Today's events in Tameside

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A new stall at Ashton Market will give shoppers plenty of food for thought.

Tameside Council, working in conjunction with the Love Food Hate Waste campaign, will be running a series of cooking demonstrations to show people how they can make better use of the food they buy.

The market’s resident chef, Bernadette Bennet, will be cooking up quick and easy recipes using left-overs and food ‘past its best’ such as over-ripe fruit to inspire people to change their cooking habits to the benefit of both their finances and the environment.

Visitors will also be able to collect free recipe cards and traders will be handing out reusable bags and giving advice on how to prolong the life of their goods.

Undenominational Sunday School built 1900. Previous building of 1820 was on the same site - so the Sunday School is now 190 years old. It is still used each Sunday. Display of material about the Sunday School and talks about the surrounding area.

Tudor black and white timber church dated circa 1531 - with a possible origin in 1473 from Denton Hall or Hyde Hall. One of only 29 surviving timber framed churches and chapels in England. Burial place of Colonel Duckenfield - 'Roundhead' military leader, and John Angiers, a notable Puritan preacher who died in 1667. Features original beams with pegs and stained glass windows. Awarded two Blue Plaques, one dedicated to John Angiers.

St Peter's is one of three Waterloo Buildings in the Greater Manchester Area, built to celebrate to victory in the Napoleonic War. The foundation stone was laid in 1821 and consecrated in 1824.

Grade II listed church building, built 1846. Undergoing Phase 1 of re-roofing during 2010.

The heritage centre, housed in an 1871 cotton mill, captures the essential history of the textile industry and associated transport in Mossley. There are an increasing number of artefacts in a 'scullery corner'. Mossley Hollins School Brass Band will kick off HODS at 1100 on Thursday at Mossley Hall in the presence of the Mayor.

Directed by Gerard Crawshaw

Dr David Mortimer is about to address a conference of neuro-surgeons with a speech that will probably earn him a knighthood.
Enter Jane Tate, a nurse he had a fling with 18 years ago who bore him a son - a son who is currently rampaging around the hospital searching for the dad he has never seen!
Frantic to hide this catastrophic news from his wife and the hospital authorities, David is forced to invent not one but two non-existent husbands for Jane...
Events spin deliriously out of control, complicated by a senile patient, a policeman, and a fierce matron hanging off a window ledge with a hypodermic syringe in her rump!
This funny farce promises an evening of uproarious fun for all.

Booking opens Monday 16th August 2010

Can you remember crystal sets and gramophones? Maybe you were among the first buy a colour television back in the 1960s. Whatever technology you remember, you are bound to find something to spark nostalgia at Portland Basin Museum’s exhibition, ‘Media Circus’.

The exhibition, features televisions, radios, record players, cameras and computer games from the museum’s collection.

Rachel Cornes, Social History Curator said: “The objects have all been donated by local people over the years and show how much technology has evolved. Some younger visitors might not even recognise many of the gadgets. We’ve got a television from the 1950s, reel to reel players, an early mobile phone and records sold at local shops.

"It's wonderful to see so many memorable objects displayed together.”

In addition to the exhibition, visitors can also enjoy the museum’s recreated 1920s street and the recently revamped industrial history gallery. There are plenty of hands-on activities and trails to keep children of all ages entertained.