Very pretty when you don’t have to go anywhere, but a pain to get around in. It’s quite late in the day for this, but I’ll leave it here for future reference. I’ll update it as I think of things to add, or people remind me of what I’ve forgotten (or didn’t know about).

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Last updated 14 January 2016.

Are the Roads Open?

• Derbyshire County Council – Road closures and gritter updates
• BBC – Road incidents

Are the Trains Running?

• Northern Rail Journey Check
• The National Rail Enquiries Northern twitter account – all disruptions across the north.

Are the Buses Running?

• Stagecoach Buses (236 & 237) (202 Sun & Bank Holiday Mon) – twitter; service updates on the website
• High Peak Buses (60/64, 61, 390, 393, 394) – twitter; website
• First Buses (Manchester) – twitter; website.
• Tates Travel (951) – website; traveline 01709 515 151.

What’s the Weather Like?

• The Met Office – twitter; website.
• Weather Underground
• Glossop Weather – a twitter account automatically sharing readings from an amateur weather station right here in our own valley. We have our own weather, different from London’s, so this is a brilliant resource.
• Webcam: The closest webcam I’m aware of is this one on Kinder Scout. Please email me if you know of any in Glossop!

Are the Schools Open?

Derbyshire County Council – School Closures lists the ones reported to DCC. (If you sign up for the email alerts, be aware that sometimes those come several hours later or even the next day.)

• Glossop Adult Education Centre – check the Derbyshire County Council twitter or website, or phone 01457 852245.
• Glossopdale Community College – website, phone 01457 862336.
• Philip Howard – website, phone 01457 853611.

• Charlesworth School – website, 01457 853475 (Infant Site); 01457 852711 (Junior Site).
• Duke of Norfolk Primary – website, phone 01457 852635.
• Gamesley Primary – website, phone 01457 853721.
• Hadfield Infant School – website, phone 01457 853958.
• Hollingworth Primary School – website, twitter, facebook, phone 01457 762 136.
• Padfield Primary School – website, phone 01457 852751.
• Tintwistle Primary School – website, phone 01457 852611.
• Simmondley Primary – website, phone 01457 852721.
• St Andrew’s C of E Junior School, Hadfield – website, phone 01457 852328.
• St Charles’ Primary, Hadfield – website, phone 01457 852692
• St James’ Primary, Glossop – website, twitter, facebook
• St Luke’s Primary, Glossop – website, twitter, phone 01457 852602.
• St Margaret’s Primary, Gamesley – website, phone 01457 855818.
• St Mary’s Primary, Glossop – website, 01457 854473.

General and Miscellaneous

• Councils:
  • High Peak Borough Council: twitter; website.
  • Derbyshire County Council: twitter; website; phone 01629 533190 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday and 9:30am to 4pm Saturday.
• Newspapers:
  • Glossop Gazette: twitter; facebook; website – our most local newspaper.
  • Glossop Chronicle: facebook; twitter; website.
  • Glossop Advertiser: facebook; twitter; website.
• Utilities:
  • United Utilities (Water): twitter; website outage listing; 0345 6723 723 emergency number 24 hours a day.
  • National Grid (Gas and Electricity): twitter; website; phone 0800 111 999 if you smell gas; phone 0800 40 40 90 for electricity emergencies.
  • Electricity Northwest (Electricity power cuts): twitter; website; phone 0800 195 4141. Your chosen electricity provider sells you energy but it’s Electricity Northwest who maintains the power lines that connect your home or business to the National Grid, and it’s Electricity Northwest you should get in touch with if you have a power cut. Your chosen electricity provider generally won’t be able to do anything.
• Police:
  • Derbyshire Police: twitter; website; non-emergency phone 101.
  • Glossop Safer Neighbourhood Team: twitter; website.
  • Gamesley Safer Neighbourhood Team: twitter; website.
  • Hadfield Safer Neighbourhood Team: twitter; website.
• Health:
  • Northwest Ambulance Service: this is the one that covers Glossop and Greater Manchester. twitter; facebook; website.
  • East Midlands Ambulance Service: this covers all of Derbyshire excluding Glossop. Since I have a number of followers from the rest of the High Peak, I’m including it. twitter; website.
  • Stockport NHS Trust – Stepping Hill Hospital, etc: twitter; website; phone 0161 483 1010.
  • Tameside Hospital: twitter; website; phone 0161 922 6000.
  • Tameside & Glossop Clinical Commissioning Group: twitter; website.
  • GPs:
    • Cottage Lane Surgery: website; phone 01457 861343.
    • Howard Street Medical Practice: phone 01457 854321.
    • Lambgates Surgery: website; phone 01457 869 090.
    • Manor House Surgery: twitter; website; phone 01457 860 860.
    • Simmondley Medical Practice: website; phone 01457 862305.
• Misc:
  • Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service: twitter; facebook; website.
  • Anthony Mckeown, Gamesley councillor on High Peak Borough Council, has a very helpful webpage drawing together various tweets and resources here; also there’s his twitter.

What About Conditions in Manchester/Greater Manchester?

• Transport for Greater Manchester – the twitter account seems like the best place to get updates from them.
• Tameside Council – website, twitter.
• Stockport Council – gritting info; they have now password-protected the page they had with school and council closures. Try the newsroom or twitter.
• Manchester City Council – has a twitter account that’ll tell you if they’re going to send out gritters overnight; some general information on what they do for wintry weather; and a list of the roads they grit, but I can’t find any school closure listings or anything else from them. You could buzz them on their main twitter account.
• Oldham Council – website, twitter.
• Rochdale Council – website, twitter.
• Bury Council – website, twitter.
• Bolton Council – website, twitter.
• Wigan Council – website, twitter.
• Salford Council – website, twitter.
• Trafford Council – website, twitter.

Good luck getting where you need to go if you must go, and in any event, good luck keeping warm!