Our good, easy ,old fashioned parishoners have recently canvassed with the object of getting a few introduced, but in vain. Drivers of all sorts, trusting to their own knowledge of the tortuous and winding roads and the their horses' instinct, go about at high speeds and in the most reckless manner. It is the exeption to see one with a light. Meanwhile, as usual, it is the old and infirm, the women and children, who run the greatest risks. Only last week a woman was knocked down, and narrow escapes are of frequent occurrence. If any of your readers love the quaint and antiquated, let them, on the first dark night, take a ticket for Whaley Bridge on the Buxton line; let them grope their way from the main street of the village into the parish of Fernilee. They will not have bruised themselves above once or twice against stone walls before they will be startled by erratic and mysterious will-o'-the-wisp-like glimmerings in the distance. On a nearer approach they will discover worthy natives perambulating in true seventeenth century fashion, with horn lanterns, like philosophers seeking for truth. Hoping these letters may draw the attention of public bodies generally to the matter.
NAVIGATION
- Home
- Manchester in Colour
- High Peak In Colour
- The Village in Colour
- Sale of the Jodrell Estate
- Growing Up In Buxworth
- The Cope Family Ventures in Buxworth
- Stage Carriage
- A Victorian Heroine
- Bugsworth Tales
- The Extraordinary Parish of Taxal
- Errwood Hall
- Memories Of Furness Vale by Brian Fearon
- Our Village's Own Railway
- Journey To The Centre Of The Earth and Other Stories by Cliff Hill
- The Middleton Family
- Some Village Photographs
- The Railway Photography of J. Wallace Sutherland
- Furness Vale Station
- The Auxiliary Hospitals.
- Churches And Chapels
- The Bridges of Furness Vale and Whaley
- Mapping The Village
- Manchester and Derbyshire film scenes
- The History Society Bookshop
- A Postcard From High Peak
- Dr Allen's Casebook
- Some Dove Holes History
- OVER THE HIGH PEAK RAILWAY
- A Holiday Resort - Whaley Bridge and Taxal
- Reuben Wharmby of Furness Vale
- A Computer Generated Village
- East Cheshire Past and Present by J. P. Earwaker (1880)
- Horwich End Gasworks
- Gowhole Sidings
- The 1867 New Mills Train Crash
- The Murder of William Wood
- Waterside
- A Library of books
- Goytside Farm
Monday, 15 February 2016
A Benighted Parish.
Our good, easy ,old fashioned parishoners have recently canvassed with the object of getting a few introduced, but in vain. Drivers of all sorts, trusting to their own knowledge of the tortuous and winding roads and the their horses' instinct, go about at high speeds and in the most reckless manner. It is the exeption to see one with a light. Meanwhile, as usual, it is the old and infirm, the women and children, who run the greatest risks. Only last week a woman was knocked down, and narrow escapes are of frequent occurrence. If any of your readers love the quaint and antiquated, let them, on the first dark night, take a ticket for Whaley Bridge on the Buxton line; let them grope their way from the main street of the village into the parish of Fernilee. They will not have bruised themselves above once or twice against stone walls before they will be startled by erratic and mysterious will-o'-the-wisp-like glimmerings in the distance. On a nearer approach they will discover worthy natives perambulating in true seventeenth century fashion, with horn lanterns, like philosophers seeking for truth. Hoping these letters may draw the attention of public bodies generally to the matter.
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