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ST CLEMENT & ALL SAINTS
PARISH NEWS
December 2020 and January 2021
Christmas Eve Midnight Eucharist 11pm
Christmas Day Parish Eucharist 10am
Feast of the Epiphany Sunday 3rd January 10am
Candlemas Sunday 31st January 10am
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PARISH OF ST CLEMENT and ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH DIRECTORY
OLD TOWN COUNTRY MARKET
Diocesan Reader: Pat Lock, 4 Ore Place, Hastings, TN34 2LR 754264 CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER
Assisted by: Canon Keith Pound, 1 Sinnock Square NOTICE
High Street, Hastings, TN34 3HQ 428330 The Caring Place Gift Vouchers for that All Saints’ Church Hall
Brother Aelred Partridge, O.C., Herb Cottage, unique CARING GIFT to (at the top of All Saints’
29 All Saints Street, Hastings TN34 3BJ 715219 family members or friends. A bespoke
Lay Ministers: Sandra Bentall 721874 Street)
package can be tailored to suit you from
Natalie Broomfield-Hill 715693 Reflexology Body Scans, Detox . . . . High quality home
Churchwardens: Registered Qualified Christian Therapist produce, reasonable
Ann Wing, 2 Priory Close, Hastings, TN34 1UJ 420499 Marguerite MacLean tel: 07708-038037 prices.
Judy Cubison, 7 Laton Rd, Hastings, TN34 2ET 457194 COME EARLY and try us!
Pat Lock, 4 Ore Place, Hastings, TN34 2LR 754264
Gareth Bendon, 9 High Street, Hastings, TN34 3EY 436934
Parish (PCC) Secretary: Eunice Britten
136 Downs Road, Hastings, TN34 2DZ 428694
Parish Treasurer: Simon Scott, 52 Ashburnham Road,
Hastings, TN35 5JL 437554
Parish Administrator & Electoral Roll Officer:
Jean Donaldson, (Tues/Wed/Thur. 09.30-12.00) 422242
Parish Office: Lower Hall, All Saints Hall, The Bourne,
Hastings, TN34 3BD. email: office@oldtownparish.org.uk
Organist & Choirmaster: Malcolm Lock, 4 Ore Place,
Hastings TN34 2LR 07801-068156
Sunday School (3-11 yrs) & Young People's Group (11+):
c/o The Parish Office 422242
Child Protection Officer: Pat Lock, 4 Ore Place, TN34 2LR 754264
Pastoral Care Link: Catherine Bendon, 9 High Street, TN34 3EY 436934
Bell Captain: Rosemary Smith, 15 Halton Terrace, TN34 3NY 718736
Church / Hall Bookings:
St Clement’s Church: Apply to Parish Office (see above) 422242
All Saints Hall: Jayne White 719072 or 07791-759257
Parish Magazine : Marcia Woolf OLD HASTINGS HOUSE
email: hastingsparishnews@oldhastingshouse.co.uk 452646 132 High Street
or by letter to the Parish Office (address above). TN34 3ET
Advertising contact: Ken Bentall email bentallpn@gmail.com 721874 Coffee mornings have been
Magazine Distribution: Joy Meech 426462 cancelled until further notice. We are
Two Towers Trust: Ken Bentall, 11 Bourne Court, sorry, and look forward to seeing you again
Hastings TN34 3UZ 721874 when circumstances permit.
Please make cheques payable to: St. Clement and All Saints’ PCC.
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Old Hastings House SERVICE NOTES for December and January
Said Eucharist at 10am only every Sunday.
Residential Care Home Services in December and January are in All Saints’ Church.
(part of the Magdalen and Lasher Charity)
Are you looking for a comfortable, safe and warm family environment for
yourself or a loved one? A home offering excellent food, an in-house laundry
service, a high standard of cleanliness, and personal care tailored to the
needs and wishes of the individual? A friendly place, where activities and
entertainments are fun, but optional? A unique and historic house, part of
the fabric of Old Town of Hastings, where visitors are always welcome?
We offer accommodation in the Main House for men and women of retirement
age and above, and in the adjoining Magdalen Suite for those with higher care
needs (not nursing).
For an informal chat with our Manager, Jason Denny, or a senior member
of the care team, please call 01424 452642. We would be happy to
arrange a time for you to look around and discuss your requirements,
even if you are not yet ready to make the move.
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132 High Street, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 3ET
Charitable Incorporated Organisation No. 1158933
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Church Notices Chartered
Accountant
SERVICES AT OLD HASTINGS HOUSE AND THE LAURELS Personal Tax Returns
Services are presently suspended. Business Accounts
Efficient Cost Effective Service
Free Initial Consultation
27 All Saints Street
Hastings TN34 3BJ
01424 716682
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Turn your memories into a
WEDDINGS, BAPTISMS and FUNERALS book - everyone has their story
For information about weddings, baptisms and funerals please contact the Retired Fleet Street journalist
Church Warden Ann Wing: details are on page 2. can create a superb book from
your memories, journals, diaries,
poetry, pictures or drawings for
your family to treasure. As few
or as many copies as you wish.
Brian Moore
07868 230 123
moorebrianj@yahoo.co.uk
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PRAYING ROUND THE PARISH
In December we will be praying especially for all those who live
in: East Parade, East Street, Ebeneezer Road, Edwin Road,
Edgar Road, Exmouth Place, George Street, Githa Road,
Glenview Close and Gloucester Cottages.
In January 2021 we will be praying especially for all those who
live in: Goodwin Road, Girth Road, Harold Road, Hastings Wall, Henry Terrace,
High Street, Lavender House, Lodge Road, Marine Parade and Mount Road.
As of Church of England & Bishop of Chichester guidelines, social distanc-
ing will be strictly followed at all services in St Clements and All Saints
churches:
• Service books will be on pew seats so people know where to sit,
and these should be left on the pews after each service.
• The Priests will wear full facial shields for extra protection for our
more vulnerable congregation & all of us.
• At time of writing there will be no refreshments following the ser-
vice & congregation are asked to leave church as soon as the ser-
vice has finished.
• Please provide your own face covering if possible.
• You will be asked to use the hand sanitizer on entering & exiting
the church.
• The collection plate will be in position at back of the church, as the
plate will not be brought around during the service.
• There are now QR posters in both churches and church hall. These
look like a huge bar code. If you have a mobile phone you can scan
these Bar codes. These are Government posters that combine with
the smart phone App to alert you if you have come into contact
with someone who has the Corona virus. These are not mandatory,
but another way of helping to keep us all as safe as possible.
For latest information, please see the website, achurchnearyou or St
Clements facebook page (details on page 4).
St Clements continues to be open for private prayer every day
from 11.30am to 1.30pm.
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December 2020
Dear Friends,
I’m writing this letter in mid-
November in obedience to our
editor’s copy date. Season Four of
The Crown has begun on Netflix
and highly successful trial results
for a second vaccine for Covid-19
have just been announced. By the
time you are reading this we may
well have had further cheering
news on this front.
I don’t know about you, but I feel
as though I’m looking expectantly
to 2021 as the time when normali-
ty returns to our lives. At pre-
sent, I seem to be living in an in-
between time, a time between the
normality of life before last March
and the hope of a better time to come.
This edition of the Parish News will be published during Advent, an in-
between time if ever there was one. Advent is not simply spiritual prepa-
ration time for Christmas. It marks the time between the Fall of Adam
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And so we wait. But we wait in confidence because Christmas marks the
Incarnation, that extraordinary Christian belief that God has entered into
human history at a specific time and in a specific place and in the specific
person of Jesus of Nazareth. The drama of salvation thus begins as the Sec-
ond Adam, to use St. Paul’s terminology, reverses the actions of the first
Adam in the paradisal garden.
The year that is passing has not been a good year for humanity. We can
look forward to a better 2021 and for an increasing return to normality as
the year progresses. I’ve even dared to book a visit to Leipzig in June to
hear three operas by my beloved Wagner.
But let us also lift up our eyes unto the hills whence cometh our help and
look to that day when God’s Kingdom shall be fully restored “and the earth
shall be full of the glory of God as the waters cover the sea.”
I wish everyone a holy Advent, a blessed Christmas and a very happy New
Year.
Your friend and parish priest,
Paul Hunt
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Welcome to Paul Her interest in gardens colours other aspects of her life. She and her hus-
band Andrew love to travel and see plants growing in their natural habitat.
Together they are keen observers of wildlife both at home and when they
‘Welcome’ is probably not the right word as Paul Hunt begins his new role travel.
as Priest-in-charge of the Old Town parish, for he is familiar with Hastings
and St. Leonards, and has had a home here for many years.
Stephanie lays great emphasis on organic gardening. She does not use
Paul was born in Carshalton, but his family moved soon to Hendon, and he weedkillers, artificial fertilisers or peat-based composts. She encourages
went to school there before moving on to St. Chad’s College, Durham. birds, who help control the pests. (She and her husband Andrew have
There were frequent visits with his grandparents to Hasting in school holi- counted more than thirty species of birds in their garden.) She has written
days. He studied for a Post Graduate Certificate of Education at King’s Col- on organic gardening, and co-authored a book on the subject with no less a
lege, London, and taught for a time in Brighton, Bexhill and Aldenham in person than the Prince of Wales.
Hertfordshire.
Made Deacon in 1992, and then priest in 1993, in this Diocese of Chiches- What would the Old Town be without its gardens? People like Stephanie
ter, he moved to be chaplain at Mill Hill School. From 1998 to 2005 he was inspire those of us whose aspirations for our gardens are less lofty, and we
vicar of St. Andrew’s Southgate, and then moved back into school chaplain- value the encouragement that they supply, and the lead they give.
cy at Emmanuel in south London. He has also been a Priest in-Ordinary to
the Queen, leading worship at the Chapel Royal and St. James Palace. K.S.P.
Paul will be part-time, doing 2.5 days a week in the parish, so he won’t be
able to do everything expected of a full-timer. He will work with the offic-
ers and ministers who have led the parish during the vacancy, seeking to
provide as full and rounded a ministry as possible, while living in his home in
St. Leonards.
One of Paul’s great interests is politics, and at the last General Election he
was agent for the Liberal Democrats locally – but promises no party politics
from the pulpit. Apart from his work as priest and chaplain, he has a wide
range of other interests. When you meet him, ask him about opera, Arse-
nal, and Graham Greene. You will get a response.
Paul brings to his work here this wide experience of ministry in parishes
and in education. The Old Town parish has not had its own priest-in-charge
for over four years, and so Paul’s arrival means that we embark on a new
chapter, full of hope, and Paul’s energy and flair will be available to us in his
leadership role. But any revival in the life of the parish depends on all who
care for the church here to play their part in bringing it new life. We wish
Paul well in his work of helping and ínspiring us to shape and give direction
to our future here.
KSP
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Best Dressed Window competition 2020
Parish Profile: Councillor James Bacon sends a huge thank you to all businesses who
Stephanie Donaldson took part in the Hastings Week Best Dressed Window Competition.
This year, Courthouse Collective won the competition, but it was
You may not know – unless you have very tight with the quality of all windows being extremely high. The fol-
been fortunate enough to visit it on lowing is a list of the winners (who will receive prizes and certificates at a
one of the open garden days – that future ceremony, Covid restrictions permitting:
hidden away in Croft Road is one of
the Old Town’s loveliest gardens.
This is at the home of Stephanie First Place: Courthouse Cooperative (pictured)
Donaldson, for sixteen years the Second Place: Funnell and Perring Solicitors
Gardens Editor of Country Life maga- Third Place: Vintage Bird
zine. When Stephanie first opened
the garden it was a surprise to wel- Runners Up:
come over a thousand visitors want-
ing to see what was behind the high • Voodoo Sirens
brick wall. • Hendy and Co
• Sea Whistle
Stephanie was born in Leicestershire, but the family moved with her RAF
pilot father to Florida. After his accidental death testing jet fighters, they
Thank you to all the many
moved back to England to live with her grandparents, and then later to Port
Elizabeth and Durban. other traders who took
part and made it such a
Stephanie attributes her early interest in gardening to the time living with great competition, and to
her grandfather, and especially to his successful growing of a peach tree in the following businesses who generously donated some amazing prizes:
his greenhouse. When he allocated her a flower bed she grew forget-me- The Old Rectory, Rock-A-Nore Kitchen, The Albion, Monellis and The
nots and bellis daisies, which she still loves. This led on to a lifetime of inter-
est in gardening, and then to writing gardening features and books, and so to Crown.
a column in Country Life and then the editorship of the gardening section of The five judges for the competition were: The Deputy Mayor, Councillor
the magazine.
James Bacon and his fiancée, Sarah Piper; The Mayor, Councillor Nigel
What advice does Stephanie give to new gardeners? ‘Don’t be dispirited if Sinden, special Guest judges Lily Arnold (an award-winning Theatre, Set
things don’t work the first time’, she says. ‘There’s always next year. Don’t and Costume designer) and James Thomas (an Old Town based Retail &
sow a whole packet of seeds; just sow what you need. And look at what Hospitality brand consultant).
grows well in your neighbour’s garden and start with those plants’.
Winners of the Poetry Competition will be announced very soon!
Photo: courtesy of Roberts Photographic.
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12 15The History House 21 Courthouse Street Hastings
TN34 3AU 01424-424744 email: ohps@ohps.org.uk
free entry - donations appreciated
The History House and Fishermen's Museum have been closed dur-
ing November but hopefully may be able to reopen in December.
We are hoping to put a film online of a past Carol Service at the Fisher-
men's Museum which you could watch and join from home for a small do-
nation, though you will have to supply the mince pies and mulled wine
yourself!
We have managed to retain all our staff and hope to do so until we can
return to normal or new normal. However, January is a quiet month so we
will be considering whether we can open then or not. As all of this is un-
certain please keep an eye on our website www.ohps.org.uk for details.
We wish all readers a happy and healthy Christmas and New Year
and very much look forward to welcoming visitors to our displays
again.
Keep well.
Anne Scott and the Trustees
Both our premises have had a Covid 19 risk assessment and appropriate measures con-
tinue in place. When open, will be operating track and trace to record visitors, with de-
tails to be kept for 21 days. We would appreciate visitors wearing face masks and using
the hand sanitiser provided for their safety and that of our staff and volunteers. Numbers
have to be restricted and social distancing kept, but please do come and visit both venues
as we really appreciate your support.
All exhibitions and opening hours may be subject to revised Covid restrictions.
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