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HC JUNE/JULY 2016 your complimentary copy Home Counties Magazine Buckinghamshire & Berkshire Edition WWW.CHAPLINS.CO.UK 2477- 507 Uxbridge Road Pinner Hatch End Middlesex HA5 4JS | 020 8421 1779 Chaplins_HCmagazine_DPS_JUNE_JULY16.indd 1 18/05/2016 16:04 WWW.CHAPLINS.CO.UK 477- 507 Uxbridge Road Pinner Hatch End Middlesex HA5 4JS | 020 8421 1779 3 Chaplins_HCmagazine_DPS_JUNE_JULY16.indd 1 18/05/2016 16:04 OPEN DAILY Enjoy a stroll through history at Woburn Abbey • Explore the award-winning, historic gardens • Treat yourself at the Duchess’ Tea room • New for 2016: Oakley House Doll’s House is on display FIND US ON www.woburnabbey.co.uk J2978 WA HC Magazine ad 148x210_May16.indd 1 17/05/2016 10:01 Welcome Welcome to the summer edition of HC, and what a summer we’ve got lined up. As I write this, the sun is pouring in the windows British food culture and Paris House’s executive at HCHQ and our staff are becoming restless with chef Phil Fanning about the more ambitious side of excitement for a packed schedule of festivals and ‘molecular’ cuisine. We have a guide to the often summer fun coming up over the next 2 months. It’s confusing styles of beer, as well as a riveting travel taking all of my inner strength to write this paragraph piece from our resident explorer Peter Holthusen. without storming into the office with Super Soakers All this alongside our usual interiors, caring, motors and forcing Pimm’s down my colleagues’ throats like and business features – don’t say we don’t spoil you. a boozy medieval tyrant. Enjoy the gorgeous weather and we’ll be back in Unfortunately my alcohol-and-water-gun fantasies August, when we’ll be freshly revamped and available will have to wait until at least the weekend, but in in some exciting new places. Watch this space. the meantime we’ve put together what is possibly the most lively and encompassing issue of HC yet. Cheers We’ve spoken to international R’n’B star Lemar ahead of his performance at Cornbury Festival, as well as the organisers of Henley’s nostalgic Rewind Jack Rayner Festival which rolls around in August. We’ve spoken to Raymond Blanc about sourcing ingredients and ASPIRE learn create inspire SOUTH HILL PARK ARTS CENTRE, BRACKNELL Courses and workshops for ages 2 to 102! Jewellery making | Ceramics | Printmaking | Drawing & Painting | Dance & Movement | Drama | Music South Hill Park, Ringmead, www.southhillpark.org.uk/courses Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 7PA 5 Bombay Sapphire invites you behind the doors of our beautiful distillery, to uncover the secrets of our world famous gin. Based at Laverstoke Mill in rural Hampshire, the Bombay Sapphire Distillery showcases the care, skill and artistry behind every drop of Bombay Sapphire. Book your experience online at: distillery.bombaysapphire.com A SPECIAL10% OFF your experience for readers of HC Magazine. Use promo code ‘HC123’. Expires 31 Dec 2017. CONTENTS HC magazine JUNE/JULY 2016 IN THIS ISSUE © Guy Farrow 8 What’s On 18 Competitions 10 34 HC meets Lemar 34 40 90 Years of Royal Couture 44 Rewind Festival 2140 47 Summer Food Guide 59 60 St Helena – The Island on the Edge of the World 74 Motoring 65 Editor oxhc.co.uk Jill Rayner twitter.com/oxhcmags Contributors facebook.com/OXHCMags A huge thankyou this issue to: HC Magazine prints and distributes 10,000 copies Peter Holthusen, Sam Bennett, bi-monthly and hand delivers into AB homes in the Jack Rayner & Chrissie Woodward city of Marlow, Beaconsfield, Gerrards Cross and Amersham. 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Neither the company nor its agents accept any liability for loss or damage. 7 C CALENDAR June-August 2016 Until 2nd July Until 1st January 2017 It Runs in the Family at the Mill Shakespeare in Windsor Dr. David Mortimore, renowned neurologist, is about Castle Royal Library to deliver the most important lecture of his life. A Marking the 400th anniversary of the death of knighthood is certainly within reach! William Shakespeare, this display draws on When into his hospital sanctuary comes Jane Tate material in the Royal Library, including works – ex-nurse and ex-girlfriend – with shocking news of Shakespeare collected by the royal family, as to why she departed so hastily 16 years and nine accounts of performances at Windsor Castle, and months ago. Not only is Dr. Mortimore the father of art by members of the royal family inspired by her son Leslie, but the strapping teenager is now in Shakespeare’s plays. reception baying to see his long lost parent! It examines aspects of the playwright’s life, work and Trying to hold both his career and marriage together, influence, and celebrate his longstanding connection there is only one solution for Dr. Mortimore – send for with Windsor and the royal court. faithful friend Dr. Bonney. Windsor Castle, Windsor, SL4 1NJ What ensues is a dangerous web of expanding lies www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/windsorcastle and manic cover-ups involving a Police Sergeant, Dr. Mortimore’s wife, a severe hospital Matron and Dr. Bonney’s mother. It Runs in the Family is ‘A Rolls-Royce of a Farce’ by Ray Cooney, spinning deliriously out of control and tickling the funny bones in traditional Cooney fashion. You mustn’t miss it! The Mill at Sonning Theatre Ltd, Sonning Eye, RG4 6TY 0118 969 8000 www.millatsonning.com Louis Haghe, A performance of Macbeth in the Rubens Room, Windsor Castle, 4th February 1853. Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. SUMMER FAIR £3 entry for adults and £1 entry for under 16’s Sunday 10th July 2016 11am to 3pm In aid of Rennie Grove Hospice Care. In memory of Martin Brown * * * 8 SUMMER FETE — SUNDAY 26TH JUNE 2016 | 11AM - 5PM | FREE ENTRY This June, we’re welcoming summer in style at Burnham Beeches Hotel. Come along to enjoy a fun-filled day with family & friends at our Summer Fete. Browse a unique range of stalls & join in with arts, crafts & games, before washing great BBQ food down with an ice cold drink. PLENTY OF FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY - Stall holders with lots of lovely products to buy - Burgers & hotdogs cooked by our executive Head Chef, 12-4pm - Raffle at 4pm, with stunning prizes to be won - Children’s area with a bouncy castle & games - 150 limited car parking spaces - Run alongside our indoor Wedding Fayre (11am-3pm) which guests are able to visit for wedding or private event purposes & to meet with suppliers WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU E: [email protected] | T: 01628 429 955 WWW.CORUSHOTELS.COM/BURNHAM 9 C CALENDAR June-August 2016 3rd-4th June Northern Ballet: Jane Eyre at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Join Northern Ballet, a company renowned for transforming well known stories into brilliant dance theatre, as they present Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. The ultimate heroine, Jane Eyre’s journey to overcome the odds is one of literature’s finest love stories. Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, Northern Ballet will bring to life the ultimate dramatic tale of romance, jealousy and dark secrets. Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, Exchange Street, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP20 1UG 0844 871 7607 www.atgtickets.com/aylesbury Dreda Blow and Isaac Lee-Baker in Jane Eyre © Guy Farrow 15th-18th June Bad Girls – The Musical 16th June-23rd July Presented by Woodley Light Operatic Society Watership Down at the Watermill Bad Girls – The Musical takes as its starting point the This stirring tale of courage and survival original core characters from the first three series of against the odds has become one of the best- Bad Girls on TV. loved adventures of all time. Set in the fictional HMP Larkhall, it’s the story of A gripping adaptation of Richard Adams’ new idealistic Wing Governor Helen Stewart and her Watership Down by critically acclaimed battles with the entrenched old guard of Officer Jim playwright Rona Munro at The Watermill Fenner and his sidekick Sylvia Hollamby. Theatre, Newbury, will make for a special It also follows the love story that develops between theatrical experience. The nearby countryside Helen and charismatic inmate Nikki Wade. Other inspired the classic tale of a small band of featured characters include Shell Dockley and rabbits in search of a safe home, whose long her runner Denny Blood, old-timer Noreen Biggs, and perilous journey finally leads them to The Two Julies and the ultimate Top Dog, King-of- Watership Down. Gangland’s missus, Yvonne Atkins. “We’ve assembled a multi-talented cast and A tragic death on the wing – in which Jim Fenner a vibrant team of theatre’s hottest creative is implicated – leads to an angry protest from the talents to tell this epic adventure story through women, and forces Helen and Nikki to their opposite movement, music and puppetry,” says director sides of the bars.