South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive will be making an appearance at the next Dinnington Town Council meeting on 11 November. Details for all the meetings of the Town Council are here.
If you’d like your say on how public transport is provided in Dinnington and Anston come on down and make your view known!
Six of the best, trousers down.
Officers from the borough council’s standards board have delivered their damning findings.
Some of the highlights;
Dominic Beck was NOT present.
All Councillors have had a serious talking to and will be given training and guidance on how to conduct themselves.
Many Cllrs agree “they are crap” at dealing with the public.
Another meeting to be held on this in Dec or Jan.
Public asked to stop sending “trivial” complaints until the backlog is cleared, “trivial” meaning a Cllr was merely rude.
Cllrs agree to show more respect.
Chief Exec Martin Kimber has got involved and told officers to “sort it”
Chairman Ireland apologises for past actions.
In other news:
Judy Dalton takes over management of skate park after knifing Thornton in the back.
Cllr Jepson slams some Cllrs attendance record.
Saint John talks nonsense. (Not news really)
Still enjoying this history of Dinnington, an extract:
“By the time Barnsiey Seam was reached in 1904 the
seventeen dwelling houses seen by the visitor to Dinnington in
1902 had increased to one hundred, and all were occupied by the
sinkers and their families. Because of their corrugated iron
coverings this cluster of dwellings became known as “Tin Town”.
The houses were laid out in streets and squares, although since
they were obviously temporary structures there were no street
names. Three of the houses were used as lodgings for the
single men.
Many of the first families to live in “Tin Town” were Irish,
bringing with them the need for a place of Roman Catholic worship.
The first Roman Catholic Church was a building which had originally
been in “Tin Town”. Mr. Turner, born in 1890, remembers a
canteen and grocery store in “Tin Town”. One day on his way
home from the colliery he saw this building on fire. Somehow
the main structure was saved and later bought by his mother, who
had it removed to Monksbridge Road on the common, intending to
repair it and put it to use as a grocery store. This was not
a successful venture, and later the building was used as a chapel
by the Roman Catholic community before St. Joseph’s church was
built in 1916.”
There’s nothing like a spot of local history and I’m really enjoying making my way through this on-line book “The Changing Village.”
A small extract:
LINES ON DINNINGTON
(Excerpt)
by David Makinson September 3rd 1846
There is a village scene
Beneath the dome of heaven
‘Tis Dinnington I mean
That name this place had given
Here nature as she will
Scatters her gifts around
While verdure clothes each hill
And fields with flowers abound
The woods and plains are seen
Attractive to the eye
Arrayed in varied green
Contrasting with the sky
The rural sights appear
Abundant in the vale
And sounds salute the ear
Full rustic in the gale
Or o’er those fertile meads
Which stately trees adorn
And where the by-path leads
Through fields of golden corn
Such then the poet’s spell
To Dinnington hath given
Most hamlets to surpass
Beneath the dome of heaven
Actually I’m being silly as the “ISS” flies over the whole planet, not just Dinnington, but you can see it from our brilliant little town. It will appear in the night sky as a very bright star, quite fast moving.
To find the next pass just go to this web page, you can also download apps onto your smart phone which will notify you when the ISS is near!
Happy hunting!
A favourite of mine for a bike trip, Dinno Miners Welfare and Rec Ground is owned by CISWO, in fact this is a bone of contention for many people who feel that CISWO hoovered up the Rec Ground along with other assets when the coal industry collapsed.
Now word on the pit top is that CISWO are planning to develop houses on the land, will any of the money made be put back into Dinnington I wonder? The Friends group setup to run the Welfare have now been locked out by CISWO who declined the opportunity to renew their lease,
Here’s a photo of the place in happier times and a past newspaper story which gives a flavour of the controversy.
Went out for a run on my bike this morning to explore and took these photos in the empty market place.
It’s a nice idea to put them there and I for one really enjoyed seeing them.
Get a Grip Jo Burton and Dinnington Town Council!
We are in the local paper again!
and so is Jo Burton, slagging off local campaigners, AGAIN!
I have for ages been hassling Dinnington Town Council to get SYPTE along to a meeting to explain why our “Principal Town” (according to RMBC) lost its motorway buses years ago and now shares a rural connection to Sheffield with every man and his dog in between!
Sheffield is the largest employment centre in our area and I go there every day to work, I see jobs that young kids in Dinnington and Anston could be doing taken by foreign workers (not that I have anything against immigration as such, but importing a work force with 3 million on the dole is bloody stupid!)
For gods sake can we please have a decent Sheffield bus connection as soon as possible please, Dinnington Town Council get off your asses and chase up SYPTE like I asked you to in April, and Councillor Jo Burton stop apologising for mediocre service and do something useful!
SYPTE is run by your Labour cronies so get on the phone and see if you can do some good for a change!
SYPTE are saying to me that they can not even consider a subsidised motorway bus as it would compete with the commercial X5 which they withdrew subsidy from this summer. You couldn’t make it up.
Enough of my ranting, the article in question is here.
Here I sit composing my reply to Jo Burton’s latest letter and she lets rip again, this time into local Anston resident Colin Tawn who dared to criticise her in a previous issue of the Advertiser.
I’ll have to start re-working my reply now as will Mr Tawn I’m sure who probably isn’t going to be pacified by Jo’s latest attempt at serious political commentary.
Now she’s telling us that we can trust RMBC to look after our countryside. Makes a change from telling people that affordable housing is to be sprinkled down from heaven as if by magic!
She also lays into Stewart Thornton who she labels as “rude to the public”
What a joke, if you were censured at APC for being rude to the public there would be nowt but tumble weed blowing round the table. How about when Dominic Beck called the Police to chuck out a disabled pensioner, Jo? What were you doing then? He didn’t get censured did he?
Jo, how about my challenge to you in the local paper to hold a full public debate on all these issues? Any chance before the elections in May?
Asking Jo what’s good for Anston is like asking Baldrick from Blackadder to run the Apollo program. “Anston we have a problem!”
Too freaking right we do!
Please form an orderly queue behind the abort button marked “ballot box”
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