!DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY ISSN 0965-8912

Dore Millennium Play

Already many people have volunteered to be involved with different aspects of this project, which aims to bring Dore's history ALIVE. Now that the Local Heritage Initiative Grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Countryside Agency has been awarded, a professional playwright has been commissioned to write a series of playlets based on events in the history of Dore. It is hoped that a wide cross-section of local people, from all age groups and with different skills, will be involved in a creative venture which elaborates and records our local heritage. The grant will also enable an oral history collection, from the recollections of those who have lived and worked in Dore, to be recorded, and a small group has already met to begin recording and transcribing the information gathered. Anyone interested in joining this group would be most welcome. Please contact Maureen Cope: tel 235 0392 for Rose and Ivy Cottages on Dare High Street more information. taken some time in the 1950s. Quiet Lane et al Apart from those local people who have Sadly these were long since demolished to already expressed a willingness to be make way for a modern row of shops. No In our May edition we reported that the involved, we have also been fortunate in doubt similar proposals today would be Dore Village Society had approached the attracting support from experts in the field refused. Council to consider whether Whitelow oflocal history, drama and performance. Lane should be designated as a 'Quiet These include: well known actor and Editorial Lane' under new government legislation director, Roger Bingham; local historian, and the speed limit reduced accordingly. illustrator and writer, Brian Edwards; We are now told that no progress can be writers and directors, Jack and Kay Massey; This is always a busy time of year for most made without this being part of a wider and the Regional Network representative of of us in the build up to Christmas and New 'Speed Management Strategy' for all roads the Oral History Society, Michelle Year. in Sheffield. (Very relevant!) This it would Winslow. Buying presents and planning family seem is unlikely to be completed and Rehearsals for the plays will begin during gatherings takes time. We are lucky in Dore approved in less than a year, involving a April 2002 and the plays will be produced that we still have a good range of local study contracted to consultants. at various venues in the village during the shops, whether you are ordering a turkey Meanwhile there have been no Dore Festival in July. from the family butchers, looking for developments on the area-wide speed Please contact Margaret Peart at Dore Old sweets or treats, a bottle of wine or ideas management scheme for Dore, heralded in School, telephone 235 3801, for more for presents. When it comes to local shops our last issue and in the local press. Work information about the project. it is a truism to say that it is a case of 'use has yet too start on the Causeway Head them or lose them'. Road crossing or the yellow lines at the Finding suitable presents for friends and bottom of Do re Road, although an undated DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY relatives isn't easy. However you can notice about the proposed lines is on display at Dore Station, but without a Winter Meeting always turn to the printed word with books to cater for every interest and hobby. closing date for comments. 7.30pm Wednesday Publishers tend to produce more new books One piece of good news is that, following 5 December at this time of the year than any other, and a quick reaction to the appearance of two sets of new sign posts on the green space in Methodist Church Hall this issue contains plenty of reviews on some you might like to consider. front of Whirlow Gardens, we were able to Talk by Peter Harrison And if it is Christmas cards you are get one for Sheffield Airport removed, and the other distance sign to Rotherham moved on the fascinating story looking for, you will fmd this year's Dore Village Society cards available at Greens further down the road to the bus stop area. of Blue John Stone and Valerie of Dore. Finally we formally approached Planning, Admission Free Whatever your plans for Christmas, quiet, Transport & Highways in September asking family or away, we would like to take this for a meeting about road safety issues on opportunity to send seasons greeting to all Hathersage Road, following the number of fatal accidents in recent years. We will let The next Open Morning at the Dore Village members of the society and readers of you know when this happens. Society room will be Saturday I December. DORE to DOOR, wherever you might be.

1 Winter Meeting The Wassail Walk

The fascinating story of Blue John, is the Suitable for young and old alike, the title of the talk by Peter Harrison to this inaugural Dore Wassail Walk will take years winter meeting of the Dore Village place on Thursday, 27 th December starting Society. The meeting starts at 7.30 pm in at IO.OOamat the Old School. Organised by the Methodist Church Hall on Wednesday the Dore Village Society, the Walk will be 5th December. Everyone is welcome and about five miles, (approx 2 Vz hrs) just admission is free. enough to get rid of the Christmas lethargy, Peters great grandfather, grandfather and but still leaving enough energy to face the father were born in Sheffield and worked as New Year celebrations. Walking boots steeplejacks. His father didn't like heights, should be worn. became a farmer and moved eventually to A cover charge of £ 1 will include a glass Hatfield (near Doncaster), where Peter was of punch (or soft drink) and mince pies for born in 1926. all participants at the end of the walk. Put His grandfather moved to Castleton in the date in your diaries now and make it a 1907, followed by the immediate family in family occasion. Watch the Dore Village 1941 and in 1945 Peter left the farm for Society notice board for more details. Castleton, to work in the cavern business at Treak Cliff Cavern, where he has been ever since. Flower Tubs in Dore With having relatives at Castleton since This year, the Village was once again 1907, he has been lucky enough to be decorated with flower tubs throughout the involved in the Blue John Stone industry summer months, enlivening the scenery and since he was 9 years old. His other interests Planting team hard at work on Cross Lane. giving pleasure to all who passed by. The include photography, local geology and the flowers were supplied and managed by the history of Castleton. City Council Horticultural Department. The Daffodils money to pay for these services is raised by You can keep up to date with As promised in the Autumn issue, daffodil donations from individuals, local shops, what is happening in Dare on bulb planting has taken place on some of businesses, churches, and associations the local roadside verges. An energetic within Dore. £987 was raised this year to our village web site at: team has planted over 2000 bulbs. provide 14 flower tubs. www.dorevillage.co. uk The areas concentrated on this year have Because the idea has been such a success, been Limb Lane (on the steep slope and at the Dore Village Society is confident that the entrance to the Picnic Area) and Cross residents would want the flowers to be an Lane (from the corner by Causeway Head annual feature. Liaison with the Council is DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY Road towards Hathersage Road). In quite simple and once the details have been Registered Charity No. 1017051 addition there has been planting to the agreed with the Horticultural Department, verge in front of Limpits Cottage (at the they take over all responsibility. The bill for The Society aims to foster the protection corner of Causeway Head Road and their services is not presented by the and enhancement of the local Rushley Road). Council until several weeks after flower environment and amenities within Dore, Thank you to all who have dug, made tubs have been taken away, giving ample to encourage a spirit of community and donations, and avoided the planters with time for donations to be collected. to record its historic development. your cars! It will be interesting to see what Is their any Dore resident who would like the squirrels have left, and what the Spring to take on this interesting role? If so, please Chairman (Dore to Door) brings. ring George Elsdon 0114 236 0002. Mr J R Baker 2369025 David Heslop 8 Thornsett Gardens, S17 3PP. Editorial & Advertising Vice Chairman (Environment) Dore Village Committee Mr R Millican 2620012 Dore to Door is published quarterly by the 16 Devonshire Drive, S17 3PJ. We are pleased to report that David Crosby Dore Village Society and delivered free to of Fumiss Avenue has recently been eo- over 3,200 households in the area. Treasurer opted onto the committee of the Dore If you are interested in submitting an Mrs M Watson 2365666 Village Society. article or letter, have local news to report, David has worked in housing development, 11 Cavendish Avenue, S17 3JN. or wish to place an advertisement, please historic building and area conservation and contact the Editor John Baker on 2369025 Secretary urban regeneration, as an architect and town or write to: Mrs A Slater 2366710 planner for nearly 30 years in both London The Editor, 6 Old Hay Close, S 17 3GQ and County Durham, becoming Chief Dore to Door, Planning Officer for Sedgefield District 8 Thornsett Gardens, Dore, Committee Council in 1989. He has just retired after Sheffield, S 17 3PP. Mrs L E Baker 2369025 ten years as the Senior Lecturer (Urban (Dore Show & FEW) Design) at Sheffield Hallam University [ Email [email protected]] Mr D Crosby 262 1127 having been leader of the Postgraduate Opinions expressed in articles and Mr G R Elsdon 236 0002 Planning and Urban Design Programmes. services offered by advertisers are not (Subscriptions & Notice Board) David's current interests include family necessarily endorsed by the publishers. history, chair of Christ Church Dore Fabric Mr D Heslop 236 5043 No part of Dore to Door may be Committee and being a governor of reproduced in full or part, without the (Planning) Meadowhead School. He is hoping to written permission of the Editor. Mrs V Malthouse 2363632 contribute to a strategic approach to Mr P Pryor 2369831 conservation in Dore. Copyright Dore Village Society 2001

2 achieve at a level significantly above those Comment & update News in Brief average at all levels. Many of your readers are aware of the fact The £150 proceeds from the charity that we are due to move into a brand new Mrs Jean Pearson (nee Clark) tells me that auction at this years enjoyable Dore Show single site school building - hopefully the large stone at the site of the Hare and were donated to the Sheffield Wildlife around September 2004. A timetable for the Hounds was not a mounting block (see page Trust. PFI process has been established and we 2 of the autumn issue), but was used by the Netherby Grange nursing home on Dore expect 4 bidders to come up with plans blacksmith, who occupied the end of the Road has closed. early next year. These will include location, building, to shape the iron rims for Castleton Christmas Lights will be design specification, facility management, cartwheels. The stone was removed in 1972 switched on at 4.30pm on Saturday 24 etc. when Jean's parents retired from the pub November, then daily from 3.30pm to We will do our best to keep you informed and the brewery began their programme of midnight until 3 January 2002. of progress via this publication and by the alterations. A team from King Ecgbert School came occasional newsletter. Jean also tells me that in the back yard of out top from schools across the country in Bob Evans, Headteacher, the Hare was a pitch for the pub game a citizenship quiz held at Doncaster's Earth King EcgbertSchool 'Bumble Puppy'. Evidently there was a Centre in October. series of hollows in the yard into which balls were rolled. Jean says the game Watch out resembled Skittles. This was also covered King Ecgbert School over in 1972. I don't know if anyone Improved security on modem cars is surviving can remember playing the game. King Ecgbert School once again enjoyed forcing theives to change their modus Motorists are still continuing to park in the great success in the external examinations. operandi. Instead of attempting to break entrance to the back of the shops on The school is given grades by OfSTED, into cars, the emphasis is now on stealing Causeway Head Road. This is most comparing our performance with that of the car keys, before making a swift annoying, especially when you drive up and 'similar schools'. We are very proud of the getaway. Sneak in theives will use open are hoping to be able to get into your own fact that all of key grades, in SATS, GCSEs doors or windows to grab the keys from the backyard. Cars may only be there a short and POST 16 we achieved the top grade of kitchen or handbag and then steal cars from time, but that is beside the point. They A* or a grade A. The scale goes from A * to the drive. Opportunist theives will take a should not be there at all. Would the drivers E, with a 'C' being average. In particular we car with keys left in the ignition or door, like it if we parked in their driveways. I are proud of our 'value added- we typically even in one recent case when a car was think not. achieve around 15% higher A*- C grades at being washed and the owner had Is it too late to congratulate the Brownies GCSE than would have been predicted momentarily turned away. and Guides on their beautiful well-dressing using standardised tests. A school's The advice then must be to keep your car this year. What a pity it could only be performance is naturally highly dependent locked, keep the keys with you and if not, preserved in the form of snapshots. upon its intake and we pride ourselves that make sure they are not left in an obvious Jean Dean with a 'national average' intake, our pupils place indoors. You have been warned!

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3 I am in possession of an H. Pearson Dear Sir, Letters grandfather clock and will send you details I was interested to see the photograph on and photos later. page 3 of the Autumn 2001 edition of Dore Dear Sir, Maurice Moseley, to Door relating to Dore Avenue in First of all Iwish to congratulate you on Waiuku, New Zealand California. an excellent web site. Congratulations to During a recent visit to south west the designer and the people who keep it up Ed. Maurice would be interested to hear Herefordshire, I was reminded of the name to date. from people in the village or anyone in Dore given to the river that drains the My name is Maurice Ryecroft Moseley. New Zealand who has connections with Golden Valley. At the valley head lies the My middle name, as you may have guessed, Dore. village of Dorston whilst lower down, not is after Ryecroft Farm in Dore. Iunderstand fat from the confluence of the rivers Dore that the Moseley family lived on the farm Dear Sir, and Monsow, is the small village of Abbey during the l800s. My grandfather, Alfred On behalf of the Greentop Community Dore (west bank) and Dore Court Gardens Moseley and grandmother, Ada Moseley Circus Centre in Sheffield I would like to (east bank). The remains of the Cistercian, lived on the farm until Alfred had an thank the people of Dore for their generous Dore Abbey are situated nearby. accident and was unable to work on the donation to the work of this small, local Paul Williams farm. They moved to Oxford, where my registered charity. Earlier this year the Dear Sir, father Alfred John was born in 1900. My collections taken from the village Since the Mercia Building of King father' had a heart condition and was well-dressings were distributed to three Ecgbert's School on Fumiss Avenue was advised by his doctor to move to a more charities and this year Greentop was built some forty years ago a great number temperate climate, and the family moved to selected to be one of them. of former pupils will now be scattered far New Zealand in 1911. Greentop is located in a converted church and wide. They bought a farm and I was born in in the Brightside area of Sheffield. The I understand that the school is now to be 1926. My mother was Florence Shipston, centre aims to act as a multi-purpose venue re-built, enlarging the present Wessex site who lived in Dore before moving to New for the local community and to teach human off Totley Brook Road and the Mercia Zealand about 1923. She kept in touch with circus skills to adults and children. (Human' building site being sold off for housing some of the family in England, including Circus skills include trapeze, juggling, stilt development. I am concerned about the fate my cousin, Gerald Shipston, who visited walking, acrobalance and clowning.) The of the amphibians who use the small pond New Zealand recently. I started making a premises are regularly used by a number of situated in the centre of the Mercia building family tree, but by this time both my groups including one that uses our for breeding. parents had passed away, and Ihave had to equipment to give exercise to severely A friend has been told by a third party that rely a great deal on conversations I heard handicapped adults. prior to the Mercia site being built around from them. The centre has recently been awarded a 1957-60 a house stood on the site and the Iwas able to visit Dore in September 2000 National Lottery Grant of £24,000 to pond was in existence then. The owner of and with Gerald's help was able to visit provide out of school activities to local this house also kept a shop in Dore village. Ryecroft Farm, but Ihad not advised John children, many of whom come from The school was built around the pond to Farnsworth in advance and it was families where parents are unemployed. We preserve it and I have been wondering if inconvenient to look over the farm. also have fmancial support from the local this was a condition for planning However I have had e-mail correspondence council and, in the past, we have been permission being granted and if this was so with Richard Farnsworth and Gerald supported by other organisations such as Ifail to see why this cannot be retained. Shipston, and have managed to trace some the South Yorkshire Police. The donation I have good reason to believe that the of my family through census records, and made by the village has been targeted to goldfish presently in the pond were details from headstones in the Dore help refuge children to integrate into their introduced in about 1980. Goldfish and churchyard. They have also given me the new communities. Greentop will teach breeding newts are not an ideal Dore web site. Ifeel as though I am still a these children, alongside local children, combination! part of Do re and hope to be able to stay in skills where language is not a bar to If any former pupil can recall when the touch through your web site. achieving success and where co-operation pond was built and why I would be most and fun can help to build self-esteem and grateful. Also, because the specific type of ...... •...... peter hammett friendships . amphibians cannot be physically identified Without fmancial support the centre would until they return to breed, if they can not be able to provide the range of activities recollect what species of frog, toad and PIHIFIS that it does. newt use the pond for breeding. Perhaps financial services Once again 'a big thank you' to everyone they could contact either myself or the in Dore from everyone at Greentop. edoitor with this or any other information. INDEPENDENT FINANCIAL ADVISERS Caroline Veal, Fundraising Albert T Smith .PENSIONS • LIFE ASSURANCE Co-ordinator, Greentop Circus Centre 251 Totley Brook Road • INVESTMENTS • SAVINGS • MORGAGES • SCHOOL FEES

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4 Dear Sir, and cleared the leaves covering the surface (This letter was recently sent to local MP of a blocked drain. On 50% of these Protecting the Beautiful Frame Richard Allen and copied to us) occasions, this has been enough, and I recall that earlier this year you considered whoosh- all the water has gone down there organising a survey of the No.50 bus and then and the road flooding below has The beautiful countryside around Sheffield service. In the past few weeks delays and ceased. If you do this, be very careful not to is one of its saving graces, yet it could have omissions have highlighted what a poor lose hold of the stick. (In some cases, the been very different if the local branch of service is being provided. Two of the drain is already full up with leaves and it CPRE had not been formed in 1924 as the reasons for the delays are the increased would take the old fashioned drain ladle to Sheffield Association for the Protection of traffic and the number of cars and vans cope with it.) Local Scenery. It was thanks to the efforts parked on the route. I tackled the owner of one large of volunteers who fought to protect the Every new house in Dore and Whirlow establishment about this matter this week. Peak well before it became Britain's first seems to entail two more cars. These will There was a real flood outside the property. national park that we have such an asset be used in preference to buses if these are The response was 'I am too busy to deal today. We could instead be looking at wide infrequent and unreliable in both collection with that. It is the council's responsibility.' roads, a countryside littered with and delivery times. A vicious spiral of Yes, but the leaves all over Sheffield come incongruous housing and the park as a deterioration can only be reversed by an down at the same time. The council cannot whole turned into a gigantic holiday improved bus service and a marketing be everywhere. I do feel that if citizens playground. campaign. would keep an eye on the road drain by A new book Protecting the Beautiful Meanwhile, all plans for further dwellings their property, these problems would be Frame, written by landscape historian in Dore and Whirlow should be suspended, minimised. Also if the able bodied could Melvyn Jones, chronicles a history of the and all applications should be resisted, on (as many already do) sweep up the Sheffield, Peak District and South the grounds that there is an inadequate pavement leaves regularly, at this time of Yorkshire branch of the Council for the infrastructure of public transport. the year, instead ofletting them accumulate Protection of Rural England, tracing events Tom Umpleby in great piles to blow about, the problem over the past 77 years. It charts the charity's Ed. Issues here for the review ofSheffields could be halved "upstream". triumphs and defeats during efforts to UD.P. - see article. Is it coincidence, or is "Observer" combat everything from litter to tower my impression correct that the route only Name & address supplied masts and widespread quarrying, while gets buses in the worst possible physical Dear Sir, spearheading the fight for green belt land. It condition? With regard to the name, Abbey Dore is also relates the roles of Ethel and Gerald interesting. It lies in the Golden Valley Haythornthwaite, who were a driving force Dear Sir, about twelve miles south west of Hereford both at local and national level. "The autumn leaves come falling down" ..... and has an active 'Friends' Support group. Protecting the Beautiful Frame is and in a hilly village, unless 'somebody' Built during the time that Norman French published in paperback by Hallamshire does something about it, they will block the was the official language of the country, it Press in association with the Sheffield, Peak drains and cause the roads to flood. was of course originally Abbaye d'Or. District and South Yorkshire branch of the I have been interested in this matter for Lovely! CPRE, and costs £ 11.95 years and have often taken a strong stick Muriel Tompkins ISBN 1-874718-61-X

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5 90) to encouraging talents and confidence. Dore Football Teams 1930s. Picture David Williams loaned by Mr W Crookes of Preston - see This motivated the need for extra space and letter in last issue. His father Billy Crookes a chance to benefit all other local groups. is on the right in coat and cap. After 9 years, David will be taking his last Many more adults are now actively engaged th services on November 25 , having accepted in Sunday worship, Alpha courses, house a post at Christ Church Winchester, from groups, weekday toddler groups and Abbeydale Pk Bowling club January 2002. organising social events. It was soon apparent that, to him the title At the other extreme from the picnics and "Vicar of Dore" encompassed more than the fun, David was also the man when crisis Never heard of us? Founded in 1947, our the care of church members. David's struck. Never one for delay, he would cross green is in the top right hand corner of ministry has been in every area of the Sheffield in the middle of the night to deal Abbeydale Sports Club. community. To say that he threw himself with a suicide and also spend hospital hours We do not play in a league at present but into activities was sometimes physically supporting families of the critically ill. are looking into the possibility of joining true as well, the Gala Tug of War being Services following national tragedies have one. We play friendly matches against one. Long in my memory too will be a often been dramatic and moving; the Chatsworth, Darley Dale, Fulwood, Hallam happy scene after Evensong - David in full opportunity again for witness and support. Grange and Worksop as well as holding robes, chasing the ducks home at dusk past The ministry team has stronger internal competitions. the Hare and Hounds. participation in the local schools, Old Folks The winners of our knockout events this To write about the many projects driven Homes and Aldine House, whilst the larger season were as follows:- by his dynamic personality is impossible in lay ministry cover home visits. Open Singles. Mike Cross one article. Two of the building projects- The Church serving the community is also Singles Handicap. Donald Hudson The Ark at the Church Hall and the Old very visible in the large number of Veterans Singles Handicap. Alf Sceats School Extension, might never have taken christenings and weddings at Dore. David's Doubles Handicap. Graham Torry & off without his vision and optimism- the great gift for people shows itself in the Alan Wright latter in his role, very much a working role, hundreds of names he carries in his head on Curvaceous Handicap. Mike Hastings as a member of the Old School Trustees. these occasions and an instinctive grasp of We are looking for new members for Both were the result of David's the dynamics of those families. Also of season 2002. Anyone interested can contact commitment to the growth of youth work abiding interest, the old village families, John Perkinton on 236 1601. (children's groups now numbering nearly their tales and feuds! Needing a larger sphere to work in, it was appropriate that he became Area Dean in charge of 13 churches. He was the first Spice lAp}'OlA~Ch~istmas vicar of Dore to be entrusted with that responsibility and also the youngest. Enjoy something difference this year, by selecting There have been many other firsts; first from the wide range of popular authentic Indian Passover meal, first Parish Office, first dishes served in the village's own Indian Brasserie. church in Sheffield to have 5 Sunday services, first weekend away for the whole church, and the first vicar not to follow this Richard, your host, is also organising a special 'New Years Eve' four post with retirement. course meal. Starters, main course, sweet, and coffee with We acquired the first "curate's house" and 'Thornton' mints, all for just £19.95 per head. Bookings only. with Matt and Emma Ineson, Sheffield's first jobshare married curates. As we hope Telephone: 0114 0883 to hear exciting news of the Williams 262 family in Winchester we think of Matt and Open Monday to Friday and Sunday 6-11.30pm Emma and wish them well as they take charge of Dore parish during the Saturday 5.30-11.30pm interregnum. And to the " Man in a Hurry" we're 34 - 36 High Street, Dore, Sheffield S 17 3GU. grateful that he stayed with us so long. TAKEAWAY MENU ALSO AVAILABLE Gillian Farnswortlt

6 the Annual Service for Cairns Homes for Mid-week Cup. The Junior Xl's under T.O.A.D.S Autumn play the Blind. They will also be singing at a 13's, 15's and ITs also qualified for play- Civic Service at Brindsworth, Rotherham offs in their Leagues. In these times of criticism of the N.H.S., on the 9th December. Not a bad record! The quality ofthe first our November play is certainly topical. It is On 15th December the Choir will be XI Cricket is very good as most opponents a very light hearted look at a doctor's presenting its annual Christmas Concert at include one overseas player (the current NZ surgery, a young, naive doctor who is Dore Church. Always an enjoyable opening bat played for Cleethorpes), and perturbed to learn that his National Health occasion, the Choir will be singing many Michael Vaughan was first spotted at Clinic has been hired out to a private new songs from its growing repertoire as Collegiate. consultant. Our young doctor gets dragged well as some familiar favourites. Tickets The Club's Players and officials are to be into the scheming world of the consultant in will be available from Choir members, or congratulated on a fantastic season. It Peter Horsier's comedy "Cut and Run", but telephone 2365043. would be encouraging to see an increase in after many twists, painting large the dangers Have you thought of joining the Friends of local support next season. At the moment in private health care, all ends happily. Dore Male Voice Choir? For only £7.50 for the usual five supporters and a dog are Anne Bettridge is making her debut as ten years, you can receive regular news and joined by people from Worksop and Director for this play, and very fitting too, receive a number of benefits. Ask any Choir Chesterfield. Roll on 2002. as she works at a doctors' surgery! member for further information. John Gray 'Cut and Run' will be at St. John's Church David Heslop Hall, Abbeydale Road South, from Wednesday 21st November to Saturday SHEFFIELD & DISTRICT SOCIETY 24th, at 7.30 p.m., so please come along Cricket at Abbeydale Park OF MODEL & EXPERIMENTAL and brighten up a dull November evening. ENGINEERS L TD Tickets still £2.50 or £2 for concessions - Whilst Cricket Enthusiasts, (who are fast phone me, Kate Reynolds, 2366891 becoming a rare breed) are celebrating the MINIATURE RAILWAY County teams winning the Championship, do the people of Dore realise that down the Santa Specials on Sundays 9th and 16th Dore Male Voice Choir road there is the Abbeydale Park Cricket December. Trains run from 11am - 4.30pm Club? with Santa in his grotto from 12noon. The Choir presented its Autumn Gala Formed this year by the amalgamation of Admission £2.50 entitles a ticket holder to Concert to a capacity audience at Ecclesall the Collegiate and Old Edwardians, they unlimited train rides and a visit to the Church on 13th October. They we re joined have run nine teams in various leagues. The grotto. Refreshments will be available. by the City of Sheffield Senior and Girls first XI have retained the Yorkshire Premier You can find us in Ecclesall Woods, along Choir. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress League (seventh time in the last 10 years) Abbeydale Road South between the Hamlet of Sheffield were our special guests. and losing Cup semi-finalists- 2nd and 3rd & Dore Station - Look out for the yellow In September, in accordance with its aim Xl's promoted as league champions and board on the side of the road. of assisting charities, the choir sang in a Whitworth Trophy winners. The Club also All proceeds go towards running costs & concert at Beauchief Baptist Church and at had success in the YD League Cup and the development. Tel236 9002.

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There is a separate charities and as children already seem to There can be few of us, who have not at chapter for those wishing to trace the enjoy her puppet stories, writing the books some stage in our lives, wondered about the history of a specific village, listing areas in seemed to be a logical way of doing this. history of where we live and felt a desire to which to begin research, books that may Having funded them themselves, she and fmd out more. How did our village get its help, and places to visit for advice. husband Bob intend to pass on profits name, who lived here, how old is that Any study of local history will throw up raised both to the Pearson's Holiday Fund house, why is there such a sharp bend in the unfamiliar words and phrases, making a for disadvantaged children everywhere, and road? Everything that we see today, must comprehensive glossary, an essential in support of groups selling copies of the have an explanation, but where do we start reference tool. 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9 new buildings for forty dogs and forty cats to replant the site with nine new substantial Planning including a two storey administration block, trees. vetinary and staff accommodation, two It is a pity that these developers have been Land behind 67-69 Newfield Lane. The isolation buildings and a car park. so insensitive to the situation and potential saga of the development of flats The development would be a massive of this property in a prime position in the overlooking the Recreation Ground from intrusion into Green Belt, apart from the Dore Conservation Area. the back of New field Lane continues to run inevitable noise, and traffic. The Society Sadly we now have a television aerial on and run. has objected in the strongest possible terms the gable end and a side gate out of scale to It will be recalled that despite strong to the proposal. Local residents have been the adjacent stone wall. opposition at the time, Planning Consent circulating a petition in the area and the 'Blue Ridge', Ashfurlong Road. A was granted for the building of a three local councillors have objected. No Planning Application (9B/0908P) has been storey block of six flats on a house plot planning decision has yet been given, but made for the demolition of the close on the boundary of the Recreation approval would have disastrous dwellinghouse on this site and the erection Ground. On the basis of this the builder consequences in this part of Dore. of flats. The developer, 'County applied for more and was again successful Good news at Gilleyfield. The Planning Developments (Bakewell)" is the same as in obtaining consent for a second block of Application for demolition of the bungalow the builder ofthe flats at Newfield Lane. six further flats, despite more strong at 18 Gilleyfield Avenue and the building The proposal is initially for 13 flats in one objections. of four houses on the site has been refused. large four storey block. This is on the south You may recall our concern (Spring 2001 The decision of the Planning Board was side of the site, 10 metres from the Issue of Dore to Door) that there seemed unanimous, in the recommendation of the boundary. The building will be well above nothing to stop similar development all planning officers. In addition the committee the trees on the boundary and will overlook along the western boundary of the proposed to place a Tree Preservation the houses in Burlington Road. Recreation Ground. Is it any surprise then Order on the trees by the footpath and This application covers only part of the that a new application has been submitted fronting Savage Lane. site and the developer has shown the outline in respect of a third house plot, to have the Bad news at Gilleyfield. The developer of three more blocks offlats on the site, but presently approved house substituted by has decided to appeal against the decision. has given no details of proposed numbers of another three storey block of six flats? In accordance with Planning legislation the units or height of the buildings. The Society We now have the prospect of three three appellant has had to advertise the appeal. has objected to the height and mass of the storey blocks of eighteen flats and two This was done on the 22nd October in 'The proposed building, and has asked that the houses overlooking the Recreation Ground. Star'. whole development be considered as one Or could it be that the builder will get The Society will again be strongly and not dealt with piecemeal. consent for a further two blocks in objecting as soon as the formal David Heslop substitution for the other two house plots? documentation is through from the Council. This would give thirty flats overlooking the Local residents immediately by the Did you Know? rec. with all the consequences of the development should be notified of the increase in traffic on Newfield Lane. appeal and will have an opportunity to As another year comes to an end, it is a Do the Planning Board really take any object. Any other objectors should write in time to reflect, remember and regret. While notice of local concerns. to the Council quoting the Council national and international issues dominate Newfield Lane again. A planning reference number 9A10792P and the the press it is the sometimes small local application (98/0814P) has been made for address, and giving the reasons for issues that really impact upon our lives. the proposed development of a Dog an Cat objection. Change is often slow, almost insidious, Boarding Kennels on land surrounding the More bad news at Nab Farm. The until something makes you look back at bungalow on the west side of Newfield developers of Nab Farm have cut down how things once were. Bungalows Lane (opposite the end of Kerwin Road). nine trees which were protected by the metamorphose into houses, gardens into This land is in the Green Belt and in a very planning consent. It is understood that the flats, roads and pavements disappear under sensitive situation. The proposal includes Planning Department have instructed them parked cars. High gates and spiked fencing springs up in front of properties - fortress Dore? Trees and hedges are lopped or vanish. Views from the recreation ground and your own window change. Yet things that we want to happen such as improvements to road safety take an age. INVESTOR IN PEOPLE Procrastination and delay eat into the very funds which are supposed to be in short supply. School land will be sacrificed and Leonard Cheshire Services in Sheffield offers The Care at Home Service supports disabled future liabilities created for the sake ofPFI choice and opportunity to people with people who wish to remain in their own and a new secondary school building. Now disabilities homes even our old peoples homes are under A Specialist Unit for the Younger Disabled threat from inadequate funding, forcing We provide flexible care packages from 1 those in need of sheltered accommodation hour to 24 hours meeting individual needs. Residential & Respite Care - Single Rooms to move even further afield. The Service operates throughout Sheffield Nobody should be against progress, but Day resources - Aromatherapy - Reflexology does it have to be piecemeal or by chance? Physiotherapy - Toning Tables Our services include:- The government is busy promoting elected Help with getting up and going to bed Mayors, but we don't even have a Activities include:- dressing - washing - bathing community voice or plan. Arts and Crafts - Computers - Cookery shopping - cooking - light household duties Shopping Expeditions - Theatre Outings - There must surely be a better way of Church managing development for the benefit of Further details can be obtained from:- the community as a whole. Further details can be obtained from:- The Care at Home Manager Maybe when I wake from my winters The Service Manager, Mickley Hall, Tel: 0114 235 1400 Fax: 0114 235 1499 hibernation the real needs and wishes of our Mickley Lane, Totley, Sheffield, S17 4HE society will have been addressed. I wish! 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10 presence in the area. Unitary development Plan Blacka Moor Reserve Recreational use of Blacka Moor dates back to the land being given to the people Despite its industrial past Sheffield is of Sheffield by Alderman Graves. A long The Sheffield Unitary Development Plan renowned as one of the greenest cities in history of recreational use from walking (U.D.P.) is now due for review. This is the the country, successfully integrating the and picnics to horse riding and mountain document which sets out the city's planning environment in to a highly urban setting. biking, have taken advantage of the policies, on which all developers, residents In recognition of this, Sheffield Wildlife naturalness and tranquillity of the moor. and owners ofland and property in the area Trust (SWT) has been awarded a grant Although currently owned by Sheffield rely. It is this document which indicates from the Heritage Lottery Fund in order to City Council, the moor will be leased to what can and cannot be done in the city in establish nine new nature reserves across SWT for 30 years, allowing the Trust to planning terms. the city. As part of a national association of invest time and money in to improving The U.D.P. is therefor vitally important to Wildlife Trusts working across the UK, access on to and around the new reserve the residents of Dore in the control of and SWT aims to promote conservation, and maintaining the quality of the consent for development proposals in the advance education and improve the quality experience for people visiting the moor. village. IT AFFECTS YOU. of life for local people. The success of Blacka Moor as a The Council has begun preparatory work Blacka Moor, located to the west of recreational and wildlife resource will on the Review and in December the first Totley and Dore, is one of the newly depend on maintaining access and the report on the Review will go to the City established nature reserves. Its varied variety of habitats. Through extensive Council Cabinet. This will set out the landscapes of heathland, wetland and consultation SWT has written a draft questions that are proposed to be looked at woodland provide both wildlife and management plan outlining the future in the Review and the timetable for recreational value. The breeding bird management proposals. These are centred preparing it. The report will mark the populations, upland vegetation, on low intensity seasonal grazing of the launch and the beginning of informal invertebrates, and geological features have moorland by cattle, maintaining open and consultation. led to the site being designated as a Site of free access for all recreational pursuits as The Planning Officers undertaking the Special Scientific Interest and a Special far as possible and encouraging the review will want to hear from anyone, Protection Area. community, site users and other interested wishing to make their views known. The It is also a candidate Special Area of parties in becoming actively involved in the Dore Village Society will be in consultation Conservation. These designations provide management of this unique and emotive with the planners preparing the initial draft. a high level of legal protection on a landscape. If anyone has particular views on strategic European scale, reflecting its wildlife value. For more information regardingBlacka planning issues concerning the village, they Rare and declining species, such as the Moor or the Nature Reserves Project please can contact the Society on such matters, but skylark, linnet, curlew, lapwing and adder contact Scott Porter, Community Wildlife there will be opportunities to raise issues depend on the moorlands and maintaining Ranger on 0114 263 4335. with the Council direct in due course. this habitat will be key to their continued www.wildlifetrust.org.uklsheffield David Heslop

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This year the Dore Village Society is offering a number of different Christmas cards. The main card this year is a 1930s winter scene towards Dore Church with the view of Ryecroft Mill on this page inside. In response to a continuing request for the Dore Ducks card, this has been reproduced in a smaller size ideal for sending abroad. A second smaller card appealing to a younger audience is of a snowman behind the King Ecgbert stone on the green. You can buy the cards in packs of 5 at Greens on Causeway Head Road, from Valerie of below of water; one too close downstream be found lying about in streams, or used Dore, or from the Dore Village Society could cause the water to back up, bringing locally in walls or as garden ornaments. room on 1st December. the wheel above to a standstill. Dore is still surrounded by the remnants of Some Sheffield mills were used for milling this industrial heritage. Believe it or not, grain, but the majority were used to drive there were at least thirteen water wheels Water, Water, Everywhere grindstones, rolling mills, forge hammers within about a mile radius of the village. and to draw wire. Others ground snuff, Where exactly were they and what can we The start of a new series of articles on made paper and fulled cloth. In later years see today? By following the streams around local water power by Mick Savage ... they were used in lead smelting - leaving a Dore, starting from the north in a clockwise Last year saw Dore suffering on more than legacy of early industrial pollution around direction, each mill can be identified. The once occasion from more water than we Dore currently under investigation. streams are Limb Brook, Ryecroft Brook, needed; but in the past full streams and Few complete 'wheels' survive, the best River Sheaf, Totley Brook, Old Hay Brook, rivers were the lifeblood of our local known being the sadly neglected Abbeydale Needham's Dyke and Redcar Brook - called industries. Water cost nothing, was Industrial Hamlet, where the massive tilt Rediker Brook on an early map in my powerful, and was readily available. hammers once forged scythe blades; and the possession, which also shows Limb Brook Coupled with .local coal and ironstone it carefully restored Wortley Top Forge near as Whirlow Brook. underpinned Sheffield's industrial Barnsley which produced wrought iron Limb Brook. revolution. Water was the most powerful railway wagon axles. Recently the last Limb Brook runs from Ringinglow (an and controllable source of energy available working water powered steel rolling mill - industrial hamlet in its own right) down to prior to the invention of the steam engine, at Low Matlock in the Loxley Valley - was the River Sheaf just below Dore Station. and because of the city's geography also rescued. The industry produced its own Ryecroft Brook joins Limb Brook by a continued to be utilised in Sheffield long vernacular, which many Sheffielders still bridleway bridge in Ecclesall Woods. There after steam took over elsewhere. unwittingly use. They say 'dam' to describe were two mills: the Whirlow Wheel and Some idea of Sheffield's enormous the mill pond, rather than just the Ryecroft Mill. dependence on water power can be gained obstruction built across the river to hold Whirlow Wheel: Whirlow Wheel's first from the fact that 115 water wheel sites are back the water; whilst the term 'wheel' documentation was in 1586 when John recorded on the city's rivers and tributaries indicates a water mill where blades, such as Bright was the freeholder. A 1655 marriage - an average of four water wheels to every those used in the manufacture of scythes or settlement refers to it as "a corn mill in mile of watercourse. Inevitably, disputes cutlery, were ground, rather than the Dore", Whirlow had two dams, an upper between mill owners arose over 'clean' waterwheel itself. More tangible relics of one added in 1840 (which burst in 1849) water: a dam upstream could rob a wheel the industry are the old grindstones still to can still be seen near the entrance to ...

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'A garden in my life' might call a hive of industry. It was a queer place really. Dark and dismal and the floor used to move. I was always afraid I would Many readers will have had the fmish up in the cellar. Ken bred budgies in opportunity to visit Fanshawe Gate Hall a shed at the back and he also had a variety garden during one of its open days in June of cats. Many is the telling off I've had or July each year in aid of the National from him, due to the antics of my rather Gardens Scheme. If you have, the chances large long-haired and over-sexed tom cat. are, you will have marvelled at the No matter what Ken did to prevent him sympathetic setting they provide to the 16th Rufus always managed to find a way to the century hall itself. Few good things happen she cats. Kittens abounded. by accident and it is fitting then, that owner Ken's wife was Edna Taylor. Her family Cynthia Ramsden has been persuaded to set were prominent members of the Dore Brass down the story of the gardens development Band. I think at one time, the band over the last 40 years. consisted almost entirely of members of the This is a beautiful and fascinating book Taylor family. Certainly at one time too, packed with excellent colour photographs Dore Cricket Team was made up mainly of and drawings both illustrating the garden Taylors. When the shop was demolished, and a visual delight in themselves. The Ken and his wife moved to a house they evolution of the garden since 1960 is owned on Rushley Avenue. He did odd jobs fleshed out with old photographs and and gardening around the village. planting plans. There are sections on mixed Edna's sister, Laura lived on Vicarage Chairman of the Dore Village Society, John borders and water in the garden, plenty of Lane and used to kennel dogs and cats Baker, purchasing the first copy of 'A advice and even the local wildlife is not when people went on holiday. She used to garden in my life' from Cynthia Ramsden forgotten. And as a desert there are even dread us taking Rufus. She said he ate more at Fanshawe Gate Hall, during a visit by some of the recipes for the meals Cynthia than the Boots Labrador dogs. the society's walking group in September. prepares for visitors - delicious. This is defmitely a present that will appeal to many Just down from the top of Glen Head, the gardener, under my father at Dore More and not just garden enthusiasts. Or you remains of a once substantial dwelling can House. He remained there until he joined could treat yourself! still be seen. I have always known this as the forces in the 2nd World War. 'A garden in my life' is published in Moorbottom. The last tennant was Ernest Leonard Bingham, whose parents lived at hardback by Grafica Ltd price £25 ISBN 0- Rowe, known as Cockerel. I presume he got Cromwell Cottages was also an apprenticed 9541089-0-6 this nickname from the fact that he kept gardener at the same time. He also joined Profits from the sale of the book will be poultry and was a show judge. He was a the forces. Albert's mother was Adam's donated to Macmillan Cancer Relief and keen photographer and had many second wife and they had two children: the Oesophageal Patients Assn. photographs taken around the village. Albert and Mary. They had both been Many couples started their married life married previously and had several other lodging with Ernest. One of them tells me Jean Recalls children between them. Mrs Siddall's first that the house only had running water. husband was called Hutchinson. I think There was no gas or electricity. Everything they lived at the farm at the top of Much as I enjoy Richard Farnsworth's was done with paraffm. Consequently the Whitelow Lane. Ben Hutchinson was one articles I am a little baffled this time by his place reeked of the oil. of their offspring. comments regarding the Siddalls in the Ernest bred rabbits in profusion and 1891 census. Which Albert is he referring rumour has it that his Leghorn cockerel Ken Mosely kept the shop which was at to, when he says we all remember Albert. could be heard crowing early in the the top of Wilson Hill, in what is now part The Albert I remember was not born until morning as far away as Totley. the middle 1920's. In fact Albert's father, of the Hare car park. He and his wife baked Jean Dean Adam, would have been hard pressed to bread and teacakes on the premises two or have been on the 1891 census. I believe he three times a week. Bread had to be ordered was born in 1895. 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15 from Dore and Totley. 12 out of 12 entered the Overseas Tobacco Fund and reached a THE OLD SCHOOL DORE for the "Scholarship Exam" in 1934 passed. £200 target. 1800-1965 Some able pupils preferred to go to The last phase in the Old School's history Dronfield Grammar School but this as a school was under the last Headmaster, Concluding the story .... Part 3 involved, as it always had, a walk to and Mr I W F Wright from 1953-64. We owe a Mr Speight, who was my own from Dore Station every day and a walk to great debt to Mr Wright, for it was he, who, Headmaster, was there from 1924. As I and from at the Dronfield end. keen local historian, proud to be HM at grew to know Goldsmith's schoolmaster in (In 1960 Sheffield LEA had a concerted Dore, read the past logs and also the "The Deserted Village", I always equated effort to end the Dore and Totley children's Trustees' minutes and wrote it up, and him with Mr Speight and came to value him right to go to Dronfield Grammar School though unpublished, it is a valuable source as in the poem. Certainly he was "severe because they objected to having to pay for our local history. I have read his and stem to view" and we children were Derbyshire for their education. But when comments alongside my own reading of all always in awe of him and the cane which Dronfield Grammar School was founded in the evidence and found them most useful was ever there (in my case administered for 1630 by Henry Fanshawe it was written into and enlightening. "talking"). it's charter that it was to provide a free Two of my own children attended the Old But he was a first rate Headmaster, as the education for all the children from the School in Mr Wright's day and it was inspectors reports agree. "His handling of parish of Dronfield, and that charter still certainly the happy successful place that Mr the school can hardly be bettered. He treats applied even though Dore was now a parish Wright claims for it, though it is only fair to all the children kindly but firmly and since in it's own right. Dore children continued add that there were many complaints from he is a man of progressive ideals, the school going to Dronfield G. S. until it became both parents and children about Miss has an excellent tone and steadily rising comprehensive in 1972). Palmer's over-severe regime. standard of attainment". Could Ofsted Miss Hodkin was forty years at the school Accommodation had now reached crisis possibly have said more? All his pupils and taught two generations, my father and point and the Church Hall and Terrapins respected him totally and in terms of myself for example; she retired in 1938 and were used in the last few years to help sort academic achievement a steady number of was almost the last of the "uncertificated" out the problem. In 1959 there were 200 Fanshawe Scholarships to Dronfield teachers. From now on the teaching staff children on the register. The inspectors Grammar School were awarded to Dore had attended a Teacher Training College. In report of that year says "The building is old School every year. the days when university education was rare and inadequate and the island site is so The most important event ofMr Speight's and the universities were reserved for small that adaption is impracticable. It will time was the absorption of Dore and Totley clever, scholarly students of high academic eventually close under the Development into Sheffield in 1933. Great effects were ability, the Teacher Training Colleges Plan and be replaced by a County School felt by both villages on this occasion and turned out teachers of high academic ability on a new site. Until this can be done the not least in education. The Trustees who dedicatedly handed over to their children of Dore will suffer by comparison continued to have care and charge of the students a high standard of information and with others in the city". The validity of this building. The 1902 Education Act had an ability to write well and to handle last comment is open to question, because relieved them of a heavy burden by properly all that might be needed in their it is clear from the results in Mr Wright's abolishing "payment by results" and placing lives if they did not progress to higher day that home background and parental on the Local Authority the responsibility for education. support compensated for most of the Old the salaries of teachers and someof the "Tone, discipline and spirit are excellent School's shortcomings. equipment. SheffIeld, a richer autho~ity and the school is manifestly a happy place". The new school opened in 1965 and the than Derbyshire, now took over the runnmg So reported the inspector later in Mr Old School was now fully in the hands of of the school. Speight's day. By this time Dore had grown The Trustees, who no longer had to concern Most important in all this, from pupils' considerably - a lot of building took place themselves with education of children. and parents' points of view, was that between the wars, (it was actually halted by What were they to do with it? We are Sheffield Grammar and Technical Schools the war), but the influx of middle class indebted to the Trustees of the day; they now became available for clever pupils families into the area brought a "new type" could have neglected the building and of child into the school. There were now allowed it to become derelict. Instead they children from well-to-do, often sought permission of the Charity professional, backgrounds, with aspiring Commissioners to sell some of the land they Brearton & Co parents. The school did it's best to meet the held on Townhead Rd. They were required Taxation Consultants new academic challenge. to reinvest some money but the rest was Mr Speight took promotion to a larger spent on refurbishing the school, a kitchen, school in 1940 and a very able young man, inside toilet, chairs, carpets, curtains etc, All aspects of Personal Mr Clinton, was appointed as Master. He and opened it up to the village to hire and Business Taxation joined the RNVR shortly afterwards and rooms on generous terms. was drowned in the Mediterranean. In 1944 Soon there was a variety of activities Self Assessment Returns the school attended a memorial service for taking place - Art groups, Flower arranging, him. Mr Clark, appointed as caretaker Bridge, Townswomen's Guild, Guides & during Mr Clinton's absence, stayed until Brownies to name a few. Because of the Capital Gains and 1953. His health was not good but he was expansion of these activities and the Inheritance Tax ably assisted by his deputy, Miss Davies, inadequacy of the facilities the present and together they carried on the best Trustees decided, at the Millennium, to traditions ofMr Speight's regime. raise the money to extend, update and For projessional help Jrom experts Reading the logs, I was very struck by the refurbish the building. Situated in the centre Write or callJor Jree quotation fact that the First World War, such a huge of the village between the Church and the and catastrophic event in world history, was Village Green, it occupies a unique site and 18 Rushley Road) Shiffield S17 3EJ barely mentioned by the headmaster's the improvements made have not changed th Telephone (0114) 236 0211 jottings. Obviously The Great War only it's early 19 C appearance. As a listed remotely touched everyday school life. building it has been respectfully treated. 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To get deliver pigs to Sheffield abattoir and in the or any follow up. a group of buyers together bidding against lairage, the holding pens for livestock The most likely source of the infection each other is the only way of getting a fair awaiting slaughter, there were large pictures was the feed so we contacted Yorkshire market price, and the seller is paid of anthrax lesions on human skin to let you Farmers who supplied us with cow cake and immediately at the fall of the hammer. For know what to look for if you caught it. It claimed £90 off them. Somewhat to our years the wholesale buyers have been trying started off as a red bruise, then grew to an surprise they paid up without any fuss. It to bypass markets and buy direct. That way inflamed blister and then developed a black transpired it was quite a common event for they tell the farmer how much they are centre, which apparently gives it the name them, they'd had 12 cases that year. They going to pay him, take it or leave it, and in Greek. Although it's a serious disease in bought their soya meal from AOM, Africa make him wait 6 weeks for his money. Lord cattle we always understood it wasn't Oil Mills, who in turn imported it from Haskins owns Northern Foods Ltd. particularly dangerous in people as long we Kenya where anthrax was endemic. Richard Farnswortk had it seen to in time. I never heard of a fanner catching anthrax, We had a case on our farm 40 years ago. or a slaughterman, so I've always taken At that time we had a herd of Guernsey tales of it being a deadly biological weapon Stepping Out cows and kept a Guernsey stock bull. I with a pinch of salt, but we've all been watered him at ten o'clock in the morning, learning from the papers this week that it The Dore Village Society offers an I led him up the yard to the trough for his does have more dangerous forms. occasional programme of walks, mainly in morning drink and then put him back in his Nevertheless it's not an easy disease to the area around Dore, for both members loose box and fed him. He was completely catch and the general air of panic whipped and visitors. Recent outings included an normal, nothing wrong at all. I next looked up by the press is decidedly OTT. enjoyable and interesting walk & visit to in at him at 3 0' clock in the afternoon and One thing this whole scare is reminding us three Halls in the Totley area during couldn't believe my eyes. He was stone of is the danger of being dependant on September and walking the line of the cold dead. We called the vet. He took a imported food. British farmers produce Totley Tunnel to Grindleford (returning by blood smear from it's ear and examined food to the highest standards in the world train) in October. through his microscope on our kitchen table but are completely at the mercy of the Forthcoming walks include an inaugural and said it looked like anthrax. I had a look supermarket buyers who will ship product Wassail Walk on 27th December and a and could clearly see the distinctive rod in from Timbuctoo if they can get it a bracing stroll on the 5th February, both shaped bacteria. penny cheaper. In a bureaucratic world starting at lOam from the Old School. When you get sudden death in cattle it's everything depends on the paperwork, but the first thing you suspect. Anthrax is a it's far easier to check on stuff that's come notifiable disease so our vet called in a from just down the road than if it's come Help with delivery. With people moving ministry vet who agreed with his diagnosis from the Far East. The housewife pays house or unable to continue, we are always and sent off a blood smear to a lab for [mal enough money in the shops to pay everyone looking for new deliverers for Dore to confirmation. Normally deadstock goes to in the food chain, but the farmer being at Door. If you are prepared to help by the kennels at Horsleygate but in this case the far end of that chain doesn't get his fair delivering a regular patch of 50-70 houses the carcase had to be incinerated so the share, so the only way he can stay in 4 times a year, or to act as a reserve ministry vet called the councils refuse business is by being dependant on anywhere in Dore, please ring John Baker department who sent a lorry. Because of the subsidies. on 2369025

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To satisfy their sugar Many years ago when I was a student, one thunderstorm may well keep you dry, but it cravings, they will feed on ripe garden fruit of my swnmer jobs was sickle-weeding in isn't exactly the safest place to hide and or fly into our homes through open the forests of North Nottinghamshire. what threat were the wasps, other than a windows or doors, which often ends up Weeds surrounding the young trees had to temporary inconvenience to my group of with them getting stuck in the jam pot. be removed by hand, so that the saplings sickle-weeders? Nevertheless, the workers quickly die off could grow unhindered and this was done Of course wasp nests are not just with the onset of cold weather, whilst the by gangs of men walking up and down the destroyed by forest workers, they are likely young queens fmd a safe place to hibernate, long plantation rows, cutting away the to suffer the same fate wherever they are usually in a pile of stones or wood, until weeds with razor-sharp sickles. Sounds found. A number of species of British they emerge the following spring. easy, but apart from being back-breaking social wasps make their nests in the ground, As well as facing persecution by man, and extremely tedious, sometimes the trees where they usually take over abandoned wasps together with other predatory insects, would be so engulfed in bramble thickets, mouse holes, whilst others build theirs face another threat: the weather. Cold, wet finding the small oak or chestnut sapling either inside hollow trees or hanging from summers cause real problems for large, was rather like looking for a spindly needle branches and occasionally inside house active insects. Heavy rain can physically in a very thorny haystack. roofs, attached to a rafter. Last summer a knock them to the ground and as a result of Nevertheless, the job did have some colony made their home in my roof-space, constant soakings, many adults die of cold. compensations, such as watching shy deer having found their way in through a hole in Nests can be flooded out and the wet grazing in the early morning mist; finding the mortar between the brickwork. Apart weather also encourages diseases to spread bizarre-looking hawkmoth caterpillars from keeping my window closed to prevent amongst the developing larvae. This results amongst the leaves of hedgerow plants or the workers inadvertently flying inside in wasp numbers crashing and without these simply listening to the sound of the wind (invariably drowning themselves in a cup of predatory insects, pests become as whistling through the tree tops. For me coffee) and the scraping noises they made numerous as cars on the M25 at rush-hour. though, the highlight of the week had to be as they rasped wood from the rafters to It is usually difficult to find a single aphid on Friday afternoons. Some of my eo- make their elaborate paper nest, I hardly in my garden as the birds search every nook workers would bring along bottles of home- knew they were there. and cranny for food, but on some plants made wine and after we had finished work, It is understandable that people who are which they have problems clambering it was time to taste and ostensibly comment allergic to wasp-stings are frightened of through, such as nasturtiums, aphid on their efforts. To be honest, after the third these insects and it is also true that numbers can increase rapidly. Wasps, glass I couldn't tell if I was drinking a occasionally some gardeners have been hoverfly larvae and ladybirds usually keep sumptuous strawberry wine or pickling badly stung after inadvertently disturbing a these pests under control, but during our vinegar. nest, but what a waste when a colony is last cold, wet summer I saw few of these But in spite of our peaceful work destroyed. Wasp nests can house up to predatory insects, which meant my environment, there were two things that 20,000 individuals and the developing nasturtiums and other bedding plants were would frighten us. The first was young are all fed on meat - carrion, insects immdated with them. thunderstorms, because there was nowhere and caterpillars, many of which are garden So, perhaps the sting in the tail of the to shelter from lightning except beneath the pests. Research at the University of wasp story is that just as it isn't wise to branches of isolated trees and the second Wisconsin showed that if suitable nest sites stand under a large, isolated tree during a was wasp nests. Occasionally, as we were for wasps were provided near cabbage thunderstorm, neither is it such a good idea fields, more colonies would survive and this to destroy wasp nests; that is of course resulted in a dramatic decrease in the unless you want to encourage aphids, number of plants damaged by pests. cabbage caterpillars and the like in your The problem with wasps is that they garden. have a 'sweet tooth'. Whilst the colony is Jack Dore

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23 Diary - Winter 2001 16 Santa Special, miniature railway in Ecclesall Woods off Abbeydale Road. llam - 4.30pm with Santa in Grotto from 12noon. Admission £2.50 Details from 236 9002 NOVEMBER 24 Christmas Carols, Sheffield Cheshire Home, Mickley 17 Christmas Fair, Totley All Saints' Church Hall, from Hall llam - 12 noon lOam to lpm, 27 Wassail Walk with the Dore Village Society. 5 miles with 19 The Sheffield Outrages Talk by Joan Unwin for South drinks & mince pies at the end. Start lOam Old School. £1 Yorkshire Industrial History Society, Kelham Island per person. Details 262 0012 Museum, 7.30pm visitors welcome - for small donation. 20 "Fun Evening" Dore Methodist Tuesday Group, Church JANUARY Hall, 7.45pm 2365392 8 "Listening to the trees" - Dendrochronological research. 21 Next meeting of the Totley & Dore Support Group for the Talk by Cathy Groves for Hunter Archeological Society, visually impaired meets I 1am at 4 Grove Road. 7.30pm Arts Tower, University of Sheffield. Non - 21-24 Cut & Run, T.O.A.D.S. autumn play at St John's Church Members welcome. Hall, 7.30pm. Tickets 236 6891 9 The English Inn talk by Howard Smith for Dore 24 Table Top Sale, organised by K.E.S.A lOam - 1pm on the (Afternoon)Townswomen's Guild, Dore Old School, 2pm. Wessex Site. To book a table ring 2352725 15 "New for 2002" Talk by Rev C Kirk for Totley Rise 24 Concert 'Miserer'e by Scarlatti, 'Singet Dem Herrn' by Methodist Women's Fellowship, 2.30pm in the Bach & 'Dixit Dominus' by Handel. Sheffield Bach schoolroom. Society, Sheffield Cathedral, 7.30pm Tickets £9 21 The Chesterfield Canal: archaeology guides the (concessions £7) from 266 1000 restoration. Talk by Chris Drage for South Yorkshire 27 The story of Cole Brothers Talk by Dr N Greenwood for Industrial History Society, Kelham Island Museum, Totley Rise Methodist Women's Fellowship, 2.30pm in 7.30pm visitors welcome - for small donation. the schoolroom. 29 "The Luncheon Club" Talk by Mrs A Lashmar for 27 Townswomen's Guild Choir Totley Rise Methodist Totley Rise Methodist Women's Fellowship, 2.30pm in Women's Fellowship, 2.30pm in the schoolroom. the schoolroom. 30 Greyhound Race Night St Luke's Hospice, tel236 9911 30-2nd Victorian Christmas Market at Kelham Island Museum. FEBRUARY 6 SteI?ping Out local morning walk with the Dore Village DECEMBER SOCIety.Start lOam Old School. Details 236 9831 I Christmas Fayre, includes a visit by Santa, 1st Totley 12 Crime Prevention for your home Talk by John Turner Scouts at St John's Church Hall, 2-4pm Admission free. for Totley Rise Methodist Women's Fellowship, 2.30pm 3 Handel's MESSIAH, Sheffield Bach Society, 7.30pm in the schoolroom. Sheffield Cathedral, tickets 266 1000 12 "God's Own County", President's lecture by Pat 4 Christmas Concert, Loxley Silver Band, 7pm Sheffield Wagner. At Hunter Archeological Society, Arts Tower, Cheshire Home, Mickley Hall. University of Sheffield. Non-Members welcome 7.30pm 5 Victorian Christmas Fayre, Sheffield Cheshire Home, 13 This Radio Life talk by Mr Gerry Kersey for Dore Mickley Hall lOam -12 noon (Afternoon)Townswomen's Guild, Dore Old School, 2pm. 5 Blue John Stone, talk by Peter Harrison for the Dore 18 Ganister mining: Worrall & Wadsley. Talk by Ray Battye Village Society, 7.30pm Methodist Church Hall. for South Yorkshire Industrial History Society, Kelham Admission free. Island Museum, 7.30pm visitors welcome. 7 Christmas Public Family Lecture, 'Lucifer's Legacy - 23 Family event with Sheffield Rangers spring cleaning Life the universe and almost everything' by ProfFrank Ecclesall Woods - equipment provided. Meet at Wood Close OBE, Pennine Lecture Theatre, Sheffield Hallam Yard entrance on Abbey Lane. IOam-12noon. University 7pm, free tickets 225 4888 23 Concert, Requiem, Westminster Mass & Chichester 9 Santa Special, miniature railway in Ecclesall Woods off Psalms, Sheffield Bach Society, 7.30pm St Mark's Church Abbeydale Road. llam - 4.30pm with Santa in Grotto Broornhill, tickets 266 1000 from 12noon. Admission £2.50 Details from 2369002 10 MESSIAH, come and sing with the Sheffield Bach MARCH Society, 7.30pm Dore Parish Church. Tickets £6 includes wine & mince pies. Ring 266 8257 or 266 1000 2 Woodland Management with Sheffield Rangers in ION E Derbyshire - Industrial archaeology of. Talk by Ecclesall Woods. Meet opposite saw mill on Abbey Lane. Dudley Fowkes for South Yorkshire Industrial 1O.30am-3pm. History Society, Kelham Island Museum, 7.30pm visitors welcome - for small donation. 11 "Christmas Countdown" Talk by Rev C Kirk for Totley Rise Methodist Women's Fellowship, 2.30pm in the schoolroom. 11 Christmas Traditions Talk by Patrick Harding followed S SERVICES l TO. by Party Fayre. Dore Methodist Tuesday Group, Church AERIALS & SATELLITES Hall, 7.45pm Contact 236 5Z92 11 Excavations at Riverside Exchange Lady's Bridge, .:. All Areas Covered Sheffield, Talk by Andy Lines for Hunter Archeological .:. Fast - Efficient - Professional Society, 7.30pm Arts Tower, University of Sheffield. .:. Channel 5 - Upgrades - Repairs Non-Members welcome. .:. Multi point - Sky Relocation 13 Christmas Concert - Victoria Productions, Sheffield .:. Meter Alignment - Tuning Service Cheshire Home, Mickley Hall 7pm 15 Skywatch 2, star night observations, organised by Centre NO CALL OUT CHARGE • NOT VAT REGISTERED for Science Education, Sheffield Hallam University, 7.30- l lpm Adults £5 children £2.50 incl mince pies & mulled wine. Tickets 225 4888 15 Christmas Concert, Dore Male Voice Choir at Dore Church. Tickets 236 5043

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