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Buxton Town and City Memories
Paperback
Derbyshire Living Memories
Paperback
Matlock Photographic Memories
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loss of a school chum
I was born in Peak Dale 6.9.40, at which time Peak Dale was very much a limestone quarry village. As it is coming round to Easter it reminds me of the first tragic loss that I vividly remember. While we were in school our teacher asked us to bring some pussy willow for the setting up of our Easter decorations. A boy named Brian Sidall who always eager to please said he knew where the best Pussy Willow could be found but he wouldn't tell any of us where it was in case we got there first. Brian lived in the first house of a little row of quarry houses just inside the entrance of a quarry. He got up one ...read more here
A memory of Peak Dale contributed by donald keworth
James S. Blair
My great grandfather was James Simoson Blair. He lived at Moorcroft in Buxton up to 1927. When he died he was quite a prominent figure and was captain of the golf club, and a trophey is presented each year even now in memory of him. Does anyone know or have information on him or the family? Thanks.
A memory of Buxton contributed by jeanette czyzyk
Tuesdays
On Tuesday afternoon we could go with the class at school to listen to the orchestra playing there for the sum of one penny. I think the conductor was Maurice Miles.
A memory of Buxton contributed by sylvia dukesell
My maternal grandfather was a waiter here
I remember my mother telling me that my grandad used to work there, also my uncle.
A memory of Buxton contributed by sylvia dukesell
Extracts From Combs & Derbyshire books
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".
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".
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".
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".
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".