DORE to DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY No. 97 SPRING 2010 ISSN 0965-8912 Kings Croft Fence Shock A great deal of anger has been expressed by local residents about the new fence that has been suddenly erected on the Kings Croft Playing Field. The 2m high weldmesh fence has been erected by the Dore Primary School in the full knowledge that the Dore Village Society had applied to have the area registered as a new village green. The most shocking aspect of the new enclosure is the gate that has been erected across the footpath from Vicarage Lane which has been in public use for over 40years. The head teacher of the Primary School knew about the Village Green application and indeed went ahead with the fence after the Council had placed notices on the site informing everyone that an application had been made for the new Village Green. The Planning Department has decided that the 2m high gate onto Vicarage Lane is not “adjacent to the highway” and Dore children enjoying the Punch and Judy Show at the Victory Fete held on Dore therefore does not require planning cricket ground in 1945. Do you recognise any of these faces? Would we be allowed to permission. ( The remainder of the fence is take such a picture today? also considered to be “permitted development” ). Dore Voices - Bombs The statutory notice on all three new DORE & TOTLEY and bravery in wartime village greens expired on January 29th when the Council must decide if they are WARD FORUM to register the three new greens. This is the final part of our series about The sad thing is, that if the Kings Croft Wednesday 17th March the 1939-1945 War and its impact on the Playing field is registered as a village 7.30 - 9pm at lives of the people of Dore. The stories green, the fence will have to be removed told are gathered from the recorded and repositioned, involving the school in Totley Library memories of many elderly Dore residents much wasted expense. Everybody welcome who were, of course, young at that time. David Crosby We have already heard how their families See notice board for details coped stoically with the demands of wartime and how the adults responded Dore Festival 2010 with wry humour to the many emergency Greener battery disposal regulations. Now we share in their Friday 25th June to Sunday 11th July recollections of bombing raids and A flower festival in Dore Church Energy-saving light bulbs and batteries destruction. opening on 25th June, for five days, will can now be recycled alongside other items The Sheffield Blitz took place on the be the first event of this years Festival, and at Sainsbury’s supermarket on Archer night of Thursday 12th and the early hours a dedicated team of flora experts are busy Road. of Friday 13th December 1940. It was a making plans to decorate the church. The Regulations that allow consumers to bright frosty night which gave the enemy weekend will also include a walk around dispose of spent batteries in shops free of a good view over the city but fortunately the ancient boundaries of Dore on charge came into effect from 1st February. ground fog in the Don Valley obscured the Saturday and Open Gardens in the village The EU Waste Batteries and Accumulators steelworks. The first of 336 German on Sunday 27th. Regulations require retailers who sell bombers flew in down the Sheaf Valley The rest of the full and varied more than 32kg of portable batteries a about 7pm dropping incendiaries and programme is now almost complete and year, which equates to around one pack of explosive bombs which created a huge includes the Well dressing Service on AA batteries a day, to place collection bins ring of fire. Between 10pm and 2am the Sunday 4th July and many of the ever in store for customers. raid was intense and a sustained blitz of popular musical evenings, the play on the All types of portable batteries, including the city centre resulted in much of it being green, and an opportunity to meet author recharge-ables, from all kinds of products, destroyed. Trevor Snow and enjoy a wine tasting. such as hearing aids, mobile phones and Terrible damage was inflicted on the So book these dates in your diary and laptops, can be disposed of in this way, Moor, High Street, Commercial Street and look out for more information nearer the even if they were not bought from the Fitzalan Square and many lives were lost. time. shop they were taken to. The worst incident occurred at 11.45pm Maureen Cope and Anne Elsdon This is a long overdue move, as batteries when Marples Hotel, which stood at the Festival Programme Co-ordinators contain several elements dangerous to the .... continued on page 18 environment and should never have been Keep up to date with what is happening disposed of alongside other domestic You will find a complete diary of local by visiting - www.dorevillage.co.uk waste. events on the back page of this issue. 1 Editorial residents - witness the letters in this issue. Village Dragon Hunt It seems to me as editor, that these The sudden closure without public circumstances have arisen largely as a This years annual village dragon hunt, notice or consultation, of access to Kings result of a failure in communication organised by the Dore Village Society, Croft Field from Vicarage Lane, has between interested parties and indeed will held on Sunday 25th April caused considerable annoyance within the within the Council, where officers have commencing at 2 pm. It will start and local community. Inevitably this reflects failed to put the two strands, Village Green finish at the Old School, be suitable for all badly on the management of the school. application and enclosure of this land, ages in family groups, take about an hour, This is particularly so given the together. and be rewarded by refreshments and a outstanding application for Kings Croft Lets us hope this matter can be swiftly small edible gift for successfully Field to be registered as a Village Green, a resolved to the satisfaction of all parties. completed entries. The aim is to: fact which has been widely publicised in John Baker * Celebrate St. George’s Day which Dore to Door and the village for over 2 falls on Friday the 23rd years. This included three public * Encourage an interest in, and wider consultation mornings at the Old School, Editorial & Advertising knowledge of the village so parents and governors should as * Enable people to have some fun as residents have been well aware of the Dore to Door is published by the a family!! proposals. Public notices about the Dore Village Society and delivered free St George is bound to join us along with proposal had also been posted on site by to over 3,250 households in the area. our very own village Wyvern who will be the Council. Finally committee members If you are interested in submitting an playing the part of the dragon. of the Dore Village Society believed they article or letter, have local news to More details will appear on posters were in negotiations with the school report, or wish to place an nearer the time, but in the meantime put a management - through the caretaker and advertisement, please contact the Editor note in your diary today to come and enjoy Governor Councillor Colin Ross. John Baker on: the community spirit of our village. We understand that the new fence was an Ofsted requirement to improve security 0114 236 9025 / 236 9469 or write to: at the rear of the school and to enclose the Dore to Door; No 30 Bus changes rear playground. Everybody understands 8 Thornsett Gardens; Dore; that this is happening throughout the Sheffield, S17 3PP. Since the introduction of the winter country and few would object to this in Email: [email protected] timetable back in November the service principle. The issue seems to be one of the has deteriorated, many regular users extent to the enclosed area and whether it complaining of late or missing buses. Now was necessary to close off an access route SYPTE has reallocated the route. From 1st used by Dore residents since before the All change in Dore February it is shared between First and school was built. TM Travel whose cream and maroon The sum of the community in Dore is Sadly as we go to press the off licence buses are based at Halfway. greater than those people who happen to previously occupied by Threshers on TM Travel’s involvement is mainly have children at the school at the moment. Causeway Head Road still stands empty, with the part of the route between the City Many residents will be unaware of what along with the Little Mischiefs’ shop. Centre and Plumbley and at some times of has happened until they try to walk this Although the furnishings shop next to day you will have to change buses on route in the summer, others will think it is Morans on Abbeydale Road is also vacant Arundel Gate if you want to travel the beyond their influence, and no doubt the a new business Hairunion, opened in late whole route. TM involvement at this end majority, especially those without legs, November adjacent to it. This new venture (between Sheffield city centre and Dore) just will not care. Someone, presumably has brought together stylists from a is on weekday and Sunday evenings (and DVS, has to champion the cause of the number of other hairdressers, plus a Saturdays before 08.00).