12 June 2012
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(Tuesday)
19:00 Everyone
in the village is invited to our meeting in The Stocks. We have been
promised a talk
on Fuchsias, and need to to plan for next
month's judging.
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13th July, 2012 - Summer Judging
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The Yorkshire
in Bloom judges will be back in the Village on
Friday 13th July. They
will start at 10:30 at the Lych Gate, walk down The High Street; and
then see "The Stocks" and
"The
Square" opposite to the "Ecclesfield Business Centre"; before going on
to
Priory
Road and St. Mary's Church and its Grounds. We hope everybody living in
the Village does something, however small, to make place look better
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5 May 2012 - Plant sale and Coffee Morning
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(Saturday)
10:00 Our
plant sale outside St. Mary's Church, raised a fantastic amount for
Ecclesfield-in-bloom and the Church gardening group. We thank everybody
who took part, as well as our anonymous donor.
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28th April, 2012 - Wild Flowers in The Square
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We wish to thank our local co-op on the High Street for
providing us with packets of "Bee Friendly" wild flower seeds after
last week's promotion¬.
These have now been sown in the border in front of
the wall opposite to the Ecclesfield Business Centre on The Square. We
are hoping that in spite of the cold weather, the seeds realise that it
is spring, and we will see the Mayweed, Poppy, Daisy, Campion,
Selfheal, Corrot, Birdsfoot, Trefoil, Cornflower, and Clover start to
grow, ready for flowering in July/Aug/Sept. (PS: The promotion seems to have been UK
wide, so other in-bloom groups may want to enquire at their co-ops to
see if they have any packets left).
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28th April, 2012 - Wild Flowers in The Square
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We managed to
deliver quite a few copies of our Newsletter following
the spring judging. If however, you did not get one, then you can view
the newsletter by clicking on the thumbnail
opposite.
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2011/12 We thank the following contributors
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* Everybody
who bought our raffle tickets or Special
Ecclesfield Christmas cards
* Everybody who contributed to, or bought at our last
Plant sale and coffee morning
* All our members who have worked so hard on Ladycroft,
the Square, and other areas
* People living in the in-bloom area who have tidied
their front gardens and put plants and posters in their windows
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13th April, 2012 - Spring judging
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All appeared to
go well when in-bloom members showed the Yorkshire
in Bloom Judges around the village. We look forward to seeing what the
judges say and recommend in their report. Click here for our
Spring 2012 Newsletter
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10th March, 2012 - Work party
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We had great
fun this Saturday,
removing trees that had started to grow in the
border opposite to the Ecclesfield Business Centre, together with a
large number of bottles and other rubbish.
We also pruned the shrubs and expect these to grow rapidly back so that
they cover the area in a tidier and less overgrown manner.
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We are hoping to tackle the shrubs opposite to The Ecclesfield Business
Centre¬, this Saturday.
Please do not park in the bays adjacent to the borders, so that we can
get our plant in to do the pruning without damaging any motor vehicles.
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22 February 2012 - Tree felling
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BEECH TREE FELLING AT LADYCROFT
IS COMPLETE
We thank Sheffield
Homes for putting up signs, and providing information about the tree
removal work completed on 1st March 2012 at Lady Croft. They said that
the work was needed because the beech tree by the side of the path down
to Ecclesfield Park had Meripilus Gigantea¬ which is a
serious decay fungus that affects Beech in particular. It attacks the
root system and could have caused a catastrophic failure where the tree
failed at its base. |
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Autumn 2011 - Newsletter
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If you live near the centre of Ecclesfield, then you may
have received a copy of autumn
newsletter. If not,
you can always download and see or print a copy by clicking on the
picture on the
left.
Updates
- We have helped with the Christmas tree in St. Mary's
Church yard, and it is now up and lit.
- our Christmas fair on 26th was a huge success raising a
fantastic £662.66. Everyone had a great time, so we are going to
looking for next year's unwanted Christmas decorations, starting in
January 2012.
- We have put in a bid for funding to re-do "The Square".
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Survey results, 2011
20 Sept 2011 - Results
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Yorkshire
in Bloom gave a "Silver Rose" award for Ecclesfield Village in the
Spring and a further "Silver Rose" in the Summer. The Stocks
also entered in its own right, and was also awarded a "Silver Rose".
Click here for Village Results¬, Stocks¬, or Commentary¬ |
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26 November 2011 Christmas fair
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(Saturday)
10:00
Last year's "Coffee
and Mince Pie Morning"
or "Christmas Fair" was enjoyed so much by both helpers and visitors
that we are in process
of organising another one. It will be held on Saturday 26th
of November, between 10am and 12:30, inside St. Mary's Church. We are
having stalls for Cards, Christmas Decorations, Handbags/Jewelery and
Bric-a Brac, there will also be a raffle and we will be selling
tea/coffee and cakes. We still need
more offers of Christmas decorations and bric-a-brac to sell. We have
also
decided to try a 'Handbag/Christmas Gift Stall' this year so if anyone
would like to donate any handbags that they no longer use or any
unused/unwanted gifts, that would be great. All
proceeds will go to next year's Ecclesfield-in-bloom.
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We are pleased to list our
2011 sponsors as follows...
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Jane and Brian Grace of Breaston (who have contributed over many years and
to whom we apologise for missing them out of the previous list)
St. Mary's Lane Trust
M.E.P.S. (Europe) Ltd.,
A.I.S. Assured Insurance Solutions Ltd.,
Dave Radford – Traditional Butcher,
Tracy’s – Dressmaking Alterations,
Carter Smith – Accountants.
We also thank JB and AF for their support including baking cakes for
our Coffee Morning; and the Rhinegold Garden Centre for the plants and
planters they supplied.
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Yorkshire in
Bloom have emailed to say that
they are holding an amateur photography competition. Click on the
camera
opposite for details,
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OF INTEREST
Members and others may want to visit, or perhaps contribute to, the Open Gardens Movement¬
PAST EVENTS
News release 19 July 2011
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“Blooming
Lovely”
July
is a time
of year when floral displays tend to look their best and this year was
no
exception. No-one walking through Ecclesfield to St. Mary’s Church
could fail
to notice a feast of colour, whether it was Ladycroft Meadow with its
wild
flowers or the planters up and down Church Street, the tendered gardens
of St.
Mary’s Church or the many displays of potted plants outside Villagers
homes all
adding to a supreme effort. This was good because on the 15th.
July, Ecclesfield was judged by the
Royal Horticultural Society judges of Yorkshire
in Bloom along a prescribed route. The judges expressed their delight
in seeing
the floral results in their many forms and the way the village had been
tidied
up and was virtually litter less.
The
tireless
amateur gardeners of St. Mary’s Church and Ecclesfield in Bloom seem to
combine
naturally each year to produce neat, tidy and colourful displays along
with
constant grass-cutting and plant tendering.
There
are no
winners or losers from the judging only awards for efforts made and
from our
point of view nearly every home made a real effort to help. Help comes
in many
forms from all age groups and is appreciated very much.
There
are too
many people involved to name individuals within Ecclesfield in Bloom or
the
Church gardeners and the same must be said of our sponsors, who are
mainly
local businesses and of course a few private individuals.
Many
thanks to
everyone, without you and your efforts Ecclesfield would not be as
blooming
lovely as it now is.
Judging
awards
will be published on 20th. September 2011
Keith
Fish
Ecclesfield
in
Bloom
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4 Sept 2011 Flower competition
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We
have just delivered all the prizes to the winners of our flower
competition at our joint stand at the Ecclesfield
Gala. Click on the picture
to see the results.
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15 July 2011 Summer judging
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(Friday) 9:00 Summer Judging.
Thanks to everybody's efforts, the village made a very
favorable impression on the two judges.
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9 July 2011 Work party
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(Saturday)
10:00 There was a good turnout of people for our litter-picking,
brushing, and weeding session. This was a major clean-up concentrating
on the judging route from the middle of the High Street to St. Mary's
Church but we are hoping to keep the village looking good right up to
the Summer judging and beyond. |
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6 July 2011 You choose
(Wednesday)
18:15 We thank everybody who attended the "You Choose" event at Newton Memorial Hall in
Chapeltown, and voted for us. The wildflower area at
Ladycroft is already look better, and we have paid for the wood needed
to make the special planters. We are also hoping to buy a blower,
strimmer and other garden tools needed to look after the land.
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23 June 2011 Newsletter
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If you live near the centre of Ecclesfield, then you may
have received a copy of the "Ecclesfield in Bloom"
newsletter, with details of the "You Choose" event on the back. If not,
you can download and print a copy by clicking on the picture on the
left.
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18 June 2011 Work party
(Saturday)
10:00 Our working party has removed the cleavers which were strangling
the wild flowers on Ladycroft Meadow.
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10 June 2011 Bench seats
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We have purchased two bench seats, and put
them in position in front of the wild-flower area of Ladycroft Meadow (between
St. Mary's lane
and
the Park) We hope people enjoy using them .
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7 May 2011 Plant sale
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(Saturday)
10:00 Thank you to everyone who turned up at St. Mary's
Church bearing cakes, plants, bric-a-brac and cards, and to
everyone who attended and bought something. What a fantastic mornings
work!!. The proceeds will go to help us keep Ecclesfield-in-bloom.
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15 April 2011 Thank you
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Ecclesfield in Bloom wishes to thank Raheel
Baig,
Sheffield City Council Streetforce, their road sweeper, and everybody
who did such a first class job in grass cutting, and road/pathway
clearing in our Village prior to the Spring inspection of the Village
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15 April 2011
Judges comments
(Friday) 11:00 The
Yorkshire-in-bloom
judges walked through the Conservation area and gave a good spring report (See page 9) including the hard
earned plaudit "clean and tidy with little evidence of litter". The
report also suggested...
- Thinking about the design of the whole of the Church Street
area, not just the planters
- Re-planting the beds in front of the flats on The
High Street [done]
- Improving the square [Stocks
Hill I think]
- More floral displays adjacent to premises such as the
Black Bull.
- Maximising the potential of the woodland between the Park
and Ladycroft Meadow.
- Expanding the wildlife area in the Churchyard, and
considering something like this for the bank on Town End Road
- Recycling [Compost bins,
mulching, litter recycling, water butts, or signage perhaps]
- Enhance the gravestone of Alexander John Scott, Chaplain to
Lord Nelson.
- An "Interpretation board".
Summer judging will be between
4th
and 22nd July 2011. |
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14 April 2011 Litter pick
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We have arranged to clear up and do a
litter pick of the Ecclesfield in Bloom area on the Thursday afternoon.
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9April 2011
Weeding
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We weeded
the area
around Stocks Hill this Saturday. It looks much better.
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19 March
2011 Ladycroft Meadow
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19 (Saturday)
10:00 The large turnout of people meant that all the soil we had bought
for Ladycroft Meadow finally got distributed
today. 105 saplings supplied by the "Woodland Trust" were also planted.
The
land is therefore ready for the placement of the two benches that we
have ordered and seeding with some 3kgs of mixed grass, wild
cornflower, and perhaps other seeds. Click
on the picture opposite to see a some of the people that helped.
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12 March 2011 - Weeding
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12 (Saturday)
10:00
We had a great time weeding the flower beds at
the Junction of St. Mary's Lane
and Yew Lane on Saturday 12th March. We were especially
grateful to the lady who as you can see here, brought us out copious cups of tea and
coffee.
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26 January 2011
- Meeting
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We would like to thank the gentleman that handed one of
our members a donation at the end of 2010. We will use it to buy
some plants for the village.
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A great thank you to all who attended the "YOU
CHOOSE" event on Tuesday 16th of November 2010 at Newton
Hall,
Chapeltown, and especially everybody who voted for our successful application for a
grant to put a bench seat on Ladycroft Meadow (between St. Mary's lane
and
the Park).
The picture on the right
shows the sort of thing that we
are hoping to purchase....
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- We have organised a working
party to distribute the soil
needed to plant bulbs on Ladycroft Meadow for 10 am on Saturday 30th
October 2010. Ladycroft has already been sprayed so that it will be
ready
for this work.
- Daffodil and Crocus bulbs have
been collected from the
Council, and are likely to be planted alongside the Hearse House, along
the Church Wall, around the Jeffcock Fountain, and at Ladycroft Meadow
on St. Mary's Lane.We have cleaned and replanted the two
planters on lower Church
Street. New plants have been ordered for the trough, and we are
replanting the planters at the bottom of Greaves Road.
- Our
Autumn 2010 newsletter is out and will be delivered to the In-Bloom
area shortly.
- Our 2010 RESULTS
in the YORKSHIRE IN BLOOM
competition - a SILVER
for Ecclesfield Village, SILVER-GILT
for St. Mary's Churchyard, and SILVER
for "The Stocks". See the Judges
comments here.
- A thank you to all the people
who visited our stand at
Ecclesfield Gala on Sunday. The answers to our "Where is it" quiz are here. There are also a couple of pictures of
our stand on http://ecclesfield.wikia.com/wiki/Gala2010,
and another picture may appear in next week's Look Local.
- We have strimmed the grass,
but progress
on Ladycroft Meadow on St.
Marys Lane is still held up because of a bad back. We are hoping that
this will be sufficiently improved for something to be done in the
second week of September.
- We are looking to buy a proper
grass cutter to enable us to
look after Ladycroft and other areas.
- We are helping to decorate the
window
ledges of St. Mary's Church on 16th September, ready for their flower
festival
which starts on
Friday 17th. If anybody wants to help, join us in the Church on Monday
13th September, or on Sunday 19th to help us
take things down.
- We thank our anonymous donor
for the £50 received.
- We
have ordered 1000 daffodils and 200 crocuses from Sheffield City
Council, and will be planting them around the village this autumn.
- Any organisations wishing to
sponsor one of our planters and
have a plaque displayed, please contact
- The in-bloom judges agreed
that Ecclesfield had improved, so
a Thank you to everybody who braved the
rain and contributed to the fantastic amount of work that went into
improving Ecclesfield prior to the summer judging. In
particular, the gravel and planters at the front of Marlfield Croft, the
painting out of graffiti on the old Fishing tackle shop on St. Marys
Lane, and weeding the shrub beds at the junction of High Street and Yew
Lane. As a result, the
route which covered Church
Street down to the Park entrance;
St. Mary’s Lane and High Street to the bottom of Greaves Road; Stocks
Hill, Townend Road to the
quarry and Priory Road;
was tidy and litter free, with flowers being displayed in windows and
gardens. A thank you also, to Ecclesfield Primary School and the
winners of our Art Competition who attended the Judges visit. We are
therefore confident of a good result when the announcement
in made on Tuesday, September 14th.
- People
living on the route should have received a leaflet and a copy of our
June newsletter. If not click here. It was
particularly gratifying to
see that at least three of them were being displayed on people's
windows.
- Thanks to everybody who
attended our "Plant Sale/Coffee
Morning" at St. Marys Church, we raised £388 for Ecclesfield in Bloom.
- The
footpath between between Priory Road and the St. Marys Church entrance
may have become dangerous. We are hoping to reset some of the stones to
make it safer.
- There was a fantastic turnout
to the litter pick prior to
Spring Judging
on 20th June, and Ecclesfield looked much better as a result. That gave
us a start, and enabled us to continue to pick litter and keep the
Village reasonably clear. The judges seemed pleased, and commented on
the way people had made good use of small pieces of land, and the
number of people displaying posters in the windows. We are hoping
to distribute "Thank You leaflets" along the route.
- We thank Jane and Brian Grace
for their kind donation to
Ecclesfield in Bloom in memory
of their friend John Grayson.
- We
thank all the pupils at "Ecclesfield Primary School", who contributed
their pictures. All the results were brilliant, but we had to
select some of the pictures as winners and have now given out "seed
kits" or a voucher to the winners.
- We
thank
everybody who attended the "Northern Assembly's"
"You Choose" even in "The Gatty Hall" on 30th January, and are glad to
be able to announce that our grant application for tools to maintain
Ladycroft Meadow on St. Marys Lane (and other public spaces), was
approved. We now have a layout plan for the area, including a Village
Notice board and a plaque depicting sites of interest around
Ecclesfield.
- We are looking to buy a heavy
duty petrol driven
mower or strimmer, water bowser, and other equipment to help maintain
some of the public spaces in the area. If anybody has any information
that might help, please email
- We
are looking for local firms to sponsor planters, and are hoping to
obtain plaques to allow sponsor's details to be placed on their
planter.
THINGS DONE IN 2009...
- Both the Stocks and St Mary's
Churchyard
won a "Silver Rose" (one of only 9
"Pubs", and 20 "Establishments" to
be ranked as highly), and Ecclesfield Church neighborhood won a
"Merit" (one of 27) in Yorkshire
in Bloom 2009. The judges
were "impressed with the standard of
cleanliness; the brochure showing
works so far, and the group’s plans for the future". The Parish
Council pictured the event here,
and the award
certificates are going to be displayed in St. Marys Church.
- Click
here for our Ecclesfield in
Bloom Poster.
- Click here for the new Unofficial
Ecclesfield in Bloom Site
- We thank Jane and Brian Grace
for their donation in memory
of their friend Marjorie.
- We would
like to thank visitors to the Coffee Morning and Plant Sale at
St. Mary's Church, on 2nd May.
- Thanks to their
generosity, and the efforts of our
members and
David Banham, (who along with our latest member, Rose ran the "St
Mary's Cafe"), the princely sum of £400 was raised. Compost
has
therefore been
purchased and delivery of planters arranged. We also congratulate the
holder of winning raffle ticket No. 46, who is welcome to ring
us on 246 8329.
- People
may also have noticed improvements to the old garage site
between
St. Marys Road and Ecclesfield Park. Lots of work has been done by the
various Ecclesfield groups to improve this land, including a massive
clearance job, the importation of topsoil and the planting of five
trees. We have sown wild flower seeds and have just strimmed the
grass frontage.
- Work has also been done to
repair the stone wall to
the side of St. Marys Church, which had lost its topping stones.
We thank the 16 organisations who have
given us
financial or other support for Yorkshire in Bloom 2009...
Ecclesfield in Bloom is insured by Assured Insurance Solutions Ltd of
Town End Road (to September 2010)
Click here to
see other Ecclesfield Groups...
Notes:
- LadyCroft Meadow contains daffodils which are poisonous, as well as wild
flowers and native trees, many of which protect themselves by being poisonous to humans and animals. Cuttings or
debris may be especially dangerous, since animals may not be put
off
from eating them, while some of their poisons last 6 months. Nothing on the area should
therefore be eaten or grazed.
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