to DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY NO. 66 SUMMER 2002 ISSN 0965-8912
What's in a road name?
After a number of years without publishing any new titles, the DVS is soon to launch a significant new publication. The A to W of DORE describes the background to the naming of every road and street in Dore. The book also records the history of many of the roads' historic features and buildings. Whilst not intended as a history of the village, it contains much information that has not been widely published before and should therefore appeal to new and old residents alike. The project to produce the book was begun by Roger Millican over two years ago but it was only when co-author, John Dunstan, returned to take up residence in Furniss Avenue in the 1950s. Named after the village, that it gathered momentum. Wirksworth Heritage Visit John, a former committee member, Richard Furness who used both spellings of his surname. produced earlier DVS titles and has Doing anything on Tuesday, June llth? extensive knowledge of Dore's history. Following last year's very successful visit David Heslop, the former Lord Mayor of to Cromford and Belper, the DVS has Sheffield and current DVS committee DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY arranged a similar visit, but this time to member has revealed another of his many Annual General Meeting Wirksworth. The origins of this historical talents by producing 50 new sketches for but little visited town can be traced right the book as well as preparing its four 7.30pm Wednesday 29 May back to Roman times, but it is best known maps. Many of the illustrations show some as the former centre of the Peak District new angles on well-known features in the Methodist Church Hall lead mining activities and still hosts the village - some of which, through ancient twice-a-year Barmote Court. familiarity, we tend to ignore. Followed by a talk on the In the late 1970s, the town was chosen by The book, priced at a modest £4.95, is the Civic Trust to be the location for a being launched at the DVS AGM and subject of Dore road names model project - the Wirksworth Project - Open Meeting on Wednesday, May 29th to revitalise the town following the decline when the authors will be giving an of quarrying activities. Derelict buildings illustrated talk on the subject of Dote's have been restored, the Dale and Greenhill road names. If you cannot get to this Oral History Project areas of the town have been given a new meeting, the book will subsequently be and attractive life and the Wirksworth available from Green's or via any The Dore Oral History Group has met Heritage Centre was established in Crown committee member. regularly since October 2001 and thanks to Yard. Altogether the town has been the cooperation of many life long residents brought back to life. It's a remarkable Banking in Dore has already built up a fascinating story. collection of recorded memories. They tell During our half-day visit to Wirksworth, Our local branch of the HSBC Bank is of a rural village, a close-knit community, on Tuesday, June 11th, we will be given an being refurbished to give improved free and happy childhood, strict but fair illustrated talk about the Wirksworth facilities. This means it will be closed for schooling, village football and pubs. No Project, taken on a guided Town Trail tour up to a month from 27th May. A temporary supermarkets, no internet and above all no (which will include a visit to the 13th branch will be available in the Dore Parish traffic. century Parish Church to see the unique Church Hall car park during the work. The We would like to say a huge thank you to Wirksworth Stone), given the opportunity refurbished branch will include an all those who have contributed to the to see the Heritage Exhibition and then improved counter area, a 24 hour lobby collection and who have allowed us to provided with a buffet meal before service, space for more staff and private share in their precious photographs, returning to Dore. It promises to be a full interview rooms. scrapbooks and treasured memorabilia. and interesting trip. Their interest and enthusiasm has been The all-inclusive cost for the visit will be Council Elections infectious. The project will continue until £13.00 for DVS members and £15.00 for the autumn and will widen its scope to non-members. Copies of the Town Trail Our May local election results were: include newcomers and young people. Our booklet, well worth having, can be D Biram Green 166 aim is to provide a wide oral picture of life obtained at the Heritage Centre, priced at D Henderson Labour 701 in Dore throughout the 20th Century. If £1.50 each. Application forms for tickets, G King Conservative 2,506 you would like to join the group or are which will be treated in strict rotation, are CRoss Lib Dem 3,208 willing to be recorded, contact Maureen available from Green's on Causeway Head Turnout 40.3% Cope: 235 0392. Road. musicians e.g. guitarists and fiddlers. If you Annual General Meeting are interested in lending a hand please contact Dore Millennium Play on 2353801. This years Annual General Meeting of the Of course this ambitious project would not Dore Village Society will take place at have been possible without fmancial 7.30pm on Wednesday 29th May in the support. A grant was provided by the Local Methodist Church Hall on the High Street. Heritage Initiative, a partnership between After the traditionally very short formal the Heritage Lottery Fund, Nationwide business, ex secretary of the Dore Village Building Society and the Countryside Society, John Dunstan, will talk about the Agency. history behind the road names of Dore as Brian Edwards featured in the Society's forthcoming new book, to be launched at the meeting. Worsening roads Details of people offering themselves for Dore Millennium Play election have been posted on the Society's Notice Board in advance of the meeting. If Britain's roads are "bad and getting you are interested in joining the committee The winter issue of Dore to Door worse", a survey published this month by please contact the Secretary on 2366710. explained that the aim behind this July the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) event was to bring the history of Dore alive. concluded. The organisers stress that this will be a Local authorities told the institution that Membership Subscriptions community event with local stories acted by they were unable to tackle a backlog of local people. A good deal of preparatory maintenance and said the problem was As a registered charity the Dore Village work has been carried out already and one growing rapidly. Councils estimate £7.4bn Society relies heavily on subscriptions to of the most important moves has been to would he needed to clear the unfmished carry out its objectives on behalf of retain the services of Sheffield-based work - £120 for each resident. members and Dore residents generally. professional playwright Caroline Small. Local authorities are responsible for all Also the more members we have, the more Following a number of meetings with roads except trunk routes and motorways. clout we carry with the council and other local people and various professionals, The roads for which councils are public bodies. Caroline suggested that the play would be responsible make up 96 per cent of the If you have not already paid your in three parts performed on three separate national network and carry about two-thirds subscription for this year, please do so at days so that although they would be linked of the journeys made. Green's shop on Causeway Head Road, or each part would stand alone as a coherent The survey also found that the number of at the DVS room in the Old School between piece. She described the play as a piece of highway liability claims from drivers and lOam & 12 noon on the first Saturday each storytelling drama, as historically accurate pedestrians had rocketed. month. Next Open Morning 1st June as possible, based on real characters and events, and performed in different locations within the village. Dore Gardens The 'umbrella' title is Dore Tales and the DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY sub-titles are Part One 'Ecgbert and After', It's not too late . If you really enjoy your garden, it is likely Registered Charity No. 1017051 Part Two 'Masters and Men', Part Three 'Pillars of the Community'. that others will too. Please consider The Society aims to foster the protection Caroline has produced a 'framing device' opening your garden for the local and enhancement of the local to link the three sections together and writes community on Sunday 7th July during the environment and amenities within Dore, "In the old days of the Dore Feast, Feast Dore Festival. This event has become very popular but needs refreshing regularly with to encourage a spirit of community and Week began on the Sunday closest to 6th new gardens of any size or style. to record its historic development. July (the date of our first performance). There are records of a traveling fair If you are interested, or just want some Chairman (Dore to Door) coming to the village during Feast Week information then please contact Julie Mr J R Baker 236 9025 and setting up on a croft (which is now a Bearpark 'fi" 236 9100 8 Thornsett Gardens, S 17 3PP. garage) on Townhead Road. Our play begins when two traveling performers Editorial & Advertising Vice Chairman (Environment) attached to the fair arrive with their wagon Mr R Millican 262 0012 on the Town Green". They are, among 16 Devonshire Drive, S17 3PJ. Dore to Door is published quarterly by the other things, ballad singers and storytellers Dore Village Society and delivered free to and they have with them a rag bag (inspired over 3,200 households in the area. Treasurer by one of Richard Fumiss' poems of that If you are interested in submitting an Mrs M Watson 236 5666 name), which contains a bizarre collection article or letter, have local news to report, 11 Cavendish Avenue, S 17 3JN. of objects conjuring up characters and or wish to place an advertisement, please stories from the past. contact the Editor John Baker on 236 9025 Secretary Of course King Ecgbert will appear and Mrs A Slater 2366710 or write to: his emblem the Wyvern, a winged and The Editor, 6 Old Hay Close, SI7 3GQ two-legged monster has been adopted as the Dore to Door, Committee logo for Dore Tales. 8 Thornsett Gardens, Dore, Come and see for yourselves these Mrs L E Baker 2369025 Sheffield, S17 3PP. fascinating stories as they unfold over the (Dore Show & FEW) three days of Saturday 6th July, Wednesday [ Email [email protected]] Mr D Crosby 262 1127 10th and Friday 12th. Opinions expressed in articles and Mr G R Elsdon 2360002 More details will be publicised locally services offered by advertisers are not (Subscriptions & Notice Board) through posters and in the Dore Gala necessarily endorsed by the publishers. Mr D Heslop 236 5043 programme. In the meantime help is No part of Dore to Door may be required at each play with stewarding, (Planning) reproduced in full or part, without the moving chairs etc. Whilst most parts are Mrs V Malthouse 2363632 written permission of the Editor. Mr P Pryor 2369831 filled there is a need for a few more male actors, and we would welcome strolling Copyright Dore Village Society 2002
2 Props galore Dore Boundary Walk Flower tubs Saturday 22nd June Jack Massey, who is helping to stage the See posters in the village for details It seems to be the general opinion that the plays has one or two outstanding items or phone 236 5043 beautifully planted tubs which have which he needs. brightened the village for the last 2/3 years We want a lot of old-fashioned household should appear again this summer. items. Things like stone jars, besoms, cross We thank George Elsdon, who initiated cut saws. Baskets - shopping and clothes the scheme, and who has organised it size. A football rattle, and not painted blue Dore Show 2002 subsequently, using the skill and expertise and white or red and white! Old-fashioned of the Sheffield Council Recreation pots and pans. This years Dore Show will take place on Department. John Giles and Angela As for the bigger items, I wouldn't mind a Saturday 14 September in the Old School Kingdon have taken over from George and farm cart to park on King's Croft. And is and Methodist Church Hall - be sure to note are hoping to raise funds to cover the cost there anyone with connections in the the date in your diary. Brass band, of the tubs for this summer. haulage business? I want a sheet of canvas entertainment and side displays of interest If you would like to make a donation - doesn't matter how dirty - the sort they to everyone as usual. either by cheque (payable to Dore Village have on the sides of articulated trailers. There will be over 70 classes for you to Society) or cash, the Dore Village Society Then of course I'll need some help kiting enter for or come and see, ranging from would be grateful. out the armies. Last time I heard we were vegetables to paintings, flower arranging to Donations may be sent to John Giles, 10 up to sixty and we're not turning anyone childrens exhibits. The full schedule will be Rushley Avenue; Angela Kingdon, 19 The away. They'll all need a shield and some available from Greens on Causeway Head Meadway; or The Treasurer, Mary Watson sort of weapon. I need some handy lads Road shortly. at 11 Cavendish Ave, S17 3JN. Thank you. who can saw, hammer and paint. Then we For those keen photographers wishing to need eighty herrings, and we're not using plan ahead, the 3 photography classes will real ones - you'd still be smelling them this be: Colour - My Holiday - standard or Arctic heist time next year. panoramic size only & unmounted please; We thought we'd have a sewing circle, Colour - The Natural World - min 7" x 5; Mother and father polar bears were stolen and the cork doesn't come out of the bottle and Black & White - Open - min 7" x 5. from the Valerie of Dore van outside the until we've finished. Or nearly finished ... The Show has become an established part shop at the end of March. The orphan baby or we might just have a wet to get us of village life, largely thanks to the bear is still in the shop. Sadly one adult was started. There's quite a lot of work, but we exhibitors and those who plan and run the found smashed in a Dore garden in April. hope it will be quite convivial and we'll event on the day. As always many hands The police were informed and a reward (an have fun doing it. If you want to get make light work! If you can offer a little Arctic Roll) has been offered for any involved, I'm on 255 1367 or E-mail help on the day please contact the Show information leading to recovery of the [email protected] Secretary on 236 9025. missing bear. Jack Massey • • . ., Conservatory Roof and Window Blind Specialists Hopscotch Keep cool this summer with our stunning range of Children'sCentre - quality Conservatory roof and window blinds - Adj. 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Dear Sir, those who funded the project. It has been a I moved to Dore in August 1991, fresh Please could you print another reminder, real pleasure to see the results of your from Chairing a Worcestershire Parish which I'm sure will again fall on deaf ears, endeavours this Spring. The daffodils have Council and having had special to all parents dropping children off at looked magnificent and must have responsibilities for street lighting, and I was school to park safely and not to use the brightened many peoples' day. very upset to notice the street light outside yellow zig-zags as some sort of 'runway' Julie & David Bearpark our new house was on all day. I therefore markings - so many seem to think they're a Dear Sir, telephoned the Council to report the means of directing them into their own Past problems should not be apportioned to offending light like a good citizen. I was personal parking spot! The increase in the staff who currently work at Aldine told, in September 1991, that it would be penalties is welcome, but of course useless House. Since June 2000, approximately dealt with in due course. It is now February if not policed - where are traffic wardens 90% of staff have been changed and have 2002 and the light has still not been when vou need them? Thank you. been very helpful in ensuring that major repaired. Should I assume due course is still - Name & address supplied qualitative change has occurred within the underway or should Iphone again and have Dear Sir, Centre in the past 18 months. This has been another go? Elders' Congress recognised by the Department of Health, Agnes Grunwald-Spier Aiming to deliver real improvements to the Youth Justice Board and Sheffield City Ed. You may be interested to know that we services for older people through the active Council .... have had a similar experience. I believe the involvement of older people; this Congress I would welcome personal visits in order reason is that the Council pays an agreed consists of Elders' Council Members and that you can see for yourself, the services amount for electricity regardless of the Members. we offer and the changes we attempt to current actually used, hence no incentive Elders' Council Members are volunteers make with difficult and damaged young for efficiency. who are voted into office by the members in people. We are not a hippy commune and their area. The elections take place in June do not subscribe to the view that children Dear Sir, and only members will be able to elect have rights without reservation. Young Dogged by shame. representatives to the Congress Council. people must be able to exercise personal I stepped out of a shop in Dore recently, Members have no need to relinquish their responsibility as well ... and this we and very nearly into a messy situation. Who valuable 'spare' time by attending meetings encourage. was responsible? Why hadn't it been or by doing any work. Members are kept Francis N'Jie cleared? How could I have missed it as I informed and can raise issues or obtam Ed. This was received in response to a approached to enter? Indeed had I missed advice. Members can inform their Congress news item on our web site that Aldine it?! ! Council Member where services work, House, our local secure children's home, Irresponsible dog owners in our area are a where they fail, and suggest possible was awarded a three year licence following minority, the law and public opinion are improvements. a major inspection by the Social Services against them, the perils of ocular What do you want for your later years? Inspectorate last summer. Previously this toxocariasis are widely known, hygiene is Become a member and have a voice by has only been granted yearly. important to most of us and we regard dog- telephoning the number below for a dirt in a public place as indefensibly membership form. 50+ The Sheffield Dear Sir, barbaric. Elders' Congress, The Town Hall, Room May I offer this advice to the good The shop in question is busy and very 133 Sheffield SI2HH. Tel 273 5426 burghers of our village for the reduction of important to the life of Dore. It is used by I h~ve volunteered for election to the theft from cars? The majority of houses in the very old and the very young, and Elders' Congress Council to represent the village have one or more garages - you residents of all kinds from the ailing to the South West Sheffield. know, those large places full of junk and fit and sprightly. Maureen Fox, Dore half-empty paint tins. I turned back into the shop, spoke to the Having determined that the value of the two assistants and was told cheerfully: "It ...... •...... peter hamnett contents of the garage is, in fact, happened yesterday. A lady, well-known in considerably less than the value of items the village and her young dog were which may be stolen from your car, clear responsible. No we didn't think it was part PIHIFIS enough space in the garage and use it to - of our duties to clear it up. Though we here comes the novel bit - park your car!!! know we will probably have to do so INDEPENDENT FINANCIAL ADVISERS Paula Smith eventually, both outside and inside"! Dear Sir, There it ended. But it shouldn't have done. • PENSIONS .lIFE ASSURANCE I have a bee in my bonnet - muzak or radio I left and went on my way and write this in an attempt to expiate my guilt. I gave in too • INVESTMENTS -SAVINGS in shops. Last week I was blasted in the chemists whilst waiting for a prescription easily. Why didn't I make the effort to • MORGAGES • SCHOOL FEES by a radio and when I raised it with the locate the nearest hosepipe and swill the ;1~ Regulated by the Personal ·······young woman behind the counter she was shop frontage myself? Investment Authority FSA~ :' not pleased. I then went up to the Co-op Isn't it unreasonable of us to expect to Mortgages are not f.~-J..~. where music was blasting all round the enjoy the benefits of civilisation without regulated by the F.S.A. shop. Far from relaxing me it really winds making some efforts to maintain it TELEPHONE me! Am I alone as a miserable grouch or ourselves? A Pedestrian have others raised this matter? Certainly (name and address supplied) 0114 235 3500 given the average age of the customers in www.phfs-ifa.co.uk the Chemists I would have thought others WRITTEN DETAILS ON REQUEST. would be discomforted. Heritage Museum YOUR HOME IS AT RISK IF YOU DO NOT KEEP UP REPAYMENTS ON A MORTGAGE OR OTHER LOAN SECURED ON IT Name & address supplied Ed. Sometimes there seems to be a The Traditional Heritage Museum at 605 160 Baslow Road, Totley, Sheffield Ecclesall Road (300 yards below Hunters 63 Middlewood Road, Hillsborough constant bombardment of sound, from traffic to the trilling of mobile phones, from Bar) will be open to the public between 14 High Street, Staveley, Chesterfield 10.30am and 4.30pm on 25th May; 3rd & 61 Market Street, Eckington, Chesterfield ever louder fireworks to police helicopters at night. What do other readers think? 29th June and 27th July. 4 Residents 'fury
Local residents, organisations and councillors have been up in arms, since Railtrack took its power saws to trees along the railway cutting leading to Totley Tunnel. Mature trees and dense shrubbery on the embankment was felled without any apparent regard to the different species growing or the impact on wildlife and the environment in general. No attempt was made to communicate with people or local organisations in advance, so that the resultant devastation came as a shock to everyone. Residents tried to stop the work in progress to no avail, as the company justified its actions on the grounds of problems caused by leaves on the line. Such was local fury that a public meeting was called by local councillors, attended by some 180 people and a Totley Railway Action Group set up. Now to compound the offence, Railtrack plans to erect a six feet high steel fence Devastation on Totley Brook Road after along parts of Totley Brook Road and contractors working for Railtrack fell all Jubilee Concert Grove Road, on safety grounds! the mature trees on the embankment. The action group is now fighting this Dore Methodist Ladies Group are proposal and pressuring Railtrack to clean- presenting a Jubilee Concert, performed up railway sleepers and cable drums on the nature and scale of their intentions and by The Salvation Army in aid of 'The embankment. They also want the piles of chose to let cost considerations over rule Macmillan Horizon Appeal" on chippings removed to allow the regrowth their obligations to the environment and Wednesday 22nd May at 7.30pm in the of plants and for some re-planting of the community. The aim now is to get Parish Church Dore. mixed species. some form of restoration to redress the Tickets at £3.50 available from 'Green's' Totley Railway Action Group has been damage and to prevent this happening shop on Causeway Head Road. circulating information to residents. They elsewhere in future. You can contact them feel that Railtrack misrepresented the through Terry Gomersall on 236 4816.
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5 Jubilee Gala 2000 Contact: Rachel Kelly Tel: 236 7251 Plants for the Plant Stall - Contact: Joanne Dore Male Voice Choir Price Tel: 236 2488 Gala day fast approaches once again. This Programme Advertising - Contact: Ken year's Gala will ~e, held on July: 13th. The The Dore Male Voice Choir's Summer Hartley Tel: 236 1654 Season has started. At present they are organising for this began back m October Bottles & Tinned Groceries for the Bottle with the committee meeting once a month rehearsing for the tour to Cyprus. This visit Stall -Collection this year will be week is by invitation after a very successful tour to discuss and plan the event. From May the commencing 1st July to be made by the preparations become more frenzied with two years ago. The Choir will be Scouts, Cubs, Guides and Brownies. Ifwe performing three concerts in a week in the Scouts, Cubs, Beavers, Guides, Brownies fail to visit your home please could you and Rainbows making side shows, stalls, Paphos area. Two of the concerts, for donate in the evenings of that week at the Cyprus Charities, and sponsored by the bottle collecting and selling raffle tickets Scout Headquarters. (Please, no out of date along with their leaders and 130 volunteers Hellenic Bank, are to be in the Odeon, an or damaged products, thank-you). open air Roman amphitheatre in the centre from the community. Your support is always very much Last year was a great success with some of the Paphos archeological conservation appreciated. If you require a collection for site. 4,000 people attending. What a wonderful any of the above, please telephone Nick family atmosphere the Gala generates, The third concert is to be held in the Hensby (Chairman) 236 3955. Kyriaki Church; a church with a history meeting old friends and making new ones. If you fancy joining the committee, please The weather wasn't bad either! The going back to 45AD. Recent Orthodox give me a call. We get together every legend has it that St.Paul was scourged in combined profit from Gala day and the month and you can be involved as much as Sheffield Scout and Guide raffle succeeded Paphos and a pillar at the church has been you would like. Fresh ideas are always accredited with the event. For this reason in raising £11,000. All this was di.str~buted welcome. to children's charities, the majority of the church is usually referred to as The success of Gala day is dependent on "St.Paul's Pillar Church". It is a marvelous which is used to assist the running of the the community, whether you are on the local Scout and Guide groups. Last year we experience to have the opportun~~ to committee, help on the day, advertise in the perform in such rare and prestigious were able to make donations to The Rowan programme, or just turn up. Without your School (special needs) situated on Durvale venues. With twenty six pieces to memorise support the Gala would not take place. the Choir is indeed busy rehearsing. Court and Woolley Wood School (special Support your local Scouts and Gu.ides and needs) situated in Shiregreen. In addition On Saturday 29th June the Choir are giving other children's charities. Full details of the a special Charity Concert at Ranmoor other Scout and Guide groups outside Dore programme will appear in the Gala who sell raffle tickets retain 50% of their Church for the Macmillan Horizons Appeal Magazine to be distributed shortly. (a £ 1.25 million appeal for the provision of sale proceeds. . . I would like to take this opportunity to With the success of last year IIImind, the a Sheffield Macmillan Palliative Cancer thank you for your support in the past and Care Unit within the grounds of the committee has decided to stick with the look forward to your continued support this same formula for this year. The Gala will Northern General Hospital). The Choir is to year. See you on the 13th July. be joined in the concert by the Sheffield run continuously from 2.00pm through to Nick Hensby, Gala Committee Chair 7.00pm with the old favourite stalls and Youth Orchestra. arena events including Dog of Dore, Fancy It will be a great opportunity to support the Charity and hear both the Choir and the Dress and It's a knockout. There will also Dore Jubilee Festival 2002 be fairground rides, our usu~l. stalls and Orchestra in arguably Sheffield's fmest games, not forgetting the traditional sheep venue for visual surroundings and acoustics. Contact the Concert Secretary, roast. Festival 2002 promises to be the most Tom Ogley on 236 4367 or me on 236 As in the past the success of some of ?ur exciting ever for the village of Dore. The stalls is dependent on you the commumty. 5043 for tickets and information. specially commissi~ned 'MiIle~ium Play' David Heslop May we once again prevail upon you. and written by Carolme Small IS to be seek your contributions for the followmg: performed during Festival W~ek. A Donations for the White Elephant Stall - dedicated team of volunteer directors, actors technical assistants and helpers have News in Brief worked for many months to make "Dore PARKVmRINARy ~OSPITAL Tales" the dramatic focal point of Festival Dr Michael Hunter is to be the new vicar 2002. How fitting that these plays which of Dore from 12th September. A ""t""bty of link the very early history of Dore to tha~ of Sheffield Wildlife Trust have had -mt "SR.lnSH- V6Te'RINARY HOSPITAL.S approval from the Heritage Lottery Fund ASSOCIAnON living memory should be presented ~urmg the Queen's Golden Jubilee CelebratIOn_s. for a grant of £756,500 towards their new • 01>€N i.OOAM.-J;OOPM MON-fRt, g.oo....v:_;+.OOPM SAT We are also delighted to offer a vaned reserves including Blacka Moor. • APPDtNTM6NT S ~~1~-:..,_ programme of musical entertainment by:our Yorkshire Water has brought in an • :H HO",R"0~l;t'CY ::'~17.!'~,:,~Ti"N1;"£:A"-" talented Dore Choirs, Gilbert & Sulhvan agency to plan an advertising campaign to • =~b)ig=~~,;::~~~~Wa>IOLO<1f:~;' Society and Lord Conyers Morris Men. The promote itself as a consumer brand. "Eau annual Family Fun Run organised by the de Pennine" perhaps? Dore Junior School will appeal to the fit Around 10% of appointments at and energetic of all ages. 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. , ~" . ,', " , ,',~, " ",'; ~ .~~-d~~na"v :::::::::,:,:;;;Jk~l1L"llit:?tt' ~ I, ~ ~H ~,*",:r,,-;,:::>.wfi.:<::';..M~$#':~~4 -" """. -: Formerly Soluna Travel 32 CAUSEWAY HEAD ROAD, DORE, SHEFFIELD CALL:0845 210 1085 ~1!Il1 (calls charged at local rates) •• 1iIi' (J ABTA 1 9.165J www.cooptravelonline.co.uk 7 Brian Edwards 50 years on To celebrate his fiftieth year of sketching and the ownership of a bus pass, Brian Edwards the well-known local historian and artist, whose illustrations in pen & ink have graced the pages of many magazines, newspapers and books for nearly half a century, has decided to release numerous of his works for a retrospective exhibition in Totley Library. This will be the first major opportunity to see and acquire original pen & ink sketches from his collection, for in the past Brian has usually sold prints. Thus many of the illustrations that have appeared in his books, in Peak District magazine, Totley Independent, Dore to Door, and the Bradway Bugle will be on show. Prices for an original drawing, unframed but with a double mount will range from £40 up to £300. The drawing will come with a signed A classic Brian Edwards drawing circ 1980 A historic view shortly to disapear. certificate and the usual copyright rules will apply i.e. with the artist. Subjects will to include eleven cups of tea at thruppence Dore areas in the 1960s and since then has include many buildings and landscapes in a time. He learnt that he also had the probably produced some one thousand the Totley, Dore and surrounding areas. privilege of making the tea so he explained illustrations of the district. He was one of Later in the year Brian will be publishing that he was not a tea drinker, saved a few the original founders of the Totley his fmal book on the district. For a change shillings and sat up in the Dickensian attic Independent and has written and illustrated there will be no drawings, simply old supping as much free tea as he liked. three books on the locality. Other books on photographs, many of which will be seen by His attic was shared with hundreds of rolls the Peak District and Norway followed. readers for the first time. of drawings by Victorian architects like The retrospective exhibition of some of A constantly recurring question asked of Charles Flockton. There were exquisite his originals will be held at Totley Library Brian Edwards is "how did you start coloured renderings of Ranmoor Church will be staged from Monday 17thJune from sketching"? and King Edward VII School (which llam to 7pm; Tuesday, Wednesday and Brian left school early with a few 0 levels brought back painful memories!) At this Friday lOam to 5.30 pm and Saturday 22nd and started off life as a stop-me-and-buy- stage he started doodling and those early June from lOam to 12.30pm. one ice cream seller. The lack of sales in his sketches were seen by two of the senior The library is closed Thursday. For further first winter forced him into what he thought architects in the office who persuaded him details contact Pauline at Totley Library tel: was a warm and comfortable indoor job as to go to university. 236 3067 or Brian Edwards, telephone a lad in a surveyor's office. That winter was From there his draughtsmanship skills 01629640752. ironically divided between standing in the took off despite his struggle to complete a freezing cold peering through a theodolite course in Architecture, studying for A Travels with Pen, Brush and Camera and sitting in a cold attic room colouring in levels and working in a Chinese restaurant Brian Edwards will be giving an illustrated deed plans. to pay for the fees. He and two other talk on Travels with Pen, Brush and Overnight his pay dropped from as much students produced Christmas cards for sale Camera at Totley Library on Monday 17th as £12 on a good day to thirty-five shillings throughout the student population. The rest June at 7.30pm. Tickets available from the and sixpence (less stoppages) per five and of his life is a long story. Library; there is no charge but you may a half day week! The stoppages turned out He first started sketching in the Totley and wish to make a contribution towards the purchase of children's books For further details contact Pauline at Totley Library tel: 236 3067 or Brian lSeech H"ouse Edwards, telephone 01629 640 752. R.eclClLVV1..ecl pLVl..e FUYVl..LtuYe: cOVl..teVV1..poYClY}1 AY"t .§ ceYClVV1..Lc.s Golf course improvements Customers at Sheffield's municipal golf courses, which are operated by Sheffield 0 0 11 1111 International Venues, are being promised * 'IT that the courses will soon be on par with 0 0 ~ 11 those of private membership clubs. 0 0 r-- A five year 'turf care' programme is being 11 rolled out at Beauchief, Birley and Tinsley. 0 0 BODIB"0 11 11 It will complement work already under way I I I I which includes refurbishment of the '- '- clubhouse and kitchen at Beauchief, nine MClole - to - MeClSlA.ye flA.YVl-LtlA.ye : K[tcVlejl\,$: DesLgVl- § "B.IA.LLol: DLspLClH IA.Vl-Lts holes open all year round at Beauchief, new winter tees and drainage at all three courses 361. Abbek::le(ClLe RDClGI, SVleffi.eLGI, S71.FS and three new tees at Birley. TeLiFClX: 01.1.4-::2.501.004 This summer the greens will be cut every "B-eecVl. V1olA.Se@L[jI\,eo~. jl\,et day this summer instead of three or four wvvw. "B-eecVlVI0 lA.Sefu. YV\.[tL" ye. CO. VlR. times a week. 8 for the shop assistants who nearly all seem Jean Recalls Deadline for Autumn to have cars and for those who park up all Diary Events day and go on the bus. I wonder also, why I suppose it's a sign of the times but when Tuesday so many with drives and garages insist on I was younger, there were four butchers parking on the road. I've heard the excuse shops in Dore. Mrs Wolstenholme ran 31 July 2002 that they do this because they are afraid Colin Thompson's. She was a big woman Ring 236 9025 or they will be blocked in by other car drivers, but she must have been really strong, write to the editor but that seems a feeble excuse. because handling sides of beef and Jean Dean chopping up meat didn't seem to be a problem to her. She used to chop meat on a wooden trestle which had a deep crack in it. dog boarders. Laura Taylor lived in the Going for gold Half-crowns, coppers and other detritus cottages on Vicarage Lane. She had some lurked down the crack. Most hygienic! The kennels in Ryecroft fields across Dore floor was covered in sawdust. Road, but her favourites she kept with her The Chelsea Flower Show must surely be Jack Thorpe and his son Bill, ran the at the cottage. Janet and Mary Souter used one of the .most prestigious gardening butchers which was on the end of the Hare to help her walk the dogs, when they were events of the year, and for one local and Hounds building. They used to have the school girls. business it represents the chance to really entrails hanging up near the door. Over the The other lady was called, if my memory "go for gold". Burgin Conservatories, based door were two big hooks and carcasses serves me right, Miss Douglas. She lived in in Dore, with showrooms in Bakewell, are were suspended from these and chopped in the bungalow at the top of Long Line on delighted to have been invited to exhibit at half. Houndkirk Road. She had a bigger business the world famous Show. Their exhibition, Levesleys was next to Hubie Frith in the than Laura with lots more kennels. When entitled "A Celebration of Joseph Paxton" row of lock-up shops long since demolished she left the Gibbs family moved to the will tie-in with the work done by Joseph to make way for Dore to Door Catering and bungalow and replaced the dogs with hens. Paxton at Chatsworth and later, in 1851, the the rest. Steve Oakes worked for Mr They were poultry farmers. famous Crystal Palace. Levesley who lived up Causeway Head Their daughter Nancy, still lives in the They have been designing and building Road and had another shop in Ecclesall. bungalow. I don't remember there being individual Conservatories and Orangeries The fourth shop was the Co-op. Originally any complaints about noise, but I suppose for the last 20 years and are currently the the butchers was a separate shop to the they were much more isolated than only Conservatory Specialists in the world grocers. Dick Wragg managed this for Newfield and people were much more to use FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) many years. Dick lived on Drury Lane and tolerant then, or seemed to be. hardwood i.e. wood from a genuinely in his youth was a member of the Dore What's the betting that when the managed source. cricket team. Corporation alter the road in front of the You can visit Burgin Conservatories at the The controversy over the Dog and Cat Causeway Head Road shops, someone is Chelsea Flower Show from 21 to 24 May, kennel on Newfield reminded me that we killed. It's sods law. What is really needed stand NR31, or contact them on 01629 used to have two ladies who took in cat and is somewhere for all day parking, especially 815522 or mobile on 07973321075. 9 as a result of war crimes would not seem to southerly administrative district of the Abbeydale Hall mystery apply. Finally the family have decided Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. It negotiation will not work and are now covered, (or covers!), an area matching the Readers will recall the sorry saga of taking legal advice in respect of ownership parishes of Sheffield and Ecclesfield, plus Abbeydale Hall being passed to Sheffield and original covenants on the site. the chapelry of Brad field. Not Dore, which College by Sheffield Council a few years Can you help? was in Derbyshire until the 1930s. ago, without public consultation over its The family are keen to hear from anyone In its nine chapters, the book covers, and possible ongoing community use. It was in Dore, or past resident, who can throw illustrates with ample black and white then cynically treated as a disposable asset any light on the issue. In particular, what photographs and maps, the countryside, by the college and sold to the highest was the Hall used for between 1934 and buildings, people and history which make bidder. Plans for a pub and restaurant came 1939? up the character of Hallamshire. Beauchief to nothing, leading to a planning What was it used for up to 1952 and from Abbey gets a whole chapter, as does the application for flats. Against the odds and 1952 to 1996? They believe that through Dragon ofWantley - you know, the legend the recommendations of planning officers, these later periods the property was either and ballad based on Wharncliffe Crags. permission was granted for blocks of flats unused, in the possession of the Ministry of Well written and carefully researched, with on the site, without regard to the gardens at Defence, used as a Night School and for a comprehensive bibliography, Historic the rear or the setting of the house, once daytime language courses and from the time Hallamshire, published by Landmark described as "the mini Chatsworth". it was acquired by the Sheffield College Publishing in hardback, makes fascinating It now seems that there may be questions was empty and unused once again. and enlightening reading. Price £19.95 over the councils' ownership and its right to Finally did Norton Rural District Council ISBN 1-84306-049-3 pass it on for sale. ever complete the purchase of Abbeydale We understand that for the last 14 years, a Hall and if so, when and how, and who did dispute has existed over the ownership of they pay? Brownie Birthday the hall, and that all of the above took place If you think you can help please in the first in the full knowledge that this dispute instance contact me on 0114 236 9025. The 125th I" Dore Brownie Pack (also existed and had not been resolved. John Baker known as the Church Hall Brownies) is The saga goes back to early in the last celebrating its 70thyear of Guiding in Dore. century and by the nature of things is Historic Hallamshire If you were a Leader of that pack anytime complicated by the passage of time and since 1932 or a Brownie prior to 1992 we gaps in records. However, in brief, it seems would love to invite you to our birthday that one Joseph Kendrick rented We may all feel familiar with the name party. The celebration is taking place on Abbeydale Hall in 1923 four years after the Hallamshire and have experience of a host Friday, 24th May from 6-7.15 PM at the death of Ebenezer Hall's widow, before of its derivatives including our Church Hall on Townhead Road in Dore. taking out a mortgage for its purchase in parliamentary constituency of Sheffield Please RSVP to Dale Andrews (262 1074) 1925, running it as a hotel. It appears that in Hallam and Hallam FM radio. But how or Madeleine Crowther (235 0092) as soon 1927 he asked a firm of estate agents to many of us know where it is or anything as possible. We hope to see you there. find a tenant or buyer, but nothing was about its history? Mrs Dale Andrews, Brown Owl resolved until 1931. It seems then that a A major new book by David Hey, Emeritus Dore resident saw it for sale, and placed a Professor of Local and Family History at deposit on the property, before approaching the University of Sheffield, sets out to local Norton District councillors who answer these questions and in the process Challenge Walk agreed to take over the purchase and provides a fascinating guide and insight ordered the Clerk of the Council to refund into the area's history. Do you enjoy walking in the beautiful the deposit. Yet no record of the council The name Hallamshire is first recorded in Derbyshire countryside? King Ecgbert subsequently obtaining or paying over the a 1161 charter, but the Domesday Book School Association, is organising a 26 mile funds can be produced. A Land Registry refers to Hallun, and the area was the most Challenge Walk on Saturday, 29th. June. It search for September 1931 shows Joseph will start and end at our Wessex Building Kendrick as still the owner. on Totley Brook Road, going out to In the meantime Joseph Kendrick went to Brearton & Co Ladybower Reservoir via Burbage Rocks, Norway in June 1931 to work for the and returning via Hope and Grindleford government and was killed by the Gestapo Taxation Consultants Cafe, where the main walk ends and lifts in 1942. Back here the Sheffield Extension are available back to school. Act was imminent possibly resulting in the All aspects of Personal There will also be a short walk of about 14 purchase not being pursued by Norton DC and Business Taxation miles for those who don't wish to do the in advance of the Sheffield take-over. full walk. The walk is part of the parent- It appears the property stood empty until teacher association fundraising effort, and early in the Second World War when it was Self Assessment Returns for the entry fee we provide:- checkpoints requisitioned by the Ministry of Defence en route with free cold drinks, free travel until 1953. At this time they received a Capital Gains and from checkpoints back to the fmish for rejection of a planning application made to walkers wishing to retire, a certificate if the erect buildings on the site and returned the Inheritance Tax walk is completed in 12 hours, a keys to Sheffield City Council. The rest is ploughman's platter and tea at the finish recent history. For projessional help from experts point. First Aid personnel in attendance In 1988 Mr Kendricks grand daughter and For both walks, it is up to you to decide on her husband, being concerned about the Write or callJorJree quotation your route, but you have to check in at the future of the site and wishing it to be kept checkpoints. The cost of the walk is £7.00 18 Rushley Road, 5hiffield 517 3EJ for the benefit of the public, approached I (£4.00 for under 18's), and £8.00 on the Sheffield Council to resolve the position. Telephone (0114) 236 0211 [day. Badges and T-shirts will he available Since then the council has admitted it did [email protected]. uk at extra cost, please see application form. not buy the property and has no evidence For further information or application Norton District Council did so. They have Dan Brearton ATII form please send a S.A.E. to: suggested it was "given by a generous Walk Organiser, K.E.S.A., King Ecgbert benefactor" and quoted the Statute of Chartered Institute of Taxation School, Furniss Avenue, Dore, Sheffield, Limitations, which if Joseph Kendrick died SI73QN. 10 MA)KINS, NS Jardl n Sup!p,Ii'es O~ 7days atweek! 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The departed showed remarkable fortitude in submitting to fate without fuss. Indeed, Mr Kerry Brooksbank (who lives next door), his wife, nor a guest, heard nothing above the sound of the wind - no monstrous crash. However, Mr Brooksbank reports a series of percussive blasts of wind about 11.l5pm, followed by Above: Council workmen begin removing the wail of a car alarm which he now the tree which blocked Vicarage Lane. Felling and replacement knows, signalled the death throes of a Below: The wrecked cars and wall, but the Jaguar car. house emerged virtually unscathed. The ancient beech trees around the This was crushed and telescoped to a 3 foot perimeter of the churchyard are reaching high wreck on his next door neighbour's the end of their natural life span of 150 to drive, as the giant fell from Dore 175 years. Some are already succumbing churchyard across Vicarage Lane to within to two virulent fungi, attacking the roots or one foot of where Mr Brooksbank's guest branches, and making the trees potentially slept undisturbed! dangerous. It is Mr Brooksbank's habit to take an early At a public meeting in the church on the morning cup of tea in front of a window 20th April, it was agreed that there was a fronting Vicarage Lane and to receive a need for early precautionary felling of six friendly wave from dairyman John Clarke. to eight trees, mainly on the perimeter On this morning no wave but gesticulating along Vicarage Lane, where they appear to and pointing. This brought him to the door be in a poorer condition than trees on to find a 20 foot deep sea of splintered Church Lane. All the remaining trees will branches and hear the laconic question need pruning and aerial inspections of the "Has tha got a woodburning stove?" crowns, to assess their health and safety. The Council removed 13 tons of wood the These essential works, due to commence next day, but still the trunk blocked on 24th May, are being funded by the Vicarage Lane. The trunk was removed on Council's Parks, Woodlands and the 8th, but special lifting gear had to be Countryside Service. The work will brought in to hoist the 2 1/2 ton stump. involve the use of heavy machinery and It's an ill wind that blows nobody any the temporary closure of roads during the good. The condition of the beech trees is school holidays now under proper investigation - and at Replacement of the above trees with least one householder has fuel for next standard-sized oaks and additional winter! planting in existing gaps, will be carried PPat Pryor out this coming planting season (November 2002) and funded by the Parochial Church Council. Oak trees are capable of living longer and are less susceptible to disease. The replanting will help ensure continuity of tree cover for both present and future residents to enjoy. Antique & Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers Thinking of selling Antiques? Do you require a Valuation? Professional Valuation Service Please note Quarterly Antique & Fine art Specialist Sales for and Fortnightly Antique & Collectables Sales • Insurance Dore Village Society room in the Old Our National and Internationl Customer Base • Probate • Insurance Claims School is open to the public between lOam are always seeking to purchase • Family Division and 12 noon on the 1st Saturday each Antique furniture, Porcelain, Paintings, Silver • Inheritance Tax month. and Jewellery, Sporting Memorabilia, Coins, Contact us .for a confidential Home visit Members of the committee will be on hand by a Qualified Valuer Medals and Postcards, Clocks etc. to talk about the work of the society or any Complete Estate Clearance or Individual Items Sale Or Initial Advice and Pre-Sale Hoe Visit by a Qualified Valuer particular problems you wish to raise. It The Sheffield Salesroom, The Nichols Building, Shalesmoor, Sheffield, S3 8UJ also provides an opportunity to view items Telephone 0114 281 6161 www.elrauctions.com in the Dore collection. 12 or just for lunchtime. You can even use the Derbyshire County Council has now Boundary walk walk for sponsorship of your chosen imposed a permanent Traffic Order, making charity. The DVS will be sponsoring the vehicular use of its section of the road a A date for your diary, Saturday 22nd June. Macmillan Horizons Appeal for the walk criminal offence. One day after the longest day of the year and if you would like sponsor forms for this We have suggested to Sheffield Council and two days before Midsummer Day. On they will be available. that they close the remaining section to that day the Dore Village Society will be Make a day of it. Bring your family and vehicles, but they have decided against. We organising a walk round the Ancient friends. will continue to press the Council to close Boundaries of Dore. It is a walk to which For more details of the walk, the starting their section. EVERYONE is invited. point, and the lunchtime break, contact me John Harker, Ramblers Association Whereas the total length of the walk is on 236 5043, any Committee Member of approximately eleven miles, there will be DVS or look out for the notices on the DVS opportunities for people to join and leave Notice Boards. South West Area Action the walk at various points, to suit age and David Heslop energy! According to the latest update from the The route is all on footpaths (and three South West Area Panel, the first short lengths of road), all very close to the A road or not? consultation exercise with young people old boundaries of the village. These paths over the proposals for a skatepark in will take us along Limb Brook, the River Millhouses Park was a great success. Sheaf, Oldhay Brook, Blacka Dike and part Many walkers are familiar with Moss Bencrete, the company that it is intend will of Burbage Brook. We are fortunate in Road, which runs across Totley Moss from build the skatepark, is coming up· with a having fme woods, streams, historic sites of Stony Ridge (near Longshaw) to Totley design based on the skaters' ideas. This will mills and forges, and open moorland on our Bents. The Totley Enclosure Act of 1842 be submitted with a planning application in boundaries and, of course unsurpassed designated it as "a public bridleroad and the near future and will be subject to a views of the surrounding countryside. footway and private carriageroad and second phase of consultation. Lunchtime, on Burbage Moor, will be a driftroad". "Private" allows vehicle use Students from Sheffield University are highlight of the day when Rony Robinson only to those with an interest in the land. working hard to deliver a festival in (author and Radio Sheffield presenter) will Today, walkers are appalled at the damage Millhouses Park over the weekend of the be reading some of Richard Furness' done by vehicles driven largely by those 8th and 9th June. poetry. The lunch stop will be easily with no, 'interest in the land. Moss Road Finally, after several hiccups, the mill accessible for non walkers, but you will has been very badly affected by off-road pond at Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet is to have to bring your own lunch and vehicles and motor- cycles for many years. be slowly refilled in the next few weeks. sustenance. Deep trenches have been made, and serious When it is full the new wheels and gearing What fmer way to mark the old custom of damage caused to the ecology. will be tested and commissioned. Fish will beating the bounds, on a day in high The road is partly in Derbyshire, partly in not be introduced immediately as the pond summer? Come and join us, for the whole Sheffield. The Ramblers and others have habitat and invertebrate life need to have at journey (about six hours), for a mile or two, expressed concern. Responding to this, least one year to recover. MOVING HOUSE? NEED A LOCAL SOLICITOR? First Steps ********** ~ Nursery School * * * * * * * Immediate Quotations Available on Request Dare Old School, Savage Lane, Dare 517 3GW ~ Registered provider of nursery education for 3 and 4 year-olds Tel: 0114 266 6660 Links with schools in both the maintained and private sectors Email: [email protected] Transition arrangements with Dore Infant School Excellent OFSTED report Wake S ID i t h "There is an excellent range of resources to support all areas of learning ... " S 0 c o r S " ...the staff are able to motivate the children to achieve high standards in 68 Clarkehouse Road, Sheffield, SI 0 2LJ their learning, particularly in language arid literacy and mathematics." 6 Campo Lane, Sheffield, SI 2EF "The staff are very sensitive to individual children's needs and the high staffing level enables them to spend time working with each child at a level appropriate to their needs." GENTS HAIRDRESSING "There are clear policies to identify and assess children with special educational needs and the staff offer excellent support to these children." n ••• excellent opportunities to explore sound and music, participate in 1•••• 1l1li imaginative play and experience a variety of media and techniques for drawing, at painting, collage work and model making." "Excellent experiences are included to encourage the children to use their Pred & GingerS senses and feelings to respond to a range of stimuli." "..a stimulating learning environment..." (from OFSTED Inspection report, December 1999) 162 BASLOW ROAD SHEFFIELD, S 17 MONDAY TO FRIDAY 8.30am TO 4.30pm Tel: 235 0362 ~ NEW FACILITIES AND SERVICES FOR PARENTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2000 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday from 9.00am £6.00 For more information and to arrange a visit please telephone Wednesday & Thursday Pensioners Special £4.70 0114235 3801 Walk in service and appointments available 13 find yourself scrabbling at some height. If provided. There is a good spread of walks Stepping out this is new to you, you will appreciate the across the area with varying terrains and a expert advice and support from your particular strength of the book is the The arrival of summer brings brighter experienced eo-walkers. You can search for information provided on places along the days, early dawns and warmer, longer walks that suit your own capabilities at route. In a slightly larger format but still 64 evenings the perfect incentive to shake of www.walklink.com pages, Discovering the Peak District is also your winter lethargy and rediscover the If you are ready for a bigger challenge, published by Derbyshire Countryside Ltd, outside world why not try climbing? There are hundreds price £3.95, ISBN 0-85100-l33-5 Walking is a great way of increasing the of indoor and outdoor climbing walls amount of physical activity you do and can around the UK where you can learn to There can be few walkers who do not own help reduce stress and blood pressure, keep climb different a variety of walls before, a Cicerone Guide, one of the best known the heart strong and aid weight once you are ready, embarking on some pub lishers of walking books, with literally management. Just 30 minutes a day is authentic mountain climbs. Climbing is not hundreds of titles to chose from covering all thought to be enough to make a difference. just an effective way of getting fit but also the UK and other areas of the world. Two This does not have to be 30 minutes of measuring your achievements against pre- new books are typical examples of what is concentrated activity. Walking a few set goals and therefore a great confidence available. minutes to work or to the shops twice a day, builder. At www.ukclimbing.com you can Walking in Staffordshire by Julie Meech is getting off the bus a few stops early, and find down to earth and practical advice on part of their County Walking Series. Its taking the stairs instead of the lift will all indoor and outdoor climbing throughout the compact pocket friendly 224 pages contain add up and make a difference to your UK. details of 40 walks varying from 3 to 10Y, fitness levels. For more information visit Forthcoming local walks: miles. There is a generous introduction to the Walking The Way To Health website at 19 May; Spring Ramble on Longshaw the different areas of the county from the www.whi.org.uk Estate with National Trust Wardens. Meet Staffordshire Peak around Longnor and If you prefer not to walk alone, guided Ipm at the visitor centre. Hartington, to Cannock Chase, and as far walks are a lot of fun giving a chance to 19 May; 14 mile Sheffield Round Walk south as Stourbridge. Key information is chat to others or find out interesting facts with the Rangers. Meet lOam Meersbrook provided on each walk: distance, OS maps, on the area or wildlife etc. The Dore Park. Details 203 7206. terrain, transport, parking and refreshments. Village Society for instance offers regular 25 May; Wildflower Walk with Friends of There is a brief sketch map, a summary of short walks up to 6 miles in the area around Ecclesall Woods, meet 10.30am at the area and walk, instructions on the route Dore with a group called the Wyvern Abbeydale Road South entrance opposite and a selection of black and white and Walkers (see below). Beauchief Gardens colour photographs throughout. Whether If you would like to meet new people and 22 June; 11 mile boundary walk around planning a day out in north Staffordshire or embark on longer distance walks, consider Dore - see article a weekend away, this book provides a joining a local walking club. The Ramblers' 29 June; 26 mile Challenge Walk organised tempting introduction to a surprising range Association for example has groups by King Ecgbert School Association - see of scenery from wild moorland to canal and throughout Britain and also campaigns for article. riverside strolls. ISBN 1-85284-317-9. walkers' rights. You can check their 20 July; 26 mile Challenge Walk, with 14 Heart of England Walks by Roger Noyce web site at www.ramblers.org.uk for details mile option, organised by Totley Primary covers a far wider area in the same size of local groups. School - see article. format, with 50 walks of 3 to 9 miles in an If you are looking for something a little 24 July; 5 or 6 mile DVS morning walk - area from just north of Oxford to Stoke on more strenuous, ask your local walking club see diary. Trent and from Shropshire to if they do guided hill walks. It is important Leicestershire. The key information to attempt your first few hill walks includes excellent sketch maps with plenty accompanied by experienced hill walkers as Walking books of colour and black and white photographs. even when walking the most seemingly Hills, castles, waterways, historic towns and innocent looking hills you can suddenly villages, it is all here to explore. This book They say you should never judge a book provides an excellent introduction to the Ramble along to by its cover, but in some cases the same is range of walks available in this sometimes true of its size. Footpath Walks in and overlooked area of the country. ISBN 1- around the Peak District National Park, is 85284-325-x. Both books are published by truly pocket size, but within its 64 pages are Cicerone Press price £ I0 each. packed an excellent choice of 18 circular walks of 6 to 8 miles. At the beginning Crossing the channel to France has its own there is an overall map showing the particular attractions, not least the food, locations of the walks and an index of key wine, weather, historic countryside and EXPERT'BOOT FITTING' information. Each walk is then towns. Normandy happens to be one of the Our staff are trained to solve boot accompanied by a clearly drawn and easy to nearest parts of France, with close historical fitting problems and we back this follow map in colour, directions to the start, associations with England. It also happens \l up with our Boot Fit Guarantee a description of the walk (helpful in to be excellent walking country. Holiday deciding if this is one for you) and precise Walks in Normandy by Judy Smith, will get AL.L THE FAMIL.Y'S NEEDS route instructions. Authors Pat and Peter you out exploring the countryside and Tidsall are experienced walkers and towns and provide an excellent introduction Large selection of outdoor clothing contribute a County Walk every month to to this gastronomic paradise overlooked by and equipment for all the family - at the best prices Derbyshire Life and Countryside magazine. those tourists seeking the sunny south. Each Footpath Walks... is published by walk has an introduction to the area, FREE GUIDED'WAL.KS Derbyshire Countryside Ltd, price £3.25 - detailed instructions on the route, a well real value for money. ISBN 0-85100-135-1 drawn map, along with suggestions for lit! Free midweek guided walks with For those slightly more energetic souls other walks in the area and places of ¥ Foothills manager and Family looking for longer walks, Discovering the interest nearby. Varying from 4 to 22 km Walks author Norman Taylor Peak District, by Brian Herd, provides a (2Y, to 13 miles) the 26 walks will give you selection of 14 circular walks of 6 to 12 plenty of chance to bum off any Tel: 01142586228 Fax: 01142584810 [email protected] www.foothills.co.uk miles. None are too strenuous, but you indulgences. Holiday Walks in Normandy is 11 Edgedale Road, Sheffield, S7 2BQ would be wise to take the appropriate OS published by Sigma Leisure and costs £9.95 map to supplement the sketch maps for its 176 pages. ISBN 1-85058-736-1 14 Issued by HSBC Bank plc. We are a principal member of the HSBC Group, one of the world's largest banking and financial services organisations with some 7,000 offices in 81 countries and territories. We're refurbishing. • • but we'll reopen the minute we hang up our overalls We're committed to giving you the best done at a temporary branch situated in the service you can get. So that's why, starting on Dore Parish Church Hall car park on Monday 6 May 2002, we're refurbishing our Townhead Road. branch - to offer you more. We anticipate that the work will Unfortunately, we are having to close the finish late June 2002 and will tell you more branch - temporarily - and we apologise for about our improvements in the Autumn any inconvenience this may cause. edition of Dore to Door. In the meantime if We close for business from Monday 27 you have any queries, or you want to know HSBC~ May 2002 while this work is carried out. more about the refurbishment, please ask one However, all your day-to-day banking can be of our team. The world's local bank Issued by HSBC Bank plc 15 Help Dore Primary School Please help Dore Primary School by giving us your rubbish! Empty pc printer, fax and photocopier cartridges are worth if's to us. The school started collecting earlier this year and even the first few cartridges raised £100. A great start but iflocal people could collect for us as well it would be really fantastic. Some local companies have started collecting for us in particular the ELR Dore branch, Hallam Signs, Sheffield Animal Hospital and South Yorkshire Vehicle Finance, which when we collected theirs, was a big box full! So a huge thank you to all these companies and all the parents of Dore for religiously dropping them in the collection box in the school's main entrance. If any other companies would like to donate their cartridges, we can arrange collection. This not only raises money for our school but it also helps the environment. With over 3 million cartridges ending up in Caption competition. In our last issue we counseling, administration etc. landfill every year, this is a great chance to invited suggestions for the best caption to You will receive training and support, stop some of them being dumped in local this picture, taken in Vicarage Lane last have your expenses paid for, as well as the tips. The other fact is they don't rot, so they November, just about the time David chance to learn new skills and meet new will be there for a very very long time. Williams was about to leave Dore. A bottle people. Volunteering is a great way to have What happens to these empty cartridges? of wine goes to Pat Pryor of Furniss fun and feel valued and needed. The cartridges are remanufactured and sold Avenue who suggested "Double If you are interested and not sure where to for a fraction of their original cost to local Indemnity ". begin, then give Gillian McGrath a ring on businesses and households, who then 0114249 3362. We will give you support recycle them again, and so the cycle goes and help in finding the best volunteer on. Up to the point where they can't be Wanted - Volunteers over 50 opportunity for you. You can also email us remanufactured any more, then they are all at [email protected]. collected together shipped overseas, The 'Getting On' project is based at the Don't hesitate - contact Gillian today. melted down and the plastic recycled into Volunteer Bureau in Sheffield and many different objects. encourages the over 50's to volunteer their We are at first raising money for new time and skills. Did you know sports and play equipment. But with your The over 50's have got so much to help we can do so much more. If you have contribute to a wide range of organisations I seems we can eventually expect a major seen the local press articles about cutting across the City - you can volunteer your review of traffic problems in Dore and no school budgets further, you will understand time from one or two hours per month to doubt some traditional responses in the how strapped for cash we really are and regular times each week. There are a wide form of humps, bumps and squeezers. But fund raising like this has become so vital to range of opportunities including working do we really want to share the experiences buy the little extras Dore primary just with animals, children, hospitals, families, of other Sheffield suburbs? It seems that couldn't afford otherwise. So please help if refugees, women's groups, environmental every side road involves weaving to avoid you can. work and the list goes on. damaging your suspension or front dam, For more information or larger collections You can be involved in a wide range of not to mention your back, as you make please call Richard Joel on 0114 2364365. ways such as caring, community work, your way home. Dore Primary School & driving, legal work, befriending, DIY, Is it any wonder we have seen a dramatic The Optimum Cartridge Co Sheffield fundraising, retail and charity shops, increase in the number of so called off- road vehicles purchased for everyday use, given the state of the roads and extra man- made hazards. And do these measures The Peacock really help, or just create frustration, more Owler Bar pollution and force people to watch the road surface rather than other users or potential hazards from children. If only all JOHN & MAUREEN RUSH that money could be spent in enforcing Landlord and Landlady current regulations on speeding and parking instead! A worm welcome awaits you at this 15th century style Which reminds me that it is an offence to traditional pub restaurant with oak beams and log fires. drop litter. Yet what do we find under our Serving fresh fish and game, ethnic specialities and good feet all around the village - litter. I wonder if people take as little care at home or are quality home cooked Englishfayre. many of our homes glorified litter bins - I Open Monday - Saturday 11am - 11pm. Sunday 12 noon - doubt it! Doremouse 10.30pm. Last food orders 10pm. No booking required. Baslow Road, Owler Bar, Sheffield S17 3BQ. Tel: 0114236 1789 16 collection of its own pictures, exhibitions for a joint membership; corporate Encouraging Art are still arranged, mainly at the Firth Hall of membership is available at £24. Further the University of Sheffield, at the previews information on the Society and the above The Sheffield Society for the of which music or a demonstration is events can be obtained from Hedley Encouragement of Art was founded in provided, together with light refreshment. OldfIeld, 43, Newfield Crescent, S 17 3DE. 1936. Originally called the Sheffield Art The next will be between 18th & 21 st Tel 236 0941. Collections Fund, its purpose was to October. provide funding to the Sheffield Galleries In 1967, the Society held its first soiree at for the acquisition of works of art and this the Mappin- Art Gallery, when 200 Concert at Beauchief Abbey role continues in a modest way. The name members and guests enjoyed poetry of the Society was changed to its present readings, chamber music, an exhibition and After the huge success of their Carol form in 1945, when activities, in addition to supper. Further soirees have been held over Concert last December, Sheffield Folk raising money, were arranged. the years at Encliffe Hall, Bolsover Castle, Chorale will be performing again at Public lectures were the first of these Oakes in Norton, Renishaw Hall, Beauchief Abbey on Saturday 15th June. activities, which continue to this day, being Wentworth Castle and Wortley Hall; the This time they will be singing a selection of free of charge to all corners. All the lectures next soiree will be held at Brodsworth Hall folk songs in 3 and 4 part harmony all of are given by leading experts in their fields on 15th June with entertainment from 'Dore which have been selected because of their of fIne and decorative arts; from the British Chimes' - see spring issue. Lunches and interesting origins or history, plus, of Museum, the V & A, and other major art dinners are arranged periodically, usually course, they are all delightful to listen to. galleries, museums, universities and associated with an address; the last lunch, at The group is organised by Graham and institutions. This autumn lectures will be Hassop Hall, included a talk by Dr Trevor Eileen Pratt with Graham arranging many given by curators from Sir John Soane's Brighton on the history of the house. of the harmonies, and when at full strength Museum, on British architects. One at The Society's AGMs are held in June or it has over 60 singers. Admission £3.00 on 2.30pm on 25th September, at Ranmoor July, after which members are given the the door. Start 7.00 pm. Proceeds to local Parish Centre, will explore the Museum's opportunity to present a short paper on one charities. outstanding collection of Robert Adam of their enthusiasms, or to exhibit and talk Please note that, weather permitting, this drawings. about a picture or collection. As the will be an outdoor event, so please bring Visits are also made to exhibitions outside opportunity arises the Society has engaged chairs or rugs (and a picnic if you like) and Sheffield, and this year will include five in many other activities, a sketch club, dress appropriately. In the unlikely event of days in Paris, taking in exhibitions on a fashion show, sponsorship of a postcard, it raining the performance will be inside the modem art theme. Also a visit to the Priory concerts, and competitions. Each year the Abbey so you will need to come early to of the Order of St.John of Jerusalem in Society publishes the Sheffield Art Review, ensure a good seat. For further details or to Clerkenwell, London; and Grimsthorpe which contains articles, principally book tickets contact: Kath & Eddie Castle in Lincolnshire on 4th July. Visits to biographies of important local artists. A Greenwood: 274 5000 theatres have sometimes been arranged, in newsletter is published quarterly. The Abbey is holding its usual Songs of conjunction with these outings. Membership is open to anyone sympathetic Praise services at 6:00 pm on the fourth The Society held its first exhibition in to the Society's charitable objectives. The Sunday of every month until we alter the 1950. Though the Society no longer has a annual subscription is currently £ 12 or £ 16 clocks 'Bay[eaf (jardencare - Complete Landscape - - Design and Construction - ... from a problem border to a total transformation of your garden ... 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The poor old sheep bore the brunt of the mass slaughter and yet it is a disease which hardly affects them, they're killed just to try to contain the spread of this most infectious of diseases. It's a bit like trying to stop the Ryecroft Farm 1996 Brian Edwards their premises and continued were common cold spreading by killing all the ourselves at Ryecroft Farm and Harry Valle children in a school if just one child catches swill has now been banned as a feedstuff. up Long Line. The premises were inspected a cold. In cattle and pigs it's more serious. Speaking as one who made his living for 30 quarterley and given an annual licence. The Although they may eventually recover it years by feeding swill I fInd this a great inspections were done by Maff. The weak makes them so ill they have to be pity. Properly boiled and processed it point of the system was that policing was slaughtered on welfare grounds if nothing makes an excellent food for pigs and at the done by the local authority. else. same time gets rid of an embarrassing waste At first it was done very efficiently, A A farmer we know in North Yorkshire saw product from hotel and canteen kitchens, small team in the public health department the first symptoms in one cow in the and the pigs love it. was set up who visited farms to see if they morning and by lunchtime the whole herd The disease spreads far faster now because were using swill and if so if their licence was slavering at the mouth and had great of the increased distances it is necessary to was in order. Those without a licence were sores on their mouths. If left the surface of transport animals. In the old days we used heavily fined. They also visited hotel the tongue sloughs off and the mouth is so to take all our pigs to Sheffield abattoir, a kitchens to see who collected the swill and sore they can't eat. In pigs the lesions on 20 minute journey. Then that closed and we that he was a licensed person. This worked their trotters get so bad that the entire hoof took them to Chesterfield abattoir on fine for 20 years, but then, in the nature of comes off and they can't walk. Hipper St. Then that closed as well, so we local authorities they started cutting back Nevertheless the slaughter policy adopted had to send them to Cheale Meats in Essex. and unlicensed collectors started to appear. in this country is still the same as it was 100 At the time of the outbreak Cheales were It cost over £ 1000 per year to comply with years ago. In this day and age of effective the only abattoir in the country taking this the regulations so anyone with a few pigs vaccines and antibiotics there has to be a class of pig. feeding raw swill could do very nicely better way of dealing with it than this. Other Before 1972 there were practically no thank you. countries seem to manage without all this regulations regarding the feeding of pig I'd long thought it was only a matter of carnage, why we have to have it goodness swill. In this area round Dore most farms time before there was an outbreak ofF & M kept a number of pigs and fed them on swill at one of these illegal places, usually a few knows. The original cause of the outbreak is still collected locally. These swill rounds were pigs on an allotment or hidden away on an not proved but it is most likely from valued assets and woe betide anyone who estate. In the event it happened on licensed uncooked swill on a pig farm near Hadrians pinched someone else's swill. Most premises, although from subsequent reports Wall in Northumberland. As a result pig kitchens charged for swill, the cash was a it seems that standards had slipped to a perk for the kitchen staff. Larger places terrible extent. The one thing that is certain would put it out to tender, the Co-op at the about the whole sorry business is that the bottom of Cemetery Rd charged £ 110 a original infection was imported. month. When the swill was boiled and left Farmers have long complained about the to cool the fat rose to the top and was lack of inspections at sea and airports. skimmed off. This was sold to processing When we visited California last year we companies and used for everything from were waiting for the bags to come off the cosmetics to animal feed. carousel at San Francisco airport when a At one time this was worth £50 a barrel sniffer dog picked on my wife's handbag. (45 gallons) A good boil of a 1000 gallons She was politely asked to open it and inside could produce 2 barrels of fat, enough to were two oranges and an apple, which were cover the cost of collecting and boiling. inunediately confiscated, Compare this with We haveyroaucea fine Lodge Moor hospital could produce 5 tons Britain where you tramp through arrivals of swill a week. Totley college used to and never see a customs officer. After much yrint for over thtrty make 1 ton. King Ecgberts school about V:, badgering by the NFU the government has years ana wou(a fife the a ton. Now all this waste is macerated and said they will take action. The action is put down the drains where it attracts rats going to be putting up some notices! oyyortunity if suyyfyin8 and the waste fat blocks up the sewers. Richard Farnswortlt your comyany with In 1972 a new disease of pigs called swine vesicular disease appeared. The symptoms 6usiness stationery ana were identical to foot and mouth but it only Dog Fun Day yromotiona( fiterature, affected pigs. To control this disease a y(ease contact ... whole raft of strict regulations governing This years Dog Fun Day will be held in the collection and boiling of swill were Graves Park on Sunday 2 June. One of the SOUTH YORKSHIRE PRINTERS LTD introduced. The cost of complying with judges will be TV presenter Angela Rippon RUTLAND HALL . RUTLAND ROAD. SHEFFIELD S3 8BP these new rules was such that most swill president of Support Dogs" the national Tel: (0114) 272 1105 . Fax: (0114) 276 0633 feeders gave up. charity based in Sheffield which helps In Dore the only people who upgraded disabled people with everyday tasks. 18 CHIROPODIST DORE OPTICIANS Mrs Anna Steele, S.R.N. Qualified Chiropodist M.S.S.Ch. M.B.Ch.A. Surgery behind Dore Chemist Townhead Road Home Visits for the Housebound FULL SIGHT TESTS/EYE EXAMINATIONS, 24 hour Answering Service NHS OR PRIVATE. 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Hidden Derbyshire, by all the people of the Community of Richard Stone, sets out to throw some light I guess there are plenty of real ale drinkers Sheffield 17, to which we warmly invite on these treasures from Alderwasley and in Dore who will need no introduction to Christians and non-Christians alike. its Georgian hall to Youlgreave with its the 'Pump Clip'. A way of distinguishing We want to bring together all Christians to Thimble hall: just one up and one down one ale from another, these often work together prayerfully on our single with each room 8 feet square. elaborately designed signs have become mission to share our Lord's love with all the Full of snippets of history and anecdotes collectors items. Rosie Walker has brought people of our community. Guaranteed a you can read about a row of stone pigsties together 46 designs in colour and black & joyful non-denominational event for all, so at 'One Ash Grange' near Monyash or white, written a little about each - the please come along! [Organised by Churches nearer home, that the name 'Unthank' brewery, the brew and its history, then Together in S 17] derives from old English and translates as added a poem to cheer you thoughts. Born 'not granted' suggesting land acquired by a and Brewed in Yorkshire is a heady mix! squatter rather than legitimately. Published Published by Wharncliffe Publishing price John Betjeman's Dore by Countryside Books with 160 pages, this £9.99 ISBN l-903425-l4-X is a book to accompany exploration of There can be few readers who have not Derbyshire on foot, car or the comfort of Dore Scouts 1936 - 2002 come across poetry by John Betjeman your armchair. price £9.95 ISBN 1-85306- during their lives. 715-6 Coming shortly, (mid June approximately) But how many know that he refers to Dore Ancient medical cures and folk remedies will be a new book entitled:- Dore Scouts in 'An Edwardian Sunday' published in his hold a widespread fascination, and just 1936 - 2002. A pictorial record of its 'Collected Poems'. maybe some clues to future modem day progress from the 'Acorn' to 'The Oak The relevant extract reads:- treatments. For some years Dulcie Lewis Tree'. Compiled by Syd Crows on M.B.E. has been collecting these from people Available from any scout leader or from Serene on a Sunday across the county and they are now brought 21 Heather Lea Avenue (tel 236 6633) The sun glitters hotly together in her book Curious Cures of Old price £8.75. Produced by Hallamshire O'er mills that on Monday Yorkshire. Publications Ltd, to whom I am indebted with engines will hum. From how to treat warts - rub frog spit for their support and encouragement. All By tramway excursion onto it, to the use of leeches - there is a proceeds to the 267th Scout Group and a To Dore and to Totley small castellated building at Aiskew once charity to be selected. In search of diversion used for storing leeches. There are even 10 Syd Crowson The millworkers come . Andrew Haigh Decorators Professional interior, exterior, --Property MaintenanceSpecialists~------decorating and wallpaper hanging. 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The at one of Derbyshire's local historic 17th Producer of the event is Mike Teanby. century residences, from Wednesday 26 to Tickets for The Mikado cost £12.50 for The Well Dressing tradition began in Dore Saturday 29 June. the performance only on Wed, Thur and Fri in 1959, with your help we can keep this The grounds of Woodthorpe Hall, situated and £20 on Sat. In addition there will he a tradition alive in our village. Volunteers are between Holmesfield and Totley, will be special performance ticket including buffet needed to help prepare and/or erect the transformed for four nights of open air meal for £30 on Friday and a very special Village Well Dressing. Everyone is performances of Gilbert and Sullivan's The ticket for a Gala Evening performance on welcome regardless of age or gender and no Mikado, culminating in a Gala Evening Saturday 29 June costing £45, which previous experience is necessary. Just come performance on Saturday 26 June, followed includes a dinner and champagne reception, along to the Scout Hut in the week by a firework display. the evening concluding with a firework beginning Monday 1st July or contact The Festival is being organised to raise display. Tickets can be booked on-line at Barbara Jackson for more information on £20,000 for the Weston Park Hospital www.woodthorpe-festival.org.uk or from 236 0332. The plan is to erect the Well Cancer Care Appeal, the Leonard Cheshire Clare Oakley, Tel: (0114) 268 6084. Dressing on the Village Green on Saturday Home and the Cherrytree Children's Home The Hall is approached via Owler Bar, 6th July, which is the beginning of Festival on Mickley Lane. taking the B6054 to Holmesfield and Week. The Well Dressing Service will take The artistes taking part in the Festival turning left immediately before the Robin place at the end of Festival Week. ]! 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Please contact moist, as nematodes move in the thin film me on 2365043 for details. of water between soil particles and its Lastly, it is our intention primarily to plant temperature has to be at least 5C. Also, they in verges, other than in front of houses, are only effective for up to six weeks, so if which are rarely disturbed, and particularly you wish to control slugs throughout the on the approaches to the village. We hope growing season, you need to use further that residents might be encouraged to plant If you ask any gardener what their two regular applications of these parasites. As Spring flowers in front of their properties, most troublesome pests are, I am sure they nematodes only kill soil-living slugs, in where appropriate. Congratulations to would reply 'slugs and snails'. For many conjunction with this method, I use traps Country Gardens who did just that; years there has only really been one way to filled with a beer- (non-alcoholic is best) or although perhaps the ducks resented having control these voracious gastropods: slug yeast- based bait to control surface-living to share the space. pellets. If used correctly molluscicides are slugs and snails. David Heslop undoubtedly effective, but when they are The problems with these traps are they not, these poisons are a hazard to children, have to be emptied and re-filled regularly pets and wildlife. So how do you use slug and also, to make any real impact on Well Dressing Diary 2002 pellets properly? mollusc numbers, they need to be placed You should spread them thinly over the quite close together, with no more than lrn Throughout the spring and summer, a area needing protection, with about l Ocm between each trap. However, perhaps the succession of old Derbyshire villages put between each pellet. If used thickly, they best way to control slugs and snails is also on well dressings, often associated with a will actually repel the molluscs and dogs in the simplest: go out at night armed with a week of village festivities. particular have been known to eat the torch and a sharp knife and cut in half, or These are just some of the dates. You can pellets; which is not surprising as the cereal squash any molluscs you find. Although a find out more details, or opportunities to filler in the pellets is actually the same as rather unpleasant task, at least there is one see well dressing in progress, by ringing the that used in a number of dog foods. Slug consolation: you don't have to kill the Chesterfield Tourist Information Centre on pellets act as an irritant, causing the largest ones you fmd in your garden - great 012463457777/8. mollusc to produce lots of slime which in grey slugs - as these feed mostly on fungi. turn stops the creature moving and Happy slug- and snail-free gardening. May eventually kills it through dehydration. If JackDaw 18-20 Etwall you leave the poisoned slug or snail on the 25-2 Ashford in the Water soil surface, there is always a chance that St Luke's open gardens the animal will re-hydrate if it rains later June that day, allowing it to continue on its 1-4 Wirksworth destructive path. Each year a number of gardens are opened 1-7 Middleton-By- Youlbrave Care should also be taken not to get these in support of St Luke's Hospice. This year 1-8 Monyash chemicals on the fruit or vegetables you are they include: 16-23 Cressbrook trying to protect. If you do, the crops must May 19: The Hospice gardens on Little 22-26 Chelmorton not be picked for at least a week. The safest Common Lane. 22-27 Youlgreave way to use pellets is at night and by fencing June 16: 231 High Greave, Ecclesfield. 22-29 Hope off the plot that needs protecting, children June 23: Park Hall, Walton Back Lane, 22-30 Tideswell & Litton and animals are denied access. The Chesterfield. 29-6 Rowsley following morning you must remove any July 14: 9 Meadow Avenue, S8. 29-8 Bakewell dead or dying gastropods and clear away July 21: 51 Dalewood Road, S8 the remaining slug pellets. August 25: 8 Thornsett Gardens, Dore. July I never use slug pellets as I fmd the risk Opening times are llam to 5pm. Plant 6-11 Coal Aston they pose, however small, is unacceptable. sales, refreshments and other activities. 6-13 Hathersage Instead I rely on a number of alternative More details from the hospice on 236 9911. 6-15 Dore techniques. In the past I always surrounded 7-14 Buxton my plants with sharp grit, but at best, this 8-13 Harthill was very much a hit or miss way of keeping Daffodils 11-17 Pilsley Village these pests off. Nowadays I rely on 12-18 Dronfield Woodhouse diatomaceous earth granules, such as 'Slug 12"21 Holmesfield Children's Well Stoppa'. Slugs and snails cannot pas's over - - daffodils, that come before the swallow 13-17 Pleasley a barrier made from this material, as the dares, 13-20 Great Longstone granules absorb their slime, preventing and take the winds of March with beauty; - 13-21 Little Longstone them from moving. 13-21 Bamford For plants growing in pots, I put a band of Yes, the autumn planting of daffodil bulbs 19-28 Cutthorpe sticky copper tape around the rim. This on Limb Lane, the Picnic Area, Cross Lane 19-28 Millthorpe repels any mountaineering gastropods, and by the wall at Limpits Cottage (at the 20-27 Heath supposedly due to the tape generating a junction of Rushley Road and Causeway 20-29 Stoney Middleton very small electric current. I also place Head Road) came to fruition in March and groups of potted plants on blocks in a large April with a good show of Spring colour. August growbag tray and surround them with water We hope the display was enjoyed by all. 3-12 Bradwell - just like the moat around a mediaeval It is the intention of DVS to repeat the 8-11 Great Hucklow castle. Both slugs and snails are reluctant to exercise again in September with a planting 14-20 Barlow cross this water. of a further 3,000 bulbs. We say "thank 17-24 Taddington To control slugs in open ground, for you" to those who generously gave 22-30 Holymoorside example where potatoes are growing, I have contributions towards the purchase of 24-31 Eyam found that the parasitic nematodes bulbs. Donations ranged from £3, to one Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita, sold purchase of 1,000 bulbs at over £60. The Get on-line at www.dorevillage.co.uk under the trade names of 'Slugsure' or support has been most encouraging. 22 rr5rian9iill & Son Builders, Joiners, Decorators Established 1970 Replacement Doors and Windows uPVC and Wood Single and Double Glazing Roofing and Pointing FIREPLACES, Furniture Repairs 47 Rushley Drive, Dore, Sheffield S17 3EL (0114) 236 7384 & 230 7798 GAS AND SOLID FUEL Mobile 07860 210156 SHOWROOMS 64 year old jobbing tradesman, experienced in the following and only interested in giving service Bramdale Home Heating and quality, not speed. 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Central Heating, Domestic Plumbing See your id"easput to,Jife Glazing, Double Glazing and Glass Home Maintenance Please telephone - uPVC and Wood Windows Les Etches on 07949 393301 or evenings on 236 7768 Please Ring on 236 8343 23 Water, Water, Everywhere Continuing the series of articles on local water power by Mick Savage. The Sheaf continuing upstream ... Bradway Mill and Upper Wheel: There were certainly two, and possibly three corn mills in the area covered today by West View flats and Brinkburn Drive which, in 1721, were referred to as the 'Bradway Mills'. Beauchief Abbey owned at least one of these mills and leased it in 1503 to Roger Barker, but after the dissolution the Abbey and its various buildings, which probably included Bradway Mill, passed to Sir Nicholas Strelley. By 1570 the mill was in ruins, but owned by the Crown who leased it to Godfrey Fanshaw. The mill must have been refurbished, for a succession of millers occupied it until Samuel Biggin took the tenancy in 1785 and converted it to scythe grinding. By 1806 the Upper Wheel - the over plans to build houses on the empty family of Bradway built a lead smelting demolished Westfield Cottages - still dam behind Totley Rise shops - known as mill at a place they called 'Dowel! Holme', existed, but probably only its dam was Thompson's field. Originally called the which was either on Totley Brook or the being used to supply Bradway Mill Wash Mill, then Hall's House Mill, the Sheaf. In 1615 Leonard Gill and Thomas downstream. Samuel Newbould was name Totley Rolling Mill did not appear Hall (who also operated Old Hay lead mill) grinding saw blades at Bradway Mill during until the 19th century. Mill Cottage, on Mill took legal action against Edward Owtram, the Sheffield Outrages and had his cart Lane, is the only building which survives alleging his smelting mill weir interfered book and driving belts stolen. today. with their goit which ran over Owtram's Like Walk Mill, the railway destroyed The dam, as mentioned above, was land, so it appears on the face of it that these mills. Bradway Mill dam became a situated behind the present day Totley Rise Totley Rolling Mill and Dowell Holme fish pond and later a boating lake. Traces of shops. Traces of the head goit can still be could be the same. Unfortunately for this Upper Mill's head goit can still be seen in seen running from the old weir and ford on theory, when John Bright of Carbrook sold the woodland alongside the footpath from the Totley Brook between the Chemical Hall's House Mill and other mills as part of Mill Lane to West View flats, whilst the Yard and Laverdene Avenue. Totley Totley manor to Michael Burton of stone lined goit which linked the Upper Rolling Mill also took water from Old Hay Holmesfield in 1653, the Brights retained Wheel dam with Bradway Mill dam can Brook via a still visible goit which ran from one smelting mill, which they called 'Douse still be seen beneath the road bridge over a long demolished weir beside Totley Rise Croft'. the railway connecting Abbeydale Road Methodist Church, alongside Akley Bank In the 18th century Hall's House Mill South to the flats. and its ancient track way, then beneath passed from the Burtons to the Bagshawe Totley Rolling Mill: The industrial legacy Baslow Road and into what is now Milldale family, then to Aymor Rich of Penistone of this mill persists today, with residents of Road. who married Grace Bagshawe. 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Dore, Sheffield 517 3QL Customer references upon request • Bathrooms • Showers • 24 had been built somewhere further up Totley this year Dore residents can take advantage Most days end with a light-hearted concert Brook (possible sites are the Chemical of an "opera coach" which will run on July Festival highlights include a recital by an Yard or the Shepley Spitfire) so part of the 9 and 21. On July 9 the coach leaves Totley amazing 15 year old Czech pianist Lukas mill was converted to a cutler's wheel, Rise at 6.05pm to see 'La Perichole' - one Vondracek, a chamber version of Mahler's tenanted by the Jones family of Bradway. of Offenbach's most magical creations, beautiful 'Song of the Earth', and Alan Joseph Clay of Bridgehouses bought the with music coloured by a Spanish influence, Bennett performing a new work based on smelting and grinding wheel, converting it from boleros to fandangos: a perfect his musical childhood. to a lead rolling mill in the 1770's. Festival opera! Return to Totley is The full programme for the Festival (with John Dyson, scythe maker of Abbeydale, expected at 10.45pm. Opera tickets range over 70 events ranging form the profound bought the mill in 1836 and began rolling from£10-£41. to the frivolous) can be obtained from steel with his partner Samuel Biggin. When On July 21 the opera is 'Erismena by 01298 70395, where further coach Dyson was ruined by 'rattening' ownership Cavalli' - a 17thcentury comedy with some information is also available. passed to James Sorby. Eventually Tyzacks modem twists. A gentle farce of disguise acquired Totley Rolling Mill, along with and sexual confusion - amazingly it ends up Abbeydale works, selling it in 1881 to with multiple reunions rather than a Folk Trains Ebenezer Hall of Abbeydale Hall, who bloodbath! The truly lovely music drives already owned the land on either side of the plot of unlikely situations to a glorious Once a month Folk Trains with guest bands Baslow Road. and happy ending. This is a 5pm run from Sheffield [7.15pm but collecting Mick Savage performance, so the coach leaves at at Dore & Totley 7.23pm] to Edale. to be continued in our next issue . 3.20pm, returning before 9pm. Opera Refreshments (special beer prices) & more tickets cost £l 0 - £32, with a 10% discount music is available at The Rambler Inn, if you see both operas. Edale, then 9.30pm return journey arriving Local water mills On each occasion you can enjoy a drink or at Dore & Totley for 9.54pm. perhaps a stroll before the opera 28 May: The SRFN All-stars performance. Coach tickets cost £5 return. 25 June: Sheffield City Morris Margaret Oversby will be giving a talk for Each Festival day offers a very full 23 July: Feet First the Dore Village Society, at 7.30pm on programme, with a morning talk in the 27 August: Brewer's Troop 20th June in the Old School. This will literary series, then a couple of afternoon For up-to-date information ring 266 8055 cover local waterwheels and the people concerts, followed by the evening opera. or visit www.folktrain.f9.co.uk who worked in them, from Abbeydale Hamlet to Millhouses. Free admission, everybody welcome. ;----·----·-----·--··---·-----·-·----i I MINIA TURE RAILWA Y Sundays 1pm - 5pm approx FREE May: 19th, 26th, 27th (Bank Holiday) June: 9th, 23rd (Open Day & exhibition) July 7th, 21st VALUATIONS August 4th, 11th, 25th, 26th (Bank Holiday) Waiting Buyers You can find us in Ecclesall Woods, along Free Intemet promotion Abbeydale Road South between the Hamlet & Dore Station www.elr.·co.uk The Society warmly welcomes new members - if you are interested in model engineering of any kind please enquire tel 236 9002. www.sheffieldsmee.co.uk Valuing ... Buxton Festival Surveying ... 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Also interior design advice. your local, fully qualified therapist in Dore Tel: 236 1510 LAURA BLORE on 235 3097 10 Causeway Head Road NEW & RECLAIMED OAK STRIP BEAUTY THERAPY by Elizabeth Telephone 236 2165 FLOORING for sale. Fixing service Bentley I.H.B.C. Have an aromatherapy available. Tel: 235 1934 facial with your own prescription of essential oils. Treatment room Stockists of Dore Village Society COTTAGE ACCOMMODATION in NortonlWoodseats or mobile. Publications Dore short term, especially suitable for Call BEAU IDEAL on 0114 250 0099 or visiting friends and relatives; Tel 236 6014 07973 242255 (mobile) 26 The disagreement in the horoscope's shadows of magnificent mountain peaks. Stars in Dore zodiacal constellations is due to the It is encouraging to hear that several Dore "precession of the equinoxes" which we folk possess telescopes and already enjoy With scarcely a dark night during the mentioned in the last issue of Dore to Door. the celestial wonders. These days one can summer months, at least not during the Due to the bulge around the Earth's equator mount television cameras and CCD cameras fortnights on either side of Midsummer and the tilt of the Earth's "rotational on a telescope and link up with a personal (Friday 21st June), there are few stars to be axis'tcompared with the "ecliptic plane" in computer to further enjoy one's treks across seen. On the longest day, the Sun rises in which all the planets move around the Sun, the lunar landscape. Take a look at the Dore at 4:37 BST and sets at 21 :38 BST, the Earth wobbles like a top. What was not Moon's terminator and enjoy the sunrises never dipping far below the northern mentioned was that the Earth's axis also over lunar craters. The views are horizon, only 19 degrees. "nutates", that is, there is a wavy nodding spectacular near half-Moon. The Moon, three days from Full, will be of the Earth's axis due to the Moon. We should add that observers must never seen low in the south/southwest throughout Readers may have noticed how the Moon point a telescope at the Sun without special the little darkness there is on Midsummer's appears in many unexpected parts of the knowledge or advice. One of the best ways night. Venus is the only planet visible for sky, changing rapidly from one night to the to study the Sun is on the Internet where those Midsummer parties and that sets late next, and from one lunation to the next. daily pictures are available from in the night at 23:53 BST. The Moon and This is an effect that defeated the early astronomers. Try the LASCO/SOHO Venus vie for attention one month later in navigators of the globe when they tried to images from NASA where one can see not July, and observers must rise early in the use the Moon on their voyages of only the Sun but comets and stars in the mornings even in August to see the great exploration. The outcome of all this is that vicinity of the Sun (http://lasco- planets, Jupiter and Saturn, again. Because the Sun no longer sits in the monthly www.nrl.navy.mil/#images). of the very poor performance of the stars zodiacal constellations as it did when David Andrews and planets in Dore during this summer we astrology was "invented". One could almost are taking a computational excursion. say that Aries has become Pisces, so if you Welcome to Open Dore We are to amuse ourselves with must, try reading your horoscope for the "astrological" games for a while. This is next adjacent sign. Dore has its own community web site easy with today's personal computer There are, most certainly, important events provided by the Dore Village Society with technology that some of us have at our that occur in our lives when we happen to the aim of providing access to information fmgertips, something that most children are notice and remember forever something of value to the local community and happily growing up with. This departure else outside ourselves, say, the orientation information for visitors. from real astronomy does have an of the brighter stars and planets. Perhaps, Andy Stratton, of Stratton & English educational value ! more frequently, we remember what we Software Ltd ( www.strattonenglish.co.uk ) Suppose we try to remember a special were doing at the time of some happy or has recently stepped in to help maintain the occasion when the Full Moon was high in tragic event. On the night between 1st and site. This means we can keep it bang up to the sky on a warm summer night in 1976 2nd April 2002, a dear friend passed away date and introduce further improvements. and we walked with a friend through at about a quarter-past-one. The Moon was The site has its own search engine or you moonlit woodlands or beside a lake in rising in the southeast as seen from Dore, can follow the subject index including: Switzerland! What stars and planets were and its tranquil light seemed to melt into the Dore message board visible ? The author remembers his first mist drifting off the moors. There are no About Dore Village Society child being born just before a glorious images to better express the feelings felt. Forthcoming events sunrise in Denmark on 29th October 1961. Being a poet and a scientist, himself, and a Dore to Door - internet edition The Sun, like a great orange ball in the Cumbrian, he would have loved this. A brief History of Do re wintery blue sky, was in the constellation of Over the summer months it is worth Publications/archive Virgo, not far from the border with Libra, spending a little time with the Moon. Even Local links two zodiacal constellations from Scorpio, with binoculars one can see the serrated Local business sites his astrological sign! The planet Venus had edge or shadow "terminator" as it is called. Contacts directory risen an hour, or so, before, in morning The sunrise over lunar mountains and Recommended web sites twilight. Although well below the horizon, craters produces that ragged appearance Other community sites the two giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, during the waxing Moon. Similarly, the Feedback - our E-mail address. stood in close proximity fighting it out lunar sunset can be seen at this "terminator" Todays' local weather between Capricorn and Sagittarius. during the waning Moon. Through a A national & international news ticker Romantic, indeed, for the husband ! telescope, even a small instrument giving a If you have access to the internet then give Strange, though, that the writer's son would magnification of about x40 to xlOO, one the site a visit and tell us what other normally read his horoscope under Scorpio! can watch the lengthening or shortening information you would like to see on it. We applied our computer to several further cases. My wife, a lifelong Scorpio, was actually born when the Sun was in Libra. The planets, all seven of the brightest in the Professional Cleaning by Solar System, were scattered like the snooker balls in a poor opening shot. 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The Sun was sailing along in the constellation Taurus, not Gemini at all ! 27 Diary - Summer 2002 DORE FESTIVAL - Saturday 6th to Sunday 14th Sat Village & Guide Welldressings, lOam MAY Dore Tales Part I, Dore Village Green, 2:30pm 19 Plant Sale of hardy perennials at the Botanical Gardens, Dore G & S Summer Concert, Dore Church Hall, 7:30pm llam-3pm Sun Village Gardens Open Day, 2 - 6pm. 20 Sheffield-Chesterfield-Derby Turnpike Talk by Howard Mon Family Fun Run, Dore Primary School, 7pm Smith for South Yorkshire Industrial History Society, L?rd Conyers M?rris Men, The Devonshire Arms, 8pm Kelham Island Museum, 7.30pm visitors welcome Tue VIllage Tree Trail, led by Arroll Winning, 7:30pm 22 Jubilee Concert, by The Salvation Army in aid of "The Wed Dore Tales Part 2, Dore Old School, 7:30pm Macmillan Horizon Appeal"7.30pm Parish Church. Dore Thur Dore Male Voice Choir & Dore Mercia & Totley Methodist Ladies Group. Tickets £3.S0 from 'Green's'. Townswomen's Guild Choir Dore Church Hall, 7:30pm 2S Wild flower Walk with Friends of Ecclesall Woods, meet Fri Dore Tales Part 3, Dore Old School, 7:30pm 10.30am at Abbeydale Road South entrance opposite Sat Dore Scout & Guide Gala Beauchief Gardens Sun Welldressing Service, The Village Green, 3pm 28 Bog & marsh garden plants. Talk by Arroll Winning for Methodist Ladies Cream Teas, Methodist Church Hall, Friends of the Botanical Gardens. IOam Demonstration 3pm Centre Visitors £2 28 CLEM - making the impossible possible, talk by Maggie Full details of all of these events will be publicised locally nearer Stringer for Dore Methodist Tuesday Group, Church Hall, the time. 7.4Spm Contact 2363171 29 Garland Ceremony at Castleton. Procession, band & 7 Model boat & yacht regattas, Sheffield Ship Model maypole dancing. Procession starts S.30pm Society, Millhouses Boating Lake, 9am-Spm 29 Dore Village Society AGM, & talk by John Dunstan on 7 Plant Fair with specialist nurseries, Sheffield Botanical the origins of Do re road names, 7.30pm in the Methodist Gardens, 10.30am-4pm Church Hall, admission free, everyone welcome 10 BirthdayParty - Dore CA)Townswomen's Guild, Devonshire Arms 12.30pm. JUNE 13 Working Day, Whinfell Quarry Gardens IOam-3pm. Meet 2 Dog Fun Day Graves Park at garden entrance. Details: 2S8 OS87 4 Bamford Sheepdog Trials, 7am-S.30pm 13 Summer concert Escafeld Chorale - a miscellany, 7-16 Family Funfair, Endcliffe Park, 6-10pm weekdays, including George Shearing'S Songs and Sonnets. St.Peter's 2-10pm weekends Church, Greenhill. Details from 236 9817 8-9 Festival in Millhouses Park over the weekend 14 Model boat & yacht regattas, Sheffield Ship Model 9-lS Grindleford Carnival Week Society, Millhouses Boating Lake, 9am-Spm 10 Biennials the forgotten short termers. Talk by Arroll 14 Open Day with Friends of Manor Castle, ll am - 4pm Winning for Friends of the Botanical Gardens. 7.ISpm 19 Mark James Disco, Sheffield Cheshire Home, Mickley Demonstration Centre Visitors £2 Hall,7pm 11 Wirksworth visit by society members - see article 23 Medieval Market, Chesterfield, 9.30am-Spm free adm 12 The Banana experience - Fair trade in the Windward 24 SteI?ping Out local morning walk with the Dore Village Islands. Talk by Mrs June Beardshall for Dore CA) SOCIety.Start 9.30am Old School. Details 236 902S Townswomen's Guild, Dore Old School. 2pm. 30 Growing vegetables in pots. Talk by Derek Newman and 16 Open Day with Friends of Manor Castle, [lam - 4pm Ron Sellars for Friends of the Botanical Gardens. IOam Demonstration Centre Visitors £2 17 Illustrated talk by Brian Edwards, Totley Library 7.30pm 17-22 Exhibition of Brian Edwards pen & ink sketches, Totley Library. AUGUST 7-8 Bakewell Show 18 George Formby - Dennis Taylor with his ukelele for Dore Methodist Tuesday Group, Church Hall, 7.4Spm Contact 12 Wildlife for ponds and wetIands. Talk by Peter Bowler 2363171 for Friends of the Botanical Gardens.7 .ISpm Demonstration Centre Visitors £2 20 Local water mills A talk by Margaret Oversby for the Dore Village Society, 7.30pm in the Old School. Free 14 Celebration Lunch - Queens Jubliee - Dore (A) admission, everybody welcome. Townswomen's Guild, Dore Old School2pm. 18 Wonderful Whirlow events with Sheffield Rangers in 22 Boundary Walk around Dore - see article Whirlow Park 12noon-3pm 22 Summer Fete Sheffield Cheshire Home, Mickley Hall, 22 Open Garden at 8 Thornsett Gardens in aid ofSt Luke's 2pm - Spm Hospice, 11am-Spm, refreshments, plant sale & pottery 23 Wonderful Woodlands event in Ecclesall Woods with the Rangers & Working Woodland Trust. Demonstration stall. oftraditional crafts, hands on activities & live folk band. IOam-4pm Details 203 7206 26-29 The Mikado Open Air evening performance, Woodthorpe CHARLES BROOKS Hall, Holmesfield. 26th & 27th at 7.30, 28th & 29th (Gala) Shoe Repair Specialists since 1972 at 8.30pm Tickets from 268 6084 29 Charity Concert, Dore Male Voice Choir, Ranmoor Parish Quality Shoe Repairs Church for Macmillan Palliative Cancer Care Unit. and key cutting while you wait 29 Concert, Handel's Israel in Egypt, Sheffield Bach Society, 7.30pm St Mark's Church Broomhill, tickets 266 1000 Barkers traditional hand made footwear 30 Model boat & yacht regattas, Sheffield Ship Model - factory seconds at an unbeatable price. Society, Millhouses Boating Lake, 9am-Spm Large stock of bedroom slippers, wellingtons, 30 Classic Car & Transport Show, Graves Park. Details outdoor footwear and 'Padders' from 273 6433 as recommended by local chiropodists Full dry cleaning, alterations and repair service JULY 2 The Sheffield Flood, illustrated talk by Malcolm Nunn for 35 Boslow Rood, Totley Rise Yel:262 1017 Dore Methodist Tuesday Group, Church Hall, 7.4Spm 28