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- like to develop

A study of Bridge to
-show how the village would
_ is to be
undertaken by the Parish
Council.

The council gave the
‘last meeting. Cllrs Mrs
Young and John Hill had
studied material from an
earlier questionnaire and
one organised by the City
Counc and decided that
much of it needed up-dat-
ing and did not go far
enough.

Cllr Hill said they felt a
record of the existing vil-
lage was needed and that
the study would take stock
of Bridge and enable the
council to show the
authorities how it would
like the village to develop.

It was agreed that work
on the study needed to go
ahead soon and that some
outline should be presented
at the annual parish meet-
ing in March.

An estimate was accep-
ted for re air work to the
village h roof and sent to
the agents of the Marquis
of Conyingham for his
approval. _

Cllr Chapman reported
the hall committee's inten-
tion to build an internal

entrance doors, to the hall.

An estimate from Weal-
den Woodlands was accep-
ted for treecgalanting along
the new e ension to the
recreation ground. A letter
had beenreceived froin the
City Council offering
lottery funds for tree plant-
ing in villages, it was

decided to apply for money
for this purpose. \*

A letter had been re-
ceived from the Chief Exe-

V3.

5. D. Bouldlng, 131 Little
12004).

<

Allanson, the manager.
appeals for clothes, china,

pictures, jewellery and
bric-a.-brac.
Opening times are

Monday to Saturday, 10 am
to 12.30 pm and2 to 4.30 pm
(except Monday morning
and Wednesday). _

Hunger lunches

Mrs Kathlen Orr-Ewing
is organising hunger
lunches on Saturdays
during Lent. Held in the
Tower Room at the parish
church" the bread and
cheese lunches are eaten
while the cost of normal
lunch is given to the Church
Missionary Society. The
lunches are from 12.30 to
l.45pm.

Operetta date

Wye Co1lege’s Opera
Society presents Gilbert
md Sullivan's‘ Iolanthe
onight (Friday) and to-
narrow at Swanley Hall.
Vithersdane. Tickets are
,1,_ pensioners. students
Lnd children 75p.

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study the go-ahead at its-

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cutive of the County's
Social Seryices praising
the village's attitude
toward the old people's
home. The Close, and giv-
ing an assurance that the
new home would be built in
Bridge under the 1981/2
programme. '
The site next to the
primary school was con-
sidered more suitable. by
the county as it was “most
economic." '

The new home would
also include a day care
centre ,for 30 elderly and a
centre for the meals-on-
wheels service.

The chairman. Cllr
Peter Lawrence, said the
council was not against
building the home in
Conyingham Lane, al-
though it would have pre-
ferred using the Union
Road site.

Concern was expressed
that certain large trees on
the proposed site should
not be felled and that pre-
servation orders be placed-
onthem.

An apology had been re-
ceived from the City Coun-
cil's Planning Committee
about the site meeting at
Fairwinds, Conyingham
Lane. The committee had
now accepted the changed
plans.

To school

It was decided to write to
the applicant seeking‘ "his
co-operation and expres-
sing the council’s own
views.

_ A re-submitted applica-
tion for an extension to the
rear of 92 High Street was
approved with the addition
0 a pitched roof. An exten-
sion to High Grantley,
Meadow Close, .was sent
back with no observations.

Cllr Mrs Young reported
on the meetin with the
primary‘ schoo 's parent-
teacher association about
the introduction of school
bus fares.

‘ The meeting felt there
might .be a “breach of
contract" with the Bekes-
bourne and Bishopsboume
parents who had been pro-
mised transport when the
two village schools closed.
Concern had been ex-
pressed at a possible
reduction in school din-
ners, children being ke t
at home or cycling’
school on dangerous roads.

Fears were expressed
thatopting out of.the bus
service could. lead to it
becoming underused to the
point of being withdrawn.

Cllr Mrs Young said chil-
dren were obliged to go to
school by law and some
would now be charged to
do so. It was agreed to
send a supportin letter to
the Kent Educa on Com-
mittee. - V

Bridge Primary School
was granted £50 for its
instrument fund. ,

A letter was sent to Kent

k

County Council supporting

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Kentish Gazette. February 22. 1980

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Bridge village study ‘kicked

Girl has


-aged 10. But

"ani er

SINGER and artist

-Peter. Giles can now

add author to .his
titles with
publication of his
supernatural _nove1
sparked of by

Isle of Wight.

Mr Giles, aged 41, of
Filmer House, Filmer
Road, Brid e. is a member
of the Can erbury Clerkes

trio and a ’,art-time art
teacher at S on Langton
Girls’ School. ‘

Last week he also
became a novelist with the
fiiblication by Frederick

uller of his first book, A
Monster Unto Many, on
sale at £6.50 hardbacki

The novel is not a ghost
story but there is a super-
natural element in it. Mr
Giles explained: “It is
about a man who seems to
be haunted b his own- son,
s own son is
still alive and with him.
One wonders if it is his own
son; if not, who is it?”

Of the holiday that gave
him the idea, he said: “It
all started very much as
the book starts. Without

ving the plot away, I went

0 the Isle of Wiglht with my
f_amil in 1978. even had
from an old
book in the library.

“When I ot to Totland

. Bay I found t was rather a

haunted lace. There wasa
red bric and stone Vic-
torian hotel on the head-

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Singer and artist Peter Giles at the writer on

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which he made his debut as an author. ;
have sung in France, Hol- '

land for sale with its own
private beach. . -

“I sat on the. top of the
cliff and looked at this

lace and within half-an-
our I had thought of a
story.” . _

He- wrote down the
synopsis and s ent the next
two years wri

Mr Giles~'was born- in
Middlesex in 1939 and was
educated at Hornsey
College of Art before
becomingia graduate art
teacher. e la er became a
lay clerk at two cathedrals,
moving to Canterbury in

1967 to become a la clerk,

inthe Cathedral cho .

He is a counter-tenor and
in 1974' was one of -the
founder members of the
Canterbury, Clerkes, who

rl'1'l. : -

gthebook.~

' set in 1980.

land and Germany. Mr
Giles has also a peared as
a soloist in e United
States andcanada. ,

He and his wife, Eliza-

'beth, have two. children,

Kate, aged 17, and Simon, S
13. -

Following the publication
of this first novel he has
nearly completed the first
draft of his second. which-
concems ,to some extent
the same characters but is

He has also been com-
missioned by his publishers
to write a book on counter-
tenor singin and there is

the ssibili of his illus-
tl‘8.£l(; a version of Schu-

marms Advice to Young

Musicians.

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Mr Walter Scaborough making his first radio telephone call verseas, in l927,to

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Historic phone call
to A ustralia

,AN historical call between

England and Australia was
mad'"'<4'l years ago this

we Sien Mr Walter
Sr gh engineered
th- s_-‘ radio telephone
call ' ~. een the two coun-
tries.

The call was from British
Prime. Minister Ramsay
Macdonald to Australian
premier James Scul_lin and
83-year-old Mr Scar-
borough, of 68 Western
Avenue, Bridge, hel d
designandsetupthe' .

A former Canterbury
Area Telephone Manager,
Mr Scarborough also
helped design and set up
links between Britain and
New York, Montreal,
Argentina, Brazil, New
Zealand, India and Ceylon.

The call to Australia was
broadcast at 8 am by the
BBC. It was 6 pm in Aus-
tralia and Mr Scarborough
had to make sure every-
thing was prepared: “I was
asked to 10 Downing Street
as I was responsible for
making all the necessary
arrangements. We broad-
cast from the Cabinet
Room,”he recalls. _

The Prime Minister
wanted all his staff and
MPs present to hear his
conversation, so Mr Scar-
borough arranged to have
headsets linked to the
phone circuit.

Said Mr Scarborough:
“The first radio telephone
call was made on April 30,
1930, and the BBC were
allowed to broadcast the
proceedings. Other radio
services followed quickly.”

That breakthrough half a
century ago helped lay the
foundations for today's
complex network of tele-
communications.

"Now you can get Aus-
tralia any time of the day,”

-says Mr Scarborough. “At

that time, the service ran
from 6 am to 9 am and from
6 pm to 9 pm. Because of
the wavelengths we were
on, 25 and 27 metres. we
could only go out during the
twilight periods.

‘Now, instead of going
by radio, we can go through
land cables and satellite.”

You can phone Australia
by direct dialling in many
areas in Britain — and it
will be introduced in Can-
terbury this year — or via
the International Ex-
change.

Mrvscarborough’ recalls
the cost of the service 50

years ago was £2 a minute.
It is now just £1.21 a
minute!

At that time Mr Scar-
borough was engineer-in-
chief at telephone head-
quarters. .He later took
charge of telecommunica-
tions for the Services

  

Mr Walter Scarbrough

during World War II. In
1945 he moved to Canter-
bury as telephone
manager, retiring in 1959.
For his contribution to
telecommunication tech-
nology and his war effort.
Mr Scarborough was
awarded the OBE in 1956.

East  
i Kent
Diary y

-— edited by
Desmond

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