February 2021 - Local Business & Community News - Shopping & What’S on Guide
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: abouttameside : @abouttameside : [email protected] TAMESIDE Scan to visit our website: February 2021 - Local Business & Community News - Shopping & What’s On guide BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE, COLLEGE SIGNS OFF NEW CENTRE - SEE PAGE 12 ESSENTIAL BUSINESS FLIPPING MEMORIES WHO’S ON CHANNEL 4? SEE PAGES 16 & 17 SEE PAGE 30 SEE PAGE 10 READ ONLINE: TAMESIDEMAG.COM OR PICK UP A COPY LOCALLY FROM: ALDI STORES - TAMESIDE MARKETS - CO-OP STORESAbout Tameside 1 Welcome... Highlights this issue... Pick up a copy from: Aldi GO LOCAL WITH CLICK & COLLECT ………… 7 supermarkets, Ashton Market ARMCHAIR ADVENTURES FOR VETERANS …… 8 Hall, Stalybridge Train Station, HYDE’S DALEKS ON CHANNEL 4 ……………… 10 Droylsden Post Office, Ladysmith Shopping Centre STEEL SIGNING FOR COLLEGE ………………… 12 and more! REMEMBERING ROGER …………………………… 14 ESSENTIAL LOCAL BUSINESSES ……………16 & 17 ABOUT HYDE ……………………………………… 18 IN THE PICTURE WITH SAM …………………… 22 QUIZ SPECIAL …………………………………24 & 25 HOWARD’S PICTURES OF THE PAST ………… 30 Deadline for our March issue is February 22nd. Email: [email protected] Read us online: www.tamesidemag.com and join us on Facebook! Contributors this issue Email: [email protected] Telephone: Howard Murphy - Tameside Markets - Jan [email protected] 0774 8284134 Lord - David Scanlan - Fern Brooks - Local Production Design Studies Library - Andy Richardson - TMBC Warren Brooks - Inflict Design - Ashton Town Team - Made by Mortals - [email protected] Willow Wood Hospice - Hyde Fundraisers - Ask about our cost effective advertising Tameside College - Luke Mirfin - Booth, Ince opportunities and special features in the magazine. & Knowles Solicitors - Sam Shaw - Boots Email: [email protected] Opticians Denton - Tameside Raw Feeds Advertising terms and conditions available on request. 2 About Tameside Keep on motoring During lockdown it’s important to ensure you >>have your vehicle in tip top condition and garages like Guide Bridge MOT & Service are still open to keep you on the road. Your car might be a vital link to utilise for shopping, accessing medical services or to drop off essential items to a family member during the lockdown. We asked Guide Bridge MOT & Service to tell us a little about the services still Do you have Covid available. safe measures in So, during lockdown are you still place? offering a complete range of car We are a fully repairs and servicing? Covid secure Yes, we are, nothing has changed garage and have a to anything we offer. The only certificate to say thing that has changed is our so! We undertook waist measurement with all a totally the lockdown bakers on our independent workforce. audit recently and passed 100% so able to recover it for repair? Can people still get their MOT’s customers can feel safe knowing We can arrange for recovery if done? that every precaution has been required. We do recommend our made. Absolutely, and it’s more important customers to take a breakdown than ever now as vehicles are How can people book in their cover for emergencies but if they that vital link for many people vehicle? don’t have one, we can arrange for and there has been no exemption We urge all customers to book via the vehicle to be brought to the on this latest lockdown as we the phone if possible, we have a garage. experienced back in 2020. An strict 1 in/1out policy in reception Is there any change to your MOT is a vital part in road safety. and we try to keep visitors to opening times? Anyone unsure of when their a minimum. Our telephone There are no changes to our MOT expires can check online at number is 0161 339 5354 and opening hours at present and we https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov. our reception staff are ready and are working very hard to keep uk/ or can phone our reception waiting to help. service/repair times to an absolute and they’ll check for you. If the car is immobilised are you minimum. About Tameside 3 WILLOW WOOD GARDENS A Place to love and remember Boots Opticians focus on service Clients will educate people on the be delighted importance of regular >>to know that sight tests which are Boots Opticians in imperative for the early Denton remains open detection of potential Our gardens Beautifully engraved during the lockdown hold so many sight threatening memories; with the name of your to serve the local >> conditions. we know that our loved one, these will be community. My patients are my supporters look respectfully sited in our Located at 32 number one priority, and garden’s central water Manchester Road forward to being able I take great pride in my feature. The benches the branch offers a to spend time in them, position to be able to which surround the comprehensive range of whether to look at the advise them on how to eyecare services, a wide lights and remember feature have long been get the best out of their selection of designer a place for families to vision, whilst also being happy times or to sit frames and quality care sit and reflect and we’re able to provide them in quiet contemplation from the dedicated team. hoping that, sooner with a continuous high and think of loved Alex Broker, who has 13 rather than later, we will standard of eye care.” ones. years’ experience, said; be able to invite people The Denton store is This year we have a new “Vision is an amazing gift. also following social back into our garden Throughout my career I way to remember special distancing measures by so it can become once have unfortunately come people, centred around limiting the amount of again a place of love and across people who, for our gardens people in store at any remembrance. one reason or another, one time so at busier If you would like have had this gift taken For more information times you may be asked something more from them which has of ways to remember to queue outside. permanent in our had huge implications on your loved ones, gardens, we have their lives. I try whenever You can book an please go to appointment by calling our Memory Stones. possible to promote and www.willowwood.info. 0161 336 6944. 4 About Tameside About Tameside 5 New Principal Appointed at Great Academy Ashton A Greater Manchester secondary school brought in 2021 with a new principal at its helm. David Waugh has taken on the role at Great Academy Ashton this month and says how excited he is to support the 1280 young people in his care. During his career, Mr Waugh has worked in various school leadership resilience and horizon-scanning system The academy, which is part of the roles across the Midlands and North leadership to ensure that we stay true Great Academies Education Trust, West of England. Alongside his to our core values and beliefs and has been supported with further not get moved off course. I believe investment to ensure their pupils commitment to education, he has that Great Academy Ashton is a have access to high-quality remote chaired various national networks brilliant school, and I will bring every education if they need it. The including the Association of School and aspect of my experience to bear in academy has already been provided College Leaders. order to ensure that every student with 130 additional laptops, a range Mr Waugh said: “We are working in and every member of staff is the of data devices and have launched very interesting times with so much best they possibly can be. We will a new EdTech Artificial Intelligent continuous change to the education transform our young people to be the personalised learning software solution landscape. However, fundamentally, best possible version of themselves. which can be used to identify the main our jobs are to ensure every young Great Academy Ashton is a great problems and obstacles students face person is inspired to achieve as best school, filled with great staff and great while learning, helping to improve the they can and are celebrated for that inspirational students. It is a privilege efficiency of education. achievement. It takes great skill, to serve them and our community”. What is Legal Aid, and who is entitled to it? Legal Aid is used to help meet If you are seeking Legal Aid for private occupation order, you only need to the costs of legal advice, family family proceedings, you have to meet meet the means test. mediation and representation in a the following criteria: How we can help court or tribunal. Merit Test: If you are seeking legal help and believe However, not everyone is eligible. This is where you must show evidence you may qualify for Legal Aid, please You would usually need to show that to confirm either yourself or your contact our experts at Bromleys your case is eligible for Legal Aid, that child has been a victim of domestic Solicitors today on our dedicated the problem is serious, and that you abuse/violence. This evidence can be helpline 0161 331 3887 to complete cannot afford to pay your legal costs. from a local authority, GP, domestic a full assessment, and we will provide Examples of when you may be abuse support organisation or the you with further assistance. police. entitled to Legal Aid are: Bromleys Solicitors also offer a free • You or your family are at risk of Means Test: 30-minute consultation and therefore abuse or serious harm You must show evidence that you are will be able to provide some advice unable to pay your legal fees yourself. at no cost, should you be ineligible You’re at risk of homelessness or • In private family proceedings, for Legal Aid but are urgently seeking losing your home you have to show you some legal assistance.