AIRE VALLEY MAG Community News And Local Business Directory
Oct 2013
Distributed FREE to households and businesses in Fell Lane, Exley Head, Keighley, Utley, Long Lee, Riddlesden, & East Morton www.airevalleymag.co.uk Are you getting into the swing of things now that October has arrived and the kids have returned to school? Autumn is sympathetic to domestic industry and renewed active creative O’Neill Injury Solicitors - Local To You We are Solicitors covering Skipton, endeavour. In the pages that follow you will Have you been contacted by Keighley and surrounding areas with find a number of fun activities for the whole an insurer offering to settle your over 20 years experience in Personal family. Choose from the Steam Spectacular, accident claim? Then please Injury Claims. Pumpkin Trail, or try your hand at Table contact us immediately, you are Tennis, to name a few. There are We would be pleased to see you seriously at risk of being sold short also free tickets available to Aire Valley Mag at home to offer you impartial and by them. readers if you fancy going to the Antique Fair independent advice on a No Win No Fee Independent research shows that (see page 13.) Agreement to ensure you are properly Solicitors secure on average almost Enjoy our spooky ghost story from compensated. three times more than insurers. East Riddlesden Hall. Take a look at the So don’t get mugged by insurers - O’Neill Injury Solicitors want you community pages for a host of contact us without delay. to get the compensation that you seasonal happenings. are legally entitled to - not what the for free impartial advice We are pleased to extend our insurer thinks they can get away Tel: 01535 958778 distribution to homes in Utley this with. or email us at info@oneill-injurysolicitors month including several pick up www.oneill-injurysolicitors.co.uk points. Whatever you do, have a great October. Liz Barker, editor @LocalGlobalGirl
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Raspberries, jellies, on straight canes. Their season is nearly over jams and crumbles. but I have been enjoying them so get out quick! I I grieve leaving wanted you to know about them! Their fruit are all the savoury red with lots of little fruitlets, like blackberries, greenery of the but when you pick them they come away leaving spring foraging the ‘plug’ behind. Like many autumn fruit they season, forgetting the diversity of the produce are best eaten as simply as possible, from the of the autumn. Plums, rowans, blackberries, bush being best. apples, quince, crab apples, elderberries and Cath Bromwich, a Silsden the treasured raspberries are just some of resident, is a cookery what a keen eye can find at the turn of the teacher and forager with season. And basically you can do the same a background in health things with them. Mainly preserving and promotion. Her livelihood crumbles with a few variations. I will put a few includes foraging, general options of recipes on my face book page for you and health-related cookery for different conditions such as as well as a bit of information about pectin (see diabetes and coeliac disease. For more information, or to pass below). on your stories and recipes, contact Cath at www.facebook. There is a lot of fun to be had too. A friend and com/ourchoicefoodsforaging I spent a happy evening with a campfire and made blackberry cordial, crumble and rowan Cath’s Raspberry Drizzle Cake jelly all on a charcoal fire..yes even the crumble! One of the challenges with making preserves 150g butter,150g sugar, 150g self-raising is knowing what to jelly (straining the juice of flour, 3 eggs, about 1 handful raspberries, a stewed fruit before boiling with sugar), and couple of table spoons sugar, 1lb loaf tin, baking what to jam. Simply put I jelly anything that has too many pips like blackberries, and also I find paper. Oven at180 0C, gas mark 4. rowan (to be served with mutton or game) is Line the loaf tin with baking paper, Cream the best jellied. However if you jelly you often could sugar and butter in a mixing bowl until paler in do with putting some apple or crab apple with it colour than when you started, Break eggs into a for taste, and maybe also pectin, and these are jug and beat to break up, Mix eggs into butter and less easy to find. Having enough pectin in the sugar mixture very slowly, if it curdles add a spoon fruit is also a challenge. This is the ingredient of flour, Once all the egg is added use a spatula in fruit that encourages setting. Some fruit has to fold in the flour and then half the raspberries, more pectin than others and there are various Scrape mixture into tin and bake for about 45 – solutions to increase pectin levels. 60 mins until firm to touch and cooked through, However if you just find a few fruit, especially While cake is cooking mix remaining raspberries the delicious wild raspberries, then this months’ recipe is useful: Raspberry Drizzle and 2ish tablespoons of sugar together This Cake for a handful of berries. You will find wild mixture will ‘weep’ and become liquidy. When raspberries down less used lanes, in the same you are happy that the cake is cooked take it out places as blackberries but less abundantly. of the oven and drizzle the mixture over the top. They are much smaller than the commercial Leave it to cool in the tin. Eat on its own variety but far tastier. They have leaves that or with cream. look very like blackberry leaves but they grow To advertise call Karen or Liz on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 8 9 East Riddlesden Hall Ghost
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To advertise call Karen or Liz on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 12 13 The WORD is in-a-lifetime opportunity. POWER LOOMS, LATHES AND BICYCLES getting out... When WTT met in the newly refurbished A new mystery Damside Mill in September the room was When the Tour de France started in the roads, the heavy bikes, no gears and story is unfolding buzzing with ideas. 1903 Keighley was a busy manufacturing plunger brakes, they rode to Blackpool via right before our Project Hollywood, mentioned above, is town, famous for its Textile and Engineering Clitheroe and Preston then onto Morcambe very eyes out on being developed with the WEA (Workers products. Not only making cloth for returning to Keighley via Settle. These were the wild Bronte moors. Educational Association) and NEET the home market, our cloth and textile indeed “giants of the road” You may have been intrigued by the sight (Northcliffe Environmental Enterprise machinery was exported all over the world. 1891 was the first road race in Keighley of some strange 10ft high numbers which Team) in partnership with Worth the Tour. Because of our empire Britain had a to my knowledge - 50 miles with the riders have appeared up on the hillside between Tour D’Art is an educational & capture market worldwide. finishing covered in mud and they had to be Oxenhope and Penistone Hill. Well - the engagement project, creating pieces to These factories and foundries used coal hosed down at the finish. supersized signage - created in iconic be displayed along the route, with schools to provide the power they needed. Coal 1892 Annual Sports Day - attended by Hollywood style - is appropriately heralding and community groups invited to create however caused smog and 3,000 people, despite bad a sporting spectacle of epic proportions their own artwork as their showcase air pollution and when the weather. Prizes worth £80 coming to our area next year. You’ve and personal welcome to visitors. A pilot bicycle came along many of were on offer. guessed it – the Tour de France Grand project with Rough Nook assisted living the workers realized that this 1895 saw the first cycling Depart. community in Keighley features an 8x4ft was a way to escape their death on Keighley roads. That’s the only clue we’re canvas created with environment and get out into The former vice-president of able to give for now – Haworth-based artist the countryside to get “fresh Keighley Cycling Club aged 34 apart from the fact that all Vic Buta in the style of air” into their lungs. years was killed at Sandbeds; will become apparent over 1930s tourism posters. Keighley because of its he was in a collision with 2 the coming weeks and The Worth the proximity to the Yorkshire men racing their flat carts months. So keep a close Tour website www. Dales was blessed with at night without lights. 120 eye on the hillside and see worththetour.org will easy access to Skipton - the cyclists walked in his funeral what transpires. provide a focal point for everything going “Gateway to the Dales” and in a matter of procession and the clubhouse flag was If you think you’ve spotted a change on in our area. minutes the pollution of the West Riding flown at half mast. A tribute was printed in – or maybe you believe you can solve A workshop for businesses will offer mill towns could be left behind. As a result, the Keighley News. the mystery - why not write down what advice on how to make the most of the at the start of the 20th Century, Keighley 1903 (and this is the weirdest thing of you’ve noticed or even take a snapshot opportunity. became a hotbed of cycling with clubs all) Albert Hunter cycled backwards from and share it on Twitter using the hashtag There’s so much more - and we’ll update springing up overnight. Keighley Cycling Skipton to Keighley into a headwind in 50 #worththetour. you regularly in this magazine. You can Club was one of the largest in Yorkshire, minutes. He overtook 45 carts, 29 cyclists, Worth the Tour is a community-led follow developments on Facebook Worth founded in 1884 and by 1891 it had 86 1 motor car and 2 road engines. A group formed to rally support for the Tour the Tour or @worththetour on Twitter. members including 8 ladies, they built a week later a rider from Selby broke his and the 100-day cultural festival leading Or if you’d like to get involved, as an clubroom, which still stands to this day record doing the same trip in 40 minutes up to it. The aim is to champion projects individual or group, come to one of our at the top of Cavendish Street. It could and 34 seconds but he had a tailwind - and activities which will create a legacy for public meetings or email accommodate 200 members with storage UNBELIEVABLE. Keighley and the Worth Valley for years to [email protected] for cycles underneath. So whilst cycling in Europe was moving come. The next WTT meeting is being held The club started to organize runs on a forward in England we were busy going By working together every effort is being October 7th at 7pm regular basis at first to local beauty spots backwards. made to maximise the benefits. To see Central Hall, Alice Street, Keighley such as Gargrave, Otley, Broughton, Kirkstall (I am indebted to Ian Dewhirst for the that residents, visitors and cyclists all All Welcome Abbey, Bolton Abbey etc. above information and thank him for letting have a fantastic experience. We also want The room is available from 6.30 for coffee, tea, In 1987 they became more adventurous me use it.) And so, as you can see, Keighley to ensure that businesses and the local and networking and unbelievably considering the state of has always been a cycling town! economy prosper as a result of this once- www.worththetour.org.uk Frank O’Dwyer #TDFFrank @worththetour To advertise call Karen or Liz on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 14 15 inspiration to our community. For me, the most memorable part of the evening was a rendition of Les Miserable’s ‘Bring him home’. Sung with such heartfelt emotion, as many of their partners are still deployed in other parts of the world, I don’t believe there was a dry eye in the room. They delivered a superb performance throughout and were given a standing ovation at the finale. A moment I will cherish. The evening itself raised £5,242 taking the total including the proceeds from Haworth’s 1940’s weekend to a staggering £18,787.28 for SSAFA, the charity that provides lifelong support for our forces and their families. Terry Grayshon, SSAFA Chairman in West Yorkshire, commented ‘The people of Haworth have taken SSAFA to their hearts. They have helped raise a phenomenal Bring Him Home... amount which will help SSAFA carry out our work throughout West Yorkshire. The wonderful people of Haworth have, by raising Never more so than now, in my life Sailors, Airmen & Families Association). To this fantastic amount, shown their support look around and see so many time, have our armed forces to the members of our Armed Forces. It is eighley prepares to join global network of familiar faces supporting K been of such concern to the an incredible amount of money to have been Fairtrade communities. such a worthy cause was civilian community. Following raised and we are so very grateful’. Since February a community wide campaign quite overwhelming. recent conflicts and the work including business people, residents, faith groups, During the evening of veterans charities, people Cllr Nikki Carroll schools and local councillors have been working members of the choir, are acutely aware of the risks (photography courtesy of Ian Palmer) towards achieving Fairtrade Town status. which included serving faced by service personnel This has involved a range of activities and events military personnel, stepped and the impact on their loved raising awareness of the benefits of Fairtrade to forward to provide personal ones. Little wonder then, producers in developing countries and the range of testimonials about their life that the Military Wives Choir Fairtrade products available in the town. By choosing and what the choir means to performance in Haworth was a to support Fairtrade, Keighley can add it’s voice to them. These were particularly sell out weeks in advance. demands for a trade system that puts people, not poignant, especially the To have stood amongst profit, at the heart of the transaction. young army doctor. While her husband 350 members of our community By choosing a Fairtrade product each time you go is currently deployed in Afghanistan, she singing ‘Jerusalem’ was a deeply shopping you are making a positive contribution to cradled her baby son as she sang. For moving experience that I shall never building a better world for all of us. many the choir is a support group, an forget. Haworth Parish Church was The application was submitted in September and we opportunity to make friends easily, to the ideal location to host the evenings hope to celebrate achieving Fairtrade status during share worries and fears, highs and lows, entertainment, which included a raffle the towns Christmas celebrations. and auction, all in aid of SSAFA (Soldiers, but most of all bringing them unity. An
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To advertise call Karen or Liz on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 18 To advertise call Liz on 01535 64222719 Top Tech Tips by Michelle Thompson at CloudFree IT Andy Beattie PAINTER & DECORATOR When you move house it’s standard procedure to flick a few switches or re-patch a few cables Quality Interior & Exterior work to take your final readings from the meters, at the exchange seems to take BT Openreach Competitive Rates call the utility companies concerned and advise weeks, literally. Prompt & Efficient Service them of your new address. On moving in day No email, web browsing, online gaming, social 01535 681292 you call them again with the readings at your networking, TV on demand or You Tube funnies. new home, and that’s it. Job done, often with no A technological wilderness. Well, almost. m: 07817 132784 interruption to service. If I reported that adults and kids alike dug out Not so with broadband, as we found board games, played charades in out recently. With no such thing as a the drawing room and debated ‘broadband meter’ on your property, it extensively the politics of the day must be sooo difficult for the ISPs to around the dining table, I’d be fibbing. determine where one person’s liability ends Old Xbox &PS2 games came out of the and the new occupant’s begins. (Apologies for boxes that should have been destined for the the sarcasm there, folks). Actually, I’m sure loft. A bit of ‘retro gaming’ took place for a while. they have enough clever technology that they As the oldest (and most old-fashioned) in the could meter the usage very easily if they wanted house I found the near complete absence of tech to, and maybe they would one day, if only they almost bearable, except that just about every hadn’t made unlimited broadband so darn company or organisation that I wanted to inform popular! of our change of address seems to expect you Generally when you move out they switch the to do it online or by phone and the mobile kept phone/broadband off. When the next person cutting out on me. Gah! Patience wore thin. Our moves in, they request for it to be switched little corner of Cross Roads appears to be a ‘3G back on, if they want it (yes, kids, there are still signal desert’ when you’re on O2. some people who choose not to be permanently Nice views come at a price. There was some attached to the web). suggestion that I chose the location on purpose Disillusioned with the service we’d had at the as a way to limit the gadgets. Now would I? ;-] old house in Oakworth (40Mbps? 14 Mbps, ‘The Boss’ hooked up a different provider’s 3G actually, and falling…), we resolved to switch dongle to our router. The very expensive 12GB provider at the same time as the move. Sadly, quota had to do us for a month. We could easily switching provider at the same time as your burn that allowance in a day! We got rationing, address seems to add a layer of complexity 21st century style. Strictly no downloads or which causes lines of communication to break streaming allowed until further notice, but at down. least ‘no internet access’ wasn’t going to be an Our new house had been empty for a excuse to avoid homework… fortnight. Both broadband service and the So 4 weeks later, we now have unlimited phone line had been disconnected. The ISP downloads at just over 17Mbps. No fibre used by the previous occupant really didn’t available yet, in our ‘almost perfect’ corner of the appeal. We found a suitable alternative and village, but, if it was, then we’d certainly expect then waited. better than the speed we’re getting on ADSL 2+. What must be, in reality, a five minute job To advertise call Karen or Liz on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 20 21 behind the scenes at the museum Sudoku sewing box and the sisters’ samplers will be on show in our Research Library and locals will have the chance to see the Brontës own needlework first hand. Sadly in September the weather was not so kind when members joined our Collections Manager, Ann Dinsdale, for a walk from the Parsonage to Ponden Hall – the house that Emily used as Thrushcross This summer at the Brontë Parsonage Grange in Wuthering Heights. Ponden Hall we launched a brand new group for local was home to generations of the Heaton people: the West Yorkshire Brontë Society. family, and it is claimed that incidents in The Parsonage is run by The Brontë their family history contributed to the plot Society which has members across the of the book. The owners, Julie and Steve, world including in the USA, Australia and gave a personal tour of the house including Japan. Until recently we didn’t have a the magnificent library, which still has the group for the very area that the Brontës same shelves that Emily used as she was themselves loved so much. Almost 10% researching her novel. of our current members live in West Come along to our event in October if you Yorkshire so the summer saw the start are a member, or if you would like to know of a programme of events for those more about the Brontë Society and what members and other local people who are they do. interesting in joining the Society. This month has been full of exciting Our grand launch took place at an changes at the museum as we have evening Garden Party for Emily’s birthday welcomed four new staff members and in late July. Following drinks and nibbles, two new interns! Look out for next month’s members were treated to a tour of the article when our new Arts Officer, Louisa garden and a look at Emily’s artefacts in Briggs, will be giving a ‘Behind the Scenes’ the Research Library. In mid-August, on a look at the new Contemporary Arts beautiful summer’s day, I met with fifteen Programme. Ann Sumner members at East Riddlesden Hall to look Executive Director, at the amazing 17th century needlework Brontë Parsonage Museum pictures and casket on display there. These were beautiful pieces that showed off the needlework skills of young girls – an To solve a Sudoku puzzle you have to use the numbers 1-9 to fill in important part of their education. Over the blank spaces so that each row, each column and each 3 x 3 tea afterwards we heard about the Brontë square has all the numbers 1-9 appearing once. Some puzzles are sisters’ samplers and the lessons their aunt gave them in sewing. This will be quite simple to solve while others are very tricky. followed up by an event for members on Saturday 26 October when Charlotte’s
To advertise call Karen or Liz on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 22 To advertise call Liz 23on 01535 642227 Sat 26th Oct 2-4pm at East Morton Institute “feast morton’s apple day” - celebrate the harvest with games for all the family Sat 26th Oct 10am - 4pm Vintage Community Pages & Retro Fairs at The Octagon, Crossflats. An array of Vintage & Retro A stranger arrives at a Mansion to fine the Wind Keighley Amateurs Musical stalls selling home ware, china, glass, the owner shot dead an his wife nearby presents ‘Whistle down the Wind’, linens, vintage & retro style clothing, Thurs Oct 3rd until Fri 8th Nov with a gun....More info visit www. please contact Box Office on 08456 furniture, vintage jewellery, retro cakes Week days only 9am - 4pm at keighleyplayhouse.co.uk For tickets call 252550 to book your tickets. and a whole lot more. - Music all day Central Hall, Alice Street, Keighley. Box Office 07599 890769 Thurs 24th until Sun 27th Oct from 30s 40s and 50s, Swing Jive Exhibition of work from the Little Weds 16th Oct & Sun 20th Oct KWVR Beer & Music Festival Local Sessions, Vintage Workshops. Large House Art Workshop, Binlgey. East Riddlesden Hall 1 pm - 4pm. breweries including: Copper Dragon, car park available. Excellent cafe bar on Sat 5th & Sun 6th Oct East Morton No additional charges. World War Old Spot, & Timothy Taylor. Enjoy real site. Come dressed for the occasion, Primary School 10am - 4pm Two Crash Site Come and join East ale with friendly folk on one of Britain’s step back in time and have great day JIGSAW GALORE Members of St. Riddlesden Hall volunteer David finest heritage railways. The main with us. Supporting: Cancer Research Luke’s Church are organizing a two Wadsworth, for a fascinating walk to a Festival Bar will be located inside the UK day jigsaw festival. All proceeds will be genuine World War 2 air crash site. Exhibition Shed at Oxenhope.Where Sat 26th Oct to Sun 3rd Nov shared between the church and the This is sure to be a very insightful, you can sampleReal Ales, as Pumpkin Trail 10am-4pm Breast Cancer Research Fund. engaging walk which we are extremely well as a full selection of bottled Bolton Abbey Free event (normal Sat 5th Oct The Lane Ends Country excited to be putting on. Walkers will beers, perrys, ciders, spirits estate admission applies)Join Store Charity Day All profits on be required to drive to the start of the and soft drinks. There will be in this spooktacular week of goods purchased in the traditional walk. Car sharing is possible, for those entertainment all weekend, with half term fun. Can you find all Farm Shop that day go to Sue Ryder without transport. This walk is free, but live music adding to the festival the hidden pumpkins through Manorlands Hospice. Please have a we ask that you contact us to reserve atmosphere. Trains run late into Strid Wood? 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Street and Church Green for various Sun 20th Oct Train rides for all the 10.30am - 4 pm. Can you follow Sat 26th & Sun 27th Oct Spooky market stalls and entertainment. family. Miniature passenger hauling Captain Wrecks hidden trail to unlock Goings On In Haworth! Halloween Fri 11th Oct -Sun 13th Oct Keighley trains running at Marley sports field the secret of the dead man’s chest? Weekend Sat at 3pm Parade of & Worth Valley Railway Autumn 1.30pm until 5pm. Steam and electric Collect the captains coins to solve Dragons. Sun at 3pm Parade of Ghouls Steam Gala. Special trains will be trains providing trips for all ages. Great the puzzle, then throw other budding Sat 2nd Nov KDMES 6 pm Bonfire running over the weekend from family afternoon out. Refreshments pirates off the trail by learning to Party at Marley Railway Track - Keighley Station and throughout available. Tickets will be on sale for make fake pewter. Includes a house Bonfire & Fireworks. Tickets include K&WVR. bonfire night. 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