“Heatherlea” built by James Turver about 1900: does anyone have memories of this house? to DORE DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY No. 86 SUMMER 2007 ISSN 0965-8912 Inside: Your letters page 4 Well Dressing page 8 Planning issues page 10 Book Reviews page 22 Blacka Moor page 26 Stars in Dore page 31 and lots, lots more .... Festival Fortnight A message from the Festival Organisers Dore Festival is now firmly established as a two week event and we hope that this year’s festival programme will have plenty to attract young and old and appeal to the wide range of interests within our village community. We are delighted to see the return of the Gardens Open Day which is our first event on Sunday 1st July. It promises to be hugely popular with some different and unusual gardens to visit and admire. The ladies of the village and the Guides Turver’s Stores about 1920 with Ernest will spend the first week of festival Turver’sTurver at Storesthe door. about Notice 1920 the old with signpost Ernest TurverOral at History the door. Collection preparing their floral Well Dressings for pointing to Whirlow and Ecclesall. the Green and the horse trough and In conversation with Clive Tiddy. welcoming visitors and helpers to the Clive Tiddy was born on the 8th August Scout H.Q. If you have never been to the 1934 at Sister Pilley’s Maternity Home on Well Dressing service come along to the DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY the corner of Bannerdale and Green on Sunday 8th July and experience AGM and talk by Carterknowle Roads. He was the only son an old Derbyshire tradition. Afterwards Peter Machan of Leonard Noel Tiddy and Clary sample the best cream teas in the county Gertrude Unwin, who owned Turver’s served by the Methodist Ladies. “An illustrated walk through Stores which was a high class grocery and The Dore Fun Run has become a Victorian Sheffield” provisions store situated on the corner of favourite family event which always High Street and Causeway Head Road. attracts a huge number of entrants. Come 7.30pm Wednesday The shop no longer exists but if you look and cheer them on and finish the evening 6th June carefully at the corner house you can see at the Devonshire Arms entertained by the outline of the original facade. Lord Conyers Morris Men. Once again Dore Methodist Church Hall Clive’s great grandfather James Turver, Dore Village Society are organising Everybody welcome a prosperous Sheffield grocer, had bought various walks throughout Festival the original Devonshire Terrace properties Fortnight so look out for more details on in High Street about 1900. His purchase the village notice boards. Long Line traffic flow included the bakehouse and smithy which Our programme of summer concerts were in the yard behind the cottages. He starts with the Dore Gilbert and Sullivan The Long Line saga continues, with as then built a shop on the corner and a Society and includes the Open Evening predicted a fair number of drivers ignoring further terrace of five stone houses, continued on page 3 the no entry restrictions and continuing to Devonshire Terrace, at the junction of drive down the road when coming from High Street and Causeway Head Road. the Ringinglow direction. Turver’s Store quickly prospered and Wheely bin fines Although this is against the law, there is groceries were delivered to the local no evidence of the restriction being houses on a horse drawn dray. Mr. The city council is using new powers to policed, although council officials have Watchorn, the baker, supplied the shop clamp down on residents who persistently been seen monitoring the situation. with freshly baked items and baked the leave their wheely bins on the street. They Sadly a number of drivers are taking the loaves for all the village housewives at can expect a £100 fine if they consistently alternative route down Whitelow Lane one old penny a loaf. do not take in their bins within 24 hours of into Dore creating an increased risk to James Turver was already forty-two their rubbish being collected. walkers and horse riders using that road. when he came to Dore and he obviously Apart from being unsightly, the bins Several years ago the government intended to settle because he had a grand cause a hazard to many footpath users, grandly announced legislation to create stone house called “Heatherlea” built for particularly those using wheelchairs, quiet lanes with speed restrictions, but like his large family. It was situated adjacent prams or anyone with impaired sight, so so much else nothing has happened, to Upper Causeway Head Farm, which he there are good, practical reasons why this despite our requests for the lane to be so also owned. is being pursued. designated. continued on page 6 Keep up to date with what’s going on in Dore at www.dorevillage.co.uk 1 Dore Show 2007 New Discovery Centre This years Dore Show will take place on PUBLISHING DEADLINES A new Moorland Discovery Centre has Saturday 8th September in the Old School Dore to Door is published quarterly in opened on the National Trust’s Longshaw and Methodist Church Hall - be sure to mid February, May, August & Estate. It is designed to provide people of note the date in your diary. Brass band, November each year. The copy deadline all ages from the Peak District and entertainment and side displays of interest for each issue is the end of the Sheffield with the opportunity to discover to everyone as usual. why the moorlands are so special and what There will be over 70 open classes for preceding month. challenges they face. you to enter for or come and see, ranging Please forward items for the Autumn The project is the latest result of the from vegetables to paintings, flower (August) issue to the address on this partnership between the National Trust, arranging to childrens’ exhibits. The full page by Friday 27th July the Moors for the Future Partnership and schedule and entry forms for Floral Art the Peak District National Park Authority. classes will shortly be available from the The centre has been specifically Valerie of Dore shop on the High Street. Dore Road works developed with education groups in mind, For those keen photographers wishing although the large space will also be used to plan ahead, the 4 adult photography Following the closure of Dore Road for some public events throughout the classes will be: a) Black & White - Open earlier this year to lay a new sewer, traffic year. Environment features include subject - min 7” x 5”; b) Colour - “An lights have again been in evidence. On this untreated natural materials in the design, Urban Landscape” - min 7” x 5”; c) occasion work was carried out to the optimising of natural light, ventilation Colour - “My family”; d) “Aspect of investigate subsidence along the centre and solar gain and the minimising of heat Dore”. Classes c) & d) are for standard or line of the road. It was known that a loss. By using timber, the building will panoramic size photos only ( max 8” x 6”) culverted watercourse ran parallel to the weather naturally taking on the natural & unmounted please. There will also be a public sewer, the same culvert as colours of the landscape and becoming a class for children - “Any colour collapsed at the bottom of Dore Road a prime example of a “sustainable build”. photograph”. few years ago. A new access chamber onto The Show has become an established the culvert has now been made at the point part of village life, largely thanks to the of the depression in the carriageway Late night opening exhibitors and those who plan and run the outside number 79. From this it was event on the day. As always many hands possible to establish that the Victorian There are fears that the Co-op in Dore make light work! If you can offer a little culvert is good conditionand not the cause will shortly move to late night opening, help on the day please contact the Show of the subsidence. perhaps until 10pm. The Totley branch Chairman on 236 4257 or Secretary on already stays open until 11pm and no 236 9025. doubt there is pressure on businesses to Have your say on health match the late hours at Tesco Express. Whether anybody benefits from these DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY People are being given the chance to late hours must be debatable, given the have their say on when and where additional staff costs and other overheads Registered Charity No. 1017051 healthcare services should be available in involved, against the small numbers of the city through a public consultation, customers. Certainly local residents The Society aims to foster the protection ‘Achieving Balanced Health’, launched adjacent to these businesses suffer and enhancement of the local by Sheffield Primary Care Trust (PCT) additional disturbance. environment and amenities within Dore, and partner organisations including Sheffield City Council. to encourage a spirit of community and to The consultation, which runs until June, Deli Junction record its historic development. is designed to find out how people The Deli Junction restaurant based in Chairman (Dore to Door) currently use their local health services, such as pharmacies and GP surgeries, as the old Dore & Totley station building Mr J R Baker 236 9025 well as hospitals and Accident & closed at the beginning of April. There is 8 Thornsett Gardens, S17 3PP. Emergency departments. now concern over the future of this historic building which has had a Vice Chairman (Planning) It also aims to discover which locations people feel are most convenient and chequered past since it stopped being used Mr D Heslop 236 5043 effective for treating a range of health by the railway.