Hoole Roundabout October 2018

October 2018 Issue 124

Inside this month: Sunflower competition, Hoole history: hospitals, memory cafe, thought for the month and gardening.

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IT’S often said these days that neighbours don’t speak to each other as we did in the old days. This certainly isn’t true in Elmwood Avenue and Oaklea Avenue where big efforts are being made to engender a community spirit, which surfaced in a sunflower competition. In this month’s edition we have clubs news, Hoole History, gardening, thought for the month with Andy Glover, financial column, community listings and much more.

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You’re in safe hands with Helen Hayley Sanders visited Beauty with Helen and was delighted with the results It’s fair to say that skincare is something of a labour of love for Helen Scarborough. In fact it has been her life’s work!

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Neighbours sow the seeds of community spirit People living on Oaklea Avenue and Elmwood Avenue have been showing their community spirit – with colourful results.

The neighbours meet up once a month for a curry calling themselves the ‘Young Bucks Crew’, while not to be outdone the ‘Oaklea Deers’ meet for monthly get-togethers too.

Lisa Pritchard said: “Our common bond is to create a lost community spirit. We hold garden parties where we pull up the fence panels between our back gardens to create a ‘common garden’ where neighbours can gather together for a chat with a barbeque and children are introduced to become lifelong friends.”

The community has raised vital funds for the Hospice of the Good Shepherd with apple pressing events, Christmas Carol singing and - this summer - the first annual sunflower competition.

There were more than 20 entries to find out who could grow the tallest sunflower. Children and adults truly embraced the challenge.

From tiny seedlings at Easter to giant plants by August the early spring rain followed by the long spells of sunshine really helped to grow the huge flowers which was a delight to see when they reached above the garden fences!

The tallest sunflower, measuring a staggering 9ft 8ins was grown by eight-year-old Ronnie Hill, of Oaklea Avenue, who was delighted to win his own gardening set and creative mug set.

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Chester Family History Group The meeting on Thursday 25th October features a talk entitled ‘The Art of Criminal Conversation - Researching divorce records’ by Claire Moores. This will cover the historical context of the early beginnings of divorce and marital unrest - it includes some prominent Cheshire cases from the archives and what kind of historical records hold information about divorces’. Members and non-members are very welcome - the meeting starts at 7.30pm at All Saints Church, Vicarage Road, Hoole.

The group has a family history help desk at Grosvenor Museum opening times are 10.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 4pm on Tuesdays and Fridays and at Chester Library at Storyhouse on Tuesday mornings between 10am and 12noon.

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We have 75+ members. We meet the second Monday of the month in a local public house / restaurant in Chester. Contact Lynda on 07828 571952 Cestrian Ramblers Enjoy walking but no one to walk with? Often thought about joining a walking group but never got round to it? Search out those hiking boots and come and join The Cestrian Ramblers who meet in Chester but draw members from all around the Chester, North Wales and Wirral areas.

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ALL SAINTS’ HOOLE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Hoole Road/Vicarage Road, Chester, CH2 3HZ Welcome to our Sunday Services: Traditional with Holy Communion every week – 9-10am Busy and lively with children’s and youth groups – 10.45am Messy Church for families – once a month 4-6pm The Space Homework Café @ All Saints – chat, work, ask for help Tuesdays 3.45-5.30pm, School years 7-13 Find out more at www.allsaintshoole.church or by calling 01244 345649

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GARDENING BY JANET WEEDS

Autumn tints in October

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Plants that do well in October include Cyclamen hederifolium.

These autumn flowering cyclamen are hardy and like a light soil and a sunny dry spot around shrubs.

They also do well in pots where the white marbled green foliage looks stunning all winter. Another

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Crab apples or Malus are in full fruit now with many keeping their tiny apples all winter. You get blossom in spring and coloured fruit in autumn on small trees. The variety Golden Hornet has bright yellow apples, Harry Baker has pink flowers and large red fruit which are good for Crab Apple jelly. John Downie has white flowers and two toned red/orange fruits also good for jelly. All are self fertile so they do not need another variety to pollinate the flowers, unlike some apples. Crab Apples are a good pollinator for apple trees so having one in the garden on a dwarfing rootstock (M9 or M26 for a small tree) is ideal.

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Hoole History Corner Dave Rees, from Hoole History and Heritage Society, explores the history of Hoole’s Britain declared war on Germany and her allies on 4 August 1914. Following mobilisation of the Army the British Expeditionary Force began landing in France on 12 August 1914. It was soon realised that the scale of the conflict and the number of casualties would require many more nursing facilities and much more medical care than the county could then provide. Nation-wide, premises were found to accommodate Auxiliary Hospitals. In Hoole, three were opened; Hoole Bank House (now the Hammond School) in1914; Hoole House in 1915; and Chester War Hospital (taking over the Workhouse in Hoole Lane) in August 1917.

HOOLE BANK HOUSE On 15 August 1914, Mr George W Hayes offered Hoole Bank House to the Red Cross as a hospital for wounded soldiers and sailors, paying the expenses for its conversion, even before the first major involvement of British troops in France on 23 August 1914.

The Hayes family were now living near Basingstoke, so the property was available although the domestic staff were still in residence. Harry Leach, their coachman is pictured, with his son also Harry Leach, who served in the Army Ordnance Corps throughout the War, outside the front entrance to Hoole Bank House.

Harry Leach Snr and Pte Harry Leach AOC outside Hoole Bank House By 24 October 1914 Lady Mackinnon the Vice-chair of the Chester Branch of the British Red Cross Society was able to announce that Hoole Bank and also Richmond House in Boughton were ready. Appeals were made for donations or support in kind to fund the work of the hospitals. Hoole Bank offered 42 beds from the converted ground floor entertaining rooms and existing bedrooms.

There wasn’t long to wait. The local press announced the first patient as Lance Sergeant W J Tasker, 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment, who was well known in the local area. He was probably Lance Sergeant P T Tasker whose family is believed to have lived in Bishop Street. A further press visit to Hoole Bank on Tuesday 27 October 1914 gave them the opportunity to speak to the next contingent of 4 wounded soldiers to arrive. A further 42 wounded British and Belgian soldiers arrived in that week and most were sent to Hoole Bank including 12 of the 15 Belgians. The arrival of more wounded service men continued and was reported in the press.

At that time there were 10 nurses including the acting matron Mrs Hamilton and 2 orderlies. Mrs Mary Smith of Folly House, Commandant of Cheshire 46 British Red Cross Society (BRCS), appears to have then become the Matron. In November 1915 a significant addition to Hoole Bank’s staff was Katherine McGrath, a Canadian, as Matron. Her appointment led to Lt Colonel Prout, Royal Army Medical Corps, who had overall responsibility for the distribution of wounded in the area to concentrate the wounded from the Canadian forces at Hoole Bank.

Katherine McGrath stayed until April 1918 when she enlisted in the Canadian Army Medical Corps. She received the Royal Red Cross from H.M the King at Buckingham Palace in April 1918.

Numerous lists of local persons making donations and gifts of provisions for the upkeep of Hoole Bank and the other Red Cross hospitals in the area were recorded.

Special efforts were made to celebrate the first Christmas of the War. There was a Christmas tree, a special meal and gifts of pipes, tobacco and cigarettes were sent from Mr & Mrs Hayes. Miss Helen Huleatt, then secretary of the Chester Division of the BRCS had organised entertainment. Wounded from Richmond House were invited, and other guests brought the number to over 100. It was over by 8:30pm as a further 11 wounded were received from the Front on Christmas Night.

In January 1915 Hoole Bank received a gift of five brace of pheasant and three brace of duck from His Majesty the King. In July, a concert was given by the ‘Child Trio’ and the ‘Kuda Quartet’; a special tea followed using a magnificent Dee salmon donated by Messrs. Totty, fishmongers in Brook Street. Outings were recorded including one to St. Winefride’s Well in Holywell and Pantasaph Monastery for the Belgian patients.

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HOOLE HOSPITALS 1914-1919

le’s hospitals and their role in World War One. As well as the newspaper reports on numbers of wounded arriving and donations received there are some references to entertainments provided to provide cheer to the patients. Out of this grew the “Whizz-Bangs Pierrot Troupe”, named after the sound made by an approaching German artillery shell. Members included Lilias Mary Napier Officer in Charge and Helen Huleatt who would later be Officer in Charge of both Hoole Bank and Hoole House hospitals. They were pre-war members of the Red Cross branch in Chester as secretary and assistant secretary. Both were from Army families. Lilias’ father was killed in action at Gallipoli in 1915 and Helen lost her brother who died of wounds in 1917. Helen’s grandfather had been involved in the Crimean War and was the subject of some less than complimentary remarks from Florence Nightingale!

Throughout 1916 there were reports of support for the hospitals with donations of foodstuffs, cigarettes and tobacco and newspapers for the patients. Concerts to raise funds were held at the Town Hall in Chester and the troops entertained within the hospitals. There were frequent reports of new wounded arriving on a weekly basis. These are two of a number of photographs of nurses and wounded form 1916/17 taken at Hoole Bank House, others are on the Hoole History web site, and available on the Cheshire Image Bank website.

George Hayes’ two sons served in the Forces during the war. The elder, Harry Urmson Hayes was a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion Black Watch. He was killed in action on 13 October 1915 taking part in an attempt to take the village of Hulluch from the Germans, during the latter stage of the Battle of Loos. Following Harry’s death, his father endowed a Ward at the Chester Royal Infirmary where a plaque was placed, and which is now in the Hammond School at Hoole Bank. Another plaque was placed in Chester Cathedral. His younger brother Eric Gerald Hayes joined the Royal Naval Air Service and became a pilot joining the80 Squadron Royal Air Force when this was formed on1 April 1918 by combining the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. He was engaged in attacking German artillery positions and was shot down 18 July 1918. Though badly wounded he survived, spending some time in a hotel in Paris which had been converted to a Red Cross hospital, before returning to Britain.

2nd Lieutenant Harry Urmson Hayes and Flight Lieutenant Eric Gerald Hayes l The article can be seen in full at http://hoolehistorysoc. btck.co.uk/WartimeHoole/ HooleHospitals1914-1919. l The next event is on Thursday 18th October when John Hess will talk about the Cheshire historian George Ormerod, whose house he lives in.

Wounded patients and nurse at Hoole Bank House

l Next month continues the story until the war ended including Hoole House and Chester War Hospitals.

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LIFE'S JUST NOT FAIR! I don’t know if you have ever said this “life sometimes is just not fair” I know I have! Situations and circumstances happen within the cause of life that really do seem unfair and at times pretty random.

I sometimes wonder to myself why do bad things happen to good people? Why is it that for some individuals the course of life seems to be a very rocky path and for others ‘everything they touch turns to gold?’ During the summer I read the auto biography of Dawn French, I really enjoy reading about other peoples lives and what strikes me time and time again, and it happened in the life of Dawn French is that an opportunity comes along in life where they seem to be in the right place at the right time and then they make a choice to embrace this opportunity. For many this choice leads them on a road to some degree of success with work and life. Looking from the outside this can seem unfair? Why do some people lives break out from what life throws at them whilst others never seem to move on from particular difficult situations and circumstances. This got me thinking about the question, “what is fairness?”

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The basic concept seems simple, even intuitive, yet applying it in daily life can be surprisingly difficult. Even a superficial reading of the news and events over the past few week highlights many examples of unfairness Andy Glover has lived in Hoole and injustice; an accident on a with his wife Sue for 30 years. motorway that kills two young Andy began at Hoole Baptist men, the effects of Western Church, on Westminster global warming that causes Road, as Youth Pastor, before flooding and droughts in third becoming the Pastor and world countries Bangladesh; the now Team Leader. loss of jobs in a car factory which will devastate the local economy; the deaths of British soldiers in For me my faith is something Afghanistan; the sudden death I can draw upon to give me of a family member from a heart strength, like all of us I can attack. sometimes wonder, “why did How do we handle and deal God let this happen?” and “where with life when it seems at time was God in that moment?” Faith so unfair. Fairness is one of enables me to see that God does the 6 pillars of character and care and he wants to draw near together with trustworthiness, to us so we can begin to make respect, responsibility, caring, sense of life and to understand and citizenship these are the I am not subject to fate and its values that form the basis for random acts. When Jesus came forming good character in a to earth a core component of his person. Fairness is described message was that “we can trust with phrases such as Play by the Father God” he is trustworthy rules • Take turns and share • Be and so our believe and faith in open-minded; listen to others • His overall goodness is possible Don’t take advantage of others when we see begin to see his • Don’t blame others carelessly. nature and character. At the Our character will always come to church I lead we are seeking to the fore whenever we are faced help people trust and then follow with a crisis or we have to deal Jesus and recently we have had with a situation of unfairness. a number of individuals and One way to prepare is to make families express a new found sure we make personal choice faith and hope in God and are sand decision that treat others now seeking to trust and follow with fairness – we all need to Jesus as they navigate the ups take time out to consider our and downs of life! To find out choices and decisions and their more visit our website www.hbc. consequences. org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/ who-jesus-is

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M: 07743111950

High Quality Finish and Extremely Tidy

E:ajgdecorators@yahoo.com W: www.ajg-decorators.co.uk

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All types of plastering work undertaken:

Internal Damage Repair, Ceilings Re-plastered, Skimming, Dry Lining, Rendering, K Rend

Call for a free quote

01928 529293 or 07919 337 545

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Plumbing and Heating Engineer Bathroom & Tiling Specialist Bathrooms, Showers, Tiling, Heating, Drainage, Leaks, Burst Pipes & more l Free Estimates & No Call Out Fee l Installation and Maintenance l All Types of Work Undertaken l Wall and Floor Tiling l No Job Too Big or Small l All Work Guaranteed

Appliance Repairs Washing Machines, Tumble Dryers, Dishwashers, Electric Ovens and Refrigeration FREE CALL OUT PROMPT REPAIRS GUARANTEED SPARES ALL MAKES COVERED FREEPHONE: 08000 24 24 09 Telephone: 01928 787621 Engineer Mobile: 07760 387710 Visit our website:

www.kkbappliances.co.uk Find us on Facebook

For a Friendly and Professional Job Call: 01244 881870 or Mobile: 07837 472340

facebook.com/kkbappliances Fast, Competitive Repairs by an experienced applicance engineer Credit & Debit card payments accepted

Plus all leading brands

Muckaway and Mini Digger Hire

l Muck removed - by self loading 32T grab wagon l Mini digger and dumper hire with or without operator l Decorative gravels/slates & landscaping materials l Top Soil supplied, various grades l Driveways, footings and gardens excavated l Recycled aggregates

Tel 0151 353 8686

www.grabandshift.co.uk

Dirty Carpets or Oven??

Dirty Carpets or Oven??

Expert Deep Cleaning Fantastic Results l Fully Insured

Expert Deep Cleaning Fantastic Results l Fully Insured

Tel 01244 490472 Mob 079360 60076 www.carpetandovencleaning.co.uk

Tel 0151 636 0009 Mob 079360 60076 www.carpetandovencleaning.co.uk

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