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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />

Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />

Tel: (0 14) 274 5086<br />

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email: office@stchads.org<br />

website: www.stchads.org<br />

February/March <strong>2016</strong><br />

WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD<br />

Celebrate Easter<br />

at St Chad’s<br />

Details of our services inside<br />

Sunday March 20<br />

Easter worship<br />

at St Chad’s<br />

PALM SUNDAY<br />

9am Traditional Communion Service<br />

11am Lifted Family Service<br />

Thursday March 24<br />

MAUNDY THURSDAY<br />

10am & Services of Holy Communion<br />

7.30pm remembering the events of<br />

Maundy Thursday<br />

Friday March 25<br />

GOOD FRIDAY<br />

10am Good Friday Family Service<br />

(especially for children)<br />

1-3pm Meditations Around the Cross<br />

Sunday March 27<br />

EASTER SUNDAY<br />

9am Easter Celebration with<br />

Holy Communion<br />

11am Family Service with<br />

Holy Communion<br />

Come and celebrate the risen Jesus!


WELCOME to Impact - the magazine of St Chad’s Church,<br />

Woodseats. Impact is published every two months and distributed<br />

to over 5,000 homes in S8.<br />

St Chad’s Church is committed to serving you - the people of<br />

Woodseats, Beauchief and Chancet Wood. To find out more about<br />

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

office on 0114 274 5086.<br />

Here’s where to find us:<br />

Abbey Lane<br />

Linden Avenue<br />

Church<br />

House<br />

St Chad's<br />

Church &<br />

Church<br />

Office<br />

Camping Lane<br />

Chesterfield Road<br />

Abbey Lane<br />

School<br />

Please note: The inclusion of adverts in Impact does not mean the advertisers are<br />

endorsed by St Chad’s Church. Cover image: work by artist Katharine S Boyd<br />

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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />

Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />

Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />

email: office@stchads.org<br />

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Sunday March 20<br />

Thursday March 24<br />

St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, W odseats<br />

Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />

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Tel: (0 14) 274 5086<br />

at St Chad’s<br />

PALM SUNDAY<br />

MAUNDY THURSDAY<br />

GOOD FRIDAY<br />

9am Traditional Co munion Service<br />

1am Lifted Family Service<br />

10am & Services of Holy Co munion<br />

7.30pm remembering th events of<br />

Maundy Thursday<br />

Friday March 25<br />

10am G od Friday Family Service<br />

(especia for children)<br />

1-3pm Meditations Around the Cro s<br />

Sunday March 27<br />

EASTER SUNDAY<br />

9am Easter Celebration with<br />

Holy Co munion<br />

1am Family Service with<br />

Holy Co munion<br />

email: office@stchads.org<br />

website: ww.stchads.org<br />

My grandfather was an optician. Coming from<br />

an East London working class background (no<br />

schooling past the age of 14), a professional<br />

optician was probably not on his list of<br />

aspirational careers. The story goes that when<br />

he was asked by a careers offi cer what he wanted to do<br />

when he fi nished school, he replied that he wished to be<br />

an electrician like his father. The careers offi cer was hard<br />

of hearing and sent him to night school to study to be an<br />

optician. This he did, and in fact became a rather successful<br />

one.<br />

February/March <strong>2016</strong><br />

This meant that from my teenage years, when I fi rst<br />

became short-sighted, until my twenties, when he retired,<br />

I had an inexhaustible supply of free glasses and contact<br />

lenses. Only later in life did I realise how many hundreds<br />

of pounds this must have saved me. Such a benefi t was not always to my<br />

advantage, however. In the 1980s I was one of the fi rst people I know to<br />

get the new light-sensitive lenses. This mean that in the summer I could<br />

play football outside with friends with “cool” looking shades on (banned in<br />

school). Unfortunately the technology was still in its infancy and I would<br />

usually spend the fi rst ten minutes back in the classroom being unable to<br />

see a thing. School photos also show me looking far from the cool-shaded<br />

dude that I thought I was. I hate to think what my classroom colleagues<br />

thought of it all.<br />

Many years later, as I considered my own response to faith in Jesus<br />

Christ and the differing responses of my friends to my belief – some of<br />

whom were sympathetic, some of whom were downright hostile – the<br />

analogy of seeing through imperfect lenses would come back to me. We<br />

all have our own set of lenses on our minds. In some circumstances these<br />

lenses help us see clearly, and in some circumstances they obscure our<br />

vision. Without the lenses of reason and logic we would understand nothing<br />

of the workings of the universe, the marvels of modern medicine or the<br />

delicate connections that make up an ecosystem. Yet these same lenses<br />

can be limiting when we encounter human emotions, artistic endeavour or<br />

faith in God. Too often I feel that I have walked from one environment into<br />

another and my lenses have not suffi ciently adapted. I am<br />

still in the dark.<br />

St Paul in his famous poem on love spoke of how<br />

we now see in a glass darkly but one day we will see<br />

face-to-face. He is looking forward to a time when we<br />

will be so enraptured with the wonder of God and his<br />

new creation that there will be no need for lenses at<br />

all. We really will see things as they really are. In<br />

the meantime we perhaps need to ask ourselves<br />

what lenses we are seeing through at the moment, and<br />

whether they are enhancing or distorting our vision of<br />

the world around us.<br />

Rev Toby Hole,<br />

Vicar, St Chad’s Church, Woodseats<br />

Celebrate Easter<br />

at St Chad’s<br />

Details of our services inside<br />

WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD<br />

Easter worship<br />

Come and celebrate the risen Jesus!<br />

Through a Glass Darkly<br />

St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />

Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA<br />

Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />

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email: offi ce@stchads.org<br />

website: www.stchads.org


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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />

Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA<br />

Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />

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website: www.stchads.org


“Nothing is certain except what and taxes?!?<br />

Why did the<br />

chicken carry an<br />

umbrella?<br />

The weather was<br />

foul!<br />

Why couldn’t the<br />

chicken<br />

find her<br />

eggs?<br />

She’d<br />

mislaid<br />

them!<br />

Why did the<br />

computer go to<br />

the doctors?<br />

It had a nasty<br />

virus!<br />

What happened to<br />

the thief who stole a<br />

lorry full of elastic?<br />

He was given a long<br />

stretch inside!<br />

A police trainee was asked<br />

during his exam, “What would<br />

you do if you had to arrest<br />

your own mother?”<br />

He answered, “Call for backup!”<br />

What do you get<br />

when you cross a<br />

cow with a duck?<br />

Cream quackers!<br />

Why did<br />

the acrobats get<br />

married?<br />

They were headover-heels<br />

in love!<br />

What lies on the<br />

ground, 100 feet<br />

in the air?<br />

A centipede!<br />

A man who was in extreme pain went to<br />

the doctors.<br />

“Doctor,” he said prodding his body all<br />

over, “It hurts when I press here and<br />

here and here. Do you know what might<br />

be wrong?”<br />

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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />

Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />

Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />

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website: www.stchads.org


What’s On<br />

If you have an event you would like<br />

to see included in our What’s On<br />

section, email impact@stchads.org<br />

Health Walks<br />

•Mondays - 10am: Graves Park.<br />

Meet outside the Rose Garden<br />

Cafe;<br />

•Tuesdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall<br />

Woods. Meet downstairs in Jack’s<br />

Bar at the Beauchief Hotel;<br />

•Thursdays - 10.30am:<br />

Lowedges. Meet at the Gresley<br />

Road Meeting Rooms, Gresley<br />

Road, Lowedges.<br />

) Call 0114 203 9337 for details.<br />

February 2-6<br />

The Deep Blue Sea<br />

Ecclesall Parish Hall<br />

7.30pm<br />

Ecclesall Theatre Company<br />

presents The Deep Blue Sea by<br />

Terence Rattigan.<br />

February 6<br />

In-between Giants<br />

High Storrs School<br />

7.30pm<br />

Hallam Sinfonia presents the<br />

fourth symphonies of Beethoven<br />

and Mahler with conductor Natalia<br />

Luis-Bassa and soprano Alison<br />

Claire Robertson.<br />

February 11<br />

Christianity Explored<br />

St Chad’s Church House<br />

7.30pm<br />

The launch of a seven-week<br />

course giving you time and space<br />

to consider the big questions<br />

of life and to explore the life of<br />

the person at the heart of the<br />

Christian faith – Jesus Christ. Full<br />

details are on page 15.<br />

Email office@stchads.org to book<br />

a place.<br />

February 11<br />

Sheffield Cathedral Revealed<br />

Sheffield Cathedral<br />

2-3pm<br />

A talk and walk on the meanings<br />

and messages in the building’s<br />

art, architecture and stained<br />

glass with speaker Margaret<br />

Garner.<br />

Tickets priced £3.50 each are<br />

available from Sheffield Cathedral<br />

Shop.<br />

February 11<br />

February Farm Fun<br />

Whirlow Hall Farm<br />

11am-3pm<br />

Meet a whole magnitude of new<br />

arrivals to the farm.<br />

The farm will be welcoming All<br />

Critters Great and Small, and their<br />

menagerie of weird and wonderful<br />

animals including snakes, skunks,<br />

meerkats, skinny pigs, hairless<br />

rats and many creepy crawlies.<br />

There will be free children’s craft<br />

activities on the day.<br />

St Chad’s Church has two<br />

rooms available for hire at<br />

56 Abbey Lane<br />

St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />

Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />

Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />

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email: office@stchads.org<br />

website: www.stchads.org


Send details of your event to impact@stchads.org or write to: Impact,<br />

St Chad‟s Church Offices, 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB.<br />

January 30 - February 5<br />

AEGON British Tennis Tour<br />

Graves Tennis and Leisure Centre<br />

World February ranked 13players compete<br />

alongside<br />

Beethoven’s<br />

local<br />

Violin<br />

Sheffield<br />

Sonatas<br />

players.<br />

<br />

St<br />

Call<br />

Andrew’s<br />

0114 283<br />

Church,<br />

9900.<br />

Psalter Lane<br />

7.30pm<br />

A concert with violinist Lucy<br />

February<br />

Phillips.<br />

5<br />

Book Sale<br />

36 March Crawshaw 5 Grove, Beauchief<br />

10am-12pm Bach St John Passion<br />

Good Sheffield quality Cathedral second-hand books<br />

for 7.30pm sale in aid of the Alzheimer‟s<br />

Society. Sheffield Donations Bach Choir of paperback and soloists<br />

novels with the or National biographies Festival in good Orchestra<br />

condition and conductor are welcome Simon (but Lindley. not<br />

larger books due to space<br />

limitations). March 12<br />

Book Sale<br />

February 36 Crawshaw 5 Grove, Beauchief<br />

Free 10am-12pm Environmental Activities<br />

Millhouses Good quality Park second-hand books<br />

10.30am-12.30pm<br />

for sale in aid of the Alzheimer’s<br />

Obstacle Society. course Donations and of stream good<br />

dipping<br />

condition<br />

activities<br />

paperback<br />

for 8 -<br />

novels<br />

13 year<br />

or<br />

olds.<br />

biographies are welcome.<br />

Call 0114 263 4335.<br />

Free Environmental Activities<br />

Ecclesall Woods Sawmill<br />

10.30am-12.30pm<br />

Nature quiz trail, stream dipping<br />

and bug hunting activities for 8 - 13<br />

March 12<br />

year Spring olds. Concert<br />

Holy Call Trinity 0114 Church, 235 6348. Millhouses<br />

7.30pm<br />

February Escafeld Chorale 20 presents its<br />

Why spring Not concert Try A including Bike Rossini’s<br />

Greenhil Petite Messe Park Solonnelle.<br />

10am-2pm<br />

Rediscover March 13 your cycling skills in<br />

Greenhill Nether Edge Park. Farmers’ The rangers Market will<br />

provide Nether Edge a bike, helmet and<br />

instruction. 12-4pm Meet at the Bowls<br />

Pavilion, Stalls and Greenhill entertainment Park. in the<br />

Booking streets around is essential. the old Nether Edge<br />

<br />

Market<br />

Call 0114<br />

Place.<br />

283 9195.<br />

Beauchief Abbey Abbey holds holds a variety a<br />

of variety services of services. and anyone For is more<br />

welcome information to attend. see page For 29. more<br />

details see the Abbey notice<br />

board.<br />

t Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />

email: office@stchads.org<br />

hurch Offices: 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB Page 6 website: www.stchads.org<br />

el: (0114) 274 5086<br />

What’s On<br />

Anderson Tree Services<br />

Bill Anderson<br />

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collect and r<br />

thousands o<br />

England. Th<br />

St Chads Church<br />

Church Offices: 1<br />

Tel: (0114) 274 5<br />

Telephone: 0114 274 9101<br />

Email: thujopsis@aol.com<br />

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<br />

St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />

Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />

Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />

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website: www.stchads.org


Finding our Advent<br />

A<br />

Did you fi nd an angel? We<br />

hope you enjoyed looking for<br />

them during Advent. Thank<br />

you so much to all those who<br />

sent these great photos in.<br />

We’ve enjoyed receiving them!<br />

Thanks must also go to all the<br />

people who helped to actually make<br />

all 250 angels and the people who<br />

‘hid’ them around the area.<br />

Look out for news about what our<br />

<strong>2016</strong> Advent project will be later in<br />

the year.<br />

St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />

Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA<br />

Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />

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website: www.stchads.org


Angels<br />

St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />

Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA<br />

Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />

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email: offi ce@stchads.org<br />

website: www.stchads.org


The Turner Museum o<br />

Sheffield’s Turner Museum of<br />

Glass is one of the UK’s most<br />

comprehensive collections of 19th<br />

and 20th Century glass. We asked<br />

Emeritus Professor John M Parker to<br />

tell us more.<br />

Everyone knows Sheffield as a<br />

centre for the metals industries.<br />

W.E.S. Turner, arriving<br />

in 1904 from humble<br />

roots in Birmingham,<br />

was no exception and he<br />

set about applying his<br />

university education to<br />

make a difference. His<br />

desire was to serve<br />

and he was determined<br />

to break down those<br />

barriers of secrecy<br />

holding industry back.<br />

Based in what was soon<br />

to be the University of<br />

Sheffield he was well<br />

placed. In 1914 he was<br />

elected President of the<br />

Sheffield Society of Applied<br />

Metallurgy.<br />

The granting of a university charter<br />

in 1905 added impetus to change as<br />

Sheffield sought to identify its place<br />

among the new civic universities.<br />

Turner circulated a questionnaire to<br />

local industry but to his surprise many<br />

replies came from small glass firms.<br />

The glassmakers Wood Brothers in<br />

Barnsley were typical and notably<br />

Barnsley includes a glassmaker in<br />

its coat of arms. All needed help and<br />

Turner did not look away. He set up a<br />

whole university department and created<br />

a society with members drawn from<br />

industry and university working together<br />

to solve problems. The First World War<br />

and associated shortages of glass-based<br />

products such as laboratory-ware gave<br />

yet another push to such developments.<br />

He later commented ‘For better or<br />

worse I am part and parcel of the glass<br />

industry’.<br />

In 1933 he expanded his horizons to<br />

form an international community<br />

of people interested in glassmaking,<br />

using contacts in<br />

Germany, Italy, Spain,<br />

France, Russia and the<br />

US. This organisation still<br />

exists.<br />

While principally a<br />

technologist he also<br />

appreciated good<br />

design. Indeed his<br />

second wife was<br />

a renowned glass<br />

artist and among<br />

his colleagues was<br />

Frederick Carder, who set<br />

up the US firm Steuben<br />

Glassworks, famous<br />

for its innovative designs.<br />

Such connections resulted in a<br />

major personal collection of glass art,<br />

including many unique items bequeathed<br />

to him on his world travels. In 1943 he<br />

gifted it to the university. Its 400 pieces<br />

have since been boosted by a collection<br />

of fine wine glasses and many individual<br />

gifts.<br />

You can visit the Turner Museum<br />

of Glass on weekdays apart from<br />

public holidays. It’s rarely busy in the<br />

afternoons or during university holidays.<br />

Access is from Portobello Street<br />

opposite the entrance to the multi-storey<br />

car park at the junction with Rockingham<br />

Street. We are close to the West Street<br />

St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />

Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />

Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />

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email: office@stchads.org<br />

website: www.stchads.org


of Glass<br />

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tram stop. Come when you have a spare<br />

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skill.<br />

There are no stained glass windows<br />

but admire our Bohemian glassware,<br />

some decorated by staining. Take in<br />

a wonderful mosaic highlighting the<br />

role of the Middle East in developing<br />

glassmaking millennia ago. Ponder on<br />

who used our 2,000-year-old glassware.<br />

See the glass slippers (and glass<br />

wedding dress) made for Prof Turner’s<br />

second wife. But mostly enjoy our<br />

magnifi cent international glass collection.<br />

For more information see www.<br />

turnermuseum.group.shef.ac.uk/<br />

Emeritus Professor John M Parker<br />

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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />

Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA<br />

Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />

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Working<br />

w<br />

Katharine S Boyd is a Sheffieldbased<br />

designer and maker who<br />

works in stained glass and fine<br />

metals. Her work features on the<br />

cover of this edition of Impact.<br />

We asked her to tell us a little<br />

about her craft.<br />

Beautiful gifts made with love<br />

5 Meadowhead, Woodseats,<br />

Sheffield S8 7UA<br />

0114 327 4270<br />

www.facebook.com/fallingmoongiftshop<br />

► Gifts<br />

► Jewellery<br />

► Homeware<br />

► Soft furnishing<br />

I<br />

have now been an independent<br />

designer maker for over 18<br />

years and my studio is situated<br />

in the heart of Sheffi eld’s<br />

cultural Industries Quarter at<br />

Yorkshire Artspace’s Persistence<br />

Works. Having trained in threedimensional<br />

design specialising in<br />

metalwork and jewellery, initially my<br />

work was exclusively metalwork but<br />

I soon added stained glass work to<br />

my repertoire. I enjoy both crafts<br />

very much and love working with the<br />

extensive range of beautiful materials<br />

available.<br />

My metalwork is mainly handraised<br />

and patinated copper bowls<br />

and I fi nd the process of chemically<br />

colouring and texturing the surfaces<br />

fascinating; you never know quite<br />

what you are going to get but it<br />

seldom disappoints. After a long<br />

hiatus I have recently taken up<br />

chasing again. This is a technique<br />

of producing patterns and designs<br />

on fl at or formed metal using various<br />

different shaped punches.<br />

I recently made a small communion<br />

set for my church, St Mary’s in<br />

Walkley, and I am about to start work<br />

on a chased panel for an aumbry<br />

door for them.<br />

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with God the Maker<br />

My stained glass<br />

work is the dominant<br />

part of my business<br />

and I make both<br />

windows and threedimensional<br />

pieces<br />

such as bowls,<br />

containers, lighting<br />

and Wardian cases<br />

which, in case you<br />

have never heard<br />

of them, are like<br />

miniature green<br />

houses. Occasionally<br />

I combine both glass<br />

and metalwork in the<br />

same piece which<br />

adds greater scope to<br />

what I am able to offer.<br />

Although it is not what I set out to<br />

do, most of my work is now made to<br />

commission and usually for private<br />

individuals.<br />

Collaborating with<br />

them has proved<br />

really rewarding and<br />

I am very proud<br />

of the resulting<br />

pieces. The greatest<br />

compliment is when<br />

a customer describes<br />

their piece as their pride<br />

and joy. What more could I ask!<br />

In the coming year I am looking<br />

forward to working on a major project<br />

for a large stained glass and metal<br />

screen for St Chad’s Church in<br />

Woodseats.<br />

My faith is an integral part of my<br />

everyday life and this includes my<br />

work. I see God very much as a maker<br />

and a saying I heard from a Rabbi<br />

sums up much of how I feel about my<br />

creative practice, “Joining with God in<br />

the work of creation”. Again, what more<br />

could anyone ask!<br />

Katharine S. Boyd<br />

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Taking a Break for Lent<br />

How do you like your<br />

pancakes? With<br />

maple syrup, honey, or<br />

chocolate sauce? It’s<br />

always with sugar and<br />

lemon juice in our house, very<br />

traditional, and usually wolfed<br />

down without much thought that<br />

they are the remains of a much<br />

older, medieval feast.<br />

Shrove Tuesday, known by the<br />

French as Mardi Gras, or ‘Fat<br />

Tuesday’, was the last day of<br />

a three-day binge to use up all<br />

the milk, eggs, meat and other<br />

perishables that would go off<br />

during Lent: strict church rules<br />

meant that such foods couldn’t<br />

be eaten again till Easter.<br />

Next on the horizon after the<br />

pancakes are the Easter eggs, of<br />

course, but what about Lent, the<br />

40 days in between?<br />

Lent reminds us of the 40 days<br />

Jesus spent in the wilderness<br />

without food, fi ghting off the devil<br />

with nothing but his knowledge<br />

of Old Testament scripture.<br />

Some churches still observe<br />

Lent as a period of very strict<br />

fasting and often no meat is<br />

eaten over the whole period.<br />

Most of us think however of<br />

simply “giving something up for<br />

Lent”. Chocolate or sweets are<br />

a popular choice, while we look<br />

forward to those eggs…<br />

The underlying idea is that<br />

we do ourselves good by the<br />

discipline of dieting, we give<br />

the money we save to<br />

charities that help the poor,<br />

and we use the time we<br />

might be eating chocolate<br />

to pray and get closer<br />

to God. A lot of churches<br />

run Lent courses, guided<br />

sessions of Bible study and<br />

prayer, during the period.<br />

It doesn’t have to be chocolate<br />

of course; what about giving up<br />

smoking, or alcohol – or social<br />

media?!<br />

For a different approach, try<br />

logging onto www.tearfund.org<br />

and searching the site for “Lent”<br />

or “Carbon Fast”. You’ll fi nd some<br />

imaginative approaches to using<br />

less energy during Lent, reducing<br />

our impact on the environment<br />

and on poorer communities<br />

adversely affected by climate<br />

change. There are lots of creative<br />

prayer and meditation ideas as<br />

well.<br />

Lent starts six weeks, or<br />

(roughly) 40 days before<br />

Easter, which is the only church<br />

celebration whose date is still<br />

fi xed by the lunar calendar. This<br />

is because Easter always has to<br />

fall over a weekend, remembering<br />

that Jesus was crucifi ed on<br />

a Friday and rose again on a<br />

Sunday morning.<br />

It’s early this year – Lent starts<br />

on February 10, so have a think<br />

about what you might want to do,<br />

and don’t be caught out by the<br />

calendar.<br />

Ken Goodier<br />

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St Chad’s<br />

Church House<br />

Thursdays at 7.30pm<br />

from February 11<br />

Christianity Explored gives you time and space to<br />

consider the big questions of life and to explore the<br />

life of the person at the heart of the Christian faith –<br />

Jesus Christ.<br />

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You don’t need to know anything about the Bible.<br />

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You won’t be asked to read aloud, pray or sing.<br />

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You can ask any question you want, or just listen.<br />

This seven-week course starts on Thursday February<br />

11 at Church House, 56 Abbey Lane. We’ll have a<br />

meal together, listen to a talk and<br />

have some discussion time. Contact<br />

office@stchads.org to book a place.<br />

WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD<br />

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Services at St Chad’s<br />

<br />

the 10.30am Service<br />

Informal and relaxed in style<br />

An emphasis on families<br />

Sunday Services<br />

Sunday <br />

Services<br />

Includes music, led by a band<br />

Includes refreshments before the service<br />

The 9am Service<br />

● Traditional in style<br />

The<br />

The<br />

9am<br />

9am<br />

Service<br />

Service<br />

<br />

Includes Traditional Holy in style Communion, a sermon & hymns<br />

● Traditional in style<br />

Includes refreshments Holy Communion, afterwards<br />

a sermon & hymns<br />

● Includes Holy Communion, sermon hymns<br />

Taken Includes from refreshments Common Worship: afterwards Holy Communion<br />

● • Includes Monday refreshments to Thursday afterwards at 9am<br />

Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion<br />

● Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion<br />

Morning Prayers<br />

Lifted, Evening the Prayers 11am Service<br />

Lifted, the • Monday<br />

● Informal to<br />

the and 11am<br />

11am<br />

10.30am Thursday<br />

relaxed Service at<br />

Service in style Service 5pm<br />

An Informal emphasis and relaxed on families<br />

in style<br />

● Informal and relaxed in style<br />

Includes An emphasis music, on led families by a band<br />

● An emphasis on families<br />

• Refreshments Includes Traditional music, in served style<br />

led by from a band 10.15-10.45am<br />

● Includes music, led by band<br />

• Refreshments Includes Taken from refreshments Common served from before Worship: 10.15-10.45am<br />

the Holy service Communion<br />

● • Refreshments Includes Holy served Communion, from 10.15-10.45am<br />

a sermon & hymns<br />

• Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church<br />

The Thursday 10am Service<br />

Weekday Services<br />

Weekday <br />

Services<br />

<br />

Morning Prayers<br />

Morning Prayers<br />

Prayers<br />

<br />

Monday to Thursday at 9am<br />

•• A To Monday Monday half-hour be held to<br />

to service on Thursday Monday<br />

Thursday of prayer at June 9am<br />

at 9am and 20 and Bible Monday readings July<br />

18, 7.15-8pm<br />

• Every Monday to Thursday at 9am<br />

• A contemplative and meditative form of worship<br />

• Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church<br />

with Monday the theme to Thursday Seeking at 5pm Stillness with Jesus .<br />

• Monday to Thursday at 5pm<br />

Monday to Thursday at 5pm<br />

Evening Prayers<br />

Evening<br />

Evening Prayers<br />

Prayers<br />

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The Thursday 10am Service<br />

Traditional in style<br />

The<br />

The<br />

Thursday<br />

Thursday 10am<br />

10am Service<br />

Service<br />

• Taken Traditional from in Common style Worship: Holy Communion<br />

Traditional in style<br />

• Includes Taken from Holy Common Communion, Worship: a sermon Holy Communion<br />

& hymns<br />

Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion<br />

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

Includes Holy Communion, sermon hymns<br />

• Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church<br />

Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church<br />

Other Services<br />

Other<br />

<br />

Services<br />

Prayer and Praise<br />

Prayer Contemplative <br />

Sunday, and February Praise Night 13 at 7.30pm Prayer<br />

Prayer and Praise<br />

Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm<br />

Ash Tuesdays, Sunday, 18, Wednesday 7.15-8pm<br />

February 13 at 7.30pm<br />

Service 23 and March 29<br />

Ash Wednesday, March Service 9 at 7.30pm<br />

Ash at 8pm<br />

Service<br />

• To be held on Monday June 20 and Monday July<br />

•• An A contemplative evening service and of meditative prayer and form contemplation of worship<br />

Wednesday, with the theme March Seeking at Stillness 7.30pm with Jesus .<br />

Wednesday, March 9 at 7.30pm<br />

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Sunday March 20<br />

Easter worship<br />

at St Chad’s<br />

PALM SUNDAY<br />

9am Traditional Communion Service<br />

11am<br />

Lifted Family Service<br />

Thursday March 24<br />

MAUNDY THURSDAY<br />

10am &<br />

7.30pm<br />

Services of Holy Communion<br />

remembering the events of<br />

Maundy Thursday<br />

Friday March 25<br />

GOOD FRIDAY<br />

10am<br />

1-3pm<br />

Good Friday Family Service<br />

(especially for children)<br />

Meditations Around the Cross<br />

Sunday March 27<br />

EASTER SUNDAY<br />

9am<br />

11am<br />

Easter Celebration with<br />

Holy Communion<br />

Family Service with<br />

Holy Communion<br />

Come and celebrate the risen Jesus!<br />

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Every now and then someone will<br />

knock on the vicarage door asking<br />

if they can be let into the church.<br />

They do not want to come in and<br />

pray, nor do they want somewhere<br />

to shelter from the rain, or even to use<br />

the facilities (though these are all reasons<br />

why people sometimes do ask for entry).<br />

Some people want to go into the church<br />

for the sole reason of seeing the stained<br />

glass windows.<br />

This may surprise some people,<br />

for whom St Chad’s appears a fairly<br />

unprepossessing building hardly likely to<br />

contain architectural treasures (though it<br />

is Grade II* listed). St Chad’s is certainly<br />

not Chartres cathedral, nor does it have<br />

anything to rival the rose window of York<br />

minster. But it does have some attractive<br />

and interesting stained glass.<br />

When the church was built it had no<br />

stained glass at all. In fact it didn’t have<br />

a great deal of anything – the outbreak of<br />

the First World War meant that money ran<br />

out for the building and only the nave was<br />

initially completed. The windows were<br />

made of clear glass. I don’t know whether<br />

there had originally been any plans to<br />

adorn the building with stained glass, but<br />

in any event the windows when they were<br />

fitted were clear.<br />

The First World War sadly gave many<br />

decorations to the church in the form of<br />

war memorials. It is the memorial in the<br />

shape of a stained glass window that is<br />

the one that excites the interest of church<br />

visitors. The window is in the centre of the<br />

south wall. The left-hand scene shows a<br />

traditional picture of the Lord’s Supper (the<br />

observant can spot Judas on the far left,<br />

clutching a bag of money). On the right is<br />

shown a scene from the trenches. British<br />

soldiers are receiving a ‘Field Communion’<br />

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Stories in Glass<br />

Three of the stained glass windows in St Chad’s Church<br />

from a padre. In the foreground, receiving<br />

the Holy Sacrament, is a young man with<br />

a moustache. He is Lieutenant C. Gordon<br />

Harbord who died during the Battle of the<br />

Somme on September 1, 1916. His name<br />

also appears in the confirmation register<br />

of the church a few years before his early<br />

death. Harbord Road in Woodseats<br />

is named after him, St Chad’s Church<br />

House was first owned by his parents and<br />

the family still has strong connections with<br />

Sheffield - his great nephew is the current<br />

chaplain to the Bishop of Sheffield.<br />

Shortly after this stained glass window<br />

was commissioned and dedicated,<br />

another window to the left was installed.<br />

This shows two traditional Gospel scenes:<br />

one of the haemorrhaging woman who<br />

was healed when she touched Jesus’<br />

cloak and the other of the annunciation<br />

with the Angel Gabriel appearing to<br />

Mary. Intriguingly Gabriel is shown with<br />

striking African features in contrast to the<br />

usual flowing blond locks and pale skin<br />

that many angels are deemed to have.<br />

Gabriel holds a lily, a sign of purity and<br />

virginity. This window is very much in the<br />

style of the Arts and Crafts Movement of<br />

the late Nineteenth Century and this too<br />

has attracted visitors to the church.<br />

On the north wall of the church is a<br />

window depicting four saints, dedicated<br />

in 1945 to the memory of a worshipper,<br />

John Wolstenholme. The four saints<br />

(from left to right) are St John, St Peter,<br />

St Paul and St Chad. If you look very<br />

closely at St John you will see him holding<br />

a chalice out of which pops a very small<br />

black serpent. This alludes to the legend<br />

that John was given a poisoned chalice to<br />

drink but the poison had no effect on him.<br />

A final, almost unseen piece of stained<br />

glass in the church can be seen high on<br />

the north wall of the chancel. This was<br />

donated by Professor Violet Dimbleby, a<br />

professor of glass at Sheffield University.<br />

The small roundel, made by the professor<br />

herself, shows a scene from the Old<br />

Testament story of Eli and Samuel when<br />

Samuel hears God calling him.<br />

The church rebuilding works, scheduled<br />

for later this year do not include any plans<br />

to alter or add to the existing stained glass<br />

windows - although we hope eventually<br />

to decorate the east wall, which at<br />

present only has a small round window,<br />

with something colourful to draw the<br />

worshippers’ attention. The windows will<br />

remain, each telling their stories and each<br />

revealing their secrets to those who look<br />

closely enough.<br />

Rev Toby Hole<br />

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Seeing the Future?<br />

Google Glass’s tagline<br />

is “Getting technology<br />

out of the way”. It is a<br />

headset computer, with<br />

a small screen that puts<br />

information in the wearer’s line of<br />

sight. It’s a bit like a smartphone<br />

that you wear on your head.<br />

It was voice-commanded, and<br />

users could quickly get directions,<br />

read and send messages, take<br />

photos and videos, and access<br />

the internet. It was announced in<br />

April 2012, and went on general<br />

sale in May 2014. The device<br />

got a lot of media coverage, both<br />

positive and negative. Was this<br />

going to be the next big thing in<br />

personal computing?<br />

It didn’t take long, however,<br />

for criticisms to start to roll in.<br />

For a start, it was suggested<br />

that the devices weren’t actually<br />

very good. They were buggy and<br />

difficult to use, and the quality<br />

of the photos and video wasn’t<br />

very good even compared to<br />

smartphone cameras. But quickly<br />

other concerns started to arise.<br />

Privacy issues rose to the fore,<br />

with Google Glass wearers being<br />

banned from cinemas to prevent<br />

piracy, and even from restaurants<br />

to ensure diners could eat without<br />

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being worried about surreptitious<br />

photographs being taken. Some<br />

even described the device as a<br />

“stalker’s friend”.<br />

But positive stories about the<br />

use of Google Glass started to<br />

come through too. Google Glass<br />

has been used widely in health<br />

care situations. In Europe, Google<br />

Glass has been reported to be<br />

used in surgery, in ambulances<br />

and even in a trauma helicopter<br />

to give medical staff information<br />

and assistance as they worked.<br />

A further trial in Australia<br />

experimented with giving support<br />

to new breastfeeding mothers<br />

using Google Glass, so that<br />

lactation consultants could see the<br />

baby as the mother saw them.<br />

However, in January 2015,<br />

Google announced that they<br />

had stopped the manufacture of<br />

Google Glass, and was moving<br />

on in its research. At the time<br />

of writing, there are rumours<br />

of Google Glass version 2, but<br />

nothing has been announced by<br />

Google.<br />

Is this the future of mobile<br />

computing, or is this simply a<br />

novelty that will soon wear off?<br />

Only time will tell!<br />

Rev Duncan Bell<br />

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Thanks for supporting<br />

Operation Christmas Child<br />

Many thanks<br />

to everyone<br />

who helped<br />

with Operation<br />

Christmas Child<br />

this year. Whether you<br />

donated completed boxes,<br />

gave items to ‘top up’ lighter<br />

boxes, helped to check<br />

boxes or contributed in any<br />

way your efforts really do<br />

make a difference.<br />

The total number of<br />

boxes through the Sheffi eld<br />

warehouse this year was<br />

17,170 which includes boxes<br />

checked at Rotherham,<br />

Barnsley and Greenmoor.<br />

We dispatched 7,398<br />

shoeboxes to Swaziland,<br />

2,280 to Romania and<br />

7,492 to Latvia. It is<br />

great that we are able<br />

to bring a little joy to<br />

so many children.<br />

In total around<br />

875,000 shoeboxes<br />

have been sent<br />

from the UK to many<br />

countries.<br />

Carole Titman<br />

Pictured are two children<br />

opening boxes in Romania<br />

Are you looking for<br />

a room to hold your<br />

party or meeting?<br />

St Chad’s Church has<br />

two rooms available for<br />

hire at 56 Abbey Lane<br />

Call 0114 274 5086 for details<br />

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Seeing Life Through a Lens<br />

For those of us who are<br />

usually the last to get wet<br />

when it rains (one of the<br />

few advantages of being<br />

short?) the Hall of Mirrors<br />

at funfairs offers an opportunity<br />

to look tall and impossibly thin.<br />

There are other mirrors that can<br />

make you look squished or with<br />

a strange wiggle in the middle!<br />

Perhaps these mirrors reflect the<br />

imagination of children, who often<br />

see the world through a particular<br />

‘lens’ of fun, joy and optimism.<br />

These days of<br />

course children are<br />

more likely to use<br />

one of the many<br />

apps on phones<br />

and tablets that<br />

can do the same<br />

thing as the Hall of<br />

Mirrors or better –<br />

my daughter has a<br />

collection of rather<br />

embarrassing but<br />

funny distorted<br />

pictures of her poor<br />

dad!<br />

In the popular<br />

Bible passage often read out<br />

at weddings about love (1<br />

Corinthians 13), St Paul writes:<br />

“When I was a child, I talked like<br />

a child, I thought like a child, I<br />

reasoned like a child. When I<br />

became a man, I put the ways of<br />

childhood behind me. For now<br />

we see only a reflection as in a<br />

mirror; then we shall see face to<br />

face. Now I know in part; then I<br />

shall know fully, even as I am fully<br />

known.”<br />

We all see life through some<br />

kind of lens, perhaps distorted or<br />

altered by our upbringing, culture<br />

and life experiences. I wonder<br />

how our own lenses distort our<br />

view of how things really are.<br />

‘For now we see<br />

only a reflection<br />

as in a mirror;<br />

then we shall see<br />

face to face. Now<br />

I know in part;<br />

then I shall know<br />

fully, even as I am<br />

fully known’<br />

1 Corinthians 13<br />

Having reached my mid-forties<br />

when the physical lenses of my<br />

eyes are not as flexible as they<br />

once were, and finally giving in to<br />

needing varifocals in order to<br />

see things both near and far<br />

away, I also wonder how the<br />

way I see things as an adult may<br />

have become less flexible, less<br />

imaginative and less forgiving<br />

than when I was a child.<br />

St Paul says: “...now we see<br />

only a reflection as in a mirror;<br />

then we shall see face to face.”<br />

Writing to the first<br />

followers of Jesus<br />

Christ but also to us<br />

today, St Paul gives a<br />

timely reminder that<br />

things are not always<br />

as they might seem.<br />

It would be perfectly<br />

natural to look at the<br />

recent dark, horrific<br />

events such as<br />

those in Paris on 13<br />

November 2015 and<br />

say to God: where<br />

were you in all of<br />

that? How could you<br />

allow it? And yet, if we look closely<br />

enough, flex our lenses as-it-were,<br />

and the bigger picture emerges,<br />

we notice a multitude of sacrifices,<br />

acts of mercy and heroism,<br />

where local residents opened<br />

their homes to strangers, people<br />

queued outside hospitals to give<br />

blood, others shielded each other<br />

with their own bodies.<br />

As St Paul rightly concludes:<br />

“And now these three remain:<br />

faith, hope and love. But the<br />

greatest of these is love.” May<br />

we look forward to knowing these<br />

fully, even as we are fully known<br />

by God.<br />

Daren Craddock<br />

St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />

Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />

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A Half Forgotten Song<br />

by Katherine Webb<br />

Zach Gilchrist, a gallery<br />

owner and trained artist,<br />

has fallen on hard times.<br />

With his marriage over<br />

and his gallery failing, he<br />

decides to research his favourite<br />

artist with the aim of writing a<br />

book about the artists life.<br />

Zach’s possible family link and<br />

his obsession with artist Charles<br />

Aubrey takes him to Blacknowle,<br />

a Dorset village on the coast.<br />

Here he hopes to get the<br />

answer to all his questions about<br />

Aubrey’s life and death, and to<br />

find out about the identities of the<br />

women depicted in the paintings<br />

he has displayed in his gallery.<br />

Charles Aubrey was an artist<br />

whose life was cut short by the<br />

Second World War and whose<br />

last few months alive were<br />

shrouded in mystery.<br />

Aubrey and his family spent<br />

many summers in Blacknowle<br />

village and Zach’s research there<br />

leads him to Mitzy Hatcher, an<br />

elderly eccentric woman who<br />

spent a lot of time with the family<br />

as a young girl. Mitzy became<br />

firm friends with Aubrey’s eldest<br />

daughter, as well as a regular<br />

figure in his drawings and family<br />

life.<br />

Mitzy had lived all her life in<br />

the Dorset village, and spent<br />

a miserable childhood with her<br />

mother, who never showed<br />

her any love or affection. The<br />

Aubreys offered Mitzy a lifestyle<br />

she had never known before.<br />

As Zach begins to unravel<br />

the past, Mitzy begins to reveal<br />

her love of Charles and her<br />

relationship with the family.<br />

Mitzy’s love of Charles grows<br />

from innocence to<br />

obsession, from<br />

childish infatuation<br />

to something more<br />

complex.<br />

The story is<br />

atmospheric and<br />

detailed going<br />

from Dorset to<br />

Morocco and back<br />

to Dorset.<br />

Zach develops<br />

a friendship<br />

with Hannah<br />

Brock. She is<br />

Mitzy’s nearest<br />

neighbour and<br />

carries her own<br />

secrets.<br />

There are a number of different<br />

story lines running through the<br />

book, all are good.<br />

The story splits between the<br />

past and the present, and is well<br />

structured.<br />

The plot leaves you guessing<br />

right to the end and I never got<br />

the feeling I could see what was<br />

going to happen.<br />

The story combines a mystery,<br />

several love stories as well as<br />

ghosts, obsession and betrayal.<br />

Just when you think you know<br />

the answer, there is another<br />

revelation that you never saw<br />

coming. The characters are very<br />

real and there are some good<br />

twists.<br />

I enjoyed this book but it does<br />

start slowly and did take me a<br />

few chapters to get into the plot<br />

. I’m glad I stuck with it as I was<br />

gripped by the end and couldn’t<br />

put it down!<br />

It is a good read, but think it<br />

could have been a bit shorter.<br />

Sue Sneddon<br />

St Chad’s 3rd Age Book<br />

Group<br />

Book Review<br />

St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />

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The HIstory of Glass<br />

From our earliest origins,<br />

humans have been using<br />

glass. Historians have<br />

discovered that a form of<br />

natural glass, obsidian -<br />

formed for instance, within the<br />

mouth of a volcano - was first<br />

used as tips for spears.<br />

Archaeologists have found<br />

evidence of man-made glass<br />

which dates back to 4000BC; this<br />

took the form of glazes used for<br />

coating stone beads. It was not<br />

until 1500 BC that the first hollow<br />

glass container was made by<br />

covering a sand core with a layer<br />

of molten glass.<br />

Glass blowing became the<br />

most common way to make<br />

glass containers from the First<br />

Century BC. However, the glass<br />

made during this time was highly<br />

coloured due to the impurities<br />

of the raw material. It was not<br />

until the First Century AD when<br />

colourless glass was produced<br />

and then coloured by the addition<br />

of colouring materials.<br />

The secret of glass making<br />

came to Britain with the Romans.<br />

However, the skills and technology<br />

required were closely guarded by<br />

the Romans and it was not until<br />

their empire disintegrated that<br />

glass-making skills spread through<br />

Europe and the Middle East.<br />

In Britain, there is evidence of a<br />

glass industry around Jarrow and<br />

Wearmouth dating to 680 AD, and<br />

from the 13th Century in areas of<br />

Surrey and Sussex.<br />

A major milestone in the<br />

history of glass occurred with the<br />

invention of lead crystal glass<br />

by George Ravenscroft. He<br />

attempted to counter the effect<br />

of clouding that could occur in<br />

blown glass by introducing lead<br />

to the raw materials. The new<br />

glass he created was softer and<br />

easier to decorate and had a<br />

higher refractive index, adding to<br />

its brilliance and beauty. It proved<br />

invaluable to the optical industry<br />

and optical lenses, astronomical<br />

telescopes, microscopes and the<br />

like became possible.<br />

The modern glass industry<br />

only started to develop in Britain<br />

after the repeal of the Excise<br />

Act in 1845 relieved the heavy<br />

taxation that had been enforced<br />

on the amount of glass melted in a<br />

glasshouse.<br />

Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace<br />

at the Great Exhibition of 1851<br />

marked the beginning of the<br />

discovery of glass as a building<br />

material.<br />

By 1887 glass making developed<br />

from traditional mouth-blowing to<br />

a semi-automatic process when<br />

Ashley introduced a machine<br />

capable of producing 200 bottles<br />

per hour in Castleford – more than<br />

three times quicker than previously.<br />

Twenty years later, in 1907, the<br />

first fully automated machine was<br />

developed in America making<br />

2,500 bottles per hour.<br />

Other developments followed<br />

rapidly, but it was not until the First<br />

World War, when Britain became<br />

cut off from essential suppliers that<br />

glass became part of the scientific<br />

sector rather than just a craft.<br />

Today, glass making is a modern,<br />

hi-tech industry operating in a<br />

competitive global market.<br />

Few of us can imagine modern<br />

life without glass. It features in<br />

almost every aspect of our lives.<br />

And looking into the future,<br />

glass as will always exist as a<br />

material in its own right but many<br />

new applications and processes<br />

are already involving glass in<br />

combination with other materials.<br />

Courtesy of<br />

Sheffield-based British Glass<br />

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Where’s that<br />

from..?<br />

Codswallop<br />

Meaning - nonsense or rubbish<br />

Derived from - the mid 1800s when a<br />

certain soft drinks manufacturer, by the<br />

name of Hiram Codd, invented a technique<br />

for bottling lemonade. He inserted a<br />

glass marble into the neck of the bottle<br />

to act as a stopper. When the bottle was<br />

shaken, the pressure from the fi zzy liquid<br />

forced the marble against the neck, thus<br />

forming a seal. This new invention quickly<br />

became known as ‘The Codd Bottle’. Beer<br />

drinkers belittled those who preferred the<br />

taste of soft drinks to “wallop”, a slang<br />

word for beer. They poked fun at them<br />

by calling the lemonade in Hiram’s bottles<br />

“codswallop”, inferring that it was rubbish<br />

compared with real beer!<br />

Words, and their meanings, change with<br />

the passage of time, of course. However,<br />

the phrase “a load of codswallop” doesn’t<br />

appear until after the Second World War.<br />

Derivations are often open to speculation<br />

and are sometimes pure supposition.<br />

It could just be that, in this particular<br />

instance, the supposition is purely “a load<br />

of codswallop”!<br />

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prison violent and dangerous men<br />

observed Yun‟s faith and obedience<br />

Registers to God. They realised that he 2015<br />

was not<br />

a criminal, just a committed Christian<br />

and came themselves into a deep and<br />

Baptisms<br />

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unobserved Jessica Louise and walking Belcher after his legs<br />

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Oliver<br />

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George<br />

Yun<br />

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experienced, God<br />

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faithfulness never leaving him or his<br />

Funerals<br />

family to cope alone. We will<br />

December probably never experience this kind of<br />

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On the last Saturday of each month.<br />

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February 27<br />

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Learn how to create designs in<br />

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Services during Lent & Easter<br />

February & March <strong>2016</strong><br />

Holy Communion:<br />

Sun 7th Feb 11.00am<br />

Sun 14th Feb 11.00am<br />

Sun 28th 11.00am<br />

Mothering Sunday 6 March11.00am<br />

Sun 13th March 10.30 am<br />

Palm Sunday 20th March 11.00am<br />

Easter Sunday 27th March 11.00am<br />

Evensong ( third Sunday):<br />

Sunday 21st February 3pm<br />

Additional Easter Services:<br />

Ash Wednesday 10th Feb 7pm<br />

24th March Maunday Thurs 7pm<br />

25th March Good Friday 2pm<br />

View of the Chapel & Tower in Spring<br />

Beauchief Abbey, Beauchief Abbey Lane S8 7BD<br />

All Welcome<br />

Our Services are based on the<br />

Book of Common Prayer &<br />

Refreshments<br />

are served afterwards<br />

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Contacts<br />

WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD<br />

CHURCH OFFICE 9 Linden Avenue 274 5086<br />

S8 0GA<br />

Term time offi ce hours:<br />

Mon - 10am-1pm; Tues - 9.30am-1pm;<br />

Thurs - 9.30am-1pm; Fri - 9am-11am<br />

Church Offi ce Administrator<br />

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