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SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1927.
"GATE CRASHERS.”
A NEW KIND OF NUISANCE.
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Brighton is to enlarge its
Nowadays hostesses are faced boundaries. Negotiations have with a new kind of nuisance in a been going on for long past. sot of bright young people known They have been successful; the in America as "gate crasherk," Corporation has approved of tho says a Home" writer. detalls; and a private Bill is to be "Gate crashers" belleve in the presented to Parliament. On the theory that the whole secret of plan as proposed the acreage of life is the art of obtaining some- the country borough will be more thing for nothing. When they than quadrupled, and the greater feel in need of a little entertain- part of three rural or semi-ruralment they merely put on their best parishes will be absorbed. 1 clothes and boldly sally forth to It is said that, with the excep- the best dance in London on "that tion of London, Brighton is the particular night. Incidentally most densely populated town in what a "gale crusher" doesn't the kingdom. Some of its hill know about the hostesses who give sides seem to be as closely covered the best partjes isn't worth know. with slate roofs as" are some of ing.
those at Plymouth, and that is The coolly enter the house, saying much. Moreover; recent shake hands affably with the ru- years have probably increased the ther dazed lady of the house, who density, for so many of the huge has a vague feeling that she must mansions of the front and of the have met them somewhere, lan- squares have been converted into guidly join the dancers, and muke flats as to provide, probably, for disparaging remarks about the. a greater increase of population floor, the band, the lighting, and than all the new houses put up the supper.
within the burouth since the war. Their numbers have Iataly Safeguarding The Downs. grown to such an extent that a The need for expansion is not dance may be attended by twenty so much that Brighton. has over-uninvited guests who upset all ar dowed its bounds-there is still rangerients, especially those made space, though not too much, for for supper. building within the borough-and
such building as has taken place there is no private dance in snit the outside its borders is mainly in London of a quality to distant, scattered parts of the ad-"gate crashers" fastidious tastes, joining parishes rather than on they muke up a party and repair the outskirts of the town. Then to some well-known restaurant there is a small and ugly settle-about supper-time,
ment on Sweet Hill, Patcham; an-) They keep well away, from the other on the London Road at restaurant proper, sit in the loun- Patcham; the settlement at Brigh ge and order coffee, the sole ex- ron Heights, east of the race-ponse of the evening. course; the bungaläws at Oving-, Whenever they want to dance lean, and the very considerable they saunter into the restaurant, expansion of Rottingdean. The where they can enjoy the same ad- extension is not, then, to bring vantages as those who have paid into the area of the borough a big, guinea a head for the privilege extra-urban rateable Value the dancing to one of the best bands reason for the expansion of some in London. cities and towns-but is 'in pur-) Some hostesses and naltres suance of a policy which has for d'hotel are combining now against its object, the safeguarding of this social pest; the former by ad great areas of the Downs and con-mitting guests only in the jord. trol of building, etc., within this duction of invitation cards, "the aren. By far the greater part blatter by politely barring from the the pan to be brought into the dancing room those who sit in the borough in actually owned by the lounge. Corporation.
The new area lies north; north-| st, and east of Brighton. It reaches more than three miles narth, along the London Road, to Pangdoan skirt Staymer" Park, misses Newmarket. ll, but in- cludes Bullock Hill, and extends
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to Balsdean-the farm in a remote which fell yesterday' near the fam- hollow of the Downs recently ac-ous hospice of the Great St. Ber quired by Brighton-and will in-nard Pass provided, one of the clude a part of Saltdean, the site most dramatic episodes in the of the latest Peacehaven develop- eventful history of that region. ment. The area includes wide A party of five monks and five sweeps of undulating Downland students set out on skis to make n Running to altitudes of more than tour of the neighbourhood, when 500 feet; many secluded and one of them suggested that they beautiful combes and valleys; should visit the scene of an several golf courses, the Holling- avalanche which had fallen earlier bary anti Moulscombe parks, and in the day. three miles of cliffs, as yet almost unbuilt on, and three ancient villages.
The truck of the avalanche lay between the hospice and the little- Italian Customs House lower down The Three Villages. the valley. The monks had al- Patcham, ready traversed the danger zone The villages are Ovingdean, and Rottingdean. When, with a roar like thunder, Patcham is no longer so picture- another avalanche of powderly sque as it once was, but it has a snow 200 yards wide fell, sweeping Norman church with a medieval the five, studente away. wall painting of the Doom, and a Two of them froud themselves, quaint monument of chalk carved but, despite the frantic efforts of with nude figures. In the farm the monks," no trace could be found rear by is one of the oldest of of the others. Sussex dovecots, circular, cone- capped, and with the revolving
Dogs' Feverish Work: " A messenger an skis, was then
beam and arm for reaching the sent to the hospice to fetch the nest. There is also one of the famous dogs which are named donkey wells of which it is so per- after St. Bernard. The powerful sistently said that there are only and intelligent animals, specially three in the kingdom, though there trained for rescue work in Alpine are, more than that in the neigh-{anows, arrived on the scene bay- bourhood of the South Downsing loudly.
alone. Patcham Place is a beauti- With their unerring instinct ful early eighteenth-century man-they began burrowing feverishly sion of the local split back flints, and very soon the body, still warm. It has been bought by the Cor- of one student, named Luisier, was poration, and the grounds are in recovered. Artificial respiration tended to be a public recreation was tried for six hours but was park. The Ladies' Mile, a. famous unsuccessful.
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Downi gallop, and the Indian The bodies of the other two stif Chattre, are within the parish.. dents were recovered in a similar
Rottingdean is better known, munner, but both were dead, for it has a frequent bus service, A column was then formed, and
UP. many schools, and a growing popu- mournful procession went back. lation. It is by no means so bad to the hospice, where, the bodies MACHINE WRECK IN MID-AIR. ly spoiled as other places in the will be interred in the little vault
The amazing spectacle of the vicinity, for a strong conservatism where the victims of so many Al-wings of an aeroplane breaking has preserved, unspoiled the vil-pine tragedies repose,
from the body of the machine 4,000 lage street and the heart of the place, with the partly Saxon from Brighton's boundary, it was of the pilot to escape with his para feet up, and the desperate struggle church, Kipling's old house, completely concealed, a tiny ham chute was witnessed on Dec 8th at Burne-Jones's house, several lot with an early Norman church, Martlesham Heath, Woodbridge, other houses of great beauty, the one of the most interesting in Sus
Suffolk. pond, the green, and various way-sex, a big farm, and a handful of
About 30 yards from the wreck side strips of lawn. Saltdean, cottages. Alas, It is no longer so age was found the body of the just beyond, is threatened with secluded. Many bungalows creat pilot, Flying Officer Gilbert Vern much building, and if this is the slope towards Rottingdean on Wheatley, of the 22nd-Squard mercifully spared until the Exten-windmill. On this ridge is one of ron, R.A.F. He had been killed sion Bill is passed, Brighton may the most ancient of the Downland instantly, and the opened para- Another witness said he heard be able to do something to control trackways, along which may have chute by his side told of his three loud reports just before the and guide its development. been borne by Romano-Britaina dramatic attempt to save his life machine broke. It was then com-
Ovingdean is known to famo by flints from the beach below Rotwhile the broken machine was ing out of a nose-dive. reason of Harrison Ainsworth's tingdean for the Roman glass rushing downwards to earth. The mendacious, but thrilling, ro-works in Kent and Surreywings came to earth half a mile mance. Though but a mile or so (Observer.
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An eye-witness, motoring from Shropshire, was 27 years old, and Ipswich to Woodbridge, told a one of the most popular officers at Daily Chronicle representative that the Martlesham Heath RA.F. he saw the aeroplane flying over Testing Station, which he joined the main road.
about a year agg, after service in "Everything about it seemed to India. Like all the officers at- be perfect," he said. "Then aud- tached to this station, he was an denly I saw the wings leave the expert in aeronauties and had test- distance they were carried for main body of the machine. For a ed many machines..
The one in which he met his ward by the impetus of the ma- death was a Gloucester Gamecock, chine, then they floated gently to the latest type of single-seater the earth. But the body of the fighters. This typo was introduced machine, with the pilot in the in the R.A.F. about a year ago, and cockpit, came hurtling downwards was used by the 43rd Squadron at at a terrific speed. It fell a long the last R.AT. display. way from me, but the crash was Martlesham Heath is the largest clearly audible.
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