Grindleford, View From Goatscliff c.1960
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Photo of Grindleford, View From Goatscliff c.1960

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The Goatscliff entrance to the village of Grindleford is little changed today from the day when this photograph was taken. In the background are the wooded slopes of Froggatt and White Edge and the National Trust's Longshaw Estate.

A Selection of Memories from Grindleford

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Grindleford

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I did not know anyone in Grindleford as i lived in Sheffield but me and a couple of my friends would go on the bus at week ends to camp there in a field near the river we had a very disturbing experience there back in 1952 and i am looking for info as you lived there you may have heard something about it a local man came to our tent and had sex with a young local girl that was talking to us did not know her ...see more
I lived with my mother and grandparents in a row of cottages near the station. we had no bathroom but used a tin bath once a week in the kitchen. We had an outside toilet and our water was spring water. my grandad worked as a signal man we had the Queen come in the 70's, the time when the gas lamps got changed to electric and we had the station road tarmaced! Wasn't without incident as the week before the ...see more
I am trying to trace a family with the name Syrett with connections to a 'Mother and Baby home'. Does anyone have any recollection at all?
My father was policeman in Grindleford from 1952 to 1956, I was almost 5 years old when we moved there and my sister was 10 years old. We lived in the first red brick house on the hill going out of the village to Eyam.  I went to the village school and was in the G.F.S., I can't remember the lady who was our leader but I remember how kind she was.  My mother received a commendation for manning the ...see more