DORE to DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY No. 97 SPRING 2010 ISSN 0965-8912

Kings Croft Fence Shock A great deal of anger has been expressed by local residents about the new fence that has been suddenly erected on the Kings Croft Playing Field. The 2m high weldmesh fence has been erected by the Dore Primary School in the full knowledge that the Dore Village Society had applied to have the area registered as a new village green. The most shocking aspect of the new enclosure is the gate that has been erected across the footpath from Vicarage Lane which has been in public use for over 40years. The head teacher of the Primary School knew about the Village Green application and indeed went ahead with the fence after the Council had placed notices on the site informing everyone that an application had been made for the new Village Green. The Planning Department has decided that the 2m high gate onto Vicarage Lane is not “adjacent to the highway” and Dore children enjoying the Punch and Judy Show at the Victory Fete held on Dore therefore does not require planning cricket ground in 1945. Do you recognise any of these faces? Would we be allowed to permission. ( The remainder of the fence is take such a picture today? also considered to be “permitted development” ). Dore Voices - Bombs The statutory notice on all three new DORE & TOTLEY and bravery in wartime village greens expired on January 29th when the Council must decide if they are WARD FORUM to register the three new greens. This is the final part of our series about The sad thing is, that if the Kings Croft Wednesday 17th March the 1939-1945 War and its impact on the Playing field is registered as a village 7.30 - 9pm at lives of the people of Dore. The stories green, the fence will have to be removed told are gathered from the recorded and repositioned, involving the school in Totley Library memories of many elderly Dore residents much wasted expense. Everybody welcome who were, of course, young at that time. David Crosby We have already heard how their families See notice board for details coped stoically with the demands of wartime and how the adults responded Dore Festival 2010 with wry humour to the many emergency Greener battery disposal regulations. Now we share in their Friday 25th June to Sunday 11th July recollections of bombing raids and A flower festival in Dore Church Energy-saving light bulbs and batteries destruction. opening on 25th June, for five days, will can now be recycled alongside other items The Sheffield Blitz took place on the be the first event of this years Festival, and at Sainsbury’s supermarket on Archer night of Thursday 12th and the early hours a dedicated team of flora experts are busy Road. of Friday 13th December 1940. It was a making plans to decorate the church. The Regulations that allow consumers to bright frosty night which gave the enemy weekend will also include a walk around dispose of spent batteries in shops free of a good view over the city but fortunately the ancient boundaries of Dore on charge came into effect from 1st February. ground fog in the Don Valley obscured the Saturday and Open Gardens in the village The EU Waste Batteries and Accumulators steelworks. The first of 336 German on Sunday 27th. Regulations require retailers who sell bombers flew in down the Sheaf Valley The rest of the full and varied more than 32kg of portable batteries a about 7pm dropping incendiaries and programme is now almost complete and year, which equates to around one pack of explosive bombs which created a huge includes the Well dressing Service on AA batteries a day, to place collection bins ring of fire. Between 10pm and 2am the Sunday 4th July and many of the ever in store for customers. raid was intense and a sustained blitz of popular musical evenings, the play on the All types of portable batteries, including the city centre resulted in much of it being green, and an opportunity to meet author recharge-ables, from all kinds of products, destroyed. Trevor Snow and enjoy a wine tasting. such as hearing aids, mobile phones and Terrible damage was inflicted on the So book these dates in your diary and laptops, can be disposed of in this way, Moor, High Street, Commercial Street and look out for more information nearer the even if they were not bought from the Fitzalan Square and many lives were lost. time. shop they were taken to. The worst incident occurred at 11.45pm Maureen Cope and Anne Elsdon This is a long overdue move, as batteries when Marples Hotel, which stood at the Festival Programme Co-ordinators contain several elements dangerous to the .... continued on page 18 environment and should never have been Keep up to date with what is happening disposed of alongside other domestic You will find a complete diary of local by visiting - www.dorevillage.co.uk waste. events on the back page of this issue. 1 Editorial residents - witness the letters in this issue. Village Dragon Hunt It seems to me as editor, that these The sudden closure without public circumstances have arisen largely as a This years annual village dragon hunt, notice or consultation, of access to Kings result of a failure in communication organised by the Dore Village Society, Croft Field from Vicarage Lane, has between interested parties and indeed will held on Sunday 25th April caused considerable annoyance within the within the Council, where officers have commencing at 2 pm. It will start and local community. Inevitably this reflects failed to put the two strands, Village Green finish at the Old School, be suitable for all badly on the management of the school. application and enclosure of this land, ages in family groups, take about an hour, This is particularly so given the together. and be rewarded by refreshments and a outstanding application for Kings Croft Lets us hope this matter can be swiftly small edible gift for successfully Field to be registered as a Village Green, a resolved to the satisfaction of all parties. completed entries. The aim is to: fact which has been widely publicised in John Baker * Celebrate St. George’s Day which Dore to Door and the village for over 2 falls on Friday the 23rd years. This included three public * Encourage an interest in, and wider consultation mornings at the Old School, Editorial & Advertising knowledge of the village so parents and governors should as * Enable people to have some fun as residents have been well aware of the Dore to Door is published by the a family!! proposals. Public notices about the Dore Village Society and delivered free St George is bound to join us along with proposal had also been posted on site by to over 3,250 households in the area. our very own village Wyvern who will be the Council. Finally committee members If you are interested in submitting an playing the part of the dragon. of the Dore Village Society believed they article or letter, have local news to More details will appear on posters were in negotiations with the school report, or wish to place an nearer the time, but in the meantime put a management - through the caretaker and advertisement, please contact the Editor note in your diary today to come and enjoy Governor Councillor Colin Ross. John Baker on: the community spirit of our village. We understand that the new fence was an Ofsted requirement to improve security 0114 236 9025 / 236 9469 or write to: at the rear of the school and to enclose the Dore to Door; No 30 Bus changes rear playground. Everybody understands 8 Thornsett Gardens; Dore; that this is happening throughout the Sheffield, S17 3PP. Since the introduction of the winter country and few would object to this in Email: [email protected] timetable back in November the service principle. The issue seems to be one of the has deteriorated, many regular users extent to the enclosed area and whether it complaining of late or missing buses. Now was necessary to close off an access route SYPTE has reallocated the route. From 1st used by Dore residents since before the All change in Dore February it is shared between First and school was built. TM Travel whose cream and maroon The sum of the community in Dore is Sadly as we go to press the off licence buses are based at Halfway. greater than those people who happen to previously occupied by Threshers on TM Travel’s involvement is mainly have children at the school at the moment. Causeway Head Road still stands empty, with the part of the route between the City Many residents will be unaware of what along with the Little Mischiefs’ shop. Centre and Plumbley and at some times of has happened until they try to walk this Although the furnishings shop next to day you will have to change buses on route in the summer, others will think it is Morans on Abbeydale Road is also vacant Arundel Gate if you want to travel the beyond their influence, and no doubt the a new business Hairunion, opened in late whole route. TM involvement at this end majority, especially those without legs, November adjacent to it. This new venture (between Sheffield city centre and Dore) just will not care. Someone, presumably has brought together stylists from a is on weekday and Sunday evenings (and DVS, has to champion the cause of the number of other hairdressers, plus a Saturdays before 08.00). First buses will community as a whole, otherwise we will beautician and nail technician and is open operate the route from Dore until 19.39 on soon lose even more of our freedoms. 6 days a week. weekdays and 20.30 on Sundays with TM It would be sad if this issue puts the Not so far away, The Crown and Fleur buses providing an hourly service at 39 school and it’s parents at loggerheads with De Ly pubs in Totley are closed while the minutes past the hour until 23.39 on both the Dore Village Society and other Dore Cross Scythes has reopened as an eatery. weekday and Sunday evenings. From Sheffield to Dore TM buses leave Commercial Street hourly from 20.05 to 23.05 weekdays and 21.05 to 23.05 on DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY Registered Charity No. 1017051 Sundays. It is interesting to note that some The Society aims to foster the protection and enhancement of the local environment of the buses start and finish in town - just like the No 50 before deregulation! Let us and amenities within Dore, to encourage a spirit of community and to record its hope these are just as reliable. historic development. Current membership rates are £5 per person per annum. Geoff Cope Chairman Committee Mr David Heslop 236 5043 Mrs Lorna Baker 236 9025 Jo and David Marshall of ‘Valerie of 41 Church Lane, S17 3GT. (FEW) Dore’ would like to thank all the people in Dore for their kind thoughts. Vice Chairman (Recreation Ground) Mr David Bearpark 236 9100 Their Kidney Transplant has been a Mr David Ward 236 3472 (Wyvern Walkers & Publications) success and both of them are recovering 82 Townhead Road, S17 3GB. well, and they both hope to see you soon Ms Dawn Biram 235 6907 in the village or in the shop. Treasurer (Environment) Mrs Mary Watson 236 5666 Opinions expressed in articles and 4 South Court, S17 3PN. Mr David Crosby 262 1127 services offered by advertisers are not (Planning and Green spaces) necessarily endorsed by the publishers. Secretary & Archives No part of Dore to Door may be Mrs Anne Slater 236 6710 Mr Geoff Cope 235 0392 reproduced in full or part, without the 6 Old Hay Close, S17 3GQ written permission of the publishers. Mr Pat Pryor 236 9831 Membership Secretary Copyright Dore Village Society 2010 Mrs Anne Elsdon 236 0002 Mr Keith Shaw 236 3598 Printed by South Yorkshire Printers, 10 Rushley Close, S17 3EG. (Web Site) 112 Harvest Lane, S3 8EE 2 Ward Forum debate held at Totley Library, when there will Wind turbine go-ahead also be an opportunity to consider other The first Ward Forum for Dore and local issues. All welcome. Permission has been given for a 17 Totley Ward (which also includes Bradway Action Group metre high wind turbine to be erected in Bradway and Whirlow) was held at Totley Dore Village Society the green belt at Fern Glen Farm, off library on 2nd December 2009. Around 35 Totley Residents Association Hathersage Road at Dore Moor, despite members of the public attended, plus objections from environmental Councillors Ross and Davis (Councillor campaigners. Hill was unfortunately away on holiday), PUBLISHING DEADLINES Council approval was granted three and council officers Tammy Barrass and years ago for the turbine to he erected in a Matthew Rush. The meeting was chaired Dore to Door is published field to by Peter Stubbs from Bradway Action quarterly in mid February, May, the south of the farm. After opposition Group. August & November each year. The from a neighbour it is being moved further Altogether eleven separate matters of copy deadline for each issue is near away from the protester. The new concern were raised: the end of the preceding month. application reopened of the debate over 1. Emptying and Return of Commercial whether wind turbines should be located Waste Bins at Totley Rise Shops Please forward items for the Summer in environmentally sensitive areas. The 2. Planning Application for Waste (May) issue to the address on Campaign to Protect Rural England Incinerator at Sheepbridge, Chesterfield page 2 by Monday 26th April protested on the basis that although the 3. Traffic in Bradway site is not in the Peak Park, it is in an Area 4. Traffic and Safety Issues on Baslow of High Landscape Value and would be Road / Abbeydale Road South more prominent than before, visible from 5. Parking in front of Shops Major sewage leak long distances across the valley and from 6. Youth Crime / Antisocial Behaviour the main road. They argued that solar 7. New Allotments in Totley A significant sewage leak occurred in panels, a ground source heat pump or a 8. Community Hall for Totley the middle of January at the top of Dore household wind turbine should be used 9. Allocation of Grants / Funding Road. According to Yorkshire Water this instead. 10. Closure of Abbeydale Grange was the result of a serious collapse in two School places, which required diversion of the 11. Extension of footway along Totley system and closure of the road for repairs. Stop Press Brook Road We should perhaps not be surprised The lengthy process to get three local These were reported in detail to the given the previous subsidence problems sites designated as village greens, in order South West Community Assembly at its outside no 79 Dore Road and the earlier to protect them from development, drags meeting on 9th December. The Chair, major collapse at the bottom of the road on. As we go to press we understand there Councillor Reynolds, agreed that an initial just a few years ago. How much this latest have been no objections to the registration response would be provided at the next collapse was due to the recent cold of Dore ‘Rec’ or the land on Totley Brook Assembly meeting on 24th February. This weather or the surplus of heavy vehicles Road, but 31 last minute objections to will be discussed at the next Ward Forum involved in the recent adjacent house Kings Croft Field from the Headmistress on Wednesday 17th March, again to be building is not known. of Dore Primary school and parents.

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3 Reg Skelton at 90 also a long term allotment holder in Dore. Drainage work completed Reg’s other love is singing and his Reg Skelton - 90 years of age on the membership of the Dore Male Voice As you can see the main works on the 11th March and probably the best uncle in Choir. Since he helped to start it in 1964, drainage system and footpath in Dore the world ! he has attended many memorable concerts Recreation Ground are now complete. Most residents of Dore know Reg and rehearsals and the Boxing Day visits During the initial surveys and during the Skelton as an expert gardener, founder to the Devonshire Arms, to serenade the works, many causes of standing water member of Dore Male Voice Choir and ale, was something he rarely missed. were found such as surges, blockages, until recent times a regular at one of the Reg and Winnie lived happily in wrong connections, many years of hostelries in Dore. However his nephews Devonshire Terrace Road until her death compaction and, of course, breakages. and nieces know him as the kindest, most in 1996. He continued living there until Already improvements can be seen but knowledgeable and friendliest uncle in the circumstances made him move across the further work will be necessary this spring world. road to Causeway Head Road, where he as the water in the ground gradually Born and raised in Crookes, Sheffield , still resides. begins to drain away. This will take Reg moved to Dore whilst in the T.A. in With all his activities he still has plenty several months so no dramatic 1939, here he met his late wife Winnie and of time for his nephews, nieces and great improvements will be immediately they were married at Christchurch Dore in nephews and nieces. My sister Jane recalls noticed. April 1942. Soon after getting married he many fond childhood memories of trips to At that time some areas will need was posted to Burma and they were not to the seaside and holidays in Great cultivating (mainly ‘the gap’ between the see each other for almost four years. When Yarmouth with Reg and Winnie and trees on the lower field). Grass seed will they were reunited they were together for especially of Reg’s patience while she be spread and a wild flower meadow the next fifty four years. brushed his hair - he feels that this is the created where the new mound has After the war they spent several years of reason for his hair loss! appeared. In addition, trees and shrubbery their early married life, working at a large My own children also remember staying will be planted to replace those damaged house and gardens in Bury St Edmonds in Dore with them both and having the during the works. and it is here at the age of two years that I same wonderful times that I used to have After this it will take around two years spent many happy months staying with all those years ago. for the area to fully recover but the experts them. Memories I still hold very dear As he approaches his 90th birthday I’m are confident that previous standing water today. I’m sure at that time summer days sure everyone will join with his family in will mostly be eradicated. were longer and hotter than now. wishing him all the best for the future and We probably need to be aware, however, Reg and Winnie moved back to Dore may he long continue to enrich the lives of that during wet periods we will still where he became head gardener at all he meets. squelch around in some areas due to the Wagwood House, a post he held for over Stephen Bellamy & Jane Cooke nature of the ground (the reason why ridge thirty years. Whilst there he introduced and furrow farming was introduced to the new varieties of plants and started the site 500 years ago!!) but it will now drain Wagwood House Spring open days. Now, Going, going, gone away. as an early teenager, I learned that Reg The surfaced footpath and car park will was responsible for the pest control at the As site after site in Dore is get rid of the puddles around the gardens ,which meant he was our only overdeveloped, each remaining area of playground. In addition the flimsy drain uncle with a gun - respect! green and public land becomes more and covers are to be replaced by more sturdy His expertise in gardening led him to more important. ones. become involved with several shows in Two years ago the Dore Village Society Dore Village Society would like to Ringinglow and Totley and eventually led set about getting three such sites, Dore thank all those involved in the works and him to being a member of the committee Recreation Ground, Kings Croft Field, will continue to monitor this project and for Dore Show, organising the schedule and land off Totley Brook Road, registered offer ‘top up’ support with its own funds and judging the vegetable entries. He held as Village Greens. This is the only way to where necessary. this position for many years and donated preserve these areas from subsequent Residents can help maintain the stability the Skelton Cup for the best overall development. And in case anyone thinks of the ground by reporting immediately winner of the vegetable classes. He was this is not a threat, you need to be aware any unauthorised vehicles on the ‘Rec’ to that the Council’s initial reaction to the police using their 101 number and registering Dore Rec, which was within describing those involved - but don’t their immediate gift, was negative, as it approach them. would preclude any future wish they Dave Ward might have to build on the site! All public land in the Council’s “care” is at risk, regardless of how it originally 20mph zones came into public ownership. Just A relaxing bistro style restaurant, remember the public outcry over The Dore Village Society has called proposals to re-site St Luke’s on land at specialising in contemporary cuisine unsuccessfully for a 20mph zone in the Norton Nurseries, or closer to home the centre of the village for a number of years. Our emphasis is on quality, fresh, loss of school fields and land as part of the Now a recent report published online in locally produced ingredients PFI sponsored re-building of King the British Medical Journal has found that Ecgbert School. the introduction of 20mph speed zones in Open Wednesday to Saturday When the time comes to rebuild or 4pm-10pm London has reduced road injuries by more extend Dore Primary School, you can be than 40 per cent. Early Bird menu 4pm - 7pm sure Kings Croft Field, which is part of the The report found the benefits of the Wednesday ‘Pie & Peas’ night Education Departments Estate, would be zones were most marked in young-child in danger of being sacrificed for cash. accident rates and in the overall number of Thursday ‘Curry’ night Ironically the recent fencing off of a deaths and serious injuries. 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Telephone 0114 236 4397 26 High Street, Dore, Sheffield S17 5 Letters Dear Sir, I am interested to find out if anyone has memories of Harold Marsh, the father of a friend of mine. I believe he lived many years ago at 14 Furniss avenue and later at an address in the 100’s on the same road. He owned a filling station in or near Dore, possibly on the main Hathersage road at one time, proudly building it up to 4 pumps. Are there any pictures? He later moved out to Great Longstone and at this time owned the Premier Motor Body Building Company, on Shoreham Street. The now decrepit, red building is still there. Harold later moved to Grasmere. He started a second family late in life becoming the father of Andrew Marsh at 63. His wife Margaret survives him and recently moved to Ambleside from Grasmere following the passing of her mother. The new fence and gate across the inspection was the safeguarding Andrew Saint footpath, as viewed from Vicarage Lane. regulations that state that the children Dear Sir, must be safe within our school grounds, It is such a shame these days that South But I don’t understand why the fence and that all visitors to the school enter via Yorkshire schools have to look like prison has suddenly been so drastically changed. the staffed and locked reception area. This camps. I am so pleased that my son It now blocks off the path that is marked had been a concern for some time, and the enjoyed Dore Primary School before the on maps and that has been freely used by governing body with the senior leadership fencing went up. this community for decades. Surely this team at the school have had a number of Schools, much like churches, are at the therefore makes it a public right of way. complex issues to deal with concerning heart of a community. The first fencing The pretty view looking towards Dore access to parts of the school grounds, for that was erected had at least been done, I church from the path from Bushey Wood example for those using the Kingswood thought, with sensitivity and a community Road to Furniss Avenue now looks more Day Nursery sited in the school grounds. spirit. It protected the children and school like a war zone as the new fence is very To this end with agreement of Sheffield property, whilst still leaving the public visible. City Council, the fencing around the path and one of the playgrounds still If this has been done because all the school has been moved and increased, so accessible. playgrounds now have to be enclosed that the children can move about the My son used the school playgrounds at inside fencing, why didn’t the current school without meeting members of the weekends to ride his bike and play ball headmistress just extend the fence around public. This fencing now encloses the year games, much like we did when my brother the playground? This would ensure safety 3 / 4 yard and includes the school’s and I were at primary school. We felt a of pupils whilst still respecting the needs wildlife garden within the enclosed school belonging and fondness for our school of the community. boundaries. The rest of the school even outside school hours. Dawn Biram maintained field area adjacent to the Things have only recently changed for Dear Sir, school remains outside this fencing and Dore and whilst I understand the very real I have regularly used the footpath therefore remains accessible to members fears and therefore accept this fact of running past Dore Primary School and of the public. We would hope that there is modern life, we know it sadly changes the was shocked to find it suddenly and understanding and agreement with the village aesthetically and psychologically. unexpectedly blocked. This path has been principles behind these changes, and the in use for decades and must surely be a need to ensure that the children are secure public right of way. Can it be reopened? within the school. Graham Thomas There are many events that the school Dear Sir, organises to encourage participation with Dore Primary School accommodates the school’s activities. Some of these may 420 children from the local community have been obvious to those living in Dore. "$# " and it has a key role in village life. For the Before Christmas there was carol singing community, children and parents the well on the Vicarage Lane Green. A brass ' %"  being of the school and those attending is ensemble of hardy teachers and pupils vital. There is every reason to celebrate the accompanied a large group of equally       schools achievements, particularly as hardy parents and children in a selection there has been a recent Ofsted inspection    of carols, followed by warming that has rated our school as a ‘good refreshments at the school. The Reception school’. The inspectors highlighted many children are regularly seen in the village   # outstanding features, in particular, when taken on their ‘Wednesday walks’. $$#!$ “pupils’ outstanding spiritual, moral, There is the annual school ‘fun run’ social and cultural development and their during the Dore festival as well as      excellent understanding of how to live involvement in the Remembrance Day healthy lives”, as well as the key values service and Well Dressing event in the        that the pupils use to help the school and village. These are all key to broadening     those in it to succeed. the involvement of the school in The way in which schools are being community life. We would like to ensure &&"&$  inspected changed in late 2009, and the that all who want to help the school achievement of this inspection result is a achieve its aims, continue to improve, and     reflection of the hard work by many provide the best education for all pupils at including all the staff under the leadership the school, can do so.    of the Headteacher and Deputy, Sue Steve Thomas, Community Governor,   Hopkinson and Matthew Winson. Dore Primary School One key issue raised during the More letters on page 8 ...... 6 .'("% &"# "(())( &#&+(+**"% '"#")* ") %*)  !"#(%) (&,""%  "()* #)) )(," "% /&+( &-% !&$ !&% +#" &% '(( * '  &"# ' 1 ( ( '

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7 Letters continued...... We knew that safeguarding was a huge Dear Sir, problem as Ofsted had the power to put Having been privy to a number of pieces the school into special measures if we of correspondence regarding the new failed our safeguarding in the first half fence at Dore Primary School we, the hour. Fortunately, as we had an evidence Chair and Vice Chair of Governors, have trail showing we were actively pursuing a been tasked with writing officially fence, Ofsted were happy to contact the explaining some of the reasoning behind LEA demanding immediate action. Sonia the fence and to correct some erroneous Sharp, Head of Children’ Services wrote information. with an Action Plan, which included the When our new Headteacher, Sue fence. As can be imagined, we had to act Hopkinson, arrived in September 2008 she extremely quickly and the Action Plan told us that under new Guidelines our shows the work was to be commenced on Safeguarding of children was inadequate December 7 and completed within 10 and set about investigating measures to days. resolve this; it became clear from Ofsted A meeting with the Head, a Governing guidelines that we needed to ensure that Body Support Officer, the Vice Chair, and when the children were at play members members of the LEA discussed our of the public could not gain access to immediate needs (such was the speed at them. It was obvious that the only way to which we had to move that this happened achieve this was to fence the site. by moonlight!). It was pointed out that a At one meeting a Governor told us that fence immediately adjacent to the Y3/4 he knew DVS were planning an yard was dangerously close - 2 sides of the application for a number of Village Greens yard would be fenced - and we know but we had no details. Indeed we have not children need space in which to run about been approached by DVS officially at all. without worrying about running into a It was something of a surprise to many November and had the backing of the fence. We were also very aware of the Governors when they read the notices put School Change Team. need for shade for the children, exposure on fences that the application involved the During this time a member of the to too much sun in childhood being a risk grassy area that is used by Y3 and Y4, as Governing Body was tasked with factor for malignant melanoma. We also well as the Wildlife Garden and the tree contacting DVS to discuss the issue; this wanted to keep access to the Wildlife area used extensively by the children happened. However, although this was Garden for teaching and other purposes. during the summer, especially as this is just a verbal discussion it appears that This informed our decision to put the our only large area of shade. DVS understood it to be a delegation with fence where it now is. At a full Governing Body meeting on powers to agree a compromise; We were aware of the proposed October 15 2009 it was “proposed to erect unfortunately, this understanding was compromise by DVS but rejected it for the fencing and gates to improve security”.to wrong. following reasons; it was aesthetically include the tree area as proposed”. This Last November we were suddenly unsuitable for a Conservation Area (and action was again voted on, on 19 served notice of our Ofsted inspection ! we have had many compliments that the school no longer looks like Guantanamo Bay!) and if we left just a small corridor for access from Vicarage Lane we foresaw a muddy quagmire in the winter. It is worth nothing that access from Vicarage Lane has never been designated as a public right of way and therefore there is no requirement to inform members of the public of its closure. We did of course inform parents that the gates would be locked outside of beginning and end of school. Near the top of Savage Lane there is another entrance to Kings Croft Field; it takes less than 3 minutes to walk the 250 yards to this point from the old Vicarage Lane entrance. Given that the field is used mainly for leisure, one would have thought dog walkers, etc would not find this extra distance and time a burden. We are aware that complaints and representations have been made to Councillor Ross but at a meeting on 14 Jan were informed there had been less than 10. Not all were at the surgery or were full frontal complaints, many were asking for information. We would like to make it clear that a large area of Kings Croft Field beyond the fence remains open to villagers and we would be very happy for this to become a Village Green. Andree Reed, Chair of Governors Linda Hunter, Vice Chair Dore Primary School If you have interesting news or opinions to express, then give us a call, or write to the editor at the address on page 2. 8 Dore School of Performance Arts PAINFUL FEET? established 1961      Tuition for IDTA examinations and performance by highly qualified staff, beginners and improvers classes for all ages 3 to       93: children, (boy’s only classes) students, adults and      professionals in all aspects of performance arts.      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9 letters continued .... Annual Art Exhibition be the Dore Church Organ Fund Concert, held at the Parish Church on 4th June Dear Sir, Once again it falls to me to write to starting at 7pm. On home ground, we On the subject of Christmas decorations inform you all about our forthcoming “Art expect a big audience for the occasion. and in particular the lighting displays to be Exhibition” which will be held as usual in We are again in Dore on 8th July at seen in public areas, could I take this the Old School in Dore on Friday 26th 7.30pm when we give the usual Concert opportunity to mention the excellent and March - 2pm to 6pm, and Saturday 27th for the Dore Festival at the Church Hall. very tasteful show to be seen in Abbeydale March – 9.30am to 5pm 2010. Always a popular event, we will again be Park Rise. I am writing this just after Christmas, in joined by the Dore Mercia & Totley Each year people from far and wide now a land covered in snow. The village was Townswomen’s Guild Choir. include a trip to Abbeydale Park Rise in almost cut-off with disruptions to public Our Annual Gala Concert is on 2nd their list of things to do at Christmas - transport for a time, and difficulties October at Ecclesall Church. Another rather like a trip to Castleton, only far getting out and about for a lot of us, with major event in our calendar will be our more convenient. A few days ago my many of the side roads still not cleared. visit to Rugby School for a second daughter, Victoria, took a taxi from her It is a winter like we haven’t witnessed Concert organised by our friends Wigston home, close to the City centre only to be for a long time and takes me back to when Male Voice Choir. We attended a very regaled by her chatty driver with advice to I was small, when every winter was successful concert there in 2008. Our two see the lights in A.P.R - little did he know similar to this. I remember having to battle Choirs will be joined by a Welsh choir this that she had grown up with them. through the snow to school – (no school time and Peter Ward of Wigston has asked Could I therefore please ask you to closures then) and enjoying going Paul Green to again perform on the organ. publish my comments if only as a gesture sledging, but not the chilblains that went With a choir of over 150 voices in this of thanks to Brett Flower, who, for many with the cold weather. excellent venue it promises to be another years now, has worked so hard to put the Hats off, though to the services that memorable occasion. show on, along with other residents. manage, somehow to keep going in these We will be rounding our concert Jill & Paul Burgan conditions. The postman, my milkman and programme off with the Christmas 29.12.09 the BT people who finally got us re- Concerts on 10th and 11th December in connected (that was scary!) and on a Dore Church at 7pm. personal note, the Ambulance Service who All that, and the inevitable additional Sheffield Bach Society got us to the Northern General after an engagements that will arise, promises to emergency call. ensure a busy year for the Choir. Sheffield Bach Society, founded in Nothing lasts forever, however, and as David Heslop 1950, enters its Diamond Jubilee year you read this, we will have put it all under the baton of its new conductor, behind us, and the spring flowers will be Simon Lindley, Leeds City Organist and putting on their cheerful show of colour, to 20 year success Master of the Music at Leeds Parish let us know it really is spring. church. Which leads me to our cheerful display The Dore Grill faces the church in the Bach’s St. John Passion will be of colour – the Dore Annual Art Show, centre of Dore Village. Over the years it performed in Sheffield Cathedral on when we will be offering our pictures, for has had many incarnations, including: a Saturday 6th March 2010, at 7.30pm, with your delight and if you still have room on barn, five cottages, the Mogul Indian a distinguished line up of soloists. The your walls, to purchase, at our usual restaurant, the Dore Brasserie, and tickets are priced at £15.00 (concessions competitive prices? Don’t forget that nice Marsden’s tea room. Joe Muino, and his £12.00 and students £6.00) cup of tea/coffee and home-made cakes then business partner Manuel, decided to On Monday 12th April you have a too – surely worth a visit. buy the place in 1990 and by popular chance to join in singing Handel’s As usual we hope to see you there on request changed its name back to one of its Messiah, when the Bach Choir invite you either of the days of the show and indeed former titles. to their Come and Sing performance at you will be welcome. Please come along. Now 20 years on this March, Jose, his Cawthorne Parish Church, S75 4HQ, at Connie Bedford, Show Organiser wife Delores and daughter Elizabeth are 7.30 pm. The ticket price of £8.00 will still running one of the most popular include seasonal refreshments. restaurants in the area. Dore Male Voice Choir 2010 is a year of big changes for the choir. Paul Green retires after 10 years at MKH the end of April and Elizabeth Hampshire takes over as Music Director on the 1st         May. We will miss him, but we are most fortunate to have obtained Elizabeth We are a family run business Hampshire’s services. She comes to us with a big reputation in music circles and with over 30 years experience with a long experience of Male Voice General Building & Maintenance Choirs. In consequence Paul’s last concert will All types of internal & be on 24th April when he will conduct the external joinery Choir at the St .Oswald’s Church Centenary Concert. It will be a great UPVC Windows & Doors, occasion, for once more, and too Fascias & Gutters infrequently, Paul and Adrian Jordan our Accompanist, will be providing us with Loft Conversions, Bathroom, their rumbustious piano duets as our Commercial Work & Shopfitting ‘guest’ performers for the evening. Extensions to New Build Before that we have a major concert at Ranmoor Church on 27th February (7pm) A Complete building service when we are performing for an Abbeydale Rotary Club Charity Concert. We will be For a FREE ESTIMATE sharing the platform (not simultaneously!) with Ensemble 360, a prestigious Tel: 01246 415794 instrumental group. Elizabeth Hampshire’s first concert will Mobile: 07979 638786 10 Transport 17 new bus to replace our “X” registered one. News in brief It is due to his hard work that the bus has I would like to send all of you belated lasted so long. When the base vehicle is Ex King Ecgbert pupil Jessica Ennis, wish for a healthy and happy 2010. Sadly, delivered, it will have to have a tail lift, who won gold at the World Athletics we started 2010 by cancelling our buses. sliding door and tracking put in. This Championships in August, was named Many of the side roads and pavements allows seats to be taken in and out so that sportswoman of the year by the Sports looked as though they were covered in wheelchairs and their occupants can be Journalist’ Association and came third in candle wax. Our passengers were very safely clamped in. We hope to get the the BBC’s Sports person of the year event. worried about falling and many clubs finished bus in early Summer. Thank you Raw sewage flooded down Dore Road made the decision not to take risks. so much to each and every one of you for in January after what according to I had the pleasure of talking to Rotary your support. Yorkshire Water was a major collapse just Club Vulcan Sheffield before Christmas. The Ecclesall Woods Tuesday Health above the junction with Vicarage Lane and They made me very welcome and the Walks Group decided not to exchange opposite the latest housing development. meeting ended with them presenting me Christmas cards and to have a collection Council spending reports are to be with a cheque for £1,250. This is extra to for a local charity. Our name was drawn published on line from this summer in a the money we raised by taking part in their from the hat and they gave us £60. Thanks move by the Government to improve the Christmas Draw. Many thanks to you all to Sue and all the volunteers Walk Leaders transparency of local services. Currently for supporting T17. for organising this. those wishing to look into local councils’ We seemed to have a blessed angel Hope the weather improves. Here’s to spending have to search through data from watching over us and Michael Finn, our Spring. several sources, many of which are not Manager, was able to put in an order for a Margaret Barlow available on line.

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16 Norton Park View Norton, Sheffield S8 8GS Tel: 0114 2377366 Mobile: 07967188563 Email: [email protected] 11 Dore Parish Church And so we come to Holy Week. This Stained glass windows will include: Although at the time of writing it is only * A chance to enjoy together a Passover Stained glass is used to add beauty and higher up on the Moors and Edges that Meal in the Old School on the evening of colour to churches. Often windows show pockets of snow still remain, there was no Thursday, April 1st. biblical scenes and saints but can also need to dream of a white Christmas this * Good Friday, April 2nd, with a service depict aspects of local life, symbolic year! The fall on December 20th meant for people of all ages at 10am: then from motifs and coats of arms. Modern that both our Carol Services that day 12noon until 3pm on that day the Church windows often have abstract designs. hosted smaller numbers than usual but on will be open for quiet and prayer. Coloured glass has been produced since Christmas Eve more people crammed into * A special chance in the 3 services on ancient times though stained glass as an the Church than ever. It was good to sing April 4th to celebrate in different ways the art form became popular in medieval carols, be reminded of the age-old but message of Easter Day. times. It was used in churches and ever-green story that lies behind our Our normal pattern of Sunday services cathedrals to enhance the beauty of the Christmas celebrations. remains as given in the last issue of Dore building and, along with wall paintings As always there is a multiplicity of to Door, namely: 8am A said service of and carvings, to illustrate scenes from the activities linked with Christ Church that Holy Communion 10am A service that Bible to a largely illiterate congregation. happen on a regular basis together with a includes music (normally a mixture of Most medieval stained glass was lost number of special occasions. Elsewhere in organ and band), prayers, Bible reading following the Reformation and during the this issue you will find preliminary and teaching. It aims to be appropriate for Civil War, when it was smashed and information of the Flower Festival being a wide range of people with a big age- replaced with plain glass. In South planned as part of this year’s Dore spread. Our children’s groups run in Yorkshire, only a few full windows from Festival. But before then, as we move parallel with this service and there is also this period survive though many churches forward in this new year, we prepare to a creche. 5.30pm A quieter choral service, have small fragments. mark the most special of all weeks in the normally either Evensong or Holy There was a revival in stained glass Christian year. We mark the beginning of Communion, with organ and robed choir. during the Victorian era and much of what Lent with a service in Church at 7.30pm Michael Hunter we see today is from that time. In South on Ash Wednesday, February 17th. Then Yorkshire churches you can find excellent the following day and on the subsequent 5 examples of glass by well known Thursdays there will be something Outreach Advice Sessions designers such as William Morris, Charles different, a chance for people to meet in a Eamer Kempe and Whitefriars. Group in the Old School (7.30pm for The outreach sessions from Woodseats Victorian stained glass was usually 7.45pm) to explore together something of Advice Centre restarted at Totley Rise installed as a memorial to local people or the variety of Christian activities across Methodist Church, Grove Road, from the to commemorate significant events. Local the world under the heading of “Six beginning of December after a short break examples of this stained glass include that Adventures in World Mission”. following a change in personnel. to remember mining tragedies, church Other “specials” include Mothering They are held every Tuesday morning anniversaries, millennium celebrations Sunday at 10am on March 14th, between 10am and noon. The adviser, Sai, and war memorials. “Steelroots on Tour” - a service led by can help on a wide range of issues Our Heritage Festival in June is a great young people from S17 at 10am on March including welfare benefits, debt, housing opportunity to visit and explore a wide 21st and Palm Sunday on March 28th. and employment. range of local churches.

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12 Pension Restrictions age 50 and 54 you must act now. in life. Otherwise you will be forced to wait until Pension Commencement Lump Sums from April 2010 you reach age 55. For some people this can be taken from Personal Pension plans would mean waiting a further 5 years. Any without the need for taking income. The We are currently receiving a number of person born after 5 April 1960 will not be income may be deferred to a later date, enquiries from people about accessing able to take pension benefits until they using the most appropriate option, which funds held within Personal Pension have reached age 55 unless special would suit your personal circumstances. contracts. circumstances apply such as ill health. You Please note that the value of investments Pension law changes in 2006 made the should check with your Pension Scheme and the income from it can go down as options for Pension benefit simpler and Administrator or adviser for further well as up due to market fluctuations. more flexible, however the minimum age details. Before taking any action you should for accessing the funds also changed and Q) So should you take your benefits as seek Independent Financial Advice to help this could catch many people unawares. early as possible? you understand the risks involved, you Currently the minimum age for access The decision about when to take should be aware there may be a charge for to the Pension Commencement Lump benefits will depend on your individual this advice. Sum or receiving Income from Pensions is circumstances and financial situation and Should you require any help with age 50 but on 6th April 2010 this changes great care should be taken. There are pension or any other financial planning, to age 55. various reasons for accessing pension please feel free to call me on 235 623. This means that if you are between the fund lump sums, however you should John Goddard ages of 49 and 54 and planned to take always be aware that taking benefits early Whittington Goddard Associates Ltd benefits from your pension plan between could mean your income is reduced later

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13 Did you know A first for Dore - real controversy. A school fence causing offence, by springing up almost overnight without notice or warning, to the chagrin of those who still use their legs to walk around Dore. Why do we have these fences? Are they to keep suspicious looking adults out, or children in? I suspect it is more to do with protecting buildings when they are empty, which they are for a large part of the time (holidays and evenings). How much better if they had been designed as community buildings and were used and appreciated by the community, rather than underused assets. It has been a long time since Dore lost its public toilet next to the Causeway Head Road shops. But for some time now a lonely blue portaloo has stood on the public footpath outside a house at the top of Dore Road. Perhaps this is the answer for any visitors to Dore who are caught short, although many might be embarrassed to use one so publicly. Still I am amazed in this age of don’t do this, and The convenient portaloo gracing the 5. In a Laundromat: don’t do that, that a loo can be positioned frontage of a house on Dore Road. Automatic washing machines: please so obviously on a public footpath. remove all your clothes when the light Potholes everywhere. Dore has suffered department in Sheffield resolutely refused goes out from the effects of the snow just like the to consider such innovations. Any chance 6. In a department store: rest of Sheffield, with our own share of of getting some in Dore? Bargain basement upstairs suspension testing traps. Add to that the Doremouse 7. In an office: sewer collapse at the top of Dore Road Would the person who took the step (why did this happen just here?), and the ladder yesterday please bring it back or condition of our roads is firmly back on Sign of the times! further steps will be taken the agenda. 8. In an office: To which we must added talk of a These made me laugh, but I’m easily After coffee break staff should empty the possible 20mph limit on Sheffield’s estate amused. coffee pot and stand upside down on the roads. Now that could be a good idea and 1. Notice in health food shop window: draining board lead to drivers doing 30mph on Dore Road Closed due to illness 9. Outside a secondhand shop: and Rushley Road etc for the first time - 2. On a repair shop door: We exchange anything - bicycles, you know the equation 30 means anything We can repair anything. Please knock washing machines, etc. why not bring from 30 to 40. hard on the door - the bell doesn’t work. your wife along and get a wonderful Which reminds me of a rare sight 3. Spotted in a safari park: bargain? recently. As you travel into Sheffield and Elephants please stay in your car !0. Seen during a conference: reach the 30mph sign opposite Millhouses 4. Did I read that sign right? For anyone who has children and Park there is a 30 mph roundel painted on Toilet out of order. Please use floor doesn’t know it, there is a day care on the road surface. For years the highways below the 1st floor

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14 Use it or lose it Holmesfield Flower Club contact Diana Holland (Publicity Secretary) 0114 237 7601or come along to Welcome to 2010. The end of another Are you interested in flower arranging? any meeting (3rd Wednesday of the tax year is looming. One of the key Holmesfield Flower Club was started over month) principles of good financial planning is to 40 years ago by the late Betty Haller for Annual General Meeting - Wednesday ensure that you use the tax allowances people who were interested to learn the art 17th March, 7.30 pm. The AGM will be available to you. If you do not use these of flower arranging. followed by a social evening with light allowances before 5th April they will be The club is affiliated to the National supper at approx 8.15 pm. New lost forever. As a reminder here some of Association of Flower Arrangement prospective members would be very the most popular investment and pension Societies (NAFAS) and membership is welcome at the social, a good opportunity allowances. open to all. There is a regular programme to find out more about the club. Photos of Individual Savings Accounts (ISA) of evening workshops with tutors and past work will be on show. Cash ISA demonstrations by qualified NAFAS Seasonal demonstration of Flower Ordinary savings accounts where the demonstrators. Arranging by Carol Middleton (NAFAS interest accumulates free of tax. For the The club meets monthly between March demonstrator) entitled “Springtime 2009/10 tax years you can save up to and December at Holmesfield Village Splendour” on Wednesday 21st April at £3,600. For those savers aged over 50 Hall, Vicarage Road (off Woodside 7.30 pm Tickets available at the door: £6 years this figure is £5,100. From 6th April Avenue) Holmesfield. Ample parking. (members £3) includes refreshments. The 2010 everyone over the age of 16 will be The 2010 subscription is £18. Anyone arrangements will be raffled at the end of able to save £5,100 per year. wishing to join our friendly club should the show. Everyone welcome. Stocks & Shares ISA For the 2009/10-tax year once you are age 18 or over you may invest up to £7,200 in a Stocks and Shares ISA. For    those aged over 50 the amount is up to £10,200. Investments held in stocks and shares ISAs are free from any Capital Gains Tax liability and free from any  further taxation on interest/ income  produced by the assets. Pension Contributions The maximum tax relieve able pension contribution is £3,600 or 100% of relevant UK earnings, whichever is the higher. Tax A Warm Welcome Guaranteed relief is applicable at the highest rate you pay. Basic rate tax relief of 20% is given immediately on payment and higher rate relief is claimed on self-assessment. Lunch Time Specials Served Please be aware that relief restrictions apply to some higher rate earners so please Monday to Saturday 12 noon - 6pm check with your adviser for details. Capital Gains Tax The individual allowance is £10,100 for 2009/10. This means if you have gains from investments you could realise those Sunday Lunch Menu gains free of tax to supplement your income or consider re investing in an ISA Served 12 noon - 4.30pm thus retaining the tax-free status. Tax is payable at only 18% on gains above the annual allowance so there can be an All meals freshly prepared using advantage to creating a capital gain in comparison with income for some tax payers. locally produced materials All of the above are extremely valuable allowances and will be lost if not used Friendly and helpful staff led by Tina before 5 April 2010. 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John Goddard 14 High Street, Dore, Sheffield S17 Whittington Goddard Associates Ltd 15 Charity Morning Proceeds from the Run will go to the Dr Is your CV ready Hadwen Trust for Humane Research, the Whittington Goddard Associated leading medical research charity funding - to help you? Limited on Causeway Head Road, would exclusively non-animal techniques to Our local community has not been like to say a big “Thank you” to everyone replace animal experiments. Established immune from the effects of the recession who attended or donated towards our in 1970 and celebrating its 40th but there are signs that the economic charity coffee morning on the 12th anniversary this year, the Charity’s climate is improving. As business December 2009. This was in aid of raising portfolio of high quality, peer reviewed confidence increases, job opportunities money and awareness, for a brain tumour and innovative research still combines will increase. Are you ready to take support group, run by Helen Lee Clinical strict ethical principles with scientific advantage of an awakening job market? nurse Specialist for Macmillan. excellence. To find out more about the Employers seek to fill their job We had approximately 60 people attend, work of the Dr Hadwen Trust, visit vacancies with the best candidates who enjoyed a cup of fresh coffee kindly www.drhadwentrust.org. available. When advertising, internally as supplied by Café logy and a selection of The Trust relies solely on donations and well as externally, they often ask homemade buns and cakes. is not government funded, so to help raise applicants to provide a CV so they can We have raised over £1,000 and feel the vital funds for their Cancer Research carry out an initial assessment and decide morning was a great success so once again projects, there will be an off-road 5km and who they want to shortlist for interview. big thanks to everyone involved. 10km run held in Ecclesall Woods on An up-to-date, high quality CV Leanne Lee Saturday, 22nd May. You can help by (curriculum vitae) is not only relevant to taking part in this Run for All Life, by those actively seeking work or a change of sponsoring someone else or by making a job. It is an important consideration for World Day of Prayer donation. For further details email me anyone who wants to be able to respond [email protected] or tel 235 6907 quickly to attractive job opportunities. Is This years Womens World Day of Dawn Biram your CV up-to-date and ready to help you? Prayer Service for churches in S17 will Your focus will be sharpened if you take place on Friday March 5th at view your CV as a personal marketing tool Christchurch Dore at 10.30am. Suspended head retires which should help you to compete Refreshments will follow. Everyone is effectively with other job applicants and welcome. Enquires to 236 3027. Bob Evans, who had been in charge of get you an interview. You should also King Ecgbert School since the early 1990s consider your CV from the recruiting and was one of the city’s most experienced employer’s perspective each time you Join the Run for All Life principals, was suspended from his post in apply for a job to ensure it sells you in a mid July last year over allegations related strong, positive and pertinent light. This year, you can take part in an to his management of the school. No Your CV should highlight your relevant alternative fundraising event for cancer details of the reason for the suspension or talents, achievements and experience in a research. the outcome of investigations have been way which is likely to persuade the Many people don’t realise that much of made available. We understand he has employer that you are worthy of serious the money they give to medical research now taken early retirement and officially consideration. It should be objective, charities will be used to fund animal left his post as headteacher on November easy-to read, concise (two pages experiments. Apart from captivity and the 30th 2009. Senior deputy headteacher Tim maximum) and truthful. It should not suffering, animal experiments often give Eldridge remains the school’s acting head. contain any claims you cannot misleading results that cannot be substantiate. extrapolated to the human condition. Even If an attractive job opportunity came different strains of the same animal Millhouses Park along, could you meet a tight application species can give a different reaction to deadline? If you already have a CV, how drugs and different experimental results. Work has started on a £350,000 water quickly could you gather the information Investment in humane non-animal based play area at Millhouses Park. The Splash! you need to update it, then tailor it to a research may therefore be the best use of project will include Archimedes screws, new job target and ensure it does you full resources and lead to faster medical hand pumps, various dams, scoops and justice? If you do not have a CV, do you progress. sluices and a water tree that will be know how to create one and could you Over the centuries, medical research has operated by a see-saw. quickly and easily access the information developed a heavy reliance on animals but The Friends of Millhouses Park have you need? today, with exciting fields such as stem been working with the council, securing If you answer “no” to one or more of cell technology and advanced computer funds from the Big Lottery Fund, the these questions, you should consider modelling, this no longer has to be the Government’s Playbuilder programme, doing something about it. Creating and case. 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17 What is it? Dore Village Society has been presented with the item shown in the photograph - a porcelain boat with a crest containing images of Dore Church and the village circa 1920’s - 40’s. We believe it was connected to Dore Scouts, possibly as a fund-raising venture, since it was originally in the possession of James Wainwright, Scoutmaster from the early 1940’s onwards. Can anyone tell us more ? James Wainwright ( Jim ) was also well-known for the verses he wrote, including the following poem from 1942: This village sits in Nature’s realm, Its soil, still, a yearly bounty yields, And yeoman stock still at the helm, Industrious plough her harvest field. And proud Christ Church still watches o’er That ancient parish known as Dore. The mysterious porcelain boat in the Dore heritage collection. continued from page 1 .... corner of High Street and Fitzalan debris and chaos. I remember waiting for Division Street, the top of Barkers Pool, Square, suffered a direct hit and the whole him to come back to hear stories of the when suddenly a rather grand looking car building collapsed into the cellar where things he’d seen.” stopped to let me cross. Thinking nothing over 70 people were sheltering. Only 7 Pat Lazenby recalled the scene of of it I crossed the road. It wasn’t until I came out alive. devastation. “I remember going into had reached the other side that I turned Nan Boulton was living with her parents Sheffield on the tram with my Mum, just and realised it was none other than King on Stalker Lees Road, off Ecclesall Road after the Blitz and seeing the blackened George VI and Queen Elizabeth on their and described with emotion the scene that remains of department stores and shops.” visit to Sheffield. Fancy them stopping to night. “We were all in our air-raid shelters Many stores had to relocate after the let me cross!” in our cellars that had been reinforced by bombings and the Sheffield Telegraph and Eventually, on 9th January 1941 bombs the Government. Every cellar had a Independent of January 8th 1941 ran a did fall on Dore. This event figures in doorway into the next house so that you special feature to inform customers of the people’s wartime reminiscences more than could get out that way if necessary. changes. Advertisements such as any other and is part of our village Opposite us a house got a direct hit and “Atkinsons Carry On!” “Walsh’s New collective memory. Recollections vary a that was horrible. I can’t bear to think Store at the Mount, Glossop Road” and little but basically a string of bombs was about it because we lost our young friends. “Cockaynes Offices- Messrs. Kennings’ dropped between Old Hay Lane and On Ecclesall Road there were burnt-out Premises” are typical of the determination Brickhouses. tramcars and people laying dead. It was to keep serving their customers and The most serious damage was done to horrible!” encourage the prompt payment of the bungalow ‘Ianford’ on Church Lane Beryl Salisbury also described that accounts. which belonged to Cliff and Lilian night. “We were living at Dore Hall Farm In January 1941 following the Sheffield Hartley. Chris Fearnehough recalled “A by the time of the Sheffield Blitz. I Blitz, King George VI and Queen bomb hit Hartley’s bungalow, the potted remember watching it from there because Elizabeth visited the city in a show of meat people, and it split the bungalow the house was fairly elevated. We could support. right in two. The dog got killed.” The look out over Sheffield and see the whole Bessie Colley was working at that time Hartleys were close friends of Kay Mastin sky. I can remember it vividly; it was as if in the offices of Harrison Brothers and who took up the story. “The only person massive fireworks were going off. My Howson, a cutlery firm on Carver Street who was injured was the maid. The bomb father (Joe Denniff) went into Sheffield and remembered the occasion well. “I had dropped in the dining room and that was the next day. He could get the car as far as just finished work for the day and was near her kitchen. It moved the fireplace Beauchief but no further because of the standing waiting to cross the road at right across the kitchen.” The second bomb that night landed in a field opposite Cromwell Cottages, Townhead Road which was part of Jack Greaves’s farm. Beryl Salisbury also remembered that one. “There was a bomb that was quite near to Garden Cottage at the top of Drury Lane. It shook all the windows out. The next morning the whole village turned out to peer into this huge hole and people were looking around for bits of shrapnel. I can’t remember anybody being frightened, certainly as children we weren’t.” Another bomb hit the Fisher’s pigsty at Newfield Farm and the event forms one of Don Fisher’s earliest memories. “So this was one of the few nights that we actually did occupy the shelter when the sirens went; because we didn’t always. Nothing was going to happen to Dore! And then there was a large crump sound. We waited a few minutes and Dad said “That was close!” So the whole family trooped up past the sheds to view the crater. It was a moonlight night and there was smoke coming out of the hole in the ground. That was about my first recollection of life. And of course we were quite famous. Not everyone got a bomb!” 18 The final incident occurred during an air Dore Old School bob, by comparison beer was then 6d a raid over Brickhouse Lane and John pint. Caisley told the story of his grandfather’s - children’s desks I thought it was wonderful, it didn’t blot lucky escape. “When I got home my and you didn’t have to keep dipping it in grandfather was sitting in the air raid Who remembers the little desks at Dore the inkwell all the time. But there was no shelter because he wasn’t very happy. So I School? The right size for children up to way Miss Palmer would let me use it for said “Come on in and we’ll all have a cup eleven years old. They have holes for writing. I could use it for sums, as we of tea.” Five minutes later that shelter was inkwells, and lids that lift to open a space called arithmetic, but she said ballpoints demolished by a direct hit on it in the that held all our books. ruined handwriting. She was right. garden about twenty yards from the When I was in J4, Miss Davies class, I From my father’s days at Dore school, house.” was the ink monitor. Every Monday it was around 1910, we still have a school slate, Eventually the war came to an end my job to mix up a couple of pints of ink a slate about a foot long by 8 inches wide though for Kay Mastin at least it was using ink powder and water. It was then in a sturdy wooden frame. rather sudden. “One thought the war put in a special bottle with a pouring lip Some of the little desks have still been would go on for ever until a relative, an and then taken round the classrooms in use in the Nursery School, but new army padre, came to visit us. Only then filling the inkwells. equipment has now been installed and the did we realize that the Germans were in But I don’t remember filling inkwells in old desks are now surplus to requirements. retreat in 1945. There wasn’t the the infants classes, I think they only used It would be nice if they could stay in Dore communication, you see.” pencils. so if anyone is interested in acquiring one Dore rejoiced along with the nation. The pens in the junior classes were or more of them please contact the There was a Victory Dance in the church wooden, they looked like a pencil with a vicarage office. Tel 236 3335 email hall which was attended by the whole nib on the end. Blotting paper was an [email protected] village. The Hare and Hounds and the essential item on every desk. Richard Farnsworth Devonshire Arms funded the victory The first junior class, J1, was run by celebrations for the village children. Miss Palmer. We all went in fear and dread Pat Lazenby described what happened. of her. If you were naughty she used to Stop junk mail & telephone calls “At the end of the war the village, tiny in pull up your trouser leg and slap the top of those days, had their celebrations. A your thigh. It hurt like h**l. But she was a How to reduce junk mail: register with children’s victory party was held at good teacher. She taught handwriting. She the Mail Preference Service, Freepost 22, Abbeydale Picture House. We were taken had a long T square which she put on the London W1E 7EZ. It may take up to four by bus to see George Formby in “He blackboard and drew 3 lines for each line months before you notice a significant Snoops to Conquer” followed by tea in the of script. The lower part of the letter, eg reduction but it is a start. ballroom. A victory fete with sports and the circle of a “b” fitted between the lower How to stop cold telephone calls: Punch and Judy show was held on Dore two lines and the top of the stroke went up Register with the Telephone Preference cricket ground.” to the third line. She could write Service 0845 070 0707 or website They certainly all deserved the treat immaculately on the blackboard. We then www.tpsonline.org.uk You may still get after what had gone before. copied it into our books. the odd “escapee” such as from mobile Maureen Cope In 1952 my mother got the first telephones, but otherwise a welcome real Dore Oral History Group ballpoint pen I’d ever seen, it cost five reduction in unwanted calls.

19 Polio eradication a performance in aid of Polio Eradication the University’s Firth Court, Firth Hall, in the Ranmoor Parish Church, ticket price Western Bank, 7.30pm. Ticket prices vary, So you think that polio has gone away £12. If all the tickets are sold, £3,500 will and are available online from the above for ever ..... Well actually no. be raised. Tickets are available from Brian website, by telephone 0114 222 877 or in In fact today there are still 4 countries in Cousins on 274 7238. Help Rotary in the person from: University of Sheffield the world where polio is endemic; final push - End Polio Now. Student Union, Western Bank, Sheffield, Afghanistan , India, Pakistan and Nigeria. Alan Brown S10 2TG, or [email protected]. So what’s the problem given those four Rotary Clubs of Sheffield Tickets will also be available to purchase countries are miles away? If we don’t on the door half an hour before each event. eradicate it completely it could spread All Rush-Hour Concerts are held at back, As it has done in the once polio free St. John’s Abbeydale Firth Hall at 5.30pm. Entry is £1.50 and country of Guinea which has recorded 37 tickets are not available in advance. cases since April last year. Easter services at St. John’s Church Winter Garden Concerts are held in the 1982 the UK was declared free from Abbeydale, Abbeydale Road South. Winter Garden at 12:30pm. Additional natural polio infection. In 1993 the last March 21st Passion Sunday Passiontide seating will be put out for those who wish person from abroad was diagnosed in the readings and music 6.30pm to sit and listen to the whole concert. UK. In 2002 the World Health March 28th Palm Sunday Holy Free Lunchtime Concerts start at Organisation certified Europe polio free. Communion to include blessing of the 1.10pm at the University Drama Studio. In 1985 Rotary International launched a palms 10am Polio Plus program. Then in 1988, Rotary April 1st Maundy Thursday Holy International, Pan American Health Communion followed by vigil 7.30pm Volunteers wanted Organisation, World Health Organisation, April 2nd Good Friday Family Service Centres for Disease Control, UNICEF followed by hot cross buns in hall 10am Sheffield Samaritans are appealing for began an international campaign to stop An Hour by the cross 2pm volunteers to help deal with an increasing transmission of polio everywhere in the April 4th Easter Sunday Parish number of calls. The current economic world. Communion 10am. recession is leading more people to turn in PolioPlus, the most ambitious program desperation to the charity. But it is not just in Rotary’s history, and is the volunteer financial difficulties people face but also arm of the global partnership dedicated to Incinerator on hold relationship problems arising from them. eradicating polio. For more than 20 years, Yet as the demand for a listening ear Rotary has led the private sector in the A crucial decision on controversial goes up, the numbers of volunteers is global effort to rid the world of this plans for a £35m incinerator at falling. Normally between 80 and 90 crippling disease. In addition to providing Sheepbridge in Chesterfield, as detailed in volunteers handle calls in Sheffield but financial and volunteer support, Rotary our last issue, has been delayed. some shifts are having to be cancelled works to urge support from other public Derbyshire County Council’s planning because there is not always the requisite and private sector partners. This includes committee is now due to consider the two people to man them. the campaign to End Polio Now, inspired application by waste company Cyclamax The Samaritans are looking for people by the extraordinary challenge grants on February 22. The company intends to who are able to listen and commit to at received from the Bill & Melinda Gates burn retail waste and use exhaust gases to least three hours a week. In particular, Foundation. generate electricity, insisting the process is volunteers’ are needed at the busiest time, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation safe and will create jobs. Objectors from a between l0pm and 2am. Training, support has awarded US$255 million to Rotary wide area between Chesterfield, Dronfield and expenses are offered. If you think you International in the global effort to and Sheffield argue that the plant would can help then please contact eradicate polio. The challenge is for be too close to homes and schools. [email protected] Rotary Clubs the world over to match that o.uk or call 07980 526507. amount. The Samaritans offer confidential Abbeydale Rotary Club is doing its bit. Spring Concert Season emotional support, available by calling On Saturday 27h Feb, the Dore Male 276 7277 /0845 790 9090 or drop in at 272 Voice choir and Ensemble 360 are giving The University of Sheffield opened its Queens Road between 10am and 10pm. Spring 2010 Concert Season this month, with a performance by internationally renowned pianist, Alfred Brendel. His performance marked the first of 12 evening concerts, and 20 daytime musical events taking place between February and mid-May. BRADWAY Alongside the usual programme of free Physiotherapy Clinic Lunchtime Concerts, two new programmes of events have been introduced to the season; Rush-Hour • State Registered and HPC Member Concerts and Music in the Winter Garden. • Sports Injury Specialists Rush-Hour Concerts, began on Monday • Common Muscle and Joint Problems 15 February, 5.30pm in Firth Hall, and offer an alternative to sitting in traffic • Arthritis and Nerve Pain jams or being squeezed into public • Licensed Acupuncturist transport, and will be open for people to • Women’s Health, Pilates de-stress after the end of a busy day and • Post Operative Rehabilitation listen to some great affordable music before going home. • Work Station Assessments Music in the Winter Garden is a series of • Recognised by all major Insurance free lunchtime concerts, providing the • Companies, inc BUPA and Westfield opportunity to listen to magnificent music in the splendid surroundings of the garden, Telephone 0114 235 2727 and these started at 12:30pm on Mobile 07960 982138 Wednesday 17 February. Email [email protected] For a full programme of events, please visit www.sheffield.ac.uk/concerts PILATES CLASSES STARTING SOON All evening concerts will take place at 99 Bradway Road, Sheffield S17 4QS 20 21 Dore Football Club

Following publication of a picture of Dore Football Club 1935/36 in the Autumn issue of Dore to Door, the Village Society has received further fascinating information relating to Football in the Village. We are hoping to compile a collection of photographs of the memorabilia and information relating to Dore Football Club / Dore Rovers F.C. and football in the village, including recent teams and leagues, with a view to producing a booklet later in the year. Following the amazing response to requests for photos and information about Dore in general at our last appeal, the DVS office in the Old School, will be open on Saturday 6th March, for anyone who would like to share footballing memories with us. We will be happy to scan photos and documents for inclusion in the booklet. One of several pictures of past football teams from Dore. If you can name the If Saturday 6th March is not convenient, players and tell us more about the history of football in the village, the Dore Village please contact either Mrs Anne Slater Tel: Society would like to hear from you. 236 6710 or Mrs Dorne Coggins Tel: 236 that Britain now lags behind most of authorities. 5769 and we will be happy to speak to you Europe in creating safe environments in How can you influence this? about your memories. residential areas where road-users of all Community Assemblies have been set up kinds, including cyclists and pedestrians, in Sheffield to “put communities in the are not threatened by motor vehicles. driving seat”, but the jury is still out on Many towns in Europe have speed limits how effective they’ve been. This article is 20 mph limits for of 30, but kph, about 18.5mph. Official intended to increase local awareness of residential roads? statistics show that cyclists and this issue, and how others have resolved it. pedestrians are more likely to become But what happens here may eventually A public forum in the Town Hall on 28th road casualties in UK than in the rest of depend on if and how the City Council January heard a presentation by visiting Europe. Nuisance to local residents by consults us, and how many local residents speaker Rod King on the national upsurge traffic pollution and noise is also taken respond. of interest in 20mph limits for residential more seriously. If anyone wants more details, feel free roads. Following a group discussion, a He explained that trunk routes & urban to contact me via the editor. show of hands indicated overwhelming arterial roads need expensive ways of Alan Kewley support for Sheffield Council to pursue keeping road-users apart to avoid this as a solution to some of our traffic collisions. But in residential areas it’s problems following consultation with better to design roads to be shared by Highway improvements local communities. Rod King heads a various users, and the most cost-effective national campaign “20’s Plenty for Us” way of doing this is to lower traffic The new South West Community explained in their website - speeds, which makes many of the other Assembly has committed over £25,000 www.20splentyforus.org.uk. safety measures unnecessary. Also, less towards highway improvement work in His informative presentation showed wear to road surfaces, and reduced our Dore & Totley Ward over the next 12 pollution and noise means everyone wins. months. Priorities were identified by local The effect on overall journey times is Councillors using casework and requests minimal, with over 75% of drivers in from the general public as a guide. favour. Thirty five dropped kerbs will improve Why do we lag behind? Some of our access for parents with prams and people local communities have been pressing for with limited mobility. Additionally, 20mph zones for years, but with little improved signage on Rushley Road and response other than the stating of Council Limb Lane will reinforce the 30 mph Indian Take Away policy, citing government guidelines, that speed limit and yellow line parking 20mph signs had to be backed up with restrictions are scheduled for a number of physical speed retarders, eg. road-humps, locations. Vehicle activated signs (VAS), 0114 262 1818 chicanes, etc, which made them costly. which detect driving above the local speed Try us once for a The Dept for Transport issues guidelines limit and notify drivers, are to be rotated to advise local authorities, but these aren’t through Baslow Road, Twentywell Lane lifetime addication firm regulations, and some have applied and other hotspot locations. Best fresh ingredients and a wide these more flexibly to cater for local This is only the first phase of highway choice “taste the difference” requirements. 20mph zones are already in improvements. We already have requests place in other parts of UK where perhaps for improvements and safety measures community influence is stronger than in that add up to double that figure. After OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK large unitary authorities like Sheffield. May the Community Assembly will be including BANK HOLIDAYS What’s changed? The Dept for rolling out its next spending programme. I 5.00pm - 10.30pm Transport has re-issued its guidelines urge local people to let us know of following successful 20mph zones in highways issues, large or small in their Free Home delivery on orders over other areas without costly speed retarders, area in good time. That way we can and now advises local authorities to prioritise and plan future spending more £10 within 3 mile radius consider these more widely where their efficiently. 339 Ecclesall Road South communities identify a need. But the Keith Hill (Cllr.)Tel: 235 2289 Parkhead decision would still rest with individual Email: [email protected] 22 Driving in Dore bends they will almost always be on the have you arrived too fast and robbed them outside of the bend pointing the way, not of the chance to see you in time to wait for I am a Driving Instructor (ADI) and both sides. you? therefore declare an interest in the letter Driving in snow has been a challenge. Another example, there is often a well hoping for an extra 30mph speed limit We have recently had a lot of drivers learn kept Black car on church lane near the end sign on Limb Lane, just before Rushley respect but not necessarily skill. It can of Vicarage Lane. A reflection off it or the Road & Parkers Lane, (letter from Ms F take up to 10 times further to stop on an bungalow windows may highlight Kamsika & Mr S Jones in your last issue). icy road. Making a dry stop from 20mph something coming. It’s a two way road They conciliatorily suggest that Limb in about the length of a bus, a very scary after all so how surprised should you be? Lane “has the feel of a 40mph road”. I’m proposition. An adage used by “off Dore is full of clues like this but we need sorry but no it doesn’t! Here’s why, if roaders” is to go “as slow as you can, as our eyes on Main Beam not Dipped. there are street lamps it’s 30mph until you fast as you have to”. That means going Andrew Saint (Yes, I am as patient as know different. That’s why the steady and try to maintain some forward my name suggests) controversial street lights to the moved momentum for yourself and others. Bill Plant Driving School Franchisee Totley bus terminus go hand in hand with Many drivers with perfectly good 4x4s the extended 30mph limit. Once you are in have been driving them selfishly. Even a ‘30’ you have passed the ‘30’ signs and though they can get underway again, they Wealthy nation will not see another unless there are no have been forcing the drivers of two wheel street lamps (very rare). Imagine them drive vehicles to stop for them, when it is A recent survey of Britain’s wealth by facing out like the circle of wagons in a obviously harder for these smaller the Office for National Statistics threw up western, you should be safer inside the vehicles to get moving again. Especially some interesting facts on wealth, income circle. up hill. Some good advice from my Dad and pension provision. This included the Highways Development will say “No” was to follow in the tracks when snowing information that almost three quarters of to the suggestion. Apart from speed but shave off a couple of inches of mush all households owned one or more cars, camera signs the only exception to the rule when thawing. It melts away quicker so 5% own a caravan or boat, 8% owned that I know of, is at the bottom of the there is less to re-freeze. either vans or motorcycles, and 5.2 % of Parkway from Park Square Roundabout. All this brings me on to driving in Dore families have a personalised number plate. It’s 50 from the first bridge. generally. The nature and heritage of the Outside a ‘30’ look for the little village bring with it particular problems “repeater” signs on lamp posts saying 40, that many obviously struggle with, Penalty on mobiles 50 or National. Or look into side roads! If especially narrow and/or bendy roads. they show ‘30’, you are looking from a Many confuse Right of Way with Priority. Motorists caught using a mobile phone different limit. Then keep checking, it Our roads are public rights of way both at the wheel could incur more penalty ought to be at least a ‘40’. Try it on your ways (except one-way past the Co-op points under proposals being considered next run out of Dore. I teach this and if [right turners, please keep right here by the Government. Drivers found using a you never knew it, ring me (077 099 leaving room for left turners]). For phone illegally while on the road currently 81386) and subject to other commitments example if you have an obstacle on your face a £60 fine and three points. The I’ll give a free hour to Dore residents who side then the oncoming traffic has priority Department for Transport says that are interested ( I don’t want to comment over you. 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23 Recycling Food Waste services we charged them £350 per week Gilbert & Sullivan Society to move it. The pigs,( it supported 50 of There was a newspaper report this week, them) became the by-product, more like Happy New Year to all you avid readers Jan 18, that some government department waste disposal units. of Dore-to-Door. We, as members of Dore is proposing that everyone have a slop But all this came to stop with the foot Gilbert & Sullivan Society, can only hope bucket in the kitchen for food waste and and mouth outbreak in 2000. that 2010 is as successful as 2009. We had leftovers. This must bring a wry smile to The regulations covering pig swill were a very good December concert season all farmers who used to feed pig swill. developed in 1970 to combat Swine with full houses at Dore Methodist Church 30 years ago there were 5 swill feeders Vesicular Disease. In pigs this disease is and at the two concerts we gave at in Dore and Totley, ourselves at Ryecroft very similar to foot and mouth, but only Eckington Corner Theatre. We have a few Farm, Harry Valle up Long Line, Joe affects pigs. Tough new regulations new, younger members who seem to be Rowarth at Owlet, Hills at Totley Bents covered boiling of swill, and the housing enjoying their experience so far which is and Stones by Totley Brick Yard. of boiling equipment. The building had to both good for the Society and gratifying to Between us we were collecting at least be large enough to get the collection lorry those of us who are a little longer in the 50 tons of swill a week. This was from in and close the doors before unloading, tooth! Long may they be with us. schools , hospitals, hotels, colleges and and the drains had to go to a main drain or Now to our raison d’etre. The show this military camps. But none from domestic a separate tank. This was a difficulty as April will be Ruddigore, for me one of G houses . It would be completely most farms are on cess tanks. & S’s best operettas even though it is not impractical to collect it. It wasn’t worth Importantly local authorities set up as popular as say HMS Pinafore. The story picking up anything less than a dustbin inspection teams who knew what they is cohesive and understandable which is full, the old metal type. Try filling one of were doing. Prior to this there had been no more than can be said for The Grand those with household kitchen waste and it proper control of swill and feeding and Duke. The music is as good as any of the rots away before the bin is full. And the most F & M outbreaks occurred on more popular ones and there is ample smell is a bit powerful. allotments where someone kept a couple room for comedy which, I have no doubt But the amount from commercial of pigs fed on swill raw from a local our Producer, Jim Newby, will exploit to kitchens was phenomenal. King Ecgberts restaurant. the full. For my money it has the best school used to produce 8 bins a week, These regulations worked well for 30 baritone song from any of their operettas Totley college about 20. Even small years, but then the LEA’s started lumping in “When the night wind howls”. schools like Dore Junior and Infants inspection in with their general health The story revolves round the Baronets would produce 4 or 5 bins, Totley All departments inspecting hotel kitchens etc, Murgatroyd who have had a curse forced Saints 2. Lodge Moor Hospital produced people without specialist knowledge who on their lineage such that the current around 30 bins a week, and it was the didn’t think swill very important. Also holder of the title must perform a crime worst smelling stuff of all. I felt really many kitchens were installing macerators, every day or die in unspeakable agony. sorry for patients in that hospital. a kind of large waste disposal unit straight The older son, when it became his turn did The best, by a long way was from the to the drains. Although expensive and a runner to sea and was thought to have RAF base at Finningley, that was lovely wasteful, they were tidy. perished so his younger brother took the stuff. I came across a man on the Manor title. The older one, however, having After the annual airshow they had their feeding a few pigs without a swill licence. returned from sea, took the name of Robin Battle of Britain Ball, they must have over I reported it to the council but they did Oakapple in the village of Rederring catered by 100% for that. I once had a full nothing. This was a bit annoying when I where there is a troupe of professional bin of fresh hard boiled eggs. was spending thousands complying with bridesmaids. When we first started swill feeding in regulations and he was getting away with Because Despard Murgatroyed was not 1970 we paid a modest amount for it. The it. I thought then the writing was on the doing foul enough deeds (Fiddling income Sheffield LEA put it out to tender, we paid wall. tax returns does not count), his ancestors, £50 a year for swill from 30 schools. But In the end the 2000 outbreak started on whose pictures hang on the walls, come to as time went on and other swill men a farm that was licensed, but he’d been life to force him to comply with the curse, packed up we started charging to collect. getting swill from Newcastle airport, but what with spinsters, those who are When the RAF lost their Crown Immunity which should not have been allowed. young and in love, the professional and came under the local authority health Leftovers from airline imported food, had bridesmaids and ghosts from the past been mixed with waste from airport there’s plenty of room for subterfuge and restaurants. As a result of this outbreak all comic moments. You’ll just have to come swill feeding was banned and all those to the show to see how it all pans out. thousands of tons of food waste goes Ruddigore will be on at The down the drains. Montgomery Theatre (a new venture for Now some bright spark thinks it would us) from Wednesday April 14th to be a good idea to compost this stuff, but Saturday April 17th at 7:30pm with a whereas swill is a high value pig food, Saturday Matinee at 2:30pm. Tickets (£10, compost is low value. Collection would concessions £9) are available from Val on have to be subsidised. 01246 416364. A huge amount of work One or two ex swill feeders have set up goes into putting a show such as this on so rendering plants. An enterprising farmer at please come along and support the cast, Killamarsh has built a large plant boiling orchestra and crew and be rewarded with a waste and extracting the cooking oils from splendid evening’s entertainment. it, which at the present time is worth £200 Derek Habberjam per ton. Ten years ago we had to pay to get rid of it. But the swill ban is a shame. Properly Pedometer challenge handled and boiled swill is perfectly safe and makes a broth that pigs love. And Are you ready to step up to the swill fed pigs taste far better than meal fed pedometer challenge and see a big pigs. improvement in your health and fitness? Richard Farnsworth At Totley Library you can loan a Pedometer and Walk card to record the Dore to Door is available by postal amount of steps you complete on a daily subscription to any UK address. Just basis. The aim is to reach around 10,000 forward the mailing address along with a steps a day to help with leading a healthy cheque for £5, made out to ‘Dore Village lifestyle. The Pedometer is worn over the Society, to the address on page 2. hip and is really easy to use. 24     Block paving renovation specialist Let me bring your DRIVES and PATHS back to life Block Paving resanded and sealed no more moss and weeds Tel Dave Andrews on 01709 877412 07979 431133

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It all started with another disappointing experience and feeling that after a lifetime’s involvement in the trade “surely we can do better than that ...” So stupidity and arrogance play their part, but it’s mainly a case of getting fed up of having nowhere to go that really satisfies; if I felt like that, surely other people out there do too. All of these reasons, but more than that, the excitement and buzz you get from running a pub doing a decent trade with good food makes it worthwhile for all concerned; the owners, the management, the staff and most importantly, the guests coming through the doors. It began in February 2009, noticing that the last tenants had closed it down and the Ye Old Cross Scythes Hotel in the early The Waddington Album lease was available. A couple of phone years of the 19th century, complete wiyth calls later and we were involved in a long locals only too keen to pose. In addition My great uncle Jim Waddington was an drawn out negotiation that was to last until to selling Ales and Stouts, the notices on artist and during the period from 1900- September. the wall announce Good Stabling, 1925 he painted sketches of the leading The key point was that with the building Catering, a Bowling Green and Billiards. music hall performers whom he saw. Until being in such a state of neglect, the now only a handful of people has seen amount of work needed turned modest attention to detail all the time. Alan spent them. Everyone has expressed sheer ambition into grand designs. On paper it time sourcing local suppliers we can count delight. “Wonderful, beautiful, amazing, ticked all the right boxes; A big pub doing on to provide the best ingredients fascinating,” are the words used to express no trade; in a good area; on a main road; available, something he is constantly their reactions. Two people who can be plenty of parking; lots of local chimney reviewing; and training the team of chefs regarded as experts are Ken Dodd and one pots - not stuck out in the middle of to produce a modern stylish menu to his of the Antiques Road Show valuers. On nowhere. The problem was the amount of high standards. Ben set about bringing us different occasions their views echoed the work that would need to go into getting it in some bright young things to train to our previous remarks adding that the sketches fit to run a decent operation out of. way of thinking - a positive, welcoming were stunning and unique. Starting as we mean to go on meant that and helpful approach to restaurant service I have now decided to hold another there would be no corners cut - everything with an eye for detail. exhibition for people to enjoy the had to be done properly, or not at all. After that, it was a case of sticking to sketches. Although many of the The building had to be gutted, not one our guns - despite the obvious temptation performers’ names may mean nothing to room would remain untouched at the end to get people flooding through the doors us now, I hope that you will get pleasure of the refurbishment process, from the with a blaze of advertising and self- from seeing copies of some of the kitchen to the cellar, the bar to the promotion we knew we would have to originals in poster form at my exhibition at bathrooms. With the anticipated costs focus on getting standards high, keeping the Pomegranate Theatre Chesterfield spiralling, we realised it was a bigger job them high and letting word of mouth do its between Wednesday 07 April and than we could afford to do ourselves, and work. Thursday 29 April daily (except Sundays) we entered into a business partnership The danger of putting too much too between 9am and 10pm. Ken Dodd has with David & Andrew Ford, people I have soon on a young team meant that we were seen the posters and made the following a good relationship with from our time at happy to be able to spend time in the comments “The quality of the posters is Champs and out on the Golf courses. opening weeks teaching training and superb and I commend them not only for Once the process of redeveloping the reviewing - continually developing the their subjects but also for the artistry”. building was underway we had to focus on staff to a standard we will be happy with. I wish to record my thanks to the staff of finding a team to run it with us. First came We are still at the start of a long journey, the Pomegranate Theatre for all their help Alan Rigby, our chef, then Ben Stazi, the but with the team we have in place, and and support in giving me the opportunity manager. The focus was simple - good the commitment to quality and standards to publish for a second time ‘The food & good service. 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27 News from King Ecgberts New Years Resolution? This term we are looking forward to our What are you doing for your New Years drama production. The title of the play is Resolution? People are always trying to “Titanic” and has been written by our head think of new and imaginative new years of drama, Cheryl Bartlett, to show off the resolutions. talents of our many young actors. The play Sheffield Wildlife Trust have some will be performed in the week beginning ideas. Do you want to get out and about the 1st March even though rehearsals have and chase away the winter blues? Do you been hit by the snowy weather at the start want to help conserve a beautiful nature of the Spring Term. We do hope that many reserve? Come and lend a hand conserving local people will join us for the production Blacka Moor Nature Reserve and help out to help us celebrate the accomplishments with path improvements, vegetation of our young people and see what we management, access improvements and know will be a top quality school many other tasks. It’s a brilliant chance to production. Please telephone the school meet new people, get some fresh air and for ticket information in the last week of learn about the conservation work that the February (0114 235 3855). Trust are doing. One of the ways we try to broaden our Blacka Moor is a beautiful nature curriculum offer to our students is to reserve, comprising of 181 hectares of incorporate a number of days each year open moorland, peat bog, upland oak when we do not run a normal timetable. woodland and wet woodland, of This frees up blocks of time when students international importance for wildlife. Its can work on longer projects and visits can wonderful mosaic of dwarf shrubs, birch be organised with less disruption to Seen in Beauchief Gardens next to the and rowan copses, mire and woodland are ordinary lessons. We also take the Abbeydale Hamlet pond. Did he sit in the well loved by walkers, cyclists, riders, opportunity on these days to mix the snow for too long or was he one of the bird spotters and many others. students up from their usual class groups numerous snowmen generated by the Sheffield Wildlife Trust run regular and encourage them to work cooperatively January snowfall ? Saturday Volunteer Sessions on Blacka with different people. This term there are Moor to give people a chance to get three of these days and the experiences will also enhance their understanding of involved. The sessions run from 10am - provided for the students will be many and the local area in the summer term. 3pm on the first Saturday of each month. varied. For example all of Y8 will take These sorts of activities really develop (Apart from April’s session will be on the part in an International Day looking at art, the skills that we know will enable our 10th and May’s will be on the 8th ) dance, food and music from around the young people take a full part in the real Meet at Stony Ridge car park (the small world and also enhance their world beyond school. They are given car park at the end of the woodland on the understanding of history with a visit to the opportunities to solve problems, to work A625 Hathersage Road). Grid reference: Slavery Museum in Liverpool. They will in teams and to think creatively in a SK 277 806. Bring suitable clothes & also use forensic science to try and solve a framework that the usual school day of footwear, water and lunch. The Trust will crime in the summer term. Y7 will one hour blocks can limit. provide tea, coffee and biscuits, as well as participate in an Enterprise day when they Another exciting development is the any tools, training or instruction. will learn the basics of business and have forthcoming production of a school If you would like to join in the volunteer a go at pitching their ideas in a “Dragons’ magazine to showcase the talents of our sessions or would like anymore Den”. They will also have a day which many talented creative writers and poets. information please ring Hannah Wittram will bring together the work they have Students will be creating a high quality on 0114 263 4335 been studying in geography, science and product that we will hope to sell in local technology to look at sustainable futures shops to the wider public, as well as to for the planet. A visit to Castleton to take parents and students. We are also using the Eager beaver? part in history and geography fieldwork magazine to promote entrepreneurial skills amongst our students and we are An assistant Beaver Leader is needed by hoping that local businesses might like to the 215th Sheffield (1st Totley) Scout buy advertising space to help the Group. Do you (or anyone you know) feel magazine to be sustainable in terms of that they could give up a small amount of costing. If any local businesses would like their time to provide regular support and to be involved then please contact Jayne leadership to a thriving group of 6 to 8 Flint at King Ecgbert School year olds, based in their Totley Headquarters? The Beaver Group is growing and Crown Green Bowling currently has a waiting list. For more information please contact The Abbeydale Park Bowling Club is Richard Frost (Chairman) on 0114 236 holding two open mornings for anyone 3603 or [email protected] who would like to try their hand at Crown Green Bowling. They will be held on Saturday 10th April and Saturday 17th Ecgbert Eagles April between 10am and 12 noon. Previous experience is not necessary as Ecgbert Eagles are up and running again instruction will be given. after the winter break. The multi-sport The Bowls Pavilion and Green are club is on every Wednesday (term-time), situated at the top of the Abbeydale Park at King Ecgbert School between 4.30pm Sports Club site where ample car parking and 6pm. The club focuses on two is available. The Club is now a mixed club different sports every term and competes with the number of lady members rapidly in a tournament during every school increasing. Please bring your own suitable holiday with other clubs from around footwear (no heels) and all other Sheffield. The session is open to boys and equipment will be provided. For further girls in Y5 and Y6 and costs £1 per information contact John Hall (Hon Sec) session. 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29 The Wildlife Garden Abbeydale Miniature Railway in the pages of a Sunday tabloid Timetable newspaper. In years when there is an For any garden bird, there can be no First train 1p.m. – last train 5p.m. abundance of food, males often mate with a number of females from adjoining more physically demanding time than March Sunday 21st winter, but for insect-eating ones it is territories and instead of helping them especially difficult, as their staple food is April Sun 4th & Mon 5th - Easter feed their chicks, leave the females to do no longer available. Nevertheless, winter Sunday 18th the job themselves. Meanwhile, he will isn’t the only time that can be taxing; the May Sun 2nd & Mon 3rd spend a lot of time singing his rapid breeding season will test these birds to - Bank Holiday staccato, wren-like song from a prominent perch, no doubt happy with his lot. their limits. Not only do the adults have to Sunday 16th find enough food for themselves, they also While both the males and females may have to provide for their young when Sun 30th & Mon 31st look identical, only females make the cup- virtually every other garden bird is also - Bank Holiday shaped nests, which are built from moss raising their chicks on a similar diet. and twigs, with a lining of feathers, hair or Now while this might be good news for of the ‘Accentors’, a group of birds which moss. These are usually sited quite low any pest-harried gardener, it often results are frequently high up on the wish-list of down in the dense part of a shrub. She also in the demand for live prey to exceed the visiting North American bird-watchers. incubates the clutch of 4 or 5 blue eggs supply and to cope with this problem one They are often thrilled to see British herself for about 14 days and a couple of insect-eating bird, the dunnock has dunnocks, as our birds behave quite weeks later, the chicks fledge. There may evolved a very intriguing strategy. differently to their European cousins: be a further one or even two clutches in a For most people the dunnock, which up while British ones are quite bold and good season. until quite recently was more commonly trusting, mainland continental dunnocks Unfortunately, dunnocks won’t readily known as the hedge sparrow (due to its spend most of their time in thick use nest boxes or visit bird tables and superficial resemblance to the house shrubbery, making them very difficult to feeders, but in winter they will forage in sparrow), is just a little brown bird of no spot. Quite why ours behave as they do gardens for small seeds like nyger, as well particular interest. Their rather strange remains a mystery. as peanut hearts and de-husked sunflower name also seems to reflect this: ‘dun’ However, specialising in small prey seeds that can get dislodged from feeders. refers to the dull greyish-brown of its isn’t without its own problems. To survive They will also take oatmeal and grated plumage and apparently, ‘ock’ is derived the winter months, dunnocks switch to a cheese if left scattered on the ground. from ‘cock’. Still, if you catch sight of one diet that mostly comprises of small seeds, Who said dunnocks are dull, little brown birds? No way! of these birds in a shaft of sunlight in yet even so, these can also be difficult to Jack Daw spring, there is nothing dull about its come by. When this happens, the more plumage. In fact the soft grey colour of its aggressive males tend to commandeer any head and underparts emphasise, rather patch that has a reliable food supply and Dore Garden Club than detract from, the beauty of its will drive away any females. As a result, chestnut-brown back and wing feathers these birds are forced to survive in more Programme for 2010. Unless stated that are streaked with black. marginal habitats; this means they have otherwise in the programme meetings will All in all, it is a much dapper-looking less food and in severe weather, may be held in the Dore Methodist Church hall bird than the house sparrow, but if anyone starve to death. Consequently, after a hard from 7:30 pm to approximately 9pm needs further characteristics to tell them winter, there are usually more males than Wednesday 17th March Plant apart, the dunnock has orange legs, unlike females, which creates an imbalance propagation A talk and practical the house sparrow which has dark ones. between the sexes. demonstration of general principles and Also, the dunnock’s bill is thin and Perhaps this helps explain why, as the techniques by Ian Turner, Curator of pointed, typical of an insectivore. Indeed, breeding season gets under way in April, it Sheffield Botanical Gardens. the bird’s diet comprises mostly of small is the females, rather than the males, that Thursday 15th April. Wild Flowers insects and spiders, that it finds on the compete with one another to establish around Sheffield An illustrated talk by ground and when searching through their territories, the size of which is related Ken Balkow about wild plants growing in bushes. to the amount of food each patch can natural and man-made habitats in the The dunnock is the only British member provide. If hers’ is poorly supplied with Sheffield area, including garden species prey, she stakes out a large area and that have established themselves in the becomes polygamous. Males fight for the wild.. Ken will also talk about cultivating chance to mate with her and the winner, native plants in his own garden. known as the ‘alpha’ male, will join forces Saturday 8th May Plant sale Dore Old with the female in her territory, along with School from 2pm to 4pm one of the defeated male birds - the ‘beta’. Wednesday 19th May The Wonders of This is because the area is so large, he Wisley An illustrated tour of the gardens needs the help of the beta male to defend at different seasons of the year by John it. The dominant male doesn’t reward his Wilkinson. subordinate for assisting him; in fact he Thursday 17th June The Leylands Open jealously guards the female and tries to Garden: Owler Bar, Derbyshire S17 3BS. prevent his helper from mating with her. A two-acre country garden that has been Unfortunately for him, she is not so loyal developed over the last 30 years. Part of and will happily mate with the ‘lodger’. the garden was a working nursery in the This establishes a bond between the two 1950s and has been re-developed for plant birds, ensuring the beta male will then propagation. This will be a 7pm start and help collect food to feed her chicks, which there will be an entry fee of £5 per person is to the female’s advantage. to cover the cost of light refreshments. In contrast, a female dunnock that has a Two visits are also being arranged. territory well-supplied with insects only 1. York Gate Garden, Leeds on lays claim to a small area and the chances Wednesday 23rd June are she will be monogamous. This is 2. The Royal Horticultural Society because with only a small area to defend, flower show at Tatton Park on Thursday the male doesn’t require any help to 22nd July. protect it, nor the female any need for a These will be all day events and coach beta male to collect food. transport will be provided. Further details However, dunnocks’ love life can get will be provided closer to these events. even more complicated than and as Full details at www.dorevillage.co.uk tangled as any lurid expose you might find Keith Shaw (Tel: 236 3598) 30      Paint a Fresh Garden Faults, Rewires, Sockets, Lights, Cooker Points, Electrical Showers, Phone Points, Security Lights  Fully qualified with friendly advice

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31 Just up Townhead Road on the right- The Dore Club having in fact made an approach hand side is what was, in times past, a somewhat unsuccessfully two years farm building set in its own grounds but - A brief history before. At this point progress was made has, for nearly the last 90 years, been the with the brewery agreeing to sell the premises of a British Legion Club and property to the club resulting in a firm of latterly ‘The Dore Club’, sometimes surveyors and valuers representing the referred to as ‘Dore Gentlemen’s Club’. club meeting with a valuer representing Inside, there is a snooker table, a sitting Bass Charrington. The two respective area and a licenced bar which is open values were somewhat different with one every night from 8pm, plus a Sunday valuing the property as a social club and lunch time session. the other viewing it as potential residential Its origins go back a long way to shortly development land. after the First World War when the barn A price to purchase was eventually was taken over by a group of local men agreed at £8,000. The club had funds to who formed a British Legion Club. This the value of £4,000 over and above that was licensed and affiliated to the main required for the normal running costs. To body of the British Legion, about 1922. meet the shortfall, several options were The club premises then belonged to a local considered and were put to the members at storekeeper, Thomas Marshall, who gave Dore Club on Townhead Road in Dore. the Annual General Meeting on the 22nd the club a tenancy, which continued as a many years after that, assisted in staffing March 1972: local ‘Legion’ club until the Second World the bar on regular occasions. 1. To allow the club to fold up at the end War. The property was sold in 1953 and of the lease on 31st December 1975 After the Second World War, the although the original lease held by the 2. To try and secure sufficient financial number of members of the club, who were members included an option to purchase, backing from members and bank to enable predominantly ex-servicemen, decreased this was not taken up for financial reasons. the members to purchase the property. and in 1948 its existence as a British It was in this ‘Coronation Year’, that 3. To ask the brewery to lend the Legion Club ceased for reasons, which Albert Belk presented a Souvenir shortfall accepting whatever ties concerned the British Legion constitution. Coronation Teaspoon to all the members’ accompanied the loan and providing At this point, a few of the members of children under the age of 15. acceptable Guarantors. the old club decided to form a private one The outcome was that sufficient money so as to continue what was considered to was raised and the club was subsequently be an amenity to the village. They formed purchased from the brewery. A ‘The Dore Club’, which commenced consequence of this is that member’s immediately the British Legion one automatically become shareholders in the ceased to exist. That, in 1950, was the club property and land in due course. origin of the present club. In 1966, David Milne took over as The premises were rented from Mrs Chairman with Albert Belk remaining as Marshall, the widow of the original President until he passed away on 19th landlord, until she died around 1952, at December 1975 having given many years which time her executors sold the property service. David served as Chairman until to the Hope and Anchor Brewery Co Ltd April 1975 when John Booth replaced him who became the new landlords. and carried on in this role for 23 years The original steward was Mr Shirley until April 1998 when he chose to retire Taylor, ably assisted by his son Eric (Joe) partly due to ill health. At the AGM of Taylor, who served until his death in the 1998, Allen Bentley took over as winter of 1952. His son, Joe, carried on as . Chairman with John Booth as President. steward until the summer of 1953. Bill A warm welcome awaits in the club John served in that roll until he passed Marshall who took up the position for the Some time later, the ‘Hope and Anchor away in 2005. In April 2006, Allen next three years followed him and, for Brewery Co Ltd’ were taken over by the Bentley resigned to take up the position of ‘Bass Charrington Group’, and they President with Sean Collins being elected subsequently issued a new lease to Dore Chairman and more recently Nick Hensby. Club to expire in 1975. Dore Club is a unique gentlemen’s club It was in 1956 that Chris Fearnehough within the heart of the community in easy was asked by Albert Belk to take on the walking distance for most residents of the duties of stewardship. He subsequently Dore locality. There are many events served in that role for 43 years, eventually throughout the year, in particular the standing down when Michael Naylor took annual snooker handicap competition over from 2000 until 2008. allowing all members an equal chance, During 1972, Bass Charrington notified something essential given that long the members of Dore Club committee that standing member, David Langton, is a they would not be willing to renew the former professional player. lease for the premises and it was presumed There are regular evening barbecue at the time that the premises were surplus events including Dore Gala Day and to requirement and would be sold to the Bonfire Night where members’ families highest bidder. and friends are all welcome. There is also Albert Belk, President at the time, a Ladies’ Evening Dinner Dance to be stated: “As I am advised, the position now held this year at the Kenwood Hotel. is that the brewery may well sell to If you would like to visit Dore Club to someone who will obtain Planning have a drink (18 year olds and over only), Permission for development and who may sample the atmosphere and meet other well serve ‘Notice to Quit’ on the club for members, please drop in on any evening reasons of demolition and reconstruction. between 8pm and 11pm where you will be We shall have no right to object and the made most welcome or you can contact position would be that Dore Club would with Allen bentley (President) at cease to exist.” [email protected] or with Nick Faced with the unsavoury thought of Hensby our current Chairman at losing the club, the then committee [email protected] entered into negotiations with the brewery, Geoff Birtles 32 Would you like someone to Type letters? Pay bills? 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33 We are children from Dore Primary Echoing along the ground a solitary can School’s ‘Shooting Stars’ writing group. clatters, the only sound to meet my ears, We have been set a task to write an article A chilling wind sweeps effortlessly, for Dore to Door about what is happening This article was written by a small whistling and wailing like a crying at our school. group of children at Dore Primary School child. Mrs Hopkinson, our new head teacher, that meet weekly with Linda Addis (G & T has introduced many new values e.g. Co-ordinator) to extend and further Is this all that’s left of the world I stand kindness, respect, responsibility, develop their writing skills. upon? cooperation, wisdom, determination, that we really like about school since Mrs Of the animals that roamed freely? thoughtfulness and understanding. Every Hopkinson has become our head teacher: Of all mankind that call this planet so often she adds a new value. By * The Endeavour Award - an award that home? following these values we become better is given to a child who has behaved and Of the inventions so cleverly crafted? learners and citizens. worked hard all week. Every class has one Is this all that’s left? Recently we have had an Ofsted of these. inspection and the inspectors said that we * Children plan and lead assemblies. I feel as if my heart has been torn from are a ‘good’ school and that a big strength * The Citizenship Award - given once at my chest, of Dore Primary includes pupils’ the end of each term. This is an award for Sadness eats up what’s inside me, “outstanding spiritual, moral, social and being a good citizen in school. Recipients Like pollution did to our planet earth, cultural development and their excellent can keep this award forever. They warned us severely, understanding of how to live healthy lives, We are really looking forward to the rest But we ignored and carried on our both physically and emotionally.” of this year and building good memories faults, As well as the Ofsted inspection we that will stay with us for a long time. And our dear world crumbled like a have been presented with a ‘Healthy Article collaboratively written by biscuit, Schools’ award. We have earned this Daniel & Amelia Y6, Katie & Freya Y5 Unable to cope with our innumerable award by eating healthily at lunch and and Lindy & Leila Y3. mistakes, break times and by knowing how to keep Ed. It seems not just writing, but PR It disintegrated to what it is now. ourselves healthy. skills are in evidence. It could be that we There are lots of opportunities to get are seeing a future editor for Dore to Door So I hope I have warned you of the stuck into some really great clubs like amongst this group. We look forward to horrific happenings to come, table tennis, yoga, dance, art and wildlife regular contributions in future issues. As for you they are preventable, club. In table tennis our girls’ team have But now for us, all I can say just become Yorkshire champions. Also Ignorance killed our planet earth. older children can now set up new exciting activities for the younger children. This is Dore Writing Competition great fun for both leaders and participants. Open Days at local Clubs are the perfect place to help and Last spring we announced that the Dore encourage pupils to make new friends. Village Society was sponsoring a writing Independent Schools We have got a school council called competition for young people in 2009. Dore Democrats. Their job is to give The competition subject was “How I see Mylnhurst Preparatory School pupils a voice in the school. The members the world in 2050” and Nursery of the council are voted for by their The winner of the younger age range up Co-educational 3-11 classmates. There are two representatives to 12 years was Eve Dore aged 11. This is www.mylnhurst.co.uk for each class. Through the work of the her winning entry: 0114 236 1411 school council we now have two climbing l0am-12 noon Saturday 6 March 2010 walls, safer fencing around school, Greed, Sheffield High School healthy snacks at breaks and new play Dear reader, Girls 4-18 equipment for our ‘Young Play Leaders’. Expect what you read to come and bite www.sheffieldhighschool.org.uk Some members of Dore Democrats back, Infant and Junior School went to Westminster in September. Unless you curb your greedy appetite, 0114 266 1435 Everyone who went came back and said From planet killers that are used so 9.30am-12 noon Friday 5 March 2010 they really enjoyed it. They met Nick abundantly. Mount St Mary’s College Clegg and went to the Houses of & Barlborough Hall School Parliament. A muddy sheet of yellowy brown sky Day and Boarding School These are some of the selected things covers what`s above my head, Barlborough Hall School Co-educational 3-11 www.barIboroughhallschool.co.uk 01246 810511 l0am-12 noon Saturday 13 March 2010 Mount St Mary’s College Co-educational 11-18 www.msmcollege.co.uk 01246 432 872 7pm-9pm Tuesday 18 May 2010 Rudston Preparatory School Co-educational 2-11 www.rudstonschool.com 01709 837774 10am-12 noon Saturday 20 March 2010 Ashdell Preparatory School Co-educational 2-4, Girls 4-11 www.ashdell-prep.sheffield.sch.uk 0114 266 3835 10am-12 noon Saturday 13 March 2010 Westbourne School Co-educational 4-16 www.westbourneschool.co.uk 0114 266 0374 10am-12 noon Thursday 4 March 2010

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35 Book Reviews bigger disasters attracting widespread dealt with them - all these aspects of media attention, and causing immense criminal history are covered as are the Some Derbyshire dishes are well known suffering to bereaved families and many types of crime they were guilty of - like the Bakewell Pudding, many more, communities. In 1912 at the time of the murder, robbery, fraud, sexual offences, including some of the most delectable, are Cadeby disaster there were about 2,600 poaching, protest and public disorder. little known outside the places whose collieries operated by almost 1500 True life case studies dating from the name they bear. A new book, Traditional independent concerns and a work-force of Georgian period up until the present day Derbyshire Fare by Jill Armitage now around 1,100,000. But the industry began are reconstructed, using information brings together 300 recipes plus the stories to change rapidly, and by the time of the gleaned from the many sources available and anecdotes behind them. The recipes Bently disaster in 1978, when the books to researchers - libraries, archives, books are individual, easy, economical, with coverage ends, there were only 240 and the internet among them. Essential readily available ingredients, and have a working pits. Brian Elliott’s book, he is reading for anyone who seeks to trace an strong regional accent. Try Aunty Hilda’s the son of a miner helps us to appreciate ancestor who had a criminal record. Brandy Fed Christmas Cake, Ashbourne the great debt that we owe to our recent Published in paperback by Pen & Sword Gingerbread, or Raspberry Vodka. This is coal-mining ancestors. Published in Ltd, 176 pages, price £12.99 ISBN: Derbyshire food at its best. Published by paperback by Wharncliffe Books , 176 18488405-8 Sigma Press, 144 pages, price £12.99 pages price £12.99 ISBN: 1-845630-57-2 *** ISBN 978-1-85058-872-6 *** In the 1920s and 1930s the corner shop *** Society seems fascinated by crime, was not just a place to buy groceries. It All-Terrain Pushchair Walks: The especially if the case remains unsolved, was a place to meet familiar faces and help Peak District by Alison Southern offers stirring the sleuth within us all. Unsolved people out. People bought groceries on a what it says on the cover, 20 or so walks, Murders In & Around Derbyshire by daily basis and going to the corner shop from level routes around Peak District Scott C Lomax brings to our attention provided many people with a daily villages to more adventurous hikes across thirteen twentieth-century murders whose routine. Yet finding the finances for the moors. 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For prompt reliable friendly FLOORING for sale. Fixing service sleeps 2 - £400 p wk, Studio sleeps 2 £175 service ring Richard on 0114 - 287 6806 available. Tel: 235 1934 p wk. No pets please. 00351 309 403 753 38 Seeing Stars in Dore Last year (2009) two very important roads. Or is that expecting too much? One astronomical instruments were rocketed of the side roads in Dore (especially at the We shall never forget the Arctic into space, the Planck and the Herschel lower end of Heather Lea Avenue) is conditions we and the whole country telescopes. They were positioned at the particularly bad. The ice has cracked the experienced last winter. It began a day so-called second Lagrangian point where surfacing and seems to have revealed a before the winter solstice when the Sun they can sit in the shadow of the Earth, long-standing problem of subsidence there was at its lowest in the sky for us living in completely shielded from the Sun. A very too, not simply new pot-holes. the northern hemisphere. It is odd to cold place, indeed. That is exactly what With so much traffic throughout the realise that the Sun was actually at its the astronomers wanted, but this was not year, some carrying very heavy building nearest to the Earth at that time (0.983769 cold enough. The telescopes are cooled materials, it is not surprising to see such a.u.) compared with in the summer further to -270 degrees, the reason being poor roads. I should hate to think that (1.016256 a.u.). The Sun was, in fact, five that they are to be used to measure elderly folk might be happily watching million kilometres nearer. To help in temperatures in space slightly colder than Venus and the crescent Moon and falling visualising this, think of an Olympic that. The mission of these two instruments straight on their noses and breaking their 100metre race-track that is only 98 metres is to study the early history of the glasses, seeing stars indeed. long in the winter but 102 metres in the Universe, a few hundred thousand years I came across a fascinating website summer. Athletes would probably all then after the Big Bang. which Readers might enjoy. Four years choose the winter. Who was not thinking Full Moon occurs on the night 30 March ago Gavin Pretor-Pinney published an of global climatic changes in the past few 2010. The Moon is fairly low in the article about his idea for a “Cloud months? southern sky around midnight in Virgo. In Appreciation Society” in Country Life However, the global differences in April, the Moon is extremely low in the magazine (August 2006). Since its climate are caused by much more sky in Libra, and at only 15 degrees original conception in 2004 in Cornwall complicated things than the proximity of altitude at its highest point in the south the Society has grown to over 20,000 the Sun. Global warming, as well as mini when it becomes Full again on 28 April. members scattered across the world. ice ages, have been occurring on Earth The next Full Moon is on 28 May in Take a look at the website during its entire lifetime. Even so, living Scorpio, even lower in the southern sky www.cloudappreciationsociety.org. Gavin creatures have often found ingenious ways (10 degrees). is author of “The Cloudspotters Guide” to survive. One does not have to look too Mars was at its closest and brightest at and has published cloud-inspired art and deeply to see where humankind fits into the end of January 2009 and is now fading poetry and photography from around the this scheme. fast. The strange retrograde motion in the world. He writes, “I am sure that if you are In the short term humankind is in no constellation Cancer that we described in considering the shapes you see in cumulus danger en masse, and by short term we the last issue of Dore to Door is over now. clouds, you will save money on psycho- mean, say, a few thousand years. For Mars is back on course moving eastwards analysis bills”. The sheer beauty of the individuals though there are big problems. and heading for the bright star, Regulus in Society’s pictures is stunning. Wipe out a few of our sources of food and Leo, arriving there in July. David Andrews energy, increase the population beyond Venus might be caught on 18 March in what we can support, experience an evening twilight just beneath the thin Ed. The Cloud Appreciation Society is increase in natural disasters, earthquakes, crescent of the Moon. You may have seen worth a look. They have a photo gallery, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, tsunamis, this in mid-January but it is always so cloud shop (calendars, cards and a guide famines, epidemics, and have a few beautiful to view. Watch the western sky to clouds), members art & poetry etc nuclear wars, and humankind as a whole again around 16 April and 16 May when it would still survive, but not the individual. will be even more spectacular. There is a Out of the Storm That’s where global cooperation comes saying about the thin, tilted crescent, “The in and personal greed goes out. With a hint Moon is full of water tonight”, a Storm clouds blanket the sky of scepticism, these two things, lack of neighbour reminded me the other night. Dark and grey, they come rolling by global cooperation and greed, seem to be Look out for Venus just to the left of the Rain thrashes down, stinging my face our greatest enemies, not that slight global Pleiades at sunset on 26 April. This is, It hits me head on as I pick up the pace. warming which cannot be stopped however, not as favourable as it might be altogether. I would suggest, as I have since there is a bright Moon low in the Unforgiving, I’m soaked to the bone before, that money utilised on famine southeast. It is fair to say that Venus is the “Come on legs, carry me home” relief, slum clearance and medical aid planet to watch out for throughout the A glimmer of hope, Sunrays shine bright would be better spent. Then, there are spring months. I walk out of the storm and skip into the matters like sea defences, irrigation, clean Spring may be the time when Sheffield light. air, energy generation etc. Not least, we Council might be thinking of repairing the © Chris Mackie 2010 must stop global expenditure on wars and military strength as soon as possible. As Spring unfolds and summer lies ahead again, we are hopefully not forgetting all the lessons learnt from the past. But there will be little time for thought as our politicians rev up for the General Election with all their irrelevant waffling and promises. It is sad that whoever wins the election both our lack of national cooperation and the greed of which we speak will continue. At least, we can be certain that the climatologists will continue to fool us that they can predict the weather fifty years from now but still get it wrong in the short term (the 5-day forecast). To be fair, although scientists cannot be certain about the weather for a single spot on Earth, they might get a 50-year trend roughly right globally (if nothing exceptional happens). However, trends can quite suddenly reverse due to factors that were not adequately taken into account. 39 Diary - Spring 2010 21 Archeological Trail for the Young at Heart with Sheffield Rangers in Ecclesall Woods 1pm-3pm Book FEBRUARY via 283 9195 20 Public Roadshow, South West Comm Assembly 10am- 24 Concert St. Oswald’s Church - Dore Male Voice Choir 12.30pm, St William of York Parish Centre, Ecclesall Rd 25 Village Dragon Hunt to celebrate St George’s Day for 23 Visit to The Salvation Army by Dore Methodist all the family. Starts 2pm at the Old School Tuesday Group 7pm Psalter Lane 26 The Gas Man returns Talk by Dr A Gaunt for Dore 24 Public Meeting, South West Community Assembly Methodist Women's Fellowship 2.30pm Open Meeting 7.30pm Hallam Primary School. Tel 01709 515151 27 Memories of a Queen Alexander Nurse Talk by Charity Concert Dore Male Voice Choir & Ensemble Margaret Thomas - Dore Methodist Tue Group 7.45pm 360 7pm Ranmoor Church Abbeydale Rotary Club 28 Public Meeting, South West Community Assembly 7.30pm Venue to be agreed. Tel 01709 515151 MARCH 1 Life begins at forty Talk by Mrs Margaret Maxfield MAY for Dore Methodist Women's Fellowship 2.30pm 4 Along Life's Way, talk by Jean Henshaw for Dore 1 Rockingham Porcelain 1826-42 Hallamshire Historic Ladies Group 7.45pm Dore Church Hall Visitors £3 Building Soc Talk by Leo & Malcolm Leader 7.30pm 10 Visit to WORK by Dore Methodist Women's Quaker Meeting House, St James St Tel: 255 0172 Fellowship 2.30pm Open Meeting 2 Sheffield Children’s Hospital Special Unit, talk by 11 Visit to The Bakewell Pudding Shop by Dore Jocelyn Walton for Dore Ladies Group 7.45pm Dore Methodist Tuesday Group 6pm Church Hall Visitors welcome £3 15 Bright and Early Dawn Chorus, Blacka Moor Nature 5 Women's World Day of Prayer Christ Church Dore Reserve with Sheffield Wildlife Trust 5am - 7am Meet at 6 Archaeology Walk for Friends of Ecclesall Woods. Stoney Ridge Car Park, book via Hannah on 263 4335 Meet 10am Ryecroft Glen Road Tel: 236 9025 22 Spring Fayre W.O.R.K.LTD Ringinglow Rd 10am - 6 Sheffield Bach Society St. Matthew Passion (J S Bach) 3pm. All welcome. Tel 0114 262 0094. with South Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra Sheffield 22 Run for all life 5km or 10km runs in Ecclesall Woods. Cathedral, 7.30pm Tickets 266 8257 See article. Details from 235 6907 9 Pressed & preserved flowers Talk by Joan Newton for 24 Talk by Rev Bob Heathcote for Dore Methodist Dore Methodist Tuesday Group 7.45pm Women's Fellowship 2.30pm Open Meeting 14 Working Day at Whinfell Quarry Garden from 9.30- 25 To Russia with love Talk by Chris Bailey for Dore 12.30pm with Friends & Sheff Rangers Tel: 283 9195 Methodist Tuesday Group 7.45pm 13 Step Out with Sheffield Rangers. Dore to Blacka Moor 10.30 - 2.30pm meet Dore Post Office. 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