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An amazing friend of Marcus and mine called Mat Dibb has just set an offi cal Guinness World Record. He recorded the fastest lap by an in-dividual rider at the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course on an electric bicycle. This is despite the fact that he is a kidney pati ent and on the waiti ng list for a kidney transplant. Mat has ded-icated himself to raising money and awareness for the South West Thames Kidney Fund, and raised more than £2,000 on this record break-ing achievement. Mat has also raised £3,253 by cycling 1,000 miles in 10 days as part of 2010’s John O’Groats to Lands End challenge, and £8,650 on World Kidney Day 2013 through a 48-hour, non-stop turbo training challenge in his lo-cal village hall. If you would like to fi nd out more about how you can become a donor or volun-teer with the South West Thames Kidney Fund, please contact Anne Collard on 020 8296 3698.

Every month we try and run a free profi le of a local charity, group or organisati on and I now have a healthy number for this feature for 2015. That said, we do have some gaps so if you are in-volved in such an organisati on and would like to get some free publicity in VantagePoint, please get in touch with me by email and hopefully I can fi nd you a slot someti me during the next year.

Well Humph has arrived and so far all is going well. He’s very well behaved at home, and just a tad bored when he is in the offi ce and awake - and who can blame him? He is growing at a rate of knots (another phrase for our What the Dick-ens feature I feel) and he has just started obedi-ence classes, so it will be interesti ng to see what progress he has made by this ti me next month.

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8 Fashion with Kirstie Colour concepts

14 Thiepval

Lutyens’ memorial to the Missing of the Somme

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24 Prepare Yourself for Winter28 A Good Book Our latest reviews

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Remembrance Sunday is on 9th November and will be parti cularly poignant this year as we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI. I’ve been greatly impressed with the way so many clubs, schools and churches have grasped the huge signifi cance of this date by putti ng on so many exhibiti ons, displays and events. It’s good to know that younger generati ons are being made aware of the huge sacrifi ces our forebears made for our future. On a lighter note, we are off on some more musical nostalgia later this month. The Manfreds are playing at G Live in Guildford on 30th November with, I gather, prett y much the whole original line up. The next day we’re off to Haslemere Halls to see Fleetwood Bac, a highly rated Fleetwood Mac tribute band. Will report back next month.

Apparently there is a rumour going round that R.A Robertson & Sons of Bramley are closing down, I believe it has even been published in a local journal. Anyway, they would like to reassure their customers that they are NOT CLOSING DOWN but there may be a possibility of the business re-locati ng locally. Please feel free to contact them on 01483 892207.

Cranleigh Walking for Health meets every Wednesday and Saturday at 11am outside the Leisure Centre

for FREE guided health walks of approx 1.5 hours. A new shorter walks programme (half an hour on Thursdays at 10.30am, again from the Leisure Centre) has started, aimed at people who are keen to get started on a more acti ve lifestyle but may fi nd the 3-4 mile walks too demanding. All you need is suitable footwear and a desire to improve your fi tness and to make new friends. Go along and give it a try!

There’s an exhibiti on enti tled ‘Art by Jo Maynard – Pet Portraits and Wildlife’. It’s taking place at The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundati on Gallery, 7 Saba House, Kings Road, Shalford, Guildford GU4 8JU from Saturday 1st November to Saturday 29th November. Do go and see detailed and lifelike pencil drawings of pets and wildlife. Commissions very much welcomed. You can commission Jo to draw your pet (photo-shoot included) or buy a gift voucher for a portrait. Otherwise, just browse and buy lovely signed limited editi on prints, mugs and greeti ng cards of Jo’s drawings. All sales support endangered wildlife. For more informati on see www.davidshepherd.org. Open Monday-Friday, 9-5pm, Saturday 10-4 pm and entry is free.

Surrey County Walkers have some excellent walks coming up in November. Here are brief details: Sunday 2nd November, 7 mile

moderate walk along North Downs Way, Chilworth and St Martha’s. Meet Newlands corner, Ref 187/043492. Leader Mary, 01483 728089. Saturday 8th November, 7 mile moderate walk along North Downs. Meet Shere Recreati on Ground, Ref 187/073479. Leader Pat, 01483 284913. Sunday 16th November, 7.5 mile moderate walk around Lurgashall and Blackdown. Meet Lower Car Park Blackdown, Ref 186/922306. Leader Bob, 01932 355333. Saturday 22nd November, 7.5 mile easy walk around Bisley and Donkey Town. Meet Bisley cp, off A322 roundabout near Hen & Chicken pub, Ref 186/948597. Leader Colin 01276 474258. Sunday 30th November, 7 mile moderate walk around Old Arlesford, Bighton, Bishops Sutt on. Meet Arlesford old Stn (Watercress Line). Pub lunch at Bighton. Leader Andrew 01252 520256. For all walks, meet at 10am sharp.

Why not join the Guildford Travel Club on alternate Tuesdays at Onslow Village Hall at 8pm for illustrated talks on travel by a range of photographers, travellers, explorers, mountaineers and writers. On Tuesday 4th November, Tony Escritt talks on the Images of Borneo. Through the eyes of several inhabitants of Malaysian Borneo, he takes a look at the character of the country, its landscapes and wildlife. Membership for the season (October to April) costs

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There may be talk of a monochrome trend this winter but colour was very much alive on the catwalk and the designers showed us how it’s done.

Most of the ti me we know which colours we like and keep it simple by paring with the neutrals of black, white, and all shades of beige and soft greys. But for those days when you need a boost, be brave and think about the Colour Wheel.

The Two Colour Opti on, (colours sitti ng opposite each other), are complementary shades which have the power to ‘pop’. Even if it is a litt le detail or a narrow belt, the choice of colour could be more interesti ng than just black.

The Three Colour Opti on, sit in a triangle which can rotate to unite the Primary colours of red, blue and yellow or the Secondary shades for more interesti ng combinati ons. This is oft en noti ced in printed fabrics; the choice of colour lift ing its neighbour.

We have obviously learnt from nature - the green leaves of chard have powerful fuchsia pink running through it and the iris with its

perfect purple and brushstroke of yellow. Prada’s beauti fully edged coat and Dior’s eye-catching dress

stand out from the crowd.

These shades are very vibrant, so for every day think about wearing them in soft er tones and diff erent percentages, not 50/50; maybe 80/20 or even 90/10. It’s a hint that is needed, not a shout!

In high street terms this is easily translated. Take the rich royal blue shirt by Reiss, and to add a pop of

colour go to the opposite shade and introduce a warm orange leopard belt by French Connecti on or for evening, a

narrow golden metallic belt. Jigsaw’s bott le green knitt ed biker jacket would look great with jeans, but for a warmer colour opti on, try their deep red cigarett e trousers.

For tonal dressing take inspirati on from Gucci this season. Soft shades of sage green and slate blue are easy to wear and it’s the diff erent textures of leather and fur that add the interest. Vibrant shades of reds and fuchsia are powerful yet wearable with black accents.

I personally have to be in the right mood for colour and print - ready to take on the world knowing that I may be looked at (and judged) more than if I wore my trusty jeans and pastel sweater. I oft en opt for a gorgeous printed scarf, full of colour, movement and cosiness. It’s an easy way to add the rainbow of colour into your outf it.

You now have all the knowledge - use it wisely and choose your moments. And enjoy.

Colour ConceptsFashion stylist, Kirsti e Smillie, looks at how to wear colour.

What colours say:Blue is noted as one of the most popular colours to wear in the world and in an interview situati on, blue symbolises loyalty and control whereas grey represents confi dence and allows the interviewer to focus on you, not what you are wearing.

Black - Black is the colour of authority but too much can be unapproachable. Soft en with textures.Brown - Brown conveys reliability, stability, and genuine character. Lift with soft pastel shades.Purple - Purple gives the impression of luxury, wealth and sophisti cati on but is someti mes too bold.Green - Green is easy on the eye, calming, refreshing and balancing. Mint through to Bott le.Yellow - Yellow signifi es cheerfulness and creati veness but can be overpowering if there is too much.Blue - Blue gives the impression of trust and logic and is calm and peaceful. Simple to wear.Red - Red is an emoti onal and powerful colour, exciti ng and courageous. Choose occasion wisely.White - White denotes simplicity and cleanliness and always works in unity with other coloursGrey - Grey is sophisti cated and confi dent, and easy to lift with any other colour.

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Above: soft pastels and rich tones by Gucci

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Following the great success of last year’s Self Portrait competi ti on, Cranleigh Decorati ve & Fine Arts Society is again sponsoring this initi ati ve to encourage the development of, and interest in, the arts in Year 5 classes in four schools in Cranleigh: St Cuthbert Mayne, Cranleigh CP Junior School, Park Mead Junior School and St Joseph’s Specialist School. Do go along to Cranleigh Arts Centre and admire the talent of some truly inspiring young arti sts from Cranleigh. It runs from Wednesday 5th to Saturday 15th November (Gallery opening ti mes: Tuesday-Saturday 10am – 4.30pm) and entry to the Gallery is free.

Don’t forget, there’s a folk music session every Monday at the Star in Church Street Godalming at 9pm. Also at the Harrow at Compton every

Wednesday at 8.30pm and every 1st and 3rd Sunday at the Queen Victoria in Shalford starti ng at 8.30pm. All musicians, singers and audience welcome. It’s free; just turn up. For more informati on phone Kevin Gorton on 01483 415962.

Grayshott Decorati ve and Fine Arts Society’s next meeti ng is on Thursday 6th November at 2pm in Grayshott Village Hall. Peter Medhurst’s lecture ‘In the Wake of Handel’ will explore the eff ect of Handel’s music not only on his musical contemporaries but also on the literary, visual and decorati ve arts both in his lifeti me and subsequently. On Thursday 13th November, the ever in demand Douglas Skeggs returns for a Day of Special Interest – ‘The Art of Venice: The Lion of the Sea’. Then on 4th December in ‘In the Bleak mid-Winter’, Ann Clements will trace how arti sts have responded to the challenges of winter. If you would like more informati on on GDFAS contact Caroline on 01428714276 or have a look at their website www.grayshott dfas.org.uk .

The Ron Green Big Band consists of sixteen musicians and a singer and includes members from Cranleigh, Horsham and Godalming. Go along for an evening of music from the swing era, with a whole host of well-known favourites, sure to get those feet tapping! Music is under the directi on of John Sandford, saxophone teacher at Cranleigh School. It takes place at The Cranleigh Arts Centre on Thursday 6th November at 8pm. Tickets: £12 (£10 in advance).

The dates for the November Anti ques collectors fairs are as follows: Cranleigh Village Hall on 6th and 20th November from 7.30am-15.30pm. Free entry and refreshments available. Shere Village Hall on 9th and 23rd November, 11am-4pm. Free entry and parking.

The Three Lions pub in Meadrow, Godalming has long been an important venue for local and nati onal musicians to ply their trade. I have been there quite a few ti mes in the past and the standard of music has never failed to impress me. Following

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Pocket Dream, an adaptati on of Edward Hall’s hit Propeller producti on of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, comes to The Electric Theatre in Guildford on Friday 7th November. Pocket Propeller is the ideal introducti on not only to Shakespeare but also to the thrill and excitement of theatre. It aims to deliver a fi rst class theatrical experience to a young audience based

on a sixty minute version of a Propeller producti on. Propeller is a renowned all male Shakespeare company which combines a rigorous approach to the text with a physical aestheti c to create producti ons full of clarity, poetry, speed and imaginati on. They deliver a fresh and inspiring introducti on to Shakespeare to delight all ages. Aft er the performance, young audiences will be invited into a performance space where the actors will encourage them to express their response to the work in the freest possible way. The actors will also invite questi ons and feedback from the audience in an open and engaging dialogue. Tickets are available from The Electric Theatre box offi ce on 01483 444789 or available online at www.electrictheatre.co.uk.

If you are looking for somewhere to play bridge, this might be of interest. You will be very welcome to go along and play friendly sociable Duplicate Bridge at Shalford Village Hall on Fridays at 7.15pm. For further details contact the organiser, Philip Thomas on 07753 405711 or visit Bridgepedia’s website: www.bridgewebs.com/bridgepedia.

Bramley Music is pleased to welcome Richard Saxel and friends To Holy Trinity Church, Bramley on Saturday 8th November at 7.30 pm. This is the Saturday closest to Armisti ce Day and Silent Noon will be an evening of music and readings echoing the First World War. They are very grateful to Richard, who has been a great supporter of and ambassador for Bramley Music, for making this possible. In additi on to Richard playing the piano, you will also hear Lucy Cronin (soprano), Angus Meryon (clarinet), Nicholas Warden (bass-baritone) and Peter Longshaw (narrator). Tickets £10 (under 18s and students £5) to include a free drink. The external charity they will be supporti ng is the Royal Briti sh Legion. Make a note of Saturday 20th December at 7.30pm, when there will be a Christmas Concert by the Harlequin Chamber Choir in Holy Trinity Church.

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Sir Edwin Lutyens was arguably the fi nest Briti sh architect of the 20th century, fêted for his country houses and for largely designing New Delhi, when it was chosen to replace Calcutt a as the seat of the Briti sh Indian government.

Although born in London in 1869, Ned (as he was always called) grew up in Thursley, Surrey where he spent his ti me indulging in his passion for looking at houses, watching all the stages of buildings going up, haunti ng the carpenter’s shop at Thursley and a builder’s yard in Guildford. At 15 it had become apparent that Ned was cut out to be an architect, a career encouraged by Ralph Caldecott , a Surrey neighbour (the illustrator of so many delightf ul children’s books depicti ng Surrey cott ages). He began his own practi ce aged just 19 in 1888, his fi rst commission being a small private house called Crooksbury, near Farnham in Surrey.

During WWI, Lutyens was appointed one of three principal architects for the Imperial War

Graves Commission (IWGC), which was created in 1917 to care for the graves of all of those from the Dominions who had died on acti ve service. He was responsible for more than 60 war

memorials at home and abroad, with the Cenotaph in Whitehall probably the best known. But it is the majesti c Memorial to the Missing of the Somme that stands out as one of his fi nest achievements.

One of the cardinal principles of the IWGC was that the names of all of those who had died during the confl ict should be remembered in the appropriate theatre of acti on. This was relati vely straightf orward for the bodies that were capable of identi fi cati on but proper considerati on had to be given to the ‘Missing’ - the 517,000 who were known to have died,

but whose bodies either could not be found or, if they could be found, could not be identi fi ed. The unknown bodies were buried under a headstone inscribed with words chosen by Kipling: ‘A Soldier of the Great War Known Unto

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God’ supplemented by any other relevant informati on that could be gathered from the uniform on the body.

This left open the questi on of how to commemorate the names of the Missing. The idea that eventually emerged, promoted by Lutyens and his colleague Sir Reginald Blomfi eld, was to have the names inscribed on stone walls in the cemeteries, although it was recognised that it would take ti me to assemble accurate lists of the Missing and reach a conclusion as to which was the appropriate cemetery for each theatre of acti on. Whilst the Commission was wrestling with this problem, it had been included as a member of the Batt le Exploits Memorial Committ ee, which had been established in 1918 to consider the general questi on of batt lefi eld memorials. One of the fi rst items that they had to consider was the questi on of some form of memorial at Ypres, the salient around which had seen some of the War’s most bitt er fi ghti ng. Lutyens name was suggested by the War Offi ce but Sir Fabian Ware, the IWGC’s founder and vice-chairman, did not think that Lutyens was the right man to design it. In a lett er to Sir Frederic Kenyon, Director of the Briti sh Museum and architectural advisor to the IWGC, Ware said: ‘I took a rather strong line about the matt er as I knew that you would feel that Ypres, with its gothic associati ons etc etc was not the kind of work at which Lutyens would excel. The other memorials will give more scope to the special blend of Lutyens genius’. Kenyon replied that ‘Lutyens might very well have the Somme or Cambrai-St Quenti n’.

By October 1921, the Commission had drawn up plans for memorials on 12 sites in France and Belguim which were to act as Memorials to the Missing as well as batt lefi eld memorials. Two memorials (Arras and St Quenti n) were allocated to Lutyens. Progress was slow and compromised by the need to acquire the land and secure the consent for the designs from the French Commission de Monuments Historiques. As the Commission developed its plans the French began to be concerned about both the number of the memorials and their size, as they were in danger of overshadowing

their own commemorati ve proposals. The French view was shared by Ware and his colleagues and in May 1927, the Commission endorsed a new plan that saw one memorial move over the border into Belgium and the names of the Missing being split between four stand-alone memorials. Three of the sites were already committ ed, leaving just one site to be decided. The original list of 12 had included memorials for various phases of the Somme batt les, rather than a single memorial. However, with no other Somme memorial planned, it was decided that the fi nal site should be at Thiepval to commemorate the area that, along with the struggle at Ypres, had become one of the most signifi cant areas of the Western Front.

By the ti me that the Commission had undertaken its reappraisal Lutyens had already made substanti al progress with the two projects allocated to him. The St Quenti n design had been through a number of iterati ons. When the local commune had fi rst been

Above: The Cenotaph in

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Below: Goddards near Abinger, Surrey, one of

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approached about the matt er it suggested the memorial could be placed in a new square they were creati ng in the middle of the town for its own memorial. The Mayor met Lt-Col Cart de Lafontaine (the Commission’s French speaking architect who had the responsibility for liaising with the local authoriti es) to discuss the matt er. He stated that he did not want an obelisk or statues but would prefer a building such as a pantheon or a Hall of Memory, within which the names could be inscribed. Lutyens went to France and met Paul Bigot, the architect of the commune’s memorial, on 9th July 1923 and concluded that the locati on was unsuitable because of the diffi culty of combining two memorials on the one site, especially as the Briti sh one would overpower its French counterpart. The Commission suggested a site 2km north of the town and the Mayor welcomed the proposals as he considered that they would ‘considerably add to the historic and arti sti c interest of St Quenti n’. Lutyens was asked to design a memorial to contain 60,000 names and he prepared plans for a multi -columned arch to straddle the road.

Although the Commission did not endorse its revised plans for the memorials unti l May 1927, it had already become att uned to the French concerns and the possibility of relocati ng the St Quenti n memorial to Thiepval to become a memorial for the Missing of the Batt les of the Somme, which had been raised with Lutyens the previous May. Wasti ng no ti me, he inspected the area in August and a commanding site away from the roads on a ridge south west of the village was chosen. Approval of the design was fi nally received from the Commission des Monuments Historiques on 12th April 1928 and constructi on work was in progress on the foundati ons by the following March.

The memorial as built is the largest Briti sh war memorial in the world and its ‘extraordinary red brick and white stone’ has been described by the architectural historian Gavin Stamp as ‘one of the fi nest works of Briti sh architecture of the

20th century’. Despite its chequered history the basic design of the memorial remained relati vely constant but the main change was to its size, as it was scaled up or down depending upon the number of names it had to accommodate. It stands 140ft high and takes the form

of a series of interpenetrati ng arches of four increasing heights, which give rise to 16 massive pillars on which are carved the 72,099 names of the Missing.

The main building material is red brick, with limestone being used for the panels that hold the names. Limestone has also been used to provide cornice lines that wrap around the memorial to link the keystone of an arch on one level with the springing point of the one on the next. It is a masterful compositi on, made all the more so because the use of diff ering heights of arches gives it two profi les - from two sides chunky and muscular, from the other two tall and slender. At its heart, in the void created by the two tallest arches sits, reverenti ally, a Lutyens War Stone on its familiar three stepped plinth, the top and lower treads twice the width of the middle one. The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval was unveiled on 1 August 1932 by the Prince of Wales and its completi on eff ecti vely marked the end of the Imperial War Graves Commission’s work in Belgium and France.

The memorial and cemetery are maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and are located on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). The Thiepval Visitor Centre was built in 2004 and is located a short distance from the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme and the Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery. It is open daily from February to mid December. See www.en.historial.org for more informati on.

Part of this is an edited extract from Lutyens and The Great War by Tim Skelton and Gerald Gliddon, published by Frances Lincoln.

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Saturday 8th November is Chiddingfold Bonfi re Night. Aft er the fi reworks, there’s music at ‘The

Villagers’, with ‘Bad Infl uence’ (www.badinfl uence.org.uk) an explosion of rock and blues from London. The Villagers was formally Chiddingfold Club but has been re-built and is now a pub open to all. It’s situated in Woodside Road Chiddingfold GU8 4QD.

On Sunday 9th November, at All Saints Church, Grayswood, local student Jessica Gale will be giving a piano recital, performing the work she is preparing for her Diploma exam in December. This includes music by Bach, Beethoven and Schumann. Kay Turk, All Saints trainee organist will join Jessica for three lively duets. Tea and cake will be served during the interval. Starts at 3pm, entry is free but there will be a reti ring collecti on in aid of the roof repair fund.

Waverley Dowsers meet in the Unitarian Hall, Godalming to learn about the diverse applicati ons of dowsing for fun and as a science. Forthcoming meeti ng dates are Tuesdays 11th November and 9th December, which will be social

evenings. On 13th January 2015 the evening will be devoted to the Chakra system, and on 10th March, Crystal Communicati on. In one of their recent outdoor events, they helped, through dowsing, locate the exact locati on of the altar at Waverley Abbey. Whilst dowsing is associated with water fi nding it is also associated with alternati ve therapies and impinges on many areas of science and is underpinned by the bett er understanding of quantum science. People from any background and non dowsers are welcome. Further informati on from Michael Haxelti ne on 01252 541639 or go to www.waverleydowsers.co.uk.

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Most folk enjoying a quiet drink in the Wetherspoons pub at the bott om of North Street in Guildford will be unaware that they are relaxing on the site of Britain’s oldest-established vehicle manufacturer. Indeed one of the oldest in the world, with a history which can be traced back to 1895 and the closing years of the Victorian era.

During Queen Victoria’s reign, the industrial revoluti on had seen both the birth and rapid development of the railway system, off ering comparati vely fast ways to transport both goods and people over relati vely long distances. As the 19th century ended however, that railway supremacy was about to be challenged, and subsequently beaten, by a new form of road transport – that powered by internal combusti on engines.

Few of the pioneers of this second industrial revoluti on can have imagined how their early inventi ons would develop. Certainly one John Dennis would not have done so when he left his nati ve Devon in 1894 to join Filmer & Mason, a fi rm of ironmongers in Guildford High Street. As a country boy, John’s interests lay in farm machinery, and soon aft er arriving in Guildford in 1895 he built a bicycle, using parts bought through his employer. This fi rst machine was soon sold profi tably, leading to the manufacture and sale of further cycles, and, aft er a period working for a cycle manufacturer in London, John was able to set up his own business in 1895, selling his Speed King and Speed Queen cycles from The Universal Athleti c Stores at the bott om of Guildford’s High Street. John’s brother, Raymond, then only 17, soon moved up from Devon to join John in his growing business.

In a far-sighted move, John and Raymond built, in 1897, a motorised tricycle fi tt ed with a single-cylinder De Dion engine. Although inevitably primiti ve, this machine must have

been reasonably eff ecti ve, for as company folklore recalls, John became one of the fi rst, if not the fi rst person, to fall foul of motoring law by being prosecuted for ‘driving furiously up Guildford High Street at the speed of 16 mph’. A not inconsiderable fi ne of 20 shillings was repaid many ti mes over as the Dennis brothers used this incident in their adverti sements as proof of the machines speed. Then – as now – speed sells!

Motorised tricycles soon gave way to motorised quadricycles, which although far from substanti al vehicles, set the scene for a move into building motor cars in 1901. This was facilitated by a move from the outgrown High Street premises to an old army barracks in North Street.

In 1901 motor cars were sti ll a rarity, with probably no more than 500 in Britain, however the Dennis brothers conti nued to invest in their belief in the future of motoring, they expanded further with a purpose-built offi ce and factory – the Rodboro Buildings on Onslow Street, now the home of JD Wetherspoons amongst others. Indeed, so successful were sales of the Dennis Brothers products that the fi rm moved into part of the new factory even before the rest was completed.

Interesti ngly, fi nal assembly of cars was carried out on the third fl oor, the lower fl oors being given over to stores, offi ces, showrooms and component manufacturing. A large lift was therefore required to carry the fi nished cars down to ground level.

As the sales of motor cars increased, and as more manufacturers jumped on the bandwagon, the Dennis brothers looked for diversifi cati on opportuniti es. They quickly realised that the principles developed for moving people via motor cars could be adapted to move goods, thereby providing signifi cant benefi ts to businesses large and small who had hitherto been reliant on horse-drawn transport.

In 1904, Dennis built their fi rst commercial vehicle, a 15 cwt van for Harrods department store. Shortly aft erwards, their fi rst bus followed, which plied between Kingston-upon-Thames and Richmond.

Rapid success in sales of this broadened product range meant that the capacity of the Rodboro Buildings factory was again soon exceeded. A new 10 acre site was purchased at Woodbridge Hill, then a greenfi eld site on the edge of Guildford. Never ones to spend money unnecessarily, one of the fi rst buildings on the site was reputedly a disused Mission

Dennis BrothersBritain’s oldest vehicle manufacturer company was established in Guildford. In the fi rst in a series, Andy Goundry tells the story.

The very fi rst Dennis commercial vehicle, the 1904 15cwt. van built for Harrods. (Dennis Society).

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Hall from Brixton which was dismantled, transported 30 miles, and re-erected to become No. 1 shop.

A further broadening of the Dennis range in 1908 proved to be signifi cant, when a fi re engine was produced for the City of Bradford Brigade. Traditi onally, fi re engines had been horse drawn, and used steam-powered pumps, with inevitably slow response ti mes. In contrast, Dennis’s Bradford appliance could be on scene quickly and pumping immediately, thanks to its White & Poppe petrol engine. The success of this revoluti onary appliance initi ally led to London and then other fi re brigades throughout Britain, and indeed throughout the world. The name Dennis soon became synonymous with Fire in the public’s eye.

Sales success in fi re engines was matched by thriving orders for buses and other heavier vehicles, at the expense of the original passenger cars. Indeed, in 1909 the company issued a statement to confi rm that it was sti ll building ‘passenger cars’. In truth however, the manufacture of Dennis cars was a relati vely short-lived era, with comparati vely few ever having been built. Fitti ngly two of the very few remaining cars belong to John Dennis, grandson of one of those original Dennis brothers, and can be regularly seen parti cipati ng in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.

By 1910, Dennis’s claimed proudly, and justi fi ably, that their fi re engines operated all over the world, from Auckland to Zanzibar, whilst over 1,000 Dennis lorries and vans were at work moving goods around the country.

Perhaps one of the company’s greatest strengths in these pre-Great-War years of rapid growth came from its ability and readiness to produce vehicles for specifi c uses, alongside their more standard ranges. This fl exibility was made possible by the Woodbridge Hill factory making complete vehicles rather than just bodies or chassis.

By 1910 the factory was producing 1,000 vehicles annually. The factory was extended several ti mes, covering over 260,000 square feet by 1916 – massive by any standards.

Even before then, war was in the air, and Dennis, which became a public company in 1913, took the decision to cease passenger car producti on in favour of concentrati ng on commercial vehicles. In part, this was in response to the Government’s recogniti on that the coming

war would need far more in the way of reliable mechanised transportati on than was readily available. Thus the Government devised the ‘subventi on scheme’, whereby the owner of a lorry approved by the War Department, who made that vehicle available for use for the war eff ort, would be rewarded with a payment of £110. The vehicle types approved for this subsidy were subjected to rigorous testi ng by the War Department, thus owners who parti cipated in the scheme not only received the cash subsidy but invested in the vehicle in the knowledge that it had successfully passed these tests.

Dennis was in the forefront of manufacturers submitti ng vehicles for these tests. Their vehicles successfully completed the tests without too much change. The foresight of both the Government and Dennis paid off as over 7,000 of these reliable vehicles were built over the war years, seeing honourable and trusty service in all theatres of war.

The Woodbridge Hill factory toiled day and night during the war to produce these vehicles, leading to the directors receiving a lett er of encouragement from Lord Kitchener.

Ironically, at the end of the war this eff ort resulted in a vast fl eet of surplus lorries no longer needed by the military. These found their way back to the UK and at a stroke destroyed the market for new lorries and indeed buses, thereby precipitati ng the Dennis business into its fi rst real challenge in a new and uncertain future.

From top:

Two adverts dati ng from 1925 and 1928 (www.gracesguides.co.uk).

An iconic 1914 Dennis N Type, immor-talised in an Airfi x kit. This vehicle is sti ll

owned by Alexander Dennis Ltd. and can regularly be seen competi ng in the

London to Brighton Historic Commercial Vehicle Run. (Andy Boulton)

Pictured here in the early years of the 20th century, the Rodboro Building was not in fact named unti l it was occupied by the Rodboro Boot & Shoe Company

in 1917 aft er Denis moved to Wood-bridge Hill. (Dennis Society).

Andy Goundry spent his working career in vehicle design and development, with almost twenty years in senior engineering and management roles at Dennis. Since reti rement he has conti nued a close involvement with vehicles, writi ng for specialist magazines and websites, as well as producing his own motoring website www.autonews.uk.com.© Andy Goundry 25th September 2014

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community had become engrossed in history, listening to facts and stories, previously unheard and looking at a range of artefacts, including lett ers, arti cles and medals. St Hilary’s believes that the boys and girls will ‘not forget’ as the memories have been preserved and encapsulated in a book which Mrs Whitti ngham, headmistress, says, “will be a keepsake for further generati ons”. St Hilary’s also ran a Poppy Photography competi ti on and the artefacts and results will be part of an exhibiti on to be held at the school on Tuesday 11th November and Wednesday 12th November. Contact the school on 01483 416551 if you would be interested in purchasing a book or att ending the exhibiti on.

Milford Probus is a club with monthly luncheons and various other acti viti es for reti red and semi-reti red professional and businessmen. At the November meeti ng, Michael Harnall will return by popular demand to talk about Gilbert and Sullivan in London and Godalming. Prospecti ve members are invited to att end a meeti ng without obligati on. The Secretary will

be pleased to arrange for you to meet a member in advance if you wish. For more details please contact Mike Thompson on 01483 428181 or email thmmic@bti nternet.com.

Guildford Jazz has a great gig on Wednesday 12th November at Jazz @The Pavilion, Guildford Rugby Club, Guildford Road, Godalming GU7 3DH. Playing will be the world class saxophonist, composer and beauti fully melodic improviser, Julian Argüelles who has been at the heart of Briti sh jazz for three decades. His CV is mighty impressive and he is joined by three other world class musicians to complete his quartet; Kit Downes on piano, Sam Lasserson on bass and James Madden on drums. It’s a unique opportunity to hear one of the giants of jazz in a great local venue. Don’t miss it! Doors open at 7.30pm Music from 8pm. Tickets £12 in advance from www.guildfordjazz.org.uk.

I don’t know how they do it but Cranleigh Arts Centre really does att ract some great arti sts to our neck of the woods. On Friday 14th

November at 8pm Kiki Dee and Carmelo Luggeri are down for ‘An Acousti c Journey’. Their programme includes unique covers of songs by arti sts such as Kate Bush and Frank Sinatra and of course Kiki’s own hits ‘Don’t Go Breaking My Heart’, ‘I Got the Music in Me’ and the stunning ‘Amoureuse’. The duo released their criti cally acclaimed album ‘A Place Where I Can Go’ which features the haunti ng duet ‘Horses’ with Scotti sh singer, Eddi Reader. Have a look at www.kikiandcarmelo.com. To book call 01483 278001 or go to www.cranleighartscentre.org. Tickets: £20 (£18 in advance). Actually do have a look at the website as there is so much going on at the Arts Centre including Comedy Theatre and Film. Unfortunately I haven’t room to menti on everything here.

Please come along to support the 10th Chiddingfold Art & Craft Exhibiti on to see the wonderful arti sti c talent from this lovely village. Work by local arti sts and craft speople, a perfect opportunity to buy unique original work and Christmas gift s.


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Last Christmas and New Year was a diffi cult ti me for a number of people. The rains brought fl ooding and high winds brought down power lines, leaving many people without power for up to three days. Many were not fully prepared for what happened, so we have compiled a few hints and ti ps to help, should there be a repeat this year.

RadioDuring power cuts, the best way to receive news is oft en a wind-up or batt ery powered radio tuned into local news stati ons. Last year, it was annoying that many uti lity companies were directi ng people to their websites for more informati on or off ered a phone number. If there is no power and everyone is telephoning at the same ti me you may not be able to easily access the informati on. You can now buy wind-up radios from around £10.

TelephonesOne of the most common problems during a power cut is being unable to use your telephone. Many people now have cordless telephones and almost all of these require electricity to work. To get around this, all you need is an old fashioned plug-in landline telephone which you can use at all ti mes and can be bought for around £5. If you don’t have one, buy one now.

Mobile PhonesMake sure you keep your mobile phone fully charged and limit its use to preserve the batt ery. If you have a smart phone, remember that it may be the only device that can access the internet. However, be aware that even mobile phones can stop working properly during a power cut as more people than usual try and use the network at the same ti me. Also some phone masts might not have a power back-up or this might run out during a prolonged outage.

GeneratorsThose of us who were without power for three days last Christmas might have appreciated having had a generator to run some of the basics in the house. The panel opposite has some informati on on generators should you decide to go down this route.

Fridges and FreezersPeople oft en ask how long food will last in a fridge or freezer during a power cut. The offi cial advice is that it should be safe as long as power is out no more than four hours, although that seems a bit cauti ous. Others suggest that 15 hours is more realisti c as long as you keep the door closed as much as possible.

Thawed or parti ally thawed food in the freezer may be safely re-frozen if it sti ll contains ice crystals or is at 40 °F or below. Parti al thawing and re-freezing may aff ect the quality of some food, but the food will be safe to eat.

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Keep one light on so you know when the power returns.

If your electricity or gas goes off , make a note of the date and ti me of the disrupti on, and for how long it lasted. This means you will have a record if you want to claim compensati on from the energy company for multi ple disrupti ons.

Have spare charcoal so you can cook on your barbecue if necessary. I know several people who cooked their turkey like this during the Christmas power cut last year.

Remember to have candles, matches, torches and spare batt eries available.

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Hopefully we will not see the return of the fl ooding that aff ected quite a lot of people last year. For those of you that are worried about the risk to your property there are products that you can buy to help protect yourself. Blue Pages is a directory of property fl ood products and services put together to advise and inform you of the range of products available to help reduce the risk of fl ooding to your home or business (www.bluepages.org.uk).

In the event of the threat of imminent fl ooding, your local council may assist by providing sandbags to those at extreme risk.

Have a fl u jab - these are free for anyone aged 65 and over, as well as for pregnant women.

Stock up on ti nned and frozen foods so you don’t have to go out too much when it’s cold or icy.

Wear lots of thin layers – clothes made from cott on, wool or fl eecy fi bres are parti cularly good and maintain body heat.

Fresh snow is easier to clear before it is walked or driven on, and salt is more eff ecti ve if most of the snow is cleared fi rst and only needs to be spread thinly.

Snow is likely to aff ect some council services so please contact them for updates.

Check on neighbours, family and friends - especially those who live alone.

Don’t Get Caught in the Dark!Are you prepared for another winter of electrical black outs? Ofgem has already warned that mainland Britain could face power shortages in the years ahead due to demand outstripping supply in cold snaps and this, along with unforeseen winter storm damage, means that power cuts are becoming increasingly common.

Installing a standby generator in your home or small business is the answer and not as costly as you might think. However it is important that any generator is correctly connected to your house supply through a mains transfer switch by a qualifi ed electrician.

Standby generators range from simple portable units suitable for running basic lighti ng and small electrical devices to fully fi xed and installed generators that will automati cally start up during a power cut and provide a full mains supply to your house or business.

Choosing the correct type and output of a generator is crucial as the wrong size or type can damage your electrical equipment and generator. You must therefore take advice from a professional supplier and installer to ascertain what is the right soluti on for you.

One important point to consider is that standby generators are used infrequently but are relied upon to work effi ciently when required. It is therefore very important that the equipment is maintained properly and routi nely run and checked.

Something relati vely new to this sector of the generator market is remote monitoring. This is where a generator can be remotely started and stopped on a monthly basis and diagnosti cs undertaken. This informati on is then relayed back to the owner, supplier or engineer and should a fault be found then the problem can be immediately resolved. This can be a more cost eff ecti ve method than maintaining a generator on site.

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Friday 14th November 2014 from 6pm to 9pm, Saturday 15th November 2014 from 10am to 5pm and Sunday 16th November 2014 from 10am to 4pm. It is at Chiddingfold Village Hall, Coxcombe Lane, Chiddingfold GU8 4QA. Free admission and parking. Creati ve demonstrati ons and children’s art corner. Refreshments available. For further details please contact Rob Terry 01428 682022.

Grayshott Folk Club has two gigs coming up in November. On Friday 14th November at 7.30pm, Hannah Sanders & Liz Simmons will be on at Grayshott Village Hall (www.hannahandliz.com). They are an Anglo/American duo who harmonise beauti fully and play guitar. Hannah was born in Norfolk and grew up surrounded by traditi onal and contemporary Folk music. Liz hails from Boston, USA and she too grew up with strong musical infl uences. Support from The Black Feathers (www.theblackfeathers.com). Ray and Sian are down from Cirencester for a return visit to GFC. On Saturday 29th November at 7.30pm, it’s the

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The Clockhouse Christmas Fair takes place on Saturday 15th November from 10am to 2.30pm. There will be craft s and gift s, tombola, cakes, good bric a brac, bett er buy, children’s tombola and toys. Dave’s famous hot beef rolls or soup will also be available. Entrance: voluntary donati ons. The Clockhouse is in Chapel Lane, Milford.

The Dan Eley Foundati on’s 3rd Annual Quiz takes place on the 15th November at 7pm at Broadwater School Hall. If you’re interested you will need to accumulate a group of 6 to 8 people and write to Carolyn at [email protected] or call 01483 425344 to book a table. All welcome and fun guaranteed! All proceeds go towards apprenti ceship training schemes for underprivileged youngsters in Surrey and South America. Tickets £12 per person, includes a 2 course supper.

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black comedy, focusing on a WWI squadron of fl yers and, in parti cular, its cynical and hard-driving commander, Major Stanley Woolley. The bitt er experience of the air war has taken its toll on him – and all the veterans of the squad. Vivid fl ying sequences and rousing scenes in French villages unlucky enough to have alcohol available contribute to this portrait of men under terrible pressure. But at the centre of the maelstrom is the relati onship of Woolley and his lover, a nurse whose brush with death leads to an awakening of emoti ons that the Major doesn’t expect.

Wisecracking responses to sudden death and the wretched living

conditi ons are enti rely believable; Robinson’s portrait of characters is extraordinarily convincing; and the descripti ons of the air war’s parti cular allure is compelling.

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Reviewed by Nash Robbins

Nina Stibbe’s first published book made her famous, in some circles, if only for inspiring Alan Bennett to deny being able to fix a

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while an au pair for a particularly well-connected family in London; Bennett is only one literary character who the young Stibbe writes about in missives to her elder sister. It is charming, funny, and terrific fun.

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Lizzie Vogel remembers the year 1970, when her parents divorced and her mother ended up with the children in an unwelcoming English village. The diffi culti es of being single in a judgemental hamlet are multi plied by the challenge of being a playwright. But the children develop a plan to fi nd their mother a husband . . .

Charming and funny, Man at the Helm avoids clichés of childhood or senti mentality. And although told from the positi on of a nine-year-old, it is very much about the world of adults and the hardship of the divorcee’s life.

This book is sharp-eyed, witt y, and wonderfully memorable – if you enjoyed ‘I Capture the Castle’ by Dodie Smith I think you might like this too.

Reviewed by Nash Robbins

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Man at the HelmMan at the Helm by Nina StibbePublished by Viking, August 2014.Fiction.Price £12.99.

In this regular column we feature books that we, and our reviewers, like. � ey may not necessarily be new books, but they’ll be � ction and non-� ction books that we have enjoyed. We’ll always include at least one children’s book in the selection each time. We’d love to hear your thoughts on anything you feel we should be reading and sharing with others.

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When the feckless Peter simply disappeared leaving his wife, Laura, and their small child, Marina, the pair had no opti on but to move in with

his Hungarian mother and sisters. Determined to make the best of the situati on, these perpetually upbeat old ladies share the ti ny basement fl at in Bayswater, are kind to Laura (who has to sleep on the sofa), and besott ed with Marina. So when, in her early teens, Marina decides her life will be transformed and glorious if she goes to boarding school, they rally round, gather their savings, and send her off .

Mistake. Marina is utt erly homesick. Laura pines. She sends a daily postcard to her daughter. But neither is able to tell the other of the desolati on of their separati on. Both their lives unravel at an equally pell-mell pace, unnoti ced by the oldies who have pinned their hopes on Marina studying medicine at Cambridge and who visit the school at every opportunity in their fl amboyant, but threadbare, best clothes.

Mendelson has a deft and thoroughly convincing touch with her characters – the aching empti ness of homesickness, the hopeless dithering of Laura trying

to get a handle on her life, the unwavering love and endearing eccentricity of the ancient relati ves. This was a worthy nominati on for the Booker long-list last year.

Reviewed by Caroline Boucher

I was sent this book aft er receiv-ing an email from the author, who lives locally and had decided to write his own sto-ry aft er suff ering from depression, for which there is

sadly litt le support. He wrote the book in the hope that it might help others in the same situati on and I suspect for catharti c reasons too.

I must admit that I started reading it with some trepidati on but I need not have worried because this re-ally is quite an uplift ing book. Ben’s travails are sad, funny, touching, embarrasing and someti mes worse.The sad ti mes are never very far away but nor are the adolescent adventures, with some slightly predictable ‘In-betweeners’ style comedy moments which can’t fail to either elicit a huge laugh or a course of tutti ng, depending upon the reader.

What makes this book so enjoyable is the author’s writi ng. The prose is fl uent, witt y, clever and touching. He also emerges as a very likeable

young man who has been dealt, through no fault of his own, with a set of cards that are not obviously a winning hand. And yet his ability to put words on paper so well proves that there is an ace in there somewhere.

Reviewed by Stefan Reynolds

What a super book this is, despite it only being in two colours. How glorious it would have been to see the killer cupcakes in full colour.

However, that doesn’t detract from the quality of the writi ng and illustrati ons. It’s about Astra and her family who are travelling through space to a new home on Nova Mundi when their spaceship is att acked. It’s all down to Astra to save everyone on the ship from the killer cupcakes, batt y batt enbergs and marauding muffi ns.

As it says: “people should eat cakes, not the other way round..” This is a really fun story by Philip Reeve with fabulous illustrati ons by Sarah McIntyre – what a dazzling duo they are, they really should have their own cartoon series on TV. I loved this book.

Reviewed by Jessica Harding

Lady Luck and MeCakes in Space

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Almost EnglishBy Charlotte MendelsonPublished by Pan Macmillan£5.59


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There’s a super concert featuring The Guildford Symphony Orchestra on Saturday 15th November at 7.30pm. Taking place at G Live in Guildford, the programme includes Glazunov’s The Seasons- Autumn, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1 and headlines Rimsky Korsakov’s Scheherzade. The piano soloist is Masa Tayama and the conductor is Darrell Davison. Tickets are £15-£20, under 25’s £7.50-£15, and under 11’s £5. Book them from GSO box offi ce on 01483 415847, G Live on 0844 7701 797 or online at www.g-s-o.org.uk.

The next Milford Farmers’ Market is on Sunday 16th November, 10am-1.30pm at Secrett s’, Milford GU8 5HU. Buy some good quality fresh local produce and get ideas for Christmas. You’ll be able to order your bird, piece of beef or cut of game. Talk to the producers and makers; hear about their passion, dedicati on

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Haslemere Decorati ve and Fine Arts Society (HDFAS) will be busy in November. As well as the usual lecture in Haslemere Hall on Tuesday 18th November, there will be the AGM, a Study Day and an Outi ng. The AGM precedes the lecture which will be given by Nicolas Watkins on three great post-war arti sts, Francis Bacon, Ben Nicholson and Graham Sutherland. The HDFAS Study Day, at Haslemere Museum, on Thursday 6th November, will take an in depth look at the life and work of Sir Edwin Lutyens - From Everyday Surrey to Empire’s Wrenaissance - over the course of three lectures. The day will include morning coff ee and lunch.

The fi nal event of the month will be an outi ng to London: In and Around St. Pancras and King’s Cross with Andrew Davies. This walking tour will take place on Wednesday 26th November and will explore the history and development of the two stati ons and the surrounding neighbourhood. For more details about the Society contact HDFAS membership secretary Sue Wright on 01428 683578 or email [email protected] . Further informati on about all the Society’s acti viti es can be found on the website www.haslemeredfas.org.uk.

It’s November and my goodness, Christmas is round the corner. I suspect many of us are wondering where the year has gone! At the Godalming Flower Club they are constantly looking forward and their November demonstrator refl ects their senti ments. ‘It’s Nearly Christmas’ is the theme chosen by Nel de Jong Smith. If you’re looking for inspirati on for your festi ve fl oral arrangements, then consider visiti ng the Godalming Flower Club. They meet on the third


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You will by now have seen many bulbs start appearing in great numbers in the garden centres, and the bulb catalogues are eagerly thumbed at home. Spring fl owering bulbs are a really important part of the garden year and for the most part they are easy to grow: snowdrops, daff odils, crocuses, muscari are all prett y much things that you can plant and forget. They are usually happy to be left in the ground to ‘naturalise’ and they will not only fl ower year aft er year but they will multi ply too.

Tulips, however, are altogether more tricky and yet a spring garden without tulips isn’t quite right. Spring needs tulips, but unlike the other bulbs you can’t leave tulips in the ground to look aft er themselves and to multi ply or, more accurately, you can’t rely on them to do that. Some people dig their tulip bulbs up each year, but I certainly don’t, and so I look for tulips that will happily stay in the ground from year to year and put up with the winter-wet, sti cky, clay soil and which will sti ll make a show year aft er year. Not all tulips will do this. In fact, in my experience, most won’t.

If you are buying good bulbs you are unlikely to have any trouble getti ng a good show in the fi rst year of planti ng, although a hideously wet winter like last year can cause some failures. It’s in the second and subsequent years that things may not go according to plan. What I’m looking for are tulips that once planted will go on fl owering strongly year aft er year with relati vely litt le help from me; actually, if I’m honest, with no help from me. I don’t want to be spending money on bulbs that are only going to give me one year of decent fl owering. I don’t want to be replacing bulbs each year; instead I want my money and my eff orts to be adding to my in-ground stock. I want the

display to be improving and increasing each year.

To achieve this you have to fi nd the right tulip bulbs for your garden conditi ons. Some will ’do’ in one place but not another. So it is a matt er of trial and error but here are a few which I have found successful in the less than ideal conditi ons of my own garden.

The fi rst place to look for tulips which will reliably repeat year aft er year is among the species tulips. These are, in eff ect, the wild tulips from which the posh garden varieti es that we now have were originally hybridised and developed. They are much more delicate looking than the bold hybrids but don’t be deceived by that; they are accustomed to fi ghti ng their corner in the wild and they can put up with anything the South East weather can throw at them. I think they are very much under-used and should be planted more widely. Some will happily ‘naturalise’ in wild parts of your garden as well. Two species tulips which I have found parti cularly successful are Tulipa Bakeri and Tulipa Clusiana, and every year I add a few to my bulb order. Someti mes you can get these in garden centres but not always. They are not rare or uncommon so if you Google ‘species tulip UK’ you will fi nd plenty of places to buy them on-line and >34

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TULIPS FOR SPRING


will also see on-line what a wide range there is of these species tulips. They’re not expensive either.

Getti ng the more familiar garden tulips to repeat over several years is not so easy. Most will disappear quite quickly if you leave them in the ground and some won’t even make it to the second year. Very oft en I plant the new bulbs in tubs and pots in order to make a display on some steps or at an entrance or on a low wall. Then as soon as they have fi nished fl owering I transplant them into their permanent positi ons in the garden so that they can go about the business of building up their food store for next year’s blooms and establishing themselves in their permanent homes. Incidentally, noti ce how eff ecti vely Great Dixter uses pots and tubs of bulbs, parti cularly tulips, to accentuate a feature such as an entrance.

What we want is a succession of tulips from March to May and over the years I have narrowed down my choice of bulbs to those which I know will give me several years of repeat fl owering. Two of the best to get the ball rolling in March are the Fosteriana hybrid Orange Emperor and the Greigii hybrid Toronto. The fi rst is, as you might expect, orange, while Toronto is a coral pink colour and has the bonus of having two or three fl owers per stem.

A bit later, in April, the Darwin hybrid Daydream comes into fl ower and this is perhaps my absolute favourite tulip. Every year when it starts to fl ower I am surprised by the fact that it is yellow but it quickly changes to the soft orange which I remember. Why I am caught out every year by this I don’t know, but I am. Daydream is a cracker and repeats happily with no att enti on.

The tulip show fi nishes for me in May with two majesti c varieti es Dordogne and Menton. Dordogne is a spectacular combinati on of dark pink and orange and Menton is a sort of salmon orange. And, importantly, despite their size, these two seem well able to withstand the strong winds which we get here.

Obviously these tulips are not the only tulips in the world which will fl ower for several years without att enti on, but they do that in my garden when umpteen other varieti es have failed. Each year I re-order some of these tulips because I know they are going to deliver, but I also experiment with new ones too. Some of the new ones graduate to become regular buys and those that throw in the towel aft er one season are not ordered again. You have to fi nd out what will work in your garden, in your conditi ons. Some varieti es seem to last for ever: we have some ‘unknown’ tulips in the garden which were already here when we arrived eleven years ago and they are sti ll fl owering vigorously. Conversely, I am always reading that tulip Praestans Fusilier will happily repeat year aft er year, although it never has for me in either of my Sussex clay gardens.

It’s also very easy to forget from one year to the next exactly what you planted and what did well and what didn’t, so do make notes. I always fi nd this a bore but my wife is meti culous about it and when it comes to re-ordering I’m always glad that she is.

One fi nal point concerns the cost of bulbs and you will perhaps noti ce that there are diff erences in price, someti mes quite big diff erences, for what appear to be the same thing. Usually the more expensive bulbs will be bigger, and bigger is usually bett er in the sense that the plants that you get from the bigger bulbs will themselves be bigger, but smaller bulbs from a good source will sti ll fl ower very well. Just make sure that if you are paying top dollar you are getti ng the best.

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Chiddingfold horti cultural society held a very pleasant and well att ended Autumn Show and a masterful talk on ‘Heavenly Hostas’ in September. Their next meeti ng is on Wednesday 19th November at 8pm. It will be the AGM followed by a demonstrati on of fl ower arranging in the Village Hall in Coxcombe Lane. Visitors are welcome to join them.

There are loads of events at RHS Garden Wisley during November. Perhaps the two that sti ck out are the Christmas Shopping Evening on Thursday 20th November from 5.30pm. Bestselling author and cook, RHS Ambassador Mary Berry will be opening this late shopping evening and signing her books. Enjoy a warming drink and a mince pie to get you into the season’s mood. It’s a free event. The other is The Christmas Craft and Design Fair which runs from 25th-30th November, 9am-5.30pm (5pm Sunday) Browse and buy from over 150 of the fi nest craft speople and fi nd original and unusual gift s. The event is held outside the Garden. Members go free, family guest £6, non-RHS

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A Christmas Market will be hosted by Rodborough School, Milford, on Thursday 20th November (5pm-7.30pm). This festi ve shopping evening has a wide range of local traders and craft speople selling their individual wares. Ishopstyle will be selling discounted designer clothing (from brands such as Hollister, Jack Wills and Abercrombie & Fitch). Joining them will be stalls selling Madjak’s ladies clothing and accessories; Neal’s Yard skincare, bargain new DVDs, jewellery, Phoenix cards, stained glass, toys, handcraft ed wood and sweets, along with many others! Home made authenti c hot

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On Friday 21st November, Farncombe Music Club presents ‘Julia Fordham - Porcelain 25’. Following two sell-out UK tours in 2013, Julia Fordham returns to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her landmark album ‘Porcelain.’ Julia will be performing the album in its enti rety, accompanied by her long-ti me pianist and album producer Grant Mitchell. (No, not the guy from East Enders!). Tickets: £20 in advance, £23 on the door. Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 7.45pm. Julia will also perform many of her other hits and include a few surprises along the way. It’s going to be popular, so early booking is advised. Tickets available in person from Record Corner, Pound Lane, Godalming, online from www.wegottickets.com/julianlewrymusic or call 01483 421520. Info: www.julianlewrymusic.com or www.facebook.com/farncombemusicclub.

Cranleigh Village Club Sports & Social Club have a number of events in November including live music every Saturday. There’s a Quiz Night on Friday 21st November at 8.30pm. The Quiz comprises teams of 4-6; all welcome whether members, guests or non-members. Full menu available from 6.30pm to 7.30pm. If you haven’t tried it why not pop along and sample their hospitality - their ales are the cheapest in the village! They also have new caterers, Geoff and Rosie Middleton, who off er a new and extensive menu. Club Opening ti mes: Monday-Wednesday 6pm-11pm: Thursday-Friday 12 noon-2.30pm. Evenings 6pm-11pm: Weekend: Saturday 12 noon-11.30pm: Sunday 12 noon-11pm. For further details of all events: contact: Richard Wood on 01483 276246.

The next Tilford Bach Society Concert is on Saturday 22nd November. Starti ng at 7.30pm. It takes place at St Thomas on the Bourne Church, Frensham Road, Farnham GU9 8HA. Martyn Jackson (violin) and Petr Limonov (piano) will perform Brahms

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Cranleigh Christmas Lights Event is sure to be a fantasti c experience for all the family. With snow ordered, a special guest and the support of Eagle radio the organisers will make sure you are ‘Frozen’ to the spot (not my joke I promise! Rides, craft s, carol singing and a traditi onal market are just part of the fun on off er. Go down to Cranleigh high street on Saturday 22nd November from 1pm. Details can be found on www.cranleighvillage.net or you can contact Gemma Radford on [email protected].

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Cornish Ware is one of the most popular kitchenwares ever produced. Its producti on began in Derbyshire at the Church Gresley Pott ery in 1926 and by 1930, the range was well established and extremely fashionable. It is said that the colour of the blue and white banding was likened to the blue of the Cornish skies and the white crests of the Cornish sea waves and this is why the pott ery was given its name. A thriving export market was established and Cornish Ware was shipped in vast quanti ti es to the colonies in the early 20th century. In the 1950s different colour banding was introduced to this kitchenware. The yellow banded pottery (‘Cornish Gold’) is perhaps the best known of these colour changes (figure 1), but other colour bands such as black, red and green were made. Collectors are keen to find these rarer colours and will pay remarkable prices for unusual pieces in rare colour bandings. The popularity of the new colour bandings never competed with the blue and white range and less were made since the market did not demand it in the same way. It is for this rarity factor that they fetch bigger prices in the collectors’ world today.

In 1966, Judith Onions was employed by the pott ery as a freelance designer to update the Cornish Ware product designs. She was a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London. Her new shapes to the tea and coff ee sets were retailed in 1967 and became popular immediately.

Almost all T G Green pott ery is well marked with what is called a back stamp. In general terms, earlier pieces have a shield-shaped mark (see left ) and the later Judith Onion ware is marked with a target shaped mark. There are variati ons to this general rule of thumb. A church mark is present on some pieces and was used unti l the late 1930s for example. The most important ti p to establishing the authenti city of a piece is by feeling the body of the item. Genuine TG Green wares have a ridged banding patt ern. This is due to the manufacturing process whereby the white pott ery is dipped into a blue slip which is then left to dry. Once dried, the pieces are turned on a wheel and bands of white are created by removal of the blue slip. This turning technique forms the ridging that can be felt between the bands and has never been successfully replicated by other pott ers.

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A diverse number of Cornish Ware products have been made. They range from clock faces to cruet sets, standard kitchen fl atware (fi gure 2) to rarer items such as the egg separator and rolling pin (fi gure 3). The rarer the product, the greater the potenti al for it to realise high prices in the collectors’ market. An extremely rare blue and white banded electric clock, 24cm in diameter, with an early green shield mark, realised £550 at aucti on in recent years.

Many storage jars were produced. Some are plain and unmarked but others identi fy the name of the stored item on their side, such as ‘Sugar’, ‘Salt’, ‘Flour’ etc. These named jars have under glazed black lett ering on their sides. Common names such as ‘Sugar’ and ‘Salt’ can be found for between £10 to £40 a piece (fi gure 4), but rarer named jars can fetch astonishing prices. A rare storage jar, only 11cm in height, bearing the name ‘Yellow Sugar’ fetched £770 at aucti on several years ago. Another jar with the name ‘Bisto’ brought £600 and a ‘Dessicated Coconut’ jar brought £350 under the aucti on hammer. Similarly, a jar labelled ‘Boracic Crystals’ sold in 1998 for £530.

The named marking of pieces of Cornish Ware was not confi ned to storage jars. Sugar and fl our sift ers, vinegar jars, milk jugs and salt boxes are some of the many items that have the att racti ve black side lett ering that raises them aestheti cally above the plain versions of the same pieces. If you add a colour rarity to this group, then the collecti ng appeal is greatly enhanced (fi gure 5). A word of warning: The Cornish Collectors’ Club have warned of ‘fake’ named Cornish blue and

white producti ons, which appeared in the late 1990s in both aucti ons and anti que fairs. A good rule of thumb is that the green shield mark was originally applied by the factory to plain jars. The black shield mark was applied to the bona fi de named ‘producti ons’ (see bott om left ).

The temptati on by the fakers is to apply black lett ering to the plain jars and then to cover the fake names with a band of acrylic glaze. While the labels are quite convincing, the authenti city of the piece can be easily checked by scratching the surface of the lett ering with a sharp blade. Genuine marked pieces will withstand this testi ng, but fake named items can be scratched off , since the lett ering is not fi red and under the original glaze. In short, treat named green shield marked jars with a degree of suspicion. This may not always be the acid test, but is a good starti ng point if you are uncertain of the authenti city of a piece.

I have been a collector of Cornish Ware for over 20 years. My own collecti on is far from perfect, since I am happy to buy damaged pieces and am never in a rush to complete my collecti on. The beauty in this fi eld of collecti ng lies in the fact that it is largely aff ordable. I have bought from car boot sales, charity shops, aucti ons and sites on line and over the years I have amassed a large variety of Cornish Ware items.

My own personal preference is to collect only the earlier shield marked Cornish Ware rather than the later Judith Onions pieces. This is not to say that the Judith Onion pieces are less worthy of collecti ng. Her work has a disti nct 1960s appeal in shape and style, which in my opinion sits bett er alone than alongside the earlier wares. Although I own a few rare items of Cornish Ware, my collecti on largely represents the more common pieces. The added joy of this kitchenware is in its durability and it survives everyday use as well as any good quality kitchenware of today. The thrill of my collecti ng is in identi fying the vast range of diff erent styles of kitchenware which exist, even in something as simple as the design of cup shapes (fi gure 6).

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Hydesti le Resident Animals ‘Christmas Bazaar’ is on Sunday 23rd November from 11am to 3pm and will be opened at 11am by one of their vets from Northdowns Veterinary Hospital, either Sheena Milne or Simon Burgess (or both!). It takes place at Milford Village Hall (opposite Secrett s farm shop). There will be Christmas cards, sales goods, bric-a-brac, a cake stall and books. Any enquires, call 01483-860313.

Milford Horticultural Society’s Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 25th November 2014, from 8pm in Milford Village Hall, there will be cheese and wine after the AGM. For more information on Milford Horticultural Society, the talks, visits and shows please visit their website www.milfordhortsociety.org.uk or contact Beth Otway (Email: beth@

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‘Old Father Thames: The River in Art’ is the ti tle of the next lecture of West Surrey Decorati ve and Fine Arts Society on 25th November. The lecture, to be given by Andrew Davies, explores how arti sts such as Canalett o, Whistler, JMW Turner and Monet have been compelled to portray the Thames in all its moods and acti viti es. The Society is also holding a ‘Special Interest Day’ featuring ‘William Morris and the Arts and Craft s Movement’ on 11th November. (Booking essenti al) The Society meets in Shalford Village Hall on the fourth Tuesday in the month at 9.45am for coff ee. Lectures start at 10.30am. New members and visitors are very welcome and details of their programme of lectures, visits and holidays for 2014 and 2015 can be found on their website www.nadfas-westsurrey.co.uk. For more informati on please ring 01483 811671.

Tuesday 25th November is the date of the next Electric Theatre Jazz Café gig.

It features Trish Clowes, saxophonist and composer who is currently a BBC Radio 3 New Generati on Arti st. Her third album was recorded with the BBC Concert Orchestra earlier this year, and is due for release at the London Jazz Festi val this autumn. If you want to know what she’s like, here’s just one quote. “Briti sh Jazz at its best; I suggest you go and see her now before it’s diffi cult to get in the room. I assure you she is a great great talent” – Jamie Cullum. It takes place at The Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, Guildford GU1 4SZ at 7.30pm. Tickets are £12 from the Electric Theatre box offi ce on 01483 444789.

Ewhurst Horti cultural Society has its AGM on Tuesday 25th November, which will be followed by a talk and slides on ‘The Hidden Gardens of Cape Town’ by Mrs Gill Ford. It is at the Glebe Centre at 7.30pm. Includes refreshments and raffl e.

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Group holds its popular Grand Christmas Fair at Cranleigh on Thursday 27th November in Cranleigh Village Hall. The Fair is open from 9.30am-12.30pm, entry is free, and it can help solve all your present-buying for Christmas. They will have stalls for RSPB Christmas cards, calendars and gift s, as well as bird feeders, bird seed and peanuts. Homemade cakes, bread, jams and chutney will be for sale, plus stalls with a range of craft s, plants and produce from members’ gardens, secondhand books and CDs, and bric-a-brac. The popular tombola and a raffl e will both be available again this year. Tea and coff ee will be served throughout the morning at a very reasonable price. All profi ts go to the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protecti on of Birds). More informati on at www.rspb.org.uk/groups/Gui ldford, contact [email protected] or phone 01372 467074.

The next in Les Amiti és Francaises’s popular series of lectures in French will be held on 27th November in the Bapti st Church Hall, Queen Street, Godalming at 7.30pm. Dr Karen

Serres, Director of Painti ngs at the Courtauld Gallery in London will talk on ‘Courtauld Gallery et la France’, outlining the Huguenot ancestry of the Courtaulds and the noted collecti on of modern French art which became the gallery and insti tute of today. The December meeti ng on 11th will be on ‘La Corse’ - Not just Napoleon’s’. Non-members are very welcome (£6 at the door). Brochures are available in libraries and museums and for further informati on on the meeti ngs or about the 2014/15 programme, contact John Pett y, membership secretary on 01483 861974, johnpett [email protected] and on www.amiti esfrancaises.com.

Christmas is coming and every year Witley Parish Council provides Christmas trees and organises three lighti ng ceremonies which are always a popular event with the local community. This year trees will be lit at Witley and Brook on Friday 28th November at 7pm. Witley tree lighti ng takes place outside Chichester Hall and Brook lighti ng outside the Pirrie Hall. The following week, on Friday 5th December at 7pm, the Milford

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Have you ever seen a plant you really like in someone else’s garden? Or maybe whilst looking around Wisley or the Savill Gardens? How annoying is it when it is not labelled? This has happened to me many ti mes. And when you get home you try looking it up in a book, only to discover that you need to know the name of it so that you can look it up.

Well, as the saying goes, now there is an App for that! At last, an enterprising young man called George Williams (pictured) and an entrepreneur called Angus Rankine have come up with a brilliant and useful plant identi fi cati on app called PlantSnapp.

I have had several conversati ons with George while he was setti ng this up, and what impressed me most about him was his enthusiasm and energy, as well as his horti cultural knowledge. George studied biology at Leeds University and realised the need for the app while working at Chelsea Flower Show and Burncoose Nurseries in Cornwall. A chance encounter with Angus fuelled the idea and PlantSnapp was born. It has had considerable coverage in the press since its launch in September, including arti cles in The Telegraph, Guardian and Gardeners World magazine.

If you have an iphone or ipad you can download it for free; take a photo of any plant and send it to the team to be identi fi ed. At the other end he has a team of horti cultural experts and a data base of over 6,000 plants to quickly and correctly identi fy that elusive plant. With your prompt reply, as well as the name of the plant, you will receive growing advice, and a link to mail order nurseries in the UK.

PlantSnapp is in partnership with the UK Bumblebee Conservati on Trust so they can also recommend plants which are especially nurturing for bumble bees and so help stop their exti ncti on.

I have a personal interest in the app. Aft er being put in touch with George through a mutual friend I am honoured to be one of his experts, along with another local professional gardener, Dan Foad. PlantSnapp launched in September and is proving to be as popular is I expected. Before this app I used to get text messages and photos by email from friends, and other local gardeners asking for help identi fying plants, now I just steer them towards the app.

The RHS and other horti cultural bodies have for a long ti me been talking about the lack of young people being interested in any aspect of horti culture. Hopefully this app will help to bring the industry up to date and make it more appealing to the younger generati on.

So, as winter draws in, revisit that mystery plant, send a photo to PlantSnapp and wait for the mystery to be solved.

And if you want to know, the plant at the top is “Penstemon ‘Sour Grapes’ and the plant above left is Echinops bannati cus ‘Taplow Blue’.

PlantSnappJo Jenkinson on a new way to help you identi fy that plant

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The Watt s Gallery in Compton is holding a number of ‘Watt s at Night’ evenings. You can enjoy 2 for 1 admission, music, bar, readings, exhibiti on talks and candlelit Chapel tours. There’s also a chance to sample some delightf ul Russian cuisine provided by Russian Revels and enjoy winter illuminati ons by arti st Mary Branson. The fi rst one is on Friday 28th November and subsequent ones will be on 19th December, 30th January and 27th February. A lovely night out for friends and families.

The Clockhouse Chapel Lane Milford GU8 5EZ is holding a lecture on Friday 28th November at 7 for 7.30pm. It is enti tled ‘The Eel in Crisis’ and will be given by Andrew Kerr, who is Chairman of the Sustainable Eel Group. Tickets are £15 to include a two course supper and a licensed bar is available. Call 01483 420668 to book.

Residents caring for a loved one with dementi a can learn more about the conditi on at a Day of Informati on for Carers, run by Alzheimer’s Society and

NHS Surrey and Borders Partnership. The day, called Minds Matt er, will be held at The Malti ngs, in Bridge Square, Farnham on Friday 28th November from 10am to 3pm. There will be a joint presentati on by Noel Collins, a consultant psychiatrist, and Edwina Brocklesbury, the oldest triathlete in Britain on non-pharmacological support for people with dementi a followed by a questi on and answer session with Dr Collins. There will also be a choice of three workshops to choose from, followed by lunch and a joint presentati on on day care by Alzheimer’s Society and the Gostrey Centre, in Farnham, followed by a talk and ti ps from Speech and Language Therapy (SALT). Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementi a Navigators will also be on hand to talk at the end of the aft ernoon. To register for a free place, including lunch, call Wendy Wilmot on 01403 213019 or email [email protected].

PK Pre School welcomes Blunderbus Children’s theatre to Grayshott Village Hall on Saturday 29th November. They will be putti ng on a

delightf ul show which comes to life with an irresisti ble blend of music, puppetry and high energy storytelling, with plenty of opportuniti es for litt le ones to join-in, clap along and giggle away. Litt le people aged 3-7 will love this heartwarming tale, but big people will have lots of fun too. Performances are at 10.30am and 2.30pm. To make it a real family day out, PK are putti ng on a cafe and arts and craft s for children aft er each performance, where there will also be an opportunity to meet the puppets. The show is being staged to raise funds for PK Pre School in Grayshott , an Ofsted outstanding committ ee run pre-school for 2-4 year olds in the heart of Grayshott village. Tickets are on sale from Magical Rooms in Grayshott and The Haslemere Sweet Shop priced at £6.50 per person.

I menti oned earlier that The Villagers will be having a musical gig aft er the fi reworks on 8th November. On Saturday 29th November they welcome ‘Stevie’, one bloke one mandolin. He has played locally at Weyfest for many years and his 2014

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This month, we have asked three local food businesses for a favourite soup recipe. Soup is the perfect thing for these autumn months, both easy and quick to make. It makes a great starter for a formal dinner or a light lunch or supper.

Some of the best (and cheapest) soups can be very simply made with whatever left over vegetables you have lurking in the fridge. Simply chop and sweat an onion in some olive oil, add the chopped vegetables and some stock, and leave to simmer. When the vegetables are tender, whizz it all up with a blender, season to taste and there you have it, an instant soup.

One of the best soups I have ever made was actually a recipe for curried peas from the wonderful Jennifer Patterson, one of the Two Fat Ladies. I decided to turn it into a soup by adding some stock and some cream at the end, and it was transformed into something very special. SR

Three soup recipes for autumn

Ingredients

225g/8oz cannellini beans, soaked overnight in cold water2-3 cloves garlic, chopped3tbsps olive oil6tbsps chopped fresh fl at leaf parsleysea salt and freshly ground black pepper20g/ ¾ oz butt er150ml/ ¼ pint stock200g/7oz Cavolo Nero or Swiss Chard, washed and fi nely sliced

For the dressing:Extra virgin olive oil

Cannellini Bean Soup with Cavolo Nero & Virgin Olive Oil

Be in the Kitchen is a small cookery school in a beauti ful homely setti ng in Effi ngham, Surrey and they pride themselves on fresh, fun and healthy food using local produce. Be’s background with the Roux brothers and Leith’s school of food and wine gives her the experti se and professionalism to share with her clients. Please visit www.beinthekitchen.co.uk for more informati on. This recipe is taken from Rose Gray of the iconic River Café in London, which she founded with Ruth Rogers.

1. Drain the soaked beans and transfer to a large saucepan. Cover with cold water, bring to the boil and simmer unti l tender. Drain and reserve the liquid.

2. Heat the oil in a large saucepan and cook the garlic unti l soft ened but not coloured (20 minutes). Add the parsley and beans and cook, sti rring unti l the beans are well coated with the mixture.

3. Heat the butt er and stock in a large pan, add the Cavolo Nero, cover with a lid and braise for about 8 minutes.

4. Meanwhile, put three-quarters of the beans in a food processor with 250ml/8fl oz of their liquid, and briefl y pulse (you do not want a purée). Add more liquid if necessary, but it should be thick. Return to the whole beans

with the cavolo nero and stock and season with salt and pepper.

5. Serve in large soup bowls, drizzled with a generous amount of extra virgin olive oil.

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1. Peel, de-seed and cut the pumpkin, put it on an oven tray and roast it unti l soft , which should take 15-20 mins.

2. Peel and dice the onions and garlic and sweat these down in oil for roughly 5 mins, unti l soft and translucent.

3. Add the roasted pumpkin and the milk and bring to boil. Turn it down and simmer for 5 mins and then remove from heat.

4. Using a blender, blitz the soup on highest setti ng unti l smooth. Season with salt and pepper.

5. Serve topped with pumpkin seeds, cumin oil and crunchy croutons. You could also add some crumbled

Sti chelton (a traditi onal English blue cheese made from raw milk) if you are feeling really naughty!

To make the cumin seed oil, simply warm the oil with cumin seeds and leave to infuse for 24 hours.

Roasted Pumpkin Soup with Cumin Oil

Ingredients

30ml good quality oil 1 large white onion, fi nely chopped 20g garlic, peeled and crushed500g Crown Prince pumpkin, peeled, de-seeded and chopped into 2cm chunks 500ml full fat Goodwood farm milk

Cumin seed oil50g walnut oil5g cumin seeds

Sti chelton cheese (opti onal)

Serves 4

1. Sweat the garlic, onions, leeks potatoes and saff ron in the butt er with 1 teaspoon of salt (opti onal) and 2 tablespoons of water for 6 minutes.

2. Meanwhile poach the haddock in enough full cream milk to cover the fi sh with a few peppercorns, a bay leaf and black pepper for a couple of minutes on each side (if you should have left over white wine a splash would add to the fl avour).

3. Remove the fi sh, reserve the liquor, fl ake and skin the haddock. Keep it to one side.

4. Pour the stock and haddock poaching liquor over the vegetables and simmer unti l soft .

5. Add the haddock and heat further for a few minutes.

6. Sti r in the chopped parsley, the lemon zest and juice. Season and serve Ingredients

4 cloves of garlic, peeled and sliced2 medium onions, peeled and diced (2.5cms)2 medium leeks, washed and sliced2 fl oury, white potatoes (baking size) - peeled and diced (2.5cms) 1 pinch saff ron threads55g butt er1 litre fi sh stock - half of this can be the poaching milk from the haddock (if using reduce the amount of stock accordingly)400g smoked haddock 8 sprigs of fl at leaf parsley, roughly choppedZest and juice of 1 lemon Salt and black pepper

Serves 4

Potato & Smoked Haddock Soup

This soup recipe comes from Jane Stockdale who runs her own Farnham based business, Home Cooking for Small Occasions. For more informati on 01252 723161 or 07775 696918 or email her at [email protected].

This recipe comes from The Hungry Guest in Petworth. Set up in 2011, it now includes a wholesale arti san bakery and producti on kitchen, a food shop complete with its own butchery and cheese room and a catering service. For more informati on, visit www.thehungryguest.com or telephone 01798 344564.


set on the main stage featuring tracks from his garage songs CD made the day for an appreciati ve audience. Fortunately, this busy musician has found ti me to bring his special talent to The Villagers. Should be a great evening.

As I’m sure you know, Julian Lewry Music promotes a number of concerts at Windlesham Club & Theatre. On Saturday 29th November, they have managed to book China Crisis, a huge band throughout the 80’s. The band toured Europe and USA during the late eighti es and performed in front of massive crowds. Good to see they are sti ll going strong. You can fi nd them on facebook. Tickets: £16 (Windlesham Club members £14) in advance / £19 on the door. Doors open at 7pm and the show starts at 8pm. Tickets available in person from Windlesham Club & Theatre, Kennel Lane, Windlesham GU20 6AA, or by calling the box offi ce on 07903 462 636. Also available from; www.wegotti ckets.com/event/278234. Website www.windleshamclub.org.uk. You can also email [email protected].

Park Mead School PTFA Christmas Fair will take place on Saturday 29th November 12 ti ll 3pm at Park Mead Primary School. Once again, they will have a great selecti on of stalls which will include old favorites such as the tombola, hampers, Christmas craft s, ‘pocket money’ stalls and much more. An area set aside for refreshments will also be available, serving delicious mince pies, mulled wine, tea, coff ee and soft drinks. Santa and his Elves will also be going, so take all your friends and family along to enjoy the festi viti es!

On Sunday 30th November Guildford Rambling Club is meeti ng in Ashstead Lane in Godalming for an 8 mile walk. See www.guildfordramblingclub.org.uk for more informati on.

In January 2014, a local guy called Philip Thomas started to run a friendly and sociable duplicate bridge session on Friday evenings at Shalford Village Hall called the ‘Bridgepedia Bridge Circle’. Philip is an accredited English Bridge Union Tournament Director and, also teaches bridge for

Surrey Adult Learning and privately. All standards of players are welcome. Partners are always available for people who want to go alone. The emphasis is on having an enjoyable fun evening. Play starts at 7.30pm but players are asked to arrive by 7.15pm. Table money is £3 which includes tea, coff ee etc. The session ends at about 10.30pm.

On Saturday 6th December, Chiddingfold Cinema presents: ‘Singalong Sound of Music.’ Doors open at 6pm; the programme starts from 6.30pm. Finish ti me: approx. 10.30pm. It’s a bit of a special event screening as they have a digitally restored version of the fi lm featuring high-defi niti on sound and hard-coded singalong subti tles. There will be warming vats of gluhwein and hot chocolate, locally sourced beers and Austrian-inspired cakes to get you in the party spirit and ready to join in full chorus. Not only that, they also have a costume competi ti on, so break out those dirndls, lederhosen, hats with feathers and nuns’ habits! Tickets cost £15 (£10 for children


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What to do in NovemberWith Matt hew Pott age, Garden Manager at RHS Garden Wisley

Depending on the weather, someti me in November tends to be the ti me to stop cutti ng your lawn. Remem-ber to try and keep falling leaves off the grass, and take ti me to spike (aerate) the lawn if you can. This assists with drainage and helps relieve compacti on which of-ten occurs throughout the summer. If the cold weather hasn’t reached your garden yet, it is sti ll possible to take a rake to the lawn to get rid of any moss or thatch. If you have struggling grass under the edges of trees or perhaps around the base of a tree in the lawn, now is a good ti me to increase the tree circle around the base. This doesn’t just ti dy up scrappy looking shaded grass, but also helps the fi brous root system of the tree.

Tree circles can also pack a punch with spring bulbs, so mark out any tree circle extensions, throw down a gen-erous covering of crocus bulbs and simply cover with 5-10cm of home-made compost topped with a load of fallen leaves. Leave nature to do her work. The bulbs will correct themselves (depth and orientati on) and the compost will get to work improving life for the tree. Just remember never to heap mulch or soil up against tree trunks – think doughnuts not pyramids!

Sleeping lawns and performing tree circles

By mid to late November when the trees have fi nished dropping their leaves, the garden is just about ready for its full hibernati on. Make sure all fallen leaves are either collected and placed on the compost heap, or, as we do at Wisley someti mes, blow them back onto the beds. They will naturally break down and you’ll be astonished how quickly the worms help with the composti ng process.

Herbaceous perennials can be cut back now that they are dormant, unless you want them standing for structure or seed heads. In a similar way to leaving the fallen leaves

on the soil, you can cut back herbaceous plants and put the tops on the beds to break down. Just chop them up into small pieces fi rst. Make the job easier by cutti ng the plant back bit by bit with shears or a hedge trimmer. We have tried this at Wisley in some of the less high profi le areas and have enjoyed the results. The outcome looks like mulch as it is a cocktail of stems and leaves which is great for the soil structure.

Goodbye autumn, hello winter

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Finally, spare a thought for pott ed plants this winter, whose root balls can freeze aft er periods of prolonged cold. If you have slightly tender plants in pots, wrapping the pot with bubble wrap or fl eece during periods of sub-zero conditi ons will help aid survival, especially with evergreens.

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All Saints Church, Grayswood will be holding its Christmas Fayre on Saturday 6th December between 11.30am and 1.30pm. Stalls will include raffl e, bott le tombola, cakes, gift s, bric a brac, bulbs and decorati ons, children’s’ corner, toys and games, books and DVDs and much more. Soup and bacon butti es will be served from 12-1.30pm. Entrance £1 adults (includes tea/coff ee and a biscuit!); children under 10 free. Go along and join the fun! For

more informati on contact Di on 01428 654303; [email protected] or Shirley on 01428 653285; shirley1941@bti nternet.com.

Cranleigh Choral Society’s Christmas Concert will take place in St Nicolas Church on Saturday 6th December at 7.30pm. Under the baton of Catherine Beddison, there will be a performance of two immensely popular and seasonal works; Britt en’s A Ceremony of Carols and Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on Christmas Carols, as well as carols for audience parti cipati on. The Rev’d Roy Woodhams will be playing the organ. Tickets £12 from 07973 772812, choir members or on the door. Visit the website: www.cranleighchoralsociety.org.uk.

The local (Godalming and Cranleigh) branch of the RNLI (the charity that saves lives at sea) is holding a Celebrati on of Christmas at Godalming Masonic Hall, Ockford Road, Godalming on Saturday 6th December from 6pm-8pm. Join the RNLI and the Godalming Jazz Choir for a celebrati on of festi ve songs and

carols and enjoy a mince pie and mulled wine. Merchandise, stocking fi llers and Christmas cards will be on sale in aid of the RNLI. Tickets £10 for adults, £5 for children; includes entrance into the raffl e. For ti ckets call 07920 492655 or email gkimber@bti nternet.com .

The Wey and Arun Canal Trust are running their very popular Santa cruises on 7th, 13th, 14th, 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd December with 40 minute trips departi ng at 11am, 12noon and 2pm. Tickets cost £9 each and include light refreshments and a gift from Santa for children under 12 years old. If you would like to make a booking or receive further informati on on special events and private charters, or on the restorati on work and volunteering opportuniti es on the canal, please call the Trust Offi ce on 01403 752403 or email offi [email protected]. Also lots more informati on on www.weyandarun.co.uk.

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1. From the car park, go ahead past a metal barrier and follow the wide stony path. Aft er 200m, ignore paths left and right. (The right-hand path leads to a picnic area and a circu-lar path. The left -hand path leads to the Alice Holt Research Centre.) Aft er another 400m, go straight over a tarmac path. The path curves left with great views to your right over Hampshire. Just aft er, avoid side tracks left and right. The path descends between cypress trees, then as-cends again and runs level amongst pines, be-coming more grassy. Aft er Alice Holt Forest and another level secti on, a total of 2 km from the car park, you come to a more open area with a wire fence ahead on your left , next to a tree plantati on. 2. Avoid the path that forks left to a tall gate but, 20m further, turn right on a path. (If you are adventurous, and want to stay dry, you can instead conti nue on the main path for 120m and fi nd a very narrow but clear path, almost hidden, on the right – beware of an extreme-ly narrow one just before it – and follow it through dense conifers, wheeling left a bit at the end through some tall pines . This takes you to the Y-juncti on menti oned below.) Aft er near-ly 300m on this straight path, at a juncti on, turn sharp left to arrive in about 200m at a Y-junc-ti on. Take the right fork on a path that takes you through a wooden barrier. Keep straight ahead with houses and gardens on your right and, af-ter 130m, turn right on a quiet residenti al road. In about 250m, just aft er St Huberts (with its lit-tle turret and wind vane) turn left on a narrow footpath. This takes you past a fi lling stati on (with a small shop) to the main A325 road. 3. Cross the road carefully and turn right to reach, at a juncti on, the Halfway House pub at Bucks Horn Oak, sadly closed and for sale at the

Alice Holt Forest

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Alice Holt is such an ancient forest that no one is completely certain how it got its name. Most likely, it came from Ælfsige, anglo-saxon bishop of Winchester and “holt” meaning simply “a wood”. The Forestry Commission took it over in 1924 and established a research centre which advises on forest management,nursery, soils etc. anywhere in the country and does extensive research here. They also re-established an arboretum (close by, though not on this walk), with the help of an army of volunteers. There is always lots going on and lots to do at Alice Holt, so it is well worth a trip for visitors of all ages. For more infor-mation, please visit www.forestry.gov.uk/aliceholt. This walk is taken from www.fancyfreewalks.org and reproduced with kind permission.

ti me of writi ng. Fork left by the pub on a side road signed to Dockenfi eld. In 100m, ignore a muddy byway on your left , con-ti nue a further 150m and turn left onto the tarmac drive which is the entrance to Alice Holt Forest. Avoid a left fork that only goes to the offi ce and stay on the snaking drive, passing a car park on your right and forking right to the café, toilets and cycle hire centre.4. Instead of looking for the shortest way, this secti on takes you in a loop round the best part of the forest, but always fi nding dry paths. From near the café, toilets and cycle hire, turn right downhill on a path marked as the Willows Green Trail. Your path goes over a bridge with railings. At a T-juncti on,turn left on the Long Route, soon reaching a T-juncti on with a wide sandy gravel track. Turn right here. In 200m, at a crossing path with waymark-ers, turn left on the red route, a grey gravel path, passing several sti ck huts or ‘dens’ as your path veers right. Aft er 200m on this path, at a T-juncti on, turn left on another wide path, with houses someti mes visible beyond. Keep ahead on this path for about

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WALK

DISTANCE: 7 miles

OS MAPS: Explorer 145 (Guildford)

STARTING POINT: Gravel Hill Road car park. The nearest postcode is GU10 4LJ but for navigati on purposes, you need to set GU10 5JD which will take you on the Gravel Hill Road.

GETTING THERE: you reach the car park from the A31 road (signposted Winchester Alton), just 3 miles (5 km) west of

Farnham, Surrey. If coming from the east, go straight ahead at a roundabout, ignore several left turns unti l you cross the Hamsphire border; just aft er you glimpse the Bull Inn on the right, take a left fi lter and turn left , in front of a clump of pines on narrow Gravel Hill Road. Follow this fabulously twisty road for just under a mile, entering the dense forest and going over a railway. The car park is ¼ mile aft er the railway bridge, the fi rst obvious right fork on a gravel, rather uneven, track. Park at the end or ti ght along the edge if full.

War II for Jewish child refugees who arrived on the Kindertransport. At a T-juncti on, turn left on Fullers Road. Avoid a footpath immediately on the right, conti nue on the road for 250m and, just past Fox Hollow, turn right at a fi ngerpost on a footpath.9. This path, which is almost dry, soon takes you over a gurgling stream, through woodland and out to a juncti on of farm tracks. Keep straight ahead and, aft er passing an entrance to a farm, keep ahead on a hard-core grassy track [March 2014: it was parti ally blocked by a heap of rub-ble – hopefully clear now!]. Finally, you reach the main A325 road. Cross the road carefully and go through a swing gate directly oppo-site into the front yard of the Forest Inn, Holt Pound, a family pub and a reliable place for last-chance refreshment. 10. Pass the pub on your left and go through a wooden gate into a meadow by a four-way fi n-gerpost. Fork left here across the grass, aiming for a metal swing gate in front of a house visible in the trees ahead. Go through the gate, turn right in front on the house and go past a wood-en barrier back into the forest, avoiding side paths. This long straight (and fairly dry) path makes for a pleasant fi nal saunter back to your starti ng point. Aft er pines, a more open secti on, and more pines and birch, you go over a cross-ing path with views on the right. Finally, aft er a total of just over 1 km on this path, you go through a metal barrier to a lane. Turn left on the lane and in 20m fork right, back to the car park where the walk began.

350m, avoiding a left fork halfway along, unti l you reach a major T-juncti on, indicated by a fork in the path. Keep left here and turn left as you join another path at the T-juncti on,sti ll on the red route.5. You will be following this path more or less straight for over 600m. In about 100m, avoid a left fork at a marker post, thus leaving the red route. Your excellent wide path snakes its way downhill. In a dip, you pass a juncti on sharp left and, 50m later, reach a crossing path. Turn right on the crossing path (the path left would take you back to the Centre). You will be following this main, rather curvy, path for over 700m. Your path wheels left and goes over a crossing path. Your next encounter is with that rather muddy byeway across your path. Your path curves right as it meets a grassy path on the left and goes over a stream. Stay on the main path as it bends sharp left and then right again, avoid-ing all the lesser, muddy side paths.6. On your left soon is George’s Lonely Oak, named aft er a long-serving forester. You soon reach another juncti on. Turn left here to avoid the muddy horse path ahead and quickly right again, staying on the wide dry path, passing some cypresses and a picnic table. This takes you, in another 100m or so, to a very wide path at an oblique T-juncti on. Turn right on this wide path to reach, in 150m, a 5-way juncti on.7. Now leave the main route, which bends left , by going straight ahead on another wide path. In about 200m, you reach the bor-der of the forest indicated by a wooden gate and a small car park. A small community on the Surrey border, welcome to Rowledge! St James’s church is on your left . Keep straight ahead on the lane to a juncti on in the village.8. Turn left on School Road, passing the Cherry Tree pub on your right, a worthy watering hole with two gardens and some good food. Conti nue on the road, passing various houses, a recreati on ground and a parking area. Rowledge House, soon on the right with the dragon-crested outhouse, was a hostel during World


editi on. Two youngsters Callum Gathercole and his pal Jay Olenicz are aiming to beat the world record as the youngest pair to row across the Atlanti c, while raising money for three great chariti es. The Talisker Whiskey Atlanti c Challenge is taking place in December 2015. In the meanti me, Callum has succeeded in beati ng the World Record 100km U 19 Ergo challenge. Callum began the challenge on Saturday 13th Sept at 9am and was lying on the fl oor of the Friary centre in Guildford with exhausti on by 4.03pm having beaten the previous record (7hrs 18min 8sec). The new world record is 7 hours and 2 minutes. A fantasti c achievement. No doubt we will keep you posted as the challenge nears. You can follow developments on www.thewaterbabies.co.uk .

On Sunday 7th December, The Hogs Back Road Race, one of Britain’s greatest road races, is back for its 55th year. This great winter road race takes in the best climbs, and views, in the Surrey Hills and is managed on behalf of Guildford & Godalming Athleti cs Club by local company ‘aat events ltd’ who deliver Surrey’s best-know road running event, the Surrey Half Marathon. The event is a great opportunity for local runners to represent their clubs and compete for kudos in the inter-club competi ti on. Guildford & Godalming AC will be providing the volunteers on the day to ensure a safe and enjoyable run for everyone. Road closures will be in place and residents are being noti fi ed over the coming weeks. The whole community is involved in preparing for the event, which expects to att ract over 800 runners. Thanks to Michael More-Molyneux, they can use the Loseley Estate as the parking, start and fi nish

area. It starts at 9am. Places sell fast for this popular event, so sign up soon to secure yours: www.hogsbackrun.co.uk.

Cranleigh in Bloom was a great success this year and the village featured in The South and South East Bloom Awards ceremony which took place in September. They have raised suffi cient funds to replant the troughs with winter colour and plant more spring bulbs, as these really did add a ‘zing’ to the village in the early months. All the planti ng was done in October by volunteers but if you would like to be involved in the future, contact Gill Ford at [email protected]. In the meanti me, The Cranleigh in Bloom committ ee would like to thank everyone for their enthusiasti c support and hardwork, which made this initi ati ve so successful.

KIDS recently launched a new suite of resources to support families and carers of disabled children and young people to help them navigate the reforms to Special Educati onal Needs and Disability provision. KIDS works with disabled children, young people and their families. As part of the ‘Making it Personal: 2’ project, sponsored by the Department for Educati on, KIDS has worked with a number of partners to develop a new suite of resources to explore how personal budgets and the local off er will benefi t families. The full suite of resources is available to view on the KIDS website: www.kids.org.uk/mip2. In case you haven’t heard of it, KIDS is a charity that was established in 1970 by John Mulcahy, an inspired teacher who became concerned about the development of a disabled child in one of his classes.

Back in May, Informed Choice took part in Spring into Cranleigh celebrati ons by displaying a ‘Money Tree’ in front of their offi ces at Sundial House and asking Cranleigh residents to share their fi nancial dreams by writi ng them on a luggage tag which were then ti ed to the branches of the tree. The ‘Money Tree’ which is a fl owering cherry was kindly donated to Cranleigh and in October, Marti n Bamford of Informed Choice took part in the ceremonial planti ng watched by appreciati ve Parish Councillors The beauti ful fl owering cherry will enhance the extended area of Snoxhall Play Park situated at the rear of the Leisure Centre. If you would like to know more about the Play Park and other faciliti es that are provided by the Parish Council call 01483 272311 ([email protected]).

Godalming Choral Society is holding a varied but delightf ul concert on Saturday 13th December at 7.30pm in Charterhouse Hall, Godalming. The programme consists of Chris Williams: Tsunami Requiem, Rutt er: Gloria, Bernstein: Chichester Psalms, McDowell: Christus natus est. The conductor is Michael Veazey. Tickets: £15 (Students £8) are available from Record Corner, Pound Lane, Godalming; Guildford Tourist Offi ce, 155 High Street, Guildford tel: 01483 444333; Godalming Choral Society Ticket Offi ce tel: 07505 203468 or online. For more details go to www.godalmingchoral.org.uk.

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This is a great Christmas stocking fi ller. The Wey & Arun Canal Trust calendar – priced at £7 - is fi lled with beauti ful images with plenty of space to add personal diary notes. Funds raised from the sale of the calendars will be used to help progress the restorati on of the Wey & Arun Canal. They are available at the Loxwood Canal Centre, which is open from 1pm to 5pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays and at the weekend from 11am to 4pm unti l the end of December. Telephone 01403 753999 to reserve a copy for collecti on. Copies can also be ordered by post by calling 01403 752403 between 9am and 1pm Monday to Friday or by emailing offi [email protected]. I was lucky enough to get a 2014 calendar; there are some beauti ful photographs. As I write, I have just received the 2015 calendar; it really is very good with some beauti ful photography, and you certainly won’t be disappointed.

Christmas cards are now on sale, in aid of ‘The Friends of St Peter & St Paul’, an organisati on which works to raise money for the upkeep of one of our towns most iconic buildings; Godalming Parish Church. This year’s picture is a painti ng by local arti st, Marcus Chapman, and depicts a late winter aft ernoon view of the church from the Burys Field, adjacent to the Phillips Memorial Cloister. Christmas cards are on sale in packs of 10 cards at £3.75 per pack and include the message ‘With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year’. They may be purchased on

Sunday mornings before and aft er the main worship, from the Parish Offi ce during normal opening hours or by contacti ng Julian Hubble on 01483 424268. They may also be obtained from Pavilion in Church Street from the end of November. Orders for cards can be hand delivered locally, by arrangement, or sent by post.

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Are you concerned about the Cranleigh area? Do you want to represent the views of local people? Do you want to contribute your business or personal skills and experti se? Are you passionate about services provided to your community? Electi ons for Town and Parish Councils will be held in May 2015 and there will be vacancies on the Cranleigh Parish Council. So if you would like to make a diff erence and be involved in shaping the future of the local community, why not stand for electi on? Contact your local council on 01483 272311 or email [email protected]. More informati on at www.cranleighpc.org.

Producti on of the great Wintershall religious plays performed in Surrey, London and Glastonbury has been passed to the next generati on of the Hutley family, ensuring that the traditi on stays alive. Peter Hutley has passed the baton to his daughter Charlott e. With a cast ranging from 75 for the Nati vity to 200 for the Life of Christ, all willing amateurs except for the professional Christ, the plays are a huge undertaking. The Passion played in Guildford High Street and is now regularly staged in Trafalgar Square. This year, it also went to Glastonbury. The Nati vity will be performed at Wintershall and also returns to All Souls Church in Langham Place and the piazza at BBC Broadcasti ng House. Rehearsals start next month. Contact 01483 892167 if you would like to be involved. Performances are on 17th December in London and 18th to 21st December at Wintershall.

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The Royal Surrey County Hospital Christmas Raffl e ti ckets are now on sale and all funds raised will go towards their current campaign ‘Detecti ng Women’s Cancers.’ The ti ckets are £1 each and the prizes are: 1st £1000, 2nd £500 and 5 x 3rd prizes of £100 each. Please contact the fundraising offi ce at the Royal Surrey if you would like to purchase ti ckets or if you have some spare ti me that you would like to ‘donate’ to help sell the ti ckets? Please call 01483 464146 or email [email protected] .

We have the Godalming in Bloom dates for 2015. The closing date for is Monday 8th June 2015. Allotment judging will take place at the Judge’s discreti on between 10th June 2015 and 3rd July 2015. School Judging will take place on Wednesday 10th June 2015. Garden Judging will take place on Tuesday 16th June 2015 and Thursday 18th June 2015. Commercial Building and Garden Judging will take place on Friday 26th June 2015. The Godalming in Bloom Prize Giving will be held at the Octagon on Wednesday 8th July 2015 at 6pm. If you would like to enter Godalming in Bloom, donate a prize or sponsor this lovely competi ti on please contact Beth Otway 01483 420989 [email protected].

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All Probus clubs in Great Britain are autonomous, making their own rules regarding ti me, place and format of meeti ngs. There are several of these in the VantagePoint area, all of which have slightly diff erent arrangements but all follow the original ide-als of providing a gathering place for like-minded reti red and semi-reti red people who want to extend their circle of friends.Milford Probus Club has members from as far as Westcott and Cranleigh. The club meets in Godalming on the third Friday of the month for lunch followed by a talk which can be on a vari-ety of subjects ranging from the serious to the very amusing. To keep a friendly informal atmosphere, membership is limited to 70 and like other Probus clubs in the Godalming area, member-ship is restricted to men over 50 years of age. However ladies are welcomed at all our lunches by invitati on.

Because the club is run on a voluntary basis by its members, a committ ee is elected each year, comprising of a secretary, trea-surer, speaker secretary, social secretary, vice president and president. Generally there is a progression to President through the last four posts. Many members do not want to parti cipate as an offi cer of the club, but many do enjoy taking an acti ve part in the organisati on. Following the year as President, there is an an-nual lunch on another day just for the fourteen presidents since the club was formed.

Naturally, with such a wide range of ages from 50 to over 90, there is a wide range of experience at our meeti ngs, and always someone inter-esti ng to talk to.

Wives and partners also join us for the outi ngs, organ-ised in cooperati on with the

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other local Godalming Probus Club. Because of the wide range of contacts and interests of the members, visits are arranged to all sorts of ven-ues. One or more coaches are arranged, with pick-up from a convenient place for members to park for interesti ng and stress-free days. Re-cent visits have included a day at Portsmouth to see the historic dockyard and the amazing Mary Rose museum. Another completely diff er-ent visit was to Sandhurst Army College - quite diff erent to what many non-army members ex-pected - and to the Savill Gardens.

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