A look back on a very busy 12 months for Torrside brewing. We love seeing our own brewery at New Mills events and wish them well for the future. We did our first full-size commercial brew on 30th August 2015 – A 4.0% pale bitter called “Futureproof” We have brewed just short of 40,000L to […]
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Here is an update of events over the next few weeks: Saturday 27 August : Walk to Marple Bridge via Linnet Clough, train back from Marple Bridge. Meet at New Mills Heritage Centre at 10.30 am. Stout footwear recommended as Linnet Clough is a bit rocky Sunday 28 August : Bat Walk Meet at the
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Boss Hog I was driving down Dolly Lane earlier today and was so taken by the cow parsley on the verges that I decided to write a bit about that family of plants, the Umbellifers (think umbrella). It’s a large group of plants all with these lovely creamy white (occasionally yellow) umbels of flowers which
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It’s an odd time of year this..feels as though Winter is over but Spring hasn’t quite peeped round the corner; everything is on the point of happening. Yesterday a friend texted to say he’d been down to Waterside meadows as there were some interesting things to see. Having a wander down there (somewhere I must
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The Dipper A couple of years ago we were walking along the river… not sure which one it is…between Hathersage and Grindleford and got talking to a couple who’d come up from Sussex looking for dippers (without any luck) because you don’t get them in the south-east. I didn’t say anything but they’d have been
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On Valentines Day at 11:45am the ‘Tin Bath’ will come steaming through New Mills Central. A real spectacle to see two steam engines pulling this retro train across to Sheffield via the Hope Valley line More details here
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New Mills Helping Hands is a food bank, set up early in 2013, to help those in our local area who find themselves in times of real hardship by addressing their most basic of needs – to eat. There are many varied circumstances that cause people to contact the food bank, often they have been
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Flora and fauna : Mistles I’ve been trying to come up with some Christmassy flora and fauna facts: in the past I’ve done holly and covered ivy. Then the thought came to me that we don’t get much mistletoe growing round these parts. By coincidence we’ve currently got a couple of mistle thrushes which have
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This Sunday 1 November steaming through New Mills Central at 11:30am
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Beechboy For some reason I’ve never felt comfortable with having favourites when it comes to the natural world. It just doesn’t seem right to prefer the bullfinch to the great tit, but when it comes to trees I certainly do have preferences and my favourite for many years has been the beech.For a start its
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