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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats 

Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA 

Tel: (0114) 274 5086 

9am Traditional Communion Service 

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email: office@stchads.org 

website: www.stchads.org 

April/May 2019 

WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD 

Sunday April 14 

Easter worship 

at St Chad’s 

PALM SUNDAY 

Celebrate Easter with us at St Chad’s 

Full details of all our Easter services are inside 

11am Lifted Family Service 

Thursday April 18 

MAUNDY THURSDAY 

10am Our weekly service of Holy 

Communion 

Friday April 19 

GOOD FRIDAY 

10am Good Friday Family Service 

(especially for children) 

followed by hot cross buns 

1-3pm Meditations Around the Cross 

including music from the choir 


EASTER SUNDAY 

9am Easter Celebration with 

Holy Communion 

11am Family Service with 


Come and celebrate the risen Jesus!

WELCOME to Impact - the magazine of St Chad’s Church, 

Woodseats. Impact is published every two months and distributed 

to over 5,000 homes in S8. 

St Chad’s Church is committed to serving you - the people of 

Woodseats, Beauchief and Chancet Wood. To find out more about 

St Chad’s, visit our website at www.stchads.org or call the church 

office on 0114 274 5086. 

Here’s where to find us: 

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Linden Avenue 

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House 

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PALM SUNDAY 


GOOD FRIDAY 

9am Traditional Co munion Service 

1am Lifted Family Service 

10am Our w ekly service of Holy 

Co munion 

10am G od Friday Family Service 

(especia for children) 

fo lowed by hot cro s buns 

1-3pm Meditations Around the Cro s 


9am Easter Celebration with 

Holy Co munion 

1am Family Service with 

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EASTER SUNDAY 

Come and celebrate the risen Jesus! 

St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, W odseats 


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Most people who drive can remember their 

fi rst car. For many it feels like an entry into 

adulthood, a rite of passage, to have your own 

set of car keys, your own set of wheels and to 

drive off into the sunset (or at least down the M1) 

with the world before you. 

My fi rst car was a red Citroen 2CV. I have very few fond 

memories of it. On cold and damp days you would have 

to start it with a crankhandle whilst kneeling in the road, 

possibly in a pool of oil. It lurched dangerously sideways if 

you ever took a corner at 20mph. ‘Air conditioning’ meant 

opening the vents to the engine and running the risk of 

inhaling fumes. On the plus side, you could (after some 

effort) roll back the top on hot and sunny days and whilst 


the car had very little luggage space, your could stick bookcases 

vertically through the roof, although this made cornering really quite 

scary. It could reach the heady speeds of 60mph downhill with a 

following wind and at such times you could imagine that you were flying 

a First World War biplane. 

Sadly, after driving it for ten years, our car came a cropper whilst trying 

to negotiate a large hill on the M40 near High Wycombe. Driving since 

then has never quite recaptured the thrill of the open road, although I do 

now drive with some confi dence that I will reach my destination. 

There are almost 38 million vehicles registered on Britain’s roads. 

That is approximately one for every two people in the country. Thankfully 

not everyone drives their car at the same time, although travelling on 

the motorways on August bank holiday can certainly feel like they do. 

Driving, which 50 years ago used to be a leisure activity undertaken for 

fun, now feels more like a stressful chore. I prefer travelling by train, 

although that is not always a hassle-free experience. 

Our love affair with the car is undergoing a dramatic change. We are 

even more aware now than we have been of the polluting dangers of 

these horseless carriages. Diesel engines are being rapidly phased 

out, electric cars are expected to be the norm within 20 years and car 

manufacturers in Britain are downsizing or moving away. Driverless 

cars may be just a few years ahead. 

Perhaps my experience of ten years of driving a tin-can-on-wheels 

has made me jaundiced towards the motor car, but I don’t feel any great 

lament at the prospect of its passing, especially if the decline in car 

ownership resulted in greater investment in public transport 

(though I’m not holding my breath). The advent of the 

automobile gave humans great freedom at a terrible price 

to our health and environment. If a cleaner, greener and 

healthier future could be made possible through new 

technology and a change in human behaviour then that 

surely is something to be welcomed. 

Rev Toby Hole, Vicar, St Chad’s, Woodseats 

Celebrate Easter with us at St Chad’s 

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April/May 2019 


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What’s On 

If you have an event you would like 

to see included in our What’s On 

section, email impact@stchads.org 

Health Walks 

•Mondays - 10am: Graves Park. 

Meet outside the Rose Garden 

Cafe; 

•Tuesdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall 

Woods. Meet at Abbeydale 

Industrial Hamlet Visitors Centre; 

•Thursdays - 10.30am: Lowedges. 

Meet at the Gresley Road Meeting 

Rooms, Gresley Road, Lowedges; 

•Thursdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall 

Woods. Meet at the JG Graves 

Discovery Centre off Abbey Lane. 

•Fridays - 10.30am: Graves Park. 

Meet in the main entrance, Graves 

Leisure Centre. 

Call 07505 639524 or visit www. 

healthwalksinsheffield.btck.co.uk 

for more details about any of the 

walks. 

April 5 

Darkest Hour 

Greenhill Library 

7.30pm 

An evening cinema event at 

Greenhill Library showing 2017 

Second World War drama Darkest 

Hour. 

Suggested donation of £5, 

including refreshments and a raffle 

ticket. 

April 5 

A Celebration of Russian Music 

St Andrew’s Church, Psalter Lane 

7.30pm 

Violinst Lucy Phillips and pianist 

David Hammond present an 

evening of Russian music. 

Tickets £12 and £5 for under 18s. 

Call in for a Cuppa 

at Church House, 56 Abbey Lane 

10am to 11.45am 

on the last Saturday of each month 

Bring & Buy (new items) 

Handicrafts and Home Baking 

April 6 

Litter Pick 

Fraser Estate 

10am 

Join members of St Chad’s and 

the community at The Dale end of 

Fraser Drive for a litter pick. 

April 6 

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 


2pm 

A showing of the classic children’s 

movie. Suggested donation £3 

adults and £2 children. 

April 7 

Pedlar’s Corner Flea Market 

The Abbeydale Picture House 

10am-3pm 

Flea market, antiques, arts, crafts, 

makers and salvage stalls. 

April 10-13 

Beyond a Joke 

Dronfi eld Civic Hall 

7.30pm 

Dronfield Players present Beyond a 

Joke, a comedy by Derek Benfield. 

For tickets, priced £8 or £7 

concessions, call 01246 417850 or 

07596 275496. 

April 10 and 11 

Easter Lambing 

Whirlow Hall Farm 

11am-3pm 

Meet the new lambs at Whirlow 

Hall Farm. Activities include Easter 

Egg Hunt, crafts, face painting and 

Punch and Judy. Farm entrance is 

under 14s £4, adults £5, family £16. 



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Send details of your event to impact@stchads.org or write to: Impact, 

St Chad‟s Church Offices, 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB. 

April 13 

City Of Sheffield Youth Orchestra 

Health Spring Walks Concert 

Mondays 

Sheffield Cathedral 

– 10am: Graves Park. 

7.30pm 

Meet 

The 

at 

City 

the 

of 

Animal 

Sheffield 

Farm 

Youth 

car park; 

Tuesdays Orchestra welcomes – 10.30am: soloist Ecclesall Thalie 

Woods. Knights Meet to perform at Abbeydale a double bill 

Industrial of Scheherazade Hamlet; by Ravel and 

Thursdays Rimsky Korsakov. – 10.30am: 

Lowedges. Meet at the Community 

Wing, 

April 

Lowedges 

14 and 28 

Junior School. 

Abbeydale Miniature Railway 

 

Abbeydale 

Call 0114 

Road 

203 9337. 

South 

1-5pm 

National The regular Council open for days Divorced, at 

Single Abbeydale and Widowed Miniature Railway. 

Tuesdays 8-11pm 

Norton April 14 Country Club 

Club 

Farmers’ 

offering 

Market 

friendship and social 


activities. 

11am - 3pm 

Call Magdalen on 0114 

2394326. April 26 

The Sheffield Free Bird 

January Challenge 30 - February 5 

AEGON Greenhill British LibraryTennis Tour 

7.30pm 

Graves 

Bird watcher 

Tennis 

Pete 

and 

Brown 

Leisure 

tells 

Centre 

of his 

World 2016 ranked challenge players to see compete how many 

alongside bird species local he Sheffield could find players. in the 

Sheffield Call 0114 area 283 in 9900. a year. 

Tickets are £5. 

February 5 

Book 

April 

Sale 

27 

Call in for a Cuppa 

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Church 

Crawshaw 

House, 

Grove, 

56 Abbey 

Beauchief 

Lane 

10am-12pm 

- 11.45am 

Good Tea, coffee quality second-hand biscuits, books, 

for cakes, sale in jams aid and of the preserves, Alzheimer‟s 

Society. tombola, Donations craft stall of and paperback bric a brac. 

novels In aid or of Support biographies Dogs. in good 

condition 

May 3 

are welcome (but not 

larger A Star books is Born due to space 

limitations). Greenhill Library 

7.30pm 

February A showing 5 of the 2018 version of A 

Free Star Environmental Is Born from first-time Activities director 

Millhouses 

and star Bradley 

Park 

Cooper. 

10.30am-12.30pm 

May 5 

Obstacle Pedlar’s course Corner and Flea stream Market 

dipping The Abbeydale activities Picture for 8 - 13 House year 

olds. 

10am-3pm 

A mixture of general flea market 

February 

stalls and specialist 

8-12 

antiques, 

vintage, retro, arts, crafts, makers 

Jamaica and salvage Inn stalls. 

Ecclesall All Saints Church Hall 

7.30pm May 5 

A Book play Sale presented by Ecclesall 

Theatre 36 Crawshaw Company. Grove, Tickets: Beauchief £5. 

 

10am-12pm 

Call 0114 230 8842. 

Good quality second-hand books 

for sale in aid of the Alzheimer’s 

February Society. 12 

Free Donations Environmental of good condition Activities 

Millhouses paperback novels Park or biographies 

1.30-3.30pm 

are welcome. 

Nature quiz trail, stream dipping 

and 

May 

bug 

12 

hunting activities for 8 - 13 

Abbeydale Miniature Railway 

year Abbeydale olds. Road South 

1-5pm Call 0114 263 4335. 

The regular open days at 

February Abbeydale 12 Miniature Railway. 

Free Tickets Environmental are £1.50 per person Activities per 

Ecclesall 

ride. 

Woods Sawmill 

10.30am-12.30pm 

May 17 

Nature The Tenants quiz trail, and stream Workers dipping of 

and Abbey bug Dale hunting Forge activities for 8 - 13 

year Greenhill olds. Library 

7.30pm Call 0114 235 6348. 

Pauline Burnett talks about the 

February 

successes 

20 

and failures of the men 

who strived to develop Abbey Dale 

Why Forge Not and Try the A lives Bike of some of their 

Greenhil workers. Park 

10am-2pm 

Rediscover May 25 your cycling skills in 

Greenhill Call in for Park. a Cuppa The rangers will 

provide 

Church House, 

a bike, helmet 

56 Abbey 

and 

Lane 

10 - 11.45am 

instruction. 

Tea, coffee and 

Meet 

biscuits, 

at the Bowls 

books, 

Pavilion, cakes, jams Greenhill and preserves, Park. 

Booking tombola, is craft essential. stall and bric a brac. 

In Call aid of 0114 Tearfund. 283 9195. 

Beauchief Abbey Abbey holds holds a variety a 

of variety services of services. and anyone For is more 

welcome information to attend. see page For 26. more 

details see the Abbey notice 

board. 


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Life in the Cockpit 

Chris Jones is a pilot with 

British Airways. James 

Norris asked him about his 

work... 

When did you know you wanted to be 

a pilot? 

I think I’ve always wanted to fl y. I 

considered many different career 

options, but I always wanted to do 

something with aeroplanes. 

How long do you have to train 

to become a pilot and what 

qualifications do you need? 

There are various routes to becoming 

an airline pilot. The fastest, and probably 

most popular, option is the integrated 

Air Transport Pilots Licence course 

where you get all the licences required 

to fl y a commercial jet aircraft. It can 

take only 18 months, requires no formal 

qualifi cations to start, but is very tough 

work. 

So how does it work… do you fly 

somewhere, and then fly back after a 

few hours? 

It varies. Depending on the lengths of 

sectors (fl ights), I fl y between one and 

four sectors in a day. I report for work at 

the airport an hour before departure time 

and meet with the captain (to discuss 

the aircraft, weather, notices for airspace 

and airports). We then proceed to the 

aircraft and set it up for departure. Most 

destinations I fl y to are one-and-a-half 

to three-and-a-half hours away, but 

between fl ights we are normally on the 

ground for about 45 minutes before the 

return fl ight. This allows for refuelling, 

cleaning and for me to disembark the 

aircraft, but not for sightseeing! 

What do you like about your job? 

There are so many great things about 

fl ying! No two days are ever the same: 

I fl y with different crews, to different 

destinations with different weather. I’m 

hugely privileged to get some of the 

greatest views in the world, whether 

it be crossing the Alps on a crisp 

winter’s morning, seeing amazing cloud 

formations or spotting constellations 

and shooting stars when fl ying at night. 

Getting a landing just right is also pretty 

satisfying! 

What is your favourite view from the 

cockpit? 

There are lots to choose from, but the 

approach in to Heathrow over the centre 

of London is hard to beat! 

Do you have a favourite airport? 

I love fl ying to lots of different airports 

for lots of different reasons. The view of 

Venice on fi nal approach is great and 

Funchal airport with its runway built on 

stilts always takes my breath away! 



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What don’t you like about your job? 

There are definitely some 

disadvantages to my job, the main one 

is how it impacts my home life. Flights 

do not stick to Monday to Friday 9-5, so 

my working hours are far from sociable. 

In the summer plenty of flights depart 

before 6am and go right through the 

night, and it can definitely take its toll. 

The other big downside is that my 

roster is only published two weeks 

before the start of any month, making 

it difficult to meet up with friends and to 

commit to activities outside of work. 

How many miles do you travel in a 

year? 

I track the hours I have flown rather 

than the miles. But, I generally accrue 

around 800 flying hours a year, so 

assuming the plane travels around 

400mph, then that is roughly 320,000 

miles a year. That is a massive 

approximation though! 

Do you get to fly as a passenger for 

free? 

Not quite! We get given up to two sets of 

tickets to use a year, but we have to pay 

the tax. It’s still a great perk though. 

What’s been your scariest moment as 

a pilot? 

The fi rst onboard announcement I had to 

make during my training! It made me far 

more nervous than the actual fl ying. 

And the weirdest moment as a pilot? 

This is a difficult one! It can be very 

surprising to fi nd out what is in the cargo 

hold: F1 components, Parmesan cheese 

and dogs, for example. 

And finally, the worst thing you’ve 

ever eaten on a plane? 

Generally, the food is pretty good. 

Although my heart always sinks when I 

see the mushroom frittata arrive on my 

tray! 



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Easter is unusually late 

this year. Because of the 

complications of calculating 

the date, Easter can fall 

anytime between March 21 

and April 25. This year’s April 21 

date for Easter is the latest it has 

been since 2000 when, unusually, 

Easter fell on St George’s Day and 

it will not fall on a later date until 

2038. 

The late Easter has meant some 

oddities with school holidays in 

Sheffield as the council recently 

made the (probably 

sensible) decision 

to fix the holidays 

rather than follow 

the vagaries of the 

Christian calendar. 

The children will 

have been back 

at school for a 

full week before 

they then enjoy the 

extended bank holidays 

of the Easter weekend. 

A late Easter also means that the 

festival coincides with the height of 

spring. The trees should be well 

underway in growing their fresh 

greenery and blossom. An early 

Easter can, as it did a few years 

ago, bring snow and a sense that 

winter is still very much on us. 

So this year, Easter should bring 

with it all the resonance of spring, 

new life and new hope that is 

appropriate to the season. There 

is a tradition in some churches 

to have a bare cross throughout 

holy week and then to festoon it 

with flowers on Easter morning. A 

traditional Easter hymn is entitled 

‘Now the Green Blade Rises’, 

linking the resurrection of Jesus to 

the greening of the world in spring. 

As is very well known, the 

word Easter is not a Christian 

word. It comes from the pre- 

Christian Anglo-Saxon worship 

of the goddess Eostre (the 

Christian missionaries were not 

embarrassed when it came to 

reusing the old customs for new 

purposes). The historical death 

of Jesus at the time of the Jewish 

Passover around 30AD coincided 

with the spring customs of the 

northern Europeans, and so it is 

that Easter holds both Christian 

and pre-Christian roots and 

traditions. 

The resurrection of 

Jesus, which so 

powerfully motivated 

the first Christians 

to travel and tell the 

news of God’s love 

to distant shores 

and peoples, could 

very naturally be 

illustrated by the 

processes of death 

and rebirth in the natural 

birth. Indeed, both Jesus 

and St Paul used the metaphor 

of a ‘dead’ grain giving birth to 

something radically new when they 

talked about the new life that God 

brings. 

In a world that is desperately 

seeking hope, and seemingly 

finding little, this year’s Easter may 

bring an ancient reminder that out 

of the darkness of winter, new life 

grows. 

As the above mentioned hymn 

says: 

When our hearts are wintry, 

grieving or in pain, 

Jesus’ touch can call us back to 

life again. 

Fields of our hearts that dead 

and bare have been: 

Love is come again like wheat 

that springeth green. 

Rev Toby Hole 

A Late Easter 



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Making Twenty-One Hops t 

Twenty-one Hops to Nairobi 

– I know that sounds like an 

old movie title, but this is a 

brief account of a Christian 

organisation, which grew from 

one man’s vision of peace at the end of 

the Second World War and an epic flight 

from London to Nairobi to establish the 

world’s busiest humanitarian airline – 

Mission Aviation Fellowship. 

The visionary was Murray Kendon, 

a New Zealand pilot with RAF Coastal 

Command, who believed that if planes 

could be used for war, they could also 

be used for peace – to bring help and 

hope to impoverished people in isolated 

places and show them God’s love. He 

also believed that his vision should be 

carried out in partnership with overseas 

churches and missions – a taskforce of 

specialists serving God worldwide. 

In 1944, Murray took his ideas to Dr 

Thomas Cochrane, a pioneer medical 

missionary in China and founder of the 

Mildmay Movement, who asked him 

if he could begin the project at once. 

After much soul searching and praying, 

it became clear to Murray that God had 

given him not only the vision but also 

the call to make MAF become a reality. 

Jack Hemmings and Stuart King 

The following year, he was demobbed 

from the RAF and moved to the Mildmay 

Centre in London. And in the dying 

embers of World War Two, MAF was born. 

Murray was joined there by other 

ex-RAF officers: Squadron Leader Jack 

Hemmings, who had won the Air Force 

Cross in India, and Flight Lieutenant 

Stuart King, engineer officer for 247 

Fighter Squadron during the D-Day 

landings, who learned to fly soon after. 

Having considered mission fields as far 

away as China, it was finally agreed by 

all at MAF to start in Africa with a tenmonth 

air and ground survey. Two years 

later, on January 13, 1948, Jack and 

Stuart took off from Croydon Airport in a 

twin-engine Miles Gemini for Paris – the 

first of 21 hops to Nairobi. 

Each stop, of course, was for 

refuelling, sometimes with layovers for 

the pilots. From Paris, they continued 

down to Lyon and Marseilles, then 

across the Mediterranean to Corsica 

and Tunis. Two days and five hops 

later, they were in Cairo, where they 

upgraded their radio transmitter for future 



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to Nairobi 

communication in the Sudan from a 

stall in the Muski Bazaar! After fi ve days 

in Cairo, they crossed into Sudan and 

fl ew on via Wadi Halfa and Atbara to 

Khartoum. Their African survey was well 

now underway. 

Having intended to reach Nairobi via 

Addis Ababa, Jack and Stuart fi rst fl ew 

east to Asmara in Eritrea, where they 

had to make an emergency landing 

half a mile from the airfi eld. Reluctantly, 

they abandoned their proposed route 

over Ethiopia and returned to Khartoum, 

reaching Nairobi, the last of fi ve more 

hops, via Malakal and Juba – 27 eventful 

days after leaving Croydon. 

Now, 70 years on, Mission Aviation 

Fellowship has become the world’s 

largest humanitarian airline, with more 

than 1,290 staff serving in over 26 

countries and a fl eet of 109 aircraft 

taking off or landing somewhere on the 

planet every four minutes! 

And all from the God-given vision 

of one man, the late Murray Kendon, 

and the faith, prayers and support of 

thousands more. 

You can read a much fuller account of 

the fi rst MAF flight in Hope Has Wings by 

Stuart King, or watch archive footage on 

the Flights of Faith DVD – both available 

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Films Put the Focus on 

So many classic feature films 

have been made involving 

various modes of transport 

as the theme. Just at random 

they include Murder on the 

Orient Express, On the Buses and 

Those Magnificent Young Men in their 

Flying Machines. The list goes on and 

on. Films about racing cars, motorcycle 

hoodlums and the aversion of disaster 

in mid-air abound. There have also been 

17 feature films about the sinking of 

the Titanic plus 25 dramas on TV. The 

viewing public is obviously gripped by 

what happens when we travel. 

There are also lots of film 

documentaries which cover transport. 

The most famous is Night Train. It is 

75 years since the ground-breaking 

documentary film about the mail train 

from Euston to Scotland was first 

screened. The 23-minute film covered 

a routine subject, but succeeded in 

capturing the public’s imagination with a 

Benjamin Britten score and featuring a 

now-famous WH Auden poem. It is often 

shown on TV. 

One of my favourite movies is Bicycle 

Thieves. I first saw it when undertaking 

a film studies course at the Showroom 

Cinema around 20 years ago. Since then 

I have watched it at the cinema and at 

home on DVD. Bicycle Thieves is a 1948 

Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De 

Sica. The film follows the story of a poor 

father searching post-Second World 

War Rome for his stolen bicycle, without 

which he will lose the job which was to 

be the salvation of his young family. His 

son also tries to help. A heart-warming 

film, Bicycle Thieves is widely regarded 

as a masterpiece of Italian 

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neo-realism, a movement which began 

with Rome, Open City in 1945 and which 

attempted to give cinema a new degree 

of realism. 

An unusual film about a small boat is 

All is Lost starring Robert Redford and 

made in 2013. What is unusual about 

this is that Redford is the only actor and 

that there is very little dialogue in the 

movie. In the middle of the Indian Ocean, 

Redford, a lone sailor, wakes one 

morning to find that a shipping container 

has fallen into the sea and his boat has 

collided with it causing a hole in the 

hull. The film tells the story about how, 

alone, he attempts a repair and then how 

he tries to survive the elements with a 

damaged vessel. Amazingly most of this 

film what shot in a studio. 

Films about cars with names feature 

throughout movie history from Disney’s 

Herbie through to Stephen King’s 

Christine and the old British favourite 

Genevieve which I saw in the cinema in 

the 1950s. Road movies feature long- 



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distance travel and are a favourite with 

fi lm-goers. Easy Rider springs to mind 

but that featured motorbikes and usually 

the mode of transport is the car. 

Little Miss Sunshine, an independent 

US fi lm which won several awards is 

a road-movie featuring a family group 

who are travelling in a Volkswagen T2 

Microbus, which falls to bits as they go. 

The family are taking their little girl to a 

beauty pageant which she has set her 

heart on. They travel from Albuquerque, 

New Mexico to Redondo Beach, 

California. Their adventures on the way, 

and the interaction of the characters are 

hilarious. The fi lm was made in 2006 and 

will be enjoyed for its offbeat appeal. A 

very funny fi lm. 

I think that what appeals to movie fans 

about fi lms involving transport is that 

they move along at a fast pace, there 

are usually mechanical failures and 

problems on the journey and there is 

plenty of opportunity for romance among 

passengers. Keep the audience awake! 

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Services at St Chad’s 

Sunday Services 

Sunday 

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Morning Prayers 



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Evening Prayers 



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Monday to Thursday at 5pm 

• Monday Friday at to 9am Thursday - up to at an 5pm hour of prayer, blessing 

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The Sights and Sounds f 

Nenya is the Ring Of Water 

from Tolkien’s Lord of 

the Rings and is also the 

traditional Norfolk Broads 

design four/fi ve-berth cabincruiser 

we call our mobile second 

home. 

She tows a Lugsail and an 

Access303 (Hansa 303) dinghy, and 

her permanent mooring is at Hoveton 

on the River Bure. 

We bought it in 2002 from the 

grandparents of two of our godchildren 

who had previously allowed us to 

take her out on our own. This had 

been an occurrence so rare that 

another boat owner asked 

where her owner was. 

The fi rst things we had 

to do were Boat Safety 

Scheme improvements. 

These included hot air 

heating instead of radiant 

gas, and a new loo and 

water tank. Over the 

years we added mains 

electric plug-in facilities and 

an immersion heater – for 

hot showers in the morning and 

fewer worries about fl at batteries. 

Then in 2015 the wheelhouse was 

replaced, and rotting timber and 

decking renewed at Swallowtail 

Boatyard on Womack Water. This 

time we were able to share the work, 

providing the unskilled labour and 

initially cleaning and anti-fouling 

the hull (I looked as if I’d had a blue 

rinse!). Later we did more interesting 

and constructive jobs. 

Since retiring we’ve aimed to spend 

60 days a year cruising the Northern 

Rivers and Broads if we only have 

about a week. The Southern Rivers 

and Broads need ten to 14 days – to 

get there takes eight hours’ steady 

motoring through Great Yarmouth and 

Breydon Water and has to be timed 

to coincide with slack water at Great 

Yarmouth. Starts at 6am are not 

unusual! 

Members of our family join us 

regularly, the youngest even managed 

to fall in, fi ve minutes after arriving! 

A bird-watching highlight of 2018, 

crossing Breydon Water, 

was Shelduck 

ducklings in a group 

of 25 with only 

two adults (we 

decided they 



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from Nenya 

must be in a crèche). There were 

also two bittern sightings, otters 

playing, grass snakes swimming 

and seals on the coast – all 

recorded in the daily log. 

Other highlights include sailing 

together in the dinghies – passage 

sailing while Nenya is helmed to 

the meeting point by the other one 

of us; sailing with the Waveney 

Sailability club on Oulten Broad 

in my Access303; and acting as 

mother boat for Broads Adventure. 

We have also enjoyed visiting 

and worshipping in churches within 

walking distance, good food, new 

friends, wide skies and getting 

caught in thunder storms. These all 

make our life on Nenya exciting. 

Ann Allen 

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Services Our City’s at St Chad’s Trams 

Sheffield has a long history 

of trams travelling through 

its valleys and up its 

seven hills. 

The first horsedrawn 

tram served the city in 1873 and 

ran between Lady’s Bridge and 

Attercliffe, later being extended to 

Brightside and Tinsley. 

Soon afterwards, new routes 

were added to Heeley, where a 

tram depot was built, as well as 

Nether Edge and Hillsborough. 

Electric trams arrived in Sheffield 

at the end of the nineteenth 

century and by 1902 all the routes 

were electrified. 

In our area of the city, tracks 

ran to Woodseats, Meadowhead, 

Millhouses and Beauchief. 

In 1927, the Beauchief and 

Meadowhead lines were joined by 

track laid along Abbey Lane. 

Sheffield Tramway Company’s 

original horse drawn tram network 

was nine-and-a-half miles long. 

At its greatest extent, a reported 

100 miles of tram routes were 

operated by Sheffield Corporation, 

which had taken over the tramway 

system in July 1896. 

The last route, Beauchief to 

Vulcan Road, closed on the 

afternoon of Saturday October 8, 

1960. An illuminated car, followed 

by a procession of 14 trams, 

carried passengers and council 

dignitaries from Beauchief to the 

Tinsley depot. 

Eight of the Sheffield trams are 

now at Crich Tramway Village in 

Derbyshire. Other trams are at 

Beamish and the South Yorkshire 

Transport Museum. 

Thirty-four years later, in March 

1994, Supertram arrived in 

Sheffield at a cost of £240m, the 

first line opening to Meadowhall. 

Now there are four lines, and a 

new tram-train sharing the railway 

line to Rotherham. 

There have been many 

calls for the tram route 

to be extended west, 

covering Abbeydale. 

Maybe one of these 

days the trams will 

return to Woodseats and 

Beauchief – we will have 

to wait and see. 

The Sheffield 510 

tram – Sheffield’s last 

tram – now at Crich 

Tramway Village in 

Derbyshire with the 

destination showing 

as Meadowhead, 

Woodseats Road 

(Millhouses). 

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Services at St Chad’s 

Transport in Biblical Times 

Transport options today 

are linked to a number of 

factors: wealth, geography 

and infrastructure, to 

mention a few. Given 

suitable finances, in Sheffield, I 

could travel by bus, tram, taxi or 

train. It wouldn’t take long to get to 

an airport either. Where I grew up, 

in a small village, one bus came 

through a few times a day. In 

places like Vietnam, cars are too 

expensive for many, so scooters 

and motorbikes are the preferred 

form of transport. 

In biblical times, transport 

options on land were 

obviously a lot more 

limited: by foot or by 

animal. Travelling was 

hard work and took a 

long time. The climate 

was generally warm 

in biblical locations, 

so it was tiring and 

plans for water 

stops (at wells 

or springs) were 

necessary. It 

was dangerous 

too, due to 

wild animals and 

robbers. 

Oxen are slow, but powerful 

animals, and were used to pull 

carts or wagons. Camels were 

used for long distance travel and 

transportation of goods in the 

desert and hot places, due to their 

strength, natural protection from 

the elements, and not needing to 

stop regularly for water. Horses 

were expensive, generally only 

used by kings or armies, and 

would be used to transport 

soldiers or pull chariots. 

Donkeys are mentioned 

throughout the Bible as a 

means of transportation. The 

most amusing incident, and 

well worth a read, is the story of 

Balaam travelling on his donkey 

in Numbers 22. Balaam is not 

paying attention to God and so 

God allows the donkey to speak! 

Other stories are probably more 

familiar. In the story of Joseph, the 

dreaming, coat-wearing favourite 

son of Jacob, his brothers come 

to him from Canaan to Egypt on 

donkeys to collect grain due to 

famine (Genesis 42-44). One of 

Jesus’ most famous stories, the 

Parable of the Good Samaritan, 

involves a man travelling from 

Jerusalem to Jericho. He 

gets attacked and beaten 

by robbers and left for 

dead. It is a kind 

stranger with a 

donkey who takes 

him to an inn and 

cares for him 

(Luke 25). 

Jesus also rides 

on a donkey, and 

that story links 

us with this time 

of the year. Palm 

Sunday (April 

14) is where the 

church remembers Jesus coming 

into Jerusalem as a humble king, 

not on a powerful horse, but 

on a donkey. Here people laid 

down cloaks and branches on 

the ground (Matt 21). This begins 

what is known as Holy Week, 

including Good Friday (April 19), 

where Christians remember the 

death of Jesus on the cross. But 

Easter Sunday (April 21) is when 

Christians remember Jesus’ 

resurrection. This is at the core of 

the Christian faith, that Jesus died 

and rose again so that humanity 

might be reunited with God. 

Rev James Norris 



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A relaxed and friendly place for a chat 

Coffee morning for anyone over 50 

Tuesdays 10.15 -11.15am 

St Chad’s Church, 

Tuesdays 10.15 -11.15am, starting 25th April 2017 


Linden Avenue, Woodseats 

No table games, no speakers, 

just a good cuppa and a natter! 


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Travelling the Med with S 

What was travelling like 

in the fi rst century? 

Uncomfortable! On 

land solid Roman roads 

enabled reliable travel. 

Sea voyages were another matter. If 

you needed to get to Alexandria or 

Rome, you had to board a cargo vessel, 

negotiate the fare, hunker down on deck 

with no cabins or bed and breakfast 

supplied. You were dependent on the 

wind and shipping lanes were shut down 

for four months each winter. Still, it made 

your voyage a lot shorter – typically at 

fi ve knots it took about a week to cross 

the Med. from west to east. 

Enter St Paul, missionary and traveller 

extraordinaire. It is estimated he clocked 

up over 10,000 miles. He and some 

companions (sometimes with Luke 

who kept a journal – the second part 

of the Acts of the Apostles) made three 

missionary journeys roughly between 46 

and 60 AD. All of them were disturbingly 

eventful. At fi rst, in Cyprus, he got a 

good reception but once in Asia Minor 

(Turkey) he experienced great hostility 

(nearly stoned to death, fl eeing cities at 

dead of night); beaten and imprisoned in 

Greece all because of his preaching in 

synagogues and market places – even 

in the prestigious Areopagus at Athens. 

Later he was arrested in Jerusalem and 

at his trial, appealed to Caesar as a 

Roman citizen. So began the perilous 

journey by ship to Rome. 

Ignoring Paul’s advice, the captain 

set sail in winter from Syria. Soon they 

encountered the dreaded ‘Northeaster’ 

and before long the boat was 

shipwrecked off Malta. Only by jumping 

overboard did Paul and crew narrowly 

escape death. Once spring came, he 

was off to Rome to await trial. Here we 

lose track of him, but he probably came 

before Caesar. Tradition says he was 

martyred there. 



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Saint Paul 

What made him travel so far? Was 

he a diehard globetrotter? The answer 

is an unforgettable encounter with the 

risen Jesus. He was captivated by his 

love in dying on the cross to save him 

from being a persecutor to becoming a 

preacher. You couldn’t silence him! He 

had to share the Good News wherever 

he went; that God could change the 

most desperate people and bring them 

hope. He also ensured that those who 

responded, were cared for in loving 

church communities where slave and 

free were treated equally. 

And he was willing to suffer extreme 

deprivations, even death, to achieve this. 

What an amazing traveller! 

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Have a Go Show 

It’s nearly time to get planting, 

sewing, baking and painting! 

Our community 

‘village’ show 

is back again 

this year on 

Saturday, 

September 14. 

And it’s an excellent 

chance to ‘Have a Go’ 

at something new, 

show off your many 

talents, challenge a 

friend or neighbour to 

join in and have some 

fun. 

You can enter one or 

more of the schedule’s 

categories – the full 

schedule will be printed 

in the next Impact and 

available on St Chad’s 

website at the same 

time. It’s a great day 

and we do hope you’ll 

consider joining in. 

Tidy up time 

Join us on the Fraser 

Estate on April 6 for a 

litter pick. 

Meet with members of 

St Chad’s and the local 

community at The Dale 

end of Fraser Drive at 

10am. Bring appropriate 

clothing and footwear 

and we will bring the rest. 

email info@beauchiefabbey.org.uk 

Services 

April & May 2019 

Easter Services 

14th April 11am HC Palm Sunday 

18th April 7pm HC Maundy Thursday 

19th April 2pm Good Friday 

Congregation Passion Reading 

21st April 11am HC Easter Sunday 

Holy Communion: 

April 

Sun 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th 11.00am 

May 

Sun 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th 11.00am 

Thurs 30th 7pm Ascension Day 

Evensong ( third Sun 3pm ) 

19th May 

Beauchief Abbey is 

Open Every Sunday 

All Welcome 

Our Services are based on the Book of Common Prayer, 

Refreshments are served afterwards 

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We Are All Completely Beside 

Ourselves 

by Karen Joy Fowler 

This story is about the 

refl ections of a young girl, 

in an ordinary American 

family, as she looks back 

on her childhood. 

We begin reading the account 

of life in the Cooke family where 

three siblings, Lowell, Fern and 

Rosemary, are growing up. 

At fi rst it all seems pretty 

normal until you realise that this 

family is not a normal family. 

In fact, as a family, they are 

extremely dysfunctional; the 

children being used by their 

parents as part of a very weird 

social experiment. 

Rosemary says her story 

begins in the middle, as she 

looks back on her childhood and 

then her life up to the present day. 

She describes how she comes to 

terms with her strange childhood 

and how she coped with the 

disappearance of her sister Fern 

when they were both fi ve years 

old. 

The twist in the tale comes early 

on when Rosie makes a startling 

statement and says: “but…of 

course…you knew that...” 

I found the ending of her story 

to be cruel and heartbreaking. I 

think that is why persevered up to 

the end: I wanted to know what 

happened. However, a few of 

the group gave up on the book, 

simply because it jumped about in 

time and made assumptions that 

the reader knew exactly what was 

happening. 

A cleverly written book which 

covered lots of issues. See what 

you think… 

Vicki Harris 

Vicki is a member of St Chad’s 

Third Age Book Group 

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Registers 2019 

For Weddings 

and Funerals 

You don’t have to be a churchgoer 

to have a wedding in church or 

be ‘religious’ to have a dignifi ed and 

meaningful funeral service at St Chad’s. 

If you live in the Woodseats or 

Beauchief area, St Chad’s would be 

delighted to help you, whether it is 

planning the Big Day or saying goodbye 

to a loved one. 

For weddings please contact St Chad’s 

church office. For funerals please tell 

your funeral director that you would like 

to have a church service. 

Wedding 

February 

23 Scott Darren Beck and 

Georgina Hannah Vause 

Funerals 

January 

3 Janet Rose Charles 

February 

12 Anthony Diskin 

• If you have had a new baby and 

would like to celebrate that baby’s birth 

with a service in church then please 

come to one of our thanksgiving and 

baptism mornings at St Chad’s. 

The morning will explain the difference 

between the two services and give 

parents an opportunity 

to ask any 

questions. 

Please call 

the church 

office on 

0114 274 

5086 if 

you are 

interested in 

attending. 

Every Wednesday 

from 9.30-11.30am 

Healing Rooms 

at the Big Tree Pub 

Wednesday mornings 

10.30-12.00 

1st & 3rd Wednesday evenings 

7.45- 9.00 

As part of an international 

Christian organisation, we seek 

to freely serve the local 

community in prayer for the sick. 

www.woodseatshealingrooms.org 

Tel. 0114 3600616 (answerphone) 



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Are you looking for 

a room to hold your 

party or meeting? 

St Chad’s Church has 

two rooms available for 

hire at 56 Abbey Lane 

Call 0114 274 5086 for details 

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Contacts 


CHURCH OFFICE 274 5086 

Linden Avenue, S8 0GA 

email: offi ce@stchads.org 

If you want to contact the church offi ce and there is no one available, please leave a 

message or send an email and we will get back to you as soon as possible. 

Vicar Toby Hole (Vicarage) 274 9302 

email: toby@stchads.org 

Curate James Norris 274 5086 

Readers 

Daren Craddock, Amy Hole, 

and Pauline Johnson 274 5086 

Youth Worker Nick Seaman 274 5086 

email: nick@stchads.org 

Besom in Sheffi eld Steve Winks 07875 950170 

email: steve@stchads.org 

Impact magazine Tim Hopkinson 274 5086 

email: impact@stchads.org 

Church Wardens Ann Firth 274 5086 

Ann Lomax 274 5086 

Uniformed Groups 

Group Scout Leader Ian Jackson 235 3044 

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