2012-04

my humble
favourite was Shepherd’s Wheel, of
beginnings”, boasts the course - such an idyllic spot though,
“Despite
River Sheaf, meandering I must say, the working conditions
inside down, on a board or piece of
through Millhouses Park, “I’m very certainly weren’t idyllic.”
old cardboard. Push a drawing pin
proud that I’m the one who gave your “Please don’t forget about me”,
through each marked point, all the
city its name.
calls out Meers Brook. “I know I’m
way through your pages, leaving you
“‘Sheth’ is an old name for ‘divide’ not as big as you, but I do play my
and ‘feld’ is a forest clearing. It was
with three
part, too.”
(or five)
The
holes.
River Loxley says
here, where I join the River Don, that
Then
nothing.
sew it
“You’re
up, using
rather
your
quiet
string
- what’s
an ancient settlement grew up and
or ribbon,
the matter?”
in the following
the River
sequence
Sheaf asks.
later, after the Norman Conquest, (for three-holed “I’m listening spines): to you all telling your
Sheffield Castle was built on the very stories, but my story’s such a tragic
same spot. Such a privilege to have one. I simply can’t forget about that
such a magnificent building on my dreadful night in March 1864 when the
banks!”
Dale Dyke Dam burst and 650 gallons
themselves”, “the “Excuse wages of me,” sin” interruptsTotley
and
of water flooded my valley, killing 250
“the root of all evil” Brook, are “did just I a hear selection you say ‘humble people and leaving a trail of destruction
of common phrases. Such is the
The rivers speak out
beginnings’? I may be small, but I flow
resonance of the through language some that beautiful many countryside,
subsequent translations as does my still friend, follow Old the Hay Brook.
AV in its phrasing.
Together we supply you with
These days comparatively wonderfully clean few water.”
churches in Britain
“So
use
do
the
I,”
AV.
says
From
Limb Brook coming
the end of the Nineteenth Century there
down from Ringinglow through
have been a plethora of new
Ecclesall Woods. “Did you know that
translations often known by confusing
part of my stream was diverted into a
initials (the RV, the RSV, the NEB, the
goit, long ago, to supply the millpond at
RNEB, the NIV and the TNIV are just a
the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet? It’s a
few!). They are all however direct
descendants from
working
the 1611
museum
King James
now but, way back in
Bible and the influence
the 13th
of
century,
the AV
it
can
was busy producing
be seen in all of blades them. for scythes.
Not that the AV
“The
was
huge
flawless.
wheel,
There
which drove the
was a very limited machinery, print run was of the powered AV by the water
which missed out from a rather all of us.” crucial word
– “not”. The faulty “There’s text therefore no need read to brag about
“thou shalt commit your adultery”. water wheel,” It became says Porter Brook,
known as the “naughty slightly annoyed. Bible”. “There were nearly
St Chad‟s, in 100 common mills powered with many by water wheels
churches in Britain, along will the be banks celebrating of Sheffield’s rivers,
the 400 th anniversary as long of ago this as remarkable the 19th century. My
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!
Toby Hole
as it tore through the city.”
Or, “Don’t for take five holes: on so,” says the River
Rivelin. “It wasn’t your fault. Cheer
up! And talking of cheers, there’ll
be a match on Saturday - I’ll see the
fans on my way to join the Don at
Hillsborough.”
Hearing his name, the River Don
sighs. “Typical,” he says. “I’m bigger
than the rest of you and I have the
most interesting stories to tell, yet you
never let me get a word in edgeways!
Once people caught salmon and trout
in my waters but, as Sheffield grew, I
became polluted. Every month, they’d
open the gate to Barker’s Pool and
flush the filth from the city streets and
open sewers, into me.
“Thanks to the Environment Agency,
people are fishing from my banks
again - they catch trout, but I don’t
think anyone’s caught a salmon yet!”
Chris Laude
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