Helios and his celestial entourage shone kindly on the assembled throng one Saturday in July to herald the first WHCA Treasure Hunt of the decade. Fourteen teams of varying ages and numbers paid their modest entry fees and set off to complete the Whistle(r)-stop tour of the West Hill and its environs.
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West Hill Baptist Chapel
Pastor Zach Gillit writes about new beginnings at the Chapel
We are looking forward to the future at West Hill Baptist Chapel. We thank God for allowing us the opportunity to minister in the historic Providence Chapel. The chapel was built in 1894 as the St. Nathaniel Reformed Episcopal Church, which continued until 1961. In 1965, the building was purchased by Providence Chapel of Church Street when their old building was destroyed. They used the building for exactly 40 years, holding their final services in 2005. The building was then briefly used by Ebenezer Baptist Church from 2006-2010 while remodeling their current church. On Easter Sunday, 2013, the building once again came into regular use as West Hill Baptist Chapel.
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Torta di Santiago
The Whistler asked Stuart and Marc from the Kitchen Table at the Seven Dials to share some recipes with us…
After receiving customer requests for gluten free cakes we began to look for inspiration from the shop’s cookbooks. It was amongst them in a book on the food of Spain and Portugal that Marc discovered ‘Torta di Santiago’, a flour-free cake from the famous town of pilgrimage. It is thought to date back hundreds of years, being first recorded in Santiago as far back as 1577 under the name, ‘Torta Real’. In 1924 a local baker, Jose Mora Soto, added the stencilled shape of the Santiago cross using icing sugar to distinguish it from other cakes and this may be how it established its name. The cake is made from almonds, something brought to Spain by the Moors over a 1000 years ago. Many recipes use whole almonds but here we use ground ones.
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Whistler Classics
We raided our offline Whistler archives for a selection of classics…
AND NOW FOR THE PLURALS
(with apologies to John Donne)
Let’s begin with a box; the plural is boxes
And go on to ox, plural oxen, not oxes.
There’s a bird called a goose; its plural is geese,
Yet the plural of moose is mooses, not meese;
Which reminds one of mouse, who plural is mice,
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.
Now the plural of man is undoubtedly men,
So the logical plural of pan must be pen.
The plural of foot is not foots but feet;
Though a foot wears a boot, two boots are not beet,
And a tooth is but one of a mouthful of teeth.
So what about booth? Could the plural be beeth?
And if one thing is that one, the plural is those
Yet a hat in its plural can never be hose.
We may speak of brothers and also of brethren;
We may speak of mothers but never say methren.
If the masculine of pronouns are he, his and him,
Then the ladies, God bless ‘em, get she, shis and shim!
Submitted by Hilary Gilmore, September 1995 edition
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My Magic Bus
Peter Batten lives in Brighton but remembers his magic childhood in London…
I grew up in the London Borough of Southwark. My home was in a notorious area of the borough called Bermondsey. During World War II it was very dangerous because we were between two important railway lines and less than half a mile from the river Thames. The Germans knew that any bomb landing in our area could cause serious disruption. My family moved out to Essex for the worst of the Blitz, but I still lived for most of the war in a danger zone.
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