Significant changes to two key routes and early introduction of School Holiday Timetable On Sunday, Stagecoach Greater Manchester’s latest timetable updates will see the retiming of many of its trunk routes to School Holiday schedules, and changes to two trunk routes in the Tameside and Glossop area. To a point, these routes will see their […]
Read More Tameside and Glossop Bus Service Changes Extra (29 November 2020)This month’s bare essentials only window on the shop windows A lot has happened in the last month to our bars and retail premises. Thanks to the second wave of COVID-19 cases, we are now in the midst of a second lockdown. It is anticipated that England’s circuit-breaking lockdown would last until the 02 December. […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, November 2020: The Ashton Review of ShopsQuite a lot to be honest! Imagine a world without Northern England. It would be a dull place devoid of The Beatles, iconic suspension bridges, daft footballers, and railway lines. Prior to the late 1970s, we were the manufacturing heart of the world. We built bridges, ships, made cutlery and built the world its locomotives […]
Read More What Has the North Done For Us?This month’s semi-quarantined window on the shop windows Under normal circumstances, our shops will be getting ready for Christmas. Not so at this time of writing. With COVID-19 cases hitting record levels, any sense of normality may be out of the question for a year. At the sharp end of the pandemic is our licensed […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, October 2020: The Ashton Review of ShopsThis month’s semi-quarantined window on the shop windows Has normality resumed? Well, in the last six weeks, there was some liberalisation of the lockdown conditions. Then, stricter conditions of our lockdown were imposed – announced only hours before coming into force. Our neighbours in Oldham had even stricter conditions imposed, some 300 yards short of […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, September 2020: The Ashton Review of ShopsThis month’s semi-quarantined window on the shop windows Have you seen any signs of the New Normal, or would this New Normal be a mere interlude in advance of a possible second wave? Whatever happens, August 2020 will be a world away from August 2019, never mind August 2009. Shortly after the publication of last […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, August 2020: The Ashton Review of ShopsDiamond diversion sees 217 route extended to Wythenshawe Hospital Tameside gains direct bus link with Manchester Royal Infirmary and Wythenshawe Hospital; Stagecoach takes over evening journeys of Stockport – Ashton 7 route. For the first time in over a decade, there will be no summertime retiming changes for Greater Manchester’s principal bus routes. Since 2008, […]
Read More Tameside and Glossop Bus Service Changes, 26 July 2020This month’s semi-quarantined window on the shop windows By the time you have read this, you may have had your first pint in a pub in 14 weeks. Instead of celebrating this, your first pint in a pub since lockdown might be your last for a while because of recent redundancy announcements. You might be […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, July 2020: The Ashton Review of ShopsAshton Review of Shops Extra looks at the reopening of ‘non essential’ retailers For some commentators, the 15 June 2020 would be seen as the day when normality returned to the High Street. With the reopening of ‘non essential’ retailers, it has been represented as part of our recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read More Shopping With Confidence, Tameside Style: Ashton Review of Shops ExtraNodding Donkeys ‘home’ till Christmas Today, East of the M60 has learned that a small number of the universally derided Class 142 Pacer units will be making a comeback on Northern rail services. Thirteen of the units will be reinstated to provide extra capacity, and to ensure that social distancing practices will be maintained.
Read More Back By Unpopular Demand: Northern’s Pacer Units
