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From the Editor Happy New Year Readers!

Or is it? At the time of writing (due to printer close downs over the holiday season), we aren’t actually at Christmas yet and everything hangs in the balance once more – Omicron! I, like many of you I’m sure, was hopeful that the worst of the pandemic times are behind us but, as it currently stands, we do not know how this variant is or isn’t going to transpire – anyway, shoulder shrug, see what happens and onwards we move!

Following from our covers this month I’ve already made my New Year’s resolutions but they are toned down massively on normal - as what I’m really wanting is a nice long break, in the sunshine, preferably with lots of books! I love reading but barely get chance these days, so I’m going to see if I can stick to this one – 1 book per month, no excuses! What’s your plans for 2022?

In terms of the mags, I am loving seeing all the articles/contributions, especially the heritage articles. Across all the magazines, they are absolutely fantastic and so interesting for each area – I’m very thankful to all the people that make the effort and send these articles over each month to us, we love printing them and I hope you all love reading them as much as I do?

With that in mind, we’re hoping to bring you even more content next year, with some big household names, all being well. We’ll keep our

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powder dry until everything is fully confirmed but safe to say it’s very exciting if it does happen.

Obviously, creating new content will no doubt bring some more magazine launches – so watch this space on Voice Magazines reaching even more people in 2022! Although, it is a much more difficult juggle this year with paper prices increasing so substantially and showing no signs of slowing down (13% increase so far!!

Eeek!!).

Final note to mention, thank you to everyone for bearing with us in terms of delivery last month and possibly the coming few months.

In between storms, covid & other illnesses and holidays, we do have to extend a little extra time to our fabulous distribution team at this time of year as sometimes it isn’t safe or they simply aren’t well enough to deliver, but we massively appreciate your patience on this.

Once more unto the breach…….

See you in the Feb edition, Happy Reading,

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Alfreton Male Voice Choir After almost 2 years without a public performance, October 16th was a very welcome ‘come back’ to the stage. An enthusiatic audience enjoyed a variety of songs from the choir, some virtuoso trumpet from John Barker and a little comedy from the Saga Louts. The objective of this concert is to raise money for charity and we are pleased to have donated £1,000.00 to AQUABOX in support of their International efforts to supply humanitarian aid to disaster areas worldwide.

It’s now time to look forward to 2022 and start thinking of next years programme. We need to recruit new members to help us move forward and present a modern repertoire. It is well known, and documented, that singing is good for your health and we have several members who are testament to that fact.

So if you would like to help us whilst helping yourself, please join us on Thursdays between 6.30 and 8.30 at Palmer Morewood Social Club, Hall Street, Alfreton or contact John on 07535 359 424 Chairman Mick Mullarkey said, ‘’It’s a great feeling to sing and entertain as a choir but we need to recruit new members to ensure that our repertoire stays relevant and entertaining’’.

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Pinxton & South Normanton History Group ‘PINXTON OLD AND NEW’ In the 1880’s a series of articles were published in the local weekly newspaper. They were all written under the pseudonym ‘Ex Resident’. We now know ‘Ex-resident’ was, in fact, Mr. Henry Walker. He was a contemporary of another well-known Pinxton born person, Mr Matthew Hayes (The Collier’s Spurgeon). They were close friends and colleagues; both being born at Pinxton Wharf in 1824 of ‘mining stock’. They both went to work underground as young boys.

They both joined The Wharf Methodist Church when it was first formed and met in the newly constructed school built be Mr. John Coke; probably the first school open to the children of working-class people, in the Erewash Valley.

Many people will remember the building when it became ‘The British Legion Club’, at the bottom of Alexander Terrace near to the railway line.

Pinxton was home to three of the first five such educational establishments in the Erewash Valley, available to children of working-class people. It was here that Henry and Matthew learned to read and write.

Before permission was received for the non-conformists living in Pinxton Wharf area to meet in the first-floor lending library, worshippers had to walk to West End, the only Methodist Chapel where Tommy Topham’s farmhouse now stands.

later article). Their enthusiastic support for the union did not go un-noticed. Once a compromise was reached and the Pinxton mineworkers’, returned to work, both were black-listed as employees of Pinxton Coal Company. Both men found employment in the Chesterfield area.

While Matthew returned to Pinxton years’ later, Henry never did. He remained in the Chesterfield area, although he did regularly visit the place of his birth.

One revelation he wrote about was ‘Barney’s Castle’. Of the many references to ‘Barney’s’, it always referred to what elderly residents knew as The Toll Bar House and shop.

Henry wrote that ‘Barney’s Castle’ was a large stone building which stood on the opposite site of ‘Pinxton Toll Bar’, the last building on which was the site of Walter Smith’s shop. It was partially built by a man named Barney from stone originally used for the walls of Pinxton Castle.

Read more of Henry’s writings in future articles.

All his submissions can be read at Pinxton Heritage, Saturday 16th April (11 - 4pm)

For residents not familiar with Henry’s articles, a copy of them is usually available at the Local History Society’s Heritage Days (the next one in April, at Pinxton Village Hall, subject to availability due to the pandemic).

Henry and Matthew were both inaugural members of the Notts. Miners’ Union, and both played a part in the first major strike action the union called in 1841 (more in a

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Li, the owner of Kudos offered the Voice Magazines team the opportunity to sample the authentic Chinese cuisine on the Kudos menu. Of course, we jumped at the chance (as you might know, we do love our food, here at the Voice. Lol).

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South Normanton Colliery Disaster: 85 Year Anniversary Part 1 of 2 – Disaster strikes To mark the 85th anniversary of the disaster Roger West takes us through the events of the day, paying fitting tribute to those involved.

South Normanton Colliery had been relatively free from major incident. Indeed, it was one of the hallmarks of the company that this coal mine had been so free of tragedy and accident since the shaft was sunk in 1893/94.

That solid reputation of being a ‘safe pit’ darkened by the hour on the afternoon shift of Monday February 15, 1937.

It was almost 9pm on that dreadful evening when Clarence Dye, a contractor, noticed weighting in the roof with a tremble underfoot in the Elevens District of the 180-yard-deep Waterloo seam.

Without hesitation, Mr Dye immediately ordered all men from the coalface into the safety of the loader gate, a supply route from the coalface to the pit shaft.

Under Dye’s instructions the mineworkers were hurrying to safety when, almost 25 yards up the loader gate, a powerful gust of warm wind sent the men flying in the thickest, blackest clouds of suffocating coal dust.

Dye reacted instinctively, shouting for the power to be cut off before sending men for stretchers.

He then telephoned the pit bottom for ponies and tubs, ordering the men to move further from danger.

Jonathon Waltho and Clarence Dye, both unprotected, lacking in respiratory helmets and with minimum light, advanced bravely towards the coalface left bank where the explosion seemed to have generated from, knowing men would be in there.

On their way inbound they met cutter operator John Johnson, John Thornley and Percy Ansell,

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all badly injured, crawling over rock and coal and struggling for the relative safety of the loader gate; Dye instructed them of the best way to safety.

Moving within 25 yards of the coal-cutter, Dye and Waltho were joined by pit deputy Bill Truswell. Holding up his safety lamp Truswell remarked: ‘It’s not fit for any man to go in there,’ and at that the three men turned back for the loader gate, meeting other miners’ still shuffling along the same route out to the pit shaft.

The three men made 50 or 60 yards up the loader gate, some 100 yards from the coal face, when there came a second explosion ten times worse than the first, with men flung around the loader gate.

Above ground Mr J. Gordon Mein, the colliery manager, had received the awful news at home by telephone and at 9.40pm, within five minutes of receiving the call, had arrived on the pit top while underground men were still fleeing the blast.

Mr Mein rang the Mansfield Rescue Station, who in turn alerted the Chesterfield Rescue Station. The Mansfield team were down the pit by 10.11pm, followed by the Chesterfield team at 10.40pm, where they were met by a shaken deputy Truswell at the pit bottom.

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Armed with breathing apparatus, safety lamps and a canary – taken down in such events as to ascertain whether poisonous gas is present – the team moved towards the face, reaching No. 4 engine house at 11pm.

It was here they found the injured William Petts. Treatment was administered as best as possible and he was despatched to the surface for further attention.

Between them, the two teams established a base at 11.25pm and were joined by Mr Mein the colliery manager and Mr Brown, manager of the rescue stations.

It was Mr Brown who gave the order for the Mansfield brigade to proceed into the face in the hope of finding any men.

With mouthpieces and breathing gear in place they noticed the ventilation was low and, further in, discovered tools, tool boxes, shovels, helmets, picks and lamps blown about from the two explosions.

A few yards further they found Henry Willis (59) in a crouched position over the conveyor belt,

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Shortly after, they reached the electric coal cutter in the left-hand bank and found the bodies of John Marriott (38) and Willis Lambert (45).

Again, the spots were marked but further progress was hampered by a wall of dirt, stone and rock: it was impassable.

This article will conclude in next month’s edition of Voice Magazines.

Roger West will be giving a talk on the disaster on Monday 17th, January at 7.15pm at the Post Mill Centre, South Normanton, Admission £2 for non-members Do you remember the disaster? Perhaps you heard stories from family or friends? Or maybe you are a descendant of the persons involved in the disaster?

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Truswell informed the teams about the state and conditions of the affected district while outlining the best way in towards the coal face left bank, where he was certain men were still trapped.

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And Snow, by Irish writer John Banville has strong echoes of the traditional murder mystery – run down country house, aristocratic family – police inspector looking for clues, and yes a dead body, though one mutilated in a way which Miss Christie might not have risked writing about.

But this novel is so much more. John Banville knows Irish society. His earlier novel The Sea also set in rural Ireland won a Booker Man prize and in addition to a lengthy catalogue of novels he’s also written crime stories under the name Benjamin Black.

Snow is set in a ferociously cold Irish winter, and the frozen landscape is reflected inside Ballyglass House by a 1950s society frozen in social and religious intolerance. It’s a heady and compelling mix.

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This month’s walk first featured in the magazine nearly eight years ago! We re-walked the route in December and brought it up to date with a few minor tweaks. Rafa wouldn’t have even been five years old at the time of this walk, so it was lovely to take him back over old footsteps and to still see a spring in his step. There is nothing as wonderful as sharing a walk with your furry friend and this is a lovely walk to share.

5 1/2 MILE CIRCULAR WALK FROM MORTON VIA PADLEY WOOD

A moderate walk with a varied terrain. The route should take around 2 1/2 hours. There are some stretches along country roads, so take care. And of course, as usual at this time of the year there are some uneven and muddy parts so a good pair of boots or wellies is highly recommended.

START: HOLY CROSS CHURCH, CHURCH LANE, MORTON, DERBYSHIRE, DE55 6GU 1.

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Begin at the church on Church Lane in Morton.

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With the church on your right head along Church Lane, before following the road around to the right to continue along Higham Lane.

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Walk along this country road for just under 600 meters, taking care to watch out for traffic as there are no footpaths. The road bends right then left twice, on the second time take a footpath sign for ‘Mickley Lane’ on your right, between a road sign and a gate.

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Follow this path into a field a cross the stile and pass through a gate, keep ahead to pass through another gate. Continue ahead past a pylon on your right and at the corner of the field pass through the hedge and carry on ahead to cross three fields via the stiles available.

At the end of the third field go through a gate and keep ahead, with the hedge on your right.

Cross a stile and then at the corner of the next field pass through a gate before turning right to pass through another gate. Carry on ahead towards a metal gate marked ‘footpath’. Walk straight ahead through the farm yard following the clearly marked ‘footpath’ signs in white paint. Take caution here as there may be a loose, barking dog in the farm yard.

Carry on ahead through a field with a caravan park on your left to reach a wooded area. Join the path straight ahead of you and follow this to reach Morton Road. Pass through the gate and cross with care. Carry on ahead following the footpath sign. Keeping to the main path until you reach a stile at a cross roads with a rough farm road. Carry on ahead with the wooded area on your right then turn right at the first opportunity to keep the wooded area on your right and solar panels on your left.

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bridge and pass into Padley Wood. Keep to the main track and cross a small footbridge. When you meet the fields join the path straight ahead with the hedge on your right and follow it uphill.

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Carry on along this path for a fair distance entering into the edge of a wooded area. After leaving the wood carry on the corner of a field.

Here you will meet a crossroad of paths. Take the gate on your right and follow the path alongside a field with the hedge on your left.

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At the corner of the field turn right and continue with the hedge on your left. At the next corner pass through the hedge, take a gate on your right and turn left along a farm track. At the bottom of the track you meet Padley Wood Lane. Turn right here.

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Carry on along the lane as it bends left and then follow it ahead until you get close to a farm.

Take a path on your left straight ahead as the lane bends right towards the farm. Follow the path, keeping the hedge on your right. Part way down the side of the field keep to the right and follow the path into another field and continue ahead.

10. Pass through a gate and continue along the path as it takes you over a rail bridge and then back onto to a hedge lined track. Carry on along this track as it joins Evershilll Lane. Walk along the lane for a fair distance as it brings you back into Morton. Keep to the lane until you meet the B6014 Stretton Road.

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Cross the road and turn left on the road and follow it back towards the church. Turn right after a red brick house to pass through the Church Yard and bring you back to where you began.

FINISH: HOLY CROSS CHURCH, CHURCH LANE, MORTON, DERBYSHIRE, DE55 6GU

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Walk Your Dog Month January 2022 officially marks Walk Your Dog Month. By taking your dog for regular walks, it provides the foundation for both positive physical and mental health.

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Your walking route It’s a great idea to change your walking route.

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A new treat for your dog Why not treat your dog to a new coat, collar or toy? These little treats won’t go unnoticed and they can help to make all the difference.

Teaching new tricks Teaching your dog some new tricks is an opportunity for you to not only spend some quality time together, but it can also help to burn off some energy too. It’s a great way for your dog to get some all-important exercise in a fun, focused and enjoyable way.

Improve mental wellbeing As your dog may be in the house more than usual during the winter months, a walk could really help to lift their mood. Afterall, physical activity releases endorphins which create a feeling of happiness.

The community Walking your dog means you are much more likely to meet other dog owners within your community who are also out and about walking their dogs. This provides a great opportunity for your dog to enjoy some social interaction with new and familiar dogs.

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SOUTH NORMANTON ATHLETIC FOOTBALL CLUB Hello to you all, Hopefully yourselves and your families are all keeping fit and well. The theme of this is just to say thankyou!

But, by now I’d like to think we’d have picked up a few more wins and started to move ourselves up the table somewhat. When you read this we’ll have gone through our festive period and we’ll be out the other side. As it stands, touch wood, we’re all fit, and well and only have one injury within the squad. Which, should be resolved before you read this article.

As always though, I’d like to shine a light on some other things within the club - as I’m sure you’ve realised from my previous article, we’re more than just a one team club now.

It’s been great to see a player move on from our U15s side, into Aston Villa’s academy. A huge well done to him, Steve and his coaches, as well as all the players and parents for creating a superb environment for those players to flourish. I’ve only been to watch them once so far due to other commitments, but they look like a superb group with some really gifted players.

On the subject of gifted players, our U18s are currently flying in their own league as well. I know there’s a real buzz around the club as to just how many players could serve the senior set up from this group of players. It’s been great to see some of them step up already, and we’re really hopeful of seeing some more of these young players step into senior football with us. Again, a well done to Jonny and Dean for all their efforts so far.

Our U9s are also going from strength to strength. With the ever increasing number of players meaning we’ve now got 5 teams at this age! Great work from Ethan and Alex for all their efforts in achieving this. I went to watch one of the U9s training games before Xmas and they were a fantastic watch. Not only scoring some brilliant goals and

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At the time of writing, our U11 side remain the only youth team I’ve not been to watch for myself, purely down to other commitments meaning I’ve not yet had chance, but I’m reliably informed Craig and his team are doing well, and loving their football!

A massive hats off to all our youth set up for their hard work and valiant efforts in getting this set up, whilst working within a pandemic to start from scratch.

Thankyou to Stewart for helping myself, and the club with the formation of our youth section. Thankyou to Steve, Alex, and Craig for their superb efforts in coaching their respective teams this season. And also to Sarah, who stepped up as the clubs Child Welfare Officer this season to allow the teams to play. Without Sarah doing this role, none of our youth teams would be allowed to play.

Finally, a huge Thankyou to James, Jack, Steve and Ethan, who have been massive in the day to day running of our youth section. Ethan’s drive in wanting to grow and develop our youth section has been particularly impressive. And it’s exciting to think what progress we could make in the next 12 months.

Whilst this is my first post of 2022 I never actually said a Thankyou to the clubs committee, their hard work in keeping the club running for the last 18 months has been tremendous - and football clubs don’t exist without them.

So, a big Thankyou there.

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In the 21st Century, we see January 1st as the start of a brand new year - but did you know that this wasn’t always the case?

In fact the month of January didn’t even exist until around 700 BCE when it and February were added to the Roman calendar. At that point in history the start of the new year was widely regarded as being March 1st - to coincide with the start of new life in spring. In about 45 BCE Julius Caesar (yes, the one who invaded Britain, lusted after Cleopatra, and was stabbed to death by the members of his senate) introduced a new calendar to the Roman empire - one based on the movement of the earth around the sun, and much more accurate than the old lunar based system. This calendar became known as the Julian Calendar and it was decreed that January 1st be recognised as the start of a new year throughout Roman territories.

It doesn’t end there though…

New Year was still a moveable feast right up to the acceptance of (another!) new calendar system in 1582 - the Gregorian calendar, which is still used today. The day was celebrated 25 December; 1 March; 25 March and also on the movable feast of Easter; depending on where you were in Europe. Very confusing!

Even more confusing if you were in Britain because, believe it or not, until 1752 Britain (except Scotland) and its Empire had retained March 25 as the official start of the year.

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The actual phrase ‘New Year Resolution’ was first used in a Boston newspaper in 1813 according to Mirriam Webster (a website, not a person) “And yet, I believe there are multitudes of people, accustomed to receive injunctions of new year resolutions, who will sin all the month of December, with a serious determination of beginning the new year with new resolutions and new behaviour, and with the full belief that they shall thus expiate and wipe away all their former faults.”

Now that sounds familiar! It would be even more appropriate to add “And the resolutions will be broken within the month”!

Personally I think spring is a much more sensible time to set new intentions - the days are getting longer and everything feels so much more alive with possibility than dark cold January! What do you think? Will you be making (and breaking) any resolutions this year?

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Robert Watchorn was born on April 1, 1858 at “Shank End” Alfreton.

He was the second of nine children born to John and Alice Watchorn. His birthplace became the precise spot where in 1929 he would dedicate the Watchorn Church, Sunday school, manse and adjacent property in memory of his mother.

From the age of four years, he attended the Church of England day school leaving at the tender age of 11. He commenced work at Morewood’s deep colliery and subsequently also worked in the Swanwick and Shirland collieries. During this time, four evenings a week. he attended a night school kept by a kind-hearted and successful lawyer named Ernest Edgar Bone.

In 1880 he decided to emigrate from England, realizing there was not much prospect of advancement in an industry where employment was hazardous, irregular and poorly paid. He sailed from Liverpool on May 14, 1880, on the Cunard line steamer Bothnia and reached New York May 25, 1880. In Pennsylvania he found work in the coal mines. In 1881 he sent for his parents and family, and they joined him in April of that year. Sadly, his father was to later die in a mine accident. By sheer grit and determination Robert became President of the National Trades Assembly and later became the first Secretary/ Treasurer of the United Mineworkers of America.

“That was a turning point in my life,” he later wrote.

“I made a greatly enlarged circle of friends and acquaintances and, best of all, it was there that I met my future wife, the dearest and most delightful of companions. At the time I write these lines, she has for 40 years been the apple of my eye and for 38 years she has been my wife. During all that time, she has been the very essence of my endeavours, the consummation of my achievements, the sharer of my disappointments, the helper of the helpers, and the sweetest of mothers to our children, Robert and Ewart. That unexpected and not wholly undreaded election at Cleveland, in that far-away day in September, 1888, was truly a great day for me.”

In 1876, became associated with the Primitive Methodists on Derby Road and has been identified with Methodism ever since.

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Not long after Morris’s, the ice cream manufacturer started business in 1956, George’s family would call in to the Blackwell based business to take a treat round to Grandad’s on their regular Sunday afternoon visit. Horace Twigg, by then in his eighties, appreciated the creamy Morris version, but said that it couldn’t compare with the Molinari’s that he enjoyed when he ‘werralad’.

Apparently Leonardo and Giuseppe Molinari were brothers who came to Derbyshire in 1896 – according to Horace, there were rumours that they had escaped the Cosa Nostra but this was never proved – and began making ice cream in premises on King Street in Alfreton. Derbyshire folks had never tasted ice cream as good as this before and business boomed. So much so that other members of the Molinari family came over from Calabria, and using late Victorian versions of Granville’s bike, as seen on Open All Hours, delivered the delicious product to all parts of the East Midlands.

Two of Giuseppe’s sons, Luigi & Paulo went on to become key members of the successful Hilcote team in the years before the outbreak of the Great War. Their mother, Carlotta, used to invite team members round to the Molinari house on the night before a game, and provide them with some good wholesome Italian food, claiming that it would give ‘all a da players a bitta more energy’.

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The Molinari’s were accepted as valued and esteemed friends of both the Club and the wider community and all was going well until August 1914. The night before the first game of the new season – it was soon to be abandoned, but that’s another story – Carlotta gave the ‘boys’ her latest Italian speciality, pizza ai frutti di mare. They enjoyed it, but................the following afternoon, only two Hilcote players, Luigi & Paulo as it happened, turned up at the Harena with the others sending messages that they were violently sick. The game had to be abandoned and the points were subsequently awarded to the opposition.

Rumours began to circulate that Carlotta was acting on behalf of the Central Powers and had deliberately poisoned some of England’s potential fighting men. The fact that her own two sons had been unaffected appeared to confirm these suspicions. As a result, the entire Molinari family by now there were 35 of them - were rounded up, incarcerated for the duration of the War, and then deported. There was uproar that locals were now denied Molinari’s ice cream, but national security had to take precedence.

It may have had an unhappy conclusion, but George’s little known tale is yet another example of how Hilcote Hacademicals influenced the footballing world of today.

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The Good Old Days???

Well, I find it hard to believe but I’ve now got a bus pass!

I’ve reached the age when there are far more years behind me than are left in front of me; the time when my pub conversations sound like an episode of “Last of The Summer Wine” or the classic Python “Three Yorkshiremen” sketch.

In my mind every summer day of my youth was sunny and warm, most days were spent at Alfreton Lido and everyone was always happy. That, of course, is total BS. Winters brought thick ice to the inside of windows, one coal fire in the house meant that hot water was almost non-existent, cars didn’t work and TV was useless.

People often tell me that things were better in the old days. As I sit in a warm house watching football on a decent TV, I wonder if they are right.

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Pubs were maybe better only because everyone was there at the same time due to licencing laws. I might have said that communities were stronger and that might be true but the Covid outbreak (whether you believe in it or not) has shown that many of those deemed vulnerable have been looked after by neighbours and even strangers.

The only thing I’m pretty sure was better, was that kids were allowed to be kids and learn about life by experiencing it.

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Let’s start with the problems: Vast amounts of energy are currently being wasted due to home inefficiencies - poor insulation, outdated boiler heating systems, polluting oil heating systems, inefficient rural open fires or wood burners.

There is no one size fits all when it comes to improving the energy efficiency of our homes because each home is different, and certain initiatives that may work in one won’t work in another. Add in the cost of ‘retrofitting’ our homes to match the latest standards, and it’s no wonder that many of us are left scratching our heads when it comes to improving the energy efficiency of our houses.

The four biggest things we all need to look at doing are: 1. Ensuring our homes have plenty of insulation (particularly, but not exclusively, roof) 2. Installing air pumps to replace gas and oil central heating 3. Installing well-sealed double glazing 4. Installing renewable energy generation systems - e.g. solar panels But none of these are cheap and as much as we may all want to do our bit to mitigate climate change, we have limited budgets! Yes, taking these actions will lead to reduced energy bills for us, but without financial help most of us can’t suddenly begin to retrofit our properties.

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7. Put reflectors behind your radiators - particularly if they are against an outside wall 8. Draught proof your front (and back) doors - maybe even consider a heavy door curtain 9. Take a shower instead of a bath 10. Only run your washing machine and dishwasher when they are full - and use a lower temperature Make 2022 the year you address your energy bills and lessen your impact on global climate change.

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Plants which have been forced for inside growing for Xmas can be put outside to let them die down once they’ve done their job. You can plant hyacinths in the garden and they should grow next year outside, but narcissus such as paper whites need to be lifted and stored as bulbs to be planted for indoor growing again next year.

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