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Do you have any unwanted books, prizes, gifts, or bric-a-brac that might be suitable for the Crosspool Summer Fayre tombola or one of the stalls?
If so, please get in touch with Gillian on g.m.drinkwater@btinternet.com
We can collect them if necessary, or you can drop them off locally.
A short prayer vigil for the crisis in Ukraine has been organised this coming Sunday (March 6th) at 4pm around the memorial in Tapton Hill’s Church garden.
This summer, Crosspool Festival is holding a free exhibition for the people of Crosspool to showcase their creativity in the areas of Art, Craft, Photography and Cake Making & Cup Cake Decorating. There will also be prizes for the best entries.
The competitions are open to anyone who lives, works or goes to school in Crosspool.
There is no theme to follow, just show us what you can create. You can enter as many of the categories as you want , but no more than two entries per category.
The categories for entry are as follows:-
Young Children: Cup Cake Decorating.
You don’t have to make the cupcakes, just decorate them using your imagination and make sure you don’t eat them all before showing them off!
Art, Craft, Cake Making & Photography: (two categories for each)
Photography prints can be either A5 or A4 in size. There is no restriction on the size in the art, craft or cake categories.
Details of when and where you can hand in your entries will be announced nearer the time.
Entries will be put on display for everyone to view and admire at St Columba’s Church, Manchester Road on Wednesday 29th June 2022. Refreshments will be available, courtesy of Crosspool WI.
Certificates and prizes awarded by the judges will be presented at 4:30 pm on the 29th.
For further information on all the categories, contact crosspoolfestivalphotos@gmail.com
A57 Manchester Road in both directions has re-opened. The Road had been closed due to a turned-over fuel tanker blocking the road near to Blackbrook Farm.
So every picture ‘T’ells a story, In these is T for Tanker and T for thankfully no-one was hurt. I’d driven past this point earlier and the road was sheet ice, I managed to slide my car round keeping roughly straight ahead and not spinning or crashing.
I drove through about 8am, and the water run-off from the meadows above was hitting the road and freezing causing sheet ice all across the bends. But the following story is even more interesting! The silver car had lost control and crashed first, I spoke to the Slovakian couple who were in it, and this is what I learned. They had crashed after sliding on the ice, busted the front wheel and ended up where they are seen ‘parked.’
Then they were walking away from the accident towards us a couple of minutes later, when the LPG tanker driver lost control on the ice and ‘fish-tailed’ it until the liquid gas sloshed about and caused it to turn over. As the tanker was careering towards where it ended up, the couple saw it coming towards them and literally ran for their lives. The tanker then crashed and the driver couldn’t get out! The slovakian man ran to help and offered to break the windscreen with a hammer “OOOH no the driver said, we can’t risk a spark” and kicked his way out to safety. This was 9.20am GMT and the recovery and emergency service finally righted it about 14.45GMT.
Thankfully no one was hurt and if they had been I wouldn’t have posted any shots.
Mike Smith
The current issue of the Crosspool Clarion (Incorporating St Columba’s & Stephen Hill Church Newsletter), delivered to 3000 homes locally, is also available to download and read below.
Current issue: Volume 19 Issue 1 Spring 2022
Back issues of past editions of the Clarion are also available to download.
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Spreading the love since 2018!
The Ivy Heart of Crosspool currently displays “love” in lights! “Happy Valentine’s”
Scott Barton, the original person to shape the Ivy Heart on the wall of the Hallam football/cricket club wall on Sandygate Road said, “Having driven past the ivy more than once, it struck me that with a bit of trimming it could be turned into a heart. I roped in my pal, Ian Knowles who lives nearby, and did the original trim on Christmas Eve 2018, in the hope that it would make people smile.”
When, on Valentine’s night 2019, it was all lit up with red lights, Jenny Hill and her hubby noticed the Ivy Heart and thought how lovely it looked and stopped to take a photo. Then through the pandemic lockdowns, thinking it really needed some love, Jenny contacted Scott, and they set about sprucing it up, giving it some new lights and a positive “Chin up!!
Since then Jenny, joined by her very creative friend Jo and her mum Anne, have had such fun creating every one of the twelve-plus seasonal heart changes they have fashioned up to now.
Jenny, Jo & Anne, love looking after the ivy heart and really appreciate all the wonderful Compliments, Thumbs-ups, Hoots and Smiles people give as they go past!
For the security and convenience of customers, the Crosspool Tavern has installed CCTV in their Carpark.
This change is to improve the availability of car park spaces for customers.
When parking in the Crosspool Tavern car park, guests must register their full and correct vehicle registration details via the console in the pub.
Sheffield City Council proposes to make an Order under the provisions of Section 84 and Schedule 9 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, to introduce a 20mph speed limit on the whole or on parts of every road in Crosspool and the surrounding area. Exceptions are Lydgate Lane, Manchester Road and Sandygate Road from the junction of Ringstead Crescent near to the shopping precinct.
The proposed 20mph speed limit is required to control vehicle speeds in the residential streets of the Crosspool area where we live, work, play & shop.
A copy of the proposed plans showing the roads affected and a statement of the Council’s reasons for proposing to make the Order may be inspected in “Proposed Traffic Orders” on the Council website at https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/home/roads-pavements/covid-19-Traffic-orders
Any observations, either supporting or objecting to the proposed Order, including the grounds for your objection, should be sent in writing to the undersigned by the 3rd day of March 2022.
Tom Finnegan-Smith, Head of Strategic Transport, Sustainability and Infrastructure City Growth Department,
Howden House, 1 Union Street, SHEFFIELD, S1 2SH
Email: traffic.regs@shef
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