It was never an uplifting experience waiting for a train at the village station. There was, however, a waiting room with a blazi...

  Mrs Cope stands outside of her shop which was attached to the Navigation Inn at Bugsworth, Derbyshire, 1935 Read the full story of her fam...

 

The following drawings are from the collection of a local railway enthusiast, Peter Helps who kindly loaned us the originals. These repr...

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  Furness Vale Printworks once had several mill ponds fed by a mill lade from the River Goyt. These appear in a number of our archive photog...

 In the mid nineteenth century, there were many proposals to construct new railways.  Some of these were overly ambitious and never saw the ...

  Rosemary Hurley has been researching the Clegg family which had connections with Furness Vale. Ernest Bernulf Clegg managed the Printworks...

 Reddish Farm was in Whaley Bridge on the southern bank of Toddbrook Reservoir. The buildings have recently been converted into housing.  Th...

  I don't know where the German Gipsies started their journey nor where it finished but in 1906 they weren't given a very frie...

Tony Beswick has supplied a selection of photographs mostly featurning New Mills School.    Church Lane in the early 20th century, looking t...

                                             The "Round House" or "Honey Pot" at Curbar  In 1863, John Warren wrote in h...

We were sad to hear of the death on 15th June, of Keith Holford of Chinley.  Keith had been a great friend to this Society, contributing man...

Yeardsley-cum-Whaley is a name that is often seen on old documents. This was the name of a township within the ancient parish of Taxal. In 1...

Reuben  Wharmby was born in 1914 and lived in Canal Row where his mother ran a small general store. The shop was probably at number 7, in t...

Every year a lucky young lady was voted as Rose Queen for the year and as always she was crowned on the front lawn of Taxal Rectory b...

  May 1908 saw the appearance of an Italian named Soberti Diego before Stockport Police Court.   He was charged with being on enclos...

O n Monday 9th September 1867 the most serious of the local rail incidents took place on the Midland line.   A goods train had en...

A postcard from Tony Beswick featuring Bridgemont The picture is undated and there is not a vehicle in sight. The street is lit by gas lam...

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Bonus Sweatmore started work at Knowles Brickyard in 1930, aged 16.  49 years later, on 1st June 1979, he retired and was presented with a ...

A young lady (name not known) was in service at Brookfield House, on Reservoir Road, Whaley Bridge in 1930. Brookfield House was, in tho...

We are sad to hear that Gerald Hallworth of Ringstones Farm passed away last week.  Born in Stockport, in February 1928, Gerald was 92 year...

On this day in 2001, Great Train robber, Ronnie Biggs was finally captured on arrival home from exile in Brasil. Tony Beswick writes about...

A selection of photographs of the village from the collection of Tony Beswick. He will be adding to this album in the coming days.   A ...

  Saturday evening and the streets were thronged with people out for a night's entertainment.  Thousands of youngsters, courting ...

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      Few people realise the importance of Manchester's historic libraries. The collections exceed a total of two milllion vol...

When workmen demolished old houses in Cumberland Street in 1911, they came across an underground passage.  The Manchester City News reported...

We will take an imaginary shopping expedition to Furness Vale.  We have had plenty of shopkeepers in the village. There are over 30 addres...