UNDER THE EDGE INCORPORATING THE PARISH MAGAZINE , LITTLE LONGSTONE, ROWLAND, HASSOP, MONSAL HEAD, www.undertheedge.net No. 252 January 2020 ISSN 1466-8211

Walking on The Edge I love walking on Longstone Edge, it’s a good bit of exercise and the views are wonderful. There is a sense of getting away from it all. To the north there is with in the background. To the south you can see the wind turbines above Carsington Reservoir and beyond. To the west Tunstead Quarry stands out with and Wild Moor above on the horizon. To the East you can see the Hunting Tower at Chatsworth with East Moor and Bunker’s Hill wood above. And of course you get great views of Under The Edge villages. I always take my camera and try and capture the moment, the two photos shown are taken from the same spot but illustrate the differing seasons. The trees shown are directly above Moor Lane in Great Longstone. The Edge is riddled with footpaths so I can walk a different route every time I go up there. In this busy world of ours it is quite therapeutic to be able to walk for a couple of hours and not see another soul.

At this time of year we get the starlings coming in to roost overnight in the reed beds on Middleton Moor. Thousands fly in from all directions at sunset and leave again at sunrise. Sometimes they will murmurate (fly in formation, creating patterns in the sky) before they fly down to the reed beds. We have a variety of animals up there in the form of sheep, cows, donkeys but anymy favouritemonth of arethe theyear, highland and did cattleyou know which that are it so is adocile member and offriendly. the pea There family? are Another also numerous event I look wild forward flowers, to the is rarestthe heather one I have seen is the Bee Orchid. Another fairly common sight is the gorse which is the only shrub I know that can be in flower in a local villager on one of my walks. comingAndy intoHanna flower in August, a sight worth beholding. Perhaps this article might encourage you to go up there and I might meet A Local Mystery

The funeral of Sergeant R.S.C. Plowright, 30th September 1942 Last month UTE was contacted by the mother met up frequently: records keepers of this cemetery, appealing for show that in 1940, Nina tried to cross a picture of Sergeant Robert Stuart into Canada but her application was Crichton Plowright. They know that he rejected. Lotte is recorded crossing the has some small connection to Longstone, US-Canada border multiple times as a journalist, a widow, and, on different occasions as Hebrew, White, British The body of Sergeant R.S.C. Plowright Bungalow,as a small obituary Moor Lane, identifies Great Longstone” him as the and Canadian. washed ashore on a sandbank near andson ofhis “Mrs name Elizabeth can be found Plowright on the of Great The These small fragments of detail Schiermonnikoog island in the Longstone War Memorial. which Frank painfully eked out, raise Netherlands in 1942 and was buried For further information I contacted some interesting questions. Why did by the German forces occupying the Lotte leave so soon after her island at De Vredenhof cemetery. correspondence with the keepers of marriage? What happened to her? Why De Vredenhof cemetery was originally DeFrank Vredenhof. Parker, who Frank was had quoted previously in our did Robert, a self-proclaimed journalist, founded in 1906 for the burial of bodies done some investigation into Sergeant sign-up to be an air gunner? Frank washed up by the sea but during tentatively speculates a possible desire WWII German, British, Commonwealth, chain of detail regarding his in-laws. for a suicide mission. Plowright, uncovering an interesting It must be noted that this is not the side-by-side by the occupying German his life in Buenos Aires but he moved French, and Polish men were buried forces in a humanising act of dignity in to SergeantEngland inPlowright 1930 and spent married much Lotte of Frank has already pursued that line of barbaric times. Hahn in England in September 1938. enquiry!Robert Plowright of Longstone Hall - Since 1960, voluntary keepers of There were two witnesses to the Do you know anything about or even the cemetary have tried to identify have a photo of Robert Stuart Crichton unknown soldiers and family members who became a British Diplomat in to properly remember those who Centralwedding: America, P Barker-Benfield, and Eugene a journalist Lenhoff, gave their lives for our freedom. The a prominent anti-Nazi writer. On thePlowright Editors ofor UTE. his mother Elizabeth objective of the keepers is to ensure that Plowright?Michael BealeIf so, please get in touch with every grave is accompanied by a portrait and Lotte gave their occupations as of the person buried beneath. ‘journalist’.the marriage certificate both Robert One month later, Lotte Hahn travelled WSouthern Joinery without Robert to Canada under the Bespoke Woodworking Specialist in sliding box sash windows Around the same time, in December Casement windows and doors name Charlotte Plowright. All joinery work undertaken 1939, Lotte Hahn’s mother, Nina (Hahn) Mobile: 07707 772561 emigrated to the US from Austria with papers only issued one month previously. Her immigration papers identify her as Hebrew and that her passage was paid for by her nephew

American Tobacco Co. in New York. Web: www.wsouthernjoinery.co.uk Sergeant Plowright’s gravestone Email: [email protected] PaulIt is M likely Hahn, that who Lotte worked Hahn andfor theher 2 An ideal walk

These were taken on a lovely local walk that starts just round the corner on Church Lane and passes along the perfect Stancil Dale tucked between Beggarway Lane and Longstone Edge. Taken at about 6.00am, when we

ago, the walk is like a microcosm of - I love it. Everyhad the bit first of Derbyshireproper frost encapsulated of the winter ina couple a circular of weeks walk of about a mile and a half, just about 800 metres from Main Street in Longstone. A beautiful short stroll/walk of about 45 minutes to an hour, with clear paths, good under foot except at the large cattle gates, gentle slopes & interesting information boards showing the route and explaining the land use and history.

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3 Happy New Year 2020 A very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year 2020 from all of us at Under The Edge to all our readers! Looking back over the past year, we owe a very big Thank You to two old stalwarts who have left the team, for all their contributions that have helped make UTE what it is today. this job involves a lot of work behind the scenes, and you know you’re in good and professional hands when no one else is Sallyaware Kehr of this! started Richard as Treasurer Carter has in 2006joined and us ashas Sally’s kept the replacement administration - he has and had financial a lot of side experience in apple-pie with order. this sort As always, of role in other organisations. Ian Gilbert joined the Editorial team ten years ago in 2009, helping to propel UTE to a higher level in terms of graphics (particularly on adverts) and software. He was very passionate about UTE and things being done correctly, which raised the level of professionalism and helped make layout more consistent between the different Editors. The quality of production before and after Ian joining is very noticeable, as can be seen from looking back at old issues on the website (another innovation he was responsible for). Ian also obtained multiple software licences to avoid Editors having to share a laptop, which they used to hand round each month, rather like the old sisters in Greek mythology who only had one eye and one tooth between them! Ian also managed to bring costs down and improve quality by switching printing companies. And a warm welcome back to Michael Beale, who stepped down as an Editor last year on moving to London to a new job, where he actually uses the same layout software as he did for UTE. Now he’s got settled in, he realised he misses the localFinally, gossip many and thanksthat he for can all find the the positive time to feedback put together about an the issue. new New colour blood issues. is always Keep welcome,sending in though, the articles so if you’d (and likethe photosto find outto accompany more, just getthem). in touch. These You can never be anything know, itof might general get interest, you your not next just job, coverage as it did of for local Michael! events, such as favourite recipes, walks, characters you know or have met, or thoughts you’d like to share. The more the merrier - variety is the spice of life! Adam Rae-Smith Please Support Our Advertisers!

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Little Longstone lights up! Many thanks to Michelle and Jim Longsdon for installing the Little Longstone tree and brightening up the recent dark dank days we’ve been enjoying. Mulled wine just doesn’t taste the same without logs

a time to rejoice in the good that we see! on the fire and a festive tree bedecked with lights. Truly 4 Farming Notes January 2020 We would like to start with a friendly ‘hello‘ from John Shimwell and Joanna, a father and daughter team who live and work together at Dale Farm in Great Longstone. John has been farming at Dale Farm for all of his life, and Joanna assists him with farm duties whilst running the camp site business alongside. We both passionately love our home and the work we do is a way of life. Starting this month we will be making regular contributions to Under The Edge, focusing mainly on farm life and farming history in the area. We do hope you will enjoy. A bit of history about Dale Farm. John’s great-great-grandfather John Bridge came to Dale Farm in the 1880s and farmed there until his death in 1942 aged 82. He is A farm worker with a work horse standing by buried in Great Longstone churchyard. His son Jack then took over until his death in the haystack at Dale Farm 1949. At that time the farm belonged to the Chatsworth estate. In the early days John farmBridge was had run 3 men on a working small scale for alongside him using the horses surface and mining,carts to withtake fluorspar8 milking to cows Hassop and landStation used where for growing it would crops go on such to the as steel potatoes, foundries cabbage, in Sheffield swede, and wheat . and oats. The spar carting enterprise continued until the outbreak of World War ll when it was up with the high demand. takenJohn over Bridge by ahad large six firm children, called Mabel, Atherons Dolly, and Jessie, lorries Edith, took William, over from and horses John (known to keep as Jack), who was the only one to stay on at Dale Farm. Jack’s sister Mabel got married Farm activity in 1900. You can see a Blue Albion to Isaac Shimwell and they lived together at Long Roods Farm at Monsal Head. cow, a goat and a haystack. The barn door you can see is still in use today mining enterprise has been swapped for camping! We run the camp site business alongsideToday the farming farm diversificationsheep and highland continues, cattle, with selling John our farming own meat 100 directly acres while from the farm. During Winter on the farm, much of the time is spent taking winter feed to the animals - delivering bales of hay collected during the summer time to the sheep and cows. We start lambing in April so during November and December the rams are out we have had for the last 6 months kept the grass growing for a good period so we went intoworking the winter the fields with with a good the ewes amount to ensure of grazing we have and lambsplenty in of Spring. bales stored The wet up. weather We are very weather dependant and the seasons are very unpredictable so we are hoping for winter to be not too harsh and would like some dry weather and an early spring. John and Joanna Shimwell Jack Bridge with his dog Good Villagers Longstone Local History Local Milk Group I would like to say a big thank you to Richard, James and Alex Cox for Pasteurised on the farm The Bootmakers’ Strike of clearing a lethal depth of leaf mould & Unhomogenised 1918-20 and water from the front of the bus shelter in Great Longstone recently. A talk by The Council said they were unable to Steve Bond clear it due to the cars parked in front 21st January 2020 | 7.45pm of the shelter. Village Hall, Great Longstone A Grateful Bus User

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5 Parish Council Notes be fully funded by grants. The Clerk will on street lights and wreaths distributed; Unfortunately, no UTE representative Cllrs to remove the poppies and return was able to attend the Extraordinary ensuring all covered/Rospa report. A them to the Clerk. Meeting on 13th November. The Lotteryarrange asign new will Perspex also signgo up for followingthe court, Fields on Moor Road: The tenant had following are extracts from the official court installation. Cllr Long has put in an asked about tree removal on quarry minutes published on the Parish application to Sports England for £10k wall, but no formal letter has yet been Council noticeboard outside Longstone to fund the next project, replacing the received. The tenancy is in Mr and Mrs D School and also on the village website court surface, which will be around £15k Turner’s name, with a small income per www.greatlongstone.net. with new lines. Clerk will photograph year. The Clerk will write to the tenant Attendance Sunnybank prior to installation and highlighting the tenancy agreement and contact the tennis club to let them boundary walls, which are in a poor state Rick Gooch, James Cox, John Shimwell, know about the court. An article will be of disrepair. Present were Cllrs Wendy Long (Chair), put in UTE following the completion of Burial Grounds: Cllr Long reported that Tom Dean (Community Website the court fencing, thanking those who a resident had raised the pot issue again, volunteer)Phil Barrett, and District Sarah Cllr Stokes Clare Gamble,(Clerk). funded it, including National Lottery. Apologies were received from Cllrs Dan Cricket and Football: Funds had been Footpaths and roads McGoverne and Dan Cox. There were no received from the JFC for the goal Theadvised Clerk them had to contacted write to theDCC PCC. each time declarations of interest. installation. The 2020 maintenance Public comments Lane is still an issue. District Cllr Gamble noted the Boundary be discussed at the January meeting. A Schoolthe roads Council have been speeding flooded. meeting: Longreave The Commission request regarding the residentquote for had work raised on the a numberfootball offield issues will Clerk, Cllrs Gooch and Long had met with Longstones. Tom Dean has volunteered relating to the Junior football Club the school council (pupils), with the to give the community website an Head and a Teaching Assistant ,to discuss overhaul and had sent in ideas prior to funded. Cllr Gooch will write an article speeding. The pupils had come up with forand UTEhow theregarding football thefield completion project was spoken to Simon Headington who information supplied by DCC, with ideas currentlythe meeting runs for the the website. PC to view, Tom having spoke goals, incorporating information on the sucha number as a map of ideas of places and theto park. PC passed It was about user groups using the website and makeupof the football of the JFCfield and project the donations/ and new resolved to meet with the Council next grants for the project. It was decided term, with the School Council to do a Recreation ground to get the joiner to replace/stain the letter to parents on where to park with Playground:GDPR issues with photos. two wooden planks on the bench near a map and to email the travel dept aimed inspection, the Clerk had looked into the pavilion. The Clerk will compile a toddler springer Followingoptions, which the were PC painting list for 2020 (to include village has now been actioned by them. They around £900 and had asked Cllr Gamble benches). areat schools also coming (supplied up with by PC/DCC), a street sign which or Village Greens/village hall/fields year’s budget. The Clerk is to ask the local Quotes for new noticeboard in front options). Clerk and Cllrs had looked at joinerfor funds to towards look into this ain replacement.the new financial A of school: A donation of £300 from signa movable options sign near (PC other to schools,look at somesignage on quote is awaited for safety surfacing in Cllr Twigg had been received towards the tarmac and some advisory limits. The front of boat climbing wall. There was the noticeboard from the Members much discussion on children climbing Community Leadership scheme. in working with DCC to get signage. At inappropriately on equipment, parents Following the quotes from the last thePC askedschool for meeting the District it was Cllr’s noted support that not supervising, and signage. Clerk had meeting the Clerk had sourced a local the school is very hidden from the main asked for advise on signage from DALC, quote for a wood noticeboard, with a street and needs highlighting more. back opening. Cllr Long proposed going The Clerk will contact Isobel Mulligan was decided that the existing signage is ahead with the more reasonably priced at DCC regarding a site visit to discuss suitable.insurance The company insurance and company RoSPA, andasked it local quote, seconded by Cllr Shimwell. for weekly documented inspections and The Clerk will ask Joiner to look at slight signs were also discussed. School are relocation in same site and installation alsosigns. encouraging 20mph signs walking and flashing for those light in condition of the roof of the jumbo lander as part of price. the village. It was noted that there had willan annual be monitored. RoSPA inspection. T W Cox were The thanked Xmas tree and lights: The Clerk been an injury in the village involving a for completing the painting work before reported that an 18ft tree has been child on the road. the rain. The joiner has carried out the ordered to be delivered week 25th Streetlighting: The new streetlight work on the jumbo lander. November. There was much discussion has been installed on Beggarway Lane. Equipment for years 11+: Following on the tree lights and helpers. The Clerk the second site visit with Steelway, the sorting this. The DCC has asked the court fencing was ordered. Installation to check lights still in good working ClerkA resident to report nearby any thanked streetlights the PCin thefor of fencing with goals and basketball order,will ask and Peter circulate Thompson dates forfor Cllrshis help, and village not changed to LED. These are units expected to be end Dec/Jan. Clerk District Cllr to put the trees lights up. on Church Lane near Farm, Casey’s shop has completed a site form and noted The funds for the xmas tree this year consideration for the weather and grass. have been donated by Lucy Wright and Along with the DDCVS grant for £4000, family in memory of Molly Thornhill with withand Furnalla new bracket Avenue. on The the first Farm two one. are B additional funds from Mrs Holden. The Cardonato be fitted has with carried retrofitting out branch led work lamps, on the edging stone work on the court up to Clerk has ordered new string of bulbs for village green trees, following inspection. aLittle given Longstone sum. The Parish court project Meeting above will fund will the xmas tree. The poppies have been put

6 Grit is now in PC bins and DCC bins, and grit piles have been placed. The Clerk arrange date and book Village Hall for a has chased DCC Rights of Way about the community website presentation. The Thunderpit Lane, Stoney Middletonto surfacing works on Sunnybank. Some Clerk will look new email hosted website, house,Proposed lamb agricultural and feed sheep building and South to store of work will be carried out on Cherpit Lane put advert in UTE for presentation, and fodder and bedding. No objections. in 2020. A temporary diversion order contact Simon Headington re deadline. Decision notice: notice has been placed on footpath 30. DDD/0519/0493. Removal of existing Cultivation licences: A reply is awaited and all his designs for a website so far. garden room and garage Mitcheldene. to replace withNP/ ParishThe PC Councilthanked emailTom for update coming: The forward Clerk new side extension. Granted. applications on Station Road and highlighted that due to the complications Appeal: Farm, Hassop. No reply Grisedalefrom PDNPA Road. regarding the licence of transferring the email service across, Council Administration Simon Headington had suggested using Bleaklow, only an acknowledgment of It was resolved to make no changes to the Kualo (where the current email provider received from PDNPA on tarmac track at will transfer the service to them). As the Police report code of conduct and document retention price was close to that paid currently, it email from PC. policy.financial The regulations, Clerk will update standing the dates orders, on was resolved to go with Kualo, The Clerk been stolen from Tideswell and a bike the documents. will action asap due to the December stolenNo formal off a PCSOcar at report.Hassop. 50 sheep have Cllr McGoverne has raised that he would deadline. Date of next meetings be moving villages to run a pub locally. Financial matters 15 January, 11 March and 13 May (Annual The Clerk will ask him for his resignation Donation to Bakewell and Eyam due to relocation. (Holmemeal funds): Trustees Cllr Contact Details Community website: Tom Dean was SarahParish Stokes,and PC Clerkmeeting) to Great 2020. Longstone invited to speak. Areas discussed were: Headington have looked at this year’s income.Long, Peter No funds Thompson are to be and donated Simon to Longstone, Bakewell DE45 1NN. Tel: background, doing a presentation and the community transport this year, but 01629Parish 640851Council,. Email:Longstone parishcouncil@ Byre, Little invitingGDPR and community photos, Tom’s groups, ICT/teaching costs for will be looked at each year. Simon was greatlongstone.net this service, new email service (possibly thanked for producing the accounts for this year. The Chair asked the Clerk to circulate the accounts and annual report acombined website, with Simon website), Headington PC legally having must to give Cllrs a better understanding of Parking ahave deadline, certain storagedata such needed, as financial what onto what the funds are for. transfer, how far to go back with data Precept: This year’s precept is £16,937. online, advertisements and sponsorship It was resolved to raise the precept parishPlease funds do not on keepingpark on the the greens village to to fund the costs per year, looking at by 3% for the year 2020/2021, as per agreens! high standard, The Parish enhancing Council the village.spend other community websites. Tom will discussions in the September meeting. Thank you. Planning matters before the next meeting. The Clerk will Application: Great Longstone Parish Council prepare a presentation for the PC to view Hillsprings G L MOTORS NP/DDD/1019/1085. LAUNDRY VW-AUDI QUATTRO SPECIALIST Bakewell Pet AGENT FOR DRY CLEANING FOR FAST, FRIENDLY & Supplies Service Washes Bed and Bath Linen RELIABLE SERVICE Table Linen Workwear & Overalls Ring Paul on 01629 640086 Wide range of pet products IRON ONLY SERVICE Servicing and repairs on all makes Uniforms Sleeping Bags of vehicles including light commercials Free local delivery Sports Kits Duvets 4 Wheel Alignment Open Monday-Friday 7am-5pm Collection and delivery available 8 Water Street, Bakewell The Dale, Stoney Middleton, Hope Valley S32 4TF Top Yard Garage, Main Street, Tel: 01629 814264 www.hillsprings.co.uk ( 01433 631442 Free tyre & exhaust fitting E-mail: [email protected] Great Longstone

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7 Mixed Messages On a recent visit to Lincoln Cathedral, the tour guide was very knowledgeable and had a good sense of humour. He pointed out a slab. Underneath the slab on a makeshift shelf was an inferior carving, fine stone carving of a medieval knight in full regalia lying on a stone people could read, the message that this was supposed to convey was unfinishedthat however and high rather and mightyrough around you become the edges. in life, In you an will age eventually when few die and become ash and dust. The guide recalled a previous occasion when taking round a party of schoolchildren and having explained the message, asked if they understood, whereupon a small boy said “Yes, never sleep on the bottom bunk!”. Being of a certain age and a fan of the programme Dad’s Army, I could not help but think of the episode when Captain and Mrs Mainwaring spend the night in the air raid shelter. He slept on the bottom bunk and she on the top, but all that was visible of her was a large bulge. When Captain Mainwaring suggested that they swap places, all he got was a series of grunts and snores.

Andrew Roddis Perhaps the small boy in Lincoln Cathedral that day had a good point! Bakewell and Ashford Film Society January Garden Notes To start the New Year, BASH Film Society will be screening the Stanley When we get a dry spell I like to get out into the Kubrick’s 1963 classic comedy Dr Strangelove or How I learned to stop borders and have a good tidy up. Cut back leaves worrying about the bomb The Medway Centre, Bakewell. Doors open at 7.00 pm and an introduction visible. Cut down top growth on perennials and starring Peter Sellers on January 12th 2020 at clearfrom awayhellebores leaves so that that may the be flowers resting areon topmore of the plants. This will allow emerging snowdrops, to the film will start at 7.30 pm. primulas and cyclamen to be seen to best effect. I also tidy up shrubs and trees, cutting away any dead shoots and any crossing or rubbing stems. I do leave some plants alone that may have an architectural value in the winter garden. I sow leeks and onions this month as they have a long growing season. I use a propagator in the greenhouse to help them germinate. There are other seeds that can be sown such as sweet peas and broad beans etc but I tend to leave them till later in the season. I check house plants and greenhouse plants for watering being careful not to overwater at this time of year. Cacti and some succulents do not require any watering through the winter months. Andy Hanna An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, believing that fluoridation of the Great Longstone Parish American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to Council deploy through a back door mechanism a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.

Community Website The film will be shown with subtitles. David Webb will give the Meeting introductionplus.com to the film. To join BASH contact: Cheryl Mayfield, BASH treasurer, phone 07562 799218 or email cherylmayfield@stainedglass1. Wednesday 29th January Executive Car Hire 7.30pm Longstone Taxis Great Longstone Village Hall Airports, Stations, Hospitals, Restaurant, Bar & Courtyard Seasonal, Freshly Cooked Food We are giving the community website Cocktails, Fine Wines & Craft Ales. Private Dining Long Distance travel a revamp. Please come and share your ideas. All community clubs/groups, residents and shops/businesses 4 and 7 seater taxis welcome Reliable service Tel: 01433 631905 Great Longstone Parish Council Richard 07388 824822 Tel: 01629 640851 www.themerchantsyard.com Tideswell SK17 8NY 01298 872442 Mike 07968 397050 A division of the Markovitz Group Email: [email protected] 8 Dear Friends, Snippets from St. Giles Obituary On December 1st a welcome party Hylda Patricia ‘Pat’ Richardson arrived! for Syrian refugee families from WellAlthough here thewe excitementare! 2020 of has Christmas finally • Matlock and Buxton, was organised 2019. is over, the tree and decorations have by a group of parents and students Pat died at home on the 9th November been taken down and for many it is time from St Anselm’s School and held in was held on Saturday 30th November to get back to work, there is still a lot to Longstone Village Hall. A service in celebration of Pat’s life look forward to. Bit by bit the hours of Starling murmuration on Middleton at St. Giles, Great Longstone and was light will lengthen, snowdrops will start Moor. Ribbons of groups of starlings attended by family and her many friends. appearing and before we know it there • heading towards the reed beds for The service was led by the Vicar in an the night, and a whoosh of them be singing and the season of spring will over the house in the mornings gave a moving tribute to his mother’s bewill upon be lambs us. in the fields, the birds will heading for a day of foraging. veryextremely full and full well church. lived Paullife. Richardson Then there are those New Year Christmas gifts, from the Toy resolutions to work on. Have you made service, were gratefully received prayers and thoughts go to her family yours I wonder or do you bother? I • at Patthis willtime bein their sadly sad missed loss. and our have to admit that sometimes I do make at The Den, Calow Hospital, for a New Year’s resolution, sometimes bydistribution Jenny Reaney, to children Play Specialistwho visit All Saints Church Hassop this centre. I don’t. I suppose it all depends on Parish Priest: Fr. Hugh Davoren CSSp. Last month’s Messy Church proved whether I remember to make one! T. 01629 640241 | M. 079 6430 2577 once again to be very popular with Some years I only remember sometime Choir: Christine Franklin. T: 01629 812384 • a total of sixteen children attending after New Year’s Day has passed by Safe Guarding: Mr Anthony Howlings c/o with their parents or guardians. [email protected] and it just doesn’t feel quite the same Our theme appropriately enough so I decide to leave it to the next year. Vigil Masses in Bakewell take place in the If I do remember to make a resolution followed the usual pattern of food, Bakewell Methodist Church, DE45 1EE I nearly always fail but I can’t say it was ‘Preparing for Christmas’ and unless otherwise mentioned really bothers me much. Are resolutions act of worship. Thank you to all who important anyway? Well maybe….. crafthelp andactivities support and our a final Messy very Church. short Usual Weekend Masses: I only ever remember making one New Thank you to all who decorated the Saturday: Vigil Mass at 6pm - Bakewell Year’s resolution that I actually stuck church so beautifully this year and Sunday: Mass at 10am - Hassop to - and stick to it I did! I decided to • for all who helped make Christmas Second Sunday: of the month – grow some vegetables so I got stuck so very special. Children’s Liturgy into preparing the ground, weeding St Giles’ is always open in daylight Last Sunday: of the month - Family Mass and turning the soil and all that and hours for people to come along and then planting all kinds of vegetables, • enjoy. Maybe also at the same time Reconciliation: carrots, potatoes, chard and courgettes. for a bit of solitude, stillness and 5.30pm before the 6pm Vigil Mass in I know this may not seem much to Bakewell or on request in Hassop. be put in a book in the Eyre Chapel Weekday Mass: reading this but goodness me did it quietand included prayer. inPrayer the prayers requests during can meanyou proficient a lot to me! gardeners Right chuffed out thereI felt! our Sunday Evensong service. You Mon, Tues, Wed : 9.30am - Hassop are always most welcome. What I suppose this goes to show is Thursday: 10am House Mass in Bakewell James Friday: 11am Adoration followed by that resolutions on a personal level Mass at 11.30am can be really important but only if If anyone has anything that they would one sticks to them and realizing that like to include in the snippets then please sticking to them is far from easy! send them directly to the editor so that parish website just in case changes have Resolutions are costly. they can be included in the next edition toPlease be made. check You the can parish do this newsletter by going or to In the church’s calendar during of Under the Edge. the website: www.allsaintshassop.org and January, the season of Christmas carries follow links to the current newsletter. over into the season of Epiphany (a word meaning Revelation). Christmas Thursday 9th January Ash Wednesday 26th February 2020 is about God making a resolution, a from 3.45pm Mass at 10am and 6pm in Hassop with resolution that he kept and struck to, the distribution of ashes. entering our world fully and completely in the person of Jesus Christ. During the celebrates how that resolution grew andfirst grewpart ofas the babyNew JesusYear thegrows church into an adult and then takes the costly road @ St Giles Church Great Longstone 9am–12noon Tuesday, Thursday, Friday cross of Good Friday. The ministry 9am–3pm Monday & Wednesday Fun Craft Activities, We are a small, friendly and independent andof sacrificial mission loveof the culminating church involves on the pre-school for children from 2 to school age. proclaiming this resolution to the world Yummy Food & Our focus is on learning through play in a and faithfully living it out in love. Relaxed Informal Worship stimulating and safe environment. I wish everybody a very happy 2020! High staff:child ratios Ofsted rating: Good Children must be accompanied by With every blessing ( 01629 640842 James a responsible adult or guardian www.greatlongstonepreschool.org.uk 9 St. Giles Great Longstone January in the Garden & Church of the Good Lawns top dressing for spring use. Shepherd, Wardlow Roses:: Continue Continue planting aeration intreatment. favourable Repair conditions. turf if weather Firm in bushesfavourable. loosened Prepare by Services in January Herbaceous plants: Cut dead tops of non-shrubby plants from borders. Fork 5th January - Epiphany overwind. surface Prepare of ground soil between for new plants. planting Apply in Februaryorganic mulch. and March. 8.00am Holy Communion Dahlias: Examine stored tubers. Cut away rotted portions of tubers and dust 9.00am Eucharist at Wardlow 11.00am Morning Service Chrysanthemums: Under glass take cuttings of large exhibitions varieties. 6.30pm Evensong Controlwith flowers aphids. of sulphur. Sweet peas: Dress beds prepared for planting with hydrated lime. Under glass 12th January - Baptism of Christ sow seed in gentle heat. Trees and shrubs: Winter prune wisterias. Cut back young shoots within three inches of old wood. Thin out dead and deceased branches from established 6.30pm Evensong trees and shrubs. 11.00am Parish Eucharist Fruit: Inspect stored fruit, discarding any rotted and diseased fruit. Continue 19th January - Epiphany 2 pruning. Burn prunings. Check stakes and ties. Continue spraying with winter 8.00am Holy Communion wash. Take gooseberry and blackcurrant cuttings. 9.00am Morning Service at Vegetables: Wardlow established crowns similarly. Cover plants with boxes to encourage early growth. 10.30am Covenant Service at the General tasksPlant: Order rhubarb seeds, and onion spread sets, strawy gladioli, manure garden over sundries, each plant.weedkillers Cover Methodist Chapel and fertilizers. Send mowers, shears and cultivators for sharpening and 6.30pm Evensong servicing.

26th January - Epiphany 3 THE OLD EYRE ARMS 6.30pm Evensong 11.00am Parish Eucharist HASSOP Great Locally Sourced Food Hand Pulled Real Ales CAMRA Gold Award Pub Great Longstone Gin Wall Vast Wine List Methodist Chapel Our own Wood Fired Pizza Trailer Eat in or Take Away Wednesday 4-9pm Tel. 01629 812195 Open Tuesday-Sunday 12-11pm (food 12-9pm) Local Minister5th January Rev. Adrian Perry 01629 640390 www.oldeyrearms.co.uk 2.30pm Circuit Service at Cliff 10.30am RCollegeev. Adrian Perry The 12th January 11.00am United Service rispin Great Longstone Inn 19th January 10.30am Co(Parishvenant Church) Service (Chapel United) 26th January 11.00 am United Service

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Traditional Village pub serving hearty, home-cooked food lunchtimes and evenings • Bar open all day Sat & Sun • A Robinson ‘Gold Award’ Pub • (Derbyshire) Ltd. • Large function room available F.O.C 2018 • Ramblers, Children & Dogs all welcome • Quality, purpose made joinery • Doors, windows, fitted furnishings • Coach Parties catered for by appointment • Made to measure FOOD HYGIENE RATING • Traditional & contemporary • Open Fire & Beer Garden • Range of woods and finishes 0 1 2 3 4 5 • Estimate on request • The Crispin Inn was awarded a Food VERY GOOD Hygiene rating of 5 (Very Good) by 01629 813633 / 07835 238160 [email protected] District Council www.thejoineryworkshop.com The Crispin Inn, Main St. Great Longstone DE45 1TZ Hassop, DE45 1NW The Crispin Inn, MainTel: Street, 01629Great Longstone, 640237 Bakewell DE45 1TZ Open 7 Days www.thecrispingreatlongstone.co.uk 10 A Note From The Editor What’s On Thank you to everyone who submits Monday afternoons - Knit & Natter in Wardlow Village Hall 1pm to 4 pm £2 material for publication and especially regular contributors. Enquiries and Monday evenings - Great Longstone Bridge Club in Village Hall 6.50pm to 10pm submissions should be sent to: Tuesday evenings - Tideswell Male Voice Choir rehearsals 7.30pm [email protected] 4th & 5th January - André Rieu 70 Years Young, Bakewell Town Hall 7.30pm £14 details. The deadline for copy for the - Messy Church, St Giles Church, (page 9) 9th January 3.45pm nextPlease issue include is 5pm your on: name and contact 10th January - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Bakewell Town Hall 7.00pm £5 Thursday 23rd January 12th January - BASH, Dr. Strangelove, Medway Centre 7pm (page 8) at least 1MB (1000x1000 pixels) and in colour. 15th January 7.30pm Photos should preferably be 21st January - -LLHG Great ‘Bootmakers Longstone ParishStrike of Council 1918-20 Meeting,’, Village Village Hall 7.45pm Hall (page 3) 300 or 600 dpi. We can scan material ifPrinted you do photos not have should access be to scanned a scanner. at 29th January 7.30pm (page 8) The editors and management committee 7th February -- GLPC, Downton Community Abbey, Bakewell Website Meeting,Town Hall Village 7pm Hall£5 do not necessarily endorse opinions 11th March 7.30pm expressed in articles and adverts. Subscriptions are available. 13th May 7.30pm - Great Longstone Parish Council Meeting, Village Hall Correspondence address for those - Great Longstone Parish Council Meeting, Village Hall without access to email: Bakewell Medical Centre Baslow Health Centre c/o The Vicarage, Church Lane, Great Longstone, Bakewell, www.bakewellmedicalcentre.co.uk www.baslowhealthcentre.co.uk Derbyshire, DE45 1TB Telephone: 01629 816636 Normal Surgery Opening Times: Normal Surgery Opening Times: Mon Tues Thurs Fri 8am - 6.30pm Mon Thurs Fri 8am - 6.30pm Wed 7.30am - 6.30pm The Village Shop Tues 8am - 8.00pm Mon-Fri 8am – 6.30pm Wed 7am - 6.30pm Phones: Opening Times We do not close for lunch Closed: Bank Holidays & afternoons Tuesday to Friday 8am-5pm of Wed 8th Jan, 12th Feb, 11th March Closed: Bank Holidays & afternoon Saturday 9am-5pm of Wed 8th January from1.30pm Flu Vaccination: Clinics from 30th Sunday 9am-1pm Sept. Contact the surgery to check Whitworth Hospital Opening Times: eligibility and book an appointment. Tel: 01629 640507 A&E (Minor Injuries Unit): 8am - 10pm X-Ray: Mon 9am - 5pm Telephone Numbers: Tue-Fri 9am - 12.30pm Reception 01246 582216 District Nursing Team 01629 593050 Defibrillators For medical advice when the Health Visitor 01629 816633 surgery is closed, phone 111 Dispensary 01246 582366 Great Longstone in telephone box near ‘Patient Access’: If you have access Surgery Fax 01246 583867 Main Street, to a computer you can register bus shelter, opposite Longstone CE Dispensary line open 12 noon – 1pm School. 2pm – 3pm appointments and order repeat Recreation ground, on Cricket Club tea hut. to use ‘Patient Access’ to book GP PPG (Patient Participation Group): reception for registration details. To be kept up to date and have the Little Longstone IFmedications YOU ARE ALREADY on-line. REGISTEREDPlease ask at opportunity to express your views Main Street, in telephone box

Contact Keith Maslen on kmaslen@ Longstone Business Park YOUTABLET CAN DEVICE. DOWNLOAD THE APP TO aol.complease consider or call joining01246 Baslow’s582274 PPG. opposite the Packhorse Inn. USE FROM YOUR SMARTPHONE OR At entrance, next to barrier, on Credit/Debit Cards: We accept For Urgent Calls when the Tilly Studios building. payments via cards as well as cash. surgery is closed, phone 111 MATHEMATICS Cox Contractors TUITION Property Services Est. 1987 Available from a PGCE Qualified, registered Teacher. Garden Maintenance • LandscapingProperty and Building maintenance Extensively experienced with adults • and children of any age and level, • • DrainageWalls, Paths, Work Paving, Fencing KS2 – A Level • DiggerHigh Pressure & Crusher Jet WashingHire • Top Soil & Type one Supplied • Very competitive rates • Phone 01629 640671 or 07803 01629 640340 127337. Email: 07743 199853 [email protected] Estimates and advice given free 11 You’ll Never Walk Alone! “The drainage works this year have been a great success”, says B&LJFC coach Rick Gooch. “Up to this year, there would be large puddles all over the pitch after rain. This year, even after the recent terrible floods in November, it’s been as dry as a bone, and we haven’t missed a match. It’s definitely proof of the pudding, and vindicates the decision to do the work.”

Baslow & Longstone Junior FC enjoying the rejuvenated pitch and new goalmouths on the Rec with coach Rick Gooch Christmas Lights light up the street

...thanks to Phil Barrett, Rick Gooch, Clare and weekDave Gamble, of December Peter madeThompson, it possible. John Fawcett and JimmyThanks Long also whose to Mrs. sterling Holden efforts and Lucy in the Wright first and family (in memory of Molly Thornhill) for funding the tree, and an anonymous donor for a contribution towards the cost of the tree lights. May all your troubles soon be gone!

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