Autumn 2025

21 September 2025

In this issue

• Former Willis Burns Shop Reborn

  The old Willis Burns Electrical shop on the High Street is nearly ready to open its doors again – this time as a modern, well-insulated office space. Empty for years, it’s had an 18-month makeover, with some of the original stone wall and timber purlins still in place. The building has been a chemist, an

• Tideswell Cinema Film Listings

  Saturday 20th September 16.00 Double Bill & Meal The Penguin Lessons & What We Did on Our Holiday We start our season opening double bill of comedy-dramas with The Penguin Lessons. A film inspired by the true story of Tom Michell (Steve Coogan), a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina

• News from Tideswell Community Managed Library

  Please make a note of the following library ‘drop-in’ sessions by PCSO Boswell. Saturday 13th September Saturday 11th. October Saturday 8th November All sessions take place from 10:00 until 11:00 and provide an opportunity for local people to raise policing issues which concern them. PCSO Boswell will provide a separate space for the raising of confidential

• News from Tideswell & District Environment Group

  TDEG members have been busy over the summer, monitoring local wildlife and planning new projects to help us all be more sustainable. You can contact us about any of the activities below at info@tdeg.org.uk or join us online to receive regular updates (https://tdeg.org.uk/join-us/ ). TDEG Needs You! After a joyful celebration of the TDEG Repair Café at our

• School News

  The Tideswell Carnival 28.6.25 The carnival was a roaring success for the school this year as we won ‘Best Walking Group’ category in the parade. The theme was ‘Save the Planet’ and we all dressed up as endangered species and carried banners. Thank you so much for the support of all the families and staff

• Tideswell Community Park Management Team

  Rebuilding a dry stone wall Twelve volunteers, who are trained in dry stone walling, spent another weekend with us at the end of July rebuilding a substantial length of dilapidated wall to an excellent standard. The group was led by Billy McCallum of the Dry Stone Walling Association. We are very grateful to all of

• Councillor update

  Derbyshire Dales District Council have 34 Councillors and I’m one of them. I have been representing first Tideswell and then an expanded ward, Tideswell and Litton and Cressbrook for the last six years. It’s been quite an experience. Talking to other Cllrs has made it clear that we are quite self reliant. Anyway, I’ll update

• Parish Council News

  Tideswell PC News The Parish Council redevelopment project at Richard Lane has been very popular already and we still have work to do. We are currently raising funds to improve the fencing and walls. In the mean time repair work to the existing fence and a new gate is being organised as quickly as possible.

• DDDC’s Housing Needs Survey is now live!

  Derbyshire Dales District Council are running a Housing Needs Survey for the parishes of Tideswell, Litton (including Cressbrook) and Wheston during September. The survey is to find out the extent of need for affordable housing in the area. Anyone in housing need can fill in the survey, but the District Council particularly wants to hear

• Wakes Week 2025

  What a fantastic Wakes Week 2025, from start to finish with lots of great events! The Main Well Dressing, depicting Haddon Hall, was magnificent drawing many admiring visitors. There were many decorated shops and houses, with scarecrows popping up all around the village. A new red building appears opposite the Horse and Jockey – the

• Peak Music Society – New season begins

  Peak Music Society’s 57th season begins in September with the first of an exceptional programme of concerts at the Cavendish Hall, Edensor, with a total of six musical events, two of which will be afternoon performances, which are becoming increasingly popular. The season opens on September 25 with Sarah Williamson and the Piatti Quartet. Sarah

• Bereaved Bakewell businesswoman brings first guided modern-day pilgrimages to Derbyshire this September

  This year’s National Heritage Open Week theme may be Architecture, but Tideswell’s Cathedral of the Peak will be offering more than a building tour this September as new minister Revd Fiona Kouble and local pilgrim guide Faye Smith have teamed up to bring guided modern-day pilgrimages to this beautiful part of the world. Medieval gothic