The Bugle A chance to blow your trumpet for the villagers of , Middleton and Youlgrave

No. 156 June 2013 Get involved with Youlgrave Welldressing

The future of Bank Top welldressing has everyone there to discuss the future of been uncertain following the retirement of Bank Top. a designer, and we were unsure whether So here are the important dates for your there would be a team to make it. Many diary. We especially need manpower for thanks go to Deidre Frith who has stepped putting up and taking down the wells. They up to the task of managing a mainly new all have their own knack, so if you would team of welldressers. Philip Smith has like to join one of the teams please contact agreed to one last design and manage the Fred Baker on 07590 122969 or Peter change over – but we still need your help! Pimm on (01629) 636341. A campaign for more helpers Boards in the river: Friday has brought a few old faces 7 June, meet 6pm well back and introduced some dressing shed. new ones. If you haven’t Puddling – get down and registered an interest yet, or dirty: Monday 17 June, meet don’t know what we’re on 6pm by the river. about, please get in touch. Putting up – it’s early, but Dee can be contacted on worth it (you get to see them (01629) 636911. So, first): Saturday 22 June, 6am thankfully, we still have the by the fountain, please usual five welldressings this arrange with someone in year, plus one at the school. advance. Welldressing has donated Taking down – messy but £900 to local causes: £300 necessary (bring a paint each to 1st Youlgrave scraper): We need people at Guides for their trip to Last year’s Bank Top the wells to scrape the clay Denmark, the Church boiler welldressing. clean from Friday midday, appeal and Youlgrave then manpower at 5/6pmish. Playschool. Thanks to everyone who The traditional procession with the helped out last year to raise this money. blessing of the wells is on Saturday 22 Fountain well has had essential repairs June at 2.30pm. If you usually park on to the side panels, but apart from this we Coldwell End, Main Street. Church Street haven’t had any big expenditures this or Alport Lane, please could you arrange year, hence why we’re able to give so alternative parking for the weekend. Also, much away. Thanks to all who came to please note the road will be closed from the AGM, since we really needed church corner at 2.15pm. Thank you. 2 3

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Dear Editor VILLAGE NOTICEBOARD YOULGRAVE BOWLS CLUB Charles (Charlie) Bacon I would like to reply to the person 1931 – 2013 THE AGM OF THE Youlgrave Bowls Club Grand Jumble Sale who put the note on my car finally took place on 4 May, after five windscreen when I parked near the Charlie was born in Youlgrave on 29 May YOULGRAVE SCOUT AND months planning and collecting the jumble, bus stop at Alport Lane at lunchtime COMMUNITY HALL IS ON waiting for the snow to clear and other to collect my two young grandsons 1931 at Bankside. He grew up and lived in WEDNESDAY, 5TH JUNE events in the village. (Thank goodness for from Playschool. I am only there for Youlgrave all his life with no desire to leave; he was a real ambassador for the village. the Village Diary in Figgs.) It was a great ten minutes at the most. I am in my 2013, AT 7.30PM AT THE After leaving Youlgrave School at the age of HALL success. Thank you to everyone who came Seventies and don’t always feel like and bought. walking, especially when the weather 14 he worked for G. E. Bacon Mining at

is bad. Hassop. Any spare time he had was taken It is a public meeting: all are welcome. Anne Prince Everybody in the village is having by his passion for football. He played in This is your hall, please support it. Youlgrave's 1st team and was awarded difficulty with parked vehicles, no There will be elections of officers for more than myself when I want to get many trophies throughout his footballing the year ahead. out of my drive. career. We hope to see you at the AGM. Since retirement, Charlie loved walking in It would be very convenient if some CLT logo arrangement could be made with the and around the village with his dear friends, Contacts Garage to leave the space clear but his biggest love of all was his garden. Chair: John Youatt (636241) Charlie often referred to his garden as “the outside the school for 30 minutes Secretary: Anne Croasdell (636887) each break time for picking up and peace” and the name really says it all. dropping off pupils, because not Charlie's allotment has now been in the Bacon family for over 60 years. So long as everyone lives in the village and YOULGRAVE CLT – LATEST needs transport to get to school. Charlie could tend his garden and share his vast array of produce he was a happy man.

Charlie was suddenly taken from us on 3 Youlgrave Community Land Trust Kind Regards CHURCH April this year without a goodbye and he is now has 180 members – and we A Villager sadly missed. He will always be in our SUMMER FAIR believe there are still more of you out hearts and thoughts, our treasured there who would like to join. When Name and address supplied memories will live on. He was kind, loving, Saturday 15 June you pay your £1 and become a gentle, generous and selfless; always happy member you'll have the right to vote to help, never a bother to anybody. A real Dear Editor at 2.30pm to elect the first Board. We are gentleman. organising election dates now, so I’m a part-time, ‘mature’ post We would like to thank everybody for their Youlgrave Village Hall hurry! If you want to have a say in graduate student at Birmingham kind words, support and donations in how our community can be helped to Charlie's memory. A total of £438 has been University researching World War I. remain vibrant then contact David I’m trying to track down any relatives collected and it is to be equally shared Plants, Books, Tombola, Frederickson on 01629 636568. of John B. Titterton (1886-1968), between the British Heart Foundation and Cakes, Bric-a-Brac, Cream whose grave is in the graveyard of Youlgrave Church. Teas, Raffle, Ice cream Youlgrave Church and who served in We are hoping to work with the Parish the Great War. If you have any Council to place a bench in Charlie's For all the back issues and memory near his beloved allotment. Please Please come information please get in touch. special editions, as well as to Thank you. visit it and take a moment to share Charlie's and support us enjoy the Bugle in full colour, 'peace'. go to: www.thebugle.org.uk Stuart Bell Katy Wayne (Charlie's niece) [email protected] 6 7

Simon Barton and Wendy Hilton (pictured right) tied the knot and enjoyed a memorable News from Youlgrave Playgroup day with family and friends on Friday 26 April. Thanks to the Village Hall Sewing Ladies The ceremony was conducted by Rev Garrie Griffiths at All Saints in Youlgrave. The sun Not content with local fauna, Playgroup children have shone and boy did the wind blow! The recently been spied riding polecats, zebras and other celebrations continued at the Lathkil Hotel in exotic creatures courtesy of the Village Hall sewing Over Haddon. ladies. Our very grateful thanks to them. They are Simon and Wendy couldn’t have wished for great fun and have inspired some wonderful a happier day and would like to thank imaginings of daring do – to say nothing of the everyone for their kind words, good wishes, damage they can inflict on a quick turn! support and generosity, particularly to Rev A visitor at Playgroup Garrie Griffiths for the lovely service, Jan September starters Wilson for the music, Joan, Margaret and Joy Joseph had a little lamb... for the outstandingly beautiful flowers. We and his mum Jose brought it I urgently need to know if would also like to thank our neighbours and to see us last week. One of there will be any more new good friends Kate for the delicious cake, triplets, it was being hand starters in September. I Glenys, Connie and Mel for the unique reared. The children had lots already have a list of about a favours that all went down a treat. of fun taking turns to hold dozen and we need to Thank you to all our family and friends for the bottle and giving it a organise staffing. Young making our day so very, very special. stroke. We then went on to children (under 3) need a see Mary Turner’s horse, higher ratio of staff so it would Wendy & Simon Barton Charlie, which was be helpful to know how many thoroughly enjoying some lush grass that had days you want and how recently decided to grow! Next, there were the flexible you can be. Call Anne Bankside Wildlife Garden: perfect peace in a noisy world chickens to feed and finally we inspected the on 01629 636887 for a This month has been very active in the garden – both for humans and wildlife. Several of the tadpoles in Mary’s pond. What a wonderful, busy registration form. nest boxes are occupied, I think by blue tits or great tits. The young jackdaws are thriving and morning we had. How lucky we are! making a lot of noise. Several of the newts appear to be pregnant and the pond has lots of tadpoles, in spite of the disappearance of a lot of the frogs spawn last month. A visitor also Folk at The Bull: THE BIRD SCARERS, Saturday 8 June saw two whitethroats in the garden. The plant life is really springing into life with lots of forget- Folk family trio the Bird Scarers will be entertaining us with haunting me-nots, bluebells and cowslips. melodies and harmonies inspired by their home in the Staffordshire One of the most exciting things to happen in the garden is the formation on the Bankside moorlands. Grandmother, mother and daughter sing and play guitars, Guardians – a group of children who have decided to help look after the garden and protect violin and viola and also take inspiration from folk roots band Show of Hands. They the creatures! They did an excellent job cleaning and tidying the summerhouse. They plan to will be supported by singer songwriter, author and storyteller Rick Ford, also from design a T-shirt for the group, so look out for them! The children are Leyla, Natalie, Poppy, Staffordshire, with his blend of country, blues and folk songs. Tickets are only £6 in Matthew, Charlie, Monty and Rupert. The garden has also had two visits from the Brownies advance, £7 on the door, so book early with Nic on 01629 636307 to ensure a seat. We look forward to seeing you then. who also did some work in the garden, in spite of the rain. Well done all of you! PS Jez Lowe tickets available shortly – email or call to reserve yours now for Carole Beavis, who was responsible for the wonderful willow creations, came and did some Friday 12 July. repair and preservation work on the willow hut as well as putting some preservative on the other sculptures. Folk at The Bull hosts weekly folk and acoustic music sessions at The Bulls Head, So do come down to the garden and enjoy the song of the birds and the sound of the Youlgrave on Saturdays from 8.30pm. Each month there will also be a guest performer. For listings and tickets please contact [email protected] or just running water from the river below. Perfect peace in a noisy world. come along and join in!

Maggie: email [email protected], tel 636189 8 9 Saturday 8th June, from 7pm in The Square

Middleton by Youlgrave is to host Middleton Rocks 2013 on Saturday 8 June, with the first band kicking off at 7pm. A lot of effort has been made by the organisers to ensure a relaxed atmosphere with great music. There will be a large covered area, sponsored by Monkee Genes, in case of the odd shower. Food will be provided for sale by the local butchers New Close Farm, including their delicious hog roast. Local beer will come from Hartingtons, along with soft drinks and lager, plus John Hattersley is sorting the wine offer. An eclectic mix of music will play until half eleven: Laura Neal playing music from their recent covers album. Flame & Acid, who feature members of both Fat Fish and Scutty Neighbours, play their debut. The Natterjacks, recently described by the music press as the next Mumford and Sons. Lastly the driving sounds of the Big Sur playing music by Tom Waits, the Stones, Joe Cocker and Eric Bibb amongst others. The organisers would like to take this opportunity to thank the police for all their help and effort to making sure Middleton Rocks returned for 2013. Also apologies for any inconvenience the temporary road closure may cause while the event takes place. Looking forward to a night dancing under the stars!

Artist of Rocks: Amanda Wray 10 11

bit dizzy! Church Farm Diary, May 2013 Michael, Dakin and Joseph have been PEAK FEAST building up the walls that have fallen The old saying “A wet business that is going very well and they down during the winter to get ready for Your local bakery and windy May fills the feel the need to diversity. the cattle in the fields; and also stone barns with corn and hay” When our two eldest children were Moor Lane, Youlgrave picking in the silage fields so that no is correct on the weather little I used to do Bed and Breakfast, stones get into the machinery. About Side, so we will wait and see about the letting out three bedrooms. At one point 20ft of walling collapsed at Over corn and hay. I also did evening meals, but after a Haddon where some of the heifers are Before the cattle were turned out from while this was too much to cope with grazing. This was caused by moles the buildings on to grass they were because I was also running a tea room burrowing under the wall. injected for Blackleg. This is a highly in our house, making homemade cakes, Cakes, biscuits, quiches and homity

pies, tarts, cup cakes fatal disease of young cattle caused by scones and sandwiches and soup. With This month’s recipe is Watercress the spore forming a rod shaped gas the help of Jackie and Alison and Janice, Soup, a healthier one, as the village Specialising in gluten free, vegan, producing bacteria, the spores of the girls from the village, this was a success will be getting obese with all the organism can live in the soil for many until the recession in the ‘70s came vegetarian cakes and ready meals puddings! years; and the bacteria enters the calf along. Lots of farmers have to diversify by ingestion. to make a living: Dakin has his digger To place your order or for a full price Ingredients The disease is not transmitted directly and contracting and Michael has his list call 01629 630000 from sick animals to healthy animals by haulage. All this helps to keep things 2 oz butter or 07538 716613 or you can look us mere contact. The first sign is usually together, I think Lucy will try to keep to 1 onion peeled and chopped up on Facebook lameness, loss of appetite and rapid cattle as she is very good with them and 2 bunches of watercress chopped breathing and swelling in the hip, chest, Joseph is, like any young boy of his age, 1oz flour back and elsewhere. If you press the very interested in machinery. 3/4 pt chicken stock Come to an evening with two 1/2 pt milk swelling you can feel the gas under the Dakin is getting the silage machinery Adventurous Women... skin and the animal usually dies in 12 to ready for the season which will not be 1 tbsp cream salt and pepper 48 hours. The speed with which long before it starts. He has a different As part of fundraising towards this Blackleg kills usually makes individual machine this year and is getting the To cook summer’s Denmark camp, 1st Youlgrave treatment useless. motor which sharpens the blades Heat half the butter and fry the onion Guides is organising an evening of The cattle have been turned out into serviced. Also this year he has a bale until soft in a large pan. Add the illustrated talks by two intrepid local women. Marianne Heading will describe the fields at Church Farm. We managed wrapper; last year he had other people watercress and cook for a little longer. how she competed in the to walk them down from the moor to do this but found it was not up to his Add the stock and simmer for 20 mins. world’s coldest and toughest ‘Ultra building without too much trouble. standard so he will be wrapping the In another pan heat the rest of the Distance Race' in the Yukon last year. Sarah was at the front driving the bales. butter and stir in the flour. Off the heat, Meanwhile Tracey Worth will recount gradually blend in the milk then return Discovery with the cattle trailer full of When Michael and I had our first how she and her family sailed round the to the heat and bring to the boil, calves and the cows followed with the round baler we put bags on the bales. world and had to be rescued after stirring all the time. Season and add to rest of our family blocking off gateways This was a very tiring job, as I am only hitting an iceberg! and roads. The cattle are now enjoying 5ft 2in and had to lift up the bag to go the watercress mixture. Put into a the grass and freedom of the fields. The round the bales. Then we bought a blender until the mixture resembles a On: Friday 7 June at 7.30pm naughty heifers that had a visiting bull wrapper and contracted to other farms smooth cream. Return to the pan and At: Youlgrave Village Hall have had calves and are growing well and in those days the wrapper didn't reheat adding cream to taste. Tickets: £5 adults/£3 under 18 in and healthy. count how many times it went round the advance, or £6/£4 on the door. See Dakin has been digging out for a new bale as it does now, you had to count, Marjorie Shimwell Penny (tel 636125) or any of the Guides. building at a nearby farm. This is for a so you can imagine how you would feel bakery, as the owners have a farm shop wrapping hundred of bales in a day – a 12 13

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Even though the temperatures have The swifts arrived at their nest site down The year of 2011 was one of the driest on million in 1978) and we exceeded that on three remained low, Spring has suddenly Conksbury Lane on the 6th and I record; therefore it came as no surprise that occasions in the last decade. We received a arrived. A walk down the Dale on the identified house martins over the Dale our river and indeed rivers all over the country warning letter that we could be prosecuted and 24th gave lots of colour, with the earlier on the 7th, though they might have been dried up. Despite this fact a meeting was called fined £50,000. At the time we received the species out at the same time as later there earlier. in November 2011 at the top chapel by notice there was an estimated two million ones. The king cups have been Our first summer warbler was a chiff concerned villagers, to discuss the matter and gallons a day going down the river, an irony blooming for many weeks now and have chaff reported at Spring Lane on the 5th. see what action could be taken. This acted as a indeed. We have since had a meeting with the been joined in the river by the white On my walk down the Dale on the 24th I sort of rain dance as it never stopped raining Environment Agency but they were quite flowers of the floating water crowfoot. heard black cap, willow warbler and chiff from that point until Christmas 2012, a year adamant and advised us to pump more water The less common goldilocks buttercups chaff, saw a pair of grey wagtails which was the wettest in England on record from the mine, with the added and not with their narrow leaves have now been feeding two fledglings and some and surprisingly the river returned with a inconsiderable expense of running an 11KW vengeance again. pump, even though the spring is overflowing joined by meadow and creeping dippers. Please keep dogs out of the Despite this fact, the bureaucratic wheels dramatically and supplies the village by buttercups. Both mossy and meadow river to avoid disturbing nesting water were set in motion and there is now a White gravity. So much for the environment. saxifrages were found, the mossy birds. Peaks Rivers Group, the main players of which Patrick McLoughin has intervened on our saxifrage in tight patches I had a very good report of are: The Peak Park Authority, The behalf for which we are grateful, and we have up under the cliffs of the a whitethroat in the Dale Environment Agency (EA), and several other been told that the EA will make a final old quarry while the on the 20th. Other bird interested parties. They have engaged a decision when the report on the rivers is meadow saxifrages are sightings include a greater company to survey the rivers and produce a published. spread out in the spotted woodpecker down report. Meanwhile, the Environment Agency is This is a shortened version of the situation grassland. Conksbury Lane and a scrutinising everyone in the area who has an but if anyone wants a complete report please There are lots of blue tit called Beaky with a abstraction licence and that includes us. We contact me. meadow saxifrages on grossly deformed beak on have a 22 million per year licence (was 27 Malcolm Stacey the spoil heaps on the the Grove. It does seem to left of Alport Hill as you be healthy and feeding go down. Similar to Comma well however. YOULGRAVE PARISH COUNCIL REPORT meadow saxifrage is lady’s smock. This I am not sure whether to award “Bird prefers damper areas and has only four of the Month” to a redstart seen at The meeting on 30 April was too late to be reported in the last Bugle. Council welcomed petals. Forget-me-nots seem to be Greenfields on 29 April and a pair on the Sarah Shimwell to the council vacancy and first heard from the Waterworks about having a good year with large patches of Wildlife Area on the 1st or a red kite that potential problems with the Environment Agency over abstraction. It agreed to pursue a blue in the Dale and a fine clump just slowly soared its way down the Dale on new grant application to finance a Multi-Use Games Area at Alport Lane Playing Fields, below Alport. There are some bluebells the 10th. to give support to the Youlgrave Silver Band concert on Welldressing Sunday and signed off the annual accounts for presentation to the auditors. in the Dale and the woods below Butterflies have been very scarce this The Annual Meeting on 21st May saw the election of Brian Wardle as Chair and Has Bowers Hall have lots. Cowslips can be year, but our rare warmer days have Oldham to Vice-Chair for the coming year. Dates for the year and representatives to seen in the Dale and in many meadows produced some. I saw large white, Village bodies and committees were agreed. round the village. Both cow parsley and brimstone, peacock and small Issues were raised concerning waste bin collections, ongoing sewer problems, dog sweet cicely are in bloom with their large tortoiseshell on the 1st and had a report fouling and the replacement of the pavilion flooring. The allotments have seen all flat heads of white flowers. Sweet cicely of an orange tip on the 20th and saw a renewals and the waiting list cleared and plots still available. The walling rebuild has smells of liquorice if you crush it and the comma on the 25th. been carried out with the assistance of a PDNPA grant. later seed heads have a sweet liquorice My thanks to all contributors and Sadly our efforts to convince Derbyshire County Council to make highway flavour. Icky Picky had both of our rare please keep the reports coming in. improvements to protect children and adults crossing from the blind corner opposite the leadworts, spring sandwort and alpine garage have again been unsuccessful, although the signage is promised for upgrading pennycress, in flower. Ian Weatherley shortly. Proposals for a defibrillator are ongoing, as is a survey for grit bin locations. Our summer visitor birds have now [email protected] or 636350 Council agreed to give full support to the Waterworks in its negotiations with the arrived. The swallows came last month. Environment Agency over abstraction from the spring. Matthew Lovell, Clerk 18 19 GRANBY HOUSE AD

WHITWORTH AD 20 21 W.I. still blossoming... VILLAGE MARKET NOTICE …after a Spring in our step on our Womens’ Walk in April, which took us near to Hopping Farm and back down the ‘steps’ enjoying beautiful views over the village, followed by drinks at The Farmyard. The May Resolutions meeting concluded the strongly debated subject of the demise of High Street shops, with a small majority in favour of supporting this difficult issue in a changing society. On a lighter note, Irene Yarnall of Matlock then wore and discussed her plethora of hats, from cloches to berets to rabbits, with much gusto. Jewellery competition winner was Liz Hickman, with Wendy a close second! May Supper Club saw a busload of us ‘going to the dogs’ at Owlerton, a new experience for most of us, and Jean’s table in particular seemed to find the form and pick a few winners, but none of us lost out on a fun night out. Many thanks again to Jean and Sandra for organizing this event. Collecting their winnings – June Supper Club is now an ever‐popular Beetle Drive, Marjorie Shimwell and Jean including snacks with BYO drinks on 27 June at the Reading Stacey at the races. Room. Craft Club continues on Mondays: June 3rd and 17th at 2pm, then on 1st July (ie first and third Mondays) ‐ please check with me for exact venue. The Book Group is thriving and now on their third book. Future events include a Chatsworth concert, a trip behind the scenes at Sudbury, and Afternoon Tea at a member’s home on 5 June. Our normal June meeting is on Tuesday 11 June, when member Diane Kettle will be showing us the art of watercolour painting in a ‘hands on’ session. Materials provided for those without their own. Please contact any member if you would like to know more about our W.I. or just turn up to next meeting at The Village Hall by 7.30 and you will be very welcome. Liz Hickman

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Another evening of Words and Music: ‘HIGHS AND LOWS’ On Friday 5 July, 7.30pm, Youlgrave Village Hall Tickets £5, including wine, from Liz Hickman (01629) 636845 22 23 ANNUAL SPONSORS: COMMUNITY GROUPS & ORGANISATIONS Bakewell policing teams want to hear from local communities Beavers, Cubs, Scouts (meeting times below) 636605 Youlgrave Methodist Church 636558 Police from Safer Neighbourhood teams are asking what issues local people want Middleton & Smerrill Parish Council 636151 Youlgrave Parish Council 636151 them to focus on. Officers from the Bakewell, Tideswell, Stanton, Youlgreave and Granby House, Supportive housing for older people Youlgrave Playschool Mon-Fri, 9am-12 noon White Peak Villages teams will be getting together for their quarterly governance 636123 636887 meeting at the start of June. The meeting is open to the public and will see the Youlgrave & District Horticultural Society Youlgrave Reading Room 636477 / 636719 police updating people about issues in their neighbourhoods. Police will also be contact Leslie Toyne, Treasurer 636484 keeping people in the loop about crime trends, operations and campaigns. Youlgrave School Association, friendly fundraising Youlgrave Bellringers Members of the public can also recommend priority problems for police to focus on for our local school, contact Sally 01298 687103 contact David Camm, Tower Captain 636576 Youlgrave Scout & Community Hall, for hire contact for the following three months. It takes place at Bakewell Children’s Centre, in Stoney Close, Bakewell, from 7pm on Thursday 6 June. Sergeant Andy Youlgrave Bowls Club, Melanie Marsh 636605 Wordsworth, who is in charge of the teams, said: “These meetings are all about contact Ingrid Newman 636084 Youlgrave Silver Band 636362 making sure we are providing a great service to the public and we need people to Youlgrave Carnival [email protected], Youlgrave Village Hall, for parties & special events 636570 come along and tell us. Local residents can raise any concerns with us and that Youlgrave Cinema 636836 helps us decide what to look at and can have a really positive impact on their www.youlgrave.com/Youlgrave_Cinema.htm Youlgrave Welldressers 636341 neighbourhood issues.” To find out more, call your local Safer Neighbourhood team Youlgrave Day Centre (Monday Club) at the Village Youlgrave Wesleyan Reform Chapel 636251 on 101. You can also submit your policing priority profile suggestions online at Hall, contact Lise Marple 636287 Youlgrave Women’s Institute 636353 www.derbyshire.police.uk and heading to your team’s page. REGULAR LOCAL EVENTS Mondays Monday Club (Day Centre), Thurs Yoga with Iris Pimm, 9.30-11.30am CHAIRBIOTICS NOTICE Youlgrave Village Hall, 10am-3pm Beginners class 7-8.30pm, The Copy deadline for the joint Mondays Yoga with Michele (815168), Barn, Greenfields Farm (636341) July/August issue of the Village Hall, 4.55-6.25pm Thurs Youlgrave Silver Band, Methodist Bugle is Wednesday 26 Tuesdays Art Club, 10am-12 noon, ring School Room, 8pm June. All material to the 630407 for details of venue 2nd Mon Mobile Library, Mt Pleasant Editor at the address on Tuesdays Yoga with Iris Pimm (636341), The 9.25-9.40am, Bradford Dale 9.45- the back page. Barn, Greenfields Farm, 7-9pm 9.50am, Grove Place 9.55- Tuesdays Youlgrave Bell Ringers practice 10.15am, Holywell Lane 10.20- night, All Saints Church, 7.30-9pm 10.40am, The Pinfold, Middleton www.thebugle.org.uk Tuesdays Scouts 7-8.30pm, Scout Hall by Youlgrave, 10.50-11.20am Mon-Fri Youlgrave Playschool, Scout & 2nd Tues Youlgrave WI meetings, Community Hall, 9am-12 noon Youlgrave Village Hall, 7.30pm Weds Drawing and painting classes, (636353) ALLOTMENTS Youlgrave Reading Room, 10am 4th Wed Confidential Advice Sessions with Weds Bingo, Youlgrave Reading Room, Matlock & District Citizens Advice 7.30pm Bureau, Youlgrave Medical Parish Council Weds Beavers 5-6pm, Cubs 6.15-7.30pm, Centre, 9.30am-12.30pm allotment plots are now Scout Hall, 7.45pm (term time) Last Tues Youlgrave Parish Council meeting, Thurs Bible Study and Fellowship group, of month Youlgrave Village Hall Committee available for rent at Youlgrave Reading Room, 10am Room, 7.15pm (636151 to confirm) Coldwell End. The Secret @ Peak Serenity Contact the Parish www.thesecret-peakserenity.co.uk Cliff Farm, Cliff Lane, nr Alport, DE45 1LL Clerk on 636151 or 5* exclusive s/c apartment nestling on Harthill Moor, White Peak, near Chatsworth and Haddon Hall. Owner managed, sleeps 2-4, 2 bedrooms, 1 en-suite. 1 twin-bedded room with Wet-room. email youlgraveclerk Weekend, mid-week, short or long-term breaks. Short-term ‘lets’ possible. OPEN ALL YEAR. Total @btinternet.com seclusion, no intrusions, ‘off the beaten track’. Welcome to walkers, cyclists, climbers, star-gazers, wildlife lovers m 07837 725 337 e [email protected]

ANNUAL SPONSORS: BUSINESSES & PROFESSIONALS Amy’s Dairy, for fresh milk, free range eggs, cream, The Secret @ Peak Serenity, 5* s/c accommodation and orange juice, yoghurts 636639 & 07799 880740 coffee shop www.thesecret-peakserenity.co.uk 650712 Bakewell Bridge Car Park (M. & D. Rhodes), Iris Pimm, The Barn, Greenfields, Alport 636341 Coombs Road, Bakewell 636453 Pots from France, Functional and Studio Ceramics L.T. Birds, Joinery & Home Maintenance, from France exhibited Sept and Dec 636689 23 Northwood Lane, Darley Dale 07786 434376 Kathi Roche, Woodwind instrument repairs Dave Brown, Plastering and Home Maintenance [email protected], 636179 636075 & 0777 3045148 Barbara Scrivener, Reflexology, massage, Reiki Bull’s Head 636307 636601 Castle Farm, Bed & Breakfast, Caravans and Martin Shimwell, Plumbing & Heating Services Camping Barn 636746 07989 984826 Church Farm 636305 / 636111 Smerrill Grange, Bed & Breakfast 636232 Derbyshire Aggregates Squeeky Clean, For all your outdoor cleaning www.decorativeaggregates.com 636500 636812 & 0781 7585687 Dulux Design Service, your local designer Chris Read The Wee Dram, specialist whisky retailer, 5 Portland chris.duluxdesignservice.co.uk Square, Bakewell 812235 636360 / 07817169625 Whitworth Interior Projects - kitchen, bedrooms, Farmyard Inn 636221 bathrooms & tile showroom 733977 David Frederickson, Derbyshire Dales District Whitworth Construction Projects - property Councillor 636586 refurbishment & bespoke timber windows 733833 Chris Hancock, Plumbing & Heating Engineer, Gas Youlgrave Garage – Motor engineers and MOT Safe Registered 636455 & 07595 219256 Test Station 636943 George Hotel 636292 Youlgrave Waterworks – 07798 525075 (payment Hollands Butchers 636234 enquiries), 07762 053979 (service enquiries) Hopping Farm Caravan Site (Mrs M. Frost) 636302 YHA Youlgreave, Youth Hostel 636518 Anne Hunt, Driving School – Beginners, Refresher courses, Pass Plus 636162 Peter Knowles, Architect 636362 Thank you to everyone, including the Long Rake Spar Co Ltd, The largest selection of community groups on the inside back decorative stones for all your garden projects 636210 page, who continue to sponsor the Maxies Taxis 636409 & 07710 867887 Bugle – together with the advertising J.W. & J. Mettam, Family Funeral Directors since it’s the only income we have. To be a 1899 812114 back page sponsor call Ann on 636362 Simon Northcott, Will-making, estate administration, or Andrew on 636125. It costs £25 for inheritance tax advice, lasting powers of attorney the year for local businesses and [email protected], 07706 956067 T.Nutt & Sons, Supply and fitting of all domestic carpets professionals; or £20 for community & laminate/wood flooring www.nutt.co.uk 01246 863148 groups. F. Parker, Post Office & General Store 636217

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