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Cranbrook Pickleball – a Success Story Our Sports Writer Grahame Grant Gets Acquainted with a Game Which Is Rapidly Becoming Popular Across the Country Tasty local stories, published by Cranbrook and Sissinghurst Parish Council Spring 2021 | FREE Community Centre gets Go-Ahead IN ASSOCIATION WITH 01_15_TheParishCake#16.indd 1 12/02/2021 14:48 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 01_15_TheParishCake#16.indd 2 12/02/2021 14:48 Published by Cranbrook and welcome Sissinghurst Parish Council EDITOR Spring may well be on the way but we cannot Trisha Fermor - [email protected] count on the place Covid-19 and its variants ADVERTISING SALES will still be having in our lives in 2021. Hayley Biddulph - 01892 677744 More than a year after the fi rst lockdown, [email protected] we have been given hope in the form of ADMIN SUPPORT millions of vaccinations across the UK. We Graham Holmes - [email protected] have seen the army standing guard outside PRODUCED BY the Vestry Hall while people were tested for Tally Rix - Coff ee Shop Media Ltd 01580 848555 Covid and many of us travelled to Headcorn tally@coff eeshopmedia.com Aerodrome and other centres for our jabs. PUBLISHED BY Unfortunately, the battle against the Cranbrook and Sissinghurst Parish Council: Berkeley Homes development at Turnden, 01580 713112 has been lost. TWBC agreed to 168 houses www.cranbrookandsissinghurstpc.co.uk being built on the Area Of Outstanding Cover photo courtesy of Getty Images Natural Beauty which is also outside the Whilst every eff ort is made to ensure accuracy, limits to build. the Cranbrook and Sissinghurst Parish Council, However, campaigners are demanding that the government call in editor and authors cannot be held responsible for published errors. The views or opinions expressed the application and put the decision in the hands of Robert Jenrick, the do not necessarily refl ect views of the Cranbrook and Sissinghurst Parish secretary of state for Housing, Communities and Local Government. Council. Inclusion of any advertising Objectors to the new homes are being urged to lobby Mr Jenrik. material does not constitute a guarantee or endorsement of any Thanks to The Cake’s busy team, this edition is packed with interesting products or services or claims made. features ranging from the threat of even heavier lorries using our Weald roads, how our parish council saved a Cranbrook out-of-school club from SOMETHING FOR THE CAKE? closing, and how kind-hearted people have donated unwanted computers We love to hear from you. Please send all ideas to help vulnerable children learn at home during the pandemic. for contributions to The Cake to rt.fermor@ Stay safe. googlemail.com by 19 April for publication in the June issue. Cllr. Trisha Fermor, editor 11 Headline News – 27 Running for Ariana – Sarah 38 In the Garden – local man Inside this issue development update Calcutt on raising money for restores cherry trees to Japan REGULARS children’s cancer research 17 Covid Testing – history 39 Let’s Cook – a warming rice repeats at Vestry Hall 5 Directory 28 Cranbrook School – meet the pudding with an Indian twist 18 Cranbrook Medical Centre – 7 Chairman’s welcome new head and life at Rammell 41 Badger’s Plot – things ramp an update from the parish boarding house up in the allotment for spring 8 Letters council 31 Out & About – some wild 42 Local Farming – buy local and 12 Local News 21 Local Comment – Rev Ann, the hon. mayor Linda Page, fi nds help stop yet more housing 16 Club News PCSO Simon Humphreys and 33 John Hare – rare camels 45 Museum News – journals and parish warden Ivor Hatcher 48 Parish Council Update saved by local adventurer booklets ready to read! 24 MP’s comment – Helen Grant 37 Treacle Mines – a sticky bit of FEATURES MP on our community spirit 47 Arts – an introduction to local history more Wealden artists 4 In Pictures – a majestic scene 25 Councillor’s Comment – from Angley Woods by Fraser Cllr. Sean Holden fi ghts back 36 Kids’ Corner – something for Allen against mega lorries younger readers The Cake • Spring 2021 3 01_15_TheParishCake#16.indd 3 12/02/2021 14:48 In Pictures Angley Woods as captured by Fraser Allen, of Fraser Allen Photography. www.fraserallen.co.uk 4 The Cake • Spring 2021 01_15_TheParishCake#16.indd 4 12/02/2021 14:48 DIRECTORY directory A list of useful contacts in Cranbrook and Sissinghurst Cranbrook and Sissinghurst 01580 713112 (10am-12pm weekdays). Parish Council A full list of over 30 venues for hire in the The Old Fire Station, Stone Street, parish is available from the parish office Cranbrook, KENT TN17 3HF Clerk – Mrs. L. Ham USEFUL CONTACTS Deputy Clerk – Mrs. L. Thirkell Deputy Clerk - Mrs. C. Bezuidenhout CHURCHES 01580 713112 / clerk@ Congregational Church, cranbrookandsissinghurstpc.co.uk Cranbrook: 01580 388070 St. Dunstan’s, Cranbrook: BOROUGH & COUNTY 01580 715861 COUNCILS St. Theodore’s RC, Cranbrook: Tunbridge Wells Borough Council 01580 713364 A Spring Poem 01892 526121 Strict Baptist Church, Cranbrook: www.tunbridgewells.gov.uk 01580 713212 With spring just around the corner, here is Kent County Council Trinity Church, Sissinghurst: another poem from Cranbrook raconteur, 03000 41 41 41 / www.kent.gov.uk 01580 852275 bon viveur, cellist and poet Humphry Evatt USEFUL NUMBERS Vine Church, Cranbrook: 01580 712620 UTILITIES SCHOOLS AND PRE SCHOOLS I’d like to plant some fragrant roses Electricity: 0800 727282 (24 hrs) Colliers Green CE Primary: Gas: 0800 111 999 01580 211335 To please our eyes and charm our noses Water: South East Water (drinking Cranbrook CE Primary: 01580 713249 Up the walls some scented jasmine and honeysuckle which water) 0800 0283399, Southern Cranbrook Children’s Centre: Grow fast and tall like willow in a ditch Water (waste water) 0800 820999 (24 03000 41 10 35 Rosemary, lavender and thyme hrs), Emergency leak 0800 0283399, Cranbrook School: 01580 711800 Their perfumes I do find sublime Floodline 0845 9881188 (24 hrs) Dulwich Preparatory School: While violets, stocks and honeysuckle when in flower CRIME 01580 712179 Would make a luscious fragrant bower Non-Emergency Police: 101 High Weald Academy: 01580 712754 Sweet violets, wallflowers and some pinks… Crime Stoppers: 0800 555111 Rainbow Pre School, Cranbrook: KCC Community Warden: Adam 01580 715570 Oh! No! Ma’am – you don’t need those stinks Osborn - 07813 695741 Sissinghurst CE Primary: 01580 713895 Lilac, daphne and sweet peas PCSO: Simon Humphreys - Woodpeckers Pre School, Cranbrook: And over-scented flowers like these [email protected] 01580 720195 Neighbourhood Watch Area Will only serve to make you sneeze DOCTORS Co-ordinator: 01622 604395 They’re barely fit for worker bees Old School Surgery, Cranbrook: I’d like to plant for you some other In an emergency i.e. if life is in danger 01580 712476 or a crime is in progress call 999. To Taught me by my dear old mother Orchard End Surgery, Cranbrook: request non urgent police assistance, 01580 713622 The thing you really ought to do to report crime or to make enquiry Is plant foxglove, hemlock, red sage, yew and rue call 101. Non urgent correspondence DEFIBRILLATORS while curry, hyssop, nightshade and monkshood and crime can be reported via the Live Cramp Club, Cranbrook Chat icon at www.kent.police.uk I find most particularly good. Cranbrook Fire Station ROOMS & HALLS TO HIRE Cranbrook Medical Centre, Cranbrook St George’s Institute, Sissinghurst: Cricket Club, Sissinghurst The wage for you is 4/6d a week Ursula O’Connor 01580 713938 Parish Council office There followed a most unholy shriek The Parish Room, Sissinghurst: Sue Sissinghurst Castle Garden As without hoe or spade or rake Crowe 01580 712567 St. George’s Institute, Sissinghurst He wrenched and uprooted our mandrake [email protected] Tennis Club, Sissinghurst Against this man my resolve does harden The Vestry Hall, Council Chamber and The George Hotel, Cranbrook I’ll not have him in my English Country Garden Addison VC Room, Cranbrook: The Milkhouse, Sissinghurst The Cake • Spring 2021 5 01_15_TheParishCake#16.indd 5 12/02/2021 14:48 01_15_TheParishCake#16.indd 6 12/02/2021 14:48 COMMENT CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE Green Shoots on the Horizon e are more optimistic with spring on its way, the Royal WEngineers doing Covid testing in the Vestry Hall, vaccinations starting to have an effect and potentially better times to come. My heart goes out to those who have been ill and particularly those who have lost loved ones. The parish council continues to function and some exciting new developments have been started. Most momentous is the unanimous agreement of your councillors to start the build project for the much vaunted medical and community centre. Those of you who have had to trek to Headcorn to be vaccinated have probably felt BAXALL CONSTRUCTION BAXALL the need for a local centre more An example of how the Cranbrook Medical Centre could look – taken from the Southborough Hub project than most! How we get this built, what it contains and at what cost, were “The Covid crisis has caused great hardship KCC supports the Kent Savers issues discussed at length at for some in our community. The number Credit Union where loans can an extraordinary meeting on 7 be obtained at an interest rate January attended by 79 people of homes paying council tax this year has of about 30 per cent.
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