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Dear Reader<br />
HHow wonderful it is to have<br />
some sunshine and lighter<br />
nights as we look forward to<br />
exploring the best of South Yorkshire.<br />
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This spring there are some great events planned<br />
day and night, including a lunar spectacle coming<br />
to Wentworth Woodhouse for We Wonder Noir.<br />
From the moon to our World, Clifton Park<br />
Museum is connecting the vibrant cultures of<br />
Rotherham communities together in a new project<br />
that shares their native traditions through objects<br />
and storytelling.<br />
Another museum telling the story of its<br />
people is Experience Barnsley which is unveiling<br />
a new exhibition in <strong>April</strong> about the former<br />
Slazenger Factory employees who made tennis<br />
balls for Wimbledon.<br />
Genuine people come from nothing and no<br />
truer testament to this is the story of Alan Hydes.<br />
Who would have believed that from humble<br />
Barnsley beginnings, a 50p bat bought from the<br />
Co-op would take him around the world as one of<br />
England’s finest table tennis players.<br />
With the Women’s Euros coming to Rotherham<br />
and Sheffield this summer, we were inspired to<br />
delve into sporting opportunities in our region, such<br />
as the historic Montagu Cup and the country’s first<br />
women’s basketball team which began in Sheffield.<br />
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the garden. But your garden could also help aid<br />
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one young woman has with a flock of birds that<br />
she’s given the freedom of flight.<br />
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Alan<br />
Hydes<br />
With Brother Glyn at<br />
Experience Barsnley<br />
When Alan Hydes’ mum Lily bought him a<br />
table tennis bat from Barnsley Co-Operative<br />
for ten shillings, little did she know that it<br />
would become a metaphorical paddle to<br />
steer her son out of a torrent of poverty.<br />
The cheap Slazenger bat paved<br />
the way for Alan to travel the world,<br />
visiting 52 countries as one of<br />
England’s finest table tennis players<br />
in the 1960s and ‘70s.<br />
But as Alan says, life for him has<br />
been like a lottery, and two little<br />
chance attacks towards the end of<br />
a rally as a junior would change the<br />
course of his life forever.<br />
His was a pimple rubber bat with<br />
no sponge, meaning Alan developed<br />
a predominantly defensive style of<br />
play. The only chance he had of<br />
attacking was when his opponent<br />
dropped a shot close to the net.<br />
At his first tournament, the 1963<br />
South Yorkshire Open in Sheffield,<br />
aged 12, Alan beat the England<br />
junior sixth ranked player. Nobody<br />
thought this newcomer would have<br />
any impact on the competition, but<br />
against the odds he proved his<br />
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mettle thanks to an unexpected<br />
drop shot that saw him defeat the<br />
tournament’s best player.<br />
This led to him being scouted by<br />
table tennis double world champion,<br />
Johnny Leach, to attend a summer<br />
sports camp at Butlins Skegness in<br />
August 1963. He was named boy<br />
of the week and won a place at<br />
the finals camp in Bognor Regis to<br />
compete for the News of the World<br />
most promising boy of the year<br />
award. Again, thanks to a dropped<br />
shot by the net, he was victorious.<br />
The following year he became<br />
the youngest person to play for<br />
England’s junior table tennis squad,<br />
making his debut against West<br />
Germany just weeks before his 15th<br />
birthday and fighting back from 14-<br />
20 to win 22-20.<br />
In 1967 he turned senior, going<br />
on to make over 100 international<br />
Prince Charles<br />
appearances for his country. In 1969<br />
he was ranked sixth in the world and<br />
England’s number one table tennis<br />
player, having beat the Russian and<br />
Hungarian top-ranked players. He<br />
even played a part in easing tensions<br />
with the Chinese, with a momentous<br />
occasion dubbed ‘Ping Pong<br />
Diplomacy’.<br />
His sporting career has seen<br />
him travel to the likes of Yugoslavia,<br />
Trinidad, Czechoslovakia and<br />
Tokyo, but Alan says he’ll always<br />
be indebted to the people of<br />
Barnsley who have helped him<br />
along his journey.<br />
Born in 1949, Alan was the second<br />
of the four Hydes boys, with older<br />
brother Michael, and younger twins<br />
Glyn and John. The family lived at<br />
New Lodge in Barnsley. With four<br />
growing boys to clothe and feed,<br />
money was tight. Dad Fred was a<br />
miner at Carlton colliery and worked<br />
nights for the extra pay, leaving his<br />
wife Lily to raise her sons in between<br />
working as a school cleaner.<br />
The boys went to Holyrood junior<br />
school and then St Michael’s High<br />
School where Alan began to show<br />
an aptitude for sport. He was the<br />
school’s football captain and was<br />
picked to play cricket for Barnsley<br />
Boys. However, the family’s lack<br />
of disposable income put paid<br />
to his playing days before they<br />
even began.<br />
“I was sat on the coach waiting<br />
to leave Barnsley and Mr Rushforth<br />
came and asked me if I had my<br />
white trousers with me. We couldn’t<br />
afford them, so I had white football<br />
shorts instead. He said, ‘Sorry son.<br />
You’re not playing cricket for Barnsley<br />
today.’ I was so embarrassed to<br />
be catching the bus home to New<br />
Lodge but it gave me the motivation<br />
not to be poor all my life,” Alan says.<br />
His older brother Michael<br />
persuaded Alan to go with him to<br />
Barnsley Boys’ Club. The club,<br />
based at what is now the Lamproom<br />
Theatre, was run by Pop Pierpoint<br />
who was well-known for helping the<br />
children of Barnsley.<br />
“We couldn’t afford a hobby like<br />
golf or tennis, and for football you<br />
needed a team. The subs for the<br />
boys’ club were only 4p a week, plus<br />
I think Mum was secretly glad that<br />
two of us would be out the house<br />
after school.”<br />
The boys’ club had one snooker<br />
table, one pool table, an indoor<br />
five-a-side football pitch, and two<br />
table tennis tables, which is where an<br />
11-year-old Alan first tried his hand at<br />
the sport.<br />
“One of the tables was chipped,<br />
but it gave me something to aim for<br />
because if you hit the chip the ball<br />
deviated. Table tennis dictated my<br />
own fate from then on. I spent four<br />
hours a night, from getting there at<br />
6pm to leaving at 10pm, training on<br />
that table.”<br />
Alan had a natural gift; he’s<br />
ambidextrous, which he says gave<br />
him good visual perception of the<br />
speed and spin on the ball. He’d<br />
also had years of kicking a ball about<br />
in his grandma’s yard, pretending
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to be a superstar footballer every<br />
lunchtime while at junior school.<br />
“Pop showed an interest in<br />
me, and I gravitated towards his<br />
kindness. He could see the promise<br />
I had and asked me to join their table<br />
tennis team.”<br />
Alan started in division nine and<br />
in two years had risen to the first<br />
division. Not bad to say he knew<br />
nothing about the sport when he<br />
joined. He’d even dyed his white<br />
shorts blue after finding out they<br />
were disallowed. With great visual<br />
anticipation, Alan could read<br />
where the ball was going and had<br />
developed an orthodox technique<br />
after reading a book by former<br />
tennis star, Ann Haydon-Jones who<br />
coincidentally had designed his first<br />
bat bought from the Co-Op.<br />
But funds were still a barrier to<br />
his future success. For that first<br />
tournament in Sheffield, his parents<br />
had to borrow the train fare off<br />
Alan’s grandad.<br />
“Before he agreed to give me the<br />
money, he gave me an interview<br />
asking why I wanted to go. I told<br />
him I wanted to win, and he said if<br />
I wanted to win then he’d back me.<br />
But I didn’t have any money for food<br />
or drink. It was February and the<br />
water pipes were frozen, so I went<br />
outside and put snow in my mouth.<br />
“Thankfully some kind people<br />
from Barnsley bought me something<br />
to eat and gave me a lift back to<br />
Barnsley. I didn’t like asking them<br />
to take me to New Lodge, so they<br />
dropped me in the town and I walked<br />
the two-and-half miles home.”<br />
When he won a place at the sports<br />
camp in Skegness, his parents<br />
couldn’t afford to go with him for the<br />
week. But this was an opportunity<br />
he couldn’t miss. The talent spotting<br />
camps were established by Johnny<br />
Leach, who had become a News of<br />
the World columnist. Young sporting<br />
hopefuls received coaching and<br />
assessment from some of England’s<br />
top players.<br />
A 13-year-old Alan stayed with a<br />
Barnsley family his grandma knew<br />
who were coincidentally holidaying<br />
there that week. Similarly, when he<br />
With Tony Book,<br />
Man City Footballer<br />
went to the finals at Bognor Regis the<br />
following month, he stayed with the<br />
previous year’s winner and her family<br />
who were from Doncaster, catching<br />
the midnight bus from Doncaster.<br />
But it would prove the right<br />
decision. Because his trusty bat<br />
limited him to a defensive plan of<br />
action, he was marking low against<br />
an opponent from London. The two<br />
boys were the main contenders<br />
for the trophy, so that game would<br />
decide the winner. His opponent<br />
dropped a shot near the net and<br />
Alan was able to smash it back to<br />
win the match.<br />
“It was Denis Neal who was<br />
marking. Afterwards, he said how it<br />
all hinged on that one shot. As soon<br />
as I smashed it past him, he knew I’d<br />
win. At the awards presentation there<br />
were about 2,000 kids stood on the<br />
stage and I was right at the back as I<br />
thought I’d got no chance of winning.<br />
Then they announced the winner was<br />
a left-handed table tennis player from<br />
Barnsley and I had to push my way<br />
through the crowd. The trophy was<br />
nearly bigger than me; I could hardly<br />
carry it.”<br />
That Christmas, Alan bought<br />
himself a new bat – this time one<br />
with a sponge layer and sticky<br />
rubber top sheet to create more<br />
spin on the ball. This increased the<br />
speed and aggression of his serve,<br />
helping him become an attacking<br />
player, which was difficult when he’d<br />
been moulded to be a defender.<br />
His technique adjusted overtime to<br />
become an all-rounder, with a low<br />
swing stood back from the table,<br />
the acceleration of which created a<br />
varied spin attack.<br />
Alan’s ‘most promising’ win would<br />
turn into reality, upsetting the youth<br />
table tennis scene with a boy who<br />
had come from nowhere. But he’d<br />
had a hard slog to get noticed. While<br />
his schoolmates were out socialising,<br />
Alan would be training or competing<br />
around Barnsley, often ending up<br />
soaked in sweat. Matches finished<br />
at 10.15pm and if he missed the last<br />
bus from Barnsley, he’d have to walk<br />
all the way to New Lodge. And he<br />
was always under pressure to win<br />
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Bengtsson - 1971 Men’s<br />
Singles World Champ<br />
Most Promising Boy<br />
of the Year 1961<br />
“I’d never been happier than when I<br />
stood on that podium in Singapore and<br />
was given my first gold medal. But it had<br />
taken ten years to get there.”<br />
the prize money to pay for the next<br />
tournament.<br />
“It didn’t ever seem like hard work<br />
as my body was fit and my mind<br />
was young. The alternative would<br />
have been a miserable life not<br />
achieving anything.”<br />
Not long after he joined the<br />
England youth team in 1964, Alan<br />
was about to finish school.<br />
“I didn’t have the same<br />
opportunities as kids these days.<br />
My classes were noisy and disruptive<br />
so I couldn’t get my head down at<br />
school. The only input we had for<br />
careers was which coal mine we<br />
were going to go down. After I left<br />
school, I used to go to Barnsley<br />
Library on a Saturday when I wasn’t<br />
training and teach myself maths<br />
from an old book that would say<br />
‘turn to this page if you got the<br />
answer right’.”<br />
Because of his place in the<br />
England team, Alan was offered<br />
a job in the repairs department at<br />
Slazenger’s factory in Horbury near<br />
Wakefield. He would catch the bus<br />
to the factory at 7am every morning,<br />
giving half his £3.50 a week pay<br />
packet to his parents. He worked<br />
there for four years until he became a<br />
full-time sportsman in 1968.<br />
“They were good people and<br />
gave me time off to train and<br />
play. Slazenger had become my<br />
sponsor, so they paid my expenses<br />
for tournaments and once I turned<br />
senior I earnt royalties from the Alan<br />
Hydes bat they produced. After<br />
that, I didn’t have much time to work<br />
because I was always travelling the<br />
world going to various tournaments<br />
and competitions. But table tennis<br />
was all I could do well, so I always<br />
knew it would become my career.”<br />
Life became a rally between<br />
English, European and World<br />
3x Double Champ<br />
with Dennis Neale<br />
championships, living out of a<br />
suitcase for over ten years. Alan<br />
was selected to go to the European<br />
Championships in Lyon 1968,<br />
Moscow 1970, Rotterdam 1972,<br />
and Novi Sadi 1974. The World<br />
Championships he went to were<br />
Munich 1969, Nagoya 1971,<br />
and Sarajevo 1973. He won five<br />
English national championships<br />
in men’s and mixed doubles, and<br />
three gold medals at the inaugural<br />
commonwealth championships in<br />
Singapore 1971.<br />
“In sport you either win or lose.<br />
It’s easy when you win; you feel<br />
exhilarated, elevated. I’d never been<br />
happier than when I stood on that<br />
podium in Singapore and was given<br />
my first gold medal. But it had taken<br />
ten years to get there.<br />
“Losing could be terrible, but<br />
nobody wanted to listen so I never<br />
complained. I just had to learn<br />
why I lost and had a notebook<br />
where I’d write down the strengths<br />
and weaknesses of myself and<br />
my opponent. I learnt a lot about<br />
my whole character; I had the<br />
determination to play to win but<br />
never made much of a song or<br />
dance about it. My career could have<br />
gone either way, so I’m always full<br />
of gratitude when I reflect on how<br />
fortunate I was.”<br />
One of Alan’s greatest memories<br />
is being part of a world first, where<br />
sport was used to establish and<br />
improve diplomatic relations. In 1971,<br />
table tennis teams from the USA, UK,<br />
Canada and Colombia were invited<br />
to the Chinese capital – the first time<br />
American delegates had set foot in<br />
Beijing for over twenty years, and ten<br />
years since the England team had<br />
played in China.<br />
Dubbed ‘Ping Pong Diplomacy’,<br />
it’s the biggest thing that has ever<br />
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Ping Pong Diplomacy 1971<br />
happened in table tennis, thawing<br />
tensions that had arisen from the<br />
Cold War and Cultural Revolution.<br />
Alan was given a once in a lifetime<br />
opportunity to train with the Chinese<br />
national team as part of a Winston<br />
Churchill scholarship.<br />
“We were already competing<br />
in Japan but were given our own<br />
private plane to go to China. We<br />
played in front of audiences that<br />
reached 25,000 spectators and every<br />
Sunday on my day off I’d go to the<br />
Great Wall with a bag of crisps and<br />
bottle of pop.<br />
“One day, the England team had<br />
to walk across the Lo Wu bridge<br />
to Hong Kong, which was classed<br />
as no-man’s land in the Vietnam<br />
War. The British soldiers who were<br />
guarding it chaperoned us so far,<br />
then said ‘good luck’ and left us to<br />
walk for 15 minutes ‘till we reached<br />
the other side to a fanfare of music.<br />
“The chairman of the English Table<br />
Tennis Association at that time asked<br />
for pandas to be sent to London<br />
Zoo. I still speak with the Chinese<br />
ambassador now; at Christmas he<br />
sent me a bottle of wine and some<br />
toy pandas for my two grandsons.”<br />
Back on home turf and it was<br />
straight back to it. The table tennis<br />
season ran September to <strong>April</strong>, so<br />
the summer months were spent at<br />
Butlins Bognor Regis sports camps<br />
where he returned as a coach for<br />
seven seasons between 1968-75.<br />
Then he retired from professional<br />
sport in January 1975 aged 25 when<br />
Roy Evans, chair of the International<br />
Table Tennis Federation, offered<br />
him the very first coaching role for<br />
the New Zealand national team. But<br />
after many lonely years of travelling,<br />
and feeling cut off from his family in<br />
the UK, Alan moved back to Blighty<br />
to sign a contract with Dunlop<br />
Slazenger as sales and marketing<br />
manager at their Croydon office.<br />
His family had since moved to West<br />
Sussex, so he lived with them and<br />
commuted to the capital.<br />
“I knew what made a good<br />
bat but I was clueless about the<br />
business side of things, so I did a<br />
few courses. But my main job was<br />
to bring the equipment up to date.<br />
Dunlop bats were renowned for<br />
being too slow. I knew the sponge<br />
suppliers in Asia and managed to<br />
source better quality. Sales doubled<br />
despite the price going from £8 to<br />
£18. The managing director said he<br />
wished everyone could do that. But<br />
the standard was so bad I could<br />
only exceed.”<br />
The same year he met his<br />
would-be wife, June, who was from<br />
Hoyland and working in the Royal<br />
Hotel in Barnsley. After visiting the<br />
Barnsley Slazenger factory, Alan<br />
called in for a drink before going to<br />
collect coal for his grandparents and<br />
the pair hit it off. He moved back to<br />
Barnsley to be with June and the pair<br />
married at Holyrood Church in May<br />
1977. But table tennis still had a part<br />
to play in their nuptials.<br />
“Because of what I’d learnt in<br />
China, the ITTF askedme to host<br />
seminars around the world. That<br />
year it was in Egypt but I told them<br />
I couldn’t as I was getting married<br />
the same weekend. They said I<br />
could bring my wife with me, and<br />
the money was hard to turn down.<br />
So we were married in Barnsley on<br />
Saturday, and by Sunday we were in<br />
Cairo. June still jokes that she spent<br />
her honeymoon with 20 men from<br />
the Middle East.”<br />
The pair went on to have two<br />
children: Teresa who works as a<br />
gastroenterologist in Liverpool, and<br />
Paul who works in finance at Canary<br />
Wharf. Alan and June moved back to<br />
West Sussex in the late ‘80s after the<br />
two Slazenger factories in Yorkshire<br />
closed. All manufacturing went to<br />
Hong Kong, so Alan launched his<br />
own sports distribution company<br />
in 1988, putting his house up<br />
as collateral to borrow £30,000<br />
start-up loan.<br />
These days, 73-year-old Alan<br />
enjoys a slightly slower pace of life,<br />
living close to the beach in Sussex<br />
and spending more time with his<br />
family after a life spent travelling the<br />
world by himself. He’s vice president<br />
of Table Tennis England, so does<br />
get invited to table tennis events<br />
and has been asked to play at this<br />
year’s Veterans Championships in<br />
Rimini, Italy.<br />
“They’ve asked me even though<br />
I’m rubbish now. I’ve had two knee<br />
replacements due to the training<br />
I did as a younger man. It was all<br />
short, dynamic circuits and bunny<br />
hops landing on one knee, which<br />
isn’t good for the body and not<br />
recommended anymore. I still go<br />
to the gym every day, but training is<br />
nowhere as intense.”<br />
Table tennis has afforded Alan<br />
a life his parents could never have<br />
dreamed of. And all because of a<br />
50p bat that served him so well.<br />
There’s actually a 50/50 chance that<br />
it was another Barnsley sporting star<br />
that sold him that very bat. Dickie<br />
Bird worked at Barnsley Co-Op at<br />
that time and Alan remembers the<br />
saleswoman calling on the advice of<br />
a colleague who was good at sport<br />
to assist.<br />
Dickie and Alan have become<br />
good friends over the years and<br />
speak regularly. The pair have<br />
travelled the world but still everything<br />
always resorts back to Barnsley. The<br />
last time Alan came back to Barnsley<br />
in 2020, he had another blast from<br />
the past.<br />
“I was in the gym at the Holiday<br />
Inn and couldn’t work the lockers,<br />
so I asked this man to show me. He<br />
said, ‘It’s Alan, isn’t it? I’ve not seen<br />
you since 1962 at Barnsley Boys’<br />
Club and I beat you then. My career<br />
went down whereas yours went up.’ I<br />
felt like I was on Candid Camera.<br />
“But you just have to do your best<br />
through life and be grateful for where<br />
it takes you. Before Mum died in<br />
1999, she said to me, ‘We did it all,<br />
Alan.’ And I never really understood<br />
what she meant until recently.<br />
My parents had no money but she<br />
put what she could into seeing<br />
me succeed.”<br />
With Desmond Douglas<br />
and Glyn Hydes With Dickie Bird At son’s wedding in 2021<br />
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HEALTH & BEAUTY<br />
You&your<br />
health<br />
With Good Measure Pharmacy<br />
Chronic sports injuries<br />
Exercise has a host of benefits to both your<br />
physical and mental health. People who regularly<br />
take part in physical activity have a lower risk of<br />
developing many long-term conditions such as<br />
heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, dementia,<br />
and some cancers.<br />
But sometimes, due to improper<br />
training, technique or tools, exercise<br />
can lead to chronic injuries that<br />
can impact you in later life if not<br />
managed correctly.<br />
Chronic sports injuries are those<br />
which are a result of overusing<br />
an area of your body through<br />
prolonged, repetitive movement<br />
over a long period of time. They are<br />
musculoskeletal injuries that affect<br />
bones, joints, ligaments, tendons<br />
or muscles.<br />
Different sports carry different<br />
injury risks. Runners often<br />
experience foot/knee-related<br />
injuries, golfers are more likely to<br />
experience shoulder and lower<br />
back problems, and footballers may<br />
be more prone to groin, quad or<br />
ankle sprains.<br />
Chronic injuries far outnumber<br />
acute sports injuries – those<br />
resulting directly from a hit or<br />
fall, such as broken bones or<br />
concussion. However, people<br />
often ignore chronic injuries as just<br />
wear and tear or signs of getting<br />
older and continue playing sports<br />
or exercising despite symptoms,<br />
meaning the body doesn’t get<br />
chance to recover. By the time they<br />
seek medical help, the injuries are<br />
well established and can be more<br />
difficult to treat conservatively.<br />
Without intervention, a chronic<br />
sports injury will continue to<br />
reoccur. Overtime, repetitive trauma<br />
“<br />
Around 60<br />
percent of chronic<br />
sports injuries<br />
are because of<br />
poor training,<br />
such as incorrect<br />
technique, trying<br />
to progress too<br />
fast, or overdoing<br />
a motion past the<br />
body’s capability<br />
”<br />
to the muscles, ligaments and<br />
tendons could lead to long-term<br />
implications such as arthritis,<br />
carpal tunnel syndrome, or<br />
calcification where calcium leaks<br />
into bruises in the muscle causing<br />
bone-like structures.<br />
Common chronic sports<br />
injuries include:<br />
ACL tears – the anterior<br />
cruciate ligament (ACL) is in<br />
the knee and can be partially or<br />
completely torn by overstretching in<br />
sports such as basketball, football,<br />
gymnastics or tennis. A sudden<br />
stop or change in direction may<br />
cause the weakened ligament to<br />
snap. Surgery is sometimes needed<br />
to repair or replace the ligament.<br />
Hamstring strain<br />
– the hamstring is a tendon that<br />
attaches the muscle to the bone in<br />
the thigh. It can be strained due to<br />
rapid acceleration in a short period<br />
of time and is common in runners.<br />
Long-term, it can affect mobility<br />
and flexibility.<br />
Rotator cuff injury<br />
– this is the part of the shoulder that<br />
controls movement and stability, but<br />
it is prone to injuries, particularly in<br />
sports such as tennis or swimming<br />
where the arms are lifted. It can<br />
also be caused by impingement,<br />
where the tendon catches on the<br />
bone. If scar tissue develops,<br />
frozen shoulder can develop<br />
where movement in the joint<br />
becomes limited.<br />
Shin splints – this is<br />
pain along the tibia (shin bone)<br />
after exercise. It can feel like the<br />
muscle is pulling away from the<br />
bone. Running or dancing on hard<br />
surfaces could be the cause, as well<br />
as wearing improper footwear with<br />
no support, or having flat feet or a<br />
high arch.<br />
Sprains and strains<br />
– the most common sport injuries,<br />
caused by stress to ligaments,<br />
muscles or joints. They can occur<br />
anywhere but are more common in<br />
ankles, the groin and lower back,<br />
causing tenderness or stiffness.<br />
Instability is the biggest risk factor<br />
and bracing may help to prevent<br />
further injury.<br />
Stress fractures – tiny<br />
cracks commonly caused by<br />
weight-bearing activities in places<br />
like the wrist or heel bone. If not<br />
properly managed, they can lead<br />
to larger fractures that are harder<br />
to heal.<br />
Tendinitis – this is where<br />
the tendons become inflamed due<br />
to repetitive motion and is common<br />
in the Achilles, tennis elbow, or<br />
jumper’s knee. Jumping, running,<br />
walking, rowing, throwing and even<br />
fishing can cause these injuries.<br />
Symptoms of chronic sports<br />
injuries are pain when exercising,<br />
a dull ache when resting, and<br />
swelling in the area affected.<br />
Treatment includes rest and ice to<br />
the area affected, anti-inflammatory<br />
medication (ibuprofen), wearing<br />
braces or supports, or manual<br />
therapy such as physiotherapy or<br />
massage. In more persistent cases,<br />
steroid injections or surgery may<br />
be required.<br />
Around 60 percent of chronic<br />
sports injuries are because of<br />
poor training, such as incorrect<br />
technique, trying to progress too<br />
fast, or overdoing a motion past<br />
the body’s capability. It can also<br />
be caused by wearing the wrong<br />
footwear, not warming up or cooling<br />
down properly, or having general<br />
poor health.<br />
Muscle fatigue is the leading<br />
cause of injury, resulting from a<br />
lack of strength and/or endurance.<br />
To reduce the risk of reoccurrence,<br />
prevention is more important than<br />
treatment. The focus shouldn’t just<br />
be on managing pain; improving<br />
weakness and bad habits will get to<br />
the root of the cause will help you<br />
stay in the game.<br />
Andrew Watson<br />
If you have any specific health<br />
concerns, please feel free to<br />
contact me at Good Measure<br />
or email me at<br />
andy@thewatsons.co.uk<br />
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HEALTH & BEAUTY<br />
Going the extra mile<br />
for Barnsley cancer patients<br />
A cancer diagnosis is a very difficult thing for<br />
anyone to hear. But imagine that the recommended<br />
treatment is miles away from your home and you<br />
have no ability to make that journey.<br />
For people in Barnsley, a free<br />
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We’re extremely grateful for our<br />
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The service has been supported<br />
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HEALTH & BEAUTY<br />
Insta v reality<br />
The pros and cons of pictures<br />
with Chris Moody of Moodyhair<br />
There’s an old saying that ‘A<br />
picture is worth a thousand<br />
words’ and in hairdressing,<br />
pictures can help portray what<br />
new style you’re looking to<br />
emulate. But photos can also<br />
bring many pitfalls.<br />
By all means, search your social media and<br />
Pinterest boards for images of the things you like.<br />
Photographs are a great source of inspiration:<br />
they help clients and stylists communicate what is<br />
meant by ‘textured’, ‘ashen’, ‘warm’ or ‘tousled’.<br />
But make no mistake - carefully placed lights<br />
or a well thought out filter can totally transform that<br />
natural, warm blonde into a super icy silver that<br />
was never there in the first place. The problem<br />
these days is that our phones and social media<br />
feeds are filled with completely unrealistic images<br />
of over-enhanced, filtered and even fake pictures<br />
of super glamorous hairstyles and colours that<br />
bear no resemblance to what can be achieved in<br />
real life.<br />
Many of us here at Moodyhair have examples<br />
on our phones of how lighting and filters can<br />
completely transform the same head into two<br />
completely different colour images.<br />
The most important thing is to use images as<br />
way of explaining what it is you like, rather than<br />
expecting a complete replica of that image on<br />
your hair. There are lots of factors to consider as to<br />
whether it will be achievable.<br />
Hair type and texture, previous hair colour and<br />
condition, the styling of the hair, not to mention the<br />
lighting under which the image was captured and,<br />
of course, any filters that may have been applied<br />
- all these things will be different in every case and<br />
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to me ‘just get a ring, whatever you<br />
want.’ Being ill made him change<br />
his outlook on life.”<br />
Liz knew there was only one<br />
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she’d waited years for. Having<br />
driven passed Infinity Jewellers’<br />
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“I knew I didn’t want to<br />
buy on the internet as I wouldn’t<br />
have known what the quality was<br />
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with a previous eternity ring I had<br />
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Choosing Infinity Jewellers was the<br />
right decision as Jonathan went<br />
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Although she had a design in<br />
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as the main gemstone. Jonathan<br />
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“Being able to visit the shop<br />
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appointment after hours meant<br />
Jonathan could take the time to let<br />
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Jonathan also told us about the<br />
quality and what to look for in each.<br />
Ultimately, I chose a natural Ceylon<br />
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Throughout the process, Liz,<br />
John and their nine-year-old<br />
daughter Ava were all involved and<br />
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“I wanted Ava to love it as much<br />
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FASHION<br />
wedding outfit inspiration<br />
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Every lady is special to us,<br />
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FASHION<br />
Spring<br />
styling<br />
Available from<br />
The Clothes Shop,<br />
Todwick<br />
Shed those winter layers and<br />
reinvigorate your style with<br />
playful prints, springtime<br />
colours, and lighter layering<br />
that will help you transition<br />
through to the warmer weather.<br />
Available from The Accessories Shop, Todwick<br />
Available from<br />
Carol Ann,<br />
Wickersley<br />
Stylish<br />
women’s<br />
fashions<br />
with something<br />
to suit everyone<br />
Sizes 8 to plus size<br />
See our new<br />
collections<br />
Also home to<br />
The Accessories Shop<br />
Casual footwear,<br />
leather bags, purses,<br />
scarves and<br />
beautiful jewellery<br />
Greenscene Garden Centre, Side Farm,<br />
Sheffield Road, Todwick, Sheffield S26 IDJ<br />
Open Monday-Sunday 10am-4pm<br />
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Escape<br />
into a new<br />
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Carol Ann<br />
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(Opposite The Tanyard)<br />
Tel. 01709 533033 www.carolannfashion.co.uk<br />
Open: Monday to Saturday 9.30am to 5.00pm<br />
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Express your individuality<br />
with timeless designer<br />
items that never go out<br />
of style from BeeSpoke<br />
Vintage, Wentworth’s<br />
new pre-loved clothing<br />
boutique.<br />
FASHION<br />
Be unique, BeeSpoke<br />
Available from<br />
Elan Ladies<br />
Fashions,<br />
Mexborough<br />
Swapping fast fashion for<br />
sustainable staples, BeeSpoke<br />
Vintage was launched at the<br />
start of this year by local couple<br />
Matt Foster and Laurie Woodruff<br />
to help the public reduce their<br />
fashion footprint.<br />
Throw it back to fashions<br />
from over the last twenty years<br />
with casual items from designer<br />
brands, all with an affordable<br />
price tag. Whether it’s a pair of<br />
vintage Armani jeans, a Ralph Lauren<br />
sweater, or a Chanel t-shirt, all items<br />
are high quality, authentic and ready<br />
to be given a new lease of life.<br />
Set in the rural village of<br />
Wentworth, BeeSpoke Vintage has<br />
a big focus on country clothing,<br />
stocking a large collection of iconic<br />
outwear built for life from the likes of<br />
Belstaff and Barbour.<br />
This spring, the team is also<br />
set to launch its own BeeSpoke<br />
label, offering customised items<br />
repurposed by seamstresses,<br />
such as t-shirts cut down to crop<br />
tops or men’s shirts fashioned into<br />
ladies’ dresses.<br />
But with new stock arriving<br />
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the best way to find real gems and<br />
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BeeSpoke Vintage<br />
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Authentic, quality items from brands<br />
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<br />
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Coming this spring BeeSpoke <br />
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<br />
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We also have a stand at Traxx Market Chapeltown every Saturday<br />
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OUT & ABOUT<br />
Shop savvy,<br />
sustainable and<br />
second-hand<br />
Whether you’re looking to save money, to shop more eco-friendly,<br />
or just love to bag a bargain, there’s a deal to be had at<br />
Rotherham’s second-hand markets.<br />
Every week, the outdoor<br />
covered market becomes a<br />
hive of activity with the busy<br />
second-hand markets on Tuesdays<br />
and Wednesdays. From goods to<br />
garments, it’s a guessing game as<br />
to what you’ll come across from<br />
the many stalls selling everything<br />
from general bric-a-brac to<br />
quality collectables.<br />
Get out in the fresh air and enjoy<br />
‘‘You will always find something unique<br />
at Rotherham’s second-hand markets –<br />
especially if you get there early!’’<br />
a treasure hunt around the many<br />
stalls in search of hidden antiques,<br />
vintage finds, and that diamond<br />
in the rough. One thing’s for sure,<br />
you’ll always find something unique<br />
at Rotherham’s second-hand<br />
markets – especially if you get<br />
there early!<br />
Second-hand shopping has<br />
seen a transformation in recent<br />
SECOND-HAND MARKETS<br />
on the outdoor covered market<br />
Tuesday – Clothes and shoes<br />
Wednesday – Second-hand goods<br />
• Bric-a-brac<br />
• Toys and games<br />
• Glass and ceramics<br />
• Collectibles and memorabilia<br />
• Bags, clothing, shoes and jewellery • Electricals, tools and hardware<br />
Stalls<br />
available<br />
Tues £9.95<br />
Weds £12.95<br />
Rotherham Markets<br />
Rotherham Town Centre<br />
rothtowncentre<br />
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OUT & ABOUT<br />
There’s so much to discover at<br />
ROTHERHAM<br />
MARKET<br />
years as people’s buying habits shift<br />
towards more savvy and sustainable<br />
spending. From toys to tools to<br />
toasters, shopping second-hand<br />
helps the environment by giving<br />
pre-loved items another lease of<br />
life, cutting back on the impact of<br />
manufacturing new versions of the<br />
same items.<br />
If you’re having a spring clear<br />
out, why not look to make a bit of<br />
money back for the things you no<br />
longer use, wear or need. Stalls at<br />
Rotherham’s second-hand markets<br />
start from less than a tenner, and it’s<br />
all under cover so the weather won’t<br />
put a dampener on trade.<br />
Open six days a week<br />
OUTDOOR COVERED MARKET<br />
Monday, Friday & Saturday<br />
General Market<br />
Tuesday & Wednesday<br />
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A WARM WELCOME TO<br />
Farm Shop & Deli<br />
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• Gluten free pasta sauces<br />
• Extensive range of condiments,<br />
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Order your groceries<br />
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Mother’s Day<br />
• Tarquin’s Gin perfect<br />
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• Delicious cakes<br />
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• Why not order<br />
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Antiques Emporium<br />
• Quality antiques and bric-a-brac<br />
• Solid wood furniture<br />
• Homewares and accessories<br />
• Wooden flooring and tiles<br />
• Children’s eco-friendly clothing<br />
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• Cards and wrap<br />
• Mother’s Day cards<br />
• Petware and food<br />
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OUT & ABOUT<br />
Connecting<br />
communities<br />
through everyday objects<br />
Museums are an invaluable part of the fabric<br />
of society, where communities come together<br />
to broaden their horizons, heightening their<br />
understanding, compassion and respect for<br />
culture through the many priceless treasures that<br />
sit silently inside.<br />
Since it opened in 1893, Clifton<br />
Park Museum in Rotherham has<br />
been well-loved by families who<br />
travel near and far to see Nelson<br />
the lion and find out more about<br />
the town’s social and industrial<br />
history. However, a new project has<br />
a brought a unifying power to the<br />
museum’s collections by interlacing<br />
shared traditions of people in<br />
Rotherham to celebrate the town’s<br />
vibrant cultural heritage.<br />
Our World: discover objects,<br />
explore stories, and make<br />
connections was established to<br />
develop a better understanding of<br />
Rotherham’s many communities<br />
and create a greater sense of<br />
belonging through everyday objects.<br />
While different cultures have their<br />
own traditions, there are also many<br />
similarities that connect us – whether<br />
that’s items we use at home, tools,<br />
jewellery or trinkets.<br />
The museum’s library gallery<br />
now tells the story of Rotherham<br />
past and present. Visitors can find<br />
never-before-seen artefacts from the<br />
original collection dating back to the<br />
museum’s beginnings, right through<br />
to items from the 1940s onwards<br />
that highlight the social and working<br />
lives of people in Rotherham. There<br />
are top hats and dance shoes,<br />
remnants of the many industries that<br />
powered the town, and the infamous<br />
two-bodied kitten from Steel, Peech<br />
and Tozer.<br />
One focus of the Our World<br />
project is to look at new ways to<br />
curate exhibitions, reinterpreting the<br />
idea of world cultures through more<br />
ethical ways of collecting objects.<br />
In the 1920s, the museum’s curator<br />
Ethert Brand wanted to educate<br />
people who couldn’t travel about the<br />
world beyond Rotherham. He also<br />
further developed the museum’s<br />
World Cultures Collection, which<br />
has over 300 items collected from<br />
across the continents.<br />
By today’s standards, this<br />
colonial perspective of trading or<br />
acquiring items is outdated and<br />
inappropriate, with the Rotherham<br />
Museums, Arts and Heritage<br />
team striving to acknowledge the<br />
past and highlight the need for<br />
more collaborative approaches to<br />
curation. Together with Rotherham<br />
Ethnic Minority Alliance (REMA),<br />
the team has worked with diverse<br />
communities to discuss how<br />
relevant the items in the collection<br />
are and whether they form<br />
connections with different groups.<br />
The team has also invited these<br />
communities to loan or donate items<br />
that have a connection to the town<br />
or a story to tell.<br />
Sithule Mguni, who works with<br />
REMA, donated a collection of<br />
possessions she inherited from<br />
her friend Ediberto Nabong when<br />
he moved back to the Philippines<br />
last year. Ediberto had lived in<br />
Rotherham since 2010 with his<br />
British partner whom he met while<br />
travelling in 1995. Together, they<br />
explored the world and brought<br />
back items that reminded Ediberto<br />
of home in the Philippines to keep<br />
that connection to his birthplace<br />
while in the UK. Two years after his<br />
partner died in 2019, Ediberto left<br />
the UK and couldn’t afford to take<br />
these precious objects with him.<br />
“They were too beautiful to throw<br />
away and I thought the objects<br />
would be a good reminder for<br />
others about the Philippines. But<br />
they also reminded me of similar<br />
items we have in my own home in<br />
Zimbabwe,” Sithule says.<br />
The project was funded by<br />
the Esmee Fairbairn Collection<br />
Fund to improve engagement and<br />
representation with Rotherham’s<br />
diverse communities to reflect the<br />
town’s changing demographic.<br />
It draws on the full range of<br />
backgrounds and perspectives to<br />
make sure the exhibition resonates<br />
with everyone – and that all voices<br />
are heard.<br />
Voices like Zanib Rasool MBE<br />
whose parents were part of the first<br />
generation of Pakistani migrants to<br />
come to Britain in the late 1950s with<br />
only a suitcase of their belongings.<br />
Her father Haji Ghulam Rasool<br />
first came to Newcastle before he,<br />
his wife and children moved to<br />
Rotherham in 1969 where he got a<br />
job in the steel industry at Robert<br />
Jenkins. He then worked at Sheffield<br />
Forgemasters as a forklift driver.<br />
Zanib and her siblings grew up<br />
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OUT & ABOUT<br />
“<br />
The project also delivered creative<br />
activities inspired by the World Cultures<br />
Collection to families, schools and<br />
communities<br />
”<br />
in Tenter Street in Masbrough which<br />
was also home to immigrants from<br />
Ireland, Italy, Yemen and Poland.<br />
These communities brought diversity<br />
to Yorkshire through language,<br />
culture, music and food. Zanib’s<br />
childhood memories are the epitome<br />
of many mid-century Rotherham<br />
families: of children playing marbles,<br />
hopscotch or football in the street;<br />
the clanking sounds and billowing<br />
smoke coming from the steel<br />
factories; milk floats, coal lorries and<br />
the rag and bone man heading down<br />
the street. And of course, weekends<br />
spent at Clifton Park or on her<br />
dad’s allotment.<br />
“My favourite memory is going<br />
to Clifton Park, visiting the museum,<br />
and seeing Nelson the lion. We<br />
would sit near the bandstand and<br />
listen to the brass band practising<br />
while my brothers played football.<br />
After my father was made redundant,<br />
he leased an allotment and spent<br />
many hours growing his own food<br />
and spending time with his Italian<br />
and Polish friends. In the summer,<br />
he would go to the allotment in the<br />
morning and take his sandwiches,<br />
not coming home until the evening,”<br />
Zanib says.<br />
Back home in Pakistan, Zanib’s<br />
father didn’t have the opportunity<br />
of an education. Aged 12, he left<br />
his home in Mirpur to work as a<br />
rickshaw driver in Karachi to support<br />
his widowed father who was injured<br />
in the Burma War. He finally learnt to<br />
read the Qur’an aged 50 and taught<br />
so many people in Rotherham<br />
and Sheffield. In 2002 he also set<br />
up a school in his hometown for<br />
boys from poor families, funded<br />
by donations from family and<br />
close friends some of whom live in<br />
Rotherham. Haji Ghulam Rasool<br />
passed away ten years ago but the<br />
school still educates around 70 boys.<br />
Zanib loaned some of her father’s<br />
belongings to the project along with<br />
a poem she wrote about him and her<br />
memories growing up.<br />
“Imagine knowing you’re leaving<br />
home for a long time; what do you<br />
take in just one suitcase? It’s like<br />
Desert Island Discs. But my father<br />
made Rotherham his home; he<br />
had strong values and work<br />
ethics and encouraged us to give<br />
something back.”<br />
To complement the new<br />
displays, the project also delivered<br />
creative activities inspired by<br />
the World Cultures Collection to<br />
families, schools and communities<br />
to create new resources for the<br />
Walker Kitchen.<br />
Local ceramic artist Caroline<br />
Lee worked with the English<br />
Conversation Group to create bright<br />
and bold ceramic tiles to represent<br />
their own heritage and memories,<br />
and jugs and pots with Apna Haq<br />
inspired by the ceramics within<br />
the world cultures collection. The<br />
Kashmiri and Yemeni Older People’s<br />
Forum created paintings on canvas<br />
with Islamic calligraphy artist Uzma<br />
Rani.<br />
There has also been a storybook<br />
produced by illustrator and picture<br />
book maker, Rose Feather, called<br />
Where Our Stories Live which<br />
is based around objects in the<br />
home and kitchen. Rose worked<br />
with 60 children from Coleridge<br />
Primary School, young people with<br />
disabilities from the Sense Centre,<br />
as well as families from African,<br />
Polish, Roma, Slovak, and Pakistani<br />
communities. The groups shared<br />
their stories and memories of<br />
traditions and created illustrations<br />
of themselves eating their<br />
favourite foods or of the artefacts in<br />
the museum.<br />
“It was very uplifting and I was<br />
blown away by the creativity and<br />
generosity of everyone involved.<br />
People in Rotherham want to talk<br />
about their heritage and they do so<br />
with so much pride,” Rose says.<br />
The free book will now be<br />
available to take away and read<br />
from the Walker Kitchen along<br />
with an activity pack that has also<br />
been produced.<br />
DISCOVER OBJECTS,<br />
EXPLORE STORIES,<br />
AND MAKE CONNECTIONS<br />
See the full collection at Clifton Park Museum<br />
WANT TO GET INVOLVED?<br />
The Rotherham Museums, Arts and Heritage team are always looking<br />
for stories and objects to add to the museum’s collection, particularly<br />
around work, industry, sport and hobbies.<br />
Contact Learning and Audience Development Manager,<br />
Christine Evans, for more details 01709 336330<br />
Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 4pm, and Sunday 10am to 4pm<br />
Also open Mondays during school holidays<br />
Last admission 30 minutes before closing<br />
www.cliftonpark.org.uk<br />
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OUT & ABOUT<br />
A close encounter with art<br />
The full moon shows its face to earth once a month. But ahead of<br />
the next Full Worm Moon on Friday 18th <strong>March</strong>, there is a once<br />
in a blue moon opportunity to see this lunar phase twice as a<br />
breath-taking art installation comes to Wentworth Woodhouse.<br />
As part of We Wonder Noir, which will<br />
showcase modern works by Yorkshire-based<br />
artists within state rooms of the grade I listed<br />
stately home, Luke Jerram’s renowned touring<br />
exhibition Museum of the Moon will be making its<br />
first appearance in South Yorkshire.<br />
Museum of the Moon is an internally lit<br />
spherical sculpture of the moon measuring seven<br />
metres in diameter to a 1:500,000 scale; each<br />
centimetre represents 5km of the moon’s surface.<br />
The sculpture features detailed NASA imagery of<br />
the lunar surface, meaning for most stargazers<br />
this will be the closest encounter they will have<br />
with the moon.<br />
Having already been seen by over 10<br />
million people in over 30 countries at indoor and<br />
outdoor venues ranging from Glastonbury to<br />
the National History Museum, Museum of the<br />
Moon comes to Wentworth Woodhouse following<br />
2019’s We Wonder Noir when Jerram’s Gaia<br />
Earth was on display.<br />
The spectacular moon sculpture will be in<br />
the Marble Saloon at Wentworth Woodhouse<br />
accompanied by music created by BAFTA and Ivor<br />
Novello award-winning composer Dan Jones.<br />
Throughout the week-long event, the other<br />
state rooms will also be playing host to a variety of<br />
art installations.<br />
Barnsley artist Patrick Murphy has created<br />
a neon installation inspired by George Stubbs’<br />
famous Whistlejacket painting commissioned<br />
by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess<br />
of Rockingham. There will also be a laser<br />
projection connecting the house to its surrounding<br />
landscapes devised by Murphy.<br />
Connecting the present to the past, We Wonder<br />
Noir will also present composer Ed Carter’s The<br />
Mute Still Air, paying homage to the coal mining<br />
history through the movement of air, light, and<br />
sound. With a striking hexagonal structure at its<br />
centre, the work incorporates lights, fans, and<br />
a series of tuned copper wind chimes, casting<br />
moving shadows throughout the grand setting.<br />
We Wonder Noir runs from Friday 11th to<br />
Friday 18th <strong>March</strong> from 6pm until 9pm, except for<br />
Thursday 17th when there will be no event. On<br />
the opening and closing dates, additional work<br />
will be featured.<br />
Tickets are just £5 for adults and children<br />
under 16 go free. There will be food and<br />
drink available to purchase each night.<br />
Pre-book to avoid disappointment.<br />
www.wentworthwoodhouse.org.uk<br />
WE<br />
WONDER<br />
NOIR<br />
THE MUSEUM<br />
OF THE MOON<br />
BOOK NOW VIA OUR WEBSITE<br />
PRICE: ADULTS | £5.00 UNDER 16 | FREE<br />
WHEN: 11 - 18 MARCH <strong>2022</strong>, 6.00 - 9.00PM<br />
WHERE: WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE, ROTHERHAM, S62 7TQ<br />
EMAIL: INFO@WENTWORTHWOODHOUSE.ORG.UK<br />
WEBSITE: WWW.WENTWORTHWOODHOUSE.ORG.UK<br />
PHOTO CREDIT: MUSEUM OF THE MOON BY LUKE JERRAM. ELY CATHEDRAL, UK, 2019. JAMES BILLINGS<br />
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WHAT’S ON<br />
at The People’s Theatre<br />
MARCH<br />
Classic Clapton<br />
Friday 11th <strong>March</strong> 7.30pm<br />
First appearance in Barnsley for the world’s<br />
#1 Eric Clapton tribute with front man Mike Hall<br />
All tickets £20<br />
Ciruqe du Hilarious:<br />
A fright in the museum<br />
Saturday 12th <strong>March</strong><br />
2.30pm & 5.30pm<br />
Join CBBC’s Danny & Mick and their dad<br />
Clive for magic, mayhem and slapstick<br />
for all the family<br />
Adults £20 Concessions £18<br />
Family £68<br />
Folk Night<br />
Sunday 13th <strong>March</strong> 7.30pm<br />
Featuring the Roisin Ban trio, South<br />
Yorkshire’s songwriter Ray Hearne,<br />
and poet Matt Weigold<br />
Adults £12 Concessions £10<br />
Ireland’s Call<br />
Wednesday 16th & Thursday<br />
17th <strong>March</strong> 7.30pm<br />
Celebrate St Patrick’s Day with a night of<br />
Irish dancing, music and song<br />
by LS Theatre Productions<br />
All tickets £16<br />
CATS<br />
Tuesday 22nd to Saturday 26th <strong>March</strong><br />
7.30pm (additional Saturday<br />
matinee 2.30pm)<br />
Amateur production with LS Theatre<br />
Productions and Really Useful Group LTD<br />
All tickets £16<br />
APRIL<br />
When We Are Married<br />
Tuesday 5th to Saturday 9th <strong>April</strong><br />
7.30pm<br />
JB Priestley’s timeless Northern comedy.<br />
Adults £14 Concessions £13<br />
The Closet Queen<br />
Sunday 10th <strong>April</strong> 5pm<br />
Fashion show and style advice from<br />
Barnsley boutique The Closet Queen<br />
Complimentary glass of fizz on arrival<br />
Tickets £7<br />
proceeds to Friends of Lamproom Theatre<br />
Little Red Riding Hood<br />
Wednesday 13th to Friday 15th <strong>April</strong><br />
11am, 3pm & 7pm<br />
A family show with comedy, songs<br />
and colourful characters<br />
Adults £14 Concessions £14 Family £52<br />
John Reilly & Lewis Nitikman<br />
Saturday 16th <strong>April</strong> 7.30pm<br />
Live music from Acoustic Angels’ John Reilly a<br />
nd Canadian pianist Lewis Nitikman<br />
All tickets £15<br />
Bernie Clifton’s<br />
Birthday Bonanza<br />
Friday 22nd <strong>April</strong> 7.30pm<br />
Celebrate a leg-end’s birthday in style<br />
All tickets £15<br />
Lamproom Laughs Out Loud<br />
Saturday 23rd <strong>April</strong> 7.30pm<br />
A night of stand-up featuring Johnnie Casson,<br />
Ben Nickness, Steve Royle and Jack Land Noble<br />
Adults £19.50 Concessions £18.50<br />
Stayin’ Alive<br />
Sunday 24th <strong>April</strong> 7.30pm<br />
A tribute to the Bee Gees<br />
All tickets £20<br />
Simon Evans:<br />
The Work of the Devil<br />
Friday 29th <strong>April</strong> 7.30pm<br />
Comedian as seen on Live at the<br />
Apollo and Mock the Week<br />
Adults £15 Concessions £13<br />
Our Trace<br />
Saturday 30th <strong>April</strong> 7.30pm<br />
The funny lady in a posh frock<br />
*Adult humour and strong language<br />
All tickets £15<br />
MAY<br />
Evita<br />
Tuesday 10th to Saturday 14th May<br />
7.15pm (additional Saturday matinee<br />
2.15pm)<br />
Amateur production with<br />
Really Useful Group Ltd<br />
Adults £16 Concessions £14<br />
Brassed Off!<br />
Monday 23rd to Sunday 29th 7.30pm<br />
Adults £14 Concessions £13<br />
For tickets, call the Box Office on 01226 200075<br />
or book online www.barnsleylamproom.com<br />
The Lamproom Theatre Wetgate, Barnsley, S70 2DX
Summer Day Trips<br />
Leaving from Rotherham<br />
DATE DESTINATION ADULT OAP/CHILD<br />
<strong>March</strong><br />
Sat 19th Whitby £14.00 £13.00<br />
Wed 23rd Chester £14.00 £13.00<br />
Wed 23rd Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet £14.00 £13.00<br />
Sat 26th Cleethorpes £14.00 £13.00<br />
Sun 27th Scarborough £14.00 £13.00<br />
Wed 30th Bury Market £14.00 £13.00<br />
<strong>April</strong><br />
Sun 3rd Scarborough £14.00 £13.00<br />
Wed 13th Bury Market £14.00 £13.00<br />
Sat 16th Skegness £15.00 £14.00<br />
Wed 20th Morecambe £14.00 £13.00<br />
Fri 22nd Harrogate Flower Show £33.50 £32.50*<br />
Sat 30th Blackpool £14.00 £13.00<br />
May<br />
Tues 3rd Southport £14.00 £13.00<br />
Sun 15th Bridlington £14.00 £13.00<br />
Fri 20th Chester £14.00 £13.00<br />
Fri 20th Chester Zoo £14.00 £13.00<br />
Sun 29th Scarborough £14.00 £13.00<br />
Tues 31st Blackpool £14.00 £13.00<br />
Leaving from Barnsley<br />
DATE DESTINATION PRICE<br />
<strong>March</strong><br />
Tues 15th Southport £14.00<br />
Sat 19th Beamish Museum £16.00<br />
Sat 19th Durham £16.00<br />
Sat 19th Whitby £14.00<br />
Sun 20th Skirlington Market & Bridlington £14.00<br />
Wed 23rd Chester £14.00<br />
Wed 23rd Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet £14.00<br />
Sat 26th Beverley & Bridlington £14.00<br />
Sat 26th Cleethorpes £14.00<br />
Sun 27th Skegness £15.00<br />
Sun 27th Ingoldmells £15.00<br />
Sun 27th Scarborough £14.00<br />
Tues 29th Llandudno £16.00<br />
Wed 30th Bury Market £14.00<br />
<strong>April</strong><br />
Fri 1st Scarborough £14.00<br />
Sat 2nd Blackpool £14.00<br />
Sun 3rd Chester £14.00<br />
Sun 3rd Chester Zoo £14.00<br />
Thurs 7th Whitby £14.00<br />
Sat 9th Skegness £15.00<br />
Sat 9th Blackpool £14.00<br />
*Includes admission<br />
A familiar name<br />
providing tours<br />
and excursions<br />
for over<br />
65 years<br />
Rotherham pick-up points<br />
Route A<br />
9.15am Maltby High Street (nr.Queens Hotel)<br />
9.30am Bramley Cross Roads (Flash Lane, Bawtry Rd)<br />
9.35am Wickersley Tanyard (Tanfield Way)<br />
9.40am Brecks (Layby before Esso /Tesco)<br />
9.45am Stag Roundabout (Bus Stop)<br />
10.00am Rotherham Interchange Stand C2<br />
ROUTE B<br />
9.15am Rotherham Interchange Stand C2<br />
9.30am Stag Roundabout(Bus Stop on Wickersley Rd)<br />
9.35am Brecks ( Layby on Bawtry Road)<br />
9.40am Wickersley (nr.Masons Pub)<br />
9.45am Bramley Cross Roads (outside Aldi/The King Henry<br />
10.00am Maltby High Street (nr. Queens Hotel)<br />
DATE DESTINATION PRICE<br />
Sun 10th Knowsley Safari Park £26.00*<br />
Mon 11th Bridlington £14.00<br />
Wed 13th Bury Market £14.00<br />
Thurs 14th Whitby £14.00<br />
Thurs 14th Liverpool £16.00<br />
Fri 15th Blackpool Good Friday £16.00<br />
Fri 15th Beamish - Good Friday £16.00<br />
Fri 15th Durham - Good Friday £16.00<br />
Sat 16th Skegness £15.00<br />
Sun 17th Stratford-upon-Avon £20.00#<br />
Mon 18th Scarborough - Easter Monday £18.00<br />
Tues 19th Cadbury World £31.00*#<br />
Wed 20th Morecambe £14.00<br />
Thurs 21st York £14.00<br />
Thurs 21st Flamingo Land £14.00<br />
Thurs 21st Eden Camp £14.00<br />
Fri 22nd Harrogate Flower Show £33.50*<br />
Sat 23rd/Sun 24th Whitby Goth Weekend £18.00<br />
Mon 25th Bridlington & Filey £14.00<br />
Tues 26th<br />
Barnsley pick-up points<br />
Wath-upon-Dearne (Church St),<br />
Brampton (The Bulls Head)<br />
Wombwell (Summer Ln CP),<br />
Platts Common (Sammy’s Former WMC),<br />
Hoyland Southgate (Behind Town Hall),<br />
Hoyland Common (Opp. Co-Op), Birdwell (WMC),<br />
Worsborough (The Ship Inn, Vernon Rd),<br />
Barnsley Interchange (Stands 23/24)<br />
#Departs from Interchange only<br />
Northumberland Coastal Tour<br />
& Holy Island £20.00#<br />
Thurs 28th Settle & Hawes £16.00<br />
Sat 30th Blackpool £14.00
Short Breaks<br />
Join us on one of our holidays, it’s the perfect tonic<br />
MARCH DESTINATION DAYS PRICE<br />
21st - 25th Bournemouth & Dorset Explorer 5 £279.00<br />
21st - 25th Torquay & English Riviera 5 £289.00<br />
25th – 28th Warwickshire 4 £199.00<br />
25th - 28th Bognor Regis 4 £229.00<br />
28th - 1st <strong>April</strong> Welsh Highlands & Spring Colours 5 £349.00<br />
APRIL<br />
2nd - 4th Bridlington 3 £169.00<br />
4th - 8th Llandudno & North Wales Delights 5 £279.00<br />
4th - 8th Pembrokeshire & Carmarthenshire 5 £339.00<br />
10th - 11th 4* Derbyshire Spring Colours 2 £89.00**<br />
10th – 14th Scarborough 5 £369.00<br />
18th - 22nd Scarborough 5 £299.00<br />
18th - 22nd Cromer 5 £299.00<br />
22nd - 25th Llandudno 4 £239.00<br />
25th - 29th Folkestone 5 £239.00<br />
29th - 2nd May Whitby 4 £259.00<br />
MAY<br />
2nd - 6th Dunoon &Trossachs 5 £269.00<br />
2nd - 6th Torquay 5 £349.00<br />
6th - 9th Llandudno 4 £329.00<br />
7th - 11th Great Yarmouth 5 £299.00<br />
8th - 9th Royal Windsor 2 £149.00 **<br />
9th - 13th Perthshire & Edinburgh Explorer 5 £329.00<br />
9th - 13th 4* Langstone Quays Resort 5 £449.00<br />
16th - 17th Lake District Getaway 2 £119.00 **<br />
16th - 20th Sand Bay Holiday Village 5 £219.00<br />
25th - 27th Liverpool 3 £149.00<br />
28th - 4th June Llandudno 8 £499.00<br />
30th - 3rd June Eastbourne & Sussex Explorer 5 £349.00<br />
• All prices are for dinner, bed and breakfast<br />
unless otherwise stated<br />
• The majority of our breaks Include a<br />
door-to-door pickup / drop off to and from the<br />
interchange, **Excludes door-to-door<br />
• Single Room Supplements may apply<br />
• Deposit of £25 is required to secure your<br />
booking with balance due 6 weeks<br />
prior to departure<br />
Lines open Mon-Fri<br />
10am-3pm & Sat 10am-2pm<br />
4 Effingham Square, Rotherham S65 1AP<br />
Tel 01709 249900<br />
Barnsley Travel Centre, 60 Eldon Street, Barnsley S70 2JL<br />
Tel 01226 299900<br />
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OUT & ABOUT<br />
Get crafty<br />
with Dawn Topliss<br />
Make your own<br />
Easter Bunny Plaque<br />
Have a hoppy easter<br />
with this easy craft<br />
activity that will add<br />
some springtime<br />
charm to your home.<br />
You will need<br />
Grey board<br />
Patterned paper<br />
Pearlised white card<br />
PVA glue<br />
Palette knife or brush<br />
Flower punch or die & hole punch<br />
Ink or chalks<br />
Wire & pliers<br />
Scissors<br />
Alphabet wooden beads<br />
Stick-on pearls<br />
Marker pen<br />
Method<br />
Draw a rabbit shape freehand<br />
or using a template (I used one<br />
found online). Cut out and trace<br />
onto grey board and patterned<br />
paper. Using your palette knife<br />
or brush spread PVA onto grey<br />
board and place patterned paper<br />
on top, smoothing gently from<br />
centre outwards paying particular<br />
attention to the edges. Leave to<br />
dry.<br />
Punch out several flowers and<br />
colour using inks or coloured<br />
chalk and leave to dry.<br />
Measure a length of wire long<br />
enough to spell out ‘Spring’ or<br />
your own message in wooden<br />
beads plus 2cm extra. Place<br />
against the bottom of your rabbit<br />
to measure where the holes need<br />
to be. Bend the wire through the<br />
holes at each side making sure<br />
your words hang correctly. Use<br />
your pliers to secure the wire at<br />
the back.<br />
Cut a second piece of wire<br />
20cm bend in half, punch a hole<br />
in each ear and thread through<br />
and secure to make a hanging<br />
hook.<br />
Glue your flowers to your<br />
rabbit and add a stick-on pearl<br />
in each centre. Add a bow and<br />
finish by drawing two eyes with<br />
your marker pen and a face if<br />
you wish.<br />
Your Easter bunny plaque is<br />
now complete.<br />
Happy Crafting!<br />
Springtime<br />
fun and<br />
frolicks<br />
• Meet and feed our friendly animals<br />
• Build castles in the indoor sand pit<br />
• Run around the indoor soft play area<br />
• Explore the tractor track, play areas<br />
and bale pyramid outside<br />
• Enjoy lunch in our cafe, with plenty of children's options<br />
• Try our delicious homemade cakes<br />
• Toddler sessions<br />
on Mondays and Thursdays (book online)<br />
Easter Egg Hunt<br />
Friday 15th to Monday 18th <strong>April</strong><br />
• Meet the Easter Bunny<br />
• Easter egg hunt<br />
• Lamb feeding<br />
• Free farm crafts<br />
• Face painting<br />
• Nature trail<br />
ONLINE BOOKING IS REQUIRED<br />
Open<br />
10am-4pm<br />
every day<br />
www.bostonpark.com<br />
Boston Park Farm, Hatfield Woodhouse, Doncaster DN7 6DS<br />
01302 844818 • info@bostonpark.com<br />
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SPORT<br />
Barnsley<br />
serves the<br />
world<br />
When you think of Wimbledon,<br />
your mind probably jumps<br />
straight to strawberries and<br />
cream, the royal patronage,<br />
and its strict dress code. But<br />
what about its connection to<br />
Barnsley?<br />
For over 50 years, workers at the Slazenger<br />
factory in Barnsley made the balls used at the<br />
prestigious tennis tournament that would be hit by<br />
the likes of Bjorn Borg, Billie Jean King, Martina<br />
Navratilova and Roy Laver.<br />
The factory would become a major employer<br />
in the town, serving as an important part of<br />
Barnsley’s social history. Hundreds of people<br />
worked at the Doncaster Road factory during its<br />
‘‘When it first opened, there<br />
were around 200 workers<br />
who made everything<br />
from crash helmets to<br />
shuttlecocks and hockey<br />
sticks.’’<br />
heyday, helping ensure the tens of thousands<br />
of balls were all pitch perfect before they were<br />
shipped off to Wimbledon.<br />
Lots of people will have a connection to the<br />
Slazenger factory, either as a former employee,<br />
having a relative who worked there, or ex-<br />
Kendray school pupils who remember having<br />
tennis balls thrown over the adjoining fence.<br />
In recognition of its importance to Barnsley<br />
and the wider population, a new exhibition at<br />
Experience Barnsley is set to bring the former<br />
Slazenger employees centre-court. Barnsley<br />
Serves the World launches at the museum on<br />
Saturday 9th <strong>April</strong> and will run for six months until<br />
October. The retro-inspired sporting exhibition<br />
focuses on the factory during the height of<br />
production in the 1970s and ‘80s. Where social<br />
history meets art, the fun and interactive exhibition<br />
includes lots of old photographs and quotes<br />
of workers, a documentary made by Barnsley<br />
filmmaker James Lockie, and some wacky<br />
installations involving tennis balls, nets and<br />
umpire stands.<br />
Barnsley Serves the World follows on from<br />
the success of 2019’s Tins! Tins! Tins! which<br />
looked at the former Tin ‘Oyl factory at Barnsley<br />
Canister Company and really resonated with<br />
people in the town. The newest exhibition<br />
tells the story of how Barnsley once produced<br />
something all the world wanted.<br />
Slazenger is one of the longest established<br />
sporting goods brands in the world, having been<br />
founded by brothers Ralph and Albert Slazenger<br />
in 1881. The brothers ran factories in London, but<br />
during World War II the manufacturing of sporting<br />
equipment was deemed non-essential and they<br />
shifted to making military supplies. Then their<br />
factories were bombed in The Blitz which sparked<br />
a move of production up north.<br />
First came the acquisition of competitor William<br />
Sykes which had a factory in Horbury near Ossett.<br />
Then a few years later the Barnsley factory opened<br />
in 1945, its central location an advantage, with<br />
the bulk of the world’s sporting equipment being<br />
solely produced in Yorkshire.<br />
Barnsley employed about a third of the<br />
Slazenger factory workforce, with the rest working<br />
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SPORT<br />
at Horbury. When it first opened, there were<br />
around 200 workers who made everything from<br />
crash helmets to shuttlecocks and hockey sticks.<br />
At Horbury, they made all the leather sporting<br />
equipment such as boxing gloves and the<br />
footballs used in the 1966 World Cup final.<br />
Down the line, Barnsley operations would shift<br />
so they focused primarily on tennis balls, with<br />
another 600 staff enlisted to cope with demand of<br />
the unique Wimbledon contact.<br />
Forget the Bryan brother, Williams sisters, or<br />
The Woodies; Slazenger and Wimbledon are<br />
tennis’ most iconic double act. The partnership<br />
‘‘Barnsley employees<br />
made all the balls for the<br />
Wimbledon tournament,<br />
which was often more than<br />
50,000 balls for the twoweek<br />
duration – and the<br />
company did it all for free’’<br />
is the longest running in sporting history, with<br />
Slazenger supplying the tennis balls to the<br />
tournament since 1902. Barnsley employees<br />
made all the balls for the Wimbledon tournament,<br />
which was often more than 50,000 balls for the<br />
two-week duration – and the company did it all<br />
for free. Slazenger’s directors knew having their<br />
brand name at the world’s most prestigious tennis<br />
tournament was the best marketing tool they could<br />
deploy and riding on Wimbledon’s coattails fuelled<br />
worldwide sales.<br />
Due to the high level of output, workers at the<br />
Barnsley Slazenger factory were mainly employed<br />
on piece work contracts, where staff would be paid<br />
a fixed rate per unit they made. This attracted lots<br />
of women to the job as they found they could earn<br />
more than the standard hourly rate for women at<br />
that time, which was substantially less than their<br />
male counterparts, giving them the freedom to<br />
earn enough to support themselves if they worked<br />
hard or fast enough. One woman was noted to<br />
have produced enough tennis balls to earn the<br />
equivalent of £10 per hour, or around £30 an hour<br />
at today’s rate.<br />
Work was hard and physical, with cuts, scuffs<br />
and blisters the norm, especially before the 1970s<br />
when every aspect was done by hand, from rolling<br />
the rubber, felting the ball, gluing on the white lines<br />
and cutting off the excess. The Slazenger panther<br />
was a hallmark of quality and their products<br />
were praised for their superiority; unlike other<br />
manufacturers, Slazenger used moulds to create<br />
a perfectly round ball and filled them with nitrogen<br />
gas so they’d last ten-times longer.<br />
When Wimbledon’s Open Era started in<br />
1968 and professional players were allowed<br />
to participate, tennis became a much more<br />
mainstream sport. The big hitters got bigger and<br />
the balls took greater punishment, meaning they<br />
had to withstand the improved quality of play.<br />
The factory made tens of thousands of<br />
tennis balls every day, and each one had to be<br />
perfect. The factory employed teams of testers<br />
whose job was to bounce each ball and record<br />
the measurements for the utmost accuracy.<br />
If just one ball was defective, it would cause<br />
serious problems for the brand. Some workers<br />
can remember the day when hordes of people<br />
swarmed the factory after a ball used by John<br />
McEnroe burst on court, with the big bosses<br />
coming to learn from the expertise of the Barnsley<br />
factory workers to find out what had gone wrong.<br />
But despite the high workload and pressure of<br />
perfection, conditions weren’t tough or sweatshoplike.<br />
Most workers loved their time at Slazenger<br />
because of the camaraderie. The workforce<br />
became like a big family and workers often spent<br />
more time with their colleagues than with their own<br />
families at home. If anyone had a problem, they all<br />
rallied round.<br />
The company also gave a lot back to its<br />
community. Management put on presentations<br />
and awards every year, paid for pensioners’<br />
parties at holidays like Easter and Christmas, gave<br />
equipment to schools, and donated to raffles and<br />
charities. And they always had the biggest float at<br />
the Mayor’s Parade.<br />
Each year, staff were chosen to go on an all<br />
expenses paid trip to Wimbledon and given £30<br />
spending money. Employees also had real routes<br />
for progression throughout the company via<br />
college courses. A worker could go from a ball<br />
tester to head engineer or works’ manager if they<br />
stayed with the company, which is why a lot of<br />
employees worked at Slazenger for decades.<br />
Sadly, globalisation and not reacting quick<br />
enough to technological advancements led to<br />
the downfall of Slazenger’s UK operations. The<br />
Horbury site closed in the late ‘80s, with the<br />
company shutting the doors to its Doncaster Road<br />
factory in 2002 when it was bought by Sports<br />
Direct. All production moved to a state-of-the-art<br />
factory in the Bataan region in the Philippines<br />
where labour was cheaper and the rubber<br />
plantations closer.<br />
While the Barnsley Serves the World exhibition<br />
focuses on the strong industrial heritage of<br />
Slazenger, it also gives a nod to the Filipino<br />
culture of its present. The team at Experience<br />
Barnsley have reached out to the current factory<br />
management to highlight the pride in their<br />
shared heritage. They have sent gifts including a<br />
photobook, letter from the Mayor of Barnsley and<br />
a poem written by Ian McMillan which have both<br />
been translated into Tagalog. Ian’s sonnet, called<br />
Over the Net and Over the Sea, has been inspired<br />
by the rhythm and sounds of his time spent<br />
working as a dipper at Slazenger and includes<br />
some Filipino slang.<br />
The poem and letter will also be on display<br />
at the exhibition in Barnsley where a host of ace<br />
activities are planned, such as juggling tennis<br />
balls, making musical instruments out of tennis<br />
equipment, and attempting to set some tennisthemed<br />
world records.<br />
At the launch day on Saturday 9th <strong>April</strong>, the<br />
Experience Barnsley team will be serving up<br />
some Wimbledon-inspired refreshments such<br />
as Pimm’s and lemonade and strawberries and<br />
cream. Ian McMillan will be giving a performance<br />
of his poem, and you may spot a few tennis star<br />
lookalikes walking round the museum. You cannot<br />
be serious?<br />
On Thursday 28th <strong>April</strong>, there will be a poetry<br />
workshop called Talking Balls with Ian McMillan<br />
where the Bard of Barnsley invites the public to<br />
make a racquet and bounce words around to<br />
make poems up about their memories of the<br />
Slazenger factory. The event is free but you need<br />
to book your place via Eventbrite.<br />
Barnsley Serves the World is a free,<br />
family-friendly exhibition that runs from<br />
Saturday 9 <strong>April</strong> to Saturday 8 October at<br />
Experience Barnsley Museum, based in the<br />
town hall. For more information, visit<br />
www.experience-barnsley.com<br />
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SPORT<br />
Play<br />
your<br />
way<br />
Football has the power to unite communities and<br />
improve the health of a nation. And more women<br />
than ever are reaping the benefits of taking part<br />
in the beautiful game.<br />
For the last decade, football<br />
has been the top sport for<br />
participation of women and girls,<br />
with almost three million females<br />
actively playing football in the<br />
UK. This summer, women’s<br />
football will gain unprecedented<br />
exposure as the UEFA Women’s<br />
EURO comes to England, with<br />
Rotherham and Sheffield chosen<br />
as host venues.<br />
Admirable achievements to<br />
say it’s only fifty years since<br />
the ban on women playing on<br />
football league grounds was<br />
lifted.<br />
In our region, the Sheffield and<br />
Hallamshire County FA is hoping<br />
to double the number of current<br />
female players to 10,000 by 2024<br />
by providing equal access to<br />
enjoyable, inclusive and flexible<br />
playing opportunities for women.<br />
But football doesn’t just<br />
mean your typical elevena-side<br />
competitive matches<br />
– not everyone has the time,<br />
commitment or desire to join<br />
a club or channel their inner<br />
Bethany England. Some just<br />
want to kick their fitness into<br />
shape and recreational football is<br />
a great way to get involved away<br />
from competitive leagues and<br />
be part of the camaraderie that<br />
comes with team sports.<br />
Whether it’s been months or<br />
years since you last played, or<br />
you’ve never kicked a ball in<br />
your life, women’s recreational<br />
football sessions can improve<br />
your fitness, boost your mental<br />
health, develop new friendships,<br />
and give you the confidence to<br />
get back into sport.<br />
What’s on offer in Rotherham:<br />
Walking Football<br />
with Rotherham United Community Sports Trust<br />
Tuesday 8pm-9pm, Parkgate Astro, FREE Session<br />
For women who want to<br />
move more but might worry<br />
about injuries from contact<br />
sports, walking football is a<br />
brilliant way to ease yourself<br />
safely back into sport and<br />
exercise no matter your age.<br />
Walking football is run by<br />
RUCST’s Hannah Wright who<br />
wanted to encourage women<br />
of all ages to join in whether they<br />
had kicked a football before or not.<br />
You don’t need any special kit and<br />
football is played at walking pace<br />
with no physical contact, tackling<br />
or heading the ball to reduce the<br />
risk of pain, injury or discomfort,<br />
especially for those new to sport.<br />
A good aerobic activity, walking<br />
football not only keeps the women<br />
fit but is also good for improving<br />
posture, balance, blood pressure<br />
and mental wellbeing. Members<br />
also find it therapeutic where they<br />
can unwind, chat and have a<br />
good time with the other ladies in<br />
the fresh air. Everyone plays as a<br />
team and encourages each other,<br />
no matter their ability or previous<br />
playing experience.<br />
Women love football as much<br />
as men, but they often put it on<br />
the backburner while they raise<br />
families or juggle working life. For<br />
Claire Scrivens, walking football has<br />
brought back her love of football<br />
after a 31-year break from it. “I’ve<br />
always loved football and used<br />
to play when I was younger but<br />
finished playing at 15. The walking<br />
football sessions help build my<br />
confidence to try new skills, meet<br />
new people and now I play for a<br />
walking football team in Sheffield.”<br />
The slower paced, low contact,<br />
non-competitive nature appealed<br />
to Leanne Heathcote (42) who<br />
had always wanted to have a go<br />
at playing football after missing an<br />
opportunity in her youth. “I played<br />
football as a child with boys at<br />
school or with my brother in the<br />
garden but haven’t played in a team<br />
before. I really look forward to the<br />
walking football sessions as you<br />
can play at your own speed and<br />
within your own ability.”<br />
For Jo Roper (48) she wanted<br />
to get back into football after<br />
playing as a child at school, but<br />
also to get fitter and have fun. “I<br />
am a 5k runner who has always<br />
enjoyed sport including athletics,<br />
basketball and football and I was<br />
inspired by my children to get back<br />
into football. It’s so much fun and<br />
always makes me feel like I have<br />
done something to keep fit.”<br />
Others, like Sharon Adams, have<br />
always enjoyed watching football<br />
but have never played. She joined<br />
to learn more about football. “I’m a<br />
season ticket holder for Rotherham<br />
United but couldn’t kick a ball more<br />
than three feet across the field. Now<br />
learning to play has really made<br />
me enjoy going to the matches<br />
and makes watching footy more<br />
interesting. Exercise benefits not<br />
just my physical health but also<br />
my mental health; my head gets<br />
a workout too and my confidence<br />
has grown by meeting like-minded<br />
women.”<br />
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Soccercise<br />
Just Play<br />
SPORT<br />
Millmoor Warriors with MeMo Fitness, £5 per session<br />
Monday 7.30pm-8.30pm and Friday 6pm-7pm<br />
Winter – St Thomas’ Community Hall, Kimberworth<br />
Summer - Millmoor Ladies FC, Droppingwell, Kimberworth<br />
If you’re bored of your<br />
go-to exercise regime,<br />
soccercise is a circuit<br />
training fitness class<br />
with an element of<br />
football.<br />
It’s a great alternative<br />
to traditional fitness<br />
classes or gym<br />
environments, with many<br />
women joining for the<br />
variety it offers and the<br />
welcoming approach.<br />
The Millmoor Warriors<br />
soccercise session was started<br />
last year by women’s football<br />
coach, Megan Wylde, to bring<br />
supporters and parents of<br />
Millmoor Juniors FC together in a<br />
fitness community but has since<br />
attracted women with no previous<br />
connections to the club.<br />
The sessions are made up<br />
of women of mixed abilities and<br />
ages, with some looking to lose<br />
weight or others wanting to get<br />
fitter. Each week the routine<br />
changes, but exercises include<br />
toe taps, sit ups, squats and<br />
press ups incorporating a football<br />
to improve co-ordination and<br />
core stability. Activities such<br />
as stepovers, side-to-sides,<br />
and passing also help improve<br />
confidence with the ball. All<br />
exercises are adaptable to suit<br />
your fitness or flexibility level or any<br />
injuries you may have.<br />
With two young children at<br />
home and approaching her 40s,<br />
Laura O’Neil was looking to get<br />
fitter and support her mental<br />
well-being with a hobby that had a<br />
purpose. “I used to line dance and<br />
go to the gym or swimming, but<br />
when I had my kids I gave up most<br />
things. Having lost a lot of body<br />
confidence since having my kids,<br />
I was reluctant to go back to a<br />
gym and I found the thought of the<br />
circuit training or boot camp style<br />
sessions quite intimidating as I’ve<br />
never been particularly fit or sporty.<br />
Meg is a big advocate for mental<br />
wellbeing, especially for mums,<br />
and the soccercise sessions are<br />
very sociable, welcoming and<br />
supportive. Meg works in such<br />
a way that everyone’s goals and<br />
abilities are taken into account.<br />
I feel like I’m pushing my limits<br />
without feeling pressured to keep<br />
up with anyone else.”<br />
For Faye Hood (47) she joined<br />
to aid her weight loss goals after<br />
seeing the session taking place<br />
while dropping her children off at<br />
football practice. “Meg has given<br />
me so much encouragement<br />
that I’ve lost three stone since<br />
I joined 12 months ago. Every<br />
session is different and that’s what<br />
I like about it – I never get bored.<br />
Having been overweight I was a<br />
bit worried I’d not fit in but they’re<br />
a great bunch of girls. We’re all<br />
red faced and out of breath at<br />
the end of it, mostly because we<br />
have a right laugh; getting fit is just<br />
a bonus.”<br />
Stacey Mohammed (32) likes<br />
the sessions because everyone<br />
encourages each other. “I never<br />
felt comfortable going to a gym<br />
and would find every excuse under<br />
the sun either to not go or just sit<br />
on my phone when I got there.<br />
I’ve attended boot camps and<br />
classes for a few years on and off,<br />
but this is the longest I’ve stuck<br />
at exercising properly. I always<br />
feel like I push myself more and<br />
can definitely tell a difference in<br />
my fitness level from when I first<br />
started.”<br />
While you don’t need to have<br />
played sport to join, the soccercise<br />
sessions also benefit those who do<br />
play competitively, as in the case<br />
of Leanne Corns (35) who plays<br />
for Millmoor Ladies FC where Meg<br />
is the coach. “I was keen to join to<br />
improve my fitness as I don’t like<br />
the gym and our weekly training<br />
sessions with the club are more<br />
tactical drills than fitness related.<br />
I’ve played in a team since I was<br />
16 and soccercise has helped<br />
improve my strength so I can keep<br />
doing what I love. I’ve scored<br />
some cracking goals and can<br />
shoot a bit further since starting<br />
– my teammates give me banter<br />
that it’s all those squats we do at<br />
Warriors. My physio even said my<br />
muscles are stronger.”<br />
Re-engage with MeMo Fitness, £5 per session<br />
Monday 6pm-7pm at Team Sport, Fitzwilliam Road, Dalton<br />
Sports you played as<br />
a child can sometimes<br />
take a back seat when<br />
you become an adult.<br />
But it’s never too late<br />
to fall back in love with<br />
the game you loved.<br />
The Just Play sessions<br />
are a way for women<br />
to re-engage with football after<br />
having fallen out of football for<br />
whatever reason, be it work or<br />
family commitments, injury, or lack<br />
of confidence.<br />
The sessions are run by Megan<br />
Wylde and are a fuss-free kickabout<br />
on a casual basis with no pressure<br />
to commit to going each week.<br />
They are aimed at building fitness<br />
and footballing ability, focusing<br />
on passing and manoeuvring with<br />
the ball, with a five-a-side game<br />
to finish. Due to Meg’s connection<br />
with women’s football, she hopes<br />
the sessions will inspire some<br />
women to join leisure league or<br />
competitive clubs in the area.<br />
Becky Hague (31) is one of<br />
those hoping to get back into more<br />
competitive playing after missing an<br />
opportunity in her youth. She joined<br />
a five-a-side league down at Team<br />
Sport and takes part in the Just Play<br />
session for extra training. “I played<br />
football at school and was good<br />
enough to be offered a scholarship<br />
with Sheffield Wednesday Ladies.<br />
But I followed the wrong crowd<br />
and it never happened; I was<br />
devastated. The Just Play sessions<br />
are great for fitness which helps<br />
for the five-a-side league when<br />
you’re up against teams who play<br />
competitive football. But I’ve also<br />
made lots of friends. We can’t play<br />
for laughing half of time because<br />
it’s that much fun.”<br />
For Jodie Hartley (25) she joined<br />
Want to play? Find and book a session near you at<br />
www.englandfootball.com/play<br />
the Just Play session to ease<br />
herself back into football after<br />
having her son last year. “I’ve<br />
played football since I was six,<br />
starting off in a boys’ team before<br />
playing professionally for Leeds<br />
United and Sheffield United<br />
women’s teams up until the<br />
2018/19 season. The Just Play<br />
session is an easy way to get fit<br />
but also enjoy yourself and make<br />
new friends.”<br />
As well as improving fitness, the<br />
Just Play session is also a great<br />
way to improve mental wellbeing,<br />
which is what Kate Darby (27) has<br />
found since joining. She has played<br />
football and rugby since primary<br />
school, but quit her local teams<br />
after being impacted physically and<br />
mentally by Covid.<br />
“Social sport is my go-to for<br />
making myself feel better, but my<br />
confidence was low due to my<br />
poor fitness and social anxiety<br />
after being out of sport for a<br />
long time due to Covid. I was<br />
looking for leisure football where<br />
it didn’t involve pressure or strong<br />
commitment. The first Just Play<br />
session I went to I felt very at<br />
ease and comfortable and have<br />
rarely missed a session since. It<br />
has definitely helped me regain<br />
my fitness so that I feel more<br />
comfortable attending rugby, but<br />
more importantly, I have seen<br />
a positive improvement in my<br />
mental health.”<br />
Could you become a women’s<br />
recreational football provider?<br />
As well as goals to improve participation, the county FA also wants to<br />
encourage women to take up coaching, community, and recreational<br />
football facilitator roles. They have funding available specifically to help set<br />
up recreational sessions, including promotion, equipment and venues.<br />
For more information, contact Sheffield FA’s women’s<br />
recreational football officer, Sara Harnett via email<br />
sara.harnett@sheffieldfa.com<br />
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SPORT<br />
Remembering<br />
125 YEARS<br />
of the Montagu Cup<br />
This spring marks the 125th anniversary of<br />
the Montagu Cup final, a competition which<br />
is imprinted into the social and sporting<br />
fabric of South Yorkshire.<br />
Albert Burrows<br />
1945 final<br />
Broomhill v Denaby Rovers<br />
What started as a philanthropic<br />
endeavour to raise funds for<br />
Mexborough Montagu Hospital<br />
remains the highlight of the<br />
footballing calendar, with teams<br />
from across the Don and Dearne<br />
battling it out to have their names<br />
engraved on South Yorkshire’s<br />
‘Little FA Cup’.<br />
The first final was held on<br />
Easter Monday 1897 at Hampden<br />
Broomhill boys 1945<br />
Road, Mexborough and it is<br />
thought to be the oldest football<br />
competition to still play the final on<br />
its original venue.<br />
Ahead of this year’s final of<br />
Scawthorpe Athletic v Dog Daisy<br />
on Monday 18th <strong>April</strong>, we spoke<br />
to some of the past finalists<br />
to find out more about what it<br />
meant to reach the final of the<br />
Montagu Cup.<br />
Albert is reported to be the oldest<br />
surviving finalist and will turn 94<br />
the day before this year’s final. He<br />
played for Broomhill Boys in one of<br />
the most controversial finals in the<br />
Montagu Cup’s 125-year history<br />
where the winner was decided by a<br />
bizarre ‘next corner wins’ rule.<br />
“The powers that be said the<br />
game needed to be finished that<br />
day. We were drawing at full time,<br />
then extra time. Then the referee<br />
said the first team to get a corner<br />
would win. We lost and I was very<br />
disappointed, but that was the way<br />
it went.”<br />
‘‘The Broomhill<br />
team had to scrape<br />
together clothing<br />
coupons for their<br />
shirts’’<br />
That final was of course played<br />
six months before the end of the<br />
Second World War when the country<br />
was still living in the shadows<br />
of rationing and make-do-andmending.<br />
The Broomhill team had to<br />
scrape together clothing coupons for<br />
their shirts, but they only had enough<br />
for ten, so one player was left out.<br />
The tops<br />
were plain navy which meant the<br />
referee blended in, so a local woman<br />
stitched white Vs onto each player’s<br />
top.<br />
“We didn’t get trophies after the<br />
final, but the winning team got ten<br />
shillings each and we all got seven<br />
and six. It was a different world back<br />
then, never about money. Football<br />
was just a cheap and easy pastime.<br />
If I ever played in the Montagu Cup<br />
again I never got further than the<br />
second or third round but it was<br />
always an honour to play in it.”<br />
Albert became a referee after he<br />
stopped playing football and was<br />
often voted referee of the year before<br />
he retired aged 53. He’s hoping<br />
to be at the 125th final if his health<br />
allows.<br />
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Brian Thompson<br />
1961 final<br />
Parkgate Welfare v Ford<br />
United<br />
Brian is another veteran Montagu<br />
Cup finalist who still remembers<br />
what it was like to be in the finals<br />
sixty years ago. He will be 90 in<br />
<strong>March</strong> and was a 29-year-old joiner<br />
when he played for the winning side<br />
in 1961.<br />
“I started playing football at 16<br />
and lived for football at one time.<br />
Being tall, I was the goalkeeper for<br />
Parkgate in 1961 and we won 4-3.<br />
There are only three players from<br />
the final still alive sadly: me, Walter<br />
Taylor, and Terry Staniforth who<br />
scored two of the goals.”<br />
Brian’s Parkgate were the<br />
underdogs that day but went on to<br />
beat favourites Ford United after they<br />
went down to ten men after just 25<br />
minutes, destroying their hopes of<br />
winning two Montagu Cup finals on<br />
the bounce.<br />
Mally Whitehouse<br />
1968 & 1972 finals<br />
Swinton Athletic<br />
The nature of grassroots football<br />
means Montagu Cup medals were<br />
often held by family members<br />
spanning various generations. But<br />
the 1968 final is unique in that seven<br />
members of the Whitehouse family<br />
played a part in that game that has<br />
since been dubbed The Whitehouse<br />
Final.<br />
In the 1960s and ‘70s, the<br />
Whitehouses were a well-known<br />
footballing family in the Dearne.<br />
Mally’s Grandad Jack was the<br />
secretary of High Terrace when<br />
they won the Montagu Cup in 1966<br />
and ’67. He had eight children,<br />
with all four boys playing football –<br />
and all four taking part in the 1968<br />
Montagu Cup final, as well as two<br />
grandchildren.<br />
But family pride and bragging<br />
rights were at stake as the<br />
Whitehouses were split over the two<br />
rival teams<br />
Twins Keith and Ken played<br />
for their dad’s team High Terrace.<br />
While their brother Colin was a<br />
coach at Swinton Athletic, with his<br />
two sons Colin Jr and Mally playing<br />
alongside their uncle John ‘Shona’.<br />
But a penalty from Mally and a<br />
last-minute goal from Colin Jr saw<br />
Swinton defeat the two-time reigning<br />
champions, snatching a third<br />
‘‘Swinton Athletic<br />
remain the club<br />
with the most wins,<br />
currently standing<br />
at eight cup final<br />
victories. Mally,<br />
now 72, says he’s had<br />
a life-long affinity<br />
with the club’’<br />
consecutive win from their Grandad<br />
Jack’s beloved High Terrace.<br />
“We played in front of about<br />
4,000 spectators and in the second<br />
half play had to be stopped because<br />
the wooden perimeter fence broke<br />
due to the huge crowd.”<br />
Mally played for Swinton in<br />
another final in 1972 where they won<br />
6-0 and he scored two of the goals.<br />
Swinton Athletic remain the club with<br />
the most wins, currently standing at<br />
eight cup final victories. Mally, now<br />
72, says he’s had a life-long affinity<br />
with the club from being 14 and still<br />
goes to watch them on a Saturday.<br />
“I turned semi-professional in the<br />
‘70s so I didn’t play in the Montagu<br />
Cup again, but I have fonder<br />
memories of the cup than winning<br />
the Yorkshire or Midland Leagues. I<br />
remember going to watch the final<br />
at six or seven with thousands of<br />
others. That lads still want to play in<br />
it 125 years on is just brilliant and the<br />
money it’s raised over the years is<br />
unbelievable.”<br />
Coincidentally, Mally went on<br />
to work at Mexborough Montagu<br />
Hospital, which the tournament has<br />
raised over £70,000 for during it’s<br />
long history.<br />
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Peter Pettit<br />
Won three finals<br />
in 1970s<br />
For Denaby United and<br />
Mexborough Town<br />
The Pettit name has close ties<br />
to the Dearne, with the family’s<br />
shoe shop on Mexborough High<br />
Street having been operating for<br />
more years than the Montagu Cup<br />
has been played.<br />
But Peter was also wellknown<br />
for his footballing ability.<br />
Throughout our research, Pete’s<br />
name was one which came up<br />
regularly with everyone speaking<br />
so highly of him – both as a good<br />
footballer in his prime and an<br />
even better man for his continued<br />
support of grassroots football.<br />
A promising young player, he<br />
started playing competitively aged<br />
seven for the ‘national’ team, aka<br />
Mexborough St John’s CE School<br />
team who won the Clarke Shield in<br />
1959. He then went on to play for<br />
Rawmarsh St Mary’s who were the<br />
best youth team in the area in the<br />
early ‘60s.<br />
But there wasn’t the money in<br />
football in those days and it was<br />
better for a young man to have<br />
a job and play at the same time<br />
rather than devote all his efforts<br />
to football. Before he joined his<br />
family’s shop in 1968, Pete was<br />
an accountant earning £8 a week,<br />
but also played semi-professional<br />
football for Denaby United and<br />
would earn £10 a week for them.<br />
“To start with, our club only<br />
ever put their second team out<br />
for the Montagu Cup. But that all<br />
changed as it became such a focal<br />
point in local football. Every Easter<br />
Monday, you walked to Hampden<br />
Road whether you were playing or<br />
not. It became a real event and you<br />
could expect a couple thousand<br />
in the crowd – more than other<br />
local cups such as the Sheffield &<br />
Hallamshire County or Challenge<br />
cups. If I wasn’t playing I’d be quite<br />
envious and I’d be thinking ‘Why<br />
didn’t we enter, or why didn’t we<br />
put a better team in?’”<br />
Pete did go on to play – and<br />
win – in three finals in the 1970s:<br />
twice for Denaby United in 1970<br />
and ’74, and again for Mexborough<br />
Town in 1977. At the first final<br />
in 1970 against Conisbrough<br />
Northcliffe, the match ended 0-0<br />
and ‘midfield dynamo’ Pete had to<br />
watch the replay from the sidelines<br />
after breaking his nose in another<br />
match the previous week. But the<br />
Montagu Cup was nearly gone<br />
from under his nose after Denaby’s<br />
post-match drinking session got a<br />
bit too raucous.<br />
“We took the cup back with us<br />
to the Ship Inn at Swinton and we<br />
were all drinking beer out of it and<br />
passing it round. How we got away<br />
with it when the cup is probably<br />
worth about £35,000 I’ll never know<br />
and teams obviously wouldn’t be<br />
able to do it today. I never really<br />
remember who got it back but we<br />
must have done because it’s still<br />
the same cup used today.”<br />
Pete has continued to<br />
contribute to local football and<br />
his wife is now a trustee of the<br />
Montagu Hospital Comforts Fund.<br />
Wilf Race<br />
Won seven finals<br />
between<br />
1983-2006<br />
One of the most decorated of<br />
all past Montagu Cup finalists has<br />
got to be Wilf Race who has won<br />
seven finals collectively as both a<br />
player and manager. In the mid-<br />
90s, while managing Denaby and<br />
Cadeby Miners Welfare, he won<br />
three finals on the trot, a record<br />
which has been matched but never<br />
beaten.<br />
Like many past players, Wilf’s<br />
obsession with football began as<br />
soon as he could walk, kicking<br />
a tennis ball around until he got<br />
to play with a full-sized football<br />
at school. On turning senior, Wilf<br />
played at non-league standard<br />
and was also lucky enough to win<br />
the Montagu Cup three times with<br />
Mexborough Main Street in 1983,<br />
’84 and ’87.<br />
‘‘It was a great era<br />
as a player, but I’m<br />
fortunate that I got<br />
to enjoy it all again<br />
as a manager. It’s<br />
not quite the thrill of<br />
playing but it’s the<br />
next best thing ’’<br />
“There have always been bigger<br />
football competitions in the country,<br />
but locally, the Montagu Cup was<br />
the one you always wanted to win.<br />
If you got to the final there was a<br />
real buzz of excitement. The semis<br />
are played before Christmas so<br />
you had a long wait ‘till Easter for<br />
the final but you never thought of<br />
losing. A lot of players went into the<br />
final having booked the following<br />
day off work in anticipation of an<br />
afternoon of celebrating that always<br />
rolled into night.”<br />
Wilf went into management<br />
quite early after developing arthritis<br />
in his hip. At just 28, he’d thought<br />
football was over for him, but was<br />
offered a player manager role<br />
at Goldthorpe Colliery FC. This<br />
eased him into becoming manager<br />
of Denaby and Cadeby aged<br />
36 where he added to his Mont<br />
medals three times on the bounce<br />
from 1995-97.<br />
Another decade down the<br />
line and he lifted the trophy again<br />
For more information about the Montagu Cup, visit<br />
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in 2006 in Conisbrough’s Lord<br />
Conyers first and only final after<br />
his team scored three goals in 22<br />
minutes to win 3-0 over Houghton<br />
Main.<br />
“It was a great era as a player,<br />
but I’m fortunate that I got to enjoy<br />
it all again as a manager. It’s not<br />
quite the thrill of playing but it’s<br />
the next best thing. Playing in the<br />
Montagu Cup meant a lot to me,<br />
especially in front of such huge<br />
crowds, and I wanted my players<br />
to share that experience. The<br />
Montagu Cup has given a lot of<br />
young lads huge pride and great<br />
memories over the years.”<br />
For Wilf, now 63, he says it’s the<br />
tight knit bonds and camaraderie<br />
that have come with decades<br />
spent in local football that have<br />
enriched his life.<br />
“Because I was an out-and-out<br />
winger, I got kicked a lot and a<br />
few players have left scars on my<br />
legs. But you set aside that conflict<br />
on the pitch when you meet again<br />
years later. Montagu Cup players<br />
have always had mutual respect for<br />
each other.<br />
“And no matter where I go<br />
or who I meet, there’s always<br />
a connection to the cup. I went<br />
biking to Barnsley last year and<br />
was sat having a tea break when<br />
an old guy came up and asked if<br />
he could join. We got talking about<br />
football and he said he’d played in<br />
a Montagu Cup final and scored<br />
the winning goal. He was in his 70s<br />
and unsteady on his feet but for<br />
ten minutes he transformed back<br />
to the man he was in 1975 with<br />
the back of the net in front of him.<br />
It doesn’t matter how old you get,<br />
you just have to close your eyes<br />
and you’re back on that pitch at<br />
Hampden Road.”<br />
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Pop-up<br />
Millers<br />
museum<br />
coming to New York Stadium<br />
A new project aimed at raising<br />
the profile of Rotherham<br />
United Football Club is set to<br />
bring a pop-up museum to the<br />
club’s New York Stadium this<br />
summer.<br />
As part of Rotherham’s bid to become the<br />
world’s first Children’s Capital of Culture in<br />
2025, a group of young people aged 16 to 25<br />
at Rotherham United Community Sports Trust<br />
(RUCST) are leading a new plight to shed new<br />
light on the history of the football club.<br />
A large part of the project focuses on the<br />
creation of a pop-up museum gallery at the<br />
stadium, intertwining sport and art through<br />
various installations. There will be information<br />
boards about the club’s history, a film about<br />
fans’ living memories, and items donated that<br />
have a connection to both Rotherham United<br />
and the former Guest and Chrimes foundry<br />
which is on the same site as the stadium.<br />
The museum will also tell the stories of<br />
inspirational men and women who have played<br />
an important role in Rotherham’s sporting<br />
history, such as Arthur Wharton who became<br />
the world’s first black professional footballer<br />
when he signed for Rotherham Town in 1889.<br />
A grand opening for the pop-up museum<br />
is planned for Sunday 5th June as part of<br />
the jubilee celebrations where there will be<br />
performances by local choirs. Schools across<br />
the town are also invited to learn a 34-step<br />
dance routine, based around Arthur Wharton’s<br />
34 appearances for Rotherham Town, which<br />
will be performed on the day.<br />
Before the launch, the team of youth<br />
producers are looking for more memorabilia or<br />
memories from fans in the town to add to their<br />
collection. Just some of the first submissions<br />
they have received are a wooden rattle from<br />
the 1950s, and a framed photo of a junior<br />
squad from the same decade loaned by past<br />
youth players Terry Crofts and Craig Pepper.<br />
Even if you don’t have any memories<br />
or items to loan, you can still get involved<br />
by creating art for the museum gallery,<br />
volunteering as a steward for the launch, or<br />
just heading down to see the pop-up museum<br />
in all its glory.<br />
If you would like to share your<br />
memories, contact the RUCST team on<br />
01709 827 767 or email<br />
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The event will take place on Sunday 15th May at<br />
10am and will be followed at 12pm by a one-mile<br />
lap around Clifton Park for the fun run and schools’<br />
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This year, the route has been modified to<br />
address safety concerns on Centenary Way and<br />
give residents in Canklow and Clifton access to<br />
their vehicles. All roads on the route will be closed<br />
to vehicles with full marshalling in place for runners’<br />
safety.<br />
Starting and finishing in Clifton Park, the<br />
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heading towards the footpath on Centenary Way,<br />
before looping back into the town past Rotherham<br />
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The route then heads back up passed the park to<br />
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Sheffield<br />
Hatters:<br />
running rings around the<br />
competition for over 60 years<br />
The landscape of<br />
professional women’s<br />
sport has changed<br />
in recent years like<br />
never before, blurring<br />
the lines between<br />
stereotypically male and<br />
female sports.<br />
But one of the biggest playmakers<br />
in women’s sport in England<br />
is Sheffield’s Betty Codona, a<br />
trailblazer who broke down barriers<br />
to establish women’s basketball here<br />
in the UK over sixty years ago.<br />
Hers is a legacy of equality which<br />
has seen thousands of women and<br />
girls gain the confidence to take up a<br />
male-dominated sport – and proving<br />
they belong to be on the court. Her<br />
team, the Sheffield Hatters, was the<br />
first in the UK and has dominated<br />
English women’s basketball over<br />
the last thirty years, winning more<br />
honours than any other club in the<br />
league.<br />
Women and girls come from near<br />
and far to be part of the Hatters<br />
family, all in awe of the history<br />
and dedication of the club. Those<br />
inspired by Betty include her own<br />
brood who have gone on to shine<br />
in their own rights; her daughters<br />
Lorraine Gayle and Vanessa Ellis<br />
“<br />
Betty coached a record number of 500<br />
national league games and won 40 titles<br />
before retiring in 2009<br />
”<br />
went on to become accomplished<br />
players, as did granddaughter<br />
Georgia Gayle who is one of the<br />
Women’s Basketball League’s<br />
top players who has won a place<br />
in the national squad heading to<br />
EuroBasket this September.<br />
But you could say that Sheffield<br />
Hatters was formed on the rebound.<br />
In the early ‘60s, Betty was head<br />
of girls’ PE at Hatfield House Lane<br />
Comprehensive School in Sheffield<br />
alongside former Olympic athlete<br />
John Sherwood who was head of<br />
boys’ PE. She’d been thrust into<br />
teaching a few years previous after<br />
initially wanting to do a social studies<br />
degree at university after leaving<br />
Abbeydale Girls’ Grammar.<br />
“To get into university I needed a<br />
year of work experience and I didn’t<br />
want an office-based role. So an<br />
uncertified teacher was suggested.<br />
At that time, you didn’t apply you<br />
were just told where you were<br />
going,” she says<br />
Betty was first sent to Tinsley<br />
Secondary School before being<br />
moved to Burton Street School near<br />
Hillsborough.<br />
“It was a small school with just<br />
eight teachers and when I arrived<br />
they said they’d show me to my<br />
classroom which I thought was<br />
strange. I was under the impression<br />
I was there to help, but they put me<br />
in charge of my own class. I enjoyed<br />
teaching so much that I changed my<br />
mind on a career.”<br />
After studying at Sheffield<br />
Polytechnic, Betty started a job at<br />
Hatfield House Lane School. Her<br />
pupils included the late, great Marti<br />
Caine, or Lynne Shepherd as she<br />
was at school, and Betty remembers<br />
her turning up to a school swimming<br />
gala in a silver costume she wore for<br />
beauty contests.<br />
At Hatfield, which would later<br />
become Firth Park Secondary<br />
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“<br />
Betty’s daughter Vanessa is one of the<br />
brightest and most senior female coaching<br />
talents in the UK, currently working as<br />
assistant coach for Great Britain<br />
”<br />
School, they followed a traditional<br />
sport curriculum of netball, hockey,<br />
dance and gymnastics.<br />
“I had gotten the girls to a good<br />
standard across the board but<br />
lessons had become boring. I<br />
introduced new sports such as<br />
aerobics, badminton and basketball,<br />
which I’d never played before but<br />
had watched a few men’s games.<br />
It probably didn’t resemble real<br />
basketball but pupils enjoyed it.<br />
“If you give girls a chance they<br />
usually like it better than netball as<br />
there are no restricted zones, players<br />
can dribble, and it’s more physical.”<br />
In 1961, the 14- and 15-year-old<br />
girls who Betty originally introduced<br />
basketball to were getting ready<br />
to leave school and asked Betty<br />
if she’d start a team for them at<br />
Hatfield’s night school – leading to<br />
them being called the Hatters.<br />
“It was difficult at first as there<br />
were no other women or girls’ teams<br />
so we played in a men’s league<br />
as that’s all we could find. In the<br />
summer, we played in a netball<br />
league at British Steel’s sports<br />
ground on Bawtry Road and I<br />
remember being summoned by the<br />
committee accused of aggressive<br />
passing. Basketball is quick and<br />
straight passing rather than the onehanded<br />
loopy passes in netball.”<br />
Another barrier the Hatters<br />
had was kit. With them being the<br />
first team of its kind, there was<br />
an obvious absence of women’s<br />
basketball kit suppliers in the<br />
country. So the team made their own.<br />
“We wore dresses in the early<br />
days and each player made one for<br />
themselves. We bought navy highneck<br />
tops and shorts for underneath,<br />
but made the dress with a turquoise<br />
stripe across the middle. We also<br />
had a red pleated dress with white<br />
edging that we made.”<br />
Gradually, women’s basketball<br />
took off. But not until Betty sent an<br />
article out to a national magazine<br />
enquiring about any other women’s<br />
teams. By 1978 – 17 years after the<br />
Hatters was formed - there were<br />
enough women’s teams to start a<br />
national league.<br />
Since then, the Sheffield Hatters<br />
have added on average a trophy<br />
to their collection with each new<br />
season. Betty coached a record<br />
number of 500 national league<br />
games and won 40 titles before<br />
retiring in 2009.<br />
Today, the Hatters’ head coach<br />
is Betty’s daughter Vanessa who is<br />
one of the brightest and most senior<br />
female coaching talents in the UK,<br />
currently working as assistant coach<br />
for Great Britain women’s basketball<br />
team. She has also been chosen as<br />
the only basketball representative<br />
out of 24 coaches chosen for UK<br />
Sport’s female coaches leadership<br />
programme to address underrepresentation<br />
of female coaches in<br />
high performance sports.<br />
This season, the Hatters<br />
have a senior team in the WBBL<br />
Championship as well as a division<br />
two team. They also have various<br />
junior teams starting from under<br />
sevens to encourage girls to take<br />
up basketball from a young age<br />
irrespective of ability. Over the years<br />
hundreds have trained and played<br />
with the club with Betty and the<br />
coaching staff, which includes her<br />
grandson Tyler Gayle, nurture the<br />
girls’ development.<br />
“Basketball provides life skills<br />
like commitment, resilience,<br />
determination and reliability. We set<br />
a standard at the Hatters for good<br />
behaviour all round and mutual<br />
respect is given by all.”<br />
Throughout the last sixty years,<br />
Betty has earned respect from<br />
everyone around her, not only for<br />
her work on the court but also to<br />
keep the club alive against all odds<br />
through years for fundraising.<br />
“There just isn’t enough money<br />
in grassroots sport. But basketball<br />
appeals to children from ethnic<br />
minorities and disadvantaged<br />
backgrounds, so affordability is<br />
often a big problem. We’ve always<br />
fundraised so that we don’t have to<br />
turn players away.”<br />
None more so than last season,<br />
their 60th year, when the club’s future<br />
was thrown into doubt. Owing to<br />
the pandemic, club funds resulted<br />
in the Hatters being withdrawn from<br />
the WBBL – not the anniversary they<br />
deserved. Vanessa went to Austria<br />
to coach and many players were<br />
forced to find a substitute club for the<br />
season or miss out on playing.<br />
But Betty wasn’t about to see the<br />
club she’d spent sixty years building<br />
just fold. Through gallant efforts,<br />
the team raised over £100,000 to<br />
pay their overheads and recruit new<br />
players, enabling them to re-join the<br />
league for the 2021/22 season.<br />
Thankfully, the WBBL team is back<br />
to its winning ways, with Hatters<br />
veterans like Helen Naylor, Naomi<br />
Campbell and Georgia Gayle playing<br />
alongside new recruits like USA<br />
born Mari Stewart and Cypriot Elysa<br />
Ioannou. They’re hoping to add<br />
another trophy to their tally of 65 as<br />
the season comes to a close in May.<br />
And with generation after<br />
generation of players rising through<br />
the ranks, long may the Sheffield<br />
Hatters reign supreme as the<br />
epitome of women’s ambition in<br />
sport.<br />
For more about the<br />
Sheffield Hatters, visit<br />
www.sheffieldhatters.com<br />
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BUSINESS<br />
Bags of benefits<br />
at The Business Village<br />
With an ever-changing business<br />
landscape over the last two years,<br />
there has been a surge in new<br />
start-ups launched by budding<br />
entrepreneurs.<br />
People who toyed with the idea of being their own<br />
boss for years have finally found the confidence to<br />
take that leap of faith and turn a hobby into a fully<br />
fledged business.<br />
“<br />
The Business Village has<br />
continued to be dynamic,<br />
offering innovative options<br />
for startups, scaleups or<br />
seasoned brands.<br />
”<br />
But while working from home has its benefits, it’s<br />
not for everyone. When you outgrow your dining table<br />
or spare bedroom, you might be looking for a flexible<br />
and inspiring workspace that has all the amenities to<br />
function at an affordable cost that helps keep your<br />
fledgling business stay afloat.<br />
Since starting 35 years ago, The Business Village<br />
has continued to be dynamic, offering innovative<br />
options for startups, scaleups or seasoned<br />
brands. They now have two sites which are over<br />
90 percent occupied by a variety of businesses,<br />
from couriers and contractors to a photographer<br />
and a women’s gym.<br />
As a not-for-profit organisation, The Business Village<br />
continually reinvests into the site’s infrastructure and<br />
facilities. At the beginning of last year, they opened a<br />
new £2.4million building with 9,000sqft of state-of-theart<br />
workspaces and hybrid units.<br />
We spoke to one of their tenants, Love Luxe<br />
A business centre isn’t the<br />
first place you’d expect to<br />
find designer bags, shoes<br />
and clothing.<br />
But when the woman behind luxury resale<br />
business Love Luxe was looking for premises<br />
to house her burgeoning stock, the flexibility<br />
of The Business Village proved the perfect fit.<br />
Charlotte Jones (33) launched Love Luxe<br />
in 2016 when a stroke of luck saw her cross<br />
paths with a pair of pre-loved Louboutin boots<br />
that were cheap but in excellent condition.<br />
Although tempted to keep them for herself,<br />
Charlotte knew there was money to be made<br />
if she sold them on.<br />
She listed them online and they sold the<br />
following day making her a three-figure profit.<br />
As the demand for pre-owned designer<br />
goods snowballed, she ploughed any spare<br />
money she had into snapping up bargains<br />
and was soon earning enough to quit her<br />
full-time job.<br />
But the more her stock and client-base<br />
grew, the more Charlotte realised it was time<br />
to give working from home the boot.<br />
“With young children at home it wasn’t<br />
convenient having customers come to the<br />
house. I popped into the Business Village<br />
on the off chance as I only live ten minutes<br />
away. The main building wasn’t quite right for<br />
me, but I was shown around the new building<br />
which wasn’t quite ready then.<br />
“As soon as I saw the double doors, I knew<br />
it would be perfect. Having its own access<br />
meant I could operate like a retail outlet for<br />
in-person appointments, but I also had the<br />
option of having the adjoining office to use for<br />
storage and admin.”<br />
Hot on the heels of its completion,<br />
Charlotte got the keys to her new workshop<br />
and office space on 1st January 2021<br />
and she has transformed the space into a<br />
luxurious and welcoming retail unit with eyecatching<br />
flower wall and high quality product<br />
displays. Due to demand, Charlotte has<br />
taken on an employee and now sells globally<br />
to customers as far away as South Africa<br />
and Japan.<br />
“The building is lovely and airy and a great<br />
place to work from. It wouldn’t have increased<br />
my productivity being in a unit on an industrial<br />
unit cooped up behind a roller door. I also<br />
wanted a place that would enable growth<br />
in the long-term, not somewhere I’d have to<br />
move from in a year or two. The Business<br />
Village is busy, but I know the space available<br />
will cover me in the future if I need to expand.”<br />
Charlotte has become renowned for her<br />
personalised service both buying and selling<br />
pre-loved designer goods. She has invested<br />
in a website to cut out the high commission<br />
rates of auction or selling sites, but the<br />
Barnsley premises with good motorway<br />
links enables clients to easily travel from<br />
around the country to see and try products<br />
before purchasing.<br />
www.loveluxe.co.uk<br />
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Motley & Jekyll<br />
Motley and his crew<br />
bring a wild side to the Peaks<br />
The next time you flock to the Peak District, the<br />
most eagle-eyed of visitors may spot an exotic<br />
feathered friend or two flying as free as a bird.<br />
Against the craggy landscape and<br />
scenic moorlands, there have been<br />
sightings of a multicoloured macaw<br />
named Motley soaring high above<br />
the Peaks.<br />
Harlequin macaw Motley is one of<br />
five birds who belong to zoo biology<br />
herself the technique of free flight<br />
training and has worked with Motley<br />
and her small flock to fly without any<br />
restraints. Starting with recall training<br />
using a harness and long bungee<br />
cord, Chloe built up Motley’s training<br />
gradually and he is now at a point<br />
“<br />
They’re smart animals and have a<br />
similar intelligence level as a five-yearold.<br />
In the wild they can fly for up to<br />
17 miles a day, yet as pets they’re often<br />
locked in cages<br />
”<br />
student Chloe Brown, originally<br />
from Barnsley but who now lives in<br />
Nottingham. Motley will be three in<br />
June and Chloe has hand-fed and<br />
raised him from being 21 weeks old.<br />
Having wanted to give Motley the<br />
best life possible and the freedom he<br />
should naturally have, Chloe taught<br />
where he’s out flying freely daily,<br />
much like a dog owner taking their<br />
dog for a walk.<br />
She has since started training<br />
her other four birds with the hope<br />
that they too will join Motley on his<br />
adventures.<br />
Over the last couple of years,<br />
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“<br />
We waited for her wings to grow<br />
back before starting any training but<br />
she also now free flies<br />
”<br />
Chloe has used social media to<br />
raise awareness and educate<br />
people about the challenges and<br />
complexities of keeping birds<br />
as pets.<br />
“Birds are often misunderstood<br />
as pets, which is why on average<br />
they’re rehomed two or three times in<br />
the first year of their life. My pet hate<br />
is being asked if he talks – birds are<br />
so much more than that.<br />
“They’re smart animals and<br />
have a similar intelligence level as<br />
a five-year-old. In the wild they can<br />
fly for up to 17 miles a day, yet as<br />
pets they’re often locked in cages<br />
with a poor diet and no enrichment.<br />
If you get their care wrong, they can<br />
develop behavioural and hormonal<br />
issues,” Chloe says.<br />
Chloe knows first-hand the<br />
detrimental effects irresponsible<br />
ownership can have.<br />
She rescued Jekyll the macaw<br />
18 months ago after he had been<br />
abused, hit and had no toys or<br />
engagement. He lived in a cage<br />
where he couldn’t stretch his wings.<br />
“Birds don’t forget trauma or<br />
mistreatment and it’s been a long<br />
and emotional process to rehabilitate<br />
Jekyll. He has no trust in other<br />
people and is very unpredictable, but<br />
we’ve made great progress and he<br />
now free flies around our local park.”<br />
Zeba the Patagonia Conure was<br />
also rescued after she’d ended up in<br />
a bird sanctuary as a result of being<br />
bought as a lockdown pet.<br />
“She’d had her wings clipped so<br />
couldn’t fly and was very withdrawn,<br />
so we waited for her wings to grow<br />
back before starting any training but<br />
she also now free flies. She’s very<br />
cheeky and loves to wake us all up<br />
by chanting her name in a morning.”<br />
He might think he’s the ruler of<br />
them all now, but yellow collared<br />
macaw Link has had to fight for his<br />
place in the flock after being sold<br />
to Chloe with two deadly diseases<br />
from someone she thought was<br />
a reputable breeder. He spent a<br />
year with one of Chloe’s friends<br />
and after multiple blood tests was<br />
finally cleared fit to join the flock<br />
last December.<br />
“Thankfully I am very strict with<br />
quarantine and disease testing, but<br />
I was devastated at the thought that<br />
I could have lost all my birds due to<br />
one irresponsible human. Having<br />
diseases like PBFD and polyoma<br />
would be a death sentence for the<br />
majority of birds but thankfully Link<br />
has pulled through and it wasn’t<br />
transmitted to the others.”<br />
And last but by no means least,<br />
the baby of the bunch is Salem<br />
the rose breasted Galah cockatoo<br />
with his striking crown. He’s not a<br />
year old yet, but the pink and grey<br />
bird has already started training on<br />
a harness.<br />
“Most people don’t realise that<br />
birds don’t instinctively know how<br />
to fly or even stand on a perch<br />
and they can be very clumsy when<br />
they’re young. Training takes a lot of<br />
patience and you have to make it fun<br />
and engaging for the bird.”<br />
While she has five birds of her<br />
own, she doesn’t recommend others<br />
follow suit, particularly with larger<br />
birds like macaws. At home, the<br />
flock have their own heated room<br />
complete with lots of toys, branches<br />
fixed to the walls and swings<br />
hanging from the ceiling. Chloe also<br />
has a net covering the entire garden<br />
so the birds can fly out the house<br />
and back in at their leisure.<br />
Motley even goes with Chloe and<br />
her partner on holiday, making his<br />
nest in their caravan as they tour the<br />
country from Scotland to London.<br />
Living a life of luxury, the birds<br />
are fed a healthy balanced diet<br />
of organic pressed pellets, fresh<br />
vegetable chop, mixed nuts, and<br />
the occasional treat of fresh fruit.<br />
And with healthy macaws having a<br />
lifespan of up to 90 years, Chloe has<br />
already written Motley and his crew<br />
into her will so she knows they will<br />
continue to be looked after.<br />
“My life revolves around the<br />
birds but the bond I have is unlike<br />
anything else.”<br />
You can follow Motley’s<br />
adventures on Instagram<br />
and Tik Tok<br />
@motleys_adventurez<br />
Salem Link Zeba<br />
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Legal<br />
talk<br />
With Elmhirst Parker Solicitors<br />
Talking to your family about<br />
your wishes for the future<br />
While nobody likes to think<br />
about a time when they are no<br />
longer around, talking to loved<br />
ones about what you would like<br />
to happen after you pass away<br />
is important.<br />
Making clear your future wishes for financial<br />
and practical matters can help put your mind<br />
at ease and make things much easier for those<br />
closest to you when the inevitable comes. But how<br />
do you approach the subject?<br />
“<br />
wills disputes are<br />
common, especially when<br />
emotions are raw, and<br />
you should take steps to<br />
prevent a bitter family<br />
argument over money<br />
”<br />
Elmhirst Parker’s wills and probate specialist,<br />
Matthew Murphy, has some tips for how to bring<br />
up difficult subjects such as wills, inheritance<br />
and Power of Attorney with family and friends.<br />
including what should happen to your property<br />
after you pass away, providing for those closest to<br />
you, and choosing who should take care of your<br />
financial affairs should you lose the capacity to do<br />
so yourself.<br />
Starting the<br />
conversation<br />
It can be challenging to bring up such<br />
serious matters without warning, so you should<br />
introduce the topic with a starting point. Perhaps<br />
your circumstances have changed; if you have<br />
remarried, had children or grandchildren, or<br />
moved home, it can be a good time to raise such<br />
matters with family members. It will seem more<br />
natural. If you are yet to make a will or Power of<br />
Attorney, this can also be a great way to introduce<br />
the conversation to your loved ones.<br />
Discussing your will<br />
One of the key discussions you will need to<br />
have is what should happen to your money and<br />
property after you pass away. Your estate may<br />
seem straightforward, and perhaps it is even<br />
obvious how your assets will be distributed.<br />
But wills disputes are common, especially<br />
when emotions are raw, and you should take<br />
steps to prevent a bitter family argument<br />
over money.<br />
Explain why you wish for your property to<br />
be distributed as you have set out, and do not<br />
be afraid that some people might feel hurt by<br />
what you have chosen to do. Wills discussions<br />
could even help you decide what is best for your<br />
family before you make a will or encourage you<br />
to amend your will to provide for your family in a<br />
way you never previously considered.<br />
Choosing Executors<br />
and Attorneys<br />
An important part of planning for the future is<br />
choosing who you would like to be responsible<br />
for your affairs after you have lost capacity or<br />
passed away.<br />
Attorneys<br />
A Power of Attorney gives someone else the<br />
power to make decisions on your behalf after<br />
losing the mental capacity to do so for yourself.<br />
You should choose a person you trust to be your<br />
financial attorney, and you should discuss the role<br />
with them in advance and ensure they are able<br />
and willing to act for you.<br />
Executors<br />
An executor is responsible for administering<br />
your estate after you have passed away.<br />
This can be quite an involved and time-consuming<br />
role, so it is essential that you discuss it with<br />
those who you would like to step in. You can<br />
appoint several executors, and you may even<br />
wish to appoint a professional such as a<br />
solicitor to deal with the more challenging<br />
parts of estate administration.<br />
*This is not legal advice; it is intended to provide<br />
information of general interest about current legal issues.<br />
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Defending your castle<br />
with a Property Protection Trust<br />
With Rob Firth, Yorkshire Rose Wills and Funeral Plans<br />
‘An Englishman’s home is his<br />
castle’ is a well-known phrase<br />
that has purportedly been<br />
around for over 400 years - and<br />
one that we hear quite regularly<br />
when clients want to talk about<br />
protecting their home for the<br />
benefit of the children.<br />
For this reason, a Property Protection Trust<br />
(PPT) is by far one of the most common types<br />
of trusts included in Wills. They are designed to<br />
ensure that the deceased person’s share of the<br />
property passes to their beneficiaries, while at the<br />
same time safeguarding the survivor and their<br />
ability to stay in the family home.<br />
In most cases, these beneficiaries are the<br />
children of the deceased, and the survivor is their<br />
spouse or civil partner, so it is understandable that<br />
‘‘As approved Wills writers,<br />
we can talk you through<br />
these to ascertain if a PPT<br />
would be right for you,<br />
considering the shared<br />
control over the property<br />
with the newly appointed<br />
Trustees.’’<br />
they want to protect both parties equally. A PPT<br />
does just that.<br />
Without a PPT, carrying out the deceased’s<br />
wishes becomes harder. There is no guarantee<br />
that their children will ultimately receive a share of<br />
the family home.<br />
• What if the surviving partner remarries?<br />
• What if the surviving partner re-writes their<br />
Will and changes the beneficiaries?<br />
• What if the surviving partner requires long<br />
term care?<br />
Likewise, if the share is gifted directly to the<br />
children they could force the surviving partner out<br />
of the property, insisting they move or downsize to<br />
release equity. They may request rent be paid on<br />
their share or even that they move in themselves.<br />
And what then if a child divorces?<br />
To get the PPT underway, we first establish<br />
whether the house is owned as Joint Tenants or<br />
Tenants in Common. This is because the property<br />
must be held as Tenants in Common to enter the<br />
Trust. Once we have the property held as Tenants<br />
in Common, we can set up the PPT on the death<br />
of the first spouse or partner.<br />
While that all may sound great, there are a<br />
couple of considerations with regards to a PPT.<br />
As approved Wills writers, we can talk you through<br />
these to ascertain if a PPT would be right for you,<br />
considering the shared control over the property<br />
with the newly appointed Trustees.<br />
There are fees associated with setting the trust<br />
up and transferring the property into the trust.<br />
There is also the potential for Inheritance Tax (IHT)<br />
that this creates since assets in the PPT would be<br />
treated as part of the life tenant’s estate for IHT<br />
purposes.<br />
Questions that regularly crop up are:<br />
• Can the property be sold, and the monies used<br />
for the surviving spouse or partner to move?<br />
• Can the surviving spouse or partner end the<br />
trust if they so wish?<br />
The answer to both is yes, though each<br />
party would need to work together to ensure it<br />
happens smoothly.<br />
Just like all Trusts, each one has a different<br />
purpose, so we ensure that it is suited to your<br />
circumstances and situation. If a PPT is something<br />
you’d like to know more about, give us a call<br />
and we can go through it in full over a cup of tea<br />
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FAMILY<br />
Taken from Here<br />
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The humour poems take a<br />
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HOMES<br />
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Leafy prints and natureinspired<br />
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GARDENING<br />
Out<br />
garden<br />
in the<br />
with Garden Designer Sally Cunis<br />
As mad as <strong>March</strong> hares<br />
After the heavy battering of the endless storms in<br />
February, the big garden clear up can begin. We<br />
have lost several trees to high winds and have had<br />
to hard prune a wild rose which has been ripped<br />
off a wall. No doubt many gardens in our region<br />
will have suffered damage to fences and sheds or<br />
lost trees and large shrubs.<br />
Iris reticulata<br />
Bergenia<br />
Looking on the positive side,<br />
the losses may have opened up<br />
a new view, felled a dangerous,<br />
rotten tree and perhaps created the<br />
opportunity to plan a further planting<br />
area previously overshadowed by<br />
a large tree. Some of the logs from<br />
our fallen trees will be piled up<br />
against a wall to create homes for<br />
insects and invertebrates.<br />
We have started to construct<br />
a natural pond for wildlife in our<br />
garden, one end of which will be a<br />
bog garden planted with yellow flag<br />
iris from a friend and sedges which<br />
grow naturally in the garden. Even<br />
in its incomplete state, a family of<br />
hares, a fox and a buzzard have<br />
already been spotted exploring<br />
the margins of the pond by a trail<br />
cam newly installed on a nearby<br />
tree! The hares are regular visitors<br />
and are well named “as mad as<br />
<strong>March</strong> hares” as they have been<br />
chasing each other round the field<br />
in big circles. They are a delight to<br />
watch although they do prune newly<br />
Potatoes chitting<br />
planted dogwood (Cornus) and<br />
roses slightly shorter than I would<br />
prefer!<br />
<strong>March</strong> is the last opportunity<br />
to prune roses and to plant bare<br />
rooted material such as mixed<br />
native hedging, shrubs, roses and<br />
soft fruit. Pop down to your local<br />
nursery to see what is available and<br />
fill a few gaps. If they cannot be<br />
planted out immediately on arrival,<br />
heel into a trench until they can<br />
be planted in their final position;<br />
container grown plants can be<br />
planted throughout the year.<br />
Spring is a delightful time of the<br />
year. Snowdrops still nod merrily<br />
whilst dainty miniature iris, pale<br />
primroses nestling in banks, cheery<br />
yellow daffodils and luscious<br />
helleborus orientalis all combine<br />
to lift the spirits. As soon as they<br />
finish flowering, move snowdrops<br />
“in the green” to spread around<br />
the garden. Over the last two years<br />
my mother and my friend Caroline<br />
have given me snowdrops for my<br />
Rainbow chard and<br />
Enorma runner beans<br />
Hellebore<br />
birthday to add to the snowdrop<br />
walk I am creating along a wiggly<br />
path. It is a good time to lift and<br />
move hellebore seedlings, to<br />
split, lift and replant Bergenias,<br />
perennials and grasses. Now is the<br />
last chance to sow sweet peas if not<br />
already done so.<br />
In the vegetable garden, prepare<br />
raised beds by digging over if<br />
necessary, removing perennial<br />
weeds and improving the soil by<br />
adding a thick layer of compost as<br />
a mulch. Existing soft fruit and the<br />
emerging stems of rhubarb will also<br />
benefit from a good layer of mulch.<br />
At this time of year, first early<br />
potatoes can be chitting on a<br />
window sill in a frost-free building<br />
ready to plant out at the end of<br />
<strong>March</strong>. There is a large choice of<br />
seed potatoes available. If space is<br />
limited, share a couple of varieties<br />
with a friend and try growing them<br />
in a large container, “earthing up”<br />
by topping up with soil as the<br />
new growth emerges. Check your<br />
seed packets and decide what<br />
to sow this year. Swiss chard,<br />
Primula vulgaris<br />
Hellebore and snowdrops<br />
Enorma runner beans, curly kale,<br />
leeks, parsley (flat and curly) and<br />
salad leaves are favourites in my<br />
household; in addition to sweetpeas<br />
I grow Nigella and Amni major to fill<br />
any gaps in the border. This year I<br />
am experimenting with wildflower<br />
seeds encased in little clay balls<br />
laced with chilli to deter predators.<br />
The list of tasks is endless at this<br />
time of the year from pruning,<br />
planting and the first cut of the<br />
grass but don’t forget to make time<br />
to enjoy the dawn chorus and the<br />
spring bulbs before summer is<br />
upon us.<br />
Happy Gardening<br />
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GARDENING<br />
Make<br />
nature<br />
room<br />
for<br />
with wildlife<br />
gardening<br />
Britain is one of<br />
the most nature<br />
depleted nations in<br />
the world, with loss or<br />
degradation of natural<br />
habitats causing the<br />
tapestry of biodiversity<br />
to become threadbare.<br />
An urbanised Britain is leading<br />
to a wildlife crisis. Over 40 percent<br />
of the 8,000 species in the UK are<br />
in decline, with one in ten at risk<br />
of extinction.<br />
But how can we help<br />
nature recover?<br />
Rotherham Climate Action has<br />
recently partnered with Sheffield<br />
and Rotherham Wildlife Trust and<br />
Environment Action to form Nature<br />
Recovery Rotherham to stand up<br />
for nature and raise awareness of<br />
this pressing cause. On Wednesday<br />
23rd <strong>March</strong>, they will be declaring<br />
a nature emergency to encourage<br />
communities and the council to do<br />
even more to help.<br />
But there are lots of simple ways<br />
you can get involved to preserve the<br />
beauty and importance of nature to<br />
our entire ecosystem.<br />
Wildlife gardening is a really great<br />
way to get into connecting closely<br />
with nature right on your doorstep<br />
while reducing your environmental<br />
impact.<br />
It doesn’t matter if you have a<br />
windowsill, small garden, or large<br />
piece of land, there are many ways<br />
to make habitats for animals, plants<br />
and insects.<br />
Grow a wildpatch<br />
Long grass, peppered with<br />
flowers, is one of the rarest<br />
habitats in our well-tended<br />
gardens, yet it is incredibly<br />
beneficial for wildlife.<br />
Bring a touch of wild to your<br />
garden by planting wildflowers that<br />
provide vital resources to support<br />
a wide range of insects, create<br />
feeding opportunities for birds,<br />
and shelter small mammals that<br />
couldn’t survive in urban areas.<br />
Set aside some lawn, leaving<br />
it to grow, and wait to see what<br />
arrives. The less pristine the lawn,<br />
the more promising it is for wildlife.<br />
Create a container garden<br />
Pots and containers are a<br />
great way of introducing<br />
wildlife features into more<br />
formal areas of the garden<br />
like the patio, or outside the<br />
front door.<br />
Get creative with your<br />
containers. Try an old watering<br />
can, chimney pot, kettle or teapot,<br />
holey boots, metal pails and<br />
buckets, paint tins, pans and<br />
colanders - the sky’s the limit.<br />
Whether you choose to plant<br />
herbs, meadow flowers, or<br />
hanging basket flowers, a variety<br />
of plants will attract different<br />
species. But always remember<br />
to use peat-free compost in any<br />
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GARDENING<br />
Blooms to choose for<br />
butterflies and bees<br />
Choose seasonal, nectarrich<br />
plants for bees and<br />
butterflies and you’ll have a<br />
colourful, fluttering display<br />
in your garden for many<br />
months.<br />
Bees in particular are under<br />
threat in the UK; there are 25<br />
species of bumblebee, of which<br />
three are already extinct in Britain<br />
due to loss or degradation of<br />
habitat. Bees are vitally important<br />
Create a mini pond<br />
for amphibians<br />
Adding a pond is one of the<br />
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wildlife in your garden. But<br />
it doesn’t need to feel like a<br />
task in itself to create one.<br />
A washing-up bowl, a large<br />
plant pot, or a disused sink could<br />
all be repurposed as ponds,<br />
providing you make sure creatures<br />
can get in and out.<br />
Even a small pond can be<br />
home to an interesting range of<br />
wildlife, including damsel and<br />
dragonflies, frogs and newts. It<br />
could also become a feeding<br />
ground for birds, hedgehogs and<br />
bats – the best natural garden<br />
for pollinating hundreds of plant<br />
species, including many crops.<br />
Without them, our ecosystem<br />
would suffer immensely.<br />
The aim is to prolong the nectar<br />
season by adding seasonal<br />
flowers and plants with early and<br />
late flowering blooms. In spring,<br />
examples are primrose, sweet<br />
rocket, Aubretia and Honesty.<br />
Summer flowering plants are<br />
Buddleia, honeysuckle, lavender<br />
and Hebe.<br />
pest controllers.<br />
All amphibians require ponds<br />
to breed, so don’t add fish as<br />
they will eat any eggs or spawn.<br />
Add at least two water plants<br />
to oxygenate the water and<br />
provide food and shelter, such as<br />
water forget-me-not, starwort, or<br />
miniature waterlily.<br />
Once you’ve planted and added<br />
gravel or stones to your mini<br />
pond remember to only fill it with<br />
rainwater. Tap water has too many<br />
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may need to give your mini pond<br />
a little maintenance throughout the<br />
year to remove any algae or silt.<br />
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as tigers are worldwide. In<br />
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on the International Union for<br />
Conservation of Nature’s red list<br />
as vulnerable to extinction.<br />
Hedgehogs are Britain’s<br />
only spiny mammals and their<br />
appearance has little changed<br />
in 15 million years. They’re often<br />
found in gardens, hedgerows,<br />
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You might think they just eat<br />
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In the garden, avoid using<br />
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let the hedgehogs do their job of<br />
natural pest controllers. Check<br />
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keep any plant or sports netting<br />
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FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Recipe<br />
time<br />
Herby spring<br />
chicken pot pie<br />
Fruity layered flapjack<br />
Flavoured with lemon<br />
and raspberry, these<br />
zingy flapjack bars are<br />
the perfect springtime<br />
treat.<br />
Ingredients<br />
75g butter<br />
125g soft brown sugar<br />
2 tbsp golden syrup<br />
250g porridge oats<br />
30g flaked almonds<br />
3 lemons, zested and juiced<br />
3 medium eggs<br />
200g golden caster sugar<br />
3tbsp plain flour<br />
100g raspberries<br />
Method<br />
Heat the oven to 180C/fan<br />
160C/gas 4. Line a square 20cm<br />
cake tin.<br />
Gently melt the butter, soft<br />
brown sugar and golden syrup<br />
together and stir in the oats,<br />
almonds and a pinch of the lemon<br />
zest. Tip the mixture into the lined<br />
tin and pat down flat with the back<br />
of a spoon.<br />
Bake for 30 minutes or until the<br />
base is set and crisp. Take it out of<br />
the oven and leave to cool while<br />
you make the topping<br />
Mix the lemon zest, eggs and<br />
golden caster sugar, then stir in<br />
the flour and finally the juice. Beat<br />
until smooth. Pour this carefully<br />
over the flapjack base and drop<br />
the raspberries all over it at<br />
intervals.<br />
Bake for a further 15 minutes,<br />
or until the top of the mixture has<br />
set, then cool completely before<br />
cutting into bars. Dust with icing<br />
sugar to serve.<br />
Ideal for busy<br />
weeknights, this<br />
one-pan chicken pie<br />
with a crispy filo pastry<br />
crust is a lighter option<br />
great for spring.<br />
Prep 10 mins<br />
Cook 30 mins<br />
Serves 4<br />
Ingredients<br />
2 tbsp olive oil, plus a little extra for<br />
brushing over the pastry<br />
6 boneless chicken thighs or 2<br />
chicken breasts, chopped into<br />
1cm pieces<br />
Bunch spring onions, sliced into<br />
3cm pieces<br />
250g frozen spinach, or two large<br />
handfuls of fresh spinach<br />
200g mushrooms, sliced<br />
350ml hot chicken stock<br />
Half tbsp wholegrain mustard<br />
200g frozen peas<br />
200ml half-fat crème fraîche<br />
Small bunch tarragon, leaves finely<br />
chopped<br />
Small bunch parsley, finely<br />
chopped<br />
270g pack filo pastry<br />
Method<br />
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/<br />
gas 6.<br />
Heat the oil in a large,<br />
shallow casserole dish on a<br />
medium heat. Fry the chicken until<br />
sealed then remove and set aside.<br />
Fry the spring onions for 3<br />
minutes, then stir through the<br />
spinach and cook for two mins or<br />
until it’s starting to wilt. Add the<br />
mushrooms until softened.<br />
Add the chicken, stock and<br />
mustard and simmer uncovered for<br />
ten minutes.<br />
Stir in the peas, crème fraîche<br />
and herbs, then remove from the<br />
heat.<br />
Scrunch the filo pastry sheets<br />
over the mixture, brush with a little<br />
oil and bake for 15-20 mins or until<br />
golden brown.<br />
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FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT<br />
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Prep 20 mins<br />
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Serves 4<br />
Ingredients<br />
2.5 tbsp olive oil<br />
200g pancetta (cubes or slices) or<br />
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Small bunch of parsley, roughly<br />
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2 small bunches of basil, leaves<br />
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4 large mint sprigs, leaves picked<br />
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4 egg yolks<br />
50g parmesan, grated, plus extra<br />
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125g asparagus, woody ends<br />
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125g long-stemmed<br />
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25g frozen peas<br />
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dente. Add the asparagus and<br />
broccoli for the final 3 minutes of<br />
cooking time, and the peas for the<br />
final 30 seconds.<br />
With a slotted spoon or tongs,<br />
lift the spaghetti into the pan with<br />
the pancetta, allowing a little water<br />
to be added with each addition of<br />
pasta. Reserve a mug of cooking<br />
water before draining the veg.<br />
Add the veg to the pan with the<br />
spaghetti and pancetta. Keep the<br />
heat set as low as possible and<br />
ensure there is a small puddle<br />
of the pasta cooking water in the<br />
bottom of the pan to loosen the<br />
sauce.<br />
Add the herb mixture along<br />
with the the egg and cheese<br />
over the warm spaghetti and<br />
toss everything together for a few<br />
minutes, ensuring each strand<br />
of spaghetti is well-coated.<br />
Turning the heat up slightly if<br />
needed to thicken the sauce, or<br />
add splashes of the reserved<br />
pasta cooking water if the sauce<br />
becomes too thick – the spaghetti<br />
should be glossy and shiny when<br />
ready.<br />
Divide between bowls and top<br />
with extra parmesan, a grinding of<br />
black pepper and a drizzle of extra<br />
virgin olive oil, if you like.<br />
FOOD SERVED<br />
Wed-Fri 12-2.30pm and 5-9pm, Sat 12-9.30pm and Sun 12-5pm<br />
Mother’s Day<br />
Sunday 27th <strong>March</strong><br />
Treat mum to lunch<br />
in beautiful<br />
Wortley village<br />
Book to avoid disappointment<br />
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Easter<br />
Sunday Lunch<br />
Sunday 17th <strong>April</strong><br />
Relax and enjoy quality<br />
food with the family<br />
Monthly Quiz Night<br />
Sunday 13th <strong>March</strong><br />
Come and test your wits and help raise<br />
funds and awareness for Prostate Cancer UK<br />
We are delighted<br />
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food hygiene<br />
BOOKINGS advised at busy times, please contact Jamie<br />
EMAIL: enquiries@wortley-arms.co.uk<br />
TELEPHONE: 0114 288 8749<br />
HALIFAX ROAD, WORTLEY, SHEFFIELD S35 7DB<br />
www.wortley-arms.co.uk<br />
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FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Dates<br />
for your diary<br />
A warm welcome from Sue & Kevan your hosts of 21 years<br />
The<br />
Milton Arms<br />
Delicious homemade food<br />
and hand pulled ales<br />
2 MEALS FOR ONLY £14<br />
Available lunchtime and evenings<br />
Includes Lasagne, chicken curry and scampi<br />
Sunday Roast 12-4pm – 2 COURSE SPECIAL £11.99<br />
Beef, lamb, chicken or pork with proper Yorkshire puds<br />
and all the trimmings (£1 supplement for lamb)<br />
Offer available for Mother’s Day – Bookings adviseable<br />
Food Served Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri 12-2pm & 5-8pm, Wed 12-2pm,<br />
Sat 12-3pm & Sun 12-4pm<br />
CHURCH STREET, GREASBROUGH Tel 01709 512353<br />
Don’t forget to book a table<br />
on busy public holidays<br />
Mother’s Day<br />
Sunday 27th <strong>March</strong><br />
Easter Weekend<br />
Friday 15th until Monday 18th <strong>April</strong><br />
May Day<br />
Monday 2nd May<br />
EASTER<br />
AFTERNOON TEA<br />
Breakfast served all day<br />
Lunches, light bites and hearty options<br />
Yorkshire roasted coffee, speciality teas,<br />
frappucinos and iced tea<br />
Extensive choice of vegan,<br />
gluten-free and dairy-free options<br />
AFTERNOON TEA<br />
Traditional 2 for £15<br />
Cheese 2 for £17<br />
MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND<br />
Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th <strong>March</strong><br />
Traditional afternoon tea<br />
2 for £15<br />
Available throughout the<br />
easter school holidays<br />
Includes bunny shaped<br />
sandwiches, chocolate<br />
scone, filled chick biscuits,<br />
egg-shaped mini Victoria<br />
sponges, chocolate nests,<br />
and luxury hot chocolate<br />
2 for £19.99<br />
OPEN 7 DAYS MON-SAT 9AM-3PM, SUN 10AM-3PM<br />
29 DOUGLAS STREET, ROTHERHAM S60 2DZ 01709 431 441<br />
UPCOMING<br />
BISTRO NIGHTS<br />
WITH LIVE MUSIC<br />
Saturday 12th & 26th <strong>March</strong><br />
Acoustic singer<br />
Saturday 9th <strong>April</strong><br />
Jazz musician<br />
Saturday 16th <strong>April</strong><br />
Vintage 1940s and ‘50s singer<br />
6.30pm-9.30pm<br />
2 for £25 or 4 for £40<br />
Includes two course meal<br />
and hot and cold soft drinks.<br />
Bring your own alcohol<br />
PRIVATE HIRE<br />
Two hours for up to 19 people<br />
any time or day<br />
Buffets from £5 per head includes<br />
unlimited hot and cold soft drinks<br />
Perfect for baby showers,<br />
funeral teas, special occasions,<br />
meetings, etc<br />
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Barnsley’s best kept<br />
secret<br />
If you look the right<br />
way, you’ll find an<br />
enchanting secret<br />
garden in Barnsley<br />
where cake, crafts<br />
and a charming<br />
experience awaits.<br />
Georgie’s Yard has been<br />
created by homeowners<br />
Lynn and Simon to offer<br />
a secluded and safe<br />
environment for afternoon tea<br />
parties and craft workshops.<br />
The business launched in 2019<br />
after a period of ill-health encouraged<br />
Lynn to rekindle her love of crafting.<br />
With lots of handmade items to sell,<br />
the couple decided to turn it into<br />
a business, combining it with their<br />
shared love of cooking and baking.<br />
Named after their beloved dog,<br />
Georgie’s Yard has a genuinely warm<br />
welcome you can only expect when<br />
your open your home to paying<br />
guests.<br />
The whimsical garden, which<br />
is abundantly decorated with<br />
every changing season, is the<br />
perfect setting for intimate outdoor<br />
gatherings you won’t forget. Nourish<br />
your soul surrounded by family<br />
and friends at a birthday party,<br />
baby shower, hen party, or special<br />
celebration.<br />
While the experience<br />
encompasses their garden, if the<br />
weather isn’t all too great then diners<br />
can step inside to a homely setting.<br />
Here, you’ll be surrounded by a<br />
range of goods handmade by South<br />
Yorkshire crafters. You can also learn<br />
a new skill with one of their popular<br />
craft workshops with talented guest<br />
tutors throughout the year.<br />
GEORGIE’S YARD<br />
Barnsley’s magical<br />
secret garden<br />
Afternoon Tea £24.50pp<br />
Choice of 3 starters, selection of sandwiches<br />
and oodles of homemade puds including<br />
jam and cream scones and unlimited tea<br />
and coffee. All served on vintage China<br />
We welcome table bookings of 6-16 people<br />
• Other bespoke catering options on request<br />
for minimum of 6 people<br />
• Takeaway Afternoon Tea<br />
• Vegetarian and gluten-free diets catered for<br />
Craft Workshops from £35pp<br />
Includes tuition, materials, refreshments<br />
and homemade cake<br />
Wreath making, floristry, arm knitting,<br />
glass art, ceramics, jewellery making, sewing<br />
Daytime and evening classes<br />
See our Facebook for full list of upcoming classes<br />
Handmade gifts and goods by local makers<br />
Wax melts and candles, room sprays and lotions<br />
Flexible openings. Pre-bookings essential call 07760 334361<br />
SECRET GARDEN ENTRANCE behind 233 Park Road,<br />
Barnsley S70 1QW (access via Spencer Street)<br />
See our 5* reviews on Facebook<br />
and TripAdvisor - rated Travellers’ Choice 2021<br />
ROBIN HOOD<br />
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New<br />
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Tuesday to Friday<br />
<br />
2 Course £15.25 + 3rd course Free<br />
<br />
Homemade fishcake<br />
with a white wine and sweet chilli sauce<br />
Mushroom pancake<br />
in a creamy garlic sauce<br />
Pan fried black pudding<br />
with apples, bacon and a tarragon sauce<br />
Platter of melons, strawberries and pineapple<br />
served with a fruits of the forest coulis<br />
Chef's soup of the day<br />
Served with a warm bread roll<br />
Onion bhajis<br />
on a bed of rice with a curry sauce<br />
<br />
Homemade steak and potato pie<br />
served with Henderson's relish<br />
Deep fried beer battered haddock<br />
with homemade chips, mushy peas and tartar sauce<br />
Vegetable moussaka<br />
sweet potato, spinach, butternut squash, courgettes and<br />
aubergines in a tomato sauce topped with cheese<br />
Chef's roast of the day with Yorkshire pudding<br />
served with roast potatoes and seasonal vegetables<br />
Chicken breast stuffed with pate and mushroom<br />
wrapped in bacon served with a red wine sauce<br />
Lasagne Bolognese<br />
served with garlic bread<br />
Selection of hot and cold desserts<br />
<br />
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday<br />
<br />
2 Course £19.50 + 3rd course Free<br />
<br />
3 course menu £19.50<br />
Includes roast pork, leg of lamb,<br />
grilled salmon, homemade pie<br />
and vegetable moussaka<br />
Celebrate with us…<br />
We cater for all private parties including<br />
Weddings, Birthdays<br />
and Anniversaries<br />
Open Tuesday – Sunday<br />
<br />
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FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Wine<br />
GEORGE&<br />
DRAGON<br />
wentworth’s traditional family pub<br />
myth busting<br />
With James Ward at the Grape Kitchen<br />
There are a lot of myths when it comes to wine<br />
- and I’ve heard them all.<br />
Sometimes, these myths can be<br />
taken as facts and cloud someone’s<br />
judgement when choosing their next<br />
wine. Over the next few issues, I want<br />
to take you through my favourite<br />
myths, starting with…<br />
“All wines get better<br />
with age”<br />
This is the most common<br />
misconception with wine. Although<br />
it is true that some wines get better<br />
with age, not all wines do. Wines that<br />
are good for ageing typically are:<br />
• High in alcohol (14%+)<br />
• High in tannin<br />
• High in acidity<br />
• Aged in oak and on lees<br />
• Gone through malolactic<br />
fermentation<br />
These factors help<br />
a wine develop new<br />
characteristics while it is<br />
ageing. Wines that typically<br />
have these characteristics<br />
are full-bodied reds like<br />
Reserva wines from Spain<br />
or Cabernet Sauvignon<br />
based Bordeauxs.<br />
Bodegas Protos 2014<br />
Reserva Ribera Del<br />
Duero (£20.95) is a great<br />
example of this.<br />
White wines can<br />
be aged as well,<br />
however these can be<br />
slightly trickier. As a<br />
general rule, well-made<br />
Chardonnay from<br />
areas like Burgundy<br />
in France, Napa in<br />
California, and Yarra<br />
Valley & Margaret River<br />
in Australia, such as<br />
Xanadu Chardonnay<br />
(£16.50) are great for<br />
ageing.<br />
There are also some wines that<br />
are meant to be drunk young. Vinho<br />
Verde is a great example of this.<br />
This is a wine that is<br />
typically a field blend of<br />
grapes. It’s fermented<br />
in stainless steel and<br />
released young without<br />
any lees ageing or time<br />
in oak. Villa Benizi<br />
Pinot Grigio (£7.15)<br />
from Venezie in Italy is<br />
also a good example.<br />
These wines tend to be<br />
simple, refreshing and<br />
slightly lower in alcohol.<br />
Perfect to quaff while<br />
youthful - the wine, not<br />
the person.<br />
From the vineyard<br />
to your doorstep<br />
Independent online wine merchant bringing fine and<br />
unusual wines from around the world straight to your door<br />
Shop by country, style or food pairing<br />
Necessity Box £38.95<br />
A mixed case of 6 bottles of red and/or white wines<br />
Order online at www.grapekitchen.co.uk<br />
Or call James on 075081 15181<br />
Free same day delivery to any South Yorkshire postcode<br />
*On orders over £20 when placed before 2pm<br />
On the menu...<br />
Food served lunchtime<br />
and evenings<br />
Monday to Saturday 12-9pm<br />
and Sunday 12-6pm<br />
• Full menu including<br />
daily specials<br />
• Stone baked pizzas<br />
available every day<br />
• Sunday Roasts 12-6pm<br />
Upstairs private dining room<br />
Perfect for social gatherings and parties<br />
up to 20 people<br />
What's on...<br />
Mother’s Day<br />
Sunday 27th <strong>March</strong><br />
Sunday roast plus<br />
normal menu<br />
Reserve a table<br />
don’t be disappointed<br />
On the bar...<br />
7 different cask ales from local guest breweries<br />
OPEN 7 DAYS 11am-11pm<br />
85 main street,<br />
wentworth,<br />
rotherham<br />
s62 7tn<br />
tel.<br />
01226 742 440<br />
Dog<br />
Friendly<br />
One of the area’s<br />
largest beer gardens<br />
Outdoor bars serving<br />
food and drinks<br />
Perfect for all the family<br />
Easter Weekend<br />
Good Friday 15th <strong>April</strong><br />
& Bank Holiday<br />
Monday 18th <strong>April</strong><br />
Bank Holiday<br />
Monday 2nd May<br />
View our full menus online:<br />
www.georgeanddragonwentworth.com<br />
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A noble<br />
welcome to all<br />
With elegance and charm trickling down from its noble namesake,<br />
The Duke of Leeds in Wales is a rural retreat steeped in history,<br />
graciousness and aristocracy.<br />
Once a coaching inn on the road to Harthill, the<br />
pub is now back in the hands of popular landlord<br />
Ian Wilde who is once again serving up great<br />
quality food and exceptional local ales.<br />
The cool, country feel of the pub has a luxurious<br />
edge. Warming plaid fabrics are mixed with plush<br />
vibrant leathers, adding to the warmth with two<br />
roaring fires for a rustic yet modern feel. Or as<br />
better weather arrives, relax in the walled courtyard<br />
area which is a perfect place to soak up the sun<br />
and surroundings.<br />
The chefs have created a menu to highlight the<br />
highest quality local produce they use, with hearty<br />
mains and lighter options.<br />
“<br />
Their beef dripping<br />
chips are a must and sit<br />
perfectly alongside their<br />
quality fish<br />
”<br />
For lunchtime bites, the sandwich menu has<br />
hot choices including pan-fried sirloin steak with<br />
caramelised onions and blue cheese, or baked<br />
goats cheese with roasted red pepper and<br />
red onion, both served on ciabatta with chips<br />
and side salad.<br />
Moving onto mains you will find all the<br />
traditional favourites including homemade steak<br />
pie and beef lasagne. Other meat options include<br />
minted lamb shank, sausage and mash, gammon,<br />
liver and onions and their speciality cheeseburger.<br />
Vegetarians are also catered for with a choice of<br />
vegetable wellington, goats cheese tart, or pea,<br />
feta and mint risotto.<br />
Known for their catch of the day, the humble<br />
fish and chips is a speciality at The Duke of Leeds,<br />
with hand-battered haddock and cod waiting to<br />
be devoured. Their beef dripping chips are a must<br />
and sit perfectly alongside their quality fish. The<br />
fish and chips can be made to cater for gluten free<br />
diets on request.<br />
And with an ever-changing specials board<br />
featuring the likes of belly pork, seabass or duck<br />
breast, you are sure to find something to tickle<br />
your tastebuds.<br />
If the springtime has made you dig out your<br />
walking boots, the Duke of Leeds is on the route<br />
of South Rotherham’s Five Churches Walk, so<br />
why not stop off for a pint on your way exploring.<br />
When it comes to good ale the Duke of Leeds is<br />
recognised in the Good Beer Guide CAMRA’s<br />
premier publication featuring the very best pubs to<br />
find a great pint in the UK.<br />
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fresh & fruity<br />
mocktails<br />
Satisfy your tastebuds this spring with these<br />
refreshing non-alcoholic drinks that are light<br />
and fruity.<br />
CALENDAR OF EVENTS<br />
Homemade<br />
Lemonade<br />
Prep 15 mins Makes 1 litre<br />
Ingredients<br />
4 unwaxed lemons, each cut into 8<br />
segments<br />
175g golden caster sugar<br />
Large handful of ice cubes, plus<br />
extra for serving<br />
1 litre of water<br />
Extra lemon slices for garnish<br />
(optional)<br />
Method<br />
Blitz the lemons (with skin) in a<br />
food processor or blender with half<br />
of the sugar, some ice cubes and<br />
500ml water. Strain the juice into a<br />
jug and reserve.<br />
Tip the lemon pulp back into the<br />
food processor. Add the rest of the<br />
sugar, more ice cubes and another<br />
500ml water and blitz again. Strain<br />
Strawberry<br />
Melon Fizz<br />
Prep 30 mins Makes 6 servings<br />
Ingredients<br />
250g granulated<br />
175ml water<br />
3 fresh mint sprigs<br />
400g strawberries, sliced or<br />
chopped<br />
100g honeydew, cubed<br />
200g cantaloupe, cubed<br />
Ginger ale or sparkling<br />
white grape juice<br />
Method<br />
In a large saucepan, combine<br />
the sugar, water and mint and bring<br />
to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer<br />
for 10 minutes until syrupy. Remove<br />
from the heat and allow to cool<br />
this into the jug with the reserved<br />
juice and discard the pulp.<br />
Serve with lots of ice and slices<br />
of lemon if required.<br />
For a sweeter taste use oranges<br />
instead of lemons or for extra zing<br />
add some lime juice for extra zing.<br />
completely. Discard mint.<br />
Combine strawberries and<br />
melon.<br />
To serve, add fruit to tall glasses<br />
with fruit and drizzle each with 1<br />
tablespoon syrup. Top with ginger<br />
ale or sparkling grape juice.<br />
CHARITY NIGHT<br />
Friday 25th <strong>March</strong> 7.00pm<br />
Black tie event to support Barnsley Hospital Charity<br />
4 Course meal, charity raffle and live entertainment<br />
£49.95 per person<br />
FAMILY EASTER HUNT<br />
Wednesday 13th & 20th <strong>April</strong><br />
12pm-4pm<br />
Join the Wortley bunny and<br />
his animal friends to search<br />
for clues around the garden<br />
with a prize to be won<br />
Enjoy an Easter Afternoon tea<br />
Adult £16.95 Child £8.50<br />
MOTHER’S DAY<br />
Sunday 27th <strong>March</strong><br />
12pm-4pm<br />
3 course lunch<br />
with a gift for all mums<br />
Adult £26.50<br />
Child (under 12) £13.95<br />
ITALIAN WINE<br />
TASTING<br />
Saturday 30th <strong>April</strong><br />
7.30pm<br />
4 Course Italian themed<br />
meal and perfectly matched<br />
wine with each course<br />
£48 per person<br />
Contact us for further information<br />
and booking for all events<br />
T. 0114 2882100 E. info@wortleyhall.org.uk<br />
www.wortleyhall.org.uk<br />
WORTLEY HALL<br />
Wortley, Sheffield,<br />
South Yorkshire S35 7DB<br />
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treat your mum at<br />
Join us this<br />
Mothher’s<br />
Day<br />
sunday 27th march<br />
Family Sunday lunch<br />
3 course lunch served at 1pm<br />
£25.00 Adults / £12.50 Children<br />
Leek & Potato Soup with fresh bread (V, VE & GF)<br />
Chicken Liver Parfait<br />
with farmhouse chutney & sourdough bread<br />
Prawn & Crayfish Cocktail<br />
with dill cucumbers, marie rose & granary bread<br />
~~~<br />
Roast Sirloin of Beef with seasonal vegetables,<br />
beef dripping roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding & rich beef gravy<br />
Rosemary & Garlic Chicken with seasonal vegetables,<br />
beef dripping Roast Potatoes, Yorkshire pudding & gravy<br />
Cauliflower Risotto & Smoked Cheese<br />
with pickled wild mushrooms & parmesan crisps (V & GF)<br />
~~~<br />
Sticky Toffee Pudding with Butterscotch Sauce & Clotted Ice Cream<br />
Warm Chocolate Fondant with Mint Chocolate Ice Cream<br />
Apple & Blackberry Crumble<br />
with Vanilla Ice Cream (Can be VE & GF on request)<br />
The art of authentic<br />
Indian cooking<br />
Turn up the heat this spring<br />
and satisfy your hunger for<br />
flavoursome Indian food with<br />
a visit to Zara’s Rotherham.<br />
Although Zara’s is a relatively new<br />
restaurant, it is already proving to be<br />
a big hit with food lovers looking for<br />
indulgent home style Indian food.<br />
After running successful<br />
restaurants in Sheffield, they<br />
decided to bring their concept<br />
to Rotherham, transforming the<br />
building on Greasbrough Road that<br />
has been a pub, Italian, and British<br />
eatery in recent year into a stylish<br />
Indian restaurant with authentic and<br />
comfortable décor.<br />
Zara’s pride themselves on the<br />
vast number of quality dishes<br />
they serve which have been<br />
selected from Bangladeshi, Goan<br />
and Punjabi styles of cooking<br />
and contain their own blend of<br />
herbs and spices to deliver<br />
exceptional flavour.<br />
Classic dishes have been given<br />
the Zara twist, such as tandoori<br />
butter chicken, freshly spiced Desi<br />
The Cutting Edge Of<br />
Indian Cuisine<br />
lamb served off the bone, or siraje<br />
shaslic bhuna marinated overnight<br />
for a fuller flavour.<br />
The menu is also full of dishes you<br />
may not have already tried, such as<br />
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chicken or lamb, aromatic shatkora<br />
manso with hints of citrus and<br />
cinnamon, or hariyali flavoured with<br />
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Along with chicken and meat<br />
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Relax in stylish surroundings enjoy freshly<br />
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60-seater restaurant | Authentic décor | Fully licensed bar<br />
AfternoonTea<br />
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£15 Adults<br />
£10 Children<br />
Both Include a free gift for mum<br />
Reservations essential<br />
TELEPHONE: 01709 702 701<br />
EMAIL: sales@hellabyhallhotel.co.uk<br />
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George Wright | Boutique Hotel, Bar and Restaurant<br />
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Breakfast served from 7am (8am on Sundays)<br />
Lunch and evening menus available Monday to Saturday<br />
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Lunch offer available Monday – Wednesday<br />
2 courses £15.50 3 courses £20.00<br />
Weekend brunch menu, lunch and evening<br />
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SUNDAY LUNCH<br />
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STARTERS<br />
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•Ham hock and pistachio roll with piccalilli puree and crouton<br />
•Torched mackerel with beetroot puree, fennel, pea and mint salad<br />
•Cherry tomato and pesto tart with crème fraiche and mixed leaf<br />
•Wild mushroom and Stilton bruschetta<br />
MAINS<br />
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•Cauliflower risotto, truffle oil and roast cauliflower<br />
fleurets with crispy hens egg<br />
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•Pheasant breast with fondant potato, chicken glace,<br />
walnut and tarragon crumb<br />
•Fillet of Salmon with Mediterranean vegetables and potatoes<br />
DESSERTS<br />
A superb selection of desserts<br />
Menu subject to change<br />
VISCOUNT MILTON AFTERNOON TEA<br />
Served in The Milton Restaurant<br />
Monday to Saturday 2pm-4pm<br />
£19.50 per person<br />
Advanced bookings only<br />
MEET OUR ASSISTIANT<br />
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