Jonathan Kazembe
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 Glossop and District Choral Society presents Hollywood to Broadway at Glossopdale Community College in Talbot Road on Saturday, November 15 at 7.30pm. An evening of choral classics from films and shows including selections from West Side Story
and Rodgers and Hammerstein. With special guests from Glossopdale
Community College: Trajectory youth dance company and Glossopdale
Junior Chorus. Tickets £8 (£6 non-waged) from Bay Tree
Books, 96 High Street West, members of the society and at the door.
Details here. |
 There's a Think Pink Ball to raise awareness of breast cancer (and funds for research and prevention) at Shrigley Hall near Macclesfield in Cheshire on Saturday, November 8. Details here. |
 Glossop Judo Club's Eric Ham and Rhiannon Baldwin returned from the British Under-12 Judo Championships in Walsall at the weekend with a silver and a bronze. Details here. |
Police have arrested
two men, aged 22 and 39, on suspicion of growing
cannabis
after raiding an address in Graphite Way,
Hadfield on Thursday (October 2) and finding about 1,700 cannabis
plants, according to the Tameside
Advertiser.
Glossop police are also investigating a number of thefts of metal grids
taken from drains. Ten covers were reported missing from Woolley Bridge
Road in Hadfield and another seven have been taken from Marple Road in
Charlesworth. Police are looking into reports of a white Transit
pick-up van seen in the area. Anyone with information is asked to
contact Derbyshire Constabulary on 0845 123 33 33 or to
call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Details here.
High
Peak borough council has persuaded the absentee
owners of the empty former Samas
Roneo premises on Glossop Road, Gamesley to tidy the site.
The windows have been boarded up. |
Glossop Art Society
has its annual exhibition
at Bradbury Community House in Market
Street until Friday,
October 31.
 Glossop
Heritage Centre has an exhibition of paintings
by the late Jim Andrew,
local artist, writer, musician and raconteur, until Friday, October 31. |
High Peak borough council's chief executive Simon Baker will
drop in on the customer
services team in Buxton on Monday, October 6 to
mark the start of National Customer Service Week.
Councillors have been invited to an open afternoon on Thursday, October 9
and the team will be raising funds for the High Peak Mayoral charity by
selling cakes and quizzes and wearing purple.
Members of the council's electoral registration team will be at Glossop Co-op on Friday, October 10
between 10.00am and 3.00pm to reach anyone who has not yet registered
to vote. |
The Partington Players
present Marc Camoletti's
farce Just
Desserts, directed by Rod
Goddard, at the Partington
Theatre in Henry Street from Monday, October 6 to
Saturday,
October 11 at 7.30pm. Details here.
 The
Balti Palace on Victoria Street has a charity evening for
the High Peak Mayor's charities on Tuesday,
October 7 at 6.30pm. £14.95. Details on 01457 852584. |
Gamesley and Charlesworth Safer
Neighbourhood Team is holding a crime prevention evening
at the Charlesworth and Chisworth Conservative Club on Tuesday, October 7
at 7.00pm.
 The
Peak District National Park's
Losehill Hall in Castleton is offering young people aged 13 - 18 'taster days' as a Youth Ranger, learning bushcraft
and survival skills, on Thursday,
October 9
and Friday, October 10.
Details from Sally
Kempson on 01433 622469. |
 Tintwistle
Cricket Club hosts a benefit
dinner for Nottinghamshire cricketer Andrew
'AJ' Harris at Glossop
Cricket Club in North Road on Thursday, October 9.
Tickets £35 from Norman
Barber on 01457
863883. Guest speaker is the chairman of England's
selectors, Geoff Miller. If
you bought a raffle ticket at his benefit match at Tintwistle and the
number was 256, 262, 295, 328, 450, 567 or 570, please call Joyce Harris on 01457 862144. |
 Tameside
and Glossop Primary Care Trust is offering grants of up to £5,000
to community groups, voluntary sector groups and registered charities
for projects which aim to improve the health and wellbeing of local
people.
So
far this year the Health
is for Life Community Grants Scheme
has supported a range of projects – from community gardens to
scout troops, from children's football teams to Tai Chi for the over
50s. Glossop groups which have benefited include Gamesley Villa JFC,
Glossopdale VIPs, Tintwistle Cricket Club, Glossopdale Fibromyalgia
Syndrome Support Group, and the 1st Hadfield Scout Group.
For more details visit www.tamesideandglossop.nhs.uk
and go to the 'Community Grant' section or contact Joynal Miah on 0161 304 5849 or
e-mail joynal.miah@nhs.net.
The deadline is Friday,
October 10. |
Charlesworth
Parish Council needs to elect a councillor to represent St
John's ward. Nominations
will
close at 12 noon on Friday,
October 10. If the election is contested the poll will
take place on Thursday,
November 6. Details here.
The polling station
has been moved from Charlesworth Primary School to
St John's Church.
 Alan
Johnson, the Secretary
of State for Health, will be speaking at a buffet at the Windy
Harbour Farm Hotel on Woodhead Road [SK13 7QE] on Friday, October 10
at 7.30pm. £15, concessions £12.
Details from Ellie Wilcox
on 01298 71111. |
 One
Eyed Pete play The
Moon and Sixpence in Bernard Street on Friday, October 10
at
9.30pm. Free. One Eyed Pete are a three piece rock/blues cover band who
are fast gaining a reputation as one of the most exciting and
accomplished acts around. They have been compared to The Who and Cream,
partly due to the choice of material they play like Hendrix, The Jam,
Clash plus a few modern songs. |
The
Heritage Singers have a concert at the Church of
St John the Evangelist, Charlesworth on Saturday, October 11
at 7.30pm in support of the roof fund. They will be joined by
the
Athenean String Quartet from the Amaretti Orchestra. £5
adult, £3.50 children and pensioners, £12 family
ticket. The choir is
looking for a new bass singer or two - see their website. |
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The
Moon and Sixpence in Bernard Street has a
double bill of The
Hostiles from Ayrshire (above) and Gangs of Feral Youth
from Sheffield (right) on Saturday,
October 11 at 9.30pm. Free. The Hostiles formed in late
2001 with a goal not to conform to popular music. They are influenced
by bands as diverse as Reel Big Fish, Earth, Wind and Fire and The
Beastie Boys - "taking ska to new places." Gangs of Feral Youth are
"like an explosion of early grunge held together with the slight pop
Blondie feel that sits up and bites every now and then with pure metal". - Rae Leeson
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Glossop Operatic and Dramatic
Society (GODS) will be producing Return to the
Forbidden Planet
in April 2009. There will be a get-together and auditions in the second
half of October.
 High Peak branch of the Derbyshire
Wildlife Trust launches its new season
of talks with Wild
Derbyshire - well-known local film maker, John Keeling
(right), takes time off from his BBC work to show his footage of
Derbyshire wildlife including adders, grass snakes, stoats and other
mammals - at Bradbury
Community House in Market Street on Tuesday,
October 14
at 7.30pm. £2, including tea and biscuits.
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 Bay Tree Books
presents Stephanie
Calman, author of Confessions
of a Bad Mother and Confessions
of a Failed Grown-up and founder of the Bad Mothers Club.
 She's here to do
a signing, talk and
Q&A about her new book How (Not) to
Murder Your Mother at
Glossop Cricket Club in North Road
on Wednesday, October 15
at 7.30pm. Tickets £8.00 (with a donation to the White
Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood) from Bay Tree Books at
96 High Street West or phone 01457
862512. Guaranteed to be a very funny girls' night out!
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| Derbyshire County
Council is looking for nominations for its Young
Achievers' Awards. Young people aged between
three and 18 who attend Derbyshire schools are eligible. Closing date
is Friday,
October 17. The presentation ceremony will be on Friday, December 12.
You can nominate online here. |
| Namibian
boxer Ali Nuumbembe,
who won and lost the Commonwealth welterweight title while he was
living in Glossop last year and is now the WBA Pan-African welterweight champion,
will fight German southpaw Daniel
Kaefer at the Windhoek Country Club on Friday, October 17.
The winner could receive a WBA top ten rating. Details here. |
 Glossop
Business Network has its next networking
lunch at Va Bene Italian
restaurant in Norfolk Street on Friday,
October 17
from 12 noon to 2.00pm. Details on 07764
821521. |
| The Hayloft in
Howard Street has a ladies'
accessories party on Friday,
October 17 from 5.00 - 9.00pm. Tables cost £10;
20% of proceeds to Willow Wood Hospice. Details from Elaine Burgreave on 01457 852785. |
There's a brass band concert
and potato pie supper in the Band Room on Wood Street on Sunday, October 19
at 8.00pm. Proceeds in aid of the Motru (Romania) Fund which helps Sister Celestine
(ex-Glossop) with her work among the poor, especialy the elderly and
children. Tickets £5, including supper, from Kathy Ford on 07818 044768.
The
Glossop Folk Train
leaves Manchester Piccadilly at 1849 (6.49pm) on the fourth Thursday of
each month, with some of the best of the region's folk musicians
performing live on the train all the way to Glossop.
Here
the action moves to Glossop
Labour Club
for liquid refreshment and more live
entertainment. Food can be ordered on the train and the club is fully
accessible to wheelchair users.
Return is on the 2139 (9.39pm) train from Glossop,
arriving into Piccadilly at 2212 (10.12pm).
There
is no charge
for the event - just the price
of your ordinary train or Wayfarer ticket.
The performers on Thursday,
October 23
will be the Lonesome and
Penniless Cowboys
playing country swing, honky tonk and the songs of Hank Williams and
Johnny Cash.
Details here. |
| The
Peak
Film Society presents John Carney's Irish
movie Once
at the Partington Theatre in Henry Street on Saturday, October 25
at 7.30pm. Details here. |
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| Tintwistle Youth Club
has a Hallowe'en disco
at the Parish Hall in Sexton Street on Wednesday, October 29. |
| There's
an evening of
storytelling at the Partington Theatre in
Henry Street on Friday, October 31
at 8.00pm. Grassroots storytelling. All welcome to tell or listen! |
 A gun turret
from the B29 Superfortress 'Overexposed' which crashed at Higher Shelf
Stones on November 3, 1948, killing all 13 people on board, will form
part of a sixtieth
anniversary exhibition at Glossop Heritage Centre in Henry
Street in November.
The gun turret was recovered by Peter
Jozefczyk and
members of Glossop
Mountain Rescue Team in June. Details here. |
 Cathy
O'Dowd, the South African mountaineer who was
the first woman to climb Mount Everest from both north and south sides,
will be talking about
her life in the high mountains at Mellor Parish Centre near
Stockport on Saturday,
November 1 at 7.00 for 7.30pm to raise funds for Glossop
Mountain Rescue Team. Tickets £8 from Colin Hilton on 01457 862203 or 07795 641845. |
 World
folk duo Katuš
plays the Partington
Theatre in Henry Street on Saturday, November 1.
They will be testing ideas for
a Mermaid's Tale
folk opera to be performed at the Buxton Festival next year.
£5, concessions £4. Details here. |
Glossopdale
Community College's Parent Teacher Association
has its annual general
meeting at The Globe, 144 High Street West on Monday, November 3
at 7.00pm.
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