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As the days get longer and warmer, getting out of the house and enjoying our town is a must.
One of my favourite things to do with my son is simply to feed the ducks around Ramsbottom.
It’s such a simple act but to a two year old it’s a great way to get out of the house and interact with the local wildlife.
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This week I got to relive some childhood memories and got down to Arcade Club in Bury, the biggest arcade in Europe and 4th largest in the world. Did you know we had this right on our doorstep?
Andy and his team do an amazing job at keeping these old machines running, he mentioned that some of them were only ever designed to run for two years, and here they are decades later, still going strong.
One thing that shocked me about Arcade Club, was the price. In this episode you’ll actually hear an audible gasp when I realise just how long you get for the price of entry.
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This week on This is Rammy I catch up with Lisa Coulborn of Little Goody New shoes.
I interviewed Lisa for the podcast back in September before Little Goody New Shoes actually opened.
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This week for the podcast I visited the third meeting for Ramsbottom Against Fracking.
What do you know about fracking? For me personally, other then it’s been all over the news and some minor research, I’ll be honest, I didn’t know much.
Thankfully, I was recently invited to attend a Ramsbottom Against Fracking meeting. With this invitation in mind, I set off on a chilly full moonlit night on the 22nd of February, destination Lolos Vegan and Raw (the meeting location) to find out exactly what fracking is, and how it affects us.
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In the last few weeks we’ve seen the iconic chimney stack of the old Mondi Paper Mill start to be demolished. Although it will not be completely removed – just having a third of it’s current height taken off, it will still change the scenery of Ramsbottom which has remained since the mid 1800’s.
The primary reason for this is safety, having sat unused since 2008 the chimney and site have both became unsafe. In 2014 a 60 metre exclusion zone was constructed around the chimney and site to prevent accidents.
Since the chimney is changing forever, I thought I would dedicate an episode of the podcast to go into a little detail about the history of that iconic chimney.
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