~DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY No. 76 WINTER 2004 ISSN 0965-8912
Christmas in Dore
This year the Dore Village Society is again providing Christmas trees and lights in the village. Building on the success of last year they have also organised a special evening opening of many of the village shops, complete with seasonal entertainment. The open evening will be on Thursday 9th December from 6 to 8pm. Celebrations begin at 6pm with carol singing by the Guides, Brownies & Rainbows in the High Street. They will be followed at 7pm by members of Dore Gilbert & Sullivan Society. During the evening the Guides will be selling coffee and mince pies on the Dore Service Station forecourt. Shops Opening late will be: Country Garden Hair Plus Dore Opticians Gaby Valerie of Dore Vivid Little Mischiefs Dore Deli Florence Eyre, grandmother of Lorraine Dore Health & Beauty Evans in front of Ivy Cottage, High Street Oral History Collection Open as usual: circ 1930 Co-op Devonshire Arms In conversation with Lorraine Evans. Threshers Hare & Hounds Dore Video Tasty Plaice DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY Lorraine Evans was born on the 22nd Almas Indian Restaurant August 1922 at Ivy Cottage, High Street, Dore is fortunate to have such an Winter Meeting Dore. Her father was Sergeant George excellent range of local shops and 7.30pm Wednesday Bowes, of the Northumberland Fusiliers hostelries. Between them you will find a who came through World War I with wide range of ideas for Christmas presents, 24 November honour and married the beautiful Fanny all the food and drink you need for your Methodist Church Hall Eyre in August 1918. Her mother was the Christmas meals and places to celebrate the eldest daughter of John and Florence Eyre. season with friends and family. Talk by Jenny Ainsworth She had four younger siblings, Waiter, on 'Derbyshire Place Names' Gladys, Mabel and Frank. It's Wassail time again George and Fanny lived with the Eyres in Admission Free Ivy Cottage while George continued his Mince pies & drinks served army career and became well respected Dore 's fourth Wassail Walk will be on through his post as first secretary of the Monday, December 27th, starting at lOam Dore and Totley branch of the British (not 9.30am) from the Old School. As Union. When in August 1922 Fanny gave before, the Walk of about five miles is Christ Church Dore birth to a healthy daughter she was called designed to despatch the general lethargy Lorraine Irene after the region of France after the Christmas celebrations and prepare All are welcome to attend services, four where George had won his military medal. you for the forthcoming New Year varied ones each Sunday, (see Church Sadly, the following March, Fanny caught merriment. notice board). And over the Christmas pneumonia and died when Lorraine was just The pace, as always, will be gentle and period to come to the following candlelit six months old. Therefore, as so often allows breath for chatter and laughs, but services; happened in those days, Florence Eyre took just enough to stir up the heart and lungs. A December 19th, 4pm over the care of her daughter's baby and glass of punch (or soft drink) awaits at the Scout & Guide service Lorraine became the youngest of a large finish together with a warm mince pie. We December 19th, 6.3Opm family. might even extend the Wassail tradition Choir carol service Two years later, when her father wanted with something a little different. December 24th, 4pm & 6pm to marry again, it was agreed that Lorraine Last year we had close to 60 walkers - Crib services could stay with the Eyres. Lorraine reports and didn't run out of punch! Make it a December 24th, 11.30pm that her grandmother said to her father "I family occasion or bring along some friends Midnight Communion & carols don't want to part with her". - everybody is welcome. Please wear On Christmas Day, there are communion Lorraine remembers clearly her early life walking boots or, if you don't have them, services at 8am (said) & lOam (with music) in Ivy Cottage with her grandmother, who some walking shoes with a good grip on the On St. Stephen's Day, December 26th, all she always called "Mother". The spacious soles. Put the date in your diaries now. We congregations join for the only service, to cottage had a front garden bordered by a look forward to seeing you. be held at lOam. Continued on page J 4 1 PUBLISHING DEADLINES New advice sessions Dore to Door is published quarterly in Dore step crime mid February, May, August and November Staff from Woodseats Advice Centre are each year. The copy deadline for each issue At 9.1Opm on Sunday 31st October a 64 now offering a new "drop-in" advice is the end of the preceding month. year old resident of Devonshire close was service at Totley Rise Methodist Church, Please forward items for the Spring injured after challenging three white youths Grove Road. These advice sessions are held (February) issue to the address on this page who had entered his back garden. Two of on Tuesdays from lOam to 12noon. by Friday 28th January 2005 the youths ran away, but the resident Help can be provided with filling in managed to tackle the third one, only to be forms, benefits, tax credits, pension credits, hit in the face and receive serious injuries problems with debt, employment, housing, Christmas Food Collection requiring 30 stitches. The cause of the consumer or disability issues etc. All advice injuries is believed to have been a large is free, impartial and confidential. Hallamshire Round Table will once again sovereign ring worn by the assailant. More information from W oodseats be collecting food parcels in Dore on Detailed descriptions of the three suspects Advice Centre, 714 Chesterfield Road, Sunday the 12th December. have been given to the police who would Sheffield S8 OSD Tel: 2584384. The main This event has taken place in Dore for the welcome any information on the incident centre is open Monday, Wednesday, last 40 years, and its thanks to your that local residents might be able to Thursday and Fridays from lOam to 2pm generosity we have been able to distribute provide. and Tuesdays from 4 to 6pm. many thousands of food parcels to the homeless and needy in time for Christmas. We will be dropping off leaflets before Festival of Light Food for thought the date to those houses we will be collecting from, all we ask is that you leave One of St Luke's Hospice's most special A new food directory celebrating the best non perishable items in a carrier bag on and poignant events, the Festival of Light is of local produce is to be published by the your doorstep and we will do the rest. now in its seventh year. Each light Campaign to Protect Rural England Round Table is a worldwide service purchased celebrates the life or (CPRE). The aim is to demonstrate to organisation and its values are about getting achievement of someone close to you and shoppers that buying locally grown produce involved with your local community and their name is entered into a commemorative directly supports the countryside and its building a network of friends whilst serving book and placed in the Hospice Chapel. communities. Up to 50,000 free copies of the less privileged. If anyone is interested Any private individual or company can the new South Yorkshire Food Directory in joining Round Table, or if you need a make a dedication. Individuals can pay as win be printed in the spring. To be included parcel collecting, please contact me, Mike little as £5 or make a larger donation if they in the guide for free or to obtain a copy Braddock, on 236 6757 Or check out wish. The minimum cost for a company or contact JemmaGrieve on0114 266 5822 or www.roundtable.co.uk organisation is £50. This year forms are email [email protected] Mike Braddock available from the Hospice Reception, at St Luke's shops and at the Hospice's two Day Centres. Autumn Bulb Planting The lights at Little Common Lane will be DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY switched on at 6pm on Sunday 12th Registered Charity No. 1017051 Another autumn of bulb planting, and December. If you wish to attend the Festival there is a Park and Ride Scheme The Society aims to foster the protection again the weather was so kind. With so running from Tesco Abbeydale Road and enhancement of the local many helpers and good support with donations, Dore Village Society planted carpark from 5pm. The Hospice catering environment and amenities within Dore, another 4,000 daffodils and crocus. staffwill be offering soup, mulled wine and to encourage a spirit of community and Someone said it is a pity that only mince pies and the maintenance staff will to record its historic development. daffodils are planted, as there is then so be ensuring the event runs smoothly. There is no admission charge. Chairman (Dore to Door) much yellow around in spring. But we have Mr J R Baker 236 9025 been careful to ensure that each year a good number of white daffodils and narcissus 8 Thomsett Gardens, Sl7 3PP. have been included. In consequence Editorial & Advertising Vice Chairman (Environment) Cockpit Green (corner of Drury Lane and Mr R Millican 2620012 Townhead Road), the corner of Do re Road Dore to Door is published quarterly by the Dore Village Society and delivered free 16 Devonshire Drive, S 17 3P J. and Vicarage Lane and large areas of Cross Lane are in white. This year 800 daffodils to over 3,200 households in the area. Treasurer have been planted in Dore Road outside the If you are interested in submitting an Mrs M Watson 2365666 Doctor's Surgery. They will make a brave article or letter, have local news to report, 11 Cavendish Avenue, S17 3NJ. show in April. We have continued our or wish to place an advertisement, please planting of crocus in Causeway Head Road. contact the Editor John Baker on 236 9025 Secretary It is a pity that the verges get dug up by the or write to: Mrs A Slater 236 6710 service authorities and builders so The Editor; Dore to Door; 6 Old Hay Close, S 17 3GQ frequently. 8 Thomsett Gardens; Dore; Sheffield, S17 3PP. Committee On a sad note, Alan Harrison, who did not [ Email [email protected]] Mrs L E Baker 236 9025 miss a single bulb planting session during the past two years, died a few weeks ago. It Opinions expressed in articles and (Dore Show & FEW) was always a pleasure to see Allan, well services offered by advertisers are not Mr D Bearpark 2369100 into his 70's, cycling up to our planting necessarily endorsed by the publishers. Mr G Cope 235 0392 venues. We will always remember him with No part of Dore to Door may be Mr 0 Crosby 262 1127 great affection and think of him especially reproduced in full or part, without written Mrs A Elsdon (Subscriptions)236 0002 when the spring bulbs come into flower. permission. Mr D Heslop (Planning) 236 5043 Thanks to all our willing volunteers who Printed by South Yorkshire Printers; Mrs V Malthouse 236 3632 have so valiantly helped plant over 40,000 112 Harvest Lane, S3 8EE. Mr P Pryor 236 9831 bulbs in the past four years. David Heslop © Copyright Dore Village Society 2004 2 there are many other resources available at Recycling Matters! 'Recycling Matters! " such a s magazines, Advent and Christmas at books, leaflets and recycled products St John's Church Everything you need to know about including PEEWEEZ nappies made in recycling, re-use, and buying recycled in Sheffield from towels sourced in local Sheffield all on one website! charity shops! November 21st. Toy Service - lOam. On Wednesday October 6th Sheffield New, unwrapped toys for the 5 - 8 years age moved one step further in its bid to once Christmas Post group would be welcome. These will go to again be a recycling city, with the launch of the Family Service Unit. .the ~Recycling Matters! ' database, the most November 28th Advent Sunday - 6.30 pm comprehensive local guide to waste Recommended last posting dates before Advent Carol Service. A special service of reduction, recycling, and re-use in the UK! Christmas are: readings and carols with special music led www.recyclingmatters.org.ukwillanswer 6 December for Central & South by St John's Church Choir. all your questions about waste, and some America, Africa, Middle East, New December 19th. 10 am - A Family you didn't know you had, including: Zealand & Australia. Service of preparation for Christmas. * Why we need to Reduce, Re-use and 10 December for Japan, North America December 19th. 6.30 pm - Service of Recycle what we consume. & Eastern Europe Nine Lessons and Carols by Candlelight - * Composting and Vermiculture 13 December for Western Europe Join in with some well loved carols and * Where you can recycle things locally 15 December for Standard Parcels UK listen to some new ones sung by to the * Where you can take things to be re-used 18 December for Second Class UK church choir. The readings tell the locally 21 December for First Class UK Christmas story in the well loved words * Where you can buy products made from 22 December for Special Delivery from to the bible .. recycled materials in Sheffield. December 24th. Christmas Eve - The * Links to other useful local and national Christingle Service will take place at 5 pm. websites, and organisations. Christmas market This popular service for the whole family *"-Frequently asked questions about will include the lighting of the Christmas recycling. tree of the Christingles and singing popular Dore Parents' Association will be holding The database has been developed with carols. their annual Christmas Market at Dore funding from The Onyx Environmental December 24th. Christmas Eve - Primary School on Wednesday 1st Trust under the Landfill Tax credit scheme, Midnight Communion 11.30 pm - The first December between 8pm and 10pm. There and the project is also supported by communion of Christmas and the blessing will be plenty of stalls selling Christmas Burngreave New Deal for Communities. of the crib with music led by the choir. gifts, crafts, decorations, art, seasonal floral 'Recycling Matters!' which is open December 25th . Christmas Day - A arrangements, books, toys etc. Tuesdays and Thursdays 10 - 4, is based at family communion with carols at 9.30 am. Refreshments available including mulled 127 Spital Hill, Burngreave, S4 7LF Tel: All are welcome at any of our services wine and mince pies (Over 14's only). 01142758985. In addition to the database during to the Christmas period.
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3 This has dismayed those people who up to still as we remembered it. Letters recently derived pl easure from observing Then we headed for the church - finding their antics and watching them feed. the door locked we asked a gentleman Dear Sir, If people are bothered by squirrels in any tending graves, what the possibilities were Beauchief Gardens great number, the Sheffield City Council of looking inside. Richard Farnsworth, he After a most enjoyable visit to "Art in the have a Pest Control Department - 0114 203 introduced himself as and he and my sister Park" at the Botanical Gardens, (what a 7410 - and they will come to the house to talked of 'their' years at Dore school - he delightful outing, so much to see and lovely deal with the problem humanely. then proceeded to be our excellent guide - weather), we stopped to feed the ducks at Rather than resort to home-made cruel showing us through the schools new the Beauchief Gardens on the way home. methods such as the above, I would extensions and the office of Dore to Door It is such a pity that, although the grass strongly suggest to this person and to any (which made my day). He took us into the had been cut fairly recently, the shrubs and other member of the public bothered in the church and it looked much the same except general appearance of the lovely little same way, that they should contact the for no children's corner and no 'cradle roll' . gardens was so run down. The lone wire proper authorities or be in danger of being But I must say I loved the kneelers. refuse basket was more than overflowing reported for cruelty We said goodbye to Richard and took with debris, cans, paper etc. Christine Spencer ourselves for a very much enjoyed lunch As we left, my daughter noticed the Dear Sir, before we headed off for the village green plaque near the ga te commemorating the Stolen. Unfortunately two windows were and remembered our own 'battles' played gift of the park and "sheet of water" to the broken at the front of the Methodist Chapel out. I particularly remembered Mavis public of Sheffield by that great benefactor, in the village on the evening of Halloween. (Hudson) Hastings getting a very nasty cut J G Graves. I had not realised the lovely A stone cross which was on the window sill head due to a stone being thrown up to get little oasis was his gift, and it would be so inside the Chapel was then taken. This will "that huge king conker up there" - What a good if it could be tidied up. The parts of be of doubtful use to the thieves and may good year for conkers we though.- hundreds Sheffield are, or could be, a great asset, have been discarded in the village. If you lay at our feet. I suppose kids don't collect much admired by local residents and find it please ring GeoffDales on 2368171. and play conkers anymore - I do know for visitors. G.R.Dales a fact, the adults of Brussels do tho' - once Mrs D Styles Ed. We are pleased to report that the a year for a charity match! Ed. "Friends of Millhouses Park" have cross was eventual! y recovered from the On Savage Lane and past the farm stepped into the breach - see article grounds of the Old School. Greaves had - I could almost smell the dairy elsewhere in this issue. thatMrs Greaveshadjustscrubbedout! My Dear Sir, sister reminded me that the workmen's Dear Sir, This September my trip to the UK was cottages used to have a ladder to get to the Unwanted Squirrels. Residents around the full of nostalgia, my youngest sister Janet bedroom(s)? I bet they have Axminster Kerwin Drive area have been somewhat came from Swanland (Hull) and together covered stairs now! On we went down disturbed because someone has been we went down memory lane. Busheywood Road to look at number 15, enticing squirrels into a cage with titbits. We wandered around the village and re our birthplace and decided an ice cream Once captured, the creatures are drowned. thought of what was where and what was from Jimmy Martins would be nice, to
Bethlehem comes to Totley Do your children like receiving presents or dressing up? If so, why not bring them to visit Father Christmas and participate in one of the nativity plays we are organising this year? Those who came last year enjoyed dressing as Mary, Joseph, the angels etc and playing out their role as we narrated the wonderful story of the nativity. We recreated the Bethlehem stable scene in our barn complete with live animals, cow and calf, ewes and lambs and a 'stubborn' donkey to give it a flavour of real authenticity and atmosphere. The parents joined in the carol singing and photographed the whole performance or their childs part in it. The after performance refreshments proved very popular, particularly the mulled wine for the adults! Santas house was the main attraction for the children as they collected their present from him. The whole event lasted approximately 11/2 hours, with the narrated play taking about 30 minutes at the beginning. Do visit our website at www.totleychristmasfestivals.co.uk for pictures of last years performances and a list of special options for groups and clubs that start at £2.50 per person. Below is a schedule for this years performances and we would love you to join us for this unique and special start to Christmas. For further information, or to book your places using our credit card hotline please phone Jenny on 0114 236 4761. 2004 ticket price and performance schedule Adults @ £7.50 - includes tea, coffee or mulled wine and mince pies Children aged 3-16 @ £7.50, Children under 3 @ £3.50 - includes a present, drinks and Christmas biscuits. Fri 3rd Dec 4.30 Mon 13th Dec 4.30 Mon 20th Dec *10.30 1.30 4.30 6.30 Fri 4th Dec *1.30 4.30 6.30 Tues 14th Dec 4.30 Tues 21st Dec 1.30 4.30 6.30 Wed 15th Dec 4.30 *6.30 Wed 22nd Dec 10.30 1.30 4.30 6.30 , Fri 10th Dec 4.30 6.30 Thur 16th Dec *4.30 *6.30 Thur 23rd Dec 10.30 1.30 4.30 6.30 Sat 11th Dec 1.30 *4.30 6.30 Fri 17th Dec *10.30 *1.30 4.30 6.30 Fri 24th Dec 10.30 1.30 Sat 18th Dec 10.30 1.30 4.30 6.30
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4 complete our walk. Oh dear! The shop and exactly the same, fifteen yards further along Bradshaws were all boarded up. It quite Where on earth on the left, although this one is twisted upset my sister as her memories were very are we going? around and could only be noticed by much centred around her friend Margaret someone in the churchyard. Bradshaw and her family and home. So we The days are long gone since you could walked on up to Totley Rise and got the bus Do you find road signs helpful or ask a 'bobby' the way to the Recreation to Sheffield. confusing? Do we really need all the signs Ground. But how many people standing by Later in my stay I had the pleasure of and street clutter that we have on our roads Country Garden, would really need to be afternoon tea with Janet Taylor and her these days? told where the Rec is? And the same notice husband Noel Hancock. Janet and I were in We se em to have gone mad with signs is repeated again in Townhead Road the same class. During our conversation I and notices. English Heritage have started opposite the Rec entrance. Nearby is my realized my memories of chatting to the a campaign to try to reduce unsightly signs fourth example. stonemason were ofMr Gill - not John and and unnecessary dross on our roads. It If you are travelling along Townhead Janet's father - but thanks John (Autumn happens everywhere, even in Dore. I offer Road towards the village centre, just by the Edition): as he had spoken with pride of his four examples of what I mean, which do entrance to the Rec, there is a sign, which is daughter at Oxford University - I've caught nothing to help the street scene or the now barely readable. It indicates that there up with Mavis Hudson Hastings, and my traveller fmding his way in Dore. is a junction ahead, where you can pass on Dore to Door Mags have come home with If you drive up the deep cutting of Old along Townhead Road or go down Drury me. I've enjoyed them cover to cover and Hay Lane towards the village, in the bank Lane. Why is it necessary? It is neither much has been revealed. I phoned my sister on the left hand side is a sign that tells you essential, useful nor readable. and told her of Jimmy Martins' closure and there is a bend at the top the hill. You Not long ago the council proposed putting retirement - we wish you well too Jimmy probably won 'tnotice it, stuck in the hedge, up signs on all the roads leading into Dore, and thank you. when concentrating on the prospect of (complete with the name of the sponsor) to Thank you again Richard Farnswortb. I oncoming traffic before the top of the tell you that you were in Dore! Thankfully look forward to that picture if it's still gradient. And what use is it, when there is a they were persuaded otherwise. How much possible and thank you to Dore to Door for large reflective chevron sign saying the better to be welcomed to D ore by a few making an 'ex pat' have such happy recalls. same thing on the bend at the top? Even a kind words than a placard from 'ABC ElvaSmith stranger to these parts is unlikely to drive Supermarkets' telling you that you are in New South Wales, Australia straight on into the bank having negotiated Dore. this difficult route. David Heslop Please note: All letters addressed to the Travelling along Vicarage Lane, just editor should be, and are assumed to be, before the church by the gate there are two intended for publication. blue signs, saying exactly the same thing - Help with delivery 'one way street' , and even sharing the same News, views, local information? hole in the pavement (see the photo in the Dore to Door is delivered by volunteers. Call the editor now on 236 9025 Summer 2002 edition of Dore to Door). If If you could spare an hour once a quarter, you notice these two, there is another one, please give us a call on 236 9025
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Amazing, another three months gone and winter almost upon us. But before I go into hibernation just time to reflect on autumn. This year there were far less random firework incidents before the 5th November. Could it be that the new legislation or fear of it worked?! Never mind. The comparative quiet was made up for by the din on the 5th and 6th, with the loudest bang credited to the HSBC finale. I don't want to seem a spoilsport (Ed - are you sure) but just how much did their display cost? Meanwhile the woods have seen a bumper crop of nuts which means we can look forward to a plague of tree rats next year. They may be cute, cuddly, and endearing to some, but grey squirrels are vicious little beasts and a real pest, getting into roof spaces and destroying more bird nests than Magpies or Jays. I guess we are stuck with them, but best to let nature take its course and at least not provide them with extra This year's Christmas cards from the Dore Village SOCiety show a snow scene outside food in our gardens. Our local roads have seen their usual the Devonshire Arms, complete with the obligatory 'Dore Ducks '. In two sizes, the cards spate of accidents and lunatic driving. are available from Greens shop on Causeway Head Road or Valerie of Dore on the Speeding and parking on the pavements High Street, price £2 and £1.50 for 5. have become de regIe, but it never ceases to Wyvern Walkers amaze me what some drivers get up to. Plant it Save it ! Driving onto the pavement to post a letter! Perhaps we should ask the Post Office to Dore has it's own walking group run by re-site post boxes on stalks next to the road BBC Radio Sheffield has launched an the Dore Village Society. There is a regular to save drivers getting out of their cars. ambitious and exciting campaign to get its' programme of walks on different days of Mind you some cars are big enough to live listeners planting 10,000 trees over the next the week, usually starting at 9.30 am from in, so getting out must seem strange. It 12 months in South Yorkshire. the Old School and back in time for lunch. always strikes me as ironic that large four The BBC has teamed up with The South The next walk is on Thursday 9th wheel monsters have become the vehicle Yorkshire Forest, BTCV, The Wildlife December, followed by the Christmas for the school run, yet at any speed, a child Trust, Heeley City Farm, Tinsley Tree Wassail Walk - see front page. For more hit by one of these stands far more chance Project, The Woodland Trust and Local information on the Wyvern Walkers and the of serious injury than if hit by a standard Council's in Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster walks call David Bearpark on 236 9100. saloon! See you in the spring. and others to make trees available at Doremouse tree-planting sites & events across the region. Free trees will be available along with tree related talks, walks and tours. On-air 91 :d"\ ~('~('r\lr,,\('rY'IC:: features, interviews and programmes will ~ - . \,----",\.._)-J I X I \J U I \....___, follow throughout the next 12 months. I Plant it Save it is your chance to plant a tree and do your bit to help save the planet. CHRISTMAS LUNCH MENU - £16.95 Many of our trees were planted in Victorian STARTERS times and earlier and are coming to the end Soup - Choice for the day Creamed Mushroom or Roasted Parsnip of their natural lives. We need trees to help or mop up carbon dioxide and to make ou r Salmon Pate world a cleaner, greener place. Served with Melba Toast We want you, schools, community or MAIN COURSES Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pudding faith groups to register to plant a tree (or or dozens of trees) during 2004/05. You can Crown of Turkey Breast plant a tree to celebrate or commemorate a or Brie & Cranberry Tart person, event or milestone, it's up to you. All served with season vegetables If you have land on which you'd like to · hot: ,tOM mA£'~~ DESSERTS see some trees planted, money and Christmas Pudding · ~ Iwui mA£'~~ expertise are all available through our Served with Brandy Cream · dermALoJw (u,xury partners to help you get trees planted on or f~ Layered Trifle Cake · ,trw-bUfter/wei1IJWrj ~u your land with help from the South Yorkshire Forest Partnership. We'd Coffee and Home Made Mince Pies · arol1Uli:lterapy need to know it is your land and that it is Bookings now being taken open to the public. Christmas Speciality Evenings - £25.95 IN Bl'cldll\/)" RO'lIi, Silt!)"ld SI7 4Q.'\ If you'd like to register for Plant it - Save Fri 10 Dee & Sat 11 Dee it call the Actionline on 01142675444 or 148 Bradway Road Bradway, Sheffield S17 4QX Tel:0114 235 6500 Email [email protected] Tel: 0114 235 3285
6 Dore Male Voice Choir News in Brief Calling budding footballers
The Choir has had a very successful Dore Show was able to make a donation Totley Youth Football Club was summer programme, culrninatingin a major of £250 to the Bluebell Wood Children's established 9 years ago with a single team concert at the Elsecar Heritage Centre Hospice following a successful auction at to cater for boys who could not get in to the where, with Strata Brass we performed the end of the day. limited number of teams in the area. Since before an audience of 450, in support of the The next Neigbourhood Watch co- then we have had teams representing all age Mexborough Music Festival. ordinators meeting will be held at 7pm on groups and have won several league The winter programme includes concerts Wednesday 1st December in Totley championships as well as sporting trophies at Woodseats Methodist Church, in aid of Methodist Church Hall on The Grove. every year since the club was formed. They Western Park Hospital, and on 4th The Dore Village Society has recently now have junior and practice pitches on December, St James Ranmoor for purchased a John Speed map of Derbyshire what is rated as one of the best playing Abbeydale Rotary's Charity, along with from 1610 which can be viewed in the DVS surfaces in Sheffield. Carol singing at the Northern General, a room at the Old School from lOam to 12 Currently the club only have sufficient regular event. noon on the first Saturday each month. players for Under 13 and Under 16 teams. The Choir highlight will be the Christmas The Rowan School, which works with This means that next season they will have Concerts on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th children who have severe and complex potential opportunities for players to join December, at the Parish Church. Why not communication difficulties, won a glowing all age groups from Under 11 to Under 16. start your Christmas Festivities by coming report from a recent inspection, but is As well as players they welcome parental along? Order your tickets early though, as ironically earmarked for closure under support, like other clubs TYFC relies 0 n there is always a big demand. current shake-up plans. parents helping with coaching, refereeing, Next year will undoubtedly be very busy The recent fashion show organised by accounting and administering the clubs with ten concerts already booked. For your GABY's shop in support of the Cavendish affairs etc. diaries, the Annual Gala Concert will be on Cancer Care Centre raised a total of If you have a football keen son who will th 16 April. Our special guests will be the £850.20 from the sale of tickets and the qualify for any of the age groups on 1st Kinder Children's Choir. Contact David raffle, plus £90 from the sale of calenders September 2005 please contact the club on Heslop, Concert Secretary on 236 5043 for and Christmas cards. the following numbers: Kevin on 235 1862 tickets or any information about the Choir. or David on 235 6937.
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~~~~~~~ 7 was a bit of a bind. The posh folks with Jean recalls their skis didn't like us churning up their Stag rescue piste either. I cannot say that I am impressed by the so I regret to say that we all were followers For some time there has been a small herd called improvements which the Council of the hunt in those days. Seeing a stream of of red deer roaming below the gritstone claim to have made to the roads here. It horses and hounds galloping across the ramparts of Froggatt Edge. I guess they looks a complete eyesore to me. The white fields and moors was a sight to behold. If have strayed from Chatsworth and have lines make me dizzy and I am continually only Mr. Tod wasn't involved. The hunt found cover amongst the burgeoning trees tripping on the knobbly bits. One used to turn out from the Crown Inn at which threaten to hide the Edges and which consolation is that being Council work the Totley. I suppose following them as far as are causing concern to locals. I understand white paint will soon wear off. The money was possible on foot was good exercise and that the Peak Park Authority are planting could surely have been better spent on it certainly gave you a good appetite. Since yet more trees and the views of the Edges trying to improve safety on the Hathersage Sheffield banned the hunt from their land are fast disappearing, as are other Road where serious accidents seem to be we haven't seen so much of them here. spectacular views of the Derwent Valley. the norm at the moment. Judging by the number of foxes that we Anyway, towards the end of October, one It seems pointless, the Village Society now see I suppose that the hunting stag fell down a crevice and had to be trying to brighten up the grass verges when fraternity have a point when they say they lassoed and gingerly extracted after a shot they seem to be continually covered in keep a check on the numbers, but it seems of tranquilliser. A specialist animal rescue skips, bags of sand, bricks and cars. They a pretty barbaric thing to take part in to me. unit from Matlock Fire Station performed looked really nice last spring. I wonder how However if those that do take part can live this delicate operation and the deer trotted many will have survived the crushing they with themselves and sleep easy in their beds off perhaps looking forward to rejoining it's are getting. who am I to judge. mate after feeling DOESY! Sheffield Star If the pundits are correct we are in for a Who keeps hanging bags of dog poo on headed off a description of this daring hard winter this year. I for one hope not. the outside of the top bin in the Rec.? It rescue with 'The Buck Stops Here'. We have had some really bad ones in the makes me feel quite sick, especially as it is Brian Edwards past but not so much recently. I remember contained in a clear bag. Surely not too the winter of 47.We lived on Newfield much trouble to lift the lid. Someone has to! Lane at the time. This was blocked from the Litter round the HSBC seems to get Musical Evening gates to Dore Moor House to the Whitelow worse. I think that if the flat top wall wasn't Junction for weeks and there was snow there, it wouldn't encourage teenagers to sit under the walls until early May. The on it and drop their rubbish. I am thinking The John Wade Singers invite you to a novelty of not being able to get to school of asking the council for rubber gloves and Musical Evening at 7.3Opm on Saturday soon wore off. Sledging and snowballing a dustpan and brush. I seem to spend time 20th November, at All Saints Church, soon pall when your fingers are coveredin every morning picking the stuff up. Totley featuring Gounod: Messe Solennelle chilblains and your feet are constantly dead. Jean Dean (St.Cecilia) and contrasting items. Gills Fields was an ideal place for sledging, Ed. Dore Village Society can provide Tickets from J Parker on 236 0798 or any the run down was a doddle but the pull up litter picking kits to anyone wanting them. choir member. Price £5 incl refreshments.
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8 Road in Jim Martin's old newsagent's shop, Speeding through Dore the enterprise will, as its name suggests, Dore Recreation Ground essentially have a seasonal theme. Particular concern has recently been Changing accents of colour within the The Council's Parks, Woodlands and expressed by residents about speeding on gallery will the mark the changing seasons Countryside Service has received a request Causeway Head Road and Dore Road. and the coffee shop will serve seasonal from Brunsmeer Athletic AFC to have the Although both of these are through routes snacks and beverages. use of a pitch on the top field of the between Abbeydale Road and Hathersage One of the first artists to be featured at Recreation Ground for junior football. The Road, there is plenty of evidence that many Seasons will be David Humphries, whose football pitch will be used for organised .of the vehicles travelling above the speed work has previously been exhibited in matches at weekends between September limit belong to Dore residents themselves. galleries in York, Hull and Leeds. Local and April, and some training sessions One resident on Dore Road has addressed artists Michael Claxton, Pat Horscroft and during the week. Players will be 10 years councilors about the problem and the risk to jeweller Naomi Cam will also display work. old and under, and the teams that will be children living adjacent to the road. Sadly, Jane and Howard Clay are the driving involved in matches are under 10s and 8s as this area of the city is low on the current forces behind this new venture beingjoined boys' teams playing on Sundays, and under council's priority list, little is likely to by their son Adam, a graphic designer and 10s girls' teams playing on Saturdays. happen quickly. For some reason there illustrator, who will manage the gallery. Following concerns expressed by local seems to be a reluctance to install speed Adam's brother Robin, a graphic designer residents about this area being used for reminders such as rumble strips or 30 mile in London, has also been involved in the organised football activities, use has been signs painted on the road surface. Given design work including the shop frontage, temporarily suspended. A letter has been that the main problems occurs during the making this a true family venture. sent by the council to residents living morning and evening rush hours, a timely adjacentto the area and to local councillors, visit by a police speed trap might help! in order to gauge local opinion on the use Mystery Map and location of the football pitch. Council Art on your Dorestep contacts are Mark Lowe (District Parks A recent request from the internet for a Officer) on 273 5068 or Andrew Mumford, street location map of Do re, shows what we (Parks Officer), on 273 4599. Although it is difficult to argue against the A brand-new addition to Dore and all know as Drury Lane, as Cockley Hill use of the top field in this way, it is Totley's shopping scene opens in a few Lane. Information on the source of the map deplorable that consultation with residents weeks time on Abbeydale Road South. has not yet been forthcoming from its and other interested parties did not take Seasons Gallery will offer visitors ideas for publishers "Multimap". It may be that the place before the pitch was marked out and gifts, including ceramics, art, glassware and name is connected with the open space at in use. It also seems wrong to arbitrarily jewellery with the added bonus of being the top of Drury Lane, which in the award exclusive use to one club without able to enjoy a relaxing coffee and snack in nineteenth century was known as Cock Pit first inviting other more local teams to the new conservatory coffee shop. Green. If anyone can throw further light on make use of the facilities. Situated near the bottom of Bus hey Wood the name please let us know.
You are invited to a ~~~9~ on Saturday 4th December 2004 10.00 - 4.00pm
9?a~ ,statt 'lVoodluUle1.S cqleal c{}i/t 'fJdeas- C(!lU'Id.ies ceaulS' cWw.n. AI qz~l"",shme.n1S' --,~fUlUf TEMPTATIONS Toys for Boys and Girls of all ages JIGSAW SPECIALISTS 12 pieces to 18,000 pieces - Over 2,000 puzzles in stock MAIL ORDER SERVICE AVAILABLE Find us at Matlock Street in Bakewell Tel: 01629 812065 9 AB8BYDALB lIIDIIAT'URB RAlLWAY 22 Townhead Road. Serious concern has Planning matters been expressed about the demolition of a wall in front of cottages in Townbead Road 'Long Acre' Newfield Lane. Following and the construction of a car parking area in the refusal of planning consent for the Santa the garden. The work was done without development of this site with 38 properties Conservation Area Consent for the having access 0 nto N ewfield Lane a nd a demolition or Planning Consent for the car paved footpath across the Recreation Specials park. The Dore Conservation Area, which Ground, the developers have appealed covers the whole of the centre of Dore, has been in place since the early 1970's. It was against the decision to the Secretary of Sunday 5th December State. We understand that the date for the introduced to protect the centre of the Public Inquiry is to be in September 2005. and village, although it came too late to stop DVS will be attending the Inquiry with some of the destructive activities of the Sunday 12th December professional representation. In the 1960's. There are no architectural gems or meantime we are pleased to report that First Train 11o'clock fine listed buildings in the centre of Dore, Westbury Homes have made a fresh Last Train 4 o'clock but there are buildings and structures that planning application showing the access to make up the character of the village. One of the site for both vehicles and pedestrians, One Price Admission £4.00 per person the special features of the village centre is along the service road and into Newfield includes unlimited train rides all day plus the stone walling which unifies the street Lane much closer to Newfield Crescent. tea/coffee and a mince pie for the grown ups scene within the Conservation Area. This is a great improvement, in that there and for the children a visit to see Santa in his Because of all of this, it is not possible to will no longer be a new access into grotto, a present and a drink demolish or alter buildings or structures Newfield Lane, the cutting into the bank within the Conservation Area without first and the removal of trees. There will also be original proposal for four bungalows as obtaining Conservation Area Consent to do no paved footpath across the middle of then proposed by the Council planning brief so. That includes changing windows, Recreation Ground. The house numbers when the developer bought the property a lopping trees, taking down walls or doing have been reduced to 36, still a lot, but few months ago. other such things. Failure to obtain Consent regrettably still well within the government 114 Totley Brook Road. Another is an offence liable to prosecution. The guidelines for developments of this type. If proposal for over development. Another owner of 22 Townbead Road was told that consent is achieved we understand that the try. It was about 18 months ago that the Consent was required but the work still th appeal will be withdrawn, and we will be owner of 114 Totley Brook Road applied progressed. In the end the Council, on 20 assured of a far better arrangement than for four houses in the garden of that September resolved to serve an might have been the case. property. The application was rightly Enforcement Notice to secure the 291 Totley Brook Road. You will recall refused on the grounds of over rebuilding of the wall in the same materials that we reported (summer 2004 issue) the development. The situation would have and dimensions as existed previously. It is application by a developer for flats on the been dire for the neighbours. A new a pity, that even after the meeting, the Caretaker's House site near Furniss application has now been submitted for 3 building work continued. It is no answer to Avenue. The original application was for properties in the back garden. This sort of say that the work has been tastefully done, 14 flats, this was amended to 12 flats and development destroys the character of the anyrnore than one could claim that if a went to the Planning Board in September. locality and the reasonable amenities of the house is well designed it could be built Fortunately the application was refused by residents. The Society has lodged a strong anywhere in the Green Belt. As the owner the Board. However the developer has now objection in this case. has said, there are others in the applied for 10 flats on the site. There is Totley Bridge Garage, Abbeydale Road Conservation Area who have indicated that very little difference in appearance from the South. You may recall a planning they wish to demolish there front walls. large slab of a block that is proposed and application was made some time ago for the There would be little point in having a none of the reasons for refusal have been demolition of the Service Station at the Conservation Area if the features that make properly addressed in the new application. bottom of Devonshire Road, the erection of it valuable were removed on that basis. It is There is very strong local objection to the a three storey block of flats. There is now hoped that the wall will soon be reinstated application and it is hoped that it will again an application for demolition and the and made good for the sake of all. be refused. All this is a far cry from the provision of a retail store and car parking. David Heslop Journey to Bethlehem CLEANING MASTER I=lood ContPol Sepvices 'Journey to Bethlehem' ad November 04 Dec 4th and 5th Totley Rise Methodists. This holiday season we invite you on a journey back in time ... the year ADl, the place Bethlehem. In parties of 10, you'll be taken on a 30-minute tour led by a Roman Centurion. You'll encounter the sights, smells & sounds of the time ofJesus' birth. You'll visit the Market Place with Bible- time baking & sweets to taste, and Bible- time crafts for the children to make. Hebrew dancers, a crowded inn, shepherds in their field and fmally the baby Jesus all go in to make this an experience never to be Carpets / Rugs and upholstery cleaning forgotten. This special programme is for the Sheffield's only Proclean member - Fully insured - Rapid Drying ~ whole family and entry is free. Call 0114 262 1345 Mob 07970 037335 ~ To book your place & tour-time call Gill 8 Furniss Avenue, Dore, Sheffield S17 3QL ~ Hutchinson on 236-1635. Tours run from 4:30pm to 7pm Dec 4th and 5th. 10 • CHARLES BROOKS Shoe Repairs For all your traditional shoe and boot repairs, Twinkle~toes key-cutting and dry-cleaning services 7 Brooklands Ave. 1 Totley Brook Grove Established over 30 years Fulwood, Sheffield Dore, Sheffield Specialising in quality Northamptonshire-made footware by Tel:0114 2295555 Tel: 0114 262 1785 Loakes, Barkers, Padders and Elmdale. Large stocks of bedroom slippers, wellingtons, walking boots etc ~.~ Twi,Jde Toes has become one ~ As recommended by local chiropodists and reflexologists , of the well known Footwear Retailers ill S';effield. ~ • • A business built on recommendations JN1i We are proud to say that we have b'Townfrom being only a .?J Tel: 262 1077 ~' designer shop to a shoe retailer which can offer almost all types w 35 Baslow Road, Totley Rise of footwear with width fitting at different price level for children. Start-Rite • Baby Botte • Kenso • DKM· MosehillO Naturino » Oilily etc Our staff are totally trained and we are continuously updating our ~rian 9-Lill& Son knowledge in the fitting of children's shoes. Builders, JOiners, Decorators Ladies brands have Leen a success with the comfort and styling offered. Established 1970 Rieker • Hogl • MeJlhisto • Belly Barclay • [asmu: etc Replacement Doors and Windows For this Christmas come and have a look at out new product uPVC and Wood range of hand made cardigans. jewellery on show at the Single and Double Glazing Christmas fair at FulwoodChurch. ~ • We are raising money for deprived women in Peru with this act~iVity.'$i. Roofing and Pointing Furniture Repairs , Open Tuesday-Friday 10.00-17.00 .. ~.~ So..",., 10.00.16.00 ~ i AiSi. 47 Rushley Drive, Dore, Sheffield 517 3ELCI (0114) 236 7384 & (01246) 410601 _ BEST WISHES FOR CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW YEAR Mobile 07860 210156 MAKINSONS 802 TWENTYviELL LANE, BRADWA~ TEL: 0114 236 9907 iMPORTERS OF NEEDbE HObllNG NIMDM1Ns THE RObbS ROYCEOf CHRiSTMiS TREES TO CELEBRATE OUR 24TH ANNIVERSARY PRICES WILL BE LOWER THAN WHEN WE FIRST STARTED IN 1980!! NE~ XMASTR£ESTANDS that take 10 seconds to set up your tree 11 Charlie at The Castle As many regulars of The Castle Inn, Bradway will know, D anielle and S imon Humphreys have recently introduced regular music entertainment on the 1st Sunday of every month. The music starts at 9pm, with singer/songwriter and guitarist Charlie Barker and special guests. On the night you will hear a wide variety of acoustic music from American folk, country and traditional folk to pop music and also original material. Local musician, Charlie Barker, recently turned professional and is currently managed by The Partnership - Promotion & Management, based in Bradway. Charlie is a classically trained multi instrumentalist who plays cello and guitar and has taken a career decision to pursue her first love of American folk, country and acoustic music. Already she has broad experience beyond Calver village in 1898, from the cover of her 18 years, which includes a solo Brian Edward's latest book. performance on the BBC showcase 'The Flower show trip Next Big Thing' and she has appeared at the Royal Festival Hall, London, as a lead Calver, Curbar & Froggatt vocalist during the National Festival of Totley Gardeners are planning to organise Music for Youth 2002. More recently, a coach trip to one of the RHS shows next Charlie has begun to promote folk venues year - Chelsea, Hampton Court or Tatton Brian Edwards has done it again, a new and acoustic music during her appearances Park. This would be open to anyone and book just in time for Christmas! Following on the Peak 107 stage at various events in everyone on a first-come-first served basis. on from the successful book on Totley & Yorkshire and Derbyshire, as well as I have been given the task of finding out District, he was persuaded to produce one performing 0 n BBC Radio Sheffield and if there is enough interest among local on three popular Peak District Villages; Sheffield Live. people, their families, relatives and friends Calver, Curbar and Froggatt. The chief snag Charlie 's residency at The Castle Inn to do this. All I need to know at once is, was that Brian knew absolutely nothing started in June 2004 and has received a which one would be the most popular? about the locality apart from driving great reception from local people and Please can you let me know by emailing through it for several years. others much further a field. It is an me, phoning me, or putting the slip through Local residents were firmly behind him, enjoyable and varied evening's my door to let me know of your interest and lending old photographs, passing on entertainment in a friendly atmosphere. preference, together with your contact contacts and soon some three hundred details. Please indicate 1 st, 2 nd, and 3rd illustrations arrived on his drawing board. under each event to indicate your choice. I That was the easy bit; then came the hard Rubbish Days will then see which is the most popular work, interviewing the old 'uns, researching choice, and make a provisional coach in local libraries and uncovering long booking for the event, and call for forgotten details. The superb cover The local 'Bring out your rubbish days' bookings. Ifit's Chelsea, tickets for Chelsea photograph dating from 1898 was one of organised by Street Force in June proved a should be booked in January or February, those staged pictures by a professional; great success. Residents in the Ashfurlong so there is no time to delay! sadly the participants are not known to date. Road area produced 6.9 Tonnes of rubbish, Chelsea 24-28 May; Hampton Court 5-10 Perhaps you will recognise one or two of in the Furniss Avenue area 14.4 Tonnes and July; Tatton Park 20-24 July the Calver villagers, if so Brian is offering in the Devonshire Road area 21 Tonnes! Jennie Street a free book to the first response (telephone And these were only the amounts left over Tel: 236-2302; 16 The Grove, Totley; him on 01629640752) but you will have to after some zealous picking over and [email protected] wait until publication date in late recycling by other residents. November! The book will be available from local , shops, the Country Bookstore at Hassop, Bakewell Bookshop, Derbyshire Craft a Ck50 n Centre at Calver and so on. In the J meantime, copies can be reserved through Brian and the price is £9.99 in softback nail technician with a limited number in hardback at £14.99. ce + private & confidential Cards for good causes ge.., fibreglass + home & work visits ed & insured • celebrit9 deintele The Sheffield Charity Christmas Card Shop can be found in the Cathedral. The shop is open from lOam to 4pm, Monday to Saturday. On sale are cards from both tel. 07971 072926 national and local Charities. For more information call Mary Watson on 2365666. 12 • First Steps * * * * * * * * * * Nursery School * * * * * * * Dore Old School, Savage Lane, Dore 517 3GW WHY NOT TIDY UP YOUR GARDEN Registered provider of nursery education for 3 and 4 year-olds FOR SPRING? 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In addition a range of care options are available for use on a regular basis or at any time should the need arise - the choice is yours. Cleaners, ground staff and a maintenance team will help to maintain your home and the entire complex in excellent condition. to consider exciting Loxley Park is accessible and affordable - costs are comparable with those of a residential/nursing home. new possibilities to feel calm and contented ... to feel secure with us ... for peace of mind and freedom of choice. 13 • continued from page 1 . along lived Nellie Flint who was stone wall and iron railings and, of immortalised as a child aged 11 in the well- course, ivy growing over the entrance. One known postcard of Dore in 1906. It is not of her earliest memories is of the tingle-airy generally known that the older girl in the man who used to come round and play his photograph is Fanny Eyre, Lorraine's barrel organ in the middle of High Street. "I mother then aged 12. would look through the window and watch On leaving school at fourteen Lorraine him. Mother used to say "If you don't started work at Firth Browns as a office girl behave yourself he'll take you with him!" in the accounts department on Saville Lorraine laughs. Street, Sheffield. Thomas Firth and John Behind Ivy Cottage was a yard with a coal Brown Limited were one of the biggest house and a midden and beyond that a steel firms in England and at that time Mark small croft where Oliver Gill kept his geese Firth lived at Kings Croft, Savage Lane. and poultry (now the Devonshire Arms car Lorraine travelled to work by public park). Lorraine admits to being rather afraid transport catching a bus from Dore to of them especially after an incident with a Ecclesall (then every 20 minutes!), a tram cockerel. "I'll never forget ... I'd gone to to Fitzalan Square, and then the Brightside Oliver Gill's croft and a cockerel chased and Carbrook tram to Norfolk Bridge. The me and I ran up this tree." The family could whole journey took about 45 minutes and not find her and she had to be rescued. only cost fourpence (10 new pence)! She "That tree's still there today!" exclaims was paid 10 shillings a week with annual Lorraine. rises of half a crown a week for four years, In order to earn some money Florence then five shillings a week until the age of Eyre took in washing. She washed for the 21years. household of Colonel Clifford of Clifford Sergeant George Bowes and Fanny Eyre "After you were twenty-one it went on House, Whirlow. Lorraine recalls, "She (Parents of Lorraine Evans) on their your merit. If you were a good worker you used to do the maids' aprons, tablecloths, Wedding Day in August 1918. got a raise if you weren't a good worker sheets and things and Mr. Shipstone would you didn't get one." Lorraine admits to call with a big hamper." Mr. Ships tone was came out at the side. But she'd other fire receiving "quite a few" promotions and the Dore carrier and his horse and cart were irons, you know, little irons that she put in became supervisor in the accounts a familiar sight in the village. front of the fire. She used to soap them and department before she left nearly twenty Lorraine describes in detail how her rub them and then spit on them to see if years later in 1955. grandmother did the washing in the 1920s. they were hot enough." Each item was done Meantime, war had broken out in 1939 so "They hadn'tthe facilities they've got now. to perfection, put back in the hamper and Firth Br owns evacuated the office out to We'd an old set pot in the corner. She used duly returned to Clifford House by Mr. Bamford where they stayed for two years. to lay the fire on Sunday night and light it Shipstone. The employees were collected daily by on the Monday morning. There was a dolly In 1927 Lorraine started at Dore School. Beauchief Coaches from all parts of tub and an old wringer for the linen. She She recounts "I had one year with Miss Sheffield and taken to their jobs in the washed it, boiled it, and then she would Dobbs, two with Miss Hopkin, Standard 1& safety of Derbyshire. The works remained blue it and starch it." The washing was 2; Standard 3&4 with Miss Reynolds and at Saville Street and Carlisle Street and hung up outside, if fine, or on big pulley the rest with Mr. Speight until I left school carried on producing steel throughout the racks in the kitchen. When it was dry, all in 1936." She was obviously a bright pupil war despite the terrible Sheffield Blitz of the delicate linen had to be ironed. who should have gone to grammar school 1941. "We'd no electricity in Ivy Cottage, we'd but her grandmother could not afford to buy After the war Lorraine was married to gas. Mother had a gas iron and ooh it was the uniform and books. Lorraine explains "I Howard Evans of Drury Lane, "he was a dangerous! It was a big thing and flames know that Mr. Speight went up to see my Dore boy" and they were together for 47 mother. He said "It is a shame; you aught to years. Their first home was near Hunters let her go, you know." But, that was that." Bar, Sheffield but they soon returned to the She remained at Dore School where her village which they loved and where both PARKVffiRINARy ~OSPITAL ability was put to good use by helping out their families remained. Lorraine has lived when staff were absent. One memory of for many years in High Street just opposite schooldays is hearing the pigs squealing at l),e l!>R.lnst+ VIITCR.INAR.Y ftOSPITAL-S the site of the cottage where she was born ASSOCIAnON the back of Ken Moseley's shop which and from her front window now she must stood at the present entrance to the Hare surely sometimes wonder at the bustle of • OP6N tl.OOAM~J':OOi>M MON--FR.I, fl.()(JAM...... ,..OO'PM SAT and Hounds car park. "When we came up • APPOINTMENT SYST6M modern life where the tingle-airy man once • 2 .••.1-t01.{R.E'M6'R.C16NCY S~IC6 AND PAneNT CAR.e we ventured to look round the back and we played. • 6)CT"6NSlv6 StA.R..4ICAL, Me;t)ICAl.., CARbIOLD'1'( AND saw this pig being killed, hung upside down Lorraine Evans was the very first Dore DlA<:1NOSnC IIvl..A£:1IN~ FACII...lnes and all the blood running into a bowl. 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The early steam locomotives responsible, but more often troubles were The railway navvies were only at their most efftcient on level started by the English taunting the Scots, or ground and experiments proved that even men from different English counties faced by a gentle 1 in 100 gradient a fighting amongst themselves. Part 1 Pick-and-shovel men locomotive could haul less than a quarter of Navvies dressed distinctively in velveteen At 3 pm on 23 May 1823 a unique the tonnage it could manage on the level. coats, canvas shirts, moleskin trousers, ceremony took place at Stockton-on- Tees Unable to go up hills, the early rolling hobnailed boots, rainbow waistcoats and in County Durham. With everyone enjoying stock could also only negotiate the gentlest colourful neckerchiefs, all topped off with a half-day holiday and much of Stockton of curved lines without derailment. All this felt hats with upturned brims. Most wore bedecked with flags and bunting, a reported meant that millions of tons of earth and this n avyies'uniforin d ay and night; large 300 "navvies" pulled a decorated carriage rock had to be shifted to level and numbers were only known to the into St John's Well, accompanied by the straighten the rail beds in cuttings or raise contractors who employed them by Stockton town band. Inside the carriage sat them up onto embankments. There were nicknames. Very few navvies were older Thomas Meynell whose duty that day, as major problems when railway tunnels had than 40, and most were unmarried. Without company chairman, was to lay the very first to he blasted through rock-solid mountains family ties, many built up a reputation of section of rail for his Stockton and and bridges or viaducts constructed over intemperance often leading to "unseemly, Darlington Railway at Cottage Row. After rivers or across valleys. These were some lewd or riotous" behaviour. These the ceremony - where Meynell disappointed of the most massive engineering tasks ever unattractive characteristics, linked also to onlookers by refusing to make a speech - undertaken and were a feat of construction the poaching of game and petty theft, the dignitaries adjourned to the town hall never previously equalled, and only enraged local populaces and made railway for a feast, whilst the navvies were recently surpassed by the Channel Tunnel. navvies unwelcome and feared in most rewarded with free bread, cheese and ale at The work was terribly challenging and the districts. the Black Lion Inn. The great age of British risks taken by the men involved, always In general they "tramped" on foot from railway track building had begun. against frantic timescales, were frightening. job to job in search of work and could Massive undertakings It must be remembered, too, that the steam cover scores of miles, usually accompanied Slow to start - the first really successful shovel - or mechanical digger - although by the tools of their trade - the pickaxe, the passenger/freight railway between around since the 1840s, did not come into shovel and sometimes even a wheelbarrow- Liverpool and Manchester did not open use with railway track construction until the strapped to their backs. They were most until 1830 - railway line construction really 1880s, as men were cheaper than machines. numerous at the height of railway line took off in the 1830s, and by 1840 just on Almost all of the early earth- moving work building in the late 1840s when around a 1,500 miles of track had edged across the and line construction during the first 50 quarter of a million navvies were employed countryside. During the 1840s - the great years was completed by the sheer muscle on different sites. Later, their numbers fell, decade of railway line building - this rose to power of railway labourers with their but it has been estimated that from 1830- almost 2,000 miles by 1843, 3,000 miles by pickaxes, shovels and wheelbarrows. 1870 the average number of navvies 1845 and to over 5,000 miles in 1848. By Where were they from? engaged on railway building was 50,000 1855 almost 8,000 miles of rail track had The railways brought cheap and fast men per year. been laid and by the mid-1860s nearly all travel and did much to create national and Pick-and-shovel men the main British railway lines had been international prosperity for the Victorians. On the sites the navvies worked alongside built. Branch and extension line building in Most of the praise for these achievements other tradesmen like the carpenters, the the fmal third of the 19th century saw the wentto the financiers, engineers, surveyors, masons, the bricklayers and the total British rail mileage soar to nearly contractors and sub-contractors. But they blacksmiths. They were basically "muck 22,000 miles by the time Queen Victoria's did not do it alone and the majority of men shifters" doing by far the biggest share of long reign came to an end early in 1901. who built the railways, from the 1820s, physical work. Even though they were These figures hide the enormous were manual labourers called "navvies". largely pick- and-shovel men, they had a set difftculties that had to be faced in They took their name from an abbreviation of hard- learned talents and skills, the most constructing mile after mile of British of the term "navigators", adopted by the basic of which would have taken an men who began building the British inland ordinary agricultural labourer at least a year canals and waterways almost a century to master. before. When disaster struck, as it did with The navvies worked in gangs under the Greens Home & sickening regularity, navvies may orders of "gangers". A gang could consist euphemistically appear in local burial of up to 40 or 50 men working in pairs, Garden Supplies registers under an assortment of different each allocated a high-sided wagon on the Be ready for Spring trades from "railway labourer" to temporary rails to cart away the "spoil" or "excavator". excavated soil, sand and clay. On major October-March Although most railway contractors briefly railway construction sites there could he 10% off mower servicing employed a number of casual labourers for anything up to 50 gangs, all working on Free local collection/delivery the les s skilled manual jobs, the genuine nearby sections of the track. The navvies' navvies were a breed apart and were largely work was invariably a series of back- Hardware, groups of highly specialised itinerant breaking earth-moving feats from levelling Household Goods & Gifts, workers. 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The more highly paid "getters" and gunpowder. been unthinkingly brought to the works by or "pickmen" would undercut the sides of Some shafts were over 500 feet in depth the contractors as the death-toll mounted. the cutting with pick and shovel until the and when they were completed, two teams Hard work for good pay unsupported weight of rock or earth above of navvies were lowered down in buckets to So it was dangerous and miserable work it - the so-called "lift" - came crashing begin tunnelling in opposite directions at at the best of times, and carried out around down and could be shovelled into the the bottom. There they worked 12-hour the clock. However, the navvies were well wagons. It was usual to pay a look-out to shifts, day and night, in badly lit or paid, though usually infrequently. Often the stand at the top and shout a warning when otherwise miserable conditions. They were contractors did not have the capital to make the earth or rock began to crack and move often short of air, frequently soaked to the weekly payments and the navvies had to immediately before it collapsed into the skin, forced to work in knee-deep mud or endure systems of so-called "long pay", cutting. breathe the fumes of the gunpowder used to with a fortnight or month's interval between Many navvies, not quick enough to beat a blast away at any major rock faces they the payment of wages. They were paid hasty retreat, were crushed or suffocated to encountered. Because they usually had no "piece money" based on the amount of death by falling "lifts". In urban areas proper sanitation there was also a constant earth, or spoil, each man shifted daily. In levelling often had a different meaning. To threat from disease. the mid- 1840s when railway building was reduce claims for compensation, most To add to these abysmal working at its peak and good navvies, especially railway lines were purposely driven through conditions, accidents were frequent - from tunnellers, were becoming scarce, "getters" the areas of the poorest urban housing. The rock falls, encounters with quicksands, (the pickaxe men) could earn around 24 navvies were, in part, responsible for suffocation, exhaustion and mishaps to men shillings (£1.20) per week, whilst the clearing away some of the worst of the riding the buckets in the shafts. On one "fitters" (the shovellers) could expect 22/6d early Victorian slums. Sadly, in some areas major tunnelling project alone, the first and ( £ 1.12 112 ) per week. This was indeed even worse slums were erected in their infamous Woodhead Tunnel on the good money - and sometimes there was the wake. In London alone, 4,000 houses were Manchester to Sheffield line - begun in bonus of free beer to boot - at a time when demolished to provide access to central 1839 and completed in 1845 - the navvies many ag riculturallabourers were earning London for the Midland Railway Company faced the awesome probl ems 0 f miles 0 f less than 10 shillings (5Op) per week. in the 1860s. iron-hard millstone grit as well as Danger below treacherous shale and seemingly benign Tom Wood But tunnelling presented the navvies with sandstone. The Woodhead casualty list Ed. This article first appeared in the the most dangerous work of all. For long included 32 deaths, almost 100 fractures Family Tree Magazine June 2003 and is tunnels access shafts were sunk vertically and 140 cases of more serious injuries. reproduced with their kind permission. through hillsides or mountains at regular Amongst the worst was a navvy who lost intervals along the path of the proposed both eyes. Some contractors even kept In our next issue we will look at where railway. Before the advent of steam- supplies of coffms handy, but when cholera and how the navvies lived, their relations powered drilling engines the shafts - each threatened the ranks of navvies during work with local communities, missions to ten or twelve feet in diameter - were bored on the second Woodhead Tunnel in 1849, navvies, the "navvies' newspaper" and by a combination of horses attached to a there was a mass walk-out by around 650 where to find records of the men who built huge wheel and pulleys called a "horse-gin" men. Additional supplies of coffms had the railways. WHIRl ,OW HALL fA~ BOYA TRADmONAL TREE ORA OR NON TURKEY NEEDLE DROP TREESl and support your !A"RN'REA"RED local Children's T~ chartty! 5.45 Kilo Cl2lb) 'to 1.36 Kilo C25lb) 1009b Of all prOfi'tS are WHnE or BRONZE donated 1:0'the i"'USt. ~adY for COllection wi1:hin 5 miles ~. CharitY 508910 13rd 0/l'lth [)eC WHIRLOW HALL FARM TRUST, WHIRLOW LANE, SHEFFIELD S11 9QF Tel: 01142352678 - Fax: 01142621015 - emait: [email protected] 22 (35 per cent) emerge as claimants. Though Beauchief Gardens it may not seem the riskiest of colour Time for a laugh choice, brown scores thehighest proportion The Friends of Millhouses Park have of claims, supplanting pink, which headed An 80 year old couple were having stepped into the breach in an attempt to the table last year. problems remembering things, so they rescue Beauchief Gardens from years of The riskiest men's names, with decided to go to their Doctor to get checked neglect. A working session has already percentage making claims last year out. The Doctor tells them that they are weeded and cleaned a lawned area, cleared Lloyd 30.0% Sam 28.2% Leon 28.0% physically OK, but might want to start the path leading to the dam so that people Phil 28.0% Rob 26.0% writing things down and make notes, to can now feed the ducks more easily. More Highest-risk women's names help them remember. sessions are planned. Natasha 35.0% Shelley 31.0% Juliet Later that night while watching TV, the 30.0% Natalie 28.0% Justine 27.8% old man got up from his chair, and his wife The car colours with the worst claims asks "Where are you going?" "To the Risky drivers record were kitchen" he replies. "Will you get me a Brown 22.6% Pink 21.3% Black 20.9% bowl of Ice -Cream" she says. "Sure" he Beware of Natasha, a likely crasher, and Yellow 20.8% replies. "Don't you think you should write avoid Lloyd unless you want to end up on it down?" she says. "No, I can remember an insurance claim. Heritage Museum that" he replies. "And I think I'll have some The insurers esure claim that first names Strawberries and Whipped Cream on Top and the colour of car that drivers choose please. I know you'll forget that so write it can make a big difference to how likely The Traditional Heritage Magazine at 605 down. With irritation in his voice, he says, they are to make a claim on their car Ecclesall Road contains fascinatingexhibits "I don't need to write that down, I can insurance. on local trades, crafts, occupations and remember it fine", and stormed out. After Almost a third of men called Lloyd are traditional lifestyles. It is next open to the about 20 minutes, he returns from the likely to make a claim over the course of a public on Saturday 27 November from kitchen and hands her a plate of Bacon and year, and the record is even worse for 10.30am to 4.3Opm. Admission £1.50, Eggs. She stares at the plate for a moment women calledNatasha. 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Perhaps too, they often attended a Sabbath service made Feamehough of Derby, to get put in touch filed in the Dore Village Society archives. with any other Feamehoughs especially Clock Making The Dore of the past, so beautiful and inspiring by the by the sweet chanting of the Monks. those who have created family trees, in tradition tells us, was a thriving commercial order to 'swap notes'. He has traced their centre, "although the business pursuits were But often they would attend their own little church, and one wonders what it was 'line' back to Thomas & Rebecca (married more various than extensive". There were 1698). He can be contacted on 07929 like. Certainly nothing is left 0 fit at the button makers, saw anvil manufacturers, 770573. boot and shoe makers and c lock makers, present time for the Dore Church of today those latter "gaining no small amount of is comparatively new, when we s peak in notoriety by their handwork". centuries, being erected in 1828. Helpers - Dore Show Clock-making seems to have been a very Old Church of Dore This church of thriving trade, and at the present time there today stands on the site once occupied by are many specimens of the workmanship of an old chapel, which was dependent upon We have been lucky with helpers on the those old clockmakers. The Vicar of Dore, the Mother Church ofDronfield, and which day each year. Many hands make light the Rev. W. R. Gibson, has had quite a at the time of its demolition in 1828 was work. collection of old grandfather clocks which over 200 years old. There are also essential jobs of different were made in this quaintly interesting little Some very interesting names are among kinds to be done in the week and fortnight village. One of these old time pieces once the list of the early curates of this old before, some taking just an hour each. stood in the home of the Vernons, and sanctuary. We get Mr Glossop from 1760- These need to be allocated now for next perhaps ticked out an accompanimentto the 1773, Mr Webb from 1773-1809, and Mr year's Show. As do some specific jobs on dainty steps of the Lady Dorothy on the Francis Parker from 1800 to when it was the day. You're reading this, so you must be night she tripped down the dark oak stairs pulled down. community minded! So I'd be glad to hear to elope with her true love. Another of these Many amusing stories are told about Mr from newcomers or oldcomers who would old "daddies" was over 200 years old, the Parker, and one of the funniest tells of a consider helping towards a successful 2005 beautiful work of "Pearson of Dore". certain Sunday afternoon. The service was Show and could give some time in early Many are the tales these old clocks could in full swing when the hounds passed the September. Please ring me, Gillian tell were they able to talk. They would tell chapel, and instantly the whole Famsworth (235 0609) and I'll explain of the days of long ago, when their humble congregation rose, en masse, preparatory to more little birthplace, together with the following the sport, when the voice of the neighbouring village ofTotley, could boast minister arrested them. Rushing down from of no less than 18 tailors, chiefly engaged in the pulpit, he cried "No, my friends, we will Popular Pollyanna the making of quilted petticoats for the all start together". He was what the ladies in the district. schoolboy of today would call "An awfully This year Pollyanna Pickering is Beauchief Abbey They could not, good old sport". presenting an exhibition titled "My however, tell of the days of Roger Busli, Derbyshire" from 27th November to 5th the old Norman baron, who held the Manor Seeking a green image December at her private gallery. This of Dore, for their memory could not go coincides with the launch of her new book back so far. Not even to 1175 when the 'A Brush With Wildlife'. The gallery at inhabitants of this famous manor paid tithe A photography competition has been Brookvale House Oker, Matlock will be to the good old monks in the neighbouring launched by regeneration trust open from lOam - 8.3Opm. Details from Abbey of Beauchief. Perhaps many of the 'Groundwork Sheffield', to coincide with 0162955851. the opening of its headquarters in Sheffield city centre. Titled 'Green City to Green Capital' , they are looking for photos showing people and places in Sheffield that Internet make you want to smile or cry. It might be ~D ~ snapshot of your favourite place, or an image of something you think could be J S }~~SO~'&'SOnS Software improved to help make Sheffield greener. The competition is free to enter, with an of Dore adult and a junior category. The best will Services win a digital camera. Closing date for including Plumbers entries is November 26: tel 0114263 6420. 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Buses, however, do seem to be a cause certainly it will be something which should doing this we hope that we can start to of concern as they always seem to be at the involve not just the school community, but attract those parents who for whatever start of the year. At the end of the day we the wider community of which we are a reason are not engaging with us. have more students than usual wanting to go part. Before the summer holidays Bob Evans, home by bus, the buses are not arriving at Adult Education Classes. I am very our headteacher accompanied myself and the terminus when they should and as a pleased to report that after enrolment a few some of our school council members to the result are struggling to cope with the week ago we now have a number of classes Mosque to present a cheque to go towards numbers. running from this term in school. At the a community room in their new Mosque. Equally in the mornings we have pupils moment we have; Italian, Greek, Spanish This money was raised by the students, who standing at bus stops at 7.30am and still and ICT. Unfortunately the demand for decided where it should go. unable to get into school on time due to Asian cooking classes dropped off, this was As well as this, on the last Wednesday of buses being so full at this time in the strange as this course was free and all we every month, I with Mazher Baig, our Urdu morning. We, as well as many parents have asked people to do was to bring the teacher and Gavin Walker, our Inclusion informed the bus company of this situation, ingredients they needed. I hope we can coordinator go to Highfield Library from which I hope will improve soon. kick-start this course again, maybe after 4.00-S.3Opmto make ourselves available to Sponsored Walk. This year was the 20th Easter. local residents of this area. We call it a anniversary of our King Ecgbert School When we move into the new school 'Drop-in surgery,' where anyone can walk 'Sponsored Walk'. The walk took place on building this is an area we really want to in off the street and speak to us around any Friday 1st October and covered 13 miles. develop further and Sheffield College are issue concerning the school. The walk itself extends across the keen to use us. I shall keep you informed of And finally exam results. I could not Longshawestate, goes down to Grindleford any further developments in this area. write to you without briefly mentioning our and then ends up back at school. Community links. As you will be aware, excellent exam results this year. This was Sponsored walk day is looked forward to I visit the mosque on a regular basis to talk thanks to the hard work and dedication of by the whole school community, and we to members of the mosque and to try and the teachers and the students of the school certainly would not be able to continue with promote greater understanding. To this end, with the support of their parents. the walk if it wasn't for the support of our some school governors and elders from the We are now one of the highest performing parents and members of the local mosque held a meeting with myself at schools in Sheffield and the first LEA community who walk with our students or school during the first week in October to school in Sheffield ever to score 100% for who agree to marshal along the route. The discuss what the school and the Asian it's 'A' level results. money raised (the figure is around £7,000 at community can dot 0 work m ore closely If you have any questions to put to me or the moment) is spent by the student council together. any comments to make, could you write to on what they consider to be good causes. It was a fascinating meeting which me at King Ecgbert School, Furniss The New School Building. The new covered a number of areas including why Avenue, Dore, S 17 3QN building is still on schedule to be opened our Asian parents are not engaging in the Sean McClaf/erty, for Apri1200S. We shall be closing a few of numbers we would wish. A number of Deputy Headteacher days before the Easter holiday officially reasons such as language and distance were i/c Community and Technology start and extend the break by a few days to given, however it was the people from the College Status allow staff time to pack up and then mosque who disagreed and put forward the DOREVIDEO.com Ramble along to Visit us at www.dorevideo.com Online information includes: PRINT • New film releases • A-Z film listings • Film reviews • Playstation 2 games "'...... Our staff are trained to solve boot , • Movie Posters fitting problems and we back this DESIGN up with our Boot Fit Guarantee QUICKlY AND AT lOWHT CO)T • VHS and DVD sales ALL THE FAMILY S NEEDS SHOP OPEN 10.00AM 10.00PM Large selection of outdoor SOUTH YORKSHIRE EVERY DAY clothing and equipment for all the W Iarnily at the be" ,000' PRINTERS LTD 26 Causeway Head Road " FREE GUIDED WALKS DIGITAL WORKS. 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Jointly they are seeking to present some good food, so look out for posters. including 'JaM' a Christian Union the Christian faith as a relevant and realistic For further details contact Joel, tel: 236 lunchtime meeting. He is also linked with alternative for life, believing that each 2515 or any of the local churches involved various church based activities. These young person should be given an with this project. Jim Scott (Dore & Totley include 'Pathfmders Breakfast Club' on opportunity to hear the Christian message Christian Fellowship): 235 1087. Bridget Sunday 8.30am - 9.30am, and 'fish. corn' in a way that is accessible to them. Ball (Methodist Church): 236 6765 or on Saturday in the Ark, from 7.3Opm and Joel has been actively involved in 'The Graham Thorpe: 262 0601. Michael Hunter Dore & Totley Youth Fellowship Group, Ark' which runs on a Tuesday evening (Parish Church): 236 3335 Wednesday evenings. (next to the Church Hall), 7.30 - 9pm The funding of the project is from If you'd like to help support this project aimed at Y6 (10 years) upwards. This group members of Dore Methodist Church, Dore in Dore, why not come along to our is very popular with the youngsters. 'The & Totley Christian Fellowship and Dore fundraising events for refurbishment of Goldmine', a youth worship event also Parish Church, with further support from The Ark: Quiz Night at The Hare & takes place at The Ark, and is aimed at some Trusts and other friends in Dore. We Hounds- Thursday 25th November- open drawing young Christians from around are very grateful to all supporters. 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Although for signs that the robins were using my The Wildlife robins are notorious bullies and will hound state-of-the-art nest box, but no, they Garden small birds like hedge sparrows relentlessly. decided to nest in a neighbour'S bush As soon as I left a saucer of mealworrns at instead. How could they desert me, after all, the back of my garden, the resident they were my robins! blackbirds would fly down and my robin The male would still (rather cheekily could only stand and stare as the larger considering his choice of new family birds consumed all 'his' food with great abode) come back for food and always alacrity. returned to the nest by a rather circuitous Of all our garden birds, my favourite has In an effort to restrict which birds ate at route, no doubt trying to hide its to be the robin, although I'm sure I am not my exclusive 'robin restaurant', I decided whereabouts from the prying eyes of alone in this. In fact many of us are so to encourage the bird to come closer to the predators, but sadly, to no avail. A few days possessive about these birds, we think of house. This worked so well that the moment after the female had st arted to sit on her them as 'ours'. he saw me open the kitchen door, he would eggs, a cat found the nest and I never saw Take for example 'my' robin. He was one abandon his song perch and swoop down to the bird again. oflast year's brood, a small brown speckled a nearby bush, before making the final hop For a while, the male kept singing from bundle I saw for the first time in late to the dish of mealworrns I had put out. his favourite perch in my garden, but didn't summer. Whenever I started digging or Early one morning in spring, unable to manage to attract another mate. Eventually, weeding, he would suddenly appear from sleep, I went downstairs to make a warm he extended his search to other gardens and the depths of the shrubbery and if I stood drink, but I wasn't the only one awake, my each day, I would hear him singing further perfectly still, would fly down, land robin was singing away on the lamp post and further away. His visits became far less delicately on the freshly turned soil and opposite. I decided to go outside and listen frequent and then stopped altogether. with a tilt of his head, search for any small to his nocturnal concert, but as soon as he What I find puzzling is why robins like insects that had been disturbed. But if I saw me open the door, he flew down and 'mine' are so tame in this country, whereas made the slightest movement he was off, perched a few feet away from the door-step, in the rest of Europe they are shy, skulking scolding me from the safety of his favourite fixing me with a hopeful stare. It was birds. The reason might simply be that, bush. obvious what he wanted, so I went to the unlike many of our continental neighbours, As summertumed to autumn, the robin's garage for a few mealworrns and left them we do not regard these songbirds as a orange waistcoat started to a ppear and it on the ground in front of him. Sure enough, gastronomic delicacy, perhaps because was as if his bright new feathers signified a the little songster flew down and tucked traditionally it was thought to bring bad change in character, because the bird lost into his impromptu meal. With a full crop, luck if you killed a robin. all vestiges of shyness. When I was having he retired to the bushes to await the dawn, Maybe it has nothing to do with this, but a rest from weeding, he would land on my no doubt well satisfied with the outcome of more to do with our long gardening heritage shoe and look for insects between my feet, his efforts. and the network of hedges that criss-cross an act I found quite endearing. It soon became apparent that there wasn't our island. This type of environment, absent Nevertheless, it was most unnerving a sI just one robin in the garden but two, as my from much of mainland Europe, favours had no idea which direction the bird would robin would collect food for his less robins. Even so, that still doesn't explain hop next and where I could safely put my trusting mate. She was never as bold as he why they are so tame. size 10 feet. was, by now he would quite happily feed What about 'my' robin? A few weeks To be honest, I didn't go out of my way to out of my daughter's hand - although ago, while I was tidying away the twigs and tame the robin, as all too often, whenever I somewhatto my chagrin, never out of mine. leaves that had blown down in the recent get attached to any of my garden birds, they Knowing what the inevitable conclusion strong winds, a robin flew out of the bushes seem to become nothing more than a snack of this union would be, I bought a top-of- and came to feed on the disturbed insects. for the neighbour'S cat or a sparrowhawk. the-line concrete nest box specifically Was it 'my' robin returning after the However, I succumbed to this robin's designed for birds like robins. It had a large summer? I don't think so, but to be honest, trusting nature and couldn't resist leaving a open front and I fastened it to my pergola that doesn't really matter, because once few scraps of food for him every day on a where it would be nicely hidden from view again there is a robin in my garden and it is stone in t he garden, delicacies like small by a climbing plant, but as the old proverb mine. pieces of cheese or mealworrns. Of course goes: 'You can take a horse to water, but Jack Daw you can't expect to put out food without you can't make it drink'. Each day I looked Spanish Bluebells -g,eech H-ouse Friends of Ecclesall Woods (FEW) are concerned about the spread of Spanish - or Garden Bluebells into Ecclesall Woods. Spanish Bluebell has an upright habit with pale- blue, bell like flowers (sometimes pink or white) arr anged a round a central 0 0 11 1111 stem. The native English Bluebell has deep- blue-violet, tubular flowers drooping to one 0 0 ~ ** 11 side of the nodding stem. Its leaves are 0 0 slimmer and more delicate than those of 11 - Spanish Bluebell. Unfortunately the two 0 0 IB[]DJISD 11 species hybridize. I I I I In order to preserve the native English '- '- Bluebell it is important not to plant Spanish MQcle - to - MeQsuye fUYlIIottuye : Kltcl1el!l.S: t>est0111o§ "&utLcI: t>tspLQH Ulllotts or Garden Bluebells (sometimes marketed 3G1. Abbel:1cAQle RoQcA, 5ltteffi-elcA, 571.F5 as "Woodland Hyacinths", into the woods, Tel/FQ.x.: 01.1...,.-::2501.00"'1- or dump garden rubbish, which may contain bulbs. It would also be best not to plant "E.eecl1.l1ouse@lL~o~. ~t Spanish Bluebells into our gardens near the WWN."E.eecl1l1ousefuyvoLtuye.co.ul«. woods. 28 donation). Photographic competition To receive a competition entry pack, Green Flag Award email your name, address and phone number to [email protected] Ecclesall Woods was one of 253 parks, Sheffield Wildlife Trust has announced an with the subject 'photo mailing list'. exciting new environment & wildlife Or you can write to Amy Nowell, gardens, nature reserves and woodlands across the Country to recently be given a Photographic Competition. The competition Publications and Media Officer, Sheffield Green Flag award in recognition of the aims to get more people outdoors to enjoy Wildlife Trust HQ, Victoria Hall, 37 welcoming and attractive havens they offer Sheffield's wildlife, open countryside and Stafford Road, S2 2SF. (0114 279 2656) the whole community. At 350 acres and urban green spaces. The deadline for entries Please enclose a stamped self-addressed dating back to the 14th century, with native is January 31st 2005, giving people plenty envelope. of time to get out and about with their oak, birch and rowan, the woods are cameras. estimated to receive 300,000 to 400,000 The winning photographs will be Indoor bowling club visits a year. The judges from the urban displayed on supertrams and tram stops environment charity The Civic Trust and across the city. A selection from all Governmentparks' champion CABE Space, photographs entered will be made into a There is now an indoor bowling club visited last June. short visual projection to be shown in the meeting in St. John's Church Hall on This award is as much a tribute to the studio space at the Site Gallery, Sheffield's Thursday afternoons, from 2pm, which is work of the Friends of Ecelesall Woods as leading contemporary art gallery. Other currently looking for a few new members. to the city council's woodlands officers and prizes include free use of facilities at Site They have 2 "short" mats and use carpet park rangers. Their volunteers have worked Gallery, a camera bag donated by Sheffield bowls. All members are novices with no with the authority, helping to survey local Photographic Centre and various wildlife & experience of outside or indoor bowling. opinion, produce a management plan, photography books. The main sponsor for For more information ring John Putsey on undertaken footpath work and produced the competition is JW Northend Printers 2363554 or Ken Jay on 2368612. leaflets on the woods. Ltd The categories are: 1. Wild spaces, smiling faces (families enjoying their local parks & woodlands, people exploring the nature reserves, children playing games etc.) 2. 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Call lan on 079 7019 2717 Beautiful Image Consultant, 59 Bushey Hall, Totley Brook Road. Jackie Collins Wood Road, S 17 3QA. Tel: 0114 236 2968 School of Drama Tel 236 7564 30 Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is going to Moon. Tycho' sbright ray system emanating Stars in Dore get a surprise on January 14, 2005, when radially from a crater is very noticeable in the Huygens space-probe crashes down. At the south. Being only 50 miles in diameter, magnitude 8, Titan can be picked up in a the crater Tycho, itself, cannot be actually The number of stars seen on an average small telescope. It appears about two ring seen with the unaided eye. Some of these clear night in Dore may not exceed two diameters away from Saturn in a north- names are familiar to those interested in hundred or so. These stars are mostly those easterly direction on 14 January. Its actual Man's exploration of the Solar System. that delineate the constellations, and, of distance from Saturn is about 8 Other readers might just like to put names course, are limited to those that are not too astronomical units which is 744 million to the familiar face of the Moon. low in the sky and not hidden by houses. miles. NASA has announced the exact time The Sheffield Astronomical Society meets Light pollution from Sheffield and the local of entry of Huygens into Titan's throughout the year at the Mayfield street lighting easily brings this figure of a atmosphere, so one can participate in the Education Centre, David Lane, Fulwood couple of hundred, down to a few tens. excitement of this momentous event even (Darren, tel. 01142692291). Beginners are In the last issue of Dore to Door we from Dore ! At 12.00hrs GMT (mid-day) especially welcome and there are talks and suggested looking on the best of nights for the descent commences and will last about chats and telescopes to look through. 61A Cygni, a faint nearby star in the Swan, two and a halfhours. The many procedures Before the Christmas Party there are which is near the limit ofhurnan vision. In involved in the descent ensure that the meetings on 6, 11 and 13 December 2004. the beautiful skies in Greece, the ancient probe has the maximum chance of survival David Andrews astronomers, Hipparchus (2nd century BC) and that each instrument wakes up at the and Ptolemy (2nd century AD), charted the right moment. All the same, many naked-eye stars and found just over 1000. unexpected things can happen even apart Naturally, they did not see the extreme from parachutes not opening. 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The Cassini orbiter has VISIT OVERDALE POTTERY THIS Milky Way, in all its glory studded with appointments with Mimas (1 August2005), CHRISTMAS Open 3,4 & 5 December Fri bright stars and clusters, and smudged with Tethys (23 September), Hyperion (25 5-8pm, Sat 11-8pm, Sun 11-6pm galactic dust, as never seen in the northern September), Dione (10 October) and Rhea 129 Prospect Road. Tel: 2364670 hemisphere. Remember, then, our Galaxy is (25 November 2005). Then, there is a last e-mail [email protected] only 'one grain of sand on the beach' in the look at Epimetheus (3 December 2007). known Universe ! The giant planet, Jupiter, will be visible in COTE D'AZUR, ST RAPHAEL One of the most beautiful northern Dore in the winter, but must be looked for Luxury villa, 5min beach, town centre and clusters of stars worthy of attention this much later than Saturn. It has moved well train station. Quiet residential area. Ideal winter is the Pleiades in Taurus. This is into Virgo and does not rise till early for winter in the Riviera. Available all year another good test of one's eyesight, morning. Jupiter is bright and may be round weekly/monthly or longer. popularly known as the Seven Sisters. picked up before dawn. It can be easily Tel 01246 412504 or 07718 580231 Actually, on a clear night one could count seen in the south-east from about 3a.m. on or email for brochure: twelve stars or more in the cluster, even 15 January 2005, and two hours earlier [email protected] without a telescope. Look in the south-east each succeeding month. The bright star in mid-December or mid-January when upper left from Jupiter is Arcturus. there is no Moon. The Pleiades is about 41 0 The Moon will dominate the sky for much ADAPTABLE CHILDCARE light years distant, and is a moderately of the Christmas period with a Full Moon SOLUTIONS LTD Fully vetted, pre- young cluster, about 80 million years old. on Boxing Day. One can easily see the screened and available child care when you Most of the other brighter stars in Taurus, lunar craters in the smallest of telescopes, need it. Nannies, Mothers/parent help, including the large Hyades cluster, are and with a lunar map, one can take Housekeepers, Maternity Nurses, Before twice as distant, and considerably older, imaginary walks across the rugged and After school care, Babysitters, about 660 million years. This is still only a landscape. Even without a telescope the Wedding creches. Permanent, FulllPart fraction of the Sun's age, 4600 million lunar maria can be seen. Mare Humorum time, Daily, weekly and evening childcare years. and Oceanus Procellarum and Sinus Roris For more advice, please contact us on: The planets are not so obvious in Dore run down the eastern (left) side, with Mare 01142369452 or mobile 07747 016550 this winter. Venus is very close to Mars in Nubium somewhat towards the bottom Libra on 5 December, rising just before centre. Mare Imbrium and Mare Serenitatis THE OLD SCHOOL DORE Excellent dawn in the south-east. Saturn lies just run across the north, and Mare venue for meetings, conferences, classes, beneath Gemini, below the stars, Castor and Tranquillitatis appears beneath (on the parties. Children's parties a speciality. Pollux. It is not very bright although its west, right) with Mare Fecunditatis and Bookings to the Vicarage Office on illustrious rings may still be seen in a small Mare Nectaris hanging like two ears of a 236 3335 or ring 235 1171 telescope in the evening. The rings are hare southwards. A distinctly oval sea, closing over the next years, and at present Mare Crisium, appears near the western PICTURE FRAMING Local. G Thomas the body of the planet may be clearly seen limb (top right). Of course, the mare will 2363431 above and below the rings. only all be seen together at or near Full 31 Diary - Winter 2004 13 The Story of Droving talk by Howard Smith for South Yorkshire Industrial History Society, Kelham Island Museum 7.3Opm Tel230 7693 NOVEMBER 30 Christmas celebrations, Dore Methodist Church 20 Concert by John Wade Singers at All Saints Church, Tuesday Group, Church Hall 7.45pm Totley, for St Wilfreds Centre. Gounod St Cecilia Mass 14 Abbeydale I and Abbeydale 11talk by Professor Francis and contrasting items. 7.3Opm. Tickets £5 from 2360798 Evans for Hunter Archaeological Soc, Lecture Theatre 9 20 Concert Mass in D Dvorak, Jesu Meine Arts Tower Univ of Sheffield, 7.3opm. Tel 01246413496 Freude,.SheffieldBach Society 7 .3Opmat Ecclesall Parish 24 Christmas Carols 11am - 12noon at Cheshire Home, Church. Tickets £10 (concessions £8) Mickley Lane 24 Local Lad Makes Good - William Flockton, Sheffield's 27 Wassail Walk lOam from the Old School. A gentle walk Leading Victorian Architect. Talk by Dr. Nyra Wilson for of about five miles followed by a glass of punch (or soft the Sheffield Society for the Encouragement of Art, drink) with a warm mince pie. TaptonHall, Shore Lane, 2.3Opm. Free adm Tel236 0941 28 4 mile walk from Whirlow Brook Park to Graves Park 24 Derbyshire Place Names Talk by Jenny Ainsworth for the with Sheffield Rangers. Meet 1pm outside Whirlow Brook Dore Village Society. 7.3Opm Dore Methodist Church Park Cafe. Hall. Free entry. Everybody welcome 27 Open Day The Traditional Heritage Museum at 605 JANUARY Ecclesall Road 10.30am to 4.30pm. Admission £1.50. 11 Greek & Roman Cities of Libyan Coast talk by Dr. 27 Concert by John Wade Singers at Millhouses Methodist Ffiona Gilmore Eaves for Hunter Archaeological Society, Church, Millbouses Lane for St Wilfreds Centre. Gounod Lecture Theatre 9 Arts Tower, University of Sheffield, St Cecilia Mass and contrasting items. 7.30pm. Tickets £5 7.30pm. Tel 01246 413496 from 236 0798 17 Bacon, Beer and Blanco: the story of Nee psend by Eddy 30 Knickers talk by Janet Stain for Dore Methodist Church Munnelly and Albert Jackson for South Yorkshire Tuesday Group, Church Hall 7.45pm Industrial History Society, Kelham 7.3Opm Tel230 7693 18 Volcanology - talk by Gill Norton for Dore Methodist DECEMBER Church Tuesday Group, 7.45 pm Methodist Church Hall 1 Christmas Market Dore Parents' Association at Dore 20 200 years of Ladies , Hats a talk by Mr R Young for Dore Primary School between 8pm and 10pm. (A) Townswomen's Guild, Old School, 2pm 3 to 24 Totley Christmas Festivals Live Nativity plays animals 30 2 mile stroll around Dore with Sheffield Rangers. Meet and Father Christmas at Totley Hall Farm Call 236 4761 1pm at the shops, High Street. 3 to 5 Exhibition, demonstrations and kiln firing at Overdale Pottery. Friday 5-8pm, Saturday 11am - 8pm, Sunday FEBRUARY 11am - 6pm. 129 Prospect Road. Details from 236 4670. 1 Leonard Cheshire Homes - talk by Jackie Short for Dore 5 Children's Activities - meet Santa, make gifts see the Methodist Church Tuesday Group, 7.45 pm Methodist animals etc. Whirlow Hall Farm Trust Children free adults Church Hall £3. Booking essential on 236 0096 6 Ranger Roadshow with Sheffield Rangers at Millhouses 6 Concert Handel's Messiah, Sheffield Bach Society, 7pm Park 1-3pm. at Sheffield Cathedral Tickets £11 (concessions £9) 8 Landscape History in the Langdales talk by Dr. Mark 7 Christmas Event, Friends of the Botanical Gardens. Edmunds for Hunter Archaeological Society, Lecture Details from 236 1568 Theatre 9 Arts Tower, University of Sheffield, at 7.3Opm. 8 Victorian Christmas Fayre lOam - 12noon at Cheshire Tel 01246 413496 Home, Mickley Lane 9 Chatsworth and Spain a talk by Trevor Mills for Dore 8 Christmas Party at Dore Grill, 12noon for 12.3Opm for (A) Townswomen's Guild, Old School, 2pm Dore (A) Townswomen's Guild. 12 Concert Petite Messe Solennelle by Rossini + other 9 Christmas open evening Dore shops open late from 6pm works, Sheffield Bach Society. 7.30pm Ecclesall Parish to 8pm. Celebrations begin at 6pm with carol singing by Church. Tickets £10 & £8 cone from 266 1000. the Guides, Brownies & Rainbows, followed at 7pm by 15 Music & Movement with Jean Clarke, Dore Methodist members of Do re Gilbert & Sullivan Society. During the Church Tuesday Group 7.45 pm Methodist Church Hall evening the Guides will be selling coffee and mince pies 16 Britannia Metal Talk by Richard Abdy for the Sheffield on the Dore Service Station forecourt. Society for the Encouragement of Art, Tapton Hall, Shore 11 4 mile walk from Lowedges to Dronfield via Bowshaw Lane, at 2.3Opm. Free admission Tel236 0941 with. Sheffield Rangers Meet 10.15am at the Post Office 21 The restoration of Cromford Mill talk by Darrell Clark Lowedges Road. Details: 283 9195 for South Yorkshire Industrial History Society, Kelham 12 Festival of Light St Luke's Hospice. 6pm switch on. Island Museum 7.3Opm Tel230 7693 c. 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