UKEPUNK - I AM AN ANARCHIST @ THE IRWELL WORKS BREWERY
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The Eagle & Child in Ramsbottom is named pub of the year
A pub with a social conscience is celebrating after being named the UK's best boozer.The Eagle & Child, in the market town of Ramsbottom in Lancashire, was crowned John Smith's Great British Pub Of The Year 2017 beating stiff competition from across the UK.Run by licensee Glen Duckett, the Eagle & Child serves the local community with more than just quality food and beer.The pub impressed judges with its commitment to social enterprise: giving opportunities for disadvantaged young people in the community to learn new skills and enjoy a fresh start.Duckett took on the Eagle & Child six years ago but has turned the once a run-down boozer into a thriving business, community hub and second chance for many young people.His efforts have helped more than 100 people - from young offenders to disabled youths - with more than 75 percent progressing onto a career in hospitality.Youngsters aged between 14 and 25 from local colleges are retrained and employed with a view to taking a career in the food service, hospitality and horticultural sectors via social enterprise EAT Pennines.Ed Bedington, editor of the Morning Advertiser which organises the awards, said: 'The Eagle and Child is a great example of what can be achieved in the modern pub trade.'This is not only a first rate operation, with a great food and drink offer in stylish surroundings, this is a pub that is truly giving back to the community.'We talk about pubs being part of the fabric of the communities within which they operate, and this couldn't be truer for Glen's business.'We created the awards to provide recognition for operators that are going above and beyond in the pub sector, and Glen is a worthy holder of the title of Great British Pub of the Year. Congratulations to him and his team.'The Great British Pub Awards have been running for 17 years with pubs from across the UK compete for awards across 17 categories, with one winner going on to be selected as the overall Great British Pub of the Year.Pubs are judged across a number of stages, with industry experts helping to whittle down the field to six finalists in each category, followed by site visits and a final panel interview grilling to finish.Glenn said: 'I'm absolutely in awe. To pick up Best Partnership Pub and then Best Pub overall is just amazing. I'm totally overwhelmed.'We won the award I was expecting to win but this has totally caught me by surprise. We really weren't expecting it.'I'm elated by what we have done and how we push young people to make themselves as employable as possible.'Meanwhile other pubs up and down the country were also celebrating with Temple Brew House in London scooping Beer Pub Of The Year, Bristol's Eastfield Inn named as Family Pub Of The Year and the Pub Garden Of The Year award going to The Waterside Inn in Ware, Hertfordshire.
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Irwell Sessions at Ramsbottom Festival
Cheetham Hill Junction
Cheetham Hill Junction signal box was situated between Manchester Victoria and Thorpes Bridge Junction originally controlling the junction to Queens Road and the Bury line. The signal box closed at 02:00 on 15th September 1998 when the Manchester Victoria East Junction to Thorpes Bridge Junction line closed completely. For a short time in 1997, I was a signalman at this box and it was at this time the video was shot. The video features clips of passenger, freight and light engine workings.
Black Pudding Throwing Championships 2014
Our Thwaites pub 'The Oaks' in Ramsbottom held the annual 175th Black Pudding throwing Championships on Sept 14th, 2014. The pub played host to 2000 guests looking on as event competitors threw black puddings in an attempt to dislodge a stack of giant Yorkshire puddings from a 20 foot high plinth. Not forgetting a special Black Pudding Cask Ale brewed especially for the day! A top notch day, roll on next year
57313 & 45407 & 44871 Black 5's arrive and depart Carlisle 23/01/16
First time I have ever seen a steam train and it was amazing! Two Black 5's along with a Class 57 at the back. Hope you all enjoy! It may not be the Flying Scotsman but it was still the best thing I have ever seen! Watch in 720p HD for the best quality in the video!
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Note: This video will not have the intro of the Class 380 as it's a Railtour service and it would ruin the video.
Many thanks to Graham Tyre for letting me use his amazing camera to film the whole thing and many thanks to him for taking photos on my camera while I was filming!
Units seen in this video:
Class 57 (57313) West Coast Railways
45407 Black 5
44871 Black 5
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UKEPUNK - THE PUNK POLICE @ THE BEAUMONT, CHORLEY
Eagle and Child Pub
A brief intro to the Eagle and Child Pub I made form my students while I was in Oxford this past summer (2009), and its significance to the Inklings, among them my two favorite authors, CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien
Map and Steads and the Irwell Pike.
From the 2nd episode of Map and Steads. Map, Steads and Hugh the Student go in search of the mythical Salford beastie. Only one thing is certain they are going to need a bigger boat.
UKEPUNK - LOVE SONG @ THE FIRST CHOP
Girl Across The Road - UkePunk & The Forty Thieves live at The First Chop
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UkePunk & The Forty Thieves
Live at The First Chop Sept 01 2011
Girl Across The Road
UkePunk - Uke/Vocals
Andy Moore - Bass/Vocals
Lee Murphy - Cajon/Vocals
Damien Heakin - Giant Uke/Vocals
Filmed by Rik Entwistle (Point Blank)
UKEPUNK - LOVE SONG @ RAMSBOTTOM FESTIVAL 2013
Lancashire | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:20 1 History
00:02:29 1.1 Early history
00:03:48 1.2 Modern history
00:06:52 2 Geography
00:07:00 2.1 Divisions and environs
00:07:41 2.2 Geology, landscape and ecology
00:09:30 2.3 Green belt
00:10:09 3 Politics
00:10:18 3.1 Parliamentary constituencies
00:10:28 3.2 County Council
00:10:58 3.3 Duchy of Lancaster
00:12:35 4 Economy
00:14:45 4.1 Enterprise zone
00:15:31 4.2 Economic output
00:15:51 5 Education
00:16:55 6 Transport
00:17:03 6.1 Road
00:18:13 6.2 Rail
00:18:46 6.3 Air
00:19:19 6.4 Ferry
00:19:47 6.5 Bus
00:20:07 7 Demography
00:20:55 8 Population change
00:21:04 9 Settlements
00:21:26 9.1 Areas
00:21:51 9.2 Historic areas
00:22:47 10 Symbols
00:23:30 11 Sport
00:23:39 11.1 Cricket
00:24:23 11.2 Football
00:25:50 11.3 Rugby League
00:26:45 11.4 Archery
00:27:05 11.5 Wrestling
00:27:31 12 Music
00:27:40 12.1 Folk music
00:29:27 12.2 Classical music
00:31:38 12.3 Popular music
00:32:52 13 Cuisine
00:35:30 14 Places of interest
00:35:43 15 Filmography
00:36:29 16 See also
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Lancashire ( LANG-kə-shər, -sheer; abbreviated Lancs.) is a ceremonial county in North West England. The administrative centre is Preston. The county has a population of 1,449,300 and an area of 1,189 square miles (3,080 km2). People from Lancashire are known as Lancastrians.
The history of Lancashire begins with its founding in the 12th century. In the Domesday Book of 1086, some of its lands were treated as part of Yorkshire. The land that lay between the Ribble and Mersey, Inter Ripam et Mersam, was included in the returns for Cheshire. When its boundaries were established, it bordered Cumberland, Westmorland, Yorkshire, and Cheshire.
Lancashire emerged as a major commercial and industrial region during the Industrial Revolution. Liverpool and Manchester grew into its largest cities, with economies built around the docks and the cotton mills respectively. These cities dominated global trade and the birth of modern industrial capitalism. The county contained several mill towns and the collieries of the Lancashire Coalfield. By the 1830s, approximately 85% of all cotton manufactured worldwide was processed in Lancashire. Accrington, Blackburn, Bolton, Burnley, Bury, Chorley, Colne, Darwen, Manchester, Nelson, Oldham, Preston, Rochdale and Wigan were major cotton mill towns during this time. Blackpool was a centre for tourism for the inhabitants of Lancashire's mill towns, particularly during wakes week.
The historic county was subject to a significant boundary reform in 1974 which created the current ceremonial county and removed Liverpool and Manchester, and most of their surrounding conurbations to form the metropolitan and ceremonial counties of Merseyside and Greater Manchester. The detached northern part of Lancashire in the Lake District, including the Furness Peninsula and Cartmel, was merged with Cumberland and Westmorland to form Cumbria. Lancashire lost 709 square miles of land to other counties, about two fifths of its original area, although it did gain some land from the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Today the ceremonial county borders Cumbria to the north, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and North and West Yorkshire to the east; with a coastline on the Irish Sea to the west. The county palatine boundaries remain the same as those of the pre-1974 county with Lancaster serving as the county town, and the Duke of Lancaster (ie the Queen) exercising sovereignty rights, including the appointment of lords lieutenant in Greater Manchester and Merseyside.