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The bus service running through Crosspool taking people out to Derbyshire is to change from Sunday, 30 October.
Currently, passengers travelling to places including Castleton, Eyam and Bakewell catch services 51A, 241 and 242. However from Sunday the new numbers for the buses will be 273, 274 and 275.
The buses will now be operated by Hulleys of Baslow during the week and TM Travel on Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays.
Download the new timetable below for full details of the new services.
You are invited to come and leave your household waste in the Crosspool Community Skip this week on Thursday, 27 October 2011. It will be on Selborne Road from 8am and will be picked up promptly at 12:30pm.
Please note, the skip is for household waste only. The following items will not be accepted:
The skip will be supervised at all times.
Rivelin Valley Conservation Group collected top prize at the Sheffield Telegraph Environment Awards this week.
The organisation is now twenty years old and continues to encourage the effective management of wildlife habitats and to reverse the decline of the nature trail.
Volunteers from a membership of 500 meet once a month for regular walks, talks from both enthusiasts and experts and also to improve the Rivelin valley environment.
A limited edition pack of five greetings cards featuring photos of Crosspool in the Spring has gone on sale in Craft Angels.
You can see below some of the local scenes on view in the set, which include daffodils on Manchester Road, the wonderful blossom on Watt Lane and Spring in the precinct.
Envelopes are included and the cards are blank inside so you can use them for general greetings cards, at Christmas, birthdays or other special occasions.
The cards are available now from Craft Angels on Sandygate Road. A pack costs just £2.50 and any money raised will go towards local community group Crosspool Forum.
Our local councillor, Geoff Smith, has published a report summarising his first four months in office.
The Labour councillor’s update includes issues of interest to Crosspool residents, such as Tapton school’s transition to academy status.
You can read the report in full at www.crookeslabourparty.co.uk.
Don’t forget that Geoff’s Crosspool surgery takes place between 12.30pm and 2pm on the third Wednesday of the month (except December) in St Columba’s Church on Manchester Road.
He is also happy to see constituents at other times – contact him on 0114 273 5588, 07581 214783 and geoff.smith2@sheffield.gov.uk. You can also follow him on Twitter at @geoffforcrookes.
A Crosspool house was featured on a BBC TV programme yesterday.
The distinctive new-build home near the top of Darwin Lane appeared on To Build or Not To Build, which was broadcast yesterday morning. You can watch the show again on iPlayer for the next seven days.
To Build or Not To Build featuring Darwin Lane house
Joe Castle writes:
Digging in his back garden a while ago, the resident of a semi-detached house on the top side of Manchester Road hit a real snag when his spade struck a sizeable stone some three feet below ground level.
Further digging at either side exposed even more stones and, in fact a line of them extending the full width of the garden.
Naturally, very curious, and with some prizing (and fortuitously great care) he was met with an unbelievable sight witnessed by his equally inquisitive 12-year old son who had arrived on the scene. More stones were lifted and there, a yard or so below, several lines of setts were revealed.
Carrying a camera the lad gingerly jumped down into the hole. His, (adult verified) findings were a circular-shaped tunnel, some 20-25 inches in diameter, constructed of irregular shaped pieces of stone and stretching both ways into the darkened distance. There was a covering of silt on the tunnel floor.
A knowledgeable resident told me the tunnel’s two terminals were: at one end The Sportsman and at the other the bottom of Coldwell Lane. Apparently, many residents who had alterations made to their houses (the tunnel passes through the back-gardens of 51 properties) had been made aware of its existence.
Why is it there, anyway? What purpose does or did it serve; any ideas? I’ll put forward my theory in the next issue of the Crosspool Clarion but your views will be very welcome.
Local historian Judith Hanson gave her views:
I have looked at the old maps of Crosspool and nothing is shown on them to indicate what the mystery tunnel can be. However I do know that there was an adit – an opening to a coal mine – just behind The Sportsman. Maybe it could have something to do with that?
There are coal seams all over this area and several of the people who lived in Clough Fields hamlet were miners. There was a Hallam coal field but where exactly it was I have not been able to find out.
An interesting addition to this is that there was a footpath from Manchester Road up to Sandygate Road- approximately where the gennel is on Manchester Rd, coming out at the top of Ringstead Crescent.
And yes, if you are from Sheffield its a gennel and not a ginnel!
What do you think? Do you have any ideas about what it might be?
For the second year running, the plants in Crosspool precinct have won silver in the Sheffield in Bloom awards.
The prize was presented to Crosspool Forum chairman Ian Hague at the Town Hall last month.
We’ll be aiming for gold in 2012 and also have plans to feature flags and bunting in the precinct as part of the Olympics and the Queen’s diamond jubilee celebrations.
Controversial plans to change the status of Tapton secondary school in Crosspool to an academy have been put on hold due to legal issues raised by the school’s owner.
Private finance initiative company Interserve and its funders Lloyds Banking Group have concerns over how PFI schemes work with academy status, particularly over the way the council would make PFI payments on behalf of Tapton after it has become an academy.
The school is still committed to the conversion and barristers are working through the issue, although no new completion date has been announced.
The proposed move is unpopular with parents and teachers.
The new edition of the Crosspool Clarion has been printed and will soon be falling on the doormats of all Crosspool households.
The latest issue includes:
Download Crosspool Clarion Autumn 2011 (PDF, 659KB)
Some back issues of past editions of the Crosspool Clarion are also available to download.
The Crosspool Clarion is the official newsletter of Crospool Forum. It is a free, quarterly publication, with over 2,500 copies delivered to local households.
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