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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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Newsletter 11
December 2002 – Production of this Newsletter Sponsored by Tarmac (Central) Ltd Alsop Families in Parwich – Allsop/Allsopp/Allsope/Alsop/Alsopp When I started on the series on ‘Parwich families of the Nineteenth Century’ I had not realised how much was involved. Initially ‘the Alsops’ were to be included in the previous issue as a sub-section of the…
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Newsletter 10
September 2002 – Production of this Newsletter Sponsored by Tarmac (Central) Ltd Recollections of Alsop en le Dale Station By Charles Allen (compiled by Stewart Williams based on Charles Allen’s notes and conversation) Historical note: The Ashbourne – Buxton line was built by the London & North Western Railway. It opened throughout in 1899. It was…
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Newsletter 9
May 2002 – Production of this Newsletter Sponsored by Tarmac (Central) Ltd 200 years of celebrations in Parwich The Queen’s Golden Jubilee is to be celebrated by the Parish Council with entertainments in the Memorial Hall and by the History Society with an exhibition in the Church, where there will also be a joint service…
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Newsletter 8
February 2002 – Production of this Newsletter Sponsored by Tarmac (Central) Ltd Found “Everything that is found is always lost again, and nothing that is found is ever lost again.” Russell Hoban The Beaker pot – found at the bottom of the garden where I was born in Chesham As a child, in the middle of…
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Newsletter 6
September 2001 – Production of this Newsletter Sponsored by Tarmac (Central) Ltd The Parwick Hall Great Western Railways Steam Locomotive (no.6985) Earlier this year Robert Shields forwarded to the Newsletter a copy of a photograph of the Parwick Hall Great Western locomotive in full steam that had been sent to him by a GWR Researcher…
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Newsletter 5
May 2001 – Production of this Newsletter Sponsored by Tarmac (Central) Ltd Parwich in the last century – a centre for trade and commerce! Fifty years ago a village the size of Parwich would seem to be a thriving metropolis compared with today. The shopping habits of rural people have changed radically over the last…
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Newsletter 4
January 2001 – Production of this Newsletter Sponsored by Tarmac (Central) Ltd Parwich Trackways: roots to the past ‘Some of our roads and tracks in the landscape may well be older than we think and there is probably more prehistory in most landscapes than was formerly imagined.’ Mike Aston (of Time Team fame) in ‘Interpreting the Landscape’.…
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Newsletter 3
October 2000 – Production of this Newsletter Sponsored by Tarmac (Central) Ltd Parwich Parish in the 1840s: some statistics In 1841 the first Government Census took place that listed each individual in each Parish. The Deeds/Buildings Sub-group of the Society has been looking at the Censuses for the Nineteenth Century as part of their collection…
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Newsletter 2
June 2000 Care Centre Closes History has happened since our last Newsletter for a number of people in the Village and surrounding area; the Care Centre closed on 30th April. Built initially in 1912, by the Liverpool philanthropist and campaigner Florence Rathborne, it was originally a convalescent home for women and children. The British Red…
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