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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and District,
West Sussex, England
Local News
The Adur Festival programme is now available from the Civic Centre. They are going to be sent through the post to very Adur resident and some people may have received them.
The Launch of the Adur Festival is on 3 June 2000 with events all around the centre of Shoreham-by-Sea and the World Oceans Day Fayre on Coronation Green.
Please send any comments to:
Andy Horton Glaucus@hotmail.com
Countryside and Rights of Way Bill
The Standing Committee on The Countryside and Rights of Way Bill again met on Tuesday and Thursday and continued to discuss amendments relating to access provisions.
Members may be interested in the proposed amendment to the Bill:
Mr.
James Paice (South-East Cambridgeshire): I beg to move amendment No. 241,
in page 3, line 4, at end insert-
@(
) In exercising any power in respect of coastal land under or pursuant
to this Act, regard shall be had to the needs of flood defence and coastal
protection.'.
The
Chairman: With this it will be convenient to consider the following amendments:
No. 242, in page 3, line 4, at end insert-
@(
) In exercising any power in respect of coastal land under or pursuant
to this Act, regard shall be had to the protection of wildlife and the
needs of nature conservation.'.
A written report of discussion is available at:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199900/cmstand/b/cmway.htm
Please let me have your thoughts. My first inclination was that any detrimental wildlife practices could be controlled by bye-laws for specified activities.
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- Words
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empathy | empthi
| n. E20. [Gk empatheia, f. as EM-2 + pathos feeling: see -Y3; tr.
G Einfuhlung.] The power of mentally identifying oneself with (and so fully
comprehending) a person or object of contemplation; = EINFuHLUNG.
M. L. KING Pity is feeling
sorry for someone; empathy is feeling sorry with someone.
empathic a. involving empathy;
having empathy to or with a person, feeling, etc.: E20. empathically adv.
E20. empathist n. an adherent of a theory involving empathy E20.
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Excerpted
from The Oxford Interactive Encyclopedia
Developed
by The Learning Company, Inc. Copyright (c) 1997 TLC Properties Inc.
empathy,
the ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. It is a term coined in the early 20th century, equivalent to the German Einfühlung and modeled on "sympathy." The term is used with special (but not exclusive) reference to aesthetic experience. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the actor or singer who genuinely feels the part he is performing. With other works of art, a spectator may, by a kind of introjection, feel himself involved in what he observes or contemplates. The use of empathy is an important part of the counseling technique developed by the American psychologist Carl Rogers.
Copyright (c) 1996 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
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Historical Snippets
BRIDGES OF SHOREHAMText
and photographs by Andy
Horton
How many bridges are there in the Adur District? In Shoreham? There are a lot if you count rail and footbridges over roads and small road bridges over water and when is a small bridge not really a bridge at all?
Over the Adur
Five bridges span the main stream of the Adur in the boundaries of Shoreham. All them except the flyover impede navigation of craft up and river and as the port moved steadily eastwards over the centuries.
After travellers had to endure a bumpy ferry crossing at Old Shoreham for centuries or when travelling along the south coast had to make a detour to the substantial medieval stone bridge at Bramber, a wooden bridge was eventually completed at Old Shoreham in 1781. This must have been part of the rebuilding of the town after the Great Storm of 1703 that caused destruction along the coast. In 1916 the wooden bridge was rebuilt in the same design and up to 1971 was the main A27 road for all traffic passing through Shoreham.
It was called the Toll Bridge after the railway line to Horsham via, Bramber, Steyning, Henfield, Partidge Green, and Southwater was constructed and opened in 1861 and tolls were collected for all vehicles crossing the level crossing gates on the east side of the river.
In 1833 The Norfolk Suspension Bridge was opened. It was the same design as the famous Chain Bridge (originally built 1849) that crosses the River Danube between Buda and Pest in Hungary. W. Tierney Clarke and Captain Samuel Brown designed the first Norfolk Bridge. It was replaced by a Bow String Girder Bridge in 1922, which was in turn replaced by a Concrete Box Girder Bridge in 1987.
The first railway from Brighton to Shoreham, via Hove, Portslade, Southwick and Kingston was opened in 1840. It was not until 1845 that the River Adur was spanned with a wooden trestle bridge to carry the line on to Worthing. The current steel bridge replaced the trestle bridge in 1911.
Shoreham Beach did not begin to be populated until the current footbridge was constructed in 1921, from the newly named Shoreham-by-Sea, which acquired its suffix in 1910. The central part of the bridge can still be opened to allow the passage of large vessels.
The Adur Flyover was one of the earlier box girder bridges that had problems caused by their design and needed subsequent strengthening. The by-pass opened to through traffic in 1971.
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- Please send in any details of local events.
Events
20-24 April 2000ADUR BEER FESTIVAL
At the Red Lion
- Anyone interested in doing a house swap with someone who lives in New Jersey, USA? I'm about 45 minutes from the Jersey shore, 30 minutes from Philadelphia, 90 minutes from New York City. I'd like Shoreham Beach, but anywhere nearby will do.
- from
the Knowhere Shoreham-by-Sea web page
House Swap by Susan Smith (susansmith@compuserve.com) on 31-Mar-00
Games & Leisure
Please send in any details of recommended games and web sites.Free Advertisements
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY
For any company or organisation wanting nationwide green publicity, there is an opportunity to sponsor the journal "Glaucus" of the British Marine Life Study Society.
There remains sponsorship opportunities on the BMLSS (England) web site and other publications, including Torpedo.
Sponsorship is also available for the Adur Torpedo Electronic News Bulletin and the Shoreham-by-Sea web pages (which preceded the Adur Resource Centre web site), which would be more suitable for a local firm(s).
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Adur Torpedo was written, designed and distributed by Andy Horton.
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