Suburban Magazine Leeds | Area A | Edition 7 by Suburban Magazine Leeds

Free | Edition 7 | September 2015 | Menston, Guiseley, Yeadon, Rawdon, Horsforth, Cookridge, Bramhope, Adel & Otley

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With Eric Wells of Horsforth Allotment and Garden Association

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GUIDE Pg 30

SECTION Pg 36

Autumn

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image by Kevin Nutter courtesy of Aireborough Camera Club

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CONTENTS 10 AUTUMN IMAGES Add a golden light to any scene and a golden glow to your pictures.

20 SUBURBAN GARDENS If you’re looking for some “green-fingered” tips - then look no further!

32 SUBURBAN FUN It’s time for the adults out there to put their thinking caps on and get their brains in gear!

36 CLASSIFIEDS Looking to use the skills of a local business? Look no further!

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Welcome to edition 7 of Suburban Magazine and thank you once again to our valued contributors and advertisers. Each month we encourage our readers to submit articles, whether it be photos taken, a story or memories from perhaps your childhood. We are grateful that a growing number of our readers are submitting articles We have had some great input from many people and as the magazine grows, more of these articles can be included. We have just recently received

a short version of a novel that a local writer is working on.and we will be running this over the next three editions of the magazine. We hope that you enjoy reading this as much as we did in the office. Any submissions can be forwarded to Rachel Morgan at the correspondence address (to the left of this page) or via email to editorial@ suburbanleeds.co.uk or by phone – 0113 819 8141 We are now working on edition 8 which deadlines on Friday 30th October.

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Autumn, the season of mists and glorious colours - the yellows, oranges and reds add a golden light to any scene and a golden glow to your pictures.

For getting atmosphere into your pictures go out early mornings, dawn, or sundown. The sun is low in the sky and orange tones predominate. Early mornings, before the day warms up, have mists in the valleys and woodlands giving atmosphere and mystery.

There are so many opportunities for capturing the beauty of this season, from wild, wide landscapes, water reflections, early mornings and evenings, to close ups of fruit, flowers and leaf mosaics. You are taking pictures of what pleases you and so decide what it is you particularly like about what you are looking at and set your camera accordingly, or just snap it with your phone or camera before it disappears, the same shot will not occur again. With digital do not be afraid of taking a number of shots, you

Shooting into the sun should be tried and can, with care, produce some startling sunburst effects if you can get an object e.g. tree between the sun and the lens, it can certainly add the ‘wow’ factor. Backlighting and mist in woodland can create atmospheric shafts of sunlight. Autumn is the time when there is an abundance of colourful fungi, fruits and multi-coloured leaf patterns, so do not be

afraid to get down on your knees or tummies and get up close. It is also the time when crops are harvested, when hay is cut and baled which produce interesting lines. Still water in lakes, ponds or canals is ideal for capturing reflections of surrounding colours and shooting lowdown near the waters edge can create symmetrical compositions. Long exposures will help smooth out rough or moving water, but ripples can create interesting distortions. For long exposures support your camera on a tripod, a wall, fence post, top of your car or hold firmly and lean against something solid like a tree. If the sun comes out, get out with your camera. Good luck. Aireborough Camera Club aireboroughcameraclub.co.uk

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LOCAL NEWS BIRDWATCHING WHILE STANDING STILL It's the start of autumn migration and, over the next few weeks, birds will be making their way to their winter feeding grounds. It's the time when unusual birds can turn up on your local birdwatching patch, or even in your garden, so keep your eyes peeled. Here’s where some simple birdwatching techniques can help. As birds move south, they sometimes latch onto feeding parties of common birds. A good birdwatching technique is to ‘work’ your way through each group of birds to see whether you can spot something unusual. This might be something you’d normally do when sitting in a hide at a reserve but try to get into the habit of doing this while walking in your local woodland. If see a group of birds moving around, or hear some coming towards you, lean against a tree to obscure your outline and let them come to you. If you keep perfectly still, you’ll be able to get a good look at each bird. Most will be young blue tits, long-tailed tits and great tits but there is a chance you’ll see something else. Similarly, take a bit of time to study the species of birds using your garden as a feeding station. Remember last month’s lesson? The first rule of thumb is to remember that there are a lot of juvenile common birds around at this time of year. 12 | SUBURBAN MAGAZINE

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Some can look quite different to their parents, so do take a good field guide out with you. This should give you a good illustration of juvenile birds for each species. It would be well worth swatting up on the young common birds likely to be seen in your chosen habitat before you go out. It will save time when you're in the field. Most of the tatty adult common birds in woodlands will have almost completed their moult by now. However most ducks are still in ‘eclipse’ (that is what we call the moulting stage of ducks). Think common first then consider something scarce.

I had a cuckoo in my garden for a few seconds as it tried to escape being mobbed by crows on its journey southwards. My best garden tick yet! I also get grey wagtails at my pond every year.

Some of the birds to look out for in our woodlands and gardens during the autumn migration are chiffchaff, willow warbler, wood warbler, blackcap, goldcrest, redstart, spotted flycatcher and pied flycatcher. Make sure that you look at all the birds coming to your garden feeders. If you have a good sized pond, or you’re visiting an area with a pond or a stream, you may find a sedge warbler, a common sandpiper or a dispersing grey wagtail. A couple of years ago

Good luck! If you have a good camera and you think you may have seen something unusual then please do send me a photo. Next time I’ll tell you more about migration.

Young dippers and kingfishers disperse from their nest sites and travel downstream making your urban stretch of water a possible feeding area for a time. Fields with grazing cattle or horses could also attract passing yellow wagtails. They feed on insects that are attracted to dung. Look for them around the hooves and mouths of the grazing animals.

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St Gemma's Hospice popular annual Make a Will Month is once again taking place in October. The Hospice has enlisted the support of 30 solicitors throughout Leeds and the surrounding area, who have agreed to waive their usual fees for Standard or Mirror Will or Codicil, in return for people making a donation to St Gemma's Hospice. A list of participating

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AIREBOROUGH LEISURE CENTRE – ACTIVITIES FOR ALL THE FAMILY TO ENJOY A range of major renovations have been carried out to improve the facilities at Aireborough Leisure Centre. Work includes the refurbishment of both the Male and Female dryside changing rooms, re tiling of the pool balcony area and a new colour scheme in the Sports Hall. A revamp of the Squash Courts was also completed in partnership with England Squash and Racketball.

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It was the best day, then week, then month of my whole long-legged life. First of all we got a letter from the Council. Mam screamed and jumped up and down and so me and our Linda screamed and jumped up and down because we were going to be RE-HOUSED! And not just to another house that smelled of other people, to a BRAND NEW COUNCIL HOUSE WITH UNDERFLOOR HEATING AND AN INSIDE LAVVY AND A BATHROOM. We’d been waiting forever because the Housing thought we were a pushover because there was no dad. Mam said if we stayed put and refused highrise or dead people’s, the rent man would have no option but to offer us a brand new house. And she was right. Me and our Linda really wanted high-rise as it would be really posh to catch the lift every day but then Mam said what happens when the lift breaks or there’s a fire? We were the very last ones in our street; me and our Linda were even frightened to go to the lavvy as you never knew who might be down the ginnel and we’d seen a rat. One morning a dustbin had been turned over

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but Mam said it would have been a dog. Some people even had moved and left their dogs and cats behind. The letter said Number 7, Sycamore Crescent, would be ready in six weeks but that we had to go look at it and then go to the Housing Area West Office and tell them if we wanted it. Mam let me and Linda have the day off school as we had to see it too; it was only fair and we hadn’t to tell Dad otherwise he’d be trying it on again. I said Mam was daft for saying that because we didn’t even know where he was and she told me not to be so cheeky and you hadn’t to call an adult daft, especially your mam. It was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and had a very spacious fitted kitchen, a luxury bathroom and separate toilet and a very handy cupboard under the staircase! The painter knew our dad and told Mam that she could look through the wallpaper book and choose what paper we wanted in every room. We went straight to the Housing Area West Office and said we’d have it. ‘And I want to take David Ernest Hewitt off the rent book,’ my mam said. I looked at our Linda but she didn’t care. I couldn’t believe it. The lady said, ‘Dave Hewitt who drinks in the White Lion?’ And my mam said, ‘When he’s not residing at Her

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SHORT STORIES Aunty Joan screamed when Mam showed her the letter and I picked our Linda up and swung her round but we knocked Aunty Joan’s ironing board over and Mam clouted me. Aunty Joan said it didn’t matter as we were excited and gave us a glass of cordial and Mam had a cup of tea and baby Steven had a biscuit.

‘No,’ said Mam, ‘I mean, I don’t know what to choose – we could do with a new three piece.’ Aunty Joan stood up and put her hands on the table. I thought she was going to be mad. She wasn’t. She said, ‘Did I say whatever you wanted, Maureen? Do you think Empire Stores will send a mister to Australia after me? No. As I said, it’s from me and Brian.’

I loved going to Aunty Joan’s, even if she wasn’t my real aunty, I didn’t care, because I didn’t have any real aunties or uncles or cousins. She let us look at her catalogue and she said that in four weeks when her and Uncle Brian went to catch the boat to Australia, she said I could have the catalogue. I couldn’t believe it. We were getting a brand new house, we could choose the wallpaper and I was getting a catalogue. And then, I thought I had died and was an angel in heaven above. Aunty Joan said to Mam that she could look through the catalogue and get whatever she wanted like furniture and even beds and stuff and it was a present from her and Uncle Brian because they were going away and we were moving and so it was a celebration present. Mam said, ‘Are you sure, Joan?’ ‘Of course I’m sure, Maureen, it’s no skin off our noses, is it?’ Mam nodded. ‘Well, I don’t know what to …’ ‘You don’t have to say anything, love.’ 28 | SUBURBAN MAGAZINE

She snatched the catalogue from under my nose, snapped it shut and handed it to Mam. I pretended I was reading it and pretended to jump when she grabbed it, but I wasn’t, I was listening and my heart was beating and my tummy was fluttering. While my mam and Aunty Joan were gabbing I went over to stroke Aunty Joan’s cocktail cabinet. My Mam glared at me and Aunty Joan said, ‘Don’t open it.’ Sometimes Aunty Joan opened it for me to look inside. It was the most gorgeous thing in the whole world and it played Some Enchanted Evening and was all mirrors up the sides, on the bottom, on the inside of the lid and had little cocktail sticks with plastic cherries and pineapples on. Aunty Joan had really lovely little glasses ringed with REAL GOLD and a jar of MARASCHINO CHERRIES. As we were leaving Aunty Joan gave Mam two tins of corned beef. Her friend worked at Grandways and she got dinted cans for a couple of pennies and sometimes for

nothing. I’m going to work at Grandways when I grow up. We carried the catalogue home and couldn’t stop talking about all the stuff we would get. If we got our order in by tomorrow then everything would be delivered to Aunty Joan’s in three weeks and we would just have to carry it round to our house. I was allowed to choose anything, ANYTHING I wanted from the girls’ section; clothes and shoe wise, not toys. Mam said our Linda had to like everything because she wasn’t having anything new but would be having my handme-downs when I’d grown out of them. So that was fair, because I was nine and three quarters and our Linda was only eight and I was big for my age and Linda was a little squirt. Our Linda was a right giddy kipper and said everything I’d picked was fab – I don’t think she’d cottoned on that she wasn’t getting anything. Mam chose all sorts for baby Steven. I felt like a millionaireress, like Petula Clark and Viv Nicholson. That night me and our Linda laid in bed and I was happier than I’d ever been in my whole life, even though she kept scratching my leg with her toenails. I did feel sorry for our Dad though but Mam said every time he came back he gave her another baby, which I thought was very nice of him. My Grandma says once a Don Joanne, always a Don Joanne, whatever that means, but I think it’s pretty bad. To be continued in next month’s edition of Suburban.

WHEN Leeds physiotherapist Jill Fisher bought new premises in Rawdon next to the Emmott Arms, she was blissfully unaware of an historic clause which could have led to her losing the building The 999-year clause, which was drawn up in 1783, stated that a yearly rent of one shilling (5p) was due to Richard Emmott Esquire of Emmot in Lancaster and if not paid by the feast of St Martin, the land would revert back to the ownership of the estate. Specialist Neuro-physiotherapist Mrs Fisher, whose practice treats people suffering with stroke and other neurological conditions, spotted the clause in the documents shortly after they had completed on the property. She said: “We were so excited about moving the practice from a treatment room attached to our home in Adel to the lovely spacious accommodation previously occupied by the Yorkshire Care company in Rawdon.” “Then to think that it could all be taken away, threw us into a bit of a panic.” However, on closer look Jill and her husband Paul found that a previous owner in the 60s had confirmed the clause could not be enforced. The ancient hand written document has now been framed and is on show in reception at Leeds Neurophysiotherapy at its new home in Over Lane, Rawdon. “Leeds Neurophysiotherpy is delighted to now be a member of the local community and we welcome both patients and non-patients to come and see the document written in 1783 and several other documents we have which track the history of the site,” Jill has been helping people who have suffered from neurological and other complex conditions for more than 25 years. When talking about the service offered by Leeds

Neurophysiotherapy she said “it can make such difference for people with long term conditions to have timely and appropriate physiotherapy input to help them lead active and rewarding lives. People sometimes are not aware of the progress that can be made even years after onset of a condition. For example one of our patient’s wives sent an e-mail this week saying how delighted she and her daughter had been, that physio had made it possible for her husband to walk up the stairs to their daughters flat for the first time since his stroke four years ago.” As well as treating people with definite diagnosis such as Parkinson’s or multiple sclerosis we also see some lovely progress in people who have general mobility and balance problems without a specific diagnosis. We are proud to be able to provide a specialist service, the physiotherapists in the practice and are very experienced and have extensive post graduate training. “We not only treat people in the clinic but also offer home treatment, and hydrotherapy at the Holt Park Active. We are also delighted to offer the services of Dr Philomena Commons a very experienced musculoskeletal physiotherapist, offering specialist treatment for people with pain from spinal or other muscle or joint problems. Phil is a McKenzie tutor who teaches graduate physiotherapists.”

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Floral Floral sofa: Floral sofa: Genova sofa: Genova Genova 44 Mulberry. 44 Mulberry. 44 Mulberry. Striped Striped Striped Sofa: Sofa: Maranello Sofa: Maranello Maranello 64 Mulberry 64 Mulberry 64 Mulberry Scatters Scatters Scatters Smaller Smaller Smaller stripe: stripe: Enzo stripe: Enzo 65Enzo Mulberry. 65 Mulberry. 65 Mulberry. Large Large stripe: Large stripe: Maranello stripe: Maranello Maranello 64 Mulberry 64 Mulberry 64 Mulberry

Floral sofa: Genova 44 Mulberry. Striped Sofa: Maranello 64 Mulberry Scatters Smaller stripe: Enzo 65 Mulberry. Large stripe: Maranello 64 Mulberry

Brendan Jordan has lived in Leeds all his life. He worked at Bridgecraft for eighteen years before starting up Jordan Upholstery. “I’ve been manufacturing suites for the best part of thirty years. Although we’ve traditionally supplied to the trade, recently we’ve made the decision

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to open our doors to the general public. With us, you’re buying direct from the manufacturer, so you can have your choice of style, size and fabric without paying astronomical prices.” “Anyone calling in will deal with me personally and I’ll oversee everything right through to delivery.

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You’ll never get lost in the system with us; we are small enough to give the personal touch but large enough to deliver. All our furniture is hand made in FABRICS our on-site factory so we control the quality from start to fi nish and are able to off er you the highest standards of craftsmanship and, of course, exceptional value for money.”

QUALITY IS NEVER AN ACCIDENT. It is always the result of High Intention, Eﬀort, Intelligent Direction FAX: 0113Sincere 230 2847 & Skilful Execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

Call today: 0113 255 4806 or 07812 798 913 Email: enquiries@jordanupholstery.co.uk Unit 2a, Hill Top Commercial Centre, Houghley Lane, Bramley, Leeds LS13 2DN