UNDER THE EDGE INCORPORATING THE PARISH MAGAZINE , , ROWLAND, , MONSAL HEAD, www.undertheedge.net No. 268 May 2021 ISSN 1466-8211 Stars in His Eyes

The winner of the final category of the Virtual Photographic (IpheionCompetition uniflorum) (Full Bloom) with a third of all votes is ten year old Alfie Holdsworth Salter. His photo is of a Spring Starflower or Springstar , part of the onion and amyrillis family. The flowers are honey scented, which is no doubt what attracted the ant. Alfie is a keen photographer with his own Olympus DSLR camera, and this scene caught his eye under a large yew tree at the bottom of Church Lane. His creativity is not limited just to photography: Alfie loves cats and in Year 5 he and a friend made a comic called Cat Man! A total of 39 people took part in our photographic competition this year and we hope you had fun and found it an interesting challenge. We have all had to adapt our ways of doing things over the last year and transferring this competition to an online format, though different, has been a great success. Now that we are beginning to open up and get back to our normal lives, maybe this is the blueprint for the future of the competition? 39 people submitted a total of 124 photographs across the four categories, with nearly 100 taking part in voting for their favourite entry. Everyone who entered will be sent a feedback form: please fill it in withJane any Littlefieldsuggestions for the future. Many thanks to the Editor and Thomas Dean for their help in putting the competition together. Fingers crossed for May 17th, when we will be able to meet up to 30 people outside. The WI committee are putting on an Afternoon Tea on Wednesday 19th May at 3.30 pm. So ladies, get ready for a catch up! Jennifer Rowson has kindly offered her garden at Croft Lodge, Church Lane (Beggarway Lane end) for the event. It would be so nice to see some new faces. You will be made most welcome, and this is the ideal opportunity to come along and see what we do. Great Longstone WI will celebrate its centenary in 2024, so why not make this year Members of the WI Walking Group at Surprise View Hathersage your chance to give WI a try? Subscriptions are half price this year at £22.40, and we LONGSTONE CE PRIMARY SCHOOL meet in the Village Hall the first Wednesday of the month at 7.30pm. It would be such a shame if Great Longstone VACANCIES FOR 3 GOVERNORS WI folds with only three years to go to 100. Our program is varied and there is something for everyone: crafts talks on varied subjects, a walking group, you name it we do it, These come free in September. The School is keen we are not Jam and Jerusalem! 01629 640155, to speak to anyone interested( 01629in this interesting 640377 and rewarding role, regardless of knowledge or experience. 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Peak Music has been staging regular concerts at Edensor for over 50 years since October 1968. The autumn Residential Conveyancing of 2020 was the first time we were unable to get together to enjoy the sounds of talented musicians. We hope that 2021 signals the return of regular concerts and Commercial Property that in another 50 years a new generation of music lovers will be listening still. We assure you of our commitment to your health and safety, with full social distancing and sanitising being respected. As COVID-19 guidelines stipulate www.franklin-solicitors.co.uk concert halls can only operate at 50% capacity, we will hold two concerts on the day, with the option beforehand to select either a 4pm or 7.30pm sitting. If you Town Hall Chambers are interested in supporting Peak Music as a member, the current subscription Anchor Square for all three concerts [email protected] spring (19th May, 10th June and 29th June) is £45. 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If the past year has taught us one thing, it is that schools are so much more The History Group will not restart than buildings with classrooms, staff and pupils. We are so lucky to have such a meetings indoors until at least the strong school community in the form of Longstone Primary School but uprooting autumn, although it may be possible this community onto a digital platform has been no mean feat. As a school we toAngela have outdoor Robinson meetings or walks in have worked, and are still working, tirelessly to support our families during the June and July. We’ll keep you posted. Coronavirus pandemic, ensuring that pupils are supported not only academically No flies here! but more importantly, pastorally. We’re well aware that the switch to online learning has impacted families far deeper than the eye can see. Over the past 365 days, the ties which bind our school community, as in We’ve lived at Monsal Head for 15 any relationship, have been kept strong by good communication. Whether it years and I learnt something new just is the relationships between teachers and pupils or parents and staff, regular yesterday. I reported some fly tipping communication and empathy between school and home during the lockdown to and got a speedy has been the fuel that kept the fire burning. and very helpful reply. We had seen Walking through the full pink rubbish bags regularly left on school corridors during verges at points up Scratta. We’d even the last lockdown, mentioned it to local farmers we know listening to the children and saw nearby, and we all expressed chat via online Google our dismay. Some of the farmers had Meet sessions with their taken the bags away in the past to classmates and teachers dispose of, rather than leave them lying was different but heart- around to attract even more. warming all the same. Hats off to our utterly dedicated staff team who were Fun and games scribbling on the desks for Rowling setting and monitoring Class in a ‘Graffiti Maths’ lesson, working ‘big’! online activities, leading live online lessons and checking in with students every day. Looking back at our time of online learning, yes it has been hard, but what an experience to bind us together even more as a school community. With health and safety and risk assessments not allowing visitors, we have certainly missed our regular and invaluable volunteers in Bags at junction of Chertpit Lane and Scratta school - you know who you are! We have sorely missed visits from our Vicar, Father James Croft, too. But now our online learning has come to an end and the children are once again back at school in their class ‘bubbles’, the sense of Now you and others may already camaraderie is phenomenal. know the answer, but we andSome two of So, what next? Yes, lessons and studying are important. We want to see all otheryou will longtime have noticed residents pink didn’t. bags Emmaby the pupils advance through their school years here at Longstone thriving and Mortimerroadside in from Great DDDC Longstone, replied: Monsal achieving wonderful things, but the emotional well-being of every member of Head, Ashford in the Water and the our schools’ communities is being tested at the moment. The academic cut and surrounding areas. This isn’t fly tipping thrust, complete with heavy workloads and demanding assessments, may not but the work of local resident Brian be the most important thing presently. Encouraging pupils to communicate, stay Hampton who spends most weekends active and find creative outlets can play a huge role in maintaining pupils’ well- and some weekdays picking up litter and being. The buoyancy of a school community depends on being able to rise to this helping to keep our environment clean. challenge, so we are giving our children the tools to do so. Derbyshire Dales District Council has We’re all in this together. This is a two-way street and teachers, like pupils provided the pink bags so that we know and parents, are walking down it for the first time. We don’t underestimate the it is from a litter pick and not fly tipping challengeSophie Bellthe current situation poses but we can work together to make sure the and we then remove the bags of rubbish future generations of Longstone thrive. from agreed places as soon as we can, Fresh Local Milk and Yoghurt usually the next working day. Free Range Eggs I’ve now seen bags on Hassop Road Pasteurised & bottled near the entrance to the old Bleaklow quarry. Clearly Brian and others who on the farm fill these bags are to be applauded and Unhomogenised - only 4% fat thanked not complained about! Sadly, I fear there will be more for them to do Open 24/7 as lockdown eases. The levels of litter are sadly already on the rise on local Church Lane Farm, Great Longstone tracks, such a sad indictment of some of the visitorsAlison who Fletcher choose to visit our community presumably for its natural beauty. 3 Thornbridge Hall Opens Its Doors

Locals’ curiosity was piqued earlier this year by the large number of bulldozers operating full steam ahead to clear a large area just south of the , while residents of Churchdale were equally intrigued looking down to see a long new gravel road materialising parallel to the Ashford road. What could be going on? All was revealed when Emma and Jim Harrison opened up their gardens on 20th March for the first time since the latest COVID-19 lockdown. Locals were generously Emma Harrison - always smiling! invited in for free until the official opening on 12th April to admire the hosts of daffodils and narcissi fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Thornbridge has become an extremely popular wedding and event venue since the Harrisons moved in nearly twenty years ago, but unfortunately this has meant that the gardens and Carriage House Café had to be closed to the public on those days. The new road is designed to allow the gardens to be open all year round, as it splits off from the main A6020 access just past the lakes, winding round to a large new car park by the Monsal Trail, with a new ha-ha stopping the view being spoilt from the gardens above. There is to be a new entrance to the gardens from this car park, joining up with the public footpath which goes over a bridge across the Monsal Trail and through a field to Station Road just down from Glebe Avenue, a third of a mile from the village centre. The bridge also gives direct access from the Monsal Trail via a shallow ramp. A large new glass-fronted café, The Potting Shed, with stunning views,need tois beingdo something built near to this survive new entrance,COVID-19 and income it’s hoped crash it will be ready by 10th May. According to Emma, it may end up being a temporary ‘ ’ affair whilst full New car park - Monsal Trail behind trees on left planning permission is obtained from the Peak Park. The same fare will be served as in the Carriage House Café: soups freshly madeThe Bakehouse from the kitchen garden, sausage rolls that have reputedly brought tears to grown men’s eyes, and mouth-watering cakes baked by Eleanor Rastrick of fame, washed down with Thornbridge ales. Matthew Harrison, Eleanor’s boyfriend, is responsible for rearing the Gloucester Old Spot pigs on the Thornbridge Smallholding. The flavour of the sausage rolls is partly down to feeding them on byproducts from Thornbridge Brewery and partly due to marinating the meat in Jaipur Ale before cooking! Entry to The Potting Shed and its large garden and plant sales area is from 10-4 and completely free, making it a pleasant stopping off point for a walk along the Trail. For those wanting to spend longer and explore the 12 acre gardens, orangery, and productive garden, there is a small entrance fee of £7 per adult (children free), for which there will alsoNetflix be an annual pass with a 25% discount for local residents. Emma hasn’t been sitting back binge-watching during lockdown, instead spending fourteen hour days turning her creative ideas into reality. One such was to get The restored fountain with the new the Clumber Quadrafoil fountain working for the first Potting Shed café in the background time in 100 years, which although she is a qualified engineer proved quite a challenge. It now boasts 300 yellow plastic ducks which keep youngsters amused for hours netting them while their mums can have a well-earned rest. Meanwhile, grown men take turns trying to throw them into the much smaller upper bowl of the fountain! Every day someone has to wade in after the public has left to return them to the bottom pool ready for the next day. As the ducks are weighted and don’t have holes like bath ducks, there are already plans for competitive duck races on the watercourses later this year. Emma’s creative ideas just keep on coming; her aim is to give visitors a boutique One of Eleanor’s fantastic cakes festival experience every day, with plans for courses on glass blowing, wood turning, wood whittling and foraging to name but a few. She’s already planning to rebuild the lostThornbridge Hall Winter Gardens of Thornbridge, recently Weddings & Events Venue discovered under mounds of ivy near Open Year Round 10am-4pm The Potting Shed. You can sign up to the Plants for Sale email list on the website to find out the ~ Delicious home-made Soups, Cakes, latest. Emma is also very keen to develop Sausage Rolls & Thornbridge Ales at the community’s use of Thornbridge. The Potting Shed Café Local people and groups are already ~ arranging to base their activities there, 12 Acre Gardens & Orangery £7 adults, children free and volunteers are always welcome. Annual pass (25% discount local residents) To [email protected] your ideas or find out more ~ about how Thornbridge can help, email Look out for special events on Facebook Emma on . www.thornbridgehall.co.uk 4Watch this space, as they say! Longstone Regis? watch?v=VH5Za9G0Pg4 Christmas with the Queen (New Zealand 1953) or by typing Villages and groups around the into YouTube’s search bar. It shows the Duke pulling ten year old Sarah along on a lilo from country will all have their individualThe the side of a swimming pool before tipping her in, as well as Queenmemories Unseen of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. ITV screened failing spectacularly in several attempts to get on it himself! on 8th April, the Like many, Sarah was shell-shocked by the announcement 1921-2021 day before his death. This included of Prince Philip’s death. She remembers skipping down a long remastered footage of the Hon. Sarah spooky passage“Good in Government Morning” House, when a door suddenly“Good Stephenson’s mother Patricia’s home openedMorning” and the Duke appeared in a white towelling dressing movie of the Royal Couple’s visit to Government House, gown and said , to which she replied Auckland, for Christmas 1953, when her father, Lt General Sir . Sarah was then so taken aback at not knowing the Willoughby Norrie GCMG, GCVO, CB, DSO, MC & Bar (later 1st exact protocol for meeting royals when wearing trousers Baron Norrie of Wellington, New Zealand and Hawkesbury (as she was), that she took flight to the playroom, where Upton in the County of Gloucestershire) was Governor she burst into tears, distraught that she might have broken General of New Zealand. Sarah and her husband Charles royal rules by not curtseying, which she had been practising have lived in Great Longstone for a great many years now. like mad (but in a dress). She was comforted there by her Frank Parker, who used to work at the BBC and has lived Nanny, Miss Batty, who was to stay with the Norrie family for in the village for 35 years, had previously produced a video 72 years, spending the last seven of her life here in Thornhill House. Sarah also remembers being allowed to wait up with incorporating this footage. This was screenedyoutube.com/ in the Village “What a Hall as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in lovelyher younger dress, Ma’am!” sister to “Yes watch it is” the Queen go down to dinner June 2012, and you can still view it online at in a shimmering gold dress, prompting her to say replied the Queen with a smile. Sarah met the Duke twice in later life, one being the Maundy“For theDay lunch service afterwards at Derby atCathedral the Cathedral in 2010, Quarter whilst hotel, Charles we were was toldVice thatLord-Lieutenant the Duke of Edinburgh of Derbyshire. preferred Sarah to remembers sit next to men. Charles was seated on the left of the Duke and I was on Charles’s left, with another gentleman on the Duke’s right. During lunch, the Duke lent across and addressed some remarks to me about the re-roofing of Government House, Wellington. At the end of lunch, as we were getting up to leave, he came up to me and said ‘Goodbye, it has been so nice to see you again’. It was very nice of him to remember me from when I was ten!” The Queen Unseen Sarah Norrie being pulled along by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh itv.com/hub/the-queen-unseen Images courtesy of ITV plc. can be viewed online at the ITV Hub

Prince Philip, Lt General Sir Willoughby Norrie, and HM The Queen Meanwhile the Queen was filming on her own 16mm camera! Cox Contractors Property Services The Village Shop Est. 1987 Opening Times

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The Longstone pitch will be meeting held online on 10th March attempts to contact the contractor used for training, as the turf requires 2021. Official minutes for this meeting about the work on the bird’s nest swing four weeks to establish. Deep spiking are published on the Parish Council and jumbo lander. A deadline of Easter Trees/other:of the football field is due imminently, noticeboard outside Great Longstone had been given, but it was thought the with weed and feed later in the year. School and also on the community contractors could be on furlough. The The work on the two website greatlongstone.net. Chair complimented Cllr Cox on his lots of trees on the Rec is due in March. work to the Burma bridge, complete New dog signs had arrived for the Rec with its new chain. Cllr Cox commented which Cllr Cox will fit. Bruno Cardona It was with a sense of heightened that the bridge timberwork could do has trimmed the tennis court hedge anticipation that your UTE reporter Painting/stainingwith staining, and also quotes: the bench Cllr press Cox and other small jobs on his list such connected in to his first everThe Archers Parish leftwork. the meeting for this item as trimming back low branches. The Council meeting on Zoom. Would we current mowing contracts come to an be treated to an episode of . The Villageend this greens/Village year; new tenders Hall will go out in the background due to someone’s Clerk reported that out of four quotes Noticeboard:in the autumn. inability to work the Mute button? sought, only one (for £3495) had been Would Wendy Long remember (or received. This was because contractors’ This has been made even know how) to turn off her kitten waiting lists were full for outdoor Updateand is awaitingon new cherry good weathertree: for filter? Would Sarah Stokes be bawled work this season. Cllr Barrett asked installation. at to ‘READ THE STANDING ORDERS!’ for clarification on whether a single This is even as she used her plenipotentiary quote could be accepted. The clerk to be planted at the same time as the electronic powers to exclude an reassured him this was the case, and Rec tree work is carried out. The Chair enraged councillor?Celebrity Squares the Chair noted that it was essential reported that there was a countrywide On the dot of 7.15, faces appeared the work was carried out this year. The Xmasinitiative eve to carols/band: plant blossom trees to like a version of and quote was therefore accepted, with cheer everyone up. it became clear that Rick Gooch was work to start on the MUSA storage unit, The Clerk taking the role of Bob Monkhouse, which is being stained and fitted with will purchase new lights when back in albeit lit in ghostly green from the a new door. Cox Contractors are also stock. Responsibility for carols, band depths of his man cave. It all started waiting on the turf to repair the football and stewarding still not resolved with promisingly enough with Cllr Gooch, goalmouths after the Easter holidays, the church. This will be discussed when under Handforth Dean Rules, warning Equipmentonce the ground for years had 11+: dried out and BenchGLPC meets West with Green: the PCC to discuss the the Chair he would kick her out of the there is no danger of frost. burial grounds in due course. meeting if she annoyed him! The Chair Cllr Barrett Cox Contractors responded “You ain’t seen nothing” reported that the tennis net winder had installed the new bench. The Clerk whereupon the Vice-Chair, secure in saga continued. The new winder had will ask Cllr Dan Cox if he could power the knowledge that he was the oneSpoiler with been fitted but he was now waiting wash the tree bench at West Green Alert:the power, cast uncharitable aspersions on two screw eyes and a new header as he had the two benches by the bus on the Chair’s state of sobriety. wire to thread through the net. To avoid Burialstop, since grounds Caroline Briggs had stopped No-one was kicked out in the end, damage in future, the net and the posts scrubbing it when she left the Council. I’m afraid. It was situation normal, all need to be removed separately, so Cllr fraternally united, with just a modicum Barrett will produce laminated step by In relation to the church’s request for of banter, in itself quite an achievement step instructions for display. The court funds to cover mowing costs, the Clerk under the confines of Zoom. resurfacing project is on hold, cost had ascertained that some local parish There were seven present on the call, around £14k. Several small grants of councils run the burial grounds and namely Cllrs Wendy Long (Chair), Rick £500 to £1000 are available but these others pay towards maintenance. Gooch (Vice-Chair), James Cox, Phil have to be used in a year, so there is a St. Giles had still not provided any Barrett, and Parish Clerk Sarah Stokes, need to get all the ducks in a row once a financial information, and they in turn together with UTE representative large grant of around £10k is obtained were awaiting historical information Adam Rae-Smith and Community from somewhere like the National from the Derby Diocese. The costs were Website and Facebook Czar Tom Dean. Lottery. The surface is still playable, thought likely to be similar to those CoronavirusApologies were received from Cllrs Dan so resurfacing is not urgent. It was felt GLPC already pays for the churchyard. Cox and John Shimwell. funding prospects would improve after A donation of £500 has already been COVID-19 had died down, as current made this year, and the Chair was not Heather Turner at the Village Shop had priorities were mental health and happy to advance any more money reported elderly residents were feeling minority groups. The tennis club had without full financial disclosure, as this isolated as the only contact they were Cricketbeen asked and to Football: report any faults on the could tie the hands of future councils. getting was thirty seconds a day on court equipment to the Clerk. The Clerk suggested GLPC could pay days when food parcels were dropped The Cricket Club the mowing costs for 2021 from the off from the shop or Thornhill House. are waiting on their league to see if £5000 in its Section 137 funds. The The Clerk had refreshed community there will be any fixtures this year. The Chair pointed out that these funds help notices, left flyers at the shop for JFC are planning to start on the Easter were for emergency use only, which 6handing out, and put a notice in UTE. weekend. Baslow CEO has said that was not the case here. The Clerk Council Administration Land registration: was to emphasise to Mike Hirst that Edge. A car had been stolen from Moor this information must be supplied in Registration of Road on where it had good time before September, when fields, track and builders yard is nearly been left overnight when the owner next year’s precept is discussed and Coursethere. The attendance: builders yard has a new Itemswalked from back Correspondence to Cressbrook and forgot any additional funds decided on. The tenant. about it. Chair was exasperated that the longer The Clerk they left things, the more the church will attend a ‘Cemetery and Burial Cllr Barrett reported Severn Trent had dragged its feet, whereupon the Vice- RegistersManagement and course’ documents: for £50 (in the not yet replaced mainhole covers to Chair said they needed to look in the Chair’s opinion a right rip-off). stop sewage outflow from the Willows. whites of their eyes. The Vice-Chair also The Clerk Cllr Gamble had reported is to pointed out that the Catholic Church is to ask the accountant whether be put with Great and Little Longstone always published their accounts, and certain assets on the register, i.e. the under parish ward boundary changes. suspected the information for St. Giles Rec, allotments and West Green should Myhill cycling had requested hill climbno Footpathswas out there and in roads the public domain; it have an associated valuation, and also objectionsrace on Longstone Edge on 30th June Speeding/schoolwas just a question signage:of where. if the Village Hall needs revaluing. The 6.30–10pm with road closure ( Chair noted that under the deeds of ). Village Hall MC not sure if 3 PCSOs the Rec the Council can do what they the Hall will be open for use by then (if had good face to face contact with Communitylike with the Facebook/website: Rec if there is no adult Tom requested). Well dressing planned for residents when they came to carry cricket team. 10th July, with school hoping to take out speed checks in Great and Little part (COVID-19 risk assessment to be Longstone, including from the Dean is to step down from running carried out). VHMC has booked Rec on driveway of the parents whose child the community Facebook and website 3rd September for the fell race. PDNPA had been knocked over. No one had at the end of May, after the end of the Ranger Rob Kenning had jetted drains Parkingbeen caught for so Monsal far. An alertTrail: had been photo competition, as he is moving by GL station and put up lambing put on Facebook. house to Chesterfield. He is happy to signs. The Chair noted they had put An ex- continue until a replacement is found up notices about tunnel closures, but councillor from Hassop is to meet and to subsequently provide support. these proved too small to be noticed by the Hassop Café owner to find out The Chair thanked Tom for all he has a certain Speedy GonzalezSUPERGOOCH cyclist, who the status of the car park, and where done. The council also approved a form Datehad to of turn next back. meetings Was it a bird? Was it a people should park for the trail. Cars designed by Tom and Adam Rae-Smith plane? No, it was ! are currently parking on the road at to make it easier for organisations to Hassop and other locations along the provide details for the website. This May 5th Annual Parish Council and followed a suggestion by someone Streetlighting:Trail, because the PDNPA does not ContactAnnual Parish Details Meeting online. provide any parking for trail users. Financialwho had recently Matters moved back for more July 14th (venue to be confirmed). The new streetlight at information about clubs and societies. The Willows will be a column in the Sarah Stokes, Clerk to Great Longstone same location, but not attached to the Allen West and Foster will carry out Parish Council,01629 Longstone 640851 Byre, house. DCC are waiting on Western internal audit in April/May prior to [email protected] Longstone, Bakewell, DE45 Electric before they can complete accounts being approved at the Annual 1NN. Tel: . Email: the work. The Clerk is to ask DCC to Meeting. The precept for 2021/22 will level and make good the verges in be received in April. Rent requests sent GREAT LONGSTONE Furnall Avenue, where they had left to school (£100 for use of Rec), football COMMUNITY WEBSITE DCCunmowable and Longreave mountains Lane: after the recent club, tennis club, quarry and fields, streetlighting work. Planningwith a few matters left to come in. Cricket Club The Parish Council are looking for The Clerk Applications:had prepaid ten years to 2029. has chased Cllr Twigg on the water that a volunteer to maintain the site runs like a stream down the side of the NP/DDD/0121/0031: 6, Contact( 01629 Sarah 640851 Stokes for broken edged tarmac road, leaving big The Meadows. Replacement of existingNo [email protected] details gaps at the side of the road, where cars objections.uPVC conservatory by solid roofed park on mud for the trail. The Chair Decisions:extension of similar dimensions. House Wanted! commented that the sluice cleaning 3 bed property Monsalmachines Headused by toilets: DCC had not made NP/DDD/1120/1104:Granted. a scrap of difference. Green Island. Proposed garage with off-road parking These are workshop and bike store. Cash buyers very nearly open; it has been quite a NP/DDD/1020/1015:Granted. Standhill (just sold in Bakewell) challenge. The Chair asked the Clerk Cottage. Proposed two storey extension to contact PDNPA to request signs on to dwelling. Anything in UTE area Chertpitthe trail to Lane: direct visitors, as they are NP/DDD/1120/1056:Granted. The Willows. considered still using the side of the line. PoliceSingle reportstorey extension to side of Contact David or Jenny Clerk to look into property. suggested changes to the No Motor ( 01629 581147 Vehicle signage with LL Parish Meeting, PCSO Boswell reported about six [email protected] as most of the lane is in Little Longstone. fines issued to visitors for No hole filling carried out yet by DCC. COVID-19 breaches on Longstone 7 You Can Untie the Knot Now!

Sarah Stokes hands over a cheque for £3000 to Clare Gamble and Mark Wakeman on behalf of the Little Longstone Parish Meeting

A collective sigh of relief was drawn by the dozen or so locals who gathered on Saturday March 27th to witness Cllr Helen Froggatt, Civic Chair of the DDDC, officially re-open the Monsal Head Toilets and give thanks to the tireless efforts of Cllrs Mark Wakeman and Clare Gamble. Residents have had to put up with walkers unable to keep everything crossed going up the steep path from the Monsal Trail for nearly three years. Helen Abrahams“Hopefully, has this had will to putendure an end men to myrelieving surprising themselves men who in don’t front realise of her theyon a aredaily ‘spending basis, who a penny’ make off no their effort route to stop but rightor at leastin front to cover of walkers themselves. on another She commentedpath! I let them know with humour I’ll not be embarrassing them. The way I see it, it’s for them to be self conscious about it, not me.”

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It’s“Longstone not just Edge has always ravaged been by a vibrantplague right rabbit now. warren Janet Byrneand seeing wrote the in: rabbits scamper across the face of the Edge has always added to the pleasure Photos courtesy of Police Rural Crime Team of walking there. Over the several walks that I have made over these last three months I have noticed a change, with Dogs chasing sheep do not need to be large or ferocious, or even to physically attack increasing numbers of dead rabbits them to create devastation. These shocking pictures were taken on Christmas Day along the path and fewer live ones. across the border in Cheshire. 30 sheep died from stress and panicked exhaustion On a recent walk I saw perhaps fifteen as the result of dogs worrying and chasing them uncontrollably. bodies lying close to the path and one We are now in the height of the lambing season, so this is a timely reminder to even suspended about five feet above the keep your dogs on a lead when going through any field with animals. The viral ground in a hawthorn bush. At one point video of the labrador Fenton chasing deer in Richmond Park ten years ago has a I saw a live rabbit ahead and instead of lot to answer for. It is no laughing matter to watch any dog chase cattle or sheep, it running briskly for cover, which would and those who let it happen do not seem to realise the consequences are not be the usual response, it allowed me to always immediately obvious. In the January issue of UTE, Dan Cox reported how approach very closely before going to one of their pedigree Charolais lost its calf as a result. In addition, for months ground. So I am wondering if there is afterwards, as with a previous episode some years earlier, the cows treated all some disease currently circulating. It is humans, and especially those with dogs, with hostile suspicion. As reported, Jill apparent that the bodies do not figure Thornton was lucky to escape serious injury when walking her small terrier. on the menu for foxes or birds of prey, Unfortunately, the Cox’s cow never fully recovered. They were unable to get her so could poison be a possibility? Can back in calf and so she had to be sent to slaughter last month. Commercial suckler anybody enlighten me?” cows cost £1300 to replace, but pedigree Charolais cows can be up to three times this amount. Even a new born calf can reach £500. In the case of sheep, a breeding ewe costs around £185 to replace, and a lost lamb can mean £85 in lost income to the farmer in the autumn sale. Small farmers like the Coxes and Shimwells often work incredibly long hours at well below the national minimum wage for very little financial reward, because they love the land and their animals. They can ill afford any loss, let alone ones that are completely avoidable. The incidents in Great Longstone cannot be passed off on visitors from the towns and cities. All the farmers in the area are seeing more and more trouble Catherine Chapman“We’re from seeingRowland so from dogs and sadly it’s nearly all from a few local people who spoil it for the manyhad the myxi answer rabbits when she here independently just now. responsible owners. We are very lucky in this country to be able to roam so freely. Togethergot in touch with ourto say concern, we wonder if Please think twice beforeThe abusing Good this andprivilege. the Bad this is quite widespread in our area just now? We just want to raise awareness of this epidemic. It’s so awful to see the The good: Many thanks Ed to whoever animals suffering.” altered the design of the field stile (Tom Cox and Dan Barker. ) on the footpath from Beggarway Lane to Stanshill Dale. Like coronavirus, myxomatosis The new stile is so much easier to use. crossed species with devastating effect. The bad: Shame on whoever left the Its original hosts, American brush green bag containing dog s*** at the rabbits, only suffer mild symptoms, but entrance to the stile. It’s made worse it is nearly always fatal in our native because there is a bin at the start of the variety. Introduced to Australia and footpath. On the other side of the round France in the 1950s for population gate post there is a sign stating that the control, it spread like wildfire reaching walled lane is a designated area under Britain in 1953. It is transmitted mainly the Dog (Fouling of Land) Act 1996 and by fleas and insect bites, and sadly asking owners to ‘clean up after your an epidemic like this usually follows dog’. Please, please, dog ownersSue Woods think a population explosion. The long hot of others before dropping the bag or weather last summer provided the hanging it up on a tree. perfect conditions for this to occur.9 Seriously, Please Don’t Do This! Little Longstone Parish Notes be native to this part of the world; The following is a summary taken from rebuilding of walls. The plans have the minutes of the Parish Meeting held been approved by Natural and online on 22nd February. Peak Park. Chris would like the Parish Donations (section 137, Local MonsalMeeting Daleto contact and viaduct:him should there be Government Act) and subscriptions: anyWeir concerns path: in the future.

Work awaited including To be made to Under the Edge, Bakewell cutVisitor back areas management for more passing plans: places. Monsaland Head Community Ice Cream Transport, Van: GL Work commenced on the weir tunnel. Robert Thornhill was horrified to Cricket Club and GL Pre-School. Peak discover someone had been marking ll Park considering ranger patrols of the dog poo in his fields with these non- documents have been received and car park, viaduct and lawn/weir in biodegradable plastic plant tags. Their Shortcompleted term forCar the Park: new ice cream July and August. They are also looking sharp points could cause serious and licence with Monsal Head Ices. atViewpoint doing introductory cut back: walks and are potentially fatal internal injuries if Reported to looking for volunteers. swallowed by a cow. This is even more DDDC that benches needed re-staining, Detailed report likely if they are undiscovered before Monsalalso there Head are moleToilets: hills on the green byMonsal Woodland Dale Conservation Action Plan: Officer sent being splintered by a mower and triangle area and two gaps in the walls. by Peak Park, mainly about coppicing. incorporated into a bale of silage. To reopen on Photographer: Awaiting Great Longstone Parish Council has 1st March under a tenancy, as legal replies on the plan. also condemned this practice, even on documentation and grant of £7500 Two GL volunteers walled tracks outside the fields, as it not yet received from DDDC. Running will take photos of the Dale at different just creates unnecessary litter, as well costs estimated at around £6500 per Villagetimes of event:the year to help to monitor ash as acting as a potential magnet for year. An honesty box is being used. The die back and tree growth. toddlers andPoo dogs toRage investigate. aim is to provide a disabled toilet in the Well dressing date and future. Currently a drain issue is being band date are provisionally booked, sorted. Insurance and a cleaner have Parking/speeding/streetlights:together with the vicar’s blessing date, been organised. The parish meeting but all subject to COVID-19 restrictions. is to donate for specific items of work. A The Clerk to discuss with Cllr Gamble query was raised regarding dustbins whether the toilets will be closed left permanently on the roadside and overnight and also signage and posters Maintenance:whether this was legal. Clerk is to look to advertise the story behind getting into this matter. Scrattathe toilets Wood:open and the people looking Work to commence on after them. staining two benches and on the horse Mr Chris Thirtle trough to enable the pump to work. Any (owner of Scratta Wood) discussed further work on troughs to be looked the woodland management plan. Ash Pinfold:at in due course. All grit bins should be dieback is an issue in the woodland full again. No progress on Cherpit Lane. so he is looking at replanting when The Parish Meeting has no trees removed. 25 trees were put in formal ownership documents. The last year and 25 trees this year to Contactmeeting Details will consider whether to Bemused walkers found a novel way account for ash dieback. The plan register the land or not. of marking a footpath one morning in includes consideration for wildlife; not late March by a trail of neatly spaced planting near the roadside of the wood Sarah Stokes, Clerk to Little Longstone poo bags every five metres down to the at present as expect to fell; not advised Parish Meeting, Longstone Byre, Little squeeze stile off Beggarway Lane, each 01629 640851 to plant just a single species now Longstone,[email protected] Bakewell DE45 1NN. sprayed withDon’t red be paint. a Tosser It is thought - bin it! to (by Natural England) due to climate Tel: . have been inspired by DDDC’s autumn change/pollution; trees planted to Email: campaign . Care for Feet Podiatry Foot Clinic The bagsChildren were play removed here, pick a couple up your of ) Dogdays Mess!!later and replaced by a notice on a tree: (Trading upstairs Loughran Hague Salon Home Visits Available If you feel tempted to follow suit, please be absolutely sure to use a • General nail care, non-toxic chalk-based wildlife-friendly • Hard skin/callus and corn removal paint. DDDC has changed its stance, • Verruca, fungal nails and no longer recommend this tactic • Treatment of ingrown toenails, of drawing attention to the issue, and cracked heels and reduction of thickened toenails they have also stopped supplying the Matlock Street, Bakewell DE45 1EE. Tel: 01629 259672 paint, which has proved very difficult www.Careforfeetuk.co.uk 10to clean from tarmac. Calendar Photo: First Light at Wardlow Soundscape for Longstone? Live and Local

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In my earlier notes I was saying how cold and wet the soil was. Well, it has certainly dried out now and warmed up a little. We have had a spell of sunny days and cold frosty nights, so I have been bringing tender plants inside overnight to protect them. Last year we had an exceptionally cold night in the middle of May which killed all the blossom on my pear and apple trees and many other tender new shoots, so fingers crossed for this year. If a really cold night is forecast they could be covered with fleece. Last year at this time all the garden centres were closed, so thank goodness they are open this time and they have been really busy. As shoots emerge from potatoes I will earth them up to protect from frost and UTE’s County Councillor for the last 24 encourage a larger yield. A bit of fertiliser helps as well. I have quite a few hardy years and current DCC Civic Chairman, plants in the ground such as broad beans, peas, onions, garlic and beetroot, but Judith Twigg, is stepping down on May will not plant out tender plants such as courgettes, runner beans or sweetcorn till 26th, at 81. She became involved in local the end of the month. I will be providing supports for my peas, broad beans and issues when a Park Ranger wouldn’t let runner beans. I will grow certain plants in pots and place them near the kitchen her youngest child aged three ride his door so that they can be harvested when cooking or preparing salads, such as tricycle in a local recreation ground. mint, sage, chives, basil, lovage, marjoram, lettuce and radishes. Tomatoes are She stood at the next election in 1975 growing at a pace now and I grow these in pots in the greenhouse up bamboo to try to change that, and has worked canes, tying them in as they grow and taking out the side shoots. Having said that, “My home has always been in Bakewell tirelessly ever since. Judith told UTE I have got a couple of bush tomatoes where they do not require the side shoots and my father came from Wardlow, so removing and they produce an abundance of cherry tomatoes. it has been an honour and pleasure to serve the people of Bakewell and surrounding villages. Working alongside 26 parishes, I think we have achieved a great deal for local people, from highways improvements to provision of play equipment and other facilities. I’ll miss this role but feel it is the right time to retire and spend time with family and on gardening and embroidery. I always know what is going on in Longstone as you have a brilliant clerk in Sarah Stokes, and I always pick up a copy of UTE when I come to a meeting!”

“Heartfelt retirement wishes to Cllr JudithWendy Twigg Long, from GLPC the ParishChair, Council sends and residents of Great Longstone. Your Make sure that container plants are well watered, especially during long dry help and advice over the years has (seespells. photo) I will water mine once or twice weekly. They would also benefit from the always been greatly appreciated and we occasional liquid feed. I will plant up a few pots with annuals for a summer show all hope you enjoy a long, healthy and Andy Hanna such as fuschias, petunias, nemesias, marigolds, argyranthemums, happy retirement.” verbenas and pelargoniums. 11 Farming Notes May 2021 The cold temperatures, even inside the Winter has definitely held us firmly in barn, meant the lambs were fighting its grip with some really challenging against the elements. So our trusty weather conditions in the past few heat lamp which has been on the farm weeks. Some spring sunshine gave us a for around 50 years came out and gave false sense of optimism as the daffodils the lambs a chance to warm through bloomed along Chertpit Lane and green and gain some strength. We have shoots began springing earnestly from been feeding them by bottle every few the ground. hours since then(see and photo they on are left) getting stronger, although developmentally they are weak and would not have survived without intervention! We are hopeful that Lamb born on Easter Sunday most of lambs born will be more straightforward than this! After Easter the weather has Longstone church, but sheep don’t continued to pose a challenge, with know about our plans! Joanna and -6°C recorded a few nights ago and Nick brought the sheep into the barn thick ice on the water troughs. We and John had time to deliver safely the couldn’t believe how much snow fell first and second lambs, which did not one Tuesday afternoon in a heavy come easily but were both alive. An blizzard that left more than an inch of Daffodils on Chertpit Lane Easter blessing. He then hastily made snow on the fields for 24 hours. When off for the church service, while Joanna (photothe sun below) shone it felt like a beautiful delivered the third lamb which was winter’s day and not like spring at all As Easter approached we were coming out backwards and sadly did . busy doing spring jobs such as chain not show signs of life. There was very Now we are getting excited to reopen harrowing and rolling the fields, and little time to dwell on the sad event the camp site and see the village pubs preparing to open the campsite after as the two live lambs were premature open to visitors and locals alike. The closing at the start of November. and in need of the vital colostrum milk. area is sure to be thriving again soon. Lockdown has felt like a long stretch This was given to them via a syringe We just needJoanna some and sunshine John Shimwell for the throughout the winter months and and tube into the stomach as the lambs beer gardens, the campers, and the we have been blessed to have the farm were too weak to drink for themselves. lambs! work to keep everyone here occupied. Things really ramp up a gear in the spring. March is a busy time for field work (as mentioned last month) and we start lambing in early April. The last couple of weeks before lambing is when some problems can occur with sheep as they are in the late stages of pregnancy. The week before Easter we had a few hot days and a ewe was off colour. On Easter Sunday she started showing signs of labour even though it was a week early. A week early to give birth is significant in sheep, and we were worried the lambs would not

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