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Ramsbottom clearing up at Manchester Food and Drink Awards 2016

October 11, 2016 by Lee 3 Comments

It’s not that rare an occasion to hear that Ramsbottom has won an award for it’s fantastic local food and drink establishments. What is rare however is that you get two of our eateries winning awards on the same night.

On a cold crisp October evening both Levanter Fine Foods and The Eagle and Child walked away with prizes from this year’s Manchester Food and Drink Awards.

The Eagle and Child winning Food Pub of the Year.

Source: https://twitter.com/thevainphotos/status/785600611576348673

As well as Levanter leaving with Neighbourhood Restaurant of the Year.

Source: https://twitter.com/thevainphotos/status/785603976574164992

We all know just how much effort all the team behind The Eagle and Child and Levanter Fine Foods put in day in, day out. It’s fantastic news to hear that this is being recognised yet again with these two brilliant awards.

Congratulations! I’m proud that you are out there representing Ramsbottom.

Levanter Fine Foods

Eagle and Child

The Rake Hill Climb Results 2016 – Episode 76

October 10, 2016 by Lee 1 Comment

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This weekend I headed over to The Rake for The Rake Hill Climb, took a walk through Tagg Wood and could finally celebrate a win for Ramsbottom United.

I managed to do about an hour or so of Facebook Live footage of The Rake Hill climb today, that’s still available on the This is Rammy pages:

Rake Hill Climb 2016 Live Footage

Rake Hill Climb Awards Ceremony

It was quite a long day, took around 3 or so hours from the start of the race for the last cyclist to cross the finish line, number 120. I forget his name but Ian tells me he’s the pro.

Speaking of Ian, I managed to catch up with him to find how his ride went.

Questions raised over the quality of Bridge Street repairs? – Episode 75

October 4, 2016 by Lee Leave a Comment

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worn, bright, yellow, wide and narrow

Bury Times reports that Councillor Hodgkinson spoke up at a recent council meeting with regards to the condition of Bridge Street.

Speaking for Ramsbottom, Councillor Robert Hodgkinson raised the subject of the double yellow lines on Bridge Street since recent repairs:

The recent work carried out at the top of Bridge Street included reinstating the missing yellow lines. It was not done in accordance with our conservation policy.

We now have a patchwork of missing, worn, bright, yellow, wide and narrow lines.

The Rake Hill Climb 2016 – Episode 74

September 28, 2016 by Lee 3 Comments

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It’s that time of year again where damn fools try their best to get to the top of a big hill in as fast a time as possible. You’ve guessed it, it’s the Rake Hill Climb.

This week I caught up with Lancashire Road Club press officer Ian McKinley to find out a bit more about the race and their involvement with it.

The Rake Hill Climb takes place each year, this year will be the 87th event of which originally started out to simply see how far up The Rake you could get without falling off. However once people started to do this more and more, it was turned into an actual race.

My review of the North Manchester Custom and Classic Bike Show 2016

September 26, 2016 by Lee Leave a Comment

If you were to think of a biker having fun, you probably would think of the image above, or something close to that. I know that’s what I used to think, until I visited the North Manchester Custom and Classic Bike Show.

The show is held every year in Ramsbottom at the Cricket Club down by the River Irwell.

It should be of no surprise that this takes place soon after Ramsbottom Festival is held; this too being at the cricket club.

No doubt the fear of damaged pitches is considerably reduced if it’s already not looking its best following the festival.

This year was the second time I’d attended the show, last year being the first and I only went to it because my son, who was then 2 loved bikes. He still loves bikes now, but was more interested in the bouncy castle this time, although I don’t actually recall a bouncy castle last year.