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Did you ever used to visit The King’s Head pub in Crosspool before it was demolished?
On Saturday 3 November, Sarah Goodhead and Dave Robinson are hosting a get together for anyone who used to be a regular at the Manchester Road pub.
Go along to the Crosspool Tavern on Saturday 3 November from 8pm to join in the reunion and meet old friends, share memories and have a laugh. There will also be live music from MLC.
Crosspool households on Manchester Road and Ringstead Avenue are still waiting for their blue bins and boxes to be emptied today.
Veolia have advised that they should all be emptied tomorrow (Tuesday).
Two weeks ago there were also delays to Veolia’s recycling service, with 12 roads in our area not having their recycling collected on the scheduled day.
Paul Heaton from The Beautiful South and The Housemartins has been recalling memories of St Columba’s youth club in a BBC radio documentary.
In today’s The First Time With…Paul Heaton programme on BBC 6 Music, the singer-songwriter described the youth club disco at St Columba’s on Manchester Road as the location of one of his first musical memories:
“My brother and his mates were allowed to go and I was under 12 at the time so wasn’t allowed in. Me and my middle brother sneaked to the edge of the door and looked underneath it. They were playing The Jean Genie by David Bowie.
“At the time wooden stacked heels were in fashion. My brother and his mates were all doing this dance, banging their stack heels on the floor. It was unbelievable. The noise of them banging their stack heels was louder than the music itself.”
You can listen again to the programme for seven days. St Columba’s is mentioned around 2 minutes, 45 seconds in.
Children and staff returned to King Edward VII Lower School, on Darwin Lane to a larger playground last week. During the summer recess two mobile classrooms erected three years ago to cater for an increase in the school intake were removed, returning the playground back to its original appearance.
Across the playing field, neighbouring Lydgate Junior School has craned in a new mobile unit with two additional classrooms for the new school term. The school is undergoing a full heating system upgrade; the mobile classrooms are a temporary measure hopefully until Easter 2013 to allow the upgrade works to continue without any disruption to the running of the school.
If your blue bin and box didn’t get emptied yesterday then it should be dealt with today, according to Veolia.
Problems with collection lorries on Monday meant that around 12 roads in our area didn’t have their recycling collected. If you keep your bin and box left out today they should get emptied.
Sheffield residents recently moved to fortnightly collections, alternating between black wheelie bins one week and blue recycling bins/boxes the other.
Members of the Crosspool Festival Committee have handed over a cheque for £1413.50 to Ryegate Children’s Centre.
The money was raised during this year’s festival and will be used to transform the parents’ room at the centre from a drab and unattractive space into somewhere that is warm, bright and child-friendly.
Frances Eccleston, Priest in Charge at St. Columba’s, and Eileen Kehoe presented the cheque to Dave Threlfall, Head of Therapies at Ryegate last week.
A big thankyou to everyone in Crosspool who supported the festival and helped fundraise this impressive sum.
A local cycling group are currently running a monthly cycle ride that departs from Crosspool.
The Sheffield Women’s Cycling group leave at 9am from Crosspool Tavern for a women-only ride in the peaks on the last Sunday of each month. The next two rides are on 30 September and 28 October.
All abilities are welcome and you can contact them via their website or Facebook page for more information.
Toys belonging to two young girls were ruined by vandals yesterday afternoon in an incident on Carver Fields.
Crosspool mum Lucy Whittle Watkins was out with her three year-old and 20 month-old daughters. They temporarily left a tricycle and toy pram just inside one of the entrances to the fields while they went to sit on a bench.
They returned to find the tricycle ruined, with the saddle smashed, the guide pole snapped off and basket broken, leaving Lucy angry and her daughters very upset.
Lucy said: “I shouldn’t have left it unattended, although I’ve left things there before with no problem. I’ve a learned a sad lesson today.”
She is planning on reporting it to our local police Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT). If you saw or know anything about this incident then please get in touch with Crookes SNT by dialling 0114 296 4803 or 101.
Our local optometrist is celebrating the first anniversary of his move to Crosspool with a celebration on Tuesday 4 September.
Alex Gage relocated his family optometrist practice from Broomhill to Sandygate Road last September and is providing tea and cakes to say thank you to his new and existing clients.
Alex said: “Since we moved here, we’ve welcomed over 400 new patients and helped almost 1,000 people with their vision needs. It’s been a fantastic year and I have Cathy, Jo and Sarah to thank for our success.”
Alex and his wife, fellow optometrist Sarah Gage, started practicing at Sandygate Road in September 2011 following a refurbishment.
Alex explained: “The move to Crosspool was prompted by a desire for more space so that we could increase the number of frames that we stock and gives us the capacity to offer sports vision testing and behavioural optometry services.”
Sarah is also delighted with the move and said: “Crosspool is a thriving, family focused community and we want to celebrate our first year and say thank you to the clients who have chosen us.”
The new edition of the Crosspool Clarion has been printed and will soon be falling on the doormats of all Crosspool households.
Download Autumn 2012 Crosspool Clarion (PDF, 1.3MB)
Articles this month include:
Download Autumn 2012 Crosspool Clarion (PDF, 1.3MB)
Some back issues of past editions of the Crosspool Clarion are also available to download.
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