'DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY No. 49 SPRING 1998 ISSN 0965-8912

Dore Playground Project

All those living in and around Dore know how inadequate the existing facilities for play are on the Dore Recreation Ground. The Dore Playground Action Group has been formed with the aim of improving the play area by fencing it off and providing suitable flooring and equipment. This is inevitably expensive, with only so much money available towards the project from Council funds. So far the local Cub Scout movement have been very supportive and have raised money for the Playground and the Dore Fun Run organisers have promised monies from this years planned event. The Lodge of Industry number 6579 have presented a cheque for £500 on behalf of South Yorkshire Freemasonry, and Dore to Door Catering have offered a gingerbread house for auction. Other financial pledges have been made by Garfitts International Ltd of Halfway, and by Turf Machinery Ltd of Woking. Many thanks to all who have helped so far, but we have a long way to go to raise the necessary cash. So please can you help. Do Drawing of the Lych Gate by Sheffield artist Brian Smith who will be exhibiting a selection of you work for or know a local company or watercolours and sketches of Dore Village at the Open Day on the 7th March. organisation that might be able to make a donation or offer help in kind? If so please sound them out for us, or pass on details for us DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY to follow up. Alternatively please support any Doorsteps to disappear fund raising events we run or if you can please OPEN DAY let us have a donation. Money raised is being Saturday 7 March In future all new homes will have to be built held in a special Dore Village Society Charity 9am to Ipm with "level thresholds", to ensure access for Account and with Council help all expenditure Old School, Dore wheelchairs. This follows a decade of lobbying will be net of VAT. For more information by organisations representing the disabled and contact Julie Brooks on 262 0712, or write to the elderly and is likely to be implemented by Mrs Samantha Porter, Dore Playground Action April 1999. Group, 21 Causeway Head Road S 17 3DR. Dore Recreation Ground The J oseph Rowntree Foundation first suggested the idea of a "Lifetime Home" that As we go to press there is consternation would last from cradle to grave. 16 changes Letters over notices that have appeared in the were suggested by their recent report - changes recreation ground announcing proposals to that the average home would have to undergo, Dear sir, plant 1,000 trees. This will be done by the including many internal ones. Most of these I would like to draw your attention to the International Tree Foundation following an have been accepted by the Construction dangerous situation at the foot of Causeway approach by them to the Recreation Dept for a Minister Nick Royston. Head Road by the Midland Bank, paper shop suitable site. The level threshold is already mandatory for etc. Pedestrians wanting to cross the road, Unfortunately the Dore Village Society was public buildings, shops and offices, many of have to walk between the cars, and wait in the not initially consulted on this proposal, nor which now suffer water damage in heavy rain. road until it is safe to cross. was it advised in advance of the tree felling Steep slopes must also be avoided, resulting in Regretfully, a fortnight before Christmas, I recently carried out at the Town Head Road a complete redesign of the plot. If a car can was hit twice by a car reversing out as I was entrance. reach the back door, that can be the level about to cross the road. Finally, the driver saw Arrangements have now been made to meet threshold. The only exemption will be for that I'd been hit, stopped and got out, Council officials on the site, before work takes houses built on steep slopes where steps are otherwise I would have been run over. As I place, and to ensure planting follows the unavoidable. Much of Sheffield is built on have had ongoing problems since a hip development plans drawn up for us by steep slopes so it will be interesting to see replacement, it was a very painful experience, Sheffield Wildlife. where exemptions will be allowed. and frightening too. We believe the proposed trees will be native So the doorstep, so useful for keeping out If for some reason, drivers can't park facing species and planted at I metre intervals along dust, draughts and downpours will go. the way they are going, I would like to ask existing boundaries within the site, not open Carrying your bride "over the slope" doesn't through the magazine, that they be extremely areas. The space actually taken up will be sound quite so romantic. vigilant for pedestrian waiting to cross the small, and no doubt there will be a high Gillian Farnsworth road. D Cobain (Miss) subsequent mortality rate.

INSIDE: The Dare Village Society; Wildlife garden; Farming notes; Planning; Clandestine Newts; Matrimony in mind; Spring Diary; Letters & News. historic information, and as a medium for Calling all readers raising environmental awareness. The Society DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY also periodically publishes books, leaflets and Spring Meeting Dore to Door comes to you courtesy of the maps covering the history of development of 7pm Wednesday 4 March Dore Village Society. But are you a member? the community, its environment and amenities. Old School Hall We would like you to know a little more about There is also a set of notelets showing local Illustrated talk by Tony Davis the Society and the work it undertakes. Hence views and an annual Christmas Card. from the National Trust the information on this page and the Public meetings. Public presentations by forthcoming Open Morning on Saturday the outside speakers on subjects of interest and 7th March. relevance to the community, including appropriate debate. These are open to anyone The Society living in Dore and are free of charge. Environment Weeks Dore Collection. Collecting, cataloguing, The Dore Village Society was formed in displaying and research on, material relevant Sheffield Environment Weeks this year will 1964 and has been run by a changing band of to the history and locality of Dore. We have run from Saturday 9th May to Monday the volunteers ever since. It is in its way unique, been building up the collection by the 25th inclusi ve. being a cross between a community purchase of material, copying of photographs Last year there were a record breaking 235 association, historical society, environmental & documents etc Please let us know if you events involving 92 organisations or Council group and parish council. Most fundamentally have any old pictures of Dore, memories, or departments. Events ranged from exhibitions it is whatever the residents of Dore want it to items of interest. The Society now has its own to talks, from clean-ups to surveys, and over be! room at the Old School, used for storage, 10,000 people took part. This year offers an Since 1993 the Society has been a registered research and committee meetings. equally exciting programme, so watch out for charity, with officers and committee elected at Conservation & Planning. Protecting and details in the press and locally. an AGM each May. It is involved in numerous enhancing the local environment by - Once again the Dore Village Society will be projects, most of which people are perhaps monitoring and commenting on planning taking part, including circulating leaflets unaware of. So here goes: applications (especially in ·the conservation giving details of recycling options. However, Aim. The aim of the Society is to foster the area), - active membership of organisations if you have any ideas or suggestions, or if a protection and enhancement of the local having overlapping objectives to those of the group you are involved in will be taking part, environment and amenities within Dore, to society, - working with and petitioning the please let us know. Our environmental contact encourage a spirit of community and to record local authority and its councillors, - initiating, is Roger Millican who can be reached on 262 its historic development. funding and progressing ideas and projects 0012. with a direct environmental or community Main activities: benefit. The Society is an associate member of CPRE, the Open Spaces Society, Friends of Gala & Festival Week Communication & publishing, Dore to Ecclesall Woods (FEW), Abbeydale & Door is published quarterly as a means of Shepherd Wheel Action Trust (ASWAT), and A varied programme is once again being communication within the community, as a the Royal Horticultural Society. planned for this years Scout and Guide Gala & platform for the publication and exchange of Dore Show. Organising and sponsoring the Festival Week, which will run from 4 - 12 July. annual September village horticultural and There will be a wide range of events put on by crafts show. local organisations. More details will be DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY Dore Playground Project. Raising funds included in the next Dore to Door. Registered Charity No. 1017051 for, and organising, improvement of the Sarah Hackel would like to hear from The Society aims to foster the protection children's play facilities within Dore anyone who would be interested in helping and enhancement of the local environment Recreation Ground. This is the first initiative with the Village Well Dressing. This year, the and amenities within Dore, to encourage a as part of a wider recreation ground plan is to erect the Well Dressing on the Green spirit of community and to record its improvement project based on our public on Saturday 4 July, so as to be on view during historic development. survey and plans drawn up for us by the the Festival week. The Well Dressing Service Sheffield Wildlife Trust, will be on Sunday 12th July after the Gala on Chairman Legal fund. Creating and maintaining a Saturday 11 th July. (Dore to Door & Dore Show) fighting fund reserve in anticipation of any The Gardens Open afternoon has proved Mr J R Baker 236 9025 future legal support costs in fighting for the increasingly popular so we would like to 8 Thornsett Gardens, S 17 3PP. interests of the community. include as wide a variety of gardens as possible, large or small, themed, formal or Vice Chairman otherwise. If you are proud of your garden and (Planning) Editorial & Advertising would like to share your ideas with others and Mrs G Farnsworth 235 0609 to know more about what is involved, please 11 Rushley Avenue, Sl7 3EP. Dore to Door is published quarterly by the contact Julie Bearpark . Dore Village Society and delivered free to over Contacts: Treasurer 3100 households in the area. Well dressing Sarah Hackel Tel 2364279 Ms MWatson 2365666 If you are interested in submitting an article Gardens Open Julie Bearpark Tel2369100 11 Cavendish Avenue, SI 7. or letter, have local news to report, or wish to Festival Week Anne Elsdon Tel2360002 place an advertisement, please contact the Syd Crowson Tel 2366633 Secretary Editor John Baker on 236 9025 or write to: Gala Alan Robinson Tel 235 0935 MrsA Slater 2366710 The Editor, 6 Old Hay Close SI 7. Dore to Door, 8 Thornsett Gardens, Committee Dore, One way or another Mrs LE Baker 2369025 Sheffield, MrG R Elsdon 2360002 S173PP. The Council made an order in respect of (Subscriptions & Notice Board) Opinions expressed in articles and services Devonshire Terrace becoming one way, for the Mrs V Malthouse 2362168 offered by advertisers are not necessarily greater part of it's length, back on December (Daytime No) endorsed by the publishers. 6th last year. This provided a further 6 weeks Mr R Millican 262 001 2 No part of Dore to Door may be reproduced for objections. . (Environment) in full or part, without the written permission Meanwhile the trafffic and parking have got Mr P Moore 262 1555 of the Editor. worse. Let's hope the necessary signs are Mr A Steeples 2360987 installed shortly, and that there are no nasty MrPHVeal 2368437 "Meetings:- Where minutes are kept and incidents while people get used to the new hours are lost!" arrangements. 2 Open Day

The Society will be having an open morning on Saturday 7 March. This will be a chance for everyone in the village to see displays on the work of the Society and to visit our new room. Held at the Old School from 9am to lpm you can expect to see: Photo albums and archive material on the village; Information on traffic & transport issues; Details on planning; Information on Dore Show and a video of last years event; a display on water conservation; Paintings & Drawings of the village by local artist Brian Smith; Back copies of Dore to Door; A display on the Dore Playground project and much more. There will also be refreshments and a chance to buy Society publications and pay membership fees. We hope to see you there!

; ,. Peter Dutfield Abbeydale Hall, now threatened with conversion to a public house.

We are sad to report that Peter Dutfield, a Vice President of Dore Village Society, died in that you can share the contents with them. be possible to almost completely re-stock the November 1997. Books make life so much richer. Mobile Library shelves. Somebody Peter was a graduate of the London School Local libraries have done much to bring somewhere will be able to share your past of Economics, his subjects being Economics new books to those who otherwise would not pleasures. and Mathematics. He taught at two schools in have the chance to see them. However, there is the South before coming to Sheffield to do the now a real problem. Sheffield's Library job he really wanted do, teacher training. He Service has very much reduced funds for the News in brief became a lecturer at Sheffield College, now purchase of new books and will be devoting part of Hallam University, with special the available money only to children's books responsibility for teaching practice and for and large print editions for those with poor The Parish Boundary stone beside the problem cases'. sight. It is unable to buy anything for the Limb Brook opposite the end of Rycroft Glen While teaching in the South, Peter had general adult reader. Hence this appeal. was in danger of falling into the river, and has become involved in a Central Television Please have a look along your shelves and been resited further back from the bank by the experiment in teaching by television - a studio through the cupboards for books that you can Dore Village Society. being set up in the school yard, producing donate either to Totley Library or the Mobile Work has stopped on refurbishing the lessons for transmission to other schools. This Library. Ideally the books should be hard Mobile petrol station at the bottom of was a particuler interest that he brought with backed but good condition soft back versions Devonshire Road, recently taken over by BP, him to Sheffield. would also be welcomed. Please do not offer but no-one knows why! Peter eventually retired from the College as books in poor condition. Although both a Senior Lecturer. Peter was active in village libraries will be happy to accept books of any affairs and was for many years on the type, Totley Library is particularly keen to Membership Committee of the Dore Village society, serving obtain more for its crime, adventure and as Secretary and Chairman. On his retirement general fiction sections. Talking books and Any organisation is only as strong as its from the committee he became a Vice taped versions are also welcome. membership. If you support our objectives President of the Society. In Society affairs, Please bring the books to the Dore Village please do join, the fee of £2 p.a. per person Peter was a good man to have on your side. He Society Open Morning at the Old School on isn't much and hopefully you will feel it is would bide his time before making his point in Saturday the 7 March. Alternatively take the value for money as far as the community is discussions, but when this came you realised books either to Totley Library (closed on concerned. If you wish to be more actively that he had used his time well - his remarks Thursdays) or the Mobile Library (Thursdays involved in any of our activities or have ideas were always apt and constructive, as well as from 11.00 to 12.30 and Saturdays from 10.30 for new projects/areas we could look at, then entertaining. to 12.30) in Leyfield Road. For those who are please talk to any member of the committee - Peter was always good company and he had unable to deliver the books, you can telephone we would be pleased to hear from you. many friends who will remember him and his 2620012 to arrange for them to be collected. Likewise if you have any material for the Dore contribution to the life of the village. Please be as generous as you can; if each Collection or wish to make a financial Peter's widow, Joy, has herself been active Dore household gave just one book, it would donation - however small - or a bequest. in village life for some years, particularly on the Parochial Church Council, and to her go our condolences. Dore Village So,iety . 1998 Subs"iptio1JS

Onto the shelf If you wish to subscribe to the Village Society please complete the form below and forward with your payment to: Please give just one minute's thought to the Greens Home and Garden Supplies, Causeway Head Road, pleasure that the reading of books has given to you over the years. The novels of the great I wish to subscribe to the Society for 1998 and enclose £2 per person writers may have transported you to different worlds and times. Travel stories might have Name(s) . given you glimpses of other countries and Address ...... •...... ways of life. Biographies will have told of the actions and thoughts of politicians, sports personalities, actors and many more. Think also of the books that friends have lent you so Cheques payable to Dore Village Society please. Payment: £2/4/other

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17 Have you noticed?

New boxes on stilts have appeared throughout Dore, courtesy of the Post Office. Appropriately grey - the colour of our time? (with apologies to Crowded House), these will no doubt provide an excellent nursery for the talents of our young graffiti artists! How long some will last remains to be seen. Judging by our local motorists, footpaths are only natural extensions of the road, and conflict with the new street furniture seems inevitable. Originally pavement parking seemed restricted to the village centre, but has now spread down the main access roads to the village. At the bottom of Dore Road it has become a real hazard. If only drivers would realise that if they feel the need to park partway on the pavement, they shouldn't be parking at this point in the first place! Doremouse Ed. The Post Office boxes are intended to St John's Church Abbeydale Road South was consecrated in 1876. The new parish established take some of the weight of our mail off of the itself with 6 boundary stones in the area (see news in brief). feet of our hard worked postmen & women. Mail will be delivered to these by van in Hoffman, (together with Hazel his wife), has You like meeting people and could welcome advance and then picked up in the middle of a been one of our excellent cooks for many our guests on arrival, round. Crowded House' are a New Zealand years. You are looking for Community Work for pop group. Washers up, cooks (one course only), hosts your Duke of Edinburgh Scheme and your and hostesses, are desperately needed, age and school timetable and staff will agree to a gender no barrier. It may be that: regular commitment with us, Can you help? You could spare half an hour to wash up, You can't promise a regular commitment Have a favourite main meal we would but would be willing to be a reserve for any of ...... once every 6 weeks on a Tuesday lunch enjoy, (expenses paid), these categories, time (rota system). To help with up to 14 very You're cooking at school and could share You would like to come along first and see appreciative Senior Citizens at the Dore Lunch your skills with us in the holidays, the Club. Club. Regular helpers include 2 of our You're not free on a Tuesday but could Any further information or requests for a committee members, George Elsdon & Gillian occasionally leave a cold sweet course to be visit to Betty Young Tel 2364803 or Bessie Farnsworth. A previous chairman Sydney brought in by another helper, Colley Tel 2365707. CHARLES BROOKS "How to be sure your Shoe Repair Specialists since 1972 garden improves .... Quality Shoe Repairs ....and solve problems and key cutting while you wait Luggage and bags, by HEAD, CAT,BENETTON, and avoid expensive mistakes" Constellation, Premier and Carlton. To good to be true? report is sent to you, detailing Stockist of Slippers, and Ladies Well no it is true, after a two the simple actions that we Aquatex blizzard boots for winter. year development period we reccomend to improve your Dry cleaning service have proved that using an garden, solve your problems 35 Boslow Rood, Totley Rise, S17 "Expert in Your Garden" and save you money by avoiding expensive mistakes. Telephone 262 1077 actually in you garden, has been of great benefit to our Plant Guarantee. existing customers. Our hardy garden plants all Years of Knowledge. carry a I year guarantee - it's P~od-uc,e- Using years of experience our promise of success. and knowledge our "Expert Call now. Totley Hall Lane in Your Garden" can Call us or call in and find out instantly see the problems how you will benefit from a 10lb and 551b bags of you may have and offer visit from the "Expert in Your Top Quality simple and easy to follow Garden". Red or White Potatoes solutions for you to use. Plus at wholesale prices. a follow up call from you will Eggs, Hay and Straw also available always be welcome so that Open 8am to 8pm you never feel lost. G.'d8~ Comp.ny Lim le~ Monday to Saturday Invaluable report. ABBEY DALE ROAD SOUTH After every visit a DaRE, SHEFFIELD Telephone 236 4761 comprehensive, invaluable S173AB to confirm prices Tel: 0114 236 9091

5 Jean recalls

The gales that blew on Christmas Eve Night 1997, put me in mind of the gale Sheffield suffered in February 1962. The photograph on this page was taken after the gale by Len (or was it Les) Salter-thwaite, and shows Colin Fisher and his wife Edna examining one of the trees blown over then in the grounds of what is now the Secure Unit on Limb Lane. Colin Ridge Fisher was born in Crosspool on the 16th June 1906. He left school at 13 and went to work as a gardeners boy. Later he did farm work and then became foreman for a large landscaping and gardening business. He attended night school to improve his situation. Colin was also a very successful long distance runner, both locally and nationally, winning many prestigious awards. But he was a very modest man and kept many achievements to himself. He married Edna Thorpe on the 22nd June Colin Fisher and his wife Edna examining one of the trees blown over on Limb Lane in February 1927 and together they established their own 1962. landscaping and gardening business on Newfield Lane at the bungalow in 1936. They Near Beauchief as the daylight fades had five children. Fred the eldest was a One wanders thro' the leafy glades Body Snatching milkman in Dore for many years, before taking Of nearby woodlands dark and deep Silver Hill Dairy at Ecclesall, which did not Where small live things oft seem asleep. What does the phase body snatching' suit him at all. Eventually his wife Vera went conjure up in your mind? Some dark tale from back to nursing and Fred retired gracefully. Tall fir trees tower to the skies Edgar Alien Poe or a tale by R L Stevenson? A Colin's second son, Donald, is the local Proud Beeches gaze with sombre eyes grim portrayal by Boris Karloff? Well actually builder on High Street Dore. His daughter Jean Whilst hollies, churches of the wood there was a time when dead bodies were a went in to nursing, married a doctor and lived Hold service, rustling, life is good. valuable commodity and many a corpse was Canada. dragged from it's recent grave, to the distress One of Colin's interests was writing poetry But now upon these woodland walks of the deceased's relatives. Henry the VIII, in and he penned the following poem after the Stark terror, desolation stacks. 1540, followed the example of James the IV of Sheffield Gale. This grand-daughter in The wind, a demon enters here Scotland, in 1506, in making legal provision Canada, Deborah Stansfield Ricketts collected Small beings tremble, stiff with fear. for the bodies of executed criminals to be some of his poems and had them printed in a dissected by the crude, unskilled barber book, aptly called Reflections'. For a man The trees awake, their arms they brace surgeons of the time. This was intended as an who left school at 13, I think it must be agreed Withstand the tempests mighty race additional punishment and also an aid to the the poetry shows a flair. They shudder, strain before the blast study of medicine and human anatomy. Such Colin died on April 16th 1977 and Edna How long, how long! This cannot last. dissections were usually carried out in public later moved from Newfield Lane to Dore after execution and were regarded as a Road, where she lived until her death. Till one at last admits defeat shocking and degrading treatment to the jean Dean. Then more, and more until they meet human body. The corpse of a relative or friend "Worrying is creating images of what you Like soldiers heroes of the fray in popular culture was something to be treated don't want to happen. So why do it?" Have fallen, lifeless still they lay. with respect and to be dissected was regarded with horror and shame. As part of the The wind has gone, the night is o'er. draconian penal code of the eighteenth century Brearton & Co The monarchs they will rise no more an Act of 1752 allowed for murderers to either The small things mourners all have cried be gibbeted or their bodies be dissected after Taxation Consultants "Tis finished now, the trees have died. execution. Anatomical studies in this country began with the growth of private schools of A aspects of Personal Colin Fisher anatomy set up as a result of the influence of 11 the Hunter brothers, William and John, in the and Business Taxation eighteenth century. The Hunter's teaching of Road re-numbering anatomy by observations during dissection, put the subject on a proper footing. However Self Assessment Returns Derbyshire County Council are proposing to because the only legal source of bodies were redesignate the B6054 from Stoney Ridge to the prisons and legislation had given the Capital Gains & Inheritance Calver as the A625, in order to regularise the monopoly on these to the Royal College of main route since Mam Tor closed. The Surgeons, the demand from the private schools Tax following points have been raised by Calver soon outstripped supply. As a result bodies Parish Council: were being dissected and sold from at least the For Professional Help from Experts 1) The narrow width (2 lorries can't pass in mid 1700's. At High Bradfield to the north of some places) Sheffield there is a watch house, erected in Write or callfor free quotation 2) The route includes a narrow bridge with a 1745, to deter body snatchers from raiding this 90 degree turn. large and isolated churchyard. The first half of 18 Rushley Road, 5htffield 517 3E] 3) The edges and walls of the bridge have the nineteenth century saw the activities of the already been damaged due to traffic resurrectionist's as the professional body Telephone (0114) 236 0211 The RMC proposal at present being snatchers were the activities of Burke and considered, to increase quarrying at Longstone Hare causing national concern. In Sheffield it Edge, could mean an additional lorry every is the reputation of the Overend family and Dan Brearton ATII four minutes on the Froggatt to Sheffield road, their supposed involvement in this grisly trade Chartered Institute of Taxation according to CPRE, who are campaigning that provides interest. More about this in a strongly against further quarrying. future issue. Gillian Farnsworth Ron Clayton 6 Then we got the Land Rover and trailer to take over the fence into the wood. When I yelled at Farming notes it back home. Just as we were reversing up to the man to control his dog he said he couldn't it a little man in a peaked cap came dashing up stop it because it was deaf. He had to make I suppose it's a sign of age, but I often and said we had to stay on the path. "We don't hand signals at it. It's just tough luck if it's wonder if it's just me or is it everyone else allow members of the public on the grass" he looking the wrong way. Besides that a dog that's crackers. said. going mad chasing sheep all over a field In a week that's seen the escape of two pigs It's a major problem with not having all the doesn't take much notice of someone waving from an abattoir in Wiltshire make headline fields in a ring fence. In the old days we used at it 300 yards away. news, not just here but around the world, what to drive the cattle along the road to where they After that it was three days before we got all I'd like to know is how do you get this trivial were going, but now the traffic is so bad we the sheep back, they'd split into several groups stuff to become so important? Every farmer just can't do that anymore. Drivers see cattle and got lost in the woods. And then 20 of them has stock escape on occasions and it never on the side of a road and don't even slow wouldn't settle back in the field. Having been attracts any attention apart from the person down. They don't seemto realise an animal can driven out they'd learnt how to jump the fence who wakes up in the morning and finds his suddenly jump sideways six feet when they're and wouldn't stay in. They've had to be moved garden's disappeared. right up alongside it. elsewhere. We've had pigs escape. On one occasion A large boar once managed to get the back A huge amount of time and effort and all two got into the garden of what's now Kings doors open on an old Trojan van coming along because someone can't control his dog. Croft on Dore Road. The nit wit who lived Ecclesall Rd at Parkhead. It jumped out almost Richard Farnsworth there said he hadn't a clue where they could on top of a policeman riding along behind on have come from, so he rang the Town Hall. alittle Vellocette motorbike. The van doors They put him onto the diseases of animals swung shut again and we never noticed we'd Dore Pre-School people in Barnsley who sent somebody all the lost it. way down in a landrover to investigate. What a We got to Whirlow before the PC caught us As many of you are aware, Dore Pre-School pity they didn't ring the Daily Mail. They up and said there was this big pig digging up has met in the Church Hall Townhead Road might have paid us £15,000. the grass verge half a mile back. for over twenty-five years. Many changes have In the past we've had young stock escape in We've had pigs get out through the canvas taken place in that time, but the last year has Ecclesall Woods when we've been driving sides of a landrover going down Froggat edge, been the most significant. them to the Moss for their Summer pasture. and also had a sow get in the front seat of a Nursery Education across the country is Once they ended up in Endcliffe Park after mini van. We had to stop for a rest when it got facing a period of tremendous change. A travelling via Bents Green, Whiteley Woods it's front leg through the steering wheel Nursery grant is now available for every four and Hangingwater. We got them corralled in spokes. It kept switching the wipers on and off year old and many Infant Schools, as a the gents toilets. as well. consequence, have decided to take the Another time half a dozen got into the People have rung up wanting to know if children into school earlier. As a direct result garden at Whinfell House. Never to be there are deer in the woods, (some Guernsey of this policy, Dore Pre-School is one of the forgotten was the sight of Lady Neal leaning heifers had got out) and another time if there hundreds across the country that have been out of a bedroom window wearing a white were wolves in the woods (sheep). forced to close in December 1997. tasselled mop cap and yelling "Mind me The main cause of livestock getting out is if Joan Cordran and members of staff would dahlias". it's been disturbed in some way, usually by an like to thank the parents, children and the Then there was the time when one got into uncontrolled dog. Only last week a dog got in community for their support and co-operation Whirlow Gardens. After chasing it all over the amongst the sheep at the moss and chased over the years. place we finally lassoed it and tied it to a tree. them all over the place. Forty of them jumped

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7 sensational stories, but one that had a Yorkshire of one hundred years ago, is an With matrimony in mind sensational beginning had a happy, if bizarre armchair book, designed to be dipped into and ending. When Joseph Hunt, once rector of enjoyed over time. As its title suggests, it takes Long ago when dutiful daughters were Eyam church, made mock wedding vows to a us back to the turn of this century, using early ex pected to allow their fathers to select a young lady in her father's inn, his Bishop photographs and quotations from the period to suitable husband for them, the choice was not ordered the marriage to be performed legally. recapture the spirit of the time. always appreciated. Elopement was The couple had to spend the whole of their The photographs illustrate the past in a way occasionally resorted to, but sadder married life in the church vestry to avoid the text never can, from rich landowners to poor consequences survive amongst Peak District consequences of a breach of promise by the fishermen, from countryside to early industry. tales. rector's ex-fiancee. There is even a picture of Victorian artists One distraught maiden jumped from the But a record of seventy-six years of married drawing Beauchief Abbey. Pictures are drawn roof of Winster Hall in the arms of her lover, life exists to challenge all those Peak District from every area of the county, and a lot of the family coachman, and their spirits are said couples about to be wed; this was an work has gone into collecting the snippets of to haunt the building where they had not dared achievement by Adam and Grace Woolley in text and quotations. From these we learn a to be seen together in life. But when Hannah the seventeenth century and is recorded in a certain innocence of the times combined with Baddely threw herself from a cliff in memorial in the church of St. Giles, Matlock. some worldly reality. A world all too soon to Middleton Dale she survived, all except for the Iulie Bunting end with the First World War, and the book broken heart which led to the exploit. Hannah appropriately ends on a military note. had met the wrong man too, for he jilted her. Yorkshire a hundred years ago was written Two other forsaken girls are also by ex television producer David Gerrard and is remembered in local legends; in the 1300's a Book reviews published in hardback by Sutton Publishing, co-heiress of Highlow Hall became price £18.99. responsible for the first recorded haunting of Those of you who have read his earlier this, her home, upon taking her life when her books will know what to expect in Howard With spring just around the corner, it is time lover married a younger daughter of the Hall. Smiths new book Turnpike Trail - Gleadless to get out those walking shoes, flex your Not far away, the ghost of Margaret Vernon to Calver & Sheffield to Baslow. Carefully muscles and start thinking seriously about has often been seen riding wildly home to researched and amply illustrated with maps getting out into the countryside. Picking up Hazlebladge Hall, retracing a journey from and drawings, the book sets the background to and reading Walking the Peak District Dales Hope church where she had watched her the evolution of turnpikes and then looks in may be just the motivator you need. Written by sweetheart marry another. Poor Margaret lost detail at the Greenhill Moor Trust (later Owler Chris Holmes and published by Sigma her senses' and pined to death. Bar Trust) Turnpike routes spanning an area Leisure, the book follows the time honoured Few stories tell of young men who died from Greenhill itself, through Bradway and formula of picking a walk in the White Peak, from unrequited love, but by all accounts the Holmesfield to Calver. To make it easy to illustrating it with a map and adding some tables were turned sufficiently often for an follow the route is broken down into separate local history or points of interest. ancient custom to survive in Eyam until the trails with historical notes woven in. The author carries this off competently, and end of the last century. Thus we learn that between 1781 and 1880 a although the walks are not necessarily new, the The morning after the wedding of his Tollgate stood on what is now Bradway Road book is easy to read and contained some tales former sweetheart, any young man was likely at the top of Twentywell Lane, while the area new to me. Priced £6.95 it is available from to find a strange token suspended - generally at the top of Prospect Road was called Tinker most bookshops, or by mail order (+£2 p&p) on a convenient tree - outside his home. A be- Corner, after a Mr Tinker who lived at the from Sigma Leisure, I South Oak Lane, ribboned oval garland of evergreens and corner building known as Bradway Grange, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 6AR. flowers, especially dragon lilies, was offset by and owned Totley Chemical Works. It is the bitter addition of an onion and a bottle of perhaps those maps showing how the area The Sorby Natural History Society is well urine! Its symbolism is not too obscure to looked in the late 18th century which make known for its work and publications, and it guess at. one stop and think about how much things will come as no surprise to serious naturalists Long ago, a happier custom was undertaken have changed. that these two books are thoroughly competent by the young men of Baslow who had to prove This then is an excellent book, full of detail, works. The Natural History of the Sheffield their readiness for the rigours of married life which will make one want to explore for Area manages in its 250 paper back pages to by scaling the large Eagle Stone on Baslow oneself and represents good value. It is cover every aspect of the subject from the Edge. available from Greens shop on Causeway geology that determines the Sheffield Naturally they had already put in lots of Head Road, or most local bookshops, landscape and soils to the host of insect life. practice, learning every foothold and the including Best Wishes at the top of Tips on observation, descriptions, easiest ascent. Twentywell Lane. distributions, and illustrations abound. Most successful marriages do not make Although not a new work it still stands the test of time and is a bargain at £4 + postage. For anyone seriously interested in wild plants A Flora of the Sheffield Area is an essential guide to records past and present, ~ complete with location maps. Price £6 + postage. Both these books are available from the d~ The Sheffield society's Hon Treasurer on 2364 269. eELpi'SALEROOM Update Further to the article about Ash House in the Established 1840 last edition, I am informed by Mr Sid REGULAR AUCTION SALES OF FURNITURE, FINE ARTS, Hoffman, that all parishes had a workhouse and that the one for this area was probably ANTIQUES AND GENERAL HOUSE CLEARANCES. situated on Ash House Lane, known then as VALUATlONS FOR PROBATE AND INSURANCE PURPOSES Intake Road. (Thanks also to Mr Thompson for pointing this fact out to me in the booklet For further details information and assistance Old Day's in Dore'). This publication also Phone our Dore Office in the first instance on states that when Ash House was put up for sale 236 2420 in July 1932, the lane was referred to as Websters Lane on the Sale Plan. A Division of Eodon Lockwood and Riddle lean Dean. 8 A Quarry Too Far

RMC plans to excavate a super-quarry in Longstone Edge, in the Peak National Park. If you have driven recently from Calver crossroads to Hassop on the way to Bakewell, you may have seen a small quarry on the right. Last year the aggregates and ready-mixed concrete company RMC revealed plans to make this working into the nucleus of a super- quarry, which will eventually stretch as much as mile to the west. If this happens, the eastern part of Longstone Edge will be devastated, destroying a lovely stretch of countryside which is cri ss-crossed by paths and much loved by all who know it. It will also scar the view from miles around, and generate lots of lorry traffic. How has the proposal come about? In 1996 RMC bought up a failed mining company so acquiring the lease to mineral rights approved in 1952. The permission is to Longstone Edge, with the cut out area showing the proposed extent of quarrying. win and work fluorspar and barytes and to work lead and any other minerals won in the aims to: course of working those minerals'. This gives * demonstrate public feeling. Craft Demonstrations them the right to mine for fluorspar and what * bring into the decision-making process the are called vein minerals'. Longstone Edge is crucial argument that this development falls Following the cancellation of last years the main source of fluorspar in the UK. foul of the principles governing what is Totley Show due to the untimely death of However under the 1995 Environment Act, permitted in a National Park. It is Diana Princess of Wales, Totley Residents such old permissions must be reviewed by the fundamentally wrong on this count. Official Association have decided to run a spring event Minerals Planning Authority - in this case is figures show that enough limestone is featuring Craft Demonstrations. This will take the Peak District National Park Authority. This available from other existing permitted place on Saturday 28th March, from 2 to revealed that RMC intend to interpret the any sources. 4.30pm, at the Totley Rise Methodist Church. other minerals' in the permission as including * bring public pressure to bear on RMC to There will also be three appropriately the host rock limestone, and on the strengths shoulder its responsibilities to the seasonal competitions, for which entries will of this to turn the small opencast mine into a environment. be accepted between 12 and 12.30pm. The vast new quarry. * work to getting a favourable decision from competitions are: Decorating an egg (age up to What happens now? the appeals process. 7 yrs): Making an Easter Card (age 7 to 12); The National Park Authority believe that the Other effects of the quarry and an Easter Hat - The whackiest, prettiest RMC proposals do not fall within the terms of In addition to damaging the scenery and (any age). the original permission. Consequently they are cutting footpaths the quarry will be noisy and For more information, or to offer a now about to take enforcement action to dusty. demonstration or exhibit, ring Delya on 235 prevent RMC from extracting excess There will also be a big increase in lorry 1515 or Pauline on 236 1601 . limestone from their working. RMC are traffic along the roads into Sheffield, which expected to appeal and the hearing of this will probably take half the output from the appeal will test the interpretation of the 1952 quarry. Quarrying a million tonnes a year will News in brief permission. If RMC win they will have carte- mean an extra lorry every four minutes during blanche to pursue their plans, but if they fail working hours to or from Sheffield, shared Sheffield has the worst average rush-hour they will have to stop quarrying. between the Ecclesall and Abbeydale Roads, speed outside London, a measly 17mph for the The Save Longstone Edge' Group is giving the idea of a railhead at Grindleford having daily grind to work. Marks & Spencer are the National Park Authority full support in been discounted by RMC. planning a trial in Sheffield of a scheme aimed curbing RMC, but it is also taking other action If you would like to add your support to the at chargecard holders. These will be circulated designed to strengthen the resistance. Since its campaign to save Longstone Edge, please details of public transport timetables, and formation in September 1997, over 500 write to: Save Longstone Edge', PO Box 12, refunded fares within certain limits, when households have joined the group, mostly from Calver, Hope Valley S32 3DY asking for our people spend more than £10 in one of their the parishes surrounding Longstone Edge, but colour leaflet with joining details. stores. increasingly from further afield. The Group ]ulian Tippett, Secretary

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palmate newt, especially if you live in heath or Clandestine Newts hill districts. The male differs from the male common newt in having a less conspicuous Newts are delicate, pretty creatures that lead crest and webbed hind feet. The tail looks as if obscure, retiring lives, so discovering a newt is it has been clipped at the tip, leaving a short more exciting than finding one of its gross, black filament trailing. clumsy fellow amphibians, the frogs and toads. By all accounts, it seems that newts have These herald their appearance in the pond in survived better than frogs and toads in my spring with a loud chorus of dismal croaks. neighbourhood. The farm ponds that once Newts, however, are only noticed when you supported large breeding populations have are looking into the pond and one happens to largely disappeared or are heavily swim out from a tangle of water plants. contaminated. But amphibians have also had a As with other amphibians, the newts' year hard time in the landward side of their lives, starts as they emerge from their winter hiding where intensive agriculture has robbed them of places and gather in ponds to breed. Their the small animals that they eat. There is no courtship displays more finesse than the rather doubt that the boom in garden ponds unlovely clasping and struggling of frogs and twining together in a ball. throughout suburbia has been the salvation of toads. The male newt carries out a ritual to The newts in my garden are common or amphibians. court and win a mate, for which he develops a smooth newts and they now form a health Robert Burton gaudy courtship dress. His new colours are colony which has grown from half a dozen Reproduced with the kind permission of the more intense, the toes of his hind feet develop individuals I introduced some years ago. author and the RHS magazine 'The Garden '. fringes, and a crest forms along the back and My neighbour also boasts a population of on the upper and lower sides of the long tail. the larger, much rarer great-crested or warty Thus arrayed, the male newt swims to a newt. The six-inch male is a prize find in his Correction female, sniffs her flanks and takes up position, breeding colours, and high, deeply notched floating in front of her and blocking her path crest that gives him the look of a gentle In our Autumn 97 issue we carried a brief broadside. He gently waves his to show off his dragon. I cannot introduce this species because item on Derbyshire Fonts based on an extract colours and crest. She may try to push past but it is protected by law, and catching warty from the Peakland Abecedary, written by Julie will eventually acquiesce to the next part of newts is now illegal under the Wildlife and Bunting. The book is published by Footprint the ritual. countryside Act. Press, price £7.50, and whose correct address The male alternately flicks his tail, sending Incidentally, you may be lucky enough to is, The Happy Walking Shop, Unit 4, Lathkill a burst of water that knocks her backwards, come across the third British species, the Dale Craft Centre, Over Haddon, Bakewell. and then bends it double and fans it rapidly. The flow of water carries secretions from the glands on the male's body which stimulate the female's nose. She shows her acceptance of Extensive Local Now you can browse him by moving slowly forwards, and the male and National our properties on the retreats in front of her while continuing to fan his tail. If you have newts in your garden Mailing List internet on: pond, watch for the fanning display which is a common sight during the spring months. www.propertyfinder.co.uklelr/ Once mating is over, egg-laying takes place among the weeds. Again there is a contrast with the frogs' and toads' masses of spawn. The female newt lays each egg singly. Look for a newt slowly picking its way through the underwater foliage. She will choose a leaf - Canadian pondweed is eminently suitable - grasp it with her hind feet and lay a jelly- covered egg on it. Then the leaf is deftly folded over and stuck down with the jelly. Eventually, the egg hatches into a tiny, delicate tadpole, with external gills but no limbs, just ONE LOCAL CALL like the early stages of the familiar frog TO SELL YOUR HOUSE tadpole. Adult newts stay in the pond long after the 2362420 frogs and toads have left. They enter the water in late March or early April and do not leave until July or later, which makes newts a much more satisfactory addition to the wildlife of the Ask for pond, although they can be a nuisance by ALISTAIR eating tadpoles of frogs and even of their own species. HUMPHREY, In time the newts slip away from the pond FRICS as unobtrusively as they arrived, and they are lost to sight. Occasionally one is turned up Our through gardening activities, curled up under a Locally Residential stone or log, or hiding in leaf litter. The terrestrial part of the newts' life is something Partner of a mystery. Their diminutive size and creeping habit make them less conspicuous than a hopping frog or toad. Moreover they come out only at night to Further Branches in - search for food. The diet consists of insects, worms and small snails which they will BAKEWELL, HATHERSAGE, swallow whole. When the weather turns colder, they retire to hibernate in a nook or BROOMHILL and CENTRAL SHEFFIELD cranny, sometimes a number gathering and

10 Cheese Pub at Castleton had put in a new Into the Hope Valley dining room for no less than 150 people. Children's gardening pack At the Sheffield end, the Midland Dining Looking back at some historic transport and Rooms on Howard Street offered dinners from Do you remember the thrill, excitement and tourist services in the Hope Valley, as 6 pence (2 1I2p), the expanding Sheffield Cafe anticipation of planting your very first seed described at the time. Company with 21 catering establishments and waiting anxiously for the first leaves to In the 1895 edition of Sheffield throughout central Sheffield built a large appear? Independent's Dore and Chinley Railway refreshment pavilion for 400 persons at The Royal Horticultural Society aims to gossiping guide to the (Peak) District', the Castleton featuring ladies and gentlemen's pass on this experience to a younger activity generated by the new railway line is lavatories!' generation through a new pack titled Worms, apparent. At Grindleford Station both G. The forward to this little book claimed 'The Wellies and Window Boxes. The pack contains Godber and William Kenyon operated carriage Dore and Chinley Country moreover affords a project book which includes activities such services which met the trains daily, claiming residential attractions to Sheffield and as creating a simple hanging basket and an that passengers may drive to Eyam, Middleton Manchester people who in these Derbyshire indoor water garden, two mini books on Dale, Chats worth or other places at a very Highlands can breathe the cleaner air when garden plants and puzzles, and two packets of moderate fare.' Cafes mushroomed on the their business houses are choked with fog and seeds. other side of the Tot ley Tunnel - Mrs the sky looks dense enough to be blasted with Aimed at age six to twelve, the pack Rowbotham's Refreshment Rooms at Edale dynamite. There can be little doubt but that in provides much botanical information offered every accommodation for schools, a few years hence this health inspiring district necessary for work at Key Stage Two of the picnic and pleasure parties, apartments and will be dotted with mansions and villas National Curriculum. Price £4.99 + £1 p&p. stabling.' designed by, let us hope, a Norman Shaw, in More details available from RHS Enterprises The Shearers Temperance Hotel at artistic sympathy with the superb scenic Tel (01483) 211320. The RHS web site is at Grindleford Bridge stated that Rechabite and surroundings, and not the architectural http://www.rhs.org.uk (no full stop). Temperance Societies will find good atrocities of Mr Buggins who builds for today accommodation at Widow Shearers, she would and charges for all time". be pleased to see them in small or large This piece, written by Edward Bradbury - News in brief parties, rallying round her and helping her famous for his travel books and guides, went through this world.' on to praise the railway "it will drive off the Dore Deli has been taken over by Chris Several hotels ad verti sed horses and road that satanic usurper of the highway, the Lomas and his wife Sue, not by a Chris Homes carriages let out for hire' whilst Matthew traction engine!" as reported in our last issue! Robinson at Hope (late carriage driver for 14 Of course Totley had reaped the benefits of A pioneering scheme in which visitors help years from Tideswell to Sheffield) begs a call the railway as described in my book on the fund footpath repairs has now arrived in the from his old friends from Sheffield at the Hall Totley Tunnel, and had been usurped by Peak District. Holiday makers staying in Hotel, seven minutes from Hope Station, traction engines well into this century, when accommodation booked through Peak Cottages where wagonettes and other conveyances meet Billy Gascoigne had transported ganister from will be asked to donate £ 1 per booking, all the trains to go forward to Castleton.' The the Strawberry Lee Mines to the Totley matched by SOp from the holiday firm, which mines there of course benefitted tremendously Brickyard. will go towards the cost of a National Trust from the increased tourism and the Cheshire Brian Edwards. footpath worker.

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AbbeydaJe Hall. There is an application from Greenalls Pubs and Restaurants to extend Abbeydale Hall, change the access, make 62 parking spaces and turn it into a pub. Our comments ( abbreviated) concern; I) Description of proposal. No mention of restaurant in proposal wording, but a dining floor area is shown on the plan. 2) Traffic. The suggestion is that traffic exits from the site on to the one way system at Abbeydale Sports Club and thence to the main road. Whilst this might be preferable to 2 exits in close proximity, the following need to be addressed - doubling of vehicle numbers; floodlights facing the proposed exit; and position of bus stops. 3) Entrance gateway and walls. Not Grade II Listed along with the Hall. Suggested widening would affect the right-hand section. We have questioned the necessity of this, as visibility was required "from the junction" and Three beech trees that fell spectacularly across Old Hay Brook no vehicles should be going in that direction. 4) Effect on neighbours. So far the site has family for 3 generations, this will be changing Storm trees. At least the lych gate tree been used between the hrs of 9am to 9pm for 5 ownership. Built in 1650 and largely unaltered, didn't crash through the Vicarage on Christmas days a week. We have suggested amended it would normally fall into the category of Eve, which nearly happened at Rushley opening and delivery times to reduce extra Listed Building. During January I have been in Cottage when the ivy covered tree crashed noise. We also pointed out that an evening correspondence with the Dept. of the down along the pavement. Other ones to fall course student might be expected to stay for Environment with a view to securing it. They were the 3 beeches near Totley Grove that fell the entire evening whereas a drinker would not are the channel to English Heritage (who spectacularly across Oldhay Brook (see necessarily, thus increasing the numbers of published their last Sheffield List in December photo). It may have been heavy rain causing cars coming and going. 1996) the flooded stream to overflow the footpath 5) Gardens. Concern that public access to 120/122 Causeway Head Road. A plan to which loosened the roots. They tore up the these gardens can continue after all the build a 5 bedroom house across these 2 back footpath which has now been resurfaced. voluntary work done in restoring these and the gardens would involve a driveway onto Also in Bushey Wood a field maple fell, ponds, and that the Friends of Abbeydale Parkers Lane. We have objected on the taking an old gatepost with it. Both of these Wildlife Gardens can continue to take groups grounds of unsuitability of site for the size of would be part of the old field system. round thus benefitting the community. dwelling, over dominance of adjacent Footpaths. 1) Newfield Crescent to the 6) Rights of Way. Long use by walkers from properties, and inconsistency of building line. Recreation ground. We have asked the Abbeydale Road South through the gardens up Tennis courts. Both internal and external Footpath Officers to resurface this badly to Ashfurlong Road. Proving this may be courts are to be added at Abbeydale Sports eroded path. Two manhole covers stand proud difficult. 20 walkers have to pledge that they Club. Because of their proximity to the Water to about 4ins making it impossible for prams have used it continuously for 20 years. Lane footpath, there is concern that the new and bicycles etc. It is also overgrown, 7) Trees. The weeping ash should be marked outdoor courts (where the cricket nets were) particularly in the bottom section. on the plan. did not show comparative elevations. 2) Savage Lane to Gilleyfield Avenue. The 8) Signage. Plea for discreet signage and Church Trees. Two trees need to be cut problem here is a little different. A change of lights. down soon. They are beech trees suffering surface from concrete to eroded tarmac Ed. The deadline for this magazine means from root decay fungus. One is to the left of coincides with a bad gradient, causing water to that we cannot comment on the public meeting ~:,~ lych gate and the other faces the Dore collect and forming an impassable "ford". As called by Richard Allen MP on 5 February Grill. Mature trees, they have been looking well as resurfacing, some drainage is needed concerning the above proposal. However we unhealthy for the last couple of years. As with here and a better incline. will have further details on this and other former felled churchyard trees, replacements Knowle Green. Although Yuill Ltd have planning issues at our Open Day and on the will be planted. We have to face the fact that chosen the name "Wyvern Vale" to market the new noticeboard. this wonderful circle were planted together and development we understand that this will not Nab Farm. Having been in the same will increasingly face old age together! be the name of the cuI de sac. The choice of name is made by the council, taking into account historic factors and local preferences. Some derivative of Knowle Green is therefore 1171;13i i13!llfJ •[,. tli\'J I.[{l(']•ti;i •,'11 most likely. It is always nice to know how others see us. Amongst the purple prose of the brochure Dore Paving Services praising the "tranquil" (my italics) village, is GROWING BY RECOMMENDATION the following "Its a short distance to the verdant City of Sheffield to the West" I?? 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12 time for our wild birds as their natural food The wildlife garden Deadline for Summer sources become exhausted. The daylight hours Diary Events are often spent in a frantic search for food and With the capricious nature of our weather, many birds try to maximise this time by we can never be certain if we are going to have Thursday modifying their behaviour. Blue, great and an early spring, snow in Mayor even both, but 30 April 1998 coal tits fly in large mixed flocks and one thing is certain, as temperatures slowly Ring 236 9025 or write to the Editor aggressive birds like blackbirds become more rise, both plants and animals will respond to tolerant of their neighbours. We can obviously this change. Flowers blossom, leaves unfurl help wild birds by supplying a wide variety of and animals finish their winter hibernation foods but does it make any difference as to having avoided the worst of the winter temperatures which coincides with the tree where we position the feeders? Surprisingly it weather. canopy being at it's most diffuse. This not only does. If a nut-holder is positioned away from So why then do we have plants such as helps the plant maximise the amount of light the house and close to cover then not only will jasmines and viburnums which clearly are available for growth but may well help early a greater variety of birds be attracted, but the insect-pollinated plants, flowering during the insects locate their brightly coloured flowers. numbers of birds using it will also increase. winter - a time when the only insects in the In the wildlife garden such plants are a vital This will also help birds hide from predators garden are a few winter gnats swarming in lifeline to early emerging bees and other like sparrow-hawks. You may find for shafts of sunlight? The answer lies in the insects, providing them with much needed instance, that because robins are highly weather these plants would experience in their nectar and pollen. Of these the most important, territorial you may have a pair using only the native habitat during the winter months. or at least the most showy of our spring plants front garden and a different pair restricted to Flower buds on these plants are formed in the are the willows, especially the goat willow' or the back, so a number of feeding stations may late autumn but any further development is sallow' (Salix caprea). The insect pollinated be called for. suppressed by heavy falls of snow which flowers of these plants, the yellow catkins or It was once traditional for housewives to insulates them until the spring thaw takes palm' of the male plants and the silvery female clean their houses thoroughly on March 1st. place. Once the plants are exposed to a rise in catkins or pussy willow' have long been seen Windows were closed and every nook and temperature, the flowers rapidly complete their as the harbingers of spring. In Roman times cranny was scrupulously cleaned. This was not development and blossom, and so take they were used in the festival of Floralia', the as you might imagine to remove the advantage of the first emerging insects. In the goddess of flowering and blossoming plants, accumulated dirt, but to rid the property of UK, we do not usually have such a persistent whilst they are still used as a substitute for fleas for the coming year. snow cover, so these plants often blossom as palm fronds throughout northern Europe in Similarly it is a good time to clean out the soon as the flowers are formed and carry on Palm Sunday celebrations. old nest material from bird boxes before the doing so throughout the winter, providing Not only are pollinating insects attracted to birds start looking for potential nest sites - and cheer in our gardens throughout these long, the catkins but also insect eating birds such as in doing so you will do the birds a favour by gloomy days. blue tits. Like many of our native tree species, removing any overwintering fleas. Many of our native woodland plants also willows support a large variety of insects (up Dyed in winter's snow and rime flower very early in the year so why have to 250species) which make up a large Constant to their early time' snowdrops, celandines and wood anemones proportion of the food available for these birds (John Clare, when describing wood adopted such a strategy? Clearly, the timing of later in the year. anemones) their flowering is triggered by increasing The short days of winter can be a trying Iack Daw

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20 Abbey Lane Dell (opposite Beauchief Hotel) Beauchief, Sheffield, S8 OBZ

For a brochure or informal visit please contact Mrs Alison Richmond, Nursing Home Manager Telephone ;.01142350472

Part of the Endeavour Care Group

13 the screen, chairs and pulpit, is in ash, which frame, so that it gradually sank to a new level. Methodist Church Building adds to the sense of lightness and space. Once the top of the intended lining had sunk to While all this work has been done to the ground level the process was repeated, Much comment has been made about the church, the hall behind has not been neglected, gradually creating a well shaft. work being done to the Methodist Church on with minor alterations made to ease wheelchair The dry summer months were best for the High Street. Dore people will have their access, along with complete redecoration. creating a new well. Digging could take first opportunity to see the results of this The reopening in March is the culmination weeks, with each bucket of spoil being careful £100,000 rebuilding scheme when the church of more than two years prayer and planning by lifted out using a simple pulley system. reopens on Saturday March 21 st. After a the congregation. Preliminary meetings of the Eventually the water table would be reached, celebration service all the residents of Dore church members identified the shortcoming of leaving whoever was at the bottom of the shaft Village are invited to call in after 3.30pm and the existing church and sketch plans showed working in water for as long as they could. see for themsel ves. The celebrations will how those improvements could be made in Finally the shaft was mortared if necessary and continue on Sunday 22nd March with services practice. The planning authorities had to be the job completed. at 10.30am and 6.30pm, led by Rev. John consulted, including English Heritage, as well There must have been several wells in Dore, Thompson, Dore's Methodist Minister. as the appropriate national bodies responsible and indeed old maps show a well in the middle One aim of the work has been to make the for Methodist Church buildings. The of the village green, although no trace remains church more accessible and welcoming - congregation also had to be sure that they today. In order to complete our records we passers by will have already noticed the new could afford to pay the bill! Although some would like to know of any other well sites in wide entrance from the street, with a slope up money was in reserves, and grants were Dore, whether still accessible or capped. If you to front doors to make life easier for available, the larger part of the cost is being have one in your garden or know of one wheelchair and pushchair users. The sense of met by church members, mostly through direct elsewhere, please contact any member of the openness continues through the new sets of gi ving but augmented by a series of very DVS committee - you will find details of their glass doors into a wide carpeted entrance hall - enjoyable fund-raising events which will be names and telephone numbers at the front of considerably larger than the narrow corridor it continuing through the year. this issue. replaces. A small balcony has been created The Methodist family in Dore is looking to above the entrance hall which as well the twenty-first century with confidence that in affording extra seating for the congregation, these modern, comfortable and welcoming Dore Art Group now accommodates the organ which used to be premises, it can continue, along with their at the front of the church. A disabled toilet friends at the parish church, to contribute to Dore Art Group was started many years ago facility has been installed in the corner under the spiritual well-being of our community, by a group of six dedicated amateur artists the stairs. offering a warm welcome to visitors and who had been painting in each others homes Most people will have noticed the new apse newcomers alike. but felt that a tutor and a permanent venue which has been built on to the south wall of John Thompson would be better. the church (towards the village green). On the' Members of the Parish Church and So Dore Art Group was formed with Mr 21st March, visitors will be able to admire for Methodist Church will be joining forces again Norman Bevan as tutor. Immediately there the first time the new stained glass windows during lent this year for a series of weekly were enough people interested to run a class installed into its seven openings. These have meetings starting on Ash Wednesday, February on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The Art Group been designed and produced by Ros Jones in 25th. The meetings, which start at 8pm, will be has continued to flourish in this format to the her studio at Eyam - it will be worth calling in following a course devised by Nicky Gumbel at present day. The Group has always held an just to see the window. All the people who use Holy Trinity Church, Brompton - the author of exhibition in the Spring, showing the the church hall throughout the week will the by now, well-known "Alpha Course". culmination of the two terms hard work. become familiar with the new windows thanks Everyone will be made welcome at these Thanks to the support of the local people the to the glazed screen between the church and sessions, to be held in the Parish Church. Exhibition goes from strength to strength. The the entrance hall. They will also notice the Further details are available from the Vicar, Group is very appreciative of this support and new, comfortable chairs which have replaced David Williams (2363335) or Methodist we hope that we will see everyone again this the pews, and the new, pitched ceilings. Even Minister, John Thompson (2363157) year The Exhibition will be held on Friday, the old lamp shades have gone, to be replaced 17th April, 2pm-8pm and Saturday 18th April by modern "uplighters" around the walls. The 9.30-Spm in the Old School, Dore. woodwork throughout the church, including Well I Never

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15 cast was a black spaniel that was a direct Church Hall Drama descendant of Tuppeney, who played Flash in the original London run. We have acquired for the Dore Collection, 5 As the War years took effect, productions minute books which belonged to Dore stopped and proceeds from social activities Dramatic Society, covering the years 1934- were channelled into the Red Cross working 1971. Programmes, photos and obituaries are party and Knitting Fund (comforts for local also included. men in the forces). As 1946 drew on, a This article covers some extracts from the questionnaire was sent asking patrons which years 1934-1946. of these categories they preferred, Comedies, The Society was formed in the December Thrillers, Straight Plays or Costume Plays. 1934, with an annual subscription of 1 shilling They had certainly done a play about the and a 1 penny payment at each meeting. 3 French Revolution "The Aristocrat" and 2 months later the sub. was raised to 5 shillings Passion plays. with no weekly payment. The charge for the Hall was now £2.5s Od The title was the Dore Church Dramatic which the Society regarded as excessive. It Society, with membership to be drawn from seems amazing that 9 years after the Church the Church. Another rule stated that funds Hall was opened the chair situation was still raised would go to charitable causes and to the not resolved and actors were expected to bring building, equipment and maintenance of the or buy chairs for their audience. "Extra chairs new Church Hall. In its first few years of to be bought by a loan of £25 each from 10 existence 25% of the hall's maintenance costs members". 100 Civil Defence chairs were came from D.C.D.S. Social events ranged THE CHURCH HAll, DOlE. regularly lent by the Police. from Novelty Parties with Recitations and PROGRAMME fRIDAY.SATURDAY.JAN21 •• 22.0 ,t8!"",.1C£ TWOI'IlIC' This was the result of full houses for a 3 "prizes for Spot Dance, Elimination Dance, night run. Statue Dance and Musical Chairs" to trips to choosing plays with a view 'to casting himself The Society also competed against other Stratford and Liverpool, and a Mystery Run in the best parts inevitably happened. Mr. Societies in the Festival League, gaining good with directions in rhyme. Mole also produced them! The 1937 minutes marks and experience. I'm still puzzling over In 1936 "A Midsummer Night's Dream" read "The Society considered that the choosing the judge's comments on a light comedy done was done in the grounds of Dore Moor House, and casting of plays was being carried out by in 1948, "The date 1937 should have been which merited a review in "Amateur Stage" himself" Mr. Mole promptly offered to resign, stated, despite the sausages". Were they that (Yorkshire Telegraph and Star). The 2nd AGM was persuaded back then managed to get on smelly? They had asked for use of the side was postponed because of a flu epidemic. the casting Committee of 3, from a Society of building now used as The Ark coffee room. In Music in those days might have a grandiose 47, one of whom was Mr. Aldrich (a those days it was a Gas Cleansing Chamber, title - Dore Variety Orchestra appears in the cooperative man !) not a very hospitable place. Nov. 1937 minutes, "but as their proficiency Anticipation about the new premises turned A crisis occurred in Nov 46 with a letter was at present in doubt the matter was left to consternation. Notes of the Stage from the vicar Rev.E G Thorpe who disliked over for further development". Later in 1939 subcommittee say "As shown on the plans the the last play "Quiet Wedding". He considered there was also reluctance .. "Mr. Bell's offer to stage is only suitable as a concert platform and it "salacious sordid and suggestive" and provide the orchestra for music at the plays that if possible: expressed the view that it condoned adultery. was discussed and it was decided to have the 1) a door be put at the back of the stage into He requested that the Society remove the matter in abeyance until the Chairman had the the corridor. "Church" from their title and all literature. He opportunity of hearing the orchestra". Had all 2) the fires containing a flue be removed. also gave a cast list of the previous production, the best trumpeters joined the Army bands? Of 3) there should be a trap in the ceiling (sic) and put remarks by every name - "Member of course there was a way out of this approx. 15 foot long and 2 foot wide. church", "Occasional attender" or "Non embarrassing dilemma "The music for 4) there should be a trap in the stage at the attender". dancing was kindly provided by Mr. Hartley back. So in January 1947 the title became Dore who lent us his radiogram" 5) the stage be carried 3 ft. forward. Dramatic Society with the rules and The common problem of one person 6) a proscenium arch be fitted. constitution suitably changed. By then there 7) the architect be asked to submit a design were 53 members, almost all comprising for a more suitable stage". married couples or children of members, and As only point 2) of these suggestions was three plays a year were produced in the carried out, we can only assume that plans February, May and November. were already too far committed for change. Gillian Farnsworth For all of us who have prayed for adequate wings and fallen headlong down the steep Edwina Black steps to the corridor, the thought of 2 trapdoors as well doesn't bear thinking about. The next production by the Dore & Totley Offeril1g choice and opportunitv [0 propl e H'irh disabilities A phonographic performance licence was United Reformed Church Dramatic Society bought for 10s 6d. and new lighting equipment sees a welcome return to costume drama. L£ONARD CHESHIRE SERVICES IN SHEFFIELD for £25. Edwina Black is set in 1895 and one could Books were hired from the Drama League. "Residential or Single rooms. Activities easily imagine a large Victorian house on Dore respite care such as computers, Notes from a 1937 programme say "It is Road being the setting for the psychological crafts. cookery. painting. hoped that the new hall, to be built on an melodrama that unfolds. Wealth, intrigue and Trips, shopping, theatre, adjoining site, will be completed by the scandal are woven into the plot, originally church, places of Autumn". entitled The Late Edwina Black and written by interest, ete On opening night December 1937, "The William Dinner and William Morum for a first "Day resources Aromatherapy. vicar in the course of his remarks expressed production at the Ambassador Theatre in physiotherapy. the opinion that the Stage preached the London in 1949. Time has not weakened in toning tables. greatest sermons" any way, the complexity or credibility of the aquatherapy, There was almost immediately a problem characters caught up in this web of deceit and reflexology, etc with seating. The "Barratts of Wimpole Street" you can be sure of a good night's was the next production and "It was decided to entertainment. Mick!ey Hall is a specialist hire a quantity of chairs for the play from The play will be in the Church Hall Totley unit for the young disabled Atkinsons as there were not sufficient in the Brook Road from 25th-28th March at 7.30pm. Mickley Lane, Totley, Sheffield S17 Hall". Cushions were to be brought by Tickets may be obtained from the Box Office Tel: (0114) 2369952 members to cover all the old chairs. The (2364440), Martin's Shop or members of the "Barretts" was another success. Amongst the Society. 16 Bill Alien - ELECTRICIAN J i {iY.~ J.I.B. APPROVED Builders and Plumbers HOUSE REWIRING SPECIALIST Central Heating, Domestic Plumbing FREE SAFETY CHECK AND QUOTATION Glazing, Double Glazing and Glass EXTRA PLUGS - LIGHTS - REP AIRS Home Maintenance uPVC and Wood Windows AUTOMATIC OUTSIDE LIGHTS 17 West View Close. 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19 25 Local Butterflies. Talk by Bill Smylie for FEW. Holy Trinity Diary - Spring 1998 Church Hall, 7.30pm. 25-28 Edwina Black. Costume drama, Dore & Totley Reformed FEBRUARY Church Dramatic Society, Church Hall at 7.30pm. Tickets from 236 4440. 16 Wortley Top Forge - History & Archaeology. Talk by Jeff 28 Craft Demonstrations. Totley Residents Assn, Totley Rise Morris for S.Y. Industrial History Society. Kelham Island Methodist Church, 2-4.30pm entry 20p (see article) Museum,7.30pm. 28 Concert. Dore Male Voice Choir, Ecclesall Parish Church for 17 Making a suburb. Talk by Mr J Salt for Tuesday Group, Friends of the Samaritans. 7pm. Tickets 281 6886 Methodist Church Hall, 7.45. Tel: 2620601 28 Mass in B minor Bach. Concert by Sheffield Bach Society, 18 Social meeting. Totley & Dore support group for the visually Sheffield Cathedral, 7.30pm Tickets from 266 8257. impaired. llam, 4 Grove Road. Tel 236 6894 31 Talk, by Rev J Thompson for Tuesday Group, Methodist 23 Councillors Surgery (C). Totley Library, 6pm-7pm Church Hall, 7.45. Tel: 2620601 24 Music Train with the Pat Walker Band from Sheffield 7.l8pm but collecting at Dore. Refreshments & more music at Edale APRIL then 9.25pm return journey. More details on (01663) 746377. 6 Slide box & AGM. Talk & slides by Andrew Shepherd for 28 Archaeological walk. Ecclesall Woods by Paul Ardron for Hallamshire Historic Building Society, Quaker Meeting FEW. lOam Abbey Lane sawmill. House, St James Street 7.30pm Everyone welcome 28 A Tapestry of English Music. Concert by Sheffield Bach 8 New Zealand Slide show by Mr D Hawkins, for Dore(E)T.G. Society, Sheffield Cathedral, 7.30pm Tickets from 266 8257. Old School 7.30pm. Visitors welcome 13 Councillors Surgery (LD). Totley Library, 6pm-7pm MARCH 17-18 Dore Art Exhibition. Old School. Fri 2pm-8pm, Sat 9.30am- 2 How some things work. Talk by Mr Prof Evans for 5pm. Hallamshire Historic Building Society, Quaker Meeting 20 Councillors Surgery (C). Totley Library, 6pm-7pm House, St James Street 7.30pm Everyone welcome 20 Cromford & High Peak Railway. Talk by Andy Pollock for 3 Spring Gardening. Talk by Mr S Jackson (Radio Sheffield), S. Y. Industrial History Society. Kelham Island Museum, open to men as well, for Tuesday Group, Methodist Church 7.30pm. Hall, 7.45. Tel: 2620601 21 Sponsored Knit in aid of church refurbishment fund. Tuesday 4 Spring Meeting, Dore Village Society. A talk on the National Group, Methodist Church Hall, 7.45. Tel: 2620601 Trust by Tony Davis, Old School Hall, 7.30pm. Admission 21-25 Princess Ida, by Dore Gilbert & Sullivan Society. University free - everyone welcome. Drama Studio, Glossop Road, 7.15pm. Tickets from Mrs 7 Open Morning. View the work of the Dore Village Society. Robinson on 236 6592. Old School, 9am to 1pm. Refreshments. Admission free. 22 Members evening. Meet the committee & OS Maps of 9 Councillors Surgery (LD). Totley Library, 6pm-7pm Ecclesall Woods. FEW. Holy Trinity Church Hall, 7.30pm. 14 Jumble Sale. K.E.S.A. Wessex Hall, King Ecgbert School, 24-25 Rags & Razzamatazz. Show by students of Jackie Collins llam to 12 noon admission £2; from 2pm 20p. For jumble School of Drama. St John Church Hall, 7.30pm Tel236 4367. collection tel: 236 2556. 28 Music Train with the Little Buffaloes from Sheffield 7.18pm 21 Methodist Church Building open to public from 3.30pm but collecting at Dore. See 24 Feb above. 23 Councillors Surgery (C). Totley Library, 6pm-7pm 24 Music Train with Deepcar Folk from Sheffield 7.18pm but MAY collecting at Dore. See 24 Feb above. 1-2 Spring Concert. John Wade Singers. St John's Church Abbeydale, 7.30pm. See article. Tickets 236 0820 5 Visit to Eyam. Tuesday Group, Methodist Church Hall, 7.45. Tel: 2620601 9 Car Boot Sale. K.E.S.A. Mercia site, King Ecgbert School, IOam to Ipm. To book space tel: 2362556. 9-25 Sheffield Environment Weeks. See programme to be AF?~ftpl>:~f: published nearer the date. II Councillors Surgery (LD). Totley Library, 6.00-7.00 13 Amateur Theatricals Talk by Mr R Brown, for Dore(E)T.G. YOU ARE WELCOME Old School 7.30pm. Visitors welcome TO JOIN US! 16 Concert. Dore Male Voice Choir, High Green Methodist Church, for High Green Primary School. 7pm. Tickets 281 6886 As social members you and yours 18 The Five Weirs Walk The story so far by Simon Ogden for can enjoy all our Pavilion offers S. Y. Industrial History Society. Kelham Island Museum, 7.30pm. ON YOUR DOORSTEP 26 Music Train with the South Riding Folk Network from Sheffield 7.18pm but collecting at Dore. See 24 Feb above. * TWO WEEKDAY LUNCHES £5 * EARLY EVENING BAR MEALS * FULL SIZE SNOOKER TABLE Did you know? * SPACE FOR THE KIDS we also book: * BIG SCREEN TV * CLUB FUNCTIONS • Taylor Made Cruises • Camping * FUNCTION SUITE • Ski Holidays • Car Hire • City Breaks • Day Trips • Coach Holidays • British Rail ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP • Ferries • National Express • Flights Only ONLY £35 • Jersey from Sheffield • Holiday Centres Airport + £15 for partners. 32 Causeway Head Road, Dore, Sheffield S17 4QH RING 236 7011 TODAY FOR DETAILS Telephone: 0114 235 1911

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