Episodes
-
Back in March (episode 8), Clare Savory visited an almost forgotten chapel on the hillside between Woodhead and Crowden... Now a group of volunteers from across the Longdendale valley (and beyond) have rescued St James' Church.
In this special Christmas episode, Clare invites Longdendale Tales listeners in for a sneak peek of the first concert at the chapel in years.
Music is provided by Adrian Loader and Arnfield Brass Band. Tintwistle-based celebrant Steph Baker leads the service.
You can support the volunteers repairing St James by donating to their crowdfunder campaign here: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/st-james-church-restoration-fund
If you've enjoyed this episode of our podcast, make sure you visit our digital interactive map for more of the valley's fascinating history at LongdendaleTales.co.uk
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
As the series draws to a close, Clare Savory follows an old path underneath the Longdendale Trail, where there’s another railway tunnel marked ‘The Old House’.
She ponders over words Robert Macfarlane shared about the origins of paths and “the secrets they keep of adventures, meetings and departures”.
Clare walks from one end of the tunnel to the other - listen closely to the buzz of the pylons, to the raindrops inside, to the heavy rain and birdsong at the opposite end.
And she tells a tale of a cat called ‘hero’ that is said to haunt the area, along with its owner who cursed all that tread the path of the railway…
This pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
Episodes manquant?
-
It’s the final instalment of the bard of Longdendale’s story about a group of day trippers (and their plentiful hamper) travelling the region in June 1867. Actress Cordelia Howard completes the tale of the party’s return journey from Crowden to Manchester.
The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
Nanny Greenteeth and Nell Nettlespike, Baron de Morland and Sir Mottram De Mossland…some of the characters presented in the myths and legends about the Longdendale Valley. In particular, they feature in many of the explanations of how a hairpin along Woodhead Head earned the title ‘devil’s elbow’.
Walking from The Peels Arms in Padfield to Peak Naze, Clare Savory is joined by Glossop-based science-fiction writer Matt Hill (M. T. Hill). Together they talk about how the landscape inspires their work, and savour a precious moment to welcome the lapwings back to fields surrounding Padfield.
Links to buy The Breach and Zero Bomb are available via Matt’s website: mthill.co.uk
The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
Whilst recording this podcast series, Clare Savory met retired-clergy-now-fellow-Hadfield-ers Janet Lees and Bob Warwicker. As passionate long-distance walkers, they’ve explored many of the corners and paths of the Longdendale Trail (and much of the country by foot).
During lockdown their observational rambles inspired their prayers to fall in the form of poetry, which are published on one of their many blog sites and have been mapped out as walking trails along the valley.
In this episode, the three Hadfield musketeers walk along the Transpennine trail, south of Rhodeswood Reservoir and finish taking shelter inside ‘The Old House tunnel’ aka Secure.Campsites.Workouts !
You can find Bob and Janet’s ‘prayers for places’ project here: bobjanet.org.uk/PFP/
This pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
From the Bulls Head in Tintwistle to Arnfield Farm; Clare Savory walks along the boundary of the Peak District National Park with Cora Glasser and David Ball of Glassball Studio.
Their latest project, GUIDEline, explores the nature of the park’s boundary, its history and how it was formed from Glossop to Diggle.
Together they share some of the work and research they’ve uncovered over the last 4 years, whilst collaborating with artists Alison Lloyd and Dr Tony Hall.
From politics, to airshafts, to memorials and brambles…there’s plenty to notice if you look closely on this relatively short and sweet walk.
To read more about Cora and Dave’s work visit: https://guideline.org.uk/
The Longdendale Tales pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
Enjoy a windy walk with Clare Savory along the northern path of Torside Reservoir; taking time to notice the colours, the patterns, shapes and lines through an artists’ lens.
Local painter Liz Armstrong from Glossop Art Society offers tips to get started sketching when out on your walks. Plus, they share the story behind the idea of open air painting, also known by the Italians as ‘pro loco’ (of and on location).
Visit https://hadfieldhall.wordpress.com/art-show/ for information about Hadfield Open Art Show and contact Glossop Art Society via their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/glossopartsociety/
This pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
From wool to cotton; Kate Raine paints a picture of how the area surrounding Bottoms Reservoir looked before and during the building of the reservoirs. Including Crowden Bleach Works, Bottoms Lodge and the mystery behind Torside Paper Mill…was it actually a pub?!
And - what connects Rhodeswood Reservoir with the Victoria Hall in Glossop? Spoiler alert: It’s Herbert Rhodes, one of the owners of the many mills in Hadfield and Padfield, and once mayor of Glossop.
Plus, how did the reservoirs get their names? Your daily dog walks will never be the same again!
For more fascinating history about the mills of Glossop and Longdendale, it’s worth reading Kate’s series about Glossop’s Lost Mills via the Glossop Heritage Trust website: https://glossopheritage.co.uk/ghtarchive/lostmills/
The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
Sped up, slowed down, turned round and round - today’s Sunday soundscape is recorded walking along Crowden weir. Enjoy listening to the sound of the gushing fast flowing stream as Clare Savory turns in circles, allowing the water to move all around us. (Best listened wearing headphones!)
The week’s conversations about adopting a sense of play with the children in the brook; to the issues around safety in encouraging more women to enjoy walking the park have been rumbling around Clare’s mind. Something she ponders over, with the wise words of Dr Kerri Andrew’s book ‘Wanderers: The History of Women Walking’ to hand.
The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
The party has opened and indulged in the hamper’s delights, what next for Thomas Barlow’s day-trippers enjoying a wet and wild summer’s day out in Woodhead? Cordelia Howard provides the third instalment of ‘A Picnic At Woodhead’.
The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
Listen closely as the year 6 pupils of Parochial Primary School in Ashton Under Lyne find their feet walking in wellies along Crowden Brook! Peak District National Park community ranger/oracle Matt Ross returns to the podcast to tell us how he inspires the future generation using stories of stoneflies and nymphs.
This episode includes a cringe worthy joke about the Oasis hit Don’t Look Back In Anger. Sorry. But a cool fact about a stonefly called Yellow Sally...
To find out more information about the school visits Matt runs, email [email protected]
The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, supported by the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
Helen Thornhill from Move More Glossop, a community partnership project led by The Bureau, encourages more of us to get fit by building activity into our everyday life.
Clare Savory and Helen take a popular loop around Bottoms Reservoir to talk about who, why and how she helps people get started - no matter their mobility.
Plus, they bump into a local chap called Jimmy by chance - who it turns out used to work on the reservoirs some 30+ years ago. He shares a few tales about climbing down the steps in the valve houses and walking the aqueducts underneath the waterways to clear the silt and tree roots!
Plenty more info about the groups Helen talks about, including the Reservoir Ramblers here: https://the-bureau.org.uk/move-more-glossop/
The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
Following the medieval trackway from Padfield towards Deep Clough, archaeologist Tim Campbell-Green and Clare Savory sift through the stone mason markings in the tunnels under the Longdendale Trail, as well as spotting two apotropaic markings on a bridge: “two inverted V’s”. These religious markings are believed to have been used to ward off evil or bad luck…and perhaps witches after the reformation?!
Elsewhere, we stumble across some more Victorian pottery, a ‘glacial erratic’ and Tim shares the vision for his Glossop Creates Pairings: ‘A Big Dig’!
Spoiler alert: We end this episode in a tunnel surrounded by mould, lichen and spider webs!
Link to Tim’s blog Glossop Curiosities all about the mason markings here: https://glossopcuriosities.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/masons-marks-and-apotropaia/
The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
8 air crashes; 36 people killed, 2 survivors...That's just in and around the area surrounding Bleaklow moor between the years 1939 and 1956.
Yet most people have only heard of (and visited) the site where the Bleaklow Bomber met its fate - a US Air Force Boeing B29A Superfortress that crashed near Higher Shelf Stones in 1948.
Mountain leader Alan Clark joins Clare Savory for a second podcast episode looking into the many crash sites on the south side of the Longdendale moors. They were recording sat at the memorial site on Bramah Edge.
Interested in aviation crashes in the Peak District? Listen back to LT episode 9, where we discuss the 6 crash sites in and around Tintwistle Knarr - north side of the Longdendale valley.
For Alan’s guided walks, check out: https://www.walkingthewrecks.uk/
This pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle. Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
Glossop Chronicle journalist David Jones walks from Hadfield Train Station along the Longdendale Trail recalling some of the stories he reported for the local newspaper.
From the opening of the trail, to walking the Woodhead train line tunnels to the many paranormal sightings in and around the valley… plus, rowdy football fans and a tale about Dick Turpin!
Many of the articles we talk about during this interview have been pinned to our digital map, available at LongdendaleTales.co.uk
This pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
For this week’s Sunday Soundscape, we walk beside an almost silent Woodhead Pass - usually filled with the deafening sound of lorries and cars driving all day and all night.
But today, with 7 inches of snow, the area surrounding Rhodeswood Reservoir and Didsbury Intake was filled with nothing but the sounds of long tailed tits, blue tits and great tits. Well, and lots of melting ice falling from the towering trees above...
This week’s poignant words come from the Scottish poet Thomas A Clark’s ‘In Praise Of Walking’.
For photos of Clare’s walk on our digital map check out: LongdendaleTales.co.uk
This pilot was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
In the second of four storytelling episodes, actress Cordelia Howard continues reading the bard of Longdendale’s retelling of a wild day trip to Woodhead with friends.
Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk for more information about our digital map and 28 part walking podcast series.
This pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
It’s the day after the snow drifts arrived across Glossopdale, and Clare is back out walking the Longdendale Trail in its thick snow covered paths.
Along her way she recalls some of the poetry written by former Longdendale stompers: Ammon Wrigley, Thomas Barlow, Thomas Middleton and Ralph Bernard Robinson.
Find more of their poetry, and photos of her walk on our digital map: LongdendaleTales.co.uk
This pilot was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
The Sidebottoms, Platts, Thornleys & Turners were big players in the industrial history of Hadfield and the surrounding area. From Station Mill, to Valehouse Mill to Waterside; Kate Raine from the Glossop Heritage Trust digs into what we know about the who, what and where of the cotton mills of yesteryear.
Read more of Kate’s research here: https://glossopheritage.co.uk/ghtarchive/lostmills/
Since recording the episode, I have discovered more information about the tragedy of the Bridge Mill fire in 1899. Visit our digital map to see and read more: LongdendaleTales.co.uk
This pilot was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
-
Medieval track ways, benchmarks, moles and mudlarking…A walk with archaeologist Tim Campbell-Green is always educational and entertaining. (And apparently we need more jingles for this podcast…)
This time we’re walking from the Palantine pub in Hadfield, via Lambgates to Roughfields - keeping our eye out for interesting stone markings, bits of pottery and gateposts.
Here’s a link to the National Library of Scotland maps Tim mentions, where you can see all the benchmarks in and around Hadfield, plus what was about in the town back in the 1880s! (Turns out we were wandering the site of an old mill!)
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=15.8&lat=53.46521&lon=-1.96680&layers=6&right=10
Get a big cup of tea and lose a few hours reading Tim’s blog ‘Glossop Curiosities’: https://glossopcuriosities.wordpress.com/tag/longdendale/
This pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.
Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to check out our interactive map.
Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).
- Montre plus
