2011-02

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Ever since I can remember I have loved reading. As a six year 

old my delight was Enid Blyton’s Famous Five and Secret 

Seven. As a teenager I became obsessed with science fiction 

and thrillers, looking forward to my monthly visit to the local 

library from where I would return laden down with hardback 

fiction. At university I was introduced to some of the classics of 

English and European literature, sometimes curling up for hours 

with a book, oblivious to the world outside. Whenever I move to 

a new house, before I think of anything else, I plan where the 

bookshelves are going and what books are going on it. The 

technical word for someone like me is a bibliophile (meaning 

book lover). I think biblioholic might be more accurate! 

But the world of books is changing fast. Second-hand 

bookshops are closing down fast as on-line retailers like Amazon slash the 

price of buying books. E-readers such as Amazon’s Kindle, the i-pad or the 

Sony equivalent are changing the way that we think about reading. The time 

may well come when the only books that exist are antiquarian – relics of the 

pre-IT age – and can only be bought from specialist retailers. 

I have one e-book and that is the Bible. I keep it on my handheld electronic 

diary (you see I’m not a complete dinosaur when it comes to technology). For 

a book the size of the Bible electronic format is very helpful. I can find verses 

and key words very quickly and the whole thing handily fits into my pocket. 

The Bible was one of the first books to be produced in electronic format, which 

isn’t surprising because the Bible has often been at the forefront of changes in 

reading habits and technology. It began life as scrolls carefully carried across 

the Roman world to the tiny scattered churches that met in Rome, Corinth, 

Ephesus and other towns. In the Middle Ages monks across Europe would 

spend years copying and decorating Bibles for use in worship – the 

Lindesfarne Gospels being perhaps the most famous. With the advent of the 

printing press the Bible suddenly became mass-produced and with mass 

production came the desire to allow the masses to read it. The age of 

translation had begun. 

This year sees the 400 th anniversary of the Authorised Version, or the King 

James Version, of the Bible. Along with many other churches in Britain we will 

be celebrating this anniversary by taking a fresh look at the Bible and 

encouraging each other to read it with new eyes. I believe the Bible remains 

the most amazing book ever published. It is not only the foundation document 

of the Christian faith, it also lies at the heart of British culture – political, 

literary, artistic and linguistic. In 2011 see if you can get hold of a Bible (you 

might have one knocking around the house somewhere) and read some of it – 

I think the Gospel of Luke is a good place to start. You might be surprised at 

how fresh some it’s ancient words seem to you. 

Rev Toby Hole 

Vicar 

St Chad’s Church 

Woodseats 




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What do 

you 

get if 

you 

cross 

a pig 

and a 

telephone? 

When is an English 

teacher like a judge? 

When she hands out 

long sentences. 

Crackling on the line! 

Did you hear 

about the 

undertaker 

who buried 

someone in the 

wrong place? 

He was sacked 

for making a 

grave mistake. 

How does a 

barber cut the 

moon's hair? 

Eclipse it! 

A mother was teaching her 

three-year-old daughter The 

Lord's Prayer. 

For several evenings at 

bedtime, she repeated it after 

her mother. 

One night she said she 

was ready to pray it on her 

own. The mother listened 

with pride, as she 

carefully said each word 

right up to the end..."And 

lead us not into temptation", 

she prayed, "but deliver us 

some e-mail, Amen." 

What did the cat 

do after he had 

eaten some 

cheese? 

He waited by a 

mouse hole with 

baited breath! 

Who was the first 

underwater spy? 

James Pond! 

Why did the bus 

stop? 

It saw the zebra 

crossing! 




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

St Chad’s Church Offices, 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB. 

Health Walks 

Mondays – 10am: Graves Park. 

Meet at the Animal Farm car park; 

Tuesdays – 10.30am: Ecclesall 

Woods. Meet at Abbeydale 

Industrial Hamlet; 

Thursdays – 10.30am: 

Lowedges. Meet at the Community 

Wing, Lowedges Junior School. 

Call 0114 203 9337. 

National Council for Divorced, 

Single and Widowed 

Tuesdays 8-11pm 

Norton Country Club 

Club offering friendship and social 

activities. 

Call Magdalen on 0114 

2394326. 

January 30 - February 5 

AEGON British Tennis Tour 

Graves Tennis and Leisure Centre 

World ranked players compete 

alongside local Sheffield players. 

Call 0114 283 9900. 

February 5 

Book Sale 

36 Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief 

10am-12pm 

Good quality second-hand books 

for sale in aid of the Alzheimer’s 

Society. Donations of paperback 

novels or biographies in good 

condition are welcome (but not 

larger books due to space 

limitations). 

February 5 

Free Environmental Activities 

Millhouses Park 

10.30am-12.30pm 

Obstacle course and stream 

dipping activities for 8 - 13 year 

olds. 

Call 0114 263 4335. 

February 8-12 

Jamaica Inn 

Ecclesall All Saints Church Hall 

7.30pm 

A play presented by Ecclesall 

Theatre Company. Tickets: £5. 

Call 0114 230 8842. 

February 12 



1.30-3.30pm 

Nature quiz trail, stream dipping 

and bug hunting activities for 8 - 13 

year olds. 

Call 0114 263 4335. 

February 12 


Ecclesall Woods Sawmill 

10.30am-12.30pm 

Nature quiz trail, stream dipping 

and bug hunting activities for 8 - 13 

year olds. 

Call 0114 235 6348. 

February 20 

Why Not Try A Bike 

Greenhil Park 

10am-2pm 

Rediscover your cycling skills in 

Greenhill Park. The rangers will 

provide a bike, helmet and 

instruction. Meet at the Bowls 

Pavilion, Greenhill Park. 

Booking is essential. 

Call 0114 283 9195. 

Beauchief Abbey holds a variety 

of services and anyone is 

welcome to attend. For more 

details see the Abbey notice 

board. 




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February 21 

Half-term Environmental 

Activities 

Meersbrook Park Walled Garden 

10.30am-12.30pm 

Make bird feeders, bird boxes and 

bird ID. Activities for 8-13 year olds. 

Call 0114 263 4335. 

February 27 

Wild Designs: Pyrography 

Ecclesall Woods Sawmill 

11am-2pm 

Learn how to create designs in 

wood using a pyrograph (heated 

needle). Booking is essential. 

Call 0114 283 9195. 

March 6 

Junk Boat Race 


11am 

Using your engineering skills, some 

glue and a bag of junk, build a 

boat and race it on Millhouses 

lake. Meet at Millhouses Park 

Cafe. Booking is essential. 

Call 0114 283 9195. 

March 20 

Step Out from Greenhill Park 

Greenhill Park 

10am 

Join the rangers on an 

exploration of the footpaths from 

the park into the countryside. 

Meet at the Bowls Pavilion. 

Call 0114 283 9195. 

March 27 

Grass Sledging 

Meersbrook Park 

11am-1pm 

Sledge the slopes of Meersbrook 

Park with the rangers. 

Call 0114 283 9195. 




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A 

bookmark is usually a piece of 

paper or card, or even plastic 

or metal which is used to keep 

the reader’s place in a book, or 

the point at which one has stopped 

reading. Bookmarks were used 

throughout the medieval period, 

consisting usually of a small parchment 

strip attached to the edge of folio (or a 

piece of cord attached to headband). 

As the first printed books were quite 

rare and valuable, it was determined 

early on that something was needed 

to mark one's place in a book without 

causing its pages any harm. Some of 

the earliest bookmarks were used at 

the end of the sixteenth century, and 

Queen Elizabeth I was one of the first 

to own one. The use of the term has 

transferred easily to the world of IT – 

you use bookmarks to save favourite 

or useful items of data. 

I am one of those people who has 

always valued books and hated to see 

them being misused or damaged in 

any way. When I was a child books 

were expensive and I always tried to 

look after them. Nowadays, with more 

use of computers to read, and more 

money to throw around, people don’t 

seem to worry so much about looking 

after their books. I used to have 

constant arguments with my children, 

who used to write in the margins and 

scribble on those books that they were 

using for school. I found this appalling. 

Some books, used frequently, will 

have a permanent marker, like a ribbon 

– you will often see this in religious 

books like the Bible or Quran and in 

diaries. I always think it looks very 

elegant to open a page marked in this 

way. I personally use bookmarks 

RECORD-BREAKER! 

The world’s biggest published book is 

an Atlas measuring 2 x 3 meters. The 

book contains maps of continents, as 

well as images of famous sites. 

promoting a charity or which are 

purchased to raise money for a good 

cause. One thing is certain – I will 

always use a bookmark and not curl the 

corner of the pages over, as one of my 

aunts used to do. 

About 30 years ago I remember my 

local library in Ipswich published a 

report which included an interesting 

piece on the diversity of objects that 

their borrowers had used to mark a 

place in their current reading matter – 

rashers of bacon, lettuce leaves, 

combs, and some items that the library 

were too shy to mention, had been 

returned over the counter with the 

books – to be discovered later by some 

unsuspecting librarian. 

Returning to the increased use of 

laptops and other IT equipment to read, 

I suppose that the bookmark, or 

indeed, the conventional book, will go 

out of fashion. I find that I can’t read 

lengthy documents on line, I would 

much rather print them off and read a 

hard copy. Not good for the 

environment I know, but I am not alone 

in preferring the printed word to the on 

screen version. There are handheld 

gadgets now that resemble 

electronic books but I will always 

have a need to have books round 

me, on shelves, books to borrow 

and lend to friends, something to 

get hold of, and, of course, a 

bookmark as an essential 

accessory, to me at least. 

David Manning 




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B 

ooks! I have always loved 

books and read almost 

anything from detective 

novels to Booker winners. 

They bring pleasure, relaxation, 

education and solace in times of 

sorrow. One of my favourite holiday 

occupations used to be browsing in 

second-hand bookshops. Several years 

ago, on holiday in Beer, Devon, we 

followed handmade signs to ‘secondhand 

books’. It turned out to be 

someone’s garage completely lined out 

with books with a cash box fixed to the 

wall. On the open doors of the garage 

were several newspaper articles about 

the book sale: the owners had, over 

several years, raised £30,000 for their 

local church restoration! 

My mum has been suffering from 

Alzheimer's disease for 12 years. The 

Sheffield branch of the society has 

been a support to me through those 

years and I wanted to raise money for 

them. I was intrigued by the garage 

sale in Devon and decided to see if I 

could do something similar. I started 

out with a trestle table and about 200 

books. Getting books has been no 

problem, I often come home to neat 

boxes of books on my doorstep and 

people are incredibly generous, often 

giving new books that have only been 

read once. 

Now I have about 2,000 books and 

hold a book sale most months. Many 

customers have become regulars and 

meet up to have a coffee and talk 

about their favourite books or look for a 

new author they might enjoy. They can 


The world's most expensive book was 

a copy of John James Audubon's Birds 

of America, sold on December 7, 2010 

at Sotherby’s for just over £7.3m. 

Only 119 complete copies of the 19th 

Century book are known to exist, with 

108 owned by museums and libraries. 

also write up requests for books and 

make recommendations. 

When people make requests I 

always say that sooner or later it will 

come through my garage. On one 

Saturday an elderly gentleman came 

with just one book- about the siege of 

Leningrad - I must admit that as I took it 

and said thank you I was wondering 

who might buy this book. After he had 

gone the next person through the door 

lighted on it with delight - he was a 

collector of Russian history! 

I leaflet my immediate area and a 

couple of kind regulars leaflet their 

roads. Another kind neighbour comes 

every month and sorts books by author 

and finds books for customers. I have 

been very grateful to Impact magazine 

for bringing word of the book sales to a 

wider audience. 

A few of my friends occasionally 

take a box of books into their workplace 

and quite a bit of money is raised this 

way. We have raised £6,000 so far - we 

have quite a way to go to equal the 

sale that was my inspiration, so if 

you are a book lover, look for the 

dates in Impact magazine and 

come along and meet likeminded 

people. Or if you feel 

able to take a box of books to 

sell please get in touch. 

As for me - I don’t browse in 

second-hand bookshops any 

more – I seem to have acquired 

my own! 

Carol Smith 




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M 

ass production has its 

advantages. 

Paperback books are 

cheap to make and 

cheap to buy. But let’s face it, they 

really don’t last very long. 

I have kept all my old children’s 

books, fondly imagining that I would 

pass them onto my children and their 

children. Yet, in one reading by my 

eldest son, Charlie and the Chocolate 

Factory has moulted several chunks 

of yellowed pages – leaving me 

feeling that I must be really rather old. 

It’s understandable, then, that 

people are attracted to the craft of 

bookbinding – taking time and effort 

to create a book that’s meant to be 

treasured and handed down. A quick 

web search uncovers tutorials on 

making a ‘painted leather journal with 

medieval sewing’; ‘how to sew the 

secret Belgian binding’; and ‘how to 

make the folded fan origami book’ – 

not to mention copious equipment for 

sale, such as cold gluing machines, 

brass finishing tools, and manuals on 

how to test for grain direction. 

A little bit beyond me at the 

moment, I fear. So, following the 

principle that it’s best to start 

somewhere, I have test-driven for 

Impact readers a guide to making 

your own – very simple – book 

(drawn from Teach Yourself 

Calligraphy by Patricia Lovett, 

available from Woodseats library). 

You will need: 

Paper 

String or ribbon 

A drawing pin or something else 

with a sharp point 

A needle 

Start with a few sheets of 

rectangular paper, all the same size. 

Fold each in half. Then lay one inside 

another like this: 

You can choose how many sheets 

you use. Four sheets, folded as 

shown, will give you 16 pages 

including the back and front cover. 

But it may become too bulky to close 

properly if you use any more than 

eight folded sheets. (If you wish, 

make the cover page of thicker paper 

or card, and slightly larger all the way 

round than the inner pages.) 

To bind the book, mark the 

midpoint along the spine with a 

pencil. Then pencil in two more points 

on the spine, one each side of the 

midpoint. (If you’ve got room you 

could add two more points, making 

five altogether, evenly spaced down 

the spine.) 

Open the book out and rest it, 

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inside down, on a board or piece of 

old cardboard. Push a drawing pin 

through each marked point, all the 

way through your pages, leaving you 

with three (or five) holes. 

Then sew it up, using your string 

or ribbon, in the following sequence 

(for three-holed spines): 

Tie the ends into a knot or bow. 

Or, for five holes: 

There you have it – a little book. 

Now comes the fun part – filling the 

pages! You could insert photographs 

or copy a poem into it to make a 

present for a family member or 

friend. Or give it, blank, to a child, so 

they can write and illustrate their very 

own story. It’s a great way to 

encourage a reluctant hand-writer. 

And – you never know – it could be 

just the start of a flourishing literary 

career. 

Amy Hole 

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Cooking The Books 

Meaning - deliberately distorting financial 

accounts in order to avoid payment of tax, 

commonly known as "creative accounting". 

Derived from - changing one thing into 

another, as in cooking - the ingredients are 

converted into a meal which, at the end of 

the process, looks quite different from the 

original. The phrase was in use as early 

as Tudor times for in 1636 in his 'Letters 

and Dispatches' the Earl of Strafford wrote, 

"The proof was once clear, however they 

have cooked it since". The phrase was in 

common use by the 18th century and 

Tobias Smollett's "The Adventures of 

Peregrine Pickle" published in 1751, made 

the link to finance explicit - "Some falsified 

printed accounts, artfully cooked up, on 

purpose to mislead and deceive". 




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S 

ave time and money by giving 

all your laundry to the local 

charity shop. You can buy it all 

back for 50p a week later – all 

washed and ironed! 

But while you’re going there you can 

also take all those old thrillers and 

novels with you, so two other people 

can benefit: someone receiving help 

from the charity, and the person who 

buys your old books. Yet perhaps this 

is the greatest advantage of good old 

fashioned printed books – they can be 

passed around for others to enjoy. 

In our modern world of e’s and i’s (ipod, 

e-mail, i-player) you may have 

come across the increasingly popular 

e-book. The ‘e’ stands for 

‘electronic’ (and in case you were 

wondering, ‘i’ is for ‘Internet’). So e- 

books are simply electronic versions of 

any other book, but without the paper. 

To read an e-book you need to buy an 

e-book reader device such as 

Amazon’s ‘Kindle’ (for £109). There are 

cheaper versions and a quick flick 

through the Argos catalogue shows 

that you can buy a new one from 

around £80. This is still about 10 times 

the cost of a new paperback book! But 

once you’ve bought your e-book reader 

you can store thousands of e-books on 

it – your own ‘electronic library’. 

You can of course read an e-book 

on a computer or most modern mobile 

phones, and individual e-books are 

much cheaper than their paper cousins 

– you can buy many for less than £1 

each. There are also many classic titles 

that are free such as “Gulliver’s 

Travels” and “A Christmas Carol”. 

E-books have some advantages 

over printed books. For example, you 

can highlight text and add your own 

notes without damaging the original. 

You’ll never run out of space on your 

book shelf (the Kindle can store up to 

3,500 books) and you can search your 

e-book for particular words or phrases. 

But what if you drop your e-book 

reader or sit on it because you’ve left it 

in your back pocket? I know of many a 

paper-back book that has been 

dropped, thrown, and used to wedge 

open a door, yet they never stopped 

‘working’. 

I don’t know about you but whenever 

I visit someone’s house, particularly for 

the first time, I like to have a sneaky 

glance at their book shelves to see 

what kind of books (if any) that they’re 

into. You can tell a lot about someone 

by the books they read. One e-book 

reader looks very much the same as 

another, and evokes a different kind of 

snobbery (‘look at my expensive flashy 

reader – I have lots of money!’) than 

does a bulging book shelf (‘look at all 

the important books I’ve read – I am 

very clever!’). 

If you’ve ever dreamt of becoming 

an author, e-books are a great way to 

get yourself published! You can 

download free e-book publishing 

software by doing a Google search for 

‘mobipocket 

creator 

publisher 

edition’. 

Download it 

and write that 

novel you’ve 

always wanted 

to write. How 

to publish? 

Easy – Google 

again for 

‘Amazon 

Digital Text 

Platform’. It’s 

free to 

register, and 

you can get your e-book published for 

free and earn up to 70% royalties on all 

your e-book sales! 

All I ask is that when you become 

that best selling millionaire e-book 

author, perhaps you might remember 

where you got your inspiration from 

(this article?) and donate 10% of your 

sales to a worthy local charity like the 

Besom in Sheffield 

(www.thebesominsheffield.co.uk)! 

Daren Craddock 




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Sunday Services 

The 9am Service 

● Traditional in style 

● Includes Holy Communion, a sermon & hymns 

● Includes refreshments afterwards 

● Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion 

Lifted, the 11am Service 

● Informal and relaxed in style 

● An emphasis on families 

● Includes music, led by a band 

● Refreshments served from 10.15-10.45am 

Weekday Services 

Morning Prayers 

• Monday to Thursday at 9am 

Evening Prayers 

• Monday to Thursday at 5pm 

The Thursday 10am Service 

• Traditional in style 

• Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion 

• Includes Holy Communion, a sermon & hymns 

• Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church 

Other Services 

Prayer and Praise 

• Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm 

Ash Wednesday Service 

• Wednesday, March 9 at 7.30pm 




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M 

ick Herron has 

published six thrillers; 

the most recent, Slow 

Horses (2010), was 

shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ 

Association’s Ian Fleming Steel 

Dagger, awarded to the year’s best 

thriller, while his novella Dolphin 

Junction won the Ellery Queen 

Readers’ Award in 2009. Amy Hole 

asked him about his work 

What started you writing fiction? 

It started with reading, of course. 

When I was young I preferred reading 

to real life, so wanting to write was a 

natural progression from that. I wrote 

stories as a child, poetry as a young 

adult, and started writing a novel once I 

realised I didn’t actually need anyone’s 

permission to do so. Reading is always 

a catalyst for the young. That’s just one 

reason why the planned closure of so 

many libraries is a long-term disaster in 

the making. 

Why thrillers? 

I need a solid framework to hang 

everything on, otherwise I flounder. I 

was 18 months into my one serious 

attempt at a non-genre novel, and had 

written something like 100,000 words, 

before realising that I didn’t know what 

it was about. The crime/thriller genre 

provides a focus I lacked on that 

attempt; and it works as scaffolding, not 

as a straitjacket. Slow Horses, for 

instance, has a fairly complex plot, but 

what interested me most was that it 

involved a cast of characters who were 

all, in one way or another, failures, 

looking for redemption. In this, as in 

much else, I’ve been encouraged by 

the work of writers like Reginald Hill, 

who show what’s possible within the 

confines of genre. 

How do you start writing a novel? 

By putting the moment off for as long 

as possible. I have a vague idea for the 

book after the one I’m writing now – so 

won’t be ready to work on for another 

year at least – but have pushed it to the 

back of my mind where it can 

grow quietly in the darkness. I 

haven’t committed anything to 

paper yet, on the ground that if 

I forget it that easily, it’s 

obviously not up to much. 

When I’m ready to start 

work, on the other hand, I’ll 

throw as much as I can onto 

paper as quickly as possible – 

fragments, mostly; snatches of 

dialogue, random descriptions 

of places, much of which won’t be used. 

But I need a lot of material to hand 

before I write the opening words, and 

admit I’ve started something new. It’s a 

way of avoiding blank page syndrome, I 

suppose. 

When do you write? 

Most days, between about 7.15 and 

8.30. More at weekends. 

What are the best - and worst - 

aspects of what you do? 

The best part of writing is redrafting. 

The hard work’s been done, and there’s 

a peculiar joy in deleting as many words 

as possible. Some evenings I struggle 

to get down 300 words or so, but I 

never have difficulty in removing that 

many. 

As for the worst part: well, it’s a selfinvolved 

pursuit. And an anti-social one. 

My first thought on receiving any kind of 

invitation tends to be: That’ll cost me an 

evening’s work. Which is not a 

response most people want to hear 

from someone they’ve suggested an 

outing to. 

Which other authors do you like? 

It might be simpler to list the books 

I’ve most enjoyed this year – Nicola 

Barker, Burley Cross Postbox Theft; 

Paul Murray, Skippy Dies; Jonathan 

Coe, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell 

Sim; Barbara Trapido, Sex and 

Stravinsky; Scarlett Thomas, Our Tragic 

Universe. Seamus Heaney’s latest 

collection, Human Chain, is among his 

best. And the books I’m looking forward 

to are the new novels by Kate Atkinson 

and John le Carré, and Philip Larkin’s 

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B 

ooks, particularly old ones, 

are one of my passions and 

I find Book Fairs irresistible. 

In July 2004 at the Southern 

Cathedral's Festival, Winchester had a 

book and music sale in aid of the 

Cathedral choir and it was here, 

rummaging through other people's 

cast-offs, that I came upon a little red 

book. It was in a "These Books 50p" 

box among dusty old school books and 

ancient "Penguins". Its handsome 

maroon binding had turned to the 

colour of a fallen leaf and the title had 

long since faded from the spine and 

cover, though the gilt-edged pages still 

glowed through the dust. Turning to 

the title page, I found it was ‘Sir 

Edward Elgar’ by J. R. Buckley, 

published in 1904. The introduction 

was dated July 14th 1904 - almost 100 

years ago to the day! I checked that 

there were no pages or pictures 

missing, put £1 in the "Honesty Box" 

and went upstairs to look at the music. 

Here I found three well-used vocal 

scores - The Messiah, Elijah and St. 

Paul - copiously signed on the inside 

title page by famous singers of former 

days. These were also 50p each and I 

paid at the till. 

Back home after the festival, I 

examined the Elgar book more closely. 

Inside the cover it was priced at 2/6d 

(12 and a half pence) and, written at 

the top of the page in blue ink with a 

fountain pen, was the name "Elgar 

Blake". My heart-rate doubled! There 

was only ever one person called Elgar 

Blake, and that was Elgar's daughter, 

Clarice. The name was not in her 

writing. In fact I as fairly sure it 

was Elgar's own. But why just his 

daughter's married name? The 

name must have been written 

between 1921, when Clarice 

married Samuel Blake, and 1934, 

when Elgar died. My research 

revealed that Severn House, 

Elgar's huge London home, was 

put up for auction in the autumn of 

1921, following his wife's death in 1920 

and Elgar moved into a tiny onebedroomed 

flat. Most of his 

possessions, including his extensive 

library, had to be disposed of. Picture 

Elgar, now old and alone in his 

mansion, sorting through the treasures 

of a lifetime. And, to be sure, the little 

book was a treasure - the first 

biography, probably the publisher's 

complimentary copy - it could not be 

thrown out or sold, but was for Clarice. 

Sadly, but proudly, he wrote her newlymarried 

name inside the cover and 

placed it in the box for her. Clarice 

died childless in 1970, before 

decimalisation, and the book must 

have been sold for 2/6d with the rest of 

her effects. Whoever bought it must 

have died around 2004 and the book 

cast into the 50p reject box in the 

Winchester sale. And so, on its 100th 

birthday, Elgar's treasure came to me! 

In August 2004, I attended the 

Three Choirs Festival at Gloucester 


Sir 

Edward 

Elgar 

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Testament of the King James 

Bible (5 by 5mm, created in 2001) 

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and took the autographed scores and 

Elgar's biography to the Antique Book dealer 

there. He gave me £20 for the scores - not 

a bad return for £1.50 - and valued the book 

at £150. But it's not for sale! When I die, it 

will go to the Royal College of Music to be 

freely available to students and scholars, 

which is what Elgar would have wanted. So, 

it just goes to show, you really can't judge a 

book, or a score, by it's cover. 

Eddie Askew once found Jesus, or a 

silver-coloured crucifix, in a box of junk at an 

Antique Fair. He considered buying it to put 

Him somewhere more respectable. 

However, something told him that Jesus 

would not want to be rescued but would 

rather be left among the rejected cast-offs of 

a throw-away society. So he quietly put Him 

back and thought he saw Him smile - but 

then Jesus always knew how to look 

beneath the surface. 

"Lord of the old and the new, open my 

eyes to see your presence in everyone I see 

today" - Eddie Askew from "Love is a Wild 

Bird". 

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T 

his year sees the 400 th 

anniversary of the Bible. Well, 

obviously that’s not really 

correct, the Bible as we know it 

has been around for certainly 1600 

years and the books in the Bible have 

been around for a good deal longer 

than that. But for many people in the 

English-speaking world the definitive 

version of the Bible –the King James, or 

Authorised Version (AV) – will be 

celebrating 400 years this year. 

The King James Version was not the 

first Bible written in English. William 

Tyndale had translated his New 

Testament 90 years before (and had 

been executed for his pains). Henry 

VIII had authorised the placing of an 

English Bible (called The Great Bible) in 

every church towards the end of his 

reign. During Mary Tudor’s reign 

Protestant exiles in Switzerland 

produced the Geneva Bible which was 

the first English Bible to have chapter 

and verse. It also had various 

footnotes hostile to the monarchy which 

meant that it remained banned in 

England. Under Elizabeth I another 

English Bible (the Bishops’ Bible) was 

introduced but it was never as popular 

as the Geneva version. 

Because of the various “unofficial” 

English translations that were in 

circulation, King James I ordered that 

an “Authorised Version” of the Bible be 

written. 

He gathered together the leading 

Greek and Hebrew scholars of the time 

and together they produced one of the 

most important works in the English 

language. Those stranded on Radio 

4’s famous desert island are always 

given a copy of the AV along with the 

complete works of Shakespeare. 

The AV is heavily based on William 

Tyndale’s New Testament, and Tyndale 

is arguably the hidden genius behind 

the translation. So many phrases from 

the AV have become part of the warp 

and weft of the English language: “my 

brother’s keeper”, “they shall beat their 

swords into ploughshares”, “a law unto 

themselves”, “the wages of sin” and 

“the root of all evil” are just a selection 

of common phrases. Such is the 

resonance of the language that many 

subsequent translations still follow the 

AV in its phrasing. 

These days comparatively few 

churches in Britain use the AV. From 

the end of the Nineteenth Century there 

have been a plethora of new 

translations often known by confusing 

initials (the RV, the RSV, the NEB, the 

RNEB, the NIV and the TNIV are just a 

few!). They are all however direct 

descendants from the 1611 King James 

Bible and the influence of the AV can 

be seen in all of them. 

Not that the AV was flawless. There 

was a very limited print run of the AV 

which missed out a rather crucial word 

– “not”. The faulty text therefore read 

“thou shalt commit adultery”. It became 

known as the “naughty Bible”. 

St Chad’s, in common with many 

churches in Britain, will be celebrating 

the 400 th anniversary of this remarkable 

book with sermon series focussing on 

specific books in the Bible – starting 

with Genesis in January. 

The congregation are also being 

challenged to read the whole of the 

Bible over the course of a year. 

The AV’s translation of Ecclesiastes 

12 says “of making many books there is 

no end; and much study is a weariness 

of the flesh.” That may be true of many 

books, but of the inexhaustible riches of 

the Bible I’m sure that it is not! 

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T 

he Smelly Sprout, Father 

Christmas Needs A Wee, 

Everybody Poos and "The 

Queen's Knickers - these 

were just a few book titles I came 

across when searching for possible 

gifts for my two young grandsons! 

I'm sure that my mother, bless her, 

would have been somewhat 

disconcerted if she had been faced 

with such titles and my 

grandmother .... well, she would have 

had to be revived with smelling salts! 

The thought that anyone would 

discuss articles of underwear 

(especially Her Majesty's) in public, 

let alone make them the subject of a 

book to be read by children, would be 

incredibly shocking - and as to 

mentioning what went on behind a 

locked bathroom door .... well, that 

was utterly unthinkable! Yet Edward 

and Thomas, along with their peers 

no doubt, delight in such books and 

roll about in hysterics when reading 

them and looking at the pictures. 

How children's books have 

changed since I was little! I 

remember learning to read at school - 

we had Janet and John books. 

Stories entitled Here We Go and Off 

To Play were about the family - 

Mummy and Daddy and the two 

children, together with Spot the dog. 

They were very ‘middle class’ and 

their pleasures and adventures were 

simple - they played in the garden, 

went to the shops, took Spot for a 

walk, and so on. Of course, as a 

teaching aid the books were 

excellent, because children learnt key 

words very quickly - but the stories, 

and their characters, were very dull, 

at least by today's standard. 

Of course, life was very different 

when Janet and John first came on 

the scene - children didn't know about 

television, DVDs and computer 

games - and I suppose our horizons 

were rather limited. 

The books reveal an age of 

innocence which has, perhaps sadly, 

gone for ever. I remember books by 

Enid Blyton (now frowned upon), 

Grimm's fairy tales and other 

classics, and children's 

encyclopaedias too, but I can't 

remember seeing many particularly 

eye-catching books in the shops or 

the library. 

Nowadays, the production of 

children's books has become big 

business. The content has evolved 

along with society. There are more 

imaginative characters and plots, and 

real life issues are dealt with helping 

children understand, and come to 

terms with, difficult situations and the 

challenges of today's world. Talented 

graphic illustrators now provide a bold 

new approach to picture books. From 

wonderfully tactile books for babies, 

to lift-the-flap, pop-up and scratchand-sniff 

inter-active books for 

toddlers, to vividly descriptive books 

about history and science for school 

age children. Harry Potter has 

completely revolutionised children's 

fiction to the extent that he has 

become compulsive reading for 

adults, too. 

Books offer a gateway to learning 

as well as an opportunity for 

escapism - reading is fun and good 

for the imagination. We all, young or 

old, delight in the joy of discovery. 

Books make us laugh, they make us 

cry and they can teach us just about 

everything. 

So perhaps The Smelly Sprout 

isn't as dreadful as it sounds - the 

story has a moral; Father Christmas 

Needs A Wee and Everybody Poos - 

they may well reassure a child who's 

being toilet trained; and The Queen's 

Knickers well, I'm not sure about 

that one! 

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W 

e asked some of the 

younger members of St 

Chad’s about the books 

they were reading. Here 

three of them tell us about their 

latest books 

Epos the Flame Bird 

by Adam Blade 

I like Epos because it’s 

about a flamebird. I 

enjoy reading it. It’s 

interesting. It is cool. It 

is really exciting. It’s 

extremely cracking. 

A girl and boy go on a quest with 

their animals, a wolf and a horse. 

Magnus Hole (6) 

Young Sherlock Holmes: 

Death Cloud 

by Andrew Lane 

I was encouraged to 

read this book after 

watching the brilliant 

Sherlock Holmes film. 

It is about a boy called 

Sherlock Holmes and 

his friends Matthew 

and Virginia and is set in London. 

Instead of enjoying the sun during 

the holidays they decide to hunt down 

a murderer and his gang, who want to 

destroy the British Empire with killer 

bees. On their adventure they find 

two dead bodies covered in marks, a 

secret gang trying to destroy the 

British army and a plot to kill them. 

This is my favourite book because 

it’s full of mystery and adventure. I 

particularly like the part of the book 

when Sherlock has to defend himself 

against a human puppet who was the 

leader of the gang, while Virginia has 

to take down the whip master. I would 

seriously consider reading this book! 

Liam Reynolds (11) 

Maximum Ride: The Angel 

Experiment 

by James Patterson 

The story is about six 

kids who are 98% 

human and 2% bird. 

They are on the run 

from the erasers, wolf 

men, and the scientists 

who experimented on 

them from the school, the place 

where the experiments are held. Also 

they all have special powers e.g. 

mind reading abilities. 

This book is one of the most 

exciting books I’ve ever read and 

always left wanting to read more even 

when I finished it! James Patterson is 

able to create the perfect picture of 

what is going on in the story so that it 

feels like you are actually there 

watching it happen. He also explains 

who the characters are and what their 

relationships are that you feel as if 

you really know them. Overall James 

Patterson makes an obvious fantasy 

seem like a real life situation. 

Esther Goodier (12) 




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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 

Bible: spiritual warfare, the power of 

the Holy Spirit, visions, dreams, 

miracles, near death experiences, 

torture and escaping from impossible 

situations. 

Brother Yun experienced all these, 

after following God’s calling since the 

age of 16. Through illegal house 

churches he helped spread 

Christianity through China, whilst 

evading the Chinese authorities who 

saw him as a dangerous 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 

family were concerned 

for his sanity. To be 

found with a Bible would 

have meant serious 

consequences and 

punishment. God 

honoured this fast and 

prayer sending Yun a 

Bible. He immediately 

read and memorised 

chapters from the Bible. 

With few resources 

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 

unobserved and walking after his legs 

were so severely broken (he was told 

he would be crippled for life after this 

punishment). 

Whatever Yun experienced, God 

repeatedly demonstrated his 

faithfulness never leaving him or his 

family to cope alone. We will 

probably never experience this kind of 

persecution but this book is testimony 

to the incredible power of God and his 

Holy Spirit. 

Sian Mann 

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“ 

In Hallam, one manor with 

its sixteen hamlets, there 

are twenty-nine carucates 

(area of land) to be taxed. 

There the Earl of Waltheof* had an 

Aula (hall or court). There may 

have been about twenty ploughs. 

Roger de Busli holds this land for 

the Countess Judith. He has 

himself there two carucates and 

thirty three villeins hold twelve 

caracutes and a half. There are 

eight acres of meadow and a 

pasturable wood. In the time of 

Edward the Confessor, the whole 

manor was valued at eight marks of 

silver (£5.33) and now at forty 

shillings (£2.00). In Attercliffe and 

Sheffield, two manors, Sweyn had 

five caracutes of land to be taxed - 

this land is said to have been within 

the land of the manor of Hallam”. 

T 

his is a translation of part of 

the Domesday Book, the 

great land survey of 1086 

commissioned by William the 

Conqueror. He wanted to assess the 

extent of the land and resources 

being owned in England at that time, 

so that he could determine how much 

tax he could raise. The survey also 

served as a gauge of the country's 

economic and social state. 

The name ‘Domesday Book’ was 

not adopted until the late 12th century 

- the huge, comprehensive scale on 

which the survey took place, and the 

irreversible nature of the information 

collected, led the people to compare 

it to the Last Judgement, or 

‘Doomsday’ described in the Bible, 

when people's deeds, written in the 

Book of Life, were to be placed 

before God for judgement! Royal 

commissioners were sent out to 

collect and record information from 

thousands of settlements around 

England. That information was 

combined with earlier records from 

both before and after the Conquest, 

and entered into the final Domesday 

Book. 

All 413 pages of the survey were 

handwritten, in a type of Latin 

shorthand, on sheep-skin parchment 

by one un-named official scribe and 

checked by another. There are 

13,418 places listed in the book and 

amazingly, almost all of those places 

can be found on present day maps, 

though many of their names have 

been altered over time. You can find 

‘Sceathfeld’ (land, free of trees, on a 

frontier near a river - Sheffield), 

‘Wodesettes’ (Norton Woodseats), 

‘Totingelei’ (a watching place -Totley), 

‘Handeswrde’ (an enclosed 

homestead belonging to Hand - 

Handsworth) and ‘Aterclive’ (a village 

near a cliff - Attercliff). The 

Domesday Book provides a valuable 

historical insight into 11th century 

Norman England. It tells us about the 

country's wealth at that time and the 

feudal system which existed. 

Through the centuries, the Domesday 

Book has also been used as 

evidence in disputes over ancient 

land and property rights - surprisingly 

enough, right up to the 1960s! 

*The Earl of Waltheof was Earl of 

Northumbria, too. He was the last of 

the Anglo-Saxon earls still remaining 

in England a full decade after the 

Norman conquest. He was executed 

in 1076 for his part in an uprising 

against William1. His lands passed 

to his wife, Judith of Normandy 

(described as ‘Countess Judith’ in the 

Domesday Book), who was in fact 

William the Conqueror's niece. The 

lands were held on her behalf, as the 

book tells us, by Roger de Busli, 

tenant-in-chief and one of the 

greatest of the new wave of Norman 

magnates. 

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Thanksgivings 

November 

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Ruben Ernest TOWERS 

ELLIOTT 

Kaden Paige PRESCOTT 

Weddings 

November 

6 Matthew David EVERATT and 

Helen Louise EDMONDSON 

Funerals 

November 

8 Shirley ROBINSON (58) 

10 Dorothy PRAGNELL (82) 

25 Annie LEACH (75) 

December 

23 Joyce NEWSAM (88) 

If you have recently had a new baby 

and would like to celebrate that baby’s 

birth with a service in church then please 

come to our thanksgiving and baptism 

morning at St Chad ’s on Saturday 5 th 

February. 

For Weddings & Funerals 

Y 

ou 

don’t have to be a churchgoer to 

have a wedding in church, nor do 

you have to be ‘religious’ to have a 

dignified and meaningful funeral 

service at St Chad’s. 

If you live in the Woodseats or 

Beauchief area, St Chad’s would be 

delighted to help you, whether it is 

planning the Big Day or saying goodbye to 

a loved one. For weddings please contact 

St Chad’s church office. For funerals 

please tell your funeral director that you 

would like to have a church service. 

The morning will explain the difference 

between the two services and give parents 

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W 

hat is the most 

dangerous thing that 

you own? I imagine you 

could put together a list 

of things fairly quickly. Cars give us 

a false sense of security and even 

with all the safety features are quite 

a dangerous thing to own. Stairs 

are something we use everyday but 

occasionally catch us out. Loose 

carpets, knives, walking into doors, 

wet tiles, and compacted snow 

– the list is endless. 

However if some 

authorities are to be 

believed the most 

dangerous things 

that you own are 

books. 

Here is a list of books 

which have been banned at 

one time or another or in various 

countries across the globe: 

There are some obvious ones 

such as 1984, Animal Farm and 

Doctor Zhivago - all banned in Soviet 

Russia because of their perceived 

criticism of the state and their political 

system. How about All Quiet On The 

Western Front, An American Tragedy 

and The Call Of The Wild which were 

all banned in Nazi Germany, again 

because of their criticism of the 

regime. 

There are some less obvious ones 

– Black Beauty (South Africa), James 

and the Giant Peach (USA), Catch 22 

(USA), Tom Sawyer (USA), Alice’s 

Adventures in Wonderland (China), 

all the Harry Potter books because of 

their witchcraft element and my 

favourite one of all is Fahrenheit 451, 

the temperature at which paper 

spontaneously combusts, because 

ironically it is a story about 

censorship. 

Why are books so dangerous – 

because knowledge is power? It is 

the same reason that one of the most 

popular television programmes in our 

house is University Challenge. We 

find it fascinating. On a good evening 

we can get maybe three or four 

questions right between us and 

sometime before the contestants 

answer them. But, what throws us is 

often the question not the answer. It 

is not that we don’t know the 

answers, which we invariably don’t, 

we just don’t understand the 

questions. Not only do 

we not understand 

the question but we 

often did not 

know that there 

was anything to 

be known, that 

the subject even 

existed. As 

Donald Rumsfeld 

once famously said “ 

but there are also unknown 

unknowns. There are things we don't 

know we don't know”. 

Books are dangerous in the same 

way. People are naturally inquisitive 

and once their interest is aroused 

they wish to know more, especially if 

someone is telling them not to. I 

would like to bet that the book which 

has been banned in the most 

countries, even the UK at one time, is 

the Bible. There are many countries 

in the world now which have made 

owning a Bible an offence but that 

does not stop people seeking after 

the truth and many Bibles are still 

smuggled into those countries 

because people are passionate 

about, and hungry for the truth. 

Even now the biggest source of 

inspiration for many people is the 

humble book because books like 

University Challenge expand our 

horizons. Go on, live life dangerously 

– read a book. 

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