DORE to DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY No. 93 SPRING 2009 ISSN 0965-8912

Inside: Writing Competition page 3 Letters page 6 Planning page 10 Dore Voices page 14 The Wildlife Garden page 26 Classified Ads page 33 and lots, lots more ....

Save our pubs Many pubs are struggling to survive with closures escalating to nearly six a day nationally. Yet they are a quintessential element of our urban and rural landscapes and society would be poorer for their demise. Competition from cheap supermarket drinks, too much legislation, brewery greed, the smoking ban, a reluctance to change, have all contributed New streetlights march into the Green Belt towards Owler Bar, bringing creeping to this decline. Changing social habits are urbanisation to this stretch of Baslow Road and lighting up the night sky for miles. another factor, but that is a too edged sword if pubs can successfully adapt themselves. We need SPACE We, the public have a role as well. When DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY did you last go to one of our local pubs? Spring meeting One of Sheffield’s greatest assets is its Have you tried the competitively priced proximity to stunning countryside. Many food they offer, the entertainment, the 7.30pm Wednesday people living on the western side of warm welcome. If not, then give it a try: 25th February Sheffield and others visiting this area feel many of our local pubs will be delighted to let down by Sheffield City Council’s serve you. Methodist Church Hall failure to protect the environment of areas The Hare & Hounds and the Talk by Mr David Templeman fringing the Peak Park. Devonshire Arms on the high street, are S.P.A.C.E (Sheffield and Peak Against offering special meal promotions. You “The history of City Encroachment) is a new campaigning would be hard put to cook the food group that has been formed, prompted by yourselves at these prices, never mind the Sheffield Manor Lodge” the recent installation of lighting pleasure of being served and not having to Everybody welcome alongside Totley Moor - yet another do the washing up! Dore Moor Inn has example of unacceptable and damaging got offers in the national press at two development in this area. meals for £10 and will be bringing in a Art competition The aims of SPACE are: new menu next month. To protect this green border with the The Castle Inn on Twentywell Road Talented Artists are required to help us Peak National Park. These areas to the also offers a range of meals including celebrate Sheffield Environment Week ! west and south-west of Sheffield are retirement specials and has recently been This year the Dore Village Society is particularly vulnerable to creeping redecorated with the refreshing new look running a competition for local artists in urbanisation and inappropriate complimented by Ian Geary paintings conjunction with Sheffield Environment development, as most are unprotected by which are available to buy. The Crown at Week. There are 4 Age categories. National Park planning restrictions. We Hillfoot is under new management with Three for younger entrants : want to work and campaign to maintain previous head barman and local musician age under 5yrs; 6 to 11yrs; 12 to 16yrs the rural sense of place, the character of Phil Knight in charge. The Norfolk Arms and a fourth class for adults the area, the views from the Peak Park, at Ringinglow is going back to its roots, The theme : “Where I Live”. and thus the experience and enjoyment of with jazz nights every Thursday and Any medium may be used but there is a this national asset. admission for man’s best friend. The size restriction of no bigger than A3 for Membership is free and open to Fleur De Lys pub at Totley now has a paper / canvas entries. everyone including established societies monthly Folk and Acoustic music club on The closing date for entries is Saturday and organisations. Dore Village Society, the second Tuesday each month. morning the 4th April. They can be handed Totley Resident’s Association and Friends Do not wait too long to try them for in at the offices of Dore Village Society in of Blacka Moor are already members but yourselves. All too near to home the Cross Dore Old School between 10am and 12 we need individuals to join up too. If you Scythes at Totley has closed its doors, noon that morning. Alternatively please are interested, please contact us at having been unable to pay its way despite contact any member of the DVS [email protected] or phone offering accommodation over the last committee or deliver the entry to: 8 0114 235 6907. couple of years. Thornsett Gardens, Dore; S17 3PP. www.sheffieldspace.org.uk Prizes will be awarded and the winning You will find a complete diary of local entries will be displayed in the Dore Old More on the lighting issue, and an events on the back page of this issue. School on Saturday 2nd May. update from SPACE on page 4 1 Village Dragon Hunt Dore Festival 2009 PUBLISHING DEADLINES This years village dragon hunt Dore to Door is published Sunday 28th June to Sunday 12th July. organised by the Dore Village Society will The full and varied programme for this held on Sunday 19th April commencing at quarterly in mid February, May, years Festival is almost complete and the 2 pm. August & November each year. The Gardens Open afternoon will be the first The event will start and finish at the Old copy deadline for each issue is the end event on Sunday 28th. Many of the ever School, be suitable for all ages in family of the preceding month. popular walks and musical evenings are groups, take about an hour, and be Please forward items for the Summer booked including the Jazz Evening in the supported by refreshments and a small Parish Church (always a sell out) on edible gift for successfully completed (May) issue to the address on this page Friday 10th. During Well Dressing entries. The aim is to: by Thursday 30th April weekend there will be an exhibition in the * Celebrate St. George’s Day Old School to mark the 50th Anniversary which falls this year on the 23rd Quote - Recognise the scenario? of Well Dressing in Dore. So book your * Encourage an interest in, and favourite events in your diary and look out knowledge of, the village “Owners of capital will stimulate the for more information nearer the time. * Enable people to have some fun working class to buy more and more of Maureen Cope and Anne Elsdon as a family!! expensive goods, houses and technology, St George is bound to join us along with pushing them to take more and more our very own village Wyvern who will be expensive credits, until their debt becomes What’s going on? playing the part of the dragon. unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to More details will appear on posters bankruptcy of banks, which will have to Are you interested in what is happening nearer the time, but in the meantime put a be nationalised, and the State will have to in Dore, about its history, planning, road note in your diary today to come and enjoy take the road which will eventually lead to safety or the environment? Are you good the community spirit of our village. communism” at organising things, helping out at events, Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867 prepared to deliver Dore to Door? The Dore Village Society cares about Community Assemblies our community, its history and future Bradway Tunnel work development. There are lots of ways we Seven new Community Assemblies will can improve things locally, but we need come into being in May replacing the Trains are once again running through your ideas and help. current 12 Area Panels. In South West Bradway tunnel after the completion of an If you would be interested in finding out Sheffield the local assembly area will £1l million improvement scheme. about the Society and our ongoing consist of four complete wards. The line between Sheffield and projects, come along to our room in the Dore and Totley; Ecclesall; Fulwood Chesterfield was partially closed from Old School between 10am and 12 noon on and Crookes. September 8th and was re-opened mid the first Saturday of the month, collar a Each Community Assembly will have a December. Network Rail said the project member of the committee, or just give us team of five staff and will also be had been delivered on time and on budget. a ring on 236 9025. We’ll be pleased to supported by a team of people from other Engineers have worked to not only hear from you. services and partner organisations. renew and improve the lining of the tunnel Community Assemblies will have more but also to completely replace the track. influence on how budgets are spent in the The work will reduce the need for This year’s Women’s World Day of area, and by deciding how local services intrusive maintenance and the track works Prayer will be held at Totley United will be provided to meet local needs. should provide passengers with a Reformed Church on Friday 6 March at Councillors will have more power to make smoother ride. 10.30am. The speaker will be Rev S local decisions, based on the views of Bradway tunnel was built between 1865 Knibbs. This year’s service has been residents. The assemblies will use public and 1868 and needed to be repaired and prepared by the women of Papua New meetings and events and a website to relined with concrete in several parts. Guinea. Everyone is welcome at the reach local people plus Assembly Track renewal was brought forward to service, and refreshments will be served. Roadshows in each ward. coincide with the job. Rosemary Bilbin

Editorial & Advertising DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY Registered Charity No. 1017051 Dore to Door is published by the The Society aims to foster the protection and enhancement of the local environment Dore Village Society and delivered free to and amenities within Dore, to encourage a spirit of community and to record its over 3,250 households in the area. historic development. Current membership rates £5 per person per annum. If you are interested in submitting an Chairman (Dore to Door) Committee article or letter, have local news to report, Mr J R Baker 236 9025 Mrs L E Baker 236 9025 or wish to place an advertisement, please 8 Thornsett Gardens, S17 3PP. (Dore Show & FEW) contact the Editor John Baker on: 0114 236 9025 / 236 9469 or write to: Vice Chairman (Planning) Mr D Bearpark 236 9100 Dore to Door; Mr D Heslop 236 5043 (Wyvern Walkers) 8 Thornsett Gardens; Dore; 41 Church Lane, S17 3GT. Sheffield, S17 3PP. Ms D Biram 235 6907 Email: [email protected] Treasurer (Environment) Mrs M Watson 236 5666 Opinions expressed in articles and 4 South Court, S17 3PN. Mr D Crosby 262 1127 services offered by advertisers are not (Green spaces) necessarily endorsed by the publishers. Secretary & Archives No part of Dore to Door may be Mrs A Slater 236 6710 Mr G Cope 235 0392 reproduced in full or part, without the 6 Old Hay Close, S17 3GQ written permission of the publishers. Mr P Pryor 236 9831 Membership Secretary Copyright Dore Village Society 2009 Mrs A Elsdon 236 0002 Mr D Ward 236 3472 Printed by South Yorkshire Printers, 10 Rushley Close, S17 3EG (Dore Recreation Ground) 112 Harvest Lane, S3 8EE 2 Dore Writing Competition the third-place entries will each receive a Dore Gala book-token of £10. For Young People Competition entries may be typed or As many of you will remember Dore hand-written on single-sided sheets of Gala 2008 went ahead under leaden skies Dore Village Society is sponsoring a paper and should be no longer than 1000 after a hurried change of venue and the writing competition for young people this words please. cancellation of some of our rides. year as part of its aim to encourage a spirit Entries must contain the name, address, Nonetheless I am pleased to say that of community. We hope that young people age and school attended by the author at thanks to our programme advertising, find it fun and it is well supported. the top of the first sheet. As this is a local some generous sponsorship and the Depending on the interest it generates and competition name and address details will takings on the day we were able to its success then it is the intention to make be made anonymous to the judges. The distribute a significant sum to the local it an annual event. age of the author may be a factor when Scout and Guide Groups. Thank you to all The competition has two age ranges and judging to encourage younger people of you who supported us so generously. prizes are awarded separately in each. entering. Worryingly however our income on the * The first is aimed at young people up Entries must be received by no later day was down on both 2005 and 2006 to the age of 12 and, than 31 March 2009. They should be sent (you will recall we had to cancel in 2007) * The second for those between ages to:- Dore Literary Competition, and the Gala Committee is keen to redress 13 to 15. 9 Thornsett Gardens, this situation in 2009. If you have any This year the competition subject is Sheffield S17 3PP. comments about how the Gala is run or “How I See The World In 2050”. All 6 prize-winners will be notified by any ideas as to how we can improve it and The entry must be the author’s own 1st of May and prizes awarded increase our revenue from stalls and work and may be prose, a story, a report or immediately afterwards. The two winning activities, the committee would be pleased poetry. This is a writing competition so the entries will be printed in 2009 issues of to hear your views. Please drop us a line at judges are looking for the following Dore to Door. [email protected] qualities from each entry: The judges decision is final and no Dore Gala 2009 is scheduled to take * subject relevance correspondence will be entered into. place on Saturday 11th July with the Well * imagination and enthusiasm Dressing service taking place on the * good use of the English language Sunday before (5th July). Preparations are * logical construction of ideas Spring Meeting well underway but we are desperately The competition is open to all young seeking extra help both on the day and people attending schools in Dore, (i.e. The spring meeting of the Dore village during the time leading up to Gala (or Dore Primary, Rowan and King Ecgbert’s society will be on Wednesday 25th even serving on the Committee). If you schools) whether living in Dore or not. February, starting at 7.30pm in Methodist would like to become involved, putting up Additionally, the competition is open to Church Hall. Local historian David the bunting, running a stall for us (there all young people living in Dore and Templeman will be talking on “The are several important ones that are attending schools outside Dore. History of Sheffield Manor Lodge”. David currently un-assigned) or helping in any Three prizes will be awarded in each age is advisor to the Mary, Queen of Scots other way we would love to hear from range. The two winners will each receive a society for the story of the Lodge and its you. Do please give ring me on 235 0392. book-token of £100. The two runners-up most important characters, as featured in Geoff Cope will each receive a book-token of £30 and the BBC2 Restoration series. (Gala Committee member)

3 Icons of England winner Lights Out! The pictorial pub sign is the number one Our new group, SPACE (Sheffield and ‘‘Icon of England’’, according to a recent Peak Against City Encroachment) have poll by the Campaign to Protect Rural made some very encouraging headway. England (CPRE). Pub signs come top, Within a very short time we managed to second were red post boxes and third canal get almost 600 signatures against the new boating. ugly and visually intrusive lighting out on However, CPRE fear the traditional pub the Baslow Road. sign is dying out as independent ale In addition we garnered support from houses close down and old fashioned pubs the local branch of CPRE (Council for the receive a makeover. Bryson, President of Protection of Rural England) and CPRE, says “A Royal Act in 1393 made it Sheffield Wildlife Trust who have put in compulsory for inns to have signs, in order objections to the lights. for official ale tasters and the mainly We put together a thorough and clear illiterate population to identify them, and briefing for councillors detailing the so colourful signs and symbols have been evidence in the case against the lights - gently enticing us inside ever since. They the strangest things by which we are that the council did not consult the Peak are as characteristic of rural England as surrounded.” District National Park (which they are church spires and ancient hedgerows. The There is no better place to celebrate this bound to do under the Environment Act), diversity of English life has been reflected result than inside an equally iconic British that they were acting against their own in these intriguing and deceptively pub. With the latest research suggesting 1 Green Belt policies, that the lighting was informative artefacts for centuries.” in 8 pubs will be calling last orders by put up before planning was passed, that At a time when 36 pubs per week 2012, people in the business will welcome their road safety arguments did not add up, nationally are closing their doors, it is this public support for their trade.” even making the roads more unsafe. heartening to hear of the value still placed You can order your 176 page hardback We spoke to Full Council and received on this heralded tradition. Only around 30 copy of ‘Icons of England’, published in an encouraging reception. We knew that independent pub chains and breweries in association with Think Publishing and Pan our arguments were being taken more Britain are still ordering individually Macmillan, from CPRE at a special price seriously than usual when Cllr Ian painted signs. Amazingly a few of these of £16 (incl p&p). RRP £20. A share of the Auckland, the Cabinet member for fine artists are still working and there are book’s profits will go to help support Transport and Sustainability, announced some notable examples such as The St CPRE’s campaigning work. that due to our concerns and those of Austell Brewery in Cornwall that still To order by phone please call Supporter others, a special inquiry meeting was to be employ sign writers. But it is a shrinking Services on 020 7981 2870. held between the Peak District National market and the dominance of a few chains Park, the Council and the Passenger has contributed to the disappearance of Transport Executive. We will have the traditional British pub names, and led to a Wanted chance to respond. profusion of bland corporate re branding. Our local councillors are also now being Sebastian Faulks who nominated pub Dore to Door is delivered by volunteers much more supportive of our efforts. So - signs to be included in the ‘top 25 list’ of to every household in Dore, four times a community action does make a difference icons said: “People who think of England year. We have a team of over 60 - especially if you garner your support and as a practical country with little flair for deliverers, but inevitably with people present your arguments and evidence the visual would never have imagined that moving away, being ill, or no longer able carefully. And, of course, keep up the its lanes and roads would be regularly to help, we are always looking for new pressure. punctuated by what look like cards from a deliverers or reserves. If you think you can We want the Council to put any further wooden tarot pack - optical extravagances, help by delivering around 60 households work on the terminus on hold until the creakily offering delight, escape and risk. each quarter, please give us a call on 0114 situation with the present Cross Scythes But it is so; and sometimes we hardly see 236 9025. Many thanks. terminus is clearer (the landlord having recently left), until there is a proper road safety report and until all the powers-that- be have properly considered the impact on what they themselves term an “Area of High Landscape Value”. We are also flagging up our concern about costs - not only the £375,000 for the new terminus and lighting scheme, but also the considerable ongoing environmental and financial costs of the extra fuel and lighting. In the meantime, we are also acting on other examples of inappropriate local development - the hugely intrusive Fairthorn development in Dore and the ugly materials used on the new path from Strawberry Lee up onto Moss Road. We hope to make links with other Sheffield communities which border onto the Peak District National Park in order to protect these vulnerable and precious rural fringes against “urban creep.” For further information or to get involved please contact Dawn Biram on 0114 2356 907 or Sally Goldsmith on 0114 2367 996 or you can email at [email protected]. We also have a new website at www.sheffieldspace.org.uk Sally Goldsmith 4 Threat to friction. However, a recent increase in still fresh in the mind and a similar level of 4x4 and trail bike use is a source of destruction on Houndkirk would be Houndkirk Moor concern for other user groups. While it’s unforgivable. self evident that motor vehicles can CPRE/Friends of the Peak District What are Britain’s National Parks for? legitimately use Houndkirk Road because believe that the national park is primarily To many of us they are simply a place to it is a byway, the manner of that use is not for quiet recreation, and while 4x4 users enjoy quiet recreation, balm for the soul above criticism. and trail bikers have legal rights, they also after a tough week at work. For others A major concern is the area of open have responsibilities. they are a crucial conservation resource moorland at the highest point on the road, Illegal use of the moor should be dealt and home to many endangered species. just above Parson House Farm. Here 4x4’s with by the police and irresponsible use of National Parks are a magnet for climbers, have created a trials circuit for themselves Houndkirk Road should be actively walkers, mountain bikers and horse riders, on land that is a Site of Special Scientific discouraged by 4x4 and trail bike a source of free exercise for millions of Interest. representative bodies. people. Not only is this illegal, it is an eyesore John Horscroft and John King Such pressure inevitably causes and an invitation for unscrupulous drivers CPRE/Friends of the Peak District conflict. To see that conflict in microcosm, to drive further out onto the moor. one only needs to take a walk on Equally worrying is the fact that 4x4 users Ed. Houndkirk moor should really be Houndkirk Moor. There, walkers, bird continue to drive over the road when wet known as ‘Han Kirk Hill’, which watchers, horse riders and mountain weather has reduced it to a quagmire. according to some local historians means, bikers generally coexist without too much The damage wrought on Totley Moss is Giant’s Church Hill.

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Letters Dear Sir, language from older people but at least we Lynne Stuart memorial tree have the option of steering clear of these As many in the village know, my wife places. We have to walk along the Dear Sir, Lighting on Baslow Road, Totley Lynne Stuart died suddenly and pavement. CPRE South Yorkshire wish to publicly unexpectedly in November. With M J Hodgson support those Sheffield residents who are Margaret Peart, Lynne was the co-founder Dear Sir, campaigning against the intrusive lighting and co-principal of First Steps Nursery Moss Road was tarmac surfaced only up erected by Sheffield City Council on the School and, through it, a very well-known to the point of access to Bole Hill Lodge. and loved figure by generations of parents After that point a natural stone track A621 from Totley towards Owler Bar. These lights have been erected to light the and children locally. continued up Bole Hill and out across road to the proposed bus turning circle Following the service in November to Totley Moor. It became such a favourite celebrate her life, a collection was started with 4x4’s and motorcycles that a section near Gillfield Wood. The need to relocate the turning circle via the school for donations to ‘sponsor a at the top became impassable for walkers leaf’ for a tree to be planted on the Village so the Peak Park erected a re-enforced was caused by the owner of the Cross Scythes public house’s fears that engine Green in Lynne’s memory. This has been natural stone wall to prevent access to noise from the buses turning and waiting extremely successful and I am pleased to cars. Another track byway branches off outside could disturb overnight guests. say that, with the support of Sheffield from Moss Road, running down the hill to Now that the pub has unfortunately Council, this will be going ahead join Strawberry Lee Lane. The whole closed, this is no longer a concern. There sometime in March this year. It is hoped track is widely used by walkers, is no longer a need to relocate the bus too that a distinctive shrub may be planted frequently taking advantage of all the turning circle or retain the intrusive lights around the same time in the churchyard bilberry bushes in July/August. erected in anticipation of its construction. adjacent to the nursery school, where there This month Sheffield City Council will be a namestone for her. surfaced the whole stone track using Often referred to as Sheffield’s beautiful frame, the Green Belt and neighbouring I would like to thank everyone who has tarmac scrapings from old roads. This National Park, including nearby Blacka been so supportive and has contributed to came as a shock to local walkers and has Moor, are much valued by residents for the tree planting initiative. Not only will been done without any consultation with the ceremony be an opportunity for the the Peak Park. We have informed the Peak their landscape quality, tranquillity and habitats. They must be protected from nursery school children to be involved in Park and expressed our concerns. We have the event, but there will be an additional no objection to track repairs, but this unnecessary development such as this. Whilst a perceived U-turn would attract and positive symbol of new growth to the material is foreign and unsightly. It is yet some criticism, given the money already Green in the springtime. another example of Sheffield City Ian Stuart Council’s lack of consultation and use of spent on the lights, it would save more money in the long term as there is now no Dear Sir, inappropriate materials in this outstanding Sun 10 - 4.30 need to build a new turning circle or waste Grit bins in Dore SSSI moorland area. energy lighting the road. It would also I have been a resident of Church Lane in Sheffield Wildlife Trust (SWT) last year C Dore for the past four years. surfaced some paths on Blacka Moor make a visible contribution to Sheffield City Council’s commitments to combating Today we have had a very large helping using urban house rubble, changing the climate change. of snow which has frozen in the sub zero natural appearance of the paths. This still CPRE SY accept that the planning conditions. So I thought it wise to grit the happened in spite of SWT’s own reserve situation is now at an advanced stage, but road outside our house and the drive management plan and the wishes of the it has to be accepted that the outcome so leading to it, as a matter of safety for all. Reserve Advisory Group stating that only far has been sub-optimal, to say the least. I sent my daughter Abby out to the natural materials should be used. Whilst we do not want to see First’s 97 bus surrounding roads in search of a council If there was any place that justifies the service to Totley hindered, there is an grit bin. None to be found. Not one for use of local gritstone/sandstone it is this opportunity to re-examine the location of giving up easily, I got the out the beautiful area. The problem we face is that the turning circle before development wheelbarrow and a spade then proceeded once this inappropriate action has been commences. This would remove the need to circumnavigate the village. taken it is very hard to get it rectified and for the lights and preserve the Green Belt. Proceeding along Church Lane, we are left to live with the damage. John King Planning Officer, CPRE Causeway Head Road, Kerwin Road, Dawn Biram down Newfield Lane. Then I found a grit bin at the junction with Whitelow Lane where I filled my wheelbarrow. Then low and behold fifty yards up Townhead Road at the junction with Blacka Moor Road there was another. Which was empty. Not a bad ‘round tour’ to find a bit of grit to make our section of Church Lane a BRADWAY little safer. What do we pay the rates for? Physiotherapy Clinic Mine are £2,500 per year! Surely a little goes into the highways coffers to provide • State Registered and HPC Member a few grit bins at key locations. Not just • Sports Injury Specialists two at the top end of the village. One full and one empty! • Common Muscle and Joint Problems D. Jacobs • Arthritis and Nerve Pain Dear Sir, • Licensed Acupuncturist I have this morning just walked past the • Women’s Health, Pilates United Reform Church on Totley Brook Road where 4 young girls and 2 young • Post Operative Rehabilitation Asian boys were accosting everyone who • Work Station Assessments passed them on the pavement with a • Recognised by all major Insurance barrage of obscene language at the tops of • Companies, inc BUPA and Westfield their voices. Everyone presumed that they were pupils from King Ecgbert School for Telephone 0114 235 2727 whom this type of behaviour is Mobile 07960 982138 commonplace. Why should we have to tolerate this Email [email protected] type of behaviour? It is bad enough going PILATES CLASSES STARTING SOON into the 2 village pubs and listening to this 99 Bradway Road, Sheffield S17 4QS 6

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Reg. No. D100282 Specialists 7 Letters continued...... the death certificate was “Danby”, clock news and The One Show, when I Busheywood Road, Dore. Horace Wall contacted the BBC in 2007 to complain Dear Sir, was present at the death and gives his about the state of Sheffield’s Roads Paul I am looking for members of the Haslam address as “Danby”. Johnson Family but have very little information. So I know it is a long shot but I “Sinking Utility Works on Twentywell Howard Joseph Haslam was born 1885 wondered if anyone remembered this Lane at junction. Thank you for your in Birmingham and married Lucy Mary family or know the properties mentioned. feedback form dated 5 January 2009 Merrett in 1918 in Moseley. Howard died Photographs would be a wonderful bonus! regarding the above. 28 March 1927 of influenza at “The Lynda Ottaway A Street Force Inspector visited the site Haven”, Grove Road, Dore, Derbyshire Ed. If you can help Lynda please and found there was a deteriorating ride and his occupation was cutlery manager. I contact me on 0114 236 9025 quality due to a combination of weathered do not know if they had any children. Dear Sir, utility reinstatements and carriageway Howard’s sister Theodora Jessie was I’ve been complaining for a bit about surfacing. A review of the Street Works born 1891 in Birmingham. She married the state of Twentwell Lane, and I have register identified that the utility Horace Sydney Wall in 1918 at Moseley. just received an e-mail from Streetforce reinstatements in this road are at various They had a child called Rita born 1920 at (Below) saying it is to be re-surfaced. Also ages, some of which are now outside their 24 Dover Road, Sheffield. in the Dore area I have been told Long guarantee period and the maintenance Howard and Theodora’s mother was Line ( The Patchwork Quilt ) is to be done responsibility now lies with the Council. called Maria Caroline Haslam and she as well in 2009/10 This was the road I did Street Force has an ongoing planned died in 1929 at Dore. The address given on some filming on with the BBC for the 1’o maintenance programme to resolve the poor surface condition of sections of the highway network. This road is due to be resurfaced as part of the 2009/10 resurfacing programme. I hope that the above information answers your concerns and thank you for bringing the condition of this section of highway to my attention. Mike Shaw, Head of Technical Services, Street Force” Dear Sir, Before Christmas I was disappointed to find that bus serv ices to and from Dore and Sheffield city centre did not feature in the special Christmas - New Year timetable produced by First and Sheffield City Council. As a regular bus user and someone who worked throughout the festive period I found this unacceptable. Almost every other major Sheffield suburb was listed (Totley, Bradway, Lowedges, Fulwood, Ranmoor, Crosspool, Lodge Moor etc). Consequently bus users had no idea what the 30 bus timetable was over the festive period or what time the first and last bus on the festive days were running. In contrast, the festive timetable contained full timetable details for First Bus services such as 40, 52, 60, 75, 76, 97 and 98. All this, despite the fact that No 30 is a major service to Hallamshire Hospital. The vehicles used on the No 30 must also be some of the oldest, dirtiest, decrepit and polluting buses anywhere in Sheffield. Often these are M, N and P registered, the oldest of which are well over 15 years old. This is in total contrast to other routes. Today alone I saw nine buses on the 97/98 & 75/76 routes all of which were ‘58’ registered i.e. less than six months old. Will all this tempt Dore Commuters back on to the buses? Now the First web site is trying to justify a fare increase of over 8% quoting “big improvements this year, with significant investment and the introduction of over 100 low-floor buses in 2008 across South Yorkshire including 77 brand new, low-emission Euro4 double deck buses at a cost of over £13m”. Meanwhile, users of the 30 bus service are expected to pay 8% more on buses that are often falling apart, whilst the majority of other First users at least get to travel on nice new (or nearly new) buses. Peter C Herbert 8 Dear Sir, My abiding memory is of Miss Davies, To find out more please contact me at I do so enjoy my copy of Dore to Door. who taught us many things of value. She Mickley Hall on 0114 236 9952. I moved into Heather Lea Place as a taught a whole range of subjects to the A Happy New Year to all our volunteers toddler and remember the house being seniors, and I have to add my praise for and supporters. built. We went to see the construction and her. Stacey Lewis were very excited. I helped my father Peter Wragg Volunteer Co-ordinator measure the rooms, (he is an architect) one Ed. Copies of ‘Dore Old School - in of my first memories. records and recollections’ is still available I loved growing up in Dore when we from the Society room on the first Saturday Help needed had such freedom to roam the moors. I morning of the month. It can also be decided to be a teacher when I sat in Miss ordered by phone via 0114 236 9025. The Wildlife Trust for Sheffield and Palmer’s classroom. I was going to treat Rotherham are currently setting up a children well and not be abused. My Dear Sir, Blacka Moor lookering programme (the parents would not listen to what went on I am writing to thank all our volunteers word lookering literally means looking in school but I am sure my contempories for the fantastic contribution they have after other peoples livestock). have terrible memories. I am still teaching made this year to Leonard Cheshire From late March our grazers will let out and love it after 42 years. So it was the Disability’s Mickley Hall on Mickley the cattle from the pastures onto the heath best decision I ever made. Lane. to munch the scrub. This traditional form Mary Farr I would also like to ask anyone of land management helps to clear the Dear Sir, considering their New Year’s resolutions heather of scrub and increase the Dore Old School book for 2009, to think about volunteering. biodiversity of this internationally Many thanks for introducing me to this Volunteers are at the heart of all we do. important site. We need individuals to help very informative work by Mr John You’ll have fun, forge new friendships and us monitor the health of the cattle, and Dunstan. He is to be congratulated on his really make a difference to the lives of note the condition of the fencing and many years of research. disabled people. There are all sorts of gates. We have the photo on page 55, and my ways to get involved from gardening to If you are a regular user of Blacka Moor father John Edward Wragg is at the back helping with IT training or driving. with your support we can regularly check row far left, (with the large white collar). Last year some of our volunteers the condition of the cattle and respond to On the front row, third from the right, the accompanied the service users to the problems a lot more quickly. Whether you girl is, I believe Alice Taylor, daughter of theatre, rock concerts, bird watching, enjoy a morning stroll, walk your dog, ride Farewell Taylor. museums, barge holidays, the Heartbeat your horse or cycle your bike participation I think I am in the photo on page 81, country and sea life centre including the is easy! You don’t need any experience taken on the Green. Blond hair, to the left Deep, all free of charge. Whatever your simply fill out a simple checklist and post of picture, just in front of the girls skills we’d like to hear from you. it back to us. Checklists and postage are skipping, and with hands behind back. We can offer volunteering opportunities free we’ll then do the rest. On page 63, regarding Margaret Wynne, to fit in with your busy schedule, whether If you want to get involved email who, I seem to remember, came with a you have a few hours each week or just a [email protected] or call on 0114 Miss Griffiths, and they lodged at the couple of hours each month to spare. We 263 4335; we need to know the route you Woolleys in Ashfurlong Road for a time, also provide flexible training and usually take and how often you’re on site. as did Mr E.W. Clark. expenses.

9 Planning matters Moor estate, in the Green Belt. Porter FC Charter Award 79 Dore Road. Plans to demolish the (Is it any of our business!) existing house and build 13 new properties Porter Football Club (Founded in Fairthorn. A retrospective application on the front part of the site have been 1981),continues to go from strength to has been made for the erection of these 29 approved by the Council, despite strength both on and off the pitch. The apartments with associated car parking considerable local opposition. Dore club runs teams from U9’s all the way and external lighting ( - including Village Society objected to the application through to U16’s in the Sheffield and increased height and revised elevations). on the grounds of over development, District Junior Sunday League. There is As the building has not been built to the inadequate amenity space for each also an under 8 squad that trains and plays approved plans, the Society has registered property and that the proposal does not friendlies. an objection in principle to a project which compare with other properties in the area. Porter is a club that puts a great deal of has amply illustrated some of the At the same time the appeal for a further emphasis and importance on being part of fundamental weaknesses in the city’s five houses at the rear of the site has been the local community and encouraging the planning process. granted by the Government. youth of the area to play and be involved Amongst the objectors are CPRE South 135 Dore Road. An application for in football. The vast majority of our 130 Yorkshire who having viewed the built eight dwellings, instead of the existing players are from the Dore and Totley area. development from the Peak District on one, on this site next to the Doctors Several of our older players have now Blacka Moor and Green Belt around Dore surgery has been approved. The site qualified as referees, and referee the and Totley, feel that this should not have includes trees covered by a Tree younger age groups. We also have a been permitted. They believe the building Preservation Order. Concern about couple of senior players who help coach is an eyesore and whilst it may weather, it excessive density and road safety issues other age groups as part of their Duke of will remain an intrusive development due created by access on a dangerous bend Edinburgh Award. to its location, scale and design, all of were widely raised. Interestingly the Porter FC is very pleased to announce which result in a development that does official’s recommendation to councillors that is has recently been successful in it’s not respect this valued landscape. says ....“The land on the opposite side of application to be awarded the accolade of They also argue that as the retirement Dore Road is designated as being within being a Charter Standard club by the FA. home is located within the Green Belt, the Green Belt. The proposal is considered This is a recognition that the club is well Area of High Landscape Value (AHLV) to be acceptable in design terms respecting organised, managed and meets many and is visible from the National Park, the character of the immediate street stringent FA requirements with regard to these unauthorised alterations should have scene, safeguarding amenities of issues such as coaching ( all teams have complied with UDP policies GE2, GE4 neighbouring occupiers and being qualified FA level 1 coaches ) and child and GE8. These seek to conserve and acceptable in relation to highway safety protection. enhance the valued landscapes in the implications”. We will see. Another important step forward this Green Belt. They also seek to prevent Finally it has been reported that the season has been the introduction of the developments which are not in keeping Council is drawing up plans to simplify clubs website. So if you would like to take with the character of the area or respect the planning process as part of the a look for yourself then please visit the scale of developments around them. Council’s “Delivering for Business” www.porterfc.org.uk Considering this areas rural character and programme. No mention then of the The season traditionally finishes in the scale of buildings within its vicinity interests of people in the area of any March, however due to the bad weather (detached housing), the increased development. The Dore Village Society over the winter months several teams will intrusion caused by the unauthorised spent time and effort consulting on the be playing well into April in order to additional height and greater prominence needs of the community and producing a complete all their fixtures. The end of of windows/balconies are felt to be in village design statement circulated to season awards will again be held at breach of these policies. every house in the area. For a Council that Sheffield United’s Bramall Lane Stadium Abbeydale Hall. An appeal has been said it would be listening to the needs of towards the end of April as has been the lodged with the Government after the people, the following extract from an case for many years. Sheffield Council refused permission for official briefing to the planning committee Gordon Mackenzie three villas in what was once a nature says it all:-. “Dore Village Design Chairman Porter FC garden at the back of the hall. Statement - this document has been Dore Moor House, Newfield Lane. prepared by the Dore Village Society. It After many refused applications over the has not been adopted by the Council years, the Council has suddenly granted and therefore carries very little weight.” permission for a house to be built in the Why do we bother? walled kitchen garden of the former Dore John Baker

10 11 Dore Gilbert the show is performed and the marching of Christ Church, Dore the Dragoons will be really special if our & Sullivan Society rehearsals are anything to go by (we At the very centre of the community, we hope!). Don’t miss this opportunity to are always glad to welcome old friends Last year’s production of “The Mikado” watch the maidens swooning at a couple and new faces. seems in the dim and distant past as we of reprobate “poets” and the soldiers Our regular Sunday services are at 8am start the floor rehearsals for this year’s trying to become aesthetics - not very (a quiet service using the old Prayer show. We have been rehearsing the successfully! Book), 10am (when we have a mixture of musical side of “Patience” since The talented actors and singers we have all ages and many youngsters, who September under the direction of Paul in the Society will have great pleasure in normally meet in their own age groups) Wright, our MD, and it does sound good! entertaining you with this, another of and 5.30pm (a sung service, sometimes Although it is not one of the best known Gilbert’s silly stories and with Sullivan’s Evensong and sometimes Communion of the operettas it has plenty of comic excellent music played by a professional service). moments and some of Sullivan’s loveliest orchestra. Please come and see the results Among special occasions coming up at music (even Hinge and Brackett parodied of all the hard work put in by the members 10am, we would especially mention the music from Patience). The story is a skit under Paul and Jim. I’m sure you will be following: on the aesthetic movement of the late well rewarded. March 22nd - Mothering Sunday 1870s and 1880s and tells how some of “Patience” will be on at The University March 29th - ‘Steelroots’, young people Gilbert’s Dragoon Guards tried to combat Drama Studio, Glossop Road from from across S17, will be sharing in the the changing tastes of the fickle females. Tuesday 21st April to Saturday 25th April leadership of this service and providing Gerry Kersey, who has been our 2009. Evening performances will begin at the music. producer for the last 3 years has moved on 7:30pm and there will be a Saturday April 5th - Palm Sunday to other things and we thank him for all Matinee at 2:30pm. Tickets at £9 Friday, April 10th - Good Friday. An the time and effort he gave us in making (concessions £8 Tues and Sat Matinee) are informal service for all the family at those 3 years such a success. This year we available now from Val, Tel: 01246 10am; a chance for quiet in church any are proud to announce that the well 416364, or from any member of the time between 12noon and 3pm respected and very talented professional, Society. April 12th - Easter Day. There will be James (Jim) Newby, has joined us to be Derek Habberjam Communion at all 3 services on this day. our producer for Patience. Jim took a On April 26th we have our Annual production of “Patience” to the Waterford Parochial Meeting in Church at 10am with Open (not only G&S) International News in brief a review of the past year and a look ahead Festival some 3 or 4 years ago and won into the future. Because of this meeting, against fierce competition, so we are Cycle racks accommodating 6 bikes at there will be no other service on this date. looking forward to putting on a winning a time have been installed at Dore & To find out more, just join us one show for you this year. Totley station to encourage commuters to Sunday, contact the Parish Office on 0114- Jim travels down from Bradford each travel from their homes by bikes. 236-3335 or you can email us via week to put us through our paces and we Sheffield is heading for a council tax :[email protected] or view our are being worked harder than ever to put rise of just 2% the lowest ever rise. website at www.dorechurch.org.uk on what promises to be the most Oliver and Grace were the most Michael Hunter professional show we have ever done. The popular babies’ names registered in Christ Church Dore comic timings will be perfect by the time Sheffield last year.

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13 Dore Voices - Trevor Biggin Trevor was born in April 1937 at 34 Barkers Row, Townhead Road, Dore, the youngest of three children after sisters Velma and Dorothy. His father was Ben Biggin and his mother was Evelyn Thorpe, both from old established Dore families. There was a tradition of army service in the Biggin family. Two of Trevor’s great Uncles, George and Rowland Biggin lost their lives in the Great War and are among those named on the Dore War Memorial. Rowland was killed on July 1st 1916 on the first day of the terrible Battle of the Somme. George also met his fate on the Western Front. Trevor’s own father was a professional soldier as he explains “My Dad joined the army quite young, between the first and second World Wars. He was a corporal, drill instructor in the Yorks and Lancs Regiment and he served his time at Pontefract which was the regimental depot 1948 11-plus Scholarship Winners: Back Row (L to R) Margot Trevethick, Janet and also in Solingen, Germany.” Denniff, Shirley Houghton, Mrs Watts, Mr Clark, Hilary Coppock, Maureen Wilkes, Trevor’s maternal grandfather Samuel June Fisher. Front Row (L to R) Don Fisher, Bill Marshall, Nigel THorpe, Trevor Thorpe was Verger at Dore Parish Church Biggib, John Booth, John Wood, Peter Belk. for many years. His uncle Sammy Thorpe my mum and dad. She lived at Road was up to the windowsills. Not was a well known local figure and village Holmesfield and used to walk here and many people made it in to school that day chimney sweep. Uncle George Thorpe back every day in all weathers. Down at and the teachers who did trekked in from was a good footballer who played for the the bottom part of the playground there Ecclesall. They sent us up to Thomas British Army team and for Dore Football were brick built air- raid shelters. We Marshall’s shop - he sold ginger nut Club in the 1950s when Ben Biggin was never had to use them in reality but we’d biscuits and things like that - which we club secretary. Thus, service to country have air raid warnings and practices when brought into school and then they made us and community and a love of football have we had to go into them.” tea. I don’t suppose they got round with been strong characteristics in the Biggin After Miss Dobbs, Trevor went next the school milk deliveries that day.” and Thorpe families and still are today. door to Miss Hutchinson. “Our main When asked about village life Trevor When he left the Army, Trevor’s father memory of her was that she used to bring replies “Dore was a real village in those worked as a Deputy and Shot Firer at a fruit from her trees for nature lessons, a days. No television of course, only radio ganister mine on Strawberry Lea Lane. fruit on each desk. She too was a lovely to listen to, but we used to gather in groups “He set off explosives to dig out this lady. Then we moved into the big long of kids and play games in the village and ganister and then it was loaded into tubs divided classroom which faced out onto on the village green, kicking a football and drawn out by the pit ponies. I the playground. Miss Palmer was the about and playing sort of chasing games remember Dolly and Tommy were the two teacher there and I haven’t got very happy round the village.” Travelling beyond ponies when I was a kid.” Trevor recalls. memories of Miss Palmer. She was a bit Dore was done by reliable public Speaking in what is now First Steps physical! Then, we went on to Mrs Watts transport. “There was a bus service that Nursery, Trevor remembers his years at who took us right up to the eleven-plus ran from Dore to Ecclesall and back and Dore School. “The war was still lingering exam,” he says. then you used the trams to get down into on in 1942 when I started here in this Trevor remembers one particular school town or up to football. On Saturday we school building, probably in this very day during the bad winter of 1947. “We used to go to Sheffield Wednesday but the room. I remember the teacher for the had a huge snowfall and my dad helped us trams ran right up to Wednesday football Infants was a lovely lady, Miss Dobbs, to dig our way down to school. The snow ground and beyond to Middlewood who had been here for years; she’d taught on the front of our cottages on Townhead Terminus. To Totley and thereabouts, you would walk, obviously.” There were very few cars in the village especially in wartime when petrol was strictly rationed and only allowed for essential business purposes. Trevor recalls when a car was really needed and it was a struggle to find one. “I remember when I was about eight or nine, I had an accident. There had been some big flagstones taken up from the floor of one of the cottages where I lived. We were messing about round there and one of them fell over and it crushed my left foot, quite badly, one of the toes. It was in wartime and Mr. Jackson, the plumber managed to use his car to get me down to the Children’s Hospital.” In 1948 Trevor, along with the other pupils in Mrs.Watt’s top Primary class sat the eleven- plus examination which determined their future secondary education. He says “I was lucky enough to pass the eleven- plus and I was able to go ...... continued on page 16 14 15 continued from page 14 ...... to Dronfield Grammar School. About half the class passed; five of us went to Dronfield but some lads went to King Edwards and High Storrs. To Dronfield meant the train every day and five or six years of walking up and down Dore Road. I don’t remember ever having a lift down but occasionally one of the parents would pick us up and bring us back. We must have got wet through some days.” Nevertheless, Trevor enjoyed his time at Dronfield Grammar as he recalls. “It was completely new. It was a total life change for me to suddenly go to a school with so many teachers and so many classrooms, with classrooms on the first floor; stairs in a school seemed amazing. We were taught the usual Maths and English but also science in the chemistry labs. Languages, which we’d never touched at the Primary Snow in the village during the 1940’s (1947?). What was then Dore Post Office is on school, I thoroughly enjoyed these and the right, a car and motorbike are stuck outside Moseley’s shop (now the Hare & were my best subjects.” After the ‘O’ Hounds carpark) and Marshall’s van is going up the High Street. Notice how different Level examinations at sixteen Trevor was the Methodist Church looks and the lack of trees in front of the house to the left. ready to leave school and worked for two years for British Rail as Booking Clerk at wedding.” Bamford Station. However, while at Trevor and Janet lived for about twenty Dore Art show Dronfield Grammar he had belonged to years at Longley Park, Sheffield during the Army Cadet Force so it was not which time they had three daughters but As I sit down to gather my thoughts on surprising that he joined the Army as a when the opportunity arose they were how to introduce my once yearly addition regular soldier in March 1955. happy to return to Dore, in fact to the very to the Spring edition of Dore to Door, I He had a most interesting army career same house in Barkers Row where Trevor realise another year has gone, like a flash with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical was brought up. He says “It was really a it seems - and I don’t think many of us will Engineers. Attached to the Cheshire blessing moving back to Dore, to people be sorry to see the back of 2008 with all Regiment he was posted to Berlin behind who we’d known from the early part of the ups and downs left in its wake. the Iron Curtain for fifteen months and our lives.” Christmas has been and gone with what experienced the Russian troop movements Asked about the differences in the seems like weeks of preparation at the time of the Hungarian Uprising in village since his young days in the 1950s beforehand and then all the clearing away 1956. Trevor says immediately “Traffic! It’s of the debris afterwards, (there always However, the love of a local girl, Janet congested. Most people seem to have two seems to be more to put away each year) Andrew drew Trevor back to Dore and or three cars and don’t do much walking to leaving us a bit jaded and as someone said they were married on Easter Sunday 1959 the shops.” Then he adds regretfully “is it worth it?” I think it is - well worth it. by Reverend Heawood at Dore Parish “There is no village sport now. There is a We need a little mid-winter cheerfulness Church. Trevor recalls “Mr.Arthur football team that plays on the football and bright lights to lift our spirits and Farnsworth, who had been organist and pitch on a Sunday but it is nothing to do warm us up, and the message of Christmas choirmaster when I was in Dore Church with Dore. When I was a kid we had a does that. (Where has global warming got Choir and when my dad and my uncle Dore young boys’ team and my dad played to?) Christmas is traditional, and despite Sammy were, played the organ for our in a really good men’s team that we used the cold we mustn’t lose sight of that. Life to follow everywhere in the Hope Valley goes on. And so does the Dore Art Show - league. He also played cricket and we had another “Tradition” the village has taken a boys’ cricket team. There is no village to its heart, and I hope will continue to be cricket now. The football field stands idle a looked forward to event. through the summer.” It certainly gives us, the members of the Despite these regretted but inevitable Dore Art Group, a goal to aim for - it’s the changes Trevor would not want to live taking part that makes it all worthwhile, anywhere else. He feels that his life has and the appreciation of what we do, when come full circle. Having been born and we see our friends, who still support us, raised in Dore village and having left it over the years, enjoying our efforts, it during his Army and early married years makes it all come together. Thank you all he is very content to return to his strong for still believing in us! family roots. He is also enjoying linking This year’s show will take place as up again with former pupils of Dore usual, in the Old School in Dore on Friday School and Dronfield Grammar and 3rd April from 2pm to 6pm and Saturday actively supporting those who want to 4th April from 9.30am to 5pm and as record the detail of life in our village before we hope to be providing our throughout the 20th Century. delectable selection of home-made cakes, Maureen Cope that welcome cup of tea or coffee at our Dore Oral History Group usual affordable prices - all served with a smile and a word of welcome. Forget the “Credit Crunch” - just come Extra DORE to DOORs along - some lovely pictures to look at, painted in all mediums, maybe purchase - Extra copies of Dore to Door, price 20p look out for the bargains - cards and each, are available at the newsagents on notelets too - inexpensive gifts. Causeway Head Road, at Totley Library, We would love to see you all on or both or from the Dore Village Society room days - admission is free. during open mornings. Connie Bedford 16

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Dandelion delight being tonic. To order a dish of either Healthy road variety of the dandelion is by no means I find that Dore to Door issues are the cheap, for every plant is picked by hand When times are tough, it’s time to take most interesting reading of any published on all fours, a backbreaking experience, care of your health - that’s the message local work at this moment in time. As an not for the fainthearted. from Sheffield’s director of public health ardent reader, I was attracted to an article Please express my thanks to Jack for who is urging people to take simple steps with the heading The Wildlife Garden, bringing the subject to life. to protect their physical and mental well- page 24 of the No. 92 Winter 2008 issue. Leslie Vine being during the current economic crisis. This article, extremely well researched Dr Jeremy Wight says he understands and documented was the subject of the that when people are under pressure, they common dandelion. The article answered Everest conquered may be tempted to resort to bad habits - a question that had bugged me for many comfort food, no exercise, an extra drink years of life in Greece. I will explain. Last summer, at the age of 24, Matt or, for smokers, more cigarettes. But he is My wife is Greek, and we married in Lipscombe became one of the youngest also well aware that the difficult economic Athens some twenty five years ago. One conquerors of Everest, combining his times can impact on people’s health. particular year I was helping a friend to ambition with raising £4,000 for “We know that the fear of losing your paint his flat -topped house roof with a Macmillan Cancer Support and the Rowan job, of facing your home being silver based aluminium paint to reflect the School at Dore. Not only did he make it to repossessed and of increased household heat of the sun. From the roof, I could see the summit, but he ran the 26-mile Everest bills can all affect your health,” he says. many local tomato growers tending large marathon for fun before returning home to “And as Christmas approaches, many bush tomato plants. Each bush had dozens Dore. Now he is back working as a families will be faced with an added of dandelions growing around them, management trainee with Aldi. dilemma - whether to push the boat out deliberately planted, but why? Next month he will be telling his story and provide presents for their children or When I read Jack Daw’s article, the in a presentation at Hallam University on be forced to cut back because the money is mystery was solved, and I had my answer. Saturday, March 14. He plans to make this not available. Both options could cause Jack explained that the dandelion released as interactive as possible so the audience stress and be bad for their mental health.” Ethylene gas that caused such fruits as can experience a little bit of what living on Dr Wight, who acknowledges that when tomatoes to ripen. The tomatoes that I the world’s highest mountain for two people feel stressed it can be difficult to purchased locally were out of this world months is like. For a practical example he change their lifestyle, urges them to seek for colour and taste. will give every member of the audience a help from a variety of sources. He Now, as an extra dimension to my letter, straw through which to breathe. This will suggests smokers seek advice from the I will sing the praises of the common give an idea of what it is like coping with city’s Stop Smoking Service for help to dandelion , brought to light by the Greek the altitude. quit. For more information on the service, people, in their culinary world. Only 14 of the 19-strong international or to sign-up, call 0800 068 4490 (the call There are two varieties of dandelion that team Matt was with made it to the summit. is free from landlines). Stopping smoking the Greeks put to use in their kitchens. The One suffered hypothermia, another snow not only improves health but also saves a first is Horta or common dandelion, and blindness. It was hard going and he lost lot of money. the second is Vleeta, a cultivated variety nearly two stone in muscle, as when you Physical activity - anything from the kind that takes the shape of the ground are high up your stomach contracts and walking to cycling to more strenuous sport hugging rosette, as Jack describes. Both you can’t eat very well. - also helps both general fitness and well- these varieties are prepared and cooked Fortunately on summit day the weather being. It helps in the obvious ways by exactly the same method. The dandelions was clear and warm, and having gone 48 preventing people becoming overweight are dug up by hand, as far down the root as hours without sleep, Matt stood on the top or obese with the increased risks that possible, leaving damp soil on as to keep of the mountain. There is only one-third of brings, but it is also a good way of the plant fresh. When enough are the oxygen at sea level, so he says it was a protecting our mental health - it helps to harvested, they are washed thoroughly in case of slumping down and admiring the protect against depression. If people can cold water and cleaned, leaving the root view, quite surreal, a bit like a dream. walk or cycle instead of using the car for on the plant. The cleaned plants are boiled Now Matt has set himself a fresh some journeys, so much the better - in a large cooking pan, until tender, a tiny challenge by aiming to climb three Alpine helping with fitness and saving money. pinch of bi-carb added. peaks in a week next summer. Being involved in any community The Horta and Vleeta are served with Appropriately Matt’s lecture is in activity or group meeting, and maintaining Olive oil, and a good squeeze of fresh Hallam’s Peak Lecture Theater on the city personal friendships, is another way to lemon. The remaining liquor, dark green, center campus, starting at pm. Tickets cost protect against stress and ill health. has medicinal properties for such as £2 and can be obtain via “Strong community networks can be very kidney complaints and a general well [email protected] helpful, - they enable people to get out of the house and be involved with other people in an activity they enjoy.” But if people feel they need professional help, Dr Wight urges them to see their GP. There is some evidence that heavy drinkers often blame their alcohol consumption on serious problems including unemployment or the threat of losing their home. Some people admit they drink more to relieve the pressure, but that should be avoided. Finally, a healthy diet is just as important during hard times as ever. A recent report by academics at Sheffield and London universities states that healthy eating campaigns risk failure because they do not take enough notice of the different circumstances facing families. 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Life in the 1500’s meat. Leadership Challenge They would eat the stew for dinner, Never had it so good? The next time you leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold Dore Scouts is one of the largest and are washing your hands and complain overnight and then start over the next day. most active groups in South Yorkshire but because the water temperature isn’t just Sometimes stew had food in it that had we are becoming victims of our own how you like it, think about how things been there for quite a while. Hence the success. We have 2 cub packs involving used to be. Here are some facts about life rhyme, “Peas porridge hot, peas porridge more than 40 boys and each year about 20 in the 1500s: cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days of them expect to move on to scouts. Most people got married in June old.”. But, realistically, we can only because they took their yearly bath in Sometimes they could obtain pork, accommodate about half this number as May, and still smelled pretty good by which made them feel quite special. When we have only 1 scout troop. Currently, this June. However, they were starting to visitors came over, they would hang up is run by just 2 dedicated leaders who smell, so brides carried a bouquet of their bacon to show off. It was a sign of supervise more than 30 boisterous scouts. flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the wealth that a man could, bring home the This is far too many both for safety custom today of carrying a bouquet when bacon. They would cut off a little to share reasons and for the sanity of the leaders getting married. with guests and would all sit around and and can not be allowed to continue. Baths consisted of a big tub filled with chew the fat. We urgently need at least 2 more scout hot water. The man of the house had the Those with money had plates made of leaders so that we can provide the training privilege of the nice clean water, then all pewter. Food with high acid content and supervised activities that are at the the other sons and men, then the women caused some of the lead to leach onto the heart of scouting. Failing this we will be and finally the children. Last of all the food, causing lead poisoning death. This obliged to make some drastic changes to babies. By then the water was so dirty you happened most often with tomatoes, so for our mode of operation possibly including could actually lose someone in it. Hence the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were the establishment of a waiting list for boys the saying, “Don’t throw the baby out with considered poisonous. wanting to come up to scouts. We would the Bath water”. Bread was divided according to status. prefer not to do this. Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw- Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, We are appealing therefore for anyone piled high, with no wood underneath. It the family got the middle, and guests got who would be interested in joining our was the only place for animals to get the top, or the upper crust. team to make contact as soon as possible. warm, so all the cats and other small Lead cups were used to drink ale or Full support and training will be given. If animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. whisky. The combination would sufficient people come forward (a couple When it rained it became slippery and sometimes knock the imbibers out for a of friends for example) it need not become sometimes the animals would slip and fall couple of days. Someone walking along a burdensome commitment. If you are off the roof. Hence the saying. “It’s the road would take them for dead and interested or would like to discuss the raining cats and dogs”. prepare them for burial. They were laid matter please give me a ring on 0114 There was nothing to stop things from out on the kitchen table for a couple of 2350392. Thank you. falling into the house. This posed a real days and the family would gather around Geoff Cope: (Group Chairman) problem in the bedroom where bugs and and eat and drink and wait and see if they other droppings could mess up your nice would wake up. Hence the custom of clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and holding a wake. Fund-raisers thank you a sheet hung over the top afforded some England is old and small and the local protection. That’s how canopy beds came folks started running out of places to bury Pam Maltby and the staff from News into existence. people. So they would dig up coffins and Plus Village Store wish to thank local The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had would take the bones to a bone-house, and businesses and residents of Dore and something other than dirt. Hence the reuse the grave. When reopening these Totley who have supported them in fund saying, “Dirt poor”. The wealthy had slate coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to rising for Western Park teenage cancer floors that would get slippery in the winter have scratch marks on the inside and they unit. when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on realised they had been burying people Pam, who is the manager of News Plus floor to help keep their footing. As the alive. Village Store said “It’s just fantastic that winter wore on, they added more thresh So they would tie a string on the wrist local people and businesses have until, when you opened the door, it would of the corpse, lead it through the coffin supported me in this and money raised all start slipping outside. A piece of wood and up through the ground and tie it to a will help continue the work of this much was placed in the entranceway. Hence the bell. Someone would have to sit out in the needed unit”. saying a “thresh hold”. graveyard all night (the “graveyard shift”) Pam, who’s grandson is terminally ill In those old days, they cooked in the to listen for the bell; thus, someone could with Hodgkins lymphorna is a patient at kitchen with a big kettle that always hung be, saved by the bell or was considered a the hospital. The fund raising, which over the fire. Every day they lit the fire ...dead ringer. included three raffles and a ‘pub craw’, and added things to the pot. They ate And that’s the truth. Now, whoever said has raised over £3,550 for the unit. mostly vegetables and did not get much History was boring ! ! ! Many local businesses supported Pam by giving prizes for the raffles and many local people joined the ‘pub crawl’ to raise the funds.

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Plight of the honeybee blood, damaging the developing pupae so provide the initial fertilisation of the queen that, they emerge deformed from the and, like all bees, produce a humming Late last year beekeepers marched on comb. Most damaging of all, they spread noise - hence the monotonous speaker the Houses of Parliament with a 130,000 viruses. Alison Benjamin and Brian ‘droning on’. Towards the end of the name petition calling on MPs to save the McCallurn in their book on the crisis, A summer they are driven out of the hive by British honeybee. According to the Honey World Without Bees, make an analogy the workers to die. Association the situation is so bad that between the varroa and the dirty syringes The name ‘Dronfield’ therefore owes its there will shortly be no English honey that spread HIV. name to honey, the universal sweetener following a dreadful harvest. The crucial connection between varroa before sugar replaced it in the mid- While some beekeepers had a decent and viruses was discovered by British bee nineteenth century. A survey of crop, the majority suffered badly. Bees die scientists at the government-funded inventories and wills of the 1535 - 1750 every winter but the losses last year were Rothamsted Research institute in period for Dore and Totley show that of up 25 per cent or more, rather than a more Hertfordshire. This team has since been the one hundred and fifty nine scanned, standard 5-10 per cent. To add to the broken up. As research funding is ten had bee hives (6%). problem the wet spring and summer meant squeezed, the varroa mite is developing Included were Grace Woodhouse of that the bees stayed in their hives. No resistance to the current treatments and as Totley (1679) who had two hives and bees flights, no nectar, no honey. diseases and infestations weaken the valued at sixteen shillings and who left The western honeybee plays a vital role colonies, more and more die over winter. them to her cousin, Alice Woodhouse. within the planet’s eco-system, pollinating The situation is in its own way comparable Also Henry Yellott (Elliott), a Totley some 70% of the food that we eat. Yet the to foot-and-mouth and blue tongue, yet husbandman, in 1618 had two swarms of future of the honeybee is under threat, and without the resulting dramatic pictures bees valued at thirteen shillings and the rate at which their numbers continue to nothing is being done leaving us to face an fourpence. diminish, has led to fears that we are environmental catastrophe. In Dore, Christopher Waddye (undated) dangerously out of sync with nature. As shown in Paleolithic art, humans and lone Waddy (widow in 1591), had What is happening to the bees? This is have stolen honey from bees for millennia, bees. In 1616 the inventory of Robert the question asked by the British and as early as the ancient Egyptians Newbould of Totley (almost certainly the Beekeepers’ Association whose petition began to create homes for bees to father of George who built Totley Hall) pleaded with MPs to find £8 million for encourage them to live nearby. The included two ‘hyves’. Hives of bees would research. Beekeepers need help. British intimate relationship between humans and be given or bequeathed, and beeswax honey is still a small-scale industry, with the bee is fundamental to life as we know often given to churches for candles. just a tenth of it sold in supermarkets and it yet mankind is now seemingly standing More people probably had bees but much still found in village stores and idly bye as our bees die off. either felt they were too unimportant to farmers’ markets. This is more than a Honey sales specialists Rowse has given include in their inventories, took them for question of the honey we enjoy, Bees are £100,000 to fund honey bee health granted or had the view that bees were worth an estimated £165 million to research at Sussex University and has put here today but might be gone tomorrow. agriculture through pollinating plants. “Save the Honeybee” on the labels of its Walker and Crane, who specialise in the Bee deaths are not just a British dwindling stocks of honey. We wait to see history of bees, say that wicker or straw problem. Worldwide, apiarists have been wether the government can also rise to this ‘skeps’ used as hives were bought and distressed by their dying hives, not least in challenge. sold. A house in Beeley on the Chatsworth the US, where a syndrome dubbed John Baker estate has a stone platform in the garden “colony collapse disorder” has meant bee where a beehive was placed. At the front losses of 30-90 per cent. Nobody is sure, Bees in our local history of the slab is a raised piece on which the yet, exactly what is behind the bee deaths, bees would land before entering the hive. but one factor is common to all beekeepers For many years Dore and Totley were Honey is still farmed only 10 or so miles and widely accepted to be at the heart of part of the parish of Dronfield, the origin from Totley at Troway near Coal Aston. the problem: the worldwide plague of the of which name appears to be ‘open land There are many claims for the benefits of varroa mite. with drones’. Drones are the non working honey - burns, stomach ulcers, wound This reddish crab-like parasite, just males of the Honey Bee which help to healing etc.

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Yet in an era where home security is Coach Visits This is because if left unchecked, a becoming more and more paramount, but * Harrogate Spring flower show bramble can quite easily take over a hedge conversely if you use man-made Saturday 25th April with its long creeping stems or turn a deterrents, for example barbed wire, you * Gardeners’ World Show, Birmingham neglected corner of the garden into an risk litigation from an intruder, what could Saturday 13th June impenetrable thicket. Even in the be more natural, but at the same time For more information contact either - countryside, where you would have effective, as a bramble thicket? Janet Herridge 236 0915 thought it might be allowed some space to Jack Daw or Keith Shaw 236 3598 indulge its rampant nature, it is being vilified as one of the main causes of decreasing biodiversity in native hedge Dore Garden Club Open Gardens lines. All the same, this is quite a special plant. Our first meeting for the year got us off Last years’ ‘Open Gardens’ event was Just like the dandelion, it doesn’t produce to a splendid start. It was very well an outstanding success, with several new any viable pollen (known as an apomictic attended and Meg Jullien gave us a and exciting gardens to view, along with plant) and sets seed without fertilisation. fascinating talk about the history of the some worthy old favourites. This year Due to this method of reproduction, there Sheffield Botanical Gardens. As well as ‘Open Gardens’, is the first event of the are often slight differences between the slides showing the gardens in their early Dore Festival and will take place on genetic codes of the various seeds, which days she had slides showing photos she Sunday 28th June. give rise to plants with small variations had taken herself. As well as the gardens Do you have a hidden gem of a garden? from the parent. at different seasons, they showed the Traditional, modern, wildlife, organic, In fact over 2000 of these so called renovation of the glass pavilions from ecofriendly, large or small we are microspecies’ of bramble have been every angle - literally. These last will interested. If you would like to explore the identified. But not satisfied with this prove to be of huge archival value. possibility of opening it, please contact method of reproduction, bramble stems Below is our programme for this year. Linda Hunter on 0114-236-3480 or at will also root at any point where they We hope the planned talks, [email protected] come in contact with the ground, which demonstrations, visits and coach trips will means that it is not sufficient to simply cut interest more people. the top growth off a plant to control it, you Programme of events for 2009 Whinfell Quarry Garden must also dig out all these self-layering Wednesday meetings will be held in the points. Dore Methodist Church hall and Thursday It was a lovely surprise for the Friends You even have to be careful moving the meetings in the Methodist church. of Whinfell Quarry Garden to receive an remnants, as any pieces of green stem that Meetings run from 7:30 pm to unexpected Christmas present from Dore fall to the ground will readily root, while approximately 9pm. Village Society. The only question was the thorns which lie along every side of Thursday February 19th how to spend it because although we have the angled stems have a nasty habit of Herbaceous perennials and borders a general fund we want special donations detaching themselves if you merely brush Wednesday March 18th to be spent on special projects. alongside one. Many times I have found Preparing your garden: composting Last year for instance, we were them painfully lodged down my socks or Thursday April 16th delighted to receive the gift of a bench inside gloves. Growing /looking after container plants from Dorothy Fleming to commemorate But as wildlife gardeners, should we Saturday May 9th Plant sale the remarkable life of her husband Otto avoid brambles like the plague or embrace Wednesday May 20th who died at the age of ninety four last them, albeit carefully, as a friend? This is Gardening to encourage wildlife: year. The site was chosen by the couple because their flowers, which can be in wildlife, friend or foe? before Otto’s death and has been bloom from May right through to Thursday June 18th appreciated by many people as it November, are one of the favourite Vegetable gardening overlooks the Little Quarry and faces the sources of nectar for speckled wood and Wednesday July 15th newly planted acers which were white admiral butterflies, as well as late- Visit to Handley Roses spectacular in the autumn. summer lepidopterans such as the hedge August No meeting Now that the “big” work is done-the brown or ringlet. Bramble thickets are also Wednesday September 16th Pruning trees, the paths and the fence we can concentrate on smaller projects. Those who visited last spring will have seen the primroses and other plants under the trees at the top. We have now planted 4,000 bulbs which Street Force supplied. These are largely daffodil so it has aided the restoration of the Garden as we know from Frank Saltfleets paintings that there was both a daffodil wood and a daffodil garden. We would like the entrance to make more of a statement. It’s a difficult area as originally it was the rubbish heap before there was the gate from Ecclesall Road. So we have decided to buy hydrangeas, that very Victorian plant, with our gift from DVS, to put in the entrance. They should make a good show for several weeks in the summer and anyone visiting from Dore can see what the gift has funded. A very big thank you from the Friends of Whinfell Quarry Garden chaired by Kathleen Cox [email protected] 26

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The book gives an insight into concert in May which raised over £900. the history of each park, with maps, advice The remainder of the money was raised by and tips on exploring the hidden corners, other members selling plants, jams, and on the wildlife, history and heritage. Each holding a cream team afternoon. The rest park is different, but all were born from of the Guild contributed by the regular the same desire to preserve distinct purchase of raffle tickets and by regional features in what has become an supporting functions. overcrowded and increasingly urban land. We raise money each year for a local Beautifully illustrated with the very best charity and this year it gave us great colour photography, this is a book to pleasure to support ‘Transport 17’. savour at the fireside, or which is bound to Dore Mercia Guild meets every second set you planning trips and holidays. Tuesday morning in the month at the Written by renowned National Parks Parish Church Hall at 10am and are authority Roly Smith, published by the always pleased to welcome new members. AA, Hardback, 224 pages, price £20 Janet Hewitt 235 0434 ISBN: 978-0-7495-5671-6 The Wyvern Gleadless. The Griffin has ---- a lion’s body, and eagle’s beak and wings. After the success of his first The The dragon, on the other hand, has four Recognise a Stroke Victim Disappearing Art of Pub Signs, Ale and legs and wings. The Wyvern, from the Old Arty book which looks at pub signs in French for Viper, has two legs, two wings Information everyone should know: Sheffield, author Dafydd Manton has and on this occasion looks rather nervous. A neurologist says that if he can get to a produced a second book concentrating on It gained popularity with railwaymen of stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally the inns of Derbyshire and the Peaks. the former Midland Railway, whose crest reverse the effects of a stroke....totally. He These two pocket-sized books feature it was. Probably Dafydd Manton’s said the trick was getting a stroke colour photographs of pub signs and favourite sign and the emblem of the Dore recognised, diagnosed, and then getting capture what is sadly a disappearing art as Village Society. the patient medically cared for within 3 the major breweries seem intent on hours, which is tough going. standardisation throughout their estates. can discover such oddities as the Rindle Recognizing a stroke. Sometimes Published in full colour, 66 pages, by Arc Stone in a country churchyard, which you symptoms of a stroke are difficult to Publishing price £4.99 and available from have to read sideways and in the process identify. Unfortunately, the lack of 07809 172872 ISBN 978-1-906722- 03-6 learn what a Rindle is. This is an awareness spells disaster. The stroke ---- entertaining book comprehensively victim may suffer severe brain damage There can be few who have researched illustrated with colour photographs and when people nearby fail to recognise the and written more about the Peak District one to be delved into time and again. If symptoms of a stroke. Now doctors say a than local author Julie Bunting. Her latest you are interested in the Peak District, this bystander can recognise a stroke by asking book A Peakland Abecedary draws on this is definitely a worthwhile addition to your a few simple questions: knowledge and an earlier title of a similar bookshelf. Designed and printed in *Ask the individual to smile. Is the face name. As the title suggests it contains an A paperback by Northend Ltd, 80 pages, lopsided in the effort? - Z encyclopedia of intriguing, unique, and price £6.95, ISBN 0-901100-82-X *Ask the person to talk and speak a little-known oddities from Achers & Acres ---- simple sentence coherently (i.e. It is sunny (a carving in All Saints Church Bakewell The love of wildlife can be infectious out today) to Zoos (Riber Castle). In its pages you and it certainly has been as far as Dr Ian *Ask him or her to raise both arms Rotherham is concerned. His new book above their head. lan On the Wild Side of Sheffield and the *Ask him or her to stick out their Peak District is a labour of love, drawing tongue. If the tongue is ‘crooked’, if it on over forty years involvement in local goes to one side or the other, that is also an wildlife and environmental issues as indication of a stroke recorded in his regular column in the If he or she has trouble with any one of Sheffield Star. Written with enthusiasm these tasks, call the emergency number and well illustrated with colour immediately and describe the symptoms photographs, the book covers aspects of to the dispatcher. natural history and ecology, local history and folklore, conservation and the environment. There isn’t much Ian doesn’t Poppy collection know about. Published in paperback by Wildtrack Publishing, 108 pages, price For many years now, we have put out £9.95 ISBN 978-1-904098-13-3 Poppies and collecting bottles for the Royal British legion around the shops, News in brief schools and pubs in Dore during the two weeks, leading up to Remembrance Royal Mail have announced their tariff Sunday in November. changes to take place on 6th April, with As usual, in November 2008 we the cost of a 1st class stamp rising from collected over £1000 which we think is a 36p to 39p and 2nd class from 27p to 30p. wonderful total in just two weeks. The Co-op on Devonshire Terrace Road We would like to express our sincere has been given Council permission to alter thanks to everyone in Dore who responded its closing times from 8pm to 10pm. to this very worthwhile cause. 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29 Kilimanjaro challenge beautiful with some cloud cover below, we sat but I didn’t have any energy. Our I decided with three Sheffield based guide had to get my camera out of my friends back in January last year to climb pocket to take a few photos. Mount Kilimanjaro the highest mountain We set off again and reached Gilman’s in Africa and the largest free standing peak point within 20 minutes. It soon became in the world. We also wanted to do it for clear that the next 90 minutes to the charity and chose Neurocare which raises summit (Uhuru Peak) was going to be the funds for the Neurological department at toughest bit, the air was so thin, and it was the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. a real effort just putting one foot in front Once we arrived in Tanzania, the views of the other. The views were fantastic and on the journey to the start of the climb the glaciers much bigger than expected. confirmed our expectations that we were We finally made it, it had been tough but it in for a difficult challenge. was a great sense of achievement - and We arrived at the start (Rongai Gate) relief. where our local support team were A few photos and a quick call to Radio waiting, the trek started on a very dusty Sheffield and we made our way back. We path through shady forests and we caught walked down to Jamaica Rocks and then sight of black and white Colobus through the scree we were all thankful to monkeys, the views were spectacular over David reached Uhuru Peak on get back to Kibo and into the tents for a bit towards Kenya, the African plains ran for Kilimanjaro on 11 October 2008 of sleep before progressing further down miles and miles. the mountain to the final camp, Horombo. The first night was spent at Camp lunchtime; the camp was beautiful, just In the morning we set off for the Rongai Simbu. It had been a fairly steady under the Mawenzi Mountains with a Marangu Gate and the end of our day although we could all taste the dust at small tarn and great views over the plains adventure. We collected our certificates the back of our throats. After a wash towards the Tula Mountain range in and said our goodbyes to the team before (stood in a bowl!!) we had a short walk up Kenya. After another acclimatise walk I getting into the taxi back to the hotel, a to slightly higher ground to help began to feel unwell but thankfully after welcome bath and a few beers. acclimatise. The night sky was fantastic; taking lots of fluids on board and a few It had been a fantastic trip one which the clearness of the sky was amazing. But tablets I perked up we’ll never forget and in the process we’d it was very cold and we got straight into It snowed heavily overnight and it was a raised nearly £6,000 for Neurocare. the tents at about 8.30 pm, ready for an cold morning at the Mawenzi camp. David Bollington early wake up call at 6.30am. However the snow looked amazing Team Members: Howard Wade, Justin Day 2 was a fairly long trek 7-8 hours against the mountains at the back of the Briddon, David Bollington, David Inman. up to Camp 2 Kikelelwa Cave at 11,500 ft. camp, and also fantastic views over Kenya However the weather was warm and it was with a partial inversion. a pleasant walk. One of the guys was Did you know feeling unwell at this stage and it was decided to get him off the mountain in the Well done Sheffield. On the same day morning. before Christmas, as the planning The next day we set off for a relatively committee approved two more housing short day although the climb was fairly developments on Dore Road, the surface steep. There were fantastic views towards water drainage culvert lower down the the Mawenzi Mountains with our guide road collapsed again and took several setting the usual steady pace. The cloud weeks to repair. was really gathering and as soon as the sun Despite Sheffield’s horrendous went in the temperature dropped severely. experience with flooding in 2007 the We arrived at Camp 3 (14,000ft) just after Council fails to recognise that more We set off for Kibo Hut, the last camp development equals more surface water before the summit. The terrain was very run off, something that must be taken into different and much more dessert like, account in the planning process. Instead almost like a moonscape. We continued on we get restrictions on the amount per site, the trek to Kibo, we could now see the but no effort to add all these up. camp although we still had 4 hours of Eventually either the amount of new infill walking which demonstrated the vastness development, or increased rainfall, will of the place. overwhelm our Victorian drains, and then We finally arrived at Kibo; we settled who will be liable for the resultant into our tents at about 7pm and tried to get damage? some sleep before being woken at 11pm. You would have thought from the news We had some difficulty getting to sleep, that the country is facing a period of Perfect for the small business we probably got about 2 hours. We had financial restraint, yet Sheffield Council 1000 Letterheads some porridge and got all the bags ready, has spent over £300,000 on building a new 100gsm White Wove bus terminus and putting streetlights on ALL FOR ONLY we left Kibo at 12.10am. We all felt really 1000 Compliment Slips determined to get to the top, everybody the stretch of Baslow Road leading up to 100gsm White Wove appeared very focussed, not much was Owler Bar. Probably the money comes 500 Business Cards said as we started the 8 hour trek to the from central funds to improve bus 350gsm Silk top. corridors, but wherever it comes from it is Including all Design/Artwork We were in a tight formation, single file our money and should be spent sensibly, All Printed Full Colour One Side with the guide leading the way. We were or not at all. walking at an incredibly slow pace. We To make matters worse it seems the felt OK with just the occasional bout of Council failed to consult the Peak Park, nausea. We got past each of the landmarks CPRE and others about the impact of the up to Gilman’s Point (the rim of the bright lights, nor consider the urbanising Volcano) including William’s point effect on what had been a rural area. 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How do you assessment was completed, the local know what your rights are when it comes Services for Holy Week and Easter. authority claimed that her assets for Palm Sunday: April 5th 10am Parish to funding and claiming assistance from capital assessment was half of the value of the local authority? Communion & Blessing of the Palms the property. This meant that her assets 6.30pm Choral service with readings, Each local authority carries out a means would exceed the capital threshold and test on any applicant to receive state Hymns & Anthems. therefore she had to pay for her fees fully. Monday 6th April 8pm Address & funding to pay for the costs of residential It was argued that the local authority had What some of our visitors said about us last year care. Only if your assets are below certain Compline. not taken into account the guidelines when Tuesday 7th April 7.30pm Chrism Excellent and very good value The most wonderful Santa thresholds do you qualify for full local they valued the joint ownership. The outside Lapland authority funding. In England, those with Eucharist at Sheffield Cathedral with the An absolute winner? guidelines state that where there is a joint Bishop of Sheffield. For both kids and adults assets above £22,250 would not receive A wonderful experience. ownership such as this, the value Wednesday 8th April 8pm Address & I cuddled a lamb anyCall local us authority for all funding your at electrical all. Owning needs:- Our second year. attributed to the resident should be heavily Compline. Absolutely brilliant again your own property often means that you Fantastic. Can I have a lamb New installations • House rewiresdiscounted. The market value of the Maundy Thursday 8.45 - Midnight Holy to take home pleeze exceed the threshold and will end up property would be substantially reduced The Christmas story beautifully having Faultto fund finding your own • Alarmscare. However, & security Communion Commemorating the Last and simply told as no willing buyer would buy a share in a Supper + Washing of feet followed by The It was brillliant says an the local authority cannot include property Internal and external lightingproperty which was already owned by WATCH of the Passion. Fantastic!! Not just great for kids angel and an innkeeper when assessing your capital if your spouse another. 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Phone Lesley specialist. Call Richard on 0114 262 1905 www.fincafrancesca.co.uk or phone 34 96 Donaldson 0114 276 9500 / 235 6603 mobile 07963 556295 579 1632 34 Seeing stars in Dore March it will show an extremely thin TOADS Production crescent (only 5% illuminated) as it draws Astronomers are not always concerned in closer to the Sun in the west. As our audiences seem to like a good solely with stars and galaxies above our Saturn takes over as the evening planet laugh in these gloomy times, our next heads. Like all folk in Dore, Totley and in March. Rising early in the evening and offering is another comedy. “That’s My elsewhere they sometimes busy at its highest in the south during the Spring Girl” by David Bathurst is certainly a themselves thinking about the at 2am to 3am. The ringed planet is under ‘good laugh’. With a cast of ten, there is a environment, as well as other things that the hind legs of Leo, the Lion, scarcely real mixture of characters, surrounding the impact on the individual. These articles, brighter than the two brightest stars in that main young man, Richard, who is “Seeing Stars”, are also intended to reflect constellation, Regulus and Denebola. Its awaiting the arrival of his parents. They all aspects of life in our village. If the rings are about edge-on so they are not are to meet his fiancee for the first time, so writer is carried away sometimes by the easily discernible without substantial it is an important day. annoyances of modern life, please be optical aid. Needless to say, things do not work out patient. In mid-Spring Jupiter is a morning as planned. However, you will have to Dore has been a centre for sale object in the southeast in Capricorn. It is come to St. John’s Church Hall, promotions of a remarkable vacuum fairly bright (- 2 magnitude) although not Abbeydale Road South, Totley, to see cleaner recently. We entered a free draw matching Venus earlier in the year. Venus what actually happens. The dates are for a Nissan car and won a visit from a is then on the other side of the Sun, just to Wednesday to Saturday, May 13th to 16th, vacuum cleaner retailer who spent nearly the left of Jupiter. Mercury and Mars at 7.30pm. two hours demonstrating the cleaner and should be given a miss. They are very Tickets are still at an amazing £3.50, or then shampooing one carpet for free. The close to the Sun and not easily nor safely £3 concessions, from any member, or patented cleaner from the USA has a roller seen. from me, Kate Reynolds, on 236 6891. which vibrates the carpet instead of One wonders whether there are other Fairtrade tea and coffee, fresh orange brushing it. life forms in the Universe worried about juice, 50p each, and red or white wine The flexible tubes involve the use of a their planets. Are they, too, experiencing £1.25, are available in the interval. What special plastic developed by NASA perhaps a global financial crisis? Most of more could you wish for! initially for the lunar astronauts. Little what we know about other worlds than wonder, then, that the price was £2,350. If ours has been rather questionable, based one imagined that a cleaner at one tenth of on firm but indirect scientific evidence. On stage for charity the price cleaned, think again! However, Now astronomers think they have imaged the spin-offs from advanced space a Jupiter-like planet revolving around a A group of talented youngsters took to technologies seem to evade us ordinary well-known bright star. They actually see the stage to raise money for charity. mortals. a small speck moving in its orbit around Students of the Jackie Collins Stage Space technology is certainly not the star. School in Dore and Totley put on an applied in the cleaning of our dustbins. Of The star is Fomalhaut in the impressive singing, dancing and acting course, it only costs one pound. We have constellation Pisces Austrinus, the extravaganza at the Lantern Theatre in earlier brought this to the attention of Southern Fish. This is a September object Sheffield last year, to raise money for the Readers. If we imagine that greater as seen from Dore, so we have to wait Sheffield Children’s Hospital’s Charity. In hygiene is the intention of dustbin until the Autumn to actually see the process they raised £350 which was washing, then we should prepare for Fomalhaut. The star is somewhat more presented to the Hospital in November. another surprise. Dustbin cleaners are luminous than our Sun (17 times) and is The money will go towards a state-of-the- collecting a small fortune by swilling 25 light-years away. The new planet, art DXA Scanner - equipment vital in the smelly waste and bits of garbage into the dubbed Fomalhaut b, orbits the star about diagnosis of bone disease. roads outside our houses (not always four times further out than our Neptune. The Jackie Collins Stage School straight down drains because there are not Astronomers at the University of provides children between the ages of five many of them in a given road). If we did California, Berkeley, also see with and 18 with acting, singing and dance this ourselves I am sure neighbours would certainty a dusty ring of rubble around the tuition, taught by fully-qualified complain. star reminiscent of our own Solar System professionals during afternoon and The average distance between drains is when it was formed. Fomalhaut is a very evening classes. about 40 to 50 metres and the slopes of young star, only 100 to 300 million years roads to the nearest drain are naturally all old. There are other confirmed cases of different. Little garbage reaches a drain at Jupiter-like planets, for example, around all. One would hope that this disgusting Beta Pictoris. Unfortunately, Pictor is a performance could be stopped, unless southern constellation never visible from Sheffield Council would like to clean our Dore or Totley. streets a little more often. This method of If you are curious as to how other waste disposal has to be improved. The planets outside our Solar System are Council would also need to fill in all the discovered you might be interested in the pit holes in the gulleys, most of which are following leviathan scientific programme. created by builders’ transport. Take a look If a large planet crosses in front of its at Heather Lea Avenue in Dore! If we can parent star then the light from that star will land on the Moon, surely we can avoid be very slightly dimmed. If the dimming returning to the Middle Ages. occurs regularly, that is, with a definite Well, to brighten our lives, the glorious periodicity, it is possibly caused by such a planet Venus is at its brightest (- 4.8 planet. magnitude) in late February. It is visible NASA has spent $572-million on its for several hours after sunset, and even Kepler satellite to perform an almost before the sky is fully dark. The length of inconceivable task. Kepler will ‘stare’ time you can catch Venus though is continuously at a squarish field in Cygnus diminishing through March. You may and Lyra for at least three and a half years. have seen Venus many times before but in The satellite will measure the brightness these months it is so bright it could even of 100,000 stars every 30 minutes. Not cast a shadow of your hand on a piece of only will many new discoveries be made white paper in a dark environment, and it but astronomers will be able to better can be seen even through a layer of thin judge how rare Earth-like planets actually cloud. are. Are we as unique as we should like to Through February Venus appears as a think we are? large but diminishing crescent. By mid- David Andrews 35

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