!DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY ISSN 0965-8912

New Crossing on Causeway Head Road

It's taken a long time but, at least, we're now getting close. The scheme to provide a road crossing point near the shops has now been completed and is ready for consultation with residents. It proposes a crossing point close to the HSBC bank formed by narrowing the road at this point, a feature which will not only reduce vehicles speeds but also give pedestrians a far better view of traffic coming from both directions. Further changes are planned, for the Dore Road/Rushley Road/High Street junction, which will also reduce traffic speed and provide improved pedestrian facilities. It is likely that a South West Area Panel public meeting will soon be held in the village to discuss the scheme. Keep an eye Pearson clock on the DVS notice board for meeting details. DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY For some time we have known that the Annual General Meeting village had an 18th century clockmaker by Heritage Visit to the the name of Pearson, purely from the fact 7.30pm Thursday 24 May Derwent Valley that his rare clocks occasionally come onto Methodist Church hall the market. The chance to bring back to the The 50-mile long Derwent valley saw the Followed by a talk on the village one of his beautifullongcase clocks development of the Industrial Revolution to form the centrepiece to the Dore with a huge variety of factories and crafts Sheffield Wildlife Trust Collection was irresistible. using the river's water power to drive many by Dr R Stonernan We are pleased to say that the society has types of machines. Already the valley has now been able to do so and will be been designated a National Heritage displaying the clock in our room at the Old Corridor and a section, from Derby to School in the near future. All we need to do Cromford, has applied for listing as a Membership Subscriptions now is raise the funds to cover its purchase. World Heritage Site (WHS). If you think you could help with a donation, As part of the Dore Village Society's 2001 The Dore Village Society exists solely to please contact David Heslop on 2365043, events programme, a coach visit has been work for the interests of Dore residents. or John Baker on 236 9025. arranged to two of the main sites within the As a registered charity the Society relies Little is known about Pearson even area for which WHS listing has been heavily on subscriptions to carry out its amongst clock experts. Few surviving applied. objectives. If you have not already done so, examples are known, but between them On Wednesday, June 27th we will visit please do join the society. The annual members of the committee can account for Cromford:tlill, the home of the Arkwright membership subscription is just £4 per seeing 6 or 7 over the years. Our 30 hour Society, where there will be a talk about the person, which is made even more valuable clock is signed 'Henry Pearson Dare' mill and the WHS application, followed by by the government refunding to us the value while his are usually signed just 'Pearson of a conducted tour of the site. The second of tax already paid by taxpayers. Dare'. It could be that it was a father and stop is at Strutt's North Mill at Belper You can pay your subscription at Greens son business. where a guided tour of the exhibition will shop on Causeway Head Road or by Both 30-hour and an 8-day clocks are be followed by a buffet meal. visiting our office in the Old School known. The dials are very idiosyncratic Travel will be by coach leaving Dore at between lOam & 12 noon on the first with bold designs quite different to those 1.30pm and returning about 9.00pm. Saturday each month. used by most other makers. They appear to Tickets (£11.00 for DVS members, £13.00 date from 1740s-50s, but no firm dates are for non-members) for the visit, which cover Bank Holiday Walk know for Pearson. From features present in entry and tours at both sites, travel and the pictures supplied to an expert, our clock buffet meal, will be by application form Why not join fellow members of the Dore looks to date from about 1750-60. available from Green's on Causeway Head Village Society for an enjoyable Bank A check on the IGI (International Road at 9.00am of Thursday, May 17th. Holiday Monday walk. GeneologicalIndex - commonly known as As the trip is limited to a maximum of 35 The guided walk of approx 6 1/2 miles, the Mormon Index) has found a Henry people, applications will be treated strictly will follow a circular route via Graves Park Pearson christened 5 Apr 1703 in in order of receipt. So get your application and local woodland. Dronfield, father Henry Pears on, and a in early to avoid disappointment. Meet 10.15am Monday 28 May on the Henry Pearson is recorded as marrying a The visits promise a truly fascinating village green. We should be back by Jane Stringfellow on 18 Sept 1721 in South Wingfield. This could be our man! occasion. l.30pm. 1 Something different Bank Holiday Walk Dore Collection Monday 28th May Readers may notice that this issue of Dore Meet 10.15am on the Village Green to Door looks slightly different and the For several years the Dore Village Society pictures not so sharp. The reason is that for for a 6 112 mile guided walk has been collecting information and the first time it has all been set out on artifacts associated with the history of Dore. computer, as the paper used for our old cut Our aim is to collect, catalogue and display and paste method is no longer available. material on the locality and its history, for Such is progress. Annual General Meeting the benefit of residents, school projects and Hopefully we will be able to use better researchers. This collection already software for future issues! This years Annual General Meeting of the includes historic records, photographs, Ed Dore Village Society will take place at books, maps and items from fossils to 7.30pm on Thursday 24th May in the Victorian tools and local finds such a coins. Dore Show 2001 Methodist Church Hall on the High Street.. Following the appeal in our Winter issue After the traditionally very short formal we were grateful to receive from Roy This years Dore Show will take place on business, we will welcome Dr R Stoneman Bullen a donation of maps and research Saturday 8 September in the Old School to talk about the work of the Sheffield papers accumulated over his years of and Methodist Church Hall.- be sure to note Wildlife Trust, including the new nature campaigning for footpaths and rights of the date in your diary. reserve on Blacka Moor. way in the area. Many of the maps and There will be 74 classes for you to enter Details of people offering themselves for articles were new to the society and add for or come and see, ranging from election have been posted on the Society's greatly to the research value and interest of vegetables to paintings. The full schedule Notice Board in advance of the meeting. If the growing Dore Collection. will beavailable from Greens on Causeway you are interested in joining the committee We are still keen to receive donations or Head Road shortly. please contact the Secretary on 236 6710. information on further items and archive For those keen photographers wishing to material. If you have any old photographs, plan ahead, the 3 photography classes will letters, diaries, press cutting etc then please be: Colour - My Holiday - any size; Colour Danger Reduction Schemes let us know so that we can copy them or - The Natural World - min 7" x 5; and provide for their safe keeping. Black & White - Open - min 7" x 5. Many of the traffic calming schemes that The Show has become an established part have appeared in other areas of the city of village life, largely thanks to the have taken place either because of formal Please note exhibitors and those who plan and run the appeals from residents or as a result of road event on the day. As always many hands accidents. However, in addition, the City Dore Village Society room in the Old make light work! If you can offer a little Council has a small budget to cover School is open to the public between lOam help on the day please contact the Show schemes where there are obvious dangers to and 12 noon on the 1st Saturday each Secretary on 236 9025. road users but where accidents have not yet happened. The proposed Causeway Head month. Members of the committee will be Road crossing is one being covered by this on hand to talk about the work of the DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY budget. society or any particular problems you wish to raise. It also provides an opportunity to Registered Charity No. 1017051 As you might imagine, the demands on this budget (£100,000 for this year fmancial view items in the Dore collection. The Society aims to foster the protection year) far exceed the funding available. Until and enhancement of the local recently, the Council had no system for Thought for the election: environment and amenities within Dore, giving priority to demands across the city to encourage a spirit of community and but this omission has now been rectified. Government can't give us anything without to record its historic development. The three City Councillors for Dore are depriving us of something else. together pressing the Council to consider Chairman (Dore to Door) more local schemes - particularly the Mr J R Baker 236 9025 parking problem at the bottom of Dore Editorial & Advertising 8 Thomsett Gardens, S 17 3PP. Road. To support this initiative, the committee of Dore to Door is published quarterly by the Vice Chairman (Environment) the DVS has compiled a prioritised list of Dore Village Society and delivered free to Mr R Millican 2620012 six schemes, all of which have been the over 3,200 households in the area. 16 Devonshire Drive, S 17 3PJ. subject of requests and comments from If you are interested in submitting an residents. This list, recently displayed on article or letter, have local news to report, Treasurer the DVS notice board, is available by or wish to place an advertisement, please ringing 262 0012. If you have any Mrs M Watson 2365666 contact the Editor John Baker on 2369025 comments, please contact one of the 11 Cavendish Avenue, S 17 3JN. or write to: councillors or a member of the DVS The Editor, Secretary committee. Mrs A Slater 236 6710 Dore to Door, 8 Thomsett Gardens, Dore, 6 Old Hay Close, S17 3GQ Quiet Lanes Sheffield, S 17 3PP. Committee [ Email [email protected] 1 Mrs L E Baker 236 9025 The Government has responded to CPRE's Safer Country Lanes campaign by Opinions expressed in articles and (Dore Show & FEW) introducing new powers for local councils services offered by advertisers are not Mr G R Elsdon 2360002 to designate certain roads as 'quiet lanes' necessarily endorsed by the publishers. (Subscriptions & Notice Board) and reduce the speed limit accordingly. No part of Dore to Door may be Mr D Heslop 236 5043 Given its importance to walkers, cyclists reproduced in full or part, without the (Planning) and horse riders, the Dore Village Society written permission of the Editor. Mrs V Malthouse 2363632 has asked the Council to consider whether Mr P Pryor 2369831 Whitelow Lane would be a suitable Copyright Dore Village Society 2001 candidate for such an initiative.

2 Boys Brigade cam p

It's May 1959, and members of the 22nd Sheffield Company Boys' Brigade wait on Dore and Totley Station for a train to Liverpool. From there they caught the overnight ferry to the Isle of Man for their annual camp. The 22nd Company was started by the late Tom Wragg of Chatsworth Road in the early 1950's and is based at Totley Rise Methodist Church. From left to right: Ian Archibald, David Smith, Mick Roebuck, Richard Beeton, lohn Morton, Brian Turner, Mick Savage, Billy Jones, Andrew Wilson, John Schofield Lt. Ron Wilson, Brian Savage (seated), Roy Letch, Dave Green, Chris Hustler, John Monks, Peter Bishop, Capt. Fred Savage, and Michael Reynolds.

operating 10 teams at all age levels from Bramhall Lane last year. Porter Football Club under 8 to under 18, with the majority Some of your readers are also likely to playing in the Sheffield & District Junior have had previous connections with our Readers of Dore to Door may be unaware Sunday League. club, either as players, parents or club that there is a thriving junior football club The club provides the facilities for over officials. We would be interested to hear based in the village. Porter Football Club 150 boys to participate in sporting activity, from anyone who may have any was founded twenty years ago when a boys a large proportion of who reside in the Dore memorabilia related to the early years of the team was formed from local Scouts and area, and as a club we would like to club. took its name from the Porter Scout develop our relationships within the local You can make contact with us via myself District. community. Yorkshire and England (Bob Evans 236-7377) or alternatively by Since those early days and relatively cricketer Michael Vaughan is numbered e-mail at [email protected]. humble beginnings the club has flourished, amongst the Porter FC 'old boys' and we We also have our own Internet site at thanks to the enthusiasm and voluntary were delighted when he accepted an www.porterfc.fsnet.co.uk. efforts of many people over the years. invitation to be the guest of honour at our Bob Evans Porter FC is now an established junior club annual Presentation Evening held at Chairman, Porter FC

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3 It's still Dore to Door, with an important Letters suggestion for a better safer sensible Dear Sir, community pioneering idea of more light I noticed the letter in the local magazine for those long dreary dark at 4pm nights in the coming winter. "Dore To Door" requesting information re the Coates/Coats family connections with In my front window I have 3 lamps each Dore. with a 60 watt bulb and one side of house I have a lifelong friend called lames (Jim) Iight of 100 watt. I leave Iights on in the Reginald Booker who has lived in Calgary, window all evening, curtains drawn of Alberta, Canada these last thirty odd years, course, and the side light on all night at the but his parents were both Sheffield people house side. The people who make the and his mother was I recall a Miss Coates community unsafe have no desire to be seen or perhaps Coats. doing naughty things. I also recall Mrs Ivy Booker (Jim's Mum This a positive way we can help ourselves of blessed memory) describing her with no further installation outlay and make Dear Sir, childhood in the Whirlow area of the city our Roads, Avenues, Crescents, Closes, Your picture of Dore High Street (front (adjacent to Dore of course) and I think she much more pleasant for ourselves. Inside page of spring issue) taken before the and outside. said that her folks were farmers and that her demolition of the cottages in the right grandmotber, when widowed, used to live I suggest a pilot scheme of one, two, or b . . foreground is full of interest. Next door to three roads and see how it goes. How about in the cottages that used to project mto Green's cottage with its admirable it?? Lets make Busheywood Road the best Ecclesall Road South just opposite the gateposts in hand -cut stone is what seems lit road in Dore and Totley. For starters. Wheatsheaf Hotel at Parkhead. The last to be a vacant lot; this must be where Hatie cottage was removed when the road was Betty James Frith's grocery was with the butcher's next Ed. If you are interested in the idea of "improved" some ten or fifteen years ago - door, or rather where they were built later, throwing more light onto our streets, Betty or maybe more!. out of sight from the camera's viewpoint. can be contacted on 236 9812. This conversation was I think sparked by The photograph was carefully set up with a my wife and I talking about Whirlow Hall stationary horseman in a knickerbocker suit Dear Sir, Farm, which Ivy Booker remembered from perhaps, which would suggest an early 20's A False Sheffield her childhood and was interested to hear date. The remains of the wartime decoy site about now being a centre for youth On the other hand, Marshall's sweetshop mentioned in the last issue can still be seen education. Mrs Booker remembered taking on the corner of Townhead Road is all in on Houndkirk Moor on the eastern side of her Grandma milk using a yoke to carry two place. 'Player's Please' was on the long Houndkirk Road at map reference SK pails of milk - the classic milkmaid p.ictur~! sign over the window and 'Hovis' on the 276815. We wish David Coates luck m his suspended sign in the distant right by the About 200 metres from the Fox House end researches. lamp. I think I can see the red letter-box set of Houndkirk Road you can see the Brian and Pat Midgley into the wall of the first cottage on the left. foundations of the decoy unit's buildings. Dear Sir, The great wall of this gable-end later bore Continuing towards Sheffield the road (an At the foot of Bushey Wood Road there is a large advertisement for the pub, actually un-metalled turnpike) crosses over a ridge a building with this plaque, which reads painted on the stones. then drops and bends slightly (good views 'ALMS HOUSES IN MEMORY OF On the ground below it, with a strange over Sheffield and as far as Doncaster on a ELLEN CARTER 1900'. I understand that white area just above, is the old mounting- clear day). Further remains of the decoy site Ellen lived at the Dingle, Woodland Place, block' clearly visible. Is it still there today? are on your right hand side: the rectangular Bradway, and that she was a member of the Glen Fallows dry stone wall which enclosed some Carters of Little Liver Pills fame. Does Dear Sir, trenches can still be seen, as can a roadway anyone know anything further? I read with interest Brian Edwards' article and turning circle for the army vehicles. Brian Edwards about G H B Ward in the Spring 2001 The trenches may have contained, as well edition of Dore to Door. Readers may like as flashes to imitate furnaces and steam to know that to celebrate the 50th locomotives, a decoy tram line. This was a anniversary of the founding of the Peak series of electrically induced flashes Park three identical bronze plaques have passing along the trench to simulate a recently been produced. The plaques depict moving tram's collector pole passing along G H B Ward addressing a large gathering the overhead wire. of walkers in Winnats Pass and bear the These decoys could only be lit up before inscription, "To commemorate all ramblers the bombers arrived. If a bombing raid who campaigned for national parks and began before the decoy site operators could access to mountain and moorland." be alerted and begin their work they were One of the plaques has been presented to helpless, as once the enemy had located JVldiaVl Brasserie the Peak Park Authority and is to be their targets, operating the decoys would DiVle iVlStyle displayed in the Authority'S offices, one has simply have given the game away. Monday to Friday and been presented to the National Trust an~ is These sites exist in various parts of the Sunday 6-11.30pm to be located in Winnats Pass and the third country and there is an ongoing project to has been presented to Sheffield City record them and list them for preservation. Saturday 5.30-11.30pm Council. It is intended the Sheffield plaque I have often wondered what it must have should be displayed in the entranceway to been like for the people who were stationed SPECIAL MONDAY NIGHT the Town Hall and we are hoping to arrange at these sites, making themselves a target BUFFET- £6.90 an unveiling ceremony later in the year. and then huddling in their shelters as the (Book in Advance) Cllr Sylvia Dunkley, Chair bombs rained down close by. I guess they Sheffield Countryside Working Party were just some of wartime's many unsung 34 - 36 High Street, Dore, Sheffield heroes. S173GU. Dear Sir, Mick Savage Telephone: 262 0883 Let there be light, "and there was light and Ed. Mick Savage is the author of "The it was good". Mystery of Car I Wark", available from him TAKEAWAY MENU ALSO AVAILABLE No you're not reading the Parish Magazine. on 236 9002.

4 The decision as to which field to locate the In the past two years many committee Gala 2001 Gala in this year will be dependent on the members have retired. This coupled with weather in the build up to Gala. All efforts this year's retirements, means the number of For those of you who do not know, this have been made to choose attractions with committee members has been considerablv year's Gala will be held on July 14th. their weight in mind to avoid a repeat of the reduced. We therefore seek new members, The Gala year commenced last October, damage caused to the recreation ground last so if you want a real say in how Gala is with the committee meeting once a month year, this now being settled by the organised and run then please contact to discuss and organise events for the fairground attraction owners. myself on 2363955. forthcoming Gala. The organising builds up The prime purpose of Gala is to provide a The success of Gala day is largely from May with Scouts, Cubs, Beavers, fun day, linked to the main fund raising dependent on the community (and a little on Guides, Brownies and Rainbows having fun event of the year for the local Scouts and the weather), whether you are on the preparing their stalls and 100 plus parents Guides. This year we will be running the committee, help on the day, advertise in the and helpers putting up bunting, bottle Gala from 2.00pm continuously through to programme, or just turn up - Without your collecting and selling raffle tickets. 7.00pm. As usual we have all the old support the Gala would not take place. All this voluntary work is carried out to favourite stalls and arena events including Support your local Scouts and Guides and ensure that you the community have a fun the Dog of Dore, Tug of War, Fancy Dress, other children's charities. Full details of the day. It is a wonderful time to meet old It's a Knockout etc. We feel that we have programme will appear in the Gala friends and make new ones, I am sure this been able to provide attractions that will Magazine to be distributed shortly. year will be no exception. entertain all age groups. Nick Hensby.Gala Committee Chairman

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5 The miikJads of Derbyshire .c~~~~~ ~t!J-"~~-l~':::?t?~:~_:c.~ - Twice a day summer and once a day in winter, milk was brought to Sheffield from -:::::==::::---_-- farms up to seven or eight miles from town. - - _'_." It came in barrels by mules or Galloway's ~---:=:..=..-- _ ... (asses or ponies) and was sold house to house, or delivered by whole load to some person appointed to retail it to weekly customers. The price was two pence halfpenny in the summer and three pence in the winter. The beasts were conducted by boys who sat either aside or astride on the rumps of the animals, and with incessant application of the whips, galloped together in gangs. Sometimes there was a score of these milk lads and they endangered everybody on the roads while converting, as they did so, a great deal of the milk into butter on their Contemporary etching of the milk/ads We understand that current City policy is way into town. to focus on "priority corridors" e.g. the The rudeness of the boys and their same manner". Abbeydale / Chesterfield corridor, reiterated insults to travellers of all Chantrey was born on 7th April 1781 in a searching for ways and means of descriptions induced the neighbourhoods to cottage still standing off Cinderhill Lane at implementing integrated traffic schemes - apply for an Act of Parliament for Jordanthorpe, Norton. After working as a vital for the city's future since as this regulation of this trade. It was then enacted grocer, he became apprenticed to an artist impacts directly on inward investment. In that the boys would not, under the threat of and set up a studio in Paradise Square, addition the Council's prioritisation of a heavy penalty, gallop down the road or Sheffield. Eventually he decided that his highways maintenance (approx. £6m extra behave in an indecorous manner. It was fortunes lay in London where he learnt since March 2000) is a step in the right further ordered that every milk seller must woodcarving and sculpture before carving direction and so-called "gold routes" (viz. have his name painted on the packsaddle, a name for himself with his statues and major, "high visibility" routes) are to be which supported the barrels. busts of the famous, including Victoria, targeted for immediate improvements in Numbers of these boys came from Raffles and Sir Waiter Scott. appearance & impact. Dronfield, Norton and no doubt from When he died in 1841, his body was Starting this year, traffic planning schemes Bradway, Greenhill, Dore and Totley and it transported for burial in Norton and it was will be prioritised through standard was said that the raucous behaviour of these there that the twenty two foot high obelisk assessment criteria across the city and lads, belonging to a "fraternity proverbially was erected by public subscription in 1854 become part of a 3 year rolling programme. wicked and incorrigible" was hard to lose in and there it stands today close to the In our case the Abbey Lane/ Abbeydale later life. However some became good men church. Not bad for a milk lad! Road South junction is an example. and shining characters. Brian Edwards Approximately 13 other schemes in our In his later years, Sir Francis Chantrey, the area are under consideration. Sadly, this famous sculpture, advised a guest from On the road will leave much of the city's residential Yorkshire. "You are going in the coach and streets as a secondary priority until the city will reach Sheffield in the early evening Local councillors have been busy trying to catches up with the £ 19m under investment along with coaches from other directions make progress on traffic issues, and these of recent years. It is vital that local residents and, a few miles this side of town, you will frequently come up at South West Area advise their Councillors of any traffic issues pass scores of asses carrying milk in barrels Panel meetings. A public meeting, of concern so that they can be fed into the with boys sitting on their croups behind the specifically about parking on Dore Road, to system. saddles and jogging merrily along the road. be attended by local councillors, Railtrack Potholes - everywhere! In 1995 the City Then you should think of your friend for I and the Highways Dept was scheduled to Council decided to focus shrinking was once a milk lad and travelled in the take place on 17 May. resources for roads on emergency repairs only. Predictably, many of our roads are now breaking up and increasing volumes of traffic exacerbate the problem. Increasing the council tax has helped, but the backlog is considerable. Following a recent Best Value Review, Highways maintenance is undergoing major re-organisation and the Council anticipates rapid (and visible!) Antique & Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers improvements forthwith. Extensive Calendar of Fortnightly Antique & Collectables Sales Again all potholes should be reported to the call centre on 273 4567 which helps Quarterly Antique & Fine Art Specialist Sales engineers prioritise repair/maintenance • Free Sales Valuations on Collections or Single Items > work. 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6 and their friends, who were kind enough to Close encounters help me negotiate the then dreadful path Verb Conjugations of the blind kind across the recreation ground last August. When I thanked them for this assistance During the past three years I have had the that was so freely given, Kirsty told me her [ am a freedom fighter. misfortune to become a V.I.P. No, not a best friend was visually impaired. As this You are a guerilla. very important person but a visually little girl is only about ten years of age, I He is a terrorist. impaired person. I have fallen victim to the feel it gives cause for reflection and puts worst kind of Macular Degeneration, which one's own troubles into perspective. [ am determined. affects many thousands of people, for which To early fellow sufferers, I would like to You are stubborn. there is as yet no known cure. I am left with say do not despair, even though you may He is pig-headed. only one small area of vision in the top have been told that nothing more can be right hand corner of my right eye. done for you, you are not alone and there is [ am dedicated. I am now registered blind and receive help available at this difficult time. You are single-minded. support and help from social services and Independence can be achieved and I would He is fanatical. the other main support groups. I am being refer to Sheffield's famous motto "Deo trained in the use of the long cane by the Adjuvante Labor Proficit". God helps those [ am a radical. mobility-training officer from Fulwood who help themselves. You are a socialist. Guide Dog centre for the blind. She and I My mother wrote this article and I would He is a left-wing loony. now have a very special rapport and very also like to say thank-you to everyone in rarely stop laughing. She has worked very the village for the help you give her. I am right of centre. hard and trained me in the use of cane, DaveRodman You are a Conservative. which is striped with red instead of the He is a hidebound Tory. usual plain white. This is to indicate officially to other people that I am deaf as Deadline for Autumn 1 am a Renaissance man. well as blind and therefore especially You are a Jack-of-all-trades. vulnerable in traffic. During my travels Diary Events He is having an Identity crisis. through the village I have realised that very Tuesday 31st July Ray Butterfield few people know why this is so and it is Ring 236 9025 or write to the editor important to those of us who carry it, that people are made aware of its significance, particularly motorists. Of course the cane is not so attractive or as companionable as a guide dog. I have in fact been tried out with two guide dogs but, like one or two others, I'm not suitable, as FREE I am not able to relax sufficiently to let the dog take me over. These lovely animals cost many thousands of pounds to breed VALUATIONS and train from beginning to end, they must not be wasted. A few parked vehicles and Waiting Buyers overhanging foliage which obstruct narrow pavements; vehicle doors being opened or Free Intemet promotion slammed shut; engines being started up; www.elr.co.uk vehicles reversing out of driveways, all across pavements; vehicles driven over the speed limit up and down main roads such as, Dore, Causeway Head and Townhead, all these are somewhat nerve-racking! Believe it or not, however, there is a lighter side to this affliction. During early Valuing ... training with the cane I have been known to wander down peoples' driveways, to Surveying ... attempt to enter the Post Office through the window (much to the mutual amusement of Letting ... the staff inside and my trainer) and to reach out towards a shelf in the Co-op and Managing . accidentally touch the chest of a young male assistant, much to his embarrassment Auctioning . and the hilarity of everyone around me. Last but not least, I have even been known Selling...... homes like yours to approach a road sign to ask it to show me across the road! In conclusion, my main reason for this article, apart from hopefully being 33 Townhead Road, Dore, informative and not too boring, is to convey my very sincere gratitude and appreciation Sheffield S17 3GD 0114 236 2420 to the many kind and helpful people in the Email: [email protected] village who approach me with offers off assistance. Also, the staff in all the shops 0r.======~0 are wonderful in the way they take time to help me. ==== ELR ==== Finally I feel that I must mention a little Eadon Lockwood & Riddle girl called Kirsty, her younger brother Sam (hUICI{II'-.UI\\'III' 1 ..•1.1ll:\:,!l'lIh \ ••11111'.\ \uIIIOIIIII" 'IIHI IS-III

7 New nature reserve

The Sheffield Wildlife Trust is Sheffield's largest and most effective independent nature conservation organisation, working to improve the local environment for both people and wildlife. It is part of a national association of 46 local Wildlife Trusts, which work to protect wildlife in town and country. Working with communities in towns, cities and the countryside throughout the UK: they campaign locally and nationally for wildlife; they provide expertise in all aspects of wildlife conservation; and they run an extensive environmental training and education programme. Together, the Wildlife Trusts have more than 320,000 supporters and care for more than 2,300 nature reserves, making them the biggest organisation in the UK working to protect all kinds of wildlife for the future. Sheffield Wildlife Trust has recently been The lawns and gardens of Abbeydale house -lost to yet another building site. awarded £ 185,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund to establish new nature reserves at infrastructure. It has been suggested that we should have nine of Sheffield's most valuable wildlife There will be a wide consultation exercise an official opening of the Playground? sites, covering more than 300 hectares of to gather local knowledge, views and Sheffield's finest countryside. opinions on the future management of the Planning This includes a new nature reserve on reserves and each is to have its own local Blacka Moor in Dore, for which the Trust Reserve Advisory Group of interested Since publication of the Spring Issue of will be negotiating a 25-year lease with people to assist with management. A first Dore to Door there has been one planning Sheffield City Council which owns it. This public meeting on the Blacka Moor reserve matter which has been of real concern. It 180 hectare site with its rich mosaic of project was due to be held on 16th May, to may be recalled that there was strong heather moor, woodland and peat bog, has be followed by the first meeting of the objection to a proposal to build a three recently been designated a Site of Special resultant Reserves Advisory Group for storey block of flats within 10 metres of, Scientific Interest in recognition of its Blacka Moor at 2pm on Tuesday 22 May, and overlooking, the Recreation Ground an importance for birds. in Totley Rise Methodist Church. the Newfield Lane side. All the sites have been selected to include Ed. Dr Rob Stoneman, Director of the We reported the travesty of a planning examples of most of Sheffield's most Sheffield Wildlife Trust, will be the speaker decision to grant permission by the important natural habitats, high-lighted as at the Dore Village Society's spring chairman's casting vote at a meeting where priorities for conservation in Sheffield's meeting on 24 May. He has been quoted as only a handful of councillors were present. Local Biodiversity Action Plan. They have saying that "Sheffield has one of the richest The developer, an the strength of that also been selected to provide people with natural environments of any city in the decision, proposes to abandon his previous greater access to their local natural heritage country. It's a unique asset that we should intention to build a dwelling house on the by improving footpaths and other all treat with the respect it deserves, with plot adjacent to the proposed flat the moorland at Blacka Moor, for example, development. He has now made a fresh being of international importance", application to build a three storey block of six flats on that plot. Brearton & Co The village now faces the prospect of two Taxation Consultants Dore Recreation Ground blocks of flats overlooking the Recreation Ground where, until now, there has been no Site meetings have been held recently with property in view. A site originally intended All aspects of Personal Sheffield Wildlife Trust and Sheffield for five houses, now could have fifteen and Business Taxation Leisure Services over future landscaping properties all using a poor access onto work, some of which may be undertaken by Newfield Lane. Self Assessment Returns the Council including the Rangers and some The decision of the planning committee sponsored by DVS. Current piorities are: could well have opened the floodgates for 1. Tidy spoil from recent footpath development right along the boundary. That Capital Gains and resurfacing. Install 'no dogs' sign on would materially change the whole nature Inheritance Tax playground fence. ofthe Recreation Ground. It is a pity that so 2. Lop trees at Townhead Road entrance to little notice is taken of the interests of local open perspective into the Rec and for safety people on local issues. For projessional help Jrom experts issues. Tidy area immediately to right of The decision on the latest application has Write or callJor Jree quotation entrance in front of playground and not yet been made. There is still time to undertake selected landscape planting. stop the rot. 18 Rushley Road, Sheffield S17 3EJ 3. Additional planting of evergreen David Heslop trees/shrubs in the top corner where the Telephone (0114) 236 0211 flats are being built. [email protected] 4. Landscaping of area around basketball Makes you think . base. Dan Brearton ATII 5. Additional planting between boundary Silence is golden when you can't think of Chartered Institute of Taxation and existing whips along Western edge. a good answer. Muhammad Ali. 6. Creation of wet land/pond area. 8 In the UK last year over 7,000 Welcome to Open Dore organisations participated. This year, as Spring has finally arrived part of the United Nations International Dore has its own community web site Year of volunteers 2001, the Week will be In view of the weather we have all had to provided by the Dore Village Society with even bigger, having received lottery endure since Christmas, I have been the aim of providing access to information funding, and substantial sponsorship. hesitant in requesting all the gardeners in of value to the local community and Groups and organisations of all kinds and Dore to think about opening their gardens information for visitors. sizes take part - from household-name for the annual Dore Gardens Open Day The site has its own search engine or you charities to hospitals and small community during the 2001 Dore Festival. However, can follow the subject index with groups. Spring has arrived and lifted all our spirits, information about: Volunteers play an important and valuable and many gardens are looking wonderful. The Dore Village Society role in society today. If they stopped giving If you have an interesting garden please Forthcoming events - a local diary their time, then many vital services would consider opening it on Sunday 8th July, Dore to Door - intern et edition collapse, including hospital transport, sea from 2pm until 6pm. As well as giving a History of Dore - a brief summary and mountain rescue, magistrates courts and great deal of pleasure to the local Publications available and an archive children's panels. Some 22 million adults community, the Garden Open Day has Local web sites of interest or use are involved in formal volunteering each raised a considerable sum for charity each Local business sites year, and 90 million hours of voluntary year. Each 'garden opener' chooses their Dore message board - up to date news work is undertaken each week preferred charity or charities to benefit. Contacts directory - local e-mail addresses Volunteers' Week, is a great opportunity Last year more than £ 1,000 was raised. Recommended websites - nominated by you to get involved - you can test the water to All sizes and styles of garden are wanted, Links to other community sites see if you like to do volunteer work on a and we are not looking for perfection. If Feedback - our E-mail address. regular basis or you can just join up for a you have visited the gardens in other years + day on a 'one-off project. Whether you you will know that it is great fun and very Todays' local weather want to establish your own project or be enjoyable for all those involved. A national & international news ticker part of an existing group, there are If you wish to put your garden forward or opportunities for everyone. to find out more please contact me on 236 If you have access to the internet then give Volunteers' Week is co-ordinated by the 9100. the site a visit and tell us what other National Centre for Volunteering in Jufie Bearpark information you would like to see on it. association with other organisations. For more information and ideas please contact: Volunteer for a change The National Centre for Volunteering, News in Brief Regents Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London, Volunteers' Week, is a major UK wide NI 9RL, www.volunteersweek.org.uk Your The Scout bottle and paper banks on celebration of volunteers and volunteering local library, Volunteer Bureau or Rushley Road will close from the end of which began in 1986 and runs from 1-7 Timebank (0207 401 5420) should also be May. June every year. able to assist you.

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9 Common Land), the land on which the in what is now the Old Vicarage, was THE OLD SCHOOL DORE Cricket Field now stands and land called determined to use his position as trustee to 1800-1965 Bread Doles at the junction of Shorts Lane dictate the curriculum and general direction and Whitelow Lane which continue to pay of the education given, in particular "The About the early history of the Old School rent to the Trustees today. daily teaching of scripture & the Church we know very little, except that a school did The number of pupils had already begun Catechism". A long battle of wits ensued; exist in Dore from at least the beginning of to grow, and those prosperous and Furness acceded to the requests about the Eighteenth Century. Fairbank's pre- influential gentlemen who had benefited teaching the Scriptures, but resisted other enclosure map clearly indicates the position most from the Enclosure were doubtless rules "for the guidance of the of the school on its present site, and we among the first to offer to pay for an Schoolmaster" which the vicar had have evidence that money was bequeathed extension to the school building. This part persuaded the Trustees to draw up. in wills for the education of poor scholars of the School, to the left of the front door, Apparently the struggle was too much for of the parish. It seems fair to conjecture that bears a plaque with the inscription " Furness; he resigned in 1848 & was granted a schoolroorn existed to which the Master's Erected by Public Inscription 1821". a pens ion of £ IS per year by the Trustees. house was attached, all to the right hand of Contrary to popular belief, the Old School This was quite a burden on the trustees, the present front door. was thus not a Church school, since the who had limited resources, so the new Dore was at that time a small Derbyshire school and its extension pre-dated the master was appointed at a lesser salary. The village with no proper centre, no church, a building ofthe church by several years. All fees paid for the children were increased to visiting curate and a few scattered cottages that the commissioners stipulated was that 4d a week for the oldest child, 3d for the and farmsteads. In many ways the village the perpetual curate (ie the vicar) should second, 2d for the third and a penny for all changed little from mediaeval times to the always be, ex officio, one of the managers the others. The fees were collected each beginning of last century. There would be (or Trustees) of the schoo I. These managers week by the vicar, acting as agent to the no more than twenty children attending the were indeed important personages: among Trustees. school. Education was neither free nor the early managers established by the Act The growth of population led to the compulsory; the monitorial system were the Earl Fitzwilliam, who was Patron building of an infants room behind the 1821 operated, whereby the Master taught the of the living, The Duke of Devonshire, who extension: the Trustees were happy to older pupils, who in their turn had to teach owned a great deal of the land in the receive the first government grant in 1867. the younger ones. village, and Mr Bagshawe of Oakes Park, One of the Rev Martin's thrusts against A profound change took place at the time Norton. As time passed these august beings Richard Furness had been to persuade the of the Dore enclosures. The enclosure were represented by their agents or were Trustees to invite a government inspector to movement was general throughout the replaced by substantial freeholders, the schoo I and from the passing of Forster' s country and the redistribution of lands in Richard Furness, a native of Eyam, was Education Act in 1870 regular government Dore came later than in villages elsewhere. the first Master of the new school. inspections of the school was an important The act for the "Enclosure of the Dore Appointed in 1822 his salary was £18 per feature. Complaints from the inspector Commons" in 1809 appointed year, later raised to £30. He acquired some about the inadequacy of the buildings were Commissioners to give practical expression reputation as a poet and hymn writer and commonplace, particularly the "offices" (an to the Act, and when they made their Award was clearly a very able, versatile man who early master had used the boys offices as a in 1822 the village was almost completely became very popular in the village. He hen hut). redrawn. drew the plans for the building of the The trustees were still responsible for the The Commissioners set aside land for the church. However he had neither training building; after the 1870 Act they clearly building of a new church together with nor experience as a teacher, and serious found it difficult to manage financially. certain lands whose rents would provide a friction developed between him and the They were frequently insolvent: their own regular income for the upkeep of the Rev Martin who came to the village in records show arrears of rent from the school, including the salary of a 1840. tenants of the village land which they held. Schoolmaster. These lands included the Hitherto, Dore had had only a visiting Mr Deane, a competent and qualified Village Green (now happily registered as curate, but the Reverend Martin, who lived master resigned in 1882 because, he wrote, "the Trust cannot, or do not choose, to pay an efficient and experienced Schoolmaster a proper salary". He excepted the Rev Aldred, with whom he was on good terms, from this criticism. The inspectors frequently complained of Ih"VESTOR IN PEOPLE the lack of slates, or copy books and the need for more space; on the other hand their comments on the education provided were Leonard Cheshire Services in Sheffield offers The Care at Home Service supports disabled not usually unfavourable and they made a choice and opportunity to people with people who wish to remain in their own grant accordingly; in the 1880s it was disabilities homes usually about £80 per year, and depended, as did the Master's salary, on the tests of A Specialist Unit for the Younger Disabled We provide flexible care packages from 1 the children; it was "payment by results". hour to 24 hours meeting individual needs. Residential & Respite Care - Single Rooms Instruction was based on the 3Rs with a The Service operates throughout Sheffield little history & geography thrown in: there Day resources - Aromatherapy - Reflexology was no science, though the girls were taught Physiotherapy - Toning Tables Our services include:- needlework and the boys had gardening Help with getting up and going to bed experience. Drawing was a regular subject. Activities include:- dressing - washing - bathing After the Rev Martin's death, relations Arts and Crafts - Computers - Cookery shopping - cooking - light household duties between church and school seem to have Shopping Expeditions - Theatre Outings - Church been cordial. The Rev JTF Aldred, whose Further details can be obtained from:- long incumbency saw six masters come and The Care at Home Manager Further details can be obtained from:- go, was an almost daily visitor to the school The Service Manager, Mickley Hall, Tel: 0114 235 1400 Fax: 0114 235 1499 and regarded himself as the representative Mickley Lane, Totley, Sheffield, S17 4HE of the Trustees; he checked the registers, Tel: 0114 236 9952 Fax: 0114 262 0234 Registered Charity No 218186 frequently taught Scripture and also examined arithmetic and spelling. Living as

10 he did at the vicarage (now the old vicarage) the school was near and he clearly felt it his duty to guide the education given. More significant were the annual Diocesan Inspections from Derby which tested the pupils in the Old Testament, the New Testament, the Catechism, the Prayer Book, hymns and collects, and Scripture. The comments here were invariably very favourable; obviously the vicars hard work had paid off! It is hardly surprising that the school was regarded as a church school. A new Education Act in 1876 made education compulsory, though it was not yet free. More children in the school placed a great burden on the accommodation and the inspector complained constantly about the conditions. By this time the Master had one or two "uncertificated" assistants; frequently these Leonard Cheshire Volunteers will be were the cleverer pupils who elected to stay Summer Fete stationed at strategic points to give on and help as "pupil teachers" or "paid assistance where necessary. monitresses", They were instructed by the This years Leonard Cheshire Homes Please give us your support by Master for an hour before school; they had Summer Fete will be held on Saturday 23rd contributing to any of the stalls and by charge of a class all day; after that there June commencing at 2 pm. To be opened attending - it will be greatly appreciated! was more instruction if they wished to by the Master Cutler, the Fete will have a Jackic Short qualify as certificated teachers, they host of stalls, Loxley Silver Band, and Fundraising Co-ordinator attended (from 1900 onwards) the old Pupil activities for the children including a Teacher Centre in Sheffield part time. If bouncy castle and painting competition. Dart Course they passed the examinations they would In view of the current 'Foot & Mouth' earn the princely sum of £ 12-10-00 per concern it may not be possible for us to use The Attercliffe Centre has places available year. the field opposite the Cheshire Home as a on the DART course. It is a free course for Hazel Hoffman Car Park for the Fete. Visitors are urged to people with physical disabilities who wish park courteously when using nearby roads to gain skills and confidence using To be continued in our next issue. in the Totley area. Transport will be made computers. For further information, contact available at the bottom of Mickley Lane for Laura Lewis at the Workers Educational those who are unable to walk up the hill and Association on 242 3609.

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11 gleaned from the Sheffield local Register He died in 1887 and his son owned the Rinderpest for the years 1865-66. The register is a farm until his death in 1930. Much chronological record of happenings in controversy accompanied the son, and his The present outbreak of foot and mouth Sheffield and the surrounding district and housekeeper, leading to a well publicised disease has a number of historical parallels. can be found in the Local Studies Library. court case. At the reading of the will, it was In the autumn/winter of 1865 and through Ed. This article first appeared in the revealed that Mr Tyzack had secretly into the spring of 1866, the country was Sheffield History Reporter, and is married a local lady unknown to the rest of ravaged by Rinderpest, a virulent affliction reproduced by kind permission of Sheffield his family. of cattle (the name Rinderpest is derived Local Studies Library. Never mind all that. Perhaps a reader can from the German for cattle plague). identify this design of chimney pot and give In this area the first case was recorded in some indication as to the origin and date. It September 1865, when a cow with the would be nice to be sure that it once disease was offered for sale at Rotherham belonged to the illustrious industrialist. cattle market. At the beginning of October, Before I get myself involved in boundary the Hull dealer who tried to sell the animal disputes again, I should point out that was fined for "Exposing for sale in the Avenue Farm is situated in both Dore and Rotherham Cattle Market, a beast infected Totley. The old mill was on the southern with Rinderpest:" side of the Blacka Brook, that is in Totley, Sheffield Town Council were sufficiently whilst the 1881 house is firmly to the north worried by the plague to debate the whole and in Dore. matter in Council on October 20th and by Brian Edwards the 22nd the disease had made an appearance on a farm at Bradfield. By the 28th of the month the spread had rapidly Dore Millennium Play extended. The application to the Heritage Initiative The plague continued to spread and by for funding to produce the play is still under November 19th cases had been recorded in consideration and a decision is expected by Stannington. On December 6th the West early July. As obtaining funding has taken Riding magistrates banned a sale of longer than originally anticipated, and the livestock at Loxley. December 12th saw the amount of research and local involvement first case within the town of Sheffield and required is considerable, the play will now the Mayor took the step of closing the cattle be performed during Summer 2002. It is market until February I st and by the 18th hoped that many local people and Rotherham and Eckington magistrates had organisations will wish to be involved with closed their respective markets. the project and the committee would like to The New Year brought no respite, all thank those who have already made contact West Riding cattle markets were declared and expressed an interest. closed on January 8th. On January 16th, a Dore is rich in local and industrial history deputation of Sheffield butchers persuaded and an exhibition displaying some of this the Mayor to re-open the cattle market, history of the Village and the Old School, providing that all cattle brought to the which will include photographs, maps, and market were slaughtered within 48 hours. other items of interest, is planned for the Nationally the whole plague reached such summer. It is hoped that this will also be an proportions that a Bill was taken through No smoke without a chimney opportunity to meet local people who Parliament to restrict the sale and would be willing to talk about their movement of cattle; this became law on The unusual glazed chimney pot shown on memories of Village life when they were February 20th 1866. On February 26th a this page is 1000 mm (3'3") high by some young. case was reported on the farm of George 400 mm (16 ") at its widest point. It is very Enthusiastic people with an interest in Hawksley at Owlerton. heavy and is difficult to lift, so the only way local history who would be willing to help Then as now, farmers received I can move it these days is by 'walking' it with any of the following are needed: compensation for animals that had to be corner to corner. Before you jump to the interviewing local residents and recording slaughtered as a result of the disease, and in conclusion that I walk through the village their memories (on tape); typing these a Vestry meeting in early March, B accompanied by a chimney pot, I should memories from the tapes; local art/literature Cartledge was appointed as valuer of cattle point out that it is now used as a garden groups to help produce publicity materials slaughtered in Sheffield township under the ornament and I occasionally relocate it. and a programme for the play. Cattle Plague Acts. What, you might ask, is so unusual apart If you are willing to volunteer to help with By April 6th the price of meat in Sheffield from the shape? Well it came from Avenue this project or would like more information was raised by 1 1/2 d per pound due to Farm and was once used in the oldest part please contact either Margaret Peart or Lyn shortages caused by the cattle plague; but of the nearby farm buildings, which, as long Stewart at the Old School, tel2353801 or by April 16th, the fat cattle market had to ago as circ 1650, was part of a paper mill any member of the committee; Carolyn be suspended again to reduce the risk of before succumbing to the demands of the Heslop, Bessie Colley, Hazel Hoffrnan, disease. industrial revolution and, in this case, Anne Elsdon, Val Malthouse. Reports of the plague occur less often scythe making. In 1879 the mill came into after this but at the Town Council meeting the hands of Joshua Tyzack, the senior in Mav it was resolved to raise a special partner in William Tyzack Sons & Turner, Well Dressing rate to' pay for the salary of Mr Cartledge of Little London Works Heeley, and for a and to cover any additional expenses time scythe production was carried out. This year the well dressings will be put up incurred as a result of the cattle plague. On It is said that Joshua, who lived at Wood on Saturday 7th July, to be in place for the August 29th the butchers and cattle Lodge, Abbeydale, decided to build the Festival Week. salesmen of the town held a grand dinner to large stone house next to the mill and which Anyone who would like to take part in the celebrate the re-opening of the fat cattle is adjacent to the public footpath that leads making of the Village Green well dressing market - the dinner was held at the Bull and from Old Hay Lane. The date stone over should phone Anne Slater on 236 67l0. We Mouth Hotel. the porch reads 1881 and for a number of will be in the Scout Hut from Monday 2nd Information about the cattle plague was years the old buildings were run as a farm. July - times to be arranged. 12 June 9-15 Harthill Well Dressing Diary 2001 9-17 Ashford in the Water 12-18 Pilsley Village 10-17 Penistone 13-19 Dronfield Woodhouse Throughout the spring and summer, a 17-24 Cressbrook 13-21 Holmesfield Children' Well succession of old Derbyshire villages put 17-21 Chelrnorton 14-20 Great Longstone on well dressings, often associated with a 22-28 Old Whittington 14-22 Little Longstone week of village festivities. Sadly due to the 23-29 Youlgreave 15-22 Bamford Foot & Mouth outbreak some have been 23-29 Rowsley 20-29 Cutthorpe cancelled this year, but the list below was 23-30 Hope 20-29 Millthorpe current at the time of going to press. 23-1 Tideswell & Litton 21-28 Heath You can check the up to date situation by 30-8 Bakewell 21-30 Stoney Middleton ringing the Chesterfield Tourist Information Centre on 01246 345777/8. July August 7-12 Coal Aston 4-13 Bradwell May 7-15 Hathersage 9-19 Great Hucklow 19-20 Etwall 7-16 Dore 15-21 Barlow 26-31 Wirksworth 8-15 Buxton 18-25 Taddington

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13 century extension and added a scullery. It Turner & Derbyshire then passed through the hands of several owners before eventually being condemned Last week I was in the Czech Republic by the council in the 1930s. Fortunately the and, when I was introduced to the locals, house was eventually saved from the usual greeting was "very sorry to hear demolition by the Bakewell Historical about your foot and mouth". I did point out Society, who took it over in 1954. that it wasn't my own feet and mouth that The tenement partitions and staircases were a problem and pointed out hat there installed by Arkwright were removed and were still many attractions they could come today, thanks to the Society's efforts, for - a showpiece for urban foxes called the Parsonage House exists in something close Dome, reliable trains, good food on the to its original state, complete with open- motorways, cheap petrol, country walking, timbered chambers and original wattle-and- visits to Country Houses, pollution-free daub interior walls. bathing, and, in case of illness, an unrivaled The local bygones in the museum have health service. been donated over the years by local people After ten days I concluded that the former and all the items have strong associations communist state had so much to offer the with Bakewell. Much of the house is re- UK, their energy and enthusiasm seemed at created as it would have been in Victorian odds with our perception of this half of the times, with a playroom full of antique toys, old Czechoslovakia as rather drab and a Kitchen and buttery, and displays of backward. agricultural implements and equipment However when I arrived back here I did once used by local farriers, cobblers and find news of an excellent event in other craftsmen. Bakewell. A 150th. anniversary exhibition Of particular interest are the excellent of the work of that prolific artist antique lace and period costume J.M.W.Turner, entitled Turner's Peak land collections, kept in a carefully controlled Sketches 1796-1831, is being held at The atmosphere to protect the delicate fabrics. Old House Museum in Bakewell. I am not sure if Turner actually stayed at Other gems include a Tudor plank cupboard During his life, Turner made numerous Brookfield, although he did travel fairly discovered plastered into one of the trips by boat and by coach and horses extensively in Derbyshire sketching the partitioning walls, and an exquisite, inlaid, through England and other European landscape, architecture and bridges. One black Ashford marble table. countries, finding time for his very quick important sketch in the exhibition shows To visit The Old House Museum is to take sketches in pencil, pen and watercolour Bakewell Church without a spire when it a fascinating journey into the past. The (more than 20,000 of them). At an early was under reconstruction in the mid- wardens and tour guides all dedicated stage his genius was recognised and by the nineteenth century. volunteers - are knowledgeable and, age of thirty-three he was Professor of Local Art Historian Dr. Trevor Brighton passionate about their subject. It is well Perspective at the Royal Academy. has been instrumental in organising this worth the walk up from the centre of town Four years earlier, with a few colleagues, unique exhibition, which runs until 31st and the reasonable entrance fee. he eo-founded the 'Old Watercolour October. The Old House Museum is located Society' and one of those artists was James behind the church - just follow the signs - Holworthy. Holworthy bought Brookfield all footpaths are free from foot & mouth Millhouses Festival Manor at Hathersage (now a conference restrictions! Opening hours are daily 1-30 centre) and the two artists communicated pm. - 4pm from 1st April to 31st October Sunday 20 May 2001 12noon to 5pm frequently. Turner even offered advice on (during July and August 11 to 4pm.). The festival in Millhouses Park is a the building work to the extensions his Brian Edwards developing tradition. Every year students at friend was undertaking and took an interest University of Sheffield work together with ir: the planting of the grounds. the Friends of Millhouses Park to organise Bakewell museum an interesting and exciting day-out, in the Park. The aim of the festival is to create an SHEFFIELD & DISTRICT SOCIETY The Old House Museum is probably entertaining and communal experience OF MODEL & EXPERIMENTAL Bakewell's best kept secret, tucked away in enjoyed by all the park visitors. Moreover ENGINEERS LTD one of the oldest parts of the town behind it is an ideal day-out for the whole family. the parish church. The festival is a major cultural event in the MINIATURE RAILWAY The early Tudor building in which it is local community since it covers various Sundays l pm - 5pm approx based, Parsonage House, is reputedly the forms of art. On the day you can expect to May: 27th & 28th - Bank Holiday oldest building in Bakewell, dating from see local bands as well as school bands to June: 1538, and is every bit as much of an exhibit perform live. crafts people to exhibit their 10th & 24th - Open Day & Exhibition as anything in the folk museum itself. The art work; performers to entertain the July: 8th & 22nd story of its history and rescue from decline children. artists to work together with August: 5th - Teddy Bears Picnic and demolition is fascinating. children in different kinds of workshops like kite-making, face-painting, story- 19th & 26th During the Civil War it was in the telling. The programme also includes fun- You can find us in Ecclesall Woods, along ownership of the Parliamentarian Sir John fairs, games and competitions. Abbeydale Road South between the Hamlet Gell and then leased to Sir Richard Arkwright in the 1740s. His son bought it Demonstrations of modelling boats and & Dore Station - Look out for the yellow outright in 1796 and converted it into five innovative vehicles take place, as well. board on the side of the road. tenements for his millworkers. In 1865 the The Society warmly welcomes new members house was acquired briefly by the Duke of - if you are interested in model engineering Devonshire who then sold it to a local of any kind please enquire Wanted workhouse master called Edward All proceeds go towards running costs & Cunningham. Old pictures or drawings of Dore; development. Tel 236 9002. After his death, 'Cunningham Place', as it memories; letters; articles on the village or www.sheffieldsmee.co.uk was then known, was bought by a Mr it's history; news; ideas for features etc. Longsden, who re-faced the early 17th Contact the editor on 236 9025.

14 and Japanese. What it doesn't tell you is A short break at the how, in your few desperate seconds, to Did you know? Hasty Choice Hotel develop enough muscle to open the fire doors which you'll find every few yards Am I alone in being frustrated by the sheer Jingling clothes hangers, as Alec Guinness along the corridor. ti me it takes to get things to happen says in 'My Name Escapes Me', always You'll find four identical white towels in nowadays. In a supposed communications indicate a third-rate hotel. Sometimes you your bathroom, two large and two small. age, it seems harder than ever to get one's don't even reach these jinglers, as your How to tell, tomorrow morning, which are message through and procrastination seems spouse (partner) has de-armed or yours and which your spouse's (partner's)? the dominant management theme. "Let's decapitated you by suddenly sliding the Sort it out immediately upon arrival. If have an honest debate" means anything but, wardrobe door across. In some expensive there is a hook on the bathroom door, one "Let's look at the bigger issue" means we hotels where you might think they'd know of you might use that, but hooks are rare in are going to talk about it but not actually do better, you lift the hanger off by its stalk, hotels, perhaps to discourage suicide, anything for years. then try to drag your clothes round it. You always a nuisance for hoteliers. For example can you really believe how can't. You've only two hands and one's You may find a note exhorting you to use long it is taking to do anything about the holding up the hanger. Thief-proof, yes and your towels more than once. This you're parking problem at the bottom of Dore guest proof too. told will protect the Umwelt Road. Ifwe had an effective Parish Council Why is there never anywhere to put (environment). If you don't want to protect it could have been dealt with in the next anything down? No table, no window-sill, the umwelt, it says, throw your towel on the week!! Or just give me a pot of yellow just this mammoth built in vertical coffin floor! (NB if you do the result will be just paint! with two or three dolls' drawers beside it. If the same as if you drape it over the bath. No doubt we will be treated to all kinds of there is a table, it's covered in tea-making The chamber maid (chamber-person) promises by national politicians over the equipment, often with every variety of tea. doesn't want to protect the umwelt.) next few weeks. We know that the Well, almost. No Indian tea, but there is If you use the shower you need at least Government largely calls the tune on what nettle weed, hyacinth-root and ground two arms, one to hold the shower over you, local councils can and cannot do - planning elder. Or the tea-bar may be crowded onto and one to wash yourself with. If your don't legislation for instance, but it is hard to your bedside locker, with - in the hole hold it, it'll slide round immediately and readily associate life here with a remote where the chamber-pot used to go - a huge drench the ceiling, the floor and the towels bunch of career politicians in Westminster. leather bound Hotel Guide, smug and you've put on the corner of the bath for Still at least we get a chance to vote, by important. And an average ofthree Gideon your spouse (partner). post now if we wish, even if the vast Bibles. This refmement, like the hand-basin plug majority of votes count for nothing due to I was once in a B & B of the dainty kind, that's worked by a knob between the taps, our first past the post system. which compensated for its scalp-you-now is meant to keep you alert. Look away and Still if you wait long enough some things Sir? ceiling with bedside lockers a foot your basin is empty. So hold the plug down do change for the better. The Dore Deli on high, which you had to kneel to use. firmly with one hand. With the other you the High Street has now re-opened under Dainty B&B's don't approve of reading in can do whatever you like. new management, the empty Nottingham bed. If there are bedside lights they give an Thank you for staying at the Hasty Choice Building Society office has been absorbed eerie glimmer, enough to frighten you in the Hotel. While we telephone your bank, by an expanded Vivid and even the HSBC huge wardrobe mirror opposite. What's that please fill in this questionnaire and you'll Bank has extended its hours! Tarmac has haggard elderly person peering at? Is he be included in a Prize Draw. If everything been laid over the pot-holed pavement in that same bald man with a waistcoat but no wasn't quite to your liking, your friendly front of the Causeway Head Road shops, collar, in the sepia photograph on the wall. staff would like to know. 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15 following year to shredded beef suet. Could There are holders which prevent starlings The Wildlife this be the answer? getting to the food and in doing so, give Garden It was an instant success with the birds, smaller birds a monopoly, but I have never eagerly devoured by robins and starlings been keen on the idea of feeders which alike, even the blue tits would come down force birds to enter a cage to reach their and eat the small pieces lying on the food. If disturbed in any way, birds inside ground. Over the winter months I used it on the holder could panic and injure a daily basis. The starlings in particular themselves as they try to leave. I think it is were so keen on this gourmet food that if I far better to let the starlings have access; at was late putting it out, they would least the fat doesn't linger and then go 'oft'. This winter, I have become a fan of fat. frantically search around looking for it, I was particularly impressed with a narrow No, I have not started fantasising about puncturing the lawn with their sharp beaks. box-like feeder made from wire mesh. The cream cakes, nor do I stuff myself with Unfortunately, whether it was due to the mesh spacing is wide enough apart to allow huge amounts of chips - well, not every endless trampling by birds' feet, heavy rain birds to perch on it and peck at the fat, but mealtime, but I have taken to hanging out or that perennial problem I seemed to be too narrow for them to get inside. What is fat in my garden. Now this might not seem having with the fat - melting, my lawn especially useful about this type of holder is a very revolutionary idea, as animal fat has ended up with a coating of congealed fat that birds of different sizes can get to the fat long been acknowledged to be a vital, which quickly turned rancid. This also had from all sorts of angles. The starlings of energy-rich food with which to feed wild another novel feature not exhibited by the course would try to commandeer the holder, birds and I am sure many gardeners and vegetarian alternatives: it killed the turf. taking it in bad-natured turns to get bird lovers have been doing this for years. Last spring, I had to scrape the smelly beakfulls of fat and convince other diners However, being a vegetarian for a good 25 layer of fat off the lawn and re-sow it - that they should leave as soon as possible, years, I have been somewhat reluctant to much to the delight of the sparrows, which rather like the management of a fast-food bring animal fats into the house, let alone assumed the grass seed had been scattered restaurant. prepare my own animal fat mixes for the purely for their benefit. Goldcrests would search for scraps left birds. Not particularly wanting to use beef suet behind on the apple tree branches where the A couple of years ago I did try a as a herbicide, last September I looked for starlings had cleaned their sticky beaks on vegetarian alternative - melting margarine another method of putting out fat in my the rough bark, whilst long-tailed tits would and mixing it with small pieces of bread. garden. In a bird-food catalogue, amongst dangle athletically on the opposite side of Once solidified, it was duly hung in my the photographs of siskins and hordes of the holder to the squabbling starlings. Coal apple tree and the birds seemed quite keen blue tits winkling out seeds from enormous tits, great tits, robins and even great spotted on it. Unfortunately, as the weather turned food containers, I noticed a section on fat woodpeckers all came down regularly to the warmer, the margarine liquefied and holders. I duly sent off for a selection of feeder. The fat 'slabs' suitable for these dribbled downwards, liberally coating the these and within a few days, as the first holders also come in a variety of recipes, bulbs below in a lurid yellow and frosts of autumn turned the lime tree leaves everything from beef suet mixed with exceedingly sticky mess. If any fat deserves a beautiful golden colour, I hung out my peanut flour, to ones which have fruit or to be called 'dripping', this must surely be first one - a terracotta bell stuffed full of seeds added. In my experience, the various it. suet and seeds. mixtures seem to make very little So then I tried a more solid alternative - The following morning an inquisitive difference; they all disappear rapidly. vegetarian suet, scattering the white pellets starling investigated it, failed to get a Unfortunately, all this avian enthusiasm on the ground amongst scraps of bread. foothold on the smooth surface of the bell for fat was starting to get just a tad Again, the birds ate it quite happily, but as and abandoned any hope of getting to the expensive; even the smallest 'slab' of the temperature rose during the day, the fat inside. Even blue tits found the edge of prepared fat is priced somewhere in the suet would melt all too readily, this time the bell difficult to hang onto and couldn't region of £2 and a large kilogram fat cake covering the lawn with a glue-like slick. reach the fat. The outcome of all this futile costs around five times as much. Couldn't After these two disasters, I turned the avian gymnastics was that several months I simply make my own 'cakes' to go into later, only a few beakfulls of fat had been the holder? Ramble along to taken. A modification was called for: I My grand scheme was quickly vetoed by pushed a small, clean stick into the centre my partner, also a vegetarian. Boil up lard of the fat and 10 and behold, the blue tits or dripping in my pans? Not likely. I were able to use it as a perch and finally get decided to borrow a pan from my father, to the food. Much more useful as a feeder someone who has no vegetarian inclinations was half a coconut filled with a suet and whatsoever and with the kitchen extractor seed mixture. This was successful simply fan on full, I ventured into the world of because it could be hung on its side, cooking with animal fats. Making my own EXPERT BOOT FITTING thereby giving the birds easy access. Inside fat cakes turned out to be remarkably easy. 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17 Stars in Dore

Many people are thinking of summer holidays, quite probably to exotic islands where the June/July sunshine may be captured. The further south one goes this summer the more impressive the early evening sky becomes, with the red planet Mars shining brilliantly in the southeast. To the right of Mars is the constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpio) with another very red, but somewhat fainter, object in it. This star is the supergiant Antares, the 'rival to Mars' as the Greeks called it. The Moon is full on June 5th, glaringly bright, sitting just above Mars, so whilst holiday-makers pose on their hotel balconies in their holiday outfits with a cool glass of Chardonnay, expecting to see Mars, do not anticipate too much during the first two weeks of June. Those on an Hellenic cruise wandering along the deck or returning from a late-night party may notice the planet Venus low in the east just before dawn ! A beautiful crescent Moon hangs beneath Venus on 17th and 18th June. This spectacle can also be seen in Dore. Many of crown given by Bacchus to Ariadne, the require some special care. Also, since a us, I know, prefer to spend summer nearer daughter of King Minos of Crete. The telescope tends to be expensive if it is any the Costa del Dore ! constellation Hercules lies somewhat lower good, one should perhaps consider its re- Our star chart depicts the mid-summer and to the left. sale if enthusiasm falls off after a year. The night sky at 11pm (British Summer Time) One point of interest with Hercules is that fact that it is re-sellable might mean that in London looking towards the south the Sun appears to be heading in this parents put their hands a little deeper in around 23rd June. It is fairly representative direction (the solar apex) at 20 kilometres their pockets! for most places in northern Europe, per second if we compare the Sun with all Most telescopes sold in newspapers or including Dore, with allowance for time its nearest neighbours. In fact, the Sun, and catalogues that come through the front door differences as one travels either east or all the rest of the great local galaxy of stars are a waste of time and money. They west. (the Milky Way) that we belong to, is neither perform as well as claimed, nor are The brightest star high in the east, moving rotating at more than ten times this speed. they as impressive and substantial as the to practically overhead as the night One complete rotation takes about 230 illustrations suggest. A 4- or 5-inch proceeds, is Vega in the constellation of the million years, so "we" have rotated as a diameter reflecting telescope on a robust Harp (Lyra). Very low in the north is galaxy less than 40 to 50 times since the mounting, perhaps a Dobsonian mounting, Capella (in Auriga, the Charioteer) which Big Bang. Not a hectic performance! One is excellent for a beginner. One should go twinkles a great deal due to its being seen is so accustomed to large numbers in for the largest diameter affordable and not through the Earth's turbulent and astronomy. worry about high magnifications. shimmering atmosphere at a very low One question that is frequently asked by If possible, three eyepieces, magnifying altitude. Undoubtedly the prettiest parents is what telescope they should buy x20, x60 and x 120, is a good idea for a 4- constellation is the so-called Northern for their children when they express a or 5-inch. Telescopes with electric drives Crown (Corona Borealis). Seen practically serious interest in the stars. Sharing a tend to be expensive for a given size of overhead and best when there is no moon telescope with Mum or Dad is probably a telescope, but if that is what one wants, try about, this little constellation represents a good idea since this kind of instrument does a Russian-made instrument by Helios. Computer-controlled telescopes are also available. THE LEADERS IN SEAMLESS FIBREGLASS ROOFING Large photographic shops stock telescopes although one could go to Birmingham or Manchester, for example, to specialised astronomical telescope stores. Prices could range from £100 to £400. If interest in the TUFF-ROOF stars continues, then enthusiasts are encouraged to join their local astronomical SOLVE FLAT ROOFING PROBLEMS society. Meetings begin again in the • 20 YEAR INSURANCE BACKED UP GUARANTEE ..,&:. autumn. There is one in Sheffield (Mayfield • IMPACT RESISTANT AND SEAMLESS ••••••••••••• Educational Centre) and also in • MAINTENANCE FREE Chesterfield. Try contacting Darren at 0114-269-2291. Contact with the author • EXPERIENCED AND PROFESSIONAL ADVICE can also be made through the editorial • INSTALLATION BY OUR OWN EXPERIENCED OPERATORS office of Dore to Door magazine, or by e- mail to [email protected]. TUFF-ROOF LTD, SAXON HOUSE, SAXON ROAD, HEELEY, SHEFFIELD Help with delivery If you are prepared to help deliver Dore to Freephone: 0800 980 0556 rei: 0114 2556767 Door, please ring John Baker on 236 9025.

18 Wildlife Trusts and RSPB having more in the 1960s but nothing about the epidern ic Nature under threat members than all the political parties put of the 1930s. Doug Turner ofTotley wrote together. about it in the Totley Independent some Pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, In Sheffield, the local Wildlife Trust is time ago, prompted by an episode of the rodenticides - it is an ecological suicide that operating across a broad front reflecting the TV programme, Heartbeat, when an is devastating Britain's wildlife. The incredible diversity of greenspace in and outbreak was featured. madness and folly of the Common around the city from inner-city wastelands I suppose that Doug never anticipated Agricultural Policy adds to unsustainable to upland moor. With nine new nature another epidemic when he wrote: "I development, land-take for quarries, roads reserves, including the much loved remember, during the thirties, it coming to and urbanisation as well as the polluting of Blackamoor and Wyming Brook, a quality the Bents, it was terribly eerie. You walked earth, water and air. It is no wonder that of life regeneration inner-city agenda, past the farm gate, heard the bawling of British wildlife has been taken over by a environmental education programmes cattle, squealing and grunting of pigs and disaster that is unparalleled in human across the city, Sheffield Wildlife Trust is the bleating of sheep. Next day - nothing, history. Scientists note that worldwide the making the difference. except the cackling of poultry, an rate of extinctions is now faster than at any As part of a network of 46 Trusts, SWT occasional bark of a dog or the stamping of time in earth's history; faster even than the fits into the biggest environmental charity horses. All the cloven hoofed animals had extinction episode (probably caused by an concerned with all aspects of wildlife gone, and in those days that meant asteroid impact) that ended the rein of the conservation taking grassroots action from destroyed, removed, burnt, buried. All that dinosaurs. the Orkneys to Land's End. Therein lies the was left was a hollow, empty, eerie silence. In Britain, the abundant is becoming only strength of the Wildlife Trusts - local action On the infected farm this meant years of common - witness the recent demise of the sensitive to local needs but combining to hard workjust gone, more or less overnight, humble house sparrow in SE England; form a massive force for nature and the heartbreak of having to start from whilst the common becomes rare. Once conservation across the country. scratch when the all clear was given. This abundant and beautiful agricultural weeds, happened twice to the same farm in the such as corncockle, have been removed Dr Rob Stoneman Bents in a short period of time". almost entirely from the British scene. The Director, Sheffield Wildlife Trust The unhappy time was soon out of the iconic sound of the British countryside - the minds of the kids for in 1935, electricity midnight churring of the cornrake - has now was laid on to Totley Bents. been reduced to just one England pair. Heartbreak to heartbreak Let us hope that this outbreak is soon over But it is not too late. Springtime in the and the farmers can put foot & mouth, ancient woods of Sheffield is still an The talk over the last few weeks has been swine fever and BSE behind them and settle orchestral delight of birdsong; our shores about the current awful epidemic of foot down to what they are best at - looking after still hold vast populations of wintering and mouth disease and perhaps by the time our food supply. waders and geese, whilst the heather moors you read this we will have a better idea of Brian Edwards are broadly intact. The fight to retain what the extent and the cost to the farming is left and reverse the relentless decline of community and to those who service it. I Dore online at www.dorevillage.co.uk Britain's wildlife is in full swing with the have read quite a lot about the previous one

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19 alliances and periodic warfare. It was King more surprising Tim Lane named after a Book Reviews Ecgberts defeat of Mercia, and his bell in Haworth Steeple. This 64 page acceptance as their king, which led to the pocket guide is well worth its £4.99 if you loan Stratford was the Headteacher at accommodation with Northumbria at Dore are visiting the village. Totley All Saints Church of England and his eventual acknowledgement as King Walking is now one of the most popular School from 1985 until her early retirement of all England. pastimes, but not always enjoyable what in 1997 and it was largely to her credit that Anglo-Saxon Weapons & Warfare with the English weather and foot & mouth efforts to rationalise the school out of describes the weapons and equipment of the restrictions. Not suprisingly, more and more existence were defeated a few years ago. Anglo-Saxon warrior from the end of the people are taking walking holidays abroad, Appropriate then that loan was prompted Roman occupation to the beginning of especially in the winter, and there is an by her memories and the feeling that there Viking incursions along with an analysis of increasing awareness amongst was a long and interesting story to be told, the nature of warfare in the period, reasons Mediterranean countries of the potential to to write a history of the school from 1827 for conflict and the tactics used. Its author, extend the tourist season this way. There to 2000. Dr Richard Underwood, draws on are specialist firms offering walking The book starts by detailing the impact of archeological and historical evidence, holidays with a leader, package tours with local benefactors and the enclosure acts in combined with the practical experience of a walking option or you might prefer to set funding the education of the poor, the making and using weapons as a member of your own pace. [f you do then Holiday building of the original school house on living history and re-enactment societies. Walks in Mallorca could be your guide to Totley Hall Lane, still standing as a private Contemporary records are few, but Roman an excellent break. residence, and a new school on its present accounts and illustrations from items Mallorca is an ideal walking destination, site in 1877. Its subsequent development excavated are drawn on to build a only 2 hours flying time from here, with and the personalities involved is explored compelling picture of the warrior elite and plenty of reasonably priced using contemporary reports and giving at their role in society. accommodation, a mild climate and, away the same time a wider insight into life in the Any study of the Anglo-Saxon period from the tourist hot spots, some beautiful local community. Changes brought about would be incomplete without taking into mountain and coastal scenery. This book by new education acts, the reduction to a account the weapons and methods of provides a helpful introduction, even listing primary school only status in 1965 and the warfare in use. This comprehensively useful web sites, before detailing 28 battle to secure its future as a church school illustrated book provides a valuable suggested walks mainly in the most is all explored. There is also a rich addition to our knowledge and attractive north and west of the island. collection of photographs reflecting events, understanding of the period. Anglo-Saxon The walks range from 3 to 20km, most pupils and staff. A History of Totley All Weapons & Warfare is published by taking 2-3hrs, are fully detailed with maps Saints Church of England School, Tempus Publishing, 01453 883300 price where helpful and take in all the popular Sheffield 1827-2000 is a must for anyone £ 15.99 in paperback. spots making an excellent starting point to interested in the development of education Yorkshire is rich in man made heritage, exploring the island. Some can be stretched or who has been personally associated with with many towns and villages well worth a by those looking for a more demanding the school as pupil or parent. It is available visit and some reflection on their past. Two schedule and there is always the challenge in hardback price £14.99, or paperback recent publications from Wharncliffe Books (not in this book) of the Massanella, price £10.99, from local shops or by set out in their own ways to illustrate and Mallorca's second highest peak. phoning 230 8428. guide the reader or visitor to the story Although the Balearic islands are Dore is mentioned twice in the Anglo- behind the place and street names of the becoming more environmentally aware, Saxon Chronicle, some indication of its areas they cover. now is the time to walk there, before access relative importance, being sited on the Streets and Trails of the Yorkshire Dales is restricted by rich European expatriates. boundary of the kingdoms of Mercia and covers the popular tourist areas around the Holiday Walks in Mallorca is written by Northumbria. 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22 Totley Rise at 6.20pm to see a rare Whinfell Quarry Gardens performance of Verdi's first comedy Un giorno di regno (King for a Day), sung in The first working weekend in February English. King for a Day follows the went very well, with around 40 volunteers amorous exploits of Count Belfiore, who, to showing up to start the work of clearing up distract attention from the genuine the gardens. Not to mention the 15+ people monarch, becomes "King for a day". The who came along to lend their support, opera is full of Verdi's fresh, spontaneous including Stephen Doncaster who is the melodies and music of good-natured grandson of the chap who created the exhilaration. Tickets cost only £20, to gardens. Interestingly Stephen Doncaster including return coach travel! Expected also brought along some watercolours of JULY 12 - 22, 2001 return time is 10AOpm. the Gardens painted in the early part of this "rare pleasure" The Times The other operas, presented in rotation, century showing them in their hay-day. The include Partenope - one of Handels few weather was glorious over that weekend Following last year's successful comedies, an eerily atmospheric drama set and generally much fun was had by all. innovation, Buxton Festival again includes in the northern sea - Maxwell Davies' The A 'Friends of Whinfell Quarry Gardens' a superb literary series with morning talks Lighthouse, and an opera by Shostakovich group, has now been set up, has had two by ten of the country's leading authors and - The Nose - concerned with the meetings and plans another working day at speakers. These range from novelists Doris misadventures ofa nose that takes on a life the Gardens for Saturday 12 May. The Lessing, Fay Weldon, Margaret Drabble of its own. Following pursuit by an army of group aims to avoid further neglect of the and Sue Townsend to writers and policemen, the Nose is apprehended, but gardens and to provide an opportunity for broadcasters Melvyn Bragg, John rumours of a missing appendage turn the the local community to work together in an Mortimer, Richard Wilson, Robert Winston town to chaos ..... area of common interest. and politicians Michael Heseltine and Buxton Opera House has undergone They would like to see seats, paths and Shirley Williams. Tickets are selling fast, comprehensive refurbishment this year, fences improved, a variety of bulbs and with Shirley Williams already sold out. with new seating and the complete renewal other new plants established and the water Four celebrity recitals form a special of interior gold leaf decoration. With all features restored. Replacing the information feature at the Festival. International tenor events within walking distance, a busy boards, developing a link with the Dennis O'Neill (July 15) and soprano loan programme and a true "festive" atmosphere, Botanical Gardens, restoring the children's Rodgers (July 20) are joined by Tom Buxton Festival makes an ideal day out and games that used to be in the garden and Randle (July 19) and lames Rutherford can be reached in a pleasant forty-minute mapping the existing flora and fauna are (July 17) for a feast oftop quality song. drive from Sheffield. also in mind. Buxton is, of course, famous for opera, With intriguing daytime concerts, some late If you are interested in the project to and this year the Festival expands to mount night frivolity, walks, masses and more, renovate the garden Glyn Smyth would be four full operas for the first time. Dore ring 01298 70395 for the Festival brochure pleased to hear from you on Tel 235 3858 residents have a special chance to or to reserve your "Do re" seat. Brochures or you can e-mail him at: experience the thrill of the first night with a are also available at Totley Library. The [email protected] coach visit on July 12. The coach leaves Box Office number is 0129872190.

23 Diary - Summer 2001 12-22 Buxton Festival. See article inside 14 Woodland Craft Course, Ecclesall Woods, 9.30- 4.30pm booking essential on 273 6199 12 - 28 May - Sheffield Environment Weeks 14 Dore Gala. Dore Recreation Ground, 2pm - 7pm. 15 Woodland Roadshow. Demonstrations of woodland MAY crafts in Ecclesall Woods, bridleway junction with 19 Spring fair Dore & Totley URC, Church Hall l Oarn- Whirlowdale Road 2.30pm 21 Open Day, Manor Castle, Ilam - 4pm 20 MilIhouses Festival, Millhouses Park, 12 noon until 5pm 22 Shepherd Wheel, open free of charge lOam - 4pm 21 Australian Plants outside in N Britain. Talk by Greg Plenty for FOBS 7.15pm, Demonstration Centre, AUGUST Botanical Gardens. Visitors £2 3 'Ferns' a talk by Or lames Merriweather for Friends of 22 Court Guardians (Working with children) Talk by Ecclesall Woods (FEW). 7. I5pm Holy Trinity Church Margaret Webb for Dore Methodist Tuesday Group, Hall, Millhouses. Church Hall, 7.45pm 4 Field trip with Or Merriweather and FEW to view ferns 23 Tree Trail for FOBS meet 7.15pm at Thompson Road in Ecclesall Woods, Tel 236 6979 entrance to the Botanical Gardens Visitors £2 10 Raft Races & grass sledging, art activities and Graves 24 AGM & talk on the Sheffield Wildlife Trust for the Dore Park animals. Fun with the Rangers in Millhouses Village Society 7.30 pm Methodist Church Hall Open to Park12.30 - 3pm. all 13 SBG Landscape Plan. Talk by Joe Rowntree- Curator for 28 Guided Walk, by members of the Dore Village Society FOBS 7.15pm, Demonstration Centre, Botanical Gardens. 6Y2 miles. Start village Green 10.15am Visitors £2 28 Shepherd Wheel, open free of charge lOam - 4pm 15 Grass sledging, arts & crafts activities and Graves Park animals. Fun with the Rangers in Whirlow Park 12.30 - JUNE 3pm. 2&3 Craft Fair weekend at Abbeydale Hamlet 19 Open Day, Manor Castle, ll am - 4pm 7 General Election - be sure to vote 27 Shepherd Wheel, open free of charge lOam - 4pm 9 Concert of music by Vaughan Williams, Sheffield Bach society, Sheffield Cathedral, 7.30pm. Tickets £8 concession £6 from 266 1000 Support Group 11 Variegated Foliage session for FOBS 7.15pm, Demonstration Centre, Botanical Gardens. Visitors £2 The Totley & Dore support group for the visually impaired 12 Music 1900 to 1920 Talk by Donald Fraser for Dore hold regular monthly meetings. Forthcoming dates are Methodist Tuesday Group, Church Hall, 7.45pm May 23rd and 27th June. 23 Summer Fete Sheffield Cheshire Home, Mickley Hall, Meetings held at 4 Grove Road, Totley, starting at Ilam. 2pm - 5pm - see article For more information phone Mrs Turner on 2550758. 24 Gala day, ninth annual family event in support of the RNLI. Endcliffe Park 24 Open Day, Manor Castle, l l am - 4pm 26 Musical Entertainment, Cheshire Home, Mickley Hall 26 Y.W.CA. Talk by Jean Clayton for Dore Methodist Tuesday Group, Church Hall, 7.45pm 27 Cromford & Belper visit by society members - see article

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DORE FESTIVAL 2001 - Friday 6th to Sunday 15th [see posters] Totley • Fruit • Farm at the end of the Totley Hall Lane Fri Summer Concert, Dore Gilbert & Sullivan Society Dore Church Hall, 7:30pm for LARGE CLEAN Sat Village & Guide Welldressings PICK YOUR OWN Sun Village Gardens Open, 2 - 6pm. Mon Village Family Fun Run, 7pm STRAWBERRIES Lord Conyers Morris Men, Devonshire Arms, 8pm Tues RASPBERRIES Gardeners Question Time, Old School, 7:45pm GOOSEBERRIES Open Air Theatre, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Wed TAY BERRIES The Village Green, 7:30pm Thur Dore Male Voice Choir & Dore Mercia & Totley BLACKBERRIES Townswomen's Guild Choir, Church Hall, 7:30 - 9:30pm RED & BLACKCURRENTS Fri "Music for a Summers Evening", Baslow Choir, Dore Church, 7:30pm Expected opening end of June to mid August Sat Dore Scout & Guide Gala Monday to Saturday 1Dam to 8pm Sun Welldressing Service, The Village Green, 3:00pm Cream Teas, Methodist Ladies, Dore Methodist Church Now with Large Car Park, Toilets, Hall, from 3pm Free Recipe Leaflets, Ready Picked Fruit to order and 'New' Potatoes 6-8 Sheffield Art Show, Octagon Centre, 10am- 9pm Fri/Sat & IOam-6pm Sunday. Details 2259989 Tel: 236 4761 9 Container Gardening. Talk by John Pople of Pop le to confirm availability and prices Landscapes for FOBS 7.15pm, Demonstration Centre, Botanical Gardens. Visitors £2 24