DORE to DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY No. 94 SUMMER 2009 ISSN 0965-8912
Inside: Letters page 6 Dore Parish Church page 14 Winds of Change page 18 The Wildlife Garden page 20 King Ecgbert News page 28 Classified Ads page 32 and lots, lots more ....
Dore Festival 2009 Dore Festival continues to be enjoyed and supported by the whole community and this year we are happy to offer our fullest programme ever. We hope that there is something for everyone. Festival fortnight starts on Saturday 27th June with the first of the walks arranged by the Dore Village Society and the Dore Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s Summer Concert. Then on Sunday 28th June we have the The 1st Well Dressing Service in Dore on hugely popular Open Gardens again Sunday 5th July 1959 organised by Linda Hunter. We are delighted that the newly formed Dore DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY Garden Club is taking part in Festival for AGM and talk by Dore Voices - Betty Brown the first time this year with a visit to a Andrew Firth member’s vegetable garden on Betty was born on 26th September 1923 Wednesday 1st July. The White Peak Way in South Kirby, Yorkshire a village The garden theme is continued on 7.30pm Wednesday between Barnsley and Pontefract, where Tuesday 7th July when everyone is she lived with her parents and sister Nora. welcome to the talk by Don Witton, 10th June Her mother Minnie Clayton had also been keeper of the national collection of Dore Methodist Church Hall born and bred in South Kirby and was well Euphorbias. Dore Ladies Group will be known as the District Midwife. Betty has offering their usual refreshments and Everybody welcome vivid memories of a very happy childhood delicious home made cakes. in rural Yorkshire. “We lived in the John Dunston’s Village History Tour on country. Our house was on the edge of a Thursday 2nd July is always a firm cornfield with nothing to the horizon on favourite so come along and join in if you You Tube - Local History three sides.” have not done so before. The annual Fun At the age of five Betty went to the Run on Monday 6th July is open to all A short early colour film (15 mins.) village infant school and at eight she members of the family and entrance taken at Ryecroft Farm is now on ‘You moved to South Kirby Board School. numbers and dogs increase every year. For Tube’. Our son Tim transferred it under From there she obtained a County Minor runners and spectators the evening is the title ‘Craig the story of a Dog’. Scholarship which gave her a place at pleasantly rounded off by watching Lord His grandfather Dick Farnsworth is Hemsworth Hall Grammar School in Conyers Morris Men at The Devonshire shown training a sheepdog in 1946 and Hemsworth near Pontefract. She Arms. working with a horse sledge in the snow remembers arriving at her new school for The highlight of this year’s festival is through Ryecroft Glen. As it was a silent the first time. the celebration of fifty years of Village film Richard has added commentary and is “When I first went into the grounds they Well Dressing and to mark this hoping to do the same with the other took my breath away. They were anniversary there will be a special Well family films of ploughing with horses. magnificent. I’d never seen anything like Dressing Service on the Village Green on To see the film go onto ‘Google’ or ‘You that before.” She loved her grammar Sunday 5th July. Throughout the weekend Tube’ and type:- Craig the story of a dog schooldays and recalls with affection the of 4th/5th July in Dore Old School there into the search box. teachers especially the inspirational will be Displays tracing the history of the Gillian Farnsworth History master. different design teams from Betty Brown When war broke out in September 1939 onwards and Demonstrations showing the Betty was in the Lower V1class (Y12 craft of Well Dressing. We look forward to Anniversary ramble today) and she was among the group of seeing many of you at this key event. But senior pupils who were allowed to go back do not forget that other village tradition - Walkers are being invited to celebrate after the summer holidays because there cream tea at the Methodist Hall after the 70th anniversary of the Sheffield was room for them to shelter in the old continued on page 3 Round Walk. An anniversary ramble over wine cellars of the Hall in case of an air- the 14.5 miles is being held on Sunday, raid. The V1th Form boys dug shelters at You will find a complete diary of local June 7, starting at Endcliffe Park cafe. Tel the edge of the cricket pitch for the rest of events on the back page of this issue. Sue Lee on 283 9195 or 07866 605426. continued on page 22 1 Editorial Dore in the Times PUBLISHING DEADLINES No we have not run out of cream Dore to Door is published Dore got a mention in the Times on coloured paper. After nearly 24 years, April 21 by the ex operations manager of perhaps it is time for a change. So after quarterly in mid February, May, British Rail Western Region, commenting some debate it was decided to experiment August & November each year. The on Lord Adonis’ tour of the rail network. with printing on white gloss paper. This copy deadline for each issue is the end He said an example of where additional should lead to the better reproduction of of the preceding month. tracks are justified is Dore, where six photographs and give us the option of Please forward items for the Autumn passenger trains and some freight services using colour in the future. I hope you think operate over a single line section of it is an improvement. (August) issue to the address on this railway. Not only is Dore on the strategic As you may know, I am standing down page by Friday 31st July link that connects Sheffield with from the Dore Village Society committee Manchester, but the number of trains at the forthcoming AGM. I would suggests that additional tracks would therefore like to take this opportunity to Annual General Meeting provide far greater benefits in reliability thank all those who have worked for the and additional capacity than some of the Society during the 25 years I have been on This years Annual General Meeting of options Adonis is considering. the committee and particularly the last the Dore Village Society will take place at He might also have mentioned the decade while I have been chairman. Dore 7.30pm on Wednesday 10th June in the parking problem. For years this has caused is fortunate in still having a real sense of Methodist Church Hall on the High Street. congestion at the bottom of Dore Road. community in this impersonal age, After the traditionally short formal The council have put up notices saying somehow able to combine its historic past business, (see details displayed on the they propose parking restrictions, but they with the ability to welcome and enthuse society notice board), Andrew Firth will don’t suggest any alternative location for incomers, just as I was 27 years ago. So I give an illustrated talk on “The White people to park. People come from Baslow am sure the Society will continue to thrive Peak Way”. This is a 90 mile walk through and Fulwood to Dore station, buses aren’t for at least another 25 years. the Villages and Limestone Dales of the an option. Talking of change. I still plan to White Peak. Andrew is a well known local There used to be plenty of parking space continue as editor of Dore to Door and its speaker who has been guiding walks in at the station but the council granted sister publication Bradway Bugle. Despite many parts of England and Scotland for planning permission for the Ladyspring the general economic downturn the past 21 years. Court flats and this space was lost. It’s up businesses seem increasingly to recognise Refreshments will be available at the to the council to provide an alternative the particular value of local advertising. end of the meeting. Admission is free and carpark before restricting parking on Dore This is good for the magazine and the everyone is welcome. Road. Dore Village Society, but we could do The obvious place is the field by the with some more ideas and help. If there is miniature railway at the bottom of anyone out their interested in getting New faces in Dore Ryecroft Glen. involved with helping produce Dore to Gillian Farnsworth Door, please let us know. Dore Deli has finally changed hands, and been taken over by Andrew Rathborne, who until recently had a unit in Countryside Award Free admission to Hamlet Bradway Convenience Store. Independent Financial Advisers, Joint winner of the CPRE Countryside Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet is offering Whittington Goddard Associates Ltd have Award this year went to the Moorland free entry to the heritage site on relocated to Dore moving into the Discovery Centre at Longshaw. It was Abbeydale Road South for the whole of its premises previously occupied by Saxton constructed from timber and was carefully 2009 season. Funded by cash from Mee estate agents Road. oriented to fit the landscape and has the Sheffield Council, the free opening is also No news on the future use of what was versatility for flexible use. The judges being extended to Kelham Island Museum Pressed and Dressed on the High Street, were impressed by the centres low carbon which will let visitors in without charge while GABY’s shop has undergone footprint. It uses a ground source heat during Sheffield school holidays only. endless re-fitting as a beauty outlet. pump and sheep’s wool insulation.
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Ms D Biram 235 6907 Email: [email protected] Treasurer (Environment) Mrs M Watson 236 5666 Opinions expressed in articles and 4 South Court, S17 3PN. Mr D Crosby 262 1127 services offered by advertisers are not (Green spaces) necessarily endorsed by the publishers. Secretary & Archives No part of Dore to Door may be Mrs A Slater 236 6710 Mr G Cope 235 0392 reproduced in full or part, without the 6 Old Hay Close, S17 3GQ written permission of the publishers. Mr P Pryor 236 9831 Membership Secretary Copyright Dore Village Society 2009 Mrs A Elsdon 236 0002 Mr D Ward 236 3472 Printed by South Yorkshire Printers, 10 Rushley Close, S17 3EG (Dore Recreation Ground) 112 Harvest Lane, S3 8EE 2 Writing Competition Congratulations to everyone and these continued from page 1 ...... six in particular who win £100, £30 and the Well Dressing service! We had 31 entries for the Writing £10 book tokens sponsored by the Dore On Wednesday 8th July we have our Competition For Young People in total Village Society. annual open air Play on the Village Green and the organisers were very pleased with I must thank the staff at Dore Primary, which never fails to captivate the the interest shown and the general quality Rowan and the English teachers at King audience. This year The Company are of the entries. Thank you to everyone who Ecgbert’s for their help with the performing Shakespeare’s witty comedy took the time to produce some work and competition. More thanks go to Anne ‘The Taming of the Shrew’. We hope for a allow it to be judged. We had quite a Slater and Judith Cherry who were judges fine evening but the show goes on mixture of different forms of writing - with me and helped choose worthy whatever the weather. poems, stories, journalism, reports and winners. Our Festival programme continues on blank verse. The title was “How I See The We hope you enjoy reading the winning Thursday 9th July with the ever popular World In 2050” and, unsurprisingly, entries when they are published in the next open evening by the Dore Male Voice everyone had a different view! few editions of Dore to Door. Choir and their guests the Dore Mercia There are two age groups - up to and Don Atkinson and Totley Townswomen’s Guild Choir. including 12 year-olds and 13-15 year- Come along for an enjoyable concert of olds. local talent. In the younger age group the judges News in Brief In contrast on Friday 10th July we have were unanimous in awarding first prize to the return of the Walker Brothers and Eve Dore who produced a wonderfully The signpost to Dore pointing down Friends for their amazing evening of Jazz. written bleak warning if we carry on Limb Lane from Hathersage Road is being They are so much in demand that we book wasting the planet’s resources. Second repaired and repainted by contractors on them a year in advance, so reserve your prize went to Sophie Wilkinson, for her behalf of the Council. tickets now to avoid disappointment! poem crammed with new inventions, and Weather forecasts are to be provided Festival fortnight draws to a close on third place went to Jessica Hutchinson for for the first time by the Met Office for the Sunday 12th July with the last of the walks her clever piece of journalism. All 3 girls Peak District National Park. Updated and the Festival Songs of Praise at attend Dore Primary School. twice a day, they will include a colour- Christchurch Dore. This is an informal In the older group the decision of the coded hazards forecast and details of the service for the whole village community judges was split 2:1. We awarded first risk of rain or snow to help keep hill with contributions from both Dore prize to Beginns-Guille Correa for a very walkers reformed. churches, so do come along. clever mystery story combined with time Totley Primary school has won a We would like to say a big thank you to travelling. A very close runner-up was £5,000 award from the lottery to support a all those who are taking part in Dore Lemuel Knights who wrote a very funny new healthy eating project with children Festival this year, to our sponsors Dore poem about all sorts of things including being persuaded to swap sweets and crisps Village Society and The Devonshire Arms US President Daisy Moo-ingson. Third for carrots and raisins. and to our loyal Friends of Festival. Your prize went to Cerys Evans who wrote a Ashopton phone box is missing, enthusiasm and support is greatly poem, again warning about wasting the presumed stolen. If anyone sees a appreciated. Earth’s resources. All 3 attend King traditional red phone box on the back of a Maureen Cope Ecgbert’s. lorry do inform Derbyshire police. and Anne Elsdon
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3 “Where I Live” Art Exhibition Dore Village Society were happy to support this years Environment Week initiative from Sheffield Streetforce, by calling on the talents of artists within the local community. The Society hosted an Exhibition in Dore Old School on Saturday 2nd May which displayed work by children and adults using the theme of “Where I Live”. There were lots of entries for the competition element of the Exhibition, and Dore Village Society were delighted to welcome the Lord Mayor of Sheffield, Councillor Mrs Jane Bird, and the Lord Mayor’s Consort, Mr Roger Bird, to view the exhibition and present certificates and prizes to the competition winners. In the various children’s categories, Erica Davison, Linden Davison, and Sarah Darrall were First Prize winners, whilst Emily Morris, Se-Maria Frances, William Downes, Jessica Downes, Emily The Lord Mayor of Sheffield Councillor Mrs Jane Bird, and the Lord Mayor’s Hatchwell and Freya Hatchwell were Consort, Mr Roger Bird, being introduced to Theodore the Dore Village Society’s highly commended. mascot, during a tour of the Society’s archive rooms in Dore Old School. The adult category was particularly well endeavours for the local community as he represented, with a very mixed range of comes to the end of his tenure as styles and techniques employed to evoke Chairman of Dore Village Society. the theme. Following judging by an Councillor Colin Ross, representing the independent assessor, Charlie Downes of local community also praised John for all the Bank Street Studios, the First Prize that he has achieved for the residents of was awarded to Ruth Lamb. Highly Dore over so many years. John presented commended awards went to Connie a copy of ‘On Your Doorstep’, and the Bedford and Mary Jackson. A Special current edition of Dore to Door, to the Judge’s award in the adult category went Lord Mayor to commemorate her visit. to Margaret Carr, and in the children’s Thanks must go to all our visitors on the section to Emily Morris. day and we hope that now we have There was also a special preview initiated the event in 2009, it will go from exhibition of the works of David Heslop. strength to strength in coming years. David has agreed to put together a A fabulous day - and watch out for our compilation for a new book, of some of next event! the many pen and ink sketches and pieces Dorne Coggins of artwork which he has produced over the years for other publications. As yet the title is to be decided, but Dore Village Discover W.O.R.K. Ltd Society hope that it will prove to be as popular as the recent ‘On Your Doorstep’ W.O.R.K. LTD is a hidden Gem, tucked publication! John Baker presenting a copy of ‘On behind Bents Green Special School on There was a special reason also for the Your Dorestep’ to the Lord Mayor, who is Ringinglow Road. We are a Charity presence of the Lord Mayor of Sheffield at herself interested in walking and during providing education and vocational our exhibition. The Lord Mayor was able her period of office has been keen to training for Adults with learning to publicly thank John Baker for all his encourage local community organisations. difficulties in a Garden Centre setting. We would like to invite you to visit our Garden centre which is full of spring bedding plants, herbs, shrubs, and hanging baskets, we also make wooden garden furniture (to customer’s specification), wooden planters, garden trellis, bird tables, bird boxes. Our selection of water features, modern garden ornaments and selection of outdoor plant pots glazed or terracotta are perfect for any garden. We have a Café selling delicious home made soups, cakes, and snacks, and offer a fantastic full English breakfast £3.95. We also have a wide selection of cards for all occasions as well as a good range (children £1.95). And who needs town when we have a lovely gift shop stocking of gifts, children’s toys, stationery and confectionery. hand crafted jewelry, beads, bags, and lots of other exciting and unusual items. Come and see our latest new venture. We look forward to seeing you and Open Mon - Fri 9am-4pm (café closes offering a personal and friendly service. 3.30pm). Sat 10am-3pm. Spring Sale Saturday 30th of May 10am DORE POST OFFICE - 4pm. All welcome. W.O.R.K. LTD (charity no 1050876) 37 Townhead Road, Dore, Sheffield Tel 0114 236 4243 Tel 0114 262 0094. 4
Green Light in Green Belt added and shielding on some of its Accident blackspot outdoor lights. A lot of objections to the Sheffield City Council has effectively development were received including A report to the Council has recorded no sent a strong sign to developers that they from Dore Village Society, Friends of accidents at the Cross Lane/Long Line may change the shape, size and design of Blacka Moor, Campaign for the Protection crossroads with Hathersage Road since new buildings in Sheffield’s green belt to of Rural England, Sheffield Wildlife Trust 2005 following road improvements. suit themselves and will face virtually no and SPACE along with many individuals. Changes were first considered after 11 financial penalty. Only one councillor on the planning accidents at the junction, where 16 people The development of the Fairthorn site board took up objector’s suggestions of at were injured and one killed, between on the border of the Peak National Park least changing the bright blue roof slates January 2000 and December 2002. There was given the go ahead in 2005, despite on the roof for more in keeping darker were a further five accidents between being in the direct contravention of ones or for a green roof and changing the 2003 and 2005. Sheffield’s own Unitary Development white uPVC windows for wood. This latest report examined whether to Plan. This states that: “In areas of high Following the decision SPACE attended reconsider traffic restrictions around the landscape value, protection and the Full council meeting, which happened crossroads. Possible factors behind the enhancement of the landscape will be the to fall on April Fools Day, to give out a improvement are that carriageway overriding consideration”. leaflet to councillors and ask the question: maintenance, enhanced traffic signs and The developer was allowed to use the Is the UDP a serious document? road markings carried out during 2005/6 full footprint of an existing building and The retrospective application provided a along the length of Hathersage Road may all its outbuildings to create one huge golden opportunity to establish how the have affected driver behaviour. Also the block that is out of character and scale for changes to design occurred in the first speed limit was reduced from 60mph to this location. The developers then built it place, how the Council’s own monitoring 50mph. There is also likely to have been even bigger and to a different design to the failed to notice these and for the Council increased awareness of the accident original plans and were eventually forced to firmly restate and reinforce its problem at the crossroads among local by local residents to apply for protection of land adjacent to or actually residents, making drivers more careful. retrospective planning consent. Only after in the green belt. None of these were A temporary restriction on traffic a local resident involved the Local achieved and we are left with a potentially turning down Long Line from Sheephill Government Ombudsman was the Council dangerous precedent for future Road, in order to cut the amount of traffic planning department forced to admit that it development. crossing Hathersage Road at the had been built to different plans. S.P.A.C.E. www.sheffieldspace.org.uk crossroads, was widely ignored at the time With the building already occupied, (Sheffield and Peak Against City and police claim not have had the nobody realistically sought its demolition Encroachment) 0114 235 6907 resources to monitor for offenders. or any major alterations. Yet the Improvements at another danger site on retrospective planning application that Hathersage Road - the long, sweeping followed, presented an opportunity for the Families welcome bend where sisters people’s Emily andancestors, Georgina normally going back Council to learn from the mistakes and Taylor, from Eyam, died in November ensure measures were taken to reduce the Families will be very welcome at an all 2007a are continuing. The road has been impact of the development. However day BBQ to 9pm at the Devonshire Arms resurfaced, the camber of the bend made service to all our clients. planning officers recommended it be on Gala Day. BBQ, outside bar, separate less sharp and a new stone wall approved with just a bit more landscaping children’s area and bar. constructed on the Blacka Moor boundary. O After an iMycroft Ancestry Investigations aligned to what we can p Would you like to know
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Letters I have very happy memories of life in Dear Sir, Dore 1940-42 and of lovely picnics on the I couldn’t agree more with Peter C Dear Sir, moors. I was known as Mollie, my middle Herbert’s letter in the last edition where he Lynne Stuart memorial tree name, when I lived in Dore. describes the 30 bus service. When I I am pleased to let Dore residents and My son and I had a very enjoyable time moved to Dore in 2000, I tried to use the visitors know that the memorial tree for in the village and we were very amused by service to go to work, but it was not my wife Lynne, which I wrote about in the the ducks in the church graveyard. reliable enough to be able to collect my last issue, was planted on the Village Diane Taylor son from after school club. I had to use my Green on March 30th. Dear Sir, car until he was old enough to care for It is sited at the top end of the Green I recently came across some issues of himself and the service is still appaling. next to the King Ecgbert stone, close to your excellent publication which revived This is a disgrace for a service that serves Dore Old School, and is a luquidambar fond memories of Totley in the Summer of a major hospital. Some of my elderly (sweet gum) tree which will produce 1944. neighbours have to order a taxi to ensure bright gold leaves in the autumn. I attended the Parachute Regiment they make their hospital appointments. Quite a number of people came along on Battle School which was camped on the Yet no matter how much people the morning of the planting and groups of rifle ranges while we carried out tactical complain about the service: to the children were brought over from First training in the surrounding countryside. company, to the council, to SYPTE, Steps Nursery School to be involved in We were under canvas but the weather nothing is done to improve it. Yet the helping with putting the earth in around was mostly dry and warm so that was no Council still pander to First. It is a myth the tree. It is something for them to watch hardship. The training was hard - each day that the new terminus created in the growing now and a lasting symbol of began with a seven mile run - but the greenbelt outside Totley at an expense of regeneration,as well as a natural visual regime was fairly relaxed and we were. £375,000 was done by necessity to save enhancement to the Green in the centre of free most evenings and week ends. the 97 service because they would no the village, for all to see over the years. This meant that we were able to get into longer be able to turn around at the Cross I would like to thank all those who Sheffield pretty often and we found the Scythes pub. contributed to the initiative again. city much to our liking. We appreciated I contacted the then landlord of the Ian Stuart that, even if we had to walk back to the Cross Scythes pub and Enterprise Inns Dear Sir, camp from the tram terminus. I don’t who own the pub. Enterprise Inns told me I have recently visited the lovely little know where that was but it was a good they would very much still like to do village of Dore, where I was evacuated to walk. business with First as long as drivers turn in 1940-41 approx and attended the village For most it was a care-free time but for off their engines whilst waiting outside the infant’s school. I also attended Sunday us Londoners it was also a worrying time pub and they gave consent for all the school and received a book for good as Flying Bombs were failing on the details of the contract between them and attendance. My father was in the RAF capital and we were naturally concerned First to be made public. However First I was evacuated to Dore with my mother about the safety of our families. Two refused to allow the information to be and brother from Sheffield, but we had not events stand out in my mind however. One disclosed. This expensive and long moved up from London to be near Saturday afternoon my mate Benny and I environmentally damaging terminus has our grandparents. I lived in High Trees were in the Forces canteen in the city been built at the CHOOSING of First and with my mother and brother. The house centre when a lady asked us if we would the Council, not because they had to do it. belonged to Mr & Mrs Roddy and their like to go to an orchestral concert in a Dawn Biram (For SPACE) son Rex. I also lived for a short time in nearby hall, an offer which we readily Dear Sir, Leyfield Road with a Mr & Mrs Hamlett accepted. I have no idea of the programme Distance is in the eye of the beholder? and daughter Heather. and, indeed, my appreciation of ‘good’ Did anyone else notice that according to There was a sweet shop in the village music did not extend much beyond The the Property Guide (April 17th) that sold lovely treacle toffee. I also Warsaw Concerto. Nevertheless I enjoyed Ashfurlong Drive (page 1) is “located in remember exotic Easter eggs in (I believe) it - it was, after all, a new experience. It the heart of this sought after- village” the Post Office. On the way to school I was too much for Benny though and he whereas Rushleigh Court (page 37) is only was usually chased by a large and angry made an early exit. At the end of the “close to Dore Village”..!...? goose. concert when I thanked the lady and G. Farnsworth apologised for my mate’s action she was quite understanding. Sadly Benny was killed in action a few months later but the BRANTWOOD kind lady had given him the chance to savour the beauty of music. SCHOOL The other occasion was a garden party given by some nice people to raise funds For Girls Aged 3 - 16 for the Airborne Forces Security Fund. A few of us were invited to attend to add some colour I suppose. I don’t remember much about it now except that the people were really decent and friendly. I have no idea where the house was but it was a modern, ‘middle class’ one about a twenty minute drive from the camp. Yes, it is no wonder that I have fond memories of the area and its hospitable and public spirited folk. I suppose that it is just about possible that descendants of the lady with the tickets and the garden party “The school is a true gem, shining the brightest organisers are still in the area. I just in and amongst a wealth of Independent wonder. Schools in the area” R.W. (Bob) Butcher Sutton Coldfield (Aged eighty-four) Contact the School to arrange a ‘Taster Day’ 1 Kenwood Bank, Sheffield S7 1NU DORE to DOOR is available on annual Tel: 0114 258 1747 subscription at £5, by contacting us at the Email: [email protected] address and telephone number on page 2. 6
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7 Letters ... continued school will be going to Uganda to help I wish that M Hodgson could have been build classrooms for a school in a remote in school last term to see the children put Dear Sir, village. They have raised over £5,000 to on a production of Blood Brothers, they Subject. In response to letter from pay for the building. were amazing, I didn’t have a child in the M.J.Hodgson, spring issue 93. * In February the school production of show but still they made me laugh and cry. I have 3 grand children aged 14, 16 and Blood Brothers played to three sell-out When ever I am in school, which is often, 18 years, two currently attending King audiences and received excellent reviews. I am always greeted with kindness and Ecgbert School and one who left last year, The following month we held an respect. The children are so helpful and and in their defence I write in reply to the International Evening celebrating the wide make a positive contribution to our unpleasant letter from M.J.Hodgson. variety cultures that thrive in Sheffield. society, being around them is an absolute Of course I do not condone the * This term over 100 Y10 pupils will be delight. behaviour he/she describes, but to state embarking on the Duke Of Edinburgh M J Hodgson, please don’t judge our that it is ‘commonplace’ among K.E.S. Award Scheme, part of which requires school on the behaviour of 6 children. I do pupils is untrue and hurtful to a great them to compete at least three months know that there are over 1200 kids at our many people, the staff, parents and pupils. volunteering in community service. school and I feel honoured to be All children behave badly sometimes The list could go on. associated with them. We are holding a and need help and guidance, which the It is unfortunate that some people seem summer BBQ on Fri 26th June at Povey school tries to give. Reading the school to want to only see the worst in young Farm, Norton, for all the families not just magazine I learn that there are strategies in people and do not see the good. To this from King Ecgbert but the surrounding place for dealing with deviant behaviour. end I would like to invite the author of the community & junior schools too. I feel Perhaps a letter to the headmaster alerting letter to visit the school to see it first hand. sure that if you came along and met some him to the time and place of the incident All they have to do is to contact me at of the children and their families, you too would be kinder and more helpful than school and I will happily arrange a visit. would see for your self why I am so proud such wholesale public condemnation. T J Eldridge of KES. Please feel free to contact me via I meet quite a lot of K.E.S pupils in a Deputy Headteacher school if you would like to come along. casual way through my grandchildren and Dear Sir, Mrs Josee Shaw find them polite, interesting and often very In response to M Hodgson’s letter about Ed. Sadly the original letter reflects a thoughtful. 6 young children using “obscene different perspective on teenagers, as felt Patricia Pillow language” in the street. I do sympathise, by some sections of the local community. Dear Sir, however, I am stunned to read the untrue, The behaviour of a few in any field of life In the last edition of Dore to Door you sweeping statement that this “behaviour is can damage the image of the majority. printed a letter complaining about the commonplace” at King Ecgbert School, as behaviour of six children, out of school I would imagine are the families of the time and some distance from the school. children who go there. A quiet complaint It is not acceptable for children to Having attended a small convent school, behave in this way. However, to suggest I personally didn’t really have any What has become of Cavendish ave, that “this sort of behaviour is experience of a large multicultural Builders and skips is all we have, commonplace” at the school is a sweeping comprehensive school. We chose KES for I look around what do I see? statement that cannot go unchallenged. On our daughter as many of our friends were A group of houses looking at me. what basis does the author make this impressed with both the education and the statement? We have 1245 pupils at King pastoral care. These are professional Such elegant homes and beautiful trees, Ecgbert representing a cross section of people; GPs, surgeons, police officers, Their felling inconceivable, society. Unfortunately, some children, barristers etc. including our local vicar and How can we flee this endless greed, some times, do not behave well. However, they all sang the praises of the school & We find incomprehensible! the vast majority behave well for the vast the great atmosphere created by staff & majority of the time. pupils. Thoughts of the past that keep me sane, Perhaps it would be more constructive Three years on and I am highly As we have to endure this endless pain, to look at the many positive aspects of the delighted with our choice and have My memories fade, and are swept away, school community (apart from high levels become involved with the school PTA With the passing of time and mankind’s of academic attainment). (KESA). The first thing I did as a member decay. * At Christmas pupils in Y7-Y9 ran of KESA was to organise a school disco How can we flee this land of dust stalls after school to raise £800 for for the Y7 and Y8 children aged 11 - 13. Alas, we don’t know who to trust, Homeless and Rootless at Christmas, to About 400 children attended the disco and Is there ever an end to our futile plight? help people less fortunate than themselves I have to say that I was so proud of them. Or must we still with councils fight. during the holiday period. They were polite, respectful and behaved * Over £1,000 was raised on Comic impeccably. For that reason we are now Margaret Bedford Relief Day last term. holding the discos twice a year and have * In July a group of pupils from the extended it to include Y9s. King Ecgbert Mercia Site Because of the general recession but particularly the recession in the housing market, it is unlikely that the former school site off Furniss Avenue will be developed for housing as planned in the near future. Meanwhile the site stands as an eyesore which is attracting fly tipping. It has been suggested to the Council that the clear the site of the unsightly foundations, but they have refused. They do not think it is worthwhile doing so, even to improve the likelihood of a sale or to increase the value of the land when the recession ends. The Dore Village Society is continuing to press the Council to restore this derelict site for the benefit of the local community. David Crosby 8
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9 ‘Great Outdoors’ Fair Peak recipe search New mental health guide The Norfolk Arms at Ringinglow is Do you have a favourite Peak District A new guide for the general public, organising a community-based charity dish?’ Then the National Trust wants to carers, professionals and people using event on Sunday 16th August from 11am- hear from you. mental health services in Sheffield has 6pm in aid of Bluebell Wood Hospice, The organisation is looking for recipes been launched, offering support and Whirlow Farm Trust & The Shepherd with a regional provenance to be served information through a website and Wheel Project. Bradwell’s Dairy Ice in the restaurants of the Longshaw Estate, booklet. Cream is sponsoring the event and Kedleston Hall and Hardwick Hall. Mental health charity, Sheffield MIND, sampling their new ice cream flavours too! They want their restaurants to serve consulted with service users, carers and Entry is FREE. delicious meals that have links with the professionals to develop the The aim is to celebrate & showcase local area and what better way to do this comprehensive, Sheffield Mental Health activities families can enjoy together in than asking people for their favourite Guide to services in the city. NHS the ‘Great Outdoors’. The Norfolk Arms is recipes. These might be treasured family Sheffield and Sheffield City Council so well situated, with stunning views and recipes, a cake traditionally baked in your teamed up to the provide funding. open countryside all around, to enjoy area or simply a favourite way of cooking The website and leaflet provide a source everything the great outdoors has to offer. some local farm produce. of information specifically requested by Families will be able to try out rock Send entries by June 26th. to:- service users and carers, as a way of climbing, bouncy castles, an inflatable [email protected] accessing up-to-date information on assault course, learn how to make puppets, where to go for help, self-help, keeping tools and wood carvings and ride on a fire well, support for carers, and information engine. There will be mountain biking, a Bluebell Hospice Walk on benefits. photography competition, an opportunity The guide also includes a directory of to learn circus crafts and hopefully have a We are delighted to announce the launch over 250 mental health and other support go at dry stone walling. There will be of our first ever midnight Walk. Bluebell services in Sheffield. It is available online guided family walks around Limb and Wood will be working together with at www.sheffieldmentalhealth.org.uk or Mayfield Valleys along with a guided Hallam FM’s Cash for Kids and copies of the booklet can be obtained by family bike ride. JE James are to running welcoming families, groups and ringing 0114 258 4489. a Turbo Time Challenge on the day, will individuals to join us on Saturday 4th July. give advice on bikes and cycle routes and We will be offering everyone the option are offering a major raffle prize. of walking from either Sheffield United’s Transport 17 There will be plenty of crafts and Bramall Lane ground or Sheffield activities to entertain the family all day Wednesday’s Hillsborough ground and We were able to tell shareholders, at the with face painting, mask making, tombola back again. Walkers can either walk the AGM on 30th March, that funding from & lucky dip. Parents may be interested to full route of just half. Our aim is to give the ITA is confirmed until 2012. We are know that there will be a BBQ with beer everyone the opportunity to take part and still applying to many other organisations tent serving cask ales and Free live Jazz. raise much needed sponsorship. for help with the purchase of a new bus. Local producers will be selling freshly The central Sheffield route will be This is very difficult at the moment. We made cakes and other farm produce. And carefully marshalled, with selected are not the only ones having a hard time. there will be a £1 a go raffle with amazing refreshment stops and lots of fun along the Many of the clubs are having their star prizes! way. There will be free car parking, transport grant cut and some non-lunch In short there will be something for entertainment and a pre-walk warm up at clubs are losing all funding. We are all everyone! So why not enter into the spirit the start. getting older, but, doing our best. Let’s of things and try to leave your car at home. The Half Monty is just one way and is hope that we can all soldier on. It is very Why not arrive by bikes, or take a walk up approximately 5km (3.1 miles). Walking worth while and interesting. limb valley or even a the round walk or from one ground to the other. There is the At the AGM we were asked to pass on ride from Endcliffe or Forge dam. Buses option of a shuttle bus back to where you thanks to all drivers and escorts, from the number 84 and 284. For more information started and refreshments and bacon butties many clubs that we take here and there. visit www.norfolkarms.com along the route. This was very much appreciated. Even The Full Monty is both ways and is though we had to close during the bad approximately 10km (6.2 miles). Walking weather, passenger trips were the highest from one ground to the other and back, since 2004. again with refreshments on route. Joe Smith has been helping us for while Registration is £10 per adult, £5 per now. He is a car mechanic, very good child and £25 per family of four artist and guitar maker. He has applied to Register online at www.hallamfm.co.uk be a fireman and will be starting in the All money raised from the Steel City Autumn. We are very grateful for his help Midnight Walk will be split equally to us and the kindness to our passengers. between Bluebell Wood Children’s We look forward to our collecting day at Hospice and Hallam FM’s Cash for Kids, Sainsbury’s, Archer Road, on Sunday 23rd ensuring hundred of local children benefit May. As well as Mike and the Committee from the money raised. members, we will be joined by passengers from Michael Church Lunch Club, Low Edges. It promises to be an enjoyable day. Plight of the honeybee Committee Officers :- Chairman - Danny Barlow In our last issue we wrote about the Secretary - Felicity Revill plight of the honeybee and a call for Treasurer - John Savournin government help from beekeepers. Since Committee Members - Wendy and Jim then Defra has announced a £4.3 million Trotter, Margaret Barlow and Mike increase in bee health funding. Of this Roberts. God Bless. £2.3m would be spent supporting the Margaret Barlow National Bee Unit over the next two years to help England’s beekeepers deal with the The Crown Inn is now under the new problems facing their bee colonies. In manager Phil who previously worked addition, Defra will increase bee health behind the bar. Beer prices have been research funding by £400,000p.a. for the reduced slightly and evening meals are next 5 years. soon to be introduced. 10 11 Village Dragons Hunt Dore Art Show This year 71 adults and 76 children Many thanks to the people who came attended the fourth Dore Village Society along to see our exhibition which was held Dragon Hunt held on 19th April to on 3rd & 4th April here in the Old School celebrate St. George’s Day. Everyone was in Dore and joined in our request to equipped with a St. George fact sheet to choose “Best in Show”. aid the quest, while the knight himself was It’s not a competition and we don’t get a on hand to welcome guests. prize if we get the most votes - but it’s nice All the participants were able to partake to be voted No1 on the number of votes of dragon’s blood, dragon’s cake and one picture gets! dragon’s eggs to aid recovery afterwards. This year the honour went to one of our Theodore, our own resident dragon was on “new” members - Mrs Judith A Fearn, hand to guard the dragon eggs and give who scored 16 with her picture of “Hot colour, if not fire, to the event. Gossip” (the old chaps chatting in the On a lighter note St George, alias Pat market place) Pryor, provided some practical guidance Second place with a score of 10 votes to the local dragon problem: went to Mrs Shirley Ward’s picture of a “The Dragon or Wyvern as he is called “Vase of Flowers”. Another lovely in posh districts, was the symbol of the watercolour. Third, with 7 votes went to early Saxons in this area. It was waved Mrs Margaret Greig, with her very clever above Saxon battle lines. The Danes didn’t watercolour interpretation of “Stonehenge give a hoot, shouting, “Our Dragons are 2”. more fiery than yours. Why else do you It’s interesting to note that everyone think we wear asbestos underwear?” - To who exhibited got some votes. A variety of which the Saxons replied.. “If you are daft pictures, styles, subjects, media, all enough to do that, we’ve won already!” excellent quality and so difficult to choose Have you ever thought why we should which one is BEST! eradicate dragons? Answer: They spend Dave Ward, who organised the event, I kept hearing the same thing! How on too much time searching for maidens and briefing St George before the dragon earth can I choose which one is best? I like because they are scarce in Dore, the hunt. them all! dragons rampage about in a very bad 3. They waste HEAT. Although they Everyone seemed to enjoy choosing and temper. So dragons have to go because: collect and intensify the hot air given off deciding on their no1 and it was nice to 1. They do much damage, which the by the committee members of Dore see families with children joining in too. council is slow in repairing - remember Village Society, the correct, green (and The “art critics” of the future. I loved the pot holes in the road are caused by the money saving way to deal with this) is to colouring and drawing when I was small - dragon’s breath. ask your plumber to incorporate a small and still do! 2. They build dens without planning dragon (or Wyvern) into your central Have a lovely summer and see you all at permission thereby encouraging builders heating system”. next year’s Dore Art Exhibition. to do the same. Mrs Connie Bedford. Co-ordinator
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I suspect that a good number of Once these ideas have begun to take members of the community - not just those Dore Parish Church shape there will be opportunities to who are Church members - know that near involve both the whole church the end of the Carol Service in December - Building for the Future membership and also the local community smoke started emerging from the organ so that people are fully aware and can loft and that subsequent examination make their contribution to the discussion revealed the organ could not be used youngsters are involved in ways that & evolution of proposals. Copies of the without a thorough overhaul. would have been unimaginable to our ‘wish list’ are available either in Church or Our Parochial Church Council had grandparents. from the Church Office at 51 Vicarage already considered whether to refurbish This church building as we have it is, of Lane and in coming months we shall aim the pipe organ or replace it with a digital course, not the original building (at first to make a point of keeping people organ and had concluded that the best there was neither chancel nor organ) - it informed. option was to refurbish the pipe organ, has been adapted in various ways over the I believe that it is helpful to see the which is above average in quality. Earlier years: e.g. a screen was erected around the development of this design concept for the this year we received an updated quote for arch between chancel and nave, a building as a whole and the refurbishment a complete overhaul of the pipe organ and temporary platform was inserted in the of the pipe organ as 2 parts of one whole: the replacement of its electrics for just 1990s, etc. we need to keep and to use what is over £43,500 + VAT (though we should be In thinking about this we want very valuable from the past; we also need to be able reclaim most of VAT and we are much to respect the integrity of the flexible so we can adapt to present and exploring a possibility that part of the cost building we have inherited; equally, we future challenges. Pipe organs and dust may be covered by insurance). want to make it as suitable as possible for don’t go together: the best scenario would At the end of February we placed a firm the needs of our worship and mission for be if we could synchronise the time when order for that work to be done by Henry the first part of the twenty first century. any work on the interior of the church is Willis & Sons. The organ will be The PCC has deliberately not tried to say carried out with the time when the work dismantled, taken to their Liverpool what alterations should be made - it has on the organ is done. (There is in any case works, where it will be thoroughly instead concentrated on drawing up a no way that Henry Willis & Sons would be refurbished, reassembled and tested prior ‘wish list’ of what we would like to be willing to bring back our restored organ to being returned and set up again in the able to do. To take this further we believe into a church that was about have interior Church. Once this has been done the organ that we need an architect to help us work creating lots of dust.) should give good service without major explore how we might achieve as many as Obviously both the refurbishment of the expenditure for 40 years or so. possible of the things on our wish list. We organ and production of a design concept If we are to spend this sort of money we have therefore interviewed 3 architects will cost. Some people have already asked need to make sure the work is done recommended by Sheffield Diocese and about funding for the organ, or offered properly: because of their reputation for appointed one of them to help us. The help in one way or another. We are quality Henry Willis have a full order architect appointed will initially be therefore inviting contributions for a book and estimate that they will be unable meeting with the Development Group that Development & Organ Fund: everything to do the work before the end of 2010. In the PCC have set up and with the whole received for this will be earmarked and not the meantime we are fortunate to have the PCC to help us refine our ideas and used for any other church purposes. If, as use of the small chamber organ for as long produce a design concept to show us how we hope, the design concept leads on to as we need it. some of our aims might be realised. some significant new work there will At the same time the PCC has also been As part of the preparation for this a obviously be more substantial costs and considering other major aspects of our facilitator is also coming to meet with a this Fund will need to take these too on church building. Some of this is general cross-section of members of the board. maintenance work such as internal community: naturally, many of these will Michael Hunter redecoration and renewal of internal be Church members but we also want to lighting that needs doing soon. 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Core Strategy Adopted wheel from 1749. In recent years, however, the water has had to be diverted The Core Strategy replaces the Unitary away from the dam (mill pond) in order to Development Plan as the pre-eminent prevent damage due to leaks in the dam strategic spatial plan for the City for the wall. The wheel itself and the buildings next 16 years. Further documents are to are now in a poor state of repair. flow from the Core Strategy, including site So far we have been fortunate in proposals for new industry, offices and receiving an award of nearly £500,000 housing and detailed advice on from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and the development management (development generous underwriting of outstanding control). The current boundaries of the funding by Sheffield Council. Matching Sheffield Green Belt will continue to be funding is being sought from other protected. But residents of Dore will be funding bodies, and the Friends of the concerned by the proposals relating to new Congratulations to National Grid for Porter Valley have undertaken to raise housing development. constructing a very handsome dry stone £20,000 towards the project. We are well Over 34,000 new houses are provided wall in front of their new metering on our way to achieving, or even for in the city over the next 16 years. Most station at the junction of Brickhouse exceeding, this target (c.£15,000 raised so new housing will be provided on Lane and Cross Lane. far). Work on the restoration has now brownfield sites; one third in the City begun in earnest with a detailed design for Centre and about two thirds in the east of the restoration of the dam and other the City, mainly in what are known as Shepherd Wheel structures. Construction work will housing renewal areas. commence later in the year when birds However we are concerned that over Restoration Project have finished nesting and other wildlife 4,000 new houses are expected to be Many of you will know Shepherd have brought up their families. developed in the South West of the City on Wheel, which is on the River Porter in Some of you may have heard about (or infill sites, although some comfort may be Whiteley Woods, and will remember the even dabbled in) our Great Easter Duck afforded by the planning inspector’s time when it was open to the public at Race in Endcliffe Park, which went with a instruction to Sheffield City Council, that weekends. Until the early 1990s, bang (or a splash), and raised £2,300 for infill housing would not be required to Shepherd Wheel was in good working the restoration fund. We have a number of satisfy the need for new housing in the order, and visitors were able to see the other fundraising events coming up, City. wheel turning as well as the machinery including activities as part of the Policy CS31 Housing in the South West inside the two buildings. Sadly this is no Broomhill Festival (10th-20th June); an Area proposes that priority will be given longer the case, but help is on its way. open garden at 62 Endcliffe Hall Avenue to safeguarding and enhancing areas of The Friends of the Porter Valley and (2pm, 4th July); Classical Music in the character in South West Sheffield Sheffield Council are working together to Botanical Gardens (7pm, 4th July) (including Dore) largely by defining what restore this historical site to full working courtesy of the Rotary Club, ‘Sunfest’ can be accommodated at an appropriate order. Once restored, it will again be open with specially brewed beer at The Rising density. to the public for demonstrations at Sun, Nether Green (9-12th July); dramas The Dore Village Society made strong weekends and for school visits during the on the history of the grinders by Strolling representations at several planning week, under the auspices of the Sheffield Players at Shepherd Wheel (11am & 2pm, hearings in an attempt to reduce infill Industrial Museums Trust. 18th July) and the Winter Garden (11am & development and proposed density levels Shepherd Wheel is the oldest surviving 2pm, 19th July); a children’s cycle event in order to achieve environment water-wheel in Sheffield. It is a rare in Endcliffe Park (13th August); a fun day safeguards. However, we were only example of a small-scale knife-grinding at the Norfolk Arms, Ringinglow (16th partially successful, by ensuring there workshop, and was once part of a thriving August); a concert by the Abbeydale would be strong design guidance provided metal-working industry. It has stood in Singers at Notre Dame School (evening, under Policy CS74. Whiteley Wood for over 400 years, and is 19th Sept); and we will be present at this Dore Village Society will have to an excellent representative of the rural year’s Dore Show, where you can find out continue campaigning on the detailed origins of the Sheffield cutlery trade. more about the project. design principles that will provide new The first mention of a “whele in Porters We would be pleased to welcome you at development management advice. This Field”, which may be Shepherd Wheel, is any of these events; for further will include requesting the City Council in a will of 1566. Porter Wheel, as it used information contact our secretary, Flora gives formal approval to the Dore Village to be known, is referred to by name in a Owen (tel: 230 1345). Shepherd Wheel Design Statement. later will of 1584. It takes its current name itself is open for guided tours, arranged by David Crosby from Edward Shepherd who leased the the Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust, on the 2nd Sunday of each month, until August/September, depending on construction activity. If you would like to make a donation to the restoration fund, please make cheques payable to ‘Shepherd Wheel Fund’ and send to our treasurer, David Young (17 Slayleigh Avenue, Sheffield S10 3RA) or visit our (www.sheffieldportervalley.org.uk). Glynis Jones, Friends of Porter Valley
Dore Show 2009 Dore Show has become an established part of village life, largely thanks to the exhibitors and those who plan and run the event on the day. But we need your help. The organising committee, which meets just three times a year, needs some new blood. We also need more helpers on the day. Lets not risk loosing the show, call 236 9025 now. 16 17 Winds of change distant army camps. One was my father - beyond your parents’ known world. That’s a lonely 18- year-old, training to be a tank the driving force behind great human Winds of change have scattered us all gunner, and stuck 200 miles from home in achievements. It’s what compelled and made us strangers in our own a place called Tickhill where the natives Beethoven to write his symphonies, families. Writing in The Times, Richard spoke in a strange accent. My grandma, Einstein to crack relativity and the Morrison’s tale could equally apply to who had lost one of her sons in the war, Founding Fathers to shape America. Dore, and the old family names that have befriended him. Even more so did her 17- But there’s a downside. What happens faded away from our records. year-old daughter, Mary Stocks. They to civic pride, neighbourliness and local were married, in that great Norman nave, camaraderie in a society where people are My mother’s funeral last week was a in 1949 - 60 years, not quite to the day, constantly on the go? There are a hundred surprisingly uplifting occasion. For before Mary’s coffin was carried up the sad answers to that. Pubs, corner shops, reasons lost in the mists of time the same aisle. churches, clubs and other socially binding Normans took a shine to this patch of But before she married, Mary achieved institutions die. People don’t talk to each Yorkshire and gave the village of Tickhill something that no Stocks had achieved in other in the street. Old people wither away one of the finest medieval churches in the a thousand years: she went to university. unnoticed. Kids feel no pressure to respect North. It was in this soaring nave - 200 And nearly every Stocks born after 1930 their neighbourhoods, because they see yards (and a whole world) from the followed in her footsteps. Suddenly the that their elders don’t care either. cottage without bath or indoor loo where yeoman farmers turned themselves into Thus do communities crumble - rural my mother and her five siblings were born yeoman scientists, yeoman doctors and villages as well as inner-city housing and raised - that cousins who had not seen yeoman teachers. They had never been estates. Social mobility is one thing; each other for 40 years gathered to pay last short of brains; just money, social status rootlessness and the erosion of local pride respects. and opportunity. The arrival of grammar quite another. Redressing the balance - re- I was struck by what this long-delayed schools, scholarships and student grants learning how to nurture roots - is possibly reunion said about the world in which we liberated them, as it liberated millions. the biggest challenge facing 21st-century live. One cousin gave me a genealogical Britain. tree tracing my mother’s ancestors, the Most crucially, we need a renaissance of Stocks family, back 20 generations. Parish “ today only a tiny the “extended” family - once the greatest records began only in 1540, but it’s quite support-mechanism known to working probable that Stockses had been in the minority of Britons die parents; now often torn asunder by the area for 20 generations before that. frenzy of modern life. To many children in The extraordinary thing is that, from within a mile of where modern Britain, I suspect, the bit Henry VIII’s day to now, there have characters in EastEnders seem more real always been Stockses living in Tickhill. In they were born. Is that than their own grannies and aunts. Yet if good times they were called “yeoman the generations don’t talk to each other, a farmers”. Then they declined to “farm progress?” family’s sense of itself and its history labourers”, or went down the mines. But evaporates. here’s the fascinating bit. Whereas in the Their degrees became their passports. I felt that strongly as the Stocks tribe 1860s there were seven separate (but Mary taught in London for 40 years. But gathered last week. These were interesting related) Stocks families in the village, now among her generation of Stockses she was people. They were my closest living there’s only one person left - my ebullient one of the least adventurous. Her cousins relations. They had fascinating yarns to Auntie Joan. And she’s in her eighties. So made new lives in America and Africa. tell about my forbears. Yet most were Tickhill faces the awful probability that at With each passing decade the ancestral complete strangers. That’s what the 20th some point in the next 30 years it will have bonds with Tickhill loosened. century has done. Of course we all made a to survive without a single Stocks, How typical is this comprehensive 20th promise to stay in touch. Pity it took a yeoman or otherwise, on its electoral roll. century diaspora of the Stocks family, funeral to achieve that. Now I wonder if When and why did this momentous after being rooted in the same village for a we will. upheaval occur? The big turning-point millennium? Very, I’d say. At the funeral I Richard Morrison was the Second World War. Conscription met a man who has lived in the same Ed. This article first appeared in the uprooted millions of men and sent them to house (next door to the Stocks home) Times on the 18th March 2009. since the day he was born, 71 years ago. I was reminded of Hardy’s wonderful poem evoking the baby descending the stairs of his parents’ cottage for the first time - and then ascending those same stairs for the last time 80 years later. Hardy depicts this steadfast character, so aloof from the “vain pantomime” of what we now call the rat- race, as the epitome of sanguine contentment: Wise child of November! From birth to blanched hairs Descending, ascending, Wealth-wantless, those stairs ... Clearly, such figures still exist. But my guess is that today only a tiny minority of British citizens die within a mile of where they were born, let alone in the same house. Is that progress? Most people would instinctively answer yes. The gains from social mobility are obvious. Why should people be shackled to the same turf, menial jobs, housing deprivations, limited horizons and prejudices as their forefathers? Education and migration go hand in hand. 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The Wildlife Garden Abbeydale Miniature Railway silicon cap. Even gently brushing against Timetable one will be enough to break it and release Whether you were brought up on the First train 1p.m. – last train 5p.m. the irritant liquid contained within the country estate of landed gentry or a small bulb, but perversely, if a leaf is gripped flat in the tallest urban high-rise tower, May Sunday 24th firmly, the hypodermic tube is forced common nettles are one of the few plants Monday 25th - Bank Holiday downwards and the bulb is unable to most of us recognise from an early age. June Sunday 21st release its contents. This fact has long There is a simple reason for this - they are July Sunday 5th - been known, for example in Aaron Hill’s bedecked with stinging hairs. These alone Open Day &Exhibition 18th century poem: make a good enough incentive for nettles Tender-handed stroke a nettle, to be considered a weed in most Sunday 19th And it stings you for your pains; gardener’s eyes, yet when coupled with Aug Sunday 2nd - Grasp it like a man of mettle, their almost supernatural ability to spread; Teddy Bears’ Picnic And it as soft as silk remains. survive herbicides and be cut down to the Sunday 16th The fluid contained within the stinging ground more times than any cut-and- Sunday 30th hair was for a long time thought to be come-again lettuce would ever tolerate, composed solely of formic acid, the same propel them into the uberweed category. Monday 31st - Bank Holiday as that used by ants, but it turns out to be At the same time and somewhat a far more complex solution which incongruously (in light of their weed undamaged. As a result, the seeds are includes acetylcholine and histamine status), stinging nettles are often distributed far and wide in the droppings amongst others. Now while this painful recommended as one of the ‘must have’ of these creatures. liquid will keep off large grazing animals, plants for a wildlife garden, so much so Stinging nettles also spread by it provides no barrier to caterpillars and that enthusiasts have set up dedicated underground rhizomes. However, they are other leaf-eating insects; because of their websites extolling their virtues and even surprisingly delicate and can be destroyed small size these can crawl safely between gone to the lengths of organising a ‘Be by repeated hoeing or trampling by the hairs. Consequently, they are afforded kind to nettles’ week in May. So, what is animals; this is why you will never find a protection from being accidentally the truth about this plant? nettle patch around a water trough used by ingested by most herbivores, although not Unlike their cousin, the annual small farm animals. Nevertheless, they can be it seems by cattle or more exotically nettle, common nettles are both perennial frustratingly difficult to destroy when camels, which can eat the leaves with and dioecious i.e. they have separate male growing in amongst woody shrubs or soft impunity. and female flowers on different plants. fruit bushes. If you leave behind even the There are approximately 40 insects that Male flowers are in the form of dangling smallest section of living rhizome, it will rely on nettles for food, including the catkins which are produced from June readily form a new plant. caterpillars of some of our most striking onwards. These expel large amounts of The stalks usually reach about 2m in butterflies, for example the peacock and small, light pollen grains that are carried height, but can get much taller if growing small tortoiseshell, as well as more prosaic on the wind to the small inconspicuous in fertile soil. Nettles grow best in insects like weevils, the snout moth and female flowers, but not only do they bring nitrogen- and phosphate-rich ones, hence the stinging nettle aphid. This aphid is one about pollination, they are also one of the the reason they often thrive on abandoned of the most important prey items of 2-spot main causes of hay fever in late summer. manure heaps or derelict waste tips. Due ladybirds which rely heavily on The seeds can germinate as soon as they to this characteristic, nettle patches are a infestations for food after coming out of come in contact with the soil, but at the good indication of where bodies may have hibernation in spring. Ladybirds will lay same time are able to withstand been buried or less gruesomely, can be their first brood of eggs on these infested desiccation, for instance lying on a used by collectors searching for old nettles that will eventually go on to attack concrete path for anything up to two years. Victorian rubbish tips and any bottles pests like the black bean- and pea aphid. Many animals feed off their seeds, but which could still be lying there Unfortunately for the ladybird, nettle while small birds like bullfinches destroy undiscovered. aphids are not too enamoured with the them in the process, they will pass straight The stinging hairs are elegantly simple: idea of becoming a predator’s snack and through the digestive tracts of worms, a bulbous base narrowing to a long will put up quite a fight. They kick out at cows and large birds, such as magpies, hypodermic-like tube, sealed by a fragile the insect, drop off the plant to avoid capture or daub the ladybird’s head with a waxy secretion that will temporarily paralyse it. Whether the same strategies work against blue tits, which also collect aphids to feed their young, is doubtful. With all this insect activity going on, it seems that the best time to cut down stinging nettles and cause the minimal harm to beneficial insects is in June; any earlier and you will wipe out the developing broods, while cutting the plant down later in the year is an ineffective way of controlling it. So, is the stinging nettle a hero or a villain? Like all the best comic book superheroes, it is both and with its resilience, will no doubt be testing the mettle of gardeners, walkers and the odd camel for years to come. Jack Daw
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continued from page 1...... lavatory with a key that would have the school and it was then deemed safe opened the Tower of London. You felt you for them all to return. were in a Victorian atmosphere.” The From 1941-1943 Betty was a student at school was so overcrowded that Bingley Teacher Training College temporary classrooms were erected specialising in Art and Music. She says “It behind the Church Hall on Townhead was considered a safe place to be in Road for Mrs.Morant’s J3 and Mr. wartime as it was on the edge of the Foster’s J4 classes. The Church Hall was Yorkshire Moors. While at college I used for school dinners and Betty recalls discovered Haworth and the Brontes how the pupils used to walk up “in a which have become a life- long passion.” crocodile” to be served by the kindly In 1946, during a holiday in sisters Mrs Cook and Mrs Warnes. Scarborough, Betty met Ken Brown, a The pupils seemed happy. “It was cosy, young man from Crookes, Sheffield, it was like a family. They were all nice recently demobbed and about to return to children and I never remember bullying or his job at Henry Whitham and Son Ltd. anything.” Betty describes the school They were married a year later and on 1st uniform. “They wore a little blazer with a April 1950 came to their newly built house school badge, short trousers and a shirt in Heather Lea Place, Dore. Betty with a yellow and blue tie. There was none remembers those early months. “The of this easy wash stuff then. In the depths Betty Brown at the Oral History tea party garden was 1,400 square yards. It was of winter they wore wellies and raincoats, virgin land which we had ploughed first Nissen hut in the village which was the gabardine raincoats, cost the earth those and then I dug over spade by spade.” things.” Scout H.Q. wouldn’t do any more and Post- war Dore still had the character of we’d got to have a more permanent Betty has seen many changes in Dore the Derbyshire village which it had been building. Bernard said that we must have a since she arrived in 1950. Many of the until 1934 when all parts of the Norton gala and we must get people out to support cottages in the centre of the village have Rural District were taken into Sheffield. gone and been replaced by shops. Fields us. He had been awake all night The development of farm land for much wondering whether to have a steam engine below the green where once welldressers needed private housing was slowly or a well-dressing as a side show.” The collected buttercups have been covered in
starting up again, after the stoppage of the Gala was to be held in the field behind the desirable residences and the motor car war years, by those builders who had Scout Hut which is now the site of the rules. previously secured permits. Thus Heather Betty reminisces about the “massive” shops on Causeway Head Road. Lea Avenue was continued to Newfield Betty agreed to have a go at a well Scout jumble sales, the dances in the
Lane and Newfield Crescent and Kerwin dressing and set about informing herself. Church Hall, the Dramatic Society and the Road, Drive and Close were created out of She obtained a book from the library but it Young Wives’ meetings. Above all Betty open moorland and cornfields. The ever was not a practical guide. “So then,” Betty remembers that Dore has been “a
increasing number of “incomers” to Dore says “we heard about Mr.Clary Daniels of wonderful place to bring up children” and loved their new homes, were young and Eyam who did theirs and we went out to a great place to live at any age. Fifty years energetic and flung themselves see him about it. “Eyam welldressers were on, she is delighted to see that the skill and enthusiastically into community life. Dore obviously very helpful and gave Betty and artistry of dressing the village wells is 267th Scouts was one of the village groups her “marvellous” team their old board as being passed on by dedicated village and which welcomed new families and they were having a new one. So, the first guide teams. Maureen Cope, benefited from their involvement. Dore welldressing started to emerge and Dore Oral History Group Ken and Betty Brown found themselves “it got the village buzzing.” living next to Bernard Coggins who was The new vicar Reverend Heawood Extra copies of Dore to Door, price 20p Chairman of the Scout Committee and suggested having a service on the village each, are available at the newsagents on very preoccupied with trying to raise green which in those days was a quiet Causeway Head Road, at Totley Library, money for a new headquarters. Betty takes corner surrounded by cottages and farms. or from the Dore Village Society room up the story. “The Town Hall had said this Arthur Farnsworth, Christchurch organist during open mornings. and choir master was thrilled to be involved and added his support. The old well at the bottom of the green was restored by the council, Harry Heathcote made a frame for the board and “We got it up and it didn’t fall down!” Betty laughs. The first welldressing depicted a Boy Scout with the quotation “O ye children of BRADWAY men bless the lord” and featured the Fleur- Physiotherapy Clinic de-Lys of the Boy Scouts and the Trefoil of the Girl Guides. • State Registered and HPC Member Thus, on Sunday 5th July 1959 the • Sports Injury Specialists whole village turned out on a fine day for the first Dore Welldressing Service. • Common Muscle and Joint Problems Afterwards they all filed past the well to • Arthritis and Nerve Pain admire the picture and donate to • Licensed Acupuncturist Fairthorne which was then a holiday home • Women’s Health, Pilates for deprived children. Betty had started a village tradition which she did annually • Post Operative Rehabilitation for the next seventeen years and which has • Work Station Assessments continued unbroken with different • Recognised by all major Insurance designers and petalling teams for fifty • Companies, inc BUPA and Westfield years. Betty will be remembered by former Telephone 0114 235 2727 pupils of Dore Old School where she was Mobile 07960 982138 a part-time teacher in its final days. She Email [email protected] recalls the condition of the building. “There were outside lavatories for the PILATES CLASSES STARTING SOON children against the church wall and a staff 99 Bradway Road, Sheffield S17 4QS 22
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This is especially important if you Unfortunately now, many of our valued live near woodlands or other areas where Thank you to all who attended the ladies sites for native bluebells are already our native bluebells grow. THE WORKSpamper night at the school on 2nd April. showing signs of hybridisation. This is the English bluebells are now being sold in Hundreds of ladies enjoyed the Order fashion your Farm Reared Turkey case in one of Sheffield’s largest garden centres, so be carefulHAIR&BEAUTY to check show & retail therapy as well as which you buy. When buying bluebells, complimentary beauty treatments & woodlands, Ecclesall Woods. An 306 Twentywell Lane, Bradway for Christmas indication of a high level of hybridisation make sure they are described as massages. 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It was a great night out and purchase native English Bluebell seeds. due to popular demand we will look to Excellent and very goodthe value woodland floorThe a strongmost wonderful vibrant Santa blue • Our own dry cured hams and bacon colour. The Spanish varietyoutside is Lapland a much Sprinkle them onto soil• inColour a plant from pot in £34hold this event twice a year at the school, An absolute winner? paler blue, with large flowerheads, thick autumn and leave them outside. Next year watch this space for further dates. For both kids and adults A wonderful experience. they germinate to look• simplyPerms like from little £32 SUMMER BBQ & DISCO -• A Full fun range of home cooked meats strap-like leaves and it willI cuddled out compete a lamb Our second year. the English bluebell. blades of grass. They die• Blow back todrying form afromsummer £9.50 occasion for all the family on Absolutely brilliant again very small bulb. Next year they come back 26th June. Time: 5.30 - 10pm. 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For prompt reliable friendly competitive rates call John Ford on 0114 visiting friends and relatives;Tel:236 6014 service ring Richard on 0114 - 287 6806 235 9746 or Mobile on 07761 569068 34 Seeing stars in Dore had a good colleague who worked for the History debate Bloemfontein museum collecting David Andrews reflects on his travel specimens. He was relatively friendly with Bess of Hardwick and Mary Queen of experiences as an astronomer. scorpions, puff adders and lizards, Scots - Fact and Fiction Since we cannot expect to see many knowing which stones to lift, and when The Friends of Sheffield Manor Lodge clear dark skies in the summer from Dore not to. The most surprising thing I ever are delighted to present this unique event or Totley, we are going to relate a few of found in Newfield Lane was a five-pound bringing together two best-selling writers, our encounters with strange and exciting note hiding amongst the wayside leaves. the celebrated novelist Philippa Gregory places. My travels as astronomer took me Reptiles and spiders are not my friends, and acclaimed biographer Mary S. Lovell. to South Africa, North & South America though, rather the birds, the owls and In an amiable discussion they will and many places in Europe, Scandinavia badgers. examine the relationship between Bess of and around the Mediterranean. Encounters with unwelcome creatures Hardwick, Mary Queen of Scots and the Seeing stars is best done on a mountain do tend to happen when one travels. At hapless Earl of Shrewsbury who found top, of course, and sometimes in a desert night in South Africa one had to keep a himself the unwitting buffer between these or from outer space with satellites. I often torch shining at the door when you opened two powerful women, whilst having to think of these adventures when I am it, and to check that nothing crept or answer to yet another woman of towering doddering down our Newfield Lane which slithered through as you walked in or out. historical status, Queen Elizabeth I. at this leafy time of year reminds me of a Worse than that, in South America we had 7.15pm Tuesday June 2nd at The great cathedral. a beetle, the vinchuca, which could bite. If Library Theatre, Central Library, Surrey Certainly, on mountain tops, I felt closer the vinchuca was infected from climbing Street, Sheffield Tickets: £10 Non to the Creator and dwarfed into the mere on a dirty donkey, say, one could become Members £8 members. mortal that we are beneath the trillions of insane after a matter of three years. I used Tickets from David Templeman, faint stars that merge into what we aptly to look under my bed every night and pull phone 01246 415497 call our Milky Way. Just getting to the top my bed out to the middle of the room. in Winter was not always without its Once I had a black widow spider at the excitement. Whether on snow ploughs as telescope. It had obviously been blown in Bradway Agewell Club in the Sierra Nevada in Spain or the Pic du on the desert wind. A preying mantisse Midi in the Pyrennes, or by six-seater used to sit under my lamp waiting for What do railway rambles, music, aircraft from Santiago into the Chilean moths to devour for their supper. On the reflexology and poetry have in common? Andes, it was always a dreamworld other hand, it is amazing how quickly one Answer. They are all topics covered in adventure with adrenolin levels flying gets used to all these things. talks to be given to The Bradway Agewell high. Packed into a precious briefcase Now for some of the good things! I have Leisure Club in the coming months. were one’s charts of perhaps a dozen stars never been out of my bed early enough in On selected Tuesdays we meet at The that one hoped to observe with the latest Dore to see the coming of twilight over Castle Inn, Twentywell Road at 10am for technology and with some of the finest Blackamore. As an astronomer, however, I coffee and biscuits, followed by a session telescopes in the world. have seen the dawn twilight over distant listening to one of our invited speakers. Astronomers are mostly quiet people, all mountain-tops, over glaciers, even over All for the inclusive price of £2-10. keen to put their ideas to the test, and the smoking Mt Etna volcano. I shall Specially priced senior citizens’ lunches equally happy if some new discoveries are never forget such things as the strange are served at 12 noon for those wishing to made along the way which change their dense morning mist sitting only one metre stay and socialise afterwards. thinking on some astronomical problem. deep over the landscape, and the ringing Why not come and join us? We look The truth about the Universe is what boulders in South Africa. These were giant forward to meeting you. matters, the reality of what is out there to boulders that, when you struck them with Stuart Sawyer be discovered. a stone, they rang like a great bell. June 16th. Living with our neighbours. At a time when most young people are I spoke already of being dwarfed by Talk by Ken Bell. thinking about how to make their millions Nature. The immensity of space never July 14th. Fun with Poetry. or meet up with some television celebrity, bothered me. It only served to put one in Talk by Peter Garner I would hope that there are still those one’s true place, along with all humanity. August 11th. My kind of music. dreamy-eyed students with an ambition to Working at the immense open domes with Members’ favourites. scale the mountains and solve some only the gentle tick-tick of telescope mystery of science for themselves. drives and the occasional swish-swooh of We were lucky as a young family to be domes rotating like an awakening giant, sent out to South Africa in the mid-Sixties there was a sense of belonging to the when there was relative peace and stability Universe. During a night’s observing, one and no real danger. For nearly two years was aware of the earth rotating as the stars my wife and I, and two children, lived rose, passed overhead and set. atop a kopje (a flat hill-top) near Little wonder that astronomers enjoy Bloemfontein at 3,000 feet where the skies their work and relish getting back to their were particularly good. We flew down to instruments. Comraderie was strong in the southern hemisphere, never flying so these dedicated cities above the clouds; high that you couldn’t make out the land one almost felt like Jack and the Beanstalk below, the deserts and the jungles. with a hoard of gold. Surely these elevated After a breakfast stopover for cold tea in cities are amongst the purest earthly sites, Khartoum the pilot kindly flew us around the churches, temples and mosques, where Mt Kilimanjaro although I guess he one can quietly meditate on the entire wanted to do it for himself. We even had a Universe and study its diversity. stop at Nairobi, too, where we could get David Andrews out and stretch our legs. Airports were small and friendly in those days. One could even break one’s journey and stay Open Church over without extra charge as long as one kept heading in the same direction. St. John’s Church Abbeydale are having I tell all this because as I dodder down ‘open church’ events on Wednesday May Newfield Lane I always think of the 20th and Wednesday June 24th from 10am hidden wildlife in Wagg Wood, and until 12noon. particularly of the never-seen small things You are invited to come and have a look busying themselves under the dead leaves round and join them for a cup of coffee and broken branches. In South Africa, we and a cake. All are welcome. 35 Diary - Summer 2009 Dore Festival 2009 MAY Saturday 27th June - Sunday 12th July 16 Farmers Market, Holmesfield Village Hall, 11am-4pm 20 Wildlife gardening Dore Garden Club, 7.30pm Dore Sat 27th Local Walks arranged by Dore Village Society Methodist Church Hall 236 0915 - Sun 12th - see village notice board for details 30 Spring Sale W.O.R.K.LTD Ringinglow Rd 10am - 4pm. Sat 27th Summer Concert Dore Gilbert & Sullivan All welcome. Tel 0114 262 0094. Society, Church Hall 7.30pm Tickets: 236 2299 30-31 Cactus show 12-5pm, Sun 10-4pm, Botanical Gardens Sun 28th Village Open Gardens 2pm-6pm Mon 29th Preparation of Village & Guide Well JUNE - Fri 3rd Dressing Scout HQ Rushley Road 1 Chernobyl Children's Lifeline talk by Mrs. Blaifie Wed 1st Visit to a Vegetable Garden by invitation of Ferguson for Dore Methodist Women's Fellowship Keith Shaw 7-9pm 120 Townhead Road 2.30pm OPEN MEETING Thur 2nd Village History Tour led by John Dunstan 2 A Woodland Walk with Gerald Hall for Dore Sat 5th Guide & Village Well Dressing erected Methodist Tuesday Group. Church Hall. 7.45pm 10am Village Green & Devonshire Terrace Rd 7 Anniversary Walk from Endciffe Park to celebrate 70th Sat 4th 50 Years of Dore Well Dressing. Displays & year for Sheffield Round Walk. Tel: 283 9195 - Sun 5th Demonstrations, Dore Old School 11-5pm 7 Open Farm Sunday. Whirlow Hall Farm10am - 3pm Sun 5th Well Dressing Service & Parade 3pm 10 The White Peak Way talk by Andrew Firth & Afternoon Cream Teas AGM, Dore Village Society, 7.30pm Dore Methodist Methodist Church Hall 3 - 5pm Church Hall Everybody welcome Mon 6th Family Fun Run 7pm 12 Golf Day for St Luke’s Hospice, Abbeydale Golf Club, Lord Conyers Morris Men starting 8.30am Details from 0114 236 9911 Devonshire Arms 8pm & 9.30pm 13 Summer Fair, at St Luke’s Hospice on Little Common Tue 7th Dore Ladies Group - Talk by Don Witton on Lane. Starts 1pm. Details from 0114 236 9911 Euphorbias & Perennials 13 Beer & Bangers Whirlow Hall Farm evening of Dore Church Hall 7.45pm £3 Visitors welcome comedy with beer & bangers 7pm - Midnight. Over 18’s Wed 8th Open Air Theatre Village Green 7.30pm, ‘The 14 Classic Car Show & Gala, Sir Harold Jackson School Taming of the Shrew” by The Company, 12noon - 5pm Interval Collection 14 Garden party for Motor Neurone Disease Assn, 40 Thur 9th Open Evening Dore Male Voice Choir & Dore Newfield Crescent 2 - 5pm. Cakes, books, plants, and Mercia & Totley Townswomen’s Guild Choirs bric-a-brac stalls. Entry £3 incl refreshments Dore Church Hall 7:30-9-30pm 18 Vegetable gardening Dore Garden Club, 7.30pm Dore No ticket required Collection for Charity Methodist Church Hall. 236 0915 Fri 10th An Evening of Jazz - Walker Brothers & 19 Barn Dance. Whirlow Hall Farm live band and dinner! Friends, Parish Church 7.30pm Tickets £6 incl 7:30pm - Midnight includes Pie & Pea supper. wine from 236 0002. 21 Bach Choir Garden Party 38 Rushley Drive, 2-5pm Sat 11th Scout & Guide Gala Recreation Ground, 2pm 22 Derbyshire Outing Dore Meth Women's Fellowship Sun 12th Songs of Praise Christ Church Dore 6pm 24 Open Church at St John’s Abbeydale 10am-12 noon See Dore Village Society notice board for full details of events 25-28 As you like it, Heartbreak Theatre, Botanical Gardens Contact Sheffield Theatres Box Office 249 6000 28 Rose Society Annual Show South Yorkshire & District 2-5pm. Demonstration Centre. Details: 0114 247 0728 30 Crime Prevention Talk by David Spencer for Dore Methodist Tuesday Group. Church Hall. 7.45pm JULY 1-2 Jazz in the Gardens Botanical Gardens 0114 268 6025 3 Big Band Swing Night Botanical Gardens 268 6025 4 Bluebell Hospice Walk see www.hallamfm.co.uk 4 Classical in the Gardens Botanical Gardens 268 6025 6 Support Dogs talk by Mr. David Demrose for Dore Methodist Women's Fellowship 2.30pm 14 Annual Lunch/Dinner Dore Methodist Tuesday Group 15 Visit to Hadley Roses by Dore Garden Club 236 0915 17 Camping Event Whirlow Hall Farm live band and hog roast! 6pm - 11am Saturday. 18 Working Day at Whinfell Quarry Garden from 9.30am 20 Talk by Mrs. Janet Nowell for Dore Methodist Women's Fellowship 2.30pm 23 Emma, Heartbreak Theatre, Botanical Gardens Contact Sheffield Theatres Box Office 249 6000 29 Wind in the Willows, Heartbreak Theatre, Botanical Gardens, Sheffield Theatres Box Office 249 6000 AUGUST 3 Variety Show Dore Meth Women's Fellowship 2.30pm 16 Great Outdoors' Family Fair, Norfolk Arms at Ringinglow 11-6pm Something for everyone. Councillor surgeries Local councillors are available for consultation in the Dore Village Society room on a regular basis - 2nd Saturday in the month from 10.30am to 12 noon. Contact details: Keith Hill telephone 235 2289 Email: [email protected] or Mike Davis 274 8002 Email: [email protected] Colin Ross telephone 235 1948Email: [email protected] 36