CMPCAnews 26 - Clifton Montpelier Powis Community Alliance

PHOTOGRAPH BOB YOUNG
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DECEMBER 2011–FEBRUARY 2012
CONRAN AND PARTNERS
Hotel Plans for the old Ice Brighton in Bloom . . .
Rink site, Queen’s Square or gloom
Planning application
BH2011/03227 to
demolish and
redevelop the old ice
rink site in Queen’s
Square as a six-storey
hotel is causing
concern to neighbours
on all sides: St Nicholas
Church, the St Nicholas
Green Spaces and particularly Wykeham Terrace residents.
Michael Fisher, Secretary of the The Wykeham Terrace Residents’
Association writes: ‘The west boundary of the site, which overlooks the
rear gardens of Wykeham Terrace (Grade 2 listed) is roughly seven
metres away from the houses and forms a party wall. Despite the architects’ site visit in the Spring and residents’ many concerns connected to
the height, scale, overshadowing and bulk of the building and its
impact on listed buildings and the surrounding conservation area, little
has changed with the new plans for a six-storey building. The building
blatantly contravenes the council’s planning guidance note (March
2009) that specifies ‘four storeys would probably be the maximum
acceptable height for the development at its highest point’. Although
the building is slightly scaled down in height towards Wykeham Terrace
it remains overbearing. Added to this, the new plans provide for open
terraces, balconies and a roof garden overlooking the rear of Wykeham
Terrace, which will profoundly exacerbate the residents’ loss of privacy’.
Make your views known by 13 December 2011 to
[email protected], quoting BH2011/03227 or visit
www.brighton-hove.gov.uk.
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Jo McCartney
It is with enormous pride that I am
able to say that Borough Street has regained its top spot as
Brighton’s Most Attractive Large Street in the annual
Brighton in Bloom competition. We scooped 1st prize for
the 8th time in 12 years, an unrivalled success rate. The
‘Brighton in Bloom’ competition has run for many years.
For me, my children and the residents of Borough Street it
has brought our community together. Through the pride of
our street looking beautiful there is more community spirit
and neighbourly communication than is normal for a city
centre street. However, due to Government cuts the future
of the Brighton in Bloom competition is now in jeopardy.
The budget is to be axed and this year’s competition may
be the last. For something that takes such a small amount
of money to run but provides such pleasure it is a sad loss.
The local council have suggested the competition be run
completely by volunteers which is puts an awful amount of
pressure on people who already dedicate their time. Ideally
the competition would find a sponsor to cover the lost
budget.
With next year’s Jubilee and Olympics is seems such a
shame that the drive the ‘Brighton in Bloom’ competition
initiates will be lost and our streets may not look as
blooming as usual.
If you feel strongly about this please contact
[email protected] or me at
[email protected]; maybe between us we could offer
a solution. Keep up-to-date on progress on
www.cmpcaonline.org.uk
>>>Community Meetings
Join us for mulled wine
and nibbles
from 6.30–8.30pm
Friday 9 December
at St Michael's
Community Hall
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Tickets in advance
from Jane Osler
✆ 07816 403099 or
[email protected]
Friday 20 January 2012 8pm
St Michael’s Church
Caroline Lucas MP
Tuesday 20 March 8pm
St Mary Magdalen’s Community Centre
Alcohol and the City
Saturday 28 April 11am
St Michael’s Church
AGM and CMP Festival Launch
Confirm dates and topics at
www.cmpcaonline.org.uk
As we go to press
it is with great sadness
that we record
that our Chair,
John Riddington,
died suddenly on
Friday 18 November
2011
Who are we?
Welcome to the Clifton Montpelier Powis Community Alliance, the community
association for the Montpelier and Clifton Hill Conservation Area which covers
40 streets (see streets and map on page 15) in the historic centre of Brighton
and Hove. The CMPCA was founded in 2005 by a group of residents as a notfor-profit community association to foster a sense of community and help
residents come together to discuss and take action on issues of concern in the
area. Membership is free and open to all residents in the area.
Community meetings
Community meetings are open to all, including non-residents, and are normally
held on the third Tuesday of the month in January, March, June, September and
November (see front page for next meetings). To suggest topics for meetings
contact [email protected]
Officers and Management Committee members are elected annually at the
AGM (March/April). They and our Street Reps are listed on page 15.
www.cmpcaonline.org.uk
We hope you enjoy using and contributing to our new Lottery-funded
community website! Discover our local history, have your say on local issues
and sign up to our email list so that you can be consulted on local issues.
See how easy it is to produce and submit a webpage or send material to
[email protected] and the editors will produce your webpage.
Useful numbers
MP for Brighton Pavilion
Caroline Lucas
Weekly advice surgeries. For
appointment and venues contact
constituency office
✆ 01273 201130
Councillors
Ania Kitcat
[email protected]
Jason Kitcat
[email protected]
✆ 01273 296447
or write to councillors c/o King’s House,
Grand Avenue, Hove BN3 2LS
Refuse Help Line
for missed black bin emptying, disposal
of large items, fly tipping removal
✆ 274674/292929
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CMP Festival
Every July, since 2007, we hold the Clifton Montpelier Powis Festival – a
community arts festival which celebrates the area’s cultural and literary
heritage, with around 20 literary, musical and film events, sponsored by
over 20 local businesses. Details of past festivals and future plans at
www.cmpcaonline.org.uk
CMPCAnews
CMPCAnews is the community newsletter for our area, by residents, for
residents and is published quarterly in March, June, September and December.
Produced by the Newsteam – Philippa Sankey, Judy Bow and Teresa Dearlove
(design), it is distributed free by our Street Reps (see page 15) to around
2,500 households and businesses in the area. Contributions always welcome
– contact [email protected] or ✆ 07816 403099.
Advertise in CMPCAnews! Contact [email protected] for rates.
The views expressed in CMPCAnews are those of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect
the official view of the CMPCA
SNGSA needs you!
The St Nicholas Green Spaces Association, founded in 2007, is a group of
volunteers who aim to protect and enhance the three (Council-owned) green
spaces – the Churchyard, the Rest Garden and the Children’s Playground that
surround St Nick’s Church in Dyke Road (see map on page 15). More volunteers
constantly needed – find out more at www.sngsa.org.uk
SNGSA NEWS
Community Compost?
Big Planting Day
There are two local compost
initiatives: at St Peter's Church and
Brighthelm. Would you be
interested in community compost
bins in the Children’s Garden?
Ideally we need two ‘compost
monitors’ to keep an eye on it.
Email [email protected]
or ✆ 07712 019059
PHOTOGRAPH BY ANNA RUBINSTEIN
A sunny Sunday afternoon in early
October saw the whole stretch of ugly
chain-link fence in the Children’s Play
Area transformed with 50 climbing
plants, thanks to a grant from Southern
Water, plants from Stanmer Nursery
and a lot of hard work.
Around 50 people worked with
gusto – the very young, quite old and
in between – a very happy community
event, with the last plant in the ground
at 3pm.
By next year the fence should be
covered with glorious flowers and
fruits: kiwis, grapes, hops, passion
fruit, briar rose, American pillar rose,
honeysuckle, jasmine, and clematis:
plants that provide scent, colour, and
food for insects, birds and bats.
SNGSA’s contribution to this year's
White Night festival on 29 October
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was a glittering success. We
managed to create a bit of magic:
the Churchyard twinkled with
hundreds of tiny lights, our famous
matrons Phoebe Hessel and Martha
Gunn got decorously lit up, there
was a never-ending queue at the
story-telling tent for Lucia Centrale
and Helena Vortex’s fascinating teatrolley tales, Maestro Rohan
Kriwaczek serenaded the gathering
dusk funerarily on his violin, and
the SNGSA refreshments tent – a
beacon of light – did a roaring trade
in mulled wine and homemade
cakes. Much fun and enjoyment was
had by everybody who was there.
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BAT find Pipistrelle and
Seratine bats have been identified
in all three of the Green Spaces!
We're planning a bat walk next
summer . . . they hibernate
through the winter.
We offer a warm welcome to Susan
Jordan, who opens an American
speciality books and media shop at 4
Powis Road (formerly Artifice) in
December. Susan plans a variety of activities including non-mainstream US fiction
and non-fiction books, high-end art and
style magazines, literary and current
event discussion groups, independent
American film and recorded music and
related author readings.
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Born in Hackney, Peter Burton left school
without qualifications and landed a job
in the publicity department of Hamish
Hamilton — a perfect start for a selfeducated boy with a thirst for books and
knowledge. Peter began in British gay
journalism at its inception in the late
1960s. In 1973, he began writing for
Gay News and became its literary editor,
establishing the paper’s reputation for
‘serious’ coverage of books and authors.
His highly successful life as a scribe
ran parallel to some unlikely byways: in
the early 1970s, he was press agent for
The Faces and his authorised biography,
Rod Stewart: A Life on the Town (New
English Library, 1977), gave him enough
money to buy his first home in Kemp Town.
Introduced to Robin Maugham (one time
Clifton Road resident) in 1968, for more
than a decade Peter coped with his
alcohol-fuelled whims and rages. He helped
him complete a number of books, and at
least one – Conversations With Willie (WH
Allen 1978) – was entirely Peter’s work.
In 1983, he became the literary and
features editor of Gay Times – a position
he held for 20 years, in addition to being
the founding publisher of Millivres Books,
where he tirelessly nurtured emerging
writers alongside more established names.
Peter himself wrote or contributed to
over 30 books, including a second volume
of memoirs, Amongst the Aliens: Aspects
of a Gay Life (Millivres, 1995), and six
anthologies of gay short stories, both by
Arcadia Books, the most recent of which
was What Love Is (2011).
In the last decade, he was a regular
contributor to Brighton-based publications
360 and One80, where a new gay generation benefited from his high-quality
journalism, and also contributed regular
book reviews for the Daily Express and
obituaries for The Independent. As literary
programmer of the CMP Festival for the last
four years, he curated – on a shoestring
The Royal Pavilion conserving
and restoring our fragile cultural heritage
Rob Yates, a University of Sussex graduate
who lived in Norfolk Road when he first
came to Brighton in 1993, has been Head
of Fundraising for the last two years at the
Royal Pavilion & Museums Foundation
which aims to protect and conserve our
city’s unique cultural heritage, bring the
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very best art and culture to Brighton &
Hove, purchase important works of art;
and support education and learning
programmes.
The theme of Rob’s excellent talk at our
community meeting on Tuesday
15 November was his mission to bring the
budget – a line-up of events which put
bigger festivals to shame.
Peter’s entire literary output was
produced on manual typewriters – the
ribbons of which he couldn’t change
himself. Yet the copy was always clean,
meticulous and diligently written, the
deadlines always met. It is apt that his
last words were “make sure the copy
gets there on time”.
Peter liked nothing better than to cook
Elizabeth David-inspired meals for his
friends and sit at the kitchen table in his
book-filled house, dispensing food, wine,
whiskey, music, gossip, ideas and advice,
with unfailing generosity, and understated,
yet deep – and reciprocated – affection.
Philippa Sankey writes: ‘Peter took on the
role of literary programmer for the CMP
Festival in 2008 after his ‘double act’ with
Francis King at the first festival in 2007.
Inspirational, generous with his time and
enthusiasm, as one festival finished he was
already planning the next. His plans for
2012 were well advanced at his untimely
death on 7 November and we were looking
forward to finalising the details. It is fitting
that he felt that this year’s festival was ‘the
best yet’ – full of friends who were happy to
perform because Peter invited them.The
CMPCA and the CMP Festival owes Peter a
huge debt and he will be much missed’.
Membership (from as little as £23)
makes a great Christmas gift!
See page 5 opposite for great Members’
benefits: including special discount at the
Royal Pavilion Ice Rink, 20% discount in
Pavilion shops throughout December,
and FREE Royal Pavilion Souvenir guide
book by quoting ‘CMPCA’.
Pavilion back to the centre of Brighton life,
bring more residents through its doors
with an imaginative programme of activities and to engage the community in its
upkeep. Visit www.pavilionfoundation.org.
He reminded us of some fascinating facts
about the Pavilion; for example, John Nash
made adventurous use of cast-iron
framing, making the Pavilion one of the
earliest non-industrial buildings to use this
method, placing it at the cutting edge of
building technology. Today, the large
amount of rusting expanding metal has to
be monitored and the building requires
regular painting to protect it from the
adverse weather conditions.
Help Rob achieve his ambition of
expanding Foundation membership from
the current 2000 to 6000 members as a
great way to support the Royal Pavilion
& Museums.
UoS and our area 50 years on
In October 1961 some 50 undergraduates in the Arts enrolled at the new
University of Sussex to be taught in borrowed buildings near Preston Park.
Today the University on its campus out at Falmer, has over 12,000 students
with a teaching faculty of 511, and 294 researchers plus a supporting staff of
1,326. Clearly this population explosion, together with the comparable
expansion of the University of Brighton, has made a big impact on the whole
community – including our own neck of the woods.
A strong suit to have one of the new
universities in Sussex was that there were
then lots of seaside guesthouses largely
unoccupied outside the summer months
and therefore suitable for student
accommodation. Some were in our area.
In the 60s senior faculty could afford to
live in such places as Montpelier Villas
and some undergrads even rented a
basement flat there. In the days before
conservation, the peeling houses in
Powis Square were all painted different
colours and some students lived there in
lodgings in what was rumoured to have
been the Red Light district.
Staff members and their partners gravitated to our attractive area and contributed
in various ways – as school governors,
magistrates, councillors, party activists and
members of our churches – but a predominant interest was in conservation and the
environment. Amongst the founders of the
Montpelier and Clifton Hill Association
were the librarian Joy Moore (wife of
Gerald Moore, expert in African literature),
Peter Rose (of the School of Education
across the road at Falmer) and the historian
Valerie Cromwell. Her husband, the mathematician (Sir) John Kingman became
Chairman of the Regency Society and a
Tory Councillor. Neighbours in the Villas
included the Joyce scholar Matthew
Hodgart and the philosopher Roy Edgley.
Two prominent Europeanists in the area
were François Duchêne and John Rosselli.
The radical art historian Marcia Pointon
teased aesthetes by not removing fake
Tudor beams from her Victorian house on
Clifton Hill – now meticulously restored by
the current owners, one of whom is an
academic. The first chaplain to the
University, the Rev Daniel Jenkins,
frequently entertained Sunday speakers at
his house on Clifton Terrace, whilst his
student son became interested in Brighton’s
Regency buildings and its Victorian
churches. (Sir Simon Jenkins is the new
President of our Regency Society and
Chairman of the National Trust.) Marcus
Cunliffe, doyen of Americanists, later lived
in the same house. The Shakespeare
scholar Tony Nuttall resided down the hill
on Clifton Place. Alan Sinfield, cultural
materialist and academic pioneer of Gay
Studies, now lives nearby.
To mention a few current residents
would be invidious, but readers need
only turn to the penultimate page of this
publication to see the names of some
past and present employees of the
University (and even some graduates)
who support the CMPCA and such
groups as the Friends of Saint Michael’s
and the St Nicholas Green Spaces.
Thanks to their commitment it is still
enriching to live in this hilly area halfway
between Waitrose and the Railway
Station – convenient for trains to Falmer.
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Why local is best for wine
Andrew Catchpole
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As with so much hedonistic happening
in Brighton, the start of copious wine
consumption began with the Prince
Regent. His cellar still exists, stretching
the length of the Royal Pavilion, and
must have presented an amazing sight
in its heyday given George’s love of
gastronomic excess. In many ways his
legacy lives on today in the myriad
restaurants, pubs and bars that continue
to mark our town out as Britain’s most
satisfying seaside watering hole.
Perhaps this helps to account for the
number of excellent wine merchants we
have here too. Whatever the reason, for a
city of its size, Brighton and Hove is spoilt
for choice when it comes to passionate
independent merchants and it’s up to us to
ensure this enviable situation so remains.
First up, it’s worth dispelling the myth
that shopping at an independent wine
shop is necessarily more expensive than
a supermarket. It isn’t, unless you are in
the habit of buying monotonous,
factory-made plonk for under a fiver.
Even the entry-level wines at a good
merchant have been thoughtfully chosen
to show some character and interest.
Better still, when you are taking a higher
punt with more of your hard-earned
cash, there is someone on hand who will
try their utmost to ensure you go home
with a bottle that you actually like.
“In an independent you are much more
likely to get something you like because it’s
a matter of personal pride to match a
wine with the customer,” says Toby Pierce
of Quaff. “And this is the same whether a
wine is £5 or £15, so it’s less of a gamble
with your money in an independent.”
I couldn’t agree more. And once you
add in the personal touch, discount on
cases, delivery, in-store advice and tastings,
and above all the fact that by supporting
Quaff Fine Wine
quaffit.com
Fiveways: 01273 553353
Hove: 01273 820320
The Butlers Wine Cellar
www.butlers-winecellar.co.uk
Queen's Park Road: 01273 698 724
St Georges Road: 01273 621638
Sheridan Cooper’s
Prince Albert Street: 01892 610332
www.sheridancoopers.co.uk
St Martin’s Vintners
Trafalgar Street: 01273 777744
www.stmv.co.uk
Toast
Church Street: 01273 208180
www.toastchampagne.co.uk
Ten Green Bottles
Jubilee Street: 01273 567 176
www.tengreenbottles.com
Andrew Catchpole is a freelance wine, food
and travel writer living in the CMP area.
www.andrewcatchpole.com
your local merchants you are supporting
your own community, then it seems a nobrainer. Not to mention the fact that you’ll
end up drinking better wine.
Quaff is a great merchant, now with
a second outlet at Fiveways (in addition
to Hove), which also has a fab selection
of serious beers to match its wine list.
Another star in Brighton’s firmament is
Butler’s Cellar, now in Kemp Town and
Queen’s Park, where resident wine guru
Henry Butler offers regular tastings from
his extensive and occasionally iconoclastic list of wines.
Tucked into the heart of the Lanes is
Sheridan Cooper’s, where the affable
Andy Wiseman offers a broad selection
of wines for retail, including many
European classics, from a portfolio that
counts many of Sussex’s and Kent’s best
bars and restaurants as clients. And with
600+ wines in its portfolio, St Martin’s
Vintners, below the station in Trafalgar
Street, couldn’t be better placed as a
drop for commuters on the way home.
Meanwhile fizz fanatic Toast in Hove is
pretty much unique in the UK, specialising
in Champagne, including luxury brands
plus all manner of related accessories. And
last, but very far from least, there’s the
excellent Ten Green Bottles, opposite
Brighton Library, where the combination of
great staff, wine bar-cum-shop, much
emphasis on sustainable and organic
winemaking, plus regular tastings
complete a picture of a very healthy wine
scene in Brighton and Hove.
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Made with precision and passion in Sussex:
an update on Stopham Vineyard
Simon Woodhead
Much has happened since the CMPCA
tour of Stopham Vineyard last autumn: at
that time the equipment had just been
installed into the beautiful new winery, a
Grade II listed Victorian barn in the
village. The 2010 vintage was picked in
October, crushed and pressed, and then
the skins, stems and pulp were separated
from the juice before the wine started
fermentation in stainless steel tanks. We
are able to carefully control fermentation
rates in a closed loop temperature control
system using Co2 sensors, to ensure a
long slow ferment preserving the delicate
aromas characteristic of English wine.
Due to a delivery problem in Italy the
bottling plant was delayed by five
months so we were only able to
bottle the 2010 vintage in July this
year. In total, 12,000 bottles of
Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris and Rosé
were produced. All wines are
bottled in inert gas into Burgundy
bottles with a deep punt and
screwcap using Stelvin lux
closures. The wines are dry and
light, floral on the nose and
have delicate stone fruits on
the palate. Alcohol levels are
modest at between 10–11%.
The 2010 wines and newly
styled label have been received
with high praise, the Pinot
Blanc recently winning a local
The Crescent
competition and the Pinot Gris named
favourite wine by local sellers. The
journalists Oz Clarke, Malcolm Gluck and
Jane McQuitty all praised the wines at a
recent London tasting. The wines are
available for sale through Liberty Wines in
London (trade) and Hennings Wine
Merchants in Sussex (retail online). Local
residents can find the wine in Thorne’s
Foods (Upper Gardner Street, North
Laine), Ten Green Bottles (opposite Jubilee
Library) and Henry Butler’s Wine Cellar.
The Sparkling wine takes an additional
15 months to produce; the 2009 vintage
is now available for sale, whilst the
2010 Sparkling wine will remain in
bottle until next Summer.
The 2011 harvest was completed in
October this year. It has been a
challenging year for English vineyards;
there was a drought in spring (when the
vines need water to grow), heavy rain in
June (knocking off the flowers that go
on to become grapes) and a lack of
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sunshine in August resulting in at least a
50% reduction in yields across
the country. However the
grapes that remained on
the vine were saved by
surprisingly hot
weather at the
beginning of October.
The reduction in yields
and the hot burst at the
end of the season has
brought a small but high
quality crop that is already showing
great promise on the nose and palate. We
plan to start bottling the 2011 vintage in
March to be ready for sale in April 2012.
We look forward to welcoming
CMPCA members to a vineyard tour and
wine-tasting at a convenient date.
Meanwhile go to our website for up-todate news and purchasing information
www.stophamvineyard.co.uk.
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More news of the Rassams
at 7 Powis Square . . . and a
French connection
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Readers may recall that a while ago, Carolyn Sansbury wrote an article
about Hormuzd Rassam who lived at 7 Powis Square in the 1890s, and
had an adventurous life as an archaeologist and British diplomat
(CMPCAnews 8). In May this year, a message on the CMPCA website
www.cmpcaonline.org.uk (where Rassam’s story also appears) asked for
information about one of his daughters, Annie Ferida: the message was
from Annie Ferida Rassam’s great-granddaughter, a young woman called
Célia Di Maria, who now lives in Grenoble, France.
Célia was trying to solve a mystery in her
family’s past. She told me that her grandmother Jeanne Ferida Rassam-Courthial
had been born in Paris in September
1914, shortly after the outbreak of the
First World War. The baby was illegitimate,
and was adopted by a French couple, the
Courthials, who had recently lost a child.
After a good and happy life, Jeanne
died in 1995, and among her papers, her
family found some photos and letters,
which revealed who Jeanne’s biological
parents were: Annie Ferida Rassam from
Brighton, and ‘Sir Wallinger’, who was
attached to the British intelligence service
in France. How fascinating, I thought!
But as for the couple themselves,
Annie Ferida and Wallinger, there remain
many mysteries. For a start, how was it
that a young woman of good family like
Annie Ferida had an illegitimate baby in
Paris? How did she meet the father,
Wallinger, and biggest mystery of all,
who was Wallinger?
It was easy enough to find two likely
candidates – two brothers, John ArnoldWallinger and his brother Ernest. Both of
them were involved in an intelligence
network in Paris, the purpose of which
was to gather information about possible
links between anti-British Indian nationalists and the Germans, at the outbreak
of the First World War. Although they
had both been born in India, the Arnold-
Wallingers had Brighton connections –
their grandfather had been a minister of
religion here. But which brother was the
father of the baby, Jeanne?
Ernest was in the army. In 1914, he was
in France, attached to the Intelligence
Section, General Staff. He was severely
wounded in battle a few days after
Jeanne was born. After he recovered, he
continued to have a distinguished military
career, and then retired to Cuckfield
where he lived with his wife and family.
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been a policeman and intelligence
officer in India. On his return to Europe
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Carole writes
‘There are some people who leave indelible memories. My grandmother Jeanne
was one of those people, and I loved her
very much. She was intelligent, loving,
and deeply tolerant. This is why, when
we discovered the amazing story about
how Jeanne was born in a Paris clinic
and given in adoption, we wanted to
find out more: our great-grandmother
Annie Ferida Rassam was a woman of
independent characte. Jeanne never
bore grudges or reproaches towards her
– she was too intelligent for that – so
neither do my sister and I. Jeanne,
adopted into a French family, really
wasn’t French at all. England, which
used to seem so far away, suddenly
seems more familiar because it is the
country of our origins, and we’re very
proud of that. Perhaps we should try to
learn English!’
of him in Somerset Maugham’s
Ashenden: Or The British Agent, a book
of short stories in which Maugham
describes some of his experiences
working for John Wallinger’s spy
network. The character of Maugham’s
boss in these stories, Colonel R, is based
on John – not a very attractive picture,
I’m sorry to say! John never married,
maybe he wasn’t the marrying kind.
Maugham later recalled dining with R in
the company of R’s ‘attractive mistress’ –
could this perhaps have been Annie
Ferida??
But in fact, after Jeanne was born in
Paris, I don’t know where Annie Ferida
was for a good many years, though she
eventually returned to Brighton in about
1930. In 1932 she moved to 3 York Grove
(a little road off New England Road) where
she lived for the rest of her life. I haven’t
been able to find out anything much
about how she lived (did she work, what
did she do?) except that she liked going to
the cinema. She died in 1955 at the age of
77. It is just possible that some readers
might remember her, in which case it
would be wonderful to hear from them.
John Arnold-Wallinger continued to
work in the military police, often serving
overseas. In 1925 he was knighted, and
the following year he was offered the
post of deputy commissioner of the
Metropolitan Police, but he chose instead
to retire to Brighton, where he became
active in local politics. For the last year or
so of his life, he lived in a large house in
Surrenden Road. He died in January 1931,
and was buried in the graveyard at the
Cé lia writes:
My grandmother, Jea
nne, was very impor
tant for me, and I
very deeply. She die
loved her
d on
would like to keep her 9 July 1995, but by means of this letter,
memory alive, and to
I
to give her some of
tell part of her story,
the things she never
and
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out
her
background.
Jeanne was born on
10 September 1914,
in an obstetric clinic
Vercingé torix, Paris
in Rue
XIVth. Her mother
was Annie Ferida Ra
resident in Brighton
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, and her father wa
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unk
birth in secret in Pa
ris, and because she nown. Annie Ferida gave
felt unable to keep
baby, she left Jeanne
the
with M. and Mme
. Courthial, a French
However, she left a
couple.
photo of herself and
of the babys father
back of her photo is
. On the
written Annie Ferida
Rassam, and on the
of the other, she wr
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ba
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intelligence service in
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Paris.
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never to reclaim the
baby, under penalty ida, in which she agreed
of paying an enormous
of money.
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When I began my
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Hormuzd Rassam.
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the places where An
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rich and varied her
origins were. I have
made contact with
also
my cousin Cornelius
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vendish, Hormuzds
grandson. We had
greata lot to discuss!
Now at last, I know
something of Jeanne
s story, and I feel
proud.
very
ABOVE: JEANNE AND ROBERT WITH GRANDDAUGHTERS CAROLE AND CELIA.
INSET: CAROLE, CELIA AND SIMON
lovely old church of All Saints Patcham.
Both Célia and I are inclined to think that
it was John who was the father of the
baby Jeanne, mainly because – unlike his
brother – he was knighted, and this corresponds to the ‘Sir Wallinger’ written on the
back of the photo that Célia’s family has.
And also, the baby’s name was Jeanne –
like ‘John’ – Ferida. But it is just guesswork
really – as Célia says, we need to find
authenticated photos of the two brothers,
and compare them with her photo.
Of course, in many ways, this fascinating
story was also very sad for everyone
concerned, especially perhaps for Annie
Ferida. She never married. We don’t know
whether or not she and John (or Ernest)
remained in contact after Jeanne was
born. She must have often thought about
her daughter, what she was like as she
grew up, what sort of life she was living. It
might have comforted her to know that
Jeanne’s adoptive family was very loving,
and Jeanne grew up, married and had two
children – one of them called Annie – and
eventually also grandchildren: Célia, her
brother Simon, and her sister Carole.
At the beginning of September, Célia
and her husband, and Cornelius Cavendish
(Hormuzd Rassam’s great-grandson) came
9
CÉLIA IN FRONT OF 7 POWIS SQUARE,
WHERE THE RASSAMS LIVED IN THE 1890S
to visit me here in Brighton! It was a great
day. We went to see the places that the
Rassam family had all lived together, and
we also went to Annie Ferida’s modest
little house, and John Wallinger’s rather
grand one, and up to All Saints Patcham
where, in the midst of a sudden torrential
downpour, Célia left some flowers for
John Wallinger, on the off chance that he
was indeed her great-grandfather.
CÉLIA AND CORNELIUS CAVENDISH
WORKING ON THEIR FAMILY TREE
Zombie
nation
Phil Mellows
10
I was hanging about outside some offices the other morning and
among those who hurried past me into work was a suited chap with
a briefcase and rotting flesh. For a moment I puzzled over whether
he’d come straight from an all-nighter or decided to save time by
getting the slap on before work so he was ready to go straight on
the shuffle after logging out. Or possibly both. Anyway, I didn’t
worry about it too much. It was Hallowe’en. And it was Brighton.
This year they extended the zombie season by bringing the
zombie beach walk forward a week, presumably to ease
congestion on Hallowe’en weekend. You got used to seeing
people who looked like they’ve been in some horrible accident,
covered in blood with bits hanging off them. If anyone had
actually been in a horrible accident they might have had trouble
attracting attention, which would have been bad luck.
Down here flesh-eating has lost its shock factor. My favourite
moment from last year’s zombie walk was the glass collector who
went up to a group of zombies drinking round a table in a pub.
“These all dead?” he asked, without a flicker of irony.
Zombies, as you know, have their roots in an anxiety about a
world in which people have been deprived of their free will. A
world in which they have to exhaust their human vitality in
working for others, a world in which, as famously suggested in
Night of the Living Dead, meaning is reduced to robotic
consumerism.
It was Brighton’s genius to invert that. Being a zombie meant
you were refusing to conform, rejecting the system. Hallowe’en
was a day in the spirit of carnival – literally ‘farewell to the flesh’.
Now it seems more like dressing up without having to put too
much effort into your costume. I did hear about someone on
Hallowe’en who turned up as the shower scene from Psycho. Fair
play to them. Not all of us have the time and the creativity for that.
Being a zombie has become a default position. A reversion to
consumerism after all.
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Fin&Farm
On the first snowy day in January 2009, Nick
and Muir literally launched Fin and Farm with
a sliding start from their home in Church Street.
Three years on, they are regular suppliers of
Sussex farm produce to restaurants, pubs, cafes,
hotels and caterers. Now they offer home
greengrocery deliveries too.
For Nick and Muir, the veggie business
is all about linking Sussex farms and
customers in urban areas of
Brighton, Hove and Lewes. As Nick
says ‘The farming communities
around the Downs produce such a
great variety of stuff that our larders
could be seasonably bulging all year with
tempting food and drink. Buying food grown or produced
in a postcode area you recognise is not a radical idea. But it
is understandable that it’s very difficult when you have a
busy life or can’t get to local farm shops. That is why we set
up Fin and Farm so our customers could have freshly
picked leaves from farms close by, get rid of dismal plastic
wrapping, and not pay a hefty price for the privilege’.
Nick and Muir are fans of veg boxes but always prefer to
choose the food themselves. ‘Planning healthy weekly
menus can be hard work at the best of times! We always
felt there should be an alternative to a regular veg box.
Plus, in a town it’s not always practical to have boxes left
outside’. So now they always work with pre-arranged deliveries to avoid nasty surprises or missing items.
Nick added ‘It’s so satisfying to see our regular customers
happy when they receive really good fresh produce and that
sums up what we’re about. As we were delivering to friends
m
and family as well as the restaurants, it
just seemed a natural to extend this to
local people in their homes as well.’
One of the perks of the job is
spending time on the farms and being
out and about around the Downs. Nick,
and Jim who works with Fin and Farm,
navigate the Sussex countryside in all
seasons and witness first hand the difficulties and rewards of modern ethical
farming. For most of the year, scooting
round winding roads and tracks is a
treat when the countryside is an
explosion of different colours –but there
are downsides too: in the snowy spells,
when the Downs become like Siberia
and finding the vegetables can be an
achievement, never mind picking them.
Having started the business with
veggies, fruit and juices from the
amazing (and award
winning) Ringden farm
in Hurst Green, Fin
and Farm have
recently added dairy
produce from
Northiam near Battle
and eggs from the
happy hens over at
Holmansbridge.
Another new addition is stoneground
flour from Weald and Downland Farm,
near Chichester – where incidentally the
Open Air Museum is well worth a visit!
Not only is there a traditional mill but
also animals, superb walks and historic
buildings.
If you would like more information about Fin and Farm, just call Nick
✆ 07966 972 530 or email [email protected]. Their website isn’t quite ready
yet, but you can find them on Facebook (under Fin and Farm).
bistro
Chic, Fun & Friendly Bistro
Open Wednesday to Sunday
morning, noon & night!
Dine by candlelight & take in the welcoming,
warm & relaxed ambience.
Our serene and spacious garden
is ready when you are!
Savoury Rocket Cake
This is an easy cake and popular in
France for a quick bite – we have
substituted the rocket with our
peppery Mustard Mix and the pine
nuts for chopped walnuts, which
also turns out brilliantly. Another
popular alternative is to substitute
nuts with pancetta. Also this cake
takes almost no effort – roughly 10
minutes to prepare (plus cooking
time). Because it is pretty low in fat,
you can be a bit naughty and serve
with a smudge of salty butter or
some wickedly creamy goats
cheese!
Serves 6 (as a starter or a savoury
snack)
100g rocket
50g pine nuts (plus a few for
decoration)
175g plain flour
3 eggs
150ml natural yoghurt
4 dessertspoons olive oil
1 dessertspoon wholegrain mustard
salt and pepper to season
Set oven to 180°c/Gas mark 6.
Grease 21cm loaf tin.
Soak rocket in cold water to clean and
gently dry; chop leaves finely.
Sieve flour into bowl. Add eggs,
yoghurt, oil, mustard, salt and pepper.
Beat vigorously with hand mixer (or
food processor) for 1 minute.
Gently fold in rocket and nuts.
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Pour mixture into non-stick loaf tin and
cook for 50 minutes in oven. When
cooked, leave in loaf tin to rest for a
few minutes before turning out onto
cooling rack. Decorate with a few pine
nuts and serve warm or at room
temperature.
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Online and
telephone scams!
Hugh Parker
12
We all know about common computer infections
like a virus, a spyware or a horrible rootkit, but now there
is a new more intrusive tactic involving cold calls.
Online scams are often webpages that appear pretending
to be an anti-virus scan that has found issues and requires a
credit card payment to resolve. In other cases poor password
discipline, or including too much personal information (ie full
addresses and date of birth) on social networking sites, etc
can allow scammers to steal your identity.
A well-known telephone scam is to receive a call
supposedly from Microsoft or Apple and then navigate the
user to a ‘log’ to ‘prove’ the fault. In the case of Microsoft
they will often ask the user to load the ‘Event Viewer’ where
there are always ‘errors’ with big red crosses next to them,
then tell the user they have a virus or system issue that
requires immediate attention. This is untrue – even the
healthiest PC will show these ‘errors’ from normal use. The
scammers try to convince the user their computer has a
problem and then offer to connect remotely to your
computer and fix the problem for ‘a reasonable fee’. This is a
ruse to gain access to steal your identity and credit/debit card
details by charging to fix a non-existent problem.
Microsoft and Apple will never call you directly unless a
phone call has been agreed previously and they would
never accept responsibility for your computer contracting
an infection.
The best advice is to treat these phone calls the same
way as travelling salesmen and be careful not to give any
information about yourself, or your computer. Ask for
their name and if you have time, waste theirs – every
minute wasted means fewer victims!
Remember if you are unsure check with an expert.
Hugh Parker is the owner of forcomputerproblems.com
1a Powis Road
Nominations for 2012 AGM
Our seventh AGM takes place on Saturday 28 April 2012 when the
four Honorary Officerships (Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer and Secretary)
will be up for election together with the Management Committee,
which, including the officers, can total fourteen members. For the
current list of members, see page 15. For those interested in
standing, job descriptions for the four officerships, a list of duties and
responsibilities for Management Committee members and
nomination forms are available from the Secretary (and the website
www.cmpcaonline.org.uk). The nominee, proposer and seconder
must all be full members of the CMPCA (ie resident in the streets on
page 15) and all three must sign the nomination forms.
Nominations must be submitted on the appropriate forms to
the Secretary, CMPCA, c/o 5 Montpelier Villas, BN1 3DH by
Friday 30 March 2012. Enquiries: [email protected] or
✆ 07816 403099. All nominations will be displayed on the
website 14 days before the AGM.
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Events Events Events Events Events
DECEMBER
Wednesday 7 7pm
Regency Society lecture: Brighton beach
kaleidoscope, Geoffrey Mead, local
historian and geographer, City College,
Pelham Street. non-members £5
Thursday 8 7.30pm
Inaugural Royal Pavilion Foundation Carol
Concert, Music Room, Royal Pavilion.
£28, Members £20, Children £5
Saturday 10 7.30pm
Sussex Musicians’ Club: Christmas is
coming. BHHS, Montpelier Road. £4
Free listings page for events in and around our
area and beyond (or pay to advertise). Email
event details to [email protected] for
March–June 2012 by end January.
Monday 12 8pm
Lewes Monday Lit: Steve Bell – political
cartoonist; Pelham House, Lewes.
£7.50 (for membership info contact
[email protected] or ✆ 478512)
Saturday 4 7.30pm
Sussex Musicians’ Club: Beethoven
‘Tempest’, Piano Sonata, Schumann
Liederkries, Op.39, Haydn Quintet for
Piano and Strings, Violin solos; BHHS,
Montpelier Road. £4
JANUARY 2012
Saturday 25 7.30pm
Sussex Musicians’ Club: Songs by Liszt,
piano solos, French songs, instrumental
items; BHHS, Montpelier Road. £4
Wednesday 11 7pm
Regency Society lecture: Zero energy
design for Portslade, Bill Dunster, architect
of Port-Z, City College, Pelham Street.
non-members £5
Saturday 14 7.30pm
Sussex Musicians’ Club: Poulenc Oboe
Sonata, Elgar Sea Pictures, piano duets,
instrumental items.
BHHS, Montpelier Road £4
Monday 27 8pm
Lewes Monday Lit: Alison MacLeod –
author of novels and short stories;
Pelham House, Lewes.
£7.50 (for membership info contact
[email protected] or ✆ 478512)
Monday 30 8pm
Lewes Monday Lit: Edmund de Waal –
writer and potter; Pelham House, Lewes.
£7.50 (for membership info contact
[email protected] or ✆ 478512)
FEBRUARY
Wednesday 1 7pm
Regency Society lecture: Lost and
neglected sculptures in Sussex, Anthony
McIntosh; City College, Pelham Street;
non-members £5
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LUNCHTIME RECITALS
MUSIC AT THE HEART OF THE CITY
PARISH CHURCH of
S MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS
Victoria Road
Sunday 18 December
6pm Traditional Carol Service
by candlelight, followed by mince pies
and mulled wine/soft drinks
Saturday 24 December
5pm Crib Service
for young children
11.30pm Midnight Mass
by candlelight with carols
& blessing of the Crib
Sunday 25 December
10.30am Family Mass
with carols & prayers at the Crib
Sunday 1 January 2012
10.30am Sung Mass
Sunday 8 January
[Epiphany Of The Lord]
10.30am Sung Mass: Bishop of
Chichester presiding and preaching
Wednesdays 12.30–1pm
£2 minimum donation appreciated
January
4
Magdalene Reising
Flute/Harp/Voice
11 Susan Hill and Charles Kerry
Oboe/Bas Baritone
18 Emilie Capulet
Piano
25 Mary Thomas
Soprano
February
1
Thomasin Trezise and Stefan Holmstrom
Mezzo Soprano/Bass Baritone
8
Ambrose Page
Piano
15 Peter Golden, Andrew Wickens and
Sylvia Golden
Classical Guitar/Violin/Flute
22 The La Place Trio
String Trio
29 Patrick Avery
Classical Guitar
March
7
Janet Ormerod and Fiona Baines
Mezzo Soprano/Soprano
To be considered for St Nicholas’
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Thursday 8 December 7.00pm
Royal British Legion Brighton
Service and Wreath Laying
Sunday 18 December 6.30pm
Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
by candlelight in the presence
of the Mayor and Consort
Saturday 24 December
CHRISTMAS EVE
4pm and 6pm
Crib Service for Parents and Children
11pm Vigil in preparation for
11.30pm Midnight Mass
Sunday 25 December
CHRISTMAS DAY
10.30am Family Eucharist
Wednesday, 28 December
The Holy Innocents
10.30am Eucharist
Sunday, 8 January 2012
Epiphany
8.00am Holy Eucharist
10.30am Parish Eucharist
Royal Alexandra Quarter is Taylor Wimpey’s new
flagship apartment development on the site of the
former Royal Alexandra Hospital in Dyke Road.
Through this exciting new homes collection, Taylor Wimpey aims
to achieve two things: to preserve the much-valued heritage of this
historic site, and to create high-quality properties which will enhance
the local community.
The project will involve the careful redevelopment of the main hospital building into
20 beautiful apartments, while retaining its original external architectural features and
sensitively reconstructing the newer elements of the front facade. A further 99 apartments
will be created in five new build blocks, offering one, two and three-bedroom homes,
with 14 properties available to key workers through shared ownership.
Construction of the basement area is due to begin in early 2012 with the above ground
construction beginning early 2013. The new buildings will be contemporary in design,
but at the same time in keeping with the existing stucco streetscape and contributing
to the valued character of the Clifton Hill Conservation Area.
By bringing local people, stakeholders and interested parties together at the first Residents
Liaison Committee meeting, queries regarding the construction work were raised and
information shared, allowing for an understanding of everybody’s viewpoints to be
achieved. Taylor Wimpey’s commitment to this process is ongoing, so please do contact
[email protected] for further information about the committee.
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Officers and Management
Committee members
Tony Bailey
Judy Bow
Richard Brown Vice-Chair
Sarah Chrisp
Jane Gray
Adam Jones
Aidan Lunn
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Steve Pavey Treasurer
John Riddington Chairperson
Philippa Sankey
Nick von Tunzelmann
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courses for £39 per head
Recommended in The Good Food Guide 2012
1 Buckingham Place Brighton BN1 3TD | 01273 885555
To book online go to www.samsofsevendials.co.uk
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Delicatessen, Espresso Bar and Freshly Cooked Food – Eat In and Take Away
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Let us help make your Christmas easier by selecting from a wide range of dishes that
can be pre-ordered and delivered or picked up at your convenience
Wide range of quality Italian Christmas panettone and confectionery now in stock –
ideal as presents
Breakfast and lunch menus
Freshly cooked dishes daily
Sandwiches made to order
Wide selection of charcuterie, cheese,
antipasti and delicatessen treats
Specialists in all types of outside catering
Opening Times Sunday 9am–3pm, Monday 8am–3pm, Tuesday to Saturday 8am–6pm
92 Dyke Road, Brighton BN1 3JD 01273 326147
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Open late every evening in December
155–156 Western Road, Brighton, BN1 2DA
✆ 01273 774 212