Sedbergh & District
May 2008 Issue 255 Donation 50 pence Only 76 pages this month - but filled which helps to keep this one of the best with so much information. We have never communities in the country. known of so many events in one Please also support our many advertisers particular month either, something for who support the community by everyone. The month of June is no supporting Lookaround. exception. Do give events your support Dennis & Jacky Whicker SedberghSedbergh GalaGala Saturday 17th May 1pm Lupton Field Procession leaves Maryfell 12:30pm Theme: Favourite Films
Fell Races ~ Local Farmers Market ~ Craft Stalls Town Band ~ Paint Ball ~ Real Ale Beer Tent Inflatable Assault Course ~ Donkey Rides Mini Motorbikes ~ Moonwalk ~ Gala Queen Punch & Judy ~ Rodeo Bull ~ Fancy Dress Dog Show ~ Kids Football & Rounders
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 B Day Name Age 07 2 Oliver WOOF 1 99 2 Nicole HOPE 9 98 4 Mark WOOF 10 98 08 7 Georgina CRAGG 10 99 8 Kane WOODHOUSE 9 06 9 Amber WOOF 2 03 11 Zoe ALDERSON 5 Every month, there are Children’s98 11 Miles BLANCH 10 Birthday Vouchers to the value of £10 awarded to a Child whose06 name 12 Aidan WILLIAMSON 2 appears on the Birthday Page.02 13 Ruben SWALLOW 6 The recipient this month is:- 04 14 Bethany BECK 4 Georgina CRAGG who is 10 years old on 7th May99 14 Harry PAGE 9 Please collect your vouchers06 from 19 Isabel MOFFAT 2 Sedbergh Office Services 13 Kings Yard, Main Street,04 Sedbergh 20 Ted HODGSON 4 which can be used in any97 shop 05in 20 Brogan STANLEY 11 Sedbergh & Dent.02 22 Paris HEYWOOD- 6 00 22 Bethany HANDLEY 8 00 22 Megan HANDLEY 8 98 06 22 Francine GLANVILLE 10 98 06 22 Terence GLANVILLE 10 97 00 22 Patrick BANNISTER 11 97 05 24 Rebecca HARPER 11 97 05 24 Kelly SCARR 11 05 25 Bobbi-Mae KIRBY 3 Page 2 BED & BREAKFAST Proprietor Address Phone (015396) Mrs S Sharrocks ...... Holmecroft; Station Road, Sedbergh (2008/10) ...... 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 (2008/09) ...... 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 (2008/12) ...... 20309 F/D (4 poster); ES; CH; TV; P; NS; DW; CW e-mail: [email protected] Mrs R Gardner ...... Oakdene Country House, Garsdale Road, Sedbergh (2008/05) ...... 21012 2D (4 Poster); 2D; 1T; 1S; All ES; TVL; P; CH; CW; FC; NS Miss S Thurlby ...... 15 Back Lane, Sedbergh (2008/12) ...... 20251 1D; 1T; CH; L; 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 (2008/09) ...... 21529 1D(ES); 1T(ES); CH; TV; P; NP; Di; VB; EM; CW Mrs L Hopkins ...... Brantrigg, Winfield Road, Sedbergh (2008/09) ...... 21455 1T; PB; TV; NS; NP; P; DR; VB e-mail: [email protected] ------CAMPING, CARAVANNING, SELF-CATERING & RENTAL Sycamore Cottage, Lunds, Sedbergh (2008/09) ...... 01969 667356 Sleeps 2, D; CH; TVL; P; NS; DW Borrett Barn Caravan, Marthwaite, Sedbergh (2008/05) ...... 21175 4 Berth; H+C Shower; WC; TV; NS Borrett Barn Flat, Marthwaite, Sedbergh (2008/05) ...... 21175 Sleeps 4 people; D; T; CH; L; P, NS Mrs A Bramall ...... Summerhill, 7 Highfield Road, Sedbergh (2008/03) ...... 20360 Sleeps 6-8 1D; 1T; ES; PB; CH; L; TVL; P; NS; NP(*) e-mail: [email protected] ------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 3 PERSONAL & SMALL ADS £1
BRITTON NICHOLSON Happy 18th Birthday Harry and I would like to thank the carers for Andrew. Looking forward to the looking after me after my stay in weekend. Hope you have a great hospital and my friends for the lovely time So Proud. Love to you both. gifts and flowers. Rita. Mum, Andrew and Billy. ====== ====== WOOF BRITTON I would like to thank all my family, Happy 18th Birthday Uncle Harry friends and neighbours for the lovely and Uncle Andrew. Will be looking cards and presents sent to me on my forward to a game of footie with you. 65th Birthday and Retirement from Love Declan and Kai. M. Winn and Son Ltd. Also a big ====== thank you to Roger and Linda for the BRITTON party on April 11th at Crooklands Happy Birthday Harry and Andrew. Hotel and for their kind gifts and With much love to you both Jackie, warm wishes. Thanks again. Joe Darren and Ettie Louise. XX ====== ====== DALZELL NANNY AVAILABLE Happy 18th Birthday Bradley on 4th Full or Part Time. Fully Qualified. May. Lots of love from Dad, Lesley, For more details contact Rachel on Chloe and Lewis. xxxx 07814 712923. ====== ====== MIDDLETON FOR SALE A seat will be dedicated in the New 7ft x 5ft Hen Cabin. Laying memory of Billy, Marjorie & Bruce boxes, perches, etc., included. Tel: Middleton & Bruce’s Ashes will be Sedbergh 21771. scattered on Sunday 25th May at ====== 3pm. Family & Friends are invited to FOR SALE join the Family for a Buffet Lunch at Electric Garden Tiller and Cultivator. ‘Rhumes’ from 1pm. Transport will be Used once only and gave an provided for those who wish to attend excellent result. £30. Tel: Dent 25457 the ‘Ceremony’. Others may stay at ====== the house. Tea will follow. No FOR SALE mourning clothes. This is a day of Whirlpool full size dishwasher. celebration, happy memories & Excellent condition. New kitchen gathering of friends & family. Do forces sale £50. Phone 015396 come. Sarah & John 25212. 25027. Page 4 PERSONAL & SMALL ADS £1 PERSONAL & SMALL ADS £1 ORTON MALE VOICE CHOIR FOR SALE Mamas & Papas 3 in 1 system: pram, Dent Methodist Chapel Monday 5th May pushchair and car seat. £79.95 (cost £500 7:30pm new). Travel Moses Basket £4.95. Moses basket (rush) £2.95. Door baby Refreshments to follow bouncer £9.95. And various clothes. Everyone Welcome Lucia Marquart. Sedbergh 21166. ======Collection to Chapel Funds FOR SALE Haytor Hobby 41 Rotary Petrol Mower with roller. In working order except self drive. £25. Tel: 20897. Paul ======FOR SALE Hoggarth Good Quality single and double bedding. Full sets of single including quilt covers and fitted bottom sheets £5. Full sets of Building Contractor double bedding including quilt covers and bottom sheets £7.50. Assorted set of towels - Large bath towels/hand towels/ 6" Wood Chipper For Hire face cloths. Excellent condition, hardly Small Plant Hire used. Offers! Tel: 015396 25592. ======FOR SALE 015396 21413 About 200 stone slates from Barn Roof in Dent. Tel: 01524 35031 07968 977429 ======WANTED Lock up garage wanted for small car in Sedbergh. Long term arrangement OPEN GARDEN preferred. Please ring 0772 4114475. Grassrigg Farm, Killington ======Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th May HEALTH CENTRE 11am to 6pm For the month of May, patients are Tea or Coffee & Homemade Biscuits requested to ring the Surgery to make an Bring ‘n’ Buy + Plants Stall appointment as the attending times are Admission £2 being reviewed and may alter. The Proceeds for services provided will not be affected. Sedbergh & Dent Foot Methodist Chapels Please ring 20218. ALL WELCOME Page 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Groups X Neighbourhood Forum 20 Bus Time Table 72 New Community Venture 71 Religious Services 73 Noah’s Lark 61 Audio & Large Print NW Cancer Research 70 50 Lookaround Oberammergau 53 Bonney Sheep 33 Parish Dent 8 Bowling Club 71 Parish Sedbergh 10 Carers South 15 Parkinson’s Disease 69 Christian Aid Week 26 People’s Hall 16 Cricket Club Dentdale 62 Picture Quiz + 33 CWT Birds 30 Picture Quiz Answer 68 Dentist 69 Primary School Sedbergh 32 Dentdale Dibbers 69 Recycling 28 Dog Fouling Dent 67 Scouts 57 Driving Tip 65 Sedbergh to KL X Early Exercise 42 Settle Carlisle 31 Family Musings 24 Slovene Language 48 SL Society for the Blind 64 Farfield Friends 60 Spring Show 36 Farfield Mill 18 Swimming Club 14 Football Club Sedbergh 71 Tim Farron 34 Gala Dent 69 Town Band 54 Gardening 55 Town Band Classes 40 Garsdale Ladies 67 Travellers Appleby 70 Health Centre 5 Weather 38 Jaw Ache 56 WI Dentdale 29 Ladies NFU 58 WI Frostrow 22 Lost & Found 59 WI Howgill 51 Methodist Chapel Dent 63 WI Killington 52 Music Festival Sedbergh 60 Windfarms 44 Music Festival Info 7 YDNP Flower Power 66 Page 6 SEDBERGH MUSIC FESTIVAL metaphor for all manner of different Treat at the Sedbergh Music Festival journeys. Yet a collection of musical At the Sedbergh Music Festival on holiday snaps or music blog it most nd Sunday, 22 June, you will be taken certainly ain’t! Some performers see on one of the more remarkable it as a journey of rage at the journeys in song. A Winter Journey in perversity of the universe, some of song, for Nicholas Hurndall Smith and tragic hopelessness, some see the Alexa Wightman will take us with the song cycle as coming from a deeply distressed and disappointed lover ingrained slight from the cruel lover from valley floor to meet the sinister Organ Grinder way up in the bleak the singer and pianist know will be vastnesses of winter mountains in the only love of the wanderer’s life. Schubert’s Die Winterreise. As I write, I have no idea how the The tunes are memorably affecting, Hurndall Smith / Wightman pairing hauntingly simple, beautifully linked will see this work, and the excitement and crafted, the piano will be to be sitting in St Andrew’s accompaniment subtly expressive of Church on that evening, and hearing the inner torments of the forlorn lover the awesome journey unfold. who starts out young but then Stuart Manger gradually turns before our eyes into a drained, and hopeless outcast stumbling through blizzard and emptiness. Our wanderer is alternately furious at the world, MUNCHEON savagely critical of himself, vainly trying to pull himself together and MUSIC hold on to the beauties of love now lost, yet all the time knowing that the only real virtue he has left is sheer dogged will and persistence, and even that is sagging and seeping away – the piano tells you this in the SEDBERGH SCHOOL footsteps in almost every song, WEDNESDAY sometimes rapid and agitated, LUNCHTIME CONCERT sometimes stopping to think, but at 1:15pm more of the time, plodding on as it Wednesday 7th May were with gritted teeth against the Informal Music Making odds. The Queen’s Hall We begin to realise that although Admission Free Schubert himself loved fell and forest walking in and around Vienna, he has Soup and a roll provided used the idea of a walk mostly as a
Page 7 DENT PARISH COUNCIL and the playing field. Comments The April meeting of the Parish were also made about the Council’s Council was a short one which finances, including the £4,879 that followed the Annual Parish Meeting. was awarded in grants last year to Only urgent matters were dealt with, sixteen local bodies. As in previous including a number of planning issues years, the Parish Council had cost and the grass cutting contracts for the more to run than it received in playing field and car park picnic area. income, which is why the precept had As a result, this report is briefer than been increased in 2008 09 from usual, but the full minutes are £5,875 to £7,170. published on the Dentdale website The full text of the Council’s Annual www.dentdale.com. Report can be found on the Dentdale Annual Parish Meeting website. About 50 people attended the Margaret Fothergill Annual Parish Meeting at which Thanks were expressed to Margaret Councillors commented briefly on Fothergill for her work on the Parish their work over the last year, as well Council in the light of her resignation as reporting on the work of the at the end of April. Margaret has committees which run the car park been involved with a lot of the
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Page 8 detailed work on planning decisions whilst she has been on the Council, and her contribution will be Drive Time considerably missed. Beginners Beginners Beginners ●Beginners ●●● Pass Plus Pass Plus Pass Plus Pass Plus ●●●● Refresher Courses Refresher Courses Refresher Courses Proposed New Sedbergh Health Centre Discount voucher available for Pass Plus The Annual Parish Meeting started For patient, professional & friendly driving tuition with a talk by Dr Lumb in which he explained the proposals for the new David Morgan ADI Tel. 01539 731296 Health Centre in Sedbergh and the reasons why he felt a move was www.drivetimekendal.com necessary. Members of the public were appreciative of Dr Lumb’s work consultation. in developing the idea, and raised a Recycling number of points about the proposal. From time to time litter is left around In discussion, it was generally felt to the recycling bins in the car park, be a welcome development and Dr rather than being put in the Lumb was thanked for his appropriate bin. If you see anyone presentation. doing this and are able to challenge Dent Post Office them, it would help us keep the car The Annual Parish Meeting also park clean and tidy for everyone to discussed the proposed closure of use. the permanent Post Office counter Parish Council Vacancy and its replacement with an outreach As a result of Margaret Fothergill’s service. Many people felt concerned departure noted above, the Council about the impact the proposals would has a vacancy which will be filled in have on the sustainability of the due course either by election or co community and particularly on those option. We would welcome new that did not have a car. Others members, so if you would like to expressed the view that because only know about what is involved please 55 people used the Post Office get in touch with me or any of the regularly it was difficult to argue that councillors for an informal chat. there was sufficient demand for a Next Meeting permanent service. A number of Because of the Bank Holiday, the people felt that any outreach service next Parish Council meeting will be should not be sited in the Sedgwick held on the second Monday of the Room, and the meeting heard that month on May 12th at 7.30pm in the other possible sites in the village Sedgwick Room. The public is were already being investigated by welcome to attend as always, and to the Post Office. At the end of the raise matters of concern in the Public discussion, six people offered to meet Forum item which takes place about and consider an appropriate 8pm. Jock Cairns response to the Post Office Chair, Dent Parish Council Page 9 SEDBERGH PARISH COUNCIL Notes of the Meeting of the Parish Council of Sedbergh held in the LEVENS CHOIR presents People’s Hall, Sedbergh on Thursday 27 March 2008. 'Taverner to Tavener' Matters Arising from the Minutes Music from the reigns of Cllr Longlands further reported that Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II. he had looked at the proposed light in Saturday 10th May at 7.30pm the Folly. It was his personal opinion Kendal Parish Church that the electricity supply should be Tickets £7.50 taken from Norweb, at a cost of from Tel. 015395 67583, approximately £1k. Cllr Hopkins Choir Members, proposed that this course of action be or on the door. taken, seconded by Cllr Scarr. It was Children and Students free agreed that Cllr Longlands would Full programme details from move the matter forward, with a www.communigate.co.uk/lakes/levenschoir standard square light being installed. Cllr Blair reported that she had attended a meeting at the Police station regarding the travellers, which included representatives from various THE RAISING OF ST. ANDREW’S district councils, police, etc. Positive steps were taken at this meeting, and CHURCH ROOF, DENT. Cllr Blair stated that she would write “Dentdale Memories” an article for the Lookaround, and a A new production by list of useful telephone numbers Jim & Pam Bowness of BVS Productions. would be displayed outside the Police
A film showing at St. Andrews Church, station. Dent of local people sharing their No response had been received recollections & that of their ancestors from the Chamber of Trade regarding on the way of life in times past. the new Christmas lights. It was
Ken Pope, Ken McClurg & players agreed to contact the Chamber again will be performing on this issue. the Settle Carlisle Railway music Cllr Hopkins reported that a number & Francis Bennett will give a recital of people had attended the first public in local dialect. consultation meeting on the Parish Local ladies home-made delicatessen stall & Plan. A second meeting was to be refreshments will be served. held on Tuesday 1 April. Saturday 10th May, Vacancy on the Council 2pm – 3.30pm & also 7pm- 8.30pm One written and one verbal
A warm welcome to everyone application had been received. An
Donations at the door all proceeds towards article in the April Lookaround would St Andrews Church Dent roof fund. give further details, and Cllr Blair
Page 10 CHRISTIAN AID WEEK 11 - 17 May In Sedbergh and District. 6.30pm Sunday 11th – United Service at the United Reformed Church The Christian Aid Shop in Sedbergh URC Church Rooms Monday 12th – Friday 16th Monday to Wednesday 9.30am - 4pm Thursday 9.30am – 1.30pm Friday 9.30am – 12 noon Also Tuesday 6pm –8pm Tea & Coffee served each day. Good as new clothes, bric-a-brac, books, plants, home-baking, toys etc. Donate it and we’ll try to sell it! Items for sale gratefully accepted at URC Hall as follows: ● Good as new clothes –Sat. am. 10th May; Mon. am. 12th May. ● Other items until Wed. am 14th May Saturday 17th – Coffee Morning at Dent Memorial Hall from 10 am to 12noon asked Councillors to encourage next meeting. applications, or nominate suitable Allotments – A package had been candidates. It was agreed that the received from Jim Atkins regarding situation would be reviewed in the the allotment project, and requesting week commencing 7 April. support with funding to cover Correspondence development costs. Good progress Book Town Sculpture – A letter had had been made, and 24 people were been received from Book Town on list waiting for allotments. Cllr Literary Trust, looking for a site for Hodge proposed a grant of £1k, large stone sculpture of books in seconded by Cllr Scarr, and this was bookends. Cllr Hodge agreed to find agreed. Cllr Hodge further suggested out more details and report to the that Mr Atkins be congratulated on all his work, and the continuing support of the Parish Council be reiterated. QUIET GARDEN TRUST 37 39 Main Street – A copy of a letter sent to the Assistant Building “Rhumes”, Dent Conservation Officer at YDNP had Garden Open for been received, requesting something Quiet Reflection &/or Prayer was done about the 37 39 Main Street which is in an increasingly poor Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th May state. from 10 am to 6pm Planning Trees – Permission had been granted Further details from Tel: 25212 (Continued on page 12) Page 11 for the removal of trees and of one People’s Hall playing field and branch from a tree at Millhouse, Queen’s Gardens. It was noted that Millthrop. some benches were also owned by Applications - the Parish Council, and Cllr Allan Installation of mast and dishes and agreed to investigate this. removal of mast at Highside Farm, Car Parks Frostrow – no objections Joss Lane – There was no apparent Consent to display sign on east progress with drains, and Cllr Blair elevation at Westwood Books, Long agreed to chase Dave Conlon, SLDC Lane – no objections about this matter. She also advised No decisions had been received. that she had written to Dave Conlon, Finance SLDC regarding the cleaning Report of meeting of the Audit contract, to clarify when its expiry Committee – Cllr Hopkins briefed date. She further agreed to contact Cllrs on the recent meeting of the SLDC regarding the emptying of the Audit Committee held on 20 March. cardboard recycling bin, as it Work was progressing on the asset appeared not all cardboard was being register, although some clarification removed. was still required regarding the Loftus Hill – Cllr Blair reported that
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Page 12 the public toilets are now open during border to the new town signs, the day, although electrics were not including the use of the YDNP ram’s quite finished. She had advertised head over the top. These were locally for a cleaner, although had agreed. received no interest as yet. It was Queen’s Gardens suggested that a job share would be Cllr Sedgwick had looked at the most workable option. It as Queen’s Gardens, and given Cllr Blair agreed to investigate taking out a his list of suggestions of required contract for the provision of sanitary work, including leaf removal, pruning, bins, toilet rolls, etc. Cllr Longlands removal of fallen branches, repairs agreed to ask Barkers to install steps and bench. It was agreed to internal and external lights controlled ask the gardener for an itemised list by a timer that switches them on each of jobs done each month, and that morning and off at night, with an Queen’s Garden Committee should inbuilt daylight sensor. A missing meet with him to look at list provided trap/grill in the men’s urinals was to by Cllr Sedgwick in the week be investigated. beginning 14 April. It was agreed to have an opening AGM/Annual Parish Meeting ceremony which could be publicised These meetings would take place on in the Lookaround. 22 May at 7pm. 21 days public Cllr Blair produced the proposed text notice is legally to be provided and of signs for the pay and display signs, Cllr Hopkins agreed to prepare and for a ‘no ball games’ sign for the papers to assist the new Clerk. bus shelter on Main Street and these Protective Barriers for the Playground were agreed. Cllr Blair reported that the boys of She further advised that the white Sedgwick House, Sedbergh School lines in Loftus Hill car park were very had suggested they could raise funds indistinct and it was agreed to get a at their charity evening towards the price for their renewal. cost of the barrier, and could also Cllr Blair displayed the proposed (Continued on page 14) Page 13 work on designs for the barriers. This SEDBERGH SWIMMING CLUB was agreed and Cllr Blair agreed to At the AGM last year it was agreed pass on the Council’s thanks to Mr that the Swimming Club AGM would Ayling, Housemaster at Sedgwick. be moved to June. It is hoped that Recruitment of Clerk this will make the transition, into a Five candidates had been short new academic year in September, a listed for interview on 8 April. The lot smoother. subcommittee of Cllrs Hodge, Blair At the end of this swimming year in and Hopkins were given delegated June, we will issue invitations to authority to appoint. existing lesson pupils to enrol for the Any Other Business following year as we have done Photographs of a motor accident previously. due to road surface conditions on We would like to take this Howgill Lane would be passed onto opportunity to thank you for your the County Council. ongoing support for the Swimming The parking of cars adjacent to the Club and to Sedbergh School for zebra crossing on Long lane/Maryfell allowing us to use this facility. meant that buggies/wheelchairs could Special thanks should go to all the not walk on the footpath. Cllr Blair volunteers who ‘man’ and life save at agreed to write to SLDC on this the community sessions, without matter. whom we would not have the benefit There was also a poor road surface of the pool usage. around the zebra crossing and also in The date for the Sedbergh the bus bay on Long Lane and Cllr Swimming Club AGM will be Monday Blair agreed to write to the County 16th June at 7.30 pm at The Bull Council about both of these. Hotel. Everyone is welcome Councillors expressed their thanks especially if you would like to offer and appreciation to Gordon Chivers your services on the Committee or for his work as Clerk. Cllr Blair have any suggestions to improve the agreed to write to him on behalf of the running of the Club. Hope to see you Council to formally convey this. there.
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Page 14 SOUTH LAKELAND CARERS tucking into cheese, crackers and Our office has now moved, we are fruit. We run on the 1st Tuesday of now at the Deaf Vision (formerly each month from 2 4pm, in August Cumbria DeafAssoc) building, 5 and December we do something Castle Street, Kendal, LA9 7AD. We different so please contact the office plan to run a Carers Drop In Centre in before you come. the ground floor conservatory at our Until told otherwise please use the office on one day EVERY week, more usual phone number, we are having a details soon. At present we are just session looking at our publicity and finding everything and getting used to thinking about updating it and being in a different part of town. We recently held the first training day for are near St George’s Church and the volunteers, we now have a Volunteer Castle Street Centre, not far from Ann Street and the river. Do come in and Development Worker and an extra see us. Young Carers Support worker, we are The SEDBERGH support group expanding! continues at the Peoples Hall, and in We seek to support people who care April we all enjoyed teasing our (unpaid) for a friend or relative, be it brains into action for a quiz before full or part time.
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Page 15 SEDBERGH PEOPLE’S HALL become the new Secretary. The People’s Hall Committee Sue Pereira has replaced Olive Registered Charity 523829 Hunter as cleaner and grateful thanks The Annual General Meeting of the go to both for their good work. People’s Hall was held on 7th April. The first phase of the proposed re Steven Longlands, the Chairman, development of the Hall is well in welcomed everyone and presented hand thanks to the hard work of his report. He said it had been a good Barbara Hartley of Garsdale Design year for the Hall except for a very low Ltd and the re development sub point when Josie Templeman, a committee. Barbara Hartley has useful and loyal member of the generously prepared some display committee, became ill and then sadly boards of the proposed new passed away. development which were displayed at The committee welcomed a new the Spring Show. Many thanks to member during the year, Sean everyone who came to the Spring Hobson, who has taken over from Show, had a look at the plans and Andy Denton as Treasurer. Another talked to the committee members new member joined at the meeting, who were there, your feedback and Gina Barney, who had agreed to positive comments are much Cobble Country Dales & Lakes Town & Country Property Agents Est. 1992
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Page 16 appreciated. A consultation process 'Flicks in the Fells' Community with users of the Hall and with local Cinema but, unfortunately, Age organisations is well in hand and Concern is no longer a hirer. again, thanks to all of you who have A microwave and kettle have been returned your questionnaires. A fuller generously donated by Mrs Cath report will appear in the pages of the Gibson. Lookaround and readers will be kept Hiring rates will be raised for the first up to date with progress. time in three years. As part of the re development of the The following were elected to the site, it is hoped to make some sort of People’s Hall Management feature from the Second World War Committee: Andrew Allan, Gina tank obstacles which currently form Barney, Ron Gerrard, Sean Hobson, part of the boundary fence and the Elspeth Griffiths, Hilary Hodge, Tim committee would welcome any Ingle, Sandra Longlands, Steve information or photographs of them, Longlands, Jack McClean, Anne or indeed on any of the surviving Petyt, Cicely Robertshaw, Sam Home Defence sites in Sedbergh. Rusling and Kath Swift. Please telephone Andrew Allan on At the end of the meeting Norris 21255 if you can help. Chamley thanked the committee for During the year the following work looking after the Hall for the past year has been done on the Hall: A hot and said he looked forward to the water supply has been installed in the developments. toilets and bar and new cushioned The officers of the People’s Hall are: chairs have been purchased. Chairman: Steve Longlands Thanks to the generous legacy of Vice Chairman: Andrew Allan the late Frederick Norman Kiddle a Secretary: Dr Gina Barney hearing loop system has been Treasurer: Dr Sean Hobson installed. Booking agents: Sedbergh Office A welcome new use of the Hall is by Services Page 17 FARFIELD MILL Weavers concentrates on local Farfield Mill launched it’s own ‘in produce and most of the supplies are house’ tearoom – Weavers at coming from local shops and Farfield – on 3rd April. This is the first suppliers in and around Sedbergh. time the Mill has managed it’s own Award wining meat and pies from catering and they have taken the Garth Steadman, Sedbergh’s opportunity to make it work more renowned butcher, fresh crisp fruit, closely with the rest of the attraction. vegetable and salads fro Powells in You will therefore find, as well as Sedbergh and straying a little further great food and superb coffee and to Kendal for Farrers Coffee and cakes, wonderful art and craft on Lakeland blend tea – the very best! display from a range of regional The menu is distinctly Cumbrian in makers. flavour with dishes like Cumbrian From Weavers you can watch Lamb Hotpot, Weaver’s Platter Farfield’s master weaver at work on featuring Garth’s wonderful Pork Pie their Victorian style Dobcross Looms, and Wensleydale cheese with fresh weaving this season’s throws and salad. Weaver’s Brunches are rugs for sale in the Mill shop and in proving popular – oak smoked shops around the county. salmon on Cumbrian potato cakes
Arts & Heritage Centre
If you haven’t visited for a while – you’ll see some changes. You could visit the new WeaversWeaversWeavers at Farfield tearoom for lunch or tea and browse the exhibitions and displays.
Mechanical Drawing – the Schiffli Project May 3rd - June 29th Dover and Howgill Galleries An exhibition of art work by fifteen artists including Alice Kettle, Rowena Arden, Nigel Cheney and Melanie Miller, using an historic embroidery machine which is the last remaining machine of its kind. Bringing together some of the leading contemporary textile artists, each has approached the machine in a very individual way. There will also be an associated talk given by Dr Melanie Miller and Schiffli artist Kate Egan on Saturday 14 June at 2.00pm in the new Dover Gallery
FREE FOR LOCALS DAY If you live within a 5 mile radius of Farfield Mill, you are invited to come along and visit on Saturday 10th or Sunday 11th May. Please bring this advert along with you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PLUS Artists’ Studios, Heritage Floor, Galleries, Shop and Weavers Café - now open offering a range of food with a distinctly Cumbrian flavour.
OPEN DAILY 10AM – 5PM last admission 4.30pm
One mile from Sedbergh Town Centre on A684 Email: [email protected] www.farfieldmill.org Tel: 015396 21958
Page 18 CHIROPODY SERVICE Since 2000 Kay Whittle MSSCh DipPodMed MBChA
Pedi-Care House, Howgill Lane, Sedbergh Tel: 22122 10am to 4pm Tuesday - Friday
Supplier of HJ Hall Socks topped with a free range poached exhibitions in the Dover and Howgill egg, or you may prefer the field Galleries. There are often mushrooms on lightly toasted bread opportunities to take part in short topped with tasty bacon and a courses or have a go at weaving, poached egg. Home made soup of knitting or rag rugging yourself. the day with crusty bread at just Farfield Mill and Weavers at Farfield £2.95 is a walker’s delight – and just are on the A684 Garsdale/Hawes the job after a bracing walk on the Road just one mile east of Sedbergh surrounding Howgill Fells. You can where there is ample free parking. also find sandwiches, Jacket By car leave the M6 at Junction 37 Potatoes, veggie options – and a and drive five miles through stunning range of home made cakes and Howgills landscape to Sedbergh, scones to make anyone cave in to England's Book Town, from where temptation! Farfield Mill is signposted. From Located in a glorious heritage Hawes the entrance is on the right , woollen mill and alongside the River just follow the brown tourist signs. Clough (sit outside on the riverside Weavers is happy to take bookings patio when the sun shines!) Weavers and you can contact them, or any of is a great place to lunch, whether you the Mill staff on 015396 21958. want to visit the arts & heritage centre or not. Open from 10 am until 5 pm currently. Visitors to the tearoom only are not charged Mill admission – but you may well want to make a morning or afternoon of it and spend some time watching the studio artists at work, enjoying the craft and art displays, seeing demonstrations by craft makers and visiting the superb
Page 19 SEDBERGH & KIRKBY LONSDALE NEIGHBOURHOOD FORUM Feedback From Previous Meetings and Updates on Local Projects. Day Care: Sinead McCann has South Lakes Society talked to representatives from the For the Blind People’s Hall and a meeting with Age presents Concern is yet to be arranged. An Exhibition of equipment Dorothy Blair stressed Sedbergh for people with sight problems
Parish Council will be pressing hard for the day care service to be located • Magnifiers at the People’s Hall. • Everyday Living Aids
Appleby Fair: Dianne Whitehead is • Reading Machines liaising with Dorothy Blair and met • Computer Accessability with the Police and SLDC • and lots more
Environment Officer yesterday. They are pushing ahead with plans. It was Tuesday 20th May mentioned that Eden has plans fo the next fife years but, unfortunately, 1pm to 4pm People’s Hall Free Admission For further information Tel: 01539 742633
everything seems to stop at the Eden Boundary. It was stressed that problems arise because travellers move into South Lakeland a month before Appleby Fair and there is Survey Results nowhere for them to go. Last years concerns focused on Cautley and And Action Plan Gina Barney asked that no additional facilities be provided there to encourage travellers to stay but 7.30pm asked for more police supervision of th the area. Tuesday May 20 Direct Dental: If you don’t have and NHS dentist or are travelling a long way to see one, contact NHS Direct Dent Memorial Hall at Direct Dental, Hilltop Heights, London Road, Carlisle, CA1 2NS, for a local dentist.
Page 20 GRANTS Audio and Large Print Lookaround Requested £500 Awarded £500 TREADWELL Sedbergh Toy Library Requested £135 Awarded £135 FLOORING Rose Theatre Group Suppliers, planners & Fitters of Carpet, Requested £1,000 Awarded £800 Vinyl, Laminate & Wooden floors
HIGHWAYS 1,000’s of samples to choose from. QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION ~ Written quotations ~ Area Engineer, Nick Raymond, responded to questions on: Carpet Cleaning Service ♦ Repairs needed to the parapets of also available Straight Bridge and Lincoln’s Inn Bridge. (Straight Bridge is in the Call Nicola or Gordon Sproul programme for he next financial Tel: 015396 21175 year. Lincoln’s Inn Bridge has Fax: 015396 21142 only just been hit, but will probably be included in next years programme) ♦ Parked cars obscure visibility at ♦ There is a need to enforce weight road junction in Sedbergh making restrictions as bridges are being it difficult to exit safely. (Well damaged by heavy lorries. aware of the need for double (Bridges are being damaged yellow lines at junctions and for mainly through drivers using these to be enforced) inappropriate routes as short cuts. Nick mentioned that Cumbria It is very difficult for the police to County Council made a commitment enforce weight restrictions, and to spend an additional £1 million on there may be a need to change pothole repairs. He explained how some of the restrictions in place) the pothole repair programme would ♦ A lot of motor bike signs have be rolled out and asked that people been put up. Are these report potholes to the Highways permanent or part of a campaign? Hotline (0845 609 6609) as he is (These have been put up by the aware that the system does not Cumbria Safety Partnership - will currently show all the existing check) defects. A new system of semi ♦ Road edges eg. Howgill Lane, are permanent repairs should mean disintegrating. ( Large vehicles repairs last for 3 4 years. He push out the verge and damage explained that the very wet weather the margin of the road) and hard frost before Christmas had ♦ Will Highways be involved in the had a major detrimental effect on Auction Mart planning application. road surfaces, but that the situation is (No knowledge of this) now improving.
Page 21 FROSTROW WI suggested an outing to Holehird, A hectic start to the month for us – where a walk could be arranged for our coffee morning followed by our the walking group and a visit to the monthly meeting – on the same day! gardens for the non walkers. The coffee morning went well, with a A group of us had a brilliant card steady stream of visitors. Thanks to making day at Grosvenor House all the people of Sedbergh who Papers in Kendal, including a lovely supported us. buffet lunch. All the materials were On to our evening meeting. The provided and everyone went home minutes were read and approved and with three cards. Many thanks to the treasurer gave her report. We Pauline for organising this. were pleased to see Nora again and On 11th March Garth Steadman glad to hear that she’s feeling much gave an interesting talk about better. A donation in memory of Josie butchery, showing us traditional and Templeman has been given to the more modern cuts of meat and Federation Memorial Bursary Fund. outlining the services and products Further ideas and suggestions for a available. He also provided some Book Club were discussed. Anne mouth watering titbits for us to sample. The walking group met in Killington SEDBERGH ANGLING ASSOCIATION for the March walk and made use of The new season is now open the brand new church car park. The and new members are very welcome. morning had been wet but by two Please contact the Secretary, o’clock the weather was glorious – David Wright Tel: 015396 25533. warm and sunny! We walked down Prices for 2008 are: to the River Lune and then alongside Senior Members £30 it for some distance. Next we turned OAP’s £15 up the fields, through Beckside and Juniors £5 on to the television mast. Passing There is a Joining Fee for through a farm, we met the farmer Senior Members of £20 who showed us the lambs he had in Day Tickets are available throughout the barn . Some were only two hours the season - now until October 31st old but they were all gorgeous. @ £10 Reluctantly tearing ourselves away Weekly Tickets @ £50 from the lambs, we continued through from 3 Peaks Outdoor shop, Aikrigg and back to Killington. Sedbergh Tel 20446. Christine very kindly provided tea and
Season Tickets are available to Non-Residents sumptious cakes. Thank you, Please contact : Visitors Secretary, Christine. Craig Dandy Tel 015396 21920. Anne welcomed Val Finch who
Page 22 spoke to us about the history of the Quakers in Sedbergh. In the time that George Fox was growing up, the Interested in football? Why not get a team together ( 6 per country was in a state of unrest. team ) Contributing factors included Henry Under 6, 8 10,12 ,14 and 16s V111 and the Reformation, the All team members must of appropriate beheading of Charles 1st and age Cromwell’s leadership. People were Join in our Football Tournament feeling disaffected by the Church and Friday 23rd May separatist meetings were springing Sedbergh playing field up. In 1652 Fox travelled North from (adjoining Peoples hall) Leicestershire. He walked up Pendle Teams to give details into Paulyne, Hill and had a vision of people waiting Matt,Sarah Goad,or Julie Lowther to be “gathered”. When he arrived in Phone 01524 781177/ 015396 20402 Sedbergh he found separatist groups. By 21st May, He started preaching, not in church, Junior matches start at 3.00pm but in places like St. Andrews Senior Matches start at 5.30pm churchyard and the hillsides of BBQ Refreshments Raffle Firbank. He believed that the church A great time for all the family was not a building but a federation of PLEASE NOTE TRAINERS AND people. He did not consider rituals SHIN PADS TO BE WORN and ceremonies to be necessary. Brigflatts was built in 1675 and is the second oldest Meeting House in use in the country. A service lasts about an hour and in this country it is a DENTDALE WI silent meeting, unless someone feels Arrive moved to sing or say something. Alive Quakers try to recognise “that of God” in other people and welcome people 7.30pm rd of all faiths. In times of war they Wednesday 23 May 2008 would be conscientious objectors but Memorial Hall Dent would help both sides by providing Presentation by a ambulances etc. They are often used DSA Driver for drivers over 50 as mediators. Covering: eyesight, licensing requirements, Jean Mitchell thanked Val for such a Mobility, Medication, Complex Junctions, Traffic Signs fascinating insight into “The Religious and Speed Society of Friends”. Margaret Copestake won the competition for a Members of the public welcome Tea & coffee will be served chocolate box or sweet tin and Jean Admission £2.00 Mitchell won the raffle. D.T.
Page 23 FAMILY MUSINGS Dent Station is cropping up all over AFternoon TEA the place, yes I know it is up besides In Aid of AIR AMBULANCE the railway but has also appeared in
my weekly magazine and in the Travel section of The Times 2pm newspaper in articles about unusual Saturday 24th May holiday venues. I suggested to hubby Dent Memorial Hall that I had found the perfect place for Pants ~ Cakes ~ Bric-a-Brac our holiday, the best place on earth Raffle and we could go by train, he just gave me that look he often seems to give me, somewhere between mild effect of not knowing why she was amusement and total exasperation .. there she didn't look overweight, to so that's a no then? which I replied that it was a ruse to You may remember me saying that get me there. Anyway one things for Slimming Clubs are not for me.. .just sure no one would look me up and ignore that because elder daughter down and sideways, especially and I signed in a few weeks ago with sideways and think I shouldn't be younger daughter joining us soon there! The good news is, I lost 3½Ib after. The lady in charge or to give the first week and 2lb the second her her full title the consultant looked despite being well confused with the elder daughter up and down and Red and Green days and the syn sideways and said something to the value of foods and what are free and
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Page 24 wondered if I looked old enough to be The Community of Sedbergh his Daddys mother and stopped is invited to an smiling! A trip followed to the B Potter AFTERNOON TEA Attraction at Bowness with P and M 2pm to 4pm who enjoyed the exhibits but then we Saturday 24th May came out into the shop with all the tempting toy animals and expensive URC Rooms gifts and had a bit of a fall out, to raise awareness of anyway eventually a compromise was home and hospital visits reached, but no I am not paying £2+ Free Entry for a block of chocolate in a box with Tom Kitten on it! what are not really a good idea or are May brings many different and new limited, but when our Boss at work experiences our way, our garden will took us out for coffee and cake the feature in a couple of events which day we packed the office into boxes prompted younger daughter to ready for our move the lemon cake I suggest that perhaps I should get to had was slowly savoured by every work in it, we will scatter my brothers tantalising mouthful. Never has so ashes overlooking his beloved village little been so enjoyed by yours truly, a and hopefully enjoy a family get real treat. together at the same time, and last My "honorary grandson" looks but not least I am having extensive different every time I see him and he Dental work done, so, plenty to keep now has a name, Nathan Barnabus, my mind of Cake! or at least that's what they said last You have my permission to enjoy week unless it has changed again, a cake for me as well as yourself and if lovely way to relax after work is to that means you don't look as good have a nurse of him and then spend sideways I know a good slimming time with his sister and brothers. Our club .. meanwhile bike here I come, I trip to the Wild Animal Park at Dalton want that dog! Sarah was a most enjoyable day, 8 youngsters and three adults one of whom was heavily pregnant and GARDEN OPEN spent most of her time cuddled up to Greenbank a radiator in the cafe leaving her (off Joss Lane Car Park) hubby and me to keep an eye on the SEDBERGH children .. and be asked more than Sunday 25th May once by other adults "Are they all 12 noon - 4pm yours?" And one lady commented that my "grandson", the 3yr old, plants for sale looked like me, I just smiled, then I Teas raffle etc Page 25 CHRISTIAN AID WEEK Service at the United Reformed Sedbergh and District. (11-17 May) Church, Sedbergh May has always been my favourite The “For this week only!” Christian month; it has always seemed so full Aid Shop in Sedbergh URC Church of light, life, growth and general Rooms happiness. Perhaps that is because Monday 12th – Friday 16th we have a lot of family birthdays in Mon – Wed 9.30am 4pm the month, mine included, but I think Thurs 9.30am – 1.30pm that May itself is a vibrant month in Fri 9.30am – 12 noon this part of the world and one which Also Tuesday 6pm –8pm invites a celebration of life in all its Tea & Coffee served each day. fullness. Elsewhere round the world Good as new clothes, bric a brac, things aren’t so bright – while we are books, plants, home baking, toys etc. dented by the global economic Donate it and we’ll try to sell it! Items stringencies, others are devastated. for sale gratefully accepted at URC Christian Aid helps people hit by Hall as follows: disasters beyond their control and • Good as new clothes –Sat. am. helps put in place local programmes 10th May; Mon. am. 12th May. assisting people to create stable, self • Other items until Wed. am 14th sustaining lives and living conditions for themselves and their local 1st & 2nd Fixing Tiling Doors Fitted DIY Rescues communities, by themselves. Here, in Windows Outside Taps, etc the Sedbergh area, we again have an Kitchens Small Plumbing Repairs opportunity to help in this life giving Locks Washing Machines Plumbed work by joining in the activities of Christian Aid week organised by the Christian Aid committee. It is a dynamic and dedicated team always open to new members, and is representative of all the local '! Churches Together membership of the District. The committee greatly values the tremendous support received annually from residents of the area for the projects and events “Special Rates for OAP’s” they organise during the week. NO JOB TOO SMALL! Briefly, apart from the door to door collections in the area, the Steve Chadwick programme this year includes the 015396 21581 following: Prompt Local Service Sunday 11th at 6.30pm – United All work of the highest quality & guaranteed Page 26 May Ghana has been going through some Sat. 17th May – Coffee Morning at very difficult decades and is starting Dent Memorial Hall from 10 – 12. to rebuild itself. One of their major N.B. The shop. It would be of shortages is schools so Christian Aid assistance if donated good as new is working in partnership with a local clothes are on hangers so they can organisation called ”Send” to set up go on the rails. If you need help with new schools for the children. transport to bring goods please ring: Bangladesh suffers from both too Kath Hannam on Sedbergh 20897 much water and too little! Often hit by Help with the Shop would be greatly devastating floods from the river appreciated. Please sign the list at systems in the monsoon season, the back of one of the local Churches changing global climate conditions or phone Kath if you are willing to have caused sea levels to rise which lend a hand at the shop during the have contaminated many week. underground drinking water sources The focus of the Week and the with sea water. Working together service this year is on what is with the Bangladesh Centre for happening in Ghana and Bangladesh Advanced Studies, Christian Aid is and how Christian Aid works there. supporting the work of village water councils, the Pani Parishads to help people tackle the problem by teaching methods of rainwater Bakery & Tearoom collection and storage using tanks Main Street, Sedbergh Tel: 21058 for and pots. Traditional Bread We’re a long way away from those Homemade Cakes & Scones sorts of problems but what we collect Freshly Baked Daily here in our area during Christian Aid ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ week can put more than a drop in Eat in or Take-away someone’s bucket in Bangladesh – it Homemade Soup & Sandwiches can really help them to transform their Tea & Coffee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ lives. The “Shop” run by the Christian Open 7 Days a Week Aid Committee and team of other ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ volunteers is a really tremendous one Now Serving Daily off event each year and worth a trip to Breakfast ~ Lunches ~ Sandwiches Sedbergh to view and support. Toasties ~ Paninis ~ Pies and Much, Much More! There’s always something of interest including many Vegetarian Meals to everyone. So, why not come along Large selection of drinks and join in the events that contribute Children’s meals available to the life enhancing work of Christian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Warm Welcome Awaits You Aid worldwide? Anne Pit Page 27 RECYCLING NEWS As we are now in the spring and THE IRONING ELF many people are getting back into the garden, weather permitting, we will hate doing it yourself? look at how we deal with garden then give it to the elf! waste. Over recent years we have domestic ironing undertaken distributed over 17,000 compost bins collection and delivery service in the district, and these are an Sedbergh, Kirkby Lonsdale excellent way to use your garden & surrounding villages waste to best effect. If you don’t Tel: 07527 469741 already have a compost bin and would like more information about bins for grass cuttings, leaves, hedge using one or buying one at a reduced cuttings etc. The green waste is taken price visit our website or telephone by wagon to sites where it is 0845 077 0757. composted in piles called windrows. We also provide a green garden These piles are turned periodically to waste collection service throughout introduce air into the mixture. During South Lakeland, using green wheelie the composting process the temperature of the waste can reach SEDBERGH & DISTRICT up to 80 degrees centigrade. The History Society composting process used is suitable for the types of green waste we Wednesday 28th May collect, but cannot be used to A Conducted Walk Around compost food waste. The compost used is supplied to Whitehaven local farmers and also used in land Meet at 12 30 pm reclamation. One of the contractors, in Loftus Hill Car Park SITA, also sell to the public from the or Household Waste Recycling Centre in at 2pm in Carnforth, unfortunately there are no South Shore Car Park facilities for sales to be made in Whitehaven South Lakeland. ALL ARE WELCOME If you have any questions about recycling or waste minimisation All meetings in Settlebeck High School, start at 7:30pm unless stated. please contact us either through the ————————————————————————————————————————– Customer Contact Centre on 0845 EVERYONE IS MOST WELCOME TO ATTEND ANY OR ALL OF OUR LECTURES 050 4434 or by emailing us at ————————————————————————————————————————– Chairman: Richard Cann 20771 customer.services@southlakeland. Secretary: Mike Beecroft 21878 gov.uk Treasurer : Marlene Mason 20509 Member Sec: John Sibley 25024 Thank you for recycling.
Page 28 KILLINGTON SPORTS Beckside Farm, Killington Commencing 6pm on Thursday 29th May Open Sports - Fell Races - Field & Track Events - Children’s Races Side Shows - Wrestling - Pillow Fight - Tug ‘o’ War Mountain Bike Race
Adults £4 - Children £2 All enquiries ring: 015242 76496 or 015396 21343
DENTDALE WI having won a prize for growing It was easy to detect a theme of beetroot when he was seven years gardening and thoughts of warmer old. He was very enthusiastic about days running through the April his subject, telling us about his meeting. attendance at plant trials to pick up We’ve finally settled on an afternoon and pass on the latest ideas when outing to Clearbeck Gardens as they became commercially available. featured in the February edition of WI We were shown a selection of empty Life, for our July outing. This will be hanging baskets from the traditional preceded by lunch at Bridge House wicker and moss lined to the latest Farm, Wray! plastic varieties and a beautiful We were reminded that tickets selection of garden pots too. With the should be ordered for the Holker Hall Garden Festival weekend opening on Meeting closed, members were able Friday 30th May. Rain or shine, to buy some of the trays of flowers always a good day out! and much in demand were the newly On a non gardening note, Catherine launched trailing pansies! Margaret Sugden our president, mentioned the Fothergill thanked Chris on our group meeting on 19th May at Barbon behalf. Village Hall and the open meeting to Catherine Sugden won the be held in the Memorial Hall Dent, on competition for her pot plant of 21st May given by the Driving Agency African violets and Margaret and entitled “Arrive Alive” Fothergill won the raffle. The Speaker for the evening was Our next meeting will be on May 14th Chris Cook who purchased when we will discuss the resolutions Westhouse Nursery nr Ingleton four and our Speaker will be Peter years ago. In his introduction, Chris Stephenson telling us about his said that in owning the nursery he father’s career from “Burnley to was now living his dream. He had Hollywood.” Visitors always welcome. always been interested in horticulture, P. A. Page 29 CUMBRIA WILDLIFE TRUST predators. The work has been Dippers, Flycatchers and Nest Boxes planned by ornithologist Peter Many birds can be helped by nest Mawby, formerly of Sedbergh. The boxes. National Parks Species Officer and If you walk along the banks of any of local people have helped in the our local rivers you will probably pass placing of the boxes. by a small brown bird with a white In your garden you may see a small bib, perching on a stone above the bird flying acrobatically from a perch water. This is the local breed of and returning to the same place with dipper. The birds hunt for their food a fly in its beak. This is probably a under water, walking or swimming flycatcher. Following a recent talk to and moving pebbles to dislodge the Sedbergh Support Group of the insect larvae, their favourite prey. Cumbria Wildlife Trust on the decline They are fiercely territorial birds, and of both pied and spotted flycatchers can be seen at any time of the year. 25 nest boxes have been made (by We have a particularly strong people of all ages!) to a design population in our area. particularly suited to these birds. It is Dippers nest under river banks, or hoped to have them in place in time on bridge supports, building a small for the nesting season. The boxes will domed nest. The same nest site is be sited near the edges of woodland. often used year after year, and they Flycatchers and dippers feed on may start breeding from February insects or their larvae. They are a onwards. Although numbers have characteristic feature of our hill decreased a little over the past 40 country. It would be a pity to lose years, there are still about 50 nesting them. pairs on local rivers and streams. Numbers may have fallen as a result of lower water quality. More rapid run off of rain water may be another cause. Nests have been swept away by spring floods. Also, changes to river banks and structures have ORGANIC (one-stop) resulted in the loss of some nest FARM SHOP sites. For instance, birds like to nest Get all your organic shopping here! on bridge supports where stones or We stock a wide range of ORGANIC bricks are missing. Careful dried, chilled and fresh produce restoration can leave suitable niches from our greenhouses, where nests might be built. including To provide improved nesting sites household cleaning products. boxes and ledges have been placed WE ALSO DO A BOX SCHEME in likely locations on our streams and Tel/fax: 015242-51723 www.growingwithgrace.co.uk rivers which are not easily reached by
Page 30 Charity Ceilidh & Barbeque Old Time Dance Organised by Killington Parish Hall and the Sports Committee with Syd Banks 7.30pm Saturday 31st May in aid of the People’s Hall in the marquee on the sports field Saturday 31st May Beckside, Killington People’s Hall Tickets £5 adult, £3 child 3 8:00 pm includes first drink £ Raffle ~ Bar For further details call 015396 20602 Proceeds to the North West Air Ambulance Jacob’s Join
SETTLE/CARLISLE RAILWAY Dooley” ( common mill worker played Over 40 tourism businesses and by Maria Glot) and “Rev David Tourist Information staff from along Cowan” played by Roger Clarke. In the Settle Carlisle Railway enjoyed a costumes of the Salt era they lead the trip to Saltaire in Yorkshire arranged group around Saltaire describing the by David Allison of Tracks North for church, houses, community hall and the Settle Carlisle Enterprise Network mill. The group offer these services (SCENe). This familiarisation trip was as Saltwalks www.saltairevillage.info arranged to give members and insight and ensure visitors to this World in to what the visitor can enjoy on a Heritage Site get the most from their trip to Saltaire, one of the first model visit. Tourism in the Bradford area industrial villages set up by Titus Salt were described John Swineburn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltaire The visit was enlivened by Bradford Tourism marketing manager, presentations by “Mrs Dinah spoke about the attractions of Stewart” ( Sir Titus Salts Bradford over lunch in the Victoria housekeeper, played by Hattie Hall. Townsend, “Mrs Ellin Carl Bendelow Sedbergh Books We supply an amazing range of books. Sit back, relax and enjoy searching though our online bookshelves, heaving with more than 600,000 books! You can find book bargains galore from the comfort of home, delivered super fast, usually next day. Free delivery on orders over £20! www.sedberghbooks.co.uk
Page 31 SEDBERGH PRIMARY SCHOOL jump off making sure they did a good On Wednesday the 19th of March landing not forgetting to present. Gym club's annual performance took Whilst some were vaulting, another place. group were performing forward rolls 18 gymnasts from Y3 and Y4 took on the bench, trying their hardest to part. They all lined up in the corridor, stay on and presenting at the end. the music began and in they marched In another area the gymnasts were walking on the balls of their feet, cat leaping on the bench, trying to get backs straight, shoulders down and their knees up and toes pointed. toes pointed! The fourth area was where the The gymnast formed 3 lines of 6, children performed their own routine. eagerly waiting to perform. They This was a great opportunity for the demonstrated some fantastic floor work: forward rolls. cartwheels, stag gymnasts to show how far they have leaps and bridges were amongst the come in such a short time. routine. All the gymnasts did a final Next, the children showed their presentation to a very appreciative vaulting. They squat Jumped on to audience, whose applause said it all. the box and chose to cartwheel or Well done everyone. GARDENS OPEN BARBON In aid of St Bartholomew’s Church Tower Fund, Barbon 15 of the villagers of Barbon and one in Middleton (Sat only) are opening their gardens on Saturday 31st May from 10 until 5 Sunday 1st June 12 until 5 There is great variety from big and splendid down to tiny and interesting. There are the mature as well as the new gardens, all with work in progress. The gardens can be visited on foot although those who have to, can get to all the entrances by road. To give maximum enjoyment tickets may be used on either or both days. Refreshments and tickets will be available throughout at the village hall. TICKETS: Adults £5 ~ Senior Citizens £3.50 ~ Children Free EVERYBODY WELCOME. PLEASE DO COME!
Page 32 PHOTO QUIZ down on the previous year. It was Can you identify this picture. Answer possibly not the right year to start on Page 68. making a DVD about the Mule Gimmer Lamb Sales but that is what we have done. Showing the highs and the lows of an eventful sale period. The DVD runs for just over an hour and shows extensive coverage of the Skipton show and prize winners with a quick look at the shearling trade from the day. For added interest we have Bentham Shearling Sale and footage from the Saturday sale of Mule Gimmer lambs. We have KEVIN BATEMAN thorough coverage of the Kendal Gimmer Sale and the DVD finishes TIME SERVED MONUMENTAL MASON with a look at Hawes prize winners Tel/FAX 01539 723903 from the Sunday and a look at trade Mobile 07817 060619 Manufacture, Lettering and Installation on the Tuesday sale. The DVD also of new Memorials incorporates the many photographs Additional inscriptions that were sent in to the Bonnysheep. Renovations com website. Cleaning and Re paint/Re gild service. Free estimates It can bought in Nisa for £12 or by Please telephone for a Brochure sending a cheque for £13.50 (to include P&P) to Linda Allan, BONNEYSHEEP Middleton Hall Cottage, Kirkby Bonnysheep.com Moves into Video. Lonsdale, Carnforth, LA6 2ND. 2007 was not a great year in the For Further Enquires contact Linda farming calendar. If outbreaks of foot on 015242 76448. and mouth weren't bad enough put in the mix blue tongue and wheat and barley prices going through the roof it J J MARTIN appeared that sheep weren't at the Funeral Service top of farmers shopping lists last back (B Goad) end. The prices at the marts reflected Established 1869 Main Street, Sedbergh this. The disjointed sale season
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Page 33 TIM FARRON MP involved working to get Post Office Most of the past month has been Counters Ltd to decide not to close spent here rather than down in post offices. In others, such as in London due to the Easter Dent, where the proposal is not so Parliamentary Recess which, as a dramatic as to remove the service result of Easter coming so early this completely but to replace it with an year, has bizarrely not been at Easter. outreach service run by another post This has enabled me to spend a bit office, my time has been focused on of time campaigning for the District improving the service Post Office Council elections getting out and Counters Ltd are proposing to meeting people on their doorsteps. introduce. Their plans for Dent are far Something I always enjoy partly as I from satisfactory. The Memorial Hall meet such wonderful people but also is not a great place to run the post because it keeps me in touch with the office from given its use by the issues that you care about. school, the number of days they A lot of my time has also been spent propose to run service is not campaigning against the proposed adequate and we need a commitment changes to the post office service we to the service to be for much longer face in this part of the world. In some than the year or so currently planned. parts of the constituency this has I cannot help but feel that Post Office
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Page 37 MARCH WEATHER windy at the start of the month but not March “many weathers” certainly did quite the often heralded gales. Nor its best for us! We had everything did the month go out “as a lion” from snow and frosts, gales, bright though quite windy except for the last sunshine, dry spells and rain and day. The maximum gust recorded plenty of it!! Temperatures were in the was 30.9 mph on the 12th March mid 40sF during the day generally but from the South West for a change.. we had a couple of days when it Our heaviest snowfall was on Easter didn’t make it out of the 30sF and five Sunday with about 3 inches with us. days when it made the 50sF with a Rainfall was another thing with a total maximum of 56.8F on the last day. of 4.57 inches for the month. We had Only once did the night temperature a spell of 7 days without rain but it not drop into the 30sF but we had then made up for it by raining on 18 some keen frosts with lows in the days in the month. Our heaviest 24 20sF on six nights and a couple more hours added 0.79 inches. below freezing. The minimum March is a “golden month” with temperature recorded for the month dazzling displays of daffodils, was 23.4F!! When you add windchill forsythia in bloom along with we had temperatures of 7F!! It was primroses and cowslips then by the
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Page 38 end of the month celandines are in doesn’t find them until they have full colour. I didn’t get up to see fledged. Some skeins of geese and Wordsworth’s daffodils this time but six swans were making and early they usually put on a good show. I return North in the middle of the understand there is some concern month. We’ve seen a couple of that the wild daffodils are hybridising longtailed tits several times. Let’s with garden varieties. Fieldfares and hope they are planning to nest redwings have been in evidence and nearby. They make a wonderful there has been much activity on the hanging nest out of moss and nesting front. Rooks have started a sheep’s wool. A rare visitor to our small colony in a nearby sycamore, garden have been a pair of jackdaws have again nested in the bullfinches. Not beloved of fruit tree hole on the side of the house and a growers as they can do so much blackbird has built an enormous nest damage pulling off buds but they are on top of the robin box in the shippon. certainly striking birds. It seems some The robin, meanwhile, has built a rabbits have survived the nest in a pile of old bags in the myxamatosis outbreak as several are shippon. At least in there the magpie scampering around the field at night.
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Page 39 SEDBERGH TOWN BAND Society Band (YBS). In 1999 he was MASTER CLASSES awarded the title of ‘Euphonium To celebrate the Tenth Anniversary Player of the Year’ and in 2007 was of the formation of Sedbergh Town appointed as musical director to the Band the band has been lucky YBS Band. enough to obtain an Arts Council Nick Hudson premiered the Wilfred grant. Part of this is to enable a Heaton Trombone Concerto for BBC programme of five Master Class Radio 3 and gave the first public Recitals to be held throughout the performance at the Royal Albert Hall year. Each Master Class will feature a of Philip Wilby’s concertino ‘White different instrument, covering in turn Knuckle Ride’. He has played with the various sections of a brass band. most of the UK’s top brass bands and A short recital will complete each has presented master classes and event. The five instrumentalists are performed throughout Europe and the all renowned virtuosos from the brass USA. band world. Steve Sykes was principle tuba with Morgan Griffiths was the principle Grimethorpe Colliery Band and has euphonium for Black Dyke Mills Band played with most of the leading UK and then for the Yorkshire Building brass bands. He now works as a J N & E Capstick Insurance Consultants
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Page 40 freelance musician performing in the year by his fellow players in the Europe, USA and Canada. Steve has Williams Fairey Band. He is a also directed championship bands for lecturer at the Birmingham many years.. Conservatoire and tutor at the Welsh Ian Porthouse has College of Music and been principle cornet Drama. with a number of bands Each Master Class will including Black Dyke be held on a Sunday Mills and Yorkshire afternoon in the URC Building Society Band Church at 2.30pm and was Musical beginning with Morgan Director of Pennine Brass. He is Griffiths on the 4th May. You are Director of studies at Birmingham invited to join us for what undoubtedly Conservatoire, tutor to the National will be inspirational entertainment, Youth Brass Band and has conducted arising from the awesome technical a number of prestigious bands. brilliance from these top class Owen Farr graduated from the performers. Royal Northern College of Music in Hilary Hodge 2002 and was then voted player of Secretary Sedbergh Town Band
Page 41 EARLY MORNING EXERCISE is still open to discussion. I was For me, the best time to exercise thinking of 7.00 to 8.30, but it could and practise Tai Chi is in the be earlier or later if that suited people mornings. If I leave it until later, I find better. it much harder to extricate myself for There will be two sessions, each long enough from all the other lasting 45 minutes. The first session “important” things I feel I must do. will consist of warm ups, joint From a health perspective, few things mobilisation and stretches. This will are as important as exercise, so I be pitched to accommodate the have made it a habit to start the day participants, but I expect it to be with Tai Chi practice. reasonably vigorous. I will be giving With this in mind, I am planning to information about the benefits of the run an early morning exercise class in various movements. Queens Gardens in Sedbergh The second session will be based throughout the summer. This will be on a short (12 movements) Tai Chi on Monday mornings (not bank form called the Eight Diamonds. The holidays) starting on 12th May. Timing movements will be slow and gentle
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Page 46 save 1 tonne of CO2 for every 1,000 locality, or if you have sympathy with kilowatts hours of electricity those who will be within noise or generated. Today Government press shadow flicker range please write to releases from the office of the Energy SLDC indicating your objection at the Minister, Malcolm Wicks, only allow a latest by the end of May. saving of 0.36t/1000 KWhs. Even this The Friends of Eden, Lakeland & figure is too high because it does not Lunesdale Scenery (FELLS), working take account of the CO2 generated in with ABLOT (an Old Hutton based manufacture, erection and opposition group) will be leafleting the maintenance of the turbines, or for district and plan to hold public the CO2 produced by coal or gas fired meetings within the area where the power plants running inefficiently on whole affair can be explored face to standby for when the wind does not face. We hope to see many of you blow. If it did, the figure would fall there. even further. No, wind farms make To find out more visit the www.ablot. only a marginal contribution (if any) to moonfruit.com or contact Mike Hall at reducing carbon dioxide. There are [email protected] . far more effective and less intrusive TO OBJECT, PLEASE WRITE TO ways of doing this. SLDC BY THE END OF MAY CITING Secondly, wind turbines cannot PLANNING APPLICATION NUMBER; replace nuclear generation. This is SL/2008/0318 because nuclear power stations ADDRESS; Mr Barry Jackson, provide our ‘base load’ electricity. Planning Officer, South Lakeland This is the quantity needed day and District Council, South Lakeland night every day of the year for our House, Lowther Street, KENDAL, industry, electric railways, Cumbria, LA9 4DL or e mail to computerised systems, hospitals, development.control@southlakeland. street lights, home fridges and gov.uk freezers, and so on, to keep them Mike Hall (Vice-Chairman, FELLS) operating. Wind turbines are simply Bernard Drinkall too unreliable and variable to do this (on behalf of ABLOT) and produce no useful electricity for about 60 to 110 days a year depending on the site. HOUSE FOR RENT The proposed Armistead windfarm would be the biggest engineering in Sedbergh works to affect this area since the 2 bedrooms fully furnished construction of the M6 and, in our Gardens & Parking for 2 cars view, is little more than legalised Excellent Location vandalism motivated by huge £500 per month subsidies and large profits. This T: 015396 22183 application can be stopped by ‘people M: 07766 815666 power’ and if you care about your Page 47 SLOVENIA - A COURSE IN experience has been that even LANGUAGE AND CULTURE though it is a country with less than 2 There are some who say that million inhabitants you might want to Slovene is a difficult language to talk to all of them, and spend a learn but those who have learnt to lifetime trying to get round them all! speak phrases and some of the basic Even being able to speak a few grammar will tell you the opposite. phrases to our visitors or when They know that it is the easiest visiting Slovenia is better than the language in the world because of the assumption that everyone should enormous amount of support that speak our own language. learners get from Slovenians who are Many of our ancestors who set out understandably very pleased that to colonise the world for Great Britain English people have gone to the believed that British culture was the trouble to learn some of their only one that mattered, that other language and to respect their culture. countries had nothing to offer and It is true that some aspects of the everything to gain by taking on our grammar are complicated, but others culture and our language. Now we are very simple. There are no sounds are hopefully less arrogant and in the Slovene language which are believe that learning something of the not there in English, but unlike English the language has a far more regular structure. Some of the letters Oliver Higginbotham 15 years experience are written differently but they are easy to learn to pronounce and, once learnt, words are pronounced as they Stone Walling are written unlike many of the words Fencing in other languages (such as bough, tough, cough, hiccough, bought etc. Decking in English.) And as George Handley Landscaping says about learning a foreign language: "It must be easy even tiny Tree Maintenance/Felling children in that country speak it!" Hedge Laying The myth that Slovene is a very difficult language is put about Hedge Cutting generally either by people who have — — — — — — – never bothered to try and learn it, or Pest Control by the Slovenians themselves who (Mole, Rat, Rabbit, Mink, Fox, Squirrel) are so polite that they let everyone off the hook by saying their language is 015396 21073 too difficult to learn! Mobile: 07815 899 994 Although there are not many people Call for no obligation quote/visit in the world who speak Slovene, my References available
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HOWGILL W. I. Wesmorland Gazette each week you We met at Firbank Church Hall on will find a Shelbourne cartoon based April 3rd. Mary Silva presided giving on a story which is making headline a warm welcome to members and news, complete with an appropriate two guests. caption which aims to make a point or Hilary Wilson was congratulated on highlight a campaign. Helen Beare her article published in the Sunday thanked Colin for the humourous Telegraph on the plight of Hill illustrations and skillful drawings Farmers. enjoyed by everyone. Anita confirmed our summer outing The competition for a “Cartoon” was will be on Wednesday June 25th to won by Sheelagh Denniss with Broadleays at Windermere followed Barbara Axford second. Mary Silva by tea provided by Windermere W. I. was the raffle winner and the social Names and numbers to be finalised time Quiz was won by Liz Moore with at the June meeting. Mary Silva second.. Mary Silva was our delegate at the On May 1st we will meet at Howgill half yearly Council Meeting at the when June Parker will be Town Hall in April. demonstrating “Quigong”. Visitors The next Howgill Hikers walk will be welcome. A. H. lead by Liz Moore and will be on Wednesday May 21st. All eyes were on the flip board when our speaker Gazette Cartoonist Colin WANTED Shelbourne explained the four elements to drawing a cartoon. He HOUSE TO RENT illustrated that two or three basic House wanted for long-term rent shapes can quickly become an in Dentdale animal or person with character and with facial expressions and Ideally 4 bedrooms movement. Finished off with a fitting but flexible to use reception rooms joke. Please Tel: 07758 296696 On the front cover of the Page 51 KILLINGTON W.I. Come & Dine at Our March meeting was cancelled so that we could support our local “Helen’s Table” butcher when he spoke to a gathering The venue is Stone Close of local WI’s about the Guild of Forthcoming dates: Quality Butchers. It was a most • Saturday 3rd May interesting afternoon and everyone • Friday 23rd May enjoyed sampling Garth Steadman’s • Saturday 24th May sausages and burgers. • Saturday 6th June pre-booking required for all dates The April meeting saw us back in Meals served 7:30pm the Committee Room and joined by Price £19.50 person (3 courses) another visitor, Barbara Leigh. The There is a Hot & Cold drinks menu but usual business was soon dealt with please bring your own alcohol and our President, Shirley Menus can be viewed in Stone Close Richardson, informed the members window or by contacting Helen that the Lune Valley Group Meeting th To avoid disappointment & to aid will be held on Monday 19 May at preparations, reservations must be made 7.30 p.m. in Barbon Village Hall and one week prior to your visit. However, that she had got ten tickets for the last minute bookings will be accommodated wherever possible. event. Thandi Project. We are indebted to To book, call Helen Wilkinson Anne Jones who, whilst staying with 015396 25531 Alan and Chris Clowes in South Africa, set up the financial sung whilst the people were working arrangements at the Thandi end, so and that they were passed down that children at the local school can orally from one generation to the have one good lunch per week during next. When it was feared that they the school term until the end of could be lost, groups travelled the December. We reminded the country recording them. She members that this is not a WI project, encouraged us to join in where we but one undertaken by friends who knew the words. Margaret happen to belong to Killington WI and Fearnhead thanked Mrs Thomas for a hope it will be ongoing for some most entertaining afternoon. considerable time. We then enjoyed our cup of tea and We then welcomed our guest a belated birthday cake for one of our speaker, Mrs Margaret Thomas, members who had celebrated a though singer might be more special birthday in March. Our raffle appropriate. Her topic was “Folk was won by Edith Robinson and the Songs from the British Isles” and she competition of completing a limerick told us that many folk songs were was won by Barbara Kooper. VCC
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SEDBERGH TOWN BAND steadily grown: the original military The Spring Show style uniforms have been replaced by On Saturday 12th April the Band a more conventional civilian brass again provided background music for band uniform of blazers, ties and an hour in the early afternoon of the striped trousers: the music stands Annual Spring Show. Under the display distinctive Sedbergh Town skilful baton of assistant bandmaster banners: a sizeable marquee has Tony Crofts a large number of visitors seen duty at a number of functions to the Show were treated to an and the Band has made effective use entertaining selection from the Band’s of the light weight hi tech staging. impressively large and wide The latest addition to the Band’s repertoire. equipment was received recently: Band Equipment thanks to generous grants and the Since its formation just under ten Band’s fundraising activities a years ago thanks to various grants specially designed trailer will facilitate and donations the Band has been the transportation of all the assorted able to become well equipped. The equipment needed at the various range and quality of instruments has venues where the Band appears.
Page 54 MAY GARDENING The cool wet summer last year resulted in an excellent growth of moss in several of “my” lawns and I noticed, that with my first cut this spring, the moss growth was so deep Henry Wilson Books in some places that the mower blades Specialist Bookshop now open in had to be lifted to prevent the Sedbergh on Fridays, Saturdays & machine from being embedded in the Sundays with a large stock of lawn. Moss at least 2” deep demands antiquarian, second-hand & new books some action. on transport & industrial history. Some I have tried various moss control general titles also available. methods but my current favourite is Book Tokens sold & exchanged. the old fashioned Sports Turf Institute Free Book Search Service way which uses Iron Sulphate 61 Main Street, Sedbergh LA10 5AB dissolved in water and applied to the 015396 21111 & 01829 740693 lawn using a watering can with a rose attached. I use a heaped tablespoon www.henrywilsonbooks.co.uk full dissolved in a 2 gallon can. Along e-mail: [email protected] A selection of our stock is also available in the with various other gardening Dales & Lakes Book Centre 72 Main Street practices, this moss control method is Open Daily Tel: 015396 20125 not nowadays approved by the EEC or whoever regulates our garden chemicals, so you will find no mention grass to thrive. In a small area a good of moss in lawns on any pack of going over with a spring rake will do Sulphate of Iron that you buy. the trick but if your lawn is a However, you are allowed to use the reasonable size then it is much more chemical as a plant feed, so go satisfying to hire or borrow (or buy if ahead and feed your lawn with it, and you really mean business) a scarifier you will find that, quite coincidentally to do all the hard work for you. This all the moss present blackens and will generate enormous mountains of dries out as the grass green up. Iron moss and thatch (the dead leaves of Sulphate is harmless to pets and its grass which build up into a mat and only drawback is that it stains paving stop the lawn from “breathing”) which and other hard surfaces a rusty you either compost or remove to the brown – so go carefully around any tip. Your lawn will appreciate all the areas where paving and lawn meet. hard work but be prepared to do Having applied your Iron Sulphate battle at the same time again next you will have to remove the dead year. moss in order to make space for the Elaine Horne
Page 55 A PEARL OF WISDOM over the eye or down the neck. Even From the first time, as an embryo, low back pain can be caused by that we stick our thumbs in our faulty functioning of the temporo mouths until the day we breathe our mandibular joint, that is, the jaw. last, we experience the world through The TMJ is the vital joint of the body. our mouths. Eating or drinking, We have to eat, so however funny kissing or hissing, laughing or looking the rest of us might be, the weeping, the jaw does it all. Like our top and bottom jaw have got to more feet (and there’s another fascinating or less meet. Sometime this subject), we take it for granted. Until imperative screws up other parts of it goes wrong. the body. And something odd has Jawache, locking or clicking of the happened to the western jaw. If you jaw are fairly obvious signs of a look at photos in travel guides of mouth under strain but one of the Pacific islanders, or Chinese farmers commonest symptoms of TMD or Indonesian fishermen or whatever, (temporo mandibular dysfunction) is you will see mugshot after mugshot of headache. This can settle over the beautifully spaced gnashers. Over ear or jaw but it can also spread up the last century, however, the maxilla
Page 56 (upper jaw) of Western Europeans HQ building. has shortened by ¼”. Why? It may Recent Scout activities included the be that bottle fed babies don’t have to troop Christmas/New Year treat, work for their food and don’t develop which was a trip to Morecambe their muscles of mastication. Superbowl, where we had an Perhaps our low roughage diet enjoyable game of 10 pin bowling and underworks the same muscles later in some time for snacks and arcade life. It has been suggested that we games. In February we had a visit to sing less than we used to and that the climbing wall in Kendal, where affects the shape of our mouths. after a practice on the small wall we Whatever the reason, mouth were able to try climbing in the main breathing, glue ear, sinus problems hall, with some of the Scouts and crowding of the teeth of the managing to reach the top. The Troop upper jaw are more prevalent in ran a “bring a friend” evening in April Western than in Eastern Europe. when the Scouts used their There is a very old saying that you pioneering skills to build sedan don’t diagnose what you can’t treat. chairs, then had a race to see which Poor old jaw. No branch of medicine Patrol was the fastest. This was a has all the answers so jaw disorders good test of their lashing, and both have often been neglected in the the chairs survived the race. past. Over the last decade or so, there has been much more sharing of Sedbergh Scouts will be holding its information and a multi disciplinary Annual General Meeting at the HQ study group has been set up. This is building (rear of Bull Hotel) at 7.30pm great news for those of us who work on Friday 6 June. The ‘business’ part with the jaw. More importantly, it of the meeting will be extremely brief. could be good news for people with Refreshments and entertainment will headache and painful jaws too. be provided and video/slides will be Daphne Jackson shown to illustrate some of the MSc(Ost) DO. Osteopath. activities undertaken during the last Kendal and Sedbergh year. All Scouts, parents and 01539 740452. supporters and any members of the public are welcome to attend to find 1st SEDBERGH SCOUTS out more about Sedbergh Scouts, ask The Group held a coffee morning on questions, or make suggestions for Easter Saturday and wishes to thank the future working of the Group. all those Scouts, parents and If you are unable to attend the supporters for their hard work in meeting but would like to find out making the event so successful. The more about the Group, please contact funds raised (£145) will contribute to Bill Mawdsley (Scout Leader) on the Group’s expanding programme of 015396 20723 or Jim Atkins activities and the maintenance of our (Chairman) on 015396 20031. Page 57 LADIES N. F. U. England. The February meeting on the 19th Our next meeting is on Tuesday was well attended. Our speaker for 20th May in the People’s Hall and the evening was Mrs. Susan Garnett, new members will be most welcome. the subject being Pact and Phantoms Thank you to everyone who gave of Upper Eden. donations and supported the Coffee Along with some lovely slides of the Morning held on Wednesday 16th local area showing us the old roads April in aid of Breast Cancer. with lovely little pack horse bridges We raised the marvellous sum of that the drovers used in bygone days, £320 for this very worthy cause. plus in and around the Smardale Thank you all once again. Viaduct. She also told us some spooky tales about the various old LOST AND FOUND inns the drovers used on their travels Just before Christmas I wrote in the to the North East including the Cross Lookaround about having lost some Keys, Cautley and the Black Swan at money in October having used a local Ravenstonedale. cash machine and then forgotten to The March meeting took place on pick up the money. I wanted to let the 18th when Mrs. D. McCaffery told people know that there had been a us about the Art of Spinning and happy outcome as a result of this Weaving. She brought along some article as so many people stopped beautiful silk, chiffon and velvet me to ask about it. I was in fact scarves which she had dyed, and are touched by how many people showed sold at Farfield Mill and Heritage an interest and expressed sympathy. Centre, where she has a studio. Many thanks to all those who did. She also brought a lovely rug spun The good news is that the money and woven from Herdwick and Rough was returned thanks to a student from Fell wool. Sedbergh School and the attention of The April meeting on the 15th held one of the staff at Barclays Bank, in the Methodist Schoolroom when Karen Holmes. Mr. Lowe showed slides of the Lake Although I had informed my bank of District National Park. the loss and they claimed to have He took us around Coniston, investigated it, what I didn't know was Troutbeck, Hesket Newmarket, that this simply means checking Caldbeck, Egremont and Grasmere whether the money has been pointing out the old 17th and 18th dispensed by the machine. I assumed century houses and farmsteads with a phone call might have been made the old mullion windows etc. to the bank where the cash dispenser His scenic tour make one realise is! I sometimes despair at the lack of that we really do live in and near to communication that seems to exist in one of the most beautiful parts of this age of technology when this Page 58 should supposedly be easier. supper will be available before the Anyway Karen had, by chance, read show. Tickets for the combined meal my article in Lookaround and and opera,or just the opera, will be on remembered that some money had sale at the TIC from mid May. been brought in by a Sedbergh Previous articles have mentioned School student and deposited in the bands and choral societies. There will safe around the date I'd mentioned. be several solo recitals of interest. She went out other way to phone me Martin Roscoe is a piano recitalist of on a Sunday, beyond the call of duty, international repute who will be giving to tell me that this might be my an all Beethoven recital of four of the money. Then when back in work composer's greatest sonatas. Here investigated it further, established that too, dinner will be available before the it was mine and phoned me at work recital. to let me know. Furthermore she Jeremy Lamburn will be giving three arranged to have the money short recitals in the URC. Each recital delivered to my school. I am grateful will feature two of Bach's to the Sedbergh School student for unaccompanied 'Cello Suites. This his honesty, to the diligence and care will be a rare opportunity to hear all of Karen Holmes and to Lookaround six of these truly virtuosic works. without which it is unlikely my Nicholas Hurndall Smith and Alexa problem would have been resolved Wightman will be performing so happily. Schubert's song masterpiece. Die Sally Ingham Winterreise (Winter Journey) a work of profound beauty. SEDBERGH MUSIC FESTIVAL Alia Kravchuk will bring the Festival June 13th. 29th. to a close with a song recital on the Brochures are now available at the final Sunday. Alia is a principal TIC and in Bookshops Sedbergh soprano with Hanover Opera. Alia is Summer Singers and the Dent of course married to a local Players are joining forces to put on Sedberghian and has delighted us at two performances of Gilbert and each of our previous Festivals. Sullivan's comic opera 'Trial by Jury'. There is something for everyone Trial by Jury was first performed in during the Festival and thanks to the 1875 and is a little gem of wit, generosity of Sponsors and Patrons sentiment and charm. The story we have been able to keep prices concerns a case of breach of promise down to the minimum. Remember and contains some typical Gilbertian also that all events, apart from Trial, humour and some of Sullivan's most are free to young people of school sparkling music. age. Pick up a brochure and sample The performances will take place in the delights! the People's Hall and a Festive Deryck Cox Page 59 FRIENDS OF FARFIELD MILL also have access to other organised The 1st Annual General Meeting of events and activities. the FRIENDS OF FARFIELD MILL Anne then introduced the members was held on 15th March 2008 at of the current committee, talked about 10.30a.m. their different roles within the Anne Pierson (Chair) welcomed organisation and what had been everyone and gave a brief account of achieved since the formation in the last year’s events at Farfield October 2006 including the appointment of the new • a social programme including Director (Clare Hamilton), progress theatre, cinema, art gallery and with the Farfield Project and the museum trips, the monthly recent refurbishment. Anne also luncheon clubs, the Xmas carol talked about the formation of the evening and the recent jewellery Friends as a replacement to the lecture previous membership scheme in • fundraising which includes October 2006 and their focus on monies raised from increasing providing financial and practical Friends’ numbers, the Spring assistance for the Mill. Friends, in Draw and an encouraging number addition to free entrance to the Mill, of Life Friends
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Page 60 • a growing number of Friends who act as volunteers within the Mill SEDBERGH PARISH COUNCIL on both a regular and occasional basis seek a Cleaner for • the Newsletter which keeps Loftus Hill Car Park Toilets Friends informed of planned events and enables the Director Job Share Considered to detail improvements and Hours fairly flexible projects happening at the Mill. Please ring D Blair (Chairman) Moira Roberts (Membership Secretary) advised that during the on 20807 for further information initial period of 14 months (from the formation of the Friends in October NOAH’S LARK 2006 to December 2007) the number A ‘Pantomime’ that appears in April? of Friends has grown to 440 from a It could only happen in Sedbergh. previous membership base of 250. And happen it did. There were 4 The current committee confirmed performances of which everyone was that they were prepared to continue very well attended. and no nominations had been If you did not attend, you missed an received within the deadline as excellent professional performance detailed in the AGM notification. It which reflected on the brilliant script was proposed and agreed that the for the Play. It would be wrong to pick current committee and Officers anyone out but the scriptwriter/ continue for a further year. The need costume maker Sandra Gold Wood to strengthen the committee with and Director Viv Hailwood worked additional members was discussed. tirelessly over many weeks to get the The date for the 2009 AGM was th perfect production. agreed as 14 March 2009 and the Very well done to all the performers, meeting closed at 11.30a.m. especially the children, and the Anna Atkins backroom boys. (Minute Secretary) Due to everyone being involved in the productions, there was nobody M WINN & SONS LTD free to video or take pictures of the (Established 1894) performances. If you took any and Sedbergh would allow the team to have sight of General Builders & Joiners them, could you please contact
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DENTDALE CRICKET CLUB 11th Sedbergh M.W. Away Following our ‘Crisis’ meeting we are 18th Lancaster Univ. Home now reasonably confident that we will JUNE fulfil our fixture list shown below. 1st Holker Home If there are any players, young or 8th Bellringers Home old, who would like an occasional 15th Bentham Exiles Home game please contact our Cricket 22nd Kirkby Lons. RUFC Home Managerial/Selection Team of Chris 29th Sheeptown Cavaliers Away McClurg (07970 363063) Rob JULY Mitchell (07966 582663) or John 6th Sedbergh M.W. Home Hyde (Chairman) on 015396 25503. 13th Archbishop Hutton PTA Home We play 40 overs per side on 20th Barrow Nomads Home Sundays, friendly but competitive 27th Gregsons Home games, in a wonderful setting. If you AUGUST can’t play why not just come along 3rd Holker Away and watch. 10th 5 a side Competition Home FIXTURES 2008 17th Hawes Home MAY 31st Sheeptown Cavaliers Home
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Page 62 DENTDALE METHODIST CHAPEL First, an apology. We announced the visit of the Orton Male Voice Choir to the chapel for Fri May 9th and then realized that it clashed with an event at Garsdale, so we have changed ours to Monday May 5th and hope Carpets & Floor Coverings you can come. There will be a supper Supplied & fitted afterwards and we look forward to a Telephone great time together. 015242 72073 In May we change from afternoon to 07771 97 00 96 evening services, and the Big Issue is that Tim our Minister goes on perhaps ones with a good beat or Sabbatical from May July and will more lively tune, for others the "old not be around, we wish him well and favourites" make their hearts sing, so look forward to hearing all about what we will be celebrating the oldies on he experiences when he returns. Sun May 25th and invite people to For some people worship is come with their choices .. or best to enhanced by new worship songs, let us know before so we can sort the words. Then later in the year perhaps we will have a service dedicated to the TIMBER FOR SALE new worship songs to keep the balance. ∗ Kiln Dried Oak & Hardwoods It was good to hear the Dr say he of furniture & joinery grade rather likes the Surgery being held in ∗ Fresh Sawn Oak & Larch our schoolroom/kitchen at the recent structural beams cut to size Parish Meeting, it has been held ∗ Fire wood bundles there for quite some years and we ∗ Wood chippings & Sawdust look forward to many more. Each week our printed notices For help & advice contact contain events in the village as well Philip Richardson as the Circuit and a Text for the week Cabinet Makers along with suggestions for prayer & Timber Merchant action, recently we have collected & Sawmillers biscuits and puzzle books to send to the Troops overseas, and material Hill Top and thread and office supplies for Newbiggin-on-Lune Project Linus are welcome, there is a 015396 23422 box on the coal bunker for gifts. This www.philiprichardson.co.uk project provides comfort blankets for children. S E Woof. Secretary
Page 63 Sports injuries? up to date with the Audio and Large Repetitive strain? Print Lookaround, and the exciting S c i ati c a ? plans for the revamped People’s Hall Stress/tension headaches? were explained and discussed. Back/neck ache? Specific suggestions were put forward Orthopaedic Massage may help you regarding the use of the Hall by Appointments in Kendal & Hawes people with vision loss. The next meeting, on May 20th , includes an exhibition of low vision aids which is to be situated in the 015396 23696 Josephine Lade LCSP (Assoc) main hall and which will be open to the general public. The outing on SOUTH LAKES SOCIETY June 17th will be to the Barbon Inn FOR THE BLIND for lunch. New members with sight Sedbergh Group problems, and also volunteers are Sadly the size of the group was always welcome. For further much reduced this month due to information telephone Sedbergh illness and hospital and health centre 21019 or Kendal 01539 742633. appointments. Good wishes were JL sent to the people who were not able to be present. The afternoon session followed the theme of jokes and funny stories. There were wonderful contributions from the group. Some limericks were recited, mainly about folk from Dent. Why Dent and not Sedbergh? There was a topsy turvy rhyme, one regretting memory loss and a story about a ghost that wasn’t. The jokes surprisingly centred largely on vicars and to a lesser extent on parrots with a bit of golf thrown in – in one case a vicar who played golf – no parrot in that case fortunately. There was also the odd goldfish, some sheep on the fells and several naked ladies swimming in a crocodile infested pond. Surreal? Absolutely but what fun. Thanks to Betty Harper for the idea. Dennis Whicker brought everyone
Page 64 DRIVING TIP They’re black, round and cost about £80. Although most tyres are made to Paul very high quality standards, there are still variations in the thickness of the rubber, the steel belts and the radial Winn webbing that form the structure. One consequence of the variations is a slight weight difference around the Appliance Services tyre. This is well known and easily cured by balancing the wheel and tyre. SALES ••• SERVICE ••• REPAIRS A less well known effect of the variability is something called run To all leading makes out – a measure of how straight the of domestic & commercial appliances tyre will run if fitted to a wheel and PORTABLE APPLIANCE TESTING allowed to roll along a flat level surface. Some will run straight and Tel/Fax: 015396 21699 true, others will veer to the left or right in varying degrees. You will see an Mobile: 07889 286 722 indication of this on most new tyres – have you ever noticed coloured lines running around the tread on your new with the coloured lines both to the tyre? Some of these are to give the inside of the centre of the tyre, or tyre distributors easy to read both to the outside. That way the two information about where the tyre will cancel each other out and you’ll should be shipped to, but one of them get straight steering. will be a run out indicator – usually Regardless of the tyre combination, red or blue, and the extreme left or a regular weekly check of the tyre right hand line. The nearer to the pressure – when they are cold – is centre it is, the straighter the tyre will the best way to avoid premature run, and which side of the centre it is wear. You will feel the improvement in denotes the direction of the run out. the fuel consumption as well. And a A steering problem can arise if both quick check for condition (no cuts, tyres on the front axle happen to run bulges, or screws sticking out of the out significantly in the same direction. rubber!) at the same time is good Ideally, when you’re next buying new practice, too. tyres you should select two with run Tips from the Institute of Advanced out of about the same amount, but in Motorists Web Site and by opposite directions – in other words, permission. Page 65 YDNP Flower Power : Hay Time in the Dales Staff at the Dales Countryside Museum are currently working on their summer family exhibition, “Flower Power : Hay Time in the BUILDER Dales”. This free exhibition will run PLASTERER from July 25 to September 3 and will ROOFER be part of the Yorkshire Dales QUALITY WORK National Park Authority’s Hay Time Tel: 015396 20907 Festival. The exhibition will feature banners created by groups from within and people and activities to keep children outside the Yorkshire Dales National of all ages busy. Park with our outreach officer, using If you have memories or photos of all aspects of hay time as inspiration. hay time and would be willing to There will also be hands on exhibits, share them, please get in touch with digi stories and oral history from local staff. We will make an arrangement to visit you to record your impressions of hay time, either in the past, or now! The Yorkshire Dales Hay Time Festival 2008 includes over 100 events, walks and talks celebrating the wonderful diversity of plant and animal life to be found in the 21 Fairholme, Sedbergh traditional hay meadows of the & 20904 Yorkshire Dales National Park. There’s something for everyone from Teddy Bear’s picnics to identifying flowers on limestone hills, from dusk lantern processions looking out for moths and bats to guided walks through some of the finest traditional hay meadows in the Dales. Join us for a truly memorable experience! To find the full list of events go to ALL RUBBISH www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/ hay_time_festival REMOVED Fiona Rosher [email protected]
Page 66 DOG FOULING IN DENT the preceding decade, to bring to In Dent, we are very fortunate in completion the restoration of an having a playing field; it is regularly historical mill to the successful used by the cricket and football cubs, venture we know today. Pauline and also has been the venue for a Fozzard, Ruth Gamsby, and Barbara number of events such as the Dent Lake, who surprised us with their Folk Festival and Dent Show. thespian abilities, convincingly However we are currently enacted the voices of those in office experiencing problems with dog who raised only to dash the hopes of fouling on the field, and are therefore Maureen in the early days, plus a having to take action against dog cameo of just how harsh life was for owners who allow their dogs to run those who lived and worked around free on the field and foul. Dog owners the Mill when it was operating as a are advised that they can exercise woollen textile producer a century or their dogs on a lead along the public so ago. At the end of the evening we right of way along the edge of the were all impressed with Maureen's field. Additionally the playing field sheer dogged determination and wish committee expects dog owners to her well with the launch of her book. clear up after their dog has fouled. Marion Smith It is regrettable that the actions of probably a small number of inconsiderate dog owners are forcing us to take this action, but we are concerned about the unpleasant Farfield Mill Arts & Heritage Centre, aspects of fouling, as well as the Sedbergh, Cumbria. LA10 5LW public health issues. J Pilgrim WeaversWeaversWeavers at Farfield, a tearoom with Chair, Dent Playing Field Committee a distinctly Cumbrian flavour, has recently opened and we are GARSDALE LADIES GROUP currently recruiting for a Cook and a In March the Garsdale Ladies Front of House Supervisor. Group, (together with several most welcome gentlemen), enjoyed an Salaries: imaginative talk by Maureen Lamb, Cook £18,000 - £20,000 prior to the imminent publication of Front of House supervisor her book on the subject of the £12,400 - £13,500 background to Farfield Mill as we know it today. This was no ordinary depending on experience talk, but a skilfully compiled narration of the setbacks, disappointments, Both posts are full time, 40 hrs per week. broken promises and financial Please ring Sandra O’Neill on 015396 21958 for more details. problems that had been overcome in
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The answer is revealed as follows EDWIN MIDDLETON and was sent to Lookaround as a JOINERS warning to readers. All aspects of site joinery work 30 years experience A couple had their house burnt We design, manufacture purpose made down .. nothing left but ashes. They joinery in our own workshop. had good insurance so the house will All your requirements fully fitted. be replaced and most of the contents. UPVC windows & doors That is the good news. Free Advice and Estimate Phone: 015396 25431 or 015396 20074 However, they were sick when they found out the cause of the fire. The Mobile: 07779 049103 or 07814 149105 insurance investigator sifted through the ashes for several hours. He had something that would disintegrate at the cause of the fire traced to the high temperatures'. Then her sister master bathroom. He asked her in law remembered she had an ‘Air sister in law what she had plugged in Freshener Plug In’, in the bathroom. the bathroom. She listed the normal The investigator had one of those things, curling iron, hair dryer. He 'Aha' moments. He said that was the kept saying to her, 'No, this would be cause of the fire. He said he has seen more house fires started with the plug in type room fresheners than anything else. He said the plastic they are made from is THIN. He also said that in every case there was nothing left to prove that it even existed. When the investigator looked in the wall plug, the two prongs left from the harmful additives plug in were still in there. artificial colours A relative of the couple had one of NONEWS – NEWS perfume – NEWS – NEWS the plug ins that had a small night We have bowed to the pressure and light built in it. She said she had launched 2 liquid soaps: noticed that the light would dim and Shampoo (71.99% Organic) then finally go out. She would walk in Hand & Body Wash (81.98% Organic) to the bathroom a few hours later, Available in 1l and 2.5l ‘bulk’ to avoid and the light would be back on again. unnecessary plastic packaging. Or bring The investigator said that the unit was your own empty soap pump or other getting too hot, and would dim and go container to out rather than just blow the light Sedbergh Producers’ Market 28 May bulb. Once it cooled down it would and we’ll pour straight into it! come back on. Sedbergh-soap.co.uk – 015396 20967 That is a warning sign. Page 68 NEW SEDBERGH DENTIST PARKINSON’S DISEASE SOCIETY New Dentist for Sedbergh Dental The Sedbergh Group of the Society Practice will be holding a Stall in aid of the On 26th April we welcome Ben Society at the Charter Fair on Houghton as an additional part–time Saturday 16th August on Main Street associate dentist. Ben has been in Sedbergh. Any assistance before and on the qualified for eight years, married with day would be gratefully appreciated. a young family and has recently Please contact the Lookaround Office moved to Lowgill. Ben’s appointment if are able to help. should ease our treatment waiting time and provide additional DENT GALA 2008 emergency cover, especially during This will take place on August Bank school holiday periods. We can Holiday Monday, 25th August and will accept patients directly on a private start sooner than usual this year, as basis. Our prices and practice the Gala committee meet to arrange information leaflets are available from the many aspects of this event we the practice in Finkle Street or by invite your support.. .ie please save suitable items for the Tombola, the phoning 015396 20626. Raffle and other competitions. Books
for the Book stall, articles for the
White Elephant Stall and so on. Could
you store items for us? Will you come MK CONVERSIONS on the day and help on a stall/ sideshow for an hour or two? We will Four Lane Ends, Marthwaite be asking for help and do hope you Sedbergh LA10 5ES will say Yes! Tel: 015396 22038 Instead of adverts in our programme Fax: 015396 22039 it would be good to have some Builders, Joiners & Roofing memories of previous Gala events .. Contractors have you a happy memory you would like to share .. can you remember the 1st one? Were you involved in getting DENTDALE DIBBERS it organised? Have you won the Interested in gardening, or visiting Fancy Dress in the past? Do you gardens remember to come along to remember some notable event which "Rhumes" 7pm Thursday May 8th happened at the Gala? and be part of the beginning of the Contributions please to Gala "Dentdale Horticultural Society" or Secretary as below. Do you have whatever we decide to call ourselves! photographs of previous Gala Days? Refreshments will be provided. Do let us know. Dibber S E Woof Gala Secretary 25212 Page 69 TRAVELLERS - APPLEBY FAIR As most of Sedbergh residents on the east side of Sedbergh to the Parish Boundary are well aware of the influx of people the above Fair brings to our area. The Parish Council is still working with Police and South Lakeland District Council officers to ensure the weeks leading up to the Fair and afterwards runs smoothly. We ask that if you encounter any stramongate press problems or incidents during this time you contact either printers Police Tel: 0845 3300247 or SLDC Environmental Enforcement Officer Tel: 0845 0504434 These telephone numbers will be displayed at the Police Station, Long Lane, Sedbergh. Please don’t assume the authorities know what is printers going on. Let us all try and make it run smoothly. D. Blair of Chairman S.P.C. Sedbergh Lookaround NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH FUND The NWCRF Sedbergh Branch Committee wish to thank everyone who supported and helped in any way to raise £267 at the recent Coffee Morning. NWCR is carried on at Bangor, Stramongate Press Aynam Mills Liverpool and Lancaster Universities Little Aynam Kendal Cumbria LA9 7AH and only a small percentage of funds phone 01539 720448 raised is spent on administration as fax 01539 730253 much work is undertaken by e mail [email protected] volunteers. website www.strampress.co.uk
Page 70 NEW COMMUNITY VENTURE hospital visit but seldom or never get How many times have you had a one. spare hour where you feel you could This meeting identified these issues do something useful? How many and felt that a small independent times have you been in Kendal and community group could be formed to could have spared an hour to visit ‘fill those cracks’. someone in hospital but did not know Although it was discussed at great who was in and on what ward? How length and the group had an idea of many times have you sat at home or the requirements, it was felt that more in hospital and would have information was required from the appreciated a visit from someone? community from those who feel that On Saturday 5th April, 8 members of they are in need of these visits and the community met to discuss this from those who feel that they could “gap in the community”. make those visits. It was identified that many It is with this in mind that a FREE individuals, families, groups and Afternoon Tea is being provided in the organisations provide much needed URC Rooms at 2pm on Saturday care in the community by looking 24th May with an open invitation to after and tending the needy and do a everyone in the community to come stirling job by paying home or hospital along and have an input. DJW visits on a regular basis. It was felt that despite all the SEDBERGH BOWLING CLUB excellent care provided, there were a The Club will be offering free taster few people in our community that ’fall sessions again this year starting with through the cracks’. That is to say Tuesday 13th May between 2 pm and that they are in need of a home or 4 pm, then later the same day between 6.30 pm and 8 pm. Philip Horner The only requirement is that you Fencing & Walling wear flat shoes, please. If the weather is too bad, we will arrange another date in June. Please check Walling with Lookaround for details. Man & Tractor If you can’t make it on a tuition day, Tel: 015396 21984 or you would like more information Mob: 07855 349157 about the sport, or the Club, please e-mail: [email protected] ring Linda on 20279.
SEDBERGH FOOTBALL CLUB
Last month, a photo was printed of Sedbergh Football Club members on 6th June 1950. The players were: G Mason; G Hunter; A Capstick; G Capstick; R Winn & B Varley. Page 71 BUS SERVICES Sedbergh to Kendal via Oxenholme Blackhall Road, Kendal to Sedbergh Monday to Friday via Oxenholme 0745 564 S Monday - Friday 0830 564 S 0940 564 W 0835 Sch 564 W 1005 564 S 1030 564 W 1015 Wed 564B W 1050 564 S 1240 564 W 1300 Wed 564B W 1300 564 S 1330 564 W 1440 564 W 1410 564 S 1550 564 S 1610 564 W 1711 564 W 1625 564 S Saturday Only 1745 564 W Saturday Only 1005 564 S 1050 564 S 1050 564A A8 1410 564 S 1300 564 S 1425 564A A8 1550 564 S 1625 564 S Sedbergh to Kirkby Stephen Kirkby Stephen to Sedbergh Monday to Saturday Monday to Saturday 0900 M-F 564 S 0710 M-F 564 S 1120 564 S 0940 564 S 1440 564 S 1225 564 S 1655 564 S 1515 564 S Kirkby Lonsdale to Sedbergh Sedbergh to Kirkby Lonsdale 1215 Thu 567A W 0945 Thu 567A W Dent to Sedbergh Sedbergh to Cowgill 1000 Wed 564B W 1330 Wed 564B W 1035 Sat 564A A8 0940 Sat 564A A8 1600 Sat 564A A8 1500 Sat 564A A8 Last Update: September 2007 M-F Monday to Friday Only W = Woof’s of Sedbergh Tue Tuesday Only S = Stagecoach in Cumbria Wed Wednesday Only A8 = Apollo 8 = Provided with Support from CCC Thu Thursday Only Please note whilst every effort has been made to ensure that Sat Saturday Only the times shown are up to date, they can change at short notice. Sch Schooldays Only (M-F) For Comprehensive up-to-date information ring :- All times are from and to The Dalesman Inn Traveline 0870 608 2 608 (Open : 7am - 8pm Daily) Page 72 Religious Services in Sedbergh CHURCH OF ENGLAND For 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 John Beck 22109 & 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 6.30 pm People’s Hall every Sunday Main Street Tel: 21436 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Sunday 10.30 Would you like to know that someone is Rev. C Gotham 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 Page 73 DIARY OF EVENTS Dates are held up to 22nd December 2008 “Lookaro_nd Dia_y” What’s missing? U R 16 0930 Christian Aid Shop (11) URCR Entries marked (*) see Advert in previous Lookaround. 16 1100 Victorian Kitchen DCMH MAY 17 1000 Christian Aid Coffee Morning (11) DMH 1 District Elections 17 1230 Sedbergh Gala (1) Sedbergh 1 1930 WIH Quigong HVH 17 1900 Flicks in the Fells Cinema (17) PH 1 Dent Real Ale Festival (8) G&D 18 1030 Digital Photography DMCH 2 1930 Jazz in Sedbergh (*) PH 18 1100 YDNP Walk Delightful Dentdale DCP 2 2100 Dent Real Ale Festival (8) G&D 18 1130 Coffee Concert SSQH 3 1000 Ring the Church with Silver (*) StAS 18 1400 Dentdale Cricket v Lancaster University Dent 3 1000 Mechanical Drawing Exhibition (18) FM 20 1300 SLSB Visual Aids (20) PH 3 1000 Table-Top sale HJC 20 1400 SLSB Meeting PH 3 1100 Open Garden (5) GFK 20 1400 Drystone Walling DCMH 3 2000 Ceilidh DMH 20 1930 Dentdale Action Plan Survey (20) DMH 3 2100 Dent Real Ale Festival (8) G&D 21 1000 Firbank Church Coffee Morning URCR 4 1100 Open Garden (5) GFK 22 1900 Sedbergh Parish Council AGM PH 4 1430 Master Class Recital (12) URC 23 1445 Young Kidz Football Tournament (23) PH 4 1500 Hawes Silver Band GSP 23 1930 Arrive Alive (23) DMH 4 Dent Real Ale Festival (8) G&D 24 SS Start of Half Term 5 May Bank Holiday 24 SHS Start of Half Term 5 1430 CWT Duck Race Busk Lane 24 1400 Afternoon Tea (24) DMH 5 1930 Orton Male Voice Choir (5) Date Change DMC 24 1400 Afternoon Tea (25) URCR 6 1400 Spinning a Yarn DCMH 24 1830 FCH Barbecue FCH 6 1900 Talk on Baffin Island (*) PH 24 1900 K Shoes Male Voice Choir (24) URC Kendal 7 1000 Barnardo’s Coffee Morning (*) URCR 24 Walking Festival Sedbergh 7 1315 Muncheon Music (7) SSQH 25 1200 CWT Open Garden (25) Greenbank 7 1930 WIF Advisor - Resolutions PH 25 1400 Dent Town Trail Walk DCP 8 1900 Dentdale Dibbers Rhumes, Dent 25 Walking Festival Sedbergh 9 1930 Sedbergh Sankey Singers GVH 25 Annual Charity Truck Pull Cancelled 9 2000 Just Brian (15) Barbon Inn 26 Bank Holiday Monday 10 1000 Quiet Gardens Trust (10) Rhumes, Dent 26 Walking Festival Sedbergh 10 1000 FM Free Open Day (18) FM 26 1900 Duck Race & Coffee Evening HVH 10 1430 Dentdale Memories (10) StAD 28 1000 WIK Coffee Morning URCR 10 1900 Dentdale Memories (10) StAD 28 1000 Producers Market JLCP 10 1930 Taverner to Tavener (10) KPC 28 1230 HS Visit to Whitehaven (28) LHCP 11 1000 Quiet Gardens Trust (11) Rhumes, Dent 28 1400 Discover & Do DCMH 11 1000 FM Free Open Day (18) FM 29 1800 Killington Sports (29) BFK 11 1400 Tennis Club Family Fun Day G 30 1400 Storytelling DCMH 11 1830 Christian Aid United Service (11) URC 31 1000 Gardens Open (32) Barbon 12 0930 Christian Aid Shop (11) URCR 31 1930 PH Dance (31) PH 12 1930 Dent Parish Council Meeting DMH 31 1930 Killington Sports Ceilidh (31) BFK 13 0930 Christian Aid Shop (11) URCR JUNE 13 1400 WIK Resolutions & Music Quiz PH 1 SS End of Half Term 13 1400 Bowling Taster Session QG 1 1000 Mechanical Drawing Exhibition (18) FM 13 1800 Christian Aid Shop (11) URCR 1 1200 Gardens Open (32) Barbon 13 1830 Bowling Taster Session QG 1 1400 Dentdale Cricket v Holker Dent 13 2030 SS Collegium Musicum SSPH 2 SHS End of Half Term 14 0930 CA Coffee Morning & Shop (11) URCR 4 1000 Dent Foot Chap Coffee Morning URCR 14 1915 WID Burnley to Hollywood DMH 4 WIF Outing TBA 15 0930 Christian Aid Shop (11) URCR 5 1930 WIH Members Evening FCH 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 74 6 1930 Sedbergh Scouts AGM Scout HQ DIARY KEY 7 Open Gardens Dent BF = Brigflatts 7 1345 CWT Walk in Murthwaite Park LHCP BFK = Beckside Farm, Killington 8 Open Gardens Dent BS = Baliol School 8 1400 Dentdale Cricket v Bellringers Dent BVH = Barbon Village Hall 8 1430 Master Class Recital (12) URC CDC = Community Development Centre 10 tba WIK Edenlea Garden Penrith CO = Community Office, Main Street 11 1000 Garsdale Church Coffee Morning URCR CTiS = Churches Together in Sedbergh 11 1915 WID Felting DMH CWT = Cumbria Wildlife Trust 13 Music Festival Starts (#) Sedbergh DCMH = Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes 13 1930 Celebration of Sankey HMH DCP = Dent Car Park 13 2000 Barn Dance & Ceilidh PH DMH = Dent Memorial Hall 14 1400 Mechanical Drawing Talk (18) FM DMC/S = Dent Methodist Chapel/Schoolroom 14 1930 Besses o’ th’ Barn (#) StAS EH = Ephemeral House, 16 Guldrey Terrace 15 1030 SS Choir (#) StAS FCH = Firbank Church Hall 15 1500 Bach Cello Suites (#) URC FM = Farfield Mill 15 1400 Dentdale Cricket v Bentham Exiles Dent G = Guldrey 16 1300 Organ Recital (#) StAS G&D = George & Dragon, Dent 16 1930 Swimming Club AGM Bull GFK = Grassrigg Farm, Killington 17 1400 SLSB Meeting & Dinner Barbon Inn GH = Gladstone House 17 1900 Neighbourhood Forum DMH GVH = Garsdale Village Hall 17 2000 Music for Strings (#) StAS HJC = Hawes Junction Chapel 18 1000 Playgroup Coffee Morning URCR HMH = Hawes Market Hall 18 1300 Muncheon Music (#) SSQH HS = History Society 18 1900 Trial by Jury (#) PH HVH = Howgill Village Hall 19 1300 Cheetham School of Music (#) StAS JLCP = Joss Lane Car Park 19 1900 Trial by Jury (#) PH KL = Kirkby Lonsdale 20 1930 SS Concert (#) SSQH KPC = Kendal Parish Church 20 2000 ‘Cornerstone’ Folk & Jazz (#) Westwood Bks KVH = Killington Village Hall 21 1000 Each Pebble its Part (#) EH LHCP = Loftus Hill Car Park 21 1030 Pepperpot Morning (#) StAS MCCKL = Methodist Church Centre KL 21 1930 The Abbey Singers (#) StAS PH = People’s Hall 22 1000 Each Pebble its Part (#) EH QG = Queen’s Gardens 22 1400 Dentdale Cricket v KL RUFC Dent SHS = Settlebeck High School 22 1700 Choral Evensong (#) StAS SLSB = South Lakeland Society for the Blind 22 2000 Schubert Song Recital (#) StAS SMCR = Sed. Methodist Church Room 23 2000 Piano Recital (#) StAS StAS/D = St Andrew’s Church, Sedbergh/Dent 24 1300 Four Hands - One Piano (#) StAS SS/C = Sedbergh School/Chaplaincy 24 2000 Sedbergh Town Band (#) StAS STO = Sedbergh Tourist Office, Main Street URCR = United Reformed Church Rooms Regular Meetings WID = Women’s Institute, Dentdale Howgill Toddlers 1315 Every Monday HVH WIF = Women’s Institute, Frostrow Dent Parish Council 1930 1st Monday DMH WIH = Women’s Institute, Howgill SL Carers Association 1400 1st Tuesday PH WIK = Women’s Institute, Killington Killington WI 1400 2nd Tuesday PH Ladies NFU 1930 3rd Tuesday PH 25 1000 Dent Methodist Coffee Morning URCR Coffee Morning 1000 Every Wednesday URCR 25 1000 Producers Market JLCP Zebras 1315 Every Wednesday SMCR 25 1300 Violin Sonatas (#) StAS Sedbergh Juniors 1730 Every Wednesday PH 25 2000 Early Music Recital (#) BF Sedbergh Seniors 1930 Every Wednesday PH 26 1500 Bach Cello Suites (#) URC Toy Library 1430 1st & 3rd Wednesday PH 26 2000 Organ Recital (#) StAS Frostrow WI 1930 1st Wednesday PH 27 Dent Folk Festival Dent History Society 1930 1st & 3rd Wednesday SHS 27 2000 Dalston Male Voice Choir (#) StAS Dentdale WI 1915 2nd Wednesday DMH 28 Dent Folk Festival Dent SLS Blind Group 1415 3rd Wednesday PH 28 1930 ‘Encore’ Opera Group (#) StAS Sed. Parish Council 1930 Last Wednesday PH 29 Dent Folk Festival Dent Howgill WI 1930 1st Thursday FCH 29 1000 Mechanical Drawing Exhibition Ends (18) FM All entries are free 29 1430 Master Class Recital (12) URC Page 75 PUBLIC INFORMATION
SEDBERGH HEALTH CENTRE LIBRARY Main Street & 20186 Loftus Hill & 015396 20218 Monday 1700 - 1900 Repeat Prescription & 015396 20239 Wednesday 1000 - 1230 1400 - 1700 Out of Hours & 01539 781999 Friday 1400 - 1700 Bay Call & 0845 0524 999 Saturday 1000 - 1230 Dr W Lumb SEDBERGH TOURIST OFFICE Monday Main Street & 20125 Tuesday Open every day
See Page 5 0900 - 1700 Wednesday www.sedbergh.org.uk/booktown/dlbc.html Thursday COMMUNITY OFFICE & 20504 Friday Monday to Friday 1000 to 1600 Dr C Hunt Monday Thursday 1000 to 1300 Tuesday See Page 5 e-mail [email protected] Thursday www.sedbergh.org.uk H Pilling Nurse Practitioner RURAL CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU Tuesday Kendal Office Wednesday & 0870 1264061 See Page 5 Thursday www.cabkendal.ndo.co.uk Friday 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 Practice Nurses SLCVS @ Community Office Monday 0845 - 1300 b 1400 - 1730 b 1st Wednesday every month 0840 - 1030 c 10 am to 12 noon Tuesday 0845 - 1300 b 1400 - 1730 b & 01539 742627 Wednesday 0830 - 1300 a 1400 - 1730 a COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE Thursday 0830 - 1300 a 1400 - 1730 a Settlebeck Cottage Tel: 21031 1400 - 1730 b www.sedberghcdc.org.uk Friday 0845 - 1300 b 1400 - 1730 b POLICE 1200 - 1330 c & 0845 33 00 247 a = Joanne Batty PUBLIC TOILETS b = Anne Crome Main Street & Loftus Hill Car Park, Sedbergh c = Kay Lumb (Blood) Main Street, Dent District Nurse Health Visitor VETERINARY SURGERY & & 015396 21690 015396 20979 22 Long Lane & 20335 A Collinge Optometrist Mr N. Preston & Mr J. Bramley Every Friday 0900 - 1300 1400 - 1730 * Monday to Friday 1400 - 1430 * * = By Appointment Only Mon, Wed & Fri 1900 - 1930 * DENTAL SURGERY Finkle Street & 20626 Saturday 1330 - 1400 * Mr I. R. Dawson, Ms G Turner, Mrs D Ross Sunday * & Mr B Taylor * = By Appointment Only Monday to Thursday 0900 - 1700 MARKET DAY WEDNESDAY Friday 0830 - 1500 HALF-DAY CLOSING THURSDAY