June 2020 ickleham Parish Magazine

The Rectory, Mickleham June Dear friends 2020 As I write this letter our nation has been celebrating VE Day, enjoying a sunny weekend as people have given thanks for deliverance at the end of the war in Europe. Our gratitude was expressed profoundly this year, perhaps particularly so as our world is currently in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. The Covid-19 virus continues to affect millions | LLP licenced to carry out the reserved legal activity of Mickleham non-contentious probate in and Wales by the ICAEW of people across the planet, impacting on individuals as well as local, national and Parish international communities, and resulting in us all having to get used to living in a very Magazine different way, often in extreme isolation. We are waiting to hear from the Prime Minister about the roadmap for setting out A community magazine for how to unlock the various parts of the UK economy. Whatever that may bring, we will Mickleham and * need to take seriously the measures our government is urging us to adopt. Scrupulously Currently Open published under the auspices observing these measures is not simply a matter of our own protection, but of helping of Mickleham PCC with an For Take-Away Food (menu on request) to protect the most vulnerable in our society. As with all such crises, there is a danger independent editorial panel. that the most vulnerable will be most badly affected. Tea/Coffee, Wine, Soft Drinks And Beers The magazine is published at There are often underappreciated moments in the midst of this pandemic, even when the beginning of each month socially distancing, we are all part of a vast and global community, doing our part to We are also stocking basic retail items except January and August. get through this together. It has been so encouraging to see how the principle of loving Flour, Bread, Eggs, Milk, Butter, Bacon, our neighbour has been expressed in manifold ways all over the world, with countless Copy Deadline Cheese and more acts of kindness and assistance continuing. All of us know the benefits of practising the for the virtues of generosity, open-heartedness, and caring for the weak and vulnerable, none Please pre-order where possible July/August 2020 more so than when we continue to be attentive to those who are isolated, scared and agazine at risk in some way. * Situation* Subject subject to change to change according according to government to government regulations regulations M Environmentally there is good news too. From clear blue skies to where, in one report, a Sunday professor of earth systems at Stanford estimates that reduced emissions ‘likely has saved LIMITED OPENING: • Tuesday - Thursday 1.30-6.30 pm • Friday – Saturday 1-8 pm • Sunday 12 noon-3 pm 7th June the lives of 4,000 kids under five and 73,000 adults over 70 in China. Even under these 01306 889932 www.steppingstonesdorking.co.uk [email protected] send to: more conservative assumptions, the lives saved due to the pollution reductions are roughly 20x the number of lives that have been directly lost to the virus.’ * Sue Tatham St Anthony Pilgrim’s Way Many people of all faiths around the world are praying for this pandemic to come to Westhumble a swift close; for the medical personnel who are putting their lives on the line to fight RH5 6AW it; for the governments and other leaders who have to make wise decisions; and for 01306 882547 scientists as they race against time to develop a vaccine. Sherlock Funeral Service [email protected] One of the great strengths of the Christian faith is that it teaches us of a God who ‘knows the end from the beginning’, a God who is in charge of creation and who is surprised Sherlock Funeral Service is an Contributions in any form by nothing. The Bible assures us that God is always with us, no matter what we are Independent family owned business, are welcome as are good going through. Indeed, the central tenet of the Christian faith is that God became a quality photographs. There established over 100 years human to share our ups and downs, our human frailty, our sorrows and our mortality. is no charge for advertising He understands what we are going through and reassures us we are not alone. local charity and community l Private Service Chapel & Rest Rooms events. However the editors May we find reassurance in God during these unsettling and worrying times, as the l Home visits arranged if required reserve the right to shorten psalmist wrote ‘God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore l Pre-Paid Funeral Plans available omit or reformat articles we will not fear…’ Psalm 46:1,2 l Free Parking submitted for publication With assurance of prayer for us all. depending on space.

Telephone: 01306 882266 The Reverend Canon John Harkin, Mickleham Parish Priest Trellis House, 190 South Street, Dorking RH4 2ES. Printed by Bishops Printers * http://www.g-feed.com/2020/03/covid-19-reduces-economic- activity.html?utm_source=thenewstack&utm_ Email: [email protected] Funeral Directors & Monumental Masons Portsmouth medium=website 1 Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of VE Day in Lockdown Photograph: Susie Gowenlock Service of Commemoration anon John and Sue Harkin presided lag in Zoom transmission meant that Cover a ‘virtual service’ at 10 am. on out voices had to be muted so that Friday 8th May, to commemorate the 75th we did not all appear to be singing at Anniversary of VE Day. A congregation different tempos! With newly-acquired of at least 66 people (and one dog) technical wizardry John logged on to – logged in via Zoom with desktops, recordings of 'Songs of Praise' and even laptops, iPads, and smartphones, to an Albert Hall Remembrance Concert share in a very uplifting service of to accompany our three hymns and thanksgiving, and of encouragement the National Anthem. Our 40 minutes in these very worrying times. How of free Zoom time ran out just as we lovely it was to see so many of our completed the first verse of ‘Guide me regular congregation, and also some O Thou Great Redeemer ... Feed me till less familiar faces, and to feel everyone I want no more. We were left wanting joining in fellowship, with song and more ... and hoping that some more prayer – even though the slight time virtual services can be arranged. 1945 VE Day Street Party in Lincoln Road, Dorking. Jim Robinson is first on the left in the front row. Rosemary and Jim Robinson Richard Siberry Derek Bailey writes... were street parties everywhere. Lots to Jim Robinson writes... drink and a girl on each arm. Not long Photographs: Mary Flint I was 17 years when a few weeks before I can’t remember very much about VE Other Festivities after that I was posted to South East day except that we had a street party. his year the date of the Spring short. There were plenty of things on the end of the war I volunteered to join the RAF. On VE day I was living in Asia and spent three and a half years I was only five years old and my father TBank Holiday was changed from the internet that could be downloaded in Malaya. didn’t return until 1946 the usual first Monday in May to and printed eg. banners, invitations, Brighton and had a great time. There VE Day, Friday 8th May in order to bunting etc, so we rolled up our sleeves, celebrate its 75th Anniversary. Due to printed off the invitations and gave What do our gardens mean to us? the present corona virus pandemic, them to everyone in Dell Close Cottages house with a garden is what most normally would have been occupied and with the simultaneous closure of these celebrations were rather low key. to meet at 3.30 and raise a glass or two. Apeople aspire to, yet it seems in other activities. schools, parents looking for sunflower There were, of course, commemorative As our back gardens have access onto that the space it offers is often seen Of course, just when hordes of people seeds faced a shortage only matched programmes on television including a the recreation ground we could all sit as a chore – the lawn that has to be might have descended on the garden by loo rolls. broadcast by HM The Queen. Locally just outside our own gardens and still mowed each week in summer, or the centres whether in search of plants, So, in whatever way you choose, enjoy there were several socially-distanced be two metres away. flower beds that need weeding. Then seeds or compost, they closed, and your garden. Unlike a show garden 'street parties' held in back gardens and On the day we pinned paper Union there are families who use the garden the search for alternative sources was at Chelsea that we might have been on the verges of our very quiet roads. Jacks onto our existing bunting and as a children’s playground filled with begun. Ordering seeds on line was a admiring it will never be finished but In Dell Close a party was organised by draped it around the hedges. Jim trampolines and goal posts. You might popular option but the demand was lockdown may have resulted in some the Flints, which Mary describes here: Robinson provided a Union Jack flag do all these things and have a wildlife overwhelming – never have the seed new projects being undertaken or just We decided that we had to do something area as well as keep chickens. Always he still had from his boy scout days Mary and Eric Flint companies had such a captive audience smarter gardens than usual! to commemorate this important date as and at the appointed time we all came the case, but perhaps more than ever in Judy Kinloch recent years, the garden has become an Photograph: Susie Gowenlock we have three neighbours who were outside with our own chairs and our there on the actual VE Day; Mary Tobitt, own drinks. Unfortunately, no-one ‘outdoor room’, a place for entertaining, Jim Robinson and Derek Bailey. Social had enough flour or butter to make any barbecuing, or just relaxing on the latest distancing was observed but time was cakes or scones as we only had two days garden furniture, glass in hand. This to plan it, but everyone had plenty of is not everybody, of course, there are wine, prosecco, beer, tea or coffee. We those with greenhouses, garden sheds, had downloaded suitable music from flower borders and veggie plots who the era and everyone had a great time. actually enjoy the process of gardening Just that simple act of being together and creating a space that pleases them. and sharing memories really uplifted The lockdown ordered by the our spirits while in lockdown. government in March meant many Mary Tobitt writes... more people have had time to spend My father CPO Ben Hatter was a at home and certainly those of us Ship’s Carpenter on HMS Vanguard with a garden have much appreciated (Battleship). At the end of the war being able to go outside. These he was stationed at Hayling Island Derek Bailey weeks enabled us to inhale a breath to be near Portsmouth. My mother sea from our sitting room. I was nine of fresher air than we have known for and I went to be with him and stayed years old and very proud of my father. I some time given the lack of traffic of with another family in a house was also pleased that after my mother all kinds. Aided by warm and sunny overlooking the sea. I missed the VE died, he was able to live with me here weather just as Spring was about Day celebrations in Dorking but what in Mickleham for the last 14 years of to take off, the urge to grow things Garden at Old Stables, Mickleham Mary Tobitt (inset: her father Ben Hatter) excited me more was the view of the his life. seems to have overtaken a public who 2 3 More memories of wartime: After VE Day Superb professional from the 1995 Mickleham Parish Magazine PROFESSIONAL PAINTERS & DECORATORS cleaning of carpets Life in China as VJ Day Approaches 40 Years Experience oriental rugs Many readers will remember Ken Kilburn who lived in Pilgrims Way for many years All aspects of painting and decorating hree weeks on a troop ship, a three- territorial claim against the French. 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Meanwhile released prisoners Telephone: 01306 889942 / 888253 www.slhdecoratingservices.com 4 5 Photographs: Chris Budleigh Daily exercise – Upsides and Downsides Wild Flowers in the Vineyard So I would take issue with Charlotte hile being ‘locked down’, what seem like for ever, the upside is to be have learnt something from the French Chris Budleigh writes … who, in last month’s article ‘Daily with fantastic weather and the presented with a most stunning view, as when walking there everyone will liked the daily exercise photos and W Exercise’ commented that “Denbies need to exercise, I have discovered which may be to the North, South, say ‘Bonjour’, and I have often nearly agree that the vineyard is not great for I Vineyard ... is not a very good place for more of Box Hill, Juniper Hill and East or West. This is true after toiling replied here with a ‘Bonjour’. flowers, but it wasn’t always like that. I wild flowers, but if you look at the base than I would have done. up the 275 steps, from the Stepping have attached a couple of pictures from Before I leave the house I make sure of the hedges they survive the mowing Stones when, on arriving at Salomon’s about 1989 when Jan and I were living However the downside of this is that that I have four items with me: water regime and lighten up any walk.” I did memorial, on a clear day the South in a flat in Dorking. We went for a walk it is necessary, most of the time, to go bottle, walking stick, key to get back not look along the hedges but a very Downs can be seen. Going down the around Denbies (which I think was quite uphill almost immediately after leaving in the house, and my iPhone. This last much doubt I would have seen as many 275 steps is much worse than going up! new at the time) and were amazed by my front door. I fear, by the time we on my family’s orders, but the upside species. wrinkleys are given our freedom, my Talking about memorials, I always pay of this is that I have been taught how all the wild flowers. As for lightness what could be brighter, quads will be the size of melons! That my respects to Major Peter Labilliere’s to key in the mileage, or should I say Barbara Jones writes … on a sunny day, even to someone not would definitely be a downside, but grave and often wonder if one of his 'kilometreage'. This I put in my back th n 7 March I walked across the into wild flowers than thousands of maybe the upside is that it is nearly descendants is Brigadier Peter de la pocket, and after every kilometre vineyard on the track from Yew dandelions and buttercups enlivened always downhill on the way home. Billière who commanded the SAS in the passes this lady can be heard telling O Tree Road to Denbies Drive passing with daisies and splashes of blue Falkland war. me how far I have walked, my speed etc A downside is taking a wrong pathway, just above of the hotel and winery. I speedwell here and there. then walking and walking looking for One of my biggest downsides was to etc. I have had some very strange looks strolled along taking about 30 minutes a picture sign to tell you where you set out for a walk in, what seemed to from fellow travellers wondering what and looking for wild flowers. At times I Charlotte replies … have gone wrong, not finding one and be, reasonable weather to run into a is being emitted from my backside. wandered no more than five yards off h dear, I didn’t mean to start wild realising that you are nowhere near deluge after only half an hour. After a Now is that an upside or a downside the track between the rows of vines and Oflower wars! I was very interested where you had meant to be. A bit very short time I was, literally, soaked for them? Frances Presley found 18 species in flower. to see Barbara’s article and I was to the skin as my Mac was only shower like driving in an unknown city which Photograph: Richard Gowenlock On a patch of waste ground just off the grateful to her for pointing out an area proof. To make matters worse I had, Wild flowers in Denbies about 30 years ago directs you to the centre and then track immediately before the hotel I where there are plenty of wild flowers. yet again, followed the wrong path. The after a while the signs stop and you also saw an additional eight species After reading it I walked across Denbies, The rows of vines between the concrete trees got denser and the rain got harder realise that you are completely lost. also in flower. nearly to Dorking, and saw almost all drive and the NDW have very few and my speed was reduced from slow to This happened to me when I was on That is a grand total of 26 species in the species she lists. I missed two or wild flowers, mostly dandelions, a few very slow. Then, on a straight stretch of Juniper Top, I was actually looking for flower. I also noted eight species not yet three because I am not as skilled at buttercups, nettles, some very squashed pathway and about a hundred metres Happy Valley! I took a wrong pathway in flower and if I was better at recognising identification as Barbara, but she has plantains. I agree that the dandelions away I saw a deer outlined in the gloom. to the right and found myself on a very non-flowering plants I could probably taught me a lot. I was able to add clover, and buttercups are very bright and We both stood for about five minutes steep downward path amongst fallen added a few more. I also saw four red and white. cheerful, but I would love to be able just looking at each other, but he gave trees, branches and undergrowth, different grasses in flower and several to see the same variety of species as up first. A definite upside. However, I do not think Barbara walked and ended up in the car park at the Sycamore seedlings not in flower. all the way to the . Barbara saw on the Dorking path. bottom. But the upside of that mistake One of the best upsides is the way was suddenly to come across the most that nearly everyone you pass, either beautiful swathe of bluebells that on paths or roads, either walkers or t is true that we seemed to go and on. cyclists, and the occasional motorist, occasion that they are able to get out may not have the during the week. After going upwards for what can will smile and say hello. They must I A novel form of exercise on the Zig Zag long history of the Perhaps though the bigger part of Horticultural Will Dennis writes ... our role is the emotional support that Society or the we can offer. We are not fixers, in e found this Bird's Nest Orchid numbers of the Choral Society, but fact, it’s likely that their problems are Wwhile walking on Mickleham across our community, there are many beyond being fixed, but what we can Downs. Note the remains of last year's volunteers and supporters of the do is be alongside them, listen to their blossom next to it. Brigitte Trust. You probably will have concerns and, if a response is needed, Annie has become obsessive about heard of us, but even so, you might be respond in a helpful way. Believe me, orchids ever since we had a Airbnb a little unsure about what we do – let listening without butting in, offering Sue Crawforth, Roger Davis and Lynda lodger, who was a nature photographer me explain. well-meaning advice or bringing in your Johnston manning the Brigitte Trust stall who came here specially to see orchids, Our primary role is to offer support, in own life is harder than you might think. at last year's village féte and showed her various local sites. their own home, to people who have a Fortunately, all the volunteers for the this service to offer emotional support There are several species to be seen in life-threatening disease such as cancer Brigitte Trust, and there are over 100 to any adult in the Surrey area who is the vicinity. There is a good local book or Motor Neurone Disease. This support of us, will have gone through a very vulnerable, lonely, isolated, bereaved or called the 'Friends of Box Hill Book may be practical, including transport thorough training course to equip them a carer that needs someone to chat to. of Orchids' if you are interested, by to a hospital appointment, shopping for their role and are supported by a Ann Sankey with illustrations by Joyce If you know of someone who might and trips out or assisting with everyday professional team at the trust’s head Lloyd's daughter, Elizabeth. benefit from our support or are tasks such as form filling or helping with office in Dorking High Street. interested in becoming part of a well- These Bird's Nest ones are not the correspondence. Also our visits, which prettiest, but they are quite striking Of course the Coronavirus pandemic has run local charity, please either phone are up to three hours long, will often put a temporary end to our home visits Sarah Pattenden ( 07712 602698 ) for and their complex relationship with provide much-needed respite to the tree roots and fungi is well explained but we continue to offer support over referrals or Mandy East (07814 747585) primary carer – sometimes this the only in Ann’s book. the phone and have in fact extended to find out more about volunteering. Roger Davis 6 7 Photograph: Ann Sankey • Bespoke dress making • Soft furnishings • Clothing alterations Update • Curtains s many of you will be aware, Juniper AHall has been having extensive • Sewing lessons works over the last few months where we have had investment of over £1 • Roman Blinds million in refurbishing the main house. It has been a fantastic project with many Contact Tracey: 07511 079441 bedrooms now en-suite, new disabled [email protected] and carer rooms installed on the ground floor and overall an upgrade to 21st century living. Juniper Hall in its idyllic setting as it appeared on TV However, as with so many local had over 85,600 people watch since beats getting outdoors! Countryfile businesses, the Covid-19 pandemic the live sessions on YouTube which has really helped us get the message across has hit us hard. While we did manage been fantastic! In the subsequent three about how outdoor opportunities to keep a large number of group visits Your visiting weeks we ran a series of teacher follow- are vital in engaging young people going into mid-March, we had to shut up webinars to help them develop these in relation to their mental health, P H Y S I O T H E R A P I S T our doors as the lockdown began. At studies further with their students. wellbeing and development of life skills. 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I have also recently become rehabilitation. busiest season, we are strangely quiet. by providing staff accommodation. As a trustee of the Council for Learning At the start it was so noticeable that 07834 227 999 [email protected] such, we were able to recommence Outside the Classroom at a time when edebros.co.uk the noise from the roads, planes and our building works on site at the start it has never been so important. busy life was gone. The birdsong was of May which was a huge relief. Since amazing, the wildlife flourished and we The key thing, however, is for us to open then we have seen reduced numbers have seen such a beautiful Spring. the doors of Juniper Hall when we can. of contractors and social distancing We want to do this in a way that keeps While we hope that we may start to but this has allowed us to get to a point our staff safe, allows our education ALFA see some schools return as early as Gill and Paula would like to warmly welcome you to Aspen Care offering where we will finish by the end of May delivery to be done effectively in a possible, we don’t know when that will assistance to enable you to live in the comfort of your own home with care with all our furniture returning shortly post-Covid approach and allows us be. So we have really had to take a look and companionship. CHIMNEY SWEEPS after. 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8 9 Photograph: Ben Tatham frequent patrols Lockdown Letter by the police Photograph: Kirsten Johnson Box Hill and penalty or a small community, somewhat Charlotte Daruwalla has made masks notices being decentralized and split by the A24 for a nursing home in Dorking. Include F Update applied by the for 80-odd years, it is both remarkable all in your Thursday applause! police in some and heartening that such a sense of The Mickleham Emergency Group was he situation on Box Hill and Headley circumstances. togetherness and neighbourliness set up by the parish council last year, Heath while we are on lockdown is This was effective has been reawakened so quickly and T with the potential for flooding being regularly reviewed by National Trust and resulted in eagerly during the seven weeks of the the most likely envisaged concern: (NT). NT provides general briefings for far fewer people lockdown. it has proved a suitable base for staff on a daily basis with important visiting Box Hill Many of our usual activities are on Covid-19 assistance. Starting with 12 update briefings on Tuesdays and and infringing hold but some are continuing, not members it has now an active group Thursday and then local staff consider social distancing least this Magazine. I know it has been of around 130, particularly helping how this should work in their own requirements. a pleasant surprise to many to receive others with information and hands- areas. All of this is, of course, carried With the changed Fallen walnut tree in the Weypole hard copy on their doorstep, and it is on actions, for those less able to out online. As you would expect with no guidelines allowing people to travel to a problem on any of the properties thanks to Sue, Charlotte and her team travel or shop. It would be invidious visitor income and investments affected take exercise, many more visitors were they should not approach or speak to that this continues to be the case. The to pick out individual performances by the volatility of the stock market, NT parking on the roads and verges so them about it. Some people’s fuses 465 continues on its regular schedule in this collaborative effort, but suffice are maintaining strong controls over following consultation with SCC, local are short at the moment and a well- and one driver, in his mask, said that to say that if Jason Wilson doesn’t all spending, and budgets are being neighbourhood councils and the police, meaning member of the public has the much fewer passengers were those respond to a need for a pick-up within reduced by nearly 50%. This means NT opened the Zig Zag Road and the been attacked for calling someone out who were most appreciative, so he was seconds, James Cartwright will. Most that most projects have been stopped NT Car Parks from the 15th May. This on their behaviour. getting a personal buzz from recognizing of the actions have been the picking or deferred. NT has furloughed around situation will continue to be reviewed the reliance and value of the service to up of groceries and other goods, 80% of their staff and no volunteers are With the reduction of NT budget, many and NT will close the Zig Zag again if the communities along the route. And prescriptions, newspapers and parcels. working. Only those staff deemed to be of the projects that were planned for needed. The normal charges for parking the church clock continues to be dead Jason is at Medwyn so often, he is now essential remain. Box Hill within the Estate Management To source face masks like the one being apply. There is no catering and the on time, thanks to our long-serving delivering for them, as far as Bookham/ Plan will, at the very least, be deferred. worn here see page 18 Andy Wright is the only Countryside toilets remain closed for safety reasons. (11 years!) Timelord, John Winn. Take- and the Holmwoods. I am Manager operating, and there are Luckily the fencing and hedging on one, sharing music and humour and away meals are available from the King sorry to say that his shopping has seven staff made up of Lead Rangers Andy and Mark have been working Chapel Farm was put in place before with some 40 participants under the Willy and The Stepping Stones, and at included some non-essential goods… and Rangers covering all the Surrey Hills hard throughout this time to work the lockdown and Steve Conisbee has watchful eye of Tracy Kennington. the latter, Tina and Sharon seem to wine! And duck eggs?! But also some countryside. Federico Ghittoni (Fede) is out and implement the best approach drilled one field with a herb rich mix There are book club conversations have been stockpiling flour and other medical items which are best kept working on Box Hill and Headley Heath to the various problems, to patrol that can be grazed rather than made and Zoom birthday/dinner parties. foodstuffs for those who cannot get under wraps. and Mark Dawson is the Lead Ranger for the Hill thereby showing a presence into silage as before. This should result The upcoming PCC and MPC meetings and to contact the police when they in richer wildlife, hopefully even this them elsewhere. Our postmen and Eva Dillon is our local coordinator for Box Hill, Headley Heath and all the other will be on Zoom. Of note, there was see problems. They can only ever year. Planned work for Box Hill Farm binmen are doing a sterling job too: the Dorking Community Fridge: she is East Surrey countryside properties, a welcome VE day Zoom church have one person in a vehicle and has been deferred. please yell thank you from a safe happy to collect surplus or donated Francisco Martinez (Fran) has been thanksgiving service, which drew a they must endeavour to maintain distance when you can. fresh/frozen/tinned food and cleaning/ furloughed. Fede is undertaking tree All other activities and conservation very good attendance including a social distancing at all times. This is Our Thursday tribute to the NHS/ domestic supplies for distribution via surveys and Mark and Fede have to carry work on Box Hill have stopped. good clutch of irregular churchgoers. proving difficult at times with people key workers seems to be widely the Fridge. out building checks and inspections that Lyn Richards People say it will be a slow path back keen to talk or complain and coming Chair, Friends of Box Hill adopted. A group of a couple of Many thanks to all in bringing David were previously carried out by non- to ‘normality’, but as we get move far too close. Mark is keen to stress dozen are gathering in the churchyard Ireland's original thought to fruition. countryside staff and make regular towards it, it may not be there anymore. that if anyone sees someone causing with various more or less musical Mention too of Mary Banfield, who has tours of areas to look for potential It is to be hoped that the re-setting of equipment for what is rapidly becoming been quietly coordinating and doing problems. normality will learn from the many a ceilidh. More direct NHS support is similar things for several years in pre- The whole issue of implementing positives that have come out of this Plant Sale provided via Tracey O’Hanlon’s Scrubs virus days (remember them?). social distancing has been problematic production-line, which has grown to enforced pause in our lives. ave you found gaps in your borders The Group has also been able to get for the police on Box Hill and on more than 40 ‘scrubbers’, 35 or so in Note, it is inevitable that other activities after tidying up your gardens during access to some public and private funds weekends leading up to Easter there H our own community. A total of over worthy of mention are not included the lockdown? Alison Wood has a limited and provide direct financial assistance in were significant numbers of people 300 pieces have to date been sent here. Please get in touch so they can selection of homegrown herbaceous a few cases. As indeed has St Michael's sunbathing on the Box Hill Viewpoint to East/Royal Surrey Hospitals and to be acknowledged in a further lockdown and Donkey Green and groups of cyclists perennial plants for sale. These were Church. Connections have also been intended to be sold at the Horticultural local GP practices. A great effort by letter. and motorcyclists congregating there. Siberian Iris Iris sibirica – one of the plants on offer established with and from Citizens Society’s cancelled Spring Show in April. all. Tracey and Kirsten are also making Emergency Group Contacts This resulted in the decision by the Advice and Local Authority Voluntary It would be great if homes could be putting on future shows when we are rather chic masks too, most of which • Will Dennis 07903 842674 NT in conjunction with Surrey County Action groups from whom referrals have found for them to settle into before the able to get out and about again properly. have also been pounced on locally. • David Allbeury 07860 227451 Council and the Police to close the NT been received and responded to. heat of summer; they are all ‘good doers’ More masks, using the off-cuts from • David Ireland 07850 002185 Car Parks. When this did not reduce the Alison can arrange for the boxed the scrub-making with filter material This has been a time when the and split from Alison’s own plants, and up orders to be collected from her Other contacts elsewhere in this problem sufficiently, Traffic Regulation to a particular specification, are access to Zoom/WhatsApp and other most are filling their 3-litre pots. doorstep without need for interaction Magazine or via the Emergency Group Orders (TRO) were implemented on the being made by Elena Rubio, are being social media have had a positive She suggests a of donation £3 per plant or she can deliver locally - if you are numbers above. public highways at the top and bottom distributed for staff at a care home in role. Further sanity is provided by of the Zig Zag Road, thereby closing in a 3-litre pot but offers considered for interested please call or email her : the target of 150 masks various other active WhatsApp sites the Zig Zag Road to all traffic. This was bulk purchases. The proceeds will go 07372 976443 or alison.wood29@ for their 60 staff, is near completion. for example the Choral Society has implemented over Easter together with to the Hort Soc to support the cost of btinternet.com. 10 11 Feeling isolated or anxious? A local, award-winning business Community Directory Need a boost? supporting people living in & , enabling them to Virtual Counselling remain living independently AT Box Hill (National Trust) Counselling & Healing in Nature HOME as well as providing Head Ranger – Mark Dawson 01306 885502 companionship and colour to peoples lives. [email protected] Distant Reiki Healing Friends of Box Hill – Chair Lyn Richards 01737 842889 RATED AS OUTSTANDING BY CARE QUALITY COMMISSION [email protected] Supporting you through these challenging times. Committed to providing a quality, trusted and consistent Call Judith Cobby home care service, we only recruit local CareGivers Headmaster – Cory Lowde 01372 374814 and match every CareGiver to every client so [email protected] on 01306 882229 the same person will call each time. or 07790 614448 Dorking Cricket Club Chairman – Andrew Homewood [email protected] www.healing-inspiration.co.uk 01372 741544 [email protected] www.homeinstead.co.uk/epsom Dorking Group of Artists Mickleham Exhibition Secretary – Patricia Booth 01737 24491 [email protected] Dorking Lawn Tennis & Squash Club Ballroom Dancing Village Hall Jim Cattermole 01306 883629 [email protected] Latin American Dancing available Dorking Rugby Club Jim Evans 07789 176417 Professional Training [IDTA] for hire [email protected] Private lessons only The Garden Shed Sunday & Monday evenings Hall bookings Pauline Davis 07759 646 353 6 – 10 p.m. [email protected] Susie Gowenlock 07768 923 088 At Mickleham Village Hall Table & chair hire [email protected] Dell Close Mickleham Surrey RH5 6EE Deanna Darnell Juniper Hall Field Centre 01306 734501 07748 867 732 [email protected] [email protected] IDTA Qualified Teacher 07790 941 601 Head of Centre – Simon Ward [email protected] Friends of Juniper Hall – Suzy Hughes 01483 281935 [email protected] [email protected] www.micklehamvillagehall.org.uk Rowlatt Garden Services Mickleham Children’s Playground Association Secretary – Sarah Parfitt 07767 891772 STEVE & TIM LANGLEY [email protected] Experienced craftsmen Mickleham Choral Society RGS Thursdays 8 - 10 pm – Mickleham Village Hall EST.1985 ANTIQUE RESTORATION Conductor – Juliet Hornby 01372 373106 Gardens large and small Secretary – Anne Weaver 01306 883932 we maintain them all CABINET MAKING www.micklehamchoral.org.uk [email protected] All aspects of private and commercial garden FRENCH POLISHING Mickleham Old Box Hillians Football Club and estate maintenance landscaping undertaken Free estimates collection & delivery Secretary – John Atewell 01372 374745 Fencing grass & hedge cutting 01372 457700 Planning Mickleham Parish Council Telephone: 01737 841524 Mobile: 07887 838666 07960 486455 07847 769517 a party? See website for meeting dates www.micklehampc.org.uk References available upon request Chairman – Rev’d David Ireland 01372 379381 [email protected] Equipment Parish Clerk – Trevor Haylett [email protected] Mickleham Parish Magazine available for hire Editor – Sue Tatham 01306 882547 China ~ Cutlery [email protected] A25 ELECTRICALS Co-Editor – Charlotte Daruwalla 01306 884025 Domestic & Commercial Electric urn [email protected] Administrator – Fiona Roberts-Miller 01306 740851 • Electrical Installations Equipment hire [email protected] • Alterations Mickleham Village Hall Chairman – Ben Tatham 01306 882547 • Expertise in Fault Finding Mary Banfield [email protected] • Condition Reports 01372 373912 Bookings Manager – Deanna Darnell 07790 941601 [email protected] 0779 945 2041 [email protected] Part P Approved

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St Michael’s Church St Michael's from Above within the United Benefice embers of the of Leatherhead and Mickleham M arochial hurch ouncil Incumbent P C C The Reverend Graham Osborne 01372 372313 James Aarvold John Banfield Sarah Blake Parish Priest Mark Day Andrew Diamond Jenny Hudlass The Reverend Canon John Harkin 01372 378335 Elizabeth Moughton Frances Presley [email protected] James Riches Richard Siberry Amanda Wadsworth Duty days primarily Sunday, Monday and Tuesday Simon Ward Amy Ward Paul Wates Churchwardens John Banfield 01372 373912 [email protected] Sarah Blake 07736 235709 [email protected] Parish Administrator Tools with a Mission (TWAM) Alison Wood 01372 376443 www.twam.co.uk [email protected] TWAM is a Christian charity committed to the recycling PCC Secretary and refurbishment of tools which then can provide a Elizabeth Moughton 01306 883040 [email protected] means for poorer people in developing countries to learn a trade and be able to support themselves and their Treasurer families. With this practical help thousands of young Richard Siberry 01372 375303 [email protected] men and women have benefited from the skills they have learned. They need: Organist David Fishwick 0208 773 2420 • garden forks & spades saws hammers drills [email protected] pickaxes etc Weddings Co-ordinator • sewing or knitting related tools thread zips scissors Elaine Machin 01372 724972 • fabric and sewing machines [email protected] • wool and knitting needles patterns , knitting machines Baptisms Co-ordinator • machine and electrical tools Vickie Leney 01306 884054 [email protected] If you have any of the above which could be used to help someone to have a better quality of life and hope for the Funerals Organiser Brian Wilcox 01372 374730 future please contact Hilda Burden on 01737 842516. [email protected] Website Manager Sarah Ward 01372 383350 [email protected] www.micklehamchurch.org.uk Leatherhead and District For information about services for other denominations see website pages. Voluntary Car Service Search on ‘Churches Together Mole Valley’ Transport to local surgeries and hospitals for those without access to other means of transport. Please telephone Parish 07767 831390 rayer eeting 9 am – 5 pm P M If no reply leave your name and number – at least 48 lthough we cannot meet in church at present, we hours in advance. shall be continuing to hold our A monthly Prayer Passengers make a modest donation the cover but online instead, so you will be very Meetings driver's expenses and administration welcome to join our Zoom Prayer Meeting on Tuesday 2nd June at 7.30 pm via Zoom. Please contact Canon Any interested volunteer drivers please contact John and Sue for the ID and password numbers. You These great sunset shots were taken by Matt Clark, grandson of Pauline. 01372 374653 will be very welcome!. Should anyone want some photographs of their house, aerial shots or footage of events at the church or in our community, Matt's contact details are [email protected] Telephone 07557 352377 14 15 May Hardwicke 1920 – 2020 Babysitting he sun shone and the birds were how they met all she would say was Community Directory singing lustily as May Hardwicke ‘At a party.’ Strangely enough early Continued from page 13 T by local was lowered into the ground in the in the ‘30s my father lived in B&B woodland section of Dorking Cemetery accommodation belonging to L’Etoile Mickleham & Westhumble Book Club teenagers Bernice Bailey 01306 741310 on 16th April. The view of Box Hill was restaurant on Charlotte Street. At the Those listed below are at least [email protected] 14 years old. very pleasant and the camellia flowers, time May’s father was working there. Mickleham & Westhumble Badminton Club from her garden,scattered over her I arrived on the scene in October Membership Secretary Sarah Blake [email protected] Finlay Wise 01306 884694 coffin, were a riot of colour. That only 1943 and soon after that they moved Mickleham & Westhumble Cricket Club Alasdair Wise 01306 884694 David and I and our two daughters were to Nottingham. As was so common Membership contact Will Dennis 07903 842674 Annabelle Prosser allowed to be there was a shame but in those days, May dedicated herself [email protected] 07443 634179 all in all I think she would have been to being a devoted wife, mother and Mickleham & Westhumble Horticultural Society Maisy Presley 07720 657327 pleased with the occasion. housewife. Once they moved back Chairman – David Kennington 01372 362309 Freya Pearce 01306 884724 May along with her husband Alan, her to Westhumble, more leisure-time May with her great-great grandson www.surreycommunity.info/mwhs [email protected] Issy Nash* 01306 742762 step-son, Peter and I (and not forgetting activities became possible and where coming home in flower. And it was no Mickleham and Westhumble Local History Group Skye Moran 01306 640043 Woozle the cat) moved into Fairfield, my father led so May followed. Chairman – Ben Tatham 01306 882547 good planting anything at the back of Patrick Moran 01306 640043 Chapel Lane in the autumn of 1948. They spent many happy holidays hill [email protected] And, as she latterly so hoped, she was the borders ‘They won’t be seen there.’ www.hugofox.com/community/mickleham-westhumble-local- Amber Miller 01306 883659 walking in North Wales and the Lake able to end her days there. 1948 was They had to go in front. history-group-13483/ Katie Light 01306 881953 District. My father bought a sailing not her first arrival in Westhumble or dinghy and May bravely embraced that After Woozle the cat there was a Mole Valley District Council 01306 885001 Rory Lee **07973 360 950 Dorking. For a while in 1939 the family steady stream of six others including Councillor Elsie Rosam 01306 885695 Ellie Kim 07773 395 575 too. I well remember my father insisting [email protected] had lived at Tudor Lodge opposite on sailing in quite rough seas with one Tabitha who May inherited along Tatiana Fleming-Smith Dorking station and after year or two with a television (Alan didn’t believe **07799 061 288 or other of my little friends on board. I The Arts Societies (formerly NADFAS) living in various flats in the Highgate can hear May imploring him to return in them) from Margaret Probyn who – Mary Venning 01306 883301 Chelsea Edwards 01306 884133 area of London they returned in 1942 to calmer waters saying, 'What will the lived in Pilgrims Way. May was a long- Philomena Ala 07789 727682 Dorking – Sue Tatham 01306 882547 to live at Five Trees (now Cottars) in coroner say?' Later he bought a small term member of Cats Protection and Delphine Ala 01306 885767 Leatherhead – Sarah Sheridan 01306 883699 Pilgrims Way. cruiser and May gamely sailed with him for many years sold plants and cuttings St Michael’s Church of England (A) Infant School 01372 373717 May was born on 5th May 1920 in to the Scilly Isles and over to France. from the garden, from a couple of [email protected] * Holidays only cardboard boxes, at the garden gate. ** Parent's mobile number central London and brought up there. When my father retired they started Friends of St Michael’s School [email protected] Over the years she made about £500 Her German mother and French- going horse racing but Alan decided it Co-chairs Nicole Harcombe, Tracey Harwood, Amy Rieley for the charity. speaking Swiss father met and married was feeble to watch other people flying If you would like to add your St Michael’s Community Nursery in London, having arrived in England over the jumps. He took himself off to a Sadly Alan became confined to the Weekday mornings – Mickleham Village Hall name to this list please get in before WWI. Both worked in hotels. house and then bedridden. May spent touch with riding school explaining that he wanted Supervisor – Hilary Budd 01372 361021 Fiona Roberts-Miller May's childhood was not the happiest, to learn to ride so he could take part in many years devotedly looking after [email protected] [email protected] as her mother died when May was only the Grand National! They were certainly him without complaint and resisting all Surrey County Council 03456 009 009 No Charge six and she was acutely embarrassed to willing to help with the first bit but were suggestions, until near the very end, to Councillor – Hazel Watson 01306 880120 have had a German mother especially not so sure about the Grand National. accept outside help for him. as her best friend’s father had lost an [email protected] And learn to ride he did and so did May. He died in 1993. They had been arm in that conflict. Surrey Wildlife Trust 01483 795440 Advertising in the Many a time out on hacks her horse together for about 50 years and May [email protected] May did however have happy memories would bolt off with her and I guess missed him dreadfully. Her last thirty esthumble esidents ssociation Parish Magazine W R A of her dog Mimi who roamed the streets she must have had a good few falls. plus years were spent in increasing pain David Allbeury 07860 227451 Please contact chasing the few vehicles that passed by Eventually they bought a horse and from arthritis and in much loneliness. [email protected] Fiona Roberts-Miller and of trips to Regents Park with Mimi Alan went hunting while May adopted No amount of visits from family and Westhumble Neighbourhood Watch [email protected] on the open topped buses. She also had a supporting role helping to keep the friends; holidays with family or trips Lead Co-ordinator – David Allbeury 07860 227451 happy memories of seaside holidays in away with NADFAS; tea parties with [email protected] Small ads: a nominal fee is tack clean and Alan looking smart in his charged for ads where items or Tenby staying in a beach chalet with a hunting outfit. Norah Hallet; pub lunches and garden services are bought or sold. ADDITIONAL CONTACT INFORMATION friend’s granny. In between times they had visits with the Wellers or trips to the Citizens Advice After leaving school May's became granddaughters to stay especially in races with Janet Curran could really Dorking – Lyons Court 0844 4111 444 We have been advised to print a ‘junior’ with the fashion designer the summer holidays and gave them console her from being parted from her the following reminder: Leatherhead – Swan Mews High Street 0844 4111 444 Isobel. Her job was to receive the grand riding lessons and took them on day beloved Alan. We cannot guarantee the Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 ladies arriving for fittings and make trips to the seaside. May was just a few weeks short of her quality of the goods and th Police Non-emergencies 101 services offered by our them cups of tea. Isobel was apparently At some time May did strike out on her 100 birthday when she died. It is sad (often quicker to make online report) https://report.police.uk/ advertisers. quite a name in her time. A recent V&A own. She joined the local flower club that she missed that milestone when Neighbourhood Specialist Team – Dorking Rural East exhibition included a wedding dress and also transformed the rather bare hopefully she would have enjoyed General enquiries [email protected] designed by her. This early job probably garden. She was never one for sowing seeing two of her five granddaughters, explains May’s keen interest in clothes four great-grandsons and two great- NHS Urgent and emergency care 111 seeds, transplanting seedlings and and fashion that lasted all her life. awaiting results. She wanted instant great-grandsons. May she rest in May met my father, Alan, a solicitor, results so trips to the garden centre peace and maybe find herself re- shortly before WW2. When asked always resulted in plants and shrubs united with Alan. Barbara Jones 16 17 Forty Wonderful Years Face mask project in Mickleham Just before lockdown started, the Harpers moved from Westhumble to Dorset. e often hear about the sadness surreyfacemasks.com. Both of us Liz recalls their life here in her letter of farewell. Community Wand dark days of lockdown, we are learning on our feet, juggling our ike and I moved into Camilla one of the Biddies working to make off doing safari parties but after having News hear also of all the great things people own work and households, making MDrive on the 3rd December 1979. things to sell in the shop for the cancer the starter in one house, main in are doing volunteering, scurrying NHS scrubs and pouring through We both fell in love with the house charity the Comptons set up in memory another, cheese in another and dessert any congratulations to new around aiding others and the wonderful the ‘shoulds’ and ‘should nots’ of an and during the forty years that never of their step-daughter. Later I became then coffee in another, we found we grandparents David and Tracy M sense of community it is bringing to e-commerce business. It has been fast changed. We were very quickly greeted one of the guides taking visiting children had had far too much to drink. We had Kennington of Headley Lane on the safe society. We can better hear the bird and, despite doubts both of us agree by Janet and Peter Curran who were from London round the farm. It was so messed up four or five houses and it was arrival of Henry David, born on 9th May chorus as well! For some it has been that even if it stops tomorrow we have to be our next-door neighbours. They rewarding; most of the children had now getting on for 4 am. Eventually we to their daughter Clare and partner Pete a time of heartache and worry while learned so much and that can only be soon arranged a coffee morning for never seen fields before never mind decided that this format was too much Billington, who live in Dorking. others calm and quiet, gardens and a good thing. The support we have the ladies and, later a drinks party to animals. They loved every minute of hard work, so we took it in turn to host arewell to Liz and Mike Harper who DIY jobs are getting done. For others had has been amazing and we thank include the men. After that we got to their visit. Many did not want to go the dinner in one house. We also went Fhave moved from Camilla Drive to like myself and Tracey O’Hanlon, our all of our customers, your feedback know the neighbours very well and had home and I am sure they never forgot on outings to the races and to excellent Ferndown, Dorset. feet have not touched the ground, has inspired us. The only downside is a wonderful time visiting and having their day at the farm. restaurants. Wonderful times. the garden is not being tended and the he Baird family have moved from our acquaintance made through the lots of lovely dinner parties. I was there for about twenty years and Mickleham and Westhumble are a washing is piling up– small price to pay Burney Road to Camilla Drive. pandemic (sewing and fundraising) is At that time Westhumble seemed a enjoyed every minute of it. Sheila and great community with people working T for such an experience though! elcome to John and Sara who now blossoming into a small industry lot quieter. We did not even bother to Colin were amazing people. Later on, together helping one another . We were Whave moved to Burney Road. in Mickleham. Please think of us if you want a face shut the back gate onto Crabtree Lane they took in people from a cancer clinic very fortunate to have Box Hill, Polesden from London Bridge but originally from After the government updated its covering. *We have stock in a range never mind lock it. Our two young who were in rehabilitation. The women Lacey, looked after by the National Trust Guildford and Glasgow respectively. website about face ‘coverings’ we had of colours and patterns and beautifully children would be thrilled, when on learned crafts and men worked on the who we hope will conserve the area for They are very much looking forward many requests from people seeking handcrafted by Tracey, MADE in his morning rounds our neighbours dog farm. The trust and kindness Colin and future generations. MICKLEHAM, SURREY. to enjoying the fresh air, walks, bike masks and so, while waiting for the Kirsten Johnson Pernod would wander into the garden. Sheila showed to those people helped Now that we have left Westhumble and rides and even pubs (some day soon new fabrics to arrive for the next *To see an example of one of Tracey's Another neighbour in a different road immensely. Some sent me letters as all the people we made friends with, hopefully). batch of NHS scrubs, we set up www. masks, see page 10. used to keep peacocks and so it was they went on to do amazing things. worked and had fun with, who we quite normal to come home and see Chapel Farm had touched so many have known for many years we would them strutting up Camilla Drive. people’s lives. like to thank David Ireland, Neil Mason, The Grumpy Old Mickleman on Brian Blessed Chapel Farm was a dairy farm. We could By now we had a little dog called Oscar Mark Pescud, Steve Stent, Anne and realize that Brian Blessed has done this level of typecasting eventually starts shouts something walk round to the farm to get milk in and at that this stage I met Jenny Gerry Weaver and so many more past Imany worthy things in his life – charity to interfere with ones appreciation out of the television those days. Not all is lost though, now Desouter. She had a horse stabled in and present that made the community work, Shakespearian roles and so on – of the role. In any film where there about Hellmann's you can take a jug to the brewery at the Crabtree Lane and a dog called Bobbin. what it is. We are also going to miss the but he seems to have made an awful lot is a murdering despot, a voice from mayonnaise, or vineyard and get a jug of beer. We got chatting and after a while vineyard for its lovely walks, fun events of money by shouting. I can shout too, On High or a large carnivorous beast, currently the Flash With no computers nor mobile took the animals together for walks and of course the shop and farm shop. but I remain penniless. Life’s a bitch. which should have you trembling Speed Mop. These phones, the village store and post in Norbury Park. She was my David Thanks to the White family. Apart from his debut on black and white in anticipation, there is a sense of are always ads with office in Mickleham was the hub of the Attenborough. There is not much Jenny Now we are in beautiful Dorset. We TV as the inaptly-named ‘Fancy Smith’ complete let down when it turns out absolutely no artistic or other merit community. That is where we would doesn’t know about plants and animals are not far from the coast and near to in Z-Cars, Mr Blessed seems simply to only to be Brian. If the Dalek voice had whatsoever. With subjects so bland that go for any news or to buy tickets for and so we had the most amazing walks friends and relations. We love our new have shouted his way to a fortune. been Brian we would have been happily only shouting about them can shock local events. The post office was always discovering footpaths and plants and house and garden and can’t wait to get If anyone wants a bullying character, continuing with our tea-time scones, you into noticing Cillit Bang, Domestos busy and so was the shop. Beryl Icke, enjoying the different seasons. She out and about. rather than hidden behind the sofa. or Calgon and the like. But again in who owned the shop, sold the best takes the most wonderful photographs. Brian is at the top of the list. He seems To all those friends we have left behind. On the other hand, there is a rather contradiction, people would never bet home-cooked ham on the bone and the to have cornered the market in King Our children loved growing up in Keep well and keep safe and we look contradictory disappointment too when at Ladbrokes if his gigantic form and creamiest of Stilton. Herods, Henry VIIIs, Vlad the Impalers, Westhumble. At one time our son, Paul forward to meeting again soon. Russian Generals, Roman Emperors a voice you had expected surely to be voice causes them to spill their coffee Rosemary Robinson, and later, Sayda was in a band which used to practise in Liz & Mike Harper and King Vultans. All roles in which Brian…the Beast from the Black Lagoon’, onto the dog or cause other injuries. Cole worked hard in the shop especially the summer house. whispering is not top of the required say…turns out to be someone else. One thing I can guarantee, Mr Blessed after school time when it was crammed It was very loud, skills list. You will not be surprised that The most annoying part of this sad is unlikely to be using his decibels with children wanting sweets and but they had fun he was chosen for the yelling voice affair, is when the voice of Mr Blessed to advertise Donkey Sanctuaries or mothers catching up on the latest news. and all was forgiven. of Tarzan, Boss Nass in Star Wars and himself or an imitator, is used for a Funeral Plans. 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