The Green Scene



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Issue 30 The newsletter of the Seacroft Green Residents Association Summer 2015

|Inside This Issue |

|1 |Seacroft Gala: What a load of rubbish! |

|2 |Committee: Hanging flower baskets: AGM: |

|3 |Road side scourge: No ifs - no butts: New bin service: |

|4 |Quarterly quiz: Top award for Chapel revamp: |

|5 |Parish of Seacroft: Happy to help: |

|6 |Local happenings: Quiz answers: FORK to FORK: |

|7 |Memory Lane: |

|8 |Memory Lane cont: Men’s Room: Archive project: |

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What a load of rubbish!

The Yorkshire Evening Post has recently launched their Clean Up Yorkshire campaign with the aim of making Yorkshire a cleaner, tidier county and Leeds residents are being asked to help by cleaning up their own areas.

A campaign spokesperson said - “We want to clear hundreds of bags of rubbish from Leeds’s streets, lanes and fields - but we need YOUR help to do this.”

As part of his interview with the YEP, Councillor Mark Dobson, Leeds City Council executive member for cleaner, stronger and safer communities said - “Clearing up the mess of everyday life costs the council about £8m a year. We don’t want to continually spend money on resources, repeatedly cleaning up after others. Equally, we don’t want communities to feel uncared for.”

Undoubtedly, this money could be better spent by LCC on important front line services such as Social Care or Children’s Services. Therefore, all Leeds residents are being encouraged to ‘do their bit’ to help remove the bight of litter from our streets.

Councillor Dobson added - “There is a range of ways people can take action, starting from the very easy, like picking up a piece of litter or pledging not to drop litter, to organising clean up groups. It’s important for people to do what they can because that’s the only way that the litter problem in Yorkshire will be solved.”

So - EVERYONE is being encouraged to do their bit to Clean Up Yorkshire throughout the month of June. If everyone who was able, picked up just one piece of litter a day, 2.5million pieces of rubbish would be removed from our streets!

As a residents association, we already have our own designated ‘litter manager’ who, we are sure you will agree, does a brilliant job in keeping the village green area as litter free as possible. We also work alongside street cleaning and environmental action teams when necessary - but we hope the Clean Up Yorkshire campaign will inspire EVERYONE to join in.

More ‘clean up’ information on page 3.

Saturday

4th July 2015

12.00noon to 4.00pm.

What’s on this year?

• Community stalls selling lots of goodies

• Bric-a-brac, books and nearly new sales

• Cakes and cup-cakes

• Dog show - bring your pooch and win a rosette

• Free dog microchipping

• All the fun of the fair with large and small rides

• Pop up beach - bring your bucket and spade

• Donkeys - to ride or to stroke

• Children’s traditional games - sack race and more

• Raffles, tombola’s, hook a duck and lucky dips

• Free face painting - children or adults!

• Morley exotic animal rescue - 12.00 to 2.00pm.

• Smoothie bike - make a smoothie by pedal power

• Treasure Hunt Quiz - win a £20 shopping voucher

• Vintage tea tent for refreshments

• Food by Cathy’s Curry Corner

And much, much more!

Stall spaces still available - for information and or booking form contact Marie on 0113 318 0522.

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SEACROFT GREEN RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION

Who’s who on the committee?

Lily Woods Chair 26 The Green

Keith Nichols Vice Chair 69 The Green

Rita Berry Treasurer 51 The Green

Diane Marsden Secretary 49 The Green

Roger Berry 51 The Green

Janet Cordwell 1053 York Road

Mick Firth 5 Courtenay’s

Linda Goodall Seacroft Methodist Hall

Sean Hennigan 87 The Green

Ann Little 4 Church Close John Wheatley 34 Hansby Place

If you wish to contact the committee you can either phone the Chair on: 07951785845

or alternatively contact the secretary

by email at: marsden858@

You can find out more about us at:

.uk

Funding Thanks:

Its great news that some of our recent applications have been successful and we have been lucky enough to receive grant funding from the following sources:

• Wades Charity - towards running costs.

• LCC Housing Advisory Panel - 50% towards hanging flower baskets.

In addition:

• We have received a grant from our local ward councillors from their MICE fund.

• A donation towards gala stalls was received from local resident Yvonne Brown.

Needless to say we are extremely grateful for this funding support.

Wild flower patches:

Unfortunately, we were unsuccessful in obtaining a grant for the initially proposed wild flower patches but the committee felt it was still something we wanted to support. Therefore, we decided to use some of our own resources to fund two small wild flower areas.

The patches were prepared and planted in March and although the pigeons initially found the areas an irresistible food source, they do appear to have survived the ‘onslaught’. The wild flowers have been emerging for several weeks now and are looking numerous and healthy. Now we are looking forward to a ‘blaze of colour’ in the next month or so.

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Hanging Flower baskets

By the time you read this the hanging flower baskets should be installed on 20 of the lamp posts around the village green area. We hope you will enjoy them as they grow and develop fully.

We were lucky to receive a 50% grant, from LCC Housing Advisory Panel, to help cover some of the costs of the baskets and in addition we received sponsorship from the following people/organisations for which we are extremely grateful.

• Seacroft Village Hall Committee

• Chapel FM

• Seacroft Grange Care Village

• Cricketer’s Arms

• Sue Wright

• Thelma Sierwald

• Lily Woods and David Jenkins

• Diane Marsden

The Residents Association works hard to ensure the local area is well maintained and looks good at all times. However, without the support of grant funding, sponsorship and donations, we just wouldn’t be able to do what we do. So a really big THANK YOU to all our supporters.

AGM : AGM : AGM : AGM : AGM

Yes, it’s that time of year again and you are invited to attend the

Seacroft Green Residents Association ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

which will be held on

Wednesday 29th July at 7.00pm.

The venue will be

Seacroft Village Hall

Do please come along and show your support. We would love to see you.

We are also looking to recruit some new members to our committee. In line with our constitution, all current committee members must stand down at the AGM and put forward their nominations if they wish to be re-elected. There will be 14 places available.

Would you like to join us? We meet locally, every six to eight weeks. You will be able to contribute to our lively discussions and offer what help you can. We don’t ‘twist arms’.

For more information or an informal chat, you can contact either the Chair or the secretary.

New Bins Service

All residents should now have received their details of the new bin service which has recently been introduced by Leeds City Council.

The new fortnightly alternating collection of refuse and recycling (black and green) is aimed to help reduce the amount of waste that goes into landfill and which costs the local authority millions of pounds each year.

(If you currently have a brown bin for garden waste, this will continue to be emptied fortnightly from March until the end of November when the service stops for the winter).

Last year green bin recycling waste was increased by 4,400 tonnes on the previous year and black bin waste reduced by 6,000 tonnes, saving the council more than £500,000 in landfill disposal costs.

Here’s how you can help make the new service a success:

• Parking your car/s correctly so the bin lorry and crew can access your street. No double parking please.

• Securely bagging all waste before putting it in your black bin and ensuring the lid is closed to reduce attack by birds or animals.

• Putting your bins (or bags) out before 7am on the day of collection and putting them away as soon as possible after they have been emptied.

• As all green bin recyclables are sorted by hand, you can help by rinsing out plastic bottles and cans before putting them in your green recycling bin or bag.

• Flattening and folding cardboard boxes and containers before putting them in your green recycling bin or bag.

• Do not put glass in your green recycling bin. Please take it to a local bottle bank or to your nearest recycling site.

• Take any excess waste to the council household waste recycling site. Make sure you have your residents permit with you as proof of residency.

• For larger items such as furniture, white goods etc. you can contact the council to arrange for collection OR if it is in good condition, why not donate it to a local charity. *See below

For more information visit: .uk

*Charity collections:

Emmaus - Tel. 0113 248 4288

Leeds & Moortown Furniture Store

Tel. 0113 273 9727

End the road side litter scourge

In addition to the Clean Up Yorkshire campaign, the YEP is adding its voice to calls to speed up the implementation of new rules that would make it easier for councils to punish those who allow litter to be thrown from their cars.

Food packaging, bottles, cans and cigarette ends thrown from car windows are the biggest contributor to litter around roads and verges, especially in rural areas, according to the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE).

The CPRE has been campaigning for six years for legislation within the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to be amended so that local councils no longer have to prove exactly who threw the litter from a vehicle in order to issue a fine.

Stop the Drop campaign manager for CPRE, Samantha Harding said - “I hear from people every day who are disgusted at the state of our roadsides.”

No ifs - No butts!

Dear Green Scene,

Just who is responsible for all the cigarette butts which are piling up underneath the benches around the village green? It is mostly round the benches near to the Grange as this seems to be a ‘smoking hot spot’.

Every morning I walk my dog around the village green and as I am not so quick on my feet these days, I often need to sit a while to take a rest and I am disgusted at the mess I see.

There are plenty of waste bins around the green, so why don’t these selfish people use them?

Mrs. Mary Blackburn. Hansby Avenue.

Thank you Mary, your timely comments fit in well with the front page topic. Editor.

What am I? I do not breath, but I run and jump. I do not eat, but I swim and stretch. I do not drink, but I sleep and stand. I do not think but I grow and play. I do not see, but you see me every day. What am I? .gel A

What’s the difference? Between roast beef and pea soup? Anyone can roast beef!

What always ends everything? . ‘g’ rettel ehT

Top award for Chapel revamp

Congratulations - to our very own Chapel FM - the former Seacroft Methodist Chapel - which triumphed over some of the regions newest and most impressive property schemes, to gain top honours at this year’s regional property Oscars!

The Leeds building scooped the Community Benefit Award at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Pro Yorkshire Awards at the National Railway Museum in York recently.

The transformation of Seacroft Methodist Chapel, which is home to East Leeds FM, impressed judges at the prestigious property recognition awards. The striking building won the honour for the conversion into the first ever dedicated arts venue in east Leeds.

The Chapel was originally built in 1874, but fell into disuse some 15 years ago. In October 2014 Heads Together Productions completed their £900,000 renovation and redevelopment to create Chapel FM which is now home to community radio station East Leeds FM.

Exhibitions and community events also take place at the York Road venue. Adrian Sinclair, creative director of Heads Together said - “More than 6,000 people have come along to Chapel FM since we opened in October. It’s been great to see how local people have taken to the place; we’ve had so many lovely comment. Getting the Pro Yorkshire Award is another boost for us and for all the people who have helped make it such a success.”

RICS judges praised the project team for delivering an attractive scheme which is proving to be of significant benefit to its local community. The prestigious awards celebrate inspirational initiatives in the land, property and construction sectors.

Thanks to Yorkshire Evening Post.

Quarterly Quiz – brain-teaser

1. A man is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires. The second is full of lions that haven’t eaten for three years. The third is full of assassins with loaded guns. Which room does he choose?

2. An electric train is going north at 40mph; the wind is blowing south at 60mph. Which way is the train’s smoke blowing?

3. Pinkie Pinkerton lived in a one storey house on Pink Street. The walls were pink, the roof was pink, the carpet was pink, the yard was pink, all the furniture was pink, even the cat was pink! So what colour was Pinkie Pinkerton’s staircase?

4. The fishmonger is 1.8 meters tall. He wears a size 8 shoe and wears XXL shirts. What does he weigh?

5. The red house is made from red bricks. The blue house is made from blue bricks. The yellow house is made from yellow bricks. What is the green house made from?

6. A rooster lays an egg on the top of the roof. Which way does it roll?

7. Which question can never be answered “Yes”?

8. What has six eyes but cannot see?

9. Before Mount Everest was conquered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

10. A tennis ball rolls into a hole. The hole is extremely deep and has a sharp bend in the middle making the ball impossible to retrieve by hand. The ground is made of hard clay so digging the ball out isn’t an option. How can you get the ball out?

11. There is a fire in a 12 storey building. To escape a man jumps from a window. How does he survive?

12. How can FIVE minus two equal 4?

13. Scientists have proven that one side of a cat has more hair than the other. Which side is it?

14. What do you call a frog with no legs?

15. What can you catch but not throw?

How many do you think you answered correctly?

The answers are on page 6.

Yorkshire through and through!

I was walking down t’ street t’other day when ah met me mate.

“How tha bin?” he asked me.

“I feel like an ‘os” I ses.

“An ‘os?” ses he.

“Aye lad, Champion!”.

Two old ladies were talking in a Dales village. One says to the other “You can tell t’ winters comin’ ‘cos butter’s ‘ard.”

Parish of Seacroft

Seacroft, Swarcliffe and Whinmoor

Weekly Guide:

SUNDAYS

• 10.00am Services at all churches

Children are always welcome at all our churches

• 7.00pm Evening Prayer at St James’

A simple service of prayer to end the day

MONDAYS

• 8.45am Morning Prayer at St James’

A simple service of prayer to begin the day

• 6.00pm Beavers at St James’ - boys and girls 6 to 8 years.

TUESDAYS

• 8.45am Morning Prayer at St Richard’s

• 9.30am* Midweek Communion St Richard’s

*Please note this time may change - check website or weekly bulletin

• 9.00am til 12.00 Olive Branch Community Café

In the Crypt at St Richard’s all welcome

• 12.30 til 2.30 East Leeds Food Bank Outlet

In the Crypt at St Richard’s for emergency food parcels.

WEDNESDAYS

• 8.45am Morning Prayer at St James’

• 10.30am Ladies’ Group at St James fortnightly

• 1.00pm Little Angels at St James’ during term-time

For under 5’s and their parents or carers

• 2.00pm Ladies’ Group at St Richard’s Crypt

THURSDAYS

• 8.45am Morning Prayer at St Richard’s

• 2.00pm Praise Prayer Fellowship & Refreshment Woodview Sheltered Housing Swarcliffe

• 5.45pm Cubs - boys and girls 8 to 10 years

• 7.15pm Scouts - boys and girls 10 to 13 years

Cubs and Scouts meet at Seacroft Village Hall

FRIDAYS

• 5.30pm Youth Kitchen - Dennis Healey Youth Hub Twice monthly for children 8 to 13 years

SATURDAYS

• 9.30pm Walking Group - first in the month

• 6.00pm Free Hot Meals and emergency food at St Richard’s Crypt

You can find us at:

.uk

On Facebook - Seacroft Parish

On Twitter @SeacroftParish

Happy to Help

We all know how the British Red Cross helps out overseas such as in Africa during the Ebola crisis or more recently in Nepal after those terrible earthquakes, but how many of us realise that the British Red Cross is also available to help much closer to home?

One such person who has benefitted a great deal from their support is local lady, Yvonne Croft.

Yvonne was recovering from a broken ankle at Leeds General Infirmary when doctors judged her fit to leave hospital. She was still a bit uncertain on her feet and because she lives alone, with steps leading to her front door, hospital staff were very concerned about her returning home alone. But fortunately, help was at hand. The Red Cross came along and told her their mobility aids service would be happy to help.

They did help by providing an auto-lift so Yvonne could use the toilet at home, they also loaned her a wheelchair and a special seat for the kitchen so she could cook without standing up.

Once back at home, Jane Morrison - a Red Cross support home worker - called round, and being a very independent person, Yvonne was initially quite apprehensive. But she hit it off with Jane straight away. Yvonne says - “I couldn’t get out much and looked forward to Jane’s company. We talked about anything and everything and I never felt judged.”

Besides Jane, a small army of Red Cross volunteers turned up during the weeks of Yvonne’s recovery, to help in all kinds of ways. Some took her shopping, or did the housework or vacuuming. Others drove her to hospital appointments. One volunteer even came round to give a relaxing hand and arm massage! At every stage of her recovery, Yvonne knew she had people to depend on.

Looking back Yvonne said - “The emotional support has been as important as the practical help. My injury wasn’t life-threatening by any means, but it did put my life on hold.”

Now Yvonne is excited about signing up as a Red Cross volunteer so she can start helping others and giving something back. She said – “As soon as I met the lovely Red Cross people who came to support me, I felt that this was something I really wanted to do.”

With thanks to Yvonne Croft.

Quarterly Quiz

Brain-teaser answers

1. The lions haven’t eaten in three years so will be dead!

2. The train is electric, there would be no smoke.

3. There are no stairs in a one story house.

4. Fish

5. Glass

6. Roosters don’t lay eggs.

7. “Are you asleep?”

8. Three blind mice.

9. Mount Everest.

10. Use water to pour into the hole. The ball will then float to the top.

11. He jumped from a first floor window.

12. Roman numerals. FIVE take away F and E which leaves IV - 4 in roman numerals.

13. The outside.

14. A tadpole.

15. A cold.

If you have a fun quiz - why not send it in and we will share it with our readers.

Local Happenings

➢ Seacroft Food and Boot - on the third Saturday in the month - 20th June, 18th July, 15th August - 10.00am to 2.00pm outside LS14 Trust, Shops and St Richard’s - Kentmere Avenue/Ramshead Hill.

➢ Second Saturday Café - Second Saturday of every month - 10.00am to 12.00noon at The Barn, Mayfield Farm, 69 The Green.

➢ Chapel FM - every Wednesday - open day drop in Community Café - come for a cuppa and cake between 10.00am to 4.00pm.

➢ Swarcliffe Gala

Saturday 6th June - starting at 12.00 noon

In the field at St Gregory Centre, Swarcliffe.

➢ Gardening Sundays

From 3.00pm 14th June, 5th July, 16th August. Grab some tools and come and help in the churchyard at St James’.

➢ Multi-Sensory Days

Wednesday 3rd June - Garden Visit.

Wednesday 8th July - Derbyshire.

Wednesday 12th August - Holme Valley.

These are opportunities for people of all ages to come for a relaxing and spiritually refreshing day out during the summer and at a low cost. Children and young people are welcome but must be accompanied by an adult. You can sign up now if you email us at lifeisbetter2@ or pop in to St James’ Church.

➢ Seacroft Gala on Seacroft Green

Saturday 4th July - 12.00noon ‘til 4.00pm

A great day out for the whole family.

Seacroft Neighbourhood Planning Forum will be at the Gala - come and find us!

➢ Parish BBQ for everyone

Sunday 19th July - St Richard’s 12.00noon - tickets available from churches.

➢ Rein Park Runabout - School holiday fun - Play in the park near St Richard’s.

Wednesdays July 22, 29 August 5, 12, 19, 26

2.00pm - 5.00pm - for families and children.

Come and have some summer fun!

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FORK to FORK

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• Do you have green fingers?

• Do you fancy yourself as a bit of a master chef?

• Or maybe you have never grown or cooked anything in your life?

Either way, you are invited to join FORK to FORK.

We’re looking for local people to help us build a community garden, here, in Seacroft. Then, with the produce we grow, we’ll be able to offer cookery lessons too.

So if you’re interested in gardening or food and want to get involved in your neighbourhood, get in touch or drop in to the Digital Lounge on -

Wednesdays 10.30am - 12.30pm

A range of taster workshops will be taking place. So come along and give it a go.

For more information call us on 0113 318 0522

or pop in to the Digital Lounge at 45 Ramshead Hill

This is a community project run by

LS14 Trust and Space2.

I did this for a couple of years, then I was made into a ‘bound apprentice’ for four years and therefore had to go into different departments to become an engineer then in September 1939 I came back to the drawing office to be trained as a draughtsman.

As time went on and during the 2nd world war, I was put to work for the Army, Navy and Royal Air-force doing different things. Then in 1946 at the age of 26, I started on my own, designing folders for the printing presses of the world. Just thinking of it now, on £5 a week, I was designing folders and from then it went on to 1977 when I designed my last folder and I had done folders for 28 newspapers throughout the world!

I finished work in February 1982 when I was made redundant. My salary had risen to £125 a week and I paid £5 in tax! That was after 48 years working at Crabtree’s.

While I worked there I met my wife who started in the typist office at 14 years, but I did not get to know her until she was later transferred to another office at Crabtree’s. In the 1940’s, late in the year, it was proposed that we organise a dance at the Capital Ballroom in Meanwood. It was to raise money for the ‘Lord Mayor of London’s Air Distress Fund’ for the people who had been bombed in London.

As the dance was a few weeks away, some of us in the drawing office, and Jean, decided to go to the Mortimer Dance Hall in Leeds every week. It was there that I took Jean on to the dance floor and taught her how to dance. Later on, after the dance was held we made £72 profit. It doesn’t sound a lot now but it was quite an amount at the time!

We later started going to dances on our own and from that our friendship grew. In 1942 we got engaged and then in 1944 on September 23rd, we got married. We went to Blackpool for our honeymoon and it rained. Every day it rained! During the first week we went to the pleasure beach. We were working our way round the stalls and a man called from one, “Would you like to have a go with your brother?” It caused us to laugh having just got married and it made our day! A week away and then back home to sunshine!

We stayed at Jean’s mother and dad’s house for the first two years. Then we got a flat nearby and stayed there a year before we got a council flat on Osmondthorpe Lane, near the old Shaftsbury cinema on York Road. We made friends there with another couple, they had a daughter and even now she comes to see us fairly regularly. We stayed at the flat for quite some time, then we got a new two bedroom ground floor flat in Brooklands Lane, Seacroft, near to the village green. Continued on page 8.

Memory Lane

Stephen Cocker, one of our oldest residents,

tells us his story.

The first thing in my life I remember now was when I was five years old. My mother took me by the hand to All Saints School on Pontefract Lane, which was a short walk from home across York Road (now the A64). This was before it was built into a main road out of Leeds to the coast. Of course it was not as busy then; it had tram-cars going up and down as well as motor cars, but the cars were not as many as there are today!

My mother took me into school and I remember going through a door where my mother talked to a teacher and she took me to a class with children in it and gave me some toy bricks, before leaving me to play with the other children. This was in the infants class in a different building from the grown up children.

Over the years I progressed and as I grew older, I went into different classes. I left school at 14 years, in November 1934 and went to work in an electrical shop. I lasted there for one week and was told I was too small! I got 7 shillings and 6 pence (7/6d) for the week and then had to go to the Juvenile Office for another job.

There they gave me a green card and told me to take it to R.W. Crabtree & Sons in Water Lane, Holbeck. Crabtree’s was an engineering works making printing presses. I walked there on the Wednesday morning and arrived at the time office before 10.30am and presented my card to the chap there. I had to wait a while until they went away to tend to it.

While in the corridor, I could see inside the office. There was a man in uniform and he kept going in and out for various people. To the left of the office a very smart auburn haired receptionist on a switchboard kept talking to people whilst putting various plugs into the slots on the switchboard. Once she looked over and smiled at me. Little did I know that as time went on she would become my mother-in-law and in 1944 I would marry her daughter Jean, who came to work there in 1939!

Eventually, a man came to see me and said I could have a job there at 10 shillings a week (10/-) and I could start as an office boy that afternoon! I hurried home, told my mother and then went straight back to work at Crabtree’s in the drawing office!

My job was to look after all the drawings, get them into the drawing office print room and take prints of them on a duplicating machine so they could be sent into the works for manufacturing. I had to put all the drawings in order in drawers for the various sizes. I also had to run errands for the draughtsmen. Continued…

Men’s Room - A new course, just for men.

Fridays 10.30am - 12.30pm at the Digital Lounge

LEARN NEW SKILLS : TRY NEW THINGS : VOLUNTEER : MEET NEW PEOPLE : HAVE FUN

This is a six week programme in a friendly, supportive environment to help you think about your next steps, be it applying for jobs, getting involved in your community or simply learning new skills.

We can help you achieve your goals!

Starts Friday 26th June 2015.

For more information contact us on 0113 318 0522

Continued from page 7.

That flat was our home until we had our daughter and we then moved to a new house in Baileys Lane, even closer to the village green and with a bus stop right outside. Very handy! We stayed there for 30 years. Our daughter married and moved to Bridlington to live.

When I was 73 I caught a mystery virus and lost a lot of weight. I went from nine stone down to six and a half stone and was in Seacroft Hospital whilst they tried to find out what was wrong with me. The doctor was a Dr. Rajah a blood specialist and he checked me for all sorts of ailments, but it was none of them.

He was very puzzled as he did not know what was wrong with me. I could not stand and I kept having different things go wrong. Skin started peeling off my legs, I could not eat. The only thing I could get down was porridge. My mouth would get dry and I was always drinking.

After 16 days in hospital he told my wife that he had to send me home and told her to feed me and get my weight back on again. The doctor put me on a mineral drink for one month and then one day, my daughter and her husband came over to see me and brought fish and chips. Suddenly, I felt hungry and from that day on I started feeling better.

I was still seeing Dr. Rajah and after nearly a year he was amazed I had got over the virus. He told me later that he had someone with the same illness, but he had died! So I was very lucky.

That was over 20 years ago and now I am 94 years old and my wife and I celebrated being married 70 years last September. So we go on as we are and hoping life will continue to see us well maybe, to 100 years!

Stephen Cocker - Redmire Court.

A huge thank you to Stephen for this interesting life story and for allowing us to share it with our readers. Editor.

For sale:

• Round lamp table with shallow front drawer.

• Antique pine and in excellent condition.

• Only £30

For more information and/or to view, text or call Diane on 07762631295

Family Archive Project

The Family Archive Project is a piece of research being carried out by a team from Leeds University, into how people assemble their family archive; documents, photos, heirlooms, scrapbooks etc. in order to preserve family stories for future generations.

It looks to compare current methods - including of course, computers and social media - with previously used methods. The research team are particularly interested in finding out what people keep, why they keep it and how they look after it.

The team is looking to hold three focus groups, of about eight people, in different parts of the country, including one in Leeds. They have approached our organisation ‘Your Back Yard’ (which Communitask is now effectively a part of) to help them get a group together and facilitate the workshop. The focus groups will involve participants taking part in group discussion, addressing the issues and questions set out above.

The focus group session is expected to last about 2.5 hours and is likely to take place on a Saturday morning at Leeds Central Library, in late June/early July. There will be lunch at the end and all participants will receive £15 towards their travel expenses.

Please contact me if YOU are interested in taking part, or pass this on to anyone else you think might be interested. We already have three people signed up from Seacroft and would love to have five or six more.

Tony Mullin

Director - Your Back Yard CIC

You can contact Tony on land line 01274 271105

or mobile 07970903766

or email tony@.uk

Find us at .uk

Twitter: @yourbackyardcic

Facebook: ./yourbackyardcic

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