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No. 29 Spring 2015www.caring4sussex.co.uk
Capture the moment– Images with a story to tell
LEISURE • HEALTH • NEWS • COMMUNITY • SERVICES
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Contents
From the Editor
Spring 2015
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Regular
readers will
have noticed
that often
our features
are inspired
by chance
findings of
various items at the back of
my garage or wardrobe. Cocoa
tins filled with old pennies,
threepenny bits and farthings,
old frocks changed from crimes
of fashion into ‘vintage pieces’
using a bit of thought and
creativity.
The latest was a tiny black
and white photograph of me,
aged about three, teddy in tow,
standing in a village made of
shells – goodness knows where,
probably taken by Dad using his
ancient box camera. Eventually
it was upgraded to a ‘Brownie’
with hot cube flashes, then
an awful disc camera – let’s
not dwell on that one – all
spawning unexciting pictures of
cats on copings outside typical
London terraced houses.
Of course while amateurs
were snapping away over the
decades, the professionals were
busy travelling to important
events around the world
documenting history and
producing images that have
become iconic.
They were serious ethical
photojournalists, respecting
their subjects and were part of
teams of reporters recording
wars, royal events and popular
celebrities of the day.
For our main feature we’ve
picked a sample of just three of
those people who all now live in
Sussex.
Just off now to download
yet another boring picture of
the cat, taken on my mobile
‘phone – all those years ago we
wouldn’t have believed it!
If you’d like to read back
copies of the magazine,
see our page-turners online
via our website –
www.caring4sussex.co.uk
4 Caring 4 Scoops Three photojournalists tell us how it used to be done7 Caring 4 You
10 Caring 4 Books A selection recalling past times
11 Caring 4 Voting Looking at the history of elections
12 Caring 4 Services
14 Caring 4 Heritage A look at the National Archive
16 Caring 4 Directory
18 Caring 4 Health Dr Sarah tells it like it is in A & E
Issue No 29 3
In this issue we are delighted to feature three photojournalists – all now living in Sussex – who began their careers taking pictures on film in an era before the notoriety of paparazzi and privacy invasion. Photoshop was unknown, so they had to get it right first time. They were all fortunate in being able to capture images unavailable to others. See pages 4-6
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It was November 2007 when
Janet Bell and her husband
Sean opened the Janet Bell
Gallery in the pretty town
of Beaumaris on the Isle of
Anglesey. But it was in Brighton
Janet sold her first painting.
“I moved there in 2001
having graduated and
worked in an interiors shop
in the Lanes,” she tells us.
“A gallery opened next door
and I took some of my very
early paintings in. They sold
one that day so I carried on
and had a very successful 2
years with them. Many other
galleries found me and that
was the beginning of my Art
career. I left Brighton in 2003
to make a life in Cheshire,
where I’m from originally.”
Janet Bell – our cover artistThe Gallery started out
as Janet’s studio where she
painted and sold a couple of
her originals, prints and cards
and has since grown into the
gallery she dreamed of owning
one day.
Janet and Sean didn’t have
a master plan. They started
selling other bits and pieces
that complimented Janet’s
own art work, stocking only
items they would have in their
own home, from handmade
artists and designers they
loved.
If you visit Anglesey and find
yourself near Beaumaris Castle,
do drop in to the gallery
at 15 Castle Street. They’ve
won three Anglesey Tourism
Awards for Best Arts and
Crafts and work closely with
the community in organising
events and bringing high
profile attractions to the town.
For more information or to order prints, visit www.janetbellgallery.com or call 01248 810043
Capture the moment
Marilyn Stafford
John Periam
John Jochimsen
Capture the momentWendy Greene talks to three Sussex photojournalists who have recorded history
John Periam is best known
nowadays for his involvement
in the RAFA Shoreham Airshow.
When he left college, his dream
was to be a journalist and
photographer.
“In three years I was taught
by the best and then moved in a
different direction. For 40 years
I travelled a lot as a veterinary
and medical sales person in the
days when selling paid well and
expense accounts were good. I
saw most of the world and fell
in love with the Falklands and
Nova Scotia – by accident, both
these countries inspired me to
get my camera out again.”
John moved from Southwold
in Suffolk to Shoreham.
“I’d seen the lifeboats in
both towns go to sea several
times and felt I would like to be
involved. Soon I was greasing
the slipway and washing the
lifeboat down in all weathers,
in an induction period that new
crew members go through.
“My first call came for the
inshore lifeboat and as my
confidence grew I was invited
to go to sea more. Crews are a
I purchased a Nikon and before
I knew it my pictures were
getting published in magazines
and regional press – I reached
places others could not.
“The Senior Air Traffic
Control at Shoreham Airport
Peter Dickerson asked me to
help with the then Shoreham
Airshow. I started to write
words to go with my images.
Peter was my mentor – he gave
me confidence!”
Several years later Don Bean
MBE and Peter Eager founded
the RAFA Shoreham Airshow
and invited John to be their
Media Spokesperson.
The All England Jumping
Course at Hickstead – founded
by the late Douglas Bunn –
gave John a new direction, and
before long he was seeing his
equestrian images published.
Some 26 years later he’s still
writing features on Riders and
Veterinary Surgeons.
close knit team, with boathouse
life extending to social life. I
felt part of the community in
Shoreham.
“One day I went on a fellow
crew member’s boat to see the
Red Arrows display at Brighton.
That day changed my life. One of
the Hawk Aircraft hit the mast of
a yacht and we rescued the pilot,
Squadron leader Steve Johnson.”
An invitation to RAF Kemble
led to a friendship with the
Reds still retained to this day.
“I’ve now extended my
horizons into Polo where I have
strong links to Hurtwood Park
Polo Club in Surrey owned by
Kenney Jones – drummer with
The Faces Rock Group. Prince
Charles to Rod Stewart have
filled my camera lenses, often
behind the scenes.”
John’s book ‘Shelley the
Lifeboat Labrador’ is on
Amazon Kindle and now
he’s going back to sea to
write a book on the History
of Shoreham Lifeboat –
commissioned by the RNLI.
John is Correspondent writing
for ‘Fishing News’ with over 300
features published on the state
of the Fishing Industry. Many
fishermen are lifeboat crew
members.
2014 saw the 25th
Anniversary of the Shoreham
Airshow – now one of the best
in the UK – and John is Press
Officer. What started in the
corner of the airfield and raised
£1,300 has now raised just over
2 million pounds for RAFA
Funds. As with the Lifeboats,
the whole team are volunteers.
“I still use film as my format
for taking photographs. It
makes one’s mind work more
– photography is an art form
and every time I take an image
that is what I try to achieve. I’ve
made many friends in the Media
World. Life is all about trust.
I never publish any feature until
the subject approves it.”
John on board HMS Mersey – with Lt Commander Sarah Oakley
John Periam: Lifeboat at sea All photographic rights reserved
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Our second photojournalist also
shows high moral standards.
John Jochimsen, now resident
in Southwater, was covering the
honeymoon of Princess Elizabeth
and Prince Philip in Kenya when
news came that her father had
died and she was now Queen.
Here was John’s chance to take
the first picture of the new
monarch, but as she left The
Royal Lodge – in respect for her
wishes – the three photographers
present put down their cameras.
John, the son of a Times
newspaper journalist, was born in
1929 in London.
“I witnessed the Depression
and saw out the war with
my mother while my father
continued to work in Fleet Street.
At 16 I joined the government’s
Colonial Film Unit, part of the
Ministry of Information, moving
to its successor, the Central Office
of Information after National
Service and a period with the
News of the World. Then I
became Chief Photographer of
the PR Branch of the UK Atomic
Energy Authority.”
By his early 20s, he had
been trusted with high-profile
and sometimes dangerous
assignments as Britain struggled
to hold her colonies together as
the end of Empire approached.
During a four month tour of
East Africa and the Sudan, he
witnessed the start of the Mau
Mau uprising by being shot at.
He captured political struggle
and civil unrest in Malaya,
Singapore, Borneo and Sarawak
where he lived with the head-
hunting Dyak tribes and became
involved with the pirates of
Borneo. Other tours took him to
Malta, Cyprus, Libya and Liberia.
“In the UK,” John says, “I
went behind the scenes at
military installations for the
Ministry of Defence, gaining a
privileged view of the armed
forces at work and compiling
my unique portfolio. I’ve also
photographed Haile Selassie,
Winston Churchill, Soviet
premiers Khrushchev and
Bulganin, US Presidents Jimmy
Carter and Ronald Reagan with
his wife Nancy, Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher, The Queen
and Queen Mother, the Shah of
Persia, King Hussein of Jordan
and the King of Saudi Arabia.
I even covered the building of the
QE2 for Cunard over six years.”
John published a war-time
adventure and romance, King’s
Flight in 2010 before releasing
his memoirs 80 Years Gone In a
Flash in 2011. His latest book is a
picture anthology, Through the
Lens of a Photojournalist (2013).
Having retired at 67 to a farm
in Slinfold, West Sussex, John,
now 85, has been a Sussex police
volunteer for more than 18 years.
John Jochimsen: Churchill with Haile Selassie
John Jochimsen: A stack of Puma Helicopters of 33 Squadron at RAF Odiham
John Jochimsen in Africa
John Jochimsen, today
Exclusive shots
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Twiggy by Marilyn Stafford
All photographic rights reserved
Albert Einstein by Marilyn Stafford
Capture the moment continued
Chichester Ship Canal – an outing with a differenceA beautiful accessible retreat close to the city sometimes described as the “green lung” of Chichester.
Chichester Ship Canal passes through 4 miles of open farmland
from the Basin to Chichester Harbour at Birdham. It’s a very
attractive stretch of water for rowing, canoeing, angling and
walking.
At the Basin, there’s Chichester Canal Centre which offers
local residents and visitors refreshments, souvenirs, educational
and tourist information and boat trips. This is one of the
most beautiful locations in the city centre to relax and enjoy
a cup of tea or coffee. The cafe also offers hot and cold light
refreshments, ice creams and confectionery. There’s ample
indoor and outdoor seating, both with good views of the
activities in the Basin.
Adjacent to the cafe there’s a Visitor Centre located in a
19th century old stable which has been refurbished to provide
information about the canal and its history.
Boat trips also depart from the Basin. As well as scheduled
daily trips, the boats are available for charter for social occasions
including lunch, dinner and evening cruises. Passengers of all
abilities are welcome and there is disabled access on both boats.
Watch out for our Fish and Chip cruise, sailing Friday evenings
and Wednesday lunchtimes in the summer.
Photograph: Andy Bayes
www.chichestercanal.org.uk Tel: 01243 377405
American-born Marilyn
Stafford lives in Shoreham
where she has been an active
Wordfest contributor. Her
friendship in Paris with the
photographers Robert Capa
and Henri Cartier-Bresson in
the 1950s encouraged her
to follow photography as a
career, starting as she meant
to go on by taking pictures of
Albert Einstein. Since then she
has photographed and often
made friends with many of the
world’s most famous people.
She dined with
Eleanor Roosevelt,
socialised with Edith
Piaf and discussed
supporting abused
Bangladeshi women
with Indira Gandhi
after the war there.
Other notable subjects
include Joanna
Lumley, Twiggy,
Sir David Frost
and Sir Richard
Attenborough.
Marilyn has worked
internationally as a
photo-journalist doing
features, portraits and
fashion for Vogue,
Harpers/Queen,
BBC Arts Features,
The Observer, International
Herald Tribune and many other
international publications.
As few women were working
as photo journalists in Britain
in the early 60s when she
came to live in England, her
work helped pave the way for
today’s generation of women
photographers.
In the preface to Marilyn’s
book on Lebanon, “Silent
Stories” (see page 10), writer
and Prix Goncourt winner Venus
Khoury-Ghata says, “Marilyn
takes photographs in ways that
another person might write.
Her photographs are mini
stories…”
In 2013 Marilyn was awarded
an Arts Council grant for her
retrospective exhibitions in
London, Arundel Museum,
Shoreham (Shoreham Wordfest/
Brighton Photo Fringe) and
Worthing (International
Women’s Day 2014 with
Women’s Hub). Many of her
pictures have been archived
in such prestigious collections
as The Jean Muir Museum in
Scotland, St Martins School of
Fashion and The Royal Institute
of British Architects.
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Railway Architecture
By Bill Fawcett
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Price £7.95 paperback
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This is a perfect acquisition
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A well-researched history of
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itinerants to supermarkets.
Here’s an excellent book for
those tracing the lives of
their ancestors, as it tells of
the changes and problems
encountered by successive
generations of proprietors,
workers and customers.
Throughout we find that, in
some respects, nothing changes.
Every new venture threatens
the livelihood of its predecessor,
just as the huge out of town
supermarkets and Internet
sales threaten small town high
streets today. We also learn of
the seven-year apprenticeships
for drapers, grocers and others,
enabling employers to pay
little or nothing – often just
supplying bed and board – with
no promise of work at the end.
Marilyn’s books are full of poignant photographs many with
their own stories captured on film.
Books by Marilyn Stafford
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a professional engineer, is a
keen conservationist.
ELECTION WORDSEARCH
Silent Stories – A photographic journey through Lebanon in the 1960s
Published by Saqi Books
London.
Stories in Pictures – a photographic memoir.
Forward by Simon Brett.
Limited edition for
Shoreham Wordfest 2014.
See Wordfest website for
details.
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Elections past and present in SussexWeird, wonderful and worrying facts
For many years until the Great
Reform Act of 1832, Sussex had
far more than its fair share of
representation in Parliament,
with tiny places like Steyning
and Bramber each voting in two
MPs at elections when huge
new industrial cities like Leeds
and Manchester had none.
In addition, Sussex had a
claim for helping to start the
whole concept of representative
democracy in Britain, with the
Battle of Lewes in 1275 leading
Simon de Montford to summons
representatives from all over
the country for the first time.
Sussex could also have
been the scene of a more
worrying first if we fast
forward from 1275 to the
1930s. The anglocentric right-
wing UKIP now have their
first parliamentary seats,
but back in the days of the
Blackshirts and Mosley’s
British Union of Fascists, the
extreme right wing had their
eyes on Worthing becoming
their likely first constituency.
Their would-be parliamentary
candidate, William Joyce told
an audience in Worthing in
1934 that he would thrash Lord
Winterton, the town’s Tory MP
at the forthcoming election.
Thankfully, the arrest of both
Mosley and Captain Charles
Bentinck-Budd, Worthing’s
fascist leader and town
councillor, for inciting riotous
behaviour, seems to have
scuppered his plans.
Joyce went on to be known
as the infamous ‘Lord Haw-
Haw’ who broadcast anti-
British propaganda from Nazi
Germany to his home nation
throughout the war, and as a
result was hanged by Britain in
1946 for treason.
Bramber’s MP in the early
1800s, unlike William Joyce,
was not only successful in
becoming one of the town’s
MPs, but also leader of a much
more noble movement than
the BUF.
We mean of course, William
Wilberforce, who eventually
led Parliament to abolish the
slave trade in 1807. There can
be little doubting his moral
compass, but his geographical
knowledge was perhaps a little
more questionable. A famous
tale tells how, when travelling
through Bramber, Wilberforce,
not knowing where he was,
asked a local. When told, he
replied: “Bramber? This must
be the place I’m member for!”
This seems very different to
today, when many cannot name
the MP who represents them.
Wilberforce’s time as MP
for Bramber was the time of
‘rotten’ and ‘pocket’ boroughs
where few or no electors in a
constituency meant election
results were often a foregone
conclusion. As Richard Childs
says in An Historical Atlas of
Sussex, elections were often
uncontested – so much so that
between 1734 and 1832 no
more than 190 out of England’s
489 seats in Parliament had
more than one person running
for election.
Steyning was one such place
where the number of electors
was small, leading to corruption
and allegations of voters being
brought in from outside the
borough. These ‘imported’ voters would apparently buy pots and
Kevin Newman – local historian, consultant, tour guide and teacher from local history and heritage support organisation All-Inclusive History – has been tasked with finding the most weird, wonderful and worrying election facts and stories to entertain historians, politicians, journalists, or even just quiz buffs attending the Sussex Elections Past & Present gameshow at The Ardington Hotel on Election Night.
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kettles in the High Street and make a great show of doing so and boiling up with them to show they were inhabitants of Steyning. It would be great if the residents of Steyning were once again to get their pots and kettles out on show on May 7th, to resurrect this old tradition – at least it would make election day more entertaining and people visiting Steyning might get a nice cuppa.
However you spend election day, and whichever party you support, we hope you can join us in the Ardington in Worthing for our election night party.
All-Inclusive History organises
events, talks, tours and quizzes
for local organisations and
care homes. For details,
please contact Kevin Newman
07504 863867
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Visiting the National Archives
The National Archives at Kew in
London contains around 1000
years of nationally important
historical documents. Visiting
is a must for those of you who
have researched your family
history and want to take your
discoveries further.
Your first visit may be
daunting – many of us have
Nicola Sheeran writes about the exciting genealogical and historical world tucked away at the National Archives in London
seen the celebrities standing
outside the Archives on family
history television programmes.
I recommend their website –
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
– for hints on what is necessary
before your first visit.
The Archives hold military
records – service history and
operational records – and
family records such as wills,
divorce papers and criminal
records. There are experts on
hand to help you with your
research.
A word of caution – you may
not always like what you find.
Divorce papers for a distant
relation showed a turbulent
relationship, with all of the
distressing details laid bare.
However, I managed to find my
grandfather’s recommendation
for an MBE from the Army
in WW2, as well as the
operational records for my
father’s RAF squadron when
he was a Leading Aircraftman
in Yorkshire, working on the
Halifax planes for Bomber
Command. Seeing the
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can pass by before you realise.
There’s a lovely café, open
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library, bookshop and The
Keepers Gallery museum which
contains the Domesday Book.
On a sunny day it’s an idea
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A ten minute stroll from Kew
Gardens station, the National
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In 2014, Phase 1 (Library) of
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Book winners: Those who
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Saturday 13th June is
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Dr Sarah Honess trained in Medicine at King’s College, London, and moved to Worthing in 2003, where she trained in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care. She now works at the Accident and Emergency Department at Brighton Hospital.
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Unless you’ve been living with the Amish, you won’t have escaped the news coverage this winter about Emergency Medicine, Accident and Emergency Departments and the ‘pressures’ or ‘crisis’- depending on what you read- therein.
I couldn’t really miss the opportunity to tell it like it is. You’ll be hearing a lot more about all this in the next few months as politicians of various flavours vie for your votes, using our NHS as the football. As usual.
No one goes into Emergency Medicine for an easy life, a fast buck or glory. It’s a tough specialty. Of course I am biased but I happen to think it is the best job in the world. It’s a bit like having children. Sometimes it’s inexplicably exhausting, totally infuriating, there are a lot of bodily fluids, jangled nerves and tantrums, but the rewards are huge, second to none.
We are, in a sense victims of our own success. I remember the pre 4-hour-target days. People did wait on trolleys or in the waiting room all night. The public now expects and deserves better than that. People don’t always make the wisest treatment choices which means we do spend a lot of time seeing problems that do not remotely constitute emergencies. But people want seeing, and they want seeing now. I do understand. Why would you run the gauntlet of the GP receptionist’s impertinently personal interrogation for
hours on the phone (I’ve had less difficulty booking a table at a Gordon Ramsay restaurant), only to be offered an appointment in 2 weeks- you’ll be dead or better by then- when you can just walk in to any A&E, no questions asked, and be sorted in less than 4 hours? And even supposing you try to do the right thing and phone 111 (don’t start me off), people often find they are carted off by ambulance, when all they wanted was some sensible advice. When I was a kid, an ambulance in the street was a very bad sign. Mrs Moggins probably wasn’t coming home again.
There are often failings in other services too. If an elderly person attends later in the evening, with little or no social support and we cannot guarantee getting them home safely- there is no ambulance transport at night- then we have to admit to hospital. Hundreds of acute hospital beds are occupied by people with social, rather than health needs. This is because Health and Social care budgets cannot provide the support our increasingly elderly population needs. It’s not a flying visit or two by a harassed carer that’s really going to help.
If folk cannot be discharged at one end, then it stands to reason in a closed system of finite bed numbers, we cannot admit at the other. You’ll have heard a lot about the failings of the Emergency Department.
The reason this makes us so mad is that it is rarely true. It’s a problem of ‘flow’ through the department that leads to delay. Most of our patients will have been seen, treated and either discharged or referred to an inpatient team well within 4 hours. They might still be there 6 hours later because we cannot move them to a ward. Our problem? Yes. Our fault? No.
I feel our MPs are kicking the NHS around to serve their own
purpose and that depresses me. Yet vote I will, because people died and chained themselves to railings so that I can. Because millions of people around the world would love to and can’t, and because not voting as an act of ‘civil disobedience’ à la Russell Brand is indistinguishable in practical terms from just sitting at home in a onesie, too apathetic to go out and vote for something.
Dr Sarah’s Party Political Broadcast by the Common Sense Party
Keep your ticker pucker
Heart-related conditions can
be worrying and stressful – and
that’s not really helpful. So it’s
good to know you can turn to
someone who understands and
can give advice.
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Support West Sussex (CRSWS)
aim to address needs of West
Sussex patients who suffer, or
are recovering, from a cardiac
condition – as well as helping
their families or carers, by
providing support, advice and
information.
As a registered charity,
they work with Worthing
& Southlands NHS Trust to
help run exercise classes for
heart patients and provide
a ‘buddy’ support service
run by former patients. They
have funds to help NHS
staff, local organisations and
individuals tackle heart disease,
for example, by providing
defibrillators for local fitness
trainers, paying for NHS nurses
and physiotherapists to go on
specialist training courses and
making sure that up-to-date
leaflets are available free for
cardiac patients.
CRSWS Trustee, Geoffrey
Taylor says, “We raise money
to help local people who have
heart disease. So, if you, or
someone you know, could
benefit from our help or just
someone to talk to about it, we
would love to hear from you”.
It’s easy to access this help.
For information visit www.
cardiacrehabsupport.org.uk or
call Hayley Fairclough, Cardiac
Rehab Senior Physiotherapist,
on 07765376618.
If you or your organisation
deal with heart patients and
would like to know how to
apply for a grant to help you,
visit www.cardiacrehabsupport.
org.uk or write to: The
Trustees, Cardiac Rehab
Support West Sussex, Cardiac
Rehab Dept., Southlands
Hospital, Shoreham-by-Sea,
West Sussex BN43 5TQ.
Cardiac Rehab Support West Sussex helps heart patients in West Sussex
(Views expressed are Dr Sarah’s personal opinion)
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