Thank you to Cheryl W for this update: A big thank you to everyone who brought their cars for a wash or just donated money. Current total towards the cost of new goal posts and nets is over £300 with more still to be added in. The kids were brilliant and probably most of the [...]
Archive for the ‘Sport’ Category
Lots of very clean cars
Posted in Sport, Young people on Sunday May 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Mixed Fortunes
Posted in Sport on Saturday May 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Parwich Crown Green Bowls Club Fortunes have certainly changed dramatically in the two leagues we play in. At the start of the season we could not get a win in the Tuesday league for love nor money. Thankfully now winning a few and we did not lose in the other league. (we did not win [...]
Kids Car Wash – Sunday’s Fundraiser
Posted in Sport, Young people on Wednesday May 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Win one, lose one
Posted in Sport on Friday May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Parwich Crown Green Bowls Club What a pity more people did not turn up to see all the things available in the Village at the Parish Annual Meeting last Wednesday. Talk about conspicuous by their absence or what. Anyway we had our first Club competition last Sunday and the Open Singles cup was superbly won [...]
Social +Tennis = Tomorrow
Posted in Societies, Sport on Saturday May 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Bowls – At home this Sunday
Posted in Societies, Sport on Saturday May 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Parwich Crown Green Bowls Club Still can’t put two wins in a week together. One win one loss again. Matlock Tuesday League. Home – 8 May – Matlock Golf Club. We have broken our duck at last in this league and against a very good team. Although we shared the games two each we managed [...]
Tennis Social on Sunday
Posted in Societies, Sport on Tuesday May 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Parwich Crown Green Bowls Club
Posted in Societies, Sport on Friday May 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Not only is the weather gloomy and hit and miss, so is our bowls matches. We do need new players to try to get us kick started. One loss one draw this week. Matlock Tuesday League. Away – 1 May – Bakewell. This is getting very predictable, we lost. Having said that based on past [...]
Tennis Club Meeting Tonight
Posted in Societies, Sport on Friday May 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Tennis Club Committee Meeting Friday 4th May – 8pm start At Parwich Village Hall All Welcome
First Tennis Social of the Season
Posted in Societies, Sport on Wednesday May 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Tennis Club Meeting – Friday
Posted in Societies, Sport on Tuesday May 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Tennis Club Committee Meeting Friday 4th May – 8pm start At Parwich Village Hall All Welcome
The Win One Lose One Continues
Posted in Societies, Sport on Saturday April 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We seem to be in a bit of a ‘win one lose one’ loop at the moment and the lose one is thus far in the same league. Matlock Tuesday League - Home – 24 April – Bradwell A. We cannot seem to get going in this league. Last year we started really well and [...]
Annual Parish Meeting in May
Posted in Alsop, British Legion, Catering 4 Parwich, Events, Films, First Responders, Fit 4 All, Local government, Memorial hall, Parish Council, People, Pikehall, Pilates, Police, Pre-school, Societies, Sport, Young people on Thursday April 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Success on Friday 13th
Posted in Sport on Saturday April 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Parwich Crown Green Bowls Club So we are off and bowling, well throwing a circular thing at a smaller white thing. Thankfully as you who live here will know the snow did not last long and we have been able to play a match or two with varying success this week. Matlock Tuesday League. Home [...]
Bowling Season Underway
Posted in Sport on Friday April 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Parwich Crown Green Bowls Club First week of the new bowls season, at least we did not lose. We did not win either, the match was cancelled! Because of the vagaries of our British weather we had a dusting of the white stuff on the green. Matlock Tuesday League. Home – 10 April – Matlock [...]
Parwich Crown Green Bowls Club
Posted in Societies, Sport on Tuesday March 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Now I know you have all been champing at the bit over the winter, watching repeat after repeat on the idiot’s lantern, well now you need wait no longer to get in some gentle exercise and enjoy yourself. Yes, the bowls season is about to start. As in previous years the green will be open [...]
Tomorrow – Parwich Tennis AGM
Posted in Societies, Sport on Thursday March 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Parwich Tennis Club AGM
Posted in Societies, Sport on Wednesday March 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Rugby At The Sycamore
Posted in Pub, Sport on Saturday February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Zumba
Posted in Memorial hall, Sport on Thursday February 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Sadly we’ve just had the last Zumba class for the moment. Numbers have dropped to the point where the class is not viable for Lizzie. I am really sorry about this as I have enjoyed it so much. I am absolutely no good at dancing but it has been such a privilege to learn dance [...]
Zumba!
Posted in Memorial hall, Sport on Saturday January 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Sue P writes: Classes have started up again. We are learning some new routines, one based on the salsa which is fantastic fun. If you haven’t been before you won’t be at a disadvantage, so do come along to have fun whilst working out. The classes are on Wednesday afternoon starting at 1.30pm
Zumba Cancelled
Posted in Memorial hall, Sport on Wednesday January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Zumba classes start again on Wednesday at 1.30pm in the Memorial Hall, hope to see everyone there again. Sue P Sorry, today’s class has been cancelled due to illness – join us next week instead.
Tonight – Get fit in 2012
Posted in Memorial hall, Sport on Thursday January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Circuit Training begins again tonight Why not get fit in 2012 all levels of fitness are welcome as you work at your own pace Parwich Memorial Hall – Thursdays 18:00 – 18:55 Get FREE entry into any reMARKable U Circuit Training class when it’s your first time. Try it out for FREE then £4.00 entry [...]
Parwich Ladies Football Team, 1960
Posted in History, People, Sport on Wednesday January 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Derby Telegraph recently published this photo of the Parwich Ladies Football team in 1960 (click to enlarge). On the back row, from left: Christine Weston, Shirley Gibbs, Jean Calladine, Brenda Brownlee, Mary Edge, Hazel Calladine, Veronica Twigge. On the front row: Maud Evans, Evelyn Chadwick, Carol Allen, Phyllis Allsop. The “Little Sealed Packages” blog [...]
Circuit Training – Thursday Nights
Posted in Memorial hall, Sport on Sunday January 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Circuit Training begins again on Thursday Why not get fitter in 2012 all levels of fitness are welcome as you work at your own pace Parwich Memorial Hall – Thursdays 18:00 – 18:55 Get FREE entry into any reMARKable U Circuit Training class when it’s your first time. Try it out for FREE then £4.00 entry [...]
Hill Race Trophy – do you know where it is?
Posted in Sport on Thursday December 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Graham Johnson has received an email from Paul Mannion, who was the 2010 winner of the Parwich Hill Race. Paul says: I was just wondering if you could help me with something, or at least point me in the right direction? I was at a race over at the Roaches today and was talking to [...]
Christmas Darts Knockout
Posted in Events, Pub, Sport on Thursday December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Christmas Darts Knockout
Posted in Events, Pub, Sport on Wednesday November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Zumba Classes start on Wednesday
Posted in Memorial hall, Sport on Saturday October 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sport Relief 2012 – a chance to be involved
Posted in Events, School, Sport on Friday October 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hi, I’m contacting you with a cheeky plea for help/request for info from Comic Relief – I hope you don’t mind! Comic Relief would love to get Parwich involved in Sport Relief 2012 but I’m not sure who in your village would be able to help me do this. From experience recreation committees or sports [...]
Parwich Bowls Club
Posted in Sport on Saturday September 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week of the season. A good season all round considering the membership we have. Two great wins to finish off. Tuesday League 6 September – Home – Whitworth Park. We managed to win all four games in the match. One very convincingly, one by just one point. The result was 84 to Parwich 60 [...]
Ashbourne Half Marathon & Fun Run
Posted in Sport on Saturday September 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday 11th September – 10.30am The Ashbourne Half has been running for 17 years, it is a challenging course. The race starts at the east of the town and the runners run south and steadily uphill for a mile before turning west on a level road behind the town for a further mile. They then [...]
Parwich Strongest Man 2011 Results
Posted in Previous posts, Sport on Sunday September 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
As a number of people have already said, what a great day! Many thanks to Rob, Shaun, Tracy and the many others who organised the event. Although the change of date and venue forced by problems with insurance resulted in fewer competitors than last year, those who stepped up produced a close fought competition. With [...]
Parwich Bowls Club
Posted in Societies, Sport on Friday September 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Two losses this week, however, if a team can have a ‘good’ loss then we had one this week! Tuesday League – 30 August – Away – Hathersage As said on previous occasions this is a cracking venue. It’s a pity that they have such a good bowls team! They are second in the league [...]
Parwich Bowls Club update
Posted in Sport on Friday August 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We have been having a fair amount of success of late. This week we had mixed fortunes: winning one match, but losing the other. Tuesday league. 23 August – Away – Bakewell. Bakewell were ahead of us in the league and we always do not play well on their green. The green is long and [...]
Parwich Bowls Club
Posted in Sport on Saturday August 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We have had a different couple of bowling weeks. Each year the Thursday League stops the normal league games and takes part in the Greenaway Charity Tournament. Parwich has had quite a lot of success in the match over recent years. Last year a member managed to win the ‘plate’ competition. This year we did [...]
Parwich Bowls Club
Posted in Sport on Saturday August 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thankfully we have had a change in fortune in one of the leagues we play in and in the other, although we lost, we tried very hard. Tuesday League - 2 August – Home – Matlock Bath After struggling for a few weeks in this league we finally managed to win, and what an emphatic win [...]
PP5, before, after & prize giving
Posted in Parwich Panoramic 5, Photography, Previous posts, Pub, Sport, Young people on Wednesday August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This was the third Parwich Panoramic Five Fell Race (PP5) with the best turnout so far, 112 runners. There were 24 clubs represented and 34 non affiliated runners. The overall winner was Chris Nicoll from Derby Tri Club and he just missed the course record by 37 seconds. 28 ladies ran, with the leading lady, Jo Bednall coming [...]
Yet more photos
Posted in Parwich Panoramic 5, Previous posts, Sport on Wednesday August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here are yet more photos from last night’s Panoramic Five race, most were taken as the runners neared the finish:
Junior Races
Posted in Parwich Panoramic 5, Previous posts, Sport, Young people on Wednesday August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A few photos from last night’s Junior Races: Sorry there are so few, but I was marshalling in a bad spot to get photos.


