Sedbergh & District
March 2011 Issue 286 Donation £1 Twenty Six years ago, the seed was inviting everyone to a Party but this sown to have our very own would be impossible so we are Newsletter. The first one consisting of having a small gathering on 12th 4 pages appeared in march 1986 March for Invited Guests only. If you which makes us 25 years old this have not been asked, please don’t month. take it personally, there just isn’t the We would like to Celebrate by room. Dennis & Jacky Whicker
ROSE COMMUNITY THEATRE PRESENTS TROUBLE AT FARFLUNG MILL Tickets available from Sedbergh A MUSICAL COMEDY Tourist Information Centre Adults £5 Children £2.50 Performances at The People’s Hall Family Tickets & Thursday 24th March @ 7:30 Concessions on request Friday 25th March @ 7:30 Saturday 26th March Matinee @ 2:30 eve @ 7:30 Photography kindby permission of Peter of Stockdale Peter @Mill Farfield
CLOSING DATES: ALL ADVERTS 15th; ALL ARTICLES 19th S & D Lookaround 13 Kings Yard, Sedbergh LA10 5BJ Telephone 015396 20788 e mail: [email protected] ~ Web Site: http://www.sedberghlookaround.org.uk Ubcmf!pg!Dpoufout! Advertising Rates 81 History Society Gunpowder Mills 52 Bed & Breakfast 80 History Society Jewish Orphans 22 Bus Time Table Howgills Tea Room 29 Cartoon 78 John Kendall, An Ode 30 Crossword 79 Kendal Ecumenical Group 30 Groups Kendal United 41 Ladies NFU 45 Religious Services 81 Lasting Power of Attorney 68 Sudoku 78 Love the Lune 36 Appleby Fair 49 Main Street 72 66 Art Society 43 May Concert 45 Blood Donor Sessions 40 McMillan Support Group 42 Bookworm 25 News from the Pews 64 Brassed Up 24 Parish Council Sedbergh 8 Breaks for Carers 20 Parish Council Dent 10 Brigflatts Quaker Meeting 77 Pastures New in Italy 37 Christian Aid 47 People's Hall 58 Churches Together 74 Potholes 34 Clutterbooks & Clobber 46 Raymor Morrison Tin 78 Community Officer 77 Royal Weddings Celebrations 75 Councillor Kevin 17 Sight Advice South Lakeland 39 Councillors Ian & Peter 14 Slovenian Student 46 Cowgill Kneelers 48 Snow Clearance & Gritting 72 Cumbria Wildlife Trust 54 South Lakeland Carers 26 Springtime Cafe Concert 62 Dent Bells 33 St George's Day 28 Dent Flower Festival 40 Tim Farron MP 60 Dent Indoor Bowling 74 Town Band 50 Dent Over 60's 56 Township Initiative 70 Dentdale Christian Fellowship 71 Wanderers Football Club 35 Dentdale Cricket Club 74 Weather 32 Dentdale Memorial Hall 41 Which God? 76 Dentdale Run 71 WI Dentdale 31 Family Musings 27 WI Howgill 44 Farflung Mill 75 WI Sedbergh 38 Gala Group 72 Women's World Day of Prayer 73 Gardening 73 YDNP Cuts 42 Page 2 Ubcmf!pg!Bewfsut! Able Memorials 23 Josephine Lade 22 Allen Begg 47 Julie Noble 47 Andrew Allan 73 June Parker 52 Austin Brown 37 Kay Whittle 57 Brian Goad 59 KDM Building Contractors 29 Bull Hotel 58 Kevin Bateman 59 Capstick 61 Killington Marquee Vacancy 48 CDC 63 Lauren Gilder 54 Chair 60 Malcolm Sedgwick 35 Cross Keys 10 Mel Cragg 24 Chris Whelan Odd 69 Middleton Head 19 Chris Whelan Zak 9 Middleton Landscapes 45 Cleaning Needs 78 MK Conversions 44 Cobble Country 34 Nicky Ross 60 Cumbria Stoves 62 Oliver Higginbotham 62 Dales Pets 21 Oliver Higginbotham Logs 26 Daphne Jackson 65 Paul Hoggarth 65 David Morgan Driving 27 Paul Winn 49 Dawson’s Coal Yard 11 People's Hall 41 Dentdale Choir Wanted 28 Personal Care 56 Dentdale Heritage Centre 46 Philip Horner 66 Farfield Mill 15 Pigs for Sale 44 Flat to Let 7 Premier School of Motoring 39 George & Dragon Vacancy 25 Raven Graphics 36 Garsdale Design 13 Roger Winn 72 Gary Allan 32 Sam Konczynski 42 Gavin Charlesworth 18 Sarah Scarr 55 George Baines 7 Sedbergh Office Services 43 Graham Moffat 71 Sedbergh School 64 H&M Craftsmen 50 Sheila Shuttleworth 30 Hayton & Winkley 68 Stefan Kliszat 45 Health Centre 66 Stephenson & Wilson 42 Healthy Steps 12 Stramongate Press 40 Heaps of Fun 68 Swimming Club 47 Henry Wilson 51 Tilk Wilkinson 45 HF Holdays Vacancy 67 Tooby 14 Holme Farm 20 Tutoring Works 47 Ian Higginbotham 46 Wenningdale 1 77 Jack Ellison 30 Wenningdale 2 13 John Douglass Mortgages 28 Yvonne Cervetti 44 Page 3 MARCH BIRTHDAYS
Every month, there are B Day Name Age Children’s Birthday Vouchers to 01 1 Alisha BREWER 10 the value of £10 awarded to a 05 4 Beatrice DEIGHTON 6 Child whose name appears on 07 5 Willow ASHWORTH 4 the Birthday Page. 05 5 Beatrice DEIGHTON 6 The recipient this month : 03 5 Ethan CLARK 8 Aaron Capstick who is 11 years old on 9th March. 02 6 Cameron HORNER 9 Please collect your vouchers 01 7 Melissa HARTLEY 10 from 01 8 Tess PRALL 10 Sedbergh Office Services00 11 9 Aaron CAPSTICK 11 13 Kings Yard, Main Street, 04 11 Grace CAPSTICK 7 Sedbergh 05 10 Alana WILLIAMSON 6 which can be used in any shop 08 12 Evie STANLEY 3 in 07 12 Edward DEIGHTON 4 Sedbergh & Dent.01 12 Kate BROOKSBANK 10 05 13 Emily BAINES 6 NONAGENARIANS04 13 Sam LABBATE 7 We are now including the 02 14 Kate THOMPSON 9 details of all those aged 90 09 17 Freya GARDNER 2 years and over who wish to have their details included. To 08 17 Fiona HOGGARTH 3 do this, we must have the 05 18 Danny HUNTER 6 persons permission, the correct 07 20 Holly HAMLETT 4 Name & Date of Birth and a 06 27 Zoe COWIN 5 contact telephone number. 06 27 Jack GARNETT 5 Please supply these details and 01 27 Jessica LABBATE 10 they will appear in the relevant 09 29 Zara GORNALL 2 month. Sadly, they will not 09 29 Ellie Ann STAINTON 2 qualify for the Birthday Nonagenarian & Over Voucher! ☺ 1915 3 Jack CAMPBELL 96 Page 4 PERSONAL & SMALL ADS £1
ALDERSON STAINTON Congratulations Mum If you head out of Sedbergh, & Dad on your 40th And up the road to Cautley, Wedding Then Barbara reading this Anniversary on 20th Lookaround, March. Love from May think that we are naughty! Steven, Sarah, Julie & But she won’t be cross, Tony. She will laugh it off, ====== Well we hope you really do, ALDERSON Cos all we want to say is “Happy Congratulations Gran and Grandad Birthday” to you. on your Ruby Wedding. Lots of Love Happy 50th Birthday Babs on 22nd from Scott, Liam Robbie & Zoe.xxxx March. Love from A.C.E. xxx ====== ====== BECK TUSON Ada wishes to thank family, friends Daniel, Danielle, Lucas and Sophie and the people of Sedbergh and would like to say a massive thank you district for their cards, prayers and to everyone for your cards, flowers best wishes received during her and donations following the sad loss recent stay in hospital. of our daughter, Erin. It has meant so ====== much to us at such a difficult time. LONGLANDS Any further donations will be passed Congratulations Bill and Rachel on on to Barnardo’s and Sedbergh the birth of Lois, Ava Mae on 7th United Charities February. Love and Best Wishes for ====== the future from Nan, Grandad and FOR SALE Aunty Rose XXX. Gent’s “Explorer” bicycle in good ====== condition. 23” frame, dark green METCALE colour. Parcel rack and saddle bag. Happy 80th Birthday Mum (Dorothy) Helmet and safety bandolier. £100. on 22nd March 2011. Love and Best 015396 25452. Wishes from Maurice & Lorraine, ====== Stuart & Brenda. FOR SALE ====== Alison Uttley books available. “Little METCALFE Grey Rabbit” and First Edition “A Happy 80th Birthday Nanna. Lots of Country Child” (Sedbergh School Love from Shaun & Lina, Rebecca & connection re. Copyright). 015396 Luke, Sarah & Anna. X 25452.
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FOR SALE FOR SALE Smart black Golf Bag with divider, Zanussi Dryer £30. Tel: 20529. strap and stand £25. Folding golf ====== trolley with water bottle (not used) FOR SALE and pad holder £25. Also offers Large double panelled convector invited for eleven assorted golf clubs radiator (1600x700mm) in excellent and two drivers. Telephone 20754. condition which produced too much ====== heat for the room it was in and has FOR SALE been replaced by a smaller one. £70 Pushchair 3 wheeler, Instep Nipper. ono. Also free to new owner willing to Good across country. £300 new for dismantle and take away complete sale at £45. Lucid 015396 21166. Greenhouse approx 10' x 8' which is ====== now situated in the shade due to FOR SALE neighbouring trees. Tel. 22095 Settee; pale mauve/lilac, plain covers. ====== Good condition £15. Tel; 015396 WANTED 20182 after 7pm please. Cleaner for holiday cottage in ====== Sedbergh on changeover days, FOR SALE usually Saturday but other days by “Sanwick” Electric guitar package. arrangement. Please contact Clare Includes case, amplifier and tuner. on 07718 211074. Hardly used, excellent condition ====== £110. 079666 20391. WANTED - SUMMER WORK ====== Slovenian student seeks work from FOR SALE July 9th. Anything considered: café, New, unused, never been on holiday pub, child minding, gardening, red suitcase. Has all necessary decorating etc. Call 015396 21166. attachments pull handle, wheels etc. ====== Size 25” x 18”. Wrong size bought. WANTED Cost £35, accept £20. Tel: 21176. Does anyone have an empty Calor ====== Gas bottle 7kg, 6kg or 4.5kg that FOR SALE they have finished with and would like Mahogany Oval Extending Dining a few quid for? Phone 21835. Table + 4 padded upholstered chairs. ====== Exc. condition but slight damage to FREE table leg which can’t be seen. W3ft, Two support stools, one mobility L4ft, Ext L5ft. £50 buyer must collect trolley, reaching aids and a selection from Garsdale. Tel: 015396 20309. of walking sticks. 015396 21343.
Page 6 PERSONAL & SMALL ADS £1 SEDBERGH METHODIST CHURCH GUILD FOR SALE Kindling Sticks £3.00 per Bag (Farm ANNIVERSARY SERVICES Feed Size) Free delivery in and Sunday 6th March around Dent/Sedbergh Tel: 015396 Preacher at 10:30 am & 6:30pm 25004. Rev. Ken Marshall ====== of Tadcaster LOST OR STRAYED A warm welcome to everyone Stubby umbrella of sentimental value. Burberry type fawn/grey plaid design. Any information as to its whereabouts gratefully received! 015396 21138. TO LET One bedroomed flat Main St, Sedbergh Rent £350 /cal month, G J Baines & Son No smoking Building Services Ring Hilary 07840 119051 Plant Hire ● Plant Sales ● Ground Works
SEDBERGH & DISTRICT General Building Services Inc • New Builds History societY • Extensions • Loft Conversions Wednesday 2nd March • Garages Three Centuries of the Workhouse • Roofing An illustrated history of • Stonework Workhouses focusing on Joinery Services inc Westmorland and North Yorkshire • New Windows & Doors Peter Higginbotham • New Fitted Kitchens Drains Wednesday 16th March • Unblocked/Cleaned/Repaired Victorian Naturalists All Aspects of Plant Hire Arranged Natural History in Victorian times Plant Sales Dr Trevor Piearce Ground Works All meetings in Settlebeck High School, start at 7:30pm unless stated. ————————————————————————————————————————– Contact George on: Everyone is most welcome to attend any or all of our lectures Tel: 015396 21287 Mob: 07977514229 ————————————————————————————————————————– Chairman: Richard Cann 20771 Email: [email protected] Secretary: Mike Beecroft 21878 Web: www.gjbainesandson.co.uk Treasurer : Marlene Mason 20509 Member Sec: Richard Cann 20771
Page 7 SEDBERGH PARISH COUNCIL agreement can be reached and Since my last report the Council has the building successfully acquired met at the end of November and we for the community. also had an early meeting in January. • Ghyllas Layby – Everything is Current issues now in place and the project to • Purchase of Tennis Courts/ create a picnic area is expected Fishing Rights – We are delighted to commence shortly. that SLDC have now agreed that • Toilets in Joss Lane – The Parish these assets will be transferred Council have agreed to save into the long term control of the these SLDC toilets from closure Parish Council. Many thanks to and will take over the running our District Councillors who have them from April 2011 been working hard to achieve this • Highways – Thanks to the outcome. volunteers who helped spread grit • Acquisition of 72 Main Street – during the recent bad weather. The National Park Authority have Planning Committee agreed to allow until the end of • There have been a large number March 2011 for a Community bid of planning applications. None to be made. The users of the have been opposed by the building have all pledged funds to Council with a request for further support the purchase and a clarification in one case. number of grant applications are • It is noted that the application to being made. We are no therefore vary the condition for the cautiously optimistic that an development of the Aqua
Director of Music: Alan Lewis Present their ANNUAL SPRING CONCERT 7.45 pm on Tuesday 8th March People’s Hall Sedbergh. Admission: £5.00 Under 16: £3.00 Sedbergh Town Band is a registered charity. Number 1086817
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Auctioneers, Estate Agents & Property Managers 70, Main Street, Sedbergh, Cumbria. LA10 5AD Tel: 015396 20293 Fax: 015396 21650 Email [email protected] www.chriswhelan.co.uk Wanted for Zak Hall 0.5 acre or more plot to build a special unit for Zak with his special needs equipment. He would like his parents and sister to live with him so he needs accommodation for them and a flat for his full time carer. If you have a plot available with or without planning consent within chair pushing distance of Sedbergh, or a large house capable of being extended please contact us.
Engineering site from 3 to 2 Killington Lake. affordable units has been Sedbergh Townscape Initiative withdrawn. The planners have The public consultation has now been contacted to clarify the taken place and a further meeting is position regarding the due on 25th Jan to agree the construction of these units as the finalisation of plans and to look at Parish Council is concerned to funding options. Thanks to all who see that they are eventually built came to the exhibition and completed Full details can be obtained either a feedback form. Your comments from the council office or by have been passed to the consultants application to the clerk. Urban Practitioners. Grants Agreed For any further information please It was agreed to grant £1,000 to contact the Clerk Colin Robertshaw. Killington Sustainable Energy Trust (Tel 01539 730597 email for design work on the proposed [email protected] hydro scheme on the River Lune and or at the Community Office around £500 to Sedbergh and District Canoe midday each Wednesday) Club towards a storage facility at CR
Page 9 DENT PARISH COUNCIL of late. In some cases the wiring There was no council meeting in needs to be replaced and photocells January, so the February meeting and other fittings renewed. was a busy one. The council agreed Councillors have now given approval to spend money on refurbishing for a thorough overhaul and Dent’s street lights, heard about refurbishment of all the lights, and progress on the YDNPA/Dent when this is completed it is hoped community initiative and discussed that Dent will have a more reliable the state of the dale’s roads. A full street light system. account of the meeting is contained in Potholes and Cobbles the minutes, published on www. The state of the dale’s roads after dentdale.com (follow the parish the winter weather was raised by a council link) and obtainable as a hard member of the public at the last copy on request from the parish council meeting. Particular concern clerk. . was expressed about cobbles which Street Lights were starting to lift in the village and Some of Dent’s street lights are now the number of potholes where recent at the end of their useful life, and they repairs had been washed out by have become increasingly unreliable heavy rain. It was agreed to report
The Cross Keys Temperance Inn Cautley, Nr Sedbergh Tel: 015396 20284 Alan & Chris Clowes offer you a warm welcome We are open daily for home cooked food, (a particular favourite is Ham `n` Eggs) and offer an extensive menu for residents and non residents. Our two guest rooms are both en suite and we can boast one of the finest views of Cautley Spout and the Howgills. Please note our opening hours. We are open each day Wednesday to Sunday inclusive and on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Prior booking is essential for evening meals
Page 10 these concerns to Cumbria drains are adequate. Highways. Renewable Energy for Farms Playing Field Flooding There are a number of grants Last month’s article reported on the available at the moment to support YDNPA/Dent community initiative in renewable energy projects on farms, which the National Park is working and there has been some interest with the local community on matters locally in both hydro electric schemes of mutual interest. As part of this, a and ground source heating. As part of meeting took place recently between the Community Initiative, the National representatives of the football and Park is keen to offer advice on cricket clubs, the parish council and renewable energy schemes to National Park officers to try and find a Dentdale farmers, and in some cases solution to the increasing amount of can support feasibility studies with flooding on the playing field. In funding. For more information, addition to the practical solutions that contact Alison Love, Cumbria Fells & were identified, the Park’s officers Dales 01768 869533 offered to calculate the volume of [email protected]. flood water that needs to be removed, Welcome to Dent in order to work out if the existing Following a considerable amount of
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Page 11 work by Margaret Taylor to obtain and local needs housing. The sites approval from Cumbria Highways and now need to be approved by a the National Park, a welcome sign will planning inspector before they are shortly be placed at each end of the finally included in YDNPA’s housing dale. One of the conditions imposed strategy, but in the meantime the by Highways was that the parish Park has produced design briefs for council accepted responsibility for the the type of housing it would allow to signs, and so the council has agreed be built on them. When the parish to add them to its public liability council considered these at its last insurance. The signs will be paid for meeting it felt they were broadly out of the funds that were left when acceptable, and this view has been the Business Forum was wound up, relayed to the Park. The next stage and which were allocated for tourist will be for the landowners to find signs. developers who are prepared to build Affordable Housing Developments on the sites, though in the present At the end of last year the National economic climate, with cuts to the Park included both the Ghyllside and amount of government money Glebe Fold sites in Dent in its available for housing, this may not be proposed list of sites for affordable easy.
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Page 12 DENTDALE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP “Rhumes”, Dent LA10 5QJ Tel: 25212 7pm Supper to follow Sunday March 13th All Welcome
Car Park Repairs those responsible would be Work will start soon on repairs to the encouraged to prevent it happening in tarmac at the entrance to the car future. park. One edge is beginning to break Next Meeting up, and so at its last meeting the The next council meeting will be council agreed to pay for the held at 7.30pm on March 7th in the necessary repairs. Sedgwick Room. The public are Parking round The Green welcome to attend all meetings and to Cumbria Highways have recently raise any matter that concerns them altered some of the “Resident during the public forum which usually Parking”` signs around The Green so takes place at about 8pm. that they relate more closely to the Jock Cairns, Chair Tel: 25655 parking bays. The next stage, which [email protected] is due to happen shortly, will be to alter the road markings so that they
indicate more clearly where cars should be parked. Muck Spreading Garsdale Design Ltd architecture ● planning ● urban design ● heritage The council has received a number of complaints from residents recently about the amount of manure dropped by some farm vehicles when We provide professional design services throughout Cumbria, Lancashire and the travelling through Dent village, and Yorkshire Dales for new buildings, these were discussed at the last extensions, conversions as well as meeting. It was felt that most farmers assessments for listed and heritage buildings were very conscientious about ‘High Branthwaites’ Garsdale Road clearing up any accidental spillages, Frostrow Sedbergh LA10 5JR and that the recent spills were phone/fax/answer: 015396 20875 unusual. Councillors agreed to email: [email protected] web: www.garsdaledesign.co.uk monitor the situation and hoped that by drawing attention to the problem, GDL is an RIBA Chartered Practice Page 13 COUNCILLORS CORNER 29th January to which representatives There is no doubt that one of the from across South Lakeland were biggest issues facing rural areas over invited. There were a number of the next few years is the extent to people from Sedbergh and District which they can gain access to the present including David Collier from Superfast Broadband network. There Sedbergh, Jock Cairns the Chair of is clear evidence to show that those Dent Parish Council and myself. The areas where this can happen not only afternoon comprised presentations have an economic advantage in from delegates knowledgeable in this terms of local businesses and the field (the air was thick with references promotion of tourism but even the to kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes value of houses in the area increases and even terabytes) and particularly too! Like it or not, Broadband is here from officers from Cumbria County to stay and is a key element in the Council who are charged with putting “white hot” technology revolution a scheme in place to enable the ten currently sweeping the country. It was million pounds made available with this in mind that our MP Tim through government grant to be spent Farron organised a Broadband effectively. Following the conference in Kendal on Saturday presentations, small groups were
Page 14 formed to discuss the proposals in already appointed, their own more detail followed again by more Champions. There is a great deal of presentations to explain specific will and enthusiasm to carry forward proposals which were already under this project and we are lucky to have consideration and in some cases up so many committed local people and running. The practical outcome willing to take part in making it as far as the Sedbergh and Kirkby happen. Technical decisions need to Lonsdale Ward was concerned was a be made, of course, over such things decision that each Parish would as to how Broadband will actually be appoint a facilitator or Champion to carried to the more remote areas oversee and report on developments around here but at least we are in at and notify them to a co ordinator who the beginning of all this and can make in turn would pass them up the line a real difference to the final outcome. via Tim Farron to the County Council. The Big Society in action in fact! Jock Cairns was appointed co Closely following the conference ordinator for our Ward and David was a meeting of the Local Area Collier agreed to take on Partnership in Sedbergh at which the responsibility for Sedbergh. Other proposals coming out from the parishes will be appointing, or have conference were welcomed and a
arts & heritage Workshops in March 13 March - Learning to Spin 1: with Rosie Fairburn & Margaret Eccleston £40 (£35 for Friends of Farfield) 25 & 26 March – Altered Textile Surfaces: with Ann Burrow £85 (£75 for Friends of Farfield) Knit and Natter Every Tuesday 1 3 in Weavers Café, come along for an informal get together over knitting needles, crochet, embroidery and coffee. Everyone welcome. Weavers Café Open Daily – 10.30-4 Lovely cakes, teas and coffees. Soup, sandwiches and daily specials. Traditional Sunday Lunch: (12 3) booking strongly advisable. Don't forget to book a table for Mothers Day on April 3 Phone Weavers Café direct to book your table: 015396 21159 Farfield Mill open DAILY, 11- 4 (Café from 10.30) 015396 21958 www.farfieldmill.org Just one mile outside Sedbergh LA10 residents enjoy FREE entry on Mondays Page 15 shortly being presented to its parent SEDBERGH AND DISTRICT CHRISTIAN AID COMMITTEE Overview and Scrutiny Committee COFFEE MORNING and ultimately Cabinet. SLDC takes the lack of affordable housing in the Wednesday 16th March District very seriously indeed and is 10 am –12 noon organising a major housing th URC Rooms Sedbergh conference in Kendal on the 18 March. For myself I can only reiterate Coffee, Biscuits, that I place the provision of affordable Home Baking & Stalls homes very high on my personal All welcome agenda and I was somewhat surprised to receive feedback from decision made to support what had my earlier article that this view is not been decided. universally shared. The over riding The Sedbergh Townscape Initiative problem is that in Cumbria the is proceeding apace and a further differential between income and very well attended meeting was held house prices or house rental is on the 25th January at which the greater than almost anywhere else in consultants reported on the outcome the country and this is an issue that of the public consultation which I am pleased to say was unanimously positive. At this same meeting Parish Councillor Jim Atkins was appointed Chair of the STI and I am sure that he will proactively steer it forward in a way which we have come to expect ZUMBA TASTER SESSION from the initiator of the allotments Wednesday 16th March project. You will find in this issue a Sedbergh Primary School, Long Lane more detailed report from him as to 7pm 8pm £4 payable on the night what was actually discussed and Zumba is the latest Latin dance fitness craze. decided at the meeting. Suffice for Using Merengue, Cumbia, Salsa, Samba, Reggaeton, Calypso music and easy to me to say, keep a look out for the follow dance moves, this unique fitness class new street signs which should be is set to get your heart pumping and your feet appearing shortly! tapping. So come and join the Zumba taster session – energise, revitalise I have mentioned in a previous and dance your way to fitness. article that I am a member of the No experience necessary just a bottle of SLDC Task Group currently preparing water, enthusiasm and a sense of humour! a Report on the provision of Book your place early to avoid affordable housing throughout the early to avoid disappointment District. We have had many meetings, interviewed a large number Contact Janet: of people and the Report is currently Mob: 07733883865 e-mail: [email protected] being finalised with a view to its Janet is qualified & licensed to teach Zumba Page 16 must be addressed if we are not to suffer most. South Lakeland will not have local people leaving because be affected quite so much because it they cannot afford to buy or rent a was very badly hit by the changes home in the area where they were John Prescott made back in 2001, brought up or have strong personal totally disproportionately to the other connections. If wages cannot go up two. then house prices must come down The two most direct changes we will and this can only happen by a see in Sedbergh will be the parish, mixture of reducing development hopefully, taking over Joss Lane costs, innovative forms of sustainable toilets and the community, hopefully, development and building materials, taking over the Community Office and finance being available to all Building. At the moment, Sedbergh those wishing to buy or rent. We Library is safe. There could be have recently celebrated the changes in the medium term as to completion of the 500th affordable how it is run but the county has home in the District since the invested a lot of money in Sedbergh introduction of the Cumbria Housing Library building. Because of the Strategy in 2006 and I can only hope nature of the lease with the owners, that we can continue to improve on Sedbergh United Charities, this this success over the coming years. As ever Peter Woof and I may be contacted at any time as follows: SEDBERGH SCHOOL PRESENTS Peter Woof: 015396 20857 SHAKESPEARE’S [email protected] Ian McPherson: 015396 20648 COMEDY OF ERRORS [email protected] COUNCILLORS CORNER As a county we set our budget two days before I write this. The district will be doing the same next week. Yorkshire Dales has agreed a “draft” budget which is now in the public 7:30pm domain. All three authorities are Thursday March 17th to making significant reductions in Saturday March 19th services but as I said last month, not the county, nor the police nor the JOHN ARDEN district will be making any increase in their share of the council tax bill. Of LECTURE THEATRE the three authorities I sit on the Admission free National Park is taking the most immediate hit in terms of budget, but contact over the longer period the county will [email protected] Page 17 means that the service will continue Dems continue to control South for the foreseeable future, in some Lakeland after May then they are hell form or another. The same cannot be bent on removing free parking from said for the Travelling Library New Road – not that you will see that currently received in Dent. I have in their voluminous leaflets. That will been told that it has been costing £70 surely make Kendal the most parking per book issued to run the service in unfriendly town in England for Cumbria. Sorry, but that is a cost we disabled and able bodied alike. can no longer justify. Just at the very time that local Several people have written authorities are having to make large concerning disabled parking in budget reductions the county is also Kendal. Some have been round having to go through the whole Job robin letters, others have clearly been Evaluation process. Job Evaluation, written by the sender. I do not accept hereafter JE was a commitment for the general premise that Kendal is local government first made in 1997 the most disabled person unfriendly encapsulating the concept of equal town in England but I have long pay for equal work – in theory. As a expressed concerns about the whole very small organisation YDNP was issue of parking in the town. If the Lib able to implement JE before 2000,
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Page 18 one of the first to do it. There it went owned woodland in England. well with only a handful of problems. Personally, I think the forests could For South Lakeland the process was have been better managed and made much less happy, contributing to the more accessible by being in private departure of a Chief Executive and hands. There has been a lot of noise two senior officers. about public access to forests, as if Not having JE in place has already that was a timeless quality. In fact, in cost the county £40M in Employment my youth, not that long ago, all Tribunal awards and if it is not in Forestry Commission woods were place by next September the costs decidedly “out of bounds” with will rocket, month by month. It was draconian penalties for trespassers. I inevitable that JE would throw up believe they were opened up in about some problems. I am very aware of 1980, but whether that was when the issues concerning Teaching Margaret Thatcher was PM or Jim Assistants in this area and hope we Callaghan, my memory escapes me. can have some rational resolution. Councillor Kevin Lancaster – Since my last article the national 015396 20800, 07980 844 695, government has announced and then [email protected], Fellgate, retracted a proposal to sell off publicly Dowbiggin, SEDBERGH, LA10 5LS
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Page 19 BREAKS FOR CARERS if they were given breaks from caring OF DISABLED CHILDREN that enabled them to Breaks for those who care for • undertake education, training or disabled children are to come into any regular leisure activity, force as of 1st April 2011. Draft • meet the needs of other children regulations have been published, in the family more effectively, or placing obligations on local • carry out day to day tasks which authorities to provide short breaks for they must perform in order to run carers of disabled children. their household. According to the legislation, drafted In particular, local authorities will be last November, local authorities must instructed to provide a range of: 'have regard to the needs of those • day time care in the homes of carers who would be unable to disabled children or elsewhere, continue to provide care unless • overnight care in the homes of breaks from caring were given to disabled children or elsewhere, them.' They will also be expected to • educational or leisure activities for have regard to the requirements of disabled children outside their carers who would be able to more homes, and effectively care for their disabled child • services available to assist carers H o l m e O p e n F a r m & Café
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Page 20 in the evenings, at weekends and Breaks Duty is produced in a timely during the school holidays. way allowing local authorities to Local authorities will be given until prepare for the duty’s 1st October 2011 to prepare a commencement on 1st April statement outlining details of 2011. This guidance will help the range of services that will local authorities navigate the be made available to carers of legal maze on short breaks disabled children, the criteria thus ensuring that families get by which those eligible will be the breaks they are entitled to, assessed and how these and reducing local authorities services will meet the needs risk of legal challenge.” of carers in the area. They will The regulations will now be be expected to take into presented to Houses of Parliament consideration the views of carers for approval, with the Government whilst preparing and revising the writing guidelines to accompany the statement. regulations. It is anticipated they will South Lakeland Carers, a Cumbria be published soon after the based charity which aims to enable regulations have been approved. carers to manage their caring roles Annaliese Watkins more effectively, welcome the regulations which will allow parents of disabled children to carry out day to Dales Pets day tasks that many other parents may take for granted. The legislation Home from Home Pet Care will give disabled children the Experienced pet owners, providing: opportunity to participate in positive • Dog Boarding activities independently of their family • Dog Walking and outside of school. • Pet Sitting David Congdon, Head of Policy and • Cat Feeding Campaigns, Mencap and Every Disabled Child Matters Board Whilst you are on Holiday, stuck at member said: “These regulations go work or having a Weekend Away a long way to strengthening disabled children and their families’ rights to A great alternative to short breaks. Parents have told us dog boarding kennels and catteries in that ‘the lack of short breaks was the a secure, happy family environment. biggest single cause of unhappiness with service provision’. Giving carers Call Linda on this right is a huge step forward to 07919 152526 families with disabled children living for more information. ordinary lives. We hope that the Sedbergh & accompanying guidance on the Short surrounding area
Page 21 SEDBERGH & DISTRICT Back/neck ache? HISTORY SOCIETY Sports injuries? The first meeting of the new year S c i ati c a ? was well attended by members who Repetitive strain? had come to hear a talk by Trevor Stress/tension headaches? Avery who lives in Sedbergh. He had www.reflex-om.com acted as an adviser to the BBC for Kendal, Hawes & Newbiggin-on-Lune their programme “The orphans who survived the concentration camps” and his talk was about these orphans 015396 23696 and was entitled “From Auschwitz to Josephine Lade LCSP (Phys) Ambleside”. The talk attempted to answer three German soldiers. His job meant that questions about the orphans; who he avoided the gas chambers but were they, how did they come to be experienced hunger and starvation. here and where did they stay? The In November 1944 along with the answer to the first question was that other inmates he was moved they were Jewish and there were because the Russians were three hundred of them aged between advancing towards the camp. They 5 and 18, the vast majority of whom were subjected to forced marches were boys. Most had originally lived without food and water and anyone in close knit communities in rural who fell out was shot. Then they had south west Poland. In addition to the a three week journey in open railway children there were a few adults to carriages during which many died. support them but several of these They eventually reached absconded when they reached Theresienstadt. This had originally Windermere. been set up as a camp for privileged The experiences of one boy, Mayer Jews but had become a ghetto for born in 1926, were used to illustrate Jews displaced from concentration how and why they had come to camps. Mayer survived there until it Windermere. He had been forcibly was liberated by the Russians in May separated from his parents and along 1945 and then hospitals and food with other boys had been put into a were provided. slave labour gang laying railway lines After the war various individuals and to concentration camps that were organisations asked the British being constructed. In all he was in Government if it would allow some nine such camps during the war. He Jewish children survivors into the arrived in Auschwitz Birkenau in June country to recuperate. About 300 1943 and managed to survive there orphaned children, including Mayer, by working as a tailor, a trade to were picked and moved to Prague which he had been apprenticed. His from where the RAF flew them in job was altering the uniform of the Stirling bombers to near Carlisle in
Page 22 August 1945. They were then experiences. There were the transported to the Calgarth Estate inevitable problems with local boys near Windermere. This had been due to the influx of foreign teenage constructed in 1941 to house workers boys but the conflicts tended to be building Sunderland flying boats and over local girls rather than racially the children were accommodated in motivated. However, despite huts that had been used by single problems the children were given a unmarried workers. These huts were friendly greeting and welcomed by situated in what is now the grounds of the locals. For the children the Lakes School. Each child had its themselves Windermere was own cubicle with a cupboard and a paradise after what they had been bed with clean linen, unimaginable through during the war. After a few luxuries after a concentration camp. months they left Windermere and Initially there were problems with many stayed in Britain making them adjusting to the availability of successful lives for themselves. food and realizing they did not have After his talk Trevor answered to hoard it to avoid starvation. Also, questions and then was thanked for understandably, many had his moving talk by the chairman. behavioural problems after their Richard Cann
Page 23 BRASSED UP The People’s Hall gets ‘Brassed Up’ On Friday the 11th of February the MEL CRAGG second of two performances that BUILDER week from the Highlights Rural Plastering Touring Scheme took place, and a passionate performance from Roofing ‘Brassed Up’ filled the People’s Hall Block/Stonework with the sound of music. The inspirational and multi talented duo, Tel: 015396 20162 Mob: 07792 657453 James Stretton and Iain Jackson, combined education with witty banter, some audience participation and a of atmosphere. It was explained to varied selection of music and me how the Peoples Hall Committee produced an event not to be missed, are currently fundraising to be able to that was fun for the whole family. renovate the hall and also expand to Stood in the centre of sixteen brass include another small hall. This is no instruments, including a French Horn small feat as £1.5 million needs to be and a 1746 Trumpet replica, James raised for the work to be carried out. discussed each piece of music and However, the hall is used by the the significant instruments he would community for many purposes and by be using, accompanied by Iain on the coming to these events people are keyboard. The music ranged from raising money not only to redevelop classical to Boogie woogie and in the and extend the Hall but also to second half even included a few protect its future for generations to pieces composed by Iain and James come. themselves. Finally, I would like to thank Gina Watching James’ speed and agility Barney and the rest of the People’s when playing a combination of Hall Committee for being so instruments was a particularly welcoming and giving me the amazing sight and with the threat of opportunity to report on their event. If audience participation always lurking anybody would like to take a look at around the corner, James kept the work of ‘Brassed Up’ they have everyone on their toes and wanting many videos on You Tube and can more. By the end of the night and also be found under the Latin name after everyone had a chance to ask ‘Oricalcum’. any questions, they left the stage to If you would like me to report on applause, almost as loud as their your event please contact me by trombone, and cheers of encore! either giving me a call on 25185 or As this was my first experience of alternatively by sending an email to the People’s Hall I was delighted to [email protected] with dates and find a great entertainment venue full details. Laura Mottershead
Page 24 BOOKWORM ( with an adopted wolf dog) the What I have been reading this complex, varied cultures and groups month : in rural Afghanistan. Rory faced 1. 'The Lady and the Unicorn' by challenge, danger, little food and Tracy Chevalier ( historical fiction) conflicts almost daily and is a Based on tapestries woven about knowledgeable and insightful 1500 this is a readable lightweight narrator. I felt I had done the journey historical novel. It does give good from my sofa! descriptions of the lives of weavers in 3. 'The Complaints' by Ian Rankin Northern Europe at the time ( fiction) otherwise I found the substance Malcolm Fox works in the Police disappointing. The tapestries now Complaints department in Edinburgh. hang in a museum in Paris there are Rising star Jamie Breck is now under no photographs in the book but investigation for an allegation that googling the images of them shows seems extremely secretive. Action how beautiful and significant they packed, clever dialogue, believable were. characters, contemporary plot are all 2. 'The Places in Between ' by Rory woven into a world of murder, Stewart ( travel) property speculation and bribes. The author ( who now lives in Facing the 'who can you trust in the Cumbria ) walked from Herat to Kabul police force?' question discounts in an Afghan winter ( 2002) just after quite a lot of managers, journalists the Taliban had fallen. This is an and family connections on the way to extraordinary journey through remote unravelling this engrossing book. A villages, deep snow encountering winner!! RM STAFF VACANCY Bar person required to join the George and Dragon’s friendly team of staff in Dent. To start from the beginning of May. Day and Evening Shifts, Good Rates of Pay. Also housekeeping staff required for immediate start 2/3 mornings a week. Also Good Rates of Pay. Must be able to get to and from Dent. Experience preferred but not essential as training given with regard to both positions. Please contact Susan on 015396 25256 for informal chat and possible interview.
Page 25 SOUTH LAKELAND CARERS Fear over Spending Cuts for Carers HARDWOOD LOGS A South Lakeland Carers Charity is Large & Small Loads battling to continue its vital services in Oliver Higginbotham light of the recently proposed 07815 899 994 ~ 015396 21073 spending cuts, which could devastate carers in the county. South Lakeland Carers say the emotional costs. 11,000 carers in the area are at risk Mr Pollard said: “The case of Riven of being hit with a ‘double whammy’ Vincent highlights the dangers of the with potential cuts to services to the economy failing to invest in care person they care for and cuts to which supports families caring for services designed to support them. relatives. Young carers are also facing “It is not unusual for carers to feel uncertainty as children’s services under enormous pressure and to be have not given any indication of pushed to breaking point. South future funding to support them. Lakeland Carers is here to support Steve Pollard, Director of South carers in the local community, to help Lakeland Carers, based in Kendal, them to cope with their caring role. said: “South Lakeland Carers offer a “The good news is that around number of vital services for carers in £900,000 per year for the next 4 the area, providing them with free years will be given to the NHS to one to one support and counselling provide breaks for carers. The NHS is as well as sitting services and carer’s being encouraged to work with social breaks, giving them the strength, care services and carers confidence and ability to continue organisations to ensure this money is caring for longer. spent on carers. We are working to “Without continued support from the ensure that this money is spent to government and from local people, support carers and that carers will services such as our Hospital continue to gain support in the tough Outreach, where Carer Support economic times ahead.” Workers visit the hospital to meet The Government recognised the carers and offer information about importance of social care in October’s support services to help them, may Comprehensive Spending Review. suffer.” However, with local authorities facing The call for continued support for cuts of up to 28% over the next four carers comes after the issue was years, there is a risk that care and brought to attention in the national support services will suffer. media with the case of Rivan Vincent As local authorities are forced to whose parents were forced to make massive cuts, this is a crucial consider putting their child into full time for carers, the cared for and time care due to the demand of caring support charities like South keeping up with financial and Lakeland Carers. Steve Pollard Page 26 Safari and she got a tad too near to a passing Lion, younger daughter and Drive Time fella also have been away, all good in Professional Driving Tuition the busyness which is their lives,
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St GEORGE’S DAY PARADE to everyone else. Other ‘Walking This year, St George’s Day falls right Groups’ similar to the Gala Parade in the middle of the Easter Weekend are invited to join in to Celebrate this but that is no deterrent for organising day of which we should be proud of. a Celebration Parade similar to last The Town Band will bring up the rear years inaugural one. of the Parade to make it a lively and As it stands at the moment, picturesque event. everyone involved is requested to Things are in the early stages at the gather in the Bull Hotel Car Park on moment but other entertainment is to the morning of Saturday 23rd April. At be provided at the rear of the Bull 11am, the Parade will commence Hotel. from the Car Park, left onto Main If you would like to join in the Street, right onto Back Lane, right Parade or have any suggestions, onto Finkle Street, right onto Main please contact me so that things can Street then back into the Bull Yard. be organised to help make this a Last year, this started at Finkle Street/ splendid Annual Event to celebrate Main Street junction and ended up on St. George’s Day. Joss Lane Car Park but it is felt this Dennis J Whicker would now be impracticable. St. George will lead the Parade and The Dentdale Choir will be followed by the British Legion is looking for Standard (as last year). ALL Groups a rehearsal accompanist for the Autumn Spring season, in Sedbergh and District that have a September 2011 to April 2012. Standard, Banner or Flag are invited Rehearsals are held on to Parade with the British Legion Tuesdays, 7.30pm 9.pm in Standard. This is an Open Invitation The Memorial Hall, Dent. to The Scouts, Guides, Women’s Please ring Linda Fawcett Institutes (apologies if you are not on 015396 25470 mentioned) to show off your colours for further information
Page 28 HOWGILLS TEA ROOM their own fundraising efforts. Also, a I would like to express sincere range of individuals and organisations appreciation for every have benefited from specific cash encouragement that our customers grants to help them further their work gave hOwGiLLs Bakery and Tea for the betterment of the locality. Room whilst we were trading. It would be remiss if I did not Through such support we were able mention our staff who worked to gift and grant to various groups tirelessly and without complaint to and individuals an amount slightly in help us achieve all that we managed excess of £8000. I know that there to do. Thank you all! are many, from the people of Haiti to I hope that the spirit of support and folks working within the district, who service that so obviously exists in are grateful for your generosity that made, as example, donations of the Sedbergh continues. It has been a sale proceeds of hot drinks for the most rewarding experience to be part Haiti earthquake appeal possible. of the community and to contribute, in Other groups have been able to have a small way, to its determination to do a plentiful and ready supply of scones that which it does best. and cakes that they could use for Davidson Walton
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Page 29 ODE TO JOHN KENDALL Shine A light shone down from heaven and centred within John Made to measure Who with his thoughtfulness, saw to Skirts, Dresses, Suits, pass it on Bridal, Ball Gowns, etc. Always willing to help, advise and Also alterations undertaken care All made to the Highest Quality by Spreading a little happiness, never SHEILA SHUTTLEWORTH one to despair Tel: 015242 74322 He was an inspiration, even when in pain Always having time to chat and you KENDAL ECUMENICAL GROUP never heard him complain Faith Exhibition and Question Time His gift was to truly listen to what was We would like to congratulate and being said thank Kendal College, its staff and Finding a solution, even when ill in students for hosting the very bed successful recent Exhibition and Folk music was his love, the festival Question Time entitled “Religion and the highlight of his year faith what's the difference?” We Meeting like minded people, painted were kept busy throughout the as the Ratcatcher morning exhibition as students from He enjoyed a joke, he spread a smile all disciplines in the college showed reaching out all the while interest and courtesy. The students He touched our hearts, he touched were attentive at the two sessions of our soul Question Time, which were lively, May his light continue to shine, within interesting and informative. one and all. Exhibitors on the day represented Elizabeth Ball various faith groups from throughout the town. The day was organised by the Council for Faiths and Beliefs in Further Education (FBFE) in conjunction with Cumbria Further & FIREWOOD Higher Education Faith Forum. Dry Seasoned Wood The Kendal Ecumenical Group Large & Small Loads exhibit featured our events for 2011, Call Jack on plus each of our main speakers since the first in 2003 and our approach to 015396 25268 ecumenism and interreligious 07846 290519 dialogue. Norman Burnell Page 30 DENTDALE WI There were brightly coloured Primulas in pots decking the SPRINGTIME President’s table in the Memorial Hall at the February meeting, catching the eye and immediately brightening up a CAFÉ CONCERT cold evening. The hall was laid out for featuring a games evening but as is the custom SEDBERGH ORCHESTRA we had the Business Agenda to get THE PEOPLE’S HALL through. Members were told that the st WI is to loose the sponsorship of THURSDAY 31 MARCH Taylor’s of Harrogate and a letter of DOORS OPEN 7.45pm thanks for their contribution over the MUSIC BEGINS 8.00pm years will be sent to the Company. TICKETS available from National Federation featured twice: Sedbergh TIC & Cobble Country Kate Cairns skilfully guided us through the specific rules on using £6.00 18 & under free the National WI trade mark Logo and including a glass of wine/soft drink & nibbles then Dale Smith had us voting with 2p sponsored by Sedbergh Pepperpot Club coins (which were later put into our The proceeds will be shared between Pennies for Friendship jar) to make the People’s Hall Redevelopment Fund our selection from the candidates the Alison Armstrong Pepperpot Fund from all over the country who were considering offering their services to be on the National Executive course at Denman. Committee. It really made us feel We then proceeded to play a couple involved in the process! of sessions of Dominoes and for A date for the Diary (and coming up some of us it was the first time we really soon) is 12th March and had played competitively but the Dentdale Run when we we were soon playing to win! are asked to contribute baking Marjorie Haygarth gained the for refreshments given to the most points which will count runners and to offer help in towards the Annual preparing and serving. Competition cup at the end of There is a chance to learn a the year. new craft skill as Freda Next month Gillian Price will Meakin has proposed two Rag talk about Allotments and the Rugging sessions on 8th and 22nd competition is for a Limerick starting; March at her house. There was an old gardener from Catherine reminded us that the Dent…. New members and visitors Dentdale bursary is still available to always welcome. anyone who would like to take up a Pat Allen
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JANUARY WEATHER was quite a wet one with a rainfall Another chilly month but not quite total of 5.32 inches most of which fell such a sustained cold spell as last in the second week. In fact the last month. Temperatures varied from a fortnight only produce 0.04 inches, maximum of a balmy 50.5F to a chilly nearly an official drought!! minimum of 12.3F ( 11C). The wind Once the snow had cleared the chill on that night dropped the bulbs were through. Honeysuckle, temperature to 13F ( 25C!!!!). Not a one of the earliest shrubs to move, night to be out and about! was showing green tips to its buds. Atmospheric pressure, and hence Hazel and alder catkins suddenly wind speed, was interesting during seemed to have lengthened. By the this month. During the early part of end of the month some snowdrops the month pressure was low and the were showing white. Cock birds are wind speed, as normal in these singing as they mark out their conditions, was brisk but territories. Our “resident” owl has temperatures were below freezing for been calling even during the a week which wasn’t quite what we afternoon! Nearby rooks are back at usually expect. During the third week their nest site inspecting the damage. we had a spell of high pressure and Stock are shifting some food much of the winds were, as expected, lighter which will be to keep them warm. I but the direction wasn’t as expected. am always surprised how much water High pressure during the winter they drink but I suppose dry hay and normally gives us light easterly winds. pellets need slecking down. The bird Low pressure generally pulls winds in table visitors have increased again from the west which tends to be this month with even the odd warmer in winter. This month the high goldfinch dropping in for its niger pressure produced winds, except for seed. The mallard are dropping in one day, from a westerly direction. less frequently for breakfast at the The maximum wind speed recorded moment. Perhaps they are busy on was 15.7 mph. This variable month other duties!
Page 32 NEW BELLS FOR DENT influence on the Vikings who The Bells of St Andrew's Dent to be colonised Dentdale "Christened" • John for the apostle and Tuesday 1st March sees our bells evangelist and patron of our sister return to Dent after their long church in Cowgill restoration at the Bell Foundry at • Theresa (chosen by the children Whitechapel in London. of Dent School) a modern saint At 11am the bells will be officially who taught people to love God in named, or christened before they are a busy world. lifted into the Tower. This will be an The naming of bells is called the outdoor event, so wear a coat! No Service of Chrismation and is matter what the weather, it is a great normally conducted by a bishop. I day of celebration for Dentdale, apologise for the short notice, but the because within a few days of their nature of the project and timings of installation into the Tower, the bells the contractors responsibilities make will be ready for pealing. A lot of speed and flexibility of arrangements thought has gone into the naming of essential. However, following this the bells and we event, all the restoration involved Dent School, work (including the bells who chose the name of and the clock) will be the smallest bell. formally dedicated to the Church Bells are glory of God at a evangelists, calling Dedication Service at people to come and 10.30am on Sunday worship, so we give 19th June at St Andrew's some of the bells the Dent, the service to be names of famous evangelists from conducted by Bishop David Hope. the past. Other bells have been This will be the first formal occasion named in honour of the patron saints the bells are pealed (though you will of the United Kingdom: of course hear them before then). • Big George for the largest bell This will also be an occasion of and named after the patron saint thanksgiving for all that has been of England achieved through the support of the • Andrew for the patron saint of local community and will mark the the church, an apostle and formal ending to all restoration evangelist appeals ( Do you remember there • David for the patron saint of have been four appeals? It has been Wales, apostle and evangelist to a huge effort for the "Raise the Roof the Welsh nation Appeal," the Dent Organ Appeal, the • Patrick evangelist and the patron Bells Appeal and the Village Clock saint of Ireland, whose Celtic Appeal). missionaries had a considerable Peter Boyles, Vicar
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SEDBERGH WANDERERS Tables can be as small or as large as FOOTBALL CLUB you like so please let us know your Not a huge amount to report on this requirements. A quick update on the month other than the fact that ladies one big weekend and we have night tickets are now on sale from scrapped the 5 a side football so we premier and, at the time of writing, we can use the pitch for other things. We currently have about 30 left for sale. are currently looking at novelty, fun The evening consists of a free drink things like a bucking bronco or an on arrival, a 3 course meal, coffee obstacle course bouncy castle and champagne after the meal and a amongst other things to fill the field. disco, all for only £15 (see advert on We are also offering you the chance page 70) There is also a big prize to bring up a stall or a game. We draw on the night to win a great star would essentially ‘rent’ a part of the prize, tickets for this will be on sale on field to you for a small cost of £15 a the evening. It is a great prize but will day and you can bring up anything remain secret until the evening! This you want. Examples could include a event is for ladies only so guys, grab coconut shy, a cake stall, a jewellery your mates and head to the pubs! For stall or a jumble sale! It really would all those who have bought tickets be up to you and any money made is already, please remember to reserve yours to keep, less the rental costs your table and order your food. This is absolutely crucial to us in ensuring paid to us. If you are interested in the tables are set up correctly to hiring a part of the field to make accommodate everyone on the night yourself some money, contact me and that we only purchase the food using the football clubs e mail we need to enabling minimal waste in address which is food and monetary terms. You can do [email protected] this by contacting me (details on Ben Close ticket) or giving all these details at For and on behalf of Sedbergh Premier when you buy your ticket. Wanderers Football Club
Page 35 LOVE THE LUNE New Social Enterprise in Kirkby Lonsdale invites local people to design winning identity and logo for the Lune Valley Love the Lune; a campaign to connect up settlements along the Lune Valley, is looking for fresh new talent to create a corporate brand and logo that will help bring more visitors into the area. The Brand Identity Competition is funded by a grant from Fells and Dales Rural Development Programme. It is part of a campaign to create a Social Enterprise Scheme, based in Kirkby Lonsdale, that will benefit villages and towns along the Lune Valley by helping them share it’s time to really show the rest of the resources. world the full potential of the Lune The brand will be used as part of a Valley, “In the past places like website focused on promoting the Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale have area more fully and will give a fallen between two places; The Lake consistency to a range of brochures District to the west and the Yorkshire and marketing campaigns and Dales proper to the east. We feel it is materials. The aim is to highlight the important to come up with a natural beauty and many attractions distinctive brand establishing the of the Lune Valley, enticing more Lune Valley as a tourist destination, people from around the globe to making it clear to people what’s on places like Sedbergh, Dent and offer when they come to this part of Kirkby Lonsdale. the world. The River Lune and the The winner of the competition will be Howgill fells are good symbols of how given a valuable chance to work unique and different we are.” alongside designers and web Applications can be downloaded developers in a two week internship from www.lovethelune.com. The with top professionals. They will see closing date is 11th March 2011. their designs being transformed into a For more information about the Logo fully realised brand identity that will Design Competition, or to arrange an help stimulate the economy of a interview or photo call contact Project whole valley. Leader Claire Benson on 078210 Ian McPherson, SLDC Councillor for 01352. Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale said Kirstie Pelling
Page 36 PASTURES NEW IN ITALY lecturer with us who will provide us Sedbergh lovers of Italy will be with expert historical introductions to enjoying a new part of that amazing the places we visit. There will be country this September. For several opportunities – for those who want to years we have stayed near Rome. do so to practise and improve their This time we shall be based in a Italian language skills. lovely spa town in the foothills of the The hotel is in a small spa town, Tuscan Appennines. We have a full safe, quiet, planted around with week of interesting experiences: we beautiful trees, with a health spa, a begin by flying in over the Venetian golf course and a water Funpark. Our Lagoon and, towards the end of the visit includes full board at the family week, we shall be exploring the run hotel with attractive ensuite Renaissance palaces of Florence. bedrooms, home cooked wholesome Using our own coach, we shall visit food and local wine. The group three memorable cities – Bologna, consists of twenty eight people, and Ravenna and Florence. Bologna, the we hope this may be the first of seat of the oldest university in Europe several visits to the area. and the gastronomic capital of Italy, is George D Handley a city where shoppers are protected from heavy rain and burning sun by the historic arcades. Ravenna, at one COMPUTERS are wonderful – time capital of the western Roman until they go WRONG!! Empire, is famous for its unforgettable mosaics, the finest Byzantine ones outside Istanbul. ♦ Florence must surely be among the Cumbria Computer Systems ♦ finest cities in the world. We shall Your LOCAL I.T. specialists ♦ 25 years of experience have guided tours of each of these ♦ followed by a bit of free time to Microsoft certified ♦ Full range of Computer Sales and Service explore. ♦ Very competitive call out rates One day we shall travel up the ♦ Complete PC systems supplied and supported valley of the River Senio, calling at a ♦ Wireless/wired Networks for home or business farm for lunch, learning about farming ♦ Friendly, jargon free advice in the area, and having the chance to ♦ Virus and Spyware/Malware removal walk and relax among the Tuscan ♦ Consultancy service hills. We shall be in the region at the time of the grape harvest and shall Call us on enjoy a “harvest supper” at a nearby 07545 010542 vineyard, with wine tasting and local e mail: [email protected] music. We shall have a young visiting www.cumbriacomputersystems.co.uk
Page 37 SEDBERGH WI commented on the soap in the Standing room only!! Well we didn’t bathroom and asked if they could really make people stand up but we have some and so an idea for a did have to find spare chairs. It was business started to germinate…….. great to see so many people at our The first step was a stall on Sedbergh meeting on 9th February – there was Producers Market. The business a real ‘buzz’. We were very pleased started with £40 pounds and all the to welcome three visitors and hope labels had to be made on the they enjoyed the evening. computer. Next it was Orton Market Our evening started with a short and the Rheghed Centre. Now presentation from Emma Hopkins. Sedbergh Soap Company supplies Emma is a member of the Venture retail outlets, top class hotels and Scouts and has been chosen to even the kitchens of celebrity chefs! attend the 22nd World Scout The company has expanded its range Jamboree which will take place in of products which now include soap Sweden. She has to raise £2000 bars, hand & body wash, bath soak, which is quite daunting for someone shampoo, conditioner, creams and so young! She seems quite lotions and baby and toddler determined though so I’m sure she’ll products. Any new products are still succeed. tested on Dorthe’s own skin! It was a Talking of success, our next speaker very inspiring story and just goes to was Dorthe Pratt who came to speak show what can happen from small to us about The Sedbergh Soap beginnings. We wish Dorthe every Company. Dorthe came to the UK success in the future. eighteen years ago and was based in Anne Pitt led the walking group on a London working in IT. She was invited glorious day, around Levens Park to Sedbergh to a wedding where she with a very pleasant stop for lunch at met Andrew. After some time the Hare and Hounds in Levens commuting between London and Village. Sedbergh (what a contrast!) they The Reading Group met at Denise eventually married. She has always Thomson’s to discuss The Forgotten suffered with bad eczema but couldn’t Garden by Kate Morton. We agreed find any cosmetic products which that it was a good ‘holiday’ read, but didn’t make the eczema worse. Being maybe was a bit contrived in places. a very enterprising lady, she decided One or two issues prompted to see if she could make something discussion such as when to tell a herself! After a lot of research she child that they’re adopted. made her first batch of soap in the The Lunch Club went to The kitchen using some old pans! The Mulberry Bush in Kirkby Stephen soap is completely additive free and where we enjoyed good food and made from natural herbs and lively chat. essential oils. Visiting friends Denise Thomson
Page 38 SIGHT ADVICE SOUTH LAKES SEDBERGH GROUP L For people with sight problems May Pruce (alias Maude) started off the February meeting by reading a School of Motoring poem in which she stated very firmly that – no she had no intention of Advance Driving Instructor DIA coming into the garden as she was not born yesterday! Also getting Free Lessons (Conditions apply) caught up in prickly bushes was not Pass Plus Tuition her forte. Apparently Joyce Grenfell agreed with her. New Vehicle, Dual Controls Gordon Axford sent good wishes to Door to Door Service those unable to attend the meeting. Structured Training to Meet There was news of Doris Foster and Individual Needs Nora Capstick, both in Brant Howe residential home. Dennis Whicker Theory & Hazard Perception Training invited two members from the group to the anniversary of the Lookaround Day Time, Evening & Weekend Tuition Newsletter. Gift Vouchers The entertainment that followed was first class. Helen Winn sang some old Motorway Tuition favourite songs accompanied by Roger Bush. She was assisted by Refresher Courses many members of the audience who managed to reach most of the notes Call Terry (!). She then described life in a prison and the routine and stresses of a Mob: 07855 533267 prison officer. It is a topic with which Tel: 015396 21108 most of us are not familiar. Her talk was very positive, although she did not ignore the more depressing aspects. She and Roger ended on a lighter note with some folk songs. The next meeting will be at the People's Hall on March 15th at 2.00 L pm. for a quiz organised by Betty and Sue Harper. All new members will be welcome and transport may be Special Offer available. Contact 01539742633 if £15 per hour interested. Jennifer Levitt with this voucher only
Page 39 DENT FLOWER FESTIVAL Saturday Monday May 28th 30th. Dent Methodist Chapel. Theme; "In Living Memory", remembering christenings and weddings and special events at the Methodist Chapels in the Dale, Dent Head, Deepdale, Dent & Dent Foot, with a corner especially for children, an area "In Loving Memory", refreshments and on the Sunday evening a Songs stramongate press of Praise service. Were you or someone in your family christened or printers married or part of Hunters or Jungle Club or Dent Head Sunday School, or Deepdale Sunday school, or Dent Foot Sunday school, or Dent Youth Fellowship in the 1970's (remember the cellar? the barn?) Have you any photographs of any of these or the Deepdale Tea Parties, or United printers Sunday School parties? Old posters of Dent Foot Barn Rally or any other events? Do please contact any of the of chapel stewards/members asap with any memorabilia we could use or Sedbergh Lookaround copy to use, it will be taken great care of. Proceeds for Chapel Funds at Dent and for something else, yet to be decided. Help already offered, much more needed. It will be a great weekend! Sarah E Woof. (25212) Stramongate Press Aynam Mills Little Aynam Kendal Cumbria LA9 7AH BLOOD DONOR SESSIONS The next session will be held in the phone 01539 720448 fax 01539 730253 People’s Hall on Thursday 11th e mail [email protected] March from 2pm to 4pm and 5pm to website www.stramongatepress.co.uk 7:30pm. Please call 03001 23 23 23 to book an appointment
Page 40 DENT DALE MEMORIAL HALL Another training session has taken place for the use of the Loop system & Sound system and a couple of things are to be added to the Sedgwick Room Loop system to make it better. A detailed list of instructions for the two systems, including pictures of the correct things to do, is in the cupboard with the equipment. Notices have been put up in each room in normal daily use giving KENDAL UNITED details of Information re heating, JUNIOR FOOTBALL CLUB sound system, equipment and The first event of the 2011 cleaning etc, extra paid help for fundraising calendar kicked off with a cleaning the rooms under the raffle which raised £1177.00. Many Trustees of the DMH especially the thanks to all of you who bought kitchen and toilet has been put in tickets but sadly there were no Sedbergh prize winning tickets. place and the rooms are usually in Forthcoming events will include a use every week day and often at the Family Fun Weekend on 29/30th May weekend. which will include many events for the All Trustees along with members of whole family to enjoy such as Car the public are warmly invited to the Pull, Car Boot Sale and Barbecue. In AGM on Wednesday March 23rd in August there will be 48 Junior Teams the Hall where the Loop and Sound competing in a Football Tournament System will be in use, and possibly for teams Under 7s, 8s, 9s, and 10s. the accessible Lift from the Hall to the For further details of these events Sedgwick room. Among the matters contact me. Caspa, which will be on the Agenda at the Fundraising Sec. KUFC public part of the meeting will be the Gala and it would be great if some members of the Dent Show would join us, along with all those who would like to get involved or have an opinion on the Gala they want to painter share,and the Royal Wedding Celebrations, what shall we do in Ian Higginbotham Dent? PAINTER & DECORATOR Sarah E Woof Telephone 015396 21073 Mobile 07813 818958 e-mail: [email protected] (Chair of DMH Trustees) 25212. Page 41 structure. Stephenson & Wilson The draft budget and the survey can 15 Fell Close, Sedbergh LA10 5AP be viewed online at www. General Builders yorkshiredales.org.uk/ budgetconsultation. Plastering ~ Roofing ~ Extensions Alternatively, hard copies of the Fire Places Fitted survey and the consultation document can be obtained from Paul Stephenson Tom Wilson National Park Centres or National 015396 21557 015396 20954 Park Authority offices or by writing to 07810 595543 07790 946578 Budget Consultation, Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, Yoredale, YORKSHIRE DALES Bainbridge, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, NATIONAL PARK DL8 3EL, by emailing Consultation continues on National [email protected] or by Park cuts phoning 0300 456 0030. Members of the public, local All comments received by 10am on communities and organisations still 10 March will be taken into account have time to comment on draft before the final financial decisions are budget plans to reduce Yorkshire taken by Authority Members on 29 Dales National Park Authority March. (YDNPA) work programmes following Government cuts. Consultation is underway on the draft document, which contains proposals to save money after the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs reduced the Authority’s grant over the next four Carpets & Floor Coverings years by nearly £1.9m (or 31 per Supplied & fitted cent) including inflation. Telephone Authority Chairman Carl Lis said: 07771 97 00 96
“We have already received a number of responses to the consultation McMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT document but we would like to hear The Sedbergh, Dent and Kirkby as many views as possible on the Lonsdale McMillan Cancer Support draft budget before the closing date Group will be holding a Promise for comments on March 10.” Auction on Friday 1st July at the The proposals include 15 voluntary Country Harvest in Ingleton. and three compulsory redundancies, Further details will appear giving the scrapping of 12 work programmes details of how to donate and attend and a reorganisation of the Authority’s the Auction.
Page 42 SEDBERGH & DISTRICT on the success of the winter ART SOCIETY programme of demonstrations she The 39th AGM of the Society on arranged, and many thanks went to February 11th in the URC room was Hilary Moore for her long standing well attended, reflecting the efforts to keep the thriving portrait increasing membership now group going. standing at fifty nine. Many people contribute to the The 2010 Summer Exhibition was a continuing success of the Society, not great success, with the highest least the Committee, and satisfaction income for twelve years, and an was evidenced by the return of the impressive variety of paintings. All Committee 'en bloc' ! who helped in any way were thanked The Society is hoping to produce a for their tremendous efforts, calendar for 2012, showing the work especially Helen Shields for her of members. Watch this space for organisation, and Sedbergh School details later. for the use of its library. Meanwhile, the informal Wednesday The Society will be celebrating its afternoon group continues to meet in forty years with a luncheon in April. the Peoples' Hall committee room at Sheila Holloway was congratulated 1.15 pm. All welcome. V. Finch
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HOWGILL W. I. complete in a pretty box to take The February meeting was held at home. Audrey Hoggarth thanked Firbank Church Hall. There was a Sarah for a fantastic evening with the good attendance despite it being a plus point of lots of laughs and fun. wild wet night The monthly competition for a Vice President Dilys Sculptured Potato was won McCaffrey took the chair in by Barbara Axford with Mary’s absence due to family Sheelagh Dennis second. commitments. The three The social half hour to Name members taking part in the the Famous Faces won by January supermarket Maggie, Bridget and Audrey’s “Country of Origin Labelling” team. The evening was campaign reported rounded off with our usual satisfactory feedback. Judith jacob’s join and get together. Capstick will be leading the Howgill We meet again on March 4th when Hikers walk on March 1st Andrew Lowe will speak on Lakeland arrangements as per the January Churches. All visitors welcome at walk, which was cancelled. If you Howgill Village Hall at 7.30pm. fancy joining us you will be welcome. Anita Carey announced the Summer Outing will be on Wednesday 29th LOCAL PORK June. A guided tour of Appleby, a visit to the vineyard followed by tea in FOR SALE Colby provided by the W. I. Full or Half Pigs Our own member Sarah “M” inspired us with a creative evening of hands on sugarcraft. We enjoyed taking part in the art of making marzipan (no not fruits but) animals and birds. Please Ring There were some stunning results 015396 21225
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Page 45 CLUTTERBOOKS AND CLOBBER The Community Fund Charity Shop Thanks to a high level of community support the charity shop continues to DENT DENT thrive. The Trustees of the Community Fund now known as the Sedbergh VILLAGE VILLAGE and District Community and Heritage HERITAGE CENTRE Trust, will meet again in early April to & Flintergill Outrake Nature Trail consider requests for funding from on the Scenic Yorkshire Dales Route local organisations undertaking activities that are of benefit to the The community. If your organisation “Terrible” needs an injection of funds to Knitters purchase equipment or to support a Of Dent specific project you can get a simple application form and further advice by contacting David Ramsbottom at the Community Office, Tel 20504. Applications to be returned to the Community Office by 25 March. SLOVENIAN STUDENT Once again we have a visit from a Traditional Arts & Skills Slovenian student who is coming on • Real Delicious ice cream July 9 through the summer for work • Farmhouse baking experience. Maya is willing to do any • Free range eggs sort of work including gardening, cafe • Tea, coffee, beverages inside or out and bar work, decorating, cleaning, • Antiques and childminding, and would also Featuring very much appreciate any offers of • Adam Sedgwick accommodation in Sedbergh, even if • Dent Marble this is only for a short time. Maya is a • Life on the Land student at Maribor University and I • Miles Mason • met her and her parents when I was Settle Carlisle Railway in Zrece just before Christmas she Opening Times speaks very good English but is also 11am to 4pm Every Day hoping to improve language skills by Tickets valid all day conversation with local people. Dogs Welcome If you can help please ring 015396 www.dentvillageheritagecentre.com 21166. Also visit David Burbidge www.discoverdentdale.co.uk
Page 46 TUTORING WORKS SEDBERGH SWIMMING CLUB Getting the best from your Education Fully Qualified teacher/examiner to teach: SUMMER SPECIAL • Primary subject Membership and lessons £20 • Other subjects to GCSE Re/Maths Open to all from Reception to Year 11 • English through to A Level Term starts • Common Entrance preparation Tuesday 3 May or Thursday 5 May • IELTS/TESOL, proof reading Ring Jacqueline Smith 20760 Face to face, skype, e mail or combination Rainbow awards 24 and 26 May Please call for further info 0790 3678463
SEDBERGH & DISTRICT before do come along. CHRISTIAN AID NEWS Christian Aid Week seems a little The activities to support the work of later than usual this year running from Christian Aid in 2011 are about to Sunday 15th to the 21st May. It’s never start so the good news is that spring too early to start rummaging through must be almost upon us with the for items to donate to the shop or to opportunities to gather over mugs of set aside when spring cleaning takes coffee with freshly made biscuits to place – why not have a bag or box at savour while we catch up with others the ready? The focus of the week this also emerging from their winter year is on Nicaragua – perhaps it retreats and help raise funds for our could be Nicaraguan coffee in our various charitable interests. homes and meetings for the week to The Christian Aid Coffee Morning help us build a sensory link as well as will take place in Sedbergh’s URC a better mental picture. rooms from 10.00 to 12.00 on Meanwhile the Christian Aid Wednesday 16th March. It’s always a committee look forward to seeing you lively event and everyone is made on the 16th March. The Rev Anne Pitt very welcome so if you haven’t been on behalf of the Committee
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Page 47 COWGILL CHURCH of tapestry kneelers to replace our KNEELER PROJECT existing 50 year, aged kneelers. Floods in Dentdale frustrated our Along with bringing colour into our first attempt to kick off the Cowgill church the project aims to bring our Church Kneeler project. Not to be small community together, working defeated, two weeks later on a cold towards a common goal. The project but sunny Saturday, twenty one is being funded though generous ‘eager beavers’ arrived to find out donations from our volunteers, other more about the project. The group benefactors and the proceeds from a included proficient needle women as coffee morning at the church on well as those of us who had not February 19th. Thirty three tapestry touched a needle since school. kits (including 2 altar rail kneelers) Others came along to offer their have been ordered from Jackson of support – donations of food and Hebden Bridge. Now the hard work money as well as offering to host begins! sessions for the stitchers in their If you would like to learn more or homes. Fuelled by homemade soup, provide a donation please contact rolls and cupcakes, the group learnt Rita on 25594 or Heather at more about this project to stitch a set [email protected]. PB Vacancies 1 Marquee erector/general operative Killington Marquees is seeking a cheerful outgoing person to join a small busy team. You will need to be fit and energetic, not afraid of hard work, enjoy working outdoors in all weathers. You must be able to deal with customers in a friendly manner and solve problems on site using your own initiative, be self motivated and capable of working as part of a team. Flexible with working times as long hours may be required when necessary. The position will involve a brief probationary period after which a permanent position would be available. You must hold a clean driving licence, be over 25 and able to drive vehicles up to 7.5 tonnes. 2 Students As our busiest time of year coincides with the university holidays, it makes a great opportunity for students in the summer months to assist us erecting marquees and supplying equipment. We are looking for students who are not afraid of hard physical work, enjoy working outdoors in all weather, are able to get to our depot (we start at 8am, and some days can be long, not finishing until late in the evening), reliable and willing to learn. Please send your CV and a handwritten letter of application to: Ann Newbold Killington Marquees, Killington Hall, Killington, Kirkby Lonsdale, Carnforth LA6 2HA www.killingtonmarquees.co.uk 015396 20602
Page 48 APPLEBY FAIR 2011 recently, bow tops and their horses proposed arrangements were allowed on the grass verges in At the Neighbourhood Forum held in 2010 and many travellers took the People’s Hall, Sedbergh on 18 advantage of the arrangement. January 2011, council officials and DATES the police informed those present Devils Bridge, Middleton Common about the arrangements for the and Rawthey Bridge stopping areas Appleby Fair 2011. Broadly these will will be open 23 May – 2 June & 9 follow those successfully used in June – 16 June. 2010. Scrogg Bank (by kind permission of • The siting of signs, boulders and the owner, with extra toilets and wooden stakes will be “bins”) will be open 23 May – 2 June concentrated in smaller areas & 6 June – 13 June. around Devils Bridge, Barbon, Cote Moor will be open 29 May – 9 Straight Bridge, New Bridge and June. Cautley. Appleby “Fair Hill” will be open 2 • Police patrols will start on 30 April June – 6 June. until 11 June. These arrangements may change. • The Traffic Regulation Order will The Councils and Police will be become permanent in 2011. holding “drop in” sessions in • Bow tops and their horses are Sedbergh in April. The intention of allowed on the grass verges, but both the gypsy and traveller no mechanical vehicles. community and the resident (settled) Despite what was said in “Big fat community is to restore the Fair to its gypsy weddings” on Channel 4 traditional roots. Dr Gina Barney
Page 49 SEDBERGH TOWN BAND New Year Rehearsals Rehearsal time during the first few weeks of the new year has been devoted to working up to performance standard a large number of new pieces. The Band’s repertoire has increased by ten items that will form the backbone of the next concert: by the time of the arrival of the Annual Spring Concert (Tuesday 8th March) virtually the entire programme will be new to public performance. Rehearsals have had an added significance in that the Band’s number of youngsters who since Christmas have been promoted from the Youth Band to the Senior Band. It is most encouraging to see the two fold purpose of the Youth Band coming to fruition. First, an organisation providing young beginners the opportunity to take up an instrument, receive tuition and Lewis, with admirable brevity, within a very short space of time be expressed his contentment with the playing with others, and secondly a progress made by the Band over the feeder for the Senior Band ensuing last twelve months. continuity of existence. New Music Annual Dinner The weekly rehearsal on Forty members of the Town Band Wednesday 2nd February was rather met in the Bull Hotel on Friday 4th different in that it was taken by Tony February for the Annual Dinner. After Creswell, who besides being a ‘band a most enjoyable meal Keith Wood clinician’ also runs a music publishing addressed the gathering and in a business. In the course of the witty speech ranging over many and evening he handed a total of ten varied events in the Band’s history he pieces completely new to the Band declared this to be the tenth such conducting and coaching the players dinner and invited the assembled to through each number. It was a toast the health of the Band. demanding exercise in sight reading, Responding to a call to reply to especially as without exception the Keith’s speech Director of music Alan numbers were all required to be
Page 50 25th Anniversary Party in the People’s Hall. A week later sees the Band playing in Kendal at the fundraising Sandylands/Lion’s Concert in the Methodist Church, Windermere Road. On April 2nd, for the sixth Specialist Bookshop open Fridays & Saturdays successive year, will be providing 1100 to 1600 music at the Annual Sedbergh Spring other days and times are possible by appointment Show. On the 23rd of the same Large stock of new and secondhand month, following the success of last books on Transport and Industrial year’s inaugural celebration of St. History. Some more general titles George’s Day, the event will be also available. Free Book Search. repeated in the Bull Hotel Garden. 61 Main Street, Sedbergh LA10 5AB The band will again be leading the 015396 21111 & 0772 411 4475 parade on May 21st for the Sedbergh e-mail [email protected] Gala and then playing in their marquee on the Lupton Field. At the A selection of our stock is also available end of the month the majority of the in the Dales & Lakes Book Centre 72 Main Street, Sedbergh, open daily. Band will be away in Belgium, staying 015396 20125 in Ypres, giving a concert in the town square and touring the battle fields. On June 4th the Band will help played at a breathtaking pace. It is celebrate the opening of a new gate great credit to the progress being at the Sedbergh Bowling Club and on made by the band that they were able 9th of July they will provide music at to cope with the demands in a most the St. Andrew’s Churchyard Party. impressive way and were not at all The final event before the Christmas fazed by the challenge presented. season starts is the Annual Concert As a result of this evening a few of Remembrance to be held on Friday more new pieces have been added to 11th November in the United the expanding library collection. Reformed Church. Programme for 2011 The pattern for the festive season is The Band’s programme for the year largely the same as last year starting is largely settled and promises to be with the Christmas Concert on as busy as the year just gone. The Tuesday 6th December in the first major engagement is the Annual People’s Hall, the day before Late Spring Concert on Tuesday 8th Night Opening when the Band will March. On Saturday 12th of March again be playing. A busy schedule of the Band are delighted to be giving a carol playing follows finishing at the short concert at the Lookaround’s bus shelter on Christmas Eve. GB
Page 51 SEDBERGH & DISTRICT HISTORY SOCIETY On 2nd February Mr Ian Tyler gave ACUPUNCTURE a fascinating, lively and entertaining illustrated talk on the gunpowder mills of South Lakeland a surprisingly extensive industry, yet now almost Acupuncture can be very relaxing, forgotten. some people even fall asleep. Mr Tyler, who is the founder and curator of the Keswick Mining Please phone for details. Museum and has written a dozen books on the subject of mining in Cumbria, began by explaining the June M. Parker Dip Ac, MBAcC nature and origin of gunpowder. Invented by Roger Bacon in 1247, its 49 Bainbridge Road, Sedbergh formula consists of 70% saltpetre, Tel: 015396 20972 15% sulphur and 15% charcoal. In its milling, which involves crushing, mixing and refining through a series established at Old Sedgwick in 1764. of drying processes but in a Others quickly followed, including necessarily damp atmosphere to Low Wood, Elterwater, New reduce the risk of explosions, it was Sedgwick, Black Beck and Gatebeck. finally packed in the form of pellets, Clearly a dangerous trade to be into calico bags, or into barrels lined involved in, yet commanding good with linen bags ready for wages for the time ( £1 + bonuses transportation by wagon, barge and per week in the 1820s and 1830s ), ship. Amazingly, there were no fewer several hundred workers were than 60 different types of gunpowder! employed across the region, both This depended on whether its use men ( mainly in building, processing was for various types and sizes of and transportation ) and women firearms or in mining, quarrying or ( mainly in packing ). This lucrative other industrial processes. industry needed considerable initial South Lakeland was particularly investment, and the bulk of this ( from suitable for its manufacture. A remote, 1799 ) came from Mr Wakefield of sparsely populated area, it had plenty Sedgwick Hall, the local entrepreneur of water, rivers, the availability of who also had business interests in charcoal, and several shallow water banking and brewing. As the industry ports ideal for trans shipment in small expanded so the Huddleston family of sailing vessels: Lancaseter (Glasson the Elterwater works and the Wilsons Dock), Arnside, Grange, Greenodd of Rigmaden became involved. and Milnthorpe among others. Initially the barrels of gunpowder The first gunpowder mill was were transported by horse drawn
Page 52 black and white. They depicted The Dentdale Choir will perform members of the workforce variously operating pressing machines ( to squeeze moisture from the TheThe ArmedArmed ManMan gunpowder ), posing with their A Mass for Peace instruments in the works' brass band, by Karl Jenkins loading barrels ( dozens each day ) onto the wagons, packing the Saturday 16th April 7:30 p.m. powder filled pellets on dust filmed St. Andrew’s, Dent tables, etc. Above all, the slides reinforced the ever present dangers: Sunday 17th April 3:30 pm. St. John’s, testing mortars with 80lb cannonballs; Cowgill (Abridged) Palm Sunday having to use copper nails and Service at 2:30 p.m. banding on the barrels to avoid sparks( many highly skilled coopers Admission: including refreshments, for were employed ) as well as copper Dent £7/£5, children and students free. horseshoes and copper coated rails; Tickets available from: Sedbergh T.I.C., Dent Stores and at the being issued with leather aprons as door. their only protection agaist explosions and burns; and a 'before and after' There will be a retiring collection at pair of photographs showing a St. John’s, Cowgill. powder mill house with its mill wheel by a river becoming totally destroyed after an explosion... apart from the wagons, later attached to rails, and mill wheel itself! In fact, 102 were by barge along the length of killed during the period of the industry Windermere or via the Kendal ( perhaps a surprisingly small Lancaster canal which was number ) though countless others constructed partly for this trade, being must have been injured by various routed alongside the Sedgwick works degrees of burns. and through the 150 yard Hincaster The local gunpowder industry came tunnel, a significant feat of to an abrupt halt in 1937 when I.C.I. engineering. From the local ports it bought up the mills and shifted the was shipped to Liverpool and thence entire production to Ayrshire in into larger vessels overseas, Scotland, out of range of the looming including West Africa where it threat of enemy bombers. So ended a became a key component in the remarkable and little known chapter triangular trade involving slaves to the in the industrial heritage of our Americas. beautiful South Lakes one very well Mr Tyler illustrated his talk with a documented by Ian Tyler in this talk, series of impressive archive at his museum and in his books. transparencies, mainly in sepia or Michael Beecroft
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DENTDALE OVER-SIXTIES tables decorated with holly and red Dentdale Over Sixties held their candles, and everyone had a free annual Christmas Lunch on Saturday raffle ticket for twenty excellent prizes 11 December 2010 in the Memorial kindly donated by Committee Hall Dent. As usual, invitations were members and friends. After lunch we sent to everyone over 60 who is a were entertained by the Dentdale permanent resident in the dale, and Warblers with a selection of 4 part the lunch is free of charge. 90 people songs, ending with a hilarious attended (numbers were slightly performance (with umbrellas) of the down this year owing to bad weather carol On the Twelfth Day of and illness). Everyone enjoyed an Christmas, in which several Dentdale excellent full Christmas dinner characters revealed themselves as cooked by the school cook and her not only excellent singers but helpers, and served by Committee comedians/comediennes as well. The members and helpers (roast turkey afternoon was rounded off with tea with all the trimmings, Christmas and mince pies and communal carol pudding or trifle and a glass of wine). singing. Thank you to everyone who The hall looked very festive, with helped to make this such an
Page 56 raised the roof! A big thank you to all CHIROPODIST of them for their very enjoyable session. HPC Registered The Friday Club continues to Kay Whittle flourish, with an average weekly MSSCh DipPodMed MBChA attendance of around 10 people (more when we have outside Surgery speakers.) We very much welcome Pedi-Care House, the regular input from our Age Howgill Lane, Concern Village representative, Sedbergh Linda, who is full of good ideas. She Tel: 015396 22122 visits us on the second Friday of every month, and is always able to Appointments 10:00 - 4:00 get us information, or provide advice. Closed Mondays We continue with our regular slots H.J.Hall “Softop” Socks up to size 15!! (Parish Council, Health Centre representative, Police) to keep us up to date, and have had some enjoyable occasion: the school cook interesting talks and slide shows from and helpers, the Committee members local speakers. A new departure is a who worked so hard to organise short course on gentle chair everything, the Dentdale Warblers, exercises to keep us both warm and and our trusty pianist. Thank you also supple during the winter. We have to everyone who donated raffle also had some outings (Beetham prizes, and to all the generous people Garden Centre, Country Harvest at who gave us donations towards the Ingleton, Watershed Mill including cost of the event. fish and chips in Settle). We are Dentdale Over Sixties Friday Club putting together a new programme for held their Christmas Party in the the spring and would welcome any Sedgwick Room on Friday 17 suggestions and/or offers from local December 2010. Everyone speakers. And if you are over 60 and contributed items for tea not just sometimes free on a Friday afternoon sandwiches and cakes, but quiche, do come along (1.30 4.00) and join desserts, wine and crackers as well. us for a cup of tea and a chat, We were entertained by four ladies whether or not you want to join in with from Sedbergh Town Brass Band, led whatever we're doing. Please phone by Reverend Carole Marsden. They Belle on 25203 if you'd like more presented an original angle on the information, or if you would have Nativity story, and we all joined in to difficulty in getting to the Memorial sing the carols with four brass Hall, as we might be able to help out instruments in the Sedgwick room we with lifts. Belle Burrow
Page 57 PEOPLE’S HALL Our Architect, Barbara Hartley of We have divided the Garsdale Design, is busy producing Redevelopment of the People’s Hall detailed plans of Phases 1A and 1B into three phases. Basically Phase 1 for Building Regulations approval. is the front part, Phase 2 is the rear She has been able acquire the annexe and Phase 3 is services of a trainee architect, refurbishment, car park and grounds. Martha, to assist and we expect the The plans are available to view on the plans to be drafted by Easter. In boards in the Main Hall and the addition, Martha is to develop the Committee Room. Phase 1 is divided interior aesthetic design for us. The into two stages. Phase 1A is to create latter aspect is very exciting as it a new extension to the north (up involves the décor, glazing and Howgill Lane) to provide new lobby, finishes, including the placement of toilets, committee room bar and Jack McLean’s donation bricks. stores. Phase 1B is to draw the hall We have been in contact with the forward towards Howgill Lane to Big Lottery Fund (www.bit.ly/PH create a new small hall and technical Fund1) to check our eligibility for the gallery. “Reaching Communities Capital
Page 58 Strand” providing funding of between £100,000 and £500,000 for large KEVIN BATEMAN capital projects. (Phases 1A and 1B TIME SERVED MONUMENTAL MASON are costed at £600,000.) Tel/FAX 01539 723903 Their method of determining Mobile 07817 060619 eligibility is to use the Hall’s precise Manufacture, Lettering and Installation of new Memorials post code, eg: “LA10 5DQ”. In their Additional inscriptions response we are told that the post Renovations code for the People’s Hall is not in a Cleaning and Re paint/Re gild service. Free estimates deprived area. The anomaly is that Home Visits my flower meadow is eligible, as are Please telephone for a Brochure the bigger properties at the top of Howgill Lane! grounds of the lack of public transport As the People’s Hall serves the to enable local residents and the needs of all of the people of outlying community to get to Sedbergh we contacted our MP, Tim alternative venues. I sincerely hope Farron, and received the following that our case will be accepted, reply: although this will depend upon the Thank you very much for your letter of the law. I will write again, recent email with regard to the when I have received his response. ridiculous reason for the rejection of So we wait in anticipation that our your application for Big Lottery “Big Society” can be supported. funding. On the question of support it was I am pleased to confirm that I have disappointing that so few people written to their Chief Executive to give turned out to our two February my full endorsement to your fundraising events: “Blackheart Band” argument for exemption from the and “Brassed Up!”. Although we did routine restriction of the postcode. I not make a loss we do need to get have also stressed the added funds together. You can see what you importance of the hall facilities on missed for the Brassed Up event at: www.bit.ly/brassedup Here is another chance to support J J MARTIN our efforts as the Pepperpot Club is Funeral Service to hold a performance of the new (B Goad) Sedbergh Orchestra on 31 March Established 1869 2011 in the People’s Hall. The Main Street, Sedbergh proceeds, of which, are to be divided Complete Funeral Service between the Pepperpot’s Alison Day or Night ——————————————————————————— Armstrong Fund and the Hall’s Chapel of Rest Redevelopment Fund. Day or Night Dr Gina Barney, Hon Secretary Dent 25334 (20790)
Page 59 TIM FARRON MP Well, the great Forestry Sell Off debate certainly saw a first for me this NICKY ROSS month. Over the years that I have All types of heating, been working as your MP we have seen lots of consultations and been including underfloor. frustrated by the majority of them which, as far as I could see, simply Bathrooms designed, ignored the views of most people involved. Causing us all to wonder supplied, tiled & fitted what the point of “consulting” was in Gas Safe registered the first place, if the parties involved are going to do what they always Mobile planned. Recent “consultations” 07810 582345 about the future of services at Telephone Westmorland General Hospital and the introduction of democracy into the 015396 20753 221680 running of the YDNP spring quickly to mind but there are other examples. putting in place to protect the forests. Which is why the Forestry Sell Off This is not the same as cancelling the Debate was so unusual. Here was a plans which is what most people I consultation that not only recognised speak to actually want but it is a step what people wanted to happen before in the right direction and everyone it had even started but acted upon who has signed a petition or attended everyone’s wishes and cancelled the a protest can feel proud that they plans for the sell off before the formal have done their bit to save our process had even begun. However, forests. we will need to be vigilant as all that Another example of the Government the Government has promised to do listening in the past month was the is reconsider the safeguards that it is announcement by Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, that money has been put aside to cover the VAT that Mountain Rescue Teams have to pay on their equipment. I have been campaigning for years to have Mountain Rescue Teams brought in to line with other emergency services, who can claim back any VAT they pay out. This was why it was brilliant to hear Danny say, in answer to my question in Parliament, that, at long last, we are
Page 60 getting what we wanted. that are do nothing other than add to Finally, this month sees the tenth farmers’ costs. I am thinking in anniversary of the dreadful 2001 Foot particular of the unnecessary 6 day and Mouth outbreak that brought movement restriction and electronic farming in this country and in tagging of sheep. I have put down a particular Cumbria to a standstill and motion in Parliament asking the devastated our local tourist industry. Government to consider removing There are still many visible reminders these measures. Let’s see if they around of how much Cumbria listen. suffered during that time. My drive to As ever, if you have any issues you Oxenholme station, when I am have some issues you want me to heading off to London, takes me past hear then please do contact me by the places where disinfected mats phoning 01539 723403, writing to Tim were placed in the road to help Farron MP, at Acland House, reduce the spread of the outbreak. Smokehouse Yard, Stricklandgate, We really must ensure that we never Kendal LA9 4ND or emailing me at see an outbreak like that ever again. [email protected]. However, there are still many invisible Thanks for your support hangovers from that time still in place Tim Farron MP
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Page 61 SPRINGTIME CAFÉ CONCERT SEDBERGH ORCHESTRA Cumbria Stove Centre The February Lookaround drew your Supply and installation of attention to an event taking place in wood, coal and gas stoves Flue and chimney lining services the People’s Hall on Thursday March st Inglenook specialists 31 . This is to be the inaugural public Fully qualified and experienced concert given by the Sedbergh Hetas engineers (community) Orchestra, conductor 01539 821061 (day) Peter Crompton and leader Val 015396 25227 (evening) Snelling, and we hope to attract a SHOWROOM: large gathering to share the 34a Main Street, Staveley, Nr Kendal experience with us. The doors open at 7.45pm and the music begins at faces amongst the other members of 8.00pm. the orchestra. We shall also be The idea of forming such an welcoming a few experienced orchestra grew out of the wish to musicians, mostly Pepperpot provide a continuing local opportunity members, who are keen to come for the young people of Sedbergh along and play with us. The who gained their first orchestral programme has been chosen to suit experience in the Pepperpot Music the instruments we play, strings and Makers orchestra, an after school wind, but we have even been activity at Sedbergh Primary School. provided with some timpani and we We are delighted that there will be six have a young player to go with them! such participants playing on the day, We shall be playing music by Bizet, and there will be many familiar local Schubert, Mozart and Gustav Holst and there will be a surprise item in the middle . . . . . Oliver Higginbotham This will not be a formal concert with Farm & Garden Contractor the audience sitting in rows the hall Stone Walling ~ Fencing ~ Decking will be laid out café style. Everyone Paving ~ Landscaping ~ Strimming will be able to exchange their ticket Tree Surgey/Felling for a glass of wine or soft drink on arrival and there will be nibbles on the Hedge Cutting ~ Hedge Laying tables for you to savour whilst Planting ~ Weed Control listening all included in the price of the ticket which is a modest £6.00. Pest Control Anyone 18 and under will be able to (Mole, rat, rabbit, squirrel, mink) enjoy the music and the refreshments Sed: 015396 21073 - 07815 899 994 free of charge. There will however be Hardwood Logs – Woodchip – Manure further drinks for sale. The evening’s Garden machinery repairs and service music is planned without an interval Email: [email protected] so that both orchestra and audience
Page 62 Sedbergh Community Development Centre Courses for March to June Subject Tutor Day Wks Start Times Still Life in Layered Pastels & Line Patrick Oates Sat 1 05 Mar 10.00 16.00 BA Surface Expression and Texture Frances Winder Sat 1 11 Jun 10.00 16.00 SD Intro to Microsoft Publisher Chris Wood Tue 4 01 Mar 19:00 21:00 SD How Good Is Your Memory? David Walton Tue 1 29 Mar 13:00 16:00 SD Pilates Teresa Hill Mon 6 Ongoing 16:30 17:30 SD Pilates Teresa Hill Mon 6 Ongoing 17:45 18:45 SD Feel Confident on Bow Fell and Tim Deighton Sun 1 06 Mar 10:00 18:00 Crinkle Crags Feel Confident on Scafell Pike Tim Deighton Sun 1 07 Apr 10:00 18:00 Lowland Navigation day course Tim Deighton Fri 1 18 Mar 10:00 17:00 Mountain Adventure Back o’ Skidda Tim Deighton Sat/Sun 1 02 Apr Meet 09:30 The Chinese Way to Better Health June Parker Wed 6 02 Mar 19:00 20:30 SD Cooking the Low GI Way David Walton Mon 6 09 May 19:00 21:00 SD Courses marked SD are in Sedbergh, KL in Kirkby Lonsdale, BA in Barbon. Outdoor courses are in various location. Have a look at our website for more information and details of courses in Kendal.
nts “Course tutor was excellent ..one of the best I have been on” mme nt co “Congratulations on your imaginative programme” rece Some “I love coming every week” Most courses are funded by Cumbria Adult Education [email protected] www.sedberghcdc.org.uk Tel: 015396 21031 can enjoy partying together Sedbergh TIC and Cobble Country afterwards when there will be further have kindly agreed to sell tickets for nibbles available some of them the concert and these will be on sale homemade! Our Wine & Nibbles from March 1st. Members of the party on a snowy night in December, orchestra will also have tickets to sell. when the orchestra played Otherwise please make contact with background music for invited friends, Sedbergh Pepperpot Club by phone ran on roughly similar lines and was a 015396 21196 or email happy occasion. [email protected]. It would be a We are indebted to members of great help if you would buy your ticket Sedbergh Pepperpot Club for all their (s) well in advance so that we can help and generous contributions have some idea of how many people towards the event. Any proceeds from to cater for and so that you don’t miss the evening will be shared between the chance to come if we are over the People’s Hall Redevelopment subscribed. We look forward to Fund and the Alison Armstrong seeing you there and hope that you Pepperpot Fund, described in last will enjoy the total experience. month’s article. Shirley Smith
Page 63 NEWS FROM THE PEWS future. Here at St Andrew’s we have something to consider concerning our future. The news broke in December 2010 that plans were afoot to abolish the Diocese of Bradford to which we belong. Containing 160 churches the Diocese is the smallest in England, As I write, half term is upon us. The numerically speaking and reaches evenings are getting lighter, with the from its southern borders with sight of snowdrops brightening our Wakefield to us here in the far west of days whilst the promise of more the diocese, some 48 miles from the colours around us in the gardens and cathedral in Bradford. The proposal hedgerows is exciting. Spring is on is that we join the Diocese of Carlisle. its way and each one of us is looking Carlisle Diocese, once part of the ahead to something. It may be just a Diocese of Durham was founded in change in the weather, a change of 1133 by King Henry 1st. Dioceses are scene, an improvement in health; separated into smaller areas called everyone has a special wish for the Deaneries and it could be that should
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Page 64 we move we would be introduced into the Deanery of Kendal, which has Daphne Jackson borders on the Dioceses of Bradford MSc (Ost) DO and Blackburn. Carlisle Diocese, with Registered Osteopath The Right Reverend James BUPA Provider Newcome as its Bishop has in its Mill Barn, Broad Raine care 351 churches and 109 schools. Killington LA10 5EP It has to be said that here in Sedbergh we have familiarity with Please ring Kendal Practice Kendal and the journey to Carlisle for appointments 01539 740452 although hardly closer in mileage than Bradford is a journey we would find easier to consider and execute very pleasing and the positive feeling should we want to participate in that this would be a good move came events at the cathedral. It would through loud and clear from those even be possible to let the train take present. the strain. The move is a long way from being Bishop James suggested he should signed and sealed and we look introduce himself to us, at the same forward to the challenges it will bring. time speak about his diocese and let In the near future, on 9th March it will us ask questions that may be be Ash Wednesday and the concerning us about the change. I beginning of Lent. Once again, Lent am happy to report that the evening Lunches will be served in the Church he spent with us in St Andrew’s was Room each Wednesday in Lent, beginning at 12noon. A regular Communion Service is held at Paul 11.15am each Wednesday throughout the year and during Lent Hoggarth we shall follow the service with readings from the King James Bible which is 400years old this year. The Building Contractor readings will begin at 11.45am and finish in time for the beginning of 6" Wood Chipper For Hire lunch. Please consider joining us either for Small Plant Hire the service, the readings, or for lunch, better still, all three. It will be good to have you join us. 015396 21413 Susan Sharrocks Tony Reed Screen 07968 977429 Churchwardens
Page 65 MAIN STREET - 72 The acquisition of 72 Main Street SEDBERGH As many of you are aware, the Yorkshire Dales National Park HEALTH CENTRE will be closed for Training Purposes Authority has decided to sell 72 Main on the following afternoons: Street, which for the past fifteen years has been the home of the Community Thursday 17th March No Session in April Office, the Tourist Information Centre Tuesday 17th May and the History Society Archive. Wednesday 15th June The Sedbergh and District Thursday 14th July Community and Heritage Trust believe that the services and resources provided at number 72 play an ideal location for community based an important part in supporting the services. Furthermore, along with its social, cultural and economic small garden, number 72 holds the development of our town and are key to a number of the proposed seeking to acquire the building to developments within the Sedbergh safeguard the future of the Townscape Initiative. organisations therein. Initially, encouraged by the loud Apart from being a prominent and fanfare heralding the coming of the historically significant building in its Big Society, we had hoped to acquire own right, number 72 is the only town the building for no cost under what centre building to enjoy adjacent are known as asset transfer parking and easy access, making it arrangements, or to negotiate a nominal purchase price. Philip Horner Unfortunately, but perhaps understandably in the light of the Fencing Contractor recent significant cuts to its funding, the National Park Authority feels Walling unable to agree to this course of action. Man & Tractor However, the Park Authority does Tel: 015396 21984 recognise the importance of number Mob: 07855 349157 72 to the town and has agreed that e mail: [email protected] the Community and Heritage Trust should be given the first option to purchase, subject to securing the necessary funding within a reasonable time scale. The Trust is presently endeavouring to secure grant funding from a number of
Page 66 sources. and purposes of the charity remain We are fortunate that the upper floor the same, the name has been of number 72 has recently been changed to better reflect the range of granted a lawful use certificate in activities the Trust will undertake in respect of its varied but continuous future. community use. This means that any Whether or not we are successful in other materially different use of the purchasing the freehold of number 72 upper floor would require application it is anticipated that the Community for planning permission, and it is the Office and Tourist Information Centre policy of the Park Authority to resist will combine, under the auspices of developments that would result in the the Trust, to form a more efficient and loss of community facilities where sustainable community enterprise. those facilities continue to have the We hope that we can count on your support of the community. support in this venture which we The Sedbergh and District believe will protect services and bring Community and Heritage Fund is the benefit to the community. new name for the charity previously David Ramsbottom: Hon Sec, known as the Sedbergh and District Sedbergh and District Community Community Fund. Whilst the aims and Heritage Trust.
HF Holidays world leaders in Walking and Leisure Activity Holidays Our New Manager is looking for a General Assistant At our Country House hotel Thorns Hall Sedbergh To join our friendly and professional team Flexible Days & Hours to be agreed at interview LIVE OUT Competitive Rates of Pay Please contact: Mr David Newton 015396 20973
Page 67 LASTING POWERS OF ATTORNEY giving you peace of mind for the future. HEAPS OF FUN Who will deal with your affairs when Party Supply Shop you are unable to? A husband, wife, Waltons Yard, Market Street, Kirkby Stephen, CA17 4QT daughter, son, friend? Do they have 017683 74893 the authority to? Banks, building Party supplies and Helium balloons societies, even the Council, will not for all occasions weddings, deal with anyone on your behalf christening, and birthdays. unless they have the legal right to do Please enquire about venue so. decoration and delivery service. A Lasting Power of Attorney is a legal document that enables any your affairs. individual (the Donor) who has mental There are two different types of capacity to choose another individual LPAs: or individuals, called Attorneys, to • A property and affairs LPA (for make decisions on their behalf. It is a decisions about finances, such as way of planning for the future and selling the donor's house or ensuring someone you trust manages managing their bank account). • A personal welfare LPA (for decisions about both health and personal welfare, such as where Did you know to live, day to day care or having ? medical treatment) If you become incapable of The Donor must make it while he dealing with your affairs - who has the mental capacity to do so, in will deal with them? Without the anticipation of perhaps losing mental legal right to do so, even your or physical capacity at a later stage. closest family can’t do this. A An ordinary power of attorney is not Lasting Power of Attorney can sufficient because it becomes invalid give you peace of mind. Contact if the Donor becomes mentally us for more information. incapable. If an individual who has not made an LPA becomes mentally Home visits c a n b e incapable, time consuming and costly arranged if applications to the Court of Protection required. may have to be made. This can take over a year to complete and can cost thousands of pounds. An Attorney can make decisions about selling property, operating any Contact [email protected] or [email protected] bank or building society account, claiming benefits, pensions, receiving Tel: 01539 720136 any income, inheritance or other Page 68 entitlement on behalf of the donor. Attorney to action them. If registration The Attorney can deal with the is delayed, there is a risk that if the Donor's tax affairs, insuring, attorneys need to act urgently on maintaining and repairing the Donor's behalf of the Donor they will be property, investing the Donor's unable to do so until the registration savings and paying rent, care home process has been completed, which fees and other expenses. A Donor can take between 12 and 14 weeks at can give guidance to their Attorney the present time and does incur a and also restrict their powers. registration fee. A Lasting Power of Attorney cannot If you require further information in be used until it is registered at the relation to Lasting Powers of Attorney, Office of the Public Guardian, please contact us to ensure that you however, it need not be registered are prepared for the future before it’s immediately if not required. If it is too late. Nicola Steadman, a Solicitor required however, then we can deal who is a member of the Private Client with this registration process for you. Section of the Law Society and also Registering the LPA does not ‘Solicitors for the Elderly’ can be preclude the Donor from making their contacted at Hayton Winkley own decisions but allows their Solicitors on 01539 720136.
Auctioneers, Estate Agents & Property Managers 70, Main Street, Sedbergh, LA10 5AD Tel: 015396 20293 Fax: 015396 21650 Email [email protected] www.chriswhelan.co.uk We are proud of our reputation for courtesy, good manners, respect, honesty, integrity, reliability and service. We may not always achieve the quickest sale, but the quickest sale seldom results in the best price which is what we try to achieve for our Clients As for other Agents we could not possibly comment!
Page 69 sedbergh wanderers footballers and wags invite you to Take a walk on the wild side An evening of ladies only jungle fun On 9TH April At 7.30pm Queens hall, sedbergh Three Courses of Bush Tucker followed by an amazing Big Prize Draw and D*I*S*C*O £15 per person. Tickets available from Premier, Sedbergh. See tickets for instructions on how to reserve a VIP table and place your bush tucker order. Strictly no under 18’s or Men!!!
SEDBERGH presently have no sign – streets such TOWNSHIP INITIATIVE as Joss Lane, Loftus Hill and Howgill ‘Thank you’ to all those who came Lane. Wherever possible (and subject along to the Community Office in to property owners’ consent where December to look at the draft needed) the new name plates will be proposals for the town. The affixed directly to walls to enable the comments received will help the removal of existing posts, many of consultants appointed by the Project which are rusted and unsightly. The Board* to develop the various project will be entirely funded by schemes for improving the grants from the Yorkshire Dales appearance of the town centre and National Park Authority and South dealing with those traffic issues of Lakeland District Council. concern to residents. The consultants’ Small improvements such as this final report and recommendations are can have a significant impact on the expected in early March. Some of the overall appearance of the town and, more ambitious proposals are likely to hopefully, will be followed by further be long term and will require enhancement schemes in the near substantial funding but the Initiative is future. also concerned with smaller scale *The Project Board comprises projects that can be implemented representatives of the Parish, District almost straight away. and County Councils, the Yorkshire One such project, approved by the Dales National Park Authority, the Parish Council, is to erect good Chamber of Trade, Sedbergh quality cast aluminum street name Booktown, Sedbergh School, plates in the town centre to replace Sedbergh & Kirkby Lonsdale Local the existing embossed signs which Area Partnership and the Sedbergh& are generally in poor condition. This District Community Office/Community also provides the opportunity to erect Fund name plates for those streets which Jim Atkins
Page 70 DENT DALE CHRISTIAN Dentdale. In its 27th year the race FELLOWSHIP generates vital funds for Dent C of E In January our speaker was Andrew Primary School with the assistance of Wightman, this lovely committed the races main sponsor Dent Brewery Christian has such a gift, he makes along with massive support from lovely cards, takes the photos himself other local businesses and the and writes the verses himself, God is support of local people in providing really using him to bless and catering, marshalling and other help. encourage a lot of people. Then we The race starts at 1pm on Saturday all sat around in a safe place sharing the 12th March and consequently together before eating a buffet Dent village will be very busy that supper. morning, the roads will also be busy Usually we don't give as much detail culminating at 1pm with over 500 as this, but feel it right to share what runners taking to the roads around we get up to. We sing a bit, read from Dentdale. So I would ask very kindly God's word and pray, but the main that if anybody is arranging for large difference to "normal" church is deliveries or any farmers are looking DDCF is not structured and is very to move livestock on that day it would much about personal relationship with be tremendously helpful if you could Jesus. avoid any time between about 12 Perhaps you want to know more, or noon and about 3.30pm. you'd like to come but not on your It is a very enjoyable event and any own, or you need a lift, or would spectators are warmly welcomed to appreciate someone walking with you come along and cheer the exhausted through whatever you are going athletes. You may even wish to enter through just now, or you are just a bit the race and an entry form can be curious about DDCF! Whatever and downloaded from www.dentdale.com whenever and whoever, please do Peter Knapton, Chairman get in touch. Relationship in Jesus Dentdale Run Committee and with Him is an "ever" situation. We are based in but not exclusive to Dent. John & Sarah Woof. "Rhumes" Laning DENT. LA10 5QJ. 25212. March date; Sunday 13th 7pm BUILDER DENTDALE RUN PLASTERER 12th March 2011 ROOFER On the 12th March the annual Dentdale Run will take place over a QUALITY WORK 14 mile course around the roads of Tel: 015396 20907
Page 71 SNOW CLEARANCE & GRITTING Cumbria Highways have made it The prolonged period of snow which clear the stocks will not be began in November caused major replenished if they are not used problems once again. Whilst the appropriately. responsibility for snow clearance and If we all work together then hopefully gritting lies with Cumbria Highways, we can ensure that people can get the system of priorities means that about the town even when the only main roads are cleared and most weather is bad. We need to plan now minor roads, estate roads and so that when inclement weather footpaths are not. Sedbergh Parish strikes again we can immediately put Council had managed to negotiate the plan into action. If you feel you with Cumbria Highways for a small could help please contact Tony supply of gritting salt which some of Jameson on 07988 737994 or via the Parish Councillors did their best email at [email protected] TJ to use to clear the car parks and some pavements. However, the Parish Council feels that with an M WINN & SONS LTD increased supply of gritting salt and (Established 1894) the help of willing volunteers the Sedbergh situation in Sedbergh could be General Builders & Joiners improved in the future. Now After a heavy fall the snow needs to Kitchens be cleared before any application of Supplied & Fitted grit salt can be effective. If everyone, Contact R. M. Winn who is physically capable, cleared the 015396 20649 footpath outside their house or business, as used to be the case, the situation would immediately be SEDBERGH GALA GROUP improved. It has been made clear, by At the February meeting of the both the Government and Cumbria Group the committee were pleased to County Council, that no one would be welcome several new members, but liable for slips and falls etc on areas we would still like to have more cleared of snow. people who are willing to help with The Parish Council would like to the Gala or Bonfire. hear from anyone who would be The theme for this years Gala, willing to volunteer for snow which is to be held on Saturday 21st clearance and gritting, either to be May, is T.V. Programmes. So for all part of a small team or who would be of you who want to take part in the willing to look after a particular area Fancy Dress or Shop Window where they live. Grit salt would be Competitions now is the time to start supplied by the Parish Council but planning. Do you want to be a Dalek, only for use on public areas – Postman Pat or a Celebrity Chef?!
Page 72 MARCH GARDENING which covers the leaves and makes There may seem to be few plants look scruffy. However a good advantages in living in a place which hard trim – removing all of the leaves is frequently damp, but we do have and spent flower stems after the advantage over the warmer, drier flowering always results in a fresh parts of the country in that we can growth of attractive new foliage which grow splendid Pulmonaria plants. is usually disease free. The most common Pulmonaria of Elaine Horne gardens is P. officinalis, an old fashioned cottage garden plant otherwise known as “Lungwort” (from its supposed resemblance of its leaves to, and consequent treatment of, diseases of the lung), “Soldiers and Sailors (for its red and blue flowers)” or “Virgin Mary Primrose”. Various named hybrids of this species are well worth seeking out. Amongst my favourites are ‘Sissinghurst White’ with pure white flowers, ‘Silverado’ with silvery WOMEN’S WORLD DAY leaves and blue, pink and white OF PRAYER flowers, and ‘Opal’, with pale blue On Friday 4th March a wave of flowers opening from pale pink buds. prayer will sweep around the world, The richest brightest blue flowers with services from Tonga to Trinidad, are born on plants from two other Wisconsin to Western Samoa, to species of Pulmonaria – P. celebrate and demonstrate solidarity angustifolia and P. longifolia. I grow with fellow Christians in other the cultivars ‘Azurea’ and ‘Mawson’s countries and this year in particular Variety’ and they are both stunningly with the people of Chile. Over 5,000 bright and beautiful with deep services will be held in England, Gentian blue flowers. Wales and Northern Ireland. The Lastly we have Pulmonaria rubra service has been written by the which, as its name suggests has red women of Chile under the title “How flowers, born very early in the year many loaves have you?” a theme to over its plain mid green leaves. unite all humankind, and men and All Pulmonarias like to grow in a soil young people are as welcome as which stays fairly moist throughout women! The service for this area will the growing season and most be at St Andrew’s Dent at 2.30 and appreciate a bit of shade. In a dry we will welcome the Revd Mabel Parr season or a very sunny spot they from Low Bentham as our speaker. tend to succumb to powdery mildew Do come and join us.
Page 73 DENTDALE CRICKET CLUB and look at events that can be The following fixtures have been planned together. The strength of arranged. Churches Together in England comes Twenty/20 matches starting at 2 pm from people from different traditions at dent. finding new ways to work and worship May 15th Kendal Cavaliers together. May 22nd to be arranged Here in Sedbergh the next joint June 5th Bellringers events are planned for Easter. The June 12th to be arranged open air service in Main Street on June 19th Holker Good Friday will take place slightly June 26th Dentdale Music and Beer later than usual at 11am and hot Festival cross buns will be given out to July 3rd Nomads attendees and passersby. On Easter July 10th archbishop Hutton Sunday morning there will be a walk July 17th Bentham Exiles up Winder and a sunrise service held July 24 to be arranged at the summit. More details on these August 7th to be arranged events and all the Easter services will August 14th Hawes follow in the April edition of the August 21st to be arranged Lookaround and via the noticeboard August 28th Dentdale Show on the URC wall, opposite the If you have a team that can fill any Chippy. of the ’to be arranged’, gaps please One new initiative agreed at the last call John Hyde 015396 25503. If you meeting was to produce a welcome would like to play or help, please leaflet, introducing all the churches in contact John or David Burton, Sedbergh and giving contact details captain, 015396 25537. and times of the main services. This will be printed soon and distributed CHURCHES TOGETHER around the local area as information The first meeting of the New Year to newcomers and visitors alike. If took place in February. The you have a business and would like committee is made up of the clergy copies, please speak to any member and representatives from The Church of the local clergy. Emma Brown of England in Sedbergh, Dent and the Lune parishes, the Methodist Church, DENT INDOOR BOWLING the United Reformed Church, Roman This continues on SOME Catholic and the Society of Friends Wednesday evenings and one (Quakers). The meetings, which take Saturday morning a month in the place every three months, are an Memorial Hall at Dent, often we have opportunity to share what each two mats in play and range from first denomination is doing individually timers to old timers but no one takes
Page 74 it very very seriously, although some who will end up “fired” and what part of us would if we were playing a will his 12 lovely daughters (played by match. Recently it was stated in the too many pretty young ladies too Dent News in the West. Gaz that mention) play? Bowling was on Feb. 9th, in fact that Woven into the show (see what was wrong, the WI met that evening, we’ve done there, expect plenty more so if you are interested in coming puns and family friendly innuendo please check the dates with Jean / along those lines) are loads of Rob on 25269 or Sarah/John on cracking songs and tunes from 25212 because they really do know! across the decades. Stevie Wonder, Irving Berlin, The Gershwins, Beatles, We'd love to see new faces and George Formby, Marilyn Monroe, and although it seems a quiet un even Bob Dylan get the “Rose energetic sort of sport it isn't, you do Theatre” treatment. use muscles etc that you don't often The performances will be on use, we also have breaks for tea and Thursday 24th, Friday 25th & cake/biscuits and chat. £2 is the cost Saturday 26th March at 7:30pm and a of play and refreshments and you will Saturday Matinee at 2:30pm. So be be made very welcome. sure to have it in your diary, smart phone (would’ve said iphone if Apple FARFLUNG MILL had only agreed to that sponsorship The Rose Community Theatre’s deal) or on the back of a cigarette 2011 production promises to be one packet! Tickets will be available from of the best yet when they present the beginning of March from the TIC ”Trouble at Farflung Mill” and are expected to sell like This year the group will be taking a proverbial hot cakes, not that anyone slight diversion from their normal sells hot cakes anymore due to health pantomime and performing a unique and safety regulations, so probably and original (only slightly plagarised) slightly warm cakes. musical comedy. “Trouble at Farflung Kevin Kendal Mill” is set in 1880 in and around a Yorkshire dales woollen mill, although ROYAL WEDDING CELEBRATIONS any historical accuracies are purely What shall we do ? Street party? coincidental and names have only Garden Party? Hire a large screen TV been slightly changed so as to for the local Hall ? Have a big Jacobs expose the innocents as guilty after Join meal? Nothing? all! Come along to the Dent Memorial This lively and entertaining story Hall AGM on 23rd March if you are follows mill owner Sir Bertie Treacle’s interested in doing something in (played by Stuart Byatt) “Apprentice” Dentdale to mark the day. style challenge to find an heir to his Or put ideas through "Rhumes" empire. Who will rise to the task and letter box before that date.
Page 75 WHICH GOD like that either! don't you believe in? We respect the convictions of Sedbergh has a variety of groups others, and do not seek to undermine who meet to read, learn and/or the traditional beliefs of people for discuss matters in the general arena whom they are the foundation of their of spirituality, philosophy, or faith. faith. We respect the insights of other Perhaps most of these groups are faiths. We also respect the honest rooted in the Christian tradition. What doubts and questions and seeking for we think all these groups may have in new understandings that are evident common, including those which claim in the current century. no faith affiliation, is a sense of As a group we have no formal belonging, of mutual trust, support affiliation to any church, but we and friendship. Through all this, include 10 or so people from a variety Sedbergh is enriched, and shares in of denominations and faith the renewed interest in matters backgrounds. 'spiritual' which seems to be growing If you are someone who might be within our jaded western culture. interested in open, honest, non In our group we are aware that not judgmental exploration of questions everyone knows about the range of of belief that you find puzzling or just ways of thinking about matters of faith plain barmy, then whether you are a within the Christian tradition that is regular church goer, or someone who now available in the 21st century. has left the church, or someone who Many people will consider themselves has rejected faith because of what you thought you had to believe, we Christian and express belief in God. would be pleased to hear from you. They may not know that there are What that might lead to will depend to some within the churches who have some extent on how many people genuine questions and puzzles about respond, and of course on what you the teachings of the church which decide yourself. they may feel reluctant to share with If you belong to a local group which others, through fear of criticism, already attempts to do this, we would ridicule or of causing distress or be interested to make contact with offence. Equally, outside the church your group. there may be people who have You can contact us without rejected faith because they have a preconditions through particular picture of what faith means Martin Dodds 20308 that does not truly reflect the [email protected] spectrum of Christian belief and Rosemary Handley, 21411 practice. [email protected] Which God don't you believe in? Robert Powell, 20482 You may not be alone. You may even [email protected]] be surprised to discover that quite a Monica Cleasby. 25476 few Christians don't believe in a God [email protected] Page 76 BRIGFLATTS QUAKER MEETING [email protected]. Or (FRIENDS) alternatively you can speak to us The half hour Meetings for Worship during our regular drop in surgery at we ran last year seemed to have Sedbergh Library at the new time and been much appreciated by those who date of the 3rd Saturday of each came , some regularly, some now month between 10:00 – 12:30. We and again as they were able. The are also at Gladstone house every opportunities for a quiet time in other Friday commencing on 11th peaceful surroundings seem to get March from 13:00. fewer and fewer these days ! We would be pleased to meet you all Anyway, we are starting them up to discuss any issues or simply for a again, and the first one will be on chat. Thursday 7th April, 7.30 8.0pm, Police Report for February: followed by a cuppa and chat for any This month has seen a low number of who would like to stay. incidents reported to the Police in this All are welcome, any Thursday. area. In Friendship There have been recent reports of off Valerie Finch road motor bikes using local bridleways; if registrations are passed Wenningdale Home Repairs to the Police offenders can be We offer a good range of advised. A number of Police action home improvements days have been organised jointly with and maintenance jobs such as: North Yorkshire Police and the * Interior decorating Yorkshire Dales National Park * Exterior painting authority, addressing the issue of * Sash window repairs vehicles away from the tarmac road. * Sanding of floors Working in Sedbergh, Dent is again encountering issues Kirkby Lonsdale & Bentham with irresponsible dog owners who Mobile: 07854 --- 596391 are failing to clean up after their dogs. Please respect the lovely area that COMMUNITY OFFICERS we live in by not allowing this issue to Due to changes in the policing spoil our streets or footpaths. We teams we would like to confirm that would like to emphasise that this is an your community officers are, CSO offence and a fixed penalty of £75 5206 Karen Dakin and CSO 5245 can be given, this is enforced by Rachel Thomas. We are jointly SLDC and the Police. We realise that responsible for the Sedbergh and this is a small minority of dog owners Kirkby Lonsdale area. Please feel who do not clean up after their dogs. free to contact us on 0845 33 00 247 For any further details please visit or email us on rachel. the Cumbria Constabulary website at [email protected] or karen. www.cumbria.police.uk.
Page 77 Brian’s working on an idea of his for the Sedbergh Spring Show.
RAYMOR MORRISON TIN In February Lookaround there was an HERE FOR ALL article about an old tobacco tin having YOUR CLEANING NEEDS been found near the A6 with three things FROM HOLIDAY HOMES inside including a newspaper cutting TO HOUSEWORK about Captain Raymor Morrisons death. As a close friend of Raymors widow Barbara, I contacted Editor Dennis and then contacted the man who found the tin CALL FOR MORE DETAILS and explained Barbara left the contents of 07807 211089 her house to me and could I have the tin. The finder sent it to me with details of where it was found. As a lot of the contents of the Morrison home came into 4 6 our home and recently as I sorted some of it out I couldn't actually remember seeing 4 1 8 it before but must have done to move it 8 2 7 3 my husbands theory is that this tobacco tin also came here, was taken with other 5 6 4 things when we had our burglary last year 7 2 4 8 and then discarded, possibly thrown from a car on the A6. It is good to have it, the 3 5 9 2005 penny and the signed bit of a 7 5 3 4 Players Cigarette packet, if only they could talk! 6 1 2 Friend of Barbara Morrison 9 8 Page 78 Page 79 BED & BREAKFAST Proprietor Address Phone (015396) Miss S Thurlby ...... 15 Back Lane, Sedbergh (2011/12) ...... 20251 1D; 1T; TVL; CH; DW; P; DR; VB e mail: [email protected] Mrs S Gold Wood ...... Number Ten Main Street, Sedbergh (2012/02) ...... 21808 1D (ES); IT/F(ES); TV; NS; CH; P; CB; VB; DFB: e mail: [email protected] Mrs J Postlethwaite ...... Bramaskew Farm, Howgill, Sedbergh (2011/09) ...... 21529 1D(ES); 1T(ES); CH; TV; P; NP; Di; VB; EM; CW Mrs S Sharrocks ...... Holmecroft; Station Road, Sedbergh (2011/11) ...... 20754 1D; 1T; 1S; TVL; CH; NS; NP*; P; DR Web Site: www.holmecroftbandb.co.uk Mrs J Hope ...... The Old Joinery, Garsdale, Sedbergh (2011/12) ...... 20309 F/D (4 poster); 1S; ES; CH; TV; P; NS; DW; CW; DR; DA; VB* e mail: [email protected] Mrs A Bramall ...... Summerhill, 7 Highfield Road, Sedbergh (2011/11) ...... 20360 Sleeps 6-8 3D (1ES), 1T (PB), TVL, CH, NS, DW, DR, VB, CB, DFB e mail: [email protected] CAMPING, CARAVANNING & SELF CATERING Sycamore Cottage, Lunds, Sedbergh (2011/09) ...... 01969 667356 Sleeps 2, D; CH; TVL; P; NS; DW Mrs Durie ...... Crossthwaite, Garsdale, Sedbergh (2011/06) ...... 07900 531043 Sleeps 6/7 D, F, T, CH, TVL, P, NS, DW, DR, CW Mrs A Bramall ...... Summerhill, 7 Highfield Road, Sedbergh (2011/11) ...... 20360 Self-Catering Sleeps 6-8 KEY F = Family Rm; D = Double Rm; S = Single Rm; T = Twin Rm; ES = En Suite; PB = Private Bathroom CH = Central Heating; L = Lounge; TV = TV in all Rooms; TVL = TV Lounge; P = Parking; DA = Disabled Access NS(B) = No Smoking (Bedrooms); NP(*) = No Pets (* by arrangement); DW = Dogs Welcome DR = Drying Room; Di = Dinners; VB = Vegetarian Breakfast; CB = Celiac Breakfast; EM = Evening Meal CW = Children Welcome; FC = Fire Certificate; TL = Table Licence; DFB = Dairy Free Breakfast Page 80 Religious Services in Sedbergh CHURCH OF ENGLAND Enquiries for the following services, St. Andrew’s Parish Church please ring the relevant telephone number Sunday 08.00, 10.30 & 18.30 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CHURCH OF ENGLAND Wednesday 11.15 Firbank; Howgill & Killington Canon A W Fell Tel: 20283 Cautley & Garsdale Church Wardens: Canon A W Fell Tel: 20283 Tony Reed Screen 21081 & Susan Sharrocks 20754 Church Wardens: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Cautley: Judith Bush 20058 & Linda Hopkins 21455 ROMAN CATHOLIC Garsdale: Mary Grant 20573 & Bill Mawdsley 20723 St. Andrew’s Parish Church Dent & Cowgill Sunday 12.00 Rev. P Boyles Tel: 25226 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Holy Days 19.30 METHODIST CHURCH Rev. Dr. P Campbell Tel: 20918 Dent; Dent Foot; ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Cautley; Fell End; METHODIST CHURCH Garsdale Street; Garsdale Low Smithy; New Street Hawes Junction & Frostrow Sunday 10.30 & 18.30 Rev. T Widdess Tel: 20329 Rev. T Widdess Tel: 20329 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ SEDBERGH CHRISTIAN CENTRE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH 5.30 pm People’s Hall every Sunday Main Street Tel: 20588 or 20503 www.sedberghchristiancentre.co.uk Sunday 10.30 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Rev. C Marsden Tel: 22030 WORSHIP@PEOPLESHALL ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 10:30 am Sunday 6th February SOCIETY OF FRIENDS 10:30 am Sunday 13th March QUAKERS Beth & Sandy Roy Tel: 20785 Brigflatts ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Sunday 10.30 Would you like to know that someone is Tess & Philip Satchell Tel: 20005 praying for you? Or do you have a ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ relative, friend or neighbour in special UNITARIAN & FREE need of prayer? In the Churches, we pray CHRISTIAN CHAPEL every Sunday for this community and we Market Place, Kendal should like to hear of any special needs. Sunday 11.00 Wednesday 19.30 Please ring any of the above telephone Rev. G Jones Tel: 01539 722079 numbers so that we may pray for you and/ or others.
Mpplbspvoe!Bewfsujtjoh!Sbuft! Single Column x 1" = £7.50 All enquiries to Single Column x 2" = £10.00 13 Kings Yard, Sedbergh LA10 5BJ Single Column x 3" = £12.50 Adverts by 15th of every month. Single Column x 4" = £15.00 Double Column x 2" = £15.00 Can all adverts please be Double Column x 3" = £20.00 accompanied with the correct money Double Column x 4" = £25.00 at the time of submission. B & B and Camp sites = £2.00 Articles etc. by 19th of every month Personal & Small Ads = £1.00 Postal per month = £2.00 Last Price Update August 1999. Postal Overseas = £3.00 Page 81 DIARY OF EVENTS Dates are held up to 14th December 2011 Entries marked (*) see Advert in previous Lookaround. 20 1115 SS Coffee Concert SSQH MARCH 21 1900 Chamber of Trade L 1 St David’s Day 23 1000 Coffee Morning StAS URCR 2 1000 Coffee Morning Kidzone URCR 23 1930 DMH AGM DMH 2 1930 HS 3 Centuries of the Workhouse (7) SHS 24 1430 Trouble at Farflung Mill! (1) PH 2 1930 Egil Skallagrimson Keeps His Head DCMH 24 1430 Trouble at Farflung Mill! (1) PH 3 1930 WIH Lakeland Churches HVH 25 1430 Trouble at Farflung Mill! (1) PH 4 1430 Women’s World Day of Prayer StAS 26 1000 Dent Bowling Coffee Morning (*) DMH 4 1930 Wine Tasting Evening (*) PH 26 1100 Dentdale Monthly Walk DMH 4 1930 HVH Dominoes & Tattie Pot Supper HVH 26 1430 Trouble at Farflung Mill! (1) PH 5 1400 Pole Lathe Wood Turning DCMH 29 1430 SS Wilson Run Back Lane 5 1400 Cricket Club Jumble Sale (*) PH 30 1000 Coffee Morning Ladies NFU URCR 5 1830 Beetle Drive DMH 31 SJS Term Ends 5 1900 Flicks in the Fells (10) PH 31 Eve Springtime Café Concert (31) PH 5 1930 Celebration Concert (12) Penrith APRIL 6 1030 Guild Anniversary Services (7) SMC 1 SS Term Ends 8 1400 WIK Rag Rug Making PH 2 1200 Spring Show PH 8 1900 Haytime in the Yorkshire Dales DCMH 2 1900 Flicks in the Fells (*) PH 8 1930 Domino Drive FCH 3 Mothers Day 8 1945 Town Band Concert (8) PH 3 1030 Service @ People’s Hall PH 9 1000 Coffee Morning URC Church URCR 6 1000 Coffee Morning Dent Oral Society URCR 9 1915 WID Allotments DMH 7 1930 WIH Flowers around Sunbiggin Tarn FCH 9 1930 WIS Inside a Lakeland Farmhouse PH 9 1900 Sedbergh Wanderers Ladies Night (70) SSQH 10 1200 Lunch Club Red Lion 12 1400 WIK Springtime Soups PH 10 1930 Neighbourhood Forum KL 13 1000 Coffee Morning StAS Missionary URCR 11 1400 Blood Donor Session PH 13 1915 WID Dance Exercise DMH 11 1700 Blood Donor Session PH 13 1930 WIS An evening with Joyce Grenfell PH 11 1930 KVH Domino Drive KVH 14 1200 Lunch Club Red Lion 12 1000 URC Jumble Sale URCR 16 1930 The Armed Man (53) StAD 12 1300 Dentdale Run Dent 17 1530 The Armed Man (53) StJCC 12 1800 Lookaround Party PH 20 1000 Coffee Morning North West Cancer URCR 12 1900 SS Choral Society Ripon Cathedral 21 1000 MP Tim Farron Surgery CO 12 1930 Celebration Concert (12) Kendal 22 Good Friday 13 1030 Service @ People’s Hall PH 23 St George’s Day 13 1900 SS Choral Society SSPH 23 1100 St George’s Day Parade Bull Hotel 13 1900 Dentdale Christian Fellowship (13) RD 25 Easter Monday 15 1400 SASL Quiz Time PH 26 SS Term Starts 16 1000 Coffee Morning Christian Aid (16) URCR 27 1000 Coffee Morning Garsdale Village Hall URCR 16 1900 Zumba Fitness (16) SPS 27 1930 CWT Freshwaters of Cumbria SHS 16 1930 HS & CWT Victorian Naturalists (7) SHS 30 1100 Dentdale Monthly Walk DMH 17 1230 Health Centre Closed for afternoon MAY 17 1930 Comedy of Errors (17) SSJAT 1 1030 Service @ People’s Hall PH 18 1930 Comedy of Errors (17) SSJAT 1 Dentdale Walking Festival/Craft Tour Dentdale 18 1930 Railway Mania in the Dales 1840 1912 DCMH 2 Dentdale Craft Tour Dentdale 19 1930 Comedy of Errors (17) SSJAT 3 Dentdale Craft Tour Dentdale
The S & D Lookaround is edited, published & distributed monthly by Dennis & Jacky Whicker and is printed by Stramongate Press. The content of The Lookaround does not reflect the views of the Editor. Whilst every effort is made to ensure that information is correct, the Editor cannot accept any responsibility for any inconvenience caused through errors or omissions. Copies are available from Sedbergh Office Services, Sedbergh Tourist Office, Green Door, Premier, Howgills Tea Room, Post Office and Dent Stores. Page 82 30 Dentdale Flower Festival DMC COVER PICTURE ?? 1830 Barbecue (Date to be announced) FCH Settlebeck Field JUNE By Wally Thornton 1 1000 Coffee Morning Dent Foot Chapel URCR 2 1930 WIH Members Evening FCH 2 6 Appleby Fair 4 1000 Coffee Morning dent Methodist Chapel URCR 4 1900 Flicks in the Fells (*) PH 5 1930 WIH Swallows & Amazons HVH 4 1930 Killington Sports Ceilidh BK 7 1900 Flicks in the Fells (*) PH 5 SS Half Term Ends 10 1400 WIK Resolutions & Musical Quiz PH 5 1030 Service @ People’s Hall PH 11 1000 Coffee Morning Firbank Church URCR 8 1000 Coffee Morning WIH URCR 11 1915 WID Resolutions DMH 8 WIS Mystery Outing 11 1930 WIS WI Resolutions & Jacobs Join PH 8 1915 WID Sedbergh Art Society DMH 12 1200 Lunch Club Red Lion 9 1200 Lunch Club Red Lion 14 19 Christian Aid URCR 14 1400 WIK Mums Junk PH 16 1900 Chamber of Trade L 15 1000 Coffee Morning Barnardo’s URCR 16 1930 Group WI Meeting KLI 15 1230 Health Centre Closed for afternoon 17 1230 Health Centre Closed for afternoon 18 1000 Coffee Morning Christian Aid URCR DIARY KEY 20 Cautley Flower Festival StMC BF = Brigflatts 21 Cautley Flower Festival StMC BK = Beckside, Killington 21 1230 Sedbergh Gala Lupton Field BVH = Barbon Village Hall 22 Cautley Flower Festival StMC CDC = Community Development Centre 25 1000 Coffee Morning WIK URCR CHI = Country Harvest, Ingleton 28 SS Half Term Starts CO = Community Office, Main Street 28 1100 Dentdale Monthly Walk DMH CTiS = Churches Together in Sedbergh 28 Dentdale Flower Festival DMC CWT = Cumbria Wildlife Trust 29 Dentdale Flower Festival DMC DCMH = Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes DCP = Dent Car Park Regular Events/Meetings DMH = Dent Memorial Hall 1000 Every Monday Free Entry to Locals FM DMC/S = Dent Methodist Chapel/Schoolroom 1200 Every Monday The Monday Club SMCR 1315 Every Monday Howgill Toddlers HVH FCH = Firbank Church Hall 1930 1st Monday Dent Parish Council DMH FM = Farfield Mill 1900 3rd Monday Chamber of Trade L GVH = Garsdale Village Hall 1930 Every Tuesday Bridge Club WHC HS = History Society 1930 Every Tuesday T’ai Chi URCR HVH = Howgill Village Hall 1400 1st Tuesday SL Carers Association CO JLCP = Joss Lane Car Park 1400 2nd Tuesday Killington WI PH KLI = Kirkby Lonsdale Institute 1400 3rd Tuesday Sight Advice Group PH KVH = Killington Village Hall 1930 3rd Tuesday Ladies NFU PH L = Library, Main Street 1000 Every Wednesday Coffee Morning URCR LHCP = Loftus Hill Car Park 1300 Every Wednesday Art Society PH PH = People’s Hall 1315 Every Wednesday Zebras SMCR RD = Rhumes, Dent 1730 Every Wednesday Sedbergh Juniors PH SHS = Settlebeck High School 1730 Every Wednesday Brownies (term time) SMCR SLSB = South Lakeland Society for the Blind 1930 Every Wednesday Sedbergh Seniors PH SMC(R) = Sed. Methodist Church (Room) 1000 1st Wednesday Age UK CO StMC = St Mark Church, Cautley 1930 1st & 3rd Wednesday History Society SHS StAS/D = St Andrew’s Church, Sedbergh/Dent 1915 2nd Wednesday Dentdale WI DMH StJCC = St John’s Church, Cowgill 1930 2nd Wednesday Sedbergh (Frostrow) WI PH SSJAT = Sedbergh School John Arden Centre 1930 1st Thursday Howgill WI FCH STO = Sedbergh Tourist Office, Main Street 1400 1st & 3rd Thursday Child Health/Baby Club PH URC(R) = United Reformed Church (Rooms) 1430 1st & 3rd Thursday Toy Library PH WHC = White Hart Club 1200 2nd Thursday Lunch Club Red WIB = Women’s Institute, Barbon 1915 2nd Thursday Royal British Legion WHC WID = Women’s Institute, Dentdale 1930 Last Thursday Sed. Parish Council PH WIH = Women’s Institute, Howgill 1330 Every Friday Dent Over 60’s DMH WIK = Women’s Institute, Killington 1930 Every Friday Monkey House Café Library WIS = Women’s Institute, Sedbergh Page 83 PUBLIC INFORMATION
Sedbergh Medical Practice DENTAL SURGERY Finkle Street & 20626 015396 20218 Mr I R Dawson, Ms G Turner & Mr B Houghton Monday to Thursday 0900 1700 015396 20239 24hr Prescription line Friday (Time changed 02/11) 0830 1400 Surgery and Dispensary Opening Hours Saturday * LIBRARY Main Street & 20186 Monday – Friday 8am – 6.30pm Monday 1700 1900 (Doors open at 8.15am) Wednesday 1000 1230 1400 1700 Friday 1400 1700 Doctors Clinics Saturday 1000 1230 SEDBERGH TOURIST OFFICE Monday – Friday Main Street & 20125 Open every day 1000 1700 Open Surgery – 8.30am – 10.30am www.sedbergh.org.uk/booktown/dlbc.html (No appointment necessary) & Late Morning – 10.30am 12.30pm COMMUNITY OFFICE 20504 (By appointment only) Monday to Friday 1000 to 1600 Afternoon – 2.30pm – 6pm Thursday 1000 to 1300 (By appointment only) e mail [email protected] www.sedbergh.org.uk Dent surgery by appointment only - Monday RURAL CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU Kendal Office Workers surgery by appointment only – & 01539 738772 Monday/Tuesday evening www.cabsouthlakeland.org.uk/kendal.html Practice Nurses Clinics PENSION SERVICE SURGERY Stricklandgate House every Tuesday 1400 1600 Monday – Friday – 8.30am 6pm & 01539 795000 or 0845 6060265 (By appointment only) SLCVS @ Community Office 1st Wednesday every month Baby Immunisations/Travel Clinic – Wednesday 10 am to 12 noon afternoons (By appointment only) & 01539 742627 Dressings Clinic – Friday afternoons COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (By appointment only) Settlebeck Cottage Tel: 21031 www.sedberghcdc.org.uk Blood clinic POLICE Monday – Thursday – 8.20am – 12pm & 0845 33 00 247 (By appointment only) PUBLIC TOILETS Main Street & Loftus Hill Car Park, Sedbergh Please telephone the surgery to make Main Street, Dent appointments for all the above clinics. VETERINARY SURGERY See our website www.sedberghmp.nhs.uk 14 Long Lane & for further details 015396 20335 (including emergencies) Mr N. Preston & Mr J. Bramley When we are closed please contact CHOC Dispensary Monday to Friday 0900 1300 03000 247 247 or 999 if appropriate. 1400 1700 Consultations Monday to Friday 0900 1000 * Collinge Optometrist 1400 1500 * Friday only Other times by appointment only * 0900 to 1300 & 1400 to 1730 by appointment MARKET DAY WEDNESDAY only. HALF DAY CLOSING THURSDAY