Worsley Cup Final, Ramsbottom Cricket Club 8th August 2010
It has never been a better time to be watching Ramsbottom Cricket Club. So far this year Jon Fielding’s boys have already won two trophies and on the 8th of August they have the chance to claim the third piece of silverware in a possible quadruple!
Continue reading...Incredible Edible Progress
Monday, July 19, 2010
This short article is to update Rammy Residents on Incredible Edible Ramsbottom - what we’ve achieved so far; what’s in the pipeline and what we plan for the near future.
Continue reading...Rooney’s Barbados Story is One of Many. Now We Want Yours…
Friday, July 9, 2010
So Wayne Rooney is now sunning himself in Barbados and he booked his holiday two days before England went out of the World Cup, if the Daily Mail is to be believed. It`s a good story and whether or not it is actually true it underlines just how important travel is to us all.
Continue reading...10 Questions with Mike Kelly
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Mike Kelly is a photographer based in Ramsbottom who works across the North West, the UK and sometimes overseas. He specialises in weddings but covers other areas as well - including quite a few of the photos you may have seen on our site.
Continue reading...Microbrewery Gets The Go Ahead
Monday, July 5, 2010
According to Rossendale Free Press a microbrewery and visitor centre has been given the green light to set up shop in Ramsbottom. The Atlas Works, formerly an engineering mill in Princess Street and Irwell Street, will be the new site for Irwell Works Brewery Ltd.
Continue reading...FC United Back in Town
Saturday, July 3, 2010
[ 03/08/2010; 7:45 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Memories are made of this. Remember the Rammy Rattler, the steam train full of FC United fans on their way to the game against Ramsbottom United at the end of season 2006-7...
Continue reading...Bogus Calls Spark Warning to Local Residents
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Two incidents in one day have sparked a warning from the council’s trading standards team for people to be on their guard against doorstep criminals.
Continue reading...The First Interview With Our New MP
Friday, May 14, 2010
In the early hours of Friday morning, the Conservative candidate David Nuttall was elected as the new MP for Bury North with a majority of 2,243 over Labour’s Maryam Khan. In the first published interview since his election, David spoke to Ramsbottom-based blogger Andy Walker (http://walkersrambles.wordpress.com) for Ramsbottom Online.
Continue reading...Breaking News: Sheep Rustling on the Increase
Friday, May 14, 2010
A flock of 271 sheep, worth up to £25,000, has been stolen from a field in Ramsbottom, Bury. Thieves herded the sheep through a pen and into the back of what must have been a large vehicle, police said.
Continue reading...Has Rammy Got the World in Motion?
Friday, May 14, 2010
Local muso The Ukulele Punk is gaining a whole heap of attention with his World Cup song to rival 1990s classic World in Motion feat. MC John Barnes. He wrote the song in about 5 minutes after a watching the pitiful offerings for this years World Cup and deciding that there was nothing with a bit of punch in it.
Continue reading...Bernard and Jonno Win Manager of the Month
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Ramsbottom United co-managers Bernard Morley and Anthony Johnson have been rewarded for the sides' excellent unbeaten run in April by being given the April "Vodkat League Manager of the Month" award.
Continue reading...Give it a Grow During Compost Awareness Week
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Bury Council is encouraging residents to do their bit for the environment during Compost Awareness Week (2nd to 8th May 2010).
Continue reading...Award Winning, Natural Body Care Has Arrived in Ramsbottom
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
VITALITY PLUS, Ramsbottom has just become the local, approved stockist for the award winning Neal’s Yard Remedies. The store now has a range for all the family, from baby products to those special items for Mum’s to be and everyone in between including the guys.
Continue reading...Rossendale Coming in Your Ears!
Friday, April 23, 2010
Rossendale Radio is ready to launch across the Rossendale Valley on Saturday 1st May at 10.47am (104.7fm). The Bank Holiday weekend will also see the Rossendale Radio team out and about the area so keep an eye out for them.
Continue reading...Get involved with Rambsottom’s BIG Debate ‘Live’!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
[ 09/04/2010; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] The race to succeed shamed Labour MP David Chaytor is starting early with the standing MP’s for the Bury North constituency taking to the floor in a live debate organised by RamsbottomOnline.com. ALL GUARANTEED ENTRY TICKETS HAVE NOW GONE. THERE WILL BE 25 PLACES ON THE DOOR ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, PLEASE ARRIVE BY 7PM
Continue reading...Spectacular Evening in Aid of Breast Cancer Care
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Last Thursday (25th March) Coronation Street actress, Michelle Keegan and other celebrities were up in Ramsbottom to attend the Bellini Spectacular in aid of Breast Cancer Care.
Continue reading...The 2nd Annual Ramsbottom Chocolate Festival
Thursday, March 18, 2010
After the success of last year's Chocolate Festival the event is back for 2010 and promises to be even bigger and better than before. Celebrating everything that is great about our favourite food, the festival will bring together some of the best chocolate produce and producers around.
Continue reading...Jamie to Run the Paris Marathon
Monday, March 8, 2010
Last week I was privy to an extraordinary sight – Ramsbottom Online’s very own Jamie Scahill stood in a bar with a pint…of Diet Coke. No, he hasn’t given up alcohol for Lent but in little over 4 weeks time Jamie will be digging out his white vest, squeezing into his 1980s Hi-Tec shorts and dusting down his strings of garlic in preparation for the Paris Marathon. On 11th April he will be running in aid of C.A.L.M. with the target of raising an impressive £1,000.
Continue reading...Ramsbottom’s Big Dig… the Plot Thickens!
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Last night a public meeting was held at Ramsbottom library headed by Lynn Leyland-Mather to get ‘Rammy’s Big Dig’ underway. With the waiting list for allotments longer than an MP’s expense claim her vision is to increase the volume of local produce grown in the town. Who knows, maybe one day Ramsbottom will become self sufficient. There was no doubting the interest in the project with a large number of residents descending on Carr Street.
Continue reading...The Giant Easter Egg Competition
Friday, February 19, 2010
Bury Council’s Town Centres team is calling on all community groups, schools and youth organisations to take part in a challenge to make a 1 foot tall Easter egg, as part of the Ramsbottom Chocolate Festival.
Continue reading...Real 2 Reel Brings Movie Magic to Rammy
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
You might have seen the big sign advertising films in the Market Square, or picked up a flyer at Walmsley’s Butchers. Or you might not have known about the monthly movies at the Civic Hall. But in Real2Reel, Ramsbottom has a thriving local film society that could easily be the envy of larger towns.
Continue reading...Happy Pancake Day!
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Forget pancake mixes in a packet, making your pancakes from scratch is easier than you might think...and it'll save you a visit to the supermarket. Paul Morris from the Chocolate Cafe has kindly given Ramsbottom Online his White Chocolate & Lemon pancake recipe. In the words of the great man Chef Ramsay 'easy, delicious pancake recipe...done'. Enjoy!
Continue reading...Is that a UFO or a Black Pudding!
Friday, February 12, 2010
Excerpt taken from the Sun today...
Continue reading...Ramsbottom’s Big Dig
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Clare Westhead looks at plans for a new community vegetable patch...
Continue reading...Our World, Paintings by Steve Garside
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
[ 06/02/2010 11:00 am to 21/03/2010 6:00 pm. 06/02/2010 11:00 am to 21/03/2010 6:00 pm. ] In his latest exhibition at the Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale, artist Steve Garside has brought together a collection of rich and luminous landscapes from locations across the world.
Continue reading...Ramsbottom – It’s Surroundings and our Heritage, Lost?
Friday, February 5, 2010
Within the heart of the industrial north-west lie many towns founded and developed during the Industrial boom of the late eighteenth century onwards, including my home town Ramsbottom. I have lived here for the vast majority of my twenty-seven years and have witnessed its ever developing growth.
Continue reading...ShelterBox Team on the Ground: ‘There is no More Haiti’
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Aid workers for the international disaster relief charity ShelterBox, now the largest Rotary Club project in the world, are on the ground in Port au Prince, Haiti. ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) members Dave Eby (US), Wayne Robinson (US) and Mark Pearson (UK) arrived in the island’s capital on Thursday, January 4 and have already been in contact with government officials, ACTED and Rotarians in the country.
Continue reading...Tales From the Pub Rock Circuit
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
In his first in a series of 'Tales from the Pub Rock Circuit' Rik Entwistle from local institution Big Lix gives us a taster of life on the road for a rock 'n roll superstar...
Continue reading...Vitality Plus Launches Ramsbottom Store
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
A NEW “all in one” therapy centre offering over the counter treatments, supplements and remedies, together with a range of therapies has been launched in the centre of Ramsbottom.
Continue reading...The Holcombe Old English Game Fowl Club New Year’s Day
Thursday, December 31, 2009
The Holcombe Old English Game Fowl Club’s show has been taking place every New Year’s Day in Ramsbottom since 1843. Originally held at the Shoulder of Mutton in Holcombe, it moved first to the Rose and Crown, and then, in the 1970s, to the Old Dun Horse Hotel on Bolton Road. But when the pub closed last year, the show moved to its current home, the Royal British Legion in Central Street.
Continue reading...Ramsbottom Choral Society Going Strong
Sunday, December 27, 2009
The North has long been famous for its strong tradition of amateur choirs, stalwarts of community life that bring together people of all ages for music and socialising. But in today’s busy society, community choirs have to compete with the increasing demands that work, family and social commitments make on people’s time. Sadly, many of them have faded away.
Continue reading...You F’coffee?
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Having recently moved here I hadn’t quite grasped the pace of life in the rain (and lets face it, there’s a lot of it). Everything seems to slow to the answering speed of the Virgin Train Call centre, which is deathly slow if you’ve ever been unlucky enough to need to call them.
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