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AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell Dear Readers by Gill Farquharson – Editor The Bell Editorial Team ‘STAYCATION’ Britons certainly seem to have been keeping Arundel busy Clare Toole-Mackson, this summer. Let’s hope our visitors have gone some way towards filling the Oliver Hawkins, Pauline Allen financial hole left by the pandemic amongst our retailers. (advertising) and This issue offers a wide variety of profiles which mirrors our eclectic population. Gill Farquharson (Editor). First up is Oliver Hawkins’ piece about Elizabeth Stratford, the brilliant director of the Arundel Cathedral Choir. She has done so much to encourage our young The Bell is the town magazine people into music and to maintain an incredibly high standard of music at the of Arundel. It is an ecumenical Cathedral (Page 14). publication produced quarterly Next we have Darrell Gale, a Director of Public Health, gardener extraordinaire by an unincorporated group and Chairman of the Community Land Trust which recently succeeded in of volunteers. It is posted to getting outline planning consent for the Ford Road development (Page 17). 3000 homes and businesses Our third profile is Clare Toole-Mackson’s fascinating account of the life of Nigel within the BN18 9 postcode Draffan, the resident Managing Agent of the Angmering Park Estate (Page 30). and an additional 500 copies From a ‘wild and feral childhood’ in Kenya to the launch of the Festival of Speed at are distributed by hand within Goodwood and culminating in his current role, Clare recounts his fascinating story. the town and its environs. The Foragers and ramblers among you will enjoy Liz Glanz’s beautifully illustrated publishers have the sole right to feature on fungi or the Fifth Kingdom as they are known. (Page 45) Everyone accept, refuse, edit or abridge should read Kay Wagland’s short piece (Page 23) on how we can all do our bit any article, notice, letter or to reverse the alarming decline in hedgehog numbers in the UK. advertisement and do not All our regular features appear – Schools (Page 24), news from the Churches accept any liability. The views (Page 34) and the Arundel Town Council’s review of their activities in the last expressed by contributors are three months. We continue to receive a heartening number of letters (Page 48) – not necessarily those of the contentious, heart-warming and informative in equal measure. Keep them coming! publishers. From where I’m sitting now August is not looking very summery but I do hope by the time you read this Arundel has had a great Festival, the sun is shining Our cover picture is again and the daily Covid figures have continued to decline! by Charlie Waring Email Gill at [email protected] Designed by JAS Design email: or call on 01903 889918 [email protected] Printed by Bishops email: PS You may like to know that Charlie Waring’s amazing cover picture is of a [email protected] mushroom called ‘Laccaria amethystina’, commonly known as the amethyst deceiver. It grows in deciduous and coniferous forests, in this case in Fittleworth. TO SUBSCRIBE to The Bell The mushroom itself is edible, but can absorb arsenic from the soil – you have People living outside post code been warned! BN18-9 can subscribe by cheque: UK £15, Europe £20, rest of world £25. Cheques to The Bell, 1 Tarrant Wharf, Arundel, West Sussex BN18 9NY. 3

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C ontents AUTUMAutumNn 20212021 | The Bell 06 about arundel | for arundel | by arundel 23 45 28 36 43 14 03 Dear Readers 06 About Town 45 Arundel Fungi 13 Make Ford Road Safe Campaign 48 Letters 14 A Profile of Elizabeth Stratford 52 Entertaining Arundel 17 A Profile of Darrell Gale 54 Helplines 23 Be a Friend to Hedgehogs 56 Directory of Groups 24 School Bell – ACE 58 Useful Numbers 26 School Bell – St Philip’s 28 Arundel Town Council News 30 30 Profile of Nigel Draffan 34 Churches 17 38 36 A Message from the Baptist Church 5 37 ASCA 38 Arundel B-24 Recovery June/July 2021 43 The Parsons Table Recipe

The Bell | AUTUMN 2021 ATobwount The Lions Club are a worldwide service organisation © Charlie Waring seeking to give help and comfort to people and groups who cannot help themselves. They are now planning the camaraderie of the group was enlivened with lively to open a new Lions Club in the Arundel area and are conversation and reminiscence. looking for volunteers who, through the work the ‘Lions’ Honorary Poppy Appeal Organiser, Col (Retd) Arthur do, could make a real difference in the community. Merrick says: ‘It has been a challenging year for the Legion and we are hoping that this year’s RBL Poppy You will see that ‘Lions’ is a truly diverse group. When Appeal will help us recover. We need volunteers. If you caring people take action to make their community are interested in helping please get in touch with me on better, it creates an incredible feeling for everyone 07896981910. Thank you.’ involved. You may have skills that will help the ‘Lions’ Arundel Chamber of Commerce to help others, but that is not essential- willingness and enthusiasm are! Becky and Meg Grover - Lulamaes If you would like to make a positive contribution through local projects, get involved with fundraising with every Businesses in Arundel are working hard to recover from penny supporting good causes, organise community the past 18 months and are getting back to a level of activities and, most importantly, have fun helping normality. Visit Arundel and the Chamber continue others, let them know by contacting John Taylor on with their ongoing marketing work to support Arundel’s 01903 774516 or email [email protected]. You success as a domestic tourism destination and the UK may also like to visit the website www.lionsclubs.org. ‘staycation’ market has meant that Arundel has been Centenary of the Arundel War Memorial On Saturday, 24th July 2021, exactly one hundred years to the day, a ceremony took place in the Town Square to mark the centenary of our War Memorial. The Chairman of the Arundel and District Branch of the Royal British Legion, Angela Standing, organised the event, which received strong support from the local community. The Branch Chaplain, Philip Tout, together with Canon David Twinley and Revd. David Clifton, conducted the commemorative service. Arundel and District was one of the founder RBL branches and to mark this event the Standard now proudly displays a Centenary Ribbon. A century ago, Lord Leconfield who commanded the Royal Sussex Volunteers from 1917 through 1918, unveiled the Memorial. It was wonderful, and entirely apt, that a number of Royal Sussex veterans were present to lay a wreath to honour their Regiment. After the ceremony guests and participants were invited to the Museum gardens where refreshments were available including quantities of “The George” beer kindly donated by The George, Eartham. As ever 6

AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell busy this Summer with tourists as well as local visitors. Arundel Town Council. During the Love Arundel resident consultations in October 2019, it was clear there was The Annual General Meeting in June was kindly hosted a desire for even more information about what was at the Castle Lower Lawns supported by catering from happening around town and at a greater frequency. Lulamae’s and Pallants and was a great success despite Since then, the ACN has boosted its output and some inclement weather! Two new committee members increased subscriptions from 400 to 700 and the Love were welcomed, Suzy Willis (from Parkgate Arundel Ltd) Arundel community website (LoveArundel.org) has been as Treasurer; Nikki Richardson, Manager at the Lido; and launched as a sister site to Visit Arundel. Judy Newhouse to take minutes. The Bell, Love Arundel community website and ACN are The Chair Sharon Blaikie comments “We now have an now working together to improve the availability of local eight strong committee, a healthy membership and new news for all residents. As part of this plan, the ACN has businesses who have recently opened including The Pig been revamped and renamed The Arundel Update. at Madehurst and House Arundel. The Chamber has formally adopted a constitution, is setting itself up as a It will become a fortnightly newsletter and will have limited company, and pursuing affiliation to the Sussex three categories: Chamber of Commerce.” News Update will bring the latest news including the Mayor Tony Hunt also attended the AGM said “Arundel various Arundel projects, major developments such as is a town where tradition matters. And one new the A27, flood defences, our Covid response etc. tradition which we have begun to create in the last year is a tradition for the Town Council and the Chamber What’s On? will showcase upcoming town events and of Commerce to work together in the interests of attractions. everyone, businesses and residents alike”. They have been looking at specific projects and successfully Have Your Say will highlight public surveys, debates, and received a grant from the government “Welcome Back” issues relevant to Arundel where residents have a right Fund to support the re-opening of the local economies. to contribute their opinions. This is important because, as a small town, we need to speak up to be heard. The The Chamber continue to liaise with Arun District Council Arundel Update will show people where and how to (ADC) to help hospitality businesses trade outside their have their say. premises when there are road closures, thereby adding to the buzz and sense of ‘café culture’ during events such The new look Arundel Update goes live in September. as the Farmers Market and Festival. The process has not If you want to know what’s going on, just sign up to been smooth to say the least, but ADC have a clear remit receive the newsletter at LoveArundel.org and click on to help the local ‘high street’ recover from many months the red button. Alternatively, if you have important news of closure during the Covid crisis. to share, please contact [email protected] The Chamber’s calendar of breakfast and evening The ‘New’ Road networking meetings restarted at the Lido followed by the Town Hall. Please do check the Chamber Facebook The Bell loves a bit of history and we are very grateful to and Private Members Forum Pages for latest information David Clifton (who was on the original Bell committee) - www.facebook.com/arundelchamberofcommerce for this photograph of Mill Road shortly after its construction. It shows the trees which were originally Revamped ACN keeps Arundel Up to Date lime and elm, with the elms being removed once they were established to make more room for the limes. The picture is actually a postcard produced by Lapworths which was the newsagent, stationers and souvenir shop at 33 High Street. David’s father’s wrote recollections of Arundel in the early 20th century and include this description of the shopkeeper- ‘Old Lappie, a thin old man of medium height with side whiskers. He wore a knickerbocker suit and a pince-nez’. What a marvellous image that conjures up! The ACN (Arundel Community Network), the free ‘opt in’ email newsletter for residents who want to receive important news and information, has been revamped. It was originally launched in 2014 and is funded by 7

The Bell | AUTUMN 2021 ARUNDEL THANK YOU FOR ELEVENSES LIDO 2021 YOUR SUPPORT Supporting people in the local community to END OF SEASON Arundel Lido was proud to offer swimming enjoy our grounds, company, and coffee for and activities for the local community to enjoy FREE every Monday from 11 – 1 in our Our season is due to end on Sunday 12th during our 2021 Summer Season.. Marquee. Thanks to support from Arundel September with the possibility of Cold CoOp, Arundel Town Council and Arundel Post Water swimming to be confirmed From Lane Swims, Just Water & Me, Aqua Office not to mention the amazing group of Aerobics and Family Sessions we have volunteers that help us to make ‘the BOOT CAMPS managed to offer a session suitable for Community Cuppa’ possible. everyone in a safe environment following the Boot Camps will continue to run throughout ever-changing guidelines. THANK YOU the year on a Saturday morning and Wednesday evening. Please book online. This season we have also worked with over We are proud to say that we will continue to 500 children and adults to improve water run this session all year round if possible. confidence and develop swimming techniques. STAY UP TO DATE WITH EVENTS www.arundel-lido.com Walberton Place Care Home Vaccinating against Covid-19 Walberton Place provides the kind of care we’d want all of our loved ones to receive. If you’re concerned about how your relative is coping and would like them to have more support, Walberton Place provides family-led care in a friendly and homely environment. The Covid-19 vaccine will be offered to all those in our care, allowing them to live safely and as they wish. 01243 551 549 Yapton Lane, Walberton, Arundel, www.countrycourtcare.com West Sussex, BN18 0AS 8

AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell Arundel Festival of the Arts their time, donations and participated in our Annual Community Festival. The Arundel Festival of The Arts committee experienced a more challenging task in 2021 than 2020. It was not The volunteer committee delivered hundreds of hours until the government announcement at the end of June over many months, “and hope that the Festival gave the that they felt able to press play on their planning. Health local community a much-needed boost,” says the Chair and safety measures and big open spaces were a top Sharon Blaikie. “We plan to hold a consultation process priority whilst enabling a good time for all those who in the Autumn and welcome residents’, businesses and attended the broad variety of events. community groups views on how to develop the festival over the next few years”. As well as collaborating with the usual wonderful wide range of organisations, there were some new ventures The Pre-fest fundraiser has not been possible for the including a collaboration with the Lido for festival family past two years and sponsorship was much harder to fun activities, the Castle for a residents’ only picnic with obtain during this difficult economic climate. Therefore orchestra and an Arundel Cathedral Festival series of there are still important fundraising events to come. three different concerts. Don’t miss the 1940’s tea dance on 12th September at the Town Hall! The Festival also ran a successful competition for the two Arundel primary schools where as part of a special For further information please see www.arundelfestival. art project, pupils designed eye-catching flags which co.uk or contact [email protected] featured in the Opening Ceremony, were exhibited in the Cathedral and were admired during the Children’s Arundel CLT July 2021 Update Concert in which pupils were invited to perform. The winning flags are due to go on display at the Museum On 21 July Arun District Council (ADC) Planning this month. Committee approved the Ford Road Development Outline Planning Application. The ADC Planning The Festival thanks everyone who made the festival Committee agreed with the officer’s report/ possible including: Arundel Town Council for their recommendations and approved the Outline Plans with generous grant and administrative support, the fantastic detailed matters reserved and subject to the section 106 team of volunteers, the town’s businesses, including (s106) Agreement. hospitality and the attractions, and all those who gave The s106 Agreement is legally binding. It sets out how KNOW THYSELF SLCIONLLDEGOEN Slindon College is an Independent Day and Boarding school for boys aged 8-18 located in Sussex Slindon College provides a stimulating, broad and balanced educational experience for pupils of all academic abilities, taking into account their strengths and talents. Open Mornings 9.30am-12noon Saturday 25th September 2021 Saturday 12th March 2022 Private visits available throughout the year Register Attendance: 01243 814320 [email protected] www.slindoncollege.co.uk 9

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AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell the affordable homes will be delivered and includes look forward to supporting any future consultations on details of a payment to Highways England for road this project. In addition to the affordable homes, 20 at improvements near the site (on the Ford Road) and social rent (around 50% of market rent) and 7 shared the transfer of land to ATC for allotments and a new ownerships, more than half the site will provide new community building. public access Green Space and new allotments, which all Arundel residents will be able to enjoy, with links to the Part of the agreement sets out how local people (on wider public footpath network. the ADC Housing List) will be able to apply for the affordable homes, and a Local Lettings Policy (LLP) will Please see the ACLT August Newsletter for a more be appended to the agreement. detailed report on the Outline Planning decision, s106 and the Local Lettings Policy. (www.arundelclt.org select Over the coming months, ACLT will be working hard to from Member’s page). finalise the LLP and s106 Agreement working closely with Norfolk Estate/Savills, ADC and Aster. From Isleworth to Arundel The next steps for this project are: Regular readers of this magazine will recall a review of Graham Toole-Mackson excellent autobiography • Norfolk Estate/Savills will select a development ‘From Isleworth to Arundel’ which ran in the March partner who will work with NE to deliver the scheme issue of The Bell. Well since then Graham’s book has as originally intended: To be a legacy for Arundel, raised over £600 for St. Nicholas Church Funds. Also, following the previous times that NE have provided there is now a copy in the West Sussex County Record land for housing since the 1940’s. Offices in Chichester and the Library Service have taken three copies. The author seems surprised by the book’s • NE/Developer/Savills to create detailed plans for the success- ‘It all seems quite amazing to me------I didn’t site and seek Reserved Matters Planning Consent. know I had it in me!’ If anyone would like a copy of the book you can contact Graham on 01903 885756 or • NE/Savills have given assurances that they will engage email [email protected] with the community on the plans as they develop • ATC will need to plan for the new community building on the site and what its purpose will be. The development provides many opportunities for community and public benefits and we at Arundel CLT Opposite the Co-op in Queen Street, just a two minute walk from the town centre. We have a wide range of organic, gluten free, dairy free, vegetarian and vegan products. We stock well known brands such as Infinity, Clearspring, Meridian, Biona, Ecover, Faith in Nature and many more... Local farm milk, eggs & honey Open We refill Ecover & Faith in Nature 9am-4pm Check facebook page for news and offers Tuesday - en-gb.facebook.com/gaskyns Saturday www.gaskyns.co.uk 11 6 Queen Street, Arundel, BN18 9JG 01903 884392

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AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell Make Ford Road Safe Campaign Andy Batty is Chairman The Make Ford Road Safe Campaign emerged of the Arundel Community from the Love Arundel resident consultations Partnership and is on the in October 2019 when 200 residents came to Arundel Town Council meetings to have their say. Making Ford Road Working Group. Here he gives us an Safe was the single largest request from those update on the progress of the campaign to residents. The campaign petition quickly reached build a cycle path on Ford Road. 1,200 and, when Arun District Council carried out a public consultation on Active Travel last ACTIVE Travel is the new buzz word. Britain has joined year, Arundel residents responded in droves. This other countries to declare a climate emergency and the in turn forced the Council to reconsider its own global race is on to reduce carbon emissions around position on the project and now it says it is one the planet. Burning coal for energy was the biggest of the top 5 priorities in the district. So, thank polluter but, in Britain, that has almost all switched to you to everyone who took part. renewable sources like the wind farms that surround our shores. Today the worst offender for carbon emissions is Both Arun and West Sussex councils now transport- planes, lorries, boats, and cars. Cars produce attend regular steering meetings with the about half of all carbon emissions within transport, so Arundel town Council Working group and attention is turning to electric cars, hydrogen power, and Highways England. I believe we are all committed to our behaviour as drivers. Making Ford Road Safe and will present a business case to Highways England before the end of this year seeking 1 in 4 car journeys is less than 2 miles. If we, like the to gain approval to fund a “Detailed Design” to take Dutch or residents of Cambridge, could change our place in 2022. As part of that process, Arundel Church behaviour to walk and cycle instead of using cars for of England pupils conducted a survey at Ford station to these short journeys, there would be a huge benefit for help us understand where passengers were going and the environment, and we would be fitter and healthier why they use Ford station (pictured). to boot. Covid has already accelerated many lifestyle changes for each of us. There is more home working The Detailed Design will identify the exact route, and online shopping and we are also walking and cycling specification and cost estimates which will then be available more too. Government statistics show that in 2020 for public scrutiny enabling residents to have their say again. people cycled almost 50% more miles than in 2019 and sales of electric bikes have grown from zero just a few In another major development we have met with Mr Tom years ago to 12% of the market in 2020. Luckin and the Norfolk Estate who are the 2 major land owners along the route. Both have declared support for the project. It is because of this that government is talking about and investing in Active Travel. And therefore, after The Working Group is delighted with the progress so far. decades of wanting a safe route to Ford, it just might We have developed an excellent working relationship now happen. with the Councils, landowners and Highways England. This is something that Arundel residents have wanted for years and we are almost there. Nothing can be taken for granted though. We must continually demonstrate that residents and people in the surrounding area want this to happen. The Make Ford Road Safe petition is still open and we need every signature we can get. If you support the project and have not yet signed the petition, please do visit https://forms.office.com/r/nhTZ5irk1Q This route will be built for our children and their children. As the world continues to face up to the challenge of the Climate Emergency, we must begin to change our behaviour. These are generational behaviour changes we are talking about. We must learn to use cars less for short journeys where we can; walk or cycle instead and be happy that this is better for our health and wellbeing. Active Travel will become a bigger part of our lifestyle but first, we must make it safe to do so. 13

The Bell | AUTUMN 2021 A Profile of Elizabeth Stratford To sing is to pray twice – St Augustine by Oliver Hawkins as a career goal. Then in due course a flute became available at school, and as Elizabeth’s playing improved HOW does a career in music begin? In the case of her mother realised that she needed a better quality Elizabeth Stratford, director of the Arundel Cathedral instrument. Despite money being short she took out Choir, it meant struggling with a euphonium almost as a substantial bank loan to buy one, a significant step big as herself on the bus to school in Bradford each day, in what has clearly been an enormously supportive aged ten. She didn’t even want to play the euphonium, relationship between mother and daughter throughout but the school had no flutes, her chosen instrument, Elizabeth’s career. and she realised that the compromise was worth it. She enjoyed music, singing in her parish church choir, With this kind of encouragement at home it was not realising over time that she was able to hit higher notes surprising that when the Catholic Diocese of Leeds than the adults she sang with, but not thinking of music offered auditions for a Girls’ Choral Weekend workshop on music in the city, Elizabeth applied. Getting through a tough audition process, working with inspirational © Nigel Cull 14

www.lovearundel.org AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell teachers, and performing in Leeds Cathedral provided on young choristers. In due course she introduced the what she describes as the transformative moment, and idea of choral scholars, young adults involved in higher her career path was set. Having done well in academic education who are helped financially and able to gain subjects at her Catholic Girls Grammar School, Elizabeth credits for their degrees at the University of Chichester applied to Cambridge and was offered a place to read through their practical involvement in the choir. In music singing at Trinity College. But the college asked addition to her work at the Cathedral, officially only her to defer her place for a year, and Elizabeth was part-time, Elizabeth had to find additional employment concerned at the lack of opportunity on the course to to pay the bills, and found teaching positions at play the organ. So, to the bitter disappointment of her Westbourne House School and later Brighton College, as teachers, Elizabeth chose to start her degree course well as providing lessons for individuals. without delay at the University of Huddersfield. Here she was able to conduct a local choir at the same time Pursuing her own academic development Elizabeth as studying, confirming her determination to work in the undertook doctoral studies in sacred music, examining field of church music, and providing her with invaluable the link between the vernacular and music in sacred practical experience. composition. As with her turning down a place at Cambridge because it did not include access to the Following her first degree (and an organist job in chapel organ, it is clear that her priority is for music another parish church) Elizabeth moved to the to be conducted, played, sung and listened to, rather University of Leeds to do a Masters Degree in Liturgical than simply to be analysed. At the same time the Music. Undeterred by consistent discouragement as to list of fellowships and qualifications she can claim is her hopes for a career in a field that was then almost formidable: fellowships and diplomas ranging from the exclusively male – ‘You’re a woman not an organist. Go Guild of Church Musicians, the Academy of St Cecilia, and become an English teacher’ – Elizabeth persevered, the Faculty of Church Music and the Irish Guild of progressing with her studies at the Royal Northern Organists and Choristers, to the numerous examination College of Music in Manchester, and supporting herself boards of the British Royal Schools of Music, the Victoria with whatever jobs she could find. When she saw the College of Music, and the National College of Music. She post advertised for an Organist and Director of Music at could legitimately wear a different academic hood and Arundel Cathedral she knew that as a woman just out of gown for every day of the week, but in fact her current higher education her chances were not great, but she favourite is her doctoral hood when she leads out the arranged to stay with a friend in London and arrived in choir each Sunday. Arundel for the interviews and auditions. Back in London next morning her mother rang to say the Cathedral At present there are twenty young choristers, eight Dean had telephoned. Elizabeth assumed she must have Choral Scholars from the University of Chichester, and left something behind after her interview, but no, it a handful of long-serving and much appreciated older was an offer of the job. Almost twenty years on she has members of the choir. The past eighteen months have no regrets, but at the time it was a daunting prospect: not been easy. Among all those frustrated by lockdown Arundel Cathedral serves on the one hand as the parish restrictions, choral singers have felt particularly church for a small local population, and on the other as aggrieved, with the feeling that ‘amateur’ singing has the centre for the major diocesan services and events proved a soft target for a government prioritising pubs that define the liturgical year. So Elizabeth needed and football matches. A recent favourite on Twitter her mother’s encouragement – ‘God never sends you shows a chorister singing into a candle flame, with no anywhere without your bus fare home’- that sent her on apparent effect. He then says ‘Two pints and a packet her way. of crisps’ and the candle blows out! For Elizabeth the frustration has not only been the restrictions on practice Elizabeth had to find and performance, but the challenge of keeping her additional employment to young choristers inspired and engaged. With things pay the bills, and found beginning to ease a little Elizabeth has been doubly teaching positions at active, bringing the choir back into action and recording Westbourne House School a new CD, the choir’s first in eight years, featuring music and later Brighton College for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Eastertide. Sessions were recorded during May in Arundel In Arundel Elizabeth set about building up the choir, with Cathedral, and early feedback from the producers is some stalwart senior members but an increasing focus good. It is hoped to have a launch in the autumn, with a short concert featuring music from the disc. Each year Elizabeth expects to lose one or two singers- the choral scholars finish their degrees, young choristers move on to schools or universities elsewhere. It says 15

The Bell | AUTUMN 2021 WELCOME much about the spirit of the choir that many leavers TO will make a point of calling in when back in the vicinity, and taking their places again to sing. This year she ARUNDEL says goodbye to four choral scholars (one moving to a POST greater parish church as organ scholar having finished OFFICE his degree, another going on to train as a teacher) and two choristers (one to read aeronautical engineering Arundel Post Office offers the usual PO at university and the other to Roedean School with services including Royal Mail/ music, sport and Headmaster’s awards). This is a larger turnover than usual, but others will join, and the choir Parcelforce, UK & international services, will continue to provide an essential element in the life Mail Redirection and Drop & Go, of the Cathedral, and a formative experience in the lives of its choristers. banking/cash withdrawals, bill payments, travel money, passport check & send, Joining the Cathedral Choir moneygram, DVLA vehicle licensing, Being a Cathedral chorister is clearly a great experience Homephone and Broadband. A new and for a child. It’s not necessary for the child to be able to enhanced range of greetings cards is read music or to be a Roman Catholic to sing with the available and a wide selection of choir. Good reading ability is expected, willingness to stationery, party items, mobile phone learn, energy, enthusiasm and the right attitude towards accessories and children ’ s toys. working with others whilst respecting an environment in which all work to the glory of God. An audition is 2-4 High St., Arundel BN18 9AA designed to assess potential rather than current ability, Tel: 01903 882113 and is not expected to be a polished performance. During his or her time in the choir, a chorister will sing Email: [email protected] a range of music spanning hundreds of years, receiving Open Mon—Sat: 9am-5.30pm a first class musical education free of charge. Choristers sing services each week (Mass and Compline) in the ‘Excellent’ stunning acoustic of the Cathedral and also take part in broadcasts, recordings, tours and trips. The experience ISI Inspection Report of being a chorister is lots of fun and extremely fulfilling; choristers learn skills which are invaluable, make friends DORSET HOUSE SCHOOL for life and generally improve academically as a result of their chorister training. Bury - just 10 minutes from Arundel Prep School for girls and boys - Reception to Year 8 Elizabeth is always happy to see prospective candidates and an informal meeting can be arranged at any time. VISIT US! Enquiries about places for voluntary adults and choral scholarships are also welcome. To find out more or to arrange a tour, please call To find out more please contact Elizabeth Stratford on 01798 831456 07971 090724 www.dorsethouseschool.com `Outstanding’ Pre-School on site for children from 2 or email [email protected]. 16

AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell A Profile of Darrell Gale © Nigel Cull by Gill Farquharson it – will they get our sense of humour with all the body parts?’ On a wet Sunday in July, 61 people turned up to WHEN Darrell Gale met his husband, Simon, he recalls view the garden. I don’t know whether they did get the ‘the first time we met that was it. I think it was love at sense of humour but they couldn’t help but be amazed first sight. It was just knowing- this is it- absolute soul by this extraordinary, stunning suburban garden. mates. Simon is quieter, more sensible, and less wilful than me!’ They had their Civil Partnership at the Town Darrell was born in Dartford and his parents lived in Hall in 2012, celebrated with a high tea featuring 25 Swanley. He recalls it as ‘an interesting place – you didn’t different types of cake. This was then followed by a realise the variety of people there. It was a real mix wedding, once they were allowed, ‘and 1000 days after but at that time there was no ‘them and us’ mentality.’ the Civil Partnership we got married. We went to the Although he passed the 11 plus, Darrell turned down Registry Office in Chichester and had lunch at Amberley his place at the local Grammar School to attend Castle and the next day we had a party with more cake!’ Dartford Technical High School. ‘I really wanted to be an architect.’ Really? ‘Oh yes-it came from Lego – I was The garden is their passion and consumes most of absolutely mad about Lego and obsessed with building their spare time. Darrell also specialises in architectural bridges. I built a working Tower Bridge out of Lego. At photography and has exhibited in five Festival Gallery about 7 or 8 I understood what an architect was and Trails in the past. Although he swims most days in just wanted to be one. My father worked in Engineering the sea or the Lido, the garden is all consuming and a Services for the GLC so he was involved in building marvellous sanctuary. ‘I call it off grid – the phone is in Thamesmead and he took me with him so I could see the house, no calls or emails, and I’m out here losing how the buildings worked.’ track of time. At this time of year I can come out here at 7.30am, start work, miss lunch and carry on till 9.00pm.’ After school he decided to go to Portsmouth Polytechnic The recent Open Garden event meant even more work as it was then, ‘because the RIBA said it had one of the than usual. ‘We’ve no idea what people will make of three best architecture courses in the country. It was very theory-led which was a surprise. There was also 17

The Bell | AUTUMN 2021 it developed out of just ‘condoms, leaflets, testing and clinics and into other areas such as work experience, a great deal of talking about design theory. That was educational status, housing, jobs and all of those the biggest thing I had to learn- how to talk what often potentially discriminatory factors.’ seemed nonsense without drawing breath! If you put your work up for a critique and allowed the tutors to Indeed it was those issues which he believes have much jump in, they would pull you apart – and they were more impact on people’s wellbeing and their mental absolutely savage – so you had to keep talking I’d never health. ‘Housing, overcrowding, being born into a experienced that sort of thing before.’ homophobic environment, domestic violence – all those things have much more impact on someone’s mental At the end of the three year course however, his health than if someone could get an HIV test or have enthusiasm for architecture had waned. ‘I still loved the access to a condom. And if their mental health is poor, subject, but I hated architects by the end of it! It was they don’t value themselves and are prepared to take partly the savagery of the tutors but also at the time risks with their lives.’ there were a number of different styles and I didn’t see where my ideas fitted in – it seemed to me it was style for ‘So I started to get very interested in the wider public style’s sake. I wanted to improve things for people, there’s health issues and saw a job advertised in Horsham for nothing better than seeing a problem in society, in a the District Council and what was then the Primary Care town or city, or in a building and saying ‘that needs to be Group. I wanted to move south again so I thought I’d different for people to enjoy it and live in it. I realised that apply and surprisingly I got it!’ In 2001 Darrell moved to very few people were interested in that at all and if they Arundel and bought a house on Ford Road, moving in the did, they were considered bonkers by other architects. week before the Festival. Setting up the house in the first Also when I graduated in 1992 it was almost impossible week he then spent the second enjoying the Festival.’ to get your year’s placement that you had to do before returning to finish your studies. It was the lowest point in He loved his role as Health Improvement Manager. One European construction for 150 years – you couldn’t even of the first issues encountered in Horsham was the harm work for free. I couldn’t afford to do that.’ caused by older people falling over. ‘You don’t realise that when you are elderly and you fall over if you aren’t Darrell had a serious desire to help people. ‘At university found for a couple of hours you’re quite likely to die I was involved in the Nightline service, the student or never regain your independence. The evidence was equivalent of The Samaritans, and through that I there but the services weren’t – ambulance personnel founded the country’s first government funded rape would pick them up and put them back into bed never crisis centre for men.’ Darrell had come out as gay in examining the underlying causes – be it medication, 1990 and that was the height of the HIV crisis so, as well type of footwear, foot problems, early onset dementia – as the rape centre ‘I got involved in HIV prevention work these issues weren’t examined.’ – visiting clubs, distributing condoms and information. I got a lot out of these services and so my first job was It was an eye-opener being in both the Council and the with Social Services in Hampshire – running a research NHS – ‘I could see that most of the work you needed programme to look at the needs of people living with to do was in the Council not the NHS. It was leisure HIV and AIDS.’ and youth services, education, parks and open spaces, cycling to work initiatives, clean air, housing, planning – In 1994 he moved to Yorkshire to take the role of health was just a hospital.’ Outreach Organiser for MESMAC, one of the oldest and largest sexual health organisations in the country for In 2002 non-medics were allowed for the first time to gay men, marginalised races, people misusing drugs, train in Public Health. He applied, underwent a gruelling sex workers and LGBT+ young people and adults. His interview procedure and got onto the scheme. ‘Then role involved outreach work in parks and public spaces, the challenges really started – taking exams for the first running support groups and services for people across time in 19 years! Training was fantastic because it was a Yorkshire. He stayed five years and obviously enjoyed new opportunity. I had already registered for an MSc in the freedom his remit gave him. Brighton at the new Medical School and then I did two years in Lambeth including time at the Health Protection In the end however the northern winters ‘which start in Agency as was and then after that I did a year in West September and go through to May’ got to him and he Kent in the Chemical Hazards and Poisons Division of the moved to Birmingham to start a new project, Healthy Health Protection Agency. Gay Life, to work on HIV prevention amongst gay men – they had tried unsuccessfully in the past so Darrell saw This Division was led by Professor Virginia Murray. ‘She it as a real challenge. He built the team and set up the was a complete one-off, trained as a poisons expert, programme which ran for 12 years. He only stayed for she understood there was wider environmental issue to two of those but everything he set up lasted 10 years understand. Climate change and flooding for example.’ which he thinks is a very good legacy. During that time There was a lot of thinking around the built environment 18

AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell there – and his architecture background was of great was just the best thing I could have done because it interest to her. It’s all about the adaptation of cities and was a baptism of fire; but it taught me how you have to buildings to climate change- flood issues and heatwaves work in local government- how you have to make things for example. In this country flooding very rarely kills happen. But Maggie would be robust in her feedback’ people, but the mental health issues around it are huge. he laughs, ‘but it was always from the desire to In Lewes for example there were pupils in school who encourage you to be the best you could be. It was never had to go home if there was a bad rainstorm. In the a place to take offence, it was a learning. I’m a huge fan floods in 2000 they had gone home to find it in ruins, of Maggie and she’s been a very, very good friend. She so for many, heavy rain meant they had to check if their was the one who said, ‘You’ve got a Director of Public homes were OK. This is one reason why we should not Health in you Darrell, go and do it!’ build on flood plains.’ His next move to Wokingham, where he was Head of Having passed all the exams he needed, Darrell Service – Public Health, all but took him there. ‘We completed his training in September 2010 just as the shared a Director across six councils. So it was very coalition government announced that Public Health autonomous. Like Horsham, it was an area that was would move into local government. Although his in a relatively healthy and wealthy place but one that fellow registrars hated the idea, Darrell welcomed the had the vision of the breadth of public health. I took on move. He just wanted a job as a consultant working for managing the leisure department, so swimming pools someone sensible and that is what he got in Wiltshire and leisure centres, and a leisure development team working for Maggie Rae who was the Director of Public delivering a range of programmes to older, younger Health, (now President of the Faculty of Public Health). and disabled people to get them active and also they A formidable boss, she was already doing the job of were a council that were really big on development. Director of Public Health jointly in both the Council and The authority had won the election on a development in the NHS. She had control of environmental health; platform. They needed to build 15,000 homes and they licensing; emergency planning; data, research; trading had planned it very carefully to take people’s health standards – a big local government department as well into account – ‘so I immediately sharp-elbowed my as the NHS department. ‘I did two years there and it way into the Infrastructure Board who were overseeing all that development and making sure public health © Nigel Cull was involved in every decision – green space, the way the houses were positioned, type of roads built, play equipment, the relationship between old and new development, pathways and cycle ways’. There is inevitably conflict between developers, planners and those in public health whose efforts cost additional money developers are unwilling to pay. ‘As a result it could be a bit combative and it was also somewhat ground-breaking, as there weren’t many people working on the two agendas – there are now thankfully. Hence the sharp elbows – I needed to be at the top table helping to make the decisions.’ In his last year in Berkshire he was acting as Director of Public Health across all six authorities and then he saw the dream job of a Director of Public Health on the south coast. ‘I’ve been here for three years. Even before Covid, there were major issues. Health inequalities – there is a near 17-year gap in life expectancy between the least and the most deprived places; in healthy life expectancy (which is before you get to the point where you have two or more long term conditions) there are some places where if you retired at 65 you would still have 10 years of healthy life before you had to slow down. In other parts you start having to slow down at 55 – ten years before retirement – and may have to leave work, losing your pensions and retiring in poverty. That is hugely unfair – so putting that into sharp focus was one of the issues.’ ‘Secondly coastal health is different; there is huge 19

The Bell | AUTUMN 2021 © Nigel Cull poverty in the coastal towns. Chairman of the Community Land Trust Professor Chris Witty (CMO)’s report on Coastal Health has just been Darrell has always been involved in something to do published and Darrell is a contributor with Arundel. He was a Deputy Trustee at the Lido to that.’ and helped to get that re-opened. Then there was FRAG – the Ford Road Action Group – which aimed to ‘Aging populations are another restrict the HGV and traffic use on Ford Road. When big issue, not only because of the the Neighbourhood Plan came up for a second time inherent problems it brings but also there were a number of pressures on Arundel and of the effect on the young. If you Darrell says ‘I was keen to help get the town’s plans to concentrate entirely on older people be right by the town. There are a whole lot of people in somebody’s got to pay taxes to fund Arundel who don’t want anything in Arundel to change their care. You need good jobs and and, while I think that’s really understandable, change good education in coastal places is our only constant. In the twenty years I’ve lived here but many of the young leave when there’s been almost no growth in housing- probably only they are qualified, and they don’t Bevan and Bevan. But there had been a long history of come back. We have to rejuvenate development previously ending with Penfold Place in the the coast – you can’t just leave it for older people. ‘ Darrell says we have been preparing for a global pandemic of a respiratory disease – ‘expecting some form of flu but it was a coronavirus. It didn’t quite take us all by surprise but the need for immediate major steps like fast lockdowns and the length and breadth of those steps has been eye-opening as has the acceptance by most of the population. For Simon and I, it was different to most people – as a postman Simon carried on as normal but much busier because we all started ordering stuff. Most staff were turfed out of council offices, but a few of us were still going in, so I was still commuting. When the Kent variant was identified in December though I stopped going in and worked from here. So our experience of lockdown was different for us but the four months I did do at home was a challenge, so I have real sympathy with everyone who did longer.’ The disruption to education and child development are unknowns at this stage. The avoidance of strangers because of the fear of Covid infection ‘is just like HIV. As a gay man in the 90’s you were seen as diseased in a similar way and stigmatised. This was just the same – “I must avoid them, I must look away, they are a danger to me”. Also for some children, school is their only place of safety, so take that away from them and …… The inequalities in our society mean that those with money and advantages in life will get over this better and quicker – they will find a way to make up their children’s education. But poorer more disadvantaged people won’t be able to and will face much bigger problems. My challenge is to prevent this difference.’ 20

AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell 90’s. Every previous decade there had been new houses over-topping but also from loss of soakaways – so you built but after 2000 it stopped. Yet there is a growing build houses on soakaways and their neighbours flood. population and many pressures on housing from second homes to the loss of council housing. Arundel families We just had the Planning Committee meeting today can’t afford to stay here and there are no affordable (21st July) and the development on Ford Road has homes, so you lose the energy from those young received its outline planning consent. I really get the people. I became involved with the Neighbourhood Plan opponents arguments but if it hadn’t gone ahead, we and there was a development proposed for 300 houses could have had 300 horrible houses on that site just like on the (Ford Road) field and everyone was horrified. But you have in other towns around here. The hard part now there was an opportunity to shape that and make it all a is the design: I know Earl Henry wants to leave a proper lot less horrific. I also knew that whoever put in planning legacy as his family have always done. You can laugh and for that field would have won – if not at first attempt, joke about the feudal nature of Arundel but the reality certainly on appeal. Knowing that reality of the planning is that they take their legacy very seriously and always system meant I knew we had to work within the system have. They gave the land and built the Lido for example. rather than fighting it. Part of the Neighbourhood Plan They do have a strong social outlook while there clearly was to establish a Community Land Trust and I really is a need to look after their assets and have a serious ummed and aahed about getting involved but got business base as well. Many on the planning committee strong armed into it and it’s been very successful. We’re described it as exciting – and I am excited but I don’t working with the Estate – their development partners want to be excited at the expense of people who don’t Savills, Arun District Council, Astor Homes- who are our yet see this as a positive but just as a negative. Had I social housing provider of choice – and trying to shape not been involved because I know the way the system something that will be sustainable for the town. works, I would have been out there protesting as well. I understand the objectors because obviously in an People know my views of the other controversial ideal world you wouldn’t build on green fields yet in this development issue in Town – the A27 bypass. So that’s town there are very few other sites left for controlled a conflict for me – most people are either for or against development which aren’t either South Downs highly both – but I’m only for the development in Ford Road.’ protected land or major flood risk. That risk isn’t just from Make your home an Oakland Care is a family owned business Oakland Care home with 25 years experience in caring for the elderly. We offer two beautiful care homes in West Sussex, with luxurious accommodation and first class care facilities to ensure that your loved ones are well looked after during their retirement years. Our team of committed staff offer a personal care service delivered 24 hours a day. We invest in training for staff to support a quality of care in which we can all feel proud. visit: www.oaklandcare.co.uk Oakland Grange, St Floras Road, Littlehampton Oakland Court, Admiralty Road, Felpham, Bognor Regis West Sussex BN17 6BB West Sussex PO22 7DW phone: 01903 715995 email: [email protected] phone: 01243 842400 email: [email protected] 21

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www.lovearundel.org AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell Be a Friend to Hedgehogs Kay Wagland gives some ideas on how we can all help to stem the drop in the hedgehog population in the UK. HEDGEHOGS are everyone’s friends but their • Be very careful with strimmers. Over-enthusiastic numbers have plummeted in recent years. From being tidying of undergrowth is death to hedgehogs. They one of our commonest mammals, in 2020 they were put lose their home and food and strimmers and mowers on the UK Red List of species vulnerable to extinction. cause terrible injuries. Why have so many been lost? • Feed and water your friends. Put out small sized dried cat or kitten food or meaty dog or cat food, often better than Hedgehogs mostly eat beetles and caterpillars, other specialist ‘hedgehog’ food, and water at all times. Never insects and worms. They forage for food, hide and bread, milk or wild bird food (especially not mealy worms) hibernate in scrubby undergrowth, piles of leaves and and, surprisingly, not slugs. All of these are harmful. dead wood, which are important for beetles and grubs. Use of pesticides and clearing wild plants have meant • Provide escape routes. While they swim well, dramatic losses of these insects. ‘Tidying’ of undergrowth hedgehogs drown when they can’t escape straight and scrub, garden and street lighting which exposes shy, sided ponds and pools. Provide a way for small nocturnal hedgehogs, and fencing which blocks access to creatures to climb out of water. gardens and green spaces, all mean hedgehogs are often homeless, vulnerable and starving. • Get help for a ‘hog’ in trouble. A hedgehog out in daylight is probably very ill, young ones always so. How you can help hedgehogs Mums may venture out for food in the day, but it can be a bad sign. Get specialist help for young hedgehogs • Let them into your garden. Hedgehogs roam a long immediately. Grove Lodges Vets by the A27 at Worthing way each night looking for food. Put low level gaps 12- BN14 9DL, 01903 234866 provides 24 hour emergency 13 cm square in fences so they don’t travel fruitlessly, care and Brent Lodge Wildlife Trust at Cow Lane, and keep gardens in darkness. Sidlesham PO20 7LN, 01243 641672 longer term care. • Love your butterflies and beetles! Encourage • Give a hedgehog a home. A safe, dry box home can wildflowers, grasses and ivy and even nettles (important be a lifesaver. Check out best designs at https:// for butterflies) and keeping prunings around gardens hedgehogcabin.info and other detailed information. and green spaces where caterpillars, beetles and worms can thrive. Keep garden poisons away. 23

School BellTheBell | AUTUMN2021 Arundel Cof E Primary School character education links. by Andrew Simpson Headteacher The two members of ASE who interviewed staff and LIKE many organisations, ACE has had to manage all children turned out to be some rather powerful people the various changes that have emerged from dealing in the world of education: Wynne Harlen and Marianne with the impact of the pandemic. Cutler, both of whom were authors of the Cambridge Primary Review! Looking at the positive in any situation is a key aspect to our school philosophy at ACE, and this, alongside Wynne Harlen was also until recently Director of the our three values of FAITH, HOPE and LOVE, allows staff, Scottish Council for Research in Education and before children and members of our wider community to look at that was Professor of Science Education and Head of the things with a growth mindset which establishes the idea Education Department at the University of Liverpool. In that ‘we are not there YET’ and we can learn from what 1991. She was awarded an OBE by the Queen for her we have done. Learning is about collaborating, talking, services to education. knowing how to learn, aspiring, taking responsibility and believing that effort will lead to success. ACE also worked with Arundel Museum for part of this project and it was a great experience to work alongside We would like to share with you some of the marvellous, real life historians and scientists. dedicated work staff, children, parents and governors have completed at ACE during the last term of the Thoughts are with Pastor Steve Lomas, academic year 2020/21, and we would like to thank Arundel Baptist Church you in advance for taking the time to read this article Sadly, Pastor Steve from Arundel Baptist Church about life at a little school located in our home town of is currently unwell and we would like to take this Arundel and wish you a joyful summer. opportunity to send him our best wishes and love at this time. He will be in our prayers. Pastor Steve has done a Fossils Project@ Arundel CE Primary School number of things over a number of years for our school “Thank you so much for this follow up note, Mrs and he really loves our Christian ethos and all the things Simpson. Wynne and I have been talking about how we stand for. valuable our interviews with you and the children were. Your school and your children are quite outstanding We also have and considering this is a national project, where we his family in our have worked with many schools nationally, we clearly thoughts at this time, see your school near the very top! We will certainly especially his wife make sure that we contact you with further project Gill. opportunities as it would be really nice to work with you and Arundel CE Primary School in the future.” Here are some of the get well soon I just wanted to share with you some news about messages we have the project we have been involved in, piloting some sent him: super materials created by the Association for Science Education (ASE) entitled 'Key Moments in History and Super Poppy in Year 1 Science: A Fossil Hunter's Story'. I just wanted to share with you how immensely proud I have been of Poppy in Year 1. In Years 5 and 6, we have used the planning/materials they provided with the children, which has been extremely She was collected by her mum from Spanish after school successful. We also had David Shilston from Arundel and, whilst driving down into Arundel, at the bottom of Museum in to help, using his knowledge and expertise, and the hill by Canada Rd and the roundabout she noticed a he enjoyed it so much he came in three times! tent. Poppy asked her mum why it was there and came to the conclusion it may be someone’s home, as they don’t The idea is that the materials are science-specific but have one. She was really concerned about this and the multi-disciplinary and there were lots of history, RE and idea that we all should help to make a difference in this world. She believes we all have a role to play in this. 24

AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell Later she announced that she was going to ask her father We are going to on Wednesday if it was still there if she could give the continue to work person in the tent some food, even if that meant she on this space for would go without. the duration of the term and we I had to share this wonderful girl’s values and morals. THIS look forward to IS WHAT ACE IS ALL ABOUT- THINKING ABOUT OTHERS updating you on BEFORE OURSELVES! the progress! Why Sewing? Whilst litter picking in the woodland area by our school, Sewing is one of the oldest Gilby came across a tyre! His immediate thoughts were, arts and craftwork there is. ‘what is this doing here?’ Closely followed by ‘what could This skill is still held in high I do to upcycle this tyre?’ We are now planning to upcycle esteem, even at present, the tyre for a beautiful tyre flower display. because of the many benefits that we can get from it. Even Amazing Holly and children have countless things Year 3 to learn from sewing. I would like to thank Holly Sewing involves many and her family, who hosted activities that children can a fabulous event at their learn from. Children can learn problem-solving skills, home which raised an hand-eye coordination, focus and concentration, and fine incredible £460. All of the motor skills through sewing. Learning to sew involves money goes straight to both the left and right hemispheres of the brain, which our brothers and sisters in can bring out children’s artistic talents as well as their Sierra Leone, thanks to the mathematical abilities. charity Education West Africa. Teaching children how to sew will have long-term benefits that they can use until they are old. I would like to thank This “Class Bubble” the Year 2 teaching team- and Mrs Hine especially- for organised event was highly successful and, without the leading this brilliant session, where the children have generosity from our parents, pupils in the class and the been sparkling with pride and confidence as they make staff who were able to attend, we would never have their ACE Values of Love, Faith and Hope book marks. raised this fabulous amount. This potentially could ensure 46 children can now go to school and I would like to Key Stage 1 thank all the ACE families in Year 3 who supported this The whole of Key Stage 1 amazing tea party and class summer fair through baking have nearly completed their and making things including lavender cushions and even wonderful Noah’s Ark display painted rocks. too and the boys and girls in Year 2 have been instrumental The boys and girls were presented with certificates in this. and it was lovely that they were visited by Penelope and Rod Sharman, Chairs of Education West Africa. Looking into Year 3 Penelope received this message from the Bishop of Bo It was amazing to watch Eagle this lunchtime, having contacted him after meeting Eagle Class take part in their Cricket Class this morning. session on Tuesday. 'We thank God for his grace upon Holly and her parents Eagle Class have been learning about activists this week and all the children in Eagle Class. and have taken it upon themselves to improve the nature area of our school. As part of the eco-council, Eagle Class May the almighty God continue to bless them in Jesus' name.' have a responsibility to upkeep the area and Further ideas help it flourish alongside the learning of the Gilby, Jacob and Holly are also walking to Sierra Leone- children. The first step to well, they are trying to take the number of steps it would encourage more wildlife take to walk there. These guys have sponsorship forms into our area was to and hopefully will make it by the end of term. create a new bug hotel. Well done to the Year 3 families. 25

School BellTheBell | AUTUMN2021 St Philip’s Catholic Primary School by Lucy Horne Headteacher AT the time of writing this, we are just finishing the academic year and starting the Summer break. The Summer Term, whilst restrictive in terms of events, has none the less been a busy time. Wider learning: Reception Class received delivery of five duck eggs in an Sports Day took place this year in the usual format but incubator. All five eggs hatched and the children were minus any parents as spectators. The children were able able to watch the process happening. They were then to participate in all of the events but stayed in their class able to hold the ducks, learn how to keep them clean bubbles. Sports Day is always a highlight in the school and fed and even teach them to swim. The rest of the Summer calendar with children being able to take part in school were able to have time with the ducklings in their competitive racing with their class mates. classroom. It is a wonderful process for all of the children to see a life cycle in action. Our first sporting events against other schools were able to happen this term. These were the first inter school We were able to have two PE teachers from TLA to come events to happen since March 2020. The Year 6 football into school and work with all the classes. They were team went through to the finals to represent the Locality focusing on athletics and in particular the triple jump. The and our Year 4 football team came home as winners of children enjoyed having the techniques shown to them the Local area tournament. We also took part in a Kwik and being able to try them out. This stood them in good Cricket event at The Castle Grounds. Our cricket club train stead for the Sports Day. there weekly in the Summer term so it was super to have a tournament on our home turf. The team played three 26 matches and won all three. They were a combination of Year 6 and year 4 children. We hope that there will be many more events opening up in the Autumn Term. Year 6 children had a day of fun at the ‘Out of Bounds’ activity centre in Rustington. They arrived at school for a joint breakfast together then set off for a day of footgolf, rope climbing and other activities. They were treated to lunch in the restaurant too. Year 3 children welcomed Zoolab into school as part of their topic on The

www.lovearundel.org AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell Rainforest. The company brought in a range of different collected litter as they walked to the Lido. They managed reptiles and insects for the children to touch and learn to find quite a collection of rubbish. about including African Land Snails and cockroaches. Our Year 6 children volunteered to help at the coffee morning held every Monday at the Lido called Year 2 have made their own bug hotel. The materials ‘Elevensies’. They spent one Monday in July walking down used to make the bug hotel were donated by families and and helping to serve coffee and chatting to the people are all recycled. Hopefully the children will be able to see who attended. how they are helping nature at the same time as helping the environment once the insects move in. Thinking of others: Community: The children in Art Club have been making flags for Arundel Festival of Arts. They will wave the flags in the parade on the day in August. Some children will also be performing in the festival as part of the Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra slot. Children across the school have also been invited to design their own flag for a competition which will be judged by the Mayor of Arundel. Our classes took part in the second Arundel Community Years 1 and 2 decided to host their own Mad Hatter’s Tea Clean Up Day. The event took place on a Friday which is Party to raise funds for the NHS. The drinks and cakes our whole school swimming lesson day. The classes took were donated by a parent and the rest of the parents litter pickers kindly provided by the Town Council and donated money to the cause. The children had great fun dressing up in their Alice In Wonderland costumes whilst raising money at the same time. They raised £120. Year 6 have been learning about what it is to be a refugee. They had a visit from Karen Goldsmith from the Diocese who talked to the children about first hand experience of refugee camps and the plight of many families who flee their country. The children then made friendship bracelets and wrote letters to a charity who support refugees. Next term: We look forward to welcoming new families to St Philip’s in September in our new Reception intake. We also look forward to further restrictions being lifted. It will be wonderful to have joint celebrations and learning with other classes rather than isolated bubbles. Let us hope the Government still deem it safe to mix the year groups in September. It will take a while for us to readjust back to the old routines of pre-Covid! We have had a school promotional video created and is available on our school website for all to see the wonderful children we have here at St Philip’s and the many opportunities that we offer both academically and wider curricular wise https://www.stphilipsarundel.org.uk/ 27

The Bell | AUTUMN 2021 Arundel Town Council From the Council’s diary, Spring-Summer 2021 Community Awards Burzio describes the start-up of the project to make Arundel Dementia Friendly. Arundel has a wonderful May 10th: Covid rules enable us to present the final community spirit. We all have to do everything we 2020 Community Award to Rainbow and Brownie can to nurture it. Leader Rachel Stanford, for her brilliant work done in holding weekly Zoom meetings throughout the The Town Meeting was filmed and can be viewed on lockdown. Presentation incudes mountains of hot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9JEVcxiV-c dogs from an open fire! Grants 8th July: With income from weddings coming in strongly again, we can resume our quarterly grant awards . At this meeting we provide grants to the Victoria Institute, Citizens Advice, ACE (for their cycle training progamme) and Arundel Community Partnership for the email news bulletins, which will be fortnightly from September. All valuable for the community. Arundel Clean-Up Day Elevensies June 12th: Arundel sparkles in the sunshine again after the Clean Up. Participants included Arundel May 17th: First meeting of the Monday morning Church of England Primary School, St. Philip’s Elevensies at the Lido. Open to anyone who feels Primary School, the Arundel Scout and Guide Group, like a coffee, cake and a chat, including people with the Arundel Bee Project, St. Nicholas Church, the dementia and their carers. Led by Jackey Burzio Arundel Community Orchard, the Co-op, the Lido, of the Co-op and Lido Manager Nikky Richardson, the Chamber of Commerce, Mackley and Tivoli, the meetings are supported by the Co-op, the Post together with individual residents. The youngest Office, the Town Council, the MACE fund and the volunteer is 3 years old, the most mature is 85. Chamber of Commerce. Rubbish collected includes abandoned road signs, a £20 note, a £1 coin, an old spoon, a mattress, a On ensuing Mondays Elevensies flourishes. large number of empty spinach packets, a baby’s Attendance rises. School choirs and musicians dummy, a wheel, and lots of beer cans, beer bottles provide entertainment. Some people paint with local and discarded face masks. At 3.30pm on Saturday artist Pauline Lovell. Concurrently there is a campaign afternoon the Biffa team collect 40 sacks of rubbish. to make Arundel a ‘Dementia Friendly’ town, with Cllr. Joe Riley and Jackey Burzio speaking to local We are fortunate to live in a beautiful town, and businesses and organisations. clearly many people in our community want to contribute to caring for it. Town Meeting May 25th: Canon David Parmiter kindly allows us to hold our 2021 Town Meeting in the Cathedral. You could hear a pin drop as Canon David Twinley and Parish Administrator Fiona Maxwell describe the work done by the 200 St. Nicholas Parish Church Community Volunteers. One volunteer has carried out 112 jobs for a vulnerable resident. Deep relationships have been forged. Nick Field describes the progress of the Bee Project. Everyone in Arundel will have a chance to get involved. Finally, Jackey 28

AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell A Safe Footpath and Cycle Path to Ford 9 drafts, because there are lots of strings attached to what you can use the money for. We are awarded £27,000 for a range of projects, many of which are Chamber of Commerce initiatives. The first small sign of this is the bunting in the High Street. Waving the Flag for the Festival 16th July: Pupils from Arundel Church of England July 22nd: With Sharon Blaikie, Chair of the Festival Primary School interview passengers at Ford Station, Committee, to ACE and St. Philip’s to judge the flag- and encourage them to support the campaign to get making competition. The children have been making a safe pathway between Arundel and Ford Station. flags for the Festival opening procession on the Response is positive. One passenger comments, “it’s 20th August, and their work will then be displayed in dangerous to cycle down this road and walking is Arundel Cathedral. The flags really capture the spirit even worse”. of the Festival and are so vibrant that as we award the prizes we really feel as if the Festival has started. The campaign has moved forward strongly since the original letter asking for a safe pathway was signed Emergency Planning by 56 community leaders, headed up by the Mayor, the Duke of Norfolk and MP Andrew Griffiths, back July: Our Flood Advisor, Derek Waller, reminds us in February. A Steering Group on which Highways that what has happened in recent weeks in Germany, England, West Sussex County Council, Arun District Belgium and London, might happen here one day. Council and Arundel Town Council are represented is Our Tidal Flood Defences will hold, but water could now developing a business case to secure funding for find its way to Arundel from other, less-well protected detailed design work to be undertaken in 2022. Other locations, or surface water could enter lower Arundel local councils, including Littlehampton and Bognor from higher areas. With this in mind, the Town Regis have expressed strong support. It is now Council has formed two new working groups: one envisaged that this path will extend to Littlehampton, to work on an Emergency Plan should the worst providing access to the N2N cycle path and improving ever happen, and the other to work on how Arundel connectivity across the south coast. can contribute to protecting the Environment and preventing damaging climate change. Everyone in A27 Arundel is invited to join these, or any other of the Council’s working groups as listed on the Town July 20th: Highways England report that detailed route Council website. design work for the proposed ‘grey’ bypass route is on schedule. Work includes mitigating the effects of the Join the Council road for local communities and protecting the habitat of wildlife. The Bypass Design will be submitted for a We will be co-opting two additional councillors public consultation in the Autumn of 2021. in the Autumn. If you are interested in applying, please contact the Town Clerk, Carolyn Baynes at Welcome Back Fund [email protected] July 21st: Arun District ARUNDEL TOWN COUNCIL Council has a grant of “The Town inspired by Heritage and Nature” £208,718 from government to help the district’s High Street to recover safely. Our application goes through 29

The Bell | AUTUMN 2021 NProifgileeolf Draffan by Clare Toole-Mackson © Nigel Cull THE Angmering Park Estate Office is tucked away Park Estate, which one would imagine to be a more than in its own small oasis, down a drive just off the busy full-time job, but he does contrive time to play real tennis Crossbush junction. Nigel’s office is in an impressive at Petworth. He is approaching retirement after a fulfilling light and airy timbered barn which was transported twelve years in this particular job. The story of how he from elsewhere on the estate and rebuilt here. It is a arrived at this final point in his career is a fascinating one. most enviable working environment. He was born in Kenya, where his family farmed 1000 acres, and describes his upbringing as ‘unique, with loving Nigel is the resident Managing Agent of the Angmering 30

AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell parents who gave their three children freedom to roam daughters, Clare and Mary. How very diplomatic- this and explore an untamed countryside with fellow Kenyans’. surely was an essential ingredient of the job! The Kenyans’ bushcraft skills made a lasting impression on Nigel and helped to nurture a deep respect for the At that stage, in the early ‘80’s, the Norfolk Estate was natural world. At that time the British and Kenyans lived a single entity of 15,000 acres and for the next seven together in harmony and respected each other’s cultures. years Nigel enjoyed being part of the fascinating and The family’s early living conditions were primitive in some complex process of dividing the Estate between Duke respects but this was of no account beside the wonderful Bernard’s four daughters and the present Duke’s family, experience of ‘being brought up amongst wild animals, creating the Angmering Park and Norfolk Estates. racehorses and old Land Rovers’. In 1990 he was invited to join the Goodwood Estate but His ‘rather wild and feral declined the offer as he was ‘blissfully happy in Arundel’ childhood’ was balanced by and it also meant changing firms. A few months later a ‘very British education’, however, the Duke rang asking him to reconsider his a Kenya prep school at decision if he could remain as a partner in Cluttons. He eight, with Latin and agreed, saying a sad farewell to Arundel and taking the Greek, followed by Malvern plunge to be immersed in the deep end of managing a College, then Cambridge, captivating and famous Estate. Thus began an exciting where he read sport and twenty years for Nigel. It was the beginning of an era of Land Economy massive change as Goodwood left behind its reputation as an international dressage venue and embraced the His ‘rather wild and feral childhood’ was balanced by area of fast-moving motorsport, where the Festival a ‘very British education’, a Kenya prep school at eight, of Speed and Revival meetings emerged under the with Latin and Greek, followed by Malvern College, then inspirational leadership of Lord March. Cambridge, where he read sport and Land Economy – in that order – gaining Blues in hockey and rackets. I asked Nigel admits that he had no previous experience of if he had found this country grey and dreary after the motorsport, but as there was no-one else to do the job, heat and colour of Africa but he replied that he and the Property Department was asked to manage the first his family had always regarded England as home and Festival of Speed. He describes it as ‘organised chaos’ relished the changing seasons. He felt that his ‘idyllic involving the whole Estate and generating a startling and rounded upbringing’, while witnessing and learning and unexpected 20,000 spectators and a traffic jam from the extremes of abject poverty and privilege in a from Goodwood to Petworth, heralding the beginning rapidly developing nation, was a sound and instructive of an exciting new chapter. The Festival of Speed soon basis from which to start earning his own living as a blossomed into an international event, closely followed young Land Agent on the bottom rung at Cluttons. by the Revival meeting at the Motor Circuit, for which planning permission had to be obtained for five days of Consulting Wikipedia I discovered that Nigel had also unsilenced racing of historic cars. For Nigel it was a huge played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, about privilege to be involved in the exponential growth of the which he was modest, not to say dismissive, but it is Estate with its core values of organic farming, forestry and nonetheless an achievement to be recognised. property management. However, in his own words, ‘After 20 years and having reached the age of 60 a younger His first ten years were spent learning the ropes of looking better-looking model was required’. ‘As luck would have after farms and estates in East Anglia, but one day in 1983 it’ the then Manager of the Angmering Park Estate was he received a call from Nigel Clutton (later to marry Lady offered the opportunity of managing the Burleigh Estate Sarah, Duke Bernard’s daughter) asking if he would like and Nigel, having turned down the tempting offer of to re-locate south of the Thames and help him manage managing a 60,000 acre rhino sanctuary back in Kenya, the Norfolk Estate. He was interviewed by Duchess received a call from Lady Sarah asking him to ‘come back Lavinia, the main topic of conversation being horses and home’ to Arundel. He describes this as ‘an offer from dogs. Having been offered the job and accepted, his first heaven which I could not refuse’. task was to run a children’s party on the lawns of Park House. Whilst amused but not convinced that this was When he walked back into the Angmering Estate Office part of a Land Agent’s role, he nevertheless made sure after twenty years of absence he was greeted by the that his own two daughters did not beat Lady Jane’s two same team of staff, such was their loyalty to the family. With the support of this strong team his objective was to put in place a really solid infrastructure for the benefit of future generations. With the backing of the Trustees, the Estate has been able to buy back former estate land, improve the housing stock of 80 properties, equip the 31

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AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell © Nigel Cull 2,800 acre farm with modern grain storage, create a Savills umbrella, and will confidently hand over the reins new farm centre for one of the tenant farmers, convert on 1st January when he retires to the ‘back benches’ a covered yard into a brewery and an old granary into a as a Trustee. Alastair, having managed the Firle Estate, bunk house for hikers and bikers – an impressive list by has been chosen to manage both the Norfolk and any standards! Angmering Park Estates as two separate businesses, but with the long-term objective of bringing both Estates Whilst all this was going on Lady Anne’s former horse- back together as a single entity of 14,000 acres, which racing business had morphed into a successful equine was the wish of Duke Bernard’s four daughters. Alastair recuperation centre under Graham May’s skilful will spend time in both offices each day and each Estate management, and Nigel Clutton had developed the Estate’s will retain its own board of Trustees. The wheel of sporting interest into a shoot whose reputation for quality history appears to have come full circle, but doubtless rather than quantity is among the best in the country. under a new guiding hand there will be changes in accordance with the times we live in. Nigel informed me that landowners and farmers are Apart from wishing he were 21 again, Nigel looks about to enter the biggest change since the Industrial forward to retirement and seeing more of his Revolution, managing climate change and preserving grandchildren. An adventurous trek with elephants the red-listed species which are declining at the in the Namibian Desert with his greatest friends will shocking rate of a million a year. It is certainly a pivotal begin this period of his life with a flying start, followed moment for the planet but the Estate is playing its part doubtless by a variety of activities and involvements in through many years of regenerative farming under different areas. We wish him a very happy and peaceful Dominic Gardner’s stewardship. Furthermore, thanks to retirement though as he is essentially a man of action, the Duke’s passion for saving the English Grey Partridge perhaps the latter is not such an appropriate sentiment! from extinction, re-landscaping and habitat creation over a further 1,000 acres is about to happen. 33 And so to the future for Nigel. He describes his final 12 years at Angmering as a truly happy ending to a wonderfully fulfilling and diverse career, saying, ‘I have only had to touch the tiller from time to time thanks to a stellar estate team’. He wishes every possible good fortune to his successor Alastair Deighton, under a

The Bell | AUTUMN 2021 Christian Worship ANGLICAN Parish and Priory Church of St Nicholas, Arundel Canon David Twinley • www.stnicholas-arundel.co.uk Parish Office - Telephone: 882262 • Vicarage - Telephone: 885209 Sunday 8.00am Eucharist (1662) Tuesday 10.00am Eucharist 6.30pm Eucharist Wednesday 10.00am Eucharist (1662) Friday 12.00noon Eucharist Parish Church of St Leonard, South Stoke 2nd Sunday 9.00am Holy Communion 4th Sunday 3.00pm Evensong 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 David Parmiter • 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: Les Voke 884156 www.stnicholas-arundel.co.uk RCIA (Rite of Christian initiation for Adults) Tel: Cathedral Office 01903 882297 34

www.lovearundel.org AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell Forthcoming Events ARUNDEL CATHEDRAL ST. NICHOLAS’ CHURCH Masses will continue to take place at the normal times. Normal Sunday & weekday services continue to take SPECIAL SERVICES will be as follows:- place, except that there is at present no Thursday service, nor Sung Evensong on the first Sunday of each SEPTEMBER month. Saturday 4th 2pm Diocesan Youth Service 40th From August, Evensong at St. Leonard’s, South Stoke Anniversary Mass will take place at 4pm. Saturday 18th 4pm First Communion ‘Going Forth’ The lifting of Covid restrictions on 19th July was warmly Mass for 2020 & 2021 welcomed, though it was decided to err on the side of caution, maintaining social distancing in the seating Saturday 25th 11am Friends of Arundel Cathedral & recommending that the congregation continue to Pilgrimage Walk in Honour wear masks. A great joy, however, was the return of of Our Lady (info from 01903 congregational hymn-singing, even through masks! The 884567, aruncathfriends@ choir too have begun to sing a greater proportion of btconnect.com, the Sunday Eucharist & six singers are able to sing while or www.arundelcathedralfriends.uk still being socially distanced. It was decided not to run the highly successful Pop-Up Cafe during the Arundel Sunday 26th 3pm Worthing Deanery Confirmations Festival as in previous years, as it was felt that on this occasion it would not be viable. OCTOBER Saturday 2nd 2.30pm Animal Blessing Service with SPECIAL SERVICES:- Bishop Richard Sunday 3rd 2.00pm Mayor’s Sunday SEPTEMBER Sunday 17th 3.00pm St. Philip Howard Mass followed Sunday 26th 4.00pm Harvest Festival Eucharist by Friends of Arundel Cathedral St. Mary Magdalene, Tortington AGM Sunday 26th 4.00pm Harvest Festival Evensong Sunday 31st 3.00pm Cathedral Deanery Confirmations St. Leonard, South Stoke NOVEMBER OCTOBER Sunday 7th TBC Blessing of Graves followed by Sunday 3rd 10am Harvest Festival Eucharist tea in Cathedral Centre St. Nicholas Sunday 14th 11.30am Remembrance Sunday Mass Sunday 31st 10am Confirmation Service with Bishop Martin Warner, St. Nicholas Sunday 27th All day A Day with Mary (Bishop of Chichester) Sunday 28th FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT NOVEMBER 11.15am Mass for Deceased Members of Sunday 14th 9.30am Remembrance Sunday Eucharist Knights of St. Columba St. Nicholas, then processing to the Town Memorial for a Service 6.30pm Friends of Arundel Cathedral of Remembrance) Advent Vespers (Bishop Richard) Sunday 28th 6.00pm Advent Carol Service (it is hoped The following CONCERTS are planned:- to hold this but it will of course be subject to any Covid-19 Saturday 23rd Oct 7.30pm Arun Choral Society restrictions in place at the time) Saturday 6th Nov TBC Leconfield Singers Concert Saturday 13th Nov 1.00pm Organ Recital – Robert Sholl All information from Parish Office, tel: 01903 882262 or email [email protected] (see www arundelcathedral.uk) BAPTIST CHURCH Saturday 20th Nov TBC Angmering Chorale Concert (theangmeringchorale.org.uk) Please see the separate article on the next page. CATHEDRAL OFFICE email [email protected] or tel: 01903 882297 35

The Bell | AUTUMN 2021 A Message from the Baptist Church Jesus went to the cross on Good IT was with immense sadness that Friday, and was raised from the dead the leadership team at Arundel on the Sunday – on the third day, Baptist Church accepted the in accordance with the Scriptures, resignation, through ill health, of proving that His sacrifice had been Pastor Steve Lomas. Steve has led accepted. And He is now seated at the church faithfully since January His Father’s side, interceding for us. 2009, and the hole he leaves will be And all who love Him, who accept difficult to fill. Him as Saviour and Lord, will receive from His hand a crown of glory when As well as being a loving and caring they go to be with Him. pastor and teacher to the church, Steve has worked tirelessly in the This is why Steve is full of hope and community; in the schools, with peace. He too prays to the Father the Scouts and Guides, Fun Days, for strength each day, safe in the Festival days, Praise in the Park and knowledge that He who did not much, much more. It has been more spare His own Son will graciously difficult in these past 18 months give us all things. Steve’s hope is in or so with Covid restrictions. They the finished work of the Lord. He is have been difficult times for all of in God’s hands, and at the right time, us, and even now we are told it’s not over yet, there is neither too soon nor too late, God will call him home to uncertainty, fear and even anger wherever we look. be with the Lord forever. What a contrast to the message Steve sent to the church. Happenings Broken-hearted at having to resign his pastorship, nevertheless his letter to the church was full of love, and BIRTHS & BAPTISMS hope, and peace in Jesus, his Saviour. 30 May Amelia Davey When Jesus was in the garden of Gethsemane he too was 30 May Thomas Davey broken-hearted. “My soul is overwhelmed by sorrow, to 04 July Evie Lilian Jean Challen the point of death” he told his friends. Sorrow at leaving 11 July Tobias Lawrence Perry his disciples, at the pain and suffering he would endure on the cross, most especially at the separation from his MARRIAGES Father in heaven which he knew was to come. 21 May Niall Keelaghan & Lisa Kent A modern hymn called Gethsemane puts it very 05 June Wayne Ayles & Victoria Lloyd (Wedding Blessing) poignantly. 11 June Nicholas Cook & Simona Nagelyte 17 June Conor Haydon & Emma Church “What led Him to this wretched place, 26 June Timothy Williams & Stephanie Lloyd what kept Him on this road? DEATHS/FUNERALS His love for Adam’s cursed race, for every broken soul. 11 Mar Frances Taylor (77) No sin too slight to overlook, no crime too great to carry 19 April Kay Winsor (103) 21 Apr Mary Paschal Radford (88) all mingled in this poison cup, and yet he drank it all, 23 Apr Baroness Detta O'Cathain (83) 08 May Anne Fearnley (76) The Saviour drank it all.” 14 May Jessica Jayne North (20) 15 May Michael Harold Winters (92) Jesus found the strength to face His trial on His knees, 02 June Brian Quinn (84) praying to his Father. He knew, you see, that the only way for ‘Adam’s cursed race’ to have their sin- the sin INTERMENT OF ASHES of ignoring the creator of the universe, of despising the giver of all good things,- forgiven was for Jesus the Son, May Ruth Partridge (McCormick) (83) d. 26.9.20 the only man who fully obeyed the Father, to die in their May Jane Hilary Allison (71) d. 29.5.20 place. So Jesus prayed for the strength to face the cross, 04 June Patricia Hughes (86) and received it. He paid the penalty for each one of us, He stood in our place so that we might stand in His. What a Saviour! 36

www.lovearundel.org AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell THE ARUNDEL PATI E NT G R O U P AUTUMN 2021 | NEWSLETTER The past 12 months – have been a Sad Farewell to period of uncertainty and change Karyn Bain nee Williams ASCA ASCA spoke to Dr Alex Thornton Smith to Secretary find out more about what would happen next at the Surgery. He explained this has been It was with great sadness one of the most challenging periods he has ASCA heard that our long- faced in General Practice. Patients and staff standing secretary Karyn have had to adapt to new ways of working in Williams finally succumbed line with the NHS Standard Operating Procedures issued to the long-term effects of to General Practice and they have had to navigate how to her congenital heart defect. provide best care during the pandemic. Karyn, who many of you will remember as she helped out So, what next? NHS guidance continues to advise doctors at ASCA events, oxygen cylinder in tow, was secretary that they should still first triage patients over the phone or from 2003 until she stepped down from that role in via other technology and assess whether a face to face 2018. She remained a member of the committee, all be it appointment is needed. So, we can expect to see this remotely. Karyn passed away in Southampton hospital on carry on for the foreseeable future, but many of us will have 10th May 2021. She leaves a widower Simon Bain, her son experienced the very efficient system the Surgery has set and 2 stepsons and many friends. Karyn kept us all on the up, and all patients needing a face-to-face appointment are committee in order, kept the charity paperwork up to date offered one. The surgery is now looking at restarting some and served the patients of Arundel with a smile. We will of the wider chronic disease management initiatives that miss her. had to stop in the short term, so over the late summer early autumn people with chronic lung disease will have their What and who is new at the practice! regular spirometry resumed and other similar services will restart. Where patients have been successfully monitoring New Doctors – Dr Emma Cuzner & Dr Ruzanne Roux their own condition such as their blood pressure will be have both started at the practice, some people will encouraged to continue doing this. Hopefully some of the remember Ruzanne from her previous stint at the practice visiting services that were stopped will also restart, but a few years ago. details are not known yet. A new Mental Health Practitioner will be starting soon (at time of writing). Also the very We sadly said goodbye to our Advanced Nurse successful social prescribing project has now been funded Practitioner Celia Knight, but we are delighted to hear that to continue as a service so a new social prescriber will Wendy Callaghan has joined the practice. Wendy is an hopefully be appointed. Also the clinical pharmacist will experienced ANP who knows the wider local area well. continue to review long term medication with patients. In the last newsletter we welcomed Gabby Harrison as Covid Vaccination Boosters Practice Manager, Gaby has been working hard to get to know us all and has had quite a steep learning curve. Dr Thornton Smith also explained that the practice has submitted an expression of interest in providing In August after months of waiting for delivery the new booster Covid Jabs, if the model of giving them with phone system was due to go live, replacing the old Flu jabs is deployed. At time of writing this had not and aging system. Further technical difficulties in the been firmed up. installation of the new phone lines, all outside of the control of the practice, created havoc for the practice Flu Jabs team – let’s hope the various companies have sorted it out by the time this goes to print. This will allow better By the time this is published we will be in Flu Jab management of phone messages and incoming calls. season, but because the situation is not clear yet we don’t know how this will be deployed but look at the For More Information About ASCA practice web site for updates or read Text notifications contact Liz Horkin Chair on 01243 814323 and e mails as they come through. ASCA may also put posters up around town if we have enough notice 37

The Bell | AUTUMN 2021 Arundel B-24 Recovery June/July 2021 by Mark Khan information, and large amount of aircraft material was recovered. It was determined that a follow up THE 21st of June this year saw the start of the excavation would be required however to complete the second phase of the project to search for two missing excavation fully. This is the policy of the US Defence in action crewmen of an American B-24 Liberator POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), the US Defence bomber that crashed near Park Farm, Arundel on the Department agency tasked with the recovery of missing 22nd of June 1944. US Forces personnel. The Arundel B-24 project was being carried out by AVAR on behalf of the DPAA. The four-week project ran from 21st June to 16th July 2021 and was carried out by the American Veterans The plan to return and complete the excavation was Archaeological Recovery (AVAR) group. AVAR is run by Dr thwarted by the COVID pandemic and had to be Stephen Humphreys an ex United States Air Force officer carefully planned to allow it to commence when safe to and comprises of a core AVAR team along with both do so in 2021. US and British veterans. University students, the Seller family, myself (Co Project investigator), local aviation The veterans attending from the USA were required to historian Mark Hillier, Arundel historian Mark Phillips and quarantine in advance of the project starting and were community volunteers who also assisted with the project. accommodated at a hotel in Petersfield. With the all clear given, the team assembled at the farm on 21st The initial excavation phase was carried out in June. This team comprised AVAR members (including September 2019 by AVAR. This yielded much useful some who had attended the 2019 project), UK veterans, University of York students (led by experienced The initial excavation taking place. Large amounts of corroded aluminium can be seen in the centre section of the excavation. 38

AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell The author (left) pictured with AVAR Team Members Kenze Burkhart (centre) and Greg Ashcroft (right) an ex-paratrooper who served with the 82nd Airborne division. archaeologist Steve Roskams) and local volunteers. They project equipment to arrive from Germany (supplied were given unstinting support from the Seller family by DPAA). The second day, 22nd June, saw operations who farm the land and without whose support the commence in earnest. As the team assembled, they project would not have been possible. were able to witness an overfly of the site by wartime aircraft belonging to the Boultbee Flight Academy. This The initial day comprised of setting up and waiting for The team at works sieving the excavated material 39

The Bell | AUTUMN 2021 had crashed. Five distinct holes were discovered to an approximate depth of 3m. These holes represent comprised of two Spitfires and a Harvard trainer aircraft. the impact of the four engines and the fuselage. The The sight and sound of these aircraft passing overhead aircraft had crashed vertically, under power – straight was extremely evocative. It was a great precursor to the into the ground. excavation and really focussed everyone’s mind on the job ahead. There cannot be too many projects where, The excavation method comprised of removing soil during an excavation on a WW2 crash site, aircraft from using a mechanical digger and placing in piles (with the same era are flying overhead. the location context being recorded). The material in these piles were then triaged using sieves mounted on The initial phase of the excavation consisted of removing frames- all the material being carefully examined. This is 30cm of topsoil using an excavator (provided by local extremely physically and mentally demanding work and agricultural contractor Nick Field) over a large area to all those working on the frames deserve huge credit. allow the crash site to be better understood. The area of the previous excavation was recorded and known, but a The crash site was excavated under license from the metal detecting survey carried out in 2019 had indicated UK government and is formally regarded as a forensic a large area where metal objects were known to exist. recovery site. As such, out of respect to the missing This was to be an area of particular focus. individuals and any existing relations, no details can be released in relation to specific finds discovered during Once the initial area had been cleared, a linear feature the project. displaying aircraft parts and a significant amount of corroded aluminium became apparent. The crash On completion of this project, the AVAR Team have now site had previously been investigated by the Wealden moved straight from the UK to work on another MIA Aviation Archaeology Group in 1974. Larger parts of the project in Sicily. aircraft had been removed during that time including engine parts propellers and other items. A separate It is hoped that the combined results of the 2019 and excavation also took place in the 1980’s to recover a 2021 project phases will result in a successful outcome remaining engine. These excavations resulted in material and enable two US servicemen missing for 77 years to being re-deposited at the completion of the dig. It was be identified and buried with the honours they deserve. the location of the previous excavation area that was The site at Arundel will however continue to serve as being sought. The 2019 project had excavated part of memorial to the crew and all their comrades who gave the 1974 dig site. In June the remaining sections of the so much for us to be free. Lest we Forget. 1974 dig were also excavated. Arundel Museum will be holding an exhibition about the As a result of this it became apparent how the aircraft B24 flight and crash in November this year. An aerial view of the site taken during the excavation. The large holes made by the impact of the aircraft can be seen. On the right two engine holes and on the left the fuselage hole. The Two renaming engines holes have yet to be excavated. These were all excavated archaeologically and formally recorded. (Image:Mark Phillips). 40

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AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell The Parsons Table Liz and Lee Parsons’ award winning METHOD restaurant has been delighting diners in Arundel for many years. Here Head Chef 1. Wash the tomatoes, cucumber red peppers under Lee shares the secrets of another of his cold water favourite dishes – Gazpacho. 2. Using a vegetable peeler, peel the cucumbers and peppers. 3. Split the cucumber length ways. Using a teaspoon scrape and remove the seeds 4. Cut the peppers into quarters from top to tail, remove the seeds 5. Roughly chop the cucumber, peppers and tomatoes into approx. 1inch pieces. Place in a bowl. 6. Add the basil, salt, sugar, cayenne, oil and vinegar. Mix well. 7. Cover with clingfilm and marinade in the fridge for a minimum of 3-4 hours 8. Using a blend, puree all of the ingredients until smooth. 9. Push through a strainer. Taste and correct the seasoning with salt and sugar if required. 10. Serve in chilled soup plates. Top the soup with the prepared crab meat, a drizzle of olive oil and chopped chives – serve and enjoy. Sunshine in a bowl! Chefs note: – if prepare crab meat cannot be found cooked crab claws / legs can be used but will need to be prepared. CHILLED NUTBOURNE TOMATO GAZPACHO WITH DEVON CRAB Ingredients for 8 portions • Lasts for 2 days 75g Onion – approx. ½ a small onion 800g Nutbourne tomatoes, very ripe 4g (1/2pc) Garlic Clove 2 pc Red peppers 1/2pc Cucumber 10g Whole basil (leaves & stalks) 50ml Cold pressed, extra virgin olive oil 1tsp Red wine vinegar 10g Salt 4g Sugar 1pnch Cayenne to taste after puree and passed Garnish 100g Prepared white crab meat 2tbsp Chopped chives 10ml Cold pressed, extra virgin olive 43

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AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell Arundel Fungi www.lovearundel.org A spotlight on the fifth kingdom by Liz Glanz breeze, a little like seeds from a AS the season changes and the brown, red and yellow tree. Mushrooms leaves of Autumn show themselves on the trees, a profusion of fungi arrives around Arundel. At the start in the woodland of Autumn with the sun still retaining warmth and strong light, dappled patterns are created on the leaves will try to carpeting the woodland floor. Between the dappled shadows on woodland banks and on the fallen branches disperse spores of trees, toadstools, puff balls and brackets appearing in the local woodlands herald the start of the fungi season. as far from the parent as possible to minimise competition for Clitocybe odora(Aniseed funnel) nutrients, and to Many Arundel residents growing up around the ancient do this their woods around the town will have seen a variety of local toadstools. The fruiting bodies found among the leaves main tool is and on trees as toadstools or brackets are parts of a larger hidden organism. What most people think of as fungi water. Prior to ejecting spores, mushrooms will release are actually the fruiting bodies of intriguing organisms. Neither plants nor animals, they belong to their own water vapour which cools the surrounding air causing distinct kingdom. The long living part of the fungus is shrouded from view under the substrate (usually soil it to drop and flow away from the mushroom, which or decaying wood, sometimes droppings or seeds and nuts) from which the fruiting body emerges. This hidden creates lift to transport spores. part of the fungus is a complicated intricate network of threads (hyphae) that are known as a mycelium that will Spores landing in the right conditions will produce new connect through the woodland coalescing with tree roots fungi…though this process can take years as the fungi waits and other plants. This mycelium will sometimes be the for the correct combination of temperature, humidity and basis for ‘fairy rings’ of toadstools in woodland, with the light. Some fungi can be considered relatively rare on a diameter of the ring giving a rough guide to the age of the site but when conditions allow produce a bumper crop of fungal organism which has expanded out from a point in fruiting bodies for just one season. the centre of the ring. The ancient managed woods around Arundel are Amanita muscaria (Fly Agaric) The only task particularly beneficial for fungi because they have the of the fruiting most stable soil systems and these conditions prevail bodies is to even in the face of the regular cutting and coppicing help the fungi of trees over the ages. The fungus will supply minerals spread and and other nutrients from the soil mainly in return for their existence water and carbohydrates generated by photosynthesis. is fleeting, Their role in the cycle of life within the woods cannot transient. be underestimated…fungi are practically the only thing They emit apart from some bacteria that can devour the tough microscopic lignin material contained in dead wood. Crucial for reproductive all nutrient cycles, they break down and recycle dead spores for biomass in the environment, and help feed water and dispersal by the nutrients to the roots of woodland plants with many trees and plants relying on a biological partnership with fungi to thrive and flourish. This interaction forms a sort of underground communication system that has been coined as ‘the Wood Wide Web’. Some woodland species are easy to identify, may be well known in the area and are worth looking out for 45

The Bell | AUTUMN 2021 Hygrocybe aurantiosplendens (Orange waxcap) Laetiporus suphureus (Chicken of the woods) around Arundel. A good example is Beefsteak fungus Phallus impudicus (Common stinkhorn) (Fistulina hepatica). Growing as a bracket on deciduous trees, when cut it displays all the visual characteristics of marbled beef. Or perhaps Chicken of the woods, a spectacular yellowy orange multi-layered bracket. The similarly named Hen of the woods looks just like a feathered poulet sitting on stumps of oak. Everyone likes a purple toadstool, and so look out for Amethyst deceivers (Laccaria amethystina) or Wood blewits (Lepista nuda). Smell can be important too, so a waft of aniseed can come from an Aniseed funnel mushroom (Clitocybe odora). Yellow Sulpher knights Tricholoma sulphureum previously know as the Gasworks mushroom give a slightly less enjoyable experience! While everyone can enjoy the diverse colours and shapes of woodland fungi, no one can identify all fungi Hymenochaete rubiginosa (Oak curtain crust) Leccinum versipelle( Orange Birch bolete) 46

www.lovearundel.org AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell they find. Not only can some specimens be non- We are delighted to now call typical, to further complicate matters, many fungi will Dover Lane Woods, Arundel, West significantly change shape or colour as they mature, and most experts will concentrate on specialist areas. The Sussex our new home and biological of fungi is vast, with upwards of some 17,000 The Gay Farmers HQ species so far described scientifically in the UK. Many have only recently been given names in English, though Mark, Sean & Finn(the dog) x these can be very evocative…Crystal brain fungus (Myxarium nucleatum) ; Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria Multi Award Winning Organic Hypoxilon); Witches butter (Exidia glandulosa) or even Extra Virgin Olive Oil Hairy nuts disco (Lanzia echinophila)! It’s an area of scientific discovery where amateur citizen scientists Available @ Arundel Farmers can still find and describe a new species, and with the Market & advent of DNA analysis to the field, it is a scientific area that is growing exponentially. Large fungi visible to the www.thegayfarmer.co.uk native eye within woodland are only a small fraction of 10% Discount 2+Cans THEBELL10 the fungi kingdom with most fungi producing fruitbodies that are so small they need microscopy to identify or 20%Discount 4+Cans producing no fruiting bodies at all. THEBELL20 Hypholoma fasciculare (Sulphur tuft) Both accompanied by Free Delivery wanbourne One group of enthusiasts active around Arundel are the Lunches & CreamTeas Sussex Fungus group. These are people with a scientific interest in toadstools, with a wide range of expertise by the lakeside from enthusiastic amateurs to professional mycologists in Arundel Park (fungal scientists) who record species for inclusion in scientific databases. Their forays are not for collecting SWANBOURNE LODGE fungi to eat, but rather concentrated on conservation and education, and getting people to understand 01903 884293 how important fungi are to conserving the landscape. Many fungi appear to be vanishing through depletion www.swanbournelodge.co.uk of woodlands, habitat loss alterations in agricultural management and over-picking for the table, with all 47 this happening before there is a clear understanding of what exists in the landscape. The group helps novice enthusiasts understand the scope and depth of the kingdom through organising forays to which anyone is welcome, microscopy classes informal advice and even a book club! Dates of forays and further information can be found at https://www.sussexfungusgroup.co.uk/

Dear EditorTheBell | AUTUMN2021 AFTER MORE supplying The Norfolk Hotel with vegetables. As a teenager THAN 40 I was always visiting him there. YEARS MACE MAKES Camouflaged under the trees in Mill Road were American ITS FINAL lorries and halftrack vehicles. I was wondering what they PAYMENTS were doing and discovered they were heavy greasing the Arundel folk will remember engines and extending Bill Redman, Arundel Borough the exhaust pipes Councillor, and first Mayor of upwards. (This was to the newly formed Arundel Town Council in 1974. He went give clearance from the on to serve as Mayor for 8 more terms and he also served water on landing). as ADC Chairman. Later I knew why. Forty years ago, Bill Redman set up Mayor of Arundel They were preparing Charitable Enterprise a fund to enable money, which for landing on the had been raised by charity events and collections from beaches in France. At Mayor’s Sunday, to be given to charity without having to one time, one could see go through the Arundel Town Council account. The fund soldiers’ names carved was administered by a committee with the incumbent into the trees. Mayor as Chairman. Other members were past Mayors and prominent members of the community; Roland ERIC NASH Puttock was a long serving member. MACE had its own Arundel bank account, cheque book and treasurer. MEMORIES OF KAY WINSOR Over the years MACE supported many local clubs and groups. But in 2016 the Mayor closed the MACE bank Kay Winsor worked at Arundel Castle for many years account and put the money in a separate fund held by and died this year aged 103. Here her nephew, David, the Town Council. MACE lost its identity and payments remembers her life. from it became sporadic. Aunt Kath, as I always knew her, was born on Spike Island, Recently past Mayors got together and found there Cork Harbour, Ireland on 3 January 1918 where her was a considerable amount in the fund some of it had father Captain Edwin Pearce was commanding officer of been raised many years previously. It was unanimously the garrison. They moved over to Plymouth when she decided to close the fund and distribute the money to was very young and it was there that she was educated, the following: Arundel Scout Group, Arundel Guides, ACE brought up and worked in some of the department stores School, St Phillips School, the Lido, the Victoria Institute for some time. Kathleen Pearce married Reginald Winsor, and the new Dementia Group. an admiralty civil servant. at the age of 20 and shortly after they went out to Singapore for his next job, Kay also WENDY EVE worked for the naval base there, plotting warships, and Former Mayor of Arundel watched the Japanese approaching to invade it which they did in 1942. A WORLD WAR II MEMORY Kathleen and her husband escaped in a merchant ship During the War, my father, Albert Nash, ran Klondike to finish up in Colombo where the Singapore staff had Gardens off Mill Road, Arundel as a market garden relocated and again worked for them, eventually returning to England to resettle in Newcastle. With a change of 48 employment to London they worked there until after the war when Reginald retired and they moved to a cottage in Chiddingly, Sussex and then a bungalow in Goring by Sea when Kay started to work as a guide and in other roles for

AUTUMN 2021 | The Bell Arundel Castle. Her husband died unexpectedly and they should take all the through traffic on Ford Road, thus had no children. returning the Ford Road community to reasonable Kay loved working for Arundel Castle where she made peace. Only then should any consideration be given to countless good friends and participated in many social and plans for additional housing. other occasions. With my help she moved into Victoria Grand, a care home 3. ArundelLidofundingforschools. See above. in Worthing, in 2015 where she enjoyed the last happy six years of a fulfilled life, dying peacefully, aged 103 on 19 4. Arundel Bypass. Chris Waite’s letter says it all. Arundel April 2021. is one of the jewels in the West Sussex crown. The inhabitants of the villages around benefit from living in DAVID GUNN the shadow of that jewel. If we do not make it is easier Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire for visitors to visit, everyone will suffer. At the moment the weekend traffic on the A27 is such that I, for one, DEVELOPMENTS IN ARUNDEL would choose to go elsewhere. I would like to echo Mr. Williams’ comments in his letter All these burning, important questions being raised in The that the spring Bell was the best ever but add that I think Bell indicate a community which considers it important the Summer Bell is even better! that sensible solutions are found, and at the moment The summer edition is full of overlapping items, all of the community is anxious. Are the current resources of which are interesting thought provoking and pertinent to schools, medical, fire and safety, police and roads capable the Town’s current circumstances. of providing for a future increase in population? Arundel is 1. ACE School. Andrew Simpson has identified an a marvellous place to live, and we cannot be nimby about taking our share of satisfying future needs, but we have to important point about the current inability of students achieve the best possible solutions without damaging that being able to go through the whole of school life beautiful jewel. in Arundel. But where is he going to find sufficient flat space for open air sport activities? The town is BRUCE HENDERSON well resourced for camping, kayaking, tennis, bowls, Dalloway Road, Arundel swimming but would need to extend these facilities if the number of students increased. The sports facilities THE ARUNDEL BYPASS AND at St Philip’s are truly awful. ACE has a nice flat space FORD ROAD CYCLE PATH but would need more of it. And how would he propose to cope with the additional traffic in Jarvis Road, a Regarding the proposed narrow road. Arundel bypass, Chris Waite 2. Ford Road development proposal. Until a solution is writes (The Bell, Summer found for the day long traffic congestion, any proposal 2021) that I use the same that would make that congestion worse is absurd. For “tired arguments... from fire engines to exit onto a traffic jam on a narrow road the safety of Slindon to is absurd. A way has to be found to stop heavy vehicles boot.” Given the paucity of using Ford Road from the Arundel roundabout to sites cycle routes in West Sussex, I currently cycle from Slindon South of the Ford level crossing. If I were a dictator, I to Arundel on the A27 each day, and this is far from a would close the Ford level crossing. We are due to have safe option, especially since in the UK we don’t seem to a Lyminster by-pass in the near future which would/ be able to build roads with safe pavements included as standard, as they do in most of Europe; another example of government policy putting the safety and travel needs of pedestrians and cyclists last. People like me who are opposed to the bypass are “preventing the inevitable march of progress” according to Mr. Waite. The question is- what do we believe “progress” to look like? Is it more of the same old 20th century thinking that has got us to this present impasse? Ever more private vehicles and ever more roads clogging up and carving up what’s left of our countryside? Or do we have an alternative vision of what “progress” looks like in the 21st century? Online working, efficient zero-emission busses, bustling pedestrianised towns (rather than soulless out of town retail parks accessible only by car), thriving villages and connected, local communities, and a rail system that is genuinely 49

The Bell | AUTUMN 2021 Gough Map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gough_Map , thought to have been produced around 1350; guess affordable and reliable, as it is in most European nations. where it crossed the river? The population at that time is estimated to have been around three million and such When the government itself predicts that, post-covid, journeys were on foot; these days the population is some working from home is to become the new norm for a sixty-eight million, twenty-three times as many and we lot of people a lot of the time, the need for new road drive. A cart track would have done then; the equivalent building rapidly evaporates. Meanwhile, the cost of the now is a dual carriage freeway. Let the traffic flow – please? grey route spirals- some think it could end up costing £1 billion. All that money and all that destruction of CHRIS WAITE the beautiful water meadows and countryside, just Southbourne to remove a rush-hour delay of a few minutes (which already seems far less severe than pre-pandemic). RECYCLING BINS Mr. Waite mentions the “dreaded” Ford Road. Why is it I am very concerned that our town has minimal recycling dreaded? Because of an excess of private vehicles and bins in the centre. HGVs, and once again a lack of roadside paths. Increasing I was out and about last weekend and the town had the capacity of the A27 only encourages more cars onto many visitors purchasing take away food. I then noticed the roads and will make even more roads “dreaded”. Mr. the waste bins are black and are for general waste which Waite talks dreamily of “a smooth-running dual-carriage were all rammed full with plastic, cardboard and tins- all freeway” but it will only be smooth running until it reaches recyclable materials. the next pressure point, ie: Worthing / Chichester, which Surely recycling bins should be located next to the black will be even worse since more drivers will be enticed into bins allowing people to dispose of their rubbish correctly. using the new, faster, bigger, A27! I contacted Arun district council who told me they no immediate plans to introduce recycling bins which I find Meanwhile, I fully support the planned pedestrian path hard to believe. to Ford station on the “dreaded” Ford Road and the work required can’t be compared to building a new MARTIN LANGFORD dual carriageway! I’ve cycled along it many times and Arundel looking at the size of the grass verges, it can surely be constructed without extensive hedge or tree removal, as Keith Williams (The Bell, Summer 2021) worries about. Just look at the cycle/pedestrian path from Barnham to Warburton as a great example of how to do this. Yet it’s hypocritical of our pro-road building MP, Andrew Griffith, to support the Ford Road project, while also supporting the bypass, which will have the net effect of enticing yet more cars onto our roads- all roads! So let’s think carefully about the future we want for West Sussex- more of the same, which tends to be the easy and for some the “default” option, or a more sustainable way of living that is fit for the 21st century, in harmony with our environment and which puts the needs of people, rather than the smooth flow of traffic, first. I know which one I’d choose... JOE DOWNIE Slindon THE BYPASS I note that since the pandemic, traffic has reportedly increased to 104% on weekdays and 113% at weekends. Temporary possibly, but this problem with the A27 just isn’t going away and the decades of rudderless dithering, as I have seen it aptly described, continues to cause untold misery, stockpiling idling vehicles to weave haltingly through our valley, shedding pollutants. Would it help assuage the sentiments of the traditionalists among us to know that there used to be a major route from Canterbury to Southampton, as marked on the 50