2013 05 236

PUBLISHED MAY 2013

ESTABLISHED 1993

ISSUE 236

YOUR FREE MAGAZINE BRINGING YOU LOCAL NEWS AND INFORMATION Delivered by hand each month to Seal, Kemsing, Otford, Shoreham, Seal Chart, Noahs Ark, Underriver, Godden Green, Ightham, Fawke Common, Plaxtol, Borough Green, Wrotham.

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Our next two meetings will be garden visits: 8th May - a Japanese garden in Sevenoaks; 12th June - Great Comp at St Mary's Platt. All are welcome to join us for these outings, and at St John's Hill United Reformed Church Hall each month where we enjoy talks by a variety of speakers and entertainment throughout the year.

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Poetry on prescription Fed up with housework? Need a hangover cure? Looking for a new job? Poet William Sieghart, as featured on Radio Four, will be on hand to prescribe a poem for any problem that is presented to him.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 2.30pm Sevenoaks Library, Buckhurst Lane, Sevenoaks, TN13 1LQ Tickets must be booked in advance, priced £3.00.

For further details contact Sevenoaks Library on 08458 247 200 or email jenny.carter2@kent.gov.uk

Kemsing Heritage Centre Association

is organising the following talks and walks; Fri 3rd May "Finding my Place" by Brian Rance Fri 7th June "Oldbury Hillfort and its Trackways"

by David Williams Talks take place in St Edith Hall Kemsing at 7.30pm . Free to members. Visitors £2.50 On Sun. 23rd June, Anne Barrett will be leading a "Reptile and Orchid Walk". Start from village car park at 2pm, cost £2.00, children free. All welcome. For more details contact Erica Cole on 01732 761772 or go to the website www.kemsingheritagecentre.org.uk

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We have one remaining talk for this winter season and our new programme starts again in the autumn. The details of the remaining talk are as follows:

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on Friday 10th May starting at 19.30 at the Jeffery Harrison Visitor Centre, Sevenoaks Reserve, Bradbourne Vale Road, Riverhead.

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Invite you to come and try out our Bowls Centre. - What’s on offer?

L & N PLATFORMS A free bowls session to get you AERIAL ACCESS interested in playing bowls and AERIAL ACCESS joining in the many social events that are held throughout the year. And if the bowling bug Lee Roebuck 07932 236914 gets you a further month of free bowling……………

Nicky Francis 07801 531432 Coaching sessions are also held usually on a Sunday morning.

EMAIL: LNPLATFORMS@TISCALI.CO.UK Age is not a barrier all ages is welcome.

Youth groups are more than welcomed. Telephone the centre on 01732 451889 to arrange your session.We are looking forward to seeing you. http://www.sevenoaksindoorbowls.co.uk

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"St Lawrence Cricket Club” whose picturesque ground is in Bitchet Green, would welcome new members for the coming season. The Club plays in the Kent County Village League.

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The Over 60’s and some under, held their April meeting on the a3th in Seal Village Hall. It was well attended, we paid tribute to members who had died and sent well wishes to Ann who is under the weather, hope she will soon recover.

We welcomed “Luci” who gave a demonstration of chair excercises, explaining how important it is to keep as mobile as possible. We enjoyed our tea, the raffle ended the afternoon. Next meeting is on May 11th with a talk on Pearl Fishers. We start at 2.30pm. B.Arnold

The Kemsing Singers “Crossing Continents” Saturday 18th May 7.30pm

St Edith Hall Kemsing TN15 6NA Exhilarating music from Africa with full percussion accompaniment, Songs and choruses from jazz-inspired shows such as South Pacific, West Side Story and My Fair Lady. www.kemsingsingers.com Tickets from 9 Cleves Road, Kemsing TN15 6RX 01959 523752 Adults £8.00, concessions £6.00, children £4.00

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PLAXTOL LOCAL HISTORY GROUP APRIL 2013 MEETING Some Historic Kentish Towns

David Carder, one of our popular speakers, returned to give a talk on the historical development of the less well known buildings in some of Kent’s historic towns. Beginning with the most historic town in Kent, Canterbury, he surprised us with an unusual reconstruction of Canterbury in the Iron Age. We were then guided through the walled Roman town, marking the sites of a large theatre, public and private baths and a temple. The Saxon reconstruction of Canterbury showed the once magnificent Roman buildings becoming dilapidated but the beginning of a Saxon cathedral and the abbey of St. Augustine in

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The Church of St Peter & St Paul, Seal Vicar:

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Worship during May 2013 5th 10 am Holy Communion 6.30 pm “Open Space” Compline 9th 8pm ASCENSION DAY Breathing Space Holy Communion 12th 10 am Holy Communion 6.30 pm Evensong (said with hymns) 19th PENTECOST 10 am Holy Communion (not the usual All Age Worship) 4-5.30pm Messy Church in the Church hall 6.30 pm Breathing Space Holy Communion 28th 10 am All Age Communion 6.30 pm Evensong (said with hymns) Every Week: Weds at 10am Holy Communion (BCP) The church is normally open during the day – please drop in to enjoy the peace and quiet! Children are welcome at all services. Sunday School usually meets on 1st & 2nd Sundays in term time, and there are other activities on offer during the month also. Please ask for details.The choir rehearses on Wednesdays in term time (7pm Juniors, 7.30pm Adults)

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There are modern lavatory facilities.

FAMILIES are particularly welcome. For children who are unable to settle in church, books and toys are available in the ground-floor tower room from which the service can still be followed through our modern sound system. A creche facility is also available.

THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST LUKE, SEVENOAKS 30 Eardley Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 1XT

Vicar: The Reverend Mark Griffin - 01732 452462 Assistant Curate: The Reverend Anne Bourne - 07512 734224 Churchwardens: Timothy Pearce - 01732 465110 Michael Curry - 01732 455569 Parish Office: Ruth Morris - 01732 743045 (10am2pm weekdays) Church Website: Sunday Worship:

www.stlukes-sevenoaks.org.uk 8am Holy Communion (BCP) 10.15am Parish Eucharist (1st Sunday in the month Family Service) 6.30pm Compline - as announced

Junior Church meets in St Luke’s Hall at 10.15am and joins the regular congregation later in the service. A Crèche provides for babies and toddlers in the Parish Room.

Thursdays: 11am Holy Communion, followed by coffee Morning Prayer is normally said daily in church at 9.15am on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.

Other Activities at St Luke’s: Mondays: Tiny Ones Together Service for babies and toddlers at 10.15am in the Parish Room in term time.

There are small toys to enjoy as well as a story, prayers and a sing-along. Refreshments are served.

Tuesdays: Julian Group meets in Church at 2pm on Tuesdays - Christian Meditation according to Julian of Norwich.

Wednesdays: Lunchtime Recitals at 12.30pm for 30 minutes - admission free – tea and coffee served – bring your own sandwiches Thursdays – last in the month – St Luke’s Fellowship meets at 2.00pm in the Parish Room. Further details from the Parish Office – 01732 743045 or the website.

Vicar Rev. James Oakley 01732 762556 Parish Office: Margaret Robarts 01732 761351 www.kemsingwithwoodlands.org The Parish Office (in the Church Hall) is open 10-12 Mondays, 10-5 Thursdays. Messages can be left on the answerphone at other times (01732 761351).

SERVICES IN MAY

EVERY SUNDAY 8.00 am Communion in Traditional Language 9.15 am Sung Communion (followed by coffee) 10.30 am Morning Service (coffee served beforehand) 6.30 pm BCP Evensong (5th and 19th) in Church Digging Deeper (12th) in the Church Hall Evening Praise (26th) in the Church Hall THURSDAY 9th Ascension 7.45pm Holy Communion Families Families are welcome at all services; the 10.30 service is an all-age service on the first Sunday each month; other Sundays we have children’s groups. We have books and soft toys at the back of church for younger children.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH, OTFORD

Vicar: Revd. Richard Worssam 01959 523185 Church Office: 01959 523185 or at st.bartholomews@otford.net Open weekday mornings 10.30 a.m.-12.30 p.m.

Website: www.stbartholomews.co.uk First Steps: For parents and carers of pre-school children. 9.3011.30am on alternate Wednesdays during term time.

Contact: Najen Harris, 01959 522813 or Hazel Terry, 01959 523047 for details.

Young People: Sunday Club (Sundays at 10.00 a.m.)

Juniors (3-7s) - Middles (8-11s) - Seniors (12-14) YPF every Sunday in Church Centre, 6.30 pm - see website for details Sunday in Month 8am FIRST Common Worship Holy Communion SECOND Common Worship Holy Communion THIRD Common Worship Holy Communion FOURTH Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion FIFTH Common Worship Holy Communion

on the High Street near the library

We welcome you to our Worship and Activities

Sunday

10.30am Worship Coffee to follow Also Junior Church & Creche

6.30pm

Evening Worship

There are a range of services to suit everyone: Family Service Holy Communion Praise Service Wholeness & Healing Our Choir & Worship Band are regularly involved Activities for all ages First Steps (parents & pre-school children) Junior (10-12 years) & Senior (13+) Youth Clubs Women’s Hour Men’s Breakfast Bible & Housefellowships Prayer Meeting Alpha Courses Please check specific details We are a happy welcoming Church worshipping God together and seeking to share His love with others

Please ring for more details Minister: Rev. Kath Pawlett 01959 522196 www.otfordmethodistchurch.org.uk

Otford Methodist Church invites you to join us at the following events Sunday 19th May at 10.30 am- Special Pentecost Service to celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit. Please come and join our celebration and learn more about this amazing event.

For more details please call Kath Pawlett on 01959 522196 Sunday 26th May at 6.30 pm- Wholeness & Healing service You are invited to join us for this reflective service where there will be the opportunity to request prayer for yourself or your loved ones.

For more details please call Kath Pawlett on 01959 522196

Morning Worship Holy Communion Morning Worship

6.30pm Evensong No Evening Service Evensong No Evening Service No Evening Service

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DURING THE WEEK also see the weekly news sheet Wednesdays 9.30am Holy Communion Mon-Sat 5.00 pm Evening Prayer

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10.00am Church Family Worship Holy Communion

Church Road, Stone Street MAY 2013 Sun 5 Holy Communion (BCP) 8:00 am Service to Celebrate our Volunteers 9:45 am Thu 9 Ascension Day Holy Communion (CW) 10:00 am Sun Sun

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For additional information: Vicar: Revd. Carol Kitchener Reader: Gretel Wakeham Church wardens: Celeste Davis Watling Ron Drury

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Saturday 1st June 8.30 am- Men's Breakfast Gentlemen, you are invited to join us at our Mens breakfast talk at Darenth Valley Golf Club. Come and enjoy a full English breakfast and listen to our invited speaker .

The cost is just £9.

To book your place please call Derek Baxter on 01959 523687 Saturday 1st June from 12.00 pm - Iris Society Show and Christian Aid Lunch Please come and enjoy the display of Iris's at this all day event to be held in conjunction with a Christian Aid lunch and sale of gifts and plants Entrance free For more details please contact Rosemary Pattullo on 01959 524914 or Chris Towers on 01959 523017

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Are you interested in building your family tree? But not sure where to start or maybe you have you already begun but are unable to trace back any further?

After starting with what you know the trail can some times run dry so why not bring along what you have gathered so far and we may be able to help you with the next step.

Seal Library Archives are an Aladdin’s cave of information. With access to census returns from the 19th century and Parish records, which are Birth, Marriages and Death records dating back to 1561, at your fingertips.

11th May 2013 a Special History Day at Seal Library

Would you like to know more about the history of our Village or research your own home? We have a wealth of old photographs and maps dating back to 1769. Also available is the Tithe map of 1839 a vital aid to research for genealogists and other historical researchers.

Records of the houses in Seal telling you when they where built and even who lived in them.

What will happen on the Day?

At 10.30 a walking tour of the village will leave from the library led by David Williams. There will also be a display of old photographs and maps of Seal and you will be able to buy copies. Seal: The history of a parish, will also be on sale, at a special price of £10, with proceeds going to Seal Village Association.

The Library will be open all day on 11th May with local historians on hand to give you advice.

We hope this will inspire some of you to form an active Seal History Group.

For further information please call 01732 762131

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This year on Thursday 23rd May we shall celebrate the 10th anniversary since the start of Shipbourne Farmers market and our 500th market !!. Some of our stallholders have also been with us since that time. !! We have invited some special guests and will be having some entertainment. Come along and enjoy some birthday cake!!.

May is always an exciting month at the Farmers' market, as we start to see the first shoots of the bounty of produce that will soon be with us. It should be the month for one of the country’s not-to-be-missed seasonal treats - wonderful English asparagus. But this year it may not be with us until the end of the month. Asparagus is at its sublime best when picked and cooked within hours, something easily achievable when bought locally at the market, (unlike the supermarket version which may be days old and have lost both its distinctive sweetness and tender texture as a result). Make the most of the sweet flavour by serving simply steamed with melted butter, or toss with crumbled local goat's cheese and a simple vinaigrette.

Other spring vegetables are just starting to appear after the cold of the winter. Look out for tender little early English new potatoes at the end of the month. Summer leaves such as spinach, watercress and all sorts of lettuces can be found as well as the last of this year’s main vegetable crop of purple sprouting broccoli, spring cabbage, cauliflower, spring greens, spring onions and radishes. Make the most of green outdoor rhubarb this month in crumbles, pies and fools. Or try making your own rhubarb jam and chutney – the sour sweet flavour of the fruit is ideal used this way, particularly if you add ginger as a flavouring.

Wild sea trout is one of the season’s great treats – smaller fish make a lovely meal for one. Lemon sole, cod, halibut and sea bass are all good at this time of year. For meat eaters local reared beef and pork will be at its most succulent as the grazing starts to green up.

To receive more detailed information about the Farmers Market (e.g. special prices, stallholders) go to www.kfma.org.uk click on Shipbourne then Reminders or Facebook.

Asparagus risotto with seared scallops If we are lucky Asparagus and scallops cross over for just a week or so. British scallops are in season from November till the middle of May and just a few are needed to add their sweet flavour to this luxurious risotto. If you can’t find scallops then serve with a meaty white fish such as monkfish or halibut.

Serves 2 Time to prepare 10 minutes Time to cook 25 minutes

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• 250g (9oz) fresh local asparagus, trimmed • 25g (1oz) butter • 1 tbsp + a teaspoon of cold pressed rapeseed oil • 2 -3 spring onions, chopped • 175g (6oz) risotto rice • simmering chicken or fish stock, see recipe • 50g (2oz) local goat’s cheese, crumbled • 6 scallops with coral • 2 tbsp brandy (optional) • grated rind of 1/2 lemon and a squeeze of lemon juice • salt and freshly ground black pepper Cook the asparagus in a large shallow pan of simmering water for 4 - 5 minutes until just tender. Drain, reserving the cooking water.

Run the asparagus under cold water to stop it cooking any further. Pat dry and cut off the asparagus tips and set aside. Slice the stalks into small pieces. Make the cooking liquid up to 1.2 litres (2 pints) with stock and keep simmering in a pan. Melt half the butter and tablespoon of oil in a heavy based pan and add the chopped spring onions. Cook for a few minutes until soft then add the rice. Mix to coat the rice in the butter and cook for a further minute or two. Add the hot cooking liquid a ladleful at a time, stirring until each amount is absorbed by the rice keeping the mixture creamy. Keep adding stock and stirring for 15 – 20 minutes until the rice is just tender - ‘al dente’. Stir in the remaining butter, goat’s cheese and seasoning, cover and leave to stand while you cook the scallops.

Wash the scallops and pat dry with kitchen paper. Remove the corals and cut them and the scallops in half. Heat the remaining oil in a small frying pan and cook the scallops very quickly on both sides for a minute or two until browned and firm to touch. Add the brandy and flame with a taper if using.

Let the flames die down then season, add the lemon rind and juice. Serve the risotto on warmed serving plates and arrange the scallops on top. (with a really good bottle of white wine – I would choose a Burgundy).

Busy mum’s lifesaver: I sometimes use a herb butter to finish the dish. Whiz up in a blender or beat the butter with 2 - 3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh basil, chives and mint before adding to the risotto.

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Alina Cojocaru - an Evening for Hospices of Hope On May 12th 2013, one of balletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brightest stars, Alina Cojocaru, will be performing at a charity Gala evening at Sadlers Wells Theatre in aid of Hospices of Hope. Alina dedicated her first gala to the Bucharest Hospice Appeal in May 2008 when she thrilled and delighted the audience with an exceptional programme. Her exquisite performances along with her stage partner Johan Kobborg and impressive guest dancers were a joy to watch. Five years later and Alina is back to help with the final stages of fundraising for the Bucharest Hospice which is currently under construction in Bucharest. She has promised an equally exciting programme and amongst world renowned guests, the exciting virtuouso violinist Charlie Siem will be performing on the night. Book early to see an evening of outstanding dance and music, that is Alinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal tribute towards the new Bucharest hospice. Tickets for this unique show can be bought via Sadlers Wells website www.sadlerswells.com Saturday 18th May 2013 Back by popular demand ... Angus Morton, The Voice of Hope with Special Guest Justice Paul Agyei. Angus will once more perform all time favourites and songs from the musicals - he sang for the Queen at Windsor Castle for her 80th birthday.

Justice Paul Agyei is a gospel pianist and a music instructor whose passion is to reach his audienceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soul and not just their ears with the sweetness of his music.

St Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church, College Road, Hextable, Kent BR8 7RH @ 7pm Interval refreshments included, homemade cake with tea or coffee ÂŁ14 per ticket available from Wendy or Marion 01959 525110 wendy@ hospicesofhope.co.uk marion.miller@ hospicesofhope.co.uk Thursday 20 June 2013 â&#x20AC;&#x153;To Romania with Loveâ&#x20AC;?

Join Author & Broadcaster Tessa Dunlop for our Ladies Lunch at Brandshatch Place Hotel & Spa, Fawkham, Kent DA3 8NQ 12.30pm ÂŁ29.50 per person to include a drink on arrival, three course lunch with a glass of wine, coffee & mints Enter our fantastic prize draw on the day, kindly donated by Brandshatch Place Hotel & Spa: enjoy a spa break for two at this luxury country Hotel & Spa to include dinner, overnight stay & breakfast with 2 one hour treatments and full use of the leisure facilities ( subject to availability and valid for 6 months from the luncheon date) Tickets available from Wendy or Marion 01959 525110 wendy@hospicesofhope. co.uk marion@hospicesofhope.co.uk

Wednesday 31 July Rock and Roll with Old Boy Network â&#x20AC;&#x201C; sing and dance the night away with music from the sixties! Memorial Hall, Wilmington, Kent DA2 7BP 7.30pm Bring your own drink to accompany your freshly cooked hot dog. ÂŁ12.50 per ticket available from Wendy or Marion 01959 525110 wendy@hospicesofhope.co.uk marion.miller@hospicesofhope.co.uk

Seal Primary C of E School Medieval May Fayre Sat 25th May 2013 12.00 -3.00pm BBQ, Raffle, Bar, Silent Auction and Much More!

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The Potato Shaped Cyclist

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pretty sure Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll regret writing this, but it seem like Spring may have finally sprung! I need it to â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I resemble a couch potato and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m missing getting out there on the bike and being a fair weather cyclist these days, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve managed two rides in the last month.

Only two!

As far as local people are concerned though, this is a good thing. I am now so unfit that the days of the singing cyclist are way behind me. The smiling cyclist may be pushing it a little. Based on my last trip out, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m more of a wheezing-and-very-slow cyclist. I guess things can only improve!

I want to get out there though, and see all the spring flowers and check on the sheep to see if there are any lambs around yet. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so lovely to have sheep back in the fields of Kemsing after their absence over the last few years. And there are the people â&#x20AC;&#x201C; there are a few that I got to know on waving terms over the last year. Waving could be a bit hopeful at the moment thoughâ&#x20AC;Ś There are the odd things I see too â&#x20AC;&#x201C; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the time that my bike ride turned into meeting 8 firemen and going home to make bacon sandwiches for them all and a particular stretch of road that last year had a new shoe or item of clothing languishing at the side of the road each time I passed. Mostly though, I want to be out in the lovely fresh air that I appreciate so much more after a day at work in London.

So maybe if it is dry tomorrow morning Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll squeeze in a ride before work. And maybe by the time you read this I will look less like a potato, and be back to being able to smile, wave and sing while I travel on two wheels.

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The Blues in Sevenoaks!

Sat 4 May 8pm - Full-on rocking blues with the Bad Influence band! With Val Cowell's ' raunchy Bonnie Raitt style' vocals & rhythm guitar, Richard Hayes on slide & fingerpicking, Pete Stroud on bass & Harry James on drums.

Plaza Suite, Stag Community Arts Centre, Sevenoaks TN13 1ZZ. Tickets £12 box office 01732 450175 or online http://www. stagsevenoaks.co.uk/ Wed 15 May - Top Topham (ex Yardbirds) & Bob Hall (boogie woogie pianist), free at the Blues with Bottle Club, The Anchor, London Rd. Sevenoaks TN13 1AS Wed 29 May - Nigel Bagge & Eddie Armer's Birthday Blues Bash, Geminis especially welcome! Free at the Anchor, London Rd. Sevenoaks TN13 1AS More information about blues gigs coming up on the website http://www.blueswithbottleclub. co.uk/

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ANNOUNCEMENTS Sevenoaks Outdoor Bowling Club @ Hollybush Close

Come and try this simple yet fascinating game for free. Bowls provided, just wear flat soled shoes. All ages welcome.

Phone Brian 01959 522969 or Jill 01732 454677 for details.

Fun Salsa 123 - Learn to Salsa dance

Beginners welcome. No partner needed. Meet new friends.

Monday nights from 8pm in Dunton Green Village Hall email: funsalsa@live.com tel: 01732 742291

TO BOOK SEAL VILLAGE HALL PLEASE CALL - 01959 522545 BABY & TODDLER MUSIC CLASSES WITH MUSICAL BUMPS Friendly, fun and educational classes at local venues in St Mary's Platt and Sevenoaks. Enjoy gentle music making with your baby, and lively fun sessions with your toddler.

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St LAWRENCE VILLAGE HALL

Church Road, Stone Street Village. - Attractive, well maintained traditional village hall, with well equipped kitchen, central heating and parking, Facilities for the disabled. Reasonable rates. Please call 01732 761282. See website: www.stlvh.org.uk

Beavers and Cubs - SEAL Village Beavers age 6 – 8 Cubs age 8 – 10

Ring Nicky Harvey 01732 457118 or 07919075470

PILATES CLASSES

Friendly, relaxed classes in Sevenoaks. Beginners welcome.

Please contact Sharon Snowdon 01732 300527 for moreinformation.

SEVENOAKS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE Are you looking for new friends and something different? We are a club for the more mature amongst us. Our activities consist of Ten Pin Bowling at Tunbridge Wells once a week, canasta which we play on a regular basis, Whist Drives, Scrabble - a couple of sessions per month, Darts, Dining Out and Theatre visits. If you are interested in anything and haven't played for a long time we can refresh or teach you. There are also monthly Rambles. We are a very lively group and are still looking for new members. Why don't you come along to one of our meetings on the first Thursday of every month at 7.30pm at the Community Centre, Otford Road. If you are interested call Angela Heron on 01732 351529 or Mo Haslam on 01732 761903

HIRE BOROUGH GREEN VILLAGE HALL Booking Secretary: Margaret Vick 01732 884101

UNDERRIVER VILLAGE HALL Cosy village hall standing in its own grounds. Stage area, separate small meeting room. Large and well equipped fitted kitchen. Seated catering capacity for a maximum of 80 persons. Ideal for most events. For further information please call: 01732 833930 or email: helen@underriver.com

4th Sevenoaks (St John's) Scout Group

Beavers Wed 5.15 - 6.30pm Cubs 6.45 - 8.00pm Scouts Fri 7.30 - 9.15pm - Extensive secure grounds and facilities.

Contact Contact Paul Davis GSL 01732 763755

THE SEVENOAKS ARCHERY CLUB

Invite applications from experienced Archers and beginners. Coaching arranged. Enquiries to: Mike Davies (Membership Secretary) 01732 762266 email: mdknolepark62@gmail.com

SEVENOAKS BADMINTON CLUB

Every Friday 8pm - 10pm. 4 Courts. Friendly, sociable and matches. No Beginners. Feather Shuttles. The New School at Westheath. info@sevenoaksbadminton.co.uk www.sevenoaksbadminton.co.uk

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AT UNDERRIVER VILLAGE HALL on Monday Evening 7.30pm & 8.30pm and Tuesday mornings at 9.30am. For more information please call Zoe on 01732 771747 / 07950 494335

Hola Amigos Spanish Club invites all Spanish speaking children to join. Sessions take place in Seal Primary School, Seal every Saturday from 10.00am to 11.30 am. For more information see SpanishinSevenoaks. blogger.co.uk or contact us on SpanishinSevenoaks@gmail.com'

SEAL TIDDLERS Come and join us every Thursday during school term times 9.30am 11.30am Seal Church Hall, Church Road, Seal. We are a local group catering for children aged 0-4 years, together with their carers - Mums, Dads, Childminders, Nannies, Grandparents etc., We provide an exciting range of activities and refreshments, tea, coffee and squash.

We are a friendly group who are always welcoming to new members.

The cost £1.50 per carer each week. For more information contact: Kelly Bridle on 07891 801444 or Helen Davies on 07814 717636.

IGHTHAM VILLAGE HALL, Sevenoaks Road, Ightham TN15 9HA This large modern hall has disabled access, a large car park and a committee room. It has a Badminton Court, Stage, Gas Heating, Modern Kitchen with Fridge and Oven. Block bookings by negotiation. Special rates for Childrens Parties, Suitable for Weddings, Parties, Aerobics and Fund Raising for Charities.

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MONTY PARKIN - Monty Parkin, local artist and a whole lot more…..

There is a wonderful display of items produced by Monty at Dynes Road, Post Office in Kemsing. There are Pictures, framed and unframed, Post Cards, Greeting Cards, Books and of course the 2013 Calendar. All for sale at very reasonable prices. Profits will go to the Monty Parkin Memorial Trust

SHORT MAT BOWLS CLUB meets every Thursday in Seal Village Hall at 1.30pm - 4.30pm & 6.00pm - 9.30pm.

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SKIPS Pre-School (Adjacent Ightham Primary School in Oldbury Lane) invite you to join our under 5’s Pipsqueaks music sessions every Wednesday term time between 9.15-11am. Bookings taken on a first come first served basis. For further information and to book a place please contact Sue on 01732 882869

KEMSING PAVILION SQUASH COURT

The Pavilion Squash Court is available for hire. Tokens to operate the court lights are available from Richlands Stores in Dynes Road and Best One Supermarket, West End, Kemsing. The cost of tokens is £6 for 45 minutes play. Court bookings can be made on the booking sheets inside the Pavilion. Full changing and shower facilities. For further information contact pavilion on 762865

KEMSING SHORT MAT BOWLS CLUB

Short Mat bowls is played at the Sir Mark Collet Pavilion Tuesday 2-5.00pm Wednesday 7-10.00pm Thursday 2 - 4.00pm Come and join us - all ages there's no limit! You will be very welcome. We would especially like to see new members on a Wednesday evening. For information telephone Ros Hitchings 01959 523635 (or simply come along.)

OTFORD BRIDGE CLUB : WE HAVE MOVED The Club has now moved its Friday Evening Duplicate Bridge Sessions to new premises at the Sir Mark Collett Pavilion, Heaverham Road, Kemsing. Visitors or new members are always welcome. If you are interested to come along to the Club, or wish to learn to play Bridge, please ring Jim Garlinge on 01892 870260.

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on 16th June 2013 at 2pm- 5pm £5.00 adults / £1.00 children Mr & Mrs Simon & Eliza Ecclestone are once again delighted to open the St Clere grounds for the National Garden’s Scheme initiative ‘Garden’s Open for Charity’.

The 4 acre garden is full of interest with formal terraces surrounding the mansion (not open) with beautiful views of the Kent countryside. There are herbaceous and shrub borders, a productive kitchen and herb garden, lawns and rare trees. Garden tours with Head Gardener at 2.30, 3.30 & 4.30 (£1 per head) Teas will be served in the garden room. Postcode: TN15 6NL 6m NE of SevenoaksTake A25 from Sevenoaks toward Maidstone; 1m past Seal turn L signed Heaverham & Kemsing. In Heaverham take rd to R signed Wrotham & W Kingsdown; in 75yds straight ahead marked private rd; 1st L & follow rd to house.

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SOUTH EAST OPEN STUDIOS 7-23 June 2013

Open Studios will be here next month, so look out for the free guide, with the familiar paint tube logo, at libraries, book shops, council offices, some schools and local village venues; in addition there will be hand outs on individual days at places like the Station and the Stag.

Local artists in Seal will be showing a variety of arts and crafts from furniture making to jewellery to printmaking & painting.

In Zambra Way you will find Debbie Farquharson and in Church Farm Anna Linley and Jennifer Kent. At the Etching Studio, Chart Farm, Seal Chart, there will be Lawrence Jenkins, Anita McEwen and Colin Obray; further down the yard Tim Constable and Pat Savage are in units 6 & 7, and in unit 8 Hazel McNair & Carol Chin.

Check the guide for individual opening times. We look forward to seeing you!

Press Release

Social housing allocation policy is changing Sevenoaks District Council is introducing a new housing policy that will change how people on the Housing Register will be prioritised for social housing from next June.

The new policy is clearer and easier to follow, while giving applicants more flexibility over their choice of housing and takes into account a wide range of housing need, new legislation and best practice.

Under the new policy, applicants will be allocated to one of four housing bands, ranging from high to low priority, based on their housing need. Applicants will still need to bid for vacant homes through Kent Mob: Tel: Homechoice and properties will be offered 07966 01732 to those in the highest band who have spent 740736 669250 the longest time on the Register.

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3 June 2013. During April and May, the changeover period, the Housing Register will be temporarily closed to new applicants.

Applications made during this period will be added to the Register once the new policy is in force in the order they were submitted.

Despite this temporary closure, the Housing Options Team at West Kent Housing Association will be available to give housing advice and those in urgent need of housing will continue to receive help from the Council.

Applicants on the Housing Register will receive a letter in the next two months confirming how the new policy will affect them.

For more information visit www.sevenoaks. gov.uk/housingregister Cllr Carol Clark, the Council’s Cabinet Member for Housing, says: “We believe this policy is a fairer, more open way to allocate social housing. It takes greater account of people with a local connection and the time spent on the Housing Register. It should give applicants a much clearer idea of their chances of securing a property and when they may be offered one.”

FORTHCOMING ROAD CLOSURE BITCHETT GREEN ROAD, SEAL, SEVENOAKS 30TH JULY 2013

Temporary Road Closure – Bitchett Green Road, Seal, Sevenoaks – from 30th July 2013 It will be necessary to close Bitchett Green Road, Seal, Sevenoaks from 30th July 2013 for up to 1 day.

The road will be closed from Pond Lane to Stone Street Road. There will be no access for through traffic at this location.

The alternative route is via west along Stone Street Road, then South along Pond Lane.

The closure is to enable replacement of damaged verge markers and the works are to be carried out by Enterprise working with Kent County Council.

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The Pre-Raphaelites in Sevenoaks

Many Sevenoaks people know that the famous early-nineteenth-century painter Samuel Palmer lived and worked at Shoreham, where his father-in-law the painter Linnell had also worked. Linnell and Palmer often stayed and painted at Underriver. But until this autumn’s exhibition at the Tate, we probably did not know that long after Palmer left Shoreham, three of the original members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood spent some time in Sevenoaks in 1850, or that one of them returned here ten years later to paint one of his most famous pictures.

The story starts early in September 1850, when Holman Hunt was working on the picture based on a scene in Shakespeare’s ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’, later called ‘Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus’. He decided that he needed to find some forest scenery in which to set his characters. He must have discussed this with other members of the newlyformed Brotherhood, for Millais wrote to Hunt on 27 September about the ‘projected trip to the forest‘. There does not seem to be any record of the choice of Sevenoaks as destination. But Millais, another member of the PRB, had already asked Linnell whether Underriver would be a suitable background for the famous ‘Ophelia‘. So it seems quite likely that Linnell, who knew this part of Kent well from his time painting at Underriver as recently as 1849, also suggested Knole as the site for the trip to the forest. By midOctober the plans had firmed up, and another member of the group, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, decided to join in this trip. He was then working on a picture to be called ’Beatrix Meeting Dante at a Marriage Feast’ (never completed, alas, although he had high hopes of it: ‘If I work well I suppose I shall get it done for the RA‘.) and he too needed some landscape background. On 19 October he wrote to F G Stephens, who acted as an unofficial secretary to the group, that ‘I shall not be able to go down with you to Sevenoaks on Monday. After that however I shall certainly join you if Hunt & yourself are still there: since I have got some trees in the picture which I must set about immediately on completing my design; for which purpose I shall have to pitch my tent at Sevenoaks for some days. … I understand that of course there is a stunning country to paint from there.’

He got there on time, for his letter to his mother a few days later is dated from ‘Mrs Hearnden’s, High Street, Sevenoaks, Kent’. The background to one of Stephens’ pictures, ‘The Proposal: The

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Marquis and Griselda’ was ‘painted from life in the rural lodgings that Stephens shared with his friends Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti at Knole in Kent’, according to the Tate website.

It was Hunt who now took the lead, and Rossetti describes for his mother the problems which soon beset them.

‘I reached here yesterday evening, and seem to have come in for the most rascally fortnight of the year. The wet seems regularly established, being nevertheless anything but respectable on that account, I went out this morning with Hunt in search of an eligible spot, and found what I wanted‘ (in Knole Park, as we now know), ‘but was unable to make more than a sketch, since, after an interval of extreme anguish, Hunt and myself were obliged to beat a retreat soaked to the bone. I find I shall never be able to get on without a change of nether garments, which article of dress proved this morning unable to withstand a three hours’ cataract. Will you therefore take the trouble to send me somehow my other breeches, (the pair with straps) and to wrap in them any Italian grammar you can spare as Hunt wishes to avail himself of my lore in that language!’ (Rossetti’s father had been Professor of Italian at University College, London). He continues: ’I find that two other indispensable articles will be a pair of galoshes and a rug to wrap around the legs, both of which I shall be able to procure here at no very desperate outlay.’ - an unexpected tribute to the shopkeepers of Sevenoaks.

Writing the same day to another friend, John Tupper, Rossetti continues the sad story. ’Hunt gets on swimmingly yesterday, indeed, a full inch above the ankles; I myself had to sketch under the canopy of heaven without a hat, and with my umbrella tied over my head to a buttonhole - a position which, will you oblige me by remembering, I expressly desired should be selected for my statue.

NB Trousers turned up. This last item is chiefly to suit Woolner’s ideas of sculpture, should he get the commission.

Stephens, being under a course of philosophy, paints in the house’. So perhaps that is when the background of The Proposal: The Marquis and Griselda’ was started. Woolner, the sculptor member of the PRB, never got round to that statue.

Rossetti goes on with a bit more local colour. ‘Today I began painting on my picture in the park; and began to profit by the views of the public thereon. One man told another that I was drawing a map, and analysed my outline to that end. One boy was kicked by another

for insulting me by doubting that my landscape was meant for a deer. I saw the back of a pair of top boots, and a cutaway coat; Lord Amherst, I was told, was sneaking inside, but he refrained from exposing either his person or his ideas on Art.’ Lord Amherst, who had recently married and moved in with the widowed Sackville Duchess of Dorset, the owner of Knole, clearly had problems with the profession: ‘His house is visited with artists in Egyptian swarms’. And this artist concludes: ‘The cold here is awful when it does not rain, and then the rain is awful. “And what shall guard me but my naked love” - and a railway rug.’.

Holman Hunt saw things differently.

‘Rossetti had promised to use any such opportunity to work out of doors; accordingly we took a lodging together in Sevenoaks. He had to paint a boscage as a background to a design illustrating a passage in Dante, and he found what he wanted conveniently near to my own place of work. I ran up occasionally to see him, and found him nearly always engaged in a mortal quarrel with some particular leaf which would perversely shake about and get torn off its branch when he was half way through its representation. Having been served thus repeatedly, he would put up with no more of such treatment, and left canvas, box and easel for the man to collect when at dusk the barrow came for my picture, he stalking back to the lodgings to write and to try designs .. He did not succeed’.

Perhaps he never received the missing pair of breeches, for Rossetti never finished ‘Beatrix Meeting Dante’ while at Knole. But he was a prudent artist, and preserved the unfinished picture. Years later it turned up as the background to ‘The Bower Mead’, also in this year’s Tate show, which is painted over the lower part of the same canvas.

Hunt, meanwhile, continued with his own picture. There is an entry in the Journal of the PRB, on 5 November, which says that he was ‘progressing well with painting the ground all covered with red autumn leaves’, and that Woolner had paid the two painters a visit. He never seems to have tried the statue.

Holman Hunt however did finish his painting.

‘Valentine rescuing Silvia from Proteus’ was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1851, widely praised and only slightly criticised by John Ruskin, who admired the scenery but did not like the figure of Silvia (modelled by Rossetti’s future wife Elizabeth Siddall).

Ruskin, however, engineered its sale next year at an excellent price to an amateur connoisseur. to be continued.........

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