!DOOR BORE VILLAGE SOCIETY No. 61 SPRING 2001 ISSN 0965-8912

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet

Recent visitors to the Hamlet will have noticed that the large waterwheels and machinery, such as in the tilt forge, have not been in operation. Major repair and restoration work is needed to make them safe to operate. Fortunately the campaign to raise funding for this project has been successful and from mid- January to May a specialist firm based in Glasgow, Heritage Engineering, will be carrying out these works. The project is complex. The careful restoration of the wheels and machinery will take 3-4 months and cost over £150,000. The Project is being funded by English Heritage, Sheffield City Council and The Science Museum's PRISM grant. At the same time Sheffield City Council have undertaken to repair the leak from the dam into the grinding hull at the Hamlet which is damaging the buildings. £150,000 has been allocated towards this project. During the work Dare High Street before the dreaded motor car. No road signs or yellow lines then! to repair the dam at the Hamlet the water levels will be dropped, so a temporary home has been found for the fish. The swan was Special General Meeting Shorts lane tarmac moved to a swan sanctuary in Doncaster. Work is also starting to restore the The Special General Meeting of the Dore To the surprise of many people, tarmac was buildings, beginning with the repair of the Village Society on the 30th November laid along the length of Shorts Lane at the crucible forge chimney, and the roof of the approved a number of small amendments to beginning of December last year, prompting Manager's house outside toilet. the constitution, bringing it up to date and in questions as to how much this cost and why it A new visitors gallery will be located line with the requirements of the Civic Trust, was done, particularly given the state of other downstairs for ease of access. It will contain which we hope to join. These amendments, roads in the area? As it was done to a full road information about the site and what happened which have since been accepted by the Charity standard, questions were also asked as to on the site using up-to-date methods of Commission, included bringing our financial whether the road is now adopted. interpretation. There will also be new signs year in line with the calendar year. Copies of From our enquires we understand the work around the site to help orientation and the revised constitution are available during was carried out by the Council. The road is not interpretation and hand held audio guides to our open mornings which are held in our room adopted but it is maintained by the Public assist your visit. at the Old School from lOam to 12 noon on the Rights of Way Unit as it is a byway. It would Public Opening dates for 2001 are: Sunday first Saturday of each month. appear that there have been many letters of 15th April- Sunday 29th Oct 2001. Closed complaint over the years regarding the poor Fridays & Saturdays. Open all year round for state of the road and claims made for damage Educational Visits. Membership Subscriptions to vehicles. Repairs have had to be made over the years to satisfy the Council's legal Enclosed with this issue is a subscription obligations. Radon tests in Dore renewal form for 2001. If you have not already An opportunity then arose through the paid your subscription for this year, please Countryside Agency to upgrade lanes from Two or three years ago we included a report complete the form and hand it in at Green's rural to urban standard. The CA are giving on naturally occurring Radon Gas, the danger shop on Causeway Head Road, or send it to 100% grants for schemes totalling £25.000 per it represents to health and how to arrange for the society - address on page 2. year until March 2004. Shorts Lane was one of your building to be monitored. A recent check As a registered charity the Dore Village the schemes chosen for 2000-01 and cost with the National Radiological Protection Society relies heavily on subscriptions to carry approximately £19,000. Board confirmed that there has been no more out its objectives on behalf of members and The budget could not have been used for the data published for post code sector S 17 since Dore residents generally. Also the more repair of existing roads or footpaths. the 1997 review. We know however that members we have, the more clout we carry It is nice to know that the Countryside following requests by house owners, tests have with the council and other public bodies. Agency is busy funding the urbanisation of and are being undertaken on individual houses Fortunately we can now reclaim tax paid rural byways' in Dore. (22%) on subscriptions and donations made by The Board still recommends the individual taxpayers. If you give us £10 we can reclaim testing of properties within the designated £2.82 (22% of the original pre tax figure) Open Dore Radon Affected Areas which include Dore, and making your contribution worth £12.82. If you anyone interested in receiving an information are a higher rate tax payer you can also claim Keep in contact with what's on, join in pack about radon can call a 24 hour free back the difference between basic and higher debate, check back issues, or find out about the answering service on 0800 614 529. Their web rates on your tax return. society on our own web site at site is at www.nrpb.org.uk www.dorevillage.co.uk footpaths in the Dore area. The Dore Village New Rights of Way society will be logging with the Rights of Way Old River Limb Unit some future possibilities for paths on Driving up Long Line you might have council owned land. Old River Limb, pay heed to him noticed a new footpath sign and ladder stile on as did our fathers a' fore, the right which appeared in mid January. This when he told kings where their writs ran marks the beginning of a new footpath created and thus lay down the law. by the council in association with the recent Free Television licences sale of Moorside Farm. It provides a route Old River Limb, go walk with him from Long line across fields to existing paths People aged 75 and over are now entitled to and wonder at his ways, in Whirlow Woods, and then from these woods a free TV licence from I November 2000, or where Saxon trees and Saxon flowers down through the farmland to a gate on from the month of their 75th birthday, have blown since Saxon days. Hathersage Road opposite the end of Ash whichever is later. House Lane. These paths fill gaps in the local The new rules do not mean that a TV Where men have milled, and made from wood footpath network and allow a variety of new licence is no longer needed. If someone and forged and mined and toiled, routes in the area without having to walk for watches television, they still need a valid made their whitecoal and rest their soul long stretches on the roadside. It is council licence. The only difference is that the neer the land despoiled. policy to look at possible new footpath routes Government will now pay for the licence. as tenancies are terminated and council land is Over 1.3 million senior citizens have Old River Limb, take care of him offered for sale. Another new path runs from already registered for the new concession. TV - it's late but not too late, Firs Farm on Ringinglow Road up to the top Licensing is urging anyone who has not yet for round his lands are careless hands edge of Whirlow Woods above the Limb registered to do so by contacting its Helpline that scrabble at his gate. valley, again allowing new routes and on 0845 602 3334. Anon providing expansive views over western Anyone with older relatives or friends who Sheffield. Additional paths are also planned for may be eligible should encourage them to the Barberfields Farm area, and hopefully will register for the new concession. be opened during the summer. As with a normal television licence, an Over Ecclesall Woods archeology At a time when the health and amenity 75 Licence is valid for 12 months and has to values of walking are increasingly recognised, be renewed annually. The licence covers the Several archeology surveys have taken any new footpaths must be welcomed. Sadly eligible person and anyone who lives in the place in the woods and FEW (Friends of the Rights of way unit at the council is forced same household - even if they are younger - as Ecclesall Woods) recently applied for money to spend much of it's time fighting to keep long as the address is their permanent home from the heritage Lottery Millennium Fund to paths open rather than looking for possible and the licence is in the eligible person's hire an independent expert to assess the new ones. Understandably most land owners name. If there are two eligible people within features discovered. His report confirms that are reluctant to see the creation of new 'paths the same household, only one need apply. the archeology in the woodland is of on their land, and no mechanism seems to considerable interest, particularly with respect exist to review the possibilities, negotiate with to features dating from the medieval period. them and compensate them for potential Flowers in the Village Along with earlier remains, possibly dating disturbance etc. from the Romano-British era, this makes We would be interested to hear from readers Last year, Dore residents enjoyed a great Ecclesall Woods of regional importance from if they feel there is a case for any new deal of pleasure from the flower displays in the an archeological perspective. Village centre, during the summer months. An FEW has set up an archeology section led idea created by Dore Scouts. Because the by Geoff Hartland, who would like to hear DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY flowers were so popular, the DVS has from anyone interested in the subject. You can Registered Charity No. 1017051 approached the City Environment Department, reach him on 236 8569. The Society aims to foster the protection who supplied the tubs and flowers, to see what A guided walk introducing DVS members to and enhancement of the local environment it would cost for a full year. They have quoted the history and archeology of the woods will and amenities within Dore, to encourage a £2,035 to provide twenty tubs, complete with take place on Sunday 4th March. the appropriate seasonal flowers, which will be spirit of community and to record its Meet lOam in Ryecroft Glen Road - rain or historic development. maintained by the Councils Environmental Services Department. shine' The easy walk, it might be muddy Chairman Dore Scout Group and many local underfoot, will last no more than 2 hours, (Dore to Door) businesses and organisations gave donations with options to leave earlier if you wish. Mr J R Baker 2369025 towards the cost of last years flowers, and it DVS membersfree, visitors 50p. 8 Thornsett Gardens, S 17 3PP. hoped that they will do so again. The DVS will certainly donate if the proposal goes ahead. Vice Chairman Donations from Dore residents would also be (Environment) appreciated. Editorial & Advertising Mr R Millican 2620012 In the longer term, the flowers could 16 Devonshire Drive, S 17 3PJ. (should?) become a permanent feature of the Dore to Door is published quarterly by the Village scenery. The ideal way to achieve this, Dore Village Society and delivered free to over Treasurer would be to have two or three flower 3,200 households in the area. Mrs M Watson 2365666 enthusiasts, who would be prepared to If you are interested in submitting an article 11 Cavendish Avenue, S 17 3JN. negotiate and liaise with the Council or letter, have local news to report, or wish to Environment Department and raise the place an advertisement, please contact the Secretary necessary funding. Editor John Baker on 236 9025 or write to: Mrs A Slater 2366710 Anyone interested in giving a donation or The Editor, Dore to Door, 6 Old Hay Close S 17 3GQ. organising the project can contact George 8 Thornsett Gardens, Dore, Elsdon, a DVS committee member, by Sheffield, S 17 3PP. Committee telephone - 236 0002. [ Email [email protected] 1 Mrs LE Baker (Dore Show) 2369025 Opinions expressed in articles and services Mr G R Elsdon 2360002 offered by advertisers are not necessarily (Subscriptions & Notice Board) Wanted endorsed by the publishers. Mrs G Farnsworth 2350609 No part of Dore to Door may be reproduced Mr D Heslop (Planning) 2365043) Old pictures of Dore; memories; articles on in full or part, without the written permission Mrs V Malthouse 2363632 the village or it's history; news; ideas for of the Editor. Mr PPryor 2369831 competitions etc. Contact the editor on 236 © Copyright Dore Village Society 2001 9025.

2 passed. They are completely out of keeping Abbeydale Hamlet's dam has been drained, Did you know? with the rest of the area and given their height and its fish removed to safety, to allow and proximity to the boundary, will impinge extensive repairs which have become I cannot recall a wetter autumn and winter, on the visual outlook from the recreation necessary following years of neglect by the although we have been lucky compared with ground. Why don't we just build on the rec Council. some people in East Yorkshire and the south'. and be done with it! King Ecgbert School English teacher Everywhere the footpaths, woods and the It is not just the decision, but the way it was Eugene Mullan has finally got his first book recreation ground are a quagmire, churned up reached that illustrates the fundamental Breedah's Whale' published, after it had earlier by walkers and the areas increasing number of failings at the heart of our planning system. All won a literary prize for being the best work by horses. Slip, slide and watch where you put development effects the community it is in. a new author under the age of 35. your feet. If it is not dog dirt then there are Each should have a say and direct input to AshdelI School, founded as Miss Naylor's, piles of steaming horse .... We have a dog local planning issues. Yes we need an overall is holding its first ever old girls' and boys' warden, why not a horse warden. Roll on some planning blueprint and administration for reunion on March 10th at Baldwin's Omega, drier weather. Sheffield, but this needs to be built bottom up, details from Sue Hostombe on 230 2148. Dore has a reputation for surface water, but with a recognition of the individual needs of sadly this does not seem to discourage the each community within the city. How much developers and plans to build more and more better off we might have been if we had a Dot Corn for Pensioners houses continue to arrive. Lets squeeze in 4. parish council or had remained part of large houses on a plot at the end of Gilleyfield Derbyshire in the 1930s! Pensioners on the lookout for work and the which was once part of Busheywood. Don't Doremouse opportunity to increase their household's just build on the redundant half of the King income have been given a much-needed Ecgbert School site, lets squeeze in more next helping hand from a revolutionary website to King Ecgbert Road. News in Brief aimed specifically at people looking for part- It is not just the sheer number of houses, but time or temporary work. the lack of sensitivity to the environment. A 144 page history of Totley All Saints Launched in September 2000, Rebuilding Nab farm opposite the green School from 1827 - 2000 has been written by www.parttimeexchange.com allows pensioners could have created a gem, instead failure to loan Stratford and is available from local to search and apply for a wide range of attend to detail leaves us with ugly wall shops or by phoning 230 8428. suitable jobs in their region for free - without mounted service boxes facing the green, and a The playground in Dore recreation finally leaving the house. Pensioners looking for part- central heating boiler vent to steam at us as we has its surrounding fence after delays due to time work can search the website for specific pass by on the narrow footpath. What about the wet weather. The next step is to plan some jobs or log on and leave their details with an the new house squeezed into a pocket landscaping with shrubs etc. explanation of the type of work they are handkerchief space at the bottom of Neighbourhood Watch coordinators will looking for. If they don't have access to the Ashfurlong Road. Just how do these be meeting next at 7pm on 28th March at the internet, their details can be added to the site developments get passed. Which leads us to Totley Methodist Church Hall. for free by calling 0800 0851980. the proposed new three story flats overlooking An explosion in December, probably the recreation ground on land at the back of caused by a heavy duty firework, extensively Newfield Lane. damaged the telephone kiosk opposite Dore On-line at www.dorevillage.co.uk It beggars belief that these have been Moor Inn.

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3 be around 1898-1902. I wonder if anyone else Letters Sainted Patrick has one of these photos and what was the occasion? I cannot copy the photograph as it is Dear Sir, There is a Sainted Patrick in a very delicate state! Some of my fondest childhood memories A carer of the Green Hilda Crookes are of the times my friends and I spent playing And with an orange bucket around what was the ornamental pond in the There's no rubbish to be seen. grounds of Abbeydale Hall. To us, it was a fascinating and idyllic place, overgrown and He regularly attends it Gilbert & Sullivan full of wildlife. I can also remember skating And gratefully we view across the pond on a few occasions. A pristine looking vision The next Dore Gilbert & Sullivan Society A few years ago, I called in to have a look Just for me and you. production will be "Ruddigore", performed at with my two young sons and was delighted to the University Drama Studio Glossop Road see that some restoration work had been done So please if you are walking by from 24th - 28th April. and that other people had obviously been Remember what he does. The story of Ruddigore is set in a Cornish enjoying it as I once had. And make his daily journey village. The main characters are Sir Despard, Now Sheffield College has sold the gardens A lesser labour of love. lord of Ruddigore and living under a curse to to building contractors who are in the process perform a crime every day, Robin Oakapple of developing' the land. I find it shameful that Thank-you Patrick who is really his younger brother Sir Ruthven the college decided to sell an asset that Anon but living under an assumed name, Richard, provided so much pleasure for people; and Robin's foster-brother who returns from the also that the council who, I believe, were Dear Sir, sea, Rose, Robin's beloved and Mad Margaret, involved in the restoration, have allowed it to Appreciation of Dore to Door' driven crazy by Sir Despard. Later we meet happen. We are indebted as a community to John the ghosts of their ancestors, led by Sir Peter Wood, Dronfield and Lorna Baker, for their enthusiasm in Roderic, whose task is to see that the curse is maintaining this quality news letter. Now obeyed. Dear Sir, established as the voice of the Dore Residents Following two acts of melodrama and Coates family history and in part a historical record of events now wonderful music, all ends satisfactorily, with I was very interested to read about Dore passed. most of the lovers pairing up with their eccentric Albert Coates in Jean Dean's article In this present bustling lifestyle, it is intended partners. in the Winter 2000· issue of Dore to Door. I important to pool our resources, our time and The society has a mixture of established have been trying to trace the history of my our individual talents, for the common good. stars' and some very promising newcomers in family for some time now, and wondered if This is reflected in the wealth of organisations the principal roles. The company has grown any readers had other anecdotes or information and societies which abide in our midst. during the past year and many new singers on the Coates/Coats family in Dore and Totley. Working in support of the clergy of this have joined us, making the ladies' chorus Jean mentioned that Albert lived at parish, nothing is unachievable if we practise. much stronger, so the show looks like being a Causewayhead Farm, which his family had Together "we are a great team". With very successful production of one of Gilbert & tenanted for many years. I bel ieve that my appreciation to the distributors and everyone Sullivan's favourite operettas. great, great, great grandfather, John Coates, concerned. Performances are at 7.30pm each evening lived there during the first half of the Syd Crowson with a 2.30pm matinee on Saturday. All tickets nineteenth century. Hon. President 267th Sheffield £6 concessions £5. Ticket secretary's tel no is Any further information or suggested (Dore) Scout Group 2366592. sources of information would be gratefully Mike Cox received. Dear Sir, Chairman, Dore G & S David Coates, Salisbury Thank you for printing my request for Ed. You can contact David via our information on the Green's of Dore. I have had editorial number or by E-mail at: a good response. One lady in Dore - two in Flower Festival David. Coatessetesco.net Coal Aston - one in Whitby - one in North Devon, who lived in Dore many years ago. Saturday 12th Sunday 13th May 2001 They have provided me with more contacts. I Sat 11am 5pm and Sun Ipm 5pm intend to go back in time, through parish Beauchief was founded about 1176 by records etc. At last I am making progress Robert FitzRanulph, in expiation for his through Dore to Door'. involvement in the murder of Thomas a Becket Stanley Payton-Greene on the 29th December 1170 at Canterbury. He was not one of the murderers and no-one is Dear Sir, quite sure what his role was, if at all. Did he My son who resides in Dore, recently know of the plot and turn a blind eye, was he • DINNER PARTIES • passed on to me some back copies of Dore to actively involved or was he just swept up in Door', thinking rightly that I would find them the general feeling of guilt current throughout • COCKTAIL PARTIES • of interest. the kingdom after the murder of the • SPECIAL OCCASIONS • When I came to issue no.52 (Winter 1998) I Archbishop? Maybe we will never know, but recognised the photo of "King Ecgbert and his we can be thankful to him for the founding of LET US TAKE THE STRESS AND STRAIN men", which is amongst a collection of old the Praemonstratensian Abbey at Beauchief, OUT OF YOUR ENTERTAINING photographs passed on to me from my Mother the remains of which still stand today. REQUIREMENTS, LEAVING YOU FREE TO in Law. My Brother in Law (Billie Crookes) is In May this year we will be holding a flower RELAX WITH YOUR GUESTS the spear man at the back of the photo, (nearest festival in the Abbey commemorating to the pony) and on the King's right hand side. important milestones in the life of Thomas, WE PROVIDE THE COMPLETE CATERING At the time he lived at Hillfoot, Totley. I think from the son of a Norman immigrant, through SERVICE, TAILOR MADE FOR YOU. the date would be around 1911-1912. the splendours and power of Chancellor to When Billie married he went to live in Henry Il, to Archbishop of Canterbury. There PLEASE CALL SUZY FOR A PERSONAL Wilson Cottages near the Hare and Hounds. will also be guides available throughout the MENU CONSULTATION OR FOR I was also interested in the article on Brook weekend to give more information on the FURTHER DETAILS. Hall, as amongst myoId photos there is one diverse history of the Abbey through the taken in front of the entrance showing a group centuries. There is no admission charge for the TEUFAX: 01142356960 of ladies in Geisha Girl type of dress. Until I festi val but light refreshments will be on sale. MOBILE: 07740 625554 saw your photo I was not sure of the venue. I Our normal communion service will take think my Mother in Law may be one of the place on the Sunday at 11.00am using the 3 FIVE TREES DRIVE. DORE • SHEFFIELD· 517 3LX ladies. I would guess the date of the photo to Book of Common Prayer. 4 worse for liquor at the time he left the Inn, it is This Old Horse supposed that he may have (being a stranger) missed his way, and perished on some part of The Old Horse was a traditional folk play the moors, or otherwise have got into the river performed locally at Christmas and the New Derwent, which was much swollen by the year. It was an unaccompanied ballad chanted heavy rain falling at the time." by several men and enacted by one man The paper went on to describe his dressed in a black cloak topped by a symbolic, appearance "He is of middle stature, with a stylised horse's head. scar on his left cheek near to the jaw, and had The group would visit farms, public houses, on two coats, one of fustian and a dark and the houses of leading citizens. As well as overcoat mended at the elbow of one of the performing in Dronfield, neighbouring villages sleeves, dark trousers and a pair of light were also visited including Dore. At the end of clogs " the performance a hat would be passed round, The next issue of the Derbyshire Times or drinks would be offered. reported that his body had been found in the In later years the horses head was a large, Derwent about a quarter of a mile from the heavy, fearsome papier mache construction public house. formed around the skull of a blind pony killed Ed. The Dare Village Society has recently while failing down Holmely Quarry. It was managed to transcribe a copy of the donated by the Lucas family. This head was performance. fixed onto a broom handle so that the operator, enclosed in the material, could flaunt and flourish the head and snap the jaws as the story Christmas Competition unfolded. Gallant but abused the horse falls to the ground in doleful death throes, then rises The winner of this years competition, drawn again in resurrection and celebration. Memorial at the Licensed Victuaffers on Saturday 2 December from correct entries This custom survived well into the twentieth Asylum on Abbeydale Road South. received, was: Susan Reid who works in century, and it may be that there are still some Brian Edwards /995. Green's on Causeway Head Road. She wins a alive who remember the tradition. bottle of champagne kindly donated by Wine Like many folk customs The Old Horse was what is well known in Derbyshire as the 'Old Direct UK who are based in Dore. an irreverent occasion accompanied by heavy Horse'. The runners up and their book prizes were: drinking and a great deal of noise. On at least "On Friday evening Greenwood and his Mr T Roberts of Lowedges Road - The one occasion it resulted in tragedy. comrades visited the Bulls Head Inn, Calver. Mystery of Carl Wark by Mick Savage. In January 1869 it was reported in the Words of an angry character are said to have Mrs J Norris of Baslow Road - Shiny Sheff Derbyshire Times, that a man was lost on the passed between Greenwood and Oxley, which (Sheffield's fighting ships) by Alistair moors. "A number of persons, including lames ultimately ended in a fight, and Greenwood Lofthouse Greenwood and Thomas Oxley, had left leaving the party, as it is supposed, to go Mrs 1 Ansdell of Causeway Head Road - Dronfield the previous Thursday to go to home. He was last seen as late as 12 o'clock at Maggie Kelly by Marjorie Dunn. Barlow and neighbouring villages, to act in night, and being defective in sight and also

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5 trying to walk more in our daily routines? A Rambler Made The good news is that adding up short walks is certainty good for weight loss. The crucial "A rambler made is a man improved" issue when trying to control body weight is To many veteran walkers the initials GHBW that you balance the calories that you take in are synonymous with the great outdoors and as food with the calories you expend through the birth of organised rambling. walking and other physical activities. Any George Herbert Bridges Ward was born in imbalance leads to losing or gaining weight. 1876 not far from Sheffield City Centre. His For most of us of course that means the latter: father, a mechanic by trade, introduced the lad about six out of ten people in the UK can now to an early love of the open air and, by 1900, be classed as overweight, and nationally the 'Bert", had established the Sheffield Clarion figures are increasing quite literally. But it Ramblers which, he claimed, was the first doesn't matter whether we expend calories on active rambling club of its kind to be formed a long walk on a Sunday, or through lots of in Britain. In September of that year he led the little walks in the week, what is important is first club outing - over what was to become a the total amount of calories used. great battlefield', Kinder Scout. Short walks to the shops, across the office, It was his desire, that land should be free for or up the stairs at home all add up. In fact, one all to enjoy lawfully, which led to a writ of research report even pointed out the calorific trespass being served on him for making an expenditure of fidgeting' annual pilgrimage to a cairn on Kinder where a G H B Ward in the 1950s. Brian Edwards Perhaps more surprising is that short walks fellow rambler had perished. The £ 17 fine was National Trust). can significantly enhance fitness. For a long accompanied by an injunction forbidding Bert Having started his working life in time sports scientists had concentrated on the from entering the moor without prior consent. engineering at the local steelworks, he then training effect of 20-minute bouts of vigorous In 1910, he started off the Sheffield Clarion transferred to the Ministry of Labour before exercise in increasing aerobic fitness. This led Ramblers' handbook which developed into a retiring in 1941. After that Bert was able to to the jogging boom as people tried to raise pocket sized mine of information on rambling, spend more time on his outdoor interests with their heart rates for at least 20 continuous local history, folk fore and records of his wife Fanny. He lived many years on minutes. conversations with locals. That handbook has Moorwoods Lane at Owler Bar, a few hundred More recently, scientists have been become one of the most sought after of yards from his beloved Big Moor. In 1949 the responding to the demand for an easier to publications and is constantly used as a rich Access to the Countryside Act came into being swallow exercise prescription', and have tried source of information, not least of all by but by that time Ward's great contribution, to define the smallest bout of exercise that will myself. He continued as editor for 47 years towards access for all, had been well enhance fitness - the Holy Grail' of sports finding time to write constantly elsewhere and, recognised. Four years earlier he had received scientists. Recent studies have shown that even recognising the work of his famed predecessor, a just tribute. On 8th April 1945, some 2,000 ten-minute brisk walks can increase fitness he revised John Derr y 's "Across the ramblers gathered on Lose Hill in the Peak levels. One study at Loughbrough University Derbyshire Moors". District to witness Bert receiving the deeds to found that women walking continuously for 30 Concerned that public rights of way were 54 1/2 acres of that summit (forever to be minutes five days a week had almost identical gradually being erased, he formed the called Ward's Piece). A plaque there records increases in fitness as women who split their Hallamshire Footpath Preservation Society in that the Sheffield & District Federation of the 30 minutes into three ten-minute walks. 1912 and, over a number of years he was Ramblers' Association had purchased the land Perhaps even more encouraging was that the instrumental in gaining access to huge tracts of in appreciation of the life's work of George short walkers lost more weight and reported land in the Peak District. Ward was a prime Herbert Bridges Ward F.R.G.S. and an greater decreased waist circumference than mover in the formation of what we now know inscription repeats one of his favourite slogans the long walkers. More research is continuing as the Ramblers' Association, and in 1926 "a rambler made is a man improved". Ward's to confirm this, and to look at the fitness effect founded its Sheffield & District Federation. He Piece was then presented to the National Trust. of even shorter walks. also found time to take part in the formation of On 6th July 1957 Sheffield University One thing that is still confirmed by the the local YHA and assisted in the purchase of conferred an honorary degree of Master of fitness studies is that brisk is best'. While a the Longshaw estate (now owned by the Arts on G.H.B.W. but sadly he was unable to gentle-paced walk will help you relax, attend due to ill health. The Public Orator said improve your mental health and expend Ramble along to " ... that no man could have worked more calories, it will have a lower impact on your tirelessly for the preservation and accessibility fitness. One study reported in the Journal of of our countryside heritage and especially of the American Medical Association found that the incomparable Peakland. No man in the last improvements to fitness more than doubted half-century could have done more, by precept with an increase in pace from 3mph to 4mph, and example, to foster the true spirit of and doubled again when the pace was stepped rambling". up to 5mph. This varies according to age and Bert Ward died on 14th October 1957, fitness though, so the rule to remember is that EXPERT BOOT FITTING leaving behind a rich heritage for all walkers you should aim to 'huff and puff' a little, but and visitors in our countryside. you should still be able to chat to your Our staff are trained to solve boot Brian Edwards companion while you're walking. fitting problems and we back this So even if you can't spare the time to get up with our Boot Fit Guarantee your boots on for a long walk, the message for Healthy Reward health is clear: walk as much as possible, as ALL THE FAMILY'S NEEDS often as possible and reap the rewards for Everyone knows that walking is healthy. Large selection of outdoor clothing yourself. and equipment for all the family - Ancient philosophers have praised it, experts at the best prices have researched it, and now doctors even Sheffield Marathon prescribe it. And whatever the health experts FREE GUIDED WALKS disagree on, one thing can be sure of is that at This years marathon takes place on Sunday the end of a good ten-mite walk in the 29th April, closing date for entries the 19th Free midweek guided walks with lit! countryside you're left with that lovely 'feel April. Starting at the Don Valley Stadium, the Foothills manager and Family 'V good feeling' in your legs and lungs that marathon fill follow a completely new course Walks author Norman Taylor means it must have been good for you. heading east towards Rotherham. There will But what should we do if the schedule also be a half marathon, family fun run and Tel: 01142586228 Fax: 01142584810 doesn't allow a long walk, or if the countryside schools relay. [email protected] www.foothills.co.uk is too far away? Does it really help your health 11 Edgedale Road, Sheffield, S7 2BQ You can find out more details from the to do shorter walks? And is it really worth marathon office on 230 8429. marshalling yard into the moors we would was to any degree a success, please let Ryland A False Sheffield have set up a successful decoy for German know on Hathersage 650863 and he will pass bombs. it on to Oliver. My regiment, 2nd Searchlight Regiment, The boffins' produced scaled maps of the Royal Artillery, was reunited in the Isle of railway yard lights and explained the timing of Anglesea after their return from France, via the decaying glow of the steel furnaces. Then Dunkerque, in 1940. While we were there a we set to work, first of all to build an Blood Pressure Association troop was selected to undertake a secret underground control centre, then to map out mission on behalf of the government in the position of the lights and lay their cables. Launched last October, the Blood Pressure London. It seemed that the Germans had been The generators had also to be protected in Association is the first and only UK using successfully a decoy system to confuse bomb proof shelters. To mimic the glow of the organisation formed to draw attention to the enemy aircraft into believing that they were furnace it was decided to use large theatre importance of blood pressure as a cause of bombing effectively their targets, though in lights with a rheostat system to replicate the strokes and as one of three important factors in fact their bombs were failing on open cooling glow of the molten metal. An artist heart attacks. Together these are the countryside. So pundits in a ministry in had already made night sketches of Sheffield commonest causes of death and disability in London decided to try out a similar scheme in from the air, and when our work was nearing the UK. the Sheffield area, i.e. to make a nightly completion a capti ve barrage balloon was Over 10 million individuals are affected by dummy Sheffield in the moors to the west of brought to the moor site so that the artist could high blood pressure in the UK, but as raised the city. observe our model. He went up in a basket blood pressure does not cause any symptoms, A searchlight regiment was chosen as suspended below the balloon to sketch our many are unaware that they are at risk (high people who understood something about dummy Sheffield as soon as it became blood pressure is often called the silent killer). electricity! So we set off from Anglesea, two operative. Almost half of individuals with high blood officers, a lieutenant and a second lieutenant, Apparently it must have been considered pressure are not diagnosed. Of those that are, being me Oliver Murphy then 19 years old, realistic as we were then asked to make a only about half are on treatment. The 1999 UK and our troop of men with lorries, generators dummy Chesterfield as it was thought that Household Survey shows that as little as 20% and all the equipment we might need, bound Chesterfield might be used as a landmark by of people (ie, 1 in 5) affected by high blood for Hathersage which became our base. bombers lining up to bomb Sheffield. This was pressure have their blood pressure properly In Hathersage we met the London boffins' a simple affair consisting only of lights laid controlled resulting in unnecessary strokes and who explained their plan. Steel required for the out in the moors west of Chesterfield. heart attacks. war effort was being made night and day in When all the work was completed we Anyone affected by high blood pressure Sheffield. When the doors of the giant returned to our regiment and never heard again who would like information on how to manage furnaces opened to allow the molten metal to any mention of the decoy scheme, though their condition better should write to the Blood cool, a vast glow appeared in the sky. It was there was a rumour that it had been bombed. Pressure Association at 60, Granmer Terrace, our job to replicate this in the moors. Oliver Murphy London SW 17 OQS (enclosing an A4 Further there was a large railway Ed. This account was given to Ryland self-addressed envelope with 2 second- marshalling yard in Sheffield, the biggest in Clendon, an editor of 'Hathersage class stamps). Further details can also be Europe they said, and its lights were a nightly Remembers' by Oliver Murphy who is now 80 found on the Association's web-site landmark for enemy aircraft. So if we could and lives in France. If anyone knows anything www.bpassoc.org.uk mimic a cooling furnace and move' the further about the decoy scheme, or whether it

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7 raped the young woman who lived there and Jean Recalls she went barking mad and was supposed to NSPCC Appeal roam the area, long after death. I can't help thinking, what a dirty untidy After the great fire when Totley Moss Did you know that on average one child place Dore has become. Litter, graffiti, leaves, burned for weeks and covered Dore in a cloud under the age of 5 will die each week in this cars parked anywhere and anyhow. Pavements of muck, (late 50's I think). The peat burned to country following abuse or neglect? Or that smothered in chewing gum. Broken glass, such a depth that ancient stone circles each year 150,000 children are physically vomit etc. appeared after centuries being buried. They abused? The NSPCC think that at the In the past there were several teams of road have long since been covered by the bracken beginning of the 21 st Century these figures are sweepers. Keeping the village clean, with their and heather. Recently there have been several totally unacceptable. horses and carts were Joe Unwin, Noddcr complaints about the state of the fennel behind The report we commissioned to look into Priestly, Jack Greavcs, to name but a few. Now the Church Hall and the football field. And the the incidence of child abuse concluded that we are lucky to see a Corporation Sweeper and yellow lines near the Co-op don't seem to have "Child abuse can almost always be prevented - the Gully Sucker seems to have become a made much difference to the cars parked there. provided the will to do so is there." That's why distant memory. The bus is always being held up and cars still we launched the Full Stop campaign - "Cruelty Norman who worked for Mr Haslam of continue to go the wrong way. to Children Must Stop. Full Stop", and it's also Ringinglow used to keep the Hathersage road Jean Dean why you might like to help us. swept. He had a little den deep in the hedge Ed. In our last issue we said Frankie Fisher There has traditionally been a house-to- below the Dore Moor. The poor man's life lived at Church Lane Farm, when we should house collection for the NSPCC in the Dore, became a misery when we children discovered have said Croft House Farm. Totley & Bradway districts during April & his hideaway. He seemed to have a large May. With a small band of collectors who have collection of brushes in various states of wear. helped for more years than even they care to I guess he never threw any away. Holmesfield Flower Club remember, almost £2,000 was collected last Joe Unwin had a slight speech impediment year. That is a fantastic amount and is used and referred to leaves as weaves. He had an We cordially invite you to come and join us directly to help local children. However, this allotment and I remember his favourite saying at any of our meetings. We are a small, year a number of these faithful collectors feel was - you need plenty of weaves to make a friendly and informal club, distinguished from it's time to take a well earned retirement, so garden grow. He certainly had plenty of them. others by holding a larger proportion of we are looking for new helpers who could High on the hills between Strawberry Lea "hands-on" workshop evenings. We also have spare just a few hours to distribute and collect and Totley Moss can be seen the remains of a some excellent visiting demonstrators. The envelopes in the area. Collecting on just one once substantial farmstead, known to the new programme for the year 2001 is about to street will help us to make a difference to the natives as Kitty Mottrams. My grandmother begin. children of Sheffield who are the unfortunate used to tell the tale that Kitty lived at the March 21st: The AGM will be a short and innocent victims of abuse. farmstead with her brother. One winter the business meeting, followed [at approx.8.00 If you feel that you could spare a little time brother took ill and kitty made her way to p.m] by a talk on behalf of the "Friends of the to help with this house-to-house collection, or Tot ley to obtain medication for him. The Botanical Gardens" by Mrs Sue Kohler about in other ways, please call me on 272 4214. weather turned bad and kitty got caught in a the work of this society in Sheffield. Befell Mower, South Yorkshire NSPCC snowstorm and perished in a snow drift. No April 18th: A Spring Workshop led by Mrs mention was ever made as to the fate of the Kath Vickers. brother and I have no idea what year this May 17th: Demonstration entitled Support Group would be, nor if its truth or legend. The trees "Chiaroscuro" by Andrew Grisewood (of round the ruin could be seen from where we famous father!) Cost £5, members £2.50. The Totley & Dore support group for the lived and strangely used to change shape. If We meet in the Holmesfield Village Hall, visually impaired hold regular monthly they resembled a galleon in full sail, we could off Woodside Avenue. The meetings begin at meetings. expect bad weather and if they looked like a 7.30 p.m. Forthcoming dates are March 21 st; April hay cart the weather was usually settled and For further details about the club, please 25th; and May 23rd. good. contact Judy Evans (236 6834), or June Wright Meetings are held at 4 Grove Road, Totley, Another story told of the farmstead was that ( 262 0603). starting at 11am. For more information phone during the Civil War, one of Cromwell's men Mrs Turner on 255 0758.

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For April 15th - Easter Sunday: Holy Although Sheffield has many amateur £9.99 you can buy a digital watch which Communion (BCP) - 8pm; Parish Communion horologists, there are only three professional wouldn't cover the cost of replacing the glass - lOam; Festal Choral Evensong - 6.30pm (Fellowship standard) clockmakers. Most on a traditional watch. April 1st - Passion Sunday - Salieri's likely in a few years, none. Our nearest Mr Although there's a demand for jewellery Requiem in C minor. Sung by the choir of St John di Nitto has a shop on Abbey Lane where repairs, they don't warrant a shop, and jobbing John's and other singers from SI7 and beyond. amongst the faces of customers and clocks, he jewellers still exist in Sheffield. To Mr. di Everyone has enjoyed rehearsing this work. It told me about being the "last of the line". Nitto the shop window is not the heart of the is very singable and makes pleasant listening In the war years Nicolo di Nitto (his father) business. Clock restoration is. These have too. For those who are saying never heard of worked for H.L.Brown, then near Cockaynes never gone out of fashion and are possibly less it', Salieri was a contempory of Mozart (some and ran to search the shop when it was blitzed. neglected now that awareness of antiques might say rival), and his requiem is very From the smashed windows he retrieved bits shows us their true value. They are often Mozart in style. Salieri completed his requiem and pieces, but lost all his tools. In a tin, in a faithful for 20 years or more before needing in 1804 but according to his last will and drawer, lie the jewel holes saved from those repair and adjustment. He has also helped with testament was first sung at his funeral in 1825 days. Also very treasured boxwood tools, still the installation of the new Millennium by his pupils and other musicians. Do come used, sent then or later from colleagues at Methodist Church tower clock in Dore. and hear it at St John's Church on April 1st at Barnby Rust in Hull when they heard of the On his card it reads "Clock maker to Sir 6.30pm. All welcome. disaster. A beautifully crafted wooden oil pot Reresby Sitwell". Less exalted customers For more information ring Phyllis Glossop dated 1848 is one of them. bring theirs in (often damaged by amateurs) on 236 2597. He then worked from home in Frecheville and are assured of a lifetime's experience. mostly trade work, copying. It was then at the Gillian Farnsworth age of only 8 that John learnt alongside his New tolls father ( reminiscent of Harrison senior and junior of longitude fame!) In his teens John St John's Abbeydale The prospect of motorists being charged to was indentured to the family with a cousin and drive into the Upper Derwent Valley in the uncle all at Attercliffe. At the time Nicolo was Easter at St John's Abbeydale. Peak District has moved closer with the royal Chairman of the British Horological Institute, February 28th - Ash Wednesday - Parish assent being given to the Transport Bill, which with 30 or 40 members turning up to local communion - 7.30pm gives local authorities the option of meetings, all of them earning a living by Every Wednesday during Lent - Holy introducing tolls. clocks. Two Sheffield warehouses were needed Communion - 10.15am Derbyshire County Council plans to become to hold spare parts for the industry. April 8th - Palm Sunday - Family one of the first, by charging motorists using The next move was father to Sharrowvale Communion with procession - lOam the road to the Fairholmes visitor centre, in an Road and John to Campo Lane, then to the April 12th - Maundy Thursday - Parish attempt to cut congestion while raising money present shop. Neither he nor Keith Laycock of Communion - 7.30pm to improve public transport. It is estimated that Spital Hill (who is half retired) have April 13th - Good Friday: Family Service - some 2 million people a year visit the Upper apprentices or family interested in continuing 10.30am; An hour by the Cross' (a devotional Derwent in 500,000 cars! the business. Although retirement for John service) - 2pm to 3pm; A service of Tennebrae

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There have been three particularly significant planning issues since the Winter edition of Dore to Door: King Ecgbert Upper School, Furniss Avenue. Outline Planning Permission was granted for housing development on a piece of land at the school. This land was allocated for housing on the Unitary Development Plan and thus there has always been the prospect of housing on that land. However representations were made in respect of the Application covering of all those concerns raised at the Public Meeting an 12th September. Most of the issues have been covered in the conditions embodied in the Outline Permission. These relate to: Protection of trees and hedges; Treatment of footpaths crossing the site; Highway improvements in Furniss Avenue, including traffic control and pedestrian safety measures; Drainage proposals for both foul and surface water; The forgoing issues have to be addressed by anyone intending to move on from the Outline Permission to a Full Planning Permission. In proposing the details the developer will have to take the conditions into consideration. It is at that stage that the proposals are of real significance, as whatever is approved then can be built. We will be watching the situation. It is worth mentioning that there is also a condition that the detailed plans must show at An unusual photograph of the rear view of the Hare & Hounds' pub before it was extended. least 10% of the site as open space within the site, or provision made for open space detached houses on the plot. The plans show proximity of, and overlooking the back of elsewhere to a scheme to be approved by the three houses in a line facing Gilleyfield existing bungalows, with consequent loss of Planning Authority. Avenue, with a fourth house immediately privacy. It is hoped that this proposal will be Land at the rear of 65-69 NewfieId Lane. behind and facing Savage Lane. The developer withdrawn or refused. The application for Planning Approval for a proposes to drive a vehicular access through Nab Farm. We have been concerned for block of 6 flats overlooking the Dore the trees on the bend of Savage Lane, by the some time about the development at Nab Recreation Ground was referred to in the last footpath into Busheywood. Farm. It was considered that the original issue of Dore to Door. "This block of flats DVS have objected in the strongest terms to proposals were unsuitable for the site and the faces the Recreation Ground and is within 10 the proposals on the basis of: Over position by the Green and in the Conservation metres (33 ft) of the fence, presenting a development of the site; The loss of good Area. The Highway Engineers were unhappy massive uninspiring elevation to the mature trees; Occupation of land which is not with the access into the site and the likely Recreation Ground, in a situation where in the ownership of the property; Access on a traffic movements. The Council Conservation properties can otherwise hardly be seen. It is dangerous bend; A large house in very close sub committee recommended refusal as the considered this is a severe intrusion into the proposed development was unsuitable. There rural informality of the Recreation Ground, were objections based on a number of and strong objections have been made to the concerns, including windows overlooking siting and overdevelopment of this land". adjoining properties. Despite this Planning Brearton & Co We attended a Planning meeting at which Approval was recommended by the planning Taxation Consultants representations against the proposals were officers and was granted. The developers, have made. The Dore Councillors, Keith Hill and since departed from the consents granted, Anne Smith made strong objections. The including a stated intention not to build All aspects of Personal Committee deferred the decision, asking that garages for cars on the development. and Business Taxation the developer consider reducing the block The most significant concern, however, is from three storeys to two. the treatment of the elevation facing The Frankly the wording was not strong enough, Green. In addition to the two white meter Self Assessment Returns but at least it was not an approval. When the boxes on the wall, rainwater pipes and gullies proposals returned to Committee two weeks on the narrow pavement, and an overflow pipe Capital Gains and later, the matter was again discussed at length, arranged to discharge onto the pavement, a gas but when a vote was taken there were hardly central heating boiler flue projects from the Inheritance Tax any committee members present and the building at face level and discharges steam decision to approve the three storey block was over the pavement. For professional help from experts passed on the casting vote of the chair. Representations are being made, but it is a This was a most unsatisfactory situation for pity the developers could not have been more Write or call for free quotation an important decision. The Dore Councillors sympathetic to the site and situation. It could were incensed. We thank them for their efforts have been an attractive development in a 18 Rush/ey Road, Sheffield S 17 3E) in this case, and again regret that such prominent situation in the village. Telephone (0114) 236 0211 decisions are made by Council Members who Finally, no planning application has yet are not connected with the area. 18 Gilleyfield been received for Blue Ridge on Ashfurlong [email protected] Avenue. There is an outstanding Planning Lane, the appeal on the Knowle Green Wall is Application in respect of the site of this still outstanding and all the lots at Barberfield Dan Brearton ATII bungalow. A developer is proposing to Farm were successfully sold with the council Chartered Institute of Taxation demolish the bungalow (the property closest to retaining a small area of wildlife value. Busheywood Road) and build four large David Heslop

10 and 7.30pm. OLST. During Lent, why not go Never too late Deadline for Summer along to one of the Lenten Lunches served in the Parish Rooms every Sunday at 12.30pm? It is never too late to learn, you really can Diary Events Proceeds to Bosnian Relief. teach an old dog new tricks. With the endless Monday Stations of the Cross are prayed every array of adult learning opportunities available Tuesday (OLST) and Thursday (English these days, many of which are virtually 30 April 200 I Martyrs) at 7.00pm. brought to our doorsteps, we can all build on Ring 236 9025 or write to the editor On Wednesday evenings a series of Lenten our knowledge and skills for employment, talks will be given in the Parish Rooms. hobbies or pleasure. many Third Agers choose to learn something Holy week: The idea of lifelong learning really caught that has nothing to do with the skills they hold with the setting up of the Open University already have. There are already some 90,000 Palm Sunday, 8 April. Blessing and in the early 1970s. Now with the pace of members in 435 local branches. distribution of palms at all Masses technological change and with people li ving How about it? I you are looking for a new End of Term Mass 10 April at St Thomas of longer and staying healthier, it is increasingly challenge, skills or knowledge, now is the time Canterbury School 9.15am. All welcome. recognised as essential in business and as to think about the possibilities. But remember, Chrism Mass at St Marie's Cathedral 11am beneficial in retirement. learning takes up time, weekends, evenings or 8 April. Mass with Anointing of the Sick Many people start with evening classes at holidays, and costs money. So before you sign 7.30pm OLST their local adult education institute - the least up, make sure you can set time aside and that The Easter Triduum: time-consuming and generally the cheapest you know what the costs will be. option. You can learn a marketable skill or Some useful contacts are: Maundy Thursday 12 April Mass 8pm simply acquire knowledge for pleasure. The Open University Tel: 01908 653231 OLST with Mandatum (washing of feet) and It is of course possible to study for a Website: www.open.ac.uk Watching until Midnight at the Altar of qualification part-time, locally or from home. The University of the Third Age (U's.A) Tel: Repose. You can also go to a university, no longer the 0207837 8838 Good Friday 13 April. Celebration of the preserve of the young. Older students taking Further Education Funding Council Tel: Lord's Passion 3pm OLST their first degree are commonplace these days, 02476863000 Website: wwwJefc.ac.uk Ecumenical Service of Tenebrae 8pm and not only at the Open University. New Campaign for Learning Tel: 020 7930 III1 English Martyrs universities (former polytechnics) are Website: www.campaign-for-Iearning.org.uk Stations and Veneration of the Cross 7.30pm particularly flexible when it comes to adapting OLST Easter: their courses for part-time study. Even if you already have a degree, you can Spring Programme Easter Vigil 14 Apri 1, 8.30pm OLST. either start again with a new topic or register Lighting of the New Fire Blessing of the for a masters degree. As the weather warms up, so does the pace Paschal Candle and the first Mass of Easter. If you are over 50, a cheaper and totally at Our Lady of Beauchief, St Thomas of Easter Day 15 April. Masses: 8am English different way of studying, is to join your local Canterbury and English Martyrs, Totley! Martyrs. 9.15 and 11.15am OLST Feast of the University of the Third Age (U3A). This is Ash Wednesday on 28 February marks the Ascension 24 May. Masses: 7.30pm 23 May ideal for those who are retired, or whose beginning of the penitential season of Lent. (vigil) English Martyrs lOam and 7.30pm children are now financially independent and Masses with Distribution of Ashes at lOam OLST Details of the above from the churches or 0114 2367736.

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12 relatives, listing full names, dates and places a family history. There are tips on searching The Family Tree of births, marriages and deaths. Go as far back records, and where to go to find them. Equally as you can - missing information can be added useful is the website of the Federation of Chances are you spent Christmas with some later. You will soon get a feel for the project, Family History Societies at www.ffhs.org.uk. members of your family, and in between how many branches there are likely to be and Besides giving general advice to eating, watching TV and opening presents, you which areas you will want to explore first. newcomers, the site features a shopping list of may well have ended up sharing memories of Quite quickly the limits of paper records will family-history aids, including computer absent family members, distant relatives or become apparent. genealogy and Internet books. The societies discussing long-buried ancestors. Fortunately there are numerous computer can suggest local sources which could he of Maybe you remember tales told by your software programmes on the market which can use and can put you on to enthusiasts who are grand parents or your .own parents, have sepia accommodate your needs and leave scope for happy to offer advice. Another useful site for pictures in an old album, perhaps old letters. If later additions and corrections as more those getting started in genealogy is this stirs your curiosity you might like to find information comes to hand. Suitable software www.genuki.org.uk, the web-site of the UK out more about the family's past for your own is readily available on the High Street or via and Ireland Genealogical Information Service interest or to pass on to future generations. the Internet. You could try (Genuki). The scope of their web-site is For a start, living relatives and their www.gensoftsb.com which has details of enormous, and includes online tutorials and memories will probably enable you to span programs and comments on them. None are useful introductory texts. several generations. It can be amazing how particularly expensive and some can be tested Genealogy is life in the past lane, and can many relatives you might have even in that free for a limited period. The best programmes become an engrossing hobby. If you feel short time. Our Victorian ancestors tended to will accommodate more than a diagrammatic yourself getting hooked, call up have large families and in the age of Empire to tree, allowing you to add photographs and www.thegoodwebguide.co.uk and give spread around the world. On the other hand as links to background information, such as yourself a present of thegoodwebguide to you go back in time people were far more anecdotes and potted life stories. Genealogy (£12.99, ISBN 1903282063), It likely to be born and die in the same town or Involving the immediate family is the next takes a look at the hundred best websites village. step. E-mail is one of the best and cheapest which will help you build your family history. But how do you fit all these people into ways of passing on or obtaining snippets of your extended family tree, how do you fill any family history from distant relatives. Often gaps or push the line back into the more those overseas will prove the most interested, Help needed distant past? Fortunately researching family and you may find common cause with other history is one of the most popular leisure members of the family who share your The Leonard Cheshire home at Mickley pastimes today and a whole industry has interest. Hall is on the lookout for volunteers to help grown up to serve it. And this is one hobby It is now that the web comes into its own. support residents, however little or however where the computer can come into it's own There are host of web-sites to help you, some much time you have to spare. Drivers; escorts with special programmes for storing and amateur sites created by families themselves, to accompany outings to the shops, marshaling information, and by providing one others more professional in nature. Many are countryside or entertainments; help with crafts of the best resources is the power of the world packed with useful advice. You could do worse and activities; or just companionship and wide web. than start by looking at the BBC's contribution conversation will all be much appreciated. Before using the computer, the best way to at www.bbc.co.uklhistory/programmes/blood, Come and visit us at Mickley Hall, Mickley start your family tree, is put down what you which offers information on how to take the Lane, Sheffield S 17 4HE Tel: 236 9952 already know. Try to map out your immediate first steps into genealogy and on how to build Email: [email protected] populations, they should replicate the local future. Wc look forward to the continued The Wildlife Garden species of wild plants and once established, support of local people. The first plant sale for should be maintained this way. Basically, he 200 I will be on Sunday March 25th from 2pm The slushy mess on the roads and considered wildlife gardening futile, but then to4pm. pavements was a grim reminder of the thick went on to say how his garden was a veritable Avril Critchley carpet of snow that had covered everything haven for insects. only a few days earlier; not really snow, ice or I am sure part of what he says is true. water, something that even Eskimos probably Garden size is important. A pair of tawny owls Garden rescue don't have a word for, apart from unpleasant'. require a territory of at least 20 hectares (49 Where children had been busy making a acres) when it is a mixture of woodland and Recently a friend asked me whether I had snowman, there were now only a few open ground, while hedgehogs need an area of seen the forgotten garden near the entrance of shapeless lumps of snow, reluctant to finally around 9 hectares (22 acres) to find sufficient Whirlow Brook Park. I live on Limb Lane and melt and disappear. Pebbles which had been food. But tawny owls don't just live in do a lot of running in the area, but had to say used to make the snowman's eyes and a carrot, woodlands anyrnore, many have moved into no. So you can imagine my surprise when he the nose, now lay forgotten in a jumbled heap suburban areas, surviving off a diet of bats, led me into the beautiful, but little-known on the ground. In my garden, the rapid thaw frogs and sleeping birds. The gardens at Whinfell Quarry Garden. was most welcome. Not only had the snow Buckingham Palace might not be large enough This ornamental quarry garden is a mix of tlattened plants and caused hardshi p for all the (16 hectares/39 acres) to maintain a pair of steep paths and steps, a cascade of rock pools, animals, it made even the simplest of tasks, tawny owls, but in its grounds, there were planted with rare shrubs and trees, including such as changing the water in the bird-bath, an found to be 343 species of butterflies and bamboo and Japanese accrs, flowering extremely disagreeable, finger-numbing moths, about 10% of all British lepidoptera, cherries, rhododendrons and conifers. It also experience. Even in a relatively small suburban has one of my favourite plants - the giant At least a blanket of snow does have a Leicestershire garden, 88 types of parasitic leafed Gunnera. positive side - it shows just how effective the wasps alone were found during an intensive Intrigued, I found out a bit more about the regular feeding of birds is. The birds know that study of the insect population. garden. there will always be food available for them in Animals can of course move around and The garden was part of Whinfell House, my garden, so they don't have to waste their whether it is birds, butterflies or hedgehogs, which was built in 1902 by Samuel Doncaster. energy searching around for odd scraps. Even although they might not find sufficient food in The house and garden passed to Mr Friedrick when the snow was at its worst, they hardly one garden, they may nevertheless use it as a Neill in 1933. Following the death of Mr Neill, showed any signs of panic, although it was not refueling stop. the gardens were presented to the city in 1968. all sweetness and light; starlings squabbled Recently published work carried out at the Whinfell house was destroyed by fire in 1971 incessantly, whilst waiting their turn to have a University of Sheffield showed that during and flats have subsequently been built on what bath and the resident blackbirds spent all their August, honey bees would fly from their hive was the site of the house and the paddocks. time chasing off the upstart thrushes that dared located near the centre of Sheffield, up to Sheffield City Council now owns the to snatch a morsel of food from their' garden. l Okrn (6miles) to collect nectar from heather garden, but they don't have the staff to carry As the snow disappeared, so did the starlings, plants growing on the local moors. It would out more than a basic path-clearing exercise returning to fields and hedgerows, whilst appear that such behaviour is not unusual for once a year, so that in recent years it has squirrels once again proved that my squirrel- honey bees located within an urban area; they suffered from a severe lack of maintenance proof' feeders were merely a figment of the might have to regularly fly considerable and has fallen into disrepair. The paths are manufacturer's imagination. distances to find good forage plants. So, if you overgrown and the railing around the paths is You would think that times like these are have a good source of nectar in your garden, rotten in parts. Invasive plants (e.g. Japanese proof, if proof is needed, of the value of who knows how far some of the bees may Knotwood) have become established and if left wildlife gardening, but have I been deluding have traveled? unchecked they will rapidly invade the garden. myself all these years? Is feeding the birds, Even if our individual gardens aren't as I am keen to encourage the process of planting bee plants, putting up nest boxes and large as the one at Buckingham Palace, up and renovating the garden into a wonderful grotto all the other wildlife-friendly actions I take, down the country they do cover a huge area. that is safe for local people to use. So as a first nothing more than a sop to the conscience of a Wouldn't it be foolish to dismiss all this land step, I organised a working party of city dweller, whose home had destroyed a far and the efforts made by countless wildlife neighbours for the weekend of February more valuable wildlife habitat whcn it was gardeners who make their gardens wildlife I7thll 8th to begin to clear the paths, repair the built? Is my wildlife garden nothing more than friendly, as completely worthless? And let's fencing, cut back the overgrown shrubs. This a third-rate imitation of the countryside and face it, living in gardens is the only option is a start, but the more support we can get, the wouldn't I be simply better off saving all the available for much of our wildlife these days, better. money I had spent on plants and donating it to in our overcrowded island. Would you be interested in helping on future a charity which preserves tracts of heath and Jack Daw weekends? Would you be interested in woodland? sponsoring a tree or shrub, or in making a These sobering thoughts came bubbling up donation for the hire of equipment? Could you to the surface after readi ng a letter I had Sheffield Botanical Gardens help by taking rubbish to the tip or as part of a recently received from an expert on moths. I team that will look into managing the garden originally contacted him with a request for The Friends of the Botanical Gardens would in the future? information on how wildlife gardeners could like to thank everyone who has supported us Please give me a ring on 235 3858 or e-rnail attract moths into their gardens - an innocent during 2000 by attending Plant Sales and me at [email protected] And if enough request, or so I thought at the time. buying goods from our sales table. We raised you have never seen the gardens, please take However, the letter I received contained £ 10,000 from the plant sales during the year. the time to have a look. Many Thanks. nothing short of a diatribe against the whole The opening of phase one of the restoration GlYIl Smyth concept of wildlife gardening. of the gardens took place on 13th December His argument was that gardeners tend not to 2000. Lord Scarborough performed the grow the native species which encourage opening ceremony. The Clarkehouse Road John Wade Singers moths - mostly large woodland trees such as entrance has been beautifully restored and now birch, oak and willow. These also need to be houses a shop, exhibition centre and the The John Wade Singers will be holding a grown in groups rather than individually and curator's office. The curator's house is now a concert of popular choruses from Grand Opera most gardens, he wrote, are simply not large restaurant at night and a cafe during the day and a selection of other well-known works at enough to do this. Even if gardeners are with a conservatory extension and a new toilet 7.30pm in St John's Church Hall, Abbeydale willing to grow native species and have the block. South Lodge has also been restored, it's Road South on 31 March. Conductor John space to plant groups of trees, any insects that tenant helping with security. Wade, organist Paul Green. Tickets £5 (£4 might breed there would be isolated from other Phase 2 of the restoration plan, the Senior Citizens). Proceeds in aid of the breeding populations, leading to in-breeding renovation of the Glass Pavilions, is due to Schizophrenia Fellowship. Tickets from 236 and eventual extinction. He also thought that if begin this summer. We still require a lot more 0820 or 01246415778. gardens were to prove at all useful to insect money so many events will be staged in the

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The [o ll o wi n g article appeared in the Slzeffield l n d ep e n d e nt on Thursday I st September 1938. I1 lt'as accompanied by Cl photograph of the wireless station with its lowering masts.

Sheffield Men Get Television Programmes. In a secret experimenting room on the remote outskirts of Sheffield, three men have been receiving television programmes from London, The leader of this small group of enthusiasts is Mr G W Bagshaw, the well known radio expert and manager of the wireless department of J G Graves Ltd, Sheffield. They received an almost perfect picture and sound on Tuesday night. Conditions then were ideal and one radio amateur said they were the best they had ever experienced, The television receiver used is the only one in the north of England and is not of commercial manufacture, He is the only Totley Rise shops at the turn a/the century. Carriers, including one using a steam engine, person in Sheffield to have received television delivering stock to W W Harrison, High Class Grocer, then occupying the shop recently programmes, Special attention has been turned taken over by the newsagents. to television in the past few days owing to the Radio Olympia exhibition, Triumph Over Distance expected that our pictures are as clear as those years ago, is housed over a thousand pounds A "Daily Independent" reporter yesterday in the London area," "However we have worth of apparatus, There are five short-wave saw the receiver at the experimental station at obtained pictures which, although they might transmitters and several ultra short-wave Dore Moor, near Newfields Lane, All that can not suit the critical onlooker, are very receivers, Mr Bagshaw is a keen amateur be seen from the road is two large latticed satisfying to the experimenter." transmitter and makes regular broadcasts, wireless masts and few who pass know what Mr Bagshaw has been experimenting in Owing to the thundery weather conditions they are for. television since its inception, were unsuitable for television transmissions Mr Bagshaw said he had been receiving the yesterday, During the past few days however pictures for the past three weeks and the First Attempts almost perfect pictures have been received, station is perfectly successful. From London to The first station was in the radio department Mr Bagshaw is assisted in his work by two Sheffield is one of the greatest distances of J G Graves, Ltd, but after a time it was other radio enthusiasts, Mr K Hopkinson of television pictures have been transmitted and realised that interference from motor cars and Crosspool and Mr G Tho mpson. Both are this is the only amateur station to cope with trams were hindering progress, The site at employed at Graves Ltd. such distances, "It was thought that television Dore was chosen since it is almost ideal for Sheffield Prospects had a visual range as far as the eye could see, radio work, It is 750 feet above sea level and Asked for his views on the future of That is the true range but it is possible to remote from roads andelectrical interference, television in Sheffield, Mr Bagshaw pointed receive from greater distances," he said, In the station is a bewildering collection of out that results are only obtained outside Very Satisfying radio apparatus, The workshop is only small, London by using very intricate and expensive "Working on ultra short waves, pictures but is large enough to contain all the necessary apparatus and having special receivers, Until have been received further than was at first equipment, The twin radio masts, which were there was a local transmitter there was very thought possible, and I have found that I can built on the site, are nearly eighty feet high and little prospect of Sheffield people being able to receive transmissions from Alexander carry a large aerial. recei ve television, Palace""," "In Sheffield we are 100 miles Short-wave Transmitters So far as the provinces were concerned he away from the transmitter and it cannot be In the shed, which was built nearly two thought the BBC and the Post Office were waiting for a better response in London before they put up provincial stations, Radio Link THE LEADERS IN SEAMLESS FIBREGLASS ROOFING The first step towards the opening of a provincial station was thought to be the completion of the special cable between London and Birmingham, but as that cable had TUFF-ROOF been completed sometime ago and there was no news of a Birmingham transmitter, it was WE SOLVE FLAT ROOFING PROBLEMS thought in radio circles that either the cable was not satisfactory in a technical sense or the YEAR INSURANCE BACKED UP GUARANTEE • 20 Post Office thought it much more useful for • IMPACT RESISTANT AND SEAMLESS multi-channel trunk lines, • MAINTENANCE FREE "It would seem that the solution to the • EXPERIENCED AND PROFESSIONAL ADVICE provincial station is a radio link, which means • INSTALLATION BY OUR OWN EXPERIENCED OPERATORS using ultra high frequency transmitters between towns to convey television sound and speech, All this is a very expensive TUFF-ROOF LTD, SAXON HOUSE, undertaking and to cater for the whole country at present would appear to be prohibitive in SAXON ROAD, HELLEY, SHEFFIELD cost" he added, Eel. 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In fact these are just the latest in a industry, his archeological studies led him to in moorland areas. succession of famous and not so famous heros research into water power and a study of its Howard Smith has now produced a second of the ring who have sprung from South development along the Dearne and it's revised edition of his book The Guide Stoops Yorkshire. A new book by Ronnie Wharton tributaries. The results have recently been of Derbyshire, which provides the most titled Boxing ill South Yorkshire sets out to published in Water Mills and Furnaces on the comprehensive guide to the location (incl map record these heros from 1890 to the present Yorkshire Dearne and its Tributaries. references) and appearance (drawings) of these day starting with George Cornfield Sheffield's Dating from the Domesday Survey to their stoops. The stoops are fascinating features in first boxing idol born in New Cross in 1872. rapid decline in the 19th century, some 75 mill their own right and searching for them will Each of the 28 boxers covered warrants sites are identified, corn mills, textile mills, also encourage some healthy and rewarding their own chapter which sets out their paper mills, wood sawing and mineral rambles in some of the areas' most beautiful introduction to the sport, their careers and crushing. Detailed research has revealed their countryside. The Guide Stoops of Derbyshire achievements. As a role call of honour it will siting, structure and history of use, although is available direct from the author on 258 8054 bring back memories of some of the great sadly there are often few visible remains today, price £5.50 incl p&p. names and characters of boxing especially to apart from the gem of Worsbrough Mill, now a Heeley shares more in common with Dore those that follow the sport of kings. 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There are which enabled the well established Heeley Hathersage who produced three books, a map, chapters on each sec t io n of the Dearne History Workshop, to produce its new book built a new garden, gave a mug to every child catchment area, with maps showing each site, Heghlegh Then and Heeley Now. under 16, produced a play and adopted a followed by a description with key dates, The book looks at different aspects of hospice overseas. Hathersage, Images of the copies of old maps and reference sources. The Heeley and life within it over the years. Pubs, Past, is a unique photographic record of the book is completed by a comprehensive churches, sport, shops, transport and much village and its people, with deep captions to glossary of terms and index. The book is a more is covered with an abundance of quotes each of its pictures. Fashion, weather and daily credit to the efforts of its author and a valuable from residents and extracts from past life are all captured from the turn of the old contribution to our sum of knowledge on the publications. Maps, pictures and even an ariel century up to the 50s. Published by the subject. It is published by Wakefield Historical photograph help illustrate this delve into Hathersage Millennium Group price £6. The Publications, tel: 01924 372748, price £35 + history. As for Heghlegh, this is just one other publications include: Hath ers ag e p&p. variation in the spelling of Heeley, which gets Reviewed - a snapshot of the village in the The CD Rom does have some real its name from Heah Leah, meaning, woodland year 2000 (Domesday Book Il) £2.50; advantages over the printed word, and these clearing. H ath ers ag e Remembers personal are no more evident than wi th Abbeydale Heghlegh Then and Heeley Now is recollections of times gone by £2.50; and Hamlet, with a guide to the Industrial History available direct from Pickard Publishing on Haihersage - a map and pictorial guide to the of Sheffield. This new CD Rom brings 2757222 price £5.99. village. More details and copies from Sue together a mass of information on the Hamlet Clendon on 01433 650 863. and Sheffield history using text, photographs, Early industry in South Yorkshire was animations and videos to illustrate the After a Stroke founded on water power, with every stream development of the Abbeydale Works from the and river harnessed to the full before the age 12th Century to the present day. Imagine suddenly not being able to talk to of steam began. Around Dore we can see the Abbeydale Hamlet is one of a number of your friends and family. Imagine losing the remains of weirs, dams and wheels, all of works on the river Sheaf, which like other ability to read and write. Imagine the which can make for fascinating study and Sheffield rivers was used extensively for frustration of knowing what you want to say, water-powered manufacture, until the but not being able to say it. introduction of steam power and modern The Stroke Association has produced a new factory systems. This CD Rom sets the Hamlet booklet, Communications problems after SHEFFIELD & DISTRICT SOCIETY OF MODEL & EXPERIMENTAL in a physical and historic context and then stroke; it aims to improve understanding of the guides you through the buildings and ENGINEERS LTD communications problems that car; be one of manufacturing processes. From tilt hammers to the cruellest consequences of a stroke, both for those who have had a stroke and for those MINIATURE RAILWAY fine scythes, all is explained and illustrated along with the human context and the origin of Sundays Ipm - 5pm approx closest to them. 100,000 people a year experience a first stroke, of whom about a (weather permitting) phrases we still use today such as "keeping your nose to the grindstone". third experience communication problems as a 11th March 25th March 8th April There is a time line, dictionary of terms and result. 15th & 16th April Easter Weekend a picture gallery which covers other water The booklet takes people through the main 29th April 6th May powered sites in the area. Together this makes types of communications problems, helps them Monday 7th May - Spring Bank Holiday the CD a comfortable way to begin to understand the difficulties they may face and 13th May 27th May understand the crucible steel industry, an directs them to further sources of help - not Monday 28th May Bank Holiday excellent preview to the site itself or a valuable least of which is the Associations' own You can find us in Ecclesall Woods, study vehicle. For anyone interested in the network of over 4,000 volunteers throughout along Abbeydale Road South between the hamlet and the industrial history of Sheffield it England & Wales, who generously give up Hamlet & Dore Station - Look out for the is a must and it is sure to make you realise just their own time to help those with post-stroke yellow board on the side of the road. what a historic asset we have on our doorstep. communication problems. The Society warmly welcomes new Abbeydale Hamlet, the CD Rom, was Copies of the booklet are available free members - if you are interested in model designed and developed by Ann Sheward and from: The Admin Department, The Stroke engineering of any kind please enquire John Garth, long standing members of ASWAT Association, Northampton Resource Centre, All proceeds go towards running costs & (Abbeydale and Shepherd Wheel Action Trust) 61-69 Derngate, Northampton, NNI IHD. development. Tel 236 9002. and is available price £24.95 from the city's Telephone: 01604623934. www.sheffieldsmee.co.uk industrial museums, Sheffield Scene, Waters tones and destination Sheffield, On-line at www.dorevillage.co.uk

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19 Brian Edwards Revealed

From the Isles of Scilly to the Isle of Man; from the top to bottom of Europe; from Sheffield in Ontario to Sheffield in South Yorkshire; from Swiss Castles to Welsh Castles; you name it Brian Edwards has sketched it. His recent trip to the battlefields and towns of the American Revolution has not escaped his sharp eye either, nor has his stay in a converted bordello on an island in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, where the traditional oyster boats called Skipjacks are wintered. Although better known for his drawings of Dore, Totley and the Peak District, his work from many other places is rarely seen. Now an exhibition to be held at Totley library will include drawings from local and faraway scenes. During the exhibition, which will run from 28th February until 14th March, signed prints Footpath to Calver. Brian Edwards and copies of his books will be on sale. The exhibition will be open during normal library Two hundred years ago the country was hours: Census records evolving from an agricultural to an industrial Monday: IOam-12.30pm, 1.30pm-7pm. nation. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 9.30am- According to a recent report which Today it is a predominantly a service l2.30pm, 1.30pm-5.30pm. Saturday: 9.30am- celebrates the 200th anni versary of the first economy with less than two per cent working 12.30pm. Thursday and Sunday, closed. national census on March 10, 1801, the in agriculture. Until recently, few original drawings by population of the UK has soared sixfold over perhaps the most prolific illustrator in the the last 200 years - and grown older. region have been released onto the market, but In 1801 there were 10 million of us in two Dore Art Group only recently a private collector from the million households. Now there am 59.5 South of England purchased over 300 of million in 24 million homes - and better health Dore Art Group will once again be holding Brian's original pen & ink drawings, several of care means we live longer. Just under half the their Annual Exhibition in the recently which have appeared in magazines, population were aged under 20 in 1821, renovated and extended Old School. We hope newspapers, books and leatlets. compared with less than a quarter now. that everyone will visit the Exhibition, which How does he work, what materials does he In 1841 men could expect to live to 41 and gives the chance to view and purchase varied use? All will be revealed in an illustrated talk women 43. Today's figures are 75 and 80 paintings in all mediums. This is also an to be held at the library on Monday 5th March respecti ve1y. excellent opportunity to see first hand the at 7.30pm, tickets SOp from there, telephone While the 1801 census was a simple head excellent extension to the Old School. 2363067. count with the family's occupation noted, this Admission is free and refreshments will be Funds will be put towards the purchase of year's census on April 29 will ask detailed available. new children's books for the library. If you are questions on age, education and ethnic group. The Exhibition is on Friday 20th April from interested in going along, book early for each Until 1891 we could be described as 2pm - 7pm and on Saturday 21 st April of Brian's previous talks has been a sell-out' "lunatics" or "idiots", then "feeble-minded", 9.30am - 5pm. terms now dropped.

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22 also found that some items such as TVs, VCRs Alzheimer's Society Standby and hi-fis, consume over four times as much electricity over their lifetimes while turned off The Alzheimer's Society in Sheffield is a Standby consumption is the fastest growing than while in use. particular active and busy branch of the use of domestic electricity yet it achieves With cable TV the set-top box is left National Charity. The branch is active in precisely nothing! We are talking about the plugged in all the time, without even an on/off providing a number of services to carers and background power consumption of electrical switch. Many digital TV decoders must also be people with dementia within the city. These devices left plugged in on standby while not in plugged in all the time, according to suppliers' include information and carer support, carers use or even in some cases apparently turned instructions. Yet by 2020, projections show groups, day services and a home respite off. that the UK will have 72 million digital service. The branch is run by a combination of In the UK it accounts for 8 per cent of decoders, each consuming almost £10 worth of paid staff and volunteers. The voluntary help is electricity consumption, 800 million watts electricity a year while it would cost just £2 essential and volunteers find themselves (MW) equivalent to the output of a medium- per unit to cut the standby power consumption involved in numerous projects within and sized power station. This is expected to double by 90 per cent. outside of the office. by 201 0 and cost UK households over £lbn a In the future we can also expect a new The Home Respite Service is particularly year, not to mention putting several million generation of set-top boxes, able to store hours reliant on volunteers who provide practical tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. of TV on computer-style hard disks which will support for carers within their own homes. The Multiply this by the number of households in more than double the household standby load. support that they provide, enable a carer to the developed world and we have a voracious Yet manufacturers have failed to agree on how take a break from their role for a few hours. monster! to design boxes to minimise power Carers use this time in a variety of ways. Some The main culprits are items we deliberately consumption despite Philips patenting a power go out shopping or visiting friends and some leave on stand by, such as TVs, video supply system that automatically switches off stay at home for a well needed chat to recorders, cookers and hi-fi s. But there are unused units. someone with time to listen. also items that you would expect to be off such Sadly for most manufacturers, design for Some volunteers like to take the person with as radios, whosemakers often put the on/off low standby power consumption is not a dementia on a short outing, giving the carer switch on the low- voltage side of the priority, and the area has, so far, largely been the advantage of having the house to transformer, so it is constantly drawing mains ignored by regulators. themselves, (a rare opportunity for carers). power even when the radio is turned off. Tempting as it is to leave items on standby, All of these things we take for granted in According to recent research, standby power or not to turn off lights or the computer, the our everyday lives but when they are taken consumption in the UK runs at an average penalty is ultimately in the electricity bill and away, the effects can be devastating. Carers 32W per household, costing £20 per year. This in the cost to our climate. Switch it off! can become lonely and isolated. The physically and emotionally demanding nature of caring for someone with dementia, twenty four hours a day is immeasurable. It is not surprising that carers can become ill or depressed or both. The need for volunteers in this area is " FORSALE FREE becoming more pronounced. People who are enjoying an active retirement have become ELK very valuable to voluntary agencies as they Eadon Lockwood & Riddle VALUATIONS have a wealth of experience and a life time of " 0114 236 2420 skills at their disposal. 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It would be interesting to know just how 0~------~0 many people in Dore have access to and use the internet. ==== ELR ==== We are always pleased to hear from surfers & via our e-mail address: Eadon Lockwood Riddle th,IIICICdS\II\I\U,,,, 1 •..late \:,.:('uh \,IIIHI •...x. \ulllnrH'll'" "'IIICt IS ..1lI [email protected] 0~======~0 23 Diary - Spring 2001 APRIL 3 Peru Talk by Alan Turner for Dore Methodist Tuesday Group, 28 February to 14 March - Exhibition at Totley Library of sketches & Church Hall, 7.45pm drawings by Brian Edwards. 3-5 Musical "Little Shop of Horrors" by the pupils of King 1-30 April - Just Bin It'. Sheffield Spring Clean week in association Ecgbert School. Details from school on 236 9881. with Tidy Britain. 4 Spring Fayre & Coffee Morning. Sheffield Cheshire Home, 12 - 28 May - Sheffield Environment Weeks. Mickley Lane. lOam - 12noon. Nearly New, Bric-a-Brac, Cakes, Preserves, Plants, Books & crafts etc. FEBRUARY 7 Dore Male Voice Choir are at the Anglo Welsh Festival in 27 Cutlers Co & Feast Talk by Mrs J McDonald for Women's Leicester. Fellowship, Totley Rise Methodist Church, in the school room 9 Wild Flowers of the Peak District. Talk by Patrick Harding at 2.30pm. for FOBS. 7.15pm, Demonstration Centre, Botanical Gardens. 27 Clematis. Talk by John Taylor for FOBS & plants for sale. Visitors £2 lOam, Demonstration Centre, Botanical Gardens. Visitors £2 II Peak Personalities A-Z. Slides by Mrs Jenny Ainsworth for Dore Townswomen's Guild, Dore Old School, 2pm. MARCH 20-21 Art Exhibition by Dore Art Group, at the Old School. Friday 3 Excavations at Riverside Exchange Lady's Bridge, 2pm-7pm, Saturday 9.30am -Spm. Admission free. Sheffield, Talk by Andy Lines after AGM at 7pm. Hunter 24 Primulas. Talk by Sue Kohler for FOBS. lOam, Archeological Society, Arts Tower, University of Sheffield.. Demonstration Centre, Botanical Gardens. Visitors £2 Non-Members welcome. 24 TotIey & the Tunnel Talk by Brian Edwards for Dore 5 Sketching An illustrated talk by Brian Edwards at Totley Methodist Tuesday Group, Church Hall, 7.45pm Library 7.30pm. Tickets SOp from the library on 236 3067. 24-28 Ruddigore. Dore Gilbert & Sullivan Society, University 6 Headaches of George III Talk by Canon Lacey for Dare Drama Studio, Glossop Road, 7.30pm & 2.30 pm matinee on Methodist Tuesday Group, Church Hall, 7.45pm the Saturday. Tickets £6 (concessions £5) from 236 6592. 9 Quiz Night King Ecgbert School, Wessex Hall 8pm £ 1.50 pay on the door. KESA Bring your own refreshments. MAY 10 Dore Male Voice Choir are defending the classes they won 8 The Donkey Sanctuary Talk by John Sterling for Dare last year at the Eskdale Festival at Whitby. Methodist Tuesday Group, Church Hall, 7.45pm 12 Update from the Gardening Industry. Talk by Neil Grant of 9 The Abdication Talk by Mr Kenneth Loxley for Dore Ferndale Garden Co for FOBS 7.15pm, Demonstration Centre, Townswomen's Guild, Dore Old School, 2pm. Botanical Gardens. Visitors £2 12 Car Boot Sale King Ecgbert School, Mercia site. Pitches £5. 14 AGM Dare Townswomen's Guild, Dore Old School, 2pm. KESA Tel 236 9931 for details. 17 Farmer's Market & Lambing Open Day. Whirlow Hall 2-13 Flower Festival at Beauchief Abbey, Saturday llam - 5pm, Farm, lOam - 4pm. Details from 235 2678. Sunday Ipm - 5pm. 17 Dore Male Voice Choir at the National Schizophrenia 13 Main Plant Sale for FOBS at the Botanical Gardens. 10.30am Festival Concert, Banner Cross Methodist Church, 7pm. - 2.30pm. 20 Our Minister Talk by Rev Chris Kirk for Dore Methodist 13 Open Day at the Manor Castle on Manor Lane. Details from Tuesday Group, Church Hall, 7.45pm 2690615 24 Woodland Wombles join the Rangers for a clean up and litter pick in Ecclesall Woods. Details from: 203 7206 24 Concert St John Passion, Sheffield Bach Society, Sheffield Cathedral 7.30pm. Tickets £8 (concessions £6) from Sheffield Music shop on 266 1000 25 Spring Plant Sale for FOBS at the Botanical Gardens. 2 -4pm BY·ETHORPE'l 27 Bulbs & Corms for summer. Talk by Arroll Winning for FOBS. lOarn, Demonstration Centre, Botanical Gardens. Visitors £2 FURNITURE: 28-31 Death Trap. A thriller performed by Dore & Totley URC Dramatic Society, Church Hall, Totley Brook road, 7.30pm. Tickets from 236 4440 or Jimmy Martin's shop. 31 Concert of popular choruses from Grand Opera and of other well-known works by The John Wade Singers. St John's VISIT OUR SHOWROOMS AND SEE OUR Church Hall, Abbeydale Road South, 7.30pm Tickets £5 (£4 Senior Citizens). Proceeds in aid of the Schizophrenia EXTENSIVE RANGE OF SOLID OAK, Fellowship. Tickets from 236 0820 or 01246 415778. MAHOGANY AND PINE FURNITURE

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