Monsal Dale

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Historical - 1860 through 1901

My Great Great Grandfather David was Gamekeeper/River Bailiff (to the Duke of Devonshire) during the above years. He and his wife Sarah Wiseman and their children lived in Lath Kiln Cottage for many years.

Paper Boy

I was a 16 year old boy and lived with my family on a hillside opposite Tunstead quarry known as The Lees. Every Sunday morning I would pick up the papers (News of the World , People etc) on my bicycle from the post office in Peak Dale, sort them out into household lots and then ride the path through to the bottom of Wormhill and deliver them to the individual houses and farms finishing at a Mansion type house with a High stone wall around it at the very top of the village. Walking through the farmyards and fields sometimes had its dangers and I was chased more than once by the odd Bull, scattering the papers in the mud ...read more here
A memory of Wormhill contributed by Don Edwards

Lady Of Baslow and Lost Friendship In Time

It was 12May1967 when I first received a beautiful letter from her. She was a high school student and I was in the 1st yr of Engineering. Her name was Miss Elizabeth Noton. She with her widow mother used to live at 13, West End, Baslow. She lost her father when she was a child. Her mother raised her. She was the only child of her parents. She was as natural as any element of mother nature. She was simple, pious and above all relegious. I remember her favourite pastime was Bell Ringing in a nearby church. We used to write each other perhaps once in a month as it was very difficult for both of us to afford postal costs ...read more here
A memory of Baslow contributed by Sitanshu Mohan Banerjee

Whereabout of Lady of Baslow

My memory having title "Lady Of Baslow and Lost Friendship In Time" was published on 25.01.08 that describes my friendship with Ms Elizabeth Noton who used to reside at 13, West End, Baslow, Bakewell, Darbyshire, England in 1967. We were in touch up to 1973 but suddenly our contact snapped due to many obvious reasons. I shall be very glad if anyone can give me any information about her. After all we are human beings and any good friend will always search for his/her good friend if he/she is lost in the crowd of the world. In 1967 I was 20 yrs old and she probably was 15 yrs old and today I'm 61 yrs old and probably she will be ...read more here
A memory of Baslow contributed by Sitanshu Mohan Banerjee