'DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY No. 70 SUMMER 2003 ISSN 0965-8912

Village Design Statement

On Saturday 28th of June, the Dore Village Society is organising a Design Day Workshop in the Church Hall, Townhead Road. This will provide an interesting and hopefully fun opportunity to join in the process of preparing 'The Village Design Statement' . The aim will be to focus on the essential character of Dore, by looking more carefully at different parts of the village and describing their special features and character. This information will then make a valuable contribution to providing guidance to developers and planners when designing or deciding on future new developments. In order to get as many people as possible involved, the day has been organised in Victorian houses on Abbeydale Road South. Brian Edwards such a way that you may come for the whole day, or just the morning or afternoon. Be sure to make this a date in your diary. Buxton Heritage Visit Outline Village Design Day programme: DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY 9.30am Meet at the Church Hall Summer Meeting - coffee & tea provided. 7.30pm Wednesday This year the Society's summer visit is to lOam Brainstorming session on the Buxton on Saturday 14th June. village character. 4 June Buxton is notable for: Festivals, Opera 11am Small teams make photographic Methodist Church Hall House, Vintage cars, Roman spa, Georgian surveys of areas of the village. spa, The Old Hall Hotel, The Crescent, The 1 pm Relax with your packed lunch in AGM and talk on "The making Slopes, St. Ann's Well, (Bring an empty the Church Hall - tea or coffee. of Whinfell Quarry Gardens" container!l), the Pump Room, The Pavilion Gardens, The Devonshires, the (former) 2 pm Discussion within team's of their by Stephen Doncaster fmdings. Devonshire Royal Hospital (1881 with the 2.30pm Collate and present conclusions largest domed area in Europe), Retail for other teams to see. therapy and its climate! 3.30pm Finish We have put together what we hope with Everyone in the village can contribute to Causeway Head Road prove an interesting and enjoyable visit the Village Design Statement by providing starting with a 2 hour guided tour. This will their views on the special character of Dore Despite the 'scrapping of the Dore Area take in the Spa areas, the Pavilion Gardens, and their neighbourhood. Enclosed with Road Safety Scheme, the project to provide Opera House, plus Higher Buxton St. this copy of 'Dore to Door' is a short a crossing on Causeway Head Road Anne's church and Museum and Art questionnaire. If you value your local remains alive and well. During a recent Gallery, which presents an excellent environment, please complete this and discussion with an official in the City exhibition of Peak District Archaeology. return it by hand or post to the addresses Council's Road Safety section, we were Then there is time to experience some of told that the consultation phase has the other sites yourselves or to take provided. It would also aid arrangements for the produced no objections to the scheme. This refreshments in the Pavilion Gardens or Village Design Day on the 28th June if you means that the detailed design can be Spring Gardens. would indicate your willingness to come to finalised and sent to Street Force for The all-inclusive cost of the visit will be the workshop at some time during the day implementation, which is now expected to £ 12, departing 12 noon prompt from take place "either late in the summer or in by calling 262 1127. Causeway Head Road and returning at 6pm. David Crosby the autumn". Tickets on a first come basis are available Although we have yet to see the final from Pat Pryor on 236 9831 or John Baker drawings, it is believed that the crossing on 236 9025. Don't miss it! Festival changes will be located close to the telephone box near the newsagent and will incorporate a Council Elections This years Dore Festival will spread over refuge in the middle of the road, thus two weeks, from Saturday 28th June to enabling the crossing to be made in two Saturday 12 July. This allows for the Well stages. The presence of the refuge should Our May local election results were: Dressing Service to follow the erection of also assist in reducing traffic speed at that M Biram Green 216 the wells, rather than a week later. It also point. It is also believed that there will be D Crosby Labour 926 allows time for more events overall. alterations to the junctions with both High M Waters Conservative 2,401 Full details will be posted on the Dore Street and Devonshire Terrace Road. A K Hill Lib Dem 3,276 Village Society noticeboard nearer the time. copy of layout drawing is awaited. Turnout was up on 2002 1 A good few years ago, rights to a strip of Ashfurlong Road Traffic land along the side of the road had been Membership Subscriptions retained by the Council, for possible future One of the conditions attached to the initial widening. An approach to get this strip As a registered charity the Dore Village granting of planning permission for made into a pedestrian footway was Society relies heavily on subscriptions to development on the site of 'Blue Ridge', rejected and subsequently the land was carry out its objectives on behalf of was that a one-way system be introduced on returned to an adjoining property. At that members and Dore residents generally. part of Ashfurlong Road i.e. between the time, and subsequently, suggestions for Also the more members we have, the more junction with Dore Road and Cavendish making the road one-way have been firmly clout we carry with the council and other Avenue. rejected by council officials on safety public bodies. Currently traffic moves with some caution grounds, for the very reason that there If you have not already paid your on this stretch of road, in anticipation that it would be an increased risk to pedestrians. subscription for this year, please do so at might meet vehicles coming in the other The whole handling of this matter has been Green's shop on Causeway Head Road, or direction. The Dore Village Society feels particularly insensitive, given that the at the DVS room in the Old School between that removal of this disincentive to speed Council recently arbitrarily withdrew lOam & 12 noon on the first Saturday each would undoubtedly put pedestrians at an funding for aDore Area-Wide Road Safety month. Next Open Morning 7th June. increased risk given the absence of a Scheme, which would have involved footpath. community consultation. We therefore wrote to the Council in Dore Male Voice Choir January stressing our view that there should be proper consultation with local residents Dore Festival 2003 The Choir attended the Mexborough and and the society, outside the planning District Music Festival in March. This is a process, before any decision was reached. Dore Festival this year will be spread over prestigious festival that has been run We believe issues of safety and the two weeks. It will start on Saturday 28th annually since 1912. The Choir entered the preservation of the very nature of our last June with a Village Design Workshop Male Voice Choir section of the Festival historic lane in the area, should be worthy organised by Dore Village Society. The and won first prize. The cup was very of more than a sideline to a housing hugely popular Village Gardens Open Day acceptable, but the barrel of beer was even t development. is on Sunday June 29 h, a week earlier than more so! Sadly this request was ignored and notice usual, so note it in your diaries. On Tuesday On IIth March the Choir was honoured to of a proposed traffic order posted on the 1st July Dore Ladies Group invite everyone present a concert for the Lord Mayor at roadside in April. We have subsequently to their meeting and talk by Irene Sheffield Cathedral. The Sheffield Young written again asking for this to be Haniewicz on a wartime journey from Person's Chair were our guests and the withdrawn pending proper public Poland to England. proceeds went to the Archer Project, the consultation (many people will be unaware Another change to this years programme is Lord Mayor's charity. of the proposed traffic order) and evidence the date of the Well Dressing Service on On 7th May the Macmillan Centre at the as to what. alternatives or modifications to Sunday 6th July, timed to occur as soon as Northern General were celebrating the first the road have been considered. the boards go up and while they are still in anniversary of the opening, and asked the pristine condition. The traditional cream Choir to provide the entertainment for the teas organised by the Methodist Church event. ladies will accompany this event. The Choir is enjoying a very busy DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY On Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th July, there programme of concerts and will next be in Registered Charity No. 1017051 will be an exhibition of Dore Village life Dore at St John's Church on Saturday 21st throughout the 20th Century, based on the June, and then again at the Dore Festival The Society aims to foster the protection recorded memories collected by the Dore when we will be joined by the Dore and and enhancement of the local Oral History Group. This promises to be a Totley Townswomen's Guild Choir on environment and amenities within Dore, very exciting event. Thursday 10th July (see the Programme of to encourage a spirit of community and Festival fortnight will also include, a Events for details). to record its historic development. family Fun Run and Lord Conyers Morris David Heslop Men, the ever popular concerts and a return Chairman (Dore to Door) of the Sterndale Singers. On Wednesday 9th Mr J R Baker 236 9025 July we welcome back The Company who Editorial & Advertising 8 Thornsett Gardens, S17 3PP. will perform their swash-buckling adaptation of the Prisoner of Zenda on the Dore to Door is published quarterly by the Vice Chairman (Environment) Village Green. Remember the play will go Dore Village Society and delivered free to Mr R Millican 262 0012 on whatever the weather. over 3,200 households in the area. 16 Devonshire Drive, S 17 3PJ. For details of all events see the calendar on If you are interested in submitting an the back page. article or letter, have local news to report, Treasurer The Committee look forward to your or wish to place an advertisement, please Mrs M Watson 236 5666 support throughout Festival Fortnight. contact the Editor John Baker on 236 9025 11 Cavendish Avenue, S17 3JN. Maureen Cope, Syd Crowson, or write to: Anne Elsdon The Editor; Dore to Door; Secretary 8 Thornsett Gardens; Dore; Mrs A Slater 2366710 Sheffield, S17 3PP. 6 Old Hay Close, S 17 3GQ Daffodil show [ Email [email protected] ] Opinions expressed in articles and services Committee offered by advertisers are not necessarily Mrs L E Baker 2369025 The daffodils planted around the village by endorsed by the publishers. volunteers have given a wonderful show (Dore Show & FEW) No part of Dore to Door may be again this year. Sadly they are not always MrDCrosby 262 1127 reproduced in full or part, without written respected by residents, their children and Mr D Heslop 2365043 permission. pets. (Planning) Printed by South Yorkshire Printers, On Mothering Sunday this year, a woman Rutland Road, Sheffield, S3 8BP. Mrs V Malthouse 2363632 was seen to stop her car on Cross Lane and MrP Pryor 2369831 cut herself a bunch with a pair of scissors! © Copyright Dore Village Society 2003 2 Jean Recalls Mr Fisher's Ducks

First let me apologise to those who took "Mr Fisher's Ducks" is the title of a new exception to my remarks in the Spring Dore story for children set in Dore Village. to Door, when I called to shame Damall. I Written by Marjorie Dunn and illustrated thought everyone would realise it was by David Heslop OBE, all profits from written with ''tongue in cheek". A sense of sales of the book will go to Pearson's humour seems sadly lacking in some Holiday Fund for deprived children and people. other local charities. I much enjoyed Richard's article on Joe Copies of the book, price £4.75 will be on Rowarth. What a character he was. I sale from the Dore Village Society stall at remember also the gypsies camping on 'The the Scout Gala on the 12th July. Parish Piece' as the piece of land on the Duck and daffodils. David Heslop opposite side of the road from Owlet Farm, was known. It was quite open when I was It was burning hot on the way home, Miss Electoral changes young but the Corporation blocked the Davies and the pupils who lived at the entrance and it became very overgrown. Totley end left us at the top of Old Hay How many people are aware I wonder, that The gypsies used to make wooden pegs Lane. We were all dying of thirst and on the from the Council elections in 2004, the with, I believe ash wood and strips of metal way down Old Hay somebody acquired a boundaries and possible name of Dore cut from old cans to bind the two pieces bottle of pop but it had a crown top and we Ward will change radically? together. They lasted for years, didn't mark had no means of removing it efficiently. It Proposals, put forward by the Boundary your clothing and never blew off the line. was hit on the stone wall, glass and pop Committee for England, aim to equalise the Children were threatened if they didn't everywhere but none to quench us. Can you size of Sheffield electoral wards by behave that the gypsies would take them, imagine children of 10 and younger being redrawing their boundaries. In our case the but it was always summer when they came left their own devices these days. 'ward' will loose Low Edges and Lower and life as a gypsy seemed quite romantic. I eventually arrived, hot, dusty, minus one Bradway, but gain Whirlow. The name of They were very unpopular with the grown- hair ribbon and the buckle from my sandal. the ward may also change to reflect that it ups, poaching and nicking. They never I had further to go than most, living on will be made up of four distinct seemed to be here long. Newfield Lane. Happy days! communities - Dore, Totley, Bradway & One glorious hot day Miss Davies, our There are still too many dog faeces on the Whirlow. The committee's report suggests teacher took us to look round Totley Brick pavements. Fifty poo bags only cost £ 1.50. Totley & Dore but the name Upper Sheaf Works. Not for us the luxury cruise to the But I do think we need more bins, though has been put forward as an alternative by Med., we got half a day to foot it there and I'd hate the job of having to empty them, people responding to the proposals. back. I don't remember being all that especially in summer. We shall soon be One important side effect of the changes enthusiastic for a look at a brick works, but able to dispense with replacing the asphalt will be the need to elect new councillors for we did get a drink and a biscuit in their too; there is so much chewing gum around. all the wards in 2004 i.e. three at one go for canteen. Jean Dean Dore. 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MOroRS 3 roof tiles, which he said were green, were Other roads in Dore such as Church Lane, Letters distinctive among the red roofs of the other Dore Road, and Causeway Head Road will new houses. You could see his green roof of course be used in this way by the same Dear Sir, from Tinker's Corner at Bradway. selfish minority. Collective noun for ducks. Several times before the War my uncle I should like to appeal via your columns, to Well done on another fine edition of Dore would come to collect myself, my brother, the boy/girl racer brigade, to just think to Door. Hope the following may be of father, mother and grandfather from our about it, and imagine how they would feel interest: very modest home at Gleadless and drive us if it was their child who was knocked down There are several collective nouns for to Dore in his Lagonda for Sunday by someone who couldn't be bothered to ducks: afternoon tea. Besides the excellent tea, I observe speed restrictions. a spring (unfortunately this applies to teal remember playing ball games on the lawn Name and address supplied and Idon't think our ducks qualify) and retrieving the ball from the new Dear Sir, a flight (in the air, which they often aren't, shrubberies. There was also a luxurious Iwonder if anyone can help me please. even with the best attempts of impatient padded and canopied swing-seat on the Iam researching the history of John Henry motorists) terrace, and a bell to call the Maid to the Parkes aged 25, married 12.2.1894 in a team (maybe we should get them a new dining room from the kitchen, a piece of Christ Church Dore to Ada Boucher aged strip?) advanced technology operated by a foot 22, daughter of Thomas Boucher. Her a paddling (on water - this seems the best switch under the table. I was much father and mother Thomas & Cecelia one since they're often dabbling in the well impressed. Boucher also lived in the village, that name by the deli or their home-made puddle by The war came and Inever visited or saw may also jog someones memory. the greengrocers) the house again until in recent years when I Ihave not been able to fmd records of any Hope this helps 'the Puppet Lady'! returned to Sheffield after a long time away. children they had, but know that they still Paula Smith My uncle died in 1946 and my aunt re- lived in the Village, as by 1923 John Henry Dear Sir, married. I last saw her in 1948, but I became known as simply Henry. I have "Blue Ridge" remember both aunt and uncle as kind, if only found details for a John Henry Parkes The demolition of Blue Ridge and the slightly awe-inspiring people, generous to and RoselRoseylRosie. In 1923 they were projected re-development of the site cause my brother (who was their Godson) and to living in "MOSTYN "Totley Brook Road, me to feel a degree of nostalgic sadness. me. I am sorry to learn that the green and John Henry, "Henry" as later known, The house was built by (or for) my uncle, (blue?) tiles will soon be gone and that the was an accomplished violin player. They Herbert Brownhill, in the mid 1930's when site will be crowded and the traffic were a very well known musical family in Iwas a small boy. I was very proud of my congested. Sheffield and had a musical shop. rich Uncle Bert who ran a very successful Anthony Fry I would be very grateful if anyone has any oil business from his office in Campo Lane, Dear Sir, information no matter how little about the besides being a figure of some importance I think that most drivers must be aware of family or anything they feel would help me in the Scouting Movement. The splendid the fact that although overall motoring in my search. Ican be reached by email at house which he built was proof of his accident statistics have improved in recent Patgeni [email protected] or via the editor. acumen throughout the years of the years, Britain still has a poor record with Pat Smith Depression. regard to accidents to pedestrians, and Dear Sir, 'Uncle' Bert was in fact the husband of my especially to children. A major factor of I am doing some research into the life of father's cousin, whom I knew as Auntie course is speeding in urban areas, as Alice May Crossland, who was a piano Cissie (Isobel). They had a daughter, recognised by recent television campaigns, teacher and also Enid Blyton' s aunt. She Doreen, who was much older than I and and the proliferation of speed humps. lived on Meadway Drive from around the whom Isaw on but rare occasions. How does one get through to the arrogant late 1940s to the early 1960s. Does anyone The house was originally known as minority to whom speed limits evidently do remember her please? Maybe you were Ashfurlong House, Cavendish Avenue, and not apply? even one of her pupils and know if she ever my uncle was at pains to point out that the Blacka Moor Road is a wider than average composed music herself. I should be so road, and quite straight for a good grateful to hear. I can be reached on Tel: proportion of its length, ideal in fact for 268 3173 at 50 Benty Lane, Sheffield SIO Bradway Pet Shop those so inclined to floor the accelerator 5NF. pedal and see just what speed they can Primrose Lockwood 180 Bradway Road attain before having to brake. (near top of Twentywell Lane) Parking available outside the shop CLEANING MASTER Opening times: Monday to Saturday Plood Cont.ol SellVices 9.30am to 6pm We have a wide range of pet food, accessories, beds, cages, carriers, hutches, rabbitruns and birdtables. 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4 Dear Sir, Dear Sir, Whatever the arguments about the 'value In response to Marjorie Dunn's request for News in brief for money' side of the PFI schemes, (see a collective term for ducks on the ground, I Doremouse in the spring issue), if this was believe the answer she is seeking may be a March was the driest in Sheffield since the only way we were going to replace the 'paddling of ducks' . records began 121 years ago, with no rain King Ecgbert School buildings, surely it However there appears to be a collection between the 13th & 30th and only 38.4mm was worth doing? The current buildings are, of different terms for specific types of overall compared to an average 68mm. by anyone's standards, an appalling eyesore ducks. The recycling site on Blackstock Road has and a dreadful place for both pupils and Bunch knob or spring of Teal. now reopened following refurbishment. staff to work. A dopping of Sheldrakes. Dore Male Voice Choir won the The benefit of a new school to a huge Sord or sute of Mallards. Mexborough Music Festival in March. number of village residents now and in the Flight, rush, bunch or knob of pochards. Developers of land taken from the grounds future should surely outweigh the views of Team of ducks (in flight). of King Ecgbert School have appealed a few vociferous individuals who stand to Flock or gaggle of geese. against the councils refusal of their be minorly inconvenienced. Gaggle of geese (on the ground) planning application to build 19 homes. Name & address supplied Bunch, company 01' knob of widgeon (in Michael Vaughan, whose wedding banns Dear Sir, water). were read in Dore church recently, is Look Re Dore Churchyard Broken Headstones. Flight ofwidgeon (in the air). North's Sportsperson of the Year. A more I am writing on behalf of my wife's family, Herd or bevy of swans. interesting claim to fame is that he will many of whom were buried in the village Hope I haven't ducked the issue. appear on the front of Wisden, the and surrounding area. Joan Beard cricketers' bible. Rather like the original The family name was 'Bishop'. Both Alf Dear Sir, Times newspaper, Wisden has only so far Willis and their sister, Evelyn were born at In a couple of years when the new larger carried print on its cover, so Michael's High Greave Farm and they ran the farm King Ecgbert School is built and the old photo is a break with tradition and another after their parents died. Many of the family, Mercia building (on the other side of the feather in his cap. To cap it all he has now including the above, are buried in Dore road) is no longer required, will this land be been chosen as England's one-day captain. Churchyard in a double space. safe from development? Foothills shop on Edgedale Road now has The existing family are very upset at this I attended one of the meetings about the a new in-store Rohan shop for performance vandalism carried out on the instructions of new school and I recall someone saying clothing and travel wear, plus a new larger the City council. The grave was attended to 'builders would only be able to use the boot fitting department with children's fairly regularly and the headstones appeared same area as the Mercia school uses. Is this distractions and free coffee on tap! to be perfectly stable. No doubt the men true and how can we protect the football Well done to two New Open University involved in this operation considered it to fields below? graduates in Dore, Mark Brooks from be a safety precaution, but did anyone I suppose I'm dreaming, but it would be Chatsworth Road who gained an MBA and involved consider the feelings of these nice if local residents could somehow buy Dr Phi lip Seagar (age 76) from Blacka relatives before this action was taken. the land for safekeeping .. Moor Road who gained a BA (Hons) in Sidney Smith fan Colledge humanities.

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5 Another form of lack of consideration is Did you know? the parking in the village. Time and again you will find 'cruisers' Why not demolish all the hous~s in I?o~e driving round the village centre searching and start again! Sometimes I thmk this IS for a parking space. Meanwhile those what will happen given sufficient time. spaces that do exist are hogged all day by The latest proposal involves the bus travellers and people working in the demolition of the Old Vicarage at the village. How much business must local bottom of Water Lane, and which fronts shops loose as a result? onto Abbeydale Road. This is a beautiful The 'cruisers' themselves are a danger Victorian building, part of our history and with their minds on finding a space rather part of the character of the area. If this than on other road users or pedestrians. goes, why not all the Victorian houses on But then they settle, regardless of double Dore Road. Still, after the mess made of yellow lines, people's driveways, or Abbeydale Hall, perhaps this so called restricting the field of view at junctions. Golden Route (the Abbeydale Road All this to avoid parking 100 yards away corridor) is destined to be lined by and walking a short distance. dormitory flats i.e. a gold mine for Doremouse developers! . . Why is it, that having chosen to hve m Dore, people set out to spoil the very place Weight trials they love? Recently the picnic area on Limb Lane has been graced with a dumped Dore Village Society Treasurer Mary Mary Watson, champion weight loser. TV, black sacks and piles of garden Watson felt she had nothing to lose but her rubbish. These may have been dumped by weight, when she applied to enter a rec~nt a so called garden contractor, but ten to Ladybower Challenge BBC television series called the DIet one they come from somewhere in Dore. Trials. Mary weighed more that 16 stone And it is not as if our wheelie bins aren't Do you enjoy walking in the beaut~ful when she became one of 300 contestants large enough. Derbyshire countryside? Well, Kmg in the spring of last year. Ecgbert School Association, is organising The participants were each given one of a 26 mile Challenge Walk on Saturday, four different diet routines. Mary took on 28th June. Rosemary Connelly's scheme, which It will start and end at our Wessex along with regular exercise banishes Building on Totley Brook Road in _Dor~, chocolate and all things fatty. Then after a going out to Ladybower Reservoir VIa six month period, with regular weighing Burbage Rocks, and returning via Ho~e and check ups, the trial finished in and Grindleford Cafe, where the mam January. walk ends and lifts are available back to The results were screened nightly over a school. couple of weeks, culminating in the final There will also be a short walk of about 14 programme when the overall winner was miles for those who don't wish to do the announced. full walk. The walk is part of the parent- A delighted Mary turned out to have lost teacher association fundraising effort and four and a half stone, the greatest amount, for the entry fee we provide:- making her the overall winner. Since then • checkpoints en route with free cold she has gone on to lose five and a half drinks stone in total, which brings her to her • free travel from checkpoints back to the target weight. finish for walkers wishing to retire She is modest about her achievement, • a certificate if the walk is completed in which is as much due to her will power as 12 hours it is to the specific diet. One thing is • a ploughman's platter and tea at the certain. She won't allow herself to put all Another car parked on top of a road finish point that weight back on again! junction in the village. • First Aid personnel in attendance For both walks, it is up to you to decide on your route, but you have to check ~n at the checkpoints. The cost of the walk IS £7.00 (£4.00 for under 18's), and £8.00 on the day. Badges and T-shirts will he available at extra cost, please see application form. 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The Avenue) was far too small for an additional Planning matters property is nearly opposite the bottom of property. We were pleased that the Twentywell Lane. application was recently refused by the Got the blues. There has recently been a Apart from being four and partly five Council on the grounds of over new application for the 'Blue Ridge' site. storeys in height, the development is on a development of the site. This time the developer has applied for site which is only 0.23 hectares (0.57 acres David Heslop consent for proposals that are a variation on in real money) in size. Normal development the plans that recently received Planning expectations are for about 30 units to the Road Signs Consent for development with five flats and hectare, and thus the application here is for ten detached houses. This time there is a a density four times as great. Are there no Good news! Almost all of my list in the last proposal to vary the approved development limits to an applicant's aspirations? issue of D to D, have been erected in the by providing six flats and nine houses. The The Society has objected on the grounds of last month. They are more compact in changes would be achieved, firstly by over development of the site in respect of appearance, having a more vertical providing two flats in the space occupied by the number of flats, the height of the typeface. The 15 are: one flat on the second floor of the approved buildings, and the consequent excess of Ashfurlong Road (Dore Road end), Ash block of flats. There would be no change in traffic generated at the already difficult House Lane (top), Brickhouse Lane the envelope or mass of this building, the junction of Abbeydale Road South and (bottom left), Cross Lane (by bus stop), flats would just be smaller. Twentywell Lane. Devonshire Road (lower), Kerwin Drive Secondly the number of houses on the site Sounds bad. The developers of the new (Kerwin Rd end), King Ecgbert Road, Limb is proposed to be reduced by removing one King Ecgbert School have applied for an Lane, Old Hay Lane (by Avenue Farm), house, adjusting the boundaries on the plots amendment to one of the conditions on the Penny Lane, Totley Brook Croft, Totley and building a larger house on the resultant recent Planning Consent. The existing Brook Road (near school), Twentywell larger plot. Thirdly, the developer proposes condition prevented any activity within the Lane (at lower junction), Vicarage Lane (by to build conservatories attached to some of property that causes a noise outside the church), Victor Road (Dore Rd end). the houses. buildings. The particular concern, and the Was it following the bad storms that both As reported in the Spring issue of Dore to reason for the condition, is the nuisance that Causeway Gardens signs were damaged in Door one condition that was placed on the would be caused to neighbours. There is early April? I'd say yes to the right and no recent Consent was the intention to make already a history of concerns in the locality to the left. Even a bad storm doesn't take Ashfurlong Road into a 'one way street' about excessive noise from discos at the off a non rusted sign from a sound support between Dore Road and Cavendish present school buildings. The application is and fold it at right angles! The top of Avenue. Maybe the planners will have for the condition to be waived on occasions Heather Lea Avenue is now bereft of any second thoughts when they deal with this when permitted by the Planning Authority. sign. The neighbours couldn't cast any light new application (see the comments Feeling better. You may recall our on when the last vanished. However, at the elsewhere in this issue). concerns, expressed in this column in the crossroads below there seems to be an Feeling full. A Planning Application has Spring Issue, about the planning application overload-- 4 identical signs for a wide been made by the owners of the former to build a bungalow in the back garden of visible junction. The obvious solution is to vicarage, 234 Abbeydale Road South, for 122 Busheywood Road. We objected move one up the road. the demolition of the existing building and strongly as the plot (fronting Gilleyfield Gillian Farnswortk

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7 available on his doorstep. George Elsdon 1935 - 2003 Whilst we will all miss him dreadfully, we Daffodils again cannot be sad at having known him. Those We are sad to announce the death on 2nd he touched will only have the happiest of No apologies for mentioning bulb planting April of George Elsdon a highly regarded memories. Everyone reacts in the same way yet again. Last autumn's efforts provided a member of the Dore Village Society saying that they cannot help but smile when colourful display of daffodils, crocus and committee. Derek Habberjam pays a they think of him. It's not a bad epitaph to snowdrops on various sites in the Village. personal tribute. have. He will leave behind happy memories We will be planting again in September, George joined the Dore Village Society for those of us who were privileged to have although possibly not quite the seven committee in 1996 and was responsible for been his friends. We have all had better thousand bulbs that we managed last year. membership and assisting with monitoring lives through knowing him. We loved him From reports the pilot scheme of crocus traffic issues. He was instrumental in dearly. His legacy will last for years as we planting on the verges in Causeway Head substantially increasing the membership reminisce saying " Do you remember the Road was a success. We propose to extend and many people will have seen him in all time when George ! this scheme again this year and continue in weathers working on the DVS notice board Withgreat affection, Derek Habberjam forthcoming years. However we will be also in Devonshire Terrace. He was also a continuing with the daffodils. Needless to say, the purchase of bulbs is driving force in getting the floral tubs Flowers in the Village established in the village and worked as expensive. We thank those who have hard as anyone planting the first tranche of donated in the past two years. If anyone daffodils in 2001 which have been further Steve Bott and his team of gardeners at feels they could contribute towards the cost enhanced this year with such a show. He Norton Nurseries have their plans well in it would be very much appreciated. Help in was on the 267th Scout Group committee hand for the flower tubs, which will be planting would also be warmly welcomed. for 13 years (chair for 8 years) and always placed around the village in June. The cost Please contact me on 236 5043, or any gave his all during the Scout Gala, working of the 15 tubs will be £1,058 including other Committee Member. on any number of stalls. VAT. David Heslop George was an ex - Royal Naval CPO Last year some people expressed doubt stoker before joining the Civil Service. The that the cannas (which are propagated at TV seeks good talkers! job eventually brought him from his Norton) would stand up to the strong winds, Newcastle home, via Dorridge to Sheffield, but they did and made striking centrepieces having picked up innumerable friends along to the fine displays. Steve and his team Yorkshire Television is looking for people the way. He was one of those people who worked extremely hard on their entry to the with strong opinions for a new discussion loved to be active and was never happier 'Yorkshire in Bloom' competition, and show. The Kay Melior Show will be than when he was helping others. He helped thoroughly deserved their win. looking at subjects on which family and out at the local luncheon club, flirting with In 2002 we just broke even in our friends have very divided opinions!! the ladies and chatting to the old soldiers as collection of donations towards the cost of Maybe they reckon you're a show-off but if he had served with them all. the tubs, which includes watering and you think there's nothing wrong with Members of the Dore Gilbert and Sullivan maintenance throughout the season. Thank having a big personality? Do your mates Society will remember him with fondness. you to all those who gave so generously. think you exercise too much - or do you just His walk on parts were done with such If you would like to contribute towards the think they're lazy? Or do they reckon your aplomb. He had one of those personalities cost of this years display, please send your dreams of being a star are pie-in-the-sky that exuded fun. If George was going to be donation to John Giles: - 10, Rushley and it's time you searched for a proper job? there you knew you were going to enjoy Avenue, (tel. 236 1009), Angela Kingdon: - If this - or anything else - is getting your yourself. 19 The Meadway, (tel. 235 6122), or any goat - they want you and your family / He loved walking. One of the reasons he member of the Dore Village Society friends for a lively debate! Just email was pleased to stay in Sheffield was the committee. There will also be a collection [email protected], or ring her Peak District and the walks that were box at Green's. Thank-you on 01132228781.

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9 Warning! Pick your strawberries while you can

Roger Davis finds that all is not sunshine in the strawberry fields. Strawberries and cream for tea in the garden on a sunny afternoon. We must all have enjoyed such an idyllic experience at some time, perhaps just a few hours after picking the strawberries on a PYO basis at a nearby fruit farm. But be warned. Time is running out if you wish to repeat the experience on many more occasions and one local farmer is already planning to go right out of soft fruit growing after next year's crop has been gathered. "Everything is going against us for this type of farming," said 54-year-old Edwin Pocock, of 100 acre Totley Hall Farm. "We have been here for 21 years, and started in the soft fruit business 20 years ago. "Strawberries have been very good to us, producing a major part of the farm's income, but many things have been building up to change the position. Edwin and Jenny Pocock: Next year will be Just a few miles away from Totley Hall "There have been years when we have our last season for strawberries. Farm is another Pick Your Own sold more than 20 tons of strawberries strawberry and soft fruit enterprise at from just ten acres of land, as well as At one time strawberries and the rest of Birchin Lee Nurseries, Holmesfield, with a raspberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants, the fruit were the main core of the business history going back over 80 years, and now gooseberries, tayberries and blackberries, at Totley Hall Farm, but this trend peaked run by 55-year-old Mr Howard Pearson. but the figure is now down by 75 per cent. about five years ago, when 20 acres were devoted to fruit. "The weather has been getting worse, with The early days of the venture have been "We have found that over the last five warm wet winters and wet summers, not recorded in a family history compiled by years our customer base has fallen off, and the best of conditions for strawberries, and Howard Pearson's uncle, Tom Pearson, we are now probably only getting 25-30 encouraging disease. The soil around born in 1900, and who went to live at per cent of the customers we formerly had. Totley is clay, while strawberries do best Alford, Lines, before his death in 1985. "Next year will be our last season for in lighter loam. Mention is made of the one-time strawberries and the other soft fruits. "People no longer have the leisure time ownership of the nearby Guild of St "Because of the economic situation, it is to go and pick strawberries, or to make George farm property on Mickley Lane, not worthwhile for us to continue. We strawberry jam at home, and the with it's strong association with Victorian were having to spend capital to maintain supermarkets can have cheap strawberries social reformer and visionary John the standard of the fruit. on sale throughout the year. "All these Ruskin. "There are some regrets, but we will factors mean that the English tradition of Cherries were once described as the main have a lot more free time in the summer. going to pick strawberries is dying away in fruit crop for the Pearsons, "with Black For around ten weeks in the season, we many places." Eagle cherries being the finest we ever have started work at 6am, and gone Before arriving in Totley, Edwin and his saw, although the birds took a heavy toll". wife Jenny were farming at Bulkington, through to IOpm at night. "We are now between Coventry and Nuneaton after looking at another diversification which leaving Chilton on the Lamborne Downs. we think will work, but we do not want to Edwin comes from a farming family at tell people what it is at this stage. Bampton, midway between Oxford and "When we were at peak production, with Swindon. His father was a threshing 10,000 customers in the season, we were contractor, and travelled round the employing three people full time, as well countryside with giant steam engines to as casuals on the check-outs, but now help with threshing at harvest time. there is not so much work, and my wife Forty acres of land at Totley Hall are Jenny and myself do it all ourselves." given over to wheat and barley, with the When Iasked Edwin about the traditional barley going for malt to the brewing behaviour of PYO fruit pickers, he industry, while a further 40 acres provide laughed and said it just had to be accepted grass for a flock of 120 Texel ewes, a that there was a crop wastage, with many continental breed which originated from pickers tasting the fruit as they worked an island off the coast of Holland. their way down the rows. "After all, there Of the ten acres devoted to soft fruit, is a limit to the number of strawberries there are five acres for strawberries, with anyone can eat when bending over the Hapil, Symphony, Rhapsody and Pandora rows on a hot summer's day to fill their varieties supplying fruit from early to late baskets. But I can get annoyed when a midseason, mid June and July onwards. large family party arrive in the strawberry An earlier variety, Honeoye, was fields and deliberately sit down to have a previously grown as well, but this has full sized picnic at my expense! They will since been ploughed up, and Edwin says then try to leave without picking any he is now expecting the Hapil to be strawberries that they are charged for at Howard Pearson checks over the PYO producing a crop from early July. the check-out point". signs for the new season. 10 The history notes that in the years of the Depression in the 1920s, long hours were put in for little return in the fruit, flowers and vegetable trade. "The minimum agricultural wage went down to about thirty shillings, while our reward for a seven day week was about double that amount. Potatoes were at £3-£5 a ton delivered in Sheffield." In 1936 two more glasshouses were built at St. Georges to support the large retail trade that was building up in bedding out plants around Sheffield and the Hope Valley. It is recorded that 1,000 boxes of antirrhinums were sold, each with 60 plants, for 2s.6d. With the outbreak of war the ornamental side of the business was abandoned to concentrate on tomato growing in the glasshouses. Three tons were produced one year, and up to 25,000 young plants raised for local trade. Recalling the Sheffield Blitz in 1940, the history notes that a lot of incendiary bombs fired a haystack and there were Members of the Pearson family, complete with clogs, braces and high waisted trousers, dozens of fires started in the city. take a breather in 1915 at St George's Farm. From left: "Some of the big shops were completely Charlie Pearson, Fred Pearson, grandfather George Pearson, Frank Pearson, and burnt out and before midnight there was a Arthur Pearson (Howard's father). big red glow over the area. We could see the tracer bullets from the bombers' Everything ripened up together and we "But you can now get strawberries all the machine guns firing at the barrage balloons just could not cope. "We started off with a year round and they are no longer a which were supposed to be the city's cash till on the back of a tractor and a pair novelty" said Howard. "The business has defence, and which were lit up from the of old balance scales. Now we have been dropping off for four or five years, fires below. "The nearest bomb to Totley electric scales and can operate under although we have a pretty good soil on the was one that hit the middle of the road at cover. We have tents so that we can move top of the hill at Birchin Lee. It is well Beauchief about two miles away and made the sales points around as the strawberries drained and is officially classed as sandy a hole nine feet across and five feet deep. ripen," clay loam. A baby Austin car stood on all four wheels Among the many customers who drive Howard says that natural pests do not in the bottom of the hole with a sizable up to Birchin Lee, Howard particularly cause much bother to the strawberries, but piece of tarmac on the bonnet. remembers Sheffield football personality badgers have developed a taste for the "Throughout the war there was a great Derek Dooley. bulbs he grows and they also like picking demand for all the fruit and vegetables peas! "They actually shell the pods," he Pearsons could produce and in 1942 we said. "They open the pods and take the sold 26 tons of gooseberries." peas out. You can tell the badgers have Howard Pearson has been working the been at the peas because of the quarter 40-acre holding at Birchin Lee Nurseries inch long scratch marks across the pods, since 1965, and has the help of one full but I think I have sorted them out now by time worker and three part-timers. putting an electric fence round the crop. I Security is efficiently looked after by would love to be on the scene when a Howard's two magnificent Alsatians, badger came along and touched the fence Oscar and Sasha. There is little risk of with its nose." anyone trying to do a snatch with the takings when the dogs are on site. Also competing for the Sheffield area There are five acres of strawberry plants strawberry trade is Whirlow Hall Farm with Hapli, Florence and Symphony all Trust, where for the past two years Edwin mid season to late varieties. The Hapli Pocock has been a director as well as plants will be in fruit from the second managing the charity's fruit farm week in July until mid August, and the enterprise. straws are the principal fruit cash crop, producing about four tons a season. "We give them technical advice on There are also about two and a half acres planting and associated tasks, and actually of raspberries, with MaIling Delight, do the planting, straw laying, and weed Malling Jewel, Malling Leo, Glen Clova , control" said Edwin. "The Trust looks Glen Moy and Glen Alple. after the pruning, fruit picking, and "We do lettuce and pick your own peas, selling." runner beans and French beans, as well as Two years ago, the Trust just had an acre beetroot, parsnips, cabbages, cauliflowers, of land given over to soft fruit, but this leeks and onions" said Howard, who season there will be three acres available, estimates that Pick Your Own customers and Edwin says they will probably be damage at least a third of the total fruit and Quarrying stone for building work at aiming to eventually take over many of the vegetable crop. Birchin Lee are Arthur Pearson (left rear) customers who have previously visited "The Pick Your Own idea began in 1976 and Tom Pearson (right) the family Totley Hall Farm. when there was that long dry summer. historian, with Leslie Smith, Roger Davis 11 the years. I would also like to thank Gala Day 2003 Maureen Hayes for agreeing to take on the Sheffield Folk Chorale responsibility of the Tea Tent in future. Well, Gala day fast approaches once again. May we once again prevail upon you and Our choir was formed in 2001 to put on a This year's Gala will be held on July 12th. seek your contributions for the following: Christmas concert of some arrangements I'd The organising for this year began back in Donations for the White Elephant Stall:- made of "uncommon" winter songs and October with that happy band known as the Contact: Rachel Kelly Tel: 2367251 carols. Audience enthusiasm and the choir's Gala committee meeting once a month to Plants for the Plant Stall:- Contact: Joanne own enjoyment of public performance made discuss and plan the event. From May the Price Tel: 2362488 it certain that more would follow! The choir preparations become more frenzied with Programme Advertising :- Contact: Ken boasts 70 members and has recently issued Scouts, Cubs, Beavers, Guides, Brownies Hartley Tel: 2361654 its first CD "Spite Winter!" featuring the and Rainbows making side shows, stalls, Bottles & Tinned Groceries for the Bottle songs performed at that debut concert in bottle collecting and selling raffle tickets Stall - Please note the dates for collection Sheffield Cathedral. along with their leaders and 130 volunteers of these this year will be week commencing The choir is proud of the folk element in its of the community. 23,d June and made by the Scouts, Cubs, repertoire. While not focusing exclusively Last year was a great success with some Guides & Brownies. Your generous support on traditional song, much of the material is 4,000 people attending and perfect weather. is always very much appreciated. If we fail inspired or influenced by folk music from What a wonderful family atmosphere the to visit your home please could you donate Britain and beyond. Recent concerts have Gala generates, meeting old friends and in the evenings of the collection week at the featured melodies from France, the USA, making new ones. Last year the combined Scout Headquarters. (Please, no out of date Poland, and the Czech and Slovak profit from Gala day and the Sheffield or damaged products, thankyou). If you Republics - with new English lyrics where Scout and Guide raffle succeeded in raising require collection please telephone Mark relevant. £11,400. All of this was distributed to Prangell (Chairman) 236 7587. I research, write and arrange the material children's charities, the majority of which is If you would like to join us on the as well as conduct the choir. My wife, used to assist the running of the local Scout committee and be involved in the Eileen, is featured as a soloist on several and Guide groups. organisation of the Gala, please give me a songs. Eileen and I are established Last year we were able to make donations call. We get together once a month and you performers on the traditional music circuit. to The Rowan School (special needs) can be involved as much as you would like. Sheffield Folk Chorale is keen to present situated on Durvale Court, Woolley Wood Fresh ideas are always welcome. material which is distinctive - yet very School (special needs) situated in The success of Gala day is dependent on accessible. Although standards (U"ehigh, the Shiregreen and the Sheffield Children's the community, whether you are on the atmosphere is relaxed, with informal Hospital. In addition to the above, other committee, help on the day, advertise in the background introductions to each song. Scout and Guide groups outside Dore that programme, or just turn up. Without your Our summer concert series - Bach to sell raffle tickets retain 50% of their sales. support the Gala would not take place. Barleycorn - includes the following local With the success of last year in mind, the Please continue to support your local venues. (All tickets available from (0114) committee has decided to keep the same Scouts and Guides and other children's 236 1213 at £4 - or £5 on the day; profits formula for this year. The Gala will run charities. Full details of the programme will go to local charities and to cover choir continuously from 2pm through to 7pm appear in the Gala Magazine to be expenses.) Concerts start at 7.30 pm with the old favourite stalls and arena distributed shortly. Beauchief Abbey Church - Sat 31 May events including Dog of Do re, Fancy Dress I would like to take this opportunity to St Andrews, Psalter Lane - Sat 28 June and It's a knockout. There will also be thank you for your support in the past and Ecclesall Church - Sat 27 Sept fairground rides, our usual stalls and games look forward to your continued support this We are also available for annual, not forgetting the traditional sheep roast year. See you on the 12thJuly. commemorative or other special events - which this year we have decided to return to Mark Prangell including weddings (choir size can be the Gala field. Gala Committee Chairman tailored to circumstances - from 25 to 60). As in the past the success of some of our Our fee is reasonable and negotiable stalls is dependent on you, the community. depending on event, venue and distance. Not least of these is the Tea Tent which has This year the Leonard Cheshire Services Profits go towards the further development been run so successfully for many years by Summer Fete at Mickley Hall, will be of the choir, with a significant percentage Christine Holmes and her team. opened by the Duchess of Devonshire on donated to local and national charities. Unfortunately for us, Christine and the team 28th June. There will be lots to do Graham Pratt had asked to relinquish this responsibility including a barbecue, childrens games, side Ed. If you need more information, you can after Gala 2002; on behalf of the Gala stalls, teas and Loxley Silver Band. contact Graham on 236 1213 or by email committee I would like to express my Admission 50p, children free. 2pm - 5pm. on: [email protected] (web site: sincere thanks for all their hard work over Details from 2367491 www.sheffield-folk-chorale.org.uk)

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Helpfully the book also changed with time, especially in the melting After the traditionally very short formal provides detail on exploring each battlefield pot of immigration and conquest. business, Stephen Doncaster, grandson of today and lists appropriate museums and Searching for Surnames by John Titford the gardens founder, will give an reinactment societies. sets out to provide a working guide to illustrrated talk about the making of Whether for those interested in military surname identification, covering their Whinfell Quarry Garden. history or simply wishing for an insight into history, and the languages and Details of people offering themselves for the realities of the age, this is a worthwhile circumstances they derive from. After all it election will have been posted on the read. 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Then the process is reversed, returning to MINIATURE RAILWAY Beauchief Ladies Group the first group and taking them home, and Sundays 1pm - 5pm approx so on, until the day finishes about 3.30 or The Beauchief Ladies Group was formed May 25th, 26th (Bank Holiday Monday) 4.00 pm. Compared with a typical working by ladies from Beauchief and Totley in June 8th, 21st and 22nd (Open Days & , day in salaried employment, not too taxing! 1983 who quickly realised the valued Exhibition) You soon make friends with your assistance of their menfolk! July 6th, 20th passengers, and the sense of doing a Over the years the group has raised August 3rd, 24th, 25th (Bank Holiday) rewarding job is immense, such is their £77,000 for Weston Park Hospital. This has You can find us in EccIesall Woods, along continuing gratitude. They look forward to been achieved by holding Coffee Mornings Abbeydale Road South between the Hamlet our arrival, and we take pride in being and Afternoon Markets, and donations have & Dore Station reliable and punctual. been received in lieu of funeral flowers etc. The Societywarmlywelcomesnew members Escorting often has even greater contact St. Gabriel's Dance Class and many - if you are interested in model engineering with the people we support, as the escort individuals support the group. of any kind please enquire tel 236 9002. calls at their door, frequently helps them to Last year they bought for the hospital a www.sheffieldsmee.co.uk the bus, and secures their seat belt when Volumetric Pump, special cushions for use aboard. There is usually time for a chat on in wheel chairs and the new Tympanic the bus, and we catch up with local news thermometers at a total cost of £3,379. challenge. Training was given by Michael, and gossip - a two-way process! Drivers Funding has always been given to purchase our Project manager, and after a few and escorts should be reasonably fit, but the items of equipment which will benefit lessons I overcame the feeling that "I'd exercise in doing this job is healthy, and cancer patients - nine Clinirest Electronic never do this", and started out as a driver. some of our volunteers have now been with Bed Systems for gravely ill patients have Later I took an accreditation test at us for many years. However, this carries its been purchased, Syringe Drivers etc. Sheffield Community Transport - not own problem since, as they age, Their next fund raising event will be a unlike a driving test, but without the theory replacements are needed. Furthermore, the Coffee Morning at the Beauchief Hotel part. You do not need any special licence to larger the pool from which volunteers are from 9.30am to 11.30am on Wednesday drive the minibus, but you do need a clean drawn, the less reliance is placed on any 11th June 2003. Admission 80p includes licence. individual, though generally we like to have coffee and biscuits and there will be stalls There are men and women volunteers, and a steady pattern of working around which of cakes, bric-a-brac, craft goods, jewellery we work together as a team. Typically each we organise our other activities and a raffle. The group is indebted to the bus goes out with a driver and escort, I am sure there are others who would enjoy BeauchiefHotel for their help with this. though sometimes the driver does all the this work as much as we do, and I hope that work, as there are not always enough this insight will encourage you to consider escorts (your arrival would help here!). joining us. If you have any questions, why Volunteer for Transport 17? There are three buses, and each one can not give Michael a ring on 236 2962 or call take trips to up to three clubs or groups on in at the office, preferably in the mornings, Why not? Possibly you know little or each weekday. There are other occasional when it is more likely to be manned. Your nothing about this local charity, which visits, e.g. to the panto, or trips into call will be welcomed and you could be provides a wonderful service for the elderly Derbyshire in the summer. opening a rewarding new chapter to your or infirm (often both), taking them to lunch Volunteers work one to three days per life. Come on down! clubs and other social activities which week according to the time they can spare. Colin Price otherwise they could not reach. Although we obviously also do the usual This article will not be a history of things that retired folk do, (like take Transport 17, which has been written about frequent holidays!) it is important to Midsummer Night's Dream elsewhere; my aim is to tell you how we provide reliable support, otherwise the operate and hopefully persuade you that group could not provide the continuity that The Heartbreak Shakespeare Company, joining us as a volunteer would be a good the clubs who rely on us need. Incidentally, Britain's premier open-air touring idea! not every volunteer is retired. company, will be coming to the Sheffield Having spent my working life in banking, The preferred age range for drivers is 25- Botanical Gardens again for a fourth year I took early retirement on health grounds 65, escorts can be from age 18 upwards. with "A Midsummer Night's Dream" from and it was not long before I was looking A typical day for me involves leaving June 4th - 7th. Advance tickets adults £7, around for something not too strenuous to home about 9.30 am to walk to the Cheshire concessions £5, or pay on the door £ 10 & £ do. I felt it was time to give something back Home on Mickley Lane, where the buses 7.50. Covered seating £2 extra. to the local community. are parked. I drive the bus to the office to Clarkehouse Road entrance. Box office Tel: I volunteered because the organisation is collect that day's log-sheet and learn of any 201 1011. locally based, which means I can walk to new people to pick up, or any cancellations work, and enjoy the occasional breaks - most days there are at least one or two during the working day at home, catching passengers who are ill or away. We start the Folk Trains up on chores, or just sitting in the sun. Like runs about 10 am, taking up to 12 people many of you, I walked past the office per run. Some bus loads include the Once a month Folk Trains with guest bands opposite Mickley Lane frequently, and occasional wheelchair-bound passenget, run from Sheffield [7. 14pm but collecting often wondered exactly what went on and each bus is well equipped with a lift to at Dore & Totley 7.22pm] to Edale. inside. I asked friends and neighbours what take them aboard easily. For such people Refreshments (special beer prices) & more they thought ofTl7 and, without exception, our service is often a lifeline, as they tell us music is available at The Rambler Inn, they recommended them as a great local they could not get about without our help. Edale, then 9.28pm return journey arriving service and told me that I would enjoy the Our destinations are usually local church at Dore & Totley for 9.52pm. experience. They were right. halls or community centres, and we go out Volunteers do one of two jobs - driving or as far as Jordanthorpe, Meadowhead, 27 May. Robin Garside and Fiddle Society escorting. There is no status distinction Broomhill, and BramalI Lane. Once our 24 June. Sheffield City Morris between these, you do the one that suits first job is fmished, we often have time for 22 July. Handswort Sword Dancers you, and obviously, not everyone feels able a coffee, then take our second group to their 26 August. Bernard Cromarty to drive our minibuses. I started by destination. After that, back to the office or escorting, to get the feel of the job, and home for a lunch break, though some For up-to-date information ring 266 9532 enjoyed that experience, but there was a groups, particularly the further-out ones, or visit www.folktrain.f9.co.uk need for extra drivers, and I fancied the offer us a lunch there. 16

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17 Who is the mystery scouter? Armchair Action

Roger Davis recalls a caravan trek in The Experience Corps is calling for people County Cork. over 50 to pick up their knitting needles and Down through the centuries, the good folk make a difference in their community. of Bradway and Dore have looked out at There are hundreds of organisations, each other every morning across the Vale of charities and local initiatives that need Totley and then made their separate ways to knitters and The Experience Corps, through work in the anonymity of the big city. its new scheme Armchair Action, has some In recent years grim lengths of motor suggestions of how you can help. racing surfaces on Abbeydale Road South If you are too busy to spend time helping at and Baslow Road have almost resembled a local organisation or maybe you are not as the one time Berlin Wall in preventing active as you once were, this is your chance many people from even passing the time of to help from the comfort of your own day with "them over there" . armchair. There have been some notable exceptions, The Experience Corps has put together an particularly with some of the churches information pack, complete with knitting attracting members from both sides of the patterns, with details of where your knitting division, and cross border shopping has skills can make a difference. Wool taken place in some areas. manufacturers, Sirdar, have donated 24 One person who has played a major part in kilos of assorted wool to the Armchair breaking down the barriers is my colleague Roger Davis in scouting days, doing his Action scheme, which will be distributed to and editor of Bradway Bugle and Dore to Genghis Khan impression. the volunteer knitters. Door, John Baker, and there has also been There are hundreds of outlets for knitting some interflow between the local scout caravan trek by a party of 32 Dore scouts skills for example: local hospitals around groups, in which I have been slightly and leaders in County Cork, Southern the country need bed jackets and socks for involved. Ireland. It was a trek with many incidents, elderly patients; premature baby units in all I know to my cost however that all is not some of which became part of the folklore areas are also looking for cardigans, hats, necessarily tranquil, even though the scouts of the group. bootees and ventilator bonnets for tiny share a common law and promise. Recently I presented a large album of photographs premature babies; the Canine Defence I was given a copy of a photographic to the group showing the way in which we League and the Battersea Dogs Home also history of Dore Scouts, 1936 - 2002 covered 68 miles in a week's hard trekking, need dog jackets and blankets their compiled by the former group leader Syd with the horses being coaxed on their way homeless hounds, and a number of Crowson, MBE. with liberal quantities of sugar lump. children's charities that would like hats, Syd had the clever idea of printing an But where were the photographs in Syd's gloves and scarves. activity photograph for each year of the book? He told me "They must have gone For your free Armchair Action knitting history and I was told that my picture was missing", so I rummaged around in the pack and ideas of how you can help, call included in a shot for 1951 showing a group archives and came up with some copies The Experience Corps on 01422 207 183. of stalwarts climbing on Froggatt Edge. The seen here. Once you have received your pack a local caption certainly named me but with an * Does anyone know the whereabouts of the advisor will contact you to let you know incorrect spelling. However I was nearly old album. I would love to see it again. where the knitted garments could be used in 2,000 miles away when the picture was Roger Davis your area and to arrange collection and taken, doing national service in Malta, and delivery. the figure shown was certainly not me. Knitting is just the start of the Armchair I first came to Sheffield and joined up with Totley and Dore Support Group for the Action scheme and it is hoped to role out Dore Scouts as an assistant leader with the Visually Impaired are holding regular more projects that can be done from home late Peter Jackson in 1967 and in 1968 I coffee mornings with visiting speakers throughout the year. Other ideas started was responsible for much of the including on 28th May and 19th June, at include taking part in the world's largest organisation of a memorable horse drawn 11am at 4 Grove Road. •. climate change survey - run by the Woodland Trust, doing bird surveys in your gardens and teaming up with Plantlife who would like people to record where/when f;eech H-ouse bluebells grow. Everyone who undertakes something through the Experience Corps and has R.ecL~~V\lLevl 'P~v\'e Fu r V\,~tu •....e: coV\,teV\IL"Po•....~ •....H Art .§ ce r ~V\IL~c$ registered their details has access to our online shopping mall offering various discounts. These include Boots, Majestic Wines, Dixons, Argos, Linguaphone, John 0 IIII 0 Lewis. People can either take the discount

0 0 c:z:::J or donate it to charity. Majestic Wines ** usually proves very popular! 0 0 f.- Ed. The Experience Corps fully recognises the fantastic voluntary work that many IS 0 0 B[[][]]O I people already do from home but wants to F== I encourage even more people over 50 to I I I '- Macl.e - to - Measuye fuylilltuye: Ki.tcVlelllS: t:>esteV\.§-g.utl.cl.: t:>ts-plal1 uV\.tts offer their skills, experience and some of their time to actively benefit their local 3G1. Abbel1Gt&lLe Ro&lGt, 5neffteLGt, 571.F5 communities. Currently they have over TeVF&lx: 01.1.-9--:2501.00-9- 400,000 exciting volunteer opportunities to suit all kinds of skills and experience. To -s.eecVl. [email protected] join The Experience Corps ring 0800 J 0 60 \NININ. -s.eecVlVlousefuYVl.LtlA.ye.co.lA.R.. 80 or log on to www.experiencecorps.co.uk 18 Whatever the condition, when your pet is Lost and found unwell the last thing you want to be Dore Show 2003 worrying about is the cost of veterinary Every year the RSPCA and Dog Wardens treatment. The good news is that with pet This years Dore Show will take place on pick up thousands of lost pets. However insurance you can have the peace of mind Saturday 13 September in the Old School reuniting these pets with their owners can that should your much loved pet become ill, and Methodist Church Hall - be sure to note prove very difficult, since many of them they can have the treatment they require the date in your diary. Brass band, cannot be reliably identified. This is without you - their owner - worrying about entertainment and side displays of interest obviously very distressing for both pets and the Bills. to everyone as usual. their owners, so what can be done to Park Veterinary Hospital There will be over 70 classes for you to improve the situation? enter for or come and see, ranging from In addition to the traditional collar and vegetables to paintings, flower arranging to engraved tag (which can unfortunately Living history Sundays childrens exhibits. become detached and lost), there is now a The full schedule will be available from far more reliable form of pet identification - On the first Sunday of every month you Greens on Causeway Head Road shortly. the microchip implant. A tiny microchip can meet characters from 1851 at the For those keen photographers wishing to (about the size ofa grain of rice) is quickly Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet and explore plan ahead, the photography classes will be: and easily injected under the skin, different themes from their life and times. Colour - My·. Holiday - standard or permanently identifying your pet. Each Programmes run from 11.30am to 4.15pm. panoramic size only & unmounted please; microchip contains a unique I.D. code. This 1 June "Excuse me, but why did you do Colour - Face(s) - min 7" x 5; and code, together with details about your pet, that?" Dramatic stories from yesteryear. Black & White - Open - min 7" x 5. are held on a central computer. 6 July "From Smoky to Shiny" Art, The Show has become an established part Veterinary practices, the police and pet industry and working life at Abbeydale of village life, largely thanks to the rescue organisations have special hand 3 August "They don't make 'em like they exhibitors and those who plan and run the scanners that can detect and "read" the used to" Try your hand at some old- event on the day. As always many hands information on the microchip - identifying fashioned country crafts make light work! your pet so that you can be reunited without 7 September "What's all' song and dance If you can offer a little help on the day delay. So don't take the chance - microchip about?" Join in a day of song, dance and please contact the Show Chairman on 236 your pet! music making 4257 or Secretary on 236 9025. Pets are part of the family, so if they have 5 October "Steam, Fire and Water" Steam an accident or illness it is a worrying time Traction Engines and Storytelling Wyvern Walkers The Dore Village for all concerned. We naturally think of The Hamlet is open from lOam to 4 pm Society has its own walking group which traumatic surgical events - such as accidents Mondays to Thursdays and from llam to circulates details of activities by post. The involving broken bones - as the main reason 4.45pm on Sundays (closed Fridays and next two local walks of around 5 or 6 miles, for pet insurance. However, many medical Saturdays). will be on Saturday 7 June and Wednesday conditions such as heart disease, skin Admission £3 Adults, £2 Concessions, 23 July. Everyone is welcome. For more disease and arthritis (to name just three!) Accompanied children FREE. Free access details or to be added to our mailing list call can be equally costly to treat. to visit Hamlet Cafe and Gift Shop. 236 9025 or 236 9831.

19 eaves. The Wildlife Garden With so many conflicting theories, the Whinfell quarry garden British Trust for Ornithology is attempting Bird-watching is a curious hobby. Just a to try and fmd the real reason for the This local garden was created at the turn of few years ago you would probably have sparrow's decline. Over the next few years, the 19/20 centuries by my grandfather been derided if you admitted you were a it will be studying the problem along with Samoel Doncaster - always known as 'Mr keen bird-watcher, but nowadays, with the the help ofa small army of volunteer bird- Sam'. He was a Sheffield steel maker and ever growing interest in all things avian, watchers. Hopefully, this will enable us to chairman of Daniel Doncaster & Sons in you are suddenly elevated to the heady understand the real cause of the bird's Penistone Road. He was a great gardener, realm of 'expert'. But when does a hobby decline and more importantly, we will knew many influential gardeners of the time become an obsession? perhaps be able to reverse the trend before and followed the precepts of Gertrude I have met bird-watchers who travel the it is too late. It would be a sad day for all of Jekyll and William Robinson. world looking for rare birds, but not to us if the once common British sparrow was The Quarry Garden was started in 1898 photograph or study them, they simply tick to become merely a tick on an American and was fully flourishing by the 1920s, them off their must see list. To these bird-watchers list; just another rarity to when Mr Sam commissioned a number of 'listers' - often wealthy, retired American boast about to their friends back at home. water colours of the garden by Frank doctors and dentists - the country they were Jack Daw Saltfleet, a Sheffield artist and pupil of John visiting was irrelevant; they were not even Ruskin who ran an educational settlement remotely interested in the culture and the in Walkley for working men. only local people they would talk to were Well Dressing Diary 2003 I have some contemporary photographs of their guides. Generally, these elderly men the Quarry Garden to show, also three of would be accompanied by their much Throughout the spring and summer, a Saltfleet's paintings. It is always a pleasure younger wives - 'Bird-watching-widows' - succession of old Derbyshire villages put to talk about my favourite garden, and I who didn't have the slightest interest in on well dressings, often associated with a look forward to this event on June 4th in birds. As far as they were concerned, even week of village festivities. Dore. the rarest of birds were simply known as These are just some of the dates. You can Stephen Doncaster LBJ - 'Little Brown Jobby'. fmd out more details, or opportunities to Ed. This promises to be an interesting In Britain we have our own LBJ - the see well dressing in progress, by ringing the evening for both gardeners and people sparrow, so well known that non-birders Chesterfield Tourist Information Centre on interested in local history. will habitually call just about any small bird 012463457777/8. a 'sparrow'. But perhaps not for much May longer though. 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21 studio (Back Lane). Hazel's use of colour All the operas are sung in English. They Art 'Opened Up' and line works beautifully in her absorbing include Donizetti's Maria Padilla, a watercolour paintings. Interested by light powerful and emotional drama, Handel's Being new to the area I was eager to see falling onto pattern, Hazel explores ideas comedy of lust and infidelity among the the local artwork being produced on my through shape and form with enormous Gods, Semele, a comedy by Bernstein, doorstep. The 'Open Up Sheffield' event at success! Candide, and two family operas - Hansel the bank holiday weekend allowed me to do Thankyou to all the artists whose welcome and Gretel by Humperdinck and a new this. was warm. Imagine opening up your own opera called Gwyneth and the Green Over 120 artists, from all over Sheffield home to the public in order for them to Knight by Lynne Plownam Opened Up their workplaces and invited us view your artwork! A truly outstanding morning Literary (the public) to meet them and have a good A.Reed Series, hosted by Roy Hattersley, features look at their creative work. I was not Ed. For information about "Open Up" e- Germaine Greer, Tom Stoppard, Bishop disappointed! With free entry to all studios, mail [email protected] David Sheppard, Matthew Parris, Robert workplaces and venues I spent the weekend Winston, Ben Okri, Michael Holroyd, browsing at my leisure. I spoke to a variety Margaret Drabble, Sue MacGregor, of artists including four artists from the S 17 Michael Frayn, Claire Tomalin, Fiona area - Ray Gridley, Ann Bates, Steve Elliott MacCarthy, Dr Raj Persaud, Kate Adie and and Hazel Lale. Sandi Toksvig. My first visit was to Ray Gridley and Ann There is a host of concerts, many in the Bates (Prospect Road). Ray is a potter. afternoon. Try and catch a celebrity recital Producing his work for over 14 years he is by Ann Murray and Yvonne Kenny, an prolific! A whole range of stoneware pots, Opera Gala featuring Donald Maxwell and bowls, vases, cups even chimineas. Ray festival artists, concerts by Rebecca Evans hand-builds and throws his pots then glazes & Katarina Kameus, Tom Randle, Lynda using traditional recipes for gas kiln firing. Russell and Freddy Kempf There's an "To see, to hold, to use." This quote is so A silver celebration in Buxton oddity with four bassoons on July 12 true - you just want to pick up and feel featuring Totley resident Glyn Foley, the these wonderful ceramic pieces. Enjoy a visit to Buxton Festival for afeast Festival's General Manager. My favourites were the mugs. Exceptional of opera, music and literature. Call 01298 70395 for the full brochure or th value and ergonomically designed for both Buxton celebrates its 25 Festival in 2003 0845 12 72190 for tickets. See hands to wrap around and sooth you with its (July 5-20) with an extended programme of www.buxtonfestival.co.uk for the full hot drink or hot toadie. Look out, too, for opera, music and literary speakers, based in programme. the dome shaped doorstops - fun and the magnificently refurbished Opera House functional! Ann is enchanted by ancient (celebrating its own centenary this year). standing stones and I found her work Many artists appearing grace the best stages Derwent Heritage Way thought-provoking. Her ceramic vessel in the world. forms hold beautiful colour, yet, all pieces Buxton is a delightful festival town, with The new Derwent Valley Heritage Way has so fragile, perhaps a comment on our all venues in easy reach, and just a pleasant now opened in Derbyshire. Starting from relationship with the earth. forty minute drive from south Sheffield. Ladybower Reservoir this 55 mile long Steve Elliott 's work (Meadow Grove) was Highlights include: distance walk passes Chatsworth into the atmospheric. Each semi-abstract painting 5 operas including 2 Festival productions Derbyshire Dales, then the Derwent Valley was inspired by our very own locality. I A royal gala opening on July 5 with the Mills National Heritage Corridor and ends found different information each time I Duke of Gloucester at the River Trent near Shardlow. looked at his dramatic, moody landscapes. A stunning series of morning Literary Leaflets on the walk are available from Steve's work was inspiring! Events with 15 distinguished writers and available from local tourist information My fmal visit was to Hazel Lale's Tedbar personalities centres.

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23 own with the best in the world". New Local blues legend Orleans Review. "Bob Hall has worked with the best simply I have been living here for 35 years, and because he is one of the best" Jazz Times. never cease to be amazed at the way my "The frnest blues and boogie woogie piano notebook/tape recorder constantly bulges player this side of the Atlantic" Folk Roots. with previously unknown facts about the "Bob Hall plays piano in the flowing style area. Just recently for example, Idiscovered of pre-war masters, meaning that he plays that our quiet suburb is the home of one of with often understated grace and style, and Britain's best known blues musicians. - when called upon - with power". Living To the casual passer by, Prospect Place, is Blues. "One of the blues world's most just a delightfully secluded corner of the respected musicians". Red Lick. Bradway area, but local resident Bob Hall Roger Davis has played with most of the post-war blues Bob Hall and Hillary Blythe legends. From the North Sea Jazz Festival to the such as Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood of Ladies of Dore San Francisco Blues Festival, Bob has super group Fleetwood Mac. Away from taken his unique brand of blues and boogie the blues-rock field Bob has worked as a Abbeydale park bowling club is a crown woogie all over the world for more than 40 sideman with such blues originals as John green bowling club, situated at the top end years and he is acknowledged as Britain's Lee Hooker, Jimmy Witherspoon, Chuck of the Abbeydale Sports Club ground. It frnest blues and boogie pianist. Berry, Homesick James and Eddie now has open membership to include lady Credit for much of Bob's success goers to Clearwater. and junior members. his long-time partner Hillary Blythe, whose Bob's own boogie woogie big band, which The ethos of the club is to create crystal clear vocals and rock steady bass later became Rocket 88, included Hal sportsmanship and friendship whilst at the playing underpin all his performances. Singer, Don Weller, and Dick Morrissey same time encouraging the skill of Hillary's treatment of the blues and gospel among many leadingjazzmen, together with members. classics are highlights of their show. Charlie Watts and Ian Stewart of the During the season which runs from April to A composer of distinction, Bob has a Rolling Stone and Jack Bruce from Cream. October, friendly matches are played catalogue of frnely crafted songs to his He has recorded over 100 albums, with a against other clubs such as Worksop, credit, each song delivered in a disarming, high proportion of them still in catalogue, Chatsworth, Darley Dale, Hallam Grange understated vocal style accompanied by his and is the sleeve note writer for Yazoo and Fulwood, and run in conjunction with electrifying keyboard skills. Anecdotes are records piano blues series, and is now the annual singles, doubles and handicap a special feature of the Bob Hall Show, for working on the piano sections of the events of the club. a lifetime of music and a passion for blues Routledge Encyclopaedia of the Blues. The green and pavilion are well maintained history has left Bob with a host of yams. Behind Bob's homely appearance is the and offer the normal facilities. They are Born in London in 1942 into a musical man who was chairman of Sheffield's open every day in the mornings from lOam family Boob's powerful left hand gave him National Centre for Popular Music and and in the afternoons from 2pm extending a natural aptitude for boogie woogie and by enjoys a double career as blues pianist and into the evening. his early teens he was leading his first band. industrial patent and trademark attorney. New members are most welcome, no Bob partnered the late Alexis Korner and A lawyer and metallurgist, he accepted a previous experience is required, existing performed regularly with slide guitarist and post with Sheffield legal firm Dibb Lupton members are ready to advise and where singer Jo Ann Kelly. Alsop and is now a partner with Harrison needed the club has woods available to He was a founder member of several Goddard Foote. allow prospective members the chance to British blues bands including Tramp, the The critics write: get the feel of the game. 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Three (25 arc seconds) than it did in April, so belief. people want to go to the wooden bench in clearly it is an excellent time to view the Humankind stands today apparently Newfield Lane overlooking Blacka Moor. planet. midway in stature between the largest One is blind, one is both deaf and blind and The time to see Mars this year is early known objects (clusters of galaxies) and the one is like you and me with all faculties. morning (in June/July), and progressively smallest (the physical microcosm of Instructions could be given to each, earlier (through August/September) when it particles and forces). However, the writer possibly including an introductory guided becomes an evening object. It. will, believes that we will probably never be tour. Each could arrive at the seat, but by however, be very low in the SE to SW, as satisfied with scientific evidence alone. very different means. seen from Dore, first in Capricorn and then Furthermore, there is every indication that Now, try to instruct the same three to fmd in Aquarius, never more than 21 degrees science will always need to probe deeper the planet Mars. Impossible except for above the horizon. The red planet is and deeper. Alongside the scientists, number three! Instead, try helping them to actually closest on 27/28 August. Those philosophers and theologians will continue visualize galaxies at the edge of the people who go south for their summer their searches also forever. It only seems a Universe. The difficulty is surmountable at holidays will enjoy an even more shame that modem scientific knowledge is this conceptual level. But, there is no way spectacular view. not embraced universally in all religions. to be sure that all parties have the same From Dore, one can also get a rare glimpse In May on the morning of the 7th the planet concept. To arrive at a truth, or even to of the star, Fomalhaut, in the constellation, Mercury passed in front of the Sun. This conceive the truth, is almost impossible Piscis Austrinus, the Southern Fish. small planet, with about three-eighths of the jointly on a global scale. Fomalhaut lies near the horizon below Mars Earth's diameter, was visible in Dore as a Regrettably, the conclusion is not in June and July. With appropriate tiny dot traversing the northern tip of the favourable for a common understanding of starcharts one could also fmd the two Sun between 6.15 and 11.30am. Venus is the Universe except through the common distant planets, Uranus in Aquarius and the only other planet with an interior orbit language of imagery and mathematics. Neptune in Capricorn, not far from the like Mercury's, placing it also nearer to the Possibly, it is because we can all sit on that position of Mars. Sun than us; this similarly causes Venus to bench on equal terms, and be aware either Taking advantage of this close approach of exhibit solar transits. visually, sensually or mentally of those Mars in 2003, more probes are being sent These slow traverses across the Sun Derbyshire hills, that we may feel we have to examine the Martian surface and search impress upon us that the planets in the solar the truth. The daffodils in front of the bench for fossilized micro-organisms. In June, system are rather cold dark bodies; they this Spring were true and beautiful enough. Open University's Beagle 2 will hopefully only reflect sunlight. They are not always David Andrews seen shining brightly like stars as we might imagine! 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Meet at Entrance on 28 Bach to Barleycorn concert by Sheffield Folk Chorale at Whirlowdale Crescent.Organised by FEW St Andrews, Psalter Lane, 7.30pm. Tickets 236 1213 17 Spring Fair, Dore & Totley URC, lOam to 12 noon 28 Ni~ht Hike, Christian Aid Sheffield walks, approx 17 20 The Samaritans - Dore Methodist Tuesday Group, miles from St Lukes Church Lodge Moor via Hathersage Methodist Church Hall, 7.45pm Contact 2367639 Start 9pm. Register via 2465064 21 Development of the Arts & Crafts Movement talk by 29 Matro.n's ~hatsworth Walk - six or ten mile sponsored Frank Johnson, Sheffield Society for the Encouragement walks ill aid ofSt Luke's Hospice. Register at 2369911 of Art, Ranmoor Parish Centre 2.30pm free admission 29 Festival of Transport, Sheffield's largest classic car & 21 Tree Trail Sheffield Botanical Gardens, 7.15 - 9pm transport festival at Graves Park. free entry Thompson Road entrance. Free no booking necessary. 22 S.W.Area Panel public meeting at Holy Trinity Church DORE FESTIVAL 2003 28th June to 12th July Millhouses at 7.30pm 25-26 Annual Show by Sheffield & District Orchid Society, Sat 28 June Village Design Workshop, Dore Church Hall Cavendish Hall, Edensor, Chatsworth Park. From l1am. 9.30 -4pm 26 Model Boat & Yacht Regatta Millhouses Park 9am-5pm Sun 29 June Village Gardens Open Day; 2 - 6 pm Tel: 236 7169 Tue 1 July Ladies Group Open Meeting Speaker: 26 Chesterfield Holiday Market from 9am. Entertainment Cherry Tree "Journey from Poland to England" lOam - 4pm Dore Church Hall 7.45pm 26 Bamford Sheep Dog Trials Water Lane 8am-6pm Sat 5 July Oral History Exhibition, Old School 10 - 4pm 29 Garland Ceremony Castleton gathering at the Hogs Head Dore Gilbert & Sullivan Summer Concert, Dore pub at 5.30pm Church Hall 7.30pm 31 Tracking the Dore Story walk led by John Dunstan Sun 6 July Oral History Exhibition, Old School 11-5pm looking at the village's history. Meet 2.30pm on the Well Dressing Service, Village Green 3pm village green See posters for details. Cream Teas, Methodist Hall 3p.m - 5pm 31 Bach to Barleycorn concert by Sheffield Folk Chorale at Mon 7 July Family Fun Run, Dore Primary School 7pm Beauchief Abbey Church, 7.30pm. Tickets 236 1213 Lord Conyers Morris Men, Dev Arms 8pm Wed 9 July Open Air Theatre with The Company, "Prisoner JUNE ofZenda" Dore Village Green 7.30pm 1 Millhouses Park Festival Thur 10 July Dore Male Voice Choir and Dore Mercia & 3 Fashion Show Dore Ladies Group, 7.45pm Church Hall Totley Townswomen's Guild Choir, Dore Church Townhead Rd. Visitors welcome Tickets from 236 5890 Hall 7.15pm 3 A Cup of Tea - Dr Ivy Oates. Dore Methodist Tuesday Fri 11 July Stemdale Singers Concert, Parish Church 7.30pm Group, Methodist Church Hall, 7.45pm Contact 2367639 Sat 12 July Scout & Guide Gala 2pm 4 Summer Meeting & AGM of the Dore Village Society, 7.30pm Methodist Church Hall. Illustrated talk by Stephen Full details of all of these events will be publicised locally nearer Doncaster on the making of Whinfell Quarry Garden. the time. Admission free, everyone welcome. 4-7 A Midsummer Night's Dream Heartbreak Shakespeare JULY Company at the Botanical Gardens Tickets £10 & £7.50 5-6 UK Ballooning Grand Prix at Graves Park. Giant Fun cone from tel:201 1011 - Clarkehouse Road entrance. Fair, entertainment and hot air ballooning. Free entry 6 Magical Moths event on Blacka Moor with Sheffield 5-20 Buxton Festival See article Wildlife Trust & Sorby Natural History Society. 9pm to 6 Model Boat & Yacht Regatta Millhouses Park 9am-5pm midnight. Meet SK 296803. Details from 2634335 6 Plant Fair with specialist nurseries at Sheffield Botanical 8 Model Boat & Yacht Regatta Millhouses Park 9am-5pm Gardens, 10.30am - 3pm Tel267 0544 11 Coffee Morning, by Beauchief Ladies Group for charity 8-lO Great Yorkshire Show, Harrogate. Tel: 01423 541 000 [email protected]. Stalls & raffle. Adm 80p 9 BirthdayParty - Dore (A) Townswomen's Guild, Dore 11 History of Kite Flying talk by Mr & Mrs Reaney for Grill, 12noon for 12.30pm. Dore (A) Townswomen's Guild, Dore Old School2pm. 13 Model Boat & Yacht Regatta Millhouses Park 9am-5pm 13 Charity Golf Day at Abbeydale Golf Club in aid of St 15 Visit to Fanshaw Hall with supper. Dore Methodist Luke's Tel 236 9911 Tuesday Group, Methodist Church Hall, 7.45pm Contact 13 Very Superstitious 3 mile evening stroll through eerie 2367639 Ecclesall Woods 6.30pm-9pm. Meet junction of Abbey 20 Ranger Roadshow in Ecclesall Woods with Graves Park Lane & Abbeydale Rd South. Tel 268 6196 animals l.30pm-3.30pm. Follow signs from Abbey Lane 14 Buxton visit by society members - see article 22 Medieval Market Chesterfield 9.30am-5pm 14 Summer Fair at St Luke's 1pm free entry AUGUST 14 Classic Car Rally Greenhill and Bradway Scouts at Sir Harold Jackson School, Bradway from 1.30pm. 2 Norton Show and Sheep Dog Trials, Bochum Parkway, Norton, S8. Trials from 7.30am, main show from lOam. 14 Broomhill Festival Childrens Fun Day at the Botanical Gardens 2 - 4.30pm. Thompson Road entrance. 6-7 Bakewell Show 7 Raft Races Millhouses Park with the Rangers. 12noon- 17 150 Years of Ladies Hats - Mr R Young. Dore Methodist Tuesday Group, Methodist Church Hall, 7.45pm 236 7639 3pm Meet at new playground 13 Afternoon Tea charity fund raising event by Dore (A) 20 Concert Music fof a summer evening by Dore Townswomen's Guild Choir, Dore & Totley URC 7.30pm Townswomen's Guild, Dore Old School2pm tickets £4 from 235 0696 16 Grindleford Horticultural Show, Bridge playing field from 2pm. Hathersage Band, stalls, cream teas 21 Concert Dore Male Voice Choir at St John's Church. 23 Froggatt Show Stoke Lane 2pm-5.30pm 25 Flowers of William Morris talk by Kate Garton for the Sheffield Society for the Encouragement of Art, Ranmoor 24-25 Sheffield Show Graves Park. Fun Fair, entertainment, Parish Centre 2.30pm free admission music, craft & trade stalls. Adults £3 children £2

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