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Buxton Town and City Memories
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Derbyshire Photographic Memories
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Peak District Photographic Memories
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St George's School
Hi, Carol Jakes was soliciting memories from pupils of St George's School in the 50s. I was born in 1940 at Whitle Fold and attended Spring Bank Primary from 1945 to 1947(?) when I shifted to St George's. My memories of those years include sliding on ice slides in the play ground, frozen milk, Mr Neville slapping our legs for not lining up quickly, Mickey Jeffs' basin haircut and "Pingot Lill"'s boy Geoffrey(?) trashing the classroom because it was raining heavily and he wasn't allowed to go home to tend his pet goat!!
Around 1951 I scraped through the 11 plus exam and went to Grammar School (Grammar Grub) and that is another whole story, me being a rebel and heading ...read more here
A memory of New Mills contributed by alan dones
The early years!
Hi There
I originally lived in New Mills on the council estate on St George's Rd. I spent many years teaching and designing bridal & cruisewear. I have lived for many summers on Vancouver Island in Canada, and many winters in Colima, Mexico. Would like to hear from anyone who went to St George's Primary School in the 50's,& New Mills Grammar School 1958 - 65.
I hope life has been as good to you as it has to me. Cheers. Carol Y Jakes.
A memory of New Mills contributed by carol jakes
Queens' School Sixth Form visit Edale Youth Hostel
Edale Youth Hostel is an adventure centre with organised activities like caving, abseiling, rock climbing and archery. Each September for many years I accompanied two coach loads of sixteen year olds who had just joined the Queens' School Sixth Form on a four day stay at this Youth Hostel. We provided them with a full programme of adventurous activities and some lessons and timetable planning for the coming two years of study by way of an induction to the Sixth Form. Although the YHA had qualified instructors the school staff needed to accompany each student group on their activity and so it was that I was introduced to caving and abseiling! I shall never forget abseiling for the first time from ...read more here
A memory of Edale contributed by John Howard Norfolk
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
Extracts From Hayfield & Derbyshire books
The packhorse bridge over the Kinder River just outside Hayfield is also known locally as the Roman Bridge, but there is no evidence that Roman legionaries used it. It is much more likely to be a 17th- or 18th-century packhorse bridge, used by the 'jaggers' who carried goods by packhorse trains long before the days of metalled roads.
An extract from from"Derbyshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
Two ramblers enjoy the shade cast by the riverside trees as they walk towards Hayfield along the Kinder Road, which leads towards Kinder Scout. This was the route taken in 1932 by the ramblers on the infamous Kinder Scout Mass Trespass, after which five were imprisoned. The Mass Trespass, organised to deliberately publicise the situation where ramblers were excluded from large areas of mountain and moorland by a few grouse-shooting landlords, became an important catalyst for the National Parks and access to the countryside movement.
An extract from from"Derbyshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
We are looking across the waters of the Kinder Reservoir. The drystone-walled fields lead up to the rocky heights of Kinder Scout, at 2,088ft the highest point in the Peak District. In the distance is Upper House Farm, one of many buildings around Kinder Scout which are now in the hands of the National Trust.
An extract from from"Derbyshire Revisited Photographic 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".
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".