Prestwich Sloopy

09/11/2023

The cover for a small water hole is missing causing a dangerous trip hazard and a small pit. The pictures show you exactly which house it is outside on Richmond Avenue

08/11/2023

if you want to look through the links I have shared on various posts go to
prestwich.org.uk/links

08/11/2023

I've added some fungus to the records :-)
Add your observations of nature at prestwich.org.uk/inaturalist and become the next Artisan Naturalist of Prestwich.. maybe they'll name a pub after you !
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08/11/2023

I suspect this is a colony of young Purple Jellydisc feasting on some birch logs we've left to rot on the path that leads down from the south of St Mary's tower. Time will tell as I think they will open up and be more like little cups or bowls.

08/11/2023

Hilary & Judith are working hard to support local residents by creating a warm welcoming space offering warmth, a brew,cake, support, friendship and a sense of community to prevent social isolation

Supported by Six Town Housing so any tenancy issues can be addressed here.

Lightbulb Community Drop in | Facebook St Andrew's Woodward Road, Woodward Rd, Prestwich, Manchester M25 9TY, UK
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08/11/2023

Gardening group refurbishing 21 flower beds in St. Mary’s Flower Park. More volunteers required to help maintain flowerbeds (planting, weeding etc.). Contact Amanda 0161 773 7910
More Events in Prestwich Saint Mary's Flower Park, St. Mary's Flower Park, Prestwich, Manchester M25, UK
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07/11/2023

The CAG volunteers at St Mary's have been hard at work (despite the wet weather). Photo 1 contains nine Poppy crosses, photo 2: five. A few more to be delivered by the weekend.
prestwich.org.uk/poppydrop

07/11/2023

Some lovely clean drives on Prestwich Park, shame that people have to walk (or wheel, depending on their mobility) in the road to see them. This resident has blocked the pavement rather than the gutter, or keep it for the bin, or have a corner in the garden for compost. The irony of it being brown bin day isn't lost on me. They could have filled it at the weekend and filled it again after today, that's what I've had to do.

07/11/2023

Church Lane Community Centre, 38 Church Ln, Prestwich, Manchester M25 1AJ, UK
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07/11/2023

Website: http://stmarysprestwich.org/church-groups/churchyard-action-group/ St Mary's Church, Church Lane, Prestwich
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06/11/2023

What Lies Beneath Prestwich Part 3 - Mixing water with sand.
The Heaton Park reservoir was constructed in 1928 and originally connected to the Thirlmere Aqueduct, via Agecroft, and was later connected to the Haweswater Aqueduct, via Unsworth. Its construction was impacted by the last Ice Age, with a "dint" on its northern edge to avoid glacial deposits.
prestwich.org.uk/beneath3

06/11/2023

Seeing the bore holes going in at Longfield Precinct makes we wonder what they will find...
What Lies Beneath Prestwich Part 4 ... coming soon...
Here's a sneak peek at the historical bore holes around Prestwich...
More recently, local historian J.F. Wilson wrote:
"In 1952 the National Coal Board began to make trial borings in Prestwich for coal seams. Italian workmen spent some months in boring for specimens of the strata in Heaton Park and on the ground of the Cricket Club at The Heys among other places."
prestwich.org.uk/beneath

05/11/2023

Despite reporting last year and again this year now 1, 3 and 7 on Overbrook in Prestwich all permanently leave their bins on the pavement, along with pavement parking. this side of Overbrook is impassable. In breach of Council instructions to keep bins on your own property, and 3 also has a commerci...

05/11/2023

The iron loving bacteria feast on the spring water that feeds the ponds in St Mary's flower park, and has now turned into something like a moonscape. prestwich.org.uk/beneath2

05/11/2023

Nice green lawns on Prestwich Park. Shame the cut back council services have to tidy up after you. (your gardener)

04/11/2023

fungus feeding frenzy
on the fallen silver birch in St Mary's Churchyard

04/11/2023

Frog in the hole.
I couldn't attempt a rescue :-(

04/11/2023

Prestwich Clough or Heaton Park (Winter)
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04/11/2023

IEPAD Philips Park
IEPAD have a volunteer session most Saturdays from 10 until 1 in Phillips Park. We have 2 gardens, the nursery and fruit garden. Philips Park, Prestwich
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04/11/2023

Gardening group refurbishing 21 flower beds in St. Mary’s Flower Park. More volunteers required to help maintain flowerbeds (planting, weeding etc.). Contact Amanda 0161 773 7910
More Events in Prestwich St Mar'y Flower Park, Prestwich
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03/11/2023

Numerous holes of various sizes and cracking on crossover with Shell Prestwich Service Station and Bury New Road this has been reported previously on 26/08/2021, 01/06/22, 17/02/23, 12/05/23 the following references and is dangerous and needs urgent repair.

02/11/2023

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02/11/2023

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02/11/2023

I'll be at St Mary's Churchyard from 10am 'til 12 this Saturday 4th Nov to whiz around the 48 CWGC burials and 96 family memorials to ex-service personnel.
Feel free to come along, bring gloves, good footwear, a soft brush, cutters, your kids, oh... and a brew :-)
Read about all 86 CWGC burials in Prestwich at prestwich.org.uk/cwgc

02/11/2023

What Lies Beneath Prestwich Part 3...Mixing Water with Sand
Well.. we don't really know how much water is under us as EA funding cuts mean inspections of licensed extractors (UU & golf, farm businesses etc) in the last 5 years has dropped by 66% from 139 to just 47 in the last year.
Here's a map of the old wells around Prestwich, and the old waterways that have now been culverted or dried up.
read more at prestwich.org.uk/beneath3

01/11/2023

in 1944, Simmond Goldblum of 25 Kings Rd Sedgley Park, Prestwich was killed in action near Nederweert in The Netherlands.
Simmond served as a Private with the 6th Bn.King's Own Scottish Borderers. Following Operation Market Garden, Nederweert lay in the operating area of the British 8th Corps. Nederweert was liberated on September 22, by scouts from the 3rd British Infantry Division. German units withdrew and set up a new front along the Wessem-Nederweert canal, counter attacking on the 28th October, with the Scots counter attacking on the 30th. The front stabilized and Nederweert became the new front line.
The Allies finally crossed the Wessem-Nederweert Canal a month later.
Simmond is buried at Nederweert.

30/10/2023

YOU... can help out with the War Grave & family memorial cleaning this Saturday 10-12 @ St Mary's Churchyard, Prestwich.
With 48 CWGC headstones and a further 70+ family memorials to those who didn't make it back, you can come along and help out at St Mary's.
We get all ex-service memorials ready to receive their plastic free remembrance crosses.
Rakes,spades, cutters & gloves provided but bring your fave secateurs/cutters & gloves to avoid disappointment ;-)
A bottle of water and a soft brush can be useful too.
Everyone welcome, meet at the gates 10am or find me... you can't miss me...

p.s. bring a brew & shareables :-D

30/10/2023

What Lies Beneath Prestwich Part3... Mixing Sand with Water
In 1896 a storm broke the dam that was holding back the Di**le, to form a pond at the Victorian Rectory of Prestwich. The dam was never repaired, the area was later used as a rifle range and has since been filled in to give us what we call St Mary's Playing Fields. Read more at prestwich.org.uk/beneath3
Links page at prestwich.org.uk/links

30/10/2023

What Lies Beneath Prestwich - Part 3 Mixing Sand with Water.
Before heavy machinery was used, people extracted resources from the ground where they were found on the surface. Here's a map of the old surface pits around Prestwich, used for gathering sand, clay and gravel. Also shown are some related place names.

28/10/2023

Blondie...
Well, I'm flummoxed and befuddled (again), she used "Pocket Computer" in the lyrics of 'Picture This' in 1978.
It wasn't even a thing until 1980. The lady just impresses me more, and she already impressed me a lot. Time Travel Blondie - now that's a movie I'd watch, tbh I'd watch a movie called Blondie, just not the one from the 1930's.

27/10/2023

in 1849 John Brooks died at his home, Clarendon House, Cheetham Hill.
He was a son of William Brooks, supplier of raw cotton and twist to spinners in the local district.
The cotton firm of Cunliffe, Brooks and Co. succeeded but the partners realised that with the boom in the manufacture and sale of cotton goods, there was also a need for banking services such as loans and credit.

John was politically active, a Liberal candidate at one stage, and one of the earliest and most zealous members of the Council of the Anti-Corn-Law League,donating financially and travelling the length and breadth of the country lecturing and advising on its aims.

After being defrauded of £70,000 (£8m today) Mr. Brooks went to his warehouse distressed and humiliated. He told his manager that he had decided to never lend money again, he would stop his donations to charities and spend nothing. While he was yet speaking, a woman with some ragged children were observed in the passage. Apparently unconscious of what he had just said, he ordered a shilling to be given to the woman. The clerk reminded him of his resolution. " Well, well," he said, " but don't begin with this woman and her children."
Photo1: Charity with babes in arms
Photo2: John Brooks Monument, Prestwich
Photo3: Clarendon House location
Read more at prestwich.org.uk/brooks
Donate towards restoration at prestwich.org.uk/brooksfund
prestwich.org.uk/links