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Penistone Market Day - Always busy on Thursdays. Cheap fruit and veg, pet food, hardware, bread, cheese, eggs, watch batteries replaced, charities, clothes, rugs, pillows, detergents, crafts, etc.
 Personal Websites |
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| Wayne Chadburn Mathematics teacher and frequent blogster. His interests are sport, maths, reading, cooking, drinking red wine and real ale and, although politically neutral he offers his thoughts on the murky world of politics. Sounds like a decent fellow. http://wchadburn.wordpress.com/ |
John Marshall at Flickr The master of 'Light and Dark' photography (see business links), John has a Flickr page with some great shots of pre-Tesco Penistone market. www.flickr.com/photos/basculetheteller |
| Barnsley Chronicle - Wayne Chadburn is also a part-time reporter to the Barnsley Chronicle and will be pleased to receive any event notifications and local news items. Find him on Facebook or email: wayne.chadburn@outlook.com. | |
| Wainwrights of Penistone Parish A long page with lots of historical information relevant to Penistone. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wewain/Wainwright/History-Wainwright.htm |
Where did all of those personal websites go after Geocities? |
| Penistone & District Websites |
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| Visit Penistone - 'The Pennine Heart of Yorkshire South' Showcases what Penistone can offer: shops, eating out, events list, walks, accommodation, etc. Tidy website with nifty 360 degree pictures. I wish I had thought of that first. www.visitpenistone.co.uk Charity No. 1112840. |
Penistone Town Council A repository of information, including Minutes of Meetings. Their website has good style and functionality but nothing exists from before 2011. Some old agendas, minutes and planning minutes from the earlier website can be found on the Wayback Machine, see 2005/6, 2006/7. www.penistonetowncouncil.gov.uk. |
| 'East Peak Innovation Partnership' - EPIP This 'Leader' group encompasses the disparate communities of Ecclesfield, Bradfield, Denby Dale and Kirkburton (these last two in Kirklees). 'East Peak' refers to the Peak District which is south of here. www.epip.org.uk. Tel 01226 763373. Email info@epip.org.uk |
The Paramount (the Town Hall) - Penistone's great hall of entertainment from 1914. Our Town Hall is a theatre in the broadest sense, for film, plays, comedy, organ performances, live bands and live shows. For bookings, call 76 7532, 10am and 2pm in the week or between 8pm and 9pm at weekends. Paramount (Facebook). |
| Churches |
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| Penistone Parish Church - aka Penistone St John the Baptist Church Some churches are red-brick; some are tin sheds; some are works of modern art. The 'proper' ones are medieval, built of ancient Yorkshire stone and have a great big 500+ year-old square Norman tower. That's what we have in Penistone. They are special and have earned simpler titles. So the plain old 'Penistone Church' is known to everyone (although some might think of football), as there are several other St John's churches in the locality such as St John the Evangelist. St John the Baptist is a favourite biblical character. He used to eat locusts, you know and dunk people in water. Funny sort of fellow but he had some good mates. Penistone and Thurlstone Team Ministry. |
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| St. Andrew's Methodist United Reform Church A modern-style church (chapel really) built on the site of the old, dusty and woodwormed St. Paul's Methodist chapel, where I learned all about Jesus at Sunday School. It combined its congregation with that of Netherfield Congregational Church in the 1970s. St Andrew's |
Penistone Community Church This evangelical group has been expanding in recent years. They meet on Sundays, 3.30pm at Spring Vale Methodist Church. Affiliated to the 'Ground Level' network of churches. Reg. charity No 1087376. Penistone Community Church, Facebook, Email: dennis@penistonefellowship.co.uk |
| Guides to Penistone |
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| Wikipedia An international encyclopaedia written by website visitors, so there will be errors and American English spellings. The Penistone page looks Okay, though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penistone |
Trans-Pennine Trail For walkers, cyclists and horse riders. TP Trail Office, c/o Barnsley MBC, Central Offices, Kendray Street, Barnsley S70 2TN. Tel 01226 772574, Fax 01226 772559. www.transpenninetrail.org.uk email: transpenninetrail@barnsley.gov.uk |
| Trip Advisor - Penistone Interesting remarks about local pubs, cafes and eateries, if sometimes skittish. Trip Advisor |
My Yorkshire - Penistone Succinct account and a map for Penistone, with a few links. http://my-yorkshire.co.uk/towns-villages/penistone.html |
| Penistone Schools |
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| Penistone Grammar School Yes that is its proper and legal name, although some people also add 'ALC', like go-faster stripes. This school can trace its roots back to 1392. Penistone Grammar School. See the PGS history page |
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| PGS Alumni The ever-popular 'Friends Reunited' website, now owned by ITV. Unfortunately, it went from hero to zero very quickly and now the excellent local site PGS Archive and Facebook do the alumni business rather better. www.friendsreunited.co.uk |
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| Scout Dike Camp School Located just outside Penistone across the road from Scout Dike reservoir. This outdoor pursuits centre also goes under the name of 'Kingswood' and 'Peak Venture Centre' although we are not quite in the Peak District of Derbyshire, (let alone east of the peak). www.kingswood.co.uk/centres/peak-venture |
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| Spring Vale Primary School A website for my old junior school, which was demolished and a new one built. They had a big reunion in Oct 2005 for fogies like me. The new school looks very modern and spacious. www.springvaleschool.org.uk |
Thurlstone Primary School A very old school dating back to something like 1880. It must be a really lovely place to learn, what with hens and gardening and heaps of enthusiasm. What a truly delightful and fun website. www.thurlstoneprimary.co.uk |
George Bernard Shaw: 'Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter!'