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October/November 2018 

WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD

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

Woodseats. Impact is published every two months and distributed 

to over 5,000 homes in S8. 

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

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The names of John Parr and George 

Ellison may mean very little to you 

(as they did to me). John Parr was a 

butcher’s apprentice from Finchley, 

north London and George Ellison was 

a miner from Leeds. Their graves face each 

other in the allied war cemetery in Mons and 

yet they died over four years apart. John was 

the fi rst British death in World War One, dying 

on August 21, 1914; George was the last, dying 

at 9.30am on November 11, 1918 – a mere 90 

minutes before the guns fell silent. George 

had fought through all four years of the war at 

the battles of Mons, Ypres, Cambrai and Loos. 

He was 40 with a family. John was a mere 17 

years, having lied about his age on joining the army. 

The fact that John and George lie opposite each other is nothing more 

than coincidence. The fi rst and last battles that the British army fought 

were at Mons. In four years of bitter trench warfare which saw the British 

lose 500,000 men, the French 1,300,000 and the Germans 1,500,000, 

the front lines of the opposing armies had barely moved. 

One hundred and twenty of those names are found on the war 

memorial in St Chad’s church. Some of these names can also be found 

in our confi rmation register dated from 1912. Teenagers confi rmed in the 

years immediately before the war died on the Somme a few years later. 

The vicar at the time, George Kydd Cuthbert, sadly wrote by each name 

“dead”. After the war the families of some of these young men paid to 

decorate and furnish the still incomplete church building. Like many 

churches, we have stained glass windows, a lectern and other pieces of 

church furniture dedicated to those who died in that terrible confl ict. 

As a former miner, George Ellison may perhaps have been familiar 

with the miners’ motto, that eventually became the slogan of the NUM – 

“the past we inherit, the future we build”. Every Remembrance Sunday, 

but particularly this one, we are surrounded by our inherited past and 

we are challenged by a future that can be built free of war. If all we do 

is remember those who died, then there seems little purpose to their 

deaths. If, on the other, hand we can use this day as an opportunity to 

stand against hatred of all kinds, including the hatred that 

lurks deep inside of each one of us, then perhaps there 

remains hope. 

As well as remembering on the eleventh day of the 

eleventh month, I suggest that we also repent of the 

anger and selfi shness in each of us that contributes to 

discord and division, and that we fi nd a way to restore 

broken relationships in our own lives as well as the 

brokenness that we see in our communities. 

Rev Toby Hole, Vicar, 

St Chad’s, Woodseats 

October/November 2018 

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“Good thing I found you Gideon ... it seems 

someone has been hiding all your Bibles!” 

Why did the Frenchman like to 

eat snails so much? 

He couldn’t stand fast food! 

A man went to a solicitor and 

asked: “What do you charge?” 

“£1,000 for three questions,” 

she answered. 

“Wow,” said the man, “Isn’t 

that a bit expensive?” 

“Probably,” she replied, 

“What’s your third question?” 

Why didn’t 

the physics 

teacher 

and 

biology 

teacher 

get 

married? 

There 

was no 

chemistry! 

A woman walked 

into the doctor’s 

surgery. 

“I’ve hurt my leg in 

several places,” he 

said. 

“Well don’t go there 

again,” said the 

doctor. 

A sandwich walked 

into a bar. 

“Sorry,” said the 

bartender, “We 

don’t serve food in 

here!” 

A group of convicts 

escaped after a 

prison van collided 

with a cement 

mixer. 

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What’s On 

If you have an event you would like 

to see included in our What’s On 

section, email impact@stchads.org 

Health Walks 

•Mondays - 10am: Graves Park. 

Meet outside the Rose Garden 

Cafe; 

•Tuesdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall 

Woods. Meet at Abbeydale 

Industrial Hamlet Visitors Centre; 

•Thursdays - 10.30am: 

Lowedges. Meet at the Gresley 

Road Meeting Rooms, Gresley 

Road, Lowedges; 

•Thursdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall 

Woods. Meet at the JG Graves 

Discovery Centre off Abbey Lane. 

•Fridays - 10.30am: Graves Park. 

Meet in the main entrance, Graves 

Leisure Centre. 

Call 07505 639524 or visit www. 

healthwalksinsheffi eld.btck.co.uk 

for details about any of the walks. 

October 6 

Pie and Pea Supper with Ceilidh 

St Chad’s Church 

6pm 

Live music and dancing plus pie 

and pea supper. Bring your own 

drinks.Tickets, priced £10 for 

adults and £5 for children, are 

available by calling 0114 274 5086 

or emailing offi ce@stchads.org 

October 6 

Book Sale 

36 Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief 

10am-12pm 

Good quality second-hand books 

for sale in aid of the Alzheimer’s 

Call in for a Cuppa 

at Church House, 56 Abbey Lane 

10am to 12noon 

on the last Saturday of each month 

Bring & Buy (new items) 

Handicrafts and Home Baking 

Society. Donations of good 

condition paperback novels or 

biographies are welcome. 

October 12 

Mark’s Gospel 


7.30pm 

A live performance of St Mark’s 

Gospel lasting about two-and-aquarter 

hours. 

October 13 

Coffee Morning 


10am-12.3pm 

A coffee morning, gift stall and 

raffl e in aid of Toybox. 

See page 11 for more details. 

October 13 

Autumn Farmers’ Market 

St James’ Church, Norton 

12-4pm 

October 14 

Abbeydale Miniature Railway 

Abbeydale Road South 

1-5pm 

October’s open day at Abbeydale 

Miniature Railway. 

October 31 

Light Party 


6-7.30pm 

A fun-filled evening for primary 

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Tickets and forms will be available 

from uniformed group leaders or at 

St Chad’s Church. Email offi ce@ 

stchads.org or call 0114 274 5086. 

November 4 

Community Bonfire 

St Chad’s Church House, Abbey 

Lane 

6.30-9pm 

Join us for our community bonfi re 

with garden fi reworks. Entry is 

£1 per person on the gate with 

sparklers, glow sticks, snacks, hot 

dogs and drinks available to buy. 

November 4 

Pedlar’s Corner Flea Market 

Abbeydale Picture House 

10am-3pm 

Flea market, antiques, vintage, 

retro, arts, crafts, makers and 

salvage stalls. 

November 9 

Roundabout Sleep Out 

92 Burton Road, Kelham Island 

Spend the night on a warehouse 

fl oor to raise money for young 

homeless people in Sheffi eld. 

Some of Roundabout’s young 

people will speak about the issues 

in Sheffi eld and tell their story. 

There will also be refreshments 

and entertainment up until 

midnight when the lights go out 

and the challenge begins. Find out 

more at roundabouthomeless.org 

or call 0114 253 6753. 

November 11 

Remembrance service 


10.55am 

Our annual service of 

remembrance which this year 

marks 100 years since the 

Armistice. 

November 16 

Open House Launch Night 


7.30pm 

Open House Coffee Shop has 

been in the heart of Woodseats for 

the past 30 years. Having closed 

its doors in 2012, the property on 

Chesterfi eld Road has remained 

empty, and now a new team is 

breathing life into the vision for the 

next generation. Enjoy cake and 

coffee as the team shares more 

about the plans for Open House. 

For more information, visit www. 

openhousesheffi eld.co.uk, or email 

hello@openhousesheffi eld.co.uk 

November 17 

Big Quiz Night 


Door open 7pm, quiz starts 7.45pm 

Groups up and down the country 

will be taking part in the biggest 

ever multi-venue, nationwide 

quiz night to raise money for 

Tearfund. Light refreshments will 

be available. Go to stchads.org for 

more details. 

What’s On 

Are you looking for 

a room to hold your 

party or meeting? 

St Chad’s Church has 

two rooms available for 

hire at 56 Abbey Lane 

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Christmas Joy All Boxed Up 

As we sit back 

and reflect on 

our holidays 

I’m sure that 

Christmas 

presents are not the first 

thing we think of. But 

soon the TV commercials 

will be showing the 

latest must-have toys 

our children need, and 

the shops will begin the 

countdown of shopping 

days to Christmas. 

Sadly for many children around 

the world there will be no exciting 

presents to open. But through 

the work of Operation Christmas 

Child we can make Christmas 

special for some. 

Operation Christmas Child 

is organised by the Charity 

Samaritan’s Purse which, 

for many years, has 

shown that although 

we can’t erase 

the poverty and 

needs for all those 

children, we can in 

a small way show 

that we care by filling 

a shoebox with 

small gifts. 

Operation 

Christmas Child 

works with local churches and 

charities overseas to distribute 

the shoeboxes to those who most 

need them regardless of their 

background or beliefs, asking 

nothing in return, demonstrating 

God’s love in a tangible way. 

These may be in schools, 

hospitals, orphanages, homeless 

shelters and impoverished 

neighbourhoods. 

All around Britain and many 

other countries, people will be 

preparing for this year’s Operation 

Christmas Child campaign. Could 

you give an extra gift this year? 

It’s so easy – 

1. Simply brightly wrap a 

shoebox and decide the gender 

and age of the child. 

2. Fill the box with a selection 

of small goodies such as a soft 

toy, ball, cars, doll, pens, pencils 

crayons, writing/colouring book, 

toothbrush, 

toothpaste, comb, 

soap, hat, gloves 

and scarf. Finally, 

it would be good to 

include a few sweets 

- with a sell-by date 

of at least March 

2019 (no chocolate 

please). More ideas 

can be found in our 

leaflets. 

3. Finally please add a donation 

towards shipping costs of £5. 

Leaflets will be available at St 

Chad’s Church from October, and 

completed boxes can be dropped 

off at the church office in Linden 

Avenue and at our 9am and 11am 

Sunday services. 

Other drop-off points can be 

found on the website www. 

operationchristmaschild.org.uk 

I hope many of you will support 

this charity again. Thank you. 

Carole Titman 



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I 

don’t know if you ever saw 

our old van running around 

Woodseats and all over the city 

with ‘The Besom in Sheffield’ 

on the side but unfortunately 

it has gone to the great scrapyard 

in the sky and is no more. We had 

had it for around 12 years and it 

was five years old when it was given 

us. Throughout its life it has given 

excellent service although several 

times over the last few years we 

had to make that classic decision of 

whether it was worth investing more 

money to keep it going or should 

we cut our losses and let it go. This 

was the dilemma we faced a few 

weeks ago and ultimately decided it 

was not good stewardship to keep 

it going. 

For an organisation which is 

focussed on profit it would not be 

an issue because they would have 

factored a replacement into their 

business model and all would have 

been well but we are not that sort 

of organisation. From the day that 

we took the decision to scrap our 

vehicle we had two things in mind. 

The first was that as a Christian 

organisation everything we do has 

to glorify God and the second was 

that we had to take seriously the 

promise in the Bible that we had 

to ask no one except God for the 

provision we needed. This means 

we don’t have to fundraise – we 

don’t need to set up a crowdfunding 

page or organising coffee mornings 

or pea and pie suppers to get 

money for our needs. We are simply 

asked to pray and then step aside 

and let God do what God does. 

In the meantime we hired a van 

one day a week and waited patiently 

to see what would happen. As a 

step of faith we began looking for 

a replacement and identified a van 

that would meet our needs if the 

opportunity arose. 

Within days, without us asking, 

people, mainly from St Chad’s, 

but also from other churches and 

indeed the general public found out 

that we needed a van and decided 

to help. Within a couple of weeks we 

had enough money to put a deposit 

down on the van we had identified 

even though the full amount was 

not in sight yet. Soon people began 

to realise we had no van and then 

they became even more creative. 

Someone said they would pay for 

the signage on the side of the van 

and another that they would pay 

the first year’s road fund licence. 

Other anonymous givers put money 

through our letterbox – amazing. 

Someone even said they would lend 

us the money to cover the gift aid 

until we could reclaim it. 

We now have our new van which 

is only three years old and once 

again is helping people who can 

give their time, skills, money and 

things to those who are living on the 

margins of society. 

None of this would be possible 

without the generosity of people but 

also we can say without doubt that 

prayer works and that God does 

provide for our needs if we depend 

on him and on him alone. 

If you would like to know more 

about the work of Besom then 

either visit our website – www. 

thebesominsheffield.co.uk or contact 

us on 07875950170. 

Steve Winks 

The Besom in Sheffield 

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100 Years, 100 Days,Two Minutes 

On August 4 1918, King 

George V called a National 

Day of Prayer, meeting with 

members of both Houses of 

Parliament. Why that day? 

It was the fourth anniverary of the 

opening of hostilities in World War 

One. One hundred days later, the 

Great War ended. 

On August 4 2018 

Remembrance100 launched 100 

days of Peace and Hope with 

prayers, Bible readings, reflections 

and peace-making activities. It is 

being sponsored by Justin Welby, 

Archbishop of Canterbury. He writes: 

“Our God is one who brings 

peace to hearts and calls us not 

only to stop violence but to seek 

reconciliation. His reconciliation 

asks that we disempower memories 

of destruction and their hold 

over individuals and societies. 

Through this we can learn to 

approach difference with curiosity 

and compassion, rather than fear 

and begin to flourish together in 

previously unthinkable ways. This 

kind of reconciliation is incredibly 

rare... that is why in 100 days before 

this Remembrance Sunday, we 

think especially of those caught up 

in conflict and who pray for peace 

against all odds and act with hope 

when there’s little light to be seen.” 

LEARNING FROM THE PAST 

The tomb of the Unknown Warrior 

in Westminster Abbey has four New 

Testament verses on it. 

1. ‘”Greater love has no man than 

this” than to lay down ones’ life for 

one’s friends.’ Jesus showed the 

extent of his love by dying on a 

Roman cross for us. 

2. “In Christ shall all be made alive” 

reminds us that death is not the end. 

Jesus died and rose again, so we 

too can have life beyond the grave. 

3. “The Lord knows those who are 

His” helps us to understand why 

Jesus died. His death means we 

can know God personally - a fact 

reinforced by: 

4. “Unknown and yet well known, 

dying and behold we live.” 

These words, literally set in stone, 

remind us even if no-one remembers 

us, we are known by a loving God 

who gave his Son, so whoever 

believes in him will have eternal life. 

Through his sacrifice we can have 

resurrection hope. 

A PRAYER 

Heavenly Father, as we grieve for 

those who have sacrificed their lives 

in so many wars, we thank you for 

the greatest sacrifice of all - your 

Son Jesus. Help us to live in the 

power of the resurrection today and 

every day. Amen. 

ACTION 

We may not be required to give up 

our lives for our country, but we can 

show God’s love to our community 

in sacrificial ways. Maybe giving our 

time, our money or our hospitality to 

those who are in greater need than 

our own. What can you give today to 

make the world a better place? 

For more information go to www. 

remembrance.co.uk/100-days 

Jeremy Thornton 



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Giving Children an Identity 

Toybox is a small British charity 

devoted to helping children in 

Guatemala where it is estimated 

700,000 do not have a birth 

certificate. These children 

are known simply as “XXX children” 

They do not officially exist, are prey to 

unspeakable exploitation, nobody takes 

responsibility for them and nobody 

seems to care. 

Getting a birth certificate is something 

most street children can only dream of. 

Without which things such as education, 

healthcare and shelter are not available. 

Try to imagine for a moment that you 

were known simply as XXX. You’d never 

been allowed to see a doctor, never 

allowed to sit an exam or advance at 

school, never get a job and earn your 

Busy Hands Coffee Morning 

Saturday October 13 

10am - 12.30pm at St Chad’s Church 

Raffle and cake stall 

in aid of Toybox 

own income or get married. You have no 

identity. Unregistered children are not 

recognised by the official statistics, so do 

not officially exist. Many die while they 

are still young and in the city cemetery 

an unmarked grave is “XXX” for all 

the children who do not officially exist. 

These children suffer the same indignity 

in death as they do in life. 

By giving a child a birth certificate you 

give a gift which will last a lifetime. 

Please support our coffee morning. 

Busy Hands small group 



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A Growing Memorial 

In the early 1990s one 

man had an idea to 

create a national focus for 

Remembrance. 

This project began with no 

money, no land, no staff and no 

trees. After years of dedication, 

grants awarded by the National 

Lottery and thousands of 

donations, both large and small, 

the National Memorial Arboretum 

was born. It covers 150 acres, 

has over 300 memorials and over 

30,000 trees have been planted. 

The Arboretum acknowledges the 

personal sacrifi ces made by the 

Armed Forces and civilian services 

of this country during wartime, 

but the focus is not totally military. 

From the start, it was planned 

as a place of joy where the lives 

of people would be remembered 

by living trees that would grow 

and mature in a world of peace. 

The mix of habitats found in the 

Arboretum make it an excellent 

home for a diversity of wildlife. 

Remembrance is very much a 

part of our heritage, it has its 

own language and is fi lled with 

symbols which become more 

potent as they echo through time. 

They are found everywhere in the 

Arboretum. 

One particularly moving place is 

The Millennium Chapel of Peace 

and Forgiveness which welcomes 

people of all faiths and 

none – it is the only 

place in the country 

where the Act of 

Remembrance is 

observed every day. 

It is constructed 

largely from wood 

and all the sculptures 

and objects have been 

hand-crafted by a variety 

of people including a group of 

young offenders at a local prison. 

There is a beautiful woodcarving 

called ‘The Story Teller’ with a 

group of children listening to Jesus 

telling one of His stories. Another 

place which speaks profoundly in 

the silence is the Shot at Dawn 

memorial, appropriately found on 

the eastern edge of the Arboretum 

where the dawn strikes fi rst. During 

WW1, 309 soldiers were shot for 

desertion, cowardice, striking an 

offi cer, disobeying an order or 

sleeping at their post. Many were 

underage when they volunteered 

and most of them never had a 

proper trial. Today it is recognised 

that many of them were actually 

suffering from Post Traumatic 

Stress Disorder. A statue of a 

blindfolded soldier faces six trees 

which represent the fi ring squad 

and to left, right and behind him, 

arranged in the form of a Greek 

theatre symbolising the tragedy 

that these events signify, are 

wooden posts of differing height 

bearing the name and ages of 

those who suffered this cruel fate. 

“The Arboretum will be a 

celebration of life lived” the 

founder promised and so many 

remembered there have lived rich, 

full lives. Amongst the tears you 

fi nd smiles, too, as when I came 

across a brightly painted fairground 

horse. How incongruous, I thought, 

until I read the dedication - to The 

Showmen’s Guild, many of whom 

died during confl ict. They operate 

travelling funfairs throughout the 

UK and raise thousands of pounds 

for local, regional and national 

charities. If you haven’t already 

been one of the 250,000 people 

who visit this unique place each 

year, I suggest you add it to your 

‘bucket list’. 

Chris Laude 



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Parish News of 1918 

St Chad’s Church opened 

in 1912 – just two years 

before the Great War 

began, but throughout 

the following years, our 

parish magazine gave news of 

the church and recorded ‘notes 

of sympathy’ as young men from 

our community lost their lives. 

A hopeful St Chad’s vicar, Rev 

G Kydd Cuthbert, writes in the 

November edition: “At last Peace 

seems very near. Perhaps 

we shall be able to have our 

Thanksgiving Service before 

another issue appears.” 

Here are a few extracts 

from Mr Cuthbert’s message 

the following month after the 

Armistice had been agreed: 

“My Dear Friends, 

This Christmas we shall be 

able to understand the love 

underlying the “Incarnation” 

better than ever before. “God 

so loved the world that he gave 

His only begotten Son”. The 

giving of that wonderful gift was 

announced by the angel as 

“good tidings of great joy,” and 

the heavenly host broke into 

praise, saying “Glory to God in 

the highest, and on earth peace, 

goodwill toward men.” 

“...It has been our lot to witness 

during the past four years of 

war the greatest struggle of 

the centuries, and see Might 

matched against Right. It is our 

glorious privilege to see Right 

triumphant. 

“The future lies... in common 

service of the highest ideals 

for the general welfare of the 

people. The sacrifi ces of the 

years of war lay upon us an 

obligation to reap from noblest 

death a harvest of fullest life 

– life freed, as the Son of Man 

came to free it, from the sin of 

selfi shness, and happy in the 

service of righteousness and 

Peace.” 



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War is a controversial 

subject. It always 

has been and always 

will be. Iraq and 

Vietnam immediately 

spring to mind. Religion can also 

be a controversial subject, made 

clear locally and recently by the 

process to appoint a new Bishop of 

Sheffield. So when war and religion 

meet, controversy abounds. 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a 

German Christian pastor and 

teacher alive in WW2. Initially a 

pacifist, he later became a coconspirator 

in plots to bring down, 

and eventually assassinate, 

Hitler. Bonhoeffer also helped 

Jews to escape. Because of 

his resistance, he was 

eventually caught, 

imprisoned, and 

executed. For 

Bonhoeffer, pacifism 

turned into more 

active attempts to 

counter injustice. 

Some Christians are 

pacifists, where others 

believe war is an option in 

extreme circumstances. 

So what about God? Is God 

a pacifist? To move towards 

answering this complicated 

question, I will look at Jesus, as he 

is the image of the invisible God 

(Colossians 1:15). By looking at 

Jesus we can learn about God’s 

character. 

The reading ‘For unto us a child 

is born… and his name shall be… 

Prince of Peace’ (Isaiah 9:6) is 

common at Christmas, and is in 

Handel’s Messiah. This part of 

the Bible talks about Jesus as an 

eternal king who will bring peace, 

but also that he will reign with 

justice. 

Justice is important to Jesus. 

Jesus engaged with the poor, 

marginalised and oppressed. 

Jesus responds to the violence of 

society of his time against these 

people by being present with 

them, healing them and teaching 

them. But the way Jesus acted 

and spoke was not appreciated by 

everyone. Indeed, Jesus knew he 

was radical and controversial. This 

would eventually lead to his death. 

The Romans, who were 

oppressing Israel at the time, 

were not overthrown by Jesus, 

but instead Jesus allowed himself 

to be tortured and killed by them. 

When Jesus was arrested he does 

so without a fi ght, and tells one 

of his followers to put down his 

sword. But in his sacrifi ce 

Jesus is victorious, 

because he overcomes 

death itself and rises 

again to life. He also, 

as the Prince of 

Peace, enables us 

to have peace with 

ourselves, peace 

with each other, 

and peace with God. 

Peace is not just the 

absence of war, but about a 

sense of living rightly with our self, 

with each other, and with God. 

So, both peace and justice are 

very important to Jesus. When 

nations go to war it is often to do 

with issues related to justice and 

oppression. Jesus cannot be a 

pacifi st, as through the violence 

of his own self-sacrifi cial death 

he overcomes death itself, our 

most brutal oppressor. But this 

is because he is a pacifi st, for 

through his own nonviolent selfsacrifi 

cial death he enables peace. 

Perhaps because God is so ‘other’ 

to us, he fails to be put in a box 

by our black and white human 

categories. 

Rev James Norris 

Is God a Pacifist? 



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Services at St Chad’s 

Sunday Services 

Sunday 

Sunday 

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Services 

Sunday Services 

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Weekday 

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Weekday Services 

Weekday Services 

Morning Prayers 



Morning Prayer 

Evening Prayers 



Monday to Thursday at 9am 



• Monday to Thursday at 9am - a half-hour service 

of prayer and Bible readings in church 

Monday to Thursday at 5pm 

• Monday Friday at to 9am Thursday - up to at an 5pm hour of prayer, blessing 

for Monday the community to Thursday and at prayer 5pm ministry if requested 

The Thursday 10am Service 

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Harvest 

Prayer and Praise 

Prayer 

Sunday, Prayer and 

October and Praise 7 

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Sunday, November 11 

Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm 

Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm 

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celebrate Ash Wednesday the harvest with Service Sunday with services at 9am and 

services Ash Wednesday, at 9am and March 11am. 

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There was a massive 

change in women’s roles 

during the First World War. 

As the war progressed 

and more and more men 

went to fi ght, traditional male roles 

were by necessity taken over by 

women. Many enrolled in heavy 

industry, especially in Sheffi eld in 

the steel and arms industry. 

As the need for female workers 

increased there were propaganda 

fi lms made to encourage women 

to do their bit for the fi ght against 

Germany. By 1918 the munitions 

factories were the largest single 

employer of women. Employment 

rates for women doubled to 47 per 

cent over the duration of the war. 

Women also worked on the land, 

in transport like tram workers, 

police, fi re fi ghters and as bank 

tellers and clerks. Before the war 

women’s roles were more in the 

domestic sphere as household 

workers. However hard and 

dangerous the munition work was 

there was better pay and a sense 

of communal endeavour. The 

women who made TNT for bombs 

were called “canaries” because the 

dangerous chemicals turned their 

skin yellow and killed 400 of them. 

Pay however was not equal to 

men doing the same jobs, under 

the misapprehension that women 

were not as strong and open to 

emotional problems. 

The women working the forges 

at the Cradley Heath making 

chains earned 30p for a 56 hour 

week compared to the men who 

earned £1.20. Some of the earliest 

industrial disputes over equal pay 

occurred among London bus and 

tram workers. Eventually some 

workers did obtain equal pay 

but this rule only applied for the 

duration of the war. 

After the disastrous loss of 

male life of the war and the fl u 

pandemic which killed 500 million 

world wide and 228,000 in Britain, 

there continued a shortage of 

workers. Men returning from 

the war were given priority for 

work and many women left their 

“male roles.” However some of 

the barriers to employment were 

permanently broken down and 

women eventually obtained the 

right to vote. 

Equal pay has still to be fought 

for in certain areas of work 100 

years on. 

Toria Karney 

The Changing Role of Women 

Women munition workers sorting shells during the First World War 



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Woodseats’ Fallen 

To mark 100 

years since the 

First World War 

Armistice, Carole 

Gibson has 

been researching some 

of the names on the war 

memorial at St Chad’s. 

On these next four pages 

are just a few of those 

men from our area who 

died in the Great War. 

More of Carole’s 

research is available for 

people to look at in St 

Chad’s Church. 

Harold Bingham 

Harold Bingham 

was born on 

August 13, 1895 

in Sheffield and 

the son of Mrs 

HJ Bingham of 

Woodseats Road. 

He enlisted 

in September 

1914 and was 

an Able Seaman 

in the Royal 

Navy Volunteer 

Reserve. He died 

on September 18, 

1917 in Flanders, 

France. 

Lieutenant 

Douglas Roy 

Hinckley 

Lt Hinckley was 

born in 1896 and 

lived on Cobnar 

Road. He was 

killed in action 

on January 13, 

1917, aged 21. 

He served in 

the Yorks and 

Lancaster 

Regiment 12th 

Battalion and 

was awarded the 

Victory and 

British War 

Medals. 

There is a brass 

lectern in the 

shape of an angel 

in St Chad’s 

which bears an 

inscription by 

his brother 

Gilbert Percy 

Hinckley, 

dedicated ‘For 

the honour and 

glory of God in 

loving memory 

of his brother 

Douglas Roy 

Hinckley’. 

William Martin 

Jephson 

William was born 

in Sheffield 

in 1894 and 

was a motor 

car engineer, 

living on with 

his family on 

Tyzack Road. His 

father was a 

Police Pension 

Timekeeper 

Second Lieutenant 

Ernest Nicholls 

Lt Nicholls 

served in the 

Royal Flying 

Corps. He was 

born in 1895 

and before 

the war was a 

warehousehand. 

He lived at 

Meadow Head 

Cottage and 

it is believed 

he attended St 

Chad’s Church. 

Arthur Shorten 

Arthur Shorten 

was born in 1890 

and lived with 

his family in 

Underwood Road. 

He was listed 

working as a 

carter in the 

1911 census. 



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Lieutenant Cecil 

Gordon Harbord 

Lt Harbord was 


in France on 

September 1, 

1916. 

He was in the 

Yorkshire and 

Lancaster 

Regiment 14th 

Battalion and 

is buried in St 

Vaast Military 

Cemetery, 

Richebourg, 

France. 

Born in 1894 in 

Staffordshire, 

before the war 

he was a bank 

clerk and lived 

on Abbey Lane. 

His father was an 

estate agent. 

Lt Harbord 

worshipped and 

was confirmed at 

St Chad’s and 

there is a plaque 

in the church in 

his memory. Above 

the plaque is 

a stained glass 

window depicting 

soldiers in the 

First World War 

together with a 

cross bearing the 

name ‘Harbord’. 

Lance Corporal 

Henry Newett 

L Cpl Newett was 

born in Sheffield 

in around 1887. 

He was the 

husband of Ada 

Dronfield of 

Chesterfield Road 

and was killed 

in Flanders on 

August 16, 1916. 

L Cpl Newett 

served in the 

King’s Own 

Yorkshire Light 

Infantry and 


Victory and 

British War 

Medals. 

Private Tom 

Barclay Parker 

Pte Parker was 

born in Heeley 

in 1897 and died 

on September 16, 

1916. 

His parents 

Charles Edward 

and Margaret 

lived on Abbey 

Lane. 

Pte Parker served 

in the King’s 

Own Yorkshire 

Light Infantry 

and was awarded 

the Victory and 

British War 

Medals. 


Charles Herbert 

Metham 

L Cpl Metham was 


in 1892 and lived 

on Chesterfield 

Road. 

His great niece 

tells us he 

married Evelyn 

Gosling in 

October 1914. 

L Cpl Metham 

initially 

enlisted in the 

8th Battalion 

Somerset Light 

Infantry which 

was a service 

regiment, having 

been an engineer 

before the war. 

He was injured 

at the Battle 

of Loos around 

September 25, 

1915 with gunshot 

wounds to his 

left shoulder 

and hand. He was 

transferred to 

the 1st Battalion 

in 1917/18 and is 

thought to have 

been killed when 

he stepped on a 

land mine. 



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Private Alexander 

Walter Shiell 

Pte Shiell was 

born in 1885 

in Sheffield 

and lived at 

Woodstock Road in 

Sharrow. 

He was a teacher 

at Woodseats 

School for more 

than 10 years 

before the war. 

Pte Shiell was 

the husband of 

Sarah Ethel 

Shiell, of The 

Hollies, Edge 

Hill Road, Nether 

Edge, and died 

on July 1, 1916 

in the Battle 

of the Somme, 

aged 31. He is 

commemorated on 

the Thiepval 

Memorial, Somme, 

France. 

He served in 

the York and 

Lancaster 

Regiment. 

William L Ward 

William Ward was 


in 1892 and lived 

with his family 

in Chesterfield 

Road. 

His father was a 

traveller for a 

cutlery firm. 

Corporal Percy 

Walgate 

Cpl Walgate was 

born in Radford, 

Nottinghamshire 

in 1897 to 

parents Charles 

and Emily 

Walgate. 

He lived in 

Chesterfield 

Road and worked 

as a grocer’s 

apprentice before 

the war. 

His father, a 

widower, was 

an engineers 

assistant 

storekeeper. 

Cpl Walgate 

served in the 

Lancashire 

Fusiliers and 


Victory and 

British War 

Medals. 

He died on 

September 26, 

1916. 

Bernard Reynolds 

Bernard Reynolds 

was born in 

Sheffield in 

around 1881 to 

parents Ellen 

and Walter 

Reynolds. 

He was the 

husband of Evelyn 

M Reynolds of 

Mitchell Road and 

was killed in 

action on August 

9, 1915. 

He served in 

the Sherwood 

Foresters Notts 

and Derby 

Regiments and was 

awarded 14/15 

Star and Victory/ 

British War 

Medals. 



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David Miler 

David Miller was 

born in Leicester 

in 1866 to 

parents Edwin and 

Emma Miller. 

He was married 

to Ruth Miller 

who lived in 

Wellcar Road and 

died of wounds 

on February 11, 

1918. 


John Penkethman 

L Cpl Penkethman 

served in the 

Kings Royal Rifle 

Corps and died 

in 1917, aged 

29. He is buried 

in Burngreave 

Cemetery. 

Private William 

Brindley Price 

Born in Sheffield, 

on October 3, 

1894, Pte Price 

served in the 

Grenadier Guards. 

He was killed 

in battle at 

Gonnelieu on 

December 1, 1917 

and is buried at 

the Rocquigny- 

Equancourt Road 

British Cemetery 

in Manancourt. 

Pte Price was 

awarded the 

Victory and 

British War 

Medals. 

Private Bernard 

Robertson 

Born in Heeley, 

Pte Robertson 

served with the 

Green Howards 

regiment. He was 


on October 18, 

1916. 

Pte Robertson 


Victory and 

British War 

Medals. 

Sapper Tom 

Brindley Price 

Sapper Price was 

born on April 14 

1897 and served 

in the Royal 

Engineers. He 

died on July 9, 

1916. 

He was named on 

the Thiepval 

Memorial and 

awarded the 

Victory and 

British War 

Medals. 

Private Wilfred 

D Wallby 

Pte Wallby was 


in around 1893. 

His parents 

Arthur and 

Francis Wallby 

lived on Harbord 

Road. 

Pte Wallby served 

in the Yorkshire 

and Lancaster 

Regiment and died 

on October 9, 

1917, aged 24. 

He was awarded 

the Victory and 

British War 

Medals. 



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A Century of Change 

Have you ever wondered 

what life will be like 

in 100 years time? A 

quick trawl around the 

internet revealed some 

fascinating ideas. Ideas such as 

controlling the weather, thought 

transmission, being able to move 

around the world at the speed of 

light and free energy from nuclear 

fusion. While we might think 

most of these are the preserve of 

science fi ction, we are already on 

the road to a lot of them. 

If these seem like fantasy to us 

what would it seem like to people 

who lived in 1918? If we asked 

them the same question then 

what would they have thought life 

would be like today? 

I suspect that they would look 

at the innovations of the time 

such as the telephone, electricity, 

motor cars, aeroplanes and 

many many other inventions 

which existed or were in the later 

stages of a design concept but 

were not generally available. I 

suppose they would dream about 

not having to go to the toilet at 

the bottom of the garden on a 

freezing January night to discover 

that they had not lit the oil lamp 

and the toilet would not fl ush 

because it was frozen up and 

a burst pipe would be the most 

likely outcome when the weather 

improved. 

I imagine that they would love 

it if they did not have to boil 

water to fi ll the tin bath for the 

whole family to bathe in before 

it was tipped down the sink by 

ladling out with an enamel jug 

or a bucket. What they would 

have given for central heating 

rather than the sometimes fraught 

process of getting the coal fi re 

going. 

Perhaps they dreamed of 

just having to fl ick a switch to 

illuminate the room in which they 

were trying to read the paper – if 

they could read – by candlelight 

or if they were lucky by gaslight. 

Perhaps they would have loved 

those things which are supposed 

to improve our leisure time such 

as a washing machine rather 

than a mangle and refrigeration 

to prevent food from spoiling, 

all of which were around but not 

affordable by most people. 

Most people had manual jobs 

and would probably work six 

days a week with just Sundays 

off which did not give them a lot 

of time for leisure, which was 

perhaps as well as the television 

had not been invented and there 

weren’t many other leisure time 

activities such as talking movies, 

mobile phones, the internet and 

many of the other things that we 

take for granted today! 

Perhaps they dreamed of a 

time when infant mortality was 

improved, when diseases such 

as pneumonia, meningitis, 

tuberculosis, diphtheria, diarrhoea 

and polio were eradicated and 

that there would be a universal 

health service such as the NHS. 

We are probably living in a time 

when life is changing much faster 

than it did 100 years ago. Most 

of the innovations of the next 

100 years will be for the better, 

some will be for the worse and 

some that we thought would be 

for the better will turn out not to 

be so. However, change is always 

upon us so we need to embrace 

it rather than look back to the 

time when everything was ‘rosy’ 

because it never was. It was just 

different. 

Steve Winks 



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A Hundred Years to t 

In 1853, Sir George Cayley, 

widely regarded as ‘The Father of 

Aeronautics’, built a triplane glider 

that carried his coachman, John 

Appleby, 900 feet across Brompton 

Dale in Yorkshire before crashing. 

The coachman resigned soon after – 

although he had made history as the 

pilot of the fi rst ever recorded fl ight in an 

aircraft. 

Fifty years later, on December 17, 

1903 at Kittyhawk NC, USA, 

Orville Wright fl ew 120 feet for 

12 seconds in a biplane built by 

him and his brother Wilbur – the 

fi rst recorded fl ight in a powered 

aircraft. Eight years after that, 

in November 1911, a young 

pilot, fi ghting in 

the Italo-Turkish 

War, fl ung 

bombs out of a fl imsy 

aircraft at a desert oasis 

– having pulled the pins 

with his teeth! Although 

balloons had been used 

for spying and propaganda 

distribution during the 

Napoleonic wars and the Franco- 

Prussian confl ict of 1870-71, Lieutenant 

Giulio Gavotti’s bombardment was the 

fi rst recorded air raid in history. 

In Britain earlier that year, the War 

Offi ce had ordered the formation of a 

small aeroplane battalion, which came 

into operation on April 1. Pilots were 

admitted from any branch of the army, 

as long as they had a fl ying certifi cate 

from the Royal Aero Club. In February 

1912, a subcommittee of the Imperial 

General Staff recommended the creation 

of a new fl ying arm with separate military 

and naval wings. Two months later, 

King George V signed a royal warrant 

establishing the Royal Flying Corps 

(RFC). The air battalion of the Royal 

Engineers became its military wing, with 

one squadron manning balloons and two 

fl ying aeroplanes. By 1914, Squadrons 

Four and Five had been added and, on 

July 1, the naval wing was separated off 

as the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). 

Three days earlier, Archduke 

Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian 

throne, had been assassinated in 

Sarajevo, Bosnia, leading to an 

Austrian declaration of war on 

Serbia. Russia, allied with Serbia, 

supported Austria. Germany 

then declared war on Russia 

and France and invaded 

Belgium. On August 

4, 1914, having 

received no 

reply to an ultimatum 

to Germany to withdraw 

from that neutral country, 

Great Britain entered the 

First World War. 

During 1914, the RFC 

mainly supported the 

British army and engaged in 

photographic reconnaissance. Gradually, 

however, RFC and German pilots 

engaged in aerial battles – at fi rst by 

fl ying close enough to fi re pistols at 

each other! That changed dramatically 

the following year, when the Germans 

launched planes with machine-guns that 

could fi re through their propellers. The 

fi ghter aircraft was born. 

RFC personnel won many decorations 

and some fi ghter pilots became national 

heroes. Those who survived to play 

leading roles in World War Two included 

Hugh Dowding and Arthur ‘Bomber’ 



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the Stars 

Harris. Among other RFC fi gures were 

the cricketer, Jack Hobbs, and Biggles 

author, W E Johns. 

On April 1, 1918, exactly six years after 

its formation, the RFC was merged with 

the RNAS to form the Royal Air Force, 

which took its place beside the British 

Navy and Army as a separate military 

service with its own ministry. 

During the war, members of the 

Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) 

and the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps 

(WAAC) had worked on RFC and RNAS 

air stations. At the merger, concerns 

were raised that their specialised female 

workforce would be lost, which led to 

the formation of the Women’s Royal Air 

Force (WRAF), also on April 1. 

Seven months later, on November 11, 

the Armistice was signed. In one of the 

deadliest confl icts in human history, 20 

million people had been killed, almost 

half of them military, and 21 million 

wounded. Of those, more than 9,000 

RFC, RNAS and RAF personnel were 

dead and over 7,000 wounded. 

The RAF also adopted the RFC’s 

motto Per ardua ad astra, which means 

‘Through adversity to the stars’. 

The stars looked down on more 

adversity when, less than 20 years after 

‘the war to end all wars’, Adolf Hitler 

rose to power in Germany, re-armed the 

nation and annexed the Sudetenland 

and Austria. The following year he 

invaded Czechoslovakia and then 

Poland. Two days later, on September 3, 

1939, Britain and France declared war 

on Germany – the beginning of the next 

global confl ict, which truly became World 

War Two, when Japan attacked the US 

Pacifi c Fleet at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, on 

December 7, 1942. 

By the end of the war, in Europe 

on May 8, 1945 and the Far East on 

September 2, an estimated 72 million 

were dead, nearly four times the number 

from World War One. Of those, one third 

were military personnel, proportionally 

less than from the fi rst confl ict. 

The RAF took heavy casualties, 

especially during the Battle of Britain 

in 1940. From an estimated crew of 

3,000, 544 pilots and crew from Fighter 

Command, over 700 from Bomber 

Command and almost 300 from Coastal 

Command were killed. The average 

age of a Spitfi re pilot was 22, his life 

expectancy several weeks. 

A week after VE Day, on May 15, the 

RAF entered the jet age with Gerry 

Sayer’s test flight at RAF Cranwell of 

the Gloster E28/39 Pioneer, powered 

by Sir Frank Whittle’s W.1 engine. 

Although turboprops continued in use 

for peace time ops, jets superseded 

them for military encounters, including 

the Falklands War, the Gulf War, in the 

Balkans and in the confl ict against ISIS. 

On a more peaceful note, following an 

RAF appeal, St Clement Danes Church, 

gutted during the London Blitz, was 

restored in 1958 and re-consecrated as 

the Central Church of the Royal Air Force. 

In 2016, benefi ciaries of the RAF 

Benevolent Fund took ten of the 131 

medals awarded in the fi rst Invictus 

Games, created by Prince Harry. 

And in 2018, RAF Air Command 

assumed responsibility for command 

and control of UK military ops to defend 

our interests in space. After 100 years 

of adversity, fl ying ever higher, the Royal 

Air Force is now at the ‘fi nal frontier’ and 

never closer to the stars. 

Stephen Dowson 



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Services are held every Sunday 

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The poppy is a herbaceous 

plant that displays fl owers 

of many different colours. 

One species provides 

the source of the crude 

drug opium from which we get 

alkaloids such as morphine. It 

also produces edible seeds. 

Ancient Egyptian doctors would 

have their patients eat the seeds 

to relieve pain. These contain 

small quantities of morphine and 

codeine, pain-relieving drugs still 

used today. If harvested about 20 

days after the fl ower has opened 

the morphine is no 

longer present. 

Following the 

trench warfare 

in the poppy fi elds 

of Flanders during 

the First World War, 

they have become the 

symbol of remembrance 

of soldiers who have died 

during wartime. Poppies have 

long been used as a symbol of 

sleep, peace, and death: Sleep 

because the opium extracted 

from them is a sedative, and 

death because of the common 

blood-red colour of the red poppy 

in particular. In Greek and Roman 

myths, poppies were used as 

offerings to the dead. Poppies 

are also used as emblems on 

tombstones to symbolise eternal 

sleep. In The Wizard of Oz a 

magical poppy fi eld threatened 

to make the characters sleep for 

ever. 

The poppy of wartime 

remembrance is Papaver rhoeas, 

the red-fl owered corn poppy, 

which is common across Europe, 

found in many locations, including 

Flanders. 

In Canada, the UK, the United 

States, Australia, South Africa and 

New Zealand, artifi cial poppies 

are worn to commemorate those 

who died in war. In Canada, 

Australia and the UK, poppies are 

often worn from the beginning of 

November through to the 11th, 

or Remembrance Sunday if that 

falls on a later date. Wearing of 

poppies has been a custom since 

1924 in the United States. 

Some people choose to wear 

white poppies as a pacifi st 

alternative to the red variety. The 

white poppy was introduced by 

Britain’s Co-operative Women’s 

Guild in 1933 and can be worn 

alone or alongside the red 

poppy. According to 

the Peace Pledge 

Union, which sells 

the white poppies, 

they symbolise 

remembrance of all 

casualties of war 

including civilian 

casualties, and 

non-British casualties, 

to stand for peace, and not to 

glamorise war. However, some 

people were very offended with 

the use of the white poppy, and 

while it was never meant to be 

disrespectful, some lost their jobs 

for wearing them. 

In 2017, you may remember 

a display of red poppies was 

constructed at the Tower 

of London. After this was 

dismantled, the individual poppies 

were sold – we have one at home 

in our lounge. The display was 

repeated around the country and 

there was one at the Yorkshire 

Sculpture Park. I visited Lincoln 

Castle to see the display there 

but felt a little disappointed as it 

looked quite small compared to I 

had seen pictures of at the Tower. 

David Manning 

The Symbol of Remembrance 



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Registers 2018 

For Weddings 

and Funerals 

You don’t have to be a churchgoer 

to have a wedding in church or 

be ‘religious’ to have a dignifi ed 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 offi ce. For funerals please tell 

your funeral director that you would like 

to have a church service. 

Baptisms 

August 

19 Clara Annie Waterhouse 

Jenson Zachary Burrows 

Roman Joseph Myers 

Madison Rae Myers 

Wedding 

August 

25 Daniel Johnson and Hannah 

Fillingham 

Funeral 

July 

20 Maureen Staley (83) 

• If you have had a new baby and would 

like to celebrate that baby’s birth with 

a service in church then please come 

to one of our thanksgiving and baptism 

mornings at St Chad’s. 

The morning will explain the difference 

between the two services and give 

parents an opportunity to ask any 

questions. Please call the church offi ce 

on 0114 274 5086 if you are interested in 

attending. 

Every Wednesday 

from 9.30-11.30am 

Healing Rooms 

at the Big Tree Pub 

Wednesday mornings 

10.30-12.00 

1st & 3rd Wednesday evenings 

7.45- 9.00 

As part of an international 

Christian organisation, we seek 

to freely serve the local 

community in prayer for the sick. 

www.woodseatshealingrooms.org 

Tel. 0114 3600616 (answerphone) 



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The Girl in the Ice 

by Robert Bryndza 

Detective novels are not 

my favourite genre of 

writing, 

but I found 

this book 

compelling reading 

from start to finish. 

DCI Erika Foster 

has been called in 

to lead a murder 

inquiry following 

the discovery 

by a young boy 

of the body of 

a young girl 

trapped beneath 

the ice in a south 

London park. 

She had been 

strangled, hands 

bound and 

her eyes were 

open. 

Erika had been brought in 

from Manchester to lead the 

investigation to the disgust of the 

local DCI. She had previously led 

an investigation which went badly 

wrong leaving her DCI husband 

and other colleagues dead but, 

despite this, she was put on the 

case. 

The victim was a beautiful, 

well-connected young socialite 

and, during initial inquiries, three 

more bodies were 

discovered all 

strangled with 

hands bound in 

water in south 

London. 

Erika begins o 

see connections 

and despite the 

scepticism of 

coleagues, goes out 

on a limb knowing 

full well that the 

killer may have her 

in his sights. 

A tangled web 

of intrigue in high 

places and insight 

into the seamier side 

of London emerges 

as the story unfolds and the fi nal 

twist in the tale comes. 

What a good read. 

Mary Diskin 

St Chad’s Third Age Book 

Group 

Book Review 

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Contacts 


CHURCH OFFICE 274 5086 

Linden Avenue, S8 0GA 


If you want to contact the church offi ce and there is no one available, please leave a 

message or send an email and we will get back to you as soon as possible. 

Vicar Toby Hole (Vicarage) 274 9302 

email: toby@stchads.org 

Assistant Minister for the elderly Yvonne Smith 274 5086 

Readers 

Daren Craddock, Amy Hole, 

Pauline Johnson and 

Yvonne Smith 274 5086 

Youth Worker Nick Seaman 274 5086 

email: nick@stchads.org 

Besom in Sheffi eld Steve Winks 07875 950170 

Impact magazine Tim Hopkinson 274 5086 

email: impact@stchads.org 

Church Wardens Ann Firth 274 5086 

Ann Lomax 274 5086 

Uniformed Groups 

Group Scout Leader Ian Jackson 235 3044 

Guide Leader Jemma Taylor 296 0555 

CHURCH HOUSE 

56 Abbey Lane 

Bookings Church Offi ce 274 5086 

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