CRANLEIGH MAGAZINE NOV 2019 - FREE ISSUE 49 NOVEMBER What Came First . .? A magazine and website for Cranleigh and the surrounding areas www.cranleighmagazine.co.uk CRANLEIGH MAGAZINE CELEBRATING 25 YEARS WITH THE LAUNCH OF OUR NEW SHALFORD SHOWROOM IN GUILDFORD SHALFORD SHOWROOM RICHMOND SHOWROOM 7 KINGS ROAD 1-3 POPLAR COURT PARADE SHALFORD RICHMOND ROAD GUILDFORD GU4 8JU TW1 2DT TEL • 01483 277166 TEL • 01483 277166 [email protected] www.aspectkitchens.com Tel: 01403 751 873 Email: [email protected] Tel: 01403 751 873 Email: [email protected] 2 courses2 courses – £–2 £52.955.95 | 33 courses courses – £ 30– .95£30 .95 Tel: 01403 751 873 Email: [email protected] Blue Cheese, Celery & Pear Soup With No7 Blue Monday by Alex James, served with a fresh Jengers Mead Bakery Harvester slice Blue Cheese, Celery & Pear Soup With No7 Blue Monday by AlexHomemade James, served Chicken with Liver a& fresh Cognac Jengers Pate Mead Bakery Harvester slice served with sweet and sour onions & crostinis drizzled with homemade pesto Homemade Chicken Liver & Cognac Pate served with sweet and sourHome onions Cured & crostinisTrout Gravalax drizzled with homemade pesto local Chalk Stream Trout cured with Silent Pool Gin served with horseradish cream & crostinis Christmas Pudding served the way youWild like Mushrooms Homeit let that Cured be in with a Light Troutbrandy Cream Gravalaxsauce & orChive homemade sauce vanilla custard local Chalk Streamon a Jengers Trout Mead cured Harvester with Silent slice topped Pool withGin a served fried duck with egg horseradish& parmesan cheese cream & crostinis (Vegan Starter available on request) Butterscotch & Milk Chocolate Tart served with salted caramel ice cream & black cherry compote Wild Mushrooms in a Light Cream & Chive sauce on a Jengers Mead HarvesterWhole Roasted slice Peachtopped (vegan with version a fried available) duck egg & parmesan cheese (Veganwith butterscotch Starter sauceavailable & vanilla on icerequest cream ) LemonNorfolk Curd & Bronze Vanilla Turkey Panna Cotta cooked at a low heat bastedpistachio in butter & meringue served with crust all & the a homemadetrimmings, shortbreadapricot & cranberry biscuit stuffing & spiced red cabbage Selection of Artisan Cheeses No7 Blue Monday by Alex James, Somerset brie, DuckSussex Leg Charmer Confit served with artisan biscuits & a homemade apple served on braised spiced red cabbage, fondantand potato fig chutney & black cherry sauce topped with parsnip crisps Norfolk Bronze Turkey cooked at a low heat basted in butter servedPan Seared with Fillet all theof Chalk trimmings, Stream T apricotrout & cranberry stuffing & spiced red Tel: 01403 751 873 Email: [email protected] on a bed of braised fennel, leaks and peas with permantier potatoes finished with a caper & lemon butter cabbage Moroccan Style Bean Tagine (vegan) With dried fruits, herb couscous,Duck chargrilled Leg Confit pita bread & a soy yoghurt raita served on braised spiced red cabbage, fondant potato & black cherry sauce topped with parsnip crisps Pan Seared Fillet of Chalk Stream Trout on a bed of braised fennel, leaks and peas with permantier potatoes finished with a caper & lemon butter Christmas Pudding served the way youMoroccan like it let that Style be with Bean brandy Tagine sauce or (vegan) homemade vanilla custard With dried fruits, herb couscous, chargrilled pita bread & a soy yoghurt raita Butterscotch & Milk Chocolate Tart served with salted caramel ice cream & black cherry compote Whole Roasted Peach (vegan version available) with butterscotch sauce & vanilla ice cream Lemon Curd & Vanilla Panna Cotta For allergy advice or if youpistachio have &any meringue concerns crust or &requests a homemade please shortbread ask a member biscuit of staff and we will try to accommodate you where possible Selection of Artisan Cheeses No7 Blue Monday by Alex James, Somerset brie, Sussex Charmer served with artisan biscuits & a homemade apple and fig chutney For allergy advice or if you have any concerns or requests please ask a member of staff and we will try to accommodate you where possible For allergy advice or if you have any concerns or requests please ask a member of staff and we will try to accommodate you where possible For allergy advice or if you have any concerns or requests please ask a member of staff and we will try to accommodate you where possible CRANLEIGH MAGAZINE contents NOVEMBER 2019 Email: [email protected] © Published by Cranleigh Magazine Ltd. Tel: 01483 275 054 WELCOME to Cranleigh Magazine in the https://www.facebook.com/CranleighMagazine month of November. Change comes yet again https://twitter.com/cranleighmag as we watch the leaves on the trees change Colin, the Cranleigh Chameleon, is hidden colour and fall to the ground. In this month's somewhere in the magazine. Can you spot him? 'People Profile' we meet someone who made 48 Book Review a big change in their life, a career change and 50 Chicken Feed RECIPE we ask was it always there, inbred, born with 52 What Comes First In The Garden a love for nature and animals waiting to reveal itself? 53 Poets Corner 54 Cranleigh Arts Centre Cranleigh Magazine is a unique publication 56 Cranleigh Film Club compared with other everyday magazines. 57 Cranleigh Folk Club Partnered with its sister website - www.cranleighmagazine.co.uk - it creates a 62 Cranleigh Swimming Club connection with people through their work and 65 Cranleigh Camera Club Cover photo: The social networks. 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CRANLEIGH MAGAZINE JoyThe of Cranleigh Joy Horn brings some anecdotes from past times Vanished Buildings of Cranleigh The Toll-house and Toll-gate Above: Not Cranleigh’s toll-house, but the one at Gaston Gate, which the Cranleigh gate would have resembled (courtesy of Michael Miller) oads around Cranleigh 200 years ago were little more than tracks, causing problems for would-be travellers or farmers needing to Rtransport produce or stock to markets. In fact, the condition of the roads guaranteed that most people scarcely ventured out of the village. One remedy was for a group of wealthy people to invest in constructing a good-quality road, known as a turnpike road, then recoup their money and make a steady profit by levying charges for using it. So toll-gates were set up across the turnpike road at intervals, with a resident gatekeeper living in a toll-house. When a traveller approached, the gatekeeper would come out and open the gate, on payment of the appropriate toll. And, yes, Cran- leigh had its own toll-gate for 50-60 years in the nineteenth century. An Act of Parliament had to be obtained for each such turnpike road. Cranleigh’s Act specified that the projected road should go from Bramley, through Wonersh, Cranleigh and Ewhurst, to Rudgwick.