Our latest publication is a selection of photographs from the albums of Eric Young, formerly of Chapel-en-le-Frith.  The winter of 1939 / 19...

Here is a promising blog to follow. Glossop Tours : Glossop History features a growing number of articles about Glossop's past.  The lat...

Our local infantry regiment was The Sherwood Foresters(Notts and Derby Regiment). It was formed in1881 and continued qith its headquarters i...

When the Barmote Court sat at the Moot Hall in Wirksworth last April, they were asked to award lead mining rights to Castleton's Treak C...

This photograph from our archives has been digitally coloured.

 Geoff Baker, born in Furness Vale has written from Melbourne, Victoria   My grandfather Noel Baker and grandmother Winifred Baker liv...

   The air raid wardens of Chapel-en-le-Frith 

The Carl's Cam website has a feature on stagecoach routes. The A6 through Furness Vale was the road for a number of services linking su...

Last summer a message appeared on the Whaley Bridge Forum posted by "Goneaway": " Iam long gone from the Whaley Bridge ar...

This website features thousands of historical aerial photographs archived in a searchable database.  Although there are no images of Furness...

A HISTORY OF SOME OLD ENGLISH SAYINGS AND CUSTOMS Compiled by Flo Deems ::: ::: ::: Where did some of these old English sayings come...

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...