Carrbrook

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Carrbrook is an area in the east of Stalybridge, England. The area still has many seventeenth and eighteenth century buildings. Much of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century village was built during the industrial boom brought by the printworks. Modern Housing estates were built next to the old village on the lower flank of Harridge Pike from the 1970s. The view to the east of Carrbrook is dominated by the steep-sided Buckton Hill, on the summit of which is located Buckton Castle.

[edit] Music

Carrbrook Brass Band rehearse in Carrbrook twice a week, and perform in National and Regional Brass Band Contests throughout the year, including the Tameside Regional Contest and Blackpool Northwest Regional Contest. Carrbrook Brass Band represent Stalybridge every September at Armentieres in France, where a carnival is held.

Every year on Whit Friday, Carrbrook is host to a very lively and popular Brass Band Contest outside the Carrbrook Institute Pub in Carrbrook Villiage.

Stalybridge based electro-rock band This Is My Lawnmower rehearse regularly within the borders of Carrbrook at St Raphael's Catholic Club.

[edit] References

• Tameside Local History Forum

[edit] External links

• Carrbrook Village community website.
• Carrbrook Heritage Trail a local history project commissioned on behalf of the British National Lottery heritage fund by the Carrbrook Heritage Group.
• A walk through Carrbrook provided by the Tameside Borough Council website.