May 12, Issue 51, The Sprotbrough Arrow

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May 2012 Issue No. 51

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Editor’s letter... 3rd May is

polling day and Doncaster

residents are being asked to vote

in the referendum on change in

Governance arrangements.

Do we want to choose our Mayor or do

we want elected councillors to choose our

Mayor? Whatever your opinion, be sure to

make it known and visit your polling station

on Thursday 3rd May 2012!

The deadline for the June issue will be

Wednesday 16th May. The June issue will

be distributed from Friday 25th May 2012.

Best Wishes Michelle

Tel:01302 534256 Mob:07795 387937

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Sprotbrough W I

Spring Fayre You are welcome to join us at our

annual Spring Fayre with some

exciting new stalls.

Saturday, May 12th 2012,

10.00am – 12 noon In St Mary’s Church Hall

Browse our stalls including ‘Scents

and Soaps’, Children’s Stall, Cakes,

‘Rainbow Stall’, Jewellery and

Crafts, Bottles, Books, ‘Kitchen

Garden’ or try your luck on the Raffle or Tombola.

Admission £1

including refreshment.

RACE NIGHT

Sprotbrough Park Playgroup and Toddlers

are holding a Race night to raise funds for

the Playgroup. (Reg Charity 1026781)

They welcome everyone to come & join

them on this fun evening!

The Race Night is on Friday 11th May at

Sprotbrough Country Club and doors open

at 7:30 p.m with the first race at 8 p.m.

Tickets are £4 in advance or £5 on the

door and are available from Playgroup /

Toddlers Mon-Fri a.m. plus Weds p.m. At

the Methodist Church Hall in Sprotbrough,

or call 07884 381194.

St Mary The Virgin Sprotbrough

Flower Festival 2012 With an Olympic

Games Theme

‘May we run the race

before us’

Come and visit our

historic church, see the

flowers and hear the organ

playing.

Refreshments are available

throughout the three day

festival

Friday 22nd June 10-6pm

Saturday 23rd June 10-6pm

Sunday 24th June 12-6pm

Admission by programme, at the door

£2.00 per adult

Proceeds towards

St Mary’s Roof Appeal

Fund

Enquiries 01302 853031

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people in sport.

This would not be possible without

the support of parents and local

businesses.

Winterset Butchers in Sprotbrough

continues to support us providing

us with first classs quality meat and

produce for prizes.

Thank you


A History of Sprotbrough Hall,

Doncaster. Part 2 It is improbable that Sir Godfrey was inspired by any particular specimen of

French architecture, and the tradition that the house is a copy of a wing at

Versailles cannot be corroborated by fact. No doubt Versaille brought home

to the Yorkshireman’s mind the grandeur of that style, but when he got back

to his native county, little more than vague impressions would seem to have

remained with him. These, confused in the mind of the Master Mason with

English Carolean tradition, combined to produce Sprotborough. We may,

perhaps, attribute to Sir Godfrey’s French recollections the segmantal arched

windows – which are familiar in the ground floor at Hampton Court and in

scores of houses built during and after the last decade of the 17th century,

but uncommon before 1690, except in isolated examples such as Honnington

Hall. Again, the slightly projecting piers in which the windows are set were as yet uncommon in England,

while the 2 turrets in the angles of the wings are of French suggestion. Very uncommon are the 2 large

area courts between the wings and the main block. A comparison of the north front and the south front

will at once show the purpose of the basement for they are built on different levels (a hill). To the north,

owing to the slope of the ground, the surface level has been banked up to the horizontal, so that these

courts are necessary to light the basement, which itself is necessitated at the south side to give dignity to

the upper storey’s. There, however, the basement does not form, as is usual in houses of this date built on

a slope, a ground floor, but is concealed by a wall and hedge, with the result that the house appears to

stand higher than in reality it does from this aspect.

Except for those features, the house is mainly

Jacobean. The balustered skyline and the miniature

entablature formed by 2 little strapwork scrolls

and a piece of masonry above the central windows

is reminiscent of pre-Inigo Jones taste. The gate

piers on either side of the north front, with the

pinnacles that surmount them, are again Jacobean.

The excellent simple ironwork of these gates are,

however, of more patently French feeling, though it

is doubtful whether Sir Godfrey brought back the

design. Ornamental ironwork was largely under

the influence, at this time, of Frenchmen working in England, such as Tijou, and it is, therefore, more

probable that the design was procured in England.

The exterior seems originally, from paintings by Knyff and others, to have been Ashlar in whitish-grey

limestone, which is still visible in the rusticated quoins and elsewhere. The greater part of the surface

however, had been stuccoed over, probably during the 2nd quarter of the 19th century, at which time all

the reception rooms on the south side were redecorated in a plain and ugly manner. The general aspect

of the house is not materially altered by this complexion, and, from whatever point it is viewed, presents a

stately appearance, with the grace which was the one only importation of Sir Godfrey. The great

ornamental importance of the heavy barred windows may have damaged, though not ruined, the scheme

by the insertion of windows with thin bars. The effect of this substitution made the building look poor and

flat. The broad flight of steps on the Pontack’s in Abchurch Street, at that time the only ‘French’ ordinary

in London. In a letter written in 1703, Copley thus speaks of Dr. Hooke: “Your old philosopher is gone at

last to try experiments with his ancestors. He is dead and had, they say, only a poor girl with him, who,

seeing him ill, went to call somebody, but he was quite gone before they came……., I wonder why he did

not choose rather to leave his £12,000 to continue what he had promoted and studied all the days of his

life, by that, I mean, mathematical experiments, than to have it go to those he never saw nor cared for. It

is rare that virtuosos die rich.

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This is a true saying,

though Copley himself

was among their

number, making a very

fair collection of second-

rate Dutch pictures and

first-rate replicas, a great

number of engravings,

books, and instruments,

such as Napier’s Bones –

an early species of

calculating machine.

Unlike Hooke,

moreover, he left a sum

to the Royal Society to

endow mathematical

research, which after

some years, produced

the fund awarded with

the Copley Medal, an

honour that is still

awarded today.

Recipients include

Michael Faraday and Charles Darwin.

When Sir Godfrey died of a quinsy (a form of tosillitis) at his house in Red Lion Square off Holborn in

1709, his son was already dead, so that Sprotborough passed to Lionel Copley of Wadworth, the

representative of that branch of the family who had adopted the Presbyterian side in the great rebellion.

Commissary-General Lionel Copley, his grandfather, had been in times of peace, an ironmaster. His

adventures in politics and war were, on the whole, distinctly unsuccessful. Having at different times

suffered imprisonment, whether for embezzlement or treason, in 1649 he was finally incarcerated, after

Pride’s Purge, when the Presbyterian majority in favour of a settlement with Charles were excluded from

the House by the Independant majority. Forty one of the 160 members thus debarred were temporarily

committed to an eating house called ‘Hell’. Copley, however, with General Richard Brown, Sir William

Waller, Sir John Clotworthy and Sir William Lewis, continued in gaol for 5 years without trial. The

portraits of these men were painted by the same

artist before being hung in the main hall at

Sprotborough. They are fellows with honest,

rubicund faces, white lawn collars and black coats. In

the top left hand corner of each is a sketch of the

White Tower at Windsor, where for a time they

were imprisoned, with the years of their languishing

beneath. There s a similar series at Weald Hall,

Essex, the seat of Mr Christopher Tower, though

there, Lewis’s picture is missing, while that of

General Massy – who escaped at the beginning of the

period – is substituted. In addition to the above

“imprisonment series”, are a very similar, but lacking

the Windsor device, of Sir Philip Stapleton, who died

at Calais in 1647, and the well known Denzel Holles.

Finally there is an excellent portrait of Secretary

Thurloe, Cromwell’s Chief of Intelligence, a great-

grandaughter of whom married a Copley and

brought his portrait with her.

Part 3 in next month’s Arrow


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What’s On In Sprotbrough? Day Activity Meeting Place Time

Mon Mums & Toddlers Sprotbrough Methodist Church 9.30-11.00am

Mon Breast Start Breastfeeding Sprotbrough Childrens Centre 9.30-11.30am

Mon Rising 2’s play session Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough 9.00-11.30am

Mon Rising 2’s play session Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough 12.30- 3.00pm

Mon Hatha Yoga St Mary’s Church Hall 2pm—3pm

Mon The Reading Club 0—5yrs Sprotbrough Library 1.30-3.00pm

Mon Brownies Sprotbrough Methodist Church 6.15-7.45pm

Mon Beavers (6-7yrs) Scout Hall, Anchorage Lane, Sprotbrough 6.00-7.30pm

Mon Slimming World St Mary’s Church hall, Sprotbrough 7.00pm—8.30pm

Tue Playgroup Sprotbrough Methodist Church 9.15-12.15pm

Tue Sprotbrough Starz Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough 9.15-11am

Tue Coffee Morning Sprotbrough Methodist Church 10.30-11.30am

Tue Tuesday Club Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough 1.30-4.00pm

Tue Painting Class Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough 2.00-4.00pm

Tue Dancing Sprotbrough Methodist Church 4.00-7.00pm

Tue Taekwondo Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough 6.00-9.00pm

Tue Cubs (8-10yrs) Scout Hall, Anchorage Lane, Sprotbrough 6.30-8.00pm

Tue Cubs 'Kestrels' (8-10yrs) The Barn, Main Street 6.45-8.15pm

Wed Rising 2’s Playgroup Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough 9.00-11.30am

Wed Mums & Toddlers Sprotbrough Methodist Church 1.30—3.00pm

Wed Dancing Sprotbrough Methodist Church 4.00-7.00pm

Wed Taekwondo Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough 5.30-6.30pm

Wed Playgroup Sprotbrough Methodist Church Hall 9.15—12.15

Wed Sequence Dance Club St Mary’s Church Hall 7.30pm—10pm

Wed Cubs 'Falcons' (8-10yrs) The Barn, Main Street 6.45-8.15pm

Wed Scouts (11-14yrs) Scout Hall, Anchorage Lane, Sprotbrough 7.15-9pm

Thurs Coffee Morning St Mary’s Church Hall 10—11.30am

Thurs Little tykes (childminders drop in) Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough 9.15—11.00am

Thurs Mums & Toddlers Sprotbrough Methodist Church 9.30-11.00am

Thurs Thursday Club Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough 1.30-4.00pm

Thurs Dancing Class Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough 4.45-8.45pm

Thurs Brownies Sprotbrough Methodist Church 6.00-7.30pm

Thurs Yoga St Mary’s Church Hall 7.00—8.30pm

Thurs Beavers (6-7yrs) The Barn, Main Street 5.30-6.30pm

Thurs Scouts (11-14yrs) The Barn, Main Street 7.00-9.15pm

Thurs Explorer Scouts (14-18yrs) Scout Hall, Anchorage Lane, Sprotbrough 7.30-9.30pm

Thurs Music Bugs 6mths-4yrs St Edmunds Community Hall 10.00-11.00am

Thurs Starlight Dance Studio St Edmond’s Church Community Hall 4pm—6.45pm

Fri Playgroup Sprotbrough Methodist Church 9.15-12.15pm

Fri Sprotbrough Starz Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough 9.15-11am

Fri Tea Dance Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough 1.00-4.00pm

Fri Taekwondo Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough 6.30-9.00pm

Fri Fun Club Sprotbrough Methodist Church 7.00-8.00pm

Sat Sequence Dancing Royal British Legion Club 7.30—10.30pm

Sat Dancing Class Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough 9.15-3.15pm

Sun Fun Club Extra Sprotbrough Methodist Church 10am—11am

Sun Sunday School Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough 10.00-12.00noon

Sun Sunday School Goldsmith Centre, Sprotbrough 6.15-7.45pm

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Monthly Activity Meeting Place Time

3rd Monday St Mary’s Mothers Union The Stable, Main Street, Sp’boro 7.30pm- 9.30pm

1st & 3rd Tuesday Sequence Dancing Royal British Legion Club 7.30-10.30pm

1st Wednesday Sprotbrough Wives Sprotbrough Methodist Church 8.00-10.00pm

2nd Thursday Lunch Club Sprotbrough Methodist Church 12noon - 2.00pm

2nd Tuesday Sprotbrough WI St Mary’s Church Hall 7.30—9.30pm

4th Thursday Chatroom Sprotbrough Methodist Church 1.30-3.30pm

Sprotbrough Community Centre, Bookings Tel: 788093

Methodist Church Hall, Bookings Tel: 570036 (office hours 10am-12noon Tue & Fri)

St Marys Church Hall, Bookings Tel: 850890

St Edmund's Community Hall Bookings Tel: 781347

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Washing machines,

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Advice General

Citizens Advice Bureaux - Advice line 01302 735225 Doncaster Council - General 01302 734444

Electricity Emergencies 0800 375 675 Doncaster Tax Office 0845 3667802

Transco - Gas Leaks 0800 111 999 Sprotbrough Post Office 01302 853187

Care in the Community Robin Hood Airport 01302 801010

Age Concern 0800 009966 Medical

Childline 08001111 AKS, High Melton Ltd 01709 583121

NSPCC 0808 8005000 Doncaster Royal Infirmary Hospital 01302 366666

RSPCA 08705555999 NHS Direct 0845 4647

Community

Weldricks Pharmacy, East Laith Gate, Don-

caster Mon—Sat 9am—10pm, Sun 10am-10pm,

Bank holidays 10am-8pm, 365 days per year. 01302 369699

Sprotbrough and Cusworth Parish Council 01302 788093 Sprotbrough Village Pharmacy 01302 855622

Safer Neighbourhood Team, Edlington. 01302 385488

Sprotbrough Children Services, Melton Rd 01302 786457

Doncaster Childrens Information Service 0800 138 4568

Goldsmith Centre 01302 788093

S Yorkshire Fire Service (non emergency) 0114 272 7202

S Yorkshire Police (non emergency) 0114 2202020

Education

Copley Junior School, Sprotbrough 01302 856445

Orchard Infant School, Sprotbrough 01302 853655

Richmond Hill Primary School 01302 782421

Ridgewood School 01302 783939

Doncaster Council - Education 01302 737222

Doncaster Mobile Library 01302 873456

Sprotbrough Library 01302 782436

Doncaster Central Library 01302 734305

Leisure

Adwick Leisure Centre 01302 721447

My Vue Cinema 08712 240240

Odeon 08712 244007

The Dome Leisure Centre 01302 370777

Accountancy

Riverside Accountancy Services,

Sprotbrough 01302 570018

Carpet/Upholstery Cleaning

RUGBUSTERS, Sprotbrough.

www.rugbusters.co.uk 01302 857300

07879456557

Security & IT

Meteor Security Solutions Ltd., Auckley 01302 623427

IT To Go, Computer Services

W: www.ittogo.co.uk E:[email protected] 01302 352352

Tradesmen/Craftsmen

D@J Plasterers, Sprotbrough 01302 811646

07885 615209

Health & Fitness

Slimming World, St Marys Church Hall-

Sprotbrough 07919 578797

Taxis & Driving School’s

C Cabs, Sprotbrough 07973 706560

L2P Driving School, Sprotbrough 07767438267

Business Directory 01302 534256

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