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new premises to an existing practice. This has been The Editor We intend to hold a Drop-In event in the Village Hawkhurst GP done very widely and there is nothing intrinsically during the Consultation period so look out for the wrong with this approach. The two practices have usual BRIGHT PINK publicity. We will be able to decided to explore this as a possibility. This month we have show you how to comment if you are unfamiliar with Surgeries: The Facts included the first part of a the Borough’s Consultation webpage: http://consult. Why is a new Surgery needed? 3. Where we started – The Dream. What the Drs. serial written by Michael tunbridgewells.gov.uk would really like is Surgery premises owned by the Armitage. Michael is an With the increasing administrative burdens being Following Examination, the NDP goes to community where the substantial rental income, enthusiastic supporter placed upon General Practice the two Practices Referendum and when it passes referendum it will sooner or later, could be applied to charitable of allotments in general, recognise that they must merge. Both occupy become part of the new Local Plan and carry some purposes either in enhancing the surgery or applied and the Hawkhurst Hensil premises that are deemed wanting in various legal weight. in the wider community, bearing in mind the ones in particular. degrees by the Care Quality Commission and inevitability that as a community we are increasingly The revised Plan now includes the summary figures neither set of premises can be adapted to hold the going to have to look after our own. The group of six from Hawkhurst to our twin resulting from the recent Housing Needs Survey (on merged practice. town Oriolo Romano in Italy began their stay on page 43). The full survey analysis is also available on How might this be achieved? 23rd July with great excitement from the young Why don’t the Partners just build a new Surgery? our website and Facebook page. The Numbers (approximately). Cost of new surgery people involved. A full report will be available The present premises are owned by some of the The summer Fete on 17th June was a great success without the land £2.5m. Likely rental income £165k. when they return, but our ties have grown a lot doctors who would be expecting to sell when they and our thanks go to the Fete Committee who work stronger and the hospitality and friendliness of retire. They could perhaps build the new surgery Number of patients currently served 11,000. very hard to provide us all with a great day. This year the Italians has been almost overwhelming. themselves but the owning partners are nearing Who would own the Surgery? the weather was great too. retirement and there is considerable doubt about It would be owned by a charitable organisation, Please note that the Hospital Car Service has Three development sites in Hawkhurst are now who would then purchase the new premises since either a Community Interest Organisation (CIO) or now come under the umbrella of Akeomai but is underway: Birchfield, Woodham Hall and Highgate today the newly qualifying doctors are more than a Community Interest Company CIC) with trustees otherwise unchanged. Hill. You may be interested to hear the Parish 50% women and experience shows that they are in the interest of the community in the same Council’s position with regard to lighting. When we generally neither committed to an area nor to a full- I would have liked to provide an update in this manner as the proposed Hawkhurst Village Hall or are approached about street lighting we make it clear time career and unlikely to buy in. magazine on the opening arrangements for the Community Centre. that, in line with what we say in the NDP, we are not nursing home, Hawkhurst House; unfortunately it in favour of street lighting preferring sustainable path What can the retiring GPs do? Funding. A commercial mortgage would probably will be a few more months before it is ready, due lighting. After all traffic has its own lights but people Increasingly these days the retiring partners are not work, too expensive and too small a project. to problems in the access to the building from the need to feel safe. As we live in the country perhaps simply giving the remaining practice six months It is possible that a loan could be obtained via the side road. we should all carry a torch! Hawkhurst’s relative dark notice to quit and selling the premises for other skies are important to us. Parish Council from the Public Works Loan Board. Mike Appelbe uses, usually the practice just closes. If that This would require the agreement and support The Parish Council also makes it clear that we happened here you would probably have to register of the Parish Council and also the support of the are not willing to take financial or maintenance with a Practice in Cranbrook, Northiam or perhaps community via a public referendum to authorise the responsibility for new lighting. Robertsbridge, always assuming those Practices Parish Council to do this. Chairman still exist and are willing to take you. This is not an ➢ Enjoy the summer. exaggeration. Public Subscription is our favoured option and the Hello Everyone, cleanest method. There are various ways by which Julia Newman, Parish Council Chair Hawkhurst’s Neighbourhood The present partners do not wish to let the this might be achieved. Donations, Gift Aid, Interest- Development Plan (NDP) community down by not providing for the future free Loans, Crowd funding, Investment, Legacy and was accepted by TWBC P&T of GP services in Hawkhurst so a new surgery must probably a lot more we have not considered. ALL Cabinet on 22nd June. You be built within the next very few years owned by SUGGESTIONS WELCOMED. someone other than the GPs. will find a Table listing all Building. It is not beyond imagination that if the the changes we have made to How can a new surgery be built? right volunteers with the right skills come forward the NDP, as well as a copy of the revised Plan itself, 1. One could invite one of the big players like Virgin we might even be able to build it ourselves at lower on our Facebook page and our website – www.hpc. who would build and own the premises. They would cost. visithawkhurst.org.uk just click on NDP. own and run the practice employing doctors to do The Site. As is widely known there is the likelihood TWBC will start a six-week Consultation on the work. What you would not get is the continuity FRIDAY 21st JULY. All comments submitted will of “your doctor” to which we have become of an agreement with the Community Health trust who own our Community Hospital to grant a long be passed to the Examiner and will influence accustomed. You can do your own research to find their perception. It is therefore important that the lease at a nominal rent on land at the Hospital, a out if this is what you would like. residents of Hawkhurst get behind it and submit their comments to make the Examiner aware of the support 2. There are developers who will build and lease [continued on page 6] in the village.

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[continued from page 2] Transformation Fund for just such a case as this but you will not be surprised to learn that it says it has solution favoured by the TWBC planners. If however not got any money! anyone happens to have in their GIFT a suitable site closer to the village which the planners will approve This Summary was prepared by an ad hoc please get in touch. committee, largely Trustees of the Hawkhurst Community Hospital League of Friends, whose A word about Planning. Developers and help was sought by the Doctors since the Doctors landowners are accustomed to bargaining with the themselves are not the proper people to run such planners to secure permission. Sometimes there are a campaign although it is clear from the foregoing substantial gains to be made. Edenbridge is getting that they have no financial gain in this course of a free surgery built by developers. The Circus Field action. development was opposed by residents and the PC and TWBC but the developers won on appeal. As a If you have read this and would like to offer any result, apart from 60 more houses, the planning gain help, whether financial, professional or practical to Hawkhurst was exactly nothing. please contact, in confidence, The Hawkhurst Community Hospital League of Friends, Hawkhurst Preliminary costs. To get this project through Community Hospital Hawkhurst TN18 4PU. Email planning and all the other processes necessary [email protected]. 01580 752188 before a formal commitment to pay the rent can be (answerphone). obtained from the Clinical Commissioning Group is likely to cost £60K to £100K. Unfortunately the If you happen to be the grieving widow of Joe horses. He recalls the second Mrs Gunter droving her League of Friends is advised that it cannot use its Bloggs and would like to build the Joe Bloggs Hawkhurst’s fascinating past cattle from the estate to Hawkhurst railway station to funds towards this purpose and there is no other Memorial Surgery we would especially like to hear travel by train to agricultural shows. Tongswood had obvious source of funds. There is a Primary Care from you. Hawkhurst Local History Society celebrates its 70th birthday in October. The Society holds many records its own electricity sub-station and an estate cricket What is in it for you? Securing the future of local and photos of Hawkhurst’s fascinating past, but Jack team. Mrs Gunter an avid supporter would make an GP services. Maintaining or enhancing the sale value Johnson of Gills Green is well able to recall local early visit to matches to decide where best to be seated. of your house. A warm glow knowing that you have events across 100 years in vivid detail. Jack was 103 in Jack recalls his father preparing the forge at 5am done something that is of lasting benefit to your July 2017. His memory is amazing and here are a few to fit steel tyres onto wagon wheels. By heating up a community and securing a future income stream for of his Hawkhurst anecdotes from before and during ring fire with the steel ‘tyre’ inset and then placing the local charitable health services. the World War II. glowing tyre around the wooden wheel rim within Jack’s parents and his three siblings had moved from the fire then to be quenched in water, the steel tyre Whitstable to accommodation at Glassenbury about would shrink to fit the wheel rim perfectly. By 1939 1924. His father was the blacksmith who later moved Jack had become an engineer and was therefore in a to Gills Green garage. When not helping his father reserved occupation exempting him from military at work he attended School where the headmaster was Mr Morgan. As a young lad he watched the Artillery coming down the unmade Cranbrook Road at “full tilt with canons drawn by 6 horses”.

At that time, Jack remembers being told by his father to collect a debt “without fail” from a farmer who was enjoying a pint or two in a local pub. He had to wait hours to get the payment as he was too young to enter the pub. On another occasion, he helped his father transport an ironmongery Rose Arbour to Great Wigsell (owned by Lady Violet Cecil) down the Sedlescombe road by handcart. Other customers included Ben Johnson’s forge at Gills Green Mr Gunter of Tongswood, where his father shoed the [continued on page 8]

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service. He maintained Forestry Commission vehicles What is now the scrapyard in Heartenoak Road in Bedgebury forest as well as farming community was the slaughterhouse owned by Syd Todd who sold equipment. He joined the Local Defence Volunteers, cats meat in Cranbrook Road. Syd was an excellent later re-named Home Guard, or ‘Dads Army’ as we footballer for Northfleet and invited Spurs to play now know it. Major Geering (Geering & Collier) was Hawkhurst United, the result was 10 – 1 to Spurs: officer i/c and would arrive on a charger. Mr. Gasper Spurs have never returned to Hawkhurst! Military was armourer, often cleaning rifles and preparing exercises took place in fields around the village, them for practice at his house in Winchester Road. including marching to Great Wigsell to throw live The Air Raid Warden was Mr. Playfoot with Jessie grenades at a target over the wall. Assault courses were Santer i/c un-uniformed police force. also constructed for the Home Guard; the locations were behind All Saints church and in Ditch There was a rifle range behind the Cricketers Arms and Cranbrook Angley woods. Guard duty in Gills public house and an arms dump was located in the Green was based in the Mission chapel, now a private fields behind All Saints church, now All Saints Road. house. To earn “a stripe” (Lance Corporal) Jack had to Marlborough House held boxing events. Victoria Hall undergo three consecutive weekends of training which was used as the Drill Hall, now the Kino cinema, and included marching, attacking and army manoeuvres. the Home Guard HQ was a barn to the rear of Blinks the Butchers, now converted into the residence – A Searchlight unit was located in Potters Lane to picking it up and carrying it out into the garden for Dymocke Oast. Then it was a rather cold and smelly locate enemy aircraft flying over the area. Witnesses the bomb disposal team to deactivate. In 1944 a flying establishment as it was the meat store; at times, those reported that a Messerschmitt 110 had dropped bomb landed on a bungalow in Stream Lane but the on guard had to spend the night there amongst the a bomb on School Terrace early in the conflict: it occupants survived. Another V1 crashed near Slip Mill rats and mice. According to the present owner of the penetrated the roof of a property, but failed to explode farm. He also recalls aircraft crashing in property, the mice are still there! as it landed on a bed. Jack recalls the house-owner Lane and another in Horns Hill area. Jack recounts that Group Captain Peter Townsend RAF, a Hawker Hurricane fighter pilot, was shot down by a Me110. He bailed out, wounded in the foot, landing in Cranbrook Road and was admitted to Hawkhurst Cottage hospital, later transferred to Croydon. His Hurricane, P3166, crashed at Bedgebury , near Badgers Oak. He was recovered, taken to the Royal Oak pub and given ‘sustenance’ by the locals.

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➢ ← experienced plot neighbours, others from the myriad [continued from page 9] The growth of an of books by legends like Percy Thrower not to mention the easily-understood books by Dr Hessayon, began Another story Jack recalls is when, in low cloud, allotment... part 1 to emerge and we became well and truly hooked. Seed the wing of a German aircraft briefly appeared below I suppose it was inevitable that one day, we would catalogues piled up everywhere and trays of lettuce, cloud and fired at the roof of SEEBOARD Sports hall return to allotment gardening. One never really wants tomato and cucumber seedlings appeared on all the in Slip Mill: a canon shell reportedly went through to give up growing things when they’ve started. It’s window sills! the roof of the building, hit the slate top of the billiard unthinkable to consider stopping growing things when table to ricochet off out of the roof on the other side. the results of one’s labour can bring home such delicious The rules about not doing too much at a time still Nobody was in the building at the time. SEEBOARD new potatoes, leeks, raspberries and fresh carrots. applied; (they still do), but one day, we realised that was previously Callender Cables. Sadly Pilots did the whole patch had been cleared, dug over, raked and not always survive the battle and Jack remembers Back in the early 1980s, after an amiable discussion sown with crops, and we were in business! It was a Kenneth Port RAF who was killed on his first day with a good friend, Peter Newbold, (who managed great day indeed! of flying in conflict,nd 2 October 1941. His body was Mozleys hardware store on The Moor, and is now never recovered. He also recalls Roy Crane RAF who sadly no longer with us) we decided to take on an After a year, we graduated to a full plot when the flew Hawker Typhoons later in the war: he was shot allotment on the Hensil Plots. adjoining area became vacant, and really started to down and captured in France and survived the war. motor, with almost an agricultural yield of Brussels His brother had been dispatched to find him. In 1940 Peter had a marvellous, well-cultivated full plot sprouts, more than enough leeks for winter soups, and a Spitfire was shot down and the pilot killed when the there, but advised us that it would be a good thing loads of tiny courgettes the size of your thumb, which plane crashed at Great Wigsell. The pilot, Sergeant E. for us just to start with a half-plot. (Well he would is the best time to use them! wouldn’t he, as he sold everything imaginable to do Manton RAF, is buried in Hawkhurst cemetery. with gardening, like tools, seeds, fertilisers etc!) We Soon afterwards though, we decided to move house, It’s personal memories that make local history were already willing customers at Mozleys as our small and were faced with an enormous task of trying to come alive. garden at home was full to the brim, and we wanted knock the new place into shape. That was in the early 1990s, and it became clear that it would be impossible more space. Jeremy O’Keefe

to completely ‘do up’ the new house, hold down two

So we started as ‘rookies’ on a small plot which careers and bring up the family, while still tending luckily had only been vacated a few months before, rows of runner beans and sowing seeds, and digging ← and the ‘Great Allotment Experience’ began… for England…

We had been warned that the first big mistake to So sadly, we decided that we had to leave the Damage on Playing Fields make would be to rush down there and try to clear allotment to someone eager to continue with it. It was Over the last year, Hawkhurst Parish Council has made it a priority and dig the whole lot in an afternoon. We’d get tired, a bit of a crunch to leave it all, and we had to make to update and repair the play equipment on the two playing areas in everything would ache, and one would start to get up for the loss with just a few beans and tomatoes at the village. Already, you can see the new climbing frame at the King more and more dispirited as the weeds piled up, and home for a few years. George V area and the new outdoor gym at Heartenoak Field. And seemed to grow by the day. there is more to follow. Please read the continuation of our story in the The trick, we were told, is to just tackle a couple September issue of the magazine. So it is very sad when some members of our community, or of square yards at a time, and take your time doing perhaps visitors, treat the equipment with little respect and spoil it. Once these precious squares have been cleared of Mike Armitage it for others. Earlier in the year, two picnic tables were stolen from weeds, dug over and stared at for a few minutes, you the Heartenoak Field. With insurance money, the Parish Council will immediately see a ‘result’, and if the time is right, has been able to replace one of these and a splendid new bench and then you can even start to sow a few seeds or plant table were installed a few weeks ago. something from the garden centre, depending of course, on what time of year you’re doing the work. Only a short time later, somebody seems to have used the table as a stand for a portable BBQ and left it burned and charred across We started making all the usual errors too, like not part of the surface. The photo shows just how much damage has hardening-off plants properly, or producing enough been done. We can and will repair the damage, but please let us red cabbage to feed the whole village and Cranbrook all take care of the facilities that are on offer. They are there for the as well, but the experience of bringing home pounds of enjoyment of the village and for visitors. It will be such a shame if a fresh new potatoes, (which don’t have skins like shoe few unthinking and careless people ruin it for the rest of us. leather) or a wheelbarrow full of new peas or runner beans was becoming a bit of a habit. Cllr Dr Michael Robertson Land Committee chair, Hawkhurst Parish Council More gardening skills, some learned from our

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➢ ← Our special thanks go to Waitrose for the discount 60 Years on... on the drinks, to Maws Fine Foods for supplying A photographic exhibition was held in St Laurence some of the food and ingredients and especially the Church during the week leading up to the rededication Ice Cream tubs which were so much enjoyed. Finally service and the celebratory lunch, which followed the to both, Yo Reynolds who organised the game of 60th anniversary rededication service, on Sunday 25th Rounders and to Anne Wheelhouse for writing the June. The events were all a huge success. The weather Church Quiz. was kind and we all enjoyed a sunny afternoon. The The next event is The Harvest Quiz evening on Mayor of Tunbridge Wells and her assistants joined in Saturday 30th September. Watch this space. the celebration with the uniformed organisations from Hawkhurst. Ali Jones The Church Social Committee de-brief meeting established that approximately 95 people attended the lunch in the churchyard and have been able to give a £400 donation towards the fabric of St.Laurence.

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The schools entry for Cress was sponsored by Tesco. ← in their wide open state ready for early warning of Wildlife at The Moor Home Guard Members enemy aircraft.

I have assembled this list of Members of Hawkhurst Thanks for your Hawkhurst Home Guard list Home Guard, I am sure there were more in the latter which I cannot add to, other than make reference to years but this is a start to see if anybody else out there Historic Hawkhurst Vols III & IV wartime volunteers, can recall other members of the Hawkhurst unit. etc. Apparently, Admiral Harper (ret) took the upper Members of Home Guard 1940–1944?: room in the Victoria Hall (now the Kino projection room, I guess) for ARP HQ. (I bet the Home Guard Major Geering used it for reporting). Other WWII names that crop- Captain Piper up include Gunther of Tongswood bequeathing the Sergeant William (Bill) Goodwin fire station (now library); Lt Col Lloyd of Lillesden Mr Gasper (Quarter Master) with his firing range; Maj Gen Brunskill of The Mr Singleton (Medical attendant) Chantry hosting Canadians in local war games, etc. Mr Jack Johnson (Lieutenant)) Mr Jamieson (Senior) Mr Ernest Golding Mr Patrick O’Keeffe

The Sound Mirrors at Greatstone – they used to be right out in the open of Dungeness when we visited them 30 or so years ago. But today after considerable pebble extraction was over a short while ago, the whole area returned to the responsibility of RSPB with plenty of wildlife and large lakes – vegetation having grown up all around as shown in the pic attached, taken when there as no sun at all this weekend! Earlier pics (see p3 in the Secret Battle of Britain booklet) show the mirrors

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Kent, thus earning this iconic little railway the proud Hawkhurst Branch Line nickname of the “Hop Pickers Line”. The Craft Centre 01580 752904 The Hop Pickers Group unveiled their map this week Representatives of the five communities, together with local authority partners in the new (see above), which is on display at Foam Supplies interpretation scheme for the Hop Pickers Line railway station. Cushions cut to size and shape. project, joined with South Eastern Railway managers DIY Upholstery materials, tools etc. You can see reproduced here that Hawkhurst is, at Paddock Wood Station on 4th July for the formal of course, featured on the map with views of the opening of the first information panel for the Hop Knitting wools and accessories, haberdashery etc. Colonnade, Church and the old station. Pickers Line recently installed at the station. The line is also known locally as the Hawkhurst Branch Line. Open 9am ‘till 3pm The Studio The Group is making a way-marked route from Closed all day Wed. Cranbrook Road Hawkhurst to Paddock Wood following public Closed 1pm Sat. Hawkhurst Researched and produced by talented designer TN18 4AR footpaths as close to the old railway line as possible. Martyn Hey, the panels provide a map showing the 11-mile route of the original line, together with For Hire The Hop Pickers Line Heritage Group many attractive graphics and useful information Old London Bus 1953 bus If you would about the route, including locations where it may and crew in period uniform like to ➢ l Weddings Between 1892 and 1961, a single-track steam advertise in still be visible. The map also gives a brief overview l Civil Partnerships this railway, developed by the talented young engineer l London Tours of each of the line’s five destinations, their railway magazine Holman Fred Stephens, linked the rural communities l Anniversaries heritage and a short description of how they l Races please contact of Paddock Wood, , , have subsequently evolved into the attractive l Film, Television Mike Appelbe Cranbrook and Hawkhurst. communities which may be visited and enjoyed and Photoshoots l Corporate use 01580 752367 It also brought thousands of residents from the today. l Trips to France mike.appelbe@ East End of London to the area every summer for Old London Bus For further information please contact: John Hunt Hawkhurst TN18 4AX barrettsgreen. their annual hop-picking “holiday” in this area of 01580 753041. 01580 754253 co.uk www.oldlondonbus.co.uk

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What’s happening locally by donation. Refreshments (homemade cakes), St. Laurence Church Fri. 18th Raffle, Tombola, Sales Table with plants and Calendar for august 09.30 Holy Communion at St Laurence produce, Visitors and new members welcome. VILLAGE WALKS Thursdays at 2pm All services at St Laurence Church unless stated otherwise. th th Sat 19 3rd August meet at *St Laurence Church, Monday 4 September at 7pm in Copt Hall, This calendar of services and activities is compiled way 14.00 Wedding at St Laurence Copthall Avenue. The speaker is Nigel Gibson on in advance in order to meet the magazine deadline. The Moor Occasionally items have to be changed/moved/cancelled. th Grasses and Late Perennials. Plants and Produce Please check posters or our website for any alterations: www. The Tenth Sunday after Trinity 10 August meet at Waitrose car park entrance th table. Raffle and Refreshments. Visitors and new stlaurencechurch-hawkhurst.org/ Sun. 20 17th August meet at *St Laurence Church, 08.00 Holy Communion at St Laurence The Moor members welcome. Tues. 1st 10.00 Celtic Style Parish Communion at St th 18.30 Holy Communion at St Laurence Laurence 24 August meet at Waitrose car park entrance nd st HAWKHURST U3A Wed. 2 18.00 Monthly Prayer Hour in the Lady Chapel at 31 August meet at *St Laurence Church, 11.15 Holy Communion in the Sub Lounge at “Catherine Broughton on Hearing Dogs” St Laurence The Moor Bowles Lodge Tues. 22nd Thursday 3rd August at 10:00. All are welcome *for these walks, (hopefully) cars or mini-bus 18.30 Holy Communion at St Laurence provided. Contact for details; also check first if at our August monthly meeting at the British Jean-Baptiste Vianney, Curé d’Ars, Spiritual Guide, Wed. 23rd Legion Hall. 1859 11.15 Holy Communion in the Sub Lounge at walking from The Moor: Tina Cobbold 752737 th Catherine has been a Hearing Dog recipient since Fri. 4 Bowles Lodge 09.30 Mothers’ Union Corporate Communion at St th 1998 and is now the proud partner of Beni a six Fri. 25 BULK REFUSE COLLECTION Laurence 09.30 Holy Communion at St Laurence Sunday 08.00 – 11.00 in Fowlers Car Park year-old Shih Tzu. She will recount her personal The Transfiguration of Our Lord 6th August Garden Waste experience of hearing loss, its peaks and troughs The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity Sun. 6th th th and describe how volunteering for the charity Sun. 27 20 August Domestic Waste 08.00 Holy Communion at St Laurence has returned fun and fulfilment to her life. 08.00 Holy Communion at St Laurence 10.00 All Age Family Communion and Baptism at 10.00 Parish Communion at St Laurence MOTHERS’ UNION FELLOWSHIP Registered St Laurence Charity No. 250124 HAWKHURST HARMONIES The Beheading of John the Baptist th th British Legion Hall every Wednesday morning Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, Tues. 29 Friday 4 August at 9.30am at St Laurence - 1221 10:15 – 12:00 for over 50s to meet up socially to 18.30 Holy Communion at St Laurence Mothers Union Corporate Communion Tues. 8th sing. Thursday 31st August at 12 noon - Cathedral 18.30 Holy Communion at St Laurence John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688 Prayer in St Gabriel’s Chapel, Canterbury Wed. 30th 11.15 Holy Communion in the Sub HAWKHURST PARISH COUNCIL Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers’ Union, 1921 Lounge at Bowles Lodge Cathedral Crypt. All Welcome. th Council Meetings commence at 19:45 unless Wed. 9 11.15 Holy Communion in the Sub Lounge at HIGHGATE HAWKHURST WI stated otherwise. Bowles Lodge th Visitors and new members always welcome, FULL COUNCIL PLANNING meeting on 7 August registers Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Minoresses (Poor contact 01580 388912 for more details. will be held in Copt Hall. Clares), 1253 Baptisms: 2nd July, Violet Ivy Livesey There is no meeting in August as there is a John Henry Newman, Priest, Tractarian, 1890 Marriages: 22nd July, Raul Deflorian and Emma coach trip. Fri. 11th Faulkner 13th September at Copt Hall, Copthall Avenue at 09.30 Holy Communion at St Laurence 7.30pm, speaker Sarah Denman “Seated Ballet”. 2 3 7 8 6 9 1 5 4 The Ninth Sunday after Trinity Hawkhurst Baptist Church Visitors and new members always welcome. 6 9 4 5 3 1 2 7 8 Sun. 13th 8 1 5 7 2 4 9 3 6 08.00 Holy Communion at St Laurence Toddler Train HAWKHURST MARKET SALE 10.00 Parish Communion and Baptism at 1–3pm every Tuesday. Baby Clinic at the same time but only on 1st and 3rd Tuesdays each month. Please look out for future posters and help to 4 5 9 2 1 8 3 6 7 St Laurence support various charities. Val Manser 752460 1 2 3 6 7 5 4 8 9 The Blessed Virgin Mary Who let the Dads out? 7 6 8 4 9 3 5 1 2 Tues. 15th For male parents and carers with their children HAWKHURST HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 18.30 Holy Communion at St Laurence 10:30-12:30 on 2nd Saturday each month (bacon th Saturday 2nd September. Autumn Flower Show 9 7 2 1 5 6 8 4 3 Wed. 16 butties provided!). 11.15 Holy Communion in the Sub Lounge at in School Hall, Rye Road at 2.30pm. Admission 3 4 1 9 8 7 6 2 5 Bowles Lodge

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18 Hawkhurst Village Magazine August 2017 Issue No.74 Hawkhurst Village Magazine August 2017 Issue No.74 19 ← Messy church ➢ 3rd Sunday of the month 4pm to 6pm. Pause for thought I was in a conversation the other day which showed Methodist Church sunday Services some confusion about the role of grace, faith and good Services and meetings at Dunks Hall unless works in our salvation. otherwise announced. One Christian was worried because a friend said salvation was by grace alone. I think he confused Superintendent Minister: Revd. John Ritson – 01959 this with the Protestant teaching that salvation is by 522196 faith alone. Then the Protestants protest that other Rural Group Minister: Revd. John Butt – 01622 Christians, Orthodox, Catholic and Anglican think 871332 salvation is by good works alone - they espouse the Rural Churches Worker/Pastor: Phil Staddon – belief that we can save ourselves, without the need for 01892 725447, [email protected] God’s grace; that “we can pull ourselves up by our Hawkhurst Stewards: own bootstraps”. Ken Barnes – 01580 753769 The puzzle can be solved when you remove the Mrs Jean Watson – 01580 753318 word “alone” from the discussion. That little word Wesley Guild Secretary: has caused huge division and dissension and it is not Miss Valerie Manser – 01580 752460 warranted.

Sunday worship at 10.30am - August preachers: In fact, our salvation is accomplished by one of 6th Phil Leese God’s little holy trinities. Grace, faith and works all 13th Ken Barnes combine together, and when you think about it, it is 20th Julie Todd all rather neat because it connects with ourselves who 27th Phil Staddon (because we are created in God’s image) are also little holy trinities. (some more holy than others). Grace

Tuesday Coffee Mornings 10.30am–12 Noon ➢ connects with our soul or spirit. Faith connects with our mind and intellect. Works connects with our body 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th August and actions. If you would like to advertise in Other churches Sunday services this magazine, please contact We need all three to be working together in unity The Wesley Guild closes down for the summer and Roman Catholics at 8.30am in St Barnabas Church and harmony. will restart with the Harvest Supper on Thursday 5th Mike Appelbe Contact Father Victor McClean 01580 211268 01580 752367 October. I suggest we think of it like this: You have got a car that will take you to your destination. God’s grace is [email protected] EVERYONE IS WELCOME to come along to any of these. the petrol in the tank without which Should Transport be required, please ask or telephone How to play: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column nothing in the car will go. Faith is and this will be arranged. and every 3 x 3 box contains the digits 1–9. There’s no maths the belief and trust that the car will involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. get you to your destination. Good works are you getting into the car, BAPTISTS SERVICES 7 1 3 putting the key in the ignition, Sunday 10.30am services starting her up and driving off. Preachers: 7 9 5 4 8 1 6th: Andrew Wilson, Release international 8 th 6 9 7 13 : Marsden Holden Fr. Rodney 20th: John Hammond 4 1 27th: Penny Marsh 9 5 The copy deadline for advertising and articles for the First Sunday of the month evening service as 7 2 8 4 9 well at 6.30pm; First Saturday of the month 8am 1 9 8 3 October 2017 issue prayer breakfast. of the magazine is 1st September. Please get your ads and articles in on time!

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20 Hawkhurst Village Magazine August 2017 Issue No.74 Hawkhurst Village Magazine August 2017 Issue No.74 21 Useful Contacts FRIENDSHIP CLUB ➢ Margaret Taylor – 753762 HAWKHURST PARISH COUNCIL ROTARY CLUB Chairman: Julia Newman, Dragons, Moor Hill, Hawkhurst Jacqueline Schalburg, Club secretary – 754378 TN18 4QB (752057) [email protected] Deputy Chairman: Margaret Brinsley, Duvals Farm, Whites Lane Hawkhurst Bonfire Society TN18 5DD (755554) [email protected] Robin Palmer 01580 753933 Parish Clerk: Mrs Nicole Godwin, Office at The Moor TN18 4NT (752058) [email protected] Hawkhurst Church of England Website: http://hpc.visithawkhurst.org.uk Primary School Facebook page: Hawkhurst Parish Council Liz Hatcher, Headteacher (753254) Buildings Committee Chair HAWKHURST FACEBOOK PAGES Brian Fitzpatrick 753498 [email protected] Hawkhurst - Save Our Village Margaret Brinsley 755554 [email protected] Hawkhurst Community Page Simon Spanswick 755828 [email protected] Hawkhurst-Oriolo Romano Twinning Barbara Weeden 753458 [email protected] Paul Whittle 753723 [email protected] Hawkhurst Horticultural Society Land Committee Pat Westgate 01580 753895 Chair Michael Robertson 753330 [email protected] HAWKHURST LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY

Mike Appelbe 752367 [email protected] Sylvia Golding (Hon Sec) 752334 ➢ Melanie Cronin 754823 [email protected] Arabella Hastie 753941 [email protected] Hawkhurst Pre-School John Hunt 753041 [email protected] Sarah Waugh, Manager (754226) Phil Jones 752729 [email protected] Hawkhurst Scout Group Akeomai Project Scouts and Explorers – 753528 Future copy deadlines: WRAP Concert (Hawkhurst Council of Churches): Cubs – 753018. Beavers – 753497 1st September 2017 for October issue Guides – Joanne Falkner 753635 Marlborough House School performed a concert as Chairman of the Trustees: Phil Staddon, 3 Orchard Crescent st Horsmonden TN12 8LB (01892 725447) Brownies – Jess Gould 753898 1 October 2017 for November issue entertainment for one of the WRAP sessions (above). Hospital car service tel: 752032 HAWKHURST U3A Conservative Borough Councillors Patrick Thomson, Membership Secretary 01580 753099, Patrick@ The Village magazine is stocked at: Godfrey Bland – 755858, [email protected] hartsgreen.com l Local Schools Nathan Gray – 07580 829522 [email protected] l Beverley Palmer – 754309 [email protected] HIGHGATE HAWKHURST WI Library Conservative County Councillor Seán Holden – 714880 sean. Contact telephone numbers: 01580 752880 / 01580 388912 l Shops [email protected] l Churches Village Warden l Parish Council office on The Moor Rob Perfitt 07773 396708, email: [email protected] l view online at: THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. LAURENCE HAWKHURST Hawkhurst Community Hospital http://hvm.visithawkhurst.org.uk St Laurence church office has moved into the church. League of Friends We have now begun distributing in villages that use Hawkhurst Opening hours remain the same, Monday, Wednesday and Friday Secretary Jane Hoole 01580 752193 as a hub: Hurst Green, Sandhurst, Flimwell and Bodiam. mornings 9.30 - 12.30. Telephone remains the same: 01580 753397 Website: www.hawkhurstlof.co.uk Vicar: Fr. Rodney Dreyer, M.Phil. A.K.C. Obl. O.S.B Monday Club at Bowles Lodge Joyce Saunders 752850 The Vicarage, Moor Hill (office 753397, home 754459) WRAP Dementia Day Care at Grove Mills Tina Stirling 755869 e-mail: [email protected] The Green Shop, 7 The Colonnade Marianne Relf 752768 Church website: www.stlaurencechurch-hawkhurst.org Administrator: Alison Mitham, Church Office, St Laurence RELATE Confidential family/relationship Church, The Moor, Hawkhurst TN18 4NT, 753397 If you contact any of Churchwardens: Stephen Ringer 879710 James Ewens 752023 therapy etc. Hon. Treasurer and Ringing Master: Alison Parsons 753240 01892 529927 [email protected] Organist & Choirmaster: Andrew Davis 752954 our advertisers, Parents & Toddlers: Peggy Stone 755569 MAGAZINE CONTACT DETAILS All Age Service: Felicity Robinson 752102 Editor: Mike Appelbe, Barretts Green Farmhouse TN18 4DP Sandra Dreyer 754459 (752367) [email protected] please mention that http://hvm.visithawkhurst.org.uk Advertising: John Mears (754001) [email protected] Other churches or contact the Editor you saw their ad Methodists - Rural Section Minister Revd. John Butt 01622 871332 Layout: May Corfield (754352) - Lay Worker Mr Phil Staddon 01892 725447 Illustrator: Emma Deflorian - Stewards Mr Ken Barnes 753769 & Mrs Jean Watson 753318 in the If you have any articles, photographs, information about - Wesley Guild Secretary Miss Valerie Manser 752460 forthcoming village events or issues you would like to raise Roman Catholics - Father Victor McClean 01580 211268 please send them to the Editor. We cannot guarantee they will be Hawkhurst Village Baptists - Contact Dr Ann Wood 715112 published but we will do our best to include them. Disclaimer: The views expressed by contributors to the magazine Dunks Almshouses are not necessarily the views of the editor and not necessarily Magazine. Clerk: Andrew Davis 388973 [email protected] views of The Parish Council. Website: www.dunkscharities.com

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