Rottingdean Smugglers Open Meeting

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firepond mirrorThe Rottingdean Smugglers team are holding an open meeting at the White Horse Hotel on the 12th March at 7:30pm. If you would like to know who they are and what they do or would be interested in joining the team, please come along. Smugglers night has grown year on year and is now one of the biggest events we have in Rottingdean. The Smugglers team are always looking for help from people keen to be a part of Rottingdean’s smuggling history.

Even if you are not sure how you can be of help, come along to the meeting and have a chat.

Open Meeting: Wednesday 12 March 2014 at 7.30pm
Location: The Function Room at The White Horse Hotel

Image credit with kind permission of Roz South

Ice Age Sussex and the lost landscape of the English Channel

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Ice Age posterOn March 29, Dr Matthew Pope, well known for his work at Boxgrove, will take us back 500,000 years to Sussex in the Ice Age at the Whiteway Centre. This day school covers the archaeology from Ice Age Sussex, 500,000 years ago until just 10,000 years ago. It will cover the archaeology of Boxgrove and other key sites as well as an introduction to the geology of the period within the county.

Fee: £25, includes a light lunch
To reserve a place, email veronica.carter@btinternet.com or phone 01273 304180

The chill continues on May 09, when Steve Flitton will reveal ‘Antarctica’s Geological Secrets’ and there’s more to follow – a full list of the year’s events can be seen in our new display box at the end of Whiteway Lane.

Image Credit – M A Felton

Rottingdean Means Business

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Rottingdean Parish Council

Rottingdean Parish Council invites You To

Rottingdean Means Business

Thursday 13 February
6pm – 8pm
Venue: The White Horse, Coast Road, Rottingdean
Speaker: Tony Mernagh – Chair, Brighton & Hove Economic Partnership (Tony is a former chair of the North Laine Traders, a very successful local business partnership)

Aim: To consult the business community and other key stakeholders to inform economic development policy for the village via the Parish Neighbourhood Development Plan

Format:
Speaker – Local economic perspective
Q & A
2 workshop sessions

  • Issues raised by local community which may impact on trade
  • Other economic development issues, i.e. facilities, housing growth, infrastructure, profitability, attracting new business

Informal networking + glass of wine

RSVP:
sue.john@rottingdean-pc.gov.uk
01273 309476

Retro Bingo!

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retro-bingoWhy Retro? We’ve gone back to basics to improve the experience. There will be no software, no digital projector or screen. Just the way it used to be.

We start next week – Thursday 16 January at 2.30pm at the Whiteway Centre. We believe there are local people who’d like to help banish the winter blues by having a entertaining afternoon. The cost is very reasonable – 8 games for £4, with refreshments included.

December Beach Clean

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Rottingdean Beach Clean 8th Dec 2013The Deans Beach & Environment Volunteers will be down on Rottingdean Beach from 11am on Sunday 8th December helping us clean up the beach after Smugglers Night 2013 on the 7th

Don your tinsel and come on down for a festive clean up of our beaches.

Protective gloves, bin-bags and litter pickers all provided…

Wear a warm hat as its probably going to be a little fresh!

The Rottingdean Hoard

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The Rottingdean HoardWin valuable contraband treasure hunt prizes this Saturday 16th November – start 11am from The Olde Black Horse, Rottingdean High Street. This is the last event before the main Smugglers night event on the 7th Dec – please show your support.

Find out more information here – Rottingdean Smugglers Treasure Hunt and buy e-vouchers here

There are standard treasure hunts and then there’s the real thing !!

Foraging on Rottingdean Beach

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RVW BeachEastJane Hedgewich is running a foraging workshop on the 27th October and 24th November, both will be half at Rottingdean Beach. We will be looking at the health giving properties of all the different seaweeds and how nature is supplying us with immune boosting and delicious food to help us stay as healthy as possible through the coming months.

The workshop includes making your own nettle tea, either a mushroom omelette or Fresh miso and seaweed soup, followed by a late summer fruit and berry pudding, which we will be gathering for, cream optional.

But all depends on what is ripe and what we can find on the day, but it will be a very informative and enjoyable day.

We will be out for about 5 hours, with lunch or tea at the end of it, i will give you notes of the most common ‘free foods’ to take away with you, so you can start to see the world around you in a different way, one of free food, whether it is in a park, down a country lane or your neighbours garden, you will not view the world around you the same again.

Times will be early as the lowtides are early, 9am or 8am on the 24th Nov.

For more information and to book please contact – Jane Hedgewich on jane.hedgewitch@virginmedia.com or 07941131216

“An Evening with Longman Brewery” at the Queen Victoria

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The Queen Vic“An Evening with Longman Brewery” at the Queen Victoria, Rottingdean, East Sussex – Thursday 3rd October, 7pm to 10pm

To celebrate National Real Ale Week, Jamie Simm, Head Brewer, and the team from Longman Brewery will host an informal evening at the Queen Victoria, Rottingdean (Casque Marque and Good Beer Guide 2014). They will have a range of samples of Longman products and will take questions and talk about both their own ales and about brewing ale in general.

During Real Ale Week, the Queen Vic will be exploring the huge variety of tastes and colours that brewers can produce from the same base ingredients of hops, barley and water. There will be a wide range of ale styles available ranging from Longman’s Long Blonde (a golden ale) to Langham’s Black Swallow (a black “IPA”), as well as examples of American Pale Ale, Amber Ale, traditional IPA and Sussex Ale.

Contact Philip and the team at the Queen Vic for more information on:
01273 302121
facebook.com/TheQV
Twitter: @The_Queen_Vic