May 12, Issue 51, The Sprotbrough Arrow

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May 2012

Issue No. 51

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Editor’s letter... 3rd May is

polling day and Doncaster residents are being asked to vote in the referendum on change in Governance arrangements.

Do we want to choose our Mayor or do we want elected councillors to choose our Mayor? Whatever your opinion, be sure to make it known and visit your polling station on Thursday 3rd May 2012!

The deadline for the June issue will be Wednesday 16th May. The June issue will be distributed from Friday 25th May 2012.

Best Wishes Michelle Tel:01302 534256 Mob:07795 387937

michelle@arrowpublications.co.uk

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RACE NIGHT Sprotbrough Park Playgroup and Toddlers are holding a Race night to raise funds for the Playgroup. (Reg Charity 1026781) They welcome everyone to come & join them on this fun evening!

The Race Night is on Friday 11th May at Sprotbrough Country Club and doors open at 7:30 p.m with the first race at 8 p.m.

Tickets are £4 in advance or £5 on the door and are available from Playgroup / Toddlers Mon-Fri a.m. plus Weds p.m. At the Methodist Church Hall in Sprotbrough, or call 07884 381194.

Sprotbrough W I Spring Fayre You are welcome to join us at our annual Spring Fayre with some exciting new stalls.

Saturday, May 12th 2012,

10.00am – 12 noon

In St Mary’s Church Hall Browse our stalls including ‘Scents and Soaps’, Children’s Stall, Cakes, ‘Rainbow Stall’, Jewellery and Crafts, Bottles, Books, ‘Kitchen Garden’ or try your luck on the Raffle or Tombola.

Admission £1 including refreshment.

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St Mary The Virgin Sprotbrough

Flower Festival 2012 With an Olympic Games Theme ‘May we run the race before us’ Come and visit our historic church, see the flowers and hear the organ playing.

Refreshments are available throughout the three day festival Friday 22nd June 10-6pm Saturday 23rd June 10-6pm Sunday 24th June 12-6pm Admission by programme, at the door

£2.00 per adult

Proceeds towards St Mary’s Roof Appeal Fund Enquiries 01302 853031

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Sprotbrough Cricket Club Supports and encourages young people in sport.

This would not be possible without the support of parents and local businesses.

Winterset Butchers in Sprotbrough continues to support us providing us with first classs quality meat and produce for prizes.

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A History of Sprotbrough Hall, Doncaster. Part 2 It is improbable that Sir Godfrey was inspired by any particular specimen of

French architecture, and the tradition that the house is a copy of a wing at Versailles cannot be corroborated by fact. No doubt Versaille brought home to the Yorkshireman’s mind the grandeur of that style, but when he got back to his native county, little more than vague impressions would seem to have remained with him. These, confused in the mind of the Master Mason with English Carolean tradition, combined to produce Sprotborough. We may, perhaps, attribute to Sir Godfrey’s French recollections the segmantal arched windows – which are familiar in the ground floor at Hampton Court and in scores of houses built during and after the last decade of the 17th century, but uncommon before 1690, except in isolated examples such as Honnington Hall. Again, the slightly projecting piers in which the windows are set were as yet uncommon in England, while the 2 turrets in the angles of the wings are of French suggestion. Very uncommon are the 2 large area courts between the wings and the main block. A comparison of the north front and the south front will at once show the purpose of the basement for they are built on different levels (a hill). To the north, owing to the slope of the ground, the surface level has been banked up to the horizontal, so that these courts are necessary to light the basement, which itself is necessitated at the south side to give dignity to the upper storey’s. There, however, the basement does not form, as is usual in houses of this date built on a slope, a ground floor, but is concealed by a wall and hedge, with the result that the house appears to stand higher than in reality it does from this aspect.

Except for those features, the house is mainly Jacobean. The balustered skyline and the miniature entablature formed by 2 little strapwork scrolls and a piece of masonry above the central windows is reminiscent of pre-Inigo Jones taste. The gate piers on either side of the north front, with the pinnacles that surmount them, are again Jacobean.

The excellent simple ironwork of these gates are, however, of more patently French feeling, though it is doubtful whether Sir Godfrey brought back the design. Ornamental ironwork was largely under the influence, at this time, of Frenchmen working in England, such as Tijou, and it is, therefore, more probable that the design was procured in England.

The exterior seems originally, from paintings by Knyff and others, to have been Ashlar in whitish-grey limestone, which is still visible in the rusticated quoins and elsewhere. The greater part of the surface however, had been stuccoed over, probably during the 2nd quarter of the 19th century, at which time all the reception rooms on the south side were redecorated in a plain and ugly manner. The general aspect of the house is not materially altered by this complexion, and, from whatever point it is viewed, presents a stately appearance, with the grace which was the one only importation of Sir Godfrey. The great ornamental importance of the heavy barred windows may have damaged, though not ruined, the scheme by the insertion of windows with thin bars. The effect of this substitution made the building look poor and flat. The broad flight of steps on the Pontack’s in Abchurch Street, at that time the only ‘French’ ordinary in London. In a letter written in 1703, Copley thus speaks of Dr. Hooke: “Your old philosopher is gone at last to try experiments with his ancestors. He is dead and had, they say, only a poor girl with him, who, seeing him ill, went to call somebody, but he was quite gone before they came……., I wonder why he did not choose rather to leave his £12,000 to continue what he had promoted and studied all the days of his life, by that, I mean, mathematical experiments, than to have it go to those he never saw nor cared for. It is rare that virtuosos die rich.

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This is a true saying, though Copley himself was among their number, making a very fair collection of secondrate Dutch pictures and first-rate replicas, a great number of engravings, books, and instruments, such as Napier’s Bones – an early species of calculating machine.

Unlike Hooke, moreover, he left a sum to the Royal Society to endow mathematical research, which after some years, produced the fund awarded with the Copley Medal, an honour that is still awarded today.

Recipients include Michael Faraday and Charles Darwin.

When Sir Godfrey died of a quinsy (a form of tosillitis) at his house in Red Lion Square off Holborn in 1709, his son was already dead, so that Sprotborough passed to Lionel Copley of Wadworth, the representative of that branch of the family who had adopted the Presbyterian side in the great rebellion.

Commissary-General Lionel Copley, his grandfather, had been in times of peace, an ironmaster. His adventures in politics and war were, on the whole, distinctly unsuccessful. Having at different times suffered imprisonment, whether for embezzlement or treason, in 1649 he was finally incarcerated, after Pride’s Purge, when the Presbyterian majority in favour of a settlement with Charles were excluded from the House by the Independant majority. Forty one of the 160 members thus debarred were temporarily committed to an eating house called ‘Hell’. Copley, however, with General Richard Brown, Sir William Waller, Sir John Clotworthy and Sir William Lewis, continued in gaol for 5 years without trial. The portraits of these men were painted by the same artist before being hung in the main hall at Sprotborough. They are fellows with honest, rubicund faces, white lawn collars and black coats. In the top left hand corner of each is a sketch of the White Tower at Windsor, where for a time they were imprisoned, with the years of their languishing beneath. There s a similar series at Weald Hall, Essex, the seat of Mr Christopher Tower, though there, Lewis’s picture is missing, while that of General Massy – who escaped at the beginning of the period – is substituted. In addition to the above “imprisonment series”, are a very similar, but lacking the Windsor device, of Sir Philip Stapleton, who died at Calais in 1647, and the well known Denzel Holles.

Finally there is an excellent portrait of Secretary Thurloe, Cromwell’s Chief of Intelligence, a greatgrandaughter of whom married a Copley and brought his portrait with her.

Part 3 in next month’s Arrow

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What’s On In Sprotbrough?

Day

Activity

Meeting Place

Time

Mon

Mums & Toddlers

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

9.30-11.00am

Mon

Breast Start Breastfeeding

Sprotbrough Childrens Centre

9.30-11.30am

Mon

Rising 2’s play session

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

9.00-11.30am

Mon

Rising 2’s play session

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

12.30- 3.00pm

Mon

Hatha Yoga

St Mary’s Church Hall

2pm—3pm

Mon

The Reading Club 0—5yrs

Sprotbrough Library

1.30-3.00pm

Mon

Brownies

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

6.15-7.45pm

Mon

Beavers (6-7yrs)

Scout Hall, Anchorage Lane, Sprotbrough

6.00-7.30pm

Mon

Slimming World

St Mary’s Church hall, Sprotbrough

7.00pm—8.30pm

Tue

Playgroup

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

9.15-12.15pm

Tue

Sprotbrough Starz

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

9.15-11am

Tue

Coffee Morning

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

10.30-11.30am

Tue

Tuesday Club

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

1.30-4.00pm

Tue

Painting Class

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

2.00-4.00pm

Tue

Dancing

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

4.00-7.00pm

Tue

Taekwondo

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

6.00-9.00pm

Tue

Cubs (8-10yrs)

Scout Hall, Anchorage Lane, Sprotbrough

6.30-8.00pm

Tue

Cubs 'Kestrels' (8-10yrs)

The Barn, Main Street

6.45-8.15pm

Wed

Rising 2’s Playgroup

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

9.00-11.30am

Wed

Mums & Toddlers

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

1.30—3.00pm

Wed

Dancing

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

4.00-7.00pm

Wed

Taekwondo

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

5.30-6.30pm

Wed

Playgroup

Sprotbrough Methodist Church Hall

9.15—12.15

Wed

Sequence Dance Club

St Mary’s Church Hall

7.30pm—10pm

Wed

Cubs 'Falcons' (8-10yrs)

The Barn, Main Street

6.45-8.15pm

Wed

Scouts (11-14yrs)

Scout Hall, Anchorage Lane, Sprotbrough

7.15-9pm

Thurs

Coffee Morning

St Mary’s Church Hall

10—11.30am

Thurs

Little tykes (childminders drop in)

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

9.15—11.00am

Thurs

Mums & Toddlers

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

9.30-11.00am

Thurs

Thursday Club

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

1.30-4.00pm

Thurs

Dancing Class

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

4.45-8.45pm

Thurs

Brownies

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

6.00-7.30pm

Thurs

Yoga

St Mary’s Church Hall

7.00—8.30pm

Thurs

Beavers (6-7yrs)

The Barn, Main Street

5.30-6.30pm

Thurs

Scouts (11-14yrs)

The Barn, Main Street

7.00-9.15pm

Thurs

Explorer Scouts (14-18yrs)

Scout Hall, Anchorage Lane, Sprotbrough

7.30-9.30pm

Thurs

Music Bugs 6mths-4yrs

St Edmunds Community Hall

10.00-11.00am

Thurs

Starlight Dance Studio

St Edmond’s Church Community Hall

4pm—6.45pm

Fri

Playgroup

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

9.15-12.15pm

Fri

Sprotbrough Starz

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

9.15-11am

Fri

Tea Dance

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

1.00-4.00pm

Fri

Taekwondo

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

6.30-9.00pm

Fri

Fun Club

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

7.00-8.00pm

Sat

Sequence Dancing

Royal British Legion Club

7.30—10.30pm

Sat

Dancing Class

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

9.15-3.15pm

Sun

Fun Club Extra

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

Sunday School

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

10.00-12.00noon

Sunday School

Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough

6.15-7.45pm

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Sprotbrough Community Centre, Bookings Tel: 788093 Methodist Church Hall, Bookings Tel: 570036 (office hours 10am-12noon Tue & Fri) St Marys Church Hall, Bookings Tel: 850890 St Edmund's Community Hall Bookings Tel: 781347 Monthly

Activity

Meeting Place

Time

3rd Monday

St Mary’s Mothers Union

The Stable, Main Street, Sp’boro

7.30pm- 9.30pm

1st & 3rd Tuesday

Sequence Dancing

Royal British Legion Club

7.30-10.30pm

1st Wednesday

Sprotbrough Wives

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

8.00-10.00pm

2nd Thursday

Lunch Club

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

12noon - 2.00pm

2nd Tuesday

Sprotbrough WI

St Mary’s Church Hall

7.30—9.30pm

4th Thursday

Chatroom

Sprotbrough Methodist Church

1.30-3.30pm

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Domestic Appliance Sales, Repairs & Spare Parts

Washing machines, Tumble Dryers, Cookers, Dishwashers & Vacuum Cleaners.

Dyson Centre.

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54 Bank Street

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Advice

General

Citizens Advice Bureaux - Advice line

01302 735225 Doncaster Council - General

01302 734444

Electricity Emergencies

0800 375 675

Doncaster Tax Office

0845 3667802

Transco - Gas Leaks

0800 111 999

Sprotbrough Post Office

01302 853187

Robin Hood Airport

01302 801010

Care in the Community Age Concern

0800 009966

Childline

08001111

Medical AKS, High Melton Ltd

01709 583121

NSPCC

0808 8005000 Doncaster Royal Infirmary Hospital

01302 366666

RSPCA

08705555999

0845 4647

NHS Direct

Weldricks Pharmacy, East Laith Gate, Doncaster Mon—Sat 9am—10pm, Sun 10am-10pm, 01302 369699 Bank holidays 10am-8pm, 365 days per year.

Community Sprotbrough and Cusworth Parish Council

01302 788093 Sprotbrough Village Pharmacy

Safer Neighbourhood Team, Edlington.

01302 385488

Business Directory

Sprotbrough Children Services, Melton Rd

01302 786457

01302 534256

Doncaster Childrens Information Service

0800 138 4568

Goldsmith Centre

01302 788093

S Yorkshire Fire Service (non emergency)

0114 272 7202

S Yorkshire Police (non emergency)

0114 2202020

Education

01302 855622

Accountancy Riverside Accountancy Services, Sprotbrough

01302 570018

Carpet/Upholstery Cleaning RUGBUSTERS, Sprotbrough. www.rugbusters.co.uk

01302 857300 07879456557

Copley Junior School, Sprotbrough

01302 856445

Orchard Infant School, Sprotbrough

01302 853655

Richmond Hill Primary School

01302 782421 Meteor Security Solutions Ltd., Auckley

01302 623427

Ridgewood School

01302 783939 IT To Go, Computer Services W: www.ittogo.co.uk E:sales@ittogo.co.uk

01302 352352

Doncaster Council - Education

01302 737222

Doncaster Mobile Library

01302 873456 D@J Plasterers, Sprotbrough

Sprotbrough Library

01302 782436

Doncaster Central Library

01302 734305

Leisure Adwick Leisure Centre

Security & IT

Tradesmen/Craftsmen

Health & Fitness

01302 721447 Slimming World, St Marys Church HallSprotbrough

My Vue Cinema

08712 240240

Odeon

08712 244007

The Dome Leisure Centre

01302 370777 C Cabs, Sprotbrough

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07919 578797

Taxis & Driving School’s

Business Directory List your business for £2.50 per month

01302 811646 07885 615209

L2P Driving School, Sprotbrough

07973 706560 07767438267

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