- CC Pavilion Official Opening - Sunday 9th August 2026, 11.30am, Penistone Cricket Club, Queen Street, Spring Vale. Everybody welcome. Tour the facilities in the new pavilion, meet the team and supporters, refreshments available. A match between Penistone CC and Darton CC follows on. Penistone Cricket Club (Facebook).
- Partial Solar Eclipse - Weds 12th August, starting from around 6.15pm. maximum 91% around 7.05pm. Birds stop twittering, animals go silent and there is a drop in temperature. Previously, people gathered on the top road near Hartcliff using a number of different viewing methods. Don't look directly at the sun or through sunglasses or you might damage your eyes, What to do. Eclipse Map (UK).
- Hallowe'en - I know it's just a bit early for the last day of October but you can get your Hallowe'en stuff right now from Home Bargains at Fox Valley! No Christmas stuff or Easter eggs so far.
- BMBC Markets Folly -
Penistone Market Barn will now have a themed Saturday market once per month, which means that there will be nothing on the other weeks (this does not affect the busy Thursday markets). Before the Saturday themes started, a few stalls would turn up on Saturdays but are now told to stay away, as fewer than four stalls do not constitute a market and are therefore 'illegal.' It is not good for our town.
If traders want to trade and the public want to buy, who gains from stopping them? All for an easy life, eh?
There was a large reaction to this on Penistone Community Action (f'book), the consensus being that Saturday markets ought to continue, however small, even when it is not a themed Saturday. Better still, let Penistone control it, as had been the original plan, and do it better.
Then our Market Barn might be used as intended, for much more than just the busy Thursday market and occasional other events.
Reply from Beryl's Bunnies charity stall:
'I would love to come down and do my stall, I asked them if I could come on my own they said I would be breaking the law by illegally street trading, I cannot see a problem with this as it is a public space and what obstruction would I be causing. I am missing it as much as everyone. I want to thank every one for your support and hope it will continue when and if the Saturday market begins again.' * Shame upon Barnsley Markets for failing in its duty to Penistone.
However, the themed Saturday Market of 25th July was very busy and showed how well it can work when the BMBC Markets does its job properly and recruits the stallholders. Now that they have proved what they are capable of, perhaps we might look forward to more busy Saturday markets, or how about entertainments, concerts and car boot sales in the Market Barn? Just a thought.
Penistone Market Barn is being seriously under-used.
- Heritage Open Days - Coming up, 11th to 20th Sept, National and local. Free Admission. Usually churches, businesses, Hoylandswaine nail Forge, possibly our Town Hall. HO Days
- PGS-Archive - The PGS Virtual Tour is back and currently being updated. Great work, Mr G.
- The Millennium Patchwork - Penistone Town Council is working on a new History Section of the PTC website, to be ready after the Town Hall building refurb.
They are looking for background to the Millennium Patchwork which had been on display in the Community Centre: 'Can anyone help out? Perhaps you have photos of the work in progress; you're one of the members who worked on it (or a relative)?'
and 'Any help with this would be greatly appreciated,
please pop in to see the Clerk at the Resource Centre or Email with any information pertaining to this matter to the Town Clerk.' Penistone Town Council (Fb).
- Penistone Film Festival 2026 - Are selling tickets for the October 17th - 18th weekend for events at Penistone Paramount and Penistone St John the Baptist Church. 'Two days of silent-style cinema, live music, filmmaker Q&As, heritage exhibitions, workshops and the vintage magic that made our first year such a success.' This is a prestigious event for our town and will attract visitors from around the world, as in its debut last year. We should support it. See Penistone Film Festival 2026 for how to submit your creative work.
- Penistone Banking Hub - A very useful local asset and we must 'use it or lose it.' Open weekdays, 9am to 5pm, Resource Centre, Community Centre car park. Bank customers can pay or withdraw cash more privately than at a Post Office or bank and discuss finances in private. Monday & Tuesday - Halifax/Lloyds; Weds - TBC; Thurs - HSBC; Fri - Natwest. Basic banking is also available for other banks, as with the Post Office. Cash Access UK staff are on hand to help. They hope to move to a new building in Tesco car park at some point. (Pen Banking Hub) PTC.
- 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. 