Dear New Owner
Thank you so much for your letter to us today (received 11 July).
It is the loveliest, warmest, most cogent of a communications with us.
Without question, you understand the context of the community. Without question you have a grounding in the history of the locality. Your research with regard to key elements of the profile is impeccable. You also see the importance of local heritage issues here that are so precious to the life and soul of the community.
As you begin to clear the brambles this coming weekend, it looks very much to us that we have a new member of the business community who intends to play a full and sustainable part in the future of the business life here, at the heart of the community and the 2,000 year story of Pevensey and its rich history.
We wish you well with your venture.
The July issue of Bay LIfe: The Journal, will be published on 22 July. Our intention is to publish in our new hyper-local newspaper, details of your forthcoming venture on the front page.
We would very much like, with your approval, to publish key elements in your letter to us, as a celebration of what you intend for the Castle Cottage Tea Room.
We would like to publish your letter on the front page of the newspaper, because we believe that not only does the letter project your values, intentions, and commitment to the business community in the most articulate and thoughtful of ways, but that also at heart you manifestly have as the focus for your intentions the viability and sustainability of business life in this precious corner of England.
Pevensey, with the castle at the centre, has played so important a part in the affairs of Sussex and the history of the county since 230AD, almost 800 years before the arrival of the Normans in 1066.
The possibility that we will once again see and hear the cheerful sparkle of school students from across the country arriving in coach loads, at the Eastern Castle Gate, with the services restored to Pevensey Castle after seven long years wait, is so welcome.
Visitors also in coaches from places like Germany and Japan, will once again file into the tea room filling the garden with love, life and laughter. This is something so special and it is something that will be welcomed by people across the community and day visitors (many of whom of course remember the tea room with such affection) who will once again be able to put the “iconic” location, as you describe it, back on their map as part of their trip.
We also believe that what you intend to offer, with the history of the tea room, so much part of the collective memory of the locality. will be a neat complementary fit for what Pevensey already has to offer to both residents and visitors in the centre of the business community.
In your letter to us you describe the proposed venture with such beautifully crafted detail, you describe the venture in the social context of the seven year saga and you describe what you intend with such care and attention, that we believe that the community will be behind you from the start.
This venture, clearly has a great deal of thought. Once again the gentle clatter of fine bone china will fill the garden with life and love.
We wish you well with what you are doing and we look forward soon to a time when we will once again be served tea as it used to be.
Thank you again for your letter to us today.
Bay Life,
11 July 2016IMAGE CREDIT: Castle Cottage Tea Room
