hello my name is sylvia and i am trying to find where my great grandmother is buried henriette wheeldon nee hyde she died in 1941 my great grandfather richard wheeldon is buried in plot f17 he died in 1917 hoping you can help regards s ireland

If you are able to help, please leave a message in the comments, or email me: glynharris {at} kirkireton {dot} com and I will forward the email to Sylvia.

Thanks

Police are investigating two other attempted burglaries in the Ashbourne area.

At around 5.25am on Saturday, a window at the Black Horse pub, in Hulland Ward, was damaged but nothing was stolen.

Between 11.30pm on Friday and 5.45am the next day, someone attempted to force open a window at the Red Lion pub, in Hollington, but they did not gain entry.

Officers believe the incidents are linked.

Anyone with information should call police on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Watch Found On Village Field.

Attached is a picture of a watch that we found on the village field.  If anyone recognises it please contact the school office (370351) where it can be collected.

Peter Johnston.

Missing Article.

Attached is the full article by John Tyler which should have gone out with the Newsletter.

Newsletter Correction.

In the article I put together for Debbie Kennedy re the proposed microwave mast; the reference to a height of 30 metres should have said 30 feet as several of you spotted.  But Peter Johnston’s full explanation should have correct any misapprehensions I may have caused.

Gritting Policy.

I was pleased to see that the new gritting policy Derbyshire have introduced was a complete success at the weekend.  The walk up the hill into the village on Saturday night worked off my Big Breakfast a treat.

Mac

I have been asked to make sure that everybody is aware of Derbyshire County Council’s (DCC) plans to reduce the road gritting service provided to Kirk Ireton.  At the present time the roads into our village are treated during the day and night and ‘pre-treated’ before bad weather hits. Gritting is then continued on a 24 hours a day basis.  The proposals are that this be reduced to gritting in the day only with the first run being completed by mid-morning.  Roads would be pre-treated before bad weather hits, only where possible, with higher priority routes taking precedence.

Gritting Routes are to be divided into three categories: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary.  The service we receive at the present time is equivalent to the proposed Primary service, but the DCC want to downgrade Kirk Ireton to the Secondary service.

Personally, I feel that with such a steep hill on the primary access route to the village, the fact we have a school and the record of accidents on that hill in snowy conditions (including an overturned vehicle last year) should put us in the Primary category.

The DCC is currently carrying out an online Gritting Consultation which allows you to react to the proposals.  It is in two sections, the first is a series of option boxes which allow you to react to specific questions (personally I think the questions are very cleverly biased).  The second is a comments box which is probably the best route to describe our special needs (assuming anybody reads it).  Below is the link to the online Gritting Consultation page.

http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/transport_roads/roads_traffic/road_maintenance/snow_info/gritting/gritting_consultation/default.asp

THE DEADLINE FOR RESPONDING TO THE CONSULTATION IS WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2011.

If you need help completing the questionnaire Call the DCC on 08 456 058 058 or 01629 533190.

Hopefully, if we all react we will retain our present service but I suspect we will all be buying crampons this year.

Mac

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A VISIT FROM PEARL MARGARITA

An Editor’s Apology

Living in Kirk Ireton by Emily Heron

Thanks to you all. I will take the money into the Macmillan Unit.

Being surrounded by fields is great. There are so many places to go to, which are perfect for playing Man Hunt and building dens. I have really enjoyed going to Kirk Ireton Primary School, it takes me less than two minutes to walk to school. All the teachers live in the Village, the downside of this is that school NEVER closes even when there is 3 feet of snow and every other school in Derbyshire is closed!

Winters are fun, loads of kids go sledging. Last year a group of people were chased by cows. When summer comes, lots of people play at the park, or on the Village Field which is amazing, especially with the court. Sometimes during the summer holidays it does feel like there isn’t that much to do, and it can become boring.

It wasn’t until recently that I realised just how lucky I am to live in Kirk Ireton. During the riots in London, many children were too scared to go to sleep at night and their homes and communities were attacked and set on fire. In Kirk Ireton the older children look out for the younger children and people help each other. There is lots of community spirit.

Kirk Ireton is a safe and happy place to live and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.

Because I was so impressed with the writing ability of the young entrants I asked Emily Heron to write a short piece for the News Letter: Living in Kirk Ireton.

I have had lots of suggestions about how the News Letter should be developed, but not wanting to dilute it’s purpose of supplying important village related information, I propose to try some of these ideas out on a separate sheet called KI+. To save printing costs the KI+ sheet will only be distributed by e-mail and (mostly) online. Have a read of it and let me know what you think.

20 pieces with many having part or all in another language, for the 3 weeks Friday 9th September – 30th September. The Library will be open in normal Library hours. We have exhibited for the 2 previous years, and this year we are going to display a piece of calligraphic work in
the shape of a large decorated pig, for the first 2 days of the Festival, 9th/10th September.

This year the organisers of the Lichfield Festival asked local artists, schools, shops to each decorate a pig – and Peter Halliday, our tutor, was asked to do one for the Cathedral. As St Chad’s Gospel is in Lichfield Cathedral, Peter decorated Pearl Margarita with Celtic decorations – the main one is the six-section St Chad’s Cross.

The Latin quotation says ‘neque mittatis margaritas vestras ante porcos’; ‘Do not cast your pearls before swine’. The pigs were all auctioned off and Pearl Margarita raised £1,300 with the new owner kindly lending her to us.

If anyone would like to be a ‘pigsitter’ for an hour, in the Library, please contact me: 4 Ireton Court, tel. 370459.