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Buxton Town and City Memories
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Derbyshire Photographic Memories
Paperback
Peak District Photographic Memories
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two dales
I lived in the house on the right (Hazel House) just before the bakery from 1958-1988. Many memories of there. Anyone with any memories of Two Dales, please donīt hesitate to contact.
A memory of Two Dales contributed by mark hand
I remember...
I remember living in Shirebrook Miners Welfare for years with my parents Mick and Joan and having some fantastic times. Everybody seemed to get on with each other and it had a real community feel. I remember trying to watch TV whilst hearing the sound of the brass band rehearsals coming through from the rooms next door. This seems very basic but I had such a great time growing up in this club and I have never forgotten it. I just wish we could have stayed for a few more years but times have to change. I hope whoever else lived there after my family and I had as good a time as I did.
A memory of Shirebrook contributed by Kelly Comery
Tracing my roots
I traced my ancestors to Eckington - they were the Littlewood Family and date back to 1798. The males were all named Joseph in each generation and they worked as first a farmer and then they worked in Applebys Foundry as iron moulders and brass moulders. My Great Grandma Ellen Littlewood delivered me in Wombwell where she lived until her death in 1971 and she told me about Eckington and I was delighted to find relatives in Eckington cemetery & Eckington churchyard. I am still searching and would be glad of any information.
A memory of Eckington contributed by Enid Green
Birchinlee
I don't have memories of Derwent Reservoir but my Great Grandfather was a Navvy who worked on the building of the Howden and Derwent Reservoirs and Dams. He lived with his family in the purpose built village of Birchinlee in hut number 80. Derwent Valley Water Board did their workers proud by providing them with excellent accommodation and facilities. I am really proud that one of my ancestors played a part in the construction of such a magnificent structure.
A memory of Derwent Reservoir contributed by Denise Fenton
Extracts From Overseal & Derbyshire books
This wooded area to the north of the town was laid out
and intersected with walks in the latter half of the 19th
century and remain today a pleasant, if steep walk to
the northern rim of the bowl within which the town
sits. Good views can be had of the town from the top
of Corbar Hill and of the moorland to the north over
Lightwood Reservoir. Nithen Quarry in the western
Corbar Woods was a source of high quality gritstone.
Stone from this quarry was used to build the Town
Hall on the Market Place in 1888. The disused quarry
now operates as a residential caravan park.
An extract from from"Buxton Town and City Memories".
Rowing and paddle boats were a common sight on the upper lake from the
1930s through to the 1970s. Some of them endearingly carried identifying
names, the two paddle boats in this view are called Hamish and Paddy.
An extract from from"Buxton Town and City Memories".
With increases in both population and numbers of
visitors to the town, provision had to be made for their
shopping requirements. Although there are shops in
higher Buxton, on High Street and the Market Place,
the major commercial centre is Spring Gardens in
the lower town. Originally known as Town Street or
Sheffield Road, it was developed into a busy shopping
street selling, among other things, tourist gifts. Here
you could buy ornaments made of Blue John, Ashford
Black Marble and Derbyshire Spar - locally mined stones
which were worked in the Petrifaction and Spar shops.
The number and type of shops in Spring Gardens has
altered greatly over the years but the architecture on
either side remains largely unchanged. An increase in
traffic through the street led to calls for pedestrianisation
which was completed in 1997.
An extract from from"Buxton Town and City Memories".
The fame of Buxton as a Medieval spa grew and in
Tudor times was greatly enhanced by the visits of Mary
Queen of Scots who came to take the waters for her various
illnesses, including rheumatism and a recurring pain in the
side.
An extract from from"Buxton Town and City Memories".
Across the road the half-round windows, on the ground floor of the
single-storey building on the right, show the site of the original Roman
Bath, in constant use from that time. Beyond is the Hall of 1573.
An extract from from"Buxton Town and City Memories".