Above: Although William Chappell seems to have taken much of the blame for the fatal accident, he went on to work from Buxton Station and is pictured above on the footplate of a coal engine some years after the collision. Above: The Sheffield Daily Telegraph’s...
Above: Just a few of the wonderful postcards from Corrie’s collection on the Cat & Fiddle Inn. Click here to view them all. Above: These old postcards are photographs rather than prints, so haven’t been reduced to a series of dots. This means they...
Above: The rhododendrons in full bloom are a magnificent sight. I took this photo in June a few years ago, along the approach to Errwood Hall (see walk 7). Above: This clipping from an 1883 edition of the Derbyshire Times (click to enlarge) waxes...
Above: This wonderful etching of Buxton’s Pavilion Gardens appears as the frontispiece in Strephon’s ‘Pilgrimages in the Peak’, first published in 1879. Click the image at the bottom of the page to view the complete illustration. Above:...
Above: I’ve tried to show the position of the stones on this old OS map. It’s about 30m from the small pond on the path along Shooter’s Clough. Walks 7, 8 and 15 all pass this pond. It was once a ventilation shaft for Castedge coal mine, and is...
Above: Goyt’s Bridge is on the left of the fold, and unfortunately damaged by a slight tear in the fragile paper. Goyt’s Lane to Buxton runs off the right hand edge of the map, past the small reservoir at the top of the Bunsal Incline on...
Above: Phillida being made ‘Lady of the May’. The poem was first performed for Elizabeth I in 1591. Something I read in Strephon’s 1880 report of a visit to Errwood Hall caught my eye. He describes the walk down from the Grimshawe’s...
Above: The Nall family pictured at Castedge Farm Cottage. Brenda Hewitt is on the right. Brenda helped Gerald with his research when writing his ‘Goyt Valley Romance’. The Hewitts had lived in the valley for many generations. The earliest records I...
Above: Gail has helped decipher the sign. We think it reads ‘T. B. HIBBERT. GOYT BRIDGE (?) FARM. TEAS & PARTIES CATERED FOR’ But why does it seem to point right towards Goytshead Farm, rather than Goytsbridge Farm which is over the bridge to...
Above: The Braddock brothers were gamekeepers on the Errwood estate in the early 1900s. I wouldn’t have fancied any burglar’s chances faced with these two with their shotguns and gun dogs! Mike has sent me another press clipping...
