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Bamford Edge by Chris Gilbert
Peak District History
The Peak District National Park and its nearby towns of Matlock, Matlock Bath and Wirkworth have some incredible history. Here are a few intriguing and humorous stories from the past, which have been published in the Peak Advertiser.
Bridging the Past Project – “Show and Tell” session at Darley Dale Station
The Derwent and Wye Valley Railway Trust is holding an open session at Darley Dale Station on Saturday 28th September, 10.00am-2.00pm, as...
The Mystery of the Missing Mural
The Bakewell Town Hall mural is in danger of becoming nothing more than a myth due to dwindling recollections of the Second World War...
PEAK DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK ARCHAEOLOGIST WINS NATIONAL AWARD
The Council for British Archaeology (CBA) has chosen a Peak District National Park archaeologist as the 2024 Community Archaeologist of...
Celebrating 70 Years of Peak District National Park Rangers
As part of the celebrations, National Park rangers recreated a photograph taken outside Edale’s Old Nags Head pub, where the original...
Trips Below the Peak District
Blue John Cavern and Blue John Mine, Castleton Of the fourteen distinct veins of Blue John, which is a unique ornamental mineral, no less...
Baslow WI Darlings
Edale Mountain Rescue – Ian Donaldson This is President Judith Barton's popular choice for our annual WI fundraising. Edale Mountain...
History in the Peak District
Photograph: Solomon's Temple near Buxton, courtesy of Rod Dunn. The history of the Peaks is not only written in its stone, although our...
THE PRINCE OF WALES & THE SINNERS OF TIDESWELL
In times past, royal visitors to the Peak were few and far between, but one day the Prince of Wales unexpectedly dropped in on Tideswell....
THE BRADWELL FEVER
Whilst Eyam is the most obvious place in the Peak to be linked to the word ‘plague’, parish records of other villages also contain...
Longnor
Many years ago a guide book crowned the village of Longnor “Capital of the moorlands”, lying as it does midway between the Dove and...
Winster
It is quite possible to pass through Winster and leave it again with a feeling that the village properly belongs to an earlier century....
The life and history of Brassington
by Julie Bunting Undocumented pre-history begins the story of the Brassington region with its numerous tumuli and finds of prehistoric...
JAMES BRINDLEY, A SON OF WORMHILL
Beside the main road in Wormhill is a stone drinking fountain inscribed ‘In memory of James Brindley, Canal Engineer, Born in this parish...
Samuel Fox of Bradwell
A certain item was once praised for its usefulness in beating dangerous dogs, stopping mad bulls in their tracks and thrashing erring...
SECRETS OF BAKEWELL BATH HOUSE
Bakewell seems to have been destined for fame for one reason or another but not, as some once hoped, as a spa. In the past there were...
DITTO WINE, SERVED AT EYAM
Around two hundred years ago, a couple named John and Mary Howe took over what was described as a neat and commodious inn opposite Eyam...
HOME COMFORTS AND HOT COALS
Six pairs of bed socks, a hot stone straight from the oven, flues cleaned out with a holly branch and a load of coal under the stairs....
JUD’S APRIL FOOLS
Over the years we have occasionally printed jokes written anonymously for a publication long out of print. Rich in local dialect, they...
BONSALL – BUNT’S CORNER OF LAND
If the difference between a village and a town is the existence of a market, then it is hard to say exactly where Bonsall stands....
When the Peak Was Blotted Out
Perhaps the peakland’s worst winter of all time was that which swept in on violent blizzards in the early February of 1947. Beneath a...
Forts and Castles of the Peak
Whether prehistoric earthwork or loater stone castle, a defensive stronghold was built to last, and it is still possible to visit a...
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