This website will take you on a tour of hundreds of Manchester's pubs, many long since forgotten. Many entries are well illustrated with...

One of Manchester's premier music venues, The Band On The Wall has operated as a jazz club since the mid 1970's. This was formerly a...

Beth Kucera has an antique business in Madison, Wisconsin.  Visiting England six years ago, she and her husband came across a cup commemorat...

Twenty one young men went away to war and never returned.  Their names appear on the War Memorial in Furness Vale and this book tells their ...

 James Clegg was a doctor and nonconformist preacher who lived at Ford near Chapel-en-le-Frith in the 18th century. He wrote every day in hi...

Rowland Emett 1906 - 1990 was a draughtsman, artist, cartoonist and most famously a creator of "things" as he called his fanciful ...

A regular visitor to our meetings is Alan Proctor. Alan was born and bred in Hawk Green, Marple and his article "Recollections of a ...

A superb resource for  those interested in exploring old maps is the web site Old Maps Online http://www.oldmapsonline.org Searching for ...

Narrowboat Hadar is visiting Furness Vale this weekend. Built in 2007, Hadar is a replica of a "Star" class boat of the G...

Some photographs have a wealth of detail.  This picture is undated and labelled on the reverse "Haymaking, Furness Vale". The loca...

Furness Clough Colliery, the Brickworks and the canal wharf were all linked by a narrow gauge tramway.  There is no record of the date of co...

The History Exhibition held last weekend was a great success and enjoyed by all who visited and participated in the event. A display of...

New Lanark – a World Heritage Site for Very Good Reasons (C A Hope) The stark little mill village of New Lanark in Scotland has been a ...

Joseph Paxton was from a humble background. He was born in August 1803 at Milton Bryan in Bedfordshire. His father, William was a tenant far...

by Andrew Simpson When you only have 2/6d [12p] pocket money where you can have an adventure away from home and still have something l...

Grandparents Throughout my childhood, a fortnightly visit to New Cross in South East London was obligatory. My grandmother lived at 105 ...

Stockport's Heritage is a superb blog maintained by the Stockport Heritage Trust with a vast number of articles about Stockport's hi...

Our new publication "The Life and Times of Furness Vale Printworks 1794 to 1925 by Chris Bond is now available from the History Society...