Jonathan Kazembe
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A new five-week course in Iyengar Yoga starts at Gamesley Community Centre on Tuesday, September 9 at 7.30pm. It costs £22.50; single sessions £4.70 or £3 for Gamesley residents. Booking on 01457 869145. Details here. |
 Work has begun on renovating the Riverside Mill at the end of George Street which housed the Old Gloveworks pub. The building was badly damaged by fire last September (details here). Russ and Sharon Dalton, who ran the bar, will not be returning.
The Market Tavern in Victoria Street, recently renovated and re-named by Cains Brewery, is now boarded up after the brewery went into administration. |
Elsie Gleadhill is
offering a free Iomega
Zip CD drive on Glossop
Freecycle.
 Glossop
North End beat Atherton Colleries 0-1 away on Monday (August 25) but lost 2-3 to Silsden at home on Saturday (August 23). They play Belper Town at Surrey Street in a preliminary round of the FA Cup on Saturday,
August 30
at 3.00pm. Manager Steve Young has brought in Nick Allen from Curzon Ashton.
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Summer
holiday activities
 High Peak
borough council is offering free
swimming
for young people (aged 16 and under) at Glossop
Pool
until Sunday,
September 7.
More
holiday activities here. |
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 The Moors for the Future Partnership
has a summer fun day
at the Moorland Discovery Centre on the
Longshaw Estate on Thursday,
August 28 from 1.30 - 3.30pm. £1.
 The
partnership is running its Science
meets the eye! competition again this year.
You are invited to send your most inspiring and captivating
image illustrating research in the Peak District. The theme is
'Living Upland Landscapes'. Closing date is Monday,
November 17. Details here. |
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,
August 28
will be Tap the Barrel
playing Lancashire, Irish and country folk music. Details here. |
 Austrian
rock band Freespirit
(right) play The Star in Howard Street on Thursday, August 28
at 9.00pm, promoting their new album, Communicate Please.
Free.
They're supported by local band The
Affliction of Margaret, who have just recorded
their first EP, Jackson's
Carp.
Details on 01457 853072. |
Glossop band Decoy play The Railway in Greenfield on Thursday, August 28 at 9.00pm.
 High Peak borough
council wants to keep some of the 37
phone boxes
BT proposes to close. Those in the Glossop area include High Street
East; The Green, Simmondley; Manchester Road, Tintwistle; Marple Road,
Charlesworth; Derbyshire Level and Crowden.
They are prepared to lose the
ones at Rowarth and Marple Road, Chisworth.
You can say what you think here or by emailing customer-services@highpeak.gov.uk or calling Andrew Thomson on 0845 129 7777 ext 3705 by 12 noon on Friday,
August 29. |
 "Glossop town centre
has been transformed during the past 12 months, thanks to the Glossop
Vision Regeneration programme," according to Glossop Vision's
latest newsletter.
If you would like to comment
on the programme, you can complete Glossop Vision's 2008 survey online here.
Closing date is Friday,
August 29.
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The
Moon and Sixpence in Bernard
Street on Friday, August
29 at 9.00pm. Free. "Green Man Says Go are band wagoneers
of the highest caliber, however they do it in style. It's
clear that they have the credentials, in the current musical climate,
to make waves. They look, and sound, like every other band that makes
slightly off centre, dance, indie music, and why not? They
have taken a popular and proven musical formula and put it to superb
use." - Rae Leeson |
The Carbs play The
Moon and Sixpence in Bernard
Street on Saturday,
August 30 at 9.00pm. Free. "They have one purpose for the
night
and that is to make everyone they play in front of have a night to
remember! A tall order you may think but they seldom disappoint."
- Rae Leeson |
 High
Peak borough council has produced a Draft Tree Strategy
to promote the care and maintenance of trees.
You can comment on the strategy online here or
contact the Arboricultural Officer, Monica
Gillespie on 0845
129 7777 extension 2206,
or email her at customer-services@highpeak.gov.uk
by Sunday,
August 31. |
 St
Charles Church, Hadfield has a display of nostalgic photographs
covering 150 years on Sunday,
August 31 from 1.00 - 4.00pm. Refreshments and souvenirs
available. |
 Glossop
Business Network has its next networking
breakfast at Talbot House in Talbot Road on Wednesday, September 3
from 7.00 - 9.00am. Details on 07764 821521. |
 Caroline England
will be running a free Kinder
Storytime sesssion for 0-5 year-olds at Glossop Library in Talbot Street
on Wednesday, September 3
at 10.30am. Sessions last an hour and
include a drink and biscuit for children as
well as story telling, songs and music and craft activities. Free but booking essential on
01457 852616.
From Thursday, September
11 there will be Kinder
Storytime sessions at the Partington Theatre in Henry Street
on Thursdays at
1.00pm and 2.00pm as well as Fridays
at 9.30am,
10.30am and 11.30am, during term time. Details here.
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Derbyshire County Council
and Derbyshire Fire
Authority are both looking for independent members to join
their standards
committees. Details here
or call Danny Sunderland
on 01629 580000
ext 7357.
Closing date is Friday,
September 5.
 BPM at The Globe in High Street West on Friday, September 5 at 9.00pm has DJ Neal Bann. Expect Trance, House, Hard Trance, Old Skool and a little smidge of Hard House. £3. Over 18s only. |
| Charlesworth and District Village
Show is at Charlesworth and Chisworth Conservative Club in
Marple Road on Saturday, September 6
at 2.15pm. 50p, concessions 25p. Anyone can enter by bringing their
exhibit to the club between 10.00am and 12 noon. Sixty classes -
exhibition schedule from Terry
Brown on 01457
857429. |
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Glossop Rotary Club
has a car boot sale
at Fauvel Road playing fields on Sunday,
September 7 at 8.00am. |
 The six-mile Shelf Moor Fell Race
starts from Shepley Street in Old Glossop at 11.00am on Sunday, September 7. |
| The
Glossop branch of
the Workers' Educational Association
has courses on Creative
writing, Literature
- the Fall of Eve, and Powers of the President
in its autumn programme, which starts on Monday, September 8.
Details here. |
| Save the Woodhead Tunnel's
next meeting is at the Prince of Wales in Mill Street on Thursday, September 11
at 7.00 for 7.30pm. |
 Glossop Model Railway Club has its
annual
exhibition at Bradbury
Community House in Market Street on Saturday, September 13
and Sunday, September 14
from 10.00am - 5.00pm. Layouts in various scales. Trade support and
refreshments. £3, concessions £2, family
£8. |
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The Lift Global Music Club
has a Congolese benefit
night for Jonathan
Kazembe, asylum seeker and Lift volunteer who is facing
deportation, at The Globe in High Street West on Saturday, September 13
from 8.30pm. Details here. |
Lynda Ledwith, whose
son Kingsman Jamie
Hancock
died on guard duty in Basra in November 2006, asks for troops to be
treated as heroes and calls on politicians to set a date to bring them
home, in an interview with Deborah
Linton in the Manchester
Evening News.
She will hold her second garden
party to raise funds for the Army
Benevolent Fund at her Birds
Nest Cottage bed and breakfast in Primrose Lane at 2.30pm on Sunday, September 14.
Tickets £5 from the Va Bene Italian restaurant in
Norfolk Street or by emailing birdsnestcottage@btconnect.com.
You can also make a donation online here.
Jamie fund is simply
flowering - Glossop
Advertiser |
Derbyshire County Council's
adult
education courses
offer ways to save money from making your own clothes to growing your
own food, designing your own Christmas cards and gifts to gaining
valuable new qualifications to improve your job prospects.
You
can get a 5% discount if you enrol before Monday,
September 15. Details here
or on 08456 058058. |
 High
Peak Labour MP Tom Levitt
plans to swim 100 lengths
of Glossop swimming pool on Wednesday,
September 17 to raise funds for Victim
Support in Hadfield. In previous years he has raised over
£1,500 each for the Citizens' Advice Bureau and Mountain
Rescue. |
| Glossop
Business Network has its next networking
lunch at Va Bene Italian
restaurant in Norfolk Street on Friday,
September 19
from 12 noon to 2.00pm. Details on 07764 821521. |
| The
Peak
Film Society's new season
at the Partington Theatre in Henry Street
includes Tim
Burton's Sweeney
Todd, Anton
Corbijn's Control,
and Mike Leigh's
Happy
Go
Lucky. It opens on Saturday,
September 20 with Marc
Forster's 2007 film version of Khaled Hosseini's
best-selling novel, The Kite
Runner. Details here. |
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The
Millennium Galleries
in Sheffield have a Vivienne Westwood
retrospective exhibition until Sunday,
September 21. The
V&A's
blockbuster show has been
touring internationally since 2004 - this is the last chance to see it
in the UK before it closes. Perhaps it should then settle into a
permanent home in a Vivienne Westwood museum
in Glossop?
Vivienne harks back to
her Pennine roots - Glossop Advertiser |
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