A suspicious death with a hint of  murder at Furness Vale in 1879. The circumstances of the untimely death of James Sparham,Gnat Hole, Bu...

In 1960, Marjorie Hobson, a local teacher presented her Pictorial History of  our village, at Furness Vale School.   Our latest publica...

Liz McCormick has written to us about her research into the target wall at Chapel-en-le-Frith.  This updates and corrects our original artic...

We all know the story of how Bugsworth changed its name to something more respectable. A  hundred years beforehand, a similar change took p...

Join Mabel Townend on   "A Stroll Through  Furness Vale Mabel has lived in the village all of her life, and for many years, taught at...

Sadly we have heard that Derek Cope died last week aged 90 years. His account of his family's various businesses in Buxworth may be fou...

Jackie and Terry Prior, family relatives living nearby escorted me to my first day at Buxworth School. I didn't realise it at the time ...

Chinley Railway Station celebrated its 150th anniversary in February of this year.  John Benson's book "Chinley 150, The Birth of a...

These delightful sketches of the village are by New Mills artist, Paul Gent.

  from the Evening News 1st November 1940

This photograph has been digitally colourised from a black and white postcard titled "Bank View". This is the track leading from ...

Introduction Over a three day weekend in June 1992 the “Friends of Buxworth / Bugsworth School inaugurated the first “Bygone B...

Paul Gent is a prolific artist from New Mills. Whilst many of his sketches are of local scenes, his portfolio also includes work from many p...

Me and Mrs Middleton: A sidelight on my Family History Written by Charlie Hulme This fascinating history tells a story of the Middleton...

Here is a photograph of pupils of our village school, early in the 20th century. The picture is not dated. Most of the pupils have been ide...

Buxton in the 1920s In the foreground is the Samuel Turner Memorial Drinking fountain erected in 1878 in memory of a local benefactor. ...

A life long friend, Bill Jackson, who is connected with your Local History Society, just sent me a copy of Edwin Bold's book entitled ...

The Wild Sisters. We have received the following comment on a recent post:  Does anyone remember the Wild sisters, Nelly and Edith ...

  Evacuation of children during the Second World War by Gillian Mawson – August 2016 In the early hours of 1 September 1939, th...