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22 OLLY THE OWL Part two of our heart warming true reader’s story.
24 SUBURBAN GARDENS If you’re looking for some “green-fingered” tips - then look no further!
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As promised in our first edition, the team at Suburban Magazine has been working hard to bring articles and features that are relevant to you as local residents.
This month we have visited a selection of local towns talking with business owners in relation to our feature - Promoting the Support of Local Businesses. Our next edition will highlight Rawdon (Area A), Pudsey (Area B) and Chapel Allerton (Area C). If you own a business or provide a service in any of these areas and would like to advertise alongside this feature, please contact our sales team who will be happy to provide further information.
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SPRING MUSIC AT LOTHERTON HALL
Lotherton’s spring season brings two Sunday afternoon drawing-room concerts. There will be a piano recital on 26 April, featuring music by JS Bach, Haydn and Schumann. On Sunday 31 May, Andrew Passmore, harpsichord and Ian Hoggart, recorder, will be performing music in the French style with work by J.S. Bach, François Couperin, Michel Blavet and Jacques-Martin Hotteterre. Events begin at 2pm and tickets (£12.50, £11 concessions, £20 family) include entry to the hall, tea and cakes and free parking if pre-booked. Booking is strongly recommended. Contact Wendy Shuttleworth on 0113 378 2966 or by email wendy. shuttleworth@leeds.gov.uk
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BE SURE TO CAST YOUR VOTE One of the saddest aspects of being an MP is meeting people who tell me that they never vote because politics is not important; that politicians are only ‘in it for themselves’; or that all political parties are the same. This cynicism is often fed by the media, press and television, and I have to single out the destructive way in which some broadcasters automatically deride the political processes in our precious democracy. Quiz and chat shows are often the worst offenders. Allow me to put forward a different point of view. There are still profound injustices in our society, wealth, access to health care, access to justice, housing, taxation, education to name but a few. I suspect everyone, if asked, could pick out some aspect of our society that they would wish to change. So why do we in the UK so frequently fail to make the connection with politics? It is the governing party in London that can make changes to the law that might be needed, provide the money, decide the priorities and implement change. It is the ruling party in the City Council that can change local policy and make spending decisions that reflect key priorities. If you do not vote, others certainly will and then your chance to help choose leaders locally and nationally will have been missed. Sometimes just a few extra votes can make all the difference between who wins and who loses. In the general and local elections this year we may see more close results than ever before. Worse, low turnout means that there is the risk of small but highly organised groups or parties gaining power because of apathy. The best result after any election – party politics aside – is one where there has been a high turnout and a convincing majority. The result is respected and then those elected – the politicians – can get on with their work. They will still receive brickbats, but that goes with the job. Voters, on the other hand, get the leaders the majority of them want. If we lose faith in democracy and fail to vote when we have the chance, it puts our society on a downward spiral, establishing a gulf between those in power and those who are governed. Just look at the news from around the world and see the mayhem that is taking place in countries where people have no say over who is in power. Giving up on democracy by not voting is the start of a very slippery slope. Please get out and vote on May 7th Doug Masterton Communications Officer for Fabian Hamilton candidate for re-election as Labour MP for Leeds North East. 335 Roundhay Road LS8 4HT 0113 249 6600
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NORTH LEEDS CHARITY BEER FESTIVAL A SUCCESS AT NEW VENUE The 4th Charity Beer Festival organised by The Rotary Club of Roundhay took place over the last weekend in March at the new venue of North Leeds Cricket Club. The festival was staged in the clubhouse with extra space available in an adjoining marquee. This years festival had a North v South theme with 18 beers form London breweries pitted against 18 of the best from local Leeds breweries. (No contest then!) In addition there were 4 locally produced ciders. Entertainment was varied and catered for all tastes with acts from Roundhay Ukelele Band, Waley and the Marlers, The Moonshine 5 and many others performing over the weekend. If you attended and would like to comment please tweet @NLeedsBeerFest#CharityBeerFest
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BUYING LOCAL STILL MAKING SENSE The country wide campaign to buy locally has recently had its detractors. Some argue that transportation costs are often a tiny fraction of the cost of the product and that money spent is often better and more effectively received overseas than it might be at home. Then there are questions about quality, suitability and cost. Do we really care whether the tyres most suited to our bicycle, motorbike or car (and budget) are made by Avon, Goodyear, Metzler, Michelin or Pirelli - or whoever and wherever? They have a point. There are nonetheless real community benefits in shopping for local goods and services. It puts more money in the local economy, and what goes around comes around. Local enterprises are safeguarded and continue to pay local taxes. You know the person you are dealing with – perhaps your families have been trading for years. And, in the case of local produce, there is greater confidence that the products are truly seasonal and fresh.
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Perfection Carpets is that they will remove your old carpet with the assurance that it will be recycled and not go to landfill. Local owners Howard and Nooshin Keeling at Goodnight Sleeptight, also on Roundhay Road, sell a wide range of beds without the need for customers to visit large and sometimes quite impersonal of out of town retail parks. In their case they are doubly local. Howard told Suburban “Yes of course we embrace the importance of dealing with local businesses and local business owner. Our home overlooks the park – you can’t get more local than that.”
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One of the many community aware organisations with its finger on the local pulse is the Oakwood Traders’ and Residents’ Association. An important OTRA supported project, recently, was securing the funds necessary for the restoration of Oakwood Clock. The structure was put back in place at the very end of March, with the fully restored clock still waiting to be installed. The official unveiling on 2 May will be an important event for the whole of north Leeds and not just the immediate community. OTRA news and latest activities are easily found on social media.
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LOCAL NEWS FEAST YOUR EARS ON THE SOUNDS OF NATURE THIS SPRING The long, dark winter evenings are over. The clocks have changed and the air is full of the sound of bird song. Bird song begins in mid December, when the days start to get longer. The daily increase of light stimulates the release of special hormones which bring birds into breeding condition. Mistle Thrushes, Song Thrushes and Great Tits
are usually the first to start singing and, as the weeks go by, more and more species join in. By the beginning of March, most of our resident birds are singing and by mid March, the first of our annual spring migrants reach Yorkshire. Leeds is full of places to watch birds and listen to bird song from large estates such as Roundhay Park to smaller nature areas. Close to Roundhay Park are Gledhow Valley Woods, the Wyke Beck Valley Trail and Gipton Woods. If you live in Horsforth then Hawksworth Woods and Newlay Woods are a good place to start. Nestling further up the Aire Valley is a very special place, Rodley Nature Reserve and from here you can walk down the canal to Bramley Falls Wood or in the opposite
direction to Calverley Woods. The canal, river and surrounding farmland habitats provide even more species of birds. Travel around the ring road to Pudsey and Tong Road will lead you to places such as Cockerdale, Troydale and Post Hill. All of these amazing places are free to visit. All you have to do is stop, look and listen. To learn more about how to identify birds and their songs, join a Start Birding birdwatching class. Contact Linda Jenkinson on linda. startbirding@gmail.com or visit www.startbirding.co.uk. Twitter @StartBirding and facebook.com/StartBirding
YORKSHIRE CAT RESCUE Yorkshire Cat Rescue is a Keighley-based charity that cares for and re-homes more than 700 abandoned and unwanted cats each year. With average weekly vet bills of £1,550 and a waiting list of 1,000 cats and kittens in need of help, the charity desperately needs help with both fundraising and volunteering. Sara Atkinson who founded the charity in 1992 says: “We have just begun recruiting for new volunteers to provide temporary foster homes for some of our cats, and for people who might have time to help with local fundraising in the community or in our two charity shops.”
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The rescue has also just launched a new fundraising initiative to get more people involved. “Fundraising Friday will take place on the last Friday of every month where we challenge everyone in the community to raise £25 for Yorkshire Cat Rescue in whichever way they
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BUYING LOCAL Buying local, fresh and seasonal has been made so much easier since the introduction of farmers’ markets. There are now monthly markets in Oakwood, Headingly, Kirkstall, Horsforth, Bramhope, Guiseley, Farsley and Otley – spread over the month so that even last Sundays are covered (Otley). Visitors to Horsforth Farmers’ Market on the first Saturday in March didn’t have to walk far to get the choice of a wide range of local beers; it was the second day of the town’s 7th Beer and Cider Festival in St Margaret’s Church Hall, starting with 69 beers and
Fairtrading local. Stuart Anderson MP enjoying a Fair Trade pancake at Horsforth Farmers’ Market. He was also supporting the town’s application to become a Fairtrade town, here chatting with campaigner Matt Wright, minister at Lister Hill Baptist Church.
26 still ciders there for the tasting. Lost Dog IPA was the hyper-local beer, offered by Horsforth Brewery, which took second prize at the event.
Brewing local at Horsforth Beer and Cider Festival. Dennis Herbert was curious about Wharfe Bank Brewery’s Black Hawk IPA. Wharfe Bank (Otley) has followed the recent brewing trend and added a dark (or black) pale ale to its repertoire. And very nice it is too.
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OLLY THE OWL
frightened them away, it must also have terrified Olly. He was struggling and pecking at my hands. His eyes were wide and his chest was heaving. It was the first time he had ever shown any fear of me. I was sobbing my heart out. What an idiot I’d been! What had I done?
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In the last issue, retired Guiseley businessman Brian Firth told Suburban how he had found an injured tawny owl chick and nursed it back to health. Still aged 11 and in 1958, it was now time for the young flying instructor to give Olly his first lesson... There was nobody around and it was deadly quiet. A row of trees ran towards Yeadon Banks, separating the adjoining fields. I stayed away from them in case Olly flew onto a branch, out of reach. I needed to be sure that he was capable of surviving on his own before taking the risk of him flying off. I’ll never forget his eyes darting everywhere, his head bobbing up and down. At first I sat on the grass with Olly on my arm, just as I had done many times on our lawn. I stood and moved my arm up and down. Olly wasn’t impressed. He simply 22 | SUBURBAN MAGAZINE
Olly the owl with his new friend, Brian Firth. The friendship was to last more than three years.
dug his claws into my jumper, flapping his wings only to keep balance and stayed put. Then I ran slowly across the field. He let go eventually, only to flutter to the ground. Plan C was to throw him in the air, gently and maybe three or four feet from the ground. That one worked he flew back to the ground about three yards away. Each time he flew a little further before landing. So far so good. Until he flew some forty or fifty feet away. Suddenly a mass of all types of birds descended on Olly and attacked him – just like a scene from Hitchcock’s film. I ran at them waving my arms and screaming. Although that
It took time to regain Olly’s trust. Whereas he used to greet me at feeding time, hopping to the branch nearest the aviary door, he was now staring at me from the far corner. When I opened the door he went berserk, fluttering around and squawking like mad. I tried to stroke him to calm him down but he was absolutely terrified. He wasn`t enjoying his food like he used to. I couldn`t take him out onto the side lawn because he wouldn`t let me pick him up. It was three weeks before we reconciled. I’d just come home from school and was preparing Olly’s lamb hearts when I heard the twittering of old. He greeted me at the aviary door and, instead of going straight for the food, he hopped onto my hand, walked up my arm and perched on my shoulder. He was making the little clicking noises that he had done as a baby. Then back into the aviary and straight
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I would take Olly into the fields regularly, often followed by bunch of local kids – all under strict instruction not to make sudden movements or noise. By this time it had become routine for Olly to fly into the trees and return either when he was ready or when I called. Mum had commandeered one of dad’s old jackets and made a protective sleeve for me. I’d become quite a proficient owl handler. Looking back, perhaps these flights were indications that Olly was becoming ready for release. But that didn’t occur to me at the time. I was simply playing with my pet owl, wasn’t I?
Olly and Brian at home in Guiseley. Despite early setbacks, Brian turned out to be a good flying instructor.
to his food dish. It was almost as though he was saying “OK, I forgive you”. Olly was back. It was another three weeks before I felt confident enough to take Olly back into the fields. This time my friend from next door, Graham Thewlis, came with me as lookout - to see if other birds were gathering. That flying
lesson was refreshingly uneventful, with Olly now flying almost the width of the field. The following week, on a similar outing, Olly swooped upward and perched himself in a tree. I didn’t have to give his retrieval much thought. He soon flew back onto my outstretched arm, digging in his claws in the process. Over the next few months
One of our neighbours thought not. Someone (I never did find out) had reported us to the police who, in turn, consulted RSPCA. We’d been given three weeks’ notice of their visit, so they can’t have been that worried. But the wait was agonising, and not all the news good. By now, Brian had been caring for Olly for a year and the two had become inseparable. What would the RSPCA inspector have to say, and what was the outcome? The third and concluding part of Brian Firth’s heartwarming story will be in the May edition of Suburban. SUBURBAN MAGAZINE | 23
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Spring is starting to awaken our plants and shrubs, with new leaves and shoots appearing everywhere. Take care with anything tender, as frosts and snow may still come our way. This is a good time to spring clean beds and borders, keeping on top of weeding and hoeing. Then when everything is ready, finish pruning all your roses – and give them a good dose of rose fertilizer. In a similar fashion, feed your beds and borders with Growmore or fish, blood and bone to give them a good start for the season. Permanently planted pots should have the top two inches of soil removed, and replenished with the correct type of compost and additional long lasting feed. If you have perennial plants which are too large and need dividing, do it as soon as the young shoots show – keeping the outside young pieces and disposing of the old centres. Now the grass is starting to grow, scarify (rake) all the old thatch out of your lawns. This is followed by aeration, which involves inserting a fork into the grass to a depth of 4”, and wiggling slightly to create a drainage path. If the soil is poor, you may sweep fine soil or compost into the 24 | SUBURBAN MAGAZINE
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SPORTS - POOL CC As the days get longer it’s good to know that the start of the cricket season across Yorkshire is imminent! With whites cleaned and boots scrubbed, Pool Cricket Club are looking for a successful season ahead. The 1st and 2nd XI teams will both be looking for promotion in their respective Aire-Wharfe leagues. The 1st XI are led by Ben Platt, and Adam Collett takes charge of the 2nd team for the first time. Pool has a thriving junior section and over the last few years the developments within the club have seen the younger generation excel through the age groups. Many juniors have made their senior debuts with some as young as 13 years old. This is down to the hard work behind the scenes of the coaching staff. Hours of free time are generously given up by many dedicated individuals to ensure the smooth running before, during and after matches and an important part of
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this work is in fundraising so that the club survives and thrives. One very important event coming up this month will be the Pool Cricket Club Gala Dinner. This will be held at Otley Golf Club on Thursday 30th April from 7pm onwards. The guest speaker will be former England cricketer Dermot Reeve OBE. Dermot has played 3 tests and 29 ODIs for England and now spends his days as a TV commentator and after dinner speaker. The evening will be hosted by Pete Emmett; an experienced comedian and entertainer. Pete has worked with the likes of Mike Tyson, Jonny Vegas, Dame Kelly Holmes and
DISCOVER THE MAGIC OF A NEW AND IMPROVED TROPICAL WORLD Visitors can once again experience the magic of one of Leeds and Yorkshire’s most popular visitor attractions, after Tropical World reopened its doors to the public following an exciting refurbishment programme. Home to a wide range of animals from butterflies, birds, fish, reptiles, meerkats and nocturnal monkeys to bearded dragons and bats, Tropical World has now also welcomed a host of new arrivals to its ranks following the revamp. On offer includes an octopus, seahorses, stingray, dart frogs, Asian Tigerfish and a red bellied piranha that sit aside other improvements such as the introduction of a fantastic new aquarium, a new toilet block with changing facilities, rainforest themed mosaics and environmentally friendly electrical and heating improvements. After experiencing the delightful wildlife don’t miss on the chance to relax and enjoy a tasty snack or drink in the new conservatory extension to the café which overlooks the beautiful Canal Gardens. Last year, a children’s party and education zone was also created and the entrance to Tropical World
This year Pool CC will again be hosting a Beer Festival. Last year’s event was a roaring success and this year should be no different. The two day event is held on the 26th + 27th September. There will be an amazing variety of beers and ciders from around the world with the added bonus of live music throughout the course of the 2 days. A warm friendly atmosphere awaits all visitors on a summer’s day at Pool CC. With a wonderful view of the Cragg, easy access in and out of the ground, kids play area and plenty of parking there is no finer way to spend a Saturday, you may get to watch a game of cricket too.... Location: Pool Cricket Club, Arthington Lane, Pool-inWharfedale, Leeds, LS21 1LQ
was given a facelift as part of the overall £1.5m refurbishment programme funded by the council, a grant and a very generous donation from the Ziff family, who continue to be great supporters of the venue and city in general. Councillor Mark Dobson, Leeds City Council’s executive member for cleaner, safer and stronger communities said: "I am delighted to say that Tropical World is now open to the public once again following a fantastic and wide-ranging improvement programme which was certainly worth the wait. "There really is something for everyone so don’t miss out on your chance to see a variety of new exotic animals and experience fantastic attractions and facilities such as the new aquarium and café conservatory. "The scale of the refurbishment would not have been possible without the continued support and generous funding from the Ziff family and on behalf of the council I would like to offer our deep thanks and gratitude for their help."
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