Ashdown Forest Living December Issue

December 2021

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Dear Residents,

Whats inside this month

Welcome to the December issue.

We hope you’re having a lovely festive season so far!

In this month’s issue we bring you our usual Christmas quiz, with one for the kids as well.

We have an fascinating historical article about Christmas at Nymans & Standen Broadleys of East Grinstead whose building dates back to the early 14th century, one of the oldest in this part of Sussex.

Recipe

The Ashdown Forest Centre brings us another interesting article about the forest landscape.

Seasons have provided a perfect seasonal recipe for this time of year - a Christmas cake.

Celebrating 125 Years in Business

Q&A : Garden Army Founder

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank you all for supporting our local magazine and our advertisers over the year.

If you are a community group or local charity, please drop us a line if you need extra support in the new year.

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News from the Forest Centre: Gorse provide protection against predators and an umbrella against all but the worst snowfalls.

This is vital for a bird at the edge of its range.

The plant also supports Ashdown Forest’s remarkable population of another bird, Linnets.

Gorse is not only one of the most distinctive heathland plants but it is also amongst the commonest. Its needle like leaves, blaze of yellow flowers throughout the year and heavy scent of coconut are famous. In the past gorse was of great economic value. It was used as animal fodder, for domestic fires and processes such as baking, brewing and dyeing. When substitute fuels were found the high rabbit population, supplemented by heavy grazing, kept the plant in check.

With the decimation of rabbits following myxomatosis, a general decrease in grazing and gorse adoring the British climate, it has thrived.

The plant is important for a range of species. It provides a nectar source for many heathland pollinators and can be found buzzing with bees and hover flies through much of the year. It is also a favourite perch of the Dartford Warbler. This quintessential heathland bird nests in the surrounding heather but enjoys the elevated vantage point atop a bush. Gorse’s thick spines

Yet gorse is a headache for heathland managers. It is a leguminous plant, which means it can take nitrogen from the air and transfer it to its roots and the soil.

This is good for farmland but not good for heathland where it is the low fertility of the soil that supports the species that make Ashdown Forest a biodiversity gem. Gorse can also dominate large areas, block views and provide a way for tree establishment.

There has been much spoken recently about planting of trees being vital in the fight against climate change, but the key message is the right tree in the right place. The UK is in the world’s bottom 10% of the most nature denuded countries. Heathland is amongst our most biodiverse habitats supporting more species of dragonflies and spiders than any other UK habitat. It is important that we do not lose what little nature we have left while trying to offset our emissions.

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Much of the forest’s gorse is of a similar age and needs management to create variety to support more wildlife. Rotational gorse management will produce young, developing and mature plants without domination of whole areas.

This winter will therefore see the start of gorse management on the forest with seven hectares being cleared near Gill’s Lap car park. Machinery will be used to clear the plant before it is chipped and used to produce greener electricity. The use of the arisings as fuel will reduce some of the costs of management. We will make sure that there is signage in place to inform visitors and, as the area recovers after the works, views will be opened up and heather will be able to mix with the gorse in these areas once again.

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Everyone knows the legend of the three wise men’s visit to baby Jesus. But who were they?

They were actually magi which was a term referring to the Persian priestly caste of Zoroastrianism.

As part of their religion, the magi (priests) paid particular attention to the stars and gained an international reputation for astrology, at that time it was highly regarded as a science. The magi’s use of astrology and association with the occult led to word derivatives such as the English term magic.

The King James bible translates the word as ‘wise men’, though the same word is also used to describe a sorcerer.

They were referred to as kings based on an earlier prophecy that the messiah would be worshipped by kings, but there seems to be no firm evidence; they were more likely advisors to kings.

Church traditions have assigned their names as: Melchior: the oldest member of the Magi, described by St Bede in the 8th century as being “an old man, with white hair and long bear”. He brought the gift of gold.

Traditionally called the King of Persia.

Caspar: considered an Indian scholar; the town Piravon in Kerala State, Southern India has long claimed to be the birthplace of one of the magi. Caspar is portrayed with a reddish beard, of dark skin, as younger than Melchior and older than Balthasar. His gift was frankincense.

Balthazar: traditionally referred to as the king of Macedonia and giving the gift of myrrh which symbolised the future death of a king. He visited King Herod on the way to Bethlehem and was instructed to return after visiting Jesus, but avoided him altogether on the way home - a wise choice, for a wise man!

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Arts Society Ashdown Forest presents Malcolm Jones with “Top of The Bill: Music Hall to Variety”. The music halls entertained the working class. The songs reflected the lives of its audience and the stars were the celebrities of the day. In the 20th century Music Hall developed into variety and served the population its wonderfully eclectic mixture of acts from singers to magicians, eccentric dancers and comedians.

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Surprisingly moist and decadent, you will love this vegan easy-to-make festive cake.

Now is a good time to prepare the cake and skewer the top before adding a tbsp or two of port or whisky to keep it moist every week until icing.

Store it in an airtight container.

To ice it I prepped the cake with a glaze made from marmalade, which I boiled with a tbsp of water and strained.

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1kg mixed dried fruit I then coated in marzipan and royal icing. We used @loveoggs aquafaba and icing sugar zest and juice of 1 orange which tastes like the real thing! zest and juice of 1 lemon 150ml port, plus extra for feeding 250g vegan butter 200g light soft brown sugar Recipe created by Annabell, one of the new chefs 4 tbsp chia seeds at the Seasons Kitchen on Hartfield Road, Forest 175g plain flour Row. You can follow her on instagram 100g ground almonds @bellsplantkitchen ½ tsp baking powder BrainBashers - Daily Sudoku Print 2 tsp mixed spice 1 tsp ground cinnamon BrainBashers Sudoku - Nov 24 - Super Hard ¼ tsp ground cloves 100g flaked almonds

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Celebrating 125 Years in Business We are delighted to be celebrating 125 years in business in East Grinstead High Street. Family run since the very start and now in ownership of the fourth generation Simon Broadley.

We would like to express a massive thank you to all our customers for their support over the many years and especially the past 18 months which has been extremely challenging and forced us to channel our business online as well as in store.

Broadleys of East Grinstead was founded when George Herbert Broadley was given £500 by his mother Charlotte to set up his own business.

While at Victoria Railway Station he saw a poster of East Grinstead, and he liked the look of it, so took the train to the town; after seeing a ‘To Let’ board decided to start the business in the 14th century premises 38-40 High Street.

George and his wife were prominent Methodists and were one of the first people

in East Grinstead to have a car, Ford Talbot. When George died a large brass plaque was erected in the church and also for their son Thomas, a Bristol Fighter pilot who was reported missing and presumed killed in action in 1918. Thomas’s name is also on the war memorial in the High Street. The business expanded with branches in Hove, Portslade, Haywards Heath (1900-1931) Horsham (1907-1915) and briefly in Eastbourne and Worthing.

In 1949 they bought the adjoining premises 34-36

1910, we think Broadley is on the right. Left is just an employee

Thomas Harding Broadley - He was the pilot that was shot down, presumed killed in action, 1918.

High Street. Now in 2021 Broadleys operates just its East Grinstead.

Over the past few years Olwen Broadley has conducted tours of our building, raising several thousand pounds for various local charities, St Catherine’s Hospice, Bluebell Railway and most recently Kent Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance. The tours were originally based on the 1995 research by Mr. Peter Gray of Lingfield. Olwen

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George Herbert Broadley has continued to delve into various archives, census returns and deeds to discover more of the rich history of the family and the building.

34-40 High Street is an exceptional medieval building and was of considerable importance in the town at the time. It is one of the original burgages that constituted the borough of East Grinstead from its foundation in the 13th century. It is unlike any other building in the town, far larger/grander occupying a 4-rod plot rather than the normal two of most other burgages.

The original owner it is

thought was Sir Walter de la Lynde until his death when John Dallingridge assumed the title. They were prominent in the town enjoying privileges and were elected members of parliament. The family also owned Bodiam castle and interesting to note our building is at least 30 years older than the castle which was built in 1385.

The timber framed building needs to be considered in two distinct periods pre-1350, the Black Death during the reign of King Edward 3rd and then in the early 15th century with the construction of the cross wing. This cross-wing dates from 1410-1420 and was the

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The frames of this timber framed medieval building (See fig 1overpage), roof and floors were prefabricated by a carpenter on the ground to ensure each piece would fit with the others and then transported and assembled on site to form the complete building. Some key beams are numbered in roman numerals and also have the carpenters’ marks. These frames were always two dimensional and our building is made up a series of such frames.

The building is centred round the Great Open Hall and was built on a box frame with oak beam construction.

Since the 15th century it has comprised of two open hall type structures from barely seasoned oak quite possibly ships timbers. The main range (part of a timber framed building) is 36-40 and no 34 being a range end onto the street of at least 4 bays over cellars cut into the natural

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late 16th or 17th century, though there is no specific evidence to date. It is thought a second floor/attics were added in the 18th century.

The great open hall (See fig 2 above) was open to the roof where smoke from the open hearth gradually found its way through gaps in the thatch which was the most common type of roofing material at that time. Though on this building it could well have originally had Horsham stone slabs which it still has today on the front. The fire was used to heat the hall, to cook the food suspended above it either in a cauldron or on a spit. Up in one of the attics you will find soot deposits on the roof timbers from decades of an open fire and is a firm clue of the existence of an open hall. Chimneys were inserted at a later date.

There are various possibilities as to why it was built:

The Open Hall’s first floor was created in the

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A fine house in traditional form parlour open hall and service quarter. Separate entrance for the servants and the merchants with a wagon way at the rear.

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It could have been a merchant’s house with its impressive formal room at the front and private range at the back which has long since disappeared.

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It could have been built as an inn with some accommodation at the rear

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As a civic building or guildhall particularly as it has such a fine upper room in the cross wing.

The spaces between the timbers (See fig 3 above) were originally filled with wattle made from woven sticks or split laths and sprung into place covered thickly with daub which was a mixture of clay, animal hair or straw and water. A coat of lime wash would probably have covered both the timber frame and infill on the outside. There are two cellars under the entire building, the rear part of which is cut out of the natural Ardingly sandstone which is about 137 million years old and was at the time of Iguanodons. It has long been thought that the last martyrs to be burnt at the stake as heretics in the High Street on Saturday 18th

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28 July 1556 were held here the night before. On the tour you will see the cellar and experience what it was like for the three martyrs, Anne Tree, Thomas Dungate and John Foreman.

Over the past eighteen months further research has established that an Ironmongers business was here before Broadleys and the fact they lived in the upper floors. The two families associated with the building for the longest time were the Coopers and Steers.

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The ‘wagon way’ at the east end of the building, is particularly high and gave access to the rear when in 17th century it was a rather grand hostelry called The Lyon and later renamed The Red Lion.

Ford Talbot. The Broadley family were one of the first to have a car in East Grinstead.

To the rear of the building were a series of 11 portlands - a portland is a long narrow strip of land for agriculture that were behind each building in the High Street paying rent of 3d for an area of 1/4to 1/2 an acre. They have long since disappeared.

Christmas at Standen Until 2nd January • Standen, near East Grinstead 11am – 3:30pm house, 10am - 4pm grounds (closed 24 & 25 Dec), normal admission charge plus £3 per Pyjama Thief trail.

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Continue your Christmas adventure outside in the garden and join the Pyjama Thief trail.

The cheeky Standen dog has stolen everyone’s pyjamas and hidden them in the garden, help the Beale family find them in time for Christmas Day. For those looking for Christmas shopping inspiration, The Sussex Guild will be selling handcrafted items at a Christmas Selling Exhibition, daily throughout December.

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A trained gardener, when I started my own farm, Full Circle Farms, I was determined to build a regenerative farm, improving soil health to help reverse climate change by expanding biodiversity. I wanted to use the farm as a vehicle for a community interest group to support peoples’ well-being and learn new skills. I was friends with an ex-military policeman, Dave Gee, who was helping ex-army colleagues with PTSD, we saw that working outside as a collective had a very positive effect.

This is what the Garden Army stands for: people who need one another and need to be outside getting their hands dirty.

What have you achieved so far?

First, we’ve realised the dream of assembling an ‘army’ of volunteers. An area of scrubland and a few dilapidated out-buildings have morphed into a cultivated kitchen garden across half an acre, producing a wide variety of high quality, responsibly grown fruit and vegetables free from any chemicals – with 60 tons of hogging laid to create accessible pathways linking the various parts of the farm.

We’ve also built a polytunnel to grow some of our more delicate produce – and we now have a chicken shed and free-range run, home to around 50 hens, laying more than 200 eggs a week. We’ve developed partnerships with a variety of local health and education organisations and started a programme of Corporate Volunteering Days.

What has been the highlight of the whole process?

In September, we partnered with leading chef and restaurateur Raymond Blanc at the Chelsea Flower Show. As well as providing produce for guests, including leading figures from politics and industry, I joined Raymond to present on our vision for the Garden Army and the importance of regenerative farming.

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How can people get involved and support the venture?

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