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The Brownhill Food Festival is on this Sunday. The event takes place at the Brownhill Countryside Centre, which is next to the Wool Road roundabout between Dobcross and Uppermill. All kinds of local food and drink suppliers will be setting up stalls at the festival, which runs between 11am and 4pm. Among them will be Saddleworth News sponsors [...] The Yanks procession goes past Castleshaw on its way to Standedge. There’s been a great response to a letter published on Saddleworth News last week about Yanks Weekend. A reader, Maryanne Bray, wrote to explain that she’d been disappointed by what she thought was a lack of stalls and people at this year’s festival when she [...] The Morris Men in Dobcross Square on Saturday. (picture: David Rigby) The Saddleworth Morris Men enjoyed a busy weekend as the annual Rushcart Festival took place. The sun shone as they toured Uppermill, Delph, Dobcross and Greenfield on Saturday, before Sunday’s day of activities at St Chad’s Church above Uppermill. On Saturday, the so-called ‘jockey’ of [...] The injured man is stretchered into the air ambulance. (all pictures: Rory Lees-Oakes) Here’s the moment a man run over and badly injured in a freak accident during the Yanks Festival last Sunday was helped into an air ambulance. The helicopter took the man to hospital in Huddersfield, after he was knocked down in a pub [...] The Yanks procession in Uppermill last Sunday. (pictures: Paul Farrand) Here are a couple of great images from the Yanks Weekend, taken by reader Paul Farrand. They show the procession of military vehicles as it passed through Uppermill in beautiful sunshine on Sunday lunchtime. Many thanks to Paul for sending them in. If you’ve got any [...] (picture: Visit Oldham) The annual Saddleworth Rushcart Festival takes place this weekend. There’ll be two days of fun, with plenty of Morris Dancing and other festivities to enjoy! The rushcart itself will be pulled around Saddleworth on Saturday by the Morris Men. It’s hard work so there’ll be regular stops for refreshments, as well as to entertain [...] The procession heads towards Standedge and Marsden, where the accident happened. A man was seriously injured while taking part in the Yanks Are Back In Saddleworth festival yesterday. He was run over by a field gun truck which was part of a procession of wartime vehicles, pictured here as it travelled along the A62 past Castleshaw. The [...] (image: Visit Oldham) The Yanks Are Back In Saddleworth festival takes place this weekend. It’s the new name for what used to be called the Saddleworth Wartime Weekend, and it’s got many familiar attractions to enjoy this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The main event is a swing dance on Saturday night at Uppermill Civic Hall. It [...] Saddleworth has suffered plenty of grim weather this week, but there’s bound to be a warm welcome at several local venues over the next three days, as the annual Saddleworth Folk Festival takes place. Most of the events are happening in Uppermill, with the Civic Hall hosting the biggest acts. Tonight’s Civic Hall headliner is Bernard [...] It’s the Saddleworth Folk Festival this weekend, and blues fans are being reminded that they’re not being forgotten about. Alongside the three days of folk concerts, dancing and other entertainment, there’ll be some blues music to enjoy this Sunday afternoon at The Commercial in Uppermill. The tradition of holding an acoustic blues session as part of [...] |
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