Dronfield Eye Issue 175 May 2020

EYE drops
Stay home, stay safe
S Spring turns to Summer, Dronfield Eye is usually
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overflowing with suggestions of things to see, places to go,
shows to enjoy and community events to support. We list dates
of galas, fetes, garden parties and more - but not this year.
Instead, we’re suggesting you should all stay home.
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary action. The coronavirus
pandemic has changed all of our lives, threatened the health and
welfare of everyone, battered businesses and charities both large and
small and taken our children out of organised education for the
forseeable future.
Needless to say, the Dronfield Eye community has rallied to help the
needy and the vulnerable. From people running errands and checking
on the welfare of neighbours, through to stirring doorstep rounds of
applause for our health and welfare workers and children posting
support through amazing rainbow displays.
We’ve published your community magazine every month for the past
15 years and feel we should continue to serve you throughout these
dark days. We can’t send our distributors to your letter-box right now,
but we’ve made this edition available through the help of local
supermarkets, post offices and petrol stations and also published a
‘virtual’ copy for people to read online.
Businesses have happily teamed up with Dronfield Eye down the
years and this is an opportunity for us to support them in their hour of
need. That’s one of the reasons why we have been so keen to
continue publishing our title.
In addition to heaping praise on our health and care professionals
and volunteers, we also salute other local workers whose jobs have
suddenly become ‘essential’ - supermarket staff, postal workers,
delivery drivers and others.
We are looking forward to launching an ‘Eye on Local Business’
campaign once we beat this virus.
For now, it is vital that we take on board all the instructions and
advice being given to us. Stay at home and stay safe.
Mike Firth, Editor
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A big banner tribute to the NHS at Coal Aston
Town of rainbows... Hoping to
cheer people up with her colourful
creation is Sophia (above), aged
nine, of Holmesdale Road,
Dronfield. Shown right are staff
at the main Dronfield Post Office
who brightened up the day
for their customers
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Dronfield’s famous Peel Monument features on the
cover of this special edition of Dronfield Eye
P4: Keep busy on the Home Front. P6: Pacific pair back home.
P8: Gardening king of 1955. P9: Stand by to party.
P10: Public Eye - Golfer Sam Bairstow.
P11: Fans get something to sing about.
P12: School’s out for summer. P13: Harry’s Eye.
P14: Unofficial history of Dronfield.
P15: Dronfield Town Council News.
P25: Anne’s 105th birthday.
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