to DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY NO. 68 WINTER 2002 ISSN 0965-8912

Dore Oral History

The Oral History group arose from the Millennium Play project and is continuing to collect recorded memories of life in Dore throughout the 20th century. Bessie Colley, who was born and bred in Dore, approached several of her lifelong friends and a first round of interviews took place. Others have followed and to date we have recorded the life-stories of 35 residents ranging in age from 68 to 93 years. To celebrate our first anniversary and to thank those who have kindly contributed to the Oral History collection we held a tea party on Saturday 5th October 2002 in the Old School. This event (whilst not matching those at Buckingham Palace) was thoroughly enjoyed by both guests and hosts. There was a great deal of reminiscing over old photographs and much sharing of tales of days gone by. We all listened to excerpts from some of This wonderful old Dore photo has been the first recordings which described DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY sent in by Donna Barber from Australia childhood in a very different pre-war Winter Meeting and comes out of her grandfather's village and these sparked off even more 7.30pm Wednesday (Henry Neil Fretwell's) collection. memories and stories. The chatter and In the back row from the left is William laughter rang round the Old School which 27 November Methodist Church Hall Edward Fretwell; Mary Agnes Taylor; most of the guests had attended long Unknown; Unknown; George Guest; before in their youth. th Emma Guest (nee Taylor); Unknown. The second half of the 20 century was Talk by David Webb on The middle row from the left, Vicar a period of great change for Dore with the 'Natural History William Gibson; Emma Elliot (nee Lowe); expansion of housing and influx of through the seasons' Unknown; Unknown. newcomers. A significant number of these Admission Free Front Row, Unknown, Unknown, Sallie have made lasting contributions to the Taylor. community life of our village and their recollections are now being recorded. Can anyone identify the unknown people? We also want to interview members of the younger generation recognizing the Ivy Bank fact that it is just as important to record their life-stories and differing attitudes and Mary Agnes Taylor was left an orphan in ambitions. 1887 when her mother Jane [nee Lowe] We have plans to organize an exhibition died of TB. Mary and her four sisters went of our collection during Festival 2003 to live with their aunt, Emma Elliot, at Ivy which we hope will be supported by the Bank - the 2 brick cottages at the top of Local Heritage Initiative. If you are Dore Road. Four years later the 1891 interested in oral history and would like to Census shows the nieces still living at Ivy find out more about the project contact Bank, but the eldest, Emma, was now next me, Maureen Cope on tel: 235 0392. If door working as a servant to a Hancock you are a technical or computer expert and family. could help with audio copying or transcribing we would like to hear from The photograph on this page is possibly you. Above all if you are willing to be Mary Agnes' wedding picture, as the Vicar interviewed please let us know. the Rev William Gibson is also shown, Maureen Cope and the people are surely wearing their best clothes. Mary Agnes married William Open Dore Edward Fretwell on the first of June 1901. If you would like to see a better Keep in contact with what's on, join in representation of this photograph and one debate, check back issues, or find out Bessie Colley celebrating the first or two others of this family, come to the about Dore on our own community web anniversary of the oral history project in DVS Room open morning on the first the Old School. site at www.dorevillage.co.uk Saturday of December. A blot on the landscape Christmas wishes Grave mistake

Many of the problems and frustrations we This is a special bumper Christmas edition Council workmen have lowered 47 experience about planning applications and of Dore to Door, which we hope you enjoy. headstones in Dore Churchyard on safety inappropriate development are shared with We would like to take this opportunity to grounds, following the death of a child other areas of the City. send seasons greeting to all members of the under a falling headstone elsewhere in the A recent letter published in the society, a record 895 in 2002, and to country. Two headstones were broken in Telegraph was from a resident readers of DO RE to DOOR, wherever you the process. Responsibility for the concerned about a proposed block of flats may be. And a particular thank you, to all maintenance of closed churchyards rests for a site on Carsick View Road, Ranmoor. those volunteers who deliver the magazine with the Parks and Woodlands section of This is one of a growing number of each quarter. the Council. It seems no specific notice was planning application proposals in and given for families to correct the problems around the Ranmoor area that would seem beforehand. to be totally out of scale and character with The Wassail Walk One of the charms of old graveyards their surroundings and the landscape. around the country has always been the The writer asked: "When will developers Following the definite success of last leaning gravestones, which in many cases start taking the 'character' of the local area year's inaugural event, the second Dore have been that way for centuries. Now it into consideration when drawing up their Wassail Walk will take place on Friday, seems we can look forward to flattened plans? When win they start talking to and 27th December starting at 10.00am at the headstones in graveyards everywhere. involving the local residents so that we can Old School. Presumably councils fear being sued if arrive at better solutions that utilise the Organised by the Dore Village Society, the something happens. Sadly this is the price spaces that we have in and around Sheffield Walk will be about five miles, just enough we must pay in a society where whenever in a more effective way, that can meet the to get rid of the Christmas lethargy but still something goes wrong we must find needs and requirements of the community leaving enough energy to face the New someone else to blame and sue? and the objectives of the Government Year celebrations. A glass of punch (or soft without rummg the landscape and drink) and mince pies will be offered to all destroying the character of the locality in participants at the end of the walk. Put the Golden triangle the process?" date in your diaries now and make it a Good question. Without doubt the planning family occasion. Walking boots should be Dore featured as a sought-after suburb in a process and inappropriate development are worn. Times article during August, being the most common cause of concern locally, Last year, the walkers were able to take in described as part of a golden triangle in yet politicians at all levels fail to listen or the panoramic views from (nearly) the top south west Sheffield, where land and houses act. We urgently need a planning system of Wimble Holme Hill, that excellent are at a premium. Prices quoted include one based on community requirements within a vantage point to the west of the village. new house at £650,000. wider city and national framework! Where will this year's Walk take us to? Nice as it is to live in a desirable area, such There's only one way to find out! Talk to publicity, also reflected in television your friends and bring along a party. Just coverage, has its down side as Doremouse DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY turn up on the day. There will still be suggested in our last issue. Sadly his Registered Charity No. 101705 J enough wassail, however many come. forewarning about the inevitable invitation Watch the Dore Village Society notice to burglars came all too true at the end of The Society aims to foster the protection board for more details. the first week in November when the retired and enhancement of the local Roger Millican owner of one Dore Road property was environment and amenities within Dore, attacked after answering a knock on his to encourage a spirit of community and door. He was faced by a gang of 3 or 4 to record its historic development. Flower Tubs in Dore youths demanding money. The pensioner suffered a bruised hip and suspected broken Chairman (Dore to Door, The Village was once again decorated with rib while being pushed around by the gang. Mr J R Baker 2369025 flower tubs throughout the summer months, 8 Thornsett Gardens, S 17 3PP. enlivening the scenery and giving pleasure to all who pass by. The flowers are supplied Editorial & Advertising Vice Chairman (Environment) and managed by the City Council Mr R Millican 2620012 Horticultural Department, with the money Dore to Door is published quarterly by the 16 Devonshire Drive, S 17 3P J. to pay for these services raised by Dore Village Society and delivered free to donations from individuals, local shops, over 3,200 households in the area. Treasurer businesses, churches, and associations If you are interested in submitting an Mrs M Watson 2365666 within Dore. article or letter, have local news to report, 11 Cavendish Avenue, S 17 3JN. Sadly despite our hopes not enough money or wish to place an advertisement, please was raised to keep the tubs for the full year. contact the Editor John Baker on 236 9025 Secretary Ifwe are to continue with the tubs we will or write to: Mrs A Slater 236 6710 need to raise more money next year. If you The Editor; Dore to Door; 6 Old Hay Close, Sl7 3GQ can make a donation or would like to help 8 Thornsett Gardens; Dore; Sheffield, S 17 3PP. Committee in the fundraising please contact John Giles on 236 1009. [ Email [email protected]] Mrs L E Baker 2369025 Opinions expressed in articles and services (Dore Show & FEW) offered by advertisers are not necessarily Mr 0 Crosby 262 1127 Cards for good causes endorsed by the publishers. Mr G R Elsdon 236 0002 No part of Dore to Door may be (Subscriptions & Notice Board) The Sheffield Charity Christmas Card Shop reproduced in full or part, without the Mr D Heslop 236 5043 can be found in the Cathedral. The shop is written permission of the Editor. (Planning) open from lOam to 4pm, Monday to Printed by South Printers, Mrs V Malthouse 2363632 Saturday. On sale are cards from both Rutland Road, Sheffield, S3 8BP. national and local Charities. For Mr P Pryor 2369831 information call Mary Watson on 2365666. Copyright Dore Village Society 2002

2 The searches revealed that they are built What's in a road name? over a seam of coal 40 metres deep, last Dore Male Voice Choir worked in 1850. Coal is believed to exist at Looking for a topical Christmas present? or near the surface and which may have The Autumn Gala Concert on the 12th For people with links to Dore, then the been worked at some period unknown. October at Church was again a recently published A to W of DORE would great success. The Choir was joined by make an ideal present. Produced by the Winter Meeting Tapton Brass, as guests, to present a Dore Village Society, this book describes rousing concert to a full house. the background to the naming of every road "Natural History through the seasons" is It was the last concert that Liza Cross land and street in Dore, and records the history accompanied the Choir. Sadly she is of many of the roads' historic features and the title of the talk by David Webb to this moving to Nottingham and her buildings. It contains much information that years winter meeting of the Dore Village Society. The meeting starts at 7.30 pm in performances in accompanying the Choir has not been widely published before. Its 74 and solo work will be greatly missed. pages are amply illustrated with maps and the Methodist Church Hall on Wednesday The Choir is delighted that Adrian Jordan drawings and it is deliberately priced at an 27th November. Everyone is welcome and admission is free. has been appointed as the new economical £4.95 ISBN 09534267-6-9. It Accompanist. Adrian is from Bromsgrove. is available from Green's on Causeway He plays both the piano and violin and Head Road, most Sheffield bookshops or Quark Express when at Sheffield University was Co- via any committee member. Leader of the Sheffield University If this heading means anything to you, then Orchestra. He is music teacher at High Cottage Sale maybe you could help us. The editor has Storrs School. just purchased an Apple Mac with the aim Paul Birtwisle is welcomed by the Choir to On Tuesday October Ist, three of the of putting the magazine together on the the appointment of Deputy Accompanist. In Devonshire Terrace cottages, nos 5, 7 & 9 computer, rather than by a mixture of hard addition to playing the piano, Paul has Causeway Head Road, were sold by auction and PC copy as in the past. But moving played the church organ for 48 years, and is for £100,000 to £110,000. They were sold from PC to Mac is a real culture change and a grade 7 oboe player. Living in Dore, he by receivers winding up the business of Mr Quark Express takes time to master. A little came to Sheffield with the Midland Bank. SL Hinchliffe. tuition or the offer of a help line would be The next big local event is the annual The Terrace was last sold in 1984 when much appreciated. Christmas Concert, to be held at the Parish Mr Hinchliffe bought nos 3, 5, 7 & 9 for Church on Saturday 14th December. On £9,500 in total, from a Birmingham Book competition that occasion James Powel! (Bass) will be property owner. In 18 years they have The winner of our book competition in the the guest performer. Tickets will be appreciated in value 50 times. If they autumn edition was Mrs Maureen Gray of available from the Concert Secretary, Tom continue to appreciate at the same rate for Woodland Place. She won both volumes of Ogley an 236 4367 or me on 236 5043. An the next 18 years, then in 2020 they will be the two part book The Country early order is advisable as this popular worth £4 million each! House worth £39.90 event will surely be a sell out! David Heslop

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Dear Sir, In his interesting article in the autumn issue of "Dore to Door" Mick Savage is quite correct in saying that the origins of the Upper Mill on the are 'obscure', although the foundations of some of the old mill buildings became obvious in the very dry summers of 1975 and 1976. I was able to trace the outlines of several rectangular structures (presumably below the present surface foundations of demolished walls) in the different coloured grass. They lie in the meadow (named as Dam Field on 19th century maps) towards the Old Hay Brook side, and away from the line of trees which as Mick says mark the edge of the dam on the Totley Grove side. Perhaps the marks will appear again when Peter Belk's class on 1946/47. Centre back is the Headmaster Mr Clark. Peter is kneeling and if we ever have a real drought. end right with with J Wood next to him. Do you recognise anyone else? Roy Bullen Dear Sir, Dear Sir, on the recreation ground up Townhead Having just moved to the delightful Road ( in the field above where Sheffield suburb of Totley (Rise). I must take issue On a recent visit to Dore with my wife, to with the comments by Doremouse ('Did recall old memories of the village, I was United had their training ground) and you know' Autumn issue) regarding the kindly given a copy of 'Dore to Door' by when playing cricket matches it was a case mention of the Hallam Constituency staff at Greens Home and Garden of finding the flattest hump for the pitch! (Dore, Totley, Ecclesall South, Ranmoor, Supplies. Eventually the football team moved to the Fulwood ....) and to the fact that the area I found the magazine very interesting and field adjacent to Dore Moor Inn and I was featured in the national media (Daily it brought back many memories for me, continued to be involved until I left for Mail/ITV News ...), as being one of the particularly as I attended Dore School National Service. most sought after areas in Britain, to live. from 1941 to 1947, (as did both my late I attended Being recognised alongside Richmond, sister and brother). To this day I still have Congregational Church, as it was then, and Surrey, Wilmslow and Aldesley Edge several of my school reports signed by the late Rev. Frank Duckworth who was (long regarded as the Stockbroker Belt of Mrs Watts and Miss Palmer. the minister at the time, officiated at our the North) in Cheshire, would I thought Mr Clark was Head Teacher during my wedding ceremony in Norwich when I have been the subject of immense pride, time at the school. My family lived at married my wife Kathleen over 41 years not just for the area, but for Sheffield in and each day we travelled by bus ago. We lived for some years at Coal general.. .. to Dore and if the bus did not arrive, I Aston and then with my work as a full- (Dip A.D.) along with other pupils would walk to time Youth Worker we moved to Northwich (Cheshire) and then Ashby-de- Dear Sir, school. (It was quite safe in those days.) If snow was around we would have great fun la-Zouch before arriving at Nottingham 30 Does anyone know of a Sheep Hills Farm years ago. that existed in the 1870's? I want to know with snowball fights etc. but we always if it still is there I would love to visit it arrived at school. I was always quite proud Obviously Dore has changed a great deal when in the area in 2003. My family had of the fact that I never missed a full day at since my time there and of course it is connections to the Jackson Family who school and only once did I miss half a day much larger but there is so much I ran the Dore Post Office at the turn of the and that was because I was at the remember, such as the old fish and chip last century Anybody know anything of Children's Hospital having a broken arm hut, the corner shop and Shentalls Grocery them, other family names are Reeve (the set! shop. main connection) and also Thorpe. Would After leaving Dore School I went to We both look forward to returning to Dore love to hear from anyone who could help Grammar School, but spent again before long (particularly as we me. virtually the whole of my free time back in found the Dore Grill!) but in the Melody Reeves Dore playing cricket and football and was meantime, if anybody who reads the Ed. This request came via the Dare web involved in the setting up of both a junior magazine does. site. Feedback to me please on 2369025 football and cricket club. We used to play

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4 remember me and wishes to contact me for old times sake I can be contacted through the Editor or by E-mail. Peter Belk [email protected] Dear Sir, On a recent visit to Done, I purchased the recent publication by the DVS. My wife and I found it most interesting. The authors are to be congratulated. David Heslop's pen and ink drawings are excellent. My wife was particularly interested in the reference to Mountford Croft. (E5) Mountford is the family name on her mother's side. George Mountford was her great great grandfather, who owned and ran Totley Forge during the period mentioned in Mr Dunstans book. William Higgins of Abbey Dale Forge (Abbey dale Industrial Hamlet) she believes was also Dore Junior Cricket Club 1951. Back row from left; G Hepworth, Unknown, G Nassau; part of the family, being an uncle. She also Front row: Peter Beck; rest unknown. believes George Mountford was for a time, manager of Abbeydale Forge. We enclose photocopies of various letters Dear Sir, to and from George Mountford to Totley Library will be receiving 8 personal public libraries throughout the country. substantiate the above information. They computers for public use later this year. This is to enable everyone to have access make interesting reading, particularly of These can be used by anyone, adults or to a computer and to the Internet. the activities at both forges and tricks children, to learn how to use computers, do This is a very exciting development for the relating to the manufacture of scythe word processing, etc and there will also be Library and we are all looking forward to blades, hay knives etc. Internet access. Time on the computers it. We don't have a date for installation yet, Keep up the good work. It is so much will need to be booked in advance. Usage but it should be before the end of the year. appreciated. Joan & Mike Roberts is free, though there will be a charge for The staff are having basic training in how any printouts. PS. The Mountford's originated from to use them, but we're not experts, so Shropshire. These computers are being provided for please be patient with us. We expect Ed. The enclosed documents are being all the libraries in Sheffield under the demand to be high. studied and efforts made to find any Governments New Opportunities Fund, Pauline Rosser related information in our archives. which is making computers available in Community Librarian

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5 thus overriding the planning authority. also good. Thank you to the owners for this Letters Fortunately this issue is unlikely to work. generally affect developments in Dore. This . The first significant Dear Sir, is partly because 30 to the hectare is not move in the redevelopment of the school I wonder if you can help me, or know particularly high, but also other than the sites has just started, with the recent auction anybody else who can. King Ecgbert School development site and of a parcel of land for housing at the eastern I'm trying to find out about my father, and the possible Long Acre site at Newfield end of the site, between Furniss Avenue and have been told that in the 1930's (or around Lane/Knowle Green, there are very few King Ecgbert Road. There will undoubtedly that time) he ran a Potted Meat Factory likely development sites of any size in the be a planning application for the land soon. behind a cottage that was on the corner of village. The site is allocated for housing on the Abbey Lane/ Lane. The policy does however highlight the Development Plan. Although I live miles from Sheffield I was problems of balance between developments David Heslop up there yesterday and think I have found on land within the envelope of the village, the building (or rather it's foundations). pressure on our Green Belt, and the Now all I want is some old continual cry of governments to provide Autumn T.O.A.D.S. photos/information. I feel this is a shot in housing land. These issues affect us all. the dark (but worth a try?) Blue Ridge. The latest planning The T.O.A.D.S. production for November My father was (John) Marshall Hurst born application for this site is still being is the premiere of Hugh Steadman Williams 1900. He also worked for Clarinco Sweets considered by the Planning Authority. This new play "A Class of Their Own". Hugh (apparently rather cheap & nasty liquorice is of course the second application by the was artistic director of the Westminster affairs) have you ever heard of them? developer on this site. This time the Theatre in London from 1976-1990 and has Any information, however small would be applicant has shown a proposed been Chairman of Westminster Theatre appreciated! Thanks in advance. development of the whole of the site. There productions since 1987. Although he and Liza Hopkinson (nee Hurst) are, however, some serious concerns as to his wife live in Kent he was brought up in Ed. Can anyone help with this enquiry the proposals. DVS have objected to the Rotherham where his father was which came in bye-mail. treatment on the Ashfurlong Road frontage, Congregational Minister, so he remembers the height of the units, the loss of trees and this area well. Planning matters the mass of the block of five flats at the "A Class of Their Own" is set in the kitchen entrance to the site. of a Manor House which will be a new challenge for Chairman and set designer How Dense Can We Get? John Prescott The planning officers have still got some Jeff Bagnall as it also requires an Aga!! made an announcement very recently, on reservations that they have asked the Well he's always complaining that he and behalf of the Government, on strategic developer to address, before they are Paul Pratt get bored with building the planning issues. The main thrust of concern prepared to ,recommend an approval. There standard box lounge. The story concerns related to the use of developable land, are over a hundred objections to the the widow and daughter of the Manor, and particularly in the Home Counties where proposals, from the public. The application the gardener and his family who live in the there are real pressures for housing. will not go to a Planning Board meeting grounds. No - don't panic!' It isn't a modern The concern relates to plot densities on before December, at the earliest. "Lady Chatterly" - far from it.! housing developments, and the perceived A Good Effort. The need to conform to "A Class of Their Own" can be seen at St. need to build to specific densities, in ,an good design and materials, compatible with John's Church Hall, South, endeavour to make the most use of the character of the Conservation Area is of from Wednesday to Saturday, 20th - 23rd developable sites and reduce pressure on importance to us all. It is thus good to see November at 7.30pm. £3 a ticket and £2.50 the Green Belt. 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6 In the 19th century a Thomas was mine host Well do I remember the Tin Box of Jean recalls of the Devonshire Arms. Australian chocolate, which we waited In 1841 Thomas, Alfred, and Joseph were years to sample. What a disappointment? It The Fearnehough Family is one of the all listed as scythe makers or grinders. was dreadful. The poor Aussies, having to oldest in Dore, going back at least to 1698, In 1615 John Harestaffe quotes: - eat that! My niece who married an when Thomas Fearnehough married To Willie Fearnehough then he did give. Australian tells me that it's just as bad now. Rebecca Broadhead. To have and holde as long as he should You cannot beat Cadburys. Several members of the family still live in live, Also I do not believe that Farewell Taylor Dore - Christopher John Fearnehough, Of Meadow Ground one acre and to pay, ever married. There were two Alice Taylors Hilda Cooke, Kath Marshall and Jean A Rose for rent on St John the Baptist's about this time. Mrs Millet was the mother Barber of Hallfield Farm. Day. of one. Her first husband being a Taylor. The Fearnehoughs had a thriving scythe It is a great pity that the lackson Records The other Alice was the mother of Jean business for many years and also a fine appear to be misplaced, as they contained Wade. record of Public Service. Thomas notes regarding the building of Dore Jean Dean Fearnehough was 'Overseer of the Poor' in Church and instructions for the masons, 1763 and 'Surveyor of Highways' from glaziers, carpenters and slaters. The 1770 to 1772. Another Thomas was collection also contained information on Dore Ladies Group Churchwarden from 1787 -1796 and Bastardy in the area, which was not 'Overseer of the Poor' 1790 -1792, and uncommon in Dore. Sometimes the father New members and visitors welcome. 'Surveyor of Highways' in 1798. He was paid the Overseer for the upkeep of the Are you a sociable, female interested in also a Trustee of the Ronsett Trust. child, but it seems that the poor mother if other people and the world around you? Do At the beginning of the 19th century she was not entitled to remain in Dore was you enjoy meeting others, and being Fairbanks states that the Fearnehough removed to the place of her birth. involved in a local community group? Then Freeholds were as follows: why not come along to Christ Church Dore Upper Carr Mill. Tenter Croft. I do not agree with Peter Wragg's letter in Ladies Group, on the 1st Tuesday in the Lower Carr Mill. Meadow. the last issue saying that the school air-raid month, (except Dec, meet 2nd Tues) at Farstorth & Lane Croft. shelters were never used. I well remember 7:45pm at the Church Hall, Townhead North Croft. 3 Houses and Gardens. my cousin Rita who was 4 years older than Road. 8 Houses and Gardens. 2 Houses. me getting into trouble for leaving her place We welcome women of all ages and we 3 Houses and Croft. House and Garden. to come and protect me and cousin Louie. can offer you a varied programme of Close. My aunts Ada and Hilda also used to speak meetings with speakers and local visits out. Some of these freeholds probably refer to of the time they stood in the Churchyard For more information check the diary on the Barracks, and the three cottages beside whilst we were in the shelter in case we the back page, look out for posters in the the Rec., which were in the Fearnehough were bombed. They had to keep out of sight Village or ring Lesley Vernon (tel 236 Family until bought by a developer in the of the Air Raid Warden who was a real 8185) 1970's. little Hitler.

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This years Dore Village Society Christmas card features a 1960s period drawing of Dore High Street on the front cover. Inside are a selection of drawing from the Society's new book the 'A to W of Dore' and o~ the back cover a new drawing of Dore ducks! You will find these on sale at Greens and Valerie of Do re.

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The word on the village green at the turn of the century would have been of a new delicacy introduced from France: the rabbit. Special 'warrens' sprang up across the country and for several hundred years the rabbit was farmed to meet domestic needs and to sell at the local market. Small wild colonies existed, but it was not until the 18th century - when patterns of farming changed and predator populations were drastically reduces as field sports increased Christmas Lights News in Brief - that the warren system declined, the rabbits escaped and numbers grew rapidly. Last year a buzz went round the village The Priorgate Consortium, led by King The importance of the rabbit in shaping the about the whereabouts of some excellent Sturge Financial Services, has been selected structure and composition of so much of Christmas illuminations individuals and to work with the Council on the King our vegetation today was demonstrated groups of householders had set up. Ecgbert School PFI contract. when the myxoma virus was introduced 50 Abbeydale Park Rise and Crescent were Bus Lane restrictions are due to change years ago, decimating the rabbit population. the most popular areas to visit, but there on Abbeydale Road to 7.30am to 9.30am. Open-country and heath land species, such were many others, such as parts of The recent sale by the Council of as stone curlew and the large blue butterfly Ashfurlong Road and Ashfurlong Park. If residential land, part of the King Ecgbert, declined and buzzards and foxes were last year was anything to go by, these site raised £ 1.5 million. forced to turn to alternative prey. locations will be work an after dark detour CastIeton Christmas Lights will be Surprisingly a less obvious impact was on again. turned on daily from 23 November until 6 the population of green woodpeckers Sadly the centre of the village does not January - 3.30pm to midnight. because, as short, dense turf was lost, the really sparkle at Christmas time. Perhaps Hopscotch Children's Centre has number of ants dwindled - and green 'the village shops could be persuaded to put received a prestigious 'seal of quality' from woodpeckers like ants. up a few more lights. the British Standards Institution. Over recent years the wild rabbit The suggestion has also been made that the Congratulations to Chris Po lick of population seems to have alternately thrived village should have a communal Christmas Busheywood Road, who has landed a role or crashed, but judging by sightings locally Tree. Perhaps the idea is too late for this in the ChannelS series "20 Things to do it is currently on the up. Domestic rabbits year, unless there are some enterprising Before you're 30" to be screened early next are now one of the most popular pets individuals prepared to take up the year. You may have seen him recently in having been bred in all shapes and sizes. challenge. No doubt the Dore Village his first professional role. He played one of What our medieval ancestors would make Society could be persuaded to pick up the the Spirits in "The Tempest" at the Crucible of our attitude towards the rabbit today is cost. Theatre. anybody's guess. Michael Vaughan who hails from Dore has been named Professional Cricketer's Association player of the year for his Test heroics this summer. Wendy Carlton our local freelance floral artist is holding an exhibition at the The Peacock Archipelago Gallery, 742 Owler Bar between lOam & 4pm on the 7th and 8th December Well done to Alan Jeeves, head groundsman at HSBC Sports Club, JOHN & MAUREEN RUSH Road who has received the landlord and landlady FA's Groundsman of the Year Award. The site is used by 2,800 club members, schools A warm welcome awaits you at this 15th century style community groups and on occasion traditional pub restaurant, with oak beams and log fires. representative sides. His Serving fresh fish and game, ethnic specialities and good management of the 22 acre site, along with quality home cooked Englishfayre. his dedicated team, won him a trophy and a weekend for two in any European city of his choice. Open Monday - Saturday 11am - 11pm. Sunday 12 noon - The next Open Morning at the Dore 10.30pm. last food orders 10pm. No booking required. Village Society room will be Saturday 7 Baslow Road, Owler Bar, Sheffield S17 3BQ. Tel: 01142361789 December. Why not come along and buy your Christmas cards.

8 at £10 include admission, a buffet lunch bird reserves or locations further afield. Birthday celebrations and tea and coffee during the day. Call John Again the atmosphere is relaxed with the Badger 2476622 or Hilary Sills 235 6598. emphasis on seeing birds well, rather than The local Sheffield group of the Royal Sheffield local group, which has a seeing vast numbers, although the more Society for the Protection of Birds membership of 470 throughout Sheffield, serious birdwatchers have the chance to do celebrates its 21st this month. The highlight has a strong representation in Dore. There their own thing. of the ongoing celebrations will be a bird is a programme of monthly midweek local By far the most popular of the group's identification workshop, entitled "What's birdwatching walks from September to June activities is the monthly indoor meeting that bird?", led by the well-known and these cater for all ages and experience. when we are entertained by a guest speaker ornithologist, lecturer and raconteur, John Everyone is welcome to join us and share with slides. Many times we have been Wyatt. The day will be based around slides the pleasure of not only our local birds but transported to far flung parts of the world to and sound recordings and is aimed at all also our varied natural history. The walks enjoy and marvel at the flora and fauna of categories of birdwatchers from beginners are usually followed by a sociable lunch at places we can only dream of. to the experienced bird er. It will be light- a local hostelry when we reminisce about A copy of the group's full programme of hearted with some audience participation. what we have seen or might have seen! It is activities, newsletter and other information The workshop will be held on Saturday 29 all very friendly and informal. may be obtained from me the Group leader, March 2003 at St John's Church Hall, For our more intrepid travellers, the group John Badger 247 6622, or www.rspb- Abbeydale, from 10.30am to 4pm. Tickets organises monthly field trips by coach to sheffield.org.uk

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9 then they don't look for trouble" the first relief coverage for Ember Breweries will Farewell to Ken & John band was booked for Gala night. To quote actually cover nearly half a year. Three 2 from this years music reporter after the week periods at The Rising Sun Abbey I spoke to Ken Cooney the day after their 'Academy of Sound' concert, "I've never Lane, The Hammer and Pincers Bents 5th leaving party, a grand occasion hosted been to such a well run outdoor event like Green and at The Hare and Hounds Dare. by our local Dad's Army - more of that this before. 5 hours non stop entertainment The gift to the couple from their morning later. all for free." regulars, (Dads Army), is a large photo Not since the days of the Clark family, Because of his length of service (34 years) album- which has this wonderful have we had such well loved landlords at and reputation, Ken's had more of a free inscription, which I hope they won't mind the Hare and Hounds, so it is with great hand than many managers. I asked if they me quoting:- "Far the service and concern that villagers have greeted Ken and had a spare room lined up at Rushleigh conversation you have provided to a set of John's retirement, and the pubs temporary Court to store the famous Christmas cantankerous old men over recent years. closure for refurbishment - likely now to be decorations - mentioned in The Yorkshire Our daily meetings cover a multitude of March 2003. (Another month of parties?) Post no less! Thinking they would be gone topics with the only consistency being The move to the Dore Moor Inn after 18 before Christmas, some of the collection garrulousness and poor knowledge of the years at The Big Gun on the Wicker was a has been given away. You may be able to topic under discussion. This can obviously great change. Probably 25% of the trade find your friends now, as well as being lead to disagreements. There are however 2 was local, using the old tap room, with bewitched and bedazzled. topics there has always been unanimity on; many travellers arriving at night in the front Living in an old building "above the shop" that of the quality of the beer and the bars. When after 6 years it was due to be gives little escape from the noise. The running of the pub". changed to a restaurant, John stayed as floors are so thin that you can hear Gillian Farnsworth licensee, whilst Ken took over at the Hare, conversations from upstairs. The bedrooms effectively running both for two months. A are above the juke box. It may be that with large loyal group followed them in 1992 as future changes the pub becomes a lock up Mobile losses the Dore Moor closed. i.e. rooms above are used for storage only. Before their arrival, the reputation of the The other definite change is new kitchens Lost your mobile? You are not alone, Hare had slid. Women felt unsafe; drug along the back to the church side of the according to a Mori poll about 2.4 million raids had taken place, the pavement was back door taking up the pool room area, have been stolen. Hopefully the new often strewn with broken glass, and once 50 and better lighting throughout. The Golden initiative to prevent stolen phone being re- police were called out on Gala night. With Ball at Whiston is a model the brewery are used on other networks will dramatically their firm stance, law and order soon considering. With £400,000 at their cut these numbers. prevailed. Their pride in cleanliness and disposal more than a lick of paint is likely. Not sadly the same hope for the estimated friendliness has been greatly appreciated. Interested future landlords were Ken's own 2 million dropped into water, the 700,000 Car thefts went down, flowers blossomed daughter, and the new Fox House couple, lost or broken by being thrown at someone everywhere and the cold anonymity of but these have fallen through causing Ken else or the million left on car roofs! And previous staff was forgotten. and John to extend their stay. They hope to what about the 450,000 eaten by their On the principle of "keep them entertained travel more and see family more, but their owners dogs!

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10 to ahnost World War II proportions. Surely taken all day by local residents, people Did you know it is time to limit the period over which using buses into town or even in some cases domestic displays can be held and to ban by shop workers themselves. Difficulty in Now that the firework season is over the larger fireworks from them. parking leads to dangerous situations with perhaps we can return to some relative Further roadworks on Causeway Head cars hanging around for a space or still peace and quiet. I for one enjoy fireworks, Road seem to be the latest excuse for worse customers driving elsewhere. from the small family display in the back delaying the much needed crossing outside The answer is simple, in the form of a garden, to the large public displays. But the shops. What next I wonder? limited waiting period during shop opening there is a time and place for everything. "Is there really no way to improve the hours. But in the greater scheme of things: Each year the November 5th celebrations working relationship between the Council golden routes and high profile roadworks, seem to stretch over a longer period. and residents. Usually it is not much we ask nobody on the council's highways team Fireworks are also increasingly heard at for. Take parking restrictions. In common seems to have thought of this. Perhaps we parties and celebrations at other times in the with Totley Rise and the top of Twentywell could get it included in the proposed Dore year, to the disturbance of neighbours and Lane, the local shops we badly need to Traffic Scheme. But then on past form will the terror of pets. Also the noise level keep, are handicapped by a lack of local this ever come to pass? seems to increase each year with explosions parking. The limited space there is, is often Doremouse

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The season is over for the planting of spring bulbs on the waysides and verges of our village. Over 7,000 bulbs have been planted this October by teams of volunteers. We are particularly grateful to those who have given donations. Whereas we would not usually mention names, we would like to record the generous contribution given in memory of Geoffrey Webb, with which 1,000 snowdrops have been planted round the Ecgbert Stone on the Village Green. In addition to donations, this year the City Council have given us bulbs to plant, and this has been most appreciated. More daffodils and narcissus' have been planted, by the picnic area entrance on Limb Lane and along Cross Lane. The grassy bank at the corner of Newfield Lane and Whitelow Lane has been planted, as has part of Cockpit Green (at Taking a welcome break from planting at Cockpit Green the end of Drury Lane). At the other end of Drury Lane, where Church Lane meets Fumiss Avenue the verge has been planted with mixed shades of daffodil, and at the end of Old Hay Lane, before the deep cutting, more work has been done. Finally white daffodils have been planted in the sloping verge where Vicarage Lane meets Dore Rd. Thank you to the Cubs for the areas of 3,000 crocus in the verges on Causeway Head Road. We intend this be a pilot here for future years. And thank you to the Brownies for planting the snowdrops on the Village Green. We now look forward to Spring and hope the toil is well rewarded. Please try not to park on the grass verges of the village. The spring bulbs really will not like it. Finally, thank you to all our volunteers for the efforts both when raining and fine. I really do have a feeling that they all enjoyed it! David Heslop At least one person is getting down to it on Newfield Lane

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The Derbyshire warning after arsenic levels in some in Roman times, but there was a Roman ore field was one of the largest and most Sheffield residential areas were found to be Roadjust to our north and a Roman Fort at productive in Britain and nearly 30 of the more than four times the recommended Brough in the Hope Valley. 80 known pigs of lead are believed to have safety level. The Roman invasion of Britain was made originated in Derbyshire with 21 from Nearly 70% of 569 soil city samples taken in A.D.43 and around A.D.60 Roman Somerset. These lost or hidden pigs must at 500 metre intervals across the city and occupation at Derby brought the army represent a very small percentage of the analysed by the British Geological Survey, within striking distance of the Peak District. total production of lead in Romano-British contained more of the deadly poison than The fort at Brough on Noe (Navio) was times. the Government guidelines. Now people are initially constructed oftimber in the second Under Hadrian, a tightening-up of state being advised to take extra care when half of the Ist century before being monopoly resulted in no further reference cooking and preparing vegetables, abandoned around A.D.120 as the conquest to lessees and it appears that lead removing all soil and thoroughly washing moved further north. Re-occupation of production was under military control. them. Navio in A.D.155 in a new 2 acre fort built Exceptionally high demand for lead may Not all soil arsenic can be absorbed by on the deserted site could hardly have held have been caused by the military building humans but scientists wam that long-term the whole regiment. Re-building in stone requirements on the new northem frontier exposure to low levels of the toxin can was done towards the end of the 3rd around Hadrian's Wall. A large proportion cause a wide range of illnesses, including century with further rebuilding in A.D.305- of Derbyshire lead production was sent to cancer. 306. On the basis of pottery evidence and a Petuaria (Brough on ). This would The city counci. is currently conducting a single coin, occupation is believed to have be more convenient for coastal shipment in four-year programme to identity ended before A.D.360. preference to overland transport to contaminated sites, such as high lead levels COHORS I AQUIT ANORUM Hadrian's Wall. in Totley. But officers were, unaware of the EQUIT ATA, an auxiliary regiment, was the Frank Smith abnormal arsenic concentrations throughout only known garrison to serve at Navio and Ed. This article originally appeared in the the city until alerted by the British consisted of 500 men, some of them magazine ~Under the Edge' covering the Geological Survey's report . mounted. It is referred to on Roman Great Longstone area. inscriptions of Britain (RIB 1550), engaged in building work at Carrawburgh on Hadrian's Wall between A.D.122 and A.D.125. Two inscriptions record the presence in FREE Derbyshire of the regiment, RIB 283 when it was at Navio about A.D. J 55 and RIB 278, an alter found at Haddon Hall. The altar was dedicated to the romanoceltic god VALUATIONS Mars Braciaca by the unit's commander, Quintus Sittius Caecilianus. It has been Waiting Buyers speculated that he originated from North Free Intemet promotion Africa on the basis of his unusual name. Early in the third century the regiment www.elr.co.uk moved to the new fort at Brancaster (Norfolk) where two stamped tiles have been found reading CH 1 AQ which has been expanded to CCO)H(ORS) I AQ(VITANORVM). A further inscription on a lead seal was found at Leicester reading CCOHORS) 1 AQ(VITANORVM) Valuing ... and may have been sent by the regiment whilst it was stationed at Navio. Surveying ... The regiment is recorded on the 3rd century tombstone of M. Valerius Speratus Letting ... from Viminacium in Nosier Superior (on the lower Danube). He was a veteran Managingu. legionary and a town councilor called out Auctioning ... of retirement to command the regiment in Britain where he died aged 55. He was commemorated in his native Viminecium Selling...... homes like yours by his wife Afrodisia. 96 milestones are recorded from Roman Britain but only 9 mention a place name and few give a distance, but a milestone in Buxton museum reads A NA VIONE M P 33 Townhead Road, Dore, Xi which translates as 11 miles from Navio. Sheffield 517 3GD 0114 236 2420 A censitor Brittonum Anavion (ensium) Email: [email protected] held office around A.D. 112. He would have been in control of the local area administration and also lead production and was obviously based at Navio. Workings for lead were originally in the hands of lessees (conductores) and is

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There were generous day to day running of it's tea bars, shops, officer in Cromwell's army and one time prizes in Capital One vouchers. and trolley services. Currently they have Govenor of . One of its There was a good response to the vacancies for retail/catering assistants, wood panelled rooms is illustrated with an competition which set quite a challenge to cashiers, a rota organiser, recruitment ornate mantlepiece you must see for the judges. In the end Patricia Spick was officer, and stock assistant, to help in the yourself, and yes it is haunted! adjudged the winner with: running of these units. Training will be Complete with bibliography and a useful provided. All goods sold will be pre-packed index for more research, this is a book for Dare village life is bustling andfun, so catering experience is not essential. your own stocking, or that of friends in or our new hi-tech banking is number one Volunteer work 4hr shifts to cover the day out of the city. 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If you go down to the woods in the near future, you're in for a big surprise .... no, not teddy bears sadly, but the sound of a working woodland! As those of you who frequent will know, the area of mixed mature Beech woodland adjoining Abbey Lane, but close to the bird sanctuary has been marked up for thinning since the summer. In total the area involved covers around 3 hectares (10 acres). The woodland extends to 140 hectares in all. Work will start from mid November and involves the felling of 106 mainly mature trees, particularly Beech and Sycamore. Because this part of the woodland has not approach was independently assessed in The old Totley car showroom below the been actively managed for many decades, it June 2002, and was certified as meeting the Cross Scythes on Baslow Road, as drawn has produced a very dense and shady Forestry Stewardship's Council's by Brian Edwards. canopy. Over time, wildflowers like internationally recognized standards of Bluebell have slowly disappeared and been sustainable forestry management. This replaced by bare earth. Shrubs are rare and means that products produced from SCC Cross Scythes changes young trees for the future absent in many woodlands can bear the FSC logo (visit places. Local wildlife like Song Thrush and your local DIY store if your interested) Planning permission has been granted for Bats, and woodland plants like Bluebell and indicating they come from sustainably the demolition of the long disused car Wood Anemone prefer areas with a mix of managed woodlands. showroom below the Cross Scythes pub on trees of all ages, and where there are open For more information call Nick Sellwood, Baslow Road in Totley. sunny glades, and young woodland as well Woodlands Manager on (0114) 2736387. I remember as a young man working on the as mature trees. plans of the present structure and I guess The thinning work will let more light into that was in the early 1960s. the area, encouraging wildflowers to return, Japanese Knotweed The new development will consist of two which in turn provide food for insects and blocks of flats each with four apartments other animals. These in turn, feed local Since the article in the last Dore To Door and permission has also been granted for birds and so on. Oak, Birch and Rowan, the' seven people have contacted me to inform the old barn on the roadside to be dominant species found naturally in local me of Japanese Knotweed growing in the demolished and replaced by a two story woodlands like Ecclesall Woods will area. I have been told there are stands: office building. gradually seed in the areas thinned, giving - at the bottom of Old Hay Lane, Back in the first half of the twentieth the area a good "structure" in time. - on the left of the track at Ryecroft Farm, century .the site was occupied by a The majority of the felled timber will be - by the stream down from Shorts Lane, blacksmiths shop which was in it's heyday removed, help support local woodland - on land adjoining Totley Hall Lane, during the nineteenth century. industries whilst recouping some of the - on the corner at the end of Church Lane. costs of the work, which is partly funded by - in a garden adjoining the village green, the Forestry Commission and European - on Long Line on land belonging to Bottle banks Objective One monies (via the South Sheffield Tigers. Yorkshire Forest Partnership), as well as Methods of control need to be persistent Onyx representatives have recently carried the City Council. Some tree lengths will be and carried out over a long period. All the out a review of possible bottle bank sites in retained either standing or fallen, to provide methods have drawbacks and are labour Dore and Totley. Two new banks will be deadwood habitat for wildlife like intensive. installed shortly at Totley Rise shops and at woodpeckers and bats. All the brash (the Herbicide can be sprayed onto the foliage the Shepley Spitfire. lop and top) will be chipped and most of it in late summer/early autumn regularly for G lass is the easiest and best material to removed. The bridleway will be cleared of several years. A more precise approach is to recycle. Recycling jars and bottles greatly any mud, etc once work is completed. This cut the stem and apply a measured dose benefits the environment by saving energy should be by the end of December 2002. directly into the hollow stem. and reducing the quarrying of raw Although kept to a minimum, work of this Cutting needs to be carried out over at least materials. kind always brings a certain amount of five years. Cut stems should be composted Do not worry about removing labels, but it disturbance to the ground, but experience on a layer of polythene ( to prevent would help if lids or caps are removed. shows that the woodland will quickly regrowth) or burnt within the confines of Please rinse jars and bottles and put them in recover. Indeed, some disturbance is useful your own garden. Crowns should be burnt. the right colour bank, with blue bottles in in encouraging long-buried tree and plant If the weed is coming onto your property the green bank. seed to germinate. In all cases warning from adjoining property, the best solution If you cannot get to the new sites in Totley signs will be in place during working hours. seems to be to co-operate with the please continue to use the sites at Tesco on For your own safety, please avoid the neighbouring landowner in co-ordinating Abbeydale Road and Sainsbury's at Archer working area wherever possible. All the control efforts. The Environmental Road. These two sites account for 20% of work being undertaken to improve this Protection Act 1990 does provide some all glass collected in Sheffield. important woodland forms part of the protection. Contact addresses: Ecclesall Woods five year management The Environment Agency, Victoria Square, plan, finalised in 2000. Bodmin, Cornwall. PL31 1EB. In the New Year it is planned to re-surface The Countryside Group, Planning, You can keep up to date with the main bridleways through this area, and Transportation & Estates Dept. 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17 silver and dark grey, bearing the head of the ifnot silent reading, was Craft Work. There DORE OLD SCHOOL 1938 Queen's grandfather. were several 'creative' things to do. We Except for the Head, the staff was female. might sew canvas with woollen stitches to - a postscript The five-year olds were with Miss Dobbs, make kettle holders, useful in our house We may have been tested in English and fair-haired and fair-faced, with a patchwork where the kettle sat night and day by the Arithmetic, but the exciting examinations of red lines on each cheek. Every day began fire on its own cast-iron tray. A variant of were in History and Geography, as they for her with compulsory trumpeting, a this utilized the cardboard discs which then were so lively: more like a children's party. blowing of noses sometimes lasting for two served as milk-bottle tops. These, oversewn Our names were written on the blackboard. minutes. Miss Hodkin, the sternest of the with wool and stitched together, made Then Miss would shout out a question: staff was given to rulering knuckles and place-mats. Threading your needle with wet Which king built Westminster Abbey? Can arbitrary confiscation of whatever you had:- wool was not easy. you name two counties where the Pennines wooden pencil-box, clay marbles, blood- More exciting was clay modelling. In a are? We didn't just put our hands up. alleys, liquorice- root, conkers, chewing- dark corner stood a bin containing soft clay. Examinations are competitive! We waved gum (a ha'penny bought a cube of sweet You gouged out a handful and made our arms like semaphore and screamed, rubbery stuff). All vanished into her desk animals or little men, perhaps rolling out Miss! MISS! Everyone was sitting forward, with no guarantee of return. your clay on a board. There was no firing, clenching the chair, eyes alight. Some (boys Miss Wynne, Welsh and winning, was your creation hardened in the air, and at the usually) leapt up and waving one or two unusual in her reliance on smiles and end (home time) it was packed together and arms took a few steps forward, imploring, charms. The fashionable one was Miss flung back into the bin, to emerge next screaming. If you were lucky Miss chose Talbot. She had lisle stockings, fingernails Friday, hard as bullets. Of course the clay you and a tick went beside your name. The deeply lacquered, brows plucked into thin worked its way up your arms and elbows boys usually collected more ticks than the hummocks of surprise, and throughout my into your hair, and had to be wiped off on girls. Girls then were not only less assertive acquaintance with her, an engagement ring, your trousers. Handkerchiefs were rare. but probably believed that the boys were which once fell from her elegant finger. Paper modelling involved measurement cleverer. Perhaps miss thought so too. "Boys sit stili", she bellowed. "Girls! Take and was more controlled. Miss uttered the Another method of exam involved chalking off your shoes and fmd my ring!" So all the sacred slogan; "Fold your paper into sixteen a number on a desk. If you were chosen and girls crept about, giggling under their squares!" snipping, or rather tearing and got it right you moved to a higher number. breath, raking the dirt from between the hacking followed, for the round-nosed This often meant pushing someone else floorboards with old nibs or broken pencils. scissors were old and blunt so your thumb aside. Not surprisingly the girls fared even Two headmasters coincided with my time ached. Finally a tottering cottage emerged, worse as they advanced daintily to a more at Dore School. Mr Speight was a smiling, dripping with Bonfix and (later) Gloy. noble heap of bodies in the aisle. friendly man, pleasantly fragrant in those The aristocrat of all these, because it was In contrast to these frolics, arithmetic often malodorous times. Springy of step, the most expensive, was Lino Cutting, lessons were serious. 'Sit up straight!' suited and watch-chained, he was possessed which needed thick cork mounted on Seven and six! plus three! Divide by two! of an enviable free, bold, legible, canvas. This was too clever for most of us, Hands up! A daily lesson was not only good copperplate hand which linked the words but we enjoyed ploughing into the soft cork for the eleven-plus, but makes you feel together. He comforted me once when I was with gouges in boxwood handles. Even the pleased with yourself sixty years later when worried about what lay ahead after the smell was intoxicating. The subsequent the till has gone wrong and the teenager eleven-plus. "Rumour is a lying jade", he prints, patches of smeary black, would not doesn't know what the change should be. said. His cheerful optimism set the happy have pleased their originator, William Of course we learned long multiplication mood of his school. He is buried in what is Morris. and division using that frightening blue- arguably the best plot in Dore churchyard, A cheap substitute for lino was raw potato, squared paper, and a pound being worth beside the main door. Mr Clinton cut into a patter and dipped into blue or 240 pence was fine by us. At five we first succeeded him. He was black of hair and pink poster paint before printing. The result grasped the thick brown cardboard pennies eye, gave you a straight look and did not was less funereal than a lino-cut and the and ha'pennies and the pretend florins, smile easily. A few months later he joined juice could be pleasingly worked into your the Services, I think the navy, and may not hair. In all these pursuits the product, the have survived the war. clay man, the tottering cottage, didn't The curriculum stressed two subjects, matter to us. What we cared about was the ?ARKVmRINARy ~OS?ITAL English and Arithmetic. Reading and tearing, or delving for clay, hacking the spelling were ground into us. The potato, the final anointing. apostrophe's', the rules for which are now Dore School excelled in singing. "Songs l"ht "SR.lnsft V~INAR.y HOSPITAt-S ASSOCIAnON as secret as the Pyramids, we handled of the British Isles" fell open at No. 50, easily. Subjects for composition were "The British Grenadiers", the boys • Ol>6N I:?OOAM-J:OOl>M MON--rR.1, S'.OOAM-4.00'PM SAT predictable: I wrote "My Life by a Penny" favourite. But most of the songs were less • A1>POtNTM6NT_sy.s;11~:,,=~~ . ,_~ ~ • :2..,.HOL.{R.6~~~_t'cy Sl'JTiWtC_6 A':'lD_J>A:rreNT .lSOLATlON F - --6S~-= speculated privately about the strange Only". What impresses me now - and I -~ --". • tN-HDLA.S6 LA'&DR.A~ scanty skirts of Roman Soldiers on the Wall grieve that we have lost it - was the • SASY l'ARJoGINC;° ";;t, a and publicly drew Celtic shields, flint axes committal to British not English. So we • HOME' VISITS sang loyally about the Minstrel Boy with • f'R.16NDe,' AD,:"i~~~AYS AvAILAB.L6 and long barrows. For Geography, boxes of • IWMSOI'Atmy ANI> ACI.<.l'1A.NeT1otR.S ntSR.ApY dates were brought to school (to copy the his wild harp slung behind him, or bellowed AvAILA,,&U;: ~ ARRAN~6MeNT camels) and recited our Yorkshire rivers Men of Harlech, or even pleaded with • FAClunes FOR. Tlt6' DtAt-:;NOStS AND TR.6ATM6NT OF 6QUINE'S AT TIte PReMISE'S OR. E( ATT'6NDANC6 AT (Swale, Ure, Nidd ....). we did the same for Bonnie Prince Charlie to come back again. STA"SL6 OR. yARI> the Potteries towns. Learning by heart Next to Bobby Shafto in , with mattered. Every day we heard Miss Dobbs' silver buttons at his knee. We cared for FOR.APPOINTMI'NTS OR.I'MI'R<;I'NCII'S infants as they wailed their multiplication Britain, even though like the rest of Europe tables, and fought back with our pints and we might lazily call it England. The PL6AS6 RINCi 01.:1:4 ::2.3"=' 33.3:1. quarts, poles and perches, chanting our singing, and the Britain , were lively, mantras in unison as though in a rally for involving, real. Although we did not know

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It will probably come as a surprise to many John Ruskin (1819-1900) art critic, author readers that we have a local wildlife reserve and idealist, used his inherited wealth for under the care of the Yorkshire Wildlife the education of the "deserving poor" and Trust. in non-profit making enterprises. The 0.8 hectare reserve lies between In 1871, he founded the Guild of St Twentywell Lane and the Midland railway George for "the purchase of land in healthy cutting, accessed through a narrow gap in districts" and to teach and employ working the stone wall. If you decide to visit it, men, and to try to "permanently better the please keep to the upper dirt path from material condition of the poor". Sheffield which most of the reserve can be attracted his attention because of its adequately seen. religious dissent and Chartism, and he Twentywellsick Wood is a typical but admired the skill and craftsmanship of the small example of oaklbirch woodland scythe, scissor, knife and cutlery workers. mostly on steeply sloping ground. It In pursuit of his philanthropy, in 1875 he features a number of associated woodland bought a house high on the hill in , bird species such as nuthatch, treecreeper, for £600 using funds from the Guild of St wren, robin and two species of woodpecker. Map showing the site of Twentywellsick George where he established the George Other species can often be seen passing Wood wildlife reserve. Museum. This was pioneering work for it through; for example, long-tailed tits flit was not until 1875 that Sheffield opened its from tree to tree as they move through the first public museum (in Western Park) and valley. The occasional hooting of a tawny Adopt an owl box 1887 before the first public art gallery - The owl can be heard in the autumn months as Mappin. Visitors to the Walkley St Georges territories are set up in the area. Owl lovers are being asked to adopt nest Museum included William Morris, artist The steep bank of the reserve is covered by boxes and help boost the population of and designer and Prince Leopold, the thin acid soils giving rise to a ground layer these endangered birds. The Hawk and Owl youngest son of Queen Victoria. dominated by bilberry and wavy hair-grass, Trust, which has spearheaded barn owl The Walkley site proved to be inadequate with occasional bracken. The high rainfall conservation since 1988, says the nesting and the collection was moved to levels support a number of typical mosses boxes help to make up for the loss of Hall which was purposely such as Hypnum cupressiforme and natural nesting sites in barns and hollow bought by Sheffield Corporation for the Dicranella hteromalla. Other higher plant trees. Ruskin Museum in 1890 and here it species of note include the delightful Adopting a nest box costs £12.50 a year. attracted 60,000 visitors a year. golden rod and hard fern. At the end of every year adopters are told Our connection with John Ruskin ie even At the bottom of the slope nearer the what kind of birds have roosted or nested in closer to home - Mickley Lane. In 1876 railway, the soils become deeper, more their box, how many eggs were laid, and Ruskin's man of affairs in Sheffield, Henry clayey and less acid allowing a wider range how many young owls reared. You can Swann, wrote to Ruskin as he wintered in of higher plants such as bluebell, red adopt a box in one of seven regions of Venice, that a farm off Mickley Lane, campion and wood stitchwort to grow. Here Britain but, because it is essential the birds Totley, was for sale. Swann was told to pay the canopy contains a number of large ash are not disturbed, the Trust cannot say the £2,200 to secure it. William Riley was trees as well as an understory of hazel. exactly where the nesting box is. to take control of St George's Farm, The oak woodland requires little day to day Adoption forms are available from Adopt Mickley Lane, but things did not go well management. Work consists of repairs to A Box, Hawk and Owl Trust, 11 St Mary's and Ruskin found that Riley "liked smoking boundaries and removal of species such as Close, Abbotskerswell, Newton Abbot, better than he liked digging". Ruskin then rhododendron and sycamore. A problem for Devon TQ12 SQF. Please enclose a sent his trusted gardener, Downes, to this reserve is the irresponsible dropping of stamped addressed envelope. Sheffield and by concentrating on fruit litter over the wall, which constantly needs managed to sell £60 worth of produce, clearing. though the outlay to achieve that was £135! The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust has worked Hedgehogs under threat Downes allowed George Pearson, a since 1946 to protect, conserve and quarryman and miner, to take over. Pearson promote the diversity of Yorkshire wildlife Evidence is that hedgehog numbers are was successful and in 1920 bought the land and habitats for the benefit and well-being declining at an alarming rate. The most from St. George's Guild. In 1938 the farm, of both wildlife and people. adverse effect on hedgehogs is the which I have always known as 'Pearson's Why not become a member and mark your increasing intensification of farming. Nursery', was sold and passed into private support for their work to conserve A nationwide survey, funded by the Joint hands - but today it continues to be known Yorkshire's precious wildlife. Members Nature Conservation Committee and the as St George's Farm, Mickley Lane. receive the magazines Yorkshire Wildlife Mammals Trust UK, suggests that In spite of Ruskin's impracticalities and and Natural World, three time a year; hedgehog numbers in East Anglia have his misguided view that Art can solve all opportunities to enjoy many different fallen 50 percent since 1991. Other areas the great problems of the world, I believe events throughout the year; and quality such as Yorkshire and the South East of he should be remembered as someone who publications available only to members England have shown a 40 percent drop. The tried to get people to think for themselves such as the Trust's superb Nature Reserves data was collected last year by a team of and to look at life, particularly natural life, Guide. volunteers who recorded the number of with both eye and mind. One can only If you want to be more active you can also hedgehogs, badgers, rabbits and foxes wonder how he would have reacted to the volunteer to work on your local nature killed on the roads. telecommunications mast now gracing St. reserve or on one of the Trust's many and Adult hedgehogs are useful to gardeners as George's Farm! varied projects. they can eat almost half their body weight After several years in the Hoys Building For information or queries on membership (1.8kgl41 b) of slugs, snails and caterpillars on Norfolk Street, the Ruskin Collection is contact: Dawn Wallis - Membership in a day. 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22 place a small, shallow dish of dilute honey bricks was filled to overflowing with The Wildlife or syrup-rich water, which supposedly acts developing bees. In fact there was such a Garden as a lure to any passing queen bumble-bee. demand for suitable nesting sites, even the Then there is a separate chamber in the small hole running the length of my rear section which contains a small 'wheely bin' handle was regularly amount of fibrous material for nest investigated as a potential, if somewhat making. mobile, home. Over the next few months, The University The red mason bee house is very different All right, you might say that my failure of Sheffield's BUGS project (Biodiversity in design, it is simply a tube crammed full with artificial bee homes and those used in Urban Gardens in Sheffield) will be of long, narrow paper straws in which the by the BUGS gardeners go some way to finishing. The results of this three year small bees will hopefully make a series of prove that these devices are a waste of project, which has been looking at many mud-enclosed cells, each one containing time. Indeed, the scientists of the BUGS aspects of wildlife gardening, will be an egg and pollen store. It is also different project may well report that very little of released; first to the scientific press, but in that you have to hang it in a sunny what their gardeners did - from nettle later no doubt there will be features in just position, whereas the bumble-bee house patches to piles of logs, positively about every magazine in the country, from should be placed in a secluded, shady encouraged wildlife. I am sure this will not corner. gardening and wildlife ones to the Sunday be the case, but even if it is, surely we can supplements. So what will the scientists' So, what happened? Not a great deal. I learn from what doesn't work and try to verdict on wildlife gardening be? sited my bumble-bee nesting box in the improve on what does? darkest recess of my garden, beneath a Unfortunately, I do not have a special Perhaps the most important outcome will shrub next to the compost bin and whilst a 'access all areas pass' giving me be that a new generation of scientists no bumble-bee queen happily made her nest privileged information, nor do I have a longer look upon the ecology of urban crystal ball to magically conjure up the in my compost heap, none showed any gardens as a Mickey Mouse topic and will results. However, there have been some interest in my artificial hive. The only start to investigate the subject in earnest. early findings published on the BUGS' animal that visited it was a snail which Only with their insight can our gardens web-site, for example the ones on artificial feasted on the syrup, ate through the become true wildlife havens. As for me, bumble-bee 'houses' and it would seem cardboard liner and left glistening sticky next year I will have the bumble-bee box that, at least in the first two years of the trails all over it. project, there has been very little success On the other hand, I did have a success of in place well before the first queens come in enticing bees to use these man-made sorts with my red mason bee tubes. I hung out of hibernation and site my red mason homes. the container on a sunny wall in my back bee tubes at the front of my house. With a bit of luck, the bees will take to their This spring, although perhaps a little too garden and by late summer, one straw was designer homes and leave my compost late to catch the first emerging queens, I filled and neatly capped with a plug of put an artificial bumble-bee house in my mud. It seems somewhat ironic that heap and wheely bin alone. But as the old garden, as well as one designed to be used despite this house being designed to saying goes: 'You can lead a horse to by red mason bees. The bumble-bee house appeal to solitary bees, they only showed a water, but you can't make it drink'. BUGS consists of a shoe box-sized container muted interest, web site: divided in two, with a small entrance hole whilst at the front of my house, every http://www.shef.ac. uk/uni/projects/bugs/ leading into the front 'parlour' where you small hole in the mortar between the house JackDaw

23 operation the blade is properly shaped, and that posrtion so that it turns counter Ryecroft Mill the forming of the strengthening back or clockwise. The shuttle controlling the flow "whale", commenced during the steeling, is of water (and therefore the speed of the I was very interested to see the piece on now completed. hammers) is connected to the long wooden Ryecroft Mill in the last issue of Dore to The plating is done under a hammer with a levers seen to the left of the forger at the Door and the painting by Stuart Thorpe. narrower face. The blade itself is thinned hammer heads. The wheel is 15ft. in My interest stems from my relationship to down, but the strengthening rib on the back diameter. and 5ft. 9 in. wide, with a head of the Thorpe family. My great great is left standing up, and the blade passed water of 13ft. 6 in. grandfather, George Thorpe, was the backwards and forwards under the hammer- On the water-wheel shaft is a cast iron spur publican at the Rising Sun until he died in the forger meanwhile also moving back and wheel of 9ft. pitch diameter, meshing, with 1870. In the 1861 census, he describes forth on his scat, which is suspended from a pinion 5ft. 4" p.c.d. on the beam, giving a himselfas 'scythe grinder and publican', and an overhead beam. As the blade cools under ratio of approximately 11 to one. The fly- he may well have worked at Ryecroft Mill. the hammer, the assistant takes a re-heated wheel on the beam is 11 ft. in diameter, and Subsequently, his widow, Hannah, my great one from the hearth, and passes it to the is actually a cast-iron bevel wheel from great grandmother, kept the inn until she forger's right hand. Then, as the hammer some long forgotten mechanism. died early in 1891. Judith Thorpe was rises, the forger in one motion lays the Wooden brake: The beam or cogwheel innkeeper there at the time of the census in nearly black-hot blade down on his left- shaft is octagonal, being 2ft. alf., and the April 1891. hand side and places the white-hot blade on cogwheel driving the steeling hammer is My great grandfather, Thomas Thorpe, and the anvil with his right hand, to receive the 5ft. 2" in diameter with 19 cogs, that for Stuart were brothers. Stuart was born about descending hammer. As he does so, the plating being 5ft. 4". with 13 cogs. Working 1854. I would guess your dating of the assistant moves behind him and picks up speeds for the hammers are 250 blows per , 1870s is about right - in 1871 Stuart was 17 the cooling blade, either for re-heating, or, minute for steeling, and 150 blows per and a copper plate engraver living with his if forging is finished, to lay it aside. minute for plating. Both hammer shafts are parents at the Rising Sun. By 1881 he was The advantages of tilt hammers: In making pivoted at 2ft. 6" from the tail end; the married, living at Ratcliff Road near Crown scythes, the tilt-hammer possesses steeling head weighs 3 cwt. Hunters Bar, and was a 'draughtsman many advantages over other types of While one hammer is being worked, the designer and art student'. Clearly the quality powered hammer. In steeling, it is desirable other is propped up so that the cogs do not of the painting of the wheel is consistent to vary the rate of blows per minute catch its tail, the forger slipping the wooden with Stuart's skills indicated by his considerably, with a minimum of time for prop under the head at the top of its stroke. occupations. acceleration and deceleration. It is also a If the hammer is only temporarily out of It is interesting to note that Thomas my considerable advantage if the weight ofthe use, a piece of wood is slipped in place to great grandfather was a scythe grinder like blows remains constant. This is easily cushion the blows. his father. After his marriage in 1866 he possible with a water-wheel, but lived in Dore until his death in 1899. His experiments with other types of hammer wife was Elizabeth Biggin, niece of John have not been completely successful as Letters Revill, the publican of the Whirlow Bridge there is a tendency for the weight of blow to Dear Sir, increase with the speed of the hammer. Inn in 1861. Who lifted the Verger's bollards? Brian Hockley Preventing movement: In the plating th th During Wedding services on the 25 , 26 process, it is necessary to cut a sharp bevel, and of August, 7 traffic bollards were as well as thinning out the plate and rr stolen during the services, from outside the Making scythes working the blade to its final shape. For Parish Church. this, a tilt-hammer is ideal, in that the blow These are supplied by Sheffield Police This article, written by the late is dead and the head is momentarily at rest, particularly for the use of Funeral Corteges WJHughes, originally appeared in the at the end of its stroke, and thus it grips the and Wedding cars etc. It would be New Model Engineer on 22/9/1955. scythe between strokes and prevents it considered so inappropriate, if you in your In spite of the modem trend to mechanise moving about. Experiments with a coffin had to be carried half a mile to your farming there are many cases where it has pneumatic hammer have been tried in this funeral service, or if your daughter, in her been found virtually impossible to improve work, but it has been found that there is a wedding dress, had a long walk in the on tools invented a thousand years ago. The tendency for the blade to bounce on the pouring rain. So please be considerate and scythe is probably the best-known farming anvil, making it much more difficult to cut return these. Just drop them over the tool, and Messrs. W. Tyzack, Sons and a clear bevel on the back. graveyard wall. Thank-you. Turner of Sheffield, who make Crown In both steeling and plating there are two Paul R Cobbold scythes, forge them by hand in exactly the operations, known as pointing and back Parish Church Verger same way as they did 138 years ago. The ending. The forger. steels and plates Dear Sir, motive power for the tilt-hammers in the approximately five dozen scythes every I wish to draw readers' attention to a works is supplied by a water wheel. working day. planning application for a four-storey block Scythe production: The process comprises Twenty-five years ago Crown scythes were of flats which has been lodged for the several operations. Two pieces of iron and made up to 60 in. in length, but today the Abbeydale Garden Centre site adjacent to one of steel are cut off, the length and longest made are 40 in. At that time, too, Dore station. cross-section varying according to the size there were about 30 different patterns of Apart from the fact that four storey flats of scythe to be made. Put together in the Crown scythe, but these have now been would be totally out of place, the site is form of a sandwich, these are heated in the reduced to six. desperately required for a car park for Dore fire (at this stage it is called a "mood" and Family history: It should be mentioned that station. Dore station car park is totally is sufficient to make two scythes). the Tyzack family are still in active control inadequate, holding around 18 cars. Welding the blade: The iron and steel are of the works, and the present forger, Upwards of 80 cars park in the vicinity welded together under a broad-faced Bernard Wolstenholme, is the fourth of his every day, on spare land across the road, in hammer, and drawn out into the rough line in their service. He has worked a total the area of the adjacent flats and on Dore shape of a scythe at each end. This of 39 years for the firm; his father for 58 Road. Both major political parties in the operation is known as "steeling", and all the years, his grandfather all his life, and his city are committed to increasing the use of skill of the forger is used in shaping the great grandfather was NO.l on the books at Dore station. The chance to create a proper material and keeping the steel in the the firm's Rockingham Street works! park-and-ride site at Dore station must not cutting-edge. After the pieces have been cut Details of the machining: The water wheel be missed. Peter Fox, Chairman, in two (they are now known as "strings") at the works is a return overshot, or ten Hope Valley Railway Users' Group they are re-heated and plated. During this o'clock wheel - the water pouring on to it at

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26 Another interesting Peak Land book is week before the book arrived and had many Book Reviews Crosses of the Peak District written by questions to be answered which it did. Neville Sharpe author of several local Lathkill Dale Derbyshire its Mines and Everyone uses them, driving to work or history books. Over the years he has Miners is published in a 110 page hardback taking the dog for a walk, but how many of gathered information on nearly two hundred by Landmark Publishing, price £16.95 us stop to wonder why a road or footpath is crosses ancient and modem to be found in ISBN 1-901522-80-6 there in the first place and what it can tell churchyards, along old tracks or at parish Peak District Mining and Quarrying is a us about the past? boundaries. These vary from richly carved more general guide to the history of these Ever since man began travelling between Saxon Crosses to comparativc'y plain ones activities in the area. Full of photographs places routes developed, possibly taking the or even a remaining base or stump. capturing the buildings, action and mood of easiest ground or simply linking a series of After an introduction to the history of the two related industries, the book has 14 settlements. The need to move livestock, crosses and their sad destruction by royal chapters covering early mining, mining law, the advent of pack animals and horse edict, vandalism and acid rain, the crosses the technics used, and caring for our mining riding, all created different needs, as did the are catagororised and detailed in seven heritage. The pictures taken underground of passage of armies or wagons. Old chapters. Details on each cross are tools and artifacts left behind are routeways fell into disuse, new routes had supplemented by numerous photographs particularly interesting. Together the to be diverted around man made obstacles plus illustrations and positional maps. The chapters outline the history of the mining or sometimes unsympathetic land owners. result is a book which opens up a whole industry and its decline and help to explain Peakland Roads and Trackways, new fascinating world and which provides what remains for us to see today. Published originally written by A & E Dodd and now many a location to seek out when travelling in paperback by Tempus publishing Peak in its third edition, has become the around the Peak. Crosses of the Peak District Mining and Quarrying runs to 128 definitive guide to the history of routes in District is published in a 130 page hardback pages in paperback price £9.99 ISBN 0- The Peak. Generously illustrated with by Landmark Publishing, price £14.95 7524-1710-x pictures and maps, it takes a chronological ISBN 1-84306-044-2. approach from the evidence of Prehistoric Some time ago Don Allott, of Fred and Trackways, through the Roman, Dark and Chances are that, if you ask anyone what Gingers hairdressers on Baslow Road, set Middle Ages, to the beginning of modem they know about the Peak District, after the out to put together a collection of his poetry roads in the Tudor and Stuart times. There scenery they will mention lead mining. It in a small book in aid of charity. You can are also chapters on Packhorse Ways and seems almost a contradiction that such a by the book, Voices & Verses, at his shop Drovers Roads as well as the Turnpike Era. beautiful area should have been the scene of or that of Transport 17, with the proceeds This is a fascinating story, finding ancient an extensive metal industry from pre- of sales divided equally between the routes and solving the links between them is Roman times almost up to the present day. Children's Hospital and Transport 17. still going on, as new clues are discovered. The evidence is all around us, from At £2 it must be a bargain with 55 poems in Salt for instance was a vital commodity for hummocks and pits in fields to ruined its A4 pages. Something here to please, preserving meat and traded over long buildings and waterworks. tempt or tease and all for charity. distances. It formed part of a Roman Lathkill Dale is now a renowned beauty soldiers pay as his 'salarium' hence our spot and favourite walking location. A new Stepping Out The Dore Village Society word salary. Salt routes to the west of book Lathkill Dale Derbyshire its Mines offers an occasional programme of walks, Sheffield can still be traced through names and Miners will put a whole new slant on mainly in the area around Dore. such as Psalter Lane and Saltersford. Guide its beauty. Written by J Rieuwerts the book Forthcoming walks include a visit to stones, old coaching inns, toll bars and sets out to explain the history of mining in Chatsworth Park on 16th November, milestones can. still be found all giving the area, illustrated by maps and pictures starting at 9am from the Old School and our clues to the past. Peakland Roads and including many underground. The location annual Wassail Walk for all the family on Trackways, is published in a 190 page of mine shafts, the purposes of remaining 27th December starting at lOam from the hardback by Landmark Publishing, price buildings and the machinery used are all Old School, followed by hot drinks and £19.95 ISBN 1-901522-91-1. explained. I happened to walk the dale a mince pies. Everyone welcome.

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DECEMBER FEBRUARY 3 Wood head - The lost Railway, illustrated talk by Kris 3 The Attercliffe Story Illustrated talk by John Salt for the Woods for Dore Methodist Tuesday Group, Church Hall, Historic Building Society, 7.30pm, Quaker 7.45pm Contact 2363171 Meeting House, St James Street. 2748046 Visitors £2 4 Victorian Christmas Fayre Sheffield Cheshire Home, 4 Greentop Circus, talk and demonstration by Mrs Caroline Mickley Hall 10am-12 noon Veal for Dore Ladies Group, 7.45pm Church Hall, 5 Victorian Productions Concert Sheffield Cheshire Townhead Road. Home, Mickley Hall 7pm Tickets 236 7491 5 The Pottery Industry in South Yorkshire Talk by John 6 Christmas Market Dore Mothers' Union, The Old Griffm for the Sheffield Society for Encouragement of Art, School, lOam - 12 noon. Plant stall, Flower arrangements, Ranmoor Parish Centre 2.30pm free admission. Bring & Buy, Bric-a-brac. £1 incl coffee & mince pies. Information from 236 0941 6-7 Great Christmas Sale at Work Ltd on Road 11 Wicker Viaduct and Victoria Station Talk by Graham from lOam to 4pm Hague for Hunter Archaeological Society, 7.30pm lecture 6-9 Christmas Street Fayre, Bakewell, with stalls, markets theatre 9, Arts Tower, University of Sheffield. Details: 236 & entertainment. 1471 7-6 Jan Xmas Lights Great Hucklow every evening from dusk 12 The Isle of Man Talk by Mrs Catherine Mackay for Dore 8 Santa Special, miniature railway in Ecclesall Woods off 'A' Townswomens Guild, Old School, 2pm Abbeydale Road. Ilam-3pm with Santa in Grotto from 12 15 Clean Up Join the Rangers in Ecclesall Woods. Meet in noon. Admission £3 icl coffee & mince pies - soft drink lay-by near woodyard on Abbey Lane Ipm-3pm Tel: 203 and wrapped present for children. Details from 2369002 7206 8 Christmas Show - Hamster Society with classes for 22 Concert, Vespers of 1610 Monteverdi, Sheffield Bach hamsters and othrer guinea pig or smaller mammals. Society. 7.30pm Sheffield Cathedral. Tickets £9, Bradway Scout Hall, Bradway Drive .Entries 11.30am. concessions £7 from 2668257. 9 Handel's MESSIAH, Sheffield Bach Society, 7pm Sheffield Cathedral. Sheffield Bach Players. Conductor Peter Collis. Tickets £10, concessions £8 from 2668257. ~~ 12 Rosamond Place 10 Christmas Concert Escafeld Chorale, Woodseats 'J]:\ I1 (c!.t\.,J Bradway, S17 4LX Mrethodist Church ~ 10 Sheffield Manor Castle - after the Park .Talk by George "---~&~:d, Tel: 01142351900 Jones for Hunter Archaeological Society, 7.30pm lecture & litN""- Mobile: 07831 634197 theatre 9, Arts Tower, University of Sheffield. Details: 236 Establ ished 1984 1471 Your local Electrical & Alarm specialist 10 Christmas Party, Dore Ladies Group, 7.45pm Church Fully qualified for all installation & Hall, Townhead Road. Maintenance work - friendly too! 11 Christmas Luncheon, Dore 'A' Townswomens Guild, Old School, 1.30pm. New installations & rewiring I1 Concert Loxley Silver Band, Sheffield Cheshire Home, Internal & external light & power Mickley Hall 7pm Tickets 236 7491 Garden lights, power & water features 13 Protecting our Heritage & Christmas Social An Burglar alarms installed and maintained to BS4737 illustrated history by Hilary Roos & Eisa Greaves for the Hallamshire Historic Building Society, 7.30pm, Houlden For free quotations and advice call Tim Allsop

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