Prior to mechanisation, the teasel was used in the preparation of woollen cloth. Once woven, the cloth was "fulled" to remove i...

 The " Travelling Castle " was built in 1907 for Lorna Barran of Kingham in Oxfordshire. She was described in a newspaper feature ...

   Lantern Pike Murder..... A scream rang out as the Derbyshire ‘Lonely Inn’ murderer took his last few breaths at Nottingham Jail, where De...

  At 463metres (1518 feet), Flash is the highest village in Great Britain. It is also home to the highest village pub, The New Inn.   Just o...

 We are grateful to Vivian Dubé for the following articles about Derbyshire history: This Wife for Sale Between 100 and 200 years ago, husba...

 In the early years of the 1860s, the Midland Railway commissioned a series of photographs recording the construction of its new line betwee...

Shallcross Hall Colliery, known locally as Brickbarn Pit was opened by the Buxton Lime Firms company in 1909. Coal was mined until February...

 Shallcross Hall was the subject of our meeting on 7th June, presented by Chris Wilman. The hsitory of the three Manor houses at Shallcros...

  extract from The Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire Vol 1 by Joseph Tilley, published 1892 Along the north bank of the Goyt,...

   The Soldier Dick opened in1805, just a year after the new turnpike road, now the A6, had been completed. It is said that the licence was ...

 June 18th 1930 was a day of tragedy in New Mills when torrential rain accompanied by a thunderstorm brought a great flood to the district r...