DOREfDOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY No. 42 SUMMER 1996 ISSN 0965-8912

Dore recreation ground

For some time the Dore Village Society has been concerned with the state of the recreation ground on Townhead Road. Cutbacks in council maintenance, vandalism, poor drainage, lack of proper footpaths, dog fouling, are just some of the concerns. But the malaise is far more wide reaching, as it reflects a national quandary over what to do with our largely Victorian legacy of land given for the benefit of the people, but now seen by councils at best as a maintenance liability and at worst as an asset for disposal. If we are to retain the recreation ground and improve its amenity value, then the only answer is to instigate a partnership between residents, local organisations and the Council. This is what the Dore Village Society is now aiming to do. As a first step an approach has been made to the Sheffield City Wildlife Trust to draw up a plan to encourage wildlife and improve the visual amenities. Their proposals include leaving some areas of grass un-cut to Dore Choir 1925? - see picture of the 1933 choir in our spring edition. Familiar faces are Roy encourage wildflowers, re-planting with native Wilkins, Stanley and Norman Bingham, Bernard Elshaw, Eric lones, the two Thorpe boys, trees in some of the old field boundaries and Norman Westlake, Harry Nicholson, Arthur Platts and Frank Elvidge. reinstating a pond or bog area. You can see a plan of their proposals on the village notice board. Dore Festival Week Dakota Dore The next step is to invite additional ideas and reactions to the proposals from local Saturday 6 - Sunday 13 July In our last issue we reported the discovery organisations and residents. Questionnaires are Following the support given to last years of aDore placename in McKenzie County, going out to people living next to the Festival Week, local organisations are again North Dakota, USA and that the Dore Village recreation ground, local organisations and planning a variety of events with the Scout Society had written to see if we could make regular visitors. But we would welcome Gala and Welldressing Service as the finale to contact. A very helpful reply has now been feedback from as wide a range of people as the week. received from Harold Rolfsrud one of the local possible, so if you would like to contribute to A new idea proposed is to try and arrange a Board of County Commissioners. the survey please contact the address below for Gardens Open Day in the village, and we are McKenzie County was one of the last areas a questionnaire form, or write in with your asking for support for this from people who to be homesteaded in North Dakota between ideas and comments. are prepared to open their garden for the day. 1900 & 1910. Most of the people in the region Once opinions and ideas have been We would like to include as wide a variety as have their ancestral roots in Northern Europe. gathered, an ad-hoc committee will be formed possible, large or small, formal or otherwise. Dore itself was in the Yellowstone River from interested parties to discuss and You could make this a fundraising opportunity valley, where much of the land is irrigated and rationalise them into a way forward, including as well as sharing your gardening ideas with produces sugar beet, grain, hay, cattle, sheep how the project will be organised and others. and other produce. managed, long term objectives, phase plans, Please ring me as soon as possible if you Sadly Dore as a organised community no funding, voluntary labour etc. Representatives would like more information 236 0002. longer exists, having like many other similar of the Council's Recreation Department and communities died in the years that followed Sheffield Wildlife will be involved and initial it's founding, as technology changed the funding will come from the Dore Village Can you help agricultural practices of the Great Plains. Society. Today the only remaining structure in Dore is Part of the process will be finding out about Over 3,200 copies of each Dore to Door are a grain elevator which stores and ships grain the history of the recreation ground and to produced and delivered to local homes or for the areas farms. trace how it has changed over the years from posted to ex residents of the village. But that is An interesting insight into the townships fields and ponds to today's image. If you have only part of the story as we know from the history is featured inside this issue. lived in the village for any length of time you letters we receive that many copies are may be able help with photographs or forwarded from person to person all around information on this. the globe. We would like to know where these Council Elections To find out more about the project, for a copies end up and hear about the most well copy of the questionnaire, to offer help or travelled ones. If you pass on copies on a The results of the Local Elections for Dore information, please phone 236 9025 or write to regular basis, please drop us a line or ring 236 Ward on 2th May were: John Baker, acting Chairman, Dore Recreation 0925 with the details for the survey. As a D Heslop Conservative 2913 Ground Project, 8 Thornsett Gardens, Dore, further encouragement there wi 11 be an Gail Smith Liberal Democrat 2545 Sheffield, S 17 3PP. appropriate prize for the most interesting story. R Pearce Labour 1009 INSIDE: Beauchief Abbey; Country matters; Avoiding care costs; Letters & Local news. Letters

Dear sir I found the photograph of Dore Choir (1933) in your last issue bringing back pleasant memories of my childhood in Dore in the thirties'. We were a happy set of lads and had great respect for Arthur Farnsworth our choirmaster. He taught my sister and myself to play the piano and in my case the church organ. I'm sure we owed him a great deal. The boy on the end of the back row was Donald Laycock. He was unfortunately killed in action on the beaches on D Day', 1944. I cannot name the other unknown. Still on issue 41, I well remember Vera Gregory (Frith) and the large barn. Her father used to cut boys hair in the barn, (mine frequently) before a barbers shop was established. The snow photograph of the village centre was February 1931. There was about two feet of level snow which stayed for four weeks. The single-decker bus from Ecclesall had great difficulty getting into Dore during this time. The old blacksmiths shed was used by John Stones. He also sang bass in the choir. He was Pre 1959 view from the bottom of the village green. Picture sent in by Mr J Bennett. an active man and played cricket in his late sixties against the choir boys team in 1937 and was a formidable batsman even then. I last saw Dear Sir, supplier's expense. As much as anything, the him in the public air-raid shelter (where The piece of land in question has been used narrowing was to reduce both the cost of the Green's shop is now) during the blitz' on by the Motor Cycle Club continually for over scheme itself and our future maintenance Sheffield. He and Alec Thorpe were the only 30 years, maximum 4 times per year. Their use liability. Furthermore, the scheme has been other occupants on that frosty night and I has made and kept open pathways through the funded by the Department of Transport - not remember his comment "It's about time they undergrowth that are now been utilised by the the City Council. stopped this bombing before somebody gets local wildlife and livestock. So you see, there really are good reasons for hurt!". The land has never been owned by J.G. what we do, even though they may not always Issue 37 - I think that photograph was taken Graves, always being in private ownership be apparent at the time. in 1958 - there is a Mini Minor' in the picture. with No public access. It is a palimpsest of Thanks, though, for pointing out the benefit Issue 39 - The Choral Hall was a substantial mans activities for lOO's of years, a denuded of making short trips on foot. It really was wooden building with a stage (and a kitchen). area, mined for ganister, coal and fire clay, quite magical, wasn't it? Far better than having It was used for Children's Concerts put on by quarried for stone and used for night soil to fight for a parking space, being all grumpy Miss Flint and Mrs Barwell, the pianist. The tipping. and hardly speaking to one another. choir-boys Christmas party was held there. We The controlled motor cyclists cause minimal Incidentally, I thought doremice hibernated were not paid as choristers except for funerals damage when compared to the average user of at this time of the year! (one shilling each) and weddings (from one this area, stealing the stone off walls - Councillor Ian Wilson and six pence' to half a crown'), but each year knocking them down - ignoring signs and Ed. This letter was in response to the Mr Farnsworth would canvas villagers and was leaving gates open - etc, etc, etc. The biggest Doremouse column in our Spring issue able to give each boy a book prize at the problem is the total disregard to users of the complaining about the closure of Hathersage Christmas Party. public paths by certain ill mannered mountain Road in November last year and again in He also organised a day trip in midsummer bike users. Public car parks are for parking January this year. to Rhyl and Llandudno or Bridlington, always cars. by train, leaving Dore station about 4am and Jean Barber returning about midnight - Happy Days! Ed. A reply to David Sissons letter in our The new Church Hall was used to produce Spring issue. No through road plays by the Dramatic society. I remember especially The Barrets of Wimpole Street' The photograph on this page was taken from being a great success. My grandfather, the late Dear Doremouse, the bottom end of the village green, and shows Tom Dugdell provided and planted the shrubs I cannot let your attack on the "Highways the footpath to Busheywood prior to its around the new Church Hall. The war curtailed Department" go unchallenged. Certainly the reconstruction as the lower section of Savage the dramatic Societies activities. service they provide is not as comprehensive Lane. The site of the buildings named as Further notes. Vera Frith mentions milk as we would all like, but don't blame it on the Swing Farm Cottages' on the 1959 OS 1:1250 delivery by pony and trap. During the summer Officers. They are all working very hard and map was redeveloped with bungalows within school holidays I was allowed to deliver milk with great innovation to eke out the most from the ensuing 10 years. The gatepost adjoining for Mr John Siddall, who had the farm a little the limited resources available to them. On the the cottages still remains at the entrance to way up Long Line. Having accompanied him day the roads froze, pre-gritting had taken Nab Farm as does the pine tree above the road in the pony and trap I soon learnt the route. It place, but high winds blew most of it into the sign and the gate beyond, although the latter was not very difficult because the pony knew channels and then a sudden drop in was set back on construction of the present the route as well and stopped and waited in the temperature did the rest. highway. right places. This route extended down to the With regard to snow clearance, it is just not At the rear of the buildings shown stood top of Bushey Wood before the road was cut realistic to expect every street in the city to be Swing Farm' plus outbuildings, and the through (Ed. See picture). He never put a cleared, at huge expense, when invariably the western wall thereof is clearly visible today as foot wrong. problem resolves itself in a matter of days. a boundary wall between No 46 Savage Lane John Caisley As for Hathersage Road, that indeed must and Nab Farm. Jim Bennett, who has provided Macclesfield have appeared inept, what happenecf was that this picture, would be interested to learn of the some of the materials used were found to be whereabouts of any photographs of old Swing below specification and so were replaced at the Farm'. He can be contacted on 236 6916.

2 Mann and some of her family were there in the unwilling to stick to them. This spring they Dakota Dore winter of 1913 and 1914 and had an eating have been churning up soft footpaths in place. Stanhopes lived there in 1915 and 1916. Ecclesall woods after wet weather or riding in From an article written by Esther Stubbs last It was bought by Joe Stubbs, he moved in the the recreation ground. Presumably one rider postmistress of Dore, and provided by Mr fall of 1919. The post office was located here has objected to the byelaw restriction to bridle Rolfsrud, we learn that the history of Dore until it was closed in December of 1968. Joe ways in the woods and removed no-horse began one mile south of it's present site with Stubbs retired March 31, 1941 and Esther was riding signs. Dore Post Office, in what was then Billings postmistress until her retirement in December, Elsewhere in motorised Dore life goes on a County. It was named after George Dore, the 1968. usual, with motorists still parking on footpaths first postmaster from June 18, 1901 to April The original townsite of W. M. Post had the and forcing prams into the road, while the 28, 1904. From April 30,1904 the county was store, Post's Pool Hall, a store owned by Mike latest craze for younger teenagers seems to be called Allred and the post office was moved to Harris, father of Dwight, a blacksmith shop bottle smashing everywhere. Doremouse the Walter M. Post place' where Helen F. Post owned by Ed Kirkendahl and several was postmistress until November 22, 1907. In residences. the meantime it became McKenzie County on On the Stubbs townsite there was a Dore Show 1996 July 1, 1905. lumberyard office, butcher shop, livery barn, Joseph P. Stubbs became postmaster dance hall, post office and big house. When If you have not already made a note of the November 23, 1907 and the office was in an the hall was moved to the site east of the date - Saturday 14th September - be sure to old log house on his farm until mail started to railroad all lots were included in the farm keep it free. Once again there will be some 70 come in by train. Joe then built a small post holdings. classes for Fruit & Vegetable produce, office building just to the south of the their big The Farmers Elevator was built about 1913 Flowers, Floral Art, Home Cooking, Wine, house on the townsite planted about 1913. and enlarged later. It is still in business. A new Crafts, Arts and Junior entries. Adolph Johnson (Ed Johnson), built the first store was built in 1936 across the railroad to be Although spring had a late start this year, I store on Stubbs' land sometime in 1913, which close to the new highway and remained in am sure the gardens will catch up, while the joined the Mattie Berry place' across the road business until the late 1960s. The school was late spring has given even more time for other from the farm buildings. After W. M. Post had eventually moved to East Fairview and a larger hobbies to be completed ready for entry to the four blocks laid out in lots, the store was consolidated school built there. show. moved to the corner nearest Stubbs' addition to Ed.'f wonder where George Dare came from Lets hope for a dry and sunny September the townsite. It remained there until 1936 and if there is a link between Dare as a place day so we can all enjoy the brass band, morris when it burned down due to lightning hitting name and its use as a surname? men, side stalls and a bumper crop of entries to the power line and coming in through the the classes. telephone wires. For those wishing to make a photographic The new consolidated school built in 1915 Taken for a ride entry the class subjects for this year, min 7" x was on a corner of Stubbs' land near the 5", are: Colour photograph of a person irrigation canal. It was not occupied that year. Horses have much to commend them when (portrait) or group; Colour photograph of a During 1915 and 1916 school was held in the compared to the motor car, but they do not rural landscape; and any Black & White Dore hall, also built on Stubbs' townsite about always fit easily into modern day living. photograph. 1913. Fortunately most of our local riders are The full show schedule will shortly be The big house in Dore was originally a store considerate, but like everything else just a few available from Greens on Causewayhead in Java owned by Louis Larson, bought by C. can spoil it for the many. Bridle paths there are Road, and on display on the Dore Village F. Stanhope and rebuilt in Dore. Mrs. Rachel a plenty, but some riders seem unable or Society notice board.

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The snow bound picture of Marshalls sweet shop published in the spring edition shows a PYROFLEX lorry which I believe belonged to Jack King who had a daughter called Winnie. They had an enamelling works on Whittington moor near Chesterfield and I believe they lived on the corner of Furniss Avenue. My father worked as a driver mechanic for them for some time. Between Marshalls and Devonshire Terrace was a wooden hut run by Chippy Holmes, yes you've guessed it, a fish and chip shop. All I can say about the photo in this issue is that I often bought Ihoz of yeast to eat on the way to Dore School or a small loaf from Huby Friths, the farthest away shop in the picture. To it's left was Deniff's the butcher and Midgleys the greengrocers. Rex Raddy Another picture of snowbound Dore High Street in the 1940s - see article from Rex Raddy

Jean Recalls pleasant as foxes usually do smell. He also had a donkey in the yard called Moses. He let the One Wet Morning Recollections of a Dore schoolgirl of the 30s children he was fond of ride it round the yard. &40s Jack said he could remember when he was a An extract from a booklet Jack Greaves was a great character in the lad his father building attics and back kitchens "A walk round Ecclesall and a talk about village. He lived at Sycamore Farm on Drury on the three cottages opposite the chemists, Dore published in 1873". The piece about Lane. He was educated at Dore School. The before which they were I up I down Dore was supplied by the lecturer Rev. William headmaster at that time was Frederick Bones, dwellings. Mrs Fearnehough used to have a Cobby, MA. known to the children as Daddy Bones. My photograph of herself as a child outside the lt was during the time that the old chapel aunt went to school at the same time as Jack. cottages before they were altered. I wonder if was used (some 70 or 80 years ago) the He was a mischievous boy and one day her family still have it? following incident occurred:- Jean Dean knowing that he was due a caning, hid Mr One wet morning an old woman living a Bones' cane under the floor boards. But he short distance out of the village, with patterns didn't escape his punishment, when Mr Bones News in brief and umbrella, apparently dressed for some couldn't find his cane he went into the school particular occasion, passed down the village. garden and cut another. Following the item in our last issue we are The old schoolmistress happening to be After leaving school he worked on the roads pleased to say that Docherty's Bistro has now standing at the door of the school (at that time in the area with his horse and cart. He used to paid it's outstanding invoice and continues to only a village house), surprised to see Betty at joke he never worked fast and he never worked trade on the corner of Archer Road and an unusual time, cried out "Well Betty, where slow, he worked Jack's pace. When he retired Abbeydale Road South. are you going to?" "I am for'th chapel", cried from this work he was persuaded by the then DVS has erected a simple bench seat on the Betty. "Ah, going to be married?" asked the headmaster Mr Wright to take on the duties of Ryecroft bridleway in Ecc le sa ll Woods, schoolmistress. "Noo" was Betty's response. School Crossing Warden across the busy adjacent to Limb Brook at a point colloquially "What then?" was the next interrogatory. village street. He carried out this duty know as the dogs swimming pool'. "What do we go every Sunday for?" was the conscientiously and at the errd of the first week Eyam Hall, a 17th century manor house reply. "Sunday! well it's Monday" was the claimed he knew each child's name. It was open to the public, now has a craft centre in its next exclamation. "The ferrets it is" answered heaven help the child who tried to cross the historic farm yard following restoration of the Betty. "Then it's that old whatcake (oatcake) road behind Jack's back. buildings. Combined with Eyam Museum and that's done it" "But how's that Betty?" again He rented out the farm buildings. Horses its heritage story of the village, the two can asked the mistress. "Why I always bake a peck were stabled there and my aunts kept their pigs make an interesting day out. of meal" responded Betty, " and it just serves there for many years. Jack had a tame Fox Transport 17 are holding an open morning me a week, and it happened to make two cakes which he used to walk round the village on a at their premises on Baslow Road from l Oam more this week and it's driven me into lead like a dog. As I remember the poor little to 12 noon, featuring refreshments, books, Monday; and what makes it worse" continued thing was quite nervous and didn't smell very cakes and bric-a-brac. the woman, apparently horrified at breaking the Sabbath, "I was white-washing yesterday." Would that the like regard and care for Sunday observances were more general amongst us! 111;13i j 13RI; [fa tl;1'J I;WfJ; t.[;1;,'11 According to the dictionary a pattern "is a wooden shoe with an iron ring worn under the Dor. PQvln.gS.•rvic.•s soles by women as a protection against damp." A peck of meal = 14lbs. GROWING BY RECOMMENDATION Mrs. J. Roberts [i2'J Block Paving [i2'J Slabbing [i2'J Patios [i2'J Car Parks ~ forecourts & DrlveUJags and all other aspects of PaVing Practical Gardening

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5 Townhead Road to No. 114, known as The A branch of the Sykes Family Castle, where I was born in 1924. There is, in Dore incidentally, one aspect of my birth certificate that I am curious about. My mother attended Having been born in Dare, although I lived Dare school from 1909 to 1917 or 1918 and there only a short while, I frequently visited the headmaster during that time was Fred. C. relatives there as a boy and have since become Bone (or Daddy Bone as she referred to him.) interested in finding something out about my This is also the signature on my birth ancestors. The original family name was Sykes certificate for the Ecclesall Bierlow district in of which there may have been several branches 1924. Did he double as headmaster and as old records show many Sykes in Dore, registrar or had he by then retired from Totley, Dronfield and Holmesfield. teaching?' The first trace I have found in Dore on this Soon after my birth my grandparents had a particular branch is John Sykes who married further move to No. 112 Townhead Road. Sarah Vickers on the 18th. May 1807, although Both 112 and 114 were then owned by Read's as this date is pre census I have been unable to who lived in Knowle Green House which ascertain where they lived. They had nine stood at the corner of Townhead Road and children, four sons and five daughters. The Newfield Lane. According to my mother the eldest son William married a Mary and they reason for the last move was that Read's had two sons John & William and one wanted the larger house for their chauffeur and daughter Bethia. his family. Around this time my mother, father John Sykes second son Samuel, was the first and myself moved to Fulwood and we did not of the family to live at what I know as Rushley li ve in Dore again except for a few years Cottage; although it had been shown on earlier during and after the last war. Until he moved Ordnance Survey maps as Ivy Cottage. After to Fulwood, for about three years, my father him the cottage was occupied by his nephew used to walk to work in Fulwood for a 7am. William who married Harriet Marshall of start and back again to Dore after a hard days Totley on the 29th. April 1872 at Dore church. William Sykes - husband of Harriet - outside work with the building firm owned then by his They were both 19 years of age at the time, he Rushley Cottage. father. His route would have been presumably was a coalminer and Harriet was the daughter through the village, up Rushley Road and of Joseph Marshall who was the road surveyor along Limb Lane to Whirlow Bridge, then and repairer for the Dore area. Soon after turning left up the "ginnell" and across the marriage they moved into Rushley Cottage fields at the top, then across Ringinglow Road where all their thirteen children were born. and down Common Lane and the "Carriage Research has so far only yielded the names of Drive" to Forge Dam and up into Fulwood. eleven of those children, but where did they all We visited my grandparents in Dore sleep - the cottage had only one bedroom in regularly when I was a schoolboy and I those days. remember well being sent up the road to The first child of William and Harriet was Townhead Farm, then occupied by a family Eliza born in December 1872 at Rushley called Stones, with a jug to collect the milk - Cottage and she was my Grandmother. She still warm from the cow. The occupants at married Thomas Ramsell who came from No.114 Townhead Road were then called Burton on Trent to work on the construction of Gregory, but whether this was the chauffeur the Dore and Totley tunnel. After marriage mentioned previously I have no idea. they moved to Goldthorpe, as did a number of Eliza and Thomas lived at No. 112 until other members of the Sykes family who were their deaths in 1949. Thomas died on the 25th. miners and left when there was no longer full April and Eliza 10 days later on May 5th. On employment in the Dore coal and ganister pits. the day of each funeral the family assembled at Many of their descendants are still to be found No. 112 (the coffin was in the front room !) around Goldthorpe. The first two of Eliza's six and the coffin was then carried from the house children, Joseph and Annie (Nance), were born down Townhead Road, through the village and at Goldthorpe but around 1898 the family along to the church by six of their eight moved back to Dare. They lived in one of the grandsons. cottages in Townhead Row, then owned by I shall always remember the complete Fearnyhough's, where their other four children silence of that procession - except for the William, Selina Mary, Thomas Arthur (joby) sound of footsteps all curtains closed and all and Sarah (my mother) were born. shops shut temporarily as a mark of respect. Before 1920 they had moved higher up PT£. William Ramsell c 1914118 Having attended many other funerals over the

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6 interest to me is Samuel Sykes and his wife Hannah with two children in 1851. By 1861 We shall remember they lived at Causeway Head Cottage, in 1871 at Little Common, East Rushley and in 1881 at With the addition of names to the War 7, Abbey View, Dore. By 1891 Hannah's name Memorial and on a new plate in Church comes is missing from the census at that address but the reminder of the original ceremony:- Samuel was still there with a housekeeper Dedication Eliza Sykes, aged 18. This was his niece - my of the grandmother - who later married Thomas Lych Gate War Memorial Ramsell. By the The 1861 census shows a William Sykes Venerable The Archdeacon of Chesterfield and his wife Mary (my great, great On grandparents) being with their family of two Saturday, April 2nd, 1921, at 3 p.m. sons and a daughter at Greenwood Mount, Also the Dore, although by 1871 the eldest son John Unveiling of the Brass Tablet in the Church, and their daughter Berthia had left home. John containing the Names of the Men who Died in appears on the 1871 census married to the Great War from the Ancient Parish of Dore. Elizabeth Pinder and living with their four William Ralph Gibson, Vicar children at 136 Cobblers. By 1881 the couple Fred C. Bone} with two remaining children lived at Pry or J. A. Cotterill } Wardens Buildings. I have been unable to discover the location of these two addresses. The unveiling of the Memorial Tablet was Other records show a John Sykes, brother to performed by two ex-soldiers during a short the William and Samuel mentioned above, service, the Address being given by the living at Ashfurlong in 1861 with his wife Archdeacon and the collection taken on behalf Harriet Sykes in Flanders at the grave of Sarah and two children. By 1871 they lived at of the Memorial Fund. This was followed by a Samuel Sykes, her son. 8, Dore Road with three children and by 1881 Procession of Clergy, Choir and Congregation only John and Sarah are shown as living at to the Lych Gate where the Archdeacon years I have never known this to be repeated in Dore Fields. It appears the the Sykes Families dedicated it "in memory of the men of this this country and it would certainly not be made a habit of moving house at least once in Parish who died in the service of their King possible with todays traffic on the roads. every ten years !!! Stan Broomhead and Country in the Great War". My grandfather, Thomas, worked at the brickyard at Greystones for many years. He always walked to and from work in all Over weathers, ignoring the bus to Ecclesall and the 150 Years Local tram to Greystones. Each Sunday as I grew up I would go with my father on the tram from Fulwood to the end of Rustlings Road and then walk up to the brickyard, now I understand the site of a supermarket, carrying a basket containing grandfather's Sunday roast dinner in a large pudding basin. The heat over the furnaces where he worked stoking the fires with "slack" was unbearable, but we would sit and wait until the dinner was eaten before returning home. As I grew older I would do the Sunday journey alone and in later years after I left to join the Air Force my brother would ONE LOCAL CALL TO SELL make the trip when he was old enough. My mother's sister, Selina Mary, married YOUR HOUSE Arthur Gillott, who I think was the Dore 2362420 policeman. They married in August 1918 and Arthur died one week later at the end of that same month, having caught the 'flu. She later Ask for ALISTAlR HUMPHREY, FRIeS married William Charlton, again the Dore Our Locally Resident Partner policeman, who had a long career in the Derbyshire force rising to the rank of Chief Superintendant. My mother used to recall that she often accompanied her sister Mary to Also ~ Arthur's grave in Dore churchyard with d The Sheffield flowers. Reverting to the Sykes occupation of Rushley Cottage, my grandmother's brother SELpi'SALEROOM Samuel was born there and left to join the Established 1840 Army in the First World War. He was a corporal when he was killed in action and I Furniture, Fine Arts, Antiques & House Clearances. have a photograph of my Great Grandmother standing beside his grave in Flanders. His Insurance and Probate Valuations. name is recorded on the plaque in Dore church. On the death of Harriet Sykes in 1926, Regular Auction Sales. Rushley Cottage passed into the hands of the youngest son George, but some time after his Phone 236 2420 wife Elizabeth died he also moved to Goldthorpe and the cottage stood empty for some years. George was married to Elizabeth Further Branches in • BAKEWELL, HATHERSAGE, Siddall who was brought up at Strawberry Lea. FULWOOD, BROOMHILL and CENTRAL SHEFFIELD Census returns show various Sykes : households in Dore in the 1800's. Of particular 7 ••••

and fork, eventually seeding the acreage to Country Matters produce a superb cattle grazing pasture. It is now disappointing to see that the moor is Stand at the Townhead Road end of being allowed to reclaim the pasture, after all Newfield Lane opposite the seats, look straight our efforts. ahead and what do you see. For 180 degrees of We always looked forward to corn harvest the compass you look out over a panorama time. There were usually 4 acreages of land taking in arable farmland, woodland and alloted to this crop. In would go the moorland, a truly remarkable Country Scene reaper/binder, horse drawn of course, working no matter what the season, as it rises to the towards the centre of the field. As we worked skyline. Now allow your eyes to 'pan' to the towards the middle out would dash the rabbits. left along Shorts Lane to the Riding School I 'dobbed' my first rabbit in this manner and, and, down the pasture to the white kissing gate didn't it taste grand. and bridge. Here partly hidden by its Upon completion of the total harvest and protection of sycamore and ash trees is stacking, we would have the traditional Hallfield Farm, currently the home of Robin 'Harvest Home' supper and, what splendid Barber and family. occasions these were. All the Pearsons were You will notice that there are 11 walled present, with the addition of Emmie's brother acreages of land that rise towards the moor, Victor who could play the farmhouse piano, topped on the left by a copse of sycamore and despite its suspect tone and the occasional beech trees. missing note. Following the meal during which However, let me take you back in time, to the Harvest was blessed, we sang a range of when this was a working farm and home of the old farming/shepherding songs and, what a late George and Harriett Pearson, their sons wonderful end to the 'Harvest Home' this was. Willis, Ernest and Tom and, daughters Annie It is a shame that many of these old traditional and Elsie. George and Harriett with son Tom songs are being allowed to die out. lived at Hallfield Farm, Willis lived at Hollin A reminder of my happy days at Hallfield House in the pastures that are opposite. Ernest Farm, can be found just before turning left and Elsie lived at Totley, Annie lived at Hope along Shorts Lane when approached from the but latterly at Peak Forrest, with their bridge end dip on Whitelow Lane. You will respective families. All members of the notice a flat slab on the wall top. This was Pearson family would rally round at the labour made to take the milk churns straight from the George and Harriett Pearson of Hallfield intensive times of the year and, believe me, cart, prior to their collection by the Express Farm. there were plenty of these occasions. Dairy. This certainly saved the back breaking Hallfield Farm was a 'working' farm in the From being a lad of 10 years to manhood, I job of lifting churns and placing them on the true, traditional sense with dairy cattle, suckler spent the majority of my weekends and school ground. Oh ... it would be possible to write all beef cattle, arable crops, corn, poultry and holidays working on this farm and enjoyed the night about this farming family and, the many pigs. There was also a goose that acted as happiest, most contented days of my life with happy memories ... 'sentry' and, it took a brave person to approach the Pearson family. There was a tractor and I too, eventually married and my young wife it, believe me. The farm was lit by oil lamps heavy horse but the majority of the work was was also made welcome by the Pearsons. On until the arrival of electricity, and water had to by hand and 'sweat of man's brow'. Cows to one of our visits I heard the saying, to end all be pumped up from the river by a 'Ram' which be milked twice a day by hand, back and sayings. Father George Pears on asked, 'Have frequently went on the blink, due to river forward to the cooler system, a range of root you got a family started yet', to which we sludge in the filter. crops to be hoed by hand, I still have the replied, 'Give us a chance, we have only been blisters to prove it. Every acre was productive. married for 6 weeks'. George Pearson's reply The reward at the end of the working day, stays with me to this day, 'I reckon now't to DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY which was usually the late milking, was one of having an acre of land with no crop off it'. 6 Registered Charity No. 1017051 Harriett Pearson's farmhouse teas. Traditional years later we produced his 'crop' when we homely fare, especially her home made pork had Deborah J ane and Andrew Michael, 18 The Society aims to foster the protection brawn. I can still see a row of basins on the months later. Many' are the times that I have and enhancement of the local environment cold stone window ledge, with heavy flat irons chuckled to myself at George Pearson's and amenities within Dore, encourage a pressing the newly made brawns. Hanging statement, as I stand at the corner of Newfield spirit of community and record its historic from the ceiling were cured hams and flitches Lane, enjoy the panorama and think with great development. of bacon, all the products from the home killed affection at my happy, contented years at pig. Hallfield Farm. The cattle are gone, no seas of Chairman Swill for the pigs was collected from waving corn, root crops growing, weather Mr M Hennessey 2366632 Fairthorn Home, now Home Farm Trust. The watching hoping to get the last dray full of hay 58 Savage Lane Matron of this home was Emmie Robinson, a or corn before a deluge ... just grass as far as truly lovely lady. It was my task to collect the the eye can see. If only it were possible to turn Vice Chairman swill from the home in a tumbrell cart pulled back the clock. (Dore to Door & Dore Show) by the heavy horse, once or twice a week. Iim Frost Mr J R Baker Eventually, to my surprise this task was taken 8 Thornsett Gardens,S 17 3PP 236 9025 over by Tom Pearson, who seemed to take longer than I did, for some reason. All was Country Garden Treasurer revealed when Tom and Emmie announced Mr PH Veal their forthcoming marriage and, some years The time has come for us to leave, 172 Dore Road,S 17 3HA 2368437 later had a son, named Donald. Emmie's Our thanks we'd like to send, arrival at Hallfield Farm added a new To customers who've supported us, Subscriptions & Planning dimension, as she was also a superb cook and From the start until the end. Mrs G Farnsworth homemaker. 11 Rushley Avenue,S 17 3EP 2350609 The farming seasons would come and go. The shop will still be open, We milked, mucked out, hoed, made hay, And run just as before, Committee reaped and stooked corn, etc. You name it, we With very nice new owners, Mrs LE Baker 2369025 did it. One good visible example of our graft, At Country Garden, here in Dore. MrsA Slater 2366710 was the reclamation from the moor of the top Mr G R Elsdon 2360002 most walled acreage that you will observe. For Best wishes from Harry & Karen Mrs V Malthouse (Daytime) 2362168 weeks, Tom and I ripped out the heather, spent Mrs C M Veal 2368437 days carting 'muck' and spreading it by hand Ed. Harry is taking a well earned retirement.

8 Sharrow Vale Road. instantly drowned. Chatterbox We would be interested to hear of other This accident so enraged all the other appropriately named businesses. workmen that they smashed the invention In the Winter 95 issue - Talking Point - we Which brings us to the title of this item - completely and they would have done serious listed some local business names which tell us Chatterbox, another a mobile phone company! injury to John Unwin if they could have laid something about the business concerned and their hands on him. are easy to remember. Kutz - hairdressers; This mishap ended, for ever, the Dore man's' Country Garden - vegetable shop; and Tasty John Unwin of Dore inventions in the diving world! Plaice - fish & chips. We asked for some more J Edward Vickers examples of clever ideas or marketing ploys In the early 19th century, there lived at Dore Reproduced from the book real or imagined. a man called John Unwin who, it seems, was a Old Sheffield Town, currently out of print. Choosing a name for a business must be one very keen inventor. One of his inventions was a of those creative areas for the 90s. They came diving bell which was sent to Manchester to be rolling in; Headlines - hairdressers on tested and proved very satisfactory. Deadline for Autumn Ecclesall Road; Twinkle Toes - Childrens shoe Unfortunately however a workman in the shop again on Ecclesall Road; Just a Second - Manchester factory, fascinated by the unusual Diary Events second hand clothes and Wall Talk - Pictures & machine, climbed inside when no one was Tuesday framing, both on Abbeydale Road; Alpine about, and lowered the bell into about twelve House - Winter sports ware, Infirmary Road; feet of water. Not familiar with the controls, he 30th July 1996 Foothills - Walking specialists, Edgedale must have pressed some of the wrong buttons, Ring 236 9025 or write to the Editor Road; Touchwood - Traditional wooden toys, for water rushed into the diving bell and he

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successful pregnancy and in July 1783 gave the French. birth to a daughter, Georgiana Dorothy. The Earls and Dukes of COUNTRY HOME The following year she caused a lively Devonshire scandal when she and her friends took to the Now in his forties, the Duke was content to poorer streets of London in active support of let Georgiana and Bess run Chatsworth as a The ninth in a series of articles Charles James Fox in the general election. The country home for their children: the five they ladies dazzled the people with their had borne him, as well as Charlotte Williams The Fifth Duke of Devonshire (1748-1811) extravagant finery, carried voters to the and Bess's two teenaged sons of her own failed hustings in their grand carriages and even marriage. These two boys were educated at Bereaved of his mother at the age of six and bought stubborn votes with kisses. Fox's Oxford at the Duke's expense. left to inherit the Dukedom nine years later on victory was assured. The private apartments of Chats worth had the death of his father, William Cavendish was Nothing indicates that the Duke ever been decorated in the latest French fashion. a joyless and uncommunicative young man. resented living in his wife's shadow, he was French craftsmen were commissioned to make Disinterested in political life, which after all too lethargic to spare the effort for either some of the pieces which still furnish the had taken its toll on the health of his father, the debate or action himself. Yet he finally proved Yellow Drawing Room. The architect John 5th Duke found everything else dull too. All that he had a heart; by this time, and Carr was brought in to design furniture for the his life he was weighed down by what has apparently without acrimony from Georgiana, Blue Drawing Room but he is better known in been described as 'constitutional apathy'. Even Bess was sharing both the family home and the the Peak for his elegant Crescent at Buxton. It in his youth he put no effort into socialising loving embraces of 'Canis'. The menage a is said that it was built from the profits of the other than heavy drinking and gambling, rarely trois was soon extended. In the summer of Duke's copper mines at Ecton. far from his London home, Devonshire House 1785, only two weeks apart, Georgiana gave Before long there were deep concerns about in Piccadilly. birth to Harriet and Bess to Caroline, given the Georgiana's health. Her agonising headaches Wealthier than any man needed to be, surname St Jules. worsened and she was left blind in one eye Devonshire had no need of good looks. The Devonshires still had no legitimate heir from a disfiguring eye infection, at the same Indolence kept him plump in the face and but neither was in glowing health. As well as time suffering a great deal of pain from corpulent in body. Yet if the man of his portrait chronic headaches, made worse by worry over gallstones. She still had some £40,000 of debts looks as much boring as bored, at least his her ever-escalating debts, Georgiana suffered kept secret from her husband. expression might as easily reflect his gentle from a liver complaint. As for the Duke, he She played one last role as Queen of the and long-suffering character. was advised by his doctor, Erasmus Darwin, to Foxite Whigs when, upon the death of Pitt In his mid-twenties, an undemanding affair cut his alcohol intake by half. Darwin early in 1806, many of her old circle were with 'a tarnished Mayfair milliner called explained: 'this inflammation of the liver, appointed to Fox's new ministry. Georgiana Charlotte Spencer' (Stags and Serpents: John occasion'd originally by drinking much gave them a large supper party at Devonshire Pearson) gave the Duke his first child, a spiritous or fermented liquor. ... causes the House; the Duke had been offered his choice daughter. Born in 1774 and named Charlotte, gout.' of post but was not interested. Within weeks she was given the surname Williams as a Bess, meanwhile, was alluring, cheerful - Georgiana fell into her final illness and on 30 discreet acknowledgement to her paternity. and soon pregnant again. In May 1787 she March died of 'an abscess on the liver'. On the It was far more important for the Duke to presented the Duke with his first son, Augustus day that her coffin left for Derbyshire to be father a legitimate heir and to this end he William Clifford. buried in the family vault, the Duke took to his room and spoke to no-one. selected a very acceptable bride. Over many AN HEIR years the Cavendishes had maintained a Bess continued to live with him although friendship with the Spencers of Althorp and, as For the Duchess to be well enough to she had never been liked by Georgiana's more recent history has confirmed, the produce an heir, Bess suggested she forsake children - young Lord Hartington referred to Spencers have produced very eligible the gambling tables and distance herself from her as 'a crocodile'. Nevertheless, in October offspring. her debtors. So it was that in June 1789 the trio 1809 the Duke made her his second wife. He Earl Spencer's oldest daughter was left for Europe. On a visit to Marie Antionette had only another two years to live, dying Georgiana, full of life, warm and impulsive. at Versailles they witnessed the first alarming without fuss or drama of dropsy in August When she learned that the undemonstrative stirrings of the French Revolution. The party 1811. Devonshire had put himself forward as her moved on to Spa and here Georgiana finally Iulie Bunting suitor she fell in love with an exuberance and conceived the healthy, precious son who was emotion that was quite one-sided. No matter; born on 21 May 1790, William Spencer on 5 June 1774, within days of her 17th Cavendish. birthday, Georgiana and the Duke were The household settled down again in ·S.A. SWIFT· married. London and there, for the first time in her life, Georgiana was unfaithful, besotted by the CANIS, MRS RAT & RACKY handsome Charles Grey, future Prime Minister.

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There was a lifelong addiction and her losses were never anything equal to the attention I have phenomenal. met from him - to the generosity and Then in the spring of 1782 an inexplicable kindness.' element animated the Devonshire marriage in The menage a trois resumed, their life of the feline form of Lady Elizabeth Foster, happy domesticity increasingly spent at known as Bess. She was the same age as Chatsworth. The Devonshire had spent many FOR MORE INFORMATION AND MENUS CALL: Georgiana and from the moment she entered summers there since the early years of their their lives the three of them became devoted to marriage, occasionally holding open days at (0114) 236 7560 one another. Soon Bess was addressing the the great house, when any visitors would be couple by the pet names Canis and Mrs Rat. invited to dinner. THE TOTLEY COFFEE SHOPPE She herself was Racky. It was from Derbyshire in 1778 that the 51 BASLOW ROAD, TOTLEY, Duke, as lord lieutenant of the county, had led Relaxed in the new, warmer atmosphere SHEFFIELD, S 17 4DL around her, Georgiana finally completed a the Derbyshire militia to Kent en route to face 10 Morgan's London mansion and never to be put Returning Duchess on display or allowed to be engraved. Well Dressing Diary Eventually the picture returned to America The renown charm of Georgiana Spencer, and on the death of the last surviving Throughout the spring and summer a fifth Duchess of Devonshire, was captured by descendent was auctioned at Sotheby's in July succession of old Derbyshire villages put on a Gainsborough in a portrait painted around 1994, just yards from where it was stolen in colourful well dressing display, often 1785 when she was in her late twenties. She is 1876. The picture was bought for £256,500 associated with a week of village festivities. portrayed beneath a huge cocked hat, her left and finally returned to Chats worth House Some of the more significant ones this summer eyebrow raised and beckoning flirtatiously and where it belongs. May a tantalising half-smile playing across her lips. 16-22 Tissington One of the darlings of her age, Georgiana died 18-20 Etwall at 48 and the picture began its own adventures. The Duke's Barn 25-27 Endon It next appeared unrecognised in the home 27 -28 Brackenfield of an elderly schoolmistress who had cut off On 2nd May, the Duke of Devonshire 25-31 Wirksworth the lower half of the picture at the knee to fit officially opened a new extension to the 25-31 Middleton By Youlgreave above her fireplace, and had burnt the remnant. Duke's Barn, a residential countryside centre June Around 1841 it was sold on to Wynn Ellis at Beeley on the Chats worth Estate. Housed in 1 - 9 Ashford an art collector who confirmed it as the an 18th-century listed barn, the centre is 9 - 18 Penistone Duchess. At his death in 1876 it sold to a administered by the Royal School for the Deaf, 19-24 Cowley Mission London art dealer for £10,605, the highest Derby, with the assistance of Chats worth 22-27 Youlgreave auction price ever paid until then for a Settlement Trustees. 22-30 Litton painting. The Duke's Barn is well known to many 22-30 Tideswell But before it could be sold on to the local organisations. Arrangements are 29-4 Rowsley American banking family Morgan the picture currently under discussion for a visit from a 29- 6 Hope was daringly stolen by Adam Worth, a criminal Holmesfield primary school, a group of 30-7 Bakewell described by Pinkerton's detective agency as Sheffield families have booked an outdoor July "the most remarkable, most successful and activity weekend for early summer, whilst 10-15 Buxton most dangerous criminal known to modern members of staff from British Telecom in 13-20 Dore times", and who may well have been a model Sheffield have arranged a 'teambuilding' 13-21 Bamford for Professor James Moriarty, the criminal weekend. 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But we can also add our voices to the cause of its preservation and support by joining local branches of organisations such as the CPRE, National Trust and RSPB. We can also help by supporting a new Peak District Tourism and Environment Fund, an independent Trust founded to give grants for •..----- conservation projects which improve the ,-' environment for the benefit of visitors and , -' residents. Such projects as footpath repairs and signposting, repairing dry-stone walls, tree itSTOKE-ON-TREN planting and improved car parking. Starfo"-.d s hL •... C If every visitor gave SOp just think what The Peak Park boundaries. could be done with the £15 million raised! For more information or to make a donation please contact The Peak District Tourism and though the properties have been transferred to whose husband enters long-term care, will not Environment Fund, Eccles House, Eccles the relative. have to move home in order to finance the Lane, Hope, Derbyshire, S30 2RW. 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The most common home care is required, but there are no longer an elderly person before going into residential include ensuring a particular relative inherits, the resources to pay the fees because of the care, as long as the local authority can prove to avoid inheritance tax on death, to relieve gift, the local authority may only pay for the that the significant intention of that person to oneself of the worry and responsibility of basic level of care, so the client may be avoid contributions. The effect of this is that as home ownership, or the issue worrying many dependant on relatives to top up the fees if long as the local authority can prove this of today's senior citizens; to avoid the value of they want a better standard of care. significant intention, they can go back as far the property being taken into account in Finally the relative who receives the gift into the past as they wish. The longer the various forms of means tested benefits. The may fail to support the giver and may even period between the gift and the person going question of giving assets away to avoid or seek to move them permanently into into residential care, the less likely the local reduce the liability to pay for long-term care, residential care in order to occupy the home authority are going to be able to prove this is therefore becoming more and more themselves or to sell it. They may die without intention. common. making suitable provision for the giver or run If you wish to consider your own particular Gifts of property to close relatives can have into financial difficulties because of conditions with relation to long-term care both benefits and risks. The obvious benefits unemployment or divorce or become bankrupt responsibilities, you should consult your are a possible saving of inheritance tax and and as a consequence, be unable to offer the solicitor before undertaking any significant probate fees, and to avoid the value of the giver any support. gifts. Sara Robson-Burrell house being taken into account in means When and if a person enters into a Tofield Swann & Smythe Dore testing for other benefits or services. More residential or nursing home either voluntarily importantly, property gifts avoid the need to or involuntarily, the local authority usually sell the house to pay for charges for residential carries out a financial assessment of the News in brief care or nursing home fees, thus securing the amount, if any, of any contribution paid for the family's inheritance. residential fees. The assessment takes into Sighted in gardens on Blackamoor Road There are of course, risks in gifting such account both income and capital (the capital before Christmas and still around, is a green assets to relatives, as follows.- cut-off point is currently £ 16,000 as of April parrot with blue on its head and an orange Firstly the value of the house may still be 1996). If the assets are in excess of that beak. Previously seen on Psalter Lane, a parrot taken into account if the authority concerned amount it is likely that the resident will be answering to the same description has resisted can prove that a 'significant' part of the responsible for a full contribution towards their the grape temptations of a parrot psychologist person's intention in making the gift was to residential fees. Once assets fall below in favour of its freedom. Usually escaped avoid the value of that house being taken into £16,000 the contribution reduces accordingly. parrots ate mobbed by our resident birds, but account when assessing contributions towards Assets cannot be reduced lower than £8,000. this one seems big and healthy enough to look nursing home/residential care fees. The The local authority cannot insist that a after itself. If you know who the local Long authority can either recover the assets given person sells property owned by them in order John Silver' is please let one of the DVS away or impose a charge on the assets, even to pay the residential fees. For example, a wife committee know.

12 Society this can be arranged by your solicitors, workshops, quizzes and questionnaires, with Charitable bequests but please do let us know so that we can technology trails for older children - and acknowledge your kindness. parents! Many people support different charities Also in July are the "Day of Dance" on during their lives and may wish to remember Sunday July 14th and the Prince's Youth them in their wills. This can easily be done Business Trust Craft Fair the following when a will is drafted or by making an Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet weekend. The Day of Dance is part of the addition called a Codicil' which can be Sheffield Children's Festival programme. arranged by a solicitor or your bank manager. The Hamlet is looking forward to a bumper Several Sheffield Schools will present their Property and other possessions can also be summer, with a host of special attractions and performances, following a series of in-school gifted. events lined up during the forthcoming workshops. There will also be competitions, The Dore Village Society aims to foster the months. museum trails, a children's play area and other protection and enhancement of the local The restoration of the Garden to the side and activities to make this a superb family day. The environment and amenities within Dore, rear of the Victorian Manager's house is Prince's Youth Business Trust Craft Fair encourage a spirit of community and record its making progress, with many plants and shrubs showcases the talents of young local artists, historic development. To make a real impact already planted through donations of cash or craftspeople, designers and entrepreneurs. takes money and we have been working to plants. Staff at the Hamlet are extremely Following on from the success of last year's build up sufficient funds to develop and grateful to Beauchief Environment Group and event, more young people who have been accommodate the Dore Collection of artifacts the Abbeydale Garden Company for their help helped by the PYBT will be invited to display and information. and support, as well as all the other people and their skills and wares. But most important are those items people businesses who made donations to help this An exhibition of Puppets begins at the end in the village hold in relation to the past, old project come about. The garden now looks set of July and continues until September. The photographs, pictures & postcards, trade tools to provide another attractive feature for this skills, secrets and sheer magic of puppetry will or common items from years ago etc. All too Sheffield landmark. be presented in an exhibition and supporting often these things are thrown away, readily May 18th to 26th is National Museums workshops, events and displays. Stage Right discarded, or moved out of the area, when a Week and there are activities and events Puppets, now in residence at Abbeydale person's estate is wound up. If you hold and throughout the week, culminating in the Industrial Hamlet (in their "Gypsy Caravan" in value any such items, please consider passing popular Working Days over the Bank Holiday the orchard) will be helping with this or leaving them to the Dore Village Society, so - 25th, 26th and 27th May. exhibition and dazzling visitors with their that we can ensure their preservation for the June and July will see an exhibition of unique brand of mayhem and magic. interest and benefit of a wider local audience. children's work - "Made at Abbeydale The August Working Days take place over A financial or property legacy to a registered Hamlet" in the upstairs gallery. These are the the August Bank Holiday - 24th, 25th and 26th charity such as the Dore Village Society (Reg results of children's holiday and half-term August. Visitors will be able to view No 1017051) is normally free of tax and is activities and include pictures, drawings, demonstrations of traditional skills and deducted before any tax liability is calculated. stories, letters and poem's providing an modern crafts, including metal casting, This means that if you are liable to tax then entertaining and illuminating child's eye view wrought iron blacksmithing, chair caning, this is money that will go to support your of the Hamlet. designer jewellery and leatherware - to name chosen cause rather than to the Inland Children's activities have proved extremely but a few! Revenue. popular during the school holidays, and will Take the time to visit the Abbeydale If you do kindly wish to leave or donate continue during the 1996 Summer Holidays. Industrial Hamlet in the summer. With such a either money or property to the Dore Village These include colouring competitions, creative wealth of activity, you won't be disappointed.

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Beauchief Abbey and Abbey Dore

It would indeed be interesting, as the Editor suggests in the winter 95 issue, to compare Dore Abbey with our Abbey at Beauchief. Through various coincidences I have connections with both, so perhaps I should write a little of what I have learned. As Ruth Richardson wrote in her article, Abbey Dore is the only Cistercian mediaeval abbey church still in use in England and Wales. Beauchief's church too is a rare survival, in this case of a Premonstratensian Abbey. The curious Latin sounding name comes from the French village of Premontre near Laon where Norbert founded the new order in 1121. This was a time of strong religious feeling, and several new orders came into being as a reaction to what seemed the excessive wealth and complexity of life in the Benedictine Abbeys. Saint Norbert wanted a simpler, poorer life for his followers. He himself wanted the monks to go out in the world as missionaries, but after he was called to Saxony the direction changed and the order lived a more enclosed life, emphasising fasting and contemplation. In fact, the Premonstratensians came increasingly to resemble the Cistercians who were the great success story of 12th century monasticism. Again, the order is named after a place - Citeaux, in Burgundy. A party of monks, led by their Abbot Robert, left Molesmes and settled themselves in wild uninhabited country. They hung on in wretched conditions, struggling to keep alive and practice their religious life. The turning point came with the third Abbot - an Englishman named Stephen Harding. He established the rules and practices which were to succeed beyond imagining. The New Monastery was to be isolated, and the monks must live simple and hard lives devoted especially to prayer. However, they should not be supported by BeauchieJ Abbey: the west Jront oJ the present chapel-oJ-ease, and original west tower, tithes from the poor peasants or donations from the rich feudal aristocracy. Instead, they monks, who were educated and concentrated monks) followed a similar path. Around 1200 were to earn their own keep. To make this more on religious observance; and the lay they were granted: "The mill in the soke of work, there were two kinds of monk: the choir brothers who were treated as monks but spent Norton called the new mill and the mill of their time on the fields and other sort of work. Aston or of Hazlehurst, with the course of the The most famous Cistercian was St Bernard, water .... moreover I grant in their lands and in who was received at Citeaux and left to found the lord's clearings in the sokes of Norton and the daughter house at Clairvaux. As a Alfreton they have licence to dig, quarry and Cistercian monastery grew, a party of brothers carry away turves, stone, marl, any minerals would swarm' - their own word - and set up a and sea-coles wherever they may be found." daughter house. By 1150 there were 350 Dr. R A Mott seems to show that the Abbey Cistercian houses and more than a 100 were had five mills on the River Sheaf, some for set up in the next five years. grinding corn and fulling cloth but also - quite The French have a saying, Benedict on the likely - for scythe grinding. One wonders LEONARD CHESHIRE SERVICES IN SHEFFIELD hill, Bernard in the valley. It is true of England what existed in the medieval period on the too: how often the name implies a site with Abbeydale Hamlet site - just across the river ~ Resklen liai or Singlerooms, Activities water - Fountains, Rievaulx, Jervaulx, and was Smithy Meadow. respite care such as computers, crafts, Sheffielders will know the splendid water The mother house Pr<;montr<; is still there, cookery,painting.Trips, works at Roche. Forget the moonlight in the form of a handsome eighteenth century shopping,theatre, church, romantic ruins. These monks were engineers! rebuilding. It was taken from the Church in the places of interest, etc They used the water to power corn mills, full Revolution and now houses a large psychiatric , Day resources Arornatherapy,physiotherapy, cloth, and drive other machinery. It is no hospital. It can be visited, however, and its toning tables, aquatherapy. coincidence that the Cistercians were so active beautiful oval stone staircase is very well in Yorkshire, or places like Furness and worth seeing, as is the small chapel. Abbey , Care at home High quality care in a Tintem. They made iron. Kirkstead, Kirkstall, Dore and Beauchief have plenty in common, person'sown home, male or Roche and Tintern all had forges making iron. but the most important similarity is that people female carers. From I to If you are in Burgundy, you will find a still regularly worship in these two ancient 24 hrs or live in care. magnificent forge at Fontenay, a daughter places. In both there is a deep sense of abbey of Clairvaux. It dates back to about spiritual calm, a reminder that, despite all we l'vIICKLEY LANE, TOTI.EY, SHEFFIELD S17 1200 and almost certainly had water driven owe to the monks in the founding of our TEL: (0114) 2369952 hammers. industries, their real motive was worship. The canons at Beauchief (they were not Laborare erat orare. Francis Evans 14 relations with local farmers - ever heard of the Obviously put together by a businessman Abbey drama fund "baa wars"? this is nevertheless a careful, caring and Few of us would guess today that in 1922 judicious attempt to portray a hundred years of As part of their fiftieth anniversary the A.G.C. was in danger of being evicted events relating to one of our most impressive, celebrations three SADATA groups are to from its Beauchief site. Nor would many of us yet frequently ignored local landmarks. It jointly stage the amateur premier of Beauty know that the present course. has been graced succeeds in offering us both factual data and and the Beast by Stuart Patterson. Norton by the likes of Nick Faldo, Sam Torrance, Neil the human dimension .including the price Players, St. Chad's Players and Totley Coles, Dai Rees, Max Faulkner, Walter Hagen of a pint in 1956 (19p!) A fascinating Operatic and Dramatic Society are working ...... and others! Tantalising glimpses are monograph and a delightful contribution to our together on the production which will be offered of some of the club's characters as well local knowledge. played outdoors in the grounds of Beauchief as due regard being paid to some of the 100 Years Of Abbeydale Golf Club can be Abbey from 25th. to 29th. June. luminaries whose un stinting contribution and obtained from Mrs K Johnston, Abbeydale The groups were inspired to stage the event care ensured the survival and development of Golf Club, Twentywell Lane, S 17 4QA, price by SADATA Chairman, Kath Greenwood, this fine course .long-time Dore residents £8. Keith Hill who, having lived all her life close to the will recognise some of the most important Abbey, was most disturbed to hear that family names in our city's last 100 years. Sheffield City Council had withdraw their Golfers of all abilities will no doubt empathise Ecclesall Woods support. A target of £5,000 has been set to with one Mr. John Andrews who, well into his create reserve funds to help meet any seventies, having let his passion for the game Many readers wi 11 have seen the new emergencies which could not be paid for out of outweigh wiser counsel, had to be rescued fencing surrounding the Bird Sanctuary in the money raised by the Friends of the Abbey, from the 17th. tee, the sheet of ice on his Ecclesall Woods. The area was so designated which just meets day to day running costs. waterproofs preventing him from addressing shortly after the woods were acquired by the the ball! City in 1928. All golf courses seem subject to persistent The main function of the fence is to prevent Book Review "tinkering". Both past and present Abbeydale people entering. Any blackbird protesting that members and the even greater volume of it offers no protection against low flying One of the fascinating aspects of local golfers who have played on the municipal sparrowhawks is not likely to get a hearing! history is the way it often illumines parts of Beauchief course (which was A.G.C's home FEW' (Friends of Ecclesall Woods) believe our environment that more prestigious from 1897 to 1924) will find the frequent we have the Forestry Commission to thank for histories tend to ignore. 100 Years of references to new plantings, hole realignment, providing the funds to make the work possible. Abbeydale Golf Club is no exception. drainage schemes and course redesign quite Those interested in wire fence technology will Scrupulously culled from committee minutes fascinating. They will no doubt pore over the have noted that many wires in the fence are and club papers this account of Abbeydale course layout of 1912, comparing it to the connected by Gripples', a device invented and Golf Club's first century carefully describes its present municipal layout and they will be manufactured in Sheffield. three locations, at Ryecroft farm, the intrigued to see the relationship of the present FEW is active in campaigning for the Beauchief Hall estate and its current site off course to the field patterns of Beauchief Park preservation of the present character of the Twentywell Lane and the events that brought in 1765. woods as ancient woodland, in practical work about the move in each case. Along the way The history of the ladies participation in such as footpath maintenance, ecology and we learn of a surprising cycle of financial club matters and play is not ignored, although local history. crisis and rescue, and, in the early days at a dearth of documentary evidence clearly For more information phone Harold Rawson least, the sometimes fraught and tendentious made the author's task more difficult. on 236 6245.

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The unpredictable British climate causes Dormice fight-back further problems for dormice. Warm winters result in the faster loss of fat reserves in The dormouse is arguably one of our most hibernation, while cool or wet summers reduce attractive native mammals, but few of us will feeding and breeding success. The ecology of have seen one, largely because of its rareness the dormouse is like a long chain of weak and shy and nocturnal behaviour. There are links. If something goes wrong with any part roughly half a million dormice left in England of the system, the chain breaks and the animal and Wales, and although this may sound a fair becomes extinct locally. As Dormice do not number, this small, golden-brown woodland normally travel far (usually less than 100yards rodent has suffered a drastic decline in the last from their nest) and are reluctant to come to century. the ground, they are unlikely to recolonise Compared to other mouse species found in sites from which the species has been lost. Britain, the dormouse is a slow breeder and Now the species has been placed on a list of very long-lived (up to five years). In Victorian 116 rare or fast-declining British plants and times they were common and widespread in animals for which rescue plans have been well wooded parts of England and Wales and outlined. The aim of the proposals, which often kept as pets. Now and the dormouse come from a committee of civil servants, seems to have become extinct in at least seven wildlife charities, conservation scientists and northern counties where it was found 100 landowning interests, is to maintain dormice years ago and there is no recent evidence that populations in counties where they are still they still occur in Yorkshire. found and re-establish the species in at least The Cricket Inn. Brian Edwards. The primary reason for the dormouse's five counties where they have been lost. decline IS the loss of it's woodland habitat. Shrubby, species-rich woodland offers an As part of English Nature's Species They feed extensively on hazel nuts, especially ideal feeding habitat, but few secure nest sites. Recovery Programme and in partnership with to fatten up for the winter, but other shrubs Dormice do weave their own nests, often in many of the local Wildlife Trusts, key sites provide flowers or late-summer fruits. The bramble bushes, but they prefer tree holes, have been identified where dormice are still dormice move from one plant species to which are more secure and weatherproof. present and where the woodland management another as each becomes seasonally available These are in short supply in young woodland, can be arranged to favour this species, and and in midsummer there are plenty of but nestboxes make ideal substitutes. nestboxes put up. caterpillars and other insects for the dormice to Dormice are almost entirely arboreal, often A second strategy is to reintroduce dormice eat instead. spending days at a stretch 20 metres up in big to a suitable location. The idea of In the old days, hazel was managed by oak trees. They like to travel about on reintroduction is very popular, but the eo pp icing to produce poles for fencing and horizontal branches, so dense growths of tall ecological requirements of the dormouse are firewood. This form of management also spindly trees pointing steeply upwards not so complex that such schemes may well not encouraged many other food producing shrubs only shade out the shorter, food producing work. If this is the case it becomes all the useful to the dormouse. Once coppicing shrubs but are unsuitable for dormice. The more important to secure the future of this became uneconomic, the woods became solution is to maintain a low density of the big species in places where it still occurs. overgrown and shady, producing less food for trees, then branches can sprawl, providing a However, if reintroduction does prove to be a the animals, or were grubbed out and replaced network of arboreal pathways and plenty of feasible conservation option, it offers the by conifer plantations of no use to dormice. sun-warmed plants for food. prospect of restoring the animals to places So, although Britain still has plenty of forest Another problem is the reducing size of which have not enjoyed the patter of tiny habitat, much of it is unsuitable for dormice. many woods. Dormice live in such low dormouse feet for more than a hundred years. Ironically, the reinstatement of coppicing in numbers that small woods however suitable It would be nice to add Dore to that list. many local nature reserves and Ecclesall may contain insufficient animals to form a John Baker Woods may not always benefit the dormouse. viable population. This article is based on material previously Cutting hazel every five to seven years Sooner or later, perhaps as a result of a published in a number of wildlife journals. The encourages an increase in wild flowers and series of unsuccessful breeding years, the dormouse is fully protected under the Wildlife butterflies, but it removes the hazel before it is dormice will die out. Small woods connected and Countryside Act (you may not trap, handle old enough to produce the vital nuts. Dormice to larger ones by well developed hedges might or disturb dormice without a licence). do better in woods with a coppice rotation of regain some dormice and populations will about 15 to 20 years. survive longer in such places. S.W. Area Sitting Service

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Out of these, between library or Town Hall. very near the site of an abandoned lead 2 and 6 affect the Dore area. The majority are Recent planning issues I have taken up have smelting cupola at Barberfields, and the latter minor porch extensions and such like. The been:- building was probably incorporated into the ones I bring before the committee are of a a) Retrospective planning application - later structure. more substantial type; new buildings, change Newfield Lane stables extension The nearby coal pits were also leased by of use, alterations to the highway or b) Possible soundproofing of the future vets Claughton to supply the raw material for the conservation area, erection of large signs and premises - 23 Causeway Head Road. works. These shallow workings could still be aerials, tree-felling and pruning and threats to c) Concern about arrangements for removal seen in 1977, on either side of the limb brook. the Green Belt. of asbestos near a public footpath-(demolition The raw material for the Copperas Works This involves a trip to the planning office to of house, 64 Townhead Road) was the dross or low grade coal containing a take notes and draw plans. Some questions are d) Loading and unloading arrangements - high percentage of pyrites. It is likely that resolved by booking an interview with the Coop extension. Claughton was producing ferrous sulphate relevant planning officer. Some are resolved e) Lowering of an ashlar wall - Hare and which is used in the tanning process. The on visiting the site, when I might take Hounds carpark. manufacture of the "Copperas", (ferrous photographs to show housing density, the lie of I'm sure all the residents would agree with sulphate) involved first laying out the dross on the land or danger to pedestrians. the reason for (e) - "Demolition required to stone slabs to weather it. This could have been We obviously have a kind of "case law" and improve vision of carparking area, where a done on an area on the south west of the precedent and try to be consistent in matters number of vehicles have been broken into". present farmhouse where a large slabbed area we take up. Where there has been no outline Now, had it been an ancient wall , I once existed. The liquid which was produced planning application first, and where the "fast might have been on the warpath again! was drained into underground cisterns and track system" operates, a letter of objection heated, where there was not too much would need to go within the first fortnight. Gillian Farnsworth. sulphuric acid present. The liquor was Otherwise discussions take place at our neutralised with scrap iron and when cooled monthly DVS committee meetings and the ferrous sulphate would be produced which subsequently, letters go out- not always from The Copperas Works could be drained and dryed. The Copperas me. There are also on-going concerns which Works at Dore seems to have been on the we discuss, such as closure of roads, The Copperas Works at Barberfields appear decline in the 1860's. The Claughton family disappearance of road signs and parking to have been started up by Josiah Claughton in had handed over to Everson and Jackson by provision. about 1815. Claughton at the time was 1856. I have come to understand more about listed operating a similar manufactory in Extract from The History of Dore in the buildings and sites since Richard and I sought Chesterfield on a plot which lay between 19th Century - edited by Vanessa S. Doe, (unsuccessfully) to have the Limb Lane wall Beetwell St and the River Hipper, a rather University of Sheffield, Department of extra listed, as a length of it was under threat of confined site which may have prompted him to mural studies and sent in by Mrs Gwyneth demolition (see last Dore to Door). Sheffield's look for opportunities for expansion elsewhere. Leighton. recent Grade I and Grade 11 additions were Both the Dore and the Chesterfield works ran

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Would you like to play tennis? Did you UPHOLSTERY CLEANING - your local know that there are facilities available literally specialist, cleaning high chairs, dining chairs on your Dore-step! Many local residents are and suites. PRO CLEAN & NCCA member. William Taylor of Dore Hallfarm? unaware of Dore and Totley Tennis Club Don't compromise, call CLEANING situated near the bottom of Devonshire Road, MASTER 262 1345. which has been in existence since the turn of f1-Liners the century and is still flourishing. GARDEN MAINTENANCE 6 years The Club caters for all abilities and is To cash in on unwanted items or promote experience. For all your garden needs or for without doubt one of the friendliest Clubs in your services locally, simply place an entry in fencing, patios and paving work Tel 237 8682 Sheffield. If you want to play socially Club this special classified section. nights are held on Monday and Wednesday All you have to do is complete a form DRAMA CLASSES for children aged 6-14 and during the Winter months indoor play is available at Greens shop on Causeway Head Qualified theatrical tuition, Saturday mornings organised. For the more competitive, the Club Road (or phone Sheffield 236 9025) and 10.00-11.30. Dore & Totley United Reformed enters mens and mixed teams in the Sheffield return it along with a fee of £1 per line. Your Church Hall, Totley Brook Road. Contact and District Leagues and ladies and mixed entry will then appear in the next published Jackie Collins School of Drama Tel 236 3467 teams in the Sheffield Parks Leagues. issue. The Club also has an active social scene with Barbecues and Tennis Tournaments, IF YOU WANT something special for a gift Treasure Hunt and Social Evenings which are that's not in the shops, why not consider organised throughout the year. Why not come having something designed and made in wood along to one of our tennis social Evenings on by local wood carver, Nick Hunter. See main either Monday or Wednesday, to have a game advert page 3 of tennis, view the facilities and get to know SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS, well equipped us. We can assure you of a warm welcome. BRIXHAM DEVON. Spacious house divided attractive stone cottage, wonderful views, 6 into flat sleeping 2-4 and maisonette sleeping miles Grantown-on-Spey, sleeps 4-6 5-7. To let seperately or jointly. Excellently £1501£170pw. Details (0114) 2369417 Editorial & Advertising appointed, outstanding views, few minutes from town centre and harbour. Available May HALL FOR HIRE - suitable for meetings, Dare to Door is published quarterly by the to October. For brochure contact Jenny Pocock parties, shows etc. Kitchen available. Dore Dore Village Society and delivered free to over on 236 4761 Junior School. Tel 236 8283 3100 households in the area. If you are interested in submitting an article CARPET CLEANING - your local specialist, or letter, have local news to report, or wish to used by some of the finest local homes. News in brief place an advertisement, please contact the PROCLEAN & NCCA member. Call Editor John Baker on 236 9025 (evenings) or CLEANING MASTER 262 1345. Totley library is now on line to the City's write to: new computer system, which provides access The Editor, FOR SALE. Bernina 80 I sewing mIc £ 180. to the entire library stock in the city and keeps Dore to Door, Yamaha Clavinova CLP 250 £400. 236 6235 track of books and other material lenders hold. 8 Thornsett Gardens, It is likely that as part of city wide economies Dore, BEAUTY THERAPIST I.H.B.C. Pamper opening hours will be cut in the near future. Sheffield, yourself this spring with a 10% discount of SI73PP. any treatment. Waxing, manicure, lash tinting, Opinions expressed in articles and services facials, body massage, wedding make-up, non Quiz ~.nswer offered by advertisers are not necessarily surgical face lift, aromatherapy. Call 235 3046. endorsed by the publishers. Picture quiz answer: The tiny cross between No part of Dore to Door may be reproduced. PICTURE FRAMING. Local. G Thomas 236 four lions is at the base of the King Ecgbert in full or part, without the written permission 3431 Stone commemorative plaque on the village of the Editor. green. 18 CHIROPODIST Mrs Anna Steele, S.R.N. In Good Hands! Qualified Chiropodist ~ Arthritis M.S.S.Ch. M.B.Ch.A. Surgery behind Dore Chemist ~ Spondylitis Townhead Road ~ Shoulder Pain Home Visits for the Housebound 24 hour Answering Service ~ Back Pain Tel: 236 2048 ~ Sciatica

~ Sports Injuries STUART FORDHAM F.A.D.O. ~ Specialist OPTICIAN Treatment for The fourth generation Chronic Back - devoted to family eyecare since 1871. Pain Sufferers N.H.S. and Private examinations by a qualified optometrist. Wide range of frames from budget to designer 1< Dare P~~5iot~erap~ Practice at prices to suit every pocket. Advice gladly given on frames, lenses and low visual aids for the partially sighted. Mrs Esther Hague BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy Emergency repairs carried out on the premises. 56A Dore Road, Sheffield S17 3NB Tel: 262 1255 63, Baslow Road, Totley Rise TeI. 2364485 (24 hr answering line)

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22 Open Morning. Transport 17 offices, 172 Baslow Road, Diary - Summer 1996 Warn - 12 noon. 22 Summer Fete & Art Exhibition, Cheshire Home, Mickley Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet: Lane. 4 June - 14 July Exhibition of Children's Work - Made at Abbeydale 25 Walk around Hathersage. by Dore Ladies Group. 26 July - end September Exhibition of Puppets. JULY 1-13 Display. By Totley All Saints Playgroup, Totley Library. MAY 2 Farmer's Wife to Publisher. Talk by Mrs P Fenteman, Dore 18 International Museums Day. Free entry all day to Methodist Church, Tuesday Ladies Group 7.45pm Abbeydale Hamlet. 2 Receiving my M.B.E. Talk by Syd Crowson for Dore Ladies 18 Spring Fayre, King Ecgbert School Assn, Mercia Site, Group. Church Hall 7.45pm 12noon to 4pm. 20 Art & Industry in 19th century Sheffield. Talk by Judy DORE FESTIVAL WEEK - 6th to 14th Hague for South Yorkshire Industrial History Society. 7.30pm Saturday Dore Motor Show, Dore Junior School. Health & Exec Labs, Broad Lane. Sunday 25-27 Working Days. Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet. 26-27 Annual Show, Sheffield & District Orchid Society, llam - Tuesday Guided Walk of local interest led by Sydney Hoffman. 5pm, Edensor Institute. King Ecgbert School Concert with strawberries & wine 27 Bamford Sheepdog Trials & Country Show, recreation 7.30pm. ground, Bamford. 7am -7pm. Wednesday Morris Dancers & Entertainment on the village green. JUNE Thursday Sheffield Girls Choir Dore Church. I Birds of Twentywellsick & Ladies Spring Woods. Visit led Friday Summer Concert Dore Gilbert & Sullivan Society. by Paul Medforth for Sheffield Bird Study Group. Meet 8am Saturday am Photographic Exhibition Dore Village Society and at Dore Station. Village & Guide Welldressings 1984-1995. 3-22 Cinema 100 Display. Commemorating 100 years of cinema. pm Scout & Guide Gala & evening entertainment at Totley Library. the recreation ground. 4 Haddon Hall Visit, by Tuesday Ladies Group, Dore Sunday 3pm Well dressing service on the village green. Methodist Church. 4 Music & Drama. Dore Mercia T.G. Church Hall, Townhead See posters for details Road, 7.30pm. Tickets at the door. 9-15 Grindleford Carnival Week. 7 National Gardens Scheme. Fanshawe Gate Hall, 11 Anecdotes of a Prison Warder. Talk by John Smith for Dore Holmesfield. l1am to 5pm. £1.50. Also open on 10th & Ladies Group. Church Hall 7.45pm 13th. 12 Super Tram. Talk by Paul Jackson, Dore (E)T.G. Old School 10 Birthday Evening. Dore(E)T.G. Abbeydale Park Sports 7.30pm Centre. 15 Barn Dance. Bash Street Gang & ploughman's Supper. 14 Day of Dance. Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet. Part of Sheffield KESA, Wessex Hall, King Ecgbert School 8pm. Tickets £5 Childrens Festival. from 236 8497. . 20-21 Craft Fair. Prince's Youth Business Trust, Abbeydale 18 The Girl's Brigade. Talk by Megan Delf. Dore Methodist Industrial Hamlet. Church, Tuesday Ladies Group 7.45pm AUGUST 4-18 International Gilbert & SulIivan Festival, Buxton. 7-8 Bakewell Show, showground, Bakewell, 9am to dusk. FLINT DENTAL S U~C4E~Y Dental Surgeons established 1879 Frightened or Just apprehensive? Please phone for a free practice brochure or talk to our staff LASER TREATMENT FOR ULCERS & SORE AREAS El_ECTRONIC TOOTH DESENSITISER SEDATION AVAILABLE FOR ALL TREATMENTS SPECIAL INTEREST IN PROBLEM DENTURES Totley • Fruit • Farm AND THE TREATMENT OF ANXIOUS PATIENTS Telephone (0114) 2363615 at the end of Totley Hall Lane 40 Springfield Road • Millhouses • Sheffield 57 2GD for LARGE CLEAN PICK YOUR OWN STRAWBERRIES Eric Grant your authorised RASPBERRIES HOOVER GOOSEBERRIES SERVICE CENTRE TAY BERRIES BLACKBERRIES * South Yorkshire's largest range of genuine spares for RED & BLACKCURRANTS sale over the counter. Expected opening end of June to mid August * Competitive prices on all new Cleaners, Washing Monday to Saturday 1Oam to 8pm Machines and Dishwashers. * Fully guaranteed Repairs Service. Now with Large Car Park, Toilets, * Visit our Showrooms - open six full days Free Recipe Leaflets, Ready Picked Fruit and 'New' Potatoes A BUSINESS BUILT ON RECOMMENDATIONS 747 ABBEYDALE ROAD, SHEFFIELD (NEAR TSB BANK) Tel: 236 4761 Telephone 255 0519 & 255 2233 to confirm availability and prices

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