Sedbergh & District

February 2009 Issue 263 Donation 50 Pence A very warm welcome to 2009 and gone to the expected (record) 108 yet another bumper issue. pages, the cost to produce climbs First, we must apologise for the quite steeply, would take far longer to omission of 6 articles, the Bus produce and arrive late so we hope Timetable, the Crossword and the you understand. Groups due to a lack of space. This Dennis & Jacky Whicker issue consists of 96 pages, had we

The Rose Theatre Group Presents:- SEDBERGH SCHOOL CHORAL SOCIETY 'Allo, is this will perform Handel’s Messiah Dad's Army? Soloists Experience the thrills of the French Kate Telfer ~ Louise Jones Resistance and World War Two in Good Ol' Blighty...and enjoy being entertained by Edward Seymour Sedbergh’s celebrated Evacuee choir... Tenor Gareth Morris Ssssshhhh. Join in the Black Market Raffle Conductor (no ration books required!!!) John Seymour Showing on at Thursday 12th, Friday 13th and Carlisle Cathedral Saturday 14th March at 7:30pm at The Peoples' Hall, Sedbergh Saturday 31st January Tickets: 7.30pm Adults £3:50, Children £2:00, Powell Hall Family £10:00 Sunday 1st February Tickets available at The Tourist Information Office 7.00pm telephone (015396)20125 Tickets £8 (Concessions £4) Proceeds to the Peoples' Hall new building

CLOSING DATES: ALL ADVERTS - 15th; ALL ARTICLES - 19th S & D Lookaround 13 Kings Yard, Sedbergh LA10 5BJ Telephone 015396 - 20788 e-mail: [email protected] ~ Web Site: http://www.sedberghlookaround.org.uk Ubcmf!pg!Dpoufout! Advert Rates 93 HS February Talk 81 Groups X HS G Benson 36 Bus Time Table X HS Napoleon 7 Religious Services 93 HS Time Team 21 Bed & Breakfast 92 June Parker 32 Crossword X Kidzone 66 Alpacas 89 KL Embroiderers 87 Amateur Musical 78 Late Trains 55 Art Society 86 Meals on Wheels 83 Auction Mart 1 14 Meritorious Service Medal 83 Auction Mart 2 15 Monkey House 90 Auction Mart 3 16 Neighbourhood Forum 70 Auction Mart 4 18 Open Surgeries 41 Auction Mart 5 19 Otters 91 Auction Mart 6 20 Parish Dent 10 Blind Group 85 Pepperpot Club 28 Book Town Lecture & Lunch 81 Pinfold Caravan 31 Cautley Carollers 79 Police 83 Charity Shop 79 Quiet Garden Movement 86 Christmas Child 91 Recycling in Dent 90 Christmas Wreaths 85 River Clough X Councillor Peter & Ian 8 Rose Theatre 21 Councillor Kevin 74 Scouts Post 87 Cumbria Life 91 Scrap Book 87 CWT 46 Settlebeck High School 52 Daddy X SJS New School 30 Dent Gala & DM 88 SL Carers 85 Dent Methodist Chapel 44 Spring Show 22 Dent Post Office 80 SS Charity 90 Dentdale Fest Lights 78 SS Music Scholarships 76 Dentdale Lights 91 SS Netball Team 43 Dentdale Music & beer Festival 29 SS Rugby 82 Dentdale Over 60’s 90 St Andrew’s Church, Sedbergh 82 Dentdale Cricket 85 Steadman’s Butchers 84 Family Musings 89 Tim Farron MP 26 Festival of Ideas 24 Town Band 56 Fog Lights 34 Toy Library 84 Football Club 77 Weather November 80 Gardening 35 Weather December 88 Garsdale Carol Singing 91 WI Dent 39 Getting Married 2 X WI Howgill 40 Gilbert &Sullivan 86 WI Kill 38 Great War Bibles X YDNP Adopt a Hedge X Hossana 2 60 YDNP Farm Buildings 51 HS Dr A White 65 YDNP Hedging 45 HS Facts & Phantoms 42 YDNP Housing X Page 2 B Day Name Age

02 1 Harry BAINES 7

01 09 6 Lucy GIBSON 8

98 05 6 Chloe KENDAL 11

03 7 Bethany COUSINS 6

Every month, there 03are Children’s 9 Nurgul SEN 6 Birthday Vouchers to the value of £10 awarded to a Child03 whose 9 Zak BAINES 6 name appears on the Birthday Page. The recipient this month04 is:- 11 Hannah KITCHEN 5 Lucy GIBSON who is 01 11 Lisa ANDERSON 8 8 years old on 6th February Please collect your vouchers98 from99 11 Thomas BROWN 11 Sedbergh Office Services 13 Kings Yard, Main06 Street, 12 Daniel HALL 3 Sedbergh which can be used in08 any shop in 14 Evie DEAN 1 Sedbergh & Dent. 99 06 14 Robbie SPROUL 10

98 08 17 Elizabeth COLTON 11

98 01 18 Leanne POSTLETHWAITE 11

04 19 Chloe COWIN 5

01 07 19 Abbie GAME 8

98 05 19 Erin PROCTOR 11

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ARMITSTEAD HALL Happy 18th Birthday Debbie. Love, Happy 101st Birthday Mabel Hall on Julie, Bomber, Scott & Becky 13th February 2009. Have a great ======day. From all of the family. XXX ARMITSTEAD ======Happy 18th Birthday Debbie. Shaun, HUNTER Sarah & Madison. Elaine would like to thank all friends & ======family for their kindness & support ARMITSTEAD following her fall & breaking her leg & Happy 18th Birthday Debbie. David, for the cards & gifts received during Tessa & Mason. her stay in hospitals. Thank you also ======ARMITSTEAD to the Sedbergh Ambulance Team Happy 18th Birthday Debbie. (Stephen More & young lady) & the Amanda, Phil & Joshua. gentleman who helped at the scene ======prior to the arrival of the ambulance, ARMITSTEAD Doctors & staff at both RLI & WGH Happy 18th Birthday Debbie. Have a and upon my discharge from the great day. Lots of love. Mum, Dad, hospital, the District Nurses from Emily & Charlotte. Sedbergh Health Centre & the staff of ======the Intermediate Care Unit from ARMITSTEAD Kendal. Thank you once again. Happy 18th Birthday Debbie. Love ======from Nana & Grandad. MATHER ======John & family would like to thank BAKER everyone who has supported them Bob & family wish to thank everyone during Pauline’s lengthy fight against who sent them Christmas Cards. cancer. Particular thanks are due for ======the tremendous care & support BLATCHLY provided throughout by Dr Chrissie A sincere thank you to the four kind people who helped me when I tripped Hunt & the District Nursing Team & and fell in Main Street on 22nd latterly by the Outreach Nurses of St December fracturing my wrist in two John’s Hospice & the local Marie places. Carol Donaghue was one Curie Nurses. This granted Pauline’s kind helper, sadly, I cannot put names wish to be cared for at home. Friends to the other three. You know who you & neighbours have also been a tower are. Thank you. Imogene. of strength. Thank you everyone.

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MIDDLETON TO LET Cissie would like to thank all those 2 acre flat Paddock & stone Stable that gave her cards & gifts for with 2 loose boxes. Tel: 21385 for Christmas & also marked the special more details. occasion of her 95th Birthday on 5th ======January. ======THEFT SEDGWICK Would the person(s) who stole all that Roy & Doreen would like to thank wine and beer from the rear of 27 everyone who enquired after Roy Loftus Hill overnight on 21st following his operation. Also many December kindly apply for my thanks for all the good wishes, cards corkscrew & bottle-opener, for which I & gifts. have no further use. David Vigor. ======SPEER WANTED It has been a year on 25th January Martin when you sadly Passed Away Domestic Cleaner needed for 4 hours to that Great Big Garden in the Sky. per week. Good rate paid. Must have We all miss you so much. Words just own transport. Tel: 21385. cannot express your loving smile & ======winning ways. The help you gave not WANTED only to all our family but to those who Water Bowser required with trailer. knew you. Always the Joker, right to Please contact Robin on 20309. the end. We’re not eager to join you & ======the family for the ‘Party’ but just keep Belated Christmas Messages following the bear for us all. Loved ======but not forgotten forever. All the family & friends. XX CAPSTICK ======Nora would like to wish all friends and FOR SALE neighbours a Merry Christmas and a Jack Russell puppies available at end Happy New Year.. of February. Gorgeous tri-coloured 2 ======dogs & 2 bitches. Mum & Dad can be DAWSON seen. Wonderful temperaments. Tel: Jack and Jenny wish everyone true 20309. peace and joy at Christmas Time. ======FOR SALE Tricity Bendix Fridge/Freezer. Brown The above two messages were Belling electric cooker with ceramic passed to the Editor for the hob. Pine table & 4 chairs. Any December issue but omitted in error. Offers. Tel: 21167 Sincerest apologies. Ed. Page 5 PERSONAL & SMALL ADS £1

MOORE Who sweeps without a splatter. A Birthday Ode to Graham Chapman Moore Working with coal & soot is what I do I am a Chimney Sweep best Soot is Dirty, Soot is smelly When you find me not at home I’d rather watch Dick Van Dyke I’m managing the rest. Sweeping on the telly Carting with Grandad Bob & my boys Being a sweep is so lucky Is not a dream you see. Why then do I get so mucky It is a grand passion for me It is a job without a doubt We only do it for the fun That gets me far & about Not to keep up with the fashion.

I often sweep & vac Although it costs me lots of dough But when I’m finished with your flu And makes me sad & mad You usually have me back I love it most of all Because of my two lads Yes Mrs I am a sweep With that there can be no doubt I have a daughter Stephanie Just ask the wife & she will shout She is my pride & joy Ah! His work is never done I used to sit her on my knee From flu’s to cowls & cloths by God But now she is with Chris - that boy. It all really tires out my bod Lynn is my wife all these 20 long How about a pot of tea years & lo Before I have to go I’d not swap her for the world Cakes & biscuits suit me fine Because I love her more now than You really are so kind then. Now I have to dash off dear Before I get behind Nifty Nifty our Graham is 50 January 8th (sorry it’s late) I like to have a brew with you To find out how you are Well now Graham, I hope this is a I’m really rather a friendly chap nice surprise. Happy belated Who’s name it doesn’t matter birthday. Love Helen. For to most of you I am the man Page 6 the rights to manorial land in Dufton KILLINGTON SPORTS nr. Appleby in 1176. The family tree is well documented, some generations DOMINO moving to Richmond, the Vale of York and Leeds. But in 1673 it was Will DRIVE Dufton, aged 23, who sailed for St Helena, working for the East India Friday 6th February Company, which had claimed the 7:30 pm Killington Village Hall island for the crown from the Dutch in £1 entry with good prizes 1659. Following time in the army he was granted land on the island. 4 generations later another William SEDBERGH & DISTRICT Dufton, now called William Webber HISTORY SOCIETY Doveton 1753 - 1843, fought against Members Evening Napoleon and became the only St Mike Beecroft: ‘St Helena, Napoleon Helenan ever to be knighted. He was and the Westmorland connection’ commissioned to look after Napoleon Many years before global travel I during his 5 year exile and remember the saying, ‘travel Napoleon’s last outing before his broadens the mind… so why don’t death was to his residence, you travel down to your local book store…’ This is exactly what Longwood. He was present at his happened to Mike Beecroft 4 years exhumation before Napoleon’s ago when he wandered over to a remains were taken to Les Invalides second hand bookstall on market day in Paris. and his attention was attracted by a As not many people, if any, in 1985 book entitled ‘Journeys to Sedbergh have been to St Helena Survey Relics of the British Empire’ this was a most interesting by Simon Winchester. opportunity to see images of life in So it happened that 2 years later he this remote community and hear boarded RMS Helena at Portland for about its history made famous by the 2 week journey to St Helena, an Napoleon’s exile. island roughly the size of the Howgills Present day St Helena’s 3,700 in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, mixed race inhabitants have full 15 deg. south of the equator. British citizenship, are very loyal and To his surprise another book entitled are very hospitable. And… a 20p St ‘St Helena; One Man’s Island’ in the Helenan stamp of 2002 bears the ship’s library referred to a head of William W Doveton. Westmorland family connection. Thus All in all a fascinating illustration of intrigued, on return he researched the ‘St Helena, Napoleon and the Dufton family. Westmorland connection’. A Robert de Dufton probably owned Tony Hannam G

Page 7 COUNCILLORS CORNER For Sale There is no doubt that the issue of 2 bed roomed cottage with dining kitchen, the moment is the future of our local south facing lounge and patio, utility room/porch. Near to Sedbergh town centre with off road parking & views. Health Centre. Most of you will be Offers over £185 000 aware that at its meeting in Tel: 015396 21556 for further information or to view. December the YDNPA Planning Committee refused Planning expressed on all sides and out of this Permission for the development of a a possible way forward emerged. state-of-the-art Health facility (and The Doctors have invested a Spar retail store) on the Auction considerable amount of time, energy Market site. On its own the Health and money into this project over the Centre would most likely have been years and are inclined to continue given consent. (The Health Centre is now with a fresh application only if completely dependent on the Spar they feel they have the almost proposal also being granted unanimous support of the residents of Permission because Spar owns the Sedbergh, Dent and Garsdale. The land.) The sticking point was the law allows Parish Councils to hold a concern of the YDNPA (and referendum on matters of Sedbergh Parish Council) that considerable public concern and the granting Permission for the Spar legal aspects are currently being development would have a investigated with a view to this being deleterious effect on the retail footfall done here to provide an authoritative in the Town Centre itself. I have to and objective assessment of what the say that I do not share this view and wishes of local people really are. So neither it seems do the majority of continue to watch this space (and local traders and the population at other articles I am sure in Lookaround large. Any risk to Town Centre and elsewhere) and don’t hesitate to shopping has to be weighed against continue to make your views known the even greater risk of losing health to your District and Parish services altogether in Sedbergh and Councillors. I think I have already District if the Doctors decide to go made it pretty clear which way I shall elsewhere or down-scale the services be voting if it comes to a Poll! which they currently offer. I was During the month I made strong fortunate to be asked to attend a representations to members of the meeting at the Community Office on SLDC Cabinet regarding the legal the 12th January chaired by our position of the Tennis Courts at proactive local MP Tim Farron and Guldrey and (at the time of going to attended by the Doctors, and press) I am quietly confident that the representatives from YDNPA, District Council will agree to sell the Sedbergh Parish Council and land to the Parish Council which will Sedbergh School. Strong views were hopefully secure the facility for the

Page 8 Town for the foreseeable future. County Council elections in May of Following the SLDC Planning this year. Fenner will already be Committee’s decision to refuse known to many of you as an active Planning Consent for the proposed local campaigner who combines his Wind Farm at Old Hutton (Armistead) politics with a busy life running his you may not be surprised to hear that own computer business, supporting the developers have appealed his large family and being involved in against this decision which means community affairs. You will be that there will now be a full Public hearing a lot more from him over the Enquiry into the whole matter. This is next few months. likely to take place towards the end of It only remains for Peter and I to this year. It will, of course, be open to wish you all an extremely Happy and those members of the public who are Prosperous New Year. We are only a interested enough to wish to attend phone call or an email message away the hearing. and can be contacted on: A further meeting of the Gypsy Ian McPherson: Tel. 015396 20648 Liaison Committee (now called The [email protected] Travelling and Settled Community Peter Woof: Tel. 015396 20857 Respect Group) took place on the 5th [email protected] G December at the Kirkby Lonsdale Institute and was well attended. In particular the Chief Executive of SLDC was able to be present as well as representatives from the Highway Authority alongside the usual District and Parish Councillors and officers from the various Authorities. As For a personal service always at these meetings there was a in an impartial world lively debate. It was agreed that Home and Farm visits (free) more discussion and liaison needed by prior arrangement to take place between SLDC and Agricultural Matters Wills Eden District Council and the Probate Trusts and Tax Conveyancing Family Commercial Transactions respective Chief Executive’s will seek to progress this with a view to Eden’s Contact: Michael McGarry Multi Agency Strategic Co-ordinating Tel: 01969 667000 Group model being applied across E-mail [email protected] the whole area. The next meeting will th take place on the 6 February. Market Place 7 Railway Street Hawes Leyburn On a more party political note I am North Yorkshire North Yorkshire delighted to announce that Fenner DL8 3QS DL8 5EH

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Page 9 DENT PARISH COUNCIL Dentdale Cricket Club £300 Although there was no meeting in 2009-10 Budget and Precept January, there was a lengthy agenda The December meeting discussed for the December meeting and the the draft Parish Council budget for items below were some of those 2009-10. The projected expenditure discussed. The full minutes are of £13,315 exceeded the projected published as usual on the Dentdale income of £9,230 by £4,085. This website. www.dentdale.com. excluded car park income and Parish Council Grants expenditure and assumed that the The following grants totalling £1,650 Parish Council’s share of the council were approved, in addition to the tax (the precept) stayed the same as £2,100 already awarded in this last year. The deficit would reduce to financial year: £2,499 if the projected surplus from Citizens’ Advice £100 the car park was added. Dent C of E Primary School £500 After discussion, it was decided to Dent Oral History Project £250 meet the shortfall by: Dent Pre School £200 • increasing the precept by £730 Dent Reading Room £200 • covering £615 of the playing Dentdale Choir £100 field’s costs by fundraising or by

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drawing on reserves unable to reach agreement with the • taking £1,154 from the Parish landowner over the purchase of the Council’s reserves to cover the land for the proposed Ghyllside remaining deficit. development of twelve affordable In taking the decision about the houses. As a result, they had precept for 2009-10, the Council switched the funding to another compared Dent’s position with the project and were withdrawing their other Cumbrian parishes: planning application. In the light of • Between 2002-3 and 2008-09, this disappointing news, the Parish parish precepts in the county Council agreed to explore other increased by an average of 50%, options for affordable housing whereas Dent’s precept increased developments in the Dale with Two by only 30%. If Dent’s had Castles and other interested parties. increased at same rate at the rest Sites for Future Affordable Housing of Cumbria, its precept for 2008- Development 09 would have been £8,250 Looking further ahead, the Yorkshire instead of £7,170. Dales National Park Authority has • In the current year, the cost of asked the Parish Council to help it Dent’s precept was £20.45 per find sites that are suitable for building year for a Band D household. affordable housing over the next This compares with £28.22 for the fifteen years. YDNPA are inviting highest of the six similar sized owners of land, particularly in or on parishes in Cumbria. the edge of villages like Dent and The budget is published in full on Gawthrop, to contact them if they the Parish Council pages of the might be interested in releasing their Dentdale website www.dentdale.com. land for housing development. Any Proposed Ghyllside Development site approved by YDNPA and The December meeting was included in its development plan informed by Two Castles Housing would in effect receive outline Association that they had been (Continued on page 12)

Page 11 planning permission, so there are considerable potential benefits. More details can be found in the YDNPA advert elsewhere in Lookaround, or by contacting Peter Maples, Dent Parish Clerk, on 21295. Campervans and Motor Homes The December meeting reviewed the Council’s policy on the use of the car park for storage of camper vans and motor homes, as an increase in stramongate press demand for storage from residents meant that the existing policy was no printers longer workable. The Council decided to prohibit the overnight parking of camper vans and motor st homes from January 1 2009, but those who had been using it for storage were given until March 31st to make alternative arrangements. Road Accidents Discussions have taken place with printers Cumbria Highways following the tragic accident in Flood Lane. A number of suggestions from Dent of residents for improvements to the road were discussed at the Sedbergh Lookaround December meeting and subsequently the Clerk arranged an on-site meeting between two parish councillors, Cumbria Highways, the police, the Fire Service and a number of residents. As a result, Cumbria Highways agreed as a matter of Stramongate Press Aynam Mills some urgency to draw up proposals Little Aynam Kendal Cumbria LA9 7AH to make the road safer. Since Christmas, there has been a phone 01539 720448 further serious accident, this time in fax 01539 730253 Deepdale, where those involved were e-mail [email protected] website www.strampress.co.uk fortunate to escape with relatively minor injuries. The Parish Council’s response to this will be discussed at

Page 12 its next meeting in February. Replacement Car Park Permits Dentdale Music and Beer Festival If you are a Dent resident and Following the decision in principle at change your car, please remember the November meeting to support the you’ll need to obtain a new free car Music and Beer Festival, the park permit by contacting the John December meeting agreed that the Hyde, the Car Park Administrator, tel: organisers could use the grass area 25503. at the bottom of the car park as one Next Meeting of the sites for the festival, and erect The next meeting will be at 7.30pm a marquee and beer tent on it. on February 2nd in the Sedgwick Roadside verges Room. The public is welcome to A week after the December meeting, attend as always, and to raise the Chair and the Clerk addressed a matters of concern in the Public Cumbria County Council Committee, Forum item which takes place about about the way roadside verges in the 8pm. Dale are maintained. Although the Jock Cairns committee agreed to ask for a review Chair, Dent Parish Council of the situation, it will be some weeks Tel: 25655 before the outcome is known. [email protected] G

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Page 13 AUCTION MART position on the application is & HEALTH CENTRE concerned I hope that as many We have received a few letters with people as possible will take the time respect to this topic and they are all to read the contents of a small file in produced in no order of preference. the Community Office. Ed The file contains the parish council’s AUCTION MART written response to the planning Former Auction Mart/Health Centre application, the text of the verbal planning proposals submission I made as Chairman at Through the pages of Lookaround I the Planning Committee meeting on 9 would like to thank all those who have December, 2008, and the full grounds taken the trouble to write to me in for the committee’s refusal of the connection with the refusal by the application. A careful reading of this YDNP Planning Committee of the file will, I hope, correct some of the planning application in respect of the misunderstandings which persist over former Auction Mart site in Station this issue. Road. I have found the contents of Our M.P., Tim Farron, is acting as a these letters useful and informative. catalyst for a dialogue to take place As far as the parish council’s between the parties concerned with a

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new health centre in an effort to bring Main Street, the following might be about some mutual understanding, cause for reflection. co-operation and progress. The For all that anyone knows Spar parish council is fully supportive of could have already decided to close this initiative and is taking a full part in down the Main Street shop. Even it. when the retail economy is thriving it In the meantime the parish can never be assumed that a particlar councillors and I continue to take note shop will exist on a site for ever. of the views of the people of Today it is naive in the extreme to Sedbergh on this important issue. assume that Spar are prepared to Finally, I have been given to continue with what is now a understand that the funding for a new (basically) inefficient supermarket. health centre is likely to remain Without a larger, modern shop on available until April 2010. the auction mart site there may be no Vic Hopkins G Spar representation in Sedbergh at Chairman, Sedbergh Parish Council all. The present health centre does not Dear Sir meet current N.H.S. criteria and will By the time the Lookaround next certainly transfer the bulk of its health goes to print I would hope that a service to Kendal.. satisfactory solution to the matter of We will then be left with a the joint Spar/Health Centre site will deteriorating eyesore that Spar will have been reached. want to get rid of. If the YDNPA refuse planning What are the options ? permission as the result of the (1) Housing ? Not according to the Sedbergh parish council's stubborn YDNPA and what builder would want rejection of a new Spar outlet to risk developing the site in any alongside the Health Centre and the case ,having in mind the ongoing closing of the present shop on the (Continued on page 16)

Page 15 slump in the house building industry ? good hard-standing and shelter with a (2) A permanent gypsy camp.? nice meadow for the horses, close to There are now 359 official gypsy the town and a only a simple gate in pitches in the North West. The Woodside Avenue as a barrier intention of the Government,( at the The Parish Council complain every behest of the E.U) is to have 1179 by year about the brief visits to 2016 - any local objections will be Sedbergh by travellers to the Horse overruled and £ 100,000,000 has Fair at Appleby. How will they be able been set aside for this. to face their neighbours having left If Spar cannot use the land they the town open to a large permanent have bought for the purpose they gypsy site ? Don't laugh - it could hoped what easier way is there to get happen ! Mary Hill G rid of it than selling it to the Government.? No problem with the AUCTION MART price - it's only taxpayers' money. WRONG PRIORITIES (3) er - that's it Last night I attended the Emergency Until the land becomes an official meeting called by Sedbergh Medical travellers' camp it will make an Practice. My worst fears were excellent unofficial one. Unattended, realised when I listened to the feeble

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Tel: 015242 76426 Mobile: 07968 411787 explanations given by the two Parish not in favour of the proposition. I councillors in support of the decision know of no person having been to oppose the proposed plan for the asked. Spar/Health centre on the site of the Even the view of the Sedbergh old Cattle Market. Chamber of Trade had been The continual repetition of WE (the misrepresented. Parish Council) support the plan for It is very apparent that the priority of the Health centre but not the Spar the Parish council is to maintain ,at all was tedious. Apparently the said costs, .the Spar shop on Main Street, Council had never grasped the vital at the expense of sacrificing our fact that this was a joint application, future health care. Dr. Battye was this having been made abundantly kind enough to say that it was a clear at the outset. Therefore all balancing act between Spar/Health discussion as separate entities was centre; I say there is no balance irrelevant and futile. HEALTH must outweigh everything. The doctors had done their On the issue of trade being taken homework thoroughly over the past away from the town with the four years exploring all possibilities relocation of Spar, I suggest a look at and this joint plan was and is THE the neighbouring towns of Kirkby ONLY OPTION. Lonsdale and Kirkby Stephen where The opinion of the people of the opening of peripheral Sedbergh and district had been supermarkets has had quite the unfairly represented. It was quoted in opposite impact; with more trade the Westmorland Gazette by Mr . being brought into the town centres. Kevin Lancaster (member of the I understand that the vote of the Parish council, member of South Parish council does not normally Lakes council and Chairman of the carry a great deal of weight in less Yorkshire Dales Authority) that the important planning matters but surely majority of Sedbergh residents were (Continued on page 18)

Page 17 only viable solution. It comes with a Sedbergh Booktown condition - the submission of a joint

application for a new health centre

and convenience store. This shows

the futility of Sedbergh Parish

Wednesday 18th February Council’s claim to support the health 12.15pm for lunch, centre but not the new Spar shop, as 1pm lecture demonstrated by their refusal of the application. URC Church and Rooms, Our country is in deep recession, yet Main Street, Sedbergh. here is a company willing to invest a huge amount into this small town, their veto to this extraordinarily offering us a state of the art health important proposal vital to all, must centre and modern convenience store have been a huge consideration in with easy parking facilities, a few the final decision of the planning minutes’ walk from the town centre. Our Parish Council has turned down committee. this golden opportunity, giving priority We all need the very best in health to the retention (most likely short care ,and this is on offer by our forward thinking ,caring doctors .How SEDBERGH & DISTRICT lucky we are. The Parish Council must open their History societY minds and look past the Spar on Main Street, to ensure their and our future Wednesday 4th February with the best possible Health care. Old Kendal ‘Now & Then’ We can buy goods anywhere but not Trevor Hughes health. Please, no more “We support the Wednesday 18th February Health Centre but not the Spar”. Rise & Decline of Textile Manufacturing in Support the plan immediately, time is the Yorkshire Dales running out! Maureen Lamb More information can be found at Please note that this will be in www.sedberghmp.nhs.uk GMRiley G the People’s Hall and not DMH

KEEPING SEDBERGH ALIVE All meetings in Settlebeck High School, The current Health Centre no longer start at 7:30pm unless stated. ————————————————————————————————————————– conforms to mandatory standards. Everyone is most welcome to attend any or all of our lectures After four years of fruitless effort to ————————————————————————————————————————– find an alternative development site, J Chairman: Richard Cann 20771 Hall’s offer of a share in their land, at Secretary: Mike Beecroft 21878 Treasurer : Marlene Mason 20509 the old auction mart, provides the Member Sec: Richard Cann 20771

Page 18 term!) of an inadequate convenience on our behalf. According to Cllr store in the belief that the future of Blackie, sitting on the YDNP’s Sedbergh depends on this, thus planning committee, the planning condemning us to access most of our authority wrongly assumed that future health care in Kendal. We shall Sedbergh Parish Council’s opinion have the added bonus of the represented the majority of the retention of a local eyseore, the community. dilapidated cattle market site If you are not prepared to swallow reverting back to the local dumping the prescribed medicine, join the ground. huge support already amassed. Contrary to published claims, this Lobby your Parish Council and major decision has been taken YDNP’s planning committee. It is without due consultation and consent possible to get the refusal overturned, from the wider community for the but time and availability of funding are benefit of our well being! We wonder running out. There is no more time for what collective qualifications of our procrastination, only action. Parish Council possess and the Mandy and Frank Neumann G professional expertise they drew on when making an “informed” decision Dear Editor, Re: Proposed New Spar and Health Centre. We’ve had such a one sided set of opinions in the Westmorland Gazette perhaps it’s time to look at other points of view. I assume the people who wrote in to Specialist Bookshop now open in the W.G., are car owners, so it won’t Sedbergh on Thursday, Friday, Saturday & matter if they live in Garsdale or Dent. Sunday with a large If you live in Thornsbank, Cautley stock of antiquarian, second-hand & new books on Railways, Canals, Buses, Road, or the east end of town, and Trams, Motorcars, Aircraft, Shipping & are not a car owner, access to the industrial history. Some general titles also proposed new Spar and Health available. Centre becomes difficult. Ill, old or Book Tokens sold & exchanged. frail will have to deal with narrow Free Book Search Service pavements (I.e. Post Office,

61 Main Street, Sedbergh LA10 5AB Dalesman and Hairdressers). Also 015396 21111 & 01829 740693 the incline coming back into town on Station Road. It’s a drag, with www.henrywilsonbooks.co.uk e-mail: [email protected] nowhere to sit and have a rest (car A selection of our stock is also available in drivers will fail to notice this). The Dales & Lakes Book Centre 72 Main St. The Health Centre did say they were Tel: 015396 20125 having to manage an increasingly

Page 19 completely the opposite. See Kirkby Lonsdale and Kirkby Stephen (large adjacent supermarkets). Sedbergh and District needs a new 21st century Health Centre with the added services which will save patients (us) a lot of time and inconvenience of travel to Kendal and beyond. The health benefits are obvious. I feel sure there is a large majority, in the Doctors catchment area, in favour of the proposal as is. In an effort to resolve the situation may I suggest a meeting involving Doctors Lumb and Batty and a decision making representative of each of the following bodies:- The elderly population, perhaps access Health Authority, YDNPA, Spar, should be a priority as mobility is Sedbergh School, Chamber of Trade, challenged with age. Sedbergh Parish Council and other Are the Doctors’ fighting on their effected parishes e.g. Dent, Garsdale own? I see no plastic leaflets littering etc. Maybe Tim Farron M.P. could the town from the Spar or Sedbergh chair the meeting. School, even though they are set to The only item on the agenda:- gain if these plans are passed. “Sedbergh and District needs a new, Maybe the majority of Sedbergh up to date Health Centre. How do we people don’t put pen to paper, maybe make it happen. Failure to reach a it’s time they did. - BUT - They still decision is not an option.” talk to members of our Parish The health and welfare of the Council, and they are our ears and community is of paramount our voice. They receive no payment importance. Without a healthy and and give their time freely. Don’t vibrant community Sedbergh and the knock them. Tet G Yorkshire Dales themselves die. All parties have a prime Dear Editor, responsibility, legal or moral, to Firstly I will declare my position. I safeguard and look after the am totally in support of the scheme community. as it stands i.e. Health Centre and Please, please get your heads Spar. together, BE POSITIVE and find a I do not believe that this would solution. Thank you. adversely effect Sedbergh, in fact John Hyde, Dent G

Page 20 TIME TEAM RTG has decided to do something On Page 40 of the August issue of even more foolish than our normal Lookaround, there was a History mad standards. This is a comedy in Society report with respect to the two parts entitled Allo!, is this Dads Channel 4 Time Team having a ’Dig’ Army?, to be performed by the adult in Garsdale. This will feature on cast, but with musical entertainment Sunday 1st February, which is a little between the parts provided by the late for this issue but hopefully it will youngsters of Sedbergh Primary be repeated again the following week. School in the role of the ‘Evacuees The usual format of Channel 4 is to Community Choir. Refreshments will repeat the programme so it should be served and there will be a myriad appear on Saturday 7th February so of never-to-be- repeated prizes in our you should be able to see it then. G ‘Black Market Raffle’. Performance dates are Thursday WINDERMERE WINDOWS & GLASS LTD 12th, Friday 13th (aren’t we lucky!) GERALD HOLME and Saturday 14th of March, beginning at 7.30 pm. There will be Now resident in Sedbergh no matinee this year. Tickets £3.50 TEL: 015396 21444 for adults and £2 for children under MOB: 07890 784933 14, family Tickets are £10 for two ALL TYPES OF GLAZING WORK adults and two children, group tickets INCLUDING are also available. Refreshments will FITTING NEW WINDOWS & DOORS, be available as always. SINGLE OR DOUBLE GLAZING, We may well have bitten off more FACIA BOARDS & GUTTERING than we can chew but it’s for a good THE ROSE THEATRE GROUP cause that we prepare once again to Hi all and a Happy New year from make fools of ourselves and raise the RTG. We are just beginning some laughs. I’m sure you can work rehearsals for our next production out what form the show will take, from and are looking forward to performing its title! The proceeds this year are it in March. For various reasons we ear-marked for the People’s Hall, could not do a Panto this year. In which has begun to raise funds for a particular, most of our lovely young new building. The People’s Hall is a singers are swotting hard for A very well used community facility but levels - and we wish them every as we all know it is perhaps a bit success. Of course, there is plenty of dated now. It will be wonderful to additional young talent at Settlebeck. have a new building with up-to-date However, the school is performing facilities, so please help us do our bit Oliver in April, which is close to our towards making this come true by usual Panto performance date and supporting us and coming to the we didn’t want to risk overloading the show. We hope to see you there! For children at this busy time! Instead, the further information call 21808. G

Page 21 SPRING SHOW you have made and has not Another year has gone by and previously been in the Sedbergh preparations are in hand for the Show. . Moreover you do not have to SPRING SHOW – the 13th on live locally to enter. The more the Saturday 28th March, so let’s make it merrier! We look forward to seeing a lucky and successful one, and blow you and your entries. the superstition! The list of classes is The Schedules and Entry Forms will printed in this issue of Lookaround, be widely available in Town. Further so please look carefully and enter as details in the Next Lookaround. many classes as you can. There are CLASSES FOR THIS YEAR’S a few changes in this forthcoming SPRING SHOW show. The class for Promotional SECTION 1 HANDICRAFTS Stands for Local Organisations has A patchwork item. A scale model, been discontinued in order to allow us own design or kit. A new item from to concentrate all our energy on the something old (any material). A one splendid venue, namely the wooden item. A hand woven item. A People’s Hall. The show will start cross stitch article (indicate if own one-hour later, at 1.00pm, but design). An item of embroidery (other refreshments will be available all the than class 6 or 8). Canvas work. time the show is open. PLEASE Hand spun wool. A pincushion. encourage all your family to take Beadwork. Bobbin lace. A metal part – the more the merrier! item. A hand made rug. A hand Parents – please encourage your made card. A decorated Easter children to work on some entries at bonnet (any style or material). Any home in addition to those that we craft item not included above. hope the school will submit. SECTION 2 HAND MADE TOYS Remember that you (adults) do not A soft toy, knitted, sewn, or have to have produced your items in crocheted. A glove puppet. A toy the last twelve months (baking made from scrap material. A dressed excepted!), as long as it is something doll (doll may be bought). Any handmade toy not included above. SECTION 3 FLOWERS AND PLANTS A house plant. An exhibit including artificial or preserved material. A ‘garden on a plate’. A petite exhibit in green and white. A foliage Carpets & Floor Coverings arrangement. ‘Springtime’ - an Supplied & fitted arrangement of any style. A table Telephone arrangement for a children’s party. A 07771 97 00 96 modern exhibit with a literary theme.

Page 22 SECTION 4 GARMENTS SECTION A hand knitted garment in a single PRE-SCHOOL colour. A hand knitted multi-coloured A decorated paper plate. A crown. garment. A hand knitted scarf. A A picture of flowers – any medium. crocheted article or garment. A sewn An Easter card. A picture by a group garment. A knitted baby garment. of children – any medium. SECTION 5 HOME PRODUCE RECEPTION YEAR Sugar craft. Fruit pie. Savoury flan. An animal made out of vegetables, Six biscuits of any variety. Six fruit, or foliage. A decorated paper butterfly buns. A novelty cake plate. A picture of an animal. A pasta necklace. (judged for decoration only). YEARS 1 & 2 Fruitcake. Four fruit scones. Handwriting of a nursery rhyme, Gingerbread 8” square. Round “Little Bo Peep”. A model made of shortbread. Six flapjack pieces. any material. An observational Unfilled and fatless sponge cake. drawing from a tree or flower. A Victoria sandwich (filled with bookmark. raspberry jam). Swiss roll. Pot of YEARS 3 & 4 jam. Pot of marmalade. Pot of fruit Handwriting of “Humpty Dumpty”, jelly. Pot of lemon curd. Pot of (for the W. Milburn & Sons cup). A chutney. Bottle of homemade wine mosaic animal, bird, or insect. A (includes mead). Pot of clear honey. mask. An animal made from Pot of set honey. Pot of heather vegetables, fruit, or foliage. honey. Piece of honeycomb. Wax YEARS 5 & 6 products. A collage of sequins and buttons of SECTION 6 ART a bird. A flower arrangement in a Artwork: still life (any medium, any half grapefruit. A sewn design of a form). Artwork: portrait (including bird, animal, or flowers. A birthday animals). Artwork: landscape. A card. pottery article. A three-dimensional YEAR 7 AND ABOVE object (other than pottery). A hand crafted article – any material, SECTION 7 PHOTOGRAPHY including wood or metal. A congratulations card. A computer Colour photograph of animal or bird. generated poster for a local event. A Colour photograph of child. Colour wrapped present (judged for photograph of local landscape. decoration only). Colour photograph other than any of "Urgently needed, those old sheets the above. Any sporting photograph. which you no longer use. We want Black and white photograph – not them to make table coverings (very tinted. Black and white portrait elegant!) for the SPRING SHOW. (including animals). A photograph Please call 21697 and ask for Wendy. taken in Sedbergh, Dent or Howgill. Many thanks." G SECTION 8 CHILDREN’S

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FESTIVAL OF IDEAS competition to find the best What’s Going to be Sedbergh’s Big community-spirited idea from the Idea? town’s young people and children. Whilst the 2009 Festival of Ideas The Book Town has put up a £200 isn’t scheduled to take place until cash prize for the winning idea. July, the organisers have already Local teenagers and children are been busy hatching their own ideas being encouraged to come up with an for an annual competition to find the idea that will make life better for best community-minded idea from groups of people or individuals who Sedbergh’s children and young live in or around the town. It must be people. an idea that has a positive and lasting As Lookaround readers will certainly effect on the lives of people living in know, the Festival of Ideas is Sedbergh. There will be one winning designed to encourage imagination, idea and the Book Town will innovation and new thinking – it’s a undertake to put that idea into festival that thrives on new ideas. And practice. that means ideas from everyone! In early February an information What’s the Big Idea? is a new leaflet and entry form will be

Page 24 distributed to students and pupils at complete one of the What’s the Big all Sedbergh schools. In this way we Idea? entry forms (available from all will find out what young people and schools in the town or from the children would like to see happen in Tourist Information Centre and other the town and learn more about who locations) describing their own ‘big they would like to help. idea’ and how it might prove of “This is a competition that’s bound benefit to local people. to appeal to the town’s younger And according to John, “The best generation,” says John Rice, Director ideas will be ones that are simple, of the Ideas Festival, “who better to practical and achievable; and it ask for new ideas than young people should not cost a lot of money to put and children…they’re brimming and your idea into practice! And just think, buzzing with creativity and in five or ten years from now of the imagination! For this competition all young people and children who will they need to do is come up with a have provided Sedbergh with a practical idea that would benefit a legacy of new developments and particular group of people or benefits that only they could dream individuals in the town. It could be a up. This is a competition that will help simple idea that helps elderly people, develop a strong sense of community very young children, disabled people, involvement in the hearts of the shopkeepers, farmers, teenagers, hill younger generation.” walkers, families, church-goers, A Panel of Adjudicators drawn booksellers or anyone else in our together by Sedbergh Book Town will community.” judge the competition and the Book Young people and children should Town, with help from other local organisations, will undertake to put the winning idea into practice. Entries CHIROPODIST will be accepted from students and HPC Registered pupils who attend Sedbergh’s five schools. Young people or children Kay Whittle who live in the town but who attend MSSCh DipPodMed MBChA schools outside Sedbergh are also Surgery encouraged to enter. Completed entry Pedi-Care House, forms should be handed in at, or sent Howgill Lane, to: Sedbergh What’s the Big Idea? The Ideas Festival, Tourist Information Centre, Tel: 015396 22122 72 Main Street, Sedbergh, Cumbria LA10 5AD by Friday 27th February Appointments 10:00 - 4:00 2009. Closed Mondays More information from: H.J.Hall “Softop” Socks up to size 15!! [email protected] G

Page 25 TIM FARRON MP I know it is a little while ago now but Sedbergh Bowling Club can I still wish everybody a very Happy New Year. I hope 2009 is a A G MA M very good year for you. White Hart Sports & Social Club My first visit to Sedbergh in 2009 Committee Room was certainly a constructive one. I had a very good meeting with the key Thursday 26th February parties involved in the proposals for 7:30 pm the new Medical Centre on the old Auction Mart site to try and find a way All Welcome through this issue. I believe that one of the most constructive contributions there is a referendum where I can make in a situation like the one everyone can have a vote on the we find ourselves in over this issue is options available. I am investigating by getting all the interested groups how we can make this happen. together in one room, talking to each Additionally, a new medical centre for other and trying to find a way through Sedbergh would clearly be a good the difficulties. We had thing, especially in these times when representatives from the Parish the Government is putting ever Council, the District Council, the greater emphasis on the primary care National Park and of course the that people receive from their GPs. Doctors all present. However, it is vitally important that This was the start of a process that any new centre is easily accessible to will take a little time but whatever the all the residents of the area. The outcome it seems to me that there challenge is of course to resolve all of are a few important things we must all these pressures but this is never try really hard to deliver: firstly we going to be easy whilst we have the cannot let this issue divide the people threat that funding may disappear if of Sedbergh, this is one of the decisions are not made quickly reasons why I have proposed that hanging over the discussions. As a

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Page 26 result one of my first questions of the Park had been empty on Market Day PCT is to see if there is anyway that leaving the area impossible for the funding can be extended into next traders to get on to. It only took me a year. I have also asked them whether few minutes on the phone to Cumbria there could be any more money County Council’s Highway’s Hotline available so that alternative more to get them to commit to refilling it, in central but possibly more expensive fact I think it was actually full within sites can also be examined. That way hours of my call. Not that I want to we can have a range of options to discourage anyone from asking for vote on should the referendum go my help if they need it but the number ahead. is 0845 609 6609 if you have any As I said this is the start of a process road issues in future. and we need some answers from the As ever my contact details are Tim PCT before we can move to the next Farron MP, at Acland House, stage. But I will be doing my best to Smokehouse Yard, Stricklandgate, ensure we receive these answers as Kendal LA9 4ND or [email protected]. soon as possible. uk On another positive note we heard Thanks for your support that the grit bin on Joss Lane Car Tim Farron MP G

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Page 27 PEPPERPOT CLUB String Workshop. Sedbergh Primary School, Sunday, November 23rd 2008 The local branch of the European String Teachers Association and Sedbergh Pepperpot Club jointly organised this very successful workshop for strings up to Grade 4 at Sedbergh Primary School, by kind permission of Mrs Maggie Cullen. Although it is some weeks since the event took place, it remains very vivid in the memory. Twelve Sedbergh children attended Rachel Moore ran the workshop with the workshop free of charge, thanks to a the help of three other local string generous grant from The Trott Musical teachers. Rachel (cello/bass) is the Foundation. Making Music also popular director of Lake District Summer provided a useful grant towards the Music’s Young String Venture. She also running of the workshop. Altogether works on the award-winning Junior over fifty people, aged seven to sixty Strings Project at the Royal Northern plus, including a few teachers, came College of Music in Manchester and from a wide area, braving the overnight trains string teachers there. Penny snowfalls. Legat (violin and viola), who teaches the The day’s programme included a wide violin at Sedbergh Primary School and variety of music with orchestral at Settlebeck and is also involved with sessions, sectionals for upper and lower the Pepperpot Monday orchestra, was strings and singing for all, and assisting, as were Alice Hurley (violin), concluded with a play-through for who teaches the violin around parents and friends, showing the full Cumbria, and Anthea Meuli (cello), who range of activities. With over thirty teaches at Cartmel Music Centre. violins, two violas, nine cellos and four basses filling the hall, it was an impressive experience which provided Stephenson & Wilson a unique opportunity for players of this 15 Fell Close, Sedbergh LA10 5AP level to work together in a large ensemble, at the same time as General Builders enjoying a very happy social occasion.

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Page 28 DENTDALE on the 26th-28th June 2009, when a MUSIC & BEER FESTIVAL Free Festival will take place. You might be able to take the name A wide range of music, including The Dent Folk Festival out of Dent, but eclectic Duncan McFarlane Band and nobody can take music and the legendary guitarist Gordon Giltrap entertainment out of Dentdale. That who will strut their stuff, folk from the seems to be the public mood in the British Isles, North America and Dale itself if the views of those who beyond, as well as blues, jazz, attended the Dentdale Music & Beer bluegrass, folk-rock and Cajun, is Festival Committee's public planned. Dent and its environs will be presentation on Monday 8th entertained by singers and dance December are anything to go by. troupes, as well as street and The valley is home to many talented children's entertainers singers, musicians and entertainers. All this combined with a Beer At the same time many more find it Festival seems guaranteed to provide an attractive, welcoming and unique a lively weekend for all the family. environment in which to perform, as Over £1,300 has now been collected much for their own enjoyment as that or pledged in sponsorship and artists of their appreciative audiences. from far and wide are signing up for The Dentdale Music & Beer Festival the event, the majority offering their Committee Chairman, Matt Clayton, services free of charge. As plans outlined wide ranging and ambitious progress further information can be plans to harness this enthusiasm to obtained from www.dentdale.com and ensure Dentdale enjoys its traditional www.dentmusicandbeer.com. weekend of music, singing and dance Malc Cowle G

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Page 29 SEDBERGH JUNIOR SCHOOL Sedbergh Junior School (SJS) for boys and girls aged 4-13 has commenced this Term at its new location in Sedbergh. The School moved over the Christmas break from its former location of Bentham, where Mrs Hirst with some it was based for six years. of the new Pupils. SJS’s Sedbergh campus includes new classrooms, secure play areas and footpaths, and a boarding house. aged 7-13, plus it has a new Pre-prep It also takes advantage of the department for ages 4-6. Sedbergh outstanding facilities and world-class School buses are now running daily tutors of the senior School, enhancing from/to Bentham, Kendal, Kirkby SJS pupils’ academic, music and arts Lonsdale, Lancaster, Penrith and opportunities. Further, it has provided Windermere. on-site access to more extensive Open Day sports facilities, including numerous Parents and residents of Sedbergh playing fields, an astro turf pitch, who would like the chance to look indoor pool and armoury. around SJS are welcome to attend For the SJS girls in particular, there our Open Day on 31 January, 10.30- is a broader sports programme in 2pm. Sedbergh, with provision for popular For information about this Open Day, activities such as dance and horse- or in general, please visit: www. riding. The move also provides sedberghjuniorschool.org, or contact younger girls with beneficial exposure the SJS School Office and Admission: to the exceptional role models in 015396 22295 or Sedbergh’s senior girls. [email protected] SJS offers day, weekly, flexi- Sara Hirst in Brief boarding places for boys and girls Following a distinguished career at Millfield and Kelly College, Sara Hirst first arrived in Sedbergh in 1995, as D. S. Dodd English, History and Games mistress, mother of three, and wife of Senior Joiner/Carpenter School Headmaster, Christopher. In David Stephen Dodd 2001, as Senior Mistress, she Joiner spearheaded Sedbergh’s highly 39 Castlegarth successful co-education drive (Senior Tel: 015396 21730 and Junior level). Her phenomenal Mob: 07701 057857 energy and vision are now committed to making SJS the best Prep School [email protected] in the UK. G

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PINFOLD CARAVAN PARK

I feel that I should perhaps whisper

this very quietly in case someone notices and the bubble bursts … STUART MCMINN BSc HND ABEng There is a small population increase in Sedbergh – down at Pinfold Park. A number of canny people, some in the latter stages of their working lives, are moving into the lodges, leisure PLANNING/ BUILDING REGULATION homes and static caravans with a APPROVALS view to selling their homes and taking FOR NEW HOUSES, COMMERCIAL up permanent residence. Long term PROPERTIES, EXTENSIONS, ALTERATIONS & residents of Sedbergh will know that REFURBISHMENT. this is not in fact technically possible – the site holds a licence for ten months a year – but finding an Architectural & Building Surveying Services. alternative place to live for two Planning Supervisors. Land Surveying. months a year is, in their opinion, a Farm & Barn Regeneration. small price to pay for being able to spend their twilight years in such an Tel 01524 781081 Mobile 07729845147 West Winds North Rd Holme Nr Carnforth idyllic spot. Lancs LA6 1QA I’m using the ‘third person’ yet my husband and I are one of that very happy band. We look forward to, like the birds, migrating each winter. very lovely static caravan, and by the It was just over a year ago that, time March 2008 came around and having explored the possibility of we could actually live here for a buying a second home in France, weekend, decided that this is the toyed with the notion of getting a place we want to spend the rest of motorhome, considered a touring our lives and promptly upgraded to a caravan, we arrived in Sedbergh to larger unit. look at static caravans. This was the We discovered the ‘Lookaround’ result of an internet search which was early on – a recommendation from limited by the need to get from visiting the landlady of the B and B we stayed family in the North East to our home in. It contains all the information a at the time in Cheshire. newcomer might need and more, it It was, as they say, love at first gives a flavour of the locality. I hope sight – or should that be site? We did to make an occasional contribution. I view a few caravan parks in the Peak hope to become a real part of the District the following weekend, but we local community that has made us so had already lost our hearts to very welcome already. Sedbergh. We returned, bought a Helen Wilberforce G

Page 31 POSITIVE THINKING was thrown and broke his leg. Some “Positive Thinking: Panacea or time later all the young men in the Peril?”, is the title of a new book by village were called up to join the Sedbergh author Deyna Hirst, army, but the old man’s son was published under her pen name Jayne unable to go because of his broken Raymond. This book is addressed to leg. All manner of things happen in all of us who, at one time or another, the great play of life, some of which have been caught in a low mental we interpret as being positive and state, unable either to pull ourselves others as negative. together or to activate one of those There are many books about positive thinking routines beloved of positive thinking available, but what self-help manuals. makes Deyna’s book special is that it Early on in the book, Deyna gives a asks questions which penetrate into lovely personal example of a day the nature of “positive thinking” more when she went out into the Howgills deeply. We are fragile beings on her bike, which illustrates perfectly governed internally by our biology, how things can change from instincts and conditioning and “positive” to “negative” in an instant. It influenced from outside by everything is rather reminiscent of the well- that happens around us, The idea known story of the Chinese sage, that we can arrange for our thoughts whose horse broke out of its field and to be positive at all times simply does ran away. The next day it returned not ring true. When a person in our bringing three wild horses with it. A community suffers misfortune, we all few days later the man’s son was feel sad. When Barack Obama is training one of the new horses and elected president the whole world feels a little more hopeful. At times we may remember some technique we ACUPUNCTURE have read about for feeling positive, at other times we may not. Positive

thoughts are not under our control.

One of the early books advising the use of positive thinking is “You Can I treat Heal Your Life” by Louise Hay a wide variety of conditions. (copyrighted in 1984). The method Free half hour here is one of repeating affirmations initial assessment reflecting the situation as you would and telephone advice. like it to be. Opening the book at random, I discovered the following June M. Parker affirmation designed to help one with Dip Ac, MBAcC making changes: “I cross bridges with

49 Bainbridge Road, Sedbergh joy and with ease”. My experience of Tel: 015396 20972 using this method is that, while there is one voice in my head repeating the Page 32 desired phrase, there is another of our being and it may, at times, be quieter but persistent voice saying, possible to shift our attention to for example, “What rubbish, crossing deeper layers, where the positive/ bridges with ease. You know you negative dichotomy is absent. Deyna can’t do it”. In contrast, the reaction of suggests simply, “breathe through this “second voice” to a repeated into the inner layer of your being”. Try phrase such as “The present moment it and see. drops into eternity” (taken from the This book brings new perspectives front of the Mandala Yoga Ashram to the concept of positive thinking: newsletter, which arrived yesterday) motherhood, depression and is absolute silence. enlightenment to name but three. If Deyna’s book has a very good you have any interest at all in any of chapter on awareness, in which she the issues raised here, I would urge uses the yoga model of koshas or you to read the book for yourself. I layers of our being. She argues that will not offer to lend it to you, as I positive thinking belongs to the most think you should buy your own copy. superficial kosha as it is part of our It is available from the Tourist interaction with the physical world. Information Centre or from www. Our awareness permeates all levels jayneraymond.com. June Parker G

Page 33 FOG LIGHTS - £30 FINE There seem to be an increasing number of motorists who drive around MATHS TUITION at night with their front fog lights Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, permanently on. The police in GCSE or A Level

Cumbria obviously don’t think it Regular or occasional lessons worthwhile to stop such motorists and with an experienced Teacher to suit apply the on-the-spot fine of £30 if individual needs visibility is better than 100 metres Contact: Marjory Glover (which also applies to rear high 015396 25438 intensity lights). I am puzzled by this since the practice is potentially dangerous in conditions of clear are they all young and inexperienced visibility. Dazzle from oncoming and don’t realise what these lights are vehicles’ dipped headlights is bad for. Fuel consumption also suffers as enough without unnecessarily the generator has an extra electrical doubling your light output in the face load on it. You may/may not like to of oncoming traffic. I was stopped by read some rather more caustic the police near Aberystwyth one night comments on the subject of “foggers” many years ago for driving with my at www.weeklygripe.co.uk/arc161. fog lights on and I had only just asp Any additional comments Ed? emerged, within metres, from a thick Also, there was a recent report blanket of fog over the mountains. that a police officer said that anyone Visibility was little better than 100 driving with fog lights in clear metres though by then but I was still conditions could justifiably be pulled politely asked to turn them off. No over and breathalised on the grounds fine applied thankfully. that their improper use of vehicle Fog lights are not driving lights and lights might be a result of drinking. add no more illumination whatsoever Perhaps this is an extra thought- to the road any distance ahead in provoking deterrent. RB clear conditions if they are adjusted Another issue that I can never correctly. Turn them on and off whilst understand is that as well as the on dipped beam and this fact is very above comments, the amount of obvious, so what is the point? drivers that put on their windscreen (They’re of little use in fog to the wipers “because of poor visibility driver for that matter since their main (rain)” yet fail to put on their dipped purpose is to make your vehicle more headlights “because of poor visibility”. visible to other road users rather than For many years, I taught very young magically cut through the fog.) children about Cycling safety and the Perhaps many motorists drive around most important words I used were unaware of what the glowing warning “SEE AND BE SEEN”. Please use light on the fog light switch means, or your lights sensibly. Ed G Page 34 FEBRUARY GARDENING I wonder why it is, that many winter flowering shrubs have such a strong sweet fragrance. Perhaps in their TIMBER FOR SALE native countries there are sunny ∗ Kiln Dried Oak & Hardwoods of winter days with a variety of insects furniture & joinery grade on the wing, to seek them out and ∗ Fresh Sawn Oak & Larch structural pollinate them, but in my garden, beams cut to size insects are very scarce and so, the ∗ Fire wood bundles poor plants just have to do with me ∗ Wood chippings & Sawdust looking (and sniffing) at them. First into bloom for the winter is For help & advice contact Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’. Philip Richardson This has bunches of small, tubular Cabinet Makers flowers, deep pink in bud and Timber Merchant opening to pale pink or white. The & Sawmillers fragrance is sweet and heavy and the Hill Top plant seems to thrive in any situation Newbiggin-on-Lune and any soil. Keeping it within bounds 015396 23422 is usually the only problem, but it will www.philiprichardson.co.uk stand a severe pruning so it can be beaten into shape if necessary. Next out, usually in February, is Witch Hazel – Hamamelis mollis produces a wonderful display of pale ‘Pallida’. Best described by a visiting yellow flower spikes with a sweet lily schoolchild at Harlow Carr as “grated of the valley fragrance. Something cheese on sticks”, it fortunately (and it isn’t me) pollinates these, as smells far cleaner and fresher than a the plant goes on to produce purple bit of old cheddar. Witch Hazel grows berries, much enjoyed by the birds. best on an acid soil and likes to be Lastly, and often overlooked, is sheltered from the strongest winds. common Ivy – Hedera aquifolium Once established it is an excellent whose greenish flowers fill the air with plant for cutting – the buds, which a sweet powdery scent on a sunny resemble small knobbly fists in suede day. The Ivy in my garden all flowers gloves, will open out after a day or in late winter, but in other places it is two indoors in water, in a warm room. in bloom form November onwards. It Following on from Witch Hazel, I is much valued by all kinds of flying grow Mahonia japonica (or M. bealei). insects for its pollen and nectar, This sharp leaved evergreen took produced at the coldest time of the several years to “get its roots down” year. in my garden, but once established it Elaine Horne G

Page 35 SEDBERGH & DISTRICT HISTORY SOCIETY A score of hardy historians braved the weather on Wednesday, 3rd December, to hear a talk on Gervaise Benson given by David Boulton. Benson was probably the son of a prominent Kendal family and was born in the first decade of the seventeenth century. He obtained some legal training and became Commissary for the Archdeaconry of Richmond until 1640 when the post was abolished by Parliament. He was elected an alderman of Kendal in 1641 and in 1644 was elected as Mayor of Kendal. This meant that he was in important positions during the Civil War. Luckily details of what happened during that period have survived in a series of letters from the Minister of Kendal Church, Henry Macey, to Lord Wharton. Under the former the Presbyterian system of church government was implemented 1646 he was appointed a J.P. for in Kendal, a move which had Kendal even though he owned no Benson’s support. property there. In fact Borrett Farm in In 1644 Kendal was raided by Sedbergh was all he owned at that Royalists and they captured Benson time. In 1650 he was ejected as an who was taken to Skipton Castle but alderman along with several others in later released. Benson spent his own what appears to have been an money on the defence of Kendal and organised coup. Macey wrote to Lord Wharton asking Nationally under Cromwell the if Benson, whom he called Colonel, Independents had prospered at the could be compensated by being expense of the Presbyterians and made responsible for probate and Benson was initially in favour of this wills in the region. The presence of but eventually he grew disillusioned Scots, the allies of Parliament, even with the Independents and around Kendal caused annoyance to became a Seeker. As a result when the locals and Benson was worried Fox came to Sedbergh in 1652 he that the people would turn against attended a Seeker meeting at Borrett Parliament as a consequence. In to try to convince them he could

Page 36 1653. In the same year she was imprisoned for interrupting a sermon in church, a favourite Quaker Independent practice. Whilst in prison in York she Financial Advisers gave birth to a son, Emanuell. In 53 Highgate, Kendal LA9 4ED Phone: 01539 735002 Fax: 01539 741812 1655 she died and was buried in the

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Veritas Financial Planning is a trading style of Turner Scott MGI Ltd, just before the restoration of Charles which is authorised & regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registered in England & Wales 05001959. II as king. During the 1660s he produced another pamphlet and in 1675 he joined a sect of Quakers supply what they were seeking against Fox. A meeting was held at spiritually. Benson was not initially Draw Well near Sedbergh to try to convinced but later that year joined heal the rift between the sects and the Quaker movement and became reconciliation gradually happened. In its unpaid legal adviser. 1679 he died after an eventful life in In 1652 Benson was put in charge of which his religious views had Sedbergh and Dent by the changed several times but he proved Cromwellian government. He did not an important figure in the rise of approve of the conduct of the Minister Quakerism. of Sedbergh whom he, rightly or His son, Emanuell, survived, despite wrongly, accused of frequenting all his mother’s early death, and moved fourteen of the pubs there. The area to Dent where he married and had was conservative in its views and as two children baptised into the Church a result Benson’s support of of England whom he called Gervaise Quakerism made him unpopular. His and Dorothy after his parents. wife, Dorothy, was also a convinced The chairman thanked David Quaker and walked to Carlisle to visit Boulton for a most interesting and Fox when he was in prison there in informative lecture. G

Page 37 KILLINGTON WI plus others that will come to our We shall not forget Christmas lunch notice as the year progresses. December 2008, it snowed, deterring Dave Smith, retired headteacher of eight of our members and friends Settlebeck High School was our first from making the journey to the speaker of the year. Having walked to Pheasant at Casterton. John O’Groats from Lands End we Twenty-six of us gathered soon after wanted to hear all about it and see twelve noon for a mouth- watering the pictures. We were not lunch eaten with the sound of disappointed. The background story Christmas carols quietly playing in the leading to the walk aptly set the background. One of our very new scene. members, Barbara Leigh, who Photographs were forgotten for the assures us she never wins raffle time being as Dave picked up the prizes, won the cracking Christmas rucksack he had used for the journey Hamper put together by the and proceeded to empty it of its committee for the occasion. Barbara contents showing us everything he had the winning raffle ticket at the had carried and why he had chosen Institute meeting in November plus that particular item. The main criteria the first two lucky numbers drawn at for each item was how much did it the January meeting. She declined weigh, remembering that everything the privilege of winning which meant had to be carried on his back each Brenda Nolan and Anne Jones both and every day. We marvelled at his took a prize home. kit, he was short of nothing, even a Eight members sent apologies for blow up mattress for comfort at night the January meeting. We welcomed in his tent, and speakers for the Maggie I’ Anson as a new member tiniest of radios for evening and two visitors, one a friend of Anne entertainment. All in all the pack Jones from Bradford -on- Avon and weighed in at an acceptable 26lbs at one who is thinking of joining us. it’s heaviest. So, those of us who 2009 looks like being another busy struggle to shut our suitcases when year with various activities planned, going on holiday were given alternative ideas.

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show, so a carefully selected few BUILDER showed us parts of each of the PLASTERER counties he passed through on his ROOFER way north. QUALITY WORK Our tea hostesses spoilt us with a delicious selection of homemade Tel: 015396 20907 cakes. Page 38 Shirley and Edith were joint winners If that seems a long way into the of the Christmas card competition. future, then the Consultative meeting Normal service will resume next is only a day or so away as I write month. Fingers crossed Wendy will when three of us will be joining have shaken off her cold by then and members from all over the Federation be back in the reporters seat. to hear and select the Resolutions to Get well soon Wendy and all of our go forward to the Annual General other members who are unwell. We Meeting to be held in the Albert Hall look forward to seeing each one of London in early June. This year it is you back on form and with us in the turn of Dentdale to send a February. Susan Sharrocks G delegate. We have sent in our entry for the DENTDALE WI Federation competition “One Step The first meeting of the New Year Further” in the form of a leaflet giving and we had a good attendance in details of a local circular walk in Dent spite of cold weather, coughs and via Throstle Hall and Coventree and colds etc. Catherine Sugden, our returning by road or river giving President, welcomed new, returning excellent views of Dentdale on the members and visitors. The 2009 way. programme promises an interesting A majority decision was made to year of speakers and meetings. send a letter of support to Sedbergh Catherine introduced the new Medical Centre in their bid to provide Committee. Margaret Fothergill has a new medical centre at the Old agreed to be Vice President and also Auction mart. to re-convene the Public Affairs Our Speaker for the evening was Committee. We shall be fund raising Helen Winn, living here in Dent and and a date for the diary – 24th July – known to most of us. Helen was when we hope to hold another speaking on “Children in Custody” Gardeners’ Question Time following from her experience as a Senior on from the success of one held a Officer working at Lancaster Farms few years ago! Young Offenders Institution for the past eleven and a half years. Helen presented a human face of the prison service as she told us about the day DriveTime to day running of Lancaster Farms Driving Tuition and the aims for the juvenile Beginners●PassPlus●RefresherCourses population aged between 15 and 17 with whom she works. We all realised Forprofessional&patienttuition how little we knew about the system. We were informed as to how DavidMorganADITel.01539731296 meticulous was the form filling on www.drivetimekendal.com behalf of the young offender in order (Continued on page 40) Page 39 to present as complete a profile as possible for the court and the prison At the Chair Workshop to work with. There is a dedicated • Chair seating staff covering every area of need and • Supplies – cane, rush, seagrass, ropes, cords offering a wide range of activities and • Tool sharpening ------skills. It was a very informative talk,  Haberdashery even so, Helen took a great many  Bead jewellery question from a very interested  Restringing  Repairs – clasps, earrings, chains audience. This month Freda Meakin won the 99 Main Street, Sedbergh. competition and Dorte-lis Stephenson Tel 015396 21489 the raffle prize. The next meeting is on 11th February when Kay Whittle lovely and sang beautifully. will be talking on Foot Care. New We gave a warm welcome to our members and visitors always speaker Maureen Lamb who gave us welcome. G the History of Farfield Mill and how a dream had become reality when a HOWGILL W. I. group of enthusiastic people in Our annual Domino Drive was held Sedbergh set about raising money to at Howgill in November. It was restore the four storey woollen mill. successful and we would like to thank In 2001 they were able to celebrate everyone who turned out to support the opening of Farfield Arts and us. Heritage Centre promoting our Christmas celebrations took place at cultural heritage in the Yorkshire the Sedbergh Golf Club. We all Dales. enjoyed a traditional Christmas Sheelagh Dennis thanked Maureen Dinner followed by several games of for sharing the story of Farfield, dominoes, after which we all won a bringing it back to life and opening mystery prize. the doors to the public. Mary Silva’s Christmas Tree Still on the theme of wool Mary Silva Decoration won the competition with won the competition with a hand Helen Beare second. There were knitted blanket with Vera Hodgson several lucky raffle winners. An second. Raffle winner was Vera. enjoyable evening of good food, fun The evening rounded off with a and friendship. Jacobs Join followed by a The first meeting of 2009 was held progressive barn dance. A lively at Howgill Village Hall. President warm up enjoyed by us all. Mary Silva gave a warm welcome to We meet again on 5th February eleven members. when the subject is Poems with Our singing group enjoyed taking Stuart Manger. Visitors and new part in the Carol Service at Howgill members welcome at Firbank Church Church. We all agreed they looked Hall. A. H. G

Page 40 HEALTH CENTRE Important Information regarding the “OPEN Surgeries” The open surgeries run from 08.30 to 10.30 am Monday – Friday. The open surgeries are designed to • General Building inc: offer people the chance to be seen • New Builds the same day if they have urgent • Extensions problems. Non urgent problems or • Loft Conversion ongoing problems should be • Garages discussed in a booked appointment, • Roofing with the clinician of your choice. In • Joinery inc: the past many surgeries operated • New Windows open surgeries rather than booked • appointments; there was an Fitted Kitchens expectation that you if wanted to be • Ground Works seen you would have to wait. • No Obligation Quotes Given However, we appreciate that • General Advice everybody has a busy life and that Contact: Graham Bradley: there are better things to do with your 015396 25433 or 07778874855 time that sit waiting to see us! George Baines: Over the last year, the open 015396 21287 or 07977514229 surgeries at Sedbergh have become very busy and quite often they are being used by people who do not handing out leaflets to explain the have urgent problems. open surgery to our patients. If the Consulting time is divided across the open surgeries continue to be very week into open surgeries and booked busy then we will be forced to make appointments. If the demand for open changes or even to consider surgeries increases then the number abandoning them. A busy surgery of booked appointments reduces puts clinicians under pressure, it correspondingly. If there was less affects the communication in the demand for open surgeries then we consultation and can result in errors could increase the time available to being made. booked appointments. Booked appointments are available It is surprising that the open with Drs Lumb, Hunt and with surgeries have become so busy- Heather Pilling. Dr Hunt is part-time sometimes people wait in the surgery and as such her overall consulting for over an hour to be seen, when by time is reduced but if a female simply booking an appointment they practitioner is required then patients could be in and out within 20-30mins. could consider seeing Heather Pilling Over the next few weeks we are who works full time. G

Page 41 SEDBERGH & DISTRICT There were large Neolithic HISTORY SOCIETY settlements in Smardale, remains of Members Evening megalithic forts can be seen around Susan Garnett: ‘Facts and Phantoms the Asby’s and by Rawthey Bridge, of Upper Eden’ with its mysterious face in the Susan took us on an illustrated tour stonework, not forgetting the Wolf on more familiar ground, explaining Cave, with its perfectly preserved geological elements of the dramatic child’s footprints, discovered by the mixture of landscapes in this area BBC Time Team. and how over time man had used The spoil heaps on Fell End Clouds these to advantage. The many contain remnants a huge range of ancient transport routes were used by unearthed minerals relics of Neolithic man 4000 years ago, the enormous activity. Romans from 500BC until 500AD, Perhaps some phantoms of time Anglo Saxons and Vikings. Then past remain. Was a great stack of along came the monks, drovers and gold and silver buried on Green Bell pack ponies, horse and carts, toll during one of the Reiver’s raids? Who roads, stage coaches, turnpikes and were the three bodies, one with an the railways. iron clasp on the wrist, unearthed in

Page 42 digging the foundations of one of the SEDBERGH SCHOOL railway viaducts? Netball Teams on a Roll Lord Wharton created a huge 520 A jubilant Sedbergh School 1st VII acre deer park on either side of has retained its title of County Scandale beck, displacing many Champion for the third year running, families who were conscripted to after beating Chetwynde (10-6), build its 9ft high boundary wall in Appleby Grammar (10-7) and Kirkby 1660 Stephen Grammar School (8-4) in The old ale house by the old stone November. As a result, Sedbergh bridge in Smardale could tell a tale. It progresses through to the North West was here that Robert Atkinson met Regional Finals on 31 January in conspirators in the failed Kaber Rigg plot. He was executed in 1664 for his Cheshire, along with runners up, part. Chetwynde. Then there was Elizabeth Gaunt, They will be accompanied by nee. Fothergill, who became the last Sedbergh’s U16 netball team, which woman to be burnt at the stake, at beat Chetwynde on 12 November in Tyburn in 1685. an exciting final (6-4) to claim the The monks of the Manor of County Championship crown for its Ravenstonedale enjoyed the age group. privilege of sanctuary and any criminal who had committed a capital offence was free from arrest if he could toll the holy bell in the church tower. So, with all these aspects of life past it’s perhaps not surprising to hear of strange goings-on at ‘The Black Swan’! Tony Hannam G

Sedbergh’s 1st VII Squad comprises: Paulina Ney (Team Manager), Emily Hirst (v/c),Laura Ruffman (c), Ellie Mewburn (v/c), Sarah Blue, Lauren Butler, Ellie Porter, Rebecca Fardell, Mia Taylor (Back row) Rosie Harnby, Ellie Witt, Annabel Hamilton, Amelia Bolton (Front row). G Page 43 DENTDALE METHODIST CHAPEL and Gawthrop and along with a group We have enjoyed some lovely out in Cowgill. £369.62 was raised for occasions and been challenged and Children's Society & Action For blessed through the preaching and Children. Then the Prayer Labyrinth sharing of our services, "own was set up in the schoolroom with its arrangement" in December included various "areas" for contemplation, members of the congregation taking action or prayer. On January 11th we part. closed and went to Dent Foot Chapel Following on from the visit of Mrs for the annual Covenant Service Janet Park, our Trainee Minister her where we renew our promises to be mother has offered an electronic available ,to serve, to worship God. organ to us, we have accepted this FAIR EXCHANGE. anyone else generous gift and will celebrate its interested? Do get in touch and we arrival later in the year. It was will have a get-together soon to set purchased for Skerton chapel in this in motion. It can be rather memory of Janet's father and as that different to how it was described in place of worship is to close a new the Dec/Jan Look around (page 79) home was needed. so don't let that put you off. We went Carol Singing in the village As we seek to know God's will for us

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Page 44 in reaching out into our community to Westmorland Hedge Laying share our faith and support each Association as part of its Lancashire other in prayer and action we would and Westmorland Grand Prix and it appreciate knowing of those people & was part funded by the Yorkshire situations where a listening ear, a Dales National Park Authority prayer partner or some practical help (YDNPA) Sustainable Development would be appreciated. Do contact us, Fund (SDF), which is managed by the in complete confidence. Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust. The service on Feb 22nd will be The judges were Roger Sedgwick of rather different to normal, whatever Sedbergh and George Redmayne of "normal" might be, do come along, Windermere and National Park and on March 1st we celebrate the Authority chairman Kevin Lancaster Chapel Anniversary, the joining presented the cash prizes and together of Dent and Deepdale congratulated Peter Gibson from Methodist Chapels as Dentdale. Kendal, who was the Championship God Bless. class winner and was judged the best Sarah & John Woof (25212) G hedger on the field. The individual category winners will be presented with a trophy at the Grand Prix presentation night in April E. P. C. S. next year. for all your pest control problems Full results were: Championship also tree felling Class: 1st Peter Gibson, 2nd Robert fallen trees logged or cleared for quotes, phone Bell, 3rd Henry Kirkwood Chris on Open Class: 1st Heather Swift, 2nd Tel: 015396 21531 Richard Attan, 3rd William Hodgson Mob: 0786 6007 739 Novice Class: 1st Alan Proctor, 2nd Max Roclawski, 3rd Peter Freeman Junior: 1st Henry Knowles, 2nd Neil YDNP HEDGING Strickland & 3rd Craig Proctor. G Organisers of the first hedging contest held in the Yorkshire Dales Cumbria Stove Centre National Park in December at Supply and installation of Sedbergh are giving themselves a big wood, coal and gas stoves Flue and chimney lining services pat on the back after the event Inglenook specialists proved a real crowd puller. Fully qualified and experienced And plans are in the pipeline to Hetas engineers make it a regular event in the future. 01539 821061 (day) The first Yorkshire Dales Annual 015396 25227 (evening) Hedge Laying Competition was SHOWROOM: organised by the Lancashire and 34a Main Street, Staveley, Nr Kendal Page 45 CUMBRIA WILDLIFE TRUST and in our case the whole county. A Living Lanscapes - Sir Martin Holgate necessary consequence of this is that Cumbria Wildlife Trust Sedbergh every inhabitant of the landscape Supporters’ Group hosted Sir Martin must be engaged and, if possible, Holgate on Wednesday 26th actively involved. This does not only November by kind permission of include directly involved landscape Settlebeck High School and Dr Judith managers such as farmers and Greene for his presentation on “Living developers, but also those who use Landscapes”. the landscape indirectly such as What are Living Landscapes? It those involved in the leisure industry. means developing land care practices Climate change is now accepted to that consider nature conservation be a consequence of anthropogenic across large areas of land or actions, and although there are many ‘landscapes’ and incorporating it into actions occurring to ameliorate its all aspects of human activity. This effects, temperature increase will holistic, landscape scale or ‘large continue in the foreseeable future. area’ working means considering One effect of this is that species will nature conservation not just in move further North and/or higher up pockets but across the whole country, in altitude. It is estimated that this Eden Recycling Skip Hire

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Page 53 Held on Birkrigg Common near Ulverston, this was a challenging and TO LET exposed course held in wintry PLEASANT ONE BEDROOMED FLAT conditions. Our runners competed 86, MAIN ST, SEDBERGH RENT £350 pcm, NO SMOKING well with the best athletes in the area. RING HILARY 20314 Year 7 student Lydia Gorst was selected for the area Minor Girls and Jack Sunter Team and Luke Ingham (Year 10) on Year 11 call for the area Intermediate boys Ashley Rainford and Oliver Winn teams for the County Championships Year 10 and 11 Theatre Trip to “Billy in January. Runners up were Morgan Liar” at the Dukes Theatre, Lancaster Turner-Lant (25), Rebecca Harper The play was performed ‘in the (67), Sam Haigh (44), Connie round’, taking place in the centre of Hodgson, Becky Barnes, Lydia Gill, the room while the audience Rosie Mason, Vicky Barnes (24); surrounds it, making them feel almost Lauren Wilson, Martin Bainbridge part of the play. (31) and Izaac Tyson-Hurst (35) It was full of outrageous humour and Netball tear-jerking drama and tragedy! I Settlebeck v Appleby have learnt a lot from this trip and will U-15 8-31 use the staging and acting techniques U-14 11-22 in my own Drama piece. As well as U-13 2-23 an education trip, it was also an Settlebeck v Cartmel enjoyable one! U-15 9-10 Philip Baines Year 10 U-14 11-3 Thanks to all local shopkeepers and U-13 4-4 businesses Settlebeck v Dallam I would like to say thank you all for U-13 6-1 the lovely raffle prizes you gave to U-12 12-2 Student Council Settlebeck for our annual Senior School council elections were held Citizens Concert in December. There this term and the following students was a fantastic range of donations, all were selected gratefully received by those with Year 7 winning tickets! Daniell brookes and Molly Preger Thank you also for supporting the Year 8 students who asked for and collected Richard Coates, Imogen Clarke and donations; they were helpful and well- Eliot O’Connor Ramsey organised at school and earned Year 9 certificates for their Citizenship files. Meghan Howson and Adam Roberts The team this year was: Oliver Winn, Year 10 Charlie Cox and Ashley Rainford. Lizzzie Benson, Hannah Reynolds J Walsh G

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Page 63 In the afternoon we start to fault find the lift with no wiring diagram. This Yorkshire Dales Housing Development Plan Call for Housing Sites diagram is locked in a workshop and January 2009 – February 2009 the key has gone to Addis with the workshop supervisor. The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority is inviting landowners to submit expressions of interest However, Baby knows the circuit and in releasing land for house building. The purpose is we start to fault find the safety circuit. to help reduce the local shortfall of affordable Tuesday 4th housing.

Go with hospital Director (Dr Wolde) Each submitted site will be evaluated and the most and his administrator to a tin shed at suitable will be short listed for allocation in the Yorkshire Dales Housing Development Plan. the back of the hospital compound Allocation will be tantamount to the grant of outline and find a large chest of SABIEM planning permission with development expected to spares. These are portered to the take place over the next 15 years. Public consultation throughout the process will be a factor machine room and a inventory made in influencing the sites selected. of them by Janet. (She acts as our gopher, so that is what GP stands for, The Authority expects 50% of each site to be developed by housing that is affordable to local and very good at she is.) households. This will be delivered through Get the lift to run on high speed so partnership with a housing association or some other mechanism that will secure its affordability in we know the motor and gearbox are perpetuity. The remaining 50% will not have to be ok. affordable but will still be restricted to occupancy by Discover that rodents have got into households that need to live inside the National Park. The Authority does not anticipate permitting the car top control unit and eaten the any new wholly unrestricted open market housing. wiring. Baby was by now driving Keith daft, The Authority will be looking for sites that are located within or on the edge of a town or village as Baby insisted on fixing everything and which are large enough to accommodate at least he found broken rather than check 2 homes. Sites will also need to meet a number of other planning requirements such as impact on the the major parts would work. surrounding landscape, safe highway access, and After lunch I take Dr Wolde firmly by availability of essential services. the arm and march him to the locked If you think you have a suitable site for room (“the man with the key has not consideration please go to the Authority’s website returned”) and tell him I will not let for submission details www.yorkshiredales.org.uk him go until the lock is broken off. Please note that submissions cannot be treated This is quickly done by “electrician” confidentially as the Authority will be inviting Jacob, the drawing is found, stuck public comment on all sites received. Submitting a site will not constitute a formal commitment by a together, given to Keith who is now landowner to sell or release land. very happy. When we return to the Heme there is It will be more difficult to suggest sites for consideration later in the process, so please make no water there. Ato Maki, the use of this opportunity to submit your expression of manager, tells us the town pumping interest to: station is flooded. No coffee either – Peter Stockton Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, Yoredale, so this is where my little electric jug is Bainbridge, Leyburn, DL8 3EL brought into service. or email to [email protected] th Continued next month G before noon Friday 27 February 2009. Page 64 SEDBERGH & DISTRICT HISTORY SOCIETY Yvonne Cervetti a natural touch It has been a long time since Dr M.I.F.A, M.C.A.R, JING Advanced Massage, GRCCT Reg. Andrew White, late of the Lancashire Museums Service came to speak to Advanced Massage the History Society. His subject on for pain relief & preventionpreventiontiontion th November 19 was ‘The Kendal A fusion of techniques for the treatment Carriers’. of soft tissue injuries, muscle &joint pain Kendal being so far north was nearly at the end of the line as far as the Hand & foot Reflexology inc. specialist distribution of goods was concerned Reflex therapy for spinal injuries & whiplash as there was little trade over the border into Scotland. There were Pure indulgence many carriers operating through Hot Stone/Aromatherapy

Kendal as the large number of inns along Highgate and Stricklandgate Appointments in Sedbergh & Kirkby LLonsdaleonsdaleonsdaleonsdale Call Yvonne on 015396 21303 or 07795 063107 testify. There were regular services to London and other large towns en route as well as the more local traffic etc. from village to village. With the coming of the turnpike For hundreds of years the carriers roads in the mid 18th c. covered used pack-horse trains to move wagons were being used to carry goods from one place to another. goods around. They had the Small but sturdy horses called advantage of being able to carry Galloways carried large loads of much larger loads (and often people wool, cloth, grain, sand etc and were who could not afford to travel by led from the front by a well-trained carriage) and were pulled by a team horse who knew the route followed by of two, four or six horses depending other laden horses and in the rear on size and weight of the load. Spring was the carrier himself with his dog. carts were used for smaller loads and The roads were bad and could be shorter distances. This method of almost impassable in bad weather but transport lasted well into the 20th c. – the pack-horses struggled through one of the last carriers being David snow, ice, floods, mud and dust. It Burrow from Sedbergh who travelled was a very reliable form of transport. to and fro from Sedbergh to Kendal Some larger concerns of carriers calling at various hamlets with operated a service whereby they had individual commissions. four teams:- one being loaded, a Dr White answered the many second en route for London, the third questions in full which showed the being unloaded at the destination and interest of the large audience. It is to reloaded with more luxury goods and be hoped that it is not another ten the fourth team en route to Kendal years before he visits us again! G

Page 65 KIDZONE & NYUMBANI 2008 We walked through the empty playground and up the long flight of stone steps to the Kidzone children’s home in two converted classrooms of Mary Happy School. It was Sunday and the 20 girls were all at home. They were sitting on the floor on straw mats, by their bunk beds, eating a healthy lunch of spaghetti and vegetable stew, including sweet potatoes and bananas. These girls are all orphans who have no relatives able to care for them. Nearly half of them have lost both parents to AIDS. They all cried out, “Mama Simon!”, remembering me from my last visit. They looked really happy and much the note at the end of this article. healthier than last year when they After lunch they sang some songs had only been at Kidzone a few for me including “Ten Green Bottles”. months. The two rooms they live in, Then little Caroline, aged 6, got up with 10 double bunks in them, were and sang it all on her own! The older still rather bleak with their concrete girls, Ann and Catherine helped wash walls and plain blue blankets. up, and so did I. They did this on the However that will change when they veranda with two buckets of cold get the blankets of colourful knitted water and an empty bowl for a squares which members of Howgill draining board. And I thought you and Killington WI are knitting for needed hot water to wash up!! them. If anyone would like to While the younger children had a contribute to their efforts please see sleep, the older ones went down to

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Page 66 the playground. One of the teacher to go with them. But they do have volunteers played singing games with some outings in school holidays, paid them which they enjoy. I noticed how for by the money the Sedbergh happily they play together. pantomime ‘Noah’s Lark’, raised for Arguments are rare. At tea time we them. Thanks to Sedbergh’s gave them fairy cakes for a treat. generosity they now also have a Carol, Martha, and Rosaline washing machine, which saves the crumbled some of their cake into girls hours of laundry work. Sandra bottle tops and fed the crumbs to their Gold Wood held a Coffee Morning for dolls, just like little girls anywhere! Kidzone last July and I saw the large Another day we took them out to City washing machine they had bought Park where small monkeys come and with the money. feed from your hand, perch on your When I was there the House Mother head, and try to steal your bag if they had just left and two teacher can!! Some of the children were too volunteers were doing her job. They scared to feed them, but they enjoyed woke the children at 5am so they watching the braver ones! They don’t were all dressed, breakfasted, and go out every week because of the had finished their household chores cost and the number of adults needed ready for school at 8.30am. Then they would take the girls with them to class, bring them all back after school. And they found time to play games with the children too! They were heroic! One of them, I’m pleased to say, has now been Hearing Problem? appointed Manager of the home. Visit the This year at Mary Happy School I not only helped with the French, but Irene Taylor Hearing Centre also helped the Somali refugees with Est. 1980 their English. They know a little about • Fully independent farming in the Dales now! These • Specialist & expert hearing aid advice refugees come in at different times in • Hearing protection the school year, knowing no English • Home visits or Swahili. They go into a special • Competitive prices class for all ages until they are able to • Over 27 years of experience follow the lessons in their own year. The Hearing Centre There were 40 in this class at the Salt Pie Lane time with two very able teachers who Kirkby Lonsdale LA6 2BH taught them in groups and kept them 015242 73589 all profitably occupied. Among them

Registered with the Hearing Aid Council was Wanda, a 13 year old girl with www.prestonhearingcentre.co.uk (Continued on page 68) Page 67 learning difficulties. I was able to give School, thinking about careers in her my full attention so she could do catering, law, and other areas. They sewing, cutting out and colouring are given counselling to help them without getting into a hopeless come to terms with their HIV status. muddle! And she, delightful child, Under the guidance of a House shared her biscuits with me at break Mother who has known them for time! years, they do all the cooking and I visited Nyumbani, of course, the cleaning in the hostel, preparing for home for children born with AIDS. an independent life if they wish. They Not only do the older children live in will never be turned away from comfortable, purpose built hostels Nyumbani. The eldest boy, in his now, but they have just opened ‘The twenties, now has a job and a flat Great Hall’, a large airy octagonal near the home. As I sat at table with building which serves as a church on these fine young women it suddenly Sundays and as a large indoor play occurred to me that none of them area, or conference hall the rest of would be alive today without the week. The girls I have known for Nyumbani. 5 years now are all growing up very It was Birthday Sunday. This nicely and studying hard at High happens once a month when all the

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Page 69 SEDBERGH & KIRKBY LONSDALE car ended up in the river. NEIGHBOURHOOD FORUM Speeding has been raised as an Summary of meeting held at issue in Sedbergh and it was reported Sedbergh People’s Hall, 18th that no-one is actually breaking November 2008 speed limits. SID (speed indicating Traveller & Settled Community device) is to be positioned in the area Respect Group in South Lakeland soon. Dorothy Blair provided an update on Young Cumbria and Cumbria Fire & the working group meeting held in Rescue are working with students at October, mentioning that it had taken Settlebeck School on the dangers of Melmerby 3 – 4 years to reach the speeding. stage they are currently at. The Police are monitoring the situation at working group meets again in Loftus public toilets where nuisance December and Dorothy asked that fires have been started. A smoke any suggestions be passed on to her detector has also been installed. or Brian. Loftus Lane junction still continues Police to be plagued by heavy vehicles A police enquiry is ongoing into the turning at the T junction after the incident on the River Dee and how a school library, resulting in the Hawes/

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Page 70 Dent sign being hit several times. want better facilities eg. a swimming The Dent sign was knocked down six pool, and queried whether Dent could months ago and has not yet been work with other communities for replaced. Cars also park very close shared facilities? to the junction. Children’s Centre in Sedbergh In the Guldrey and Guldrey Fold Jane Steventon, explained that area some youngsters are accessing Children’s Centres bring together the buildings on the old Auction Mart early learning and childcare services, site. employment and support services for It was pointed out that Sedbergh children and their families. Parish Council is reviewing signage The County is now in Phase 3 of this throughout the town. development providing services to the Dent Parish Plan most advantaged parts of Cumbria. Heather Fraser provided a brief In the Sedbergh area this will involve history of the Plan which started in linking with other projects, working summer 2007. Following consultation with the Health Authority, Job Centre with residents in January, findings plus etc. Likely sites for developing were presented in May, a report services are the pre-school, Primary approved by the Parish Council in School and Secondary School October and circulated to residents campus including the CDC in earlier in November. The Parish Sedbergh Barnardo’s has been Plan Group is now going through the chosen to deliver the Children’s plan in more detail and trying to get a Centre services on behalf of the larger group of people involved in County in Sedbergh and will have delivery. Implementation of the plan regular opening times each week. has a five year time frame. Jane was asked ‘what happens Action Groups are looking at litter; when you go through the door? She the community (help existing explained the Centre is based on Dentdale businesses and encourage services provided, rather than a new ones); gardening issues and physical space. housing (affordable and second home Community Office issues, including how to get second David Ramsbottom, Manager of the home owners more involved in the Community Office, explained he had community, and also how the limit the been in post for four months and numbers). understood from early documentation Heather suggested other that the community office serves the communities will have similar issues parishes of Sedbergh, Dent and and the Dent group would like to Garsdale. He is responsible to a learn from others, as well as share management committee formed from what they have achieved. Heather these three parishes. The Community instanced the issue of Leisure & office is responsible for car park Recreation, mentioning that people (Continued on page 72)

Page 71 permits, travel concession cards and by the Community office encourages residents to engage and management committee and of a involve themselves in the community clearly charitable nature. The Fund, and improving community life. The which relies on attracting funds from community office has links with elsewhere, has not met its envisaged strategic partners and offers advice to income, but in 2006-07 set up ‘Flicks groups undertaking projects. in the Fells’ and the allotment A Sedbergh & District Community scheme. Fund has existed for twelve years for David suggested the Sedbergh & the promotion of any charitable District Charity Shop (86 Main Street, purpose in the area. The Fund has Sedbergh, open 10am – 4.30pm recently been inactive, but a meeting Monday to Saturday) could generate of the trustees – one from each £6 - £8K per annum for the Fund if it parish – is planned for December. can continue to trade at two-thirds of The Fund has new Trustees and the trade in the first six weeks of needs to develop a new criteria and opening. He also suggested that the process for bids – the 1996 shop, which is run by volunteers understanding was that the Fund (more needed), needs a better name! would only support projects approved The Community Office would also like

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Page 72 to be involved in the Sedbergh Parish The YDNPA works with Settlebeck Plan. High School in the school grounds, Yorkshire Dales National Park with specific pupils and offers work Paul Wilkinson, Park Ranger, placements. explained that his area covers Students in Year 7 won a £1K Cumbria, one-eighth of the Park area. environmental award and want to He talked about the Rights of Way create a conservation area on Network/Open Access areas where sustainability and climate change. It the main work is done by 40 Dales also works with the Lancashire & volunteers and 1 Access Ranger. Westmorland Hedge Laying Paul highlighted the significant Association, using Sustainable contribution made by the volunteers Development funding to run a series and said that with annual of competitions – one will be held in maintenance budget of £7,500, 1,400 Sedbergh in December. individual infrastructure items have Grants been tackled. He also explained how Sedbergh Book Town Ltd/Tourist more major projects – mainly Office. Requested £800 towards restoration of bridleways and heating and lighting improvements. occupation roads - are funded. Awarded £800. G Paul mentioned the Farm Stewardship Scheme, explaining that the YDNPA has to respond to petrie individual applications and can o’neil& recommend environmental architecture improvements. He also mentioned & d e s i g n the 80% grants available for management of new woodland planting schemes, and the funds available to stabilise/conserve items of archaeological interest – ie. lime kilns and horse troughs. The Castle Haw motte and bailey to the east of We pride ourselves on providing a Sedbergh is to get a new fence line to full range of architectural services its northern edge and a new tailored to suit all our client’s permissive access path and specific requirements across interpretive panel. Paul explained Cumbria, North Lancashire and that the reason there is little North Yorkshire. information or signage to Castle Haw is because access is via a permissive Please contact us on: path and there is a need to balance signage and publicity with sensitive c h a r t e r e d 01539 738899 a r c h i t e c t management of the path. www.oneilandpetrie.co.uk Page 73 COUNCILLOR CORNER members of the public attended the Soon after the last Lookaround went site visit but certainly not as many as to press in November the site visit at I would have hoped. As far as I can the former auction mart in Sedbergh recall no members of the public was held and the joint application for spoke in favour of the application and a Spar Retail Outlet and Health this in spite of the fact that eight of Centre was subsequently turned the most vociferous critics of the down by Yorkshire Dales Planning subsequent decision actually live less Committee, nine votes to four. than a hundred yards from the site I could have filled this article with and must have passed the site notice verbatim extracts of what I said about on a daily basis. the application on the six occasions Enough. I thank those of you who when I referred to it in these columns have written to me following the but suffice it to say that I first decision. Should that application go expressed concern as to the effect it to appeal I will of course hand all of would have on rural shops in March your correspondence over to the and the wider area beyond Sedbergh Inspector. I and my colleagues both itself in June. I also expressed on the National Park and Sedbergh dismay in June that the proposal was Parish Council are continuing to work to be presented as one joint towards a solution to this issue which application. When the plans were addresses the key concerns of the finally submitted in July I pointed out four central parties, Spar, Sedbergh where they could be seen and urged Medical Practice, Sedbergh School everyone who had a view to make a and the “Commonweal”, the people of representation. As late as October I Sedbergh, Garsdale, Dent and the said “there will be a site visit before surrounding community. There is not the plans are even considered. I a day when some discussion does would urge everyone who has a view not take place. either for or against to make it their CAR PARKS: As you will have business to attend.” seen in the Westmorland Gazette the I am not usually given to self- controlling group on South Lakeland justification but I have to say that I has announced plans to charge for find many of the recent criticisms of use of car parks until 9.00 pm. This myself and my colleagues on will hit a lot of workers who parked on Sedbergh Parish Council wholly the car parks in Kirkby Lonsdale for unreasonable. In spite of all the free in the past because they did not above I only received support for the arrive home until after 6.00 pm. joint application from two indiviuals SLDC Annual Permits will go up to prior to the decision being taken. £300 or £350 for transferable ones or Opposition was as I said at the £420 for business users. I have to planning meeting considerable. A few say that once again this

Page 74 demonstrates how wise Sedbergh Parish Council was to take over the WOMEN’S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER Friday 6th March running of our two car parks. If these 2.30pm in charges are borne in mind then the St Andrew’s Church, Sedbergh payment of £35 for an annual day Join us for tea after the Service permit or £52 for a day and night permit for the two car parks in Courts behind Guldrey Terrace to Sedbergh looks extremely Sedbergh Parish Council. I have reasonable. been working on this for over twelve UPLAND ENTRY LEVEL SCHEME: months. As I write I do not know the In the last Lookaround I mentioned a full details but this will allow the day I had spent in London concerning Tennis Club to go after grants and the replacement for the Hill Farming lottery funding which they could not Allowance, the Upland Entry Level have accessed in the past when they Scheme. I went around quizzing only had a short lease. ministers and officials as to what GYPSIES LIAISON GROUP: There percentage uptake they were was another meeting before wanting. I repeatedly expressed the Christmas and for my sins I was view that for the scheme to be a elected to chair it. I think some success there had to be a high progress has been made and I know uptake and for that to happen it a sub-group has been making needed to be a scheme that upland preparations and looking at the areas farmers could readily join. Well, the which have been used by travellers in scheme was announced just before previous years. Christmas and the announcement DENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING: included a strong desire for an 80% On a less happy note it was reported uptake. This must be good news. to the YDNP Planning Committee this CALL FOR HOUSING SITES: This month that the affordable housing might have been overshadowed by scheme at Ghyllside in Dent will not other events but as part of the Local now proceed. This is a great Development Framework Yorkshire disappointment for me personally as I Dales has formally issued its call for have supported it from the very first. potential sites for affordable housing. We will be looking at other sites and I If you have any land and might be just hope that the present scheme interested please call Peter Stockton can be resurrected. at Yoredale or else call in and see To contact me please ring 015396 Andrea Burden in her planning 20800 or 07980 844 695 (preferred) surgeries in Sedbergh Community or email [email protected] Office. or else write to me at Fellgate, SEDBERGH TENNIS COURTS: Dowbiggin, SEDBERGH, Cumbria. Another bit of excellent news, SLDC LA10 5LS cabinet has agreed to sell the Tennis Councillor Kevin Lancaster G Page 75

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Page 77 AMATEUR MUSICAL EVENING Jim B Gerry Paul J. It was cold hard It was a truly wonderful, happy work . Thank you to Steve our evening on 10th January when electrician who did a sterling job and Maureen, Jean and friends held their of course Father Christmas who Amateur Musicians Concert in St switched the lights on. Andrew’s Church, Sedbergh. Thank you to everyone who helped All our expectations were exceeded raise the money by donation, raffle both by the size of the audience and prizes, baking, helping out on fund- the appreciation shown for our efforts. raising events especially the one at The interesting and varied the Heritage Centre when the programme was well received with all electricity failed for 2 hours on a cold performers rising to the occasion by wet day, our Town Cryer standing in giving of their best. Well Done All! the rain shouting we where still open, Maureen and Jean would like to Audrey selling raffle tickets wrapped thank all who supported us, to all our in a blanket and our wonderful ladies tremendous musicians, to the Ladies in the kitchen serving tea from flasks. who provided and served the It seems nothing can stop the women refreshments, and to the ‘behind the of Dent when they are on a mission. scenes’ workers for the heating, Thank you everyone who helped in lighting and sound. Thank you. any way. Last, but no means least, a special You may like to know how much we thank you to our audience who were raised and what we spent it on. If you so very generous with the retiring would like to see the full accounts collection - £389.30 in total. After a they are available for inspection at small donation to the Church for Whernside Manor. You are most expenses, the remainder is to be welcome. Here is an approximation donated to Sightsavers International. total raised £2903 The whole evening was worth all the spent hard work and ‘nerves’ on the night. lights, curcit breakers, cable £1902 Will we repeat it, as many have electrician £686 suggested - we will see. G stands £243 plaque £116 DENTDALE FESTIVAL LIGHTS so as you can see more funds Sadly Christmas had been and gone needed. We hope you will support us but I feel sure we all enjoyed the during the year so we can do it all Christmas trees around the Dale, 12 again next Christmas! in all. It’s been a great success. Thank you also to everyone who Thank you to the men who went on a hosted an Advent Window. They all bitter cold day to collect the trees and looked splendid. Thank you to all the deliver them around the Dale. Mick staff and children at Dent School for and Gerry. Thank you to the men who there help. gave up a weekend to put them up Elaine Johnson G

Page 78 COMMUNITY FUND other week (10am-1pm / 1pm -4pm) CHARITY SHOP or, an odd hour on a fairly regular A thank you from the Shop. basis to work alongside our existing The shop is managed by the volunteers thereby allowing them to Community Office on behalf of the spend some time in our cellar sorting Trustees of the Sedbergh and District the stock? No experience necessary. Community Fund, the profits being Give it a try, without any long term transferred from the shop account obligation. Contact David or just call into the Fund at the end of each in at the shop. G quarter. Thanks to the efforts of the THE CAUTLEY CAROLLERS volunteers and the generous support Many thanks to all those who made and donations we have received from the Cautley Carollers so welcome in across the community, the first three their homes on that dark wet Friday months has raised a very pleasing night before Christmas. £3,000. At one point as we neared Frostrow It is anticipated that, at the discretion a motorist kindly warned us not to of the Trustees, 20% of the proceeds proceed as the flood waters were will be made available to support and deep and rising. But mere torrents extend the charitable work of the and deep waters are not enough to Community Office, with the remaining deter the plucky singers from their 80% being made available to support traditional winter carolling on the projects, activities and events that doorsteps of our neighbours and seek to sustain or improve some friends - so with the waves gently aspect of life within the Community. lapping round our knees, we The Trustees will meet on April 1st ploughed on to be greeted on the and then at three monthly intervals to other side. I won't say the waters consider requests for support. For parted for us but after the enormous further information please contact ammount of hospitality we were David Ramsbottom at the Community treated to that night any thing could Office, tel.20504. have happened. Following the success of our trial We were also made very welcome period we are now here to stay, but at Brigflatts the following day when a with fewer visitors in the town we are packed Quaker meeting house entering what is likely to be our including a host of children joined us quietest period of trading. Your in singing carols. It was a watery continued support is vital to our theme that day too as we had just continuing prosperity during this done a concert on the Raven period. Do please pay us a visit. Steamer across Ullswater. Volunteers Need We look forward to singing with you Can you spare three hours every later in the year. David Burbidge G

Page 79 DENT POST OFFICE pressure varied also from a high of Dent Post Office finally closed on 30.03 inches of mercury to a low of the 25th November 2008. 28.64 inches. This was reflected in a Nona, Jane and John Caygill would somewhat breezy month with only 5 like to take this opportunity to thank days when the maximum did not everyone who supported them over reach double figures and a high of the last 25 years. 20.6 mph. First and foremost to our customers The few dry days at the start of the for their loyal support. To Lyn Irving, month allowed me to cut the grass. Jane James and Libby Hartley who That was a first as I have never cut it were a great help in the Shop and so late before. It also grieves me to Post Office and always a pleasure to cut it when stock are short of grass. work with. To Reg and Heather and We have also had regular visits from the numerous boys and girls who a group of long tailed tits feeding on delivered papers for us. nuts a foot from the kitchen window. Thanks also to Les and Eileen, Their tails are somewhat tatty as if Brian and Stella and the many others they are roosting in a nest box who frequently took papers up the somewhere. I have seen them go to Dale. roost in our boxes. The frosts have To Christine, her staff and the softened the crab apples and the Postmen at Sedbergh Office for all blackbirds are having a feast. The their help over so many years. frost on the morning of the 29th made All proved a most valuable help and it a cold session for the hedge laying made our job that much easier. A big competition down Row Lane. The thank-you to everyone. results are on YDNP website. The Finally, thank-you to our customers only lady entrant won her class! for the lovely flowers, cards and the There was some very good work much appreciated Commemorative giving the judges a difficult task. Book with its very kind comments. Towards the end of the month there Best Wishes To All G were numbers of fieldfares and redwings moving about. Tawny owls NOVEMBER WEATHER are quite vociferous at the moment.G After last month’s soaking we started with a dry spell for the first week. It Daphne Jackson could not last and we ended up with 3.27 inches of rain in spite of 5 dry MSc (Ost) DO days during the third week. Registered Osteopath BUPA Provider Temperatures varied from a maximum of 52.9F to a minimum of Mill Barn, Broad Raine 21.4F on the last night. In fact on the Killington LA10 5EP last day the temperature did not get above freezing all day! We had 3 Please ring Kendal Practice nights when the wind chill lowered for appointments temperatures to 14F. Atmospheric 01539 740452 Page 80 SEDBERGH & DISTRICT philosopher Gregory Bateson on HISTORY SOCIETY Wednesday 18th February 12.15pm The talk on Wednesday 18th for lunch, 1pm lecture – URC Church February will be given in the and Rooms, Main Street, Sedbergh. PEOPLES HALL, SEDBERGH at Dr. Charlton of Rigmaden has been 7.30pm by Maureen Lamb on “The studying and writing about the rise and decline of textile thought of Gregory Bateson for the manufacturing in the Yorkshire last fifteen years and his book: Dales”. "Understanding Gregory Bateson: This talk replaces the one due to be Mind, Beauty and the Sacred Earth" given by Professor Keith Hanley in was recently published (in their Dentdale Memorial Hall. G Environmental Philosophy series) by the State University of New York Press. The insights of Gregory Bateson are crucially important for us all as we confront the social and environmental problems which are Bakery & Tearoom rapidly becoming more evident and Main Street, Sedbergh Tel: 21058 Charlton's book offers a uniquely for accessible introduction to Bateson's Traditional Bread wisdom. Noel Charlton will explain Homemade Cakes & Scones the main features of Bateson's life Freshly Baked Daily and thought and will be pleased to ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ sign copies of the book for those Open 7 Days a Week ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ wishing to purchase a copy. Bateson (1904-1980) moved through the fields of biology, anthropology, cybernetics, psychology, aesthetics, animal communication and, finally, environmental concerns linked to ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ spirituality. His understanding of (a) Good selection the nature of 'minds' and mental of Gluten Free and Allergy foods process, (b) the importance of always available engagement with the natural world and with creative arts of all kinds, and BOOKTOWN LECTURE & LUNCH (c) the linking of all this with a new Sedbergh Book Town is pleased to and wider understanding of 'the announce that local author Dr. Noel sacred' as the totality of the living Charlton will present a free talk about processes of Earth, are the key areas his new book on the life of Dr. Charlton will talk about. G

Page 81 SS RUGBY DECEMBER AT St ANDREW’S Sedbergh School’s 1st XV The month of December proved completed a marvellous season of exciting and happy for St Andrew’s rugby by beating Millfield: 26-24, and church in Sedbergh. There were two then Llandovery: 29-11 (away) in the infant and two adult baptisms and last two matches of the season. This hundreds of people taking part in has earned them the title of 'Best events in the church during Schoolboy 1st XV in the Country'. December. th After losing the very first match of On 14 December Kelly Ann Scott the season against Colston's by just (daughter of Paul and Charlene) and two points, Sedbergh 1st XV then two of her God-parents were baptised went on to beat all other challengers - at our morning service. The church including several teams which, up was decorated with balloons for the occasion and was full of smiles and until they faced Sedbergh, had been th unbeaten. (Attached is a photo from happiness. Two weeks later on 28 Sedbergh's 57-7 win over Durham.) December another baptism took Sedbergh’s other rugby teams also place, this time during our monthly achieved excellent results. In family service. Once again the church particular: B1 played 10 matches and was decorated with balloons, and our won eight, while C1 played 11 and music group were playing, but this won nine. day had a particular significance as See also nationwide School Rugby Zak Hall (son of Gary and Mags) was the child to be baptised. Many local results listed on: people have followed Zak’s brave www.canterburyrankings.co.uk/ progress since his birth in April 2007. Rugby/ G The atmosphere in the church was one of love and joyful celebration. During the period between the TREADWELL baptisms we were, of course, celebrating Christmas. Firstly, there FLOORING was the schools carol service followed on Christmas Eve by the Suppliers, planners & Fitters of Carpet, Vinyl, Luxury Vinyl Tiles & Wooden Floors Nativity Play and Midnight Communion and finally a joyful Check out our new Web Site celebration of Communion on www.treadwellfloors.co.uk Christmas Day. and use ‘contact us’ In total more than seven hundred for our Special Stock prices people came into church to share in

Carpet Cleaning Service available these celebrations. As I write this piece we are looking Call Nicola or Gordon Sproul forward to a baptism as part of our family service on 25th January. Tel/Fax: 015396 21175 Rev. Vic Hopkins (Curate) G Page 82 MEALS ON WHEELS in June 2008, he received the On behalf of Cumbria County Queen’s Birthday Honours Special Council Meals on Wheels Manager Award for Services to the Armed Allison Jackson would like to take this Services in setting up Mobile Caravan opportunity to thank all the Sedbergh Units to serve in Iraq, Afghanistan volunteers for their dedication and and Overseas. support with the meals on wheels In January 2009, he was very service. The Sedbergh volunteers honoured to be awarded the deliver a vital service to their local Meritorious Service Medal in the New community, which is much Years Honours lists (which appears appreciated by all. We would also like below). to forward a special thank you to the Congratulations to William who must Sedbergh Meals on Wheels be very proud of his achievements as Organiser Mrs Eileen Labbate for her well as all his family and friends. G continuous hard work organising the meals, the round and the round rota POLICE etc. In February 2008, a number of Recently the Dent meals on wheels persons, including myself, had a service has been on hold, but we meeting with the Chief Constable of would like to take this opportunity to Cumbria Constabulary about many thank the Dent Meals on Wheels topics. Organiser Mrs Burrows and the Dent I expressed my concern that no volunteers for their help over the information was being received from years - we wish them every success the Police by The Lookaround for the and hope to work with them again in community. I was promised that we the near future. G would receive regular reports. To date, after 12 months, I have received MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL none. In July, we did receive a report A local lad, William Dixon, attended from Special Constable Mike Roberts Sedbergh Primary School, Settlebeck with respect to the Zebra Crossing High School and which was well received. Kendal College FE. On Page 77 of the August issue, I After leaving school, made reference to the Police hoping he joined the RAF for a response. Again, to date, there and is currently has not been one. serving in I note with interest that the Chief Lincolnshire. Constable received a Queens Police In October 2007, Medal (QPM) for his work on he received the Community Policing. I have yet to see Queen’s this evidence of Community Policing Commission as a in our area. Warrant Officer and D J Whicker G

Page 83 STEADMAN’S BUTCHERS SEDBERGH & DISTRICT Congratulations to Adrian Harris TOY LIBRARY AND TIDDLERS who won the signed Clarissa Dixon People's Hall Wright Game Cookbook at The Committee & School pupils Steadman’s on the free December have been very busy in January draw on game purchases stocktaking and putting the recently £305.00 was raised on Late Night bought toys into the catalogue. The Opening proceeds from the Hog very successful Tiddlers Group that Roast. £152.50 was given to the runs along side the Toy Library Chamber of Trade towards the cost of continued to meet. running Late Night Opening. £152.50 The Toy Library will open again on was given to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. Thurs .Feb 5th. Dates for the rest of Apologies to everyone who had to th the term will be Feb l9th March 5th queue at Christmas, Garths 48 March 19th. April 2nd and April 16th. Christmas in the Meat Trade, but we Membership fee remains at £2 per are proud to say everyone was annum & hire fee is £1 per toy. for 2 pleased with their Xmas Fare and weeks. hopefully it was well worth the wait. We look forward to seeing you again Finally we are not closing as some in 2008 and are always pleased to gossip suggests but as Garth is welcome new families. There are a nearing retiring age he would like to wide variety of toys suitable for find a successor who would take the families with children from birth to 1 business forward as he has for the lyrs. Organisations also hire toys for last 43 years. The business has not events as do grandparents for their even been advertised although word visiting grandchildren. Recent is out in the trade and there has been additions include a wooden Kiddi considerable interest. Hopefully the Moto Bike to help to develop balance right people will come along and and a Tool bench & tool box. for 3 to Garth will be able to gradually take things a little easier and guide them in 4 yr. olds. The equipment such as the right direction. G door bouncers & baby push alongs has been developed for the Tiddlers. During the stock take we have Back/neck ache? discovered some toys and parts of Sports injuries? toys to be missing & unaccounted for. S c i ati c a ? We are always delighted when things Repetitive strain? Stress/tension headaches? are returned. If you come across www.reflex-om.com anything, large or very small labeled Kendal, Hawes & Newbiggin-on-Lune “T.L.” please let us have it back. We look forward to seeing you on Feb. 5th Bronwen Osborne. 015396 23696 Josephine Lade LCSP (Phys) Chair S&D Toy Library G

Page 84 SOUTH LAKES SOUTH LAKELAND CARERS SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND We now have a new logo and we Sedbergh Group had our official opening in December January is party month for the group at 5, Castle Street in Kendal where and this year, as last year, the party we have use of the conservatory for was held at Alan Adamson’s delightful our monthly Lunch Club and our home. Drop-In on a Wednesday. Our Drinks were served on arrival and a Support Groups buffet produced by the Woof sisters for people who from the local ‘Duo’ restaurant was look after a much enjoyed, particularly the family member delicious cheese straws and lemon or friend tarts cooked by Susan. continue around There was a minute’s silence to the area and the commemorate the recent deaths of local one covers Elsie Waters and Kathie Akrigg. Both Sedbergh & had regularly enjoyed the meetings Kirkby Lonsdale although Kathie had been unable to and meets on the 1st Tuesday in the attend for some time. They will be month, 2-4pm at the People's Hall much missed by the members. committee room. Our Support Chairman Gordon Axford, welcomed Workers give advice and a listening members and thanked volunteers and ear to Carers of all ages, for details the caterers for their contributions. A do contact the office on 01539 ‘home grown’ entertainment followed 815970. G with readings of poetry and prose interspersed with duets played by CHRISTMAS WREATHS Rosemary Handley and Kath A big thank you to everyone who Hannam and a very enjoyable ‘pass bought the wreaths and posies and to the parcels’ game prepared by Mary Angela for having them outside the Tallon. There was a light ‘sing song’ shop. Last year, we raised £340 for to conclude the entertainment before the Brain Tumour Trust and this year, everyone had to brave the very cold we raised £430 for the Air and slightly snowy afternoon. Ambulance. The next meeting will be held in the Julie, Diane & Amanda G People’s Hall on Tuesday February 17th at 2.00 p.m. The highlight will be DENTDALE CRICKET CLUB a ‘not too serious’ quiz to be prepared We play friendly fixture on Sunday by Betty Harper. New members with afternoons at 2pm from May to sight problems, and also volunteers September. If you enjoy cricket and are always welcome. For further would like to play or help, please information telephone Sedbergh phone John Hyde on 25503 or David 21019 or 01539 742633. JGL G (Burty) Burton on 25537. G

Page 85 SEDBERGH & DISTRICT The next meeting is the AGM on ART SOCIETY 13th February in St. Andrew’s Church How to set about painting a portrait room, when members are invited to which will capture both a likeness and bring along some recent work. a personality ------that was the V. Finch G technique artist Lionel Playford demonstrated at the Society's first QUIET GARDEN MOVEMENT meeting of 2009 on 9th January. Would you be interested in He advised doing preliminary line "opening" your garden as a quiet drawings, pretending that the subject place? All that would be required are is a map of an island to be explored. a few seats, some reading matter ie Having set the lighting, and the easel the Bible, prayers, or poetry. Anything almost upright like a window, he then else ie music or refreshments would designed his composition by locating be up to each individual provider. It one feature.( in this case an eye) and would be good if we could arrange then, treating the subject as a set of one day during the summer when shapes, he carefully "measured" each private gardens around our locality part in relation to the rest. Continuing would be open in this way, perhaps to be aware of angles, he then drew some places of worship with gardens/ the subject, correcting all the time, graveyards could join in too. Please and using a rubber if necessary. note; this is NOT a fund raising event! Lionel emphasised the importance No charge would be made and no of this preparation time before moving money taken. If you are interested in on to the portrait painting. The next this or in gathering more information step was to decide on the final size do come to "Rhumes" in Dent on required. Saturday Feb. 7th between 2.30 and He recommended the use of 4pm for a cuppa without obligation. surgical gloves, plenty of brushes. Sarah. (25212) G and a well laid out palette, colours chosen to suit the subject. Beginning GILBERT AND SULLIVAN with a painted line drawing, he then The Sedbergh Summer Singers will said it was a good idea to decide on a soon be embarking on HMS Pinafore. background colour, in order to decide If you enjoyed Trial by Jury in last on skin-tones. He was then ready to year's Music Festival then come and block in shaded areas, ------and then join the crew in preparing for the our time was up, but a remarkable launching of a concert version of this portrait of the sitter ( who did an famous comic opera. excellent job) was already in Rehearsals will begin on Monday evidence. Some of us realised why March 9th. at 7.0 p.m. in St. Andrew’s our attempts aren't always as Parish Room. successful as we would like! All voices welcome. G

Page 86 1st SEDBERGH SCOUTS of the month, is due to be a full day - Thank you to everyone who used from 10am to 4pm - and will the Scouts Christmas Post service. incorporate a workshop of stitching, Over the three week period we (and chat and of course the usual tea delivered over 1,400* cards and etc!). Visitors are most welcome but if made £236 for Scout funds – money you do intend to come for the full day which will help to fund the programme please bring a packed lunch. We of activities planned for this year. meet at the Barbon Village Hall and A special thanks to the Green Door, there is good parking. Our usual Nisa Stores, Morphet’s Garage, meetings start at 2pm and of course Sedbergh Office Services and the you will be most welcome to come Community Office for accommodating along at this time in February if you the post boxes and to all the Scout wish. families and supporters who For forward planning make a note in undertook to deliver cards at such a your diary that the Reverend Canon J busy time of year. Arthur Dobb will be the speaker at the (*We managed to deliver all the 9th April meeting. His embroideries cards except one, which had the are wonderful and very well known. single word ‘Robina’ on the We are privileged to have his envelope – can anyone help?) G attendance and we look forward to welcoming many to this meeting. KIRKBY LONSDALE For further details of the Group and EMBROIDERERS GROUP other meetings please contact either Our meeting in December was Pat Mann on 015242 21017 or Ann G thoroughly enjoyed by the members Hunter on 015242 41120. as we had a play with an embellishing machine and did some dry felting. DENTDALE DRYSTONE WALLING Unfortunately our speaker was Tel: 015396 25820 unable to attend but a good time was Mob: 07870 305357 had by all, including the wonderful Ask for Dave Jacobs Join. January saw us welcome Marjorie Hanson with her glorious collection of HERITAGE CENTRE, DENT lace. It was fascinating to see and Recently, someone has borrowed a learn about the many different styles large Scrap Book from the Centre of lace from around the world and this which actually belonged to Kenneth country. Some of it is cobweb thin Cragg who has sadly Passed Away. and it all takes a lot of patience and For obvious sentimental reasons, his concentration to achieve. Marjorie is widow would like to have it back. so very talented and knowledgeable. Have you borrowed the Scrap Book Everybody was enthralled. or know of its whereabouts? Could it Our February meeting, on the 12th please be returned to Margaret Taylor at the Centre or ring 25239. G Page 87 DENT GALA & temperature down to 3F!!!! The DENT MEMORIAL HALL. maximum temperature actually The get-together in January was a reached a “balmy” 50.2F. Whereas very happy event and ideas were the minimum was a crisp 18.0F! voiced for this year's Gala on August Rainfall measured 3.31 inches but the Bank Holiday Monday (31st), there is last 9 days were dry making it one of a great deal of goodwill in the Dale for the longer dry spells in any month this this annual event which is very year. It was also quite breezy with encouraging for the committee. This more directions recorded than usual. is the main fund-raising event for the On only 4 days did the wind speed Memorial Hall and as such is on par not get into double figures. 21 mph with things like the Sales of Work for was the maximum recorded for the Anglican Churches. December. Atmospheric pressure The Memorial Hall AGM will be held show considerable variation as was in the Hall on Monday March 30th. reflected in the winds. For the first During the next few weeks there will time ever I recorded 6 consecutive be on-going work to install a new when pressure reached over 30 heating system in the Hall & the inches of mercury. Pressure also school, disruption will be unavoidable, dropped into the 28 inches for 5 days. do bear with us, it will be worthwhile! The year finished with a dusting of Do get in touch with Graham Dalton snow on the last day. or myself if you would like to be The long tailed tits continue to visit. involved in any way with the Gala, it There are 5 in the group. I often is possible to help with the Gala wonder whether these are the same without being on the Memorial Hall family that had a dozen in their party committee, we have a small Gala in the autumn. Some geese have committee which would very much been moving towards the coast welcome more people! Is your local perhaps driven by colder weather group/organisation represented on further North. Having no grass to eat the Hall committee? If not, please the donkeys have taken to barking appoint someone and let us know. what trees they can reach. It must be Secretary; S E Woof G more from boredom than the need for food. House sparrows are few in DECEMBER WEATHER number with us at present. We Generally a cold month with half the always have a few but the big flocks month in the mid to low 30sF. We had seem to have moved on. The corn in 16 days with a significant frost and a the feeder is hardly being touched. further 9 ground frosts. On the last The rooks have returned to visit their day of the month the maximum was nest sites. Regularly we have 20 to 26.8F and it was only 22.3F at 11am. 30 jackdaws and crows dropping in The wind chill brought the for a free feast in the chicken run. G

Page 88 WHY NOT ALPACAS? was busy around the festivities and Most people passing Ghyllas, which from time to time I was called upon to is situated on the A683 between help which I am always pleased to Cautley and Sedbergh, will have seen do. The first such call was on the alpacas on the roadside. During Christmas Eve and a friend and I had the next few months, WhyNot gone to join the Carol Singing at Alpacas are proposing Killington motorway services, I to hold several Open collected my friend at Old Town and Days which will enable told her if she directed me to visitors to see the Killington, (meaning the Lake) I could animals at close get us to the services. She got us into quarters, and to learn Killington village and looked something about them expectantly at me. We were both, for and the products made a short while, lost, but found our way. from their fleeces. I remembered going down those Dates will be published lanes many years ago to collect a in the next issue of Lookaround and Santa suit for a party and after we on our website at www. were about to pass a farmer mending whynotalpacas.co.uk his wall for the 3rd time he jumped Meantime, we are always looking to into the road, stopped us and said, improve our range of products; and "Are you lost?" we shall be pleased to hear, as soon Now then, there seems to have as possible, from anyone with a been a bit of a misunderstanding. It is knitting machine who would be true that I said I was going part-time interested in doing some simple in my Support Worker job, but I don't machine knitting for us. Please think I ever said it meant I was semi- contact Caroline on 015396 21246 G retired, I had hoped to have more daytime hours at home but it hasn't FAMILY MUSINGS. happened like that. In fact I seem Elusive. No, not me you may be more busy than ever! But it pleased to know, but the remaining concentrates the mind when I am at few pounds I need to loose to have home, to get together with friends and lost 3 Stone since the end of March. get housework done, in that order of First it was 3, then 5, then 4, then 2 course. and now I think it is 4 again! Never Talking of getting together, we have mind, it will be reached, sometime. just done that to celebrate a cousin My Christmas Day cracker was a being 70 and an auntie 80, and family treasure for there inside was a bag of came that we had heard about for Marbles and seeing as I lost mine last years but never met until the party. year this new set was put to work Great fun and more than a little straight away, still a bit odd at times, surprising. Enjoy your get-togethers but better than being boring. The cafe and the surprises. Sarah G

Page 89 SS CHARITY FUNDRAISING All can be sorted in time but for the Sedbergh School's CCF Brass Band moment there will be NO Monkey treated Sedbergh town to a medley of House Youth Club on Friday nights Christmas tunes in December. Led by despite earlier hopes of two a month. the School's pipers in their new kilts, We are sorry! The café will continue the Band raised £100 for the Children to run from 7.30pm-10pm for Yr 8+. in Need Appeal - adding to the £700 However if you are interested in the raised previously by a 'Wear Your club getting up and running properly, Own Clothes' day fundraising so it will last and be fun for all we initiative by the School. G need your help! Please come to a meeting on th DENTDALE OVER-60'S Thursday 12 February. At 7pm In the After our very successful Christmas URC Rooms, Joss Lane. Lunch on 13th December 2008, we We need are now thinking about planning an • young people to say what they interesting new programme for 2009. want, • parents who have ideas and time We would like suggestions from you • volunteers who can remember about a wider range of activities that what it was like to be young, have would appeal to all ages over 60. energy and want to spend time Please let us have your ideas, and together on a Friday night! come along to discuss them at our Please come to the meeting and Annual General Meeting on have your say! Wednesday 4th February at 1.00pm For more information please contact in the Sedgwick Room, Memorial Carole on 07890 650545 or 22030.G Hall, Dent. Everyone welcome! G RECYCLING IN DENT THE MONKEY HOUSE Dentdale residents are reminded YOUTH CLUB & CAFE that paper, glass, cans and clothes The Monkey House Youth CLUB are the only items which can be The Monkey House Youth Club was recycled on Dent Car Park. trialled in December using the URC Cardboard and plastic can be taken Hall. This happened because there to Joss Lane Car Park in Sedbergh or were too many young people in the put in your own bin. library and the age range had got to If you wish to get rid of other items wide. like old TV’s, phone Special There is an obvious need for a club Collections at South Lakeland District for Sedbergh youngsters. However Council on 0845 050 4434. They will the volunteers who run the café are then collect it Free of Charge form not in able to run both club & café. At your house or you can take it to the this moment in time we are short of Official Tip at Canal Head in Kendal. funds, volunteers and space! JH G

Page 90 OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD which prey on fish, water-fowl and Over 200 Shoeboxes filled with gifts other small mammals including the and love were collected from the endangered water vole and the otters Sedbergh and Dent areas. A big are often incorrectly blamed for their thank you to all the individuals and misdeeds. groups who donated. Pine Martens were thought to be Samaritan’s Purse G extinct in England but are now occasionally seen in the Lake District DENTDALE FESTIVE LIGHTS and the Yorkshire Dales. They are I must offer my thanks and larger members of the weasel, stoat congratulations to the Dentdale and polecat family and may also be Festive Lights Committee for the moving back to this area as habitats beautiful display of lights up and improve. down the Dale during the holidays. In Please call the following number or all the doom and gloom, they brought contact the local Cumbria Wildlife a smile to your face as you walked Trust Group if you see or have seen round. It was a wonderful effort and a otters or other unusual fauna. Thank shining(!) example of community spirit you, Jackie Foott 015396 25453 in action. Peter Boyles G The Sedbergh Red Squirrel Group will be holding a meeting at 7.30pm GARSDALE CAROL SINGING on Tuesday 17th February in The amount raised from Carol Garsdale Village Hall to which Singing in the Dale came to £268.60. everyone is welcome to attend. G Grateful thanks to all who gave of their time and money to raise this CUMBRIA LIFE amount which is being sent to Action Imagine my pleasant surprise to see for Children (NCH). Apologies to Sedbergh featured in the January those who we didn’t get to visit due to issue of Cumbria Life. On opening the the bad weather, but hope to see you pages, it was nice to see things next year. Thank you also to Auntie featured in and around Sedbergh. I Agnes. G very quickly became saddened and neglected as I scanned the pages OTTERS IN SEDBERGH and found that there was no There have been several sightings reference to The Lookaround of otters in the Sedbergh area over anywhere. the last year and in fact one was seen The Lookaround promotes recently crossing the road near Dent everything and anything with at night. It would be a good idea to reference to Sedbergh but we didn’t record these sightings so that we can even get a mention. We were never monitor their movements. The good even considered for inclusion into the news is that as otters move back, the glossy pages with either an article or American mink usually disappear. the possibility of an Advert. DJW G The mink are fur-farm escapees Page 91 BED & BREAKFAST Proprietor Address Phone (015396) Mrs S Sharrocks ...... Holmecroft; Station Road, Sedbergh (2009/11) ...... 20754 1D; 1T; 1S; TVL; CH; NS; NP*; P; DR Web Site: www.holmecroftbandb.co.uk Mrs K Vigar ...... Apley House, 27 Loftus Hill, Sedbergh (2009/09) ...... 20447 1D (ES); 1D/T (PB); TV; NS; CH; VB; P; NP(*); Di (min 4 by arrangement) e-mail: [email protected] Mrs J Hope ...... The Old Joinery, Garsdale, Sedbergh (2009/12) ...... 20309 F/D (4 poster); 1S; ES; CH; TV; P; NS; DW; CW; DR; VB* e-mail: [email protected] Mrs K Milburn ...... High Roans, Guldrey Lane, Sedbergh (2009/08) ...... 21440 2T (ES) VISIT BRITAIN 4* - CH,L,TV,TVL,P,NS,VB,CW www.highroans.co.uk e-mail enquiries@ highroans.co.uk Mrs R Gardner ...... Oakdene Country House, Garsdale Road, Sedbergh (2010/05) ...... 21012 2D (4 Poster); 2D; 1T; 1S; All ES; TVL; P; CH; CW; FC; NS Miss S Thurlby ...... 15 Back Lane, Sedbergh (2009/12) ...... 20251 1D; 1T; TVL; CH; DW; P; DR; VB e-mail:- [email protected] Mrs S Gold-Wood ...... Number Ten Main Street, Sedbergh (2009/02) ...... 21808 1D (ES); IT/F(ES); TV; NS; CH; P; CB; VB; DFB: e-mail: [email protected] Mrs J Postlethwaite ...... Bramaskew Farm, Howgill, Sedbergh (2009/09) ...... 21529 1D(ES); 1T(ES); CH; TV; P; NP; Di; VB; EM; CW Mrs L Hopkins ...... Brantrigg, Winfield Road, Sedbergh (2009/09) ...... 21455 1T; PB; TV; NS; NP; P; DR; VB e-mail: [email protected] ------CAMPING, CARAVANNING, SELF-CATERING & RENTAL Sycamore Cottage, Lunds, Sedbergh (2009/09) ...... 01969 667356 Sleeps 2, D; CH; TVL; P; NS; DW Borrett Barn Caravan, Marthwaite, Sedbergh (2009/02) ...... 21175 4 Berth; H+C Shower; WC; TV; NS Borrett Barn Flat, Marthwaite, Sedbergh (2009/02) ...... 21175 Sleeps 4 people; D; T; CH; L; P, NS Miss J Davidson ...... Bideber Mill Cottage, West House, Ingleton (2009/10) ...... 015242 42478 Sleeps 2; ES; CH; L; TVL; P; NS; NP; DR ------KEY F = Family Rm; D = Double Rm; S = Single Rm; T = Twin Rm; ES = En Suite; PB = Private Bathroom CH = Central Heating; L = Lounge; TV = TV in all Rooms; TVL = TV Lounge; P = Parking; NS(B) = No Smoking (Bedrooms); NP(*) = No Pets (* by arrangement); DW = Dogs Welcome DR = Drying Room; Di = Dinners; VB = Vegetarian Breakfast; CB = Celiac Breakfast; EM = Evening Meal CW = Children Welcome; FC = Fire Certificate; TL = Table Licence; DFB = Dairy Free Breakfast Page 92 Religious Services in Sedbergh CHURCH OF ENGLAND Enquiries for the following services, St. Andrew’s Parish Church please ring the relevant telephone number Sunday 08.00, 10.30 & 18.30 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CHURCH OF ENGLAND Wednesday 11.15 Firbank; Howgill & Killington Canon A W Fell Tel: 20283 Cautley & Garsdale Church Wardens: Canon A W Fell Tel: 20283 Tony Reed Screen 21081 & Lavinia Mahon 21740 Church Wardens: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Cautley: Judith Bush 20058 & Linda Hopkins 21455 ROMAN CATHOLIC Garsdale: Mary Grant 20573 & Bill Mawdsley 20723 St. Andrew’s Parish Church Dent & Cowgill Sunday 12.00 Rev. P Boyles Tel: 25226 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Holy Days 19.30 METHODIST CHURCH Rev. Dr. P Campbell Tel: 20918 Dent; Dent Foot; ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Cautley; Fell End; METHODIST CHURCH Garsdale Street; Garsdale Low Smithy; New Street Hawes Junction & Frostrow Sunday 10.30 & 18.30 Rev. T Widdess Tel: 20329 Rev. T Widdess Tel: 20329 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ SEDBERGH CHRISTIAN CENTRE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH 5.30 pm People’s Hall every Sunday Main Street Tel: 20588 or 20503 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Sunday 10.30 Would you like to know that someone is Rev. C Marsden Tel: 22030 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ praying for you? Or do you have a SOCIETY OF FRIENDS relative, friend or neighbour in special QUAKERS need of prayer? In the Churches, we pray Brigflatts every Sunday for this Sunday 10.30 community and we Mrs T Satchell Tel: 20005 should like to hear of ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ UNITARIAN & FREE any special needs. CHRISTIAN CHAPEL Please ring any of the Market Place, Kendal above telephone Sunday 11.00 numbers so that we may Wednesday 19.30 pray for you and/or Rev. G Jones Tel: 01539 722079 others.

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Single Column x 1" = £7.50 All enquiries to Single Column x 2" = £10.00 13 Kings Yard, Sedbergh LA10 5BJ Single Column x 3" = £12.50 Single Column x 4" = £15.00 Adverts by 15th of every month. Double Column x 2" = £15.00 Can all adverts please be Double Column x 3" = £20.00 Double Column x 4" = £25.00 accompanied with the correct money B & B and Camp-sites = £2.00 at the time of submission. Personal & Small Ads = £1.00 Articles etc. by 19th of every month Postal per month (Double December) = £1.00 Postal Overseas (Double December) = £2.00 Last Price Update August 1999. Page 93 DIARY OF EVENTS Dates are held up to 20th December 2009 JANUARY 11 1000 Coffee Morning URC URCR 31 1030 SS Junior School Open Day SS 11 1915 WID DMH 31 1930 SS Handel’s Messiah (1) Carlisle 11 1930 CWT AGM + Baffin Island SHS FEBRUARY 12 1930 ‘Allo, is this Dad’s Army (1) PH 1 1115 Coffee Concert SSQH 13 1930 ‘Allo, is this Dad’s Army (1) PH 1 1900 SS Handel’s Messiah (1) SSPH 14 1000 Good as New Jumble Sale URCR 3 WIB History of Hats BVH 14 1300 Dentdale Run Dent 4 1300 Dentdale Over 60’s AGM DMH 14 1930 ‘Allo, is this Dad’s Army (1) PH 4 1930 HS Old Kendal Now and Then (18) SHS 15 1030 Christian Worship PH 4 1930 WIF The Story of Sarah M PH 15 1115 Coffee Concert SSQH 5 1930 WIH Stuart Manger Poems FCH 17 St Patrick’s Day 6 SS Half Term Begins 17 1430 SS Wilson Run Back Lane 6 1930 Killington Sports Domino Drive (7) KVH 17 1930 Neighbourhood Forum GVH 7 1430 Quiet Garden Movement Rhumes, Dent 18 1000 Coffee Morning Christian Aid URCR 11 1915 WID DMH 18 1930 HS Traditional Buildings in Sed & Dent SHS 12 1000 KL Embroiderers Group BVH 20 SS Term Ends 12 1900 Monkey House Youth Club Meeting URCR 20 1900 Parish Supper & AGM 13 1930 Art Society AGM StAS 21 1830 Flicks in the Fells PH 13 1930 A Dream Realised (13) PH 21 1930 HS AGM + Jacob’s Join SHS 14 St Valentine’s Day 22 Mothering Sunday 14 2215 SWFC Valentines Disco (14) PH 24 1930 Garsdale Ladies Group Demonstration GVH 15 SS Half Term Ends 25 1000 Coffee Morning tba URCR 15 1030 Christian Worship PH 26 1930 Sedbergh Parish Council PH 17 1930 FCH Domino Drive FCH 28 1300 Spring Show PH 18 1215 Lecture & Lunch (18) URCR 28 Sedbergh Tens Rugby Festival SS 18 1930 HS Textiles (18) Venue Change PH 29 Sedbergh Tens Rugby Festival SS 20 1900 Duophonic (20) Duo 30 Sedbergh Tens Rugby Festival SS 21 1000 Xing Yi Seminar PH 30 1930 DMH AGM DMH 25 1000 Coffee Morning Sed Methodist Ch URCR APRIL 25 1930 CWT Birds of Prey SHS 1 1000 Coffee Morning LNFU URCR 25 1930 Sedbergh Parish Council PH 1 1930 WIF Growing Gardener Prospective PH 26 1930 Bowling Club AGM (26) WHC 1 1930 Oliver (70) SHS 28 1830 Flicks in the Fells PH 2 1930 WIH Local Wild Flowers FCH MARCH 2 1930 Oliver (70) SHS 1 St David’s Day 7 WIB Handicrafts BVH 1 1400 Chapel Anniversary DMC 8 1000 WIF Coffee Morning URCR 1 1830 Jazz & Swing Evening SSQH 8 1915 WID DMH 2 1930 FCH AGM FCH 9 1400 KL Embroiderers Group BVH 3 WIB Rubbish - Recycling BVH 10 Good Friday 4 1000 Coffee Morning Blind Group URCR 13 Easter Monday 4 Confirmation Service 15 1000 Coffee Morning NW Cancer URCR 4 1300 Muncheon Music SSQH 19 SS Term Begins 4 1930 HS Prehistoric Cumbria SHS 19 1030 Christian Worship PH 4 1930 WIF My Craft Projects PH 22 1000 Coffee Morning StAS Mission URCR 5 1930 WIH Red Cross Movement HVH 22 1930 CWT Wildlife in Sacred Places SHS 6 1430 Women’s World Day of Prayer (75) StAS 23 St George’s Day 6 1930 Domino Drive & Tattie Pot Supper HVH 25 1830 Flicks in the Fells PH 7 1000 Cricket Club Jumble Sale PH 28 1930 Garsdale Ladies Group African Orphans GVH 10 1930 FCH Domino Drive FCH 29 1000 Coffee Morning GVH URCR The S & D Lookaround is edited, published & distributed monthly by Dennis & Jacky Whicker It is printed by Stramongate Press. Whilst every effort is made to ensure that information is correct, the editors cannot accept any responsibility for any inconvenience caused through errors or omissions. Page 94 29 1930 Sedbergh Parish Council PH DIARY KEY MAY BF = Brigflatts 4 May Day BS = Baliol School 4 WIB Family Day BVH BVH = Barbon Village Hall 5 WIB Resolution Meeting BVH CDC = Community Development Centre 6 1000 Coffee Morning Barnardo's URCR 6 1930 WIF WI Advisor & Resolutions PH CO = Community Office, Main Street 7 1930 WIH Christine Wood & Kenya HVH CTiS = Churches Together in Sedbergh 11 1000 Christian Aid Week URCR CWT = Cumbria Wildlife Trust 13 1000 Coffee Morning Christian Aid URCR DCMH = Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes 13 1915 WID DMH DCP = Dent Car Park 17 1030 Christian Worship PH DMH = Dent Memorial Hall 18 1930 Garsdale Ladies Group Auction GVH DMC/S = Dent Methodist Chapel/Schoolroom 20 1000 Coffee Morning WIK URCR FCH = Firbank Church Hall 23 SS Half Term Starts FM = Farfield Mill 23 1830 Flicks in the Fells PH GVH = Garsdale Village Hall 25 May Bank Holiday HS = History Society 27 1000 Coffee Morning URCR HVH = Howgill Village Hall 28 1930 Sedbergh Parish Council PH JLCP = Joss Lane Car Park 30 2000 Old Tyme Dances PH 31 SS Half Term Ends KL = Kirkby Lonsdale JUNE KVH = Killington Village Hall 2 WIB Cartoonist BVH LHCP = Loftus Hill Car Park 3 1000 Coffee Morning Dent Foot Chapel URCR MCCKL = Methodist Church Centre KL 3 tba WIF Outing tba PH = People’s Hall 4 1930 WIH Members Evening FCH SHS = Settlebeck High School 10 1000 Coffee Morning tba URCR SLSB = South Lakeland Society for the Blind 10 1915 WID DMH SMCR = Sed. Methodist Church Room 17 1000 Coffee Morning tba URCR StAS/D = St Andrew’s Church, Sedbergh/Dent 21 Father’s Day SS/C = Sedbergh School/Chaplaincy 21 1030 Christian Worship PH STO = Sedbergh Tourist Office, Main Street 23 1930 Garsdale Ladies Group AGM GVH URCR = United Reformed Church Rooms 24 1000 Coffee Morning Garsdale Church URCR WHC = White Hart Club 24 1930 Sedbergh Parish Council PH WIB = Women’s Institute, Barbon 26 Dentdale Music & Beer Festival Dent 26 Dent Folk Festival Sedbergh WID = Women’s Institute, Dentdale 27 Dentdale Music & Beer Festival Dent WIF = Women’s Institute, Frostrow 27 Dent Folk Festival Sedbergh WIH = Women’s Institute, Howgill 28 Dentdale Music & Beer Festival Dent WIK = Women’s Institute, Killington 28 Dent Folk Festival Sedbergh JULY Regular Meetings 1 SS Term Ends Howgill Toddlers 1315 Every Monday HVH 1 1000 Coffee Morning URC URCR Dent Parish Council 1930 1st Monday DMH 1 1930 WIF Thandi Friends Project PH SL Carers Association 1400 1st Tuesday PH 2 1930 WIH Local Food Traditions HVH Killington WI 1400 2nd Tuesday PH 3 1930 Sedbergh Wanderers Junior Disco (14) PH Ladies NFU 1930 3rd Tuesday PH 4 1000 Sedbergh Wanderers Coffee Morning (14) PH Coffee Morning 1000 Every Wednesday URCR 4 1300 Sedbergh Wanderers Sports Day (14) PH Zebras 1315 Every Wednesday SMCR 4 2000 Sed Wanderers Abba Tribute Band (14) PH Sedbergh Juniors 1730 Every Wednesday PH 5 0900 Sedbergh Wanderers Car Boot Sale (14) PH Sedbergh Seniors 1930 Every Wednesday PH 5 1300 Sedbergh Wanderers Half Marathon (14) PH Toy Library 1430 1st & 3rd Wednesday PH 7 WIB Garden Party BVH Frostrow WI 1930 1st Wednesday PH 8 1000 Coffee Morning WIH URCR History Society 1930 1st & 3rd Wednesday SHS 8 1915 WID DMH Dentdale WI 1915 2nd Wednesday DMH 8 Festival of Ideas Begins Sedbergh SLS Blind Group 1415 3rd Wednesday PH 12 Festival of Ideas Ends Sedbergh Sed. Parish Council 1930 Last Thursday PH 15 1000 Coffee Morning British Legion URCR Howgill WI 1930 1st Thursday FCH 19 1030 Christian Worship PH Monkey House Café 1930 Every Friday Library Page 95 PUBLIC INFORMATION

SEDBERGH HEALTH CENTRE DENTAL SURGERY Loftus Hill & 015396 20218 Finkle Street & 20626 Repeat Prescription & 015396 20239 Mr I. R. Dawson, Ms G Turner, Mrs D Ross Out of Hours & 01539 781999 & Mr B Taylor Bay Call & 0845 0524 999 Monday to Thursday 0900 - 1700 Friday 0830 - 1500 Monday 0830 - 1030 O 1400 - 1700 P* LIBRARY Main Street & 20186 0830 - 1015 L* 1500 - 1800 B Monday 1700 - 1900 1045 - 1230 H* 1830 - 2030 W* Wednesday 1000 - 1230 1400 - 1700 1130 - 1215 Dent Surgery Friday 1400 - 1700 Tuesday 0830 - 1030 O Saturday 1000 - 1230 1045 - 1230 H* 1430 - 1730 H* SEDBERGH TOURIST OFFICE Wednesday 0830 - 1030 O 1400 - 1700 P* Main Street & 20125 1045 - 1230 P* 1500 - 1800 L* Open every day Thursday 0830 - 1030 O 0900 - 1700 1045 - 1230 L* 1400 - 1700 H* www.sedbergh.org.uk/booktown/dlbc.html Friday 0830 - 1030 O 1400 - 1700 P* COMMUNITY OFFICE & 20504 1045 - 1230 L* 1430 - 1730 L* Monday to Friday 1000 to 1600 L = Dr Lumb Thursday 1000 to 1300 H = Dr Hunt e-mail [email protected] www.sedbergh.org.uk P = Nurse Pilling RURAL CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU O = Open Surgery Kendal Office * = Appointment Only & 0870 1264061 B = Book on Day www.cabkendal.ndo.co.uk W = Workers Surgery PENSION SERVICE SURGERY The Health Centre reserve the right to offer any Stricklandgate House every Tuesday 1400 - 1600 Doctor/Nurse Practitioner at any time & 01539 795000 or 0845 6060265 in the Open Surgeries. SLCVS @ Community Office Early Bird Surgery available, 1st Wednesday every month please ask at Reception 10 am to 12 noon Practice Nurses & 01539 742627 Monday 0845 - 1300 C 1400 - 1730 C COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE 0840 - 1200 LB 1400 - 1630 E Settlebeck Cottage Tel: 21031 Tuesday 0845 - 1300 C 1400 - 1730 C www.sedberghcdc.org.uk Wednesday 0830 - 1300 B 1400 - 1730 B POLICE 0840 - 1200 L & 0845 33 00 247 Thursday 0830 - 1300 B 1400 - 1730 B PUBLIC TOILETS 1400 - 1730 C Main Street & Loftus Hill Car Park, Sedbergh Friday 0845 - 1300 C 1400 - 1730 C Main Street, Dent B = Joanne Batty VETERINARY SURGERY 22 Long Lane & 20335 C = Anne Crome Mr N. Preston & Mr J. Bramley L = Kay Lumb LB = Bloods Monday to Friday 1400 - 1430 * E = ECG Clinic Mon, Wed & Fri 1900 - 1930 * District Nurse Health Visitor Saturday 1330 - 1400 * & & 015396 21690 015396 20979 Sunday * A Collinge Optometrist * = By Appointment Only Friday only 0900 - 1300 1400 - 1730 * MARKET DAY WEDNESDAY * = By Appointment Only HALF-DAY CLOSING THURSDAY