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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 Wishing you all a Wonderful Christmas and all the best for a Happy New Year 2019. December 2018 If you would like to make a donation towards the costs of producing this magazine, please tell your distributor . www.allsaintsaston.com SERVICES IN DECEMBER Sunday 2nd December Advent 1 9am Holy communion at All Saints, Aston 10.30am All Age Worship, Aston All Saints C of E School Sunday 9th December Advent 2 10.30am Holy Communion at All Saints, Aston 10.30am Holy Communion, Christ Church, Swallownest 9.00am Holy Communion, Holy Trinity, Ulley 3.30pm Christingle Service at All Saints, Aston Sunday 16th December Advent 3 10.30am Holy Communion at All Saints, Aston 10.30am Christingle/ Crib Service at Christ Church, Swallownest 6.00pm Carol Service at All Saints, Aston Sunday 23rd December Advent 4 10.30am Holy Communion at All Saints, Aston 10.30am Holy Communion at Christ Church, Swallownest 9.00am Holy Communion at Holy Trinity, Ulley 4.00pm Children’s Nativity at Holy Trinity, Ulley Monday 24th December Chriatmas Eve 3.30pm Crib Service at All Saints, Aston 11.30pm Midnight Mass at All Saints, Aston 11.30pm Midnight Mass at Holy Trinity, Ulley Tuesday 25th December Christmas Day 10.30am United Benefice service at All Saints, Aston Sunday 30th December \ 10.30am Holy Communion at All Saints, Aston 9.00am Holy Communion at Holy Trinity,Ulley 2 www.allsaintsaston.com [email protected] 0114 287 3780 It’s that time of year again! As the supermarket shelves pile high with tempting food and drink, and the adverts insist our Christmas will not be complete without the lat- est hi-tech device, it’s easy to become cynical about Christmas. Yet another layer of busy-ness in lives that are already too busy. A hollow façade of jollity. A source of stress for those whose family life is already stressful. An exercise in over-consumption that leaves us feeling hungover and dissatisfied. Yet even as the shopping malls are inviting us to spend our way to happiness, there’s a different invitation that comes from churches up and down the land: come and celebrate the Christian festival of Christmas – come and sing carols, come and hear words of hope, come and light a Christingle candle, come and join us as we pray for a world shaped by love. It’s an invitation that has been finding an ever greater response over the past decade. At a time when church attendance has been declining in many places, Christmas services are better attended year on year. Why is that? Perhaps it’s because Christmas is a time that is loved by children, and celebrating Christmas in church can be a way of recalling our own childhood – of a simpler time. As adults, each of us still has a child inside us, a child who has the capacity to find the world a startling place, full of wonder and amazement. The Christmas message of God with us in Jesus - the divine filling the human – is a mystery that invites our awe and wonder; a mystery that our worship communicates through the beauty of music and the poetry of story. Whether or not we’re church-goers, many people believe that there is something more to life – that we are not simply consumers, whose lives are given value by how much money we have and how much stuff we can buy with it. Many people long for a sense that there is something more to life, a deeper purpose to the brief time we have to be alive on this planet. I think Christmas appeals to that sense of longing in all of us for “something more” in life, a deeper sense of connection. It offers us a chance to reflect on that “something more”, that the birth of Jesus represents. I do hope that even if you haven’t been to church for many years, you will take the opportunity to share in our Christmas services this year, and let them speak to you of the love, the hope and the peace that God brings to us in the person of Jesus Christ. Every blessing to you in this season of Advent and Christmas. Frances 3 www.allsaintsaston.com Aston Springwood —WHIZZKIDS— Aughton Lane, Aston, Sheffield, S26 2AL Tel: 0114 287 4220 15 hours free for all 3 - 4 year olds in our Foundation room New Pre-School room: places available for children from 2 years old After-school club for children 3-14 years Taxi service from local schools available Open every school holiday 7.45 - 6.00pm 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. 4 www.allsaintsaston.com Aston-cum-Aughton History Group Turnpike Roads The Grade II listed 6-mile marker on Mansfield Road, Aston (close to the footpath from Waleswood Road to the A618 Mansfield Road) A surveyor’s benchmark is chiselled on the back of the marker. Two Turnpike Trusts created by Act of Parliament in 1762 were for two roads running through Aston parish. One was part of the London to Richmond ancient highway and was from Rotherham to Pleasley and followed the route through Whiston, Aughton, Swallownest, Wales to Clowne. The other was part of what became the A57 and ran from Attercliffe through Handsworth, Swallownest, Aston and on to Worksop. We know that local people invested in these roads, one of them was William Mason, rector of Aston and in his will dated 29th April 1794 he wrote “I give and bequeath to my Successor and Successors the Rector of Aston and to the Church wardens of the said parish for the time being all that Principal and Interest due to come out of my money now rested in the Turnpike Road between Worksop and Attercliffe in Trust and my will is that they appropriate the same to the benefit of the Parochial Club now established at Aston so long as the said Club continues but if it cease then to go toward advancing the Salary of the Schoolmaster of Aston and his successors forever”. The Rotherham and Pleasley road is now the A618 from Rotherham to Clowne. We are lucky that Milestone markers can still be found along the length of this road as many of them throughout the country have disappeared. The first mile marker is on Moorgate, Rotherham; the 2nd mile marker, Moorgate Road, Whiston; 3rd mile marker Pleasley Road, Whiston; 4th mile marker on Pleasley Road, hidden in the hedgerow opposite the entrance to Ulley Country Park; 5th mile marker on Aughton Road, Aughton; 6th mile marker on Mansfield Road, Aston and 7th mile marker on Mansfield Road, Wales. On the Attercliffe to Worksop road, I know of only three milestones. One is on Worksop Road, opposite the junction with Lodge Lane but unfortunately the metal plate has been stolen and only the stone remains. Like the Mansfield Road, Aston marker, this is grade II listed. The other one is behind the security fencing on the old Worksop Road near the motorway roundabout and 5 www.allsaintsaston.com the third, also missing its metal plate, is on the A57 against the wall sur- rounding Todwick Grange. The toll house where tolls were collected for the Rotherham to Pleasley road was at the crossroads in Aughton where the Rotherham to Aughton and Ulley to Treeton roads intersect. On the 1841 census the toll bar keeper here was Joseph Frith, living in the cottage with his wife Jane, daughters Elizabeth and Sarah and sons George and William. In 1871, George Bower was the toll collector. The toll house for the Attercliffe to Worksop road was at Swallown- est crossroads where the traffic lights are now. In 1871 the Toll Collector at Swallownest Bar was William Whitham and in 1879 was Edward Rowe. The tolls for these roads varied depending on the number of horses drawing the vehicle. Six horses cost 2 shillings, four horses 1 shilling and sixpence, two horses, 9 pence and one horse 3 pence. Any cart drawing stone or mar- ble, millstones or timber paid 4 pence. A waggon, wain, cart or other car- riage paid 2 shillings if drawn by five horses and 3 pence if less than five. For every horse drawing a vehicle it cost 1 penny and for every horse, mare, gelding, mule or ass, laden or unladen it cost 1 penny. A drove of Oxen, Beasts or Cattle cost 10 pence per score. A drove or herd of calves, sheep, swine or lambs cost 5 pence per score. Not everyone had to pay tolls, for example, Mail Coaches were exempt, along with the Royal Family, Soldiers in uniform, Parsons on parish duty, funeral processions and prison carts. The income from these turnpikes was intended to be used to keep the roads in good repair and thus make travelling easier and more comfortable. How- ever, it was reported 22 years after the Attercliffe to Worksop Trust had been formed that the first two miles out of Sheffield were "execrable", the next two as "so cut up and bad as hardly to be safe" and the remainder as "all rugged and jumbling".
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