Hunshelf Chat Issue 65 - April 2011

Well Hill Walls, especially our dry stone walls are an essential heritage feature of our parish. Kathryn Austin raised concern at a parish council meeting that the sycamore saplings on Well Hill were in danger of destroying our walls. Not immediately of course, but over time.

So, on a grey day, six good men and true, well four men and two valiant ladies, attacked the worst bits of Well Hill and removed and hopefully killed off a batch of saplings. When we got to the bottom of the mass of sycamore, bramble, and rubbish, we realised just why this bit of verge was never flailed by the council. It was mainly old tree stumps that had re- generated into a coppiced hedge. This must have been done some years ago. There is still more to be done, but it will have to wait now for next year. Many thanks to the six tree fellers, Barnsley MBC for their support and Alan Crookes and Philip Watts and family for the use of their fields.

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in some of the most well- NEVILLE ROEBUCK known musicals and operettas: Show Boat; White Horse Inn and On August 27th last year, Neville Roebuck, “Uncle Carousel being among Nev’” sadly died in Barnsley & District General his favourites. In addition Hospital, following a yearlong battle with cancer. to acting, Neville wrote It was only a few weeks after his 73rd birthday, for the stage and was and although he was residing at a nursing home instrumental in the in the days before he passed away, his family and was an able student and community of Green Moor friends managed to bring him home to his beloved passed an entrance exam staging performances. He Green Moor to celebrate his special day. Neville into Barnsley Technical composed Pantomimes was a true Yorkshireman; he loved the county: the College, where he studied for the Sunday School; people; the places; the traditions and heritage, but Business and Commerce. compiled a pageant it was Green Moor that he truly held dear. He was However, his passage into detailing local history involved at the heart of the village and committed the world of work was from the Domesday Book much of his life to serving the community and interrupted by his call to the twentieth century preserving its integrity. to National Service and as part of the school’s Neville was conscripted centenary celebration Neville was born on houses of Castle View. into the army. He didn’t (for which I had to 4th August 1937 in Neville attended Hunshelf enjoy his training or being wear a very itchy and Chapeltown Nursing Infant & Junior School away from home but did uncomfortable wimple in home near Sheffield. He to the age of 11, before make the most of his my role as ‘Joan of Dean spent his early childhood moving to Stocksbridge posting to the War Office Head’!) and in his later at Office Fold, Green Secondary Modern – even claiming that years wrote a short play Moor with parents Ben School. At this time, the he visited 10 Downing and even a musical! There and Ethel Roebuck and journey to school involved Street on occasions on was no end to what he older brother Rex. A children from Green official business! Whilst in would have a go at. The sister, Jean, completed Moor walking over the London, he indulged his centenary of the school the family in 1945. When fields to Stocksbridge passion for live theatre, was a focus for the whole Neville was about 15, each day, whatever the galleries, museums and village and celebrated in the family moved up the weather: come rain, historical sites, and as different ways to bring as village to the newly built snow or shine. Neville anyone who knew Neville many people together as would acknowledge, he possible. Neville was one continued this interest of the founding members throughout his life. of ‘The Centenary Players’ However, the lure of who performed a string Yorkshire was too strong of plays and musicals: and on completion of Me and My Girl; The his conscription, Neville Importance of Being left the bright lights of Earnest and ,memorably the capital and returned for me, The King and I, home to Green Moor. which brought adults and He began work at children from the village Samuel Fox and Co in together. Stocksbridge, starting The Methodist his career in the steel church was central industry in the stainless to Neville’s life and he sales office. It was here was actively part of the that he became involved organisation for most of with Stocksbridge Works this. The church calendar Amateur Dramatics incorporates many special Society (S.W.A.D.S) and events and festivals took roles in a variety of and Neville always productions in the late participated wholly in 1950’s and throughout the preparation and the 60’s. He was also a presentation of services: member of Penistone from his ambitious SWADS (Stocksbridge Works Amateur Dramatics Society) Operatic Society and floral arrangements delighted in participating and displays to serving   Hunshelf Chat - March 2011

at the Men’s Effort. He his life, he catalogued revitalised the tradition an enormous amount Census of carol singing on of material for not Christmas Eve. Dressed only Green Moor Barnsley got 98% of its Census in Victorian costume, the and Hunshelf, but papers back in 2001. Looking carollers and musicians for Penistone and its at the results for 2001 on travelled to all corners of surrounding communities the government web site, the parish to entertain too. In the months Hunshelf must have had – singing (and keeping before his death, Neville 100% return. Hopefully we alive) the local tunes. The set up the Penistone & will had the same level of highlight of this annual District Communities response this year on 27 March. event was when the group Archives Trust. With was invited to sing at the funding, he has had the Why did we have to fill in this long and clumsy form? Look North news studio. collection digitised and This is the main data base for the distribution of Neville’s professional the committee is hoping services. If Barnsley as a whole gets every one of its career was prematurely to have access to this citizens recorded, then BMBC will get more government cut short when he was unique resource available money. It is as simple as that. faced with redundancy for public viewing. as the Sheffield steel Neville showed industry went into great enthusiasm and decline. Despite the commitment to everything short term employment he involved himself with; opportunities that none more so though Maunday Thursday followed, he struggled than in his affection and to secure a permanent support for family and Maunday Thursday is on April 21st this year and, as post and decided to take friends. He was always usual, at 8 30pm, many people will meet in Green early retirement. But on hand for advice and Moor Church to take part in the Service organized Neville was never idle, encouragement and took by Churches Together in Stocksbridge and District. and always had a project an interest in others. After a brief Service there the congregation will on the go. One of the As I used to say to my process up to the cross at Hill Top Farm. You may lasting memories that colleagues at Springvale remember a few years ago when the cross had to many people will have Primary School, ‘Everyone be moved from Windy Bank Farm where the Taylor of him, is his interest should have an Uncle Family allowed it to be erected well over 50 years and knowledge of local Nev’. He seemed to ago, it was feared there be no cross that year. The history. He was a wealth have the answers to Godley Family at Hill Top Farm stepped in and, at of information. Over his all our questions and short notice, erected the cross currently on their life, Neville was a prolific the solutions to all our land. It is not possible for this cross to be lowered collector of artefacts and problems. As children, and last year, when many damaged bulbs had to be historical material. He Uncle Neville’s was like a changed, Greg Godley and a friend faced being swung worked to realise his second home for myself about in high winds and driving rain to do this task ambition of a museum and my brothers; he - therefore it was decided to replace the existing for Green Moor, and for welcomed us always cross with one which could be lowered. A collection some years a collection (even at half past seven outside Stocksbridge Co op, in January, raised well of pieces was displayed on Christmas morning, over £500 towards the anticipated cost of £1000. in a school outbuilding. desperate for more Many people said how much they looked forward to Unfortunately this presents!). He was always seeing the cross each year shining out over Easter. was disbanded when pleased to see us, and Since then many more donations have been received Hunshelf School was make us ‘a bit of food’. and money is still coming in – most recently from a closed. However, his The arrival of the next Coffee Morning at the home of Elsie Steele - Greg’s passion for local history generation filled him with Grandma! continued, along with pleasure as he adored all his acquisitions and our children, and we are Thank you to all who have contributed and especially eventually his archives pleased that they were to the Taylor and Godley families who have given so were established. He old enough to know and much pleasure to the many people who enjoy the spent countless hours remember him. His death light of the Cross at Green Moor. pouring over old Barnsley was untimely and he will Chronicles to research undoubtedly be missed Doris Stubbs material for books by all who knew him. that he composed and had published. Over Rachel Brennan  Hunshelf Chat - March 2011

Preservation and Promotion of Green Moor’s industrial heritage

Garden has become re- Safety modifications to dundant and needs a new Pumphouse use (has anybody ever The pumphouse is the seen anyone in there?). only building left which The rear of the garden will has an association with be tidied up, and the trees the quarrying days. As and bushes trimmed, many will remember this and the front prepared, was opened a number of with geotextile and chip- years on Civic Trust Her- pings (Green Moor stone itage Days. It had the dis- of course!) for a couple of tinction of being the most interpretive boards about ‘dangerous’ structure in the local heritage, partic- the UK for the Heritage ularly quarrying, as well Open Days, because of as a seat. the high insurance cost associated with a slippery The Isle of Skye Walk Leaflet tunnel and the descent of We are developing a walk the 30 foot ladder (which As most parishioners there is little about the leaflet which will link all as I’m sure that ‘elf and will know, Green Moor quarries. A sub-commit- the quarry sites together safety’ aficionados will was famous for the qual- tee of Hunshelf Parish with Wortley Top Forge, recognise, does not meet ity of its quarried stone, Council has been work- remains of Tin Mill etc. the requirements of the and vast amounts were ing on a project to remedy relevant EU Directive, as extracted, particularly in this, and inform locals Telephone box as an implemented in one of Victorian times for use and visitors to the area information point HSE’s Advisory Codes of in the UK and beyond. about this part of the ar- Now that our phone box Practice). Eventually the In those days hundreds ea’s heritage. Also we are has a new coat of paint, we parish council could not of men and great teams aware of concerns about need to give it a use. As it get insurance, and we of horses would be in the the general state of tidi- is ideally sited next to the could not open the pum- parish, and the air would ness of the village, partic- garden we intend using it phouse. It is hoped that be filled with noise and ularly as Green Moor was as a place to house infor- when safety modifications smoke from the steam- once voted the Best Kept mation and walk leaflets. are introduced we will be fired cranes. There was Village in South Yorkshire It has also been proposed able to obtain insurance even a Green Moor wharf (in 1967). The parish that we use it for a book and open this once again, on the Thames at South- council is endeavouring exchange, and install a hopefully, in time for the wark for unloading the to keep those areas under pin board for parishion- September 2011 Heritage trans-shipped stone; and its control (playground, ers to sell/exchange/give Open Days. the flagstones surround- Pickford’s gap , Ivy Millen- away items etc. ing the Houses of Parlia- nium Green, Village Gar- Peck Pond, repair ment are from here. How- den etc) in good order. Production and setting water source and ever, now all the seven A bid for funding has of two village marker remove sludge and grass major quarries are filled been made to the East stones This pond was an im- in, and there are no build- Peak Innovation Partner- I have always found it portant watering hole for ings or equipment left. ship and if successful we ironic, that local villages wagon teams, and I’m There are still plenty of would carry out the fol- have stones displaying told, is fairly rare, in that piles of waste stones, and lowing activities: the names of the villag- it is split into three, for some do still have stacked es, but that Green Moor, roadside horses/mules blocks from the last days Renovation of village which was overwhelming- trains and for livestock in of operation, like the Isle garden as site for ly associated with quarry- the two adjoining fields. o’Skye one. The legacy information boards ing, doesn’t. A consulta- However, it needs the wa- from the other industries and picnic area tion exercise in the parish tercourse sorting out, and in this area, iron forging, With the establish- around Christmas 2009, sludge and grass removed wire and nail making, is ment of Ivy Millennium found that most were in to make it more into a fairly well presented at Green, as a pleasant place favour of a simple stone pond. Wortley Top Forge and to pause and look at the sign (like Wortley’s) at ei- at a local nail forge, but splendid views, the Village ther end of the village. continued on next page 

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Linking up with other industrial sites At a suitable event in Christmas Tea Wortley Top Forge’s cal- endar we would hope to Sorry folks, but the next Christmas Tea will have to be in December 2011. display our Industrial It has not been possible to re-arrange an event for this Spring. Heritage Walk Leaflet and project with members of Hunshelf’s Environmen- tal Committee on hand to promote it. Playground If parishioners have Pickford’s any views about what to Wall include in the information boards, especially if you Gap Wall Barnsley MBC has made have any old photographs a donation of £2,000 of the areas, even in the towards the cost of filling in of the quarries At the Rock Inn side of the playground is a small rebuilding the wall at the over the decades, then I area of land that now belongs to the parish council. side of the playground in would like to hear from It is known as Pickford’s Gap as it used to be the Green Moor. Total cost you. access to Rock House Farm when Mr Pickford was of the wall is around There is another unu- the owner. Since then the right of way over this £2,600. If volunteers pull sual site in our parish; the land has been extinguished (legal term meaning it down the old wall and Tin Mill. For many years it is no longer there!). It is intended that the parish lay out the stone ready was disputed as to wheth- will rebuild the wall that separates the Rock site for the builders, then er it was used to make from the Playground. Over the years, rubbish has there will be a reduction Tin Plate (thin sheets of been dumped on Pickford’s Gap. Strenuous efforts of £300 in the bill. The iron or steel), or whether have been made to clear all the old iron, Hawthorne remaining £300 will it did actually coat prod- and concrete. When this project is complete, the have to be found. As ucts with tin. The latter environment of Pickford’s Gap should be much more the Friends of the Isle would be unusual, away in keeping with a pretty village. A professional waller of Skye applied for the from the tin producing is being sought to make sure the lower part of the funds in the first place, areas of South Wales and wall, which is a retaining wall, is safe. Then, we will then a letter to the parish Cornwall. However recent be looking for some money to buy some stone. Next council asking for help research suggests that it we will need some volunteers to help rebuild. At the might just be on its way indeed did ‘tin’ sheet, and same time they will learn something of the skills of The old wall is imported skilled work- dry stone walling under the tuition of a professional. showing its age, and as ers from Wales for this A grant of £250 has been obtained from The Bridge our children use this (as gravestones in Wort- Community Shop, Stocksbridge, and we have a list area, we need to do ley suggest). However not of interested volunteers. Any more help would be something fairly soon. It much else is known about welcome. is expected that the wall it, there is little informa- will be rebuilt before the tion about the layout or Please contact Barry Tylee on 0114 283 0056 end of October. records of production. With this in mind there is a suggestion to carry out an excavation of parts of the site (with the agree- ment of the landowner of course) in the autumn of 2011, particularly in- volving local people and schools (out own Time Team!). So if you fancy being involved, let me know.

Barry Tylee - 0114 2830056 [email protected] Entrance to Pickford’s Gap and the playground

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Elsie Steel’s History

One of my friends at Green Moor School was Cathy Morgan and she lived at Top Forge in the house by the river with her Mum, Dad, sister Alice and brother Jeff. We used to play hide and seek in the Old Forge, (now a heritage site) along with Morgan’s house. Chris Morgan, the Sheffield United Footballer, is a descendant from there.

When we used to wait lovely records for music supermarkets or baskets Lane. Then the Barnsley for the bus at bottom such as Henry Hall’s or trollies…you went in bus had to get through, of Well Hill, (before the band etc. It used to get the shop and asked the we filled all the road as buses came to Green quite full with people shop keeper for whatever well, there must have Moor), we’d sit on the low from Stocksbridge and you need, no walking been close on 200 people wall and look down on Thurgoland. Two of my round and helping there. Morgan’s lovely garden cousins were very good yourself. Not many people When I was seven I full of veg and rows and dancers – proper dancing, had cars, we were glad to was in the Royal Infirmary rows of potatoes, beans, not just jigging off one foot have groceries delivered. at Whitsun and the peas, carrots etc. all along to the other and led by Later we had Co-op nurse took us children the river side, right up to Hubert and Nancy Swift. travelling shops and vans down the drive to watch the bridge. Just across the road came to the door with the procession go by on In the field between was a fish and chip shop green grocery and fish etc. Infirmary Road, which Top Forge and Wood End owned by Mr Wright from The Sunday School was a treat. used to be a flock of sheep Old Mill Lane. That was a trip to the seaside and At weekends I used belonging to Mr Colin wooden place too, chips a Whit Monday were two to go walking with my Crawshaw who lived at Ivy penny and fish two pence. highlights of the year. The cousin Winnie Green Cottages across from Well Huthwaite Post Office Whitsuntide procession (she lived in Bridge Inn Hill Farm. Colin bought was busy as well, selling used to stretch from the Row). We walked on Mill milk from Mr Thompson sweets etc. We never Chapel half way down Moor up the field to the at the farm to sell on his dreamed of going near a Well Hill to meet up with height road and on to small round. He had a public house as only men Thurgoland Primitive Wortley and down the motor bike and side car went in those days – no Chapel and Wesleyan fields to Wortley Station, with the cans of milk and women and children. My Chapel with a cross. It and back on Chemist measure in it. I used to Dad didn’t drink so he was very exciting when we Wood bottom to have go with him sometimes, didn’t go either. all met at bottom of Well a drink at the spa well, riding on the back of his There used to be a Hill with the Thurgoland then across the stepping bike. He had a cade lamb. house in Tin Mill Wood. Brass Band at the front. stones. Sometimes we One day it jumped on the Cyril, Henry, Alfie and Sometimes it was the used to sit in Back Dam side car and went with us. Alice Roebuck lived there Silkstone Band. Field as there used to be When Mr Crawshaw and came to Green Moor We walked in a long lots of groups sat about, left Well Hill, he took on School. There was about procession to the bottom just talking, singing or the paper shop at Old 50 children there in the of Huthwaite Lane to sing having a picnic. When it Haywoods, Deepcar, later 1930s. On a Monday the hymns, Mr Sidney was hot weather we used Ruby Woods’ shop, now morning a man named Walton conducting. When to swim in the dam or in my Grandson’s house. Billy Nixon used to we had no band in later the river at New Mill or Standing behind come round to collect years a piano on the back Old Mill. One day a boy Bridge End Inn Row grocery order books of Mr Chambers’ lorry from Stocksbridge sadly was a long wooden place for Stocksbridge Co-op for music, later it was got drowned, his feet called the Band Room, and delivery would be Earnest Thorpe’s lorry. got tangled on tree roots where the Thurgoland on Thursday. Groceries We had to scatter when which upset us all and Band practised and every wrapped in a brown paper Mr Badger’s milk lorry stopped us going for a Saturday night there was parcel tied up with string, came collecting the 10- while – nearest swimming a dance run by a man name on top – never fell gallon cans of milk. He baths was Hillsborough or from Stocksbridge called apart. No plastic, tin had to get to Mr Wood’s Barnsley… No way could Arnold Eastwood with foil or cling film then, or farm - top of Huthwaite we afford to go there.

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Mum

When our Mum, Phyllis Crossland, died on 14 December 2010 her daughter Julia read out the following poem at her funeral. She had originally written it for Mum’s 80th birthday,but, with a tweak to the last line, it still stands as a celebration of her life. When Mum read the poem on her birthday, she enjoyed it immensely - she could even laugh at her long battle with the farm cats. She always said that she had enjoyed a full and privileged life: her parents provided her with a secure childhood throughout the uncertain thirties, then her early married life coincided with the arrival of new household labour-saving devices. She had the opportunity to further her education and to travel the world, chances her own mother never had, and as she slowed down physically in her last years, she enjoyed the radio, DVDs and the computer.

I can’t believe you’ve been alive Get a new electric stove When dirty boots went through the door Since nineteen hundred and twenty-five. For you it must have been a dream And farmyard muck would cake the floor. Shire horses clopped around Coates Lane To keep the house all nice and clean, When cows got out and pigs got in Carting homewards sheaves of grain. Your hands soft and still have time Through broken gates tied up with string. Families led simple lives, For pleasure while you’re in your prime. And you never could abide Men stayed a lifetime with their wives. You’d read and sing and talk to us, Our lovely cats who’d rush inside And children were content and glad (We know not every mother does). And sprawl out on your rocking chair. For little pleasures that they had. You’d take us dancing, make our clothes, “B******* cats!” we’d hear you swear. But you were lucky to be born Be there throughout our joys and woes. Grabbing the cushion you’d roughly pour Not to grow old and worn Our young minds you would inspire Poor Prudence Pussy on the floor. As grandma doing daily chores With your bright, creative fire. Mum, it wasn’t really fair On hands and knees on white scrubbed floors. But most of all we would come home The cushioned cats whizzed through the air! You’d have the very best to eat: To a house secure and warm. So angrily you’d storm and shout Home-made bread, and potted meat, Whatever happened, good or bad The frightened felines all shot out! Fresh butter, milk, and cream and ham, You’d be there for us, Mum and Dad. Birthday parties? No more luck. Pickles, eggs, delicious jam. And looking back, (for now he’s dead) Dad would still be in his muck, Grandma’s food, you’d see her bake it. Aren’t you so glad the man you wed Lambing on a cold barn floor It wasn’t you who had to make it! Was so gentle, quiet and kind, Littered up with blood and gore. You’d get up on a chilly morning, With only farming on his mind, The guests just had to hang about The fires going bright and warming, And whose only mortal sin For Dad, to blow his candles out. Breakfast cooking on the hob. Was loitering late in the Rock Inn? They had their tea and sat and sighed You didn’t have the mucky job Sometimes he’d also go astray And waited till the sheep had died! Of riddling out the dust and ashes At Penistone, on market day. What a lot of laughs and strife Before you cooked the bacon rashers “Ahem,aye, another one”, There was then with the farming life. Or wait to get the fire hot With Bill and Sam and brother John. So it is with joy and pain To pour the water in the pot. But overall a person would When wandering down life’s memory lane! Or elbow-greasing get agate Say your marriage has been good. You full life’s been so exciting With back lead, polishing the grate! Fifty years without a doubt With local history books, your writing. Those pleasant days would not have been You weathered good and bad times out. As your seventy-ninth year passes But for Grace, the human work machine. What super-human strength you had Language and computer classes. You must have been so very glad, In caring for our aging Dad. You nearly had a fatal fall When you, grown up, then married Dad, Your vigilant and loving care For that certificate on the wall1 Had more mod cons, first gas to cook; Made him happy you were there, We saw how well you look on life Electricity, a stroke of luck! So that now he’s dead and gone The day you took the surgeon’s knife. A Hoover, no more on all fours You’ve happy times to think upon. You make the best of every day. With a dust pan, sweeping floors. Memories of young romances To Charles, to Rose, to Will and Faye No more you’d have to scrub and rub Waltzing around at Drill Hall dances. You’re the best of Grandmas they all say. On wash days round the Peggy tub! Using all his farmer’s charms The best example, the best display The old mangle and the posher He’d hold you in his muscular arms Of positivity they know. Forget it! Just turn on the washer! And lift you lightly off the ground So Mum, here’s love and cheers Throw away the tub, the mangles, To waltz you closely, round and round. For six and eighty well-lived years. Dirty oil lamps, wicks and candles, Your married life at Hunshelf Hall The old black-leaded range, by Jove! May not have always been a ball

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DO YOU LIKE OLD CARS LIKE WOT I DO? I’m sure, like me, people in the Hunshelf area look forward with great interest to receiving our local ‘CHAT’. It’s good to see and read what’s going on in our neck of the woods. Many of the contributions I notice are by our erstwhile leader of the the Parish Council, David Horsfall. I reckon he must have an endless source of stories together with a vivid imagination. I also think he welcomes other people’s inputs. So there we were, volunteer engine and clutch. He also hedge tidy uppers on did the necessary to make Well Hill one day in early the engine run on unleaded February. David comes up petrol instead of leaded as to me and says “I reckon originally built. The engine you finished renovating runs very sweetly, starts an old car recently”. This easily and looks like new. happened to be true which I The speedometer confirmed. “Good” says he. currently reads 25,300 “Perhaps you would like to miles but it must have been write about it in the Chat”. round the clock at least As he had my arm halfway once. Taking it round the up my back at the time I Taking the car to and brought back to life. clock adds 100,000 miles. was in no position to refuse. pieces was relatively Many were well past their The whole project took So here goes... straightforward and quick. sell by date and had to be me just three years. Could I love old cars and over The chassis and bodywork replaced. These included possibly have taken less if the years, mainly as a lot were in surprisingly good tyres, hood, windscreen ‘er indoors hadn’t kept a list younger man, I have owned, condition. I only had to glass, and side screens. of household chores under among others, a 1953 MG patch and weld a small The seats had to be re- my nose. This reminds me TD, 1961 MGA Fixed Head, area of the chassis. I’m led covered together with new of a story that appeared in 1960 something MGB, and to believe that many cars carpets and door trims. one of the MG magazines. a Jaguar XJS Roadster. from the States are in better The wooden floor had to Apparently a chap wanted Having retired in 2004 condition than similar age be renewed. The front to renovate an old sports and moved up here to God’s UK cars because far less bumper and radiator grille car. Because his wife was own country, Snowden winter salt is used on the were beyond re-chroming two months pregnant Hill, I wanted to keep active roads over there. Even and were replaced with he plumped for a MGB and also keep the brain so it is testament to the new. (From Taiwan would GT because there is just cells working. So I decided MG builders that mine you believe). The best enough room behind the (with permission from her and many others are still investment I made was two seats for a carry cot. who must be obeyed) to around bearing in mind buying the MG car club He set to on the renovation try and re-create a little of they were only designed re-build manual. Without with good intentions. my youth. I bought a 1957 to last just a few years. it the project could well Indeed he finished the job MGA Roadster which was Checking serial numbers I have finished up as a to his satisfaction. By the only just a runner. It was was very pleased to find my motor bike and sidecar. time he did finish though, originally manufactured at car comprises the original The body was painted the baby was... 14 years old. Abingdon in the UK and chassis, engine, body, by Dave of Stottercliffe I do have a slight exported to North America back axle and presumably Garage in Penistone. I can’t problem. I have half a in 1957. It was then re- suspension. Not bad thank Dave enough for his bucket of bits left over. Still, imported from Maryland for fifty odd years old. help and advice in guiding the car is running ok so I in the States to the UK in The Chassis went me with the cutting and think I will leave well alone. 2003, whereupon I bought away for shot blasting and re-welding of body parts I really enjoyed the re- it in 2006. It came over as painting. Then came the to ensure good fits of the build, better than driving a Left Hand Drive which I exciting part, starting to doors, boot lid and bonnet the car I think, and subsequently converted put bits and pieces back prior to him painting the definitely not thinking of to Right Hand Drive. I on. I’ve done some big car. The colour is Orient another… unless someone took over 300 pictures of jigsaws in the past but Red as original and Dave makes me an offer and the car from day one to this was a whopper. I had has made a fantastic I see a nice 1950’s MG completion. I did this to already built a small lean- job of the painting. TD that wants doing up. have an interesting record to at the side of my garage Equally I am very Please will you release of course, but mainly in and racked it out to store all grateful to Nicholas of my arm now David. case I forgot what went back the parts as they came off Flouch Transport in where. Before and after the car. Many of the parts Penistone for his care and pictures are published here. were able to be renovated patience in re-building the Tony Oakley  Hunshelf Chat - March 2011 The Great Walls Green Moor Sports Club There isn’t a lot of news from us at this time of the year as we await the new season to get under of Hunshelf way at the end of April.

The annual Huddersfield League dinner and presentation night was held at the Cedar Court at Ainley Top on 4 March. Ben Simpson picked up the Brian HoptonTrophy for the best young player (u’21) of the season. Joseph White (U’15 captain) was presented with the Armitage Cup (U’15 team) and the man of the match trophy for the Armitage cup final. Winter nets at Penistone Sports Centre are still on going. Our juniors are also going to Kingstone School nets on a Saturday where they have had some coaching from three different Yorkshire coaches including first team player Richard Pyrah. We have two fund raising events. The Antiques fair was on the 26 March and the charity bonanza is on 9 April - both at the community centre Penistone. David and Peter starting work We will be preparing and serving our usual pie/peas, homemade soup sandwiches coffee and cakes all They say that the 400 overlooking Stocksbridge, homemade.Try and come along and support us. metre hurdles is the and Mr David Wadsworth Hopefully there will be more news in the next Chat. hardest track event in has the contract to repair athletics. We feel as if and or rebuild the other Ann Matthewman we are now on the home walls overlooking the straight with 7 hurdles valley, and other walls in behind us and the a dangerous state. There The Friends of the Isle of Skye finishing tape in sight. will be some disruption to footpaths and access over Who are The Friends of the Isle of Skye? Why do Unless we get the Isle of Skye for a while, they exist. What do they do? instructions to go another but, please bear with us lap, we will finish repairing until the job is done. Then Well the easiest question first. The Friends are you, the most dilapidated we should have a fantastic if you want to be involved in any of the environment walls on the Isle of Skye new wall to admire, and work in the parish. Originally it was a group of 9 who sometime in the next 15 the old walls will have bought the Isle of Skye at auction and held it until the months or so. Steven and been repaired funds could be raised to allow the parish council to buy Carl Fretwell have been it from them. given a contract to “fettle” The Friends of the Isle Since then, the group has become formalised, has a the huge rampart wall of Skye constitution, a child protection policy and a firm view on racial equality that insists on treating everyone equally. There is no joining fee, no membership fees, only a desire to do something about our environment. We found it necessary to form a group so that grants could be applied for. Lottery grant regulations in particular will not allow parish councils to apply for funds. Being of a cynical nature, I think it is because parish councils can apply for VAT they spend to be reimbursed by the Inland Revenue. Community groups cannot do this, so the government (which really sets the Lottery rules) gets its 20% of the money. If you want to help or just want to know what is going on, contact the Secretary, David Horsfall on [email protected] and you will get all the information that is going around, and you will be invited to add your four penn’orth to any discussion.

 Hunshelf Chat - March 2011

Railways Co-incidence? On a walking holiday in Cyprus which is some The debt to iron is reflected in every language except thousand miles away from Green Moor, and on top of English in describing the metal on which trains run. the highest mountain in the area, Mount Olympus, In America, they run on the rail road, in England I got talking to two English people. After the usual on the railway line, but in French le Chemin de opening gambits of how good the weather was for the Fer translates as iron road, in German Eisenbahn time of the year etc., we found out that the gentleman (iron track) in Italian Ferrovia (iron way). In other and I had sat opposite each other in Green Moor languages that I do not recognise, Via Ferrea, church only three weeks before at Neville Roebuck’s Jahnvag, Teisu - don. the author assures me that funeral. they all mean “iron way”. David Horsfall Strange really, we invented the railways.

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LIVE EVENTS: ORGAN EVENTS: Stox Box Comedy Nights Vienna Festival Ballet Kevin Grunill Gary Delaney, Mike What’s On present CINDERELLA 9 April, 2:30pm Newall and Simon 31 March, 7pm Gunnell. ‘Ereabouts Phil Kelsal 14 May. Doors 7pm show The Ian McMillan 14 May, 2:30pm starts 8.30pm Orchestra John Mann 1 April, 7:30pm 11 June, 2:30pm Wortley Folk Club C’mon Everybody Tom McConville and 2 April, 7pm David Newey 21 May, 8pm Penistone Spring Music Festival Junior Concert Green Moor Church 6 April, 4pm Maunday Thursday In the Mood - Five Star 21 April at 8.30pm, Swing Green Moor Church. 15 April, 7:30pm 0114 283 8692 Good Friday Service Bev Brookes-Top Memory Lane 22 April, 7pm 6 May, 2:30 - 7:30pm Personality Vocalist Tel 01226 767532 1 April, 8pm ‘Other Than Us’ Talon - Best of the Weekend Eagles Wortley Folk Club 7 May, Beetle Drive CINEMA: 14 May, 8:30pm While & Matthews Band 8 May, 3pm Service Rango The Velvet Burlesque Fri 8th April, 8pm 2 April 12pm Whit Sunday Vaudeville Caberet 12 June, 10:30am 3rd April, 2 & 6pm Show ‘Can You Jam Night’ 4, 5, 7 April 7pm 25 June, 8pm 8 April, 7.30pm Sunday School Robbie H - Classy Anniversay and Prize Little Shop of Horrors Coming Soon! Vocalist Giving 29, 30 June, 1 July 2011, Rio, Easter 2011 15 April, 8pm 19 June 7:15pm Pirates of the Church Anniversay 2 July 2011, 2:15 & ‘Can You Jam Nights’ Caribbean: On Stranger Service 7:15pm 13 May, 7.30pm Tides, May 2011 3 July, 3pm

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