Here are all the pictures from today’s Tissington Well Dressing Children’s Day, the first time there has been such a day in the history of the wells. It was attended by the children from FitzHerbert and Parwich Primary schools. The event was jointly organised by the Peak Five churches and Ashbourne Methodist Circuit.
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Children’s Event at Tissington
Posted in Church, School, Well dressing on Monday May 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Tissington Well Dressings – All Finished
Posted in Well dressing on Friday May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Well Dressings continue until next Wednesday, teas are available at the Village Hall, Stable Tearooms and Bassett Wood Farm. It costs £2 per car to park and entry is free, there are donation boxes at the wells. Hands Well Walking around Tissington, past the sweet shop, the newly reburbished Methodist Church, which is almost [...]
Tissington Well Dressings 2012 – Day 2
Posted in Well dressing on Tuesday May 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
It was a pleasant surprise to wake up to sun this morning, a bit of warmth on the barn will be extremely welcome, clearly they made a mistake on last night’s TV weather forecast suggesting that snow and hail may fall. Everyone was hard at work when I arrived at the Carr’s barn at 9.45am. [...]
Tissington Well Dressing 2012
Posted in Well dressing on Monday May 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Another year has passed and it’s Well Dressing time. Every year I whinge about how cold it is in the barn but maybe because of the awful weather that we have had this spring I am becoming accustomed to it. However it is still true that it is actually warmer outside than in. I wrapped [...]
Tissington Well Dressings + a New Tea Room
Posted in Eating Out, Well dressing on Friday May 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For anyone going to the Tissington Well Dressings, there is a lovely new tea room opened at Basset Wood Farm. My good friend Sarah Allen has recently done the place up, and will be dishing up delicious bakery delights and cups of tea – well worth a visit! I know that Parwich.org readers LOVE a [...]
New Well Dressing Video – Premiere Night
Posted in Well dressing on Tuesday April 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
St Mary’s Church, Tissington is delighted to invite you to the premier of the Tissington 2011 Well Dressing Video which was filmed last year by Douglas. The Video will be shown by Douglas at St Mary’s Church on Tuesday April 17th at 8pm. Light refreshment will be served afterwards. All donations from the evening will [...]
Tissington Well Dressing – Photo Gallery 2011 – 2
Posted in Photography, Previous posts, Well dressing on Friday June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tissington Well Dressings – Photo Gallery 2011 – 1
Posted in Photography, Previous posts, Well dressing on Friday June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Coffin Well – Tissington Well Dressings
Posted in Photography, Previous posts, Well dressing on Wednesday June 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Coffin Well work at the other end of the barn from Yew Tree Well. This year Diane has designed her well as Noah’s Ark. The pictures show a selection of animals, including otters, pandas, butterflies, tortoise, penguin and giraffe. Yew Tree Well photos
Well Dressings, Tissington – Day 3
Posted in Photography, Previous posts, Well dressing on Wednesday June 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We work in a barn, which is cold. This year we shared the venue with 18 piglets and two sows. Some of the youngsters, James and Catherine Carr and school friend Jada. I even brought family over from America to lend a hand: Judy from North Carolina. Today is the final day and we concentrated [...]
Well Dressings, Tissington – Day 2
Posted in Photography, Previous posts, Well dressing on Tuesday May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This morning we had plenty of volunteers working on the design, some carried on the positioning of the camomile heads, which has meant we are well ahead of ourselves. Today sees the start of the main board. Margaret has drawn the picture onto paper and then Helen transfers the design onto the clay. Helen and [...]
Well Dressings, Tissington 2011 – Day 1
Posted in Photography, Previous posts, Well dressing on Monday May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The design is drawn onto paper, pricked out and then outlined with a metal pointer on the clay, so it is easy for us to see where to outline in coffee beans and black knobs. The coffee beans are always positioned with the rounded edge facing outwards. This year we had to outline more in [...]
Tissington Well Dressings
Posted in Arts, Events, Well dressing on Tuesday May 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow is your final chance to visit the wells, JF-S has put together this collage to give you a taster. Click to enlarge
Tissington Well Dressings 2009 – photo gallery.
Posted in Photography, Well dressing on Monday May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our thanks to John F-S, Kevin S and Ben B for supplying these images – and do pay particular attention to the “Samson” well, as Parwich’s very own Jane B had a hand in its construction! Jane’s well dressing diary posts can be found here, here and here. Please click each image to enlarge it.
Tissington Well Dressings – Day 3
Posted in Well dressing on Wednesday May 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today is the day when each Well has to be finished ready for the 6pm setting up. From lunchtime on Day 2 and throughout Day 3 this is probably the most satisfying and varied part of the dressing, as we are now placing different coloured petals to create the side pieces, which will complement the central [...]
Tissington Well Dressings – A family affair
Posted in Well dressing on Tuesday May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yew Tree Well, the Well Dressing that I help out on is a real family affair. The centre of operations is in a barn behind a couple of large farmhouses where 4 generations of the Carr family live, in fact they have been in Tissington for exactly 99 years. Christopher Carr helped out on this well as [...]
Tissington Well Dressings – Day 1
Posted in Well dressing on Monday May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well (sorry for the pun), but it is that time of the year again, the Tissington Well Dressings. The date for the opening of the Dressings falls on Ascension Day, this year Thursday 21st May. However, since I got involved, only my third year, the real marker is when the weather deteriorates and it gets [...]
Tissington Well Dressings next week
Posted in Well dressing on Thursday May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Make sure you set aside time to go across to Tissington for the Well Dressings, which start on Ascension Day: Ascension Day Thursday 21st May 2009 the Well Dressings start with 11 am service at St Mary’s Tissington, including the blessing of the wells and can be visited up to Wednesday 27th May Look out [...]
Relaxing end to my diary
Posted in Events, Out & About, People, Well dressing on Sunday May 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday for me was the finale of the Well Dressing. We went over for the afternoon to Tissington with 4 friends. It was good to see the carpark busy & was being very expertly manned by Debbie & Trevor – no cars crashed on their watch. We started at Hands well, which had the same [...]
The Blessing of the Wells goes international
Posted in Church, Events, Out & About, Well dressing on Saturday May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At the well dressing service last week we had the good fortune to have the Bishop of Yei, in southern Sudan, the Rt. Rev’d Hilary Adeba, as one of our speakers. Following the sermon given by the Bishop of Repton, the Rt. Rev’d Humphrey Southern, Bishop Hilary gave some deeply moving remarks about how scarce [...]
Day 5 at Tissington
Posted in Events, Out & About, People, Well dressing on Thursday May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have to be honest I was working today so couldn’t make the service at Tissington. The church was full and people had to stand outside to listen to the Ascension Day service. Afterwards led by the Bishop everyone proceeded around the wells where a hymn was sung & the wells blessed. There was a [...]
Which well was mine?
Posted in Events, People, Well dressing, Young people on Thursday May 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Over the last 4 days I have given you clues and even partial pictures, so can you now identify the well dressing that I helped to create? Can you also spot this well dressing, created by the children. What is this a picture of (and I don’t mean the finger on the left handside)? Remember [...]
Hail – a near disaster
Posted in Events, Out & About, People, Well dressing on Wednesday April 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Day 4, everything has to be finished and part of the team worked until 11pm last night, rumour has it that the bottle of port helped! This morning I just concentrated on the background, thousands of camomile heads. The photo below shows the use of various leaves to form part of the hills in the [...]
Tissington Day 3
Posted in Events, Out & About, Well dressing on Tuesday April 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The sun was shining this morning so the great debate was how many layers of clothes do I need to wear whilst working in a cow shed? The answer – as many as possible – thermal long johns, two long sleeved thermal vests & two sweatshirts – I had no intention of being cold. Today [...]
Black Knobbing a patient procedure!
Posted in Events, Out & About, People, Well dressing on Monday April 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This blog is not X-rated, but merely a new word that I learnt whilst working at Tissington today. This was the first morning of really getting our hands dirty. The designs for the Well Dressing had been marked on the clay & now we had to outline everything in either tiny coffee beans, which are [...]
Tissington Well Dressings – Day 1.
Posted in Events, History, Out & About, People, Well dressing on Sunday April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over the next few days I am going to be posting a “Diary of Tissington Well Dressings”. In 2007 I was fortunate enough to be invited to join one of the Well Dressing teams, either they are desperate or I did a reasonable job last year because I am joining them again. The Tissington Well [...]
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