Tony Beswick has added to this story and explains how the address was changed: I had an office at 53 Buxton Road, Furness Vale, and used...

Before I went to school in Buxton I spent the first 13 years of my life living in Dove Holes and that really is my specialist historical s...

“You can buy anything from Harrod’s", so it was once said. You could certainly buy a church, or at least a Tin Tabernacle as these pr...

In the 1930s when the Fernilee Reservoir was under construction in the Goyt Valley, large numbers of workers were recruited for the project....

Here is a photograph and quiz question from Tony Beswick. It shows the familiar crossroad at Peak Forest. But now there are traffic lights t...

“The myth of female inferiority has always been rooted in the contention that men die for their country but women do not”, Vera Britain...

Tony Beswick has sent this 1927 postcard showing the chapel at Low Leighton, New Mills. A pre-fabricated "tin tabernacle", the cha...

In 1877 the Manchester Times reported on a gale during which, the Whaley Bridge Gasworks was struck by lightining. " About ten o'cl...

Shallcross Hall, the former home of the Shalcross family was built in the early 18th century, probably about 1728. The architect is unkno...

Two of our local routes were built as turnpike roads in the 18th century by a blind man ! John Metcalf was born in Knaresborough in 1717...

  Agatha Christie at Upper House, Hayfield in 1913. A digitally colourised photograph James Watts was born in 1804 and baptised at Ard...

Quaintly named, "The Stones" is an attractive street in the centre of Castleton village in Derbyshire. Here in 1926, Randolp...

 We are grateful to Dr. Gaynor Andrew for providing a copy of this World War II information leaflet.

Part 6 - The Thornsett Turnpike A number of roads in and around New Mills were constructed and maintained by the Thornsett Turnp...

A row of three cottages was built on Yeardsley Lane in 1822. For the first eighteen years, the fledgling Methodist Chapel and Sunday School ...

The 18th Century stocks still stand in Chapel-en-le-Frith's Market Place alongside the Market Cross. Behind is the Roebuck Hotel. A hou...

Taking The Waters at St. Anne's Well, Buxton. Colourised from a black and white postcard. 

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

                                                             NED DICKSON In the hamlet of Tunstead, one mile south of Whaley Bridge, is pres...

  In 1929 Furness Vale and parts of Whaley Bridge were within Cheshire.   As moves were afoot to resolve the anomalies that this creat...