Voice Magazines - Broadmeadows, South Normanton, Blackwell, Newton & Hilcote Edition - May 2021

MAY ‘21

BROADMEADOWS, SOUTH NORMANTON, BLACKWELL, NEWTON & HILCOTE

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From the Editor Hi Readers, This month I’m not going to talk about the dreaded ‘C’ word and I’m also not going to mention any bingo words, such as ‘restrictions’, ‘lockdown’, ‘rule of 6’ etc etc. It hasn’t gone away, it has affected everybody’s lives in one way or another, we shouldn’t be complacent but that said, I, like many of you, want my life back! And this month has seen the return of the shops.

I’m sure that you’re all aware by now that I am passionate about small business and that it is synonymous with ‘Shopping local’, which has never been more important than currently. Many of our local businesses have been unable to open and as such trade. The stress that they have endured trying to keep the wheels on, has at times been too much to bear and many shops & businesses, big and small, have fallen along the way. Having felt the pain ourselves to some degree (although we were fortunate enough to limp along from home), the people in these industries are my absolute heroes.

The adaptability, resilience and fortitude that every business owner has shown, should be celebrated and the very least we can do is support them in their comeback.

Liam and I popped down to Alfreton Market during the opening week on a Saturday and met the traders, you can read all about our experience in our Alfreton & Swanwick editions and online. I may have mentioned this before, but when I was a kid, I had a stint on my cousin’s cheese stall and it proper gave me the bug! I love markets, car-boots, fairs etc and I really love trading on them.

Having spoken with many of the traders, we found such a mixed bag between, longevity, products sold, whether they kept running throughout lockdowns and how they had to adapt but what was apparent was the resolve of all these people to carry on. It was also wonderful to see a couple

of start-up businesses which began trading through lock-down and are working hard to build a business from it.

I truly think that through dark times, opportunities arise and sometimes, we talk more about what we’ve lost than the successes that we have gained. I would urge anyone who spots an opportunity, to grab it with both hands and with that in mind, Alfreton Market has some cracking deals for crafts and start-up businesses & I believe that most local markets have similar incentives – so if your dream is retail, why not give them a call!

In other news and in the same vein, local elections – use your vote and use it wisely and don’t try and read anything into that other than – we only get a say if we turn up and vote, irrespective of your persuasion! We did want to run a feature about all the local elections etc but decided against it for fear of vitriol from the keyboard warriors who assume my position without question!

I’m off to enjoy the sunshine and visit some local independent traders #shoplocal ….it’s our future!!

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South Normanton Community Church Invite You To Join Us At The Zion Methodist Church Building ( Market St, South Normanton)

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including giving away masks, distancing on the

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very quickly and in 2019 we ran more than 60

to kill pathogens in the air, and I’m pleased to say

tours. At the beginning it was just Clair driving

it worked a treat, we took 22 tours away in the

the coach, with Graham (her husband) in charge

summer last year when the restrictions were lifted

of the spanners, Pam (Clair’s mum) answering

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the phone and not forgetting Matthew (Clair &

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Grahams son) who likes to remind his mum of the

did a stunning job of keeping us safe and we are

commentary she should be giving. Since then, we

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have added more vehicles to our fleet and we get

spend doing what we enjoy so much. We are very

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Book Review Lots of people seem to have found an increased interest in nature and the countryside during the past year, whether it’s been through TV programmes like Springwatch which have kept us in touch with what’s happening in the big wide world outside our own four walls, or more awareness of global warming or what happens when we don’t balance human needs with what the planet can take.

So James Rebanks’ books about his family farm in Cumbria seem to reflect an emerging mood to see if we can make things better. He wrote The Shepherd’s Life back in 2015 and followed this with English Pastoral: An Inheritance, published last year. Both are beautiful, unsentimental, passionate tales of a tough way of life which deserves to be taken heed of.

The author is the son of a shepherd, who was the son of a shepherd and the family has lived and worked farms around the Lake District for four generations. They live by the seasons and farming is not something they do for a living, it is their life. They work through Christmas and birthdays, the children grow up knowing things that city kids can’t hope to learn – including that you need a “get up – get out” mentality , as in get out into the outdoors, and the first rule is to look after the animals and the land.

Mr Rebanks may be a born farmer, but he’s also a born writer with a fantastic eye for the beauty of the country. This isn’t All Creatures Great and Small, there’s no whimsy, instead it leaves you with a real appreciation of the fells and the people who work them – and of the lessons we maybe need to learn if we are to improve our time here.

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THE HIGH STREET This month we wanted to welcome back all the businesses on our local high streets. They have had a rough year not only worrying about their health but also their livelihoods and as such ‘Shopping local’ and has never been more important than now.

Our local shops, traders and businesses have been hit hard by Covid-19 and they desperately need our help if they are to survive.

Please don’t assume that because lockdown is ending, they are out of the woods. This is make-or-break time for so many businesses.

Local businesses are your friends, your neighbours, the parents of the kids at school, the guy from the pub and the nice lady who walks her dog down the park. They are your local community. And the money spent with local businesses stays in the local community, to be spent again and again. Rather than the money spent at the big shops, which mostly leaves straight away.

So be brave and be impulsive. Pop down to your local shops, market or pick up that phone today and make that booking. It really is the difference between our local businesses surviving and disappearing, perhaps for good this time!

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The ‘pandemic’ may not be over yet - actually it may never be completely over, as viruses are pesky wee blighters that continually adapt and change - but at least we can now get out and about with a little more freedom.

Shopping is one of the things that many people say they have missed during the repeated lockdowns. Supermarket food shopping and online browsing doesn’t hold a candle to mooching round actual shops…well for some people anyway!

Evidence of this ‘must go shopping syndrome’ (MGSS) was all over the news when the restrictions were lifted, with multiple images of people queuing to get in the likes of Primark, other city centre department stores and out of town retail parks.

Great for those stores (and their shareholders!) but what about the small traders on your local high streets. The one man (and woman) bands who have struggled to survive during the crises, often with very little help from government.

Some of these small local retail outlets may have managed to stay open during lockdown, the ones providing essential services anyway, please don’t let them down now the economy is reopening, by heading elsewhere!

What about the cafes, hairdressers, barbers, beauticians, gift shops, and the myriad other small shops you can find in every town and village? Some haven’t survived, some may still find themselves unable to continue even though clientele is returning, and others will be testing the water - can they make up for the devastating losses of the last year, or should they give up?

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Don’t kid yourself that your small spend won’t make a difference - it will! An article in The Independent just before Christmas 2020 said that, according to Visa, if we all spent £5 extra per week with small businesses it would help to keep them open in the long term.

It should be a no brainer really! Spend your hard earned cash in your local shops whenever you can. OK, maybe you have missed a little retail therapy in a shopping mall or large city centre - indulge yourself if you must, but remember that without your custom, local shops will close. If you don’t want to see your town or village denuded of its independent retailers and becoming a ghost town of boarded up shops, you need to spend your money there.

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So a fiver a week in your local shops, or a decimated local high street. Your choice.

These articles are researched and written by Laura Billingham, a local content writer and author. Laura moved to the Peak District several years ago to pursue her passion for writing.

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This walk originally featured in the magazines back in August 2014. The walk is one of my favourites, which we do quite often. It makes great use of a number of different trails and has a great variety of scenery, not least the views from the ‘Miner’, which is the highest point in Nottinghamshire.

The walk can be adapted, if you want to stick to the trails or if you want to shorten it. To shorten the route just jump from the end of point 5 to point 11, although you will miss out on the Miner!

6-mile circular from Brierly Forest Park A moderate and varied walk for you and your dog. The route should take around 3 hours. The route has a couple of decent inclines and there are stiles to cross. There are a few stretches of road so take care. The terrain is generally very good but as with all walks it depends on the conditions, so a good pair of boots are always advised.

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Continue along the trail passing a golf course on your left. Near the end of the golf course, you reach a cross roads of footpaths with a kissing gate on either side of the trail. Turn right, to enter a field. Continue across the field to the far side to enter the trees through a gap and continue across a wooden footbridge into another field.

Cross the field diagonally right and at the far side cross a stile adjacent to a telegraph pole into another field. Keeping the hedge on your right continue straight ahead. Ignore the stile on your right and continue to the far side of the field. Bear left and continue with the hedge on your right until you see a stile on your right. Cross the stile and a bridge into another field.

Take a slight diagonal left to cross the field, heading for a gap in the fence on the left-hand perimeter of this field. Pass through the gap and uphill onto the Silverhill Trail.

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Continue along this trail, passing a pond on your right and onto a T-junction with a large ‘Silverhill Wood’ sign on your right. Turn right here and continue winding gently uphill along the trail for approx.1 mile. At a fork in the path, bear left uphill. Pass through a large wooden gate and shortly after turn right to climb some steps to ‘The Miner’.

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This walk is for illustrative purposes only. Voice Magazines takes no responsibility for anyone who chooses to follow this route and encourages all walkers to obey all byelaws and signs and to respect the area they are walking in, ensuring they pick up all dog mess and obey the countryside code at all times.

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Last month I told of our first experiences…..this is what happened next After 4 or 5 days we’d both got the hang of steering and braking.

My mates SX200 had a very modern facility that mine sadly lacked. When he activated his “kick start” a noise was born behind the side panels, the machine started to vibrate a bit and puffs of smoke emerged from a little pipe at the back.

Quite novel.

I could have been kicking mine until now and nothing would have happened – nothing other than a sore leg.

The previous owner, the aforementioned lunatic centre half, had modified my machine to improve it. What this improvement amounted to was a bloody great hole in the side panel to accommodate a carburettor apparently stolen from a Chieftan Tank.

Now, “improvement” is a word open to huge levels of interpretation. In this case it seemed to mean that the vehicle would no longer start easily and once it had been coaxed into life the ”improvement” further meant that it would overheat after about 10 miles.

Luckily it had a about 30 mirrors attached to each side of the headlight so the fact that it wouldn’t start, would stop soon after starting and threaten to set fire to my trousers after 10 miles were mere by-products of being “cool”.

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and when she foolishly dumped me it got me to Belper, just, to see the next lucky recipient of my affections.

And….most importantly….it got me to The Regal. More about that in a later episode.

So we had the machines, the Parkas, the attitude. All we were lacking was the style. Where better to get that than the wonderful emporium that was Steelyards!!

Steelyards was a highly respected gents outfitters in Ripley, almost opposite The Regal and next door to the old Cooperative store. Heaven knows what they made of the young oiks coming in to buy “sta prest” and shirts with a weird pleat down the back made by Ben Sherman Steelyards didn’t last long after that, partly because I think I was one of the few people who actually paid for the stuff I bought. It was a common site to see slim young men of 10 stone walking in and coming out looking 12 stone and struggling under the weight of three pairs of trousers, 4 shirts and a mohair sweater!

So we now had the style to match our self confidence.The world was about to open its doors….

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SOUTH NORMANTON ATHLETIC FOOTBALL CLUB “Firstly, and most importantly - we hope this article finds yourselves and your loved ones in good health.

Well, we’ve made it through Lockdown number 3! Let’s all hope that’s the last of them. I’m remaining positive that this is the end of the lockdowns - so fingers crossed!

I’m absolutely over the moon to be able to actually talk about the return of football and give you guys an update on how it’s all going.

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and May. To safely get everyone back and loving it again!

As the country, and our little corner of Bolsover looks toward the long-awaited reopening of shops, barbers, pubs, gyms, and other businesses - let’s make sure we make some effort to support local people and their businesses. Let’s make sure these local businesses get back on their feet.

One positive to come from the lockdowns (aside from me perfecting a few home cooking recipes) is that we’ve proven once again, that we’re a cracking little village when we all support each other - so let’s keep that spirit as things start to reopen.

We genuinely cannot wait to see you down at Lee’s Lane when we’re allowed to do so.

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Even more of George’s Footballing Tales (as told to him whilst sitting on his grandad’s knee)

It may have been nearly seventy years since those intimate fireside chats with his grandad, but they remained fresh in George’s memory.

He wasn’t sure if it was the way Horace told the tales or just the fact that many of the late Victorian characters he was hearing about bore absolutely no resemblance to the heroes of his own childhood like Stanley Matthews, Tom Finney and Nat Lofthouse. Whatever, Horace almost seemed able to bring them to life. Here’s another good example.

With the Club doing well and drawing huge crowds to the Harena, there was a problem. Most of the players were colliers, with some not finishing their Saturday morning shift until 1.00pm. They’d then come to the stadium straight from the pit and be stripped naked and have buckets of water thrown over them to clear the accumulated muck & grime. A bit cleaner perhaps, but having not eaten anything since getting up for work at 4.30am, they needed sustenance to ensure they’d last a full ninety minutes.

Now, as Horace recalled, Mildred Mycroft was the mother of one of the star players during the glory days of the 1890’s. She was not only a keen supporter but recognised as one of the best cooks in the area, and when she was approached and asked if she’d provide a few snacks ‘for t’lads’ she was only too pleased to help out.

Soon she was not only feeding players who’d been working, but the rest of the team. Word spread

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and within a couple of months, many Hilcote supporters were asking if she could just ‘do a bit more’ and they’d happily pay for what was on offer. Before the end of that season, she had been provided with facilities to not only prepare and cook whatever was required, but a hatch through which she could sell to hungry spectators, many of whom had also come straight from work.

So it was that for many a Saturday afternoon, one of the attractions of a trip to the Harena was a visit to Mildred’s Mess. People, some of whom were not in the least interested in the football, would turn up to consume some of Mildred’s Mutton Stew, freshly made Lard Sandwiches, Fidgety Pies, Bakewell Puddings or Lumpytums.

As George put it, and who am I to disagree, there is a good case to suggest that at Hilcote, Mildred Mycroft created the original pre-match meal and opened the first ever ‘concessionary stall’ at any sporting ground in the world. If proven, this could draw tourists from around the world to the village.

PS – Mildred, weighing a little over 19 stones, was a good advert for the quality of her own cooking.

As the captain of visiting Marehay Marauders was once heard to remark upon arrival at the Harena, “Flipping Heck*, I hope she’s not playing centre half this afternoon”. * - it was actually worse than that, but kids might be reading!

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