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It’s always a pleasure to feature quality businesses in our magazines, particularly those that have received an industry award for excellence. It means that our readers have access to the best that Cheshire has to offer.

So we are especially pleased - dare we say proud - to announce that INSIDE Magazines has just received an industry accolade of its own. At the recent annual conference of Independent Magazine Publishers we were outright winners in the category Best News Editorial. This was awarded for Claire’s very readable account of her interview with Luis Troyano of Great British Bake Off fame.

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Contents HGCC News

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Simply Books Book Club Choice

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Inside People

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In Touch

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Crossword 18 The Walk

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Sudoku 22 Just 4 Kids

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Children’s Activities

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St George’s Singers

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Puzzle Solutions

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Inside Guide

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HGCC News It only seems like a few days since the 2015 cricket season began and yet it will be some eight months by the time you are reading this latest article.

As always a lot of things have happened during the season with team successes at both senior and junior levels as well as some fine individual performances.

The first team put a disappointing start to the season behind them and finished with successive victories in each of the last five games. These wins helped the team to a seventh-place finish in the DCCL Division Two table.

The first team batting averages were topped by Nick Hayward (with 62 runs per innings) whilst three other players averaged over 40. Captain Mark Clayton topped the bowling averages (39 at 17.87 each) although Dominic Nunn with 43 wickets, was the leading wicket taker.

A mixture of youth and experience typified the Second Team throughout the 2015 season.

The second team, captained by Marc Wilkinson, finished in third spot in the DCCL Division Four, and, in Andy Oldfield, also provided the League’s highest run scorer for the season. Not surprisingly ‘veteran’ Andy also topped HGCC’s second team batting averages: his 1,056 runs (with a top score of 148) averaged 75.43 to confirm what a consistent performer he is.

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As for the second team bowling, it was another ‘seasoned campaigner’, this time Andy Rodgers, who topped the averages. Andy’s 30 wickets in the season cost him a little over ten runs each, but purely on number of wickets taken, he was just pipped by young left-arm spinner Joe Hall with 32.

As well as playing 15 senior games in the 2015 season, young Joe also captained his Under 15 side to success in their respective competition.

He was just one of several junior players who represented the seconds this year and with three players still in their early 20s having come through the ranks of the juniors in the recent past now regular first eleven players, it points to the future of the club being in safe hands.

Although there will be no more organised games until next April, there are still plenty of things going on at the club.

Players of all ages are enjoying winter nets at Stockport Grammar School whilst the two youngest teams, Under 9s and Under 11s, have been competing in the Poynton and Bramhall Indoor Six-a-Side League.

Apart from during particularly bad weather, work on the ground too never really stops between seasons. Work planned or already completed includes seeding and fertilising, packing away nets and sightscreens for the winter, clearing drains and maintenance to the pavilion. The club is especially fortunate to be able to call on a bunch of enthusiastic supporters who give up literally hours of their free time in support of the club and for that the Committee is extremely grateful.

Please continue to visit our website at www. hazelgrovecc.leaguerepublic.com throughout the winter for all our latest news and developments.

On behalf of everyone connected with Hazel Grove Cricket Club, I should like to wish readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and we look forward to welcoming you all at Wesley Park in 2016.

Simply Books Book Club Choice Linda Grant’s new novel Upstairs at the Party is set in the 1970s at one of the ‘new universities’– for all practical purposes the University of York.

A place of brutal concrete architecture where (in the words of the founders) the ‘arts and sciences would speak to each other’. The novel’s narrator Adele Ginsberg more or less blags herself a place in the English Department on the strength of a postcard she has been sent by her namesake the (at the time) cult American poet Allen Ginsberg.

Hard to credit but such things really did happen – long before the strict regime of entry by 3As took hold!

Once there Adele falls into a loose and shifting set of friendships – against the backdrop of the new sexual and revolutionary politics. Looking back from a vantage point 40 years later Adele sees the whole experience as something of an experiment – the university as a ‘playpen’ in which students were set free to explore ideas, passions and intellectual interests with little supervision from the university itself – and all funded by generous student grants at the taxpayers’ expense. They were indeed different times! The story moves along at a pace and there’s some brilliant and perceptive period detail which I really enjoyed. The second half of the novel turns on a tragic incident at Adele’s 20th birthday party – the fallout from which binds the friends together in curious and unforeseen ways for the rest of their lives. When the friends return for a reunion at York some 41 years later the unresolved details of that party still haunt them and provide the novel’s denouement.

This is a very entertaining read - a convincing portrait of the (often discredited) Seventies.

Above all Linda Grant is a storyteller who holds our attention and will keep you turning the page!

(ps I should probably declare a personal interest– although our paths never crossed it turns out Linda Grant and I were contemporaries at York, indeed we may well have sat on the floor at the same New York Dolls concert that she references in her novel!)

By way of contrast Fascinating Footnotes from History by Giles Milton is an amazing collection of a hundred of the quirkiest historical nuggets and eye-stretching stories that read like fiction but are a hundred per cent fact. There’s a bit of everything here... from Hitler’s cocaine habit and his English girlfriend, to Stalin’s stint as a bank robber, and Hiroo Onoda, the lone Japanese soldier still fighting the Second World War in 1974! Giles launched his book with us at Simply Books on Thursday 1 October. This was a brilliant evening of intriguing anecdote – all told in Giles’ characteristically engaging style!!

And for the children... A new Charlie and Lola book is something of an event so we are thrilled that Lauren Child came to launch One Thing with us in October. One Thing sees Charlie and Lola take on the world of numbers and counting – all in their own inimitable way and with Lauren’s trademark illustrations. This is a ‘must have’ book for any Charlie and Lola fan. More details at www.simplybooks.info

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

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Inside People Chris Simms Chris Simms was born near Horsham, West Sussex. He moved north to Newcastle University to read Social Studies where he met his wife, Christine. After university they travelled in South East Asia, then lived in London for four years before the urge to globetrot returned and they set off on a world tour. Now they live in Marple with their four children. Chris is an advertising copywriter and Christine teaches Pilates.

One night in 1990 while driving on the M40, their car broke down and as they sat on the hard shoulder a vehicle pulled up behind them. It was only a motorway maintenance vehicle but this slightly scary incident fired Chris’s imagination and he went on to write his first book, the darkly compelling Outside the White Lines.

Chris used to scribble short stories at school to amuse friends but he now turned to serious and sustained fiction writing. A second novel, Pecking Order followed, then his third which introduced a series based around DI Spicer, a member of the Greater Manchester Police major incident team.

The novels are set in Manchester and detailed descriptions mean the city itself becomes a character in each novel. Police procedures are also described in careful, accurate detail. Chris has now published seven stories in the DI Spicer series and currently twelve of his novels are available.

Chris writes in a shed in his garden when not at his copywriting job and a typical working day sees him writing all morning then returning after a brief lunch break to edit what the morning produced and draft the next steps. Very few writers can live wholly on the earnings of their

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creations and for Chris, like many others, writing is part time. He has though enjoyed considerable success and is followed by fans locally and in Canada, Australia and the US, many of whom were originally from Manchester. Chris has been nominated twice for the Theakstone’s Crime Writing prize and shortlisted several times for the Crime Writers’ Association Daggers awards including the Dagger in the Library, voted for by librarians across the country. He was also named as a Waterstones’ Author for the Future, a list of just 25 writers predicted by industry insiders to have the biggest long term impact on Britain’s literary scene.

As well as the DI Spicer series, Chris has written two books with a female police heroine, DC Iona Khan. His ambition is to produce a novel that has the emotional punch of Silence of the Lambs. His current novel, just released, is a new venture, a ghost story. Set in Marple and an isolated village in the Peak District where strange happenings take place, Sing Me to Sleep is now available, as are his other books via his website www.chrissimms.info. If you want a signed and dedicated copy, Chris will have a bookstall at Marple Christmas Cracker in early December.

Chris is also happy to give talks about his work to local groups.

If he hadn’t been a writer, Chris would like to have presented Wildlife TV for children, as long as it didn’t include spiders which he hates! Christine, Chris and their children holiday in France, and enjoy camping. His favourite novel is Heart of Darkness by Conrad. Plans for the immediate future are to return to work in his garden shed on a second ghost story set in Manchester and the eighth DI Spicer novel. Having just read Sleeping Dogs over two compulsive days, I eagerly await it.

Last word from Chris Good writing doesn’t just flow from the end of your pen: it has to be worked at. As Robert Cromier said, “The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.”

In Touch Your Community Noticeboard HAZEL GROVE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL The first Hazel Grove Christmas Festival, organised by Hazel Grove Together, will be held on Saturday 5 December, kicking off with a charity 5k Santa run around Torkington Park at 10am. There will be stalls open from 10am through until 6pm, with plenty of craft stalls, local food retailers, Santa’s grotto. Hazel Grove Brass Band and local choirs will be performing.

Hazel Grove Together was formed to bring together local community groups, businesses and residents in the hope of making Hazel Grove a thriving community village once more! More information can be found on our Facebook page Hazel Grove Together or you can contact Tara on 07415 096819.

DOUBLE ‘B’ JAZZ ORCHESTRA

by Bryan Hegarty Do you remember the time before karaoke, disco and ‘musak’ in pubs and clubs, incessant pop music and all the other paraphernalia of modern living? Do you also remember when ‘going to a dance’ meant just that – no flashing lights and DJ but music provided by real, live musicians rather than via cd or a laptop?

The period I’m referring to is, of course, the halcyon days of the 1930s, 40s and 50s when swing was king and the great 20-piece jazz and dance orchestras fronted by the likes of Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington held sway.

If you thought those days were gone forever, take heart for here in Stockport the Big Band sound is

back in the form of the Double ‘B’ Jazz Orchestra.

This group of musicians were brought together

by Mr Ernie Eyes in 1975 in New Mills. In 1976 the band, then known as Boulders Big Brass Band, transferred to the FiveWays Hotel in Hazel Grove where they presented a weekly concert of Big Band Jazz and Swing until December 2012 when they moved to Stockport Masonic Guildhall.

The orchestra comprises the classic Big Band line-up of four/five trumpets, five saxophones, four trombones together with keyboards, double bass, guitar and drums. The line-up is completed by male vocalist Les Thomas who also acts as compere, together with two female vocalists Simone MacGregor and Marilyn Royle.

The orchestra purveys the kind of music that set feet tapping in that bygone era when swing was king. Should you be tempted into thinking that the arrangements are dated you would be completely wrong. Included in the orchestra’s extensive library are many new arrangements of Big Band standards specially written by former Musical Director David Ellis who was Head of Music (North) at the BBC in Manchester.

The orchestra, which has been featured in jazz programmes on radio and TV, has a policy of encouraging young musicians, many of whom have gone on to play with outfits such as the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and the Syd Lawrence Big Band.

So, if your musical taste extends to our kind of music you will find a very warm welcome each Wednesday at the Stockport Masonic Guildhall.

For a very modest charge the Double ‘B’ Jazz Orchestra will prove that Big Band Jazz and Swing is very much alive and well in Stockport!

We look forward to seeing you soon.

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in touch LOCAL BOY TO PLAY CHARLIE BUCKET IN THE WEST END Local schoolboy Joe Butler-Smith has landed himself a part on the West End stage at the tender age of 10 years! Joe, who lives in Adlington and attends Pownall Hall School in Wilmslow, will be playing the part of Charlie Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London until May 2016.

Joe has singing lessons with Kate Oldfield in Poynton and Speech & Drama lessons with Tracey Ray at Pownall Hall. He also plays the cornet and has gained Distinction in all his singing and cornet exams to date. Joe has excelled in Singing and Speech classes at both Hazel Grove and Alderley Edge Festivals for the past three years and has become a regular performer at the Finale concerts!

HAZEL GROVE MUSIC FESTIVAL The 89th Musical Festival will be held from 19 to 27 February 2016, with the winners concert on Saturday 5 March. The syllabus for the 2016 Festival is now available to download at www.hazelgrovemusicalfestival.org.uk. Closing date for entries is 30 November 2015.

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LEARN TO SING IN HARMONY Revered local barbershop group Harmony Revival is offering local lads aged 9-90 the opportunity to learn to sing and be part of their chorus. The Hazel Grove-based organisation is one of the best of its kind in the North West, frequently competing in local and national singing events.

Harmony Revival’s free learn to sing course (aptly titled Learn to Sing in Harmony) is open to men of all ages and all abilities – from budding baritones who have performed in a professional capacity - to those who are more used to belting out the hits in the confines of their shower at home. The course, which starts on 21 October, aims to encourage and attract more local men to take up singing as a hobby, with a view to some staying on and joining Harmony Revival as permanent fixtures of the team.

Experience is useful, but not essential – as the course has been cleverly designed to enable budding singers of all abilities to join and enjoy without pressure or prejudice. Sheet music, CDs, tuition, demonstrations and course notes are all provided. Throughout the duration of the programme, participants will learn two new songs. The course will finish just before Christmas, when the group stages a number of sing outs and fundraising singing events for charity as they do each year. Anyone taking part in the course will be able to attend these events and sing the two songs they have learnt along with the chorus.

The course will run on Wednesday evenings from 21 October to 25 November and takes place at Hazel Grove Methodist Church, Wesley Street, Stockport. Classes start at 7.30pm and finish with tea and a chat at 9pm.

For more information or to sign up, please contact Roger Wilkson on 01663 765653 or email harmonising@harmonyrevival.co.uk Alternatively visit www.harmonyrevival.co.uk for more information.

MARPLE CHORAL VACANCIES Marple Choral Society will have vacancies for tenors and basses starting in January 2016.

Rehearsals will lead up to a concert, with orchestra, on 19 March at Norbury Parish Church, Hazel Grove.

Potential singers will be joining a lively choir with a first rate conductor. Auditions are not needed, but anyone interested should apply to the secretary at songsinger@btopenworld. com. Rehearsals take place at 8pm on Monday evenings at Marple Methodist Church.

For more information about the choir and its recent concerts, please visit www.marplechoralsociety.org.uk

WOODFORD PLAYERS We invite you to spend Christmas with the Bunker family this year - it’s one you will never forget. Neville and Belinda Bunker invite Uncle Harvey, a psychotic retired security guard with a fetish for weapons and a love of old movies, Uncle Bernard, a bumbling doctor with a penchant for puppetry and his accident prone alcoholic wife Phyllis. Sister Rachel, a repressed young woman, is also invited and brings her friend Clive for the weekend. Throw in friends Eddie and Pattie and you have a recipe for mayhem in this comedy with a twist, Season’s Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn.

whilst eight cyclists (in white) challenged an equally gruelling 100km cycle ride around the Isle of Anglesey.

Both teams left MDT-UK’s Headquarters at 06:00 hours on the day with the cyclists aiming to get to the Menai Bridge for a prompt start at 09:00 hours.

Apart from an early morning shower, the weather held fair for the day and by 16:30 all hikers and bikers had met up again back at the starting line.

Despite one puncture - on a bicycle wheel not to a member of staff! - everyone returned home safely, if somewhat exhausted, after their ordeal.

The play runs from 18 to 21 November at 7.30pm at the Woodford Community Centre tickets can be ordered through the website at www.woodfordplayers.co.uk.

MAN staff raise money for Francis House As part of the Company’s fundraising activities for the Francis House Children’s Hospice in 2015/16, twelve members of staff from MAN Diesel & Turbo’s UK (MDT-UK) Headquarters in Hazel Grove set off on Thursday, 17 September for a ‘Bike It or Hike It’ challenge in North Wales.

Four walkers (in black on the photograph) took the Llanberis Path to the top of Mount Snowdon

Their efforts on the day raised more than £1,050 (with money still coming in) and placed the MDT-UK fundraising team in the top 5% of fundraisers (out of 83,542) on the JustGiving website for the whole of September.

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SUPPORT SECOND WORLD WAR VETERAN’S EPETITION

Father Christmas Comes to Hazel Grove

92 year old Theo Eaves from Poynton has started an Epetition: RAF Aircrews who flew from Italy should be awarded the Bomber Command Clasp.

The Rotary Christmas Float will once again visit Hazel Grove homes, starting on Sunday 6 December.

Theo, together with other members of the British armed forces, flew 35 sorties with 142 Squadron from bases in Southern Italy during the Second World War. But because they flew from Italy and not from the UK, they have been refused the Bomber Command Clasp. This is insultingly unfair as they took the same high risks with the highest combat casualty rate of all the armed services in the war and attacked similar targets to crews from the UK.

Sunday visits and collections are from 4pm to 6.30pm.

Theo has created an epetition in an attempt to right this wrong for those veterans who are still alive and the relatives of those men who were killed. 10,000 signatures are needed before the government will respond. Please visit this link, sign and share this on social media. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/107432

Weekday visits and collections are from 6pm to 8.30pm Sun 6 Dec

New House Farm

Mon 7 Dec

Station and Newby Road

Tue 8 Dec

Bramhall Moor Lane Area

Wed 9 Dec Area

Chatsworth Road & Mill Lane

Thu 10 Dec

Norbury Hall Primary Area

Fri 11 Dec

High School & Moorfield Area

Sun 13 Dec

Racecourse Estate

Mon 14 Dec

Clarendon Rd & Berkeley Rd Area

Tue 15 Dec

Commercial Road & Bosdenfold Area

Wed 16 Dec

Dean Lane Area

Father Christmas will also be at the following locations: 5, 18 & 19 Dec 9am to 5pm - Outside M & S 12 Dec

9am to 5pm Outside Sainsburys

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10.30am to 4.30pm Brookside Garden Centre

The main beneficiaries from this year’s collections will be Independent Options Hazel Grove and Stockport Mind, the mental health charity. Please give generously to help us help others.

More detailed information available from David Kerr on 0161 483 2710.

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Here is a taster of the gifts we have instore, view our full selection online at www.amaranth-wellbeing.com. For the person who has everything, how about a gift voucher for a facial, massage, reflexology or NEOM body treatment in our award winning treatment rooms.

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A Walk Into History Distance: 8 miles taking about 4 hours.

Map Explorer: SK 012 815 Our walk started at the canal basin car park in Whaley Bridge.

We had a local historian with us who pointed out some of the features that owed their origins to historical events that happened in the surrounding area. We started up the incline built by the Cromford and High Peak Railway which originally was intended to be a canal.

This incline is fairly short, and at the top of the stone remains of the turning circle can still be seen. At the side of this is a sad memorial carved into a rock to a young man who vanished from the village in the 1980’s. A pity that Whaley Bridge is misspelt! After this the track is blocked and it requires a short stretch of road-walking, along the A6, until just after the Cock Inn a narrow path on the left leads up a short hill and re-joins the site of the track. After about ½ mile the Shallcross Incline is reached which is longer and steeper.

This incline was powered by a stationary steam engine situated at the top of the hill; this part of the track was recently renovated and opened to walkers some years ago. In total nine inclined plains were built, covering the whole length of the railway track.

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The route then passes the nearby Shallcross Hall Farm, before turning into a rough track and crossing the A5004 to Buxton before dipping down and crossing the river Goyt. There followed a steep but thankfully short climb up to Taxal Church where the group was able to rest for a while before continuing left along the farm track for about two miles, giving superb views of the hills on our left. At Crowhill Farm we turned right and crossed a minor road at the base of Taxal Edge.

We stopped here for a welcome coffee break and admired the views towards Ladder Hill with its distinctive radio mast. We then started the steepish climb up to Taxal Edge, before reaching Windgather Rocks where the group turned right along the ridge, passing Wright’s Farm. Just after this there is a ladder stile on the right which we crossed, then began the slow descent into Kettleshulme, passing the well-tended gardens of the White Swan Pub. The group then crossed a minor but busy road and went towards the small hamlet of Kettleshulme, before turning left passing Lumb Mill, originally called Lumb Hole which seemed to be in a good state of repair, most of the mill workers cottages nearby are still occupied.

We crossed a small bridge over the pretty and picturesque brook, admiring the series of waterfalls that had powered the mill. At this point we stopped on a grassy embankment for

lunch and relaxed in the sun. Again were able to enjoy the views, this time towards Taxal Edge.

After some time we reluctantly set off again and crossed a double stile over Todd Brook, before climbing up the minor road which leads into Kettleshulme.

We crossed the road and passed the New Cornfield Farm following a rough track and keeping the farm buildings on our right. On a small hill some 300 metres to the west of the farm can be found ‘The Murder Stone,’ this is believed to be a Neolithic relic and it now a grade 2 listed ancient monument. How it got its name is unknown but it has been suggested that it might have some connection with the ‘Bow Stones,’ on the other side of the valley. However the ‘Bow Stones’ are of the Saxon period whereas the Murder Stone is much earlier. It seems to date from Stone Age or Bronze Age periods which overlapped; the period dates from 4000 to 2500 BC. The stone is situated some 200 metres on the left hand side of the track, it is made of gritstone and must have been a monumental task to haul it up the hill and position it.

After a short pause to admire it we continued on the track with the minor road to Kettleshulme from Disley visible below us on the left. We were soon in sight of what had been until recently the Moorside Hotel and we turned right before reaching it, walking on the well-defined and pleasant path alongside Whaley Moor. A larger ladder stile was negotiated and we then walked on the level skirting a hill on our left with views over Taxal on the right. Crossing a small bridge over a tiny stream we climbed up a short distance to a small stile which we crossed.

In the field is another ancient monument call ‘The Dipping Stones.’ One legend is that this is a relic from the plague of the 1600’s. The villagers put money to pay for food into the hollows in the stone filled with water or vinegar to prevent the plague spreading. In fact the stones are the base of a cross, probably denoting a boundary point. It seems that much of the stone work was removed over time to build the stone walls around the fields. It is probably Neolithic, so the plague story could not be true.

It is at this point that another deviation can be made down to the old Buxton road from Disley to Whaley Bridge. Just by the road sign denoting the boundary of Derbyshire is another ‘Murder Stone.’

We then crossed a tricky ramshackle stile over the stone wall, at the bottom corner of the field, turning right over a rough pasture towards Todbrook Reservoir. It is believe that this large field was used as a firing range in the First World War, we took care not to step on any exploded bombs! The group then followed the wall, looking down at Todbrook Reservoir until we reached a narrow road at which point we turned left, and after a short distance then turned right down a signposted path through the wood until we reached the road running alongside Todbrook Reservoir. After about half a mile we went under the railway bridge at Whaley Bridge, and back to the car park.

We had seen some history of the area, much of it lost in the mists of time. Maybe some of the answers will be uncovered in years to come. A refreshing drink at the Goyt Inn concluded what had been an interesting and informative walk.

Poynton Rambling Club walks are mainly on Wednesdays and Sunday. The club caters for walkers of all abilities and the walks vary from easy to fairly strenuous, with the distance between 5 and 12 miles. For further details contact the secretary, Brian Brough 01625 877463 or for more information at www.poynton-ramblers.org.uk.

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s ie it iv ct A ’s n re ld hi C ve ro G el az H Things to do with pre-school kids

Monday High Lane Baby & Toddler Group 9.30-11.30am Term time only. High Lane Village Hall. Contact Sarah on 01625 268 301 for more information.

Story Time 11-11.30am High Lane Library. Contact 0161 217 6009 for more information.

Baby Splash 1.15pm Life Leisure Hazel Grove, Jacksons Ln. Call reception on 0161 439 5221 to book and for more information.

Tuesday Parents & Tots 9 - 11.15am Term time only. St Thomas’ Church, High Lane. A chance for all parents/carers to meet other carers in a safe environment – lots to do and refreshments provided. £1 per adult and up to two children. Contact Rev. Janet Parker on 01663 764519 Story Time 11am Hazel Grove Library. Stories, rhymes and songs followed by some colouring. Contact 0161 217 6009.

Baby Splash 2pm Life Leisure Hazel Grove, Jacksons Ln. Call reception on 0161 439 5221 to book and for more information.

Wednesday Baby & Toddler Group 9.15-11am Term time only. Brookside Primary School, High Lane. £2 for one adult and child, £1 per extra child, price includes a snack. Contact 01663 308 008 for more information.

Sing & Sign Opportunity Group 9.30-11.30am Independent Options, 67 Chester Road. Especially for children with additional needs/learning disabilities, this session encourages children to start to use speech, or gives them signs if difficult. £3 for one child, then £1 per additional child (siblings welcome). Book into the session on 0161 482 7933.

Norbury Toddler Group 10 - 11.30am Term time only. Norbury Parish Church, Hazel Grove.

Cost £1.50 (includes a drink and biscuits).

Please phone before to ensure there are spaces.

Contact Cath on 0161 487 2390 or email cath.downs@norburychurch.org.uk

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Story Time 2pm Great Moor Library, Gladstone Street. Stories, rhymes and songs followed by some colouring.

Contact 0161 217 6009.

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Baby Splash 10am & 10.30am Life Leisure Hazel Grove, Jacksons Ln. Call reception on 0161 439 5221 to book and for more information.

Friday Toddler Group 9.30-11.30am Independent Options, 67 Chester Road. £2 for one child, £1 per additional child. Book into the session on 0161 482 7933.

Wesley Street Stay & Play 9.45-11.30am Hazel Grove Methodist Church, Wesley Street.

Contact Kelly Heath on 07530 460 087 Parent & Toddler Gymnastics 9.30-10.30am Stockport School of Gymnastics, Newby Road Industrial Estate. Just turn up and pay on the day with free fruit pots at the end of the session. £4 for children 1-4 years old. For more information please email jade@stockportgymnastics.com or ring 0161 456 2762 Baby Ballet 10.20am Life Leisure Hazel Grove. 6 week course for ages 2 ½ to 4 year olds. Cost £23.70, booking essential, please call reception on 0161 439 5221 to book and for more information Baby Splash 1pm Life Leisure Hazel Grove, Jacksons Ln. Call reception on 0161 439 5221 to book and for more information.

Saturday Baby Splash 8.30am Life Leisure Hazel Grove, Jacksons Ln. Call reception on 0161 439 5221 to book and for more information.

If you run a local activity for young children and would like to be included on this page please email jenny@insidemagazines.co.uk

Christmas Cheer ‘Tis the season to be jolly, as we will be repeatedly told in the run up to Christmas. The build up to the big day for many is what makes the season so special. The diary becomes filled with dates for carol concerts, work parties, festive markets and so on.

But for many of our older people Christmas time won’t be so jolly as this time of year just heightens their loneliness. According to Age UK nearly one million over 65 year olds only see close friends or family once a month or less and over half a million older people spent Christmas Day alone last year.

We know that in England, 51% of all people over 75 live alone and research tells us that five million older people say the television is their main form of company. Given that the number of over 75’s is expected to double in the next 30 years and funding for services for older people is under increasing pressure, these sad facts are not going to change anytime soon.

Now I don’t want to take the shine off Christmas and make people feel guilty about enjoying themselves, as I enjoy the festive period as much as anyone. But it is impossible for me not to think about the impact of loneliness in general as I see the impact of it on a regular basis through my role and also having worked as a volunteer companion.

The benefits of social interaction on our health and wellbeing are well documented, especially for older people and it doesn’t take a lot to make a big difference. So while we’re all busy planning our social diaries over Christmas maybe we could build in a bit of time to call in on an elderly neighbour or relative? Perhaps take a mince pie, stay for a cup of tea a chat and spread a little more Christmas cheer.

Contact Karen Perry, Founder alice chilton Limited. www.alicechilton.com

Mozart Great Mass in C minor St George’s Singers of Poynton is one of the most highly regarded large choirs in the North West with a reputation for versatility, enterprise and choral excellence. In this first concert of their 60th season they are joined by the talented young musicians of Chetham’s Chamber Orchestra in a programme of choral and orchestral music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to be performed at The Royal Northern College of Music on Saturday 21 November.

The 26 year old Mozart began work on the Mass in C minor (K427) in 1782 soon after his marriage to Constanze on 4 August. The marriage was against the wishes of his father Leopold and Mozart made a promise that if he was forgiven he would compose a thanksgiving mass. In October the partly completed work was given its first performance in Saltzburg, possibly with Constanze performing one of the solo soprano parts. Although Mozart never completed the Mass it remains his most ambitious and elaborate church work, planned on a scale comparable to that of Bach’s Mass in B minor, coloured by the Italian operatic style, and full of Mozart’s tenderness and compassion. The soloists in this performance include two of the country’s rising stars, the BBC New Generation Artist and 2011 Kathleen Ferrier prize winner soprano Kitty Whately, and winner of the prestigious 2015 Maggie Teyte prize mezzo soprano Alison Rose.

concerto from the previous year and as a result, De Jean refused to pay for it.

Tickets are £16, £14 concession, £5 students/ children, (special rates for group bookings can also be arranged). Coach transport is available from Poynton and Hazel Grove. For more details and to book tickets please contact the ticket secretary on the Ticket Hotline 01663 764012 or online at www.st-georges-singers.org.uk

Chetham’s Chamber Orchestra will perform two earlier orchestral works, Concerto for flute no 2 in D major (K314) with flautist Lucy Driver, who at a young age is already establishing herself internationally as an accomplished and versatile musician, and Serenade for orchestra No 6 in D major (K239). The concerto is one of three commissioned in 1778 by Dutch flautist Ferdinand De Jean. Rather than creating a new second concerto Mozart adapted an oboe

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Training culture pays dividends for artisan bakery Bramhall Bakery apprentice Sally Higginbottom, who is based at the Poynton bakery, has been awarded a prestigious national award from the Worshipful Company of Bakers to travel on a scholarship to a French baking school for a week of intensive training on Sourdough breads.

Local Bramhall resident Sally, a former pupil at Bramhall High School, has been working at the bakery for just over a year. She follows in the footsteps of the bakery’s previous apprentice Amber Smith, who was awarded the James Allen prize for the bakery apprentice of the year in 2013 and spent a week at a training centre in Scotland.

Training is an important part of the business at Bramhall Bakery which, despite its small size, currently employs and trains two apprentices.

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Inside Guide Saturday 31 October Hazel Grove Music Festival presents a concert by The Smithey Belles Choir, and guest artiste Erin Alexander (soprano). £10 adults £7 children/students, including refreshments. All proceeds in aid of the Festival. For tickets please phone 0161 355 0617 or 0161 483 6414 Hazel Grove Methodist Church 7.30pm

Monday 2 November

A guide to selected events in East Cheshire during November & December Monday 9 November Romiley Floral Art Guild: Gill Davies from Lymm, Title “Elements” Romiley Community Centre Forum Building Compstall Road 7.30pm

Tuesday 10 November

Mart Rodger Manchester Jazz

East Cheshire NT Lecture – ‘Planting a few Ideas’, speaker Katie Perry

High Lane Conservative Club, Buxton Road, High Lane 8pm

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

Mon 2 – Sat 7 November

Tuesday 10 November

Poynton Players presents ‘Allo ‘Allo! A stage version of the popular TV comedy, by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft. Ticket prices Monday only £7.50, Tues-Sat £8.50.

Simply Books presents Sarah Ward. Join us for an evening with Sarah Ward talking about her debut crime novel In Bitter Chill – a story of loss and family secrets, and how the very darkest secrets can be those that are nearest to you. Sarah was brought up in Bramhall (attending Bramhall High!) so we are delighted to welcome her back for an event on ‘home ground’.

Tickets £5 To book: call in, email events@simplybooks.info, book online at www.simplybooks.info or phone 0161 439 1436.

Tickets can be booked online, full details poyntonplayers.co.uk, or by phone 0333 666 3366

Fri 6 – Sat 14 November Carver Theatre presents ‘Entertaining Angels’ by Richard Everett. As a clergy wife, Grace has spent a lifetime on her best behaviour. Following the death of her husband Bardolph, she is enjoying the newfound freedom to do and say exactly as she pleases.

This amateur production is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Tickets £9 (£8 concessions) available online www.carvertheatre.co.uk, by phone 0161 449 8363 or from Hollins of Marple.

Season tickets also available.

Carver Theatre, Chadwick Street, Marple 7.45pm (Sat 7th 2.30pm)

Saturday 7 November Autumn Fair. Variety of stalls, tombola, raffle and bacon butty lunches.

Windlehurst Methodist Church, Windlehurst Rd, High Lane 11.30am to 2pm

Saturday 7 November Poynton Charity Bonfire and Fireworks at Poynton Park/Pool, brought to you by Poynton Round Table.

Massive Bonfire, TWO fireworks displays, fairground, live bands, family area, food, licensed bar. All money raised is donated to local charities and good cause. For more information and tickets: www.PoyntonBonfire.co.uk Poynton Park/Pool 5.30pm

Simply Books, Bramhall 7.30pm

Wednesday 11 November Disley & District Flower Club. A flower demonstration

by David Rawcett-Ropner, a National Demonstrator, entitled ‘Jingle all the Way.’ Visitors welcome.

Admission £5 High Lane Village Hall 7.30pm

Wed 11 to Sat 14 November Chads Theatre presents “Duet for One” by Tom Kempinsky. Eminent violinist Stephanie Abrahams professional career has been halted by multiple sclerosis. Tickets can be booked on 0161 428 8712.

Chads Theatre @ChadsTheatre For any other information visit Chads website www.chads.co.uk

Thursday 12 November St Thomas’ High Lane Men’s Forum – Ernie Drabble “ 43 Years with the Derbyshire Constabulary - Part 3.”

St Thomas’ Church Hall, Buxton Road, High Lane 2-15pm Continued over...

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Saturday 21 November

Poynton Park Tree Wander. Come and learn about our native trees and how to identify them on a short walk around Poynton Park with Cheshire East Council Ranger Peter Dowse. Booking in advance essential at poyntonparktreewander2015.eventbrite.co.uk by 11 November Information: 01625 383700

Christmas Fayre with stalls including gifts, raffle, tombola, pull a string, homemade cakes, groceries, cards, raffle books, jewellery. Admission 50p - Father Christmas has been invited and the cost to see him - including a present - is also 50p. Hot and cold refreshments will be available. All are very welcome.

Poynton Park Car Park, South Park Drive, Poynton, SK12 1BR (SJ924842) 10.30am to 12 noon.

Short Street United Reformed Church, Hazel Grove 10am to 1pm

Monday 16 November

Saturday 21 November

Hazel Grove Townswomen’s Guild, A Snapshot of Iceland

Marple and Goyt Valley Inner Wheel, Fund Raising Craft Fair. A variety of stalls, including handmade jewellery, hand crafted cards, handmade crafts including purses, phone cases, bags and hair accessories. Also bric a brac and raffle run by Inner Wheel. Entrance £1 to include free tea, coffee or soft drink. Proceeds from our stall and raffle go to Cancer Research. Please come along to the library and support us!

Hazel Grove Civic Hall 7.30pm

Tue 17 to Sat 21 November Bollington Light Opera Group presents SHOWTIME. With musical numbers from Chicago, Les Miserables, Grease and Moulin Rouge. A warming hot pot will be served by the cast direct to your table. Tickets from blogbookings@aol.com or call 01625 431038

High Lane Library, Buxton Road, High Lane 10am to 1pm

Bollington Civic Hall 7.30pm

Saturday 21 November

Wednesday 18 November

St George’s Singers present Mozart Great Mass in C Minor. Tickets £16, £14 concession, £5 students/ children. Coach transport available from Poynton and Hazel Grove. More details and tickets from the Ticket Hotline 01663 764012 or online at www.st-georges-singers.org.uk

Lunchtime Concert – Vistatrio, with Jennifer Dyson/ flute, Beatrice Hubble/oboe, and Caroline Waddington/ clarinet. Admission by programme £5, light lunches available from 12 noon. For further information telephone 01625 586713 Alderley Edge Methodist Church, lunch from 12 noon, performance 1pm

Wed 18 to Fri 20 November NK Theatre Arts ‘Performance Class’ Presents: William Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Advanced Tickets £10/£8.50 (Door Price £12) Forum Theatre Ticketline – Call 0333 666 3366 www.theforumtheatre.co.uk

Royal Northern College of Music 7.30pm

Saturday 21 November Marple Choral Society (Musical Director Ian Crawford).

Handel’s Messiah with soloists and Stockport Symphony Orchestra. Tickets £12/students and under 18s half price, available from any choir member or on the door if any left. To reserve ring 01663 763509.

Norbury Parish Church, Hazel Grove 7.30pm

The Forum Theatre, Romiley 7.30pm

Mon 23 to Sat 28 November

Wed 18 – Sat 21 November

Crazy for You by George and Ira Gershwin. Call the box office for tickets and more information 0161 439 0505

Woodford Players invite you to spend Christmas with the Bunker family this year, it’s one you will never forget in this comedy with a twist by Alan Ayckbourn. Tickets can be ordered through the website at www.woodfordplayers.co.uk Woodford Community Centre 7.30pm

Brookdale Club & Theatre, Bramhall

Wed 25 to Sun 29 November Christmas Tree Festival with nativity scenes and performances. More details at www.stgeorgestockport.co.uk or call Kim Regan 0161 440 0408 St George’s Church, Heavily, Stockport

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Saturday 5 December

East Cheshire NT Lecture – ‘The Origin of Surnames’, speaker David Greatorex.

Coffee morning with cake stall, tombola, gifts, raffle, cards etc. Proceeds to the Alex Hulme Foundation.

St Michael’s Church Hall, St Michaels Avenue, Bramhall 7.30pm

Short Street United Reformed Church, Hazel Grove

Saturday 28 November St Thomas’ Church Christmas Fair. Lots of great stalls and something for all the family, including a Pirates of the Caribbean Children’s Area, High Lane Primary School Choir, refreshments, tombola and more. All proceeds to support St Thomas’ Church.

High Lane Village Hall 11am-2pm

Sunday 29 November Table Top Sale. Come and grab a bargain, refreshments available in Margaret’s café.

Tables £8 in advance or £10 on the day. Contact Dorothy Graham Tel: 0161 456 3628 dorothygraham@hotmail.co.uk High Lane Village Hall, Windlehurst Road 11.30am to 1.30pm

Sunday 29 November Bollington Festival Music Theatre presents One Thousand and One Nights, a play with music that includes the familiar stories of Sinbad, Ali Baba and Aladdin. With a cast aged 7 to 18, catchy music and witty dialogue, it’s a perfect pre-Christmas treat for all the family. Visit www.fun.to/bfmt or bollingtonartscentre.org.uk (Events) for more details.

Bollington Arts Centre 2.30pm & 4.30pm

Wed 2 – Fri 4 December NK Theatre Arts The Company Presents: ‘Christmas at the Forum’ - A Festive Show that’s fun for all the family.

Advanced Tickets £9/£7.50 (Door Price £10) (Family of 4 £30) Forum Theatre Ticketline – Call 0333 666 3366

Saturday 5 December Hazel Grove Christmas Markets. Hosted by Hazel Grove Together, this will be a fabulous community Christmas event, including stalls, music, a Santa Dash, and of course Father Christmas will be there, as well as much, much more!

For more information please visit the Facebook page by searching for ‘Hazel Grove Together’ Torkington Park, Hazel Grove

Saturday 5 December The Dovedale Singers, based in Marple, along with The Salford Royal Choir, and guests The Chapel-en-le-Frith Male Voice Choir, presents ‘Do you Hear What I Hear?’, a concert of seasonal music, in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society and hosted by Soroptimist International Ashton-under-Lyne.

Tickets £8 including refreshments. For tickets please contact 0161 429 6236 or 07866 723965 or email soroptimistashton@gmail.com Albion United Reformed Church, Stamford Street East, Ashton-under-Lyne 7.30pm

Saturday 5 December Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra. Smetana: Bartered Bride Overture, Gregson: Tuba Concerto (Soloist: Paul Hughes), Smetana: Vltava, Blake: The Snowman, Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana, Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, Christmas Carols Tickets £12, £10 Concessions, £2 Under 12’s.

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Tuesday 8 December

Monday 14 December

East Cheshire NT Lecture –‘Alderley Edge Copper Mines’, speaker Stephen Mills.

Hazel Grove Townswomen’s Guild Christmas Party. We would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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

Thursday 10 December

Saturday 19 December

Northern Chamber Orchestra: Christmas Classics at Tatton. Traditional Christmas Classics

The Robins Singers present A Christmas Celebration concert. Telephone Dennis (01706 347484) or Helen (07976 923539) for more details

Includes a warming winter drink or fruit juice (and parking).Tickets: £20; 18s & under £12 (ring for Group Discounts) From NCO Box Office: 0161 247 2220 / Tatton: 01625 374435 www.ncorch.co.uk Tenants’ Hall, Tatton Park, Knutsford. Tour 7pm, concert 8pm

Thursday 10 December St Thomas’ High Lane Men’s Forum – CHRISTMAS LUNCH – No Speaker.

Details to be announced later.

Saturday 12 December Coffee morning with cake stall, tombola, gifts, raffle, cards etc. Proceeds to the Alex Hulme Foundation.

Short Street United Reformed Church, Hazel Grove

Sunday 13 December A Christmas Concert with Carols at, conducted by Juan Ortuno. An afternoon of festive music and carols for the audience to sing. Mulled wine, mince pies and festive refreshments available. Tickets £15 available online at www.gortonphil.co.uk, at the Monastery or from Gorton Philharmonic Society (0161 483 1699) 117 Woodsmoor Lane, Davenport, Stockport SK3 8TJ Gorton Monastery, 2pm (doors open 1pm)

Sunday 13 December An evening of musical entertainment with the ladies of Cheshire A Cappella. Featuring guest male barbershop quartet HUSTLE. Tickets £10 (under 12s, £6) from Jane on 07767 253935 or email den.jane@gmail.com Alderley Edge Festival Hall Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start.

Monday 14 December Romiley Floral Art Guild Margaret Rumens from Solihull Title “Christmas is Coming” Romiley Community Centre Forum Building, Compstall Road 7.30pm

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Hazel Grove Civic Hall 7.30pm

United Reformed Church, Robins Lane Bramhall 7.30pm

Sunday 27 December Monthly Tea Dance raising funds for Friends of Our Valley – this month ‘Serious Sam Barrett & Friends Christmas Special’. Tickets £15 include evening meal.

Bring your own alcohol. These events are very popular so booking is essential by ringing Rachel on 0161 427 2039.

Roman Lakes Tea Rooms, Marple 5.30pm to 8.30pm

Useful Numbers Schools

Churches

Hazel Grove High School

0161 456 4888

Norbury Parish Church

0161 483 6325

Hazel Grove Primary & Infant School

0161 483 3699

Hazel Grove Methodist Church

0161 483 8969

Norbury Hall Primary School

0161 483 1786

St Peter’s Roman Catholic Church

0161 483 3476

Moorfield Junior & Infant School

0161 483 4521

Hazel Grove Baptist Church

0161 487 3708

St Peters R.C Primary School

0161 483 2431

St George’s Parish Church, Stockport

0161 480 2453

Torkington Primary School

0161 483 2188

Short Street United Reformed Church

0161 285 5229

St Simons Catholic Primary

0161 483 9696

Parish Church of St Thomas, High Lane 01663 764519

Brookside Primary School

01663 763943

Windlehurst Methodist Church

High Lane Primary School

01663 762378

0161 285 1431

Police (non-emergency)

Doctors Beech House Medical Practice

0161 483 6222

Greater Manchester Police

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Springfield Surgery

0161 426 5250

Cheshire Police

101

Haider Medical Centre

0161 426 9292

Utilities

Dean Lane Medical

0161 426 9777

Electricity – Power Loss

High Lane Medical Centre

01663 762222

Gas – Emergency

Hospitals Stepping Hill Hospital NHS Non-Emergency

0161 483 1010 111

Leisure Centre Hazel Grove Leisure Centre

0161 456 3467

Libraries Hazel Grove Library Stockport Central Reference Library High Lane Library

0161 217 6009 0845 644 4307 0161 217 6009

Local Government Stockport MBC

0161 480 4949

0800 195 4141 0800 111 999

Water Mains

0845 746 2200

Environment Agency Floodline

0845 988 1188

Helplines Alcoholics Anonymous

0845 7697555

Citizens Advice Bureau

0844 826 9800

Childline

0800 1111

Crimestoppers

0800 555111

Directory Enquiries National Dementia Helpline

118 500 0845 300 0336

RSPCA

0300 1234999

Samaritans

0845 7909090

The Wellspring, Stockport

0161 477 6344

Travel Bus Information

0161 228 7811

Train Information

0845 748 4950

Manchester Airport

0161 489 3000

Stockport Care Scheme

0161 476 2812

Post Offices Hazel Grove Post Office

0161 483 2332

Fiveways Parade Post Office

01625 872407

Peak Pharmacy Post Office

01663 766877

pharmacies Peak Pharmacy, High Lane

01663 762235

Scorah Chemists, Hazel Grove

01625 872267

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Classified Index EVENTS

ACCOUNTANTS David E. Hanley & Co

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Free Philosophy Courses

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Carrington Doors

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GARDEN MAINTENANCE JOINERY

BM Joinery

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KITCHENS

Coppice Joinery & Building

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Matt Finish

Whitehall Builders Ltd

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CARE SERVICES Alice Chilton In-Home Care

LOCKSMITH SERVICES City Lock & Safe

More Than Loft Ladders

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Ecodazzle

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Abstract Roofing Services

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AKTI Roofing

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Churches Together in Hazel Grove

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SECURITY

Hazel Grove Baptist Church

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City Lock & Safe

COMPLeMENTARY THERAPY

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TREE SERVICES 17

DELICATESSENS The Cheshire Smokehouse

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ROOFING 15

CHURCHES

Amaranth

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OVEN CLEANING 22

CHILDCARE Kids Childcare High Lane

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LOFT LADDERS 28

CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING Safeclean

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BM Joinery

BUILDING SERVICES

SP Lee & Co

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Robinson Garden Maintenance

BAKERIES Bramhall Bakery

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GARAGE DOORS

ADULT EDUCATION Aquinas College

Poynton Fireworks & Charity Bonfire

Swift Tree Services

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WINDOWS & CONSERVATORY REPAIRS 16

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DENTAL CLINICS Charisma Clinic

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