The Glossop Chronicle of the Bank Holiday weekend, had a front page story with the headline of ‘The Great Train Robbery’, with the article following detailing concerning proposals which will see the current Class 323 electric units which provide the rail services on not only our Glossop to Manchester line, but also on a number […]
With effect from Monday 26th October 2015, the 394 (Glossop to Stockport via Stepping Hill) is reverting back to its former (weekday) terminus of Stepping Hill Hospital, and will no longer continue on into Stockport / Stockport Bus Station. The extension to the service to continue on into Stockport, started in March – but High […]
SFTW: If the delights of the Bankswood Inspire Festival don’t float your boat, there’s still plenty of things you can do over the weekend. Two particular events worth highlighting are both taking place on the Sunday. The first is the return of the Glossop Grill Fest for 2015, which when it was first run last […]
Monday sees the last of this year’s summer bank holiday’s, which means that local buses, are a little differently with just the 202, 236/7, and 61 running and for the last time of the summer season the 951 to Huddersfield. For us locally (on Gamesley) it means there will be just the 202 by Stagecoach running […]
This coming Saturday morning (29th August) morning will see this months ‘Councillors Shoppers Surgery’. Running as usual from 10.00am until 11.30am in the central Glossop location of the Market Arcade, the surgery will have in addition to me a number of other councillors (pictured right) from across Glossopdale. As is usually the case for the […]
In fitting with the trend and tradition of recent years, once again missed from last month was a brief note to highlight the passing of the 10th birthday of the start of this blog, and as is usually noted in this annual post whilst not all the topics covered will be the liveliest or sometimes […]
If you’re looking for SFTW (something for the weekend), then this weekend sees the return of Glossop’s answer to Glastonbury, but without the need for tents or camping (I suppose unless you really wanted to) with this years Bankswood Inspire Festival. Taking place in Hadfield’s Bankswood park over the course of Saturday and Sunday from […]
Thursday 13th August saw the 2015 Left Handers Day (#lefthandersday) and if you are one of the 13% of the population around the world afflicted or blessed (depending on your point of view) like myself then a slightly belated ‘happy left handers day’. The awareness day is organised by the Left-Handers Club and has run every […]
ICYMI : On Thursday 30th July, this year’s G52 meet the neighbours event took place, and if you were not able to attend, you really did miss ‘beach Thursday’ with half of the square at the shops on Winster Mews been transformed with thankfully good weather to a slightly more tropical than it usual appearance […]
Just over a week ago, I had the chance to see the great performance of 100% Wolf by young people from across the borough at the Geoffrey Allen Centre on Gamesley. The show which is based on the book ‘100% Wolf’ by Jayne Lyons has seen High Peak Community Arts working with young people from […]
