New Mills moves another step nearer self sufficiency… well we can dream can’t we! New Mills Schools Solar PV panels have finally been installed at New Mills School. Electricity generation started on Sunday 18th September from a 21kW array on the Maths and Swinburn Buildings. In late 2012 the PTA launched the Solar Schools Project at […]
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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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Saturday 30th April for a very early 5:30am start to hear the dawn chorus. Meet at New Mills Heritage Centre event details
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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A range of businesses including shops and cafes have joined the Derbyshire ‘Safe Place Scheme’ They offer their premises as temporary safe environments where adults with learning disabilities can go if they find themselves in difficulty while out and about, for example if they feel scared, unwell or are lost. Some GP surgeries and
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In the late 18th century, the boundary between the counties of Derbyshire and Cheshire largely followed the course of the river Goyt through New Mills. The area know today as Newtown was then a wholly rural area of wooded slopes and pasture leading down to the river Goyt, known as Warksmoor (now spelt Wirksmoor). It
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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