Chapel in colour

The 18th Century stocks still stand in Chapel-en-le-Frith's Market Place alongside the Market Cross. Behind is the Roebuck Hotel. A house was built here in the 13th century for the Duely family. Rebuilt in 1700, it became a beerhouse in 1720 known as the New Hall. Between 1750 and 1850 the building served as a court house until becoming the Roebuck

 On the road from Chapel to Hayfield. The winter of  1939 and 1940 was one of the most severe on record. On 23rd January, a temperature of -23.3C was recorded in mid-Wales. Snow started falling on 26th January and continued for three days. As can be seen in this photograph, the snow had receded from the hillsides but remained piled up at the roadside.

 

Chapel-en-le-Frith in 1944. Members of  the A. R. P. and St. John's Ambulance Brigade pose before their new ambulance.

 

 

 George Taylor's milk float passes the Hearse House in Chapel-en-le-Frith in the 1930s. This is a Grade II listed building and was formerly an undertaker's cart shed. The plaque reads "Hearse House/Erected 1818. Samuel Grundy, Minister. Stephen Bellott and Adam Fox, Martinside - Churchwardens"

 

 

Nurses of the V. A. D. and St.John's Ambulance head towards Chapel cricket ground in 1944 where they will parade before Lady Mountbatten.

 

 

Two men try the stocks for size.

 

These photographs have all been digitally colourised  from black and white originals.