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Kemptown Rag March 2019 / Issue 145 / www.kemptownrag.co.uk

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Welcome to The Kemptown Rag! Spring is coming at last and Paul Thomas has some ideas on springtime entertainment for you.

Catherine Considine extols the virtues of parkrun in East Brighton Park, and we have information on the upcoming B Right On Festival in Victoria Gardens, as well as some fundraising events for the Kemptown Carnival.

This month we feature the Sussex Peasant, a mobile farm shop selling only Sussex produce that’s now visiting Kemptown on Fridays, and there’s an update on the proposals for an outdoor swimming pool on the beach by Madeira Drive.

Don’t forget Mother’s Day on 31st March.

Have a great month!

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Contents...

Page 4 Old Photo Page 7 Fundraising events for

the Kemptown Carnival Page 7 The Phantom of the Opera Page 8 The Sussex Peasant

at St George’s Church Page 8 Stephen Jones Hats Page 11 A Child of Empire Page 13 New plans for openair swimming pool Page 13 B Right On Festival 2019 Page 15 Spring Forth!

Page 16 How to make a park … run

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Kemp Town Air Raid Shelter A World War Two air raid shelter in Kemp Town for the use of St John the Baptist School (a Catholic primary school which at that time was in Bristol Road) and All Souls School (in Essex Street).

The shelter was constructed of sandbags and corrugated iron. Date of photo: 21st December 1939. ŠRoyal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove

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St. George’s is the Kemp Town Community Church. As well as Sunday services, at 10:30 am, we house St. George’s café (weekdays 9:00am- 2:30pm) and the Kemp Town Crypt Community Centre (spaces to let for as little as £4.25 an hour). Our welcoming children’s play area is open at any time that the church is.

Bookings/enquiries for the Church (ext1), the Community Centre (ext2) or the Café (ext.4) can be made through contacting us on 01273 279448.

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We are planning some special services in the next few months...

Mothering Sunday 31st March St George’s Day 28th April (a real community service involving many of the groups and societies from the local area, followed by refreshments.)

Harvest Festival 6th October (we know that this is a little way off but you might want to make sure that your teddy bear’s diary is free on this day!)

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Local news...

Fundraising events for the Kemptown Carnival The Kemptown Carnival has launched its events programme prior to its return on 1st June this year. Here are a couple of fundraising events coming up: Friday 22nd March, 11pm-3am The Botanical Ball at Concorde 2 The Botanical Ball features nine-piece dub/reggae band Resonators, raw Afro-Colombian roots music from Pollito Boogaloo, reggae legend Roots Garden and Brighton School of Samba, as well as DJ Eggs Legs and samba reggae funk from the Barulho Carnival Bizarre. A night of deep psychedelic dub bass, world roots and high carnival energy.

jam-packed with family fun. Creative arts workshops, Kids Capoeira (Afro-Brazilian martial art), live music and performances, and of course...lots of cake!

Tickets cost £12 (£10 concessions) and are available from Concorde 2 in Madeira Drive.

Saturday 6th April The Kemptown Carnival Cake Bake and Tea Party at St George’s Church A free children’s festival taking place at St George’s Church in the heart of Kemptown Village, this day of cakey goodness and children’s entertainment is

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More details will be available nearer the time and a carnival crowdfunding campaign will be launched in March, with rewards including the chance to head the parade as King and Queen!

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A silent movie with live accompaniment at St Mary’s Church...

The Phantom of the Opera Saturday 23rd March, 7.30pm St Mary’s Church, 61 St James’s Street Richard Dawson, former Organ Scholar at Keble College Oxford and Deputy Director of Music at Brighton College, will improvise live accompaniment to a screening of the 1925 silent movie classic “The Phantom of the Opera”, starring Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin, on the 1878 Bevington organ at St Mary’s Church.

The film, based on a 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux, is a mystery tale, set in a Paris opera house which is believed to be haunted by a cloaked figure.

The event is hosted by the Friends of St Mary’s and all proceeds go towards the restoration of the church building. Licensed bar. Complimentary cheese straws. Wheelchair accessible.

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This mobile farm shop now visits Kemptown...

News of a new exhibition...

The Sussex Peasant at St George’s Church

Stephen Jones Hats

The Sussex Peasant is a mobile farm shop and pop-up restaurant, visiting villages and towns across Sussex for a few hours each week.

The shop offers 100% Sussex produce, harvested the day before: pasture-fed native and traditional breeds of beef, lamb, pork and chicken; locally caught fish; locally produced cheese and other dairy products; home baked bread, cakes and pastries; jams, chutneys and drinks.

The business launched in 2017 and is now in the car park outside St George’s Church in Kemptown on Fridays from 9am to 6pm, with a very positive reaction from customers.

Ed Johnstone started the business by restoring an old horse truck and converting it into a shop. He told us: “I was disheartened to read that just 1% of food farmed in the home counties remains in the counties to be eaten. I have built a co-operative of sustainable Sussex farmers to supply our customer base with the finest local and seasonal produce. The produce’s provenance is behind everything I do. Our farming is sustainable, our food is traceable, our approach is socially and environmentally minded.”

Current seasonal produce includes purple sprouting broccoli, cauliflower and kale. They do a seasonal Sussex vegetable box, a weekend breakfast box, or a Sunday roast box. Boxes are either delivered or customers can pick them up from the shop on Fridays.

Glamorous hats from one of the world’s top designers are now on show at the Royal Pavilion until 9th June.

Stephen Jones Hats at the Royal Pavilion sees the spectacular state rooms filled with exquisite hats created by master milliner Stephen Jones OBE. During his 40 year career, Jones has dressed the finest heads from across the globe – most recently the Duchess of Sussex, as well as Lady Gaga, Kate Moss and Mick Jagger. Highlights include: a ‘dinner’ in the Banqueting Room for the hats of the most famous wearers including the Duchess of Sussex and Kylie Minogue; and hats from ‘Chinoiserie-on-Sea’ – Jones’ homage to the grandeur of the Royal Pavilion, including hats inspired by its famous domes.

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Our local history article from Katherine Prior at St Mary’s Church…

Local History...A Child of Empire ‘Mrs Dick & Dighton’ reads the handwriting on a Victorian carte-de-visite by the Brighton photographic studio of Hennah and Kent.

Mrs Fanny Dick and her son Dighton,

by Hennah & Kent,

It is enough of a clue to uncover the story behind an attractive portrait of a mother and her son.

‘Mrs Dick’ was Fanny, the wife of Captain Alfred Abercromby Dick of the Bengal Army. He had died in 1874, and it seems likely that the photo shows Fanny as a widow, wearing the muted tones, crape and jet jewellery of half-mourning.

Fanny’s family, like her husband’s, was heavily involved in Britain’s imperial rule of India. Her grandfather, Francis Macnaghten, was a judge in Madras and Calcutta; her father, Elliot Macnaghten, was also a judge in Calcutta and afterwards Chairman of the East India Company; and her uncle, William Hay Macnaghten, had been a prime mover in Britain’s ill-judged war with Afghanistan in 183942, which ended, for him, with his assassination in Kabul in December 1841.

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Fanny and Alfred’s son, Dighton Hay Abercromby Dick, was born in the northern Indian city of Allahabad in 1869. He is about six in this photograph and wears a plaid, presumably of the Clan Macnaghten. The photograph was taken most likely when Fanny was visiting her father Elliot at Ovingdean House. This fine Georgian house had been built by Nathaniel Kemp in 1792. Elliot bought it and the surrounding farmland in about 1858 and lived there, effectively as Ovingdean’s lord of the manor, until his death in 1888.

The 1881 Census records Dighton attending Windlesham House, a boarding school in Norfolk Terrace, Brighton. After training at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, he joined the Indian Army and fought against Afghan forces in Tirah in 1897 and in the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa. He retired with the rank of Major in 1910, but returned to active service in France during the Great War and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.

After the war he and his wife Lilian retired to Dinard in Brittany. When the Germans invaded France in 1940, the couple were interned in a prison camp at Besançon, near the Swiss border. Dighton died there, aged 72, on 28 February 1941. It’s hard to reconcile this very twentieth-century death with the image of the little Victorian boy in the velvet suit but that is a measure of the enormous social and political changes his life had spanned.

Katherine Prior

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Revised plans for Madeira Drive...

New plans for open-air swimming pool Sea Lanes Brighton have submitted a revised planning application for a temporary 25m open-air swimming pool and leisure facility on the former Peter Pan Playground site on Madeira Drive, following the council’s rejection of their original plans in December.

Joe McNulty of Sea Lanes Brighton said: “We are delighted to be re-submitting what we believe to be a much-improved scheme. Rich and Nathan at We Like Today have done a great job in reconsidering the design in line with existing seafront buildings and the Terraces. We have been able to move the pool up the beach in line with Yellowave and reduce the loss of public beach, whilst maintaining all-inclusive access to our scheme. Green roofs have also been added to support biodiversity on the site.”

Artist’s impression of the new proposals

They say their long-term ambition is to build a 50m pool. Initially they are building a 25m pool to prove the concept will be a success.

Sea Lanes Brighton and the council are working towards a decision in April. You can view the planning application and make comments on the

council’s planning register. Visit planningapps. brighton-hove.gov.uk and search for application BH2019/00293.

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B Right On Festival 2019 This year’s B Right On LGBT Community Festival takes place from Thursday 28th March to Sunday 14th April at the Phil Starr Pavilion in Victoria Gardens.

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Paul Thomas on springtime entertainment...

Entertainment in March...Spring Forth!

Starting with St David`s Day on the 1st, March has a lot in store come what May! Find some Serenity with Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, in the “steamy noir thriller” from 1st. Keira Knightley stars in war drama The Aftermath, from the same Friday.

The Brighton Wind Farm Tours are running throughout March. Caribbean Queens will sing-along with Billy Ocean at the Dome, 2nd. Don`t flip out, flip a few pancakes instead on the 5th aka Shrove Tuesday. Ash Wednesday follows on the 6th heralding the start of Lent, where practising Christians traditionally give something up for 40 days. For some, giving up the news will be a desired option…

World Book Day for the UK and Ireland is 7th March.

Children get a £1 book token via school etc and there are many £1 books in bookshops. Captain Marvel opens on the 8th, with Brie Larson battling to save earth in a galactic war. Dido releases Still on my Mind, no pairing with Eminem is expected on this album, 8th. The theme for Commonwealth Day is A Connected Commonwealth, 11th.

International Women`s Day is celebrated for free at the Dome, 9th. I Talk Too Much is Francis Rossi`s Status Quo autobiography, 14th. Quirky and acerbic comedian Simon

Amstell directed the bittersweet comedy Benjamin featuring former Merlin Colin Morgan. Showing at the Duke of York’s Preston Circus and followed by a Q+A with Mr Amstell, 14th. Try and find a four-leaf clover on St Patrick’s Day, 17th. Despite appearances to the contrary, it is not a certain stout`s birthday. Heralding the new season, the Spring Equinox, 20th, might offer a visual feast in the night sky.

The Doctor`s Kitchen - Eat to Beat Illness by Dr Rupy Aujla offers prevention in paperback, 21st. Want to spring clean and need tips? How to Clean your House by Lynsey, queen of clean, also 21st. Tim Burton`s take on the iconic Dumbo flies to the screen, 29th.

British Summer Time starts on Mother`s Day, 31st. Book that table and flowers early and put the clocks forward.

Hopefully the weather will take note of the change in season and let some sustained sunshine burst through.

Make March momentous.

Paul Thomas

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The latest column from Catherine Considine...

How to make a park …

It’s five to nine on a bright, fresh Saturday mornin Dottie’s Café in East Brighton Park, with a loudspe A small, expectant crowd waits in front of me. Some hop from foot to foot to keep warm, others check dog leads are secure; a couple tuck toddlers into buggies and clear mud from the wheels. I take a little nervous breath and hold the loudspeaker to my mouth.

“Good morning parkrunners,” I begin. “Let me tell you about the course.”

And I do. I explain that they will start up the slope that runs from the café to the top of the Terraces; then all across the top terrace to the park entrance at Wilson Avenue. We call this the Lonely Heart Bend because it is the farthest part of the course and the runners will take a U-bend here back to the Terraces and down the Slippery Slope. After that there is a lap of the football course, a dash past Dottie’s and onto a second lap, this time along the middle

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ng and I am standing on the grassy bank outside eaker in my hand. terrace; and finally a round of victory along the lowest path.

In the past few months I have gained a forensic knowledge of the park’s contours because around the end of last year I joined a small group of volunteers on a mission to make East Brighton Park – run. Or more specifically to make a parkrun*.

*parkrun is an international movement to provide a weekly free, timed, 5k run for local The course was born one evening in September as half communities. East Brighton parkrun takes a dozen people, and one dog, trekked the park with a measuring wheel. We tried out turns and slopes and possible place every single Saturday at 9am. Check out our Facebook page (East Brighton parkrun) collision points; and all the while the sun set in shades of orange and purple around us. It was only when we looked or our website (http://www.parkrun.org.uk/eastbrighton/) up we remembered we were creating something beautiful. to sign up and join in or volunteer.

Back on the grassy bank it is time to call it all into life.

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