Heavy Rain, Floods and Christmas

Back to normal with monthly posts yet this month is more updates. 

The last week or so has brought heavy rain and new things even I haven't seen in the town before. The weather is turning autumnal and with Christmas just around the corner my reflections always turn to Woolworths.

The store that sold everything was definitely the place to get your Christmas stock. It had a fantastic line of plastic Christmas trees and lights and going to Woolworths was a pure tradition. We lost our store in 2009 when the business closed around the country. You can read more here.

Glossop has gained a multitude of local shops and businesses over the last couple of years and as of next month we will be featuring several of them here as I make the final arrangements and filming for Glossop Tours big Christmas Special, Personal Stories. Over the last 12 months I have been working with a local film producer filming interviews with local people to feature part of an online mini documentary series and for the Christmas Special.  These not only feature local shops, businesses but local people and dignitaries. We are continuing filming right through to summer next year so if you or know of someone that you think will have something interesting to share then please get in touch.

I have also started a sister site that follows my travels around the local area, region and beyond. These include reviews of cafes and restaurants as well as history, walks and interesting hidden gems, this will go live at the event in December.

Soon you will be able to book our tours in Glossop it's self as we are looking at possibility of having a booking office in the town. There will also be a opportunity to see some of our history and possibly some of our collection from time to time.

This year has been a real roller coaster with health and work opportunities and things  are looking good for the beginning of 2018 and hopefully we will be opening up our own local office, so watch this space.

There have been fears of local flooding recently with heavy rainfall again in Glossop. Nothing has been done to create new flood defenses since the last major flooding in 2001. Again there was no inquiry into whether it was human error that caused the flooding as evidence did show Swineshaw Reservoir in 2001 as it is common by word of mouth in the town must of opened their sluice gates because there was a serious threat the reservoir was to burst, which would of caused more serious threat to the town. 

So to the Christmas Special, tickets and more details are to be released in October. It will be three evenings of history, workshops and discussions. As there has not been any event this year so far we are pouring all our efforts into this. But hang on what's new, that I have discovered recently, well a lot but if you follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook we're asking you to work out where we are in the town and the most right answers will put together and a random lucky winner will get two free tickets to our Christmas Special.

Looking forward to seeing you all very soon....  By Matthew Cox.

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Glossop Tours Update 2017

Hello to readers old and new I thought it was about time to give you an update of what is happening with me and Glossop Tours and plans for the coming months. I have not forgotten you or about this blog.

I have not posted anything here for over 12 months and it has just gone so fast. I really don’t know where it has gone and so much has happened in the past year. In that time I have had over 20,000 more readers topping over 50,000 in all which is more than I have ever thought. This blog was the stepping stones of my epic journey and I will be posting again very soon.

Over the past 12 months so much has happened yet I still have not to come to terms of losing my main inspiration three years ago. I am only realising the vast about of respect, knowledge and understanding of local cultures, community and history I was taught for over 12 years.

September last year held new possibilities for me I was given a new job using my local knowledge and links to work with people with Dementia and Alzheimer’s with that is opened up the opportunity to do more with Glossop Tours. In February this year I had to have evasive surgery after funding lumps that were classified as suspicious cancerous tissue  that left me out of action for a couple of months.

In the last few months I was approached by a production group to take vlogs of the travels I have been doing to various places around the area and beyond. It proved rather successful and I am going to carry out another series as from the end of September but linking it in with Glossop tours.

In recent weeks I have been offered space in Glossop to have weekends and evening of events and to do history talks.

With everything moving on I haven’t had time to think yet I will be moving house in a few weeks and getting married next year.

Glossop has always been my first love and always will be and will be back sharing more interesting and intriguing stories about the town and local area.

There are new updates at glossoptours.co.uk

And I will see you all very soon, thank you for reading. Matthew Cox