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Our Parish Aston-Cum-Aughton with Swallownest and Ulley www.allsaintsaston.com Our Parish Aston-Cum-Aughton with Swallownest and Ulley FFFFFeFFe February 2019 If you would like to make a donation towards the costs of producing this magazine, please tell your distributor . www.allsaintsaston.com SERVICES IN FEBRUARY Sunday 3rd February Candlemas 9am Holy Communion at Aston All Saints 10.30 am Morning Worship at Christ Church, Swallownest 9am Morning Worship at Holy Trinity, Ulley 10.30am All Age Worship at Aston All Saints Sunday 10th February 9am Holy Communion at Holy Trinity, Ulley 10.30am Holy Communion at Aston All Saints 10.30am Holy Communion at Christ Church, Swallownest Sunday 17th February 10.30am Holy Communion at Aston All Saints 10.30am Holy Communion, Joint service at Holy Trinity. Ulley Sunday 24th February 9am Holy Communion at Holy Trinity, Ulley 10.30am Holy Communion at Aston All Saints 10.30am Holy Communion at Christ Church, Swallownest 6.30pm Choral Evensong at Aston All Saints Sunday 3rd March 9am Morning Worship at Holy Trinity, Ulley 9am Holy Communion at Aston, All Saints 10.30am All Age Worship at All Saints C of E School. Lodge Lane 10.30am Morning Worship at Christ Church, Swallownest 2 www.allsaintsaston.com [email protected] 0114 287 3780 Steve Eccleston (Lay Reader-in-training) writes: I don’t know about you, but I find the dark days of January quite a tough time of year. I’m writing this just the day after “Blue Monday”. Blue Monday is the name given to a day in January (typically the third Monday of the month) claimed to be the most depressing day of the year. Christmas is well past, the darkness draws in early and we’re still stuck in the heart of winter. Brrrrr. For Christians, though, there are always reasons to be hopeful even when the going gets tough. It’s not that we pretend that dark days aren’t real. Of course they are, and not just the dark days in the heart of winter. For many people, loneliness or bereavements or difficult times in work or with families are the reality that they have to grapple with every day. The Christian story though offers hope even in the face of these tough times. In the person of Jesus we see someone who lived a real life like we do: a real person who knew all the joys and hopes and fears that we experience. And, in the end, execution by the Romans. That time for Jesus was as tough and dark as it could be. But it wasn’t the end. Just like spring offers hope of growth and new life after winter, Jesus rising to new life on Easter day offers all of us new hope to see us through dark days. And that’s something to hang onto when the going gets tough. At All Saints, we remember this story of hope and new life each week in our Sunday services and you would be very welcome to join us at 10.30 - just come along. It doesn’t matter who you are, what your background or beliefs are, whether you are young or old, a sinner or a saint. Everyone is welcome. Just as you are. And, if you pay us a visit, you’ll find that we look for the hope of Easter even on the darkest day of February. Why not pop along and find out? 3 www.allsaintsaston.com Downsizing our social life What do you most enjoy doing with your spare evenings? Going to a party? Probably not – for it seems that the joy of not going out has become the new thing to brag about. It used to be a childhood punishment: go to bed early, don’t leave the house. Now it is discussed as an adult ‘self-care’ goal – even Kate Moss has praised the benefits of binge-sleeping. All this cosy staying-at-home is not confined to the middle-aged and upwards; 82 percent of 18-to-30-year-olds have admitted to cancelling plans with friends in favour of an early night and hangover-free morning. All in all, no wonder that by late last year pubs were closing at a rate of 18 a week. Half of the nation’s nightclubs shut down between 2005 and 2015. There is even a big slump in ‘casual dining’ out. The American news site Vox has recently christened this new movement the ‘homebody economy’. For though at home, we are still spending, via streaming services and delivery apps. But at least we don’t have to look for a parking space! Never be weary of doing good You are never tired, O Lord, of doing us good; let us never be weary of doing You service. But as You have pleasure in the well-being of Your servants, let us take pleasure in the service of our Lord, and abound in Your work and in Your love and praise evermore. A prayer of John Wesley 4 www.allsaintsaston.com Home There’s no place like it A flexible and friendly home- based care service from a few hours to full time.. Our service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide: • Companionship • Local transportation • Personal care • Meal preparation • Light housekeeping • Specialist dementia care Contact us on Home Instead Senior Care Suite 3 Linden House, 34 Moorgate Road, 01709 837170 Rotherham S60 2AG Each Home Instead Senior Care franchise is independently www.homeinstead.co.uk/rotherham owned and operated. 5 www.allsaintsaston.com Aston-cum-Aughton History Group Changes to Aston Village In 1972 a journalist from Sheffield Newspapers visited Aston to report on the many changes being made to what was once a quiet, rural village. Here are excerpts from his report which was published in the Sheffield Morning Telegraph on the 4th August 1972. “Once upon a time there was a sleepy little hamlet in the southern tip of Yorkshire, separated from Derbyshire by the River Rother. It stayed that way for hundreds of years and in 1831 the population was only 534. But it isn’t sleepy any more. The twentieth century has brought a rude awakening with a busy main road and a seemingly endless stream of traffic flowing continuously through the middle of the village. It is within easy reach of Sheffield, just a few miles from Rotherham with quick access to the M1 Motorway and it just grew and grew and grew “The hamlet of Estone in the Domesday Book (from the old English word Eastun meaning homestead in the east) bears scant resemblance to Aston as it is today. Visitors from those days might recognise parts of the Parish church but that is about all. The first church was probably wood and wattle built by the Saxons soon after 627 AD. It was replaced by a Norman building around 1066 and much of this remains still. “Vast new housing estates are still in the process of being built and Aston, Swallownest and Aughton merge together until it is difficult to tell one from another. Wimpeys are building 634 houses on their Worksop Road Estate. Over the last four years they have put up 424 and they reckon the estate will be complete in another 18 months. Of those still to be built there are few left unsold. Nearby W. Redmile and Sons have built 120 homes with another 100 still to go. 6 www.allsaintsaston.com “The Clerk to the Parish Council, County Alderman Charles Broughton says a new road is completed every two or three months. He says this has been the position for the last year or two and the area is now very much a dormitory region for Sheffield and Rotherham as more and more people leave the large towns and cities. The rural peace and quiet has gone, probably for ever. “The Parish Council is quite active. Plans are going ahead on a linear park alongside the Wimpey houses. County Alderman Broughton says they have bought some land from Rotherham Rural Council, some from the church and more from a farmer and trees and shrubs will be planted. People in the village will soon have the use of a new village hall in the Aston Parish which will be officially opening on July 22 for all kinds of function from political meetings to wedding parties. “One of the problems of living in Aston is the main Worksop to Sheffield road, the A57, which virtually splits it in half at peak times. As commuter traffic from nearby villages to Sheffield has increased so has heavy goods traffic especially since junc- tion no. 31 on the M1 is just at one end of the village. The A57 Action Group has worked with MP Mr. Peter Hardy, and has succeeded in obtaining a Ministry deci- sion for a by-pass but not before 1980. “The pressure now is to get the date moved forward” say County Alderman Broughton. “There is some conflict over what to do in the meantime.” “There have been suggestions for widening and taking the bends out. Some want major street lighting, but then you would have more and more traffic going faster and faster and you might take away the case for a by-pass. It would destroy the rural side of the village.” But even without any alterations to the A57 the completely rural atmosphere which once surrounded Aston has now been swamped to a great extent by commuters who spend the evenings and weekends there and the main part of the week in Sheffield, Rotherham and Worksop.
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