APPLEDORE PARISH MAGAZINE

FEBRUARY 2022
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VILLAGE DIARY
FEBRUARY 2022
Redevelopment of the Village Hall continues.

All editorial matter for publication in the MARCH magazine should be sent to: The Editor, Oak
House, 74 The Street, Appledore, TN26 2AE, tel. no 01233 758249, email:
[email protected], NOT LATER THAN THE TWENTIETH OF FEBRUARY. Please
provide copy to our email address, preferably as a Word file attachment.

The Appledore Parish Magazine is produced, printed, collated and delivered by a

number of villagers who kindly volunteer to take on these tasks. It is delivered
free to every household in the village. This is unusual; the majority of village
magazines carry a cover price of 30p or so. It is supported financially by
advertisers and by one or two organisations, such as the Parish Council and the
Parochial Church Council, which contribute towards the space that they regularly
occupy. But it could not continue to exist without donations from private
householders who, over the years and on a regular basis, have given us money
to keep going. Donations should be sent to: The Editor, Oak House, 74 The
Street, Appledore, TN26 2AE. Cheques should be made payable to Appledore
Parish Magazine.

Advertising: Brian Knight 01233 758319

email: [email protected]
A year's advertising (11 magazines) is £25 per 1/6th page. The magazine is delivered to
400 houses and is available to visitors via the Village Shop and church.
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Dear Appledore,

This month’s magazine is much shorter than the CONTENTS

bumper December- January edition with some of
Cover
our regular contributors not sending articles this Village Diary 2
month. We do have a new regular contributor Editorial & Contents 3
who writes about memories of the village 50 Who to Ask 4-5
years ago. This month we have “The Big Freeze” Church services 6
and in months to come we will learn more about Letter from Ministry Team 7

Farming, Policing in Appledore, The Church and Lent and Holy Week 2022 8-9
Archbishop of Canterbury Book 10
the Village School. I look forward to them very
February Church rota 11
much.
Flower rota 11
I really enjoyed the Cross Quote in last month’s Your Parish Magazine 12
Answers to Dec Cross Quiz 13
magazine and answers can be found on page 12.
OAP Xmas Lunch thank you 13
There is a new Cross Quote from Roger Parrott
Grapevine 14-15
on page 19. Good luck!
Memories of Village Life 16

A warm welcome is extended to our new Team Appledore History Society 17-19
Cross Quote February 20
Vicar, Jeanette Kennett, her husband Jeremy,
Councillors 21
and their children. More details can be found
Appledore Sketchbook 22
throughout the magazine. Adverts

A shorter magazine gives me the opportunity to

write about editing our magazine. Please read
this (on page 12) if you are interested in having
something included in the future.

Here’s to a healthy and romantic month. Happy

Valentine’s Day!

Maureen
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WHO TO ASK

APPLEDORE ALLOTMENT CHARITY

Clerk to the Trustees Mrs Mary Shaw, The Homestead 01233 758298
APPLEDORE PARISH CHURCH Revd. Can.: Lindsay Hammond 01580 761591
Secretary Philippa Perkins, email: [email protected]
Reader Mrs Alison Gilbert 01797 280243
Churchwardens Mrs Frances Smith 01233 758201
Mr Chris Self 01233 758078
Bells: Captain Mr F. Wenham, Lindon Stone 01233 758362
Secretary Denise Stephens, Nonsuch Cottage 01233 758952
Steeple Keeper Mr Aston Calladine 01233 758105
Flowers/Brass Mrs J. Clifton, Priory Lands 01233 758285
Music tba
Refreshments Mrs D. Clifton 01233 758256

METHODIST CHURCH Revd Tricia Fogden 01233 758250

Secretary Mrs B. Fazzani, Oakhouse Farm 01233 758322

APPLEDORE & DISTRICT RIDING ASSOCIATION

Chair Mrs Sue Hutcheson 07795 957488

APPLEDORE GOOD NEIGHBOUR SERVICE

Free transport for housebound villagers 01233 758478

APPLEDORE VILLAGE STORES 51/53 The Street 01233 758320

ASHFORD BOROUGH COUNCILLOR Mr Michael Burgess 01233 628387

ASHFORD BOROUGH CITIZENS ADVICE email: [email protected]

ART CLUB Denise Stephens, email: [email protected] 01233 758952

BRITISH RED CROSS For general enquiries 01580 763359

Tenterden & Cranbrook For medical loans specifically 01233 620356

CARM: Helen Mattock 01233 758122

CHILD HEALTH CLINIC Hamstreet: Wednesday 10.30 – 12.00

Appledore: Friday 10.00 – 12.00

COMMUNITY RURAL WARDEN Joanna Vos, email: [email protected] 07980 770578

CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU Town Hall, Tenterden 01580 762371

Monday 10.00-16.00, Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri. 10.00 -13.00

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SECURITY Ashford 01233 208000

DOCTORS Appledore/Hamstreet 01233 730190

Tenterden – Surgery 01580 763666
Woodchurch 01233 860236

ELECTRICITY Failure of supply UK Power Networks 105

APPLEDORE FOOTBALL CLUB Seniors: Kenny Beale 07899 030276

Juniors: Richard Baker 07403075961
Veterans: Paul Shilling 07487728191
FRIENDS OF APPLEDORE CHURCH
Chair Mrs F Smith , email: [email protected]
Vice-Chair Miss A Hill, Church House 01233 758203
FRIENDS OF APPLEDORE STATION Chair: T W D Blaney 01233 758628
The Wish House, Kenardington Road, 07710 637962
Appledore TN26 2BS
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APPLEDORE GARDENERS’ SOCIETY
Chair Paul Ripley, 2 Station Villas 01233 758410
Secretary Tessa Knight, Heathland House, Woodchurch Rd 01233 758319

HOSPITALS Buckland (Dover) 01304 201624

William Harvey (Ashford) 01233 633331
Kent and Canterbury (Canterbury) 01227 766877
Benenden 01580 240333
West View (Tenterden) 01580 261500

KENT COUNTY COUNCILLOR Mike Hill 01580 766075

email: [email protected]

KENTISH EXPRESS Ruth Smith 01233 758564

Correspondent email: [email protected]

APPLEDORE LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY Chair: Brian Knight 01233 758319

Sec.: Jo Killick, email: [email protected]

MEETING POINT Mrs V Beale, 9 Elmtree 01233 758548

PARISH COUNCIL James Perkins, Cradlebridge, Moor Lane,

Appledore, Kent, TN26 2BH
email: [email protected] 01233 758107

PARISH MAGAZINE Editor: Maureen Catt, Oak House, 74 The Street 01233 758249
Accounts & Advertising Mr B Knight, Heathland House 01233 758319

POLICE Emergencies 999

Enquiries Non-Emergencies 101

PCSO: Katherine Richards, email: [email protected]

RECREATION GROUND BOOKINGS 07770 947067

REFUSE COLLECTION Bulky items, e.g. fridges,

cookers etc. collected for £24 fee (for 4 items) 01233 331111

SAMARITANS Ashford 01233 610000

TAXI Tenterden Cars 01580 762444

TENTERDEN & DISTRICT DAY CENTRE Church Road, Tenterden 01580 762882

TENTERDEN COMMUNITY HUB

e-mail: [email protected] 01580 389941
TRAINS Enquiries 08457 484950

VETS Cinque Ports Veterinary Group Tenterden 01580 763309

www.cinqueportsvets.co.uk Rye 01797 222265
Pierson Stewart & Partners Tenterden 01580 765244
www.pspvets.co.uk Cranbrook 01580 713381

VILLAGE HALL Committee Chair Huw Jenkins 01233 758152

Bookings Marilyn Ray 01233 758586
email: [email protected]

WATER COMPANY South East Water Office Hours 08458 506060

24 hour emergency service 0333 0000365

WITTERSHAM CEP SCHOOL www.wittersham.kent.sch.uk o1797 270329

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St Peter and St Paul, Appledore

February Services 2022

Sunday 6th February

10.30am - Joint Anglican and Methodist All-Age Worship

Sunday 13th February

10.30am - Holy Communion

Sunday 20th February

10.30am - Joint All Age Worship
With the congregation from Stone

Sunday 27th February

10.30am - Holy Communion

‘Beginning the Day with God’ and Ending the Day with God’,
our daily online only services for the Tenterden Benefice, can
be accessed through the daily bulletin: ‘Connect Up’. You
can subscribe (free) to ‘Connect Up’ at tenterdencofe.co.uk;
click on ‘worship, events and daily bulletin’, then scroll down
to the big box saying ‘Connect up!’ Alternatively email
Lindsay, who will make sure you are joined up!

For further details and for Baptisms, Weddings and

Banns or for any pastoral concerns which you would
like to discuss,
please contact The Rev’d Canon Lindsay Hammond
01580 761591 [email protected]
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A Letter from the Ministry Team at St Peter & St Paul Church Appledore

Dear Friends,

Since Patricia Fogden’s retirement was announced there has been much speculation as to what will happen
to the Church and the vicarage in Appledore. Appledore Parish is part of the Tenterden Benefice which
comprises nine parishes and was formed in 2016. The Benefice led by Team Rector, Lindsay Hammond
together with the newly appointed Team Vicar, Jeanette Kennett, will lead the ministry in all nine parishes.
As you know Lindsay Hammond lives in Tenterden and we are pleased that Jeanette and her family have
chosen the Appledore vicarage for their home.

About this Benefice

The Tenterden, Rother and Oxney Benefice was formed in 2016, bringing together the three parishes of the
Tenterden bBnefice (Tenterden, St Michael’s and Smallhythe) and the six parishes of the Rother and Oxney
Benefice (Appledore, Stone, Wittersham, Ebony, Rolvenden and Newenden). Jeanette, as Team Vicar, and
Lindsay, as Team Rector, will both exercise a ministry of oversight across the whole benefice, supporting
and enabling the individual churches, and ministry teams, and provide missional accompaniment for
accountability and support. This model of ministry will demonstrate a benefice unity and underline the
importance of pulling together and working together, whilst maintaining individual identities.

Message from the New Team Vicar

“Born and raised on the Isle of Wight, I am the oldest of four children. I moved to Kent in the 1990’s to attend
university and train as a primary school teacher. I ended up staying in Kent after I met my future husband,
Jeremy, when we sung in the same church choir in Canterbury. We married in 1995 and had our 3 children
– Oliver, in 1998, Rebekah in 1999 and Molly in 2002. Currently all three are at university – Ollie is in Exeter
studying medicine, Bekkie is reading Music in Chichester and Molly has just started a Musical Theatre
degree in Portsmouth. Jeremy works for KCC Trading Standards – something he has done since 1990.

I first felt a call to ministry as a teenager and at various times considered pursuing it…but a few years ago,
the call was so strong it had to be properly followed up…and here I am. Discernment, selection and training
have been a big part of the last seven years and despite 24 years in teaching, it felt right to move on. At
least this role does enable me to continue to work with some fantastic local schools!

It has been a wonderful gift to me to have spent my years as an Assistant Curate in Tenterden, St. Michael’s
and Smallhythe. The friendly people, the sense of community and the challenges of the pandemic have
enabled me to feel embedded in this place and fulfilled in my vocation. I have learned so much – from
Lindsay, from the congregations and the communities.

And so to this new adventure! Team Vicar in the Tenterden, Rother and Oxney Benefice is an exciting
challenge, and it has been a pleasure to begin to get to know the new parishes and people. Appledore,
Ebony, Newenden, Rolvenden, Stone and Wittersham complete this ‘family’ and I have to say have given a
warm and loving welcome. As a family and with Ruby, our dog, we are looking forward to the move to
Appledore Vicarage in the spring and living as a part of this community.

I cannot express fully my delight that the Tenterden, Rother and Oxney Benefice of churches is where I am
to continue my ministry - and I am looking forward to what the next few years will hold.”

We are so pleased to welcome Jeanette and her family to our village and hope that her new role as
Team Vicar will be challenging, rewarding and the next step in her spiritual journey.

Chris Self

Church Warden, St Peter and St Paul Appledore

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Lent and Holy Week 2022

Lent and Holy Week are an opportunity for us all to take a look at ourselves,
our faith and our lives. This year, we will be marking the season with a range
of worship and reflective opportunities which will hopefully provide something
for everyone.

If you have never had the opportunity to keep Lent in this way or have been a
little unsure if it is something you want to commit to, take a look at what is
going on in the benefice and see if there is something for you. If you have any
further questions then please speak to Lindsay or Jeanette.
([email protected] / [email protected])

Saturday morning reflective services:

‘The Nail – Being Part of the Passion’

These services will take place at 9am each week and will be followed by
breakfast.

Holding in our hands a nail, we hear key witnesses describing Christ’s

crucifixion from their points of view. Each witness considers the part he or she
played in hammering the nails into Jesus. Every reflective service consists of
a Bible reading, a narrative from the perspective of the character and a short
prayer.

Will you accept the nail that crucified Christ?

Will you recognise your role in the drama of
the cross?

5th March: Newenden Church

12th March: St. Michael’s Church
19th March: Appledore Church
26th March: Stone-in-Oxney Church
2nd April: Ebony Church
9th April: Wittersham Church
16th April: Tenterden Church

Lent Course:
‘Come and See’

Wednesday afternoons ‘face to face’ St. Mildred’s Church, Tenterden, 2- 4pm.

Wednesday evenings by Zoom 7-9pm.

This year we are offering the chance to come to a Lent discussion group in
person on Wednesday afternoons or to attend by Zoom on Wednesday
evenings. (Times and locations above). These sessions will begin from
Wednesday 9th March.
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Lent is a time to extend our lives and our awareness. Come & See is a Lent
course that seeks to help us improve our vision, the way we look at the world,
each other and our God. Come & See is an invitation to come to and abide
with the living Lord, to spend time in his presence and love: an invitation to see
with the 'eyes of our heart'. We are invited to let Jesus touch us and open our
eyes, rather than let him pass by.

Holy Week Online Worship

Walking the Way of the Cross

Join us for our online worship in Holy Week as we walk the road to Calvary
with Christ.

Our Beginning and Ending the Day with God services will allow us to encounter
Christ on his journey to the cross. Taking a range of different perspectives –
from unbelievers to robbers, friends to enemies we see how lives were
transformed by what they saw.

Will you encounter him too…and be changed for ever?

‘Beginning the day with God’ is available through a link in the daily Connect
Up! or from the St. Mildred’s You Tube channel from 6am Monday – Saturday.

‘Ending the day with God’ is available through a link in the daily Connect Up! or
from the St. Mildred’s You Tube channel from 6am Monday – Saturday.
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Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2022

Embracing Justice – Isabelle Hamley

What is justice? It's a question we encounter everywhere in life and that over the
last years has increasingly demanded an answer.

In the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book for 2022, Isabelle Hamley invites us
on an exhilarating journey through Scripture to discover how we, as churches,
communities and individual Christians, can seek and practice justice even when
enmeshed in such a fractured world.

Full of practical encouragement, Embracing Justice brilliantly weaves together

biblical texts, diverse voices, contemporary stories, and personal and group
meditations to reveal liberating and imaginative ways in which me may grow in
discipleship - and more fully reflect the justice, mercy and compassion of Christ
in our lives.

With six chapters to take you from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, this Lent
devotional for 2022 is essential reading for anyone interested in the issues of
justice - from climate and economic justice to gender and racial equality - that
are increasingly at the forefront of global consciousness, and the role that
Christians and the Church must play in them.

Embracing Justice will encourage, inform and motivate anyone looking for
Christian books about justice. It will help you understand justice from a biblical
perspective, and inspire you to seek it in every aspect of your life.

Although the world is broken, unequal and violent, the call to reflect God's own
justice and mercy continues to sound like a steady drumbeat, impossible to
ignore. Keep company with Isabelle Hamley this Lent, and discover that we can
all join God's mission of transformation and embrace his justice.
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February Church Rota 2022

Service Sides person Reader/ prayers Refreshments

6th February Family Service Donna Frances/ Brenda Donna/ Brenda

13th February Holy Communion Philippa Michael/ Chris Fay

20th February All-Age Worship Tom Jane/ Frances Jane/ Tom

Appledore

27th February Holy Communion Judith Tony/ Donna Philippa

6th March Family Service Clive Frances/ Brenda Donna/ Tom

CHURCH FLOWER ROTA

ALTAR WEST END

Feb. 6th / 13th Wendy Selmes Julie Wooding

Feb. 20th / 27th Fay Steed Frances Smith

April 17th (Easter) Paddy Moseley Wendy Thomas

For the period between Christmas and Lent please ensure that your
arrangement is tended and watered for two weeks.

If you are unable to take your turn, please telephone Judith Clifton on 758285
or text 07840 356681 - and the same numbers if you are unable to crack the
code for the kitchen / Glory Hole for oasis etc.

PRODUCE IN THE PORCH

Thanks to everyone who leaves used jam jars, flower pots, plastic trays,
books and knitting wool in the church porch. We gratefully use them all and
hope you will please continue in this way. Our well established cake-bake
days will continue on alternative Saturdays, the next ones being on 5th
February, 19th February and 5th March. As always every item (and ingredient)
for sale is donated and all proceeds go directly towards the upkeep of our
beautiful church. The porch is open every day from 9.00 am until dusk AND
you will find our usual range of preserves there. Thank you for your support.

J.C.
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Answers to December Cross Quote:

A DIZZINESS M INFECTS
B IMAM N SKINFLINT
C COUGH O THAWS
D KABOODLE P MAUDIT
E ESTIMATE Q ATTEND
F NOMAD R SUBSTANCE FIRST LETTERS:
G SEEMED S CHINAR DICKENS
H AWAITED T AMPS A CHRISTMAS CAROL
J CUFFED U RATION
K HAWTHORN V OFFAL
L RICKETY W LOVELY

IN CAME A FIDDLER WITH A MUSIC BOOK AND WENT UP TO THE LOFTY DESK AND
MADE AN ORCHESTRA OF IT AND TUNED LIKE FIFTY STOMACH ACHES IN CAME MRS
FEZZIWIG ONE VAST SUBSTANTIAL SMILE

OAP Christmas Lunch

First of all we’d like to wish you all a belated “Happy New Year” and a wish for
a better outlook for 2022 from the Village Hall Entertainments Committee.

Secondly, we’d like to send our thanks and gratitude to our very generous
sponsors. Bill & Cory for the turkeys, Sandra & Ray for the wine and Jempsons
for the Christmas puddings. We are truly indebted to them and their support.
Thank you to all the delivery team volunteers who did such an excellent job in
getting the food out in good order. We truly appreciate each and every one of
you.

As it has been impossible for us to hold events to fund raise during the past
couple of years we are very thankful to the people that donated and took the
time to post on Facebook and send us letters and cards of thanks for the lunch.
Your responses make it all worthwhile.

With fingers crossed and bated breath let’s hope that COVID and the rules and
regulations will allow us to be in the hall for this year’s lunch.

We are at present putting together a programme of entertainment and events

for 2022 which will be held in the newly refurbished village hall and would
welcome any suggestions you may have.

Look forward to seeing you all throughout the coming year.

The Village Hall Entertainments Committee

Linda/Jenny/Marilyn
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Your Parish Magazine

As Editor of the Appledore Parish Magazine, I try to produce a consistent, clear,

and engaging publication. I believe the magazine should play a vital role in
getting information out to the Parish and also encourage everyone to get involved
in the life of the village – from the very young to those more advanced in age!
The magazine goes out for free to over 400 homes in Appledore and its
surrounding area.

At the start of a new year, a time for reflection on the events of the previous
twelve months and hopes for the year ahead, I’d like to remind our readers that a
village magazine is a labour of love. All the work that goes into producing these
pages (and it is, indeed, work) is done voluntarily, with thoughtfulness, and
always with the good of the community in mind. So, when we receive
unkindness, rude emails or phone calls, unnecessarily negative comments…it
stings all the more.

With the above in mind, there are certain guidelines necessary for the process to
run smoothly and I have outlined the most important considerations below for
submitting an article for publication. Remember, the whole team who produce,
print and distribute the Appledore Parish Magazine are volunteers who give up
their time freely. We are not professional publishers.

RULES FOR SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES FOR CONSIDERATION IN OUR

PARISH MAGAZINE:

1) Deadline is 20th of every month at midnight.

2) Please send email submissions IN WORD FORMAT.
3) The Editor will always acknowledge receipt of submission – if you don’t
receive an acknowledgement, please contact me again.
4) The Editor reserves the right to refuse submissions which are considered
offensive, rude or not in keeping with the ethos of a Parish magazine.
5) The Editor maintains the right to edit text when space is of a premium (we
do not put a word limit on articles).
6) The Editor will correct spelling, grammar etc, where appropriate, in order to
ensure clear communication.
7) The font we use is Arial – when I was an English teacher this was
considered to be the easiest font type to read. Size 12 or above if possible
– again for ease of reading. In posters other fonts can be used if
appropriate.
8) The Editor will make every effort to reproduce articles as submitted, but
retains the right to adapt, especially where required by the constraints of
space or of the software used, and the time available. In such
circumstances the Editor will not enter into email communication with
individuals about changes made to their submissions.
9) Photographs and other coloured illustrations are welcomed but may not be
included because of the extra costs involved when printing in colour. We
will make every effort to include them!

Here’s to a great year! Maureen

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GRAPEVINE : FEBRUARY 2022

Items for insertion should be sent by the 17th of each month to: [email protected]

With the first edition of the New Year and with Spring just around the corner, we
wish everyone happiness and good health throughout the coming months, but
before we leave the festive season we reflect on Boris’s promise that Christmas
2021 would be a lot different from the previous Covid year. Unfortunately one
resident took this statement one step too far !! Poor Viv Beale tripped and fell
badly on a planned visit to Winchester Christmas Market. In true British spirit,
and not to let anyone down, she carried on for the day. The next morning a visit
to hospital diagnosed broken bones and dislocated shoulder. In pain, and the
arm in a sling, Christmas for their household was indeed quite different! We
send Viv the very best of wishes for what we understand will be quite a lengthy
recovery.

Once again we are aware of changes with friends moving away, and newly
established residents who we welcome, and look forward to meeting around the
village.

Within these moves we have seen the retirement of our Vicar, The Reverend
Tricia Fogden, and whilst sending our best wishes to Tricia as she settles into
her new life, we have the opportunity of welcoming The Reverend Jeanette
Kennett. Jeanette and her husband Jeremy will be residing in the Appledore
Vicarage from mid-April. They have three children, Ollie, Bekkie and Molly, all
of whom are currently at University. More details of Jeanette’s role as Team
Vicar can be found in this edition of the Parish Magazine.

It is sad to record that ‘Queenie’ Symes passed away at the end of last year.
A lovely lady who, for many years lived at 1a Court Lodge Road until it became
necessary for her to go into a Home. We send belated condolences to
Queenie’s family.

We can now confirm that after a difficult transition time, Colin Jackman has been
placed into a Home in Littlestone. Many of you will be aware that Colin was the
Village policeman for many years. He and Rosemary moved into the Police
house in 1976 and he soon became a much loved character. Together they
readily took part in many fund raising events to the good of the various activities
of the Village. This included the Silver Jubilee event, Fetes, and the Dances
(which could get a little loud with the live Bands), and if Colin was on duty he
would pop his head into the kitchen in the late evening and stop for a chat, and
a suggestion that the noise level be lowered following a complaint from the then
nearby resident. This approach was respected and (sometimes) adhered to !!
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GRAPEVINE : FEBRUARY 2022 Cont:

Colin and Rosemary were also two of the main instigators of the well-attended
weekly Bingo nights where Colin would be the Caller, and Rosemary would
welcome the players and be at the front desk selling the play cards, and the raffle
tickets.
This was a great success, and became quite ‘professional’ with the generous
donation from Colin’s mother, of a conventional, large, electronic Bingo machine
with the balls behaving in a manner not unlike the subsequent Lottery machine !!
This was initially held as one of the many means of raising funds in the early 70’s
for the refurbishment of the Village Hall, and became so popular that even though
profits were low, there was a reluctance to close it down.
It has not been an easy time for Colin or Rosemary, but she takes a little comfort
now knowing that Colin is in a safe and caring environment, and we send our love
and best wishes to them both.

The deliverers, month after month, through all weathers, pop the Parish Magazine
through your letterboxes for which we are all very grateful. One of these has been
Celia (Burgess) from Heathside. Celia has carried out this task for many years
but has now decided to take a well-earned rest and we wish her well. We are
delighted to welcome Leslie (Pocket Cottage) on board who has so kindly offered
to take on this round.

Childhood Memories of A Life in Appledore

When we were youngsters, at this time of year, thick snow and frozen rivers were
very common.

We were lucky in the Village to have two hills located in fields ideal for
tobogganing, both called Mill Hill, with the one at Court Lodge Road easier to
access.

One winter the snow was so deep that a toboggan run was created. Snow banks
were built up at the sides and a tunnel made through a snowdrift.

It was not unusual for the Canal to freeze over, and village residents would take
bread down to the Canal to feed the numerous swans that would be there. If it
was safe to do so, people would break large holes in the ice for the benefit of the
swans.

One year it was so cold that the Canal was frozen over for several days and local
lads played football on it (not to be recommended).

A safer place for skating (skates not required, just shoes or boots that would slide
on the ice) was what is now known as Fleetland Farm. The field behind the
electrical switching station at the end of Court Lodge Road would regularly flood
to a depth of about one foot (30cm) so when frozen, if the ice broke, you didn’t fall
into deep water.
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Memories of Village life half a century ago……………

in The Big Freeze

Sixty years ago this winter, the village, like the whole country, was gripped in
The Big Freeze. Snow froze where it fell on Boxing Day. It still froze at New
Year. It still froze on Valentine’s Day, it froze all through February and well into
March. The temperature never rose above freezing. The first I knew of it was
being woken by a loud “Thump!” Ray Moseley, our blacksmith, had driven into
a snowdrift outside our house.

Six feet high drifts, solid as concrete, ran along the side of the barely-cleared
Tenterden road. Schools didn’t shut at the first snowflake in those days. I told
my children to remember that they were now walking to school on top of the
hedges that ran alongside the road. All the children had great fun. Mill Hill and
the slope in Court Lodge Road rang to excited shouts as sledges, tin trays -
anything that would skid - whizzed down. There was a long slide across the
school playground. (Elf’n’Safety would ban that today.)

Root vegetables were locked in the frozen ground. Sprouts were painfully
prised off their stalks with frozen fingers. Many goods were unobtainable due to
delivery problems. You had to wrap up like an Eskimo to peg out some
washing. Sheep gathered in expectant groups, waiting for the feed the farmer
couldn’t really afford to give them. Nature suffered terribly. We all did. Central
heating was not the norm.

The canal froze over. Tentative testing proved the ice was thick enough to
skate on and people did. My husband and children would go across in the
mornings, kettles of hot water in hand, to release the poor swans’ feet which
had frozen into the ice overnight. They marvelled at beetles, caught like flies in
amber in the icy ditch.

My husband had bought me 2 pairs of thick woollen stockings for Christmas.

GREEN woollen stockings. (We hadn’t got into tights, then.) On opening them, I
didn't know whether to laugh or cry. However, now I was wearing both pairs at
once! I had also claimed his old-fashioned police cape, (withdrawn uniform). It
was wonderful, like wearing a Mongolian yurt. And so we coped. We shared.
We cared for the weak. We invoked the Blitz Spirit. I will leave you with a
mental picture of a flapping, black creature with green legs, of unknown
species, going about its business through the endlessly frozen days.

S.B.P.
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We can’t live in the past, but

we can certainly learn from it!

There is a period in History referred to as ‘The Dark Ages’. The literal definition of
which is ‘the period of years where there is a lack of records for what actually
happened’.

With technology advances as relates to the recording of information, photographs

etc. we could be entering another period of ‘Dark Ages’, as individuals tend to
create and retain their own records, on smart phones, iPads, laptops and in many
cases, they are stored in the cloud. However, these records are not always shared
with friends and family and remain unretrievable from the ether, as the creators
eventually expire.

Our Local History Society are desperately keen not to allow this to happen to
Appledore, which is why we work towards creating an extensive database that can
be accessed and shared by our local community, to ensure there is a record of the
passage of time and of how our village was established and the way it has
developed through the ages.

It is quite incredible how a review of the historic records demonstrates that families
who lived in Appledore in the 13th and 14th centuries, when it was a thriving
community of residents and local businesses, have no descendants still in
residence. In many cases, apart from the names of those buried in the village
graveyards, there is sadly little record of who they were and how they lived and
worked.

We cannot recover all lost information, but we can prevent a continuance of such
loss by recording it on Community Chest, the ALHS database.

ALHS receive numerous domestic and overseas enquiries for information on

families and friends who at some time had a connection with Appledore. We are
often able to assist and as our database grows, we will be in a position to expand
our abilities.

If you have information, records, photographs, items that you would like to have
digitised for your own purposes we can assist you in achieving this. We can also,
with your approval, store such information within Community Chest and share it as
appropriate.

Let’s prevent the Dark Ages from returning to Appledore!

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Appledore Curate becomes

the world’s most notorious
conman
Trebitsch Lincoln was already a convicted thief
when he had a chance encounter with the
Archbishop of Canterbury. The Archbishop
appointed him curate of Appledore.

Lincoln was later to become Liberal MP for Darlington and Press Director for the
Nazi Party in Germany. He was a German spy, a British spy, an American spy, a
double-agent, a Romanian oil baron, a million pound swindler, and the Abbot of a
Buddhist Monastery in China, where he pronounced himself Dalai Lama.

Trebitsch Lincoln was born Ignacz Timotheus Trebitsch, in 1879, and he came
from a small town in Hungary. He was an Orthodox Jew, which proved to be no
barrier to becoming a Church of England curate, and a Nazi.

As a young man, Lincoln made a living by writing travel articles that were entirely
fabricated. To supplement his income, he stole gold watches from friends and
acquaintances. With the Hungarian police on his trail, he fled to London, and with a
new name and religion, he began his ecclesiastical career. He was entered into a
seminary in Germany, but found the devotional life too tough. Trying his luck in
Canada, he became the head of an Anglican Mission, diverting most of its funds to
supporting his lifestyle. Returning to England, and having stolen another gold
watch on the way, Lincoln met the Archbishop of Canterbury, who appointed him
curate of Appledore, with the intention that he would progress from curate to
ordained minister.

Lincoln lodged at Gusbourne Farm. His wife found Appledore “pleasant but damp”.
The villagers, she said, were “very nice, though inquisitive” - as they might well
have been, given the nature of their new curate. His sermons, delivered with a
pronounced Hungarian accent, were eloquent and dramatic. They were largely
improvised, with preparation limited to selecting a text and giving it a few minutes
thought. He made a favourable impression, but wasn’t accepted into the
priesthood, partly because his Latin was poor.

Somehow (there are a lot of ‘somehows’ in Lincoln’s story) he became Secretary to

Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, confectionary magnate, millionaire philanthropist
and Liberal grandee. His job was to travel across Europe, conducting a survey of
social conditions. He completed the task, whilst staying in opulent hotels and
running up huge expenses. Rowntree rewarded him with a loan of more than a
million pounds (in today’s money). Not one penny of the loan was repaid.
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Rowntree was influential in making Lincoln the Liberal candidate for the safe
Conservative seat of Darlington, endorsed by Winston Churchill and Lloyd
George. The local newspaper, co-owned by Rowntree, said he was a genius, with
supporting evidence supplied by Lincoln. Lincoln made a series of florid speeches,
saying that under the Conservatives, workers would be reduced to eating their
dogs, and he was elected.

MPs didn’t then receive a salary, so Lincoln became an oil baron in Romania. A
London office was established, major banks invested. Lincoln lived in a mansion in
Bucharest, with a royal seal of approval from the King of Romania. Not one drop of
oil was produced, and investors lost everything. Running short of money himself,
Lincoln took out a large loan - guaranteed by a forged letter of guarantee from
Seebohm Rowntree.

Retreating from business, Lincoln offered himself as a spy. The British turned him
down, so he approached the Germans. The Germans were half-interested, so
Lincoln went back to the British suggesting he could be a double-agent. Now a
self-styled ‘master spy’, he was employed by the Americans, having claimed that
he was also a master code breaker. Lincoln lived lavishly, always on the verge of
breaking a code. The Americans realised their error and sent him to jail. On one
occasion, he escaped from the custody of FBI officers, which was reported in the
Kent Messenger as ‘Escape of the Appledore Curate’. Lincoln also found time to
write a best-selling autobiography, ‘Revelations of an International Spy’, which
suggested that all of his previous activities had been part of an elaborate web of
espionage. Deported to Britain, Lincoln was convicted of fraud and spent three
years in Parkhurst Prison. Upon release, and notwithstanding that he was Jewish,
Lincoln went to Germany and became a Nazi.

Lincoln was involved in the Nazi coup, or putsch, of 1920. A young Adolf Hitler
was surprised to see him adopted by rabidly anti-Semitic colleagues. The putsch
failed, but for a week Trebitsch Lincoln was Minister of Information for the German
Government. In the aftermath of the putsch, Lincoln sought safety in China, where
he became Chao Kung, the Abbot of a Buddhist monastery. Being a Buddhist
didn’t stand in the way of arms smuggling, and acting as an adviser to Chinese
warlords. With the advent of World War II, and the occupation of Shanghai by the
Japanese, Lincoln reverted to espionage and became an informant for the
Gestapo. His last grand plan was to be installed as Dalai Lama, mobilising the
Buddhists of China and Tibet in support of the Third Reich. Lincoln died in 1943,
and there were rumours that he had been poisoned by the Japanese, at the
request of the German High Command. Lincoln had written to Hitler, imperiously
demanding an end to the Holocaust, but there is no real evidence of German (or
Japanese) complicity in his death.

What made Lincoln tick? In large part, he was a confidence trickster with a
psychopathic disregard for others, but there is no rhyme or reason with Trebitsch
Lincoln. He may have been a fantasist whose grandiosity was as convincing to
himself as it was to others. His later career may have been motivated by
resentment of the British, who rejected him, and made him suffer the indignity of
prison. His association with religion may not have been a simple matter of
exploitation. Today, we might say that he had a narcissistic personality disorder.
He was also an unusually gifted man, deceiving notable people with ease - and
always as an outsider who had adopted the language and demeanour of the
deceived.

Trebitsch Lincoln wasn’t in Appledore for long, but he must be the most
remarkable person to have lived here. Today Appledore, tomorrow the world!
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Cross-Quote ©
The aim of Cross-Quote is to discover the text of the quotation in the grid below where the words are separated only by black
squares and punctuation is ignored. To do this, solve the clues on the left and enter the answers in the grid below. The letters
should also be entered in the correspondingly numbered squares in the bottom grid. The more the quotation is revealed, the more
help you will get in solving the clues …
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Rapport A
53 82 91 119 17 144 138
Interwoven B
23 60 2 152 31 127
Fibrous ribbon C
107 113 20 55 87 99
Admit to holy orders D
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Out of the running E
39 49 69 98 90 112 133
Burial mound F
63 101 153 28 43 143
Reveal G
106 16 26 46 78 97 126
Withstand the rain? H
136 76 4 66 84 110
Remove the Pb J
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Emblem of a chivalric order K
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Young cow L
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Result in as a consequence M
103 50 10 41 75 139 111
Stock a bed again N
100 5 42 85 105 124 142
Complaint O
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Gibberish P
120 35 7 61 47 83 94
Ravined Q
15 132 30 77 24 72
Concealed R
22 37 58 150 135 12
Reviser S
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Protect from extremes of heat T
129 148 95 88 54 67
Tuck U
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Furthest back V
51 116 64 79 74 52
Spanish steel city W
65 151 145 3 109 27 18
African country X

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L13 T14 R15 H16 B17 X18 V19 D20 A21 S22 C23 R24

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P38 F39 M40 N41 O42 G43 V44 T45 H46 Q47 P48 F49 N50

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W74 N75 J76 R77 H78 W79 E80 L81 B82 Q83 J84

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F98 D99 O100 G101 P102 N103 K104 O105 H106 D107 T108 X109 J110

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Parish Councillor Contact Details

Roger Hiskey (Chair) 01233 758097, mobile 07816 672919

email [email protected]

Charles Wilkinson 01233 758316, mobile 07562 302809

email [email protected]

Helen Hennig 01233 758436, mobile 07759 006324

email [email protected]

Gary Kinsley 07565 504629

email [email protected]

Contact by messaging welcome

Derek Winter 01233 758570

email [email protected]

Chris Vane 07816 672919

email [email protected]

Parish Clerk – Mary Philo 01797 270790

email [email protected]

Website www.appledorekent.org.uk
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FOR SALE!

As part of our 60th birthday celebrations we have put together a sketchbook of

Appledore. These are drawings done in the 1960s by the first Editor of the
Parish Magazine, Mr Sweetman. It is a fascinating glimpse into the history of
Appledore and what the village looked like then. Mr Sweetman travelled all
around the village sketching what he saw. Many of you will recognise your
homes as they looked then. You might also see what the land looked like before
your house was built!

Some of the individual buildings named include: the Methodist Chapel; the
Forstal; Horne’s Place Chapel; Oxney House; Swan House; the cottages on
Court Lodge Road; the primary school; Victoria Terrace and Griffin Cottages;
Hawthorn Cottages; many views of the Church - inside and out - as well as
country views along the Military Canal and Gusbourne.

If you would like to purchase a copy - the cost is £5 - please contact either the
Editor on 01233 758249 or Brian Knight on 01233 758319.

Photocopying & Printing

The Parish Magazine provides a Photocopying & Printing Service.

Prices are: Black & White 6p per page, Colour 15p per page.
We can print single- or double-sided.

For further information or to place an order please contact Brian Knight.

Tel: 01233 758319 or email [email protected].