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SUMMER 2020 Parish Cake YOUR SLICE OF CRANBROOK & SISSINGHURST LIFE COMMUNITY FREE CENTRE SPECIAL PUBLISHED BY CRANBROOK AND SISSINGHURST PARISH COUNCIL Do you need help at home? Help at mealtimes Help at Private Care Service bedtimes Help at bathtimes Escort Domestic Services care Our Private Care Services provides tailored packages of care that can help people stay in their own home for as long as possible, rather than going into care home before it’s really needed. We assist those who need due to frailty, disability or illness to live a independently as possible, with comfort and dignity, in their own homes. For a free assessment of your care needs or to receive your brochure call us on 01580 762244 www.townandcountryhomecare.co.uk Parish Cake YOUR SLICE OF CRANBROOK & SISSINGHURST LIFE EDITOR: welcome Trisha Fermor [email protected] HAVING TAKEN over the reins as editor of Parish Cake, I would like to thank former councillor Brian Clifford for coming up with the idea for DEPUTY EDITOR: this great magazine and for his expertise as a former parish councillor Mignon Brian for Sissinghurst. He reluctantly stood down due to ill-health and I am [email protected] sure everyone will wish him well for the future. As I write we are all in lockdown, most of us confined to our homes YOUTH EDITOR: because of the coronavirus. The pandemic has stopped every-day life Zachary Phillpot-Brian as we know it. A large number of much-loved local events, from Nuts in May to centenary celebrations for Cranbrook Operatic and Dramatic ADVERTISING SALES: Society, have been forced to cancel. Roads are almost empty of traffic, Mignon Brian people having to abandon the daily commute and stay at home. Our 07779 185870 streets are eerily quiet. [email protected] It is heartening to know that there are people in our parish who have formed groups to look after the more vulnerable. Many of our councillors have worked together to produce guidelines on what SPONSORSHIP: people need to know to cope with these unprecedented times. Graham Holmes No-one knows how long this situation will last. But Cranbrook and Sissinghurst will come back to [email protected] life and with a vengeance. We look forward with optimism to the Sissinghurst Fete in August and the Cranbrook Folk Festival a month later and, more importantly, a parish back to normal. Stay Safe, PRODUCED BY: Tally Wade Cllr. Trisha Fermor, editor, Parish Cake Coffee Shop Media Ltd 01580 848555 PUBLISHED BY: Cranbrook and Sissinghurst contents ISSUE 13 SUMMER 2020 Parish Council 01580 713112 www.cranbrookandsissinghurstpc.co.uk REGULARS 39 Headcorn Aerodrome – its 14 Q&A – responses from the 4 Directory fascinating role through community centre survey FRONT COVER: history 5 Chairman’s View 15 Helen Grant – support Sculpture made by Cranbrook Iron 40 Kitchen and Garden 16 Letters from our MP as a celebration of the NHS. – cucumber soup and 22 Parish News wellbeing outside 24 Club News FEATURES 41 Pick for Britain! – how to 27 Event News 19 A Fond Farewell – Brian help with the harvest 37 Youth Comment Clifford steps down as editor 42 Storytime - can Chief of ‘the Cake’ Mouser Larry foil a plot to 20 Fight for Turnden – COMMUNITY CENTRE SPECIAL blow up the windmill?! responding to plans for 168 Whilst every effort 6 Strategic Thinking – an 45 100 Years of CODS – online is made to ensure update on the community houses at Turnden celebrations and plans for accuracy, the centre project 28 Local Heroes – Clare Saxby more Cranbrook and 8 Medical Centre – support pays tribute Sissinghurst Parish Council, editor for a new surgery 30 Helping Hands – the parish’s 47 High Flyer – Caitlin and authors cannot be held 9 Cranbrook Library Covid-19 support network Lawrence, a trampolining responsible for published errors. star in the making – a new home for our 31 Surviving Coronavirus – The views or opinions expressed do services? Tim Jefferys shares his story 49 A Pandemic Comparison not necessarily reflect views of the 11 Options – considering – Sean Holden on the Black Cranbrook and Sissinghurst Parish 33 Home Runs – Jude Holden new community facilities Death Council. Inclusion of any advertising on lockdown home fitness material does not constitute a 12 Site Specifics –Wilkes 34 Food Banks – Mignon Brian 50 Local Legend – we pay our guarantee or endorsement of any Field, a suitable site? on poverty in the parish respects to Philip Mummery products or services or claims made. Parish Cake • Summer 2020 3 The Parish Cake list of useful contacts directory in Cranbrook and Sissinghurst directory USEFUL CONTACTS Ode to Phil Mummery CHURCHES Congregational Church, Cranbrook and Sissinghurst Cranbrook: 01580 388070 Parish Council St. Dunstan’s, Cranbrook: The Old Fire Station, Stone Street, 01580 715861 Cranbrook, KENT TN17 3HF St. Theodore’s RC, Cranbrook: Clerk – Mrs. L. Ham 01580 713364 Deputy Clerk – Mrs. L. Thirkell 01580 713112 / clerk@ Strict Baptist Church, Cranbrook: cranbrookandsissinghurstpc.co.uk 01580 713212 Trinity Church, Sissinghurst: BOROUGH & COUNTY COUNCILS 01580 852275 Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Vine Church, Cranbrook: 01580 712620 01892 526121 www.tunbridgewells.gov.uk SCHOOLS AND PRE SCHOOLS Colliers Green CE Primary: Kent County Council 01580 211335 03000 41 41 41 www.kent.gov.uk Cranbrook CE Primary: 01580 713249 Cranbrook Children’s Centre: USEFUL NUMBERS 03000 41 10 35 UTILITIES Cranbrook School: 01580 711800 Electricity: 0800 727282 (24 hrs) Dulwich Preparatory School: Gas: 0800 111 999 01580 712179 Water: South East Water (drinking water) High Weald Academy: 01580 712754 0800 0283399, Southern Water (waste water) 0800 820999 (24 hrs), Emergency leak 0800 Rainbow Pre School, Cranbrook: 0283399, Floodline 0845 9881188 (24 hrs) 01580 715570 Sissinghurst CE Primary: 01580 713895 CRIME Woodpeckers Pre School, Cranbrook: Non-Emergency Police: 101 01580 720195 Crime Stoppers: 0800 555111 DOCTORS KCC Community Warden: Adam Osborn Jockey Lane Surgery, Cranbrook: 07813 695741 01580 713032 PCSO: Simon Humphreys - 07980 924877 Old School Surgery, Cranbrook: Neighbourhood Watch Area 01580 712476 Co-ordinator: 01622 604395 Orchard End Surgery, Cranbrook: 01580 713622 ROOMS & HALLS TO HIRE St George’s Institute, Sissinghurst: Ursula DEFIBRILLATORS O’Connor 01580 713938 Cranbrook Fire Station The Parish Room, Sissinghurst: Sue Crowe Cranbrook Medical Centre, Cranbrook 01580 712567 Cricket Club, Sissinghurst [email protected] Parish Council office The Vestry Hall, Council Chamber and Sissinghurst Castle Garden Addison VC Room, Cranbrook: St. George’s Institute, Sissinghurst 01580 713112 (10am-12pm weekdays). Tennis Club, Sissinghurst A full list of over 30 venues for hire in the The George Hotel, Cranbrook parish is available from the parish office The Milkhouse, Sissinghurst 4 Parish Cake • Summer 2020 Chairman’s Comment Planning for the Worst - Hoping for the Best MUCH HAS changed since the last A NEW MEDICAL CENTRE COMMUNITY CENTRE – WE edition of Parish Cake. In response Longer term, there is NEED YOUR VIEWS to the most serious threat to also the imperative of As you know, residents have public health in generations future medical care, the long reported the need for a new we are rightly concerned about importance of which community facility in the town. our health, work, family and has been thrown into As the lockdown eases we will neighbours. sharp relief in recent reinvigorate work to consider this, However, the community has months. By 2024 all our which has been on hold for the last shown great resilience. Over 200 GPs will have retired, so months. There are options to build people have volunteered to help we risk there will be no new community facilities or to vulnerable neighbours should health service in Cranbrook. repurpose an existing building. the need arise, although luckily Dr Charlesworth writes of this later ABOVE: Cllr. Kim There are many options, and this thus far only a small number of in this edition, and how to attract Fletcher. edition of the magazine is asking volunteers have actually been new GPs. This requires decisions to you for your ideas and views. needed. The community has be taken right now. Please take this opportunity to also shown great respect for The parish council owns the have your say about what you think the legislation requiring social recognised best site for a new is right for our community. distancing and lockdown. surgery. We need your view on Key workers from the council, building a new surgery on Wilkes DEVELOPMENT OF THE and in local shops have kept us Field site. CRANE VALLEY fed, emptied our bins and cleaned Finally, planning applications are the streets. There have been coming in for the development great acts of community kindness of the Crane Valley. Many local - the Kebab shop and Mumtaz people are unaware of these due to restaurants providing over 100 the lockdown. The parish council free meals weekly to NHS staff at is working alongside interest the end of their shifts, offers of groups to ensure that local views financial support from Rotary and on development are heard loud private individuals. and clear at TWBC planning On behalf of the parish council department. If there is to be and our entire community, I want development, then we must make to thank those key workers and it as pleasant as possible, and limit volunteers. its impact on the rich but delicate It seems that in the coming ecology of the Crane Valley. weeks the government will So despite the lockdown, it’s a announce a phased easing of the busy time at the parish council. lock down measures. So we turn My thanks again to all those who our thoughts to the immediate have volunteered and to all key future when local shops will need workers. us all to shop locally so the High Stay safe! Street can rebound.
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