2015-08

August/ 

September 

2015

Welcome to Impact - the magazine of St Chad’s Church, 

Woodseats. Impact is published every two months and distributed 

to over 5,000 homes in S8. 

St Chad’s Church is committed to serving you - the people of 

Woodseats, Beauchief and Chancet Wood. To find out more about 

St Chad’s, visit our website at www.stchads.org or call the church 

office on 0114 274 5086. 

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The pear tree that grows in the church 

grounds by my study keeps me in tune 

with the seasons. Barren in winter, it 

slowly re-grows its leaves throughout 

March and April before bursting into white 

blossom for a week or so in May. Then from May 

to September it slowly grows the buds that will 

eventually become pears. In September and 

October we frequently end up with more pears 

than we know what to do with (though a friend 

made some very nice perry out of them last year). 

The abundance of fruit that autumn brings is 

quite marvellous - as you will know if you’ve ever 

walked through an orchard just before the apple 

harvest. 

Yet, despite nature’s seeming generosity in 

her provision, most fruit-bearing plants and trees 

need to be carefully tended if their fruit is to be 

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enjoyed. In my previous house we had a wild vine growing up one of 

the walls. The grapes looked very attractive, but they tasted horrible. 

Our pears are useful for stewing but not particularly nice to eat off the 

tree. Growing good fruit is a perfect combination of nature’s wizardry 

and human endeavour. 

Perhaps this is why fruit becomes such a helpful metaphor for our 

own growth and development. We bear fruit in our own lives from 

a mixture of our own inherent personal traits as well as our own will 

to change. Jesus recognised that the fruit that we bear in our lives 

comes from something much deeper within - a good tree bears good 

fruit, a bad tree, bad fruit. You are known and judged by the fruit that 

you bear. 

If this sounds a little too much like folk-wisdom for our sophisticated 

tastes, then it’s worth spending a little time thinking about our lives 

and how we project ourselves to others. Are we like my pear tree 

seemingly full of fruit, but actually of very little substance, or like my 

wild vine - attractive on the outside but sour on the inside? 

Or are we instead like a well cultivated orchard bearing 

good fruit from good lives? 

The Bible recognises that none of us is perfect, and 

that the fruit that we bear is rarely as perfect as we 

would like to think. Nevertheless through following 

Jesus our lives can be changed and become more 

fruitful. What fruit are you bearing right now? 

Being Fruitful 

Rev Toby Hole, 

Vicar, 

St Chad’s Church, Woodseats 




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A teacher asked 

her Sunday 

School group to 

draw pictures of 

their favourite 

Bible stories. She 

was puzzled by 

Patsy’s picture 

which showed 

four people on an 

airplane, so she 

asked her which 

story it was meant 

to represent. 

“Mary and 

Joseph’s flight to 

Egypt,” said Patsy. 

“I see ... and 

that must be 

Mary, Joseph 

and Jesus,” the 

teacher said. “But 

who’s the fourth 

person?” 

“Oh, that’s Pontius 

– the Pilot.” 

“Do you think it would be possible for you to turn 

the wine back into water?” 

An old lady was sending 

her ancient family Bible 

to her brother who lived 

abroad. 

“Is there anything 

breakable in here?” 

asked the man in the post 

ofice. 

“Only the Ten 

Commandments,” she 

answered. 

What happens 

if you sit on a 

grape? 

It gives a little 

wine! 

What did the 

carrot stick say 

to the crisp? 

Do you want to 

go for a dip? 

Just for Laughs 

Why did the banana go to 

the doctor? 

Because it wasn’t peeling well. 

Why did the man at the orange 

juice factory lose his job? 

He couldn’t concentrate! 

Why did the 

pineapple 

go out with a 

prune? 

Because he 

couldn’t find a 

date! 

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What’s On 

If you have an event you would like 

to see included in our What’s On 

section, email impact@stchads.org 

Health Walks 

•Mondays - 10am: Graves Park. 

Meet outside the Rose Garden 

Cafe; 

•Tuesdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall 

Woods. Meet at downstairs in 

Jack’s Bar, car park entrance, at 

the Beauchief Hotel; 

•Thursdays - 10.30am: 

Lowedges. Meet at the Gresley 

Road Meeting Rooms, Gresley 

Road, Lowedges. 

) Call 0114 203 9337 for 

details. 

August 2, 16, 30 and 31 

Abbeydale Miniature Railway 

Abbeydale Road South 

1-5pm 

The regular open days at 

Abbeydale Miniature Railway. 

On August 16 there will be 

a teddy bears picnic event 

fundraising for the Children’s 

Hospital Charity with all ticket 

receipts going to the charity. 

For details visit www. 

sheffieldsmee.co.uk 

August 5, 12, 19 and 26 

Make Your Own Wednesdays 

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet 

Go along to the hamlet every 

Wednesday during the school 

holidays for a make and take 

activity and learn new crafts and 

skills. 

Email ask@simt.co.uk for more 

details. 

August 29 

Book Sale 

36 Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief 

10am-12pm 

Second-hand books for sale in 

aid of the Alzheimer’s Society. 

Donations of good condition 

paperback novels or biographies 

are welcome. 

September 6 

Messy Church 

Beauchief Baptist Church 

3.30-4.45pm 

Craft, story telling, games, 

quizzes, activities and light tea. 

All the family are welcome to just 

turn up on the day. 

September 7 

Luncheon Club 

Beauchief Baptist Church 

12.30-2pm 

A three-course home-cooked 

meal and the opportunity to meet 

new people. Cost £3.50. 

) Call 0114 327 3255 to book. 

September 10-13 

Heritage Open Days 

Beauchief Abbey 

The abbey will be open on 

Thursday and Friday from 11am 

until 4pm to view and find out 

information. On Saturday from 

11am to 4pm and on Sunday from 

1pm (after the morning service) 

until 4pm, refreshments will be 

available and there will be guided 

tours and books, plants and cards 

for sale. 

September 12 

Have A Go Fruit and Veggie 

Show 

Church House, 56 Abbey Lane 

St Chad’s will be holding its 

second Have A Go Show to 

display the work and talents 

of our community. There will 

be various categories to enter 

including fruit and veg, baking 

and crafts. 

Schedules are available from 

St Chad’s or by calling 0114 

2745086 or emailing office@ 

stchads.org 

See page 19 for more details. 




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January 30 - February 5 

AEGON British Tennis Tour 

Graves September Tennis 13 and and Leisure 27 Centre 

World Abbeydale ranked Miniature players compete Railway 

alongside Abbeydale local Road Sheffield Southplayers. 

1-5pm Call 0114 283 9900. 

The regular open days at 

February Abbeydale 5 Miniature Railway. 

Book For details Sale visit www. 

36 sheffieldsmee.co.uk 

Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief 

10am-12pm 

Good 

September 

quality second-hand 

13 

books 

for 

Nether 

sale in 

Edge 

aid of 

Farmers’ 

the Alzheimer‟s 

Market 

Stalls, entertainment and various 

Society. Donations of paperback 

activities held in the streets 

novels or biographies in good 

around the old Nether Edge 

condition 

Market Place. 

are welcome (but not 

larger books due to space 

limitations). September 17 

Lunchtime Piano Recital 

February Sheffield 5 Cathedral 

Free 1.15-2.15pm Environmental Activities 

Millhouses Bill and Ed Park from the Sheffield 

10.30am-12.30pm 

Royal Society for the Blind 

Obstacle (SRSB) course will be and performing stream a joint 

dipping piano recital. activities for 8 - 13 year 

olds. 

Call 0114 263 4335. 

Anderson Tree Services 

10.30am-12.30pm 

Nature quiz trail, stream dipping 

and September bug hunting 19 activities for 8 - 13 

year 

Book 

olds. 

Sale 

36 Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief 

Call 0114 235 6348. 

10am-12pm 

Second-hand books for sale in aid 

February 

of the Alzheimer’s 

20 

Society. 

Why Not Try A Bike 

Greenhil September Park 26 

10am-2pm Community Fun Day for all the 

Rediscover Family your cycling skills in 

Greenhill Beauchief Park. Baptist The Church rangers will 

provide 11am - 2pm a bike, helmet and 

instruction. A fun day which Meet is at run the by Bowls the 

Pavilion, church, Scouts, Greenhill Cubs, Park. Beavers, 

Booking Pre-school is essential. and after school clubs. 

Admission Call 0114 is 283 free. 9195. 

Beauchief Abbey Abbey holds holds a variety a 

of variety services of services. and anyone For is more 

welcome information to attend. see page For 29. more 

details see the Abbey notice 

board. 

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Woodseats Community 

The idea of turning an area 

of council-owned land into 

a community orchard was 

conceived by Woodseats 

residents Richard and Sue 

Lee, recently retired and with time and 

energy to spare. 

Their idea was to transform the 

driveway from Camping Lane to the 

Woodseats allotment site from an overgrown 

and weed-choked eyesore into a 

productive orchard which will ultimately 

provide fruit for local residents and 

allotment tenants. 

Josie Wright, president of Woodseat 

Allotment Society was supportive from 

the outset and immediately promised to 

donate some fruit trees. The Allotment 

Officer from the council was also very 

supportive and promised help in the 

form of Bob, the allotment Ranger, to 

help with the clearing of the site. 

A working-day was 

scheduled for October 

2013. In a matter 

of hours Bob 

and his team 

of enthusiastic 

volunteers 

grubbed out all 

the brambles, 

bushes and 

weeds and 

dumped the 

lot on Sue’s 

recently winterdug 

allotment ready 

for burning. Over 

winter Richard worked 

steadily from one end 

of the newly cleared site to 

the other turning over the soil and 

removing the remaining tree-roots. 

National 

Allotments Week 

takes place from August 10 to 

16 this year. Woodseats Allotment 

Society is supporting the National 

Society of Allotments and Leisure Gardens 

by opening its site to the public on Saturday 

August 15. 

If you have ever wondered what is behind 

those big metal gates off Camping Lane, now is 

your chance to find out! Visitors will be able to 

walk around the site. Several plots will be open 

to visitors and tenants at hand to answer 

questions and to show people round. 

The society hut will be open for 

refreshments and garden supplies. 

Cakes, preserves, produce 

and plants on sale. 




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Orchard 

By February 2014 the ground was 

ready and 19 trees were planted. 

Against the wall there are pears and 

cherries, and between the wall and 

the driveway there are eating apples, 

cooking apples and plums. 

The pears and cherries are being 

trained to grow flat against the wall 

(plums horizontal and cherries in a 

fan-shape). The remaining trees will be 

pruned in such a way as to keep them 

from growing too high. 

Anderson Tree Care provided the 

mulch (shredded wood) to keep the 

weeds down and the trees were left to 

grow. 

In late autumn 2014 Sue planted 350 

mixed daffodil bulbs between the trees 

and a mixture of bulbs at the Camping 

Lane end of the site. These looked 

great when they flowered this spring. 

Hopefully they will spread over the 

years and eventually provide an annual 

daffodil spectacular. 

The project has already provided a 

great deal of satisfaction. Allotment 

tenants and local residents have all said 

how much better the entrance to the 

Allotment Site looks. But the best is yet 

to come. The trees have all blossomed 

well this spring and we hope they may 

yield a small harvest this year! The 

trees, and the fruit they bear, are for 

the community to enjoy. It is our wish 

that over time, a great many people 

will benefit from Woodseats Allotment 

Society’s decision in 2013 to turn their 

site entrance into a community orchard. 

For more information about Woodseats 

Allotments please visit our website at 

www.woodseatsallotmentsociety.btck. 

co.uk 

Sue Lee 

The Abbey Public House 

We would like to welcome old and new 

customers back to the new Abbey. 

We now offer: 

Home cooked food, locally sourced 

A range of great real ales 

A welcoming & relaxing environment 

Come and try our excellent Sunday 

Roast with real roast potatoes and 

Yorkshire puddings. 

With a variety of special events 

throughout the year, come and see what 

we have to offer! 

Call us: (0114) 274 5374 

Email: info@theabbeysheffield.co.uk 

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Banking on the Future 

Have you ever visited 

the garden centre and 

been spoilt for choice, 

spending endless time 

trying to decide on which 

variety of what to buy? 

But what about the number 

and varieties of plants and fruits 

that were around when you were 

growing up but we no longer see? 

This could just be that the kind 

of apple we ate at home 20, 40 

or 80 years ago is not stocked by 

our multi-national superstores - or 

it could be that it no longer exists. 

Today, 60,000 to 100,000 

species of plant are faced 

with the threat of extinction. 

The Millennium Seed Bank 

Partnership - coordinated by the 

Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew - 

is the largest plant conservation 

programme in the world. It looks 

at wild plants faced with the threat 

of extinction and those of most 

use for the future. 

The seeds saved are conserved 

in seed banks in case they 

become extinct in their native 

habitat. 

Working with a network of 

partners in 80 countries across 

the world, over 13 per cent of the 

planet’s wild plant species have 

been banked and the partnership 

is aiming to save a 

quarter of species with 

‘bankable’ seeds by 

2020 - a total of 75,000 

species. The team 

initially aimed to store 

seeds from all of the 

UK’s native plant species 

and it has now achieved 

this, apart from a handful 

of species that are either 

very rare or whose 

seeds are particularly 

difficult to store. 

The Seed Bank Partnership 

targets plants and regions most 

at risk from the impact of human 

activities, including land use and 

climate change. 

Seeds are collected by Kew’s 

partner organisations around the 

world and preserved by careful 

drying before being stored in large 

underground frozen vaults in 

temperatures of -20 deg c. 

Where possible, collections 

of seeds are duplicated in seed 

banks in the country where they 

were collected. 

The idea is that they are given 

a ‘best before’ or expiry date – 

some in a few decades, others for 

over 1,000 years – and are then 

planted and geminated before this 

date arrives. 

The new seeds are then taken 

from the plant and re-stored. If 

the species becomes or nears 

extinction, the seeds are used to 

repopulate the wild. 

A spokesman for the partnership 

said: “Each day the world’s plants 

are more and more at risk. If we 

continue on our current path, we 

will lose one species a day for the 

next 50 years. 

“We can’t afford to let these 

plants, and the potential they 

hold, die out.” 

Photo courtesy of RBG Kew 

A Milennium Seed Bank scientist at work 




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With this edition of 

Impact having the 

theme of fruit, we 

though we’d test 

your brain cells with 

a few fruit questions. 

The answers are at the bottom of 

page 23. 

1. What colour is a custard 

apple? 

a) Red b) Green c) Yellow d) 

Orange 

2. What percentage of a 

watermelon is actual water? 

a) 60% b) 75% c) 82% d) 92% 

3. Which of these is not a fruit? 

a) Apple b) Rhubarb c) Tomato 

d) Grape 

4. Which of these football clubs 

has the nickname ‘The Cherries’? 

a) Swindon Town b) Bristol City c) 

Charlton Athletic d) Bournemouth 

5. Which of these fruits is radioactive? 

a) Mango b) Banana c) Orange 

d) Pomegranate 

6. Approximately how many 

vineyards producing wine are 

there in England and Wales? 

a) 24 b) 110 c) 252 d) 450 

7. Which of these fruits has the 

fewest calories? 

a) Plum b) grape c) strawberry 

d) peach 

8. Which is the world’s fourth 

largest fruit crop? 

a) Olive b) Banana c) Apple d) 

Grape 

9. What is the sugar in fruit 

called? 

a) Lactose b) Glucose c) 

Fructose d) Sucrose 

10. Why are stone pineapples 

often found on gateposts? 

a) Sign of wealth b) They 

are grown there c) Symbol 

of hospitality d) Owner is an 

aristocrat 

11. Which is the world’s most 

popular fruit? 

a) Banana b) Grape c) Pineapple 

d) Tomato 

12. Kiwi fruit is native to which 

country? 

a) New Zealand b) China c) 

South Korea d) Australia 

13. The cherry blossom flower 

is the national symbol of which 

country? 

a) Japan b) Thailand c) China d) 

Philippines 

14. Which of these fruits may 

help to relieve hay fever because 

of its high queritin content? 

a) Blueberry b) Raspberry c) 

Cranberry d) Apricot 

15. Which fruit has particular 

significance for the Jewish faith 

because it is said that it has as 

many seeds as the number of 

commandments in the Torah? 

a) Strawberry b) Fig c) 

Pomegranate d) Raspberry 

Fruity Teaser 




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The Heavenly Man 

by Brother Yun with Paul Hattaway 

ISBN 185424597X 

T 

his is a remarkable and true 

story of a Chinese Christian 

brother called Yun. 

It presents like a modern day 

parallel to the book of Acts in the 

Abbey Lane Primary School’s year six 

School 

spotlight 

other than his memory and God, he 

started to take the good news of 

Jesus to the people of China via 

illegal house churches. This gentle 

man brought many people into a 

relationship with the Lord. 

Yun suffered inhuman and 

horrendous torture when captured by 

the „Public Security Bureau‟. He 

fasted for 72 days, having no food or 

water, living only by God‟s grace. 

During this fast Yun was repeatedly 

tortured, humiliated and beaten by 

Prison Guards and fellow prisoners. In 

prison violent and dangerous men 

observed Yun‟s faith and obedience 

to God. They realised that he was not 

a criminal, just a committed Christian 

and came themselves into a deep and 

loving relationship with Jesus. 

Miraculous and loving interventions 

helped Yun for example jumping over 

a ten foot wall; walking through the 

open doors of a high security prison 

Bible: spiritual warfare, the power of 

badminton the Holy team Spirit, put visions, in an outstanding dreams, 

performance 

miracles, 

at 

near 

the U11 

death 

Primary 

experiences, 

Schools 

Festival, held at Abbeydale Park 

torture and escaping from impossible 

Badminton Club in May. 

situations. 

Tom Broadhurst, Josh Ward and Sam 

Wooldridge 

Brother 

were 

Yun 

champions 

experienced 

and 

all 

Adam 

these, 

Khalil, after Henry following Edey and God‟s Ed calling Purshouse since the 

came third. age of Well 16. done Through boys, illegal a fabulous house 

achievement. churches he helped spread 

Pictured Christianity right are: back through row – China, Tom Broadhurst, whilst 

Josh Ward evading and Sam the Chinese Wooldridge; authorities front row who – 

Adam Khalil, saw him Henry as Edey a dangerous and Ed Purshouse criminal. 

After his conversion, Yun fasted for 

100 days on just a bowl of rice, 

praying for a chance to 

glance at a Bible; his During unobserved May, the and whole walking school after his legs 

family were concerned celebrated were so Arts severely Week broken with the (he was theme told of 

for his sanity. To be The he 1960s. would be crippled for life after this 

found with a Bible would The punishment). children undertook many 

have meant serious creative Whatever activities Yun including experienced, learning God 

consequences and about repeatedly the moon demonstrated landing, looking his at 

punishment. God interior faithfulness design never features leaving of that him era or his and 

honoured this fast and singing family popular to cope songs alone. of We the will time from 

prayer sending Yun a a popular probably boy never band, experience The Beatles! this kind of 

Bible. He immediately 

Pictured persecution are but some this Y1 book children is testimony 

read and memorised 

proudly to the wearing incredible their power freshly of God tie-dyed and his 

Pictured left to right are: Evie Exton, Emilia t-shirts and holding a model of a Lowry 

chapters from the Bible. Holy Spirit. 

Salmer-Bower, Charlotte Dalton, Freddie Scott theme with a factory background and 

With few resources 

Sian Mann 

and Billy Dawson 

stick figures. 

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all about trying to 

be a good person.” 

Over the years many 

different people have 

“It’s 

said this or something 

similar to me when we’ve been 

talking about what it means to 

be a Christian. But this idea is 

radically different to the Bible’s 

idea of what it means to be a 

Christian, and why a 

Christian might seek 

to be “good”. 

In St Paul’s letter 

to the Galatians, 

Paul talks about the 

“fruit of the Spirit”. 

He says, “The fruit of 

the Spirit is love, joy, 

peace, forbearance, 

kindness, goodness, 

faithfulness, gentleness and 

self-control.” Paul describes 

these virtues not as things that 

are to be achieved in order to 

be considered a Christian, but 

rather as “fruit of the Spirit”. It is a 

fascinating metaphor. Christians 

believe that the Holy Spirit is 

God dwelling in all Christians, 

shaping and changing them to 

be more like Jesus. Displaying 

the virtues that St Paul lists is not 

a prerequisite to believing, but 

should be a result of believing in 

Jesus, just as fruit trees naturally 

produce fruit. 

This is not to claim that people 

who aren’t Christians don’t 

sometimes display these virtues; 

clearly many people who wouldn’t 

call themselves Christians can 

demonstrate these virtues, often 

more than some of us Christians 

do! 

But for a Christian, these virtues 

should flow out of a transformed 

life. In our back garden, we have 

a couple of small apple trees. 

They haven’t been in long, and 

do not yet bear much fruit. But we 

trust that as the years go on, they 

will continue to grow and will give 

an ever increasing crop of apples. 

As apple trees naturally produce 

apples, so the Christian should 

naturally produce the fruit of the 

Spirit. 

For a Christian, a fruitful life 

is measured not 

by success, or 

respect, or wealth. 

It is measured by 

how much we are 

being transformed 

to be more like 

Jesus, the one who 

demonstrated all 

of these virtues in 

the ultimate and 

complete way. 

To be a Christian is not to be 

good enough for God, it is to 

be forgiven by God and to be 

changed by him to display the fruit 

of the Spirit. 

Rev Duncan Bell 

‘The fruit of the 

Spirit is love, joy, 

peace, forbearance, 

kindness, 

goodness, 

faithfulness, 

gentleness and 

self-control’ 

Being Fruitful 




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Changing 

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Remember those wonder days 

when the first strawberries of 

the year appeared in the shops, 

heralding the start of summer? 

Times have changed - 

now strawberries from all over 

the world are on sale all 

year round! 

I began working in 

the old Castlefolds 

Market, next to the 

“Rag and Tag” Market, 

way back in 1959. 

Within a year it had 

moved to new premises 

by the Parkway. The 

short strawberry season, 

beginning about June 12 

and lasting only three to four 

weeks, was an exceptionally 

busy time for us. We were up at 3am 

to unload the lorries. Our strawberries 

came in 1lb punnet, or ‘chips’, made of 

woven strips of thin wood, which were 

packed in wooden boxes – a far cry from 

today’s universal cardboard and plastic 

packaging! The boxes were returnable 

to the growers in Lincolnshire and 

Cambridgeshire. 

Market traders and local shopkeepers, 

from about a 50-mile radius, came to buy 

from the 100 or so stalls like ours. The 

market opened at 6.30am, by which time 

a huge queue of vans and lorries had 

built up. Herbert Salvin of Woodseats 

was nearly always the first to arrive in 

the queue - and he usually bought his 

strawberries from us, too! 

Our tomatoes started arriving in 

early May from heated greenhouses in 

Norfolk. They were individually wrapped 

in coloured tissue paper according to 

size and quality, and were packed in 




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World at the Market 

quarter bushel wooden boxes. For 

the benefit of our younger readers, a 

bushel of tomatoes weighed 56lbs or 

a little over 25kgs - so you can work 

out what a quarter weighed. We 

even sold misshapen ones, 

though I doubt that these 

would be acceptable in 

supermarkets today. 

Since I left the market, 

I have become an 

allotment holder and I 

can see “the other side 

of the coin”. I grow 

my own tomatoes now, 

peaking two years ago 

with 26 varieties. Not 

content with just growing 

traditional tomatoes which are 

always red, I’ve experimented very 

successfully with other colours, growing 

yellow, green, orange, black, brown and 

even stripey ones! 

Apples were our principal fruit. 

Worcester Permains were the first 

of the early English 

apples to arrive - 

beautiful apples 

which were best 

eaten within 

two to three 

weeks of being 

picked. Like the 

tomatoes, apples 

came wrapped 

in tissue paper 

and packed 

into returnable 

wooden boxes. Next came Lord 

Lambournes which were also delicious 

eaten fresh. The two most popular 

late varieties were Laxton Superbs and 

Coxes - some were sold straight away 

in the shops, but most were kept in cold 

storage so that they could be brought 

out in the winter months. Cooking 

apples like Bramleys, Lord Derbys and 

Grenadiers were the same. It’s sad 

that so many varieties which were once 

household names, have disappeared 

from supermarket shelves today. 

The growth of supermarkets meant 

that small shops were disappearing, so 

trade was diminishing. I used to think 

that I could have a job for life, yet that 

wasn’t to be - and not just for me, but 

for others, too. The world was changing 

fast. By 1989 the time had come for me 

to retire from the market and seek other 

employment. 

David Laude 




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Services at St Chad’s 

Informal and relaxed in style 

An emphasis on families 

Sunday Services 

Sunday 

Services 

Includes music, led by a band 

Includes refreshments before the service 

The 9am Service 

● Traditional in style 

The 

The 

9am 

9am 

Service 

Service 

 

Includes Traditional Holy in style Communion, a sermon & hymns 

● Traditional in style 

Includes refreshments Holy Communion, afterwards 

a sermon & hymns 

● Includes Holy Communion, sermon hymns 

Taken Includes from refreshments Common Worship: afterwards Holy Communion 

● • Includes Monday refreshments to Thursday afterwards at 9am 

Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion 

● Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion 

Morning Prayers 

Lifted, Evening the Prayers 11am Service 

Lifted, the • Monday 

● Informal to 

the and 11am 

11am 

10.30am Thursday 

relaxed Service at 

Service in style Service 5pm 

An Informal emphasis and relaxed on families 

in style 

● Informal and relaxed in style 

Includes An emphasis music, on led families by a band 

● An emphasis on families 

• Refreshments Includes Traditional music, in served style 

led by from a band 10.15-10.45am 

● Includes music, led by band 

• Refreshments Includes Taken from refreshments Common served from before Worship: 10.15-10.45am 

the Holy service Communion 

● • Refreshments Includes Holy served Communion, from 10.15-10.45am 

a sermon & hymns 

• Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church 

The Thursday 10am Service 

Weekday Services 

Weekday 

Services 

 



Prayers 

 

Monday to Thursday at 9am 

•• A To Monday Monday half-hour be held to 

to service on Thursday Monday 

Thursday of prayer at June 9am 

at 9am and 20 and Bible Monday readings July 

18, 7.15-8pm 

• Every Monday to Thursday at 9am 

• A contemplative and meditative form of worship 


with Monday the theme to Thursday Seeking at 5pm Stillness with Jesus . 

• Monday to Thursday at 5pm 

Monday to Thursday at 5pm 

Evening Prayers 

Evening 

Evening Prayers 

Prayers 

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The Thursday 10am Service 

Traditional in style 

The 

The 

Thursday 

Thursday 10am 

10am Service 

Service 

• Taken Traditional from in Common style Worship: Holy Communion 

Traditional in style 

• Includes Taken from Holy Common Communion, Worship: a sermon Holy Communion 

& hymns 

Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion 

• Held Includes in the Holy Lady Communion, Chapel at the a sermon back of & church hymns 

Includes Holy Communion, sermon hymns 


Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church 

Other Services 

Other 

 

Services 

Prayer and Praise 

Prayer Contemplative 

Sunday, and February Praise Night 13 at 7.30pm Prayer 

Prayer and Praise 

Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm 

Ash Tuesday, Sunday, 18, Wednesday 7.15-8pm February September 13 at 7.30pm 

Service 29 

Ash Wednesday, March Service 9 at 7.30pm 

Ash at 8pm 

Service 

• To be held on Monday June 20 and Monday July 

•• An A contemplative evening service and of meditative prayer and form contemplation of worship 

Wednesday, with the theme March Seeking at Stillness 7.30pm with Jesus . 

Wednesday, March 9 at 7.30pm 

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Tomatoes may be a fruit, 

but would you put them in 

a fruit salad..? 

It is a murky world out 

there and things are not 

always what they seem. Take 

the strawberry for example. To 

the simple amongst us anything 

which has the word ‘berry’ in it, 

such as strawberry, raspberry 

and blackberry must be a berry 

– right? – but no, things are not 

that simple. Another example 

would be the humble rhubarb 

plant. Because we eat the plant 

itself and not the seed-bearing 

part – the fruit - then it must be a 

vegetable – yes, and confusingly 

no – it all depends on where you 

live. 

In the USA, in 1947, it was 

decided that rhubarb was a fruit, 

partly because of its acidic taste 

but also because it is used in 

a fruit like way in puddings etc. 

However, by my definition it is 

definitely a vegetable as we eat 

the plant itself and not the part 

which bears the seeds. 

But what about the berry 

conundrum? Officially a berry is a 

fleshy fruit produced from a single 

seed, having one fruit stemming 

from one flower with one ovary 

and often several seeds. By this 

definition tomatoes are a berry as 

are watermelons, cucumbers 

and bananas – confused? – 

join the club. The strawberry 

is actually an ‘accessory fruit’ 

because it grows from a part of 

the plant other than the flower 

– watch one as it develops 

and you will see what I mean. 

If you examine a strawberry 

you will find that the seeds 

are on the outside and in fact 

each seed is a fruit – so it is a 

fruit of fruits. It might look like one 

fruit but is actually many fruits 

from one flower. To add to the 

mix raspberries and blackberries 

are ‘aggregate fruit’ because 

they are lots of fruits aggregated 

into one ‘fruit’ – I told you it was 

confusing. Other languages don’t 

get themselves into this sort of fix 

because they don’t lump so many 

types of fruit under one general 

name. 

Guess whose fault this all is? 

You guessed it, ours – well, our 

ancestors anyway. The word berry 

is derived from the Old English 

word for grape. As time went on 

anything which hung in bunches 

like grapes had the general term 

‘berry’ attached to it, and then it all 

went downhill from there. 

Whatever they are called they 

all taste amazing, and I like 

nothing better than going down 

to the allotment early in the 

morning to pick the strawberries, 

raspberries, blackberries, 

blackcurrent and redcurrant and 

then hotfooting it home to have 

them on my cereal not fifteen 

minutes later. Often there is more 

fruit than cereal. Strangely I have 

never been tempted to have 

rhubarb on my cereal – maybe 

because it’s a vegetable. I shall 

have to give it a go. 

Steve Winks 

Fruit or Veg? 




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Have A Go Fruit and Veggie Show 

Saturday September 12 

St Chad’s Church House 

56 Abbey Lane 

The second St Chad’s 

Have A Go Show will 

be held at Church 

House, Abbey Lane, on 

September 12. 

The aim of the Have A Go 

Show is to display the work and 

talents of the local community. 

Everyone is encouraged to enter, 

even if this is your first year of 

growing, making and baking – 

and especially if you have never 

entered a show before. 

Judging will take place and 

certificates will be awarded to 

add a bit of fun to the event and 

to reward efforts. General public 

viewing of the exhibits will take 

place from 12.30 to 2.30pm. 

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instructions for the show can be 

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The Pleasure of Chutney 

Contentment is … opening 

the door on the cellar 

head, in the autumn, 

and seeing chutney, 

jams and pickles staring 

back at me from the shelves. 

The jars represent months of 

work – sowing, planting, weeding, 

picking and preparing the fruit 

and vegetables before they are 

jammed, pickled and chutneyed. 

This is a labour of love and 

great to have enough to share 

with friends and family throughout 

the months when fresh fruit and 

veg are in short supply in the 

allotment. A taste of summer fruit 

on freshly baked bread or tangy 

pickle with cheese is a real treat 

in the winter months. All the jars 

on the cellar head will last for 

at least a year and only natural 

ingredients! 

Beetroot ChutneyRecipe 

Ingredients: 

2lb raw shredded or grated 

beetroot 

1lb onions skinned and chopped 

1 and a half lbs apples, peeled 

and chopped 

1lb seedless raisins 

2 pints malt vinegar 

2lb sugar 

half an ounce of ground ginger 

Method: 

Place all ingredients in a pan, 

bring to the boil and simmer until 

soft and pulpy (about an hour) 

Put into warm, sterilised jars and 

seal. Keep for at least one month 

before eating 

Tips when using screw-topped 

jars: 

zzOnly use jars with dimple safety 

button screw tops. 

zzKeep the correct lid with the jar, 

this makes for a better seal. 

zzFill hot jars with hot jam or 

chutney and put the lid on straight 

away. This means you don’t have 

to put anything on top of your 

jam/chutney such as greaseproof 

paper discs. As the contents cool 

the dimple button will be sucked 

down as a vacuum forms making 

a popping sound. This never fails 

to make me smile – I can hear 

it wherever I am in the house – 

sometimes the simplest things 

give the greatest pleasure. 

Happy preserving! 

Joy Winks 




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The thing about growing 

fruit and vegetables is that 

you never stop learning, 

experimenting, trying 

something new. 

Mysteries remain unsolved. We 

have lived in our house for over 

25 years now. Two apple trees 

continue to produce a bounty of 

fruit every year. One is a Bramley, 

the other James Grieve. Bramleys 

store in the shed for up to 6 

months. A single redcurrant bush 

also thrives after all this time. A 

gooseberry bush, which struggled 

in the garden, now excels at the 

allotment. So at least 30 years of 

fruiting. 

Yet, my newer bushes produce 

plenty of leaves but little fruit. 

Netting is needed on gooseberries, 

red and black currants, to stop the 

birds eating the buds and fruit, 

while I get raspberries from July 

to October with no netting at all. I 

have an end plot which means I 

have to keep cutting back trees, 

but also means I get brambles 

producing blackberries. My two 

favourite fruit are blackberries and 

rhubarb. They can be frozen and 

used to accompany any other fruit 

in a crumble or pie. Our favourite 

at the moment is rhubarb and 

strawberry. 

Fruit plants are low maintenance, 

compared to vegetables. Perhaps 

this is why, in their perverse logic, 

the council insist that allotment 

holders contract to grow more 

vegetables than fruit. Permission 

has to be sought if you want to 

plant a fruit tree. Fruit comes 

along every year at the same 

time with little effort, but with 

vegetables, it seems a constant 

battle to nurture them. Wouldn’t 

it be great if all vegetable plants 

were perennial so you just had to 

wait and pick them, instead of regrowing 

every year. 

But that would defeat the main 

objectives of gardening which are 

to get yourself plenty of fresh air, 

sunshine on your back, healthy 

exercise and peace and quiet. A 

flask of coffee, the sound of Radio 

4. What bliss! 

Our allotments have quite a 

diverse group of growers now. Old 

men no longer predominate. There 

are probably more females than 

males now and lots of families. I 

have to admit that I tend to prefer 

the quiet and tend to visit during the 

week when the kids are at school. 

However, I hope I am a sociable 

person, and I enjoy a chinwag with 

fellow growers. Sometimes you 

can’t get away if someone prefers 

talk to work! We don’t seem to get 

the politics or fallings-out witnessed 

in other allotment areas. 

During my allotment experience I 

have seen lots of sharing of ideas, 

offloading of spare vegetables, 

loaning of tools and equipment 

and a great deal of mutual respect. 

Long may it continue. 

David Manning 

Cultivating Fruit 




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Fruits of Creation 

We have a magic 

basket at home 

which sits at the top 

of our stairs. It really 

is quite amazing. 

My children and I regularly drop 

our worn or dirty clothes into 

this basket, and as if by magic 

our clothes then reappear in our 

wardrobes, washed and ironed! 

I wonder if you are lucky 

enough to have such a magic 

basket. I guess that at my house 

we are particularly lucky, because 

we also have a magic kitchen. 

When my children and I get 

home from work and 

school, we find that 

delicious hot, healthy 

and homemade food 

magically appears 

on our plates for 

us to eat. It’s quite 

fantastic! Not only 

that, but we have a 

magic vacuum-cleaner, a 

magic window-cleaner, some 

magic polish, a magic garden that 

is magically tended and a magic 

fridge, freezer and pantry. 

I wonder if we ever stop to think 

about all the wonderful magical 

things in our lives, and where they 

come from. When we next drink 

a glass of cold fresh water, dip 

some freshly baked bread into a 

bowl of steaming hot soup, get 

into a warm clean bed, put on nice 

clean clothes, I wonder if we stop 

for a moment to think about the 

magic behind it all – who made 

it, and where it came from. Or do 

we just take it all for granted; all of 

those everyday, ordinary things, 

so simple and yet so important. 

I wonder too if we stop often 

enough to think about those who 

have so little of this magic in their 

lives, so little of the comforts that 

we have in this country in such 

abundance. I wonder if perhaps it 

might be time to be more mindful, 

more grateful, and to express our 

thankfulness. 

The magic behind my washingbasket 

is of course a person, 

my wonderful wife, to whom my 

children and I will from now on 

I hope be more mindful of her 

labours of love and express 

this in thankfulness. Perhaps 

we should all take a moment, 

maybe at the end of each day, 

to be more mindful of all 

the good things we 

enjoy in God’s good 

Creation. To express 

our thanks, we might 

join the Psalmist who 

wrote: “He makes 

springs pour water 

into the ravines; it 

flows between the 

mountains. They give 

water to all the beasts of the 

field; the wild donkeys quench 

their thirst. The birds of the sky 

nest by the waters; they sing 

among the branches. He waters 

the mountains from his upper 

chambers; the land is satisfied by 

the fruit of His work. He makes 

grass grow for the cattle, and 

plants for people to cultivate – 

bringing forth food from the earth: 

wine that gladdens human hearts, 

oil to make their faces shine, and 

bread that sustains their hearts … 

All creatures look to You to give 

them their food at the proper time. 

When You give it to them, they 

gather it up; when You open your 

hand, they are satisfied with good 

things …” (from Psalm 104, the 

Holy Bible). 

Daren Craddock 




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Simple Fruit Cake 

Ingredients: 

175g sultanas 

25g walnuts 

175g margarine 

100g caster sugar 

20g clear honey 

Three eggs 

225g self raising flour (wholemeal 

or white) 

The finely grated zest of one 

large orange 

3 - 4 tbsp orange juice 

Method: 

Preheat the oven to 170c or gas 

mark 3. Grease and line a 7” 

(18cm) round cake tin. 

Roughly chop the walnuts. 

Cream the margarine and caster 

sugar together until light and 

fluffy, then beat in the honey. 

Whisk the eggs and beat into the 

creamed mixture, adding a little 

sieved flour to prevent curdling. 

Stir in the sultanas, walnuts and 

orange zest, then fold in the 

remaining flour. Add sufficient 

orange juice to give a dropping 

consistency. 

Place in the prepared tin, 

smooth over the top and bake for 

one-and-a-quarter to one-and-ahalf 

hours until golden in colour. 

Leave in the tin for 10 minutes 

until cool. 

Fruity Recipe 

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A is for Apple ... but wh 

A 

is the start of the alphabet and 

apple is often the first word a 

child will learn. If Eve had not 

eaten the fruit in Genesis 3, 

the story of Eden would have 

looked drastically different. The Hebrew 

Bible mentions six types of tree fruit, 

many of which appear dozens of times: 

grape, fig, olive, pomegranate, date and 

apple. 

However, today, for a whole new 

generation the word Apple means 

something totally different! iPhone, imac, 

ipod, iwatch, ipad and so on. The link 

between technology and fruit does not 

stop there. How many companies or 

technological products can you think of? 

Blackberry: The once default 

smart phone choice for the go-getting 

executive. 

Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango”: the 

codename for a major software update 

for Windows phones. 

Raspberry Pi: A very modest piece 

of kit that allows children to build their 

own PC at home. 

Orange: Who has ever been on a two 

for one Orange cinema visit? Now part 

of EE Orange was once a major mobile 

network provider. 

Cranberry Smart Client: Back 

in 2007 this clever device was an 

alternative to a full PC. 

Tangerine: A world wide provider of 

mobile teacher assessments for reading 

and writing. 

The expression ‘what’s in a name’ – or 

the slightly more poetic ‘a rose by any 

other name’ – means, essentially, that a 

name doesn’t matter. It suggests that it’s 

the attributes of a person or object that 

will dictate what it truly is and how it is 

seen by the world. 

So why then are so many 

electronic devices and technology 

firms named after fruit? Maybe no matter 

what age you are we can all relate to 

fruits? Fruits are delicious, colourful and 

beautiful shapes. We can eat them and 

even drink them in a variety of ways. We 

see them every day, outside and inside. 

We are told they are very good for us 

and indeed are encouraged to eat five a 

day. 

Are the technology companies then 

cleverly using psychology to make us 

desire their products? Those who have 

not grown up with the smartphone 

revolution often find them over complex 

and difficult to operate. Does the 

device named after a fruit provide word 

association almost convincing the user 

that the device is simple and easy to 

use? 

Why not though name devices after 

vegetables or flowers? These are natural 

and would convey a simple message. 

But do we associate vegetables are 

dirty as that come from the ground, and 




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When asked, “Why Apple?” Steve Jobs 

said, “I like apple a lot!” (Jobs used to 

live near an Orchard) and that, “Apple 

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(The company he worked for before 

creating Apple) 

Blackberry say they named their first 

device after a Blackberry because the 

keys looked like seeds. 

I hope that this has given you food 

or rather fruit for thought. Love them 

or loathe them some may say life may 

have been much simpler and less 

complicated if God had commanded 

man not to create the apple devices and 

their contempories than the actual piece 

of fruit! 

To end on a lighter note, 

Two maggots are in an apple going on 

to the ark when Noah stops them and 

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The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets 

by Eva Rice 

The story is set in the 

1950s when England 

is recovering from the 

Second World War. 

Penelope and Charlotte 

are the main characters and 

the story revolves around their 

eccentric families. 

It is mid-November and 

extremely cold and the first 

encounter between the two girls 

is when Charlotte asks a group 

of people standing at a bus stop 

“Does anyone want to share a 

taxi?”. Charlotte is wearing a long 

sea green coat, which plays its 

own part in the story. Penelope is 

a massive fan of Jonny Ray and 

her main ambition in life is to go to 

a concert and meet him. 

The story unfolds with the 

unusual connection 

between the two families; 

there is Aunt Claire and 

Harry, Inigo and Talitha 

Orr – very unusual 

names. 

There seems to be no 

shortage of champagne 

at the various dinner 

parties and there is even 

a mention of a member of 

the royal household. 

I nearly forgot the 

handsome American and 

he is oh so charming, but sadly 

too old for Penelope. 

This is a very intriguing story 

with an unusual end, definitely 

one for the suitcase for that 

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group members enjoyed this one. 

Happy reading! 

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St Chad’s Third Age Book group 

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View of Beauchief Abbey & Cottages, 

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Services during August & 

September 2015 

Holy Communion: 

Sun 2nd August 11.00am 

Sun 9th August 11.00am 

Sun 23rd August 11.00am 

Sun 6th Sept 11.00am 



Matins: 

Sun 30th August 11.00am 

Evensong ( third Sunday): 

Sunday 16th August 3pm 

Sunday 20th Sept 3pm 

Heritage open days: 

September 2015 

The Abbey will be open 

Thurs 10th 11.00am - 4pm 

Fri 11th 11.00am - 4pm 

Sat 12th 11.00am - 4pm 

Sun 13th 1.00pm - 4pm 

All Welcome 

Our Services are based on the Book of 

Common Prayer & Refreshments 

are served afterwards 

email info@beauchiefabbey.org.uk 

www.beauchiefabbey.org.uk 



Contacts @ St Chad’s 

Church Office 9 Linden Avenue 274 5086 

S8 0GA 

Term time office hours: 

Mon - 10am-1pm; Tues - 9.30am-1pm; 

Thurs - 9.30am-1pm; Fri - 9am-11am 

Church Office Administrator 

Helen Reynolds 


Vicar Toby Hole (Vicarage) 274 9302 

email: toby@stchads.org 

Curate Duncan Bell 274 5086 

email: duncan.j.bell@gmail.com 

Assistant Minister for the elderly Yvonne Smith 274 5086 

Readers 

Daren Craddock, Pauline Johnson 

and Yvonne Smith 274 5086 

Youth Worker Nick Seaman 274 5086 

email: nick@stchads.org 

Besom in Sheffield 

Steve Winks and 

Darren Coggins 07875 950170 

Impact magazine Tim Hopkinson 274 5086 

email: impact@stchads.org 

Church Wardens Jimmy Johnson 274 5086 

Linda McCann 274 5086 

Deputy Wardens Ann Firth 274 5086 

Ann Lomax 274 5086 

Uniformed Groups 

Group Scout Leader Ian Jackson 235 3044 

Guide Leader Jemma Taylor 296 0555 

CHURCH HOUSE 56 Abbey Lane 274 8289 

Bookings Helen Reynolds 274 5086 

Visit our website: www.stchads.org 

PLEASE NOTE: The inclusion of advertisements in Impact in no way means the 

advertiser is endorsed or recommended by St Chad’s Church. 




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