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The Bugle A chance to blow your trumpet for the villagers of Alport, Middleton and Youlgrave No. 50 November 2002 Welcome to our Golden Jubilee issue! Four years and 50 issues on from its launch in 1998 the Bugle continues to bring you a regular digest of news and information concerning Alport, Middleton and Youlgrave. And following last month’s story on recycling every household should by now have received a large blue plastic box, provided by Derbyshire Dales District Council (DDDC). It’s to be filled with glass bottles and jars for recycling and will be emptied fortnightly, together with the existing bags of newspapers and magazines. But quite how single or elderly people will fill them in a fortnight is a little baffling - it’s a shame that a smaller size wasn’t available. Word has also reached the Bugle that some people on Brookleton, Main Street and Church Street in Youlgrave have not received their free blue It was the end of an era recently, as Elaine and box. Indeed here on Bankside we had to remind Jeff Middleton (pictured above) made their last DDDC that, as inconvenient as it may seem, those weekend fruit and veg round in Youlgrave, of us tucked away down the gennels quite fancied a Birchover, and Stanton. Started by Elaine's blue box as well. If you’re still waiting, call (01629) father John Naylor some 50 years ago, the 761215 and get in on the act. round has been valued highly by their many Collection has not been without its problems, customers who have appreciated the good too, with full boxes left unemptied. DDDC has humour, care and friendliness that have come promised to make return trips and says along with the carrots and spuds. Elaine began householders should leave their boxes out. helping while still a child. Many thanks, and Perhaps readers would let the Bugle know about best wishes for the future to Elaine and Jeff. their blue box experiences? You'll be greatly missed by all your friends. Andrew McCloy, Editor Glenys Moore Published by the Bugle. Editor: Andrew McCloy, Greystones Cottage, Bankside, Youlgrave DE45 1WD, tel. 01629 636125, e-mail [email protected]. Contributions for the next issue to arrive by the 15th of the month. The views in this publication are not necessarily those of the editorial team. www.thebugle.org.uk. Printed by Greenaway Workshop, Hackney, Matlock (tel. 734089). The Bugle is sponsored by the Farmyard Inn Tel 636221 Bugle letters: sticking up for your own patch Dealing with dog mess in the dale Dear Editor, Dear Editor, Dear Editor, equivalent of the Bugle) has run a campaign of Re the letter from the Stoneyside Those of us living on the creative As a former resident of Youlgrave ‘naming and shaming’ with regards to owners resident in the October issue. Pray, heights of Bankside were amazed and also a mother of three young whose dogs regularly foul the village, and which who is the complainant who refers to and bemused to learn of children I was recently visiting and has proved to be very successful. Also, dog “inferior buildings in certain centres of Stoneyside’s attempt to claim the walking in Bradford Dale. I took the waste bins have been placed in most streets, depravity” in Youlgreave? Is the gentleman artistic and intellectual centre of Youlgrave. kids for what I hoped would be a thus giving dog owners no excuse for not referring, as has been suggested, to the ex-council Coachloads of tourists struggling to reach sunny and relaxing walk. cleaning up. Could the parish council in houses on Mawstone Lane? I am justly proud of Stoneyside? Please! Due to national and indeed Well, we did get the sunshine, but the walk was Youlgrave implement a similar scheme? having been born and brought up at No 9 international coverage of ‘our bank’ hundreds of ruined by repeatedly having to restrain the kids K. Holmes Mawstone Lane amongst a wonderful community fashion-conscious city dwellers teeter down with “stay on the path” and “keep off the grass”. Gordon Road, Tideswell of village residents. For me, it is a truly Bankside to view not only the beauty of Everywhere I looked there was dog muck, inspirational place. ‘Valparaiso’ as painted by Lucien Pisarro, but also particularly along the grassy edge of both sides of Stoneyside consists of quaint, beautiful old to catch a glimpse of the diverse and creative the path (just where kids like to run and walk Note: The Alsation dog that has been roaming cottages with equally quaint old gennels running ‘wares’ of Bankside: books, fashion clothes, along). As I’m sure most people would agree, dog around Youlgrave over the last couple of months between them, built by the gnarled, hard-working ceramic pots, videos, wildlife experts, master muck is disgusting and can be a serious health has finally been caught by its Buxton-based hands of our lead-mining ancestors — this “little bit craftsmen, top academics, beautiful gardens — risk, particularly to young children. owners. If you are aware of a stray or lost dog of heaven” was forged from a hard-working hell! Bankside has it ALL! I realise that a lot of the problem is caused by contact the Derbyshire Dales dog warden on Mining, quarrying, farm-labouring and later We realise that Stoneysiders, living as they do visitors’ animals as well as those of residents. I 01629 580580. brick-making at Friden were all tough, back- at the ‘bottom end’ of the village, have to struggle now live in Tideswell and the ‘Village Voice’ (the breaking jobs with long hours which were pitifully to compete with their more illustrious neighbours paid. Families were much larger than today and as at the ‘top end’, so in a spirit of magnanimous family properties were usually entailed to the generosity we of course will persuade Bankside Fun and games at the After School and Holiday Club eldest son, younger sons had to fend for tourists to spare a passing glance at our noble themselves. In the case of Fowlers Row or Stoneyside neighbours before leaving the village. This week the village school has changed from Kate and Karen wish to remind parents that the Knocking Alley, so-called because earlier As a footnote, can I remind people that a place of learning to a Holiday Club, where After School Club runs Monday to Thursday, 3.30 inhabitants (usually women and children) were Bankside was once known as ‘Batty Bankside’ due children can enjoy a variety of games and fun to 6pm. “Parents receiving Working Families’ Tax employed knocking out lead ore on a paved floor to a number of its colourful and eccentric activities under the leadership of Kate Credit can reclaim their fees by simply filling in a (thus Knockstone Mine), these cottages were inhabitants. Maybe now it should be re-Christened Wellington and Karen Smith. form from a main Post Office such as Bakewell,” demolished, families uprooted and given the ‘Potty Bankside’? On my previous visits to this and the After they point out. “Then send the form off to the choice of council-built accommodation. And how The moles of Bankside, Youlgrave School Club, attendance was disappointingly low, Working Families’ Tax Credit Office. Please that must have seemed like heaven — three (Thank you to my neighbour for this spirited but today I found Karen pinning support us, it is for the benefit of bedrooms and a bathroom after living in tiny defence of Bankside. She chose to withhold her samples of the children’s our children.” cramped one-up/one-down houses. Thus was the name for personal reasons — Ed.) attractive artwork up on the I heartily endorse this plea. A community on Mawstone Lane established — it is notice board. A game of table lot of money and thought has a very special place, ill deserving of such gross Dear Editor, football was in progress while gone into providing equipment slander. May I through the Bugle congratulate other children were absorbed in for indoor and outdoor play. The Say what you mean, sir, then have the guts to all those concerned with the re- board games such as Hungry Club can cater for 16 children defend it. surfacing of the badly damaged Hippos and Operation. They also and I have seen that the larger (A furious) Elizabeth Ashmore, Youlgrave footpath on Conksbury Lane? Now had the choice of table tennis, the group the more fulfilling the walkers can view the lovely scenery and animals, air hockey or darts. Occasionally experience for the children. across the Spardals instead of looking down at videos are shown when the The last word goes to Sophie their feet in order to avoid any cracks and pitfalls. children need a quiet time. Seeing a large table Edgington: “I think the Holiday Youlgrave Panto 2003 An added bonus is the white line across the devoted to art and craft materials I could Club is a brilliant idea. I really enjoyed it. Kate and bottom of Conksbury Avenue. I am keeping my understand how such interesting pictures had Karen, the leaders, made me feel more than ‘Aladdin’ will run from 21 January to fingers crossed when I say that since this white been produced. Rosie Elliot (in Reception) drew welcome. There are lots of things to do like 1 February 2003. Tickets will go on sale line was painted motorists have respected it, and these pictures of herself and her grandmother, painting, board games, drawing and many more. from 13 December onwards. Preview there has been no request from me for them to which we have to print in black and white.