

The community magazine for residents and visitors to Hythe ‘Incorporating The Hythe Tourism Guide’

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6 Hythe Business & Tourism Association

Welcome

Hello and welcome to the first quarterly edition of Hythe Life Magazine.

Firstly I want to thank all the advertisers and contributors to this community magazine as without them this publication would not have been possible.

It was fantastic to receive such a positive response to the unique concept of this magazine, which offers local businesses and organisations the opportunity to advertise and promote their services in a high quality A4 publication, written by Hythe residents.

Hythe Life Magazine is a Community Interest Company. All profits from this social enterprise are reinvested into the business to secure its future success and distributed back into the community through charities and other good causes. We will report more on this in future editions.

The magazine is delivered free of charge to seven and a half thousand homes and businesses in Hythe with areas covered including: Hythe, Saltwood, Palmarsh, West Hythe and Seabrook. A thousand copies are also delivered to all major Hythe-based tourist attractions and hotels/guest houses to help promote the incorporated Hythe Tourism Guide.

We really hope you enjoy this first edition and would welcome any feedback. As your community magazine we would love to receive any stories or articles you would like included in our next edition.

For more information on Hythe Life Magazine and for local business information, community news and events, please take at look at the Hythe Life website: www.hythelife.org.uk.

Have a great Summer

7 Hythe Art Society

8 Morris Dancing

10 Age UK Hythe and Lyminge

12 Transition Hythe: Towards a more sustainable community

14 Saltwood Church Bells

16 Hythe Life Local Crossword

17 Hythe Tourist Guide

18 Hythe Map

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Angie Anderson Roger Bryan Bev Saunders Steven Way

Neil Tanner Martin Whybrow David Cowell

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Instep Dance Company Instep Dance Company operate from Brockhill Park Performing Arts College, and enjoy a partnership arrangement with them.

As a result of this partnership they have access to the wonderful facilities at the school, including the new build Phoenix Centre which includes two large purpose built dance studios. Our performances are held in the Peter Catmull Theatre which is a high quality performance space. Support from dedicated technical staff means that we achieve professional quality production values in all our performances.

Instep aim to offer opportunities for all to experience and enjoy dance. Our classes are inclusive with a gifted and talented strand for those who wish to take dance more seriously.

Our classes range from a pre-school class to an adult class for those over 50.

We have been operating since 1980 and in that time have enjoyed considerable success with over 40 students going on to study dance at university and conservatories. Many have gone on to establish careers in dance, ranging from teaching to performance.

Currently, six dance departments in our regional schools are either being led by or include ex Insteppers, (Folkestone School for Girls, Homewood, Brockhill, Canterbury High School, Highworth Grammar and Mascalls School). Past members are also currently dancing with the Ballet Boyz, Verve Dance Company, Lila Dance and National Youth Dance Company.

In recent years we have expanded our work to include bespoke projects as a result of

successful applications for funding. These projects allow us to develop young dancers with a professional attitude to work. Projects are collaborative in nature with work shared between our own teachers and professional artists who bring specific experiences and skills to our dancers. In this way we know we bring original and relevant experiences to our dancers which puts them ahead of others in terms of their development as artists and performers.

Instep have 15 teachers and practitioners working to develop a range of dance experiences. Our teachers are well qualified with degrees in dance, and some have professional experience of performance.

The combination of teachers whose careers are built around teaching and practitioners who work between community and the professional world of dance give us the best combination of skills.

Four flagship companies develop specific work in a variety of combinations including cross age work. These companies take their membership from across the range of Instep dancers. These companies include The MayaKaras, a mixed age company for those age 11 to 18, the iisanmaayas extending the mixed age grouping from 6 to 18. The VIveKamayas who are our company of Elders and Boomerang Dance who are a group of graduates who create and make work as professionals.

These dancers work as professionals – to an agreed contract, over intensive periods throughout the year. They dedicate weekends and evenings to these project outcomes in addition to their weekly classes. Because these projects are financed through external funding the participants are able to experience these opportunities at minimum extra cost. In this way we are able to add to the overall education of dancers.

Dancers from Instep always achieve highly in their dance studies in school, and our relationship with Brockhill has over the last 30 years guaranteed a top position for the school in examination results in dance. We have always been in the top 3 in the UK across GCSE and A Level and are often the best performing school at post 16. We currently have members from three secondary schools, sixteen primary schools and a special school.

We consider ourselves to be a regional dance company with a community remit to raise awareness of the value of participation in dance activity in terms of dance and through a sense of belonging to a community and learning the skills of commitment, time management and organisation.

Our annual shows are in the week beginning July 14th with a range of different shows to please all comers! Box Office is on May 21st in the Phoenix centre (at Brockhill) from 5.00pm. Tickets are expected to be in high demand!

For more information contact the Artistic Director - Jackie Mortimer on jackiemortimer@icloud.com. Our website is currently being rebuilt and will be re-launched this summer. You can still visit us on www.instepdance.co.uk

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Hythe Business & Tourism Association

By Steven Way, Chairman HBTA

Hythe Business & Tourism Association welcomes Hythe Life and hopes that it will encourage you to shop locally. Although the High Street is at the heart of retailing in Hythe our town offers a wide range of businesses and services well beyond those visible in the High Street.

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While you may well realise that professional services such as architecture, lawyers and accountancy are available locally you may be more surprised to learn that if you are in the market for an oil tanker or need specialist marketing then a local specialist might be able to help

you. In fact pretty much the full range of goods and services can be acquired locally, often from smaller firms who welcome your business and can offer rates better or comparable to national operators.

Please remember that money spent with local business stays in our local community, money spent online or with national chains leaves our community. We encourage you to think local. Astonishingly if every local shopper spent just £5 a week with a local business rather than a chain store or national business the local economy would benefit by £2m annually.

The Chamber of Commerce has recently changed its name to the Hythe Business and Tourism Association to better reflect our representation of all business and our contribution to making Hythe a destination of choice both for local residents and visitors from elsewhere. The Association is responsible, amongst other things, for summer entertainment in the High Street, the ever popular Late Night Shopping event in December and of course the seasonal lighting.

The Hythe Guide has been published by the Association continuously since 1927 and a new version will be released in July of this year, although available locally 30,000 of these are distributed both in the UK and abroad to encourage visitors from outside of our town to discover what we have to offer.

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Hythe Art Society

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By Neil Tanner

Hythe Art Society will be celebrating its Golden Jubilee next year, (rumour has it that one of our founding members is still with us.) and we now have around one hundred and twenty members, plus a short waiting list.

We meet on Wednesdays in a local hall, and have a full and varied programme consisting of demonstrations by professional artists, workshops where we paint together, excursions to various events and galleries, and outdoor painting days at suitable local venues.

We are also involved in the one-day painting competition as part of the Hythe Festival.

The demonstrations are held on alternate fortnightly Wednesdays to our workshops, and are very well attended, by guests as well as members. Our hard-working Secretary has an encyclopaedic knowledge of artists as far afield as Northumberland and Cornwall, and we have had the pleasure of artists from both. We try to bring back some of our favourites, as well as new faces at the easel, and visitors are always welcome. While the artists are working, they and their works are displayed on a large screen so everyone can see. The techniques demonstrated have ranged from painting on slate to reproducing Neolithic cave paintings using candle smoke, and all stations in between.

One very successful session was a portrait painting demonstration, and the subject was our President, Audrey Wayte. The finished painting now hangs in Audrey’s lounge. Other demonstrators have donated their work as prizes in our Exhibition Raffle.

Our workshops are very informal sessions, with much exchange of hints, tips, criticism and bad jokes. There are no rigid rules, members can either try the techniques shown in the last demonstration or ‘do their own thing’ completely. Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided (washers-up always welcome).

It is really enjoyable to follow your hobby in the company of like-minded people, and

there are no criteria for skill levels – they even let me in!

The outdoor painting days are organised by another Committee member, Pam Spooner, and include such places not normally seen by the general public, such as The Mill House and Saltwood Castle. These days are also well attended and once again, it is fun to paint in the company of others of a similar persuasion.

One of the locations arranged for this year is the garden of a well-known professional artist, but I hope he will not be looking over my shoulder too much!

Once a year we have our annual Selling Exhibition, held nowadays in the Tin Tabernacle in Stade Street. We are each allowed to show three framed pictures, and

an unlimited number unframed, as well as greeting cards made by our members. All members who are showing at the Exhibition are asked to do at least one turn on the Stewards’ roster (unless they have an “excused” note from their mums). As a special attraction we hope to have a professional artist and one of the Society members painting outside in the grounds of the Tabernacle. This year the Exhibition is on from Saturday July 12th to Sunday July 20th. There is no charge for admission, but it is well worth splashing out on the excellent raffle prizes, and refreshments are available.

The one-day painting competition is always popular and is open to everyone, not just Society members. Competitors meet at the St. John’s Hall in Albert Lane, and have their papers, sketchpads or canvases stamped, then they are free to roam anywhere in the CT21 postcode area. You would not believe some of the places in the area our competitors find to immortalise in their work. Judging takes place around three o’clock, and the entries are judged by a local professional artist. The final showing of all the works together is open to the public.

Our website shows a good cross-section of member’s work, and also gives details of how to apply for membership and of the programme for the coming year. We also have a very good relationship with our local Art stockists, Helen and Clive at ‘Artwrite’ in the High Street, who very generously give members a discount on their art supplies, as well as much free help and advice. I have also included in this article a painting by one of our stalwarts, Tony Brooks, of a beach scene which I think captures the essence of the Fisherman’s Beach, once again, a favourite painting spot.

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Morris Dancing

By Roger Bryan

Morris dancing is one of the most traditional of English activities. Its origins are unknown and no-one is certain why it is called Morris Dancing.

Its earliest written record is in 1448 in Caister Castle. Records from the sixteenth century show there were complaints in Maidstone, Kent about inebriated men and again in Lydd in the seventeenth century. It died out between the first world war and the second world war and was revived in 1953 as part of the coronation celebrations for Queen Elizabeth 2nd.

The side formed then – called the East Kent Morris Men and celebrated their Diamond Jubilee in Hythe last year.

Today in Kent there are probably more Morris sides performing than ever before.

A visit to the Rochester Sweeps Festival over the May weekend would show you that.

East Kent Morris Men perform throughout the summer in various places of Kent and in Europe. In winter they practise, usually on Wednesday evenings, and welcome any budding dancers or musicians of any age, to join them.

When I moved down to Kent in 1977 I saw them performing outside Botolphs Bridge in West Hythe and joined them that winter. Since then I have danced all over the country as well as The Millennium Dome, Holland, Belgium, France and Germany. Its a great way to make

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new friends, keep fit and continue an old tradition. And of course there's the beer – or what ever it is you drink.

EAST KENT MORRIS MEN EKMM practise in the winter months on Wednesday nights from 8pm. Afterwards they

always adjourn to the local pub. In the summer months they perform various parts of East Kent and sometimes further afield. New dancers or musicians are always welcome.

Look at our website on www.ekmm.org.uk or to contact me directly, please call 01303 268290 or Peter on 01303 891959

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Age UK Hythe and Lyminge

by Cleo Smith

Age UK Hythe and Lyminge was created when the Age Concerns in Hythe and Lyminge merged in 2011. We operate from both Centres as well as providing services to older people in their homes and our area covers Hythe, Lyminge and the Surrounding Villages.

Our whole reason for existence is to support and encourage the welfare and well-being of local people in later life, to help them retain their independence by staying in their own homes as long as possible whilst, at the same time, promoting their ability to enjoy a social life as part of the wider local community.

We are proud to offer an approach based on individual needs.

We offer a wide range of services including laundry, chiropody, hand and nail treatments, hairdressing, assisted bathing, beauty therapies, computer training, hearing aid clinics and weekly shopping trips to local supermarkets.

Our freshly cooked 2-course lunches are very popular and are available in the Centres 7 days per week or delivered to Clients’ homes: of course, special diets are catered for.

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There is also a wide range of activities, interests and hobbies available and Clients can be involved in as many or as few as they wish. There is something to suit everyone, art and craft, cookery, walking groups, quizzes, Bingo, singing, chair-based exercise, circle dancing, relaxation, reminiscence, outings to many different venues and a chance simply to relax and talk with friends, old and new.

There are attractive Cafés in the Centres, offering refreshments and homemade cakes with computer access for those who want to use the internet, Skype or email friends and family members. We also have a convenience shop in each Centre offering essentials and other items.

The local Rector and Methodist lay preachers voluntarily visit our centres regularly

and hold Holy Communion. They also offer spiritual support on a one to one basis if requested. We hold a Carol Service at Christmas time in the Lyminge Centre and we offer support and assistance with transport to help people to attend.

For the housebound or others who do not wish to come to the Centres, our Independent Living Service includes cleaning, shopping (accompanying a Client or going on their behalf), laundry and ironing (done in the Centre or in the home), chiropody and hairdressing, a handyperson, gardening and much more. We also deliver freshly cooked meals every day of the year. Order by 10.30am to receive a delicious two course lunch delivered to the door for just £6.00. Whilst delivering we will also do a Peace of Mind check – sometimes our delivery drivers are the only contact a person living at home alone may have all day.

Our specially trained Information and Advice Officers and Housing Options Advisor help our Clients to access other information and services they may need depending on their needs. If a Client is unable to come to us, we will arrange for a home visit at a time that suits.

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VOLUNTEERS We rely heavily on Volunteers to provide our services and reach as many people as possible.

Volunteers are involved in all aspects of the Charity’s work and we ensure they enjoy their time with us whatever role they choose to do.

Giving your time and sharing your skills is a great way of supporting older people and it's a fun and rewarding experience for the Volunteers too.

If you would like to know more, we would love to hear from you.

All our staff and volunteers are CRB checked as well as being provided with excellent training.

FUNDING We are an independent Charity and as such receive little funds from the national Age UK or from central government.

We have always relied heavily upon donations from the public and it is now even more important to us because from April 2015, Kent County Council is changing its system of grant aid for social opportunities and bathing to awarding contracts and bidding will be open to all providers including national and international companies.

We have fundraising events throughout the year and schemes for regular donations and a 100+ Club which provide vital income to support local older people and make a difference to their lives.

All our facilities and services are open to everyone over 50 years of age.

NEWS FROM THE CENTRES… Have you heard about the new gardening project in Lyminge? Clients are growing tomatoes which they hope to enter into the Garden Society’s Summer Show provided they are not eaten first! If you are able to donate

some growbags, tomato plants or tomato feed it would be much appreciated.

Room Hire – We welcome enquiries from any group looking for a venue. We have rooms available in both Hythe and Lyminge – please call for details.

Lunches are available in the Dining Rooms or Cafés for £4.35; lunch consists of a fruit juice, main course and dessert and is followed by tea or coffee. The Menu changes daily and there is always an alternative available for specific dietary needs. Also in the Cafés you

will find cakes and snacks available – why not enjoy one with a cup of tea or coffee?

Raffles, we have regular small raffles and large raffles at special events and times of the year – if you have something you could donate for a prize – large or small – we would be very pleased to receive it. All the money raised will go directly to benefit our Clients.

The Communion Service will be at on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 11am.

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was good, she did not like to go out alone.

Family visited when they could as they all worked full time. Molly would phone family throughout the day for conversation, and tell the family that she was feeling unwell and needed to see the doctor, when she had in fact been taken to the doctors only the day before.

After our initial assessment, services were provided to Molly, transport to pick her up in the morning and take her home, where she would mix with other people on the minibus and also get the opportunity to be outside and drive around visiting places she had not seen in a while. This jogged her memory whilst she reminisced with others on their journey. Whilst at the centre Molly joined in activities to keep her mobile and her mind active, she also mixed with others, even people she had known many years ago and had lost contact with. She made new friends who introduced her to new interests.

Whilst at the centre Molly accesses other

services including a nutritionally well balanced home cooked meal that increased her independence and reduced her dependency on her family.

The district nurse visits her at the centre when required to reduce the demand on the family to take her to the surgery.

Molly has also accessed the information and advice service where we increased her income by £77.45 per week.

Molly now attends the centre 3 times a week, it gives Molly something to focus on, she looks forward to attending to meet up with her new friends.

Molly says ‘I don’t know where I would be if it wasn’t for this place’ By accessing the services at Age UK we reduced social isolation for an older person and removed pressure from family.

Molly’s Daughter says ‘It’s a god send, it has really reduced the worry and stresses’.

CASE STUDY Names have been changed to protect identity Mrs Smith’s daughter contacted Age UK Hythe and Lyminge, because the family were struggling to maintain their mum’s quality of life to meet her needs since her husband had passed.

Molly was diagnosed with depression and prescribed antidepressants, she also has a history of medical conditions that she was obsessive about and relied heavily on family to attend appointments and general contact.

The family wanted to reduce some of the burden that looking after an elderly relative would have to give them the ability to maintain a family of their own whilst reducing boredom leading to isolation and total dependency on them for their mum.

Age UK contacted Molly and a visit was arranged to see her at home where an initial assessment was made.

Molly lived alone, and although her mobility

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Transition Hythe Towards a more sustainable community Community group, Transition Hythe, has an ambitious renewable energy project under way and is seeking additional expertise and help with this.

With assistance from Kent County Council (KCC), the intention is to embark on an initial couple of community solar schemes, initially working with two of the town’s primary schools.

The group, which has a diverse range of projects, courses and talks, is seeking to build on its four-year project to reduce energy consumption.

That project is based on a sophisticated thermal image camera and has seen the group provide a free service to residents to identify energy loss from their homes. Well over 120 properties have been studied since the project began, including social housing and commercial offices.

The next stage will be centred on renewable energy generation.

A team from Transition Hythe has visited OVESCo (Ouse Valley Energy Service), to understand its projects in this area. OVESCo is a cooperative that grew out of another Transition Town, Transition Lewes, and has shared its expertise, particularly related to its solar scheme on the town’s Harvey’s Brewery. In Hythe, KCC is providing an expert in community renewable projects to aid the scheme.

Southern Solar, OVESCo’s partners, have also visited Hythe and are likely to be partners.

Transition Hythe’s Martin Whybrow, says, “This would clearly be a major undertaking, with the need to closely study the feasibility and understand the challenges. However, both schools are enthusiastic, we’ve excellent partners and expertise, plus plenty of examples from other Transition Towns.”

The transition network is an international phenomenon that has its roots in Totnes in Devon. It is focused on a community response to the challenges of climate change, peak oil and social inequality. It includes seeking to harness local skills, encourage local trade and enterprise, build a more sustainable community and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

Transition Hythe has been active since 2010 and became an official Transition Town on 1st March 2011. It has a community allotment at Tynwald Residential Home in the centre of town (and there is another within the neighbouring Folkestone in Transition), has quarterly community fairs at the Tin Tabernacle, does monthly litter-picks, including a Hythe Spring Clean, has built bug hotels and carried out planting with a number of local schools, and has a ‘reskilling theme’ which has brought a wide array of talks and courses. Anyone with an interest in any of the existing projects, or who would like to start a new one, is welcome to contact Martin on 07787 124794 or martin_whybrow@yahoo.co.uk. Plenty more details are available at www.transition-hythe.com.

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The Castle Hotel is a charming, family run inn set on the village green of Saltwood.The restaurant serves excellent home made food drawing from local produce and the bar has an excellent choice of wines and beers including at least 3 well kept real english ales.Here you will meet many of our friendly locals as the bar is the ‘hub’ of the village. In the summer the garden is the place to be watching local life meander by.

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Saltwood Church Bells

By Lynn Hatton

The first record of bells in Saltwood Church is in an inventory of 1552, which states: “iiij (or 4) bells hanging in the steple of the same parisshe”.

It is believed that these bells remained in existence until replaced by the new peal of four bells in 1722 and a fifth bell in 1723 by John Waylett.

In 1873 the ringing room was moved from the ground floor, where the vestry was then built, to its present position. In 1911 the third bell was reported cracked and in 1912 the bells were recast and rehung in a new frame at a cost of £237 and a new sixth added for £115, paid for by a local MP Lawrence Hardy and dedicated to his wife. In October 1912 a peal was rung to celebrate the new bells and in October 2012 a band of ringers rang the same peal to mark the 100th anniversary. Opposite is a picture of the bells in the courtyard of Whitechapel Bell Foundry taken when they had been recast and we are very proud that the same photograph still hangs in the main office at the foundry.

The bells were overhauled in 1967 and re-hung on ball bearings in 1971. They were silent from 4th July 1975 until 4th March 1976 owing to repairs to the bell chamber floor, beams and tower inner wall.

We are kept busy ringing every Sunday morning and for several Christmas services. We also ring for weddings. The Sunday ringing can be dedicated for a special occasion, for example, wedding anniversaries, wishing someone happy birthday, to say thank you, etc. Donations for this are shared between the bell tower fund and Demelza House Charity. Please contact the tower captain Lynn Hatton on 01303 237981 for more details.

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Ginger’s Kitchen Breakfast – Lunch – Sandwiches – Cakes Fresh coffee – Teas – Fully Licenced –Take Away Outside catering enquiries welcome 6 – 8 Bank Street, Hythe Kent CT21 5AN www.gingerskitchenhythe.com Tel: 01303 230593

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Generations of roofing expertise has been passed down the family ensuring that you receive a great service from very experienced roofers.

Our flat roofing construction and maintenance is conducted by a dedicated team of specialists in the trade.

So, whether you have a leaking roof or looking for a team of roofing contractors you can trust, contact John Russell and Son Flat Roofing.

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Hythe Tourist Guide Visitor Attractions HYTHE SWIMMING POOL Lovely pool, almost on the beach. See website for swim times and other info www.shepway.gov.uk/content/view/1939/4441 or call 01303 269177

Hythe Beach

ROYAL MILITARY CANAL Whether you are in search of a fun filled active adventure for the whole family, a fantastic cycle route or a quiet stroll through tranquil surroundings, the Royal Military Canal has it all. Electric Boat trips and rowing boat hire are available from the boat hut. www.electricboathythe.co.uk The canal is stocked with carp, pike, perch, bream, rudd, eels and other freshwater fish.

Fishing permits are required from the Cinque Ports Angling Society on 01303 891450 and a rod license can be obtained via the EnvironmentAgency.

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HYTHE MUSEUM Discover the local history of Hythe in this wonderful museum, situated next to the Town Council Offices in Oaklands. Access (no stairs) is via the Public Library.

Brockhill Country Park ©www.visitkent.co.uk/attractions/brockhill-country-park

LOWER LEAS COASTAL PARK (GREEN FLAG AWARD) Another favourite for all ages. Great for walks, scenery and views Wild zone: Picnic furniture is provided and special steel BBQ plates are fitted to tables for BBQs. Fun Zone: Kids Bounty shipwreck, climbing walls, a toddler's construction area and nice beach.

PORT LYPMNE WILD ANIMAL PARK One of the largest wild animal parks in the UK and a fantastic day out for all the family. Big Cats, Small cats, Elephants and Gorillas to name just a few animals at the Park. www.aspinallfoundation.org/port-lympne

ST LEONARDS CHURCH AND OSSUARY St Leonard's Church and Graveyard are beautiful and interesting. A lovely walk up from the town with stunning views as a reward.

The Church also houses a crypt which houses over a thousand skulls and femur bones that were dug up from local graveyards around 700 years ago, possibly to clear space for the vast numbers of people who perished during the Black Death. See website for crypt opening times. www.stleonardschurchhythekent.org SOUND MIRRORS Large concrete sound mirrors were used during World War I to detect troop movements and artillery, and were a major area of study as an anti-aircraft early-warning device prior to the introduction of radar. A 20ft Mirror survives, a short distance from the town centre. (See map on next page)

HYTHE BEACH (WEST PARADE, MARINE PARADE & PRINCES PARADE) Marine Conservation Society Recommended – (excellent water quality) A favourite spot for children and adults alike. Swimming, kayaks, canoes, kite surfing, inflatables. Caution: Steep Shelving at high tides. Yellow buoys mark swimming area. Dogs are banned from areas of the beach from May to September.

Please note: The foreshore to the west of Hythe seafront is the southern boundary of the MoD Hythe firing range (see map on next page) As a result, it is largely closed to the public for obvious safety reasons. Hythe Ranges are used for live firing with a Danger Area extending far out to sea. Red flags are flown during live firing periods. During this time access is prohibited along the foreshore and see wall. A notice indicating live firing times is displayed at the entrance to the Ranges and on other boards on the security fence at either end of the range complex For further information on live firing times, contact 01303 225879 (office hours) or 01303 225861 (out of hours). All areas to the east of the ranges (West parade, Marine Parade & Princes Parade) can be enjoyed by swimmers at all times.

BROCKHILL COUNTRY PARK Brockhill Country Park has a lake, beautiful open spaces for walking, open meadows, a picnic area, a kids playground and a Café.

Perfect for a family day out.

HYTHE HIGH STREET Fantastic range of mostly independently owned shops, cafes, restaurants and pubs (see page 20) THE MALTHOUSE Since 1974 this three hundred year old brewery building, has been home to the Malthouse Arcade market. Comprising of 39 shops and stalls providing antique, vintage, craft and collectable goods. www.themalthousehythe.co.uk ROMNEY, HYTHE & DYMCHURCH RAILWAY A firm family favourite. Visit towns and attractions across Romney Marsh on the world famous one-third full size steam & diesel locomotives www.rhdr.org.uk

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Love Your High Street? We do!

by Angie Anderson (The Sewing Space)

Admittedly the convenience of the one-stop, easy parking out of town shopping centre has its allure, but IS shopping always just about convenience?

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bring together as many willing participants with a vested interest in the success of our High Street. Helen now Chairs the newly formed Hythe Town Team so that shop owners can identify and action improvements for the high street.

‘Hythe traders acknowledge how lucky we are to have a core of very dedicated customers who make their high street shops the first port of call and only go elsewhere when local shops can’t meet their needs.’

Admittedly, our interest is in the on-going success of our shops during these challenging times, but we are working in partnership with existing organisations already working hard for the benefit of our community; • Steve Way, the newly appointed Chairman of

lately, what are you waiting for? Come see what you’re missing!

Lastly, to our loyal patrons, thank you, on behalf of all high street traders, and keep spreading the news about Hythe’s great High Street!

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What about the opportunity to bump into a neighbour or friend that you haven’t seen lately? How about discovering that all stores are not clones but that there are independent traders with unique merchandise on offer?

What about the friendly, personal service you receive from a shop owner who knows you, really appreciates your business and is more than happy to help you? Or the good fortune to find free street entertainment or stumble upon advertised events you would have otherwise missed out on? Every pound spent with a local business stays in the community, helping to ensure a vibrant local economy and nurturing a diverse high street, not a ‘clone town’. Shopping in Hythe High Street is your perfect opportunity to support and become engaged with your community.

Hythe traders acknowledge how lucky we are to have a core of very dedicated customers who make their high street shops the first port of call and only go elsewhere when local shops can’t meet their needs. We are grateful for these core patrons, but we feel there are so many missing out on what Hythe (and our unique High Street in particular) have to offer.

Because of this, many High Street traders have been meeting regularly over the past few months to ensure that we are doing everything we can to improve and promote the shopping experience in Hythe. Helen Hall, of Temptations Boutique, was inspired seeing that Deal had won the ‘Daily Telegraph High Street of the Year’ competition. Realising that Hythe is similar in so many ways – sharing many of the same benefits and challenges as Deal – she was motivated to successfully

Hythe Business and Tourism Association (formerly called Chamber of Commerce) attends our meetings to ensure we do not duplicate our efforts so that our time and available funding goes further. The Chamber contributes to the success of the High Street in so many ways, the most celebrated being Christmas Late Night Shopping & weekly street entertainment thru the summer months.

• Martin Whybrow, Kent County Councillor, has also liaised with the team and assisted us in securing available funding which may otherwise have been lost.

• Hythe Town Team also shares common goals with the Hythe Festival and Venetian Fete Committees and hope that they will welcome reaching all traders via The Town Team.

• We are also happy to be working closely with Hythe Life via this bright, informative new magazine and their social media sites to promote and improve the Hythe community.

So, if you’re a trader who hasn’t had the opportunity to attend a Hythe Town Team meeting yet, please join us! We need everyone’s great ideas! Next meeting: June 24th 5:15 at The Red Lion If you’re a local resident who hasn’t taken the opportunity to visit Hythe High Street

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Bethany Lodge was opened in 1992 and is a purpose built 24 bedded unit that has all ground floor accommodation in single bedrooms. The shower rooms, bathrooms and toilets are all designed to accommodate wheelchair users.

Bethany House was opened in 1997 and has 15 single en-suite bedrooms.

All of our rooms are equipped with the aids that are required to meet the needs of our highly dependent clients, such as specialist beds and overhead tracking for hoisting.

On site facilities include: A hydrotherapy pool, a large arts and crafts workshop and a snoezelen (multi-sensory room).

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Medals, badges, buckles, identity bracelets, buttons, photographs, letters, charms, love tokens, logbooks, diaries. The list is endless. Many families have memories and intimate items tucked away in drawers and cupboards, their last links and glimpses into the lives of loved ones who often paid the heaviest price.

We understand how precious these items are not only to individuals, but to families, and service families particularly.

At Edge, when we are asked to present and frame these items they bridge time & space, and we feel we have developed a relationship with those who wore, won, wrote and possibly lost these items, at the most dreadful time in their lives.

research to see if we can find out more about the serviceman or woman for a more complete record of their history. Where possible we acquire authentic uniform fabric on which to display medals and badges, for a more accurate presentation. At the very least conservation quality materials and glass are used to preserve the life of the collection for future generations.

‘Where possible we acquire authentic uniform fabric on which to display medals and badges, for a more accurate presentation. At the very least conservation quality materials and glass are used to preserve the life of the collection for future generations.’ These often delicate items become precious to us, because they are part of our history, our story and who we have become. Because of the sacrifice made by the person whose name these items bear, we live the privilege of freedom.

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Recently, Bomber Command and the Arctic Convoys were finally recognised for their contribution to WWII. Their medals need not fade.

2014 is the 100th anniversary of WWI. This year’s commemorations will bring to the fore deeply held memories and emotions. If you would like to honour your hero from whatever conflict, what better time to collect your tangible memories together and display them on behalf of the person they belonged to. Not only will they be protected, but bringing

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Film Reviews Our picks for Summer 2014 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

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Love and romance combine with the difficult subject of slavery in this incredibly beautiful 18th century costume drama.

Based on the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle (a Caribbean slave girl) who was sent to live in England and raised as an aristocrat.

DIRECTOR: Matt Reeves CAST: Andy Serkis, Gary Oldman, Judy Greer, Jason Clarke, Kari Russell, Kodi Smit-McFee After a devastating virus has wiped out most of mankind a community of around 2000 apes makes a fragile peace with the last few remaining Humans, but will it last! Andy Serkis , Gollum (Lord of the rings) stars as Ceaser, leader of the apes.

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A traumatized ex-soldier who wakes up in the back of a van, alongside a kidnapped boy, has only nine minutes and 37 seconds of consciousness to work out why and how he got there.

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Literary Hythe right-and-tight and sound

By David Cowell

One can walk past a building every day and not really see it until someone tells you of a past association and suddenly it takes on a totally new persona particularly if the person or event associated is one that you admire.

ELIZABETH BOWEN The author Elizabeth Bowen’s cousin was Lilla, the Countess of Chichester whose generosity to the village is remembered by the eponymous community hall in Sandgate which was built by public subscription. Another cousin lived in Radnor Park in Folkestone so this explains why her mother chose this area of the country in which to live.

Until her father’s mental breakdown, Elizabeth Bowen’s home was a stately property called Bowen Court, in Ireland. Following his illness, she and her mother led a nomadic life often staying in Hythe, and

’A nice little town reassuring and right and tight and sound. One of the few places that make me love England and Englishness.’ Elizabeth Bowen despite the Protestant Anglo-Irish opulence of her former years, she loved the small sea side town and, in later life, when she decided to live here, she loved the little 60’s brick built house on Church Hill almost as much. In a letter to her friend and long time lover Charles Ritchie, a Canadian diplomat, she described Hythe as: …’A nice little town reassuring and right and tight and sound. One of the few places that make me love England and Englishness. But I think that apart from Englishness there’s a peculiar quality of Kentishness that I like. The Hythe people are flamboyant and hardy and unmawkish. The town has got the sort of

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density – in its life I mean – that I associate with small towns in France.

In Pictures and Conversations; Chapters of an Autobiography she says, somewhat enigmatically: ‘The part of Kent I am living in has wide views, although mysterious interstices. It can be considered to have two coastlines: a past, a present.’

The house was called Wayside but she rechristened it Carbery after a previous property she had owned elsewhere. She would sit at her desk looking over the tombstones towards the ancient parish church and write articles and reviews and her last novel Eva Trout. Many of her works featured Hythe as, for example, The Death of the Heart in which the town is called Seale on Sea although the descriptions leave no doubt as to the location.

Seale sea front takes the imperceptible curve of a shallow, very wide bay. Towards the east horizon, the coast rises – or rather, inland hills approach the sea. West of Seale, you see nothing more than the marsh. The dead flat line of the coast is drawn out into a needle-fine promontory. The dimming gleaming curve is broken only by the Martello towers, each smaller, each more nearly melted by light.

The silence is broken only by the musketry practice on the ranges.

Her presence in Hythe would have seen the town visited by some of the well known names in the literary world. Names such as Cyril Connelly the editor and writer and who can be seen in the photograph with Elizabeth outside Carbery. Many such guests would be booked into the White Hart in the High Street for their stay. Elizabeth died in Hythe PG 28 on 22nd February 1973 and is buried in Cork.

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Wide range of drinks at reasonable prices. 2 Snooker and 2 pool tables. Darts. Quiz and Gaming machines. Large screen TV. Regular entertainment. Bingo evening. Digital Juke Box. Club and bar available for Private Hire for all occasions – Birthdays, “Hatch, Match & Dispatch”, Children's Parties. Clubs and society meetings. Disco and/or Bouncy Castle. Prices and times by negotiation.

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COLIN MACINNES Born only a generation later in 1914, Colin MacInnes was a totally different character although his antecedents were equally impressive and included Stanley Baldwin, Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Rudyard Kipling. His novel Absolute Beginners which was made into a very successful film starring Patsy Kensit and a young David Bowie and was the first novel to portray the teenager as a serious cultural and economic force. He also had a penchant for the emerging immigrant culture that was influencing our music and fashion and was beginning to permeate all aspects of British life.

Colin and London were inseparable and his novels always featured the low life of the city yet, in 1971, he wrote to his friend, the poet Charles Causley, I surprised myself a year and a half ago by coming for a week to the south coast, and then staying here ever since. He lodged in Marine Parade with Peggy Little and her son Marcus. Peggy was the sister of art critic and London gallery director Bryan Robertson. Colin could often be seen tending the pocket handkerchief sized garden that looked out to the Channel; cutting the small lawn with nail scissors.

When not living a provincial life of domesticity he would write many reviews such as his article Exile’s Delight* published in the Encounter magazine in which he wrote: The Cinque Port I got to know the best is Hythe, a large village now a mile from the sea, where no one is over 20 or under 60. (The whole of the south coast is turning into a geriatric ward: I am clearly partaking of a trend)… the great pride of Hythe is its Royal Military Canal, on which a “Venetian féte” occurs biennially. This was built across the Marsh to frustrate Napoleon; yet considering that the emperor crossed the Elbe and Vistula, the latter packed with ice-floes, would the forty feet of the four–foot deep canal have stopped him? Local patriots firmly believe, yes.

The great pride of Hythe is its Royal Military Canal, on which a “Venetian féte” occurs biennially. Colin MacInnes

Colin died in Hythe in 1976 just three years after Elizabeth Bowen and was buried at sea off Folkestone.

Whilst Bowen represented the pre war ordered society where people were encouraged to know their place, MacInnes exercised a new found freedom to cock a hoop at old conventions and forge a life style that, although seen by many at the time as bohemian even risqué, is now more acceptable even mainstream.

There is no evidence that the two writers’ paths ever crossed in Hythe or London and it is highly unlikely that they would have sought each other’s company, yet they both admired the Englishness of Kent.

Bowen is quoted earlier and MacInnes said in the Exile’s Delight that: Kentish people have a particularity they share with others outside the Capital – they seem so much more English.

There is however a tenuous yet, I think, interesting link between the two authors as Elizabeth reviewed many of Colin’s mother’s, the novelist Angela Thirkell, books in Tatler magazine and provided the foreword to An Angela Thirkell Omnibus. Knowing his relationship with his mother that was strained to say the least, I am not sure he would have been well pleased yet he was compelled to write later in a letter to a friend that: she and I agreed about nothing, but she put me here on the globe and that was a great tie.

REQUEST You can request a full copy of this article if you contact the editor of this magazine. This is the first of a series of articles about Hythe and the people from many walks of life who have lived here. The next will be Military Hythe.

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using carefully chosen, sensitively styled GÂŤFRU WKH\ KDYH FUHDWHG D Ę&#x2018;H[LEOH EXW intimate space that feels equally welcoming ZKHWKHU \RXĹ&#x;UH UHOD[LQJ RYHU FRĘ?HH DQG pastries at breakfast or being daring at dinner (Rabbit, with dandelion, sherry vinegar and hazelnuts, anyone?).

Launched quietly but successfully at the end of April, this refreshing addition to the local dining scene is already attracting great reviews and a discerning clientele - not surprising given the high quality cooking on show. Beautifully presented dishes such as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Pork shoulder, wild garlic and charred onionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and the scrumptious dessert, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Chocolate and peanut butter pieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; are already heading for legendary status with returning customers.

.LSS KLPVHOI FRPHV ZLWK D SURYHQDQFH thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as impressive as the ingredients he uses: early spells with world-famous chefs such as Charlie Trotter in Chicago and Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, not to mention KLV UROH DV ([HFXWLYH &KHI EHKLQG WKH success stories of SushiSamba and Duck DQG :DĘ&#x201C;H LQ /RQGRQ KDYH DOO OHG WR WKLV opportunity. Born and bred in the USA but now settled with his family in Saltwood, he LV GHWHUPLQHG WR SXW D OLIHWLPHĹ&#x;V H[SHULHQFH RI WDVWHV WHFKQLTXHV DQG Ę&#x2018;DYRXU combinations to delicious use.

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Doing much of the work themselves and

And although the foodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the star, no restaurant H[SHULHQFH LV FRPSOHWH ZLWKRXW D JUHDW drinks list to dip into. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Saltwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t GLVDSSRLQW 7R JHW WKLQJV UHDOO\ Ę?]]LQJ .LSS has brought on board a former colleague and one of the star names of the London and international bar scene, Dan Redman-

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Hubley. Danâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the man (in every sense) behind some of the most alluring cocktail creations in the world and his guiding hand is clearly evident here: Pecan Manhattan Bourbon washed with toasted pecans and butter: Antica Formula sweet vermouth, bitters: Gin and house-made tonic are just some of the delights waiting at the bar counter.

And when it comes to wines and beers, in keeping with the philosophy of impeccable but imaginative sourcing, the team has sidestepped the usual suspects in favour of a well-chosen and fairly priced menu that includes beers from local craft- and microbreweries and some of the more interesting reds and whites from England as well as the rest of the world. +DYLQJ WLFNHG DOO WKH ER[HV IRU LQVSLUHG IRRG UHOD[HG VHWWLQJ DQG H[FLWLQJ GULQNV LWĹ&#x;V no surprise that Saltwood on the Green also scores high marks for service and ambience.

Much credit for this must go to the third member of the SotG team, Gianpaolo Gori, who brings a wealth of restaurant PDQDJHPHQW H[SHULHQFH DQG EDJV RI ,WDOLDQ charm to front of house operations.

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RECIPE Why not try some of Jeff Kippâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food at home. He has kindly agreed to share one of his recipes with Hythe Magazine readers.

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tastes great 8QGHUVWDQGDEO\ .LSS LV XSEHDW DERXW WKH possibilities and potential of the new business... ĹĄ1RWKLQJ EHDWV WKH IHHOLQJ RI Ę?QDOO\ KDYLQJ your own restaurant, of creating the menus DQG WDVWHV WKDW \RX ZDQW WR VHUYH ,WĹ&#x;V D FOLFKÂŤ , NQRZ EXW LW UHDOO\ LV D GUHDP FRPH WUXH , ORYH FRRNLQJ , ORYH GHOLJKWLQJ SHRSOH ZLWK P\ IRRG ĹĄ%XW ,Ĺ&#x;YH ZRUNHG LQ WKLV SURIHVVLRQ ORQJ enough to know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just about what you sell and serve, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also about relationships, especially the relationships you build with the people who, in many ways, make it all possible â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the food producers. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very lucky in this part of the world to have such a fantastic array of artisan and boutique growers and one of pleasures of starting up the restaurant has been getting to know and doing business with these very special SHRSOH , KRSH 6DOWZRRG RQ WKH *UHHQ FDQ be a showcase for them as much as for me.â&#x20AC;?

Saltwood on the Green is open from Tuesday to Saturday, 9am to 3pm and 6pm to 11pm, Sunday 11.30am to 5pm.

Book online at saltwoodrestaurant.co.uk or call 01303 237 800.

FOR THE DISH 400g fresh skate wing 20g olive oil 20g butter 5 or 6 slices and quarters of favourite tomato varieties per plate 80g dark leafy green such as curly kale 60g pickled onions (halved

and layers separated) Olive oil for cooking kale DQG Ę?QLVKLQJ WKH VDODG CHILLI DRESSING 25g chilli garlic sauce (Sriracha brand spicy, Cholula, a bit less so) 15ml light soy sauce 10ml rice wine vinegar J VXQĘ&#x2018;RZHU RLO

THE DRESSING The dressing can be as simple or as complicated as you like â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in the restaurant we use the long version, though you can use these store bought items with great results: Combine the dressing ingredients in a blender. Puree until smooth. You can adjust the heat by increasing or decreasing the chilli sauce.

COOKING THE FISH Pre heat oven to 180 C Season the skate wing with salt and pepper on both sides.

Over medium high heat, preheat your oven-safe pan. Add the oil to the hot pan. Melt the butter until it foams. Carefully add the skate wing to the pan. Cook on that side until the edges begin to brown slightly, about 5 minutes. Gently turn the wing over and put the pan in the oven. Allow to cook in the oven for an additional 10 minutes. Take the pan from the oven and remove the skate wing to a plate and allow it to cool enough WR KDQGOH 7KH Ę&#x2018;HVK VKRXOG VOLGH HDVLO\ IURP WKH ERQH While the skate is resting, return the pan to high heat. Lightly oil and season the greens. Add them carefully to the skate pan. Allow to brown and wilt slightly, about 2-3 minutes.

Remove from the heat.

Dress the plates with the cut tomato. Season each slice with salt, pepper and olive oil. Drape the cooked leaves around the tomato. Remove strips of the warm skate wing meat and divide evenly between the plates. Garnish with the pickled onions and dress with chilli sauce.

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Hythe Sports Welcome to the sports section of Hythe Life Magazine. Over the next few issues we aim to highlight the abundance of sports facilities in Hythe and the various sports clubs and societies that play and operate in the locality.

To enable us to get a complete picture of the sports scene in Hythe, we need your help!

Please email or write to us with any local sports stories, details of your club or society or to highlight to us any unsung sporting heroes, be they players, helpers or volunteers, who you think deserve recognition and a very public thank you for their hard work and effort. We can’t wait to hear from you!

BREAKING NEWS! A new era has dawned at Hythe Town Football Club with the appointment of Tim Dixon as new first team manager and Trevor Kennett as new chairman. A meeting was held on Friday 30 May 2014 to introduce the new Management team to the supporters. A full report will follow in the next issue detailing what surely will be exciting times ahead for the Ryman South football team.

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Football illustration: ©VectorOpenStock Cricket photography: ©www.saltwoodcc.com

The Cricket season is well under way (despite the recent bad weather) and all of our local teams have had some early successes in their respective league campaigns. For those who don’t know, Hythe boasts three successful cricket teams, namely Hythe CC, Saltwood CC and Hythe Green CC. Hythe CC play at The Grove next door to the tennis club and Saltwood and Hythe Green both play at Saltwood’s ground on Tanners Hill.

All three clubs always welcome new players and both Hythe CC and Saltwood CC have active colts sections open to all youngsters. Further details can be found on their respective websites www.hythecsc.co.uk and www.saltwoodcc.com In the next issue we will have a full review of each club’s season, so fingers crossed that there will be some trophies and titles to report on!

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ANYONE FOR TENNIS! With summer upon us and only a few weeks to go until Wimbledon the nation’s thoughts once again turn to tennis. Regardless of how successful Andy Murray will be this time round the discussion inevitably turns to the question of where is our next Andy or indeed Laura going to come from. The answer could very well be Hythe! The town is exceptionally blessed with tennis facilities and there is an opportunity for all ages to either start their journey to Wimbledon glory or shake off the cobwebs and fall in love (pardon the pun) with the game all over again.

The most accessible of the facilities are the public courts on South Road which are accessed via Ladies Walk. The courts comprise three grass courts and two all weather hard courts. The courts are available from June to September and cost £2.52 for adults per hour per person and £0.98 for Juniors per hour per person*. For further details call Hythe Town Council on (01303) 266152.

Not only does Hythe have the public courts on South Road it also has two tennis clubs.

A short distance from the public courts and situated on the southerly banks of the historic Royal Military Canal is Hythe Lawn Tennis Club.

The club is 125 years old and reputed to be one of the four oldest tennis clubs in the world! The club was formed in 1889 when it was connected to the Hythe Cricket Club. In

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Hythe Lawn Tennis Club Courts

1946, the club was separated from the cricket club becoming completely independent. HLTC has just been awarded the title of “The Lawn Tennis Association Kent Club of the year”. The club has in recent years undergone extensive improvements and now boasts eight all weather floodlit courts. All standards are catered for from the tiniest child who will play mini tennis on a specially reduced court with a small racquet and softer ball right through all ages and abilities up to their Aegon Kent Team.

The club is run on a non profit basis with all money made placed into the club funds to improve and maintain the best standard possible to allow amateur tennis for all of the local community. The club enters teams in many leagues across the county, this includes Men's, Ladies’, Mixed teams. The teams are put into East Kent, Kent, Ashford and Dover and District leagues. There are regular social mix-ins per week and members can play at any other time through a booking system in the pavilion.

In addition HLTC has its own specialist coaching program. Advantage Tennis is based at and working with, HLTC. They are a team of licensed tennis coaches dedicated to developing tennis playing opportunities in the Shepway area with lessons also taking place at Brockhill Park School, The Folkestone Sports Centre, Marsh Academy and over 25 primary and secondary schools across Shepway. They offer development squads, individual lessons, fitness training, fun competitions and LTA ratings tournaments.

They are part of the East Kent Tennis Academy which has LTA Performance status and offers

the next level of training for those considered 01303 265 552 or email them at ‘High Flying’ players. info@haynebarnindoortennis.co.uk. Full Further details of how to join the club details can be found on the club’s website can be found on the HLTC website www.haynebarnindoortennis.co.uk www.hythetennis.com or by ringing Jim Gore With all these wonderful facilities it is (Membership Secretary) on 01303 259461. If surely only a matter of time before the next you are interested in the Advantage Tennis Grand Slam Champion emerges from the town! coaching program, details can also be found *All prices correct when going to press but may on the website or alternatively contact coach be subject to change Nick Skelton on 07545871087. It is also worth checking out the club’s very active Facebook Tristan Alder Sports Editor page (Hythe Lawn Tennis Club) where you can sports@hythelife.org.uk catch up with all of the club’s latest news.

Would you like to Further up the road in Saltwood is Hayne Barn Indoor Tennis Club. In the winter the club promote and write about has two indoor tennis courts and in the Summer your sports club? Please provide both an indoor and outdoor court. The email: sports@hythelife.org.uk courts are available for both members and nonmembers to use and all ages are catered for.

The club prides itself on being a friendly and Zöe Hoare sociable club where Personal Training and Group Fitness everyone is made to feel welcome. Courts are available 7 days a week between the hours of 08:00 – 22:30.

The club also now has a new tennis coach who teaches all levels from beginners to For Tailor made personal training or group sessions advanced.

A variety of packages to suit everyone To book a court or For latest information on classes and prices: find us online, on Facebook or call 07540174252 a coaching session web: hythept.co.uk email: zoehoarepersonaltraining@gmail.com contact the club on

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