Burglary in Sheldon

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Sheldon Village

Some time between 20th-22nd January, offender/s stole items from a property undergoing renovation in Sheldon, Bakewell, including radiators, copper piping and a wood burning stove.

If you have any information or witnessed any suspicious persons/vehicles in the area, please call Derbyshire police on 101 – quote crime number: 3538/12, or pop up to Swallow Cottage and speak to your village Special Police Constable, John Tanner.

Please be extra vigilant, and ensure that all of your property is securely locked away out of sight.

New Year Honour for John Herbert

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Sheldon Village

John Herbert receiving his award from & Patrick McLoughlin MP

Congratulations to our very own John Herbert who recently received the Matlock Mercury New Year Honours Award for 2012!

John was nominated for the many hours he has spent serving our local community over the years, as Sheldon Parish Meeting Chair, as a Parish Member of the Peak District National Park Authority, and perhaps most importantly for this website…the author of our incredibly successful monthly jottings! The award was presented by Patrick McLoughlin MP at a ceremony at the Imperial Rooms, Matlock. Ironically, John almost missed the ceremony because he was required at an important meeting at the National Park’s office in Bakewell, all part of his community role as Chair of the National Park Planning Committee.

For more information, pop over to the Matlock Mercury website.

History Group Talk – The Sheldon Hoard

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Georgina Tanner

Sheldon History Group will start 2012 with a talk by village resident Brian Greasley on ‘The Sheldon Hoard’! I am reliably informed that this is a collection of coins which were found in Sheldon, and which have recently been tracked down and photographed by members of the group. Brian will reveal more on the night!

Please come along next Weds 18 Jan, at 7.30pm in the Village Hall. All are welcome.

Sheldon Fog Bow

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Sheldon Village

Fog Bow Over Sheldon

One of our residents took this interesting picture of a Fog Bow over fields on the way into Sheldon this Sunday (8th January 2012). You can just make out the top of Shacklow Wood in the centre of the image, and behind that is the Ironage hill-fort of Fin Cop.

Fog Bows are quite rare, and are formed when fine droplets of water vapour cause light to be reflected back to an observer, but unlike rainbows which form via refraction, diffraction causes the light to be smeared out leading to a white light ‘bow’ in the sky…Quantum physics in action! Click on the picture above to see the image in its full glory.

For more details, please visit Atmospheric Optics or Wikipedia.

Sheldon Jottings for January 2012

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Sheldon Village

A very happy New Year to you all! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, one full of joy and peace with families and friends, and that 2012 will bring you all you could wish for.

Despite the cold and current recession, the Christmas Light Up this year raised £690. After a discussion at the Parish Meeting it was agreed that it would be split thus: £250 to Contact the Elderly; £210 each for the Church and Village Hall; £20 towards the Sheldon Website upkeep. The team says thanks to everyone, and it is only because of our local community, generous in getting involved with time and donations, that the team could make such a success. Here’s to next year!

Our best wishes to Oliver who was in hospital for a while during the month. He’s feeling a bit better at home now, but has lots of pills to take every day, as well as lots of rest and a different kind of diet to get used to. Our thoughts are with you.

Harold has also been in hospital for three days to have a seriously infected hand seen to. He’s on the mend, using one-and-a-half hands, he says, and still milking! All our best wishes to Harold as well.

We’ve had to get used to coping with a new County Council approach to gritting roads in small villages such as ours, which means when it snows we don’t get any grit until much later in the day…if at all! The general view after the first relatively mild snow of the year is that it’s not working and has made life very difficult for residents who try to leave or enter the village early in the morning. We’ve told Derbyshire County Council; they say they are looking into it.

This year’s Christmas parish meeting was suitably festive although on probably the coldest night of the winter so far! Lots of the villagers there, mince pies, splendid chocolate cake (Marlene comes up trumps again) and a cup of tea before we started the meeting; this gave us all time to chat before the serious part of the evening started. The meeting, amongst many other decisions, decided to freeze the precept for the next year.

We’ve been having some trouble over the years with school groups and Duke of Edinburgh award groups not understanding how to protect and enjoy the countryside. We were pleased therefore to hear that John Tanner recently gave a talk on ‘Safely and Responsibly Enjoying the National Park’ to Duke of Edinburgh award assessors at Calver Village Hall. John was invited in his role as a Special Constable to talk about issues surrounding the use of the National Park (using Sheldon as an example) such as closing gates, not climbing over walls, and parking responsibly by assessors and parents. The discussion went well, and John has been invited to give further talks on this subject.

No Vicar’s coffee morning in January, but the next one will be Tuesday 7th February in the Village Hall.