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Spying For Germany? Incas Were Gay Swimming School Christmas Dinner! Sheffield Lord Mayor’s Trial - p.18 Amazing Teapot Discovery - p.3 Lessons For Children - p.29 And Half-Price Meals - p.3, p.31 How To Cook Steel Dancers In The Frame Patio In Porcelain Knightly Roof Work Some Heavy Recipes - p.34 On Psalter Lane - p.26 Sleek Ceramic Look - p.30 Repairing Camelot - p.8 2 Grapevine Magazine t seems,” announced my old chum Mr Smith when he visited me embassy (being Churchill Fellows), and it was not long before one yesterday, “that the University of Sheffield’s archaeology department of the diplomats said: “I suppose you lads want to go tomb robbing.” Iis history. I’ve heard it’s going to be closed, which must be of great “Yes, please!” we replied, whereupon Our Man in Lima drove us concern to you - our city’s most esteemed tomb robber.” in his car to an area of desert a few miles north. It seemed strewn “Smith, it’s almost 50 years since I hung up my excavating trowel, with discarded newspapers, which turned out to be shrouds and I must tell you that scratting for bits of pottery was no more of people buried centuries ago. All around, as far as the eye interesting than typing the crown green bowling results, which was one could see, were bones from desecrated graves. of my first tasks as a cub reporter on the Ossett Observer. On the coast of Peru rain is rare, so anything buried in its Archaeology is - to be honest - mostly tedious guesswork.” sands is well preserved - providing rich pickings for ruffians Smith looked bemused. “Listen, old fellow, don’t belittle what who lurked nearby. The diplomat explained that for a small fee you achieved. Everyone knows you’re not the type to blow his two men would plunge a 6ft metal rod into the sand, feeling for own trumpet, or Andean nose flute, but your amazing discovery in artefacts, then uncover them. Up came a lovely painted teapot, Peru changed for ever how historians view the Incas. Until you unearthed which was admired by our embassy guide. “It will,” he said to me, the kinky teapot, nobody even suspected they were gay.” “look marvellous on your mother’s kitchen table.” That discovery of mine came about one misty morning on I coughed politely, and pointed out that mum would not the coast of Peru, in July of 1973. How I came to be there is appreciate pouring cuppas from a homo-erotic work of art. worth recounting. Nine months earlier, a schoolboy friend Before us was a gay Inca teapot, its spout painted to appear as the and I, both aged 17, had been summoned to a swanky address neck, head and mouth of a smiling (or grimacing ) naked youth, in London’s Mayfair, where we became the youngest who was lying on his stomach. Above him loomed the pot’s belly, Churchill Travel Fellows in the history of the world - after being formed by a fat fellow whose huge ferdonger created a handle that interviewed by a dozen buffers who included the naturalist was thrusting up into the lad’s nether regions. Peter Scott (soon to be knighted), a couple of generals, the boss of Before long, my friend and I were camping not far from the Cadbury’s chocolate and a chap who later told us he was a first Incas’ fabulous mountain citadel of Machu Picchu, high above cousin of the Queen. They decided it would be a splendid idea the Urubamba River, where we were enslaved for what to give me and my friend thousands of pounds for an expedition seemed like years by an English archaeologist called Ann Kendall, to Peru, so we could trek into the Andes a Churchill Fellow of years gone by. If our spades slackened for and follow routes taken by Spain’s a moment as we toiled in a hill fort, she would trill to us from afar: conquistadors, who in 1532 began “Boyees! I can’t hear any digging.” Working for the conquistadors devastating the Inca empire. Upon our would have been easier, so early one day we did what we recently One of the Peruvian tomb robbers arrival in Peru’s capital city of Lima we had seen Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid do. We hopped with an artefact were given a warm welcome at the British aboard a passing steam train... and lit out for Bolivia. he unearthed Grapevine Magazine Ian Macgill I editor 421 London Road, Sheffield S2 4HJ 0114 258 3131 www.grapevinesheffield.net

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4 Grapevine Magazine Power To The People With Dave Borden of Borden Electrics

Naples Was Electric Dave Borden recalls a Mediterranean cruise, and his customer Les Graves looks back on 44 years with Woodcock Travel

ee Naples, and die,” said a lady during 1955. Another rewire was assistant at the travel agency as done in the 1980s. I booked my Mediterranean cruise “We’d read about Borden’s in Grapevine,” several years ago, writes Dave Borden. says Les, “so when the electric shower over our S Her comment so alarmed me that bath stopped working, we gave Dave a call.” I paused before signing on the dotted line. Les knows all about holidays, having spent “Er, the ship’s all right, isn’t it? I mean... there 44 years working at Sheffield’s Woodcock are lifeboats?” Travel, where he started out in 1952, “Mr Borden, it’s just an expression. Naples is so eventually becoming an executive director enchanting that after having been there, visitors of the company, and manager of its Wicker know they can pass away in peace, as no other branch. He says he enjoyed the job, and no city can match its beauty. Now, would you like to wonder. His duties included escorting groups book a trip up nearby Mount Vesuvius? It’s the of holidaymakers as they partied in Tahiti, volcano that exploded in Roman times. Japan, Brazil, South Africa... and flying several Killed hundreds of people in the seaside town times on Concorde. of Pompeii, entombing them in 12ft of hot ash. Les and Sylvia’s house is semi-detached, and Plastercasts of the bodies are on view.” was built in 1924. Their rewire of the 1980s My eyes widened. “I’m getting a bad vibe had been carried out efficiently, but the about this trip. What if Vesuvius pops its cork electrical shower was about as dangerous while I’m looking down the crater?” as they come. Its cabling was inadequate, “Mr Borden, please don’t worry. The volcano and there was no earth bonding, which puts has been dormant for... oh, weeks and weeks. users at risk of a severe shock. Components I very much doubt that you’ll be engulfed by a within the shower’s control unit had melted. pyroclastic flow, though it’s always best to take We always do our best to upgrade circuitry out holiday insurance.” at customers’ homes, rather than put them After my ship docked in Naples to the expense of a full rewire, though (pictured above) I soon realised why people sometimes this cannot be avoided. For Les see the place and expire. Most are probably and Sylvia we were able to make everything electrocuted. Power cables dangled safe by replacing the electric shower, everywhere. And Mount Vesuvius was fitting a new consumer unit (fuseboard), and smoking. It last erupted in March of 1944, renewing some light switches and sockets. raining down rocks the size of footballs “Our shower now works perfectly,” says Les, - only a few years before my customers who still enjoys arranging holidays. He and Les and Sylvia Graves got married and Sylvia like Suffolk, and this summer will be Our customer Les Graves with a brochure bought their house at Greystones, which spending two weeks there in a house they for Woodcock Travel, where he used to work. was rewired before they moved in. That was have rented. The company closed in the 1990s

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Grapevine Magazine 5 Local Heat & Warmth Steve Wilde, of Local Heat & Warmth, keeps Sheffield homes well heated. His customers have featured in Grapevine every month since December 2003 - and all have had warm words to say about their favourite geyser

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6 Grapevine Magazine Legal Eagle With Rosalind Watchorn, The Power To Decide Sheffield solicitor If you fall seriously ill, who will control your life?

hen all is well, and our health is - to the extent that we still have some good, we don’t like to worry about mental understanding - and our carers, Wmisfortunes that might afflict us in then take reasonable steps to reach the future. But illnesses or accidents can agreement. They may also consult with intervene without warning. And as the non-family members, but do not have to. population’s life expectancy increases, so does Despite such consultations, the likelihood of people ending their days the professionals’ decisions lacking mental faculties. are paramount. Many of us know it is a good idea to appoint However, the balance of attorneys to help administer our finances and power shifts if a health LPA is property through a Lasting Power of Attorney in place, allowing a relative, (LPA), but it is important to consider an friend or carer to become our additional one that covers personal welfare, attorney, entrusted with making Mr Smith, your stopwatch is including healthcare. decisions based on our best not a reliable indicator of If such an LPA is not in place, interests - using their knowledge life expectancy then important decisions regarding our of how we would have wished to proceed. make the decisions we would have wanted, welfare and medical treatments will be left for Such an attorney can be given the right to but if we are lucky enough to have reliable professionals to decide, such as doctors and approve or deny end-of-life treatment. people around us, then a Health and Welfare social workers. They must liaise with us Of course, we have to trust our attorneys to LPA is a good idea.

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Grapevine Magazine 7 Head For Heights With Phil Dalton, of Dalton Roofing

Keeping The Roof On Camelot Phil Dalton and his roofing knights sally forth to the children’s funhouse named in honour of a fabled castle

ing Arthur and Queen Guinevere long “He isn’t here, either.” ago vanished into the misty realms “Are you Merlin?” of myth, writes Phil Dalton, so a few “Er, no. I’m Andy.” weeks ago it came as a surprise when I explained that Dalton Roofing teams range far Kwe received a call asking us to repair the roof of and wide, but Land’s End was a bit too far off the Camelot, their legendary castle where knights of beaten track even for us. the Round Table would sit and discuss noble deeds. “Camelot isn’t in Cornwall,” I was informed. I gasped on being told of the job. “That’s in “It’s in Rotherham.” Cornwall. A 700-mile round trip.” I rang the number It turned out I was talking to Andy Howarth, we had been given, and a man answered. of Fulwood, who with his wife Georgina “Hello, Camelot.” owns Rotherham’s Camelot Play Castle. Since Is that King Arthur?” I asked. 2006 it has been a funhouse for children, where y one round Arthur’s Camelot had onl King setting there “He’s not here at the moment.” they can enjoy arts and crafts activities, cavort table, but in the Rotherham e parents can have a bite “Then can I speak with Sir Lancelot?” on the play equipment (pictured right), are several, wher y to eat while watching their kids at pla

8 Grapevine Magazine Andy and Georgina with Phil Dalton

and hold private parties for up to because he was concerned that ridging 30 of their friends - which saves mums tiles and a chimney stack of the former and dads an awful lot of clearing up church were in a bad way. We soon had at home. a team on site, who during their work also After arriving at Camelot and gazing replaced a few slates that had broken or at its battlements, there came upon me loosened, and fixed some sections of iron the realisation that I’d been to the place guttering by bolting them together and in days of yore. applying sealant. Not in my previous life as a valiant What surprised Andy was that we knight, but about 20 years back, to repair roofers no longer set ridging tiles in flashings at the front of the property cement, which was susceptible to cracking. - which was built in 1928, and until 2001 Such tiles are now laid on a bed of special functioned as Bethesda Methodist Church. flexi-putty. It takes about two weeks to Andy bought the church after it closed, harden, but afterwards forms a firm bond. and lived there for a time while We pointed the chimney stack using contemplating how to create Rotherham’s conventional methods. version of Disneyworld. He and Georgina “Dalton Roofing’s men were here about will have reopened for business by the four days,” says Andy, “and we can tell they’ve time you read this article in Grapevine, done a good job because the leak from the after a period of closure due to the chimney that was running into one of our Covid pandemic. rooms has dried up.” Dalton Roofing was called in by Andy Camelot Play Castle: 01709 559 333

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Grapevine Magazine 11 Immortal Words With Jason Heath, of funeral directors John Heath & Sons, Sheffield

Sir George’s Last Drive There were 500 mourners and an extraordinary number of floral tributes The funeral service for Sir George (left) took place here, at the funeral of at what was then Psalter Lane a phenomenal Methodist Church, and is now businessman St Andrew’s

n 1956 we conducted the funeral of 9th, followed by interment at Clay Cross, where would quit the colliery life for ever. Sir George Kenning, who built from scratch Sir George had been born 75 years earlier. His market stall sold soap, pots, pans, matches, the Kenning Motor Group - one of Britain’s He was a phenomenal businessman. and paraffin - a fuel the Kennings were soon biggest car dealerships. By the time of his After leaving school - aged 11 - he worked distributing on a massive scale, thanks to a deal Ideath it had 80 depots across the country, with his father, Frank, who had a stall on with the Consolidated Petroleum Co., forerunner of 2,000 employees, and annual turnover of £20m. Chesterfield market. Frank had been a miner, BP and Shell. Young George was fascinated by Five hundred mourners attended a but in 1878 - three years before George motor vehicles, and quickly realised horseless service held in Psalter Lane Methodist Church was born - he had been trapped underground in. carriages were going to revolutionise the way (now St. Andrew’s) at 11am on Thursday, February a winding cage, and vowed that if he got out he people travelled, so he determined to sell as many cars and trucks as possible - making a fortune along the way. George Kenning was a devoted public servant, which was one reason for him being knighted in 1943. He served on many public bodies, and sometimes conducted business deals during committee meetings. As a member of the Chesterfield Hospital Board of Management he was once accused of contributing nothing to the discussion, and quipped in reply: “Not true! I’ve just sold a lorry to the man on my left, and a motor car to the man on my right.” It was even said that in 1934 he sold cars to all the doctors who treated him after an operation. Two vans and a flower hearse were needed to transport all the floral tributes at Sir George’s funeral. There was a cortége of 20 vehicles Floral tributes cover the area (far right) in front - which he would have found most satisfying. of Sir George’s Sheffield home - Stumperlowe Hall John Heath & Sons Telephone day or night: • Earsham Street • Ecclesall Road • Crookes • Stannington • Meadowhead • Ecclesfield • Hollinsend • Eckington 0114 272 2222

1216GrapevineGrapevine Magazine Magazine Fired With Ideas With David Payne and Karl Ibbertson, Brrrrrr! of The Fireplace Factory Outlet It’s Summer Again In Sheffield

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Grapevine Magazine 13 Wonderful Worktops With Teegan & Darryl, of Sheffield Solid Surfaces

On the far right is Sue, with three of her five sisters (l-r): Marion, Pamela and Angela Sue & Her Helpful Sisters

We fitted a 5.4 mtr length of Tristone work surface, which flows seamlessly to form a windowsill and the cooker’s splashback. Below: Sue outside her new house

The Tristone island surface is 2.4 x 1.2mtr

Sue Hill and her husband have built a house opposite where they live. Its spacious kitchen has plenty of room for our grand, seamless work surfaces es, the kitchen island surface we members have done their bit to help, including says Sue, “but when I saw Darryl and Teegan at fitted for Sue Hill is the size of a Sue’s five sisters: Lillian, Anita, Marion, Pamela their showroom they recommended a more subtle modest aircraft carrier, writes Darryl and Angela, who all live nearby. They have look, which I really like. The kitchen island could Anderson, and her window worktop fetched and carried, helped emulsion acres of have been made from quartz or granite, but there Yis longer than some runways. But anything on walls and ceilings, and recently supplied sofas would have needed to be joins on the long window a lesser scale would not have done justice to and chairs they don‘t need - necessary because worktop, so I chose Tristone. It’s remarkable the grand cooking and dining area she and the house is much bigger than Sue and because it can flow up walls to create window her husband, Graham, have created in the Graham’s current place, which they plan to ledges, upstands and splashbacks. I thought Darryl four-bedroomed, detached property to which sell later this year after making the big move and his workmen were spot-on. They measured-up they are putting the finishing touches. (of about 50 yards). Graham is a joiner by for the job on June 1st, and fitted on the 14th . It is across the road from a semi-detached trade, and for months has been coming home There was no fuss, which is what I like.” house where they have lived in Herringthorpe, from his day job, then putting in another few We supply surfacing in just about any colour Rotherham, since they were married hours of work on the building site, which Sue you can think of, in a variety materials, 38 years ago. Building the new property has has project-managed. including Corian, Staron, quartz and granite. been a three-year project, and many family “I had in mind surfacing with a bit of a sparkle,” Fitting usually takes half a day.

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14 Grapevine Magazine Dip A Toe Into Our Paints est thing about having a husband two of Horizon Grey - which are much Suzanne has who is an expert decorator, the same, to be honest - and probably enough countless exquisite Bwrites Suzanne Drew, is that you don’t Wren Feather for seven toenails. paint and wallpaper have to paint your own toenails. The downside I sighed, took a sip from my flute of chilled samples in her salon is that I must make do with whatever colour Valerian Root Tea (it had been a long day), combinations my darling Richard has left over and murmured: “We’d better go with the usual.” from projects he and his men have been Richard nodded: “Sanderson’s Bengal Red working on - using superior paint pigments that coming up.” catch the light in magical ways. WHETHER YOU NEED to decorate one “Is Zoffany’s Vermeer Yellow okay?” he asked wall of a room, or your entire home, the Drew yesterday evening, while caressing the toes of my Decor Store’s luxury collection of wallpapers and exquisitely formed feet with a dinky artist’s brush. paints offers a refreshing way to decide on which “Or how about Purple Tulip?” decorations to choose. Fabrics, ties for curtains I pulled a face. “Isn’t there anything by and other accessories are also. on show. Sanderson? You know... Lady Lilac, Marshmallow EXCLUSIVE APPOINTMENTS Snow, Amsterdam Green, Creme de Violette.” Suzanne sees customers outside normal opening Richard (who you can see on page 25) shook hours, when they can have her premises to his head. “I’ve some Matterhorn, and a spot or themselves... and her undivided attention. Book Your Wallpaper hat rascally publisher Robert Maxwell seemed to have great works of literature crammed on every shelf at his Toffice suite within the Daily Mirror building in London. Was there any author of note whose writings he had not read? It turned out there were quite a few. Each book apparently on display was nothing more than a hollow cardboard box, but they certainly impressed his visitors. If one day I invite you to visit my house for a discussion about amazing novels, in the living room you’ll see so many tomes on shelves that it will seem the building must collapse under their weight. But my library of books is wallpaper. Which means I don’t have to waste time reading - or dusting! We offer all kinds of interesting scenes.

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Grapevine Magazine 15 Bathing Solutions YOUR LOCAL, INDEPENDENT BATHROOM SHOWROOM

The H2O bathroom studio is co-owned by Richard Hardy, who has been designing bathrooms for 30 years, and knows pretty much everything about them. His business partner Martin Price has 25 years’ experience designing bathrooms. The team includes Philip Procter, Ian Marriott and Dan Heathcote, who are skilled designers, each with over 20 years’ experience

All Smiles For Our Big Tiles ritish bathroom tiles used to be “and asked H2O to make one of them en-suite. Here are items H2O supplied rather titchy, writes Richard Hardy, They’ve done a very good job. The workmen were • Duravit Vero Air Bath, with Hansgrohe roughly the dimensions of an great - turned up on time, and made sure I was shower attachment. oversized Shreddie happy with how work was progressing. • Acquabella slate tray, and Hansgrohe B By comparison, ones we fit nowadays are “The bathroom’s floor is concrete, so pipework thermostatic shower huge, making modest-sized bathrooms look for the shower was concealed by raising its base • Dansani black-rubber furniture, grand, and big ones positively palatial, as the a couple of inches. I like that tiling on the window with LED illumination photographs here show. They were taken at the ledges and the shower’s recessed shelf have been • Duravit wall-hung WC home of Helen and Benn Beardshaw, who for tilted forward slightly so that water can run • Zehnder heated towel rail, with electric element the past dozen years have lived in a 1950s off them. for summer use detached house at Curbar. “When we visited H2O’s showroom, Richard • Wall-mounted toothbrush charger Their new tiles - satin glazed - are 1200mm helped us come up with a new configuration x 600m (4ft by 2ft), and have been used for the bathroom, which works well. We chose • LED marker lights at floor level for the floor and walls to enhance a sense the big tiles because they look so grand, • 1200mm x 600mm Lapato porcelain tiles of spaciousness. and decided to have tiny, inlaid LED spotlights (satin glazed) “We had two family bathrooms,” says Helen, at floor level.” • Warmup underfloor electric heating Bathroom 685 Chesterfield Road, Woodseats S8 0SL 0114 255 4646 H2O Solutions www.h2obathroomsolutions.co.uk 16 Grapevine Magazine Floors in Store With Damian Moore, of Layers Carpets Wood-Look Laminate Flooring we fitted at Will and Carolyn Deakin’s Crosspool house feels like wood, but it isn’t

ast November, Will and Carolyn Deakin moved to Sheffield from York, after buying a four-bedroomed semi-detached house in Crosspool, writes Damian Moore. L “Both of us like to shop locally,” says Will, “and soon after moving into our new home we took a walk to familiarise ourselves with the area. That was when we visited Layers’ showroom. The staff were very friendly, so we asked them to take a look at flooring we needed.” Will and Carolyn’s Crosspool property had been rented out for several years before they bought it, and needed considerable improvement. In February we laid heavy duty laminate flooring (which now comes with a waterproof surface) to two bedrooms that are used by the couple’s son and daughter when they are home from university. Recently we were invited back to lay the same floorboard-effect style in the front room, and heavy duty laminate with a chevron design in the hallway and kitchen. “It’s hard to tell that the new flooring Will Deakin isn’t wood,” says Will. “It even has a timber texture. We thought the fitters were great - very professional. Each job they undertook was done quickly and efficiently. They were very well organised. If you need flooring, do take a look at Layers.”

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Grapevine Magazine 17 An elderly former lord mayor of Sheffield was accused of spying during World War One. German-born steel baron Sir Joseph Jonas went on trial for espionage, and later was stripped of his knighthood Are You For King Or Kaiser?

t is July of 1918, writes Ian Macgill, and as American troops arrived to bolster the ‘This is not a German shop. God Save the King!’ World War One rages a 73-year-old man British and French armies. Despite this widespread animosity towards stands in the dock of London’s Old Bailey, In the UK’s 1881 census Germans Germans, Sir Jonas must have been confident charged with spying for the Germans. constituted the largest continental European that his loyalty to Britain would never be IHe is said to be ‘very deaf’, and cannot minority in the land, and after the outbreak of questioned. But before the war ended he hear evidence being brought against him. war riots against them were widespread. was challenged in court as to whether his The accused is steel magnate Sir Joseph Jonas, In May of 1915 a German U-boat sank the loyalties lay with King or Kaiser. ex-Lord Mayor of Sheffield, who has been liner Lusitania, and 1,200 passengers died. At 9.29am on June 13th, 1918, Sir Joseph was honoured by both the King of England, Britons were outraged, and in Sheffield the a pillar of Sheffield society as boss of steel George V, and Germany’s Emperor company Jonas, Colver & Co. Ltd., Kaiser Wilhelm II. In Sheffield the violence against based in Attercliffe. But one Sir Joseph has lived in Sheffield Germans was so extreme that many minute later his world collapsed. almost 50 years, but was born in He began to suffer the most Germany. That fact will ruin him. of them asked to be locked in bewildering and terrifying He has held numerous public police cells for safety experience of his long life when at positions in his adopted city: 9.30am detectives appeared on lord mayor (1904-1905), councillor, magistrate, violence against Germans was so extreme that the doorstep of his mansion in Endcliffe and alderman, university council member, chairman many asked to be locked in police cells for arrested him. Later that day the former lord of the technical school... and the post of safety - and they were! mayor was under police guard, and on a train Sheffield’s German consul, though he had been It was commonplace for English traders to for London. a naturalised British citizen more than half put signs in their windows declaring: At Bow Street Magistrates’ Court Sir Joseph his life. WHAT FOLLOWS is the story of how persons unknown ensured a humiliating end for one of Sheffield’s great benefactors. A single bequest from Sir Joseph was an incredible £5,000 to equip a foundry and laboratory in the university’s metallurgy department. But lies and innuendo resulted in what must be termed a show trial, during which the flimsiest of evidence was produced to discredit him because he was born in a country Britain was fighting. To understand the animosity many felt towards Sir Joseph, we must bear in mind that the backdrop to this affair was carnage on the Western Front. Every day our troops were being killed in their thousands, though no one seemed to care that one of Sir Joseph’s four sons was in the British Army, or that a daughter of his was married to an English officer recovering from wounds. Peace seemed a long way off, even in 1918 - last year of the war - when Germany launched a massive offensive, hoping to win victory before Kaiser Wilhelm II and King George V honoured Sir Joseph Jonas

18 Grapevine Magazine German-born Joseph Jonas was Lord Mayor of Sheffield 1904-1905

was charged with breaking the Official Secrets company sold vast amounts of Sheffield steel Order of the Prussian Crown from Germany’s Act, which meant he faced seven years in jail. in Germany, as did various foundries in Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II . He was said to have passed sensitive South Yorkshire - several of which were While Joseph Jonas was Lord Mayor of information to the enemy about British steel owned by Germans. Sheffield he welcomed King Edward VII to and armaments manufacturing, though not But immediately war was declared, the city, and soon afterwards was knighted by told who tipped off the police that he might Sir Joseph ceased contact with the land of his His Majesty. be a spy. Bail was set at £2,000, an enormous birth (where customers owed him £78,000), ALL GERMANS LIVING in England sum for the time. and devoted his steel production during the Great War lived in fear of their THE ABSURDITY of the allegations was wholeheartedly to the British war effort. ancestry. Were they loyal to King or Kaiser? that communications Sir Joseph had with It must be stressed that his role as German In truth, this was Hobson’s choice, because our Germany (letters and meetings) were in years consul in Sheffield was nothing sinister. It was royal family was overwhelmingly Teutonic. before the outbreak of hostilities in 1914. a titular position to facilitate good trading Only in 1917 would King George V change Those dealings were legitimate because his relations, but almost certainly earned him the Continued on next page Germans had never been popular in Britain, and most of Sir Joseph’s steelworkers pointedly refused to acknowledge his 1905 knighthood

Grapevine Magazine 19 Sir Joseph’s final resting place at All Saints Parish Church, Ecclesall

From previous page Charles Alfred Vernon. He was Yorkshire-born, in them of a normal commercial nature, his family’s name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha but the son of Sir Joseph’s German former or likely to have aided the enemy? to Windsor. business partner, Carl August Hahn, who also Members of the jury were not impressed Germans had never been popular in Britain, was a defendant in the spy case. (Vernon had with the prosecution case, especially when and most of Sir Joseph’s steelworkers Anglicised his name at the outbreak of war). they were told that immediately before the pointedly refused to acknowledge his 1905 The court proceedings were seen as so war representatives of Krupps - Germany’s knighthood. Yet when he was stripped of the important that the prosecution team was led greatest armaments manufacturers - had been title after that Old Bailey travesty of justice, by Attorney General Sir Frederick Smith KC. allowed free rein to visit many of Britain’s steel they insisted on referring to him as ‘Sir Joseph’. Sir Joseph - ‘displaying considerable emotion’ and munitions factories. Indeed, 100 of those workers turned out for according to a newspaper report - told the After retiring for only an hour, the jury his funeral, which took place in August of 1921 court about one of his four sons being in the decided that Sir Joseph and Vernon were not at All Saints Parish Church, Ecclesall, three years British Army, and that a daughter’s husband guilty of conspiracy or felony. They were found after the spy trial. was a wounded English officer. to have committed ‘a misdemeanour’, which SIR JOSEPH’S ORDEAL began at the Much of the questioning of Sir Joseph meant the court did not believe either man Old Bailey on Wednesday, July 24th, 1918, centred on whether his loyalties lay with had intentionally put British interests at risk. eight days after his 73rd birthday. It would last Britain or Germany. The prosecution THE JUDGE made a meal of his almost a week. He could not hear much of repeatedly tried to blacken his character by sentencing, saying the two defendants had been what was said because of deafness, yet he was referring to pre-war business contacts he had ‘grossly negligent’. Yet he thought imprisonment not permitted to leave the dock and sit nearer with Germany. Letters of his produced in would be ‘unnecessarily harsh’, and instead the witness stand. court made references to Britain’s production imposed stiff fines. Sir Joseph paid £2,000, and Sir Joseph was tried along with an associate, of small arms and steel. Was the information Charles Vernon £1,000 - money that had to be handed over by 10.30 next morning. Also, both men had to bear prosecution costs, which would have cost them a fortune. Sir Joseph was a broken man after the trial. A month later he was stripped of his knighthood by King George V (he of German ancestry). There was even an attempt to have Sir Joseph’s naturalisation revoked, but it failed. He resigned as a director of his company, and with his wife Lucy retired to their Sheffield mansion at Ecclesall - Endcliffe House. Sir Joseph passed his time walking the grounds and sailing a model fleet on the lake. In December of 1920 he suffered a stroke, and was still confined to bed when he died nine months later. Hundreds of Sheffield’s great and good attended his funeral at Endcliffe House, former residence All Saints Parish Church, Ecclesall. of Sir Joseph Jonas, belongs to Sir Joseph left an estate valued at £182,399. the University of Sheffield His former mansion now belongs to the University of Sheffield.

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22 Grapevine Magazine Sheffield Kitchen Interiors 298A Meadowhead, Sheffield S8 7UH 0114 274 7288 www.sheffieldkitcheninteriors.co.uk

Our customer Richard Heath Let There Be Light! This kitchen was old and gloomy, so we can gave it a brilliant new look ichard and Rachel Heath were says Richard, “and Lisa was very good when it page, the kitchen is now bright as can be impressed with a kitchen we fitted. came to offering advice. Our kitchen and utility room thanks to a spacious layout and colour for friends of theirs in Norton, were stripped back to the brickwork, and within a scheme of cream walls, painted-ivory five-piece writes Lisa Fish. month everything was absolutely great. The kitchen Shaker-style cabinetry, Duropal woodblock R “By comparison,” says Richard, “our kitchen is exactly how we imagined it, with plenty of storage. worktops, upstand and windowsill. seemed tatty and gloomy, with dark-oak cabinets.” Two wide drawers near the sink are huge. We supplied a Stoves built-under double gas He and Rachel live in a five-bedroomed, “Our utility room has been transformed into oven with electric grill, four-ring gas hob and detached house at Walton, Chesterfield, with a much more usable space, with a tall cabinet, shadow-grey glass splashback, Neff canopy their children, Brendan, 15, and Beth, 10. The a sink - which it didn’t have before - and a extractor, Franke stainless steel bowl and half property has been the family home for 20 years. replacement work surface. We really like that the sink, with matching swan-neck tap. When the Heaths decided to have a kitchen luxury vinyl tile flooring that has been fitted not All building and electrical work, plastering, and utility room revamp they came to our only looks like stripped floorboards, but has a painting, flooring and installation was showroom, and requested a brighter look. similar texture. undertaken and project-managed by “Sheffield Kitchen Interiors had plenty of displays,” As you can see from photographs on this Sheffield Kitchen Interiors.

Utility room

Sheffield Kitchen Interiors, of Meadowhead, is a family-run business established eleven years ago by Paul and Lisa Fish. They create stunning bespoke kitchens, bedrooms and home offices. Expect first class workmanship, incorporating the latest technology - backed by an experienced team of designers and fitters Grapevine Magazine 23 Designed & Built With Jon Stocks, and his sons Jon, Dan, and Kieran of DWS Ltd. My Plum Door an you imagine a brighter, more welcoming front door than this plum-coloured one we fitted for Sandra and Graham Cooper in Nether Edge? It really is a joy to behold, writes Jon Stocks. “In Grapevine we read about DWS,” says Sandra, “and liked the Csound of their rot-proof Accoya wood, which we decided would be excellent for a replacement front door. Ours was warped, draughty, and in quite a bad way, though it has been in place for almost 150 years - since the house was built in 1874.” Sandra and Graham have lived in their four-bedroomed, detached property for a third of its existence, having bought the place nearly half a century ago, in 1972. “At that time,” says Sandra, “Nether Edge was. not as popular as it is today, though the price we paid was a bargain even then. The old front door was red, almost crimson, so we decided that its replacement should be just as eye-catching, and of an almost identical design. The previous panes were frosted, as are the new ones, but DWS had them etched to a design we chose from the selection Jon brought us.” The panes are double-glazed, as is the fanlight above them, which bears Sandra and Graham’s house number. “Our new door was fitted in only a day,” says Sandra, “and we are very pleased with it. Outside it is plum-coloured, and inside we went for magnolia, which makes our lobby much brighter. DWS’s workmen were very good - polite and friendly.”

Our customer Sandra Cooper

The rot has set-in for rot, because softwood can have its chemical structure altered to resist decay - creating Accoya, which provides an excellent material for DWS to work with It comes with a 50-year guarantee

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24 Grapevine Magazine I rewire three-bed semis for £4,950 This is my guaranteed price for a three-bedroomed, post-1930s semi I WILL INSTALL... Twenty double sockets Eleven lights 6-kitchen, 4-lounge, A light in every room, welcome 2-dining room, 2-each bedroom, light outside front door, and a 1-hall and 1-landing security light at the rear Circuit-breaker board and full earthing are included PLUS two professional-quality Aico ‘toast proof’ mains-powered smoke alarms PRICES ARE NOT SUBJECT TO VAT All work is fully compliant with 17th Edition Wiring Regulations & Part P Building Regulations. Ian Drew served as a special constable with South Yorkshire Police for 23 years (retiring in 2014), so he is the ideal person to recommend and install security lighting, and alarm systems Minimum damage rewiring experts IJD ELECTRICAL & SECURITY ENGINEERS Decorator Richard Drew (centre) and his team will give your home a fresh 0114 248 5624 and colourful look BOOKINGS NOW BEING TAKEN FOR SEPTEMBER CClean CCare ONE ROOM AT A TIME Professional Carpet & Many of Richard’s customers have their homes decorated in stages, as funds allow - bedrooms, hallway, Upholstery Cleaning Service kitchen, lounge... • Established Family Business • PREPARATION IS VITAL “Painting and wallpapering are the easy parts of my job,” • 7 Day Availability • says Richard. “The hard bit is the preparation. Unless it is • Carpets • Upholstery • done thoroughly, rooms don’t have the professional finish • Mattresses • Rugs • people want. I put tremendous effort into sanding wood and filling cracks in plaster.” SUMMER TIME CHOOSE YOUR COLOUR SCHEME Richard uses top quality paints from Farrow & Ball, and Dulux. His customers can chose from a multitude of OFFERS shades in gloss, emulsion, eggshell and satinwood.

Carpet (single room) was £50 now £30 Richard - Sheffield born and bred - is a former Royal Marine commando Carpet (through-room) was £80 now £45 who took part in the 2003 invasion of Landing, stairway Iraq. He didn’t do any decorating & entrance hall was £50 now £35 there, but was decorated for his part 3-Seat Settee + 2 Chairs £90 in two months of fighting in and around Basra. Rugs from £15 • Free Stain Removal • Contact Richard • Free Carpet Deodoriser • 0782 576 7514 Freephone Email: [email protected] 0800 032 9030 www.drewdecor.co.uk

Grapevine Magazine 25 Pane Relief With Ian Hunter and his son, Ian, of Sheffield Window Centre Ballet Good Windows! We recently waltzed down to the Constance Grant Dance Centre, which for almost a century has been teaching Sheffielders of all ages how to step out in style

Two of the centre’s pupils are five-year-old twins Lilly-Ella (left) and Anabelle, who are daughters of Sheffield Window Centre director Ian Hunter rofessional dancers make their artistry seem effortless, yet each performance is the result of dedication and practice over many years - which is the case with members of our fitting teams, Pwhose speed and efficiency often impresses customers. In only four days our men removed and replaced nine windows - including two bays - at the Constance Grant Dance Centre on Psalter Lane, which in 2025 will celebrate its centenary. We were contacted by the centre’s principal, Tracey Southern, who asked us to renew almost all her building’s windows. Each had a wooden frame, and was single-glazed. “They were at least 30 years old,” says Tracey, whose grandmother, Constance Grant, founded the centre in 1925 - where Tracey has been an instructor for 36 years, since she was 21. Her mum, Judy, ran the centre until she passed away in 2013. The new windows’ UPVC frames are white on the inside, and anthracite grey outside. “I really like the grey frames,” says Tracey, “which I first saw on another building. I chose the tilt-turn design, which makes cleaning each pane easy. The fact that they are double-glazed reduces noise from the road, and will help Tracey Southern is principal of the keep us warm in winter. dance centre, which was founded in 1925 by her grandmother, Constance Grant “I was very surprised that the work could be done in four days. Fitters arrived at 8am, and were gone each afternoon by 3pm so as not to interfere with our class schedules. They were efficient, and extremely tidy.” Tracey’s centre teaches pupils from 18 months of age, in ballet, tap and theatre dance. Contact her on 0114 266 2124 COLOURFUL FRAMES The days when all UPVC window frames were white are long gone. Sheffield Window Centre offers them in many colours, plus a ‘foil effect’ finish that resembles timber. All are secure, thermally efficient and virtually maintenance free. The most popular colours are rosewood, golden oak, Irish oak, Chartwell green and cream, though ‘foil’ shades such as black, green and anthracite grey are becoming popular. All are available with white on the inside if required. Tracey (left) with her grandparents Constance and Harry, mum Judy, and sister Karen

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Showroom at 7 Rockingham Street, Sheffield, S1 4EA & 216/218 Oakbrook Road, Sheffield, S11 7ED. 0114 281 3333 Grapevine Magazine 27 Under the Bonnet With Ross Kerfoot, Manager of Tavern Service Station, Crosspool Beware of Chips They’ll Ruin Your Air-Con

hips of gravel can fly off the road and crack your car’s windscreen, or damage the paintwork. But did you know chips can easily have us Csweating by puncturing a vehicle’s air-con pipes? As summer hots up, drivers often realise their air-con is not working very well, but don’t realise that gravel-chips are to blame. The reason for this is the vulnerable position of air-con units. They sit in front of your car’s radiator, and are therefore directly in the firing line whenever a barrage of stones shoots from the road. It only takes one rogue chip to be on target, and the temperature inside your vehicle will soar. A car’s cooling unit is normally 18in long by 12in high (and very slim). It contains delicate using it can result in expensive repairs. Twenty years ago, air-conditioning was not sealed pipes filled with refrigeration gas that When your air-con system is inactive for a available in many cars, but today it’s fairly cools air as it enters the engine. This air is then long time the oils that lubricate it are not used, standard - though never as chilling as the unit transmitted to you via the fan of your heater so joints dry out and crack, thus breaking the fitted to an old Range Rover I used to drive. motor. If a stone punches a hole in the air-con sealed pipes which contain the refrigerated gas. Its dashboard was soon covered in frost on hot pipes, refrigerated gas will escape and render Another problem can be that the pipes become summer days the unit useless. corroded, and leak. Most air-con repairs are a simple matter of Repairing such damage is not too expensive, re-gassing, which does not take long. but if a chip disables the unit’s pump you So do come and see me if you’re not as cool could be looking at a hefty bill. as you should be. Many drivers have trouble with their air-con because they do not SUMMER TIPS If you go for a swim, have it switched on during the 1/. Be careful at sea. s electronic key fob coldest months. This is not a good make sure your car’ idea. Air-con should be used year- is not with you. The salt water cuitry, and you’ll round. It is great for de-misting your will damage its cir car’s windows, and filtering air. be stranded. es air in your car It doesn’t cost a lot to run. A few extra 2/. Hot weather mak and can aggravate pence a mile, that’s all. The cost of not tyres expand, existing damage that has been caused . Under-inflation increases to the rubber oad surfaces, leading to friction on hot r w-outs. If you drop in punctures or blo e e will check which tyr at our garage w ear. pressure is best for this time of y

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28 Grapevine Magazine Quality kitchens, bathrooms, and bedrooms

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Grapevine Magazine 29 Garden Design With landscaper Andy Ibbotson, of Hallamshire Paving (Est. 1994)

The rear extension and large dormer are recent additions that overlook the new patio Porcelain Patio Is Sight To Sea Sleek Mediterranean look is alternative to stone or block paving he seas move in many mysterious, unfathomable ways,” I murmured after my team had completed the magnificent porcelain patio pictured here, in the garden of a house at Lodge Moor, writes Andy Ibbotson. Our customer Richard Bailey had just treated us all to fish Tand chips, and as we sat in the sunshine enjoying them, it became apparent that my projects manager Shaun Westbrook was channelling my thoughts. He sipped from a can of extra-strength dandelion and burdock, then spoke with his customary eloquence and passion. “This noble concourse we have lovingly created would honour even Tiberius Caesar’s Villa of Jupiter on the idyllic isle of Capri, and deserves a vast, epic ocean vista of rolling waves.” “Hear, hear!” cried the rest of our team, whereupon I gazed at seagulls circling overhead, then raised my eyes eastwards to the North Sea. Hallam Paving’s Shaun Westbrook (left), “Shaun,” I said, “the glorious panorama you envision is on the way, be in no doubt. and our customer Coastal erosion is moving at such a pace that Sheffield will be an atoll before too long, Richard Bailey which means properties at its zenith - here in Lodge Moor - will be sitting pretty.” Porcelain patios are a sleek, Mediterranean-style alterative to stone slabs and block paving. The tiles we had laid are pretty much bomb-proof, and won’t lose their lamination due to wear and tear. Laying them is far more difficult than using conventional materials, because they are precision-made, and only 20mm thick. Any unevenness would immediately be apparent on the patio’s 40 sq mtrs., and its two long steps leading to the lawn. Specialist cutters were needed to avoid chipping any tiles, and during the nine days it took us to complete this project we were constantly checking to ensure everything was perfectly level. That photograph at bottom right shows how the patio serves as an extension of the kitchen-diner’s floor whenever the bi-folding doors are open. Those internal tiles are square (600mm x 600mm), whereas for the patio we used rectangular ones (900mm x 450mm). Despite the discrepancy in size, we were able to align every third line of our patio tiles with those of the kitchen-diner, which gives both surfaces a pleasing symmetry. We fitted a drainage channel outside the folding doors, and angled the patio so that it slopes towards the garden, where a slit drain collects rainwater. Our customer, Richard, is delighted with his new patio. “It’s brilliant,” he says. “Hallamshire Paving’s men were really friendly, and didn’t mind me bombarding them with questions.” View from the kitchen-diner Crimicar Lane, Lodge Moor, Sheffield 07840 361 244 [email protected] 30 Grapevine Magazine Spanish Lessons Do your carpets From Only £5 An Hour With Alfredo Peraita, who is from Jerez, need a fresh start? in southern Spain. He has been teaching Tim Mycroft promises superior Spanish in Sheffield for many years carpet & upholstery cleaning Alfredo’s lessons are now only available without using harmful chemicals online, due to the coronavirus outbreak. Chat with him one-to-one, or with friends, Your carpets will look and smell clean and fresh. A reliable and via Skype, WhatsApp or Facetime professional service is He says: ‘Spanish is not a difficult language guaranteed for English speakers to learn. Within a Tim previously worked at short time my students master basic Franklin’s Bedside Manor. phrases, and progress to a good conversational standard’ He has 30 years’ cleaning experience - and many happy customers Start learning Spanish now ready 10% off for your holiday THIS MONTH PRICES: conversation groups On all carpet cleaning, fitting £5 an hour (min. two hours) and upholstery restoration Individual tuition £17 an hour Call Tim for a (£22 one-and-a-half hours) no-obligation price quotation 0114 281 8334 Contact Alfredo: 07920 473 973 07401 769 858 Email: [email protected] Afternoon Tea For Two: £20

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32 Grapevine Magazine The Magazine For Sheffield 23,000 copies • Est. 1991 • WARPAINT! August 2021 • www.grapevinesheffield.net Sheffield was the world’s greatest munitions factory when Grapevine’s cover was painted

rmies are no use without guns, bullets and bombs, which Sheffield’s smoke-belching Afactories churned out in vast quantities during World War One - work that was vital in bringing about the 1918 defeat of Germany. But victory was far from assured when the work of art on our cover was painted in 1915. It seems to show a stretch of the River Don,

Smoke of War Sheffield, 1915 - p.33

Spying For Germany? Incas Were Gay Swimming School Sheffield Lord Mayor’s Trial - p.18 Christmas Dinner! Amazing Teapot Discovery - p.3 Lessons For C hildren - p.30 And Half-Price Meals - p.3, p.31 How T o Cook Steel Dancers In The Frame Patio In Por Some Heavy Recipes - celain Knightly Roof Work p.34 On Psalter Lane - p.26 Sleek Ceramic Look - p.29 Repairing Camelot - p.8

Portrait of the artist: Stanhope Forbes, visited Sheffield to paint the scene shown here, painted by Sir Charles Clausen and might have been on honeymoon. His wife had with Sheffield city centre in the distance. This scene died in 1912, and in 1915 he married Maudie (oil on canvas) is one of many masterpieces in the Palmer, one of his former students, and about the collection of Sheffield Museums. same time had his portrit painted by Sir Charles It was painted by Irish-born artist Stanhope Clausen. The following year, Forbes’ only child, Alec, Forbes. He obviously was much better at painting was killed in action on the Western Front, aged 24. with oils than words, and gave his work a not very AN EXHIBITION of paintings by Sheffield-born inspiring title: Sheffield, River and Smoking Chimneys. ‘abstract artist’ John Hoyland (1934-2011) is on Stanhope Forbes’ portrait of Stanhope Forbes (1857-1947) was almost 60 show at the Millennium Gallery until October 10th. his son, Alec, killed in action 1916 - and a member of the Royal Academy - when he Admission free.

Grapevine Magazine 33 RESPITE & PERMANENT OCCUPANCY

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Loxley Park resident Michael Bedwell was full of admiration for men he worked with at steelmakers Firth Brown, who were able to tell him exactly which elements were needed to create high grade metals

hey’d never have won the Great British projects of a grand scale. One of our presses could Bake Off (their sponges would have handle 6,000 tonness of steel at a time.” been far too heavy), but Michael Michael, 87, was born on November 3rd, Bedwell’s melting shop colleagues 1933, at Pitsmoor, Sheffield, and grew up in Tcooked up some remarkable recipes when he Shiregreen. He and his wife, Betty, moved to worked with them at Sheffield steelmakers a house at Crosspool after marrying in 1967, Firth Brown. and never moved home. They were closely He started at the company as an office boy associated with the nearby St. Columba’s Church, after leaving Sheffield City Grammar School at the where Michael served as sacristan. The couple age of 16, and within a few years was promoted met at a dance in City Hall, and often enjoyed to the estimating department. His work involved smooching the night away to Arthur Frost’s assessing how much it would cost to Quartet, Keith Peter’s Big Band, and many more manufacture particular grades of steel. great musicians. Michael and Betty Our resident Michael Bedwell “Customers wanted the had one son, Andrew, who today metal for many different lives in Buckinghamshire. In fact, I’d say I’m elated to be at Loxley Park uses,” says Michael, “and my “Betty passed away in February because the staff’s positive attitude lifted me out of job was to liaise with experts of 2016,” says Michael. the dumps. They really are brilliant, and it’s thanks in our melting shop as to “Soon afterwards, I began to suffer to them that I’m a different person - much, much which elements would be ill health, and later had a spell in happier. Living here is like being in a classy hotel needed to create the perfect hospital. After coming home because life’s so easy - no cooking for me to do, recipe for a ship’s hull, I felt very down, and found it no laundry to wash, no cleaning. Couldn’t be better. an engine or perhaps new difficult to cope. In September last “There is always something going on, and I’ve aircraft. Once I knew which year my son arranged for me to made some great friends, who are always on hand ingredients were needed, have respite care at Loxley Park, for a chat over a cup of coffee, or a meal in I could work out a cost. It was and I’ve been here ever since the restaurant - where you could not wish for very interesting, often involving Michael and Betty on their because I like the place so much. finer cuisine.” wedding day in 1967 RING CAROLYN If you are interested in joining our community, please ring Carolyn Slaughter, Client Liaison Manager, to arrange a safe and controlled visit in person, or book a virtual tour, on 0114 232 1583

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