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A brief history of Ramsbottom Paper Mill – Episode 49

February 21, 2016 by Lee 5 Comments

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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.

Local Singer/Songwriter Jennifer Hardy – Episode 48

February 14, 2016 by Lee Leave a Comment

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Originally hailing from Derry in Ireland, Jennifer Hardy has moved around quite a bit. Having lived in places such as San Francisco, Sydney, Perth and Edinburgh. She has now been living in Ramsbottom since 2015 and is loving it – especially the eating out part in places like Levanter.

In 2009 Jennifer was even a finalist in the Red Stripe Music Awards.

In 2013 Blackened Eyes, Jennifer’s debut album was released.

Jennifer is currently working on her follow up to Blackened Eyes and planning a UK tour, but you don’t need to wait! You can hear her support Fred’s House on Wednesday the 17th of February, so when this is released, just three days!

Something fishy in Nuttall Park – Episode 46

January 31, 2016 by Lee

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Welcome to another episode of This is Rammy, this week we’ve had more dodgy weather with another storm coming in and battering the North West, this time it was storm Gertrude. I was out on Saturday and saw the fishmonger on Ramsbottom Market having a tough time of it in the wind with their signs blowing all over the place.

There’s just very little you can do to secure them in such strong winds. As well as the strong wind we’ve had downpours of hail and thunder and lightning.

You can’t say we don’t have some dramatic weather up here in Ramsbottom, storm chasers need not look very far.

AD Plant has never been “appealing” – Episode 45

January 24, 2016 by Lee

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Welcome to another episode of This is Rammy, your podcast for Ramsbottom and the surrounding area, but generally Ramsbottom.

I hope you’ve had a great week, we’ve had some strange weather again, a cold start to the week with Snow last sunday and subzero temperatures followed by a week of mild weather and rain. I won’t claim to understand it, but it’s strange is all I know.

This week has seen a couple of news stories regarding our favourite town.

Do you want to build a snowman? – Episode 44

January 17, 2016 by Lee

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Welcome to another episode of This is Rammy, you might be aware I’ve been feeling pretty crappy this week as I’ve been struck down again with flu.

We’ve been fortunate enough to have had another week of being visited by the Flying Scotsman and I know that some of you listening have been lucky enough to even go on it, Anne Lockett and Christine Gillies to name just two.

If you took a trip on the famous Flying Scotsman, I hope you had a truly magical time.

As of when I’m recording this, which is just before midnight on Saturday the 16th of January, we have snow. There is currently around 3-4 inches on the ground, and it’s still snowing, only lightly, but snowing all the same.

If you don’t need to drive anywhere today, don’t, even though roads have been gritted, well at least my road has been, they can still be icy so please take care.

I know I’ll be out today with my son, freezing and still ill, but it’s worth being pelted by snowballs to see the enjoyment on their face, then snuggling up under a blanket watching TV with some steaming hot chocolate.

So as it HAS finally snowed, I thought I’d give you my top four activities you can do in the snow. You should know at least two of these.