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It's All About the Boy
No, it's not the film, it's a boys' clothes shop in Scissett. The girls have almost a monopoly on clothes so it was about time that someone gave the lads a chance. Mind you, all they really need is a pair of torn jeans, a sweatshirt, smelly trainers and a droopy smurf-like hat that they will wear all year round, indoors or out.
www.itsallabouttheboy.com Tel. 01484 865192
Jackie's Fancy Dress Shop
The name says it all. Very long established and they make their own designs.
www.jackiesfancydress.co.uk Tel. 01226 765567
Little Trekkers
Outdoor gear specialists for kids. Great adverts on Penistone FM and a lively website to boot, with competitions and nice little rhymes.
www.littletrekkers.co.uk Tel 01226 767321
Zeanti
Zeanti is a ladies' clothes shop on Penistone High Street with a good range of creative clothing. The name comes from the sisters' names, Zoe and Toni ('zee' and tee). Hang on, that should be Zedanti. Nah, it doesn't scan.
www.zeanti.co.uk Email: GlenOkehHewitt@aol.com Tel. 01226 767441
Auckland's Opticians
Aucklands have a history stretching over more than fifty-five years and they have seven branches in all. They also do home visits and hearing tests. Now situated in a busy corner of Penistone on Back Lane.
www.aucklandopticians.com Tel: 01226 766996, Email: info@aucklandopticians.co.uk
Clark's Chemist
Officially a pharmacy but everyone calls it 'Clark's Chemist'. Pharmaceuticals, ladies' smellies, make-up, lollipops, watches, clocks, ornaments, mugs, gents' toiletries, shaving tackle, shampoo, stuff for bad feet, runny noses and smelly armpits, you name it. The best place for liquorice, including Imps.
Order prints from digital photos online and download free 'desktop kiosk' software (about 23 MB) or just walk in with your memory card or CD, press a few buttons and they will do the rest. Try to ignore the obsequious American accent on the machine. Clarks' prints are cheaper than from an inkjet and won't fade as quickly - because they are on proper photographic paper. All of Penistone's oldest phone numbers are in the 2000s and 3000s.
www.amclarkltd.co.uk Tel. 01226 763103.
Penistone Dental Care
Located on the High Street, they are very central to Penistone.
www.penistonedentalcare.co.uk
Select Nailcare
It seems that there is a radio station in Barnsley. Natalie works for them when she isn't caressing the cuticles. Her nail salon is in Penistone but its address is not findable on the website. You can have a 10% discount if you print the discount page off and bring it with you. Ah, but you've got to find them first. It's a funny old world.
http://selectnailcare.com Tel. 01226 379133, Email: info@selectnailcare.com
Eskia Computers
Located in Oxspring, Eskia provide a wide range of computer support services from personal PCs to corporate networks. These chaps are up to date with the latest developments and have loads of experience and knowhow. I might even buy my next home PC from them. They also let me use their web server for various downloads. Nice people.
www.eskia.co.uk Tel. 01226 812000, Email: info@eskia.co.uk
Info XS Website Design
An impressive website from Nick Hillman of Don Street, who is is also an architectural photographer. Nick designs loads of cool websites, such as Spring Vale School's. He keeps very busy, just like an imp.
www.infoxs.co.uk Tel: 07799 06855
Bryella Interiors
This well-established local business (30+ years) moved from Spring Vale (where new houses are precariously perched on the ridge top near the viaduct) to Myrefield on Lee Lane near Millhouse Green.
The company name comes from Bryan Marsh and his missus Elaine. Bryella designs, manufactures, supplies & installs furnishings for homes and businesses, such as fine quality handmade curtains, blinds, loose covers and soft furnishings. They even have snazzy remote-controlled curtains for the cat to play with.
www.bryella.co.uk Tel: 01226 767124, Email: sales@bryella.co.uk
Creative Cabinets
Nothing to do with Downing Street but furniture, kitchen fittings and beds. Located just down the road from the RBL Club, on the left of the railway arches.
www.creativecabinets.co.uk Nice phone number: 01226 763000
(The) Fire Place
The hottest business in Penistone? Two floors of traditional and contemporary fireplaces, fires and stoves. Next door to 'the bridge' pub at 3 Thurlstone Road. Open every day.
www.fireplacepenistone.co.uk Tel. 01226 766366, Email: penistonefires@aol.com
GD Walters Ltd.
Kitchens, bedrooms and appliances (not the jock-strap variety). Bang opposite Penistone Post Office, officially at 11b Market Street.
www.gdwalters.co.uk Tel 01226 765456, Email: information@gdwalters.co.uk
JT Smith's Interiors
Curtains, blinds, Greek urns, giftware, big clocks, lights, pictures and a range of furniture suitable for at least an arm and a leg. Settees made to any size in fabric or leather (I'm not posh enough to use the effete 'sofa'). Right in the middle of Penistone.
Back to being www.jtsinteriors.com but also try www.sofaz.co.uk Phone/Fax: 01226 763318, Email: info@jtsinteriors.com
Love Wood Furniture
Custom hand-made furniture and kitchens from Clive Leacock in his workshop at: Lodge Farm, Upper Midhope, S36 4GX. He is a highly skilled cabinet maker with over 15 years of experience.
www.lovewoodfurniture.co.uk Email: clive@lovewoodfurniture.co.uk Tel. 01226 767468
Nigel Tyas - 'Handmade in Yorkshire'
Nigel is a local lad and a high-quality craftsman who makes wondrous ironwork doo-dahs such as: wrought iron, candlesticks, mechanical doorbells, wall sconces, holdbacks, brackets, rings, portieres (wall or door mounted), menorah, gates, railings and even obelisks. Located at Bullhouse Mill, Lee Lane, Millhouse Green.
www.nigeltyas.co.uk Tel. 01226 766618
Zuzu - Alternative Living & Gifts
Not strictly Penistone but what the 'eck, I know the proprietor. Local and fairtrade fancy goods of all sorts, such as: bath things, aromatic oils, range of teapots, incense, gemstones, pongy soaps, home & garden novelties.
www.zuzushop.co.uk
Pubs and Eateries
Also see the pubs page for a quick list of pub phone numbers and details of Penistone Town centre pubs.
Cinnamon Spice
Licensed curry restaurant and takeaway at 5 Market Street with chatty staff which makes it eminently fitting to our nosey culture. Comfortable and tidy and can be recommended. An easy phone number to remember - think 'Penistone 6006' as most Penistone numbers start with 76. Opened February 2007.
www.cinnamonspice-penistone.co.uk Tel. 01226 766006
Dog and Partridge
Bordhill, Flouch. Located high on the windy A628 Manchester road about four miles from Penistone, towards the border of a strange land beyond - Lancashire. Good ales and food, with a traditional Yorkshire menu and sponge puddings - with proper custard. There's also a veggie menu but this pub leans more towards the huntin' and shootin' way of life. Licensed for Civil Weddings.
www.dogandpartridgeinn.co.uk Tel 01226 763173, Fax 01226 379731
The Huntsman
Lively CAMRA pub in Thurlstone on the main Manchester Road. Quiz night on Wednesdays. It is well-regarded in the area for having the very best range of fine traditional beers for miles around and it can be found in the Good Beer Guide. Not a gastropub but they do Sunday dinner, 2pm - 7pm (or until they run out) with a veggie option. Free pub games on offer include darts, dominoes, cards, ringing the bull, bagatelle, shove ha'penny, bar skittles and giant jenga. Licensed for Civil Weddings.
www.thehuntsmanthurlstone.co.uk Tel. 01226 764892
(Ye Olde) Mustard Pot
Posh eating place at Midhopestones village just over the hill from Penistone, if you can follow Mortimer Road. In fact, there's not much else in the village. Called the 'Club Inn' in the good old days when it was the favourite watering hole for farmers.
www.mustardpot.co.uk Tel. 01226 761155
Waggon and Horses
This Oxspring pub/eatery is old. It started as a one room pub for navvies building the railway more than 150 years ago. It's bigger now and has sprouted the Rafters Function Bar, in a spacious room upstairs which is available for private functions seven days a week.
www.thewaggon-oxspring.co.uk Tel. 01226 763259
Wortley Hall and Gardens
Posh eatery and wedding venue. Also Bed & Breakfast.
www.wortleyhall.org.uk Tel. 01142 882 100
Rachael McShane
Rachael is a Penistone lass, a cellist and the only girl in the eleven-piece folk big-band, Bellowhead. Unlike many folk performers, she doesn't put on a pretend Cornish accent to make the point that it is 'folk'. Bellowhead was on BBC TV's 'Later with Jules Holland' in 2006. Rachael is now embarking on a solo career and works alongside musicians whose backgrounds are rooted more in jazz, soul and funk than in folk. Rachael's band has a debut album out now called ‘No Man’s Fool’. I know her dad Chris, who has long been a musician in the folk tradition.
www.rachaelmcshane.com also MySpace: www.myspace.com/rachaelmcshane, Bellowhead: www.bellowhead.co.uk
Rick Mayberry
Versatile guitar-vocalist, DJ, karaoke, session musician, guitar tutor and sound technician. Rick knows the guitar (I mean really knows the guitar - he's good) and will play at weddings, functions and parties. Go and see him live if you can catch him at a gig. Come on Rick, time to get noticed. No website yet. Debut album 'Wrong Man, Wrong Time' on iTunes from 10th Aug 2010.
Tel. 07717 105733.
Penistone's Author
Allyson Bird's book 'Bull Running for Girls' ISBN: 978-1-906652-01-2 (aimed at adults) is a very readable collection of short supernatural/dark fiction stories, 'where adventure meets horror'. Some of the stories are set around Penistone and Cubley. I found it to be good and compelling reading and I loved the spooky cover illustrations. Allyson says: "My stories are set in all the countries that I’ve travelled to and lived in, including China, Italy, Spain.... Cubley. The lady on the intro isn’t me but was photographed by the award-winning artist Vincent Chong."
Within this collection are "Females who cause trouble, some who help you out of it and some who just can’t leave it alone." Also described as "... a writer of organized chaos. Her work is Halloween candy with razor blades in it."
Another collection is on its way: 'Wine and Rank Poison' will be published by Dark Regions Press in 2010. Allyson's debut novel 'Isis Unbound' is also in the pipeline.
www.birdsnest.me.uk/news.htm
Barnsley Chronicle
This broadsheet for Barnsley area celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2008. The 'Chron' does proper campaigning from time to time and has often been sympathetic to Penistone's woes at the hands of Barnsley council. Seven variants are printed each week including the 'Penistone' version, with a small section for us.
www.barnsley-chronicle.co.uk, Email editorial@barnsley-chronicle.co.uk Switchboard: 01226 734734
Community Times
A website and a sporadic leaflet. Nationally based (eg. prize-winners in Ipswich, etc.) but our version of the leaflet has interesting local content.
www.ctpenistone.co.uk Tel. 07815 061379
Huddersfield Examiner
A newspaper with a wide coverage including our area and available in Penistone outlets. Many Examiner readers wrote to the letters page when our historic Livestock market was destroyed in preparation for the Tesco. In fact, The Examiner and its readers often show a lot of interest in our area.
www.examiner.co.uk, Contact via website.
Look Local
Freebie newspaper for the Stocksbridge side of the hill with sporadic distribution in the Penistone area.
www.looklocal.org.uk Tel. 0114 283 1100
Pen and Sword
This Barnsley publisher has a surprisingly wide range of historical books, including local ones. Same address as Barnsley Chronicle. Well worth a look.
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk Tel. 01226 734222, 24-hr ansafone 01226 734555, Fax 01226 734438
S36 - Time In, Time Out
A free little pamphlet from Deepcar with adverts, phone numbers and articles for the S36 postal zone. It is delivered to S36 addresses but leans more towards the Stocksbridge side. It always has some items of interest for the Penistone area. The website is for the S35 postal area, for which they also do a leaflet.
www.timeintimeout.co.uk. To advertise, email: enquiries@timeintimeout.co.uk or call Simon Lee on 07739 901874 or Adam Nield on 07796 142892
See the 'Online Penistone' page for local radio station Penistone FM.
Argo Feeds
The company name comes from Arnold Goldthorpe and their animal feed business goes back to 1939. Their high quality and natural products are produced free from growth promoters, artificial colorants or medicinal additives for; horse, poultry, cattle, turkey, pigs, game, sheep, goats and household pets. Last business on the left as you leave Spring Vale.
www.argofeeds.com Tel: 01226 762341, Fax: 01226 766707 info@argofeeds.co.uk
Hadrian's Dry Stone Walls
Based in Silkstone Common, this business also provides training courses, which are: Beginners Course, Corporate and Private Courses, Improvers Course, Special Features Course, Walling for Women. The last one could prove to be a cheaper alternative to divorcing their husbands. A drop of hemlock and a new extension. Video clips on their website explain what they are all about.
www.hadriansdrystonewalls.co.uk Tel. (mob) 07952 551025
Melvyn Carr
Lots of good stuff, including: agricultural supplies, dairy equipment, fencing, blue stain to make your sheep look pretty. Don't forget the green wellies and body warmers (for you, not the sheep).
http://melvyncarrltd.com Tel: 01226 764917 Fax: 01226 764918 Email enquiries@melvyncarrltd.com
Raw Green Cottages
If you want to buy laying chickens or hatching eggs, here's where to get them in Cawthorne. Just don't ask which came first.
www.rawgreencottages.co.uk Tel. 07502 009103
Accurate Industrial Doors
Specialist in the supply and installation, maintenance and repair of all types of industrial doors and domestic garage doors. Address: 19 Hoyland Close, Milhouse Green, Sheffield, S36 9NJ. Always a good idea to start with an 'A'.
www.accurateindustrialdoors.co.uk Email: info@accurateindustrialdoors.co.uk, Tel: 01226 762105, Fax: 01226 762602
Clayton's
Clayton & Co (Penistone) Limited are mechanical and electrical project engineers. Their area of work appears to cover a wide scope, including control systems, detonators, electro-mechanical installation/servicing, control panels, valves, filters, etc. Company established in 1888.
www.clayton-penistone.co.uk Tel. 01226 763130
Flouch Engineering Co. Ltd.
It says: 'Flouch is a leading manufacturer of refractory anchors and stainless steel fixings with over 50 years experience in design and production.' At Hazlehead, Flouch is not the same as Flouch Engineering opposite the cop-shop. Same family but this one is run by Graham Hoyland (Liz's dad), the other one by Peter (Nick's dad).
www.refractory-anchors.co.uk Tel. 01226 763239, Fax: 01226 370205, General Enquiries Email: contact@refractory-anchors.co.uk
It's For Hire
Skip firm based in Penistone, who also deal in small plant hire and ground works. Skip Hire, Tool Hire, Grab Wagon, Digger, Dumper and Groundworks. Also a whacker plate for Scousers, an electric breaker to ruin the electrics and (at last something I understand) a carpet cleaner.
http://www.itsforhire.co.uk Tel/Fax 01226 761212, Mobiles: 07976 409027 and 07976 408977
Lavender International
This company started life in non-destructive testing but now specialises in training courses. Next to Penistone railway station in a big boxy building and behind lots of other lavender-coloured doors in the old station building. Snazzy website. Steve Lavender also does good things for the community such as sponsoring local events.
www.lavender-ndt.com Tel. 01226 765769
Maw's Skip Hire
Based in Unit 1, Laurence Works Industrial Estate, Spring Vale. Just about every skip in the area has 'Maw' on the side. Appropriate name really.
www.mawskips.co.uk Freephone: 0800 781 1074, Email: info@mawskips.co.uk
Penistone Reinforcements Ltd.
All these years and I've never noticed a wiremill on Talbot Road. They say that it's been there for more than forty years but I still can't find it. Close to the White Heart.
www.penistonereinforcements.com Tel: 01226 762158
Whitby & Chandler
Manufacturer of rubber mouldings, seals, packings & gaskets and other rubbery wotsits. Established 1923, Whitby & Chandler Ltd. is a major UK supplier of gasket and sheet materials. Located on Green Road in Spring Vale near 'Birdcage Walk'.
www.whitby-chandler.co.uk/index.html Tel: 01226 37038
Denroyd Farm
An up and coming venue for parties, weddings, gigs, hog roasts or what-have-you. Denroyd Farm is not far from Penistone, located at Upper Denby.
www.denroydfarm.co.uk, Weddings & Parties, call Racheal 07917 582451, Email denroydfarmweddings@hotmail.co.uk
Digital World
Not in Penistone (Hoyland) but they cover a wide area to mostly install satellite dishes. In fact, as contractors to Sky, they are properly trained in the art of fitting Sky dishes and know the jobsworth rules about fitting dishes on council houses. If you want Freesat installed for loads of subscription-free TV channels, give Dave a call. What he doesn't know about installing dishes ain't worth knowing.
www.digitalworld.com Mob. 07947 991849
Frank Platt Electrical
There has been a Frank Platt's in Penistone for as long as I can remember, next to the Rose & Crown. It is always worth a look with lots of interesting things goods such as: Freesat systems, big/small screen TV, DAB and FM radio, Stereo systems, Home Theatre systems and white goods like washing machines, etc. with free delivery. Also convenient for bits and bobs like batteries, scart leads, F-plugs, adapters, timers, etc. Branches in Penistone, Honley and Holmfirth. Mr Clegg is fully qualified in TV technology (went to college the same time as I did) and I often spend some money there. Ask him about the new Freeview HD boxes.
www.frankplatt.com Tel. 01226 762228
GableLake
Photography & imaginative copy writing are brought together by Gable Lake graphic design in the production of: Corporate Identity, Corporate & Sales/Promotional Brochures, Mailers, Technical Support Manuals, Advertisements, Website Design, e-commerce, Point of Sale, Exhibition Materials & Stationery. Address: Workshop 1, 11 Church Street, Penistone, Yorkshire S36 6AR. The new booklet for Penistone Church was designed by them and it is a nice piece of design.
www.gablelake.co.uk, email adele@gablelake.co.uk, Tel. 01226 764062
Hackett's Florist
Fresh flowers, gift bouquets, wedding flowers, silk flower arrangements and funeral flowers. Will deliver in the area throughout the day.
www.hackettsflorists.co.uk Tel. 01226 762241
K. Dyson - Funeral Director
Actually, Ken Dyson passed away in (I think) 1993 but the business was continued by his son Andrew. The new premises on Barnsley Road used to be Moxon's DIY shop. The links look useful, covering all the useful bereavement things from crematoria to catering.
www.dysonfuneralservice.co.uk Tel. 01226 762481
Laura's Vintage Limousines
Wedding cars with uniformed chauffeurs. Nice motors: 1926 Vintage Austin Mayfair Limousine (5 seats), Daimler DS420 Landaulette Limousine (7 seats) and Daimler DS420 Limousine (7 seats). Based in Ingbirchworth.
www.laurasvintagelimousines.co.uk Tel. 01226 764385 or Mob. 07983 981 885
Legup Equestrian
Great name for an equestrian centre, as in "Gi' us a leg up, will tha?" Carolyn Goldstraw organises horsey events and provides training for horses and riders around Barnsley, Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Huddersfield and Wakefield areas. Based at Myrefield, Millhouse Green, Nr Penistone.
www.legupequestrian.co.uk Tel. 01226 370679, Mobile 07740 178790
Lex's Pushirons
This Spring Vale bike shop is one of Penistone's almost hidden gems. Leon Fretwell has run this shop since Methuselah was a bairn, with a wide range of bicycles, spares, bits and bobs, clothing and accessories - and skewers? (that doesn't sound too comfortable). His shop used to be Spring Vale Co-op in the days when Winnie Adams had the chip shop near Brown's.
www.lexs.co.uk Tel. 01226 763763
Light & Dark Photography
John Marshall's business is right next door to Morgan's Hair & Nails Salon and The Loft Coffee Shop, on Back Lane. His pictures are very good. Have a look here:
www.flickr.com/photos/basculetheteller
www.light-dark.com Tel. 01226 762788
Phoenix Ironing Services
This is run by local lass Lorrain in Spring Vale. She will reliably collect your box of crumpled clothes and linen from over a wide area, iron them and then deliver them back, all neat and tidy. I have an iron somewhere but it does not get much use. Yes, I know that it shows.
www.phoenix-ironing.co.uk, Tel. 07510 686486, email lorrain@phoenix-ironing.co.uk
Thurgoland Travel (Taxi Service)
Local family-run taxi service much advertised on Penistone FM. Local and airport Taxi runs. Drivers are fully CRB cleared.
www.sheffieldairporttaxi.co.uk Tel 0800 015 5060 or Mobile 07968 981169
Yummy Yorkshire Ice Cream Company
Very yummy and prize-winning ice cream, up the road from Penistone. You must try it from a shop or visit their ice-cream parlour. Drive past Melvyn Carr's at Ingbirchworth and you're there.
www.yorkshiremilk.co.uk Tel 01226 762551 email sales@yorkshiremilk.co.uk
