Those of us in Parwich still using an old fashioned aerial have lost BBC 1. It went off early evening yesterday and at the time of writing this it was still off air. The BBC are aware of this and have someone working on the transmitter fault at present. They hope to rectify it soon. (Back on at about 4-30pm today.)
If you want to report any transmitter faults go to the UK Broadcast Transmission website for the contact details for each channel.
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Thank you to Parwich Parish Council for passing on the following notice:
Hartington Surgery Patients Group
20th Annual General Meeting
will be held on
Monday 9th November 2009 at 7-30pm
at the Surgery, Dig Street, Hartington
all patients welcome
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A fun evening (photo by John FS)
Added on the 6th Nov: Enigma solved + more photos
The picture below will put Kevin out of his misery. Continue Reading »
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There is a great article on Simon’s retirement in today’s Derby Evening Telegraph (click here to see a shortened version of the article on the paper’s website). The paper also includes a very good photo of Simon, which unfortunately is not on their site.
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Just to let you know that my Mum had secretly entered my Dad (Don Keyworth) for BGT and they’ve heard this morning that he’s got an audition at the NEC in Birmingham on15th Dec!!
Best regards,
Cheryl
Best wishes to Don at the NEC next month from all of us here at PARWICH.ORG! Hopefully he will get through to a stage when we can all vote for him.
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The Parwich Bonfire is tonight on the usual field off the Alsop Lane:
7pm Bonfire
7-30pm Fireworks
Bonfire Night celebrates the thwarting of the Catholic Gunpowder Plot aimed at blowing up the Protestant King James I at the State opening of Parliament. On the 5th of November 1605 Gut Fawkes was captured in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament with a considerable quantity of gun powder.
Tradition has it that one of the plotters hid at Manor Farm in Alsop-en-le-Dale. Continue Reading »
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A message from Debbie Webster: “I know that I can borrow the old memorial hall table and chairs from Val or Janet, but where are the plates/cutlery/etc because I need to borrow those as well. Thanks! Debbie”
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Congratulations to Emily P who came first in the Girls Under 8s on Sunday. Well done, Emily – your work in the Hill Race and the Parwich Panoramic Five is showing results.
We would be pleased to hear from any of our local participants wanting to share their experiences of the event.
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Our sympathies to the family and friends of Lionel Webster who died suddenly aged only 61 years on Monday 26th of October. Many will know him through his jeweller’s shop on the Market Place in Ashbourne, where for several decades a reliable traditional service was provided with a smile.
Although living near Buxton his roots were here in Parwich. He spent his childhood at Church Farm, where his family moved after leaving the Sycamore Inn in 1903, obviously well before Lionel was born.
Outside his busy professional life, he was president of the Leek and District Football League.
Staffordshire Police say:
Just before 7pm on Monday 26 October officers were called to a home in Barlaston. Paramedics were already in attendance but, despite their efforts, a man was pronounced dead at the scene.
At this time, the man’s death is being treated as unexplained and officers are making further inquiries about the circumstances surrounding the death.
The deceased has now been formally identified as Lionel Webster, 61.
A 67-year-old woman and a 74-year-old man, both from the Barlaston area, were arrested in connection with the incident. They have both been bailed, pending further inquiries, until early December.
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It is that time of week again with the latest edition of the News Telegraph now available on-line and at the Shop in the Sycamore Inn.
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A single Peugeot car key was found on the driveway of Church View. If it is yours please ring Amanda on 344.
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The drilling team hope to finish their work by early to mid next week. Today the first hole has reached a depth of 80 metres, only another 20 to go. If you have not seen the two men drilling, it is a filthy job. Water goes in as they drill and as the drill powers down, spray goes everywhere! For a full explanation about ground source heat pumps click here.
Until this week, we have been extremely fortunate with the weather, but the puddles in this photo taken yesterday show the rain that had fallen, this doesn’t include today’s deluge.
Martin C has sent in a video of the drilling – what a drenching!!
Martin has created his own “channel” at YouTube and by clicking here you can view thumbnails of all his videos. By using the icons just below the video clip you can alter the volume and watch in full screen size.
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Hopefully this is only the first in a series of posts letting us know something more about the people behind the names on the War Memorial in St. Peter’s Churchyard.
(Jack) Brunskill Lowes (1912 to 1944)
Thank you to Alan for sharing this information on his father who died on active service on the India Burma boarder during the Second World War.
Jack Lowes was born in 1912 and spent his early childhood in Workington on the Cumbria coast. His father apparently abandoned the family, resulting in his mother putting her three children into the workhouse. Jack was aged 11years, his brother Thomas aged 9 years and their sister Elizabeth aged 3 years. Elizabeth died of pneumonia within three weeks of admission to the workhouse.
Jack and his brother were moved to an orphanage near by where he remained until aged 14 years, when he was sent to be a farm labourer.
Obviously Jack had his sights on the wider world and aged only 16 years he joined the Lancashire Fusiliers. Continue Reading »
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Click on the image of the cover to see the November Group Magazine for the parishes of Alsop, Fenny Bentley, Parwich, Thorpe and Tissington. Don’t forget paper copies can be bought in each of the five Churches or you can arrange to have it delivered.
The editorial on Remembrance Day by Faith Hanson is particularly worth reading.
Also note there are now film showings at Tissington village hall, with the Curious Case of Benjamin Button showing at 7-30pm Friday 20th November (Tickets available in advance from The Bluebell Inn or Tissington Tea Rooms or you may pay on the door).
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Parwich Parish Council are meeting tonight (Tuesday 3rd November) at the Pavilion on Parson’s Croft. The public can address the Council at the start of the meeting and can attend, but not participate in, the remainder of the meeting.
To see the agenda click here, and to see the unapproved minutes of the previous meeting click here (these minutes will be approved or amended as appropriate on Tuesday).
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This week, drilling begins for the installation of the Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP) for the new Memorial Hall. Without wishing to bore you (sorry) with too much technical information about GSHPs (and I could, I really could), I thought this would be a good time to provide a little background about what they are and what they do.
The new hall has been designed to maximise energy efficiency. To this end, renewable energy will be used, as opposed to burning fossil fuels such as coal or oil. The GSHP provides a way of heating the hall by making use of the renewable energy stored in the ground. As such, it is now regarded as one of the most energy efficient ways to heat buildings.
So how does it work? A GSHP works a bit like a fridge, but in reverse. If you hold your hand at the back of your fridge, you will feel heat coming out. That is because the fridge is effectively pumping heat from inside the fridge to the outside air, thereby making the inside of the fridge cold. A GSHP works by pumping heat that is stored in the ground into the water pipes of the building’s heating system.
In order to do this, pipes are sunk deep into the ground, usually up to 100 metres down – hence the drilling this week. When the system is completed and operational, water is circulated through these pipes to extract heat from deep underground. which is then used to heat the hall.
GHSPs provide constant heat to a building with low running costs. An oil-fired boiler would cost considerably more to run, and electric heating would be at least three times as expensive.
There are no hazardous gas emissions, no flammable oil, LPG or gas pipes, no flue or chimney and no unsightly fuel tanks. GSHP systems have absolutely no site emissions. There is no need for regular servicing or annual safety checks and maintenance is very low.
For these reasons, GSHPs are becoming increasingly popular within the Peak Park. Over Haddon’s new village hall will use a GSHP for its heating, for example. The Peak Park has also installed GSHPs in the new Moorland Centre in Edale, the new cycle hire centre at Parsley Hay, and at the Bushy Heath Farm training barn in Tideswell.
Our GSHP has been financed by a generous grant from the Peak District National Park Authority Sustainable Development Fund.
Click here to see photos and video footage of the work actually taking place in Parwich.
– Kevin S.
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What’s on Where this Week |
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| Date | Time | Event | Location |
| Tuesday | 7.30pm | Council Meeting | The Pavilion |
| Wednesday | 6pm & 7.15pm | Pilates | Parwich School |
| Thursday | 7pm | Bonfire Night 7pm – Bonfire Lit 7.30pm – Fireworks |
Usual field on Alsop Road |
| Friday | 7.30pm | Horticultural Society AGM & Social Evening |
Parwich Church |
| Sunday | 10.15am | Remembrance Day St Peter’s & Parwich Methodist Joint Service |
Parwich Church |
| Sunday | 10.45am | Remembrance Day Service | Alsop Church |
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Last weeks readings:
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Rainfall in mm |
Pressure in Mb am |
Pressure in Mb pm |
Temperature in ºC |
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Max |
Min |
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Sun 25th |
0 |
1003.1 |
1007.9 |
15.4 |
10.2 |
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Mon 26th |
0 |
1010.2 |
1013.7 |
13.4 |
10.2 |
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Tue 27th |
1 |
1013.9 |
1013.4 |
14.6 |
8.4 |
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Wed 28th |
0 |
1012.6 |
1014.7 |
18.2 |
9.7 |
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Thu 29th |
0 |
1016.6 |
1018.3 |
14.6 |
6.0 |
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Fri 30th |
0 |
1017.4 |
1016.5 |
13.8 |
9.9 |
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Sat 31st |
3 |
1015.1 |
1016.2 |
14.5 |
10.5 |
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Total |
4 |
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Average |
14.9 |
9.3 |
A week ago the MET were forcasting an Indian Summer and now they seem to be talking of Monsoons. However for a more rational comment we can turn to our Weatherman on the Hill, who says “Bonfire Night, forecast is good Dry & Clear“.
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I need some catalogues with photos of children’s toys covering from babies to 10 year olds – i.e. Argo, Mothercare etc. It is for teaching this week and the children will be cutting out pictures. If you can help can you ring me. Thanks Jane 665.
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Through the swirling mists emerged a figure, a friendly witch ready to welcome all the vampires and ghosts to her haunted home. Fearsome spiders and their webs dance over the ghoulish gate illuminated by the witches pumpkin.
Then THEY arrived!! (Lots of scary pics) Continue Reading »
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The annual subscriptions of £2 for Parwich & District Horticultural Society are now due. This is still a fantastic bargain, for only £2 you get:
Either give your subs to the Teasurer Ben Bennett or bring them along to our Annual General Meeting at 7-30pm Friday 6th of November in Parwich Church.
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Derbyshire County Council are holding a public meeting about the B5056 closure at 7pm on Tuesday 17th November at Tissington Village Hall. Our Councillor, Simon Spencer, will be at the meeting. We will post any further details as they become available.
If you have anything you want us to pass on to the County Council before the meeting or are unable to attend and have points you want raising, please add comments below. Alternatively those of us in Parwich Parish can pass our thoughts on to the Parish Council for next week’s meeting, either by emailing ppccl@fsmail.net or attending the public session at the start of the meeting.
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The next Parish Council meeting is on Tuesday 3rd November at the Pavilion on Parson’s Croft. The public can address the Council at the start of the meeting and can attend, but not participate in, the remainder of the meeting.
To see the agenda click here, and to see the unapproved minutes of the previous meeting click here (these minutes will be approved or amended as appropriate on Tuesday).
At the Parish Council Liaison meeting attended last week we were verbally told that the open meeting regarding the B5056 is planned for Tuesday 17 November 2009 at Tissington but have not yet received anything confirming these details yet.
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It is great that people are willing to share their local photos. Indeed our photo archive pages are our most viewed pages, so including these photos is our most popular feature.
We have some valued regular contributors and some one-off contributors such as the post below. We are happy to get photos from both.
We can be fairly flexible with the format and file size, but for the best results, when the photos are viewed in full screen, please send in images 800 or more pixels wide. We can always make them smaller, but we can’t make them larger.
Although it is partly inevitable because of the larger Parwich population, we tend to get photos with a Parwich bias, so we would also welcome any of Alsop, Ballidon and Pikehall and the surrounding countryside.
Keep those photos coming.
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Thank you to the person who sent in these great photos, but modestly requested we did not publish their name:
I enjoyed a lovely walk round Parwich last Friday and thought you might like to share some of the photos I took. I think you are so fortunate to live in such a pretty village and have such a supportive community.
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This week The Stunner seemed rather thin and there is certainly not much to report about Parwich. As always you can buy the Ashbourne News Telegraph in the pub or view it online.
p2. Bid to build brand loyalty in Ashbourne – Ashbourne needs to showcase its most renowned assets and adopt a clear-cut identity to maximise the town’s marketing potential.
p3. Roadworks in and around Ashbourne – Resurfacing around Brailsford from Monday 2nd November for a month between 9.15am & 4.30pm. More resurfacing in Clifton Road between the A52 roundabout and the mini roundabout on Station Road, road closures will happen in the New Year, but we will update you nearer the time. Replacement of the pavement in Cockyane Avenue should already have begun.
p6. Plan to fight winters worst – We needn’t worry about ungritted roads this winter, Derbyshire County Council have it all in hand, they’ve drafted in high tech monitoring equipment, problem solved!!
p39. Darts – Parwich Legion lost to the White Hart 6:3, but T Edge did get a 98 double start for the Parwich Legion who are 7th out of 10 in Division 4.
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This week, week 5, has seen the completetion of the footings with the steel bolts in place ready for the main steel structure. Tomorrow a specialist company will start drilling 3 bore holes approximately 100 metres deep for the ground source heat pump, which will then heat the new hall. The Marshalls have completed the new substation and what a great job they have done.
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Update from your Safer Neighbourhood Officer
November, 2009
Since the 22 September there has not been a great deal to report on the area. On the 5 October an isolated building at a company on Alsop Road Parwich had an attempted entry, nothing was taken all contents remained intact. Later in the month on the 19 October several rocks were taken from a wall at Newton Grange, still under investigation.
Sometime between 3.45pm, on Thursday 22nd October and 8 am on Friday 23rd October 2009, an orange flashing beacon has been taken from the edge of the FitzHerbert Primary School Car Park, on School Close, Fenny Bentley. The beacon was there to help people clearly see the edge of the ongoing building works, and was on hire. The school will still have to cover the cost of its loss. If anyone has any idea as to its whereabouts please let me, or the school, know. If it simply reappears it would be a big help. Continue Reading »
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Our thanks to Martin C for these four superb videos – more of which can be found, in their full widescreen glory, on Martin’s YouTube channel.
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In the build up to Waterloo Road, Tom Chambers has had a number of TV appearances, including this interview on yesterday’s Paul O’Grady Show:
Tom is also due to appear on tomorrow morning’s BBC Breakfast TV (Wednesday 28th Oct), and Continue Reading »
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This is probably not relevant to our area unless the new owners of Bradbourne Mill have any ideas, however someone might be interested in the workshop next month on small scale hydroelectric schemes.
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It is good to hear about the successes of former residents, and the Rev Christopher Harrison must be very proud of his son, Peter, gaining a scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge. Well done!
Peter has been awarded the organ scholarship at Clare, to begin next autumn. He will be reading maths and physics alongside this.
It was of course very useful, in previous years, having a village church with a freely accessible organ on which Peter could practise, and he played for services on several occasions both at Parwich and other churches in the group. He also received a good training in church music by being in the choir at St Oswald’s church, Ashbourne.
Over the past four years at Winchester he has been taught by Malcolm Archer, who was previously director of music at St Paul’s Cathedral, and also by Paul Provost, who was organ scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge. In Nottingham Peter now plays for some services at St Mary’s, and also sometimes sings in St Mary’s choir.
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