With wonderful weather and a superb Wakes Week, the Blog has hit an all time high. Yesterday there were 2032 viewings on the site – our highest ever in one day – with the photos, particularly about the Hill Race, proving the most popular. This week we will also reach another high with 400,000 viewings [...]
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Blog hits an all time high
Posted in About this site, Wakes on Thursday July 1, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Comments policy.
Posted in About this site on Tuesday June 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As members of the PARWICH.ORG blog team, we feel that one of this site’s key aims is to encourage a sense of community cohesion. After much discussion amongst ourselves, and having taken into account the various emails we have received and the comments that have been made to us personally by readers of this site, [...]
Comments – an update from the blog team.
Posted in About this site on Monday June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The blog team are currently reviewing our policy on comments. In particular, we are reviewing our policy on anonymous comments, and comments left under pseudonyms. A meeting was held on Sunday morning, at which a number of options were discussed in detail. Our discussions will continue during the week, and a further meeting will be [...]
Comments suspended
Posted in About this site on Saturday June 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It is with regret that the blog team are temporarily suspending the facility of leaving comments. We have an emergency meeting tomorrow at which we will look at the various options.
Car-sharing via PARWICH.ORG: would you find it useful?
Posted in About this site, Transport on Thursday June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of our readers has suggested that we start up a new section on this site, dedicated to car-sharing requests. So, for example, if someone is going to Derby, Ashbourne, Bakewell, Matlock – or even further afield – they could post the information here, along with a phone number or other contact details. This would [...]
Greetings from New Zealand
Posted in About this site on Friday April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
PARWICH.ORG continues to attract readers from accross the World: Good afternoon Just wanted to tell you how delighted I was to discover your blog. I found it referred to in the Tablet, and was enchanted to read such a vibrant newsy website. I loved Sandra C’s lambs (I live in Masterton, where there are many [...]
National and international recognition for PARWICH.ORG
Posted in About this site on Monday April 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Although PARWICH.ORG is primarily written for the benefit of our local residents, we have also noticed a steady trickle of interest in our site from further afield. Over the last couple of years, more and more people have started setting up so-called “hyperlocal” community websites to cover events in their own areas, and many of [...]
PARWICH.ORG featured in The Tablet.
Posted in About this site, Church, Local Links, News on Tuesday April 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A fascinating article (“News on your doorstep”) in the current (10 April) edition of The Tablet talks about the ways that “citizen journalism” – and so-called “hyperlocal” blogs in particular – can help boost the identity of a community. The article makes special mention of PARWICH.ORG throughout, with particular reference to Andy Larkin’s recent series [...]
Diary
Posted in About this site, Events, Out & About on Tuesday March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The village diary has been updated through to December. Thank you to those groups that have sent in details for events that they are holding this year. Please do send in dates as soon as you have them, this way any potential clashes can be avoided. The diary is included in the Parish Magazine, but [...]
PARWICH.ORG hits the quarter million.
Posted in About this site on Wednesday October 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Just before 5:30 pm this afternoon, PARWICH.ORG received its 250,000th page view – which isn’t bad going, considering that we only launched the site 19 months ago. Stats buffs might like to know that in that time, we’ve published 2,203 blog posts and we’ve received almost the same number of comments: 2,158 in total. (There [...]
Downloading PDFs
Posted in About this site on Monday October 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There has been debate as to whether we should use the PDF format for information accessible through posts on the site. PDFs have the advantage that we do not need to copy and reformat the information into posts and for some contributors such as Parish Councils it ensures official information remains in the format they [...]
A busy week for PARWICH.ORG.
Posted in About this site on Thursday July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We knew that Wakes Week was going to be a busy time for PARWICH.ORG, but we didn’t quite expect such record-breaking traffic. Yesterday, there were a whopping 1790 page views on this site: a new record. And at some point during the course of today, we will reach 200,000 page views since the site began. [...]
PARWICH.ORG in Park Life
Posted in About this site, Peak Park on Thursday June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Peak District National Park Authority are taking seriously their commitment to promote community websites and community blogs in particular. An article on PARWICH.ORG and the new Alstonefield community site has already been drafted for the next issue of Park Life (due out at the start of July). Today John Fern, Head of Communications visited [...]
Our email account parwich@hotmail.co.uk
Posted in About this site on Wednesday May 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Recently someone had an email to parwich@hotmail.co.uk bounced with an error message, saying the email address was not valid. They contacted a member of the blog team directly, and we suggested they try sending it again. The second time it came through OK. This may have been an isolated incident, but do let us know [...]
Term dates for the Primary School.
Posted in About this site, School on Tuesday April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve added a permanent page to this site, which shows contact details and term dates for Primary School. (These currently stretch as far ahead as July 2010.) Click here to view the page. In the future, you’ll be able to find it in the “Elsewhere on PARWICH.ORG section” on the right hand side of this [...]
Park Life
Posted in About this site, Peak Park on Thursday April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
During the Blog Team’s meeting with representatives of the Peak Park Authority in January, they were very supportive of what we have been trying to achieve here at PARWICH.ORG and keen to promote other communities to to follow suit. Following this up, John Fern (Head of Communications for the PDNPA) is visiting Parwich this afternoon [...]
Happy birthday to us.
Posted in About this site on Monday March 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Exactly one year ago today, PARWICH.ORG was officially launched. With 1400 blog posts, 1525 comments and over 150,000 page views under our belts to date, it’s been quite a journey – and we hope you’ve enjoyed the ride so far. Thanks to all our readers – both within the Parwich/Alsop/Ballidon/Pikehall district and further afield – [...]
What do you think of the blog?
Posted in About this site on Tuesday February 24, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Dear blog readers, As many of you know, we have been blogging for nearly a year now. We went “live” to the world at large in March 2008. We tend to get about 10,000 to 15,000 hits a month with a high of 20,671 hits in December last year (when Tom Chambers was dancing his [...]
PARWICH.ORG in the Derby Evening Telegraph.
Posted in About this site, Local Links, News on Tuesday January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a nice article about us in today’s Derby Evening Telegraph: “Tom’s Strictly stint results in a record for village’s website.” Copies of the newspaper are available in the Sycamore shop. You can also click here to read the article online.
20,000+ page views in a month… good grief!
Posted in About this site on Tuesday December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to the triple-whammy of a) the Big Lottery Fund grant, b) the cheeky Advent Calendar pages and c) Tom’s Strictly Come Dancing victory, PARWICH.ORG has enjoyed a record month in terms of visitor numbers, with over 20,000 page views (and counting). This beats our previous record of just over 15,000 page views in July, [...]
Christmas Cards @ PARWICH.ORG
Posted in About this site, Project Parwich on Friday December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Click on card to find out more
Merry Christmas from PARWICH.ORG
Posted in About this site on Wednesday December 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We know it is early but this gives us an excuse to promote our Memorial Hall Project Christmas card fund raiser. Click here to see the full sized image and to find out how you can have your own Christmas cards created and put on-line by PARWICH.ORG
Ideas/suggestions for on-line fund-raising wanted
Posted in About this site, Memorial hall, Project Parwich on Friday November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Do you have any ideas? Can you help? The PARWICH.ORG team are looking to make use of the potential of our websites to encourage sponsorship of the new Memorial Hall and use the sites to generate some cash for the redevelopment. We have dabbled our toes with such as the commission on the Y-Not Festival ticket sales, Christmas Cards and [...]
Put your Christmas cards on-line
Posted in About this site, Memorial hall on Wednesday November 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Save money, save paper, save the Planet and support the Memorial Hall Project. In exchange for a moderate donation (£5 minimum) to the new Memorial Hall fund we will create solely for you a unique virtual Christmas Card. You can then email your friends and family (and any enemies) the link instead of posting them an old fashioned paper [...]
100,000 page views and counting…
Posted in About this site on Monday November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yes, it’s another milestone…. Somewhere around breakfast time on Monday November 10th, PARWICH.ORG clocked up its 100,000th page view. (The actual total is a little higher, but our stats counter disregards page views registered by members of the editorial team.) How long until we reach the million mark, one wonders?
Photographs of Parwich wanted
Posted in About this site, Parish Council, Photography on Friday October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Parwich Parish Council are developing their own web-pages to be created in conjunction with PARWICH.ORG. They would like to include photographs of the village, particularly those associated with the facilities under their umbrella such as the sports facilities, the greens and the children’s play area. Also photos including people and activities will be more interesting [...]
Do you know about pdf.s?
Posted in About this site on Friday October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some of the information you can access via PARWICH.ORG is in pdf format (e.g. the School Newsletters and Memorial Hall Management Committee minutes). This format was designed so that people can access documents in exactly the layout they were written, unaltered by the various web browsers. Also it is a quick and easy way to convert documents for the [...]
A quiet anniversary.
Posted in About this site on Tuesday September 30, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Officially speaking, PARWICH.ORG is not much more than six months old – but strictly speaking, we’re a little older than that. Exactly a year ago today, with no fanfare and no publicity, the very first test post appeared on this blog. It was a modest piece, which simply linked to a 1975 news feature on [...]
Nearly 1,000 comments
Posted in About this site on Monday September 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It is positive to see so many people adding comments. As well as approaching 80,000 hits, the number of comments so far is in the 980s. Who will make the 1,000th comment? Don’t forget the more comments you add to the site and the more new posts you email to parwich@hotmail.co.uk the more this site will [...]
Our ‘More Links’ page is updated
Posted in About this site on Wednesday September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our yet More Links page has recently been updated. It contains list of links relating to: Other Derbyshire or Peak District communities’ websites General Derbyshire and Peak District sites Midlands and National general rural living sites Do let us know about any other websites that you think we should add, particularly other Peak District community [...]
The Ashbourne Telegraph comments on PARWICH.ORG
Posted in About this site, News on Wednesday September 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The Comment section in today’s Ashbourne News Telegraph (10th Sept 2008) mentions very favourably PARWICH.ORG, so we thought our readers might like to see this in full: IF YOU haven’t already done this, and you have the necessary facilities, log on to http://parwich.org and have a good look around. Make sure you have a bit of [...]
ADMIN: commenting guidelines.
Posted in About this site on Thursday August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To all commenters: please be aware that a valid e-mail address must be supplied when leaving a comment. From this point onwards, the admin team will automatically delete any comment made using a fake e-mail address. As explained before, e-mail addresses will never be revealed to anyone outside the admin team – so please, comment [...]
Is the summer recess upon us?
Posted in About this site on Thursday July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After all the excitement of Wakes Week, we seem to be heading into something of a quiet period. For the first time since the official launch of this site (March 16th), no new posts were published yesterday, ending an unbroken 129-day run. With the holiday season now upon us, posting frequency will probably remain quite [...]
Parwich School Newsletter 39
Posted in About this site, School, Young people on Friday July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Please click on the letter to enlarge it
Online donations now accepted for Project Parwich.
Posted in About this site, Memorial hall, Project Parwich on Monday July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Before today, the only way to donate to Project Parwich was by attending an event within the village itself. For those of our readers who live elsewhere, this was obviously not always the most practical of propositions! We have therefore added a feature to this site, allowing people to make donations online. On the right [...]
Photographs page updated.
Posted in About this site, Photography on Sunday July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our photographic archive has just been updated. It now contains most of the images that have appeared on this site during the past month, as well as older images stretching back to last year. Click here to take a look – but please be patient while the thumbnail images load, as there are now nearly [...]
PARWICH.ORG tops the 1000 mark!
Posted in About this site on Thursday July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wednesday marked another milestone in the short but eventful history of PARWICH.ORG, as the site received over 1000 page views in a single day. For a community with only around 500 on its electoral roll, that’s pretty good going! Those of us on the editorial team always knew that Wakes Week would be a busy [...]
First Wakes Slide Show On-Line
Posted in About this site, Oddfellows, Photography, Wakes on Monday June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The first of our 2008 Wakes Slide Show with some of the Odd Fellows Parade photographs is now on-line; click here to go to our Slide Shows index, or click on the image below to go straight to: Slide Show No. 5: Odd Fellows Parade 2008 More to follow through the week ….. PS We [...]
Record number of hits
Posted in About this site on Monday June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We saw a record number of hits yesterday at PARWICH.ORG, with 902 page/post views, about 250 more than our previous best day! In part this is because of Wakes Week, and the fact that we have been able to get some things posted on the same day. Thank you to the Blog team and to [...]
Volunteer Reporters wanted
Posted in About this site, Events, News, Wakes on Wednesday June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
During Wakes Week we would like to put a report of each day’s events on the Blog the same day they happen or the next at the latest. Anyone wanting to or willing to cover specific events please contact us on parwich@hotmail.co.uk in advance. Also do send any photographs. Click here to access the full Official 2008 [...]
Children’s Show slide show
Posted in About this site, Events, Gardens, Photography, Young people on Tuesday June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We have a new slide show on-line with photographs of the 2008 Children’s Horticultural Show. A further show on Open Gardens will follow soon. Click here to go to our index of slide shows, or click on the photo link below to go straight to the Children’s Show photos:
Slide Shows on-line
Posted in About this site, Photography on Monday June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
At last we have got our first slide show of local photographs on-line. Click on the following to go to THE INDEX OF SLIDE SHOWS (only one available so far) or go directly to SLIDE SHOW NO.1 – GENERAL PHOTOS. As we do more slide shows we will get better at it, but in the [...]
More Jigsaws On-line – 15th June
Posted in About this site, Photography on Sunday June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Go to our JIGSAW page to see the latest puzzles. Again there is a page with more information about the ‘Jigsaw of the Week’, but the link to this page will only be activated when you have completed the puzzle. Click on the photo thumbnail for the jigsaw of the week If anyone has ideas [...]
Volunteer Photographers Wanted
Posted in About this site, Gardens, Photography on Saturday June 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If people are willing to take photographs of the Children’s Show, scarecrows and gardens on Sunday 22nd, PARWICH.ORG can make a slide show that will be accessed on-line. Send your photos to parwich@hotmail.co.uk or give them to Peter T (tel 287) on CD. No names, house names or addresses will be included, just photos. Also we [...]
More Jigsaws
Posted in About this site, Photography on Sunday June 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Go to our JIGSAW page to see the latest puzzles. Again there is a page with more information about the ‘Jigsaw of the Week’, but the link to this page will only be activated when you have completed the puzzle. If anyone has ideas for future ‘Jigsaws of the Week’ and wants to help create [...]
A call for posts.
Posted in About this site on Friday June 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It is great how so many people are commenting on posts. Hopefully the more debate the better informed we will all be, and PARWICH.ORG will be an increasingly accurate reflection of the whole community. However, don’t forget you can also create your own new posts by emailing them to parwich@hotmail.co.uk. Some excellent photos are coming [...]
Jigsaw Page Updated
Posted in About this site, Photography on Monday June 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The JIGSAW PUZZLES page has been updated after a several week gap (my apologies). With the latest jigsaw, entitled ‘Bear Stake Croft’, we have an extra twist. There is a page of background information about the orchard and its strange old name. You can get to this page by clicking on the link across the top of [...]
PARWICH.ORG receives its 500th comment.
Posted in About this site, Shop on Saturday May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our 500th comment was left on PARWICH.ORG this morning – and for anyone interested in the issues relating to the history and future of the Spar shop, it’s a must read. Our thanks to Stuart, for taking the time and trouble to leave such a detailed and informed analysis.
New improved “Photographs” page.
Posted in About this site, Photography on Thursday May 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We have just expanded our “Photographs” page to include almost all the original images that have appeared on PARWICH.ORG to date. Click here to take a look, and then click on each image to enlarge it. New images will be added to the top of the page on a fairly regular basis, so it’s worth [...]
Places to visit/Where to go
Posted in About this site, Out & About, Young people on Tuesday May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Following our previous post on Kids’ Activities, we have updated the ‘Where to go‘ guide. As well as an index of our relevant posts it now has links to lots of Peak District and surrounding area attractions, under the following headings: Houses & Gardens Museums & Industrial Sites Railways etc. Landscape, Archaeology & Ancient Monuments Caves & [...]


























