Rural Voice - Darley Dale & Villages Edition - November 2021

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From the Editor Hello Readers!!

So, we’ve done explosive fireworks front covers for the November edition for years, so we fancied a change this year and have gone for ‘World Nursery Rhyme Week’. It is my thought that parents and kids of all ages haven’t had it easy over the last year or so and nursery rhymes promote the importance of childhood development and education in the early years of education & who doesn’t love to cast their minds back – I wonder, can you name them all? Check out our Facebook page to see the others.

Here at Voice HQ we’ve got our Christmas spirit going this month! Check out our handmade wreaths on Facebook!! Now, don’t judge us too harshly, as some of us are more creative than others and some of us follow the rules more than others!

Nevertheless, it was great fun to do and I’m sure you’ll all be surprised to learn, we all got a little bit competitive with each other over this one. Why not have a go yourself; based on the next panic buying situation being toilet rolls (again!), we should all have plenty of tubes left over!!!

Whilst we’re talking Christmas, the next edition is the last one of 2021 – thank crikey for that – how many more years can

we say ‘next year will be better’?! Although, in fairness, 2021 was significantly better than 2020 for many of us, but I am splitting hairs! Anyway, I digress – this is your last call for any community notices or events or anything Christmas related to be posted. If you have anything you want to tell people about, now is your time, get in touch today.

Oooh, I also forgot to mention last month that we launched our 11th Magazine in the Clay Cross area. Eleven mags for eleven years, each year is beyond my wildest expectations, and I am thankful for our lovely readers, fantastic advertisers and contributors and the best team in the world. I think we might need to recruit some new team members next year at this rate with the plans I have in mind but we’ll need some special people to fit in with this crowd!

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The Dark Side of Nursery Rhymes Nursery rhymes…nonsense for kids, or coded messages containing dark undertones? Read on to see why the latter may be closer to the truth than we would maybe like to think!

“Nursery rhymes”, with their distinctive sing-song rhythms and melodies; date back centuries, as far back as the 14th Century in fact. Modern childhood psychologists believe they can help a child’s mental development and spatial reasoning, but it is doubtful our antecedents were thinking in those terms when the majority of the ditties were composed. Let’s have a quick look at a few of the best known rhymes: Baa Baa Black Sheep refers to the wool tax imposed by Edward I, when new rules said a third of the cost of a sack of wool went to him, another went to the church and the last to the farmer. In the original rhyme, the ‘little boy who lived down the lane’ ended up with nothing!

The phrase ‘black sheep of the family’ stems from the fact that the wool from black sheep could not be successfully dyed and thus had less value.

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary is believed to be about Queen Mary (aka Bloody Mary) and concerns the torture and murder of Protestants, the garden being an allusion to graveyards full of Protestant martyrs, whilst “silver bells” were thumbscrews and “cockleshells” are thought to be instruments of torture which were attached to male genitals. Nice. Not! Oranges and Lemons describes a condemned man’s journey towards his execution in London, passing various churches on his way.

Rock-a-bye Baby alludes to the rumour that the son of King James II was actually another man’s son, smuggled into the delivery room in order to ensure a Catholic would once more ascend to the throne of England. An early recorded version of the rhyme ends with the footnote “This may serve as a warning to the Proud and Ambitious, who climb so high that they generally fall at last.”

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Ring a Ring o Roses, we’re all familiar with the idea that this rhyme, and the associated little dance so beloved of kids, is connected with the Great Plague of 1665. The ‘rosie’ being the distinctive rash that developed on the skin of sufferers, and the ‘posies’ referring to the scented flowers required to camouflage the hideous stench of decaying flesh and rotting bodies.

Even the seemingly innocuous ditty Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, may refer to the persecution of Catholics in the 16th and 17th century, when Catholic priests were often burnt at the stake. Whilst Lucy Locket is actually connected to an argument between two prostitutes in the 18th century!

So much time has elapsed since these nursery rhymes were first written that modern day mothers singing them with their children can be forgiven for not realising the death, destruction, and darkness so many of them allude to. And anyway - who really cares these days, they’re fun, kids enjoy then and they’re part of our heritage and tradition.

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Book Review

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is likely to be one of the strangest books you’ll read this year. It’s the winner of this year’s Women’s Prize – presumably because it’s written by a woman rather than about women, although there is one strong female character.

There’s been lots of promotion of this novel over the last few months and it might be fair to say it’s marmite. You’ll either love the mystery, the mind-games and the maze-like quality of the story, and there’s a lot of that to love, or you’ll be irritated and bored.

Without giving too much of the story away – no spoilers here – it’s about Piranesi, who lives in the House, a huge world-like labyrinth of halls, full of statues, crashing tides, birds – and one other living human being, appropriately called The Other.

They’re in search of Truth – or at least a version of it, but while that is going on the reader realises this is a book about things maybe not being what they seem.

The descriptions are lovely and the story intriguing and all the time it leaves you questioning your understanding of what’s going on. Whether you will enjoy it probably depend on whether you enjoy puzzles and the sort of magic which messes with your perception of things. It’s certainly interesting.

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Dronfield Church Stained Glass Restoration Project

St. John’s Church in Dronfield holds a remarkable collection of 13th century glass. The church has exciting plans for the restoration of their historic windows to conserve them for future generations to appreciate.

The church, along with support from heritage and funding experts, is putting in a bid to restore its medieval stained glass in the chancel. The glass, some of which dates back around 700 years, is likely to be some of the most important in our region and has a rich and hugely interesting history.

The window to the right of the altar, for example, makes very little sense when you look at it first off! That is because, during the dissolution of the monasteries, the church fell into disrepair and the historic glass fell out of the windows and was left to ruin at the foot of the building for decades.

Many years later, when the church was restored, the stained glass was returned to the window but, presumably deliberately, was put back in the wrong order to highlight what had happened!

Just next to it in another window are owls and monkeys, as well as a (not terribly) flattering representation of Edward III. It is thought that the monkeys are a sardonic reference to some of the things that the king was doing at that time and, if you look closely, you can see all kind of subliminal and, perhaps subversive, messages. Even seven hundred years ago, in the most holiest and revered of places, people were making statements!

St. John’s is just one of many hidden gems all across North East Derbyshire which highlight our rich history. The project, if successfully funded, will help to restore and rejuvenate this historic, and hugely important part of our local history and heritage. The conservation process will restore the stonework and encase the precious glass in something simlar to a glazed sandwich, often referred to as ‘isothermic glazing’.The 1970’s perspex will be removed and light will once again be allowed to shine through the glazing as it was meant to be.

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NOTTINGHAM and DERBYSHIRE We are successfully claiming compensation for Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire workers who transferred OUT of their work pension scheme.

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Many workers were persuaded to transfer out of their work pension scheme to a private scheme which paid considerably less! This was bad advice and many retired workers or their widows have lost out!

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Mr P. a miner from EDWALTON, worked at COTGRAVE COLLIERY. In 1991, after the pit was shut down, he was persuaded by an agent of PRUDENTIAL to transfer his miners pension to them. When he retired he realised he was getting less than his friends who kept their BRITISH COAL PENSION. Compensation £88,359.

Mr M. from WOLLATON worked for EAST MIDLANDS ELECTRICITY BOARD. In 1993, after it was privatised, he was advised by an agent of ABBEY LIFE to transfer his pension to them. When he retired he realised he was getting less than his friends who kept their E.M.E.B. Compensation £68,699.

Example 5 - £48,000

Example 6 - £53,000

Mr G. from CHESTERFIELD worked on the bins for DERBYSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL. After he was made redundant in 1991, he was persuaded by an independent financial advisor to transfer his pension to STANDARD LIFE. When he retired he noticed he was getting less than his friends who kept their LOCAL GOVERNMENT pension. Compensation £48,000.

Mr N. from CHILWELL worked as a driver for NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL. In 1992 he was persuaded by a sales agent of PEARL ASSURANCE (now PHOENIX LIFE) to transfer his pension to them.

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Mr P. from MANSFIELD worked at THORESBY. In 1992 he was persuaded by a sales agent from PRUDENTIAL to transfer his miners pension to them. He was promised a better pension. When he retired he realised he was getting less than his friends who kept their miners pension. Compensation £89,359.

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Mr G. from STOCKSBRIDGE worked at BRITISH STEEL. After he finished in 1990, he was advised by a salesman to transfer his pension to STANDARD LIFE. When he retired he realised he was getting a much lower pension than his friends who kept their BRITISH STEEL PENSION. Compensation £55,372.

Mr D. from ARNOLD worked for BRITISH RAIL. In 1994, after privatisation, he was advised by an agent from SUN LIFE (now AVIVA) to transfer his pension to them. When he retired he realised he was getting a much lower pension than his friends who kept their BRITISH RAIL pension.

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The Peak District Eastern Moors especially Big Moor have become well known for their feral populations of red deer – our largest and most magnificent British land mammal. Numbers have grown since the 1980s and with management culling on the core site of Big Moor there are probably somewhere between 200 and 300 animals across the estate. However, in the wider region beyond Big Moor, animals have dispersed over a considerable area; probably in part due to disturbance through the cull, which naturally makes the animals very nervous. Overall, the numbers are still rising and the area over which the red deer now roam has increased eastwards into Sheffield and Dronfield, northwards too, and Photo by Steve Smith west towards Eyam.

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