- Parliamentarian of the Year Award -
Well done to Penistone and Stocksbridge MP Marie Tidball for gaining this award from The
Spectator, the political and cultural news magazine.
- Volunteer Awards - Well done to all of the recipients of the Ward Alliance Awards on Thursday 6th Nov, and epecially to Richard Galliford, Penistone Archives and Penistone FM.
We are awaiting the full
list.
- New Education Hub - Ian Bailey Carpets Ltd. ran a carpet shop for decades at 98-100 High Street, Penistone. A new Penistone branch of Huddersfield Education Hub has taken it over to open in the new year. This is a private tuition centre run by professional, fully-qualified teachers and has outposts at Skelmanthorpe, Holmfirth and Lepton, tel: 07736 048 324, Facebook, djm1983@hotmail.co.uk. Meanwhile, Ian Bailey's carpet and flooring business continues as before but from Unit 4, Spring Vale Service Station, Sheffield Road, Spring Vale, S36 6HH, tel 01226 765 481.
- Penistone FM - Co-op members using their phone app can now choose Penistone FM as their 'local cause.'
- Government Grant for Parks and Open Spaces - Under the carpet? HM Government donated £2.1m to Barnsley council for green space improvements (BBC News) divided between 17 wards - but not equally: 'The parks and open spaces investment programme aims to make high-quality and visible improvements to parks and open spaces across the Barnsley borough' for: '... new play equipment, footways, new signage and entrance ways, planting and additional facilities, including bins and benches.' Parks and Open Spaces Report (pdf).
However, nstead of £247k (1/17 x 2 for two wards), only £25k is allocated to Penistone East and West, leaving £220k-ish short. If all 17 wards get the same, (17 x £12.5k = £212.5k), then where has £1.9m been spent in Barnsley, and when do we get to hear about it?
Best guess: It has been used to fill an embarrassing black hole.
If geniune, some suggestions:
- Improved steps from the Trans-pennine Trail (near Community Centre) down to Wentworth Crescent,
- Cycle rack on the car park side of the Market Barn,
- Bench seat for the grassy corner RHS of Shelley Close with Wentworth Road,
- More dog mess bins,
- Replace some faded Information maps on the Trans-Pennine Trail.
- Kingswell Sugery - They now close at 6pm. From 6pm to 6.30pm their phone is transferred to 'i-H-Heart' and after 6.30pm, to NHS Out of Hours.
For medical help after 6.30pm, call NHS on 111 or, if an emergency, 999.
- Flu and Covid Jabs - Now available as walk-ins at local chemists for those who are eligible.
- Small Housing Development -
Planning Application 2025/0775 concerns the building of four houses on Green Belt land between
the Smithies Arms
and Bower Dell, Oxspring.
- Penistone Walking Packs -
Barnsley Council has funded free Walking Packs for the borough's six Principal
Towns, available from Libraries.
Interactive maps on smartphones are invoked by QR codes on the cards.
Some errors:
1. Films started in Penistone Town Hall November 1915, not the 1920s,
2. The Penistone/Clarel coat of arms has six martlets, not five.
Dumb kopfen.
- Penistone Banking Hub ('Use it or lose it') - Open weekdays, 9am to 5pm, Resource Centre, Community Centre car park. Customers can pay or withdraw cash more privately than at a Post Office or typical bank and privately discuss banking matters on these days (subject to change): Monday - Halifax; Tues - Lloyds; Weds - TBC; Thurs - HSBC and Fri - Natwest. NB. Halifax customers can also use Lloyds (same company). Some basic banking facilities are also available for other banks, as with the Post Office, and Cash Access UK staff are on hand to help. This is a very useful asset for Penistone but we must make it work. PTC.
(Penistone Banking Hub).
- The Knowledge - Penistone is a town, not village, with Sheffield S36 postcodes (our mail is not sorted in Barnsley).
Penistone Paramount is (always was) the Town Hall; Hazlehead is spelt that way; Thurlstone has no 'e' in the middle. Bridge End is two words and dinner is at dinnertime. You are in God's Own County and the world envies you.
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Visitor Information - Penistone Library and Penistone Church for local leaflets, maps and general information. 