Our May 2023 meeting featured John Hambleton's Curio Quiz. Members were invited to examine various tools and implements before their pu...

 A departure from local history at our March meeting saw Debbie Bailey present her talk about wildlife conservation in Furness Vale.   Thank...

David Jackson, author of the recently published trilogy "Stepping into the Past" is currently writing a history of Taxal Scouts. H...

 This is a recording of our meeting on 7th February 2023 when Frank Pleszak presented the story of Frank Marriott, "The High Peak Dambu...

 Our latest video is based upon our March 2022 meeting when members were taken on a virtual tour from New Mills to Furness Vale via Bridgemo...

Our first meeting of the New Year proved interesting and informative. Claire Moores' story was at times amusing, at times a harrowing ac...

 David Harrop of the Manchester Postal Museum was guest speaker at our meeting in December 2022.  Here is a recording of his presentation:

 Here is a video recording of our meeting on 1st November 2022 when archaeologist Catherine Parker Heath presented a talk about the recent e...

A view of Buxton Road c1920, courtesy of Carol Trafford. The house at the corner of Station Road doesn't appear to be a shop although i...

We are creating a series of 3D computer models showing how parts of the village appeared c 1960.  This short tour takes us past some of the ...

  Blackwell Mill The loneliest village in England is how Blackwell Mill was described in 1921.  The name comes from the corn mill wh...

 The Lost Village of Ashopton. Ladybower Reservoir.  Ashopton was sited in the centre of this picture The remains of the village of Ashopton...

The recent emergency at Toddbrook has tended to overshadow an earlier incident at Combs Reservoir when the dam wall was damaged during a st...

Wood's Supper Bar. Alfred Wood opened his Fish and Chip shop at some time between the two World Wars.  The business was located at the ...

   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...