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Crosspool Festival update: get involved!

The dates for the 2015 Crosspool Festival are Friday 26 June to Sunday 5 July.

Here’s the latest from the Crosspool Festival Committee:

Crosspool street market 2013
The street market will return in 2015

We hope to repeat many of the well-loved elements of festivals from previous years, plus a few new things! We will begin as usual with the blessing of the Magna Carta-themed well dressing on Friday evening, and Open Gardens on Saturday 27 June.

Plans for the street market on Sunday 28 June are well in hand. We are delighted to welcome the Sheffield Folk Chorale for a concert on Thursday 2 July.

Illustrated talks/book signing events have always proved popular and we have plans for a talk on a climbing/mountaineering theme as well as something on the Sheffield Blitz.

New for this year will be a family film show with crafts, and a photography competition for 11-18s. Rumours are afoot of a possible Abba evening , and other ideas are still being tossed around…and of course the Summer Fayre on the Coldwell Lane field will be the usual fixture on Saturday 4 July.

We’re grateful to the uniformed groups, local pubs and businesses and everyone else who have indicated their support – what makes the Crosspool Festival special is its genuinely local feel.

  • If you would like to help create the well dressing, please contact Pat Lintott on 0114 268 1161.
  • If you would like a stall at the street market contact Chris Bachelor on 0114 266 7842.
  • If you’d like to help with/book a stall at the Summer Fayre contact Steve Reynolds on 266 3473 or Ian Hague on 0114 230 7265.
  • For other enquiries or offers of help contact me, Revd Frances Eccleston on 0114 267 0006.
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Tapton Hill Congregational Church Spring Fair, 21 March 2015

Tapton Hill Congregational Church, Crosspool
Tapton Hill Congregational Church, Crosspool

Tapton Hill Congregational Church is holding its Spring Fair on Saturday, 21 March.

It starts at 2pm and features stalls and refreshments. The church can be found on the corner of Manchester Road and Tapton Hill Road.

Tapton Hill Congregational Church

 

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Agenda for Thursday 12 February 2015 Open Meeting

Open Meeting/AGM at St Columba's
Open Meeting at St Columba’s – click for provisional agenda (PDF, 703KB)

Crosspool Forum’s Open Meeting on Thursday 12 February at St Columba’s will start at 7pm.

This meeting is the rearranged meeting from 29 January, which was cancelled due to snow.

Come along and give your concerns on local issues to local councillors, the police and officials.

Guest speakers this time include:

  • Nick Hetherington, network manager for AMEY Streets Ahead road resurfacing programme
  • First Group’s commercial and business manager Andy Metcalfe
  • Kathrine Harboard: Broomhill Library (National library day is 7 February)
  • Local business: Aligarh restaurant

Agenda for Open Meeting on Thursday 12 February – rearranged from Thursday 29 January (PDF, 703KB)

Minutes from previous Open Meetings

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Confidence and anxiety explored at discussion group

St. Columba's church, Crosspool
St. Columba’s church, Crosspool

The Lent discussion group at St Columba’s and Stephen Hill Methodist church this year is based on the film The King’s Speech.

The Finding a Voice group will consider themes of confidence and anxiety.

Watch the film at St Columba’s at 6pm on Sunday 15 February and choose from evening sessions (7.30pm) on Wednesdays from 25 February  at St Columba’s, or daytime sessions (10.30am) on Thursdays from 26th February. All are welcome.

St Columba’s church

Stephen Hill Methodist Church

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National Libraries Day at Broomhill Community Library

Broomhill library
Broomhill library

Broomhill Community Library will be celebrating National Library Day on Saturday 7 February 2015 with a series of events based around ‘The Story of our Local Community between 1850 and 1950’.

Come along between 10.30am and 4pm to join in celebrations. At 11am local resident Adela Pankhurst (yes, that family!) will give an illustrated talk and at 2pm there’s a virtual tour of Broomhill in the past.

The Victorian Visitors will be around dressed in costume – so children are invited to come along dressed in their favourite book characters (there will be prizes!) For children too, local author and illustrator Lydia Monks will be reading and drawing at 2pm and there will be brass coin rubbing, plate doilie making and possibly a treasure hunt.

You can also expect to see displays of life from Victorian times to the 1950s with items to handle and buy – coins, donated books and baked items – from Victorian to Elizabethan recipes. All proceeds will help keep Broomhill Community Library open.

Broomhill Community Library

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Aligarh cookery demonstration and St Columba’s cookery course

Aligarh cookery demonstration

Aligarh Indian restaurant in Crosspool
Aligarh Indian restaurant in Crosspool

On Sunday 8 February Aligarh restaurant chefs will be demonstrating how to cook Chicken Balti, Chana Masala and Pilau Rice at the Crosspool restaurant.

The session takes place 2-4pm and all guests will receive a three course meal, and a complimentary recipe card.

Tickets are £15 each – call the restaurant on 0114 266 6096 to book.

St Columba’s cookery course

St. Columba's church, Crosspool
St. Columba’s church, Crosspool

Meanwhile, St Columba’s popular Magnificent Meals for Men cookery course will be returning from Friday 30 January.

The cost for this is £50 for six sessions (£25 in case of financial difficulty), payable by cheque in advance.

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Agenda for Thursday 29 January 2015 Open Meeting

Update 29 January, 11.30am: Tonight’s Open Meeting has been cancelled due to concerns over snow, ice and the safety of people attending. The date for the rearranged meeting is Thursday 12 February at St Columba’s church, 7pm start.

Open Meeting/AGM at St Columba's
Open Meeting at St Columba’s – click for provisional agenda (PDF, 703KB)

Crosspool Forum’s next Open Meeting will take place on Thursday 29 January 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.

Guest speakers this time include:

  • Nick Hetherington, network manager for AMEY Streets Ahead road resurfacing programme
  • First Group’s commercial and business manager Andy Metcalfe
  • Kathrine Harboard: Broomhill Library (National library day is 7 February)
  • Local business: Aligarh restaurant

Agenda for Open Meeting on Thursday 29 January (PDF, 703KB)

Minutes from previous Open Meetings

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Tickets on sale for Snow White, the 2015 Stephen Hill panto

This year’s Stephen Hill Youth pantomime is Snow White. It runs from Wednesday 18 to Saturday 21 February. Tickets are available online or from Bob Hodges on 0114 230 3207. More information is below.

Snow White, the 2015 Stephen Hill panto
Snow White, the 2015 Stephen Hill panto

It was back in 1968 when members of Stephen Hill Youth Club in Crosspool decided to stage a pantomime. A small group of young people met together over a period of months to write Puss in Boots which was staged the following year. It proved to be a great success and a new show has been performed every February Half term ever since. All the shows have been written and produced in-house.

This year the group of 40 or so 8 to 18yr olds is offering Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. The show was written by Ian Delaney together with brother and sister Lucy and Paul Nelson. The producer is Helen Gill. All these young adults commenced their involvement some years ago as members of the chorus and have graduated through starring roles into a fine production team.

Producer Helen [30] has been involved with the show since 1996 and feels that the standard of the shows on offer has increased year on year. ‘ We have been lucky enough to hold on to a significant number of young people who return each year to help with all the backstage tasks and we have a smashing team of wardrobe ladies who make the show look dazzling,’ she enthuses.

This year the Part of the Dame is played by Ian Delaney, coming back to the stage after several years on the production side. The part of Snow White is played by Rachel Lister who says that she was thrilled to be offered the title role and is enjoying the opportunities which it presents.

Katie Craig is on her fourth year, starting as a chorus member and having had main parts in following years. She is finding her part this year very interesting. ‘Working out how to project my personality onto the part of the magic mirror is quite a challenge’, she reflects.

The show is a spectacle of colour, humour, music, dance and drama with an appeal to people of all ages. Tickets are available online this year for the first time but can be purchased directly from Bob Hodges, who was at that first meeting back in 1968. ‘I have been busy selling tickets since Christmas, ‘ says Bob. ‘Lots of folk bring their children but it is wonderful that some people who are in their nineties are still amongst the first to request tickets each year, having seen every show.’

The show runs in half term week from Wednesday February 18th to Saturday 21st. There is a matinee on Saturday afternoon which always sells out very quickly.

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Items wanted for Crosspool Summer Fayre

Books wanted for Crosspool Summer Fayre
Donations wanted for Crosspool Summer Fair

Do you have any unwanted prizes, gifts or bric-a-brac that might be suitable for the Crosspool Forum Summer Fayre bric-a-brac stall? For example glasses, small toys, jewellery, vases etc.

If so, please get in touch on  g.m.drinkwater@btinternet.com. We can collect if necessary, or they can be dropped off locally.

The annual Summer Fayre will take place on Saturday 4 July. It’s part of the Crosspool Festival, which this year runs Friday 26 June to Sunday 5 July.