'DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY No. 36 WINTER 1994 ISSN 0965-8912

Seasons greetings

The Editor and Dore Village Society Committee would like to take this opportunity to send Season's Greetings to all the readers of Dore to Door, wherever you are. 1994 was a good year for the magazine which regularly achieved 16 pages and was delivered to over 3,000 local households each quarter. So a special thank you from the Dore to Door editorial team to those who give up their time to deliver Dore to Door, and the advertisers without whose financial support the magazine simply could not survive. Lets hope 1995 proves a turning point for the local economy and provides satisfactory resolutions to many of the issues we face. New Secure Unit

Over 200 people attended the public meeting at King Ecgbert School to hear details of the proposal for a Secure Unit on Limb Lane. Those in the firing line on the top table included, the Director of Social Services An old photo taken approx 1927 outside The Devonshire Arms and sent in by A. Thorpe. Left to Martin Manby, Councillor Steve Jones, Chair right they are: Mr Watkins, Joe Dennif], William Thorpe, Ted Thorpe ????? John Stone, John of the Family & Community Services Thorpe ????? Adam Siddall. William Thorpe was the landlord -later Ted Thorpe after the death Committee and representatives from the of his mother Jane. John Stone was the well known blacksmith recently mentioned. The group Architects office and the Secure Unit at Hull. was probably associated with the Old Dore Ploughing Society. After a short presentation of the proposals the heated questions from the floor showed News in Brief the extent of opposition to the siting of a combined secure and open unit on the present Dick Dean and Jean Dean of Greens site. Residents wanted reassurance about just shop on Causewayhead Road retired at the how secure the new unit would be and were end of October, and would like to pass on told that no one had absconded from the their thanks to all their customers over the secure unit at Hull since it was opened. years. Nicholas Dean and Paul Bellamy have Questions were also raised about the likely taken over the shop and look forward to impact on crime in the area and why it should continuing local support for the business. be sited in Dore at all. A Christmas Exhibition by Brian The council representatives tried to explain Edwards, of framed and unframed prints for the reasoning as to why the Limb Lane site sale, covering Dore, and the Peak was chosen. There were also questions about District, is to be held at Shape Design on how the 4 bed open unit would work Abbeydale Road South. Open from Tuesday alongside the secure unit and how the units 29th November to Sunday 11th December, would be staffed. 9am to 5.30pm Tuesday to Saturday. Special It was stressed that the secure unit means openings Sunday 27th November and 4th that the youngsters would be secure 24 hrs a December from I lam to 4pm when Brian will day, which is different from the present when be working publicly on new drawings. in the open unit there are no powers to restrain youngsters who can come and go as they please. DORE VILLAGE It would be fair to say that the meeting generated a lot of heat, but little light. It SOCIETY would seem that originally all three political Jack Simmons from Dore Infant School has a parties voted in favour of a secure unit in Autumn Meeting close encounter with a Barn Owl at , built with central government funds. 8.00pm Hall Farm Fayre. Dissent only arose when Dore was suggested. Even before the public meeting the full Wednesday 23 November 1994 Council had already voted in favour of the Old Village School Wanted proposal' A II that remains now is for the Council to give itself planning permission. Speaker Dr fan Rotherham Old pictures of Dore; memories; articles The Dore Village Society will be formally on the village or it's history; news; ideas for objecting to the application to build the 4 City ecologist competitions etc. Contact the editor on 236 bedded open unit. Ed 9025.

INSIDE: Citizens arrest- Yorkshire Tiger • Farming Scene • Letters' Ramblers Association • Book Reviews • and much much more! "

Editorial

The current concern in the village about proposals for a secure unit on Limb Lane and the development off Newfield Lane, serve to hi-light the distance between us as individuals and the democratic process. As individuals or as a community, we were not consulted in advance about the Limb Lane proposals, nor party to the decision making process. On Newfield Lane we may protest, but the decision will be made by others from outside the community, using criteria we did not set and with no right of appeal for us. We elect councillors and a MP to represent the interests of the people of Dore in Sheffield and the country as a whole, but who makes decisions about issues in our immediate community. Not us! Some would argue that this is the fundamental reason behind people becoming disillusioned with politics and the way things are run - the individual has no voice. The Junction of Abbeydale Road South and Abbey Lane before the First World War. The Perhaps we should have a Parish Council, Beauchief Hotel was then the Abbeydale Hotel.proprietor John Turner. The building was certainly Sheffield is too large and remote originally Abbeydale Station - the name of which is still to be seen above the front door. The from Dore to cover many local issues. Maybe building on the left was then a post office and newsagents - now the site of a stationers. the answer lies in some of the more imaginative ideas about how people can be News in brief The vital stages of man: in vol ved in deci sions affecting their He believes in Father Christmas; communities, as currently doing the rounds in Nina Cockburn of Dore recently won the he does not believe in Father Christmas; Europe. Bradford area round of the Audi Junior he is Father Christmas' In the meantime if you care about your Musician Competition. She went on to play community and what is happening to it, why her violin in the Scottish Regional final and not become more involved in the Dore Village has subsequently been offered a recital for the Book Reviews Society and/or in the production of Dore to Harrogate & Ripon Musical Society next Door - any of the committee members would June. Sheffield on Wheels is a people's history be pleased to hear from you. At the same time local Becky Hawley was of transport in the city. There are The Dore Village Society and Dare to piloting her pony Bay Rocket to a best cross contributions from over 80 different authors, Door, should be the voice of our community. country award, as a member of the British all of whom have their own tales to tell about It is up to you to ensure this' Ed. team at the European championships in travel and transport. Belgium. The book is divided into three sections, Christmas Walks Stamps for the Christmas Scout Post will Trams, looks at transport as a means of be on sale in the village from November 24th, getting to and from work. Jams, is about the The National Trust and the Ramblers' and the last posting day will be Thursday effects transport has on a city and how the city Association have joined together for a series December 16th. copes, and Charabancs is about getting away of walks during the festive season, led by from it all - days out, beanos and a night on representatives of the two organisations and Fine Foods[rom the town. mainly routed across some of the 590,555 The range of contributions is enormous, acres of countryside protected by the Trust. Dcre Village Delicatessen with the inevitable comparisons between Many of the walks will appeal to all ages; a 'Telephone 236 a5'14 Sheffield's legendary tramway system and few are protected by the Trust. many of the Suggestionsfor your Christmas Fayre Supertram and the decline and fall of Britain's walks will appeal to all ages; a few are not railway network. This doesn't mean though suitable for very young children. Unless that this is a book for the bus or train spotter, otherwise stated, dogs are welcome, provided Oak smoked salmon, trout or venison, there are lots of memories of what it was like they are on leads. Warm, waterproof clothing Parma ham, selection offish and liver pates to use public and private transport in the city. and stout footwear are essential for all the Illustrated with over 70 photographs from walks. For many, especially the upland and Greenhead House Soups the collection housed in the Local Studies moorland walks, boots are strongly advised. Library, this would make a great stocking- Tuesday 27 December - Grindleford filler for the transport enthusiast or anyone meet 9.30am at Grindleford Station Car Park wanting a different angle on Sheffield History. for an 8 mile walk over moorland and Published by Yorkshire Arts Circus it is gritstone. Contact: Eric Cheetham (RA) Tel: available from most local bookshops price (0625) 877700 Day 06525 426387 Evg. £9.95. Wednesday 28 December - Hardwick Central Sheffield is a compilation of Hall and Park Meet 10.30 am at National images of an area within a mile of the Market Trust Car Park, Hardwick Hall for 6 mile walk Place. These have been selected from the over parkland, fields, meadowland and wood. collection of over 60,000 photographs housed Wednesday 28 December - High Peak in the Local Studies Library. Covering the Estate Meet 1O.30am at Edale Car Park (Map period from around 1850 until 1950 more than Ref SKI25 835) for a fairly arduous walk of 8 200 photographs detail life in the city centre. miles in the Edale Valley and the edge of Selected from personal collections, official Kinder Scout. Bring a packed lunch. Contact: sources, commercial postcards and private High Peak Estate Office (NT) Tel: 0422 family albums the look is a testament to the 670368 Frank Ogden (RA) Tel: 0742 368015. beauty, spirit and charm of the evolving city Thursday 29 December - Kinder Estate Petits fours and choc mints centre of the past. Meet 1 I am at Hayfield Bus Station for Central Sheffield is published by Alan moderate 6/7 mile walk. Bring a picnic lunch. Biscuits and gifts for under the tree Sutton Ltd, price £8.99. Contact: Ron McLoughlin (RA) Tel: 061 643 8346. 2 ••

Village Carols

The aim of the Village Carols project is to document the localised Christmas carol singing traditions of villages and towns in and in particular the South Pennines. Over 700 hours of tape recordings, manuscripts and other materials are being indexed and organised into a usable archive for which there is public access. The recordings are being copied and the copies placed in the national sound Archive of the British Library and in the Archives of Cultural Tradition at the University of Sheffield. These 'local' carols are usually distinguished by a core that dates back to the eighteenth century, some of which originated in the locality. They are 'fuguing' in character and are usually sung in two parts, treble and bass, referred to locally as 'firsts' and 'seconds' . Illustration featured on the front of the 1994 Dore Village Society Christmas card. A vailable from In the South Pennines the most common location for performance is the public house Greens shop on Causeway Head Road. and in most cases they are sung informally The latest release from Village Carols is Ingredients: (serves 6) without music scores, without a conductor Carols from the Traveller's Rest 340g(l20z) packet of rich sweet shortcrust without rehearsals and without a programme. . This 80 minute, recording pastry; 6 Bananas; 60g(20z) crushed pecans; The season for the carols varies captures twenty one local carols. The words of 300ml( 1I2pt) double cream; 3 eggs; I tbs considerably,.For example, in the carols and the story of this unique tradition vanilla sugar; 2tbs rum singing starts on the first Thursday after are told in an accompanying 44 page Method: Armistice Day and sings are once a week, illustrated book. Village Carols from the Roll out pastry and line a 10" loose- whereas Foolow only sing on Christmas Day. Travellers Rest Oughtibridge: Stereo Music bottomed fluted flan tin; press up the edges A Festival of Village Carols is to be held Cassette: Costs £7.00 plus 75p Postage. well and prick the base. Leave to relax for 10 at Community Centre on Saturday Available from: Village Carols, Bridge to 15 min. 3rd December from 9.30 am to 11.30 pm. House, Unstone, S18 5AF. Tel: 0246417315. Bake 'blind' for 10 min at 190 C, 375 For This will feature workshops to help Gas mark 5. Peel and slice the bananas; line participants learn sixteen or so carols from the the base of the pastry case with the banana core repertoire of the north west of the City. A La Carte slices and sprinkle with nuts. Mix the cream Food and refreshments will be available with the beaten eggs, add sugar and rum, then further details from the address below - Why not counter the winter chills with a carefully pour over the bananas. Bake in the booking is essential I tropical touch - Banana and Pecan Tart: oven for a further 20 to 25 minutes. Serve warm with cream. Dore Moor Nursery

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Guides 40th Anniversary

In April of this year Judith Jackson and I compiled a list of 'old' Guides from the 125th Company. From record sheets, registers and photographs, this resulted in over 400 names. Hilda Jay has a log book bursting with photos of her Guiding years, from which she made a list of about 60 Guides, who were members during her years as Captain, from 1954 until 1961. She knew the whereabouts of most of these girls, so that we could send them invitations to our 40th Anniversary Party. From the remainder, we traced all but about 80. Many letters, phone calls and detective work was required to contact some of the 'old' guides. We discovered that many now live abroad in such places as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America, as well as the four corners of the . In the process of our task, Bessie, Colley told us that there were several ladies living locally and further afield, who were members Hilda Jay surrounded by ladies who were Guides when she was Captain between 1954 & 1961, of the 125th Company in the 1930' s. With the taken at the 40th anniversary party on September 24th 1994. help of Bessie, her sister Dorothy, Jean Dean and Betty Barton (nee Green), we contacted cut the Birthday Cake, made and beautifully extra bedding during the cold months. over 30 of these ladies and 15 accepted the decorated by Norah Hollis. Hilda, Beryl Outdoor fish will be starved of oxygen if invitation to join our celebrations. I was Bradford and Lynn Tasker, all leaders of the their ponds are allowed to freeze over so it is particularly delighted to trace two of the Grant 125th Guides, were presented with bouquets. wise to make a daily check. If the temperature sisters, Jean and Biddy, who were the original Unfortunately Joyce Farris and Helen Swain drops, float a large plastic ball on the pond leaders of the guides in the 1930' s. Jean is (Bedford), also past leaders, could not be which can then be removed to leave an air- now 84 and is in touch with Peggy Sandham there. Angela Hogg (Barron) received her 10 hole in the ice. The ice must not be broken as (nee Green) who lives not far from her in Year Long Service Bar and Judith Jackson vibrations could harm the fish. Oxfordshire. was given her 30 Year Long Service Bar, for Outdoor dog kennels should be made So on the afternoon of Saturday September being warranted as a Guider since 1964. She draught and damp free by hanging a piece of 24th over 100 ladies arrived at the Church was also presented with an engraved cut glass carpet over the entrance (which must face Hall to join in our 40th Birthday Celebrations. rose bowl, in recognition of her long and south during the winter). A blanket or clean, Judith and I had put together a display of tireless work with the 125th Guides. dry straw will keep a dog comfortable and photos over the decades, along with other Following these presentations about 20 of warm if changed frequently. memorabilia, such as a video of the the present day guides sang some traditional Owning a pet can be an enjoyable and guides in the 1960's. Karen Pyle (Bishop) camp fire songs and performed several stunts, rewarding experience but Christmas is not the even brought her rucksack containing her ably led by Angela Hogg and May Hearnshaw ideal time for introducing a pet into the family camp crockery' (Smith). home. The extra noise, the numerous visitors We were greatly relieved that Hilda Jay Dore Trefoil Guild produced some and the general change from normal routine could be with us. She had spent a few days in delicious refreshments for which we were creates an unsettling atmosphere for a new hospital, after collapsing at home, but in true very grateful and so we partook of these and pet. If you have thought long and hard about Guiding spirit, she was determined to be continued the afternoon chatting and having a new pet then get the relationship off there. She made a speech about how she reminiscing. Judging from the comments to a good start by waiting until after Christmas became involved in the Guide Movement and made, everyone enjoyed themselves, when you can offer your new companion the particularly becoming re-acquainted with time and patience they deserve. 'old' friends from many year ago. We have If you already own a pet you will need to heard that they are eagerly awaiting the 50th be responsible for the animal's health and Anniversary' Pamela Butterworth safety over the Christmas period. • "Treating" your pet to mince pies, Pets in Winter Christmas pudding or other rich foods may give the animal an upset stomach. If you want Winter chills can bring suffering to many to pamper your pet at Christmas specially pets unless owners take the necessary steps to formulated treats are readily available. But keep them happy and healthy - warns please do not encourage your pet to over Britain's largest veterinary charity the indulge or consume alcohol. People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. • Pets can be fascinated by the glitter of Pets such as rabbits and guinea pigs should Christmas decorations and may even attempt be housed in dry weather-proofed hutches and to eat them. So please ensure that all should be cleaned out at least twice a week. A decorations are hung well out of your pet's diet of carrots, turnips and swedes is a good reach especially sprigs of holly and mistletoe substitute for greens during the winter and a which have poisonous berries. regular supply of fresh good quality hay • Also, before you pull your Christmas should also be given. The water supply in the crackers and party poppers please ensure that hutch must also be checked twice daily in case your pets are out of earshot as loud bangs may it freezes. frighten them. Dogs and cats who have ventured out into The PDSA is Britain's largest veterinary the rain or snow should always be thoroughly charity providing free treatment for over 1.4 NATIONAL HAIR CONSULTANT towel-dried. As the glow of a nice warm fire m ill io n- sick and injured pets each year. 1)eost Wiosheos for can be dangerously attractive, all fires should Donations can be sent to PDSA, 7 Christmas and the Hew Year be guarded. Greenhead Road, Huddersfield 0484 513440 to all our custcrners Caged birds need to be in a draught-free and there is a PDSA shop at 13 Cumberland 'Telephone 236 62Q8 room, not too near a fire and hamsters and Street, Sheffield open 9am to 5pm Monday to other small caged pets will appreciate a little Saturday. 4 The petals were stuck to boards rather than the pavement, whether in leaves or snow, why Letters wet clay. do some turn a blind eye. Please remember The subjects apparently range from the those who still walk and clear the leaves or Dear Sir allegorical to the political. I had only a short snow from in front of your house. And not Being Australian and married to an time and could not go into the details. I saw just the end of the drive. There is nothing expatriate of Dore - one, Jack Pycroft - since one leaflet said the "Pugnaloni" are "force worse than being faced by a pile of leaves or 1945, I have been educated to recognise many unico al mondo", They obviously don't know snow cleared from a driveway entrance onto names and places synonomous with Dore and Dore! the adjacent pathway. surrounding areas. That is why I, along with Since it seems doubtful whether many Sadly the stable, with all it's almost intact my husband, derive such great pleasure from people in have heard of internal features, has gone from next to the reading the village magazine "Dore to Door" Acquapendente or vice versa, I wondered Devonshire. What was, with the blacksmiths which is so kindly mailed to us each quarter whether you knew anybody in the Well shop and pig styes, a unique group of by Jack's aunt, Mrs Clark and his cousin Jean. Dressing scene who might be interested in buildings, has been reduced to a pseudo You and your staff are to be congratulated making contact with the Italian version? period setting at a cost reputedly in excess of on a concise and informative publication Henry Hart £300,000. How many meals will need to be which we thoroughly enjoy reading. Although Forest Hill, London served to earn that much profit I wonder. Still we live so far away we like to hear about all it could have been worse, at least the building the village activities as well as the reminiscent is in stone and some attempt has been made to letters and articles pertaining to bygone days. Have you noticed blend it in. On a more positive note, those Best wishes for your continued growth and who have lived in Dore for any length of time Season's Greeting to all your readers. Close your eyes for a moment and the will applaud the improvement in appearance Beth Pycroft developers are back, this time in a social of the semi opposite the top end of the New South Wales Australia guise. The western edge of Dore ends at Townhead Road shops following recent Dear Sir Newfield Lane and all the better for it. The building work. I recently undertook a walk to Rome. One green belt provides protection to the Doremouse place we stayed at was Aquapendente, where countryside next to the city and without it the they have a tradition of making displays of urban sprawl that is Sheffield would spread pictures made from, inter alia, flower petals. and spread. Ringing the Changes They celebrate an event in 1166, when The dividing line between country and apparently the citizens revolted against the town has to be drawn somewhere. No doubt if You may have noticed many adverts and imperial officials of Frederick I, Barbarossa. there was profit in it, someone would articles in this issue have new seven figure The signal for the revolt was the flowering of advocate repopulating the Iron Age site at numbers and a different area code. These are a cherry tree. Carl Wark. Undoubtedly it is profit not social also printed in the latest local directory in We saw some of the stored pictures in a consciousness which drives the agent for this anticipation of national changes by BT in local church - it may well have been the proposed development. Lets hope no City April next year. cathedral. Anyway, they put me in mind of councillors jump on this bandwagon and use In Sheffield the changes involve adding a the Derbyshire well-dressing, although the the so-called social argument for chipping 2 to the front of existing numbers and a new techniques seemed rather different, with paint. away further at Dore's green fields. area code of 0114 instead of 0742. All the It is possible they painted over the petals to We all enjoy Dores rural surroundings, new numbers can be used now, so don't forget preserve the colours of the picture. The petals which is why many people moved here in the to tell your distant friends and relatives on would have faded by the time we were there. first place. But when nature shows her face on your Christmas cards'

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The Earls and Dukes of Devonshire

The third in a series of articles

William Cavendish, third Earl of Devonshire (1617-1684) Namesake of both his grandfather and his father, the third generation William Cavendish inherited the Devonshire earldom at the early age of eleven. If he was to prove a better guardian of the Cavendish estates than his father, careful preparations for his future role had to be completed. Fortunately, his formative years had been spent under the conscientious influence of his mother, the Countess Christiana, who went on to spend the earliest years of her widowhood settling debts which for a time had threatened to jeopardise the future of her two sons. High Street Dore from a post card sent in 1913. The corner sweet shop was then a stationers. This done, the Countess re-employed her late husband's old tutor, the philosopher behind Prince Rupert in the cavalry charge at literature and science. He started to assemble Thomas Hobbes, to complete and broaden the Edgehill and distinguished himself a library which has since grown into possibly education of her elder son. Between 1634 and sufficiently to be given command of Royalist the most important and valuable in private 1637 Hobbes introduced him to the major forces in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. hands in England. Much credit for its cities of Europe. At the age of twenty-three he fell in action foundation must go to his lifelong companion In 1639 the handsome Third Earl of when his soldiers faced Cromwell at Thomas Ho bbe s , by this time famous Devonshire married Elizabeth Cecil, daughter Gainsborough in 1643. throughout Europe as author of Leviathan. of the Earl of Shrewsbury. The previous year It was in memory of Charles Cavendish This work was much despised but the he had completed his first term of office as that his mother built the chapel at Peak Forest. philosopher remained under the family's Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire, following Only after Restoration of the Monarchy could devoted wing until he ended his days in their which he became High Steward of Ampthill it be dedicated to St. Charles, King and household in 1679. and joint Commissioner of Array for Martyr, according to her wishes. William Cavendish survived Thomas Leicestershire. William, meanwhile, had been present Hobbes by only five years. He died on 23 The Cavendishes maintained their with King Charles at York in 1642, in which November 1684 at his house at Roehampton accustomed royal favour. As a child, William year he was expelled from the House of Lords and was brought back to Edensor for burial. had been created Knight of the Bath at the and ordered to stand committed to the Tower. His widow Elizabeth survived him by five coronation of Charles I, and the Countess This followed his refusal to take his place in years. Their son and only surviving child, Christiana became a trusted friend of Queen parliament, for which he was impeached another William, succeeded to the title; a Henrietta Maria. It was inevitable that this together with eight other peers of high crimes younger son had died unmarried in 1670. prominent Royalist family would later and misdemeanours. The new Earl buried his father with become drawn into the Civil War. From the Well aware of the potential dangers of honours which would have befitted a Duke, a start the Earl and his younger brother, political protest, the Earl left England to live title which he felt had been unfairly withheld. Charles, put their fortunes and their lives at in France, upon which his estates were This honour would yet come to the House of the disposal of the King. Charles Cavendish, sequestrated. The Dowager Countess watched Cavendish, and sooner than anyone could the epitome of a brave and gallant cavalier, events with dismay. The death of her younger have foreseen. Iulie Bunting raised a regiment at his own expense and saw son had made William's survival paramount repeated action as its bold colonel. He rode and she used her still-strong influence to persuade him to return to England in 1645 Newfield lane and, of vital importance, to appear willing to compromise his Royalist sympathies by Eric Kalman, of Whirlowdale Road, acting ·S.A. SWIFT· submitting to parliament. on behalf of the owners of the land between The Earl was pardoned upon a fine of Dore Moor House and Dore Moor £5,000 and went to live with his mother in her Nursery, has submitted an outline planning Buckinghamshire home, Latimers. The King application for residential development. "SPECIALIST CATERING SERVICES FOR ALL OCCASIONS" spent a night there in the middle of October Mr Kalman's high profile proposal 1645. After a time the Earl did move back to envisages a mix of rented and private housing • Buffets • Function Caterers his childhood home, Hardwick Hall, but had on the extensive site. The social element of to wait for the Restoration before he could the scheme is seen as a transparent attempt to • Lunches • Corporate Events return to Chatsworth, which had been persuade the Council to breach its long occupied by both sides in turn during the Civil standing Green Belt plan for the area, and • Dinners • Exclusive Hampers War. follows similar initiatives elsewhere in the • Meetings • Celebrations The unassuming lifestyle of the Third Earl, region. coupled with the disturbances of recent years, When contacted recently Mr Kalman was left him with no inclination to squander his unaware of the many sites in Dore and nearby inheritance. During the Commonwealth he areas, already with outline planning consent. had been restricted to acting as its guardian It is hoped that the Council will continue but once back at Chatsworth he was able to to uphold its policy with respect to set about attending to its upkeep and restoring development in the Green Belt as evidenced order. Updating the great house revealed the by recent decisions on applications at Limb FOR MORE INFORMATION AND MENUS CALL: first worrying indications of major faults in its Lane, Longline and Totley Hall Lane. proportions when cracks opened up in the If you wish to object to this application (0114) 236 7560 masonry. write to-the Department of Land and Planning, In 1660 the Earl was reappointed Lord Town Hall, Sheffield SI 2HH. A petition THE TOTLEY COFFEE SHOPPE Lieutenant of Derbyshire and Steward of against the proposal is circulating in the 51 BASLOW ROAD, TOTLEY, Tutbury before becoming Steward of the High villageThe Village Society Committee met on SHEFFIELD, S17 4DL Peak. Having, literally, put his house in order 9th November 1994 when it was unanimously he allowed himself more time to study agreed to object to the proposal. 6 pandemonium theatre and they did a play Dore Junior School about Queen Elizabeth I and more or less Dore Show 1994 what happened in her reign. It included music On the 23rd of September Dore Junior they had made up by themselves. They also Despite rain on the day, entries for the 94 Schools Sponsored Walk took place. All the had a variety of customers they kept changing show were only slightly down on last year, children did laps round the field and at the end into for different bits of the scenes. All the and true to form 'Dore' turned out raincoats everyone was exhausted! Lots of parents came school saw it and everyone clapped loudly and umbrellas at the ready in the afternoon. to help and some even walked too. So far we and cheered at the end. After a better growing year than recently, have raised £2563 which will all go to buying This report was compiled by Rosanna the vegetable & flower sections were well Acorn A4000 computers for the school. We Moore, Naomi Altum and Susannah Corker supported, as were the domestic and wine have now got enough money for three systems (All aged 10) on one of our new Acorn 4000 classes. At the Old School there were more but the money is still coming in!!! computers. sides tails than any previous year, even A total of £250 has been raised by Dore overflowing onto the front playground and Junior School for the Macmillan Nurses pushing the Sheffield City Morris Men to Appeal. The money was collected by school DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY perform on Savage Lane - closed for the pupils selling buns, biscuits, books and craft Registered Charity No. 1017051 duration of the show. The Stannington Brass items during September and October 1994. Band excelled themselves playing in a large Dore Village Society, Limpits Cottage, There was also a very successful coffee tent (which seemed to help the acoustics) and Dore, Sheffield S17 3DT. morning attended by parents and friends of the for those who have always wondered how school. In order to make sure we raised The objective of the Society is to foster they do it, there was a chance to try for enough money we drew round our deputy the protection and enhancement of the themselves at a welldressing demonstration. head, Mr Scholey, and stuck 2ps and 5 pound local environment and amenities within Most importantly everyone seemed to notes over him. Because he is very tall we Dore, encourage a spirit of community enjoy themselves and thanks to a band of made a bet that if we covered him he would and record its historic development. dedicated helpers and all those who exhibited have to waltz with our head teacher, Mr or attended, this year's show can safely be Wileman. We did cover Mr Scholey so in Chairman counted another success. assembly they danced together which the Mr. A.C. Bownes In the meantime make a note in your Limpits Cottage, pupils found very funny. Some of the money diaries for Saturday 9th September 1995. Causeway Head Road S 17 3DT 2352107 raised will go to support one nurse who works in the Sheffield Childrens Hospital helping Treasurer Mrs. C. Veal very sick patients. 172 Dore Road, S 17 3HA 2368437 English weeks is where we had a story Toads teller visit our school. he told us some stories Dore to Door about horrid giants and scary ghostly tales. He Mr. J.R. Baker This years winter production by TOADS is 8 Thornsett Gardens, S 17 3PP 2369025 told them in a funny kind of accent. All the of "There Goes The Bride" by Ray Cooney & school thought he was really good. He also Committee John Chapman. Wednesday 23rd November played his concertina and his piccolo and Mrs. G. Farnsworth 2350609 to Saturday 26th, 7.30pm at St John's Church Mr. M. Hennessey 2366632 some other musical instrument that goes with Hall, Abbeydale Road South. Tickets from Mrs. S. Ross 235 1948 the story. Kate Reynolds, 3 Totley Grange Close, phone We also had some people from the 2366891. FirstSteps Nursery School The Old School, Savage Lane, Dore.

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Farming Notes

After all the hype, Vesting Day came and went with hardly a flurry. Vesting Day was the day the Milk.. Marketing Board ceased to be. In its place is a voluntary co-op named Milk Marque due to start operations on April 1st. This was put back to November l st because of various shenanigans by the diary trade. Farmers have always grumbled about the Milk Board, but the prospect of being without it, suddenly concentrated the mind. Only two farmers in the Dore, Fulwood, Totley area have left Milk Marque and signed with Northern Diaries. Northern Diaries have put enormous pressure on farmers to sign with them direct, offering 21/2p per litre above whatever MM pay. The big dairy companies hoped that if they could sign up dairy producers direct, and kill MM at birth the would be able to control the price of their raw row . left - Bernard Elshaw; material. So far they've not managed that. It middle - Dick Wragg; second right - Jack Marsden; far right - Frank Wragg. Picture sent in by remains to be seen whether there' 11 be a Mrs Wragg. trickle away from MM if they maintain their profitable. winter oats in excellent condition. It's just price differential. Dore is right on the boundary of two milk coming up now in the Hunting Field, Landslip In the meantime, dairy farms are heartily collection areas. Our milk is collected by and Seven Acre. so far, we've not had the sick of all the stories, claiming the price of tankers based in Chesterfield, and taken to clouds of rooks and wood pigeons which milk to the customer is being forced up by Nottingham for bottling and processing; to be usually give it such a hammering just as its MM. The price to the dairies has hardly brought back to Sheffield for distribution. coming up. changed. Any price increase is profiteering ... Milk in Fulwood is taken to Wakefield, and We've had a bit of fun rounding up the sorry ... restoring margins. The only people then brought back. This is because past young cattle in the field on Parkers Lane. paying significantly more are the cheese business rates in Sheffield were so high that it Cattle get very attached to their field when manufacturers, for reasons too involved for was far cheaper to cart milk to other cities they've been in it all summer long, and don't this article. Its a bit of a mystery why the than maintain bottling plants here. The last like to leave. The Venture Scouts spent two MMB was abolished, considering 30,000 one at Brightside and Carbrook closed last hours chasing them around and then gave up. farmers broadly wanted to keep it and only year. Sheffield must be the only big city in the They needed to be driven down Rushley about 6 dairy companies were for closing it. country with no milk processing plants and no Avenue to the Garden Field but our attempts Rumour has it that the directors of a large large slaughterhouse. Farmers dislike seeing also failed, and we had to resort to subterfuge. Northern based group are related to some livestock travelling long distances as much as It's nice to outwit a bullock. Northern based MP and blood is thicker than anyone else, but as more abattoires are forced The fence has been erected in the 9 acre on water .... or milk. You read it first here. out of business through increased overheads Cross Lane where the Gerald Haythornthwaite Another national scoop for Dore to Door. (particularly of rates and local authority wood is to be planted. These trees will On the farm, the only difference we inspection charges) animals have to travel provide some much needed shelter in the noticed was that the nice new milk tanker further and further. field, although it will take a few years yet which had already been painted in the Milk On the arable side of the farm the cereal before they are significant. Marque colours and logo was replaced by an harvest went quite well. Some of the winter Richard Farnsworth old A reg. blue MMB tanker not seen for oats had suffered in the wet January and years. The driver sported a new jersey, February but produced a passable crop. The though I The big difference between now and spring sown barley at Dore Moor was a fairly Peatland Campaign October 1933 when the MMB started, is the late harvest but yielded about 35 cwt per acre. EEC quota system which restricts UK These are low yields by today's standards, but The Sheffield Peatland Campaign is a production (including New Zealand imports) greatly save on feed bills in the winter. The partnership between Sheffield City Council, to 80% of demand. As long as this artificial weather just came right at the beginning of Sheffield Environment Forum and all the shortage exists, milk production should be October. The ground was all drilled with voluntary conservation groups in the city. The aim is to make Sheffield a peat-free zone. Only by persuading people to use alternatives to peat will we save our last remaining peatlands. Sheffield Peatland Campaign offers PARTNERSHIP information about alternative products which can be used instead of peat. It also promotes c T 0 s better management and protection of our HOUSE TRANSACTIONS COMMERCIAL PROPERTY LICENSED PROPERTY WILLS AND PROBATE existing peatland sites. The City Council has already signed the Using TlP Streomline Offices, shops, units Hotels, pubs and other licensed Preparation of Wills, National Peatland Protection Charter in 1991 computerised syslem for house and faclories properly, brewery ooses and adminislration of eslates, powers moves and remo<~ages Contact: Stephen Wllliaml licensing opplicofions of a~orr)8y, irustsand laxation and promises to phase out all peatuse by Contact: Michael Johnlon, Contact: Michael Johnlon Contact: Tricia Carter 1996. RoyFerriI You can become an individual supporter DEBT COLLECTION PERSONAL INJURY COMPANY FINANCING AND MATRIMONIAL of the Campaign - a peatland protector. We AND LITIGATION COMMERCIAL MATTERS will send you details of all forthcoming Using Deb~aw compulerised Child ow and maintenance. syslem for cosl-effeclive Accidenls on roods, holiday, Including contracls of employ Injunctions, sepororion and events, guided walks on peatland sites, debl recovery. aI work and personal rrent, planning law and corn divorce. Property settlement information on peat free gardening, All areas of dvillingalion compensation actions mercial contracts. Bonking ow Contact: Angela CoIes cornposting techniques and all the latest news. Contact: Malk Fowler Contact: liI Eamel, Contact: Peter Rylandl Send a cheque or postal order for £3.00, Sean Loughe made payable to Sheffield Centre for Ecology City Plaza, 2 Pinfold Street, SheHield S1 2GU Tel: 0742 700999 Unit, to Jean Glasscock at Sheffield 01$0 at Dron~eldand Staveley Ecological Unit, City Museum, Weston Park, Sheffield SI 0 2PT. 10 the problem of repeat victimisation, News in Brief particularly relating to domestic burglary. WANTED Repeat victimisation is when the same person Shape Design has sold their site on or place suffers from more than one criminal Abbeydale Road South and leased back the incident over a specified period of time. retail shop after lengthy negotiations. This Once a house has been burgled its chance step guarantees the continuation of the of repeat victimisation is four times higher Edwards family business in the area for years than a house that had not been burgled before. to come. At the same time there are plans to The likelihood of a repeat burglary within one reopen the restaurant early in the New Year. month is 12 times the expected rate. Of repeat The third part of the site will be occupied by burglaries within one month, half occurred Sheffield Architects Ritchie and Rennie. within 7 days. Shape, whilst continuing the retail shop, will Surveys of convicted burglars have broaden their interior design services from indicated that once they successfully attack home and workplace. The contract section premises they feel a certain safety when which has recently been working on the much repeating the offence. That is to say having acclaimed Atrium at Sheffield Hallam got away with it once they tend to try their University, has been retained as design hand again. consultants to Essex University and Anglo A sad state of affairs but there are two United Plc and is currently producing interior VOLUNTEERS URGENTLY REQWRED TO ASSIST IN clear messages: One. Try very hard not to be design schemes for various customers a victim in the first instance. Most domestic including the Maynard Arms at Grindleford. Identification Parades alarms, patio locks,S lever B.S. locks etc are Totley Library will be closed from 24th fitted after a burglary. It makes sense to fit to 27th December, shutting at 5.30pm on the Police are looking for those security precautions before you are a 28th and closed on 2 January. volunteers for identification parades at West victim. Two. If you are burgled statistics The inaugural tree planting of the Bar police station. There is a payment of £10 indicate that you may well be burgled again Haythornthwaite Commemorative Woodland, for the first hour, ie 5 minutes - 59 minutes, within the month. Don't sit back and think at the junction of Brickhouse Lane and £ IS for 1 hour to 1hr 59 minutes. lightning doesn't strike twice. It does' Get that Hathersage Road, will take place at 2pm on They are looking for male or female security uprated. Saturday 26 November. Gerald volunteers aged between 12 years - 65 years Haythornthwaite will plant the first tree, of any shape, colour or size. If you would like assisted by the Lord Mayor and Lady to help please contact Andy Kaye or John Deadline for Spring Mayoress. Bradshaw on 0114 276 8522 Ext 4181 or The Good Pub Guide for 1995 has a 4217. Diary Events solitary entry for Sheffield in the shape of the Fat Cat in Alma Street, with awards for Monday excellent beer and cheap snacks. In contrast Repeat Victimisation 6th February 1995 there are 13 listed pubs in North Derbyshire Ring 236 9025 or write to the Editor including the Miners Arms in Eyam. A recent Home Office report highlighted

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Large pool. £24,000 was raised for the Trust's work with 100 years ago Beach. Moderate rent Wk/Fort/Month. disabled and disadvantaged city children. Tel 0114 236 0110. Many thanks to those residents of Dore who The following extract on attended and helped towards this fantastic Workhouse is taken from the Sheffield and PERTH SHIRE stables flat for 2 in beautiful figure. Rotherham Independent, Christmas Week countryside 10 miles from Perth. Pets The main fundraising project at the Farm 1894. welcome, suitable for disabled, special winter is the conversion of an old barn into a " the Guardians of this Union have for rates. Tel 0250 883 236 or 031 4400089. residential unit designed with the wheelchair many years past endeavoured at this season to user in mind. This will be a unique make the poor people under their care as DOG MINDING Shirley Richardson will opportunity for disabled children and young happy as possible, and this year has not been love and care for your dog for a day - week - adults to enjoy the sense of freedom already the exception. The Board provided the usual month. Your dog lives with us in the house, experienced by some 1500 children every year roast beef, plum pudding &c. and to this many not in a kennel. Ring 236 7333 evenings. who stay overnight at the Farm. It is hoped kind friends contributed. Christmas letters that work will begin in the New Year. containing illuminated cards were sent by Mrs CARPET CLEANING - as used by some of George Cu n n in gh arn, the well-known Thomas S Ellis of Brincliffe Mount, and these the finest local homes, call (Dore) 262 1345. Sheffield artist, has once again painted a were placed under the pillow of each inmate. Christmas Card exclusively for Whirlow Hall The dining hall has recently been beautifully UPHOLSTERY CLEANING - as above. Farm Trust. This is available during normal painted and decorated by pauper labour under Use us, don't compromise, call (Dore) 262 office hours from the Trust Office, at the the superintendance of the Workhouse Master, 1345. special price of £2.25 for 5 cards or telephone Mr lames Walton and it was further beautified 235 2678 for further details. Orders are also with festoons, mottoes &c., made by the RUG CLEANING - as above S.Yorkshire's being taken for oven ready fresh Turkeys, willing and dextrous hands of Mrs Walton only Professional Cleaners Association either call personally at the Farm or telephone (the matron). The dinner, which was the most member, call (Dore) 262 1345. to place an order. important item of the day, was served in a Although the farm is not normally open to highly creditable manner, and everyone CATERING WITH STYLE Special the public, organised visits from playgroups, appeared to thoroughly enjoy it. - After Occasions, Christmas Buffets & Dinner schools, scouts, guides and adult groups can dinner several hymns were sung, and at the Parties etc. Sue Lamont 0246 239835 be arranged by telephoning lan Longden on conclusion, Mr W Ibbotson on behalf of the 2360096. Guardians said it afforded him great pleasure HICCUPS BABY EQUIPMENT HIRE Lambing days are held during the early to be present and to see all so happy and Cater for your little visitors at Christmas (or Spring when there will be an opportunity for contented ..." any time of year) by hiring TRAVEL the public to visit and see Whirlow Hall Farm The 1894 Xmas Number of the Weekly COTS,HIGH CHAIRS, CAR SEATS, at work. 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Infact proprietor Jose Muino does a Story in Sheffield Dialect, the candid HALL FOR HIRE - suitable for meetings, lot to support the village through donations to confessions of several ladies on Why I parties, shows etc. Kitchen available. Dore local organisations including providing the Married my Husband. Making in all an Xmas Junior School. Tel 368283 sheep for the Scout Gala lamb roast and present which should not, on any account, be advertising in local magazines. missed'. 12 Flight Lieutenant A.L. Stevens who ran it for close in April 96) Air experience flights can Air Training Corps about 10 years. It is now run by Flight still run from Church Fenton, but this is little Lieutenant David Rowe who has 45 cadets of more than a hut at the end of a runway so We have been fortunate in Dare that since 13-20 years old in his charge at the moment. fingers are crossed that suitable facilities will 1974, the local ATC have added both music In September they also take part in the be found. and dignity to Remembrance Day. I'm sure anniversary of the Battle of Britain, parading Do cadets join the Armed Forces for a weve all been impressed by their discipline. at the City Cenotaph Barkers Pool with the career? There is always interest but selection Bitter weather is frequent in November. Fellowship of Services. The band is drawn is becoming increasingly tight, with more Added to this, marching at the crossroads last from any members showing an interest. This academic qualifications demanded. many of year was more like negotiating a torrent. They varies and has sometimes been a sizeable the service jobs on site are now "civilianised" live up to their squadron's motto "To strive group. Probably this year it will be two with staff only working office hours. However and not to yield". They are the only Queens buglers - and, Hannah Ward who returns from a recent ATC Dare Cadet - Luke Jeeves was own uniformed organisation in the area and University to take part. accepted by 29 Commandos, and is putting his the 366 Squadron (one of 55 units in the City) Other activities besides drill, are the Duke training to good effect. If you would like to has a catchment area of the whole of West of Edinburgh award scheme - orienteering help the half dozen volunteers who run this Sheffield. perhaps a third are from Dare - a adventure training, navigation and air worthwhile organisation (Tues & Fri short walk from the village centre to the experience flights. 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13 mammals. The classic prey of the stoat is The Yorkshire Tiger young rabbits, whilst the weasel is a perfect 'rnouser'. It used to be said that a weasel can So many of us now live so much of our pass through a man's wedding ring, though it lives vicariously through the TV screen that would have to come from quite a big finger. we are more familiar with the lion, leopard Certainly the runs of field voles and moles and cheetah than with our native fauna. beneath tussocky grass are its normal haunts, And yet for those who take the trouble to and the vole its chief prey. seek them out, we have carnivores of our own However, stoats and weasels also include which, size for size, are more formidable than birds, nestlings and eggs in their diets. any of the big cats. A lion weighing 350 Healthy adult birds may fall foul of a pounds may bring down a 700-pound zebra lightning attack from cover before they have a and throttle it to death, but there are hunters chance to take off, but more usually they are on our fells that have a far more fearsome taken from roosts in stone walls or ivy- power. A half-pound stoat will kill a three- covered trees. One of the most unusual tricks pound rabbit as a matter of routine, using a for catching birds is to try and mesmerise single bite into the hindbrain. A female them with a show of acrobatics, edging closer weasel, small enough to curl up inside a tennis all the while. ball, will slaughter an adult rat, and then fall I watched a stoat on a small patch of sand in a savage fury upon its nestling young. No below Bolton Bridge a few months ago, night-forest tiger even burned so bright. performing somersaults, rolling, chasing its Stoats and weasels are similar in tail, and doing what I can only describe as appearance, though the old epigram has it that "hand-brake" turns in an attempt to attract a they are "weaselly distinguished because they group of mallard from the rocks in midstream. are stoatily different". A large male stoat may In this particular instance the dance of death be the size of a small ferret, whilst a small failed, though stoats do kill mallard. r once female weasel may be hardly larger than a saw from tracks in the snow where a stoat had long mouse. At close quarters the watery-red grabbed a ground-roosting mallard and been upper parts of a weasel are separated from its carried several dozen yards in flight before pure white under-parts by a wavy line, bringing it down. whereas the line between the stoat's golden- The keeper's concern for his pheasant and brown back and creamy belly is straighter. grouse chicks is no doubt justified, but any Male weasel with field vole The stoat also differs from the weasel from losses that he inflicts in spring are more than having a black tip to its tail., and in sometimes redeemed by better survival of the young in turning white (except for the tail tip) in winter. this from over 200 yards away to within summer. Young weasels born in spring may Stoats and weasels are found throughout touching distance of my feet, over rough even be having young of their own before Great Britain, but are particularly prevalent in pasture on a thorn-clad hillside. No tawny- autumn, though stoats have only one litter the Dales because such a large proportion of maned lion ever pleased me so much. each year. The sex life of the stoat is best not our landscape is suited to their hidden Gamekeepers use the same trick to shoot examined too closely by those of an lifestyles. They thrive on our damp moors and what they regard as 'ermine vermin' anthropomorphic bent. Only the female comes rough pastures, they reach full potential in our whenever they see them. They also make little out of it with any credit, for she takes sole rabbit-infested woods, and they share our love stone tunnels where moor walls meet peaty responsibility for raising the litter. Her lion- of drystone walls. The thick old walls around becks and put their traps inside. Stoats and hearted qualities are never better exhibited our moors are so much to their taste that weasels will be caught even when there is no than when she is defending her young. individuals will sometimes defend 'ribbon' bait in the tunnel, for they are unfailingly One bright day in late May I was accosted territories a couple of miles long and only 50 inquisitive. It saddens me to see something as by a stoat chattering angrily at me from holes yards wide, keeping at all times within vibrantly alive as a weasel lying dead in a trap amongst dead bracken on Hazelwood Moor. I sprinting distance of a wall. but, in fact, the keeper is the least of its approached what seemed to be her main nest When you chance upon a stoat or weasel enemies. Numbers are controlled by the hole on hands and knees, squeaking all the which takes refuge in a wall, you need only competition between individuals - as well as while. When I was still a few feet away she hide a few yards downwind and wait for it to between stoats and weasels themselves - and suddenly charged out straight at my face, peep back out. If you make a repeated small its effect on the delicate balance between stopping within arm's length. For a few squeak by sucking between thumb, forefinger parasites, disease and food supply. seconds, as she stood spitting fire and venom, and lips, you will hasten the process. The When numbers are low the territories are I thought she would rip into me, but she speed with which the little sprite can scurry large, food supply is plentiful, the effect of disappeared as quickly as she had come, along inside the wall will astonish you. a head parasites and disease is minimal, large litters leaving me with nothing but admiration for pokes out here, disappears, and pokes back are born and more young survive. Research her valour. out twenty yards away a second or two later. has shown that the average lifespan of a stoat Later r heard that she had been seen Surely there must be two? But no, it leaves or weasel - about a year - is much the same carrying her young away, one by one, to a the wall and dashes a little way towards you, on both keepered and unkeepered land. The safer refuge. And later again I met her and her slips down a mole run and pops up ten yards only effect of persecution is to deepen the family still together at the height of summer, off to the left. Then it catches your scent and population trough in late winter, thus giving six or more almost fully grown stoats hunting is gone, leaving your heart thumping and your nesting game birds a chance in spring. as a pack. Pity the warren that they were about soul aglow. Recently I called up a weasel like Stoats and weasels mainly eat small to raid. And so, when you tire of televised lions and tigers, remember your stoats and weasels out there in the Dales. To the keeper they are Female stoat carrying young little tubes of malevolent power, with teeth at one end and smells at the other, distillates of all the fumes of hell. To me they are delightful imps, packing as much action as they can into a short life and tiny frame, far more worthy of admiration than any indolent feline. Roger Nelson This article is based on one published earlier in the year in the Dalesman. Roger Nelson is the author of "A Dales Naturalist, " published by Dalesman , price £12.95, telephone 0756 701326

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