DORE to DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY No. 78 SUMMER 2005 ISSN 0965-8912 Village design statement The Dore Village Design Statement has been delivered with this issue to every household in Dore. It has been produced following 3 years work by the Committee and other members of the Dore Village Society. Preparation has involved consultation with all residents of the Village and the Committee thanks all those who have responded and contributed to the process. Comments by the City Planning Department have been very constructive and the Committee is hopeful that the design guidance in the Statement will influence the new Local Development Framework as a replacement for the Unitary Development Plan. You will see from the document that further studies are proposed and we hope that this work will proceed over the next few years. We trust you appreciate the way the special character of the Village we live in is identified and the means by which new ‘Buy a Brick’ Appeal DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY development may be guided. We would For the refurbishment of the Dore Scout welcome any comments for future action. Summer Meeting Headquarters. Please send comments to: David Crosby, 7.30pm Wednesday 72 Furniss Avenue, Sheffield, S17 3QP The photograph above shows the 22nd June opening on a new scout hut (a disused Road safety Methodist Church Hall Nissen Hut) on Rushley Road in 1955 AGM and talk by with the late Syd Crowson MBE on the left of the picture. At long last Sheffield Transport and Annabelle Kennedy This building was replaced by the Highways Division have produced a “Local Wildlife and the current sectional concrete building in report into accidents on Hathersage Road 1964 but it is more than 20 years since any between Limb Lane and Fox House, with Sheffield Wildlife Trust” significant improvements have been made some recommendations for possible Everybody welcome to the 267th Sheffield Scout Group’s improvements. This has been submitted to headquarters. However, work is about to the West Planning and Highways Area begin on a programme of refurbishment Board and commented on by the South Pothole City that will include a new extension and an West Area Panel. There does not appear to upgrading of the existing facilities. be any proposal for public consultation on What we all know about the dreadful To help pay for this work, the Group is the recommendations, with not even the launching a ‘Buy a Brick’ Appeal. Posters Dore Village Society being consulted, state of Sheffield’s roads was confirmed when the city council recently admitted will be appearing around the Village and despite pressure for action over the years. we hope to be able to persuade the people The recommendations include: that, at the current pace, it is only likely to get around to resurfacing minor highways of Dore to buy a brick or a foundation Resurfacing should be considered. stone. There should be detailed double white every 200 years and that the city’s track record is four times worse than the When the work is completed we will line survey. not only have more room to operate but The speed limit from Limb Lane to national average. Sheffield is paying the price for decades the building will be in a state that will Brickhouse Lane should be reduced to enable us to offer it to other groups within 50 mph. of under funding with estimates that the city needs to spend £15m a year just to the community for use during the day, Additional warning and information subject of course, to satisfactory insurance signs should be considered. stop its roads getting any worse - and the current budget is £4.9m, not helped by an arrangements. Feasibility studies should be carried out If you would like to contribute to this on how to reduce the cluster of increase in compensation claims. The council’s assessment of its appeal, please pick up a leaflet from any accidents at the Cross Lane/Long Line of the shops displaying a poster or contact junction. timescale for resurfacing its minor roads was in response to a survey by the Asphalt the appeal co-ordinator, Geoff Cope on Once again action is taking far too long 2350392. Thank you. due to the slow pace of local government. Industry Alliance, which indicated a chronic shortfall in cash across the The people in the picture include (l to r) Warning signs about the number of Syd Crowson, Jim Wainwright, C. accidents could be put up quickly and country for road maintenance. The Council is on record as promising Holmstrom, Reg Bruce, Brenda Wild, there are other possible ideas such as Roger Wheen and Peter Jackson. removing a bus stop on a bend, moving to repair within 24hrs any dangerous the 40mph limit further from Limb Lane, potholes reported to 0114 273 4567 - so Ed. If you have any old photographs of re-siting the speed camera etc. get dialing! Dore we would be delighted to see them 1 Did you know PUBLISHING DEADLINES Dore Well Dressing Dore to Door is published quarterly in Traffic, traffic, traffic, we just cannot mid February, May, August & November Well Dressing time has come around get enough of it! Still the parking at the each year. The copy deadline for each once again in Dore. If you would like to bottom of Dore Road is causing problems issue is the end of the preceding month. help or just want to see how it is done then on weekdays. I cannot understand why Please forward items for the Autumn come along to the Scout Hut on Rushley such an obvious problem is not tackled by (August) issue to the address on page 2 Road. our council, despite numerous requests. Friday 29th July 2005 We begin making the Well Dressing All it needs is a few more yellow lines, picture on Monday 27th June and finish on just to stop people parking on both sides of Friday 1st July. Times of sessions will be the road near the junction. But then it Dore male voice choir advertised on posters in the village nearer probably needs someone to get killed, as the time or you can contact me for more on Hathersage Road, before anything will The Choir presented its Annual Gala information on tel: 236 0332. be done. Concert at Eccleshall Church, on 16th Everyone welcome. No experience is Not that there is a shortage of yellow April, to a full house. It was a pleasure to necessary. Whatever your age, male or paint. The yellow lines in the centre of the welcome the internationally acclaimed female, even if you can only spare an hour village have recently been repainted. What Kinder Children’s Choir, from the High or two your help will be much appreciated a waste of time and money when nobody Peaks as the guest performers and the and it is all for a worthwhile cause as the enforces them and some drivers treat them Lord and Lady Mayoress were present. In money raised from the Well Dressing goes as reserved (for them) parking bays. July the Choir will be singing at Llangolen to charity. And now we have confirmation of what International Eisteddford, competing in Barbara Jackson every driver or visitor knows - Sheffield the Male Voice Choir section. This will be has some of the worst roads in the country. a big occasion and an honour for the Just where has the money gone for the last Choir. In August the Choir have been Plan puzzle.. solution two decades. On traffic calming humps invited by the Scarborough Council and fancy road narrowing schemes? Tourist Department, to give a concert in The solution to the“ parson’s puzzle” as Nearer to my own interest is a concern the Winter Gardens at Whitby. This is part featured on page 12 of our Spring issue. over the state of Woods. Wet of the Council’s summer entertainment winter weather and increased human use is programme. Well, I did warn you that there was in danger of turning areas of wildflowers Then in September 105 Choir members something fishy about that plan. Vicar into mud patches. When the ground is wet and supporters will be going to Bruges in Gibson thought it showed Vicarage Lane why must people wander everywhere Belgium for a week. There will be and Church Lane. He was half right. What rather than keeping to the surfaced paths? concerts in Bruges Cathedral, Ghent and a actually happened was that someone at the More mysterious is the need to cut special invitation to sing at the ceremony Queen Anne’s Bounty Office somehow corners. Surely, if you are walking in the of the playing of the Last Post at the managed to combine two plans into one. woods for pleasure a few extra metres to Menin Gate War Memorial at Ypres. This The right half shows the parsonage (now go around corners isn’t a problem. And will indeed be a moving event. the Old Vicarage, recently extended), on a one final puzzle. The council rangers, and As you will have gathered in addition to road correctly identified as Vicarage Lane. friends of , expend time other concerts, the Choir are having a very But between this site and the buildings at and effort closing off short cuts to protect busy year. the centre there should be a complete wild flowers and the overall appearance of David Heslop break in the road. the woods. Yet some mystery person(s) go Gibson took it for granted that those out of their way to remove these barriers. buildings represented the premises of I guess they must have a motivation, but it News in brief what is now the Old School. But if so, why would save a lot of time and frustration if no crossroads? Here in fact we have the they would have the decency to ring the Sheffield Rights Of Way Department junction of Townhead Road and Drury woodland manager and tell him why. having secured £ 7,500 for the work have Lane. The open space is The Cockpit, and Doremouse resurfaced the footpath between Vicarage the buildings are those of Sycamore Farm, Ed. Back from hibernation? The Lane and Burlington Grove. aka Cockpit Farm and Greaves’ Farm. Woodland manager is Nick Sellwood on Seasons Gallery’s new garden terrace, On the extreme left is Townhead Farm, 0114 2736387 at the rear of their cafe, is now open and is shaded along with the House Field (partly already proving very popular. Seasons is covered now by the innermost section of on South near the Overdale Gardens). This and the two Affiliated Groups junction with Bushey Wood Road. adjacent fields to the west were glebe Planning consent has been given for a land, secured in the 18th century to The Dore Village Society is a member new ‘Tesco Express’ store on the site of support the incumbent. of a number of organisations with shared the former petrol station at the junction of So there is the solution of our puzzle, or overlapping interests and objectives. Devonshire Road and Abbeydale Road but a minor mystery remains. The puzzle These include: South. plan is not identical with the one I saw Friends of Ecclesall Woods; A feasibility study into improvements some years ago at the office of the Church Sheffield Wildlife Trust; at Dore railway station has been requested Commissioners, though it purports to be a The Ramblers Association; by South Passenger Transport copy. Barns Association; Authority following a campaign by Nick The plan there is perfectly clear and Open Spaces Society; Clegg. accurate. It shows all the land immediately Royal Horticultural Society; The Council has given itself planning south of Townhead Road from The CPRE (Council for the protection of consent to convert the Beauchief Barns Cockpit to Knowle Green. Greaves’ Farm, rural ); into a house in preparation for their sale, then the old glebe land, then the Knowle Friends of Whinfell Quarry Gardens. but has also given consent to a competing Green benefaction abutting on it and application from the Beauchief Abbey comprising the Barn Close - on part of Barns Association for conversion to which View was built some New CAMRA group community use. 30 years ago - and the Shoulder of Mutton Contary to rumours reported in our (from its shape) below it. The parsonage The Sheffield & District branch of last issue, Almas Indian Brasserie will not land appears as a separate entity. CAMRA (the Campaign for Real Ale) be changed into a wine bar but will be Vicar Gibson had plenty of worries now has a new social group for members refurbished and remain a restaurant. about his income. Let’s hope that the aged 18 - 30. You can contact them via Local concern remains over restrictions puzzle plan didn’t cause him any further Chairman Myk Eccles on 07751 064053. to public access on Blackamoor following sleepless nights. the erection of barbed wire fencing. John Dunstan 3 Editorial Election results Membership Subscriptions Readers will have noticed some changes The result of the parliamentary election For many years Greens Hardware in the appearance of this issue. This is for Sheffield Hallam was a win for Liberal collected subscriptions on behalf of DVS because so called technological progress Democrat Nick Clegg. and since their closure we have relied on has required us to move to new desktop N Clegg Liberal 20,710 people paying by post. The response has publishing software. This has involved the S Pitfield Conservative 12,028 been very positive and membership has editor in a steep learning curve, which M Hussain Labour 5,110 already increased by 20%, but it is not too shows! Hopefully the intricacies of this R Cole Green 1,331 late to join or renew your membership for will be mastered before the autumn S Cordle CPA 441 2005. edition. N James UKIP 438 Subscriptions can still be sent by post to This is also a special issue, in that with I Senior BNP 369 the address below, or paid at the DVS it you should have received a copy of the Majority 8,682 Office at the back of the Old School on the Dore Village Design Statement, produced first Saturday of each month between after wide consultation by the Dore 10am - 12noon. One change that has had Village Society. We hope that this will Annual General Meeting to be made as a result of this, is that we are stimulate thought and encourage a more no longer issuing membership cards, constructive approach to development and This years Annual General Meeting of which you will appreciate would cost a change in the village. The key the Dore Village Society will take place at great deal in time and postage to provide. recommendations are highlighted in red. 7.30pm on Wednesday 22nd June in the It is now 40 years since Dore Village We all owe David Crosby on the DVS Methodist Church Hall on the High Street. Society was formed and in the early days committee a vote of thanks for leading the Nominations for election to the executive life membership was offered for a very project. committee should be made in writing to small fee. The Society in that time has John Baker Editor the Honorary Secretary at least fourteen gone from strength to strength and costs days before the AGM. have increased as a result. Registering as a Open mornings After the traditionally short formal charity also let to the Society adopting a business, which will include suggested new constitution. The Dore Village Society room at the amendments to the constitution Many of those early life members Old School is open to visitors on the first (displayed on the society notice board), appreciate this and are happy to pay an Saturday of each month from 10am to Annabelle Kennedy from Sheffield annual subscription or donation now, so 12noon. Please come along to see the Wildlife Trust will give an illustrated talk please consider doing this even if you facilities or talk to members of the on local wildlife and the role of the Trust. were once a life member of the original committee about local issues and the Refreshments will be available at the end society. Your support would be much history of the village. of the meeting. Admission is free and appreciated. everyone is welcome. Anne Elsdon, Membership Secretary 10 Rushley Close, Dore, S17 3EG DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY Dore Show 2005 Registered Charity No. 1017051 Spring Bulbs This years Dore Show will take place on The Society aims to foster the protection Saturday 10 September in the Old School We hope you enjoyed the daffodils and enhancement of the local and Methodist Church Hall - be sure to around the village along with the crocuses environment and amenities within Dore, note the date in your diary. Brass band, in the verges on Causeway Head Road and to encourage a spirit of community and to entertainment and side displays of interest the snowdrops on the village Green. They record its historic development. to everyone as usual. made a cheerful sight to herald the spring. There will be 75 classes for you to enter We will be planting more bulbs around the Chairman (Dore to Door) for or come and see, ranging from Village in the autumn. Mr J R Baker 236 9025 vegetables to paintings, flower arranging Anyone willing to help will make a 8 Thornsett Gardens, S17 3PP. to childrens’ exhibits. The full schedule difference, and of course any donations and entry forms for Floral Art classes will towards the costs will be gratefully Vice Chairman (Planning) shortly be available from the Valerie of received, along with any suggestions for Mr D Heslop 236 5043 Dore shop on the High Street. areas you might like to see planted. 16 Devonshire Drive, S17 3PJ. For those keen photographers wishing to plan ahead, the 4 photography classes Treasurer will be: a) Black & White - Open subject - Editorial & Advertising Mrs M Watson 236 5666 min 7” x 5”; b) Colour - “A Portrait” - min 7” x 5”; c) Colour - “Summer Holiday”; d) Dore to Door is published quarterly by 11 Cavendish Avenue, S17 3NJ. “Nature”. Classes c) & d) are for standard the Dore Village Society and delivered Secretary or panoramic size photos only & free to over 3,200 households in the area. Mrs A Slater 236 6710 unmounted please. If you are interested in submitting an The Show has become an established article or letter, have local news to report, 6 Old Hay Close, S17 3GQ part of village life, largely thanks to the or wish to place an advertisement, please Committee exhibitors and those who plan and run the contact the Editor John Baker on 236 9025 event on the day. As always many hands or write to: Mrs L E Baker 236 9025 make light work! If you can offer a little The Editor; Dore to Door; (Dore Show & FEW) help on the day please contact the Show 8 Thornsett Gardens; Dore; Mr S Barnes 236 2661 Chairman on 236 4257. Sheffield, S17 3PP. Mr D Bearpark 236 9100 Email [email protected] ] (Wyvern Walkers) Opinions expressed in articles and Councillor surgeries services offered by advertisers are not Mr G Cope 235 0392 necessarily endorsed by the publishers. Mr D Crosby 262 1127 Local councillors are available for No part of Dore to Door may be Mrs A Elsdon 236 0002 consultation in the Dore Village Society reproduced in full or part, without written (Subscriptions) room on a regular basis. Forthcoming permission. Mrs V Malthouse 236 3632 dates are: Saturday 28th May; 25th June & Printed by Printers, 23rd July, 10am to 11am - Conservatives. 112 Harvest Lane, S3 8EE. Mr P Pryor 236 9831 Saturday 11th June & 16th July 10.30 to 12 noon - Liberal Democrats. © Copyright Dore Village Society 2005 2 Letters since died. these matters, but I do have a voice. I also Mabel left a substantial sum to the have no doubt whatever that it will not Dear Sir, RNLI and was one of five major stop here. The planning officers will I have just been reading Reg Skeleton’s contributors to a Severn class lifeboat continue to do their damage, regardless of conversation in the Dore to Door. The lady (total cost almost £1.9m). It is to be called peoples feelings. in question who owned Knowle Green the “Margaret Joan and Fred Nye” after I have been a resident of Dore and the was Mrs Reid, we used to call it Reids the principle contributors and its number same house for fifty years, and feel very instead of Knowle Green. There were a lot is ON 1279. The launching will take place sad to think that I can no longer enjoy the of Canadian soldiers stationed there after at Poole, Dorset on 5 May 2005. solitude and the privacy that once was the British moved out, a lot of them were Mabel had many friends and good mine. How much longer must we suffer at lost in the fiasco at Slapton sands, and lots neighbours in the village who will be the hands of a minority of people who more on D day. delighted with this news. Also, they may have a disregard for our “once beautiful” My Dad Edgar used to work with him wish to know the lifeboat will be a relief village. (Reg) at Wagwood house. I seem to boat, replacing station lifeboats which are Name and address provided remember the house being struck by damaged or are out of service, so we Dear Sir, lightening not once but twice, and Reg might see it anywhere around the coast. Did your village, town or community was lucky to escape one of them. Pat Brearton, Executor once have its own brass band? I remember the wooden chip shop run Dear Sir, I am carrying out research in the history by Chippie Holmes. We used to go to Hello there in Dore! Can you please let of brass bands in local communities, and Greystones Picture house, it was 1 penny me know how to subscribe to the would like to ask if you know of any on the bus to Ecclesall terminus 1/2p on magazine? I have been meaning to do so information about any such extinct bands the tram to Greystones and 9p to get in to for ages! in your area. see the film. If it was an A film we asked I was brought up in Dore, when my The late 18th and early 19th centuries someone to take us in. Then to the chip family moved there in 1960 (I was 5) and were the “golden age” for these bands shop and fish and chips was 6p, so the have my happiest childhood memories numbering, it is said, up to 40,000 distinct whole night cost less than 2 shillings associated with the village where I went to bands at their peak. Many of these bands His conversation brought back many the old primary school in its last 2 years or were associated with local industries, memories as I can recall all the legendary so and remember going to the ‘new’ often being a “works” band. Others characters and a few more. Francis Coats, school for my last year and 11-plus! provided a musical focus for many small Nurse Frith, Joe Denniff, Willie Arthur My mother still lives in Dore so I do towns and villages in the days before local milk man delivered by horse visit regularly but would like to support gramophone and the wireless. Today, in and cart, Teddy Swift, not forgetting all the village society and the magazine and contrast, only some 1,500 or so are left the men in the Dore football team as we keep in touch down here in Berkshire so active in the UK. had a very good side in those days. The please let me know how to pay the Sadly many of the bands left little in the matches with and Tideswell were subscription. Kind regards. way of information about their existence, always what are now known as crunch John Fox and what does exist is widely scattered matches, especially the Totley one, which Ed. Dore to Door can be sent direct to with individuals, local archives and was usually played on Boxing day any UK address. So if you leave the area national collections. Part of my research is J Taylor or have friends or relatives that might be to identify these lost bands, to collect Dear Sir, interested in the magazine, all we need is together material to provide a central Mabel Lingard deceased. Late of No 49 a name, address and a cheque for £4 pa database of information - containing a Devonshire Road. made out to ‘Dore Village Society’ and mixture of primary information as well as Readers may remember Mabel Lingard sent to the address on page 2. references to material held elsewhere (e.g. who died in April 1999. She was a small, in local archives). gentle lady with a delightful Scots/Irish lilt Dear Sir, Any information you can provide would and made numerous friends on her cruises The planning office strikes again or be gratefully received. Whether actual to various parts of the world. Her only ‘Room with a view (or not )’. information or pictures of any bands, or surviving relative was a sister, Hilda Once more Cavendish Avenue has been pointers to resources, or sources for Pattinson of Rushley Drive, who has invaded by builders. It seems to me that further investigation. Even knowing that a the planning officers have no thought or particular band existed is significant! conscience about the feelings of the Currently much of the information I HAPPY FATHER’S DAY! residents of what was once, a quiet have collected is available online, at residential road. This time, the victim of www.ibew.co.uk/ - in various locations, (19th June) this recent invasion is myself. for example, in the Reference section The planning officer assured me that the under “Extinct Bands” or “Vintage At Little Mischiefs, we are always decision to grant this latest building Pictures”. searching for new offence was only after a lot of thought to With best wishes for your continuing the consequences it would have on the research in local history, and great gift ideas neighbouring house. I have to strongly Gavin Holman disagree with that comment! I would like Dear Sir, This year we are especially to invite her to come and see for herself Today, 27th April, all the healthy mature excited by our range of affordable the result of her misguided action. In fact trees on the left between Newfield gifts for Dads I have already done so, and, surprise, she Crescent and the lane leading up to the has declined! entrance to Longacres were cut down. Why not pay us a visit and choose I now have the pleasure, when I sit in It is a sad day which should be recorded my room, instead of looking out at blue in Dore to Door. How it ever became from a great selection of fun sky and view, I see a brick wall & a roof. allowed is a mystery and a catastrophe. mugs, cufflinks, My two bedrooms that are adjacent to the Conservation has gone by the board. As I cushions, bottle openers, extension have the same view! My dining walked down Newfield Lane this moneypots, CDs and more... room is also affected and I have had to put afternoon, every passerby, pedestrian and up curtains to hide the wall, at the same driver, stopped in amazement at what was time blocking out the sunlight which I going on. Open Wed-Sat 10am - 5pm once enjoyed. Needless to say I feel that Let us only hope that the rest of the Lane this must have had an effect on the value and the Recreation Ground are not Tel: 0114 262 1020 of my property. Will the council, I ask attacked similarly without warning to myself, reduce my council tax in line with residents. 10 Causeway Head Road, Dore this development? I think not! David Andrews www.littlemischiefs.co.uk I know I do not have any control over

4 Dear Sir, to return. When George died Reg bought Skips and vehicles are still churning up I’m sure all the members of the Dore the buildings and on the untimely death of the pavements and grass verges. Parkers and Totley Luncheon Club, on Wednesday Don, Nick took over. However over the Lane is a disgrace, since workmen started afternoons will join me in thanking Val last few years it has been very difficult and to alter a bungalow opposite the way in to Edwards and Margaret Millican for all he has had no option but to call it a day. He the Scout bonfire field. I hope by the time their care and attention, and also to has moved, as I’m sure most people know, this goes to press they will have rectified Margaret Barlow and Jack of Transport to Reg’s old workshop on Rushley the damage. 17. between the Scout Hut and Limpits Farm I had to laugh On my birthday, I We have a good lunch, talk and Cottage. He will be pleased to see received a card which boasted ‘Made in sometimes bingo, and transport from door customers old and new there, for bike China’. What on earth are we coming to? to Dore which means a lot to old and repairs, lawn mower servicing, shear Is nothing made here! disabled ladies. sharpening etc, and also picture framing. Jean Dean Thank you all. So I hope the village will give their Mrs Lily Greenwood support. I could write a book about life behind New comedy the counter in Green’s and the odd requests people have made over the years. Apex Players will present a brand new Jean recalls One old lady who had new batteries in her comedy, “Three times a day after meals” radio came back a short time later and by Paul Cambell and Stephen Doyle at the Firstly may I say how much I appreciate asked if she could have English batteries Sheffield Library Theatre from 26-28 May the people who noticed my absence from because she wanted to listen to Desert at 7.30pm. Tickets £5 and £4 can be the Spring issue. Island Discs and all she could hear was a reserved in advance by calling 0114 269 In the letter from Margaret Moore, she foreigner! 3329 or 0114 2348499. Check their mentions Mrs’ Cook and Green doing the What happened to Doremouse in the last website for more info at school dinners. I would like to correct this issue. Has he/she gone on strike too! www.apexplayers.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk error. Mrs Cook was assisted by her younger sister Mrs Warnes. Hilda Warnes is still alive, now in her nineties, in the cottage on Townhead Road, where she has lived for over 60 years. Hilda has witnessed many changes in Dore. When Hilda was growing up, Dore was, I cannot say a pretty village for it was never that, but at least it was a village. Until the 30’s it was in . I guess the rot set in when it came under the umbrella of Sheffield. Dore had 4 butchers and soon now it won’t have any. There were several grocery outlets, Huby, Friths, Marshalls, Moseleys, Mrs Thorpes, The Co-op, Tiddy’s Frith’s dairy at the bottom of Brickhouse Lane and the little shop at Fisher’s Nursery on Newfield Lane. The sweet shop near to the village trough, where villagers laid their bets on race days through the kitchen window. Dottie Green’s newsagents and a gents hairdressers. There was no chemist until later, but we did have a blacksmith. The closing of Green’s marks the end of an era here. Unfortunately a sign of the times we live in. Mr Roy and George Green began the shop in a little wooden hut in their builders yard and when building stopped due to Mr George’s advancing years the present shop was built. My husband Don worked with Roy and Roy’s wife, Ivy until Ivy was forced to give up due to arthritis. Mrs Shaw from Leyfield helped part-time and when she moved to Wales, I took her place. We still had the builders yard supplying sand, cement and concrete flags to the local builders: Ashby’s, Cook’s, Hallamshire Builders, Mottram’s etc. there are no local builders left now. Don Fisher was the last of them. George used to say we sold so many concrete flags on a Saturday, he was surprised Dore wasn’t covered in concrete. When he retired Don and his brother Dick took over. Unfortunately Dick was taken seriously ill a short time later, but with the help of loyal friends, and here I’d like to mention Lee Hutchinson and Richard Clark, we were able to carry on till Dick was well enough

5 Planning Matters withdrawn by Westbury Homes. Neighbourhood Watch The developers have now started work 61-65 Limb Lane. This property on the under the approved proposals, initially by Making a Difference in the Heart of the east side of Limb Lane, behind the high removal of trees from the bank on Community. stone wall, was once a residential home Newfield Lane. It may be recalled that the What is ‘Neighbourhood Watch’ all known as ‘the Moss’ and owned by the approved plans necessitated work at the about ? The answer’s in the title - City Council. It was sold and has recently junction of the present access road, Neighbours watching out for each other in been converted into apartments. The including the removal of certain trees to their own Neighbourhood. developers applied for the erection of a facilitate sight lines, but also included for A Watch can cover a few homes, a few new bungalow as part of the scheme. This the replacement of each of these trees with streets, or a local area, each forming part was refused as the property stands in that new standard trees in approved situations. of a wider network of Neighbourhood vulnerable Green Belt between Bridge Garage, Abbeydale Watch associations at city, county & . Road South. The application for a sales national level from whom they can draw About two months ago the developers, shop with forecourt parking, which was support. Goodacre Health Limited made a fresh made some time ago, and replaced a The main aim is to assist in reducing application for the erection of five garages previous consent for flats on the site, has crime & anti-social behaviour in their own with two apartments above. The Society now been approved. The development of area by regular contact with local police & was very concerned that this was a further the site with a Tesco convenience store similar groups in other areas. attempt to develop in the green Belt. will now no doubt take place fairly soon. Neighbourhoods with an active Watch Thankfully the Planning Officers Sadly we have lost the facility of another usually attract less crime & feel more considered that this application was also petrol filling station in the area. secure than elsewhere, and this can result unacceptable and the developers have now Newfield Lane. There is a field on the in lower insurance premiums. Thankfully, withdrawn the proposal. west side of Newfield Lane between the crime in this area is below average, but it Barber Fields Farm, Long Line. Some bungalow known as Newfield Farm, and surprises some to learn how much actually three years ago the Council sold Barber The Door Moor House property. Recently occurs around them, which could escalate Fields Farm. The property itself is just the owner has planted a double row of if we don’t take effective precautions to over half way up Long Line on the right leylandii, the fast growing coniferous trees avoid becoming a soft target. hand side. The adjacent farm buildings, all along the road boundary, behind the Neighbourhood Watch is a voluntary including the original old farmhouse, have stone field wall, and along the southern organisation, and the level of interest & since been developed as a substantial boundary, which is very close to the activity in each area depends on its dwelling. At about the same time the more Lodge to Dore Moor House. residents. Some areas have no organised recent farmhouse, standing nearby, was This is vulnerable Green Belt land and activity, while others have been active for extended and altered. These properties are developers have previously made many years taking advantage of well within the Green Belt. exploratory efforts to get the land opportunities to learn more about home & The owner of the house has now applied developed with houses. Leylandii are car security, what is happening to others to build a workshop/garage (with storage totally inappropriate for the site. They can nearby, and how to react if something for animal feed over) and a lambing shed. grow very high, and the future prospect bothers them or looks “not quite right”. This is an extensive development, and for the houses in Newfield Lane, which Some have widened their discussions to with very little land attached to the enjoy extensive views towards Houndkirk pool other neighbourhood concerns. property, is considerably out of scale with Moor, will be appalling. Regrettably there When a Neighbourhood Watch scheme the land use. The Society has objected to is nothing to stop the planting of these is formed its co-ordinator can register with the proposals as being inappropriate for trees, and the purpose of planting is at the local Police to exchange regular the location and the Green Belt. The present hard to understand. But the information via their ‘Speak-easy’ owner also appears to have extended the Society can promise that any attempt to telephone system. Local signs can be existing garden into the neighbouring develop this land will be rigorously erected to warn that suspicious behaviour field, without planning permission. opposed. is likely to be observed & reported. ‘Long Acre’ Newfield Lane. The David Heslop Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinators in Planning appeal against the original Bradway, Totley & Dore meet together refusal for 38 units has now been regularly to exchange information with Best gardens local community Police officers. You’re welcome to join us if you’d like to know Dog Training A joint initiative has been launched to more about how you can participate to (K.C. Reg) promote the attractions of seven of the widen the active area, or replace long- best gardens in South Yorkshire and one serving members who’d now like to step just over the border in Derbyshire. down. Classes There appears to he a general lack of Local meetings are usually held in awareness of these hidden gems among Totley Rise Methodist Church Hall. Jim for: both the local population and visitors. Trotter (Tel. 236 6444) is area co- The list includes the Botanical Gardens ordinator for Dore, and he’d be pleased to Puppies and Winter Garden in Sheffield, Cannon give details of our next NHW meeting on Hall, Wortley Hall and Wentworth Castle Wednesday 18th May. General Gardens in Barnsley, Cusworth Hall and South Sheffield Neighbourhood Watch Training Brodsworth Hall and Gardens in Association also arrange combined Doncaster and Renishaw Hall in meetings with more senior Police at their Agility Derbyshire. District HQ at Moss Way. At county level, A leaflet and events guide is available South Yorkshire NHWA can give more Behaviour Clinics from 0114 281 4048. general information via John Sturdy at their Community Safety & Advice Centre, One-to-one classes 29 Howard Street, Rotherham, S65 IJQ - Support Group Tel. 01709 365908. We can all make a difference if we try. The Dore & Totley Support Group for Established over 20 years the Visually Impaired meets regularly in the Methodist Church on Grove Road. Village Notice Board. If you have a Tel - Mrs. Katie Patmore Forthcoming meetings will be held on public notice about events in or of 0114 2962271 Thursday 26th May, Wednesday 22nd concern/interest to the village, please June and Thursday 28th July from contact Anne Elsdon on 236 9025 or John (APDT & APBC) 11.30am to 12.30pm. Baker on 236 9025. 6

Whirlow Farm Trust first time. Twelve children and two Keeping flowers fresh teachers can stay in The Barn or The Hall. The Whirlow Hall Farm Trust is the The Barn has been adapted to Hints and tips for prolonging the life of only charity that operates on a working accommodate wheelchair users and your cut flowers. farm complete with education centre, special needs pupils. There is no television The delivering of emotions in the form offering local children, of all ages and or video, which may scare most children of flowers is a very rewarding career, but abilities, a completely new experience. away if they knew but it allows for them to we also want the recipient to enjoy the There is a very real issue in today’s assist staff with farm jobs and learn to beauty they bring for as long as possible. society that many children do not have any work as part of a team. Youngsters can We have therefore put together a list of idea about where the food on their plate develop their social values and gain a new hints and tips to help you:- comes from. Whirlow ensures that after a appreciation for the world they live in. • Always put flowers into fresh clean The latest venture is the newly restored day on the farm they realise that chickens th water and in a clean vase. Re-cut the stem lay eggs, we milk cows and goats for their 16 Century ‘Help a Hallam Child’ barn ends At an angle as they will have milk and our Sunday lunch is either beef that transports visitors back to the ‘dried’ out at this point and cannot take up from a cow or pork from a pig. The team nineteenth century. With the help of Jenny any water. and teachers share the view that it is Bland, a teacher/actor history advisor, • Adding flower food will increase your important for children to understand how children learn about what life was like in vase life, enhance your blooms and help to the food chain works. 1851 when the Furness family lived at keep your flowers fresh. Pigs, sheep, ducks, goats, cows, and Whirlow Hall Farm. • Change the water and re-cut the stems many other animals live on the 140 acre The children experience the opportunity approximately every third day. farm and children can meet them all! They to travel back in time, which seems to • Keep vases out of direct sunlight and are also able to handle some, under the encourage them to question their do not place on top of the television. watchful eye of the education team, and surroundings and how things have • If bouquets are delivered in cellophane learn about how they are cared for. changed. The period dress helps everyone - remove as soon as possible to prevent the Whirlow is not just a petting farm, many get into character and really shows the item from sweating. of the animals will be sent away for children how different life was in the Specific flower material: slaughter. However, they are also nineteenth century. Roses - cut at least an inch from the reassured that this will never take place on Whirlow Hall Farm Trust was founded stem, at an angle and plunge into cold the farm itself. in 1979 as an educational trust to help water for a long drink (a few hours) before The numerous activities allow the staff disadvantaged children. Since then over arranging. If the heads wilt over - then at Whirlow to teach all visitors about the 400,000 children, from all backgrounds, wrap them up in newspaper, keeping the importance of farms and how people can have experienced the fun learning head straight. Re-cut the stem - plunge influence the farming environment. environment. The farm does not receive stem into boiling water for one minute and Groups can spend a whole day on an earth any government funding so all income then (still wrapped) plunge stems into walk that teaches pupils to explore the must come from sponsorship or fund- deep cold water for several hours. This natural environment using only their raising. should remove the air-lock within the senses. Alternatively, there are shorter For further information on visiting stem. tours that range from taking care of ponies Whirlow, please call 0114 236 0096 or Carnations - cut at an angle between to discovering the differing habitats that visit www.whirlowhallfarm.co.uk. nodes (knuckles) and place in cold water. the farm supports. Many of the tours are Some forthcoming events are: Lily/Chrysanthemum - remove all also suitable for wheelchair users. London 10k race - Sunday 3rd July - foliage that will be below the water and re- There really is something for everyone, Get fit and raise money through the streets cut at an angle. whether it is out on the farm or in one of of London. Tropical Flowers - eg, Anthuriums, the three fully equipped classrooms. All Fruit Picking - July/August 2005- P.Y.O. Birds of Paradise. Cut at an angle and put activities are fun and informative, Strawberries, Raspberries, Gooseberries in clean water. Keep away from draughts whatever the season there is something to etc. Open daily 10am - 6pm.Subject to and try to keep at an even temperature. see and farm tours can be tailored to meet availability. Longiflorum lily / Oriental lily. - cut at curriculum needs for classes in key stage Farm Fayre - Sunday 18th September - an angle and give plenty of water to drink. one, two or three and even Giant Craft Marquee, Farmers Market Remove stamens to prevent staining to lily nursery/reception. Stalls, Children’s Activites, Live and furnishings. If you have a ‘new’ lily Two residential units give children an entertainment, music and dancing plus stain on your clothes or carpet, do not rub opportunity to stay away, perhaps for the much more. it in. Either try to gently knock the stain off with a tea towel or use sellotape to lift • the pollen from the surface. Clothes do “Flexible, generally come clean after washing. Provides full and part-time nursery care Affordable, If there are any flowers you are unsure and education for 2 to 5 year olds. about caring for, please ask one of our Accessible” • Endeavours to meet the individual needs assistants for help. of all children in a stimulating and caring Jo Marshall environment. NDSF. FSF. Cert Ed Valerie of Dore Florists • Committed to working in partnership Hopscotch with parents. Whirlow Park Gates Children’s Centre • Meals and snacks produced on the premises. Sadly the ornamental gates at the (Adj to Dore Primary School) Furniss Avenue, Dore, Sheffield, S17 3QP entrance to Whirlow Park were recently • Open 51 weeks a year, 8am until 6pm. damaged by a stolen car. The car was • Term time only options available. subsequently abandoned and the culprits • Breakfast, After School and Holiday escaped. Clubs for 5 to 11 year olds. The gates have now been removed into storage for safety reasons. The cost of • Qualified and experienced staff. their repair, several thousand pounds, For further information and a • Nursery Education Funding for 3 & 4 seems to make it unlikely that they will prospectus, contact Nicola Chaplin year olds. ever be returned. Once again a small minority with no • Quality Assured by the Sheffield Quality regard for people or property have Tel: 0114 235 3322 Kitemark and Ofsted registered. deprived the community of one of its assets. 8

Looking after between Dore and Abbey Lane. Transport 17 If you are in the habit of straying from Ecclesall Woods the formal path/bridleway network, please A small number of people attended the help to look after your woodland by AGM in March. I must admit that I was Ecclesall Woods, between Dore and keeping to the rights of way wherever not there as I had come out of hospital Millhouses, is the “jewel in the crown” of possible. If certain sections of the rights of only the day before. Many thanks for all Sheffield’s many “ancient” woodlands. way are becoming a problem to use, let the good wishes, etc. Ancient woodlands are those that have Parks Woodlands and Countryside know Those who did attend, heard the good been present for at least 400 years (before and we will try to improve them as news that we have two new drivers and woodland-planting become widespread), appropriate. Help us to conserve and two new escorts. I am sure our passengers and are the richest in wildlife and wild maintain the woods now and for the will be pleased to hear this. We recently plants. Some may date back to the end of future. had to cancel a club because there was the last Ice Age 13,000 years ago. They For more information, please contact me only one driver available that day and, as are an irreplaceable resource. on 0114 2736387 at Parks Woodlands and we service three or four clubs a day, it Ecclesall Woods has a recorded history Countryside Service, SCC. would have been physically impossible going back 700 years, and is the largest Nick Sellwood, Woodlands for him to do it. ancient woodland in South Yorkshire. It is Manager We have received funding to up-date our very important for its archaeology, computer system. Apart from passenger including hundreds of charcoal pits lists, club details, tax, etc., we have to (which provided fuel for the early iron provide statistics to support our claim for industry in Sheffield), and “Q-pits” – the Geology class funding from SYPTE. There is a lot to he big circular depressions, which produced done before the buses even leave on their fuel for lead smelting. Some of the After more than 10 years, the Dore journeys. By the way, John Savournin is in archaeology is very old, including field WEA adult geology class that started in the office every morning from 9 am till systems dating back to Roman times or Abbeydale Hall and has since been at St. noon, if you need to cancel a trip or ask earlier. Overall, the woodland is of John’s Church Hall is on the move again about anything else - such as a donation!! regional importance for this heritage. and has also ‘gone independent’. Tutor We drive around many areas of Because it has been woodland for so Chris Darmon, who has led the class since Sheffield. A lot of our passengers seem to long, it supports wonderful displays of its inception, has decided to leave the live in cul-de-sacs or quite awkward spring flowers like Bluebell and Wood WEA. places to get into. It would be difficult in a Anemone, which in turn support insects “I have great respect for the WEA, but car but in a mini- bus things are not made and birds. These are not found in other recently it has moved in directions that I easy by the number of people who park on newer woodlands, and once lost are know my students, don’t like” said Chris, double yellow lines, especially at corners. virtually impossible to recreate. adding: “My students don’t want to be We are also seeing more and more drivers This heritage is very much loved – over saddled with personal outcomes and all on their mobile phones whilst driving. I 300,000 visits are made to the woodland the form filling that goes with it, they am sad to say that many of them are each year – but is easily lost. There is a come because they enjoy learning, women with children in their cars. I can good network of signposted, generally whatever their age.” also testify to the terrible state of the roads surfaced paths and bridleways across the The next term will commence on having been driven from hospital with a site – although we recognise some can get Monday, September 26th at 2.30pm at very sore tummy!! muddy in winter. However, indiscriminate Totley Rise Methodist Church. The topic Please remember to support the Coffee, use by some visitors of other informal for the Autumn Term will be “Geological Cakes and Cuttings event at English routes – sometimes simply short-cuts – is Jigsaws” - a series of mental brainteasers Martyrs Church, Baslow Road, Totley. causing locally serious damage – stripping that explore rocks, minerals, fossils and This will be on Saturday, 21st May from areas of wildflowers away and eroding the maps - just for fun! 10am till noon. Our thanks to everyone archaeology. In places, horse-riders are No previous experience or knowledge involved and everyone who buys. You are creating jumps over logs near to the of geology is required and new members all stars. Keep safe. bridleways, again causing damage. This is would be most welcome - tel. 2455746 for Margaret Barlow especially the case in the woodland block details.

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11 Dore Well Dressing Henry Petter soon joined forces with The Annual Member’s Handbook - a Shapland, providing the finance and detailed guide to all the places you can Well Dressing time has come around commercial know-how. visit. An essential tool for planning days The piece is to appear in the ‘Quarterly out or longer trips, whether you are once again in Dore. If you would like to th help or just want to see how it is done then Antique and Fine Art Auction’ on 17 touring, walking or just relaxing. come along to the Scout Hut on Rushley June with an estimate guide price of £800 Unlimited entry to more than 300 Road. – 1200 and interest is expected to be high historic houses and gardens throughout We begin making the Well Dressing from both Arts and Crafts and ‘Shapland England, Wales and Northern Ireland. picture on Monday 27th June and finish on & Petter’ buyers. For more information about the Friday 1st July. Times of sessions will be The team of valuers at ELR Auctions National Trust, call 0870 458 4000 or visit advertised on posters in the village nearer are available for free pre-sale advice www.nationaltrust.org.uk the time or you can contact me for more Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. To enter information on tel: 236 0332. items into this auction or for further Everyone welcome. No experience is information please call 0114 281 6161 or Heritage on-line necessary. Whatever your age, male or via the website at www.elrauctions.com female, even if you can only spare an hour Liz Dashper The launch of a new website or two your help will be much appreciated www.derwentyalleymills.org means and it is all for a worthwhile cause as the people from across the globe now have a money raised from the Well Dressing goes A worthy Trust chance to visit the historic Derwent Valley to charity. Mills, Derbyshire’s only World Heritage Barbara Jackson The National Trust cares for over Site. Stretching 15 miles from Matlock 612,000 acres of beautiful countryside in Bath to Derby, this is recognised as the England, Wales and Northern Ireland, plus place where, in the 18th century, water Buried Treasure almost 700 miles of coastline, more than power was successfully tamed for textile 630 buildings and gardens. As a registered production. The valley encompasses a With over 165 years experience valuing charity and completely independent of fascinating series of historic mill and auctioning items in South Yorkshire Government, it relies heavily on the complexes, including some of the world’s and North Derbyshire ELR Auctions team generosity of its almost 3.5 million first ‘modern’ factories. of specialist valuers regularly come across subscribing members. The new website outlines the history of buried treasure! Many visits to Clients As a member you can make the most of the site and includes latest news and homes will uncover some small item that free entry to hundreds of inspiring places events in the area There is also a games the owner considers to be worthless and as often as you like, from grand country section to encourage younger visitors to quite often gets thrown in at the end of a houses and landscaped parks to take an interest. valuation, for it to turn out to be either a outstanding coastline and precious rare item or of great value. wildlife habitats. And when you join the One such find was discovered by ELR’s National Trust, you’ll know that you are Musical Evening furniture specialist when a turn of the helping to protect the places you enjoy - Century Arts and Crafts period impressive ensuring our extraordinary heritage On Saturday July 9th at 7.30pm, St. oak mirror-back sideboard was consigned continues to enrich lives for generations to John’s Church Choir are presenting a for Auction by a local Sheffield Vendor. come. Musical Evening in the Church on The sideboard in question was crafted Member benefits include: Abbeydale Rd. South, followed by a by the North Devon firm of ‘Shapland & A welcome pack with lots of useful Cheese and Wine supper in the Church Petter’, a name synonymous with a mix of information for new members. Hall next door. Tickets price £5 will soon beauty and design that saw the company at Free subscription to the National Trust be available from all members of the choir the forefront of the Arts and Crafts Magazine published three times a year. It or by ringing 0114 236 2597. movement between 1890 and 1914. contains news, views, articles and All profits will be going to Church During 1854 Henry Shapland introduced a gardening tips, as well as regular details Funds. Do support the choir and come and machine for creating ‘wavy’ timber on forthcoming events and activities in have an enjoyable Evening. mouldings with efficiency and accuracy. your area. Phyllis Glossop

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The entry leaflet costing £3, which and information about each planting site. insurer MORE TH>N shows that a 10 per will be available from Valerie of Dore at Large donations may enable areas of cent reduction in school commuting by car least two weeks in advance, gives more woodland to be named in a persons could prevent 190 deaths and injuries a details. You can also buy the entry leaflet honour. year – that’s one for every school day. at the first garden visited. The scheme has been a great success so The report also suggests that the Gardens opening this year include: far, a donation of £100 for in Government’s plans to review current Owl End, off Newfield Lane Sheffield has created a dedicated area of school transport including extending the The Vicarage, 51 Vicarage Lane woodland the ‘Eric Marshall copse’. This traditional ‘school run’ period of 8am to 85 Devonshire Road has been planted by his son Sean Marshall 9am to between 7am and 10am, could 32 Devonshire Road in memory of his father Eric. There has reduce congestion by two thirds, resulting 33 Newfield Crescent also for example been planting in in 304 fewer casualties a year. Watch out for notices as there may be Rotherham as a wedding present to The increasing number of children more new gardens opening. newlyweds Jess and Gavin. being driven to school means that roads If you are stuck for present ideas and are becoming more clogged up for you would like to give the ‘Gift that everyone during peak morning hours South Yorkshire Forest Grows’ you can contact the South (between 8am and 9am), and in addition Yorkshire Forest Partnership direct on almost 7,000 people (including 200 Did you know you are sat in the South 0114 257 1199 or you can email them at children) are killed or injured each year in Yorkshire Forest right now? 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It boasts 75 members and has children and 20 per cent of secondary launching a new scheme which will enable issued two CDs: Spite Winter, a selection school age are now driven to school every more trees to be planted. This is called of winter and Christmas songs, and Here day. This is even greater in areas like ours. ‘Gift that Grows’. If you are stuck for is my Home, featuring songs for every It’s easy to understand why more present ideas – why not give people trees! season. children are being driven to school: You don’t need to worry about fitting a The Chorale presents material which is today’s parents are busier than ever, and tree in your shopping bag though – ‘Gift distinctive yet very accessible. The concerned about the safety of their that Grows’ does all the hard work. ‘Gift atmosphere is relaxed, with informal children yet the resulting increase in that Grows’ means trees are planted to background introductions to each song. traffic may actually be making the celebrate Christmas, birthdays and The summer programme for 2005 situation more dangerous. The key is to weddings or in memory of special people. includes a concert at Beauchief Abbey on encourage travelling to schools by bus or The trees are planted in parks and public 9 July, 7.30 pm. on foot rather than relying on the car. spaces across South Yorkshire, with Tickets are available from 0114 236 planting areas available in Sheffield, 1213 @ £4 - or £5 on the day. Profits go Rotherham, Doncaster and Barnsley. to local charities and to cover choir PILATES training - individual and It costs £5 per tree, this pays for the tree, expenses. small group instruction. 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14 PRINTDESIGN Oral History Collection In conversation with Jean Pearson (nee Clark) Jean was born in Sheffield, the eldest child of Frank and Margaret Clark. In 1929, when she was eighteen months old, her parents came to Dore to take over the tenancy of the Hare and Hounds public house. Jean’s younger brothers John and David and her sister Lynne were all born at the Hare and Hounds in the 1930s. In those days the pub was much smaller and occupied only the churchyard end of the present building. Jean explains “There was Jack Thorpe’s butcher’s at the other end, the Post Office and a little grocer’s next to our front door.” The postmaster was Stanley Mace helped by his wife Hilda and the sole public telephone in the village was actually inside the Post Office. “At first they lived up the stone steps in our back yard and the rear part was the post office sorting room. Their red bicycles were kept in a shed next to our coalhouse.” The occupant of the little Inside the Hare & Hounds - Frank Clark pulling a pint, but who are the customers? grocer’s was a Miss Shaw, “a very genteel lady”, who lodged with Mrs. Farnsworth to come from Millhouses with a delivery terraces of cottages, one backing on to the on the Green and did lovely knitting. of packets “beautifully wrapped in acid school yard, the other fronting Savage The Clark family lived over the top of free tissue and tied up with string and Lane. Jean remembers a lively the pub but had a large downstairs kitchen sealing wax.” community of families who lived and with a black-leaded Yorkshire range, big However, they had a very happy worked where cars are now parked. On copper flour bins and iron ham hooks. childhood and attended the village school the corner was Moseley’s, corn merchant Jean says “As children, we weren’t when Mr. Speight was Headmaster. It and general store. Kenneth Moseley’s allowed in the pub, you know; we had to would seem that the girls were generally father kept pigs, pigeons and hens behind run through into the kitchen or straight sensible but the lads “got up to all sorts of the shop and “the squealing of pigs being upstairs, there being no other access.” She tricks.” One scene Jean clearly killed on a Sunday afternoon is a can see again the spittoons on the floor remembers is of Miss Hodkin washing out nightmare memory.” and the stuffed birds and fish in glass a boy’s mouth with soap because he had cases. Frank and Mrs. Clark (as she was been swearing. Opposite the front entrance to the Hare always known) must have made a good In those idyllic days when Dore was still and Hounds was Fred Marshall’s shop living, because Jean remembers two live- in Derbyshire the cows used to come which sold wonderful ham, pies and in maids, sisters Mary and Eleanor, who through the village from Frith’s farm on sausages all produced from their own farm wore daytime and evening uniforms. Church Lane. Jean recalls “The highlight on Townhead Road. Jean recalls that her Jean’s parents were strict disciplinarians of my early life was to go round, before father, who was a master butcher, made especially at mealtimes and although they school, in the milk cart with Willy Arthur, sausages at Marshall’s farm. Mrs. were never hit with the cane there was just round the church and back.” Milk Marshall always kept a sign in her window always one on the table. They were was measured out from big churns into the saying “Hot Water Supplied” for the frequently reminded to “Sit up straight!” housewives’ own jugs. When she was benefit of passing walkers or cyclists. and “Don’t speak with food in your older Jean enjoyed riding her pony, before mouth”. On one occasion Mother broke school and a photograph of her on the cane banging on the table so Jean was horseback once appeared in a national PARK VETERINARY HOSPITAL sent very unwillingly to buy a new one. newspaper with the headline “Jean Clark A member of The four children were also made to line Rides to School on her Pony Every Day”. THE BRITISH VETERINARY HOSPITALS up for their regular doses of cod liver oil, She laughs at the memory “Well! The ASSOCIATION stables were at Dore Hall Farm which was syrup of figs and brimstone and treacle • OPEN 8.00AM - 7.00PM MON-FRI, 8.00AM-4.00PM “whether we needed it or not”. 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16 Jean describes with pleasure that sometimes on a Sunday afternoon, having been to Church and Sunday school, the four Clark children and their cousin Jack were allowed a treat. “We were given money to go and have tea at Mrs. Marshall’s. Everything was home-made and lovely. She was a dear old lady!” At the age of eleven Jean passed the scholarship but because her mother did not like the idea of her going on the train to Dronfield she went to Notre Dame in Sheffield. “I was only there two terms when war broke out. They closed the school which was then evacuated out to Derwent Hall, now under the dam. I did not want to go, to board anywhere. I wanted to stay at home. So I went to Dore and Totley High School, Miss Trott’s.” Jean’s memories of wartime are very vivid. “We slept in the cellar for months during the war. We had bunk beds down there, we four children. When the Blitz dry martinis in the modern surroundings came it was rather unpleasant, especially of Jean’s Cocktail Bar. But that’s another when the bombs dropped in the village, story! Olympic Training nine of them! We heard them, you know, Maureen Cope whistling down. Father said “It’s only the Dore Oral History Group Arvon is part of the HFT (Home Farm guns” “Oh no it isn’t” we chorused. We Trust) team of three travelling from knew, we heard the whistle”. Later when Sheffield to Glasgow in July to take part in they looked towards Sheffield “It was so the Special Olympics. Arvon’s sport is awful because we could see the sky all power lifting, and his training has been red.” given a special boost thanks to the support Frank Clark was head of the fire-watching of Sheffield Constabulary. group for his sector and Jean recounts PS Alan Boyle of The Sharrow Local many instances of her father’s humour in Police Team, Sheffield South got on the the “Dads Army” situations. “Father case and asked Club Hallam to give Arvon would be standing at the front door, not access to their Olympic class facilities to having gone to bed, and the sirens would complete his tough training schedule. go and then the A.R.P. wardens would be Arvon has his own trainer, and he plans to coming along in pyjamas and overcoats to be at the gym, for three training sessions a go and meet in the chapel. And father week. would be saying “You’re late!” Jean Also training hard for the July laughs. On one occasion Frank said to his competition are; local resident Sarah, a men “We’ve got all the important keen and accomplished equestrian, and buildings in this sector- the two pubs, the Nigel who will be taking part in the cycle chapel, the church and the school. So, Above - the front of the Hare & Hounds racing events. we’d better have a practice on the church from Church Lane as it would have looked Sue Cooke, Fund Development roof.” Afterwards, he was hauled over the when Jean was young, and below - the bar Manager coals for causing alarm and despondency. as it once was. Frank also had to deal with any animal that had run amok as a result of injury during bombing raids. “He’d got the humane killer in the bedroom. Mother A Bespoke Financial Planning Service didn’t like it at all!” Jean exclaims. Mrs Clark, who was “good at organizing for Personal & Corporate Clients everything and everybody” did her bit for I Investments I Tax Efficient Savings the war effort by running a knitting circle and raising money for the Hare and I Pensions I Wills & Estate Planning Hounds Cigarette Fund. Women started to I I come into the pub on their own because Mortgages* Pre and post Retirement Advice their husbands were away in the forces I Life Assurance I Wealth Management Specialists and the Lounge Bar provided a meeting place for them. The Tap Room, however, remained a male only domain where Mrs Local & Independent Clark played the piano to accompany the rousing choruses from the visiting troops, Authorised & regulated by the Financial Services Authority based at Knowle Green and camped in fields between Kings Croft and Gilleyfield www.phfs-ifa.co.uk Farm. All this was happening in our Office opening hours: 9.30-5.00pm village sixty years ago. *Mortgages are not regulated by the FSA Jean’s reminiscences of her childhood draw to a close, but for many of the post- *your home is at risk if you do not keep up repayments on a mortgage or loan secured on it. war generation she will be remembered for her own contribution to the Clark family tenancy of the Hare and Hounds, Contact us on 0114 235 3500 which ended in 1972. In the swinging sixties, all the groovy people of Dore and Offices at:- 160 Baslow Road, Totley 63 Middlewood Road, beyond would gather to gossip and drink 14 High Street, Staveley 61 Market Street, Eckington

17 Well Dressing Diary 2005 Beauchief Gardens Abbeydale Throughout the spring and summer, a Miniature Railway Many were the gifts which Alderman succession of old Derbyshire villages put Sundays 1pm - 5pm approx Dr. John George Graves (1866 to 1945) on well dressings, often associated with a donated to Sheffield. His name is, of week of village festivities. May 29th & 30th (Bank Holiday) course, commemorated in Graves Park These are just some of the dates. You June 5th & 19th (1926) and the Graves Art Gallery (his can find out more details, or opportunities July 2nd & 3rd portrait is on the right just as you go into to see well dressing in progress, by ringing (Open Days & exhibition) the gallery). But it goes much further – for the Chesterfield Tourist Information July 17th. August 7th & 21st instance, there would be no Round Walk Centre on 01246 345 7777/8. without his generosity. You can find us in Ecclesall Woods, In 1933, the Graves Trust donated what May off Abbeydale Road South. was to become the Abbeydale Industrial 5-11 Tissington Www.sheffieldsmee.co.uk Hamlet museum. Then in 1935 came the 21-23 Etwall nearby Beauchief Gardens, which many 21-29 Ashford in the Water readers will remember with affection. 28-31 Central Library archive photos up to 1980 28-4 Middleton-by-Youlgrave Wyvern Walkers show their beautiful layout, with 28-5 Monyash immaculately striped lawns. The website There have now been 6 walks in this www.picturesheffield.com shows two of June calendar year under the programme of these photos. 12-19 Cressbrook guided walks through the Dore Village But times change, and not always for the 18-26 Tideswell Society’s Wyvern Walkers group. They better. Never again, we may assume, will 18-26 Litton have been varied and enjoyable walks, Beauchief Gardens have a full-time 25-30 Youlgrave with between 12 and 20 people on each gardener. Over recent years they fell into a 25-1 Rowsley walk. very sad decline. Now, many people do 25-3 Bakewell Walks are usually about 6 miles long not even know they exist. 25-3 Hope and return to Dore by lunchtime. The next And yet their position is an excellent series of walks has now been arranged and one: adjoining the lake (Beauchief Dam) are summarised below: July th next to the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, 1-9 Old Whittington (Chesterfield) Monday 9 May: The walk will start and at the end of one of the main paths 2-9 Hathersage in Dore and will be 7 miles. It will go past through Ecclesall Woods. The woods, of 2-10 Old Tupton (Chesterfield) Bole Hill Cottage to the viewing point on course, have recently been greatly 2-10 Over Haddon the top of Blacka Moor, returning via the improved by the co- operation between 2-10 Dore Totley Rifle Range and Totley Bents Friends of Ecclesall Woods and the 2-11 Harthill Tuesday 31st May: This walk will Council, resulting in the coveted Green 8-15 Dronfield Woodhouse proceed from Dore via Ladyspring Wood Flag award. 9-14 Coal Aston It was during a guided tour of the 10-17 Buxton and Chancet Wood to Graves Park, archaeology of Ecclesall Woods – which, 10-17 returning to Dore via Millhouses Park and again, have more to them than many 14-20 Pilsley Village (nr Bakewell) Ecclesall Woods. It will be 6 miles long. people realise – that someone pointed out 16-23 Heath (nr Chesterfield) Friday 15th July: The walk today will to Paul Whyman the extent of the decline 16-24 Holmesfield Children’s Well start from Sir William Hill in Hathersage, in the fortunes of Beauchief Gardens. 16-24 Cutthorpe incorporating Highlow Wood and When another person made a similar 16-24 Millthorpe Hazelbadge Hall.Overall about 6 miles. comment a few weeks later, Paul 16-24 Little Longstone Sunday 31st July: This walk will be telephoned Friends of Millhouses Park, 23-1 about 5 miles and will start from who readily accepted the challenge. 30-7 Bradwell Holmesfield. It will incorporate Barlow Sheffield Newspapers enthusiastically supported the venture with publicity. At August , Moorhall and Burrs Wood. the first clean-up event on November 6th 11-14 Great Hucklow Friday 26th August: Today’s 6 mile 2004, twenty or more people dramatically 17-24 Barlow walk will start from Moscar Lodge and transformed the paths and foliage on the 20-27 Taddington will go via Sugsworth Hall to Dale Dyke, side of the gardens adjoining the lake. 25-1 Holymoorside returning to Moscar Lodge. Further transformation was achieved in 27-4 Foolow For all these walks the meeting place is March 2005. 28-3 Eyam Dore Old School at 9.30am. The Friends are enhancing the historical archive of the gardens. Photos can be a big help in trying to restore the gardens as sympathetically as possible. If you have any that show off the layout of the gardens, these could prove very useful. These will be promptly returned, and no copies will be published without Antique & Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers permission and accreditation. Please send any photos to Mike Kidder, 89 Dobcroft Thinking of selling Antiques? Do you require a Valuation? Rd, Sheffield S7 2LS. Professional Valuation Service Quarterly Antique & Fine art Specialist Sales and Work sessions are on Saturdays, from for 10:00 to 12:00. The remaining 2005 Fortnightly Antique & Collectables Sales G Insurance th nd Our National and Internationl Customer Base G Probate sessions are May 7 , July 2 , September G th th are always seeking to purchase Insurance Claims 17 , and November 12 . Tools are G Family Division provided. Antique furniture, Porcelain, Paintings, Silver G Inheritance Tax Why not come and have some fun? It’s and Jewellery, Sporting Memorabilia, Coins, Contact us for a confidential Home visit cheaper than going to the gym! 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Book reviews interested in fishing. Fish-it! Is a new Walking Week 2005 guide to coarse fishing in the South The is full of surprises. Yorkshire area, containing information on The principle of a Walking Week was Away from dramatic and popular over 70 lakes, ponds, reservoirs and initiated last year to provide a range of attractions there are hidden uncrowded canals. It has been written by local interesting local walks as part of the Dore valleys and villages waiting to be enthusiast Chris Keeling in a handy pocket Festival. The idea is that there will be discovered. Three new books provide format. The guide is three area sections, something within the week’s walking that opportunities to explore the District’s with maps showing the location of all the everyone can enjoy, whatever their attractions. sites and for each a handy summary. These abilities and level of fitness. Peak District Illustrated Walks by provide day ticket prices, a description of Monday 27th June: This 6 mile walk Trevor Yorke is exactly what is says on the the site, how to find it, the types of fish, will start from Grindleford, walking via cover. Each of the 20 circular walks are and the facilities available. There is even a Padley Chapel, Longshaw and the River generously illustrated with beautifully useful list of tackle shops. Published in Derwent, returning to Grindleford. drawn black and white maps and pictures. colour by Pickard Communication price Tuesday 28th June: This walk will The walks vary in length from 2 fi to 5 fi £7.99 ISBN 0-9547264-3-X start from Dore and will be 7 miles. it will miles and each route description is ---- go via Bushey Wood and Twentywell accompanied by details on how to get to Sometimes overgrown and forgotten, Brickworks to Bradway, returning via the start, where to park and where to go for yet full of memories, cemeteries can Woodthorpe Hall and Totley Hall to Dore. refreshments nearby. There are also provide a fascinating record and insight Wednesday 29th June: This 6 mile interesting historical notes on the into the human history of local walk will also start from Dore and will buildings, curiosities and sights to be seen communities. It comes to us all is a consist of a circular tour based on the en route. The illustrations and maps are a portrait of Cemetery, the first Watermill sites of the streams feeding into pleasure in themselves and bound to make established municipal cemetery in the Upper Sheaf. you want to explore the routes for Sheffield. Written by Julie Stone whose Thursday 30th June: Today’s walk yourself. Published by Countryside Books grandfather was Superintendent, the book will be 6 miles. Starting from Dore we £7.99, 96 pages ISBN 1-85306-892-6 looks at the cemetery as part of peoples will walk via Whitelow Lane, crossing ---- lives, at its rules and regulations, and at Houndkirk Moor and to The new Freedom to Roam legislation some of the inscriptions and stories behind Hathersage. We will return by bus (or has opened up acres of previously them. It is full of old atmospheric black train) to Dore. inaccessible countryside to Peak District and white photographs and completed by a Friday 1st July: Today will be a Health walkers. Two new pocket size guides guide to the site and list of surnames Walk led by one of Sheffield’s Health written by Roly Smith offer a chance to mentioned. This fascinating little book Rangers. This will be a short walk of about begin to explore these rich new running, to 50 pages, will appeal to 1 hour and will explore the green spaces of opportunities for walkers. Peak District: anyone interested in social history. Dore. Refreshments after the walk. Northern and Western Moors, features Published by Northend Ltd price £4.99 Saturday 2nd July: This walk will be a walks on wild moors and tors which were and available from local bookshops or circular walk starting from Edale. We will the scene of much early campaigning from Northern Map Distributors on 0800 make the strenuous but not difficult ascent while Peak District: East and South, 834920 ISBN 0-901100-56-0 to Ringing Roger, walk along the edge of explores the landscapes and wildlife of the the Kinder Plateau, returning via national park. Each guide includes an . The walk will be 6 miles introduction to the area: its landscape, Adult Learners’ Week and a modest pace will be followed. This history and wildlife, 12 walks, graded for walk will start by meeting at Dore railway difficulty (from 5 to 10 miles) and detailed From Saturday 21st May Sheffield will station to get the 9.20am train to Edale, colour Ordnance Survey maps. There are once again be joining in the national returning from Edale on either the 14.30 special features on points of interest celebration of adult learning. All across train or the 15.30 train. Full details on the chosen to add to walkers’ enjoyment of the the city and surrounding areas there will Notice Board. Bring a packed lunch and countryside, practical information for be hundreds of events, activities and taster your train fare. visitors and information on public rights sessions going on for anyone to come Sunday 3rd July: Today’s walk will be of access. Each guide runs to 144 pages. along to, take part, learn something and about 5.5 miles. The walk will start from Published by Frances Lincoln in have fun too! the Layby beside Whirlow Park and will conjunction with the Ramblers’ You’re never too old to learn and Adult take us up the Limb Valley, along Porter Association, price £7.99 each . Learners’ Week is a great opportunity to Clough to the Round House, returning ---- get involved and get in to learning for life! down Limb Valley. Cicerone Press continue to produce the To find out more you can have a chat to For the walk on 1st July, the meeting largest range of specialist books for the friendly staff on the Market Stall time is 10.30 at the Old School. walkers covering every part of the Britain which will be at the top of Fargate on 21st For the walk on 2nd July, the meeting and most popular walking venues abroad. May to help launch the week. time is either Dore Station at 9.15am or Some of the recently published books Adult Learners’ Week is an opportunity the Old School at 9.00am. include Walking in Lancashire, for adults to have a go at something new For all the other Walking Week walks, Glyndwr’s Way (from Knighton to by trying out one of the hundreds of FREE please meet at 9.30am at the Old School. Welshpool) and Walking in the taster sessions that happen across England Dordogne. Each book is published in during the week, and an opportunity for handy pocket size and amply illustrated education providers to show adults what is The Peak District will be joining other with colour maps and photographs. There on offer. national parks around the country for a is a choice of difficulty and length (both The week is supported by so many week of celebration events and activities distance and time taken) with organisations including Sheffield First for from July 22 to 29. The week is dedicated introductions to the area of each walk, Learning and Work; the Learning and to raising public awareness of the UK's 13 details of where to park and clear Skills Council; the Workers’ Educational national parks and this year's theme is instructions on the route. Most books are Association; Sheffield College; Sheffield ‘Access and Outreach', aiming to priced in the £10 to £13 range and offer a University, Sheffield Hallam University, encourage a wider range of people to visit winning formula. Available from all good many more, so there is bound to be the parks. bookshops, or for a full list phone someone there who can help. Cicerone Press on 01539 562 069. If you can’t make it on that day, there’s ---- lots of activities taking place throughout MASSAGE THERAPY - for Walkers seem very well catered for in the week – more information can be found relaxation or treatment of general aches the publishing industry, so it is refreshing at www.learningpays.org or simply call and pains. Ladies only. Call Lizzie Self to come across a new book aimed at those the learndirect National Learning Advice MHFST Qualified Sports Massage line on FREE phone 0800 100 900. Therapist on Freephone 0800 7811075. 20 Dore Physiotherapy Practice The railway navvies up to the value of each ticket. A form of or sheriffs needed shows of force from the commission was charged for this service, local constabulary or militia to back up Part 2 - To the end of the line with the gangers and contractors sharing their threats of punishment. It was, the rake-off. Some contractors made more nonetheless, usually enough to restore (Continued from our Winter 2004 issue) out of this form of credit than they did order. Sadly, the mayhem created by these Despite their relatively high wages, from their railway construction work. drunken randies and riots made the compared to other labourers, the navvies’ They could even afford to run a job at a navvies even more unpopular with the earnings did not go far. For a start the loss, in the certain knowledge that truck locals through whose communities they contractors usually made sizeable deals would produce a tidy profit. were driving the line. deductions for “rent”. For the very few Battles and brawls Wives and women men travelling with wives, and sometimes Little wonder, with such relentless Another reason why most navvies were even their children, the “rent” might cover working conditions, appalling generally unwelcome, except in the most very basic lodgings in villages near the accommodation and poor food, that many basic of alehouses, was their interest in route of the line. Most of the men, navvies drank heavily even when they local women. Most navvies were young or however, were paying for temporary and were working. Intoxication was a factor in youngish men, but very few lived as most often quite degrading camp-like the many accidents, and the navvies’ married men. Quite a number were accommodation beside the railway heavy drinking caused violence to spill married, some bigamously, as excavations. At best these were over into the communities outside their relationships were contracted in one area improvised and draughty communal camps when men spent their cash on ale and then another as the railway network barracks with little or no sanitation, and spirits in a wild binge after waiting expanded. sleeping up to 25 men in hammocks (and several weeks for their “long pay” days. Very occasionally, married navvies were occasionally their wives, or female Under these circumstances, even after accompanied by their wives and children, companions). At worst the navvies were deductions, many navvies still drew but most often women cohabiting with housed in overcrowded shanties whose sizeable amounts. Most, and in many navvies remained unmarried, particularly timber frames were covered by turf, cases all, of their wages were spent on in the early years of railway building. branches, bracken and straw. Sometimes alcohol until they were too stupefied to Girls and women ensnared into the these structures were held together with a continue. On such occasions any patriotic navvies’ way of life - sometimes called lick of tar for weatherproofing, but there or religious disagreements between the “tally- women” - had a terribly miserable was a complete disregard for comfort and different nationalities - and occasionally time and could usually only get by in the sanitation. between navvies from opposing counties - shanties and huts, where they lived cheek Then there were the detested “truck” frequently erupted into brawls and even by jowl with the men, under the so-called rackets. Some railway lines were miles some famous pitched battles. role of “landladies”. from the nearest shops, so the contractors Lesser affrays or drunken frolics, which In the early years there are several made arrangements for food and drink totally disrupted work on the site, were accounts of navvies selling or “lending” (including plenty of ale) to be brought in called “randies” and could last for several their wives to other men for trifling from the cheapest possible local sources, days until the money (or the drink) had run amounts of money or gallons of ale. In the then sold to the navvies in contractors’ out. Many randies had a habit of main, most camp women were nothing “truck” or “tommy” shops at grossly developing into full-blown riots, and with more than common dogsbodies, looking inflated prices. The food was often a largely rudimentary police force in most after the needs of a group of navvies by unwholesome, stale, or short-weight, and counties, or just local volunteers, this sort cooking their meals, doing their washing the ale or gin commonly watered down. of lawlessness was very difficult to quell. and providing what other services were Men who had no other sources of Only London had a proper police force demanded of them. When no local female sustenance, except for poaching or often- before 1839. Because of the huge numbers companionship was forthcoming on pay polluted water from local streams, had to of drunken men involved, many local days, some navvies looked for easy patronise the contractor’s shop or starve. magistrates or sheriffs were forced into conquests in nearby towns or villages. An even worse aspect of this swindle reading the Riot Act in the hope that its When groups of navvies were based in was the racket which involved issuing threats of imprisonment or transportation an area for long periods - doing slow “tickets” to navvies when they were short would make the navvies disperse without tunnelling work, for instance - there was of money, as many always were. Tickets causing further trouble. Reading the Riot often a big increase in the number of were issued in lieu of cash “subs” against Act was not the easiest of things to do in illegitimate baptisms in nearby parishes. future pay and were exchangeable for front of hundreds of angry men fuelled by At Woodhead, where over 1,000 navvies items, including liquor, in the truck shops alcohol; understandably, most magistrates were tunnelling for several years during the 1840s, quite large numbers of children baptised in the local church were illegitimate. These casual relationships could and did produce other problems; venereal disease was a fairly common disorder among some navvies and their women. The navvies’ champion Despite their limitations, when sober most navvies were fairly polite men. They were also usually respectful towards the doctors, clergymen, and the other so- called “missionaries” who made occasional trips to their squalid camps to provide medical help, save souls or encourage a more moral way of life. Apart from these small groups, where conscience motivated concern for their fellow man, very little was ever done to improve the lot of the navvies. There were no payouts when men were killed in accidents, and compensation could only he claimed when men were badly disabled and then only if they could prove that their employer had been negligent - an almost

22 hopeless task. The “navvies’ newspaper” times reckless, rude and riotous men. Because of the terrible list of casualties Elizabeth Garnett visited many sites to Records of navvies resulting from the construction of the first speak with the navvies, discover their The full names of some navvies can he Woodhead tunnel, the social reformer and needs and champion their causes. She difficult to establish. Many men, as barrister Edwin Chadwick (1801-1890) soon realised that men working in remote mentioned in Part 1, were known only by took up the navvies’ cause and areas were keen for news about what was their pet names or nicknames. Their real campaigned valiantly for better working happening elsewhere in their industry, and names were a mystery to the contractors conditions and compensation for for this reason she is best remembered for employing them, to their friends and even, accidents. Eventually, in 1846, he her Quarterly Letter to Navvies, first sometimes, to their wives or women succeeded in getting a parliamentary published in 1878. The Quarterly Letter friends. Occasionally navvies do turn up select committee set up to look into the was issued just four times a year and was under their “ordinary” names in parish issues. Its disturbing report, along with the initially given away free. In its columns registers, though rarely in 19th century select committee’s recommendations for Elizabeth Garnett carried out a long, and church marriage registers. They often reform, was totally ignored by MPs. at times vitriolic, campaign for appear in baptismal registers - many Nothing was done. temperance and better moral standards fathered illegitimate children, but may not A similar lack of compassion was from the men building the railways. always be named - and most frequently in shown by the Church of England. Almost The Quarterly Letter became far more burial registers after fatal accidents. Here, all of its senior clergy opposed the vast popular when Mrs Garnett included the amount of information about them is social and economic changes being details of railway workings to help generally very brief. Sometimes there may brought about by the numerous schemes navvies on the tramp in search of jobs. be local collections of various records of railway building. They disapproved, Also listed were men injured or killed in pertaining to navvies held in the even more strongly, of the depraved and accidents (though not all are recorded), appropriate record office or local studies violent way in which so many navvies sometimes with potted obituaries. Later, archive. lived. So the clergy, like society in details of navvies’ marriages were added In general, railway contractors did not general, usually tried to avoid contact with and a whole range of other news items and keep lasting records of their itinerant the itinerant navvies. The navvies’ way of notices - including enquiries for missing employees. However, some navvies, after life was constantly condemned in sermons husbands, and sometimes missing wives - working on the construction of a particular preached before straight-laced Victorian as well as advice on wholesome food and line, joined the railway company congregations. The navvies were a prime herbal remedies for the many dreadful concerned and donned its uniform. In example of how not to live, and the path complaints that threatened a navvy’s these new jobs they may appear in its they had chosen would surely lead to hell livelihood. records, now mainly held at the National and damnation. In many ways In a change of name in 1893 the Archives (formerly the Public Record Nonconformist lay readers and Quarterly Letter to Navvies became the Office) at Ruskin Avenue, Kew, missionaries were far more sympathetic; Quarterly Letter to Men of Public Works, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU; website: often the only call the navvies made on the and Elizabeth Garnett continued to www.pro.govuk. clergy of the established church was for a produce the publication until 1917. In Wayward navvies appeared with some few words at a burial in the local 1920 it was absorbed into the Navvy regularity in local magistrates courts, churchyard after another accident at work. Mission’s The Torch; Mrs Garnett died in mainly for petty crime. Before the 1840s The Navvy Mission Society the following year, aged 81. Despite being the proceedings are unlikely to have been Nevertheless, concern for the spiritual revived in 1927, a revamped Quarterly reported in much detail, if at all, in local and moral well-being of the navvies still Letter was short-lived, closing with the newspapers. Certain knowledge of the flickered among the “missionaries”, and in October 1933 edition. place (and time) where an offence was the mid- 1870s - at a time when almost all The end of the lines committed is often necessary in order to the major British lines had been built - the It is a fitting tribute to the railway locate a newspaper report of named Navvy Mission Society was formed by the navvies that one of the last major railway individuals. Reverend Lewis Moule Evans, a routes built by them was the Settle and Navvies should appear on Victorian Yorkshire vicar, who died in 1879. Carlisle line. Started in 1869, this census returns. Mrs Garnett’s Quarterly Amongst his most vigorous evangelists challenging route took six years to Letter to Navvies, with its regular listings was the widowed Mrs Elizabeth Garnett complete, mainly across picturesque and of deaths, and its obituaries and other (1839-1921) of Otley in Yorkshire, whose rugged moorland, with the majestic notices, remains, however, probably the early contributions to the cause included Smardale viaduct taking over four and a most illuminating source of information the Christian Excavators’ Union and the half years to complete. Tough times now on the railway navvies. A full set of this Christian Excavators’ Temperance Pledge. lay ahead and the still quite numerous “navvies’ newspaper” - from August 1878 Whilst these organisations were far from traditional navvies with their pick or to Christmas 1919 and April 1927 to instant successes, most navvies did shovel found jobs were scarce. In the October 1933 - can be consulted in the appreciate this evidence of concern for 1880s the advent of mechanical “steam reading room of the British Library their welfare, and when the Rev Moule navvies”, a single piece of machinery able Newspaper Library, Colindale Avenue, Evans died from consumption at a to shift the earth and rock that had once London NW9 5HE; website: www.bi.uk/ relatively young age hundreds of navvies provided employment for 200 getters and catalogues/newspapers.htrnl. tramped to his funeral. fitters, worsened their plight. By the turn Further reading With its founder gone, the Navvy of the century many had emigrated to Coming of the Railways, by Pam Mission Society pressed on, largely under work on railway lines overseas, as some Robson (Macdonald, 1996). the guidance and inspiration of Elizabeth had done years earlier. Those unable to Early Railways, by Rodney Dale Garnett and her team of missionaries. find work on the railways turned to other, (British Library, 1994). They did much to improve navvies’ more ordered forms of labouring. By the Our Navvies, by Elizabeth Garnett accommodation and introduced time Queen Victoria died in 1901 the (Hodder and Stoughton, 1885). alternatives to heavy bouts of drinking traditional railway navvies were in steep The Railway Navvies, by Terry Coleman which even ran to organising sports such decline, and by 1910 this breed of men (Penguin, 1965; reprinted 1981). as cricket. When economic conditions had almost completely passed into history. The Transportation of Britain, 1830- were too hard to contemplate cricket, the Sadly, there are only a handful of British 1939, by G E Mingay (Paladin, Grafton Navvy Mission, backed by the memorials to navvies. Possibly the most Books, 1986). contributions from sympathetic middle- famous is the tunnel-shaped memorial in The Railway Age, by Michael Robbins and upper-class sponsors, often stepped in Otley churchyard in West Yorkshire. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962). to feed starving men and their families. Otherwise it is the railway tunnels, Tom Wood Late in the 1880s the Mission even embankments, cuttings, bridges and Ed. This article is reproduced with the introduced the “blue ticket” - a form of viaducts that are reminders of the kind permission of the Family Tree union card - to help navvies to find work. engineering skills of these daring, and at Magazine June and July 2003.

23 The Wildlife Garden spring, but a few weeks after the chives prettiest of insects in a garden, many began flowering, they had virtually adults are handsome creatures. A large For hoverflies, mimicking the disappeared. number have yellow and black stripes; appearance of a wasp can be a double- However, when I examined the roses others are white and black, while some edged sword. While their bold yellow and more closely, I noticed there were a even resemble bees. But despite their black warning stripes may well deter birds number of small, translucent maggots different appearances, what they all have from making a meal of them, the wasp- making their undulating way around the in common is that, as their name implies, like pattern will hardly endear these leaves. These unprepossessing organisms they can hover and watching one in action insects to most people. If one were in fact the larvae of hoverflies and it is like being present at an aerial ballet. inadvertently flies in through an open was them, rather than the smell of my Not only can they hover in one spot for window, it is often at the receiving end of chives, that got rid of the pests. minutes at a time, they will also dart a thwack from a rolled up newspaper. This One year’s results are not enough to backwards and forwards across the garden is a tragedy not only for the insect, but also build up a firm scientific case, but at such speed their progress is for the gardeners amongst us, as the larvae nevertheless, the same thing happened the breathtaking. of many of the 250 or so British hoverfly following summer. Not only did the Despite their warning colours, species are voracious predators of aphids. hoverfly larvae clear all the aphids off my hoverflies are in fact gentle creatures and I never realised just how effective they roses, they also cleaned up the nasturtiums will happily sit on the back of your hand are at killing pests until one spring when I and courgette plants - in fact anything that sunning themselves, their wings planted a number of chives by my rose had big floppy leaves which the birds were shimmering like miniature rainbows. But bushes. Every year my lovely ‘Maiden’s unable to poke around while looking for just as a fidgety three year old child seems Blush’ roses would get covered in aphids, food. incapable of sitting still for any length of which no amount of blasting with water So why did it work? Adult hoverflies time, a hoverfly will soon be off, zipping from a hose-pipe or spraying with seem to spend much of their time sitting this way and that above the flower beds. insecticidal soap could get rid of. One day around sunning themselves and sucking Apart from the larvae of narcissus flies I read on the Internet that an American nectar from flowers, although unlike many which feed on bulbs, most hoverflies are organic rose grower had planted garlic other flies, they also eat pollen. However, innocuous, beneficial insects and it seems bulbs around his roses and found they kept all this self-indulgence isn’t simply the ironic that a warning coloration which has aphids away. He thought the reason for hoverflies equivalent of la dolce vita, once protected them for millennia is now a this was probably due to the allium’s replete with nectar and protein from liability. Perhaps nature should step in and pungent smell. pollen, a female will search for a suitable print ‘I am not a wasp’ on their wings. I decided to have a go, but unfortunately place to lay her eggs: always close to a Jack Daw that spring the suppliers had sold out of reliable source of food for her young. garlic bulbs so instead, as a stop-gap In my garden, a female hoverfly was no measure, I dug up some of the clumps of doubt attracted to the chives’ lovely purple Apex Players will present a brand new chives that were growing in my garden flower heads and found my aphid-infested comedy, “Three times a day after meals” and planted them next to the roses. roses just a short flight away. Of course I by Paul Cambell and Stephen Doyle at the All right they might not have the can’t prove any of this, but what I do know Sheffield Library Theatre from 26-28 May pungency of their Mediterranean cousins, is that once the eggs hatched and the at 7.30pm. 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Piano, Electronic hair stylist with over 16 years experience. obligation, brochure. Why trudge around Keyboard, Theory, Harmony. Enjoyment For appointments please telephone the shops and pay so much more. Have a or exams. Beginners to advanced. Full Suzanne on 07899 996660 (Daytime) browse and see the choices...you won’t be prospectus available. Bradway Music: or 236 8797 (Evenings). disappointed. Geoff Henthorn GNSM, Tel: 235 2575 26 June and then know beforehand collapsing neutron star or magnetar. CURTAINS AND ACCESSORIES exactly where to look for the Gamma radiation is even more making service. Also interior design forthcoming conjunction. dangerous than X-radiation. advice Tel: 07803 198532 A simple cardboard viewing tube to The peak of this recorded event cut down the twilight glare would lasted one fifth of a second, and was ADAPTABLE CHILDCARE help, possibly even better than most likely the largest hit on Earth SOLUTIONS LTD Fully vetted, pre- binoculars. Some readers may be since the beginning of recorded screened and available child care when more lucky from their summer history. Only its brevity saved us, and you need it. Nannies, Mothers/parent help, holiday locations, perhaps a balcony its distance from us, fifty thousand Housekeepers, Maternity Nurses, Before in Tenerife, although one’s balcony light years. So back to our peaceful and After school care, Babysitters, always seem to overlook brightly-lit summer evening. Wedding creches. Permanent, Full/Part swimming pools and bars. Take a On the nights around 30 June 2005 time, Daily, weekly and evening childcare stroll along the cliffs where there is a this striker, SGR 1806 –20, will sit For more advice, please contact us on: clear view of the north-western just above the southern horizon as 0114 236 9452 or mobile 07747 016550 horizon a half-hour or so before seen from Dore in the constellation sunset. Sagittarius. We can gaze in its ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE As seen from Dore the Moon is direction and feel, at one and the GCSE & A Level tuition. Tel 236 8493 particularly low in the sky in mid- same time, comfortably complacent summer. It drops to a little more than and in awe at what might come our COTTAGE in WHITBY. Cosy cottage in 27 degrees below the celestial way. The Milky Way stretches down the heart of Whitby old town, available to equator, that is, only nine degrees from Cygnus nearly overhead to rent throughout the year. FGCH, sleeps 4 above the southern horizon. In many Ophiuchus at the horizon through the (one double, one twin), washing machine, ways the Moon appears a much more constellation of Sagittarius. Scorpio microwave etc. For further information dramatic and romantic object when it is to the right. and price list, phone: 0114 235 6143 is near the summer horizon. Take a Our formidable but unseen look near midnight on 20 June. If one magnetar, SGR 1806 –20, lies not far misses that, try at next lunation, a from the famously beautiful Trifid Stars in Dore month or so later in July. Nebula (M20) although it is ten times Jupiter is still in Virgo at the end of further away from us. Doom in one form or another is June and may be seen as a bright Another more imminent catastrophe frequently forecast by astrologers object (magnitude –1.9) low in the in Dore is the quiet and gradual when two celestial bodies appear south west after evening twilight. By destruction of our rural periphery. close together. However, astronomers the end of July Jupiter will be lost There is little news of how Newfield emphasise that such conjunctions altogether. Mars rises in the morning Lane will be utilised to enter the Long have no bearing on human life and may be glimpsed at the end of Acres development but residents whatsoever, unless one wishes to July in the constellation Pisces, or at should not be complacent about the believe it ! the end of August in Aries. The more activity behind the scenes. There is a A beautiful conjunction does occur distant planets, Uranus (in Aquarius) JCB digger snuggled in beside the this summer as seen from Dore and Neptune (in Capricorn) and Pluto entrance to Long Acres and work is although it may be a difficult one to (in Serpens Cauda) are all very low in proceeding out of sight and out of the observe. Just after midsummer’s day, the southern sky and unlikely to be limelight of our recent complaints to Mercury (magnitude –0.05) and caught except in a largish telescope. the City Council. But a road will be Venus (-3.80) pass by each other in There is, however, quite a large needed to access 36 new dwellings the evening twilight. On 27 June number of important, and possibly when just a few approach completion. these two inner planets will pass to catastrophic, events this summer, Maybe SGR 1806 –20 will strike the within a sixth of a Moon’s diameter none of which are visible from Dore village before we need to worry of each other. but nor from anywhere else on Earth. further but we should not bank on it. Sadly, this occurs in the summer Why, indeed, should they be called David Andrew twilight and so it will be difficult to important at all ? see without some optical aid and an Astronomical catastrophies tend to exact knowledge of where to look and pass by unnoticed by most people. SUNNY GARDEN when. A good location would be from The dinosaurs, however, met an the Derbyshire hills. The usually untimely end which led to their DESIGN & advised westerly viewpoint from extermination. It is probably true to Newfield Lane across Houndkirk will say that the end of the world could MAINTENANCE not suffice. Where should one look ? come unexpectedly and caused by an On 27 June the Sun sets almost event unheralded by timely warnings. • General garden maintenance. precisely in the north west at the People of Dore need not worry • Winter tidy-ups. point where Mercury and Venus will about it but some might be interested • Turfing. shortly follow. Half an hour after the to contemplate on a recently • Planting - full range of plants Sun has disappeared from view below discovered phenomenon which might available. the horizon ( and not before) take a one day wipe out life on our planet ! look at a point in the twilight sky just The phenomenon is called an SGR • Weed killing/weed control. above and to the left of where the Sun explosion occurring in our galaxy. • Rockery designing a speciality. used to be. We shall all remember the Tsunami • Clearing over-grown areas. Even in this poor climate there are on 26 December 2004 like the Nine- • Lawn and hedge cutting service. some very good skies at sunset when Eleven terrorist attack in New York. • Commercial and Domestic. a great orange Sun edges, minute by What was not broadcast around this minute, down into the horizon. A few time, however, was the superflare that • Free estimates for all garden days on either side of 27 June may was detected on 27 December, the day work also be attempted although the main after the Tsunami, which temporarily • Responsible, Professional, conjunction would not be visible. knocked out 14 scientific spacecraft Reliable and Friendly service. Saturn is, in fact, only just below and many military satellites. Mercury and Venus but it is fainter Astronomers believe that SGR 1806- Contact Neil Horton and will not be seen. One could 20 (a socalled soft gamma repeater) , Tel. 01629 640210 actually watch where Saturn sets known since January 1979 along with during the months of May and early several other such objects, is a or 0114 288 3239

27 Diary - Summer 2005 JULY 2 Bakewell Carnival - 3pm parade MAY 5 District Midwifery talk by Joyce Gould for Dore 18 Working morning at Whinfell Quarry Gardens for a Methodist Church Tuesday Group, Church Hall 7.45pm 9.30am-12.30pm Tel: 283 9195 8-24 Buxton Festival tel 01298 70395 18 Horatio Nelson; Life & Loves talk by James Taylor 9 Step out from Bradway 7 mile walk with the Rangers, Sheffield Society for the Encouragement of Art, Tapton meet Low Edges Fire Station at 10.30am Tel: 283 9195 Hall, Shore Lane at 2.30pm. Free admission to lecture. 9 Concert Sheffield Folk Chorale, 7.30 pm at Beauchief Light luncheon available 1pm. Tel: 236 0941 Abbey Church Tickets £4 (£5 on door). Tel 236 1213 21 Spring Fair Dore & Totley United Reformed Church, 9 Musical Evening with St John’s Church Choir 7.30pm, Totley Brook Road, 10am-12noon at the Church, Abbeydale Rd. South, with Cheese and 21 Barbecue & Jazz Evening for Leonard Cheshire Wine supper in the Church Hall. Tickets £5 - 236 2597 Services at Mickley Hall, 7pm. Details from 236 7491 16-24 National Archaeology Week lots of archaeological 21-22 Chatsworth Angling Fair 01328 701133 events taking place across England and Wales. 23 Our work at The Oakes (Norton) talk by Mr Dan Thaw 23 Working morning at Whinfell Quarry Gardens. for Women’s Fellowship, 2.30pm Meth Church Hall. 9.30am- 12.30pm Tel: 283 9195 24 Visit to WORK - Dore Meth Church Tuesday Group 18 Townswomens Guild Choir Women’s Fellowship, 26-28 Apex Players present a new comedy “Three times a day 2.30pm Methodist Church Hall after meals” at the Sheffield Library Theatre. Tickets £5 20 Birthday Party for Dore (A) Townswomen’s Guild, & £4 from 269 3329 or 234 8499 Dore Old School at 1.30pm 28 Garland Ceremony in Castleton. Parade - 5.30-8.30pm 30 Bamford Sheepdog Trials Recreation Grd 8.30-6pm AUGUST 3-4 Bakewell Show JUNE 20 Grindleford Horticultural Show, 2-4.30pm 3 Raft Races in Millhouses Park with the Rangers. Make 26 Batty about Bats Stroll with the rangers in Ecclesall and race. 12noon-3pm Tel: 283 9195 Woods starting at the Sawmill 8pm Details - 283 9195 7 The Story of The Alpacca talk for Dore Ladies Group, Church Hall 7.45pm, visitors welcome £3 DORE FESTIVAL 10th ANNIVERSARY 1995-2005 7 Desert Island Discs talk by Janet Stafford for Dore Sunday 26th June - Sunday 10th July Methodist Church Tuesday Group, Church Hall 7.45pm 8 Searching for a Sister talk by Canon Lacey for Dore Sun 26th Village Gardens Open Day 2pm-6pm (A) Townswomen’s Guild, Dore Old School at 2pm. Mon 27th-3rd Walking Week Local walks arranged by Dore 9 Antiques Evening - talk and valuation by Vivienne Village Society - see notice board and article Milburn, for Leonard Cheshire Services at Mickley Hall Mon 27th-1st Village Well Dressing preparation at the Scout 7.30pm. Details from 236 7491 HQ Rushley Road 10 Going Batty Stroll with the rangers in Ecclesall Woods Tues 28th Concert a la Francaise Dore starting at the Sawmill 8pm Detail from: 283 9195 Townswomens Guild, Dore Church Hall 11 Summer Fair, St Luke’s Hospice 1pm free entry 7.45pm Tickets £6 11 Three Peaks - sponsored walk for Leonard Cheshire. Sat 2nd Coffee & Church Open Morning Dore 11 Celebration Prom at Chatsworth with fireworks in aid Methodist Church 10am - 1pm of NSPCC tel: 01246 850320 Village Well Dressing Dore Village Green 11 Concert with Sheffield Bach Society, Ecclesall Parish Guide Well Dressing Devonshire Terrace Rd d Church, 7.30pm. Tickets £10 from 266 1000 Summer Concert Dore Gilbert & Sullivan 12 Specialist Plant Fair - Botanical Gards 10.30am-3pm Society, Church Hall 7.30pm Tickets: 236 2299 14 Stride with the Guide walk with the Rangers around Sun 3rd Methodist Church open 1pm - 5.30pm Ecclesall Woods, Abbeydale and Dore. Approx 4-5 Well Dressing Service Village Green 3pm miles. Meet Causeway Head Road end of High Street at Afternoon Cream Teas 6.15pm Details: 268 6196 Methodist Church Hall 3pm 15-16 The Gondoliers - G & S with the Woodthorpe Festival Mon 4th Family Fun Run Dore Primary School 7pm Chorus & Orchestra, Woodthorpe Hall, Holmesfield. Lord Conyers Morris Men For Leonard Cheshire Services - details from 236 7491 Devonshire Arms 8pm 15 Fakes & Forgeries - talk by Professor Tennent for Tues 5th Travels with Pen, Brush & Camera Hallamshire Decorative and Fine Arts Society, 7.30pm Illustrated talk by Brian Edwards for Dore Lecture Theatre 4 Arts Tower Univ of Sheff 230 2757 Ladies Group Dore Church Hall 7-45pm 17-19 Flower Festival Tapton Hall, Shore Lane, Sheffield 10. Tickets £3 tel 236 0002 or from Valerie of Dore Open 10am - 6pm daily. Wed 6th Open Air Theatre ‘Lords and Ladies’ by Terry 19 Clumber Country Show, displays of falconry, sheep Pratchett The Company, Village Green dogs, classic cars, bike stunts etc. Advance tickets £4.50 7.30pm Interval Collection & £3 Tel: 01909 511061 Thurs 7th Open Evening King Ecgbert School 7-9pm 19 Chatsworth Sponsored Walk in aid of St Luke’s Open Evening Dore Male Voice Choir & Dore 20 Pilgrimage to Iona talk by Miss Pam Grayson for Mercia & Totley Townswomens Guild Choirs Women’s Fellowship, 2.30pm Methodist Church Hall. Invite you to Dore Church Hall 7:30-9-30pm 21 Bess of Hardwick talk by Tony Davis for Dore No ticket required Collection for Charity Methodist Church Tuesday Group, Church Hall 7.45pm Fri 8th Music for a Summer Evening The Sterndale 24 Charity Golf Day with Sheffield Rotary at Abbeydale Singers, Dore Parish Church 7.30pm Golf Club in aid of St Luke’s Hospice Tickets £6/£5 including wine 25 Access for All with the Rangers, using mobility scooters Sat 9th Dore Scout & Guide Gala Recreation Ground in Ecclesall Woods, 11am-3pm. Details: 283 9195 Sun 10th Festival Songs of Praise 26 Sheffield Festival of Transport Graves Park 10.30am- Dore Parish Church 6pm 5pm Free admission See Dore Village Society notice board for full details of events.

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