| Penistone & District Websites (Please Note: The RBL entry has been moved to the more appropriate 'Clubs and Societies' page) |
This is Penistone
Local news, events and happenings, including the occasional local job. Sign up for their emails. Sister website to Penistone Fm. See media section of Links Page
www.thisispenistone.co.uk |
Penistone Info
Non-profit, independent website, hosted by Eskia Computers. Plenty of interesting information.
www.penistone.info |
Community Spirit Magazine
New in November 2010, Issue 1 of this little booklet landed on our doormats with its ads and interesting short articles. It's a good start and a new resource for the events list.
www.communityspiritmagazine.co.uk Tel. 07702 083 836 Email |
Oxspring Parish
Oxspring is a small but growing village community of just over 400 households, just a couple of miles away from Penistone on the main A629 Sheffield Road.
www.oxspring-parish.com - www.thelocalchannel.co.uk/oxspring/home.aspx |
Penistone Online
Sponsored by Penistone council, its apostrophes were refitted by literate grown-ups after the yoofs ran it but the new PTC website has usurped it now. Grab the old one while it is still there. Lots of info and some of the old council minutes from before they 'went private'.
www.penistone.uk.com. |
Visit Penistone - 'The Pennine Heart of Yorkshire South'
Showcases what Penistone can offer: shops, eating out, events list, accommodation, etc. Tidy website with nifty 360 degree pictures. I wish I had thought of that first.
www.visitpenistone.co.uk Charity No. 1112840. From PDCP (see left). |
Penistone Town Council
Their snazzy new website has style and functionality and brings them into the 21st century. Now they will be able to catch up with the best customs and practises of other councils in the area. It has been said at a PTC meeting that archived minutes will become available on the website but they are not an immediate priority. Until then, access will the same as the old horse & cart days - by visiting the Clerk's office during working hours.
www.penistonetowncouncil.gov.uk. The Essential Clerk's Guide is very interesting. |
'Penistone & District Community Partnership' - PDCP
This group was openly convened (local people were invited) and has done a lot of good for Penistone with various projects. It shares the same address and possibly the same people as EPIP below but it is nowhere as secretive. As a registered charity, its accounts are open to public scrutiny. 'Town Hall House', Shrewsbury Road, Penistone, S36 6DY.
www.penistonepartnership.org.uk - Charity No. 1112840 |
Penistone and District Society
One of Penistone's best-kept secrets. They have a noticeboard outside the Post Office which reveals little of their activities. Even visiting their AGM revealed little about their purpose. They have a large, if somewhat elderly and distinguished membership with good local connections. They are not even slightly interested in recruiting new members, bless 'em. For all that, they are quite happy. Their main activities appear to be centred on walking, arranging trips and listening to guest speakers but they have also done good things to preserve and protect Penistone's heritage.
No website and none is likely. See Charity Commission for No. 1020959. |
'East Peak Innovation Partnership' - EPIP
This 'Leader' group has secret origins and operates as a self-appointed, closed group. 'East Peak' is not on any map. (We are north of the Dark Peak). The disparate communities of Ecclesfield, Bradfield, Denby Dale and Kirkburton (these last two in Kirklees) are joint members. Its finances are secret and most of its governing body hide themselves from the website. They must be very shy. For your amusement, read their T&C page first, which is very nervous about us copying anything down. Talk about paranoid - Get real!
www.epip.org.uk. Tel 01226 763373. Disclosed members. Email info@epip.org.uk |
| Churches |
Penistone Parish Church
Some churches are red-brick; some are tin sheds; some are works of modern art. Others are medieval, of ancient Yorkshire stone and with a great big 500-year-old square Norman tower. Those sort are special and earn a simpler title in the community. It's a bit like Lulu, we don't call her Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, now do we? Never mind the trendies with all this 'St John's Church' nonsense, its proper title is plain old 'Penistone Church' and always will be. I'm sure that the Saint himself would understand. St John was one of my favourite biblical characters. Used to eat locusts, you know. And dunk people in water. Funny sort of fellow but he had some good mates. You could enjoy a beer or two with someone like that.
www.penistonecofe.co.uk - The virtual tour is a delight. |
Penistone Community Church
This evangelical group has been expanding in recent years. They now meet Sundays 10am at St John's Junior School, after 21 years at the Community Centre. Affiliated to the 'Ground Level' network of churches. Penistone Church started using the 'Community' tag until someone pointed out that this group also existed. Registered charity No 1087376.
www.penistonecommunitychurch.org.uk Email: dennis@penistonefellowship.co.uk |
Penistone Christian Fellowship
Does just what it says on the label. A stylish website from a webmeister supreme, Nick Hillman.
www.penistonefellowship.co.uk |
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 near PGS, when that was sold off in the 1970s. Now it is home to weekly organ concerts and other events when it is not being a church.
http://standrewspenistone.org.uk |
| Guides to Penistone |
Wikipedia
An international encyclopaedia written by the website visitors, so there will be errors and American English spellings. The Penistone page looks OK, 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 |
The Knowhere Guide to Penistone
You'll love this one, especially the pub guide, even if it is well out of date. It started as a kid's skateboard site but developed into an entertaining 'warts and all' guide to places throughout the UK. Some good laughs and yoof-full smelling pistakes. Not to worry, as long as they can't string a few words together properly, it keeps the older ones in a job.
www.knowhere.co.uk |
QYPE
Looks like a listings site for eating and drinking out.
www.qype.co.uk |
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 |
 Penistone Grammar School
Yes that is its proper and legal name. This school can trace its roots back to 1392. The Clarel coat of arms has been used by the school for a very long time and is adopted by local organisations as Penistone's de-facto logo, even in the Town Hall. The six heraldic birds are martlets - footless birds. They are good at falling over. The school's name is currently under attack as 'School' sounds old-fashioned while the aspirational name 'Advanced Learning Centre' suggests an output fit for better employment than MacDonald's. Time will tell.
www.barnsley.org/penistone-grammar See the PGS history page |
PGS Penistone LocalBiz
Business Directory enthusiastically run by the PGS Sixth Form Centre. A key part of academic studies and a free promotional service for local business and home workers. The new website looks very professional now. Someone needs to trawl for information now. You can raid mine but Mr Google knows everything you need. Well done everyone.
http://penistone.localbizproject.com/index.php Tel: 01226 762114 |
PGS Parents Association
A nice easy URL to remember:
www.school-portal.co.uk/ZoneHomepage.asp?ZoneID=3972 |
PGS Alumni
The ever-popular 'Friends Reunited' website, now owned by ITV:
www.friendsreunited.co.uk |
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.
www.springvaleschool.org.uk |
Thurlstone Primary School
It is a very old school which dates back to something like 1880 and many of the Briggs family were brought up and educated there. 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 |
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). A large wooden tower used to dominate its skyline but it has shrunk somewhat.
www.kingswood.co.uk/school-trips/activity-centres/peak-district.html |
