#tameside

[kvetch19]

[thingsifoundongeoguessr]

GARTSIDES FAMOUS ALES & STOUT AND ALSO SHITTY AMERICAN PIZZA

[zrnho]

Gardens around Stalybridge Stamford Park.

[drdamiang]

STALEY BRIDGE STALYBRIDGE

STALEY BRIDGE STALYBRIDGE

this is Staley bridge

my father's birthplace

here is a picture

of me in a pram

my sister

in a pram

on a big bridge

crossing the Tame river

this is not

that Staley bridge where

the Saxons crushed the

Vikings

rushing back to

meet my

Norman ancestors at Hastings

and we

know what happened there

****

Yes, here we are

up front Mossley

in that picture, my

Mother

daughter of a war hero

pushing our pram

and there, no doubt,

the great cotton mills

still

doing their job though

not now in

their hey day

postmodernity,

postcoloniality

what landscape altering modes

of production ushered

in in

their wake

and here is Engels incliding

text on this place in his seminal

work on

the working class

in England

and here I am

years later, studying satire living

in his monument house

in Oxford Street Manchester

water

under this bridge, water

connecting

us all

Tipperary, Stalybridge,

Mahikeng South Africa

figures

in a Lowry paintimg

they come

and they go

water

under this bridge then

so much water we

tend to

forget about

water headed

to the port of slavery

same water in the skiffle

psychedelia of those

Sergeant Pepper people

magicians of the airwaves

conjurors of

a whole new

line

in identity

fruit of the clash of

working class proclivities

with

transcendental

mind

clash, I say,

but what a melding, beloved

blending

without which

no way this space, or place,

or room

to talk

gone these guys

or finally fading

gone

those mills of my childhood

Spitfire stories

of how

we stood alone

everything reconfigured,

outright repurposed

voices (and their words)

I fail to recognise, alien

strange

elevated above whilst

so out of frame

somehow talking all

necessities of suppression

commandeering everything

stretching

the distance below

to above

to breaking point

viewed from

the Southern tip of Africa, product

victim of

all that this is metonym of

all this place

this life

of which

I speak

ths

shock

could not be more

extreme

(so dark

these river with

their druid name

we cross

all our lives

each

every day

so quietly all

determining)

[vonkubler]

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[madaims]

So Legend of Ruby Sunday!

Warning here be spoilers, read at your own peril! ⚠️

Wow! Got to say great episode this time! Now this is what we’re talking about! Lots of mystery, intrigue, drama!

So I’m guessing Ruby’s mum has something to do with Sutekh? And Mrs Flood too? Are they also harbingers?

I’m liking the whole god stuff with the villains, but how is the Doctor meant to win against gods?

Also I love the dog Sutekh thing! He’s Set right? The Egyptian god? He looks so cool! So Sutekh is a classic Doctor Who villain. I guess Russell T. Davies is bringing back the old school villains. Instead of Sutekh looking like an ancient Egyptian reject, now they’ve given him turn to sand powers like in the Mummy and he’s the god of death?

Rose is back! Yays! And her Uncle is fine. I wonder if he’s out there watching the TV like “What the fuck is going on with that Susan Triad woman?” He’d no doubt make the connection of her possibly being Susan too. I’d love for the show to show us what he’s up to right now. I’m guessing they won’t, it’s 15’s show now. I do think it would boost the ratings though. If in doubt, send David Tennant out! 🤣🤣🤣

So we’re still no closer to knowing who Ruby’s mum is….

Poor Cheetham Hill guy, RIP. Another fellow Manc, and they killed him off in the first part. Very sad. 😢

Ruby is from Tameside? Why are they never from my neck of the woods? I’d be amazed if they got someone from my part of Manchester honestly.

So yeah “To be continued” I guess as is this review. Till next week!

[21thongsong]

Tameside, England

[uomminecraftsociety]

2024 UK Local Elections

So every set of elections we have in the UK, I kind of go crazy, pull an all nighter just following the election results by filling my own spreadsheet. But you know what... I'll shitpost election results here.

THESE ARE NOT RESULTS AS OF YET, THESE ARE AS OF YET UNANNOUNCED

Also, none of what I say really matters, I'm not an analyst or anything, just a guy who follows elections too excitedly.

Now granted, I don't know how late I will be able to follow the election results for, especially with how long it will take the election results will take to come in. I also can't follow all the elections so here are the ones I will be following:

Police and Crime Commissioners

Conservatives won 29 of the commissioner positions in 2021.

Labour won 7 of the commissioner positions in 2021, 3 of which were in Wales

Plaid Cymru won 1 of the commissioner positions in 2021

These elections generally cover rural areas, hence why it is so Conservative. These are areas which Labour would like too see gains in if they are to win the next general election, as many are predicting them to.

Council Elections

There are many council elections occurring, too many to properly follow but here are the ones I will be following:

Dudley - Currently Conservative but only just, a good indication of how much of a swing will occur.

Bristol - The results for the constituencies within Bristol for the upcoming general election could be quite an interesting one as many parties have shown promising results in recent council elections, this could be a good indicator for where the city could go.

Peterborough - Currently Conservative, with a mix of support for other parties, a good measure on how strong strong the swing to other parties are.

North Hertfordshire - No overall control, with very close results in 2021 between Labour, Conservative and Lib Dems, similar to Peterborough, would be a good indication of where new support lies.

Local elections which likely would likely lead to a conservative minority or even a mild conservative

Gloucester - Conservatives have 26 of a required 20 seats, with Lib Dems next largest 16 seats behind.

Havant - Conservatives have 28 of a required 19 seats, with 24 more seats than 2nd place Labour.

Greater Manchester Council elections will of course be followed as well:

Bolton - Labour minority, many parties in opposition with strong presence from Reform which could see an increase of support with the current swing.

Bury - Labour Majority, with Conservative minority and a similarly large local interest party.

City of Manchester - Strong Labour majority.

City of Salford - Strong Labour majority.

Oldham - Light Labour majority, Labour did poorly in recent neighbouring Rochdale by-election

Rochdale - Labour Majority, aforementioned by election results were poor.

Stockport - Liberal Democrats the largest party in minority with Labour close behind

Tameside - Strong Labour majority

Trafford - Labour Majority

Wigan - Strong Labour Majority

Mayoral Elections

All of the mayoral elections will be followed, though most noteworthy are:

Tees Valley - Strong support for the incumbent Tory candidate.

West Midlands - Less strong Conservative presence but often reported that their image in the area is independent of the party.

East Midlands - New mayoral position, probably would have gone conservative in 2021 if it were to run, but not strong support.

North East - New mayoral position, mostly Labour support and would probably stay that way.

York and North Yorkshire - Historically strong Conservative support, probably will stick that way. Region has Rishi Sunak's seat.

London Assembly and Mayoral Elections

What it says on the tin. All 3 polls will be followed.

Blackpool South By-Election

Probably will go Labour's way considering it recently flipped to the Conservatives, historically was Labour and the Conservative running there left on a scandal. Though as always, interesting to see the election swing.

[bipunkharrington]

Oh my God they said "Tameside" in an episode of Doctor Who, what town Ruby WHAT TOWN

[deeisace]

Huh?? Is this actually?

[maypoleman1]

21st August

Saddleworth Rushbearing Festival

Saddleworth Rushcart. Source: Alamy Stock Photos

In mid August, the Saddleworth Rushbearing Festival takes place in the Tameside villages on the western edge of Saddleworth Moor near Manchester. It is a version of the church rush strewing ceremonies common over the summer, but this one, organised as it is by the local Morris men is a less reverent and more jocular and drunken affair. Two tons of rushes are piled on a cart and then hauled by the dancers, led by a “jockey” holding a large kettle, through the streets of Greenfield, Dobcross and Delph, the procession ending up at St Chad’s Church in Uppermill, where the rushes are strewn on the church floor. The rushcart has however stopped at every pub along the route with the jockey drinking a kettleful of ale each time. Apparently the tradition directly led to a local term for getting drunk - to get ‘kettled’.

Another tradition states that if women of childbearing years touch the rushes while they process, they will conceive within the year, which is possibly linked to pagan good luck and fertility beliefs. Apparently one year the landlady of the Cross Keys in Uppermill , one of the pubs on the route, tempted fate by touching the rushes, allegedly laughing at the superstition. She fell pregnant a couple of months later.

[donismad]

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[drdamiang]

ASHTON

ASHTON

the track

curves like a scimitar

I remember

being in a park in

Ashton on the red

steel roundabout

overreacher

and fell

that roundabout went

on revolvng, spinning forever

that red roundabout

or maybe it was green

and talking of green

I waa distracted thereafter

by what

had happened to

the countryside

wondering where

it had gotten to

and so

forgot my poem

on the train

that train winding its way

forwards to the millennium

ot

backwards in time

through toytown stations

where they loaded

real soldiers

some soon

stacked to be buried

piled up in ossuaries

others, as is the nature

of war, simply evaporated,

officially disappeared

and my poem out there

with other poems lost

or forgotten

poems out there too,

be it

recalled recounting

the horrors of war

but train

is at the terminus, no

more huff-puffing, or

smooth

electric or

even diesel

the countryside chaning,

the poems

No longer speaking the truth

they could not escape doing

this picture fading

all

those lines

yet unwritten, all those tracks

going somewhere

having nowhere left to br

[vonkubler]