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Report from Crosspool Forum visit to BBC Media Centre and Salford Quays

Thanks to David Rumsey for sending us this report from this week’s trip to the BBC and Salford Quays, which was organised by Crosspool Forum for some of our older residents.

Visit to BBC Media Centre and Salford Quays

Fifty friendly followers of the Forum left The Sportsman car park at 8.30 on a cold Monday morning and headed over the Snake in the TM coach expertly controlled by John.

We followed a learner driver at 20 mph from Hollow Meadows to Glossop on the most nerve tingling driving lesson ever known and with the traffic behind tailing back all the way to Sheffield. We made up speed on the motorway however and then into Manchester and Salford Quays arriving about 10am.

The aim of the trip was a conducted tour of the BBC Media Centre, a newly-conceived public relations exercise by the Beeb to demonstrate their increasing presence in the untamed North. We visited the Radio 5 Live studios, the Blue Peter and the Breakfast studios and some brave members of our group had a go at reading the news and weather forecast (just like the real thing).

Finding out how radio dramas are made was also most interesting and none of us will ever listen to The Archers again without remembering how they do the sound effects replicating the birthing of a spring lamb! Sadly we didn’t get a look inside the large sports building where all BBC sport is organised but it was an eye opener to find out that the BBC owned nothing (much) on Salford Quays – it was all rented! Apparently very much the cheaper option.

While we waited for our turn for a tour around the Media Centre we could spend fascinating hours in the Imperial War Museum North or the Lowry Gallery and Theatre. As well as the famous paintings the Lowry included a very striking exhibition on the costumes, albums and career of Annie Lennox; a collaboration between the Lowry and the V&A. A maybe less fascinating time could be spent in the large Lowry Outlet Shopping Mall.

The day was very effectively rounded off with a splendid meal at the Willow Bank Hotel (a Best Western Hotel) on the Wilmslow Road where we all had a chance to catch up on our day before John had the dubious pleasure of driving us back over the Snake.

A special thanks to Ian Hague, our Chairman, for organising such a great day out, for arranging the sponsorship from Sheffield City Council and for the hotel meal at such an extremely modest price! Great value.

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Crookes ward: local elections and mayoral referendum on Thursday 3 May

Stephen Hill church polling station in Crosspool
Stephen Hill church polling station in Crosspool

Local residents will be voting in the local council elections and mayoral referendum on Thursday 3 May.

There are 28 seats up for election, which is one third of Sheffield City Council. Crosspool lies in the Crookes ward, where there are six candidates standing:

If any of these candidates read this, it would be great if they could comment below to sum up why Crosspool residents should vote for them.

Voters will also be deciding they would like the council to be run, either by a leader who is an elected councillor chosen by a vote of the other elected councillors (how the council is run now) or by a mayor who is elected by voters.

Sheffield local elections May 2012

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Manchester Road Surgery launches early morning appointments

Manchester Road Surgery is to trial an early morning surgery on Mondays.

For three months from 30 April, patients will be able to book advance Monday appointments from 7.30am. The early morning slots are aimed at those with work or other commitments that find attending surgery during our normal hours difficult.

The surgery has asked people not to make an early morning appointment if you can come in during normal surgery hours (from 8.30am).

New surgery website

The news comes as the surgery launches its new website at www.manchesterroadsurgery.org.uk.

Visitors to the website can keep up with all latest surgery news. You’ll also find links to other websites where a wealth of health and wellbeing related information can be accessed.

The surgery website also reports on a newly formed patient group, and how patient power is making a difference at the surgery after the group contributed ideas that were used to develop a patient survey.

You can now also order repeat prescriptions via the internet and will soon be able to book advance appointments.

Manchester Road Surgery

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Agenda for Crosspool Forum Open Meeting, Thursday 26 April 2012

You are invited to Crosspool Forum’s Open Meeting on Thursday 26 April at St Columba’s Church. It starts at 7pm.

A provisional agenda is below. Come along to give your concerns on Crosspool issues to local councillors, the police and council officials.

Update 21 April: PC Atha will be attending the Open Meeting with new inspector Deborah Pickering.

Agenda for Crosspool Forum Open Meeting, Thursday 26 April 2012 (PDF, 57KB)

Open Meeting, Thursday 26 April 2012: provisional agenda

  1. Apologies for absence
    Introduction of top table
    Chairman’s welcome/report
    Minutes (bullet points) of last meeting to be approved
  2. Matters arising
  3. Police Liaison
    An update on policing in the area. PC Atha will be attending the Open Meeting with new inspector Deborah Pickering.
  4. Guest Speaker:- Andrew Peat
    Demo of the advantages of Forensic marking
  5. Talk:- Nick Rousseau ‘Grow your own food’
  6. Questions & Answers with Councillors
    Cllr. Sylvia Anginotti; Cllr. Brian Holmes; Cllr. Geoff Smith
  7. Events: Festival/Fayre, Car Boot Sale, Queens Diamond Jubilee
  8.  AOB

Date of next meeting Thursday July 26th.

Agenda for Crosspool Forum Open Meeting, Thursday 26 April 2012 (PDF, 57KB)

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Crosspool Open Gardens is looking for new gardens

Crosspool Open Gardens 2011
Why not open up your garden as part of this year's Crosspool Open Gardens?

Crosspool Open Gardens sees proud local residents open up their private gardens to the public to raise money for charities.

This year’s event is on Saturday 7 July and marks the start of Crosspool Festival 2012. As well as a chance to look round many of the old favourites, the organisers are looking for new gardens to take part.

Participating gardens are featured in a Open Gardens paper programme. Profits from the sale of the programme are shared between charities nominated by participating gardeners, who can also raise funds themselves by selling plants and refreshments.

If you’re interested in putting your garden forward for consideration, contact Roger on 230 6194 and rogerkite40@tiscali.co.uk.

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Electricity returns to Crosspool following power cut

Hundreds of Crosspool homes were left without power tonight for one and a half hours.

The electricity supply went down at about 8:15pm. Although it returned promptly in some areas, homes and businesses on the Ranmoor side of Crosspool were left without electricity for around 90 minutes. Cardoness Drive, Barholm Road, Dransfield Road and the lower end of Watt Lane were affected, with reports of the blackout stretching as far as Broomhill.

Electricity supplier Northern Power Grid promptly announced its engineers were looking at the problem and around 9:50pm electricity started to return to Crosspool houses. By 11pm there were no more reports of power problems.

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Crosspool WI meeting on Monday

The next Crosspool Women’s Institute meeting takes place on Monday 16 April at St Columba’s Church from 7-9pm. All ladies are welcome – bring £4.50 as there’s wine and nibbles.

Last month Julia Connelly from Crosspool’s Craft Angels explained on Radio Sheffield why the group has been set up: “In Crosspool there is a diverse range of ages, and a WI is something that can bring women together, especially young mums whose children have gone to school. A lot of our population also include professional people who have come to Sheffield for university and then stayed with no family living nearby.”

If you want to find out more then you can turn up on Monday or get in touch on 0114 266 7339 07894 387406.

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20 youngsters refused places at Lydgate Infants school

Today’s Sheffield Telegraph reports how pupils are being turned away from their local primary schools, with Lydgate Infants being the worst affected:

…this year there were 148 applications for 120 places at Lydgate, compared with the usual average of 117. To cope education chiefs have created 60 extra places at Westways in Crookes and at Hallam Primary in Lodge Moor.

Tough economic times are believed to be a key factor – read the Sheffield Telegraph article or buy a copy of the paper for the full story.

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King Edward VII school in appeal to Crosspool dog walkers

A Crosspool school is asking dog owners to keep their dogs on leads while they’re on the school site between 8am and 5pm and also think about where their dogs leave their waste.

In recent incidents at King Edward VII middle school on Darwin Lane, teaching staff have experienced dogs running at students and exploring the school’s all-weather pitch during PE lessons.

The school’s Education Manager Laura Drabble commented: “I appreciate that these dogs may only be friendly but to a student who is afraid of dogs this can be quite upsetting.”

Reminding dog owners to think about where they deposit dog waste, Laura explained: “Students have been complaining of dog mess in the bins they use for their litter. In warm weather the smell is very unpleasant. Dog walkers should also only use the red dog bins for their dog mess. We would also respectfully ask that owners do not let their dogs urinate up railings and posts on the school site where students often sit and play.

“We don’t wish to upset residents but we do have a duty of care to our students.”