Village Living August Edition 2021

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Welcome to the August Edition..

Hello Welcome to the August edition of The Village Living Magazine.

Our Cover this month is

This month’s issue has the latest from our wonderful contributors.

Ashington festival

Judy Uptons newest historical article which is always a great read and fascinating is about Drilling for oil in Henfield.

Email us your best photo of your town and area and we will use the winner as the cover and give you the credit!

Steve Boyle on symmetry in photography! This Send to: thevillagelivingmagazine@ month you can look forward to the Ashington Festival - see centre pages . Check out the latest summer books for your staycation. We also included a puzzle would like to promote locally. We would be happy page at the back of this months magazine to put it in the magazine. The dead line for the Wishing you a fabulous month and we will see you September edition is the 20th of August. in September. We are here to help you connect up Warm Regards Angela with local businesses and of course your continued support is very important to us in terms of using local services in your area.

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STEYNING ROOFING

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Reprinting any part or matter appearing in Village Living is strictly forbidden except by permission of the publisher. All copyright of images/content remains that of its photographer/author. Every effort has been made to gain permission to publish copyright material however, where efforts have been exhausted, we have published on the basis of ‘Fair Use’ to comment factual based material where by its use is not central or plays a significant part to the entire publication but to act as an aid for historical and educational purposes only. This publication is offered as a limited print run. The publisher makes every effort to ensure that the magazine’s contents are correct. However, it cannot take responsibility for any effects from errors or omissions. Village Living does not accept any responsibility or liability for any of the services or products provided by the advertisers. Buyers should make their own checks.

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Rotary Club of Storrington & Pulborough District’s Chanctonbury Lions Club to transfer its Bookselling operation to The Rotary Club of Storrington & Pulborough District Due to a drop in active membership Chanctonbury Lions Club is to cease its book selling operation in the Storrington area.

The Club, which was formed in 1959, has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for good causes. For some years their main fundraising activity has been selling pre-owned books, CDs, DVDs and vinyl records kindly donated by the general public.

Cessation would have deprived local people of a popular community activity. The good news is that the Rotary Club of Storrington and Pulborough District is to step into the breach taking over the bookselling operation from August 2021.

This means local book lovers will be able to continue to buy from a massive range of books from the bookstall in Storrington centre (Place Villerest) every Saturday morning. Additionally, there is a bookcase with a donation box in the waiting room at Pulborough Station for London bound commuters. The Rotary book van will also attend local village days and fetes.

Paul Weaver, President of Storrington & Pulborough District Rotary Club said: ‘Chanctonbury Lions Club has done an amazing job of extending book purchase and readership among folk across our region and their motto ˜WE SERVE” has been so well demonstrated over the past 62 years. Rotary has worked closely with Lions Club for the community during this time and we are proud to continue their bookstall service ensuring that book buyers can satisfy their reading appetites while raising money for worthwhile causes .

Phil Abbott, President of Chanctonbury Lions Club said: ‘We are delighted that our Rotary friends are taking over our book selling operation, it is in safe hands. We will still be active in the community.’

Rotary will administer the book sales operation accepting donations of books, CDs, DVDs, vinyl records, jigsaw puzzles (complete) and board games and any of these items which cannot be sold will be sold on to wholesalers for resale or recycling.

The new Bookstore service is indebted to InstoneAir at Parham for providing a site to erect a storage area and to park the library van and also to Mid Sussex Timber Company Ltd for sponsoring the new storeroom.

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Safe Hands Funeral Services Ltd

Independently owned Funeral Directors in Storrington, bringing the best care and value, with kindness and compassion to families across Sussex and beyond.

Visit us in our modern, inviting premises and we can chat through your options and discuss your wishes, allowing you to make choices that feel right for you.

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Symmetry in Visual Arts

Visual artists often use symmetry in their work to provoke a reaction from the viewer of tranquil harmony.

Visual artists often use symmetry in their work to provoke a reaction from the viewer of tranquil harmony.

Human beings are mostly symmetrical so the theory is that this makes us appreciate symmetry in other places including art of all kinds.

However, this harmony can be rather bland so if an element is introduced which disturbs the symmetry, a tension is created in the composition as our brain attempts to interpret the scene.

This can enhance our appreciation of the piece.

I use that word because this law also applies to sculpture of course. The aim is to stimulate the mind of the viewer, to make the question what they are seeing and to search for answers.

The image here, at first glance, is pretty straight forward.

single stem of a plastic rose placed between the clasped hands. This rose breaks the symmetry and also offers an alternative colour to the rest of the photograph and so cannot be ignored, it draws the eye.

But that’s not the whole story. See if you can work out how those hands are intertwined. A very clever sculptor has challenged the viewer to interpret the work. I have merely observed this, selected the area of most interest to me and committed that to digital format via the camera.

It is mainly the work of another artist but I have reinterpreted it using a different medium, that of photography.

The sculpture is statue remains in one place but a photograph can be seen by a huge, worldwide audience if posted online.

If you would like to be included in my mailing list for information on my photographic workshops, please email me : steveboylephotos@gmail.com

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Ashington festival, Saturday 21st A We are back! What a year we have all had so let’s celebrate in style of hopefully being back to normal. The festival committee have organised a brilliant day for everyone, so let’s have a good one.

The day will of course kick off with the Carnival Procession at 1.30pm led by the Medina Band, and Ashington Carnival Princess 2021 Zarah Jagota age 6 and her 2 attendants Hannah and Charlotte Hoare age 7 and page boy Arthur Howells age 7, all children attend Ashington C of E Primary School. Along with other decorated

floats there will be walking groups, and individuals in fancy dress parading through the village. The carnival will be interspersed with vintage cars to add interest and colour. This year we are introducing the ‘Battle of the Roads’ or challenge your friends and family for the best entry of a carnival float or a walking group.

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Money prizes will be given for the overall winners.

As the carnival arrives on the recreation ground

at approximately 2.30pm, they will be greeted by many different stalls, a car boot sale, a classic car show, a fun dog show kindly sponsored by Arun Vets and of course our own Harris’s funfair.

The arena acts will include two shows by the brilliant ’Stallions of Substance’ kindly sponsored by Sussex Equestrian Hospital and performing will be the Medina Marching Band, and Rhythm and Sole Dance Troupe. You will also be entertained and a chance to join in with

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August 2021, a date for your diary

children’s games and a Tug of War competition.

There will be no shortage of food either, burgers, chips, hot dogs, Thai food, Caribbean food, Pizzas, candy floss and ice cream to name but a few. There will also be a licenced bar.

On stage the evening entertainment is kindly sponsored by Cubitt & West Ashington ,‘The Smileys’ will be back by popular request playing music through the decades and also returning to Ashington Diane James singing songs we all know and love. First time to Ashington Festival we welcome Mike Nova AKA Elvis and Ken Dee, a comedy female impersonator.

There will be the usual grand Raffle with many top quality prizes and our famous ‘Barrow of Booze’.

Take the opportunity to meet up with old friends who have now left the village, but always come back to enjoy the Festival.

At 10pm is the spectacular firework display followed by a disco to finish off the evening.

Our programme is designed to have something for everyone to enjoy, be they young, old or in the middle. So mark the date in your diary, come along and enjoy the day with us.

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Respite stays can support the person themselves to live longer independently at home, often thinking of them a bit like a holiday.

Respite stays can also offer a break for home carers or family, safe in the knowledge that their loved one is being cared for at Croft Meadow.

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Drilling for Oil at Henfield Since the Iron Age, hydrocarbons have been used as a fuel substitute for coal in Southern England. Then in the 18th century, natural gas was accidentally discovered in coal borings in Sussex.

A century later several natural gas explosions occurred as a result of drilling water wells, in addition to mining in East Sussex. At the end of the First World War in 1918, such was the extent of the German U-boat blockade that the British Government became concerned about the difficulty of importing enough fuel, should there be a future conflict. It would be useful if Britain were self-sufficient in coal and oil. The Petroleum Production Act was passed in 1934, and the first licences were issued in December 1935 to various oil companies to search for both oil and gas in Southern England.

Soon after this legislation was passed, deep boreholes were drilled in Dorset, Hampshire, Sussex and Kent. One site was at Henfield in West Sussex. It was operated by D’Arcy Exploration Company, under the directorship of the geologist Dr. George Martin Lees. During the First World War Lees had served with the Royal Flying Corps in Egypt and Mesopotamia (now Iraq). He had been awarded the first Military Cross and then the Distinguished Flying Cross after being shot down behind enemy lines. On that occasion Lees ended up trekking for thirty miles by night across the desert to escape from the Turkish Army. After the war, Lees returned to England where he studied and graduated from the Royal School Of Mines and then worked throughout the Middle East in the 1920’s with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.

In 1937 at Henfield, Jurassic rock was found at a depth of over three thousand feet. A slight variation of the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous subterranean layers discovered at the Portsdown site overlooking Portsmouth harbour had fuelled speculation that Britain had vast undiscovered oil and gas reserves in Southern England. However further drilling in

The deepest well to be drilled at Dukes Wood was No 146 to a depth of 7473 feet. Pictured above are members of the drilling team involved in this achievement.

various locations across Sussex produced little evidence that these resources actually existed.

With the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 the search was abandoned.

The war ended in 1945 and during the 1950’s drilling was restarted by the British Petroleum Company Ltd and now included the search for natural gas on behalf of the Gas Council and Imperial Chemical Industries. A sample borehole was again opened at Henfield. Mud shale and limestone existed at a depth of one thousand feet with the clay bed reaching down in excess of two thousand feet. The rock samples were labelled HN/ with the core material then coded KC/ for Kimmeridge Clay or LL/ for Lower Lias depending on the mineral formation found. The samples were then numbered and labelled with the depth they were found at.

The fifth and final rock sample taken from the borehole was found at four thousand, eight hundred and forty three feet and so was labelled HN/LL.5 (4843.5). It was originally dark-grey in colour and described as mudstone. Its chemical composition was twenty-two percent clay, thirty-two percent quartz and thirty-four percent calcite, with the rest of its mineral content not measuring in double figures. Upon testing, the samples turned yellow and the hydrocarbon cont/d 12

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Default Davina Presenter Davina McCall has spent three decades at the top of terrestrial entertainment, presented countless gameshows and BRIT Awards ceremonies, produced 14 fitness DVDs, appeared as a guest on shows including Would I Lie to You?, Celebrity Juice and even Question Time, was a judge on The Masked Singer, and even raised over £2.2m for Sport Relief. Yet her specialist subject will always be fitness!

“I feel I have evolved in terms of the person I am and the work that I do, but at the heart of it I’ve always been fascinated

by British TV and entertainment. I

think that’s why so much of my work comes back to that.

“My passing for fitness and health though really patterns so much of my thinking, though. It’s strange, when I was young I did a bit of ballet but I had to leave in the end because I couldn’t keep my tummy in and my bottom in at the same time!

Beyond that I didn’t even think about getting fit till I was about 30.

count was found to be very low. This meant no oil or gas existed in sufficient quantity to be commercially viable. Geologists Arthur Harold Taitt and Peter Kent presented their findings to the British Petroleum Company Ltd and the Henfield site was decommissioned in 1958.

Sources ‘An Investigation of some potential Jurassic Hydrocarbon Source Rocks Of Southern England’

By Enodiem John Ebukanson.

“I used to dance in nightclubs nonstop, then stopped going out so much, put on a tonne of weight and

did bits in the gym/ I was a ‘read a magazine on the treadmill’ person.

These days I’m much more focused, and it’s good for us to be. I fear the fact lockdown held a lot of people back from pursuing normal exercise, and now we’re heading back towards normality, there is a real need for people to repair the physical and mental effects of the past year, and I pray that happens.”

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5 EXCUSES FOR NOT SEEKING FINANCIAL ADVICE And why they’re wrong.

Millions of people are missing out on financial advice that could help them reach their goals because of misconceptions. According to Royal London, 9.4 million people in the UK choose not to look for a financial adviser despite being open to the idea of it.

The survey suggests that some are not seeking advice due to misconceptions: 1. Financial advice is too expensive: Almost half (47%) of respondents said financial advice was too expensive. Financial advisers must be clear about the cost of advice. Many will also offer an initial meeting free of charge so you can meet them, discuss your needs, and understand if they can help you.

When weighing up the cost of financial advice, it’s also important to look at the bigger picture.

A study from the International Longevity Centre (ILC) published in 2019, found that advised clients accumulated more wealth than non-advised clients.

2. I can look after my own money: Over a third (35%) of respondents said they didn’t take financial advice as they felt confident enough to do it themselves. Financial advice can help you understand all the opportunities you have and how best to reach your goals. Working with a financial planner doesn’t mean giving up control but provides you with additional support.

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help a range of people. The ILC report found those deemed “just getting by” benefited from financial advice more than affluent clients.

4. It isn’t something I’ve thought about: For one in five (22%) financial advice simply isn’t something they’ve thought about. However, taking even small steps now can help you have a more secure future that meets your aspirations.

5. I don’t like talking about money: Talking about money is still something of a taboo subject. Even among family and friends, money is something we rarely talk about. In fact, 17% said they were too proud or too embarrassed to talk to someone about money. Focusing on how an open discussion about your finances can help you reach goals, from retiring early to creating a nest egg for children, can help.

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STEYNING MUSEUM

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Steyning Museum is looking for volunteers to provide a warm welcome to visitors. You would be their first point of contact and provide basic information about the visit highlighting points of interest and helping with enquiries.

Training will be provided.

If you are over 18 and have 2 hours a month to spare we would love to hear from you.

For more information: email: stewards@steyningmuseum.org.uk, or collect an application form from the museum.

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