Impact1018
October/November 2018
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD
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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
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD
Remembering, Repenting, Restoring
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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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
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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.
Police said they
were looking for
ten hardened
criminals.
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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
St Chad’s Church
7.30pm
A live performance of St Mark’s
Gospel lasting about two-and-aquarter
hours.
October 13
Coffee Morning
St Chad’s Church
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
St Chad’s Church
6-7.30pm
A fun-filled evening for primary
school children – younger children
are welcome with an adult.
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Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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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
St Chad’s Church
10.55am
Our annual service of
remembrance which this year
marks 100 years since the
Armistice.
November 16
Open House Launch Night
St Chad’s Church
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
St Chad’s Church
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
Call 0114 274 5086 for details
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Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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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
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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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
Back on the Road!
Services at St Chad’s
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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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
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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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
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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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
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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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
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Services at St Chad’s
Sunday Services
Sunday
Sunday
Services
Services
Sunday Services
The 9am Service
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Weekday
Weekday
Services
Services
Weekday Services
Weekday Services
Morning Prayers
Morning Prayers
Morning Prayers
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayers
Evening Prayers
Evening Prayers
Monday to Thursday at 9am
Monday to Thursday at 9am
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
The Thursday 10am Service
The Traditional Thursday in style 10am Service service
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chancel
Chapel
at the
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the back
of church
of church
Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church
Other Services
Other Services
Harvest
Prayer and Praise
Prayer
Sunday, Prayer and
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Remembrance
Sunday, November 11
Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm
Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm
Thank Sunday, God for February his gifts as 13 we at 7.30pm We will be marking Remembrance
celebrate Ash Wednesday the harvest with Service Sunday with services at 9am and
services Ash Wednesday, at 9am and March 11am.
9 Service at 7.30pm 10.55am
Wednesday, March 9 at at 7.30pm
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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
killed in action
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
was awarded the
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.
Lance Corporal
Charles Herbert
Metham
L Cpl Metham was
born in Sheffield
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
born in Sheffield
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
was awarded the
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.
Lance Corporal
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
killed in action
on October 18,
1916.
Pte Robertson
was awarded the
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
born in Sheffield
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
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
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For more information, contact the church office on 274 5086
Services are held every Sunday
1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, Sundays Holy communion at 11.00am
3rd Sunday - Evensong Service 3pm
Special Services:
Sunday 21st October at 3.00pm is our Harvest Festival service
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local food banks.
Sunday 11th November 10.45am Remembrance Sunday service
All Welcome
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16
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
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
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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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