Talk of the Town September 2016

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SALTBURN’S TOWN TALK Letter from the Editor

I was impressed recently with how quickly people adapted to I could keep my old address but change my provider with no the change of my email address. The vast majority of interruption of service. I didn’t believe them but was contributors and advertisers changed immediately to the new eventually persuaded. On the first day of the change I found I address without any problems. I can still receive emails could no longer send emails, but could still receive them. We through the old address but I can no longer reply through it. I then had to create a new address for the magazine. Love, Ian. have changed my internet service provider after many months of a frustrating slow connection. I had always been reluctant Send letters, adverts and contributions for the next issue (by to change because I knew it could cause problems for the Friday, 16th September 2016) to: The Editor, Talk of the magazine, but those who knew about these things insisted that Town c/o Jackie’s Saverstore, 8 Station Buildings, Saltburn, Cleveland, TS12 1AQ. Telephone: 01287 623903 Saltburn Historic Motor Gathering and Hill Climb takes (or email: talkofthetownsaltburn@gmail.com). Talk of the place on Sunday, 11th September 10am - 4pm. Further Town has a website: www.tottsaltburn.co.uk and the details can be obtained from www.motorclub.uk.net (click on Friends of Talk of the Town can be found on Facebook. the link to Saltburn Hill Climb).

Redcar Lecture Society: Back in business after our Summer Minister welcome: All are welcome to a service to mark the Break! The 60th Season of Visual Presentations at the Redcar arrival in Saltburn of the Rev Helena Harbottle, its first Lecture Society is about to begin. The Group will be meeting woman Methodist minister in recent years. as before in the Redcar East Community Centre on Durham The ceremony, which will be followed by refreshRoad on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at ments, will take place at the Milton Street Methodist church 2.15pm. At our opening meeting on Tuesday, 27th on Sunday, 4th September at 3pm. Mrs Harbottle, who is in September, we will be delighted to welcome Mike Irving who her 50s, is the wife of Redcar’s Methodist Minister and has will be giving a Visual Presentation entitled ‘Lure of the been working at Darlington for the past few years. Mr and Lighthouse’.

Mrs Harbottle will live at Skelton.

Our Membership Fee and Visitors Admission are both Back Alex Pub’s hopes: The Back Alex pub has been unchanged for the coming Season. For further details please shortlisted for the national finals of the Great British contact Tony Crow on 01642 481544 (or email Pub Awards in its community premises section. Category clare_singers@hotmail.co.uk) winners will be revealed in London on 5th October.

Craft Club Busy Fingers: 2nd and 4th Thursday of each Cliff warning: Extra warning signs are being put up at month, 1.30 till 3.30pm in the Coffee Room, Saltburn Huntcliff to alert walkers of possible dangers when walking on Community Centre. the sands nearby. This follows a collapse of pieces of rock Saltburn Beer Festival: 11th and 12th November at the some said to be ‘as big as Minis’ - on Sunday, 31st July.

Community and Arts Centre. Any local businesses or individuals who would like to support the festival by Post Office moves: the Post Office closed in mid-August and sponsoring a cask of beer please contact Jill (at moved to the new convenience store in Windsor Road despite hundreds of objections. The store has been taken over by the jilljakday@gmail.com). More details on page 45.

Spar ‘franchise’ from Nisa.

Saltburn Farmers’ Market: The popular monthly Farmers' WI Report: Not such a busy month as usual as we don’t have a Market adds to the Saturday morning buzz around town again meeting in August. However, that doesn’t mean that we haven’t on Saturday 10 September. There'll be more than 35 stalls been out and about. Earlier in the month the ladies of Loftus WI brimming with good local food, drink & art. Based near hosted an enjoyable afternoon tea for the De Brus group of Saltburn Railway Station, the market starts at 9am. This WIs. We enjoyed the wonderful selection of sandwiches, cakes follows an incredible day at Saltburn Food Festival on 31st and scones with jam and cream. Afterwards we were July (see our report on page 28 and for further info, see entertained by a lady singing songs from the 40s and 50s. www.saltburnfarmersmarket.com).

We also decided to continue our weekly Saltburn strolls, Emmanuel Church Hall Table Top and Collectors’ Sale: when a small group of us meet on a Friday morning, enjoying The next sales are on Saturdays, September 3rd and 17th and each other’s company for a couple of hours, as we stroll along then 1st, 15th and 29th October. We are also doing afternoon the prom, through the valley gardens or wherever takes our teas all day and cream teas as well as our usual lunches and fancy. all day breakfast, fresh home baked cake, pies and scones.

Our next meeting is a social evening on September 8th, a Home made refreshments and light lunches are on sale all good opportunity to meet us. If you would like to come along to day. FREE ENTRANCE and a warm welcome to everyone. the Methodist church hall in Milton Street for 7.30 you can be With over 26 stall holders, selling lots of bric-a-brac, books, sure of a warm and friendly welcome. toys, baby goods, and all sorts of collectables, there is Full details of all our activities can be found on our web something for everyone. If anyone would like to book a table site (www.saltburnwi.org.uk). please contact Denise Marshall on 07929 589538.

Diane Falla Cover Illustration: The View from my Window by Jonathan Oatway 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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National Service Part 7 Work and Play by the Mediterranean Living under canvas was certainly an experience for me.

Each morning we had to carefully check our boots because the latent warmth attracted scorpions during the night who thought they had a ready-made home. The consequences of putting on our boots with a resident scorpion inside wasn’t an attractive proposition and certainly on a number of occasions our caution proved sensible.

In the market

Derna Main Road Via Emila a town built by Italians.

Normally the weather was no problem to us but on one occasion very heavy rain fell throughout the night and eventually the commotion outside disturbed us to find floodwater about 12 inches deep racing through the tent.

Looking out through the tent flaps we noticed that the occupants of the other tents had diverted the water but we had slept through the storm and decided that there was no point in getting wet at this stage so we stayed in our beds until daybreak and the storm abated.

The Mauritian Pioneers prepared their own meals on a Sunday, the speciality being chicken curry. The chickens were alive at the beginning of the day and they were chased around the camp by the soldiers armed with machetes. The final act was lopping off the heads of the chickens before they were prepared for the pot. Their offer to us to share the food was politely declined. Food was another cause of problems when our rations were not delivered: we ended up having hard tack for three days, that is dry biscuits and tea.

Fortunately discipline ruled and there was no uprising.

Very shortly after my arrival in Derna I was put on guard duty on the camp perimeter, armed with a rifle and five rounds of ammunition. I set off on patrol and eventually I spotted someone approaching through the palm trees. I waited until they were almost up to me before I spoke. It turned out to be an officer from the field regiment who berated me for not challenging him correctly. He then enquired which unit I was serving with and when I told him he said that explains everything and walked on.

We travelled every day by lorry to our place of work in the centre of the town; this was looked after at night by Arab watchmen and the only time we had to do guard duty was once a fortnight when the money was delivered for our payment to the Arab employees. The money was placed in a safe in the office and we slept on a camp bed with our head against the safe door and were armed with a revolver with six rounds of ammunition. This we kept under the make shift pillow; the only trouble was we had never had any training in the use of a revolver, but on one occasion we were discussing it and accidently fired it. Fortunately the bullet 4

lodged in the ceiling and did no one an injury. The only difficulty was explaining the reason one round had been fired when we handed the gun back. However, we had a very understanding O.C. who just dismissed it as one of those happenings.

On another occasion I was on duty overnight at the office sleeping with my head to the safe when I was awakened by the Arab watchman who told me he had let all the workers in the yard go and could he get me a cup of tea?

I had overslept by about an hour but fortunately was able to make myself presentable before the office staff arrived, so much for my security!

Primitive Threshing (with added organic material!)

Our working hours were from 0600hrs to 1300hrs so we had plenty of time for recreation. During the summer months we were allowed to take a truck and go to a suitable beach for swimming. On occasions we went along the coast to an ex U-boat repair depot where we dived into the clear blue waters of the Mediterranean from the jetty and generally had a good time.

We had a communication from the powers that be in the UK stating that we should have more recreation facilities and had we any requests? Naturally our request was for a sailing dingy so that we could take advantage of the beautiful sea conditions around us. We waited with excitement for a delivery and finally a series of large crates arrived. We unpacked them and to our dismay found that they contained all the components to assemble to make up sturdy bicycles. We even had to put the spokes in the wheels. It was a real test for our mechanical skills but unfortunately they were not ridden very much.

Cath and Tony Lynn

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Cllr. Thomson: 01287 624883.

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Once Upon a Time in the Wapentake I’ve been doing a fair amount of walking lately, some of it on paths very close to home that I’ve somehow overlooked before, but most of it on sections of the Cleveland Way. I can no longer do twenty-odd miles in a day as I used to do when younger, but I can hop on to a bus (how much longer will we oldies be able to do that for free?), and do, perhaps, five miles, and then hop on another bus home.

The next week I can do the next five miles. It feels a bit like cheating, but it gets me to places I’ve not been to for years, Sometimes they are not at all as I remember them, partly because all memories change as the years go by, but partly because the land itself has changed, not least where long stretches of the road ahead have slid into the sea.

What else have I noticed? One thing is a confirmation of what I, and many others, have noticed just sitting in our gardens: the almost complete absence of butterflies.

When I was a child we, like other families, had a Buddleia bush in the garden because it attracted butterflies, sometimes in such numbers that you could barely see the flowers. What we called Cabbage Whites (actually there are several different kinds of white but they all eat cabbages) were far and away the commonest followed by Small Tortoiseshells. A rare treat was to see a Red Admiral, and in some years a Painted Lady, and an even rarer sight was a Peacock Butterfly. If we went out walking in the fields there would be Meadow Browns and Wall Butterflies.

Then something happened. Small Tortoiseshells almost vanished, but Red Admirals and Peacocks became increasingly common, so that in recent years they have often outnumbered the Whites (and then last year the Tortoiseshells made a comeback), and the pretty little Speckled Wood, once almost unknown in England was suddenly everywhere, including Saltburn Woods.

But this year, virtually nothing, until one day walking up over Airy Hill, above Skelton, I was seeing lots of whites, and browns, and finally, at the very top of the hill, a perfect Red Admiral. But why were they so rare before that day? The late cold spring is being blamed, but we have had those before. I seem to remember even worse ones, but never such a lack of butterflies.

Wild flowers seem abundant though, including two I can’t recall seeing before: Wood Vetch and the Pencilled Cranesbill. The latter is a relative of the Meadow Cranesbill, possibly my favourite flower, and is a plant of Italy and the Balkans, or it was when my book was printed.

I first saw then both when I was coming up out of Sandsend on the disused railway line, and since then I seem to see them in almost every hedgerow I walk past.

Of course, even slight changes in the weather can cause some species of butterflies, and flowers, to flourish and others to decline, and such changes would have been happening long before the first humanoids walked on this earth, but the things that we do (the fires we start, the ways we farm) will affect what lives and what dies.

In a densely populated and intensively farmed island like ours the study of the natural world and how it changes, 6

will always be, at least in part, the study of what humans have done.

So what of the humans I encounter on my walks?

On some days this year, sadly, they seem as scarce as Peacock Butterflies, so that I am left wondering whether the human race is losing the ability to walk, regressing beyond our second childhood to become something that can only sit indoors and stare at a screen.

But then I find myself on the Cleveland Way, heading south from Staithes or going north from Boggle Hole and suddenly I am in a procession of walkers going nose to tail along the pedestrians’ M62. The contrast with The Way out of Saltburn is extreme. If I see anybody walking over to Skelton or Skinningrove they are almost always locals, usually walking their dogs.

Years ago I picked up a semi-official guide to the Cleveland Way which, while acknowledging that the route did go through Skelton, Saltburn and Skinningrove, advised the serious walker to catch a bus in Guisborough and go straight through on it to Loftus because there was nothing of interest in between.

Gee thanks, pal, I say, ironically, because of course all of us trying to run a business in Saltburn need as many people treading through as possible. But I also mean it, a little bit because, sometimes I value my solitude, sometimes I like to feel that I’m the only person alive between the sea and the sky. I like my solitude but…

But what of the permanent inhabitants of the countryside? I have just written that this island is densely populated and intensively farmed, but it doesn’t look like that around here, or in other rural areas I know. I see fields seemingly abandoned, not rough grazing or traditional hay meadows, just thistles and nettles, supposedly good for Red Admirals and such, yet, like the Buddleia bush, not this year. I see the wheat and barley ready for harvesting, but only a single combine away in the distance, probably contractors who will move on elsewhere tomorrow. And I see deserted villages, with no visible inhabitants, and no pub, or post office, or shop, or school. They are somebody’s second homes, and immaculately maintained, which means that at least someone has a job, but a someone who probably can’t afford to live there.

What is happening is not new. The original ‘Deserted Village’ was described in a poem by Oliver Goldsmith (1730-74). Much earlier Thomas More had complained that sheep-farming was replacing arable (‘The sheep are eating the men’). Not long ago we were being told that with the internet we could all work from home, wherever home was, and would not need to crowd into cities to live. This would bring vibrant new life to rural England. Should we file that alongside ‘With nuclear power electricity will be so cheap it will be given away’ and ‘With modern technology nobody will need to work more than ten hours a week’?

But yesterday I saw a Peacock on the Buddleia bush. Perhaps everything will be all right after all. Or not…

Tim Beswick

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Councillors’ Column Commercial bus operators have found demand for services declining as car ownership increases and night life social patterns change. Bus routes in Cleveland have reduced and in some cases disappeared over recent times. Redcar & Cleveland has stepped in to fill some gaps with its Link Service. The new 708 timetable starts on 5th September, providing assistance in the evening from Monday to Saturday to reach Skelton, Brotton, Skinningrove and Loftus and other points East.

Other road users will have noticed an increase in traffic in Milton Street East as the ‘village’ of Tingdene continues to grow. With only a limited contribution of pavement provision pedestrians mix with road vehicles of every size and the many cyclists who now populate the No 1 route on the National Cycle Network. Reasonable calls for this unsatisfactory situation to be addressed have so far fallen on deaf ears. If road safety means anything at all then actions need to be taken.

A harvest moon will soon be shining. Contrary to some concepts this moon is not a simulated role playing game developed in Japan in 1996 and whose popularity has since seen it sweep the world, but a traditional feature of the September night sky. A reminder, if needed, of the industry that has taken place on the fields where the fecundity of mother earth has been gratefully harnessed. September 22nd will witness the equinox and summer will pass into autumn.

Crops are not alone in growing. Hedges have grown as well. Some have extended onto footpaths, limiting the passage of footpath users, sighted and not so. Owners are requested to

bring out the garden shears and make busy.

Another place where growth has been unabated is the Saltburn Valley. Without a true management plan nature is taking over. Limited resources are cited as a reason for inadequate maintenance. To maintain a future for the Valley, consideration is being given to the formation of a Community Interest Organisation to work in association with the Borough and Parish Councils to raise funding to halt the deterioration in care. An open public forum will be held in November seeking support for this formation. In the meantime preparatory work is being undertaken with guidance from Historic England.

Changes are likely in the Borough Council management structure before too long. This will reflect the changing emphasis on the priorities this Council should have and how these might best be delivered.

With the demise of heavy industry, the immediate prime source of potential income is from tourism. As a tourist area the Borough has much to offer. However, the main coastal town, Redcar has lost its way and much needed promotion of the Borough’s cultural and natural assets is sadly underplayed. A new management team with an inspiring ethos is long awaited. Although previously promised this has not entirely materialised. Hopefully now such aspiration and leadership will emerge.

Residents with concerns can meet Councillors at advertised surgeries or leave a letter at the Library.

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Saltburn Beachwatch September Events Saturday, 17th September 2016 sees Saltburn Beachwatch once again joining many other beaches throughout the UK for the Great British Beach Clean. Last year 341 beaches took part and involved 6,035 volunteers who headed to the beach to remove record amounts of rubbish.

If you wish to help this year you will be contributing to a national and global survey and meet others who want to keep our beaches free from litter. The litterpick and survey will take place from 10am until 12 noon. Meet at the Pier car park where litter grabs, gloves and bags will be provided. Mid-session free refreshments will be available.

This year the Great British Beach Clean coincides with National Recycling Week which runs from 12th to 18th September. This special week has been held since 2004 and its mission is to encourage us to do more to help the environment by reducing, reusing and recycling.

Many of us do this already but recycle week is about taking it one step further. You may recycle at home but do you recycle at work? Do your kids recycle at school?

Do you always read the labels on packaging to determine if it is recyclable? It is estimated that on average 35.8 million plastic bottles are used every day in the UK but only 19.8 million are recycled each day. This means there are on average 16 million plastic bottles a day not making it to the recycling bin.

I have been asked post-Referendum whether the vote to leave will affect the sending of our data to Defra as part of the EU’s Marine Strategy Directive Framework.

The ocean has no political boundaries and so we have to continue to co-operate with all countries to fight the menace of marine litter and pollution. We were once known in the seventies and eighties as the dirty man of Europe because of the amount of raw sewage and rubbish on our beaches. Since then using EU legislation (which we helped to formulate) we have seen a dramatic improvement in water quality in our rivers and around our shores. We need to keep up the pressure on legislators (whoever they are) to achieve good environmental status by 2020. Melisa Moore, Head of policy at the Marine Conservation Society said, “If the UK wants to continue to be a global leader it must implement and develop environmental legislation befitting an advanced society in the 21st century and not revert to historic levels of overfishing and pollution. We must ensure that EU laws are fully adopted into UK law for bathing water, for habitats and for sustainable fisheries and new legislation is developed where needed, for example microplastics.”

As part of recycling week the council will have a stall and a bus in Redcar on Friday, 16th September with resources to help explain how we can recycle more and on Sunday, 18th September the Festival of Thrift takes place at Kirkleatham Museum where all the family can have fun learning how to reuse, recycle and upcycle saving money and helping the environment So why not make it a weekend of environmental fun by joining in at some or all of these events?

Roy Smith 8

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Brotton Library Knit and Natter Group We are a small group making items for charity whilst sharing skills and friendship. It is free to come to the group. We have a few regular members and would welcome more. Thursday afternoon 2pm till 4pm in Brotton library (attached to Freebrough Academy).

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Saltburn, Marske and New Marske Parish Council On Thursday, 21st July the Joe Abrahams Memorial Allotment Competition took place; the results in Saltburn were as follows: 1st Plot 91B Hazel Grove; 2nd Plot 89A Hazel Grove; 3rd Plot 1 Zetland Terrace.

The overall site winner this year was rear Zetland Hotel, Marske. The allotments were judged by Mr Paul Murphy, Countryside Ranger for Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council.

The next Donations and General Purposes Committee will take place on 4th October and any community group wishing to apply for a small donation must have their completed applications to the Parish Council office by 23rd September 2016. Further details can be obtained from our website.

Saltburn Historic Motor Gathering and Hill Climb takes place on Sunday, 11th September 10am - 4pm.

Fur the r d etai ls c a n be o b tai ned f r om www.motorclub.uk.net (click on the link to Saltburn Hill Climb).

Plans are well underway for this year’s Christmas light switch on event which will be held on the first Saturday in December. We are looking for some Star Wars enthusiasts, with the appropriate costumes (storm troopers etc), to come forward and join the parade. If you are interested please contact the Parish Council office.

Tracy Meadows (Clerk and RFO to Saltburn, Marske & New Marske Parish Council) The Conference Centre, Saltburn Learning Campus Marske Mill Lane, Saltburn, TS12 1HJ Tel: 01287 623477 email: office@smnmpc.co.uk www.smnmpc.co.uk

Saltburn 500 Club Congratulations go to Mrs L Wilson who won the £100 First Prize in the August 500 Club Draw. We are now well into the summer band season and I am sure that those who attend will agree that there have been many entertaining weekends to date. The September performances, taking place from 2pm to 4.30pm, are: Sunday, 4th September – Cleveland Concert Band; Sunday, 11th September – Marske Brass Band; Sunday, 18th September – Bilsdale Silver Band; Saturday, 24th September – Ayecliffe & Brancepeth Brass Band; Sunday, 25th September – The Silverwood Band.

The performance on 25th September brings the curtain down on the 2016 season then work commences putting together the band performances for Christmas and the schedule for the 2017 Summer season. It would be greatly appreciated if somebody could volunteer to do the organising of the bands. Looking at the turnout for band performances, the committee have agreed that the Saturday performances in 2017 will be restricted to July and August.

We have made this decision because of the fact that it is becoming increasingly difficult to raise the funding for the bands and collections at the performances only pay a portion of the cost. It is also difficult to find volunteers who are prepared to open and close the bandstand for each performance.

Fund-raising for the Christmas lights is on-going throughout the year and further table-top sales are to be held in the Community Centre on 10th September and 8th October. I have organised a Jitterbug in the Community Centre for Saturday, 24th September. It features two live sessions from James Harrison’s Blue*Jam and is from 7pm to 10.30pm, tickets costing £10 each. The tickets are for sale at Book Corner and Yorkshire Pie & Mash shop. At the time of writing, the tickets are selling quite well so don’t wait too long before deciding to buy one – tickets will NOT be for sale on the night.

Congratulations go to Mr & Mrs Wilson, who will be celebrating their 20th Wedding Anniversary and renewing their vows at Saltburn Bandstand.

Trevor Welburn Secretary, Saltburn 500 Club/Friends of Saltburn trevor.welburn@btinternet.com

or email: simon.robson1@ntlworld.com

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Saltburn in Bloom We hope you will agree that the hanging baskets and floral displays have looked wonderful this summer. As I have written so many times, the general public think that “the Council” ie Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, pay for and put up the hanging baskets and are responsible for all the floral displays.

I was in Ripon recently and happened to see the hanging baskets being watered by two men from Harrogate and District Council and, no surprise to husband Dave, I engaged them in conversation to discover what they actually did. That Council is responsible for the bracket checks, putting up the hanging baskets, watering them into October and then taking them down at the end of the season. Businesses sponsor baskets on their own premises and the Council funds the baskets around the Market Place.

So it is all very different to Saltburn, where volunteers do all the work with some help from the Parish Warden, Buoygues Energy and Signart. We receive a generous grant from the Parish Council, a donation from the 500 Club and then it is up to the Saltburn in Bloom Committee volunteers to raise the rest of the money. 86 residents or people with Saltburn connections, 18 local groups and 39 local businesses sponsor hanging baskets or planters or make donations.

Any shortfall is made up by fundraising in the community.

“Operation Hanging Basket” is a massive task and entails far more work than anyone ever realises. We make mistakes and annoy people but, remember we are volunteers and are trying our best. We get the brackets checked every summer, sort out all the sponsorship, new signs, hooks, put up the baskets, employ a waterer, deal with problems through the summer season and then take down the baskets in September – that’s all! In the midst of all this we still manage to garden and enter Northumbria in Bloom, with Spring and Summer Judging. All this again organised by volunteers, not paid members of staff.

This year the baskets are being taken down on Wednesday, 21st September starting at 8.00 and meeting at the Station Portico. If you want to come and take any compost or salvage any plants, please do so, but remember some bags. Help would also be appreciated in taking down the baskets.

Northumbria in Bloom Judging took place on July 13th and the results are on Wednesday, 14th September at Gateshead. Fingers crossed for the town entry and for those entered for Special Awards - Huntcliff Court (Residential Community); Zetland Terrace Allotments; 22, Wilton Bank (Private Front Garden); and Saltburn Valley Gardens (Conservation).

We would really welcome some new people who could help on the committee. Please, please contact us if you think you could help in any way. Telephone 01287 209518 for more details.

Lynda Parkes

4 People Not Profit present

‘We are many’ 4 People Not Profit’s film night ‘Open your mind’ returns with the inspirational film We are many. This bold documentary by Amir Amirani charts the birth and growth of the new people power movement, now sweeping the world, taking us up to the Arab Spring and Syria, a little over 10 years after that historic day.

The film will be screened as usual upstairs in The Marine, Saltburn and will be on Thursday, 22nd 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.

On February 15th, 2003, up to 30 million people, many of whom had never demonstrated before in their lives, came out in nearly 800 cities around the world to protest against the impending Iraq War. The New York Times called this movement the “Second Superpower”.

How did this day come about? Who organized it? And was it, as many people claimed, a total failure?

This fearless, thought-provoking documentary is the remarkable inside story behind the first ever global demonstration, and its surprising and unreported legacy. The film features testimony from a unique cast of direct participants, including organizers, activists, high-profile figures, and of course the public, filmed in seven countries – Italy, Spain, Egypt, Sweden, Australia, UK, and the USA. Extraordinary testimony from activists in Egypt reveals how on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, the global anti-war protests inspired those in Tahrir Square to go on to engage in the massive democratic movement that ultimately led to the Arab Spring. In the UK, the government was defeated over the proposed invasion of Syria, a historic event that might not have transpired without the legacy of those demonstrations a decade ago.

“Anyone doubting the value of protest should watch this film, for proof that the ripples of political pebbles can spread wide, and far beyond any immediate effects”★★★★★ Huffington Post, UK

SALTBURN EVANGELICAL CHURCH Leven Street, Saltburn Seeking to be more like Jesus and sharing His love with those around us.

"We love Him because He first loved us."

(1 John 3:19) Please join us as we gather to worship and learn more about Jesus, to build and strengthen our faith, and encourage one another to grow more like Him. We meet each Sunday at 10.30am and 6.30pm.

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What’s Happening at

Marske Hall Salute to the 1940s

Saturday, September 10th 2016 At Marske Hall - 10.30am-3pm.

This year Marske Hall is going back to the 1940s. We are hosting a ‘Salute to the 1940s’ event which will pay respect, and remember the 1940s. We shall be celebrating the clothes, music, vehicles, cream teas and of course recognising the contribution Marske made to the war.

There will be singers and performers, military displays and a variety of 1940s themed stalls and displays plus a themed raffle and lots of family entertainment. Once again it is free entry.

We are still looking for people and/or businesses who may want to bring a relevant display or historical information. If you are interested and you are not selling any products we are not charging a fee. We are hoping to make the event as informative and interesting as possible, so are happy for people to book to share their knowledge and interests. We will need to know what you are bringing and how many tables you need. The display will obviously need to be in keeping with the 1940s theme.

If you are a business and are selling appropriate 1940s themed products we are also happy to accommodate you; we are only charging £10 per table which goes towards the home.

We are only accepting bookings from people whose products are 1940s themed. We are fortunate to be able to run many events, so if your stall is not suitable we are bound to have an event that would suit.

Booking is on a ‘first come first served’ basis, so early booking / payment is recommended. Call 01642 482672.

Appeal The fundraising team is always looking for tombola and raffle prizes to use at events throughout the year. Simply call into Marske Hall from 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday (or visit www.facebook/marskehall.com).

Thank you for your continued support. Funds raised at these events will enhance the lives of people living at Marske Hall. Registered Charity No: 218186. For details of these and other events call 01642 482672 (or visit: www.facebook/ marskehall.com).

Marske Hall, Redcar Road, TS11 6AA. Kath Bloomfield Volunteer press officer

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The property consists of a fully fitted and equipped kitchen, spacious and well furnished lounge overlooking the garden (which is for your personal use), and a double bed with en-suite bathroom.

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SALTBURN PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Meetings commence on Wednesday, 14th September with an illustrated talk “A Time to Keep” by Miles Langthorne. Wednesday, 21st September “Of The Street” by Alan Brown. Wednesday, 28th September “Wet and Dry” wildlife photography by Larry Bedigan.

Practical nights will be held frequently; more details available from contact number or website.

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

Visitors are welcome to any of our meetings; there will be a small charge.

For more information, visit our website www.saltburnphotographicsociety.co.uk or contact Tony Lynn 01287 622519.

Sea View Care Home

Sea View Care Home has set itself another challenge.

We are once again doing the Alzheimer’s Society Memory Walk. We were in the top 3% of fund raisers in 2015 and this year we are hoping to do better.

The staff at Sea View care for people with dementia and see how it effects each person. They give support to the family and work with the health care teams to try to make a difference to their lives and by doing the Memory Walk they show how passionate they are about their job.

We are looking for people who will walk with us, sponsor us or offer donations for the raffle to help us raise funds and dementia awareness.

We are walking on Sunday, 4th September leaving Sea View on Marine Parade at 11am. Please come and join us to make it a memorable day and to help others effected by Dementia.

Visit our Just Giving Page Sea View and make a donation to support what we are doing to help others.

Kind Regards, Carol.

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Megan’s Mind

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I have had a couple of people say to me recently that they were glad I said my bit last month about Brexit. I don’t remember what I said, and I’m probably not going to read back; it embarrasses me to do that! But I’m glad that I said what I had to say and I’m ever so slowly getting over the shock of Brexit!

This afternoon we went out for afternoon tea at Brockley Hall for my mum’s birthday. My granddad was supposed to pay but he accidentally forgot his wallet. Yes, ‘accidently’. It’s beautiful there: just what Saltburn needed I think! And it really fits in with Saltburn’s look. We’re going back tomorrow for Sunday Lunch. (I hope my Granddad remembers his wallet!) My grandma would have loved Brockley Hall, and having afternoon tea there. Although, I’m sure she is following me around. I keep seeing people sitting on walls or on benches or just walking towards me out of the corner of my eye but then when I actually look they’re gone! I hope I’m just imaging it and it’s just an eyelash or something because that’s a bit spooky! My mum says she sometimes feels warm patches on her arm as if someone were laying a comforting hand on her.

I finally got my Achilles Tendon fixed. It was getting more and more sore and my calves had got so tight and painful that my feet had gone numb. My Sports Massage teacher is an MSK Therapist and he is an absolute magician. I’ve had a bad neck three times and he’s fixed each one in just one appointment. He was also the one who first diagnosed me with EhlersDanlos Syndrome. Anyway, my feet were numb and I couldn’t walk really so I thought I would ask him if there was anything he could do. I was only expecting him to release my calf muscles because I just thought that my Achilles Tendons had to heal in their own time.

But when I went to see him he told me he could fix my Achilles, and he sure did! I jumped out of bed the next morning and ran down the stairs, because for months and months I have had to stagger downstairs clutching the banister because my tendons and calves were so tight and so sore. Months of pain gone in one appointment, I couldn’t believe it! I’d had lots of physio on it, and after one visit to him everything was fixed! Still now, weeks later I’m not in pain.

I’m looking after our next door neighbour’s dogs next month. He has three, and I’ll be walking them during the week because whilst he’s at work his mum normally looks after them but she’s away. I’m very excited because I love dogs. I met them for the first time today and they’re gorgeous. It makes me jealous. I really wish I had a dog. When I’ve moved out and got my own house I think I will have about twelve! Or maybe thirteen, or fourteen, even fifteen… but for now I’ll just have to love other people’s dogs!

Alex goes to University at the end of September.

I’m very sad because I will miss him but he will come back I suppose. I hope so anyway!

Megan

Saltburn Charity Crafters are a friendly group who make items for local charities.

We will be meeting on Wednesday, 7th September (and the first Wednesday of every month) from 2.30 to 4.30pm in the Coffee Room at Saltburn Community Hall. Come and join us for a cuppa if you are interested in helping us. You will be made very welcome. For further information please contact Angie on 01287 205153.

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Earthbeat’s Gangsters Tickets are now available for Earthbeat’s production of “Gangsters” on the 7th, 8th & 9th September at 7pm, so prepare to be razzled, dazzled n’ all that jazz!

Join our mobsters, good guys and femme fatales for a night you won’t forget at The Earthbeat Centre “Speakeasy”, Marske Road, Saltburn-By-The-Sea. As usual, tickets are gonna sell ridiculously fast, so don’t delay in booking your tickets. Please call us on 07969 623118 if you have any queries (or email earthbeat@hotmail.com).

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Science News The Mediterranean Sea is home to what could be the world’s oldest oceanic crust, an undisturbed part of the Earth’s outermost shell that scientists are thinking is about three hundred and forty million years old. Most oceanic crust is less than two hundred million years old, as it is usually recycled back into the Earth’s mantle at subduction zones (which is where two tectonic plates collide). But a new study is showing that part of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea may contain the oldest known oceanic crust. Many of this region’s tectonic characteristics are uncertain because of its thick sedimentary cover and its lack of magnetic data. In the new study, researchers used magnetic sensing equipment to profile areas of the Eastern Mediterranean. Study author and geologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, Roi Granot says, “Changes in the magnetic field’s orientation over time are recorded in the ocean floor, creating a unique bar code that provides a time stamp for crust formation.”

He added, “The results shed new light on the tectonic architecture and evolution of this region and have important implications on various geodynamic processes.”

During an analysis of the '’bar codes’' Granot found that rocks in the Herodotus Basin, which is located in the Eastern Mediterranean, had magnetic stripes associated with oceanic crust formed at a mid ocean ridge. The cooling of magma at a mid ocean ridge magnetises the minerals in newly forming rocks, which align with the direction of the earth’s magnetic field, according to the study. Granot also said that the ancient crust in this part of the Eastern Mediterranean could be remnants of one of the earth’s earliest oceans, called the Tethys Sea, which existed a long time before the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. If that idea is right, these discoveries show that the ancient Tethys Sea was formed much earlier than scientists first thought. “With the new geophysical data, we could make a big step forward in our geological understanding of the area,” says Granot.

Fluorescent proteins from jellyfish that were grown in bacteria have been used to create a laser for the first time, according to a new study. The breakthrough represents an advance in so called polariton lasers, the researchers have said. These lasers have the potential to be far more efficient and compact than the conventional ones and could open up research avenues in quantum physics and optical computing according to the researchers. Traditional polariton lasers that use inorganic semi conductors need to be cooled to very low temperatures. More recent designs based on organic electronics materials, like those used in organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays, work at room temperature but they need to be powered by picosecond, which is one trillionth of a second, pulses of light. By repurposing the fluorescent proteins that have revolutionised biomedical imaging, and by allowing the scientists to monitor processes inside cells, the research team created a polariton laser that operates at room temperature powered by nanosecond pulses (billionths of a second).

Malte Gather, a professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and one of the laser’s inventors said that the fluorescent proteins have been used as a marker in living cells or living tissue before, but now the researches have started using them as a material for creating a laser.

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SALTBURN CRICKET CLUB Marske Mill Lane, Tel 01287-622761

Weds 14th & 28th – BINGO – eyes down 8.00pm Wed 7th U3A QUIZ – 7.30pm prompt Sat 10th – BAND & BOOGIE NIGHT free admission!!! THE SANDS OF TIME play music from Beatles to Adele Thurs 15th – QUIZ in aid of SALTBURN IN BLOOM Fri 16th in aid of Tennis Section Sing-along MAMMA MIA (Community Centre) Sat 24th SALTBURN BLUES CLUB THE DELLA GRANTS, support AULD MANS BACCIE All ticket night - £10 with 10% discount for Club members *Free WiFi in Club * BIG screen TV showing SKY sports etc ***FEATURED IN CAMRA GOOD BEER GUIDE 2016!!*** GREAT VENUE FOR family events, weddings, parties, funerals & meetings - free use for charity & community groups' during normal opening hours.

Convenient venue, free parking, reasonable bar prices.

Contact us to book your event.

Members and non-members welcome.

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SALTBURN BLUES CLUB It’s five years this September since I started the Blues Club in Saltburn. Its popularity has grown and our monthly gigs (and some extras along the way) attract a regular and appreciative audience. Together we enjoy and support performers who want to share their talent on the live music circuit and looking back at the bookings, we’ve had some exceptional artists on our stage. The likes of Kyla Brox, Jo Harman, Moreland and Arbuckle played for us as their careers were taking off and they’re now major names nationally and internationally. I’ve tried to bring a wide range of bands and soloists to the Club to show how diverse the Blues genre is. I can only mention a few of the highlights here but nights with Sean Webster, Tom Attah, The Little Devils, Street Corner Blues, Sean Taylor, Rod Clements, Dale Storrs, Matt Woosey have been memorable. All tastes are catered for and it’s great to see the audience and performers enjoying the experience.

This month’s gig is on Saturday, 24th September with THE DELLA GRANTS headlining. These 4 young guys play a mix of blues influenced rock songs and ballads and have made such an impression they’ve already played alongside Canned Heat, Wilko Johnson and Dr Feelgood.

Ten of the eleven tracks on their debut album are superb original numbers.

Also, I’m delighted to welcome back to Saltburn the acoustic duo, AULD MAN’S BACCIE, as support. Davey Curtis (vocals and guitar) and Nick Phillips (slide) focus on prime quality blues. I rate them so highly I invited them to play on my radio show, Still Got The Blues. We had a fine live session of music and chat. It’s a double bill I’m proud to promote.

Doors: 7.30pm. Support: 8.00pm. Venue: Saltburn Cricket Club. Tickets: £10 available from: 07960 935263, www.y orkshireticketshop. co. uk and Whistlestop Wines, Saltburn. Find all our details at www.saltburnbluesclub.co.uk and our Facebook page.

My show, STILL GOT THE BLUES, goes out on ZETLAND FM on 105FM and online for listeners outside the area every Monday night, 7-10pm. Three hours of the best of blues music, old and new. Listen in, add your comments. I also do requests. It’s available to listen to later on Mixcloud. Just follow the link at the bottom of Zetland FM’s web page.

Harry

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At Ryedale Auctioneers, we have fortnightly general sales, with live internet bidding. We also have Specialist Sales, Antique & Fine Art Sales, Militaria & Sporting Sales and Railwayana & Toy Sales.

We also do house clearances, and have our own collection/delivery service. We provide valuations for probate, insurance and sales.

Upcoming Sale dates for September are:

General Household Sales - 3rd and 17th Outdoor Sale - 10th

Ryedale Auctioneers Cooks Yard, New Road, Kirkbymoorside, York YO62 6DZ

Tel: 01751 431544 Email: ryedaleauctioneers@live.co.uk Website: www.ryedaleauctioneers.com

We sell a good selection of Stationery i.e. Envelopes, Labels, Tapes, Mailing Bags, and Greetings Cards plus a wide range of Personalised Cards.

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Cleveland Diving Club Purpose, patience and persistence, some would say, make an unbeatable combination for success and I am sure this year’s GB’s Olympic team would heartily agree. However, the determination to achieve goals is often beset with setbacks as some of our club members can testify.

During a spell of what can only be described as Mediterranean-style weather in July a number of our divers set off from Redcar beach (photo 1) to dive a recently discovered reef just off the coast of Marske-by-the-Sea. Determination by our divers overcame some initial launching problems and soon the party set to sea. Having dived the reef our members overwhelmingly agreed that the reef was an excellent dive site for divers of any grade, there being an abundance of marine life to enjoy and photograph.

However, a great deal of interest was also stimulated by a find by of one the less experienced group who had uncovered an old canon ball. For some of our divers this has now become a much coveted prize and a couple of weeks later a further visit to the same dive site was organised.

On this day, two of our divers were determined to find their own cannon ball and spent one and quarter hours searching the reef. Unfortunately they were unsuccessful this time around. Why are these cannon balls lying on the seabed in our local waters, you may ask? Well, whilst waiting to pick up refilled cylinders from our local dive shop, Denney’s, a very interesting conversation with Ian Denney, the owner, ensued. The Denney business, which is located on Redcar seafront (near the RNLI station,) was first established in 1948 as a garage, by Ian’s father. Ian took up snorkelling around 1951 and was often asked by the public where he got his snorkelling equipment from. Being an astute business man Ian recognised an unfulfilled niche in an emerging leisure activity and in 1954 extended the business to market snorkelling and diving equipment. It is thought that Denney’s is one of the oldest dive shops in the country.

During the conversation Ian described how at one time there had been what is called a ‘shore battery,’ located at the end of the Stray. Here artillery guns were placed so that the military could use a sea-based marker for target practice. During one of his dives Ian also found a cannon ball (photograph 2). No doubt the determination of our divers to find more cannon balls will ensure more dives are organised to search for these historical relics.

On a different note however, for some years our members have tried, in vain, to organise a summer barbecue but this year their purpose, patience and persistence has paid off. One evening in July their determination was rewarded and our members enjoyed a very successful barbecue at Saltburn Cricket Club (photograph 3). Family members and pets were all invited and a pleasant, harmonious atmosphere helped the food and drinks to be enjoyed. An added bonus was the warm sunshine, tranquil setting and a glorious sunset. Don’t forget, if you want to learn more about scuba diving and what the club does contact us on 07960 608529.

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Saltburn House this September!

Join us for our “Back to School Family Fun Day!!” On Saturday the 3rd for a great family day, bouncy castle, BBQ, face-painting, and outside music for all the family to enjoy.

Also playing on the evening of the Saturday 3rd are the popular band “BAGGY MONDAYS” TICKETS ONLY. £3 Non-members & Only £1 for members. ***Every Friday it’s Karaoke!!*** Saturday 10

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For further information, contact Ann, Andy or Joanna on:

01287 622008

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Redcar & Cleveland Philatelic Society societies throughout the North East England and Yorkshire Philatelic Federations. (We won several 2016 trophies and awards from both to prove it!) Last month we showed a Victorian railway item; here we contrast it with a Zeppelin: no less than one of the very rare charred examples rescued from the May 1937 Hindenberg Disaster! Whilst we normally like our material in pristine condition, here the extensive scorching enhances, rather than detracts from, the visual interest of this item!

Geoff Reynolds (Secretary) 01642 478229 David D. Turner 01287 624736

R&CPS begins its 2016-17 season on Wednesday, 7th September, from 7:00 for 7:15pm at the Community Centre, Durham Road, Redcar, thereafter usually meeting on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month until June 2017. Our first two are: Wednesday, 7th: Members’ new acquisitions. 21st: Postcards and ephemera. Both events will give ideal introductions for visitors to see our wide variety of stamps, postcards, and postal history, and why it is no exaggeration to remind readers we are one of the strongest

Friends of Saltburn Library

Visiting snake

George’s Marvellous Medicine

August’s meeting was a lovely family friendly visit from Kirkleatham Owl Centre with not just an Owl but a snake, hairless guinea pig, tortoise and other small creatures. It was a very hands on event with everyone being given the change to have a touch or hold of the animals.

There is a change of programme for Tuesday, 20th September at 2pm. Instead of Further Fascinating Fossils, Marjorie Wieland will give a talk on Richard III, the last English King to die on the battlefield. A much maligned Monarch: Shakespeare wrote that he offered to swop his Kingdom for a horse….

Big Friendly Summer We have been really busy over the summer holidays with the Big Friendly Read Summer Reading Scheme Events.

The Children really enjoyed the fantastic George’s Marvellous Medicine event brought to us by “Love Science”.

We have also had the lovely Kathryn Lynas in the Library making Dream Jars from Roald Dahl’s Book the BFG (The Big Friendly Giant). The Friends of the Library event for August was a visit from Kirkleatham Owl Centre which proved popular with young and old alike (see the snake pictured above).

BFG Dream Jars

Busy in the Library Garden

The Reading Scheme has proved to be one of the most popular yet with its Roald Dahl theme and the children still have a few days left to complete the challenge if they haven’t already done so. All the children who complete get invited to a special event on Monday, 19th September where they will receive their certificate and a medal.

The Library Garden has proved to be very popular with the Children tidying and watering the plants and we have had a lot of positive comments from visitors and families making their first visit to the Library. Any keen Gardeners will be most welcome to potter about in either Front or Rear Garden.

Hopefully all the families who joined the Library over the summer will continue to use the Library and keep up with their reading. Don’t forget it is free to join the Library and there is no charge for taking books out.

We welcome new families to attend our Rhymetime sessions on a Wednesday Morning, with singing, music and play for under 5s all for free. Monday Morning at 10.00am and Wednesday afternoon at 2.00pm will continue as a pop-in and play session.

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Stunning new venue for fourth Festival of Thrift

The award-winning Festival of Thrift, the UK’s only national celebration of sustainable living, is back for the fourth year running at a stunning new north east-based venue.

Woodland trails, a museum, a walled kitchen garden, a church, stable blocks and almshouses form the backdrop of this year’s Festival at its new venue of Kirkleatham Museum and Grounds, near Redcar on Teesside.

A large-scale, family-friendly event, it features leading and emerging artists, demonstrations, stalls, talks and workshops offering thrifty advice, tips and tricks as well as innovative and tasty food and drink.

Stella Hall Festival Director said: “We’re taking the Festival on tour this year after three very successful years in Darlington. Our venue in the grounds of Kirkleatham Museum this year is an absolute gem of a festival location. We are delighted to be working with Redcar & Cleveland Council and our other partners to help bring this fun family event to a new venue to spread the message about thrifty living from a woodland backdrop in the north east.”

The Festival’s Co-founders Wayne Hemingway and Gerardine Hemingway said: “It’s a lovely location for a festival that is now nationally recognised as being something very special.”

The site will be filled with art installations, music, performances, stalls and plenty of talks and demonstrations with making, learning and opportunities to join in for all ages. There will also be foraging, campfire cooking and a giant community meal.

Over the Festival weekend, visitors can pitch in to build a den, forage for food, make jam, strut their stuff in the fashion show, fix their broken laptops and generally have a great deal of fun.

They can also hear about top money saving ideas, attend panel debates covering topics from thrifty fashion to regeneration and heritage, watch ‘how to’ films and demos, get hands on playing and learning, buy thrifty goods from over one hundred handpicked stalls and eat delicious food at the Bistro du Van in the stunning stable block, or at a range of picnic sites on the fields and in the woodlands.

Festival of Thrift takes place on Saturday, 17th & Sunday, 18th September 2016 in Kirkleatham Museum and Grounds, Redcar, North East TS10 5NW, from 10am – 5pm.

The cost is free but parking will be £5 per car. www.festivalofthrift.co.uk, Twitter @Thriftfest, Facebook @festivalofthrift

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Saltburn and District Group for Visually Impaired People We have had a Summer break from our usual format, but met on 17th August for some training. This was provided

by RNIB and Action for Blind People. It is a project funded by the Lottery and called On Line Today.

We were given individual sessions on accessing technology on Smart phones, iPads etc. Speaking personally I picked up some good tips, but now need to practise so I can confidently access the Internet via my

phone! Wish us luck!

Our usual meetings will commence in September with a visit from Cleveland News and Views. Please join us at 2pm on 14th September in the coffee Lounge, Community Centre, Albion Terrace, Saltburn.

For further details contact Chris Ferguson on 01287 204 170.

We Did It! In the August edition of Talk of the Town I was honoured to be featured as a profile written by Rosemary Nichols.

I would just like to take this opportunity to keep you up to date with the outings of myself and my guide dog, Quinta.

Yes, on 7th August myself, husband David and Quinta completed the York 10k! It was a very hot day and there was not much shelter along the route which went through the centre of the beautiful City of York.

Quinta was the pace-setter and we finished in 1 hour, 24 minutes and 46 seconds. This was 8 minutes quicker than last year. We raised a total of £492. The money raised was split between Guide Dogs and York Blind and Partially Sighted Society, a charity established and run by my sister.

A huge thank you to everyone who sponsored us enabling us to raise such a fantastic amount. It is likely you will see us wearing our T-shirts with pride!

Chris, David and Quinta Ferguson Picture: We are the ones on the front row, 1st and 2nd from the left – plus the one with white paws lying down!

Jennie’s New Novel Saltburn author Jennie Finch will be signing copies of her new crime thriller, “Smoke and Adders” at Book Corner book shop on Saturday, October 8th.

Jennie will be in the shop to talk to readers from 11.30am – 1pm and there will be copies of all four “Alex Hastings” books on sale.

The new book is the last in Jennie’s Somerset series but there will be more books featuring Alex Hastings in the future – possibly set a lot closer to home.

Jennie is also writing a number of shorter stories about other characters from the Somerset books to be published in the near future.

“Smoke and Adders” is published

by Impress Books of Exeter and is available as a paperback for £6.99 from September 1st.

Ladies of Saltburn Churches Coffee Morning Saturday 24th September Saltburn Methodist Church 10am-12 noon Proceeds to Zoë’s Place 27

Treats on the Street Thousands of people enjoy an incredible day at Saltburn Food Festival Thousands of people enjoyed an incredible day at the fourth annual Saltburn Food Festival on Sunday, 31st July.

Described as the Festival’s ‘busiest ever day’, the town’s Milton Street was transformed into a buzzing festival village, with over 80 of the best independent local food producers from the North East and North Yorkshire tickling the tastebuds all day long.

A huge celebration of good local food, it was all part of a busy day that also included a Festival Fringe around the town, a Family Kitchen for children, outdoor dining and picnic areas and bags more besides.

And special guest chefs including Mark Greenaway from BBC2’s Great British Menu and Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch cooked up a treat at the Festival’s live Cookery Theatre.

Festival Director Lorna Jackson, who lives in Saltburn and also helps to run the family deli Real Meals on Milton Street, said: “The Festival was an absolutely incredible day!

“We never like to take anything for granted, but it was easily our busiest festival yet – and that’s saying something!

“The whole town was really busy all day long, and the atmosphere around the place was just wonderful.

“The Festival Fringe events also worked really well, and it was great to see so many people of all ages enjoying great local food right in the heart of town.

“I’m very proud to both live and work in Saltburn.

It’s an amazing place, and I hope everyone who came to the Festival had a great time and will enjoy coming back to visit the town right throughout the year.”

And Festival guest chef Mark Greenaway loved his first visit to the town.

“This is the first time I’ve been to Saltburn, and it won’t be the last,” said Mark.

“It’s an absolutely gorgeous town, with lots going on.

There were so many great stalls, a fantastic mix of people of all ages, all the cookery demos were amazing, and it was great to meet and chat with so many people.

“People had been telling me about Saltburn, about how great the place was, and I’d seen photos of the last couple of Festivals - but I was still absolutely amazed to see how many people turned out on the day.

“I’ll certainly be spreading the word about Saltburn, and hopefully next year I can be on the other side of the cooker and come along as a visitor instead.”

Foodies can enjoy more tasty treats, when the popular monthly Saltburn Farmers’ Market returns on Saturday, 10th September (for further info, visit www.saltburnfarmersmarket.com).

Seaview and Greta Cottage caring together 5 star care homes awarded by Redcar and Cleveland for their quality of care and personalised service.

Home from home with daily activities and weekly trips out in our own minibus.

Please feel free to visit us at anytime.

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Saltburn War Memorial Saltburn War Memorial is to be re-dedicated at a special event planned for Sunday, 2nd October 2016 to mark the completion of essential conservation and improvement works.

A short service will be led by Saltburn’s Churches Together group when a plaque recording the project will be unveiled.

The grade II* listed Saltburn War Memorial project is led by Tees Heritage Trust Ltd in partnership with the Friends of Saltburn War Memorial and Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council.

Gifted to the town by anonymous donors, the memorial was designed in the Arts-and-Crafts style by American born sculptor Sir William Reynolds-Stephens (1862-1943) and was unveiled and dedicated on Sunday, 14th November 1920.

Funds for the recent conservation work were raised by the local community – £19,381 – topped up with two gifts, each of £3,000 from the Lt Col. N.L. Cohen Charitable Trust and the Les Bell Family Fund.

Conservation specialists Eura Conservation Ltd were appointed to sensitively repair and stabilise the granite cross and weathered and decayed sculpture, restoring it as close as possible to its original appearance. Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council recently embellished the memorial’s setting by installing new wooden benches, a flagpole and wreath rail under their Public Realm capital programme while Carillion PLC re-laid free-of-charge the stone paving around the War Memorial and structural survey work was donated by Consulting Engineers and Surveyors Billinghurst George & Partners.

Saltburn residents are invited to assemble at the War

memorial on Glenside at 12.30 on Sunday, 2nd October 2016.

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Harry Braved the Shave Harry aged 10 from Saltburn ‘braved the shave’ on Tuesday, 2nd August at Cheveux Hairdressers in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

This lovely lad has raised close to £400. (Not sure of the final donations yet as they are STILL coming in!)

Me and Harry would love to say a Huge Thank you to everyone who has donated. And of course Cheveux Hairdressers who did the shave.

Harry has ‘braved the shave’ in memory of his Great Granddad and Granddad who both died of cancer when he was very young.

Me and Harry’s family (pictured) are VERY proud of him!

“He is such a wonderful young man and we couldn’t be any more proud than we are!”

You can still donate on the Macmillan Brave the shave website (just type in Harry Laverick).

Thank you, and WELL DONE, HARRY!

Damaged plaque repaired and unveiled at Saltburn A gale of laughter greeted a mishap just before the unveiling of a mosaic plaque, which was mysteriously damaged last winter, on a wall outside Sainsbury’s store, Saltburn, on Wednesday, August 17th.

A gust of wind caused a sheet hiding the plaque to be revealed early and Town Crier Sharon Wilson immediately stepped forward to fit it back into place.

Then three community stalwarts Saltburn’s Liz Chadwick and Anne Bedell and Vera Rider, of New Marske, performed the low-key ceremony.

An appeal was made by organiser Councillor Philip Thomson for contributions towards the cost, which is several hundred pounds. Cards of the plaques, which were made by local sculptors Derek Mosey and Helen Jane Gaunt helped by hundreds of local volunteers in 2011, can be bought from Saltburn library.

Councillor Thomson said he did not Above: An official line up at the restored mosaic plaque as Councillor Philip know if the damage had been caused by Thomson raises his top hat in celebration of the event on 17th August. vandalism.

From left outside Sainsbury’s store, opposite the railway line: town crier He raised a glass of bubbly drink Sharon Wilson, Liz Chadwick, sculptor Helen Jane Gaunt, Anne Bedell, Vera provided by a community well-wisher - to Rider, of New Marske, and Councillor Thomson. mark the occasion.

Extra rain-proofing material has been added to the which show the story of Saltburn from 1861 when the Mike Morrissey top of the five plaques to prevent rain getting under tiles, first train arrived.

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REDCAR GOSPEL HALL Edenhall Grove, Redcar TS10 4PR A warm welcome awaits you at the Sunday evening Gospel Service, 6.30 p.m. and at ‘Coffee and Chat’ each Wednesday morning from 10.30 a.m.

Why not browse our website (www.redcargospelhall.org.uk)?

There are many interesting and helpful articles

For a personal chat please ring 07514 229577 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

John 3 v 16 (The Bible)

Redcar Gospel Hall HISTORY OF REDCAR GOSPEL HALL The Christian Fellowship known as Redcar Gospel Hall started in about 1910, and church meetings were held above an Arcade in Redcar. The Gospel Hall is mentioned in Kelly’s Directory of 1913 as a place of worship in Redcar.

In the 1920s it moved to rooms above Boots the Opticians in Redcar High Street.

In the mid-30s the local Christians moved into the Gospel Hall on the corner of Regent Street and Lord Street (Regent Street no longer exists following re-development of Redcar town centre). These premises were closed in 2001 as part of the Redcar Town Centre development and for a short time, the fellowship met in the Community Centre at Larkswood Road, Redcar. In 2006 a new Hall was built in Edenhall Grove, Redcar, on the opposite side to the Redcar Primary Health Care Trust Hospital. This was opened in January 2007.

CHURCH SERVICES There is no ordained minister or Pastor, and the arrangements are made following discussions amongst the men-folk attending. Three basic church services are held: 1. Breaking of Bread or Communion. On a Sunday morning the fellowship meets to remember the Lord Jesus as He asked us to on the night He was betrayed. All are welcome to this service, but only believers known to be sound in faith and godly in life receive the bread and wine.

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according to the Scriptures. There is a different speaker most weeks to present this basic message, in different ways, using different scriptures to support his presentation. All are invited to this Service. We would warmly invite you to join us on these occasions.

3. Bible Reading and Prayer Meeting. This is currently held on a Wednesday night and the format differs each week of a particular month. The first Wednesday is used to pray for Missionary work overseas.

On the 2nd and 4th Wednesday evenings we have an open Bible study at which we discuss one of the books of the Bible, and see the application to our own life situation. Different people contribute an understanding to the meaning of the passage of Scripture. On the third Wednesday each month, a message from the Bible is given by one of our own members.

In addition, each week on a Wednesday morning from 10:30am to 12 noon, there is an informal meeting at which tea/ coffee and light refreshments are available. We simply call it “Coffee and Chat”. This is an opportunity to visit the premises, meet some of the people who attend, get to know a little about them, and equally for them to meet you. Why not come along, call in when you can, chat with friends and neighbours, and enjoy tea or coffee, and biscuits?

The fellowship is self-supporting, a registered charity, and any excess income from the offerings of members being used to support Missionary work. Redcar Gospel Hall is a place where the Good News of Jesus Christ may be heard in a warm, friendly atmosphere, where enquiries concerning the Christian faith will be answered as best we can from the Bible. We invite you to visit us.

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SALTBURN VARIETY SHOW! In aid of Leleka Fund – helping Chernobyl Children Saturday, 3rd September 2016, 7.30pm Earthbeat Centre Marske Road, Saltburn-by-the-Sea

Love dancing? Want to get fit?

THE ‘STRICTLY’ MAGIC IS BACK!!

Dance your way to FITNESS and overall TONING with this fun and dynamic LATIN & BALLROOM dance fitness class…

Aimed at all ages and abilities, this class is also PARTNER FREE. Starts Monday 26/09 - 7pm at Emmanuel Church Hall - £4 pp (DISCOUNT!! ONLY £6 if you stay for both Zumba Gold & Ballroom Blitz on Mondays)

EASY TO FOLLOW, TONING and a FUN OVERALL WORKOUT...

This dance fitness class will shake up your routine and get you groovin’!

Starts Monday 05/09 - 6pm - Emmanuel Church Hall - £4 pp (DISCOUNT!! ONLY £6 if you stay for both Zumba Gold & Ballroom Blitz on Mondays) Starts Thursday 08/09 - 10am - Saltburn Community Hall -£4pp

Spirals A PILATES, YOGA & BALLET inspired fitness class: builds on CORE STRENGTH and BALANCE, TONES and improves natural FLEXIBILITY. Starts Wednesday 07/09 - 7pm - The EarthBeat Centre, Saltburn.

BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL FOR THIS COURSE

Featuring: Sarah Paterson – harp Maggie Camp – folk singer James Cairns – flute Nina Scott-Stoddart – mezzo-soprano Fife Keam Curse Pie and the Amplifier Easington Tappers Refreshments and some amazing raffle prizes!

Tickets £5 Adult; £2.50 children.

Available from Sarah (07729 865666) or on the door.

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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! We are Rosie the dog and Willow the cat writing for S.A.R.A. this month. Please can you help us? First up is Rosie: she is a lovely Lurcher.

She is around 5 years old.

She came into S.A.R.A. in a bad way, very underweight and clinically dehydrated.

After spending the night at the vets on a drip it was discovered that this poor girl was also diabetic.

Now that Rosie has recovered from her ordeal she is ready to look for a new forever home. Rosie is looking for a home with experienced dog owners as she needs insulin injections twice daily as well as a strict diet and regular exercise.

Rosie is an attractive dog with a jet black coat with white on her chest. She is very friendly and thoroughly enjoys her walks and she also loves the company of other dogs.

Willow is a 4 year old female feline. Willow is a

beautiful coloured tabby torti, mostly white with markings on her face. She is very sweet and affectionate and she loves nothing more than a good fuss and a play.

She would probably be very happy living in a home with older children age 6 and over, and she would benefit being in a home with no other pets.

Love from Rosie and Willow.

SARA fundraising events during September The next monthly meeting of SARA will be held in the TocH premises, Albion Terrace, Saltburn, on Wednesday, 7th September, at 7.30pm. We look forward to meeting anyone interested in animals and the activities of our group.

Saturday 10th September - SARA will be holding its Open Day at Foxrush Farm, Kirkleatham Lane, Redcar, from 11,00am to 4.00pm. Events held throughout the day will be as follows: 12noon – 2pm - Mini Fun Dog Show with a wide variety of classes.

2.00pm - 2.30pm - SARA dogs hoping for new homes will be introduced.

2.30pm - 3pm - Doggy games.

3.00pm - We will be holding our big Raffle Draw.

There will be conducted tours of the sanctuary. This enables people to see the progress that has been made possible with the help that has been given throughout the year, for which we are very grateful.

The usual stalls will include a pet stall, tombola, face painting, bric-a-brac, and many more. Homemade refreshments will be on sale. There will also be a barbecue and cake stall.

The Cleveland Ukes will be playing at times throughout the day.

There is plenty of parking on the Foxrush field.

Come along with family, friends and pets to enjoy a lovely day.

Saturday 17th September Autumn Bargain Sale Plenty of bargains to have. Come along and see what is on offer.

10 - 1pm at Foxrush Farm.

Saturday 24th September A table top sale will be held at the Community Centre, Saltburn from 10 - 4pm.

Saturday 24th September We will be holding a Street collection in Redcar. If you can help please contact the centre on 10642 488108.

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4 People Not Profit present Justice First fundraiser as part of ‘Out of Africa’ UK Tour 2016 4 people Not Profit return with a very special gig on Saturday, 24th September at the Marine Pub in Saltburn. As part of a joint legendary musical project we will be bringing Robert Maseko (UK/Congo) & Jackson Reed (South Africa/ France) to Saltburn as part of their ‘Out of Africa’ UK tour 2016.

The gig will be a fundraiser in support of the fabulous refugee charity Justice First which supports refugees in the Teesside area. The core purpose of Justice First is to work with people seeking asylum whose appeals have been rejected by the Home Office; seeking to help them re-engage with the legal system and avoid destitution by researching and helping to submit further evidence or a fresh claim, either directly or via immigration solicitors. They offer practical and emotional support; utilise volunteer befrienders and deliver refugee awareness training, presentations and talks.

Robert Maseko is a music master, music maker, singer songwriter, producer, arranger, music teacher and an outstanding Congo-British, master drummer. The Congolese rhythm king of the North of England, from Kinshasa, now lives in Middlesbrough and is described by the Musicport Festival as “one of the finest ambassadors of African music based in the UK. Jackson Reed’s favourite genre of music to play is Mbaqanga, a popular South African township music which

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is a soul, reggae jazz innovation. He is a musician, songwriter, composer and producer who grew up in Kimberly, South Africa with a musical background and composed his first song at 11 years old.

They will be supported by local up and coming singer songwriter Carl James Dunning (of The Strange Folk) who will be providing one of his stirring solo acoustic sets. Also joining the line up will be resident DJ and VJ artist Jonny Da Pigg providing visuals and Drum n Bass and breaks set to end the night.

So dust off your dancing shoes: this is a 4 people Not Profit event not to be missed!

Talk of the Town’s monthly

Pride of Saltburn Award

Open 7 days a week Stocking a wide range of health foods, chutneys, jams and honeys.

If it’s grown locally we do our best to source it.

Quality Fresh Fruit and Veg at Competitive Prices.

The winners of this month’s Pride of Saltburn Award are Djenane Watkins and Sue Wilkinson from Saltburn Valley Players. They were nominated by Matt and Julia Rayson who say about them, “Sue and Djenane have been absolute stars with the Valley Players. This group was initially set up as a Youth theatre group and has had much success over the last 6 years at various drama festivals around the area. The group has now branched out to adult actors and has received much critical acclaim and awards for their previous productions. Sue and Djenane no longer run Valley Players Youth but still find the time to work with the adult group as well as both becoming published authors recently. The work they did with the young people of Saltburn has been immensely rewarding for all and we would like to thank them for all their hard work. Matt said, “it has been a wonderful experience for me working with Valley Players for the 6 years we were together. They helped me grow as an actor and I will always remember the help and support they gave me.”

Thank you, Sue and Djenane, for being you, the Pride of Saltburn.

Every month, a £30 bunch of flowers, kindly donated by Ruby Lilly’s Florists of Marske, is awarded to someone in Saltburn who has earned admiration, gratitude and love for whatever reason. Talk of the Town invites nominations from readers, to chose whom to receive recognition and a bunch of flowers. Send your nominations to Talk of the Town’s postbag at Jackie’s Saverstore, 8 Station Buildings, Saltburn, Cleveland, TS12 1AQ or email Ian (talkofthetownsaltburn@gmail.com). (Please include your name, phone number and the reason you are nominating the person of your choice.) Please also confirm with the nominee that they are willing to receive the award (many people feel shy about it). All the nominations will be read and kept for future use, so even if your choice doesn’t win this month, they might do so next time.

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Plums Plums galore at Grasers! English Damsons and Greengages.

Traditional English Victoria and President plums, Spanish Golden plums and Portuguese Black plums too. As well as so many different varieties of plums there’s also Plum Bread, made from other dried fruit, by Botham’s of Whitby.

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Saltburn Tennis Club

In July we held our Great British Tennis Weekend. For once the weather held out and we had over thirty people turn up to see what activities were available at the club for both children and adults. Many were impressed with the two new courts which were resurfaced last year.

We have two further courts in need of refurbishment so we are trying to boost our funds by trying something completely different. On Friday, 16th September at 7.30pm, we are holding a Fully interactive screening of the hit musical Mamma Mia. Why not come along and see what it is all about.

Friday Friends

We are an inclusive friendship group, open to all over 18, and based in Saltburn.

Firstly, Thank you to Saltburn, Marske and New Marske Parish Council for your welcome grant of £200.

We would like to invite you all to The Friday Friends hosted Macmillan Cancer Support Coffee Morning, at Emmanuel Church Hall, on October 7th from 10.30 - 12.00.

All proceeds from the sale of coffee, tea and cakes goes to support this great cause. Please feel free to pop in. In memory of our friend Linda.

On 30th September we are having our Annual General Meeting at the hall at 12.30; all members are respectfully asked to attend this meeting, thank you. September 2nd - 1011 Seated Keep-Fit to music with Taylor then relax with colouring in. Enjoy an afternoon of weaving. 8th - Sing-along with Ian on guitar. Making paper birds. 16th - Bingo then 11-12ish learn sign language with Tom. Sew a patchwork picture. 23rd - A day trip to The Moors National Park Centre, Danby from 10.30. We will enjoy a day of walking, birdwatching with a picnic and drawing. In memory of our friend Frances who loved the Centre. 30th - Bowling at Saltburn Bowls Club then AGM at the hall at 12.30. Ending the month by painting an autumnal tree.

We meet at Emmanuel Church Hall, Macnay St, Saltburn every Friday. Activity mornings 10-12.30 and afternoon Arts and Crafts 1-4.

First session is free (carers always free) then there is a charge of £2.50 one session or £4 all day. This helps towards the rent etc. We are totally run by volunteers.

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Friday 16 September at 7.30pm Saltburn Community Theatre

Come along and enjoy this fully interactive screening of the smash-hit musical in a night of fun and action. Your compere will guide you through the music and actions before you sit back and enjoy the show. Fancy dress is encouraged.

Tickets only £5 Available from: The Book Corner, Theatre Box Office or online at www.saltburnarts.co.uk Alternatively, contact Saltburn Tennis Club email: saltburntennisclub@hotmail.com

Why do some families choose to home educate?

It’s September, the summer holidays seem to have flown by once again and the children are getting ready to go back to school. But not all of them. For those families who have opted for the home education option, things are continuing as usual. I first became interested in home education a few years ago, so when I heard that there was a home ed camp on in the area my husband and I, along with our one year old daughter, decided to go along. Since we are considering home education as an option for our family, it seemed a good opportunity to go and meet some of the other families in this area who are already doing it.

So, at the beginning of June we went to a home education camp in North Yorkshire where about 35 different families camped together for four days in a beautiful rural setting. The children’s ages ranged from a few months old to teenagers. I used the opportunity to talk to them and their parents about home education.

The families were from all walks of life and the reasons for their decisions to home educate varied widely.

A few home educators are into a concept called ‘hot housing,’ where a child enrols in an Open University course at the age of 13, graduates by 15, sits their GCSEs by 16 and are then fully qualified and ready for the job market. Other families are home educating because they feel that it allows their children to learn at their own pace and to follow areas of interest to the desired depth. Some parents took their children out of school after their children experiencing bullying or having other experiences which they did not enjoy. And one child I spoke to was being home educated because he had been expelled from every school he had been to and this seemed like the only option left open to him (he said that he didn’t like school, and he didn’t like being home educated, either). Some families had taken their children out of school and others never put them in in the first place. There were some children who had been to the Steiner kindergarten.

The styles of home educating varied widely too.

Some families followed a strict schedule of set lesson times and a set curriculum – the same or similar to the one taught in schools. Others had a mixture of set times and activities and a more flexible schedule. Most of the families I met were following more of an ‘unschooling’, or ‘organic learning’ approach, where the children are free to pursue their own interests at their own pace. Another aspect of home education that I liked was that I found that the children started to think in a different way – working the answer out in their own way, rather than just memorising and then repeating it.

It was interesting to hear that even within the same families different children preferred to learn in different ways. For example, one teenage girl wanted to be an accountant and liked to study at set times in the mornings, whereas her younger sister enjoyed being more creative and flexible in her approach. Being home educated also gave the children the option of spending more time outdoors, going for trips and holidays during ‘off-peak’

times and spending more time with their families.

Overall, I was impressed with how the children are turning out. During the duration of the camp, there were no instances of vandalism and the children were respectful and easy to talk to. Because the home educated children are ‘socialised’ in a different way – interacting with all different age groups regularly rather than just primarily with children their own age – I find that they tend to be more used to talking to adults as equals. I did not see any litter or see any fights and only heard one swear word the whole time – and this with lots of teenagers around.

So were the children enjoying it? Overall, most said yes. Some said it was OK and a couple said they didn’t like it. Home education is not for everyone. I have some friends whose children want to go to school because they want to be with their friends, or because they like the structure of it.

I know families where some children go to school and others don’t, because that is what works for them. School can be a wonderful place for many. And then there are others for whom the one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work so well, for a plethora of reasons from requiring extra support, to wanting to follow certain topics in great depth, to wanting to go faster and learn more than the school system will allow.

Some other reasons why our family is considering home educating is that we enjoy eating healthy organic wholefoods, which can be provided more easily in a home education setting. The flexibility of the approach would also allow both of us to continue working on a selfemployed basis, whilst also spending more time with our child and as a family. I love the idea of spending more time outdoors, and find it appealing that we would be able to plan our holidays around when we want to take time off, rather than being tied down to the busy out of term-time dates. The whole approach sounds more flexible and something that feels in line with our family’s values.

It seems that the Local Education Authorities are quite friendly towards home educators in our area. The parents I spoke to said that most of them had contact and conversations with their LEAs, resulting in a generally positive attitude from the LEA staff. Another thing I found interesting was that the older home educated children seemed to have no difficulty securing college and university places – some had already received unconditional offers from a number of establishments. They explained that colleges and universities are increasingly keen to recruit home educated children who retain much of their enthusiasm for learning, having not been burnt out by endless tests and exams over the years.

There are home education networks nationwide, with the nearest ones to us being around Scarborough/York/ Teesside areas. For anyone wanting to set up a network of families in the Saltburn area (or any families who have already formed such a network and would like to meet more like-minded people), please get in touch at tatiana@gn.apc.org. Please also feel free to send me any comments about this article.

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When I were a Lad: The Royal Mail Years After ten years working in the rod mill at Lackenby (it was still Dorman Long in those days) I decided that night shifts were no longer for me and I would look for something new.

I saw a job advertised in the local Post Office (G.P.O.) and my career in the postal service started, but at that time I didn’t think it would last thirty years.

My first walk (as the delivery rounds were called) was at Brotton. I started at the High Street and delivered to the top of Brotton, then picked up a bike from Old Brotton Post Office and delivered to the surrounding farms, then cycled down the railway side (for which I had a British Rail pass) to the Ship Inn. I had to be back at the office to make the midday despatch to Middlesbrough, taking bags of mail on a barrow which was as old as British Rail itself to the station.

Often as the train slowed into the station, a figure would leap out and pass me at the speed of an Olympic sprinter: Peter Butler heading for the Queen’s Hotel for a swift pint before the return journey to Darlington. Peter is not as fast these days.

I soon graduated to postman/driver delivering to the rural areas of Scaling, Moorsholm, Roxby and Mickleby.

Rules were not enforced in those days and as well as delivering mail and parcels I would also deliver newspapers and parts from Brotton Hall Garage to the outlying farms, a service which was often rewarded with gifts of potatoes, rabbits and the odd pheasant.

My first van was a Morris Minor, which I managed to remove the sump drain plug from, travelling at rally speeds over rough farm tracks. I later had a Mini van (complete with sump guard) in which I perfected my rally technique, especially through some bad winters. The mail always got through.

One delivery route was good for rabbits and I had snares set over a bank side. One day as I sat having my break the gamekeeper approached me, in one hand he had

two rabbits in the other my snares. He asked if I had seen any suspicious characters about, then offered me the rabbits but sadly not my snares. I thought it best not to ask.

On another occasion a pheasant dropped from the sky in front of me. I quickly grabbed my prize and sealed it in a mail bag, then a black Labrador arrived, gave me an accusing look then went back to his gun, birdless.

Dogs! Anyone who has worked for Royal Mail will have dog stories. I have several: dogs that bit through tyres or would wait to get your fingers as you delivered the mail.

I had been warned to look out for a big dog at a farm, which was alleged to be a man eater. I always carried dog biscuits in my pocket and one morning as I delivered the letters, I turned to see this dog between me and the safety of my van. I carefully offered it one of Bob Martins best, and the dog gently took my offering. For several weeks we were the best of friends, then one day as I shouted to him to come for his biscuits, he ran at me snarling like a rabid wolf. We both set off to the van and I narrowly beat him. I watched as he attempted to eat the van.

The farmer later explained the incident to me: he had two dogs.

I had lots of adventures at various farms, from catching stray animals to shooting rats with a .410 shotgun loaned by the farmer.

Royal Mail vans were also used to move various items of furniture. I was called in to see the postmaster when he had seen me moving a wardrobe. I was expecting some form of discipline, but was relieved when he asked me to move a piano from Saltburn to Marske. This did feel like a punishment: have you ever tried to lift a piano into a van?

You need six postmen and lots of sweat.

After a couple of years I applied for the delivery office manager’s job, and to my surprise, I got it!

That was the start of many more stories.

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Saltburn Athletic FC The new season officially kicks off on Sunday, September 11th. The fixtures to be officially released on Tuesday, 23rd August so by the time the Talk of the Town magazine is printed all the teams will be aware of their respective divisions and teams to play in the 2016/17 season.

We have eight teams playing this year which is the most we have ever had. There are teams at U14, U13, three teams at U12, U10 and two teams at U9 age groups.

This year’s coaches are Andy Croll U9, James Kesterton U9, Mark Grayson U9, Phil Barnes U12, Kev Robinson U12, Peter Jeffels U12, Rick Day U12, Bob Mitchell U13, Karl Agar U13, Ollie Whitehead U14, Dave Lawrence U14, Dan Bennett and Ron Campbell both U10.

Many thanks to Peter Medd for being our chairman but due to work commitments, he has decided to stand down and a new chairman will be named shortly. Thanks also to Roy Myers for his continued liaison with sport England and to Dave Sadler for his continued commitment to the club and as a founder member and also to our treasurer Heather 42

Muir who keeps a tight hold of our finances. We also welcome June Dickinson as our club secretary and lastly to our website controller Pauline Waller for continuing her work with the club.

I must apologise to our club patron Alan Smith as I had inadvertently forgot to mention him in the last issue.

Many thanks to Alan for presenting all the trophies and medals at our football gala at the end of June.

There are new sponsors for our U14 age group so we would like to thank John and Vicky Simmons of Victoria Apartments, Saltburn for their generosity.

I hope to bring you more results from the new season but due to certain constraints by the FA there are age groups that we are not allowed to print in detail. Perhaps the FA will see the error of their ways and change this but I doubt it.

Thanks to all the support given by the parents and may it continue.

Andy Croll

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Sounds Fun

“Sounds Fun is a pre-school music class,” says leader Naomi Haigh. “My Mum, Julia, began them in Stokesley seventeen years ago and three years later she set up classes in Yarm. Last summer term I started classes in Saltburn and they will begin again on 12th September in Emmanuel Church Hall.”

“The classes are not only fun, but really help children developmentally,” explains Naomi, who studied German and Music at Birmingham University, and wrote her dissertation on the impact of the Sounds Fun classes. She says that young children’s brains develop very quickly and music helps by engaging all the different parts of the brain, quite unlike anything else.

“The rhyme and rhythm of nursery rhymes and songs are excellent for speech development,” continues Naomi.

“Songs and rhymes have structures which support effective ways of learning language.”

At the classes, she provides percussion instruments: shakers, drums, and wooden and metallic items, such as triangles for the children to use. Playing with these helps to develop movement and co-ordination.

The classes are very structured, so that children become familiar with the sessions and over time, grow to have expectations of what’s coming next. The opening section is always the same and is followed by action songs with puppets, an instrument section and a movement section before the session closes. The children take great delight in pretending to be animals or vehicles. “We do a song called ‘Stations’, where children pretend to be trains waiting at the station until we sing “OFF WE GO!”, when they race each other to their parents on the other side of the Hall - it’s a particular favourite!” Naomi explains. The familiar pattern and content of the classes enables children’s confidence to grow and in this safe space, they can explore selfexpression.

Naomi explains that live music is an intrinsic feature of every class. Research has shown its benefits as opposed to recorded music. “It holds children’s concentration, getting them to focus more effectively on a parent’s face, on what they’re singing and on what’s around them.”

Naomi admits that she loves the facial expressions she gets from Saltburn children, especially when they’re working with the hiding box: “We put puppets inside a hiding box and then sing a song in anticipation of something jumping out. I make a sound and the children have to guess 44

what’s inside - you often get a good reaction when the lion roars!”

Using a big piece of stretchy blue lycra to act as the sea is another popular activity.

“The children love to explore underneath it. We stretch it and move it up and down with our hands; we make vocal sounds with our mouths and sing well-known nursery rhymes.”

Naomi was happy to find out in her research that many children who have this grounding and enjoyment of singing continue to love music and pursue various activities later in childhood and beyond. Many of her Mum Julia’s past pupils have gone on to learn to play an instrument, to sing or to take part in musical theatre. “I did questionnaires for past parents and some said their children still sing songs from Sounds Fun, even when they’re sixteen. They have very fond memories of the classes,” says Naomi.

I ask Naomi what instruments she plays and she says she studied the cello at University. but at Sounds Fun, she plays the piano, guitar and melodeon (a small accordion with buttons instead of a keyboard). She also loves to sing and is planning to join Vox, a choir for younger people run by Jeremy Harbottle. Also in the future, she would like to take Sounds Fun classes to refugee children in Middlesbrough and to Special Schools.

“Sounds Fun is a very valuable experience for parents and carers too,” Naomi adds. “They tell us that making music with their children brings them closer together and Sounds Fun gives them a space to focus entirely on their own children.”

Ruth Lewis from Nunthorpe takes her four year old grand-daughter, Delia, to Sounds Fun at Stokesley. She says: “I’ve been a Sounds Fun grandma for the past six years. The classes are so much better than groups where music is electronic. At Sounds Fun, the live piano, melodeon, guitar and voice can sound loud or soft or anything in between. With varied activities like wriggling, bouncing, clapping and dancing, it really is fun!”

Classes run on Mondays during school term-time and will begin again in Saltburn on 12th September in Emmanuel Church Hall. The Toddlers class (2 years plus) runs from 9.30am to 10.15am and the Babies class (0 - 2 years) from 10.30am to 11.15am. Free trial sessions are available and then classes are paid for in four weekly blocks at £5 per session, so £20 a time. Mums, dads, grandparents, extended family and friends are warmly welcomed and there are often opportunities to socialise after the classes.

Sounds Fun classes are a welcome addition to the musical life of Saltburn and parents and carers of under-fives will no doubt find Naomi’s Facebook page and website (www.soundsfunmusic.co.uk) of further interest.

Rosemary Nicholls

SALTBURN STATION GALLERY UPDATE! The gallery enjoyed a busy time over the weekends of the Food Festival and Folk Festival - it was really nice to see the town at its best. The footfall was fantastic and it was good to see so many visitors to our lovely seaside town to partake in all that was on offer. Saltburn Station Gallery would like to thank the organisers of these events: Lorna Jackson & John Taylor respectively and their support teams. We look forward to next year.

The Gallery is holding another competition with an autumnal theme and invites all local artists/artisans to submit work - closing date is 10th September. For more info call into the gallery for entry forms or via email (seanhc@saltburnstationgallery.co.uk). There are 2 categories to submit to: 1 - Fine Art and 2 - Photography. We look forward to seeing your work. Successful submissions will be exhibited in the gallery.

A reminder that the gallery welcomed 2 new artists in July/August: Chris Higgins and Trevor Shelley, with work on display. Also new in store is Whitby Jet Jewellery by Roger Metcalfe with a range of designs in traditional and modern themes. The jewellery is very reasonably priced and to an incredible high standard.

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There will be 36 real ales, also cider and perry from various regions and brewers to sample and enjoy, also local fruit wines from Skinningrove Wine Company. Richard and Sue will be providing the hot food, which is always much appreciated, as well as snacks and soft drinks.

The Saltburn Town Crier will open the festival at 11:05am on 11th November. Entrance is pay on the door for the afternoon sessions (11am-5pm) and evening tickets (6:3011pm) are on sale at Whistle Stop Wines in Saltburn Square from 1st October or SAE with payment to Mr G Hooker, Cleveland CAMRA, The Close, Darlington Lane, Stockton-on -Tees, TS19 8BB. CAMRA members will receive a £1 refund on the door on production of a valid membership card.

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A September to Remember in the Cons Club Before I start writing my article with reviews of the last month’s activities and what we have lined up for September I would just like to bring you up to date on my observations which I remarked on in last month’s issue. The hedges alongside Glenside from the entrance to the woods up to the children’s playpark have still not been cut and are looking a disgrace. Another area of concern is the steps from the Spa Hotel that come out at the Bungalow on the first bend of Saltburn Bank. This area is now almost covered in overgrown weeds and nettles from the banksides, where it is almost impossible to go down without getting stung. I have noticed several other areas of concern, some of which could have serious repercussions, and I have brought these to the attention our Councillors. As yet nothing has changed regards addressing these issues. The main stumbling block is the lack of Enforcement Officers the Council employ. It is pointless making by-laws if we have nobody to enforce them, so the problems remain unresolved.

Whinge over and moving on: Firstly I would like to send my sincere thanks to Lorna Jackson for the tremendous work she put in when organising the Saltburn Food Festival.

A tremendous day was had by all who attended and the spin -offs to Saltburn businesses was a tremendous boost. With regard to ourselves at the Cons Club we held a Barbecue on the afternoon in the garden and the attendance was greatly enhanced by the visitors we had in the town. Through my own experiences at the Club I know how important the attention to detail has to be and to take on what Lorna did was a monumental task which was carried out to the highest standard.

Back to the Club events held in August and the big event for ourselves was the ‘Saltburn Folk Festival’. This has always been our biggest summer event of the year since its conception and this year was no exception. We held Barbecues for the 3 days it was on and also served bacon & eggs, plus hot drinks from 9-30am to 12 noon. The commitment of the committee and members plus the massive input from Michelle and the bar-staff meant that everything ran like clockwork and I am eternally grateful to all concerned. The music was ongoing throughout the day and night and the atmosphere was brilliant. With regard to attendance myself and others did not think we had as many visitors this year so, taking this into account, the number of people we had in the club was excellent. Some comments made suggested that the same people were invited each year and maybe it would be beneficial to extend invitations to some younger up and coming performers to complement the regulars. I know John Taylor, the organiser, puts in a tremendous amount of work with regards to the organisation, booking the artists and raising the money and I

have no doubt that he has his finger on the button and the event will go from strength to strength under his leadership.

Certainly John gets a big thanks from everybody at the Cons Club for all he does and for putting Saltburn on the map.

Moving into September and, among other events planned, we are holding a children’s party, a dance group meeting and a scout meeting. This is where being a member of the Club can be an asset as the rooms are free to hire. Don’t forget that you can apply for membership of the Club by calling into the bar and filling in an application form. It’s as easy as that. Apart from free facilities you also receive 15% discount on all alcoholic drinks plus we have ‘Happy Hours’ each weekday from 5-30pm to 7pm and on a Saturday and Sunday 3pm to 5pm. You also have regular Barbecues in the best beer garden in Saltburn and award winning Real Ales at the bar plus lots of entertainment throughout the year to suit all tastes. Another 10 new members have been accepted in the last month. Why don’t you join them? You won’t regret it!

Further entertainment this month comes in the form of a ‘Motown & Soul’ night which will be held on Saturday, 17th September from 7-30pm. Dress to impress if you wish (always encouraged on Party Night but not a necessity).

Shaun Cook will once again be on the Decks for what will be a fantastic evening of fun, laughs and brilliant music. Entry is free and all are welcome. Moving on to Friday, 30th September and we will be holding the regular ‘Open Mic Night’, hosted by Teesside Steve and Liz Bishop. This monthly event is a firm favourite in the Club and has many regular attendees. If you like live music, or wish to sing or play an instrument you need to come. A great night always guaranteed. Registration is from 7-30pm and the music starts at 8pm. Entry is free and all are welcome. Lastly, two Barbecues will be held during the month on Sundays, 11th and 25th. These would normally be the last of the season but if we get a late Indian Summer who knows!

As mentioned earlier, membership is still open and it has been decided by the committee that new members will pay on a sliding scale from mid-August onwards with applicants only paying £1 per each month to the end of the year (i.e. if you join in September you only pay £4 which will cover you to the end of the year). Remember everybody’s membership is renewable each year in January @ £12 per person. This system will continue throughout 2017.

Keep safe and well and have a good month.

David Rigg, Club President Email: davidrigg21@yahoo.co.uk Article financially supported by Saltburn Conservative & Unionist Club

Saltburn Cons Club Future Events to entertain in September Every Tuesday: Club Draw Nights for Meat Voucher, Wines & Chocolates ………….10pm.

Every Sunday at 6pm: Beer Draw & Cash Rollover. Increases by £25 each week if not won (currently standing at £400).

Saturday Afternoons: A get-together by ‘The Conmen’. Americano Musicians’ Jam sessions from 3pm.

Barbecues in the Garden: September 11th & 25th.

Private Children’s Party, Scout Meeting & Dance Group Meeting.

Saturday 17th: Motown & Soul Party Music Night………….. from 7-30pm.

Friday 30th: ‘Open Mic Night’ with Teesside Steve & Liz Bishop…………..from 8pm.

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Why would I treat a child better than I treat myself?

Who would want to harm a child? Only someone who is in severe pain themselves and who is inflicting their inner pain outwards to someone else or someone who is not aware they are doing it.

Obviously when I write these articles I write what my opinion is, based on the culmination of my experience, life experience and professional experience. I very much realise that I don’t have some definitive finished highly polished stone of truth that I alone hold. I realise that I am, as we all are, in our own evolution through life, growing and learning.

Our opinions will change. Well, I hope they will. I hope they aren't stuck, and are flexible enough to expand and adapt.

I don’t need to add all this; it’s obvious in a sense that these are my current opinions and not my finished opinions.

Yet it is important to me that my thoughts are not just constantly quoting unchanged scriptures like a religious preacher might be, or a bigot who goes around saying that all homosexuals are immoral or all French people are rude. It seems important to me that we all stay flexible in our thoughts. Of course we can have opinions. That’s important too, but to get stuck in the mud of our thinking and close down our minds is where I think intolerance begins and where we unconsciously often create intolerance reflected back towards us.

There are good practical reasons for the flexibility: on a real life level you might meet a homosexual or a French person who could be a great friend and a great support through your life but only if you are open enough to adjust your closed thought about the group of people that they are part of.

All of these reflections I find come to a point when I consider my one year old child.

I wonder how I could judge her for being one way or the other better or worse if she were gay or straight or liked the French and wanted to live in France or not.

I think that when you ask most parents what they want for their newly born child: ‘what would you like them to be when they grow up?’ Most parents I think will say, “whatever they want to be; I just hope that they are healthy and happy.”

Then sometimes years later we forget what was clearly wanted and we start wanting them to be what we want them to be. But at the beginning when they were really small and first learned to smile, how could we want to do anything harmful to them? All we want for them is to be happy and healthy.

A midwife told me not long ago that the thing which she heard more than anything else from new parents was that the first solid food they gave to their child was toast.

Yet how many people look at what is in bread? Find some bread on the shelf at the supermarket that doesn’t have E numbers in it. There are very few. They also have other chemicals and salt and most of them have processed sugar.

We wouldn’t want to feed a newly born child chemicals that we know are not recommended for children, but bread is full of things that are not good for the human body and especially not a young child digesting food for the first time.

So when we find out we stop. As we educate ourselves about the harms, we start looking at the packet more, and the list of ingredients. After doing some research, we ask what is sugar in the cereals really doing to my child?

People look and explore what they are feeding their child and they move towards sugar free and bring home more fruit. Very few people would knowingly harm their child, yet it’s easy to do so by not finding out what a child is ingesting or breathing in or watching on a screen or picking up through role modelling from a parent.

I wonder sometimes do we, do I, have a responsibility to find out about food and if pesticides are going into our vegetables or fruit that I buy from the supermarket, or the farmed fish or the meat or the milk? Do I have an interest to explore that? The same with any lotions or washing products or pills or syrups, even if they are designed for children. Wouldn’t it make sense to go and find out for myself, especially considering that pharmaceutical companies are not best known for never causing harm through the use of their products.

If I can see in my life that what I surround myself with makes a difference to how I perceive the world and how it effects me, would I be keen to encourage my child to play shoot-em-up computer games all day? Would I want her around war scenarios and killing other people?

Would I want her on a daily basis to be hearing screaming in a television program, or watching people batter other people or have Jeremy Kyle on every day twenty-fourseven?

I’m not sure I am yet convinced that would be a healthy environment for my child.

I get in my life how it really helps to be calm and contented if I am around calm and contended things. Yes I can practise not to be fazed by whatever is going on but especially for a child. It feels fairly easy for me to decide that having a generally peaceful environment around her as opposed to constantly raised anger and aggression either from others or on TV is not what I would choose for her.

So I feel some desire to create that healthy environment around her, and that takes exploring for example what harm anger and aggression may cause to a child’s emotional growth, or what harm sugar might be doing and perhaps just as importantly exploring what we are role modelling. Do we stay in all day when we get home and watch a screen, or do our children see us going walking as a way to relax? What do they learn is ‘normal’ to do?

We have a responsibility or an opportunity to question ourselves and the quality of our lives and how healthily we live and how much we explore our patterns of behaviour and how healthy are those to be passing on and do we really want to be harming our children with our own harmful patterns that we inflict on ourselves?

And then the final question: why would I or anyone want to do anything they could, not to harm their child, but they will often harm themselves quite willingly, through drinking or smoking or getting stressed or angry or a million other ways. So why do I seemingly not care about myself as much as I seem to care about the welfare of my child?

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The Saltburn Profile by Rosemary Nicholls John Lambert “You can find me up and out walking with my little dog, Blaze, soon after half past six every morning of the year,” says John Lambert. Before breakfast, he covers three to ten miles on his walks taking in Errington Woods, Dunsdale, Upleatham, Marske and Saltburn. He has always taken an active approach to life and currently also brings his energy to his role as Chairman of our local Parish Council.

John was born in the Borough of Kingston-onThames and he lived there until he was fifteen, when he left for military college in Oswestry. After he graduated from there, he came to Catterick for his first official posting. This was followed by four tours in Northern Ireland and stationing in Germany for a number of years. Then he went around the world on various interventions. “I enjoyed the camaraderie and outdoor activities in the army,” he recalls.

“The whole environment of the military suited me.”

John found the transition to civilian life challenging.

As he had experience as a diver, he looked into working on the rigs, but he didn’t have the necessary civilian qualifications in demolition or welding. Instead, the Job Centre sent him on a course in London related to PCs. In various ways, he became involved in computing businesses over the following years.

“I developed a forte in getting them sold and I developed the concept of PC World,” says John. “We ran a very successful PC World for twelve months, until Dixons came along and bought it, which led to us being made redundant.”

John moved into supplying BBC Master and Acorn 2000 computers to schools and prisons. He worked with the European Computer Companies Group and was based in Holland and London, where he met a girl from Saltburn. He came up to meet her parents and fell in love with our town.

They were married and set up home here, where he’s stayed ever since.

John took up study at Redcar Tertiary College and then went to Durham University where he gained a B.A. in Community and Youth Work Studies. He had two part-time jobs. One was as a Youth Worker in Guisborough and the other was as a Group Worker with adult offenders for the Probation Service. As he wanted to work with young people full-time, he took a post running the first full-time Detached Youth Work Project in Redcar and Cleveland. This involved expanding the horizons of 17 - 25 year olds in ‘gangs’ in Grangetown and South Bank; OFSTED inspected it and gave it the top grade.

A change of government brought in Youth Offending Teams and John was recruited as a staff member.

He became National Pilot Officer/Manager for all community based sentences for under-18s and worked in this role for six to seven years, until further national change brought a new emphasis on early intervention. John set up a project in Middlesbrough to develop and deliver the Common Assessment Framework. Five years later, he relocated to Leeds to work for the Children’s Workforce Development Council rolling out CAF across the country, but a further change of government led to the closure of CWDC. “I decided on early retirement then,” says John,

“and that lasted for six months, until I set up my own company working with young people with emotional difficulties for local families and councils.” But now, he is involved in consultancy work advising people on managing and developing youth projects.

John was approached to fill a casual vacancy at our Parish Council a number of years ago and has won two elections since. He has been Chair of the Planning Committee for the last eight years and he led the successful fight against the Borough Council’s plan to install parking restrictions in Saltburn. “I am also very keen to stop Saltburn becoming a part of the Redcar conurbation,” he says. “I enjoy unpicking legislation and defending our town.”

Sportswise, John played rugby for 25 years, including in a match against the All Blacks Reserves.

Latterly he volunteered for a role with the Supporters’ Services at the Rugby World Cup in Newcastle. “80,000 fans turned up for the Scotland v. South Africa match and we had no trouble to deal with at all,” he adds. He was also an expert in martial arts and taught them, especially karate, for 16 years.

John lives with his wife, Kim, a teacher/manager at Prior Pursglove College and has a daughter, Melis, who is a Chartered Accountant and a son, Max, who is at college and planning to go into the military. Little dog Blaze has been with John for seven years now. She is a Parson’s Russell.

“That’s a Jack Russell with long legs,” explains John. “She was bred for running with horses.”

He enjoys working in his large garden and has recently rebuilt his sizeable pond and filled it with fish. He has constructed raised decking and built a log cabin at the end of his garden, which he now has his office in. But he is not green-fingered; Kim is the gardener, who is responsible for the flowers and the shrubs.

However, John isn’t a man to let the grass grow under his feet!

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1st Saltburn Scout Group

By the time this article ‘hits the streets’ it will be a return to normal following a pleasant summer break, with truly great weather and plenty of sunshine for our young people to enjoy. But to prove that Scouting never ceases entirely during the summer period, our Group executive met and discussed: building improvements with the Lottery award of £9,500; future fundraising to include another table top sale at Saltburn Community Centre in October (22nd is the date for your diaries), a bag pack at Saltburn Sainsbury’s on 10th December and our regular annual Scout Post, of which more details later. And then we had NCS! Beavers, Cubs and Scouts appeared to be enjoying their break. I met several and they already had ideas and thoughts of what they would like to do after the break; with another exciting year in Scouting. Beavers will

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increase in numbers on their return to possibly a new high of 24 members, so perhaps they will not be that quiet either. The Cub Pack will hopefully be steady at 24 (a slight reduction from the 28 before the break) and this will be a similar situation for the Scout Troop expected to have a roll of 22 Scouts. Both the young people and their supporters; be it parents, Leaders or our Section Assistants and helpers deserve a round of applause for their commitment and interest. Many thanks.

Finally a really big THANK YOU to NCS (National Citizen Service), following a telephone enquiry regarding possible involvement in redecorating part of our building; they undertook a scheme which has been of tremendous benefit to our planned improvements. The young people involved repainted the ceiling of the main hall and entrance, removed the carpet tiles and lining of the hall and more importantly removed the undergrowth down the side of the building. This was essential to maintaining the fire escape routes for the Group following the developments on the caravan and chalet park. The volunteers work has enabled the planned works to the rest of the building to progress immediately. We cannot thank them enough!

As we move on into the next year of Scouting at 1st Saltburn, before anybody asks; YES I am still here, but my time is now limited! In the meantime our parents and friends continue to be involved in all our endeavours; for which we are very grateful. We would still be grateful for any assistance in all our activities (however little!) and if you are interested in joining us, please enquire: John G. Hannah – 07811 801627 (or johnghannah@yahoo.co.uk).

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The Slugmaster 1000 I have just returned from Redcar, where I went specifically to visit the Wilco store. I was aware that a couple of days ago they had a complete restocking of their nut and bold pick and mix. For anyone who hasn’t been in the store or for whom hardware doesn’t have the same attraction it does for me, the Wilco pick and mix is not for sweets – though for all I know they have one of those too, but rather to allow people such as me to take a large plastic bag and cram into it as many nuts, bolts, washers and screws as they can before the sides of the bag split. It’s a great deal for £2.99 but before regular readers cringe at the thought that advancing age has brought me to the very gates of insanity I should point out that it is not my intention to own all these nuts and bolts simply so I can display them nicely or count them each night before I go to bed. On the contrary, my shiny metal purchases of this morning will represent one part of the weapons I am about to create so that I can finally win a war I have been fighting for well over two decades.

I read somewhere a couple of years ago that the city of Edinburgh is still technically at war with Russia, since for some reason Edinburgh was excluded from the treaty that was signed at the end of the Crimean war and I have to say that the battle I am fighting seems to have lasted almost as long.

The 5th century BC strategist Sun Tzu, who is credited with having written The Art of War suggested that the first requisite to anyone who wished to wage war successfully was to know one’s enemy. I have followed this advice carefully over the years and have read everything I could lay my hands on relating to the lifecycle, diet and breeding habits of slugs and snails, against whom I have been daggers drawn since Kate first complained that these slimy visitors were eating all her French Marigolds. I have to admit at this point to the fact that Kate long since gave up the struggle and now either accepts that a fair percentage of her plants will disappear down the foot stomachs of these voracious beasts or removes them physically from the garden to somewhere else but to me, once the declaration of war had been made, it was a life or death struggle to the bitter end.

Actually that’s putting it a bit strongly. I have never deliberately harmed a single slug or snail because I am of the opinion that removing any species from the ecosystem and especially the food chain is a gross dereliction of our duty as thinking creatures. My aim has always been to prevent the beasties from chomping on Kate’s plants, but without doing them any harm. To that end I have purchased every proprietary product that claimed to send gastropods running for the hills, placed them in the garden in strategic locations and then sat back to watch what happened. The results have been edifying but not encouraging. As time went by and more and more seedlings were ravaged my frustration grew – spurred on by the thought that such relatively small

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creatures must only have rudimentary and tiny brains – so how could they constantly outwit me, with my 3 pound monster of a thinking organ?

Nothing I did seemed to make the slightest difference. I set traps, which the slugs and snails acidulously avoided, I built tiny barbed wire fences, which the gastropods tunnelled under and I painted the foliage of the young plants with various concoctions that our night visitors were supposed to hate (though never poison of course) only to discover that the hotter and more garlic flavoured the substance, the greater was the slugs’ and snails’ determination to gobble them down. It was like a Saturday night amongst the curry houses of Bradford.

Year on year the battle raged on but I was never idle and very gradually I began to develop an understanding of what gastropods can achieve physically and what really upsets them. Broken eggshells were useless, as was gravel, sandpaper and a variety of other obstacles but I did learn that neither slugs nor snails will happily cross copper – which allegedly gives them a mild but off-putting electric shock. It also became apparent to me that neither species can easily slither around sharp angles. Bearing these two facts in mind I have now, finally created the garden wonder of the age which I have christened the Slugmaster 1000. It is true that at the moment the device will only protect planters or plant pots but this is after all an idea that is still at its embryonic stage.

For the moment I am ignoring the fact that Kate clearly thinks I have finally descended into a mixture of dementia and delusion. As I pointed out to her only this morning, if there is any paranoia on my part associated with my constant efforts in this direction she started it with her constant complaints that all her efforts in the garden were being thwarted by the battalions of foot stomachs.

I would love to explain to you how the Slugmaster 1000 works but I am prevented from doing so partly because Ian will only allow my articles to be of a certain length but also on the grounds of industrial espionage.

Since I fully expect the device to make the fortunes of not only Kate and I but also of our entire family and all our friends, it would not be wise for me at this stage to alert my competitors to this monumental breakthrough in the ongoing war against slugs and snails.

When I finish this article I fully intend to ring up the BBC and book my appointment in the Dragon’s Den, so that one day all readers of the Talk of the Town will be able to see my ultimate glory as all the Dragons vie to throw copious amounts of money at the Slugmaster 1000.

Now if you will excuse me I have a date with destiny, together with hundreds of nuts and bolts, yards of copper tubing, an almost entire tool kit of spanners and copious amounts of Brasso. Whoops, I’ve probably said too much already. All I am certain about is that next spring we will have more and better French Marigolds than the Botanical Gardens at Kew. 51

Saltburn Allotments Association I’ve been getting excited during this month, watching the fruit on the fruit trees start to fill out and ripen. Now I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a good harvest.

My summer raspberries have been and gone and, when I have time, I’ll cut down to ground level the stems that fruited. I can then see to tie in this year’s growth to my wires, ready for them to produce next year’s fruit. My strawberries are all finished too now. Maybe I should get some earlier and later varieties for a longer growing season but the autumn raspberries are coming into their own now and I can leave the great taste of fresh strawberries ‘til next summer.

It looks as though there’s going to be a marvellous blackberry harvest too, starting any time now. I look forward to seeing families out collecting free produce from the hedgerows.

I collected a lot of over ripe peas recently, left them to dry, podded them and jarred them up for soups and stews in winter. I usually do this with beans, especially the borlotti variety but have never thought to try with peas before. I’m pleased a friend suggested this and look forward to sampling the results.

I’m also harvesting lettuce and brassicas in abundance. Can’t keep up with the little gems even though I thought I’d been conservative in my sowings earlier in the year. Don’t talk to me about cauliflowers though, I’ve been living on cauliflower cheese for the past three weeks.

I don’t think caulis freeze well so I’m freezing all my peas and beans and eating brassicas as though they are going out of fashion… and realising how lucky I am to be in this position.

There are still plenty of things to sow at this time of year, including spring lettuce, spring cabbage, spring onions, oriental leaves, turnips, radish and probably more.

You can also sow green manure to over winter if you are that way inclined: it’s better than leaving the soil bare. If you have (a) compost heap(s), now’s a good time to check it and turn it over as you might want to spread it on some land in winter. This will enable the worms to take it down into the soil over winter which will increase the fertility of the patch ready for sowing/planting in spring. Of course, there will be over wintering onions to put in any time now too.

I was talking about the fruit trees earlier and forgot to mention the codling moth. It and other flightless moths climb up fruit trees to lay their eggs in what will be fruit bearing buds. The caterpillars will burrow into the fruit as it forms next year, leaving fruit inedible. A thick grease band right round the trunk and any tree support, higher than any weeds, bushes etc. nearby (so the moth can’t bypass the grease band), will stop them in their tracks and give you a good start on the way to next year’s crop.

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Saltburn Rotary Club ‘Oprey Cash could help save my life too,’ says Surgeon The distinguished surgeon who led the £1M fund-raising campaign for the South Cleveland Heart Fund Scanner supported by the Rotary Club of Saltburn’s Grand Ol’ Oprey cash says that it could save his life too.

Dr Adrian Davies, now retired and the Fund’s chairman, revealed that he has a family history of heart problems.

Dr Davies, who lives in Marton, said that he will never move from the area, not even to his favourite Caribbean haunts, because James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough has a world class adult heart care centre.

Heart attack victims in our area can usually be saved within half an hour if they are delivered to the centre as an emergency early in the crisis.

The President of the Rotary Club of Saltburn, Les Manship, presented him with a cheque for £3,001.57 from this year’s Oprey, adding to the £4,000 donation from last year’s Easter musical extravaganza.

The club of just 12 members also helped to raise £80,000 last year from a car raffle run by 62 clubs in the North East.

Dr Davies said that the work done to upgrade the MRI scanner completed at a cost of £450,000 and £550,000 to help pay for the installation of a new replacement Super MRI machine should allow an increase from 500 to 1500 scans a year.

The James Cook centre serves a population of 1.6 million for secondary and tertiary adult cardiac services.

Dr Davies said: “One of the unit’s most notable achievements has been to pilot the Primary Angioplasty for acute heart attacks.

“This has now been rolled out into the whole of the UK, and in parts of the world where such services can be provided.

“Patients having a heart attack confirmed on ambulance heart tracings are delivered day or night straight into the Catheterisation Laboratory where the blocked artery is opened, usually within half an hour by the consultant-led team.

“This saves many lives when patients are delivered as an emergency early on in the attack.”

The South Cleveland Heart Fund had already raised £1.3million since it was set up in 1994 to help keep the unit at the leading edge of heart care, and now that the big appeal is over the Fund’s unpaid committee continue to raise money exclusively for the unit to pay for equipment, supporting new advanced procedures by the consultants, and training and research which will continue to attract top people to work in the Middlesbrough Regional Cardiothoracic Centre.

Past president Peter Holbert

The Muses of Jim I have learned three new things that I never previously knew recently. These three things have changed my life in some way. Large and small.

The first one was learning how to empty the Dyson Cleaner and even then I needed the assistance of a neighbour.

The second one was learning something new about my home of some forty odd years. A relative newcomer into the street gave me a photograph of part of the row of terrace houses of which my house is one. It is a remarkable photograph because it shows the chimneys highlighted in bright sunshine and in a way it’s beautiful.

The final surprise shocked me rather than pleased me. I have just discovered that some National Charity Shop outlets send all their profits to their HQ rather than use the monies raised locally. I admit that I did send Betty’s clothes to Cheshire to be given to the charity shops there rather than locally. Purely because I couldn’t bear to see somebody else walking around in her clothes.

In general I feel that most people believe that items donated go to help local people. For many years I used to present the award to the Best Charity Shop of the Year in The Volunteer of the Year run by Redcar and Cleveland Volunteer Development Agency. I was asked for several years to do this because it was known that I bought from charity shops. So don’t stop using charity shops but rather ask where the money goes.

I have just discovered the latest treasure of Saltburnby-the-Sea, which is the Phoenix of Saltburn-by-the-Sea and it is Brockley Hall. What a delight. On entering the building it’s like entering a palace of delight, such as the giant brown bear that made me jump. The staff were plentiful, very helpful and smartly dressed. I was there for afternoon tea with three of my four daughters to celebrate Vicki’s birthday which is actually next week but Liza, the baby of the family could only come this weekend and Tracey my eldest could not make this weekend due to a commitment with her partner. Never mind, back to the story. On to Brockley Hall, people who know me know that I am used to fine dining. I even had my wedding reception at Betty’s of York, which I paid for all by myself.

The afternoon tea at Brockley Hall surpassed that and even that of the standard Garden Party at Buckingham Place.

Our table was groaning under the weight of the delicious delights placed before us. They tasted even better than they looked. A new jewel has been added to the crown that is Saltburn-by-the-Sea. It appears that Redcar is to hold a public meeting to look at how the town can improve itself. I hope they are successful. I think the main problem is with the infrastructure of the economics of the town itself. It is reckoned that since Mark and Sparks closed about 17% of the town’s income was lost and not recovered. Even the iconic general corner shop north of the clock has gone and with it perhaps the fighting spirit of the town itself. I have a policy when shopping: I feel I have a duty to seek what I need in Saltburn first, then Marske, Redcar then onwards and outwards. The problem I feel is that there are no quality shops or even, unlike Saltburn, specialist shops which tend to bring people into the town, but it must be admitted that the closure of the famous saleroom did have a negative effect on the town. With having an immediate effect on the footfall on the town but with the efforts of local people developing events or bringing in new businesses in the town we are back on track. Redcar appears to have lost pride in itself. The people of the town should demand that the purple top of the Beacon is replaced by a lemon top and tell the world about the Zetland lifeboat and the Saxons’ last stand against the Normans. By, I feel better after that rant. As spur of the moment impulse I decided today to take a bus ride to Whitby and I am glad that I did because I found 8 pence on the ground and enjoyed seeing both the regatta and folk festival, which was a very interesting mixture. Of course the town was very busy and very colourful. Of course, the West Yorkshire accent was very comfortable on the ear.

Hence the latest of this missive.

I have nearly finished reading Terry Pratchett’s last book The Shepherd’s Crown. It is very funny indeed but also it is very sad because there will be no more. Spud is happy because he gets very upset when I suddenly burst out laughing and he then runs out of the room. I have just been taken back to my childhood in Pontefract in the 1950s when I felt sad on hearing of the death of the author of the Hornblower books.

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The Saltburn Crossword no 183 set by Dinosaur Across 1 and 26 Across Talk of the Town serves this place! Stealth baby runes shaken about (8, 2, 3, 3) 4 and 25 Across Local road e.g. stern treat stirring (6, 6) 7 Tools etc for it. Queen, PM confused (9) 9 To give a speech at zero interest? (5) 10 Internet provider or the waiter? (6) 11 Algerian fortress placed cash around BA (6) 14 Fearful or slightly worn by the sound of it (6) 15 Freshly discovered land in Canada? (3-5) 16 Means of support or usefulness concerning a river’s origin?

(8) 18 Complete failure in Fifi ’as company (6) 19 Afternoon nap is seat disturbed (6) 22 Resembling the ground brews hearty (6) 23 Our founder Mr Pease (5) 24 Sailing fraternity butchy Cal joined (5, 4) 25 See 21 Across 26 See 1 Across

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Solution to Crossword no 182

The winner of last month’s crossword was Mrs Joan Reynolds of Eden Street, Saltburn.

D. V. Townend & Co 8 Dundas Street East, Saltburn TS12 1AH

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Compiler’s friend, Russ, goes at U for arrangement (11) Compiler’s friend, Tracie, ports arrangement (11) Easy care garment is without metal (3-4) Special type of therapist found back in I am orange (5) More for former lover backing art (5) Changed house? Or just emotional? (5) Pain in the tummy or coat chasm he stirred (7, 4) Fear of water or rabies (11) Baby female sheep sounds like you prepared balm (3-4) A finger of the sea almost in backing thrifty (5) Not reacting at home, eastern right (5) Herb for the sound of the clock (5)

Send your completed crossword to: Saltburn Crossword no 183, c/o Jackie’s Saverstore, 8 Station Buildings, Saltburn, TS12 1AQ

by Friday, 16th September 2016. First correct solution out of the bag wins a £10 voucher kindly donated by Tim and Sheila of Real Meals.

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