Sussex Local Magazine - Arundel Barnham Chichester Midhurst/Petworth - June 2020

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30 Finance

What will change forever?

By Richard Cohen FPFS ACII MCSI Chartered Financial Planner The changes to everyday life caused by coronavirus and the associated lockdown have been rapid. With every announcement I can’t help but wonder what changes are here to stay and the long-term implications.

Having established the principal of working from home, if more people continue to do it long term, what impact does this have for train operators?

Perhaps home workers will want faster broadband connections, which are more profitable for the telecom’s companies providing them.

Will those who shun online shopping but due to shielding now utilise it out of necessity, continue to use it? If so, supermarkets with a strong online offering and delivery infrastructure, may go on to thrive whereas those who have concentrated on in-store experience may struggle.

Away from corporate winners and losers, will we see a demand for State Benefits to be increased long term? The 80% of pay capped at £2,500 for “furloughed” workers is higher than most other benefits. Could this higher level of protection for

employees, funded by the State become the norm? The self-employed have been given a safety net in a way they haven’t before; this could lead to a levelling on the playing field in the taxation between the employed and the selfemployed.

Those working “cash in hand” who failed to declare income to evade tax have missed out on the various Government support schemes. Paying your taxes has always been the right and legal thing to do but perhaps a few of those who have abused the system may now see the benefit of declaring their income as they should.

All these changes would have an impact on finances, some costs may reduce, others increase, taxes may increase to pay higher benefits and with higher State protection the need for certain insurances may reduce. Of course, all this is speculation and things could go back to exactly how they were before, but it seems unlikely.

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36 Legal

Is your Will still “Fit for Purpose?”

by Steve Worsfold of Sussex Will Writers The past weeks have seen a dramatic increase in the number of enquiries received at Sussex Will Writers as people have been furloghed and are turning to those areas which we have put off for too long-for many that is reviewing their old Wills. Here are some common changes in circumstances that would warrant a review.

Relationships & Health • Have you got married, formalised a Civil Partnership, or are you about to marry? (Marriage automatically revokes a Will) • Have you started living in a long-term relationship?

• Have you had a child or additional children?

• Have you broken up from a long-term relationship, become divorced or had your marriage annulled? (Note – These may well automatically affect your Will) • Has your spouse or partner died or become disabled or terminally ill?

• Has a Beneficiary or an Executor of your Will become disabled, too ill to act or died?

Have you or anyone mentioned in your Will changed names?

Children & Parents • Have any children’s circumstances changed e.g. marriage, divorce, separation or remarriage?

• Have your children acquired wealth so that your Will provisions now make their Inheritance Tax liability worse?

• Do you know the provisions of your parents’ Wills?

• Do they make your own IHT position worse?

• The above are not exhaustive but should prompt a review •

Call or email Sussex Will Writers quoting Sussex Local for 10% off the normal fee for Wills. NHS and carers will qualify for 20% Discount for Wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney. ID will be required.

01903 533 681 / 07734 744 886 steve@sussexwillwriters.co.uk www.sussexwillwriters.co.uk

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Can I still make a will in lockdown?

By Lucy Thomas from Legalmatters Many essential services have struggled recently as traditional ways of working become increasingly difficult. Social distancing measures introduced to prevent the spread of Covid-19 have hindered the way legal professionals are able to facilitate increased demand for Wills.

However, rest assured that Wills are still being written. Legal professionals have just needed to become a little more creative in the ways they ask clients to sign Wills.

What has changed? Wherever possible, people should stay at home and avoid meeting others to stop the virus from spreading and overwhelming the NHS. Under Section 9 of the 1837 Wills Act, a testator must sign their Will in front of two independent witnesses (who are not beneficiaries or executors of the estate). Whilst this was fairly easy in the past, quarantine advice makes this tricky!

Here at legalmatters, we continue to do everything we possibly can to service our existing and

new clients during these difficult times. Our ability to provide remote services makes us stand out from the crowd. We can deal with everything over the phone or by email and documents are sent to you by post or emailed to you. We are also advising our clients on signature processes bearing in mind social distancing measures.

How can I comply with government advice and make a valid Will? Testators should ensure that witnesses remain at least two metres from the testator and other witnesses and make sure that separate pens are used to sign the document.

Whilst the approaches in creating a valid Will are much changed at present, the process remains the same and we remain dedicated in ensuring virus-based restrictions do not prevent such an important document from being written.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

If you would like to speak to one of our expert lawyers, ring us on 01243 216900 or email us at info@legalmatters.co.uk.

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Arundel Museum & the Town Clock

Arundel History by Adge Roberts of the Arundel History Forum The clocks now on display in Arundel Museum were serviced by Brian Baskerville who then installed them in the new museum in 2012/13 Brian provided much of the information below.

In early October 2020, the recently rediscovered mechanism of the town’s first public clock was put on display next to the existing clocks, with possible plans to add the pendulum and counterweight that are also in the archives.

The town’s first clock was made by Thomas Walder and installed in 1851, the year of his retirement. It was fitted into the front wall of his shop in the High Street close to where the town clock sits to this day.

It is of the type known as a turret clock which has a pendulum with a wooden arm carrying a large circular brass weight. It also has a heavy weight and a series of pulley wheels which I understand help to regulate the clock.

On the clocks dial that is used to reset the clock if it runs fast or slow, appears the name of another clock maker, A W Lasseter, who served his apprenticeship with Walder and later took over the business on Walder’s retirement.

April 10th 1916’, and was signed A W Lasseter.

This probably was following a stoppage of the clock and a service by Lasseter.

At the time of writing his treatise (c1990) Robinson noted that the Lassiter business continued to run in Arundel till 1953 and continued to run under the name of ARUNDEL CLOCKS situated at the bottom of The Square. He also noted that when the original Walder shop was rebuilt in 1890/1, the clock was refitted in the same place but with a new stone face and that, ’… the original mechanism is still in use but is now rewound automatically by an electric motor.’

This dial was almost certainly added to the clock

by Lasseter (with his own name on it, a common practice at the time) in 1916 when according to documentation in our possession, he wrote in pencil on the painted wall beside the clock the fact that the clock, ‘… started Going 5-30 pm

Local notable, the late Bill Beere, was born in this house and upon moving out in 2006, he provided a new clock mechanism made by SMITH of DERBY Ltd and presented the 1851 clock mechanism to the museum. There is a plaque by the clock and next to Lasseter’s pencilled inscription of 1916, commemorating this occasion.

Photos and details of pencil inscription provided

by Mark Phillips

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40 Local History

Victorian Chichester

by Andrew Berriman

Chichester is often described as being a Roman, mediaeval, Tudor and Georgian city. The Victorian era (1837 - 1901) seldom gets a mention. And yet it should.

I yield to no-one in my pride in Chichester’s Roman heritage. I am Treasurer of the Chichester Walls Trust, and I am delighted that Chichester has the most intact Roman Walls in the South of England, still in situ. But if you twist my arm, and ask how many of the wall’s facing stones are the original Roman ones, well, very few, to be honest. Other evidence of Roman Chichester is at best fragmentary, apart from the town house and its bath-house gradually emerging from under Priory Park.

Turning to mediaeval Chichester its greatest glory is of course the Cathedral. But if it wasn’t for the Victorians it would be a ruin today. It was the Victorians who restored much of it, and of course they rebuilt the spire in 1867 after its collapse six years earlier. The accusation that its collapse was caused by the removal of the mediaeval stone Arundel Screen from the crossing has now been widely discredited as a gross calumny against the Victorians. But it was certainly the Victorians who were responsible for the restoration of the North West Tower, which had fallen down in 1636 and had remained in that state until 1897/1901

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Market Cross 1910

when it was rebuilt, during the last four years of Queen Victoria’s reign.

The Market Cross is our iconic building from the Tudor era, built in 1501. But let’s not pretend that the Cross as we see it today is the same as it North West Tower was back then. It has been repaired, remodelled, restored so often, especially after the Roundheads in the Civil War ‘knocked it about’ quite a bit, particularly the bishops in the niches. Further rebuilds occurred in 1680 and 1724. Some might view it today, whisper it softly, as more akin to a Christmas bauble or a wedding cake confection.

And I’m certainly not going to take on our Georgian heritage, to avoid incurring the eternal wrath of Chichester’s pre-eminent Georgian, Alan Green, and also because Chichester, along with Bath and Edinburgh, is such a Georgian treasure.

But what about the Victorian’s contribution to our city? How about five of them. I’ve already mentioned the restored Cathedral. Space is limited so I will need to be brief, to leave room below for a picture of each of them. The railway (1846) heralded the Modern Age; we still use it to access London in less than two hours. In West Street, opposite the cathedral, stands St. Peter the Great Church, built in 1852. Though now a place of eating and drinking rather than of worship, it is nevertheless an impressively confident building.

Another structure no longer used for its original purpose is the Cattle Market (1871), which enabled East St. and North St. to clean up their act, by removing from its streets the weekly Beast Market, with all its attendant muck. Lastly, Jubilee Park provided a small area of tranquil space in which to relax on a park bench, stroll along its paths, and admire its trees and shrubs.

Jubilee Park

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