This is the first published Electronic Newspaper for 
Shoreham-by-Sea and District, West Sussex, England

Local News

20 February 2001
Ropetackle
Ropetackle Development:  Community Group Consultation with SEEDA
Shoreham-by-Sea

The first general plan is revealed. It is a bit boring, a few apartment blocks and an awkward route through traffic-calmed roads to the Public Hard. What is planned north of Little High Street is not so important from a visually as the view of where the old King's Head used to be from the east. The builders for the planned estate are likely to be Berkeley Homes. 
 
 




Shoreham High Street in the 1930's looking west towards an area known as the Ropetackle that remains undeveloped  into the New Millennium. The pub called the King's Head closed in 1983 and was demolished about 7 years later.


The planners for the development are Tibbalds Monro Ltd and appreciated my suggestion of something a bit bolder for the important area as seen from the High Street. I suggested they should not be restricted by the use of traditional local materials and that because of the bend of the High Street, a circular building would be appropriate. 

I did not use the word "ostentatious", but that is probably what I had in mind. I did say "something all passer-by would notice that they were in Shoreham". 

The planners have had discussions with the waterside and boat users community about the boat launching facilities into the new millennium. The current flint buildings are expected to be demolished and their materials reused as part of the development. The planners/architects were convincing, but when the cost implications arise, sometimes the best laid plans go awry. The development will include amenities like a walkway and free space that can be enjoyed by the residents of Shoreham. The number of residential properties is expected to be around 220, which is very high. There is only a small commercial sector, and there are not expected to be many new jobs. The road  junction at the end of the High Street is expected to be realigned.  The housing allocation near the railway viaduct may be unsuitable because of noise. 

Old Fort

Plans for improvements to the Old Fort, Shoreham-by-Sea are on display at the Civic Centre.

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Wildlife Reports

19 February 2001
A flash of red tail (it could be mistaken for a red breast in flight) indicated the male Black Redstart flitting between the beach huts south of Beach Green, Shoreham Beach. It perched pipit-like on a metre-high pole sticking out of the shingle beach where it looked black silhouetted against the morning sky. A couple of the brownish female birds were also reported on the same day. 

Report by Andy Horton

 

14 February 2001
For the first time for many years a good haul of the Brown Shimp, Crangon crangon, was reported from the shallow seas off Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex. Gallons of shrimps were collected in a push net at low tide. No Weevers were netted. 

Report by Peter Murphy

 

 c. 14 February 2001
The first Common Frog entered a pond in The Drive, Shoreham, and laid a large clump of frog spawn. 

12 February 2001

Photograph by Steve Savage (Sea Watch Foundation)
Click on the flipper for a close-up

Two badly decomposed Dolphins were washed up on Shoreham Beach, Sussex. They were badly decomposed but were probably Common Dolphins, Delphinus delphis. A Porpoise, just over a metre long, was washed at nearby Worthing. 
Sussex Dolphins
Sussex Cetaceans 2001
Sussex Sea Watch Foundation News 2001

29 January 2001
Adur World Oceans Day 2001
The first meeting to discuss arrangements for this Adur Festival event.
Please express any interest to:
Andy Horton (British Marine Life Study Society)
Glaucus@hotmail.com
or
Natalie Brahma-Pearl (Adur District Council)
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Adur World Oceans Day 2000 web page

Lancing Nature & History - February Newsletter
(Link to the web site by Ray Hamblett)

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 Wildlife Records on the Adur eForum (you have to join)


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Words of the Week

ostentatious  | stentes |  a. M17. [f. prec. + -IOUS.] 1 Characterized by ostentation; intended or intending to attract attention or admiration, esp. of wealth or luxury; pretentious, showy. M17.   2 Likely to attract attention; conspicuous. E18-L19.
ostentatiously adv. E18. ostentatiousness n. M17.

sylloge  | sldi |  n. rare. L17. [Gk sulloge, f. sullegein collect.] A collection; a summary.

heuristic  | hj()rstk |  a. & n. E19. [Irreg. f. Gk heuriskein find, after wds in -ISTIC from vbs in -izein -IZE.] A adj. 1 Serving to find out or discover something. E19.  2 Of or pertaining to heurism in education. L19. 3 Esp. Computing. Designating or employing trial-and-error methods in problem-solving. M20. B n. 1 a Heuretic logic. E19.  b A heuristic method for attempting the solution of a problem; a rule or item of information used in such a process. M20. 2 In pl. (treated as sing.). The study and use of heuristic techniques in data processing. M20.heuristical a. = HEURISTIC a. 2 M19. heuristically adv. M20.

empirical  | emprk()l, m- |  a. M16. [f. prec. + -AL1.] 1 Based on, guided by, or employing observation and experiment rather than theory; (of a remedy, rule, etc.) used because it works, or is believed to. M16.  b That practises medicine without scientific knowledge. L17-M19. 2 Derived from or verifiable by experience, esp. sense-experience. M17. 
1 J. BARNES A co-operative farming venture left him with some empirical knowledge, but little understanding of horticultural principle. M. H. ABRAMS By setting out from and terminating in an appeal to the facts, any good aesthetic theory is, indeed, empirical in method. 2 J. S. MILL An empirical law is an observed uniformityresolvable into simpler laws, but not yet resolved into them. 
Special collocations: empirical formula Chem.: giving the proportions of the various elements present in a molecule, not the actual number of atoms or their arrangement. empirical psychologist an exponent or adherent of empirical psychology. 
empirically adv. M17.  empiricalness n.: only in M17

hagiography  | harfi |  n. E19. [f. HAGIO- + -GRAPHY.]  1 Holy Scripture; the Hagiographa. rare. Only in E19. 2 The writing of saints' biographies; saints' biographies as a branch of literature or legend; transf. the writing of an idealized biography of any person. E19. 
2 J. UPDIKE Busch avoids hagiography as well as criticism. 

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Albert Schweitzer 

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 Water Music (Piano Retailer)  High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea
 Link to their web site.
 
 
 
 

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Historical Snippets

What's in a name?
Britons, Angles, ethnicity and material culture from the fourth to seventh centuries

http://www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/issues/4/Matthews.html#anchor334553

If you find the above link a bit too wordy and irritating to read you are not the only one, but it raises more doubt than I expected about the accuracy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. i.e. I expected it to be in accurate regarding dates and may be get some of the place names wrong, but it appears it is essentially unreliable.

The obvious thing to do next is to see what archaeological and place name evidence there is to back up the pattern of Saxon settlement in Sussex.
 

Sussex Archaeological Society
http://www.sussexpast.co.uk

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Brief History of Shoreham-by-Sea

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