Enter the Crosspool Festival 2016 photo competition

Photo 1 - vote for this at the bottom of the page — The winning photo in last year’s photo competition

To enter the competition, take a great photo that shows ACTION and email it to us. It doesn’t need to capture movement in the photo as that is technically quite challenging but just something that suggests some action is about to happen or that there is a sense of movement.

Remember, the photo should make an impact, tell a story and follow the theme of ACTION.

Categories are open to anyone living/working/ studying in the area and are as follows:

Primary (5-11 yrs)
Secondary (12-18 yrs)
Adult (19 yrs+)

Closing date for entries is Sunday 19 June.

Email your photo as a jpg to: crosspoolfestivalphotos@gmail.com.

Please state:

Your name
Age category
Your contact email and phone number
A caption for your photo so the judges clearly understand by your description what is happening in the photo.

There will be prizes for all the category winners.

The adult winner’s photo will also be included in this year’s Crosspool Calendar. The best three in each category will be put on the Crosspool Forum website www.crosspool.info and voting for the winners will start from Monday 20 June. The exhibition at St Columba’s will display all the entries on Wednesday 29 June from 1.30pm-4.30pm. You can also meet photographers from Sheffield Photographic Society, see their photos on display and ask them your photo questions. Maybe we can start a local photography group? The winners will be announced at St Columba’s on Wednesday 29 June at 4pm. Tea and coffee will be provided by St Columba’s.

14 Feb, 201614 Feb, 2016

Manchester Road temporary lights in place until Thursday 18 February

Manchester Road temporary lights expected to be there until Thursday 18 February

@DavidKirkham3 @crosspoolnews Hi, these works are carried out by @Northpowergrid, expected to be there until 18th of February. Thanks

— Streets Ahead (@sccstreetsahead) February 13, 2016

4 Jan, 20165 Jan, 2016

Crosspool Calendars sell out

Thanks to the high standard of the photographs submitted by local residents, all 300 of the 2016 Crosspool Calendars have now been snapped up.

Crosspool Forum would like to give a big thank you to all the photographers and advertisers who entered into the community spirit to make the Crosspool calendar a must-have Christmas acquisition.

Money raised will go towards Crosspool Forum funds for local events and improvements to our neighbourhood.

27 Oct, 2015

2016 Crosspool Calendar available this week

A new calendar featuring Crosspool scenes will go on sale in local shops this week.

Many of the photos in the calendar are once again taken by local residents and there are also some archive shots showing familiar locations looking very different from times gone by.

The 2016 Crosspool calendar is available from Wednesday for just £4 from the Crosspool Pets, Enhance, GT News and Charisma and at the Open Meeting on Thursday 29 October.

Last year’s calendar sold out after two reprints so get yours while you can!

Money raised will help Crosspool Forum funds for local events and improvements to our neighbourhood.

3 Sep, 20153 Sep, 2015

Residents enjoy Crosspool history walk

Over thirty people walked the streets in drizzly conditions on Wednesday evening this week for the Crosspool Chronicles history walk led by Jan Milward and Lindsey Beagles.

The event was arranged so that people working during the day had opportunity to attend an evening repeat of the original history walk which took place during Crosspool Festival week.

31 Aug, 2015

One month left to send in your photos for the 2016 Crosspool Calendar

2015 Crosspool calendar — Last year’s Crosspool Calendar was such a success that another one is planned for 2016 – and we want your photos to be part of it

There are just over four weeks left to send in any photos you’d like considering for next year’s Crosspool Calendar.

The deadline to submit your pictures is Wednesday 30 September.

If you own any of your own photos – old or new – that you’d like to be considered for inclusion in the 2016 calender, please email them to crosspoolforum@fsmail.net, with the subject line ‘2016 calendar photos’ remembering to include your name, address and telephone number.

We’re after a variety of views, eras and seasons and it doesn’t matter if your photo is taken on a cheap camera or phone.

Remember, you must own the copyright for any photo that you submit. And by sending us the photo you agree that we can use it on the Crosspool Calendar, Crosspool News website, social media and for any other promotional means.

Money raised will help Crosspool Forum funds for local events and improvements to our neighbourhood.

All 300 copies of the 2015 edition sold in a few weeks. The calendar featured Crosspool scenes from over the years. Many of the photos in the calendar were taken by local residents, plus there were some archive shots showing familiar locations looking very different in times gone by.

7 Aug, 2015

Broomhill car fire causes delays

A car fire near the Manchester Road/Fulwood Road junction is causing delays for commuters this morning.

A fire engine and police are in attendance, with the fire put out by 8.15am.

13 Jul, 201514 Jul, 2015

Gallery: scarecrows of Crosspool award winners accounced

Over 20 households in the neighbourhood displayed a scarecrow in their front garden as part of a scarecrow competition at this year’s Crosspool Festival.

Thank you and congratulations to everyone who made one, they were all fantastic! We raised a fantastic £66 for the two Lydgate schools and we know how much fun the families who entered had making them and the spotters too.

If you did not make a scarecrow this year, don’t worry we will be running the competition next year. We hope you will join in then.

The winners

The judge has announced the winning scarecrows.

First prize: family pass to Magna, Wish you were here by the Thompson family of Coldwell Lane:

Second prize: box of treats from Lounge@Crosspool: Foxy Fower by the Fowler family of Den Bank Drive:

Third prize: family craft set: Bug hunting Bob by the Mather family of Sandygate Road:

And a judge’s special award goes to The Cows of Crosspool on Den Bank Crescent:

Gallery of 2015 Crosspool scarecrows

1st place: Wish you were here by the Thompson family of Coldwell Lane

2nd place: Foxy Fower by the Fowler family of Den Bank Drive

3rd place: Bug hunting Bob by the Mather family of Sandygate Road

Special award: The Cows of Crosspool on Den Bank Crescent

List of all scarecrows

The full list of roads which featured scarecrows is below.

Street	Scarecrow names/themes
Cairns Road	Minions Oh I do like to be beside the seaside
Coldwell Lane	What we are
Den Bank Crescent	The cows of Crosspool, featuring Moody Cow! The return of the Crosspool cows, featuring skinny cow!
Den Bank Drive	Foxy Fowler, our favourite things
Den Bank Road	Happy camper
Dransfield Road	Harry Potter Sandy The great outdoors
Forres Avenue	Space
Hagg Lane
Manchester Road	Cowboy My family and other animals Joy and happiness
Ringstead Crescent	Olaf
Ryegate Road	Animals
Sandygate Road	Bug hunting Bob
Sandygate Park Road	Cuddles
Stephen Hill	Jerry
Stephen Drive	Bella the ballerina
Stephen Hill Road	Shrek
Watt Lane	Cricket

12 Jul, 2015

Winner of photography competition for under 18s announced

Over 1,300 votes were cast in this year’s Crosspool Festival photography competition.

Under-18s were invited to submit a photo on the theme Things that give me joy. Judges shortlisted four finalists – the winning photo leads the list of entries below.

The four shortlisted competitors came forward for the presentation and each one received their framed photo.

Winning photo:

The sun breaking through the clouds

by Kirsty Harrower (13)

The other entries were:

The meerkats at Yorkshire Wildlife Park

by Oliver Shipman (11)

Photo 4 - meerkats. Vote for this at the bottom of the page — The meerkats at Yorkshire Wildlife Park by Oliver Shipman

Playing at Rivelin Park with my 3 year old sister

by Lucy May (5)

Photo 3 - playground slide. Vote for this at the bottom of the page — Photo 3 – playground slide. Vote for this at the bottom of the page

Gnome sweet gnome

by Isaac Smith (10)

This depicts some of Isaac’s much-loved gnome collection hiding in his rather wild Crosspool back garden.

Photo 2 - garden with gnomes. Vote for this at the bottom of the page — Gnome sweet gnome by Isaac Smith (10)

For further information about the competition please email Lindsey Beagles: crosspoolfestivalphotos@gmail.com

5 Jul, 201510 Jul, 2015

Summer Fayre success

Following the torrential thunderstorm in the early hours, it was a murky start to 4 July.

As the low cloud and fine drizzle slowly cleared throughout the morning, the CDYST sports field & hall on Coldwell Lane were gradually transformed, by an army of volunteers, into the setting for the Crosspool Forum Summer Fayre.

The event was officially opened by a lifelong Crosspool lady Faye Buxton, who earlier this year had moved from Sheffield to be nearer her family.

As visitors arrived to enjoy the attractions, stalls and entertainment by local Irish dancers, the Yorkshire Chandelier Clog dancers, Richard Francis Duo and the children’s favourite comedian/magician Barney Baloney, the sun broke through and shone for the whole afternoon.

A truly enjoyable day was had by everyone.

The organisers of the Fayre would like to thank everyone for attending the event and especially the team of dedicated volunteers who helped make the whole event possible.

See you all again next year.