There had long been a track or footpath leading from Big Tree Farm on Dolly Lane, towards Waterside. The 1885 Ordnance Survey map shows this...

Originally a 19th century paper mill, built by John Sykes, the Forge Bleach Works was for many years occupied by Dorma, manufacturing bedlin...

A DeHavilland Moth is pictured at Wythenshaw Airport in 1929. This aeroplane, a DH 60x model, registered G-EBZU was built in 1928. It was ...

This post  concerns the watering hole known as The Wanted Inn. It was originally a farmhouse built in 1618 but in 1700 it became a public...

When I went to school at Buxton I went from WB to Buxton on the train and passed it every week day. It was a members’ only club called The ...

The speaker at our May meeting was to be Neil Ferguson-Lee, Vice Chairman of the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, a heritage line at Wirkswort...

A group of men, and their dog, pose for the camera on Station Road in Furness Vale. The photo is undated although the style of dress sugg...

A view of Yeardsley Lane This image is from a postcard which we have digitally colourised. The date is unknown although the houses on t...

      Mosley Street was laid out in the 1780’s and named after the lords of the manor. The area had been entirely residential an...

Few people know of Marple Hall for it was demolished, unwanted and uncared for in the late 1950's. The name lives on however as a s...

Sir Matt Busby and Lawrence Stephen Lowry need no introduction, neither perhaps does Sir John Alcock. Th...

Mr. Fred Green I would imagine that anyone who has spent much time in Dove Holes will have known Fred Green who lived at Meadow Lane Far...

The other day, as one of the coaches which plies between Buxton and Manchester was ascending the hill near Taxal, the coachman was ac...

In 1837 an unconventional method was followed to dispose of a wife. The wife of John Allen of Turnditch eloped with J Taylor of Shottle. ...

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 ...