FROM: Eileen_Gerrard (Original Message)
Sent: 29/07/2008 22:14
I read this last week in the little local paper. It has occurred to me that some of you might be interested so I've copied the article out in full.
Chance to buy shares in new community brewery
A new community brewery will be rewarding supporters with share dividends - paid in beer
Thorne Brewery will shortly be selling 1,000 shares of £100 each to help finance the business in its early stages.
Thorne Brewery, a community interest company, has been set up to bring brewing back to the town and will create employment and training opportunities for local people by trading as a real ale brewery and visitor centre. The new brewery expects to be producing Thorne Best Bitter, its flagship ale, by October. And it has become the first beneficiary of The Phone Co-op Social Enterprise Start-Up and Expansion Fund. The scheme was launched earlier this year to support social enterprises at critical stages in their development and is providing the brewery with a grant of £250 towards the cost of phone calls, line rental and broadband.
Brewery chief executive Mark Burton commented: "We are keen to source supplies and services from the other social enterprises wherever possible and The Phone Co-op is exactly the type of organisation we wish to work with." The Fund offers credits to social enterprises on their Phone Co-op bills, which can be used to pay for any telecoms products provided by the Phone Co-op.
Then it says - For more information visit www.thornebrewery.com
The website is in it's early stages, but worth a visit. It shows where it is situated, and for those who have been away for decades, it is on King Edward Rd. near to where the GEC factory used to be. Do new breweries smell like Darleys used to do. One of my memories of TGS is sitting in room 6 and the strong smell of hops......and Darleys has been sadly missed.
Eileen
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From: lildawes
Sent: 30/07/2008 01:55
I seem to remember the smells from the science labs, cookery rooms, kitchens and Darleys all intermingling - wonder how many were put off dinners by it? !!
Lily Ann 1970-77
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From: Swallow
Sent: 31/07/2008 22:49
Having been brought up in Darleys back yard, when I was living on Field road (next to the Corner Pin) it puts hairs on your chest. Ann essential part of my upbringing.
Be Happy Allan
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From: lildawes
Sent: 02/08/2008 00:01
Lily Ann
1970-77
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From: Swallow
Sent: 03/08/2008 00:12
Hey Lil - careful. You know what this lot are like. They'll be quizzing you, how you know I have a smooth chest. Am I a Jacob or am I an Esau? Thay don't know you see.
Be happy Allan
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From: OLDTOMMO1
Sent: 03/08/2008 19:31
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From: Eileen_Gerrard
Sent: 03/08/2008 20:39
The website is still under construction, so the information is scant. I see CAMRA are featured twice when you click on "Link", along with other reputable names. I only know what is on the website; I don't like beer, but if it takes off, it can only be to Thorne and District's advantage. I have also signed for the news sheet, and that seems to be working well! Two emails received within 30 seconds of signing in.
If you are interested, Mr Burton's contact address is at the side of the Home page. He would be able to advise you further. Good luck.
Eileen
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From: Swallow
Sent: 09/08/2008 23:07
Be happy Allan
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ronmalta wrote on Dec 21, '08
I am still intrigued by the waterfront view at the top.I know Thorne has changed since I last saw it but I can't believe that this is a vista over the canal. Miami or Manila?
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mickhorner wrote on Dec 22, '08
Me too Ron.I think it might be a composite of more than one place.The right side of the view is a duplicate of the left.One structure looks like the Chrysler building in New York and another resembles the Toronto Skydome.
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eileen31 wrote on Dec 22, '08
What makes you think that Thorne hasn't changed beyond recognition? We have an airport, a working canal, with marinas at both ends of Thorne; two stations and very easy access to the motorways. We also have an academy, and if you saw Thorne Park at the moment, it is tastefully lit up in blue and silver.........so it does look like the above picture.
A slight exaggeration with some of the points I've made, but not all!!
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shirl1020 wrote on Dec 22, '08
Where is this photograph of Thorne? It hasn't appeared anywhere on my screen...is there something I should click?
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exrugbyman wrote on Dec 30, '08
Thorne has now changed almost as much as Doncaster!
The injection of the £1.8 billion through the Objective 1 Programme has enabled a lot to be done in South Yorkshire - and Doncaster town centre was one of the biggest transformations.
Yorkshire Forward, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council, and the Objective 1 team have transformed Doncaster back into the vibrant town that I left in 1973. When I returned in 2000 it was a pale imitation of a town, and full of charity shops. I dread to think what it would be like if not for those O1, and other funds.
Even the College is trying to become Doncaster Education City.
Thorne Academy is another symptom of the transformation to former glories that is going on.
Cheers
Exrugbyman
RETIRING HEAD OF PE - BARRY MARKS
ReplyDeleteA POPULAR head of school is stepping down after 35 years encouraging young people in Thorne to take part in sport.
Barry Marks has led the physical education department at Trinity Academy since it opened in 2005, and prior to that taught at Thorne Grammar School for more than 30 years.
"Students come up to me all the time saying I taught their dad but now they're starting to say I taught their granddads. That tells me it's time to move on," said Mr Marks.
Mr Marks, who grew up in Moorends, only left the area briefly to study at Sunderland Polytechnic and to teach in the city for a year before coming back to Thorne in 1974.
He said: "Things at the Academy could not have gone much better and I've loved every minute. We've had some successes already but the stage is set now for our students to go on to great things. “The best thing for me has been seeing the students improve, not just in PE but academically too. Having a Principal who will not only teach sport but also recognises its importance alongside academic subjects has been great. Altogether it makes for a really good school."
Mr Marks said his highlights included the house competitions at Trinity and sixth form games, which give hardworking Year 12 and 13 students the chance to enjoy sport that they do not always get in other schools.
He is also very proud of a 25 yard goal he scored in a staff versus parents football match.
Formerly a regular player at Thornesians Rugby Club, Barry will continue to coach some rugby at the Academy and be involved part-time with the PE department.
At 57, he is keen to maintain his place in the Trinity staff five-a-side competition as well as enjoying retirement with his wife Marilyn and daughter Kate.
Ian Brew, Academy Principal, paid tribute: "Mr Marks has been a dedicated and very popular servant to the young people of Thorne and Moorends for more than 35 years and has really helped put the place on the map when it comes to sport. "He has many friends at the Academy and is renowned for his happy disposition and the time he is always willing to give people. The great thing is we won't be losing him altogether and he will still be a regular feature of PE at the Academy. "However, we do hope he will put his feet up for a little while and take a well earned rest with his family."
One of his pupils at the Grammar School and currently his deputy at Trinity, Dave Potts, is to take over when Barry retires this summer.
On returning from my favourite holiday watering hole, Borowdale, I was delighted to read the well earned praise accorded to Barry Marks on his retirement after thirty five years of TGS, spanning the Grammar School, the Comprehensive and the opening years of the Academy, To all three he has given outstanding service.
ReplyDeleteFor some years now I have held the title of the longest known former member of Staff, Now with great pleasure I hand over that distinction to Barry, firmly convinced that it will never again be beaten, for to it he can add seven years as a pupil of the school.
May I wish him a long and healthy retirement such as I am enjoying, and, who knows, he may yet spend more years in retirement than in teaching - a just reward.
J.A.L.
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Jim- when you write it is pure gold. So now is the time for you to get Barry in here, and then we'll have two bright herbs to entertain us. Go for it Jimmy lad.
ReplyDeleteBe happy Allan
Our local supermarket has a notice board on which customers may advertise articles which they are offering for sale.
ReplyDeleteA few days ago I saw the following. ' For sale - computer desk, almost new. Price £25. Also included computer screen and router '
A cri de coeur ? A change from former advice ' Throw it through the window '.
J.A.L.
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James, I dare say all those of us who started computering without adequate training have often wanted to throw the damn thing out of the window, but after a while we become reconciled and find that it is one of our best friends, or at least an inseparable companion.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that the computer owner who wanted to get rid of his desk has become even more of a computer addict and moved up to a smaller and neater model. I remember singing "The happiest hour a sailor knows is when he's down in an inland town with his Nancy on his knee,Yo-Ho, and his arm around her waist" in The Mikado in 1942. Nowadays Nancy has had to shove off and make way for the lap-top computer.
Hatfield Main Strikes Back!
ReplyDeleteYou will have read that Hatfield has been given an obscene amount of EU cash to develop clean coal electricity generation. If not, you know now.
As a graduate of the University of Hatfield Main 1955-59, I am proud to say that I became a filler under the tutelage of Charlie Dawson (My regards to him, if extant, and his descendents - he was a giant among corner men.) I filled my 16 tons per shift and set my three sets of props and bars to stop to roof falling in. It wasn't a gelogical fault that buried the British mining industry, it was you-know-who. So now we are back to square one. Communities were destroyed for what? To produce the current global melt-down?. That's progress ?
- Noggy, 80s face, Hatfield Main.
Many members will be saddened to learn of the death of George Heptinstall. He died last Saturday of heart failure. George was a talented schoolboy who exuded integrity and was highly respected by his contemporaries. He returned to TGS as a member of staff. He attended our 2005 reunion and, I believe, intended to join us in October this year. He will be missed.
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