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I had a go at this year’s Black Pudding Throwing Championships. And amazingly it’s a lot harder than it looks.
I queued up and paid £2 for 6 black puddings, wrapped in some black tights.
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Last week I asked the question: “Should Bridge Street be Pedestrianised?”
The results of the poll I asked last week are in and amazingly the result was:
It was very close with 58% of the vote choosing Yes, Bridge Street should be pedestrianised.
Thanks for taking part in the poll, and don’t forget the latest podcast episode is released tomorrow at 10am where interview local artist Stuart Barkley.
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Welcome to another episode of This is Rammy, the podcast for Ramsbottom, it’s events and more importantly it’s people. Glad you could join me once more. This week I’m talking about the discussions that have popped up regaring Bridge Street since it’s recent closure for emergency repairs to the gas pipes. Could Pedestrianisation of Bridge Street work?
After several weeks, Bridge Street has reopened, but did this bring with it cheers of glee and dancing in the street? Not exactly, far more references to the poor workmanship based on the patching up of the surface. The tarmac was apparently going to be resurfaced but it would seem that either they forgot or ran out of time or money or both.
I can sympathise though, as you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t. There were even some people who were calling for Bridge Street to be pedestrianised.
What do you think of the potential pedestrianisation of Bridge Street?
Would you like to see this happen?
Could it even work?
I want to start the conversation, and not just shouting back and forth about why it’s a great idea or why it’s a terrible idea, lets have some good honest debate as you’re the best one to voice it.
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If you were ever under the illusion that Ramsbottom wasn’t subject to council cuts simply take a look at the hazard on Silver Street near Princess Court.
The two pictures here were taken on Tuesday the 30th of August 2016 at around 5pm. These bushes forced me and my son to walk in the street as we were heading towards Morrison’s.
If it’s not the shoddy job that was the patching up of Bridge Street after the gas pipe upgrades or the tremendous number of ever increasing potholes; both in number and size it’s the terrible upkeep of our pavements.
I don’t know if you feel the same but I’m sick of the lack of attention our facilities receive now. I’d go out there and trim it myself if I didn’t think I’d end up with some bill or fine from the council or they’d actually expect the public to always do it.
I just wish they would pull their fingers out and put our tax money back into the services that it’s supposed to be for.
Sure, this is potentially an over-ranty post, but there is only so many times we can go on smiling and accepting that we’re paying for services that are not being provided.
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We’re just one month away from the biggest and best festival in the North West. My job this weekend is to give you a bit of background around the headline bands, and to give you a bit of a look into just what you might be able to expect this year. Also before I forget, you might recognise the artwork for this years festival as being fairly familiar, well that would be because it’s our very own local graphic designer Adam Rowlinsons handywork. Nice one Adam.
Keep in mind that these are not the full final lineups yet, there is more due to come. It’s likely a combination of dotting the i’s crossing the t’s and making sure that there is a sufficient supply of green M&M’s on the rider. So here we go, let’s jump straight into the lineup on day one as it has been presented so far.
[Read more…] about Ramsbottom Festival 2016 Preview – Episode 70