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Newsletter 21
September 2005 Bradbourne Mill Many will have seen the recent article in the Ashbourne Telegraph on Madge House, in Ashbourne, and on Bradbourne Mill, nearer to home. This very up beat article reported that both buildings were to be preserved. If all goes through, Madge House is to be turned into flats. At the time…
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Newsletter 20
May 2005 Lead Mining in and around Parwich Lead mining has occurred in the Peak District from before the Roman period. The earliest representation of a lead miner in the area is the Saxon carving of ‘T’owd Man’ complete with pick and ‘whisket’, in Wirksworth Church (see illustration below). Very little is recorded about mining…
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Newsletter 19
February 2005 – Production of this issue sponsored by Bennetts (Irongate) Ltd Extracts relating to Woodeaves Eileen has gathered a range of information relating to this fascinating little community tucked away in the south east corner of Tissington Parish. It started life, as the name suggests as a farm (the current farmhouse is a sixteenth…
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Newsletter 18
November 2004 – Production of this issue sponsored by Bennetts (Irongate) Ltd Some Parwich Memories Notes of a phone conversation between Stephen Halliday and Gill Radcliffe Whilst checking some facts in the final draft of ‘Voices: Women of a White Peak Village’ Gill Radcliffe had a fascinating conversation with Stephen Halliday, son of Edward Halliday. …
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Newsletter 17
July 2004 – Production of this issue sponsored by Bennetts (Irongate) Ltd Meeting places in Parwich The Parwich Church Institute and the Memorial Hall Given the current investigations on how best to update village hall facilities in Parwich, it seems appropriate for us to look at the history of the Memorial Hall. This article is a…
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Newsletter 16
February 2004 – Production of this issue sponsored by Bennetts (Irongate) Ltd Artefacts found in Parwich Whenever any digging takes place in Parwich, one’s thoughts turn to what might turn up from the past as the shovel of a digger turns over soil, and debris is loaded onto skips to be dumped elsewhere. A number…
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Newsletter 15
December 2003 The mystery of the Parwich Rings Solved? – part 2 The ring banks on Parwich Moor, on the fields past Whitecliffe Farm, are perhaps one of the outstanding unresolved mysteries for archaeology in Derbyshire. In the last edition of the newsletter I gave a summary of two investigations that suggested these were prehistoric.Despite…
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Newsletter 14
September 2003 Parwich Hall There has been no systematic study of Parwich Hall, and the families that have lived there. The following notes are an attempt to pull together what is published together with discussion from the visit to the Hall by the Society on Sunday 13th July 2003. The tour was supported by Malcolm…
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Newsletter 13
May 2003 All Saints Church, Ballidon – A long history but an uncertain future? ‘Could we but read it right there’s not a furrow in these time worn walls but has its history.’ This could not be truer than at Ballidon Church. Charles Cox uses this quotation at the start of his ‘Notes on Churches…
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Newsletter 12
February 2003 Murder in Parwich Nearly two hundred years ago two untimely deaths lead to the trial and execution of a Parwich man for murder. Here is the information behind that gruesome event, though what led up to these murders remains a mystery. Close to the west door of Parwich church stands a gravestone bearing…
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