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Ramsbottom Easter 2016 – Episode 54

March 27, 2016 by Lee Leave a Comment

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Welcome to another episode of This is Rammy, your weekly source for all things Ramsbottom related. Happy Easter! All going well this was released at 10am on Sunday as usual, however with the clocks doing that stupid thing they still do it could have been 9am.

We had some lovely weather on Good Friday with lots of people heading up Holcombe Hill for the yearly egg rolling event, followed by some blustery and chilly weather on Saturday. If you’ve been up nice and early for the church service on Holcombe Hill led by Andy too, then thanks for joining me, however I expect you’ve probably slept in, what with the clocks changing.

Chocolate Festival 2016 – Episode 53

March 20, 2016 by Lee Leave a Comment

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This is episode 53, which in a round about way means the podcast has been running for over a year. Thank you for listening now, and week in week out. I hope you’re well and you enjoyed the episode last week where I spoke to Andy from Arcade Club.

This weekend it’s been the Ramsbottom Chocolate Festival, the yearly event is now in it’s eighth year and it brings in sellers from all over the country and shoppers from all over the North West.

Andy of Arcade Club Bury – Episode 52

March 13, 2016 by Lee Leave a Comment

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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.

A catch-up with local shoe shop Little Goody New Shoes – Episode 51

March 6, 2016 by Lee Leave a Comment

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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.

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!