Here's a high quality aerial view of the village from 1974. The butcher's shop, at this time owned by James Lavin looks open fo...

Chinley      Hidden away behind the high hills of North Derbyshire and served only along a by-road, Chinley feels remote.  The ...

Furness Vale in Derbyshire takes pride in it's three "Australian" bungalows.  These were built, according to which vers...

We will start our walk along the towpath at Bank End Bridge. We're in New Mills here but it is an appropriate place to begin. A ...

This digitally coloured photograph shows a Buxton train arriving at Furness Vale in 1959. At this time, diesels had taken over most services...

Diglee Farm stands on the hillside, high above Furness Vale. It's the oldest farm in the village and the original farmhouse, which had a...

Just below Ringstones Farm in Furness Vale and close to the caravan park, is this dilapidated farm hut.  Despite having lost most of its roo...

The flight of 16 locks at Marple raise the level of the Peak Forest Canal by 64 metres. The canal was opened in 1796 but the locks were not ...

Providence Chapel in Mellor Road, New Mills was built in 1823. Due to lack of funds, having purchased the land, members of the congregation ...

The Mechanics Institute, Whaley Bridge is home to the Public Library, Town Council, Reading Room and Function Rooms. A watercolour painting...

Marie Cunningham has been researching a footpath leading westwards from Neighbourway Farm in Kettleshulme and in doing so has discovere...

A newly acquired photograph ( copies are available on Ebay).   The picture is undated although it is earlier than 1924, the year when the...

The former garage, Buxton Road, Furness Vale. A watercolour painting.

Knowles Brickyard sometime in the 1960s. A watercolour painting by David Easton

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...