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Crosspool Forum’s next Open Meeting will take place on Thursday 25 July 2013 at St Columba’s church. It starts at 7pm.
Come along and give your concerns on local issues to local councillors, the police and officials. The agenda will be confirmed nearer the time.
Around 60 children plus mums and dads were entertained by Roly Bains at the messy church event at St. Columba’s on Sunday.
Roly kept the children spellbound for an hour with his clowning around on the slackrope, juggling, balancing tricks, jokes and stories.
The event was part of this year’s Crosspool Festival, which continues this week.
Local residents gathered this evening in the midsummer wind and sun to celebrate the unveiling of Crosspool’s new well dressing.
Festival chair and St. Columba’s priest-in-charge Frances Eccleston led the short dedication outside Crosspool Tavern.
This year’s well dressing celebrates the centenary of the bus service through Crosspool. 1913 saw the introduction of the first omnibus to carry passengers in Sheffield. It linked the tram terminus at Broomhill to Lodge Moor and the countryside.
The old fashioned term ‘omnibus’ is derived from Latin and literally means for all, to everywhere. This was presumably because for the first time a public service vehicle could travel on any road and was not restricted by tram lines.
Crosspool well dressing has been created by local volunteers and the materials provided by fund raising events and donations.
The dedication of the well dressing will be followed by a week of events in Crosspool celebrating the life of our community.
Thanks go to Valleyside Garden Centre and Ronaldo’s Hairdressing for their support in creating the well and Rivelin Valley Conservation Group Task Team for erecting the board.
Live ceilidh band Fine Fettle will play at the family barn dance on Saturday 6 July at St Columba’s church hall.
You can pick up tickets from Lounge@Crosspool or by calling 0114 267 0006 – adults £6, children under 16 £3.50. The price of your ticket includes a hot meal. Bring your own drinks, glasses provided.
The barn dance starts at 7.30pm.
Final preparations are underway for Crosspool’s annual Selborne Road street market on Sunday 30 June.
The event is your opportunity to buy local food, cakes, plants, crafts, jewellery, clothes and books and also enjoy music and dance from local schools and groups. Many of our local shops will also open up for the day.
During the market, Crosspool Art Group will be exhibiting in the garden at 55 Selborne Road. Teas will also be available.
And at this year’s market, Crosspool-based entrepreneur Nick Duggan of Sandygate Park Road will be launching his own range of t-shirts featuring Sheffield street names. The collection includes Carsick Hill Road, Mushroom Lane, Button Hill, Freedom Road and Commonside.
Crosspool Street market runs 12-4pm and is part of Crosspool Festival 2013.
Tapton Hall on Shore Lane is hosting farmers markets over the next three months, on Tuesday 2 July, Tuesday 6 August and Tuesday 3 September. The markets run 9am-2pm.
Contact enquiries@sheffieldmasonic.co.uk or 0114 266 0051 for more information.
Crosspool-based Champions Taekwondo scooped seven medals in their debut against other clubs in Widnes.
The five members of the club – who all attend local schools – picked up five gold and two silver medals between them. Well done to Olivia, Lloyd and Cole Curry, Ellie-Jo Graham and Siena Biney!
The taekwondo club is one year old. For more information contact Scott on 07970 597 800 or Jo on 07539 935 279 or email championstaekwondo@hotmail.co.uk.
Telecommunications work by BT is causing delays for motorists on Manchester Road near the Shore Lane junction, where two-way temporary traffic lights have been installed.
The work started this weekend and is expected to go on until Tuesday 18 June – although sometimes planned maintenance like this can take less time than estimated.
Any queries should be addressed to BT quoting reference BC005WP00100500109785506.
Crosspool’s nearest police station is due to close before the end of the year.
Crewe Flats police station on Clarkhouse Road will shut its doors in November, with the Broomhill neighbourhood policing team to be dispersed to other stations throughout the city.
Residents fear that the closure will mean that there will be less visibility of police officers in the area, with our local bobbies less connected and further away from the communities they serve.
The closure is likely to to be the result of cuts to funding. The South Yorkshire Police Federation warned last month that cuts could see South Yorkshire Police officer numbers shrink by a quarter overall between 2007 and 2015.
If you have comments on the threat to the police provision in our community then you can contact the following people to make your views known:
Crosspool Ladies group has been meeting at St Columba’s Church Hall Manchester Road for 56 years. Starting as Crosspool Young Wives they then became Crosspool Wives and are now known as Crosspool Ladies.
The group has speakers on various subjects. For example, they’ve been visited by a pragmatic comedy novelist, heard about the Sheffield blitz and had numerous lively talks on vintage fashion. They also like to give our ladies a day out, swishing parties, a harvest supper, a summer lunch at Hassop Hall and Christmas dinner at the Hallamshire Golf Club.
New members are welcome to join the happy, young-at-heart group or just pop in one evening and give it a try. The winter sessions start on 5 September at 8pm with ‘A Town Built on Carpets’, Crossleys of Halifax.
For further information call Janet Stain on 0114 230 2916 or Linda Saxton on 0114 230 1468.
