Talk of the Town September 2014

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SEPTEMBER 2014

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SALTBURN’S TOWN TALK Letter from the Editor There is no ‘Pride of Saltburn Award’ this month. Although I series going without a break. Only two have been missed in 12 had four nominations waiting there were problems with each years and it would be a shame to discontinue it. I know that of them, from not being available to not having the some readers turn straight away to the page to find out who has nomination yet written down. This caused me a lot of the bouquet of flowers when they get the magazine. Love, Ian inconvenience and trouble on the already hectic deadline Send letters, adverts and contributions for the next issue (by weekend. The solution to avoid this in future is obvious: Friday, 19th September 2014) to: The Editor, Talk of the please could readers send in lots of nominations so that I can Town c/o Jackie’s Saverstore, 8 Station Buildings, Saltburn, have more than a few waiting and be able to keep this popular Cleveland, TS12 1AQ. Telephone: 01287 623903 or email: Great North Run: Peter Brentano of Saltburn is running to talkofthetown@tyasi.freeserve.co.uk. Talk of the Town has a raise funds for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research, in website: www.tottsaltburn.co.uk and the Friends of Talk of support of blood disorders on 7th September. Donations are the Town can be found on Facebook. welcome to www.justgiving.com/peter-brentano where you Sainsbury’s are happy to announce Saltburn Friends of the can also read more about it.

Valley are this year’s chosen charity. We at Sainsbury’s The Guisborough and District Branch of the Saltburn look forward to working alongside our new friends.

Embroiderers' Guild are having a one day Members’ Comedy Capers: Big Mouth’s Saltburn comedy capers crack Exhibition on Saturday, 6th September, 2014 from 10am - on, with a brand new season of Saturday night specials kicking 3pm in Sunnyfield House, Westgate, Guisborough. There off at the Spa Hotel on Saturday, 6th September. See page 47, will be a varied selection of work completed by members and and see www.bigmouthcomedy.co.uk for more info. also a display of postcards by members made in the style Sponsored walk: Saltburn area walkers will converge of First World War embroidered cards as a tribute to all the on Egton Bridge, near Whitby, on Sunday, 7th September for men who fought in the war. Our beautiful Rainbow Squares the last of 26 years of annual charity treks which hold “many will also be on display. There will be a sales table, tombola good memories” for regulars. Members of the Wyatt family, of and refreshments. The car park behind Belmont House Saltburn, will take part to remember moors’ walk (council offices) is free on Saturday afternoons. founder Charles Wyatt, a bank manager, of organisers For more information please call 01642 314860. the Rotary Club of Redcar, who died in 2004.

Ripples: Saltburn’s monthly pop-up shop is at The Skelton History Group: The Old Church of All Saints on Workhouse (next door to Ripping Yarns), Dundas Street Church Lane in Skelton will again be open to the public from West, on Saturday, 13th September from 9.00am onwards. September 12th to 14th for Skelton History Group’s annual The shop stocks affordable gifts so why not come in, have a Heritage Weekend. Around 80 visitors took advantage of this browse and treat yourself, or someone special, to a unique facility last year and an increase in that number is expected, as item? Some price tickets are marked with coloured dots and this year Kirkleatham Museum have generously agreed to let us all the money from the sale of these goods is donated to put on display a number of artefacts, a couple of Anglo Saxon Teesside Hospice, For further details, contact Pat on origin, which were originally held at the long - redundant Old 07789123722 (or email: kath.west45@virginmedia.com).

Church of St. Andrew at Upleatham. Call John Connolly for Emmanuel Church Hall Table Top and Collectors’ Sale: further information on 01287 658242.

Our next dates are Saturdays, 6th September and 20th WI Report: Ladies of Saltburn WI did not have a meeting in September, then 4th and 18th October. We are raising money August but we have continued to enjoy summer activities. On for the boiler fund now. Time’s flying past us this year and it the 23rd of July a group of members travelled to won’t be long before it’s Christmas. FREE ENTRANCE and Northumberlandia near Cramlington. This is a huge land a warm welcome to everyone. With over 26 stall holders, sculpture called the Lady of the North in the shape of a selling lots of bric-a-brac, books, toys, baby goods, and all reclining female figure which was completed in 2012. It was sorts of collectables, and some crafts, there is something for created from pit waste from Shotton opencast site and has everyone. Home made refreshments and light lunches are on lakes and accessible paths of about four miles to walk around. sale all day. Our all day breakfast and lunches and popular It was a very enjoyable morning followed by lunch in a local home baked stall are always available. Our kitchen is very hostelry. Members have also met up for supper club and a busy and popular. Thank you everyone for your support. circular walk from Brotton to Skinningrove over the Contact Denise Marshall on 07929 589538. cliffs. Saltburn WI hosted a De-Brus Group WI Members Saltburn Farmers' Market: The popular monthly Farmers’ lunch in the Emmanuel Church Hall on Saturday, 23rd August.

Market will be back with another tasty mix of stalls on The next meeting is on September 11th for a social Saturday, 13th September. Just outside the Railway Station evening. New members are always welcome. We meet every near Sainsbury’s, the fun begins at 9am. See our report on last 2nd Thursday at the Methodist Church, Milton Street, Saltburn month’s Food Festival on page 45, and see Saltburn Farmers’ at 7.30pm.

Barbara Spanner Market facebook page for further news and updates.

Cover Illustration: Celebrity chefs with Lorna at August’s Saltburn Food Festival by Katie Lunn 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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Saltburn-by-the-Sea Civilians and World War One (Extracts from the North East Daily Gazette)

26th October 1914 EVERY LITTLE HELPS A child’s effort is visible in a letter in which the Mayoress of Middlesbrough (Mrs Bruce) received some days ago to the following effect:- Infants School Saltburn—Dear Soldiers. I helped to send and buy the blankets and pillows. I am five years of age, and hope the blankets keep you warm. The pillows are nice and fluffy and I thank you for fighting for us. The children in Saltburn are very sorry for you and send you best wishes and hope you will be soon well again. John Foster.

1905 Advert

31st October 1914 MINE WASHED ASHORE AT MARSKE A Saltburn boy scout doing patrol work this morning came across a large mine which heavy seas had washed up on the coast between Marske and Saltburn. The Territorials who are on duty at Marske were informed and took the necessary steps to keep the mine fixed so that it could be removed at high water. It is expected that the mine will be destroyed.

12th November 1914 A “KAISER CANDLE” An interesting way in which assistance can be given to the local patriotic fund at Saltburn which aims at relieving local distress consequent upon or arising out of the war has been hit upon by a local tradesman, Councillor Robert Hunter. In Mr Hunter’s shop there is a “Kaiser” candle, 4ft high and 2in in diameter. This candle will be lighted at seven o’clock tonight and the point upon which skill is to be expressed is ‘How long will the “Kaiser” take to consume himself?’ With each attempt to solve the problem a contribution of one penny, or as much more as possible, must be made and the money thus received will go towards the local patriotic fund, which is said to be in need of greater patronage and support. The candle is on view in Councillor Hunter’s shop in Station Square. Four prizes are being offered.

(Robert Hunter’s business was located where Signals now are.)

1913 Advert

4th December 1915 In connection with the Saltburn branch of the Vegetable Products Committee, who are sending vegetables to the Fleet, Mrs Gilbert Jackson has been asked to collect in addition to vegetables Christmas Puddings. She would be glad of anyone desirous of contributing, would send to her at the local vegetable collection depot, 3 Balmoral Terrace, Saltburn on Friday, 10th and 17th between 10.00am and 3.00pm. The puddings to be boiled in clothes and not basins.

24th August 1915 SALTBURN VISITOR FINED A young lady visitor named Winifred Armstrong, staying at 17 Amber Street, Saltburn was today at Guisborough ordered to pay 20s for not obscuring the light in her room on August 18th. A constable discovered the blinds had not been drawn.

Defendant said she had just come up from Plymouth where the regulations were not so severe, and she was sorry that she had forgotten to draw the blinds.

Sir Alfred E. Pease said that people were well warned by the number of cases in that and other courts, and there was no excuse that would satisfy the Bench with regard to these cases. In future severe penalties would be inflicted.

Cath and Tony Lynn

Saltburn Photographic Society Wednesday, 17th September Land Light by Henriette Byrne lighting the land from dawn to dusk. Wednesday, 24th September The Chader by Harry Hall, photography along the Ancient Himalayan Trade route. Wednesday, 1st October Both sides of the Door by Peter Nixon and John Race, Monochrome prints.

Practical night will be held frequently, more details 4

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.

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Saltburn Councillors’ Surgeries Councillors Joan Guy, Philip Thomson and Stuart Smith Second Saturday in the month at Saltburn Library from 11am - noon.

Councillor Stuart Smith: Third Saturday in the month at the Station Portico outside Sainsbury’s Supermarket - 9:30am - 10:30am and 11:30am - 12:15pm Councillors Joan Guy and Philip Thomson: Fourth Saturday in the month at Saltburn Library from 11am - noon.

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Friends of Talk of the Town Hello from Friends of Talk of the Town I’m reliably informed, by our beloved Editor, that some readers found my last article somewhat confusing and at times a little ‘off the wall.’ Ian asked me if ‘Wendy’ was another member of my family he’d not heard of: allow me to elaborate. Ian doesn’t grasp the concept that absolutely all gizmos, machinery, cars and the like are absolutely all female. I was a little takenaback by that question: Wendy is indeed a member of the family: she guides ‘our baby’ anywhere where I don’t know the way to or from. Okay, in short, I was referring to our brand new Satnav!

As regards the strange nature of the piece, fair enough I probably wasn’t my usual self at the time: we’d had a great holiday for sure. So this month, it’s back to business.

You are all aware of why Friends of Talk of the Town were formed almost two and a half years ago and I’m sure the magazine you are holding in your hand is perhaps the best indication of how things have developed thanks to your fantastic support. Nobody suggested at the time that the magazine was in dire financial straits or that it was in danger of closing: heaven forbid! We know for sure that Ian would have struggled on somehow.

However, I doubt the magazine would have been so beautifully presented as it is these days.

We’ve always been fortunate to have such great supporters and our regular contributors do us proud month in month out (‘well, some do,’ I hear the Editor saying).

Months and months ago I said that I was working on producing a sort of ‘tribute’ issue and I am still compiling articles for inclusion. Since my involvement with Saltburn Friends of the Valley, this has taken on another angle all together with so many items of historic and educational relevance to their hopes of developing the Woodlands Centre further. The wealth of photographs and written material provided by Cath and Tony Lynn is just phenomenal and the writings of former ranger Neil Thirkell and his staff not only make interesting reading to me they offer a lesson in the art of informational writing.

Add to this the tireless work of Rosemary Nicholls: who seems to have interviewed almost all of the town’s celebrities and you have a wealth of fascinating and entertaining reading well worth revisiting. There are many references to things that haven’t yet made it to these hallowed pages: somehow I just couldn’t see Ian really getting into the Agony Aunt routine he once spoke of: but we did manage to get the magazine online a mere five years later than was first envisaged.

As I maintain our website (which Mr. Stonehouse is still awaiting an update) I found this rather amusing given that to this day Ian insists that he does read and reply to all emails. I’ll let you into a secret: he does, eventually! Seriously, though the improvement we were able to bring about to the magazine’s technical equipment purchased through early fund raising has helped tremendously. Sadly, all this techno hasn’t improved the 6

‘Letter from the Editor’ but it seems there’s nothing I can do about that, sorry.

Looking at all this history and meeting quite a number of the personalities profiled by Rosemary and others has provided me with an invaluable insight into what makes Saltburn ‘tick.’ It’s fair to say I’ve known that it is Saltburn folk who make the place unique with a community spirit which is surely the envy of many. It would be unfair to single out any one individual whose story struck a chord with me; however, like many I’ve found working with Philip Thomson to be an education in itself! Eloquent, considerate, measured, deep thinking and committed to the cause: but not so hot on the congas down the woods!

Philip is like you and me, proud of his people and his community and not afraid to say it out loud. Being a nonresident I can only thank you all for how you’ve made a Redcar émigré welcome everywhere in town: unless I owe anybody anything! I’m often asked why Saltburn folk are so different and a few times lately when are ‘we’ going to ‘do’ a magazine for Redcar? Interesting, that I find as there are a number of other local publications around lovingly produced by their owners. I never say ‘never’ but perhaps one day.

As you have known for some time Talk of the Town is also made available in Brotton, Skelton, North Skelton, Carlin How, Loftus, Liverton Mines, Guisborough, Marske, Redcar, Normanby and South Bank. These copies are available through commercial outlets, notably Spar Brotton and Park News in Skelton and Marske respectively. We have an avid readership in Skelton and Brotton who seem like they cannot wait to get their hands on the new issue as soon as Ian gets them up to them! This is indeed encouraging and we have recently made more magazines available through the library services at Guisborough, Loftus, Skelton and Brotton. Whilst we would love to supply more copies, we are at the physical and commercial limit of production with the supply of 4800 copies a month currently being maintained.

In mentioning our readers and supporters from Skelton and Brotton we would like to thank each and every one of you who donate to our cause through the collection boxes at Park News and Brotton Spar store: it is very much appreciated. We have no intention of publishing a league table of contributions (this information can be supplied by request); however, we feel it is appropriate to acknowledge the fact that well over £2000 has been donated since we began through these two outlets alone. Thank you so much.

If you are a resident of either community and have a story to tell or perhaps photographs you would like to share for our online readers please get in touch: we would love to hear from you. Additionally, if you have a business interest in these areas then you will appreciate we have many readers you could reach by advertising with us!

Thank you all for your valued support: you are amazing.

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

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Councillors’ Column “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” is a phrase that many may remember, particularly if listening on the 20th January 1961. There are many opportunities in Redcar & Cleveland to put something back in to the community. The many volunteer groups that exist in the town are testament to the goodwill that exists, the willingness to give and the clear benefit that giving brings to both donor and beneficiary.

Volunteering is a very worthwhile activity. ‘Putting something back’, meeting new friends and learning new skills are just some aspects of the benefits of volunteering.

For those who would like to become involved in helping in any way Karen Preston, the Volunteer Coordination Officer for the Borough, is contactable on 01642 496428 (or at karen.preston@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk).

Good examples of involvement opportunities include checking and maintaining Rights of Way around the countryside and assisting with the nationally acclaimed Redcar Half Marathon which takes place on Sunday, 28th September. Residents of Tingdene Park have already started work on maintaining one of the pathways that access Hazelgrove Wood. The Half Marathon needs stewards, but there is also time to enter if you are fit enough! Apart from being primarily a sporting occasion, it is also an opportunity to raise funding for local organisations.

Potholes are a problem for all, including cyclists who are encouraged to take to the roads. Potholes can be reported to the Council using the R&C web site to detail the location.

This will formally log in the information and it must then be

addressed. The Government has allocated an additional £168 million to a pothole repair fund.

The Saltburn Neighbourhood Action Partnership meets on Wednesday, 17th September at 6pm in the Library to hold its AGM and elect new community members.

Another opportunity to serve, to voice a view on the future of the Town and to then participate in its delivery.

The Valley Garden Steering Group has achieved considerable success with the improvements seen in the Valley. A new approach path on the Valley bottom, additional new seating at that entrance, provision of picnic facilities beside the main play area and in the area entitled Donkey Field One, for those with longer memories.

Improved disabled access from Albion Terrace and opening up of the old Spa Stone area are among achievements.

Further works are on the wish list and funding is being sought. Any interested organisations or individuals are welcome at the next meeting of the Group on September 2nd at 10am in the Library.

A decision on the future of the old school is to be announced this month.

Some 12,000 motorists were apprehended for speeding in the Tees Valley last year. Unfortunately observance of speed restrictions in the town is not practised by all. Can we do better?

Saltburn Library is indeed a community hub and Councillors meet there every 2nd and 4th Saturday at 11am until noon to receive and welcome views of residents.

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Mariners' Memorial The Friends of Saltburn Cemetery are exploring the idea of a special “Mariners’ Memorial” for the town. At last month’s meeting Jennie Finch produced a picture taken in a church at the Essex village of Brightlingsea showing a memorial tile to Henry Angier who was drowned off the sea at Saltburn in November 1893. Unlike many of the other commemorative tiles this one shows Henry was buried in Saltburn.

The town has a history of retrieving those lost at sea off the coast and giving them a decent burial alongside local residents. The mortuary, at the bottom of Saltburn Bank, was built to house these poor souls away from the main town until they could be interred.

Now it is hoped their names and final resting places can be uncovered and commemorated along with the town residents who also lost their lives at sea.

The church of All Saints at Brightlingsea has a frieze of 212 tiles, each marking the loss of a resident at sea.

Begun by the Rev Arthur Pertwee in 1972 to mark the loss of 36 sailors in the storms of that year, it has continued to this day with tiles for Dunkirk, fishermen and even Mr Sidney Siebert who died on the “Titanic” in 1912.

The group are interested in a similar project for

Saltburn but need your help. Do you have any information that could be useful? Does anyone remember any of the funerals or the vessels involved? Information about local residents who should be included is also sought. If anyone can help please contact the Friends’ Secretary, Deana Jefferson (her email is jdjefferson@hotmail.co.uk). Jennie Finch is undertaking some research on the historic burials and her email is jennie@jenniefinch.me.uk.

The group has the benefit of support and guidance from Tracee Hall-Young, the Community Development Officer for Saltburn, Longbeck & St. Germains Wards who is based at Saltburn library and information can also be passed to her.

When I were a Lad Romany Summer Monday morning, first day of the summer holidays.

I was up with the sunrise, walking to my grandparent’s cottage; Gran was already up and baking bread. Fresh bread with my bacon and eggs, when I returned from checking the sniggles (snares) that I had set the previous night.

As I left I was excited to see three vardos (gypsy living wagons) in the field, blue smoke already drifting over the camp.

I ran over to see my friend Kenza, and he came with me to check for rabbit. The four rabbits we had snared were quickly despatched, the sniggles collected. They would not be set that night, because I was going fishing with Kenza.

As we left the woods we could smell wood smoke; it was Jim the tramp, brewing tea. We sat for a while. Jim had lots of stories to tell of his younger days travelling around Ireland and Europe, but would not talk about how he was now a homeless tramp. But as he said, he was not homeless, for the countryside was his home. His only income was from sharpening knives on the grindstone which formed part of the barrow containing his belongings. How many miles had he pushed that barrow.

Kenza called him Churi mengro (knife man) and we left him one of the rabbits. Two more were left at the Romany camp and the other I took back for Gran.

After breakfast and feeding the hens and collecting their eggs, I went back to the camp. They would be staying for the summer, to help with haymaking and the harvest.

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milk and vegetables, and also Gran would help with letter writing.

As I approached the camp, a large lurcher came bounding from a bender (a temporary shelter made from bent hazels and covered with canvas); this was Kenza’s summer residence. As the big dog approached I shouted “Juke” (dog) and the dog recognised me so instead of being torn to pieces I was licked with his huge tongue.

Kenza followed. He showed me his new knife that his father had made. The handle was made from wood, brass and deer antler. I wished that I had one.

Kenza had work to do before we were free to roam: he made clothes pegs from hazel and bits of tin cut from cans and carved flowers out of wood. His sisters would sell these around the villages.

Fishing usually involved a long walk to a favourite beck where trout hid under the overhanging banks. I caught an odd fish but Kenza seemed to have a magic touch as he pulled out several.

We had to be careful on these expeditions as the relevant permission had not been obtained, and we often had to run with the gamekeeper in hot pursuit. We had a plan for these occasions and made our escape through a culvert under the railway, too narrow for a fat gamekeeper to follow.

We had many adventures that summer, but it was our last, as I never saw Kenza again.

I didn’t know his surname, as Romanies are secretive over their names, usually adopting English ones, such as Smith, a literal translation of horse man or Petulengro in Romany.

Perengro, AKA Tyke

Saltburn Beer Festival The 5th Saltburn Beer Festival will be held on Friday, 14th and Saturday, 15th November at the Community and Arts Centre and again will be sponsored by the Spa Hotel. Opening hours will be 11am - 4:30pm and 6 - 11pm and tickets will go on sale 1st September from Whistle Stop Wine in Saltburn Square and SCAA http:// www.saltburnarts.co.uk/ or phone 01287 624997.

Advance tickets available from 1st September from Whistle Stop Wines and SCAA www.saltburnarts.co.uk. Fri/ Sat 11:00-16:30 £1.50 Camra members free. Fri 18:00-23:00 £3.50 Sat 18:00-23:00 £3. Camra members £1 refund on door with membership card. More Information available from our website (www.clevelandcamra.org.uk).

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Saleroom ‘reopens’ in September

A pause during sprucing up work on a coffee table at the ReFurbish furniture store in Diamond Street. From left Tracy O’Neill, head of community investment at Coast & Country Housing; Julie Felgate, of the same team; volunteers Carol Carter and Nicola Thompson.

Saltburn’s saleroom is set to reopen as a furniture restoration centre and emporium in late September.

Up to 20 volunteers are being taken on by Coast and Country Housing, which is leasing the buildings, to recycle and ‘upcycle’ furniture, using both the former store hall in Diamond Street and saleroom opposite.

The saleroom is being redecorated, but the wooden floor (used for ballroom dancing at one point in the past) kept.

Julie Felgate, of the housing association’s community investment team, is currently in charge of the project. A launch event is to be held on Monday, 22nd September at Diamond Street.

Julie said donations of furniture had already been received at the old warehouse and the first induction course for volunteers held.

Most volunteers are aged from their 30s to 70s and are a mix of men and women.

Wayne Hemingway, a fashion designer who went on to design houses, is to take part in the launch event.

John Simmons, who ran the saleroom for many years before retiring last winter, is taking a close interest in the project and offering advice.

Coast and Country, which is offering some training to volunteers, is running the project as a not-for-profit enterprise.

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Saltburn in Bloom Whilst tidying some papers last week I came across a story called “A Vital Difference” and I would like to share it with you this month.

An old man walking along the beach at dawn noticed a young man ahead of him picking up starfish and flinging them back into the sea.

Catching up with the youth, he asked what he was doing.

“The starfish will die if they are still on the beach when the sun toasts them with its midmorning heat,” came the reply. “But the beach goes on for miles, and there are millions of starfish,” countered the old man. “How can your effort make any difference?” The young man looked at the starfish in his hand and then threw it to safety in the waves. “It makes a difference to this one,” he said.

Well, why do I think this story is relevant to my article for Saltburn in Bloom? Making a difference can happen in many different ways, whether it be giving a smile, passing the time of day with someone, helping a neighbour or on a bigger scale in the community or country. The Saltburn in Bloom group likes to think it makes a difference by working all year round as volunteers to help keep the town looking good. So many residents and visitors have commented on how lovely the centre is looking at the moment and we feel we are making a difference. Do a few hanging baskets or gardens matter? Yes, I think they do. The general public soon comment when things look a mess. People enjoy sitting peacefully in the gardens admiring all the plants and we who tend the plants gain great satisfaction from being out in the fresh air with likeminded people. Of course bees and other insects like gardens too and we are planting more pollinator friendly plants to make a difference for them. Now the question – how could you make a difference?

We are all different with a range of personalities, interests and talents and so it’s up to you to choose how you can make a difference, if you want to of course!

Saltburn in Bloom will carry on gardening through the year, on Wednesdays 9.30 – 11.30am.

Ring me on 209518 if you would like to join us.

One of our busiest days of the year is approaching, when we take the baskets down on Friday, 19th September starting at 7.30am, continuing until the job is complete. If you could help in any way please come along to the Station Portico at any time during the morning. There may be some plants which could be salvaged or composting to collect if you want it. By then we will know the results of Northumbria in Bloom, as the results are announced on Tuesday, 16th September.

Lynda Parkes

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Veterinary Matters As a part of my work I am continually reading articles about my specific interests as well as what is happening around the country. A few interesting ones popped up last month.

First there was the man in Dalby Forest that was bitten by an adder. He found the snake on a rocky area, basking in the sun, and picked it up. He was bitten three times before he let it go. After treatment, including being ferried to the hospital in the Air Ambulance, he recovered fully. We will still see adders around even in September, on warm days. A few years ago a client showed me a photo of him proudly displaying a snake in a box with his cat next to it, in Brotton, before informing me he had released the snake later in the play park. He wanted to know what kind of snake it was. Adders have a distinct “V” on their heads, the grass snake does not. There is a shortage of snake anti-venom in Europe at the moment, so please take care and keep your dogs away from any basking snake, and yourselves.

Then there was the announcement that a certain company was withdrawing their flea control product that contains permethrin. This is a drug that, by and large, vets stopped using in the mid 1990’s due to the toxic effects on cats, fish and birds, but shifted to the commercial pet market under a new licence. Since then, year on year, cats have died after being in contact with this form of dog flea therapy. So, what do you, the pet owners, do once this spot-on medication goes off the shelves? There are several new and very effective, and safe flea products arrived on the scene this year. They also can control the sheep and deer tick, which is important in this

part of the country, and some are in tablet form. Ask your vet which one they recommend or is most suited to your pet’s situation.

Two separate surveys on the prevalence and spread of lungworm that can affect the dog, in the UK were published last month. It showed that there has been both an increase in cases as well as a shift up the country from the south coast of England, Wales, South west Scotland and Eire, to areas more inland and around the home counties. This is the time of year that dogs may come into contact with this worm, but may not show symptoms until early the following year. There are a few wormers that are effective in treating your dog to prevent this illness. So, if travelling to other parts of the UK in the next month or two, please ask your vet which wormer to use, and when.

The last article to mention is again about travel. The government is going to be altering the passport rules for animals travelling abroad, in line with the rest of the EU. By and large most of the rules in place stay the same, but the actual passport is changing, and holders of the old style ones may need them changed. The legislation probably won’t come in until next year, but before going abroad, check with your own vet.

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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Fortieth anniversary of Cleveland Transit’s acquisition of Saltburn Motor Services by C. Hall

This August marked what would have been the fortieth anniversary of the acquisition of Saltburn Motor Services

by Cleveland Transit. However, in 2014 not much of either operator can be seen in the area now, but it is interesting to have a look back at the period when this local independent became part of a Major Municipal operator.

It was in August 1974 when Cleveland Transit desired a presence in the eastern end of the then new Cleveland County and made an application to the Traffic Commissioners to acquire the well-established independent operator Saltburn Motor Services.

This successful application brought Cleveland Transit vehicles deep into what was previously United Automobile services territory.

A Head office in Dundas Street, together with twenty-two vehicles, two depots, a miniature railway, and a boating lake were involved in the purchase. These last two, whilst initially operated by Transit staff, were quickly passed on to Langbaurgh Council although not before the railway received some notice boards in Cleveland Transit’s green and jasmine yellow house colours.

The vehicles consisted of an interesting collection of non-municipal coach type Bedford single deckers. There was also a pair of AEC vehicles; the most interesting was perhaps the Regent 5 double decker. Most of these (including the Regent 5) were refurbished and repainted into Cleveland Transit livery at Stockton depot, which necessitated the transfer of several vehicles from South Bank depot near Middlesbrough to cover these absences thereby giving the enthusiasts of the time a varied collection of vehicles to observe.

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New Town services developed from 1975 in and around Guisborough were initially operated with new Leyland minibuses. As the services developed these were replaced with larger but specially shortened vehicles.

Saltburn’s stage carriage services were reorganised into Cleveland Transits structure and numbered in the 7xx series whilst Saltburn’s express service to Blackpool became Cleveland Transit’s X30.

Of the two depots the main one was at Ox Close in Saltburn, whist the other was situated behind Guisborough high street. From 1982 Cleveland Transit consolidated its operations and closed both Saltburn and Guisborough depots moving their services and vehicles to Southbank depot. The Guisborough depot was converted into a car dealer, and the Ox close depot now has a nursing home on its site. The miniature railway is now under the care of Saltburn miniature railway society.

The last native Saltburn vehicles, a pair of Bedfords survived in service with Cleveland Transit at Middlesbrough depot until 1987. This pair had been new in 1970 and were Saltburn’s last new service buses. Stagecoach Transit retained a presence in the East Cleveland area until the late 90s when most services passed to a private operator.

Currently in 2014 the last remnants of the services are now part of the Arriva network.

No former Saltburn vehicles are known to survive today; however, a Bedford single decker, which became a motor home after its withdrawal, did manage to survive until 2012! Unfortunately by this time it was a heavily cut down flat bed wagon in Ireland and so was an unrealistic candidate for preservation.

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Saltburn Beachwatch The Great British Beach Clean (19th-22nd September) is when people will litterpick and survey approximately 400 beaches throughout Britain The Marine Conservation Society’s objective is to get 10,000 volunteers to take part over the 4 day period.

Our throwaway society means the UK’s beaches have become a dumping ground for all sorts of rubbish which puts all of us and wildlife at risk. This rubbish is coming in from the sea, being blown off the land and just being dropped and dumped.

A clean beach—will protect our children when they are playing on the beach. A clean beach—could save the life of some of our marine wildlife. A clean beach—shows what’s great about the British seaside and in particular Saltburn.

If you would like to be involved as a volunteer the next Saltburn Beachwatch litterpick and survey will take place on Saturday, 20th September from 10am until 12 noon.

Meet at the pier car park from 9.45am where pickers, bags and gloves will be provided. Midway through the session free hot and cold drinks and home made cookies will be available.

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Saltburn Man Wins Gold Every two years, a major European sporting event takes place that is open to active and retired police and fire service personnel – The European Police and Fire Games (EPFG). The Games provide a real fitness incentive and a strong camaraderie that always seems to be evident in these competitions.

The 2014 Games took place in Brussels in July and Saltburn’s Harry Simpson, a retired Police Officer aged 61 years, took part in the Toughest Competitor Alive event. This Octathlon comprises eight events that have to be completed in a single day.

It’s a gruelling challenge that begins with a 5k Run, followed by the ShotPut, 100m Dash, 100m Swim, 20 foot Rope Climb, Bench Press, Pull-Ups and finishes with an Obstacle Course.

After the first event the 5k Run which turned out to be 6k, the Shot-Put, 100m Dash and 100m Swim were completed, the highlight of the day was the Rope Climb. Competitors begin seated on the floor, hauling themselves up the 20 foot rope using their arms only! This was the event that caused Harry the most concern during training. Three months ago he could barely lift his body off the floor on his first attempt to scale the rope! But,

with perseverance and help from Brian at Saltburn’s Invictus gym and finally Lee (ex Royal Marine) at Teesside Crossfit gym, he gradually mastered it, despite more than a few blisters along the way.

There are three videos on Facebook and the one of the Rope Climb has attracted the most admiration.

It’s an impressive performance, and very entertaining.

Another video shows him easily bench press 96kg, leaving him wishing he’d gone for 100kg. The third video is of Pull-Ups executed to their maximum.

This difficult discipline is one of Harry’s real strengths and one that he has used in the past to raise funds for charities such as the children’s hospice, Zoë’s Place.

The Toughest Competitor Alive event was open to all ages. 31 competitors took part. Harry entered the 60-64 age group and came home with the GOLD medal. After last year’s bronze medal win at the World Police and Fire Games in Belfast, Harry has now achieved his goals it seems, although he admits to having a sly look at the World Police and Fire Games website for the games in Washington USA next year, but don’t tell his family!

Charity Crafters The date for the next Charity Crafters drop in is Wednesday, 2nd September from 2pm to 4pm at The Workhouse (next-door to Ripping Yarns) in Dundas Street West. Everyone is welcome to drop in and find out what we are doing and have a cuppa. We’re still busily knitting and crocheting and are now thinking of blankets, scarves, hats etc for the winter for the homeless and the elderly amongst other things. We can give you wool and needles and provide you with patterns to knit for us. If the kids have grown up and you have no one to knit for, we’d love you to knit or crochet for us.

For further information please contact Angie on 01287 205153 (or email Kath at kath.west45@virginmedia.com).

SUE RYDER CHARITY MUSIC NIGHT Saturday, 24th September will be our Charity Fundraising night up at the Cricket Club. There will be music provided by the LS band which of course will be a good reason to get up and dance! A Tombola and a meat draw will be available. Tickets will be on sale at the Sue Ryder shop from the beginning of September for £2 and also on the door at the Club.

PLEASE COME ALONG AND SUPPORT US Thank you, Carol.

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Abi’s Health Advice

No need to be left scratching your head over this condition!

Head lice are insects that live on human heads and are easily passed from person to person. Adult lice are grey or brown and can easily be seen with the naked eye. Female lice lay eggs near the warm scalp and glue them to a hair strand. 710 days later the lice hatch but the white egg casing remains glued to the hair strand. These are called nits!

Lice can’t jump or fly so they are passed on by headto-head contact, where they can literally walk from a hair strand on one individual to a hair strand on another individual. Head lice can also be flicked from dry hair while being vigorously combed. (Do you feel itchy yet?)

Head lice are therefore easily picked up at school (much to mums’ dismay). Head lice can sometimes (not always) cause an itchy scalp, but are often detected by visually inspecting the head or using a head lice detection comb. A special detection comb can be bought from pharmacies and used to examine hair and determine if someone has lice or not.

So what are you looking for when combing?

Generally it’s best to shampoo hair as normal and then apply plenty of conditioner before using a detection comb.

Ensure that the comb is placed right on the scalp to start each stroke and drawn right to the tip. Only if a live louse is found, is a person classed as having head lice and treatment with an insecticide should only be commenced if a live louse is found in the hair. (Yikes, I’m itching!)

There are three main ways to get rid of head lice: 1. Wet combing: Use the above method of detection combing. Leaving conditioner on the hair, makes it more

difficult for lice to cling on. Wipe or rinse the lice from the comb between strokes. Repeat until the whole head has been combed through then rinse the conditioner and repeat. This process needs to be repeated every four days for at least a fortnight. If any live adult lice are found on the hair when wet combing on any subsequent days then another three sessions of wet combing are needed at intervals of four days.

2. Physical insecticides: Products containing dimeticone kill lice by suffocating them. The lice cannot become resistant to this type of insecticide. Treatment should be repeated a week after the first treatment to kill any lice that may have hatched since (before they are mature enough to lay their own eggs).

3. Chemical insecticides: There are lots of products available in this category, mainly containing malathion or permethrin. These kill both lice and their eggs. The manufacturer’s information leaflet should be followed closely with these products (these insecticide types are the ones that lice can develop resistance to if overused). Treatment should be repeated a week after the first treatment.

Remember: Alcohol based products can irritate those with eczema or sensitive skin and should be avoided by asthma sufferers. At times, people think treatments have failed but they have often become re-infected by another carrier or did not repeat the treatment as recommended.

Examining children’s hair weekly is best to detect head lice early.

Your local pharmacist, Abi Bowers.

WWI COMMEMORATION EVENT, 29th JUNE This event raised in total more than £1600 and still counting! £541.34 of this was raised in donations on the street. To everyone who took part in every way, thank you.

Thanks to the following participants: All The Marshalls. All The Volunteers. All The Descendants & Families Of The Men Listed On The War Memorial. Andy Gibson (time table, map and admin support). Army Cadets (Saltburn, Skelton). Beach Watch.

Brambles Gift Shop. British Legion. Brownies. Building Bridges (Day service). Carillion. Crawford Hall (Bugle).

Churches Together. Coastal View. Community Animateurs.

Community Centre And Theatre. Doorways. Eveline Brentano Flowers. Food First. Fire Brigade (Saltburn).

Friends of Saltburn. Girl Guides. Guisborough and East Cleveland Sea Cadets. Health Foods Shop (Saltburn).

Huntcliff School (Staff and Students). Juli J.K. Genes.

Pocket Watch. Laurieston Care Home. Lingdale and its History. Liz & Steve (singers). Lloyd ~ Scott & Beaty (Confectionery). Neighbourhood Police Team. Rainbows.

Rangers. Retired Men’s Forum. Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council (RCBC). Licensing Team. Red Cross.

RVS. Rotary. SARA. Sainsbury’s. Saltburn 500 Club.

Saltburn in Bloom. Saltburn Community Support Officer & RCBC Staff. Saltburn Library. Saltburn, Marske and New Marske Parish Council. Saltburn Photographic Society.

Saltburn Songsters. Saltburn by the Sea WI. Saltburn Ward Councillors. Saltburn War Memorial Group. Sharon Wilson

(The Town Crier). Skelton Historical Group. Sports Direct (Redcar). Sustrans. Talk of the Town. Teesside Pipe Band.

Toc H (Barnsley, Birmingham and Saltburn). The Mayor. The Miniature Railway Team. The Nunthorpe Players. The Valley Players. The White Rose Singers. World Sight Media.

Thank you also to those who took part on the 17th of August.

Many people worked truly hard from children up to the older members of Society, to entertain and educate. Paying tribute to those who lost their lives in all conflicts and to the community they left behind. The support from everyone was impressive and made a big difference. Raising money was part of the goal, we are also very proud of the fact that some groups signed up many new volunteers.

PEOPLE WISHING TO ADD THEIR NAME AND DEDICATION TO A TIME CAPSULE DOCUMENT CAN DO SO IN SALTBURN LIBRARY. THE INFORMATION GATHERED WILL GO TO BE BURIED AS PART OF THE WAR MEMORIAL CONSERVATION. (A ONCE IN A LIFE TIME OPPORTUNITY.) With your help we look to remember those who have lost their lives and are inscribed on the War Memorial. We believe the first local person was Captain Charles Corbould Walker on the 26th August 1914. We have heard from one of his relatives living locally and wondered if there are anymore?

Dedicated to all those who suffered through World War I, whether they were in the services or at home.

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Saltburn Slow and Steady Traditional Tune Session

We hope you all enjoyed the Saltburn Folk Festival weekend. John Taylor does a great job; it’s always a weekend to remember. On Wednesday, 9th September and on the second Wednesday of each month from 7.30pm we invite musicians to join us at Saltburn House, Marine Parade, for a slow and steady traditional tune session. Our aim is to promote traditional tunes from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and to encourage playing tunes together. So if you enjoyed the music over the festival weekend but you feel that some of the wonderful music sessions you hear are a bit too fast and frantic for you, then join us and we will break you in gently by playing the tunes slowly for you to pick up. From 9pm we may speed things up a bit. Our ‘official’ finish time is 10pm so we won’t keep you out too late if you have to get to work the next morning. Players of all instruments and abilities are welcome to join us. A warm welcome awaits you at Saltburn House where you can also get a pint of good ale, soft drinks or tea, coffee etc. If you are interested or know of anyone who may be, please pass these details on. For more information do not hesitate to contact Angie on 01287 205153 or email four.fools@virgin.net. We do send out a reminder so if you wish to be added to our mailing list please contact us.

PS. We also gather at Guisborough Rugby Club from 7.30pm on a Sunday night for a ‘nurdle’ before Guisborough Folk Club starts.

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Talking Points Happy Holidays Ah, summer holidays. They’re always full of such promise, such ambition, such hope. Travel brochures pepper their pages with so many words beginning with the letter ‘R’ – an endless promise of relaxation, rejuvenation and recovery – it’s enough to give poor Jonathan Ross sleepless nights.

All those long evenings in the office, the days of hard graft on the building site, are invariably all geared up for seven days in the sun.

By the time you’ve spent a fortune on travel miniatures in Boots, dropped the dog off at the kennels, moaned about your lack of wardrobe choice and argued on the way to the airport, the first sip of a cocktail in the hotel bar tastes even sweeter.

Soon normal rules of social etiquette don’t apply; it’s your holiday and you’ll ruddy well throw a German tourist’s towel in the pool if you want to.

“Anyway,” you’ll say to the woman on the sunbed next to you who is devouring Fifty Shades of Grey as if it’s a box of Milk Tray, “they shouldn’t be hogging them before breakfast.”

Then there’s the afternoon drinking. As soon as the clock strikes noon you’ll amble over for a G & T or a cocktail in a sarong with your hair still dripping wet.

After merrily making small talk with the barman you might even grab a book which, by day two, will be coated in a thin layer of grease from a leaked bottle of suncream.

Soon you’ll rediscover – another R for the catalogues – the love of reading you held as a child. Ah for those halcyon days you’ll think when there wasn’t a drop of rain and Saltburn beach was the only place you’d want to spend the day.

With technology no longer at your fingertips and vying for your attention like a demanding puppy, you’ll drink up the author’s words as fast as the cocktail in front of you.

Still there will be the draw of social media. I’m willing to bet many of you reading this will have updated your Facebook status as soon as you’ve hit a foreign runaway while others may prefer to let friends know that ‘they’re mostly hanging out by the infinity pool with a glass of Champagne’. Technology is brilliant but it’s all too easy to live your life through the lens of a mobile phone. You turn up at a music gig for the headline act and find yourself spending the majority of the time watching it unfold via a tiny screen.

Record-breaking mountaineer Kenton Cool once said that he conquered a notoriously challenging peak and his first thought was to share a picture on Facebook.

He said he laughed to himself and soon decided otherwise.

Holidays can be much the same. Those books that promise the ‘101 best travel experiences of your life’ are fascinating to flick through but can prove all-consuming if you let them.

When you grow old and look back on your life will it be the solo helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon or the weekend by the seaside when you ate a sandy picnic that you’ll remember most?

Don’t get me wrong I’m all for the spirit of adventure but life is surely much more than merely ticking boxes others put before you. Carve out your own unforgettable experiences – they’ll be something much more interesting to tell your grandchildren.

Me? I’m off to pack for a 10-day jolly around Europe.

First stop is Belgium where we’ll probably guzzle beer and eat lots of chocolate. It’s recommended in the guidebook.

Jonathan Whiley

4 People Not Profit present

‘I am Because We Are’ 4 People Not Profit’s film night ‘Open your mind’ returns with ‘I am Because We Are’ a film about AIDS orphans in Malawi narrated and produced by Madonna.

The film will be screened as usual upstairs in The Marine, Saltburn and will be on Thursday, 18th September, 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.

This film is being screened in conjunction with our gig the week after on the 27th September to raise money for Grace Orphan Care in the Zomba region of Malawi, where the founder members of 4 People Not Profit, Justin York and Jay Jackson, visited friend and fellow Saltburner Rob Reynolds in Malawi earlier this year. Rob is using his skills as a nurse for Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) in a village hospital. While they were there they visited Grace Orphan Care which is run by a local man named Ernest whose passion and enthusiasm were evident from the moment they met him. They were moved by the quality of care given to the children who had lost their parents to AIDS (see article on page 20 for more details and pictures).

The film documents the lives of orphans in the African country of Malawi, where an estimated 500,000 children have lost parents to HIV and AIDS Many of these children live on the streets. The film also shows the efforts with Madonna’s charitable organisation Raising Malawi in helping with improving their lives and conditions.

Madonna said about the film: “To say that this film is a labour of love is trivial. It’s also the journey of a lifetime. I hope you all are as inspired watching it as I was making it.”

“With I Am, Madonna uses her global visibility to make a connection between the people of Malawi and us.

Building a hospital, a school, or an orphanage isn’t enough to solve Malawi’s problems, she tells us. Changing the culture of hopelessness, ignorance, and violence (children are routinely kidnapped and mutilated or killed), is key to solving any problem, and the image of young students learning about the laws of cause and effect via a game of dominoes is evocative, simple, and universal” - Slant Magazine 17

September at The Cons Apart from the weather, August has been a pretty good month for Saltburn. We have seen locally organised events, ventures and initiatives bringing thousands of visitors into Saltburn.

There are a lot of unsung local heroes around the Saltburn area who have worked hard to make things happen and this, a better town. The 2nd Saltburn Food Festival was a huge success thanks to the work of Lorna Jackson and her team. Not forgetting Lorna’s mum Sheila Beswick shaving her head and raising a large sum for charity. The 17th Saltburn Festival of Folk Music, Dance and Song has been yet another big success for organiser John Taylor and his team, not forgetting all of the magnificent work of John’s sister Jackie Taylor over many years. Our club was a major venue for the festival and we very much enjoyed the company and music of the many visitors from all over the country. Sadly the weather was horrendous for two of the three festival days but that did not diminish the joyous singing and camaraderie. This past month has seen our theatre finally refurbish the seats and improve the technical equipment; this was thanks to the £50,000 of Big Lottery Fund gained by the efforts of former SCAA director Sue Pierce and Arts Development Officer Wilma Gardener-Gill, both unsung heroes of Saltburn. Earlier this summer we saw a wonderful remembrance of World War I. A heart-warming display of thousands of poppy crosses and an enactment of the famous battlefield football match, took part on our beach. This was the brainchild of Allen Whiley, another unsung hero, who formed a team and drove the concept from the start. Yet another unsung local hero is Kendal Aitken, who has cycled 3,000 miles around the coast of Britain to spread a positive message about nature, freedom and happiness. It took Kendal 40 days, ending on Yorkshire Day, 1st August in Saltburn. Find out more about his ride at ride-lifeisgreat.co.uk. At the club we have a whole bunch of unsung heroes, firstly our girls behind the bar led by Michelle Gilley; during our very busy periods they never failed to keep everyone happy ensuring that the beer flowed with amazing dexterity. Also I must praise all of our committee, very ably led by Chairman Joe Cockfield, they volunteered to man our barbecue stall throughout the festival and quietly collected glasses. Heroes all.

One gentleman who seems to be getting a bit of bad press recently is Council Leader George Dunning. A policy setting out the location for thousands of homes to be built in Redcar and Cleveland has been left in tatters after it was voted against. A coalition of Liberal Democrat, Tory and independent councillors prevented the plan being approved by a single vote.

The defeat is a political embarrassment for the ruling Labour party and Councillor George Dunning. Independent Group Councillor Tristan Learoyd - who headed a protest of Marske residents, said “We want this plan thrown out, it is simple as that. We do not want mass development in a place that does not

have the infrastructure or measures for it.” It is understood that the plan included a development on green belt land of 150 detached, semi-detached and terraced houses on 23 acres of farmland south of Redcar Road, between Marske and Redcar, which would have virtually joined the two urban areas together.

Campaigners fighting to close down a Halal slaughterhouse in Boosbeck, maintaining it is ruining their quality of life, have written to Labour North to complain about the council’s handling of their objections. Campaigner Neville Brown has been left frustrated by the Labour-led authority’s perceived inaction claiming they are more concerned about any financial fall-out from an enforced closure of the abattoir at Boosbeck rather than residents living in misery. He wrote: “We did not want this to become a political war. But it has become inevitable with the size of the fight between villagers and this corrupt council. I myself have spoken to hundreds of people personally who have now said they will never vote Labour again after the way this council has treated the people of Boosbeck. We are extremely disappointed with their lack of accountability and transparency in this horrendous situation.” George Dunning, leader of the council, has defended the authority’s handling of the investigation into the possible enforced closure of the site. I am sure that we would not welcome an abattoir in the middle of Saltburn, so let us give our support to our neighbours who are suffering at the hands of our non-hearing, non-caring council.

If anyone has wondered about the meaning and purpose of the GOODHAND banner which has been displayed from our balcony, let me explain that it is not an ad for a scaffolder or decorator employed at the club, as many have asked me, but it is to promote the name of our Parliamentary candidate Will Goodhand. Will is an excellent candidate and I for one will be giving him all support in the next election. However, Will is deserving of better publicity than this odd banner and I hope that the local Conservative Party will come up with something better soon.

Now that we are starting to see the nights shorten, we are freeing up some Saturday nights for private functions at the club.

We offer all of our members free use of our function room for parties and private functions of all kinds, work parties, birthdays, christenings, even weddings and funerals. We can give you, our members, all assistance to arrange your function at a really low cost. Come along and talk to Michelle or me and see what we can do for you. Members must remember that many licensed venues are struggling to survive in the current economic climate.

Our club belongs to you, the members and the community, so please give your support and use the club as much as possible.

Mike Sellars, Club President.

Email mike.sellars@ntlworld.com This article financially supported by Saltburn Conservative & Unionist Club.

Our Events to entertain in September Fri 5th September and every Friday from 8pm. Friday Mic Night. With a different format, there will be no competition but more beer tickets for performers, so bring along your guitar or grand piano and do a turn.

Sat 6th Sept. ‘Old School’ or the return of the Saga Louts, who were a huge success at this year’s Grand Ol’ Oprey.

Sat 13th Sept. The Acme Blues Company, yet another return from a favourite blues band.

Sat 20th Aug. Charakoe or Karaoke for charity, led by Shaun Cook, come along, have fun and make some money for a local charity.

Most Tuesday nights are open Jazz sessions where local Jazz musicians meet, rehearse and jam. All welcome.

Wed 3rd Sept and 17th Sept. Julie’s Quiz, new teams always welcome.

Every Tuesday night at 10 pm, Meat and bottle draw.

Every Sun., 6pm, Beer Draw and Cash Rollover, (now £425 & increasing by £25 each week until won).

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

Also meetings of The Book Club, Saltburn Line Users Group, Camra, Residents Groups and others.

Happy Hours:- Weekdays 5:30pm till 7:00pm, Saturday & Sundays 3:00pm till 5:00pm. All Beers still £2 Pint with similar reductions on other drinks.

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Seafarers’ Mission seeks drivers

A ‘desperate’ appeal for volunteer drivers and bar staff has gone out from the Mission to Seafarers at Teesport.

Chaplain Colin Worswick told Saltburn and District Retired Men’s Forum on 21st July that the need for new volunteer drivers was “desperate.”

He said the pool of drivers to take seafarers in a 12seat mini bus from their ships to Teesport’s Flying Angel Club during their short visits to the dock was shrinking.

“We would be glad of drivers to help either once a week or once a month, normally working from 7-11pm. We also need more help for the bar and shop at the club. It’s a good chance to meet other people from all over the world and fulfil a real need,” said Colin. He said the majority of seafarers visiting the port from all over the world spoke English. The Mission currently has over 20 volunteers.

Colin Worswick can be contacted on 01642 460244 or 078418 73845 (or by email on worswick.colin@hotmail).

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4 People Not Profit present an event for Grace Orphan Care, Malawi Saltburn’s social justice party starters return on Saturday, 27th September for a special fundraising night for Grace Orphan Care, an Orphanage in the Zomba region of Malawi. We will be downstairs in The Marine from 7.30pm till late and as ever, is completely free.

4 People Not Profit founders Justin York and Jay Jackson visited friend and fellow Saltburner Rob Reynolds in Malawi earlier this year where Rob is using his skills as a nurse for Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) in a village hospital. While we were there we visited Grace Orphan Care in the Zomba region of Malawi. The Orphanage is run by a local man named Ernest whose passion and enthusiasm was evident from the moment we met him. Ernest founded Grace Orphanage which does much more than look after children who have lost their families to HIV/AIDs. Ernest and his team educate nursery age children themselves, pay school fees and some of the children have even gone on to University- a rare and great achievement for anyone without wealth in Malawi.

For those children that are not so academically inclined Ernest is trying to set up a project to teach these children a skill or trade such as tailoring. As well as supporting children the orphanage feeds local elderly, disabled and ill people, it’s a real community project and anyone that needs support will be helped as much as is possible.

One of the things that impressed us most about Ernest was his drive to become sustainable. We were never asked for money and Ernest stressed he was not looking for hand-outs.

Just implemented was the purchase of a maize milling machine which is not only for use when milling maize grown themselves but also renting the use of the machine to local villagers to generate income for the Orphanage.

Apart from rebuilding the kitchen damaged in the rain and other maintenance issues the next plan is to build a guesthouse in the grounds to generate more income to sustain and maintain the Orphanage.

Malawi does not have the same structure and support for those in need as we have here in the UK so facilities like Grace are greatly needed.

This is where you guys come in, please come down to the event and give generously to make these ideas a reality. If

Robin Hood - the musical Tickets are now available for Earthbeat’s production of ‘Robin Hood - the musical’. Our last show, West Side Story, was amazing but it was quite a serious affair. Robin Hood is a different creature altogether and is nothing short of a full blown comedy. We’ve take all the classic characters, added a few of our own, and thrown them into a script that is funny, uplifting and, at times, quite dramatic. The show will be staged at Saltburn Community Theatre on the 9th and 10th of September at 7pm. We look forward to seeing you. Please call us on 07969 623118 if you have any queries. We advise you to book early because, as usual, we are anticipating another sell out.

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you can’t make it on the night but would like to donate please contact us by our facebook page.

On to the fun stuff: Headlining this special night will be one of Middlesbrough’s most awe inspiring bass heavy reggae dub sound systems the mighty Instruments of Jah. They make a welcome return to the 4 People Not Profit stage after their amazing performance at our Christmas gig last year. Supporting will be Jonny Da Pigg returning with a special AV set providing a visual feast to go along with his unique brand of beats, breaks and drum n bass.

If this wasn’t enough we will also have a raffle with fabulous prizes donated by local Saltburn businesses. So tell all your friends and family and get down and don’t forget to bring your dancing shoes.

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Monday, 4th August 2014: ‘REDCAR REMEMBERS The First World War’ A major new 30 minute documentary produced with Heritage Lottery Funding by The Friends of Redcar Cemetery (FORCEM).

FORCEM commissioned acclaimed Teesside filmmaker Craig Hornby (A Century in Stone / Vin GarbuttTeesside Troubadour) to make a film about how the first world war affected the Redcar area as well as showcase FORCEM’s heritage conservation and educational work.

The polished end result features: some of the fascinating stories behind some of Redcar’s war graves; unseen archive footage of Redcar Airfield licensed from the Imperial War Museum; interviews with a number of local historians including centenarian Vera Robinson MBE who witnessed a biplane crash on Redcar Lane in 1918 at the age of four!

Craig Hornby said, “It has been a real education for me putting the film together. I had no idea how substantial

and important the airfields at Redcar and Marske were. To think a century ago a hundred biplanes were based where the Roseberry Road shopping complex is, was a real eye opener.

And finding actual footage in the vaults of the Imperial War Museum of the site and of the wider Teesside area filmed from the air was a revelation.”

Dot Ahmed co-founder of FORCEM, said, “We’re also very happy to have in the film, Vera Robinson MBE who turned 100 in May. She has been an invaluable font of knowledge since we started our group 10 years ago and is our honorary president. Her account of the crash of Captain Allan and his Sopwith Camel is very moving.”

After a successful screening as part of a FORCEM exhibition at the Redcar Civic Heart on Friday, the film was launched on YouTube at 11pm on the evening of 4th August to mark exactly the centenary of Britain entering the war.

People can also view it at www.forcem.co.uk

News and Views from the Valley

I hope summer is not over just yet though it is beginning to feel like autumn is waiting in the wings already. There is a chill in the air some days and it will not be long before the swifts and swallows will be clustering together on telegraph wires in readiness for the long haul back to Africa.

Our Second Summer Picnic was a very mellow, sunny afternoon with music provided by Saltburn Folk Group and with the raffle and donations we made just over £100 in a fairly painless way.

We are hoping for another fine day for Saltburn Blues Festival on September 7th. This is being organised in conjunction with Harry Simpson of Saltburn Blues Club.

(See page 24.)

Thank you to those who have responded to our request for items for “In the Light Garden” on October 26th. We still need more: Wooden batons, 1” x 2”; Chicken wire/mesh; All shapes and sizes of jars, tins and coloured plastic bottles – preferably clean and with labels removed.

Leave message on centre answerphone 622408 or on mine 624571. We can collect.

We are pleased to confirm Tees Valley Community Foundation have awarded us a grant for £1,000 for more improvement works to the exterior of the centre and on our

adjacent site. We will be getting on with this as soon as we can!

On Sunday, 17th August Karin, Kimberly and Steve from Sainsbury’s came to finish off the painting of the bird hide ceiling and begin tidying the terraced garden. They were enthusiastically joined by Jo Greathead, her family and friends. Together they made light work of a task that we’ve wanted completing for quite some time! All materials and equipment were kindly supplied by Sainsbury’s and during the morning another colleague brought down some rather nice cakes they’d baked for the occasion! They went down very well with all the workforce and friends.

By the time you read this we will have undertaken our first bag pack in store: if you had the pleasure of us in the store, thank you for your support.

All this helps enormously but we are still looking to find ways of making regular income. Real earned income and committed donations would ease the perpetual worry of how to meet the next bill.

You can download a membership form (www.saltburnfriendsofthevalleyltd.co.uk) or join at the farmer’s market. For £5.00 annual membership or £10.00 family membership you will really make a difference. You will find further details of membership and our events online at the above website.

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The theory of the Five Elements in Traditional Chinese Medicine In order to somehow complete the YinYang theory of which I wrote last month, I will now outline another theory, that of the 5 Elements. It was born in old China (about 1000 – 700 BC) and, together with the Yin-Yang concepts, form the very core of the what might be called a scientific approach to medicine in the Asian tradition. Healers no longer looked for a supernatural cause of disease, rather they observed Nature and set patterns to be applied to men and women seen as a part of that Nature.

Since we have no space here for an elaborated explanation of this system, let’s use graphic elements, which will help us to better understand and summarize that theory. In the enclosed diagram, we see that these 5 elements are: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.

Their order is important since one gives birth to the following and they control each other.

As shown in the table below (by G. Maciocia), each

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element is associated to a number of physical and emotional characteristics, organ, age, climate, etc. We can see typologies that we all can surely identify and assign ourselves to one of them, but all summaries and tables tend to simplify in excess and by no means any person has to fit exactly in a given type.

Most of us tend to be more of one type, but we also share some characteristics of other types.

All in all, the 5 Elements theory is a powerful tool to know ourselves, what we should eat or avoid to eat, what are our weak and strong points in either our physical, mental or emotional condition. Have a look at the table and see with which element you feel identified the most. Then, in further articles, I’ll comment on the health problems associated to any given station of the year or to any of these 5 elements. In the meantime, as always, please don’t hesitate to contact me for any consultation.

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I finally visited the ‘other’ Saltburn I found out, some years ago, that there was another Saltburn in the UK. Not Saltburn-by-the-Sea but just Saltburn, and it was situated up in the highlands of Scotland on the Cromarthy Firth. Since finding out this information I was determined to go see for myself what it was like.

Each year I threatened to go, but never got round to it.

Until, that is, in March this year I finally fulfilled my desire and went and paid a visit. I booked a bed and breakfast in Inverness and caught the train to Invergordon the next day, which was the nearest railway station to my destination. I alighted the train and walked through the very pleasant town of Invergordon and after about 20 minutes I arrived in Saltburn. I could not have picked a more perfect day to visit.

It was wall to wall sunshine – and this was in March! Saltburn was a row of houses on one side of the road and a vast expanse of water on the other (the Cromarthy Firth). It had a sign saying Welcome to Saltburn and Saltburn Pier.

Unfortunately the pier was not for public access, but for those carrying cargo for the maintenance of the oil rig at the end of it!

Behind the row of houses, on the road, were open fields and to the side of that, a primary care hospital. There was a community centre but no shops or pubs or other community outlet, but, Saltburn did have what every small sleepy hamlet needs – a whisky distillery! (Well, it is Scotland!)

I spoke to the owner of a bed and breakfast and asked her if she had heard of our Saltburn (giving her one of our local brochures) and she said she had indeed heard of Saltburn-by-the-Sea, which was a good job, because someone rang her up once

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asking if she could put 50 people up for the weekend as they were attending a wedding. She only has two bedrooms and informed them straight away that they had rung the wrong Saltburn!

My day was very satisfying and I am so glad I went.

I would recommend anyone visiting Inverness or any town close by, to call into Saltburn – it’s well worth it, even if it’s just to see our namesake emblazoned on the town signpost!

Ann Hobson

Redcar & Cleveland Philatelic Society September meetings: Our fortnightly Wednesday meetings resume in September at the Community Centre, Durham Road, Redcar, commencing 7.15pm. The first two meetings are: Wednesday 3rd: Members exhibit new items acquired over the summer. Wednesday 17th Visit and display by Scarborough PS. As both meetings will be non-specialist and varied, they will prove splendid opportunities for prospective members to see what we do, and they will be made most welcome.

Congratulations are due one of our members, Phil Harriman, who was asked to sign Yorkshire Philatelic Association Register of Distinguished Philatelists at the YPA Annual Convention 2014. This highly significant philatelic honour is only awarded to someone who has made an outstanding contribution at both regional and national levels. Regionally, Phil has worked for many years as YPA Secretary during which he organised the Association of British Philatelic Societies’ National Congress in Harrogate.

Nationally, he received a Gold Medal for a comprehensive display of British Booklets at Stampex.

Contacts: Geoff. Reynolds (Secretary) 01642 478229. David D. Turner 01287 634893.

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SALTBURN BLUES CLUB There’s an exciting new venture in Saltburn’s events calendar this month. Saltburn Blues Club will be hosting its very first open-air mini music festival, BLUES IN THE WOODS, at the Valley Gardens Woodland Centre.

Seven bands and solo artists will be playing the kind of music that has appealed to generations now – rhythm and blues, blues rock, American roots music and soul - it’s all there. Some numbers will be familiar, enduringly popular and recognisable; some will be from the artists’ own original catalogues. In addition to the artists listed on the poster will be the wonderful Martin Fletcher and Chris James, real favourites with SBC and a class act on the blues scene. There’s something exciting about watching live music, a buzz about a crowd enjoying and interacting with the artists as they perform. It’s a great atmosphere that we’ve been enjoying for some time now, but we’ve got this opportunity to extend the experience to a wider audience of all ages.

Everybody is welcome. Make it a family day out and bring a picnic. There’ll be face painting on hand for the kids too. It’ll be a good idea to bring rugs or portable chairs to sit on and for those who find the walk down to the Gardens difficult, there’s an area where cars can drop off and collect just near the Woodland Centre. The aim is for everyone to have a fun afternoon and evening and for us, it will bring some welcome support and funds to both Saltburn Blues Club and the Woodland Centre.

Date: September 7th 2014. Time: 2pm – 10pm.

Tickets: £6 per adult, Children free.

Returning to our regular programme at the Blues Club, headlining for us on September 27th is a superb young line-up from Yorkshire, the TOM GEE BAND. They’re an engaging bunch and the blues clubs and radio shows love them. Their EP ‘Better Things To Do’ reached no. 2 in the iTunes Blues Charts and their debut album went straight in at no. 4 the day it was released in April this year.

The songs are strong and catchy and the band is instrumentally tight and polished. Tom Gee’s vocals are clear and smooth, perfectly pitched for the blues and the

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blend of blues, soul and the vibrant upbeat numbers that they play. It’s an excellent act that I’m very pleased to be bringing to Saltburn.

The Lyndon Anderson Band, with Davey Dormand on guitar, will be first up providing fine support before the Tom Gee Band takes to the stage.

The venue is our usual – Saltburn Cricket Club.

Doors: 7.30pm. Tickets: £10. Find all our details at www.saltburnbluesclub.co.uk and our Facebook page.

We’re enjoying some fabulous live music. Come and enjoy it too.

Harry

Help! Your local Playgroup needs you!

Little Nippers is in desperate need of willing volunteers to help out on Monday and Wednesday mornings, either in the kitchen or in the group. We need people to help set up and put away. If you can help, even if it is only for a few hours each month, we would love to hear from you. So, if you love spending time with young children, painting, glueing, singing, making music or reading stories, or even simply making drinks, then please contact Little Nippers Playgroup on

01287 624575 We have spaces in September for babies and newcomers to the town

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For Saltburn and St George Saltburn Athletic again represented the North East region at the 2nd Rotary International football tournament (under 12 age group) which took place in July at England HQ, St George’s Park, Burton upon Trent.

Although up against some top opposition, some of which were academies for professional teams, they let

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nobody down and did themselves, the club and the town proud. In fact, given the near monsoon conditions, the children were magnificent and each and every one of them deserved a medal the size of a dustbin lid.

(Pictured is Saltburn Rotarian, Dave Sadler with Saltburn Athletic players and their coach Cathal Carey)

Frack Free Cleveland Meeting Are you concerned about fracking? Or would you like to find out more about fracking and extreme energy?

Please join us at our next meeting on Thursday, 11th September 7-8pm @Saltburn Library.

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SCIENCE & FAITH Part 3: Collins & Dawkins One of the most celebrated scientific initiatives in recent years has been the Human Genome Project (HGP)—to discover and reveal the DNA sequence of human beings. In July 2000 it was announced that the first draft of the human genome had been assembled— ‘...3 billion letters long, and written in a strange and cryptographic four-letter code.’ The announcement was made at the White House, and standing next to President Bill Clinton was Dr Francis Collins, the Director of the HGP. In his address President Clinton said, “Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, and the wonder of God’s most divine and sacred gift.” As a rigorously trained scientist you may have expected Dr Collins to distance himself from this sentiment. On the contrary, he helped to write it; and at the same press conference would say, “It’s a happy day for the world. It is humbling for me, and awe-inspiring, to realize that we have caught the first glimpse of our own instruction book, previously known only to God.” But Francis Collins had not always believed in God. He grew up an agnostic, and during the years of his university education in the sciences, became a committed atheist. What began to challenge this was the power of religious faith he witnessed in his patients when he attended medical school. Of this time he would write, ‘What struck me profoundly about my bedside conversations with these good North Carolina people was the spiritual aspect of what many of them were going through. I witnessed numerous cases of individuals whose faith provided them with a strong reassurance of ultimate peace, be it in this world or the next, despite terrible suffering that in most instances they had done nothing to bring on themselves. If faith was a psychological crutch, I concluded, it must be a very powerful one. If it was nothing more than a veneer of cultural tradition, why were these people not shaking their fists at God and demanding that their friends and family stop all this talk about a loving and benevolent supernatural power?’ (The Language of God, pp.19-20) Alongside this very personal witness to the Christian faith, Collins recognised the need to engage seriously with the evidence that might be available when trying to answer the question, ‘Is there a God?’ Considering himself a scientist, he understood it was poor judgement to draw conclusions without considering the data! So, where did his open-mindedness get him? ‘I had started my journey of intellectual exploration to confirm my atheism. That now lay in ruins… Agnosticism, which had seemed like a safe second-place haven, now loomed like the great cop-out it often is. Faith in God now seemed more rational Image than disbelief. It also became clear to me that science, despite its unquestioned powers in unravelling the mysteries of the natural world, would get me no further in resolving the question of God. If God exists, then He must be outside the natural world, and therefore the tools of science are not the right ones to learn about him. Instead, as I was beginning to understand from looking into my own heart, the evidence of God’s existence would have to come from other directions, and the ultimate decision would be based on faith, not proof. Still beset by roiling uncertainties of what path I had started down, I had to admit that I had reached the threshold of accepting the possibility of a spiritual worldview including the existence of God.’ (The Language of God, p.30) In his book, ‘The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief’, Francis Collins continues to tell his story of finding a wonderful harmony between faith and science. This September I would encourage you to read more of it, and discover a healthier relationship between science and faith than that held by Richard Dawkins.

Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse, Our very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns Our only hope: to leap into the Word That opens up the shuttered universe.

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AUDITIONS AUDITIONS AUDITIONS Zoobin Surty Karma Dance presents

“DIVAS OF BOLLYWOOD” a dazzling, glitzy, glamorous Indian Cinema celebration at Saltburn Theatre this winter.

Performance Date - Saturday 20 December 2014 - 7pm.

See the spectacular journey from Indian Classical dance to the Contemporary Funky Moves we associate with the big DIVAS of Indian cinema today.

ZSKD is looking for 50 community dancers aged 16 and over of all shapes, sizes and experience who love to dance and would like to embark on this Bollywood adventure. We are not interested in how you look, it’s how you wish to MOVE that counts.

Audition Details: Auditions for the 50 community dance company members will take place on the 21st September. Members of the company will then be expected to commit to just 5 rehearsals of 90 minutes each.

Audition forms can be emailed to you or downloaded from our site www.zoobinkarmadance.com. Please bring your completed, printed form in person on the day or submit by email to zoobinkarmadance@hotmail.co.uk. All audition slots must be booked by phone 07532 109562 or by email prior to participation.

Each slot will be made up of 20 participants aged 16 and over. Sunday, 21st September 2014 at 10am till 4pm.

There will be only 4 slots:

Slot 1 - 10am - 10.45am Slot 2 - 10.45am to 11.30pm Slot 3 - 11.45pm to 12.30pm Slot 4 - 1.15pm to 2.30pm Slot 5 - 3pm all second call and finalising all.

REHEARSALS - alternate Sundays 12 and 26 October 2014 - Group 1: 10am to 11.30am Group 2: 11.30 am to 1pm.

9 November 2014 - Group 1 - 10am to 11.30am Group 2 - 11.30am to 1pm.

23 November 2014 - Group 1: 10am to 11.30am Group 2: 11.30am to 1pm.

14 December 2014 - Group 1 & Group 2: 10am to 12.30 with break.

20 December 2014 reporting time 9am at the Saltburn Theatre.

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A Different View I thought this was a good title for an exhibition of my work as mostly what I see is different from what other people see: I start off from things I observe, such as Savannah Jazz Band at the Community Theatre, people in cafes, markets or at Saltburn Folk Festival.

I draw life as it happens around me. I also get visual ideas when I am reading.

All these provide inspiration to me. It feels like a larder full of subject matter from which to choose something that resonates.

When I begin a piece of work, I start with an idea and then look through figure sketches produced at Saltburn Life Drawing Group over the last thirty years.

The end result is in the exhibition at SALTBURN STUDIOS AND GALLERY, on Marske Road, from Saturday, 30th August to Sunday, 28th September, open Saturdays and Sundays 12 – 4.

Information from Shirley Fletcher (you can email Shirley on: shirley@shirleyfletcher.plus.com).

The Moth Man takes flight The new novel by local crime writer Jennie Finch is due for release this month.

“The Moth Man” is the third in her series of novels set on the Somerset Levels in the 1980s and continues the story of probation officer Alex Hastings and her friends.

After the events surrounding the capture of a drug smuggling cartel, Alex longs for a quiet few months but a new, shadowy figure appears to haunt the nights. An unknown man is stalking women, arriving at dusk to fling himself at their windows before vanishing without a trace. Already struggling to manage her ever-growing case load and run the day centre at Highpoint, Alex is drawn into the investigation as Dave Brown appeals for her help. And to cap it all, her mother has come to stay…

Jennie will be signing copies of the new book at Saltburn’s own Book Corner later in the month. Watch the shop window or Book Corner’s Facebook page for details.

The cover image for the book is by Saltburn photographer Shaun Cook.

Saltburn enjoys treasure hunt fun A children’s treasure hunt was held round Saltburn shops on Saturday, August 16th for both accompanied toddlers and other children.

Trevor Welburn, of the Friends of Saltburn, who organised the event, said clue sheets were bought from the town’s library for £1 with prizes being offered by Sainsbury’s. The proceeds would go towards paying for Saltburn’s Christmas lights.

The treasure hunt was part of a family fun day, which included entertainment like Punch & Judy, a circus skills workshop and Cleveland Concert Band, in the station portico area.

An added feature was six-inch high woolly ‘pirate’ figures, which have been knitted by local people, including Trevor’s wife Jean, and placed in shop windows.

The items were sold in the community hall on Sunday, August 17th during a World War One exhibition.

Money raised will go towards the renovation of the town’s war memorial.

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Knitter Jean Welburn, left, with Angela Morton, of Saltburn’s Ripping Yarns wool shop, show off some of the six-inch high woollen ‘pirate’ figures knitted for a town treasure hunt.

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Saltburn Animal Rescue Association A small charity seeking to rescue and re-home cats and dogs, Tel: 01642 488108 (weekdays only, 10am to 2pm).

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

Hello I’m called Flossy; I’m a very pretty, delicate and unusual looking dark tabby feline with golden glowing eyes, and I look black in certain lights.

I am a very affectionate and loving girl and I would make a fantastic family companion. I am still only a young girl as I’m only two years old, so I can act a little kittenish at times, but like all cats I love a cuddle and some lap time.

Like every cat I deserve a long and happy life with the right loving family to care for my every need and I am assured that SARA is going to help me find them, and that’s why it’s my turn to appear in Talk of the Town. Unfortunately I have to share my turn with Colin.

In the photograph next to mine is Colin the dog.

Colin is a handsome 6 year old cross breed dog; he could possibly be part collie. He has a long grey and white coat that needs a good brush every day or he could start looking scruffy. To me he looks scruffy anyway but that’s because I’m such a pretty cat. Even though he’s a dog I

have to admit he looks a bit cute, but in a scruffy sort of way of course.

He is an alert and intelligent medium sized lad.

Colin really needs to be with an active outdoorsy family as he is a very fit and active boy; he would love long walks on the beach or in the hills. He could possibly live with a family with older children, they who could teach him tricks and play ball games with him and help walk him too.

SARA fundraising events during September The next monthly meeting of SARA will be held on Wednesday, 3rd September, at 7.30pm in the TocH Albion Terrace, Saltburn. New members are very welcome.

Saturday, 6th September – SARA will once again be holding their Open Day at Foxrush Farm, Kirkleatham Lane, Redcar, from 11am. to 4pm. This event is always very popular. So come along with family, friends and pets to enjoy the day. Refreshments are available all day, as well as a barbecue. There is plenty of parking space on the Foxrush field. A Mini Fun Dog Show will be held from 12noon to 1.30pm. There will be a variety of classes, including Best Rescue Dog, Junior Handler, the dog the judge would most like to take home, and many more. There will be a display throughout the day by Redcar Gymnastic Club. Also a 32

variety of stalls including tombola, books, children’s games and many more. The big Raffle Draw will be held at 3pm.

Conducted tours of the Centre throughout the day enable the supporters of SARA to see the progress that has been made over the past year. We are very grateful for all the support we receive that enables us to carry out the improvements to enable us to help the increasing number of animals that need our help.

Saturday, 20th September – SARA will be at Saltburn Community Centre from 10am to 4pm. Refreshments will be on sale.

Saturday, 27th September – SARA will be holding a collecting day in Saltburn. All donations will go to the Foxrush Sanctuary and Re-homing fund.

Sheila Green

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The best views in Town

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We also provide fresh ground coffee, teas and minerals.

We are dog friendly and have a dog friendly dining area for owners and their dogs !

Our next GREEK MEZE night.

Saturday 20th September Limited tickets . ( We sell out every time !!)

20 dishes from dips & salads to slow roasted meats and fish.

Eat what you like – leave what you don’t.

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The Hop & Vine Saltburn’s new Wine & Tapas Bar Formerly Windsors.

Refurbished, new management, new image.

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Cocktails 2 for £7

Wines from £9 bottle.

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Try something different at Grasers

Discovery Apples Grasers are selling Discovery apples which are grown at Apple Orchard in Skelton, so buying them not only supports a local shop but a local producer as well.

‘Discovery’ is an English variety which is a hybrid of Worcester Pearmain first ‘discovered’ near 1949 in Essex.

As you can see from the picture these apples are an attractive deep red colour. Inside, the flesh is usually white or creamy but sometimes reddish from the rich colour of the skin. Discovery is an early crop of apples best eaten soon after picking, straight from the tree to Grasers. It is many people’s favourite variety of apple and it is often praised for its aroma as well as its flavour.

Theatre’s “Magical Transformation” is almost complete

Following the successful bid for lottery funding last winter, the Community Theatre is at the end of its promised transformation.

New lighting and sound equipment was fitted earlier in the year and the whole of the inside has been painted by volunteers. Now the old, faded seats have been rebuilt and re-fitted leaving the interior looking as good as new.

As well as re-building the seat covers and backs, the specialist firm of Evertaut in Blackburn have painted the cast iron frames with gold paint. The effect is truly magical with rich red upholstery and seat springs that actually work.

All the seating has been levelled and wobbles are now a

thing of the past.

The funding for the project, which is ring-fenced, has been targeted to help the theatre attract more touring performers. In addition to the restoration, Arts Development officer Wilma Gardiner-Gill is organizing a project to dedicate theatre seats in memory of a loved one. In all, 142 dedications are available. For a one-off payment of £250 to the Arts Association, the seat of your choice will be named and a plaque noting the dedication fixed to the back. It is hoped the scheme will attract additional funds to help the association back into the black and to provide money for ongoing repairs and maintenance to the historic building.

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CHOCOLINI'S NEWS NUGGETS What a busy Summer it has been!

So much going on in Saltburn.

We would like to say Well Done to all those clever Folk who are off to University soon. Don’t forget Chocolate is said to help concentration!

Why not call in for a Brain-Boosting hamper box full of Chocolatey Goodies to remind you of home! We also offer a Postal Service.

If you are staying local, call in for a caffeine top-up or you may prefer our De-caf Miscel D’oro Crema Hook up to our free Wi-Fi while you study.

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My recent admission to James Cook University Hospital I would just like to say a Big, Big thank you to all the nursing staff at James Cook University Hospital.

I would like to say how hard the nurses work; they deserve a medal; they are always kind and caring. I don’t know how they do it. My special thanks go to: The two Lisas, Claire T, Rachael, Amy, Lara, the two Sarahs, Mitch, Jane Crouchley and her team of heart failure specialist nurses, plus all the other nurses, (names not known) the carers and the tea ladies.

I was first admitted on Sunday, 27th April 2014 as I was unable to breathe properly. It was about 2pm when Bunny my partner noticed that I was having problems breathing. She asked “are you okay?” because she had noticed it was getting worse.

Bunny then decided to call an ambulance, and she also called my sister (Sue) to tell her what was happening.

The paramedics arrived and did their tests. They decided that I should go into hospital to be checked out, on arrival at the Emergency Department, I was checked out by a doctor and admitted to Ward 29. This was the Repertory Ward and I was settled into bed. By this time it was the end of visiting time and Bun went home. A ward doctor had done some tests and I was given some drugs to settle me down, as I was very hypertensive, at about 10pm, I settled down to get some sleep.

The following morning, Monday, I had my weight, blood pressure and pulse checked, and I was put on Furosemide tablets, as it was decided that it was fluid retention and within an hour I was off to the toilet. I had some breakfast (gone are the cooked breakfast - cereals and toast is the norm now) and by now my breathing was starting to get better, I spent the day resting, and about 5pm my Cardiologist Dr Andrew Sutton who was from a bypass operation I had in 2008 arrived, and checked me out and said that all seemed okay, but he would see me the next day.

He put me on Furosemide (diuretic) to be administered intravenously, the first at 06.15 the next day. That evening my sister (Sue) brought Bunny to see me which made me feel much better.

On Tuesday, 29th April, my weight was checked and I had lost some weight and my breathing was nearly back to normal. I was told that if I rested I could go home the following day on the 30th April.

All was well for about 2 weeks when it all started again. I was readmitted; this was on Thursday, 15th May. I started to get short of breath again and the ambulance was called and I was taken to the hospital again, and admitted to AAU Ward 15 and later on I was transferred to Ward 29 again. On the Friday morning my breathing was not as bad but was still restricted. I was put back on Furosemide. The ward doctor checked me over and he reported to Dr Sutton who advised to check my BP, Pulse and Oxygen Saturation at regular intervals as he thought I had Congestive Cardiac Failure and he would change my Medication Regime, to account for other factors, and I was sent home the following Wednesday feeling much better than before.

Then on 6th June it all started again and I was taken to JCH again and admitted to Ward 29 again and immediately put onto Furosemide to remove excess fluid

from my body which included fluid from around the heart.

This made the breathing much better. I was sent for a chest X Ray then an Echo Cardiogram and a MRI Scan; all of these reports were given to Dr Sutton, who decided that I should be investigated as to having a Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT) as my heart was out of synchronization.

Further investigation was carried out and I had a lung Function Test and it was decided that I should be put in line to have a Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD).

I was sent home on 14th June to await a date for this procedure, and this I am still waiting for.

Note! The South Cleveland Heart Fund has recently launched a £1Million appeal to enhance heart scanning services at The James Cook University Hospital; you never know when you might need it. The appeal aims to help fund the major upgrade of an MRI Scanner so it can deliver state of the art scanning and a full Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging service.

I do realise that everybody is always after your money but let’s try and keep some in the UK, so if you or your friends do have any spare cash can you please give to the appeal?

Thanking you for your support. Details below.

Cheques payable to South Cleveland Heart Fund and marked “scanner appeal” can be sent to the treasurer Mr Keith Robson, 117 Roman Road, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, TS5 5QB. Alternatively you can donate via Just Giving on the South Cleveland Heart Fund website (www.schf.org.uk).

The leaflet pictured here, can be downloaded from the above site. Many Thanks.

Barry AA (Cook)

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Golf club takes over Hob Hill field

Dave Tongue and Barrie Hodgson stand on a former BMX track at Hob Hill, Saltburn, where a golf tuition area replaces grazing horses this autumn.

Following a legal battle lasting several years, Saltburn Golf Club is buying a 14-acre field at Hob Hill, Saltburn, to use as a practice range.

Officials of the 500-member club were expected to sign papers with Redcar and Cleveland Council in late August so they can buy the field. The price is being kept “private.”

This would mean that the public - particularly dogwalkers - could not use the field. But the club has opened a special path so dogs and their owners can walk in a circle round the whole hill area.

Club president Dave Tongue said this would mean dog -walkers could complete a circular walk to and from the public car park opposite the clubhouse on Guisborough Road.

“Our club professional would start tuition at the end of September on the new site, which earth-moving equipment has made flat. Up until now he has had difficulty in tutoring members and others on the field we rent from the council because of dog-walkers and campers.”

He said the council’s leisure department was in touch with several schools which were interested in pupils receiving training.

The dream of the 120-year-old club was to start a golf academy with the help of a grant from Sport England. “We have been unsuccessful with our first application, but are applying again in September. The total cost of our scheme is £150,000,” said Mr Tongue.

The club wanted to be able to attract new members, particularly of a younger age than present members, and to be a major attraction for visitors to Saltburn. This also was the council’s hope.

He said the club had no facilities for practising driving,

Golf club chiefs Dave Tongue and Barrie Hodgson stand on the new dog-walkers’ path the club has cut through woodlands adjoining the new tuition area they are buying at Saltburn.

unlike some other local golf clubs.

He promised the club would continue to maintain the field next to the car park for use by the public. But he asked people not to trespass on the newly-bought field, which is 300 x 150 yards.

He declined to reveal the cost of buying the 14 acres from the council as it was a private matter.

Two public inquiries have been held by the Government following a bid by local residents to have the 55 acres at Hob Hill declared a public village green, but both went against the applicants.

Mr Tongue said Tim Hill, of Saltburn riding school, leased land at Hob Hill for grazing horses and he was happy for dog-walkers to continue walking on this land.

The land includes access from the golf club’s new path, alongside Guisborough Road, giving access to the top field.

He was pleased reaction from the public had so far been positive.

Bob Proctor, who led the campaign for a village green, said: “My comments are the new path leads from Hob Hill car park, which is still designated as public open space, through the wooded area alongside Hob Hill Lane (Guisborough Road). This is now held under the Countryside Rights of Way Act 2000 and it emerges into the top field.

“This field will still carry the covenants ie use by residents for lawful sports and pastimes. This now gives an excellent circular walk around Hob Hill.”

Mike Morrissey

Historic Motor Gathering and Hill Climb Saltburn’s Annual Historic Motor Gathering and Hill Climb will be held this year on September 14th. The event (which was unfortunately cancelled last year because of bad weather) is located in Cat Nab car park starting at 10am until 4:30pm.

Vintage and classic cars, motorcycles and threewheelers will be taking part in the event which will run up Saltburn Lane towards Rushpool Hall and this road will be

closed to normal traffic all day. The event is organised by Middlesbrough and District Motor Club and sponsored by Saltburn, Marske and New Marske Parish Council and supported by local businesses.

Although the event is untimed, it is hoped that with the change in legislation, which was announced recently by the Government, that next year’s event will return to its original – TIMED – format.

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In the August magazine it was reported that two members of Saltburn House, backed by Hayes Workingmen’s Club, intended to do the Cleveland Way. At 109 miles this is a very hard challenge but our two daring locals achieved this hike as planned in August for the ‘Help the Heroes’ charity. Michael ’Ando’ Anderson and Dave Stokes, two ‘seasoned’ walkers achieved this, not in the ten recommended days, but in only five days! Last year Ando had also done the Coast to Coast walk.

As Talk of the Town went to press, over £600 had so far been raised but both Dave and Ando have every intension of pushing this total to the £1,000 mark. Check out facebook for Saltburn House and it will show you how to donate to the charity for which these guys have completed the walk.

Cooking Good!

Thousands of foodies enjoy an ‘incredible’ Saltburn Food Festival Thousands of foodies had their tastebuds tickled on Sunday, 3rd August, at the second ever Saltburn Food Festival enjoying another incredibly busy day.

Last year’s festival attracted a reported 22,000 people to the town, and organisers say that this year has been even more popular again with around 25,000.

As those of you who were there will know, Milton Street was transformed into a Festival Village, with a street market featuring over 60 of the North East and North Yorkshire’s best independent food producers, with artisan food workshops at TOCH and Gosney’s Butchers. Guest chefs Sean Wilson, Sarah Muir, Richard Ingram and Atindra Naskar all cooked for the audience in the Demonstration Theatre on Pearl Street.

Festival organiser Lorna Jackson said: “What a day!

The idea behind the festival is to provide top quality, locally sourced food that is a real testament to the creative skills of food producers across the North East, and do it in a street party setting! Last year was our first Festival, and we didn’t really know what to expect. This year we thought we knew what was coming, but today has just taken on another life of its own. We’ve been busy right from the off – and the atmosphere around the place has been wonderful all day long.

We thought it would be very difficult to top last year, but Saltburn has done itself proud yet again.

“All of the traders share our passion for good locally produced food, and one thing they keep telling me is how much they love coming here to our monthly Farmers’ Market.

They tell me they love the people here, and most of them have sold out again today.

“Our three guest chefs have all been a joy to work with, and have all really enjoyed the day.”

The Food Festival builds on Saltburn’s already popular monthly Farmers’ Market, shortlisted as National Farmers’ Market of the Year earlier this year.

Remembering the very first Farmers’ Market in a blizzard hit Easter weekend in 2008, Lorna said: “It’s amazing to think we were covered in snow at our first ever Market just a few short years ago. But we knew we had

something special, we persevered, and just look at this today! It’s an incredible street party, an amazing celebration of good locally produced food. Above all though, it’s a real tribute to all the people of Saltburn who’ve got behind the day. We hope we’ve done them proud.”

Former Coronation Street star turned TV chef Sean Wilson also heaped praise on the town after delighting crowds at the Festival’s live Cookery Theatre.

Sean said: “This is the first time I’ve been to Saltburn, and it won’t be the last. The place is a real Oasis.

It looks wonderful, but people make places, and the people have been amazing all day long. Warm, welcoming, and it’s been a real pleasure to be here.”

Describing the Festival, Sean said: “Packed! End of!

The Cookery Theatre was obviously great fun to do, but it was great to walk around and see how much the place was buzzing.

“Lorna and the festival team have been ace. Every Festival like this needs a Lorna. She’s properly inspirational and passionate about what she does, and that just shines out a mile. She’s an absolute star!”

Fellow guest Sarah Muir, Radiohead’s personal chef on six world tours, is now back home in North Yorkshire running her hugely popular Arches Cookery School at Grinkle Park Farm near Loftus.

Describing the Festival as an amazing day, Sarah said: “This is easily one of the best Food Festivals in the country. There’s a great mix of stallholders, and the vibe has just been incredible all day.

“Saltburn really is an absolute gem of a place, and I can’t wait for next year.”

Fellow guest chef Richard Ingram of Middlesbrough College agreed. “It’s been a fantastic event. Ridiculously busy, but in a wonderful way. I never expected anything like this, but it’s been huge pleasure to be here today.”

See this month’s front cover which shows guest chefs Richard Ingram and Sean Wilson with Lorna Jackson in front of a crowd. Photograph taken by Katie Lunn.

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Big Mouth’s Seaside Special

Saltburn’s Comedy Capers crack on with brand new autumn season Saltburn’s Big Mouth comedy capers crack on, with a brand new season of Saturday night specials kicking off at the town’s Spa Hotel on Saturday, 6th September.

It’s the first of a tasty autumn season packed with a mix of familiar TV faces and some of the best comics on the UK circuit on the first Saturday of every month, and the September gig features a typically ace line-up of Rob Rouse, Pete Johansson, Jack Campbell and special guest MC Peter Otway.

Carmel Ramsay of Big Mouth Comedy said: “We’re back after our summer hols, and we couldn’t have bagged a better line-up to kick-start our brand new season.

“We love Rob Rouse, and you’ll already know him from a string of top telly including 8 Out of 10 Cats and Celebrity Juice.

“And you’d be dead right if you think you recognise Pete Johansson from Russell Howard’s Good News or from supporting Reg D Hunter on tour.

“Jack Campbell is currently ripping up the comedy circuit, and special guest MC Peter Otway is one of the sharpest new comics to spring up this year.”

Looking ahead into autumn, Carmel said: “We have some amazing line-ups sorted for the rest of the year. We’re just tweaking one or two bits, and tickets will be on sale for all our autumn gigs by the end of August.

“It all adds up to a great Saturday night out. Saltburn is the most intimate gig we do, and it’s a perfect way to unwind with friends over a nice bottle of wine or a beer. And comics just love the place. They tell us we have some of the best audiences around. Not bad for a small town by the sea.”

Big Mouth Comedy Club: Spa Hotel, Saltburn.

Saturday, 6th September. Starring: Rob Rouse, Pete Johansson, Jack Campbell, & Peter Otway (MC). Doors: 7pm. Show: 8pm. £12.50. Box Office: Saltburn Health Foods, The Spa Hotel on 01287 622544, or buy online at www.bigmouthcomedy.co.uk

Saltburn ‘Tough Mudder’ Team 2014 QUESTION: What do you get when you add together mud, water, 12 miles, mud, fire, electric shocks, ice pools, mud, climbing walls, monkey bars, and a little bit more mud?

ANSWER: The official ‘Tough Mudder’ Yorkshire 2014 event!

Yes, a team of 6 from Saltburn entered the Yorkshire Tough Mudder event on Saturday, 2nd August at Broughton Hall, Skipton. To raise funds for local and international charities, they completed an 11-mile-long military-style obstacle course designed and created by British Special Forces. They faced a profound test of their mental as well as physical strength, overcoming obstacles that included ice, water, electricity and heights. If you are struggling to imagine what this looked like, just make a quick You Tube search for Tough Mudder films, and all will be revealed! So, who were the brave souls who made up the Saltburn Tough Mudder Team 2014, and which charities were they supporting?

CATH MASON – CUP Foundation (Cancer of Unknown Primary) ESTELLE REED – Emmanuel Church, Saltburn VIC TOSH – Diabetes UK BRIAN COLE – Down Syndrome North East ADAM REAMSWOOD – Parkinson’s UK RICHARD YALDREN – WaterAid

All the team members would like to thank everyone who has supported them in their training and fundraising; and to thank all who have given so generously in sponsoring the team. Over £3,000 has been raised so far, and for a short time it is still possible to sponsor these intrepid (some would say slightly crazy) folk, by visiting www.justgiving.com, and searching out the person or the charity.

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Doug flies the Yorkshire flag

Doug Kitching flies the Yorkshire flat at his home off Exeter Street, Saltburn.

Doug Kitching is a proud Yorkshireman, who flies the Yorkshire flag each 1st August. It flutters above his home off Exeter Street, Saltburn, where he retired to 10 years ago from his joinery and undertaking business.

He told Talk of the Town: “I just put the white rose 48

flag up the night before Yorkshire Day to show people that this is part of the largest and best county in the country. My Redcar-born wife Barbara put a white rose in her button-hole when she went out that day. Our flag is the only one in the town except for the Conservative Club, a few hundred yards along Dundas Street.”

Doug, 85, said his family came to Saltburn from Knaresborough, West Yorkshire, in 1910 when his great grandfather was the first caretaker at the then-new girls’ high school, which later became the junior school at the corner of Marske Road and Marske Mill Lane.

“This part of Saltburn is not in ‘Redcar and Cleveland,’ but in Yorkshire. On my address I write ‘North Yorkshire.’ I object to the government taking the area out of Yorkshire. I’m proud to be part of the county. I usually keep the flag flying for two weeks after Yorkshire Day because otherwise it might tear in the wind and rain. I also put up the white and red St George’s flag on St George’s Day and fly the Union flag on other suitable occasions.

Yorkshire Day used to be marked quite a lot on Saltburn’s bottom promenade, but now all you see is the occasional white rose flag on a blue background on small flags in cars. The day is also marked in Redcar, but that town seems like more Teesside than Yorkshire.”

Citizen’s Advice Bureau Advice matters to the people we help and to society. We want free advice to continue and it’s time we shouted about what we do from the rafters, to let everyone - from the public we serve to the funders we depend on - know about the awesome work we do.

Our 75th birthday gives us an opportunity to highlight the value of the Citizen’s Advice service and increase awareness and support among the public and people who make decisions. We are also approaching a general election so as well as celebrating our past we need to look forward to the future.

We want to get as many people as possible to make the following pledge: “I support the advice for the future campaign because free advice makes society better and matters to me. I want people like Citizen’s Advice to be able to continue to offer free advice, through a range of channels, so it’s available to everyone who needs it.”

This will help us to get local authorities, Government, and major political parties (ahead of the general election) to recognise advice services as vital public services and commit to resource them appropriately.

You can get involved by calling into one of our bureau advice sessions and signing our pledge sign up sheet. All the signatures will be forwarded to our campaigns department at head office and will help towards promoting free advice for the future.

Anyone seeking advice can contact us at the following drop in sessions: REDCAR LIBRARY Tuesday & Thursday Redcar &Cleveland House 10.00am – 1.00pm GUISBOROUGH Monday & Wednesday Belmont House 9.30am – 12.30pm SOUTH BANK LIBRARY Friday Normanby Road 9.30am – 12.30pm LOFTUS LIBRARY 1.30pm–3.30pm

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Invictus Health Studio Announces Launch of Transformation Contest Places Available to Begin 6 – Week Challenge to Better Health and Fitness Invictus Health studio is beginning its fourth fitness transformation contest in September and it promises to be bigger and better.

Over 20 participants from across the county can take part in a contest to cut the most inches from their waistlines. The most drastic individual transformation will win a £200 membership to Invictus health studio as well as a whole host of other prizes from local businesses.

Invictus Health owner Brian Bennett will combine intense metabolic training with targeted improvements in nutrition to challenge participants to lose as much fat as they can in a healthy manner.

Brian says, “I’m all about people changing their lives for the better. Unfortunately, in the modern age there is an overload of information both good and bad available, so when people try to figure it out on their own, they are paralyzed by so many choices and fail even to take the first step. We are making it as easy and transparent as possible to take that first step. We take out all the guess work,” he added.

The contestants will go through a rigorous and well – researched 6 – week programme consisting of up to 3 group fitness classes and up to 3 personal training sessions per

week, depending on which package they choose. Over the past 3 years at Invictus Health, this challenging training regime has proven its value in creating permanent change.

“Many of our members have never looked and never felt better, even as mothers holding a fulltime job,” explains Brian. “We truly believe that our system has been tested and tweaked to the point that it will produce some amazing results with this batch of motivated participants.”

Contestants will be taught to develop habits that will allow them to add years onto their lives through consistent training, constant support, and nutritional counselling.

“This isn’t just a quick fix. We want to help people get their lives back.”

Over the next 6 weeks, Invictus Health will be chronicling their journeys at Invictus Health’s website.

Pictures, video and weekly updates can be found on the Facebook page www.facebook.com/invictushealthstudio and the official blog: www.invictustransformation.co.uk For more information on how to transform your life, including package prices, rules and start dates contact Brian at Invictus Health Studio, 43-45 Milton Street, Saltburn, TS12 1DD. Telephone 01287 625555.

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Sweet Genes: a Local Genealogy Enterprise “I’m always happy to help, even with the smallest enquiry,” says Andrea Bowness-Etur, who has turned her absorbing hobby into a successful small business. She has traced her own family tree back sixteen generations to 1593 and now offers her skills to others who would like to find out more about their ancestors.

Andrea took up her hobby twenty years ago, through the Women’s Institute. She went twice with her Mum to residential courses at Denman College, run by the WI in Oxfordshire, to learn about researching family history. This was long before the Internet was available and the tools of the trade were documents in Register Offices, manual records on microfiche and old books.

A Teessider, Andrea was living in Cambridgeshire at the time, so it was impractical to research her own family. She turned her attention to her first husband’s family, as they knew generations had lived close by for hundreds of years.

“During the summer of 1993, I spent every lunch break in Cambridge Register Office and got back to 1704,” she says.

“The family had lived in a small group of villages near St Ives, so I was able to visit graves and take photos of headstones. I really got the bug for it.”

In due course, her best friend in Cambridge asked her for advice in researching her family tree and Andrea was able to help even though the surname in question was Smith! The friend was very impressed by Andrea’s skills and urged her to make more of her abilities: “It’s all online now and you’ve got a real talent for it,” she said.

So Andrea set about researching the Bowness line, using Genes Reunited, a website for tracing family tree records. It holds Census details from 1911-1841, a Census being completed every ten years between these dates.

“We’re not allowed to access Census data in the previous hundred years,” explains Andrea, “but we can look at births, deaths and marriages from 1837 - 2006. Parish registers go back beyond this, sometimes to the 1500s.” Working on Genes Reunited can be really exciting, because a researcher can make contact with others all over the world who are looking for relatives in the same family. “Another good site is ancestry.co.uk, which lets you build your family tree online,” she adds.

Now back on Teesside, Andrea was able to make more frequent visits to Saltburn, with which her family had strong links, to back up her online research. She began with the knowledge that her father, Gill Sutton Bowness was born at 4, Cleveland Street in February 1935. He completed thirty-five years service with ICI and retired from senior management almost twenty-five years ago to live in Thornton, near Middlesbrough. Still, he enjoys nothing better than a trip to Saltburn to enjoy a walk along the pier and sands, followed by a meal in the Seaview restaurant!

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Stephen and Andrea

Street in May 1908. Andrea’s grandparents were married on 1 June 1933 in the Parish Church (now Emmanuel Church), Saltburn. Eleanor was the second of five children of Arthur Sutton, who was born in Railway Terrace, Skelton and lived from 1883-1963, and Eleanor (née Webster) who was born in Faceby, near Stokesley and lived from 1881-1970. Arthur was a postman and a milkman in the Saltburn area.

Although Andrea’s father was born an only child, he had nine Sutton cousins, all living in the Saltburn or Whitby areas. One of his cousins, Mary Sutton, who has now moved to Northampton, had two sons.

“I was delighted to meet with the younger of these, my second cousin Stephen Carr, at the end of May this year,” says Andrea. “He emigrated to New Zealand ten years ago, but was back for a visit to see family and friends and do more tree tracing. We had a fabulous catchup, enjoying a meal at the Seaview Restaurant by the Pier!”

Andrea thinks it’s wonderful to get to know people with whom you share common ancestors. She and Stephen talked about what they know of their great grandparents, Arthur and Eleanor Sutton, who used to live at 25, Eden Street. “I even found myself looking hard to find physical resemblances,” she laughs. “But if it wasn’t for finding each other online through tracing our roots, we could never have had this fantastic opportunity.”

Andrea and Stephen found that they possessed identical copies of an old sepia photograph of Arthur’s father, John Horton Sutton, who was born in Haltham, Lincolnshire in 1839. He was the illegitimate son of fifteen year old Harriet Sutton and her boyfriend, John Horton. John Horton Sutton moved from Lincolnshire as a teenager and became a railway porter and guard at Saltburn Railway Station. He retired in 1904 and is reputed to have cut gentlemen’s hair in the Station’s waiting room to earn a few extra pennies, before his death at eighty-four in 1918.

Two photographs of Arthur and Eleanor Sutton

Encouraged by her success in tracing her ancestors, Andrea’s thoughts turned again to setting up her own business. In the summer of 2013, she got Business Mentoring help through the Job Centre and Business Enterprise in Middlesbrough. “They were very helpful,” she remembers. “I set up my website Sweet Genes and I made good contacts with others on the course. For example, Sarah Connolly, the owner of Vintage Ragtime Clothing sells at Saltburn’s Vintage Fairs and takes my marketing packages along.”

In the last year, Andrea has taken on ten projects, some big and some small. One lady in Middlesbrough asked her to find out everything she could for her two grown up children, so after research, Andrea wrote up a report and drew the family tree. The ancestors came from London and Hampshire and there were a lot of coal miners amongst them. “While some families in the past stayed very close to home, there are others who travelled great distances,” says Andrea. The customer’s grown-up children, one of whom lives in Australia, were delighted with their Christmas present.

Two small projects for a friend involved tracing relatives who had come from Kent and London up the East Coast to Middlesbrough and coal mining villages. Through these, Andrea learnt that there can be mistakes in dates and spellings in the records. As many people were illiterate, different spellings of the same names were easily written.

She found that Thomas Stoker was the same person as Thomas Stokoe and that Cleanor was the same person as Eleanor! “There are pitfalls,” she explains, “but experience helps you keep one step ahead. It’s like detective work.”

She was asked by a North Yorkshire lady to research a Welsh family, which confusingly, included several Tabithas. There was again a connection to coal mining and the Welsh Valleys. Andrea had to contend with everchanging Welsh county boundaries and learned a lot about local geography.

“I’ve found some amusing and some sad stories in my research,” she says, “but it’s always fascinating. I’ve

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discovered sets of brothers marrying sets of sisters, many children born out of wedlock and sometimes forcibly adopted or raised by other relatives, men in prison, soldiers and sailors killed in conflicts, whole families condemned to the workhouse in hard times, as well as relatives of Tommy Armstrong, the famous Pitman Poet from Shotley Bridge, County Durham (1848-1920) and Richard Watson, the famous Teesdale poet from Middleton (1883-1899). I’m presently working on trying to prove a link to Clark Gable, the Hollywood movie star!”

Andrea is tenacious, but sometimes finds she needs to leave her research for a while and come back to it. New records are coming online all the time. Financial cutbacks at Local Archive Offices mean that much of this data entry work is now done by volunteers from Local History Societies, to whom she is very grateful. If it wasn’t done, the records wouldn’t be online.

With the popularity of TV programmes such as ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ and ‘Heir Hunters’, interest in genealogy is very high. Through Sweet Genes, Andrea is very happy to help those who don’t have the time, patience or expertise to research for themselves. Her website is www.sweetgenes.co.uk and you can email her (on sweetgenes@hotmail.co.uk).

She can be phoned on 07872 947257 to discuss a commission. Rates are very reasonable: £25 for the ‘Little Acorns’ mini-package, which consists of three hours delving; £99 for the middle package, ‘Sweet Saplings’, which includes a lot of information; £250 for the top package, ‘I Heard it through the Grapevine’, which provides everything that is sought. This includes a typed report with references in story format, a family tree and advice about which certificates the customer might like to buy from the National Register Office.

This sounds like an excellent Christmas or special birthday or anniversary present; perhaps a Mother’s Day or Father’s Day gift, a new baby present or even a lovely treat for oneself! Well done, Andrea.

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Ever-smiling Betty is remembered Betty Archbold, a popular school dinner-lady, a mother of three sons and long-time Saltburn resident, has died at 84.

She was born in Carlisle, one of 11 children, and her father worked on the railways. In 1936 the family moved to Gateshead.

When the 1939-45 war broke out Betty was evacuated to Bellerby near Richmond, but her mother was unhappy with the arrangement and took her instead back to Carlisle where she stayed with relatives during the war. This meant she missed four years of schooling, leaving at 14.

She worked in a shop and factories, meeting her future husband Tommy through workmate Kathleen Riley. They lived with his mother until first son Thomas was born in 1951 and they decided to follow a trail blazed by Tommy’s older brother, Ed, to work at Saltburn for the Post Office, where deliveries covered as far as Runswick Bay. It was difficult to find accommodation initially in Saltburn in 1953, especially with a baby. They spent the first winter in Diamond Street, but had to make way for more lucrative holidaymakers in the summer when they moved to Britannia Terrace opposite the Cliff lift.

David was born in 1956 at Saltburn’s Overdene maternity hospital and shortly afterwards they bought a house in Oxford Street where she and Tommy remained for the rest of their lives. Brian was born at home in Oxford Street in 1960.

Betty devoted herself to bringing up her family and anything that was needed she made sure they had it. To make ends meet, she did cleaning work for a while and took a full time job in the newly-opened St Bede’s school in Marske. She was much-loved by pupils and rose from dinner-lady to cook until she retired.

She was an active parishioner at Our Lady of Lourdes Church. She helped to clean the church and decorate it with flowers on feast days. She was a close friend of Pat Franks and they were sent out as a pair to welcome new parishioners and were also active in fundraising activities. Their stage double act Fanny and Biddy is still remembered with a smile.

She was also a long-time blood donor. Betty suffered from a condition known as essential tremor which grew more severe as she got older and it restricted her activities. The frustration must have been enormous but she always bore it uncomplainingly.

Betty always seemed able to rustle up a wonderful Sunday dinner for a houseful of people, however many turned up at her house and however unexpectedly. This was a trait

HAPPY: A happy photo of Betty Archbold with husband Tom in Mauritius in 2006. She enjoyed overseas travel in recent years.

she shared with her own mother who was used to cooking for a large family and never seemed to have a problem adjusting a meal to suit from one person to 20.

During the years when Saltburn celebrated Victorian Week all the relatives used to come and visit. Any excuse was made for a party and she was the mainstay in organising and cooking with the family help.

An Archbold family reunion was started a few years ago and was being held on the August bank holiday weekend at Saltburn House. It was hoped some of the family who could not be at the funeral would come to the reunion.

In retirement Betty enjoyed travelling. She flew to many places - Hawaii, San Francisco, Florida, Mauritius, Texas, and loads of European destinations.

As she grew less mobile in later years and she lost her husband Tom, Betty was fortunate that oldest son Thomas was able to retire and look after her full-time. She was still able to enjoy trips to the moors in the car, and she could be pushed around in a wheelchair to enjoy concerts at the bandstand or a coffee at the Red Cross or Methodist Hall. Whenever she was around Saltburn she would be greeted by numerous people.

She always had a nice smile for people and they always held her with affection. She was always grateful that she had wonderful neighbours. The family praised the help given by “fantastic carers” from Comfort Call.

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Milton Street Post Box The Victorian Post Box situated in Milton Street may well be 150 years old but it has not been in Saltburn all that time, as was reported in July’s Talk of the Town. The former Delivery Office Manager, Don Agar, explained that it has only been in its present situation since the early 1980s, when it was placed there especially for the commencement of the Victorian celebrations.

Don said: “I obtained the post box from the Royal Mail stores in Nether Poppleton (near York), and engineers agreed to install it, with permission from the head postmaster.” Don had also arranged for all his Saltburn deliverers to wear Victorian period uniforms during the first Victorian week, a move which was very popular with the people of Saltburn and also with the Post Head Office!

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WELL DONE Just wanted to say a BIG WELL DONE, to my sister in laws.

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1st Saltburn Scout Group August is a quiet month (!) as all Sections ceased their regular weekly activities for the summer break. It is that time for Leaders to catch up on those allimportant personal tasks which have been postponed; or carefully ignored. Wives, husbands or partners have first claim on what is to be done or needs finishing off. Whilst we have reviewed the year, gathered our breath, planned the weekly programs for the next eleven months (every week is planned in advance) and hopefully caught up on tasks around the building and reviewed equipment lists. This does not mean Scouting ceases entirely during the summer period, especially with some of our young people abroad; I will explain later.

Beavers, Cubs and Scouts will be enjoying their break, but hopefully will be full of ideas and thoughts of where they have been and done during their break, but more importantly gathering their energies ready for September and another exciting year in Scouting. All the young people; Beavers, Cubs and Scouts have boundless energy and enquiring minds.

Scouts just display this in different ways! More importantly, Leaders need the break, just as much as the young people do.

A change in routines refreshes us all; for Leaders, it is pleasant not to be committed to that “two hours a week” involvement. This statement is often aired when people ask about Scouting; that is the length of a regular Section meeting; this carefully ignores the planning sessions or any other activities.

Five of our former Scouts, Daniel, Matthew, Sam, William and William, (now Explorer Scouts) and some still Young Leaders with the Group have been away experiencing

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Kandersteg (Switzerland). As part of a group of 36 Explorer Scouts and six leaders; they were away for ten days (by coach via channel ferry). They have had an exciting time; back safely now they experienced glaciers, proper mountain walking and then the pleasures of Disney (Paris) on the way back. Their only discomfort being a rough crossing on the return leg! They will have many memories which they will hopefully share with the young people, possibly encouraging others to follow on to becoming Explorer Scouts and seeing more of the world.

Back at home the more mundane problems like blocked drains have been the routine, now resolved; thanks to Tingdene staff for their assistance in locating the problem, as well as Jade and Nash for solving the issue!

Another thank you is also due to Tingdene staff for ensuring our grassed surrounds are kept neat and tidy – they do it as part of their gardening routines – saving the Group a problem and ensuring we present a tidy roadside aspect.

Karen (Beaver Section Assistant) earlier in the year was asking parents to use “easyfundraising.org.uk” (a website which if used via online ordering assisted in raising funds for Group funds. Success – we received a cheque for £47.00 – not a lot but it all helps. Karen has been successful over the past year in sourcing several grants/donations to the Group. Well done and many thanks.

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The Saltburn Profile by Rosemary Nicholls Maureen Potter “Friends really enjoyed my birthday parties when I was young, because they always included rides on our family roundabouts,” says Maureen Potter, now a Saltburn resident.

Her grandparents had a set on Redcar beach called Coupland’s Roundabouts and these were bequeathed to her father, who ran them with her mother for seven to eight months a year until retirement.

Maureen was born at Parkside in Middlesbrough and lived in Redcar until she married. She started at Coatham Infants’ School, but by the time she was ready to leave education, she knew she wanted to cook. Her starting time at Bentley’s Cake Shop was 6.30am: first she made bread and then she made cakes. After a while, she moved to Welford’s Bakery on the Trunk Road and worked on the shop floor, before she was asked to go into the laboratory, where staff concocted recipes which were taken on by Marks and Spencer’s. From here, Welford’s asked her if she would go to Gibraltar in a team of four to run the bakery, as the Spanish workers had left when the border was closed and she had an interesting year in a sunny climate.

Back on Teesside, Maureen took a holiday in Belgium with husband Stewart’s cousin and met up with her family later in Redcar. “Stewart recognised me as the girl who had sat in front of him in class at school and we started going out together,” she remembers. “Eventually, we were married in Coatham Church and went to live in New Marske.”

Stewart, who worked in petrochemicals at ICI, and Maureen had a son, Neil, and a daughter, Suzy. Neil and his wife have been teaching in Russia and are shortly leaving to teach in China; Suzy works in Aberdeenshire at AKA, a Health and Safety Company and has a three year old daughter, Bromyn. “Our blue-eyed, blonde haired granddaughter is the light of our lives and we love taking the train to Aberdeen to see her,” says Maureen.

After marriage, she worked at Tudor Lodge Bed and Breakfast Hotel, helping with breakfasts. At retirement, she and Stewart moved to Saltburn, where he has taken on an allotment and she has involved herself in various ways with community life.

“I’ve been a member of Saltburn Women’s Institute for about ten years,” she explains. “I’m on the Committee, which organises events. We meet once a month and have guest speakers and outings; there is also a crafts group, a walking group and a luncheon club.”

Each summer, the Committee arrange the Craft and Produce Show and were very pleased this year to have an increased number of entries from children. Maureen can be found in the kitchen at the Show, enthusiastically making pasties and soups for sale and lunches for the judges who are there all day. Like many of the W.I. ladies, she attends Harry Simpson’s weekly Fitness Class, doing exercises from chairs, also at the ECHO Church Hall.

As an only child, Maureen says she had her head in a book for most of her childhood. She enjoys novels, especially Steinback’s ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ and thrillers by Michael Connelly. Travel books by Patrick Lee Fermor are favourites; as a nineteen year old, he visited Europe in the 1930s. She is

a loyal member of Saltburn Library.

A keen follower of Elvis Presley in her youth, Maureen now likes the music of the Proms. She has been to several Gene Jarred Concerts at the Community Centre.

When I ask if she plays an instrument herself, she laughs: “Not since the triangle and recorder at school!”

Maureen attends Emmanuel Church and enjoyed a recent project, in which the Vicar gave each parishioner £10 and asked for it to be doubled. Maureen helped a friend to put on a successful fashion show.

She likes to travel and has been to Spain several times. This year, she’s going to Florence, as she loves Italian buildings and art galleries. She finds Italian ladies very elegant.

As a teenager, Maureen played tennis in local parks in Redcar and is a keen fan of Wimbledon: “I watch from start to finish,” she says. She enjoyed watching the Commonwealth Games, particularly the athletics and swimming. “The relays were very exciting,” she adds.

Maureen likes to walk everywhere she can. She’s a member of the W.I. walking group and a favourite route is to the Stray Cafe at Redcar and back. In all weathers, she has walked along the cliffs at Saltburn.

She and Stewart are looking after son Neil’s rescue dog at the moment. Shelby is a black Labrador cross, who likes her walks along the beach. Maureen remembers having two Corgis, when she was growing up and also breeding cockatiels, when they lived at New Marske: “We had an aviary for four birds and had to be there every three hours to feed them by pipette. The kids loved them, especially Joey, who was tame enough to sit on your shoulder,” she recalls.

Maureen can’t imagine not living within walking distance of the sea: “I have sand between my toes,” she says.

This, together with the friendliness of the people and liveliness of the town, makes Saltburn a splendid place for her to live.

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Super Kate by Alan Butler To say that my eyesight is somewhat deficient would be an understatement. Having started life with a pronounced squint and being one of those children who were described as having a ‘lazy eye’ things did not exactly improve as I grew up. What I did not realise, until four or five years ago was that my experience of life is somewhat lacking when compared with that of other people. I always had a problem with those coloured images that used to appear in magazines and newspapers, which promised those who concentrated an amazing experience.

I used to watch in wonder as people looking at these pictures suddenly found themselves confronted by a lifelike tiger, stunning galloping horses or a panoramic view of Venice. Despite countless hours of staring and moving the page around I could never see anything except the blurred colours.

I happened to mention this fact to an optometrist during a check-up and he responded immediately. “Oh,” he declared, “with your astigmatism you will never be able to see in 3D. Even if the problem could be put right,” he went on, “it is unlikely your brain would be able to respond after such a long period of time.” So it seems as though my experience of life is dramatically different than that experienced by people with normal sight and all I can do is to console myself with the adage ‘what you’ve never had, you never miss.’

I suppose we all have our crosses to bear and Kate will not object to me telling you that hers relates not to her eyesight but her hearing - or at least it did! Her problems began when she was a child. She had to undergo several surgical procedures and a good deal of discomfort and pain, though the result of the procedures was not brilliant. Like me with my strange eyesight, Kate gradually learned to compensate. That is probably the advantage of a physical deficiency that starts in infancy.

Kate is a brilliant lip reader and in a general sense hardly anyone would notice she has a problem at all. As a result it was not until five years ago that she conceded defeat and was fitted for hearing aids, though even then it took the combined effort of all her children and my constant nagging to persuade her.

Kate’s poor hearing and my peculiar eyes seemed to balance each other out, because her vision is near perfect and my hearing is the one sense I possess that has been undiminished with time. This meant we tended to lean on each other and with the use of words we could share parts of experiences that would otherwise have passed us by. At least that was the case until a few days ago.

Kate and I had travelled to Scarborough, where Kate was due to undertake a hearing test. She emerged after half an hour with two brand new hearing aids. Her original devices were small and unobtrusive but the new ones were tiny and, according to the doctor, much more advanced. With the aid of a computer the new devices had been specifically ‘tuned’ to Kate’s hearing and to the receptors in her brain. Instead of being an adjunct, the 58

hearing aids are now an integrated part of Kate’s body.

Such is the way science is advancing, at such a dramatic pace it is difficult for people ‘of a certain age’ to keep up.

Back at home we retired to the back garden for a cup of coffee. I noticed that Kate was looking slightly ill at ease. “What’s the matter?” I asked. Kate replied that the gentle sound of running water from a garden feature next door sounded like Niagara Falls. She reported that traffic on the distant road was like a motorway and that the gentle birdsong in our garden was like being in the middle of a huge aviary at feeding time.

We agreed that things would probably level out when Kate’s brain became acclimatised to the new and vastly improved hearing aids but the peculiarities went on.

It wasn’t so much the level of sounds that fascinated Kate but the fact that she could quite obviously hear things she had never even registered before – not even with the assistance of her previous hearing aids. Everything fascinated her, from sausages sizzling in a pan to the noise made by her own hair as it touched the back of the sofa.

Kate was suddenly living in a brand new world and it was a positive revelation to her. What was more she could now hear sounds that were completely inaudible to me. There is no doubt about it – Kate has become bionic!

In future, instead of wondering whether a tree that falls in the forest actually makes any noise, Kate can now confirm that it causes a tremendous din. Rather than straining henceforth to detect bell ringing practice at the distant Priory church on a Thursday evening, Kate will now be able to hear the bell ringers complain to each other about the price of washing powder. No distant whisper will pass Kate by and she will begin to live a life like some superhero from a Marvel comic. Never again will she turn to me to explain something that passed her by in a conversation because her hearing is now so good she can detect what people are thinking before they even speak!

The almost silent ticking of a clock on the mantelpiece in the living room now sounds like a metronome to Kate. When I sprayed myself with deodorant two rooms away she said it was like an express train passing. If she was to concentrate hard she could probably hear crabs chatting on the beach and will know in future exactly when to go for the train because she will hear its arrival two stations away.

It all reminds me of the storyline of some past episode of Star Trek, in which some crew member becomes accidentally mentally enhanced in some freak accident and eventually finds his or her crewmates seeming like primitive primates in comparison with their own advanced abilities. I was thinking about this at bedtime last night, after Kate had observed that there was a small spider stomping noisily on the carpet.

Of course she can’t sleep in her new hearing aids, so she took them off before getting into bed. “How’s your new book?” I asked, as she picked it up to read. “Pardon?” she responded, obviously not having heard a word I had said. I smiled and turned over. Gotcha!

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A Musical Extravaganza!

Tickets will be £6 (£5 for concessions) and will include refreshments at the interval.

They will be available from early September from Brentano's Florist, and ECHO, (Emmanuel Church Hall Office), both in Saltburn.

This will be an extremely varied evening and it is hoped there’ll be something for everyone.

Apart from 3 Ladies Choirs (The White Rose Singers, The Middleton Singers and Renaissance), we also have Earthbeat, a theatre company made up of adults with learning disabilities, who put on the most fantastic shows; Sarah Paterson, our wonderfully talented local harpist and graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music - and James Harrison who is the most fabulous jazz pianist, and well known in the area.

All proceeds will go towards Justice First. This is a charity which helps people in the Tees Valley who are seeking asylum in the UK and whose appeals have been rejected, to re-engage with the complex and rapidly evolving legal system. Justice First provides humanitarian aid for those who do not, at present, qualify for support from the state. It does not deal with Immigration issues, but is there to help those in need. You can find out more on their website: justice first.org.uk Don’t miss out!

The Final Blow After a nearly 30 year relationship with Prior Pursglove College in Guisborough, Guisborough Big Band now needs a new base to rehearse.

Vaughan Dexter, the band’s Musical Director, said “Unfortunately, the prefabricated classroom we’ve used as our base for many years is about to be demolished and we need to locate a new venue to save the band from disbanding.”

The Big Band has raised many thousands of pounds for various charities over the years through the goodwill of volunteer musicians, some of whom are ex-professional players. But this may be a final blow for the band if another venue can’t be located.

Vaughan added “In an ideal world we’re looking for Friday evening availability, enough space to rehearse the band and a safe storage space for a number of instruments and our music library. We could pay for a venue but we’d rather offer a free ‘gig’ each year to our hosts so they can run a concert and make money that way. We also need to be

somewhere in the Redcar and Cleveland area.”

Any potential venues can contact Vaughan on 01287 633980.

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Saltburn Allotments Association This month’s article begins with an invitation. I talk quite often about Grow and Learn because it’s such a successful project. It started off four years ago with a group of people interested in the practicalities of growing their own food.

That’s still the same today but, as well as growing our own, everyone’s just completed a formal Horticulture Award and I expect everyone to pass with flying colours.

We also won prizes again at two produce shows with our vegetables and this in a season when we had to leave a purpose built accessible garden and have been building a new garden as we go along.

As you can see, we are a well-established group now and, because our style seems to work so well, I’d like to see whether there’s enough interest to set up a new group. If you have any ambition to grow your own fruit, vegetables and herbs, do please get in touch with me. You may be a new allotment gardener, be on an allotment waiting list, or have a back yard and fancy growing food in a few tubs. Our current group has members in all those categories and also includes some people who have taken on allotments as a result of what they’ve learned. If there is enough interest to start up a new group, we would try and meet at a time of day that suits most people so, if you do give me a ring or send me an e-mail, include days of the week and times of day that suit you. As usual, it’s spf.bs@ntlworld.com or 01287 624169.

There are some nice jobs in September, not all clearing and digging but harvesting too. We are still harvesting strawberries and now autumn raspberries and our blackberries are coming into their own. We are looking forward to apples, pears and plums soon and we have been noticing where there are some “wild” trees nearly ready for picking. Keep harvesting tomatoes too. If you are overwhelmed, they’ll freeze for cooking later, dry for delicious Christmas presents of oven dried tomatoes in olive oil, make ratatouille or tomato sauce or anything that brings a bit of tomatoey summer into the dark winter evenings.

September’s traditionally the time to plant over wintering onion sets and garlic. Also, if you fancy a go at new potatoes for Christmas day, if you have a lean to, greenhouse, polytunnel, conservatory etc., you could try planting a couple of potatoes in a big tub or compost sack or the like. They’ll need more water and also feeding for a crop of decent sized spuds but it’s satisfying to harvest for Christmas dinner.

Sowing seeds is still possible this month. Spring lettuce, winter spinach, oriental leaves, turnips, spring onions, rocket, endive, chicory, land cress and spring cabbage are all possibilities.

Last but not least, the quality and amount of produce at Saltburn Craft and Produce Show (that’s the veg., fruit and flowers) was commented upon as really high this year. Well done everyone who entered and made it such a successful day.

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Saltburn 500 Club This month’s article is mainly about thanking people.

In July, a small team of volunteers spent 6 hours doing essential maintenance to the Christmas lights and changing just under 250 halogen bulbs to LED bulbs. The bulbs will all, eventually, have to be replaced to LED as halogen bulbs are being phased out. As each bulb costs approximately £4.50, you will realise the size of the job we have got to raise funds! I would like to thank the volunteers who helped my wife and I to do that onerous task and hope that it hasn’t put them off doing further work with the lights! When it comes to bringing the lights out, in early November, I hope and pray that my small team of volunteers will rise to the challenge again. I would also like to thank all of those people who have made the effort to raise funds in order that the Saltburn Christmas Lights will never go out. As you may know, the Friends of Saltburn/Saltburn 500 Club do the lion’s share of organising fund raising events but I am not forgetting those people and businesses who work quietly in the background.

As a part of raising funds, I organised Treasure Hunts for 16th August which was a Fun Day with children in mind. I am writing this article a couple of days before the event so I am not sure of how well the event was supported (a report will come in the October issue). I would like to thank the people who knitted pirates for the Treasure Hunts and, also, I would like to thank the businesses around the town that got involved – especially Ripping Yarns, giving me a central collecting point for the pirates to come aboard! I would like to thank Sainsbury’s for donating the prizes and I’m sure the victors of the two Treasure Hunts will enjoy them. The monies donated by Sainsbury’s also meant that each child competing will have gone home with a reward. The winners of the Treasure Hunts were: Long Pirate Trail – Oliver of Weighbridge, and Short Pirate Trail – Amber of Saltburn.

The Christmas lights light-up will be held on Saturday, 29th November at 5pm, although I’m sure the event will be given more publicity nearer to the day.

The Friends of Saltburn were also heavily involved in the organisation of the various displays held in the Community Centre on Sunday, 17th August. Any monies received on that day were to be used to bolster the War Memorial reparation fund. The cost of reparation will be approximately £20k and, at the time of writing, approximately £5.5k has been raised. On behalf of the Friends of Saltburn, I would like to thank all of those people for donating their time in manning stands and donating refreshments to be sold. Of course, refreshments could not have been sold if it had not been for the volunteers who worked tirelessly in the kitchen.

As I have already mentioned, the Christmas lights will be brought out early in November and I would be most pleased if you could join my small team of volunteers.

Trevor Welburn Secretary, Saltburn 500 Club/Friends of Saltburn

The Muses of Jim

SALTBURN, MARSKE & NEW MARSKE PARISH COUNCIL ARE LOOKING TO RECRUIT

A PARISH WARDEN 30 HOURS a week (subject to review) SCP 16-18 pro rata hours worked To maintain and enhance the environment within the Parish including maintenance of allotments, playing fields, footpaths and other open spaces Must hold a current driving licence DBS check will be required CLOSING DATE: 4.00p.m. MONDAY 15th SEPTEMBER 2014 INTERVIEWS WILL BE HELD W/C 29th SEPTEMBER 2014 Further details and an application form can be downloaded from our website www.smnmpc.co.uk or please contact the Clerk to the Council email: office@smnmpc.co.uk Address: ℅ Saltburn Leisure Centre, Marske Mill Lane, Saltburn, TS12 1HJ

Quite a lot has happened in the last month. Yesterday I had to go the James Cook Hospital to have a procedure carried out. It only took ten minutes. Let me start at the beginning.

On the 1st of July I was returning from London and had to use the loo on the train and I noticed blood in the WC. Panic. On arriving home and having to go to the loo, same result. Fortunately, I had a appointment at the Doctors the next day. I had to provide a sample which was sent for testing. On the following Monday the surgery contacted me and informed me that the sample, there was blood in it, was positive and that an appointment had been requested at James Cook. The letter with the details of the appointment arrived within three days. It was for the following Monday.

I saw the consultant as arranged and he decided I should have a CT Scan and a Flexible Cystoscopy.

The scan was first and was a piece of cake. It involved drinking a measure of water within 30 minutes, then laying in the Scanner, been scanned then having dye injected, waiting ten minutes then being scanned again. Job Done. The final test entailed having a camera inserted in the part of the body only a male has. It was slightly uncomfortable as you can see the screen and everything is explained. Lo and behold problem found and it is treatable.

It was an enlarged prostate and it will respond to medication. I visited Huntcliff Surgery this morning. To explain recent events. They will contact me when letter arrives so I can start the treatment as soon as possible. God Bless the NHS. At the same time as the above saga was going on, life had to go on. Spud and I are getting on better, but it must be said, I think I am still losing. I must say again Spud is a CAT. Someone asked me who this Spud was. So therefore can I ask you, dear reader, when you see me please raise your right arm if you know that Spud is a cat.

Thank you.

As I have said life must go on. And last weekend I spent time with the families of my two youngest daughters.

On the Saturday we went the Leeds Rhino ground to watch The World’s Strongest Men Competition. There was a lot of people there and most of them appeared to be weightlifters whether male or female, and most of them had lots of tattoos. The most remarkable thing about the afternoon was their use of two pint size glasses for beer and lager. The crowd was good humoured and well behaved.

On Sunday we all then went to the Manchester Science Museum. It’s brill: five large buildings, full of exciting things to see and play with. My favourite things were the English Electric Lighting, a Japanese suicide plane and the Shackleton search and rescue plane. It is certainly worth a visit and it is free.

Molly, my youngest grandchild, has complained that I have not mentioned her for a while. I told her she will have to wait until I can mention all the grandchildren.

Sorry Molly, you will have wait a bit longer.

Finally, Please wave if you know Spud’s a cat and not my live in partner.

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The Saltburn Crossword no 159 set by Advena Across 1 Mr Jagger is included in globally immense music stories initially schemes to attract publicity (8) 6 Saltburn has a North but no South, a West but no East and an Irvin but no Melvin (6) 9 Love us scattered little botanic reproductive structures (6) 10 Mirth and merriment thy liar I disturb (8) 11 Strangely find warm energy maker at Redcar (4, 4) 12 The sisterhood begins with a dissertation (6) 13 Formed badly to distort (6) 15 Sister, do change powerful organic drugs (8) 17 Saltburn crime writer’s heroine or a Sussex coastal town (8) 20 and 25 Down How many units in 11 across? (6-5) 22 Exclude Joseph’s shortened circular stringed instruments (6) 24 22 across fitted with new strings from dismembered grunters (8) 26 In a choice of location when year breaks up (8) 27 Joining head of vulture and tail of budgerigar is crude and tasteless (6) 28 Goblins include a couple of learners in backward sort (6) 29 Beginning songs terrifies a vocalist (8)

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Written bill sounds as if spoken (7) From French origins, clumsy mad tailor transforms (9) Coast in Spain is famous for coffee (5) Systematic plans from myself in a complicated board game (7) Growing inclination means there is a waiting list for one in Saltburn (9) 7 Scary sounding bird of prey’s nest site (5) 8 Rebuild it under not yet tested (7) 14 Sir, men sit awkwardly for cabinet members (9) 16 Countermands mistake included in 9 across (9) 18 An old name for an old coin worth half a shilling (1, 6) 19 See 23 Down 21 One gnat damaged the ship’s capacity (7) 23 and 19 Down Not paved in gold but these Saltburn thoroughfares sound equally valuable (5, 7) 25 See 20 Across Note the new address for crossword entries Send your completed crossword to: Saltburn Crossword no 159, c/o Jackie’s Saverstore, 8 Station Buildings, Saltburn, TS12 1AQ

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