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Ever heard the sound of cow bells in Parwich?

We haven’t either…….but this may change on the evening of Saturday 11th October when there will be a Swiss Raclette Evening in aid of Project Parwich at Rookery House. Please make a note in your diary if this appeals.

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Saturday & Sunday
1.30-5.30pm

If you have never been to Winster’s Secret Open Gardens I can highly recommend it.  The afternoon is not just about the Gardens but it is a whole occasion.  With live jazz at one of the gardens, plenty of refreshments - cream teas in the Village Hall where you can also see the Winster Tapestry: whilst other gardens offer more refreshments from cream teas to home-made desserts with bucks fizz.  Visitors follow a garden trail around the streets and alleys of the village, exploring a wide variety of gardens. There is a Gnome Hunt for children.

There is very limited parking in the village itself, but two free car parks: at the top of the village (on the B5056 above Miners Standard pub) and at the Wensley end of the village (on B5057, next to the school). A Park and Ride minibus service (with wheelchair lift) run from the Car Parks to Main Street and back. Tickets are available from both Car Parks and outside the Market House in Main   Street.  Tickets are £3.50 per person (children free, but must be accompanied) and the event is run in aid of the Burton Institute, Winster’s award-winning village hall, and other Winster organisations.  There will be plants from Winster-based Peak Cottage Plants, and quality local crafts for sale.

This is your chance to put your views to the County and District Councils and to the Peak District National Park Authority.

Southern Area Community Forum
at 7pm on Monday 28th July
at St Oswald’s Church Hall

Chaired by Andrew Lewer with Senior Officers and Members from DDDC, DCC, the Police, the Fire Service and the Peak District National Park Authority present to discuss Civil Issues, Parking, the Ashbourne Partnership and ANY other topic that those attending wish to see discussed.

Thank you to Andrew Lewer, Derbyshire County Councillor, for the following thought out response to our post on the new ‘Communities in Control’ white paper:

I would offer the following bullet point notes in turn to the ‘headline’ issues you put in your web-page on the ‘Communities In Control’ White Paper. I stress these are my personal views and not necessarily the settled policy positions of either DCC or DDDC:

New Rights to Demand Action – DCC already has a procedure whereby any petition signed by more than 10 households must be the subject of a properly written up paper presented by Officers to a Cabinet Committee meeting / DDDC will take a question from any member of the public to a Policy Committee and the Chairman (me in the case of Community and Environment) will answer it; research is provided by Officers and follow up with the member of the public in question, as necessary.

Increasing Accountability – This is an area where DCC could improve, though I would acknowledge geographical difficulties / DDDC’s Community Forums are attended by the Chief Executive in 80% of cases and by senior Directors if not, plus the Leader (Cllr Rose) and / or Deputy Leader and / or Policy Chairmen (Cllr Spencer and myself); all may be asked questions direct.  Continue Reading »

Last week, the night before collection a bag of papers destined for recycling were taken from outside a house in Parwich.  Not the crime of the century perhaps, but we’ve heard a lot about identity theft recently, and it was wondered if there could be a more sinister motive - fortunately this household shred any sensitive papers.  So just be aware.

However one good piece of news is that the big black fluffy cat has now been found and seems firmly at home.  Thanks to everyone for their vigilance.

Thank you to Rick G for sending in these messages.

If you see anything suspicious or something you are concerned about remember to think about calling the police and let us know on parwich@hotmail.co.uk and we will put the relevant information on this site so everyone is aware.  We do not need to print your name.

Multi-disciplined and top UK athlete Roberto Buntingo will hit the headlines of tomorrow morning’s Beijing News.  This exclusive photo was apparently taken at the secret Buntingo training camp of our infamous Parwich pentathelete who is currently preparing for the mixed doubles synchronised grinning event at Beijing 2008.
Unfortunately Buntingo was unavailable for comment last night, but questions have to be asked.  Why is his photo being linked with the Moral Education page of this top newspaper?  Will this jeopardise his chances of a gold medal?  Translations of this page are being urgently sort - can you help?

                       UPDATE FROM YOUR LOCAL OFFICER   July 2008

 
We’ve had just a few burglaries of outbuildings over the last month. The last couple of months do seem though to have been abit quieter in general. We are holding a Crime Prevention event in the next month that may be of interest to you. Continue Reading »

Since last month’s round-up, two properties have been sold and one new property has appeared on the market.

As ever, if your property is missing from this list, then please let us know.

• Hideaway Cottage, The Square, Parwich. 2 bed detached, £275,000
• NEW: Hope Croft, Parwich. 3 bed semi-detached, £365,000
• Parwich Lees Cottage, Alsop Road, Parwich. 3 bed cottage, offers around £450,000
• Parwich Village Shop. Commercial, £375,000
• Stanworth, Alsop Road, Parwich. 3 bed detached, £795 pcm

This list will be updated again next month. Until then, you will be able to find it on the USEFUL INFO page, and in the ELSEWHERE ON PARWICH.ORG section on the right hand side of this page.

The Local History Society’s visit last night to Arkwright’s Mill at Cromford was a great success.  There was a tour of the mill site, an organ recital in St Mary’s Church with its amazing Victorian wall paintings and coffee in Willersley Castle.

Photo by Mike G

The Arkwright Society has achieved a great deal, but it is vital they are supported to complete the restoration of this World Heritage Site, in particular the internationally important first mill.

More information and further photos will be available, in the hopefully not too distant future, through our History Society Newsletters.

Today’s Ashbourne News Telegraphalthough having many interesting articles seems to be suffering Parwich fatigue this week after last week’s bumper edition.  It has been harder work this week to find local links, but our readers might be interested in the following:

• p.3 The Lady Bay Revellers (West Bridgeford) and the Guernsey Belles (Channel Islands) will be dancing in front of Tisssington Hall at 3pm on Sunday.
• p.4  The Ashbourne Highland Gathering on Sunday.
• p.10  Publication of ‘Circular Walks around Hognaston’ available at £1 from Red Lion (Hognaston).
• p.28 & 20 Two page spread on the open air Songs of Praise at Carsington Water last Sunday.
• p.32 Tickets still available for the Y Not Festival.  A full page feature on the programme.  Don’t forget if you link through from our site £5 from each ticket you buy goes towards Project Parwich.
• p.54 Ashbourne Town Darts AGM coming up on Thursday 24th July at 8-30pm at the Compton Social Club.  All teams must be represented to register for next season (registration fee £50).
• p.55 Some relatively local names in the results for Ashbourne Flying Club in both the overseas race from Saintes in France and from Hullavington in Wiltshire.
• p.55 Summer League football results.

As always let us know what we have missed

This is planning applications update post for mid July 2008 (the end of June post didn’t happen due to Wakes Week). Information has been sourced from the search facility on the Peak District National Park Authority (PDNPA) website.

Since the last post the new applications are:

Parwich:

• Station Road Farmhouse - Construction of Extension
  ID No: NP/DDD/0708/0564, 25-Jun-08.
  Status: registered, awaiting decision.
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• Parwich Memorial Hall - Demolition of existing village hall and construction of new village hall and associated landscaping, highway access alterations and car parking. Reconstruction of stone walls. Relocation of electricity sub-station. [See our post]
  ID No: NP/DDD/0608/0546, 24-Jun-08.
  Status: registered, awaiting decision.
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Pikehall

• Smerrill Barn - Conversion of first floor barn to staff accommodation
  ID No: NP/DDD/0608/0542, 24-Jun-08.
  Status: registered, awaiting decision.
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Ballidon

• Tarmac Construction Ltd Ballidon Quarry - Discharge of ground water from the working area via a pipeline into the Bletch Brook
  ID No: NP/DDD/0708/0596, 27-Jun-08.
  Status: registered, awaiting decision.
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The updates on the previously listed active planning applications are as follows:

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Before today, the only way to donate to Project Parwich was by attending an event within the village itself. For those of our readers who live elsewhere, this was obviously not always the most practical of propositions! We have therefore added a feature to this site, allowing people to make donations online.

On the right hand side of this page, just below the sponsors’ logos, you will now find a Big Button. If you click on the Big Button, you will be taken to the PayPal page for Project Parwich, from where you can make an online donation to our Memorial Hall fund.

Please note that there is currently no facility for claiming Gift Aid on your donations. We’ll be working on that in the near future.

Here is our first report from the local met man on the hill:

Rainfall for June 2008 in Parwich was 53mm
(compared with 143mm in the same period last year)

Here are the figures for last week:

MISLAID: 1 big black fluffy friendly cat. Just moved to Parwich so may not know where home is. It’s at Hallgates (next to Parwich Hall).

Please call Rick or Amanda on 390626 if you see him.

Our earlier post on local democracy mentioned an up coming government white paper.  Thank you to Richard T for pointing out that it has now been published.

Click here:

• to see the Communities & Local Government Press Release
• to access the research behind this proposed legislation
• to access the White Paper, Communities in Control

The press release contains the following summary:

New rights for the public to demand action from their council
Councils will be subject to a new duty to respond to petitions. Petitions will enable local people to force an issue onto a council’s agenda. With enough signatures that issue would need to be discussed by the full council committee and could be subject to a vote. This could be used to raise issues as diverse as bin collections and street cleaning, or the state of local parks.

Increasing accountability
Chairs and Chief Executives of local public bodies - such as Councils - will face regular public hearings as part of plans to increase accountability. Continue Reading »

Just a quick reminder

An Exhibition and Sale of Art Work produced by students from Ashbourne Adult Community Education Centre, Tutor David Woodrow, will take place in Tissington Church on Saturday 12th July from 10am onwards.  This includes work from a number of people in Parwich.

Thank you to Gill S for this information.

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It is with great sadness we announce the death yesterday morning of Margaret L after a couple of weeks in the Derby Royal Infirmary. Margaret had had a great zest for life. She and her late husband Roy have given so much to the people of Parwich over the years. Our thoughts and good wishes are with her family and many close friends who will acutely feel her loss.

The shop in the pub is offering a new service! 

You can now order your magazines from Janet. Orders would need to be placed by Thursday evening for delivery to the shop at the weekend. To order, see Janet in the shop or give her a call (212).

Alice’s recent double victory at Sheepgate Equestrian, Linclonshire (26th to 28th June) is reported in today’s edition of Horse & Hound.  Thank you to Patti (the justifiably proud mother) for the following:

Alice has now qualified Raffels (Freddie) for the Regional Dressage Championships at both Prix St George and Intermediare 1.  She recently also took out her new young 6 year old horse V.I.P. (known as Zippy for the fast rate of knots he goes around the field at play) and he won both his competitions.  Next week she is heading to Hartpury (Gloucestershire) to compete in a Premier League.

Congratulations Alice, it is fantastic to see you are now fully back to competition fitness, and all the best for the Hartpury Festival of Dressage.

The yellow Planning Notice went up at the Memorial Hall today.  To find out more about the proposed redevelopment plans see the post here at PARWICH.ORG.  If you have any comments or questions for the Design & Planning Group or our Architects you can add them after this or the previous post or on the Memorial Hall news updates page.

The consultation period on this planning application (ref. NP/DDD/0608/0546) runs to Friday 1st August 2008.  If you want to comment to the Peak Park Planners go to the Peak District National Park Website for more details.

From Parwich & District Local History Society:

We are working on the next issue of the Local History Society newsletter and wondered if anyone had any more/better photographs of the old Parwich Church Institute, which can be seen here on the right hand side of the photograph below, behind the cart shed and the carbide shed.

Also does anyone have information on where this corrugated metal prefabricated building came from?  Local tradition has it that it was a redundant World War I military building, though it would have been moved here about the same time that the buildings from Tin Town were being sold off.  Tin Town was a temporary village (complete with shops, church and school) created for the workforce that constructed the Howden and Derwent Reservoirs.

If you can help please email parwich@hotmail.co.uk or contact Peter T (tel 287).

Thank you to Steve Riley of Marsh Grochowski for answering so promptly the questions left in a comment on yesterday’s post on the new plans for the Memorial Hall:

(1) Is the square between the former Spar Shop and Fernlea cart shed essential for these plans?

The square is not essential, in the sense that access could still be gained from the ginnel even if access to the Square is lost, as the building is set back from southern boundary of the Square. In the design proposal the landscaped area we are proposing between the Fernlea cart shed and new building essentially ‘borrows’ the space of the square in order to extend it to be a more significant public space.

(2) Although the right of way can not be permanently blocked, will it be included in the general garden area and be available for access to the rear of the building?

It is intended that the right of way be an integral part of the garden area. As the designs develop we will give more detailed thought as to the best way to achieve this in terms of the landscaping finishes and materials used. The same applies for the space between the two outbuildings accessed by the right of way. This is currently labelled as hardstanding, but it may be more appropriate to treat this in a softer fashion.  Continue Reading »

In stark contrast to last week’s issue, today’s issue, 9th July 2008, of the Ashbourne News Telegraph is positively brimming with Parwich stories.

• p. 4 An excellent whole page feature on Parwich Wakes along with photos and the results of the Carnival judging
• p.6 A further near full page feature on the new Annunciation Window (the Graham Window) in Parwich Church
• p.10 The report on Ashbourne Young Farmers’ annual rally and field day at Chatsworth again contains some familiar names: well done Ben Chadfield in the junior tractor driving
• p.21 A short report on the submission of the planning application for our new Memorial Hall (see also p.44 and our recent post)
• p.23 Debbie is back from the States, and issuing a call for volunteers to help in various capacities at Carsington Water (see Volunteer Centre’s website)
• p.44 Public notice issued by the PDNA announcing the consultation periods for the planning applications for the Memorial Hall rebuild and an extension to Station Road Farm, both in Parwich (see Planning pages at PDNPA web site)
• p.53 Parwich Hill Race results in full colour (see also the time sheets)
• p.54 Congratulations to Robert Cundy of Bradbourne whose bird came first in the Ashbourne Flying Club race from Hullavington (Wiltshire)
• p.54 Summer Football results update

As always let us know about anything we have missed (especially any Alsop, Ballidon & Pikehall stories).

What more can we say? Cowboy genius hardly sums him up. We can only marvel at his total command of any chosen sport…

In the “G2″ section of today’s Guardian, there’s a long and very interesting feature on the problems faced by the hereditary occupants of English stately homes. 

The article is liberally peppered with specific references to Tissington Hall, and with quotes from its current owner, Sir Richard Fitzherbert.  As such, it should be of great interest to many readers of this site.

Click here to read the full article online.

Loan wanted

My sister and her daughter are coming to visit from France from Monday 25th August to Friday 29th August and I wonder whether anyone has a second stage child car seat we could borrow for those days. My niece is two and a half so the seat I am looking for is the bulky one - i.e. the one after you carry a baby in but before the one with a booster and a back. If you do, please leave me a message on the website or on the phone to Lynne on 474. Thank you very much.

Lynne G

Ten and more year’s work by villagers is a step nearer achieving fruition with the submission of the planning application for our new Memorial Hall.

The Memorial Hall as it may become (view from the road).

In the 1990s the then managing trustees of the Memorial Hall Charity developed plans to extend the existing building on all sides, even putting storage cupboards in the narrow gap between the building and the ginnel. The ideas embodied in these plans are remarkably similar to the overall design concept of the current planning application. A significant amount of money was raised, but the Millennium Fund Lottery application was not submitted in time.  Continue Reading »

St Peter’s Church in Parwich saw a good sized congregation to welcome the Bishop of Repton, The Rt. Rev’d Humphrey Southern, who dedicated the Annunciation or ‘Graham’ window and the replica tympanum and turned the first sod for the Garden of Remembrance.

The Service began in the churchyard beside the tympanum.

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Parwich’s multi-talented sports leviathon Roberto Buntingo has allegedly been spotted in another prestige sporting event. Buntingo employed perfect tactics. He chose to stick with the pack for most of the race - eating his packup and whistling Whitesnake tunes as he went. Many could not believe how effortlessly he climbed the mountains of the notorious Mont Blanc stage. One unkind journalist said he thought he could see Roberto’s braces hooked onto one of the upfront racers, but we know it was his indomitable spirit and unparalleled toughness.

Then it happened. An early breakaway at Cromford saw the Pike Hall pedallist beat eight riders up the gruelling hill. Deadly rival Collinio Simmsio almost caught him at the Carsington chicane but in the end Roberto powered through to claim the coveted yellow jersey.

Who knows what sporting achievement RB will attempt next???

Following the recent remarks about our most intrepid local sportsman, you may be interested to see the attached photo taken during last winter’s sporting season.   Early preparation for the next winter olympics.  Roberto attributes part of his  carefully thought out diet and fitness plan to the wonderful cakes supplied to him at the recent flower festival.  They are currently seeing him through this week of advanced training.

Thank you to Colin B for sending in this remarkable photograph.

Saturday 19th July - Irish Night at the Legion

If you fancy joining the trip to Liverpool tomorrow there are still spaces on the bus.  Please meet at the Pump Shed ready for an 8am departure.  Price is £10 for non-members.  Everyone welcome (but sorry no children).

Thank you for your patience.  Here are the full time sheets for the 2008 Hill Race, click on the relevant category to access the time sheets as pdfs:

• Parwich Hill Race Senior 2008
• Parwich Hill Race Local Ladies 2008
• Parwich Hill Race Junior 2008

Again well done to everyone who entered and thank you for the hard work of the Carnival & Recreation Committee and all the helpers that made it such a successful event.

Apologies that this has taken a while to get on the website…

Last Thursday’s wheelbarrow race got off to a flying start, with the three ladies teams:

• Liz Edge and Alison Cooper
• Sarah Hotchin and Paula Lynham
• Nicky Leach and Laura Wood.

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We are having a kneeler meeting tomorrow at Marion F-S, so come along for a coffee, sew and natter.  Pop in anytime between 4-6pm.

Congratulations to Rebecca for having correctly chosen my name. I raised over £100 for Project Parwich. Thank you to Eve from Colchester for drawing my name, Sarah, while she was looking round the Flower Festival this afternoon.  Eve and her husband are on holiday in Parwich staying at Croft Cottage for the twelfth time.