22nd Year
Heathfield 2018
BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY AUGUST 27th 2018 9.30am - 3.30pm
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Heathfield 2018 Programme of events
05.30: Station Road and Station Approach will CLOSE TO TRAFFIC. 09.30 – 15.30: French and English Stalls open for business. Kings Church (the State Hall) and Union Church open their doors to host entertainment and provide refreshment and toilet facilities. FREE PARK & RIDE to the event from the Market Car Park. Fire Station open day.
Free Entertainment On the Stage, 09.30 - 15.30:
09.30 - 10.15 The Yum Yums. Local group to kick off this year's entertainment. 10.30 - 11.15 Warbleton Brass Band with an upbeat selection of brass band music. 11.30 - 12.20 Vagabond Blues. Seaford based rock/blues group. 12.30 - 12.40 Emily and Em. New local duo (with one Heathfield member). This is a 10-minute stage preview for their appearance in the Union Church (13.30 - 14.00). 12.45 - 13.40 Heathfield Silver Band. Popular upbeat music to get us into the groove. They will be joined at about 13.35 by the Cake and Wine Club Choir for a performance of ‘Stand By Me’. 13.45 - 14.10 The Cake and Wine Club Choir. Only formed earlier this year by Heathfield resident Angela Brooks, this is likely to be the choir's first public appearance. 14.15 - 15.30 Fat Belly Jones. We last had this popular 8-piece ska/funk/soul band here in 2013.
In the High Street, 10.00 – 15.30: 10.00 - 12.30 (with breaks) Horsham Accordion Band. 13.00 - 15.00 (with breaks) Duo Romantique. Local Guitar/Violin Duo.
Union Church, open throughout for refreshments. Entertainment as below 10.30 - 12.00 (with breaks) Remnant. Popular, easy listening, harmony trio. 12.15 - 13.15 The Sussex Stompers Jazz Band. One of this event's regular bands but it's their first time playing in the Union Church 13.30 - 14.00 Emily and Em. New local vocal/guitar/ukulele duo. 14.15 - 15.00 Sussex Stompers Jazz Band (part two).
State Hall (Kings Church), open throughout for refreshments but entertainment 10.30 - 14.00. Main venue for children’s entertainment: 10.30 - 11.00 Marco the Magician entertains the children. 11.30 - 12.00 Andy Bosco entertains the children. 12.30 - 13.00 Marco the Magician entertains the children. 13.30 - 14.00 Andy Bosco entertains the children. When not in the State Hall, which is the main fixed venue for children’s entertainment, Andy Bosco and Marco the Magician tour the closed streets entertaining. Marco and Andy Bosco are professional children’s entertainers. There may be changes to the entertainment programme due to circumstances beyond our control…..But it’s free!
15.30: LE MARCHÉ CLOSES. Stalls will close for business and pack up. ALL VEHICLES MUST BE CLEARED FROM THE PARK AND RIDE CAR PARK BY 16.00 HOURS AS THE GATES WILL BE LOCKED. 17.00: Station Road and Station Approach will re-open to traffic. Toilet facilities are available at the State Hall (Kings Church), Union Church and Mill Road car park (near fire station).
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Our Charity
The Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance Trust provides a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS), responding to patients who have suffered trauma or serious medical emergencies.
We operate 24 hours a day, ensuring we can be there for the most critically ill and injured people in the region.
When necessary, our medical crews can provide highly specialist care at the scene; they are able to anaesthetise, perform surgery and give blood transfusions to patients. Following treatment, they can airlift patients directly to the hospital that can best care for them going forward. Around half of the patients they treat are taken to regional major trauma centres, ensuring they can get the care they urgently need without delay.
We operate two aircraft – one from our Marden base in daylight hours, and the other from our Redhill base 24 hours a day. This means that no matter where you are in Kent, Surrey or Sussex, you are never more than 20 minutes away from the life-saving care that only we can bring directly to your side.
As a charity, we rely almost entirely on donations and fundraising, and without this kind support, we simply could not continue our life-saving work.
Window Dressing Competition THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES!
2018 Celebrates of 100 Years of the RAF and so in support of this amazing achievement and for all those who dedicated their lives to this courageous service we are decorating our windows for the annual Le Marche Window Dressing Competition in their honour.
In brief the RAF was formed on the 1st of April 1918 , when the Royal Flying Corps merged with Royal Naval Air Service towards the end of the first World War, and took the motto from the Latin ‘Per Ardua Ad Astra’ meaning, ‘Through Adversity to the Stars’
Its iconic and frequently replicated symbol shows the encircled colours red, white and blue.
To complement our theme we have chosen the Air Ambulance as the charity we will support with our fund raising for this year. For the judging of our Window Dressing Competition we have invited 2 local pilots who spent many hours and years high above soaring through the skies living out the motto and reaching for the stars;
Helen Comyns
“After leaving school and spending a year in Scotland I came home to Blackboys and decided to join the W.R.A.F, my sister had been a meteorologist during the war and was stationed at R.A.F Tangmere. She told me such wonderful stories of her experiences that I thought that’s the life for me!
In September 1957 I went up to R.A.F Wilmslow in Cheshire for my basic training. I enjoyed it all so much and after Passing Out I was posted to R.A.F Netheravon for vigorous police training followed by four years at R.A.F Innsworth. Working for the security service was a real eye opener and being seconded to MI5 and sent wherever required was truly interesting particularly for a young lady.
After coming out of the Air Force I knew I wanted to see more of the world. I decided to go to South Africa, stopping off en route in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ); I loved it so much that I stayed.
Wanting to get to know more of Africa I applied to become an air hostess with Central African Airways. This was marvellous, and in my spare time I joined the flying club at Mount Hamden where I learned to fly and got my ‘wings’ which enabled me to fly down with friends to Lorenco Marquez, Beira, Kenya and visit friends on farms deep inside the bush.
It was a wonderful life and I can only thank the R.A.F for aspiring me to live such a life of travel and adventure.”
Anne Cranfield
“In 1970 my father, who was a farmer, bought a small aeroplane, knocked a hole in a hedge to make an airstrip, and to my mother’s horror brought it home. We all - apart from her - learnt to fly it.
So began my flying career. I got my PPL at Shoreham and went on to instruct at Goodwood in order to build up the 700 hours necessary to get a commercial licence. Then it was air taxi work for two years, flying 6-seater twin- engined Aztec aircraft all around the UK and Northern Europe. But what I really wanted was to get onto the big jets. At last, in 1976 I was offered a job as a First Officer by British Caledonian Airways. I couldn’t believe my luck.
I flew the BAC 1-11 (“the pocket rocket”) on short-haul routes, and then moved on to the DC10 which took me from Houston to the West, to Hong Kong to the East, to Buenos Aires to the South. Then marriage and two children brought me back onto the short haul and less time away from home.
By the time I got my command, BCal had taken on a few more women pilots, so we often formed an all-female crew. One of the first officers I flew with, Barbara Harmer, went on to fly Concorde after the merger with British Airways.
Eventually I decided to retire from flying, to spend more time with my children. I’d been incredibly lucky and still look back on those times with great happiness. “
With many thanks to our judges for their participation in our event, I hope they enjoy all the window displays in the week running up to the August Bank Holiday Monday, as well as the superb selection of market stalls on the day and I greatly hope their stories inspire new generations to strive for their highest dreams. Hope to see you all there!
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The Committee Thanks
All our Advertisers without whose support we could not run Le Marché Heathfield and Waldron Parish Council Heathfield and Waldron Rotary Club for stewards Horam Scouts for stewards Heathfield and Waldron Rugby Club for stewards Appleby and Petfield for our Maps Watsons for car parking facilities Pipers and Tyrells for programme distribution Sarah Tate for photographs Heathfield Web design for our web site Farmers' Market for stalls Various shops and householders for provision of electricity Union Church and Kings Church for use of premises Jordan Porpora of JJP Country Services for setting up banners & road signs Susan King/Sussex Express for publicity Print Matters for the programme artwork and printing
The Le Marché Committee
Richard Ridley – Chairman Roger Clark – Stalls Eric Kemp – Music and entertainment Charlie Stevens – Marshalling, Car Parking & Health and Safety Sheila Drennan – Twinning Wendy Ridley – French Traders Elise Leal – Window Dressing Colin Williams Farmers Market liaison Jude Wates – Facebook, Twitter and publicity Sheran Crichton – our note taker
Gill Temple, one of our founders, died in February 2018. Sorely missed and RIP
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