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HawkHurst Village Magazine December 2019 issue no.100 Free

Hawkhurst Village MagazineISSN 2053-2059 (Print)

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Lantern-making Workshop

Most parents of young children will nod as we say that there really isn’t enough in Hawkhurst for young families. There is

definitely a need for the provision of safe, creative space with links to support services that are willing to reach out a hand.

Fun activities for kids should be easy, DIY, and can mostly be done with everyday items that are around the house. So we came up with the idea of hosting a free lantern making workshop at the Sports Pavilion on 22nd October for local children from 2-8 years old.

Letting Children’s Creativity Shine

Celebrating 100 issues!

Celebrating 100 issues!

The Editor

The forthcoming General Election is going to be the main issue for our country this December, but it is a good time for thinking of the needs of others, whether that is through the good work of Hawkhurst churches or just your friends and families.

As an aside this is the hundredth edition of this series of the Village Magazine; but since my wife and I have been publishing the Village and Parish Magazines for over 30 years, editions of Hawkhurst Parish Magazine go back to at least the early 20th century! Not perhaps surprising because Hawkhurst is, of course, an old well-established village.

Happy Christmas to all our readers.

Mike Appelbe

TWBC has required Urbaser (the company who has the waste contract) to produce and implement an Improvement Plan. This involves the existing crews working overtime and weekends, plus seven additional trucks and 30 extra staff to ensure the backlog is cleared.

Hopefully, this has worked, but if not, keep reporting your missed bins through the website, which I have been assured is the quickest way of getting your bin collected.

A quick update on sewage: it could just be a coincidence but following Greg Clark’s adjournment debate about the sewage problems in Paddock Wood and Hawkhurst, we have finally managed to get Southern Water to set a date for a meeting. It’s only taken eight months! Thank you to everyone who shared information on the problems they’ve been experiencing for us to share with Greg Clark. It will also be really valuable in our meeting with Southern Water to be able to refer to specific examples.

Don’t forget that the Hawkhurst Christmas Festival will be on Saturday 7th December between 12 and 5 pm. This year it will take place along the Colonnade and in the new Green Shop. Hope to see you there.

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Clare Escombe

Chairman, Hawkhurst Parish Council

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ChairmanHello!

As you can probably imagine, we have spent a lot of time over the past month working on the Parish Council’s response to TWBC’s draft Local Plan – there was a huge amount to read and digest. It certainly was not the easiest consultation to respond to, so I hope that you managed to find a way to make your views known. Thank you to everyone who shared their comments, advice and experience to help other residents respond. By working together, we have a much stronger voice. Hopefully, TWBC will listen to Hawkhurst’s views.

I truly hope that by the time you are reading this all of the issues with our bin collections will have been resolved. Last week, I received an email from Paul Taylor, the Director of Change and Community at TWBC, apologising for the poor service and outlining the steps being taken to address this. In summary,

There were 50 spaces filled with eager children, shy children and some very creative children.

Very soon all were ready to grab the crayons, glue, glitter and paint and let their creativity shine!

You will be pleased to hear that the afternoon was so well received that a six month programme has been agreed and is in the planning for our children. From crafts that glow in the dark to activities that get their bodies moving to colourful art projects, we are planning lots of ways to keep kids entertained at home without resorting to screen time.

Ellen Neville and Anita StevensHawkhurst Community Trust 2018

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Hawkhurst RunnersI run (?!) walkers2runners in Hawkhurst and Bedgebury. Give me a call 07786 222637 or email [email protected]. We’d love to welcome you!

I do Monday evenings, 6.30pm meeting at Fowler’s Park car park. A new lady is coming tonight if you’d like to join us for a trial!

Rachel Fagg

Hawkhurst’s Oh So Lovely on BBC TVCamera crew were in the shop for an hour and half filming and the episode of “Money for Nothing” will be shown in the spring next year - It’s really exciting and I can’t quite believe I may be on TV!

Lisa Edwards

Open letter to all residents of Hawkhurst and surrounding villages

I am a career General Medical Practitioner and have worked at Wish Valley Surgery Hawkhurst since 1985 and have been a local resident of Hawkhurst since 1982. I am married with a family of four children who have spent their formative years in a village they love. We value rural life and would not wish Hawkhurst to be over-developed.

The Tunbridge Wells Borough Council draft local plan is asking our village to accept a significant burden

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Dear friends,With temperatures falling by the day, Christmas must be near. While some dream of a snow-filled white Christmas, southern hemisphere images are of sunshine, barbecues and beaches. I was born and bred in South Africa, as you know, and these images, more often than not, meet with my approval.

So where do my thoughts go this Christmas season? I remain intrigued by the characters of Christmas. Have you ever wondered what the wise men reported back after their Bethlehem journey? Perhaps it was, ‘That is correct. We travelled too many miles to count and eventually discovered a peasant family with a baby. We stocked them up with gold, frankincense and myrrh, and after a disturbing dream, hurried back home.’

Would the comment on the listener’s lips be, ‘Big deal. So what was that all about?’ I do not know how they answered the sceptics, but am quietly confident they never regretted their journey. No doubt the star they saw made a difference, but I wonder what remained in their memory 20 years after their return from Bethlehem. And then there were shepherds. They had an angelic vision to talk about, but the actual scene that greeted them on their arrival at Bethlehem’s stable would have seemed a little pedestrian. Like Mary and Joseph, they were peasants. Whilst some folk with a city dweller heart might delight at peering into a stable, you would not imagine that shepherds would get overly excited.

Mangers and cattle are pretty ordinary for the farming community. Did they still remember the angels’ chorus 10, 20 or 30 years later? Were any of them in the crowd of 5,000 whom Jesus fed with five loaves and two small fish? It is impossible to know. And then there is Mary. What did she make of the strangers who came to gawk at her new born? We are told that she pondered all the events in her heart long after they were over. The pondering heart of Mary ... that questioning wonder still remains …

A very blessed Christmas to you.

Fr. Rodney

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➢Travel report

No.349 Special service. Stagecoach is pleased to confirm that the Sunday/Bank Holiday service will continue for the foreseeable future. The bus leaves Hawkhurst for Cranbrook at 8.43 and 2 hourly until the last bus at 16.43, arriving at the Congregational Church at 58 minutes past to connect with Arriva No.5 to Maidstone from the opposite side of the road. Hawkhurst to Hastings goes at 9.20, then every two hours with the last one at 17.20. (Remember that the last return to Hawkhurst is 15.52).

I find that the daily No.349 is a good link to go to lunch at the `Eight Bells`. It arrives at the Moor at 11.29 and I take a walk until they open at 12noon, every day except Monday. The return bus leaves the Moor 13.32. The `Eight Bells` has been recently refurbished and is under new

management. They offer excellent food and even have a `2 course special` for only £10.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my readers a very happy Christmas and a healthy and prosperous New Year.

Gillian Davis

of responsibility for housing over the coming years. We can resist but some development is inevitable.

Supporting infrastructure is vital, even if a proportion of the houses proposed are to be built. This infrastructure would include providing suitable and up to date premises for doctors and support staff to practice in, preferably sooner rather than later. The present surgeries in Hawkhurst (of which there are two) are planning to merge in the Summer of 2021 in order to protect general practice provision for Hawkhurst and the surrounding villages served.

Our wish is to provide better access for patients and enhance the provision of services in our locality. We would hope that a new-build surgery would bring young doctors and nurses in training into the village and encourage a new generation of doctors who wish to work in this area over their professional lifetime. This would be in contrast to the present trend for medical staff to be leaving the service in the UK to go abroad.

The current buildings where we practice are old and tired and lack the provision required for running a modern medical practice fit for the 21st century. They cannot be developed further.

We have been looking for a suitable site in Hawkhurst for over 3 years to build a new medical facility. An acre of land at Fowlers Park has been offered to us at the end of Birchfield Grove in Hawkhurst. The cost of the building would be born wholly by a third party developer.

Fowlers Park is the best available site for our much-needed surgery. Access for local people is excellent. The majority of those patients living nearby will be encouraged to walk or cycle to the surgery thereby reducing traffic flow and congestion. We will aim to have ample parking at the Surgery for those that need to drive. An appointment system will help stagger patient flow.

I am therefore urging the residents of Hawkhurst to support the development of this site and believe that this is a once in a generation opportunity to advance medical practice.

Should you wish to know more about the planning application then we would look to hold an open meeting in the future to discuss issues arising.

You will recall that two open meetings to date have been very well attended and feedback has shown that the majority of patients are in support of our plan.

Dr Clive Dewing (on behalf of the doctors practising in Hawkhurst)

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New Christmas Trail for Bedgebury Forest

Tunbridge Wells-based light sculpture artist Jon Owens is creating a new festive installation for this year’s Christmas light trail at Bedgebury just 11 miles away.

Running from 22nd November – 30th December, Christmas at Bedgebury invites visitors to discover a magical mile-long trail within the beautiful surroundings of the award-winning National Pinetum.

Jon is creating a new installation for this year’s trail; Rudolph Nose the Way which is an alluring illuminated red nose and antlers suspended from two Scots pine trees. This light will lead trail visitors through the darkness, highlighting the impressive architecture and silhouettes of the mature trees around the edge of Marshal’s Lake.

Jon has also been commissioned to create another new work Christmas Crackers for Kew Gardens and Blenheim Palace’s Christmas trails.

Owens says: “The inspiration for the piece was my childhood imagination of Rudolph lighting the way for Santa on dark, stormy Christmas nights. The piece

is over 3m x 3m suspended at a height of 6m making it a beacon of light along the trail.”

“I use every day, recognisable, geometric light fixtures to create breath-taking, awe-inspiring light installations that will hopefully spark people’s imagination. Everyone who I have spoken to about the concept has been really excited to see it in reality, so I am looking forward to seeing their reactions.”

He added “Alongside the new Rudolph Nose the Way feature, visitors will wander through a towering Tunnel of Light installation immersing them within thousands of twinkling pea-lights.”

Bedgebury’s visitor centre lake will be illuminated by a mesmerising Water Fountain Finale; watch jumping jets of light dance in time to much-loved Christmas classics as the sights and sounds of the festive season come together.

Christmas at Bedgebury is brought to you by leading events promoter Raymond Gubbay Limited, a division of Sony Music, in partnership with Bedgebury National Pinetum and Forest. The trail is created by Culture Creative Limited.

Bedgebury National Pinetum & Forest, Goudhurst, Kent. TN17 2SJ #christmasatbedgebury

Staplehurst Music Centre With the evenings drawing in, what better time to dust off that instrument or try a new one and spend long evenings practising an instrument. Staplehurst Music Centre holds music lessons at Staplehurst Primary School every Saturday from 8.30am to 1.30pm during term-time. Experienced teachers run a range of music lessons and ensemble opportunities for adults and children of all ages and abilities.

Come and try:• MusicFoundationsclasseswithNickStephensfor age 2–8 year olds to develop musical skills

www.staplehurst-music-centre.org

with solfa, singing, rhythmic confidence and experimenting with a range of instruments. • Individualmusiclessons,includingviolin,piano,recorder, cello, guitar, ukulele, saxophone, clarinet and flute. • CommunityOrchestra(10amto11am),opento adults and children. No previous orchestra experience is necessary. The orchestra is currently working on a medley from The Sound of Music, as one of their pieces to perform at the Christmas concert at the end of term.All the latest news plus term dates, class times and concert information is available at our website (see below left) which includes a link to mail us for further information.

All Saints ChurchHawkhurst has been, for several years, a major target for considerable numbers of housing developments both small and large. Very few of these are welcome, particularly the large ones for the usual reasons of excessive traffic generation, the despoiling of green space (all AONB) and pressure on doctors, schools etc.

So it is refreshing that at last along comes a development (admittedly small – five smart homes) which has been universally applauded by the village population, the Parish Council, the Borough Council, Historic England and of course the WKPS. This development is the Grade II listed All Saints Church in the Highgate part of Hawkhurst – a Conservation Area in the centre of the village. As far as can be established the last service was held there in the late 70s. Since then it has stood empty, gradually becoming derelict and vandalised. It was declared redundant and deconsecrated in 1997.

The exact name of the church was The Chapel of Ease for St Laurence. It was dedicated to All Saints. With the village population increasing in the middle of the 19th Century the Norman church of St Laurence, situated on The Moor, was becoming crowded. This prompted the incumbent vicar, the Rev Canon Jeffreys, and his sister to fund the building of All Saints in 1859 on land given by Mr Jennings of Hall House. It is built of the local iron-sandstone and the builders were Davis and Son, a family concern which is still very much in business. Canon Jeffreys was the vicar of Hawkhurst for 59 years and died in 1898 at the ripe old age of 88. We can only admire the generosity of him and his sister.

All Saints Church was designed by Sir Gilbert Scott (1811-1878). It is said he left much of the detail to his son but this does not detract from its stature as an outstanding Victorian church. Sir Gilbert Scott is regarded as one of the most important of 19th Century architects and his masterpiece is considered to be St Pancras Station. He restored many cathedrals and worked on many churches all richly Gothic in detail. Four of his smaller village churches are considered among his best designs and All Saints is one of the four. Some people consider Victorian church building as ‘seldom artistically satisfying’ with its urge to build in the Gothic style. Despite this opinion we owe much gratitude to our Anglican forebears of the 19th Century for their labours and generosity. And

one cannot blame the Victorians for building many churches where populations have subsequently fallen and churchgoing has dramatically declined.

All Saints Church with its 115ft tall spire is a landmark on the crest of a long sweeping hill characteristic of the Weald of Kent. The thoroughly sympathetic development by Southsea Property Management Services will be started in the next few months. It will make an important contribution to the character of the Conservation Area and preserve and enhance Hawkhurst which is in danger of losing its character due to excessive development in this rural area of the Weald of Kent.

Andrew Hill


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Yesterday’s HawkhurstA beautiful moment in time. Not a car in sight, only bicycles, in this Edwardian scene captured at Highgate on the Great Race Day (taken from the first Historic Hawkhurst booklet entitled People and Places, p7 – see below, right).

The Historic Hawkhurst series originally began as photographic scrapbooks of Hawkhurst past collected by Lewis Waghorne. They were developed further and published by the late John Dawes. Both of them had a keen interest in capturing and recording the Hawkhurst of yesterday.

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Pause for ThoughtI do love the range of names given to Jesus, during our Christmas celebrations. You know the ones I mean? He shall be called wonderful, counsellor, mighty God, Prince of Peace, Emmanuel, and so on. Great names, they rightly inspire and motivate us. I have always loved the Prince of Peace title.

Of course, the new atheists would snigger, “Jesus. Prince of Peace – well hardly. Do you know how many wars there have been in the name of Jesus?”. An essentially accurate lecture on the Crusades would follow. So what are we to make of Isaiah’s prophetic insight that an appropriate title for the coming Messiah would be ‘Prince of Peace’? It is a tough question, because at many levels it appears not to be valid. Religious warfare shows no sign of abating, and lest we dismiss such battles as being political warfare in a religious disguise (which they often are), we should spend time in reflection on some of our more fractious churches around the world today.

Are they peaceable havens? True, they leave no corpses in their wake, but many hearts are genuinely broken. Did Isaiah get it wrong? After all, he wrote about 700 years before the event. Complete accuracy is unrealistic at that distance. And let us be generous – although we are still a fair way off world peace, we are generally less bloodthirsty than 2,000 plus years ago. Crucifixions are no longer generally acceptable, and we would genuinely frown upon feeding dissidents to the lions. So perhaps we are living in a gentler, more kindly era.

Prince of Peace might be excessive, but let us acknowledge that we have moderated our more barbaric impulses. The Christian ethic can claim some credit for this. The above assumes that, at best, Isaiah’s prophetic ability qualifies for a 52 percent pass grade. Why not change the thesis? What if Isaiah got it right? 100 percent right. What if Jesus really is the Prince of Peace? And if Isaiah was right, could it be that this Jesus is still waiting for followers …

Fr. Rodney

Remembrance Sunday in Hawkhurst

It was as busy a day as in previous years in churches in the parades. Luckily the weather was kind. It amazes me that the UK continues at this level nationally, even after the 100 years’ centenary has passed.

Vince Gould has decided this is to be his last year in leading the parade in Hawkhurst. He will be missed in this personal role of his.

Mike Appelbe


Hawkhurst Bonfire Society

This year’s performance has been brilliant. Perhaps even able to rank alongside the Lewes town’s annual achievements. There must have been an enormous amount of work by the passionate volunteers who have clearly put in so much time and effort.

I expect they would be pleased to invite new volunteers from the village to enquire about joining their team to help plan for next year. Ask Tina Cobbold for details 01580 752737.

Mike Appelbe

A Prickly SubjectYou would not think that hedgehogs had too much to worry about in life, with all their spines and fairly fast gait, but this could not be further from the truth. There is a lot that can go wrong in a hedgehog’s life, which is a shame. They are a gardener’s friend as they are so good at eating slugs and caterpillars, which I can testify to since a hedgehog is back in my garden, as well as many others.

The hedgehog in the photo on the gravel is one that scampers through all our gardens. I took this in May 2017 and as he heard me, he did what he knows best – he rolled into a ball.

When I was young, we were told about hedgehogs and how good they were at eating slugs and that if we left a bowl of milk and some bread for them on the back doorstep, then maybe they would help in the garden as they left. We were always pleased to see the milk gone in the morning. Sometimes we were lucky enough to see them as they went up the garden path. We now know, of course, that milk is bad for them and the best food to put out is non-fish based cat food and a saucer of water.

They have so much going for them, so why did they disappear so drastically? They can move quite fast, but their first line of defence is to roll into a ball. So, as they crossed the road and saw car headlights they would go into a ball. That was an unfortunate end, but one repeated many times, many years ago.

Hedgehogs like burying themselves in compost heaps to rest during the day or hibernate in the winter as it is warm. They do the same with garden waste ready for bonfires – not much different to a compost heap for a hedgehog, and they don’t know it will be set alight. We always checked any bonfire prepared before

lighting in case a hedgehog was found. I always think of this when I see a bonfire for firework night. Maybe a thought for next year.

Slug pellets became fashionable. Why worry about doing it naturally when things could be killed off so quickly, but this was deadly for hedgehogs, whose very food was now a killer.

There were other hazards as well, such as netting for fruit and tennis courts, plus garden ponds and swimming pools to name a few. Holes dug out, large or small that have steep sides are a death trap, as are cattle grids. They can roll in but not out!

There were many jokes or greeting cards made about hedgehogs in the 70s and the 80s as they struggled crossing roads.

In 1981 hedgehog-flavoured crisps produced by Hedgehog Foods appeared and not without controversy – not for being called hedgehog crisps, but because they did not taste of hedgehogs and were made from manufactured pork flavour. The company interviewed gypsies, who were known to eat them, and ended up with a manufactured taste of hedgehogs.

This is a brief insight into the life of a hedgehog – a very important friend in the garden and part of our wildlife population to be preserved and which cannot be manufactured!

There is plenty of information on the internet about hedgehogs, so please help our prickly friends.

I decided to write a small piece about hedgehogs following a story about unnecessary phone calls to emergency services. A woman had phoned the police about a spiky animal in a ball in her garden and she needed help!

Jane Pyne

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Where have our Christian Traditions

come from?The Reverend John Mason Neale (1818-1866), the scholarly Anglican priest and noted hymn translator responsible for Veni, Emanuel (O Come, O Come Emanuel), also wrote the lyrics for two familiar English carols: Good Christian Men, Rejoice and Good King Wenceslas. The words for both appeared in his 1853 publication Carols for Christmas-tide.

Good Christian Men, Rejoice, is a loose interpretation of In Dulci Jubilo (meaning “a sweet rejoicing”), a late medieval Latin-German carol that first appeared in Klug’s 1533 Geistliche Lieder, a Lutheran hymnal, and later published in Piae Cantiones, a 1582 Finish songbook. The lyrics may have come from Heinrich Seuse (c.1295-1366), a German mystic and Dominican monk. According to legend, the Blessed Heinrich Seuse (or Henry Suso) was visited by heavenly angels in a dream, danced and sang with them, and then when he awoke immediately wrote the words.

Piae Cantiones, a renowned compilation of carols, also contained the music for a Swedish spring carol titled Tempest Adest Floridum, an anonymous 13th-century tune which the redoubtable Rev. Neale coupled to his lyrics for Good King Wenceslas. His textual substitution seemed entirely fanciful, and it was even scorned by critics from both the literary-music class and the Anglican hierarchy, the latter who felt Rev. Neale’s religious instincts aligned too closely with the Roman Catholic Church.

In search of a good role model for children, the Rev. Neale found inspiration for his Good King Wenceslas from a story about the nobleman Wenceslas (c. 907-929), the Duke of Bohemia, a kind man raised by a devoted grandmother. Wenceslas later became king, and during his reign he converted his country to Christianity, providing his people with a period of great serenity. For Christmas, he decreed that it should be celebrated in every cottage and church throughout the land. Known to be a just and merciful king with considerable compassion for the poor and sick, his reign as king was short-lived. In 929, he was assassinated by an evil younger brother who conspired with other family members and the pagan nobility against him. Because of the young monarch’s

exemplary life, Good King Wenceslas was born, and despite its confounding lyrics, it has since become a Christmas favourite for children and adults alike.

Lastly, the tremendous contributions of Rev. Neale to hymnody and carols, and to the least advantaged in life, were finally recognized one hundred years later by the Anglican Church. On July 24, 1966, the Archbishop of Canterbury dedicated a memorial in Rev. Neale’s honour at his grave in St. Swithun’s churchyard in East Grinstead, England. Amen.

© Ronald M. Clancy www.christmasclassics.com

Provided by Gillian Davis

Tennis Court upgrade for 2020 Brian Fitzpatrick, Chairman

of the Parish Council’s Facilities and Services Committee, said: “The council have decided to press ahead with the upgrade of the tennis court at KGV by developing a Multi-Use Games Area for tennis, football, basketball etc.

The aim is to do the work in the new year so that by spring 2020 the new facilities will be up and running.

We will update you when we have a launch date.”

The Multi-Use Games area will be free of charge for general use. It will be available for clubs to hire for training or groups to hire for parties.

For further information, please contact Richard, the parish clerk, on 01580 752058 or email: [email protected]

THE THIRd SuNdAy Of AdVENT Sun. 15th 08.00 Holy Communion at St Laurence10.00 Celtic Style Parish Communion at St Laurence Eglantyne Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of ‘Save The Children’, 1928O Sapientia Tues. 17th 18.30 Holy Communion at the VicarageWed. 18th 11.15 Holy Communion in the Activities Room at Bowles Lodge Fri. 20th 09.30 Holy Communion at St Laurence

THE fOuRTH SuNdAy Of AdVENT Sun. 22nd 08.00 Holy Communion at St Laurence10.00 Parish Communion at St Laurence18.00 Village Carol Service at St Laurence

CHRISTmAS EVE Tues. 24th 17.30 Crib service at St Laurence23.30 Midnight Mass at St Laurence

CHRISTmAS dAy Wed. 25th 08.00 Holy Communion at St Laurence10.00 Family Communion at St Laurence

John, Apostle and Evangelist Fri. 27th 09.30 Holy Communion at St Laurence

THE fIRST SuNdAy Of CHRISTmAS Sun. 29th 08.00 Holy Communion at St Laurence10.00 Parish Communion at St Laurence

John Wyclif, Reformer, 1384New Year’s EveTue. 31st 18.30 New Year’s Eve Service

CAlendAr for jAnuAry

THE NAmINg ANd CIRCumCISION Of JESuS Wed. 1st 11.15 Holy Communion in the Activities Room at Bowles Lodge

What’s happening locallyVIllAGe WAlKS Thursdays at 2pm

12th Dec. Meeting at *St Laurence at 12.30pm. 2nd January meeting at corner by Waitrose at 2pm9th January meeting at *St Laurence at 2pm.16th January meeting at corner by Waitrose at 2pm23rd January meet at *St Laurence Church, The Moor30th January meet at Waitrose car park entrance*for these walks, (hopefully) cars or mini-bus provided Contact for details; also check first if walking from The Moor: Tina Cobbold 752737

HAWKHurST CHrISTMAS feSTIVAlSaturday 7th December. Craft table all day but the main event on The Colonnade and The Green Shop from 12 noon to 5pm. Some parking at The Royal Oak.

BulK refuSe ColleCTIon Sunday 08.00–11.00 in Fowlers Car ParkDomestic Waste: Sunday 8th December 2019

HAWKHurST u3A 5th December - Christmas party - all welcome!12th December - Christmas lunch - The U3A Christmas Meal will be held at The Royal Oak. Any more info please contact Lyn on 01580 754720 or 07702 038480 or Lesley Bolton 01580 211731

HIGHGATe HAWKHurST WI11th December, Highgate Hawkhurst WI meets at Copt Hall, Copthall Avenue at 7.30pm; “Christmas Party” - An evening of entertainment led by Kristy Smith. 8th January, meets at Copt Hall, Copthall Avenue at 7.30pm; Social Evening and 2020/2021 Programme Ideas. Visitors and New Members Welcome, contact 01580 753150 or 753018

MoTHerS’ unIon felloWSHIP registered Charity no. 250124

Friday 6th December at 11am - Mothers’ Union Advent Service in the Quire of

ST. lAurenCe CHurCH CAlendAr for deCeMBerAll services at St Laurence Church unless stated otherwise. This calendar of services and activities is compiled way in advance in order to meet the magazine deadline. Occasionally items have to be changed/moved/cancelled. Please check posters or our website for any alterations: www.stlaurencechurch-hawkhurst.org/

THE fIRST SuNdAy Of AdVENT Sun. 1st 08.00 Holy Communion at St Laurence10.00 All Age Family Communion at St Laurence 18.30 Hawkhurst Churches Advent Carol Service

Francis Xavier, Missionary, Apostle of the Indies, 1552Tues. 3rd 18.30 Holy Communion at the Vicarage

John of Damascus, Monk, Teacher of the Faith, c.749Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637Wed. 4th 11.15 Holy Communion in the Activities Room at Bowles Lodge

Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326Fri. 6th 09.30 Holy Communion at St Laurence 11.00 - 16.00 Christmas Tree Festival at St Laurence19.30 Festive Concert by Bodiam Concert Band at St Laurence

Sat. 7th 11.00–16.00 Christmas Tree Festival at St Laurence18.00 Light Up A Life Service at St Laurence

THE SECONd SuNdAy Of AdVENT Sun. 8th 08.00 Holy Communion at St Laurence10.00 Parish Communion at St Laurence11.00–16.00 Christmas Tree Festival at St LaurenceTues. 10th 18.30 Holy Communion at the VicarageWed. 11th 11.15 Holy Communion in the Activities Room at Bowles Lodge Thur. 12th 18.00 Marlborough House School Carols at St Laurence

Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304Samuel Johnson, Moralist, 1784Fri. 13th 09.30 Holy Communion at St Laurence


Canterbury CathedralFriday 3rd January at 9.30am at St Laurence - Mothers Union Corporate CommunionFriday 3rd January at 10am at St Laurence - Mothers’ Union Monthly MeetingThursday 30th January at 12 noon - Cathedral Prayer in St Gabriel’s Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral Crypt. All welcome.

HAWKHurST HArMonIeSBritish Legion Hall every Wednesday morning 10:15–12:00 for over 50s to meet up socially to sing.

HAWKHurST PArISH CounCIl

Council Meetings commence at 19:45 in Copt Hall unless stated otherwise. 2nd December Community Hall Working Group. 6th December Strategy, Administration and Projects Committee. 7th December Facilities and Services Committee. 9th December Full Council. 17th December F & S Committee3rd January Full Council. 6th January Community Hall Working Group. 13th January Full Council27th January Facilities and Services Committee.

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REgISTERSFunerals: 6th November: Martyn PrestigeBaptisms: 27th October: Samantha Irene Jezard 17th November: Louis Robert Stevens Cleo 24th November Tommy Joe MelhamMarriages: none

Fri. 24th 09.30 Holy Communion at St Laurence

THE THIRd SuNdAy Of EpIpHANy Sun. 26th 08.00 Holy Communion at St Laurence10.00 Parish Communion at St Laurence

Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Philosopher, Teacher of the Faith, 1274Tues. 28th 18.30 Holy Communion at the VicarageWed. 29th 11.15 Holy Communion in the Activities Room at Bowles Lodge

John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888Fri. 31st 09.30 Holy Communion at St Laurence

HAWKHurST BAPTIST CHurCHToddler Train1–3pm every Tuesday. Baby Clinic at the same time but only on 1st and 3rd Tuesdays each month.

Who let the Dads out?For male parents and carers with their children 10:30-12:30 on 2nd Saturday each month (bacon butties provided!).Messy church 3rd Sunday of the month 4pm to 6pm.The church leaders are glad to report the fellowship have appointed a new Pastor, Rev Gotts, who started in March 2019.

BAPTIST SUNDAY SERVICESSunday Worship 10.30am, preacher Revd Gotts Contact the Minister Ben Gott on 753295 Contact secretary on 01580 715112 First Sunday 6.30pm evening service Prayer breakfast first Saturday 8amCarols by Candlelight 6.30 pm on Sunday 15th Dec. We have a new website so check this for details Hawkhurstbaptistchurch.org.ukCarol singing 10am Saturday 14th Dec outside Tesco in Aid of Starfish Malawi

Fri. 3rd 09.30 Mothers’ Union Corporate Communion at St Laurence 10.00 Mothers’ Union Monthly Meeting at St Laurence

The Epiphany THE SECONd SuNdAy Of CHRISTmAS Sun. 5th 08.00 Holy Communion at St Laurence10.00 All Age Family Communion at St Laurence Tues. 7th 18.30 Holy Communion at the VicarageWed. 8th 11.15 Holy Communion in the Activities Room at Bowles Lodge

William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1645Fri. 10th 09.30 Holy Communion at St Laurence

The Baptism of ChristTHE fIRST SuNdAy Of EpIpHANy Sun. 12th 08.00 Holy Communion at St Laurence10.00 Parish Communion at St LaurenceTues. 14th 18.30 Holy Communion at the VicarageWed. 15th 11.15 Holy Communion in the Activities Room at Bowles Lodge

Antony of Egypt, Hermit, Abbot, 356Charles Gore, Bishop, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932Fri. 17th 09.30 Holy Communion at St Laurence

THE SECONd SuNdAy Of EpIpHANy Sun. 19th 08.00 Holy Communion at St Laurence10.00 Celtic Style Parish Communion at St Laurence Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304Tues. 21st 19.30 Holy Communion at St Laurence20.00 PCC Meeting meets at St Laurence

Vincent of Saragossa, Deacon, first Martyr of Spain, 304Wed. 22nd 11.15 Holy Communion in the Activities Room at Bowles Lodge

Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher of the Faith, 1622


METHoDIST CHURCH SUNDAY SERVICES

Meeting at Dunk’s Hall, Rye Road, TN18 4HFEVERYONE IS WELCOME to come along to any of these. Should transport be required, please ask or telephone 752460 and this will be arranged.

Sunday Worship Preachers 10.30 am

1st Dec Phil Staddon8th Dec Ken Barnes15th/22nd Dec TBC29th Dec Ken Barnes

Tuesday Coffee Mornings at Dunks Hall from 10.30am –12 noonThursdays at 7.30 pm Phil Staddon

Rural Group Pastor Phil Staddon 01622 871332Stewards: Ken Barnes 753769 & Valerie Manser 752460

Wesley’s GuildFor details of Guild and Fellowship contact Val Manser tel: 752460

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Roman Catholics at 8.30am in St Barnabas ChurchContact Father Victor McClean 01580 211268.

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USEfUl CoNTACTSHAWKHurST PArISH CounCIl

Parish Clerk: Mr. Richard Griffiths, Office at the Moor TN18 4NTChair: Clare Escombe 07712 397400 [email protected] 752058 [email protected]: www.hawkhurst-pc.gov.ukFacebook page: Hawkhurst Parish Council

All CounCIllorS’ ConTACT deTAIlS Are CurrenTly BeInG uPdATed.

PleASe ConTACT THe ClerK If you need To CoMMunICATe WITH CounCIllorS In

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HAWKHurST CoMMunITy TruST 2018 ruth Mcchesney (Chair) 01580 753991

AKeoMAI ProjeCT

(HAWKHurST CounCIl of CHurCHeS):Chairman of the Trustees: Phil Staddon Wesley House, 53 Westwood Road, East Peckham TN12 5DB (01622 871332)

THe PArISH CHurCH of ST. lAurenCe HAWKHurST St Laurence church office has moved into the church. Opening hours remain the same, Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings 9.30 - 12.30. Telephone remains the same: 01580 753397 Vicar: Fr. Rodney Dreyer, M.Phil. A.K.C. Obl. O.S.B F.R.S.A.The Vicarage, Moor Hill (office 753397, home 754459)e-mail: [email protected] website: www.stlaurencechurch-hawkhurst.orgAdministrator: Alison Mitham, Church Office, St Laurence Church, The Moor, Hawkhurst TN18 4NT, 753397Churchwardens: Alison Jones 755705, Liz Hatcher 712099Hon. Treasurer and Ringing Master: Alison Parsons 753240 Organist & Choirmaster: Andrew Davis 752954All Age Service: Felicity Robinson 752102 Alison Jones 755705 Sunday School: Alison Jones 755705

oTHer CHurCHeSMethodists - Rural Section Minister Revd. John Butt 01622 871332 - Lay Worker Mr Phil Staddon 01892 725447 - Stewards Mr Ken Barnes 753769 & Mrs Jean Watson 753318 - Wesley Guild Secretary Miss Valerie Manser 752460Roman Catholics - Father Victor McClean 01580 211268Baptists - Contact Rev Ben Gotts 753295, Hawkhurstbaptistchurch.org.uk

dunKS CHArITIeSDunks AlmshousesDunks & Springetts Educational FoundationSpringetts Almshouses and Iddenden Trust Clerk: Tanya Ling 07914 698645Clerk: Lisa Panting 388973 [email protected]: www.dunkscharities

frIendSHIP CluBMargaret Taylor – 753762

roTAry CluBJacqueline Schalburg, Club secretary – 754378

HAWKHurST BonfIre SoCIeTyRobin Palmer 01580 753933

HAWKHurST CHurCH of enGlAnd PrIMAry SCHool

Mrs Jodi Hacker, Headteacher (753254)

HAWKHurST fACeBooK PAGeSHawkhurst - Save Our Village Hawkhurst Community Page

HAndS of HoPeMandy 07968 333097

HAWKHurST loCAl HISTory SoCIeTy Sylvia Golding (Hon Sec) 752334

HAWKHurST Pre-SCHoolSarah Waugh, Manager (754226)

HAWKHurST SCouT GrouPScouts and Explorers – 753528Cubs – 753018; Beavers – 753497Guides – Joanne Faulkner 389161 Brownies – Jess Gould 754898

HAWKHurST orIolo roMAno TWInnInG ASSoCIATIon

Chairman: Mike Appelbe (contact details as for Magazine Contact Details below) and follow Facebook: hawkhurst-oriolo romano twinning

HAWKHurST u3AJane Cooper, Membership Secretary, [email protected]

HIGHGATe HAWKHurST WIContact telephone numbers: 01580 388912

VIllAGe WArden And PolICeRob Perfitt 07773 396708, email: [email protected] Simon Humphreys [email protected]

HAWKHurST CoMMunITy HoSPITAl leAGue of frIendS

Secretary Jane Hoole 01580 752193Website: www.hawkhurstlof.co.ukMonday Club at Bowles Lodge Joyce Saunders 752850WRAP Dementia Day Care at Hawkhurst House Tina Stirling 01580 239219The Green Shop, 7 The Colonnade Marianne Relf 752768

relATe ConfIdenTIAl fAMIly/relATIonSHIP THerAPy eTC.

01892 529927 [email protected]

lAdIeS WHo lATTe Meet every Wednesday in Queens Inn 10.00-12.00Contact Alison Ede 01580 754487 or mobile 077760026

MAGAZIne ConTACT deTAIlSEditor: Mike Appelbe, Barretts Green Farmhouse TN18 4DP (752367) [email protected]://hvm.visithawkhurst.org.ukAdvertising: John Mears (754001) [email protected] or contact the EditorLayout: May CorfieldIllustrator: Emma DeflorianIf you have any articles, photographs, information about forthcoming village events or issues you would like to raise please send them to the Editor. We cannot guarantee they will be published but we will do our best to include them.

The views expressed in this magazine do not reflect the views of Hawkhurst Parish Council.

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