Westcott Village Magazine September 2018 Advertisements Index …….……76 - 77 Westcott has a population of over Arts Society...... 47 2,000 and this is the only magazine Brockham Choral Society...... 53 written specifically for the Westcott Celebrate...... 8 area by the people of Westcott. It Coffee Morning ...... ………………….65 is hand delivered, free of charge, to Cookie Club...... 9 every household and further copies District Councillor Writes ……….29 - 33 are available at the church, local Dorking & District U3A...... 49 shops, pub and doctor’s surgery. Dorking Group of Artists...... 39 Dorking Minds ...... 17 Dorking Museum ……………..…55 - 57 Eco Church …...…………..……..12 - 13 Fire Safety...... 63 - 65 Floodlighting ……………………….…...8 From Alan Jonas………………...... 4-5 Heritage Weekend in Westcott...... 19 History Walk...... 73 Holy Trinity Services ………………...….6 Kids for Kids Event...... 27 Leith Hill PLace...... 45 - 47 If you have any articles, photos, ‘The Milkman’...... 37 letters, etc that you think we may Music in Dorking …….…….…...... 61 like to feature in the next issue, Murder Under the Big Top ...... 43 please email the Editor on: Parish Register …………………..….…..8 [email protected] The Past is a Foreign Country …...…67 But please note, publication will always be subject to space and at QRMW...... 41 Ranger @ Landbarn Farm...... 69 - 71 the discretion of the Editor. Reflections from Stuart Ryland..51 - 53 Copy Deadline for Riverbank Surgery ……………………77 October 2018 issue: Westcott Baby Meals ………………..14 8th September 2018 Westcott Dairy and Its Bicycle..74 - 75 Westcott Gardeners Club Show...... 59 This magazine, published by the Westcott History Group ……...... …15 Church in Westcott, is printed on Westcott Women’s Group …….…...42 Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Westcott Village Association …21 - 23 accredited paper from a sustainable WVA Open Meeting...... 25 source. The views expressed are Westcott Village Car Service ……...79 those of the individual writers and WESTfest Rocked...... ….…….....35 do not necessarily reflect the views of the Church, Editor or Westcott What’s on @ Holy Trinity...... 7 & 10 residents. Who’s Who in Westcott …..…...78 - 79 Cover Photo: Edward Bennett 2 FROM THE EDITOR

As you read this, lovely village in which we live. This summer will be nearly month there are lots of things to take over, with all the back your fancy, from the coffee morning on to school concerns the 5th, the Gardeners Club Autumn and accompanying Show on the 8th in the Reading Room, shopping for shoes and Heritage weekend from the taking up vast tracts of 14-16th with the air raid shelter and time in many households. But hopefully engines of The White House, Chapel there is still time to sit and smell the Lane on display. flowers, and enjoy a good book! There is also the postponed Village Anyone with school age children will Open Meeting on the 4th, at Holy know how fast Christmas approaches, Trinity. Further afield there is an art it seems almost as soon as they go display based on Vaughn Williams’ back in September, October half term The Lark Ascending at Leith Hill Place. comes along, and then in a blink of an eye suddenly it’s December. This term Whatever September holds for you I am determined not to get so swept I hope you get to do something you up in day to day living that I miss the enjoy in among all the busyness of opportunities to appreciate it all. daily life, and have a happy and productive month. I would encourage you to try and do Cath the same, and get out and enjoy this [email protected]

Westcott Reading Room

The Reading Room reports that in August it completed extensive reparation works on its exterior west facing side to ensure watertight protection from weathering.

Regular use of the hall remains strong all through the week and there has been a rise in the number of casual bookings mainly for children’s parties at weekends.

The granting of parking permits in the Reading Room car park has one annual space available for rent for the coming year at £600. Anyone interested in securing this space please contact us on 07967 286636

3 ...FROM ALAN JONAS, VICAR OF WESTCOTT

is alive. Boggling of the mind multiplied, it seems that quantum science leads us into a world of parallel universes and teleportation. It is not surprising we struggle to understand all this for as WHO KNOWS THE Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner ANSWERS ? in quantum physics famously said, “I think I can safely say that nobody Why are we here? Why do bad things understands quantum mechanics” happen to good people? Why is there The fact is we simply do not understand so much goodness and affluence our existence, including why in a world and, at the same time, so much evil of so much goodness there is also so and poverty? Why have Tottenham much suffering. That’s the bad news; Hotspur never won the Premiership? bad things happen to good people What is the point of life? and we do not know why. So, thank … So many questions, and so God there is Good News. Christians few answers. I wonder if anyone struggle to explain our existence like understands our existence? Has anyone else, but, crucially, our faith anyone in Westcott tells us that God read a book on FAITH TELLS US THAT GOD IS is right there in all quantum physics/ RIGHT THERE IN ALL OF OUR of our experience, mechanics and including being with understood it? EXPERIENCE, INCLUDING BEING us in the suffering, I can’t even WITH US IN THE SUFFERING, and nothing understand the but nothing can AND NOTHING...CAN SEPARATE book reviews. I separate us from pick up things like US FROM HIS LOVE IN JESUS His love in Jesus the ‘Copenhagen CHRIST. Christ. And actually, interpretation’ that it is surely always says “the act of this presence, this measurement constructs the reality confidence we need rather than that is measured” ….I read about Bell’s theorem “in which two particles are inexorably linked no matter how far apart they are”. I try to understand about “Shrodinger’s cat” in a box with a vial of poison... apparently the cat is neither dead nor alive until the box is opened, and it may be that in one reality the cat is dead and in another it

4 ...FROM ALAN JONAS, VICAR OF WESTCOTT answers, when bad things happen. universes of quantum science - and For example, Nicholas Wolterstorff there will be “no more death or is a brilliant Yale philosopher whose mourning or crying or pain”. 25 year old son died in a mountain- It is likely that mankind will never have climbing accident. He wrote in a all the answers about our existence, book, entitled “Lament for a Son” but we do have something much how he has been so deeply moved more important – the presence of and strengthened by the Presence God in all circumstances. of the Crucified One, who chooses to suffer with suffering people. The Christian faith is centred on God in Jesus Christ entering the mess and suffering of our world, being there with us in the agony, bringing Resurrection with the sure hope that evil and suffering will end; there will be a day when God “wipes every tear from our eyes” … there will be heaven – maybe one of the parallel

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Starting late October Dates to be confirmed. To find out more, contact Rev. Alan Jonas [email protected] 885309

5 SERVICES AT THE CHURCH IN WESTCOTT

We run a regular programme of worship services and other activities for young and old. Everyone is welcome as we build friendships and share life together!

8.30 am: A traditional Communion service with hymns and organ, unless stated. 10.15 am: A ‘parish’ service, reflecting the people of the Church in Westcott, with organ and music group. Regular creche and children’s activities. 6.00 pm: A quiet traditional service, usually ‘Evensong’. Communion with prayer for healing monthly. DATE THEME 8:30AM 10:15AM 6:00PM 2nd Book of James Book of Common Parish Communion Evensong Sept Prayer Communion

9th Books for Chil- Book of Common Morning Worship Evensong Sept dren Prayer Communion with Baptism I Am the Good No Music followed by Shepherd Communion 16th Papua Book of Common Morning Worship Holy Sept Partners Prayer Communion Commun- Sunday ion with Prayer for Healing 23rd Book of James Book of Common Morning Worship Evensong Sept Prayer Communion with Baptism followed by Communion 30th Confirmation Book of Common Confirmation Evensong Sept Prayer Communion

MID WEEK SERVICES

Wednesdays 10am Communion at St John’s

Thursdays 8:30am Morning Prayer at St John’s 6 WHAT’S ON AT THE CHURCH IN WESTCOTT

Why you cannot miss a Sunday with the Church in Westcott in September: 2nd Sept Services: Likely to be sharing of the results of the excellent Church Vision Day held in June, attended by over 40 people. Why you cannot miss a Sunday with the 9th Sept 9:30am Breakfast 10:15am Church in Westcott in September: ‘Celebrate’ All Age Service with books given to all children and 2nd Sept Services: Likely to be young people & Christening of sharing of the results of the excellent 2 grandchildren of stalwarts of Church Vision Day held in June, Westcott Church and Village. attended by over 40 people. 16th Sept Papua Partners Sunday It is 9th Sept 9:30am Breakfast 10:15am a great delight that the Sosa family, ‘Celebrate’ All Age Service with Javier, Naomi, Alana, Aren and Irian books given to all children and are in the UK for several months. The young people & Christening of family will be telling us about their 2 grandchildren of stalwarts of lives and work in West Papua. Westcott Church and Village.

ENCOUNTER Exploring worship, prayer, God’s word. Experiencing the presence of God. AUTUMN 2018

Monthly 7:45pm - 9:30pm Wednesday, 26th Sept Wednesday, 24th Oct Wednesday, 21st Nov

St John’s Community Hall, Furlong Road RH4 3PP

Each evening starts with drinks and cake, followed by relaxed, contemporary worship, a Bible-based talk and prayer.

www.thechurchinwestcott.org.uk 7 GET INVOLVED!

THANK YOU!

More Positions Filled! Many thanks to John Howell, for If you can help/are interested in any taking on the role of Dorking Deanery of these posts, please do not hesitate Treasurer, and Madeleine Brooks to contact Alan Jonas being Christmas Choir ‘Recruitment [email protected] 885309 Officer’. We are still looking for the following: Everyone committed, no-one over- Dorking Deanery Secretary: committed. What do you do? The role involves helping to plan and minute Deanery Synod meetings. FLOODLIGHTING

The floodlighting for July was sponsored in loving memory of Roy andCis Bennett. The floodlighting for September has been sponsored by Laraine Jewell in loving memory of Michael Player and his grandson, James Watkinson.

If you would like to sponsor the floodlighting (running reduced hours from dusk to 2am to be more eco friendly), please contact Sarah Massey at sarah@ holytrinitywestcott.org.uk or on 01306 887413. (Suggested donation of £74 to Westcott Church Funds.) FROM THE PARISH REGISTERS

Marriage:

31st May 2018 Leo Maria Shearing & Malcolm Stuart Holmes

Death:

11th May 2018 Derek Alan Bass (87)

8 CELEBRATE

WHAT’S ON FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES?

‘Celebrate’ is the name for all the things we do at the Church in Westcott to help children and families to build friendships and share life to the full! Everyone is welcome, whether you’ve been to church before or not. There’s a place here for you! Celebrate Breakfast Service is our monthly all age service held at Holy Celebrate Tea Service is our monthly Trinity Church from 9:30-11:15 am. all age service held at St John’s, We enjoy a simple breakfast at 9:30, Furlong Road from 3:30-5:00pm. followed by a short communion We start with worship, prayer, craft, service at 10:15 with worship, prayer, games and Bible stories, followed by craft & Bible stories. There’s no a bring & share tea together. Our charge for breakfast. Just come and next Celebrate Tea Service is at St enjoy building friendships and sharing John’s on Sunday, 30th September. life! The next Celebrate Breakfast Service is at Holy Trinity on Sunday, 9th September.

Cookie Club meets every Thursday morning of the Autumn Term from 13th September. All under 5s and carers welcome.

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Sunday, 7th October

Services at Holy Trinity Westcott 8:30am BCP Communion 9:30am Breakfast 10:15am All Age Communion 6:00pm Evensong

10 WHAT’S ON IN SURREY HILLS CHURCHES

11 ECO CHURCH

WASTE NOT, WANT NOT has increased by 50%. The Dorking Community Fridge* is a great This old proverb sums up a key example of this redistribution. Unsold environmental message – that if we food collected from supermarkets is live with care, looking after the things offered to the public for free, and we have, we will hopefully still have has saved 10 tonnes of food from resources available when we need being wasted in nine months! them. At home, even with careful meal In the pursuit of economic growth, planning, there is inevitably some we are food that ends up being discarded. constantly Fortunately, our council provides urged to caddies for recycling food waste*. spend and Putting food waste in your caddy consume saves the council money. It is more and cheaper to recycle food waste than more in order to fuel prosperity. dispose of it and saves over £3 million This effectively pushes us to waste a year. Collected food is turned into things by buying electricity and bio- more than we “..DORKING COMMUNITY fertiliser. might need – think Clothing is an area FRIDGE …HAS SAVED 10 BOGOF supermarket that we offers – and we are TONNES OF FOOD FROM need to constantly tempted BEING WASTED!” improve. to buy the latest It is gadget to keep predicted up with technological advances, that the UK discarded with little regard for the valuable 680 million items of clothing in 2017. resources contained within the Clothing sent to landfill takes years to ‘outdated’ ones. decompose and wastes resources. Encouragingly, a huge spotlight has Dorking Repair Café* can help with been shone on the wastefulness of clothing repairs. Unwanted little worn single use plastics, with supermarkets clothing can be donated to charity and other companies starting to act shops. Even old and dirty clothing to address this. Did you know that can be recycled and turned into you can recycle biscuit wrappers? insulation or stuffing for furniture*. McVities, have joined with recycling The less we waste, the less we need. firm Terracycle to offer a free recycling service*. * Details overleaf Another positive sign is that in just two years, food waste redistribution from retailers and food services businesses 12 ECO CHURCH

ECO CALENDAR: SEPTEMBER 2O18 Local Events Get Involved!

Dorking Repair Café (2nd 10.30am-1pm) Dorking Christian Centre. www.repaircafe.org

Zero Waste Week (3rd-7th) Sign up to get for tips to help you save money and reduce waste www.zerowasteweek.co.uk

World Clean Up Day (15th) www.worldcleanupday.org

Great British Beach Clean (14th-17th) Join thousands in this annual event www.mcsuk.org

World Rivers Day (23rd) www.worldriversday.com

WASTE NOT, WANT NOT McVities & Terracycle www.terracycle.co.uk Register on the Terracycle website to get free postage to recycle all your sweet biscuit and savoury cracker wrappers.

Dorking Community Fridge – see Facebook page for more information. Food free to anyone! Fridges located at: Dorking Christian Centre café Harvest Community Church, Goodwyns (Weds 1.30-3.30 & Thurs 2-4pm)

Food Waste Caddies - www.recycleforsurrey. org.uk/food

Clothing Recycling Bank – located in Dorking Halls Car Park

13 Westcott Baby Meals

For over 14 years, families of new babies in Westcott have been receiving ‘Baby Meals’, a gift of a hot meal for the whole family, delivered to their door for two weeks. An initiative driven by the Church in Westcott , it is a practical and highly valued service, provided by people across the Westcott community. Please join our ‘Baby Meals’ cooks’ rota and support this wonderful community gift, OR if you live in Westcott and are expecting a baby, or know someone who is.... Please get in touch: [email protected] or 07710 425487

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Narrow Boat Trip on Wey & Arun Canal tea was served on the boat and we The 10th July was a bright sunny enjoyed the fruit cake kindly provided day and 48 members travelled to by Veronica Lawton. All agreed it was Loxham for an afternoon trip on the an afternoon well spent. Canal Boat Wigginholt - along part of the restored canal. Unfortunately Our next meeting will be the AGM due to the drought there was less starting at the earlier time of 7.45 pm water in the canal than usual with the on Tuesday 11th September followed consequence that the boat had to go by a talk about ‘E.M Forster and the at half speed. We had to negotiate Surrey Hills’ by Liz Hamilton and Colin two locks and some members helped Swift. to work the locks for the boat while others took the opportunity to walk E.M Forster (1879 – 1970) was a lifelong along a section of the tow path, which bachelor and inherited enough is remarkably well kept. Afternoon money to spend his life writing and participating in literary activities. He grew up in Hertfordshire but later on lived in a house called West Hackhurst (1924 – 1946) near Abinger Roughs with his mother. He wrote a number of novels but is best known for his books ‘A Room with a View’ (1908), ‘Howards End’ (1910) and ‘A Passage to India’ (1924). Roger Christian

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Tony and I will be putting the Air Raid Shelter and Tony’s collection of restored and running Stationary Engines on show at The White House, Chapel Lane during Heritage Weekend. (Please keep small children under control).

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20 WESTCOTT VILLAGE ASSOCIATION NEWS money will go towards supporting the work of the WVA.

Membership of the WVA is gently increasing and this year’s subscriptions have seen a healthy increase on last year. PLEASE, if you are not already a member of the WVA go onto the website and sign up. Please also In an attempt to listen to feedback I consider contributing your annual have tried to keep this article shorter subscription by standing order from and more punchy; thank you to those your bank. It’s quick, easy and helps who gave the feedback – some a little ensure that we have funds available more blunt than others but all meant in for the work we do. £5 is the minimum the spirit of honesty and helpfulness!! (the equivalent of less than 10p a week), but if you are able to give MVDC has now settled down after more, we would really appreciate this. the May elections and I am pleased to report that the postponed Village Housing Development in the village is Open meeting to hear initial plans something the WVA monitor closely. on “Modest additions to larger rural You may be aware that both the villages” will now be held on TUESDAY Crown Public House, and Indigo Spice 4th SEPTEMBER at 7.30pm in Holy (formerly The Cricketers) have had Trinity Church, Westcott. This is your planning applications submitted. The opportunity to hear the MVDC plans former is being supported by the WVA, on housing development in Mole the latter not because of the lack Valley, but I will also invite residents to of any sort of parking provision. We raise other matters they wish to air. suffer across the village from a chronic shortage of parking provision; we WestFest was again a great success will oppose any development which this year, brilliantly organised and well exacerbates the problem. supported. The Village Association made just over £900 on the Bottle I have been assured that now a new Tombola and Cake Stall. Thank you builder and a new Dorking based to all those generous donors who Architect have been appointed raided their wine and spirit stocks to to manage the Garden Hill site in provide a very enticing display of the centre of the village, work will drink, and thank you to Sandra Ede be restarting shortly – but I have who declined any contribution to the not been given a date. When the cost of the ingredients for her cakes work is complete, and with the as her way of thanking everyone who new renovations being done to the supported her after her operation. The exterior of the property on the corner 21

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22 WESTCOTT VILLAGE ASSOCIATION NEWS (cont.) of Parsonage Lane and the A25, the who have pleaded with them and the village centre will start to feel a bit organisers to vary the route in future. more looked after. Unfortunately this will not be before 2020 at the earliest, so until then we This year sees the centenary of the all will continue to stay and enjoy the end of the First World War, and event, escape the village beforehand, to mark the occasion the Village or simply make the most of a day at Association, The Church, and The home. Hut all made donations to The British Legion in support of their valuable Another date for the diary. work supporting veterans and families We have arranged a Litter Picking of military personnel. The Silent Soldier event in the Village for Saturday 8th Memorial “Lest We Forget” is now September. MVDC will provide all the proudly displayed on the bank below necessary equipment so come and the church. My thanks go to Andrew join in the community spirit and make Lewis and Howard Walden (below) our village look great. Look out for for helping me put it up, and to The more information. Wotton Estate for agreeing to allow us to place it there. Finally, in the coming weeks I and other members of the Committee will be at meetings to try to address •parking in the village at weekends, •unacceptable noise from motorbikes, •speeding vehicles through the village.

Interestingly all three are a problem to almost all the villages in the Surrey Hills as I discovered at a recent meeting of Mole Valley’s Residents Associations. All work in progress for the WVA.

As always, I invite residents to write to We all survived the Ride London cycle me on issues which concern them, and event again this year, although the the WVA will do their best to address weather dealt a blow to many of them. [email protected] the riders. I am very conscious that the event elicits very mixed feelings Tim Way both for and against, and hopefully Surrey County Council will listen to the feedback from 75% of respondents 23 • Boys & Girls aged 2-13 • Weekly, flexi and ad hoc boarding • Minibus services to surrounding areas • Evening collection up to 8pm • First class education and results • Outstanding extra-curricular programmes • Situated in idyllic spacious grounds in the Surrey Hills Achievement through Happiness

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Notice of an OPEN MEETING

On Tuesday 4th September 2018 in Holy Trinity Church, Westcott at 7.30pm

Mole Valley District Council planning department wish to present options across the district over modest additions to housing development in rural villages. It is seeking feedback on these options prior to publishing full proposals and initiating a formal consultation process starting in the autumn Guy Davies, MVDC’s Planning Policy Manager will present.

It is recommended that you read the following documents prior to the meeting:

• Westcott Neighbourhood Development Plan (www.molevalley.gov.uk/westcottndp)

• Future Mole Valley (www.futuremolevalley.org)

The meeting will be chaired by Tim Way, Chairman, WVA

WESTCOTT LITTER PICK 10.30AM SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8TH Meet on the Green

Mole Valley District Council will provide Litter picking sticks, Gloves and Bin bags

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We invite you to join us for our Annual Kids for Kids Executive Fly Fishing Day at Park Lake, Albury Estate Fisheries, by kind permission of the Duke of Northumberland and help us save children in Darfur from starvation. All proceeds raised from our Fly Fishing Day will support Kids for Kids Charity, helping the forgotten children of Darfur, Sudan. There is famine in Darfur this year because the lack of rainfall has caused the harvest to fail. Children and animals are at risk of starvation so we must help.

Places are available for AM, PM, and All Day sessions. Tuition and tackle will be provided, and qualified tutors will give you tips on your technique. A special day for experienced fishermen and total beginners alike!

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at the start of British Summer Time, now that the nights are drawing in, it is timely to remind us all how dangerous our main road could be.

Thankfully, accidents have recently been few and far between. But across Let’s All Go Back To School A Little Mole Valley, the latest Public Health More Slowly profile published in July (https:// fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/health- This month the focus is on a single topic. profiles) shows that we are a significant Following on from my plea to us all to outlier for deaths and serious injuries drive more slowly through the village on our local roads:

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Over the past few weeks, I have Previous research has shown that personally experienced being local residents are as likely as anyone overtaken three times coming through else to be the ones going too fast the village. The first was at the brow of through the village. It’s easy to focus the hill to the west of Holy Trinity. Could on getting to your own turning, without the other driver really see that there remembering how hard it might be for was nothing coming? others trying to join the road.

In Westcott, there are a number of very dangerous places to be a driver pulling out into the main road. Here are five specific examples for us all to bear in mind next time we drive through the village.

Next was as a passenger at the other end of the village, passing the junction with Lince Lane. The taxi driver immediately said “He’s drunk.” as the vehicle raced up the hill.

The third was as I turned into Westcott Heath / Logmore Lane and again, I can’t think that the driver could really see if there was anything coming down the hill before they pulled out into the opposite carriageway.

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These all seem to me to be places to ensure that road safety can be that we should slow down for as we maintained at certain pinch points approach them – where even 30 mph – making sure that lazier drivers are is far more than is safe. not motivated to take too many risks. Restrictions do highlight issues to drivers The last one, around the exit to when parking, although common Westcott House really should concern sense is often the best weapon. us all. This junction has the potential to be really lethal – the views of the top Throughout the village, and indeed of the hill are only a few metres in both across Surrey, if you are unsure of what directions. restrictions apply where, then there is a new interactive map to show exactly what is allowed and what isn’t and when: https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/roads- and-transport/parking/restrictions- and-controls/interactive-map-of- parking-controls-in-surrey

Mystery Trees The mystery tree last time around was from the very southern most tip of Westcott near to the junction between Logmore Lane and Coldharbour Lane. Together with a few other local Well done if you have been walking residents, I have contacted the out there during the summer. local team from Surrey Police about how we can motivate us all to slow This time, down. Alongside more Police Speed you’ll Checks, Ideas include need to restarting Community set your Speedwatch and this compass needs volunteers – in the please contact me opposite directly if you are direction prepared to take part (with (full training provided). thanks to Jacki Moss There has been some associated for the discussion about asking for more photo!). parking restrictions in the village 33

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THANK YOU to all the people who supported WESTfest on a blazing hot Sunday afternoon on 8th July. Please see our small selection of photos below, more on our Facebook Page www.facebook.com/westfestsurrey.

We raised nearly £3,000 for our three charities, F@SH (Surrey Hills School), Papua Partners and Guiding Faurefold (the Westcott based Guide Holiday Camp).

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The cream capped bottles had cardboard tops, We collected & flicked them in made up game. Sometimes we left a note in bottle “No milk today but one on Sat. Please”

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Annual October Exhibition 2018 Friday 12th October – Sunday 14th The Dorking Group of Artists, one of October 10.00am – 5.30pm* the largest art groups in Surrey, will be once again holding their popular (*The exhibition closes at 4pm on th Annual Exhibition at Denbies Wine Sunday 14 October) Estate in October. Exhibiting members, The Dorking Group of Artists meets many professionals among them, on Tuesday afternoons at Beare will be displaying over 250 pieces of Green Village Hall from September exciting new and original art, all for through to Easter. Membership is sale at affordable prices. open to artists of all abilities, from beginner to professional and costs just £20 per calendar year. The activities programme is varied and includes workshops and demonstrations. (Outdoor painting and sketching during the summer months). www.dga.org.uk

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The paintings should appeal to every taste, featuring different subjects and styles and covering a wide variety of prices and media. There will be a large selection of unframed paintings for Bake! by Pauline Allbeury sale too. Entrance to the exhibition is free and Denbies has a good café and For more information contact Jane restaurant, wine and beer, runs tours Anderson Wood (Chairman) of the vineyard and has an excellent Tel: 01372 375123. shop, so come and make a day of it! Email: [email protected] There is plenty of free parking.

The exhibition, at Denbies Wine Estate, Jacky Cowdrey London Road, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6AA Exhibitions Secretary is open from: 39 Come and Join us and Explore The History and Development of Spanish Art

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th 4 Anniversary Celebration Beresford, the Glorious First which is of course a very special Battle in the Well what another beautiful day we history of the Queens Regiment. So had for our 4th Anniversary at the a date for diaries, Saturday, 1st June Memorial Woodland in Pasturewood 2019 when we will gather again. Road, Holmbury St Mary on Sunday th 10 June. The Queen’s Regimental Remember though that the Queen’s Walkers who had walked 100 miles Memorial Woodland was named in from Dover to the Woodland arriving honour of my former regiment but is for with a Royal British Legion and Ex- ALL and the Charity Registered as The Queensman motor bike escort. As Quick Response Memorial Woodland the walkers came into the entrance, (No:1174651) is for ALL SERVICES. the 1st Cinque Ports Corp of Drums full band played a stirring rendition of “Soldiers of the Queen” and received a tremendous applause.

The BBQ was fired up, the tombola well under way and the raffle tickets selling well when it was time to move up into the woodland for a Commemoration The woodland is looking wonderful Service for two ex-Queensmen that after a big effort prior to the reunion had passed away very recently. Their and the wild pond has really come families came to lay plaques and alive with plants, fish and various pond plant trees in their memory. The Last life. Our post box at the entrance to rd Post was played note perfect by 3 the woodland has been taken over Battalion bugler Peter Bryan then after by a nest made by Nuthatchers and the Reveille the Corp Drums struck up we have been watching with great “Sussex by the Sea” for those who had joy the three babies growing into little come from Chichester to remember birds that will very soon be flying. their comrades. It was a moving but very enjoyable afternoon spent with Do come and visit us during the sum- ex-army colleagues, locals, friends mer months either to walk around, sit, and family. reflect or picnic in this beautiful place of peace and birdsong. Next year will be our 5th Anniversary which happens to fall as it did on the Best wishes to you all. very day the Memorial Woodland was Paul Cooling, officially opened by our Patron Sir Paul Chairman, QRMW. 41 WESTCOTT WOMEN’S GROUP W W

This prolonged and unexpected, Mark Elphick, the Dorking Town Crier, atypical, British weather may not suit and Teresa Weller on Hair Art (I see everybody, but I for one am enjoying she is now opening her own salon in it, and my husband enjoys not having Dorking High St, Good Luck, Teresa). to mow the lawn quite so often! Amanda Barnicot, our local NT Going up Ranmore either cycling (no, Ranger, came down from Ranmore

I have to get off my bike and push it to encourage us to look more closely up the steepest tracks!) or walking, at so much nature on our doorsteps, opens up some beautiful views over and Helen Shiers from the Reigate the Surrey Hills, and even just taking charity for Downs syndrome children the back routes into Dorking makes and family support, PSDS touched our shopping trips almost a pleasure! hearts with stories of the extremely rewarding work that the Charity does. July 21st was a beautiful summer’s day for our annual Pork Roast and BBQ. We finished our year with a talk from 40 people from Westcott plus some Clare Tuckett, regional manager of out-of-village friends descended on MND (motor Neurone Disease) and the Sports club to enjoy good food, look forward to an equally exciting good cheer and good company! An year ahead, starting in September opportunity for old friends and new with a talk from Murray Stephens, faces to get together. well known in Westcott as one of our leading amateur thespians. Who knows what he is going to talk about, his stage experience is vast, and it’s sure to be amusing!

Our next meeting is therefore on Weds Sept 5th, from 7.30pm in St John’s Chapel, all are welcome to come along and join us. Teas and coffees and even a glass of wine for a mere £4 non members, whilst our annual membership of £15 is payable We have had an excellent year with please at the September meeting. a very mixed range of Speakers, with the emphasis being on local people Jacki Moss and charities. We had some very enlightening and amusing talks from 42 WODDS and SODDS In conjunction with Westcott Gardeners’ Club

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44 LEITH HILL PLACE July came in with scorching Great War explores RVW’s hauntingly temperatures and very little rain; beautiful yet little known short opera, perfect weather for exploring shady The Shepherds of the Delectable woods and the cool interior of a Mountains, which Andrew Green country house, especially with cream believes is a memorial to those who teas on the terrace and beautiful died in the Great War. In his talk we will views across the Weald towards the be taken back to the years after the South Downs and the sea. War, and a recording of the 20-minute opera will be played alongside images But that is not all that is on offer for late of the Western Front, in which Vaughan summer and autumn at Leith Hill Place. Williams served as an ambulance From 17th August until 9th September driver and commissioned officer. Gillian Collins is creating a stunning art display in the entrance hall at Leith On Saturday 22nd September the Hill Place to represent the musical distinguished Sussex Wind Quintet score of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ is performing from 5.15-7pm. The great work, The Lark Ascending. The performance will include music by display includes paper bird sculptures, Elgar, Ravel and Vaughan Williams. an interactive violin sculpture and an Tickets cost £15 pp and can be old-fashioned music box. Free entry to booked on 0344 2491895. the exhibition for NT members; normal admission charges to the house apply. Are you interested in learning how to draw? Artist Jane Allison will be leading a beginners’ drawing class exploring different techniques and media. At the end of the course participants will be invited to enter one of their pieces into a mini-exhibition at the house. The course runs for four Tuesdays – 18th, 25th September and 2nd, 9th October from 10am to 12.30pm. Hot drinks will be provided. The cost of the four sessions is £60 and must be booked On 8th September at 5.30pm, the via Jane Allison on janecareyallison@ writer, broadcaster and oral historian gmail.com or 01483 562082. Andrew Green is remembering the Centenary of the Armistice. We Will Informal concerts by a variety of Remember Them: Vaughan Williams’s musicians and singers are a regular Secret Salute to the Dead of the feature at Leith Hill Place. Please visit 45

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The Arts Society Dorking, which meets on the second Tuesday of each month, starts its new season with a bumper selection of talks. On Tuesday 9th October, Peter Medhurst chronicles the politics, irony and contemporary satire of the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan and how they poke fun at the celebrities and politicians of their day.

On November 13th Barry Venning gives us Giles: His Life, Times and Cartoons. Grandma was his favourite creation, a black-clad, gambling, drinking old battle axe because she allowed Giles to say all the things he was too polite to say himself. He was voted Britain’s best loved cartoonist in 2000.

December’s lecture on 11th is about Thomas Heatherwick ‘the Leonardo da Vinci of our times’ according to Terence Conran. Probably best known for his flaming cauldron for the London Olympics in 2012 he also designed the new London bus and has a host of architectural award winning buildings to his credit.

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Four Seasons love a long, hot summer, rain would be a welcome relief for wildlife, farmers and those who manage our water.

There is no ‘Planet B’. Let’s look after Earth before we try to go and trash Mars. What simple things can we all do to help those in other parts of our global village? Did you know that by cutting out eating meat, you can have a greater effect than swapping to an electric car? Much de-forestation is done to grow food Summer is in full swing now, as I write for animals. And we could all walk/ it’s July 22nd, we haven’t has any rain cycle/use public transport more with a for 2 months, England came a very bit of effort and sacrifice. If you’ve not creditable 4th in the World Cup and see the film ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ banished the ghosts of penalty shoot I highly recommend that you do – it’s outs past, Les Bleus won the Cup, frightening what we, our children or Djokovic triumphed at Wimbledon, our children’s children will experience Geraint Thomas is in the yellow jersey unless we make significant changes. and Jordan Speith is just teeing off in his final round of the Open. What a The Eco-Church team had a stall at great 5 weeks it’s been for sport lovers WestFest and have done much to like myself and I haven’t even touched raise awareness at Holy Trinity of this on the cricket yet. area which we must take personal and collaborative responsibility for, We haven’t had any rain for 2 months. for the sake of the Earth. The view of Is this something that concerns you? For Earth from space is truly incredible us, we might have the inconvenience – and that’s just from photos. But of a hosepipe ban, but as I heard in unless we all start making sacrifices, Church this morning, our contributions the environmental catastrophe will towards climate change (yes Donald, happen in the not too far off future. climate change, you heard of it?) mean that those who live in the horn ‘If the earth were only a few feet of Africa experience droughts and diameter’ is a poem that speaks famine on a far more regular basis volumes and is on the next page. than they used to. And much as we all Stuart Ryland

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•Suffragette Dorking: Sunday 16th •Memories of World War Two in September. Two guided walks in the Dorking? The Museum’s oral history town centre, visiting sites associated team is looking to record memories with suffrage activity and agitation in of life in the Dorking area during the years leading up to WW1. Walks the war – if this is you or you know start outside Dorking Halls at 10am someone suitable, please contact the and 2pm, lasting 90 minutes (max 15 Museum on 01306 876591 or admin@ people). dorkingmuseum.org.uk. 57 Lillian Spibey Photography

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The Westcott Gardeners’ Club had a really successful Summer Show on Saturday 7th July followed by a stand at Westfest.

Year on year the people of Westcott exhibit wonderful flowers, fruit, vegetables, cakes and artistic displays.

Now let’s get ready for the AUTUMN SHOW Saturday 8th September, 2.30pm to 4pm in the Reading Room along the Westcott Road.

There will be seasonal flowers, late ripening fruit and vegetables, more gorgeous homemade cakes to have with tea and fruit squash all at very reasonable cost.

Entrance is only 50p for adults and 20p for children.

Remember, everyone can enter and exhibit for free! Just visit the Westcott Bakery to collect the show brochure which contains all the different sections and an entry form which should be returned to the bakers and posted into the designated box from 23rd August and before the deadline of 3pm Thursday, 6th September.

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1st at 12.00, lunchtime recital at St Martin’s church, free, 01306 884229 4th 11th 18th 25th at 8.30, Watermill Jazz at Betchworth Park golf club, 07415 815784 13th at 7.30, ballet screening at Dorking Halls, £14, 01306 881717 22nd at 6.00, Sussex Wind Quintet at Leith Hill Place, £15, 0344 249 1895

The new concert season gets off to a quiet start with only a few events to mention for September. At Leith Hill Place, the Sussex Wind Quintet will be exploring the music of Vaughan Williams and other composers of his time. Drinks and cakes will be available to buy from 5.15, with the performance beginning at 6pm.

The Dorking Halls has a screening from the English National Ballet of Giselle. This classic ballet is presented in a stunning new version for the 21st century, including a re-working of Adolphe Adam’s original score.

This month’s Music at Midday recital at St Martin’s church will be given by guitarist Merlin Miller. And Watermill Jazz meets every Tuesday evening, as usual, with a variety of top performers – full details can be found on the website.

There will be plenty of excellent concerts in Dorking in the coming months. One that I would like to mention in advance is the commemoration by Dorking Choral Society on Armistice Day, Sunday 11 November, marking exactly one hundred years since the end of the First World War. That evening the choir will be performing in St Martin’s church, singing Mozart’s great Requiem, along with other music suited to remembrance and reflection. The concert is being organised in conjunction with a special exhibition at Dorking Museum and there will also be some poetry reading during the concert. Please mark the date in your diary now.

There will also be several interesting concerts presented by the Dorking Concertgoers, beginning with a flute and harp recital on 6 October, and including three concerts by the Dante string quartet. Among the programme of next year’s Leith Hill Festival will be Carl Orff’s dramatic and exciting Carmina Burana. Lots to look forward to!

Ian Codd

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It is recommended that there should If you would like to find out more be at least one smoke alarm on each information or arrange a visit please floor of your home. For most homes call 0800 085 0767, text 07527 the best position is on the ceiling in the 182861 or visit www.surreycc.gov. hallway of a flat, or the hallway and uk/firesafeandwellvisit. This service is landing(s) of a house with more than free to all Surrey residents so, if you one floor. They should be tested once have family and friends elsewhere a week. in the county that you feel would benefit from a visit, please pass on the If you would like advice on smoke information. alarms or any other aspect of fire Gary Panton safety in the home, Surrey Fire and Crew Commander Rescue Service are happy to help. We Dorking Green Watch

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66 THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY; THEY DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY THERE

If you go down to the woods today, you’d better not go alone….Many readers will recall that this is the opening line of the song - ‘The Teddy Bears Picnic’, but few will be aware that a comparable warning might have been given to children venturing into the woods at Wotton at the beginning of September 1888. However, on that occasion it was not bears that were on the loose, but kangaroos! We know this from an article in the Dorking Advertiser in which a journalist, having been advised of their existence, kept watch for several hours.

“At last, I turned to go, when round a bend in the copse I saw one of the creatures I was waiting for; little more than a glance, but sufficient time to notice that it was of the wallaby species, and about three feet in height, but the poor thing looked in poor condition, its coat matted and barren in parts”. Mr Evelyn is also reported to have kept black swans and tortoises in a small menagerie at Wotton House. This information provides further proof that ‘local history’ is considerably more interesting than all that schoolday stuff about the dates of kings and queens. Refer to the Westcott Local History Group page in this magazine for news of the next talk in the Reading Room, or the next outing to an historic venue – but don’t expect to see any kangaroos. Terry Wooden

Thank you to everyone in Westcott who was involved in Christian Aid Week 2018. Thank you to the volunteer collectors and to all of you in the village who gave money. Supporters like you helped to provide safe, secure homes for people whose lives were devastated when Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti in 2016. The total amount collected this year including Gift Aid is £2,305.62. This is a wonderful result and is £204.75 more than was collected in Christian Aid Week last year. Christian Aid says “Thank you for helping us build a world where everybody has a safe place to call home.” Helen Chappell

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‘Tis haytime and the red-complexioned sun Was scarcely up ere blackbirds had begun Along the meadow hedges here and there To sing loud songs to the sweet-smelling air Where breath of flowers and grass and happy cow Fling o’er one’s senses streams of fragrance now’ (Haymaking, John Clare, 1793 – 1864)

Well, any of you who have been Pippet to breed. There is also no time to Landbarn farm or walked along for the butterflies, or the wild flowers. Denbies Hillside recently cannot have The transition from traditional, low failed to notice that the hay cut is input, flower rich, hay meadows to in full swing. Cutting the Hay is such highly fertilised silage fields has had a romantic time of year and I think a huge impact on our wildlife. 97% of John Clare captured it perfectly in the our meadows have been lost since poem above. Whilst we no longer cut WW2 and with them the flowers, the with scythes and cart the hay in with grasshoppers, butterflies and bees. horses, it still acts as the first big marker for the summer. The hay is the first crop During WW2, farmers were asked by which farmers gather, but soon the the nation to produce as much food combine harvesters will be in full swing as possible. In response, some six million too. The meadows here at Landbarn acres of wildflower rich grassland were are an incredibly rare thing nowadays. ploughed during the course of the war

Most grass crops are now cut for silage which is far easier and doesn’t require good weather. There is also the benefit that farmers can often get three cuts of silage, but only one of hay. However, when the fields are cut early for silage there is no time for ground nesting birds such as the Skylark, or Meadow 69 Original Event Catering

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If you would like to know more about meadows then I would suggest you look up the Magnificent Meadows page on the internet. Or you could just stop Amanda or myself when you see us out and about and pick our brains. I hope to see you all out enjoying the summer in the coming weeks. Henry Barnard Lead Ranger North Downs West 71 A6 advert.qxp_Layout 1 25/05/2017 02:44 Page 1

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“Art in the Reading Room” run by Pat Williams BA hons Friday morning Art Classes return to the Westcott Reading Room on the 14th September for 12 weeks with a half term break at the end of October. The friendly classes are for beginners and improvers and we explore many aspects of painting and drawing. We are working mainly in Acrylics and drawing media and we have set projects, challenging weeks and also fun projects too. I also welcome anyone wanting to work independently but who may still like some guidance and company.

We also hope to have another pop up Art Exhibition at the Reading Room coffee morning in October when all are invited to exhibit work achieved.

Our classes run from 10am till 12.30 coffee, tea and biscuits are included. 12 weeks paid in advance @ £13.50 per week £162. If spaces permit an add hoc arrangement can be made at £15 each session.

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72 AN EVENING HISTORY WALK AND TALK

Wednesday 12th September

Meet on Westcott village green at 6.30pm. Finish by 8pm for a drink afterwards.

If you would like to learn more about the local history of Westcott village, please join us for a guided evening walk in partnership with the Westcott Local History Group. The walk is 2km, accessible with no stiles.

**This is a free event, all are welcome**

Please contact [email protected] for further information or call 01306 879292 73 WESTCOTT DAIRY & ITS BICYCLE

My interest in Westcott Dairy began revealed that Westcott Dairy when a few years ago when I was walking at Park Farm was owned by George my two border collies. As I was walking Tunnell, who lived there with his family along the foot of Ranmore I noticed in 1938. an overgrown hollow area just off the track but what was of more concern After assuring my wife that I would to me was the amount of broken end my treasure hunting expeditions, glass and rusty metal that littered the I couldn’t resist one more trip to this area. I noticed that there were a industrial gold mine. On my final foray, few intact milk bottles, and on closer I decided to look a little further and examination I could make out the then – bingo, I found what I had hoped words ‘Westcott Dairy’. I decided to for. For me, the holy grail of milk bottles, take them home and was pleasantly a quart (2 pint) bottle with ‘George surprised how well they cleaned up. Tunnell Dairy Farmer The next day I foraged around and Westcott’ clearly was amazed to find more milk bottles etched in red on the of difference shapes and sizes. There front. Unfortunately were also galvanised metal crates for me, when I got it which were in very good condition home and began to with the words ‘Westcott Dairy’ clearly clean it, I was a bit to visible on them. By now it was obvious vigorous and some to me that I had discovered a rubbish of the red etching tip, but why here, so far away from any began to come off, buildings? but I managed to keep the writing complete. Just inside the neck of the As a keen member of Westcott History bottle is a small raised lip and this is Group, I decided to do some research where a cardboard disc would sit, and sure enough I found the answers and it would then be sealed with wax. to the mystery. Westcott Dairy was If only I could get one of the original located at one time at Park Farm, cardboard discs, but there’s not much a short distance away and now a chance of any of them surviving after private residence, although the farm’s all these years – is there? outbuildings are still there it is hard to believe that many years ago it My wife and I have lived in North Street was considered acceptable to dig a for 35 years and it was here in 1924 hold and bury rubbish to dispose of it. on the corner of Westcott Street that Especially in a beautiful environment Westcott Dairy was located, having like Ranmore. Further investigation moved from Furlong Road during the

74 WESTCOTT DAIRY & ITS BICYCLE (cont.) first world war. When we moved to was a modern bike, just a quick visit to North Street, The Dairy building was Halfords, but as I found out not when Westcott Bakery and is now a private the bike is 80 years old. Thank heavens house called ‘The Old Bakery’. It is here for Mack and the boys at my favourite that my neighbours, shop Cummins in Dorking who came whilst having to my rescue. renovation work carried out found After about 18 months I finally re- under the floor assembled it to what I thought it might boards some look in George’s day. The sign plate original unused details are authentic including the cardboard discs in date the business was established, pristine condition. 1904, and the telephone number Printed on the discs ‘Westcott 60’. I cannot help but North Street are the words ‘Rich admire and wonder how George and Channel Island Pasteurised Milk – his family managed to ride these very Westcott Dairies. Phone Wescott 60’. heavy bicycles, loaded with milk and My neighbour very kindly gave one to dairy products, around the village, as me for which I am very grateful. the roads were little more than rough farm tracks – and with no gears. When I acquired the tradesman’s delivery bicycle some years ago, it was Westcott is surrounded by hills, and I in a very poor state and it remained in limit myself to cycling the bike around my shed for quite a while. It was always the village in fine weather but believe my intention to restore it but never me, it is a struggle to cycle up Westcott found the time, until last year when I Street. Most of us of a certain age will retired and thought it would be an re-call the Hovis Advert of the young interesting project. It was a steel frame, lad pushing his loaded bike up Gold rod brakes with no gears and is very Hill in Dorset, and then freewheeling heavy. I completely dismantled it and downhill again. I hope his brakes are sent the major components; frame, better than mine! So, if you see me forks mudguards etc. away to be shot coming down Westcott Street with a blasted and painted. The problems worried look on my face, get of the started when I went to re-assemble it. way! Although I would guess that 95% of the bike is original, I had to replace certain My thanks to Paul Haddock at Tara parts such as all the bearings and the Signs for the bicycle sign writing. saddle. This wouldn’t be a problem if it Jeff Davies

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