Winter 2019 No109

We learned that land use around our forest of 120 miles between Hull and city still retains ancient trees despite Liverpool which will be planted with 50 many going for items such as pit props million trees over the next 25 years. The and fires. first trees have been planted in the hills above Bolton. Trees as well as being Newsletter Ted Hancock beautiful absorb CO2 and help to reduce The Construction of Totley Tunnel carbon emissions but it is thought by

9th January 2019 some the natural way of increasing trees Rivelin Valley Conservation Group is by their seeds rather than by humans The 3.5-mile tunnel was built between planting saplings. Also, trees that are Winter 2019 no 109 Contacts 1888 and 1893 between Totley on the planted are more likely to dry out as they Chairman Graham Appleby 01142660203 outskirts of Sheffield and Grindleford for are not as well connected to the soil as Task Force Coordinator Keith Kendall 01142307144 Through The Chair Membership C&G Roe 01142665473 the new Hope Valley rail line. Work fallen seeds. Oliver Rackham, the great Newsletter M Sanderson 01142306790

Treasurer David Lyon 01142302660 started at each end and the contractor woodland expert believed self-sown seeds Welcome to our Winter newsletter. In foreman, Thomas Oliver, bet that the by birds and mammals are best. Group Recorder Joan Buckland 01142305829 October the RVCG were successful in a Speaker Organiser Irene Harrison 01142335780 tunnels would meet each other within £20k Heritage Lottery Fund bid to help Mail: [email protected] 5 ”. The result was 4.5” and so he won M Sanderson improve various aspects of the Rivelin Web: http://rivelinvalley.org.uk his bet. Valley. A summary of our current plans The navvies were local men or itinerants The RVCG would like to thank can be read in the enclosed article but if Task Team who travelled around as railways grew Valleyside Garden Centre for you have any further suggestions then I and many were Irish. Some brought their continued support will be pleased to hear from you. We The British winter brings us defoliated their families and some married local are bound by strict regulation and trees and a blanket of leaves covering girls a remained living here. Gelignite require the permission of the Sheffield the ground. However dead leaves and was used to break up the rock and then twigs tend to accumulate at the sluices City Council who are the land owners. the rubble had to be brought to the The RVCG Task team will have a really which control the force of water into the surface. interesting and important function over goits of our remaining mill dams. Smallpox arrived in 1885 and accidents the next couple of years fulfilling the It’s amazing how effective a few leaves caused problems but the tunnel lives on and twigs are at slowing the force of project objectives. today. water and without human intervention, Thank you again to Irene Harrison in the dams would dry out. A Celebrity Once Lived in Crosspool! her choice of speakers for our recent Therefore, in November we set about You might have heard Michel Palin Open Meetings which have been very our annual event, with rakes and recently on Saturday Live, Radio 4. well attended. See the programme for spades, of cleaning the sluices and He spoke of taking bike rides around up and coming events. One important removing larger debris that would have the area and it was obvious he was item in the RVCG calendar is our 28th washed down in the winter rains. talking about the Rivelin/Crosspool area AGM where the work of the RVCG is Sometimes it is necessary to lift the because he talked of the beautiful celebrated and the committee is sluice gate to let the power of the water countryside and enjoyed walking on the reselected for the next 12 months. As free up the blockage and there is some hilly slopes down to the river. heart-warming gratification in seeing the previously mentioned, there may be Once I had to deliver a newsletter in the opportunities for new committee water suddenly burst through and swell Watt Lane area and the resident told me members. If you are interested or know the goit with water that would that this was where he lived as a someone who may be interested, then eventually make its way to the mill pond schoolboy. Michael would be seen that would gently begin to fill. please contact me. The RVCG has been running for the bus in Crosspool on his blessed with a stable committee for Winter is also a good time to inspect the way to Birkdale School. many years who have brought an structures of the dams, river banks and M eclectic mix of knowledge and skills footpaths that are usually hidden by Sanderson which continue to make the RVCG foliage in summer to help us plan future successful. task days. Possible New Forest Graham Appleby Graham Appleby The Government has plans for a new RVCG Chairman

Wood Lane Countryside Centre in 2009 when an artwork called and North Western Railway abandoned Donations “Harvest” depicting giant wheat ears a scheme promoted by them to blowing in the wind was erected on a construct a railway from Buxton to RVCG usually take part in the annual Thank you for your donations this year Xmas event held here, but this year, the that already amount to £152. It will be Rotherham Traffic Island in celebration Sheffield. house is having a makeover. put to good use. of his famous “Corn Law Rhymes”. The Route suggested was up the Rivelin Joan Buckland and I have made things Valley and would have passed within a with children earning a little cash for News Stories short distance of the course. RVCG and enjoying a walk around to We are always pleased to hear from you I imagine the Sheffield Racing Company see all the other events and stalls – a in this newsletter. Many of you have believed that there was some good start to Christmas. Their homity lived in the area for many years and probability of this project being p ies, taken from a recipe from the have interesting stories to tell. It does resuscitated, which would have greatly wonderful Cranks shop in London, not matter how long or short. enhanced the value of the property and unfortunately now closed, was very made access to the grounds easier. After the failure of the racecourse the popular. Please contact: This building has quite a history. It was M Sanderson 01142306790 area was used as a World War1 training originally owned along with other land email: [email protected] ground for the Artillery and the around the area by the Duke of Norfolk, The famous rock at the foot of Blackbrook Hallamshire Rifles which meant good when it was considered that there was a stream bearing the name ‘Elliott’ business for the two local public houses, need for a local residence. Later it was Ebenezer Elliot The Three Merry Lads and the used by a variety of tenants. Rivelin Valley was a place that was Sportsman. Thenedoned Georgian house was constructed in loved by the poet Ebenezer Elliot. (1781 Redmires Racecourse The next use of the racecourse was as a

1805 and was classically symmetrical, – 1849), known as the ‘Corn Law Around 1870, a company was formed, prisoner of war camp where hundreds of the “Sheffield Racing Company” which but later enlarged and included a barn Rhymer’ who was world famous for his prisoners were interned in wooden huts for the Duke’s farming activities. lead in the fight to repeal the corn laws decided to erect a racecourse on the during the last war. There was also a pit for the now illegal which caused hardship and starvation to south side of the valley on land at Today the racecourse has been turned Lodgemoor opposite the Three Merry cock fighting. the poor. into a camp for Travellers, the Council Then a succession of tenants and One of his favourite haunts was Lads, after the closure of the one at having laid down concrete bases and owners occupied the building. Professor Blackbrook Stream that runs from the Broomhill. A grandstand was built toilet facilities. and Mrs Statham were known for their Hallamshire Golf Course to Rivelin. This surrounded by a high wall and stabling for the horses was provided on a farm garden parties in the 1920’s. can be reached via a public footpath Thank you to Mary Richards for the The Countryside Management Service which starts just below Rivelin Lodge on aptly named “Racecourse Farm” (now two articles above. now has the building and it has various Lodge Lane, after walking on the path demolished) on Soughley Lane. uses . for about ten minutes, the brook can be The first meeting was held in 1875 and Recent Events lasted for about three days. Thousands W hen I was a teacher, my class spent heard tinkling below, it is a bit of a Open Meeting Ian Rotherham an enjoyable time there and the least scramble to get down there where you of people came to the races, many on Professor of Environmental academic children showed great will find a stone with ELLIOT carved on foot, but those who could afford it Geography at Hallam University would come by horse drawn Shadow Woods proficiency with practical skills such as it although over the years the letters wagonettes. Unfortunately, the horses th cleaning the pond and feeding the have eroded somewhat. The view of the 13 November 2018 chickens . Back at school they happily valley, where two form seats have had to make the journey up to wr ote about their activities that day and recently been placed is simply breath- Redmires from Sheffield and obviously Ian is a busy person. Apart from giving some even wanted to work there when taking and it is no wonder that when they arrived at the course, they lectures he writes newspaper columns were not in a good state to compete. they grew up. Ebenezer went there for inspiration for on wildlife and nature, holds workshops M Sanderson his poetry. Two of his many poems of The location made the course very and is a prolific author. He likes to walk the area are entitled “Farewell to unpopular with the public, the owners our surrounding moorland – a good

This year is the 200th Anniversary of Rivelin” and “Tree of Rivelin”. and trainers and the venture was start for anyone. abandoned after only two seasons. It is John Ruskin. Please keep an eye out There is a bronze statue dedicated to In the past our area suffered from smog for the many events that will be Ebenezer in Weston Park. The granite said that the cost of building this ill- and pollution and there are still parts of fated project was £15,000. the city that are grimy, but our taking place. rock upon which he is seated reflects a http://www.ruskininsheffield.com/ favourite rock in the valley where he Apparently ten years prior to the woodlands and moors still survive used to sit. Another recent tribute was racecourse being erected the London despite the industrial legacy of our area.

THE RECORDER – Winter 2018/19

The Recorder sound and sends a carefully aimed stream of faeces onto the feathers of

I hope you are all getting back to your the predator. Other birds continue to normal routine after the excesses of bombard the predator until it flies Christmas. It has been a mild winter away. The faeces contain Uric acid so far with only a few days of frost. which can harm the waterproofing of My snowdrops are in flower and the the intruder and cause it serious problems. It makes you wonder how daffodils have buds. Roses, calendula, feverfew, lavatera, wild they evolved to do that. strawberries and broom are still in I have many Sparrows in my flower. I still have not cut back the garden, and I have been watching dead plants in my garden. I leave them thoroughly enjoying themselves them as long as possible so that little having dust baths on a bare patch of earth at the top of the garden. Two creatures have somewhere to overwinter, but now new shoots are Coal Tits regularly visit the garden appearing I had better get a move on. and they have been busy caching It has been a hard winter in sunflower seeds in the trunks of the northern Scandinavia and the plum and apple trees. I store my Redwings and Fieldfares have made cooking apples in the garage and noticed some had been nibbled and their way to our area. During December I had up to twelve the tell-tale tiny faeces of a mouse. Thrushes, mainly Redwings, in the Using our live trap, we caught two fat garden and seven Blackbirds which Field Mice which are now in the wall 12345678910were probably from Scandinavia. up the garden, hopefully quite cosy. Look out for Waxwings as they have Before Christmas I went into the loft to get the trimmings and entered been spotted in Stannington Road recently. I hope there are some a Halloween set. The Daddy Long Leg berries left for them as my Rowan and Spiders, Pholcus phalangoides, had Holly berries have now been depleted. taken over and messy webs were on There is an interesting fact about every rafter. Not a sight for the faint- Fieldfares that I have recently hearted! You may have heard the foxes being very vocal lately calling learned. In north-central Europe and Scandinavia where the birds spend for a mate. They are regularly in my the rest of the year, they are sociable garden and now there are two coming and nest in colonies, sometimes of together. many hundreds of nests within sight As I am writing this article my of one another. I have seen big flocks husband shouted to look out of the front window and there were three of Fieldfares feeding in the same field, much as Rooks do. When a predator Buzzards circling over Den Bank. They comes into the area it must think it is are now becoming a regular sight on to a good thing, but the Fieldfares over the valley. have a secret weapon, which, as far On 27th December as I was as is known, is not used by any other waving my visitors goodbye, I noticed a Circumzenithal Arc directly above thrush or British bird. Once a predator is spotted the Fieldfares us. This is an upside-down part of a create a hullabaloo that would frighten rainbow and only occurs when the most other birds away. If this does sun’s altitude is below 32deg. I saw not work the predator is in for a nasty this above my house last June, so it is surprise. The Fieldfare launches itself worth keeping your eyes open as this phenomenon does not happen very into the air and dives towards the often. Now is also the time to spot intruder making a strange squealing

Dogbows (Mock Suns) which can look Thank you to Joan and Paul Buckland for mostly red and yellow, on either side identifying the two items from the of the sun. We probably have some previous newsletter.

cold weather to come in the next two months so make the most of the mild The mystery plant turned out to be a Thorn Apple, Datura stramonium, which weather. Let me know of anything was in cultivation by 1597 and first interesting or unusual you have recorded in the wild in 1777, another spotted and what you have had in alien that is becoming more common, and your garden this winter. is poisonous. It has various common names including Spiny Apple and Thank you to the following for sending Jimsonweed in your records:-

Keith Kendall S10 – 4.9.18 – Kingfisher on Frank Wheel; Dipper and Heron near Packhorse Bridge.

Roger Kite S10 – 5.9.18 – Dipper on Frank Wheel; 1.1.19 – Dipper at Frank Wheel; Heron on Wolf Wheel.

Neil Porter S6- 28.8.18 – Wall Butterfly; 21.10.18 – Small Copper; And the mystery insect turned out to a 6.11.18 – Drake Mandarin on Wolf Tipulidae; a type of cranefly. Pond and Kingfisher flying upstream; 4 Buzzards circling over Tofts Lane on 8.11.18.

Vivien Falshaw S10 – 2.11.18 – 2 Buzzards circling over Den Bank and Manchester Road.

JimC S6 – 22.12.18 – sent in two lovely pictures of a Heron on Plonk Wheel. Having cut back the foliage in my garden in the Autumn, I came across a

blackbird’s nest and noticed quite a Joan Buckland S10 – Seen in my quantity of plastic and nylon had been garden this winter – Blackbirds, used in its’ construction. A worrying sign Redwings, Fieldfares, Bullfinch, of the times…..! Sparrows, Coal Tits, Long-tailed Tits, Great Tits, Blue Tits, Chaffinch, Dunnock, Goldfinch, Magpies, Jackdaws, Collared Doves, Robin, Jay, 1 Male Greenfinch, 1 Song Thrush, Feral and Wood Pigeons, 1 Crow, Male Tawny Owl calling. 5.1.19 Dipper on river at Rivelin Corn Mill.

Joan Buckland 10.1.19

Graham Appleby

A small proportion of Sheffield Lakeland Dennis Smith made some valuable encompasses the Rivelin Valley and the contributions to various historical RVCG submitted a successful bid amounting institutions and societies. For example, he to £20k. The project plan includes plans for provided articles for the two books by the Task Team to upgrade the footpaths Melvyn Jones, Aspects of Sheffield 1 & 2. One either side of the Rivelin Park article was ‘The Button Making Industry in

’ and a second ‘ Sheffield John Spencer’s Baltic Trade in Sheffield Wares’. Dennis is described in the list of contributors in those books as follows:

Dennis J Smith 1947 - 2018 ‘Dennis Smith was born in Sheffield in 1947, spending much of his life in the

Dennis J Smith may not sound familiar Walkley area (He was born at an old cutlers’ Plan of Rivelin Corn Mill Pond and Goit to many people, but his sudden recent farmhouse at Arnold Street). Educated at passing is a significant loss to society and Morley Street County and Myers Grove However following detailed discussions with probably only really appreciated by those Comprehensive Schools, he worked

SCC it has been decided that this task is not who knew him. The contents of his house variously as cutlery worker, food mixer and appropriate for this project due to the were a gold mine of collections of little cemetery worker. A childhood exploring extensive use of contractors. Therefore, we mesters tools, historical research the ruined mills of the Rivelin Valley was are currently finding alternative tasks to Footpath to Roscoe Mill information and important sketches and partially responsible for his interest in utilise the money originally earmarked for paintings. Sadly, he appears to have had industrial history. Other influences were his There are also plans to provide an this part of the project which may include no living relatives, left no will and lived in a father’s reminiscences of Sheffield trades information board at the Rivelin Park Café further footpath repairs and new publications. council house in Fox Hill and working conditions. He is possibly which was originally Spooners Wheel; one Graham Appleby remembered by local librarians as the of the earliest mills in the Valley with the After Dennis’s passing efforts were schoolboy who left grubby finger marks on playground being the original mill pond. Endcliffe Park Memorial made to rescue his unique collections. This The Oxford History of Technology! Dennis has On Feb 22nd 1944, a damaged WW2 bomber included 18th century cutlery and locally published booklets on aspects of life in the returning from a mission in Europe was forced to made rural Stannington/Rivelin pocket Bradfield and Cawthorne areas of South ditch in Endcliffe park killing 10 American aircrew. knives. It is hoped that this collection has Yorkshire. His articles have also appeared in Eye witnesses say the pilot purposely flew the the Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological been saved and will form part of the Ken plane into trees thus avoiding the public who were Hawley collection at Kelham Island - Society, and Sheffield University’s Lore and scattered around the park. A memorial has been perhaps apt since Ken was a close friend. Language Journal. His other interests maintained ever since by an eye witness, Tony included English, art, walking and early Foulds, who was 8 years old at the time. To Unfortunately, his other material such as commemorate 75 years, the BBC will be his paintings drawings and documents music. He also enjoyed wide travel in the broadcasting live from the park from around 6am were, as we understand, sold to a house British Isles and part of Greece. He retains fond memories of meetings with local to 9.15am on the morning of the 22nd February. clearance with the bulk being dumped. He However, there is no need to arrive at this time. was very interested in local artists people who had worked in the older local People are encouraged to arrive at the park from particularly William Lowe. Some interesting industries and spends considerable time around 7.15am. A memorial service will take material was rescued from the bins outside attempting to recover details of life from place from around 8am with the flypast set to his house such as taped interviews, documentary sources.’ follow at 8.45am. photographs and diaries. Rivelin Park playground that was Spooners Wheel Dam The Stannington Local History Group

Local historian, Michael Dyson, was have a document in their collection ‘The There are also plans to upgrade our notice researching the history of the Rivelin Cutlery Industry in the Stannington Area’ boards, provide essential tools and safety cutlery trade and had befriended Dennis D.J. Smith 1977. He first published it in gear for the Task Team, and to support who had provided a vital source of useful 1976 with 400 copies and the Stannington various public events including a planned information and pictures. The only saving Local History Group thought it would be a Heritage Open Day in September. The hub grace is that Mike had had the opportunity good idea to reprint it in 2015 with just a of our bid was to provide a wildlife pond at to copy some of the information and few amendments. This book broke new Rivelin Corn Mill. We wanted to address a pictures that Dennis had generously agreed ground and was soon regarded by many number of issues here. The sluice gate is to. But now, all the originals may be lost historians as a seminal work, a result of broken. The goit passing under the A57 by forever. many years of meticulous research the old Post Office is severely silted as is The aircrew of Mi Amigo B-17 Flying Fortress the small pond feeding Rivelin Mill pond.

A close friend of Dennis Smith was I have his letters from 1971 to 2017, and they In October 2018, the National Heritage the renowned ecologist Martin Spray who do mention topics from time to time, but they Sheffield Lottery Fund agreed to provide funding of wrote the following eulogy about Dennis: must be less hit than miss. Mostly, he told me £2.6m rising to £3.4m with matched about places he had been to (including his Lakeland funding from a number of core partners. “It was suggested to me that I was foreign trips), items he had bought, and Yorkshire Water, Sheffield City Council, thoughts on ‘topics for the day’ (but without Dennis’s best friend. I hope not: I would not Bradfield Parish Council, Stocksbridge Town detail). wish that on anybody. Landscape Council, Natural England, the Environment Agency, South Yorkshire Archaeology I dip into these letters occasionally; and Dennis died a few days ago (Aug 2018- Partnership Service, Sheffield United Community ed.) He was about my age - just a few months I as often as not come out disappointed. They are small windows through which I see small – Foundation and representatives of younger, so I suppose I knew him for nearly 70 To the North West of Sheffield are a frustratingly small – pieces of his life. He, as it landowners and local access groups. The years. He and I were children in the same number of reservoirs. Langsett, Midhope unadopted backwater road in Walkley and spent were, gives little away. I see virtually nothing project will be managed by the Sheffield & an interesting part of our childhoods exploring of his friends, or of his family. I see almost and Underbank to the North, moving South Rotherham Wildlife Trust until it’s our territory together. Then I moved home and nothing of deeper feelings and emotions that there are Broomhead and Moorhall conclusion in 2022. this interrupted our friendship. I went from people, places, things, or ideas may have Reservoirs, then there’s Dam Flask, Agden, grammar school to university; he went to generated. They were probably absent of few. Dale Dyke and Strines reservoirs with Sheffield Lakeland is much loved but complete the senior class and then to look for a I find this a little frightening. Rivelin Dams and Redmires Reservoirs in valued by different people for different job. the South. In the 1950’s, a bus company When I heard, at Christmas 2017, that reasons. Some “values” are well decided to set up tours around what they understood – its aesthetic beauty, its A few years later, I met his mother by Dennis was ill, I had just received a copy of an old photograph that I wanted to send him. called the ‘Sheffield Lakeland’. This term farming and forestry and its recreational chance and agreed to call and see him. This I has been adopted for this project to help did – and we picked up our friendship where we Which I did, with a short note. I had no reply, opportunities for example. Others are but I hope he received it and was pleased to see improve the landscape and public access to had left it, as though there had been no highly valued by special interest groups, it after so many years. We were about eight; the surrounding areas. interruption. Later, I had moved from Sheffield such as its internationally protected wildlife, we were each side of my Welsh Border Collie, and our contact was largely by letter. He was a industrial heritage and distinctive culture. outside my home – about a hundred yards from guest at my wedding, and he was generous with However, some aspects of Sheffield his. We each had a hand on the dog. It gifts for my daughters. To me, he was Lakeland’s ecosystem services are only just represents for me, a happy, simple, start to life. generous with gifts of books, CD’s, and starting to be understood – such as the I hope he also saw something happy it.” occasional knives, letter-openers, small ivory landscape’s capacity to offer flood engravings, and so on. I was a little less protection through natural flood generous with presents to him. Martin Spray, Forest of Dean, August 13, management, the benefits access to the 2018. But it was copies of his own writings that landscape offers for our mental and physical were – and are – more important to me. We Martin and Dennis co-wrote a seminal piece well-being and the landscape’s capacity to collaborated on a research project and wrote mitigate or help us adapt to climate change. of work which includes historical one of its papers together. Over the years, information about the Rivelin valley. It was Dennis found and sent me copies of articles and entitled “The Rise and Fall of Holly in the Sheffield Lakeland Landscape Partnership archive notes and topics he guessed Sheffield Area”. Reproduced on the will build a shared understanding of the (accurately) I would be interested. I similarly following Sheffield History website - multiple ways in which the landscape is sent him things I found in case they were of valuable and will take action to record, interest. I could offer things from the university manage and protect these for the future. library and the internet. He offered me things https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/t found by ferreting in local archives. opic/9011-the-rise-and-fall-of-holly-in-the- sheffield-region/ We believe that: Much of Dennis’s writing, mostly on aspects of local history, I assume, was about By working in partnership and at a landscape places he knew well. His local knowledge scale we are better able to address the challenges seemed to me to be impressive, and his sense The RVCG would like to thank Michael and conflicts that arise between the different of wider history was sound. I’m not sure how Dyson for the information and Melvyn Jones values placed on the landscape. ‘academic’ his work was, but he was a valued and Martin Spray for their articles. contributor to Sheffield University’s Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language. He By acting together now, we will realise our vision made several contributions to its journal, as he of “a more natural and resilient Sheffield Graham Appleby did for the Hunter Archaeological Society. I see All this information can be found at: Lakeland landscape for everyone to value, enjoy, his contributions as on par with several https://www.wildsheffield.com/discover/you understand and feel part of”. academics I can think of. I see writing and r-community/sheffield-lakeland-landscape- publishing as vital parts of his life. However, I have no list of just what contributions these are. partnership/sheffield-lakeland-landscape- partnership/

’ and a second ‘ Sheffield John Spencer’s Baltic Trade in Sheffield Wares’. Dennis is described in the list of contributors in those books as follows:

Dennis J Smith 1947 - 2018 ‘Dennis Smith was born in Sheffield in 1947, spending much of his life in the

SCC it has been decided that this task is not who knew him. The contents of his house variously as cutlery worker, food mixer and

appropriate for this project due to the were a gold mine of collections of little cemetery worker. A childhood exploring extensive use of contractors. Therefore, we mesters tools, historical research the ruined mills of the Rivelin Valley was are currently finding alternative tasks to Footpath to Roscoe Mill information and important sketches and partially responsible for his interest in utilise the money originally earmarked for paintings. Sadly, he appears to have had industrial history. Other influences were his There are also plans to provide an this part of the project which may include no living relatives, left no will and lived in a father’s reminiscences of Sheffield trades information board at the Rivelin Park Café further footpath repairs and new publications. council house in Fox Hill and working conditions. He is possibly which was originally Spooners Wheel; one Graham Appleby remembered by local librarians as the of the earliest mills in the Valley with the After Dennis’s passing efforts were schoolboy who left grubby finger marks on playground being the original mill pond. Endcliffe Park Memorial made to rescue his unique collections. This The Oxford History of Technology! Dennis has On Feb 22nd 1944, a damaged WW2 bomber included 18th century cutlery and locally published booklets on aspects of life in the returning from a mission in Europe was forced to made rural Stannington/Rivelin pocket Bradfield and Cawthorne areas of South ditch in Endcliffe park killing 10 American aircrew. knives. It is hoped that this collection has Yorkshire. His articles have also appeared in Eye witnesses say the pilot purposely flew the the Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological been saved and will form part of the Ken plane into trees thus avoiding the public who were Hawley collection at Kelham Island - Society, and Sheffield University’s Lore and scattered around the park. A memorial has been perhaps apt since Ken was a close friend. Language Journal. His other interests maintained ever since by an eye witness, Tony included English, art, walking and early Foulds, who was 8 years old at the time. To Unfortunately, his other material such as

commemorate 75 years, the BBC will be his paintings drawings and documents music. He also enjoyed wide travel in the

broadcasting live from the park from around 6am were, as we understand, sold to a house British Isles and part of Greece. He retains fond memories of meetings with local to 9.15am on the morning of the 22nd February. clearance with the bulk being dumped. He However, there is no need to arrive at this time. was very interested in local artists people who had worked in the older local People are encouraged to arrive at the park from particularly William Lowe. Some interesting industries and spends considerable time around 7.15am. A memorial service will take material was rescued from the bins outside attempting to recover details of life from place from around 8am with the flypast set to his house such as taped interviews, documentary sources.’ follow at 8.45am. photographs and diaries. Rivelin Park playground that was Spooners Wheel Dam The Stannington Local History Group