Sussex Local Magazine - July 2020 - Arundel Barnham

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Charity & Community Chestnut Tree House Lottery To support your local children’s hospice, you can take part in the Chestnut Tree House Lottery and help provide the very best hospice care for children with life-shortening conditions and their families, across Sussex. It costs just £1 a week to play and you'll be in with a chance of winning a top prize of £1,000 every single Friday or one of the other 22 cash prizes every single week.

During the coronavirus crisis, Chestnut Tree House is doing all it can to carry on providing care for local children, but they cannot provide these services without community help. Playing the Lottery could help so many families. For details visit: www.chestnutlottery.org.uk.

Wildlife hospital need support Brent Lodge Wildlife Hospital based in Sidlesham, near Chichester, cares for over 3,500 wildlife casualties every year. They have been providing care, treatment and rehabilitation facilities to birds and mammals across the South for nearly 50 years, with the aim to release healthy animals back to the wild.

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Despite the lockdown, the wildlife hospital has remained open to take in vulnerable wildlife admissions. Hundreds of seasonal wildlife orphans and casualties are keeping the animal care staff busy, each wildlife patient needing around the clock care. When well enough, they move outside to recover prior to being released back into local habitats later in the year. If you do find a wildlife casualty, please call for further advice, the Brent Lodge team are more than happy to help. Tel: 01243 641672 email: enquiries@brentlodge.org or for further information you can visit their website at: www.brentlodge.org

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Competition

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10 Charity Profile

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14 Charity Profile / Finance

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16 Puzzles

Young Readers’ Puzzles Answers on www.sussexlocal.net after 1st July

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18 Gardening

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Gardening

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20 Gardening

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22 Property

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Property

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24 Schools

Amberley Primary Welcoming back some pupils After over two months of closure, Amberley Primary School reopened its doors from June 1st to the children of Key Workers and pupils in Years 1, 6 and Reception.

“It has been fantastic to welcome the children back to school this week. Staff have worked tirelessly to keep the school clean and the children have quickly adapted to the new routines,” said Jon Gilbert, Head Teacher.

The children are now learning in small “bubbles” and being very disciplined about social distancing.

This way of learning feels very different in a school where children of all ages are so used to interacting with each other. However, it is joy to see how pleased the children are to be meeting up with their friends again.

During the period of school closure the children have been learning from home. Staff have become experts at using email and electronic resources to support learning and two teachers have even set up their own YouTube channels so the children can continue to see their teachers.

Parents have been very supportive of the school’s home schooling initiatives and have become expert teachers during this period.

Amberley Primary School has a vibrant range of activities which supplement the standard curriculum and with small class sizes our children receive personal attention. Please have a look at www.amberley.w-sussex.sch.uk to see some of the recent and future events or follow us on Twitter @amberley_ce To see what the children have been learning, please visit the class pages of the school website www.amberley.w-sussex.sch.uk.

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Arundel CE Primary A different way of working together In these extraordinary times, we are learning to adapt the way that we teach and connect with our ACE children and community. In line with government guidance, since March the school building has remained open only for vulnerable children and children of workers critical to the COVDID-19 response who absolutely need to attend.

Following current guidance, we have now welcomed back children in some of our year groups, but this has not changed the fact that we are here to support all of our children, whether in school or at home. In order to do this we have embraced distance learning and online communication; everyone is working so hard and we feel very blessed to be part of such an amazing community. We would like to share with you some of the exciting work that we have been doing.

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Worship and Story time with Mr Simpson Worship is a vital part of our school day, and in order to ensure that all of our children are still able to be involved in the collective Worship, Mr Simpson continues to lead this every morning for those children who are attending school, but also for those who are at home via a live Facebook stream.

Home Learning via our School App Teachers are embracing distance learning through our school app, whereby pupils and their parents can access new work daily, which is emailed back to class teachers for feedback. Teachers are also communicating with their classes by posting videos and updates, as well as daily challenges. This has been very well received by the children who have been sharing their own videos and photographs, maintaining those all-important relationships. www.arundelchurchofenglandschool.org.uk

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28 History

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From Sandakan, Borneo to ‘Sandakan’, Yapton

By Allen Misselbrook, Yapton & Ford Local history Group One of the things I find fascinating about recording local history is that over time we accumulate many unrelated facts about our village. These items are filed away and the various threads added to as new pieces of information are discovered. Sometimes these pieces come together to form a cohesive story.

Very recently I was contacted by a friend who lives in Yapton, who, while researching the history of her house, had uncovered a reference to E R Baker of Sandakan who was one of the original witness signatories to the deeds of her house. Sandakan was a large house situated in Church Road and had been brought to our attention in the past. In 2017 we received an email from Mr Richard Rose of Aberdeen who had discovered a brochure amongst his Great Uncle and Auntie’s papers for a Guest House in Church Road, Yapton which they had owned. The name of the house was Sandakan. Our History Group’s librarian, Geoff Westcott, consulted the Group’s library, especially notes submitted by David Ruffle, which provided more information about the history of the house, alas, long since demolished and the site developed into a small housing estate.

The original name for the house was The Lodge, built around 1855-60 for John and Sarah Sparks of Sparks Engineering (see article published in Sussex Local edition for December 2018) who lived there until John’s death in 1880 at which time Sarah moved into the gardener’s cottage, known as Lodge Cottage, which stood in the grounds. In the 1881 Census, The Lodge was recorded as a Girl’s School with ten students between the ages of 11 and 18 under the supervision of Miss Annie Scott assisted by two governesses and three servants. By the time the 1891 Census was compiled Sarah Sparks was back living in The Lodge but it appears that this was only for a short period before the house was rented out to a succession of tenants including Captain Gerald M. Brooks of the Royal Navy in 1899 and Major Cecil Dudley in 1920. The property remained part of the Sparks Estate and was auctioned off in 1924 only to be bought back by the Sparks Trust.

It was again sold at auction in 1931 achieving a sale price of £2800. The sale catalogue described

the house as a ‘Gentleman’s Comfortable Creeper Clad Freehold Residence’ away from the noise of modern traffic. It went on to say that hunting could be enjoyed with the Cowdray and the Crawley & Horsham Foxhounds. By 1938 it had reverted once again to a school, this time a Prep School, governed by Miss E.B. Davis who continued with the school after WW2.

It is at this point the story returns to the great uncle and aunt of Richard Rose. Their names were Earnest Reginald (Reg) and Isabelle (Belle) Baker. Reg worked for the Public Works Department in British North Borneo as an Assistant Engineer in the town of Sandaken. They lived in the Ex-Pat community until January 1942 when the Japanese invaded. They had to leave at a moment’s notice leaving everything behind save for a few items of jewellery.

They arrived in Yapton in 1949, buying ‘The Lodge’ and renaming it Sandakan as a reminder of their time in Borneo, running it as a Guest House. A visitor could enjoy ‘a small but exclusive Guest House, providing quiet comfort and good food’ the local climate was considered healthy and each of the bedrooms had hot and cold water as well as an electric fire. The cost of a double room ranged from £11 0s 0d to £13 13s 0d per week. For relaxation the guests were welcome to enjoy the attractive gardens and hard tennis court. Reg and Belle continued to run the Guest House until 1954 when it was again sold and its name changed, this time to ‘The Limes’. The house fell into disrepair and was demolished around the time of 1960 and the small housing estate, ‘The Limes’ was built on the site.

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32 Crossword

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34 Local Council news

Aldingbourne PC Annual Meeting June 2nd online Appointments were made: Chair – Cllr Martin Beaton. Vice Chair – Cllr Michael Warden. Planning Cttee (inc village signage) – Chair Cllr Sue Foott. Finance – Chair Cllr Warden Governance and staffing – Chair Cllr Foott Volunteers are invited for the following Working Parties which are led by Cllrs: Neighbourhood Plan: Currently 4 Cllrs and 2 community volunteers. More volunteers welcome. Footpaths, Newsletter/Communications, Allotments.

Two volunteers are needed to fill two councillor vacancies. Contact: clerk@aldingbourne-pc.gov.uk.

Planning: The planning barrister and consultants to be retained in event current planning issues need to be followed through. An ecological survey is currently being carried out by developers on the Cala Homes site East of Westergate. An appeal or re-submission therefore appears likely.

Discussion of s106 policy relating to affordable housing for local people to be discussed at July Council meeting.

Northfields Lane: A letter about the signage “Private – Residents only” was sent to residents

of Northfields Lane seeking comments.

Nyton Road: A letter of complaint had been received about the dangerous speed of traffic on Nyton Road in the Basmati area for the larger number of cyclists and pedestrians, and the danger of lorries from Bognor trying to turn right behind Basmati towards Barnham. WSCC carried out a survey here a few years ago but successive planning applications have since added to traffic volume. Agreed to appoint a traffic consultant to address the issue.

Footpaths: Noted difficulty social distancing along narrow footpaths. Public need to give way to others, especially older people.

Allotments: Spare allotments are available. Contact the clerk if you would like to take one.

Aldingbourne Community Sports Centre: With closure owing to Covid 19 ACSC are financially secure but may need APC financial support from late summer. Tennis has re-started.

Covid 19: The Council is referring people to the WSCC scheme for support for vulnerable people: 01243 642122 www.westsussex.gov.uk/ campaigns/coronavirus-covid-19/ Next meeting: Tues 7th July 7pm Text edited due to space - for full meeting minutes please visit: www.aldingbourne-pc.gov.uk

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Coastal Carpets 12 Charity St Barnabas & Chestnut Tree 7 Domestic Appliances Carters Domestic Appliances 2 Dry Cleaning Total Laundry Ltd 27 Elderly Care Clapham Village Care Home 4 Oakland Grange 11 Garage Doors The Doors Group Limited 29 Garden Services Architectural Plants 40 Glorious Gardens 18 Greenacre Nursery 20 Litchfield & Fox 20 Vintage Garden Company 19 Hairdressing Guy's Mobile Barbers 24 Home Care Angelcare Southern Ltd 7 Horse Manure Sussex Manures Ltd 18 Independent Financial Advisors Nsure Financial Services 15 Kitchen Doors Dream Doors 13 Kitchens and Bedrooms Collier & Sons Ltd 9 Legal Services Sussex Will Writers 31 Optician The Richard Tildesley Practice 26 Pest Control Temppest Enviromental Svs 21 Political Party Parliament for Arundel and South Downs 21 Property for Sale Metis Homes 17 Roofing J P Roofcare 9 Storage Allens Yard 31 South Downs Storage Arun 21 Surveyors Property Doctor Surveys 22 Tree Surgeon Ashwood Tree Surgery 19 TV & Electrical Hamilton Cole 6 Will Writing Respect Wills & Estates 24 Windows Doors Conservatories Barnham Windows & Conservatories 23 Britannia Windows 5

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