Voice Magazines - Alfreton & Villages Edition - November 2023

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From the Editor Howdi Readers, So, one of the fun things we get to do with the magazines and have done for a while is find out about the many National Days that we have in place. This month, Laura has written about ‘British Pudding Day’ which fits in beautifully with the return of Noel, Prue, Blue Eyes Hollywood and now Hammond (Alison, not the Hamster for Top Gear!). I have to say, I’m fairly late to the ‘GBBO’ party, having only started watching it when it moved to Channel 4 but nothing symbolises winter better than ice-cream week during the summer heat wave (remember those heat waves and how we craved the cooler weather #carefulwhatyouwishfor!). I do wonder whether I’m drawn to that programme in particular because I have a bit of a sweet-tooth?

It’s fair to say, I do lose interest a bit on bread week! Anyways, I think everyone has their ‘go to’ winter TV programme don’t they? Whether it is ‘Dancing on Ice’, ‘Strictly’ or one of the talent shows but for me – Tuesday night is my guilty pleasure, vicariously eating all those wonderful, delicious calories through the screen!!

Whilst we’re talking about the swift move to winter, seeing as Autumn has been bypassed this year! And we’re into the year of the floods already. Some of our team have been hit and our heartfelt commiserations go out to everyone who has been affected.

Meanwhile, the man in the red suit is donning his

boots as I type! It’s clearly Christmas!!! Well, not quite but it feels like it at Voice HQ as we have already been busily working on our Christmas editions for the last month or so. So, for us Christmas is already old (Santa’s) hat, but for the rest of you it’s last chance if you want to get something in the magazine in time for Christmas.

So if you have a fair, fayre, fete, festival, feast, fiesta, messages of good will to your customers or just a plain old party don’t forget to let us know.

Finally, for all those wondering, my much-feted finger is (I know it was the reason you picked up the magazine this month!), the good news is it’s just about healed (as much as it’s going to be!).

So, I’m back, terrorising the pitches and courts of Hockey and Netball with renewed vigour!

Well, at least for the first few games before my old bod gets a bit tired and achy and the deep heat/tiger balm and ibuprofen/ paracetamol/glucosamine ritual begins again – it’s not much fun getting older is it? But like my dad says “it’s better than the alternative”!!!

Have a good month, Happy Reading!

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After 5 years of continued growth Next Generation Home Improvements based on Butterley Hill in Ripley, have now established themselves as the leading installers of resin driveways & patios in The Midlands. They now have over 50 members in their team from the local area, ranging from resin layers, ground workers, surveyors, administrators, customer care staff and sales & marketing operatives, and have just taken on 4 local trainees who are quickly learning their trade.

To ensure their success continues they have invested in an upgraded operations unit in Sutton in Ashfield and as well as a redesigned display unit on the reception of their head office at Butterley Hill, where prospective customers are welcome to go and view different styles of resin driveways & composite fencing available to them.

They firmly believe that their success has been due to the quality of their workmanship. Director Lee Goddard points out “We only use our own highly skilled tradesmen to lay each driveway by hand to make sure we get the perfect finish. On top of this, we will only use the highest quality of materials, meaning that our customers will be left

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Asked why he believes that the company is going from strength to strength, Sales Manager Bradley Stocks explained “Resin driveways are now the fastest growing home improvement in the UK and are getting more & more popular all the time. This is because how attractive they look, the fact they are non slip, and mainly because they require no ongoing maintenance like traditional surfaces.

We get a lot of our work from word of mouth & recommendations so because we make sure our customers are happy, we get more work on the back of it. We also now offer composite fencing which is also incredibly popular due to it not needing to be painted or stained”.

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BRITISH PUDDING DAY 9TH NOVEMBER I didn’t know there was a day set aside in celebration of the British pudding…so naturally I had to investigate.

I also didn’t know about “National Roast Dinner Day” on November 4th – what have I been doing to not be aware of special days set aside to celebrate two things I enjoy immensely? And, as a note to whoever sets the dates for these days, why didn’t you have Roast Dinner day and Pudding day at the same time? I mean, who wants to wait four days for pudding after the roast beef and yorkies?

Shall we have a brief look at the loveliness that is the British pudding?

Top of my list has to be sticky toffee pudding. Who can resist the sweet, sticky unctuousness of a traditional STP? There has to be lashings of toffee sauce – thick and gooey, never runny – and a wellplaced scoop of vanilla ice cream, which melts and blends with the fudgy deliciousness.

Steamed treacle sponge is another favourite. I like to add a tiny bit of lemon zest to my steamed sponge – trust me, it adds a bit of “je ne sais quoi”.

Smother your portion with custard – not crème anglaise – good old-fashioned custard (made with powder from a tin), and dive in. Heaven.

Veering off piste to cold puds, there are Sherry Trifles and Eton Messes to be consumed. I mean, what’s not to like about lashings of whipped cream accompanying fruit (and booze)?

OK, that’s enough of fridge puddings, it is November after all. What else is there in the lexicon of British puddings?

How about a good old-fashioned crumble? Apple, apple and blackberry, or my favourite, rhubarb.

One of the quickest and easiest puddings to make, the biggest decision is what to serve with it, pouring cream, ice cream, or custard. Such a hard life!

Delving into the realm of “nursery room puds”, aka as still served to Jacob Rees Mogg by his nanny (probably)! We have spotted dick, jam roly poly, and Eve’s pudding. I accepted I was working class when I realised jam roly poly did not mean a slice from a shop bought jam roll cake covered in Bird’s custard. Delicious certainly, but not as served to Little Lord Fauntleroy’s around the land!

I suppose rice pudding falls into the category of nursery room food but, done properly, it can be a thing of joy. Forget the stuff that comes in cans (nice though that is) and make your own. Easy peasy, especially in a slow cooker – add the ingredients, stir and leave it alone. Beloved of school dinner cooks, who can forget tapioca (frogspawn) and semolina? Now, oddly, I used to really enjoy tinned semolina; I think because it tasted of evaporated milk. The stuff served at school though…urgh…it was often so thick you could slice it!

If I’ve overlooked some of your personal favourites, I apologise, but I hope I’ve given you the excuse to get cooking up some puds!

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FRANK MILLER BINGHAM Cricket Club too. It seems to have been a family trait caring for miners, as Frank’s older brother, Sidney, and their father John, both treated miners in the Alfreton and Blackwell area.

Frank Miller Bingham

Last month we told the story of Dr. John Joseph Bingham of Alfreton and it seems appropriate that in the month we remember all those who gave their lives in the service of our Country we should talk about his son, Frank Miller Bingham, who was killed on 22nd May 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres.

Frank Miller Bingham was born in Alfreton on 17th September 1874. He was educated at St Peter’s, school in York. He did his medical training in London and whilst there, played Rugby for Middlesex. After he completed his medical training, Frank returned to Derbyshire to become a Doctor for the Blackwell Colliery Company.

He was in this role for four years and played cricket for the Blackwell Colliery Cricket Club, and in 1896 Derbyshire County

Frank subsequently left his role at a doctor for the Blackwell Colliery Company to become a partner in a doctor’s surgery in Lancashire. It was here that he decided to join the army as a medical officer in the Territorial Army. At the outbreak of the First World War, rather than deciding to join the Medical Corps, Frank chose to take a combatant role, despite being nearly 40 and served in Flanders. Captain Bingham arrived in France along with the rest of the battalion on 14th February 1915, he was killed in action on 22nd May 1915 having just returned to the front line from a period of leave in England.

Original grave in Sanctuary Wood

He was buried in Sanctuary Wood, his grave marked with a wooden cross and the plot fenced off. As the war ravaged the area the grave was lost and Captain F M Bingham is now recorded on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Frank Miller Bingham was killed in a very moving act of bravery and compassion. Frank, along with four other men, had just set off on a reconnaissance mission before daybreak one morning, only to find a man half buried by a collapsed trench. The doctor in Frank couldn’t leave the man to die and he began organising the rescue. They were undetected by the Germans until the light grew, and it was as the party left the trenches that they were detected.

Sadly Frank was shot through the heart and died instantly.

He left behind a wife and young family.

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REMEMBRANCE DAY DO WE REALLY REMEMBER?

The horrors of World War I ended “at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” of 1918, with the signing of the armistice of Compiègne in a railway carriage. The First World War didn’t officially end until the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919.

Today we remember the dead of that war, and the countless other wars that have followed the so called “war to end all wars” on the Sunday in November falling nearest to the 11th. This year Remembrance Sunday takes place on 12th November.

A two-minute silence is observed on the 11th of November (whichever day it falls), and also on Remembrance Sunday itself.

The tradition of Remembrance Day evolved out of Armistice Day, the first of which was observed at Buckingham Palace, with King George V hosting a “Banquet in Honour of the President of the French Republic” during the evening hours of 10 November 1919. The first official Armistice Day was subsequently held on the grounds of Buckingham Palace the following morning.

It isn’t only here in the UK that this special day is marked; around the globe commonwealth countries from Canada in the north, to Australia and New Zealand in the southern hemisphere, people gather to mourn the dead and give thanks for the services the armed forces have provided.

the armistice was signed. I have also visited the site of the Battle of the Somme. Both are eerie places where I could swear the echoes of the dead, and mutilated still linger, and if I’m honest, I couldn’t wait to leave the area.

Visiting those places, and reading the history of the Great War, leaves me with a deep sadness, almost a despair, that today, 115 years later, there are still wars raging around the planet. A quick internet search revealed a web page which asserts there are 32 ongoing conflicts in the world right now, ranging from drug wars, terrorist insurgencies, ethnic conflicts, and civil wars.

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The question I ask myself, and perhaps the question we should all ask our governments, is WHY. Why are battles being fought? Why are soldiers, and innocent civilians, still being killed in the name of national this, that, or the other? Have we learned nothing at all from the past?

Several none commonwealth countries such as France, Belgium, and Serbia have their own version of Remembrance Day on 11 November, and in the US they hold Veterans Day on the same date.

It sickens me that in the 21st century, humans are still killing one another in the name of power and money. Not the power and wealth of the individual citizen, but that of the ruling class in whichever country conflict arises.

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• Creatures that lay eggs do not have belly buttons.

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OWLS ACROSS THE PEAK I think the most exciting of our owls is the ghostly barn owl or ‘screech owl’ so named because of how they hiss, yap, and snore. In summer they will often hunt well before nightfall along riversides, field edges and the like. Once almost extinct in the Peak this species has recovered thanks to conservation action by wildlife groups and importantly by individuals too. Nationally we now have around 5,000 breeding pairs and up to 25,000 birds overwintering. I know quite a few people who have put barn owl boxes in old trees, in large out-buildings, and even in their garages. Since the 1990s, these actions have been hugely successful in bringing this bird back from the brink and it is now doing really well.

In Derbyshire alone, there are now over 150 breeding pairs of these gorgeous birds. It really is marvellous to once again have the almost spectral apparition of nearwhite barn owls gracing farmland, moorland edge, and around our Peak District villages.

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Our most familiar and common owl is the tawny which is seen wherever there are trees such as in parks, gardens, woods etc. They also hunt over the Peak District moorlands where they scour the evening landscape for small mammals. In car headlights they can appear very pale and may cause confusion with barn owls but they are much larger. In fact there are five main species of owls which you might see or hear across the Peak District. These are the familiar little owl, tawny owl, and barn owl, and the less obvious short-eared owls and long-eared owls. These latter two are more localised as breeding birds and also as winter visitors. Their numbers fluctuate dramatically from year to year because they follow peaks and

troughs in small mammal populations. Short-tailed voles are one of their main prey items and have ‘boom – bust’ populations with large numbers crashing to very few and when this happens, the owls move out to pastures new.

Of the more noticeable species, the little owl is an exotic (or non-native) bird and long-known to countrymen as the ‘Frenchie’; introduced to England from France in the early 1900s. You can look out for them on telegraph poles, near tumble-down buildings, and around rocky areas on the moorland edge.

However, being tiny, they are easy to miss. The first time I saw one was on the Peak’s moorland fringe west of Sheffield near Bradfield. I spotted this whilst chatting to an elderly ‘countryman’ (complete with deerstalker hat). He was the one that introduced me to the name ‘Frenchie’. Little owls are busy little birds which, feeding on large insects, small mammals, and the like are ever active. Introduced in the late 1800s by ‘acclimatization societies’ of enthusiasts for releasing exotic species into the countryside ‘Frenchies’ were not always popular with farmers and landowners. They worried about possible impacts on baby game-birds.

However, in the 1930s, there was a national enquiry established by gamekeepers, the shooting fraternity, and ornithologists. This showed the owls to be innocent of the charges and today we just enjoy them as a delightful addition to local avifauna. There is one other species I have heard of in the Peak and this was undoubtedly an escapee from a collection and which was reported to me by a local farmer, an eagle owl.

Sadly this flew into an overhead cable and ended its time in a local taxidermist’s!

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