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Newsletter December 2008 Newsletter December 2008 88 The Horsham Society Newsletter December 2008 Newsletter December 2008 Horsham’s green lung Clever old Waitrose aitrose is currently running a scheme called WCommunity Matters. The firm’s leaflet states that each month the Horsham branch will donate £1,000 between three local good causes chosen by the public, and every shopper gets a green token which he or she can place in a plastic box in support of a favourite cause. There’s a choice of three each time, and the more tokens a cause gets, the bigger its donation. It’s a clever idea, and well done Waitrose for initiative. In the first month of operation, St Catherine’s Hospice was the runaway winner, no doubt because of its high profile locally, and the following month the Air Ambulance scheme was well ahead. I tend to feel sorry for the equally worthy but less popular causes, so generally drop my tokens into the slot with the smallest green pile. Need a stocking filler? Directory By The Way n the last issue we wrote about the acquisition of Horsham Park, Ifor the benefit of its townsfolk, from the Hurst family. This aerial f you’re looking for an extra Christmas gift, what could be photograph, which recently appeared in an HDC publication, I better than a copy of the Society’s latest publication: A The Horsham Society is an independent body supported by members’ graphically illustrates the value of this green lung to the community. Journey Through Horsham’s Changes by John Buchanan subscriptions, a registered charity (No.268949), affiliated to the and Annabelle Hughes. Copies are £9 each to members, Campaign to Protect Rural England and registered with the Civic Trust. New members Fringed by fine mature trees, and surrounded by houses and other It is a member of the English Historic Towns Forum. buildings, every inch of it must be protected, and sporadic attempts including delivery (normal price £9.95) and can be obtained Thanks very much to the following six new members for from Nigel Friswell, 2 Millais, Horsham RH13 6BS. Please PRESIDENT: Dr Annabelle Hughes by the council to nibble away at it must be resisted at all costs. joining: Mr and Mrs Powell, Manor Fields, Horsham; Mr and make cheques payable to ‘The Horsham Society’. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Mrs Bence, South Grove, Horsham; Mr and Mrs Posgate, Oliver Palmer, Rt. Hon. Francis Maude MP, Nigel Friswell Manor House, Causeway, Horsham. Ladybirds, ladybirds, Early warning CHAIRMAN VICE CHAIRMAN John Steele Ian Dockreay Choral concert fly away home (please) Please note that next month’s issue contains the 2 Old Denne Gardens 24 Wimblehurst Road annual subscription renewal forms, so we would be Horsham RH12 1JA Horsham RH12 2ED adybirds are usually the most endearing of insects, with their Tel: (01403) 272814 Christ’s Hospital Choral Society is putting on a concert at St grateful if everyone could do so with the January Tel: (01403) 241582 attractive colouring and variety of spots. But we took a different Email: [email protected] Mary’s on Saturday 29 November (at 7.30 pm). Two French L Newsletter. It’s a bit of a burden sending out lots of view recently, when, for a number of days in early October, one of Hon SECRETARY Romantic masterpieces by Gounod and Bizet are featured, and follow-up reminders (although to be fair the vast Hon TREASURER Sandie Brittain our bedrooms was invaded by wave after wave of the little tickets are available on the door. For more details call 01403 majority do renew – but some more quickly than Roy Bayliss 2 Fairview blighters. They seemed to think it was their territory, not ours. How 15 Patchings Horsham RH12 2PY 247434. others!) and Pat Gale would very much appreciate it Horsham RH13 5HJ they got in is a mystery in itself – no doubt through cracks in our Tel: (01403) 260915 if you could leap into action as soon as you get the Tel: (01403) 262262 elderly window frames – and the sight of dozens crawling about the NEWSLETTER DISTRIBUTION forms. Many thanks. MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY ORGANISER place, half dead and alive, was less than pleasant. No sooner had the Pat Gale Kathy Gleeson Personal & Professional Service Hoover got to work than a whole lot more appeared. 46 Bedford Road 13 Millthorpe Road from a company established Horsham RH13 5BJ Roffey RH12 4ER Did you know that there are 42 species resident in the British Isles, Tel: (01403) 253946 Tel: (01403) 210511 over 30 years the commonest being the 7-spot and the much smaller 2-spot? That Editor’s note Horsham Society website: www.horshamsociety.org Business Stationery • Brochures • Leaflets they can be red or yellow, all with black spots? That, although such Envelope Printing • Folders • Design • Mailing sweet and innocent-looking little things, they are highly predatory In the run-up to Christmas it may seem a little unseasonal to ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES and destroy huge numbers of aphids and feature a story about Horsham and the temperance Individuals: £5 per year Single Pensioner: £3.25 per year Digital Printing in Colour and Black & White Family Membership: £7.50 per year Family Pensioner: £5 per year other insect pests? That their bright colours movement, but it’s a good one (see pages 84-86) and I hope Businesses: £10 per year Single Life Membership: £100 All major credit cards accepted are of a warning nature, advertising the bitter you find it interesting. It centres around Jury Cramp, a Family Life Membership: £150 taste that they carry if a hungry blackbird gets leading local abstainer, and a set-to he had with the £2.50 postage is added to the above rates for out-of-town members 7/8/9 Newhouse Business Centre, Horsham Press too many ideas? And that they exude drops of appropriately named Wildman Cattley, and we also tell Old Crawley Road, Horsham, West Sussex, RH12 4RU E-mail: [email protected] www.horshampress.co.uk pungent fluid if handled, which leave a stain something of Cramp’s life and times. All correspondence should go to the Hon Secretary in the first instance. and a long-lasting smell? You didn’t? Tut, The Newsletter is published monthly except for August. Letters and 01403 265608 tut .... Copy date for the January 2009 issue is 5 December. articles to be considered for publication should be sent to the Editor, Brian Slyfield, Arun House, Denne Road, Horsham RH12 1JF. Opinions © Individual contributors 2008. No material may be reproduced, copied or stored in a in the Newsletter, whether Editor’s or contributors’, are not necessarily retrieval system without the prior consent of the relevant contributor, which should be the policy of the Society. sought via the Editor. OUR CONCERN IS THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE TOWN 82 The Horsham Society Newsletter December 2008 The Horsham Society Newsletter December 2008 87 From The Committee Letters to the Editor Do please write in: letters for publication to Sussex captain at the time was the leg- More homes needed without permission on detached proper- demolishes this bizarre notion, leaving Brian Slyfield, Arun House, Denne Road, endary CB Fry, but he failed to turn up on ties, and on smaller homes, three metre the landlords with surely just one option. Horsham RH12 1JF the day and KS Ranjitsinhji (‘Ranji’), he government’s target to build three extensions will be allowed. There will no Let the water flow again. another great name from the past, stepped T million new homes by 2020 is not longer be a maximum volume for a rear into the breach. In the event the game was high enough to meet the growth in the extension that can be built without per- Change of use at Action on A-boards? not concluded due to bad weather, but number of elderly people and young mission, and the rules governing loft con- was intrigued to read the item in the despite this disappointment the fixture was families, according to a recent report by versions and extensions will also change. Horse and Groom? well reported, and one national paper the Town and Country Planning I October Newsletter about the problem (However it is not generally realised that rumour has it that plans are afoot to waxed lyrical: ‘Set in the midst of a rich Association. Apparently at least a further of A-boards in the town and the response for many years homeowners have been convert the Horse & Groom into a from Messrs Baldwin and Rumble that the meadow land studded with trees ... and 500,000 homes are needed in England A allowed to carry out a great deal of im- restaurant. One or two people have said matter would be included in ‘proposals for redolent with the odour of new-mown hay, within the next 12 years. The pressures provement without planning permission, that it would make an ideal gastro-pub, action that were currently underway’. the scene is one of great natural beauty, and are partly because we are living even the good folk of Horsham who came nearly including most loft conversions). for example, and it’s essentially a fine longer than expected, more women are You may care to know that in 2005 I 4,000 strong to look at their county team, building – but one which has been much having their children later and also interviewed Tom Crowley when I was a had the additional advantage of paying abused. It will probably need a good deal because long-term migrants are starting Notes on selected planning presenter for the Roundabout magazine (for court to Ranji’.
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