Inside Wilmslow & Alderley Edge Issue 41

Issue 41 December 2014 - January 2015

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In the years leading up to 2014 – this special year of remembrance- there seems to have been a growing appreciation of the sacrifice made by so many young people a hundred years ago and a realisation of just how fortunate we are today. But life seems to move on, as our attention now drifts to Christmas and New Year celebrations.

But life is fragile. As we watch the televised news, we see countries ravaged by war and disease. And if we really open our eyes, we will see hardship and sadness much closer to home.

Christmas and New Year is a good time to show our gratitude and to bring a little extra joy to those within our community. It’s a time to be generous, to create special memories, to re-assess our priorities, to be positive and to make new choices for the year ahead.

Cover photo: Window display at Hoopers

by Garth Aspinall.

Contents NCO Christmas Classics

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Best Front Cover

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Social Media

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It’s Behind You

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In Touch

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Choose U

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Sudoku 21 Simply Books Book Club Choice

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The Walk

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Luis, Great British Baker

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We wish you lots of happiness during the festive season. We hope you create lots of great memories. We hope you choose wisely and that your most important wishes come true during 2015.

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Thank you for reading and supporting this magazine.

Co-Editors

Children’s Activities

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Just 4 Kids

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Christmas Tree Collection

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Inside Guide

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Christmas Classics The Northern Chamber Orchestra (NCO) will be getting the festive season off to a melodious start with its Christmas Classics concert at Macclesfield Heritage Centre on Saturday 6 December at 7.30pm, featuring choral favourites and carols sung by Macclesfield’s King’s School Choir. The concert will offer up a delectable ‘smorgasbord’ of musical treats - from enchanting ballet music, and lively folk dances, to an all-time favourite English masterpiece, Holst’s St Paul’s Suite, and an English world premiere of Cheshire composer, Anthony Gilbert’s brand-new work, Triptych.

The following week, on Thursday 11 December at 8pm, the NCO presents its ever-popular Traditional Christmas Classics at Tatton concert a sparkling classical ‘shin-dig’ of popular classics (with a different programme to the Macclesfield concert), with some carols sung by Weaverham High School Chamber Choir and some others for the audience to join in! Merseyside poet, Terry Caffrey, will be the presenter for the evening, introducing a lively, very mixed programme of music from Tchaikovsky, Bach, Grieg, Prokofiev and Shostakovich - to good-old Leroy Anderson’s much-loved Sleigh Ride.

Traditional Christmas Classics at Tatton takes place in the Tenants’ Hall and the programme includes a dazzling, ‘champagne-cocktail’ of popular classics, festive favourites, carols and seasonal choral works. If all that, plus the chance

to look around the Christmas Mansion from 7pm, doesn’t ‘pop the Christmas cork’ - what will? Oh, and not forgetting, a warming winter drink or fruit juice is included as part of the ticket price.

This is the second time that Weaverham High School Chamber Choir has performed with the NCO, one of the country’s top chamber orchestras, at Tatton and, having scored a hit the first time around, with a ‘sell-out’, the NCO is delighted to welcome them back and recommends early booking!

The NCO Christmas concerts will give the members of Kings School Choir and Weaverham High School Chamber Choir an opportunity to work with a professional orchestra and to perform for a big and appreciative audience in historic and lovely settings at Macclesfield’s 200 year-old Heritage Centre and Tatton’s neoclassical mansion.

Tickets for both of NCO’s Christmas concerts are available from NCO Box Office: 0161 247 2220 and from Macclesfield Visitor Centre: 01625 378123.

Tickets for Traditional Christmas Classics at Tatton are also available direct from Tatton: 01625 374400, priced £20, £12 for 18s and under (includes a warming, winter drink or fruit juice and the opportunity to look around the Hall from 7pm).

Tickets for Christmas Classics at Macclesfield Heritage Centre are priced £16 auditorium / £13 balcony, £7 students and 18s and under free.

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Inside Magazines Wins ‘Best Front Cover’ Award We are delighted to tell you that Inside Magazines received a much coveted award at a recent conference of Independent Magazine Publishers.

About 100 different businesses attended the conference which was held in early October and welcomed delegates from as far afield as Australia. Short-listed in two categories, Best Editorial and Best Front Cover, we were voted Highly Commended Winner for Best Front Cover 2014. Whoopee!

The judging panel commented:

‘We love the mix of imagery and typography on this cover. A very strong simple font and design over a full bleed image is a winner. The colours change to complement the images nicely. Good use of local photography. Looks more like a magazine that could sit on a magazine stand than any of the others and would be easy to identify amongst others. This front cover has excellent local pictures that again will motivate the reader to open as well as keep the magazine’.

As this was our first ever entry in the competition, you can imagine how pleased we are. And to be one of the eight short-listed candidates for Best Editorial also gave us a great deal of pleasure.

To be highly ranked in these two important areas was fantastic.

Our Philosophy Our cover has always been graced by a full page photo. Living in a lovely part of the country, we made a conscious decision in 2006 to reflect this beauty as often as possible. It is arguably the hallmark of our magazine.

The Challenge Over nine years we have had to source some 250 quality images and the task is rarely straightforward. Adverse English weather is probably enemy number one. We often hope to depict a seasonal landscape, but unfortunately, we have to go to press before the actual season has arrived! There are two significant design constraints – firstly, the need for a portrait orientation (as dictated by the A5 format) and secondly, placement of the text which must not obscure an important part of the image.

Sometimes, images that seem wonderful in the shooting, turn out to be useless, given the above constraints.

Can you rise to the challenge?

We love to receive contributions from readers, but sadly we do receive lovely pictures, only to find that they cannot be used for the reasons given above. If you have taken pictures that you feel would be of interest, do send them to us.

If you have taken a large size picture at a high resolution, there is always the chance that we can crop the picture to size.

Just imagine – if you’re lucky and we’re lucky, we could both be winners next year.

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Social Media - Help us to engage with you.

Nothing is permanent, except change. So said Greek Philosopher Heraclitus over 2,500 years ago. And nowhere is change more unstoppable than in the world of digital media.

With the advent of the internet it was widely assumed that the writing was on the wall for printed media such as our magazines. But then, along came social media, which changed the way we communicate again. It is a great tool for community magazines like ours to build relationships and engage with the local community.

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using social media. What do you use? Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Snapchat? We would love to know so that we can engage with you easily even if it’s a few weeks until our next issue is published!

If you are internet savvy, please take part in our online survey which will take just a couple of minutes to complete and we will report back next issue.

Visit www.survey-me.com/ take-a-survey/UK-IMAG-003 or scan the QR code above.

We have been dabbling with it – we have a Facebook page and a Twitter account and have recently been learning about how we could use these to better effect. But to do that we need to know more about you, our lovely readers!

In the meantime, like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/insidemags and feel free to share your community events and activities

The fact that our magazines go to every home in the area means that we don’t know exactly who’s reading them and how many of you are also

Follow us on Twitter @insidemagazines to receive regular updates, reminders about what’s on, and a whole host of interesting content!

It’s Behind You! If you’re at the Panto this Christmas, and you want to find someone to blame for Widow Twankey, badly re-written pop songs, and a theatre crammed with, hysterical children joyously yelling their heads off, blame the Greeks – because they invented Panto. The very word ‘pantomime’ comes from the Greek word which means ‘imitator of all’, and the ancients would entertain with stories performed by multitalented actors, who would tell tales well larded with comedy, tragedy and sex. When the English got hold of Pantomime in the Middle Ages, we turned it into a piece of knockabout festive theatre, known as a Mummers Play, in which local people would perform a well-worn tale (often about death and resurrection), with much audience participation and friendly heckling.

Even today, Alderley Edge has its own unique Mummers Play, containing stock characters such as a Moor, St George, a Doctor of Physick, and a strange, whirling equine creature (played by an actor) which has more than a whiff of the Pantomime Horse about it.

An Italian makeover In the 17th century, Pantomime was given a grandiose makeover by the Italians, by which

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time Pantomime-like performances were often known throughout Europe as ‘Masques’, and their definition conformed to today’s core Panto values of entertainment, laughter, audience involvement – and plenty of good sing-along tunes. Italian Panto was influenced by commedia dell’arte, a form of theatre in which professional artists travelled from town to town telling improvised comic stories, all of which had fixed clown characters, young lovers, Arlecchino and Colombina, the father of Colombina (Pantalone), and Pantalone’s servants, Pulcinella and Pierrot, one being crafty and the other being stupid.

An English takeover These characters made their way into equivalent English entertainments, from which our own English Harlequinade developed, depicting the eloping lovers Harlequin and Columbine, pursued by the girl’s father, Pantaloon, and his comic servants Clown and Pierrot. By the 18th century, Harlequin was the central figure and romantic lead – and the basic plot of the harlequinade remained essentially the same for more than 150 years. Eventually, Pantomime’s stories embraced European fairy tales, classic English literature and nursery rhymes, and the Pantomime as we know it today began to take shape. At Christmas

performances, children would attend so as to witness the comedy and silliness of the highlight of the show, the harlequinade chase scene; it was fast-paced, and often contained spectacular magic, slapstick comedy, dancing and acrobatics.

The familiar modern Panto These days, Pantomime story-lines and scripts usually make no direct reference to Christmas, and are almost always based on traditional children’s stories, such as Cinderella, Aladdin, Dick Whittington and Jack and the Beanstalk.

The leading male (the ‘Principal Boy’) is often played by a young woman in tight-fitting male garments that make her female charms even more evident, plus other stock characters include the pantomime dame, usually played by a man in drag, plus there is almost always a pantomime horse, a good fairy – and plenty of spectacle provided by an all-star cast. Depending on how big and opulent the production is, you might be lucky enough to see genuine acting talent on stage (the Shakespearian actor Ian McKellen was Widow Twankey in a memorable 2004 production of Aladdin), though provincial Pantos are more likely to be a rather dubious parade of minor soap stars, semi-forgotten comedians, reality show celebrities – and jobbing actors desperate for any paying gig that will see them through the Christmas period.

Nevertheless, Pantomime is a thoroughly British tradition, it’s harmless, hearty and adored by children of all ages; and it shows every sign of going on (and on, and on) for the forseeable future - oh yes it is! (your turn…)

In Touch Your Community Noticeboard The Barnby Choir The Barnby Choir, Wilmslow, is looking forward to its second season with conductor Lloyd Buck.

group who visit different venues every month, bowls, book club, drama, knit and natter, keep fit and outings. We recently had a great tour of the TV studios at Media City, Salford. We also have interesting speakers at our meetings, the last one being Confessions of a Panto Dame, which was hilarious. We are looking forward to our Christmas party with great food cooked by our members and entertainment by our drama group.

You are welcome to pop in for a visit or for more information call our secretary Sue on 0161 485 6684.

This season opens with a Christmas Concert on Sunday 7 December at 7.30pm at Wilmslow United Reformed Church. The programme includes Benjamin Britten’s “Ceremony of Carols” accompanied on the harp by Angelina Burton. There will also be challenging and enjoyable music by Mozart, Byrd, John Tavener and a piece composed by Lloyd Buck, plus some more traditional carols.

Tickets cost £12, £10 (Concessions), £5 (Students) and are available in advance from Anne Macdonald on 07810 517464 or on the door.

The season continues with a performance of Mendelssohn’s Elijah on Saturday 21st March at St. Bartholomew’s Church , Wilmslow and finally back to Wilmslow United Reformed Church on Saturday May 16th for a concert of European Sacred Music plus pieces by American composers Eric Whitacre and Morten Lauridsen.

Italian Conversation Classes Learn Italian in a very relaxed and informal way.

We concentrate on conversation with a little bit of grammar. Our tutors are all native Italians and every meeting follows a different theme with a tutor sitting at a table with only 5 or 6 students.

For further information about the Barnby Choir please contact the Choir Secretary on 0161 485 1659 or visit www.thebarnbychoir.co.uk

We have an offer on at the moment so the lessons cost £15 each if you book a series of 7 (consecutive) or more. This includes all material, flash cards and a glass of wine.

Dean Row WI

Italian conversation classes take place on Wednesday evenings from 8:30pm at James Doyle - 53 Alderley Rd, Wilmslow SK9 1NZ Call 07900-184318 if you have any questions or visit

We are a friendly and active group of 80 members who meet on the first Wednesday of the month from 2pm to 4pm, at the Dean Row Village Hall on Browns Lane, Wilmslow.

We have lots of activities including a luncheon

www.italianclasses.co.uk Continued over...

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CHRISTMAS AT EARLAMS Earlams, a community based shop, cafe and arts and crafts gallery in Styal, is planning a series of activities to mark its first Christmas opening. An exhibition which runs until January will feature the work of established artists such as William Geldart and Lou Gardiner, as well as emerging artists in the fields of ceramics, painting, textiles, wood and leather.

At the same time the shop will be offering a tempting range of new artisan produce from local suppliers and the cafe, which is already a big hit with both residents and visitors, will be serving an extended range of tasty treats.

The whole enterprise is in a building owned by the National Trust which had been vacant for several years and was brought back into use by the group using a combination of funds including the sale of shares in the community enterprise and grant sources. It provides the perfect setting for a range of activities for both residents and visitors.

Earlams was established in 2014 as an Independent Provident Society for the benefit of the community. Its purpose is to provide amenities for the village and is run mainly by voluntary effort. Any surplus from its operation will be re-invested in the village.

Carols and Brass by Candlelight St George’s Singers and Bradshaw Hall Primary School Choir are delighted to be sharing the stage for a third Christmas together at St George’s Church, Buxton Road, Stockport on 6 December. Carols and Brass by Candlelight is a now a firm favourite with its mix of Christmas carols and songs traditional and modern from the choirs (and audience!) and the warm rich sound of the award winning Vernon Building Society (Poynton) Brass Band. There’s no better way to get into the Christmas spirit than an evening of seasonal music amid twinkling candles, glittering Christmas trees and the aroma of mulled wine.

Together with mountains of mince pies it will be a treat for the senses and the family friendly start

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time of 7pm should mean that children, parents and grandparents can all enjoy it together.

Tickets can be obtained by phone, email or via the website from the Ticket secretary who can also arrange group discounts. Phone 01633 764012, email tickets@st-georges-singers.org.uk, www.st-georges-singers.org.uk

Annual Singing Day If you would like to experience singing with St George’s Singers, their annual Singing Day at St George’s Poynton on 17 January 1 2015 features Mozart Coronation Mass and Haydn Te Deum.

All are welcome to come and join a massed choir of around 200 to learn and then perform with superb soloists under the baton of the choir’s brilliant conductor Neil Taylor. As usual delicious refreshments (home-made soups, sandwiches and cakes) will be available in the church hall throughout the day.

The last three Singing Days have been a sell out so please book early to secure your place.

Contact Gillian Banks on 01925 213949 or email gillian.m.banks@gmail.com

New and regular visitors to Uniquely Chic Furniture showrooms in Goyt Mill always use the same two comments …”Aladdin’s Cave” and “Treasure Trove”. Furniture shopping here is a unique experience as you go from one room to another and marvel at the huge range of furniture and shabby chic home accessories on sale.

Founded in 2012 by Mick Bennett and Sue Scully, Uniquely Chic Furniture transforms ‘preloved’ items of furniture, mainly quality pine and oak, into wonderful hand-painted statement pieces. We can paint furniture purchased from us, or indeed your own pieces. This service also includes painting and transforming your kitchen cupboards for a completely new look without the cost and upheaval of fitting new units.

We now have a large range of French style furniture which is extremely popular, and we also offer a range of brand new contemporary furniture which is now available on our Facebook page in our new ‘Facebook Store’. This range will complement our existing individual pieces and offer you, the customer, an even bigger choice of fantastic furniture and accessories.

A collection/delivery service is available. We can arrange delivery anywhere in the country. And if you can’t visit the showroom you can buy online.

Canalside, Goyt Mill, Upper Hibbert Lane, Marple SK6 7HX Tel. 0161 484 5116 or 07785 794308 www.uniquelychicfurniture.co.uk Opening Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10am -5.30pm Sunday 11am- 4.30pm Closed Mondays (except Bank Holidays)

@be_uniquelychic

If you select a piece of furniture for painting, you pick the colour and finish, for example block colour, distressed, or shabby chic (which is very much in vogue). A change of knobs or handles can really add to the piece, and these finishes can give a really great magazine look.

Not only will you find a superb range of quality furniture on show, but a fascinating collection of mirrors, lamps, cushions, crystal chandeliers, and home accessories.

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A Completely Unique Service for Women Do you ever think about your own personal fulfilment; outside children, husband, career, house; whether pre or post retirement, divorce or empty nest…?

I take small steps then I really can achieve things that are important to me.”

Julie Knight wrote “Going on a Choose U course with Wendy Bateman is perfect for absolutely anyone. You will think outside the box and find solutions to problems you hadn’t necessarily envisaged.”

Jinny Chivers said “It helped to bring the ‘floaty’ ideas and dreams in to a constructive and achievable plan.”

Choose U is one of the first programmes of its kind in this country that actually offers group coaching and personal development sessions to women outside the work place. Wendy Bateman has had a long and varied career in health promotion; teaching and coaching children in PE, she has run a successful personal training and nutritional consultancy in Birmingham and now, as an NLP coach practitioner, is offering the new Choose U programme.

Wendy North commented “I would love to recommend Choose U! Wendy was so friendly and approachable I instantly felt relaxed. I was able to focus on areas of my life that I wanted to improve on.

Wendy’s main aim with Choose U is to give women the time and space to think constructively about their lives. She encourages them to leave their worries and other responsibilities out of the room, giving them chance to see how they could make changes to their lives for the better.

Visit www.choose-u.com or call Wendy on 077027 26001 and she can tell you more about it.

Choose U helps women to: ■■ Look honestly at and evaluate their lives now ■■ Think about where they would like to be ideally in the future ■■ Set achievable and realistic goals ■■ Recognise and deal with any barriers that could stop them ■■ Regain their identity again Extra services include: ■■ ‘Think yourself Slim’ sessions (no quick fixes but sustainable weight loss) ■■ Fun and informative Tea Parties with inspirational guest speakers Kylie Turner said “My sessions with Choose U made me realise that I can change my life and if

If you feel that you have lost some of your identity and don’t really know what you want to do next with your life, book now for the New Year. Start afresh and become motivated and inspired in January with Choose U.

Sudoku

How to play Sudoku Fill in the grid so that each row, column and 3x3 box, contains the numbers 1 through to 9 with no repetition.

You don’t need to be a genius.

These puzzles use logic alone.

Watch out! Sudoku is highly addictive.

Solution on page 42.

Simply Books Book Club Choice We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler is an unusual book – there’s an extraordinary twist in the story which also makes it a difficult book to review without revealing ‘spoilers’! When we chose the book for our book club other members of the group kept popping into the shop asking if I’d reached page 77 yet (at which point the secret is out...so no peeping!). It’s that rare thing, a comic novel that also wrestles with some serious moral questions. On the face of it this is the story of a family growing up in America in the seventies – and the devastating fall-out after a young daughter is sent away – but there’s a lot more going on under the surface. It’s told with a wonderful lightness of touch and the author’s story-telling reveals just enough, a little at a time, to keep us on our toes. This is a heartbreaking read - a deeply moral look at what it means to be human and how human beings treat each other and the world around them. The novel was shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker.

Christmas is upon us and with it the seasonal crop of ‘quirky’ books (last minute stockingfillers!). Our favourites so far are Terrible Estate Agent Photos - a collection of the most baffling

property photographs ever taken – and Mangled English by Gervase Phinn – a light hearted look at the mishandling of the English language, from Spoonerisms to classroom howlers.

On a more serious note Carol Ann Duffy’s Christmas poem this year is Dorothy Wordsworth’s Christmas Birthday – set in the frozen landscape of the Lake District, where a merry celebration is about to begin in the Wordsworth’s cottage, and beautifully illustrated

by Tom Duxbury.

And for children...one of our favourites is How to hide a Lion from Grandma by Helen Stephens.

This is a brand new story but it has an oldfashioned charm and the soft pastel illustrations give this picture book a retro feel. Grandma is coming to stay so Iris needs to hide her lion as grandmas can get anxious if they find a lion in the house - but grandma seems to be hiding something too! Iris is delightful and her funloving grandma is totally endearing. The perfect granny-gift for Christmas!

Simply Books, 228 Moss Lane, Bramhall, Cheshire SK7 1BD 0161 439 1436 Open Tuesday to Saturday 9am to 5.30pm Sue Steel & Andrew Cant www.simplybooks.info

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The Walk - Monsal Dale and Miller’s Dale Route: A6 from Hazel Grove towards Buxton; left on A623 towards Chesterfield; 2 miles past the turn for Tideswell, turn right on to the B6465 through Wardlow for Monsal Head. Turn right in front of the hotel and right down a steep hill. In half a mile park on the left in a lay by parking area beyond some cottages.

Walk: 7 miles with two short but fairly steep hills and one steep descent. Use White Peak OS Map 24.

Walk back from the lay by and turn right between the cottages. Go up the hill and join the Monsal Trail. Before the viaduct a path takes you left and then right under the viaduct. This famous viaduct, first criticised by John Ruskin for “ruining the valley”, now carries the newly restored Monsal Trail instead of the old steam railway between Bakewell and Buxton. Opened within the last few years, it is popular with both walkers and cyclists, taking you through a series of tunnels, and past open views of our walk and beyond.

Passing under the viaduct, the path goes through

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by Barry Wilson Marple District Rambling Club

a gate out on to the grassy path along Monsal Dale. You follow the long river path until you eventually reach the A6. High up on the left of the Dale is the site of Fin Cop, the only known Iron Age fort on the limestone in Derbyshire with a natural defence above the Wye. Going up steps and across this busy A6 road into White Lodge Car Park, you will find benches, picnic tables and toilets.

From the car park, opposite the picnic bench, you take the pathway up through the trees and out into open fields. At a finger post for Taddington, turn right and slowly climb along a twisting path through limestone outcrops. This soon levels out, crosses one stone stile and then takes you gradually up through a wooded dry valley. Look out for the next wooden stile as the path turns sharp left and then leads you up right along a stony path towards Taddington Field Farm. Go through the small gate by the farm, reaching a small road. At the T junction turn right towards Taddington Village, a quiet spot above the A6 bypass. As you enter the village, take the road to the right and right again down to the A6.

Cross carefully over this fast section and go straight ahead for the farm gate. This track goes up for a short while before opening out into a level field. Follow the track round to the left and then turn right at the first wall. Keeping this crumbly wall on your left enter a narrow path down to the steep sided High Dale. At the bottom, turn left and follow the clear path through this secluded and perfectly V shaped dry dale. Keep the stone wall to your right and go along this path to the far end of this wall. Turn sharp right past the wall and climb up the grassy path leading to a gateway on to a wide farm track at the top of this hill. (183723) Going left along the track for about 75 yards, you then climb over the stone stile on the right and on to a level field. The path keeps to the left of the wall reaching a wooden stile in the corner.

Climb over and then turn right past former lead raking hollows. If it is windy, these can provide a sheltered picnic stop or, for even better views, go beyond the hollows and as you begin to go

to the east, and the church of Tideswell, “the Cathedral village of the Peak District”, is visible over to the north-west.

Go over the stile beneath this spot and head steeply downhill to a bridge over the Monsal Trail or former rail track. Go down the steps before the bridge and then diagonally across the trail to the right, where the path drops down over the river into Litton Mill. Turn right and pass though the road by the converted Mill until you join the river path. This secluded section along the river is delightful and eventually opens out along a potentially muddy, and occasionally flooded section where you can observe a variety of water birds. Look out for trout in the river as you approach the amazing Water-cum -Jolly Dale with its remarkable limestone cliffs, a favourite rock climbing spot. The dammed mill pond beneath the crags, viewed from the footbridge over the weir, affords stunning reflections of this spot. It is where Julia Bradbury, on her Railway Trails series, interviewed her father for the BBC programme.

Leaving this spot over the footbridge by the weir, climb up the path and out on to a narrow pathway towards the Monsal Trail. The views of Cresswell Mill and the Wye Valley are stunning.

Turn left along the Trail and follow it as far as the old station platform. At the end of the station platform turn right and walk down under the bridge, arriving back at the starting point. Drive back up to the Hotel and enjoy the special views over the viaduct and Monsal Dale or the bar and restaurant in the stables, or have an ice cream or afternoon tea nearby. Enjoy the walk!

downhill, a series of rock outcrops on the slope give a great view point over Miller’s Dale.

Below you can see the hillside chimney which took the smoke away from Litton Mill’s steam engines, keeping the deep valley site smoke free.

The limestone outcrops punctuate the landscape

The walk was contributed by the Marple District Rambling Club. They organise over 30 walks of all levels and distances every month, going out on Thursdays and Sundays. To see copies of their progamme, visit www.marple-uk.com/rambling To join the Club, please contact either Barry Wilson, 0161 439 1225, or Deirdre Nolan, 0161 427 7794.

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Luis, Great British Baker Local resident Luis Troyano put Poynton well and truly on the map when he reached the final of BBC1s Great British Bake Off (GBBO) and modelled his final showstopper on one of the gateways to the village. I caught up with Luis, back in his day job at Forever Creative in Cheadle where he filled me in on the background to his whole Bake Off experience.

What made you apply in the first place?

I applied just because I fancied doing something different. I had thought about applying the year before but I downloaded the form and it’s massive! I decided I wouldn’t stand a chance at that point because they look for experience in every discipline of baking so I parked the idea for a year. By next time, with another year of baking behind me, a friend persuaded me to have a go.

The Bake Off doesn’t just want cake makers but people who do the broader spectrum of baking and some of those other areas, such as bread, are more my thing.

Is there a secret being selected?

I don’t think there is one, other than having a breadth of knowledge. They aren’t looking for ‘characters’ in the way shows like Britain’s Got Talent and The Apprentice are. But you do need to demonstrate you can you bake in front of cameras, with unfamiliar equipment and in an alien environment. The tent looks quite serene

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when you watch on TV but it’s absolute chaos with cameramen, interviewers, everyone has cameras on them all the time, it’s bedlam. It’s funny really!

What was the hardest thing about the experience?

The toughest thing is the transition from baking at home to baking in the tent. Also, I think people assume you’ve practised things about 30 times but it’s not like that at all. The schedule is really tough. Everyone who’s selected has to do the signature bakes and showstoppers for weeks 1 to 9, no matter how far you get – that’s done and developed before you even get there.

There wouldn’t be time to recipe develop in that schedule. I think it was Frances from last year who said the further you get the tougher it is, it becomes like an endurance test because you’re so tired. It’s really gruelling as the weeks go on.

The technical challenge in the final was by far the toughest thing for me. My heart sank when they announced it!

And you got to the final!

I never expected to get further than week 5. My wife was keen for me to get to the week where I did The Cage. Once I was past that I just kept going – and suddenly I was at the Final. It was surreal to get to the final but my money was always on Nancy to win – she was consistently great and after each day when we sampled

each others baking I was drawn to hers every time! Another great thing was how well all the contestants got on with each other, which I wasn’t expecting at all. The true competition is against the judges, not against the other bakers.

How did you come up with the Poynton idea?

When you get to the final you’ve only got just over a week to develop your signature and showstopper. When we were told what they were I hadn’t heard of either - I had to Google them! I knew I wanted to do something about where I live (I wanted one last push for the North!) and sitting in traffic on my way home from work I saw the ‘gateway’ and thought ‘I’ll make that.’ There was no more pre- thought than that and I literally had about four days before I was going filming.

Even on the day I was adjusting the design!

The arch at the top was just a strip of pastry when I tried it at home. On the day I decided to do something fancier and as I had a load of choux paste prepared I came up with the idea of profiteroles stuck together with sugar. And that’s the thing they showed most on the final!

It was great to pay homage to Poynton! I was always a supporter of the village revitalisation – I know it was a pain living through all those roadworks but Poynton is a much better place for it. The whole area has benefitted so much from that year or so of pain!

Do you get recognised now?

All the time! I didn’t apply because I wanted to be on TV – I applied because I wanted to bake in that tent. The reality hits you after – there was a six week gap after we’d finished filming and you go back to your normal life and then you start to see the adverts for it and you think oh that’s me! It’s so strange now – everywhere I go I get stared at.

Nobody expected the Bake Off to be as huge as it was – nobody expected 14 million people to tune into the final. People come and talk to me all the time. It makes me feel good that I’ve made other people feel good about where they live.

What’s the future?

If you want a career change there’s easier ways to do it than applying for the Bake Off! For me

it broke the routine a bit – it’s given me the opportunity to do interesting things as well as my day job. I’m having fun now with the spin-offs so it’s ticked the boxes for me. I’ve got loads of bookings for food shows and the like, I’ve done some writing, I’m doing some teaching at a school called Seasoned next year. It’s opened up lots of avenues – I’m on one of the demo stages at the Good Food Show in London in a couple of weeks time and that’s surreal to me – I’m usually the guy sitting in the audience watching! That’s beyond my wildest dreams.. …Paul & Mary?

Paul is the loveliest guy you could ever meet and he’s got this kind of villain persona – he’s not like that at all! He always has time for you. Mary Berry is Mary Berry – everything you think she is, she is in real life, there’s no hidden agenda there.

And I really like the way they kept everything completely impartial. How you see it on TV is exactly how it is – they talk to you, judge you and that’s that – there was never any favouritism, hats off to them for that.

As far as an experience goes, I’d wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone – fill the form out, because you never know!

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Wilmslow Children’s Activities Things to do with pre-school kids

Monday WFA Little Strikers Pre-School Football 10-11am Term time only. Wilmslow Parish Hall, Cliff Road. £5 per session, no pre-booking required. Contact Erik on 07792 791382 Under 5’s Story Time 11-11.30am Term time only. Wilmslow Library. Children must be accompanied by a parent or carer. Contact 01625 374060

Tuesday Baby Sensory 9.30am, 11am, 12.30pm and 2pm St Johns Church Hall, Knutsford Rd. To book, call Becky on 07503547083 or email eastcheshire@babysensory.co.uk Under 5’s Rhyme Time 10-10.30am Term time only. Alderley Edge Library. Children must be accompanied by a parent or carer.

Contact 01625 374030.

Wednesday Coffee, Cake & Craft/Tiddlywinks 10am-12noon Wilmslow Methodist Church. Coffees, hot chocolates and cakes with play area for little ones. Prices from 50p to £1.50. More information from the church office on 01625 528892.

Under 5’s Rhyme Time 11-11.30am Term time only. Wilmslow Library. Children must be accompanied by a parent or carer. Contact 01625 374060.

Baby Massage 1.30pm Wilmslow Methodist Church. For babies 8 weeks+ with their carers, £5 a session. For information and to join the waiting list, call either the church office 01625 528892 or Christine Goddard 07973 787067.

Thursday Tots 2-4pm Term time only, Wilmslow United Reformed Church, Alderley Road. For pre-school children and parents/ carers. £1.50 per family. Contact thursdaytots@ hotmail.co.uk, or phone Barbara on 01625 584267.

Friday Friday Tots 10-11.30am Term time only, Alderley Edge Methodist Church, Church Hall, Chapel Road. Contact Susan Moran on 01625 585166.

Saturday WFA Little Strikers Pre-School Football 10.30-11.30am All year round. Pownall Hall School, Carrwood. £5 per session, no pre-booking required. Contact Erik on 07792 791382

WFA Little Strikers Pre-School Football 10-11am Term time only. Alderley Edge Scout Hut, Talbot Road. £5 per session, no pre-booking required.

Sunday

Contact Erik on 07792 791382.

Messy Church 4pm onwards First Sunday of every month, Wilmslow United Reformed Church, Alderley Road. For more information please contact messychurchwilmslow@hotmail.com or phone Barbara on 01625 584267.

Mums, Dads and Tots 1.30 to 3pm Term time only. St Benedict’s Church Hall, Hall Road, Handforth. Lots of toys for under 5’s, come along for a cuppa. Contact Jo on 07762 494843

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NCT Bumps, Babies and Toddler Group 10.30-12 noon Twice a month, the Coffee Lounge at Wilmslow Methodist Church. No admission charge just a small charge for drinks and biscuits payable to the church.

Contact bumpsandbabies@eastcheshire-nct.org.uk or call 0844 2436115.

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The East Cheshire Hospice Christmas Tree Collection The East Cheshire Hospice Christmas Tree Collection started as a small collection locally in Prestbury and Macclesfield. Now 15 years on from those solid beginnings, it has spread to include all areas of East Cheshire including Macclesfield, Wilmslow, Bollington, Poynton and Prestbury. In fact anywhere in the postcode areas of CW12, SK9-12 and WA16.

It is a simple idea. A household books in for a collection of their tree which is taken away for recycling. In return they make a donation (suggested minimum of ÂŁ4/tree) to our local East Cheshire Hospice. On the first weekend after Twelfth Night a fleet of vans and volunteers sally forth to collect the trees. They bring them back to a central depot where an industrial sized

mulching operation reduces the trees into pulp ready for composting.

After 15 years of Collections over 42,000 trees have been collected and our Hospice has received a net sum in excess of ÂŁ480,000. From a database of over 250 volunteers, the Collection uses over 120 men, women and teenagers on each day to achieve this.

Registrations can be made at www.echtrees.org. uk up until 5pm on Thursday 8 January 2015.

As every pound on the trees goes to the work of the Hospice with no deductions for the costs of running this operation, we do ask everyone to be as generous as they can!

The Christmas Tree Collection is run by volunteers in aid of:

Inside Guide Saturday 29 November Wilmslow Christmas Lights Switch On. Reindeer parade will set off at 4pm from Costa Coffee finishing at Bank Square. Entertainment on the stage at Bank Square.

Bank Square, Wilmslow 4.45pm

Thursday 4 December Christmas Musical Fantasia arranged by Inner Wheel and Rotary, supporting Home-Start. Performers: The Macclesfield Male Voice Choir, Delia Corrie, Adrian Ramsden, Peter Blackthorn-Jones Tickets: £5 Details from Adrian Ramsden 01625 668767 St. Michael`s Church, Macclesfield 7.30pm

Friday 5 December Harmony Revival Barbershop Chorus Charity Concert.

Bring your own drinks and enjoy an evening of music, song & laughter. Tickets £5 from Linda Morton 01663 762150 High Lane Village Hall SK6 8AB 7.30pm

Saturday 6 December Northern Chamber Orchestra - King’s School Choir / Nicholas Ward, violin: Christmas Classics Macclesfield Heritage Centre 7.30pm

Saturday 6 December Carols and Brass by Candlelight. See In Touch for more details.

St George’s Church, Stockport 7pm

Saturday 6 December The Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra will perform a festive programme including Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite and Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, with free entry to accompanied children under 12.

Tickets £12, Conc. £10, Under 18’s £2 www.wilmsloworchestra.co.uk

Fri 5 to Sat 13 December

Wilmslow Leisure Centre, 7:45pm

Wilmslow Green Room presents Brandon Thomas’s fabulous farce, ‘Charley’s Aunt’. Box Office Tel: 01625 540933. Or book online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/ greenroom

Sat 6 & 7 December

Wilmslow Green Room, Chapel Lane, Wilmslow

Saturday 6 December Ladybrook Singers Christmas Charity Concert with Guests The JJ Singers Proceeds to North West Air Ambulance (NWAA) Tickets £6 Adults £2 Children Enquiries via website www.ladybrooksingers.co.uk Tel 0161-485 6642 or pay at the door. Refreshments available. Parking nearby and disabled access.

St. Mary’s Parish Church in the Market Place, Churchgate, Stockport 7.30pm

Saturday 6 December A Celebration of Dvorak & Christmas Music. Phoenix Opera Chorus & soloists present excerpts from the operetta “Summer Song” Beautiful melodies by Dvorak arranged by Eric Maschwitz. Also chorus, soloists and orchestra perform music for Christmas and an opportunity for audience to join in singing favourite carols. Tickets - adults £8 under 12 - £4 Call for tickets 01565 733230 or email: phoenixartsgroup@yahoo.co.uk Trinity Methodist Church, Bramhall Lane, Davenport 7.30pm

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A guide to selected events in East Cheshire during December & January

Compiled by Claire Hawker e: claire@insidemagazines.co.uk

Scale Modelling Exhibition. Working model railways in 2mm to O gauges. Many static exhibits and demonstrations, full trade support, many scale societies and model club stands. Free parking, full disabled access, refreshments. Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 10am - 4.30pm Adults £5.50 14-18yrs £3.50 Uniform ID UK Forces & Service Personnel £4. Family (2 adults + 3 U/18s) £15 www.themodelshow.co.uk Poynton Leisure Centre, Yew Tree Lane, Poynton

Sunday 7 December Holly Wreath Workshop. Join Cheshire East Rangers and have a go at making a holly wreath to decorate your front door this Christmas time! Booking and payment in advance is essential. Cost £20. Book online via Eventbrite. Information: 01625 265093 Tegg’s Nose Country Park Visitor Centre, Macclesfield

Sunday 7 December The Barnby Choir Christmas Concert conducted by Lloyd Buck. Benjamin Britten: Ceremony of Carols plus music by Mozart, Byrd,Tavener and Lloyd Buck and traditional carols. Tickets £12, £10(Concessions), £5(Students) available in advance from Anne Macdonald on 07810 517464 or on the door.

Wilmslow United Reformed Church Chapel Lane Wilmslow SK9 1PR 7.30pm

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Saturday 20 December

East Cheshire Assoc. of National Trust Lecture – ‘In the Bleak Mid-Winter.’ Speaker: Brian Hallworth.

Join in our festive craft club and make your own Christmas wreath and decorations.

St Michael’s Church Hall, St Michaels Avenue, Bramhall 2pm

Meet Father Christmas in our Victorian parlour who will be stopping by between 10am-2pm. £6.50 for the crafts / £4.50 to meet Father Christmas and £10 for both activities.

Wednesday 10 December Craft and Chatter. A monthly get together for crafters of all kinds, card making, quilting, collage, embroidery, sewing and any other interests you might have. Bring your own project and enjoy good crafting company with a cuppa and the opportunity to learn from each other.

Contact Chrissie 0161 439 8262 for further details. £2 Dean Row Chapel Hall, Adlington Road, SK9 2BX 2pm to 4pm

Wednesday 10 December The life of the Queen of Sheba, one of the most intriguing and exotic figures in history, will be explored in a lecture preceding the annual Christmas Lunch of North East Cheshire Decorative and Fine Arts Society (Necdfas) Lecturer Christopher Bradley, an expert on Middle Eastern culture, will explain where she came from, when she ruled and why she is so famous.

Old Sunday School, Roe Street, Macclesfield 10am-12noon/12.30-3.30pm

Tues 6 to Sat 10 January CHYPS (Cheshire youth pantomime society) presents Robin Hood with a cast and live band made up of some of the most talented 11 – 19 year olds in Cheshire.

Evening performances plus a Saturday matinee.

Tickets start from £8 with family and group bookings available. Ticket Line 07910 187 583 or visit www.chypspanto.co.uk Woodford Centre, Woodford

Wednesday 7 January

Hunting Lodge, Adlington Hall email: info@necdfas.org.uk

Wilmslow Historical Society. Steve Williams with an illustrated talk on Rail to the Lancashire Coast – a look back at journeys to Blackpool, Fleetwood, Morecambe and Southport in the 1950s and 60s. Visitors £2 including tea/coffee and biscuits. Tel 01625 529178

Thursday 11 December

St Bartholomew’s Parish Hall, Chancel Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 4AA 7.45pm

Macclesfield Decorative & Fine Arts Society. Charles Dickens & Christmas - Bertie Pearce. Visitors welcome £7. Please contact Membership Secretary 01625 611514

Thursday 8 January

Heritage Centre, Roe Street, Macclesfield 2pm

Thursday 11 December

Macclesfield Decorative & Fine Arts Society - Threads of History: the World of the Bayeux Tapestry with Rupert Willoughby. Visitors welcome £7. Please contact Membership Secretary 01625 611514

Row of Trees cum Wilmslow WI: Susan Bissatt will entertain us with “Singing for pleasure and fun”.

New members most welcome Tel: 01623 582 556

Heritage Centre, Roe Street, Macclesfield 2pm

St. John’s Lindow Church Rooms, Knutsford Road, Wilmslow 2pm

Row of Trees cum Wilmslow WI: Professor Wendy McCracken will give a talk on deafness. New members most welcome. Tel. 01625 582 556

Thursday 11 December Wilmslow Guild Natural History Society AGM & Members’ Evening, quiz, members’ slides and seasonal fare. Visitors welcome £3, further information from 01625 874387 Wilmslow Guild, 1 Bourne St. 7.45pm

Sunday 14 December Cheshire A Cappella hosts a Christmas Variety Show with guest quartets Reckless and Tagline. Tickets £10, £6 under 12s from 01625 251569 or email sing@cheshireacappella.org Woodford Community Centre, Woodford. Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm

Thursday 8 January

St. John’s Lindow Church Rooms, Knutsford Road, Wilmslow 2pm

Fri 9 to Sat 17 January Bollington Festival Players presents Robin Hood & Babes in the Wood, a family pantomime by Alan P Frayn.

Tickets: 07776 239613 or email bfptickets@hotmail. com Fri 9 January at 7.30pm, Sat 10 January at 2pm & 7.30pm, Sun 11 January at 2pm, Wed 14 to Fri 16 January at 7.30pm. Sat 17 January at 2pm Bollington Arts Centre

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Wednesday 28 January

Necdfas lecture on the History of the Royal Academy of Arts. Website: www.necdfas.org.uk Email: info@necdfas.org.uk Brookdale Club, Bramhall.

Wilmslow Guild Flower Club:

Wednesday 14 January Craft and Chatter. A monthly get together for crafters of all kinds, card making, quilting, collage, embroidery, sewing and any other interests you might have. Bring your own project and enjoy good crafting company with a cuppa and the opportunity to learn from each other. £2 - contact Chrissie 0161 439 8262 for further details £2 Dean Row Chapel Hall, Adlington Road, SK9 2BX 2pm to 4pm

Wednesday 14 January The Friends of Silk Heritage presents: ‘A story of the collection’ Ever wondered how and why Macclesfield came to have its Egyptian collection? Well now is your chance to find out. The Honorary Curator of Egyptology at West Park Museum will lead this fascinating talk through the history of the West Park collection £4/£3

Travellers Tales with Denise Hubbard, Cheshire Area Demonstrator. Non-member visitors welcome but limited to two visits per Guild year at £6 - £8 (special events extra). Contact Linda Cocker on 0161 440 0704, see also our listing at NAFAS Cheshire www.nafascheshire.org.uk.

Wilmslow Guild, Bourne Street, Wilmslow 1.45pm

Sunday 1 February Singsong - a charity fund-raiser for Wilmslow Wells for Africa. Spend a light-hearted winter afternoon with Roger Pearce tinkling the ivories, musical combo and compere. All your old favourites: hymns, pop, patriotic anything goes! Enthusiasm rather than talent required!

Words projected on screen. Repeat of very successful event held in 2013. £5 including tea/coffee & cake at interval.

St John’s Church Rooms, Knutsford Rd, Wilmslow, SK9 6EL 2pm – 4pm

The Old Sunday School, Roe Street, Macclesfield SK11 6UT 7.30pm

Thursday 15 January ‘Wildlife of the Weaver Valley’ by Jeff Clarke, examples of the wildlife to be found on this Cheshire rives with the Wilmslow Guild Natural History Society. Visitors welcome £3, further information from 01625 874387 Wilmslow Guild, 1 Bourne St. 7.45pm

Saturday 17 January Northern Chamber Orchestra - Jennifer Pike, violin: Sibelius Violin Concerto www.jenniferpike.com/ Macclesfield Heritage Centre 7.30pm

Wednesday 21 January Wilmslow Trust. ‘Quarry Bank Mill - Update’. Talk by Eleanor Underhill, General Manager of the mill at Styal, outlining progress in such projects as the fish ladder,the Upper Gardens and Greenhouse, hydropower and the filming of the TV drama ‘The Mill’.

Don’t forget!

Open to the public. Non-Trust members: £2 at the door Tel: 07833285089. Wilmslow Library 7.45pm

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Wednesday 21 January

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Lunchtime Concert by kind permission of the Royal Northern College of Music www.rncm.ac.uk Admission by programme £4.

Light lunches available from 12 noon.

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Antiques & Fine Art Fair A red bricked Victorian archway leads to The Mere Golf Resort & Spa, the stunning venue for The Antiques & Fine Art Fair at The Mere, organised by The Antiques Dealers Fair Ltd, returning again from Friday 30 January to Sunday 1 February.

Around 25 dealers showcase the best antiques and art from around the UK giving visitors the opportunity to spend the whole day chatting to the dealers, browsing through the myriad of works of art on display and maybe enjoying a meal in Brown’s, the Mere’s flagship restaurant with 2AA rosettes.

With Valentine’s Day around the corner the jewellers always include a variety of romantic pieces such as a heart-shaped aquamarine

ring surrounded by sapphires and amethysts made by Mauboussin, Paris from Plaza priced at £2,200. T Robert is bringing an 18 carat gold diamond and pearl heart locket, c1885, for £4,450 and equally pretty but more modest in price is a silver enamelled heart brooch, surrounded by a ring of embracing hands, c1900 for £235. For a special occasion, Anderson Jones is bringing an 18 carat gold and platinum Belle Epoque ruby and diamond pendant brooch, also in the shape of a heart, c1910, £4,750.

The fair’s nominated charity for 2015 is the Children’s Farm Adventure Trust. www.caft.co.uk More information about the fair can be found on www.merefair.com

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Wilmslow Post Office

01625 524036

St Bartholomew’s Parish Church

01625 520309

St Chad’s Handforth

01625 532145

St John’s Lindow

01625 583251

St Mary’s Methodist Handforth

01625 528892

St Teresa’s RC Church

01625 523384

St Benedict’s RC Church

01625 522776

Wilmslow United Reformed Church

01625 532600

Quaker Meeting House

07974 997798

Dean Row Unitarian Chapel

01625 403509

Doctors/Medical Centres Alderley Edge Medical Practice

01625 584545

Wilmslow Health Centre

08432 909209

Handforth Health Centre

01625 529421

Kenmore Medical Centre

01625 532244

Hulme Hall Medical Group

0161 426 5844

Fire Service (non-emergency) Wilmslow Fire Station

01625 524066

Hospitals Macclesfield Hospital NHS Direct Primary Care Out of Hours Centre

01625 421000 0845 4647 01625 502999

Leisure Centres

Alderley Edge Schools Alderley Edge Pre-School Playgroup

01625 599300

The Ryleys School

01625 583241

Alderley Edge Primary School

01625 383262

Nether Alderley Primary School

01625 583282

Mottram St Andrew Primary

01625 829035

Alderley Edge School for Girls

01625 583028

Wilmslow Schools Ashdene Primary

01625 383232

Dean Oaks Primary

01625 383333

Gorsey Bank Primary

01625 383020

Lacey Green Primary

01625 525157

Lindow Primary

01625 582555

Pownall Hall School

01625 523141

St Anne’s Fulshaw

01625 523536

St Benedicts Catholic Primary

01625 520207

Styal Primary

01625 383253

Wilmslow Grange Primary

01625 526566

Wilmslow High School

01625 526191

Wilmslow Preparatory School

01625 524246

Travel Bus Information

01625 534850

Wilmslow Leisure Centre

01625 533789

Train Information

0845 748 4950

Macclesfield Leisure Centre

01625 615602

Manchester Airport

0161 489 3000

Libraries

Utilities

Alderley Edge Library

01625 374030

Electricity – Power Loss

Macclesfield Library

01625 615602

Gas – Emergency

Wilmslow Library

01625 374060

Water Mains

0845 746 2200

Environment Agency Floodline

0845 988 1188

0800 195 4141 0800 111 999

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Classified Index ANTIQUES

The Antiques & Fine Art Fair

AUDIO VISUAL F Maddocks

BUILDERS

Cheshire Roofline & Building Services Mark Tildsley S.P. Lee & Co Whitehall Builders Ltd

CAR REPAIRS

Scratches and Scrapes

CARDS & GIFTS Lozziwoo

CARE HOMES & SERVICES

Alice Chilton In-Home Care Services Cheshire Home Care Solutions

CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES Dizzy Rascals

CLEANING

Wild About Cleaning

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPY Amaranth

COMPUTER & INTERNET PC Doctor

DAY CARE CENTRE Always Active

DECORATORS

L & L Limited L.M. Wilkinson Painting & Decorating

DENTISTS

Church Road Dental & Cosmetic Trinity House Dental Care

DRAINAGE

Pure Clean Drainage Solutions

EDUCATION & TUITION

Greenbank Preparatory School

ELECTRICIANS F Maddocks

ENTERTAINMENT

Cheshire A Cappella Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra

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ESTATE & LETTING AGENTS Martin & Co Mosley Jarman 41

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FURNITURE

Uniquely Chic Furniture

17

GARAGE DOORS

Carrington Doors

44

GARDEN BUILDINGS Swift Organisation

9

GARDEN DESIGN & LANDSCAPING Creative Gardens & Driveways

16

GENEALOGY Sue Davies

14

HOME IMPROVEMENT & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

F.T.W Services JS Services

44 44

INSURANCE

WM. Bradley & Co. 19 46

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KITCHENS

Dream Doors Simplicity Granite

12 20

LADIEs FASHION 26

Susie Blues

11

LIFE COACH 23

Choose U

18

OVEN CLEANING 11

Ecodazzle

44

PLUMBING & HEATING 46 40

ASM Gas, Heating, Plumbing

42

ROOFING

V. Gill Roofing Inside Front 27 16, 37 33 36 43 19

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SECURITY

Falcon Security

20

SOLICITORS

Slater & Gordon

6

TREE SERVICES

Swift Tree & Arboricultural Services Ltd

16

WINDOW & CONSERVATORY CLEANERS Cavendish Window Cleaning

WINDOW & CONSERVATORY REPAIRS The Window Repair Centre Window Geeks

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