APRIL 2020

ISSUE 319

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COUNTRY MATTERS - at the right time you may see them fledge. H.W.Coldbreath APRIL This can be quite a nerve wracking process Family Butchers Its April and the excitement in the air is but, however string your inclinations might be to play a helping role, do restrain them Devon House, 27 High Street, Seal clear to see and hear. SPRING IS NATURE’S WAY OF and don’t pick up fledglings that look We will endeavour to keep as stocked SAYING “LET’S PARTY” lost as their parents are almost certainly up as possible. We are stocking local Robin Williams keeping an eye on them. However, if you produce, working alongside local farm- Many of our migrating birds will have found are in doubt, call Folly Wildlife Hospital for ers and suppliers. We will have local their way home again to breed. Among advice. Hopefully you will see lots of trees planted, Beef, Lamb and Eggs, Fruit and Veg, them you will see Swallows, House Martins hedgerows restored, scrubs allowed to grow Meat and Poultry, Bread and all our and Swifts and enjoy watching again their and strips of land given over to wildflower usual items graceful antics in the air. It has been noted seeding. Evidence shows that when these that a few Swallows actually stayed to over We are offering a delivery service, measures are applied we see a resurgence winter here this year saving themselves within a 10 mile radius, to all customers of insects including pollinators as well as the arduous flight to and from Africa. This with a minimum spend of £50 and £25 birds and small mammals which in turn is almost certainly a symptom of climate for the over 65s, payable by card over provide a food source for Owls, Kestrels change and will be an interesting trend to the telephone. and Sparrow Hawks. follow. Among those returning you may be April is a wonderful month bursting with 01732 761040 lucky enough to see Turtle Doves. Their optimism - new life starts here “APRIL IS number have declined by 91% in the last A PROMISE THAT MAY IS BOUND 10 years. However they can still be found TO KEEP” Hal Borland. BOROUGH GREEN LIBRARY in southern and south eastern parts of the News in as I write is that the Badger cull is If you would like more information, country including Sussex and Kent. to be phased out and measures to combat Not to confuse them with Collared Doves, TB will be improved Bio-Security and please speak to a member of staff. you are looking for a smaller bird that is Opening hours : the vaccination of Badgers and Cattle. A darker with a rusty brown back showing happier start to Spring 2020 Sue Stoyell. Monday: 10.00-13.00 turtle shell like markings and white bars 14.00-17.00 on the neck. They have dark red legs and Tuesday: 10.00-13.00 yellow irises to the eyes and of course they make that soothing purring sound. If you D.S. INSTALLATIONS 14.00-17.00 see a turtle dove please report the sighting TV Wall Mounts from £59 Wednesday: Closed to [email protected] Efforts are being Digital Aerial Installations from £105 Thursday: 10.00-13.00 made to help re-establish turtle doves and Sky Q & Sky HD Satellite Installations 14.00-17.00 some farmers are planting seeds such as Service & Repairs CCTV Installations Friday: 10.00-13.00 fumitors, black merlick, red and white Internet Wi-Fi boosting & Networking 14.00-17.00 clover, vetch and birds foot trefoil to help the ‘operation turtle dove’ conservation Saturday: 09.00-13.00 07495 567981 project. If you are by a lake you may see great crested Painting and Decorating grebes doing their elaborate courtship General Repairs dances with the male making offerings of & Small Building Works weed to the female. They pair for life which makes it even more romantic! To see them DAVE MARTIN I suggest you go to the Kent Wild Life Little Grove, Jubilee rise, Seal Sevenoaks, Kent TN15 OBH Trust’s Bradbourne site. It is off the A25 Telephone: Sevenoaks 762255 towards riverhead. There you will find an or Call Paul Martin on 07912 161456 abundance of birds on the lakes and in the surrounding woodland, the paths around the lakes are mostly wheel chair friendly and there are hides strategically placed. During the coming months you might well find broken egg shells the inhabitants having hatched and the shells discarded by the parent birds and removed from the $OODVSHFWVRI+DUGDQG6RIW/DQGVFDSHZRUNV nest. When you find a shell or part of it XQGHUWDNHQIURPGHVLJQWRLPSOHPHQWDWLRQLQFOXGLQJ you might wonder to what type of bird

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5 SEAL CHURCH Keeping in touch – Virtual visiting

During this current health crisis, there may be times when some, or all, of us aren’t able to meet with others easily, and when church services and other activities might not be able to take place.

For many, the biggest problem in all this may not be physical illness, but simple loneliness and boredom, especially for those who live alone, (though those who live with others may also fairly soon find some challenges in being cooped up with the Viruses can’t travel same people all day every day!) down the phone lines!

If you are part of an existing home group or something like Talking Village, Friday Group, Choir, Bellringers etc. or have informal networks of friends in church or elsewhere, why not make an arrangement, before you need to, to keep in touch with each other regularly?

WOULD YOU LIKE A “VIRTUAL VISIT”? If you’d like a weekly phone call from me, or someone else in the church whom I trust to be a good listener while you can’t get to church, please fill in the slip below – we can phone more often if necessary, but we’ll start at once a week. If you have any practical needs – for example, shopping you can’t get for yourself – we will try to find a way of getting those things to you.

WHEN WILL THIS START? We will start doing this automatically if and when church services are suspended, but are happy to phone from now on for anyone who can’t come to church because they are vulnerable or have to self-isolate. Please phone me to let me know if this is the case, because I may not realise you aren’t around!

HOW ELSE CAN YOU KEEP IN TOUCH? You can phone me yourself, of course (preferably between 9 and 6pm, and not on Tuesday, my day off), but at any time in an emergency). You can also email, Skype, whatsapp, Facebook message, or direct message me on Twitter, if these are things you do! If you have internet access, you might like to check that you are on the church email list – there’s a box to sign up for it on the church website. (If you usually get the magazine by email, then you are already on this list). Because of Data Protection rules, I am not able to sign people up for this without their permission, so you need to do it! Other ways to keep in touch with the church and with me are through our Church website, blog, Facebook and twitter feeds. Canon Anne Le Bas 07510 522292

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I would like a weekly phone call from the vicar or from someone else from the church, if church services are suspended, or I am self-isolating. I give the vicar permission to contact me, or to pass my number to someone she trusts to do so.

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6 The Church of St St Mary’s Kemsing The Church of the Good Shepherd Peter & St Paul, Rev. James Oakley 01732 762556 Quarry Hill Road, Borough Green Seal Parish Office 01732 761351 Vicar: Revd. Canon Anne Le Bas 07510 522292 www.kemsingwithwoodlands.org Priest-in-Charge: Revd. Chris Turner (01732) 882447 [email protected] Office hours: Mon, Tues, Thurs and Fri E-mail: [email protected] Church Website: www.sealpeterandpaul.com Website: www.cogs.org.uk 9.15 - 12.15, closed on Weds FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK stpeterandpaulseal Facebook: www.facebook.com/COGSBG AND TWITTER @sealpandp ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH, St.First Sunday Lawrence, of the Month Seal Chart THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST LUKE, SEVENOAKS OTFORD 08:00 Holy Communion 10:00 All Age Holy Communion Eardley Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 1XT Vicar: Vacant Second Sunday of the Month

Church Office: 01959 523185 or at [email protected] 08:00 Holy Communion Associate Vicar The Reverend Anne Bourne – 07512 734224 Open weekday mornings 9.30 a.m.-12.30 p.m. 10:00 Sung Holy Communion Churchwardens: Janet Bates – 01732 642352 Website: www.stbartholomews.co.uk 10:00 Sunday School meeting in the annexe Elizabeth Peters First Steps: For parents and carers of pre-school children. Third Sunday of the Month Parish Office: Amanda Humphrey – 01732 743045 (8.30am – 12.30pm weekdays) Contact: Najen Harris, 01959 522813 for details. 08:00 ChurchHoly Communion Road, Stone Street email: [email protected] 09:00 Breakfast Church - Come share food, fellowship and faith Church Website: www.stlukes-sevenoaks.org.uk For additional information:in an informal setting. Sunday Worship: 8am Holy Communion (BCP) Sevenoaks Quakers 10:00 www.sealstlawrence.org.ukSung Holy Communion 10.15am Parish Eucharist (Religious Society of Friends) FourthVicar: Sunday Rev of EachSerena Month Willoughby 01732 761766 (1st Sunday in the month All Together Eucharist) 08:00 Holy Communion Christian Science 30 Hollybush Lane, TN13 3TJ. 10:00Lay Reader:Sung Gretel Holy Communion Wakeham 01732 761534 Junior Church meetsChristian in St Luke’s Hall at Science10.15am and joins Society, the regular congregation The West Kent Quaker website/ 10:00Church wardens:Sunday School Ron meeting Drury in the annexe01732 810214 later in the service. Hilary Denby-Jones 01732 763883 Caxton House, 22 St. John’s Hill, Sevenoaks has details of our meetings: Thursdays: 11amSevenoaks Holy Communion, followedTN13 by coffee 3NP www.westkentquakers.org.uk . If you Other Events SeeSt our Peter’s facebook page an dChurch, website Morning PrayForer is normally more said dailyinformation in church at 9.15am contact on Monday, Tuesday, would like more information, please Wednesday and01732 Friday. 452775 or cs7oaks.org email [email protected] Fen Pond Road, Rector: Revd. Tim Hatwell 01732 886827 Other Activities at St Luke’s: Tuesdays: Tiny Ones Together Service for babies and toddlers at 10.15am in the Parish Room in term time. There are small toys to enjoy as well as a story, prayers and PLEASE NOTE a sing-along. Refreshments are served. Tuesdays: Julian Group meets in ChurchTHAT at 2pm on Tuesday s - THEREChristian Meditation WILL BE NO CHURCH SERVICES according to Julian of Norwich. Julian Group does not meet during August. Wednesdays: Lunchtime Recitals at 12.30pm for 30 minutes - admission free – tea DURING APRIL and coffee served – bring your own sandwiches. There are no Recitals during August. TKNOWhursdays – last inYOUR the month – StNEIGHBOURS Luke’s Fellowship meets at 2.00pm UPDATE in the Parish let me know, and KYN will help to support you. Saturday 10-11am Seal Library. Room. Further details from the Parish Office – 01732 743045. Please pop along to any of these venues for for March 2020. The Seal Village Hall Management Committee We held the draw for the March KYN 100 Club. coffee/tea and a chat. needs a new Treasurer. If you have a little time This month we were playing with 59 numbers, to offer, please email me, and I will pass on your The Friday Group would love to welcome new so the winners won £98.32 and £49.16. This details. people. This is a group which meets every Friday leaves £147.50 for the Seal Village Fund. It was also noted that there are currently morning for coffee/tea and a chat, but also there The winners are as follows: two vacancies on Seal Parish Council. Please are regular outings to local attractions. There 1st prize No 28 Nancy Daly contact The a Parish Clerk if you are interested. are opportunities to have lunches at local pubs/ 2nd prize No 29 Maggie Fox. restaurants, visits to Open Studios, historical BRITISH LEGION POPPY APPEAL Congratulations to them, and remember to buildings, and partake in crafts, games of darts, For the last few years, 3 ladies from Seal Church email me if you are not yet taking part in this board games,etc. Last Christmas, we visited have organised the annual British Legion Poppy draw, but wish to be. Bedgebury Christmas Lighting Event, which Collections around Seal Village. We are now was a very memorable evening. We also enjoy We held the AGM for Seal Village Fund and looking for new people to come forward to raising funds to improve Seal Church Hall, KYN. The awards for local organisation bids take on this task please. Rosemary, Jenni and purely by contributions for our refreshments. were made as follows:- Fiona, will be on hand to support anybody with This is a forward looking group, with great Seal Village Hall £450 towards cost of new or the planning of this yearly project, which will ideas, and would like to welcome some new repaired window. involve the distribution of boxes of poppies to ones. All are welcome. Seal Scouts The cost of 2x Gopak tables £280 public places around the community, collection Seal Over 60’s £250 to provide more diverse of monies and remaining poppies at the end,and EVENTS PLANNED SO FAR FOR 2020:- speakers for the group. payment of collection to the British Legion. Monday May 4th -7.30 - Seal Village Hall - The new constitution for SVF was explained We all appreciate the brilluant on-going work History Group talk on The Battle of Britain.(to and will be attached to AGM minutes. of the Royal British Legion, and this is possibly be confirmed). Items discussed for KYN were as follows:- their biggest fund raiser each year. Please do Sunday June 14th from 1pm - Seal 2020 Garden Frequency and venues for open meetings. consider whether you, and maybe one or two Safari in aid of Kent Air Ambulance - Info from Decided 6 monthly in Five Bells and 6 monthly friends could take this task on.If you have a few Frances Fish as above. in Village Hall. hours available between mid October and mid Saturday July 4th - 2-4pm - Lavender Fields There will be some celebration on the VE Day November, please contact me, and I will put you Summer Fair. anniversary on May 8th. This may be an ENZSA in touch. Monday July 6th - 7.30pm - Seal Village Hall - type concert or a general WW2 celebration on History Group - Bob Ogley talks about Kent in Talking Village continues to meet 4 times the recreation ground. 19th Century. weekly and the times for Monday afternoon will Ideas for community groups activities to take Please keep some time on Sat Nov 21st and change slightly, due to Deniz’s longer hours. So place in our community halls:- 28th for putting up 2020 Christmas lights. here are the new weekly times and venues:- Cinema Nights Saturday December 5th 2.39-5pm Seal Family Monday 2.00-3.15 Deniz’s Cafe Games eveningsk Christmas Party in the Village Hall and turn on Thursday 10-12 Seal Church Hall with Seal Fashion shows lights. Tiddlers International food evenings. We look forward to meeting with many of you at Friday 10-12 Seal Church Hall with The Friday If you feel you and maybe a friend or two, could any of these events. Group help to organise one of these activities, please Best Wishes, Marion.

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8 REPORT OF TALK BY IAN were changed every 24 hours and a month’s by the ‘Y’ service to be sent to Bletchley to THOMSON TO THE 1940s worth of settings were kept on sheets. Ian scrutinise. SOCIETY ON 31st JANUARY said that the statistical odds of breaking Teams of women looked after the ‘bombes’. an Enigma machine were 158, thousand, It was a horrible job. After a run, the ‘bombe’ 2020 million, billions to 1! had to be re-wired. Many fingers were cut ‘Bletchley and the breaking of the German Information from Bletchley was given the doing this job. codes in World War Two’ highest possible security classification – The most important battle of the war, Ian Ian started his talk by explaining that Ultra. None of the Cabinet, apart from explained, was the battle of the Atlantic, Bletchley broke the codes of not only Churchill, knew about it. Decrypted Ultra against the U boats who were sinking British Germany but many other countries messages to Army commanders in the field, and Allied ships. In 1939, Britain’s imports including Spain and the Soviet Union. for instance, Montgomery, came via Signal were 55 million tons. By 1941, they were He stated that Bletchley is the most Liaison Units. Montgomery would read down to 35 million tons. If we lost this important British World War Two heritage the message but could not take it away. battle, we would lose the war. Donitz, in site. The ‘special relationship’ was fostered Ian explained that the raw, undeciphered charge of the U boats was reading British by the sharing of intelligence with the USA German radio messages were picked up codes and became suspicious about Enigma. during the war. Historians have suggested by the British ‘Y’ service. There was a ‘Y’ In February 1942, he added another rotor that the work centred around Bletchley station at Knockholt. to make the German Navy Enigmas 4 rotor shortened the war by 2 years. The upper classes were often recruited to machines. Even the bombes could not break Ian told us how the British code-breakers work at Bletchley, but there were many these. Capture of German naval Enigmas in World War One broke the German others. At its peak, 10,000 people worked at solved the problem. ‘Zimmerman Telegram’ which was a message Bletchley in 8 hour shifts. As more and more Mavis Lever broke the Abwehr (German from Germany to Mexico proposing a people were recruited, huts were built in the military intelligence) code. As a result of this, military alliance which would enable Mexico grounds. People only worked in their own by 1941, there were no free German agents to recover Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. huts and were totally ignorant of what went working in Britain. The British either made The news of this brought the USA into the on in the other huts around them. the Germans double agents or executed war against Germany. Ian explained that it was the Poles who first them. But, Ian explained, one of the most By 1936, the British Navy, Army and Foreign tried to break a 3-rotored Enigma and they successful double agents, codenamed Garbo, Office codebreakers had merged to become shared their knowledge with the British worked from Portugal. He had 27 sub agents. the Government Code and Cipher School in 1939, bringing an Enigma machine to All of them were fictitious and all of them under the control of MI6 at Broadway Britain. Ian told us that we owe a big debt to were paid by Germany! Buildings in London. Hugh Sinclair, the the Poles and that there is, rightly, a Polish Ian told us that Enigma knew all the German head of MI6, wanted somewhere safer and Memorial at Bletchley. dispositions for D Day and the historian Sir more secure and heard that Bletchley Park Ian introduced us to some of the Martin Gilbert has stated that without the was up for sale. It was 45 miles from London codebreakers at Bletchley. Dilly Knox, who knowledge from Enigma, there would have with good rail links to London and was on had been a codebreaker in World War One, been no D Day. the Oxford and Cambridge ‘Varsity’ railway had a team including Alan Turing. Turing The German High Command sent line. It was very secluded but near the A5 and the others left and then Knox led an enciphered messages to Army Commands road which goes from London to the North. all-female team which was his choice. There by teleprinter using a machine built by the The sale price was £7,500 which included was the 36-year old Margaret Rock, Joan firm Lorenz. These couldn’t be deciphered not only the house but 55 acres of land. No Clarke and Mavis Lever. All were brilliant by Bletchley. Some of these messages were government department was prepared to pay but did not take degrees. Mavis Lever was recorded and stored at Knockholt on tape. for it so, in 1938, Sinclair paid for it himself! fluent in German and Italian. She posed a In 1941, Bletchley got a lucky break when No-one knew this, when, in 1991, the house puzzle: which way do the hands on a clock the Germans in Athens called Vienna ‘in was due for demolition and the government turn? Clockwise is, of course, the answer. clear’. The reception was bad and Vienna realised that the property belonged to the Unless, said Mavis, you are the clock! She asked for it to be repeated but only after Sinclair family. Hugh Sinclair’s family sold it stayed up late one night and broke a naval changing the rotors. The message was re- to the government for 50p! The house was code. The battle of Cape Matapan, when sent but the rotors were not changed. This not demolished but preserved as it is today, the British Mediterranean Fleet decisively message was broken in eight weeks and Bill run by the Bletchley Park Trust. beat the Italian fleet, was the result. Tutte, a chemist, created a diagram of it. It In July 1938, the codeword ‘Aunt Flo is not Ian explained that at Bletchley, Huts 3 and was realised that the Lorenz was a million too well’ was issued and personnel started to 6 were the busiest. The decrypted messages times more powerful than Enigma. A replica of the Lorenz machine was built at Dollis assemble at Bletchley. The establishment at were graded, recorded on punch cards and Hill. Tommy Flowers suggested that valves Bletchley was nick-named ‘Captain Ridley’s cross-referenced. Because of a stray German be used to make it work more quickly and Shooting Party’ after Captain Ridley RN. bomb, blast walls were built around the huts. Ian told us that although we had bought out of this came a programmable computer, The Bletchley Gazette were told that the called Colossus, which broke the Lorenz. It Enigma machines before the war, it was felt people at Bletchley were looking into the was still secret in 1999 and some aspects of it necessary to build an even better similar effects of air raids. In August 1939, Bletchley are still secret. machine to mimic an Enigma. This was commenced activities. Ian told us that after the war, the Russians Ian explained that a cipher where each letter called Type X. knew about Enigma through the British was changed to a different letter was the basis Ian then told us about Alan Turing. Autistic, traitor John Cairncross but he did not know of coded messages. A machine generated he would cycle in the summer wearing his that the Lorenz had been broken. So, to cipher where the ciphers could be changed gas mask and had his mug chained to a maintain their secrecy, the decision was at will and sent by radio was the goal. Before radiator. In 1940, he converted his money taken to destroy the Colossus machines. the war, the Enigma company manufactured into silver ingots and buried them. He Thank you, Ian, for an entertaining and very such a machine which quickly went off the enciphered the whereabouts of his ingots informative talk. Thanks also to the huge open market when Germany decided to use on a piece of paper and then lost it! Turing audience who gave a very generous £120 it for their own use. Ian explained how an decided that the best way to break a cipher to Ian’s chosen charity, ABF The Soldiers’ Enigma machine worked. It didn’t type or was to design a ‘guessing machine’ which Charity. This charity looks after Army print. A basic machine had a keyboard and he called a ‘bombe’. The one constant servicemen and women and their families 3 rotors each of which had 26 letters around was that no letter could be enciphered as and helped 70,000 people last year. it. The message was sent in Morse Code. So, itself. Messages were engineered so that We hope to see you at our next meeting on a letter ‘B’ was transposed into a ‘K’ and the they could be studied. For instance, the Friday 27th March when Les Fryatt will be message was sent to operators at the other RAF were asked to lay mines at set times. interviewed by Nick Page about his memories end who would transpose the letter ‘K’ These were then reported by the Germans as a D Day veteran. back into a ‘B’. The settings for the rotors through Enigma which were then picked up Written by Nick Fothergill

9 PLAXTOL LOCAL HISTORY Wildflowers cannot compete with involvement from those who can provide, GROUP MARCH 2020 MEETING actively growing grasses. Farmers have and skilfully operate, mowers, brush cutters The Architectural History of Tonbridge - been encouraged through government and scythes. by Sir Paul Britton schemes and conservation organisations Information evening Sir Paul Britton’s presentation was such as Wildlife Trusts, Plantlife and the Parish Councillors, Fidelity Weston and remarkable and included 80 photographs Bumblebee Conservation Trust, to grow Chris Tavaré, will be giving a talk on taken with his own camera. ‘pollen and nectar’ strips around the edges wildflowers and pollinators at 7.30pm on William the Conqueror entrusted Richard of fields. Thursday 16th April in the pavilion on fitzGilbert with the construction of Roadside verges in towns and villages are Seal recreation ground for those interested Tonbridge castle, built of earth (the motte) regularly cut to maintain a neat appearance, in finding out more about the project as topped with a timber residence, surrounded and in part a clear view for passing drivers. well as volunteering tasks. A glass of wine by timber fortification and a moat. The Left grass cuttings are naturally broken and some nibbles will be provided. So we gatehouse was added in 1260. The Parish down providing a nutrient rich soil, can get an idea of numbers please email Church was built in 12C, although there is favourable for grass growth at the expense Chris on [email protected] if evidence of an earlier church within. The of wildflowers. Unmanaged verges in rural you are intending to come and / or wish to town prospered, with timber framed houses areas provide ideal places for grass growth volunteer. rather than wildflowers. Tall grasses, built in 15C in the High Street. Many were PLAXTOL LOCAL HISTORY nettles and docks are indicators of nutrient re-fronted with brick in 18C, eg. The Rose GROUP FEBRUARY 2020 MEETING & Crown Hotel. Tonbridge School was rich habitats unsuited to wildflowers. The Worthies of Tonbridge built in 1553 and the fine house Somerhill Not only can wildflowers provide a Pat Mortlock the President of Tonbridge 1612. In 17C weather boarded houses and colourful scene they are vital in providing Historical Society, one of our favourite peg tiles became fashionable and examples a season long supply of nectar and pollen speakers, gave us an amusing and informative can be seen in Shipbourne Road. Old to key pollinators such as bumble, honey talk on those famous and worthy people who Judde (1750) now part of Tonbridge School and solitary bees. Without pollinators you have been commemorated by blue plaques and Ferox Hall (1755) on the corner of would not be eating apples, pears and other in Tonbridge. When she became a member Bordyke, were built. In 1804 the mansion fruits! Hedgerows of blackthorn and other of the committee for blue plaques she was amazed to learn that each plaque cost £700. ‘Mableton’ was built on Quarry Hill for species provide not only a source of food but vital nesting sites for bumblebees in In the beginning organisations were invited John Burton but by 1838 Bordyke was the to make recommendations to the committee best address in town and some houses in particular. Butterflies and other insects and many were received. The two criteria for East Street were fashionable. When the depend on flowering plants to provide a worthy people were firstly that they should railway came in 1842 the town extended source of nectar, and leaves for their young be nationally known and secondly that they up Pembury Road. St Stephen’s Church to eat. The cinnabar moth larvae, with should be dead. Twelve plaques are in situ out was built in 1850, and intense church their distinctive black and gold stripes, are of the 16 chosen from literary, historic and building began, eg. St Saviour’s, the dependent on the much-maligned ragwort civic circles. The earliest blue plaque is to the Zion Chapel and the Methodist Church. plant. first two female Protestant martyrs. Margery Tonbridge School was extended and new The Council has identified a number of Polley was burnt in Tonbridge market place in 1555 and Jean Beach in Rochester. From schools built, Judd and The Slade Junior sites within the Parish and has started conversations with local residents, the literary section, George Austen, brother School in 1906. Between 1850 and 1905 of Jane, who taught at Tonbridge School is houses in Dryhill Estate and Yardley Park where appropriate, to explain our aims commemorated as is Eliza Acton, the author of Road were built for the ‘middle classes’. and methods. The triangle of grass a cookery book in 1845. She created recipes The architect Thomas Bradley built the at the bottom end of Seal recreation for Tonbridge brawn, Bordyke bread and Tourte Fire Station (1900). More recent buildings ground between the wooded area and a la Judd. She was eclipsed by Mrs. Beeton of note are The Weald of Kent School the allotments is well placed to this aim. who copied many of her original recipes. (1962) The Church Centre, near the river Three verges within Seal, Stone Street Tonbridge produced two cricketing legends in and Tonbridge School’s Science Centre. and Underriver have been identified Colin Blythe and Colin Cowdray. The latter David Gurney, our Archivist, exhibited with advice from a specialist at the Kent was enobled as Lord Cowdray of Tonbridge. Also worthy of a blue plaque was Cecil Powell, a personal collection of framed prints of Wildlife Trust. We are now talking to Kent County Council to see whether they can born in 1903 in Tonbridge who was a physicist. Tonbridge. He won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of Our next meeting will be at 8pm change their cutting regime or, ideally, take a subatomic particle. John George Children on Tuesday 14th April. The talks is over the task ourselves, safety assessments was the son of a well-known Tonbridge family ‘Just a Piece of Paper’ the history of allowing. living at Ferrox Hall. He invented the first papermaking in Great Britain by Jean During February and March we will aim battery in his private laboratory. His only Stirk. Gillian Hogg to cut the grass on the recreation ground, child, Anna was the first female botanist and removing the cuttings to reduce the photographer to publish a book on seaweed SEAL PARISH COUNCIL nutrient content of the soil. We will then and small plants. At Tonbridge station there is WILDFLOWER PROJECT be spreading wildflower seed collected a plaque to the engineer and architect of light The Council is embarking on a programme from a local meadow farm. The area at railways Colonel Holman Stephens, famous to promote the growth of wildflowers in the the bottom end of the triangle may take for the Paddock Wood to Hawkurst line opened in 1893. Lastly,in more modern times Parish, with a subsequent improvement in a year or two of cutting and collecting to everyone knows the name of Neville Duke habitats for pollinators such as bees and sufficiently reduce nutrient levels. the fighter pilot who shot down 27 enemy butterflies. Volunteers aircraft in WWII and also Terence Lord Lewin, Since the 1930s 97% of wildflower We are looking for volunteers to help who went to school at the Judd and became meadows have been lost due to changes us manage our identified sites. One of Admiral of the Fleet in charge of the Falkland in countryside and urban management. the tasks will involve raking up grass campaign. We all agreed with Pat Mortlock Many meadows were ploughed up after cuttings, usually in early March and that Tonbridge has produced a good number the Second World War to produce September. Another will be to scrape the of “worthies”. monocultures of cereals, with increasing ground to expose some soil before re- Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 10th use of herbicides. Others are fertilised seeding in September. To keep costs to the March at 8pm when Sir Paul Britton will talk on The Architectural History of Tonbridge. and cut to provide winter feed for cattle. Parish Council down we would welcome V.Dussek

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TO BOOK SEAL VILLAGE HALL PLEASE CALL 4th Sevenoaks (St John's) Scout Group 01959 522545 or [email protected] Beavers Wed 5.15 and Fri 4.30 Cubs Weds 6.45 and Fri 5.45 Scouts Tues Tues 6.45 and Fri 7.30 St LAWRENCE VILLAGE HALL Contact via 4thsevenoaks.org.uk/contact-us Church Road, Stone Street Village. - Attractive, well maintained SEAL TIDDLERS traditional village hall, with well equipped kitchen, central Come and join us every Thursday during school term times heating and parking, Facilities for the disabled. Reasonable 9.30am - 11.30am Seal Church Hall, Church Road, Seal. We are rates. Please call 01732 760552. See website: www.stlvh.org.uk a local group catering for children aged 0-4 years, together with 9th Sevenoaks Seal, Beavers and Cubs Group. their carers - Mums, Dads, Childminders, Nannies, Grandparents Beavers 6 - 8 years Monday 5:15 - 6:30; Cubs 8 - 10½ etc., We provide an exciting range of activities and refreshments, Thursday 6:15 - 7:30 Contact Group Manager - Caroline tea, coffee and squash. We are a friendly group who are always 0’Mahoney - 07889 251800 welcoming to new members. The cost £1.50 per carer each week. Emma 07752234426 [email protected] SEVENOAKS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE Are you looking for new friends and something different? We are SEAL VILLAGE HALL - Sequence Dancing a club for the more mature amongst us. Our activities consist of Our dance group meets in the hall from 8pm until 10pm on Ten Pin Bowling at Tunbridge Wells once a week, canasta which Tuesdays to enjoy a social evening together. Why not join us? we play on a regular basis, Whist Drives, Scrabble - a couple of You will be most welcome. For further details please contact :- sessions per month, Darts, Dining Out and Theatre visits. If you [email protected] : Alan Davies 01732 459636 are interested in anything and haven't played for a long time we can refresh or teach you. There are also monthly Rambles. We are KEMSING PAVILION TENNIS COURTS a very lively group and are still looking for new members. Why Public tennis courts for hire at the Mark Collett Pavilion. don't you come along to one of our meetings on the first Thursday Yearly subscription - for full details contact Vicky Rutherford of every month at 7.30pm at the Otford Memorial Hall, Otford. on 01959 524224 If you are interested call Alan Water 01732 674825 or Mo Haslam KEMSING PAVILION on 01732 761903. www.sevenoaksfriendshipcentre.co.uk We have daytime and evening slots at the Mark Collet Pavilion, Heaverham Rd, Kemsing for anyone interested in starting a fit- HIRE BOROUGH GREEN VILLAGE HALL ness or instruction class. Large upstairs room and ample parking. Booking Secretary: Jackie Taylor 01732 882880 Inquiries to Vicky Bishop 01732 762865. KEMSING PAVILION SQUASH COURT SINGING FOR PLEASURE - SEVENOAKS The Pavilion Squash Court is available for hire. Tokens to operate We gather at Walthamstow Hall Senior School on Monday the court lights are available from Richlands Stores in Dynes Road evenings, and Best One Supermarket, West End, Kemsing. The cost of tokens 7.30 - 9.30, during term times in a relaxed and friendly is £6.50 for 45 minutes play. Court bookings can be made on group to sing a wide variety of songs. First evening free. For the booking sheets inside the Pavilion. Full changing and shower more details contact Olivia on: 01959 532748/534171 facilities. For further information contact pavilion on 762865 IGHTHAM VILLAGE HALL, Sevenoaks Road, Ightham TN15 9HA YOUR LOCAL ADVERTISER This large modern hall has disabled access, a large car park and a YOUR FREE MAGAZINE BRINGING YOU LOCAL NEWS committee room. It has a Badminton Court, Stage, Gas Heating, Modern Kitchen with Fridge and Oven. Block bookings by AND INFORMATION negotiation. 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