cliffsharky Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 Hi mh01 the pond as been sold for 64,000 pounds ive been told club not for sale yet Welcome to forum milo007,how much is it to fish pond now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MILO007 Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 Welcome to forum milo007,how much is it to fish pond now? Hi cliffesharky sorry dont know how much it is to fish I will find out and let you know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sycamore66j Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 i went for a walk round a few weeks ago and it said £5 per day, dawn till dusk. if you are thinking of going on a weekend i would check first as they have matches on from time to time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Womersle Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 I remember the old WMC in Church Street (same site as present one). It was a series of old wooden army huts fastened together. One night it mysteriously burned down. I think this was around 1953/5. The business of the club carried on in the upstairs room of the Arundel, until the new premises were ready. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mh01 Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 eyup nigel do you have any photos of the old wooden hut wmc ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redfyre Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 NIgel, the fire that destroyed Ecclesfield WMC occurred on January 5th 1951. It was a good story for old Percy Brummitt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sycamore66j Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 Thanks nigel & redfire ,i never heard that bit of village history before. i will ask my dad if he remembers the incident,i know he was concert secratery for a while in the late 50,s/early 60,s b.t.w my sister informed me alan denial was given a good send off yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Womersle Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 NIgel, the fire that destroyed Ecclesfield WMC occurred on January 5th 1951. It was a good story for old Percy Brummitt! Thanks for that. I honestly thought it was later than that. My memory must be better than I first thought. I do remember the fire. My Dad told me not to go near the site, but as we all know, we think we know best. I stank of burning ashes when I returned home, so he knew I had been there. Do you remember the old wooden hut in Mill Road, being burned down? After the first world war, the Wortley Rural DC erected four ex army huts on the present site of the prefabs. They were used for housing (just like the old Potter Hill camp). When they were demolished, one was left standing and it was used by WRDC as a store for old newspapers retrieved from the dustbins. One night it was set alight, by a person or persons unknown. I am confident that this was Saturday 4 July 1953. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Womersle Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 eyup nigel do you have any photos of the old wooden hut wmc ? Sorry, but I don't have a single one. I don't think I have ever seen one either. I do remember it though. I am sure it was an 'L' shape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Womersle Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 Hi mh01 the pond as been sold for 64,000 pounds ive been told club not for sale yet Do you know if The Willowgarth (next to the dam - left as you go up the steps at the back of the club) was included in the sale? Supposedly, this was the site of an Anglo Saxon stockade - notice the 'island' in the middle. The stockade being on the middle island and surrounded by a moat. I have always thought that site ought to be excavated. Who knows what would be found. Local legend has it that the stone for building the Church was taken from the ground, thus creating the dam. I have always preferred to believe that it came from the Hunshelf quarry. I would think it easier to take stone from a hill side than to dig it out of the ground. No doubt an expert stonemason would be able to confirm/deny my theory about the quarry, by examining both the quarry face and the church. I am probably wrong. Another story tells of a horse and cart being drowned in the dam, during the early years of the last century. Supposedly the horse and cart was being used to clear snow off the iced dam, when the ice cracked and swallowed both horse and cart. Firstly - why would people want to clear the frozen dam of snow? Secondly - how did they get a horse and cart on to the ice? I think there is truth in the story that divers were sent down, to see how deep the dam was. They were unable to find its bottom as it was so deep. Of course modern day techniques would be able to find this out very quickly. I do know the dam was used to drive the machinery of the old paper mill next to the WMC. This is now a transport firm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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