to DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY No. 25 SPRING 1992

Nar Storth Hockey Team DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY SPRING MEETING Dore to Door has received an excellent response to the request for identification of Wednesday 15th April 92 8pm Old Village School team members. The picture, reproduced in our Winter 1991 Speaker - Bob Warburton Illustrated talk on local wild life issue, shows:> Back row, reading from left to right, Bessie All welcome Bagshaw, Lucy Hayes, Marjorie Frost, Elspeth Hayes, Marjorie Green and Clarrie Unwin. Front row - loan Frost, Gertie Kelly, Freda contained in a letter from Councillor Foulstone, Lillian (Buster) Swift and Marjorie Dore Allotments Buckley, Chairman of the Planning & Hayes. Economic Development Programme Marjorie Hayes collaborated with Freda Given widespread concern over the Committee. He states that" The use of the Foulstone - now with Mrs Critchlow and living possible development for housing of the Limb Lane site for allotments is, in principle, in Bakewell in her 90's - to identify team Vicarage Lane site, the Dore Village Society an acceptable use for land in the Green Belt. members. She also informed us that she wrote at the beginning of January to all the However, as it stands the two applications transferred to the ladies hockey team City's 86 councillors, to get their personal still represent a transfer of open space to the during the war. Efforts to get the Nar Storth views on the principle of developing Green Belt which is against City Council team "on its feet again" after the war failed and allotment land within the city. As we go to policy and the agents for the applicant are it folded about 1947. press only 13 have bothered to reply which aware of this. If they wish to pursue this, it is Truda Bagshaw recognised her sister in law tells us something about their personal now up to them to comply with the policies Bessie and Gertie Kelly. efficiency, their attitude towards Dore, or by providing alternative open space in the E.R. Squire of gave us further perhaps illustrates a simple lack of common area or, in an area deficient in open space information about her father's cousin, Letitia courtesy. which would also comply with policy." Marjorie Green. The latter had left a physical Some of the replies are little more than The Society's subsequent letter to the education course at Dartford college to train as acknowledgements, promises to raise the Council (see planning applications), raising a physiotherapist at the Devonshire Hospital, matter with colleagues on the Planning the issue of possible mal administration Buxton. she worked for many years at the Committee, explanations that as members of around the handling of planning applications, Children's Hospital in Sheffield before retiring the Planning Committee they cannot asked that consideration of the latest to Stoney Middleton, where she died in 1978. comment and in one case that comment is application to develop the allotments be She is remembered as having a "wonderful way inappropriate as they did not represent Dore deferred until the issues it raised had been with children". Ward. Not surprisingly perhaps, support has satisfactorily investigated. This is now with Eric Evans of Bakewell and Mrs Wyn been most forthcoming from Conservative the City's Legal Department. Stanley were also most helpful in recognising and Liberal Democrat councillors, especially team members. those representing our ward. Thank you to all readers who contacted us. The only clue to the possible outcome is Tunnel Centenary

Next year is the 100th anniversary of the opening of Totley Tunnel in 1893. Work started in 1888 with the two borings from Grind1eford and Totley meeting under the moors in October 1892. A year later the railway opened for goods traffic and finally for passengers in May 1894. It took hundreds of navvies, 132 tons of gelignite and some 30 million bricks to build the 3 1/2 mile tunnel. Building the tunnel not only left it's physical mark on Dore & Totley in the shape of railway cuttings, spoil heaps and air shafts, but it also had a significant social impact through the life style of the navvies and the subsequent population increase. Both the Totley Residents Association and the Dore Village Society would like to organise some form of centenary celebrations in 1993 to mark the opening of the tunnel. If you have any material of interest on the building of the tunnel, pictures or items illustrating life 100 years ago, an interest in railways especially steam, or are game to help run centenary events, please contact John Baker on 369025 or Danny Barlow on 365063.

Published by Dore Village Society, Limpits Cottage, Dore, Sheffield S17 3DT. Tel: 352107 1 Phillip Swift and brother Teddy - still farming, I think, near Dore Moor. The Plumtrees who lived in the bottom cottage of the row opposite school - mother was school caretaker. Anthony Shipstone who lived in the same row but was late for school quite often! Betty Mycock who suffered terribly with chilblained fingers. All the Laver family - I think my first seat in the the infants class was next to Margaret Laver. Doris Middleton. Dorothy Wragg. The Fearnehough brothers from Townhead Road and a host of others who all helped to make my time at the village school a happy and memorable period of my life. There I must close by wishing you and all the residents of your lovely village much health and happiness in 1992. Alan Speight Cockermouth, Cumbria Ryecroft Reception Centre

The meeting of the local neighbourhood Old English Fayre 1936. Following the article in the last issue of Dore to Door, we have received watch coordinators held on Wednesday, some delightful photographs and a breakdown of the amounts raised for the Church Hall Building January 8th, 1992, was addressed by two senior social workers from the centre. The group was Fund. A total of £307 ..17..]Q was made, £113 ..16..9 on Friday, June 9th and a further £194 ..1..1 on the Saturday. The plants and flowers were the most successful money raiser - producing a total of told of the difficulties experienced by the staff £62 ..14..3 with the fancy needlework providing £41 ..6..9 in second place. of the centre in dealing with youngsters in their The picture, taken in the grounds of Dore Moor House, shows some of the helpers in historic fancy care. dress including Mrs John Steele Carr seated in the centre of the group, with Lillian Hartley standing The centre on Limb Lane provides short behind her. term care for young offenders between 10 and Dear Sir 17 years of age. There are never more than 10 Letters As a resident of Abbeydale Park Rise residents at anyone time, all of these being from 1924 until 1950 I was delighted to boys. The children's problems are varied, some Dear Sir receive the 1991 editions of "Dore to Door". are very difficult, having rejected all adult Do you think perhaps the Village Society I am sure my late father, Sydney Speight, authority. In the last year many of the residents could use their influence to have some further will be remembered by your older readers as have been detained for car related offences. speed restriction placed on the stretch of Dore headmaster of the village school from 1924 The role of the warden and staff is to guide Road between Rushley Drive and the corner until 1940, when he was appointed head of their charges away from criminal activity and of Vicarage Lane? Though I live in Dore Hall Pyebank School in the area of towards more worthwhile pursuits. Under the Croft I have a large window overlooking Dore Sheffield. Both my brother Bob and myself Children Act 1989 (which came into force on Road and see cars coming down the road received our early 'grounding' at the school. 14th October 1991), the staff do not have the which (as a driver of some 60 years) I can see My first teacher in the infants class was a power to restrain chiIdren by confining them to are travelling far too fast. After many weeks lovable lady called Miss Rhoda Dobbs who their rooms and even observing the room doors of complaining to the Corporation department walked it every day from at night is considered unacceptable. concerned, we have at last managed to have Woodhouse in fair weather or foul. then it At 10.00pm the door to the centre is locked the barrier at the bottom of the path between was Miss Polly Hodkin from Totley, but the staff are powerless to stop the Dore Hall Croft and Dore Road repaired - but followed by Miss Minnie Reynolds who determined from departing through the as this was damaged by a speeding car not so travelled daily by train from North Wingfield windows. long ago, I feel it could happen again any time and walked up Dore Road from the station. There is no secure unit in South Yorkshire. and all our work will have been in vain. I She was replaced by an athletic lady called All incidents related to Ryecroft residents are regret to say that even the Police cars also Miss Grace Talbot who biked it from being monitored by the police. travel too fast! somewhere quite far afield - I'm not sure Kim Stokes (Mrs) where. Finally to the top class where father Can you help? ruled with a 'firm cane' and provided the Dear Sir springboard for further education at schools Mickley Hall Cheshire Home - needs The Teddy Bears have given a thumbs as remote as Dronfield and Chesterfield - people on a voluntary basis to assist residents down to any pleasant picnic prospects in our quite a long way to travel in those days! to eat at meal times. The main need is at own Bushey Wood. Dad was quite keen on the sporting side 11.45 to 12.15 or alternatively at 4.45 to No lessons have been learned from and I am ure older readers will remember PT 5.15. If you feel you are able to help, please considerable efforts to wise up the naughty in the school yard and on the village green telephone the General Manager on Sheffield rubbish dumpers some time ago, when the and football on the field up Townhead Road. 369952 during office hours. brook was cleaned up. Who could forget the 'blood matches' Sheffield's Child Helpline - was set up Why not I say??? I would venture to say against Totley School who were urged on by in 1985 to help local children who are all know the habit is very anti-social. Many their headmaster, Mr Wood. My first love for suffering from abuse.Six years later they are residents tell me how much they enjoyed Sheffield United was created at the village now taking about 20 calls an evening from playing in the splendid woods when they school because Dad managed to obtain a few distressed youngsters. were children. Are today's and tomorrow's complimentary tickets for for Volunteers are responsible not only for children to be denied the same pleasure? several matches each season. needless to say the counselling on the Helpline but also for Garden rubbish is still rubbish and there are that love still endures! Sadly, Dad died an finding the funds to pay for the running of intelligent ways of dealing with it. early death in 1950 at the age of 58 and lies the office as well as the cost of the 'phone There is a cure for addicts of dumping with my mother, who died even earlier when calls from the youngsters. over the fence, it is - clear up your area over I was only 6 years old, in the village Can you help pay for the calls? the fence to compare with your side of the churchyard. 20p is all it costs for a short 3 minute call. fence - throw down a table cloth and join the Time does of course dim the memory but Send all donations payable to Child Helpline, Teddy's - that's the way forward for us all the names of some of the my schoolmates 40 Trippet Lane, Sheffield SI 4EL or Phone with pleasure and a clear conscience. still come to mind - Alex Thorpe and brother Sheffield 769696 for a promotion pack and B. James Bushey Wood Road Billy whose father ran the butcher's shop. sponsor form.

2 Planning Matters stifle debate on matters of legitimate public concern. Dore & Totley Station Local applications New Powers for Planning Officers After some 40 years of Sheffield being on a railway backwater the direct London route From 1st February 1992 the City Council Baslow Road, below Dysons Refractories via the Sheffield and Chesterfield line of the has delegated new powers to planning officers. Ltd. - An application to erect an agricultural Midland Railway was opened in 1870. The The aim is to speed up the process ing of machinery sales and repair depot on a green first timetable listed ten through weekday routine and non-contentious planning field site within the Green Belt. The Society trains from Sheffield to London with a applications, including the following: objected and the application was refused by the fastest time of four hours and ten minutes. • household extensions, garages etc. Council on 11 December. did not however get their • applications for up to three new dwellings Long Line - Two applications were made station until 1st February 1872, built at a cost • substitution of dwelling types on a plot with for the erection of individual dwellings on of £1,354 15s on 2 acres of land purchased planning consent Green Belt land on Long Line. The Society from the Duke of Devonshire. • advertisements (refuse or approve) objected and both have now been refused by The station was built across the original • minor alterations to approved applications the Council. line of Twentywell Lane which crossed the • small non-residential buildings of up to Dore Allotments/Limb Lane - A fresh Sheaf behind the present station before 350 sq. m. floorspace application has been made for outline consent swinging right along the line of a stone wall • removal of dying or diseased trees and tree to erect six dwellings on the allotments and still standing, to join the existing road higher pruning in conservation areas (refuse or relocate them to Green Belt land on Limb up the hill. Twentywell Lane had been approve) Lane, presently forming part of Ryecroft Farm. realigned in 1870 in front of the station to • approval of reserved matters for approved The Society and other objectors have repeated run along the line of what is now a footpath outline applications of up to 10 dwellings. their objections and it is hoped that the Council behind the modern day flats with its still These arrangements mean that if no will again refuse this application. standing road bridge over the Sheaf. It was objections are received within the 21 day This application has been the subject of a not until the Manchester spur line was built consultation period, a decision may be made letter from the Society to Pamela Gordon, that the bottom of Twentywell Lane was immediately. It is vital that interested people Chief Executive of Sheffield City Council moved to it's present position. strictly observe the closing dates for objections following concern over collusion between the It was the building of the railway and when writing to object. There will be no further developer and Council officers. As an example station that led by the late 1870s to the opportunity to object or speak at Planning the submission of a detailed plan of the Limb development of Dore into a residential Committee meetings, once a decision by Lane layout, drawn by an employee of the outpost of Sheffield, and present day Dore officers has been made. Recreation Department, as part of the planning Road was specVically built across Duke of This increase in delegated power is broadly application is worrying. A reply is awaited Devonshire land to link the village to the welcomed by the Society, to the extent that it from the Chief Executive. station. Now with the closure of its London speeds up the processing of planning High Greave Farm - An application made line platform in recent years, the decline in applications. However, there is some concern, in July last year to infill a ravine beside railway usage and after serving as offices, and the operation of the new arrangements will Whitelow Lane was refused by the Council on the station is to find a new lease of life as a be closely monitored to ensure that they do not 16 December 1991. restaurant.

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3 Abbeydale Park

In 1919 the Abbeydale Park Estate came up for sale and was quickly purchased by the Sheffield Amateur Club Ltd - a non- profit making organisation - to provide a 'home' for amateur in Sheffield. After considerable hard work on the old farm buildings (now almost gone) and draining and levelling, the ground was first used to play on in 1921. Abbeydale Hall was purchased in 1920, together with its land, but later the Hall was sold, as converting it to a Clubhouse was too expensive. Gradually the Clubs became established at Abbeydale Park and by the time of the 1939-45 war it was in use for football, cricket, hockey, rugby, and squash, together with Richard Moffatt using it as their County ground. (Dore was in Derbyshire). Although the original founder was Robert These two buildings were situated behind the Methodist Church. A drawing of the right hand Hargreaves and a group of business men building appeared in our Autumn 91 issue wrongly captioned. actively interested in sport, the financing of The one on the left was originally built as a workshop with a timber first storey atop a brick such a project was enormous. Considerable ground floor. There was a large pit in the floor and an external wooden staircase. The building money had to be found each year - just for was used by Ashley, the builders and in the 1960s it was a store for the Scout Canoes. It was the Club's very existence and continuity, owned by the Methodist Church from 1963 and latterly the ground floor served as a garage. apart from providing changing pavilions for Strong winds in January 1991 destroyed the timber storey, rendering the building unsafe. It was the players. In one of the old farm buildings recently demolished by the Voluntary Services organisation and the site levelled and a huge 20' diameter tub was used for the landscaped. footballers even after the war. The huge task of finance was instigated by Jack Shapley together with many members and for every August Bank and with careful budgeting other sections question in the past, yet now there is an Holiday week, Abbeydale Park was the became viable - the Table Tennis Section explosion in sport participation and many venue for Sheffield's greatest gala - not the started in the cricket pavilion, then had their other sports not catered for which would most welcome event for the neighbouring own building as more of the old farm enhance Abbeydale even more - how about a homes, where people went to bed with a gun buildings were demolished. Ashfurlong Farm teaching "Centre of Excellence" in the under the pillow - and often used them too! ran into difficulties and sold up, with some considerable off peak times? The potential of The Wragg brothers at Ashfurlong Farm of the land being purchased by the Sports Abbeydale is enormous with ambitious never went to bed that week, but still lost Club and levelled to form a large area for the foresight and preservation is a responsibility, poultry and equipment. The 'Travellers' Bankers Club and a site for a Covered Club as shown by Robert Hargreaves and Jack were a menace, but the Club raised the in in an air balloon - the forerunner of the Shepley. Abbeydale Sports Club is in the necessary finance and a 'proper' pavilion present permanent building of the Badminton Parish of Dore - it is our heritage and was built in 1938. Every member of the Club. preservation is so important in our Farms, various Clubs is a member of the Pavilion The present Directors of the Sports Club Village Halls, Old Buildings, Countryside Club which caters for the social activities as now intend to start selling off the land for and Sports grounds for future generations. required by the various sections. building - a process that is irreversible and Jim Biggins In 1939 the war started and several was considered completely out of the military units were billeted nearby and who had the overall right to practise manoeuvres anywhere. It wasn't long before they discovered the local inhabitants found them Garden example, the well named "Butterfly Bush" - easier to track down than the Travellers, so Buddleia davidii has strongly scented the L.D.V. and eventually the Home Guard Butterflies flowers from July to September. was formed and locally based at Abbeydale Generally butterflies prefer the more Hall, using the Club grounds for rifle and basic and old fashioned garden plants to the grenade practice. modern breeds. Some of the following plants The Sports Club raised quite a lot of in a warm sunny position will help you money for clarity with many Sports attract more butterflies:- Honesty, Bugle, Meetings but the ground maintenance was Aubretia, Wallflowers, and yellow Alyssum very limited and the football fields were kept in the spring; then for summer flowering, "cut" by cows and the hockey and cricket Sweet William, Red Vaeniam, Heliotrope areas by sheep from Ashfurlong Farm. The and Marigolds. Some autumn favourites are moving of animal droppings and marking of Sedum Spectabile and Michaelmas Daisies. the lines was done by the players before play Every butterfly was once a caterpillar. - amazing what people would do to preserve If you have a garden, you may now be However, many caterpillars feed on common the sport they cherished - when they had to. deciding what plants you want to grow this weeds. If you can spare a sunny area for Whatever had happened there was no way year. So while you're making plans, why not nettles, perhaps at the end of the garden, you Hitler was going to have Abbeydale Park! think about how you could attract more could attract Red Admirals, Peacock and Everything was re-conditioned or mended, butterflies. Small Tortoiseshell Butterflies to lay eggs. clothes and equipment. Butterflies will come to your garden if Peacock butterfly caterpillars are black, and In 1945 when peace finally came, the you plant the things they like. Nectar rich then stay in groups at their early stages. Club started a Rifle Club, a Bowling Club flowers in the sunniest spots are what you There is no need to worry about these and an Archers Club (The Bowling Club will need to plant. Try to choose a variety of caterpillars eating your favourite flowers and used the International Hockey ground - now plants that will flower through spring, vegetables. It is only the well known 'plastic grass' - originally before money was summer and autumn, giving most attention to cabbage whites that will do any damage. all raised to develop the present green). plants that flower in late summer, when there the others can just add to the delight of your Gradually as these new sections were formed are the highest number of butterflies. For garden.

4 Toad Save group on a holiday conference, June 14th- Horace Bacon -100 not out 21 st in the beautiful Harz Mountains, Over the past few years, on warm nights Germany, at a model cost (ex. travel) of £79 Horace Bacon, who lives in Victor Road, in early spring, bands of dedicated helpers should contact the Chair of S.A.G.B., Barry was 100 years of age on 12 February this have been patrolling the roads near toad Everley at 259 Abbeydale Road South, year. In the last 24 years he has collected breeding ponds, picking up toads and giving Sheffield S17 3LB. TeI. 351048. nearly £100,000 for Oxfam and more recently them a helping hand on their perilous way to Church Hall Appeal for cash to save The several thousand pounds for St Luke's their breeding ponds. Church Hall, was made in November with a Hospice. Everyone in Dore will want to send In the south of Derbyshire several sites reminder in February and has had a fair amount him their best wishes. where toads are at risk from being squashed of success so far. There are some 2,200 houses Dore to Door featured Horace in an article by passing traffic have been identified and in the parish boundary and so far we have in 1989 but no apology is needed for are being successfully patrolled. Records received a total of 85 donations raising £4,309 incl uding him again - we get very few show that many toads are saved at each by 31st January 1992. We are aiming for opportunities to congratulate people on their crossing point. However, there do not appear £ 10,000 this year. 100th birthdays and on such magnificent to be many toad crossing sites in the north of A manager is being appointed to look after achievements. the county or Sheffield. the workings of the hall, using business plans, Our original article gave an account of his If you have seen any sites where toads involving scheduling, marketing - increased career but the main features will stand appear to be getting killed trying to cross the use will bring increased income. We would like repetition - the 13th son of a Barnsley miner road, do let the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust to thank the Houndkirk Moor Cub Pack. who himself went down the pit at the age of know. There may be sites where dedicated Blackamoor Cub Pack, The Dancing School, 14, left after 10 years with eye problems, individuals are already beavering away The Customers of the Delicatessen and earned degrees in Classics and Divinity and rescuing toads - please let them know if you everybody who has supported us so far became a minister of religion. He worked in are aware of anyone doing this, as they may especially the anonymous donors.Please England and for some years in the USA, part be able to help out with equipment and continue to send donations to Mr. D. W. Kirk, of his time being spent in Chicago in the days would like to know where these sites are and The Appeal Fund Treasurer, 39 Old Hay Close, of Prohibition and Al Capone. Returning to how many toads have been rescued at each. Dore or hand them to the Vicar or to the England he gained an external degree in law A sketch map of the road crossing showing Church wardens, Paddy McCormick and from London University and became a Social the position of any adjacent ponds would be Trevor Marshal!. Sciences lecturer in the Extra Mural; ideal. Ash House - is to close in October as Department of Sheffield University and at the If you are interested in helping rescue part of the Council's rationalisation and end of the Second World War was seconded toads, even if you don't know of any sites economy measures, eliminating the last of to the Foreign Office and lectured to troops near you, the Trust will try to give you a site the non purpose-built OAP homes. Concern and civilians in India and South East Asia. to patro!. Toads are usually on the move in is already being expressed about possible It was his experience of abject poverty in about early March and are most active just future use of the site. and 'Friends of Ash Asia that led to his collecting for Oxfam after dusk on warm still nights, and helping House' are meeting on 26th February. which began in 1968 - at the age of 77! move toads usually involves being available He started collecting in Barnsley and on any suitable night over a period of a few continued when he moved to Dore in 1973, to weeks around early March. The Trust can be Mind, Body and Motor Car live with his son and daughter in law. Since contacted on 0332 756610 during office then he has covered a large area extending hours. Are you going abroad on holiday this over Dare, Ecc le sa l l , and year? Then learn a little of the language, Beauchief. In latter years failing eyesight and know some first aid just in case, and put your advancing age have made him confine his News in brief car in order before you go. activities to the Spring months but he is a Short basic 5 week holiday language familiar figure on the roads and his technique Sonnenberg Autumn Meeting - some courses will soon be available in French, of getting six months contributions in one 40 people from as far afield as Newcastle German, Spanish, Italian and Greek together visit would be the envy of many a commercial and Dorset attended the Sonnenberg with Get Further in to French (a short course organisation. Association of Great Britain Autumn for those who already know the basics). Horace keeps remarkably active, going meeting at Northern College Wentworth Holiday first aid and car maintenance into Sheffield by bus every day. He is now a Castle. The weekend activities began with a courses will also be available as well as short Quaker and through that and his charity work buffet followed by a formal welcome from courses in portraiture drawing and the social he has numerous friends and can clearly hold the Mayor of Barnsley. After hearing reports history of the 19th century. his own with any of them with his lively from Or Kurt Neumann, formerly on the Enrolment for all courses is on Tuesday mind, his interest in philosophy and history, staff at Sonnenberg House, the U.K. and 7th April, 7.30-8.30pm. but mainly through his interest in people. Eastern Europe, a tour of the house and Please note that all courses are subject to Not many of the people for whom Horace grounds was provided. Twelve participants minimum enrolment numbers. has collected so strenuously over the years stayed over and enjoyed a conducted tour of For any further information please contact may see their 100th birthday. Thanks to him, Wortley Top Forge on Sunday morning. Norton College, Abbeydale Hall Centre, Te!. however, they will have had a far better life Anyone interested in joining a local 620244. and I am sure he will think that is sufficient reward. BLOCK PAVING SPECIALISTS WE ALSO SUPPLY AND LAY ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF PAVING AVAILABLE IN A & LAID IN VAR/O~SANDGEEOF COLOURS REFER SIGNS • PAVING REQUE~~CES AVAILABLE ON • CONCRETING • PATIOS ~~~~il';;~ER~MANSH/P & • FORECOURTS ALL TIMES R/CES ASSURED AT • CAR PARKS DaRE BLOCK PAVING SERVICES SHEFFIELD 0742 369684 MOBILE NO 0831 483845 49 RUSHLEY RD, DORE

5 Thomas Marshall and family In the last issue of Dore to Door, reference THOS. MARSHAll & SON, was made in both the article on mining and in "Thomas Marshall and family" to the Barmote PRIZE MEDALLISTS. Court. This is to confirm that this court was GROCERS & PROVISION MERCHANTS. concerned with mineral rights and not funeral rites. We apologise for the error in the Marshall DORE. article, which was due to a faulty transcription at the typesetters which was not identified on TEL_ 70291 BEAUCtiIE·F proof reading. We have been very fortunate to receive further excellent mementoes of the Marshall's business from Thomas Marshal I' s great occupied by the same families - Farnsworth, grandson Peter Bradley. Copies of advertising Savage lane Cottages Fox, Sykes and Flint. Joseph Farnsworth material show that Thomas Marshall won a appears as a shoemaker in both census returns. bronze medal and other awards for his hams Opposite the Hare and Hounds car park and The other cottages were inhabited by a scythe and bacon at the 1912 London Dairy Show. A the Old School stands a row of cottages. The grinder, a coal miner and a highway labourer note book showing purchases of pigs records date stone on the wall, dated 1782 with the and their families. that Marshal! was buying up to 15 pigs each letters R, U and E arranged as a triangle with Within living memory the area was known month between October and April each year. the U at the apex .. These initials are of the as Wilson Hill. The second cottage down the These weighed from 12 to 22 stones each at an builder of the house, Robert Unwin and his hill was occupied by the Taylor family. Philip average cost of 7/- per stone. wife Elizabeth of whom little more is known. Taylor, the son of William Taylor, a farmer and The entry for December l Zth, 1911, shows "The story of Methodism in Dore", written scythesmith, moved to the cottage from the the special purchase of two pigs, jointly by John Dunstan, states that Robert and family home (now Gilleyfield Farm). Philip weighing 42 stones 10 lbs, from His Majesty Elizabeth's son Robert was one of a group of and his wife had six children, one dying in King George V and a 12 stone 61/2lb pig from eleven young Methodists in Dor e, whose infancy. Margaret Jane was born in 1899 and Prince Christian, all reared at Windsor. One pig names appear on the Sheffield Circuit spent all her 82 years in the same home. valued at £15 died on the train journey. A Membership roll in 1790. This group met at Her daughter Win Skelton has fond subsequent entry on December 18th records the Nab Farm, the home of Thomas Lee. memories of life in the cottage. Margaret Jane arrival of 4 pigs weighing a total of 75 stones The Dore Enclosure award of 1809 allotted married Victor (Bert) Wal lace , who was a 9lbs, purchased from the Sandringham Estate, Robert Unwin a piece of land on Door Moor ganister miner and also acted as a grave digger with a value of £32. The illustration shows but the Duke of Devonshire's map of 1827 for his wife's uncle Farewell Taylor. In the both sides of a business card used by shows him owning just the small area on 1930's the Shipstone family lived in the top Thomas Marshal!. Savage Lane of 13 perches or approximately cottage, then the Taylor/Wallace family, the 400 sq yards, containing three houses with Friths and the Plumtrees, who were followed Back Issues gardens. The enclosure remains virtually into the bottom cottage by the Bishops. unchanged to this day, with the area of garden Win and her husband Reg remember the We have a number of back issues of Dore lying from the end of the cottages towards the charming cottage. The front door led into a to Door for sale with proceeds going towards Village Green. very large living room, which was heavily Society funds. Copies back to Spring 1986 John Dunstan believed it likely that Robert beamed in oak. Hams hung from the ceiling, are available although we have more of some Unwin was a shoemaker. It is likely that the wrapped carefully in pillow cases to keep off issues than others. shoemaking trade continued in these cottages, the flies. Between the beams the ceiling was of Individual copies are available at £1.50 or as four cottages, known as Cobblers Row wood, which was kept in good condition by the £5 for a complete year. appear in the 1871 census in entries between application of linseed oil. The walls were thick They will be sold on a first come first the Hare and Hounds and the School House. At and soundproof with deep window sills. There served basis - if you want any copies please the time of the 1881 census the cottages were was a Yorkshire range in the lounge, which ring 352107 in the early evening. known as Pryors Buildings and were still was used for baking and kept the room cosy. In the corner was a built in cupboard. Cottages in Savage Lane opposite the old school. Two steps led from the living room down into a small kitchen. There was an old copper heated by a fire, which was used for washing, stone flags on the floor, a stone sink and stone benches which were used for salting the ham. Stairs led from the kitchen to a small bedroom, the size of the kitchen, and from this a door led to a very large bedroom, the size of the living room below. Toilet facilities were shared - and outside - two between the four cottages. A candle was used for night time knips and a hurricane lamp on frosty nights. Win and Reg continued to live in the cottage for several years after their marriage. Victor Wall ace kept pigs in Moselcys Yard, where the Hare and Hounds car park is now. They can remember Jack Greaves of Nab Farm killing pigs for Win's father. These were happy years, marred only by the early death of Victor Wallace aged 52. One of Win's memories is watching her father digging a grave by the light of a lantern. I Deadline for Summer Diary Entries Saturday 9th May 1992

6 Farming Notes

At one time if a farmer wanted to milk a few cows, or maybe grow a few acres of potatoes he just went ahead and did it. Not any more. Since the late forties the Potato Marketing Board (PMB) has controlled the growing of the humble spud on anything more than half an acre. You can't say they aren't considerate though. A few years ago a local farmer wrote to the PMB in January asking for permission to grow five acres of potatoes. They wrote back and said that as all requests for quotas had to be in by October the previous year they didn't have to consider his request. However, as a special dispensation to him and out of pure kindness they had considered the request, and he couldn't have it! The whole idea of the View of Turvers shop, Causeway Head Road, date unknown, (see Summer 1991 for the article on controls, of course, is to limit the amount of this subject). The track in the foreground, leading to the right, is now Rushley Road. taters grown to try to maintain some sort of price stability, but as there's no control over price to the farmer is about 90p per kilo, retailers to opt out, and to reduce the levy by imports the whole exercise is somewhat which can drop to 40p depending on quality. equalising the manufacturing and liquid doomed from the start. Current ex-farm price Far and away the most successful board is price, though this would put the price of is around £80 per ton. the Milk Marketing Board (MMB), but this butter through the roof. After the Second World War a plethora of is now under severe threat. Set up in 1933 to It brings to mind a remark made when we marketing boards were set up. Some were protect small milk producers from powerful were negotiating entry to the Common relatively short-lived, such as the Tomato dairy companies it has remained unchanged, Market in the 70's. "Is the ideal of European and Cucumber board, and some established a although it has spawned diverse companies ~ Unity going to founder on the price of reputation for poor quality, the Egg Board Dairy Crest is the biggest. The problem butter?" with its lion for example, that it became a comes from producer retailers and processors R. Farnsworth boon for people selling eggs direct from the who want to sell their own milk direct to the farm gate. Quite a number still survive, public, Under present legislation, for every although some are quite small, the Hops litre they sell they have to pay 5p to the milk Dore Show 1992 Board for instance. board and they naturally complain about this. The British Sugar Corporation has a The press have taken it up as an example of This year Dore Show will be held on complete stranglehold on the sugar beet the huge great Milk Board clobbering the Saturday 12th September in the Old School grown in the UK as it controls all the seed. small man, the very person it was set up to and Methodist Church-Halls. The format will The only way a farmer can increase his beet protect. be broadly similar to previous years, with acreage is to buy quota from another farm The reason for the levy is that the MMB entries in the morning and the Show opening and then get the seed that goes with it. It's a sells milk at different prices depending on its to the public at 2.00 p.m. In the afternoon the crop popular on arable farms as it makes a end use. Liquid milk is the dearest, milk for donated exhibits will be auctioned for useful break in cereal growing, building up butter about 6p cheaper and milk for cheese charity. fertility and stopping disease build up. It's lOp cheaper. At one time there were over 20 Details of the provisional class list are not a crop you 'Il ever see in these parts different prices. The receipts are then pooled included in this issue of Dore to Door. The though. The BSC keep all the production in and divided out equally amongst producers final class list, rules and recipes will be the arable areas as close as possible to the so everyone gets the same price, irrespective posted on the Dore Village Society notice sugar beet factories and at harvest time of where his farm is and how much transport board from early July and copies will be organise the beet campaign to get the beet in costs there are. So if a farmer battles and available from Greens shop on Causeway to be processed from October to January. sells all his milk as liquid, he can get a much Head Road. The nearest factory to here is Newark and better price than the wholesale price, as more This year we are particularly keen to see the transport makes it impractical. of his is going for manufacture. Under the more entries in all classes so please make a The two boards our local farmers have rules of the milk scheme all producers should note in your diary and watch out for further most contact with are the Wool Board and get the same wholesale price, hence the levy information. We also plan to lay on more Milk Board. The Wool Board labours under on the producer retailers. entertainment, including a brass band, morris enormous problems as there is a world glut The MMB are hoping to become a dancers; refreshments; and to invite stalls of wool and they can't sell the stuff. 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The Great Conservatory - Chatsworth Chatsworth revisited

120 years ago the Great Conservatory at Chats worth was described as the finest in the kingdom by Llewellynn Jewitt, as indeed it must have been with its 70,000 square feet of glass and 40 miles of iron ribs. A forerunner to the Crystal Palace built in 1851, it was large enough for a wide carriage drive down its centre from which to view its stately palm trees and aquatic plants. Yet by the end of the First World War the plants were dead due to a lack of coal for heating and the gardening staff having been called to man the trenches in France. The description of the conservatory appeared in a book on the house published in 1872 and now reprinted by Ashbourne Editions price £8.99, along with others on Haddon Hall and several local towns and villages. The descriptions and illustrations of 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 may be consulted, There are many other sources of the time have their own fascination, quite either locally in the area of interest or at the information available to the family historian apart from the chance to find out what things Public Record Office, London. The entries list and some of the more important of these are were like a hundred years ago. For more the members of each household, relationship, electoral registers or burgess rolls, directories, information contact Ashbourne Editions, marital status, age, occupation and birthplace newspapers, apprenticeship records, quarter Sprinkswood, Clifton, Ashbourne, and consequently can be most helpful. The session records, manorial records, cemetery Derbyshire DE6 lGL. 1841 Census us less informative but still registers, monumental inscriptions and various useful. Knowing the family address can assist tax and other lists. Tracing your family history because street indexes are normally provided It is recommended that, when copying an for each of the Returns. However, name entry that you have located, an exact copy In the early part of the 19th century, Dore indexes also have been prepared for some local should be made with the same spellings and was a small Derbyshire village in the Parish of areas, for instance, in Sheffield they are abbreviations and without making your own Dronfie1d and the records of baptism, marriage available for the 1841, 1851 and 1871 Returns abbreviations. Any gaps in the original records and burial for the inhabitants of Dore at that with the 1861 census partly done. A or in your search of them should be noted as and earlier times appear in the parish registers countrywide name index is in course of should details of the source searched together for Dronfield that are now in the Derbyshire preparation for the 1881 Census. with the date of your search. Remember that Record Office in Matlock. Such records of For the period prior to civil registration and any index or transcript may contain errors so these events provide vital evidence to the as far back as 1538 in some cases, parish always check back to the original source. increasing number of people now interested in registers may be consulted for details of As mentioned previously, a name index for tracing their ancestry and producing their baptism, marriage or burial. These registers are the 1881 Census is being prepared and help is family trees. It is quite feasible to do this now usually deposited at local Record Offices needed with transcription. The work is done at yourself and many sources of information are rather than being held at parish churches and home using photocopies of the census returns available to all of us allowing us to trace the often they are available on film or microfiche. and an instruction booklet and transcription histories of our families back for many Alternative sources are Bishop's Transcripts forms are supplied. Anyone interested in generations and over many decades. These which are contemporary manuscript copies of helping with this project should contact Mrs M. notes are intended to help anyone about to take parish registers, some starting in the year 1598. Robson, telephone Rotherham (0709) 543829, up this absorbing, rewarding and occasionally An extremely useful finding aid is the for further details. frustrating hobby. International Genealogical Index (J.G.J.) which Searching for your ancestors should begin lists baptisms and marriages extracted from Some useful addresses: with what you know. Consult your own family parish registers for the whole country and Derbyshire Record Office, New Street, first, especially its elderly members and collect abroad. The entries are listed alphabetically Matlock DE4 3AG (0629) 580000 Ext 7347. together any exciting family records such as under surnames then chronologically under Sheffield and District Family History Society. certificates, letters, papers, diaries, photographs Christian names and are arranged by county. Enquiries with S.A.E. to the Membership and perhaps a Family Bible. Next turn to the However, although more than 30 million names Secretary, Miss A.Kendrick, 3 Roughwood public records that are held in the various are included for Britain alone, the coverage is Road, Kimberworth Park, Rotherham S61 3RE. repositories including reference libraries, not 100% and, as with any secondary source, Register Office, Surrey Place, Sheffield SI record offices, register offices and, possibly, information found should be checked with the 1YA (0742) 735321. churches. At this stage it may be helpful to join original register. Non-Conformist records are General Register Office, St Catherines House, the family history society covering your area of also available at the Public Record Office or at 10 Kingsway, London WC2B 6JP (071) 242 interest. county record offices. 0262. In England and Wales, civil registration Much helpful information may be obtained The Sheffield Stake Family History Centre, began on I July 1837 and certificates of birth, from wills and those dating back to 1858 are Wheel Lane, , Sheffield S30 3RN marriage or death may be obtained from held at Somerset House, London. There is free (0742) 453231. District Registrars at a cost of £5.50 each. It is public access to yearly name indexes which Sheffield Archives, 523 Shoreham Street, necessary to supply names, locations and at themselves can be a useful source of Sheffield SI 4SP (0742) 734756. least approximate dates for the events information as the entries usually give brief Local Studies Library, Central Library, Surrey concerned. Where these details are not details of each will. Small fees are payable Street, Sheffield SI IXZ. (0742) 734753. adequately known, indexes to the registers for either to see a copy of a will or to obtain a Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London the whole country are available at Saint photocopy. District Probate Registries hold WC2A 1LR (081) 876 3444. Catherines House, London. The indexes are records back to 1935. wills before 1858 and as West Yorkshire Archive Service, Newstead arranged in quarterly volumes and do not give far back as 1383 were normally proved in an Road, Wakefield WF1 2DE (0924) 295982. precise dates for the events but provide a ecclesiastical court. The wills proved in local, Principal Registry of the Family Division, reference enabling a certificate to be ordered. minor courts are mostly kept in the appropriate Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R lLP. These indexes may be seen locally, as film Diocesan Office, often a County Record 071 936 6000. copies, at the Family History Centre, Office. Wills that were proved in the The Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, Grenoside, Sheffield. Archbishop's Court are to be found either at St Anthony's Hall, Peasholme Green, York For relatives living 100 to 150 years ago, the Public Record Office, London or at the Y01 2PW (0904) 642315. the Census Returns for the years 1841, 1851, Borthwick Institute, York. F.F. Bownes

8 best, and to hear the comments of the instrument. Dore and Totley Community adjudicators. The festival will be going on all At present the small organising committee Arts Group day in the Wessex building of King Ecgbert has been formed in the main from interested School, and anyone is welcome to come in at parents of King Ecgbert School pupils, but we The new Dore and Totley Arts Group has any time for a small cost for the programme. In are keen to recruit members from a wider now been in existence for one year, and it addition there will be a prize-winners concert community base. We would also be pleased to seems a good time to review its achievements in the evening from 6-7pm. This festival is hear from anyone who has ideas from future in that time, and to think about future plans. actually the only one covering a range of events, which would encompass any of the arts The new group is a revival of a former musical instruments to be held within the city and need not be restricted to music. Anyone group that flourished in the area for over 10 boundary, and we are hoping that it will, in who is interested in serving on the committee, years after its founding in 1975, and the new time, build up to be a major annual event. or in offering help in any way, especially with committee is very grateful for the support and In addition to the music festival, we aim to the music festival, should contact Ann Tilly advice they received from the former organise a series of concerts, the venue again (Secretary), 22 Laverdene Drive, S 17 4HH (te!. committee. Previous highlights that may be being King Ecgbert School. We are also keen, 360268) or Margaret Spencer (Chairman), 24 remembered were concerts by the Grimethorpe wherever possible, to organise some practical Totley Brook Rd, Sl7 3QS (te!. 366212). Colliery Band and the Philip Jones Brass event, such as a music workshop, to link in Ensemble, and lecture-recitals by lames with the concert, and our second and third Old Ecclesall Blades, the percussionist, and Fritz Spiegel. events of the year illustrated this principle well. We have held three events in our first year, On October 15th last year we held our fist The present day parish of Ecclesall is all very different and all very well supported. concert, a recital by the distinguished Italian only part of a much older and larger Our first venture was to organise, at very short classical guitarist Stephano Grondona, a former Ecclesall which stretched from Limb Brook notice, the first Dore and Totley Competitive pupil of Segovia, and just over a week to todays city centre. It is hard to imagine Music Festival, held at King Ecgbert School on beforehand we organised a classical guitar now, what was an area of farms, small June 28th last year. The event attracted 55 workshop. Most of the people who attended the holdings and woodland that survived until competitors form quite a wide area, and workshop also came to the concert, joining a Sheffield's expansion in the l Sth and 19th resulted in some excellent music and a very large appreciative audience, and we felt that the centuries. Amid this rural setting early enjoyable day. The culmination was a short synergy between the two events had worked industry arose with quarrying, coal mining, evening concert of the prize-winners in each well. lead smelting and metal working thriving at class, and a trophy was presented to the overall Our second concert, a recital by the Wind times, to create a rich tapestry of history to winner by Mr David Fox of Fox's Music, who Ensemble from the Royal Northern College of explore. kindly sponsored the event. The second Dore Music in Manchester, is to be held on March In her book "How they lived in old and Totley Competitive Music Festival is to be 24th at 7.30pm. The programme will include Ecclesall", Mary Bramhilllooks a aspects of held on Saturday April 11th, and any musician Handel's well-known "The Arrival of the life in the area during the 17th and 18th (child or adult) who wishes to enter should Queen of Sheba", a Mozart Wind Octet, and centuries and at what we know about it's obtain an entry form from one of the committee music by Hummel and Waterhouse. Although houses, churches and families. The result is a members named below. Even if you do not there is no workshop associated with this event, 64 page insight into the period and of an area wish to perform, anyone who is at all interested the group are holding an open rehearsal at the sharing much of it's history with Dore. A in music will find it thoroughly absorbing to school at 4pm, and this should be of particular must for anyone interested in local history, listen to performers of all ages playing their interest to young people learning a wind the book is published by Sheaf Publishing Ltd, tel 739067, price £2.95.

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9 junction of Cottage Lane, Hangram Lane and Wood Cliffe. A footpath sign on the right Wartime in Dore indicates the way down the fields to Forge Dam and the river Porter. Those wishing to go On 9th January 1941, Michael Thornton up to Fulwood should cross the little river and aged 8 was a victim of two of the few bombs go via Brookhouse Hill. I suggest you stay on which fell on Dore during the second war. the south side and along the lane to your left It was about 9.00 p.m. and he was in the find Forge Dam Cafe which claims to be open house, lanford, on Old Hay Lane with Kathleen every day of the year. Toilets are nearby - the maid when the two bombs struck. One hopefully still open! destroyed the bedroom which he had just left, For the return journey retrace your steps having been awakened by the sound of the from the cafe to near the river bridge but do aircraft, and one the kitchen, such was the force not cross it. From the several ways hereabouts of the blast that the kitchen range was blown select the public bridle way (signposted) along right across the room. Ivy Cottage Lane. This inclines to the right Michael remembers being thrown to the gently upwards with views towards the Porter ground but luckily both he and the maid Valley and Wire Mill Dam. It was called escaped serious injury. In total, nine bombs "Muddy Lane" by we boys in the '30s - and it fell, the remaining seven causing large craters was. In ten or fifteen minutes the metalled nearby. Common Lane is reached. Go up it for only As the House was rendered uninhabitable 100 yards or so and turn in right at three large the family moved to one on The Meadway for stone gateposts on to the public bridleway two years until 1943. lanford was not rebuilt across Common Lane Open Space. This until 1947 as a result of the shortages of The Two Cafes Walk pleasant way leads to the old school in materials and labour. Cottage Lane and a signed path leads by the Michael believes that the plane has been hit This 7 mile walk takes us along sections of right hand side of the old building into a by anti-aircraft fire while on a raid over heavy the ancient and most direct route between shelter belt of trees which soon brings one to industrial targets in the east end of Sheffield Dore and Fulwood and returns by a slightly Road again. and discharged its remaining load of bombs longer alternative. Since there are cafes at Turn left down this road, cross it, and just over Dore as it fled west. Brook Park and at Forge Dam it has beyond the first house on the right enter a What memories do you have of Dore during sometimes been called "The Two Cafes metalled drive (not signed) taking you to the either the first or second wars? Walk". Allow a good half day to give time to changing rooms of Castle Dyke Council "stand and stare" and to admire the wide Playing Fields. Go round the building and views, if visibility permits. Start along Limb straight up across the sports fields. Two King Ecgbert School Update Lane and at Whirlow Bridge take the path groups of tall trees are on your skyline; aim following the "Round Walk Limb Valley" for the left hand group to find a gate giving • Pupils from the school will be involved in signpost. In about half a mile (IO to 15 access to a wide track known as Coit Lane. the South Y orksh ire Opera company's minutes) note a stone bridge on your left Left along here and gently down to Whirlow forthcoming production of Carmen. SYO, of brings the path from Whirlow Brook cafe Hall. Do not turn left on the lane towards which the new music teacher Suzanne winter down to meet your path at a "Round Walk Broad Elms, but go forward through a new is an active member, will also be providing Ringinglow" signpost. Follow this sign up the metal gate by the Public Bridleway sign into costumes for the next school production. valley for only about 100 yards, then take a Fenney Lane. Follow this very old packhorse • "Murder in the Music Hall" will be narrow path leading off right marked by a holloway down to Whirlow Bridge and then performed in Wessex Hall on the evenings of small, stout, wooden post. The way takes you to the cafe, or home. 31 st March, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd April. Tickets up through Bole Hill Plantation, becoming Ray Bullen will be available from the school. quite steep as one nears the top. It is • Fourteen A level Art Students will be waymarked but easy to find and steps cut into visiting Paris in April on a trip taken in the slope take you out of the wood and into , . D:<>REVll-EAGE conjunction with High Storrs. The students fields. SOCIETY . will visit among other places the Louvre, Pass through a drystone field wall and Palace of Versailles and the Pompidou immediately turn left alongside it for only 100 The objective of the Society is to foster Centre. yards before turning sharp right to follow long the protection and enhancement of the • WIN TWO FREE TICKETS to "Murder straight field walls all the way gently down to local environment and amenities within in the Music Hall". Send your name and the garden of Wigley "Farm". At the highest address and phone number together with Dore, encourage a spirit of community point pause to see the wide views, from The your answers to the questions below to Stan and record its historic development. Wheels tones (Coach and Horses) on distant Duke at the school by Monday 16th March. Derwent Edge across the southern parts of The winner will be drawn on 17th March Yorkshire to Derbyshire and north Notts. Chairman from all correct answer received. On reaching Wigley "Farm", cross Mr. A. C. Bownes Questions: Ringinglow Road and a little way up a Limpits Cottage 352107 I. Who hosted "The Good Old Days" on signpost and stile shows the way into the television? Council playing fields. Go straight down the Treasurer 2. A music hall duo were Flanagan and __ . Mr. C. Myers football fields (unless they are playing!) to a 3. Name a TV and stage comedian, devotee strong ladder stile in the stone wall at the I Rushley Avenue 365658 of the Music Hall, who recently had tax bottom. Over this and down one field and problems. arrive opposite the little old houses on Committee • The King Ecgbert School Association are Cottage Lane. This is known as Priest Hill organising an adult quiz on Friday 13th and the paths you have followed from the Mr. J. R. Baker 369025 March in Wessex Hall. Teams wishing to Limb Valley were only re-opened in 1985 Mrs. E. C. Bownes 352107 enter should contact the School on 369931. after a long campaign by The Ramblers" Mr. L. 1. Conway (Planning) 361189 Association. They were closed illegally after Mr. D. Dean 368082 • Funds recently raised for charity by the school include: the Ecclesall Enclosure of 1788 and one Mr. P. S. Dutfield 365850 wonders how many paths in the country have Mrs G Farnsworth 350609 Poppy Fund £25 ever been re-opened after al most two Mr. M. Hennessey 366632 Children in Need £60 (from 2 Year 7 forms) centuries. (For more details of this see "The Mr. J. W. Laver 361286 Help the Aged £1100 Old Days in Dore" note 49, page 38). Mrs. C. Veal 368437 Turn left along Cottage Lane for three (sponsored work out) Mrs. S. Wood 366424 minutes to reach the group of houses known Family Service Unit £250 anciently as Far Whiteley Wood Green at the (from the "Christmas Cracker")

10 Dore Show 1992 Provisional Class List

Vegetable and Fruit Section .

1 6 pods of runner beans 6 6 tomatoes on a plate 11 4 beetroot 2 3 onions, dressed 7 2 turnips or swedes without 12 4 white potatoes 3 1 cabbage, any variety tops 13 4 red potatoes 4 1 vegetable marrow 8 4 dessert apples 14 A tray of mixed vegetables 5 1 lettuce 9 4 cooking apples including salad 10 1 cucumber Flower Section .

15 5 dahlias, cactus variety 19 3 chrysanthemums,incurved 22 A vase of hardy perennial 16 5 dahlias, decorative variety or reflexed(same variety) flowers 17 A vase of mixed dahlias 20 A vase of spray 23 1 plant in a pot(max size 6") arranged to effect ch rysanthem ums 24 A vase of annuals 18 3 gladioli 21 6 roses, any container 25 A vase of heathers

Floral Art Section .

26 September Garden. An exhibit of fresh garden 28 Travels. An exhibit depicting a country. Any plant material. Space allowed 2'6" natural plant material allowed. space allowed 2'6" 27 Fascinating Foliage. An Exhibit of fresh foliage, 29 Sea Shell. An exibit using a shell as a container. with or without wood. Space allowed 2'6" Any natural plant material allowed. Max size 9"

Domestic Section .

30 4 butterfly buns 34 A Lemon Meringue pie 8" 38 A loaf of bread 31 4 afternoon-tea Scones 35 A savoury flan 8-9" ring 39 A jar of raspberry jam with fruit 36 An apple pie on a plate 40 A jar of marmalade 32 A Dundee Cake 37 A plate of biscuits,any 41 A decorated cake 33 A Victoria Sandwich variety 42 A Victoria Sandwich- gentlemen only Wine Section .

43 A bottle of home made wine,dry red 45 A bottle of home made wine, dry white 44 A bottle of home made wine,sweet red 46 A bottle of home made wine,sweet white

Textile Craft Section .

47 A hand knitted adult 49 A piece of crochet 51 An exhibit from a kit garment work,tatting or macrame 52 A soft toy 48 An original piece of 50 A machine knitted garment embroidery any size

Visual Arts Section .

53 A water colour painting 56 Black & White photograph - 58 A piece of sculpture 54 An oil painting a figure in an environment 59 A craft exhibit in any 55 A drawing any medium 57 Colour photograph - a material landscape

Junior Section .

60 A vegetable animal 63 A painting or drawing age 9 66 A craft exhibit age up to 8 61 A painting or drawing of a to 14 67 A craft exhibit age 9 to 14 house age up to 5 64 A miniature garden 68 3 decorated buns or 62 A painting or drawing of an 65 An arrangement of flowers biscuits, age up to 14 animal or person age 5 to 8 in an egg cup

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Every Thursday. Ladies Keep Fit. United Reformed Church, Totley Diary - Spring 1992 Brook Road, 7.30 to 9pm.

MARCH Every Saturday. Coffee Morning, Dore Methodist Church lOam to 3 Annual Dinner. Tuesday Group, Dore Methodist Church. 12 noon. All welcome. 4 Commencement of United Lent Services with Christ Church Dore, every Wednesday until Easter. Every Saturday (unless advised) Venture Scout Car Wash Service. 11 Counsillors' Advice Surgery. Dore Ward. Totley Library Scout H.Q. Rushley Road. £1 inc. coffee. lOam to 12 noon. 5.30-6.30pm. 11 A.G.M. Dore E.T.G. Old School 7.30pm. Bottle Bank Collection. Scout H.Q. Rushley Road. 13 Quiz Night. King Ecgbert School Assn. Main Hall. 7.30pm. Tickets 369931. First Saturday each month. Waste Paper Collection by Scouts. 16 Malaysia & Thailand - slide show by Stella Joyce, Totley Recreation Ground Car Park. Townhead Road. 9.30 to 11.30am. Residents Association, Totley Library. 7.45pm. 17 Costumes for S.Y.O. Mrs Felicity White. Tuesday Group, Dore Methodist Schoolroom 7.45pm. IS-21 Dead Ringer by Charles Ross. United Reform Church Hall, ToAll OOj~fir{}tI.~A~ea Totley Brook Road. For tickets tel. 364440 or call at Martin's shop Abbeydale Road. /1(~UN:';~11rjdalt# !loa /0 fl'"olf([JON,t() [JOOI'", 21 Jumble Sale. Tuesday Group, Dore Methodist Church 2pm. In £If(~ ()ttll(~l'".fttlal(tiel'"ttI/ti. !I()a;,t().f()If(~th-at I~ a bOI'"~, aid of Dorcas Club. 24 Concert. Royal Northern Wind Ensemble. Dore and Totley n~1( al'l' ttI~ an al'tie to!I()a, e-aoh-;ati.a IOJ'/!I Io(), Community Arts Group, Main Hall, King Ecgbert's School 7.30pm. Tickets 366212 or 36026S. n().f~ ()f M ttll'ti.()atdo/.f il(()ttI th-at ti./~ I~ tl'"a~, 2S Jumble Sale. King Ecgbert's School Assn. Main Building (01'"al'l' alolfj oa»f()ot;ati. ,. 1'"~1f(e-lf(bl'"al(euan f()al(I 2pm. 29 Mothering Sunday Dore Methodist Church 10.30am. /fI(I t() tl'"!I al(l dodj~ ti.u~ i.()I'"I'"ON,le.; ~!lU o/'{)I(ti.~ /1'"()aI(o!. 31 Our New Minister. Rev. A. Dawson, Tuesday Group, Dore Methodist Church 7.45pm. To;eI(.fIOI(~I'".fttll'ti. tl'"oI'le~ al(l t();ffalf(.f ttll'ti. t()ts>lir t()ttI 31- Murder in the Music Hall, a musical thriller. King Ecgbert 3 Apr School. Tickets 369931 daytime, 369025 evenings. n~ tnaltlrj of ti.at ;ati.ttlfl!! I~ a I(a.f~ tMi !I()a il(()ttI, /fl(e! ttli.11ettI~~~()I(ti.~ .fa4l'ee~ ttI~ttI()aI'Ija.rt I'tie to If(eI(ttOI( APRIL nat aa»/auttl~ al(l ti.e-.fi/~ttlal'i.r do 1(Pt'uea;~ att~l(ttOI(, 5 Home Missions Service led by Sister Anne Eleanor, Dore Methodist Church. 10.30am. (Of coo-se a/e:il(()ttI ti./~ If(U.fQj~ ti.~ eal(lir~ eal(l(()tI'"~a" S Counsillors' Advice Surgery. Dore Ward. Totley Library Bat f()1'"elo.f~1'".fo/'~I'"f)'/~/OI(of !l0al'";nelOM ;~ts> ttI~;leao!.) 5.30-6.30pm. 11 Competitive Music Festival. Dore & Totley Community Arts Group. King Ecgbert School. 9am - 5pm. Winners concert 6pm. 13 Crystal Glass -Talk by Danny Barlow. Totley Residents Association, Totley Library. 7.45pm. 14 Meadowhall Shopping Complex. Talk by a representative, Tuesday Group, Dore Methodist Church 7.45pm. 15 Spring Meeting, Dore Village Society Spm, Old Village School. Illustrated talk by Bob Warburton on local wildlife. 17 Good Friday Service. Dore Methodist Church 10.30am. 19 Easter Day Service. Dore Methodist Church 10.30am. on your side 24-25 Art Exhibition Dore Art Group, Old Village School, 10.30-Spm Fri, 1O-5pm Sat. 27 AGM Totley Residents Association, Totley Library. House Moves, 7.30pm.29 A.G.M. Dore Methodist Church 7.30pm Matrimonial Settlements, 2S- Iolanthe. Dore Gilbert & Sullivan Society. University Drama Family Law, 2 May Studios, Glossop Road. Tickets 362299. Wills, Financial Planning and Investments, Corporate Matters, MAY Litigation and Debt Recovery

1-2 Painting Exhibition Abbeydale Art Group, St John's Church are settled quickly and efficiently. Hall. 1O.30-Spm Fri, 10-5.30pm Sat. 4 May Day Ramble led by Roy Bullen. Dore Methodist Church Phone Oavid Law or Step hen Williams 10.30am. for details:- 5 Visit to Holdsworth's Chocolates, Bakewell. Tuesday Group. Dore Methodist Church 7.45pm. 13 Councillors' Advice Surgery Dore Ward. Totley Library 5.30-6.30pm. IS Railways & Photographs. Talk by D. Benson, Vicar of All Saints Church, Totley Residents Association. Totley Library 7.45pm. 19 American Square Dancing led by Mr F. Rowland. Tuesday Group, Dore Methodist Church 7.45pm. SOLICITORS Dore to Door is published quarterly by Dore Village Society and Head Office: delivered free to 3000 homes in the Dore area. If you are interested in Telegraph House, submitting an article or letter, have local news to report, or wish to High Street. Sheffield SI 1PT place an advertisement, please contact John Baker on 369025 Tel: 0742700999 (evenings) or write to the address on the front cover. No part of Dore to Door may be reproduced in full or part, without the written permission ofDore Village Society. 12