Issue 160 June 2017
The mild and exceptionally dry spring has been good for lambing - and for Bonsall’s sheep farmers. This photo of twins relaxing in the sun with their mother, was taken by Olive Bond
In folklore T’Owd Man is a spirit that inhabits mines and caves. T’Owd Man of Bonsall is a carved figure of a miner that was taken to Wirksworth when St James church was being refurbished in the 1860s. It was said that strange noises coming from the old Ball Eye mine at the end of Church St. were of T’Owd Man muttering CHURCH DIARY CHURCH NEWS
It seems we say it all the time: “Where even though we choose to ignore June does time fly to?” It’s June, nearly Him and live our lives as we please, the ‘middle’ of the year and it’s when rather than according to His loving and Bonsall comes into its own, with Open gracious instructions, Over Easter we St James’ Gardens, then in July the Carnival and have learned that there is a costly price Well Dressings. Lots of hard work, lots that had to be paid for doing wrong, 4 9.30 am Sanctuary to look forward to and lots to enjoy, for committing sin. A price that Jesus, God’s only Son was willing to pay, for 11 9.30 am Eucharist thanks to those faithful workers who keep things going. We may not say whoever believes, so that they will not 18 11.00 am Morning Worship it but you are appreciated for all you perish but have eternal life. God in His do! There are beginnings and mid- mercy and grace, demonstrated His 25 9.30 am Eucharist dles and endings to all aspects of life love for us in the death and resurrec- and I was reminded of this recently. tion of Jesus. It seems that spring as The first verse in the Bible - Genesis it unfolds, demonstrates Easter - from Village Life Church Chapter 1 reads “In the beginning God death to life, resurrection, as we watch created .. .” and the last verse in the creation come to life once more. As Bible - Revelation 22 v 21 is a prayer, we plant seeds, bulbs, tubers, plants, Sunday 10:30 am Morning Worship “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ see them grow, blossom and fruit, then taste and see how good they are; yes 10:30 am UNO Sunday be with you all. Amen” The beginning even as we enjoy Jersey new potatoes, and the end of God’s inspired Word, School English asparagus, strawberries and the Bible, with an abundance in the Monday 6:00 pm Prayer Meeting tomatoes! If only we could place the middle that will enable us to live life in Tuesday 7:00 pm Craft Club same level of trust in our Father God all its fullness! God is always creating; Wednesday 7:00 pm House group and His Son, our Lord and Saviour Sunday Funday Family Service is making things and people ‘new’ and Jesus Christ, what an impact it would His grace, His undeserved favour, is on Sunday 4 June from 10:30 am have on our lives, our families, where always available, “just when we need we live, our nation and the world. I pray to 11:30 am, followed by lunch. it”, says the apostle Paul. Like David Coffee Morning will be on Tuesday that God will inspire us with the beauty in Psalm 139 it is comforting to know of His creation, the food we enjoy and 27 June from 10:00 am to 12:00 that God was there right from the start pm. A warm welcome to everybody. lead us to find out more about Him, the of our lives, in fact before we were Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and born and as Jesus emphasises: “He the End. Enjoy the Open Gardens! will never leave us or forsake us”. By Judy Land Bonsall Wesleyan His grace He is there right to the very Reform Chapel end of our lives and on into eternity, (The Dale) Catholic Church Wirksworth Thanks to all who supported the Services recent United Services and also Team Ministry our Anniversary Service; it’s good Our Lady and St. Teresa to share together and have a good sing too! of Lisieux Serving: Sunday Services during June are at Gorsey Bank, Wirksworth All Saints’ Alderwasley 6.15 pm Mass Sundays 9 am, Holy Days 7 pm. St James’ Bonsall Friday 16 June 2.00 - 4.00 pm Service of Holy Communion every All Saints’ Bradbourne Cuppa & Cake Wednesday morning at 10 am. All Saints’ Elton All are welcome to join with us. Contact Fr. Joseph Keogh St James’ Brassington (01773 743336) St Margaret’s Carsington Holy Trinity Kirk Ireton Our Lady and St James’ Idridgehay St. Joseph Church Holy Trinity Middleton Bank Rd, Matlock St Mary’s Wirksworth Mass times Saturdays 6 pm, Contact: Sundays 8.30 am & 10.30 am. Holy Days 9.30 am & 7 pm. The Team Office, Parish Rooms, Daily Mass Mondays and Fridays 7 pm. St Mary’s Gate, Wirksworth, DE4 4DQ Tuesdays – Thursdays 9.30 am. Tel/Fax 01629 824707 Sacrament of Reconciliation – email: teamoffice@wirksworthteam- Fridays 6.30–7 pm, Saturdays 10.30– ministry.co.uk. 11 am, Adoration Thursdays www.wirksworthteamministry.co.uk and Fridays 7 am – 11 pm Contact Fr. Robbie O’Callaghan (582804) There is a fortnightly newsletter listing ongoing events. On Sundays breakfast is available in the church hall after the 8.30 Mass and tea/coffee and biscuits after the 10.30 Mass. All are welcome.
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Ron Webster (1923 - 2017) Ron Webster, of Slaley Farm, died at a key figure in negotiations home on April 7, aged 93. He was well with union leaders at known to many in the village, sitting Dagenham and indeed at all in the bay window with a wave for all Ford’s body and assembly passers-by (and a smackeroo for all plants across Europe. dogs) and always to be found playing In 1968, Ron and Jean cards in the King’s Head on Tuesday bought Slaley Farm with and Thursday evenings. Until a few an eye to returning home weeks before his death, Ron had to Derbyshire in years to enjoyed good health and had lived come. Thus began one of an independent and active life, even Ron’s many projects as he driving the last of his many beloved developed, extended and Ford cars up until just a few months modernised the property, a before. Until the age of 90 he delivered much-loved holiday home Mutterings to the households in Slaley for the family. In the early 80s, Ron and Jean finally Ron was born on June 7 1923, the retired there, enjoying nine youngest of Annie and Abraham wonderful years together Webster’s four children with three in Bonsall with their West older sisters Vera, Dorothy and Nancy. Highland Terriers. Both Born on Cromford Hill and raised immersed themselves in Bonsall, Ron never lost his love in village life, with Ron of the Peak District and his home becoming Chairman of the county of Derbyshire. His father was Village Hall Committee the village grocer and his maternal and Jean a leading light in grandfather an engine driver on the the well-dressings. Ron’s Cromford and High Peak railway. love of Westies turned his Ron passed his 11+ and studied at the home into a shrine for his Ernest Bailey Grammar School until favourite dog breed, with leaving at sixteen to take a job with ornaments and pictures British Celanese as a lab chemist. decorating every room. There he once caused an evacuation Lifelong friends Audrey, her of the entire building after creating a husband Philip and their terrible stench by accidentally adding daughter Susan, always the wrong chemicals to a solution. He an integral part of the family’s life, the copy of AR Radcliffe-Brown’s was with the company for only a short became even closer following their ‘Structure and Function in Primitive while before the War, when he and his return to the North. When Philip died Society’ which he had borrowed from life-long friend Peter Turner joined the suddenly from a heart attack and Ron Liverpool University’s Social Science army and were sent to North Africa. lost Jean to cancer it seemed only Library in 1953 and neglected to take Fate decreed that Ron was invalided right and natural, following the support back. Library staff, unaccustomed to out of the army. He spent months in they had given each other and their calculating fines for overdue books a Sheffield hospital recuperating - shared interests in walking and bird- run up over more than six decades, and developing his love of all things watching, that love would blossom. eventually determined a figure of literate. While there an officer told With the enthusiastic blessings of all, £4,510 but agreed to waive it if he him, “If you play your cards right, they got together and married in 1996. promised to return all books on time Webster, you could go to university.” As a foursome Ron, Jean, Audrey and in the future! Photographs were taken and the item was posted on Ron played his cards perfectly and Philip had walked many coastal paths together and now, partly in tribute to the library’s Facebook page. From became the first Webster to go there, the story went around the world, to university, of which he and his their lost partners, Ron and Audrey set themselves the target of walking carried by every UK news source, family were rightly proud. He studied making the front page of the Telegraph History and Philosophy at Sheffield from John O’Groats to Land’s End via the eastern coastal route. Over many and picked up by newspapers from before heading to Liverpool to take a New Zealand to North America. postgraduate course in the, then, new fortnightly holidays, they completed their task, despite being in their 70s His sense of humour never left him. discipline of Sociology. In Liverpool he During his short final illness, he knew met Jean and they married in March - and 16 photograph albums record their achievement for all to see. perfectly well what the score was, and 1953 and lived in Liverpool 8, where approached his impending demise the following year Ian was born. Pubs always featured highly in a list of with stoicism and much laughter. The Ron’s favourite places and, following day before he died, Anne went into His studies led to an interest in Audrey’s death in 2014, he set himself Industrial Sociology and a job with the garden to hang out the washing. yet another task - to visit 50 different When she came back, Ron looked at the Ford Motor Company at their Derbyshire pubs in a year, have a pint Dagenham plant in Essex. This meant her from under those bushy eyebrows in each and catalogue them. In typical and asked: “Where have you been?” a new home in Shenfield where, in Ron style he completed this task so 1959, Anne was born. His career with Anne replied: “Pegging out’. “Do you quickly that he upped his target to know, that’s exactly what I’m doing.” Ford was something that Ron was 100. His favourite pub however was immensely proud of and, while he always the King’s Head in Bonsall Anne Webster was a Derbyshire man first, being a Ford man came a very close second. Ron loved making mischief. On During the well-documented industrial a trip to Liverpool three years ago disputes of the 1970s Ron became he decided that he would return
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Dear Editors, discovered in the masonry. These Man back to St. James’ Church in found their way into the garden of Mr Bonsall, where he belongs. We do not In Community Fayre, No 178 in Coates, the Churchwarden, whose wish to hinder efforts to promote and March 2017, it states that, as part persuasive efforts had kick-started develop Wirksworth, but clearly these of its Heritage Lottery Grant of the restoration. Pleas for him to return organisations cannot be trusted to £1,338,900, the Wirksworth Heritage them from Nether Green House to reflect the heritage of one of Bonsall’s Centre will be developing ‘its range ‘within the consecrated ground where most important historic artefacts. of T’Owd Man and Wirksworth they were first deposited’ obviously branded items’. Elsewhere in the shamed the churchwarden into Peter Fellows issue, the Wirksworth ‘Totally Locally’ relinquishing his booty. Mr Coates, Hon. Sec. on behalf of Bonsall History campaign is floating the idea of however, cannot take the blame for Group ‘T’Owd Man themed shopping days’ kidnapping T’Owd Man and taking to encourage more trade in the town. him to Wirksworth, where he was later inserted into a wall in St Mary’s (This letter was copied to the Wirksworth In 2015, in response to the use of Church for safekeeping. T’Owd Man’s Heritage Centre and Community Fayre. At the time of our going to print, the T’Owd Man in the Heritage Centre age is difficult to pin down; perhaps the best guess is that it dates from Heritage Centre had yet to resond, logo, together with postcards that were but Community Fayre will be printing the thirteenth century and is a tribute being sold with the caption ‘T’Owd it in their next issue. Editors) Man of Wirksworth’, the Bonsall History to the efforts lead miners made in the Group wrote to the Heritage Centre construction of their church in Bonsall.’ as follows: ‘On behalf of the good folk We would be grateful if the of Bonsall, we would like to set the Wirksworth Heritage Centre would record straight concerning ‘T’Owd in future give visitors the true ac- Man’, which the Wirksworth Heritage count of how your town acquired Centre has adopted as its emblem. one of Bonsall’s treasures. The Heritage Centre website states We received a reply from the Audience that: “T’Owd Man is our emblem with Development and Collections Officer at his own rich and mysterious heritage. Wirksworth Heritage Centre as fol- The name ‘T’Owd Man’ or ‘The Old lows: “I read with great interest the Man’ refers to a mysterious imp-like history behind ‘T’Owd Man’ - much figure who brought luck to the lead appreciated. I will make sure this miners. His carved image can be seen new information is communicated in St. Mary’s Church, Wirksworth, to those who need to know so the and a replica of that carving, com- relevant changes can be made.” missioned by a local sculptor, is on display in the Heritage Centre.’ Although the original text has been For the benefit of Wirksworth residents deleted from the Heritage Centre’s who don’t know the true story, here website, the T’Owd Man logo has is an extract from ‘Bonsall - a village been retained without any reference and its history’ (available at www.bon- to its Bonsall origins. Given the latest sallhistory.org.uk) on how T’Owd Man attempts by the Heritage Centre and of Bonsall ended up in Wirksworth: Totally Locally to appropriate Bonsall’s ‘In the course of restoring St James’ T’Owd Man for their own benefit, isn’t Church in 1863, several bits of it about time we put an end to this
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4 | www.bonsallvillage.org VILLAGE NOTICEBOARD - YOUR FRIENDLY LOCAL TEA ROOMS, OPEN DAILY FOR CARNIVAL TIME BREAKFAST, LUNCH, HOT AND COLD DRINKS, CAKES ETC. Ten weeks and counting! a non-contact martial art-cum-dance form, called Capoeira. He has led MONTHLY THEME NIGHTS the Nottingham School of Samba, Yes, would you believe it, as I write performed and run many workshops PLEASE ASK FOR DETAILS this it is ten weeks today that the vil- at events and festivals across the lage will be basking in sunshine! That U.K. Adam is most enthusiastic about houses will be decorated. That Carnival Brazilian percussion. He sees it as creatures will be on display and that one of the most diverse musical forms Comfortable B&B a lucky 20 people will be polishing on the planet, drawing on hundreds of accomodation their antiques and collectibles hoping years of African heritage and worldwide and holiday that, by the end of the day, Charles influences. Its exuberance during the apartment Hanson will have told them what carnival season has spread across the they want to hear! So, first, Carnival globe. Adam’s workshops bring a range creatures: get your creative juices of people together for a common pur- 1 Yeoman Street, Bonsall, flowing; collect at least one egg box pose. His workshops are inclusive of all DE4 2AA Tel: 01629 824814 and I will provide the rest in a kit at the levels of experience, age and ability. www.thefountainbonsall.co.uk beginning of July. Prizes for all ages, Join us at the Village Hall on Saturday no-one too old or too young to enter. 24 June for a free ‘Taster’ Drumming [email protected] Secondly, get rummaging under the Workshop from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm. stairs, in the garage, or on top of the Youngsters and the young at heart wardrobe for that family heirloom or boot are warmly invited to come and have sale bargain. Then go to the Fountain a go at drumming (instruments will be café or deli, the Kings Head, or knock provided); there will be no charge and on my door or give me a ring, and buy no experience is necessary. Children a ticket for the chance to meet the man aged between 6 to 10 years will be himself, Charles Hanson, and show him welcome with their supporting adult. your wares! If you find the ‘Taster’ session enjoy- Marion Heasman. The Queens Head, able, then watch out for the Carnival 821816 Drumming Workshops in July. Adam will be back in the village to support a series of four workshops leading Street Drumming - Give it up to the Carnival and a very lively another Bash! procession on Saturday 29 July. Thanks are due Derbyshire County Council, Derbyshire Dales District The Street Drumming workshops in Council, Bonsall Parish Council 2016 were great fun and were much and Bonsall Open Gardens for their enjoyed by participants and Carnival generous support for this project. An goers alike. Our workshop leader, Beth, idea of numbers taking part would be has moved to Lancashire and so we helpful; so if you are interested or if you said goodbye and thank you so much. would like more details about the work- The leader for this year’s series of shop, please call Wendy on 825267. street drumming workshops is a super chilled guy called Adam Watkins. Adam teaches Brazilian percussion and also Carnival Procession Drumming 2016
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Carnival five-a-side football and When the cock crows wheelbarrow race Can you help with Carnival in (or is the sun about to set for him?) 2017 The number of entrants for both these You may have noticed that in recent events has been dropping over the times our magnificent gold cockerel The Carnival Committee is looking on the top of the Church spire has a last couple of years, so we need for people to help during the Carnival your support this year. It’s all about bit of a lean. He’s not drunk but hasn’t week. The Carnival runs from Saturday, got the support he used to have. So, having a go and not where you finish, 29 July to Friday, 4 August. The we’ve had the steeplejacks take a look although it is extra enjoyable to win. jobs we need help with include: The football competition is not run on Saturday 29 – setting up stalls, stopping him and it turns out that there is a lot a professional basis; the facilities do traffic going through the village during of work to do up there to get him to not allow for this and, in any event, it the procession, manning a stall, litter stand proudly again, and to repair the is for the enjoyment and fun for village picking at the end of the day. steeple stonework that he perches on. people. Teams can be of any com- I’m sure you will all agree that this is Sunday 30 – litter picking at The Park, position (e.g. all male, all female, or an important focal point in Bonsall, lit setting up the cream teas, serving the mixed - both as regard to sex and age). up at night for everyone to see. So Fancy dress teams are also welcome. teas and clearing away. Monday 31 – stewards for the fun-run we are hoping that you, the villagers So come on Bonsall folk, raise your will help us make our cockerel safe Friday 4 – putting up lights, assisting game and join in the Carnival fun. again. If you feel that this lovely old children with their lanterns (at the Leigh Johnson building is important to the village then Church) and coming down the steps, litter picking at the end of the night. please help. You may be a regular, Please ring Julie Hamilton, on 824819 enjoy coming along to occasional if you are able to help. Thank you. services, be one of the many couples who have got married in the Church, had your child baptised, been baptised yourself, ring or enjoy listening to
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Craft Group’s latest project. of one chapter in particular needs correcting, so we are now making The group of folk who have been the alterations. We anticipate having meeting on the last Wednesday of the a new stock of books within the month to ‘make things’ have, thanks next few weeks, so if you would like to a kind donation of pillowcases, (you to order a copy, either ring me or know who you are! ) been able to make place an order on the History Group a total of 12 dresses. The simple cotton website at www.bonsallhistory.org. dresses are made from each pillow uk. Likewise, if you would like to be case. These and many more went to an interviewer or interviewee, please Africa at the end of May. Thank you get in touch on 825267 or at peter. to everyone who made them. The [email protected]. group is pausing Peter Fellows the bells, have attended a funeral or over the summer, visit the churchyard. We’re looking but will resume Nepal revisited - Annapurna in the autumn. for volunteers from the village to join base camp and beyond a fundraising team (not necessarily Sometimes we all church-goers), to help with events and have a project An illustrated talk in Bonsall Village ideas to raise funds. So if you feel you and sometimes Hall on Saturday 8 July at 7.30 pm would like to help, then please do! people bring We will be delivering a letter to their own thing In April this year. Bonsall residents, everyone within the next month to let to work on. Alan and Jane David and Chris you know ways in which you can help. There is however, Broome, returned to Nepal to visit You may too have ideas how we can always tea! Annapurna base camp, at an altitude raise money for this work. If you’d Marion Heasman of 4100m within the Annapurna like to help, we’d be very grateful if Sanctuary. The Sanctuary is located you could respond and support us. It Bonsall books at the head of a glacial valley that is would be fantastic if you could donate surrounded by 6000m - 8000m high generously towards the cost of these The History Group has spent several urgent repairs which are in the region months extracting villagers’ memories of £15,000. Let’s hope this is not the about growing up and living in Bonsall end of the line for our cockerel. With from the interviews that they have your help, I’m sure it won't be. Please given. This is now being collated contact any of us to share ideas about into the following seven chapters for fundraising, make a donation, or offer the new book, ‘Bonsall within living to be involved in the future. Thank you! memory’: 1) How we lived (e.g. types of housing, growing food, shopping, David Kirkham (823762), Di playtime, medical treatment), 2) Moor (824376), Alistair Hamilton Going to school, 3) Leisure and (824819), Phil Heasman (821816). entertainment, 4) Church/chapels, 5) Earning a living, 6) Transport, accidents and court cases, and 7) World War II. If you would like to be interviewed for the book, there is still time. Or if you are able to help with the last remaining interviews, and perhaps meet some new people, peaks, in one of the most spectacular we would welcome your help. A trekking areas in Nepal. To reach voice recorder and suggestions the base camp we trekked through on the types of questions that a wide variety of terrain, including are of interest are available. rhododendron forests that were in We have also received several full bloom. We organised the trek requests for copies of ‘Bonsall - a through a young Nepalese friend of village and its history’, which is ours, Bijay, who we met when we currently sold out. During recent were trekking in Nepal in 2014. We research, we have found that part decided that after completing the trek we would like to travel to the southern BONSALL part of Nepal, to spend some time A VILLAGE AND ITS HISTORY SECOND EDITION with Bijay and his family in his home village. This was a real privilege and an amazing, if somewhat humbling, experience for us, as the area of Nepal where Bijay comes from is rarely visited by Westerners. For further information, contact Chris on 824512 or Alan and Jane on 822983.
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Art show at the Via Gellia Mill
I hope that most of you will be reading overseas locations as well. As a result, lovely refreshments available - also this in time to catch the annual there are lots of new pieces on show free of charge. The last weekend, 3 - 4 Derbyshire Open Arts event, where that have never been seen before, June, coincides with Bonsall Magical artists across the county will be along with some new images from Open Gardens, so I would love it if you showcasing their work from 27 May - 4 the immediate local area. As usual, could find time for an additional stop June, giving visitors the opportunity all work is for sale and there will be a on your journey around the village. I to see and buy pictures, sculptures, good mix of framed prints, mounted am biased of course, but do think it jewellery, textiles, ceramics, woodwork prints, poster prints and greeting cards. will be well worth the visit. You can and metalwork made by local artists. Although it is a ‘working’ studio, during find me at Unit 2D, Via Gellia Mill, on While many venues will be open for this period it is closed for normal the ground floor below the Play Mill. just the Bank Holiday weekend, I will day-to-day work, and converted into More information about Derbyshire continue showing my work throughout a wonderful gallery space for people Open Arts is available at www. the following week and weekend, to browse and relax. So if you have derbyshireopenarts.co.uk and my own giving people plenty of time to plan friends and family visiting, or simply website is www.highstonegallery.co.uk. a visit to my studio at the Via Gellia want to doing something a little Mills. My landscape photographs of different, you are very welcome to Ian Daisley Derbyshire and the Peak District are call into the studio anytime between well known to many in the region, but I 10 am - 5 pm every day. Entry is free have recently expanded this to include and there is lots of parking available other areas of the UK and some at the mill. We will also have some
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Although this time of year is the joyful, and place in compost or soil, to the high season of blossom and bloom plant, which in the case of tomatoes for ‘ordinary’ gardeners, for vegetable or beans or sweet corn, will end up growers (generally a more anxious being taller that you are, surely there breed) it’s the time of waiting and is nothing more wonderful. One of my worrying. More or less everything is favourite plants is lobelia: from the sown, if not yet planted, but there’s 50p bag of dust-like seed I buy from very little to see for our labours and Wilko, emerges, after about six weeks, a lot to worry about. Late frosts, hundreds of sturdy little plants that drought, too much rain, slugs etc. are going to grow anywhere I choose And apart from what’s in the freezer, to plant them, flowering in a range of there’s not a lot to harvest. Some left the most lovely blues and pinks, right over spinach beet, true spinach and through to October. You can’t imagine some early lettuce, if you planted anything is going to grow when you early enough, radishes ditto and if first spread that dust, then there’s a you’re really lucky and well organized, little bit of green, then some more, and asparagus. All very nice, especially the when you pull the tiny new leaves out asparagus, but small beer compared of the compost of the seed tray, there to what’s to come, and all being well, below is this bright white tangle of little what we’ll start to harvest by the roots which after you’ve picked them end of June. New potatoes, early out into separate modules, just get peas, broad beans, gooseberries stronger and stronger. The plants start and strawberries…just the beginning out looking a bit straggly and then, ….and certainly worth waiting for. before you know it, they’ve filled out For me, the key to it all is sowing fine and are ready to plant out - and seed, the most magical bit of any your main problem is finding room gardening. From the tiny thing you for them all in the ground. Amazing! take between your finger and thumb Penny Collier
Winster Wakes Week: Sunday 25 June to Saturday 1 July. Also John Conolly, Trawlertown - An affectionate portrayal in song and story of the Grimsby fishing community Friday 16 June at 8 pm in the Burton Institute, Winster DE4 2DQ. Tickets £8 (£6 for children) from Winster Post Office or 650090 or [email protected]. Bar opens 7.15 pm
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12 May 1917. Derbyshire Times Farm, Brightgate, and working as a years meeting at the Queen’s Head. had an advert: “Thursday next May cowman farmhand, but assessed as However Bonsall was still regarded 17th at 12 (and the following day if Class A. Daniel was lame and had a as being better off than many places, necessary) Yeoman Street Bonsall milk round so could not farm as well, and children from Ilkeston were Sale of Valuable Grocer’s Stock in and his wife was an invalid. A third brought to the village to stay in Trade, Crockery and Glassware, Trade exemption of six months was granted. a house on Yeoman Street for Utensils , smart Pony Turnout and a ‘breath of glorious air’. Effects for Mr S Cotterill who is joining Richard Platts, 40, married Via H M Forces.” The Council fixed the Gellia, miner. Quite incapable of In 1911, Alf Bunting was living on rate in the £ at 1/6 (7.5p), the same constant work. His work was of Coldside in The Dale with his parents, as 1916, for a total Rateable Value of national importance. He had a William and Ellen. His father was a £3,118 giving the Council a potential three months’ exemption and a ‘doubler’ at a cotton mill, and when income of £233.85 (compare 2017 conditional exemption was granted. Alfred left school he worked at precept of around £10,000). They also Matlock Bath in the Ways and Works considered, as a Military Tribunal, Charles Hodgkinson, 32, miller’s Department of the Midland Railway. a further six months exemption for waggoner, Cromford, had been having He enlisted in the Sherwood Foresters Joseph Slack, 19, single, horseman two monthly exemptions and it was in Derby in 1916 as soon as he was and cattleman who had not attested, decided to review at the next Tribunal. 18. He was transferred to the 11th (i.e. had not indicated a willingness Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. The to serve when called although he Harold Smith, 28, Bonsall Moor Farm, battalion was heavily engaged in the was classified as Class A.) He was Brightgate, (Cllr. Prince took the chair, Battle of Arras April 9-15th, sustaining applied for by Joseph Slack, senior, because Cllr. Allsop was Harold’s losses of 150 men killed, wounded or Puddle Hill Farm, as his son was the father in law). The farm was 70 acres missing. On the morning of April 28th, only labour he had to farm 94 acres, and he was entirely alone on the farm. they attacked a German position in the of which only half an acre was arable. He had had a six months’ exemption. chemical works at Roeux, just east of The further six months was granted. He had not been examined for Class. Arras. They were soon held up and Mr Hetherington of Via Gellia Colour “You are sure to be Class A” said driven back a by a trench of machine Co. applied for Harry Prince of Nether the Military Representative. guns, which had been missed by the Green, aged 40, with five children, “What would become of farm if artillery barrage. A German counter- a colour grader, good worker, highly he went?” enquired the Clerk. attack was fought off, but the battalion experienced and assessed as Class “I should say the farm would have to go losses from this action were nearly B3. He also had had six months’ as well” replied Cllr. Boam, ironically. 300. The battalion was rested and exemption and a further six months’ A conditional exemption was granted. trained through May before returning to conditional exemption was granted. the Arras sector at Gavrelle. The casu- In June 1917, the Queen’s Head ran alties continued, including Alf Bunting, Also from the Via Gellia Colour Co., out of Bass and Worthington, and who died in a hospital near Arras on Albert Land, 41, a furnaceman living in there was no bottled beer or stout, only June 1st 1917. He was aged 19. A me- The Dale with his wife, Mary Ann, who draught beer and spirits. Worse still, morial service was held for him on the was ailing, and he had been assessed at the Via Gellia Inn there was no beer 8th July in Bonsall Church, led by Rev. as Class C3. It was recognised he or spirits, only dry ginger. By October Taggart, with headmaster A.W. Moody, could only be used for substitution and the Queen’s Head closed forever who taught Alf, reading the lesson. a conditional exemption was granted. and the Oddfellows had to move to Daniel Massey, 57, applied for his son the King’s Head after eighty three Peter Greaves Albert, 26, single, living at Cottage
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Parish Council meeting on 16 May Parish Councillors Appointments: this was the annual Park picnic tables: there have If you have any concerns or requests meeting of the Parish Council. been requests for picnic tables in of the Parish Council, they should the park. This is something that Councillor Mark Harris was ap- ideally be raised in Public Participation is still in the control of the District pointed as Chair, and Councillor Phil section of the monthly meeting. Addis as Vice-Chair. Thanks were Council, but it was agreed in prin- recorded to Denise Pountain for her ciple to aim to provide two tables If however there is an urgent matter, previous role as Vice-Chair as she when circumstances allowed. while individual councillors will try was not standing again for the role. to assist, a direct response is better Public WC: Tim Braund, the Head of achieved by contacting the Clerk to Closure of the Via Gellia at Regulatory Services for the District the Parish Council directly: Council, will be attending the July Cromford: Derbyshire Dales District Chair: Cllr Mark Harris, Stepping Council have now received a plan- meeting to explain their proposals Lodge, Bell Lane, T: 820285 ning application from the company for ownership and management of undertaking the retaining wall works the public toilets to be transferred Vice-Chair: Cllr Phil Addis, Dale to the Parish Council. Councillors at Chapel Hill. This is to extend the House, The Dale. T 826309 time limit for completing the work will be seeking some improvements from July 2017 to 31 December 2017, to the facility before any transfer. Councillors: and will allow the work to be carried out later in the year as requested Cllr Jon Barry, Ivy Cottage, Bell Defibrillator: the Parish Council Lane, T: 07866 750636 by the County Council. The Parish agreed to support the maintenance Council agreed that they had no costs of the defibrillator at the Cllr Richard Grover objection to this extension of time. Fountain and to support the purchase Nethergreen House, Clatterway - by the Parish Council of a second 259558 Park questionnaire, deadline 16 defibrillator for the village The June: the Parish Council welcomed Clerk and Councillors would make Cllr Michael Hewitt, Newlyn, the responses to the questionnaire enquiries on funding sources. The Dale, T: 823097 that have been received to date, and Cllr Denise Pountain 6 High would encourage further responses in Bus Shelter: the planning ap- Street. T. 822708 order to demonstrate to the Diocese plication for improvement of the the strength of feeling on the future bus shelter is now with the District Cllr Mike Richardson, 26 of the recreation ground and vehicle Council and the Parish Council look Yeoman Street - 826678 park. The deadline for return of forward to this being approved. Cllr Anna Williams, Glenholme, responses has been set for Friday The Dale, - 820035 16 June so that the results can be passed to the Diocese. Forms can Full details of the meetings can be Clerk and Finance Officer: found in the minutes on the Parish be completed online or returned 27 High Council page of the village website Tony Payne, to the Clerk at the address below Street.T: 822311; Mob. 07941 or to your local Parish Councillor. at www.bonsallvillage.org/, or on 358183; Please make your voice heard on the village noticeboards. The next this critical issue for the village. meeting will be the Parish Council [email protected] meeting on 20 June at 7.30pm. If you have any issues to be raised at the meeting please contact the Clerk District Councillors Joyce Pawley, tel: 01629 825431 ROBIN MAYCOCK FAMILY Tony Payne with details by 12 June. [email protected] BUTCHERS & BAKERS FREE HOME DELIVERIES Clerk and Finance Officer:Tony Garry Purdy Tel: 823636 TO BONSALL EVERY FRIDAY Payne, 27 High Street, DE4 2AS. T: [email protected] 822311; email [email protected]. MORNING. County Councillor Irene Ratcliffe, tel: 823023 Beef, Lamb, Pork, Free range Chicken, [email protected] 10 varieties of sausage, Meat pies, Ready Meals, Puddings, Cheese, Eggs Member of Parliament Fruit & Veg County Council Election Results Patrick McLoughlin, Derbys Dales & much much more For Wirksworth in the Derbyshire consituency, tel: 020 7219 3511, OUTSIDE CATERING Dales District: House of Commons, London, OUR SPECIALITY Irene Ratcliffe (Labour) 2040 SW1A 0AA [email protected] Call 01629 534333 for a brochure Richard Bright (Conservative) 2012 & product list or view our website Gill Bates (Lib Dem) 259 MEPs at www.robinmaycockbutchers.co.uk Ivan Dixon (Green Party) 226 The 6 East Midlands MEPs can be We also supply the Barley Mow Inn contacted on 020 72193000 or at: with meat for their wonderful House of Commons, London, bar meal menu. SW1A 0AA
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Answers to crossword no. 83 Across: 5. Vegetable. 8. Swat (mugger = swot). 9. Eggplant. 10. Memory. 11. Endive. 13. Scotch. 15. Coward (ard = plough). 16. Broccoli. 18. Bean. 19. Forage Cap. Down: 1. Beetroot. 2. Celery. 3. Tangle. 4. El Al. 6. Sweetcorn (wee = go, rn = royal navy). 7. Universal. 12. Downbeat. 14. Hookah. 15. Chives. 17. Crop.
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Allotments Mike Lynch 820096 Village Hall Defi brillator Trained Volunteers Art Club Marion Heasman 821816 For bookings contact Leigh Johnson Richard Taylor 823704 07860 214503 Bonsall Barn Project on 823591 Brett Taylor 824407 07950 036657 Liz Stoppard/Mike Susko 823712 Cost per session (a session is Anne Young 825186 07876 506595 Fiona Griffi ths 07988 566106 Bonsall Camp a morning, afternoon or evening): Matthew Quinn 07988071682 John Ratcliffe 07896 924824 • Village organisations: Maxine Ellis 07742 749854 £10 – one fl oor Bonsall Church Bell Ringers Jo Hanby 822767 07872 641409 £16 – both fl oors Mellissa Welbourne 826303 Julia Milverton 07584 895644 Bonsall Community De vel op ment Trust • Non-village organisations: Health: Peter Greaves 822374 £20 – one fl oor £30 – both fl oors Chemists Hannage Brook 821750 Bonsall Map Wendy Bullar 825267 Wirksworth 822607 • Village people private hire: Dentists Matlock: Bonsall Pensioners Fund £25 – one fl oor 584746, 55645, 582218, 56558 Ron Brown 822153 £35 – both fl oors Doctors NHS Direct 0845 4647 Bonsall Riders Club • Non-village people private hire: Hannage Brook 822434 Jane Williams 825632 £40 – one fl oor Hospitals Carnival Committee £50 – both fl oors Chesterfi eld 01246 277271 Derby City 01332 340131 Hazel Baldwin 824724 Note: an extra charge for functions Derbys Royal 01332 347141 where alcohol is sold: £20 for village Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline Group Whitworth 580211 organisations, £30 for non-village Chris Broome 824512 Non-emergencies 111 organisations, in addition to the hire Cromford Playgroup charge. Derbyshire County Council Karen or Jayne 07905 937371 www.derbyshire.gov.uk Horticultural Society All enquiries 580000 Ron Brown 822153 TRAVEL SERVICES Out of Hours numbers: 536673 or ‘Call Kick-boxing Airports Derbyshire’ 533190 or 0845 6058058 Hayley Capewell 0777 3149935 Birmingham 0844 5766000 Derbyshire Dales District Council Mothers’ Union Di Moor 824376 East Midlands 01332 852852 www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk Manchester 0161 4893000 Open Gardens Ollie Gerrish 824498 All enquiries 761100 Parents & Toddlers Group Bus services Environmental health 761212 (Thurs days 1.45-3pm in term time) Payments 761254 • TM Travel #216 Matlock Swimming: Gordon Hardy 823549 Pigeon Club Monday to Saturday. No Sunday or Bank • Matlock (Arc) 581322 School Head Lesley Murhall 822573 Holiday service. • Wirksworth 824717 Tourist information: PTFA Rachael Richardson 826678 Departing Fountain: 08.08*, 10.08, 11.08, 12.08, 13.08, 14.08, • Matlock 583388 School Foundation 15.08,16.08*, 17.08, 18.08 • Matlock Bath 583834 Clerk, Norma Rickards 822257 (all 3 min earlier at Abel Lane). Trading Standards 585858 Electricity emergencies 0800 0568090 Departing Bakewell Rd., Stand B: Fire station, Matlock 582849 09.30,10.30, 11.30,12.30, 13.30, 14.30, Gas leaks 0800 111999 RESOURCES 15.25* 16.30, 17.30. * Saturdays and school holidays only Household Waste Recycling Centre Bonsall Publications Harrison Way, Darley Dale, DE4 2LF. Pensioners free after 9.30 am. Details Open 8.30 – 6.00 daily. The Bonsall Map from Traveline: 0871 2002233 or TM Travel (www.tmtravel.co.uk/bus- Mobile Library 01773 824333 • folded £2.50 (+£1 P&P to UK) nd times/derbyshire). Monthly 2 Fridays at the Fountain, • wall poster £3.50 (+ £ 9.90 P&P to UK) 10.55–11.30 am History book • Derby G&J Holmes #212 Police/Safer Neighbourhoods 101 £15 paperback, £25 hardback. Alternate Thursdays from March 5th. PCs Matt Winterbottom and Sue Lester 09.05 from Uppertown or matlock.neighbourhoods@derbyshire. History booklets 13.45 depart Derby Morledge pnn.police.uk. £2.50–3.00 or £10 for a pack of six. (www.derbysbus.info/times/tt_201_999. Crimestoppers 0800 555111 htm) Victim support 825544 Carnival Book £9.99 Antisocial behaviour coordinator 761187 Taxis 822072, 813774, 826060, Community safety 761101 All available from 19 High St.,DE4 2AS, 07967 273237, 07815 773706 Tel: 825267, pubs or Fountain Tea rooms Vets: Matlock 582844, 581234, Train services 0845 7484950 History Walking Guides £5 Wirksworth 823034 Peter Greaves 822374 Travel line 0870 6082608 Water emergencies 0800 7834444
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