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COMMUNITY NEWS

& FEATURES

Friends of Hopwood

Park Update 33

Heywood Christmas

Festival 2019 34-35

From The Archives

- Johnny Clegg 36-37

Greenbooth - The First Generation

- The Norden & District

Local History Society 38-40

Andrew Nutter’s

- The Cinderella Shoe 41

With Valentine’s Day almost upon us,

we couldn’t resist this beautiful shot of

the swans at Queens Park, Heywood.

This was kindly shared with us by local

photographer, David England.

Welcome to

our first issue

of 2020

After a short break,

here we go again!

We are pleased that so many of you have

been in contact with us so soon into the

New Year and once again this month we

have another packed community section

full of useful and interesting information.

There really is something for everyone,

including an update from the Friends

of Hopwood Park, a recipe from local

celebrity chef, Andrew Nutter and another

fascinating article from local historian,

Gary-Heywood-Everett. We also have the

first of a four part article on Greenbooth

Reservoir, which is well worth a read!

If you are interested in advertising in

Streetwise this year, get in touch with

either of us for a no obligation, informal

chat and be part of the essential guide

to everything going on locally!

Until next month…

Streetwise Magazine

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or whole, without the prior permission of the

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ARE YOU FED UP WITH CLUTTER?

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that, often in less than a day.

Access4Lofts Rochdale is owned by Jack Ellis. Much of the work he carries

out is for growing families “I know how crucial storage space can be for large

families” says Jack.” I also find that a large percentage of my clients are retired

people looking for the safest access to their loft available.”

Jack says that with space at such a premium, it makes sense to make the

most of your loft “installing a loft ladder is quick and affordable. It’s less

expensive than a garden shed and it means you don’t have to store

everything out of the house.”

Access4Lofts provides a free survey and quote service so you can find out

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Some homeowners who perhaps inherited an old loft ladder, may want to

consider an upgrade as in many homes the loft hatch and ladder are out of

date compared to what’s on offer now “the new ladders are spring-assisted

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There’s really no need for anyone to be struggling in and out of the loft

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Freeing up a room currently clogged with clutter can save a lot of trouble and

expense, as Jack explains “some people looking for more space consider

moving to a bigger home but this needn’t be necessary. People are surprised

by the amount of space a loft can create we can even include shelving to

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Through our community store, we aim to develop

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community at large and opportunities for

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support over 100 people each year giving them

access to recycled goods which will help them to

maintain or move into accommodation.

The community store also plays a very important

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their involvement in the community store:

Rotary Club of Rochdale members have volunteered

at the Petrus community store since its opening. It is

a fantastic social enterprise set up by the Petrus

Community charity to support the homeless. Rotary

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support the Petrus service users.

Everyone in the store is very welcoming and serves

to help disadvantaged people with good quality

second hand goods at very reasonable prices.

We admire the hard work of the staff and the many

volunteers including Petrus service users taking a

step into full time employment. We will continue to

support this great enterprise

Elvet Smith

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The job centre

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friendships, and in the

last 6 months Petrus

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D.C.

Due to various circumstances, I was left

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furnish it myself as I didn’t have the funds.

I was issued with a voucher from Petrus

and was able to receive a bed, wardrobe,

drawers and other basic essentials

without which I would have never been

able to get by day-to-day. Petrus has

been such a fantastic help to me, the

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T.R.

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Friends of Hopwood Park Update

It has been a busy couple of months at

The Tree House Café at Hopwood Park.

The Friends of Hopwood Park have organised

several successful events including the annual

Hopwood Winter Market which took place on

Saturday 30th November, many families and

friends came along and enjoyed lovely singing

from Heywood’s Voice Choir and festive food and

drink, a Santa’s Grotto and a variety of stalls. The

event raised over £1600 for The Friends of

Hopwood Park which will be put towards our current projects.

In December, we were happy to support Riff N Raff Pet Care to host a very

enjoyable free “Dog Pawty” on Hopwood Park to raise funds of Bleakholt Animal

Sanctuary, a total of £152.61 was raised for this very worthy cause. Volunteers from

The Friends of Hopwood Park served turkey & stuffing muffins, mulled wine and

complimentary mince pies from Hopwood Cabin.

Adults, children and their dogs enjoyed party games,

singing and music and games with a prize for every

dog. It was a fantastic, friendly day enjoyed by all, we

hope we can host many more events throughout the

year like this for park users and their dogs.

The Tree House Café was very busy over the festive

period, we were delighted to receive a grant of

£200 from Forever Manchester for a community

get-together and we were pleased to use this funding

to welcome many more new customers and provide

festive food and drink for many of our valued regular

customers.

We are currently working hard to raise funds for an outdoor terrace next to the café

which we hope will be completed later this year, this area will give us much needed

additional outdoor seating for our customers to enjoy refreshments over-looking

Hopwood Park on dryer days. We are also

making plans for our entry into this year’s In

Bloom competition and hope to maintain

the Gold standard received in 2019.

I would like to thank all our

customers, volunteers and friends

for their continued support and wish

them all the best for the coming year.

Sandra Trickett

Chair Person

The Friends of Hopwood Park


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Heywood Christmas

Festival 2019

This year was yet another successful Christmas Lights

Switch On for Heywood Business Group as the team

organised a fun day out for all the family! With free

entertainment offered throughout the town, including

the Town Christmas Concert outside St Luke’s Church

throughout the afternoon, street entertainers walking

around, lots of Disney and Marvel Characters were

pottering around having their pictures taken with

children and families, together with Father Christmas

and the Grinch, whilst Blackley Brass Band played lots

of traditional Christmas tunes.

The Switch On event was kicked off with the town’s

annual Christmas Parade, with Festive floats

decorated by Mike Goldrick Window Blinds Ltd, The

Satellite Rotary Club of Heywood and St Johns Scouts

and the new addition of the Lee Rigby Bikers who

rode through the crowds on their bikes and scooters

decorated with Christmas lights and attire. Walkers

in the parade included the Heywood Civic Hall Panto,

Heap Bridge PTA, stilt-walkers and a Brass Band. The

parade was lit up by some fantastic displays and this

year they welcomed the steam engine Pearl as one of

the highlights, lit up in fairy lights and tooting along!

The lights were switched on by the Borough’s Mayor,

Billy Sheering and his wife surrounded by the towns

Councillors, before finishing off the event with the

annual Olde Queen Anne’s firework display.

It was a fantastic day and the Business Group

would like to thank all the businesses, groups and

organisations involved in this years’ event and a

special thanks goes to everyone who came along for

the event and faced the cold November afternoon,

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From The Archives

Jonathan Paul Clegg was born on

7th June 1953 in Bacup to a British

father, Dennis Clegg, and a

Zimbabwean mother, Muriel Clegg

nee Braudo. Muriel came from a long

line of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants

and brought up Johnny as a secular

Jew, refusing the bar mitzvah

for him.

On his parent’s divorce when he was an

infant Johnny and his mother moved to

Zimbabwe, to Israel, to Zambia where he

attended a multi-racial school and then,

when he was six years old to South Africa

where he commented that he felt like a

migrant. Johnny’s mother was a jazz

singer and married a South African

journalist who introduced the twelve year

old Johnny to Zulu workers in the black

townships. As these areas were

segregated there were dangers in mixing

with this group, but he did it anyway and

the experience had a significant effect on

the young man.

JOHNNY CLEGG

Johnny’s adolescent years were spent

soaking up this culture, in particular the

music of the black suburbs of Johannesburg

and under the teaching of Charlie Mzila, a

cleaner by day and a musician by night,

he learned the Zulu language as well as

indigenous dance and guitar styles.

Under apartheid these were perilous

things to do and at the age of fifteen

Johnny Clegg was arrested for trespass

on government property and for violating

congregation laws after curfew hours.

This didn’t stop him though, and at the

age of seventeen in 1969 he met Sipho

Mchunu, a migrant worker and gardener

and along with the guitarist Charlie Mzila

formed his first musical partnership,

Juluka, (meaning ‘Sweat’) and with them

performed Zulu songs and rhythms

influenced by Celtic folk music. As a mixed

race band, Juluka’s music could not be

played by national broadcasters and Clegg

and the band not only faced censorship

from the government but risked

imprisonment by appearing in clubs and

other venues in South Africa. This band

stayed together until 1986 when Mchunu

chose to stop touring and take up

cattle farming. At that point Clegg formed

Savuka (which means ‘We have risen’) and

recorded solo albums with this new

mixed-race band.

During all of this time his music was

recognised as important in the antiapartheid

movement with political Zulu

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and English lyrics intermixed, but this led

to regular harassment and imprisonment

of the band members and their concerts

being broken up by the authorities.

Wherever they were held, their

performances were often disrupted as

under apartheid legislation known as the

Group Areas Act white people like Johnny

Clegg were not permitted to enter

segregated black townships without

official permits and these were often

withheld. Similarly, black people were

kept out of whites-only areas by night-time

curfews. Due to his political and cultural

stance Clegg became known as the ‘white

Zulu’ although he didn’t care for that name.

Eventually both of Clegg’s bands proved

popular in the black and white

communities, selling enough to win two

platinum and five gold albums and touring

the world with their inter-racial music and

message. So popular were they that in Lyon

they drew such a large crowd that Michael

Jackson was forced to cancel his concert,

claiming ‘they have stolen my fans!’

During a Savuka concert in Frankfurt in

1999 Johnny was joined onstage by Nelson

Mandela who danced as Clegg sang

‘Asimbonanga’ the protest song Savuka

had dedicated to him when Mandela was

in jail. In the United Kingdom however,

things were never good for Johnny.

Because he had been expelled from the

Musicians Union his band were barred

from playing in June 1988 at the Wembley

Stadium Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute.

In 1990, Clegg was still politically and

musically active, telling the New York

Times that their mission was ‘to bring a

whole collection of songs that are about the

South African experience to the world.”

As if all of this wasn’t enough, Johnny Clegg

had a second career as an Anthropology

lecturer at both the Universities of

Witwatersrand and Natal, writing a

number of important papers on Zulu music.

He would build his knowledge of culture and

history into his stage act with Juluka and

Savuka. His work was recognised in 2015

when he was made an OBE.

Clegg’s touring schedule was cut short in

2017 after undergoing critical surgery and

in 2019 he died from pancreatic cancer

having performed his last concert in

Mauritius in October 2018. He was 66

years old. A statement by the South

African government against whom he had

struggled for most of his life captures his

importance : ‘Mr. Clegg’s music had the

ability to unite people across the races’ and

that he had ‘made an indelible mark in the

music industry and the hearts of the

people.’ Born in Bacup, he became a

national hero in South Africa by defying

with joyful music and powerful language

the evils of apartheid policies.

If you have any memories or comments about Johnny Clegg, I’d be delighted to hear

from you and add them to a growing Rochdale archive on the subject. Please contact

Gary Heywood-Everett at garyheywoodeverett@yahoo.co.uk or leave your comments

by text or by recorded message at 07745201263.


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NORDEN

Greenbooth

& DISTRICT LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY

THE FIRST GENERATION

How many times have you taken a

walk around Greenbooth Reservoir just

taking in the peace and tranquillity of

the beautiful surroundings? Some may

even contemplate the history of what

had laid there before, or for the few

that still remember what life was like

there, they may even hear the echoes

of village life still resonating in their

minds eye.

My interest in Greenbooth was piqued

when I took a walk around the reservoir

and tried to imagine just what it had been

like as a living and thriving community.

Most of what I’d read, starts in 1848 with

James Butterworth as owner of Messrs

James Butterworth & Sons, Woollen

Manufacturer, Greenbooth and his

development of the surrounding village

to accommodate his workers. As I

continued my research I learnt that this

was not exactly the start of the story.

The origins of the ‘Butterworth’s Woollen

Manufacturing empire dated back to his

father, William Butterworth and Sons who

began manufacturing in the early 1800s

in premises known as ‘The Oil Mill’ in

Rochdale. They also had warehouses and

handlooms at Lowfield, Milnrow, later

moving on to premises on Oldham Road

whilst also running a finishing mill at

Greenbooth. Unfortunately, the Oldham

Road mill was destroyed by fire and

rebuilt at considerable expense. After a

second fire, the family were forced to

rethink their location and it was decided

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to move the whole operation to

Greenbooth and expand those premises.

Very soon, the sheer expense of rebuilds

on the Oldham Road site and the

extensive construction in Greenbooth

lead to their downfall and resulted in

bankruptcy.

James, unlike his brothers, had not joined

his father in the family business. James

was already a successful Wool Stapler and

was a wealthy man in his own right. He

had however, financially supported his

family by providing the second mortgage

on the premises when they fell into

difficulties. No doubt as a Wool Stapler

James may well have provided much of

the raw material involved in their

manufacturing process. By 1848 James

owned a substantial amount of land in

the Naden Valley, including East Knowl

Colliery, Naden Farm and other farms and

land in the areas surrounding Greenbooth

itself. He also owned Lower Tenterhouse,

Tenterhouse and Upper Tenterhouse.

Following their bankruptcy, the mill

and the few surrounding buildings had

initially gone up for sale in 1847. James

already holding financial interest in the

property, by this point, decided to take

over full ownership of the business.

Already at the age of 62 and having

been widowed for many years, this was

a massive commitment but he was loyal

and wanted to continue what his father

had started. He was known to be a great

orator with a kind and philanthropic view

of life and the village he wanted to create.

He provided housing and a shop for his

workers, there was also a small Co-op

shop. Rent was deducted from wages,

as was payments for milk which was

delivered daily from Naden Farm. Meat,

cheese and eggs were all readily available

from local farms. James did his best to

ensure viability of the village by paying

the workers half their wages in tokens

that had to be spent in the village. This

provided the opportunity for the village

to be as self-sufficient as possible. There

was no pub or church in the village and

villagers made the regular walk to Norden

to worship and to obtain any provisions

not readily available.

Each Monday morning, a large copper

tub of hot water was provided in the

mill yard for the ladies of the village to


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bring along buckets to ease the burden of

heating water at home for washing. He

also permitted them the use of the mill

drying rooms to dry blankets or other

heavy items. Coal was in ready supply for

both mill and village use and came down

on the Ariel cable track from East Knowl

Colliery.

James also cared about the social aspects

of their lives, supported local events and

provided a reading room and a daily

newspaper. A year before his death, in

1867, he fulfilled his long held wish of

providing a school for the education of

the children of his workforce.

Greenbooth School was said to be built in

a ‘neat gothic style’ and to accommodate

500 persons. It was opened on 27th May

1867. On the first week there was in

attendance 119 boys, girls and short

timers, this figure increasing to 124 by the

fourth week. The school was to remain

open and in constant use both as an

educational establishment, community

venue and meeting hall for many

community and church events until 1931.

Following James’ death in 1868 his

daughter Mary Hutchinson, who became

notorious for inflicting her rigorous

standards of cleanliness on the village and

its people, took over the sole running of

the Mill, the School and the village itself.

Mary, was an extremely competent

woman and James’ faith in his daughter’s

business ability is borne out by the legacy

in his Will, leaving Mary in sole charge

of his business empire. Mary’s husband,

Robert Hutchinson, was the wealthy mill

owner of Nova Scotia Mill in Blackburn

and each ran their businesses

independently.

I finally managed to trace the original

school records, and had the privilege of

handling these important documents.

These books have revealed so very much

more of the day to day life of Greenbooth

than could have been read in any

history book. I hope at some point in the

future to produce a written document on

my findings which will hopefully give a

greater insight into life in the village of

Greenbooth and perhaps give a voice to

its inhabitants. I will follow up with

some of the content in a future issue

of the magazine.

In the meantime, there is a public display

of photos and researched material in the

Old Library, produced by fellow historian,

Chris Verey. Chris produced this material

to accompany my Greenbooth talk to

Norden & District Local History Society

back in November. Feel free to pop in,

have a coffee or merely browse the display

boards and learn a little more about

such an important part of our history.

Val Corns

valcorns@hotmail.co.uk

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