Summer 2020 The Official Newsletter of the Crosspool Forum Volume 17 Issue 2 Having a voice . . . Making a difference

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CROSSPOOL NEWS - crosspool.info 3000 copies delivered quarterly Editor: Ian Hague With people ordered to social distance and remain in their homes, as much as possible, the UK was in lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus. On Thursday 26 March 2020, to hon- our and pay tribute to all key workers: NHS staff, supermarket workers, teachers, Healthcare workers, emergency services, armed ser- vices, delivery drivers, shop workers, teachers, waste collectors, manufacturers, postal workers, cleaners, vets, engineers and all those who are out there mak- ing an unbelievable difference to our lives during the coronavirus emergency, “Clap For Our Carers,” ask that as many people as possible get involved every Thursday by applauding either outdoors or through open windows at the designated time 8pm. As a symbol of hope and to make sure the NHS, its staff and key workers know we appreci- ate them continuing to With the schools, nurseries and colleges closed for an indefinite work every day to ensure period, and no school patrolled crossings to supervise children’s we are safe, fed and cared safety, it is inevitable that more youths will be around and young for during this time, loads children out playing on the pavements. Help make our communi- of you have been making ty safe during this uncertain period by being more rainbows to put in your aware of your speed whilst driving and taking ex- windows and outside to tra care entering and exiting drives. show your continued sup- Reducing speed, particularly now the schools are port and to help our com- closed, reducer’s collisions and casualties. munity keep smiling.… It’s difficult to see someone who is wearing darker clothing at congratulations, you are night, and when the weather is wet and grey. It’s important to incredible. make yourself more visible to other road users, stay safe, take care and help prevent the future of Crosspool being injured on Due to the current legislation, our roads and pavements. regrettably the April Open Meeting had to be cancelled In This Issue

OPEN MEETING  Community Quilt

Crosspool info Thursday 30th July 2020 at 7:00pm  Schools Making Scrubs St Columba’s Church, Manchester Road, Crosspool  Glimpses of Past Epidemics Local councillors, the police, council representatives and guest speakers,  Local Businesses Adapt are generally on hand to listen to your concerns on local issues.  Flood Protection Programme Keep your eye on the ‘Spar noticeboard’ and ‘Crosspool News’  Families in Lockdown Email:- [email protected] and Tele:- 07713687955

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Ladies & Gents Hairdresser Colouring Specialiy 2 Road Quality Natural And Raw Food Crosspool Sheffield S10 5NA Tel: 0114 2665950 Academy Trust Following the UK Governments coronavirus announcement for lockdown measures to be implemented from the 23th March, schools were closed to all but key workers and vulnerable children. Since then Design and Technology teachers, volunteers and a small number of pupils at Tapton School Academy Trust, have been busy making PPE for Key Care Workers. As well as making a request to suppliers to donate polypropylene sheets, clear acetate, polycarbonate and PVC, the Trust has also made an appeal for crowdfunding donations via the virgin money giving website; with over £6500 kindly donated so far. In addition to the Academy’s Design and Technology teams making and delivering in excess of 1000 face shields to one of our local hospitals, Tapton has produced over 30 sets of scrubs with hand drawn Thank You notes, made by key worker’s children, thanking frontline staff for all they are doing in the fight against the coronavirus. A recent posting on the school news website from Trust CEO David Dennis said:- “I think this is a brilliant initiative from our teams and use of the expertise and resource of our schools. Thank you to all staff involved and all our communities who are supporting in contributing to the effort to support front line staff". Thank you to the staff, pupils and volunteers at Tapton who have contributed, they have been amazing. School Term Cut Short As the Coronavirus took the country into unparalleled times, and the closure of schools brought the school term to an abrupt end for the majority of children, a loud groan was heard from the children at King Edwards lower school as they were told the news by Assistant Head Cath Jackson at her final assembly. After the dismay of students having their lives turned upside down overnight. The Students worry now, is that after months studying and coursework and all GCSE, “A” and “AS” level examinations being cancelled, how it would affect their future prospects, college and university assessments . Students who were due to sit GCSE, “A” and “AS” level exams this summer will receive a calculated grade. The calculated grade process will take into account a range of evidence including; non-exam assessment and mock examination results. To ensure that grades are fair between schools and colleges, exam boards will put all central assess- ment grades through a process of standardisation, using a model developed with Ofqual, the inde- pendent qualifications regulator, whose overriding aim is to make sure arrangements are as fair as possible for all students. To enable students to progression to higher and further education in the normal way, results will be published as originally planned; “A” and “AS” levels on 13th August and GCSE results on 20th August. This will also allow students time to decide whether they wish to sit exams in the autumn, and to pre- pare for those exams if necessary. Good luck to all children at our local school.

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Glimpses of past epidemics

1666 - Mineral spring-water of “great repute” was obtained “from Fullwood Spaw in the tyme that the sickness was att Eam [Eyam]” - but after the Plague years the site was all but forgotten as a clean water source - even when Sheffield was ravaged by waterborne diseases like cholera. 1737 - Dr Thomas Short of Sheffield reported: September full of great Changes; hence that sudden and general Catarrh in October; succeeded in the latter End of the Month, and all November, by a fatal Diarrhoea among the Poor. This visitation of cholera continued until December 5th, when he spied an auspicious meteor which "restored general health, till the next epidemic." 1832 - the first stone of a new Cutler’s Hall was laid by John Blake of Upperthorpe - only for a new chol- era outbreak to cut short his run as Master Cutler. The first victim was interred in haste at St. George’s Church, late at night: We lament to state that a fatal case of Cholera...has occurred in this town. The patient was a tailor, named Foster, who had recently left Thorne. (Sheffield Courant) Clothing was thought to spread the contagion, and just as folk histories of the Plague at Eyam blamed George Viccars, tailor, for handling contaminated clothes in 1665, it was no surprise that the entry of chol- era to Sheffield was imputed to a tailor. A Public Dispensary opened on Tudor Place, where Dr Charles Fox Favell tried mercury, mustard, potash and poultices, bleeding, brandy and “blisters to the spine” to no avail. He even applied Galvanic current to two patients, who were, in his words, “discharged cured”. 1837 - John Acton, Union Street druggist, noted in his diary: I have not had such a brisk physic trade for years. Nearly every house in Sheffield is visited with Influenza....Every newspaper I look into has a remedy in it. 1842 - Mary Hutton, working-class poet of Cotton Mill Row, saw the unequal impact of epidemics ('when pestilential vengeance sternly swept its thousands to the grave') and the higher death-toll among the poor. When a bereaved mother applied to the Parish Overseer for the burial costs of her child - and was told to sell the body to the surgeons - Mary imagined a better world: No baneful workhouses were there; The rich were not alone protected; Nor yet the poor sold and dissected... 1853 - Even the experts admitted their ignorance of infectious diseases: What is cholera? Is it a fungus, a miasma, an electrical disturbance, a deficiency of ozone, a morbid off-scouring of the intestinal canal? We know nothing. We are at sea in a whirlpool of conjecture (The Lancet) 1854 - Dr Samuel Eadon of Glossop Road wrote in a pamphlet that cholera (“the pestilence that walketh in darkness”) arose from “the appearance of comets in this region of the universe.” He prescribed Hydro- pathic Water-Cures. 1860 - The enterprising chemist Amos Ridal, of and Devonshire Street, placarded the walls of the town with advice to “try Ridal’s Wonderful Mixture for Cholera”. Thomas Asline Ward’s diary provides the last word on stoical Sheffielders; reluctant to call the doctors until death’s door itself... till our arrival on the verge of another world, and then only we call in the physician to sign our passports. Jim Walker Volume 17 Issue 2 Page 5 Crosspool Volunteer Hub As the Lock Down set in, local volunteers from around Cross- pool came to the fore to help those local residents in most need. Crosspool Community Hub (one of many hubs now in operation throughout the city) was set up in conjunction with Voluntary Action Sheffield; it encompasses unpaid DBS reg- istered volunteers from our local Churches, Care in Crosspool, and volunteers from the local community, some who have been furloughed from their normal employment due to the Corona outbreak. Our local Hub, based at St Columba’s Church, has a team of 12 volunteers answering the phone, Monday to Sat- urday from 9am to 12 noon, have on average been receiving 2/3 calls a day. A further mobile team of regis- tered volunteers are helping out in the community delivering groceries, medication, pre- scriptions, newspapers and with the odd dog walk is being carried out for self-isolating households and for anyone simply struggling to cope with the current unprecedented situ- ation. The volunteers also providing, the “telephone cuppa and a chat” to people living alone, and follow up calls to reassure and support lonely residents. The Crosspool Hub has also produced a number of postcards with information on the help and support they provide. These are available in our local precinct shops for anyone to pick up and pass onto neighbours that they feel may need help. This information is also on the Forum’s Crosspool News and VAS websites. If you, or you are aware of any friends and neighbours needing help or advice, Hub volun- teers will be happy to talk on the phone. Even if you are not sure if they are the right peo- ple to help, please don’t hesitate to give them a call on Tele: 267 0006, They will be hap- py to listen and try to meet whatever needs arise. If they cannot help they will point you in the right direction. (Answer phone will be in operation when office not manned. Please leave a message and someone will get back to you). Crosspool Food and Supplies Donations For some time now both Stephen Hill Church and St Columba’s Church have worked togeth- er to form strong links with the Firvale food bank. Both are very grateful to the people of Crosspool for their generous donations of food and other products. Unfortunately, owing to the current coronavirus pandemic, the food bank is now struggling to meet the needs of those less fortunate and therefore more donations would be most welcomed. Tara Osborne at St Columba’s is the donation coordinator. Tara manages donation support and delivers donated products every Friday to the Firvale centre. If you would like to contact her, call the office on 0114 2670006 and leave a message with your preferred contact infor- mation, or you could email her on: [email protected] Tara would be happy to arrange/coordinate collection of any donations you may wish to contribute to this worthy cause.

Page 6 Crosspool Clarion Scam If you think you have uncovered a scam, have been targeted by a Ronaldo scam or fallen victim, there are Expert in all aspects of Hairdressing many authorities you can con- tact for advice or make a report. 19a Sandygate Road Reporting crime, including fraud, is important. If you don't tell the Crosspool authorities , how do they know Sheffield S10 5NG it has happened and how can they do anything about it? Re- Tele: 0114 266 2133 member that if you are a victim of a scam or an attempted scam, however New Crosspool Memorial minor, there may be hundreds or thousands of others in a similar position. Your infor- mation may form part of one big jigsaw and In remembrance of those may be vital to completing the picture. whom we knew, those whose REPORTING FRAUD memory we treasure and for In the South area as from April all who lived and died in the 2013, all fraud should be reported directly to:- service of their country and mankind, the people of Cross- ACTION FRAUD pool raised sufficient funds to Reporting online www.actionfraud.police.uk purchase a Memorial that be- Telephone reporting 0300 12302040 longs to all. UNLESS A crime is in progress or about to be committed; The suspect is known or can be This unique memorial, to those whose life was easily identified; The crime involves a vulner- touched by conflict, was recently installed in the able victim. grounds of Tapton Congregational Church on In this case you should contact the police Manchester Road. directly, either by dialling 999 in an emergen- A short service of dedication, quiet contempla- cy or by dialling 101 in a non-emergency or tion and reflection, will be held (hopefully out- visiting a police station. side) at a date to be announced. Volume 17 Issue 2 Page 7

2020 Crosspool Festival Casualty of Covid19.

Following Government advice over the Corona Virus and the implementation of social dis- tancing measures, in order to keep our community safe it comes with deep regret that the festival team have had to postpone this year’s Crosspool Festival. As we find ourselves in the utmost bizarre time of our lives, months of organizing, preparations and meetings have now been put on hold until 2021. We will all have to wait a little longer before we can all get together and experience some of our favourites The Well Dressing, Street Market, Scarecrow Competition, Open Gardens, Lego Challenge, Lydfest, Poetry, storytelling, Music evenings, quiz’s, treasure hunts, History Walks, Pub Quiz, Acoustic night, toddler sing along, Barn Dance, Films, bird walks, the ever popular folk concert and much loved Summer Fayre. Thank you to all our Sponsors, local businesses, street market stall holders and everyone that has been involved in the preparations so far. Who would have envisaged that our sum- mer festivities could have been affect in such an out of the ordinary way? “Let’s all look forward to Next Year’s event”.

Page 8 Crosspool Clarion Three Merry Lads Three Merry Lads public house has been granted planning permission to block up the existing entrance and reinstate the front porch en- trance. Re-establish extraction Professional Care For Your Feet equipment to existing flat roof with in the Comfort Of Your Own Home associated screen fencing. Render Julie-Ann Laycock Corn Removal to front and side elevations - Nail Trimming Dip CFHP MPSPract 1800mm high fence to rear and Callus Reduction FHPMVR Ingrowing Toenails balustrade and festoon lighting to external rear seating area. Mobile : 07930 487 327 planningapps.sheffield.gov.uk/ [email protected] 19/04055/FUL Neighbourhood Planning The Government’s Localism Act offers rights and powers for communities. This includes Neighbour- hood Planning where a community can come together and produce a plan to shape how their local area should develop and grow. For example, your local community have the opportunity to:  say where you think new houses, businesses and shops should be built  have a say on what buildings should look like  grant planning permission for new developments that you want to see go ahead. Broomhill, Broomfield, Endcliffe, Summerfield and Tapton (BBEST) was designated as a Neighbourhood Forum for 5 years from 24 January 2015 and has recently been re-designated for a further 5 years from 24 January 2020. BBEST have been working on a Neighbourhood Plan and have submitted a Neighbourhood Develop- ment Plan proposal to us for independent examination. Why We Are Consulting Under Regulation 16 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012, we (as the Local Planning Authority) are responsible for the next stages of the Neighbourhood Plan process. This in- volves undertaking statutory 6 week publication and consultation of the submission, before it can be progressed to an independent examination. https://sheffield.citizenspace.com/place-planning/bbest-reg-16/ We have received a Neighbourhood Plan proposal submitted by Broomhill, Broomfield, Endcliffe, Summerfield and Tapton (BBEST) Neighbourhood Forum. A consultation is open for a period of 6 weeks from Friday 7 February to Friday 20 March to receive representations on the submitted plan. Please see BBEST Neighbourhood Plan below for full details.

Volume 17 Issue 2 Page 9 Tomlinson & Windley A Privately FUNERAL SERVICE Owned 271 Western Road Crookes Local Sheffield S10 1LE Business 0114 266 1726 Admiration and Tribulation Over the last few weeks Crosspool has never been the same, the precinct has been consist- ently quieter with considerably far fewer peo- ple waiting for the bus, fewer visitors milling around, less people meeting, congregating, chatting or just passing thru on their way to and from work and school. Crosspool seemed to become a village again. Our local businesses have had to adapt and change overnight. Following government ad- vice, a few had to close their doors and tem- porarily ceased trading for a few weeks; some have been operating and trading from behind closed doors and online. Cafes and restau- rants have had to close to their regular wine and dine cliental and turn to takeaways and home deliveries. Food shops have converted to a one in and one out customer service, and the larger shops providing a one way foot traffic system of operation through their shop while other customers queue patiently out- side. Shop owners have also used the closure time to refit and decorate the shops as we have seen at Flower Design and Enhance, and Crosspool Fish Bar has completed some exter- nal remedial work. But one thing that has been said by a lot of local people in our local community “Is how proud they are of our local businesses and how helpful they have been to serve our com- munity during this exceptional time of their lives”. A big praise goes out to all our local Alter opening times businesses. As the Clarion goes to print we hopefully move towards the easing of lockdown and going forward, we wish all our local shops, businesses, pubs, cafes and restaurants a speedy recovery and a successful future. Please keep an eye on the Crosspool Website for updates as to business opening/ reopening hours as Lockdown is eased in the coming weeks and months. Thank you all. Page 10 Crosspool Clarion Flooding Protection Programme Update on the ‘Protecting Sheffield from Flooding’ programme The following notes are provided based on details given by a Sheffield City Council officer at pre-lock-down meetings of the Sheffield Waterways Strategy Group: A contractor has been appointed to work on the Design and Build phases of the con- ventional flood defences to be built along the lower River Loxley, from to its confluence with the Don near . The design work has started and it was hoped to start construction in September 2020 with completion by autumn 2021, but clearly this timescale is likely to be affected by the current Covid-19 situation. The damage at weir has been assessed by structural engineers – possible re- pairs will be looked at as part of the Loxley flood defences. Preliminary investigations have started to look at putting in flood defences between Kelham Island and the /Loxley confluence. A flood storage area on agri- cultural land near is also under consideration. Attention is being turned to improving flood protection on the rivers above , including on the Sheaf and the Porter – meaning that controversial plans for a flood storage area at Endcliffe Park may need to be considered again. A feasibil- ity study, including preliminary survey work, is continuing on flood defences on the Sheaf and Porter. It may be necessary to consider a lower standard of flood protec- tion than desirable in the first instance, depending on the funding available. Work on defences on the Blackburn Brook is also still at the feasibility stage. It was confirmed that the proposal for a flood storage area (FSA) in Rivelin could be looked at again. However, discussions have been started between SCC and Yorkshire Water about the possibility of using reservoir storage as part of the flood prevention strategy – this approach is being trialled near Hebden Bridge and if put in place in the Don catchment, could mean that the Rivelin FSA was not needed. Environment Agency is also having talks with Yorkshire Water and Ofwat. There are understandable difficul- ties in balancing drought and flood risk management, but it is hoped that solutions can be found. Both the Sheffield City Council and the Don Catchment Rivers Trust have appointed a Natural Flood Management* (NFM) Officer, to work on projects in the River Don catchment. The new SCC officer is working with the Environment Agency and Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust looking at opportunities for NFM measures, particularly in the Upper Don catchment. Some NFM work has already started under the Sheffield Lakeland Landscape Partnership project, including tree planting near Underbank on a farm owned by Yorkshire Water (you may have seen this reported on Look North and elsewhere). SCC has commissioned work on predicting the possible effectiveness of NFM measures in the area, in order to help target different areas of catchment for funding. *Natural Flood Management (NFM) is when natural processes are used to reduce the risk of flooding and coastal erosion. Examples include: planting trees and hedges in strategic places, installing ‘leaky dams’ along water courses to hold back water in times of high rainfall, creating opportunities for floodplains to store water, and changing the way land is managed so soil can absorb more water (so less runs off the land). NFM can be a cost-effective and sustainable way to Crosspool help manage flood risk and can help to reduce News We reserve the crosspool.info right to edit the need for the more traditional engineering pieces for both methods of flood protection. length and Sue Shaw (RVCG) contents

Volume 17 Issue 2 Page 11 Joined-up Heritage Sheffield (JuHS.llamadigital.net

JuHS is developing a project that will bring together a 'Local List' of sites of heritage interest - for example buildings, open spaces, landscapes, structures and other artefacts. The List does not, as yet, have any legal or planning status but could be used to lobby organisations such as the Council to take account of local views regarding the site. The Local List will be in addition to statutory listings (such as Listed Buildings) so is a way of highlighting places that currently have no official protection. So far, with help from others, I have submitted nomi- nations for the (Lodge Moor/ Redmires) and Ruskin House on Bolehill Road/ Rivelin St in (where Ruskin set up his muse- um). Of course I’m also working on nominations for the entire Rivelin mill sites, which, with the excep- tion of Mousehole Forge, currently have no official designations. The format and presentation of the List are currently under development, but soon individuals or groups will be able to nominate sites/artefacts of heritage interest that they would like to see included. So start thinking of interesting places or artefacts around your local area that you feel should be recorded and known about more widely. We will let you know when the invitation is made for the public to send in nominations. Last year JuHS ran a series of workshops, one of which I attended, to generate ideas and views on taking forward a plan to create a Heritage Strategy for the . The plan deals with heritage of all kinds, from the city's buildings and museums to its industrial past and open spaces. The document, which is thought to be the first in the country to be community-led, rather than produced by a local council, sets out a vision for the 10 years up to 2030, and reflects a feeling that Sheffield could do more to promote its history and herit- age. Having a strategy in place could help to boost visitor numbers and potentially bring in funding for projects worth millions of pounds. A draft Strategy for consultation was produced from all the input received - this can be viewed at: www.joinedupheritagesheffield.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Strateqy-final -l5jan2O.pdf. The consultation runs through February, with plans to launch the final version of the Strategy sometime soon. Joined-up Heritage Sheffield is a community-led initiative (now a charity), started in 2014, that brings together a broad range of organisations and individuals representing the Sheffield area's very diverse heritage sector to explore ways to develop a better resourced, better con- nected and better communi- cated heritage offer for a wide range of audiences. Established since 1930 Partners include: Sheffield Civic Trust, Sheffield Cathe- dral, The University of Shef- field, Sheffield Hallam Uni- versity, Sheffield City Coun- 21 Stephen Hill Road cil, , Crosspool Sheffield S10 5NQ City Farm and many 40873 [email protected] others, including community 0114 2662667/2669706 Mob:-07860236614 groups. Sue Shaw

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count of the last 7 weeks. Happy 94th birthday! How much different was this Avril and Martin are both fortunately able work birthday than your last one and did you have a party last year? Even though my birthday was in January it was from home since the Covid-19 outbreak, alt- different because I only had a few people instead of a party. hough dad does have to pop into the office a couple of times a week. On top of their daily What do you do in Windsor Castle while in isolation? I have been doing homework and relaxing. I really hope workload, they both have to oversee the daily Covid-19 ends soon so I can see my friends again and I home schooling of Annabel and Robert as they think you’re hoping about the same thing. sit at the dining table working away on their laptops completing work they would have oth- Is it hard to rule four countries? How did you feel when you were crowned? If I were you, being queen would be hard erwise done in the classroom at Lydgate Jun- because I would hardly know what to do. iors. Robert enjoys computing, science and What was it like in the war? I was learning about ww2 a few maths whilst Annabel prefers literacy and art. months ago and my Grandpa told me that he was in the war, but he was only 2 years old. After the study time is finished time is spent on other activities, Annabel has been taking part in Is it true that you use your handbag to send secret messages to your staff? Sheffield Music Hub’s “Garden Gig” initiative playing her violin in our garden at 4pm to cheer I hope you have a good day and please write back up our neighbours, and her Brownie meetings answers to all my questions. have restarted via Zoom, working towards her “Grow your Own” badge, designing her dream Warm regards, garden and then growing a plant in it from Robert Clark (age 11) seed - choosing to try and grow an apple tree. Meanwhile Robert is “Hiking to the Moon” with Benty Lane Scouts (each walking a mile around their garden) to raise money for our national fundrais- ing efforts. Robert has also designed, made and sent a Birthday Card and letter to the Queen asking her what life in lockdown is like for her at Windsor Castle. The whole family have made a mosaic rainbow in support of the NHS key workers and attached it to the junior school’s fence during our daily exercise routine. Most importantly we’re still having fun; exercising and eating healthily (we recently added straw- berries to the chocolate fudge cake we baked!) We look forward to getting together with all our relatives and school friends in the not too dis- tant future. Everybody keep safe. Avril, Martin, Annabel and Robert.