Longdendale Tales

An ambient, musical, manipulated reworking of the everyday sounds of Glossop, by Clare Savory and Simon Galloway.The two sound artists have taken samples from the soundscapes of episode 31, and transformed them into warped loops, sprinkled with plenty of reverb, added a bit of synth - and voila, this is Glossopdale as you’ve never heard before!The result is a half hour long sonic journey from spacious calming chords accompanied by nature, to harsh rhythmic percussive-like loops created from the town’s machines and traffic.Longer versions of the original soundscapes are available on our digital map, visit www.longdendaletales.co.uk and search ‘soundscapes’ where you’ll see/hear plenty more pins across the whole of Glossopdale! (Thank you Helen Newman for doing this)All of our Longdendale Tales episodes are also available as video podcasts, you can watch visualised film versions via YouTube: www.youtube.com/@longdendaletalesOr audio versions are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts.Longdendale Tales, presented and produced by Clare Savory of ASFB Productions.With music and binaural sound created by Simon Galloway.Films directed and produced by Glossop filmmaker, Owain Paciuszko.Thank you to funding support from Derbyshire Makes and High Peak Community Arts.

Enjoy listening to Glossop and its surrounding towns closer than you’ve ever done before!Soundscapes and snippets of audio have been captured over several years, and now with the public’s help, sound artist Clare Savory has transformed everyday moments in Glossopdale into a visualised piece of art.From the dawn chorus in Hadfield, to the owls tooting in Simmondley. To the sizzle of the chippy fryer in Gamesley to the rhythmic whirring of Spring Clean launderette in Glossop. There’s curlews in Crowden, grouse on Wormstones and plenty of ducks in Manor Park.The away fans are singing loudly at Glossop North End, whilst the trains roll on above over the viaduct. Listen to Longclough brook from above, and below. To Graeme baking bread on Shrewsbury Street.To the wind in the trees near Moorfield.And sneak inside the parish church in Old Glossop to hear the bell ringers’ practice!Thank you to Simon, Jason, Margaret, Claire, Liz, Mark, Mark, Kaleb, Jane, Carys and more of you for sending in your recordings!Longer versions of these soundscapes are available on our digital map, visit www.longdendaletales.co.uk and search ‘soundscapes’ where you’ll see/hear plenty more pins across the whole of Glossopdale! (Thank you Helen Newman for doing this)All of our Longdendale Tales episodes are also available as video podcasts, you can watch visualised film versions via YouTube: www.youtube.com/@longdendaletalesOr audio versions are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts.Longdendale Tales, presented and produced by Clare Savory of ASFB Productions.Films directed and produced by Glossop filmmaker, Owain Paciuszko.Thank you to funding support from Derbyshire Makes and High Peak Community Arts.

Curator Clare Savory tells the stories behind the making of episode 31’s full Glossop audio tapestry.Whilst out walking ‘the nab’ near Chunal and Charlestown, she explains why it’s become her mission to help people reclaim ‘sound’ to better their health - and their connection to others and the world around them. By recording everyday sounds, she hopes people who live in the area will take notice of the town’s and moor’s wonderful noises - before it’s too late.In this episode, you can enjoy willow warblers, a horse purring, meet some of Gamesley chippy’s regular customers and drift off to a wonderful soundscape of dawn chorus in Glossop as recorded by Kaleb.Longer versions of these soundscapes are available on our digital map, visit www.longdendaletales.co.uk and search ‘soundscapes’ where you’ll see/hear plenty more pins across the whole of Glossopdale! (Thank you Helen Newman for doing this)All of our Longdendale Tales episodes are also available as video podcasts, you can watch visualised film versions via YouTube: www.youtube.com/@longdendaletalesOr audio versions are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts.Longdendale Tales, presented and produced by Clare Savory of ASFB Productions.Films directed and produced by Glossop filmmaker, Owain Paciuszko.Thank you to funding support from Derbyshire Makes and High Peak Community Arts.Our podcast theme tune is called ‘Begging’ and is by the wonderful, once-Glossop-resident - Harry Heart. 

Back in March (episode 8), Clare Savory visited an almost forgotten chapel on the hillside between Woodhead and Crowden... Now a group of volunteers from across the Longdendale valley (and beyond) have rescued St James' Church. In this special Christmas episode, Clare invites Longdendale Tales listeners in for a sneak peek of the first concert at the chapel in years.Music is provided by Adrian Loader and Arnfield Brass Band. Tintwistle-based celebrant Steph Baker leads the service.You can support the volunteers repairing St James by donating to their crowdfunder campaign here: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/st-james-church-restoration-fundIf you've enjoyed this episode of our podcast, make sure you visit our digital interactive map for more of the valley's fascinating history at LongdendaleTales.co.ukSpecial thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).

As the series draws to a close, Clare Savory follows an old path underneath the Longdendale Trail, where there’s another railway tunnel marked ‘The Old House’.She ponders over words Robert Macfarlane shared about the origins of paths and “the secrets they keep of adventures, meetings and departures”.Clare walks from one end of the tunnel to the other - listen closely to the buzz of the pylons, to the raindrops inside, to the heavy rain and birdsong at the opposite end.And she tells a tale of a cat called ‘hero’ that is said to haunt the area, along with its owner who cursed all that tread the path of the railway…This pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map. Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).

It’s the final instalment of the bard of Longdendale’s story about a group of day trippers (and their plentiful hamper) travelling the region in June 1867. Actress Cordelia Howard completes the tale of the party’s return journey from Crowden to Manchester.The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle. Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map. Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).

Nanny Greenteeth and Nell Nettlespike, Baron de Morland and Sir Mottram De Mossland…some of the characters presented in the myths and legends about the Longdendale Valley. In particular, they feature in many of the explanations of how a hairpin along Woodhead Head earned the title ‘devil’s elbow’.Walking from The Peels Arms in Padfield to Peak Naze, Clare Savory is joined by Glossop-based science-fiction writer Matt Hill (M. T. Hill). Together they talk about how the landscape inspires their work, and savour a precious moment to welcome the lapwings back to fields surrounding Padfield.Links to buy The Breach and Zero Bomb are available via Matt’s website: mthill.co.uk The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle. Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map. Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).

Whilst recording this podcast series, Clare Savory met retired-clergy-now-fellow-Hadfield-ers Janet Lees and Bob Warwicker. As passionate long-distance walkers, they’ve explored many of the corners and paths of the Longdendale Trail (and much of the country by foot). During lockdown their observational rambles inspired their prayers to fall in the form of poetry, which are published on one of their many blog sites and have been mapped out as walking trails along the valley.In this episode, the three Hadfield musketeers walk along the Transpennine trail, south of Rhodeswood Reservoir and finish taking shelter inside ‘The Old House tunnel’ aka Secure.Campsites.Workouts !You can find Bob and Janet’s ‘prayers for places’ project here: bobjanet.org.uk/PFP/This pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map. Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).

From the Bulls Head in Tintwistle to Arnfield Farm; Clare Savory walks along the boundary of the Peak District National Park with Cora Glasser and David Ball of Glassball Studio.Their latest project, GUIDEline, explores the nature of the park’s boundary, its history and how it was formed from Glossop to Diggle.Together they share some of the work and research they’ve uncovered over the last 4 years, whilst collaborating with artists Alison Lloyd and Dr Tony Hall.From politics, to airshafts, to memorials and brambles…there’s plenty to notice if you look closely on this relatively short and sweet walk.To read more about Cora and Dave’s work visit: https://guideline.org.uk/The Longdendale Tales pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map. Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).

Enjoy a windy walk with Clare Savory along the northern path of Torside Reservoir; taking time to notice the colours, the patterns, shapes and lines through an artists’ lens.Local painter Liz Armstrong from Glossop Art Society offers tips to get started sketching when out on your walks. Plus, they share the story behind the idea of open air painting, also known by the Italians as ‘pro loco’ (of and on location).Visit https://hadfieldhall.wordpress.com/art-show/ for information about Hadfield Open Art Show and contact Glossop Art Society via their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/glossopartsociety/ This pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map. Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).

From wool to cotton; Kate Raine paints a picture of how the area surrounding Bottoms Reservoir looked before and during the building of the reservoirs. Including Crowden Bleach Works, Bottoms Lodge and the mystery behind Torside Paper Mill…was it actually a pub?!And - what connects Rhodeswood Reservoir with the Victoria Hall in Glossop? Spoiler alert: It’s Herbert Rhodes, one of the owners of the many mills in Hadfield and Padfield, and once mayor of Glossop.Plus, how did the reservoirs get their names? Your daily dog walks will never be the same again!For more fascinating history about the mills of Glossop and Longdendale, it’s worth reading Kate’s series about Glossop’s Lost Mills via the Glossop Heritage Trust website: https://glossopheritage.co.uk/ghtarchive/lostmills/ The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map. Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).

Sped up, slowed down, turned round and round - today’s Sunday soundscape is recorded walking along Crowden weir. Enjoy listening to the sound of the gushing fast flowing stream as Clare Savory turns in circles, allowing the water to move all around us. (Best listened wearing headphones!)The week’s conversations about adopting a sense of play with the children in the brook; to the issues around safety in encouraging more women to enjoy walking the park have been rumbling around Clare’s mind. Something she ponders over, with the wise words of Dr Kerri Andrew’s book ‘Wanderers: The History of Women Walking’ to hand.The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle. Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map. Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).

The party has opened and indulged in the hamper’s delights, what next for Thomas Barlow’s day-trippers enjoying a wet and wild summer’s day out in Woodhead? Cordelia Howard provides the third instalment of ‘A Picnic At Woodhead’.The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle. Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map. Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).

Listen closely as the year 6 pupils of Parochial Primary School in Ashton Under Lyne find their feet walking in wellies along Crowden Brook! Peak District National Park community ranger/oracle Matt Ross returns to the podcast to tell us how he inspires the future generation using stories of stoneflies and nymphs.This episode includes a cringe worthy joke about the Oasis hit Don’t Look Back In Anger. Sorry. But a cool fact about a stonefly called Yellow Sally...To find out more information about the school visits Matt runs, email Learning.Discovery@peakdistrict.gov.ukThe Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, supported by the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle. Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map. Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).

Helen Thornhill from Move More Glossop, a community partnership project led by The Bureau, encourages more of us to get fit by building activity into our everyday life. Clare Savory and Helen take a popular loop around Bottoms Reservoir to talk about who, why and how she helps people get started - no matter their mobility.Plus, they bump into a local chap called Jimmy by chance - who it turns out used to work on the reservoirs some 30+ years ago. He shares a few tales about climbing down the steps in the valve houses and walking the aqueducts underneath the waterways to clear the silt and tree roots!Plenty more info about the groups Helen talks about, including the Reservoir Ramblers here: https://the-bureau.org.uk/move-more-glossop/ The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle. Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map. Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).

Following the medieval trackway from Padfield towards Deep Clough, archaeologist Tim Campbell-Green and Clare Savory sift through the stone mason markings in the tunnels under the Longdendale Trail, as well as spotting two apotropaic markings on a bridge: “two inverted V’s”. These religious markings are believed to have been used to ward off evil or bad luck…and perhaps witches after the reformation?!Elsewhere, we stumble across some more Victorian pottery, a ‘glacial erratic’ and Tim shares the vision for his Glossop Creates Pairings: ‘A Big Dig’!Spoiler alert: We end this episode in a tunnel surrounded by mould, lichen and spider webs!Link to Tim’s blog Glossop Curiosities all about the mason markings here: https://glossopcuriosities.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/masons-marks-and-apotropaia/The Longdendale Tales project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle. Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map. Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).

8 air crashes; 36 people killed, 2 survivors...That's just in and around the area surrounding Bleaklow moor between the years 1939 and 1956.Yet most people have only heard of (and visited) the site where the Bleaklow Bomber met its fate - a US Air Force Boeing B29A Superfortress that crashed near Higher Shelf Stones in 1948.Mountain leader Alan Clark joins Clare Savory for a second podcast episode looking into the many crash sites on the south side of the Longdendale moors. They were recording sat at the memorial site on Bramah Edge.Interested in aviation crashes in the Peak District? Listen back to LT episode 9, where we discuss the 6 crash sites in and around Tintwistle Knarr - north side of the Longdendale valley.For Alan’s guided walks, check out: https://www.walkingthewrecks.uk/This pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle. Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk to see our digital interactive map. Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).

Glossop Chronicle journalist David Jones walks from Hadfield Train Station along the Longdendale Trail recalling some of the stories he reported for the local newspaper.From the opening of the trail, to walking the Woodhead train line tunnels to the many paranormal sightings in and around the valley… plus, rowdy football fans and a tale about Dick Turpin!Many of the articles we talk about during this interview have been pinned to our digital map, available at LongdendaleTales.co.ukThis pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).

For this week’s Sunday Soundscape, we walk beside an almost silent Woodhead Pass - usually filled with the deafening sound of lorries and cars driving all day and all night.But today, with 7 inches of snow, the area surrounding Rhodeswood Reservoir and Didsbury Intake was filled with nothing but the sounds of long tailed tits, blue tits and great tits. Well, and lots of melting ice falling from the towering trees above...This week’s poignant words come from the Scottish poet Thomas A Clark’s ‘In Praise Of Walking’.For photos of Clare’s walk on our digital map check out: LongdendaleTales.co.uk This pilot was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).

In the second of four storytelling episodes, actress Cordelia Howard continues reading the bard of Longdendale’s retelling of a wild day trip to Woodhead with friends.Visit LongdendaleTales.co.uk for more information about our digital map and 28 part walking podcast series.This pilot project was supported by Glossop Creates as part of their Pairings programme, matched with Matt Ross at the Peak District National Park’s Longdendale Environmental Centre in Tintwistle.Special thanks to Holly Close (assistant producer), Harry Heart (series theme music ‘Begging’), Owain Paciuszko (videos and visuals), Lauren Riley (logos and artwork) and Kate Raine (Glossop Heritage Trust research library).