'DOOR DORE VILLAGE SOCIETY No. 34 SUMMER 1994 ISSN 0965-8912 Review of Acute Services- Sheffield Health Authority For some months Sheffield Health Authority has been considering the future provision of acute services for the people of Sheffield. In order to meet financial constraints and offer a service appropriate to the needs of the population, various options were considered. A proposal to close Nether Edge Hospital was announced. This was met with some dismay by those who have personally, or have family/friends, who benefited from the quality rehabilitation service offered in such pleasant surroundings. Some services will be relocated, albeit on a smaller scale and the resultant saving from the closure will allow for development of services in the Community. New facilities to replace the ageing Jessop Hospital are required. The desirability of easy access to the Children's Hospital favour the Royal Hallamshire/Stonegrove site as an option. It is the future location of the Accident and Emergency services that should be of Full steam ahead. Local dignatries are shown Totley Tunnel shortly before its official opening to particular concern to the people of Dore. It is regular passenger traffic in 1894. Work on coordinating a celebration of the tunnel's opening is very easy to be emotional about the possibility now well advanced with exhibitions, a fete and steam hauled trains planned. of having a single site Accident and Emergency Department at the Northern experts in facial injuries ~- all based at the General Hospital. Royal Hallamshire? Council Elections The big questions are:- • Has full consultation been made with other • Is it essential to opt for a single site hospitals such as Chesterfield, which are Following the Local Elections on 5th May, provision? more accessible to many Sheffield Dore has a new councillor - Colin Ross of • Can we be sure that the implications for residents than Northern General. Wyvern Gardens (Liberal Democrat). In his the population in the south of the city have • Is it logical that the more central hospital, acceptance speech he committed himself to been fully researched? currently dealing with 52,000 patients a working hard for the interests of the people of • What will happen when patients need the year ie. 60% of all adult accidents, should Dore Ward over the next 4 years. skills of the neurosurgeons, ear, nose and be closed? The results were: throat specialists, opthalmic surgery and • Do you wish to travel to Northern General CRoss Liberal Democrat 3,292 for all orthopaedic cases? A possible J Harthman Conservative 2,627 option has the potential of a major M King Labour 1,248 movement of services towards the north of J Baptie Rec. & Services 124 the city. • Are you convinced that it is necessary or DORE VILLAGE right for the local population? In September the decision will be made. SOCIETY There has been a lot of comment in the press and requests for input from the people of Sheffield. Please make this a meaningful ANNUAL GENERAL consultation period. Ask the relevant questions before making up your mind what is MEETING right for Sheffield and for you. Questions may be asked of the Chief 8.00pm 25th May 1994 Executive, Sheffield Health Authority, Westbrook House, Sheffield or the Old Village School, Savage Lane Community Health Council, Division Street, Sheffield. Comment may be passed to them followed by a speaker and and/or Irvine Patnick, House of Commons, discussion on the future of health London. Dore Village Society is keen to serv.ices in this part of the City. promote debate on the proposals and will be pleased to receive copies of any comments See Notice Board for further details. made to the above. Brian Edwards. Please see the AGM agenda. Ed. INSIDE Totley Tunnel Centenary • The Earls & Dukes of Devonshire • Letters • Dore Motor Show • Book Reviews • Can You Help • ••• The Earls and Dukes of Devonshire This year sees the lOOth anniversary of the granting of a Dukedom on 12th May 1694 to William Cav end ish . fourth Earl of Devonshire, in re/urn for helping /0 bring William and Mary to the English thro ne . Given the links with Dore, large parts of which once bel ong ed /0 the Devonshire estates, we will look over the next [our issues at the lives of successive Earls and Dukes of Devonshire from the 16 Century to the present day. William, first Earl of Devonshire, 1552-1625 Why the first Earl adopted the county of Devon for his title could never be accounted for. William Cavendish was not in fact born to inherit the vast wealth which would bring him the title of Earl although it was fortunate The tram terminus at Millhouses. This 0.8 acre site is now upfor sale bv SYPT. for future generations that events unfolded as they did. William was the second son of Sir William the royal chamber. often been written of as her favourite son but Cavendish and Bess of Hardwick. Besss first In the event Bess herself with the problem the fact is that his older brother, Henry, was husband, Robert Barlow, already 'sick of the when Sir William died in 1557 with the debt such an unworthy heir that he and Bess had Chronical Distemper' at the time of their still unsettled. It was only her personal been estranged long before she died in 1608. teenage marriage, left her a childless widow friendship with Elizabeth I which eventually Fortunately for the' succession' Henry whilst still very young and Bess was aged enabled her to settle the matter, at a greatly fathered only illegitimate children; his only about twenty when she married the reduced figure, without having to sell her activities as 'the common bull of Derbyshire twice-widowed Sir William Cavendish in beloved Chats worth. and Staffordshire' were common knowledge. 1574. Meanwhile, this most eligible widow had It was due to his large debts that Henry Sir William had earlier been well rewarded quickly contracted another favourable, albeit had to sell Chatsworth, with its valuable by Henry VIII for his role in securing affectionate. match. Her third husband was income from rents, to William. At least, too, monastic properties at the dissolution, not the wealthy Sir William St Loe. Bess brought Henry died in good time for his younger only being given a knighthood and the six young Cavendish children to the marriage, brother to take the family's vast fortune into position of Treasurer of the king's chamber, all treated admirably by their otherwise his capable care. but generous grants of former monastic land. childless step-father who also paid for the two William Cavendish was by now in his He was to continue to receive royal favour- oldest boys, Henry and William , to attend mid-sixties and married to his second wife, and more landed property - from Edward Eton. St Loe died in 1564 but three years Elizabeth, by whom he had a son. His first VI, retaining his office under both Edward later his step-children's future was assured wife, Anne, had borne him three sons and and then Mary Tudor. beyond question when their mother took for three daughters but of the former only his This wealth was all to be converted into her fourth husband George Talbot, sixth Earl namesake, William, survived him. Derbyshire property during his marriage to of Shrewsbury. The first family had lived at Hardwick Bess, beginning with the purchase of the Eventually this marriage ended in during the later part of Bess's life but whilst manor house of Chatsworth in 1549 for £600. acrimony, yet when the Countess of William was by nature a modest and rather The property was put into their joint names Shrewsbury was widowed for the last time in frugal man, deeply committed to his interests and Bess's ambitions to replace it with a 1590 she managed to keep the Shrewsbury in Derbyshire, there were benefits to be magnificent new Chatsworth House wealth, making her the richest woman in gained from his social standing, his wealth, ultimately left her husband in the serious England after the Queen. Bess was and not least his keen business acumen. position of having to explain to Queen Mary determined to settle the bulk of these assets on Shortly before he reached the age of thirty, why £5,000 was missing from the accounts of her son, William Cavendish. William has William received a knighthood from Elizabeth I. Under lames I, on the occasion of the christening of the Princess Sophia in May 1605, he was created Baron Cavendish of Hardwicke. In the intervening years he had acted as MP for Liverpool and for Newport, served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire, and was PARTNERSHIP later appointed Knight of the Bath. William, Lord Cavendish, was to receive o c T o R s something even more important to bequeath to his heirs - an earldom. On 2 August 1618 WE H~VE MOVED! he was created Earl of Devonshire during a stay at the Bishop of Salisbury's palace with TO PRESTIGIOUS NEW OFFICES AT the king and his court, though the honour reputedly cost him £10,000. The following year he was named Lord-Lieutenant of CITY PLAZA Derbyshire, official representative of the Crown with responsibility for the judiciary 2 PINFOLD STREET and militia in his home county. Through all of these roles his first duties, as ever, were to his birthright and at his death, SHEFFIELD S1 2GU on 3 March 1625, a very healthy inheritance awaited his son and heir, another William Our offices at Dronfield and Staveley and our Cavendish.