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The Bell | SUMMER 2019 Cover Story OUR beautiful cover picture by Charlie Waring is taken of the stunning display during the Tulip Festival at Arundel Castle. This year it featured 60,000 tulips with over 130 different names and thousands of visitors came to enjoy the display. Tulips have a fascinating history filled with intrigue and instant fortunes being made on the stock exchange when they became a tradeable commodity. The first real enthusiasm for tulips is recorded in Turkey during the time of Suleiman I when they were cultivated and developed for the Sultan and his entourage. They were first introduced to England in the 1630s as ‘tulipmania’ swept the gardens of wealthy Europeans and the Dutch bulb market boomed. They became popular again in Victorian gardens and continue to be so today. WE WORK HERE SO THAT YOU CAN LIVE HERE OR HERE OR HERE OR HERE Walberton Arundel Estate Agents Old Bosham Tel: 01903 885 678 Chichester simswilliams.co.uk 2

SUMMER 2019 | The Bell Dear Readers by Gill Farquharson – Editor The Bell Editorial Team THE Bell always tries to focus on the people who make Arundel so special and Clare Toole-Mackson, this issue is no exception. Michael Tu (profile on Page 16) is one hardworking Oliver Hawkins, Pauline Allen example- he has been a Councillor for sixteen years, Mayor for three, a trustee of (advertising) and the There But Not There charity and he is also Chairman of the Arundel Festival Gill Farquharson (Editor). again this year! The Bell is the town magazine The Festival in August will, as always, feature the ever-popular Gallery Trail, which of Arundel. It is an ecumenical attracts so many people into the town during the ten days. Mark and Rebecca publication produced quarterly Ford have worked tirelessly over the last five years to organise this event and, by an unincorporated group having retired, deserve our thanks. In our feature on Page 33, Oliver Hawkins of volunteers. It is posted to meets the new committee members who have taken over and reveals what they 3000 homes and businesses are planning for this year. within the BN18 9 postcode and an additional 500 copies Such creativity as the Gallery Trail is a hallmark of Arundel and the creative are distributed by hand within community has always been a large part of town’s society. As a result of an initiative the town and its environs. The by James Stewart, curator and owner of the Zimmer Stewart Gallery, there is now publishers have the sole right to a network of professional, creative individuals called AKIN. Our profile of the group accept, refuse, edit or abridge on Page 22 explains how they came about and how they operate. any article, notice, letter or advertisement and do not While all seems to be gloom and doom on Britain’s High Streets there are accept any liability. The views chinks of light to be seen here! Digby Fine English has opened its Tasting Rooms expressed by contributors are and George and Lily at The Parlour in Tarrant Street have very exciting plans for not necessarily those of the their new restaurant, Le Goûter. More details are in About Town on Page 6. publishers. A Day in the Life is a new series in the magazine which will feature a chat with Cover picture by Charlie Waring someone about their working life. Michael Etherington, the owner of Motte & Bailey, was brave enough to be our first subject – you can read the result Page 28. Designed by JAS Design email: [email protected] Finally I’d like to say thank you to all those businesses that support the Printed by Bishops email: magazine with their advertising, without which we could not continue. Like all [email protected] magazines, The Bell is expensive to produce and deliver but those are the only costs involved and so, with the surplus, we can support good causes. Last year we made a donation to Arundel Surgery to help to buy a Doppler machine. This year the Editorial Board decided on the Aldingbourne Trust. You can read all about this charity’s excellent work and our donation on Page 25. Have a great summer! Email Gill at [email protected] TO SUBSCRIBE to The Bell or call on 01903 889918 People living outside post code BN18-9 can subscribe by cheque: UK £10, Europe £12, rest of world £16. Cheques to The Bell, 1 Tarrant Wharf, Arundel, West Sussex BN18 9NY. 3

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Contents SUMMER 2019 | The Bell 3 Dear Readers 6-15 About Town 36-38 A History of Pallant 16-20 Profile of 40-42 Churches Michael Tu 43 Town Council 22-23 AKIN in Arundel 44-47 25-27 The Bell Donates Town Diary 48-51 School Bell 53-55 Diary of an Arundel Mum 28-29 A Day in the Life 30-31 A Tribute to Pets 33-35 Gallery Trail 56-58 Letters 57 ASCA 60-61 Entertaining Arundel 62 Helplines 64-65 Directory of Groups 66 Useful Numbers 5

The Bell | SUMMER 2019 Anyone wanting to join can find details on the new website: www.arundeltennis.co.uk ; Alternatively contact ATobwount the Membership Secretary, Karen Anderson-Byrne on 07887652618 or email: [email protected] New Chairman at Arundel Tennis Club The Arundel Window Festival Launches …………… GEORGE Johnson and Lily Trunfull, partners at The Parlour in Tarrant Street, have come up with a brilliant idea to cheer us all up when winter sets in. George, who was Chairman of the Business Association and a Town Councillor in Callender in Scotland for 10 years, explained the idea. THINGS have been changing at the Arundel Tennis Club ‘We wanted to create an event that everyone in – there is a new logo and website plus a new Chairman, Arundel could be part of and be proud of. Towards Simon Banks, has been appointed. He’s keen to ‘to see the end of the year, when the evenings are drawing in the Club become more integrated with Arundel life. The and the visitor numbers are dropping, we wanted to current membership is about 100 but we are starting a bit bring a bit of life to the town. A Window Festival is the of a recruitment drive to increase that.’ perfect idea- it doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, you can join in – it’s all inclusive. ’ Like most The Club comprises three hard courts and a small club good ideas, window festivals are not new; they are house, set in beautiful surroundings with farmland to one around in the USA and George is familiar with the one side, and views over the Downs and up to the Castle. Two in Strathbungo on the south side of Glasgow (these of the club’s courts are floodlit, meaning play is possible pictures are from that one). until late in the evening all year, and there is a high performance ball machine which is free for all members to use and perfect for players of all standards. Everybody is welcome to join and there is a wide variety of playing opportunities on offer. ‘We have club sessions where members simply turn up and mix in,’ Simon explains. ‘Some of these are “hosted” on a Saturday afternoon; others are more ad hoc on Tuesday and Friday mornings. There are also group sessions led by our new LTA Level 4 professional coach, Colin Piper, who provides a range of group and individual coaching options (for which fees apply), as well as overseeing junior coaching.’ Juniors are welcome from the age of 6 and junior sessions are led by Colin on Fridays and Saturdays. ‘We have men’s and ladies’ teams competing in the Wilson Sandford Sussex Leagues and both teams are currently expecting to be promoted ‘ Simon adds – but don’t be put off; he assures me that the club welcomes players of all standards! 6

It works he says because ‘There are no road closures, SUMMER 2019 | The Bell no costs involved because we’ve organised it all via social media. It’s about grass roots, community in the town – it’s a growing problem as we all live spirit and saying hey, we’re Arundel, we’re open longer. You are welcome to join them – there is no and the lights are on even if it’s dark out there!’ subscription, just £2 for very good coffee! Contact: Not surprisingly over 40 businesses have already John Munro 884997. committed to join in and many residents are already Investigating the Port in Arundel planning their involvement. So come on – start Can you help? planning your windows now. The Festival runs from 4th LOCAL historians and volunteers at Arundel Museum -14th October. are busy researching the history of the Port of Arundel. Once information has been gathered, the museum will ………. and Le Goûter Opens put on a new exhibition. A book is also planned. Our picture was taken by D. Morris in 1899 and shows the BY the time you read Timber Wharf at the Port. this, George and Lily’s latest brainchild will Rosemary Hagedorn explained, ‘The port was first have opened – Le recorded in 1071, and traded at Arundel until the early Goûter on Tarrant 20th century. We do have material at the museum, Street. Billed as a Parisienne-style brasserie and including many photographs. In addition, we are patisserie serving simple, good modern European style combing archives and studying maps to gain a detailed food. With the same ethos as The Parlour, Le Goûter understanding of the port and the people who used will be open for brunch and the kitchen will continue it. Whilst there is a lot of information on record, there to serve all day and much later at night than other are significant gaps. We are particularly interested in restaurants in Arundel. Brunch will be ‘a bottomless the wharves and warehouses, details of what was held continental-style buffet’ Lily says and the lunch and there, and the names of the wharf owners, merchants dinner menus will represent casual dining with dishes and ship owners between 1750 and 1900. If anyone such as French onion soup, steak frites, lobster brioche has old documents or house deeds giving names or and, of course, great patisserie available all day. plans, knows about interesting ancestors, or has other relevant information, we’d be very pleased to hear Digby Fine English Tasting from them.’ Rooms If you think you can help, as a first step please contact Heather Gayler, the Museum Supervisor, (office@ THE opening of the Digby Fine arundelmuseum.org) to explain what you have to offer. English Tasting Rooms is yet Revd. Steve Lomas 10th Anniversary Party another welcome recent addition AS reported in the last issue of The Bell (A Profile of to the retail offering in the town. Steve Lomas Page 18) this year was his 10th as Pastor It offers the opportunity to taste at Arundel Baptist Church. On Saturday afternoon of Digby’s splendid, blended English sparkling wines. Run the 26th January, the Church held a Special Celebration by co-founders Trevor Clough and Jason Humphries, Tea for him. It was a memorable time which was kept Digby Fine English works with a variety of local as a surprise for Steve and was enjoyed by members, vineyards all producing grapes on the chalky soils worshippers and friends of ABC. The church fellowship ideal for sparkling wine production. Head Blender and put on a splendid tea which was organised by Heather CEO Trevor Clough says ‘With every bottle we hope to De Lara, Sue Bayford and others. Sue made a special achieve world-class balance and elegance, while being anniversary cake to mark the occasion. Steve’s ever true to the fruit of England.’ 7 Alex Ransom, Manager of the Tasting Rooms will be on hand to guide people through the tasting and sale of their three current blends – Vintage Brut, Leander Pink NV Brut and Non-Vintage Brut. Macular Support Group Is Thriving ARUNDEL’S new Macular Support group is thriving at the Swan Hotel, who generously allow the group to use the back room every first Tuesday of the month. The group meet s at 11.00 am to find out more about how to manage AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration), and learn from each other’s experiences. The Surgery says they know of 88 cases

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message of thanks included the words ‘to God be the SUMMER 2019 | The Bell glory great things He hath done’. are now on a mission to raise money for this fantastic FEASTathon Launches charity.’ Sponsors can either support with a general donation or sponsor individuals per mile. There is a A SIX month charity initiative on behalf of the FEAST Just Giving page at www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/ charity based in Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu lunched feastathon5253challenge on April 1st and will last till September. Our picture shows a few of the participants about to set out on an PS On 23rd May 23rd the children of St Philips will also inaugural walk in Arundel Park. be doing a sponsored walk for FEAST. Of which more will appear in the Autumn issue. St George’s Day Sunday Roast A GREAT time was had by all who attended the St George’s Day Sunday Roast at the Town Hall on Sunday 28th. Drinks on the Terrace were followed by a delicious roast beef lunch with all the trimmings and treacle or apple tart to follow. The event was held in support of the charity Help for Heroes and organised by their Local Fundraiser Andy Batty and his team of helpers. Lunch was followed by a talk from Rob Shenton, a former army major, who served for over 21 years and saw operational duty in Bosnia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland and Afghanistan. Like many servicemen, Rob has battled with PTSD and mental health challenges. His field tested bravery is now focussed on recovery and being a force for good by sharing his story as part of the Help for Heroes awareness campaign – and everyone there was awed and inspired by his story. An auction was held and traditional songs were sung and after a splendid day all round an equally splendid £6,098.71 was raised for the charity! St Nicholas Church Summer Fete In total twenty-nine brave FEAST supporters are running, ALWAYS a highlight of the summer, this year’s St cycling, swimming, cross-training and walking a total of Nicholas Church Fete will be on 22nd June from 11am 5253 miles over the next 6 months- that is the distance to 3.30pm at the church on London Road. between Arundel and the project in India. The project supports the poor in the area specifically by helping to Highlights include an amazing musical line up cover the cost of children’s education, building houses including The Alternatives, mezzo soprano Imogen for the homeless or supporting elderly people. Rose Burgess, Will Hall, the St Nicholas’ Barbershop Quartet, Arundel school choirs and Plus. Charlie Jayne Scrimgeour the head of FEAST Arundel said: Smiles will be revving up his Tuk Tuk and offering ‘We have each set our own ambitious targets and we town tours and this year there will be a Magic Selfie Mirror for photo fun with a difference. 9

The Bell | SUMMER 2019 ALERT Some reasons to object to the appeal:- Renaissance is appealing to the Secre- 1. It rides roughshod over the Neighbourhood Plan tary of State against the decision of which allocates the site for 24 small family homes & Arun District Council to reject their plan gardens, of which 30% should be affordable; to build a vast block of 46 luxury flats ONLY for elderly people in Fitzalan 2. it has a detrimental impact on neighbours privacy Road, close to Martlets Court. and amenity; BUT according to our emerging 3. it causes an increased risk of flooding (in an area Neighbourhood Plan, what Arundel des- where some gardens already flood from the sewers); perately needs are homes for the young people of the town, who at present have 4. it damages views from and into the Conservation Area, to leave to find somewhere they can listed buildings and important monuments within afford, breaking up the extended family. the Conservation Area; The public inquiry into the appeal 5. it destroys the historically important Swallow will be held at Arun Civic Centre, Little- Brewery building; hampton from 26th-29th November. All interested residents should try and 6. it increases highway dangers due to the proposed attend at some point (preferably on vehicular entrance having poor visibility close to a Tuesday 26th) to show how much they blind bend; care about our town. 7. it damages protected trees which have not been surveyed; 8. it detrimentally impacts on the street scene with a new building rising up 13m from ground level but only set about 1 metre from the edge of the highway; 9. it provides no affordable family housing (particularly to rent) whilst there is already an over-supply of retirement housing. If you’d like to discuss any maers arising from this appeal, please email Adrian at [email protected] Or johnmunro3@bnternet.co.uk 10

SUMMER 2019 | The Bell Tarrant Street Clinic Dermatology Aesthetics Dr Justine Hextall MBBS FRCP Consultant Dermatologist Contact [email protected] Tel: 01903 882917 All the old favourites will feature as well – face NSPCC and it is set to help boost the coffers again when painting, children’s games, plants, tombola, raffle, it hosts an abseil event in March 2020. books and bric-a-brac . Plus of course you can tuck into delights from the BBQ and the pop-up café- all washed Anyone interested in fundraising or becoming a down with a refreshing beer or Pimms. volunteer for the NSPCC’s South and Mid Sussex Branch is asked to contact Community Fundraising Sussex volunteers Manager Kate Hershkowitz by emailing kate. celebrate raising [email protected] £1.7million for the NSPCC over 60 years A WHOPPING £1.7million has been raised for the NSPCC over the last 60 years thanks to volunteers connected to the charity’s South and Mid Sussex Branch hosting events such as jam sales, quiz nights, and coffee mornings. To celebrate Branch President The Duchess of Norfolk invited 50 volunteers and other long-standing supporters, including the High Sheriff of West Sussex, Caroline Nicholls, and the Mayor-elect of Worthing, Hazel Thorpe, to join her for afternoon tea at Arundel Castle on 18th March. Since forming in 1959, the Castle has hosted the Branch’s Annual General Meetings making it the perfect setting for the occasion. The Collector Earl’s Garden was also open to the public last year to raise funds for the 11

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SUMMER 2019 | The Bell White spotted hermit crab Award Winners Diving Videos Arundel Festival 16th – 26th August IN the Spring issue of The Bell we ran a stunning photo feature about photographer Wendy Eve who had won YES it’s that time of year again and the Arundel the NPhoto Photographer of the Year Award. Another Festival will be the highlight of the summer. As usual of her shots is shown above. Her husband Roger has a there will be loads of events and street entertainment wonderful collection of videos available also for anyone to enjoy as well as the ever-popular Theatre and who would like to view them – the link is https:// Gallery Trails, music and entertainment. The committee vimeo.com/275291332 tell me that full details will be available on the website Local Author Publisher Nominated for British this year and kept up-to-date on a daily basis so check Book Awards out www.arundelfestival.co.uk nearer the time. SANDRA Saer and her SMH Meanwhile there are some specific events below you Books imprint were nominated might like to get involved with. as a Finalist for the inaugural British Book Awards’ Small Press 2019 PreFest Summer Party of the Year prize in March. Local author Sandra said she was THE first official event delighted to be nominated. The of the Festival and the awards- affectionately known one not to be missed, the as The Nibbies- are the leading annual PreFest Summer awards for the UK’s book publishing industry. They Party is the official Festival celebrate the best British writers, books, publishers fund raiser. Sponsored and bookshops. Sandra has been publishing books by Jennings &Co and since 1995, although this may be her last year as Tents’n’Events, it is back she has recently suggested that retirement beckons. on the Lower Lawn of The Chair of Judges of the Awards and editor of The Arundel Castle and starts Bookseller magazine described SMH Books as a ‘strong at 6.30pm. A paid bar and contender’ in the shortlist. Bury’s finest paella will be available along with a raffle and live music from Murdoch’s Crazy Eyes. Tickets are £40 and to book, just transfer the money to Sort code: 600308 Account 75630346 and then confirm your booking by emailing [email protected] Shakespeare in the Castle TICKETS are already on sale for this year’s Shakespeare performance in the Collector Earl’s Garden of the Castle. It sees the return of award- 13

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SUMMER 2019 | The Bell CHERYL HOWELD – FINE ART COMMISSIONS ARNOLD oil on linen 30 x 30cm LAYLA pastel on paper 27 x 30cm “It captures her spirit and is something that I can always cherish even when she is no longer here.” Having a natural empathy with dogs and horses has led to many commissions over the years including one for HRH Prince Charles. Prices range from £175 for pastel drawings to £425 for oils. Visit www.cherylhoweld.com to see more examples and phone 01903 883 493 to talk about a commission. winning theatre group Illyria after their highly 18/04/2019 07:36 sucAcdefosrsTfhuel Bdeellb15u1tx1la07smt mye_Daor.gsT_hJuisney2e0a1r9, vt2h.iendird p1erformance of Shakespeare’s comedy The Tempest will transport people between the ages of 12 and 16, attracting these the audience to the remote island home of sorcerer teams from local schools, scouts and Cadet groups. Prospero, who plots to regain his position as the Duke The recruiting process has started, so anyone of Milan. interested should email [email protected] It runs on 16-17 August. These al-fresco performances 15 will take place during the evening in a stunning setting and perfect place to enjoy a picnic as well as the theatre. Performances start at 7:30pm but you can go into the Castle from 5:30pm and the Collector Earl’s Garden from 6:30pm. Tickets are priced at £15 for a child and £20 for an adult and are availablefrom https://arundelcastle.org/ticket-choi…/standard- tickets.html Dragon Boat Racing PROBABLY the most exciting day of the Festival last year, the hotly contested Dragon Boat Racing was an amazing spectator sport as well as being a real challenge of strength for the 14 boats that competed. This year it’s on Saturday 24th August and is again in aid of Help for Heroes, who last year entered a boat themselves. The event raised over £3000 for the charity. Organiser Andy Batty says: ‘This year we are targeting 16 crews and really want 20! In addition, we are hoping to run a special event for 4 crews of young

The Bell | SUMMER 2019 A Profile of Michael Tu A number of long-serving Councillors Airport at the time, at a party at Thorpe’s Wine Bar stood down from the Council this year in 2001 (which at that time was the ground floor and many new names have come on of what was Sparks Yard), where she claims he trod board. One of the few to stay was Michael on her foot! They have been married for 16 years Tu – in his 16th year and still counting! this year – a date he is unlikely to forget as, in the Gill Farquharson went along to the Town basement of their house in Ford, two dates are Hall to find out exactly what it is that written on the cellar wall – their wedding date and makes someone give so much of their time the day they moved into the house. to the community. Michael has been a Town Councillor for 16 years and ‘BURMA has always been there- maybe not much, but Mayor for three years from 2012 to 2014. So does he throughout my life Burma has always been there.’ This is enjoy being a public servant? ‘It has been enjoyable how Michael Tu reflects on his heritage now. Michael’s over the years and has introduced me to a wide range parents met in Singapore in the 1950’s. ‘She had trained of subjects and people. The frustration is that I don’t to be a radiotherapist at the Middlesex Hospital,’ he think the council does as much as it could do – we have explains ‘and then took a job in the Singapore General the funds and, while I realise everything must be done Hospital. My father was an Officer in the Burmese navy properly, sometimes it just does seem that things take – Lt Commander Maung Maung Tu.’ They lived in Burma too long to move forward.’ until 1963 where two of his four siblings were born. They returned to England in 1964 where Michael was With a relatively new council this year, his experience born. The family then settled in Portsmouth, which was will be invaluable. He believes Brexit and the ease with where his father had trained with the Royal Navy. which people can criticise on social media these days, have been largely responsible for the reluctance of ‘When I was growing up, I think our house was the people to stand (three of the twelve councillors had unofficial Burmese consulate in Portsmouth! There to be co-opted this year onto the council as only nine were many visitors from Burma coming to our home, stood for election). He explains further: ‘Maybe people usually with some Naval connection, from young wouldn’t have been bothered to write a letter in the trainee officers to senior government officials. I past but it’s easier now to put a critical comment on remember on one occasion we had the Foreign Facebook. It can make it a thankless task sometimes Minister and the Ambassador both with their armed especially as we are all volunteers.’ guards parked outside.’ The challenges he sees for the next few years centre ‘The one constant,’ Michael remembers, ‘was Burmese on the economy of the town. ‘We’ve seen shops, food, my father loved to cook!’ It seems that Michael like Sparks Yard, disappear and our town needs to has inherited that love of cooking and does all the be vibrant. The retail world has changed across the cooking at home although he adds quickly ‘Poppy does country and Arundel is not immune to that. It needs make fantastic salads’! ‘I enjoy cooking of all sorts- my to up its game to become an all year round attraction. father was a great cook and loved cooking Burmese and At the moment the Castle is buzzing but go back a few Eastern food. Burmese style curries to roast dinners – I weeks to when the Castle was closed and the town is do it all.’ very quiet in town in midweek. It’s really important that the Council works with the businesses to maintain He met his wife Poppy, who was working at Gatwick the community. The first line of the mission statement for the Council is ‘To protect and improve Arundel for 16

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The Bell | SUMMER 2019 all.’ That means that although the precept comes from just so that Arundel becomes a venue for experiences the residents, Arundel looks like it does because of the beyond just retail.’ visitors. The Town Council has to acknowledge that and be involved in that tourism.’ He thinks the Farmers Market needs to expand and that there is definitely a gap for a project in the spring but On the subject of the proposed by-pass he says: ‘I’m for this to happen, ‘more people in the community need disappointed that the by-pass consultation has taken to become engaged in the ideas. And that runs through so long – we’ve now had a temporary relief road for 40 everything – we need to communicate and engage years! Arundel needs a by-pass. The traffic is getting more effectively with the community. A small group has worse every day – people are by-passing the relief road formed the Arundel Project to explore the possibilities by coming through the High Street! The messaging is but it’s obvious that the need to engage with the over – it now needs to happen. Arun District Council’s community in a better way is going to be fundamental to policy is to build more than 20,000 extra houses over all the potential solutions.’ The Arundel Project has been the next 20 years. All of those houses will have cars appointed as a working group of the Town Council and and, as there are few new jobs being created in Arun it also works with the Stakeholder Group which brings District, they will largely be commuters wanting to together many organisations in the town including the use the A 27 to get to work- so it can only get worse. Estate, the Museum, the Wetlands – approximately 20 The option of the online route will only emphasise the organisations attend the Stakeholder Group meetings. existing split in the town. Also if that route is selected He describes it as ‘a very good forum for those Arundel will become a no-go route for three years and organisations to exchange news, ideas and to work by the time the build is completed, the shops may not together. The Arundel Project will work with them on have survived– and even if they have, after three years new developments in the future’. A presentation about people will have forgotten about Arundel.’ the Arundel Project Group was made to the community at this year’s Town Meeting. He continues: ‘Arundel is protected from development to an extent because most of the land is owned by the As part of his thinking Michael believes that ‘one Estate but Arundel should take its share of housing important thing the Town Council needs to achieve is development. In the Neighbourhood Plan there are some that the Town looks as good as it possibly can on every proposals to do that and I believe modest expansion is no day of the year, not just high days and holidays. While bad thing if a proportion is affordable housing.’ roads are looked after by West Sussex and other issues by Arun District Council, it’s up to the Town Council to The latest development Michael has been involved sit in the middle and co-ordinate and pressurise where in is the Arundel Project, which is looking at how necessary. We need to make sure that the town always Arundel needs to change for the modern world. ‘There looks its best and that it’s a place that is loved.’ needs to be a subconscious feeling that there’s always something going on in Arundel, ‘he says. ‘Yes, we have As well as his council duties, Michael is also serving the Festival and Arundel by Candlelight but they are another year as Chairman of Arundel Festival- an just two peaks – what is really needed for Arundel to unenviable task of pulling together a disparate group of thrive is more, smaller events throughout the year – individuals and produce a 10 day Festival in August. ‘At 18

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The Bell | SUMMER 2019 Anyone who can help should contact Sue Meredith at this stage much is still uncertain and there have been a [email protected] ‘ ‘And let’s hope for number of major changes. Jubilee Gardens is definitely good weather,’ he continues.’ We were very lucky last going to change this year with the withdrawal of the year – we had nine out of ten good days – and if anyone Red Lion as organisers; that leaves a big hole to fill and offered you nine out of ten you’d take it!’ how that is going to be achieved is not yet certain. Forty years is a fantastic unbroken legacy but we should be 2018 saw Michael’s voluntary work branch outside of prepared to challenge the way things are done every Arundel when a close family friend approached him to year.’ One issue that Michael is determined to sort out help out with the There But Not There charity which is that all performers are paid equitably, which has not was set up to commemorate the 100th anniversary of always happened in the past and he believes this is the the end of WW1. He became a Trustee of the charity year it can be achieved. and worked on it throughout the year. He obviously Other plans include the highly successful and found it a very rewarding project to work on – over entertaining Dragon Boat Racing and a variety of street 3500 installations were erected throughout the country entertainment. Drip Action and the Gallery Trail are one of the largest ones being here in Arundel. It took well underway with their plans and tickets are already up a major part of his year and included a great deal selling well for the Shakespeare in the Castle evenings. of travelling including a visit to the British Embassy in One big difference this year will be a new website which Paris. The charity won a Millie Award for their initiatives will be the hub of all information about the individual of which he is justifiably proud and he is continuing to events during Festival. The traditional brochure will be work for them as a Trustee. produced earlier but it won’t have all the event details – that will be held live on the website and updated daily. With all his voluntary roles it’s hard to see how www.arundelfestival.co.uk Michael has fitted in a career but he has! He started ‘The challenge for the Festival is to get a good band out in a company which manufactured hi-fi equipment of volunteers together who can devote their time and exported 90% of it so he travelled extensively to particular parts of the Festival. It doesn’t have throughout Europe and the Far East. In 1997 he set up to be masses of time – anything helps enormously. Hardware Spares a company specialising in supplying Dell spare parts to businesses throughout the UK 20 and Europe. These days however, he’s helping other companies with their IT issues as a consultant. On top of all of this, Michael and Poppy are a high profile couple, enjoying an active social life in and around Arundel. Michael plays golf occasionally – describing himself as a ‘keen high-handicapper’! Juggling his time between all of these activities, Michael demonstrates an enthusiasm and ‘can do’ attitude which make him a great asset to any organisation-his optimism is infectious and as long as he gets nine out of 10 days of good weather this year, the Festival should be a winner!

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The Bell | SUMMER 2019 AKIN in Arundel by Oliver Hawkins One of the first movers, now acting as chairman of the group, was Dana Robertson, a designer specializing in akin, pred. a. Related by blood; (fig) of brand development who had moved to Arundel to run similar or kindred character. his own business after working with big agencies in London. He was anxious to avoid the kind of fiefdoms WHEN I moved to Arundel many years ago I was and politics that he’d witnessed at some levels of working in a big, international design consultancy in the creative industries, but felt that the gathering in London, and it never occurred to me that I could work Arundel represented an exceptional pool of talent, that anywhere other than London. All the agencies and could be brought to benefit from sharing experiences consultancies and production companies were based and aspirations. The subsequent success of AKIN he there, and while doctors and lawyers and estate agents puts down to what he terms the generosity of spirit could work close to home, those of us involved in among members, everyone involved being willing to studio-based careers were resigned to catching early share and support. trains and getting home late. And if you wanted to socialise with colleagues you got home very late indeed. The group has certainly been fortunate in having film- So much has changed since then. Britain is still the makers involved from the start, so records of its original world-leader in a broad range of creative industries, genesis and current activities can be seen on the excellent but operations are now based all over the country, website created by Karl Salter. Jane Mote, whose and nowhere more so than in and around Arundel. ‘beachtobeech’ film company is familiar with Arundel When I first arrived Derek Davis was making pots, and talent since making a programme on the Festival’s Gallery one or two people were probably painting, but I don’t Trail, was in on the AKIN project from the start. She and remember a single architects’ office, or photographer her colleague, Josh Kershaw, have clients all over the or graphic designer. Now the town has so many creative country but are happy to be based in Arundel, often using professionals of one sort or another that the group AKIN the Victoria Institute as a location, and clearly enthusiastic has been formed to harness all this creative energy, about the sense of community that AKIN provides. As sharing knowledge, expanding horizons, and looking for film-makers they meet and work with all sorts of different opportunities to work individually or collectively. people, but for those working in more solitary, studio- based careers the existence of a network of like-minded Looking at the AKIN website (www.akinarundel.com) professionals working in the same town can provide a gives a pretty good idea of the range of members’ welcome opportunity to interact. skills on offer, some traditional, like garden design or environmental sculpture or illustration, some Rachel Aked, described by another member as ‘the more specifically attuned to today’s market-place – early prototype of AKIN’s mixing and matching’, was social media strategy, search engine optimisation, another of those who immediately recognised the e-commerce and app development. potential of the group. Working as a media relations and PR consultant in Arundel she had experienced The original idea for this kind of grouping came from losing out to larger consultancies when pitching James Stewart, of the Zimmer Stewart Gallery in Tarrant for work. It had struck her that the full range of Street. During his term as Mayor of Arundel he kept services that a consultancy could offer were in fact meeting local people working in various branches of available among the numerous professionals based the creative industries, often by themselves, and with in the locality, if only these individuals knew of each no idea of all the other people in similar positions. other’s skills. As with many of AKIN’s members Rachel James felt there was the need for what he described as describes how often people met on the train, at a ‘symposium’, to bring all these individuals together. children’s playgroups, or playing football, might turn A gathering was convened in the Town Hall, and AKIN out be creative fellow professionals. was born, the name emerging through a process of brainstorming, the group developing swiftly into a much Rachel and Dana are both active in a key element of more structured and ambitious enterprise than James AKIN’s presence in the town, putting on a series of ‘show could initially have hoped. and tell’ lectures, on a wide range of topics connected with design and creativity. Watching one of the first 22 lectures on YouTube one sees an audience of artists,

SUMMER 2019 | The Bell Left to right (standing): Sian Lewis; Dana Robertson; Jane Mote; Josh Kershaw Left to right (sitting): James Stewart; Rachel Aked weavers and jewelers handling precision cycle parts self-presentation necessary when dealing with clients. while listening to James Beresford, of VAARU Cycles, But standing up in front of fellow professionals and and doubtless wondering how they might adopt some talking about your creations, which you would normally of the technology in their own enterprises. Similarly a expect to speak for themselves, can be a positive presentation by Malcolm Appleby, a master engraver of experience as well as a challenge. luxury items and jewellery, might provide an illustrator with new techniques, or the presentation by garden Unsurprisingly for a group that has formed so quickly designer Christine Fowler might stimulate new ways and effectively AKIN has plans for the future. In addition of thinking for a gallery curator. Lecturers are not only to the general ambition for Arundel to become in itself drawn from among AKIN’s membership; the group has a ‘virtual agency’ – and some would argue that this has arranged for Michael Trew, one of the UK’s leading already been achieved –AKIN is hoping to foster links paper modelers, who is scheduled to produce an with local colleges and there is talk of setting up training origami installation as part of the Festival’s Gallery Trail, workshops. It’s my strongly held view that in the creative to come down from London to lecture. The sessions arts the distinction between students, teachers and take place in the Victoria Institute, open to all, with non- practitioners is marginal. Almost always when we create members paying a nominal entrance fee. we continue to learn, and at the same time we have the opportunity to share with others, and encourage their The show-and-tell sessions can be as valuable for own development. This kind of sharing, underpinned by the speakers as for the audience. Some of the AKIN the generosity of spirit stressed by Dana, seems to be members are seasoned lecturers, Sarah Mote for central to AKIN’s philosophy, and will I think ensure that example has lectured to the British Film Institute, and the group goes from strength to strength. most of the members will have experience of the kind of Photograph by Jonathan James Wilson 23

The Bell | SUMMER 2019 The BandHANOVER TM Patron HRH The Duke of Kent, KG Founder: Caroline Brown at The Arundel FestivalTHE PARSONS TABLE SUNDAY An evening of authentic Spanish music AUG 21 with JORGE JIMENEZ violin Tarrant Street Arundel TH20E.0S0OUTH STOKE SERIES Friday 23 August 12.00 aPtarStNtRToULNRfeINGGtoThneaArdr’sunCdheulrFcNehs,tSUivoauRl thTSUtoRkeI N G T H E NAKREOSXUMMTMMERGERPEarSNtEitRaEEinRNEAbAODTpEI.O79 N RTURING T ION • NU ION • NUNNG HE • NEX HE • NEX T GENERAT QUARTETSMPPrOinLcZUipAaRSl TwOindSNeprlEeayneardseoifntChemHinaonor vKe3r8B8and T GENERAT TuesTdhaeyH2a0n oAvue rguBsatn1d 2P.r0i n0c i p a l Players with students from the Royal College of Music, London MOZART IN MINIATURE Sunday 25 August 12.30 Rider Divertimenti K439b, Nos 2,3,4 HAYDN String Quartet in G minor, Op. 74, No. 3 The CHURCH CEloliTolintUGLEarSewDtssoyAnbYabsassestethohronrn ST LEONARD’S BRAHMBS ECRlaKrinEeLtEQYuinEtNetSinEBMmBiLnoEr, Op. 115 MaArgUarGet A2r3chibald bassetShoorunth Stoke Colin LawPisponEcalasrtinoept horn 11.00 and the Consone Quartet Wednesday 21 August 12.00 Followed by drinks and canapés THWEEITDANLEIASNDACYONNSETCLTEIOONNARD’S CHURCH ALKE QUARTET A SACUAGRL2AT4TI Sonata NSonoauitnhASmtoinokre Colin Lawson clarinet CO1R1E.0LL0I Trio Sonata in G minor LOCATELLI Flute Sonata in C major Op. 2 No 1 Saturday 24 August 19.30 D SCARLATTI Harpsichord Sonata in A minor SAtLKNEicQhUoAlaRsTCEThurch, Arundel VIVTAHLDUIRSDAYLa Folia TrSioTSoLnEaOtaNARD’S CHURCH Nathaniel Harrison bassoon AsAhleUyGSo2lo5mon flute/recoSrdoeruth Stoke EGral1ebn1i dJ.o0Vn0eesst,bCyocneollor Gricmanis violins Claire Williams harpsichord FESTIVAL CONCERT RLTEAh1SAMRuA9UEOr.T3AGsU0IUdSR2a’7yDAMA2Y2USuSAitEeufgroumsLStoTD1naNrd2do.Ie0Cnn0uHsROo aLdA, SACr uHnUd eRlC H BEESTOHUONVDENS OOLDve!rture to Prometheus BEETTHHEOHVEANNOSVyEmRphBoAnNy DNo 8 BLAVET Flute Concerto in A minor MOAZnAthRoTny HaAlsrtieaaVdadcoon, MduactDorove Odei LECSULANIRDE AY Trio SonaStaTinLAEmOaNjorARD’S CHURCH MOZART Exsultate Jubilate COARURGETT2E8 ConcertoSCooumthiquSetsoOkpe. 25 As1hl2ey.3S0olomonLfleusteSauvages et la Furstemburg THE HAENricOaVEEloRff BsoApNraDno Gabi Jones, Conor Gricmanis violins CHAMBTEhRe HENanSoEvMerBLBEand Benjamin Bayl director Joanna Patrick viola Erlend Vestby cello Claire Williams harpsichord For furBthOerOinKfoOrmNaLtiIoNnEaboWutWouWr c.oCnHceIrCtsHaEndSTtoEbRoToIkCoKnEliTnSe.vCisOit.:UwKwwt.ethl: e0h1a2n4o3ve8r1b3a5n9d5.com or in person TfrIoCmKtEhTeSC:lo☎ist0e3rs33Sh6o6p6, C3h3i6c6he(sBtoeorkiCngasthoenldyr)al West Sussex Promoted by The Hanover Band Foundation Charity No.1138061 24

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The Bell | SUMMER 2019 A Day in the Life In a new series, Gill Farquharson chats He has about 20 staff – a mix of both full and part-time. to Michael Etherington, the owner of For the first two years he was in the café all the time, Motte & Bailey. working horrendously long hours but now, unless a lot of staff are on holiday, he does get a break. ‘There is no MICHAEL Etherington started working in kitchens normal day or week because it’s always so varied.’ when he was 13, chopping vegetables for a café in Chichester which he continued until he left school. His Michael does all the recruitment of staff and explains passion for food preparation led him to the prestigious the café isn’t hierarchical. ‘Everybody works hard and Ballymaloe Cookery School in County Cork run by they know how to do everyone’s jobs so they have celebrity chef Darina Allen. From there his career has empathy with each other-if everybody knows what each included household names such as Petersham Nurseries role is about, they have more understanding. Although Café in Richmond, where he went from Commis to people basically come to work for financial security it Head Chef; work experience with Alice Waters, the can be a place where everyone gets on and everyone is American food guru; running the tapas bar, Morito, for courteous and nice to each other. Some kitchens can be the acclaimed Moro Restaurant in London and finally very feisty which I really don’t like – I’m definitely not Paris, where he worked for the Rose Bakery, opening from the Gordon Ramsay mould.’ and running a restaurant for them in Le Bon Marche, the premier department store in the city. Michael is in the business at some point every day. Coming back home in 2015, at the age of 27, Michael Breakfast lasts from 8.30am till 12 noon and then lunch took over what was then the Tudor Rose café and service till 4.00pm with the café closing at 5.00pm. On gradually turned it into today’s Motte & Bailey. (The tapas nights it opens again at 6.00pm. The evening chefs name reflects the Norman style of Arundel Castle which come in at 3.00pm to prepare for tapas but it helps that is built on a raised earthwork called a motte with an all the chefs are interchangeable, so that they can be inner courtyard – the bailey.) flexible about shifts. A normal day ends at about 6.30pm ‘I get up every day at 6.00am and start at 7.00am with but tapas nights last till 11.30pm. the early shift when we make scones and cakes for that day. We make everything in the restaurant even down With that sort of schedule, holidays are infrequent – to the salad dressing! Our rota of breakfast, lunch ‘they’re more breaks than holidays!’ he explains. He and four nights of tapas creates a lot of preparation is still planning to do the Chichester Triathlon in July through the week – so chefs start at 7.00am and however, although his training has been hampered by a 8.00am to prepare breakfast and lunch. Another broken foot. In a leg brace and supposedly having four chef comes in at about 3.00pm to prepare for tapas which we originally only did on Friday night but is now Wednesday to Saturday inclusive.’ 28

SUMMER 2019 | The Bell © Nigel Cull weeks rest, he worked despite the doctor’s advice and not at the café is for Italian food but ‘I eat what M&B so his foot has taken longer than it should have done to makes for breakfast, lunch and dinner when I’m heal. He is still determined to do the Triathlon however working. Porridge for breakfast, salad for lunch and and is trying to make time to get back into training. tapas for dinner- I can’t complain!’ His other hobbies such as skiing and sailing have really Michael is realistic about the problems facing the town. had to take a back seat because of the business. ‘I found ‘Fundamentally the biggest threat to Arundel is the actually running the business was the difficult bit- all the declining retail sector – people need to use the stores paperwork, rent reviews, VAT – not things I was familiar we have. Sparks Yard was a real loss, a destination with but I learnt the hard way! I would like to expand shop which drew people along Tarrant Street. It’s the business in time – if you don’t envisage growth, very tough these days – wages are going up, pension then what are you doing? I don’t want to stand still. We contributions cost money; all our raw ingredients have would like to do more weddings and outside catering increased in cost – the prices of our produce has gone – but we will do it slowly. Future plans keep my brain up astronomically; vegetables, meat, alcohol- all have turning which keeps everything fresh and good- I don’t increased. Rents are expensive here in Arundel as well want to get stagnant but I want to grow organically.’ but it’s a lovely place – how lucky are we to live and work here?’ As to his own food choices, his food preference when 29

The Bell | SUMMER 2019 A Tribute to Pets Gill Farquharson discovers an unusual transformed the business. Bushy still keeps that original business which sells urns for the ashes of order in a frame on the wall. The company now employs beloved pets. 32 people and has a multi-million pound turnover. ON your way into Arundel on the A27 from Worthing, Several factors contributed to the development of the passing The Vinery sign on the left, you could be company and its products. A Thai friend Bushy met at forgiven for thinking it is another Sussex vineyard. boarding school helped him source a variety of ideas But no, it refers to a hidden industrial estate with a and designs from craft manufacturers in Thailand – such thriving community of businesses in a huge variety of as carved cats and other items not strictly designed for industries. Fargro, a horticultural product wholesaler holding ashes. A marketing course in Worthing gave and a marble supplier sit beside twenty furniture outlets another dimension to Bushy’ s thinking. When shown who restore, sell and transport antique furniture; the box design the lecturer said ‘OK so it’s a box for Hammerpot Brewery and Goldmark Craft Beers share ashes but what else is it? It’s also an ornament and as the space with a company that adapts cars for the police an ornament it’s awful!’ It was the lightbulb moment force and motor bike and car specialists; a huge variety for Bushy who went away to discover what else you of businesses sit side-by-side on the site. Originally a could put ashes into. He says now: ‘It’s the key to our mushroom farm, it was bought about fifteen years ago business. Our products are attractive and discreet-you and turned into a complex of fifty-five industrial units would never know they are urns.’ constructed by cladding the polytunnels previously used to cultivate mushrooms. The product range is amazing- carved wooden dogs and cats; commissioned sculptures of animals; polished It is also home to a highly unusual company, Petributes, and engraved heart shaped boxes which hold just a run by Ness and Richard ‘Bushy’ Bush. The company few ashes as a keepsake; picture frames that can hold occupies eight of the units plus the original farmhouse, ashes and even a framed paw print; urns that can be which is used as their offices. They specialise mainly in buried beneath lawns with a tasteful marker plaque making products to contain the ashes of people’s pets. which can be removed for mowing – all designed to The business started 26 years ago making urns for the make the loss of a beloved pet a bit easier to bear. All funeral trade but it was Ness’s father who suggested of these ideas originate at the Bush’s kitchen table and the idea of moving into the pet market. Bushy still has the latest, the Scatter Tube, is no exception. A highly the prototype box he designed for his first enquiry successful product already, it is a cardboard tube printed from Cambridge Pet Crematorium – who, three weeks with a wide variety of attractive designs used to scatter after they saw the sample, gave him an order for 700! ashes or to store them for transfer at a later date into This quickly turned into a regular monthly order and a permanent memorial. Thousands of these are sold throughout Europe every year. 30 Bushy’s creativity is not limited to product design – he is a talented artist with examples of his painting on every wall of the building. At Christmas Funeral Director customers get a personalised box containing a bottle of local wine; Christmas cards and calendars, all with a great sense of humour, are everywhere. One series of cards have a Bushy take on famous paintings – The Girl with a Pearl Earring painted with a Christmas bauble in place of the earring, or a Stubbs painting with the horse changed to a reindeer – all with a bar code for mobile phones taking you to information about the original painting. Following Bushy around the offices and tunnels is a little like following a mad professor showing off his laboratory – examples of his creativity are everywhere. ‘We are trying to bring production back to the UK from

SUMMER 2019 | The Bell © Charlie Waring China,’ Bushy explains as we tour some of the tunnels international business is growing fast – selling to with lasers and cutters working away making frames America, France, Holland, Germany, Spain, Australia, and wood products. He is keen to use local suppliers – New Zealand, Kuwait, Portugal and many more. They ‘The packaging comes from Littlehampton,’ he explains have a warehouse and a manager in America and are ‘But many of the urns come from Romania through an making inroads into that market which is a difficult one initiative called Link Romania – a charity set up to help to penetrate but potentially enormous. With the advent businesses in the country after the fall of Ceausescu. It of a web shop, the business will now develop a direct paid for the equipment needed for the manufacture of sale to the public in addition to their wholesale clients. the boxes and within five years the company had made enough money to repay the original loan. The company So next time you drive past The Vinery sign, think about now employs thirty-five people and only makes products the hive of activity going on behind the hedgerows, for Petributes. some more unusual than others… Not only does Petributes supply most of the major For more information see the website pet crematoria all over the UK but the established www.petributes.co.uk 31

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SUMMER 2019 | The Bell Gallery Trail 2019 THERE have been a few changes in the running of Installation by Julie Turner the ever popular Gallery Trail, as it enters its fourth decade. Mark and Rebecca Ford, who not only managed commissioned to design a unique installation as part to marshal the hundred or so artists each year for five of the Gallery Trail. On 2 July he will be running a one years, but also brightened up the town with their huge day adult workshop at the Vic to create a multitude willow sculptures, have stepped down. A new organising of Origami pieces. Artists exhibiting on the Trail will committee headed up by Marty Lowell, Penny Schuler, become the makers in this group initiative. The whole Sarah Stafford, Andy Waite and Russell Le Page (of process will be filmed by Beechtobeach of Arundel using Juniper on Tarrant Street), have been active overseeing time lapse photography, and the final installation piece the registrations for this summer, and setting up a new will remain in situ at the Vic during the Trail. website (visit www.arundelgallerytrail.co.uk to get a taste of the variety of artists’ work). Another installation piece will inhabit the never before used basement rooms. Artist Julie Turner will Mark and Rebecca Ford, who be transforming the rooms, bringing back to life long not only managed to marshall abandoned spaces. Expect something a little bit surreal the hundred or so artists each from an artist who is known for her use of out of context year for five years, but also garments and doll-like figures (see image). brightened up the town with their huge willow sculptures Other artists who will be exhibiting in the Vic include some from Arundel, London and elsewhere, with This year the Victoria Institute will be venue #1 on the a couple of young, local emerging artists, making trail and a lot will be happening there. International the most of every available space on all floors. Origami artist Michael Trew (see image) has been Christopher Baker, exhibiting in the town rather than in his Binsted studio, will be showing large landscape Installation by paintings and sketchbooks in the downstairs ‘brick Michael Trew room’. In the entrance hall and adjoining room Polly Dutton will be showing her energetic textured pieces of work. Trail guides listing all exhibiting artists will also be available here. Oliver Mitchell, a recent graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art will be showing his digital “stretched glass” works and architectural paintings in the upper stairwell. 33

The Bell | SUMMER 2019 29 FEAST supporters are Please give your running, cycling, swimming & walking a total of 5253 SUPPORT! miles over the next 6 months; that is the distance Please help us to make a difference! between Arundel & the project in India. We have each set our own ambitious targets & are now on a mission to raise money for this fantastic charity. If you would like to support us please see Fiona in the St Nicholas Parish office or visit www.justgiving.com & search for ‘Feastathon’. THANK YOU! For more information call 0788 7764 311 www.feastindia.org.uk 34

SUMMER 2019 | The Bell Also exhibiting for the first time will be Rob Shrine, an Open Tuesday - Saturday Arundel based tattoo artist. In the large first floor room [email protected] there will be pots, bowls and ceramics by Jonathan www.theparsonstable.co.uk Waights, and monoprints by Johannah Muriel, both regular Gallery Trail exhibitors. Contemporary makers 2-8 Castle Mews, Tarrant Street, are also well represented: Nettie Rowsell, a professional Arundel BN18 9DG Tel : 01903 883477 textile conservator at Parham House, will be showing her evocative thread portraits. International weave As Sussex based Chartered artist Margo Selby returns to Arundel, where years ago Architects, we can work with she studied with Ann Sutton, to show a wall of abstract you to design new buildings geometric textile panels woven at her Whitstable studio. In the top floor studio, as in previous years, Frances or renovate existing ones. Knight will be showing her landscapes. We o er a complete service from inception to completion, Also at the Vic will be a “secret artist” exhibition of including interior design panels by 50 different artists. These will be auctioned to raise funds for next year’s Gallery Trail. Artists’ identities and landscape proposals will be unknown until after the auction but we are promised a few famous name surprises. www.victoriaholland.co.uk This is all in just one 01903 882923 building and there will be more than 60 additional venues not to mention some innovative installation art on the roundabouts. The Gallery Trail as a whole will extend all round the town, with every kind of style and media on show, with artists and makers ranging from the well-established to the first- time exhibitors. We can be sure that with the new team of organisers on the case there will be a really exciting mix. This is all in just one building and there will be more than 60 additional venues not to mention some innovative installation art on the roundabouts. The Gallery Trail as a whole will extend all around the town and include every kind of style and media, with artists and makers ranging from the well-established to first time exhibitors. We can be sure that with the new team of organisers on the case there will be a really exciting mix. 35

The Bell | SUMMER 2019 A History of Arundel’s Old Corner Shop Marian Stevenson, one of the three was a friendly customer who was looking for tenants to original directors of Pallant Wines, traces operate from some of the unused property on the farm. the origins of our much loved Pallant of The cowshed was given a lick of white paint and proved Arundel and the building it now inhabits. to be a light and airy place to display the wines and trade increased. Round the back of the cowshed, Ted’s wife, Di, PALLANT Wines Limited, for that is how the business was cultivating her roses and opposite stood a Spitfire, was first incorporated in 1988, started trading from a welcoming visitors to the RAF museum which later moved small outbuilding adjacent to Birdham Stores on the to the disused airfield at Tangmere. Main Road which takes you down to the Witterings. It sold wine by the case, offering a discount on a dozen Those days of wine and roses passed happily enough bottles – a method whereby wine could be sold on until news came that Majestic Wines were opening an unlicensed premises and which was beginning to catch outlet in Chichester. Almost simultaneously, it came on around that time. about that Beardmore’s at 17 High Street in Arundel had ceased trading and the shop was vacant. And so after When Birdham Stores was eventually sold, it was decided the necessary deliberations, it came about that Pallant to move the Pallant operation up the road to a cowshed moved once again. In the autumn of 1992, Pallant on Appledram Manor Farm. The farmer, Ted Sawday, Wines’ name appeared over the shop on the corner when it opened as an off-licence, specializing in wines Courtesy of Mark Phillips 36

SUMMER 2019 | The Bell The newly designed Pallant interior © Nigel Cull and spirits, a single cheese counter being added as really giving it its ‘raison d’etre” The castle was left more something of an afterthought. or less derelict after the war, but with the Restoration in 1660, and the relative calm and stablilty that came with The timing was perfect. it, Arundel took on a new lease of life. Those were the days when people moved house to be When the 8th duke, Thomas Howard, succeeded to the near a good school and a title in 1701, he ordered repairs to the castle and his trendy deli! successors continued to restore the building in a rather piecemeal fashion though none of them actually resided The timing was perfect. Those were the days when there. It was not until Charles, the 10th Duke, acceded people moved house to be near a good school and a to the title that more money was spent restoring the trendy deli! The cheese sales took off and soon a cold castle. It was he, too, who invested in the building of a meats and pate counter was introduced. Boring cans of new inn in Arundel, now the Norfolk Arms Hotel. beer and dusty soda siphons were cleared away to make room on the shelves for packets of cheese biscuits, As a result commerce flourished and through the jars of olives and tasty preserves. Gradually food sales eighteenth century the town was almost completely were becoming as important as those of the off-licence. rebuilt. A map of the borough of Arundel dated When Dominique and Muriel Chabernaud bought the 1785 shows the town much as we know it today. The business nearly ten years later in 2002, changing the population grew from just over 500 in 1600 to nearly name to Pallant of Arundel, the shop had become a 1800 by the beginning of the 19th century; by 1831 it well-established attraction in the town, drawing custom numbered nearly 3000 souls. from miles around. The other important factor The change of names was nothing new to the hallowed contributing to the town’s walls of our corner shop. Built at the end of the 17th growth was, of course, its port, century, it was to see many owners and proprietors which had existed at the time come and go. The Civil War had left its mark on the of the Norman Conquest. town when the castle was besieged by Royalist troops for almost three weeks. After the Parliamentarians The other important factor contributing to the town’s surrendered in 1644, a visitor found Arundel a “most growth was, of course, its port, which had existed at the dismal sight, the town being depopulated, all the time of the Norman Conquest. Its importance waxed and windows broken with the great guns and the soldiers waned depending on the size of ships it could cater for making stables of all the shops and lower rooms”. and the navigability of the river. Eventually, after years of rivalry with Littlehampton, the seaport became the more A print by Hollar dated 1644 shows Arundel as a small important, taking by 1824 four times as many seagoing cluster of dwellings, rising up the hill from the river ships as Arundel. By the 1840s, with the advent of the towards the church. The castle stands apart on top of railways, Arundel port was really in decline. the hill surrounded by trees, dominating the town and Nevertheless, by end of the 18th century, documents 37

The Bell | SUMMER 2019 So the extent of the land he purchased in 1891 was much larger than exists today. Suffice it to say that show a remarkable variety of trades in the town. They Denton traded from the shop until 1935 when he leased included four bakers, five butchers, a milk seller, five it to one Frank Lionel Sutton, described as a commercial grocers, a brewer, seven shoemakers, two curriers traveller for a yearly rent of £70! Denton died in 1937 and leather cutters, two saddlers, four tailors, two and the following year everything was sold to two stay makers, two milliners, a couple of drapers, a hat brothers by the name of Pressley who were jewellers, and breeches maker, four builders, two bricklayers, also from Worthing. a carpenter, three stonemasons, four plumbers and glaziers, four blacksmiths, four ironmongers, several And so it went on with the property being bought or let mercers, a basket maker, a seedsman, two gardeners, until Pallants arrival in 1992. Now with the ownership four hairdressers, a stationer, two auctioneers, two of the business in the hands of Mark Robinson and watchmakers and a dealer in silver goods- those were Jonathan Brantigan, the interior of the premises has had the days! another facelift. Walk in now, and you will find yourself very much in the 21st century though perhaps the In 1763, we know that over atmosphere of the old shop still makes itself felt. 6,000 gallons of a “burgundy type” wine were produced on And finally, next time you pay a visit to the town’s the Castle estate; indeed the museum, look out for two rather insignificant timbers wine trade had long had a on display. Late medieval in origin, they were probably presence in the town. grave markers and were discovered among the roof timbers of No.17 when repairs were being carried out It is impossible to know what business activity was carried in 1980. Deemed too valuable to leave among the out at 17 High Street during the 18th century though it new beams they were removed and given to the town is tempting to think wine may have been sold there. In collection. Recycled as they were in the 17th century, 1763, we know that over 6,000 gallons of a “burgundy these timbers from the chimney stack of the old corner type” wine were produced on the Castle estate; indeed shop are a poignant link with times past. the wine trade had long had a presence in the town. A ‘winer’ and three vintners were recorded between 1570 and 1724 and a wine merchant, who was also a ship builder, is mentioned in 1780; ten years later there were three wine merchants. It is tempting to think that one or more of these people traded from our corner shop. Being on the island between the port and the market square was a prime location for such business. The earliest deeds available for the property date back to 1870 when in October of that year one Mrs Martha Jane Lear sold it to Robert Edwin Roberts, a “grocer” from Worthing, for the princely sum of £800. But perhaps the best known name on the fascia board was that of Dentons. James Gurney Denton bought the property from Mr Roberts in 1891. He too is described as ‘grocer’ on the conveyance document and the sum exchanged was £925. At that time the property comprised “two messuages tenements or dwelling houses adjoining each other with the large storehouse or workshop yard garden and appurtenances thereto”. The island of buildings was made up of a complicated patchwork of houses, workshops and open ground and over time these properties were bought and sold by businessmen in the town. Mr Roberts owned several premises which he sold on to Mr Denton who is recorded as owning properties along the east side of the island, the Old Bank House, the butchers premises and two further buildings along the west side. 38

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The Bell | SUMMER 2019 Christian Worship ANGLICAN Parish and Priory Church of St Nicholas, Arundel Father David Twinley Parish Office - Telephone: 882262 • Vicarage - Telephone: 885209 Sunday 8.00am Eucharist (1662) 10.00am Sung Eucharist 6.00pm Sung Evensong 1st Sunday in the month Tuesday 6.30pm Eucharist Wednesday 10.00am Eucharist (1662) Thursday 10.00am Eucharist Friday 12.00noon Eucharist Parish Church of St Leonard, South Stoke 2nd Sunday 9.00am Holy Communion 4th Sunday 3.00pm Evensong www.stnicholas-arundel.co.uk BAPTIST Baptist Church, Torton Hill Road Pastor Steve Lomas • Telephone: 01243 587199 Sunday 10.00am Family Service, 6.30pm Evening Service Communion 1st Sunday in the month 9.00am 2nd Sunday following Family Service 4th Sunday with Evening Service CATHOLIC Cathedral of Our Lady and St Philip Howard The Revd Canon Tim Madeley BTh, Dean The Revd David Clifton, Retired Deacon Cathedral - Telephone: 882297 Saturday 6.15pm Vigil Mass † Sunday 9.30am Family Mass 11.15am Sung Mass Thursday 8.30am Parish Mass † Other weekdays excl. Mondays 10.00am Mass Holy Days 8.30am Mass † 10.00am & 8.00pm Mass Convent of the Poor Clares, Crossbush † indicates Masses at the Convent. For times of other weekday Masses please ring 882536. Christian Groups & Courses in Arundel ANGLICAN BAPTIST House groups Homegroup & Bible Study: www.arundelbaptistchurch.org.uk Tel: Parish Office 882262 Wednesdays 11.00am www.arundelcathedral.org CATHOLIC Tel: Pastor Steve Lomas 01243 587199 www.stnicholas-arundel.co.uk RCIA (Rite of Christian initiation for Adults) Email: [email protected] Tel: Cathedral Office 01903 882297 Wednesdays 7.45pm Tel: Les Voke 884156 40

SUMMER 2019 | The Bell Forthcoming Events CONCERTS AND ORGAN RECITALS on Tuesday 20th August and Fantasy Island Day on Thursday 22nd August. Both days start at 10.30am and There are quite a number of concerts and organ recitals finish at 2.00pm. Entry is free, lunch costs £1 and under- taking place in the Cathedral this summer. Do come 5’s must be accompanied by an adult. along and hear some wonderful music. East Sussex Youth Orchestra return to give a fundraising concert in BAPTIST CHURCH ANNIVERSARY aid of the RSLI and the Sussex Festival Choir return also, performing Puccini ‘Messa di Gloria’ and Beethoven’s Sunday 14th July is Arundel Baptist Church’s Mass in C. New to Arundel is Sussex Voiceworks with Anniversary, to be celebrated by a Special Thanksgiving Brighton and Hove High School, singing a Mass for Service at 10.00am, followed by a Buffet Lunch and Children, and Ardingly College Choir performing here a time of Songs of Praise. The theme of Praise and Thanksgiving will be centred on Psalm 100. All are ahead of a trip to Italy. welcome at this celebration. CORPUS CHRISTI 2019 NEW CURATE AT ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH The Feast of Corpus Christi falls toward the end of June this year and the public will be able to view the Carpet Excellent news for our church community is that in of Flowers on Wednesday 19th June from 9.30am- June we welcome to Arundel a new curate, Dominik 8.00pm and Thursday 20th June from 9.30am-5.30pm, Chmielewski, who will be ordained by the Bishop of when the Mass commences. The Cathedral is also open Chichester in the Cathedral on 29th June. He will then while the carpet is being laid on Tuesday 18th June. If ‘serve his title’ at Arundel with South Stoke for the you would like to get involved, please contact the Parish next three or four years. Dominik is currently finishing Office, tel: 01903 882297. his training at theological college near Oxford. He is originally from Poland, near Krakow and before moving TALKS ON EARLY CHRISTIANITY to the UK ran his own art studio with his wife Barbara for fifteen years, designing and producing stained glass On 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th June, & 3rd July at 7pm in windows, icons and liturgical vestments for churches St. Nicholas Church Father David Twinley’s subject will across the country. Obviously a man of many parts (he be the Development of Early Christian Thought. Those is also a historian!) he ‘planted from scratch’ a small but who have heard his earlier talks will already be aware of vibrant Anglican congregation in Krakow, which he led as his incisive, informative and accessible lecturing style (+ a lay minister until his departure from Poland. Dominik visual aids) so will undoubtedly want to hear him again has been married to Barbara for 18 years and they have on another interesting topic. Hopefully others will also 3 children, 2 daughters of 16 and 8 and a son of 12. His come for whom it proves to be a new, invigorating and first Sunday at St. Nicholas will be Sunday 30th June. thought-provoking experience. Everyone is welcome. ST. NICHOLAS SUMMER FETE ST. NICHOLAS POP-UP CAFE For the organisers this year’s date – Saturday 22nd This will again be operating for the two days of Corpus June, from 11.00am-3.30pm – seems to have come Christi, 19th and 20th June, and also during the Arundel round with remarkable rapidity! We were blessed last Festival, 17th-26th August. (For times see Town Diary). year with a glorious day and as a result of this and a The Cafe has become a firmly established and popular phenomenal amount of hard work on the part of a part of both these town occasions, providing much- great number of people the total raised exceeded that needed refreshment in the form of freshly-made of previous years. This year there will be the usual sandwiches, ploughman’s lunches, cream teas and attractions, too many to name them all, but a good an impressive and delicious variety of home-made variety of stalls and also of music and entertainment confectionery, as well as liquid refreshment. Do include outside and inside the church. Exceedingly good a rest-stop here in the course of your visit to Arundel – refreshments too in church (all cakes home-made) and and also if you live here! outside (a BBQ, beer, Pimms & soft drinks stalls)), games for children and a Raffle with numerous prizes. BAPTIST CHURCH FUN DAYS A wonderful family day out! Arundel Baptist Church welcomes children under 41 11 to their two Fun Days, Damsels and Dragons Day

The Bell | SUMMER 2019 Happenings BIRTHS & BAPTISMS 09-Feb Alba Ixchel Chalco Williams 16-Feb Kennedy Shay Gadded-Hickman 10-Mar Ethan Paul Smith 15-Mar Joanna Mary Savage 17-Mar Flora Mary Isabella Fitzalan Howard 24-Mar Ava Natalia Downer 24-Mar Benjamin David Cheyney 24-Mar Jack Anthony Cheyney DEATHS/FUNERALS email: [email protected] www.premier-nursing.co.uk 13-Nov John Charles Page (88) 25-Dec Valerie Gabriel Denyer (88) Flat Roofs 27-Dec Wilhelmina May Page (88) Tiles • Slates 16-Jan Mary Agnes McGing (82) UPVC Soffits, 28-Jan Alan Pendle (83) Fascias and Guttering 01-Feb Eileen Quinn (83) All repairs undertaken 05-Feb Arthur Milestone (92) OAP Discounts 16-Feb Vicki Richards (64) Tel: 01903 885946 19-Feb Raymond Brown (81) Mobile: 07775 694435 23-Feb Don Porton (81) 04-Mar Andrew McCartney (33) [email protected] 06-Mar Jan Briggs (73) 07-Mar Andrew Godber (75) 15-Mar Oliver Augustus Stanley (43) 27-Mar Clive Montgomery Wicks (83) 06-Apr John Marsh (87) 06-Apr Bernard Denyer (82) 14-Apr Harriet Edmonds (52) – Interment of Ashes 42

SUMMER 2019 | The Bell TheTown Council Newsletter THIS summer sees the introduction of a new Council. Trashion Show The Council is made up of both new and experienced Following on from the fun had by all during Project councillors. Each one has made a commitment to Underpass, Lynn Kendall (Arundel Youth Club) and Karin represent residents in decision making on issues that Moorhouse (local artist and Town Councillor) are joining affect the Town for the next four years. To aid the forces once more for an even bigger and better event in Council in the process, it is important that all residents January 2020. get involved and are informed about some of the key issues that face the town. At present these are: This exciting event is to be held at the Town Hall on Tuesday 29th October at 6.30pm. Tickets cost £5 • Arundel Flood Alleviation Scheme – whereby monies each and include a complimentary drink. Further have been pledged from Arundel Town Council refreshments will be available for a donation and of (£64k) to contribute to the £4m project. Over the course there will be a raffle! coming months, the Environment Agency will be sharing plans on how the town will be affected by Councillor Moorhouse comments, “The fashion show these essential works. will showcase garments made from trash, packaging, old and pre-loved items modelled by local youngsters • A27 Arundel Bypass Consultation – New proposed and will cover themes such as urban street life and routes have been muted at recent meetings with environmental awareness, but we need your help! Not elected bodies. A public consultation is scheduled only are we looking for your ‘rubbish’ but also your time, by Highways England in late Summer. Arundel Town we need assistance from anyone willing to help get this Council have raised serious concerns about the effects community project flying! on Ford Road. So if you know how to use a sewing machine or are an • 20mph- WSCC highways have rolled out a 20mph expert with a needle and thread, we’d love to hear from zone across the town together with ‘Gateway’ signs – you. We’re also keen to receive haberdashery donations Arundel – ‘A Historic Market Town’. Feedback has been such as wool, buttons, zips, threads etc… As well as keen received on this and will be reviewed by the traffic crafters we will also need experts to help with the event committee. PR and advertising, programmes and music, so if you think you can help us in any of these areas, we’d love to • Neighbourhood Plan – Arundel Town Council have hear from you. now approved this document with minor changes to put forward to Arun District Council for Reg 16 public We will be contacting the two Arundel schools and consultation which will take place in the summer. the local uniformed youth groups, to not only start up New houses are planned and Arundel must secure its collection points, but also to inspire and recruit local contribution or potentially face Arun District Council youngsters to participate in the project. allocating land of their own choosing. https://www. arundelneighbourhoodplan.co.uk/ We are also reaching out to the wide and varied range of business owners in Arundel who may like to donate • Ford Road – Onsite meetings have taken place with some funding or stock. WSCC highways and Gary Markwell, West Sussex Council elected councillor. Arundel Town Council put In return everyone who has helped will be credited forward residents’ concerns about the distress caused and thanked in what we hope will be a fantastic with heavy traffic, HGV and pedestrian safety. As a community event. result, a community scheme to put in an automated pedestrian crossing has been suggested and will We would like to express our sincere gratitude in advance.” be given to the Traffic Committee to pursue. Gary Markwell has written to several large industrial firms If you would like to join us in making this an absolutely to access the route of their HGV’s with a view to unforgettable event please contact either Lynn or Karin alleviate the volumes coming through. on the below email addresses: Please look out for meeting dates on our website. [email protected] There are four noticeboards to view agendas of the Council meetings at the Arundel Surgery, the MACE [email protected] shop on Jarvis Road, Town Quay and the Town Hall on Maltravers Street. In the next issue our new Mayor will bring forward their ideas for the coming year. Don’t forget if you have any queries about Arundel related issues please do contact us: carolynbaynes@ arundeltowncouncil.gov.uk 43

The Bell | SUMMER 2019 Sponsored by TownDiary www.visitarundel.co.uk Visit Arundel JUNE 6.00pm Choral Evensong St. Nicholas Church 11.00am Macular Support Group Meeting Swan Hotel 2nd 7.00pm From Paul to Chalcedon:The Development of St. Nicholas Church 4th Christian Thought 5th Arundel Cathedral Service of Unity Arundel Castle 7th 7.00pm Plant Sale at The Castle in aid of the Red Cross. 8th 10.00am - Organ recital: R.Dawson. Free entry, retiring collection Arundel Cathedral 5.00pm Diocesan Pentecost Vigil Mass Arundel Cathedral 8th 12 noon 8th 5.00pm Arundel WI A talk by Wendy Puttick – Arundel Hospital'. Warwick Court, Arundel 10th 2.00pm 12th 6.45pm for Smuggling in Sussex. A fascinating talk by Chris Arundel Museum Hare about historic smuggling in Sussex followed by 7.00pm a sea shanty performance. Tickets £7 members/£9 non-members. 12th 7.00pm From Paul to Chalcedon: The Development of St. Nicholas Church Christian Thought 13th - 10.00am - The Art of Ron Deller Exhibition. Admission free. Arundel Museum 14th July 4.00pm 13th 12 noon Mass for Jubilarian Priests of the Diocese Arundel Cathedral 14th 7.30pm Organ Recital:D'Arcy Trinkwon.Tkts. £10 on the door Arundel Cathedral www.darcytrinkwon.com 15th 9.00am - Farmers Market Town Centre 1.00pm Diocesan Deacons'Mass Arundel Cathedral 15th 3.00pm Dad's go free for Father's Day at Arundel Museum, Arundel Museum 16th 10.00am - with one more paying visitor. Arty Krafters Arundel Baptist Church 4.00pm Corpus Christi Carpet of Flowers on view Arundel Cathedral 17th 2.15pm 19th 9.30am- Corpus Christi Pop-Up Cafe St. Nicholas Church From Paul to Chalcedon:The Development of St. Nicholas Church 8.00pm Christian Thought Chapel Barn, South Stoke Drip Action Theatre South Stoke Festival of Short 19th 11 am-5pm Plays. £12, £8 for students from The Book Ferret, 34 Arundel Cathedral 19th 7.00pm High Street, Arundel. Tel: 01903 885727 Corpus Christi Carpet of Flowers on view 19th - 8.00pm 22nd Corpus Christi Pop-Up Cafe St. Nicholas Church June 9.30am- 20th 5.30pm Corpus Christi Mass Arundel Cathedral 11.00am- 20th 5.00pm 5.30pm 20th 44

SUMMER 2019 | The Bell 20th 6.30pm Procession to the Castle & back to the Cathedral Arundel Cathedral 21st 7.30pm - 9.30pm Arundel Flower Club. Demonstrator: TBA Club Competition: St Mary's Hall, Clymping 22nd 11.00am- Tapestry. Flat arrangement- maximum 26 inches 3.30pm 22nd 7.30pm St. Nicholas Summer Fete St. Nicholas Church 23rd 3.00pm Libera Concert: see https;//libera.org.uk/event/ Arundel Cathedral 24th 10.00am arundel-uk-2/ for tkts. 24th 7.00pm for 7.30pm Cathedral Deanery Confirmation Arundel Cathedral 25th 7.00pm 26th 12 noon Mass in the Fitzalan Chapel Arundel Castle 26th 7.00pm A talk on the Normandy landings with author James Arundel Museum 28th 12 noon Robertshaw. Tickets£5 members/£8 non-members 28th 6.30pm - 11.30pm Ardingly College Choir Concert Arundel Cathedral Diocesan Secondary Schools Pilgrimage Mass Arundel Cathedral From Paul to Chalcedon:The Development of St. Nicholas Church Christian Thought Lunch Break Arundel Baptist Church 2019 PreFest - Arundel's Summer Party. In a marquee Arundel Castle on the Lower Lawns of Arundel Castle. A night of fun, food, auctions, live music with Murdoch's Crazy Eyes and dancing. Tickets £40 email [email protected] 28th 7.30pm Organ Recital:D'Arcy Trinkwon. Tkts. £10 on the door. Arundel Cathedral www.darcytrinkwon.com 29th TBC Sussex Voiceworks Concert.http://sussexvoiceworks. Arundel Cathedral weebly.com/events.html 30th 12noon - Love Bury - an afternoon of food, music and fun West Burton Lane, Bury 5.00pm organised by the Friends of Bury School. 30th 9.30am First Communion 'Going Forth' Mass Arundel Cathedral JULY 11.00am 1.30pm Macular Support Group Meeting Swan Hotel 2nd 7.00pm Organ Recital – Alex Eadon. Free entry, retiring collection Arundel Cathedral 2nd From Paul to Chalcedon: The Development of St. Nicholas Church 3rd Christian Thought Arundel Cathedral 5th 11.30am Sion School Leavers' Service Arundel Cathedral 5th 6.30pm Friends of Arundel Cathedral Vespers and Summer Event Arundel Cathedral 6th 12 noon Organ Recital:Oliver Hancock. Free entry, retiring collection St. Nicholas Church 7th 10.00am St. Nicholas Church 7th 6.00pm First Communion Mass Choral Evensong, followed by a reception in the Warwick Court, Arundel 8th 2.00pm Collector Earl's Garden, Arundel Castle. Friends of St. Arundel Cathedral 12th 7.30pm Nicholas Event, tkts. £10, tel. 01903 882262 100th Anniversary of the WI in West Sussex Tea Party Arundel Cathedral 13th All day Organ Recital:D'Arcy Trinkwon. Tkts. £10 on the door. Jubilee Gardens 13th 12 noon - www.darcytrinkwon.com A Day with Mary', see www.adaywithmary.org for details Arundel Cathedral 4.00pm Food and Fun Day in Jubilee Gardens. Delicious Arundel Baptist Church food, games and music including The Alternatives. 14th 2.30pm Tombola and summer raffle - all fundraising 15th 2.15pm proceeds to the Museum. Lewes Deanery Confirmation Arty Krafters 45

The Bell | SUMMER 2019 19th 12 noon Lunch Break Arundel Baptist Church 19th 7.30pm - Arundel Flower Club. Demonstrator: Nathalie St Mary's Hall, Clymping Alexandroff. Club Competition: Tropical Island 9.30pm Town Centre 20th 9.00am - Farmers Market 1.00pm Organ Recital – David Flood. Free entry, Arundel Cathedral 20th 12 noon retiring collection 21st 4.00pm Tortington Festival Patronal Eucharist St. Mary Magdalene, Tortington 21st 7.00pm Sussex Festival Choir:Mendelssohn's 'Elijah'. Tkts. Tel/ Arundel Cathedral 24th TBC Fax: 01372 741100.email: [email protected] 26th 7.30pm East Sussex Youth Orchestra Concert in aid of RNLI. Arundel Cathedral See www.esyo.co.uk for details 28th 11.15am Organ Recital: D'Arcy Trinkwon.Tkts. £10 on the door. Arundel Cathedral www.darcytrinkwon.com Mass with visiting choir fom All Saints, Fulham Arundel Cathedral AUGUST 3rd 12.30pm Organ Recital – Richard McVeigh. Free entry, Arundel Cathedral retiring collection 4th 6.00pm Choral Evensong St. Nicholas Church 6th 11.00am Macular Support Group Meeting Swan Hotel 7th - 10.00am - The Summer Exhibition by GCSE and A Level students Arundel Museum 7th Sep 4.00pm from local schools. Arundel Baptist Church 14th 10.00am Church Anniversary:Special Thanksgiving Service Convent of the Poor Clares, Crossbush followed by Buffet Lunch Arundel Cathedral 15th 8.30am Solemnity: The Assumption. Mass Arundel Cathedral 15th 10.00am Mass 15th 8.00pm Mass Town Centre 15th- Preview evenings at some Arundel Gallery Trail St. Nicholas Church 16th venues & The Victoria Institute www.arundelgallerytrail.co.uk 16th Arundel Flower Club Summer Outing to Beacon Hill Arundel Cathedral Cottage, Kent. St. Nicholas Church 16th - Arundel Festival 2019 St. Nicholas Church 26th Swanbourne Lake, Arundel Park 17th 9.00am - Farmers Market St. Nicholas Church 1.00pm St. Nicholas Church 17th 10.00am- Festival Pop-Up Café. Background music by Arundel Baptist Church 5.00pm Recorder Vibes 17th- Arundel Gallery Trail. Free entry. Weekdays 2pm - 5.30pm; 26th All day weekends and Bank Holiday Monday 12pm - 5.30pm 17th- Festival Art Displays 26th 17th- All day Sussex Sculptors' Exhibition 26th 18th 10.00am- Festival Pop-Up Cafe 5.00pm 18th 19th 3.30pm Praise in the Park with Arundel Baptist Church 20th 10.00am- Festival Pop-Up Cafe 20th 5.00pm 10.00-5.00pm Festival Pop-Up Cafe 10.30am- Damsels & Dragons Fun Day (age 11 & under) 2.00pm 46

SUMMER 2019 | The Bell 20th 12 noon Hanover Band Lunchtime Series: Nurturing the St. Leonard, South Stoke Next Generation. Mozart in Miniature St. Nicholas Church 20th & 6.30pm- (tkts. See 24th, evening) 24th 8.00pm Artist Christopher Baker talks about his artwork and 21st 11.00am- polar expeditions at The Victoria Institute. Tickets 21st 5.00pm £30. Call to reserve your place: 07966 500925. 12 noon Festival Pop-Up Cafe. 21st 21st TBC Hanover Band Lunchtime Series; Nurturing the Next St. Leonard, South Stoke 7.00pm - Generation. The Italian Connection (tkts. see 24th 22nd 9.00pm August evening) 22nd 22nd 11.00am- Jail House Rock St. Nicholas Church 4.00pm 23rd 10.30am- Evening opening at Arundel Museum. We will be Arundel Museum 23rd 2.00pm joined by Phil Hewitt, a local journalist and author with 23rd 12 noon an inspirational story to tell. He will talk about his book 'Outrunning the Demons'. Entry to Museum just £1. 24th 1.00-5.00pm 12 noon Pop-Up Cafe in aid of Diocesan Family Support Work St. Nicholas Church 24th 7.00pm - 24th 9.00pm Fantasy Island Fun Day (age 11 & under) Arundel Baptist Church All day 25th Hanover Band Lunchtime Series: Nurturing the St. Leonard, South Stoke 25th TBC Next Generation. Le Roi S’Amuse St. Nicholas Church 7.30pm (Tkts. See 24th August evening) 25th Festival Pop-Up Cafe 26th 12.00-5pm 26th 12 noon Hanover Band Lunchtime Series: Mozart 'Serenade' St. Leonard, South Stoke (tkts. see 24th August evening) 4.00pm 10.00-5pm Evening opening at Arundel Museum. We will be Arundel Museum TBC joined by local poetry group 'The River Poets. Entry to the Museum just £1. 2019 Dragon Boat Racing in aid of Help for Heroes Town Quay and part of the Arundel Festival. Come and join in - email [email protected] Concert Arundel Cathedral Hanover Band Festival Concert with Erica Eloff St. Nicholas Church (soprano) & Benjamin Bayl (director/harpsichord). Beethoven & Mozart,(including 'Exsultate Jubilate'. Tkts. Tel: 0333 6663366 or www.thehanoverband. com/65 Tarrant St. Arundel, tel: 01903 889996 Festival Pop-Up Cafe St.Nicholas Church Hanover Band Lunchtime Series: Brahms Clarinet St. Leonard, South Stoke Quintet. Colin Lawson (clarinet) & the Consone Quartet. (tkts. see 24th August evening) Festival Church Service Town Square Festival Pop-Up Cafe St. Nicholas Church Organ Recital: D'Arcy Trinkwon Arundel Cathedral The Town Diary may also be viewed at www.visitarundel.co.uk Events are published as notified to The Bell - we cannot be responsible for changes or cancellations. Please send your Town Diary entries by 19th July 2019 to Gill Farquharson at [email protected] 47

School BellTheBell | SUMMER2019 St Philip’s Catholic Primary School by Lucy Horne Headteacher sample Fairtrade water and Fairtrade chocolate. Thank you to the staff who enabled this to happen. AS the days lengthen and Spring arrives, here are a few things to share with you that have been The National Trust outreach team came and visited Year happening at St. Philip’s so far this term. 2 and worked with the children in the school grounds. Reception Class The children learned how to keep habitation and plants healthy and well preserved in our school grounds. Our youngest children, in Reception Class, had a visit from a Mermaid, as part of their topic on Fairy Tales. Year 1 visited RSPB in Pulborough, following on from The children were able to ask her questions before the visit by RSPB in school. Our children are very she read them a story. Reception Class also had a fortunate to have so many opportunities to explore the visit from RSPB where they learned about birds in our natural world around us and learn how we can play our school grounds and their nests. The children then part in protecting our planet and its creatures. went on a visit to Arundel Wetlands to learn about birds from other parts of the UK and the wider world. Year 2 took part in a Locality group of schools football Reception Class are eagerly waiting for their duck eggs tournament. They all played very well and left the to hatch. The ducklings will then spend two weeks in tournament with a trophy for school and a gold the classroom where the children can watch and learn medal each. about the development of the ducklings before they are returned to the breeding farm they came from. Lower Key Stage 2 Key Stage 1 Year 3 finished their term’s learning about The For Fairtrade Fortnight, this term, Years 1 and 2 both Rainforest with a Rainforest Day. The children had visited Arundel Co-op. to list different things they would be able to see They had a guided tour and hear in the Rainforest and then went outside of the work that goes and had a nature scavenger hunt...although they on in the offices in the didn’t come across any tigers or toucans! Each Co-op and a tour of the child made a terrarium and were amazed to shop itself, identifying see the water transportation (within the newly goods that are Fairtrade. established ecosystem) happening before their eyes! They were able to It was the perfect way to end the Geography and 48 Science topic of the Rainforest and Plants. Year 4 have been learning about The Romans as part of their History topic. After learning about the people of that time, their way of life and the inventions they made, the children then designed and made their own Roman shields. Using their shields, the children used the playground as their battle field and re-enacted a Roman battle. Great fun was had by all. Some of our Year 4 mathematicians participated in the Maths Challenge held at Christ’s Hospital School. They were able to watch the marching band, have a delicious hot meal and then to pitch their maths skills against children from a wide range of schools in the area.

Upper Key Stage 2 SUMMER 2019 | The Bell We had a visit from our Town Mayor, Lucy Ashworth had a servant for the day. The station also recorded an and a representative from Arun District Council, assembly which was publicised on the website. Children Roz. They came with plans for the playground in years 1-6, all enjoyed the media visit. consultation for Arundel. Daisy, one of our Year 5 children, was chosen as one of the winners of a few In May, our Key Stage 2 children will be taking part in playground ideas submitted by a variety of children. a sponsored 5k walk to raise funds for FEAST Charity. Daisy and some other Year 5 children were part of Our Deanery group of schools have already raised the consultation process. This is a wonderful way money for the charity this academic year but the walk to enable our youngsters to take an interest in their will be to raise funds to build a house for a family, town and to foster a sense of community. as part of the charity’s project. Our Year 6 children Year 5 children have been again working with raised funds last year for the charity too with their other children in our Locality group of schools on Young Enterprise event. Fr Jeremias, founder of FEAST the text ‘Holes’. The children have had a couple of will be coming into school to talk to the children opportunities to take part in workshops for Art and Literacy at TLA. Their finished clay lizards will be on about the work of display in the Littlehampton Museum from June 8th. the charity in June. We have a long established relationship with St. Wilfrid’s Arundel Priory. The residents welcome our children We celebrated World Book Day this year often for singing, by all the children gardening and they dressing up as a are penpals to our book character and Year 6 children. inviting the author Some of our M. P Robertson in to school to carry out workshops children also write with each class. The children thoroughly enjoyed the newsletters to the sessions, learning about being both a writer and an residents about what illustrator. The children also had the opportunity to has been happening move around the classes to hear a story being read by in school. We were delighted therefore when our Year a different teacher at the end of the day. 6 children were fortunate enough to be asked to take part in the ‘Hoedown’ at The Priory. They were able to One way to show take part in line dancing and to chat with the ladies and case the amount of gentleman about their past lives and the stories they talent in our school have to tell. They also had American food and even real is our twice yearly ‘St horses inside the building. Philip’s Has Got Talent’ Later in the Summer Term, Year 5 children will visit shows. Children from St Wilfrid’s and be part of a theatre workshop run by Reception Class to Dot Collective Theatre Company. Year 6 sign themselves up to perform. It ranges from magic tricks, jokes and Whole school events dance moves to soloists and duets on piano, violin, The week before the Easter holiday, our school was on clarinet and drums and solo singing performances. ‘Small Talk’ on Spirit FM. A small group of children were asked their opinion on Donald Trump, where they would We held our annual whole school Spirituality Day like to time travel to and what they would do if they this term. The children have an opportunity to move around the school, attending different activities. We were fortunate to have the team from ‘Soup From Heaven’ charity based at Yapton Free Church to lead one of the activities on Missionary work. The following prayer was written by a child in Year 4. Praise the Lord across all nations, Thank the Lord for all creations, We’ve got our love, generosity and care, We share all our kindness everywhere. Thank you Lord for all my friends, Thank you for letting me walk across your path which never ends, Thank you for everything I own, You Lord are the kindest being I’ve ever known. Charlie aged 9 49

School BellTheBell | SUMMER2019 Arundel Cof E Primary School by Andrew Simpson Headteacher Amanda Worne visits ACE and inspires us all! WITH summer just around the corner I would like to We were recently very lucky to be visited by Amanda take this opportunity to thank you for your continued Worne who, four years ago, was left paralysed from the support of your local school. I hope you enjoy reading waist down by a cycling accident. Amanda shared her about some of the fun activities we have got up to at life experiences with us revealing that her life is now ACE over the past few weeks. better than ever. Easter Eucharist Amanda was training for an Iron Man event on her bicycle when the brakes suddenly failed on Bury Hill. Easter commemorates the resurrection of Jesus She crashed into a signpost at 40mph and the enormous Christ and is the most important Christian festival, impact left her with eleven broken bones, a punctured celebrated with the greatest joy. We are very fortunate lung, and her back snapped – leaving her unable to to have strong links with our church, St Nicholas’, and walk. Amanda talked about the fact that she wouldn’t particularly with our vicar Father David who came into change history and that the accident had made her who school to lead our Easter Eucharist, which culminated she is today. She even said that she would not turn back in every member of our school receiving communion the clock and that she sees the accident as something or being blessed. Father David had also spent time in that has led to her having the many opportunities she school during the lead up to Holy Week in order to has now had. The way she spoke about her future, work with each of the classes to talk to them about the and her ideas of such things as hope, accentuated to concepts and ideas around taking communion and the everyone in the school the positivity this lady has. key components of the Eucharist. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Father David for leading our Amanda then spent time with the children in Year 5 and Easter Eucharist, and Mr Hawke for being a great pianist Year 6 to talk more about her experiences and to work and encouraging our children to sing so beautifully. Well with them on developing ways that they could develop done also to Albie, Monty and Thomas for reading so methods to deal with adversity. Both classes found their confidently at the service. time with her inspirational and the children gained a As part of the service the children kindly donated great deal from the experience. money to help with aid in Sri Lanka, which Father David blessed. Kyle and Jack, like many of the children, showed Sporting Success at ACE true love and kindness by giving up some of their Easter Sussex Primary Schools Relay Gala money to support our brothers and sisters in Sri Lanka. It was such a thoughtful act, and what made it more special was that it was the children’s idea to give their own money to support the victims of this horrific attack. If we can do only one thing in the world, it should be to ensure our children are caring, compassionate individuals who love their neighbours. 50