Listening to the radio: Grenoside Equestrian Centre on Radio Sheffield

[Keith_Beef]

I didn't know of this place before; the presenter, Rob House, is talking to the woman who took it over after working there for a number of years, when the previous owners retired.

You should be able to get it on catch-up on the station's corner of the BBC web site.

 

[PapaverFollis]

I did my Y10 work experience there... many years ago now! Was it called something else before?

 

[Moon River]

It was Barnes Green when I was growing up and had a reputation for being a very good yard then with the old owners

 

[PapaverFollis]

That's it, Barnes Green. In my experience it was a lovely, well run yard.

 

[Keith_Beef]

I listened through almost to the end of the programme, when my nephew and niece turned up.

The people interviewed sounded really nice; very patient and helpful. The presenter was put on "Big Tom", seventeen hands and a bit.

 

[Keith_Beef]

I went up to Grenoside Equestrian Centre this afternoon and out for an hour through the woods. Nice, mild weather, not much wind, and the paths were a bit muddy but not too bad.

I rode on Big Tom, the Clydesdale that the radio presenter had ridden. I was warned that he was a bit green and could be "a bit forward when hacking", but he was fine. Very well behaved, good with the little bit of traffic we saw when we crossed what I think might have been Woodhead Road, and also with the few well behaved dogs and mountain bikers we met on the way.

 

[Rosiejazzandpia]

Learnt to ride their when I was 4 years old and worked their till recently.
Glad you enjoyed big Tom OP, and the woods are lovely to ride in round here

 

[conkers]

I did my YTS at Barnes Green. it was a fabulous place. Unfortunately, they had to stop their scheme because the funding wouldn't allow them to run it as they saw fit and we got transferred to a place at the end of the Parkway. The new place was terrible so I packed in horses and got a proper job.