Frank Pleszak tells the story of Operation Manna, a 1945 humanitarian air drop to relieve starvation in wartime occupied Nederland. Recorde...

Our video features a selection of news stories from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

 A recording of the December meeting of the History Society

  Most of the large houses in the 1400s period were built on the capital H principle, the two uprights would have had a floor on the top. Th...

    FURNESS VALE Before Furness Vale school was opened in 1877, the owner of Furness Printworks - a Mr. Saxby - kept a school for the chil...

  Charles James Satterthwaite 27th May 1834 - 21st June 1910  Canon Satterthwaite was for over 50 years, associated with the parish of Disle...

 The last of the beehive kilns at Knowle's Brickworks was demolished in 1988 but not before Alan Clark visited with his sketchpad. We ar...

At the "Top of Disley" were two inns, the Bull's Head and the Blazing Rag (or Flaming Rag).  These two hostelries catered for ...

Buxworth 1955; Buxton Old Road, Disley 1965; Whaley Bridge 1960; Brierley Green 1955; The Rising Sun, Rainow, 1965; New Mills M...

 This historic timeline of the bells of Disley's parish Church has been prepared by Barbara Roberts of Disley Local History Society     ...

 The grand house in Poynton was variously known as Poynton Castle, Poynton Hall, Poynton Lodge and Poynton Towers.   Poynton Hall c 1795    ...

Slackhall is a hamlet on the Sheffield Road, 2km North East of Chapel-en-le-Frith. This is at a crossroads on the unclas sified road between...

Highgate Hall is on Highgate Road, about 700 metres South - East of Hayfield.   The house  is Grade II listed having been built in the 17th ...

  ,   By Chris Wilman - 2025   Image: ( ref 4 ) - Birch Chapel   Burials in Birch Chapel (demolished 1846) - at side of present-day St ...