Talk of the Town March2014

EDITION 153

CIRCULATION 4,800

MARCH 2014

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SALTBURN’S TOWN TALK Letter from the Editor Welcome to a slightly new look Talk of the Town. This month I have made two changes: the magazine will now be printed on glossy paper throughout instead of only the cover, and I have removed the thick black border that I drew round most of the adverts and articles and replaced it with a thinner, more subtle one. I was advised to do that many years ago but I quite liked the thick border and much time was needed to go through the magazine and alter everything. However, it was a change that was long overdue. There will be some readers who prefer the magazine as it was (I don’t like change either)

but the new glossy paper paves the way for the introduction of colour pages, which I hope to start next month. At the time of writing I don’t yet know how it will all look but I am confident the changes will be improvements. Love, Ian

Send letters, adverts and contributions for the next issue (by Friday, 14th March 2014) to: The Editor, Talk of the Town c/o Jackie’s Saverstore, 8 Station Buildings, Saltburn, Cleveland, TS12 1AQ. Telephone: 01287 623903 or email: talkofthetown@tyasi.freeserve.co.uk. Talk of the Town has a website: www.tottsaltburn.co.uk and the The White Rose Singers and Sarah Paterson (Harpist) in concert Friends of Talk of the Town can be found on Facebook. on Friday, 21st March at 7.30pm in St Mark’s Church, Marske.

More Top Telly Comedy Capers: Saltburn’s Brass Neck Tickets on the door or telephone Ellen Pybus on 01642 493587.

Guisborough Beer Festival: The 3rd Guisborough Camra Comedy Club has three more top telly comics this spring.

Festival takes place on Friday, 25th and Saturday, 26th April Romesh Ranganathan (Sat 1 March) and Alun Cochrane (Sat 5 at Guisborough Parish Hall in Bow Street. There will be 36 April) both play Brass Neck’s monthly comedy club at The Spa cask ales plus real cider, perry and fruit wines. For further Hotel. Mark Steel plays Saltburn Community Theatre on details see www.clevelandcamra.org.uk and next month’s Thursday 22 May. Tickets flying already for all three shows.

Talk of the Town. Tickets are available from Roger Darnton For further info, see Brass Neck Comedy on facebook.

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Saltburn Farmers’ Market: The market is on Saturday, 8th The Guisborough and District Branch of the March. On offer we will have all the usual meats, game and Embroiderers’ Guild are holding their monthly meeting in locally reared pork. We’ll have the vegetables to go along, Sunnyfield House, Westgate, Guisborough, TS14 6BA on some super sauces, and even the cakes for afters! All the usual Saturday, 1st March at 1.45 for 2pm. Our guest speaker will favourite stalls will be there - Beez Neez Apiary, Cracoe Cakes, be Diane Grant and her subject is ‘Canvas Work Plus’. In Humphrey Potter, Burton’s Bangers, Dark Start Plants and April our meeting will be on Saturday, 5th and our guest more. We hope to see you all there! speaker is Joanna O’Neill and her subject is ‘Conditional Path problem resolved: The path between The Crescent, Discharge’. Visitors are welcome whether non-stitchers, Saltburn, and the ‘pig alley’ track, which cuts between Marske beginners or more experienced stitchers; we will be very Mill Lane and Laurel Road, is being repaired by Coast and pleased to see you. The Belmont House car park (behind the Country Housing Association. Local residents feared it might council offices) is free on Saturdays. be closed because temporary barriers had been put up in midFor more information please call 01642 314860.

February.

The next drop in for Charity Crafters will be on WI Report: Ladies of Saltburn WI met on 13th February for Wednesday, 5th March between 2pm and 4pm at The their Annual General Meeting. The meeting opened with the Workhouse, Dundas Street West (next to Ripping Yarns). singing of Jerusalem and Mrs Cowie welcomed members to the Come and join us. For further details please contact Angie on meeting. Members were invited to ballot for Committee and the 01287 205153. twelve nominations were duly elected. The financial statement The next slow and steady traditional tune session will be was presented by Mrs C Lynn. The Institute Competition Cup on Wednesday, 12th March from 7.30pm at Saltburn House, was won by Mrs J Dennis for the second year running. The Marine Parade. Musicians welcome. Come and join us. For Secretary, Mrs L Mitchell gave a review of the previous year’s further details please contact Angie on 01287 205153. activities and events and the president Mrs A Cowie thanked Emmanuel Church Hall Table Top and Collectors’ Sale: the Committee for their sterling work over the year. Mrs Cowie Our next dates are Saturdays, 1st, 15th and 29th March and was unanimously elected president for another year. After 5th and 19th April. FREE ENTRANCE and a warm welcome completion of the business a pooled supper was enjoyed by all to everyone. With over 26 stall holders, selling lots of bric-a- members. Saltburn WI has a full programme of varied events brac, books, toys, baby goods, and all sorts of collectables, and classes offered in the coming year and we welcome new and some crafts, there is something for everyone. Home made me mbers – for more information look on refreshments and light lunches are on sale all day. Our all day www.saltburnwi.org.uk. Next month our speaker is Miss L breakfast and lunches and popular home baked stall are Lawson from The Dog Trust. Meetings are held at the always available. Our kitchen is very busy and popular. Methodist Church Hall, Milton Street, Saltburn at 7.30pm on Thank you everyone for your support. Contact Denise every second Thursday (except August).

Marshall on 07929 589538.

Barbara Spanner Cover Illustration: The new sculptures at the bandstand by Tony Lynn. See article on page 44.

Disclaimer: Talk of the Town tries to make sure the articles and announcements made on its pages are accurate, but views expressed in letters and articles printed in Talk of the Town are not necessarily those of the editor. Any offers in adverts included in Talk of the Town are made by the advertisers; details should be confirmed with them. Always confirm event details with the organisers, in case of alteration or error. Talk of the Town is printed by DC (Yorkshire) Print, Unit 34a, Lidgate Crescent, Langthwaite Business Park, South Kirkby, West Yorkshire, WF9 3NR. Website: www.dcprintyorkshire.co.uk Tel: 01977 642331. Proprietor/Editor of Talk of the Town: Ian Tyas c/o Jackie’s Saverstore, 8 Station Buildings, Saltburn, TS12 1AQ. (Ian Tyas tel: 01287 623903.)

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Old Saltburn as reported by an American in 1909

Upleatham Hall Grapes grown in the Upleatham Hall greenhouse

An American visits Saltburn-by-the-Sea in 1909 as described in the following article titled ‘This Real Old England’ in the Omaha Daily Bee September 19th 1909.

Part 2. (Part 1 in issue No 152) But we have strayed from the walk to Upleatham, the bonnie village of temperance. All the hills hereabouts have been honeycombed by miners since the discovery of ironstone within them and its possibilities. There has been subsidence in the surface in many parts and houses have had to be shored up or taken down. Upleatham Hall itself, in the midst of its great park, had to be raised in consequence of the mining operations in quest of mineral wealth in the bottom of the hills, and its owner - the owner of the most land hereabout - The Marquis of Zetland, now uses Upleatham Park for the grazing of cattle.

To the visitor the most interesting spot about Upleatham nestling in the countryside of hills and dales that would justify the American Indian name of Onendaga - land of hill and valley - is Upleatham Old Church, declared to be the smallest church in England, a church that would be crowded with a score of people. It is mentioned in the Doomsday Book. It is fair to say at one time the church was very much larger as the remnants of the ruined walls clearly show. No one about, however, seems to preserve even the tradition of a time was other than it remains today. Halfway up the Western side of the tower there is a stone built into the wall which bears in rough carving this inscription: WILLIAM CROW CHYRCHWARDEN BYLDED STEPEL 1664 There are gravestones in the church yard from the sixteenth century, but everything is so rank and overgrown that little is to be gained by browsing among them or searching for older remains. All around is decay.

The interior of the church itself is unsafe, and there is none to repair it. One of the beauties of the English land system. The lord of the manor owns it. Lord Zetland.

“Aye the marquis was here the other day, him and 4

his lady,” says the old sexton - why do old churches have old sextons? - but I was away. I wish I had been here with my key. I should like to have shown him. Why I ’aven’t any heart in trying to keep the place up. It’s deplorable I declare ’tis.

A curious superstition has prevailed in the neighbourhood which one would like to have time to fathom. On the North side of the church are a number - a whole line - of grotesque carvings in the usual position of gargoyles, but scarcely proper gargoyles as they do not serve the purpose of gargoyles. The carvings are old and much ravaged by time and weather. It is the belief of the people that the sexton said, that they were put there to ward off evil spirits. The superstition was handed down from none knows where, or how long ago, but was sufficiently potent so that until thirty-five years ago no burials were made in the yard on this side of the church.

Another walk to Redcar, over the bluffs reveals camps of the territorial’s conspicuous high above the sea or sheltered in the hollows The first wonder at the site being chosen for encampments for the volunteers yields when one hears that this coast, or the part between the Tyne and The Humber, has been declared to be one weak spot in England’s coast defence system, the one spot vulnerable to attack once England’s first line of defence her ships - has been broken. The people therefore welcome the soldiers and the idea of their being made familiar with the land.

Looking at Redcar a full grown resort and mecca of excursionists a town of solidly built houses, shops and inns, it seems a far cry from the first discovery as a possible seaside city, only 100 years ago when an enthusiastic found it a fishing village, saw its possibilities and proclaimed himself prophetically the discoverer of a new seashore home for thousands. At the time the fierce winds piled up the sands about the fishermen’s houses so high, that mornings the people had to dig themselves out, like lonely farmers snowed in hard winters.

Thanks once again to Jim Wingham for pointing us in the direction of the American newspaper archive.

See the Photographic Society on page 24.

Cath and Tony Lynn

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Friends of Talk of the Town Hello from Friends of Talk of the Town.

Well, here we are March already! I’ve been told too often by my good lady that I am obsessed by the weather and I can’t resist mentioning it here in my monthly rambling. She’s right of course but as every husband knows it’s best just to agree. I’m hoping that by the time you read this spring should be just around the corner and if so those intrepid folks who help Saltburn in Bloom and Friends of the Valley will be champing at the bit after all the rainfall! You too can play your part by either joining these enthusiastic and very sociable groups or perhaps just keeping your own gardens and external areas attractive! I'm sure there are therapeutic benefits to planting colourful bedding and perhaps even hanging baskets: plus you’ll be helping the birds and the bees who will be very grateful, I’m sure.

Alongside the guys from the ‘Community Payback’ team we have planted very many daffodils around the picnic area in Valley Gardens; they’ve already began showing themselves and our none too accurate planting schemes! They’ll certainly brighten up an already beautiful place so ravaged by the storms of late last year: there’s much to be done for sure but they sure are a welcome sight.

Our thoughts are with those who have and indeed are still suffering from the effects of flooding. Yes we have had our share of disruption but that pales into insignificance when you see their tragic circumstances.

I’ll not apologise for reminding you that the forethought shown by our local civil engineers, highways and water authorities of the late eighties are the main reasons why our area has been spared such devastation. My home, like many others, is built on reclaimed land: wet gardens governed by tidal actions are common in this area.

We must congratulate those who are responsible for the newest edition to the town’s many attractions in the

form of the Victorian family down by the bandstand. As you would almost come to expect the indefatigable Jackie Taylor was ‘behind’ the scheme from the outset. Thanks are due also to Groundworks and the vision of sculptor Emma Stothard of Whitby who designed and created such a piece so completely in harmony with Saltburn and its rich history.

Saltburn folk are rightly proud of their town and we salute all of those who help and enhance this community all year round - even in bad weather!

We’ve recently made Talk of the Town available from Guisborough library. The library enjoys its role as one of the principal ‘hubs’ of both social education and pleasure in town and we were made very welcome when we approached their friendly and helpful staff. We are ex residents of the priory town which I feel has so many parallels with Saltburn, I’ve always felt welcome in both towns. If you’re reading this article (some do, apparently) in Guisborough and you have any community involvement that you would like to see featured in the magazine, please get in touch; we would love to hear from you. Naturally that invitation is open to all of our readers so get in touch!

We must again thank you for your phenomenal support throughout the past two years of our existence.

Since we began fund raising you have contributed over £7000 through collection boxes, merchandise and standing order mandates. I keep saying to myself that I cannot find any other ways of asking you to continue to support the survival of this unique magazine but: please do!

We’ve some changes coming over the next few months; we’re hoping by working closely with Ian and Heather, our readers, contributors, advertisers, sponsors and fellow community interests we will ensure the magazine will not only survive but continue to flourish!

You have the biggest part to play, we are just mere mortals!

Richard Dales-Coupland Secretary, Friends of Talk of the Town

Big step towards cleaning up the Saltburn Gill The Coal Authority working in close partnership with the Saltburn Gill Action Group and the Environment Agency has successfully halted the worst of three flows of polluted water from the abandoned ironstone mines of East Cleveland.

Mine water has flowed from old mine workings to the south of Saltburn since 1999, causing severe pollution of the Saltburn Gill and Skelton Beck. The unsightly orange stream has not gone unnoticed by the local residents as it flows over the beach and into the North Sea. The Saltburn Gill Action Group was set up by concerned local residents with help from the Environment Agency to raise the profile of the problem, and the Authority became involved initially in an advisory capacity in 2008 to guide the group through a feasibility study.

During the summer of 2013, the Department for 6

Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) funded the Coal Authority to pump water from the mines to halt the polluting outflows. This water is partially cleaned up as it passes through the first stage of a treatment scheme built by the Coal Authority. Due to the Coal Authority treatment scheme, the worst of the polluting flows has been halted. It will continue to pump in order to dry up all the mine water pollution.

In 2014, a large wetland will be added to the treatment scheme to remove iron from the water using natural processes before the treated water is returned to the Gill. These reed beds will provide both filtration of the mine water to remove iron particles and a new environment for wildlife in the area, and will restore the Gill into a place where nature can thrive once again.

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Councillors’ Column As Spring arrives and gardens return to life outdoor maintenance beckons. Help is at hand as the green waste collection recommences on Thursday 6th March.

Cleveland Fire Authority has just completed an extensive six week public consultation exercise on its Community Integrated Risk Management Plan for the future up to 2018. The Public Consultation will hopefully have highlighted the challenges faced by the Fire Service in Cleveland over the next four years. Grants awarded by National Government have been reduced by £6m for this period. The Chair of Cleveland Fire Authority has said: “as a forward thinking Fire Service, Cleveland is once again leading the way and showing that it is making sound business decisions that will ensure the service is efficient, effective and robust.”

Some of the proposals and cost reductions include: examining the number of committees and elected members required to govern Cleveland Fire Authority, saving £40 thousand; undertaking a full organisational review to include management structures, technical and corporate support services, prevention and protection, fire control capability, and trade union facilities time, with a resultant saving of £1.1 million. The introduction of On – Call crewing arrangements for second fire engines at selected fire stations resulting in the removal of 76 whole-time fire fighter posts and creating 60 On-Call fire fighter posts would provide a net saving £2.161 million. Our Saltburn Fire Brigade already operates as a part time Fire Station. This retained firemen team, which has served our town well, also services East Cleveland

together with 3 similar forces covering an area of some 17500 hectares and a population of over 47,000. There are no proposals to alter this arrangement. We shall be safe in our beds. Residents who do have any concern about their own domestic fire precautions can get free advice on prevention and action in the event of an incident.

If a fire occurs in the home, the chances of survival can depend on how quickly and safely one can react. An escape plan and working smoke alarms can buy vital time. A free visit can be arranged with a phone call to 01429 874063.

The Redcar & Cleveland Council ‘Shaping Our Future’ restructuring will affect all Wards within the Borough. How Saltburn will be served in the future should become clear at a public meeting presentation to the town on Wednesday, 12th March, when Officers from Redcar & Cleveland address the Saltburn Neighbourhood Action Partnership in the Library at 6pm.

Concern has been registered at proposals by Coast & Country to close access to Marske Mill Lane from The Crescent. Discussions are on going to retain this traditional and popular route.

Brockley Hall will soon be on the market, hopefully attracting appropriate new users.

The old primary school is also expected to be remarketed imminently, hopefully encouraging continued community use of this iconic building.

Local Councillors are in the Library every 2nd and 4th Saturdays between 11am and noon to listen to residents’ views and respond to any enquiries.

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The winner of this month’s Pride of Saltburn is John Pearson of DoorWays. John was nominated by Mary Chapman of Moola. About John, Mary says, “I would like to nominate John Pearson from DoorWays for the Pride of Saltburn Award. John offers young people a place to go to when they are in need of support and help. Whether they need to find somewhere to live or help to find work, he is always there for them. John also spends a lot of time counselling young people, helping them to become responsible adults. At present John is urgently trying to raise funding so that his service can continue. I would urge people to help him with this endeavour. It would be a great shame for DoorWays to have to close.” Thank you, John, for being you, the Pride of Saltburn.

Every month, a £25 bunch of flowers, kindly donated by Eveline Brentano’s Florists, is awarded to someone in Saltburn who has earned admiration, gratitude and love for whatever reason. Talk of the Town invites nominations from you, the readers, to chose whom you would like to receive recognition and a bunch of flowers. Send your nominations to Talk of the Town’s postbag at Jackie’s Saverstore, 8 Station Buildings, Saltburn, Cleveland, TS12 1AQ. (Please include your name, phone number and the reason you are nominating the person of your choice.) Please also confirm with the nominee that they are willing to receive the award (many people feel shy about it). All the nominations will be read and kept for future use, so even if your choice doesn’t win this month, they might do so next time.

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Saltburn in Bloom Announcing our Fundraising Quiz Where? Cricket Club. When? Thursday, 20th March at 8.00 Cost? £3 per person, but includes a light supper. Tickets from? Library, Cricket Club or pay on the door. Teams?

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Why not join the Gardening group too? This month we will be planting poppy seeds in the fossil beds near the Cliff lift. These beds are awaiting some reconstruction as the slope, with soil erosion problems, makes gardening very difficult. We have been consulting with Greg Sills, a structural engineer with Scurator, who has given us some valuable advice, and at this time we are looking for funding to terrace this bed. So in the mean time, we thought we would plant poppy seeds there as part of the remembrance of the fallen of the First World War. We meet every Wednesday 9.30/10.00 –12.00, weather permitting, in various locations around the town and always enjoy a coffee and a chat. Tel. 209518 or email: lynda_parkes@hotmail.com for more details.

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Saltburn, Marske & New Marske Parish Council At the February meeting Members of the Parish Council welcomed the new Police Inspector, Emily Harrison, who gave an update on the reorganisation of the Policing team in the Parish. She introduced Andrew Dark who would be the new Sergeant for the area and it was noted that an additional Police Constable would also be joining the team.

The Parish Council set its precept for the following year. After agreeing the expenditure budgets recommended by various committees, together with anticipated income it was agreed that there would be no increase in the precept which would remain at £121,000 for 2014/15.

Several grants were approved towards events later in the year to commemorate the outbreak of World War I including, Valley Players towards a commemorative production, Friends of Saltburn towards hall hire for an event and The Rotary Club towards hosting a commemorative football match and an event on the beach.

Further grants were approved to Saltburn Allotment Association towards an allotment photography project, Friends of Saltburn towards a community fun day and the Rotary Club towards the cost of a charity fundraising and musical event. A donation towards the cost of replacing the see saw at the play area at Glenside was also approved. This equipment would be replaced in partnership with the Borough Council Neighbourhood Team funded by the Ward Councillors community fund.

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Concerns were raised regarding the destruction of the last remaining shelter on the bottom prom, following the recent storms. As it was unclear what the Borough Council’s intention was, it was agreed that a letter would be sent asking them to consider replacing both of the former shelters on The Foreshore.

It was noted that some residents in the vicinity of Sainsbury’s supermarket had complained about the noise from the refrigeration units at the back of the store. Despite previous assurances that the noise levels were within the accepted levels it was agreed that the Parish Council would pursue this matter further.

The Annual Parish Assembly will be held on Wednesday, 16th April 2014 at 7pm in the Methodist Church Hall on Milton Street. There will be a presentation by Tracee Hall Young, the recently appointed Community Development Officer for the area. Members of the public are invited to attend and may submit questions for Ms Hall Young or other items for discussion in writing or via email to the Clerk to the Council ℅ Saltburn Leisure Centre, Marske Mill Lane, Saltburn to be received by Monday, 17th March 2014.

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Tom urges Barclays Bank to ‘think again’ about any possible branch closures in Middlesbrough and East Cleveland Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Labour MP, Tom Blenkinsop, on 29th January 2014 called on Barclays Bank to ‘think again’ if two local branches of the bank were on their possible hit list for closure.

Tom made this comment in the light of reports that Barclays are looking to possibly axe up to a quarter of their entire branch network in the UK and a new emphasis on sharing what premises they keep with supermarket giant ASDA. Tom said: “I appreciate that the growth of e-banking has meant that visits to branches plays a declining role in everyday banking, but I do have to say that there are still many people - especially the elderly - who don’t all have internet expertise or connection and rely on their branch for a myriad of day to day transactions. This is particularly the case in rural areas or in towns where Barclays provide the only bank outlet.

“In my constituency, this is true of both Saltburn and Loftus. Closure would either mean customers having to travel to Redcar or, if they are thinking of setting up a base at the Skelton ASDA outlet, having to get to an out of town supermarket that currently has no bus service.

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SALTBURN BLUES CLUB As I write this article I am preparing for Saltburn’s first Mardi Gras party (as far as I’m aware) at the Cricket Club on Valentine’s night. The Club’s lounge will look very different on the night in the colours of gold, purple and green! I will report on how the night went in the next issue. I’ve even bought a special Mardi Gras waistcoat for the event!

Our January gig was a great success with a solid turn out. The audience enjoyed a superb support act with Lucy Zirins and the headline band Street Corner Blues.

The highlight of the evening for me was when Lucy joined in with the Street Corner boys on that old blues standard Trouble In Mind. You can see videos of the gig at our Facebook page, on Youtube and on our website www.saltburnbluesclub.co.uk.

March 29th we welcome a very different blues band to the club in Rabbit Foot, two people, two singers, guitar, African Bass Drums that produce a sound they like to describe as primal and unique, like Tom Waits throwing a party for Nina Simone at a Juke Joint in West Africa, BUT with more guitar! Classic Rock Blues Magazine described them as ‘Contemporary Blues at its most inventive.’ Support is provided by Gary Grainger of The Blues Show on Bishop FM fame making his second visit to the Club.

My radio show STILL GOT THE BLUES on palace FM has moved from Friday afternoon to Tuesday nights 8-10pm. Just go to the Palace FM website and click on Listen Live and you can also click on the Mixcloud link to catch up on shows. For those who like where I will be playing a chilled mix of music from many their music a little more laid back and relaxing I have a different genres. new show CHILL WITH H on Sunday nights 8-10pm Keep Saltburn Blues alive, folks. Harry

Saltburn and District Group for Visually Impaired People (VIP) On a very wet Wednesday our group met in the Community Centre and were joined by David and Ken from Langbaurgh Talking newspaper, and they treated us to an interesting and amusing ‘double act’. The newspaper was started in 1977 and is operated purely by volunteers.

Every four weeks the team select items of news, sport and general interest from local newspapers and publications specific to our area. The readings are transferred to CDs and mailed, free of charge, to any visually impaired person in the area who would like to receive one.

They currently have a circulation of approximately 100, but would love to increase this.

If you, or anyone you know, would like to be put on the mailing list, please contact david Rae on 01642 472287, or email dandjrae24@yahoo.co.uk.

Please join us on 12th March in the Coffee Lounge in the community centre from 2pm. Listen to our speaker, have a drink, a biscuit and a chat - all for £1!

Chris Ferguson 01287 204170

Redcar & Cleveland Philatelic Society Our Wednesday meetings in March at the Community Centre, Durham Road, Redcar, commencing 7.15pm are: 5th March: Society Auction, and 19th March: Members’ Night.

The popular auctions are held twice a year, with members usually very happy with their transactions!

Please note viewing of lots starts at 6:30pm. On the 19th most members will display further aspects of their collections not previously seen, so the session will be non -specialist and varied. It would prove another splendid opportunity for prospective members to see what we do, and they will be made most welcome.

Shortly before this report is published, the Society will have judged its internal Annual Eight-sheet Competition, and our senior members’ Sixteen-sheet entries will have been chosen for the Regional Competitions of the North East England Philatelic Association (NEPA) to be held in Durham in April.

Contacts: Geoff. Reynolds (Secretary) 478229. David D. Turner 01287 634893

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£380 raised for Africa church

Eugene Grandi, who won the first two prizes in the table-top tombola, with helper Angela Whiteside at the community centre.

About £380 was raised through a tombola stall at a table -top sale held at Saltburn Community Hall on 18th January. The money, which included donations, will go towards the brand new St Patrick’s church, Madera, Uganda.

Saltburn couple Mike and Bernie Morrissey aim to raise £1,000 towards the £300,000 cost of the church, which will hold 3,500 people when it opens in September. They plan to hold a second money-raising event later in the spring.

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Talking Points Take two parts vodka, one part kitchen cleaner, a shot of celebrity culture and a dash of bravado. Mix vigorously and serve to naive youngsters craving their very own 15 minutes of fame. The end result? Four known deaths. And counting.

NekNomination, the latest drinking game craze to sweep the nation and feed the ravenous appetites of egomaniacs across the land, has taken its first victims. Many more will follow.

If you haven’t stumbled across it on your social media travels or read about it in a newspaper, (where have you been?), then let me shed a little light.

This deadly game of drink and dare involves people filming themselves ‘necking’ a drink, posting a video on social media and then nominating someone else to do the same.

Thought to have originated in Australia, it may well have started as a bit of harmless fun. But that soon changed.

Now it’s rapidly becoming more and more extreme as people try to outdo each in the hope of gaining internet notoriety.

Collections of weird and wonderful spirits are often mixed with cleaning products, cupboard essentials and even urine as people seek to raise the stakes and earn the elusive tag of ‘the crazy one’ in their social circle.

So far four people are reported to have died from this bonkers game after downing lethal combinations of drink.

Each one of them a son or daughter. A grandson or granddaughter.

It’s a so-called game that’s become increasingly global and as ever, when it comes to binge drinking, Britain leads the way.

Saltburn recently became part of the game too, albeit inadvertently. Coastguards were called out to reports of a teenager threatening to jump from the pier into rough seas after posting his intentions on social media as part of his ‘nomination’.

Think that’s a bit mad? A woman in Bishop Auckland rode a horse into a Tesco store before downing a can of Pepsi Max.

The health risks, by and large, speak for themselves. You can almost hear the NHS groaning, already beset by our addiction to everything from cigarettes to sugar.

But it’s the social and professional implications that are just as dangerous. Let’s not kid ourselves. Social media sites are no longer a purely personal domain. In an increasingly challenging job market, employers are looking for anything that may stand out - and not always for the right reasons.

It would be naive to think that they’re not having a sneak peek at your Twitter and Facebook accounts and haven’t come across the video of you chugging a bottle of Lambrini with a chaser of vodka.

Your account is not bullet-proof and they will not separate your personal and professional life. Rightly or wrongly, whether it took place five years ago or yesterday, it will have an impact.

NekNomination is not an exclusive game either. There is little or no correlation between those taking part. Education has little to do with it. One of the youngsters who died from the game had previously attended a grammar school and yet was just as liable to social conformity as those with a state education. Indeed everyone, given the right set of circumstances, can fall into a trap at such an impressionable age.

I don’t want to take the high ground here or play the moral compass - I’m certainly no T-total. But it’s the limitless nature of this latest craze and the power of social media to carry it that has almost no precedent.

How far is too far? Nobody knows and certainly nobody is prepared to say.

Some have broken the mould and turned the game on its head by using the nomination to enact good deeds such as feeding the homeless. But they’re in the minority.

Risk seems somehow much more exciting. The adage that if you’re not living on the edge you’re taking up too much space is fitting here. And ultimately deadly.

Jonathan Whiley

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Saltburn 500 Club A big well done to all of the people and businesses who are either members of Saltburn 500 Club or donate to the Friends of Saltburn. You will have seen the latest addition to Saltburn – the Victorian figures at the bandstand – and, possibly didn’t realise that it is your support that has enabled this. Without your support, the 500 Club and Friends of Saltburn would not exist and it was Jackie Taylor, supported by the committee and another person who may wish to remain anonymous, that raised grants to supplement monies raised in the town.

This funding has paid for the sculptures which, I’m sure you will agree, have enhanced the area around the bandstand.

The garden around the figures will be tidied up as soon as the weather allows; after all, the only thing we could plant at this point in time is water lilies!

Work will soon be commencing on the erection of the fencing at the cemetery. I am sure that the committee of the Friends of Saltburn Cemetery will welcome volunteers to help them with work around the area.

Please join them and help to make your town a place to be proud to live in or, in this case, to be buried in.

Last month, I suggested you all scatter wild field poppy seed around the green areas in the town to commemorate the centenary of the First World War. I finally managed to find some packets of seed at Arcadia nursery near Stokesley, if anybody is hunting for this elusive flower.

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Renowned Poet Simon Armitage visits Saltburn Learning Campus British Poet, Playwright and Novelist, Simon Armitage CBE, paid a special visit to Saltburn Learning Campus on Wednesday, 12th February to work exclusively with students and lead a presentation for teachers.

Sixteen Year 10 Gifted and Talented English students from Huntcliff School were chosen to be part of an afternoon session led by Mr Armitage, focussing on poetry analysis and ways to achieve the best in their GCSE English exam.

Simon performed a selection of his poems, some of which form part of the GCSE English syllabus. It gave students a unique insight into how to tackle the meaning of poetry; one piece of advice was for them to not treat poems as riddles but to see them as engaging pieces of writing.

It was an incredible chance for these students to see the person behind some of the work that they study, especially someone who features a great deal in the English curriculum.

During discussion, Simon delivered tales of his own childhood, describing how his experiences growing up influence his poems and how writing allowed him to deal with what he encountered whilst working as a Probation Officer in Manchester. He also emphasised the importance of young people being able to hear poetry as a part of life, not something removed.

Simon told us, “the best thing about working with young people is that they are looking at my poems through new eyes, which often refreshes their meaning and makes me keep thinking harder about my own work.”

Simon’s visit was made possible through the funding of the National Union of Teachers, and coordinated by Joint

Students and staff pose with Simon (centre)

Secretary, Ratchel Wills (pictured far left). The main aim was to deliver an evening performance to campus staff and those from other schools, in which Simon did a reading of his own prose and also talked about creativity in the classroom.

Ratchel commented, “Simon is an inspiring wordsmith and it was so exciting to work with him.”

Ruth Mayes, Executive Headteacher of Saltburn Learning Campus, said, “Simon’s talk was absolutely fantastic; it was a real honour to have him as a guest at the campus.”

Heather Ollerenshaw Community & Marketing Coordinator, Huntcliff School hollerenshaw@slc.rac.sch.uk 01287 621010

Tony’s Health Advice

Spring Clean Your Medicines It’s March and spring has sprung. The weather hopefully should be getting warmer and the days are getting longer. It’s the time of the year when people start to get their energy back and take on the challenge of spring cleaning the house, giving it a good clean from top to bottom.

However, how many of you clean out your medicines cupboard or drawer? When was the last time you looked at everything you had in there? When was the last time you checked to see if everything in there was still in date?

Now is the ideal opportunity to do just that. Empty that cupboard out. Firstly check that everything is in date.

Anything that isn’t or is due to go out of date within the next couple of months put to one side for disposal. These can be taken to any pharmacy for safe disposal.

Now take a look at the medications you have left. Do you still take them all? If there's any that you don’t take

anymore, for example your GP may have stopped them, put those to one side for disposal.

Hopefully now the only things left to go back in your cupboard is in date medication that you currently take, or that you keep in just in case e.g. diarrhoea tablets.

It might now be worth thinking about these medications. Do you understand what you are taking them all for? Do you know when the best time of day to take them is? How about any side effects that you might be getting, and how to deal with these side effects? If you have answered no to any of these questions then you might want to consider talking to your pharmacist and having a chat about your medication, especially if you haven’t had one with them in the last 12 months.

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4 People Not Profit present World Book Day event Saltburn’s social justice party starters return on Saturday, 8th March for another special night as part of World Book Day. The event will be in the main lounge of the Marine, Saltburn and will run from 7.30pm till late and as ever is completely free.

World Book Day is a national event on the 6th of March which we will celebrate on the 8th of March (Well hey, it’s the weekend!). World Book Day is a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. In fact, it’s the biggest celebration of its kind, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries all over the world.

As part of World Book Day 2014 we will be raising money to help the invaluable work of Book Aid International. Book Aid International works in partnership with libraries in Africa providing books, resources and training to support an environment in which reading for pleasure, study and lifelong learning can flourish. They have provided 563,424 new books to over 3,300 libraries last year alone and have sent more than 30

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Headlining this special night will be one of Middlesbrough’s most mesmerizing bands ‘General Sherman’ this 5 piece in their own words make warm wonky folk music. “The five-piece play music how they want it to sound, are not constrained by any traditional formulas for structure or instrumentation. The dual boy-girl vocals work together seamlessly with finger-picked guitar melodies, haunting violin and the occasional introduction of the glockenspiel.”

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Supporting them will be one of Saltburn’s most exciting new folk bands Folk Noir playing their own unique dark folk sound.

Also playing the event will be the very talented up and coming local singer songwriter Sez Carr. To end the night and get those dancing feet moving will be our resident DJ Marc Fox playing his booty shaking funk, soul, hip hop and breaks.

So tell all your friends and family and get down and don’t forget to bring your dancing shoes and get ready for a wonderful evening to celebrate World Book Day.

Come and Join Guiding Senior Section. We need you.

We are a group of girls, aged 14+ and meet every week.

Our aim is to have fun and broaden our experiences.

If you fancy a challenge, we get involved in community projects such as The Pageant of Light, Circus workshops, EVA and the Boxing Day dip. We develop personal skills by accomplishing rock climbing, drama workshops and ice-skating. We also become self aware by taking part in yoga sessions, pamper evenings and performing at Saltburn Theatre.

One of our members says, “When you join you will over come your fears.”

So, if you were a Rainbow, Brownie or Guide and are 13+ or have never had the experience of Guiding before, then please join us. If you wish to find out more information, please contact Nicky on 01287 624559 or Suzanne on 01287 625823. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Three Pigs Seek Fortune at Festival Every March, Saltburn Community Theatre becomes home to a must-see event for theatre lovers: the Saltburn Drama Festival.

Amateur theatre companies from across the region participate in the week long festival of one-act plays. This year, Saltburn ’53 Drama Group, the Festival’s hosts, are pleased to welcome Nunthorpe Players, Durham Dramatic Society, Valley Players (also from Saltburn), and three groups from Scarborough: Statement Drama Company, Bananadrama and Cresta Amateur Dramatic Society. These theatre groups have presented a wonderful range of plays, both comic and tragic, at past festivals, resulting in a highly entertaining and frequently surprising week of drama.

The Saltburn ’53 Drama Group enjoyed great success at last year’s festival, winning eight awards out of a possible thirteen. One of last year’s ’53 Youth entries, The Edge, won Best Production and qualified for the North East Divisional Quarter Finals of the All England Theatre Festival, where it won the Adjudicator’s Award.

This year, the ’53 hopes to repeat its success (not that they’re remotely competitive or anything…) by presenting two plays, an Adult and a Youth entry.

The Youth entry, performed by members aged 11 to 18, is written by Ron Nicol, author of The Edge, and presented by the same director, Tony Kirlew. However, while The Edge was a tense and powerful drama performed by two actors and set on the roof of a tall building, Pig Tale is a contemporary retelling of the Three Little Pigs, written in a clever play-withina-play format.

“While The Edge was serious and emotionally demanding, Pig Tale is an out and out comedy,” says Tony.

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“Without giving too much away, the cast of twelve includes a Narrator who has a high (but undeserved) opinion of herself, an interfering Prompt, a Mummy Pig with flirtatious ‘chav’ tendencies, three little pigs (all of whom have social issues), a sheep who tries to masquerade as a wolf, and an actual wolf.”

The talents of the ’53 Youth Group, combined with the brilliance of Ron Nicol as a playwright, will be sure to make Pig Tale a real treat for Festival audiences.

The ’53 Drama Group’s Adult entry is Nearly Four by Enid Coles, directed by Sue Sellars. This tense psychological drama centres on the relationship between three women and other characters who are not present within the action….or perhaps they are. The unanswered questions and explanations will reverberate in the minds of the audience long after the final words have died away…

Nearly Four will be performed on Wednesday, 19th March, with Pig Tale on Friday, 21st March. If you would like to see these two wonderful plays, plus seven others, make sure you don’t miss the Saltburn Drama Festival this year!

The Saltburn Drama Festival runs at Saltburn Community Theatre from Tuesday 18th to Friday 21st March, with an Awards Presentation and Entertainment Night on Saturday, 22nd March. Doors and bar 6.45, curtain up 7.30 (6.15 and 7.00 on Saturday). Tickets £7 per night (concessions £5), Weekly Ticket £18, available from Saltburn Health Food Shop, the Theatre Box Office and online at www.saltburnarts.co.uk. Weekly ticket holders who attend every evening (Tuesday to Friday) are entitled to vote for the Audience Award.

Full details of each evening can be found on the Festival poster on the opposite page.

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Saltburn Photographic Society Wednesday March 5th the 4th Monthly Competition ‘the Natural World’. Wednesday March 12th Alan Meek Chairman presents ‘Master of Photography’. Wednesday March 19th Presentation by David and Hilary Shaw ‘Off the Beaten Track’. Wednesday March 28th ‘The Frank Sanderson Competition’.

A Practical night will be held during March; more

details available from contact number.

Meetings are held in the upstairs hall, Saltburn Milton Street Methodist Church TS12 1EB at 7.30pm.

Visitors are welcome to any of our meetings; there will be a small charge. For more information visit our web site www.saltburnphotographicsociety.co.uk or contact Tony Lynn 01287 622519.

Some Seasonal Advice from the Potting Shed POST HORTICULTURAL STRESS SYNDROME At Last – Some Relief for Sufferers As Spring approaches and I stare out over the developing wilderness that passes for my garden I am beset by a sense of mild foreboding … I can feel a bout of PHSS coming on.

Post Horticultural Stress Syndrome, or PHSS as it is known by the regular suffers of it, is a condition usually experienced by gentlemen of a certain age during Spring, and on occasions, it has even been known to persist into the early Summer. It arises from having been enthused by the prospect of creating the perfect garden, and then having gone about it with relish, nay – determination … But being of “a certain age” such gentlemen sufferers forget that they are at least twenty years older than they think they are and after a long hard day’s toil in the garden there is the inevitable reckoning - PHSS strikes!

The recognised symptoms of this condition include Lawnmower’s Loin – an ache in the lumber region caused by swinging your fly-mow around too much … I know that you should not swing one of those machine around, but you really do have to have some fun in life. Then there is Shoveller’s Shoulder – which is self explanatory. Another nasty tweek that often arises is Gardener’s Thigh – This is usually found in the muscles of the right upper thigh as a result of forcing your right foot down too severely on a spade that is breaking into hard ground… and then, of course, there are Clipper’s Contractions, which result from over-enthusiastic repeated action with your secateurs on the shrubs. Later in the season, and if you are unwary, another rather nasty symptom can develop – Corrugated Knees. It is most unwise to kneel for hours on end on stone paving as you are putting in the bedding plants – 24

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Having suffered with several bouts of PHSS, last year I was fortunate to come across a useful therapy to relieve the worst excesses of this seasonal affliction.

At about 4 pm, or when you are running out of steam – and enthusiasm – and the first symptoms are just beginning to manifest, you need only repair briefly indoors. The first thing to do is to wash off the mud, and the sweat, and any blood – I have several rose bushes.

Then take out a large cocktail glass. Polish it gently – well, after all, this is Saltburn and we do have some style around here – before stuffing the glass liberally with ice.

Add a generous slice of fresh lime – Again, this being Saltburn, we do not use something as common as lemon in a proper cocktail. Then pour out an industrial measure of gin You can use supermarket gin if it is unlikely that anyone is watching, otherwise it should be a decent proprietary brand – As Mrs Bucket used to say, “We do have standards to maintain” … and then delicately add a modest spike of Dry Martini. Naturally, stir the said same gently – That is, unless you think you are James Bond … Although at my age, I do know better.

Having taken your potion out to the garden, sit comfortably in your favourite chair and sip your Martini while you indulge in a bout of self-satisfied autocongratulation.

After one Martini you will be feeling much better and after two Martinis, you will be well on the way … to being symptom free … and to almost convincing yourself that all the toil, pain and suffering was actually worth it!

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The Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum The Changing Face of Ironstone Mining Communities The Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum is delighted to invite visitors to the second of the Spring lectures in this the 50th anniversary year of the closure of the last ironstone mine in Cleveland; detailed below. A special service to mark this anniversary year will be held in Carlin How on the 6th July.

This year is also notably the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. With a substantial grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) the museum is launching a project, “Home Front & Western Front,” which will focus on the experiences of the people of Skinningrove during the war years, both those who went off to fight and those who remained behind and kept the home fires burning.

Special emphasis will be placed on the unique part played by the village’s women and children. Research will be carried out by volunteers from the community.

Anyone interested in helping with the project or who has stories, letters, postcards or any First World War memorabilia they are willing to share with the project, should contact the Museum on 01287 642877 – who will be delighted to hear from them.

With the growing number of activities at the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum we welcome

enquiries from new volunteers to train as guides in the museum, work in the shop/reception area, work with the numerous school parties (who investigate the natural as well as the historical environment of Skinningrove) and to work on the maintenance team.

Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum 2014 Spring Lecture Programme Saturday 8th March - 2.00pm Ironstone Mining Communities by Stephen Sherlock Archaeologist Dr Stephen Sherlock will talk about the growth of ironstone mining communities in Cleveland, with reference to Eston and the Margove Valley where buildings were surveyed in the Late 1980s and 1990s. The focus for the talk will be who built miners’ houses, when, how and to what standards and specification - some were much better than others! This talk will be illustrated.

All lectures are free, although donations are welcomed. ALL WELCOME. For further information contact Jean Banwell; 01287 642877 or email jean@ironstonemuseum.co.uk. Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, Deepdale, Skinningrove, Cleveland, TS13 4AP. Skinningrove Educational Heritage Project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Registered Charity No. 1080246.

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Redcar & Cleveland Citizens Advice Bureau Redcar and Cleveland Citizens Advice Bureau are looking to recruit volunteers to the following roles: Advisors, telephone advisors, assessors, reception staff, IT support, admin roles, Trustee Board.

If you have spare time, would like to be trained in a new role, would like to make new friends and be part of an organisation that provides a service to the residents of our Borough, join us now and be part of a team of staff and volunteers committed to helping people with their problems.

No experience is required and full training will be provided. All expenses will be paid.

We welcome applications from all sections of our community and are keen to diversify our volunteer staff.

For further information or to discuss opportunities, please email: admin@redcarcab.cabnet.org.uk, or telephone 01287 203324 and ask to speak to Chris or Debbie.

If you require advice on any issues please call into one of our drop in sessions as follows: DROP IN ADVICE SESSIONS REDCAR LIBRARY, Redcar and Cleveland House (at the

back of the old library) Tuesday and Thursday 10.00am – 1.00pm GUISBOROUGH, Belmont House, Monday and Wednesday, 9.30am – 12.30 SOUTH BANK LIBRARY, Normanby Road, Friday, 9.30 – 12.30 LOFTUS LIBRARY, Every 2nd and 4th Thursday, 1.30– 3.30pm SKELTON LIBRARY, Monday – every 1st & 3rd week, 1.30 – 3.30pm TELEPHONE ADVICE, Friday, 10.00 – 12.00 Tel: 01642 469880. You can also find us on facebook at www.facebook.com/redcarcab.

Veterinary Matters This month’s topics have been suggested by pet owners seeing stories in the media. Whilst I cannot read or watch every news item, I try to keep abreast with all that is happening, not only in the pet world. These articles and programmes always raise interesting issues, and I am often asked opinions in my consulting room or in the local supermarket.

In the news, the papers and on Facebook, there was a report on dogs around the UK contracting a disease, called Alabama Rot, or Cutaneous and Renal Idiopathic Vasculopathy. This included one case from this region of a dog developing a skin infection that progressed to kidney failure. I have read a lot of the original articles from 1984 and 1988 about the condition when it occurred in the USA in greyhounds. My experience over the years is that any infection, if un-treated, can result in a septicaemia with the potential for fatal consequences if not properly treated. As vets, we all see sporadic cases like these as I have over the years. I have always advocated the use of antibiotics where appropriate, using targeted drugs at the correct dose level for long enough. Thankfully, even in the reported cases of this condition in the past, the vast majority survive the infection and continue on to lead a healthy life. From this highlighted issue, vets suggest that any dog with a wound on its foot needs to be cleaned or if it looks too angry, to get treatment.

Then there was a programme on Channel 4 all about the pet food industry and how best to feed your dog. The following days I was then asked my opinion on, firstly the programme, then whether pet owners should change their dog’s feeding habits. Over the years I have seen massive changes in veterinary medicine: the drugs, the treatment

choices, the expectations, the lifestyle changes with us humans – and a lot of this is driven by the variety of media sources we now have access to. We tend to feed our pets from what we see as the better advice from food companies.

I have always felt that whatever it is that you feed your pet, if it is not a commercial diet, then it needs to be as near to natural as is reasonable. We do not need to feed our cats on mice or birds, or squirrels to dogs, but we need a well balanced diet that is well accepted, causes no problems on the way through the body and comes out in neat healthy packets. This needs to be the same whatever the diet. If we feed our pets a food that they cannot tolerate, then they will become unwell. This may be by being sick, or possibly having the runs, but skin changes, as well as behavioural changes are also possible. Commercial diets are convenient to us all, and they are not necessarily bad. Equally, home cooked diets, although they can take up quite a bit of our time, should be nutritious, but may have to be balanced out to cater for our pets’ needs. Cats are obligate carnivores, needing a high level of meat proteins in their diets, as they cannot make a substance called taurine, needed for seeing.

Dogs are omnivores, and can survive with little or no meat for some parts of the year. Rabbits are herbivores, feeding on fresh grasses and greens in the spring to autumn and dried and stored grasses and seeds in winter months. If you are unsure of the right way to feed your dog, or any of your pets, you can always ask your vet’s advice.

If you want to ask me a question or raise a topic for this article, contact me by e-mail on j.haddow@live.co.uk or call where I work at Jacqui Paterson vets on 01642 604555.

James Haddow, Veterinary Eye Consultant, GP and Saltburn resident.

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Saltburnbythesea.org Can you help us to reunite a small memento in the form of a locket that has possible links with the First World War? Jackie Basford’s parents purchased a second hand sofa at Saltburn Saleroom about thirteen years ago some seven years later they discovered a small locket down the back of the sofa. On one side of the locket there is a photograph of a lady and on the other side is a photograph of a soldier in the Army Service Corps.

Jackie brought it to our attention with a hope that through our work on the First World War information we may be able to identify the background to the soldier’s photograph and through the publicity return the locket to the family of the two people photographed.

The two photographs are shown and if anyone has any suggestions we be would be glad to hear from them through our web site or via Saltburn Library.

The team will not be holding meetings in the library

during March but will be spending time collating and hopefully adding information to our web site. Contact can be made through our web site or the Library. Many thanks to all the people who have contributed to the Pocket Watch Project.

Cath and Tony Lynn of The Pocket Watch Team.

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Guisborough Rhythm and Blues Club Festival 2014 Guisborough Rhythm and Blues Club Festival takes place on 3rd and 4th of May at Guisborough Town Football Club, Howlbeck Road.

On Saturday evening there are 2 brilliant Blues Rock Bands. The Laurence Jones Band will be the first band to play followed by The Sean Webster Band. Two very talented guitarists and vocalists and a great way to start our weekend of fantastic live music. Tickets for Saturday night £15. Doors open 7.30.pm.

Headlining the Festival on Sunday is The Wonderful Chantel McGregor Band. Chantel was voted best guitarist and also best vocalist in 2013. So young and so talented and a very popular choice.

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Eubank and The Treatment (featuring Tom Attah on guitar) and Blues Swamp. Tickets for Sunday £38. There will be a limited number of evening only tickets available for £20 which will allow you to attend after 6.00pm and you will catch 3 bands including Chantel Mcgregor.

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Anti-bullying Ambassadors’ Awesome Award!

Saltburn Primary School Ambassadors have been invited to attend a prestigious award ceremony in London to receive a Diana Award for their services to Anti-bullying.

Since 1999, the Diana Awards has recognised 39,000 ordinary young people who have made an extraordinary difference to their community. It is a living legacy to Diana, Princess of Wales’ belief that young people have the power to change the world for the better.

The Ambassadors were originally nominated in the Anti-bullying Champion category and attended the ceremony in London on February 28th to receive their award. The Awards took place at the Barclaycard Business Centre in London’s Canary Wharf.

Mrs Rayson (Ambassador Co-ordinator) attended along with 4 of her 19, Year 5 Ambassadors. Also attending the ceremony was Kate Hillyard, Anti-bullying and Behaviour Consultant who runs the Ambassador programme at a number of schools in the North East area, along with one of her other ambassadors who also won an individual award. The children were extremely excited to be receiving their award in person.

Joanne McKenna Year 5 teacher and Well being and Healthy Schools Co-ordinator at Saltburn Primary says: “I have been really impressed by our ambassadors over the last year. It is fabulous when young people can be so inspirational and work so hard to promote anti-

bullying within our school. Well done for winning your award!”

Eirinn Hannaway Y5 Ambassador aged 10 years says: “I like being an Ambassador because I feel like I am really helping other people. I enjoy doing the activities with the other Ambassadors. I especially enjoyed working on our newsletter, our Ambassador assemblies and our Cyber-bullying workshop that we did during Anti-bullying week. When Mrs Rayson told me we had won the Diana Award and that I was going to London, I was really excited, but I think we deserved it!”

Rotary Club News Our Thanks to all who supported the Rotary sponsored Flea Markets and Tombola on 21st December 2013 and 22nd February 2014 in Saltburn Community Centre which raised around £500 for charity. We have two fund raising events planned which will be fun and for which we would appreciate your support.

On Friday, 4th April, 7 pm to 11 pm, we are having a Ceilidh at the Spa Hotel on Saltburn Bank.

There will be dancing to The Applejacks Ceilidh Band and a pie and peas supper. Tickets are £10 each and will be on sale in the Spa Hotel in advance or from Saltburn Rotary members. All proceeds will aid Rotary local Charities.

During the Easter week at Saltburn Theatre, from Easter Sunday, 20th April until Thursday, 24th April will be our 5th Grand Ol’ Oprey. Five nights of different music, Sunday Blues night, Monday Folk Roots night, Tuesday Rock night, Wednesday Country Night, and Thursday big band night. We have managed to get together the best line up of artists ever assembled in Saltburn. Watch for next month’s edition of this magazine for more information. Tickets will be available soon from the Health Food Shop at £8 per night. Or email me.

Pictured here is President Don Hibbert presenting a cheque to the Friends of the Valley Chairman Colin Grant.

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Friends of the Valley have now received the final donation of £500 being a Matching Grant from Rotary District 1030, this follows a Donation of £500 from the Rotary Club Of Saltburn in August 2013 and £1000 in April from the Grand Ol’ Oprey, making a total of £2000.

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Buckets help ‘crisis’ youth project Buckets are helping Saltburn’s under-threat youth project to be saved from closure.

Nearly £5,800 had been given - in amounts ranging from 1p to £2,000 - in a month since an appeal was launched in mid-January.

“The generosity of our local people, under the current climate of such personal need, is quite overwhelming,” said John Pearson, 60, a former electronics technician, who runs the 16-year-old service.

He said some of the donations had come from some of the hundreds of young people who have been helped throughout East Cleveland. Many are coming from churches, which set up the scheme.

Mr Pearson said the appeal response “gives us hope that something in the shape of Doorways may indeed be possible. We are often called to change our way of operating, but Doorways will always stay with its core belief and values, reaching out to young people in need, seeking opportunities and enabling change.”

Some 120 young people, aged 13-25, are registered with the project, which covers from Easington to Marske.

They include those called Neets (not in employment, education or training), ex-offenders, and homeless ‘sofasurfers.’

It has been based in Saltburn’s station buildings, opposite the town clock, since a former bicycle shop closed. Its work includes a weekly youth club with pool, computer games and other activities, including helping youngsters into jobs.

Liam Gardiner, chairman of Doorways management committee, said: “DoorWays has enabled many young people to see a future in life, to give them a purpose for living and to bring a smile back on what used to be despairing faces.

“It was wonderful to observe the one-to-one engagement between disaffected young school pupils and the Doorways worker, to hear the laughter again of young people who no longer saw themselves as failures. I hope that the vulnerable young people in Saltburn and surrounding areas will be supported by other agencies should Doorways be forced to close, but I doubt it.”

Mrs Anne Findlay, a former Doorways chairman, who has two grown-up daughters, said she often met boys and girls who had been helped by the project.

“Some lack support at home and have been helped by the one-to-one support from the project. They have turned their lives round. Sometimes they slip back, but also move forward again.”

The project unfortunately costs £54,000 a year and currently has £12,000 in the bank, but half this would go in closing down fees. One of the two employees, project worker John Thompson, was made redundant from February 28th.

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The two Johns, project worker John Thompson and project manager John Pearson, outside Doorways with bucket and box. Several thousand pounds have been collected to save the service from closing.

costs by moving the premises to another town centre room and to make other changes.

The project is run by Saltburn Christian Projects, but stresses that its advice is non-judgemental, tailored to individuals. More information can be found on www.door-ways.co.uk.

Donations received in the first month of the appeal include: Emmanuel parish, Saltburn, £3,153 (from the parochial council, a ‘red bucket’ appeal, sale of Christmas cards and a silent auction); Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Saltburn, £260 from a special collection; All Saints’ Church, Skelton, £46; Sainsbury’s bucket appeal, £153; and cheques and personal donations, £2,180. Total £5,792.

John Pearson told Talk of the Town the latest news some time after this article had been written: “The Doorways Project will be moving to an upstairs office at Destinations, Station Street Saltburn, sometime during March. Support and guidance will still be available for our young people together with access to a PC for job search and CV writing/printing. Foodbank vouchers, Jobs notice board and one to one support will also be available. Funds are secure till May and the project is actively applying for longer term funding.”

Saltburn Methodist Church held a coffee morning for Doorways on 22nd February.

Mike Morrissey See also page 8 where John Pearson receives this month’s Pride of Saltburn Award bouquet of flowers.

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Hairdresser calls it a day After 15 years of owning a Saltburn hairdressing salon, Mrs Lynn Thompson retires on 29th March aged 63.

She expects to hand over the Carousel business in Dundas Street West to two employees, Lynne James and Becky Greaves, who aim to introduce a ‘younger’ look.

“They would like to refit the salon and think up a more modern name.”

At the same time as Lynn Thompson retires so will two other long-serving employees Trish Shelton and Ann Phoenix.

She said she had reduced the number of days she worked since her husband Ian died 18 months ago and planned to take a break “doing nothing for a while.” Her interests include knitting, sewing, baking cakes and walking with friends. She is also a member of the U3A group for retired people, and with them enjoys photography courses and theatre outings.

“I plan to go to workshop courses at the new facility The Workhouse, next to the yarn shop Ripping Yarns, which I know well as it is next door to Carousel.

Asked if she was a member of Saltburn’s mystery ‘yarnstormers,’ Lynn, of Oxford Street, Saltburn, replied: “No, but I feel they do a good job for Saltburn. I hope they remain anonymous.”

She said the premises at Dundas Street West had been a hairdressers since the block of five shops was built in 1935. She started there in 1979 aged 28 and had worked for two bosses Julie Ditchburn and Susan Young before taking over in 1999.

“I’d like to thank customers and staff past and present for their loyalty. Customers are mostly in the older age bracket and we all join in the conversation.

This mainly revolves round food and drink - what we’ve cooked and where are the cheapest items. We also talk about the news.

“A lot of our ladies tell us what they did in the war, like being a driver and serving in countries like Egypt.

“They love chatting about the funny things which happened. We also had an amusing incident when a customer got soaking wet walking here from the swimming pool. She stripped down and we wrapped her in a gown.”

Lynn had seen prices increase with inflation since

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Lynn Thompson, owner of Carousel hair stylists, looks on as employees Lynne James, left, and Becky Greaves try a new hair style. They take over the business in April.

1979, but can’t remember the price of a perm then, but in 1986 it was £10.50 (now £35-plus) and a shampoo and set at £5 (£10 now).

Other changes noted over the years include the number of hairdressers in Saltburn doubling from three in 1979 to six. Also more men have their hair cut in ladies salons now.

“The demand for colours has increased in the past 10 years. Women want to be individual. The most popular colours we find is blond with highlights though we are also asked for a lot of low lights, mainly dark. My hair is blond with a dark ‘light’ at the back. Colouring does not damage hair if used with plenty of conditioner and if you look after it.

“Styles go round in circles. When I started the fashion was straight hair and bobs with older women asking for rollers and curls. The older customers come every week while the younger ones come when they need to.”

Lynn was educated at the county modern school in Marske Mill Lane and later at the newly-opened Bydales School, Marske, as she then lived at New Marske.

She has a son Philip, whose partner is Becky Greaves, of Oxford Street, Saltburn, and daughter Donna plus stepsons Paul and Robin and eight grandchildren.

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New face at Saltburn’s 500 Club Who is the new face at Saltburn’s 24-year-old 500 Club, which works hard to brighten up the town?

He is Brotton resident and retired steelworks accountant Trevor Welburn, 66, who, as he says, “just likes Saltburn.”

He loves it so much that he when he was asked he agreed to replace Eileen Robinson as secretary of the 500 -member group.

“Why? I get a sense of achievement in doing my bit to keep Saltburn alive. Internet shopping is killing a lot of towns, but Saltburn is bucking the trend.

“It’s also a friendly town. And I could look at Huntcliff all day.”

Green-fingered Trevor, who also does some community gardening work in Brotton and reading with children at the local school, first got involved in Saltburn five years ago when he enquired about the century-old mortuary opposite the Ship Inn. “I’d drive past it thinking it could possibly have a community use. A group of us tried hard to make this come about, but we couldn’t make it. A local businessman, who does a lot of work for the town, has bought it and has his own plans for it.”

Trevor, who is one of the youngest on the club’s nine-strong committee, joined the 500 Cub in 2009.

Saltburn 500 Club gave birth to a new community group, the Friends of Saltburn last year.

“The 500 Club is a private club, with members paying £1 a month subscription to take part in the draw, so it is restricted in being able to apply to public bodies for grants. We have set up the ‘Friends’ as an umbrella organisation, which is already having success with attracting grants.

“The European Union’s LEADER programme in North Yorkshire helped towards the £3,000 cost of putting in place the new models of a Victorian family at the bandstand. We are constantly seeking grants for things such as paying for summer band performances, Christmas Lights and any other projects which may be suggested.”

Another change is that the Saltburn in Bloom, which looks after some 400 hanging baskets, tubs and several public gardens, is now separate from the main group. But the 500 Club still supports it by contributing money towards it.

In addition to being secretary to both the 500 Club and the Friends of Saltburn, Trevor leads the 10-strong team which puts up and takes down Saltburn’s Christmas lights.

“Though next Christmas is a long way off, we are busy raising money towards £1,000 worth of new bulbs needed. Halogen bulbs are being phased out and replaced

by LED bulbs at double the price, £4 each. A LED string was put up outside Sainsbury’s last Christmas for the first time,” he said.

Trevor is also trying to increase awareness of the

Trevor Welburn in Saltburn - “I just like the town.”

community groups through brief items in each month’s Talk of the Town. For his article in this month’s magazine, see page 10. See also the poster-style advert on page 53, asking for more volunteers to help Saltburn.

He hopes more people might volunteer to help all the ‘friends’ groups, - covering Hazelgrove, the pier, the valley gardens and cemetery (the two latter ones have their own committees).

“Any of the officers would be happy to give interested people more information. Our chairman is Peter Nixon, membership secretary Jackie Taylor and treasurer Philip Laughton.

“And anyone is welcome at the annual meeting in the library on Wednesday, 2nd April at 5.30pm.”

Trevor was warm in his praise for Miss Taylor, who started the 500 Club in 1990, and was pleased that she is now active again on the committee following a spell of illhealth.

“I never realised how much volunteers do for the town. The pier would not be up if the community had not donated towards maintenance costs and there would not be a bandstand nor hanging baskets. I enjoy doing my bit because it gives you a sense of optimism and puts a spring in your step.”

He stressed, however, that it’s “family first” in the Welburn household, particularly with the four grandchildren.

He or the other officers can be contacted through Saltburn library or by emailing trevor at trevor.welburn@btinternet.com.

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WHY I AM A CHRISTIAN (in 300 words)

by Brian Patrick I had a sort of faith as a child, going to Sunday school, but drifted away and lost belief as a teenager. I was an agnostic/atheist during the next 25 years of university, marriage, having four children, and working as a scientist.

My wife, Jude, had never really stopped believing but had her faith re‐invigorated, firstly by a sermon at Emmanuel Church Saltburn, and later by a course on Christian basics at Skelton. I thought Sunday school would be good for our kids so I started going with Jude to Family Services occasionally but I still didn’t really believe.

Then my Mum had a sudden stroke and I dashed down to Rotherham Hospital and spent almost a full day and night with my Dad at her bedside until she died.

Strangely I found myself praying and realised that I did believe that God was there. Co‐incidentally (God‐ incidentally) another course was starting the next week which taught me that Jesus is really alive and living with us (and not the historical rather distant “good guy”), and that the Holy Spirit is at work today (not the Holy Ghost which I had never understood, or been taught about, or experienced).

My newfound faith was strengthened by various minor miracles such as healings, answered prayers, and even by a voice in my mind giving me bible references which were spot on for various situations. Oddly I found I now actually wanted to go to church.

My faith is still reassured by Jesus at work today, by the beauty of this world God created, and by family, friends and relationships. Of course another benefit is the knowledge that we have eternal life; I used to be really upset by funerals.

Now I just pray for all those around me to find faith in Jesus too.

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1st Saltburn Scout Group The good news first: having completed the Scout Association’s annual census we are growing. Numbers of young people now show that we had 14 Beavers, 16 Cubs and 11 Scouts. The bad news is that it will cost more this year (because of our increased numbers of young people and this includes the adult support) for what used to be called “Capitation” or subscriptions. This is the amount paid to the Scout Association to cover administration, insurances (public liability, personal accident, etc.) and other support; ensuring we protect all our young people and adults in whatever activities they undertake. The Group Executive at a meeting this week discussed the matter along with all the other projected costs of our plans for the forthcoming year.

Many of the Beavers enjoyed their first outing of the year to the Play Factory @ Skelton, joining with other Beavers from the District for a fun-filled session on Sunday morning – 175 including some siblings – had a noisy and active time; complete with drinks and biscuits.

Our Beaver Colony have also made a visit to Emmanuel Church to discover about a place of worship. A brilliant evening and especial thanks to Reverend Adam Reed for ensuring the Beavers saw every nook and cranny of the church! They have also been working on a Code of Conduct. It is important that we treat each other and other people in a caring way; it also helps with ensuring our activities are safe and fun for all. Another new recruit came and tasted this week – Ryan who will be back after the half term break - numbers up again!

Cubs saw all the new members from Beavers having

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moved up after Christmas enrolled (in their Cub uniforms) into the Pack. They are also working towards a Code of Conduct, a large group of young boys - we have no girls in Cubs at present! – can get a little boisterous. We are also ‘practising’ for the next District Cubs Quiz; undertaking work on the Global Challenge and getting ready for a visit to Emmanuel Church. The poor weather has also ensured we cannot even get out for some planned evening excursions to discover Saltburn in the dark! But we live in hope. We continue to be well supported by our two Explorer Scouts/ Young Leaders, Sam and William; they and the Cubs work well together.

Scouts with a new recruit Aaron and our three former Cubs are undertaking working towards being enrolled as Scouts; this involves discovering the history of Scouting, finding out how the Troop works as a team, as well as learning the Laws and Promise.

Our building is now developing internally; with the installation of a disabled toilet and revamping of the other two toilets and completion of our review of the electrical systems. This is ensuring we properly spend the moneys gratefully received from Saltburn, Marske and New Marske Parish and Redcar & Cleveland Borough Councils. At the same time the Executive is reviewing our “wish list” for the building including ensuring the building is warmer in the winter. Then to ensure some redecoration to brighten up the interior and purchase more activity equipment for our young people.

We continuing with a recruitment strategy to attract Leaders for the Group and young people to our Sections; if you can offer assistance or are interested in joining us, please enquire.

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Reunion....Middlesbrough Day Training College for Teachers

This Teacher training college was opened in January of 1964, in the old convent buildings, at the corner of Borough Road and Abingdon Road in Middlesbrough. The College was due to open in the September of 1963 but this was delayed due to work on the conversion of the building not being completed in time.

The first intake of students was comprised of 64 mature men and women plus some traditional age students split evenly between male and female. The greater percentage of students were from Teesside, the North Riding of Yorkshire and County Durham with a small number from other areas of the country. There was a general shortage of teachers at the time and it was felt the mature students could bring their previous work experiences to enhance their fledgling teaching skills. Several of the students, including Terry Ransom, lodged in Saltburn and have fond memories of the Ship Inn! The Principal was a Mr Hudspith, an experienced educationalist and students and staff alike had the challenge of creating a College environment from scratch. The full body of students, approximately 180, was not reached until

the summer of 1965. At this time MDTCT became a College of Education and Bachelor of Education was offered to the student body. In the 1970s the College moved to Flatts Lane and eventually merged to form part of Teesside University.

Now, 50 years on, a few of the original intake have made contact to hopefully hold a reunion of those of us who are still around! Terry Ransom lives in Norfolk, Rob Crompton is in Reading, Malc Grey in Scunthorpe, I have just returned to my Saltburn roots.... but where are the others who spent their student years at Middlesbrough?

Some names we remember are Carol Rassmussen, Cath Hird, John Gasgarth, Frank Jones, Joyce Beaumont.

In April of this year the University are holding a Teacher reunion, of which we can be part. We are part of the Alumni, so if you were one of the teachers who trained in Middlesbrough how about getting in touch with either Dot Harris (was Elliott) on 01287 205069 or Terry Ransom on 01953 604062?

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News and Views from the Valley Clusters of tiny snowdrop umbrellas battle the wind and rain; shoots of daffodils and wild garlic push through the sodden earth; days lengthen and birds sing to mark their territories whenever the sun appears. Spring is on the way.

We are planning a whole year of events and activities for all ages. The complete programme is not finalised but we begin with a celebratory Grand Opening of the new toilet on March 1st at 12 noon.

“The Royal Flush” Join us in a procession down the new path for a grand christening of the toilet by local dignitary Lady Marge.

What do you mean – you have not heard of her?! Wear your bling and your wellies and join us. Refreshments afterwards in the Woodland Centre where Lady Marge might give autographs – for a small contribution to her pension.

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finished.

We have commissioned a new leaflet with illustrated map of the woodlands up as far as the viaduct showing footpaths and giving snippets of information. This is being created by Tracey Potter and will be launched on April 6th with a guided walk led by Chris Corbett, former ranger at the Woodland Centre.

We have plenty of treats in store and maybe next month I will be able to publish the full year’s programme.

I would like to say a thank you to Richard DalesCoupland and his son Andrew who have come to the centre twice a week most weeks throughout the winter to fill the many bird feeders that are dotted about the site. It really is good to have this job taken care of on a regular basis.

Friends of the Valley has just become a registered charity and we hope this will give us greater leverage in funding applications. Thanks to Ingrid for all her work on this one.

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Valley Players Update

Here is one of the fabulous oak trees which travelled to Richmond Georgian Theatre on February10th in the Valley Players new production of ‘Heart of Oak’. Lorna Moone’s spectacular creation is probably not the most comfortable costume ever worn by a Valley Players youngster but it certainly took Richmond by storm. The trees will reappear on March 20th during the Saltburn festival - not quite sure what will happen to them after that! A stoic Rebecca Carroll is inside the tree, while lovelorn Judith Shakespeare, played by Elanor Daniels, is contemplating the ancient love messages on her bark. A grant from BBC Performing Arts Fund allowed the trees to flourish and grow and a welcome grant from Saltburn and Marske Parish Council will enable our next production to go ahead, which will be an original piece commemorating the outbreak of World War One. Djenane

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Saltburn Theatre’s Magical Transformation “I’m so heartened that people really care about our theatre,” says Wilma Gardiner-Gill, Arts Development Promoter, buoyed by the 4,293 votes cast for it to win the 2013 People’s Millions (north-east) competition. Running annually since 2005, this is a partnership between the Big Lottery Fund and ITV, where the public help decide which local community projects get up to £50,000 of resources.

“Part of my job is to access funding pots for our organisation,” explains Wilma, “and when the People’s Millions was brought to my attention, I discussed it with our Office Manager, Christine. We then approached a former Board member, who also belonged to the ’53 Drama Group and together we came up with a project for refurbishing the theatre.”

An outline of ideas was submitted and the team was thrilled to learn that the project had made the shortlist. It was then necessary to supply a full and detailed plan, so some former Board members consulted externally and took the project forward. “We were under embargo,” adds Wilma, “and weren’t allowed to say we were on the shortlist until 30th October!”

A representative was invited to a Media Training Day in Newcastle and former Board member, Sue Pierce attended. Then Sue and Wilma storyboarded a TV campaign. They felt it was very important to represent everyone who uses the theatre, so on the film day, Kay Savage and tiny pupils of the Redcar and Marske School of Dance in sparkly dresses and fairy wings took part, as did ’53 Drama Group and Earthbeat Theatre Company members, the then theatre apprentice Joe Postlethwaite representing youth, harpist Sarah Paterson, who started her career on Saltburn’s stage, Saltburn Primary School Choir and the infamous Jean and Morag Tea Ladies (Jane Cuthbert and Terry Wilkinson).

“The film was screened on Tyne Tees North East Tonight on 27th November and this was the day people had to vote. No one had the phone number until the day of transmission, so we had to communicate it very fast,” explains Wilma. “We had a campaign hub and we met at the crack of dawn to facebook and twitter straight away.

We had had leaflets printed in advance, so we stuck on labels with the number, before our enthusiasts went out into the community to spread the word.”

One supporter went to hand out the leaflets at the train station and Saltburn shops agreed to display them.

As well as the local razzamatazz, Wilma emailed all her friends and relatives in Scotland and Portsmouth asking them to vote for our theatre. Ten votes could count from each phone, so people were using both their mobiles and landlines. The team were very excited to hear that Saltburn pianist Dean Heslop, who spent many hours with the ’53 Drama Group in his youth, stopped his gig on stage in Scarborough and asked the 200 strong audience to get out their mobiles and vote!

“But we knew we had fierce competition from the other six north-east entries, especially in the form of the Royal Voluntary Society’s Men in the Workshop project,”

continues Wilma. “This turned out to be the runner-up, but with only 1,973 votes to our 4,293!”

She got a phone call to tell her that Saltburn Theatre had won, but she was sworn to secrecy. People were asking her all next day, but the result was to be broadcast in the evening. Wilma had to pretend to the team gathering at Windsor’s Bar that she didn’t already know.

“Now we have a Fund Manager from the Big Lottery and we’ve formed a sub-committee of Board members and representatives from regular theatre user groups, such as the ’53, Earthbeat and the Comedy Club,” she says. “We’re researching and seeking advice from companies about the best way of spending the money, which is strictly ringfenced and we will be using it to refurbish the upholstery and upgrade the sound and lighting systems.”

“We hope that the refurbishments will increase our programme of events and the number of volunteers. We would like to put on workshops and teach the young new skills. Saltburn deserves a real working theatre,” she continues.

Les Manship, Chair of Saltburn Community and Arts Association, comments: “The award is a great asset, because we’ve got to improve the seating, lighting and sound to keep up to date. If we get the right facilities, we’ll retain the custom.”

Sheena Taylor, Chair of the ’53, is excited too: “It’s a wonderful opportunity for future theatre users. New lights and a new sound system will certainly enhance productions,” and Tony Galuidi, Manager of Earthbeat, agrees: “It’s a well-earned and well-needed gift to this beautiful old building.”

To help celebrate Saltburn’s success, the Take a Seat initiative has been launched, fronted by the Jean and Morag Tea Ladies. Supporters are encouraged to become a Theatre Patron and sponsor a newly-upholstered seat for £250. A brass plaque, guaranteed for at least ten years, will carry a name or short message on a chosen seat and for patrons, there will be special ticket prices and complimentary tickets for certain events. Wilma is pleased that there has already been encouraging take-up of this offer.

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'Greedy Lying Bastards' 4 People Not Profit’s film night ‘Open your mind’ returns with the awarding winning hard hitting film, Greedy Lying Bastards, blowing up the lies and misinformation being spread by the energy industry about climate change.

The film will be screened as usual upstairs in The Marine, Saltburn and will be on Thursday, 20th March.

Doors at 7pm and the film starts at 7.30pm. With time for discussion after the film, and as ever the event is free entry.

Melting sea ice, glacier loss and rising sea levels, severe droughts and wildfires. increasingly severe tornadoes, hurricanes, and flooding, and record heat waves.

Climate change is no longer a prediction for the future, but a startling reality of today. Yet, as evidence of our changing climate mounts and the scientific consensus proves human causation, there continues to be little political action to thwart the warming of our planet. Greedy Lying Bastards investigates the reason behind stalled efforts to tackle climate change despite consensus in the scientific community that it is not only a reality but also a growing problem placing us on the brink of disaster. The film details the people and organizations casting doubt on climate science and claims that greenhouse gases are not affected by human behaviour. From the Koch Brothers to ExxonMobil, to oil industry front groups, to prominent politicians and Justices, this provocative exposé unravels the layers of deceit threatening democracy and the ability for future generations to survive on planet Earth.

“A blunt instrument in the climate war” said the New York Times.

“A sense of urgency that is difficult to shake” said The Seattle Times.

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Abigail is going to sky dive My name is Abigail Harrison. I am 17 years old and live in Saltburn. I will be doing a sponsored sky dive in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust on 30th March 2014. I am currently looking for sponsors to help this worthy cause.

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‘Wicker’ figures sparkle at bandstand

Ken and Maureen Weatherald, of Ormesby, like the new Victorian family figures by the bandstand

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A ‘thumbs up’ vote has been given to the arrival of a life-size Victorian family set of figures, which has been placed by Saltburn’s bandstand. The work was commissioned by the Friends of Saltburn and Saltburn 500 Club.

The figures, which are made of metal with the appearance of wicker, were sculpted by Whitby artist Emma Stothard with nearly £3,000 from the EU-based LEADER community projects’ programme, and Groundwork Northeast.

Jackie Taylor, of the 500 Club, said: “I think the family group fits in with our Victorian town and the bandstand and is not too obtrusive. The metal has been sprayed a sparkly silver colour and could be re-sprayed if necessary.

“I’m glad to hear that passers by in general approve.

We wrote to all nearby residents months ago, as we usually do when putting up a new item. No-one objected to the idea.”

Several passers by told Talk of the Town they liked the sculptures. Ken Wetherald, of Ormesby, said: “It fits in with the Victorian town, particularly near the bandstand.”

He said that he and his wife Maureen enjoyed visiting Saltburn, which they think is the most attractive town in East Cleveland.

Trevor Welburn, secretary of the Friends of Saltburn, said: “The figures are excellent. When I took grandchildren to see them we talked to other families there and they spoke complimentarily about them.”

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ARTEFACTS

an exhibition exploring Degrees of Well-Being Kirkleatham Hall, Redcar, from 25th January to 27th April 2014.

This is a community arts project, showing how the continuum of psychological pain, from stress and distress to disability and disorder, can lead to a blossoming of creativity. Via a wide range of media (painting, drawing, collage, felt work, and ceramic) the artists (some trained, some not) as individuals or groups, have built bridges from suffering to life-affirming images which we can share and enjoy. Irrespective of the range of technical skill, which is broad, you will find plenty to engage, move, entertain, and impress you. My overall impression was one of energy and joy, which has enriched and refined my thoughts on psychological well-being, and the part which can be played by visual communication in relieving isolation and enhancing health.

John O. Basham Chairman of Greenlights Network

Happy Hours in the Cons Our neighbours from across Tees Bay in Hartlepool have been trying to live down, for two hundred years, the infamy of hanging a ship wrecked monkey. However, I have read that our American cousins from across the pond have bettered this feat of lunacy. They hung an elephant. Mary was a mild mannered circus elephant, who earned her keep by playing tunes on an array of horns. On a fateful day in February 1916, Mary was taking part in a parade though the small town of Kingsport in Tennessee, when her rider cruelly goaded her with a spear. Now Mary was probably having a bad hair day because she responded to this unkind treatment by dashing him off her back with her trunk and standing on his head.

Five tons of elephant made quite a gruesome mess of the man’s features and upset one or two of the spectators. The Town Council, otherwise known as a lynch mob, were assembled and promptly condemned Mary to death. Initially she was shot several times with a pistol but this had little effect on her, so it was decided that ‘Monster Mary’ should be hung in true Tennessee style. This presented a problem to the council as they could not find a tree, nor rope, strong enough to support a five ton penitent pachyderm. So with true American ingenuity they commandeered a railway crane, put a chain around Mary’s neck and hoisted her up. The chain broke, she fell breaking her hip. A stronger chain was found and she was rehung until dead.

There are probably several morals to Mary’s tale, one being not to poke ladies with a sharp implement when they are having a bad hair day. I am very much aware that there are quite a few ladies currently loose in Saltburn experiencing bad hair days having indulged in the club’s Champagne Valentine Weekend. This has been a big success for the club and at £17 a bottle including strawberries, many members took advantage of the bargain. If you missed out don’t worry, we will repeat this in the future. If anyone would like to hold a private champagne party let us know. Members have also been taking advantage of our happy hours, 5:30 till 7:00 weekdays and 3 till 5 weekends. There are big reductions on house wines and spirits and at £2 a pint for all draught beers, lagers, ales and stout, you will not get a pint cheaper in town.

These advantages are for members only, so if you are not a member you can easily sign up and take full advantage of being a member of our community social club.

Our staff are recognised as being a major asset to the club. Led by our Steward Michelle Gilley, the girls Julie, Lesley, Jade, Louise, Lolly and Tracy give everyone a warm welcome and excellent service. They take a keen interest in our members, knowing most of their names and their usual drinks. Always friendly, they are happy to engage in cheerful

conversation and never rudely isolate themselves behind phone screens, as I have sadly experienced elsewhere in town. Well done and thank you girls. Our events and entertainment continues as shown in the box below. All of these events are free and we never exclude or charge members to enter their own club, regardless of what function is going on. The Green Room may be used for private parties or paid events but the bar will always be open to members. Any member may book our committee room or Green Room for their own functions at no charge whatsoever, provided that it has not already been booked.

Some of you may have seen a good looking young man sporting a huge blue rosette around the town. This will have been my friend Will Goodhand. Will is our Parliamentary Candidate for the next general election. He is a lovely chap and will do a great job for us in Westminster if you vote him in.

Will is a member of our club and lives just across the road in the Zetland. Will and his friends often call into the club for a pint, so if you would like to meet him come along to the club on Saturday, 15th March between 4pm and 6pm, when I shall be buying him a pint during happy hours, and he will be as happy to chat to as many people as possible. He tells me that he will be organising a team to litter pick and clean up Saltburn banks below Marine Parade in April, so if you would like to be part of this commendable community initiative or would just like to meet him then come along, you do not need to be a member.

We will be holding the club’s AGM on Monday, 31st March at 7:30pm. I encourage as many members as possible to attend and be involved. Several members of our committee including myself will be standing for re-election and I personally ask all members to support those who are seeking re -election, I would not like to see the breakup of a winning team. I personally congratulate our Chairman Joe Cockfield, Secretary David Rigg, Vice Presidents Jeff Coates and Andy Dale, plus all of the current officers, committeemen and trustees for all of their work over the last year. Our club has gone from strength to strength over the past few years and is now in a situation where our financial future looks secure.

Better even than that, the club has been transformed into a vibrant part of the community, providing the town with a warm, safe, harmonious and hospitable meeting place. We care about the town in which we live and very much want to contribute to its wellbeing.

Mike Sellars, Club President. Email mike.sellars@ntlworld.com This article is financially supported by Saltburn Conservative and Unionist Club.

Events to liven up March in the Cons Sat 1st March Garry Stuart & Paul James. Two guitars, two voices.

Wed 5th March Julie’s Quiz, new teams welcome.

Sat 8th March Teesside Steve & Guests.

Wed 12th March Bingo, Quiz and Curry night, Tickets £4.

Sat 15th March Old School. Mature men misbehaving with music.

Wed 19th March Julie’s Quiz, new teams welcome.

Sat 22nd March Dave William and friends.

Sat 29th March Dr Brown and The Groove Cats. One the coolest bands around.

Every Friday night, 8pm until late, Open mic nights. Every Tuesday night at 10 pm, Meat and bottle draw.

Every Sunday, 6 pm, Beer Draw and Cash Rollover, (now standing at £420 & increasing by £20 each week until won).

Most Saturday afternoon meetings of ‘The Conmen’, Americana Musicians jam session.

Also regular meetings of The Book Club, Saltburn Line Users Group, Residents’ Group meetings and others.

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SARA has many dogs and cats that need new homes. All are clean, healthy, neutered, vaccinated and microchipped.

Hello, my name is Jess, and as you can see from my picture I am an adorable two year old Staffordshire cross girl; I have a sandy red coat with a white patch on my chest and on both my front paws, and I have very upright alert ears. Don’t you think my ears make me look cute? I do. I’m very cute. I’m very friendly and well behaved and I like to have fun, but it wasn’t always that way because I had a sad start in life.

I first came into SARA’s care after my owner unfortunately abandoned me but despite this heartbreaking start, I am a lovely dog who has now come out of her shell. I’m now much more confident and playful than I used to be, and this just goes to show what a little love and attention can do! They say a little love works wonders and it certainly has for me.

Now I am looking for a new loving and caring owner. Just think what even more lots of love and affection could do for me. I very much love to play and walk, so what I really need is a loving and active family who enjoy the outdoors so I can go out for lots of long walks with them. I’d really like that and also I’d like to play games with them in the garden. If they have a garden, that is. But I don’t mind either way. And on the beach. Yes, I really like the beach. You can have lots of fun on the beach and you can run run run! And to play with a ball and sticks and all sorts. You get the idea. Does that sound okay to you too? Wouldn’t it make you happy to know that you were making me happy? That sounds perfect to me. Did I mention the woods? Yes, I like the woods too. Lots of trees. But honestly, pavement walks are okay with me just as long as there’s lots of love and happiness.

I am a very intelligent and bouncy girl who will make a very loving and loyal companion for the right family that will adopt me. I’ll give you all my best.

Honest. You won’t regret it.

There are also other dogs and cats at SARA that need loving homes; you might be the right people for them. They’ve asked me to mention that you can have a

look at their website, whatever that is. Now just to show you what a clever girl I am, here is the address. They say that it’s www.s-a-r-a.org.uk and I hope I got that right but you can apparently just do a Google search for Saltburn animal and that will help take you there. I don’t understand but it’s all very clever stuff and something to do with those computer things that everybody seems to have these days. All the dogs and cats needing a home, and details about the lovely Foxrush Farm where I’m currently living can be found there.

Please can I be your perfect playful doggy friend?

Love, Jess x

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Members of the public are cordially invited to attend. New members are welcome.

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The Saltburn Profile by Rosemary Nicholls George Clayson “My proudest moment was when I became a Chartered Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, as I did all my studying by night classes,” says ninety-one year old Saltburn Rotarian, George Clayson. In his working life, he travelled to Europe, Saudi Arabia and India as an engineer and spent subsequent years as a Further Education Lecturer in Cornwall.

George was born and raised in the East End of London. He was awarded a scholarship to George Green’s Grammar School, but left early to take a job in a stockbroker’s office. He continued with Maths at evening classes, as he wanted to take the Civil Service exam. But the war came along, so he applied for the Temporary Government Service and began work in a London Branch of the Ministry of Supply. He grew interested in drawing, however, and got a transfer to be a Drawing Office trainee in the Civil Service; this was followed by a job in the Drawing Office at Woolwich Arsenal.

During the air raid of 7th September 1940, his family’s house was bombed out while they were in their air raid shelter, so they moved to his aunt’s house in Wembley.

George took the opportunity of the move to gain more practical experience and took a job in the toolroom at Smith’s Cricklewood factory.

“But as I was approaching call-up age, I volunteered for the RAF,” he remembers. “My eyesight wasn’t up to flying, so I became a member of the ground staff.” He worked as a turner and lathe setter in the RAF workshops, then as a machine tool setter and operator, before remustering as a draughtsman. For the last six months of the war, he was stationed in Egypt.

In September 1946, George started as a draughtsman in London’s Wardour Street and took up his night classes again, studying for an ONC and an HNC. From general draughtsmanship, he moved into mechanical engineering, joining a Jig and Tool Design Company.

“By this time, I was married with a young family and living in a flat,” he explains. “I heard of a job in Crawley New Town, which came with a house, so we moved there and I worked for five years for a company manufacturing plant for vacuum applications, becoming a Section Leader in the Design Office.

In 1956, he achieved his aim of Chartered Engineer status and joined the GEC Research Department in Wembley as Design Engineer. In due course, he spent time as a project engineer and then as a vacuum engineer. In these roles, he was called on to travel across continents. While on a contract in the Peak District, he met his second wife, Eve and they married in 1972.

But in 1980, he was made redundant and chose to join the Professional Engineers’ Register in search of work.

This led to a post as Lecturer in the Mid-Cornwall College of Further Education, which continued until he retired from fulltime work in 1987.

“Then my step-daughter decided to move to France, so I drew up plans to convert the house’s garage to a gite and Eve and I went to live there for two years,” he says. “I liked the space we had in Normandy: long roads with few cars and I knew a bit of the language.”

However, ill health led them to return to the UK and they chose Saltburn as the place to be, already having relatives here. Sadly, Eve died in April 2008, but George has joined his nephew in the Rotary, getting involved in fundraising activities. “Saltburn is a wonderful place: the people, the transport, the communications... you can’t touch it,” he says. “I was pleased to design the programme for the Grand Ol’ Oprey and last year assisted with lobbying local shops to place adverts in it too.”

George took an interest in BBC computers in the 1980s and has learnt computer aided design. It’s provided him with part-time work since he retired. On the day of our interview, he was brushing up his knowledge of Greek and Roman mythology in preparation for the evening’s Rotary Quiz Match with Hartlepool.

“I like reading non-fiction and fiction,” he explains.

“I enjoy autobiographies and Neville Shute’s novels. I learn a lot from reading Obituaries on the computer.” His musical taste is wide: he listens to classics, pop and opera, with the Italian tenor, Caruso as a favourite.

He used to tow a caravan for holidays, mainly in Cornwall and Scotland. “Eve loved caravanning,” he recalls.

Once they took their car on the ferry from Plymouth to Santander, drove to Portugal and stayed in a bungalow there for six weeks.

In his youth, George was a fisherman: the Aerodrome at Rickmansworth was a favourite place for catching roach and bream. He used to fish for mackerel in a boat in Mevagissey Bay and bring it home for their tea. Once, he was very lucky and landed a two pound bass.

George says he has yet to make a decent batter in his kitchen, but he caters well for himself and his visitors: his step-daughter comes up from Warwickshire, his daughter from Hertfordshire and his son from Somerset.

What a sprightly gentleman he is!

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The Pals by Alan Butler In just a few short months we will arrive at the century milestone since the start of the First World War. To people growing up right now it must seem about as relevant as the Battle of Hastings, but when I was born the ‘Great War’ as it was known, was only just over 30 years in the past and there were plenty of people about who had fought in the trenches or who had lost loved ones in France and Belgium.

Some older readers of Talk of the Town will have lost grandparents or great uncles in the horror and, like me will still possess faded family photographs of earnest young men in military uniforms.

In terms of creating the society in which we presently live, the First World War was extremely significant, and for a whole host of reasons. The death toll was horrendous and this had a tremendous bearing on the economy of Britain because large parts of a whole generation were wiped out. Surprisingly, it was the middle classes that suffered the most because the life expectancy of junior officers was especially low. Unlike the high ranking generals, who were often comfortably ensconced in chateaus, many miles back from the fighting, it was the first and second lieutenants and captains that led the troops over the top, lightly armed and often into withering machinegun fire.

The thousands upon thousands of infantrymen that strode out into the living hell of No man’s land have often been described since as ‘Lions led by Donkeys’ and in the modern mind the tactics employed in trying to steal a few yards of the enemy’s front seem beyond insane. One of the most damaging ideas that arose in the Great War, and which irrevocably damaged many communities was the creation of the ‘Pals battalions’. Lord Kitchener, the man with the huge moustache who peered out from all the ‘Your Country Needs You’ posters had the bright idea of getting men to enlist with the promise that they would be fighting alongside their friends and work mates. As far as recruitment was concerned it was a master plan but in terms of its results it was an utter catastrophe.

When I lived in Otley, a market town which is now part of Leeds, I used to attend the Memorial Day service every year. At the time I was the Town Crier of Otley and it was my job to read out the roll of honour from both World Wars. Almost entirely because many of the Otley soldiers had been part of the ‘Leeds Pals’ battalion, the roll of honour from the First World War took nearly fifteen minutes to read out. The vast majority of the men on the roll were killed within minutes of the start of set-piece battles and would have died as they had lived their short lives, side by side.

Imagine the streets of so many cities, towns and villages in the weeks and months after the telegrams arrived? This was at a time when anyone bereaved received most of their support, both emotionally and often financially, from their close relatives and neighbours. Such was the legacy of the Pals battalions that everyone was in the same mess and financial hardship on a massive scale.

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of the Middlesbrough Pals, which was an offshoot of the Yorkshire Regiment. My maternal grandfather was included amongst these. His ultimate fate in life must have mirrored that of so many of those lads that survived the trenches but who would never be the same again. He was badly shell-shocked and trapped underground for three days and although he probably appeared to recover once he was back in Saltburn, what he had gone through surfaced again later. When the Second World War was inevitable, memories of his own experiences must have come flooding back – and of course he knew his sons would probably have to go through the same horrors. As a result, he lost his mind and spent the remainder of his long life in an institution.

It took industry a whole generation to recover from the catastrophe of the Great War, because so many skilled workers and apprentices had died in the fighting or had been so badly injured they were never able to return to their old jobs. In some cases, individual factories were forced to close, because so many of their workers had been killed, often within the same five or ten minutes sacrificed like pawns in some gigantic game of chess.

I don’t suppose anything on the scale of the First World War would be possible these days. The vast majority of the infantrymen who took part were relatively uneducated and were easily seduced by the propaganda with which they were surrounded. In addition, shame, loathing and white feathers were the lot of any who chose not to fight – and in many cases imprisonment. It is to be hoped that these days, people would have more sense than to be seduced, though it probably would not be too difficult to wind people up into a state of patriotic fury.

Anyone visiting the many World War One cemeteries that are particularly conspicuous around the Somme River can be left in no doubt as to the scale of the tragedy. Almost a million United Kingdom citizens died during the war itself, out of a total death toll of a staggering thirty-seven million. Of course these figures, as breathtaking as they are, do not include the wounded, whose lives were ruined, or those who suffered because their chief breadwinner had been taken from them.

Another consequence of the Great War was the number of women in that generation who never married or became mothers, mainly because there was a distinct lack of potential husbands. When I was young spinster great aunts were common and many thousands of lives must have passed unfulfilled.

So, whether this epic period of violence and tragedy seems directly relevant to our lives now, maybe we ought to pause on a few occasions during the centenary events. Even if it all seems irrelevant we ought to find time to think about the very real sacrifices that took place.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of this absolute disaster it left the social and economic landscape of Britain looking entirely different than it had in what came to be seen as the halcyon days of peace during the Edwardian era.

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First World War Centenary - Official Partners To commemorate 100 years since the 1914 Great War there are several groups looking to mark the Anniversary by combining their skills and resources to mark the occasion with a ‘Special Event’ on Sunday, 1st June on the beach and lower promenade.

This group kindly sponsored by Saltburn, Marske and New Marske Parish Council and led by the Rotary Club, so far involves the Royal British Legion, Toc H, Saltburn Victorian Footballers and Friends, ’53 Drama Group and Juli Fraser but welcome other groups or individuals to become involved.

We will be re-enacting the football match between the British and German soldiers and creating a field of poppy crosses and will also be providing music and memorabilia etc throughout the day.

If you can assist in any way please contact the Event Co-ordinator Allan Whiley on mobile 07775 553049 or home no 01287 623161. Alternatively turn up to our meetings in the Cricket Club on Mondays 3rd and 17th March at 7.30pm.

CHOCOLINI'S NEWS NUGGETS After the excitement of our Valentine’s Day Creations

and a visit from Ali Brownlie from BBC RADIO TEES

March now brings us

St Patrick’s Day Celebrations, Mother’s Day

and the odd Mad March Hare!

With the success of our Eastern Promise Bar

and the Strawberry Chocolate Range

watch out for more new tastes to try.

Call in for a nibble

or Facebook us for our latest news

(and your ideas, if you wish)

...and then it is Easter...

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Saltburn Allotments Association I was looking at the article I wrote for March last year and realised what drastically different weather we are enjoying this year. If I remember correctly, March was warm in 2013, encouraging us to get sowing and growing. This year it’s anything but; howling gales and rain are the last things to get us on to our plots or into our gardens. In fact, trying to work soil in this weather only does harm.

However, one thing you can be doing is chitting your potatoes and, I hope you’ll be pleased to know that our potatoes have arrived. They’ll be the same price as last year: £2.50 for 2.5kg. We have first early Rocket, second early Kestrel, salad potato Charlotte and a main crop, Desiree.

It’s time now to be preparing for produce for the year ahead. If you have a green house, a cold frame you can protect at night with old blankets etc or a sunny windowsill, seed sowing is something you can be doing, even in this weather. As you do this, you might want to make some room for varieties to show in Saltburn Craft and Produce Show. I’m pretty sure it will be 12th July this year. Last year we held it before the school holidays and had some really good entries from children and young people so we hope for the same again this year. The part of the schedule I think we’d be interested is listed below.

The full schedule will be out soon and will be available from the library and other outlets.

Section 1 Produce – 3 onions dressed, 3 courgettes, 5 mixed vegetables, 5 potatoes, 1 cabbage, 3 shallots, 1 lettuce, 5 radishes, 1 odd shaped vegetable, 1 leek, 3 beetroot, 1 cauliflower, 5 pods of peas and 1 best tasting veg.

Section 2 Soft Fruit – 4 tomatoes on a plate with calyx attached, 5 strawberries on a plate, 5 gooseberries, 5 sticks of rhubarb.

Section 3 Cut Flowers – 6 sweet pea spikes in a jam jar, 3 roses - same variety, a flower arrangement in a tea pot, a posy of herbs, novice class - floral arrangement in a wine glass (open to those who haven’t won any floral class), mixed garden flowers in a basket.

Section 4 Children’s Produce (all ages) – a drawing of a plant with the plant, a tray of cress, a vegetable in an unusual container, a vegetable animal and tallest sunflower in a pot (pot no bigger than 10”).

So, if you are interested in showing or, simply, just growing, now is a good time to sow lettuce, beetroot, salad leaves, peppers, aubergines, beetroot, summer cabbage, tomatoes, peas, broad beans, parsnips, radishes, cucumbers, spring onions, carrots and globe artichokes. If you want to see what we have on offer for sale and can’t get to our containers on Sundays, come to the next Farmers’ Market on 8th March. If you have any surpluses to share with us (eg if you sowed too many of anything and have too many seedlings) to help raise valuable funds, they’d be gratefully received.

In the meantime, happy gardening, Sue. 52

Try something different at Grasers

Plantain Plantain is obviously a type of banana but they are not meant to be eaten raw and are not sweet. They are cooked and can be treated as potatoes, being starchy, and like potatoes are extremely versatile. They make excellent chips or mash and can be fried or boiled, made into stews or curries or even grilled or roasted. They are at their best when the skin has turned black. They taste different at all stages of their development and become more sweet as they ripen. Plantains come originally from South East Asia but have become staple food items in India, Africa and the Caribbean where they are very popular. In Uganda they are known as Matoke. Many recipes are available on the internet.

The Muses of Jim

NEEDS YOU Saltburn 500 Club is looking for new members to join!

The 500 Club, along with Friends of Saltburn, raise funds to help to improve/maintain the pleasant ambience of the town.

Funds raised pay for, or go towards: Christmas Lights Summer Band performances Flower displays around the town Plus many other activities/displays There is a monthly prize draw which pays a top prize of £100 and 5 other cash prizes.

Membership of the 500 Club is £12 per annum, which can be paid monthly.

Membership forms are available from Jackie’s Saverstore or the library.

People not wishing to participate in the 500 Club can make donations to Friends of Saltburn, which is purely for fund‐raising.

At the time of writing this, Spud is AWOL. He went out last night, which is very unusual, because he normally is a housebound cat. He seemed to be very eager to go out with his brother, Nevison. I feel sure he will turn up, as he does like his food. Nevison appears to be very unconcerned. I have just had a thought that Spud’s disappearance could be connected to the appearance of a cat carrier for their next trip to the vets, for the snip. Well it’s better than using two bricks cos I might hurt my thumbs. It is surprising the cats are brothers, but are completely different in character.

Nevison, the tabby, who is adventurous, likes to be out, following like a dog and Spud shy, and reluctant to go out.

Yesterday’s cold snap caught me out. I fell victim to the ice, by falling in Bath Street on my way to the Doctors.

I was rescued by a lady from Bath Street. She managed to get me to my feet, which was no easy task, placed me against a vehicle, whilst she returned to her home to get two walking poles, on her return she guided me to the Surgery, where I was seen by a Doctor. When I came out of the surgery the ice had nearly gone. In my dazed condition I neglected to thank her. I hope she enjoys her holiday in Turkey. I thank her now. I fell very badly, hurting my ribs, which is making life very difficult at the moment. I’m fine as long as I don’t cough, laugh, sneeze, bend down, pick things up, carry shopping, get out of bed and reach up for things. Enough, of my problems.

Let’s celebrate the success of the Saltburn Gill Action Group, see the Press release from the Coal Authority within this copy of the Talk of the Town, on page 6. The work of the group impressed all the professionals involved. The group was a proper community group with members not just from Saltburn, but from East Cleveland. People said it could not be done, but it was done. Even one Parish Councillor was against it.

I would like to thank all the people that played a part in the journey over the last ten years. I assure you all that I play a very small part in the work of the group.

The world has been turned upside down. The Evening Gazette has turned into a morning paper! It’s often delivered before I walk down to collect my morning paper. In fact today I collected both. I don’t blame the retailer, it’s sensible for them to get them out of the shop. I would like to point out that walking to collect my morning paper every day is part of a closely monitored training regime, approved by nobody but me.

Several Saltburn residents came to me concerned about the night noise from the rear yard behind Sainsbury’s and requested that I raise it at the next Parish Council and the item was duly placed upon the next agenda. Unfortunately, some councillors were of the opinion that it was nothing to do with the Parish Council and those members of the public should approach the supermarket themselves. This was not the first time some councillors have attempted this tactic but I insisted and action will be taken.

Spud returned to base at 9.10pm, with a definite smirk on his face.

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The Saltburn Crossword no 153 set by Advena Across 1 Noah initially begins a bible rearrangement with a little taste (6) 4, 9 and 14 Saltburn parish meeting place (8, 6, 4) 9 See 4 Across 10 Grieg’s goblin inside final syllable of composer makes a slow walker (8) 12 Slant in a suitable angle (4) 13 Bend down to walk under pot, so reposition (5) 14 See 4 Across 17 I lost beer can, upsetting festivities and Saltburn shop (12) 20 This magazine’s world wide address (12) 23 Name change at the end of a prayer (4) 24 She’s always included in universal lyrics (5) 25 A small island lies in disarray (4) 28 Sailors’ sleeping arrangements shock Mam upsettingly (8) 29 Twice five joins reversed transgression in ball game (6) 30 A letter I composed, being able to read and write (8) 31 Ed then muddled the final part! (3, 3)

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Solution to Crossword no 152

The winner of last month’s crossword was Sonia Darling of Hoylake Close, New Marske.

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1 Worn around this body part plus 3 down (8) 2 Mercilessly describes very dry champagne before a collaborator (8) 3 In an umbrella centre it’s sometimes needed for fastening a shoe (4) 5 Peculiar timely oracle goes spectacularly fast (12) 6 Nameless, and it’s a no in France (4) 7 Transfer computer programme with bizarre dual op (6) 8 Oddly, Dolly R is very dignified (6) 11 Jet attack Sir, change constraint (12) 15 Find repugnant inside minicab horror (5) 16 Join together disconnected iTune (5) 18 Perversely a nice sun is inconveniently annoying (8) 19 David first following an aromatic substance is extremely angry (8) 21 Charles changes endlessly into a woman (6) 22 The chapel method includes a window decoration (6) 26 Heather’s N Y habitat reverses an indoor space (4) 27 After myself a request for silence creates a network (4) Note the new address for crossword entries Send your completed crossword to: Saltburn Crossword no 153, c/o Jackie’s Saverstore, 8 Station Buildings, Saltburn, TS12 1AQ

by Friday, 14th March 2014. First correct solution out of the bag wins a £10 voucher kindly donated by Tim and Sheila of Real Meals.

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