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April 2018 Issue 118 Inside this month: Brook Street parking charges, World Book Day Hoole History, Thought for the Month, gardening and financial column.

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PARKING PROBLEM PARKING charges which are being introduced in Brook Street and City Road have attracted criticism from traders who are worried that the fees will drive shoppers away. In this edition we also have pictures from World Book Day at St Werburghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s RC School, success for a Hoole artist, an update from PCSO Keith Bartlett, Hoole History, gardening, thought for the month with Andy Glover, financial column, community listings and much more.

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Traders’ anger over Brook Street parking charges BROOK Street traders are angry about parking charges which are being introduced by the council. The draft Traffic Regulation Order will change the on-street limited waiting bays on City Road, Brook Street and Foregate Street, Chester, into pay and display parking bays. Charging will apply between 8am and 9pm. Between 8am and 6pm there will be a charge of £1 per hour with a maximum period of waiting of two hours on City Road and one hour on Foregate Street and Brook Street. Between 6pm and 9pm there will be a £1 flat rate. There are fears among traders that the parking fee could drive away shoppers, particularly if they end up getting fined! Stewart Tattersall, who owns Dee Sports, says the parking charges will drive people away: “It will hit all of us hard.” Other traders say that the council will earn more money from the charges at the expense of local businesses. The council says that cars are often left on the pavement due to a lack of parking spots in Brook Street. The council insists that the introduction of ‘modest’ parking charges will help ensure that parking places are available for those visiting the local shops, bars and restaurants. Cllr Karen Shore said: “Changes to parking charges and the introduction of length of stay restrictions will ensure everyone can park where they need to, when they need to, and altering the restrictions and introducing charging on specific roads will ensure parking is fair across the city.”

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Sunday 8th April: Field trip - Hale and Pickering’s Pasture Mersey estuary bird watch with stunning views across the river, plus woodland birds and migrants, led by Bill Morton, author of the Frodsham Bird Blog. Meet at Caldy Valley church car park near Sainsbury’s, Chester. Booking essential, call Helen on 07515 143112 to book your place. Wednesday 18th April: Indoor Meeting - An update on RSPB Burton Mere by Dan Trotman After the AGM at 7pm, we have an update on our local wetland reserve at 7:30pm. All welcome at Christleton Parish Hall. Dan Trotman’s talk shows sightings, changes, hopes and plans. Email rspbchester@googlegroups.com For all field trips, it is essential to book. Visit the website www.rspb.org.uk/groups/chester

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Muddy burglars crept in round the back We’ve had a couple of house burglaries recently in Canadian Avenue and Panton Road. On each occasion, the burglars have got in round the back, potentially via the allotments, then broke in by expertly removing the door locks. They’ve left muddy footprints, which leads us to believe they got in through the allotments. If anyone sees anything suspicious, please let us know on the non-emergency 101 number. It might be nothing, but it’s always best to be safe, we’d rather know and investigate where cars or vans have been left.

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HAPPY EASTER BY THE REV ANDY GLOVER It was Eric Hoffer, the American writer who once said, “Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story -- a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.” Whilst I would agree with Hoffer that story telling is important I do take issue with him that the story is without meaning. Let me tell you one of my favourite stories that I hope might illustrate what I mean… Once there were three trees on a hill in the woods. They were discussing their hopes and dreams when the first tree said, “Someday I hope to be a treasure chest. I could be filled with gold, silver and precious gems.” Then the second tree said, “Someday I will be a mighty ship. I will take kings and queens across the waters and sail to the corners of the world.” Finally the third tree said, “I want to grow to be the tallest and straightest tree in the forest. People will see me on top of the hill and look up to my branches, and think of the heavens and God and how close to them I am reaching. After a few months later, a group of woodsmen came upon the trees. Looking at the first tree one said, “This looks like a strong tree, I think I should be able to sell the wood to a carpenter” ... and he began cutting it down. At the second tree a woodsman said, “This looks like a strong tree, I should be able to sell it to the shipyard.” When the woodsmen came upon the third tree, the tree was frightened because he knew that if they cut him down his

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Andy Glover has lived in Hoole with his wife Sue for 30 years. Andy began at Hoole Baptist Church, on Westminster Road, as Youth Pastor, before becoming the Pastor and now Team Leader. your trust in Him, He will give you great gifts. Each of the trees got what they wanted, just not in the way they had imagined. We don’t always know what God’s plans are for us. We just know that His ways are not our ways, but His ways are always best. For many of us, we have come to assume Easter is all about chocolate and Easter bunnies, but originally it was the celebration of the Christian church to commemorate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. He did that on his own power as the God who had come into human history in human form and died on the cross to redeem people from their sins. In all of history, no one had ever made that claim before. Because of this fact, history was split in two; the Christian church was started, and the disciples who ran away in fear after the cross became the fearless messengers of this message.” Finally, may I wish all the readers of the Hoole Roundabout a very Happy Easter and invite you to consider coming along to one of the local Hoole churches to celebrate with us on this very special day, Easter Sunday, April 1st, you’d be very welcome.

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Hoole History Corner Ralph Earlam & Linda Webb explore the history of the Hoole Angling Society A local resident has asked Hoole History & Heritage Society if it can provide any information about a Cup that he has in his possession. The trophy is inscribed “Hoole Angling Society” and the list of its recipients dates from 1914 to 1938. No records can be found of the Angling Society and a scan of newspapers has revealed no information either. One would expect that the Society would have had regular meetings, at least annually, to award the trophy and there must have been officials to organised fishing matches and collect subscription fees. One of Hoole’s pubs was their likely meeting place; old Hooligans remember that ‘The Ermine’, ‘The Bromfield’ and ‘The Faulkner’ had angling clubs in the period after the Second World War, but no link has been found to an “Hoole Angling Society”.

In the middle of the twentieth century, it was claimed that angling was the most popular participative sport, and a survey as recent as 2014 confirmed that this may still be the case. Findings were based on the number of fishing rod licences sold and an estimate based on the numbers caught fishing without one. Before the days of social media, lots of boys were taken fishing by their fathers or grandfathers for the first time (and perhaps the last time if nothing was caught), and local fishing spots included: • The Shropshire Union Canal. • The River Gowy at Mickle Trafford and Guilden Sutton. • The River Dee at The Meadows, Farndon and Sealand. • Flooded Brickworks’ Pits in Hoole Village, one on The Street near Hoole Bank, the other between the Royal Oak (now Toby Carvery) and Old Hoole Hall Farm. • Flooded Clay Pit at Cotton Edmunds. • Large ponds off Long Lane in the Plas Newton area. One place where fishing was not allowed was Flookersbrook. Bye-laws approved in October 1876 under the Flookersbrook Improvement Act stated that it was an offence to “fish with net or rod or in any other way interfere with the fish or water fowl”. Boys who caught the bug were often seen with fishing rods improvised from garden canes and jam jars full of worms dug from the garden. For those who could afford it, fishing tackle was sold at Henry Monk (Gunmaker) at 77 Foregate Street, still operating after 160 years in Queen Street. Martin’s was also another tackle shop in Lower Bridge Street where there were queues early on Saturday and Sunday mornings for the live maggots sold there. In the 1960’s, George Boddy sold fishing gear from his ‘fireplace’ shop at 143 Westminster Road. For a short time more recently, Hoole Angling Centre moved from premises on the corner of Lightfoot Street to a shop next to The Beehive on Hoole Road.

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During 25 years of competition, 11 different names appeared on the shields of the Cup, two people actually winning it five times. The Society has been able to identify the first winner in 1914 as William Holyoak who lived at 22 Walker Street and is listed in the 1911 Census as a ‘Master Cyclemaker’. He had premises at 45 Lower Bridge Street where Directories also show him as a cycle agent and repairer. He died in 1945 aged 73, but his wife was still living in Walker Street in 1952. Some of the other winners have well known Hoole family surnames and the society is hopeful that readers will be able to identify them, and perhaps through existing family connections learn more about them and Hoole Angling Society. It is a sobering

thought that the Cup was first competed for in 1914 – the year of the outbreak of the First World War and the last award was made in 1938, the year before the Second World War began. If you know anything about Hoole Angling Society and its members, recognise any of the names listed or know of any other information about fishing in Hoole and Newton, Hoole History & Heritage Society would be pleased to hear from you. l Website articles will be updated as new information comes to light. You can read this article by visiting the Hoole History website at http://hoolehistorysoc. btck.co.uk/LeisureRecreationinHoole/ FishingforInformation. The next meeting of HH&HS is on Thursday 19th of April, the topic is ‘Religion in Hoole’, and the speaker is Ralph Earlam.

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