Jonathan Kazembe
Longdendale bypass
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Glossop Oxfam shop at 12 Henry Street has three book quizzes - based on fiction, crime/thrillers and kids - from Saturday, July 4 - Saturday, July 18 as part of Oxfam's Bookfest. You can win money prizes to spend in the store. |
 Sheffield police are looking for 15-year-old Carly Farnell,
who went missing last weekend. It is possible Carly may be with a male
friend who has a silver Ford Focus. The car has recently been seen in
the Glossop and Ladybower areas.
Anyone with information should call South Yorkshire Police on 0114 220 2020. |
| Monolith by Kathleen Siddall from Glossop won the Derbyshire County Council Watercolour Prize in the Derbyshire Open Art Competition. John Ward from Hayfield won the Derbyshire County Council Oil Painting Prize with When We Lived in Rowarth and Lucy Gell from New Mills won the Derbyshire County Council & Tarmac Ltd Print Trophy with Mojo. 106 of the best works are on display at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery until Friday, September 4. Admission free. |
 A proposal to convert Easton House
on High Street East into a medical centre for the Manor House practice
could fail because High Peak borough council is insisting on retaining
the sash windows, according to David Jones in the Glossop Chronicle.
Surgery head Sir John Oldham said: "We are not able to have sash windows. It's on hygiene and safety grounds."
High Peak Labour MP Tom Levitt has written to High Peak conservation officer Richard Tuffrey
saying "Common sense and joined-up government both demand that HPBC
reconsiders its decision and allows this development to go ahead."
Details here.
The Chron says work on the new Primary Care Centre on the site of the old George Street clinic (above) began this week. But there are problems with the new health centres, according to Pulse.
Bring it on! - Buxton Advertiser |
Does your village have a bright
idea?
 Village
SOS is a new initiative from the Big
Lottery Fund (BIG) and the BBC.
It is searching for six
UK villages with a great business idea and six
enterprising individuals to act as Village Champions and help them
achieve their ambitions.
Together they will create a brand new venture that will bring new life
and energy to the village (fewer than 3,000 people)
with funding of between £100,000 and £400,000 from
BIG.
The journey of the six successful villages and their Village Champions
will be filmed for a BBC 1 series in winter 2010. |
 Glossop
Safer Neighbourhood Team heard about problems
with young people
causing a nuisance in Manor Park, Whitfield, Spire Hollin,
Talbot Street and Pikes Lane at its forum meeting at the
Municipal Buildings on Tuesday (June 30). It was suggested that Ozbox
boxing and fitness sessions could be introduced at Whitfield
Youth and Community Centre in Ebenezer Street. |
What's
your
vision for Glossop?
Glossop
Vision Board is
appealing to people in the town to outline their ideas for how it
should develop in the future. You can send your suggestions to mail@glossop.com.
Details here. |
 Tameside
and Glossop NHS has issued advice on how to cope
with a heatwave.
Details here.
The primary care trust's campaign to encourage young people
to test for chlamydia
led to 18.7% of 15 to 24-year-olds being screened in 2008-9 - the
second best score in Greater Manchester (behind Manchester at 18.8%). |
 Glossop North End Juniors
are still looking for any boys and girls in Year 3 - who don't already
play for a football team - to come for a game of football
on Pikes Lane playing fields on
Monday, July 6
and Monday, July 13
at 6.00pm. Last week 14 boys turned up and if the numbers are right a
new under-9s team could be formed. Details from Colin Halton on 01457 869959. |
 Glossop
farmer Sally Hodgson
has created an S-shaped dry
stone wall seat at the National
Memorial Arboretum in Lichfield to commemorate the work of
Women's Institute members during the Second World War, according to thisisderbyshire.co.uk. Sally also
featured in the BBC 1 television programme Countryfile
on Sunday (June 28), along with Peter
Jozefcyzk from Glossop Mountain Rescue Team
talking about the wartime aircraft wrecks on Bleaklow. |
 Bodycheck
health and fitness club in Victoria Street has a summer saver week
from Sunday, June 28
- Sunday, July 5.
You can save up to £90 on membership fees and get one month's
subscription FREE.
Details on 01457 853017. |
 GlovesOff
Productions
presents Patricia
Hartshorne
in Alternative
Medicine
at the Partington Theatre in Henry Street on Friday,
July 3
and Saturday,
July 4 at
8.00pm.
Patricia
Hartshorne
and Michael
Elphick
return with another one-woman show. Meet Mrs
Harris, the cleaner who's game for anything... Join Enid Pringle, the
receptionist, who isn't... Laughter, tears and repeat prescriptions.
Just another day at the doctor's surgery? It's a bit of an eye-opener!
Tickets
£8, concessions £6, from Glossop Heritage and
Information Centre (01457
855920)
and Partington Theatre (01457 852066).
"If you like Alan Bennett,
you'll love this" - Buxton
Fringe |
The Curragh Sons play The
Spinners Arms in Marsden Street, Hadfield on Friday, July 3 at
9.00pm.
Tintwistle Allotment Gardeners' Association are planting a community garden at the entrance to their site in Arnfield Lane on Saturday, July 4.
Volunteers welcome to help with digging and planting. Tools, materials
and refreshments provided. The project has received a £50 grant
from CSV Action Earth. Details from Anne Steele on 07910 241044 or email annesteele707@hotmail.com. |
| The Pennine Singers
present All
That Jazz with the Crompton
House School Swing Band at Glossop
Parish Church on Saturday,
July 4 at
7.30pm. £6, concessions £5, under-18s free. |
The
Pilgrim presents The
'In' Crowd at The Grey Mare in Charlesworth on Saturday, July 4
from 8.00pm. An era-defining mix of
Northern Soul, Motown and original Mod classics. Take a journey back to
the legendary Northern clubs - The Twisted Wheel, King Mojo's, The
Golden
Torch,
Wigan Casino and Blackpool Mecca. Free. All
welcome.
Keep The Faith.
 The
Samuel C Lees Quartet featuring Eva Gray offers a
night of gypsy music at The Bulls Head in Old Road Tintwistle on Saturday, July 4,
from 8.00pm. Details here. |
 Treat
Suite presents Banana
Hammock reggae night at The Globe, 144 High
Street West, on Saturday,
July 4 at 8.30pm. £2. Details here. |
 Peter
and Christina Harris
open their garden at High
Roost in Simmondley [SK13 6UZ] on Sunday, July 5 from
1.00 - 5.00pm for charity as part of the National
Gardens Scheme.
Youngish suburban garden with interesting layout on terraced slopes
with views over fields and hills. Winding paths, archways and steps
explore different garden 'rooms' packed with plants for year-round
interest and colour, much of the planting designed to attract wildlife.
Herbaceous borders give a blaze of colour in summer. Tiered alpine bed,
vegetable garden, several small water features. Statuary, pots, troughs
and planters. A garden which has to be explored to discover its secrets
tucked away in hidden corners. New for 2009: 'dry' garden for spikey,
drought-tolerant plants. Craft stalls and children's lucky dip.
£2, children free. Details on 01457 863888.
|
| DJs The
Pilgrim
and Adrian 'Luvdup' Gent
present their weekly
Sunday afternoon session Soul
Food Sundays at The New Lamp in Hadfield on Sunday, July 5 from
2.00 - 6.00pm. The kind of singalong songs
that Sundays were made for. A bar menu is available and a fantastic
beer garden. Free.
Details here. |
 It's Broadbottom Scarecrow Week from Monday, July 6 to Saturday, July 11. Judging takes place on Friday, July 10 and the village show is on Saturday, July 11.
Later in the year there's a film festival, local history course, food festival and a photographic exhibition.
Details on the Broadbottom village website. |
 Glossop micro-brewery Howard Town
has been commissioned to make a special bottled beer for the town's new
'pictures and chutney emporium', the Laughing Badger Gallery,
according to Manchester
Confidential.
The Laughing Badger Beer
will contain a special ingredient – rowan berries, which in
their
raw state are poisonous. Fortunately once cooked the berries lose
toxicity: the flavour is 'blackcurranty' by all accounts.
 Sean Wood (above) -
painter, wildlife writer, and musician with The Curragh Sons
- explained that the idea for selling pictures
alongside chutneys came about because it's "an amalgamation of
everything I love, which is art, chutney and music."
The
gallery will open at 99 Platt Street, Padfield on weekdays (10.00am -
5.00pm) from Monday,
July 6.
Sean's new venture is ale... and arty - Glossop
Advertiser |
 The Partington Players present their One-act Play Festival at the Partington Theatre in Henry Street from Tuesday, July 7 - Saturday, July 11.
Drama groups from the local area and beyond present a varied selection
of short plays each evening starting at 7.30pm. Actress and director Pam Slater will judge the entries and hand out gongs on the final night. Details here. |
| Glossop and Longdendale Archaeological Society meets at Rose Green Working Men's Club on High Street East on Tuesday, July 7 at 7.30pm. Peter Noble, archaeologist in charge of the Mellor Dig, will talk about the recent Shaw Cairns excavation. |
 Hadfield
Library on Station Road has a crime writing workshop
with Rod Duncan
from Leicester on Wednesday,
July 8 from 2.00 - 4.30pm. £4, concessions
£3. Details on 01457
852589. |
| The Three Crows have
a concert at Glossop Cricket Club on Friday,
July 10 at 8.00pm to raise funds for All Saints Roman
Catholic Church.
Tickets £5 on 01457
854851 or email bandcmc@live.co.uk. |
The Lift Global Music Club
presents a Weekend
Special on the weekend of Saturday, July 11
and Sunday, July 12,
with Etran
Finatawa (above) and The Hut People
(below left) in Glossop Town Hall on the Saturday evening and The Hut People and Celloman
(below
right) at The Globe on the Sunday afternoon. Details here.
Gary Hammond, percussionist with The Beautiful South, has a FREE percussion workshop on Saturday, July 11. Booking essential on 01457 853821 by Thursday, July 9. |
|
 Glossop-based therapist Masha Bennett, who
runs the Practical Happiness emotional
health consultancy, has launched a new self-help blog for
people recovering from drug and alcohol addictions, their families and
practitioners. Details here.
Masha has a course on Emotional Freedom
Technique for addiction professionals in Manchester on Saturday, July 11 - Sunday, July 12.
|
Glossop's one-man aid organisation, Phill
Booth from Chapel Street who runs EETEP
(English Effort to End Poverty), has completed an orphanage in
Coimbatore in India. There's a video here.
EETEP is now looking for volunteers for a cycle ride from
Manchester to
Blackpool on Saturday,
July 11. Details here.
|
 Glossop
Rotary Club has a car boot sale at the
Fauvel Road sports ground on Sunday,
July 12 from 8.00am. Details on 01457 859171. |
 Glossop and Hadfield Mencap
has a Manchester to Blackpool bike
ride on Sunday,
July 12. Details from Andy
on 01457 863596. |
 Glossop Operatic and Dramatic Society (GODS) will be holding auditions for this year's pantomime, Cinderella, at the Partington Theatre in Henry Street on Sunday, July 12 (for principals) and Sunday, July 19 (for chorus). The show will be staged from Tuesday, December 1 until Saturday, December 5. |
 The A57 Snake Pass will be closed for re-lining from 6.00am on Monday, July 13 to 6.00am on Thursday, July 16. |
 Keen photographers are being given
the chance to win a top prize of £10,000 for a picture
showing the Peak District National Park's
landscape. The Take
A View competition includes the Landscape
Photographer of the Year and Young Landscape Photographer of the Year
awards for 2009. Closing date is Wednesday,
July 15. Details here. |
 Glossop-based
GlovesOff
Productions
presents Patricia
Hartshorne
in Absolute
Pants
at the Old Hall Hotel in Buxton [SK17 6BD] from Wednesday, July 15 -
Friday, July
17 at 8.00pm. Written by Micahel Elphick,
it's "camp, colourful – and full of surprises. It blends
boots,
beards and fish-nets. With a song and a swagger, Patricia Hartshorne
looks at the male, the female – and the space in between. Who
wears the trousers? Does it matter – or is it all
absolute
pants?"
Tickets £8, concessions £6, on 0845 127 2190 or online.
|
There's
a car boot sale
at the Winster Mews car park in Gamesley on Saturday, July 18
from 9.00am - 1.00pm. £3. Details on 01457 858035.
| People
interested
in
Derbyshire industrial history are invited to join an archaeological dig
on the Sheep Pasture incline,
hoping to unearth the foundations of the Cromford Incline engine house
that was knocked down in the 1850s. The dig, supervised by
archaeologists from Sheffield University, is open to anyone over
16. |
Eamon Curry's
photographs of the
Sheep Pasture incline on flickr
|
| From
Thursday,
July 23
to Sunday, July
26 (10.00am - 4.00pm), it costs £5 per day. If
you're interested, contact Middleton Top Visitor Centre on 01629 823204. |
The Glossop
Folk Train leaves Manchester Piccadilly at 1848
(6.48pm) 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
through Ashburys, Gorton, Guide Bridge, Flowery Field, Newton for Hyde,
Godley, Hattersley, Broadbottom and Dinting 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,
July 23 will be Tap
the Barrel, playing Lancashire, Irish and comedy folk
music. |
| The Pilgrim presents
The 'In' Crowd
- an era-defining mix of Northern Soul, Motown and Original Mod
Classics - at The Royal Hotel in Hayfield on Friday, July 24 at
8.00pm. Details here. |
 High
Peak Radio is organising the first High Peak Cup -
between Glossop North End, Buxton
FC, Chapel Town and New Mills - on the weekend of Saturday, July 25
and Sunday, July 26.
New Mills are home to Chapel Town on the Saturday at 1.00pm; Glossop
North End play Buxton at Surrey Street at 4.00pm. On the Sunday the
third-place play-off is at Silverlands in Buxton at 1.00pm, with the
final at 4.00pm. Details here.
Reaching
a Peak? - Glossop
Advertiser
Glossop artist Vaughan
Parker is talking to Glossop North End about creating a
6ft x 7ft painting of the club, according to the Glossop
Advertiser.
|
| Glossop
Rotary Club has a car boot sale at the
Fauvel Road sports ground on Sunday,
July 26 from 8.00am. Details on 01457 859171. |
Derbyshire County Council
is inviting catering businesses promoting local produce to enter the Derbyshire Food and Drink Awards.
Closing date is Sunday,
July 26; the awards will be presented on Thursday, October 15.
Details here.
 Glossop
LGBT is a new organisation created to provide a
community for lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender people in Glossop and the
surrounding
areas.
They aim to
have an environment where LGBT people can be open about their
sexuality, safe and themselves in a positive setting.
The
committee meet every week and they are busy putting together events
where
the gay community can get together and socialise. They will also be
undertaking charity work in the area, such as tidying up and improving
local parks and riverbanks. Their next
project is designing and entering a Glossop float in Manchester's Gay
Pride Parade in the city centre on Saturday,
August 1. Any help
people can offer would be greatly appreciated!
If you
want to know more, please join the Facebook group
and send any of the admins a message! |
 Dynamite Dance
has a summer school
where you can learn street dance, hip hop and breakdance at Longdendale
Community Language College in Hollingworth from Monday, August 10 - Friday, August 14
(10.00am - 3.00pm). £50. They also have regular weekly
classes at the college for ages 3 - 6, 7 - 13 and 14+. Details on 07926 677107. |
Glossop
Gardeners have a
programme of events until the end of 2009 and lots of ideas for 2010 and beyond, so if you are keen on
plants and gardens and would like to share your passion with others
please get in touch with Chris
on 01457 863888
or Sue on 01457 857015 (email sue.astles@ctaweb.co.uk)
or come to the next
meeting at Glossop Cricket Club in North Road
on Tuesday, September 1
at 7.30pm.
Details here. |
| Derbyshire
County Council is organising workshops for independent
retailers to learn new skills. Traders wanting to
take part will be asked to go to four different
one-hour workshops which will be run early evening. Details here.
The Glossop workshops will begin on Tuesday,
October 6. For more information contact the
county council's
Derbyshire Market Towns officer on 01629
580000 ext 7342
or email zoe.jepson@derbyshire.gov.uk. |
|
Tom
Ritchie Sr's
photographs of Glossop on flickr.
Mike
Sanders
has a
collection
of links to websites relating to Glossop here.
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High Peak borough council
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