Voice Magazines - Clay Cross & Surrounding Villages - November 2021

NOVEMBER ‘21

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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!

x Emily

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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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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.

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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INSTRUCTIONS: 1. On the cardboard draw a circle – I used a dinner plate to draw round.

2. Draw a smaller circle inside the large one – I used a tea plate to draw round.

3. Cut out the centre of the circle – I find it easier to cut the centre circle into quarters, top to bottom and side to side, you are then cutting out smaller pieces. Take care not to cut into the main circle.

4. Paint the circle in the colour of your choice and set to one side to dry.

5. Paint the inside and outside of the toilet rolls with your choice of colours, 3 rolls in each contrasting colour, and set to one side to dry. I didn’t paint mine until after I cut the strips which is time consuming.

6. When the rolls are dry squash them flat and cut them into approximately 1 cm strips – I got 10 strips from each roll i.e., 2 flowers.

7. Put a small amount of glue (approximately ½ to 1cm ONLY) on one side at the bottom of one strip, stick another strip to it, and repeat to stick another strip, 3 in total. If you have a spring peg or a bulldog clip it will help to clip them together to dry. It saves you having to hold them. N.B. Make sure you are only sticking a small section at the bottom of each strip. PICTURE 1.

8. Do the same with 2 strips. Each flower will have 5 strips (petals) so carry on and glue all your flowers as described above.

9. When the glue on the strips has dried push the ends of the cut strips towards each other to reshape them into petal shapes and stick the 3 petals to the 2 petals, to complete your 5 petal flower.

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This month we go back 4 years to October 2017 to revisit a perfect autumnal walk. This walk has a bit of everything. We begin walking through a country park with some great views before looping round to pass the historic and picturesque Annesley All Saints Church and then onto the pretty Annesley Forest.

A mid length walk which should take you and your dog around 2 1/2 hours to complete. There is a mix of terrain, with some uneven and muddy bits, particularly depending on the weather so please wear appropriate footwear. There is one particularly busy road so be careful, keep dogs on leads if unsure and as always, follow the countryside code.

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Standing with your back to the car park entrance, walk straight ahead to pass through a large wooden gate, pass by a signboard reading ‘Newstead and Annesley Country Park’ on your right and then continue along a wide and well laid path.

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After a short distance you will pass a lake and a building on your right. Pass through a gap, continue straight ahead along the wide path climbing gently uphill, to pass a second and then a third lake on your right.

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Turn right and continue until reaching a T junction of roads. Turn right and after a short distance turn right again along ‘Moseley Road’.

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Continue along Moseley Road to the very end and then turn left along another road. Follow this road to the very end and then turn left once more onto ‘Byron Road’. After a short distance turn right along a road signposted for ‘Parish Hall’. After a short distance pass the Parish Hall on your right and then continue straight ahead along a tarmac footpath.

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After a short distance pass through a metal width restrictor and then continue straight along the path going uphill. Near the top of the hill pass through some concrete post and, almost immediately, turn left along a footpath opposite a bungalow (No.9) to pass between some houses.

Continue straight ahead to walk across the top of a cul-de-sac and then towards a block of garages. Thread between the garages and pass through a metal chicane to continue along a footpath. After a short distance pass by a graveyard on your right and then a church on your left.

Immediately after the church cross over a crossroads of footpaths and continue straight ahead along a footpath into some trees.

Continue downhill until you reach a road. Turn left along the road for a short distance and then turn right onto a lane going uphill passing a sign on your right reading ‘No unauthorised vehicles’.

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At the top of the hill the lane bends sharp right.

At this point continue straight ahead to pass through a gap onto footpath heading into the trees. Ignoring all the other paths to the left and right, continue straight ahead along this path.

Eventually the path bends around to the right.

Continue for a short distance to pass by a large metal gate and to a main road.

10. Cross straight over, pass by a large metal gate and then continue along a well laid path. Follow the path around to the left and then continue straight ahead going through woodland. After some distance you will reach a major junction of paths. Take the left option going gently uphill and then continue straight ahead.

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Continue on the main path for some distance and then pass by a metal gate to reach a main road. Cross straight over the road pass by another metal gate and continue straight ahead along a footpath going through woodland.

12. Continue along this path for some distance until the path splits in two. Take the left split, continue straight ahead and then continue to go steep downhill. At the bottom of the hill you pass through what is often a very wet boggy patch of land making the path ahead difficult to follow.

Be sure to continue straight ahead going uphill.

13. Ignoring all other paths to the left and right, go straight to the very top of the hill and then drop back down the other side. At the bottom of the hill and at a crossroads of footpaths turn right along a well laid footpath. After a short distance pass by a large metal gate and to a road.

14. Cross straight over the road to pass through a wooden chicane and onto a recreation ground.

Continue straight ahead passing a skate park on your right and then pass through a wooden swing gate onto a road.

15. Turn left to follow the main road, ‘Tilford Road’, with terraced houses on the left and then after some distance pass’ Newstead Centre’ on your right. After a short distance cross over a railway line and then after a very short distance turn left back into the car park.

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Yet another of..........George’s Footballing Tales George had been sent to the pantry – it was where Grandad Horace kept his supply of ‘little treats’ - and bringing back a packet of Spangles for the two of them to share, asked “What was the most exciting game that you saw at the Harena?”

Horace thought for a minute and started, “Nah then lad, Ah reckon it must ha been the FA Cup replay agin South Wingfield Wanderers back in 1895.”

NB – for the benefit of all, I’ll drop the verbatim account as the broad Derbyshire dialect used by Horace might go against local parents’ desire to have their kids talk ‘proper’.

On Wednesday 13th February 1895, the residents of B Winning (Hilcote to you and me!), and many surrounding villages, were beside themselves with excitement. After a draw the previous Saturday, they now knew that the winners would face the mighty Notts County, current holders of the Cup, at their Trent Bridge ground in the next round.

The match was scheduled for a 2.30pm start, to allow for extra time should the teams not be separated after 90 minutes.

Local schools allowed pupils to attend and this, combined with many colliers coming straight to the match at the end of their ‘early’ shift, led to the kick off being delayed by twenty minutes, as a record crowd assembled at the Harena. This was to prove crucial.

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slowly moved east, and it became clear that total darkness would soon envelop the Harena.

Calling the two captains together, the umpire suggested that the tie be settled upon the toss of a farthing. Clarrie Flint, Hilcote captain, wasn’t having this and asked for five minutes grace as he had a possible solution. This was granted and he instructed his players to quickly spread out and make a specific request of the spectators lining the touchline.

As they returned in the gathering gloom, Clarrie asked the opposition to line up for kick off and for the umpire to restart the game. They looked puzzled, but at the high-pitched sound of the whistle, the Harena was instantly bathed in bright light.

George, understandably captivated, wanted to know how this apparent miracle had been achieved. It was no miracle. The players had apparently asked colliers on the touchline to strap their Humphry Davy Safety Lamps to the foreheads of many of the boys present, and then lift the youngsters onto their shoulders. As the whistle sounded, lamps were switched on and hey presto, Hilcote Harena became the first stadium in the entire world to stage floodlit football! Not only that, Hacademicals went on to score the winner and secure that tie at Notts County.

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FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR NEW TUPTON IVANHOE OF THE YEAR The new Ivanhoe of the Year Award celebrates the amazing things that players do both within the club or the local community.

Anthony Maidens, Chairman of New Tupton Ivanhoe said “We hear so many great stories about the young people who play for the club and wanted to celebrate those that go the extra mile.”

Each manager has nominated a player from their team for the award.

The finalists for the for the 20/21 season are: Kaison Bell - U7 Black Kaisan wasn’t 6 until the end of October 2020, but he never missed training, came to every match day and cheered the team on whilst patiently waiting for his birthday!

Harrison Shaw - U7 Gold Harrison recently had an operation but the only thing he was concern about was missing football and his teammates.

Finn Hampton - U8 Black Finn always stays behind after training and helps pack away and helps new players settle into the Club.

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Freddie Rawson - U9 Black Freddie was asked to play in goal last season, he never complained and played an important role in the team winning two trophies.

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Riley Fern - U10s Riley’s dad passed away earlier this year and the first thing he did was text his coach apologising that he couldn’t make the tournament the next day.

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Peak Deer on the Move

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 ith Photo by Steve Sm west towards Eyam.

Of course, there is a further western Peak population around the Roaches and the Staffordshire Moors.

Historically the other main deer species you might see in and around the Peak was the back (melanistic) herd from Stanton deer park, and down into Matlock and Darley Dale. This is a medieval herd and well documented.

However, things are changing and there is another deer now spreading and increasingly commonly reported. This is the roe deer. Occurring mostly in smaller groups than the other two and considerably smaller, roe can be mistaken for young or female red deer and so wherever possible, records are best supported by a photograph. Twenty years ago, roe deer were very uncommon in the Peak but increasingly seen in the eastern lowlands both north and south of the area. Nevertheless, since then the roe deer have spread often unnoticed but to a point where they are now rather common.

Tending to feed in fields and to hide away in woodland and scrub, the roe can be around but not detected. They are quite frequently observed around woodland

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In both town and country, they will turn up in back gardens and along roadsides and seem quite bold and unaffected by disturbance.

In Sheffield for instance, they have been seen regularly around urban Meersbrook and Heeley, and find shelter in woods, cemeteries, and along watercourses too. In farmland and countryside with scattered woodlands, the roe deer is now the most likely to be spotted. From the White Peak to Bakewell and the Wye and Derwent valleys, the roe is present and doing well. Often though, they will see you before you see them and will be off like a shot. Moving between sites under cover of darkness, they can move into the suburbs and rural villages without detection. However, listen out for their distinctive barking which can be heard at night for over a quarter a mile or more.

The final deer species that you might encounter locally is the exotic Asian muntjac; seen and heard to the east and south, but are generally rare in and around the Peak District.

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We’re largely getting to the stage of making things ready for next year’s garden, while still looking forward to some over-winter colour and looking after the most vulnerable areas.

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Roses planted in exposed spots, should be pruned now to stop windrock over the winter. Cut off most of this year’s growth and if there’s any sign of blackspot, don’t put cuttings in the compost as it will transmit the disease.

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