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What an amazing website Steve! You must have been collecting and researching like crazy!
Could you add The St James Arts Centre Project to your list of favourite links please? www.stjamesarts.org.uk Amongst the credits for Sir Martin ought to be recorded that from its inception in 2004 right up until his death Martin was one of the founder Trustees of The St James the Less Preservation Trust, working towards the Community Arts Centre (which will open in October 2011). |
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Hi,
Well done and thank you for putting together the Debt of Honour. I have several relatives on the list including my Grandma's father and uncle.
I have a photo of Squire Buckley Liddiard, my Grandma's uncle Buck. if you would like it for your website please drop me an email.
Darren |
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Stumbled across this site by accident - congratulations, it's wonderful. As I no longer live in New Mills it has brought back lovely memories. |
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Steve, firstly may I say what an informative website you have, and excellently presented too!
I came across your website by chance when I was searching through the French Google search engine for any information on the fighting that destroyed the hamlets around Marfaux in 1918. I am specifically interested in a distant relative, Frank Singleton, who was killed there whilst serving with the Royal Scots.
When I saw your entry for him in your memorial section I was amazed; I have been trying to find information on him for some time now and with the destruction of his service documents I was on the verge of giving up!
May I ask where you got all the detail on him serving in Ireland and France from, as I’d like to take a look at the original source documents for myself.
Thanks in anticipation.
Martin
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I too just stumbled on your site as someone asked me what the bus-station area was before it became the bus- station and I was trying to look for this info, perhaps you know?
I also came across the story of the Caen Clock, this was made by my husbands grandfather (his name is Ardern) do you know where it is kept and if it is possible to see it? I would be very interested, it's part of family history and yet most of his descendants have never seen it. Thanks & Regards |
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Please can someone tell me when Buxton Road, Newtown was built. On the other hand,what would a young navvy living in Bee hive cottages, Newtown be working on? |
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hi i was working renovating a barn in disley and found inside the wall cavity an old bottle it has stamped on it j hewitt . new mills .i cannot find any information on a brewry or bottle maker and was wondering if it could have been made out the area
any information would be a great help ...thank you
Hi Sebastian,
i don't know where these bottles where made, but they seem to have been a common marketing ploy. In the 19th and early 20th century most shops selling goods in bottles had the bottles branded with the shops name. I've seen several different New Mills branded bottles. They appear sometimes on old tip sites such as Newtown Recreation Ground. I think there are one or two in the Heritage Centre. New Mills Library or History Society may be able to give you information on j hewitt's shop.
Regards,
Steve
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I just stumbled upon this wonderful site whilst googling my old home town as I now live abroad, New Mills seems to be the center of a pyromaniac "Bermuda Triangle" in the North of England. One major fire though, seems to have been left of the list that occured in about 1963-5. I distinctly remember walking home from St Georges CofE Primary at "dinnertime" and looking over the valley towards a mill on the canal side at Newtown, the fire was out of control as the ex-cotton mill then made highly combustible foam rubber sheeting in rolls. The mill burnt to the ground and subsequently became a industrial caravan fabricator which in turn closed down.
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I have some pictures of New Mills in the snow from this year, in particular the same shot from the home page but under the white stuff. Are these any use to you? |
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Hi Steve-Ian_D_B put me onto your site. V. Impressive. Have you seen our blog about the wreck sites? It's at http://peakwreckhunters.blogspot.com/ |
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