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LORD MAYORS PRESENTION DAY
AUTOGRAPH EMPIRE EVENT
ATTENDED BY THE LORD MAYOR OF
SHEFFIELD JACKIE DRAYTON.

AUTOGRAPH EMPIRE RECENTLY RAN A
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WITH THE BIG D CARD OF SHEFFIELD. THE
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THE WINNER OPPOSITE JOSEPH
BERTRAND A FRENCH STUDENT STUDYING
HERE IN SHEFFIELD WAS SELECTED
RANDOMLY OUT OF AROUND 100 ENTRIES.

THE LORD MAYOR OF SHEFFIELD JACKIE
DRAYTON PRESENTED JOSEPH WITH THE
WINNING ITEM, A SIGNED DAVID BOWIE 10"
X 8" PHOTO FRAMED IN FRENCH WOOD.

THE PRESENTATION WAS HELD AT THE
WORKSTATION WHICH HOUSES SOME OF
THE COUNTRY'S FINEST
CREATIVE,DIGITAL AND MEDIA
COMPANIES AND IS SITUATED WITHIN
SHEFFIELD'S CULTURAL INDUSTRIES
QUARTER.

ALL SO ON HAND THAT DAY WAS TONY
AGANA EX BLADES STRIKER 1988-1991.
WHO POPPED IN TO SAY A FEW KIND
WORDS.   
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Off the field huge progress has been made in
securing the future of the world’s oldest club.
When Richard Tims became Chairman, he
set the target of making the club financially
self-sufficient. Not only are the club now on a
sounder financial footing than ever, but they
also now have their own ground for the first
time in their history.

Now there’s two senior teams, nine junior
teams, one women’s team and one disability
team plying their trade at the club’s Bright
Finance Stadium in Dronfield on the outskirts
of Sheffield.

And with a global membership scheme and
website recently launched, it seems that at
last, the club with the illustrious past has a
future to match.

THE CLUBS MANY MEMBERS INCLUDE
SEPP BLATTER, MICHAEL VAUGHAN,
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON AND DEF
LEPPARD TO NAME BUT A FEW.

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PHOENIX PLAYERS
13 - 18 October 2008 A Murder
is Announced

19 - 24 January 2009 Don't Dress
for Dinner

20 - 25 April 2009  When We
Are Married

All Tickets £6.00 – Concessions £5.00
Tickets available from Mrs. G. Edlington

Tel: (01709) 556669 Until 10 days
before the production.
Thereafter at the CIVIC THEATRE BOX
OFFICE
Tel: (01709) 823640 / 823621


Phoenix players are one of south
yorkshires leading amateur drama
groups. Having been formed way back
in 1948, Phoenix produce 3 plays each
season at the Rotherham civic theatre,
which range from comedies,thrillers to
out and out farse's. Audiences have
over the years enjoyed such plays as
Hound of the Baskervilles, Agatha
Christie's-And then there were none
and Emlyn Williams's-A murder has
been arranged. They have also been
rolling in the aisles to such fantastic
BBC comedies like Dads Army, Fawlty
Towers, Are you being served and Allo
Allo.