By Lily Chick OLDHAM PEACE Week is returning with a host of free events from Saturday, 24 June until Saturday, 1 July. The week aims to…
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Friends pull out all the stops for Pamela’s Queen’s medal
When Pamela Berry agreed to play the organ at St Thomas’s Church in Delph for a couple of weeks she never imagined it would lead…
View More Friends pull out all the stops for Pamela’s Queen’s medalUCAN tackle Himalayan Balsam to help keep towpaths tidy
By Lily Chick UPPERMILL COMMUNITY Association Network have had a busy few weeks continuing the on-going fight against Himalayan Balsam. The group began the battle…
View More UCAN tackle Himalayan Balsam to help keep towpaths tidyMaggie’s bowled over by Dobcross ladies
LADY VETERAN bowlers at Dobcross Band and Bowling Club raised an amazing £1,000 for charity Maggie’s by hosting a bowling event in May. The cheque…
View More Maggie’s bowled over by Dobcross ladiesFirst ever Memory Cafe goes down a treat at Lido House
A FIRST ever ‘Memory Café’ was held at Lido House retirement housing in Grotton last month. The Memory Café is a place for local people,…
View More First ever Memory Cafe goes down a treat at Lido HouseBy Royal approval: Saddleworth group wins prestigious Queen’s Award
The Street Scene Greenfield team has been awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the equivalent of the MBE for volunteer groups. Now the team,…
View More By Royal approval: Saddleworth group wins prestigious Queen’s AwardEdgelands: Acclaimed artist Emilie Taylor launches new exhibition at Gallery Oldham
Acclaimed artist Emilie Taylor’s brand new exhibition, ‘Edgelands’, has opened at Gallery Oldham. In this new body of work, the potter explores the lives of the…
View More Edgelands: Acclaimed artist Emilie Taylor launches new exhibition at Gallery OldhamFollow the Thread exhibition celebrates Oldham’s industrial past
A FASCINATING exhibition has launched at Gallery Oldham celebrating Oldham’s proud industrial past. In 1865 Godai Tomoatsu, a student from the western Japanese island…
View More Follow the Thread exhibition celebrates Oldham’s industrial pastOIdham theatre experience to remember Battle of the Somme
Oldham Theatre Workshop in association with Oldham Local Studies and Archives will be performing their acclaimed immersive theatre experience ‘Sides of Silence: Remembering the Battle…
View More OIdham theatre experience to remember Battle of the SommeExplore Castleshaw Roman Forts as part of ‘Dig’ archaeology festival
By Lily Chick SADDLEWORTH WILL feature as one of the events for the first Greater Manchester Archaeology festival, ‘Dig’. The festival will run from Thursday,…
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