Dore to Door internet edition

Local organisations - Winter 2001

Dore Male Voice Choir - Cricket at Abbeydale Park- Dore Millennium Play - Abbeydale Pk Bowling club - King Ecgbert School - Folk Trains

Dore Male Voice Choir

The Choir presented its Autumn Gala Concert to a capacity audience at Ecclesall Church on 13th October. They we re joined by the City of Sheffield Senior and Girls Choir. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Sheffield were our special guests.

In September, in accordance with its aim of assisting charities, the choir sang in a concert at Beauchief Baptist Church and at the Annual Service for Cairns Homes for the Blind. They will also be singing at a Civic Service at Brindsworth, Rotherham on the 9th December.
On 15th December the Choir will be presenting its annual Christmas Concert at Dore Church. Always an enjoyable occasion, the Choir will be singing many new songs from its growing repertoire as well as some familiar favourites. Tickets will be available from Choir members, or telephone 236 5043.

Have you thought of joining the Friends of Dore Male Voice Choir? For only £7.50 for ten years, you can receive regular news and receive a number of benefits. Ask any Choir member for further information.

David Heslop

Cricket at Abbeydale Park

Whilst Cricket Enthusiasts, (who are fast becoming a rare breed) are celebrating the County teams winning the Championship, do the people of Dore realise that down the road there is the Abbeydale Park Cricket Club?

Formed this year by the amalgamation of the Collegiate and Old Edwardians, they have run nine teams in various leagues. The first XI have retained the Yorkshire Premier League (seventh time in the last 10 years) and losing Cup semi-finalists- 2nd and 3rd XI's promoted as league champions and Whitworth Trophy winners. The Club alsohad success in the YD League Cup and the Mid-week Cup. The Junior XI's under 13's, 15's and 17's also qualified for play-offs in their Leagues.

Not a bad record! The quality of the first XI Cricket is very good as most opponents include one overseas player (the current NZ opening bat played for Cleethorpes), and Michael Vaughan was first spotted at Collegiate.

The Club's Players and officials are to be congratulated on a fantastic season. It would be encouraging to see an increase in local support next season. At the moment the usual five supporters and a dog are joined by people from Worksop and Chesterfield. Roll on 2002.

John Gray

Dore Millennium Play

Already many people have volunteered to be involved with different aspects of this project, which aims to bring Dore's history ALIVE. Now that the Local Heritage Initiative Grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Countryside Agency has been awarded, a professional playwright has been commissioned to write a series of playlets based on events in the history of Dore.

It is hoped that a wide cross-section of local people, from all age groups and with different skills, will be involved in a creative venture which elaborates and records our local heritage. The grant will also enable an oral history collection, from the recollections of those who have lived and worked in Dore, to be recorded, and a small group has already met to begin recording and transcribing the information gathered. Anyone interested in joining this group would be most welcome. Please contact Maureen Cope: tel 235 0392 for more information.
Apart from those local people who have already expressed a willingness to be involved, we have also been fortunate in attracting support from experts in the field of local history, drama and performance.

These include: well known actor and director, Roger Bingham; local historian, illustrator and writer, Brian Edwards; writers and directors, Jack and Kay Massey; and the Regional Network representative of the Oral History Society, Michelle Winslow.
Rehearsals for the plays will begin during April 2002 and the plays will be produced at various venues in the village during the Dore Festival in July.

Please contact Margaret Peart at Dore Old School, telephone 235 3801, for more information about the project.

Abbeydale Pk Bowling club

Never heard of us? Founded in 1947, our green is in the top right hand corner of Abbeydale Sports Club.
We do not play in a league at present but are looking into the possibility of joining one. We play friendly matches against Chatsworth, Darley Dale, Fulwood, Hallam Grange and Worksop as well as holding internal competitions.
The winners of our knockout events this season were as follows:-
Open Singles. Mike Cross
Singles Handicap. Donald Hudson
Veterans Singles Handicap. Alf Sceats
Doubles Handicap. Graham Torry &Alan Wright
Curvaceous Handicap. Mike Hastings
We are looking for new members for season 2002. Anyone interested can contact John Perkinton on 236 1601.

King Ecgbert School

King Ecgbert School once again enjoyed great success in the external examinations. The school is given grades by OfSTED, comparing our performance with that of 'similar schools'. We are very proud of the fact that all of key grades, in SATS, GCSEs and POST 16 we achieved the top grade of A* or a grade A. The scale goes from A* to E, with a 'C' being average. In particular we are proud of our 'value added'- we typically achieve around 15% higher A*- C grades at GCSE than would have been predicted using standardised tests. A school's performance is naturally highly dependent upon its intake and we pride ourselves that with a 'national average' intake, our pupils achieve at a level significantly above those average at all levels.

Many of your readers are aware of the fact that we are due to move into a brand new single site school building - hopefully around September 2004. A timetable for the PFI process has been established and we expect 4 bidders to come up with plans early next year. These will include location, design specification, facility management, etc.

We will do our best to keep you informed of progress via this publication and by the occasional newsletter.

Bob Evans, Headteacher,
King Ecgbert School

Folk Trains

Once a month Folk Trains with guest bands run from Sheffield [7.15pm but collecting at Dore & Totley 7.23pm] to Edale.
Refreshments (special beer prices) & more music is available at The Rambler Inn, Edale, then 9.30pm return journey arriving at Dore & Totley for 9.54pm.

27 November: m_c_cajun
18 December: Bourgeoisie Zoo
22 January: The Ciaran Boyle Band
26 February: Ken Atkinson & Pete Garratt

For up-to-date information ring 266 9532 or visit www.folktrain.f9.co.uk