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A SOVEREIGN Harbour campaigner is calling for a community library in the area’s supermarket.
Sam Sweiry says there are nearly 10,000 people living in Sovereign Harbour and it desperately needs a ‘cultural centre’ where residents and tourists can access information and IT facilities.
Mr Sweiry has written to the chief executive of ASDA and the president of its parent company Walmart, suggesting a unit within its Eastbourne store, at the Crumbles Retail Park, should become a library.
“That unit has been empty for about three years and it would be perfect for a library,” said Mr Sweiry.
“It is bigger than the space used for the library in Langney Shopping Centre.”
Mr Sweiry has spoken to East Sussex County Council about setting up a library in Sovereign Harbour because the council would need to pay the rent and provide the facilities. However, Mr Sweiry hopes residents from the harbour will run the library once it has been set up by the council.
Mr Sweiry said, “I have been pushing for this for a while and the county council did provide a mobile library which comes to Sovereign Harbour for two hours week but that is not good enough.
“Those mobile libraries can only accommodate three people for computer training. They are more suitable for villages and Sovereign Harbour is not a village – it is much bigger than that.”
Mr Sweiry has long campaigned for better facilities for the people of Sovereign Harbour.
He said, “We needed a doctors surgery and that has been done. Now we need a library. I don’t want the glory. This is not personal, it is for the people of Sovereign Harbour.”
Mr Sweiry is hoping people will support his campaign and is asking like-minded harbour residents to email him at sweirysam@aol.com
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Lifson
Friday, July 29, 2011 at 10:02 PMLove the idea, love the sentiment. Langney has proved how much use a library can get in a shopping centre. However; a) Will the residents of the harbour be so keen on running it when other residents of the harbour are using it as an unofficial kiddie drop-off centre when they go shoppingwatching moviesetc.? Being inside the Crumbles retail area makes that a very real possibility. b) Is the infrastructure there to allow connection out to the East Sussex Library Service systems? c) Even a volunteer run library, if made part of ESLS, will need a library manager, and additional ongoing resources in the form of internet, computer maintenance, book transfer courier for inter-library loans, and so forth. d) Langney only has 3 or 4 PCs too - like the mobile unit. As I say - great start - however "fund the start-up and leave it to us" is possibly not quite as simple as it first appears.
Lifson
Friday, July 29, 2011 at 09:50 PMLove the idea, love the sentiment. Langney has proved how much use a library can get in a shopping centre. However; a) Will the residents of the harbour be so keen on running it when other residents of the harbour are using it as an unofficial kiddie drop-off centre when they go shoppingwatching moviesetc.? Being inside the Crumbles retail area makes that a very real possibility. b) Is the infrastructure there to allow connection out to the East Sussex Library Service systems? c) Even a volunteer run library, if made part of ESLS, will need a library manager, and additional ongoing resources in the form of internet, computer maintenance, book transfer courier for inter-library loans, and so forth. d) Langney only has 3 or 4 PCs too - like the mobile unit. As I say - great start - however "fund the start-up and leave it to us" is possibly not quite as simple as it first appears.
roneoron
Friday, July 29, 2011 at 05:43 PMEubberised? Is that as cooked by that well known Brighton ex-boxer? Can't stand Harry Ramsdens. They cook in lard. Very unhealthy! Anyone know what they use in the chippy in Sovereign Harbour? Everyone I know who has eaten their greasy offerings, including me, has felt queasy about half an hour later. If haddock has no skin, then what stops them disintegrating in the sea?
pevenseypete
Friday, July 29, 2011 at 12:29 PMcomparing heathfield fish and chips with Eastbourne is like Pol Pot arguing that he was a bigger mass murderer than Hitler . How can you softie southerners eat cod with the skin on is beyond me , it's disgusting . In the North it's haddock , no skin and melt in your mouth batter , that eubberised muck you sell down south . It isn't a coincidence that the most famous fish n chips place is in the world is the original Harry Ramsdens .
Veracity
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 07:34 PMJust fishing Beachcomber. Thought someone would get hooked!
Beachcomber
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 07:19 PMRoneoron, I'll ignore your support of Veracity, you obviously know no better. However, instead of going to Heathfield, you should come down to the Sovereign Fish Bar in Beatty Road. In the time it takes to get the fish to Heatfield, it would have been cooked and eaten in Eastbourne.
roneoron
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 01:32 PMAnd current tat-TV equals culture eh Beachcomber? Methinks Veracity has a point! Talking of Heathfield, it does have the best fish&chip shop in this part of the world. We frequently nip up to Taylors from Hailsham as it has no equal that I know of, and I'm a connoisseur of the national dish! Curries and Chinese weeds, yuk!
Beachcomber
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 08:07 AMOh dear Veracity, how predictable that you once again took the opportunity to rubbish Sovereign Harbour; envy is such a destructive emotion. However, having taken the time to visit Heathfield for a second time, I forgive you, as I now understand your problem. Obviously, living in the shadow of that huge microwave transmitter has fried your brain. But never mind, at least Heathfield has a purpose, if it wasn't there, Eastbourne wouldn't get television.
xanhippe
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 07:49 PMAre yes Mr Seiry is also the gentleman who wants to change the very ancient name of the Crumbles.So a library might help him find out the history of our Crumbles which was there long before he came to live there. After all that's where the harbour was built on. and what a wonderful place it was -- not the concrete jungle that it has become.
Veracity
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 12:31 PMCulture? Sovereign Harbour? Surely a prime oxymoron?
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