Local Events of the Past.
During 1909 the Glossop Chronicle published a weekly column of information provided by Robert Hamnett. They consisted of brief details of “past events of interest and importance”.
Availability of complete scanned images mean that is is not a complete transcript but use of other sources to provide missing information has enabled most to be recorded. Where there is a gap in a date &c that reflects the original article content.
During editing it was noted that the same events are sometimes listed more than once, and sometimes with differing details. That is a feature of the original articles which future research might clarify.
Hopefully there are no typographical errors in the transcript but they will be amended if notified. Note "lurry" is not a typo; back in the day spelling reflected local pronunciation.
There are a number of references to people starving to death. That refers to the local expression for dying from cold (exposure) rather than lack of food.
Before 1700; 1700 to 1799; 1800 to 1809; 1810 to 1819; 1820 to 1829; 1830 to 1839; 1840 to 1849; 1850 to 1859; 1860 to 1869; 1870 to 1879; 1880 to 1889; 1890 to 1899; 1900 to 1909.
Before
1700.
February
21st, 1329 - Charter given to the Abbot of Basingwerk to hold a
market every Wednesday, and a fair of three days' duration annually
at Charlesworth.
April 9th, 1567 - William Woolley left lands in
Chesterfield and other places to Charlesworth Chapel.
December
15th, 1579 - The Earl of Shrewsbury wrote from Sheffield to the Earl
of Lincoln, thanking him for having his tenants at Glossop punished
for their misbehaviour.
September 17th, 1581 - The Privy Council
have before them a controversy between the Earl of Shrewsbury and his
Glossop tenants.
October 1st, 1581 - Commission appointed to
settle the dispute between the Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord of the Manor
of Glossop, and his Glossop tenants.
November 27th, 1581 - Sir
John Manners, Sir Thomas Cockayne, and Sir Godfrey Foljambe to meet
about Lord Shrewsbury's tenants in Glossop dale.
July 9th, 1582 -
A great cock fight at Chapel-en-le-Frith to decide a dispute between
two families of the “Leghs” about their armorial
bearings.
October 28th, 1582 - Letter from Roger Manners to the
Earl of Rutland, stating that Lady Talbot is to have the Glossop
Estate as her portion.
July 25th, 1588 - Nicholas Garlick, Roman
Catholic Priest, born at Dinting, hanged, drawn and quartered at
Derby.
April 10th, 1596 - Great Enclosure Riot at Chinley.
July
1st, 1606 - William Dewsnopp, yeoman of Whitfielde, purchased from
Thomas Bagshawe, of The Ridge, closes, lands, and hereditaments in
Glossop for £56 10s, 0d.
July 19th, 1606 - Nicholas
Charlesworth, yeoman of Whittfields, purchased from Thomas Bagshawe,
gentleman, of the Ridge, a messuage and lands in the Parish of
Glossop, for £74 14s. 8d.
July 20th, 1606 - Nicholas
Hadfeld, yeoman of Whittfielde, purchased from Thomas Bagshawe, of
the Ridge, a messuage and lands in the Parish of Glossop, for £86
15s. 6d.
July 20th, 1606 - George Wood, yeoman of Whitheld,
purchased from Thomas Bagshawe, of the Ridge, a messuage and lands in
the Parish of Glossop, for £49 15s.
July 20th, 1606 -
William Bore, yeoman of Whitfield, purchased from Thomas Bagshawe,
gentleman, of the Ridge, a messuage and lands at Cross Cliffe, for
£56 15s. 10d.
July 20th, 1606 - John Bore, yeoman of
Whitfield, purchased from Thomas Bagshawe, gentleman, of the Ridge, a
messuage and lands at Cross Cliffe, for £65.
July 20th, 1606
- Thomas Barber, yeoman of Whitheld, purchased from Thomas Bagshawe,
gentleman, of the Ridge, a messuage and lands in the Parish of
Glossop, for £42 6s.
July 20th, 1606 - Nicholas Boothe and
Robert Robinson, yeomen of Whitfield, purchased from Thomas Bagshawe,
gentleman, of the Ridge, a messuage and lands in the Parish of
Glossop, for £51 10s.
July 19th, 1608 - Thomas, son of
Christopher Bennett, yeoman of Kynder, purchased from Thomas
Bagshawe, gentleman, of the Ridge, houses, lands, and hereditaments,
in Whitfield.
July 20th, 1608 - William Padfield, yeoman of
Whitfield, purchased from Thomas Bagshawe, gentleman, of the Ridge, a
messuage and tenement, closes, lands, and hereditaments, in
Whitfield. (Padfield Gate.)
July 20th, 1608 - William Wagstaffe,
mercer of Glossop, purchased from Thomas Bagshawe, gentleman, of the
Ridge, leases and parcels of land, called the Over Bore and the Lower
Bore Meadow, in Whitfield.
July 20th, 1608 - Thomas Smythe, yeoman
of Smythy Lane, purchased from Thomas Bagshawe, gentleman, of the
Ridge, and John Hynchcliffe, yeoman of Whitfield, a messuage and land
in the Parish of Glossoppe.
July 20th, 1608 - George Garlick,
yeoman of Dyntinge, purchased from Thomas Bagshawe, gentleman, of the
Ridge, closes of land called the Great and Little Mylne Moor in
Whittield.
July 20th, 1608 - Robert Bromhall, yeoman of Glossoppe,
purchased from Thomas Bagshawe, gentleman, of the Ridge, closes,
pastures and fields, called the Lower Burghes, or Lower Berres, in
the Parish of Glossoppe.
December 10th, 1622 - Helen Benet, widow,
died at Whitfield, aged 85.
November 28th, 1635 - George Bradshaw
became possessed of land in Glossop through the death of his brother
Francis. George was previously in partnership with his uncle, Peter
Bradshaw, merchant tailor, London.
September 11th, 1638 - The
Glossop trained band (Militia) in training at Chesterfield. The band
consisted of Musketeers and Pikemen.
February 20th, 1649 - A grant
of £50 out of the tithes of Glossop to be paid to John Jones,
minister of Charlesworth Chapel.
January 1st, 1650 - William
Bagshaw, The Apostle of the Peak," ordained.
August 24th,
1662 - Rev. William Bagshaw left Glossop Church in compliance with
the Act of Uniformity.
May 10th,1683 - Roger Daine, aged 69 of
Glossop, gave evidence in dispute regarding the rights of Fairfield
and Fernilee Freeholders to Commons and Waste Lands.
April 18th
1689 - A poor woman of Glossop complained to the Court at Whitehall
of the Steward of the Manor of Glossop-Dale.
February 9th, 1698 -
Thomas Leicester, gent, de Simondly, buried.
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1700 to 1799.
April
1st, 1702 - Rev. William Bagshaw, the Apostle of the Peak, died, aged
75, and was buried in the Chancel of Chapel-en-le-Frith Church.
April
4th, 1702 - William Hodgkinson writes to Thomas Coke at the
Parliament House, Westminster, suggesting that he should give some
money towards a school if he wants to get votes in Glossop.
April
3rd, 1708 - Reginald Bretland, A.L.S., Thorncliffe Hall, died, aged
62.
March 27th, 1761 - Rev. John Wesley preached at
Bridgefield.
May 8th, 1718 - Sarah Cliff, born at Charlesworth;
she married Daniel Rose, a Welshman, died at Fairholmes, in the
Woodlands, February 5th, 1819, in her 100th year.
June 4th, 1718 -
John Wagstaffe bequeathed £3 per annum for the Poor of
Glossop.
May 7th, 1732 - Charles Hadfield, of Lees Hall, appointed
one of the surveyors of the new highway from Glossop to Claylands
Gate (near Gun Inn, Hollingworth).
May 7th, 1732 - William Lyne,
of Simmondley appointed one of the surveyors to lay out the new road
from Hollingworth Head to Enterclough Bridge.
November
10th, 1764 - James Nield was cloth weaving at Chunal.
December
10th, 1772 - A letter from the Rev. John Watson, of Stockport, read
at the Society of Antiquaries, London, describing the discovery that
Melandra Castle was a Roman Fort.
April 3rd, 1780 - General
Thanksgiving throughout the country for the recovery of King George
III. from a serious illness, Glossop illuminated with candles.
April
24th, 1780 - William Dearnaly was working the Glossop Corn Mill.
May
11th, 1780 - William Sheppard assigned the Warth Mill to James
Goodison.
1780 - Robert Fielding, clothier, Whitfield, John
Thornley, fustian manufacturer, Hadfield, Samuel Roberts, Dinting,
and Charles Calvert, Glossop, built a fulling mill at Bridge End and
leased at December 26th, 1782 to George Burgess, who became bankrupt
June 30th, 1817. The mill was sold at the Howard Arms Inn and bought
by John Wood, cotton manufacturer of Glossop, and Robert Bennett, of
Mottram, for £1,900. It was always known as Burgess's Mill and
stood near to Victoria Bridge.
September 24th, 1782 - Martha
Broadbent of Hattersley, died. She was married in her 84th year to
Daniel Broadbent, aged 22.
November 24th, 1782 - Date of lease of
The Lower Mill, Whitfield, built by John Newton, labourer, Whitfield,
and assigned January 28th 1815, to Abraham Shaw.
January 6th, 1783
- John Hague, Park Hall, died, aged 73.
October 1st, 1784 - Date
of lease of Bridgefield Mill; built by John Garlick, who sold it
February 18th, 1791, for £260 to John Shepley, of Simmondley
Bridge, who died intestate May 1st, 1793. Letters of administration
granted to Samuel Shepley, farmer, Charlesworth, Rev. John Whitehead,
Charlesworth, and George Garside, liquor merchant, Stockport, who
assigned the mill January 21st, 1805, to William Shepley.
October
20th, 1784 - Date of lease of the Warth Mill, alias Bramhall's Mill,
now Meadow Mills, built by Joseph Hallam, who was the son of John and
Mary Hallam, of Marsh Hall, near Chapel-en-le-Frith. September 20th,
1800, assigned to Robert Bennett, who left it by will January 16th,
1813, to his son-in-law, Thomas Ward. November 3rd, 1857, assigned to
Ralph Wood, James Wood, and William Bramhall. June 11th, 1866, James
Wood and William Bramhall dissolved partnership. May 6th, 1873,
assigned to Samuel Rowbottom, who obtained a new lease May 1st,
1876.
September 1st, 1785 - Lease of house erected by John
Bramhall, carpenter, in Glossop Parish Churchyard. The schools are
now built on the site.
March 12th, 1786 - Joseph Hague, of Park
Hall, died, aged 80. Founder of Hague's Charity and Whitfield
Endowed School
December 1st,1786 - The Bull's Head Inn, Glossop,
leased to Edward Pickford. James Sellers obtained 999 years' lease
September 29th, 1877.
August 26th, 1788 - Frances, daughter of
Ralph Howard, of Bridge End Mill, son of Ralph Howard, of Lane, in
Staleywood, in Mottram Parish, and Mary, daughter of James Mullien,
clothier, of Ashton Parish, was baptised at Glossop Parish
Church.
July 13th, 1789 - Date of lease of two houses in
Charlesworth built by James Mottram, cotton manufacturer, of
Charlesworth, in the Lower High Fields sold October 31st, 1834, to
Thomas Ledger Goodwin, commercial traveller, for £220.
July
13th, 1789 - Date of lease of the "Thread Mill," built by
Benjamin Goodison, in the Tanyard Meadow.
July 22nd, 1789 - To be
sold at Garraway's Coffee House, London, the advowson of the living
of Mellor, of the value of 260 per annum. The present incumbent is
aged between 30 and 40 years.
August 1789 - At Stockport, the Rev.
Charles Prescott, J.P., fined a resident £20 for buying
embezzled cotton, another person convicted of the same offence and
fined a similar sum, refused to pay it and was publicly whipped upon
the pillory in the Market Place, Stockport.
August 17th, 1789 -
Great Flood at Hayfield, a noted character known as Lord North
drowned. Messrs, Randle Taylor and John Crowden's weirs were
destroyed and Ralph Bower's bridge, Strines Bridge, Lidywood bridge,
Netherhey bridge, Garrison bridge, and Hayfield bridge were swept
away, besides great destruction of property.
September 29th, 1791
- Date of the lease of the Bulls Head and six houses built in the
Croft, Charlesworth, Samuel Mottram, cotton manufacturer; a new lease
of 999 years granted in May, 1882, to George Scholes, Beer seller,
Pear Tree Inn, Glossop.
September 29th, 1791 - Date of lease of
Bankwood Mill (Botany), built by Thomas Bottomley, cotton
manufacturer, Charlesworth, leased to William Wardlow, cotton
manufacturer, Charlesworth, March 25th, 1807.
August 10th 1793 -
Rev. Ralph Kinder, Mottram; John Whittle, gent., Hollingworth Hall;
Thomas Hadfield, yeoman, Crowden Brook; Charles Hadfeld, yeoman,
Lees Hall; James Nield, clothier, Chunal: being five of the
trustees of the Chapel-en-le-Frith and Enterclough Bridge Turnpike
road, purchased land necessary for the new Highway, from Bernard
Howard, Esq., of Fornham, Bury St. Edmunds, Lord of the Manor of
Glossop.
October 1st, 1793 - Date of lease of Bankwood Mill, built
by Thomas Bottomley, of Charlesworth, assigned February 6th, 1801, to
William Wardlow and Thomas Higginbottom, cotton manufacturers,
Charlesworth.
May 2nd, 1794 - Meal was 1s. 5d. per peck.
January
1st, 1795 - Robert Thornley, hatter, Houghton, and his nephews Robert
and John Thornley, cotton manufacturers, Hadfield, leased for 21
years the Whitfield Cotton Mill (newly erected), from Charles
Hadfeld, Lees Hall.
May
1795 - Bridge Field Cotton Mill leased by the Exors. of John Shepley
to James Wright for 12 years.
May 23rd, 1795 - Entwistle Hague,
Park Hall; and Messrs George Hadfield, Simmondley Hall; James
Robinson, farmer and John Hadfeld, farmer, Padfield trustees of
Hague's Endowed School in place of deceased trustees.
June 4th,
1795 - Dr. J. Aiken published his "Forty miles round
Manchester"; interesting information about Glossop and
district.
June 12th, 1795 - Date of lease of Chew Mill, Chisworth,
built by John Rowbottom for carding and scrubbing of wool.
June
18th, 1795 - Date of lease of three cottages at Gamesley, bounded on
the West by the ancient farmhouse of Dorothy Bowers, built by John
Loton sold in 1879 to Joe Marsden, butcher, Mottram.
June 12th,
1796 - Date of lease of land called Pike Hill, the round hill near
Dinting Logwood Mill, by John Cooper, farmer, Dinting.
July 20th,
1796 - May, only daughter of Robert and Sarah Lees, of Padfield
Brook, born.
November 25th, 1796 - Charles Calvert, agent for the
Glossop Estate, died.
April 30th, 1797 - Charles Shaw, one of the
finest bell ringers of the age, born at Whitegates, Mottram.
July
18th, 1798 - Charlesworth Independent Chapel re-opened after being
re-built.
April
11th, 1799 - Vestry Meeting decided to re-build Bottoms Hall
Bridge.
October 7th, 1799 - John Fielding died, leaving his wife
Sarah the Jumble Farm, whose executors at her death sold it to John
and Joseph Bennett for £490.
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1800 to 1809
January
21st, 1800 - John Dearnally succeeded George Roberts as schoolmaster
of Hague's Endowed School, Whitfield.
June 27th, 1800 - Joseph
Bennett of Turn Lee born.
May 30th, 1801 - Date of lease of
Cowbrook Mill, built in the Meadow Warth by William Hadfield, roller
coverer, Padfield.
October 7th, 1801 - Nathan Harrison and Susan
Higginbottom, of Charlesworth, married at the Glossop Parish Church.
The woman was married in her shift.
June
2nd, 1802 - The Factory Act came into force. Rooms in mills were to
be white-washed every six months; the hours of labour were not to
exceed 12 per day: apprentices were not to be employed before 6-0
a.m. nor later than 9-0 p.m.
September 8th, 1803 - John Hadfield,
of Crowden, hung for forgery.
October 31st, 1803 - Glossop,
Padfield and Hadfield Volunteer Corps formed. Two companies, 150
strong.
December 1st, 1803 - Date of lease of Mill Town Mill,
built by Thomas Shaw, of Mill Town, cotton manufacturer, bounded on
the east by road from Glossop to Whitheld, west by Crab Tree Spot,
north New Croft, south by a brook which separates Glossop from
Whitfield.
December 6th, 1803 - Lease granted by William Barber,
cotton manufacturer, Padfield, to Abraham Clarke, machine maker,
Hadfield of newly erected but unfinished mill. Clarke was to make
the, reservoirs and complete the mill. It was long known as Clarke's
Mill.
March 25th, 1804 - James, Joseph and Robert Wagstaffe
obtained a 80 years' lease of land, and built Dinting Mill (Logwood
Mill).
March 25th, 1804 - Date of lease of Kinder Lee Mill.
May
18th, 1805 - James Thornley and Peter Wild, farmers, Chisworth, built
two houses. Siah homes, better known as Lane End Cottages (Nos. 67
and 69 Hague Street) sold on May 14th, 1863 to Peter Thornley,
Chisworth, for £100.
September 3rd, 1805 - Lease of brick
houses in Dinting Mill Fold, built by the Wagstaffes.
April 3rd,
1806 -Theodore Francis Fauvel born at Grandpied, Normandy.
November
27th, 1806 - Bridge Field Mill conveyed to William Wardlow for 1,000
years.
December 20th, 1806 - John Shepley, Woodcock Road, died,
aged 67.
June 1st, 1807 - Date of lease of Nos. 54 and 56, Church
Street, built by Richard Hopwood, cotton manufacturer, Glossop; sold
March, 1872, to William Hopwood, wheelwright, Glossop.
June 1st,
1807 - Date of lease of Mote Hall, Charlesworth: built by John
Bottom.
June 25th, 1807 - Bridgefield Mill leased by John
Shepley's Exors. to Willian Wardlow.
August 1st, 1807 - The Lower
Water Mill and 13 cottages (Barracks Row) Hope Street, now pulled
down, were built by Robert Bennett, gentleman, of Mottram; his only
daughter, Martha, married Thomas Ward, who was working the mill in
1819. The mill was sold August 15th, 1807, and it was then described
as the Water Mill, 4 stories and attick, engine house, reservoirs,
two goits, two steam engines, 60 h.p. and water wheel, 30
h.p.
December 22nd, 1807- Francis James Sumner born at Foleshill,
near Coventry.
February 10th, 1808 - Lease granted to Thos. Shaw,
built 'Shoddy Bump Mill,' Cross Cliffe Mill, known as Whitfield Lower
Mill.
April 10th, 1808 - Tor Side Mill 'To let.'
September
20th, 1808 - Thomas Booth killed at Compstall.
January 2nd, 1809 -
John Wagstaffe, Howard Arms, obtained lease of land, and built Nos.
19, 21, and 23, High Street East.
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1810 to 1819.
January
8th, 1810 - Eight Mottram youths rung a peal of Oxford Treble Bob
Major, composed of 5,472 harmonic changes, in three hours nineteen
minutes and a half. Conductor Joshua Reddish.
March
2nd, 1810 - Samuel Oldham, a well-known Mottramite, born at Roe
Cross.
May 16th, 1810 - Edward Wild, killed by a cart near
Hayfield.
August 19th, 1810 - New Mills Chapel opened.
August
28th, 1810 - A brother and sister married a sister and brother, i.e.,
Thomas Thornley, of Hadfeld, to Miss Taylor, of Barnsley. Miss Lucy
Thornley, of Hadfield, to Thomas Taylor, of Manchester.
December
31st, 1810 - John Bennett, one of the founders of the Woollen or Tip
Mill, Turn Lee Road, died.
January 2nd, 1811 - James Owen, cotton
manufacturer, obtained lease of land and built No. 32, Hope Street,
the first house occupied in Glossop by John Wood, founder of John
Wood and Bros.
March 28th, 1811 - Hodge Printworks robbed.
June
1st, 1811 - George Burgess, cotton spinner, married Miss Howe,
daughter of Rev. C. Howe, Vicar of Glossop. Worked an old whitewashed
mill that. stood near Victoria Bridge, bought by John Wood.
February
28th, 1812 - John Rhodes, cotton manufacturer, Charlesworth, failed
in business.
May 5th, 1812 - Detachment of the Royal Horse Guards
(blue), came from Derby to Glossop, to assist in putting down the
Luddites.
June 2nd, 1812 - Luddites: John Ellis, tailor, sentenced
to death for breaking seven shear frames, the property of Thomas
Rhodes, cotton master, Tintwistle; respited. Also James Crossland,
aged 49, shoemaker, sentenced to death for breaking machinery at
Tintwistle. Also John Heywood, junior, sentenced to death for rioting
at Tintwistle. Also William Greenhough, aged 48, a weaver, of
Mottram, sentenced to death by a Special Commission at Chester for
stealing flour from the shop of Alice Berry, at Tintwistle, during a
Luddite riot.
August 28th, 1812 - Capt. McDougall and a patrol of
the Stirlingshire Militia patrolled Simmondley and Glossop in search
of Luddites.
November 4th, 1812 Captain Raynes, of the
Stirlingshire Militia, presented with silver plate by the gentry of
the District for his services in putting down the Luddites. The
headquarters of the militia was at Mottram, and the district was
regularly patrolled by the militia during the period of
disturbances.
July 27th, 1813 – Baptised at St. Anne's
Manchester, John Hill Wood, son of John Wood, cotton spinner.
September
24th, 1813 - Date of lease of Littlemoor Chapel, built on common land
called the Little Moor. The trustees were: George Hadfield, Esq.,
Moses Hadfield, esq.; James Sheppard, clothier; Thomas Shaw, yeoman;
John Kershaw, cotton manufacturer; William Kershaw, cotton
manufacturer. In 1845, John Platt, of Hayfield, was the sole
survivor, and he appointed the Rev. Thomas Atkin, James Beever,
grocer: Joha Kershaw, cotton spinner, of the Hurst; Edward Dyas,
cabinet maker; Anthony Higginbottom, grocer; and John Bennett,
weaver, of Turn Lee.
July 6th, 1814 - Rev. Joseph Harrison
ordained, first pastor of the Littlemoor Congregational Independant
Chapel.
December 1st, 1814 - Five years' lease granted of Low
Quarry to Joshua Roberts, Deepclough, Thomas Winterbottom, Glossop,
and Jonathan Goddard, Deepclough.
December
27th, 1814 - Henry Charles, Earl of Surrey, 13th Duke of Norfolk,
married Charlotte Gower, eldest daughter of George Granville Lewison
Gower, Marquis of Stafford. Their issue was Lord Fitzalan Howard and
Lord Edward George Fitzalan Howard.
March 25th, 1815 - James
Robinson obtained 80 years' lease, and built Nos. 383-7, High Street
West, and Nos. 2-8, Simmondley Lane (Barracks).
July 17th, 1815 -
Baptised at Marsden, Eliza, daughter of John Wood, cotton
spinner.
December 4th, 1815 - Abraham Clarke, cotton spinner,
Hadfield, died, left two daughters, Sarah, wife of John Shepley, and
Mary, wife of Robert Wagstaffe, butcher.
December 16th, 1815 -
Bernard Edward Howard succeeded to the Ducal Honours as the 12th Duke
of Norfolk, on the death of Charles, the 11th Duke, who died on this
date without issue.
January 1st, 1816 -To let, Mouse Nest Mill,
Padfield (14yds. square, 3 storeys high, with attic), occupied by
John Lee and others. Apply to Samuel Broadbent, mechanic,
Padfield.
March 23rd, 1816 - Thomas Allen, for 30 years the Excise
Officer, died, aged 74.
June 1st, 1816 - Date of lease of Nos.
383-9, High Street West, built in the Great Hey, by James Robinson,
carrier, Whitfield.
June 17th, 1816 – Rev. John Whitehead,
40 years pastor of Charlesworth Chapel, died.
March 25th, 1817 -
Joseph Lyne, Simmondley, obtained 86 years lease, and built a mill on
the site of Dinting Printworks.
June 19th, 1817 - Benjamin
Arnfield/Armfield, killed in a coal pit at Longhurst Lane,
Mellor.
September 18th, 1817 - Robert Stafford killed.
October
1st, 1817 - Date of lease of the Junction Inn, built by John Garlick.
999 years lease obtained by Jacob Kay, September 29th, 1874.
October
20th, 1817 - Date of lease of 28 Bridgefield.
January
1st, 1818 - Braddock's Mill, Padfield (20 yards long and 10 yards
wide), leased by Ruth, the Widow of James Braddock, to William
Barber, cotton spinner, of Hadfeld.
February
21st, 1818 - Organ opened and sacred music from the oratorio of the
"Messiah" performed at the Parish Church of Glossop.
June
22nd 1818 - John Atherton, machinist, commenced his tenancy of a
machine shop at Hollingworth under John Dalton, paying £10 per
annum for Smithy and £10 for each lathe. He was previously with
Sidebottom's.
June 23rd, 1818 - Thomas Bramhall killed by a cart
at Hayfield.
February 2nd, 1819 - William Turner leased land,
obtained water rights from Padfield Brook, and built Waterside
Mill.
March 25th, 1819 - Date of lease of Lee Vale Mill.
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1820 to 1829.
March
11th, 1820 - Thomas and William Bates' Mill burned down at Thornsett.
Both were ruined, but obtained a "Brief" to enable them to
appeal for aid to "well disposed Christians."
May 17th,
1820 - George Gibson, merchant, Manchester, married Eliza, daughter
of Matthew Ellison, Esq., of Glossop Hall.
June 8th, 1820 - Annual
general meeting of the Glossop and Sheffield Turnpike Trust at the
Tontine Inn, Sheffield. Bernard John Wake, clerk.
October 1st,
1820 - Date of lease of numbers 26 and 28 Church Street, built by
Isaiah Lee.
November 20th, 1820 - Thomas Ellison, of Glossop Hall,
married Esther Marin, second daughter of Mr. Dalton,
Hollingworth.
January 1st, 1821 - Jeremiah Sykes obtained lease of
land and built Nos. 239-247, High Street West, known as Jerry's Town.
January
1st, 1821 - Joseph Shepherd obtained lease of land called the
Highfield, and built Nos. 147 and 149, High Street East, and No. 2,
Regent Street.
February
1st, 1821 - Joshua Shepley leased land called " Lower Spot,"and
built the Royal Oak Inn.
May 28th, 1821 - Census taken of the
eight hamlets of the Parish of Glossop. Population: Males, 2,525;
females, 2,618.
June 1st, 1821 - Date of lease of the George and
Dragon Inn, Charlesworth, built in the Lower Barn Field by Samuel
Booth.
August 23rd, 1821 - Hugh Parker, Esq., J.P., and the Rev.
John Lyne, J.P. viewed the Sheffield portion of the Sheffield and
Glossop turnpike road, and certified "that the road was fit and
commodious for the passage of carriages and travellers thereon."
On the same day John White, Esq., J.P. and George William Newton,
Esq., J.P., proceeded from the Howard Arms Inn and viewed the Glossop
portion, certifying to the same effect.
September
18th, 1821 - The Snake Inn opened as a licenced house, the first
tenant was Mr. John Longden.
September 17th, 1821 - Death of Thos.
Rhodes, bachelor, a dyer at Staley, and brother to the Rev. Hugh
Garside Rhodes, of Fulwood, James and William Rhodes, woollen
manufacturers, of Tintwistle, and uncle to Thomas Rhodes, the founder
of Mersey Mills.
September 29th, 1821 - Date of lease of Nos.
35-51, Victoria Street (Mutton Row), built by Robert Wagstaffe,
butcher, in the Hare Hill Top, new lease of 999 years, to Alice
Wagstaffe, of Hulme, March, 1879.
September 29th, 1821 - Date of
lease of Nos. 147-151, High Street East and No. 2, Regent Street,
built by Joseph Sheppard, cotton spinner, Crosscliffe, in the High
Field, bounded on the East by goit of mill belonging to Thomas
Shaw.
September 29th, 1821 - Date of lease of Nos. 4-18, Thorpe
Street, built by Joseph Thorpe, joiner, in Winter Hill, bounded on
the West by road to Beeley Clough.
October
6th, 1821 - William and James Sidebottom's Mill, at Waterside,
robbed.
December 1st, 1822 - Lease of Sich Mill, built by Robert
Shepley, for Benjamin Wilkinson.
January 18th,1822 - Samuel
Shepley leased land and built Brookfield Mill.
January 19th, 1822
- Aaron Rangeley's mill at Hayfield burned down.
April 6th, 1822 -
Robert Wagstaffe, butcher, obtained 80 years lease and built Nos.
35-47 Victoria Street (Mutton Row.)
May
27th, 1822 - The first mail coach from Manchester to Sheffield passed
through Glossop. There was a dinner held at the Howard Arms by
Glossop gentry to celebrate the event.
June 5th, 1822 - Woolley
Bridge bridge rebuilt with stone from Tintwistle quarry.
March
10th, 1823 - Silver plate presented to Mr. Matthew Ellison on his
retirement as Surveyor of Turnpike roads.
August 5th, 1823 - Brief
granted to the Rev. Christopher Howe, Vicar of Glossop, and the
Church Wardens to repair the Church, which was stated to be in a
ruinous condition. Briefs were Letters Patent issued by the Crown,
directing the collection of alms in Churches for special objects
named in them.
August 16th, 1823 - Ann, the fifth daughter of Mr.
Ellison, of Glossop Hall, died at Hollingworth.
August
28th, 1823 - Dispute over a weir between William Rhodes, John Rhodes
and James Rhodes, co-partners as woollen manufacturers, Tintwistle,
and John Turner, cotton manufacturer, Bottoms, Tintwistle;
arbitrators, George Sidebottom and Thomas Ellison.
October 1823 -
William Taylor, of Glossop, robbed by highwaymen at Bredbury.
October
8th 1823 - Henry, son of Robert and Sarah Lees, Padfield Brook,
married Miss Elizabeth Stead, of Walkley, Nr. Sheffield.
October
11th 1823 - William Royley drowned at New Mills.
December
19th, 1823 - Public notices issued by the Church Wardens warning
people to send their children and servants to Church on Christmas
Day.
January 1st, 1824 - Joseph Hadfield, Lees Hall, leased the
Black Bull, Tintwistle, to Eli Woodhouse.
February
2nd, 1824 - Matthew Ellison leased land for the "Select Vestry,"
and built the old Town Hall, used as a Vestry Room and Prison, now
No. 2, Shepley Street.
February 24th, 1824 - John Drinkwater, of
Clough Head, near Hayfield, aged 35, married to Miss Kennington, of
Mainstone, near Chapel-en-le-Frith, aged 18 years and 8 months, at
Glossop Parish Church.
March 8th, 1824 - Manchester to Sheffield
Mail Coaches ceased running, owing to the bad state of the roads.
May
1824 - A coach commenced running from Glossop to Manchester every
Tuesday and Saturday.
June
4th, 1824 - Date of lease of the Royal Oak Inn, Sheffield Road, built
in the Lower Spot, by Joshua Shepley: sold March 2nd, 1874 to Thomas
Bullock for £900.
July
27th, 1824 - John Undes, for stealing a pair of stockings and a pan
from Joshua Shepley at Glossop, was sentenced to one month's
imprisonment and to be privately whipped.
September
29th, 1824 - Date of lease of Nos. 26-38, Hall Street, built by
Robert Robinson, in the Mellor Field, sold July 22nd, 1891, to the
Co-operative Society for £504, and Nos, 32-38, re-built for
Store.
September 29th, 1824 - Date of lease of Nos. 249-257, High
Street West, and Nos, 1-9 Sumner's Place, built by Jerry Sykes, in
Wren Nest Brow.
September 29th, 1824 - Date of lease of the
Queen's 'Arms, built by William Robinson, on vacant land.
October
20th, 1824 - Thomas Wagstaff, aged 71, married Sarah Thornley, aged
16, at the Glossop Parish Church.
November 17th, 1824 - Sarah,
wife of the Rev. Christopher Howe, Vicar of Glossop, died.
November
18th, 1824 - Date of lease of Nos. 201-9 High Street East, built in
the Mellor Field by Charles Booth.
November 18th, 1824 - Date of
lease of Nos. 119-128 High Street West, built by Thomas Braddock in
the "Close Bottom," occupied by Benjamin Rolfe. Sold by
auction November 28th, 1858, to Thomas Hampson for £495.
November
18th, 1824 - Date of lease of Nos. 16-26 High Street East, built by
Samuel Collier, sold to Samuel Robinson, grocer, who obtained a new
lease September 29th, 1879.
November 18th, 1824 - Date of lease of
44-46 Thorpe Street, built by Jonathan Shaw, cotton spinner, in the
Flat Meadow, occupied by John Bray. Bounded on the West by the road
to Beeley Clough. Sold July 17th, 1832, to William Thorpe for £106,
and in 1863 to Charles Wainwright for £100.
November 18th,
1824 - Date of lease of Nos. 30 and 32 High Street West, built by
Samuel Waterhouse, labourer, Whitfield, in the "Far Flat and New
Meadow." New lease to Eliza Collier in 1898.
January
11th, 1825 - William Rhodes, woollen manufacturer, Tintwistle, father
of Thomas Rhodes, cotton manufacturer, died, aged 43.
February
19th, 1825 - Charlesworth Cotton Mill to let, newly erected.
May
7th, 1825 - Entwistle Hague, Esq., Park Hall, died, aged 52.
May
22nd, 1825 - The roof of Woodhead Chapel fell in.
June
4th, 1825 - Rev. J. Fielding, pastor, Littlemoor Independent Chapel,
resigned.
July
14th, 1825 - George Calvert, surgeon, Glossop, died.
July 15th,
1825 - James Booth, aged 27, sentenced to death for stabbing James
Harrison in the face with a knife at Glossop. He was reprieved and
transported.
August 18th, 1825 - Lease of the Wesleyan Sunday
School, Wesley Street, to William Robinson, shopkeeper, Glossop, for
the following trustees:John Harrison, cotton spinner; James Hall,
tailor; Isaac Linney, cotton spinner: William Thorpe, joiner; William
Bowers, cotton spinner; John Shaw, cotton spinner: John Goodwin,
woollen clothier; John Howard, cotton spinner; Thomas Winterbottom,
butcher: John Ridgway, cotton spinner; Charles Hampson, cooper;
James Bennett, tallow chandler; Edward Wagstaffe, cotton spinner;
John Rusby, surgeon; William Bramhall, cotton spinner; all of
Glossop. The boundaries were described, on the East bounded by a
rivulet, the Glossop Brook, on the West by the gardens of Joseph
Wait, William Chatterton, and John Hadfield; on the North by the
garden of Joseph Hadfield, and on the South by Thomas, Wilkinson's
premises. A new lease of 999 years granted September 20th, 1876, to
the Rev. Samuel Hooley.
August
18th, 1825 - Lease of the Queen's Arms, built by William Robinson,
sold March 26th, 1888, to Charles Slack for £792 2s.
September
25th, 1825 - Samuel Roberts, of Mouselow, died, aged 90.
September
29th, 1825 - Date of lease of Nos. 141-147, High Street West, built by
George Beever, in the Big Close, new lease of 999 years, to James
Beever, weaver, March 25th, 1891.
October 25th, 1825 - A cormorant
was shot at Compstall Bridge which measured between the two
extremities of the wings, 5 feet, and from the point of the bill to
the tip of the tail, 3 feet 2 inch, it weighed 6 lbs. This bird is
rarely met with so far inland.
December 1825 - Messrs. Sidebottom,
of Broadbottom Mills, and Messrs. Matley, of the Hodge Printworks,
had a big law suit over their water rights.
December 23rd, 1825
Date of lease of Nos. 104-112 High Street East built in the Mellor
Clough, occupied by Robert Aveson.
January 7th, 1826 - Benjamin
Wilkinson, cotton manufacturer, leased Silk Mill for 14 years to
James Bosley, John Smith and Robert Bosley, silk merchants,
Manchester.
February 3rd; 1826 - Thomas Howe, son of Rev.
Christopher Howe, Vicar of Glossop, leased land and built Nos 2-6,
High Street East, where for many years he carried on business as a
draper. Now Jackson's Buildings.
February 3rd, 1826 - George
Thorpe leased land, "Flat Meadow," and built eight houses,
"Back Sitch," Thorpe Street, which was named after
him.
February 3rd, 1826 - William Booth leased land, "Tenter
Stone," and built the house in Wellgate, corner of Oldham
Street.
February
15th, 1826 - Samuel Ridgeway, John Ridgeway, Thomas Bennett, and John
Thornton, co-partners in Little Hayfield Cotton Mill. (Built by John
and Thomas Slack, of Ashton-under-Lyne).
May
6th, 1826 - Local riots by cotton operatives, owing to the
introduction of power-looms.
May 7th, 1826 - Rev. James Turner,
for 32 years Vicar of Mottram, died, aged 50.
July 11th, 1826 -
John and James Kershaw, cotton spinners, Hurst Mill, dissolved
partnership.
July 14th, 1826 - John Wood, of Hadfield, John
Kershaw, William Kershaw, and James Kershaw, trading as Wood and
Kershaw, cotton spinners, Charlestown Mill, dissolved
partnership.
July 18th, 1826 - Civil action at the Derby Assizes,
Sidebottom v. Matley, Broadbottom, over water rights.
September
29th, 1826 - Date of Lease of. Nos. 135-139, Victoria Street, built
by Edward Bennett, in the Lower Meadow. Sold by Samuel Dearnaley,
July 31st, 1856, to Thomas Wagstaffe, cattle dealer, and by him
December 5th, 1868, to Edward Woolley, butcher, for £380.
December
2nd, 1826 - No. 14a, High Street East, built by Robert Wagstaffe,
butcher.
January 4th, 1827 - Thomas, son of John Sidebottom, died,
aged 42.
May
19th, 1827 - James Rowbottom, Esq., J.P., Cotton Spinner,
Charlesworth, born.
August 6th, 1827 - Daily post established
between Hayfield, New Mills, Marple, and Manchester.
October
3rd, 1827 - Lewis, son of James and Mary Brierley, of Valley Mill,
died, aged 15. His body was taken away out of the grave at Mottram
Church by body-snatchers.
December 28th, 1827 - Francis James
Sumner took possession of Wren Nest Mills.
July 5th, 1828 - Date
of lease of Nos. 40 and 42 Church Street, Glossop, built by Thomas
Higginbottom, cotton spinner.
July 5th, 1828 - Date of lease of
the Commercial Inn, Hall Street, built by Martha Avison, sold to
Chester and Co., brewers, who re-leased it 22/6/1880 for 999
years.
July 24th, 1828 - Date of lease of the Independent School,
Charlesworth, built in the Smithy Meadow, by the following trustees
:- Henry Marsland, cotton manufacturer, Best Hill; Samuel Marsland,
cotton manufacturer, Best Hill; William Wardlow, cotton manufacturer,
Bankwood Mill; Samuel Shepley, yeoman, Charlesworth; James Harrison,
farmer, Gamesley; Thomas Goodwin, tailor, Charlesworth; Samuel Booth,
Victualler, Charlesworth; Joseph Cooper, cotton spinner, Holehouse;
Benjamin Harrison, cotton spinner, Kinder Lee Mill; John Thornley,
farmer, Gamesley; James Jackson, junior, weaver, Simmondley; Moses
Dewsnap, farmer, Hargate Hill; William Bennett, victualler,
Charlesworth; James Mottram, farmer, Charlesworth.
September 18th,
1828 - Samuel Oldham, Esq., of Mellor, cotton manufacturer, died,
aged 72.
September 27th, 1828 - Date of lease of Nos. 114-130,
High Street East, built by Thomas Wilkinson, in the Mellor Clough
Close, and sold by his exors. to Abel Harrison, of Staleybridge, on
December 15th, 1838, for £854.
September 29th, 1828 - Date
of lease of No. 119, High Street East, built by John Harrison in the
Middle High Field. New lease of 999 years, to Ben Platt, September
29th, 1888.
March 6th, 1829 - William Thorpe built an house in the
Clover Field, occupied in 1845, by Lawyer Thompson, sold to Francis
J. Sumner in 1855, for £450. Easton House now built on the
site.
March
6th, 1829 - Lease of Wesleyan Chapel and School, Padfield. The
trustees were: John Harrop, book-keeper, Hadfield; Reuben Warhurst,
schoolmaster, Padfield; John Swindells, mechanic, Hadfield; William
Wood,. Hatter, Hadfield; George Dewsnap, cotton cord manufacturer,
Padfield; Alvin Willis, carder, Brookfield; Peter Harrop, mechanic,
Hadfield; Joseph Barber, shoe dealer, Hadfield; Joseph Harrop,
schoolmaster, Hadfield; Thomas Warhurst, shopkeeper, Hadfield; James
Broadbent, cotton spinner, Hadfield; Joseph Swindells, cotton
spinner, Hadfield; Thomas Warhurst, cotton spinner, Padfield.
March
10th, 1829 - William and James Sidebottom's Warehouse at Manchester
robbed of £800.
April
28th, 1829 - Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, took his seat in
the House of Lords (Roman Catholic Emancipation.)
June 3rd, 1829 -
William Henry Jackson, surgeon, Glossop, died, aged 37.
September
18th, 1829 - Corner stones of St. George's Church, New Mills, laid by
Philip Heacock, Esq., J.P., and George William Newton, Esq.,
J.P.
September 20th, 1829 - Charlesworth Chapel re-opened after
enlargement.
September 29th, 1829 - Date of lease of Nos. 42-58,
High Street East, built by Joseph Carr.
October 1st, 1829 -
Winifred, wife of Matthew Ellison, of Glossop Hall, died, aged
77.
October 1829 - Hannah, wife of John Wood, of Thorncliffe
Hall, died, aged 50. She was a daughter of Thomas Hadfield, of
Simmondley Hall.
October
28th, 1829 - The Umpire Mail Coach overturned opposite the Junction
Inn, Glossop, one man seriously hurt.
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1830 to 1839.
January
1st, 1830 - Robert Bennett, gent., Mottram, made a deed of gift of
the Higher Water Mill to Thomas Ward, silk Manufacturer,
Macclesfield.
January
11th, 1830 - George Knott, leased land and built Nos. 58-62, Church
Street, Glossop.
January 11th, 1830 - Samuel Sheppard leased land,
"Middle High Field," built Nos. High Street East, and
sold the same on January 14th. 1846, to William Goodwin.
January
15th, 1830 - St. George's Church, New Mills, opened for public
worship.
March
25th, 1830 - Benjamin Rolfe, cotton manufacturer, died, aged 63.
April
6th, 1830 - Juliana Teresa, wife of Thomas Ellison, estate agent,
died, aged 30.
April 15th, 1830 - Thomas Alsop drowned.
June
6th, 1830 - The wife of Samuel Marsland, of Best Hill Mill, died. She
was the eldest daughter of Mr. Butcher, draper. Sheffield.
June
23rd, 1830 - Date of 1,000 years' lease of Nos. 36 and 36a Freetown
built in the Hollincross Meadow by Peter Handford, known as "Peter
before the Shower." Sold in 1858 to James Bennett, blacksmith,
Turn oth' Lane, for £150.
July
1st, 1830 - Date of lease for Oldham Row, built by Joseph
Higginbottom, glazier, in the Tenter Stone and Calf Hey. Sold June
2nd, 1864, to James Shepley for £300
July
1st, 1830 - Date of the lease of the Tabernacle Chapel, built by the
following trustees:- John Rusby, cotton manufacturer, Glossop; James
Hall, tailor, Glossop; Samuel Bowden, farmer, Heath; James Bowden,
corn dealer, Glossop; John Ridgeway, carder, Whitfield; John
Swindells, carder, Hadfield; John Bennett, clothier, Whitfield; Isaac
Linney, cotton manufacturer, Cross Cliffe; William Bowers, cotton
spinner, Glossop; William Robinson, shopkeeper, Glossop; John Howard,
cotton spinner, Glossop; John Harrison, shoe dealer, Glossop; William
Thorpe, joiner, Glossop; George Bowden, shopkeeper, Glossop; John
Shaw, Yeoman, Ashes; John Rusby, junior, surgeon, Glossop.
November
27th, 1830 - Glossop-dale Funeral Society established.
December
7th, 1830 - Mr. Turner, Tintwistle, fined £20 for working
children under 16 years of age longer than the law allowed.
December
1830 - Edmund Potter one of a deputation to London to get the
Government to repeal the tax on printed cloth.
December
25th, 1830 - Public Notice issued prohibiting public
meetings.
December 27th, 1830 - Operative Spinners Turn-out at
Glossop Cotton Mills.
January 4th, 1831 - Serious outrage
committed by "turn-outs" at Millbrook Cotton Mill.
January
17th, 1831 - Six men committed to Chester Assizes for the outrage of
a Cotton Mill. A Detachment of the Hussars escorted them from
Ashton-under-Lyne.
January 22nd, 1831 - Nine men arrested for a
mill outrage at Hayfield.
January
22nd, 1831 - Francis White, Park Hall died, aged 71.
January
24th, 1831 - Trial of men for turnout outrages; committed to the
Assizes.
January 25th, 1831 - Detachment of Hussars escorted them
from Glossop.
February 1st, 1831 - Rev. Theodore Francis Fauvel
arrived at Glossop by stage coach from Sheffield.
March 25th, 1831
- George Bowden appointed clerk to the Glossop Select Vestry.
June
3rd, 1831 - Money Club established at the house of Joseph Hadfield's,
Hare and Hounds Inn, Glossop; shares, £45; subscription, 6s.
monthly.
June 5th, 1831 - Five houses, cow house and butchers
shop, numbers 123-135 Hall Street, sold by John Lawton and John
Schofield to Joseph Schofield, butcher, Howardtown, for £295,
lease dated 28/6/1828, now the property of Coun. G. Wharmby.
June
9th, 1831 - H. West, of the 80th Regt., son of Colonel West, late of
the 33rd Regt., married Eliza, second daughter of Richard Matley, of
the Hodge.
July 24th, 1831 - Thomas Slack, surgeon, of Stockport,
married Ann, daughter of John Kershaw, of the Hurst.
July 25th,
1831 - St. George's Church, New Mills, consecrated by Bishop
Ryder.
August 2nd, 1831 - Samuel, son of Richard Matley, of the
Hodge, died, aged 30.
August 6th, 1831 - Lease of Nos. 127-137
High Street West, built by Samuel Garside, who died March 20th, 1852,
in the Big Close, occupied by Thomas Braddock, sold May 28th, 1852,
by Mary, wife of Jesse Hall and sister of Samuel Garside, to William
Garside, hatter, for £670.
August. 6th, 1831 - Lease of the
Mechanics Arms, built by Jordan Hampson, in the Middle High Field,
new lease granted July 17th, 1895, to Abraham Hampson.
August 8th,
1831 - Silver plate presented to John White, Esq., J.P., George
William Newton, Esq., J.P., and Mr. Thomas Ellison, by the gentry of
the district, for their services in connection with the suppression
of the 4s. 2d., or "swing-turn out."
September 17th,
1831 - Tintwistle Benevolent Society founded by the Rev. John C.
Potter and James Rhodes, Esq.
September 28th, 1831 - Ralph Fearns,
Esq., of Mellor, died, aged 55.
September 28th, 1831 - George
Hadfield, Esq., of Mottram Old Hall, died, born February 14th, 1772,
at Hadfeld Old Hall.
October 1831 - Charles and Edmund Potter, of
Dinting Vale Printworks, suspended payment.
October 1st, 1831 -
The Lee Vale (Bone Mill) Charlesworth, washed down by the Reservoir
bursting, and three of the workpeople drowned.
November 1st, 1831
- Factory Act came into force. Hours of labour for persons over 18
years of age, 5-30 am. to 8-30 p.m. No person under 21 years old to
work in the night. Stoppages through want of water could be made up
by starting at 5 a.m. to 8 pm but only 8 hours overtime per weak
allowed. Accidents to machinery were allowed for by one hour overtime
per day, for 10 days.
January 3rd, 1832 - Dolly Doxon obtained
lease of land, Hen Butts, and built Nos. 98-106, Gladstone Street.
February
14th, 1832 - Thomas Petty, surgeon, Glossop, died.
February 17th,
1832 - Meeting at the Norfolk Arms: to oppose Mr. Sadler's Bill to
reduce the hours of labour in cotton mills; amongst those present
were the following cotton masters :- John Kershaw, Benjamin
Waterhouse, Ralph Sidebottom, Francis Sumner, William Radcliffe,
Josiah Cheetham, James Kershaw, Joseph Bennett, Henry Lees, James
Sidebottom, Samuel Shepley, Thomas Barnes, Robert Shepley, John
Ridgeway, and Joseph Wilkinson.
February 17th, 1832 - Joseph
Cooper and Richard Denton, trustees of the Orange Society, leased
land from Samuel and Moses Hadfield, and built 12 houses in Unity
Street; six of the houses were sold May 10th, 1875, to Mr. Isaac
Lomas, and six to Mr. Joseph Hampson.
March 1st, 1832 - Josiah
Cheetham, cotton master, killed.
June 16th,1832 - Date of lease of
the Albion Inn and three houses, built by Charles Calvert; sold June
20th, 1872, to Thomas Chester for £1,600.
June 19th, 1832 -
Facility granted to raise funds by an appeal to the charitable, to
the Churchwardens of the Glossop Parish Church, one of tho last
granted.
August 6th, 1832 - The Rev. John Crowther, for nearly 30
years Vicar of Hayfield, died.
September 18th, 1832 - Glossop
Parish Church re-opened after being rebuilt.
September 19th, 1832
- Robert Bennett, cotton master, Glossop, died, left a son Robert.
His son-in-law was a cotton master in Glossop.
September
29th, 1832 - Date of lease of Nos. 369-375, High Street West, built
by Thomas Preston, auctioneer, in the Pikes Plantation, sold to the
Co-operative Society, who erected the Dinting Branch on the site and
obtained new lease March 25th, 1886.
September 29th, 1832 - Date
of lease of Nos. 1-11, Unity Street, built by No. 596, Lodge of the
Orange Society, and became the property of No. 777, Britons Glory
Lodge of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, hence
the name Unity Street.
September
29th, 1832 - Date of lease of Nos. 79-85, High Street East, built by
Joseph Harrop in the Highfield Field.
October 4th, 1832 - John
Rusby, surgeon, Glossop, married Mary, only daughter of Robert and
Sarah Lees, of Padfield Brook.
October 23rd, 1832 - Special
Sessions at Bakewell for assigning polling districts for the Northern
Division of Derby. Glossop was one of the five.
December 21st,
1832 - Joseph Taylor, for 60 years gardener at Glossop Hall, died,
aged 87.
December 22nd, 1832 - The Mail Coach overturned at Roe
Cross.
February 8th, 1833 - William Thorpe, joiner, aged 40, died
through the effects of a gunshot wound inflicted by John Wyatt, on
February 1st, at the Pingott (Convent Houses, Church
Street).
February 8th, 1833 - David Greason, millwright, killed at
Dinting Printworks.
February 24th, 1833 - John Wood, cotton
master, of Thorncliffe Hall, died, aged 50.
April 7th, 1833 -
Robert Thornley, Hadfield, died, aged 61.
May
19th, 1833 - Samuel Cooper, Gamesley, died, aged 82. He was father,
grandfather, and great grandfather to 147 persons.
August 1833 - A
Toll Gate was erected across the highway at Woolley Bridge.
August
8th, 1833 - The Norfolk Arms was robbed.
August 7th, 1833 - The
Rev. Thomas Atkin, afterwards pastor of Littlemoor Chapel, was
ordained at St. Paul's Chapel, Wigan.
August 19th, 1833 - The
Woollen Mill of J. and J. Bennett's, Turn Lee, robbed.
August
30th, 1833 - Lease of Nos. 215-231, High Street West, built by
Abraham Booth in the Wren Nest Brow, and bounded on the South by the
"Mill Moor." Freehold land of Robert Hadfield's.
September
29th, 1833 - Date of lease of Nos. 110-114, High Street West, built
by Joseph Wood, in the Warth, sold by Nancy, widow of Joseph, to
William Cooper, April 3rd, 1847, for £170, sold to Joseph
Woodcock March 20th, 1850, for £ ; sold to George Lee, August
6th, 1860, for £ ; widow Charlotte sold to Joseph Goddard,
October 5th, 1879, for £700.
October 7th, 1833 - Glossop
Cricket Club formed. Dinner at the Norfolk Inn to celebrate the
event. Thomas Ellison, Esq., chairman; and Francis James Sumner,vice
chairman.
October 18th, 1833 - Bury-me-Wick Cotton Mill burned
down.
October 29th, 1833 - Thomas Ellison appointed clerk to the
Trustees of the Chapel-en-le-Frith and Enterclough Bridge
Road.
October 20th, 1833 - William Brocklehurst, cotton
manufacturer, Hayfield, died, aged 50.
October 21st, 1833 - Mr.
Matthew Miller, confectioner, Mellor (alias Little Matthew Mintcake),
married for his fourth wife, Miss Sarah Healey, at the Glossop Parish
Church.
December
2nd, 1833 - No. 18, Oldham Street, built by Thomas Wood, cotton
spinner (died November 17th, 1847), sold to James Dutton July 7th,
1874, for £45.
January 12th, 1834 - Robert Thornley,
surgeon, Charlesworth, killed at Tintwistle Bridge.
January
18th, 1834 - Edward Moss, cotton spinner, Hodge Mill, died.
February
14th, 1834 - Samuel Oliver opened Dinting Mill (old Logwood Mills) as
a paper mill.
May 1st, 1834 - Date of lease of the Workhouse,
built in Castle Hill Meadow.
June 2nd, 1834 - Charles
Winterbottom, clerk, Glossop Parish Church, died, aged 87.
July
27th, 1834 – Matthew Ellison, for 37 years Agent to the Glossop
Estate,died, aged 68.
July 30th, 1834 - The Hurst Flood, great
destruction of property and loss of life through a cloud bursting on
top of the Moss.
August 13th, 1834 - Bernard Edward Howard, 12th
Duke of Norfolk, elected a Knight of the Garter.
August 25th, 1834
- Lease of Nos. 35, 51, Kershaw Street, sold by the exors. of James
Higginbottom, August 5th, 1896, to Thomas Shepley Booth, for
£475.
September 29th, 1834 - Date of lease of Nos. 57-9-61,
High Street West, built by Robert Garlick, bounded on the West by the
reservoir for Lower Mill (Shepley Mill).
October 1834 - A man
killed by falling from the Hodge Mill chimney, which was, in course
of re-erection.
October 22nd, 1834 - Materials, including a boiler
of 100 gallons capacity of the dog kennels of the Glossop Hunt sold
at auction. The dog kennels were on the site of Alderman Furniss'
laundry.
December 4th, 1834 - Lease of Nos. 37-39 High Street
West, built by Thomas Jackson in the Meadow, bounded on the West by
an intended street (Cross Street.)
December 7th, 1834 - William
Wardlow, cotton manufacturer, Bank Wood, died, aged 69.
January
31st, 1835 - Dinner at the Norfolk Arms to the County Members.
March
21st, 1835 - Law suit over water rights at Derby between Potters at
Dinting Printworks, and Oliver, paper maker at Dinting Mill.
April
19th 1835 - Aaron Ashton, Hayfield, died, aged 104. Served. 28 years
in the Army and was wounded at the Battle of Bunkers Hill, June 17th
1775.
June
25th, 1835 - Lease of the Waggon and Horses Inn, Charlesworth, built
by Joseph Rowbottom.
June
25th, 1835 - Date of lease of Nos. 189-197 High Street East, and Nos.
2 and 4, Jordan Street, built in the “Mellor Field," by
Michael Jackson, shopkeeper.
June 25th, 1835 - Date of lease of
Nos. 41-47 High Street West, and houses in Cross Street, built by
Wright Waterhouse, and assigned January 10th, 1868, to Joseph Ashton,
linen draper. Sold January 21st. 1873, to Alfred Smith for
£2,000.
September 29th, 1835 - Date of lease of Nos.
187-195, High Street West, built by Thomas Jackson, warp dresser, in
the Wren Nest Brow, sold to John Dawson, August 9th, 1862.
September
29th, 1835 - Date of lease of Nos. 19-23, Gladstone Street, built by
John Garlick in the New Enclosure, new lease to Joseph Garlick,
September 29th, 1888.
September
29th, 1835 - Date of lease of the Primitive Methodist Chapel, built
in the Warth near the Globe Inn, on land occupied by F. Sumners Esq.
The lease was made out to Joshua Graham, overlooker, Whitfield, and
the trustees were Jonathan Goldthorpe, Samuel Wilson, Thomas Ellis,
Samuel Lister, George Ellis, Joshua Jenkinson, Samuel Smith, John
Gill and John Stafford. Pulled down in 1851.
September
29th, 1835 - Date of lease granted to Baptist Chapel, Charlesworth,
to Joseph Bradley. The trustees in 1857, were George Mellor, the
elder, shop keeper; John Bradley, Draper, Simmondley; James Thornley,
cotton spinner, Ashton-under-Lyne. On January 30th, 1858, the
trustees were Rev. George Drake, Particular Baptist minister,
Dinting: George Mellor, jun., spinner, Milltown, Glossop: John Beard,
engineer, Broadbottom; Thomas Rowbottom, cotton dyer, Woodseats; John
Shaw, tailor, Charlesworth. (still living); John Jackson,
manufacturer, Simmondley: Thomas Beard, shop-keeper, High Street,
Glossop; David Dyson, batcher, Littlemoor; Francis Timer, cardroom
overlooker, Charlesworth; John Mellor, minders' overlooker,
Broadbottom; John Ratcliffe, overlooker, Dinting: Moses Rowbottom,
joiner, Woodseats: and William Booth, cotton
spinner, Simmondley.
September 29th, 1835 - Date of lease of
the Commercial Inn (Red Lamp), Hadfield, built by John William and
James Sidebottom, in the Cow Hey, and sold to William
Wildgoose, September 1st, 1879, who had a new lease of 999 years,
September 29th, 1889.
October
17th, 1835 - Ralph Sidebottom, cotton master, Millbrook, fined £20
for breach of the Factory Act.
November
11th 1835 – An eagle was shot at Hayfield.
January
2nd, 1836 - Joseph Shepley died, aged 61.
January
5th, 1836 - Public Meeting at the York Hotel, Manchester; decided to
construct a railway from Manchester to Sheffield. Capital £800,000.
March
11th, 1836 - Hodge Cotton Mill sold by Arthur and John Moss, Exors,
to Mr. William Kinder, for £1,357 19s. 11d.
March 17th, 1836
- Joseph and Thomas Bowden acquitted at Derby Assizes of a charge of
murdering William Booth, of Hayfield.
June 5th, 1836 - Mary, wife
of James Rhodes, Esq., of Tintwistle, died, aged 55.
June
6th, 1836 - A general meeting of Manchester and Sheffield gentlemen
was held at Woodhead to arrange over a proposed railway from
Manchester to Sheffield. The Sheffield Committee were allotted 8,500,
Manchester Committee 5,500, and there was held in reserve 1,000
shares. Mr. Vignoles and Mr. Locke were authorised to survey and
furnish an estimate of the costs.
June 6th, 1836 - Date of lease
of Nos. 1-3 York Street, built in the Cowbrook Meadow by John
Wilcockson, Sold : 16/7/1883 to Thomas Shepley for £871.
June
17th, 1836 - It was decided to erect a new bridge at Howard Town
(Victoria Bridge).
June 22nd 1836 - Date of lease of Nos.
205-213A, High Street West, built in the Mill Moor and Wren Nest
Closes by Robert Nutter. Sold May 13th, 1866, to Thomas McKnight for
£470; sold May 14th, 1886, to George Benton, who died June 6th,
1887; sold July 30th, 1889, to Francis Hawke.
June
28th, 1836 - Moses Hadfield appointed a County Magistrate
July
1st, 1836 - Meeting held at The Norfolk Arms of local gentlemen to
consider a proposed railway from Manchester to Sheffield. Mr George
Sidebottom of Hill End House presided.
July
1st, 1836 - The Glossop Association for the prosecution of felons:
Thomas Ellison, clerk, offered £5 5s 0d reward for the
apprehension of the thief, or thieves, who stole some fat sheep from
a field at Cowbrook.
July
14th, 1836 - New Mills Toll Bar opened. Destroyed by a mob the same
night.
September
17th, 1836 - Thomas Dearnaly paid 7s. 6d. for making a new door for
the Pin Fold.
September 24th, 1836 - At a meeting held at the
Norfolk Arms, Lord Wharncliffe, chairman, Mr. Vignoles, engineer,
made his report on the proposed railway from Manchester to Sheffield.
It was decided to give the necessary Parliamentary notices.
September
29th, 1836 - Benjamin Harrop paid 5s. for repairing the Pin Fold
wall.
September 29th, 1836 - Date of lease of the Station Inn,
built by Joseph Higginbottom, the front doorway is the old entrance
to the Universal School that formerly stood on the site now occupied
by the Goods Office of the Great Central Railway.
September 29th,
1836 - Date of lease of Nos. 9-11, High Street East, built by (name
missing), offered for sale by auction on August 10th, 1896, and
withdrawn at £1,465.
September 29th, 1836 - Date of lease of
Gamesley House, built by Thomas Read, of Dinting, and sold to John
Barnowin Rowcliffe, November 7th, 1876, for £1,000.
October
29th, 1836 – William Robinson, constable, issued notices
against the lighting of bonfires.
November 10th, 1836 –
Notice was given of an application to apply for Act of Parliament to
construct reservoirs in Glossop.
December 15th, 1836 - Sarah, wife
of Robert Shepley, died, aged 54.
December
30th, 1836 - John Higginbottom leased land and. built Nos. 30 - 34,
Freetown.
January 1st, 1837 - The Tabernacle, Hall Street opened
by the Rev. Samuel Warren L.L.D. and Robert Eckett, Esq. Cost £612,
besides voluntary help.
January 10th; 1837 – Date of lease
for land for building of Nos. 73-81, Hall Street.
January 12th,
1837 - Joseph Bowden leased land on a meadow, occupied by Joseph
Oates, and built the Star Inn, Howard Street.
January 19th, 1837 -
John Booth leased land and built Nos 9-11 High Street East.
February
7th, 1837 - Silver plate, value of £300, presented to Edmund
Potter, by his creditors on his settlement of their claims, also a
present to Mrs. Potter, value of £50.
February 15th, 1837 -
Letters of administration granted to Mary, widow of William Wardlow,
cotton manufacturer, Glossop. Estate valued at £2,070 16s.
3d.
February 22nd, 1837 - Directors of the Railway decided to have
only one line of rails at Woodhead for the present.
March 23rd,
1837 - Seven cotton masters in Glossop fined £20 each for
breaches of the Factory Act.
May 6th, 1837 - Mrs. Wagstaffe,
licensed victualler, Glossop, robbed of £70.
May 30th, 1837
- Benjamin Arnfield killed at the Bower Coal Pit.
June 16th, 1837
- Date of lease of No 2 Chapel Street, built by Joseph Moss, bounded
on the West by an intended street (Cross Street), on the North by
Thomas Jackson's premises, on the South by an intended street (Chapel
Street), sold in 1851 to Thomas Jackson, stonemason, for £186.
June
25th, 1837 - Robert Lees, cotton spinner, Padfield, died, aged
75.
July 14th, 1837 - William Sidebottom, Stalybridge, died, aged
74 . He was father to Dr. Sidebottom, of Mottram, and grandfather to
Dr. Ralph Bennett Sidebottom, of Glossop.
July 21st, 1837 - First
meeting of the Commissioners of the Glossop Reservoirs, at the
Norfolk Arms Inn, summoned by Robert Shepley, John Kershaw, junior,
and John Wood.
July 27th, 1837 - James Collier, sawyer, Glossop,
aged 34, killed.
August 1st, 1837 - Hyde Division formed. Mottram
and Tintwistle included.
August 11th, 1837 - Sarah, relict of
Robert Lees, cotton manufacturer, Padfield Brook, died, aged 65. She
was a Miss Barber, daughter of a cotton manufacturer, of
Padfield.
August 18th, 1837 - Sarah, wife of John Hadfield, cotton
manufacturer, Cowbrook, died, aged 23, she was a daughter of Joshua
Shepley.
September 24th, 1837 - Richard, son of Richard Matley of
the Hodge Printworks, died, aged 27.
September 28th, 1837 -
Charles, con of Robert Shepley, senr., cotton manufacturer, Glossop,
died, aged 16.
September 28th, 1837 - William Thornley, proprietor
of the Haigh Carr Colliery, Mottram, killed.
September 29th, 1837
- Date of lease of the Swan Inn, built by Charles Band, labourer, in
the Clover Field, C.B. died September 15th, 1853.
September 29th,
1837 - Date of lease of Nos. 175-181, High Street East, by William
Sheppard.
September
29th, 1837 - Date of lease of Nos. 8-14, Cross Street, and 16-22,
Chapel Street.
September 29th, 1837 - Date of lease of the Market
Hotel, built by Joseph Bottoms, in a meadow occupied by assignees of
John Platt, under tenant of the exors. of Benjamin Rolfe, bounded on
the East by an intended street (Market Street), on the South by an
intended street (Chapel Street), sold by Joseph Slack, of Manchester,
to Thomas Fielding, coal merchant, of 20, Surrey Street, December
4th, 1871, for £900.
September 29th, 1837 - Date of lease of
Nos. 56-62, Victoria Street,built by John Waterhouse, in the Hare
Hill, occupied by Robert Wagstaffe.
September 29th, 1837 - Date of
lease of Nos. 8-14, Chapel Street, built by John Ford, in the meadow
mortgaged to T. P. Wreaks, March 15th, 1851, and sold by his widow,
Phoebe, to Alfred Smith, October 6th, 1871, for £805.
September
29th, 1837 - Date of lease of Nos. 175-181, High Street East, built
by William Sheppard, of the Ashes, in the Mill Warth, and sold in
June 1838, to William Sheppard for £440.
October
11th 1837- Reform dinner in the Universal School, Norfolk Street, to
Messrs. Cavendish and Evans. M.P.s for North Derbyshire.
November
14th, 1837 - Date of lease of the Swan Inn and two houses, Nos. 74-78
High Street East, built by Charles Band, Labourer, in the Clover
field, bounded on the East by John Wild's, South-West by John
Rusby's, and South by John Cooke's property. Assigned August 2nd,
1863, to Henry Band, and sold May 11th, 1888, to Boddington and Co.
brewers. Swan Inn now recommended for compensation and house on sale
without the licence.
November 14th, 1837 - Date of Lease of the
Station Inn, built by John Higginbottom in "The
Meadow."
November 18th, 1837 - Samuel Collier, Bridge End,
grocer and corndealer, died, aged 68. He was father of Samuel
Collier, clock maker.
November 22nd, 1837 - Poll for or against a
church rate in Glossop.
November 23rd, 1837 - First general
meeting of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway shareholders at the
Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield.
December 6th, 1837 - First Meeting of
the Board of Guardians of the Glossop Union.
December 19th, 1837 -
Riot at New Mills, four men committed to the Quarter Sessions for
destroying Toll Gates on the Turnpike Road.
December 23rd, 1837 -
Anti-Poor Law meeting at Glossop.
January 22nd, 1838 - John
Kershaw, cotton manufacturer and farmer, Hurst, died, aged
70.
January 22nd, 1838 - The first marriage at All Saints' Church,
Marple; Mr. James Jackson to Miss Jane Marsh, of Marple.
January
29th, 1838 - A child, Levi Robinson, burnt to death at
Glossop.
February 2nd, 1838 - Foundation stone laid of St. Paul's
Church, Staleybridge, by the Right Hon. Lord Combermere, T.G.M., of
Cheshire.
March 25th, 1838 - Benjamin Greaves, blacksmith,
obtained 80 years' lease, and built No. 7 High Street West, on a
field called the Flatt, occupied by Joseph Oates, of the Tontine Inn
(Norfolk Arms Hotel).
March 25th, 1838 - Thomas Collier obtained
80 years' lease, and built No. 9, High Street West (The Beehive).
Possibly an error in which an entry for several properties has
been misprinted, as Collier built number 5.
March 25th, 1838 -
James Hurst obtained 80 years' lease, and built No. 13, High Street
West.
March
28th, 1838 - William Spencer, aged 40, killed on the Railway by earth
falling on him.
April 2nd, 1838 - John Nadin, aged 27, killed by a
cart passing over him at Charlesworth.
April 25th, 1838 - Aaron
Howard, aged 2 years, suffocated in a lime pit at Glossop.
May
18th, 1838 - Mary Lewis, aged 5, burnt to death at Marple
Bridge.
June 6th, 1838 - William Barber and Son occupied Padfield
Mill. Built in 1804.
June 28th,
1838 - Coronation of Queen Victoria. Foundation stone laid of Glossop
Town Hall.
July
3rd, 1838 - Two young men got two months' hard labour for taking two
ducks from Samuel Shepley's lodge at Glossop. A youth got three
months' hard labour for stealing articles from a dwelling house of
Edward Bennett's, Glossop. Two men got seven years' transportation
for stealing silk from James Bosley's silk mill, Glossop. A man got
two months for stealing 5s from the shop of Robert France, Glossop. A
man got 4 months for assaulting Thos. Langstaff, of Glossop. A man
was committed for stealing a pair of sugar tongs at Glossop. Two men
got 21 days and 6 weeks for poaching. A Glossop record for one day.
July
18th, 1838 - James Hall, tailor, Glossop, died, and- was interred in
Tabernacle Chapel, Hall Street; left widow Emma, sons John, Mark and
George, and daughter Hannah Sellars.
August 5th, 1838 - The first
Anniversary Sermons of the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Green Vale.
(The Chapel was near the Globe Inn.)
August 13th, 1838 - An
attempt was made to murder the gamekeeper of Woodhead.
September
1st, 1838 - Rev. Thomas Atkin came from Wigan to be the pastor of
Littlemoor Independent Chapel.
September 4th, 1838 - Jane
Fielding, aged 2, Woodcock Road, accidentally poisoned by
opium.
September 20th, 1838 - Braddocks' Mill (Mouse Nest), sold
by auction, it bad lately been occupied by John and James Braddock,
of Padfield. It was three stories high and the inside measurements
were 42 feet long by 41 feet 6 inches wide. Lease dated September
29th, 1815.
September 29th, 1838 - Date of lease of Nos. 18-26,
Norfolk Street, built by Jonathan Bowden, in the meadow occupied by
Joseph Oates, bounded on the North by an intended street (Station
Street). No. 26, was licensed as a beerhouse and was known as the
Railway Inn, it was bought by the Glossop Conservative Association,
who took possession in 1876, and had a new lease of 999 years,
September 29th, 1894. The Association moved to temporary premises on
March 15th, this year, until the new club is completed.
October
1st, 1838 - Bold Taylor, aged 7 years, found drowned at
Woodseats.
October 1st, 1838 - Manchester and Sheffield Railway
commenced on at Woodhead.
October 7th, 1838 - Ann Knott, aged 16,
of Glossop, burned to death.
October 23rd, 1838 - Elisabeth
Cooper, aged 18 months, drowned in Shepley Mill Lodge, now the
Wesleyan Chapel.
October 25th, 1838 - Isaac Sidebottom, collier,
aged 28, found dead in a coal pit at Ludworth.
October 28th, 1838
- The Rev. George Partington, of Littlemoor Chapel, died, aged
65.
October 28th, 1838 - Nancy, wife of Samuel Shepley, cotton
manufacturer, Brookfield, died, aged 50.
October 31st, 1838 -
Thomas Manning, a man aged from 30 to 40, murdered near Woodcock
Road. The spot is shown by the letters M.M.H. cut on the stone, (Man
Murdered Here.)
November 27th, 1838 - An unknown female, aged
about 70, found starved to death at Glossop.
December 2nd, 1838 -
William Cowen, a child, scalded to death by drinking hot
liquor.
December 13th, 1838 - At a Vestry Meeting to levy a church
rate of 3s. 4d. per £, John Wood, Esq., of Howard Town, moved
:- "That a rate of three farthings in the £ be now
levied." It was seconded by James Sidebottom, Esq. There were
185 against and 151 for it. Mr. Wood demanded a poll and Mr. John
Thornley, junr. seconded it. The poll was fixed for Friday, Saturday,
and Monday, but was abandoned. The Anti-Church Rate Party were very
strong and cheered in the churchyard at the conclusion of the
meeting.
December 14th, 1838 - Ten dwelling-houses and plot of
land, sold by the Exors. of Thomas Wilkinson, lease from March
1809.
December 20th, 1838 - A chartist house raided at Glossop,
and fire arms discovered concealed ready for a revolution.
December
24th, 1838 - Silver basket presented to the Rev. T. Middleton by the
congregation of Christ Church, Tintwistle.
January 18th, 1839 -
Grand Ball at the Norfolk Arms; all the elite of the district
attended.
February
3rd, 1839 - Stag hunt at Broadbottom.
February
8th, 1839 - Mary, wife of John Wright, cotton manufacturer, Milltown,
died, aged 69.
March 2nd, 1839 - George Hancock, a child, Marple
Bridge, accidentally poisoned.
March 6th, 1839 - Fire at Henry
Lees, Woolley Bridge, roof and floors of mill fell in, cotton
destroyed. Fire put out by John Wood's fire engine.
April 27th,
1839 - John Bowden, aged 54, killed by falling from the Stage Coach
at Glossop, whilst in state of intoxication.
April 30th, 1839 -
John Brunt, aged 65, killed by a fall of earth at the Hurst.
May
16th, 1839 - Mr. Clayton, cotton spinner, Mellor, fined for employing
young persons under 18 years of age more than 12 hours a day.
May
10th, 1839 - Rev. Benjamin Barritt. Wesleyan Minister, Glossop, died,
aged 60.
June 13th, 1839 - Date of lease of Nos. 85-101, Victoria
Street, built by Timothy Warhurst, sold April 19th, 1886, to G. E.
Cox for £450.
July
29th, 1839 - Royal assent given to an "Act for the more easy and
speedy recovery of small debts within the Town and Manor of Glossop,
and other places within the Parish of Glossop" constituting "A
Court of Requests."
August
20th, 1839 - Ralph Hadfield, aged 38, killed-by falling down a ladder
at Waterside.
August 23rd, 1839 - A licence was granted to James
Collier, of the Junction Inn (now Commercial) owned by Benjamin
Oates. The beerhouses at this date were open from 7 a.m. To 10 p.m.
Saturdays, to 11 p.m., Sundays 1 p.m. To 2 p.m., and 5 p.m. to 9
p.m.
September 1st, 1839 - Lease of two houses in Simmondley Lane,
built by Jesse and Hugh Ollerenshaw, and sold August 8th, 1868, to
William Sheppard, grocer, for £245.
September 29th, 1839 -
Date of lease of Nos. 73-83, Victoria Street, built by Asenath
Lawton, in the meadow, sold to Edmund Cuthbert for £700.
September
29th, 1839 - Date of lease of Nos. 77 High Street East (Manor Inn),
and Nos. 8-9 Manor Street, built by John Pott, in the High Field,
bounded on the North by an intended street (never made). New lease of
999 years, to John Pott, draper, Cheetham Hill, September 29th,
1891.
October 8th 1839 - Prize fight in Glossop. 71
rounds fought.
October
30th 1839 - William Godfrey, aged 4, Tor Side, burnt to death through
clothes catching fire.
December
3rd, 1839 - Mary Fish, aged 6, burned to death by her clothes
catching fire at Wren Nest.
December
5th, 1839 - Date of lease of Nos. 43-50 Hall Street, built by William
Henry Turner, in the Wheat Croft and Hall Lane Meadow. New lease of
999 years granted to Robert Hurst, of 4 Wesley Street, September
29th, 1891.
December 5th, 1839 - The New Postage Act came into
force. Letters ½oz., 4d .; over ½oz and under 1oz.,
8d.
December 6th, 1839 - Sarah, wife of Benjamin Harrison, cotton
manufacturer, Kinder Lee, died, aged 47.
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1840 to 1849.
January
9th, 1840 - Cotton mills working short time, four days per week.
January
16th, 1840 - Josiah Ingledew, 52, Whitfield, killed by fall on the
railway. He was the first man to die in Glossop Union on the
railway.
January 16th, 1840 - A boy, John Hall, aged 6, burnt to
death at Glossop.
January 21st, 1840 - John Mason Martin, aged 20,
Rose Green, killed by falling from his horse.
March 25th, 1840 -
William Howard, aged 4 years, burnt to death at Hadfield.
June
1st, 1840 - Machinery sold at Waller's Mill, Mellor Mill.
June
3rd, 1840 - Machinery sold at Kinders', Hodge Mill.
June 13th,
1840 - Foundation stone of St. Paul's Church, Compstall, laid by
George Andrew, Esq., J.P.
June 25th, 1840 - Thomas Wilson, aged
47, Freetown, drowned in a vat of lime water.
July 30th, 1840 -
John Lester, aged 8, drowned in a mill dam at Glossop.
August 1st,
1840 - James Wyatt, aged 73, gamekeeper, killed by a fall, at
Glossop.
August 12th, 1840 - Josiah Mellor, aged 20, filled by a
fall of earth on the new railway at Gamesley.
September 11th, 1840
- John Hall, landlord of the Bee Hive Inn, Whitheld, died suddenly in
Manchester.
October 3rd, 1840 - The Wesleyans opened a school in a
room over a stable at Shepley Mill.
October 17th 1840 - William
Bennett published his “Flying Serpent,” and “Spire
Holly Boggart”.
October
26th, 1840 - John Wright, cotton manufacturer, Milltown, died, aged
73.
December 2nd, 1840 - William Holt, killed by a boiler bursting
at Woodhead Tunnel.
December 2nd, 1840 - Rev. W. Johnson, Mottram
died.
December
4th, 1840 - Robert Nutter, cotton dresser, Green Vale, Glossop, died,
left widow, Elisabeth, and children, John, Robert, Mary, Margaret,
Ann, Esther, and Elizabeth.
December 31st. 1840 - Rebecca, wife of
Joseph Lyne, cotton manufacturer, Simmondley, died, aged 73.
January
23rd, 1841 - James Brindley, aged 76, killed by a bale of bags
falling on him at Turn Lee
January 25th, 1841 - Newly-born infant
found, drowned at Glossop.
February
17th, 1841 - George Booth, aged 31, died at Holehouse, through being
accidentally shot with a pistol.
February
19th, 1841 - Edward Poultney, aged 26, killed at Brookfield by mill
machinery.
February 2th, 1841 - Ann, wife of John Rushby, cotton
manufacturer, Milltown, died, aged 67.
May 1st, 1841 - Edward
Lees, cotton spinner, Padfield Brook, died, aged 35.
July
1st, 1841 - Dispensation granted to the Court "Conquering Hero,"
No. 1279, of the Glossop Dale District Ancient Order of Foresters.
August 1841 - Howard Town Wesleyans held their first service in one of the
bottom rooms of Shepley Mill.
August
19th, 1841 - Assignees of William Kinder sold the Hodge Mill to James
Jackson.
September 29th, 1841 - Date of lease of No. 5, Hall
Street (Talbot Inn), and 4 cottages, built by Nathan Darwent, sold
October 2nd, 1895, for £795.
October 1841 - George Bowden
appointed Clerk to the Glossop Board of Guardians.
November 17th,
1841 - Manchester and Sheffield Railway opened to Godley.
December
9th, 1841 - Cowman at Strines drowned at Botham's Hall.
December
17th, 1841 - M. S. and L. Railway opened from Manchester to
Godley.
January 4th, 1842 - John Dearnally, schoolmaster, at
Hague's Endowed School, died of cancer, aged 65.
January
15th; 1842 - James Howe, schoolmaster, Milltown, died, aged
58.
February 14th, 1842 - James Booth, machinist, Charlesworth,
died, aged 66.
February 17th, 1842 - Foundation stone laid of
Broadbottom Viaduct by John Chapman, Esq., of Hill End
House.
February 27th, 1842 - Wright and Hodgson's cotton mill,
Milltown, destroyed by fire.
March 5th, 1842 - William Mutch, aged
51, of Marple Bridge, burnt to death.
March 5th, 1842 - Foundation
stone laid of Broadbottom Viaduct by John Chapman, Esq. of Hill Head
House.
March 16th, 1842 - Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk,
died, aged 76.
May 5th, 1842 - Wages in cotton mills reduced more
than 5s. in the £ and mills working short time.
June 3rd.
1842 - Meeting of over 500 persons at a place between Hadfeld and
Glossop to protest against the high price of butchers' meat.
July
7th, 1842 – EF, a shop keeper at Rose Green, hung
himself.
August 8th, 1842 - Samuel Shaw, aged 49, of Charlesworth,
murdered.
August 10th, 1842 - All local cotton mills stopped by
"plug drawing " parties from Stalybridge.
August 18th,
1842 - Charles Rhodes arrested for rioting at Joseph Cooper's cotton
mill, Holehouse.
August 26th, 1842 - Thomas Shaw, farmer,
Milltown, died, aged 76 years, a brother of Abraham Shaw.
August
30th, 1842 - Samuel Shepley, cotton master, shot four men,
"plug-drawers," at Brookfield Mill. A Company of the 58th
Regiment came to Glossop and was stationed here some time.
September
14th, 1842 - Four rioters committed to Chester Assizes.
October
1st, 1842 - Samuel Shaw murdered and his wife outraged at
Broadbottom.
November 2nd, 1842 – A Detachment of the 11th
Hussars under Captain Sutton, left Glossop for Burnley after a stay
of two months during the plug drawing turn outs.
November 17th,
1842 - Jonathan Wood, farmer, Hadfield, aged 61, killed by his cart
passing over him.
November 18th, 1842 - Frederick W. Kirk, a
child, Ludworth, scalded to death by a kettle of boiling water.
December
10th, 1842 - Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway opened
from Godley to Broadbottom.
December 2th, 1842 - Broadbottom
Railway Viaduct completed, cost £25,000. The Railway opened
from Mottram to Old Dinting Station.
January 4th, 1843 - George,
son of John Sidebottom, died, aged 73.
January 6th, 1843 - Samuel
Roe, fixing the Town Hall clock.
April
3rd, 1843 - Glossop Savings Bank opened.
May 6th, 1843 - James
Bosley succeeded John Dearnally as schoolmaster of Hague's Endowed
School.
May 31st, 1843 - William Stubbs, aged 22, killed by
falling from the Dinting Vale Railway Viaduct; the first man killed
during its erection.
June, 1843 - Glossop Mechanics' Institution
founded at the Castle Hill School by Robert Kershaw, Mr. Banston, and
others.
August
7th, 1843 - John Heathcote, a boy, drowned in the river at Compstall
Bridge.
September 6th, 1843 - Lydia Brooks, aged 28, Whitfield,
killed by a horse.
December 21st, 1843 - A tailor of Padfield
drowned himself.
January 26th, 1844 - William Lowe, aged 24,
killed by falling from the Dinting Vale Viaduct.
March 9th, 1844 -
John Young, aged 50, killed by a railway waggon at Torside.
March
13th, 1844 - James Fernily, aged 40, killed by being blown down the
Railway Bank at Padfield.
March 19th, 1844 - Hugh Bennett, aged 4,
burnt to death at Mill Brow.
March 23rd, 1844 - Liverpool District
Banking Co. opened branch bank at No. 1. High Street West.
May
4th, 1844 - Nathaniel Longden, aged 81, burnt to death at
Padfield.
May 10th, 1844 - Royal assent given to the Glossop
Market Act. Extract relating to May: "And be it enacted, That
the annual Fair holden on or about the Sixth Day of May in certain
Streets and Places of the said Town of Glossop shall from and after
the passing of this Act cease to be holden in such Streets and
Places, and shall thenceforth be removed to, and for ever thereafter
yearly on the Sixth Day of May".
May 8th, 1844 - William
Garlick, aged 12, killed by a horse and cart near the Junction Inn.
May
20th, 1844 - James Bosley, ex-silk manufacturer and schoolmaster,
died.
June 6th, 1844 - Samuel Chadwick, aged 23, Simmondly, killed
in a stone quarry.
June 23rd, 1844 - Proclamation made in the
Parish Church of a meeting to be held on the 26th for appointment of,
a schoolmaster for Hague's Endowed School.
June
23rd, 1844 - Robert Robinson, aged 5, Glossop, died through drinking
beer.
July 22nd, 1844 - Robert Wilson, aged 26, killed by falling
from Dinting Vale Viaduct.
August 8th, 1844 - The Sheffield,
Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, opened from Gamesley to
Woodhead.
August 23rd, 1844 - Priscilla, first wife of Wm. Hunt,
surgeon, Glossop, died.
August 24th, 1844 - Benjamin Harrison,
cotton manufacturer, Chisworth, died, aged 57.
August 30th, 1844 -
George Lee, aged 48, killed by being run over by a cart at
Waterside.
September 9th, 1844 - John Ball succeeded James Bosley
as schoolmaster of Hague's Endowed School.
September 29th, 1844 -
Date of lease of Waterside Chapel to James Wharmby for the following
trustees: John Beeley, John Wilson, Elijah Stott, James Haigh,
William Chadwick, John Alcock, George Batty, Samuel Maddock, and John
Wharmby.
September
29th, 1844 - Date of lease of the Surrey Arms, High Street West,
built by George Pye, bounded on the East by vacant land intended for
a street (George Street), sold by John Pratt, December 31st, 1875, to
John Gardener Sykes.
October 8th 1844 - Joseph Jennings, aged 24,
drowned in Dinting Vale water course.
October
13th 1844 - John Goddard Esq., J.P., Greenfield Cottage, Goddard
Lane, Padfield, died aged 60.
October
31st, 1844 – Eleanor, wife of Martin Swindells, cotton
manufacturer, Hadfield, dies aged 69.
November 27th, 1844 -
Elisabeth Eyre, aged 5, burnt to death at Glossop.
December 5th,
1844 - John Rusby, junior, surgeon, Glossop, died, aged 40. He was
the father of the Rev. William Henry Lees Rusby.
December 6th,
1844 - Date of lease of the Surrey Arms, High Street West, built by
George Pye, sold December 31st, 1875, to John Gardener Sykes, for
£2,000, who rebuilt it.
December 9th, 1844 - Thomas Eastham,
surgeon, Hadfeld, died, aged 46.
December
27th, 1844 - Foundation Stone laid of St. James's Church,
Whitfield.
March 3rd, 1845 - Mary, widow of William Hadfeld,
cotton manufacturer, Cowbrook, died, aged 77.
April 9th, 1845 -
Mark Shepley, aged 37, killed by a Railway Train at Torr Side.
May
12th, 1845 - James Byrom, aged 26, burnt to death at Glossop.
May
16th, 1845 - J.N., aged 21, of Whitfield, hung herself.
May 20th,
1845 - John Knott, Cotton Spinner, Glossop, for 51 years
superintendent of Glossop Church Sunday School, died, aged 80.
May
20th, 1845 - John Field, aged 3, drowned in a well at Howard
Town.
May 28th, 1845 - John Rusby, retired cotton spinner,
Milltown, died, aged 78.
June 9th, 1845 - B.C., aged 75, hung
herself at Gamesley.
June
14th, 1845 - David Tattersall, aged 61, killed by a crane handle at
Charlesworth.
July 7th, 1845 - Margaret Wood, an infant, drowned
in a well at Ludworth.
July 18th, 1845 - The Glossop Branch
Railway opened.
July 19th, 1845 - The Glossop Market opened.
July
25th, 1845 - Wiliam Barber, cotton manufacturer, Padfield, died, aged
68.
August 9th, 1845 - John Bramhall, aged 17, scalded to death at
the Dinting Printworks.
August 18th, 1845 - First meeting of the
Glossop Gas Light Company shareholders in the Town Hall.
August
30th, 1845 - Lease of the Grapes Inn, built by Thomas Howard,
book-keeper, Whitfield, bounded on the South by Mow Wood; occupied by
Jerry Sykes.
September 10th, 1845 - Jane Waterhouse, aged 2 years,
Littlemoor, killed by a cart passing over her.
October
3rd, 1845 - George Hoult, aged 19, of Charlesworth, killed by a
railway train.
October 4th, 1845 - The Rev. Goodwin Purcell came
to Charlesworth.
October 15th 1845 - John Rhodes, aged 6,
Chisworth, burnt to death through his clothes catching fire.
December
22nd, 1845 - Woodhead first tunnel opened, length 3 miles, 18 yards,
25 inches, cost £150 per foot in length.
December 22nd, 1845
- The first Woodhead Tunnel opened.
December 31st, 1845 - Betsey,
wife of the Rev. George Marsden, Wesleyan Minister, Hadfield, died,
aged 58.
February 7th, 1846 - John Bennett, aged 6, Charlesworth,
drowned in the River Etherow.
March
25th, 1846 - James Robinson, 80 years' lease, built the Surrey Arms,
Victoria Street.
April 9th, 1846 - James Bowden, aged 26, killed
by a boiler bursting at Charlestown.
May 21st, 1846 - An unknown
man killed of Marple Bridge by being thrown out of a gig. May 26th,
1846 - Date of lease of the Palatine Inn, Hadfield.
June 6th, 1846
- John Bennett killed at Rock Mill Printworks.
June 30th, 1846 -
John Garlick, schoolmaster, Littlemoor, died, aged 44.
July 27th,
1846 - Trustees of Hague's Endowed School decided that the school
should be raised another storey. Cost, £153 5s. 10½d.
August
13th, 1846 - Lease of Nos. 93-99 High Street West, built by Samuel
Taylor, contractor (died 3-6-1866.) Sold May 10th, 1869, to Joseph
Holdgate, for £810.
August 28th, 1846 - Joseph Robinson,
woollen manufacturer, Gnat Hole, died, aged 77.
September 8th,
1846 - St. James's Church, Whitfield, consecrated by Rev. Dr.
Lonsdale, Bishop of Lichfield.
September 15th, 1846 - John
Harrison, aged 67, Woolley Bridge, killed by falling through his
window.
October 21st, 1846 - Date of lease of Railway Street
and 1-5 Bernard Street, built by Thomas Fielding.
October
29th, 1846 - John Pemberton, aged 37, killed by a railway train at
Padfield.
November 19th, 1846 - Jonas Wood, aged 41, engineer,
killed by falling from a plank at Glossop.
December 10th, 1846 -
Date of lease of the Crown Inn, Victoria Street, built by John
Hampson, new lease of 999 years granted to Chesters Brewery Co. March
25th, 1900.
December 16th, 1846 - John Barrett, aged burnt to
death et Chisworth, through his clothes catching fire.
January
13th, 1847 - Samuel Burgin, aged 34, a Private in the 69th Regiment,
found dead in Glossop.
February
12th, 1847 - Charles Hodgkinson, schoolmaster, Milltown, died, aged
40.
March 25th, 1847 - Thomas Green, banksman, Whitfield, 80
years' lease, built Green Square, off St. Mary's Road.
April 8th,
1847 - Joseph Bramhall, aged 28, of Charlesworth, killed by a Railway
Train.
April 13th, 1847 - Thomas Hyde, aged 30, killed by a
colliery explosion at Compstall.
May 17th, 1847 - Esther Ellen
Earnshaw, an infant, drowned at Shepley Mill.
May 25th, 1847 -
Date of lease of St. Mary's Road, and houses in Green Square built
by Thomas Green, banksman.
June
3rd, 1847 - Ann Elisabeth Nathess, aged 2 drowned in a tub of water
at Howard Town.
June 11th, 1847 - Thomas Taylor, aged 6, killed by
being hit with a stone at Ludworth.
July 9th, 1847 - Royal Assent
given to the Manchester Water Works Act (Longdendale Reservoir.)
July
31st, 1847 – Thomas Sheppard, aged 76, Glossop, killed by
falling down the stairs.
October
2nd, 1847 - Thomas Preston, auctioneer, Pikes House, died, aged
78.
October 6th, 1847 - John Wood, aged 29, of Dinting, killed by
a cart.
October 11th 1847 - Samuel Beeley, aged 34, killed by
being crushed between two railway wagons.
November
1847 - Freetown Working Men's Institute, late St James' Church
Institute, established
December 7th, 1847 - An unknown man, aged
about 60, found dead at Whitfield.
December 9th, 1847 - Date of
lease of Nos. 70-72 Victoria Street, built by George Harrop joiner.
(Harrop's Place is called after him.)
December 9th, 1847 - Date of
lease of Nos. 31-35 Hall Street, built by Thomas
Higginbottom.
December 10th, 1847 - Joshua Shepley, Royal Oak Inn,
Sheffield Road, died. His daughter, Caroline, was married to Joseph
Hampson, who succeeded to the business.
March 14th, 1848 - Samuel
Cooke, aged 45 killed by a cart at Ludworth.
June 7th, 1848 -
Jonathan Heys, woollen clothier, Littlemoor, died, aged 67.
June
16th, 1848 - Rev. Robert Wilson recognised as pastor of Charlesworth
Independent Chapel.
July 8th, 1848 - John Henry Minshull, aged 3,
Howard Town, killed by a cart.
August 24th, 1848 - The Ocean
Monarch, of Boston, burned at sea. A number of Glossop people lost
their lives.
September 29th, 1848 - Date of lease of Nos. 33-35,
Chapel Street, and Nos. 21-29, George Street, built by Samuel Taylor,
bounded on the West by an intended street (George Street), on the
East by unoccupied land, on the North by Chapel Street, and on the
South by a road to Market Street (now done away with). Sold to Joseph
Woodcock, May 10th, 1869, for £310.
September 29th, 1848 -
Date of lease of Nos. 19-21, High Street West (21, Market
Vaults).
October 3rd, 1848 - Woodhead Reservoirs
commenced.
October 31st 1848 - Rev. John Adamson, Pastor of
Charlesworth Independent Chapel died, aged 74.
December
12th, 1848 - Robert, son of Robert and Sarah Shepley, died, aged 39.
December
31st, 1848 – Jabez (or Job) Doxey, aged 61, pensioner. Howard
Town, found dead in the Glossop Brook course, near to Victoria
Bridge.
January 6th, 1849 - Martha, wife of Thomas Shaw Ashton,
gent., Whitfield, died, aged 38. Ashton Street named after
her.
February 13th, 1849 - John Rowbottom, aged 11, killed by
falling down a coal pit at Ludworth.
February 18th, 1849 - John
Schofield, butcher, died. He built, in 1829, Nos. 127-141, Hall
Street, now owned by Councillor G. Wharmby.
March
25th, 1849 - James Robinson, 80 years' lease, built the Brewery, now
Whitfield Laundry.
April 6th, 1849 - William Cleaver, aged 32,
Policeman, Padfield, killed by a Railway Train at Torr Side. He had
been previously injured by falling from Dinting Viaduct.
April
10th, 1849 - Thomas Doxey committed for trial on a charge of
murdering his father by throwing him over Victoria Bridge.
April
18th, 1849 - James Ingham Oliver, an infant, scalded to death.
May
5th, 1849 - Joseph Robinson, draper, Norfolk Street, robbed of cloth
whilst he was eating his breakfast.
May 10th, 1849 - Three men
committed for above robbery got sic months' imprisonment each.
May
28th, 1849 - William Hadfield, aged 2 killed in a stone quarry at
Mouselow.
June 9th 1849 - Richard Home, an infant burnt to death
at Glossop.
June 13th, 1849 - The hills round Glossop capped with
snow.
July 24th, 1849 - Sarah Ann Wood, aged 9, burnt to death at
Charlesworth.
August
9th, 1849 - A tremendous thunder storm at Woodhead, a man killed by
lightning, and another man drowned by a sudden rush of water.
August
24th, 1849 - Joseph Fielding, schoolmaster, Glossop, died, aged
88.
August 30th, 1849 - Interesting arbitration case held at the
Norfolk Arms, Glossop, between the Manchester Corporation and G.
Hyde, of Tintwistle, over the value of some land required for the
waterworks.
August 31st, 1849 - Lease of Harrop's Place, Victoria
Street, built by George Harrop, joiner.
September 1st, 1849 - Rev.
Christopher Howe, Vicar of Glossop, died, aged 84.
September 3rd,
1849 - Joseph Field, an infant, burned to death at
Whitfield.
September 7th and 8th, 1849 - The First Floral and
Horticultural Show, held in the Town Hall.
September 17th, 1849 -
Thomas Goodwin, aged 33, Charlesworth, found dead.
September 19th,
1849 - Thomas Hulme, aged 45, Higher Barn, died from Asiatic cholera,
ill three days.
September 22nd, 1849 - Robert Hall, schoolmaster,
Padfield, died, aged 52.
September 24th, 1849 - James Rowbottom,
Glossop, aged 31, died from Asiatic cholera in twelve
hours.
September 24th, 1849 - Thomas Dearnally, Hadfield, aged 31,
died from Asiatic cholera.
October 7th, 1849 - Great storm at
Woodhead, £2,500 damage done to the Reservoirs works.
October
15th, 1849 – Hannah Bennett, of the Heath, died from Cholera in
14 hours. James Bennett, of the Heath, died same day from Cholera.
October
20th 1849 - Funeral sermon on the Rev. Christopher Howe by Rev. W.
Rigg M.A.
November
3rd 1849 - Annual meeting of the Young Men's Institution, Castle Hill
School.
November 5th 1849 - Joel Bennett, died from Asiatic
Cholera, in 53 hours, he had waited upon Hannah and James Bennett
(see Oct 15th).
November 13th, 1849 - Date of lease of the
Whitheld Brewery, built by James Robinson in the "Barley Croft,"
sold July 31st, 1876, by Thomas Hampson to Samuel Clarkson, of
Barnsley, brewer, for £660.
December 2nd, 1849 - Joseph
Clarke, Charlesworth, aged 32, killed by falling down Rose Greave
coal pit through a rope breaking.
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1850 to 1859.
January
3rd, 1850 - Robert Robinson, surveyor, Howard Town, died, aged 28.
January
10th, 1850 - Robert Foster, a stranger, robbed Armitages, High Street
West, of £200. He was caught and committed to the assizes.
February
3rd, 1850 - Solomon Rowbottom's barn and shippon, Sandy Lane,
Charlesworth, destroyed by fire.
February 22nd, 1850 - Sarah, wife
of Peter Hibbert, surgeon, Charlesworth,died, aged 75.
February
23rd, 1850 - First anniversary of the Whitfield Church
Institute.
March 7th, 1850 - James Mills, aged 5, of Milltown,
drowned in the lodge of John Wood's new mill.
April 2nd, 1850 -
John Wagstaffe, farmer, Howard Arms Inn, died, aged 88.
April
10th, 1850 - Public Meeting in the Town Hall over the, Exhibition of
1851. Hepworth Dixon, Esq., official representative, attended.
May
18th, 1850 - Date of Lease of the Victoria Inn, 17 Gladstone Street,
built by Joseph Elliott, Dresser, in Littlemoor Close.
May 22nd,
1850 - A railway guard was sent to prison for six months for sleeping
whilst on duty at Glossop.
May 23rd, 1850 - Thomas Halkyard, aged
two, drowned at Whitfield.
June 3rd, 1850 - Joab Hamilton, aged
15, drowned whilst bathing in Shepley Mill Lodge.
June 7th, 1850 -
The second meeting was held in the Town Hall to support the 1851
Exhibition. An address was given by Highmore Rosser, Esq. Messrs.
Woods' gave £20 and Messrs. Potters' £5.
June
11th, 1850 - Isaac Smith, an infant, scalded to death at
Milltown.
June 15th, 1850 - Richard Cavannah, aged 18, Howardtown,
accidentally poisoned by oxalic acid.
July 15th, 1850 - James Wood
(Jam o' Jonathans) died, aged 78. It is related that by his express
wishes the funeral stopped at the Willow Grove Beerhouse, the coffin
lid was taken off, a tun dish placed in his mouth and ale poured in.
When the funeral got to the Parish Church the parson refused to inter
as the mourners were drunk. The corpse wan left until the next day,
but the mourners did not come again, so it is said.
August 7th,
1850 - James Knott, aged 78, killed by falling from a cart at
Glossop.
August 21st, 1850 - Presentation of an address to the
Duke of Norfolk in the Town Hall.
August
22nd, 1850 - Jonathan Oates, the old woodman, Milltown, died, aged
87.
September 9th, 1850 - Silver salver and goblet presented at
John Higginbottom's, Station Inn, to Joseph Oates, in consideration
of his 27 years services as Post Master, at a salary of £12 per
annum.
September 29th, 1850 - Date of lease of Nos. 34-42, Arundel
Street, and Nos. 47-51, Edward Street, built by Eli Wood, and sold to
Abner Oldham, October 13th, 1884, for £651.
October 2nd,
1850 - This day there were 1,900 men employed at the Manchester
Corporation Waterworks at Woodhead.
October 10th 1850 - John Des
Jardins, the Glossop Estate Agent, whilst returning from the Manorial
Court Leet fell from his horse and broke his thigh.
October
31st 1850 – Rev. John Adamson, Pastor of Charlesworth
Independent Chapel, died, aged 74.
October 31st, 1850 - Thomas
McGrath, aged 14, killed by falling down a teagle at Woods'
Mill.
November 2nd, 1850 - Moses Cooper, aged 49, joiner,
Charlesworth, killed by a railway train.
November 4th, 1850 - Date
of lease of Bridge Inn. New lease to Chesters, June 22nd,
1900.
November 4th, 1850 - Date of lease of houses in Mellor's
Court, Chapel Street, built by Joseph Mellor, grocer.
November
8th, 1850 - An infant three days old found dead at Padfield.
November
14th, 1850 - Date of lease of Nos. 41-49 Dinting Vale, built by
William Haigh, in "The Meer." Sold May 31st, 1869, to Peter
Doodson, for £380.
December 13th, 1850 - Lease granted of
land to Thomas Jackson, bounded on the East by Railway Street, North
by land intended to be leased to Lambert Sale, North-West by Sml.
Bennetts' leasehold, and South-West by Edward Street. New lease to
Charles Chambers, weaver, Hadfield, March 25th, 1877, now the Liberal
Club.
December 17th, 1850 - James Hambleton, aged 45, Compstall
Road, Ludworth, killed in a coal pit.
December 18th, 1850 - A
print finisher at Gamesley hung himself.
January 16th, 1851 - Mary
Kinder, aged 78, murdered at Rhodes' Fold, Werneth Low, £150
reward offered.
January 20th, 1851 - Lamb Inn Building Society
established.
March 6th, 1851 - Trial over Charlesworth Easter
dues.
March 13th, 1851 - Ann, aged 39, wife of Thomas Wright,
joiner, Howardtown, and her baby accidently poisoned.
April 7th,
1851 - Charlesworth Church Sunday and Day School opened.
April
8th, 1851 - First contested Election of Guardians.
April 10th,
1851 - It was suggested to put a tablet in Glossop Parish Church in
memory of the late Rev. Christopher Howe.
April 12th, 1851 -
Thomas Stones, killed at Rock Mill, New Mills.
April 17th, 1851 -
Martha, aged 62, wife of the Rev. William McDouel, Hadfeld,
died.
April 30th, 1851 - Hannah, relict of Samuel Collier, died,
aged 73.
May 8th, 1851 - Catherine Leonard, aged 4, drowned in
the brook near the Greyhound Inn (“Sma' Dog”).
May
8th, 1851 - Testimonial presented to John des Jardines, of the
Glossop Estate Office.
May 16th, 1851 - Date of Lease of the Roe
Buck Inn, Whitfield Cross, built by William Prince, sold to Jonathan
Earnshaw, October 14th, 1874, for £575.
May 16th, 1851 -
Date of lease of Nos 11 and 13 Norfolk Street, built by John
McWilliam, tailor, in the Upper Flat, one of the houses was the
office of the Poor Law Guardians during the Cotton Famine.
June
20th, 1851 - Date of lease of Nos. 17-25, Sheffield Road, built in
the Cowbrook Meadow by George Bennett, who died February 22nd, 1858.
(Sheffield Road was then known by the name of Cowbrook Lane).
June
20th, 1851 - Date of lease of Nos. 61-69 Norfolk Street, built by
John Bridge.
June 20th, 1851 - Mary Ann Bullock, aged 17, Rose
Green, killed by being caught by a shaft in a cotton mill.
June
28th, 1851 - Thomas Pownall, aged 17, and John Robert Taylor, aged
15, drowned in a mill reservoir at Hollingworth.
June
30th, 1851 - Date of lease of Nos.18-20, Surrey Street, built by
George Hibbs. These houses, with Nos. 12-16, were sold June 7th,
1875, by John Dixon, butcher, to Sarah Boulton, for £402.
July
21st, 1851 - Date of lease of Nos. 27-35, Norfolk Street, built by
William Moore (died March 3rd, 1870), and sold March 13th, 1871, by
Elisabeth Moore, to William Ingerson for £800. The boundaries
are described as North, land intended lease to John Hall; South,
intended street, to be called Charles Street.
August 1st, 1851 -
Henry Jones, surgeon, Littlemoor, died, aged 44.
September
29th, 1851 - Date of lease of Nos. 17-25, Sheffield Road, built by
George Bennett.
September 20th, 1851 - Date of lease of Nos.
27-29, Sheffield Road, built by Humphrey Downs, stonemason,
Milltown.
October 8th, 1851 - Glossop Hall was being rebuilt and
the Duke of Norfolk making an inspection of his Glossop
estate.
October 24th, 1851 - James Reece, aged 18, Charlesworth,
killed by being caught by a shaft in a mill.
December 12th, 1851 -
Benjamin Greaves and Charles Greaves, brewers, took a 14 years' lease
of the Thread Mill, near the Tan Yard, Glossop.
January 9th, 1852
- Great snow storm. Mail cart fast at Woolley Bridge. After this the
mails were sent by rail.
February 2nd, 1852 - The second Woodhead
Tunnel opened.
February 3rd, 1852 - Samuel Taylor, contractor,
leased "Ryecroft Close," and built "Ryecroft House,"
Hall Street.
February 8th, 1852 - Immense alarm caused in the
district by the waterworks at Woodhead being in groat danger of
bursting.
March 14th, 1852 - Brookfield School opened.
April
10th, 1852 - All Saints National Schools opened.
May
6th, 1852 - Old Glossop people tried to take the Fair back to Old
Glossop but failed.
May 11th, 1852 - Date of lease of Nos. 9-29,
Queen Street; sold September 26th, 1898, for £945.
May
17th, 1852 - Howard Town Wesleyan Literary Institute formed.
May
19th, 1852 - Richard Phillips, aged 40, carter for John Wood, Cotton
Spinner, killed by cart wheel passing over him at Howard Town
Mills.
June 7th, 1852 - John Alexander Des Jardins, of the Glossop
Estate Office, died, aged 47.
June
30th, 1852 - William Stafford, mill manager, Charlesworth, died, aged
7. he was brother to Joseph Stafford, Esq., Ex-Mayor of Glossop.
July
12th, 1852 - James Waterhouse, Workhouse Master, Glossop, died, aged
68.
July 29th, 1852 - Turnlee Mills occupied by Henry Hunt, sold.
Described in the advertisement as two mills: one 5 stories, 64 feet
by 32 feet 6 in., the other 6 stories, 55 feet by 34 feet 6 inches.
Two engine houses, rag warehouses, cart house, two boiler houses,
smithy and joiner's shop of two stories. The boilers 27 feet 6 inches
by 7 feet and 9 feet. Six engines, 5, 8, 12 and two 20 horsepower
engines.
July 30th, 1852 - Date of lease Nos, 58-72 Gladstone
Street built by Henry Lawton in the Lower Flatt. Sold July 27th 1871,
to William Bennett, Hollingworth, for £555.
July 30th, 1852
- Date of lease of No 1 Wellgate, built by George Cresswell,
shopkeeper, and sold May 24th, 1877, to Thomas Swindells Bowden for
£250.
July 30th, 1852 - Date of lease of Nos. 9-15 Freetown,
built by J. Oldham.
August 2nd, 1852 - Shepley Mill, worked by
Jacksons, of Simmondley, burned down.
September 18th, 1852 -
Serious gas explosion at Broadbottom Mills.
September
29th, 1852 - Date of lease of Nos. 19-25, Surrey Street, sold to
James Thom, Norfolk Street. September 19th, 1898, for £603.
September
29th, 1852 - Date of lease of the Duke of Norfolk's School.
October
10th, 1852 - Sophia Wild, aged 48, burned to death at
Glossop.
November 4th, 1852 - Eli Thornley, Charlesworth, fined
250 for selling illicit whisky at Mottram.
November
5th, 1852 - Ann Genders, aged 9, Torside, drowned
November 12th,
1852 - Date of lease of Nos. 30-34 Queen Street, built by Jesse
Ollerenshaw, slater, Dinting,
December 2nd, 1852 - James Robinson,
farmer and beerseller, died. He built the Surrey Arms, Victoria
Street, the Brewery, Whitfield Cross, formerly the dog kennels for
the Glossop Hunt.
December 2nd, 1852 - Four men arrested for
burglary at Edmund Leigh's and Robert Thornley's, butcher,
Glossop.
December 10th, 1852 - A suit of robes presented to the
Rev. J. Teague, Vicar of St. James' Church, Whitheld.
December
15th, 1852 - John Walker, aged 44, Woodhead, found drowned.
December
18th, 1852 - A farmer at Hill Top, Chisworth, hung himself.
December
28th, 1852 - Isaac Ashton, innkeeper, Charlestown, leased land in
Bernard Street and built Nos. 61 and 61a.
December
28th, 1852 - Nos. 55, 59 Bernard Street, 1-3 Hadfield's Court, built
by Hugh Flinn, mason, sold August 17th, 1853, at Joseph Woodcock's,
Globe Inn, to John Hall. Farmer and quarryman, Charlesworth, for
£350. Sold September 29th, 1882, to Matthew Ellison Hadfield,
architect, Sheffield, and June 5th, 1891 to Isaac Jackson.
December
28th, 1852 - David Downs, leased land in Gladstone Street, and built
Nos. 117-119. Sold by John Downs March 14th, 1874, to Thomas Jackson
for £132.
December 28th, 1852 - Hugh Flinn, mason, leased
land in Bernard Street, and built Nos. 55 – 59, and Nos. 1- 3,
Hadfield's Court, so-called from Matthew Ellison Hadfeld, architect
of Sheffield, becoming the owner in 1882.
January 21st, 1853 -
Rev. William Henry Jones inducted to the Vicarage of Mottram.
February 14th, 1853 - Burglary at Robert Humbles, Glossop.
March
4th, 1853 - Thomas Winstanley, aged 3, Charlesworth, scalded to
death.
March 9th, 1853 - A public meeting held to consider the
question of having paid constables. It was resolved that three paid
constables and one superintendent be appointed.
March
25th, 1853 - Date of leases of shops in Norfolk Square, now
Co-operative buildings
May
6th, 1853 - The new police ill treated by a gang of roughs. Notice
was given of a new Fair to be held in October.
May 9th, 1853 -
Henry Brownhill, aged 45, killed by machinery at Turn Lee Mills.
May
9th, 1853 - Great snow storm, snow drifted higher than the roofs of
the houses in Charlesworth Road.
May 12th, 1853 - Lawyer Thompson,
Deputy Coroner, died.
May
23rd, 1853 - E. N. aged 17. drowned herself in the Ashes Lodge.
May
26th, 1853 - J. C. beer-seller of Hadfield, hung himself.
May
27th, 1853 - William Shepley Esq. presented with a gold watch, as a
recognition of his services as chairman of the Glossop Board of
Guardians.
June 3rd, 1853 - Date of lease of three houses at
Brookfield, one of them was "The Butchers' Arms.”
June
8th, 1853 - Date of lease of, Nos. 2-8 Fitzalan Street, built by
Edward Jackson.
June 25th, 1853 - Thomas Wagstaff, builder,
Whitfield, agreed to build for Samuel Wagstaffe, innkeeper, Howard
Arms, five shops, dwelling places and conveniences, to be called the
“Norfolk Terrace Buildings." (Now Co-operative Society's
premises).
June 28th, 1853 -
Edmund Potter appointed a County Magistrate
June
29th, 1853 - John Ball, schoolmaster, Hague's Endowed School,
discharged
July
2nd, 1853 - Mary Bunting, aged 44, Wren Nest, "died by a
visitation of God" The first inquest held by T.M. Ellison,
Deputy Coroner, Glossop.
July
18th, 1853 - W.R., cotton warp dresser, Woolley Bridge, cut his
throat.
July 15th, 1853 - Meeting on the "Ten Hours' Ground"
of 8,000 mill operatives over the system of fines and abatements
prevalent at the local cotton mills.
July 24th, 1853 - Mary Oates,
aged 56, wife of the Glossop Postmaster, killed by a carriage
accident whilst returning from the Woodlands.
August 1st, 1853 -
John Potter Dunderdale, school master, High Street, died, aged
48.
August 4th, 1853 - Lease of Nos. 25-35 Freetown, built by
Charles Hadfield, overlooker, Whitfield, sold July 17th, 1873, to
Eleaser Aaron Lowe, for £258.
August 4th, 1853 - Lease of
St. Mary's Road Catholic Schools, bounded on the South-East by land
intended to be leased to Joseph Holdgate.
August 10th, 1853 - John
Bardsley appointed schoolmaster at Hague's Endowed School, as
successor to John Ball.
September 9th, 1853 - John Stott killed by
falling from a scaffold at a new mill in course of erection for Mr.
Thomas Rhodes.
September 9th, 1853 - Spirit licence granted to
Charles Knott, Bridge Inn; John Pott, Manor Inn; and Nathan Darwent,
Talbot Inn.
September 15th, 1853 - Charles Band died, left his
son, John, the Swan Inn; Henry, No. 76, High Street East, shop and
smithy, and Bold, No. 74, High Street East; his widow, Betty, died
10-8-1857.
September 20th, 1853 - Date of lease of Nos. 6-12a,
Hollincross Lane, built by Richard Hamer. Sold to James Ward,
bookseller, June 26th, 1876, for £333.
September 28rd, 1853
- Date of lease of three shops in Norfolk Square, built by Samuel
Wagstaffe, bounded on the South by High Street West, and on the North
by land intended to be leased to Thomas Wagstaffe. No. 1, sold to W.
Ingerson, September 17th, 1866, for £760. Nos. 3-5, to
Co-operative Society, April 12th, 1869.
November 5th, 1853 -
Weavers wage reduced 10 per cent.
December 8th, 1853 - Date of
lease of Nos. 2-4 Ebenezer Street, built by Joseph Wood.
December
8th, 1853 - Date of lease of Nos. 47-49 Edward Street, built by John
Thornley, sold April 15th, 1876, to William McMellon, tailor,
Glossop, for £400.
December 29th, 1853 - Robert Bullen, aged
8 and James Bullen, aged 6, sons of a strolling player, starved to
death on the Moors. The building now the Co-operative Stores
Furniture Shop, was in course of erection, and Bullen had been
performing in it at the Wakes. He went to Sheffield, and was
returning to Glossop when his children were overcome by the
storm.
January 1st, 1854 - Nineteen sheep worried at Mossy
Lee.
January 2nd, 1854 - The corpse of Robert Robinson, of Gnat
Hole, brought on a ladder and sledged from Edale to Glossop.
January
4th, 1854 - Terrible snowstorm, 10 trains snowed up between
Broadbottom and Hadfield. Mills stopped a week for want of
coal.
January 5th, 1854 - Joseph Hadfield, Lees Hall, died, aged
74.
January
8th, 1854 - Michael Cullen, joiner. Aged 23, Green Vale, died through
the effects of a fall in the street.
January 11th, 1854 - First
meeting of the Devonshire Lodge of Free Masons at the Globe
Inn.
January 21st,1854 - A child, Charles Hyde, scalded to death
at Dinting Terrace.
February 6th, 1854 - Patrick Berrogan,
schoolmaster, Littlemoor, died, aged 45.
February 6th, 1854 -
Wright Waterhouse, built No. 2, Railway Street, Glossop.
February
18th, 1854 - John Buckley. Aged 55, agricultural labourer, Glossop,
starved to death on the moors.
March 1st, 1854 - Woodhead Church
bell stolen.
March
6th, 1854 - Lease of land, Thomas Marrion, of Burton Weir Brewery,
built the Rose and Crown Inn, High Street West. Sold to Joseph
Collier, December 10th, 1872, for £400.
March 6th, 1854 -
Lease of land, George Bradbury built No. 8 and 10 Sheffield
Road.
March 31st, 1854 - Mary Wild, 2 yeas old, Chapel Street,
found drowned.
April
9th, 1854 - Jane Horrocks, aged 22, burned to death at Glossop.
April
10th, 1854 - Hannah Cooper, aged 78, found dead in Glossop.
April
19th, 1854 - Notice to property owners stating terms for supplying
water from the Swineshaw Reservoir.
May 5th, 1854 - Lease of Nos.
80 and 86, Wood Street, built by John Priestnall, who failed in
business 8/6/1857. Property sold 17/12/1867, for £170.
May
5th, 1854 - Lease of No. 12 and 14, Sheffield Road, built by Thomas
Handford, quarryman, sold 1/12/1877, to John Hurst, for £240.
May
21st, 1854 - George Fielding, watch and clock maker, entered into the
tenancy of a shop in the "Norfolk Terrace Buildings" (now
Norfolk Square) owner Samuel Wagstaffe, rent £40 per annum.
May
24th, 1854 - Bazaar at Charlesworth, in aid of the Church Funds,
realised £435.
June
21st, 1854 - John Hall and Jesse Hall took a lease of workshop in
Brook Street for a machine shop.
July 9th, 1854 - First sermons at
Brookfield in aid of the School, Rev. R. Calvert Hyde. Collections
£16 4s 8d.
August 13th, 1854 - John Lee Purcell, aged 30,
son of the Rev. Goodwin Purcell, killed by falling through one of the
Vicarage windows.
August 17th, 1854 - Bazaar held to raise funds
to build a Church School at Hadfield.
August 20th, 1854 - Ebenezer
Sunday School opened.
August 21st, 1854 - Joseph and Robert
Forshaw, two children, burnt to death in a hut at Crowden. A tablet
in the wall denotes the site of the hut.
August 23rd, 1854 - Peter
Bramwell, for 43 years sexton at Chapel-en-le-Frith Church, died. He
was succeeded by his son Charles, who held the same position 24
years. Peter's father had been sexton for 50 years, his grandfather
38, great grandfather 40, and his great, great grandfather 52, a
period of 247 years in one family.
August
29th, 1854 - Lease of Nos. 36-40, St. Mary's Road, built by John
Shaw, spinner, in the Lower Close, who assigned them to his
daughters, January 29th, 1877 - Eliza, wife of William Atkin, and
Mary, wife of William Edward Atkin. Shaw Street is called after the
above-named.
September
6th, 1854 - Nancy Booth, aged 64, Compstall Road, killed by falling
from a drag.
September 6th, 1854 - Robert Laven, aged 4, Hadfeld,
found drowned.
September 6th, 1854 - All Saints Parish Church
steeple and spire taken down.
September 13th, 1854 - Abraham
Hodgkinson killed and three others injured by falling from a scaffold
at a mill in course of erection for Mr. T. H. Sidebottom, at
Waterside.
September 16th, 1854 - Winifred Ellison, spinster, The
Cottage, Glossop, died, aged 70.
September 30th, 1854 - Foundation
laid of new steeple and spire at Glossop Parish Church.
November –
1854 - The Duke of Norfolk gave 1,000 square yards of land at
Hadfield for the site of Church of England Schools (now St.
Andrew's.)
November 8th, 1854 - John Wood, Howard Town House,
died, aged 69. The founder of the firm of John Wood and Bros, Ltd,
cotton manufacturers, Howard Town Mills.
December 4th, 1854 -
Patriotic Fund Meeting at the Town Hall. £102 12s. 0d.
collected.
December 16th, 1854 - Betty Wood, aged 6, Woolley
Bridge, burnt to death.
December 30th, 1854 - Rev. Abraham Howarth
presented with books by the congregation of St. James'
Whitfield.
December 28th, 1854 - John Booth, who built Rose
Cottage, Woodcock Road, died, aged 76.
February 4th, 1855 - Great
snow storm; Richard Churchill, aged 60, found on the 8th on the moors
starved to death.
February
6th, 1855 - First tea party of the Woolley Bridge Church Sunday
School, in a room lent by Henry Lees.
March 8th, 1855 - Vestry
Meeting over continuing to have paid constables. A Poll demanded,
result, for 927, against 39.
April 12th, 1855 - Lecture by Edmund
Potter to the members of the Tintwistle Mechanics Institute, on "The
future of a manufacturing district."
April 13th, 1855 -
Isaiah Lee, grocer, Glossop, died, aged 76.
April 14th, 1855 -
Celebration of the 13th anniversary of the Glossop Mechanics
Institute.
May 31st, 1855 - Date of lease No. 2-10, King Street,
built in the Chapel Croft by Benjamin Grayson; sold July. 8th, 1857,
to John Hall, tailor.
June
7th, 1855 - Thomas B. Stubbs, Station Master, Broadbottom,
killed.
June 18th, 1855 - M.S., aged 59, Yorkshire Row, hung
herself.
June
19th, 1855 - John Harrison, aged 4 drowned at Milltown.
July
20th, 1855 - George Kershaw Sidebottom, Captain in the 5th Dragoon
Guards, died on his way to the Crimean War, buried at Gibraltar.
Stained-glass window to his memory in Mottram Church.
August 4th,
1855 - George Taylor, manager of a cotton mill, Glossop died, aged
46.
August 14th, 1855 - The 13th number published of "Dawson's
Monthly Messenger," Hall Street, Glossop, a very rare paper. Has
any one of our readers got one?
September 18th, 1855 - Thomas
Priestnall, spinner, aged 30; John Healey, labourer at Dinting
Printworks, aged 20; and Jane Hadfield, cotton factory worker, aged
30; killed by stepping from an excursion train returning from Belle
Vue, over the parapet of Dinting Vale Viaduct.
September 18th,
1855 - An infant, unknown, found dead in Glossop.
September 21st,
1855 - Three men residing at Rough Town, Glossop, committed to the
assizes for stealing a crate of glass from the Market Place.
October
18th, 1855 - Joseph Buckley, aged 10, Charlestown, killed by a shaft
in a paper mill.
November
4th, 1855 - Thomas Shaw, the old kettle drummer, Gorsey Brow,
Broadbottom, died. He was the last survivor of the old Glossop and
Hadfield Volunteer Band.
November 23rd, 1855 - William Oates, aged
36, auctioneer, Norfolk Street, died.
November 25th, 1855 - Samuel
Belfield, aged 47, railway porter, killed by a railway train at
Dinting.
November 29th, 1855 - Samuel Dearnally, aged 4, burnt to
death at Simmondley.
December
10th, 1855 - A charwoman at Simmondley, hung herself.
December
22nd, 1855 - Two men committed for coining money at
Littlemoor.
December 28th, 1855 - William Waller and Brothers
cotton mill at Bankwood destroyed by fire. £8,000 damage.
December
31st, 1855 - Messrs. Ratcliffe's Mill at Mellor, robbed.
January
10th, 1856 - A child, Hannah Haigh, scalded to death at Bankbottom,
Hadfield. The first inquest held by Francis Grey Bennett.
February
1st, 1856 - Two men from " Roughtown" (Hope Street) robbed
New Mills Church; one sentenced to 15 months, the other 4 years'
imprisonment.
February 7th, 1856 - Rachael Hannah Copley, aged 3,
killed by a cart at Glossop.
February 14th, 1856 - Cresswell's
lodging house robbed.
February 18th, 1856 - Henry Charles, 13th
Duke of Norfolk, died.
February
18th, 1856 - A quarryman of Dry Mount, hung himself.
March 24th,
1856 - Thomas Priestnall, quarryman, aged 80, killed by falling down
his cellar steps at Glossop.
March 25th, 1856 - Josiah Swain, 80
years' lease of land, built the Foundry in George Street.
April
2nd, 1856 - Annual Tea Party of the Littlemoor and Howard Inn
Mechanics Institute in the "New School Room." 300
present.
April 18th, 1856 - John William Simcock, aged 11, killed
by a cart at Charlesworth.
April
25rd, 1856 - Presentation of an address of welcome to Lord Howard on
the occasion of his first visit to Glossop since his succession to
the Glossop Estates.
April 28th, 1856 - John William Grindrod, a
child, scalded to death at Hadfield.
May 10th, 1856 - Samuel
Dearnaley, aged 4, found drowned at Brookfield.
May
11th, 1856 - Margaret Byrne, aged 2, found drowned at Primrose Lane.
May
26th, 1856 - William Booth, aged 81, a pensioner of the 33rd Regt.,
died at Glossop.
May 28th, 1856 - James Rowbottom, Chisworth,
obtained £10 damages and costs from Superintendent Hatton for
false imprisonment.
June 11th, 1856 - George Wood, school master,
Bernard Street, died aged 58.
June 18th, 1856 - M.S., aged 59,
Yorkshire Row, hung herself.
June 25th, 1856 - Mottram Church
re-opened after being closed 14 months for repairs.
July 15th,
1856 - Edmund Bradbury, aged 58, found dead at Ludworth.
July
27th, 1856 - Ann Blore, aged 3, scalded to death at Woolley
Bridge.
September 3rd, 1856 - A burglar and ticket-of-leave man
was captured at Dinting, and committed for six burglaries.
August
28th, 1856 - John Slater Lancaster, a child, drowned at
Glossop.
September 6th, 1856 - The Rev. George Platt, returned
from the South Sea Islands.
September
8th, 1856 - A female inmate of the Workhouse hung herself.
September
29th, 1856 - Date of lease of the Foundry in George Street, built by
Josiah Wain, who cast the pillars which surround Norfolk
Square.
October 9th, 1856 - Thomas Neale, turnpike & road
surveyor, Glossop, died, aged 71.
November
19th, 1856 - Hannah Gilmore, aged 30, found dead at Marple
Bridge.
December 4th, 1856 - Jerry Sykes, died, aged 77. The
neighbourhood where he built cottage property in High Street West was
called Jerry's Town.
December 21st, 1856 - The Rev. Thomas Grist
Manson, D.C.L. , Vicar of Glossop, died, aged 40.
December 25th,
1856 - An unknown female, aged about 18, found dead at
Littlemoor
January 2nd, 1857 - Samuel Garside, agent for Capt. De
Hollingworth, garotted and robbed at Hollingworth.
January 6th,
1857 - Rev. Ambrose Freeman, Wesleyan minister, Glossop, died, aged
62.
January 20th, 1857 - Joseph Beard, wheelwright, Charlesworth,
killed by falling against a sharp underseat.
January 20th, 1857 -
William Wood, aged 42, quarryman, killed by a fall of stone at Low
Quarry.
January
24th, 1857 - A child, William Hall, burnt to death at Lower Barn
January
31st, 1857 - A child, John Hopund, scalded to death at Padfield.
February
12th, 1857 - Francis James Sumner, Esq. commenced building Wren Nest
House.
February 20th, 1857 - Hannah, aged 64, wife of John Dalton,
Esq., killed in High Street West by a runaway horse.
February
25th, 1857 - Mary Isherwood, aged 4, Green Vale, burnt to death.
May
15th, 1857 - William Hulme, aged 80, rag and bone dealer of Glossop,
found dead in his house.
June
30th, 1857 - John Hill Wood and Francis Sumner appointed County
Magistrates.
July
1st, 1857 - Distribution of Hague's Charity confined to 12 men and 12
women
August
1st, 1857 - Jesse Bedford, a child, killed by a cart at
Chisworth.
August 12th, 1857 - Joseph Collier, aged 55, killed by
falling into a coal hole at Glossop.
August 14th, 1857 - Terrific
thunderstorm, the Cote Reservoir burst, wooden bridges were swept
away, and Messrs, Woods' and Sumner's Mill were partly stopped
through some portions being flooded.
August 28th, 1857 - An
unknown male infant found in a lodge at Charlestown.
September
3rd, 1857 - Josiah Sykes Howard, aged 12, of Norfolk Street, killed
at Glossop Railway Station.
September 29th, 1857 - Date of lease
of Wren Nest House, built by Francis James Sumner.
September 29th,
1857 - Date of lease of No. 45, Norfolk Street, built by John
Lawton.
September 29th, 1857 - Date of lease of No. 49-51, Norfolk
Street, built by James Lawton.
October 10th, 1857 - Fire at Mr.
Tweed's new buildings, Station Road, Hadfield.
October
27th, 1857 - John Higginbottom, Innkeeper, Norfolk Street, died, aged
47.
November 19th, 1857 - John Hadfield, Glossop, died, aged
81.
December 9th, 1857 - Joshua Dewsnap, Innkeeper, Wren Nest,
died.
December 31st, 1857 - Mary Booth, aged 12, found drowned in
Howardtown Mills lodge.
January 2nd, 1858 - Short time at Dinting
Printworks. Potters gave flower and meal to their hands and coal to
the foremen, also a New Year's gift of two days' wages to each
hand.
January 7th, 1858 - James Ollerenshaw, formerly road
surveyor, High Street West, died, aged 69.
January 11th, 1858 -
Broadbottom Mills started working after a stoppage of seven weeks.
Cotton trade exceedingly bad in the district. The Right Hon. Lord
Edward Howard distributed large quantities of soup and other
provisions to the needy.
January 23rd, 1858 - Robert Swann, aged
4, killed at New York, Charlesworth, by a cart falling on
him.
February 10th, 1858 - Reform Meeting in the Town Hall. E.
Potter, chairman.
February 13th, 1858 - Presentation of a silver
ink stand “Presented to Mr. George Eastham by the Brethren of
the Hadfield Protestant Society, as a token in remembrance of his
past valuable services. Hadfield, Feb. 13th, 1858."
February
18th, 1858 - St. Charles' Roman Catholic Church, Hadfield, opened for
service. The late Lord Howard had the church built under his own
supervision, and dedicated it to the Holy Catholic Faith as a debt of
gratitude to Almighty God for the numerous favours which He has been
pleased to bestow upon him.
February 18th, 1858 - George
Handforth, gentleman, Chapel Street. died, aged 78. He was an
Hayfield man, and was the last of ten sons, who were at one time all
mowing after their father in one field, each following according to
age.
March 1st, 1858 - Matthew Walton, aged, slater and plasterer,
died. He married Margaret Hallam, better known as
"Peggy-o'-Walton's," who died seven years ago, aged 88.
They had been married 68 years, and had issue nine sons and two
daughters; there were 120 grandchildren, 116 of whom were living at
the time of his death. The most singular and remarkable feature,
however, in their lives remains to be told: This aged pair were
foster children nurtured from three months' old at the same breast,
in consequence of the death of Peggy's mother.
March 1st, 1858 -
Bumble Foot's wedding.
March 7th, 1858 - John Joyce, aged 23,
found dead in a field at Hadfield.
March 22nd, 1858 - Dissolution
of Partnership between Joseph Wainwright and Joseph Chappell, of
Rowarth, and John Bramhall, of Chunal, paper manufacturers,
Rowarth.
April 2nd. 1858 - Annual Tea Party of the Littlemoor and
Howard Inn Mechanics Institute in the “New School Room”.
500 present.
April
2nd, 1858 - Procession of the members of the Prosperity Lodge, No.
112, Ancient Order of Shepherds, Glossop District, from the
Commercial Inn, Hadfeld, to the Spring Tavern, Broadbottom, to open a
new lodge.
May 15th, 1858 - Richard Brown, landlord of the "Lord
Raglan " beerhouse, Chapel Street, fined 40s. and costs for
selling during prohibited hours, being unable to pay the fine he went
to prison.
May 15th, 1858 - Mrs. Marsden, Yorkshire Street, died
through the effects of a fright, her daughter a month before having
had the end of her fingers cut off in some machinery at Wood's
Mill.
May 16th, 1858 - Rev. George Marsden, retired Wesleyan
Minister, Hadfield, died, aged 85. He found the Mouselow worked
stones that are now in the Glossop Museum.
June, 1858 - Law suit
at the Derbyshire Sessions - M.S. and L. Railway. v. Township of
Hadfield. The Railway Company had improved the old road, now Station
Road, and wanted to hand it over to the Township; the Hadfield
ratepayers objected to it on the grounds that it would cost £64
per annum to keep it in repair. Mr. Sidebottom, Mr. Edward Platt, Mr.
Dalton, Mr. Samuel Lees, Mr. Michael Ellison and Mr. Cullington
(steward to the Glossop Estates) all spoke as to the advantages of
the road to the Township.
June 3rd, 1858 - William Lyne, picker
maker and cotton band manufacturer, Simmondley, died, aged 62.
June
10th, 1858 - Funeral sermon on the Rev. George Marsden by Rev. Dr.
Hannah of Didsbury College. The Rev. G. Marsden was born at
Manchester 17/3/1773, became a local preacher in 1793. Preached his
trial sermon in 1793, and was appointed to the Stockport Circuit.
Preached his first sermon at Mottram. He was the President of the
Conference in 1821 and 1831.
June 11th, 1858 - George Wood, school
master, Bernard Street, died, aged 53.
June
13th, 1858 - Primitive Methodist Chapel, Green Vale, sermons by the
Rev. J. Stansfield of Chester; collection £40 14s
9½d. In the procession were 573 scholars, and 52
teachers. At this period it was the largest Sunday School in the
district.
June 16th, 1858 - Great flood at Hayfield.
June 20th,
1858 - Fire at Waterside Mills.
June 20th, 1858 - Annual open air
meeting of the Waterside and Woolley Bridge Religious Tract Society
at Bankbottom.
July 1st, 1858 -
John and William Eversden fined 5s and costs for selling vegetables
in the streets of Glossop. Infringement of the Market Act.
July
7th, 1858 - A man sent for 6 months hard labour for stealing Alfred
Kershaw Sidebottom's coat from his carriage, whilst in the Norfolk
Arms Inn yard.
August 2nd, 1858 - Ann, relict of Thomas Slack,
Esq., surgeon, Sheffield, died, aged 49, at South Terrace (South
View.)
August 6th, 1858 - A beerhouse keeper, of Charles Street,
and bis daughter, fined £1 each and costs for assaulting Thomas
Cooper, bailiff, Glossop.
August 10th, 1858 - Justiana Greenwood,
aged 72, found dead in bed at Glossop.
August
15th, 1858 - Harriet, daughter of Robt. Winterbottom, Parish Clerk of
Glossop, died, aged 32.
August 20th, 1858 - Licensing Day.
Licenses were granted to Joseph Fielding, Market Tavern, and Joseph
Bolton, High Street West. Licenses were refused to William Sykes and
John Taylor.
August
23rd, 1858 - Foundation stone laid of the new Grammar School,
Mottram, by Robert de Holynworth, on behalf of George Woodhead, Esq.,
of Old Hall, at whose expense it was rebuilt. The following was
placed in a bottle to be placed in a cavity of the stone: "This
corner stone was laid on the 23rd day of August, 1858, by Robert de
Holynworth, on behalf of George Woodhead, Esq., of Old Hall, at whose
expense this free Grammar School is being rebuilt, after having lain
long in ruins. The victim of an unfortunate suit in Chancery
commenced nearly twenty years ago and now happily terminated by the
final order of the Court of Chancery, dated August 7th, 1857."
The names of the Vicar, trustees, architect, and builder, Mr. Geo.
Thorns, and three silver coins of 1858.
August 28th, 1858 -
Cricket match, Glossop Victoria v. Whitfield: Whitfield, 54 and 48;
Victoria, 54 and 19 for 5 wickets.
September 11th, 1858 - Cricket
match, Glossop Victoria 44, Whitfield Bee Hive 84.
September 21st,
1858 - Wakes Tuesday, cricket match, Hurst 48 and 104, Whitfield (Bee
Hive) 73 and 50. T. Wagstaffe, Howard Arms and Bowling Green Inn,
offered as prizes for bowling a copper kettle, two ducks, and a hat;
Mr. Atkinson, at the Ring o' Bells, had prizes for a dancing match
and sack and foot race; J. Cottrill, Globe Inn, Mr. Owen, Junction
Inn, Thomas Warhurst, Albion Inn, and Thomas Higginbottom, Queen's
Arms, advertised attractions.
September 29th, 1858 - Date of lease
of the Arundel Arms (Ghost Hotel), built by John Bridge.
October
24th, 1858 - Opening, services, of the Primitive Methodist School,
Glossop. Sermons by Rev. W. Rouse, of Manchester, and on the 31st by
the Rev. William Autcliffe, of Oldham. Collections £72.
October
30th, 1858 - Enoch Lawton, Member of the Royal College of Veterinary
Surgeons, commenced business at the Veterinary Infirmary, Bridge End,
Glossop.
November 6th, 1858 - A raid made on unlicensed hawkers in
Glossop, fined £10 each.
November 6th, 1858 - A party of
ringers at Glossop Parish Church rang 7 treble-peels, consisting of
5,640 changes, in three hours and two minutes. The peals were: Kent
Treble Bob, Duke of York, Merchants Return, Oxford Delight, Violet,
Oxford and New London. The ringers were John Lawton, treble; George
Robinson, second: William Dewsnap, third; Thomas Sellars, fourth:
Samuel Knott, sixth; John Pye, tenor (15 cwt.).
November 11th,
1858 - Glossop dale Funeral Society established.
November
13th, 1858 - Change ringing at the Glossop Parish Church. A true peal
of Kent Treble Bob Major, of 5,120 changes rang in 3 hours and 4
minutes.
November 14th, 1858 - Opening service of the Charles
Street Congregational Sunday School, sermon by Rev. A. Dewar, of
Ormskirk.
November 16th, 1858 - The members of the Glossop
Botanical Society held their anniversary dinner at the house of
Charles Green's, Pedestrian Inn (Green's Square, St. Mary's
Road.)
November 22nd, 1858 - Presentation of a silver cup to Mr.
Sykes, for nine years the treasurer of the Woolley Bridge Perpetual
Building Society, held at the Spread Eagle Inn.
November 28th,
1858 - Edward Handford, of the Glossop Corn Mill, and Thomas
Warhurst, Albion Inn, thrown from a trap at Woolley Bridge Toll Bar
and both seriously injured.
December 11th, 1858 - Samuel Shepley,
cotton manufacturer, Brookfield, died, aged 74. Left issue John,
William and Charlotte, grandson, William Shepley Rhodes.
December
13th, 1858 - Special service at the Tintwistle Independent
Schoolroom, to ask God's blessing to attend the departure of the Rev.
George Platt and his sister Hannah Platt, to the South Sea Islands.
Mr. Platt left Tintwistle in 1816 to go on a missionary to the South
Sea Islands and returned in September, 1856. He was returning to act
as superintendent.
December 20th, 1858 - Annual meeting of the St.
James Church Institute, established 1848, number of members limited
to 190, forty waiting on the books, 800 volumes of books in the
library.
December
21st, 1858 - The wife of a grocer at Green Vale hung
herself.
December 22nd, 1858 - Reform Meeting in the Town Hall.
Chairman, Edmund Potter, Esq., F.R.S.
December 25th, 1858 - Silver
tea service and an address presented to the Rev. T. Atkins by the
congregation of Littlemoor Chapel.
December 30th, 1858 - Gold
pencil case presented to Superintendent Williams, as a token of
regard by the inhabitants of Glossop, on the occasion of his leaving
for Derby.
December 1858 - Public Meeting in the Old Glossop
Wesleyan School to get Milltown Toll Bar removed.
January 10th,
1859 - Dinner at the Norfolk Arms and presentation of a gold watch,
chain, and purse of gold to Superintendent Williams.
January
23rd, 1859 - David Turner, aged 55, of Ashton-under-Lyne, starved to
death on the Glossop Moors.
January 25th, 1859 - Reform Meeting at
the Town Hall. It was proposed by E. Potter and seconded by F. G.
Bennett, Esq., "That
in the opinion of this meeting, the Township of Glossop, be on
account of its numbers and the amount of indirect taxation, is fairly
entitled to representation."
January
26th, 1859 - A deputation of inhabitants met the Commissioner of the
Glossop and Marple Bridge Turnpike Road to seek to demolish the Mill
Town Toll Bar.
January 28th, 1859 - James Costello, aged 13, found
starved to death in Glossop.
February
26th, 1859 - George Harrop died through injuries received by falling
down stairs at Howard Town on the 20th.
February 26th, 1859 - The
first annual meeting of the Widow and Orphans' Fund, Glossop-Dale
District of Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds, A.O., at the Commercial
Inn, Waterside.
March 7th, 1859 - William Goddard, Overlooker at
Sumner's, died at the Manchester Infirmary through the effects of
having an arm torn off with some machinery on the 2nd.
March 8th,
1859 - Public Meeting held in the Town Hall to protest against the
Reform Bill.
March
14th, 1859 - Margaret Taylor, aged 3, killed by a horse at
Hadfield.
April 4th, 1859 - Elizabeth Johnson, aged 53, burnt to
death at Glossop.
May 9th, 1859 - Francis Edward Fitzalan Howard,
second Baron Howard of Glossop, born.
June, 1859 - The "Glossop
Record" first published by Lewis Lister, Bernard Street.
June,
1859 - North Derbyshire Amalgamated Factory Operatives Union Friendly
Society established.
June 20th, 1859 - Richard Marshall, Ashes,
died, aged 65.
June 23rd, 1859 - George Cranshaw, aged 12, killed
in a coal pit at Chisworth.
July
1st, 1859 Thomas Collier, Glossop, died aged 62
July
10th, 1859 - John Goodwin, Glossop, died, aged 51. For upwards of 31
years a consistant member of the Wesleyan Society, 20 years local
preacher, buried in the new cemetery being the first person interred
in the Nonconformist portion.
July 30th, 1859 - M.C., aged 27,
drowned herself at Glossop.
August 13th, 1859 - Anniversary held
at the Rose and Crown Inn of the "Wonderful Virgin" Lodge,
No. 32, of the Order of Druids.
August 13th, 1859 - An old woman's
corpse was wheeled in a barrow from Old Glossop to the Railway
Station.
August 22nd, 1859 - Lease of Nos. 14, 20, Pikes Lane,
built by Aaron Waterhouse, spinner in Mill Moor Stile, now known as
Bridge Field Stile, sold in 1879 to William Arnfield, loom manager,
for £780.
October 1st, 1859 - Glory Scholes buried at Coun
Edge, over 100 couples of dogs followed the remains, each one wearing
crape round its neck. The dogs were led by their owners or their
representatives. She was the mother of 170 pups.
October
17th, 1859 - Alice Fish, aged 3. Wool ley Bridge, burned to death.
October
26th, 1859 - Public Meeting in the Town Hall, a petition in favour of
the enfranchisement of Glossop was decided upon.
November 1859 -
Great Spiritual Revival, united services by Church and Nonconformist
clergymen.
November 1st, 1859 - John Irlam, bookseller, High
Street, Glossop, died, aged 57.
November 5th, 1859 - Patrick
O'Gray summonsed for absconding from his apprenticeship to Thomas
Dobson, a four loom weaver at John Wood's, Howard Town Mill.
November
9th, 1859 - A few influential rate payers met at the Norfolk Arms to
discuss the question of having public gas. Decided to have a public
meeting.
November 12th, 1859 - Fire in the blowing hole of Wren
Nest Mill.
November
26th, 1859 - 2,400 persons signed a memorial in favour of
enfranchisement of Glossop.
November 26th, 1859 - First annual
meeting of the Broadbottom Fife and Drum Band. The late Edward
Kershaw Sidebottom defrayed all expense of clothing, instruments, and
tuition.
December 6th, 1859 - Glossop Reform Association had a
Lecture in the Town Hall on Reform, but "it was poorly
attended.".
December 11th, 1859 - Fire at the Broadbottom
Mills Gasworks.
December 12th, 1859 - Deputation to Lord Edward
Howard asking him to supply Hadfield with water.
December 17th,
1859 - Catherine O'Brien, aged 6, Crosscliffe, burnt to
death.
December 18th, 1859 - New organ, given by Mr. S. Wood,
opened at St. James's Church, Whitfield.
December 29th, 1859 -
Vestry meeting to consider the question of lighting Glossop with
gas.
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1860 to 1869.
January
1st, 1860 - A child, George Heap, scalded to death at Glossop.
January
3rd, 1860 - William Sidebottom, Esq., J.P., and George Andrew, Esq.,
J.P., attended Derby Quarter Sessions and obtained sanction to erect
a new Police Station in the Royle Fields.
January 7th, 1860 - The
Druids of Glossop had a tea party at the Howard Arms and Bowling
Green Inn to raise funds to establish a Widows and Orphans Fund.
January
10th, 1860 - Meeting at the Town Hall over the gas question. Poll
demanded.
January 12th, 1860 - A child, Patrick McDermott, burned
to death at Hadfeld.
January 13th, 1860 - Enoch Sykes, aged 7,
burned to death at Glossop.
January 25th, 1860 - Harvey Simpson
leased land and built Nos 37 - 63 Charlestown Road
February 3rd,
1860 - Mary Ann, widow of Joe Sidebottom, died at Harewood Lodge,
Broadbottom - a most benevolent lady.
February 15th, 1860 - Samuel
Lee, aged 67, starved to death in a wood at Ludworth.
February
17th, 1860 - Alice Ann Lawton, infant, found dead in bed at
Hadfield.
February 21st, 1860 - Second annual meeting of the
Reform Association.
May 1st, 1860 - Mary Lees, aged 50, found dead
at Whitfield.
May 5th, 1860 - Omnibuses commenced running between
Glossop and Stalybridge.
May 6th, 1860 - Fire at Ibbottson's Mill,
Turn Lee, cotton waste value of £1,500 destroyed.
May 6th,
1860 - Messrs. Blackwell's tender for lamp-posts, and John Shaw and
Sons to fit and erect the street gas lamps, were accepted. Each lamp
and fitting cost £2 2s. 6d.
May 8th, 1860 - Robert
Middleton, aged 47, starved to death at Glossop.
May
18th, 1860 - E.J., a young woman drowned herself in the Ashes Lodge,
known as the "ten foot."
May 27th, 1860 - Ann Sutton,
aged 58, found starved to death in the Royal Fields.
June 2nd,
1860 - William Roberts, aged 60, found starved to death on the moors
at Glossop.
June 2nd, 1860 – The Roman Catholic portion of
the Cemetery consecrated.
June
17th,1860 - Broadbottom Viaduct, the wooden bridge, replaced by an
iron tubular one.
July 6th, 1860 - J. T., aged 54, drowned herself
in a brick field at Whitfield.
July 6th, 1860 - Fund opened in
Glossop to aid Garibaldi.
July 26th, 1860 - A shop keepers early
Closing Association formed.
August 1st, 1860 - Thomas Harrison,
aged 78, one of the Trustees of Whitfield Endowed School, died. He
bequeathed to his wife, Ann four houses at Padfield Gate, formerly
one house.
August
8th, 1860 - A girl of 14 drowned herself in the Woollen Mill Lodge,
Turnlee Road.
August 12th, 1860 - A hand-loom weaver, of Whitheld,
hung herself.
August 15th, 1860 - John Ball, schoolmaster, Norfolk
Street, died, aged 51.
August 24th, 1860 - A girl, aged 18, of
Whitfield, drowned herself.
August 25th, 1860 - Foundation stone
laid of the Zion Chapel, Simmondley Lane.
September 7th, 1860 -
Fifty-two tradespeople formed an Early Closing Association, shops to
close on Fridays' at 9 p.m., Saturdays' 10.30 p.m., and on other week
days at 8 p.m.
September 14th, 1860 - Last day for polling to
deride if the streets should be lighted with gas.
September
15th, 1860 - Glossop Wakes Saturday. Attractions at John Cottrill's,
Globe Inn, John Stewart, violin player, of Ashton ; S. Swallow, piano
player, of Stalybridge; Charles Nosmos, comic singer, of Stalybridge;
and Hayfield Brans Band. Temperance Hall, dancing, Quadrille Band,
conductors G. Howard and T. Wright, admission 4d. each. At the Lamb
Inn, Surrey Street, the Brothers Cotter, celebrated nigger singers
and performers on the bones and banjo, also the Brothers Cottril. At
J. Beeley's, the Howard Arms and Bowling Green Inn, Messrs. Heathcote
and Stewart, the violin and harp players, from Sheffield. Commercial
Rooms, Norfolk Street, James Nightingale, proprietor, "These.
Unique Rooms will be open for visitors during the Wakes, when the
voice of HARMONY may be heard." At Mary Brooks, Angel Inn,
Simmondley, Mrs. Brown (late Miss Potts), Mr. Haigh, the pianist,
comic singers and other attractions. A Tea Party at the above house
on Wakes Tuesday, tea on the table at half-past four o'clock, tickets
6d. each. At Market Tavern, Bass Player, violinist and comic singer
in upper room, piano and violin in parlour, violin and other
attractions in front room. At Mrs. Warhursts, Albion Inn, Mrs. Lodge,
the talented characteristic vocalist, dancer and duetist; Mr. Lodge,
the celebrated buffo singer and duetist; Mr Jarvis, from Lang's
Concert Rooms, Manchester, pianist and vocalist. At James Bowden's,
White Lion, Chapel Street, a celery show. At Luke Dewsnap's, Stag's
Head, Chapel Street, the following celebrated fiddlers, Messrs.
Dewsnap and Moorhouse, also Mr. Alfred Broadbent, the celebrated
concertina player. At Mr. Henry Slaters, the New Inn, Old Glossop,
"Little Musical Ned." of Ashton, accompanied by the
Juvenile Campanologian Band. At James Owen's, Junction Inn, Mr. and
Mrs. J.P. and Alf., the unrivalled duetists, dialoguists, and solo
artists, who as duetists stand unrivalled in their mirth-provoking,
side-splitting, seasonable, unreasonable, and never-to be-forgotten
illustrations of the droll phases of life; Mr. J. Clare, the pleasing
sentimental singer; John Goode, the great baritone and delineator of
the songs of H. Russell; Mr. William Lomas, pianist; J. Bibby,
violinist; Mr. Oldham pianist for Saturday night only. Duval's Royal
Mammouth Pavilion, the largest and best Dramatic Pavilion now
travelling, holding 8,000 people. S. Garratt's, Spread Eagle Inn,
Woolley Bridge, Mr. John Paton, the well-known laughter provoking,
side-splitting, comic singer, who will each evening introduce his new
Rifle Song, to which the attention of all Volunteers is particularly
requested; Nelson Smith, pianist; Henry Carson, violinist; each
evening precisely at nine o'clock, Mr. John Paton, alias the man
without mouth, will introduce his great gun trick. Joseph Collier's,
Rose and Crown Inn, pianist, B. Beaumount, of Ashton; comic and
sentimental, Miss Normund Oldham; violin, J. Osborn, Manchester.
Bull's Head Inn, the Price family, from Ashton-under-Lyne, who will
perform some of the most popular nigger melodies of the day, in
connection they will add clog and pump dancing of various styles;
Miss Price will dance the Highland Fling, in full character. Please
to remember the "Old House at Home." Cheap trips to Belle
Vue on Monday and Wednesday, fare 1s. 4d.
September 22nd, 1860 -
Clerk of the Peace gave £300 for land for Lock-ups. 1210 square
yards.
September
29th, 1860 - Date of lease of Nos. 244, High Street West, built by
Joel Chadwick, butcher.
October 1st, 1860 - James Taylor, aged 15,
killed in a coal pit at Ludworth.
October 1860 - Cotton operatives
sent a circular to local cotton masters asking for weekly instead of
fortnightly pays.
October 1860 - James Walton was landlord of the
" Boars" Head, Chapel Street.
November
25th, 1860 - Henry Granville, 14th Duke of Norfolk, died.
December
1860 - Michael Ellison resigned his position as Agent to the Glossop
Estate.
December 10th, 1860 - Faith, daughter of Samuel Wood,
tailor, Ludworth Houses, died, aged 8 weeks. Her sisters, Hope and
Charity, died on the 14th.
December 12th, 1860 - The First Annual
Meeting of the Dinting Mechanics Institute was held.
December
19th, 1860 - Lease of Nos. 50-56 Kershaw Street, built by Richard
Duckworth in the New Croft. Leased from John Hadfield, senior, Isaac
Hadfeld, and John Hyde.
December 26th, 1860 - To be sold, the
Feathers Inn, Chapel, occupied by William Whiting. Lease from
September 29th, 1850.
January 1st, 1861 - It was reported at the
Derby Quarter Sessions that the new " Lock-up's" at Glossop
were progressing satisfactorily towards completion.
January 2nd,
1861 - Hollingworth Co-operative Society founded.
January 6th,
1861 - A boy named Thomas Robinson drowned in one of Messrs. Potters'
lodges at Dinting Vale.
January
11th, 1861 - James Turner, aged 53, Marple Bridge, drowned in the
River Goyt.
January 15th, 1861 - John Limbert, aged 37, engine
driver, killed by railway train at Woodhead.
January 15th, 1861 -
£400 worth of cotton destroyed by a fire at the Glossop Railway
Station.
January 21st, 1861 - James Potts, aged 38. Ludworth,
killed by falling down a coal pit.
February 26th, 1861 - Jonathan
Woodhead, aged 14, of Charlesworth, accidentally drowned.
May 4th,
1861 - George Woodhead, Esq., J.P., Old Hall, Mottram, died, aged
61.
May 1861 - A Co-operative Cotton Mill in Glossop, in course of
formation.
May 14th, 1861 - Revival of the Glossop Cricket Club by
amalgamation with the Victoria Club.
June 18th, 1861 - Babraham
Broadbent, cotton warp manufacturer, Mouse Nest Mill, Padfield, died,
aged 72. At one time worked the Thread Mill, Glossop.
June
30th, 1861 - Fire at Waterside Mills, 130 bales of cotton destroyed.
buildings and machinery damaged - £5000 loss.
July
15th, 1861 - House and workshop Charlestown Road, sold by Isaac and
William Field to Henry Field for £180; built by Joel Mason and
William Field. Lease dated March 24th, 1851.
July 25th, 1861 -
Whitfield Award, No. 19, comprising 21a. 8r. 30p. of land, sold by
Robert and Mary Wagstaffe to John Hill, Daniel, and Samuel Wood for
£1,000.
August 20th, 1861 - Samuel Sheppard, painter, aged
54, killed by falling downstairs at Glossop.
August 31st, 1861 -
Cross placed in All Saints Roman Catholic Churchyard by the Friars
Preachers as a memorial of their mission at Glossop.
September
7th, 1861 - Glossop streets first lighted with gas, dinner at the
Norfolk to celebrate the event.
September 11th, 1861 - William
Fernley, aged 7 years 11 months, piecer in a cotton mill, found
drowned in a Mill Pond at Ludworth.
September 17th, 1861 - Matthew
Ryon, aged 55, paper maker, found drowned at the Slatelands Road
Culvert.
September 29th, 1861 - Date of lease of a Gentlemen's
Club, Ellison Street (now Social Club), bounded on the North by land
intended for a Lock-up, East and South by the Far High
Field.
September 29th, 1861 - Date of lease of Zion Chapel, made
to John Ridgway, grocer, Hollingworth, built in the Great
Hey.
November 19th, 1861 - James Newton, Smedley Cottage,
Glossop, died, aged 69. He built Smedley Place.
December 6th, 1861
- Date of lease of the Gentleman's Club, Ellison Street, now the
Social Club. Sold September 29th, 1869, to T. M. Ellison for
£300.
December 6th, 1861 - Date of lease of No. 56 Surrey
Street, built by Cyrus Garside, new lease of 999 years September
29th, 1885.
January 6th, 1862 - A child, Gifford Bancroft, burned
to death at Padfield.
January 30th, 1862 - John Wood Bowden
appointed Relieving Officer at a salary of £75 per annum.
March
18th, 1862 - Disastrous law suit at Derby Assizes over water rights,
T. H. Ibbotson v. Christopher Greaves Middleton.
April 25th, 1862
- Margaret (old Peggy) widow of Owen Burns, hawker, Glossop, died,
aged 85.
May 7th, 1862 - Roof and back part of the “Shivering
Row" fell in during a thunder storm.
May 8th, 1862 - Two new
boilers for the Soup Kitchen arrived, they were however broken
through the horses attached to the Station Lurry taking fright down
Norfolk Street.
May 15th, 1862 - Poor Law Guardians were compelled
by the great distress to meet weekly.
May 21st, 1862 - Soup
Kitchen opened at Littlemoor. 1,023 persons were receiving soup.
June
3rd, 1862 - Frederic Buckley, Hurst Mill, commenced working full
time.
June 11th, 1862 - Funeral of Lady Howard, interred at St.
Charles', Hadfield.
June 16th, 1862 - Tom Owen, aged 6, drowned at
Waterside.
June 19th, 1862 - Mr. and Mrs. John Beeley elected
Workhouse Master and Matron.
June
26th, 1862 - John Wood and brothers, cotton manufacturers stopped.
(cotton panic).
July
2nd, 1862 - James Hurst, farm servant in charge of John Wood and
brothers' farm, at Simmondley, died suddenly.
July
16th, 1862- First meeting of the Cotton Famine Relief Committee at
Whitfield Church Schools. Canvassers appointed to canvass the
district for relief funds. Application made to the Lord Mayors of
London and Manchester for assistance.
July 17th, 1862 - Relief
Committee commenced granting relief from local funds.
August 4th,
1862 - First payment of Relief to Cotton Operatives in the Cotton
Famine.
August 11th, 1862 - Robert Dewsnap, aged 53, killed by
falling off a cart load of hay at. Whitfield.
September 6th, 1862
- Cotton Panic. Several mills closed and others running short time.
Woods and Sumners working two days per week. In ordinary times £3,250
paid in wages now less than £700. In twelve months there was a
loss of £100,000 in wages alone. Paupers in a population of
14,000 in ordinary times one per cent., now 30 per cent. John Wood
and Bros. subscribed £1,000, F. J. Sumner £1,000, Edmund
Potter £1,000, Lord Howard £500 and £10 weekly
besides employing labour up to £2,000 in wages.
September
20th, 1862 - This day 2,221 persons relieved against 195 in
1861.
November 1st, 1862 - This day 8,040 persons received relief
from the Board of Guardians.
November 4th, 1862 - Rev. Bryan
O'Donnell, Roman Catholic Priest, Hadfield, died, aged, 39.
November
1862 - The assessment for Poor Rate was 12s. 8½d.
in pound, in 1861, 7¾d.
November 7th,
1862 - Mally, widow of Joseph Robinson, woollen clothier, Gnat Hole
Mill, died, aged 85.
November 8th, 1862 - Guardians this day
relieved 3,563 persons, allowance 2s. 6d. per head over 13, 2s. from
4 to 13, and 1s. under 4 years of age.
November 9th, 1862 - Hugh
Beaver, cotton manufacturer, Talbot House, died, aged 79.
December
9th, 1862 - Whitheld Brass Band gave a free concert in the Market
Hall, 900 present, repeated on the 17th.
January 5th, 1863 -
Richard Matley, Hodge Fold, died, aged 82.
January 17th, 1863 –
Relief committee returns showed that 4,720 persons had been relieved
by the Guardians at a cost of £400 3s. 11d.
January
21st, 1863 - Meeting of the public in Shrewsbury Street Schools,
protested at differences in the ratio of relief paid.
January
22nd, 1863 - Joseph Howard, cotton manufacturer, Bridgefield Mill,
died at Openshaw, aged 79.
February 1st, 1863 - Joseph Harrop
(Blucher), Glossop, a pensioner of the Royal Horse Artillery, who
fought at the Battle of Waterloo, died, aged 83.
March
2nd, 1863 - Riot in Norfolk Square over the sale of some flour.
March
20th, 1863 - Railway accident at Best Hill Viaduct; part of the train
fell into the river. Burton ale and fish were plentiful.
March
23rd, 1863 - Francis Grey Bennett, Solicitor, Coroner, and Clerk to
Magistrates, Glossop, died, aged 32.
June
1st, 1863 - Henry Gee, gentleman, Charlesworth, died, aged 59.
June
1st, 1863 - John Sidebottom, Esq., Harewood Lodge, found dead in his
bathroom.
June
10th, 1863 - Joseph Harrop, aged 68, of Bedlam Lane (Woolley Bridge)
killed by a cart.
June 30th,
1863 - William Beard, aged 11, killed by machinery at John Ibbotson's
paper mill, Turn Lee.
July
9th, 1863 - Herbert Rhodes born.
July 8th to 16th, 1863 - Sale of
furniture and other effects at Hare Wood Lodge, Broadbottom.
July
15th, 1863 - R.M., aged 59, shop keeper, hung himself at
Hadfield.
July 29th, 1863 -
Edward Chapman, Hill End House, married.
August
1st, 1863 - John Sellars, of "Town-end," Glossop, died,
aged 87.
August 12th, 1863 - Ralph Bernard Robinson, the Glossop,
historian, published his book on "Longdendale."
August
23rd, 1863 - Manchester Field Naturalists visited Glossop. Mr. C.
Daniels, the Glossop poet, acted as leader. Most interesting account
of the district in the papers of the day.
October 21st, 1863 -
Benjamin Hollinsworth, aged 25, killed at Glossop Railway Station.
December
12th, 1863 - Cyrus Garside had just removed from Shrewsbury Street to
Surrey Street.
December
21st, 1863 - Sale of fat live stock at the Farmsteads, Milltown,
belonging to John Wood and Bros.
December 31st, 1863 - Advt. "A
fat pig weighing 60 stones, to be raffled for at Mr Boulton's, the
Surrey Arms Inn, High Street West, shares 5s. each. The pig may be
seen on the premises."
January 2nd, 1864 - A tramp at the
Workhouse cut his throat.
January 2nd, 1864 - Club started in High
Street called "The Shades of Evening."
January
14th, 1864 - A man committed for 21 days for taking a bag of hay,
worth 3d. He used it for a pillow for his head.
January 30th, 1864
- A tea was given by Mrs. John Wood to 270 sewers of the Sewing
Class, held two days per week in St. James's Schools.
January
31st, 1864 - Captain Robert de Hollyngworth died.
January 31st,
1864 - Funeral sermon preached by the Rev. Goodwin Purcell, at the
Parish Church, on Robert Kershaw.
February 14th, 1864 - Opening
service by Mr. Adamson, a Revivalist, in the Temperance Hall (now
Liberal Club) of the congregation worshipping in Charles
Street.
February 19th, 1864 - Men working at levelling at the
"Hare Hills". (Sand Hole), were paid 1s. per day,
"Pinch-belly-Park." Men working at the Picknase Reservoir
earned 2s. 3d. per day. Men engaged in sod stripping on the New Road
near Dinting Station 2s. 9d. Per day.
February 27th, 1864 - John
Bostock, of Broadbottom Hall, died, aged 48.
February 29th, 1864 -
Mr. Wogan advertised a sale of modern household furniture, some
bearing date 1662.
March
3rd, 1864 - The licence of the Drovers' Arms transferred from James
Walton to John Buckley.
March 5th, 1864 - Report on the new roads
that were being made: Fauvel Road, ready for stone laying: Lower
Dinting to Dinting Railway Station, sods all stripped off; Dinting
Station to Moodsbottom Bridge and Gamesley, progressing.
March
9th, 1864 - Prize Fight at Crowden Brook between Alexander Steward
and Ned Quinn, after hours fighting police stopped them.
March
28th, 1864 - Orange demonstration at Chapel-en-le-Frith. G. Eastham,
Hadfeld, was present: also the banner of "The Hadfeld Protestant
Society."
April 19th, 1864 - Padfield New Road opened.
April
20th, 1864 - Fourteen men murdered in British Columbia by Indians;
Joseph Fielding, of Glossop, was one of them,
April 30th, 1864 -
Amusing account appeared in the "Glossop Record" of
Benjamin and Maria.
May
6th, 1864 - Blasting accident in a quarry at Padfield. Messrs. David
Hurst, Samuel Pickford, William Beard, and Joseph Harwood
injured.
May 7th, 1864 - John Cooper, shoemaker, Charlesworth,
robbed of shoes; culprit got 10 years, penal servitude.
May 14th,
1864, - Alfred Smith, opened a grocers shop next to Bradford
House.
June 8th, 1864 - A mill hand, of Glossop, for passing base
coin at Hadfeld, got s years imprisonment.
June
27th, 1864 - Sixty persons left Glossop for the United States.
June
27th, 1864 - Alexander Eyre, aged 14, accidently drowned in Hurst
Lodge.
June
27th, 1864 - A native of Glossop got three months' hard labour for
stabbing William Hardy at Hope
July
6th, 1864 - Edwin Waugh, the Lancashire poet, gave selections from
his writings in the Town Hall. Francis Hawke, chairman.
July
21st, 1864 - Licence of the Angel Ian, Simmondley, transferred from
Joseph Harrison to Samuel Goddard; and the Grey Mare, Charlesworth,
to David Taylor.
July 23rd, 1864 - Announced that Lord Howard had
commenced three additional reservoirs in Barbers Clough, near the New
Road lending from Spire Holly to Windy Harbour.
July 7th, 1864 -
Mossy Lee Reservoir commenced on.
July 22nd, 1864 - First load of
cotton since the commencement of the cotton famine, arrived at
Woolley Bridge amidst great rejoicings at the event.
July 30th,
1864 - Joseph Garlick, grocer and corn dealer, opened a shop lately
occupied by Daniel Massey, next to Mill Town Toll Bar.
August
27th, 1864 - Glossop Record of this date states that at All Saints'
Parish Church the organ had been removed from the gallery to the body
of the chancel, and the pulpit from the centre to the north side of
the nave; also that there was a great scarcity of water. Mr.
T. P. Sykes' Spinning Mill at Bridge Field, Turn Lee Mills, and
Charlestown Mill stopped for want of water.
September
6th, 1864 - Swineshaw Reservoir completed.
September 5th, 1864 -
Edwin Bates, aged 5, Whitheld, killed by a cart.
September
9th, 1864 - Notice given by Lord Howard of failure to supply water
after the 29th inst.
September 10th, 1864 - John Pott, of the
Manor Inn, died, aged 57.
September 12th, 1864 - Meeting of twenty
influential ratepayers in the Town Hall, with reference to Lord
Howard's notice over water supply. Resolved to call a public meeting.
September
20th, 1864 - The widow of John Rhodes, of Tintwistle, and mother of
Dr. Jas. Rhodes, of Glossop, died, aged 73.
September 22nd, 1864 -
Public meeting in the Town Hall to adopt the "Local Government
Act.”
October 13th, 1864 - Charlesworth division, formally
annexed to the Glossop Relief Committee, sub-committee for
Charlesworth, Rev. J. Wilson, Edward Kershaw Sidebottom, James Booth,
and Joseph Cooper.
October
25th, 1864 - George Robinson, aged 66, died at Ardwick, formerly of
Gnat Hole.
October 26th, 1864 - David Hall, mechanic, had an arm
torn out of its socket at Middleton's Paper Mill, Turn Lee.
October
27th, 1864 - The licences of the Market Tavern transferred from
Frederick Taylor to William Beswick, and the Drovers Arms from Samuel
Willis to James Taylor.
October 31st, 1864 - Vestry Meeting over
adopting the Local Government Act, twice adjourned.
November
5th, 1864 - Advertisement from the “Glossop Record": Cheap
Tailoring. Being in want of a vest, I called on a tailor who resides
near St. James' Square, Marple Bridge. Being remarkable for his
honesty and piety, I left him one yard of cloth to make the above
mentioned garment. There has been seven journeys, which amount to 28
miles, and he has charged me the small sum of 14s, 2d. A.
Payer.
November 21st, 1864 - A Public Meeting in the Town Hall
decided to apply for Glossop to be incorporated a Borough.
November
28th, 1864 - Presentation at Charles Hadfield's, Station Inn, of
cricket material to George Williamson, by members of the Glossop
Cricket Club for his generous services to the Club.
December -
1864 - Edmund Potter gave £100 to provide extra comforts for
the poor.
December 27th, 1864 - Alexander Eyre, aged 14, drowned
whilst sliding on the Hurst Lodge.
December 29th, 1864 - Bleaching
Plant at Chunal Mill sold by John Lewis, auctioneer.
January 4th,
1865 - Thomas Bramhall, farmer, of Chunal, died, aged 85.
January
7th, 1865 - New Organ opened at Charlesworth Church.
January 9th,
1865 - Very Rev. Canon Theodore Francis Fauvel, died, aged 58, much
respected by all sects.
January 21st, 1865 - Rev. Canon Tasker
came to Glossop.
January 29th, 1865 - William Bury Clayton,
Salford, died, aged 64, formerly Chief Constable of Glossop.
February
14th, 1865 - Walter Montgomery at the Town Hall.
February 18th,
1865 - Letter in the "Glossop Record" objecting to Lord
Howard building an orphanage in Norfolk Street.
March 10th, 1865 -
John Moran, aged 30, starved to death in Glossop.
March 18th, 1865
- Henry Marsland, Cotton Master, Best Hill, died, aged 71.
March
27th, 1865 - The second grand Musical Festival was held in the
Glossop Market Hall.
April 5th, 1865 - Caroline Hinchcliffe, aged
19, drowned in the "Ashes Lodge."
April 6th, 1865 - Mr.
J. N. Winterbottom, Glossop, Cotton Manufacturer, having retired from
business, generously scored out all arrears of rent, butter and milk,
which had accumulated during the Cotton Famine.
April 9th, 1865 -
All Saints Church Choir appeared for the first time in white
surplices.
April 13th, 1865 - The licence of the Bridge Inn was
transferred from Thomas McKnight to William Holding.
April 19th,
1865 - Aaron Ashton, Hayfield, died, aged 104. Served 20 years in the
Army and was wounded at the Battle of Bunkers Hill, June 17th,
1775.
April 17th, 1865 - Presentation of testimonials to F.
Tounley and E. Buckley at Dinting Mill, they having retired from the
management of Dinting Printworks; 900 present.
April 18th, 1865 -
Francis Sumner bought cotton at Liverpool to commence working again.
April
22nd, 1865 - It was stated in the local papers, when advocating a
railway from Glossop to Stalybridge, that the following prices were
charged by the Railway Company: Cotton: Liverpool to Stalybridge, 6s.
8d. per ton; Liverpool to Glossop, 1%. 6d. per ton. Coal: Barnsley to
Glossop, 8d. to 1s. per ton more than to Stalybridge. Railway fares:
Marple to Manchester, return, 1s. 6d .; Glossop to Manchester,return,
2s. 2d.
April 27th, 1865 - Grand Musical Festival in the Glossop
Market Hall, by 400 performers from the Amalgamated Societies of
Glossop, Hadfield, Brookfield, Charlesworth, Mottram, Stalybridge,
and Mossley. Handel's Oratorio "Judas Maccabeus" was
performed. Leader, James Swallow; conductor, Joseph Robinson, of
Woolley Bridge.
May 16th, 1865 - Captain Donnelly came to enquire
re the Incorporation of Glossop.
May 20th, 1865 - Orlando Cook
died, aged 75.
June 2nd, 1865 - Samuel Marsland, proprietor of
Best Hill Cotton Mills, died, aged 78.
June 8th, 1865 -
Superintendent Williams transferred from Glossop to Bakewell and was
succeeded by Supt. Rush, from Bakewell. Supt. Williams served 12
years in London, 5 years at Bakewell, and 8 years at Glossop.
June
12th, 1865 - Nuisance Removal Committee: Superintendent Williams, the
inspector, having resigned owing, to leaving Glossop, was succeeded
by John Lawton.
June 14th, 1865 - Political meeting in the Town
Hall, F. J. Sumner, Esq., chairman. Mr. Jackson, Liberal, was adopted
as a candidate, along with Lord George Cavendish.
June 25th, 1865
- Ancient custom, Pinfold: Wright Bowden placed seven sheep in the
Charlesworth Pinfold; Joseph Bradbury, the owner of them refused to
pay James Thornley, the pound keeper, 3s. 8d. for their keep. He was
forced to pay.
June 19th, 1865 - Glossop Waterworks Act
obtained.
June 30th, 1865 -
Joseph Ferniley, aged 23, died whilst bathing in Mr Ibbotson's lodge
July
1865 - Railway opened to New Mills.
July 14th, 1865 - Lord Edward
Cavendish and W. Jackson, Esq., nominated for the Northern Division
of the County of Derby. Returned unopposed.
July 15th, 1865 -
Presentation by their workpeople of a Bible to Mr. Henry Lees and a
silver inkstand to Mr. Robert Lees, Woolley Bridge, for their
kindness during the Cotton Famine. Messrs. Lees allowed their tenants
half rents and found them with food three days per week.
July
22nd, 1865 - Letter in the "Glossop Record " nick-naming
Thomas Rhodes, Esq., as "Finality Rhodes."
July 25th,
1865 - Captain Donelly, of the Royal Engineers, attended at the Town
Hall, Glossop, by order of the Privy Council for the purpose of
ascertaining the opinion of the inhabitants upon a division of the
town into wards in the event of a Charter of Incorporation being
granted. The meeting lasted four hours.
July 30th, 1865 - Woodhead
Wakes Saturday. Two special trains from Stockport, two military
bands, and 3,000 Oddfellows. Sunday: Specials from Yorkshire,
Thurlstone Old Band playing selections.
August 2nd, 1865 - Fire at
Shepley Mill, £100 damage done. J. Handforth and Sons returned
thanks for the assistance rendered.
August 1865 - A silver
inkstand, presented to Francis Hawke, bore the following inscription:
"From Lord Edward Howard to Mr. Francis Hawke, in remembrance of
the conduct, kindness, and assiduity shown by him as Deputy Chairman
and Treasurer of the Glossop Relief Committee, during the critical
years from 1862 to 1865, when much labour and anxiety were added to
his duties as Agent of the Glossop-dale Estate, upon which more than
900 shops and houses were unoccupied, and more than 450 men, by far
the greater number being factory operatives, were employed upon
Public Works."
August 12th, 1865 - House to house canvass
going on. Proposed alteration of the date of the Wakes.
August
12th, 1865 - Opening of the grouse shooting season. Glossop
Subscription Moors, the following bags were made by local gentlemen:
Samuel Kershaw 20½, James Shepley 21, Francis Sumner 8,
William Shepley 6, John Wood 35½, T. H. Sidebottom 35½,,
James Sidebottom 80, J. H. Ibbottson 33½, and W. G. Rhodes 17
brace.
August 15th, 1865 - Joseph Groves, aged 9, killed by a
railway train at Hadfeld Station.
August 27th, 1865 - The
machinery at the “Crinoline Mill" at Charlesworth, sold by
auction.
September 4th, 1865 - Sale of the furniture of the Rev.
G. C. Jackson, late Vicar of Glossop.
September 4th, 1865 -
Meeting of Freeholders, Tenant Farmers, and Keepers of cattle, of the
Parish of Glossop, in the Town Hall, “Upon the subject of the
present prevalent disastrous Cattle Disease," Lord Howard,
chairman. Adjourned to the 25th inst., when a Mutual Assurance
Society was formed, five men from each Township to form the
Committee.
September 10th, 1865 - David Scott, schoolmaster,
Littlemoor, died, aged 50.
September 16th, 1865 - Advt. in Local
Papers: "The Glossop Cotton Manufacturing Co., Ltd., capital
£2,000, four hundred shares at £5, entrance fee 1s.,
deposit, 10s. an allotment; Francis Hawke, chairman of Directors;
George Wooffden, secretary. Share List closed October 31st. Tenders
for the erection of a Weaving Shed, Engine House, Boiler House and
Chimney, must be sent in not later than October 9th, at the Company's
Office, next door to the Post Office, High Street West."
September
23rd, 1865 - William Goddard, gentleman, Littlemoor, died, aged
71.
September 25th, 1865 - George Tomlinson commenced running his
looms at Chunal Cotton Mill.
October 1865 - The Glossop Cotton
Manufacturing Co. let tenders for their new mill to W. Bamford and
Co., masons work; Cyrus Garside, joiners work; Mr. Chadwick,
Manchester, the engine; and Mark Mellor, Ashton, the looms.
October
27th, 1865 - James Scott, aged 47, of Woolley Bridge, killed by a
stone falling on his head.
November 3rd, 1865 - Dangerous, rotten
state of Warhurst Fold Bridge. Dr. E. Sidebottom, of Mottram, when
passing over on his horse fell partly through the floor through it
giving way and he had a very narrow escape of being pitched into the
river Etherow below.
November 19th, 1865 - Rev. Robert Howard,
M.A., preached his farewell sermon at the Glossop Parish
Church.
November 25th, 1865 - Riot at the Commercial Inn, doors
kicked in, ten men arrested, seven fined 25s. and costs, and to pay
the damage. It was stated that Glossop was mad drunk every Saturday
night.
December
1st, 1865 - John Shaw, music seller, High Street East, inventor of
the Valve for wind instruments, died, born in 1800.
December
5th, 1865 - Albert Edward Sanderson, a child, burnt to death at
Milltown.
December 15th, 1865 - Abel Sheppard, aged 44,
Littlemoor, killed by a fall.
December 25th, 1865 - Presentation
of family bible to H. Flint by the congregation of the Temperance
Hall, by Lot Woodcock. "Presented by Church of Christ,
worshipping at present in the Temperance Hall, Glossop, to Mr H.
Flint, senior deacon, as a token of love and gratitude for his ardous
and unceasing labours during the past seven years; praying that the
Great Head of the Church may continue to bless him and his family.
and spare him long in his labour of love. Glossop, December 25th,
1865."
January 8th, 1866 - First report of the Glossop Mutual
Cattle Insurance Association. 1,122 cattle insured for £10,711.
The quarter ending Dec. 31st, 34 animals, valued at £328 10s.,
slaughtered, had the cattle plague.
February 3rd, 1866 - All
Saints' Parish Church lighted with gas.
February 10th, 1866 - John
White, Esq., J.P., Park Hall, died, aged 75.
March 13th, 1866 -
George Hallsworth, aged 13, Charlestown, killed by machinery.
March
16th, 1866 - Mouse Nest Mill, Padfield, distress for rent, machinery
to be sold.
March 18th, 1866 - Job Senior stabbed in Hollincross
Lane, his assailant got 9 months.
April 4th, 1866 - The Public
Works Committee had a dinner to celebrate the completion of their
work (Cotton Panic.)
April 11th, 1866 - An unknown man accidently
killed at Woodhead.
May 7th, 1866 - Miss Wood, sister of John
Wood, cotton manufacturer, Glossop, died at Gateshead, near Marsden.
May
13th, 1866 - United Procession of Foresters to the Parish Church in
aid of the funds of the National Lifeboat Institution.
May 16th,
1866 - Elisabeth, relict of the Rev. John Adamson, Independent
Minister, died at Hargate Hill, aged 93.
June
3rd, 1866 - Samuel Taylor, contractor, Hall Street, died, aged 67.
June
6th, 1866 - Henry Dalton, aged 39, son of Thomas Dalton, Holly Grove,
Mottram, washed overboard from the steamer Yarra on a voyage from
Sydney to New Zealand.
June 6th, 1866 - Sarah Ann Dalton,
spinster, Hollingworth, died. She was sister to John Dalton. Estate
under £4,000.
June
14th, 1866 - Letter from the Privy Council to the Committee for
Promoting Municipal Charter of Incorporation for Glossop, requesting
"Name and address of the Solicitor who will be employed to
prepare the draft of the Municipal Charter for Glossop.".
June
18th, 1866 - The Candle Manufactory, occupied by John Ousey and W.
Wright, sold. This was on the site of the Co-operative stables,
Surrey Street.
June 21st, 1866 - Meeting in the Town Hall to
protest against the proposal of Mr. Edmund Potter "to group
Glossop with Chesterfield in the Redistribution of Seats Bill now
before Parliament."
June
29th, 1866 - John Dalton senr. and John Dalton junr. entered into
partnership as calico printers.
June
30th, 1866 - Foundation stone laid of United Free Church, Hayfield
July
1866 - The Glossop Amateur Brass Band formed.
July 23rd, 1866 -
Weaving commenced in the Glossop Cotton Manufacturing Co's.
Mill.
September 1st, 1866 - Lease of the Glossop Cotton
Manufacturing Company, Limited, Mill in Surrey Street, built in the
Higher Kid Lee and Nether Royle.
September 13th, 1866 - James
Bottoms, of Mote Hall, Charlesworth, died.
October 1866 - A
Workingmen's club was established at Waterside by Messrs.
Sidebottom's.
October 1st, 1866 - Thomas Middleton, aged 61, found
drowned in Dinting Lodge.
October 23rd, 1866 - Arrival of the
Charter of Incorporation for the Borough of Glossop.
October 24th,
1866 - Superintendent Rust transferred from Glossop to Enor, and
Sergt. Rouse to Chapel-en-le-Frith.
November 6th, 1866 - Grand
demonstration at New Mills to celebrate the removal of six toll bars,
the Turn Pike Trust having expired.
November 6th, 1866 - Fire in
the blowing room of Woods' Milltown Mill. £100 damage.
December
7th, 1866 - The first Burgess List revised by Francis James Sumner,
Esq., J.P., and John Wood, Esq., J.P., of Mottram Old Hall.
December
10th, 1866 - Fire at the Glossop Corn Mill, occupied by Mr.
Bennett.
December 12th, 1866 - George Nesbitt, aged 66,
Crosscliffe, drowned in Brocklehurst's Mill Lodge at
Crosscliffe.
December 12th, 1866 - Fire at Ibbottson's Staining
Mill, Primrose Lane.
December 21st, 1866 - The first Glossop
Municipal Elections. All Saints Ward, 272 voters, Daniel Wood 218,
Francis James Sumner, 213, Frederic Buckley, 201, John Hadfield
(Cowbrook) 195, James Shepley 183, Samuel Robinson (grocer) 127. St.
James's Ward, 845 Voters, Joseph Middleton Stafford 226, Joseph
Woodcock 218, John France 178, George Wooffenden 165, Levi Jackson
160, John Ashton 149. Hadfeld Ward, 215 voters. Edward Platt 102,
Thomas Platt 98, Thomas Rhodes 98, William Shepley 97, James
Sidebottom 86, Robert John Lees 75.
December 26th, 1866 - First
meeting of Glossop Town Council. Francis James Sumner elected the
Mayor.
January 10th, 1867 - The Glossop-dale New Industrial
Co-operative Society registered.
January 15th, 1867 - Mary Noon,
aged 65, starved to death at Woolley Bridge.
January 15th, 1867 -
Alfred Williams, aged 11, drowned at Glossop.
January 20th, 1867 -
Mary Hallows, aged 62. starved to death at Glossop.
January 31st,
1867 - First Mayoral Banquet, given by Francis James Sumner, at the
Norfolk Arms Hotel.
February 20th, 1867 - Town Council decided to
have their own Police Force, and to rent the Town Hall, Lock-up and
cottage at £10 per annum.
February 20th, 1867 - William
Coffey, station-master at Crowden, run over by a train and killed.
February
23rd, 1867 - Joseph Woodcock leaving the Norfolk Arms, and Mr.
Whittaker, from the Romiley Arms, coming in.
February 28th, 1867 -
Lighting of the Borough undertaken by the Council.
March 2nd, 1867
- Alderman Shepley stated that there were 770 empty houses in the
Eight Hamlets of Glossop.
March 5th, 1867 - Fire at Mr. Demizer's,
cotton waste bleacher, Coombs Mill, Charlesworth.
March 18th, 1867
- Eight applicants for Chief Constableship. Inspector Kershaw, of
Stalybridge, appointed at £100 per annum. James Bohan, of the
Cheshire Constabulary, appointed Sergeant of Police at 25s. per week,
and six policemen appointed at 21s. per week, viz .: Joseph Hague,
Joseph Dewsnap, late of Staleybridge Police Force, George Wilson,
late of Ashton P. F., William Shaw, of Oldham P.F., Amaziah Barnard
and John Heys, of Hulme, Manchester.
March 19th, 1867 - Man
rescued from being starved to death on the moors.
March 31st,
1867- The Sunday midnight passenger train from Dinting to Glossop
narrowly escaped being thrown off the line by some person having
placed a gate across the rails, at Dinting Crossings.
April 2nd,
1867 - The Borough Police first commenced their duties.
April
3rd, 1867 - Samuel Kershaw, Superintendent of Police, appointed the
Sanitary Inspector at a salary of £15 per annum.
April 9th,
1867 - At the Derbyshire Sessions permission was given to the Borough
to use the County Lock-ups for Borough prisoners.
April
11th, 1867 - The Glossop Cotton Manufacturing Co., Ltd., fined £2
and costs for employing a young girl without a certificate.
April
14th, 1867 - Wesleyan Chapel, High Street West, re-opened by the Rev.
John Bedford, of Manchester.
April 19th, 1867 - Foundation stone
laid of the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Compstall.
April 27th,
1867 - Presentation of a handsome copy of the "Messiah" to
William Hambleton, for 18 years connected with the Primitive
Methodist Choir.
May 1st, 1867 - Superintendent Kershaw appointed
Lighting Inspector at the salary of £7 10s. per annum.
May
6th, 1867 - Inspector Gray and P.C. J. Hill, of the County Police,
recalled to Derby.
May 8th, 1867 - Five young ladles absconded
from the All Saint's Roman Catholic School.
May 9th, 1867 - First
Borough Rate levied, 6d. in the £.
May 11th 1867 - The
Glossop Branch of the National Reform Union presented an address to
the late Mr. W. E. Gladstone at Carlton House Terrace.
May 14th,
1867 - Emily, relict of the Rev. John Ward, Wesleyan Minister, died
at the house of her son-in-law, George Handforth, Shepley Mill.
May
25th, 1867 - Complimentary tea party to the Rev. W H. Reid by the
congregation of Howard Street Chapel. He was presented with a purse
and £13 13s 0d.
May 26th, 1867 - Joseph Dewsnap died.
Superintendent and Police attended his funeral, he being the first of
the Borough Police to die whilst a member of the force.
June
1867 - George Eastham, grocer, Waterside, retired after being in
business 33 years; was succeeded by George Massey of Padfield.
June
1867 - Lord Howard gave the Town Council the horseshoe shaped table
that is in the Council Chamber, made by J. B. Smith.
June 2nd,
1867, - Sunday afternoon services discontinued at Littlemoor
Chapel.
June 1867 - Railway fares to Manchester increased.
June
1867 - Lord Howard, M.P., refused to sign the address on Papal
Infallibility.
June
12th, 1867 - T. M. Ellison's (Town Clerk) salary raised from £30
to £60 per annum.
June 19th, 1867 - Town Council recommended
T. J. Sumner, John Hill Wood, William Shepley, Frederic Buckley,
Thomas Rhodes, Samuel Wood and John Hadfield (Cowbrook) for Borough
Magistrates. They were sworn in September 4th, 1867.
July
1st, 1867 - John Ousey, tallow chandler, Surrey Street, sold up
July
1867 - Crosby Leighton, grocer, London House, gave a "divi"
of 6d. in the £ to his customers
July 6th, 1867 - Edwin
Isherwood, aged 4, killed by a cart in Glossop.
July 15th, 1867 -
Glossop Amateur Brass Band presented with a silk banner.
July
29th, 1867 - M.R., aged 44, an inmate of the Workhouse hung
herself.
August 1st, 1867 - The Manchester, Liverpool, and
District Bank began to open daily at their Glossop Branch. Mr. Lee
appointed resident Bank Manager.
August
4th, 1867 - Congregational Chapel opened in Harrop's building,
Victoria Street. The Rev. John Wheeldon, of Manchester, preached the
sermons. Collections £12 3s. 6d.
August 8th, 1867 - Thomas
Howe, aged 79, son of the Rev. Christopher Howe, died at the
Breakwater, Geelong, He, was one of the first persons to open a
drapers shop in Glossop, his shop was at the corner of High Street
East and Victoria Street.
August 8th, 1867 - James Crossland, aged
61, killed by falling from a scaffold, at Hadfield.
August 10th,
1867 - The Glossop Town Council took possession of the Lock-ups. P.C.
Clayton promoted to Sergeant, an additional one.
August 17th, 1867
- William Robinson, 25 years manager at Wren Nest Mills, presented
with a gold watch by the workpeople, as a token of esteem. Mrs.
Robinson was presented with a silver tea pot. The event took place in
the Primitive Methodist Schoolroom, 800 persons being present.
August
29th, 1867 - The first Brewster Sessions of the Borough of Glossop
held in the Town Hall. George Andrew, Esq., J.P., chairman; John
Wood, Esq., J.P. It was stated that there were 38 licenced houses and
35 beer houses. Mr. Henry Slater Lancaster applied for a spirit
licence for the Ring o' Bells, but the application was
refused.
September 22nd, 1867 - The Sheffield Hallelujah Band
commenced revival services in the Temperance Hall.
September 28rd,
1867 - Sale of furniture of Robert Cross, Esq., at Bottoms Lodge. The
house required by Manchester Corporation for waterworks
extension.
September 27th, 1867 - Prize fight for £100 at
Saltersbrook. George Fletcher, of Sheffield, defeated James Rawlins,
of Hull.
September 29th, 1867 - Organ opened at Hadfeld Wesleyan
Chapel by William Goldthorpe, barrister-at-law from Wilmslow; sermons
by Rev. Allan Rees, of Didsbury.
October 1st, 1867 - Beer sellers
after this day unable to sue for beer scores.
October 2nd, 1867 -
John Swan resigned the Assistant Overseership.
October 16th, 1867
- Sale of machinery at the Bottoms Lodge Mill, Tintwistle.
October
17th, 1867 - Vale House Mill building material sold.
October
26th, 1867 - The 13 cutlasses ordered by the Watch Committee
arrived.
November 12th, 1867 - Arthur Chambers, of Manchester, and
Henry Kimberley, of Birmingham, arrested at Salters Brook by
Superintendent Moran whilst prize fighting for a stake of
£50.
November 27th, 1867 - Mr. Er Hadfield appointed as Poor
Rate Collector in place of John Swan, who had retired. Salary 4d. in
the £.
November 30th, 1867 - The "Ashton Reporter"
stated: "This week John Hardman was selected as Post Master in
succession to William Tomlinson."
December 7th, 1867 - Part
of a sheep stolen from Peter Crosslands, butcher, slaughter house,
Charles Street.
January 5th, 1868 - Rev. T. Atkin's residence
robbed.
January
12th, 1868 - Primitive Methodist Sermons preached by Bandsman J.
Smith; of the 72nd Highlanders.
January
15th, 1868 - Isaiah Wood's residence, Old Glossop, robbed.
February
6th, 1868 - The Union Offices, Norfolk Street, robbed, three men
committed to Sessions.
February
13th, 1868 - An housekeeper poisoned herself at Glossop.
February
18th, 1868 - Messrs. Houston and Mackay giving their "No Popery
" lectures.
March 1st, 1868 - Railway to Hayfield opened.
March
13th, 1868 - Aaron Ashton, aged 58, took ill on Victoria Bridge and
died the same night.
March 16th, 1868 - Fire at Woods' Mill.
April
10th, 1868 - The Lawrence Earnshaw Monument unveiled in Mottram
Cemetery.
May 23rd, 1868 - Foundation Stone of Mount Pleasant
Congregational Chapel laid.
June 1st, 1868 - A man committed to
the Derby Assizes on a charge of kicking James Higginbottom to
death.
June 2nd, 1868 - Crosscliffe Cotton, Mill, occupied by Mr.
Brocklehurst, burnt down.
June
13th, 1868 - The members of the. Prince Regent Lodge of I.O.
Oddfellows munched in procession headed by the Glossop Amateur Band,
to Tintwistle, to pay a visit to their brethren of the "Clio"
Lodge.
June 18th, 1868 - Some poachers ran the old Silk Mill
reservoirs dry and took all the fish.
June 22nd, 1868 - The
Glossop Waterworks being finished there was a sale of the plant.
June
25th, 1868 - William Greaves Shaw died.
June
29th, 1868 - John Harrison Radcliffe, Esq., thrown from his horse and
fractured his arm at Charlesworth.
July
2nd, 1868 - Thursday half holiday commenced by drapers, milliners and
pawnbrokers in Glossop.
July
4th, 1868 - James Nicholls killed by a fall of earth at Woodhead
Reservoirs. 100 of the navvies gave 1s. each to the funeral expences
and relief of his parents.
July 4th, 1868 - Primitive Methodists
presented the Rev. S. Stafford with a purse containing £10 10s
0d.
August 22nd, 1868 - John Andrews, a carter, aged 75, fell from
a hayloft at Whitfield and was killed.
August 24th, 1868 - The
second Brewster Sessions of the Borough of Glossop. There were two
beerhouses less since last report. Henry Slater Lancaster in applying
for a spirit license for the Ring 'o Bells stated that he had kept it
for 11 years, and that 45 years ago it was licensed as the Wheat
Sheaf.
September 11th, 1868 - Conservative Meeting in the Town
Hall, the Liberals caused a great disturbance.
September 16th,
1868 - Grand Band Contest at Glossop.
September 21th, 1868 -
Proprietor of the Nag's Head Inn, Chapel Street, bankrupt.
November
27th, 1868 - General Election Riot, attack on the Town Hall.
November
30th, 1868 - Funeral of Superintendent Moran, of the County
Constabulary, at Charlesworth.
December 9th, 1868 - Thomas Hatch's
house robbed of £18 8s. 6d.
January 22nd, 1869
- Alexander Adams ("Old Scotty") found dead on the road to
Woodhead.
January 23rd 1869 - Longdendale Church Institute
inaugurated at Hollingworth.
March 14th, 1869 - Mount Pleasant
Congregational Church opened.
May 11th, 1869 - Ellen Taylor, aged
2, drowned at Littlemoor.
May
15th, 1869 - Presentation of a testimonial to John Hill Wood, of
Whitfield House, by the members of the Howard Town Mills Reading Room
and Library.
May 15th, 1869 - The "Glossop Times" first
published by Edward Blanchard Palmer and Wilfred Edmund.
May 29th,
1869 - Thomas P. Wreaks, chemist, buried at St. James's.
Whitfield.
May 30th, 1869 - Alice Scott, aged 15, killed by a
shaft at Hodge Printworks.
June 5th, 1869 - Grand Sunday School
demonstration and marriage celebration at Tintwistle in honour of
Samuel Wood marrying Ann Kershaw Sidebottom.
July
4th, 1869 - Edward Mealna, aged 14, drowned in the Ashes Lodge.
July
14th, 1869 - Betty Pott bought from the Exors of John Hampson, No. 11
High Street West, for £805. This was the original "Bee
Hive," and built by John Hampson in 1838."
September
22nd, 1869 - Brass Band Contest and Balloon Ascent in the Old Cricket
Field, Glossop.
October 22nd, 1869 - Nancy Smithies, aged 13,
accidentally killed at Hadfield.
December 4th, 1869 - John
Schofield, of Talbot Street, an old Pensioner of the 6th Regt., Foot,
died, aged 76.
December 6th, 1869 - John Lees, aged 9, killed by a
railway train at Torr Side.
December 16th, 1869 - John Hill-Wood,
J.P., of Whitfield House, eldest son of the late John Wood of Howard
Town House, died, aged 56. Lett issue widow Emma, daughter Alice, and
son John.
December 20th, 1869 - A housekeeper in Glossop cut her
throat.
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1870 to 1879.
January
4th, 1870 - William Shepley, Thomas Rhodes, Samuel Wood, and Tom
Harrop Sidebottom appointed Justices of the Peace.
February 24th,
1870 - Thomas Hibbert, aged 13, and Joseph Rose, aged 14, drowned in
the fish pond at the old Cricket Ground.
March 13th, 1870 -
William Bowden leased land and built "Alma Terrace" St.
Mary's Road.
March 31st, 1870 - George Edward Ward, aged 16,
joiner, accidently killed at Glossop.
May 1870 - The Town Council
decided to name the streets and number the houses.
May 18th, 1870
- Simeon Smithurst, an infant, drowned at Dinting Vale.
July 9th,
1870 - Ruth Barker, aged 60, killed at Hadfeld by a railway train.
July
16th, 1870 - Joe, son of Samuel Taylor, contractor, died, Aged
32.
July 24th, 1870 - Henry Lees, cotton manufacturer, Woolley
Bridge, died, aged 76.
August 23rd, 1870 - Lease of Nos. 84-88,
St. Mary's Road, built by John Benton, sold March 5th, 1880, to
Charles Hadfield, book-keeper, for £320. Nos. 84-86 sold Sept.
17th, 1881, to John Bruckshaw for £499.
September 11th, 1870
- Albert Broadbent, aged 28, killed by a railway train, at
Glossop.
September 13th, 1870 - Nathan Darwent, of Hall Street,
retired publican (Talbot Inn) died, aged 86.
September
20th, 1870 - Jane Ramsbottom, aged 46, a widow, accidentally killed
at Glossop.
November 1st, 1870 - Joseph Woodcock, 5, Bank Terrace,
Glossop, formerly landlord of the Norfolk Arms, and ex-Town
Councillor, died, aged 68.
November 5th, 1870 - Dinner at the
Bridge Inn to celebrate the third anniversary of the Fife and Drum
Band.
November 24th, 1870 - George Pye, for many years employed on
the Glossop Estate, died, aged 72. He built the Surrey Arms, High
Street West.
December 7th, 1870 - George Bowden, Ryefield Cottage,
Hall Street, Clerk to the Board of Guardians, died, aged 65, left
widow, Elizabeth, and children John Wood, Elisabeth, wife of Joseph
Wood, George, Thomas Swindells, Martha, and Sarah Rebekah.
December
20th, 1870 - John Wm. Kenyon, aged 14, scalded to death at Dinting
Vale Printworks.
December 21st, 1870 - James Taylor died through
scalding at Dinting Vale Printworks.
December 26th, 1870 - A man
frozen to death in the Deep Cutting. Mottram.
December 30th, 1870
- Isaac Marsden, a child, burned to death at Glossop.
January 7th,
1871 - The "Glossop Advertiser" first published by Thomas
Allard Pettit and William Mather.
January 20th, 1871 - Matilda
Rowbottom, aged 8, died through an overdose of cough mixture.
March
7th, 1871 - James Owen, Globe Inn, died, aged 57.
March 12th, 1871
- John Moult, Esq., of Mellor Hall, died, aged 57.
March 13th,
1871 - Jacob Kay took possession of the Junction Inn.
March 13th,
1871 - William Cowen, aged 20, of Rough Town, scalded to death at
Turn Lee.
March 23rd, 1871 - Meeting of cotton operatives at the
Norfolk Arms Hotel.' Resolved to form a Weavers' Union, and to ask
for the mills to stop at 1-0 instead of 2-0 p.m. on Saturdays.
March
23rd, 1871 - Fire at Grove Mills, New Mills; damage £10,000.
March
25th, 1871 - Ex-Councillor Thomas Bennett, died, aged 48.
April
7th, 1871 - Good Friday, Grand Demonstration of Foresters at Glossop.
The Whitfield Old and the Glossop Amateur Bands played in the
procession. There was a dinner at the Globe Inn in the evening.
April
8th, 1871 - Emily Travies, aged 4, burnt to death at Glossop.
April
20th, 1871 - Last number of the "Glossop Record" published
under that name.
April
22nd, 1871 - Third annual meeting of the Glossop Protestant Defence
Association - J. B. Smith, secretary.
April 24th, 1871 - A woman
at Tintwistle cut her boy's throat, drowned her baby, and then hung
herself.
April 30th, 1871 - James Shaw, a celebrated musician of
Mottram died, aged 82.
May 2nd, 1871 - Mr. Wormald, beer seller,
fell in Arundel Street and broke his leg.
May 2nd, 1871 - Meeting
of 600 cotton operatives in the Norfolk Square, respecting stopping
at 12 o'clock on Saturdays. Eleven memorials sent to principal firms.
It was stated that the firms of John Wood and Bros., S. Rowbottom,
and J. Clegg, were willing to stop if all did.
May 6th, 1871 -
First number of the "Glossop and Hyde Record" published,
formerly "Glossop Record."
May 6th, 1871 - First number
of the "Glossop Standard" published.
June 2nd, 1871 - A
gamekeeper at Padfield poisoned himself.
June
6th, 1871 - First public appearance of the Glossop Reed Band.
Conductor John Howarth, Leader William Hambleton. It was formerly the
old fife and drum band.
June 7th, 1871 - Broadbottom. Mills and
116 houses, of which only 89 were tenanted, to be sold.
June
10th, 1871 - Ellen, relict of William Thorpe, a pensioner of the
Royal Marines, died at St. Mary's Road, aged 75.
June 24th, 1871 -
William Sykes injured at Glossop Station in attempting to get into a
train whilst in motion.
June
28th, 1871 - Joseph Wright entered into possession of the Globe Inn,
in succession to Mary Kelley
July
2nd, 1871 - Thomas Armitage, coal merchant, Glossop, died aged 62.
July
18th, 1871 - Foundation stone laid of new Church Schools at
Broadbottom by the Bishop of Chester.
July 10th, 1871 - Organ,
built by Brindley and Foster, Sheffield, opened at All Saints' Parish
Church.
July 17th, 1871 - Ralph Fish, hawker, aged 20, killed by
falling down some rocks at Charlesworth.
July 26th, 1871 - Robert
Jackson, weaver, aged 18, found dead at Dinting.
August 12th, 1871
- John Bowden, aged, 19, drowned at Padfield whilst bathing.
August
19th, 1871 - John Wild, aged 8, drowned in a pond belonging to the
Glossop Cotton Manufacturing Co., Surrey Street.
August 19th, 1871
- Second Annual Field Day of the members of Howard Town Mills Reading
Room, at Whitfield House.
August 20th, 1871 - John Lawton, aged
64, Norfolk Street, had just returned from chapel, when he died. He
was a retired plumber, and had the shop now occupied by James Merry
and Son.
August 21, 1871 - Samuel Robinson, aged 89, ex-beadle and
sexton of the Tideswell Church, walked from Tideswell to Mottram
Wakes to sell nuts. He had a quaint saying, "Am ninety obbut
two."
August
21st, 1871 - The licence of the Bee Hive Inn transferred from George
Downs to John Trueman.
August 23rd, 1871 - Harriett Ann Hewitt,
aged 8, of Hanging Gate, Glossop, had an arm amputated through
injuries received at Waterside Mill.
September 10th, 1871 - Old
Glossop Handbell Ringers won the first prize at the Handbell Ringing
Contest at Belle Vue.
September 28th, 1871 - Bazaar opened by Ald.
W. Shepley, J.P., in the Temperance Room, Chisworth, in aid of the
Chisworth Wesleyan Day School.
September
30th, 1871 - William Hammersley, veteran of the Royal Artillery, died
at Stirrup Benches, aged 79, he fought at Toulouse, Quartre Bras, and
Waterloo. He was one of those who entered Paris.
September 20th,
1871 - Third Annual Show of the Lower Whitheld Horticultural Society
held at the Crown Inn, Whitheld, Abel Harrison, proprietor.
October
2nd,1871 - The Licence of the Station Inn was transferred from Thomas
Higginbottom to Joseph and Maria Higginbottom.
October 3rd, 1871 -
James Pickford, Station Master at Hadfield for 27 years, died, aged
55.
October
7th, 1871 - The Chisworth Fife and Dram Band paraded for the first
time. A tea was held to celebrate the event, at which the Glossop
Reed Band played.
October 18th, 1871 - Clough Mills, Little
Hayfield, worked by Messrs. Ashton and Alcock Brothers, of Hyde,
destroyed by fire in the blowing room, £4,000 damage.
October
26th, 1871 - Walter Wood, aged 4, killed by a lurry at
Glossop.
October 26th, 1871 - Ann Taylor, aged 68, Glossop, found
drowned.
November 7th, 1871 - John Platt, Hill Top, farmer, aged
65, killed by a railway train.
November 8th, 1871 - Sale of two
freehold cotton mills, containing 18,000 spindles, water wheel 60
feet in diameter, at the Hurst, six cottages in Hurst Fold and house
occupied by Frederic Buckley, by the executors of John
Kershaw.
November 18th, 1871 - Onion and celery show society
formed at George Scholes', Pear Tree Inn, High Street East.
December
16th, 1871 - Enoch Wright Lomas, aged 13, Dinting, scalded to
death.
December 30th, 1871 - John Wood Bowden elected
corresponding secretary to the Glossop District Independent Order of
Oddfellow, Manchester Unity. Retired from the position December,
1890.
January 13th, 1872 - William Prince, of Charlestown Road,
found dead on the highway at Charlesworth.
January 16th, 1872 -
Daniel Woodhead, newspaper proprietor, Norfolk Square, died aged
41
January 16th, 1872 - Messrs.
Cassell, Petter and Galpin
opened Turn Lee Paper works.
March 4th, 1872 - John Bardsley,
schoolmaster Hague Endowed School, resigned; succeeded by Mr. George
Ford.
March 9th, 1872 - John Thompson, aged 29, killed in a coal
mine at Compstall Bridge.
March
21st, 1872 - S. Hill-Wood born.
April 16th, 1872 - The Marquis of
Bute married; rejoicings in Glossop.
May 4th, 1872 - Oswald
Partington, M.P., born.
May 28th, 1872 - Humphrey Downs, stone
mason, Sheffield Road died.
June
10th, 1872 - Passenger train ran into a siding at Hayfield. Several
persons slightly hurt.
July 30th, 1872 - Martha Thorley, aged 61,
found dead at Waterside.
August 26th, 1872 - Thomas Wooffenden,
retired clothier, Milltown, died, aged 79. Wooffenden Court bears his
name.
September 4th, 1872 - John Lewis, auctioneer, Howard Street,
died, aged 65.
September 8th, 1872 - Capt. Thomas White, Park
Hall, late of the 8ith Regt., died, aged 38. He was the son of Capt.
John White.
September
8th, 1872 - Old Glossop handbell Ringers won the first prize at the
Handbell Ringing Contest at Belle Vue.
November 30th, 1872 -
Corner stone of St. Andrew's Church laid by the Rev. J. D. Knowles,
M.A., Vicar of the ancient Parish of Glossop.
December 15th, 1872
- Joseph Oates, County Court Bailiff, Grove Terrace, High Street
East, died, aged 82.
December 16th, 1872 - Miss Sarah, daughter of
the late Rev. C. Howe, died, aged 76.
December 26th, 1872 - James
Wagstaffe, gentleman, who built Holly Wood House, No. 41, Sheffield
Road, died, aged 80.
January 13th, 1873 - John Shaw, of
Charlestown, died. aged 65.
February 13th, 1873 - George Andrew,
J.P., D.L., died.
February 25th, 1873 - Joseph Robinson, aged 73,
St. Mary's Road, formerly a woollen dealer at the Gnat Hole,
died.
March 10th, 1873 - Thomas Rowbottom, aged 55, Charlesworth,
killed by falling downstairs.
March 15th, 1873 - Joseph Mellor,
aged 60, retired grocer, ex-Town Councillor, Guardian, Overseer,
etc., died.
March 18th, 1873 - John Ashcroft, aged 70, High Street
East, the old letter carrier, died.
March 87th, 1873 - Joseph
Wilkinson, Borough Rate Collector and a well-known Oddfellow, Norfolk
Street, died, aged 65.
March 20th, 1873 - Presentation of a framed
certificate of membership to Charles Hadfield, veterinary surgeon,
and for 24 years Treasurer of the Prince Regent Lodge I. O.
Oddfellows.
April 6th, 1873 - Samuel Shepley, retired ironmonger
of Glossop, died, aged 77.
April
7th, 1873 - Samuel Vose, aged 27, killed at Hadfield by a cart.
April
13th, 1873 - Broadbottom Co-operative Stores robbed.
May 5th, 1873
- Edmund Buckley, gentleman, aged 70, died at 5, Fitzalan
Street.
June 11th, 1873 - Robert Barber, gentleman, Padfield died,
aged 70.
July 10th, 1873 - H.D. A mill operative, drowned herself
at Glossop.
July 28th, 1873 - Richard Platt, aged 54, an inmate of
the Glossop Workhouse, found drowned.
July 29th, 1873 - John
Webster, aged 60, found drowned at Glossop.
August 11th, 1873 -
Henry Hilton, Chief Constable of Glossop, resigned, having been
appointed Chief Constable of Huddersfield.
September 8th, 1873 -
Old Glossop Handbell Ringers won the first prize at the Handbell
Ringing Contest at Belle Vue.
September 17th, 1873 - Thomas Hamer
Ibbottson, master paper stainer, Hollin Cross Lane, died, aged
51.
September 25th, 1873 - Alderman John France died, born
September 8th, 1819.
October
4th, 1873 - A stone mason of Glossop cut his throat.
October 5th,
1873 - John McWilliam, tailor, of Norfolk Street, robbed of cloth and
made up clothes, value of £100.
October 16th, 1873 - Charles
Rowcroft, aged 11, Ludworth, killed by a cart
October
17th, 1873 - Ralph Hyde, cotton manufacturer, Clough House, died,
aged 61.
October
22nd, 1873 - Robert Winterbottom. Parish Clerk. Church Street, died,
aged 83.
November
12th, 1873 - A gold watch presented to Charles Beresford in
recognition of his valuable services as conductor of the Old Glossop
Prize Handbell Ringers.
November 29th, 1873 - Ellen Henrietta,
wife of T. W. Ellison, Town Clerk, and twin children died, at
Ryecroft House.
December 5th, 1873 - Joseph Wyatt, Blackshaw Farm,
aged 85, killed by falling down a stone pit at Glossop, left issue
James, John, Dorothy, Charles, Cephas, Mary Ann, Joseph, Thomas and
Ellen.
December 6th, 1873 - Presentation of an address in Dinting
Mill to Edmund Potter, Esq., on his retirement after 50 years
connection with Dinting Printworks.
December 17th, 1873 - John
Cooper, appointed a police constable, now Inspector.
December
27th, 1873 - Annie Muxaner, aged 12, pupil at the Convent, Old
Glossop, found drowned in a well at Old Glossop.
December 30th.
1873 - Samuel Thomas Booth, aged 13, Charlesworth, accidently
killed.
January 7th, 1874 - A child, William Turner, burnt to
death at Hadfield.
February 6th, 1874 - Samuel Thornley, aged 37,
Charlesworth, accidently killed.
April 17th, 1874 - Foot race at
the Snipe Inn, Ashton-under Lyne, between Alfred Pollitt, of Mottram,
and J. Watts, of Tintwistle, for £15; distance, 190 yards.
Pollitt won.
May 9th, 1874 - William Smith, retired grocer,
Borough House 71, High Street West, died aged 64; ex-Town Councillor.
June
3rd, 1874 - A labourer at Padfield hung himself.
June 22nd, 1874 -
Trustees of Hague's Endowed School decided to erect a granite tomb
over Mr. Joseph Hague's vault, at a cost of £140.
July 16th,
1874 - M.S. and L. Railway Act, for altering the Branch Railway at
Dinting, obtained
July 17th, 1874 - Elisabeth Ann, Matron, wife of
John Beeley, Workhouse Master, died, aged 64.
July 18th, 1874 -
Thomas Lofthouse, aged 18, drowned whilst bathing at Glossop.
July
25th, 1874 - Jonathan Bowden died. He built the Railway Inn and
adjoining cottages in Norfolk Street in 1838. For many rears the
Glossop Conservative Association Club. Now pulled down. New Club
being built.
September 17th, 1874 - Wakes Monday and Tuesday.
Cricket match, United South of England and 22 of Glossop. United
South, 121 (W. G. Grace 74), Glossop 89 and 69.
October 9th,1874 -
William Henry Charnock, aged 47, pensioner of 97th Regt. of foot,
died.
October
11th, 1874 - Ann Fuller, aged 1 year and 6 months, poisoned with
lucifer matches at Padfield.
October
18th. 1874 - Betty Moorhouse, aged 63, Padfield, died through
exposure to cold.
November
14th, 1874 - Michael Flanagan, night watchman, killed by a train at
Marple Station.
November 15th, 1874 - Wren Nest Mills breakdown,
600 workpeople stopped.
November 28th, 1874 - Dinting Vale Beef
Company formed, shares 10s. each, lasted 11 weeks.
December
3rd, 1874 - Elisa Harrop, aged 5, scalded to death at Mill Brow,
Mellor.
December 20th, 1874 - Tom Higginbottom, auctioneer, died,
aged 31.
January 6th, 1875 - Samuel Taylor, Postmaster at
Tintwistle, author of "Echoes of Glossop-Dale” died, aged
60.
January
11th, 1875 - Rev. John Clark, Roman Catholic Priest, Royle House,
Glossop, died aged 39.
January 14th, 1875 - Thomas Pattinson
Sykes, cotton manufacturer, Glossop, died, aged 70.
January 14th,
1875 - William Henry Hodgson appointed Chief Constable of
Glossop.
February 9th, 1875 - Old Glossop Handbell Ringers took
second prize at a handbell ringing contest in the Armoury,
Huddersfield.
February 11th, 1875 - Michael Conway, aged 58,
labourer, Hurst, starved to death.
February 12th, 1875 -
Councillor George Eastham, Hadfield, died.
February 13th, 1875 -
Euphonium contest at Stalybridge; Samuel Broadbent, of Glossop, won
the third prize.
February 13th, 1875 - Thomas Cooper, aged 60,
house agent, Talbot Street, died.
February 27th, 1875 - Last day
for applying for shares in the Hollingworth Cotton Spinning Company.
£12,000 shares of £5 each; capital, £60,000.
March
17th, 1875 - William Platt, Esq., aged 76, retired cotton
manufacturer, Greenfield Cottage, Padfield, died.
April 10th, 1875
- Sarah Kenyon, aged 5, accidentally killed at Charlesworth.
April
12th, 1875 - James Bennett, blacksmith, Glossop, aged 74, found dead
in bed.
April 12th, 1875 - An infant overlain at Hadfield.
April
12th, 1875 - A child found dead in bed at Hadfield.
April 24th,
1875 - John Sanderson, aged 11, accidentally killed at Woolley
Bridge.
April
27th, 1875 - John Sykes, cotton spinner, Hawkshead, died, aged
49.
April 4th, 1875 - Shepley Mill burned down, occupied by J.
Handforth and Son.
May 3rd, 1875 - Elizabeth Daniels, aged 3,
found drowned at Woolley Bridge.
May 13th, 1875 - Thomas
Wagstaffe, surveyor, 27 Norfolk Street, died, aged 56.
May
14th, 1875 - Rev. James Levermore, Roman Catholic priest, died at
Marple Bridge, aged 77.
May 17th, 1875 - Joseph Hadfield, of
Norfolk Street, died, aged 80. He bought Burgess's Cotton Mill by
auction for John Wood.
June 5th, 1875 - Joseph Holdgate, grocer.
High Street West, died.
June
8th,1875 - Fitzalan Street Unitarian Chapel opened. Built by Edmund
Potter.
June
10th, 1875 - Moses Hurst, formerly a shop keeper in Edward Street,
died, owned property at Charlestown, Bernard Street, and Edward
Street.
June
14th, 1875 - Public meeting in the Town Hall. Joseph Stafford, Esq.,
proposed, and Thos. Rhodes, Esq., seconded "It is desirable to
form a Rifle Corps."
June 16th, 1875 - H. C., a publican,
aged 61, drowned himself at Dinting.
July 4th, 1875 - John
Shepley, cotton manufacturer, Brookfield, died, aged 65.
July
24th, 1875 - Shepley Mill Cotton Manufacturing Co., floated, 12,000
shares at £5. Provisional directors: Joseph Stafford, cotton
spinner; Edward Partington, paper-maker; William Platt, cotton
manufacturer; John Armitage, coal merchant; Cephas Ernill, engineer;
William Thorpe, book-keeper; Eli Downe, gentleman; Joseph Buckley,
mill manager.
July 26th, 1875 - Joseph Dewsnap, formerly a waste
dealer in Milltown, died at Charlestown Road aged 71.
July
31st, 1875 - Holy Trinity Church, Dinting, consecrated.
August
1st, 1875 - Jane Garside, aged 47, housekeeper, Bankwood, burnt to
death.
August 7th, 1875 - Second Athletic Festival of "The
Whitfield Original Brass Band"
August 28th, 1875 - Hannah
Maria Gibson, aged 12, killed in a cotton mill, Glossop.
September
2nd, 1875 - Junction Inn let by Jacob Kay for seven years to Tom
Dutton, plumber.
November 1st, 1875 - The Sheffield to Glossop
Turnpike Trust expired. Act obtained 1818.
December 3rd, 1875 -
Cephas Ernill, engineer, 197 High Street West, died, aged 79, left a
son Cephas, who bequeathed £1,000 to Woods' Hospital.
December
10th, 1875 - Martha Slater, aged 10, housekeeper, Glossop, died
through dislocation of neck.
December 31st, 1875 - Waterside Mills
old lease surrendered and a new one for 999 years granted to T. H.
Sidebottom, Esq., J.P.
January 28th, 1876 - Burglary at Jonathan
Woodruffe's, Glossop.
January 30th, 1876 - Rev. Thomas Atkin,
Independent Minister, Glossop, died, aged 69.
February 6th, 1876 -
Albion Mills, Hollingworth, partly burned down.
March 22nd. 1876 -
Joseph Holdgate, grocer, High Street West, died suddenly, aged
28.
March 24th, 1876 - Mary McGarth shot at Hollingworth
Hall.
April 2rd, 1876 - Thomas Smith, aged 60, accidentally killed
at Padfield.
May 6th, 1876 - Glossop Volunteers first appeared in
uniform.
May
13th, 1876 - 23rd Derby Volunteers, Glossop, paraded in uniform,
entrained to Hadfield, marched to Tintwistle for drill, and were
entertained to dinner by James Sidebottom, Esq., J.P. Marched home
singing and whistling patriotic songs.
May 21st, 1876 - First
Church Parade of the Glossop Rifle Volunteers, 2rd. D.R.V., over 200
present.
May 23rd, 1876 - Mary Anne wife of Dr. W. W. Howard.
Norfolk Street, died.
May
23rd, 1876 - John Booth, cotton band manufacturer, Lee Vale. died.
aged 73.
June 17th, 1876 - Glossop Volunteers had their first
Battalion Drill at Stockport; on their return they amused themselves
by firing off their surplus blank cartridge in Hattersley
Tunnels.
June 22nd, 1876 - John Hadfield, Esq., Cotton Spinner,
Cowbrook, died, aged 69.
July 7th, 1876 - Isaac Hadfield, yeoman,
St. Mary's Road, died, aged 50.
July 21st, 1876 - First Rifle
Shooting Match in Glossop. Oldham Rifles 414, Glossop 412.
July
29th, 1876 - First Annual Inspection of the Glossop Rife Volunteer
Corps at Stockport.
August 7th, 1876 - George Lomas, aged 21,
weaver, accidently killed in Glossop.
August 8th, 1876 - First
Battalion Drill at the Pye Grove of the 2rd Derby Rife
Volunteers.
August 10th, 1876 - John Henry Kershaw, chemist, 1,
High Street West, died, aged 26.
August 19th, 1876 - Pte. George
Froggatt, Glossop Rifle Volunteer, buried with military honours at
St. James's Church, Whitfield.
August 26th, 1876 - So-called
Battle of Little Hayfield. The piano at the New Inn seriously wounded
by Glossop Volunteer bayonets.
September 15th, 1876 - Volunteer
Rifle Shooting. Russell's Silver Challenge Cup won by Pte. R.
Hamnett.
September 20th, 1876 - Thomas Fielding, licenced
victualler, aged 50, killed by falling down stairs.
October
13th, 1876 - George Whittaker, licenced victualler, Norfolk Arms,
died, aged 46.
October
17th, 1876 - A collier of Compstall Bridge, hung himself.
October
27th, 1876 - Whitfield Brewery and two cottages sold to Samuel
Clarkson, brewer, Barnsley.
October 27th, 1876 - John Pratt,
landlord Hare and Hounds Inn, Glossop, died.
November 1st, 1876 -
Elen Burgess, housekeeper, aged 74, killed by a trap in Station
Street during the Municipal Election.
November 1st, 1876 -
Turnpike Trust, Huddersfield to Woodhead expired.
November 14th,
1876 - David Quarmby, labourer, Glossop, aged 58, died through the
administration of chloroform.
December 1st, 1876 - First Prize
Presentation of the Glossop Volunteers, 28rd D.R.V., held at Whitheld
Church Schools. Tea given by Mrs. S. Wood. The prizes were presented
to winners by Lt. Col. Wilkinson.
December 23rd, 1876 - Abel
Atkin, professor of music, St. Mary's Road, died, aged 48.
January
14th, 1877 - John Handford, waterman, Cote Houses, Glossop, died,
aged 77. These houses have been pulled down.
January
26th, 1877 - Hannah Shaw, housekeeper, aged 67, killed at Compstall.
February
16th, 1877 - Miss Ann Howe, aged 73, Hall Street, and daughter of
Rey. Christopher Howe, died.
February 4th, 1877 - Sykes' Top Mill
burned down.
February 23rd, 1877 - John Jackson, aged 72, road
surveyor, Norfolk Street, died.
March 18th, 1877 - Wright
Harrison, aged 64, owner of Kinder Lee Mills, retired cotton
manufacturer, Chisworth, died after being confined to his house for
17 years.
March 28th, 1877 - Charles Hadfield, Hall Street, died,
aged 58.
May 8th, 1877 - Nancy Hollingworth, aged 69, died for
want of food at Hadfeld.
May 12th, 1877 - Glossop Volunteers went
to Adlington Park for Brigade Drill with the 2nd Cheshire
Militia.
June 16th, 1877 - John Booth, aged 14, drowned at
Compstall.
July 14th, 1877 - Termination of the Cricket Match - 15
of Casey and Mayo's Clown Cricketers and 14 of Glossop. Clowns' 1st
innings, 81; 2nd, 108 for 7 wickets. Glossop, 97. There were concerts
in the Town Hall on the Friday and Saturday evenings.
July 14th,
1877 - Sixth Annual Flower Show held in connection with the
Howardtown Mills' Reading Room.
August
6th, 1877 - John Wilson, of Chapel-en-le Frith, murdered by Irish
haymakers. Thomas McGowan got penal servitude for life, James Foy 15,
and John McGowan 7 years penal servitude.
August 14th, 1877 -
Lease of St. James' Hall and offices, built by Charles
Chambers.
September 9th, 1877 - Samuel Bennett, Yeoman, Simmondley
Lane, died, aged 73.
September 20th, 1877 - Street Watering Rate,
made, 4d. in the &.
October 13th, 1877 - Marble clock
presented to Rev F. Ashton. M.A., by the congregation of the Fitzalan
Street Unitarians.
October
15th, 1877 - A humorous cricket match at Pyegrove between 3 members
of the Royal Buffs (Messrs. T. Taylor, E. Buckley and G Goddard) and
three of the Road Side Wallopers (Messrs. J. Thornley, J. Wood and W.
Longson). Royal Buffs 11; Wallopers 10.
October
26th, 1877 - The Rev. Goodwin Purcell, for 38 years Vicar of St.
John's Church, Charlesworth, died, in his 69th year.
November 5th,
1877 - Nos. 11-15, Shrewsbury Street and bake house, built by Lake
Bramwell, confectioner, an old Crimean veteran, sold Sep. 16th, 1895,
to John William Eversden for £800.
December 7th, 1877 -
Ellen Wild, aged 52, housewife, Hadfield, killed on the railway.
January
21st, 1878 - Mary Rusby, widow of John Rusby, surgeon, died at the
Hurst, aged 81.
February
10th, 1878 - Quarter-Master George Ford, of the 23rd Derby R. Vol.,
schoolmaster of Hague's Endowed School, died, aged 30.
February
11th, 1878 - Wilf McMillan, aged 5, burnt to death at
Glossop.
February 14th, 1878. - Councillor Thomas Platt, Esq.,
retired cotton manufacturer, Padfield, died, aged 77.
February
17th, 1878 - Officers and men of the 23rd D.R. Vol. attended Whitheld
Church, in full uniform, accompanied by the Band, as a token of
respect to their late comrade, Quarter-Master Ford.
February 20th,
1878 - David Winterbottom, retired gamekeeper, Sheffield Road, died,
aged 84.
March
2nd, 1878 - Rev. Canon John Robert Charlesworth Miller inducted to
the Vicarage of Mottram-in-Longdendale.
March 7th, 1878 - George
Rhodes, aged 84, plasterer, killed at Dinting Printworks.
March
17th, 1878 - Henry Redditch, solicitor, High Street East, formerly of
Mottram, died, aged 42.
March 19th, 1878 - An old man, inmate of
Glossop Workhouse, cut his throat.
April 11th, 1878 - A man
sentenced to penal servitude for threatening to murder Lord
Howard.
April 15th, 1878 - Noah Bowker succeeded George Ford as
schoolmaster of Hague's Endowed School.
April 25th, 1878 - A man
at Tintwistle hung himself.
May
24th, 1878 - Date of lease of Nos. 2-10 Duke Street, freehold. Sold
to Robert Moss May 17th, 1887, for £925.
May 25th, 1878 - A
mad dog shot at Park Hall.
May
25th, 1878 - The 23rd D.R. Volunteers, under Captain Partington,
fired their first feu de joi in
celebration of Queen Victoria's birthday.
May 30th, 1878 -
Great thunderstorm in Glossop district. A chimney struck at the
Waterside Mills: loom smashed by one of the coping stones falling
upon it; twenty to thirty warps set on fire by the lightning. Shop
windows broken in Station Road, Hadfield.
May 31st, 1878 - Patrick
Nestor, aged 10, accidentally killed at Marple Bridge.
June 18th,
1878 - William Tomlinson, Turn Lee House, died, aged 82. He was
employed on the Glossop Estate all his life.
June 25th, 1878 -
J.D., aged 67, mill operative, Compstall Road, hung himself.
July
7th, 1878 - James Crossland, aged 33, Whitfield, killed by falling
down a coal drop. .
August 24th, 1878 - Charles, aged 9, and
Joseph Thompson, aged 12, accidentally drowned at Padfield.
September
7th, 1878 - Elisabeth Berry, aged 19, Whitfield, accidentally
killed.
September 25th, 1878 - Alderman John France died, born
September 8th, 1819.
October 5th, 1878 - John McWilliam, tailor,
of Norfolk Street, robbed of cloth and made-up clothes, value of
£100.
October
18th, 1878 - Rifle Shooting Match at Mossy Lee Rifle Range. 2nd
Manchester 378, 23rd Derby Rifle Volunteers. 354.
November
16th, 1878 – Harriett Stott, aged 11, Glossop, burned to
death.
March 27th, 1879 - John Swan, Assistant Overseer, Cross
Cliffe, died, aged 70.
April 25th, 1879 - Bridget Higgins, aged
40, a mill operative, died from a fractured skull at Marple
Bridge.
May 1st, 1879 - Highway Trust expired of the road from
Glossop to Clayland's Gate.
May 10th, 1879 - James Roberts, aged
59, killed at Glossop Station.
May
18th, 1879 - James Neal, aged 27, killed by a cart wheel passing over
him at Glossop.
May 25th, 1879 - Farewell Sermon at St. James's.
Whitfield, by Rev. W. V. Handle, the curate.
May
31st, 1879 - The Temperance Hall, St. James' Hall and four cottages
bought by auction by the Glossop Liberal Club for £1,500.
May,
1879 - Water Mill, Old Glossop, burnt down.
June 12th, 1879 - Date
of leases of houses in Cottage Lane; sold February 2nd, 1898, to Abel
Harrison, two for £340 and five for £322 10s. 0d.
July
26th, 1879 - Fourth Annual Inspection of the Glossop Rifle Volunteer
Corps at Adlington Park.
August 11th, 1879 - Four houses in
Dinting Lane sold by auction at the Norfolk Arms Hotel to Elizabeth
Platt, for £370; and five houses to Joseph Castle, for £315
15s. 0d.
August 13th, 1879 - Notices were given at Mersey and
Hadfield Mills, and at Padfield Mill, of a reduction of 5 per cent.
in wages, making 20 per cent. altogether. The leading mills in
Glossop running four days per week. There was general reduction of 20
per cent. in wages in all the mills in the district.
August
18th, 1879 - A man named Bennett, killed at the Aspenshaw Colliery by
a fall of roof.
August
23rd, 1879 - "Ashton Reporter" of this date says, Sumner's
having been stopped a fortnight for the Wakes, have posted up a
notice to pay off all their hands on Friday.
September 5th, 1879 -
A druggist at Marple Bridge poisoned himself.
September 20th, 1879
- Valentine Dewsnap, journeyman tailor, 100 Victoria Street, died
aged 80.
October 15th, 1879 - James Coupe, aged 77, retired cotton
master, Charlesworth, died.
November
1st, 1879 – Manchester to Hyde and Mottram Turnpike Trust
expired. Bredbury to Mottram Highway Trust expired.
November 6th,
1879 - Meeting of the Glossop Cricket Club to arrange for a new field
at Spire Hollin.
November 6th, 1879 - John Ashton, draper, High
Street West, died, aged 69.
November 7th, 1879 - Government
enquiry at the Town Hall over the proposed purchase of the
waterworks.
November 8th, 1879 - Distress, collected in Glossop
for relief £1,070.
December
5th, 1879 - William Garside, aged 60, labourer, accidentally killed.
December
13th, 1879 - William Wardlow Howard, surgeon, 28, Norfolk Street,
died, aged 65.
December 13th, 1879 - John Slack, gentleman, died
at the Swan, Inn, Glossop, aged 64.
December 16th, 1879 -
Margaret, widow of William Bramhall, cotton manufacturer, died at the
Hurst, aged 72.
Return to top
1880 to 1889.
February
9th, 1880 - New cricket ground commenced on.
March 27th, 1880 -
Good Friday, Foundation Stones laid of the Padfield Wesleyan Chapel
by J. Sargentson, Esq., Senr., James Sargentson, James Rose, W.
Fielding, and W. Crowther.
April
7th, 1880 - The last carriages of the train that was destroyed at Tay
Bridge on December 28th, were recovered from the river.
June 8th,
1880 - The Glossop Volunteers were measured for new uniforms, the
title of the Corps being changed from the 23rd Derbyshire Rifle
Volunteers to L, M and N Companies of the 4th Administrative
Battalion Cheshire Volunteers.
June
13th, 1880 - St. James the Less, a chapel of ease to St. George's
Church, Now Mills, opened by the Vicar, the Rev. F. W. Newman. It was
consecrated on the 11th by the Right Rev. D. W. Maclagan, D.D., Lord
Bishop of Lichfield. The chapel was erected by John Mackie, Esq., as
a memorial to Mrs. Mackie's parents.
July 17th, 1880 - Sham Fight
at Coombs Rocks - Glossop against the Stockport Rifle
Volunteers.
July 31st, 1880 - Fifth Annual Inspection of the
Glossop Rife Volunteer Corps at Brabyne Hall Park, Marple.
July
31st, 1880 - Last cricket match on old ground, Norfolk Street.
Glossop 43, Pitsmoor 66.
August 6th, 1880 - A detachment of the
Glossop Volunteers went to Aldershot, where their behaviour and drill
gave every satisfaction to the military authorities who came in
contact with them.
August 9th, 1880 - First match played on the
new cricket ground, Spire Hollin. Dr. W. H. Hunt bowled the first
ball, and George Williamson got the first wicket. The match was with
Casey's Clown Cricketers Who got 32 first innings and 90 in the
second. Glossop 61 and 47, a drawn match.
August 19th, 1880 -
Presentation to Samuel Collier, manager of Mersey Mills, who was
leaving to become the landlord of the Rose and Crown Inn, High Street
West. "Presented to Samuel Collier on the occasion of his
leaving Mersey Mills, tea and coffee service, cruet stand, one dozen
tea spoons, and a pair of sugar tongs, as a token of respect by the
minders, warpers, twisters, and slashers, of Mersey Mills, with an
earnest hope that he may live long to use them; also two pictures of
the mill by Thomas Rhodes, J.P.
January 18th, 1881 - George
Hampson machinist. Mechanics Arms, Glossop, died.
February 10th,
1881 - Albert Robinson, sentenced to death at Derby Assizes for
murdering his wife, Jane Elisa Robinson, on October 2nd, 1880, at No.
62, Station Road, Hadfield.
February
10th, 1881 - Henry Blackwell, of Arundel Street, found dead on the
highway near the Chunal Plantation.
February 28th, 1881 - Albert
Robinson hung for the murder of his wife.
October 13th 1881 -
Grand Bazaar in the Town Hall in aid of the Glossop Cricket Club.
October
26th, 1881 - Tenders for the Hadfield drainage, 3,224 yards, to be in
by this date.
November 17th, 1881 – Charles John Hadfield,
architect, Holly Mount, Norfolk Street, died, born June 12th,
1816.
February 14th, 1882 - Fire at Slacks' paper mill, Hayfield,
damage £200.
May 27th, 1882 - Glossop Volunteers went to
camp at St. Annes on the Sea. Their first encampment.
August 27th,
1882 - The first number of "The Glossop Express" published
by Albert Edward Schofield, Railway Street.
September
22nd, 1882 - Slight fire at Kinder Lea.
October 20th 1882 - Maria,
wife of James Rhodes, surgeon, Glossop, died aged 52.
January
7th, 1883 - Two servant girls suffocated at the Littlemoor Manse.
April
24th, 1883 - Lord Francis Edward Fitzalan Howard married Clara
Louisa, eldest daughter of Major Greenwood, of Swarcliffe Hall,
Harrogate.
May 7th, 1883 - Edwin Bredbury, clerk at Turn Lee, died
at Millmoor Terrace, aged 48.
May 13th, 1883 - Glossop Volunteers
went to St. Anne's-on-Sea. Their second encampment.
July
5th, 1883 - Date of lease of Zion Chapel. Trustees: William Parker,
Brookfield, gentleman: David Mayhall, Queen Street, carder; George
Hallam, Brookfield, oat cake baker; Joseph Knowles, Hollingworth,
spinner; Benjamin Handforth, Hollingworth, grocer; Thomas Kennedy.
Openshaw, clerk; John Roberts 32 Charles Street, machine printer;
Joseph Hannifer, High Street West, mechanic: James Hancock, High
Street West, roller polisher; Joseph Youll, Dinting Vale, contractor;
John Horrocks, Brookfield, white room hand; William Greensmith
Hollingworth, Simmondly Lane, clerk; William Jepson, Dinting Vale,
dyer; William Cockayne, Gamesley Road, warehouseman; Thomas Anderton,
Dinting Vale, joiner; Ralph Shorrocks, Primrose Lane, colour shop;
John Henry Warhurst, Newton Heath, gentleman.
October 26th, 1883 -
Edmund Potter, F.R.S., born January 25th, 1802, died. Will proved
January 17th, 1884, left £440,000.
November 1st 1883 -
Gamesley to Woolley Bridge Trust expired.
November 1st, 1883 - T.
M. Ellison, junior, walked from the Norfolk Arms, Glossop, to
the Norfolk Arms, Marple Bridge, in one hour and four minutes,
winning a wager of £290 by 11 minutes to spare.
November
1st, 1883 - William Sheppard being the only person legally nominated
for St. James' Ward, was returned unopposed. The Liberal nomination
papers were bad.
November 4th, 1883 - Henry Slater Lancaster,
Wheat Sheaf Inn, Wellgate, died.
November 6th, 1883 - The contents
of the gardens of Messrs. Turners', Cross Cliffe, sold by
auction.
November 11th, 1883 - Foundation stone of Brookfield
Chapel laid by William Shepley, Esq.
December 1st, 1883 - Lord
Edward George Fitzalan Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Glossop, died at
Rutland Gate, London, aged 65.
January 3rd, 1884 - Richard
Townend, a pensioner, and three other persons suffocated by an escape
of gas at Cross Cliffe.
May 31st, 1884 - Glossop Volunteers to St.
Annes-on Sea - 3rd encampment.
June 12th, 1884 - Francis James
Sumner, J.P., D.L .. , cotton manufacturer, Glossop, died suddenly in
London; born December 22nd, 1807.
July 31st, 1884 - Capt. W.
Sidebottom obtained Captains certificate of proficiency at the school
of instruction at Wellington Barracks, London. August 30th. 1884,
ditto for Field Officer.
September 20th, 1884 - Wright Hall, aged
45 quarryman, Hayfield, killed in a stone quarry.
September 22nd,
1884 - Howard Brothers, hand-bell ringers, won the 5th, prize at the
30th annual hand-bell ringing contest at Belle
Vue.
September 26th, 1884 - John Senior, painter, 8 Surrey Street,
fell from a ladder at Deepclough Farmhouse and died on the
28th.
September 27th, 1884 - Elisabeth, aged 31, wife of Walter
Fielding, Norfolk Street, killed by falling downstairs.
September
29th, 1884 - William Lomas, aged 5, killed by falling down the rocks
at Best Hill Railway Viaduct.
October 2nd, 1884 - James Beeley,
Edward Street, died, aged 69. He was for 30 years the Workhouse
Master.
October 4th, 1884 - Mary Emma Hayes, aged 22, a weaver,
found drowned in one of Wood's reservoirs.
October 11th, 1884 -
William Shepley, Esq., J.P., cotton master, Brookfield, robbed of a
gold presentation watch at a Liberal Demonstration at Chatsworth.
October
13th, 1884 - Henry Patchett, butcher, Hadfield, had his house robbed
by an ex-Salvation Army Captain.
October
14th, 1884 - A mad dog was killed at Mottram.
October
17th, 1884 - Sudden death of Mrs Timperley of the Crown Inn,
Woodhead.
November
2nd, 1884 - A young woman tried to drown herself in the Shaw Lane
Reservoir.
November 7th, 1884 - The Glossop dale Photographic
Society held their first Annual Meeting in the Coffee Palace, High
Street West.
November
11th, 1884 - Levi Pennington, retired pawnbroker, Norfolk Street,
died, aged 62.
December 4th, 1884 - Bazaar at St. Andrew's Church
School, Hadfield, to raise funds for the erection of a parsonage
house.
December 6th, 1884 - Joseph Ogley, aged 70, drowned in the
"Cotton Goyt,". Padfield.
December 26th, 1884 - James
Beeley, Howard Arms Inn, died, aged 71.
December
27th, 1884 - Marie Mason, aged 63, Charlestown Road, killed by
falling down the stairs.
December 29th. 1884 - Goods train from
Grimsby ran off the railway line at Crowden, 17 trucks derailed and
smashed.
December 30th, 1884 - John Schofield Greenfield, who had
been missing three weeks, was found dead on the Woodhead
Moors.
December 31st, 1884 - John Tynsley Garside, aged 47, found
dead on the “Mud." Mottram.
January 2nd, 1885 - Joseph
Ratcliffe, aged 78, drowned in the canal at Marple.
January 20th,
1885 - Lecture at the Town Hall by Mr. Edwin Richmond, on a new
system of building societies “Richmond Building
Society."
February 18th, 1885 - Woods' working short time,
8-0 a.m. to 4 p.m.
March 23rd, 1885 - John Booth, aged 72, killed
falling downstairs at Sheffield Road.
April
15th, 1885 - Joe Senior, overlooker at Waterside Mills, fell down the
hoist and was seriously injured.
April
24th, 1885 - Fire at Miller's, grocer, High Street West, damage
£500.
April 25th, 1885 - Waterside Mills on full time, 4,000
employed, wage account £2,500 per week.
April 30th, 1885 -
Bazaar at Brookfield, opened by W. S. Rhodes, Esq., realised
£250.
May 10th, 1885 - Bernard Edward Fitzalan Howard, son
and heir of Lord Howard of Glossop born; baptised May 12th at 19
Rutland Gate.
May 23rd, 1885 - Glossop Volunteers to Altcar 4th
encampment.
June
1st, 1885 - Dinner in the Drill Hall to 100 tenant farmers and
workpeople of Lord Howard's of Glossop to celebrate the birth of a
son and heir.
June 4th, 1885 - Accident to a goods train at
Woodhead Tunnels.
June 26th,
1885 - Miss Shepley died at Torkington, aged 70. The Shepley's
removed from Shepley Street when the lease of the mill expired.
August
12th, 1885 - Full time commenced at Woods' Mill, Sumner's still
stopped.
August 15th, 1885 - First Athletic Sports at
Mottram.
August 28th, 1885 - Presentation of an address to Thomas
Jennings Fothergill, for 28 years an employee of Dinting Print Works,
who was leaving to go as manager of the Broad Oak Print
Works.
September 6th, 1885 - George Garlick, aged 62, hawker, of
Cross Cliffe, found dead in his home.
September 8th, 1885 - Nos.
40-46, Duke Street and No. 13 Hadfield Street, sold to John Williams,
of Brookfield, for £700, lease dates from 1883.
September
19th, 1885 - Newly formed Glossop Agricultural Society held their
first show in Pyegrove Field and Drill Mall. £250 in
prizes.
September 19th, 1885 - Jas. Sidebottom, Esq., Mayor,
presented at the Rose and Crown Inn, on behalf of the members of the
Glossop Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, a cheque for
£100 to Lee Broadbent, formerly a mechanic at Dinting
Printworks, who was unable to follow his usual employment owing to
illness.
September 19th, 1885 - Buxton Market Hall destroyed by
fire.
September 19th, 1885 - Sarah Arnfield, aged 65, Torr Top.
New Mills, fell down stairs and fatally injured herself.
September
21st, 1885 - Messrs. Marsland Brothers, of Broadbottom Cotton
Spinners, commenced work at their mill, after being closed six
months; and the Hodge Printworks worked a full week , the first time
for twelve months.
October 7th, 1885 - Joshua Rowbottom, aged 69,
found hanging on a tree at Compstall Gardens.
November 9th, 1885 -
Monstre Conservative Meeting in the Drill Hall, principal speaker C.
H. M. Wharton, Esq. The platform collapsed and John Downs had his leg
broken.
November 16th, 1885 - Francis Sumner and Co., Ltd.,
Registered. Capital £108,000 in £50 shares.
November
18th, 1885 - Alarming fire at Glossop Hall.
December 3rd, 1885 -
High Peak Election. Major Sidebottom, 4,199; J. F. Cheetham, 4,190.
All Saints Register 1,060, polled 976; St. James's Register 1,456,
polled 1,336; Hadfield Register 1,171, polled 1,060. Expenses:
Sidebottom, £1.306 17s. 10d .; Cheetham, £966 11s. 3d.
December
9th, 1885 - Robert Braddock, for 34 years postman, fell in Bernard
Street and died immediately. Born September 3rd, 1813, he was the son
of Thomas Braddock, druggist.
December 10th, 1885 - A furnace
exploded at Blackwell's Foundry, George Street, the loud report
startled the people of Glossop.
December 17th, 1885 - Tom Cannon
seriously injured by unknown persons at his residence, Yorkshire
Street.
December 21st, 1885 - Two new bells placed in Mottram
Church, rang for the first time. The old ones were 60 years
old.
December 24th, 1885 - William Bennett, killed and Robert
Henry Newton injured in a hoist accident at Turn Lee Paper
Mills.
January 5th, 1886 - Mr. T. W. Melbourne, station-master,
Glossop, died aged 38.
January
11th, 1886 - W. J. Horsey, of Bolton, appointed schoolmaster, Holy
Trinity Church Day School.
January 12th, 1886 - The streets very
slippery. A weaver named Cuthbert, and a youth fell and fractured a
leg each by falling.
January 12th, 1886 - Fashionable ball in the
Town Hall, in aid of the Cottage Hospital.
January 14th, 1886 -
First annual meeting of the Holingworth Conservative Club.
January
18th, 1886 - Sudden death of John Howard, farmer, Ashes.
January
24th. 1886 - A labouring Man cut his throat in Thorncliffe Wood.
January
28th, 1886 - The Buxton Conservative Association had a grand soiree
in the Pavilion in honour of the return of Captain W. Sidebottom as
the Member for the High Peak.
January 28th, 1886 .-- William
Wyatt, aged 50, one of the proprietors of the Charlestown
Bleachworks, died.
January 31st, 1886 - Presentation of a silver
watch to David Harris, one of the superintendents of the Tabernacle
Sunday School, on the occasion of leaving Glossop to reside at
Marple.
February 6th, 1886 - The second annual tea party given by
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rawstorne to the old folks, was held in the All
Saints' Church Schools.
February 6th, 1886 - William Kelsall, aged
72, a well known saddler, died.
February 8th, 1886 - John Massey,
aged 69, farmer at Warhurst Fold, died through injuries received in
falling down the cellar steps of the "Quiet Gill Inn,"
Broadbottom, on the 1st.
February 8th, 1886 - A heron caught at
Hayfield.
February 9th, 1886 - Railway accident at Torr Side,
great damage to the rolling stock.
February 10th, 1886 - An
address presented by the members of the Glossop Town Council to James
Sidebottom, Esq., ex-Mayor.
February
13th, 1886 - An Irishman sentenced to 18 mouths' imprisonment at
Derby for stabbing Patrick Scurry at Hadfield, on December
20th.
February 17th, 1886 - Mrs. Shellard, Mottram Old Hall, died,
aged 74.
February 20th, 1886 - Presentation of a time-piece to
Major Lingard on his retirement, after 25 years' service with the
Chapel-en-le-Frith Rifle Volunteers.
February 20th, 1886 - A
detachment of the Salvation Army arrived in Glossop.
February
20th, 1886 - A Conservative tea party to commemorate the return of
Captain W. Sidebottom, M.P.
February 22nd, 1886 - Poll in the
Glossop Union for or against the triennial Election of Guardians.
Result: For. 2,639; against, 879.
February.
23rd, 1886 - The members of the Glossop Property Owners' Association
met at the Coffee Palace and paid their first subscription to the
Association.
February 27th, 1886 - The second annual tea party of
the Glossop Rifle Volunteer Corps Band, held in the new Band Room,
Wood Street.
March 1st, 1886 - Election of two Elective Auditors
and two Assessors. Result :- Assessors : Fletcher Rigge, 138; Abel
Cooper, 43; John Hurst. 17. Auditors: Samuel Fielding, 113; Alfred
Leech, 66; James Platt, 31.
March 1st, 1886 - Heavy fall of
snow.
March 4th, 1886 - Under the auspices of the "Glossop
Natural Science Association," Mr. D. J. Isherwood, of
Ashton-under-Lyne, gave a lecture on "Cotton, its treatment and
interest," in Talbot Street Schools.
March 4th, 1886 - Mr.
Ludlam, 11 years' station master at Oughtibridge, commenced his
duties as station master at Glossop.
March
7th, 1886 - William Wood, aged 70, accidently burned to death at the
Glossop Workhouse.
March 8th, 1886 - A fire took place at
Chapel-en-lo-Frith Town Hall.
March 9th, 1886 - The first Annual
dinner of the Glossop Agricultural Society took place at the Station
Inn.
March 19th, 1886 - Christopher Bennett, aged 53, Shaw Lane,
killed at Mouselow Quarry, a stone falling on him.
March 20th,
1886 - Whaley Bridge Conservative Club and Primrose League Habitation
opened.
March
23rd, 1886 - Captain W. Sidebottom, 4th Cheshire Regiment Volunteers,
promoted to Major.
March 26th, 1886 - The Buxton Literary and
Philosophical Society formed.
March 27th, 1886 - William Shepley,
Esq., J.P., resigned his position an Vice President of the High Peak
Liberal Association.
March 31st, 1886 - The First Annual Soiree of
the Glossop Richmond Building Society held in the Littlemoor School
Rooms.
April 3rd, 1886 - Capt. E. Partington appointed the
Chairman of the High Peak Liberal Association.
April 3rd, 1886 -
The Ludworth and Compstall Conservative Club opened at
Compstall.
April 5th, 1886 - Gas explosion at the Masons Arms,
Hadfield.
April
6th, 1886 - Charles Bush, platelayer, killed by an express train at
Crowden Station.
April 9th, 1886 - Trap accident at Hollingworth
Head, Mrs. Merethams and Miss Seal, of Park Hall, seriously
injured.
April 10th, 1886 - Hollingworth Conservative Club opened
by John Arthur Sidebottom, Esq.
April
12th, 1886 - William Storer, an infant, found dead in bed at Woolley
Bridge.
April 12th, 1886 - The first Triennial Election of
Guardians for the Parish of Glossop :- E. Partington, 2,398; T.
McKnight, 2,178; Rev. C. B. Ward, 2,122; H. Rhodes. 2,060; W. Dawson,
2055; L. Darwent, 1,983; J. Sargentson, 1,928; T. Hampson, 1,908; W.
Sargentson, 1,899; R. Proctor, 1,874; H. C. Hardman, 1,809; Rev. W.
J. Canton, 1,798; T. Holroyd, 1,789; W. Pilkington, 1,766. Not
elected: S. Sidebottom, 1,672; J. Buckley, 1,670; S. Rowbottom,
1,665.
April 13th, 1886 - John Bennett fatally injured in a quarry
at Hayfield.
April 16th, 1886 - Singular accident at Bridge Mille,
a loom drawn up by a strap; a young man, William Davis,
injured.
April 21st, 1886 - Capt. E. Partington appointed the
Chairman of the Board of Guardians.
April 21st, 1886 - Bazaar
opened at the Primitive Methodist School by Capt. E.
Partington.
April 21st, 1886 - Notices given that Platts' and
Rhodes' Mills, Hadfeld and Padfield, would work on Good Friday.
April
23rd, 1886 - A man of Shaw Lane died through drinking raw
spirits.
May 4th, 1886 - Banquet and ball in the Town Hall, held
by the junior members of the Glossop Conservative Association, to
celebrate the return of Major Sidebottom as Member for the
Division.
May 10th, 1886 - H. Battery. 2nd Brigade, R. H.
Artillery arrived at Glossop from Sheffield en route for
Fleetwood.
May 18th, 1886 - P. Battery. 4th Brigade R.H. Artillery
arrived at Glossop from Sheffield, en route to Fleetwood.
May
18th, 1886 - Quarter Master Sergeant James Hopwood died.
May 22nd,
1886 - Corner stone of a new Liberal Club at Hollingworth laid by the
Rev. H. E. Dowson B.A., of Gee Cross.
May
24th, 1886 - Lieut. John Walton, of the Glossop Volunteers, died; he
was a Councillor. Also was buried with Military honours
Quarter-Master Sergt. J. Hopwood.
May 29th, 1886 - Lieut. John
Walton buried with Military honours at St. James', Whitfield.
June
6th, 1886 - Lecture to the Buxton Literary and Philosophical Society
by Professor Boyd Dawkins. M.A.. F.R.S., F.G.S., on "The rocks
round Buxton, and the source of the tepid springs."
June
8th, 1886 - The Borough Police Force was inspected by the Hon. C. J.
Legge, Inspector of Constabulary, who recommended that the Police
Force be immediately increased in numbers.
June
9th, 1886 - Castleton Conservative Club and “Hope Valley
Habitation” of the Primrose League opened by H. A. Hubbersty.
Esq., J.P.
June
11th, 1886 - One hundred and two communicants confirmed at All Saints
Church by the Bishop of Southwell.
June
11th, 1886 – The new burial ground, given last year by Mr and
Mrs S Wood of Talbot House, to the St. James' Church was
consecrated.
June 12th, 1886 - Glossop Volunteers to Deganwy. 5th
encampment.
June
14th, 1886 - Harry Proctor, aged 13, drowned at New Mills.
June
16th, 1886 - Joseph Smith, a marker on the Chapel-en-le-Frith Rifle
Range, injured by a bullet.
June 18th, 1886 - Glossop Volunteers
inspected by Colonel Paton.
June 19th, 1886 - The Charlesworth
Sick and Burial Club dissolved. Each member received over £21.
June
21st, 1886 - T.W., a painter, committed suicide by throwing himself
under a train at Hadfield.
June
23rd, 1886 - Tom Harrop Sidebottom M.P., married Miss Edith
Murgatroyd at St. George's, Hanover Square, London. His employees at
Waterside Mills presented him with a handsome ormolu drawing-room
clock and ornaments.
June 23rd, 1886 - Miss Sarah Alice Nesbitt
Rhodes, the only daughter of Dr. James Rhodes, the Medical Officer of
Health, was married to H. Wild, Esq., at St. James's, Whitfield.
June
26th, 1886 - Alice Ann Beaumont and her two children killed by a
railway train at Woodhead.
July
1st, 1886 - Bazaar opened at Tintwistle by James Sidebottom, Esq., in
aid of funds to build a new wall around the church wall.
July
7th, 1886 - Coun. Daniel Haigh Hesslegrave married Miss Hatch, at the
Cathedral, Liverpool.
July 9th, 1886 - Charlotte Ogden injured in
a Card Room at Waterside Mills.
July 9th, 1886 - High Peak
Parliamentary Election. William Sidebottom, 4,162. Herbert Rhodes,
4,001. Number of votes polled in Glossop: All Saints 962, St. James'
1,297, Hadfield 1,005; equal to 80 per cent on the Register.
July
10th, 1886 - M. R. B., aged 22, a winder, drowned herself in the
Ashes Lodge.
July 10th, 1886 - The Glossop Volunteer Band won the
first prize of £25 cash and two new instruments, value of £37
16s. 0d., at a Brass Band Contest at Belle Vue Gardens. 19 Bands
competed.
July
13th, 1886 - Esther, wife of Samuel Bowden, Heath, died
suddenly.
July 16th, 1886 - The Seventh Annual Show of the
Glossop-Dale Horticultural Society opened in the Drill Hall, Glossop,
by the Mayor, Wm. Dawson, Esq.
July 17th, 1886 - Foundation Stones
laid of a new Wesleyan Chapel at Compstall, estimated Cost £995.
July
21st, 1886 - Robert Beeley, of Strines, found drowned in the Peak
Forest Canal at New Mills.
July 23rd, 1886 - Accident to a goods
train in Woodhead Tunnel.
July 28th, 1886 - Coun. W. Sargentson
suggested to the Council names for twenty streets that were not named
in Hadfield. The list was agreed to by the Council.
July 31st,
1886. Monstre pic-nic of Conservatives from Stalybridge at Etherow
House, over 5,000 present. Presentation of a writing desk to T. H.
Sidebottom, Esq.
August 5th, 1886 - Jane Elkin, aged 74, died
suddenly in Platt Street, Padfield.
August 11th, 1886 - Mrs. Grace
Bouler, who had lived over 50 years in the Ivy Cottage, Norfolk
Street, died, aged 96.
August 19th, 1886 - The 13th Annual Horse
Show was held at Buxton. Prizes value £220 awarded.
August
20th, 1886 - Mary Ellen Eldred, aged 14, of Smithy Fold, died through
the effects of burns inflicted over five months previously.
August
21st, 1886 - High Peak Parliamentary expenses published. Major
Sidebottom, M.P., £1,255 12s .; Herbert Rhodes, Esq. £1,078
1s. 10d.
August: 28th, 1886 - Extension of St. Paul's Church,
Compstall. Corner stone of Chancel laid by Mrs. Woodmas: The
foundation stone of. the Church was laid by George Andrew, Esq., in
1840.
August 30th, 1886 - Hadfield Harmonic Society
re-established.
August 30th, 1886 - John Layland commenced his
duties as schoolmaster of St. John's Day School, Charlesworth.
August
30th, 1886 - Annie Cooper, aged 3, scalded to death at Hayfield, by
falling into a pan of boiling water.
September 1st, 1886 - James
Adams, aged 48, killed at New Mills through the wheels of a lurry
passing over him.
September
3rd, 1886 - William Reece, a well-known Hadfield Wesleyan, died
suddenly in Church Street, Hadfeld.
September 4th, 1886 - William
Shepley presented with a silver salver, 80oz in weight, at New Mills
Public Hall. " Presented to William Shepley, Esq., J.P., by the
Liberal electors of the Northern Division of the County of Derby, in
recognition of his long and valued services as Chairman of the
Division, and to the Liberal cause generally. 28th August,
1886."
September 4th, 1886 - The Hadfield Brass Band obtained
the 2nd prize for quick-step at a Brass Band Contest at Cadishead,
Lancashire. Their first award at any contest.
September 4th, 1886
- The first annual pic-nic of the Glossop, Hayfield, and District
Habitation of the Primrose League took place at Belle Vue Gardens,
1,500 present. Principal speakers, Lord Harries (Under Secretary of
State), Trevor White, Esq., and Booth Barry, Esq.
September 5th,
1886 - A new organ, the gift of Mrs. Shepley, was opened at the
Brookfield Congregational Chapel. The organ was built by Mr. J. G.
Binns, of Bromley, Leeds, and contains 1,158 pipes.
September
6th, 1886 - The Glossop Volunteer Band obtained the 6th prize at the
34th annual Brass Band Contest, at Belle Vue. 20 bands
competed.
September 13th, 1886 - Hannah Walton, widow, aged 44,
died suddenly in High Street East.
September 13th, 1886 -
Excavation for a new Day School was commenced at Post Street,
Padfield.
September 16th, 1886 - Joshua Platt, aged 37, formerly
in the Royal Artillery, found drowned in the River Etherow, at
Tintwistle.
September 18th, 1886 - Second Annual Show of the
Glossop Agricultural Society opened at Pye Grove, 1,200 entries, £400
in prizes.
September 27th, 1886 - Edward Pickford, grocer, aged
62, Little Hayfield, killed by a railway train at New Mills
Station.,
September 27th, 1886 - John Boardman, aged 49, watchmen
at Kinder Printworks, found drowned in the river at Hayfield.
October
2nd, 1886 - New Liberal Club opened at Hollingworth by W. S. Rhodes,
Esq. Cost £600.
October
5th, 1886 - Lecture in the Town Hall by Mr. Norbury Williams,
President of the Manchester Ratepayers Association, on "Our duty
as Burgesses and Ratepayers.". The chairman was Capt. E.
Partington.
October 6th, 1886 - H. G. Maulkinson, of Hadfeld,
appointed District Rate Collector at a salary of £80 per
annum.
October 19th, 1886 - Reopening of Littlemoor Independant
Chapel after alterations.
October
21st, 1886 - Primitive Methodist Bazaar, at Waterside, opened by
Herbert Rhodes Esq.
October
22nd, 1886 - George Dutton, aged 15, died through injuries received
by falling from scaffold in Sumner's Memorial Roman Catholic
Church.
October 27th, 1886 - Herbert Rhodes, Esq., offered the
Glossop Town Council £2,000 towards the erection of a public
building to commemorate the jubilee of Queen Victoria.
November
1st, 1886 - Thornsett Turnpike Trust expired. The toll houses were
much damaged by a mob.
November 4th, 1886 - A meeting was held in
the Town Hall, at which it was announced that Mr. Daniel Wood was
prepared to give £25,000 for the building and endowment of a
hospital, to be called "The Wood's Hospital," also that Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Wood would build baths. Captain E. Partington
promised to give £2,000 towards a public library and
hall.
November 6th, 1886 - The new Tintwistle Conservative Club
opened by James Sidebottom, Esq., J.P.
November 9th, 1886 -
Exhibition of gas appliances in the Drill Hall.
November 9th, 1886
- Alderman James Sidebottom elected Mayor of Glossop for the seventh
time.
November 10th, 1886 - William Charlesworth, for 18 years
Station Master at Dinting, was promoted to Grimsby Dock Station and
was succeeded by Mr. Vernon, from Penistone Station
November 11th,
1886 - At an adjourned meeting in the Town Hall in reference to the
gifts promised to the town, it was stated that Mr. and Mrs. S. Wood
would give £10,000, for Baths and endowment, and £5,000
for a Park. Lord Howard of Glossop giving 12 acres of land for that
purpose.
November 11th, 1886 - Third Annual Swimming Gala at
Woods' Baths. The 150 yards ladies amateur record of 2 minutes 48
seconds, broken by Miss Maud Howard, of Leigh, by 8 seconds.
November
15th, 1886 - The new entrance to Glossop Hall completed.
November
18th, 1886 - The Old Toll houses at New Mills were sold by auction
for £33 6s. 6d.
November 26th, 1886 - James Statham, foreman
in the warehouse department Dinting Printworks, died suddenly, aged
50.
December 1st, 1886 - Mersey Mills first illuminated with the
electric light.
December 4th, 1886 - Broadbottom Conservative Club
opened by J. W. Sidebotham, Esq., M.P.
December 9th, 1886 -
William Purviss Gibbs, one of the partners of the Kinder Printworks
Co., Hayfield, died, aged 54.
December 14th, 1886 - The
re-organised Hadfield Harmonic Society gave a Concert in the Wesleyan
Day School.
December 18th, 1886 - Christmas Tree and Sale of Work
opened by the Rev. W. L. Roberts at the Hadfeld United Methodist Free
Church.
December
22nd, 1886 - Miss Ella Louisa Knowles, second daughter of the Rev. J.
D. Knowles, Vicar of Glossop, married to George Gordon McConnell, of
Dinting.
December 26th, 1886 - Howardtown Wesleyan Chapel, High
Street West, re-opened after alterations and enlargement of the
organ. Preacher, Rev. I. Wilson, of Liverpool.
December 26th, 1886
- The Thornsett Brow Colliery re-opened after being closed for over
27 years.
December 29th, 1886 - Death of Joseph Robson of the
Church Inn, Tintwistle, aged 60. He was, for over 20 year the
conductor of the Hadfield Harmonic Society. Organist for 6 years at
Christ Church and 12 years at St. Charles Roman Catholic Church,
Hadfield. He was the composer of several hymns, tunes and anthems.
December
30th. 1886 - Alfred James Brown and Frederick Arthur Sherrard, boys,
drowned through the ice breaking at the Lightwood reservoir,
Buxton.
January 1st, 1887 - Matthew Higginbottom, platelayer,
killed by a railway train at New Mills.
January
12th, 1887 - A child, named Oakley, scalded to death at New Mills, by
a cup of tea.
January 14th, 1887 - Edward Platt, Bank House,
Padfield, died, aged 88, ex-alderman and founder of the firm of E.
Platt and Son, cotton manufacturers.
January 14th, 1887 - Joseph
Hall, a permanent way inspector on the M. S. and L. Railway, formerly
of Glossop, killed by a railway train at Newton.
January, 15th,
1887 - Public tea to celebrate the Jubilee of the Tabernacle Chapel,
Hall Street, Glossop.
January 15th, 1887 – Burglary in
Charlestown Road, Glossop. John William Henry Jones sentenced to five
years penal servitude.
January 18th, 1887 - Mass meeting of the
ratepayers of Hayfield in the National School, over the refusal to
accept Mr. Sumner's offer of a plot of land for the site of the Board
School.
January 18th, 1887 - Installation of electric light
completed at Hadfield.
January 26th, 1887 - Joshua Walker, aged
16, had his right arm torn off at the Wadding Mill, Smith Brook,
Chapel-en le-Frith.
January 29th, 1887 - Tea party in the Zion
Schoolroom to celebrate the erection of new branch premises in High
Street West, Glossop-Dale New Industrial Cooperative Society.
January
31st, 1887 - Commencement of the installation of the electric light
at E. Platt's mills at Hadfield.
February 1st, 1887 - The first
number of " Melias' Magazine " published.
February 3rd,
1887 - The Compstall New Wesleyan Chapel opened - sermons by Rev.
Robert Morton.
February 9th, 1887 - Mrs. Deborah Elliott, Spring
Bank, New Mills, died in her 100th year.
February 14th,
1887 - Death of Thos. Hampson, of Highfield House; ex-member of the
Town Council and Board of Guardians.
February 17th, 1887 - Grand
Bazaar, in aid of the new Conservative Club, opened at Marple by J.
W. Sidebotham, M.P.
February 17th, 1887 - Two women and a man
charged at the Town Hall with passing base coin.
February 19th,
1887 - A male child, three days old, found in " Boggart Lane,"
Hadfield.
February 22nd, 1887 - Illuminated Forest and Concert in
the Hadfield Old Wesleyan Day School. Receipts, £44 2s.
7d.
February 24th, 1887 - The engines and machinery of Rock Mill
Spinning Co., New Mills, sold by auction.
February 25th, 1887 -
Sale of work at the Waterside Infants' School in aid of the
enlargement fund.
February 28th, 1887 - John Sumner, Esq., aged
80, formerly of Park Hall, and first cousin to Francis James Sumner,
died at Beckford House, Beckford.
March
9th, 1887 - Site for the Public Hall and Free Library decided upon by
the Town Council.
March 18th, 1887 - Ellen Powell, aged 16, had
her right hand taken off in a card room at Woods' Mill.
March
22nd, 1887 - The alterations to the old engine at Hadfield Mills
completed; the mills had been stopped a month.
March 27th, 1887 -
Presentation of an address to Thomas Robinson, superintendent of the
Wesleyan Sunday School, by the teachers and scholars on the occasion
of his leaving Glossop to live at Colwyn Bay.
March 28th, 1887 -
Singular coincidence, Accident to the Engine at Hadfield Mills,
accident to an Engine at Bridge-Mills, and to a steam pipe at
Waterside Mill, three engines stopped.
March
28th, 1887 - Hannan Booth, aged 97 found dead in bed at High Street
East.
March 29th, 1887 - Thomas J. Fothergill died at Accrington,
formerly worked at Dinting Printworks for over 20 years.
April
4th, 1887 - New passenger bridge commenced at the Midland Railway
Station, New Mills.
April 6th, 1887 - Bazaar opened at the
Charlesworth Independant School by H. Rhodes, Esq.
April 6th, 1887
- A man sentenced to 2 years, a woman 2 years, and another woman to 1
year's imprisonment for passing base coinage at Glossop.
April
9th, 1887 - William Raynor, aged 2, drowned in the Grove Paper Mill
Reservoir, New Mills.
April 10th, 1887 - John Newton Winterbottom,
formerly a cotton master at Tintwistle and Old Glossop, the founder
of the Glossop Conservative Association, died at Harefields,
Torkington, near Marple, aged 69.
April
11th, 1887 - The Duchess of Norfolk died at Arundel Castle, aged
33.
April 17th, 1887- Lady Howard of Glossop died, aged 85.
April
19th, 1887 - Three men injured by blasting at the Ashwood Lime Co.'s
quarries, Buxton.
April 21st, 1887 - Bazaar opened at the Drill
Hall by James Sidebottom, Esq., J.P., in aid of the Whitfield St.
James' New Sunday Schools.
April
28th, 1887 - Hollingworth Liberal Club Bazaar, realised £150.
May
10th, 1887 - The first annual meeting of the Buxton Literary and
Philosophical Society.
May 13th, 1887 - John Mackie, Esq., gave a
tea and entertainment to the New Mills Board school, and presented
each with a Jubilee Medal and a copy of “Life of the
Queen.”
May 14th, 1887 - Glossop Volunteer Shooting Club
finished their competition for Wimbledon Team. Sergt. N: Willie 242,
Col. Sergt. Hamnett 294; Lieut. Corporal J. Booth 216; Sergt. M.
Cooper 208, also shooting match Glossop 708, Oldham 557.
May 11th,
1887 - Presentation of an oil painting of himself to Samuel Oldham,
of Mottram, for forty years the District Secretary of the Ancient
Order of Foresters, on his retirement from that office. Mr. T. S.
Shaw, of Queen Street, Glossop, was the artist.
May 16th, 1887 -
Six thousand young trout turned into the river Derwent at Matlock.
May
17th, 1887 - Joseph David Wilde, aged 32, killed by a bale of cloth
falling upon him in Manchester, he was the Conservative
sub-Registration Agent for St. James's Ward and a Sergeant in the
Glossop Volunteer Corps.
May 19th, 1887 - A public meeting,
convened by the Mayor, was held in the Town Hall to consider the
Manchester Ship Canal Scheme. There was a crowded attendance and a
Committee was formed to assist the above object.
May 21st, 1887 -
The scholars and congregation of Christ Church, Tintwistle,
celebrated the Jubilee of the Church by a procession and tea in the
schoolroom. 1.500 persons present. Major W. Sidebottom. M. P. and
James Sidebottom, Esq., Mayor of Glossop were presented with bound
illuminated addresses.
May 21st, 1887 - Handbell Ringing Contest
at the George Hotel Hayfield. 1st prize won by Hyde ringers; 2nd.
Glossop Seniors; 3rd. Glossop Juniors.
May 21st, 1887 - New Mills
District contributed £27 14s. 8d. to “The Women's Jubilee
Offering to the Queen.”
May 21st, 1887 - Sergt J. D. Wilde,
of the the Cheshire Rifle Volunteers, interred at Tintwistle Church
with Military honours.
May
21st, 1887 - Mr. and Mrs. Winterbottom, of the Ram's Head Hotel,
Disley, entertained to dinner all the old people over 60 years of age
in Disley.
May 21st, 1887 - The new Day School, Rhodes Street,
Padfield, built by W. S. and H. Rhodes, was opened. An inkstand was
presented to Mr. Herbert Rhodes in view of his approaching
marriage.
May 22nd, 1887 - Arrival of a detachment of the 13th
Hussars, including the band, at Glossop, on route from Colchester to
Hulme Barracks.
May 28th, 1887 - Glossop Volunteers to South
Shore, 6th encampment.
June 2nd, 1887 - Stained glass window given
by Rev. J. R. C. Miller, vicar, to St. Michael's Church,
Mottram.
June 6th, 1887 – Charlesworth Independent Chapel
reopened after being closed for six weeks for the erection of a new
gallery. Collection £22.
June
6th, 1887 - Funeral of Thomas Saxon, of Newtown. New Mills, a former
member of the Local Board. On the return of the funeral party to the
house one of the mourners, Henry Clayton Gile, was seized with
illness and died the following morning.
June
6th, 1887 – Notice of application about to be made to the
Quarter Sessions for the diverting of footpaths, in connection with
the new Park, published in the local papers.
June
8th, 1887 - Samuel Etchells, aged 3, found drowned in the Bottom
Lodge, Waterside.
June
10th, 1887 - George Benton, railway contractor, Clyne House.
Stretford, died, born 4/11/1825, formerly of Glossop. Estate £605,670
10s. 10d.
June
12th, 1887 - William Crowe, Lower Barn, for 11 years the village
postman for Hollingworth, died, aged 43.
June 15th, 1887 - Cephas
Henry Gaskell, engineer at Shepley Mills, died suddenly, aged
39.
June 18th, 1887 - Mr. and Mrs. Woodmass entertained their
workpeople, who had been employed at the Compstall Mills for over 25
years, to an excellent tea.
June
18th, 1887 - Grand procession of 6,000 Sunday School scholars through
Glossop to a field at North Road, where they were conducted to their
positions by Col.-Sergt. R. Hamnett and Col.-Sergt. R. Ernill. Mr. W.
P. Fairclough, Mus. Bac., F.R.C.O., conducted the singing. The
scholars afterwards returned to their respective schools where they
had tea. Each scholar wore a medal. The whole expense was defrayed by
the Mayor, James Sidebottom, Esq.
June 29th, 1887 - Thomas Edwin
Bush, a boy, drowned in the Glossop Cemetery Lodge.
JUBILEE
FESTIVALS.
June 20th, 1887 - Three hundred old people over 60
years of age were provided with dinner in the Shepley Hall at the
Marple Conservative Club.
June 20th, 1887 - The workpeople of Turn
Lee Mills were entertained to tea by Capt. E. Partington.
June
21st, 1887 - Tuesday. The Glossop Volunteers took part in a Royal
Jubilee Review on the Roodee at Chester. On their return they fired a
feu de joie in Norfolk Square. Lord Howard entertained his workpeople
in the Drill Hall; St. James's String Band played for dancing. Twenty
carts, laden with wood, etc., from Turn Lee Mills, went to Whitely
Nab, where a stack was erected. The fire was lit at 10-0 p.m. Messrs.
Sumners had their fire on Bettin Hill Top. Meadow Mill employees had
a substantial tea in a portion of the new mill, at the expense of
Alderman S. Rowbottom. Their bonfire was at Moorside. The inmates of
the Workhouse had a good dinner. Mrs. and Miss Wood, of Whitheld
House gave a tea to 180 old people of Dinting in the Dinting Church
Schoolroom, The oldest person present was 87. They also entertained
180 old people in the St. Andrew's School, Hadfield. The Hadfeld
Conservatives had a large bonfire on the "Riddings,"
opposite the club, and had a good display of fireworks. 1,500 school
children assembled in the Royal Hotel Yard, Hayfield, and sang
National songs; they afterwards paraded the streets of the village in
processional order. The inmates of the Workhouse, Low Leighton, had a
substantial dinner given to them. Persons in receipt of outdoor
relief had double relief given them, at the expense of several local
gentlemen. Mr. John Dalton took his workpeople in waggonettes to
Macclesfield. Mr. J. W. A. Turner, Newtown, Now Mills, gave a tea to
his workpeople in a field adjoining his mill. The scholars of the
various schools at Mellor had a united procession and a short service
in the Church. The children then adjourned to a field and indulged in
games. Refreshments were provided for them. 2,000 children at Marple
had procession and tea at the expense of Mr. S. Hodgkinson, Chairman
of the Local Board. The Foundation Stones were laid of the Buxton
Town Hall, Public Offices, Free Library and Market Shops.
June
22nd, 1887 - The inmates of the Workhouse had a knife and fork tea at
the expense of H. Rhodes, Esq. in honour of his wedding.
June
22nd, 1887 - James Lowe, aged 2, drowned in a "peggy tub"
at 78, Wood Street.
June 23rd, 1887 - Members of the Glossop
Police Force had an excellent supper served in the Police Station,
Glossop, given by the Mayor, James Sidebottom, Esq.
June 25th,
1887 - Esther Gibson, aged 67, burnt to death at New Mills through
the fall of a paraffin oil lamp.
June 25th, 1887 - Two hundred and
thirty old people at All Saints' Church Schoolroom, and four hundred
and thirty at St. James's, Whitfield were entertained with an
excellent tea provided by Mrs. and Miss Wood, of Whitfield
House.
June 25th, 1887 - Mrs. Edward Platt died, aged 78.
June
26th, 1887 - The members and officials of the Corporation attended a
Jubilee Thanksgiving Service at Glossop Parish Church.
June
29th, 1887 - Messrs. Ollerenshaw and Co., Town Hall Buildings,
claimed £2 for damage done to crockery by the Volunteers firing
a feu de joie in
the Norfolk Square on their return from the Jubilee review in
Chester.
July
1st, 1887 - William Edgar Cottrill appointed organist at All Saint's
Parish Church.
July
2nd, 1887 - Jubilee of Charlesworth Friendly Society.
July
2nd, 1887 - Foundation stone laid of a new Conservative Club at New
Mills.
July
3rd, 1887 - The members of the Glossop Conservative Association
celebrated the Jubilee by a dinner at the Globe Inn.
July
7th, 1887 - Foundation stone laid of the St. Mary's Roman Catholic
church.
July
9th, 1887 - The first Annual Cup Competition of the United
Association of Change Ringers took place at Chapel-en-le-Frith Parish
Church. 1st prize, Royal Saddleworth, 160; 2nd. Royal George, 178;
3rd, Glossop 183 faults.
July 16th, 1887- George Robinson,
painter, 62, High Street West, died, aged 67; a prominent member of
the Mount Pleasant Congregational Chapel.
July 16th, 1887 - Eighth
Annual Exhibition of the Glossop-Dale Horticultural Society.
July
20th, 1887 - An American, named David Dawson, aged 71, died suddenly
in the Norfolk Arms Hotel.
July 21st, 1887 - John Bradbury, for 20
years the Parish Clerk at Hayfield, died, aged 69.
July 23rd, 1887
- Fiftieth anniversary of the All Saints' Roman Catholic Church.
July
23rd, 1887 - Brass Band Contest at Nimble Nook, Hadfield. Mr. A. R.
Seddon, of Derby the judge, 1st pris Rochdale Amateur, 2nd St James',
Gorton: 3rd, Silkstone: 4th, Haslingden Temperance.
July 23rd,
1887 - Jubilee of the erection of Hayfield Bridge.
July 25th, 1887
- Henry Tarbatt bought from the Exors. of Dan Nield Nos. 2-6 Hague
Street for £239. Built by Dan Nield in 1831.
July
30th, 1887 - A girl, named Elisabeth Yates, killed by falling down
the rocks at Best Hill.
July 30th, 1887 - Grand Jubilee
Demonstration, 4,000 in procession. Foundation stones laid of Wood's
Hospital, Baths, and Victoria Hall and Library. Trees planted.
Banquet in the Town Hall, etc.
August 1st, 1887 - Albert Greenwood
injured by the fall of a portion of the roof of the Glossop
Ironworks.
August 4th, 1887 - James Sheppard bought No. 19 High
Street West, for £950
August 6th, 1887 - Commencement of the
erection of a Board School at Hayfield.
August
9th, 1887 - Joseph Brookes, aged 52, a carter at Turnlee Paper Mille
killed by falling out of a cart.)
August 10th, 1887 - Fire at
Godley Cork Mill, £1,500 damage done.
August 18th, 1887 -
The Sumner Memorial, Roman Catholic Church, opened.
August 20th,
1887 - The Glossop, Hayfield, and District Habitation of the Primrose
League had a grand garden party at Talbot House.
August
27th, 1887 - James Sidebottom, Esq., entertained the Glossop
Volunteers to dinner in the Drill Hall.
September 2nd, 1887 -
Amelia, widow of Thos. Rhodes, Esq., of Mersey Bank, died. She was
born September 8th, 1831, and left issue Thos., George, Herbert, Mary
(wife of John Levy, of Rochdale), Emily (wife of F. Rayner, J.P., of
Ashton), Edith, and Mary.
September 3rd, 1887 - A pedlar tried to
poison herself in Kershaw Street.
September 5th, 1887 - Messrs.
Edward Partington, William Dawson, Herbert Rhodes and J. Aloysius
Wheetman appointed Borough Magistrates.
September 13th, 1887 -
James Schofield, butcher, aged 72, Rose Green, died suddenly near the
Pear Tree Inn, High Street East.
September 17th, 1887 - Samuel
Needham, Esq., of Rushop, Chapel-en-le-Frith, died. He left £2,000
to Chapel-en-le-Frith Church. Personality £46,413 2s.
11d.
September 17th, 1887 - Third Annual Show of the Glossop
Agricultural Society.
September 19th, 1887 - Presentation of a
dressing case and book to Mr. T.R., by the workmen in the colour shop
at Dinting Printworks, the occasion of his leaving after eight years
service.
September 27th, 1887 - First Annual Meeting of the
Hadfeld Harmonic Society.
October
4th, 1887 - Presentation of a barometer to Mr. James Makin, for
twelve years manager at the Dover Paper Mills, on the occasion of his
leaving to commence business for himself at Milnrow.
October 4th,
1887 - Florence Wright, aged 2, accidentally drowned in a well at
Chisworth.
October 6th, 1887 - Henry Robinson, formerly at the
Gnat Hole Mill, buried at Frankford, Tasmania.
October
1887 - Capt. Augustus Peter Arkwright, R.N., formerly M.P. for the
High Peak Division of Derby, died in London, aged 67.
October 6th,
1887 - A man was killed on the M.S. and L. Railway between Godley and
Broadbottom.
October 12th, 1887 - A burglary was committed at Mrs.
Patchett's, butcher, High Street West.
October
15th, 1887 - The first annual dinner of the All Saints Cricket Club.
October
22nd, 1887 - One hundred and seventy seven of the tenants on the
Glossop Estate signed a memorial to the Right Hon. Lord Howard of
Glossop, asking for a reduction of twenty-five per cent in their
rents.
October 24th, 1887 - John Neale had his jaw bone fractured
at Turn Lee Paper Mill.
October
26th, 1887 - Hope Church reopened. Restored at a cost of £2,050
by Ed. Frith, Esq. of Tapton Edge.
October 29th, 1887 - Third
Annual Show of the Glossop Columbrian Society at the Globe Inn. 106
entries.
October 31st, 1887 - The Bull's Head, Charlesworth, sold
to Mrs. Redfern for £575.
November 1st, 1887 - The Whitfield
Amateur Dramatic Society gaze their first entertainment in St.
James's Schoolroom.
November 4th, 1887 - William Longstone,
quarryman, had his thigh fractured by a fall of stone in a quarry at
Hayfield.
November
4th, 1887 - Annual Dinner of the Holy Trinity Church Cricket Club.
Presentation of prizes: 1st eleven, Edward Duckworth for batting and
bowling; 2nd eleven, T. Platt batting, and W. Lee bowling.
November
6th, 1887 - Will proved of Capt. P. A. Arkwright, R.N., a former M.P.
for North Derbyshire, personalities £168,988 14s. 2d.
November
8th, 1887 - The Most Hon. The Marquis of Ripon, the principal speaker
at a Liberal demonstration in the Drill Hall.
November 9th, 1887 -
Samuel Collier, Rose and Crown Inn, High Street West, died, aged
62.
November 12th, 1887 - Commemoration of the 21st anniversary of
the Glossop Co-operative Society at Belle Vue. Four special trains
for the members.
November 15th, 1887 - Thomas Winterbottom, mason,
injured by falling down a ladder in the All Saints Roman Catholic
Church.
November 15th, 1887 - Thomas Hallam, grinder, seriously
hurt by the rollers of a carding engine at Mersey Mills.
November
24th, 1887 - Annual dinner of the Glossop Cricket Club. First eleven,
W. Walton 1st for batting, and S. McKnight for bowling. Second
eleven, John Cooper, batting, and J. W. Orme, bowling. Jonathan
Waterhouse, for nineteen years the club scorer, resigned.
November
26th, 1887 - Bazaar in aid of the New Mills Cricket Club, realised
£167 17s. 4d.
November 28th, 1887 - Hurst Mills sold to
James Rowbottom, Charlesworth, for £4,200.
November 28th,
1887 - Branch Post Office opened at Dinting Vale.
November 28th,
1887 - Charles Bennett, aged 70, Brookfield, died through injuries
received by falling against the fire on November, 16th.
November
29th, 1887 - Six houses in Jubilee Street,Hadfield, sold to Mr.
Matthew Phair for £840.
December 1st, 1887 - The name of the
4th Cheshire Rife Volunteers changed to 4th Volunteer Battalion
Cheshire Regiment.
December 5th, 1887 - James Boyer, Mottram Moor,
for 35 years the secretary of the "Offspring Lodge" of
Oddfellows, died, aged 69.
December 8th, 1887 - "Dobby Horse
Bill," well-known character, hurt at the Wadding Mill,
Chapel-en-le-Frith, one of his arms was amputated at the Stockport
Infirmary.
December 10th, 1887 - Death of Dr. Sidney Herbert
Masters, Hayfield, aged 37.
December 15th, 1887 - Accident to the
5-50 p.m. passenger train at Glossop Station. The driver and several
passengers injured.
December 17th, 1887 - Tea Party at. Woods'
Reading Rooms to celebrate the installation of the Electric Light at
John Wood and Bros., Howard Town Mills.
December
17th, 1887 - Presentation in the Hadfield Liberal Club of a picture
to Herbert Rhodes, Esq.
December 19th, 1887 - A foreman shoemaker
hung himself at New Mills Co-operative Stores.
December 21st, 1887
- Hoist accident at Bridge Mills, Hadfeld. William Shallcross, of
Padfield, killed; S. Avison, of Tintwistle, fatally, and William
Sharpe, of Hollingworth, seriously injured.
December 23rd, 1887 -
A sale of work opened at Holy Trinity Church School.
December
23rd, 1887 - Frederick Woodrow, a child, died through his clothes
catching fire at Waterside, Hadfield.
December 23rd, 1887 - A
child named Waterhouse severely burned through its clothes in a fire
at Waterside.
December 24th, 1887 - Chisworth Wesleyans had a
Christmas Tree, realised £45.
December 24th, 1887 -
Christmas Tree and Sale of Work at the Tabernacle Church, Hall
Street, realised over £50.
December 26th, 1887 - Fire at the
Beard Mill, New Mills, £600 damage.
December 26th, 1887 -
Henry Taylor, aged 11, of the Ashes, drowned whilst sliding on a
lodge at Dinting, New Road.
December 29th, 1887 - Major Marindin,
Inspector of Railways under the Board of Trade, arrived by special
train at Glosop to enquire into the cause of the accident on the 15th
December last.
January 4th, 1888 - A man found drowned in the
Swineshaw Reservoir.
January 7th 1888 - Matthew Walton, a 20 years
playing member of the Glossop Cricket Club, died, aged 50.
January
10th, 1888 - Retirement of Herbert Rhodes, Esq., as the Liberal
candidate for the High Peak Division of Derby,
January 14th, 1888
- James Hamilton, aged 35, died at Mottram He was a noted bell-ringer
and for over 70 years was employed at the Hodge Printworks.
January
16th, 1888 - Fire at Messrs Ellison and Co's office, Norfolk
Square;
January 17th, 1888 - William Taylor, aged 10, of the
Ashes, awarded the Bronze Medal of the Royal Humane Society for his
brave attempt to save his brother from drowning, December 26th,
1887.
January 19th, 1888 - Edward Broadbent, aged 43, of
Chapel-en-le-Frith, killed by falling into a sewer at
Manchester.
January 19th, 1888 - John Robinson, 29 Charlestown,
Glossop, formerly of Gnat Hole, died, aged 75.
January 20th, 1888
- Marple Public Institute closed; an address presented to William
Walmsley, for 13 years the secretary.
January 21st, 1888 - Railway
accident at Hadfield; a goods engine came on to the platform, greatly
to the alarm of passengers waiting for a train.
January
22nd, 1888 - All Saints' Roman Catholic Church reopened after being
closed for alterations, at the expense of Lord Howard of Glossop.
Sermons by Rev. P. Reader, M.A.. O.P.
January
21st, 1888 - Presentation of a silver tea kettle to Rev. C. B. Ward.
M A . and Mrs. Ward by the parishioners of St. James', in
commemoration of their silver wedding.
January 28th. 1888 - At a
special meeting the Glossop Board of Guardian and a sub-committee of
the Sanitary Committee of the Town Council, it was decided to erect
an Infectious Hospital at Gamesley.
January
30th, 1888 - Buxton Conservative Club formally opened.
February
1st, 1888 - Joseph Leech, for 40 years tract distributor at
Tintwistle, died, aged 67.
February 2nd, 1888 - George Samuel
Hawley, aged 22, lurryman, died through injuries on the railway at
New Mills, on December 27th.
February 3rd, 1888 - Inauguration of
the Marple Habitation of the Primrose League.
February 7th, 1888 -
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Choral Society gave a concert in the
schoolroom to commemorate the Jubilee of Pope Leo XIII.
February
7th, 1888 - Pipes for the Hollingworth New Water Scheme arrived at
Hadfield Railway Station.
February 7th, 1888 - Daniel Wood, Esq.,
aged 70, died at Moorfield.
February 10th, 1888 - Rev. J. Graham,
aged 68, minister of the Hollingworth Methodist New Connexion Chapel,
died. His widow died on the following Wednesday.
February 11th,
1888 - Opening of the New Mills and Newtown Conservative Club.
February
13th, 1888 - Fire at F. J. Sumner and Co., Ltd., mill.
February
14th, 1888 - Fire at 43, Hague Street.
February 14th, 1888 -
Glossop Coffee Palace reopened after being closed for
repairs.
February 15th, 1888 - Funeral of a mother and her
daughter from 7, Norfolk Street. Miss Maria Longson, aged 48, died on
the 10th; Mrs. Keziah Longson, aged 81, died on the 12th.
February
18th, 1888 - Boiler explosion at the Albert Paper Mills, Newtown,
New. Mills; £4,000 damage.
February
19th, 1888 - Great snowstorm. Public-house snowed up at Perry Foot.
The snow in the streets of Glossop was in some places over 6 feet
deep.
February 20th, 1888 - Mr. Abel Dearnley appointed
manager of the Shepley Mill Spinning Co., in place of Alderman
Stafford, who had resigned in consequence of ill health.
February
21st. 1888 - Margaret Logan, aged 2, killed by falling downstairs in
King Street.
February 21st, 1888 - Alfred Walker, solicitor,
appointed secretary to Hayfield and Now Mills board of
Guardians.
February 22nd, 1888 - William Henry Bowden, Joseph
Walkden, and Theo. W. Ellison elected County Councillors without
opposition.
February 24th 1888 – Gas explosion at Hayfield
opposite to the George Inn: road damaged.
March 21st, 1888 -
Presentation of an address and walking stick to W. S. Rhodes, Esq.,
by the employees of Mersey Mills, on the occasion of his retirement
from the management.
April 3rd, 1888 - John Hadfield, of Cowbrook,
died, aged 40.
April 8th, 1888 - Samuel Wood, Esq., J.P., Talbot
House, died, aged 69.
May
11th, 1888 - Swan Inn, High Street East, sold by Henry Band to
Boddington Brewery for £975: built in 1837 by Charles Band.
May
12th and 13th, 1888 - Election of Assistant Overseer: David Massey,
1,247; James Bridge, 1,245.
May 16th, 1888 - Public Meeting in the
Town Hall to consider the question of raising funds for a memorial to
Daniel and Samuel Wood Esqs.
May 19th, 1888 - Glossop Volunteers
to South Shore. 7th encampment.
July
1st, 1888 - The organ at St Mary's Roman Catholic Church was formally
opened.
July
1st, 1888 - Samuel Harrison, aged 34, a mason's labourer, of Hyde,
was killed by falling off the scaffolding at the Free Library
Building.
July
7th, 1888 - John Cooper, of Primrose Lane, seriously injured by a
hoist at Turn Lee Paper Mills.
July 8th, 1888 - The son and heir
of John Wood, Esq., J.P., of Whitfield House, christened John Arthur
Haigh Wood, at St. James' Church, Whitfield. Born May 2nd.
July
11th, 1888 - Plans for the widening of Victoria Bridge passed by the
Highway Committee. It was stated that the work was in progress, and
that the Derby County Council would afterwards keep the bridge in
repair.
July 13th, 1888 - The Mayor, James Sidebottom, Esq.,
presented the Glossop Volunteers with a pair of aluminium binoculars,
value £12 12s., to be shot for.
July 14th, 1888 - Foundation
Stones laid of the Gospel Union and Blue Ribbon Mission Hall by Mrs.
J. Goldsmith and Mrs. Howton.
July
14th 1888 - Dreadful railway accident near Hyde Junction to the last
train from Manchester to Glossop. The following were killed and
injured: Mrs. Janet Middleton, aged 51, of 92, Charlestown Road; Miss
Jane Wilson, aged: 25, of 33, Hall Street; Mrs. Beard, aged 44, of 4
Charlestown Road; and Mrs. Bastian, of Sunny Side, Hadfield, were
killed; Frank Cullen, of Wood Street, died on the 21st. The following
who were injured . subsequently recovered: Joe Ainsworth, 181,
Victoria Street; G. Bradley, 22 Duke Street; Mrs. Hannah Wood,
Whitfield; Eliza Ann Collins, 2, Derby Street; Joseph Henry Smith,
Fitzalan Street; E. W. Garside, Collier Street: Mrs. Cullen, Wood
Street; Miss Louie Dufley, 19, Whitfield Cross; Alfred Mellor, 43,
Hall Street; James Goddard, Victoria Inn (all of Glossop); John
Bennett and Miss Ada Bennett, of Cottage Lane, Gamesley; and Miss
Rachel Thatcher, Mottram.
July 16th, 1888 - Jonathan Earnshaw,,
Roebuck Inn, was summoned for refusing to billet two soldiers
belonging to F. Battery, 4th Brigade of the Royal Artillery, which
had arrived at Glossop on June 25th.
July 18th, 1888 - Irvine
Green, aged 6, fell into the River Etherow, near to Dalton's Print
works and was drowned, his body being found at the entrance to the
Broadbottom Mills Lodge.
July 18th, 1888 - Holly Bank, Talbot
Road, built by Samuel Robinson in 1883, was offered for sale, but
withdrawn at £750.
July 20th, 1888 - The 9th Annual Show of
the Glossop Horticultural Society was held in the Drill Hall.
July
22nd 1888 - A new organ, the gift of Lord Howard of Glossop, to All
Saints' Roman Catholic Church, was formally opened. It replaced one
built by Bishop of London for the church 50 years previously.
July
23rd, 1888 - Four houses, called Mill Moor Terrace, in Pikes Lane,
built by Edwin Bradbury in 1878, were sold to James McKinley for
£900.
July,
25th, 1888 - 36 and 36a, Freetown, built for Peter Handford in 1838.
Sold to John Hadfield, Chunal, for £212.
July 29th, 1888 -
Rev. J. Hosken preached his farewell sermon at Charlesworth
Independant Chapel, where he had been the pastor for four years. Ho
had accepted a call at Burnley.
July 31st, 1888 - An official
enquiry was held at the Royal Hotel, Hayfield, by Walter Skirrow,
Inspector on behalf of the Charity Commissioners of the Charities of
the Parish of Glossop. The last enquiry was held in 1827.
August
4th, 1888 - Derby County Rifle Association Meeting at Derby. Corporal
N. Willis, Col - Sergeant R. Hamnett, and Sergeant . J. Broadhurst
won prizes.
August 12th, 1888 - Thomas Harrison, Esq. of West
Hill, Stalybridge, died. He married Mary Agnes, the second daughter
of William Sidebottom, Esq.
August
19th, 1888 - A son and heir born to Herbert Rhodes, Esq., J.P., of
Thorncliffe Hall.
August 21st, 1888 - The Glossop members of the
Primrose League went to Blackpool.
August 21st, 1888 - At a
meeting held at the Norfolk Arms Hotel, it was decided to form a
Carriage Company, and on the 1st of September to take over the
business of Messrs. S. and J. Wood and to register the company under
the title of Woods Carriage Co., Ltd.
August 21st, 1888 - James
Gosling, fireman of a Midland goods train, was run over at Hadfield
Station, and had one of his feet cut off.
August 25th, 1888 -
Glossop Horse Show Society had their 1st show on the Pyegrove, there
were 16 classes and £110 in prizes.
September 4th, 1888 -
Mrs. Hunt, wife of Dr. W. H. Hunt, of Norfolk Street, died, aged
35.
September 5th, 1888 - The Town Council arranged that the three
Wards should be the three Electoral Divisions of the Borough of
Glossop, under the Local Government Act of 1888 for County Council
Elections.
September 10th, 1888 - George Booth, of Hargate Hill,
died, aged 70.
September 15th, 1888 - David Percival, wine and
spirit merchant, Norfolk Square, one of the Overseers of Glossop,
died, aged 39.
September 15th, 1888 - Brass Band Contest at
Padfield, promoted by the Glossop Old Brass Band. The prizes were won
by: 1st, Kingston Mills: 2nd, Oats Royd Mills; 3rd, Stalybridge
Rifles; 4th, Linthwaite; 5th, Heywood. There were 2,500 persons
present.
September 17th, 1888 - Part of the Hodge Printworks was
destroyed by fire.
September 18th, 1888 - John Swire, clogger,
Spire Hollin, died, aged 73, been in business in Glossop over 30
years.
September 19th, 1888 - The crank of the large beam engine
at Bridge Mills broke.
September 20th, 1888 - Accident to the 7-30
a.m. passenger train from Manchester to Glossop, at Dinting Station,
engine and three coaches ran off the metals, no one was
hurt.
September 23rd, 1888 - Football match at Mottram, Mottram 6;
Glossop North End 3.
September 25th, 1888 - Presentation of an
illuminated address and purse of gold (£18), to the Rev.
Alexander Holland, by the members of the Wesleyan Reform Church,
Howard St., Glossop, and the Mission Station at Crowden on his
leaving Glossop to take charge of the Park Lane Wesleyan Reform
Church at Bradford, Yorkshire.
September 25th, 1888 - First sod
cut by Mrs. Miller, of the Vicarage, Mottram, for the foundation of a
church at Broadbottom.
September 29th, 1888 - Twenty-two persons
dined from the produce of one potato at the Bull's .Head, Mottram.
The potato had been cut into 20 sets and yielded 18½lbs.,
5 of the sets were accidentally destroyed during their
growth.
September 29th, 1888 - Date of lease of the Blue Ribbon
Army Mission Hall in Ellison Street, made out to the Rev. Michael
Paget Baxter, proprietor of the "Christian Herald" and
"Signs of the Times."
October 19th, 1888 - Fire at the
Bowden Hey Wadding Mill, Chapel-en-le-Frith. Part of the roof
destroyed.
October
19th, 1888 - Jeremiah Jackson, a native of Simmondly, died, aged 72.
at Broadbottom, he was a noted local botanist.
October
20th, 1888 - Inaugural meeting of the Bowden-Middle-Cale Habitation
of the Primrose League, No. 1998, New Mills.
October
20th, 1888 - Presentation of a writing desk to Albert Robinson, on
the occasion of his promotion from the Hadfield Goods Station to
Grimsby.
October
24th, 1888 - Trap accident at Chisworth Moor through the horse
bolting. John Sykes, of White Mill Farm, Hadfeld, and Hugh Sykes,
Woodhead, injured.
October 24th, 1888 - Members of the Glossop
Corporation entertained to a grand banquet by the Mayor, James
Sidebottom, Esq., at Christ Church Schools, Tintwistle.
December
30th, 1888 - Rev. John Dickinson Knowles, M.A., Vicar of Glossop and
Rural Dean, died, aged 60. Born April. 23rd, 1828.
January 9th,
1889 - Joseph Darwent, noted violin player and for many years leader
of the Glossop Harmonic Society died, aged 86.
March
12th, 1889 - Robert Sheppard, a well-known resident, died, aged 70.
May
3rd, 1889 - Emma, relict of John Hill-Wood, Esq., Whitfield House,
died, born 17/4/1828.
May 7th, 1889 - William Shepley Esq. J.P.
Died, born November 2nd 1814 – ex Councillor ex Chairman of the
Board of Guardians Etc.
May 26th, 1889 - Rev. Adam Pyle
Hamilton-Wilson read himself in as Vicar of Glossop
June 8th, 1889
- Glossop Volunteers to South Shore, 8th encampment.
June
30th, 1889 - Third Annual Brass Band Contest, promote by Glossop Old
Prize Band; ten bands competed, 4,000 spectators. The prizes were won
by: 1st, Denton Original; 2nd, Stalybridge Rifle; 3rd, Middleton
Borough; 4th, Bacup Change; 5th, Stalybridge Old.
June
30th, 1889 - Foundation stone laid of a new Presbytery to St. Mary's
Roman Catholic Church by Mrs. F.J. Sumner, to the memory of John
Sumner, Esq., of Park Hall.
June
30th, 1889 - Riley Riley, of Adderley Place, died. He was appointed
madder dyer at Dinting Printworks in October, 1849, and held that
position until he resigned in July, 1881. On his retirement he was
presented with a gold watch, value of over £60, by his
employers, and a valuable marble clock by his fellow workmen.
July
2nd, 1889 - Gamesley House, wire works and cottages offered for sale,
but not sold.
July
2nd, 1889 - Gertrude, aged 4, the daughter of William Downing, tea
dealer, died through falling into a lime pit on the Friday previous
at Sheffield Road.
July
7th, 1889 - First Athletic Sports at Bent Meadows, promoted by the
Hollingworth Brass Band and Wanderers Football Club, which proved a
success, over 3,000 persons being present.
July 7th, 1889 -
Catherine Wood, aged 36, a married woman, Bernard Street, fell down
stairs with a lighted lamp in her hand and was so severely burned
that she died in Woods' Hospital two days after.
July
11th, 1889 - Dr. Hunt, senior, died.
July 11th, 1889 - The
steaming shed at Dinting Printworks got on fire; the Borough and
Sumner's Fire Brigades attended.
July 18th, 1889 - Property. in
Slatelands Avenue and Road, built by W. A. Booth, was offered for
sale, but was not sold.
July 22nd, 1889 - Severe thunder storm at
Thornsett during Diving service at the Independent School, women
screamed and one became unconscious and remained so during the whole
of the next day.
July 23rd, 1889 - Hannah Cooper, aged 18, of
Tintwistle, mat with in accident to her right hand in the "Old
Shed' of Hadfield Mill, her thumb was torn off.
July 24th, 1889 -
A stack of hay, value of over £60 belonging to James Sheppard,
of the Ashes, destroyed by fire from over-heating.
July 25th, 1889
- James Morris, a dry waller, of Torside, found on the railway near
to Vale House signal box, with his right leg cut off.
July 25th,
1889 - Nos. 88 and 90 (Fern Bank) St. Mary's Road, built in 1870,
sold to Thomas Bramhall, Market Vaults, for £570.
July
26th, 1889 - The Nag's Head, two cottages at the back, and Nos. 15,
17, and 19, Charlestown Road, sold to Chesters Brewery Co. for over
£1,400. A plot of land, lying between Gladstone Street and
Cliffe Road, called the "Town Piece," sold to John Bowden,
Collier Street, for over £200.
July 26th, 1889 - A stack of
hay belonging to Lord Howard, in Hall Street, took fire owing to
spontaneous combustion.
July 26th, 1889 - Slight fire in a bedroom
at the Globe Inn, owing to the window curtains coming into contact
with a lighted gas jet.
July 27th, 1889 - Bankwood Mill (Botany
Mill) starting as a Printworks.
August 2nd, 1889 - John Wood, Esq.
J.P., of Ardern House, Bredbury and Old Hall, Mottram, died, born
July 12th, 1815. He was the son of John Wood of Thorncliffe
Hall.
August 4th, 1889 - Royal Pavillion, Theatre, Market Ground,
opened with Tom Russell's powerful Dramatic Company.
August 5th,
1889 - Glossop Parish Church reopened after being closed for ten
weeks for renovation and repairs.
August 21st, 1889 - Richard
Brett, a jockey from Pendleton, had his left leg fractured by being
thrown from a horse at the back of Glossop Hall.
August
23rd, 1889 - A fire broke out in a bedroom at the Market Hotel,
destroying bedding, furniture, etc.
August 25th, 1889 - Tenth
Annual Flower Show and Sports at Pyegrove, in connection with the
Glosop Horticultural Society.
August 27th, 1889 - An explosion of
gas at the Glossop Gas Works, caused great alarm in the town.
August
28th, 1889 - Four houses in Brosscroft, Hadfield, sold to Matthew
Barber for £360. Lease dated 4-8-1858.
September
9th, 1889 - The coming of age of Mr. Herbert Partington on the 4th,
celebrated by the workpeople being entertained at the Victoria Hall
by Captain Partington. The workpeople presented Mr. Herbert with a
dressing case and gold-mounted walking stick.
September
8th, 1889 - New pulpit opened at the Glossop Parish Church, "To
the Glory of God and in loving memory of Daniel Haigh Wood, who died
February 7th, 1888. This pulpit was erected by his nephew, John Wood,
A.D. 1889."
September 11th, 1889 - Henry Collier, formerly
stationmaster at Crowden, died at his residence in Shrewsbury Street,
aged 58.
September
14th, 1889 - Football match at Rose Green: Glossop North End 6;
Gorton West End, 1.
September 18th, 1889 - The Town Council
received a cheque for £1,000 from John Wood, Esq., of Whitheld
House, to defray the debt on Wood's Hospital.
September
21st, 1889 - Thomas Sellars presented at the Bull's Head Inn, with a
walking stick and snuff box, "Presented to Thomas Sellars on his
retirement, after 38 years service as overlooker, by the cotton
spinners of Sumner's Mill, Glossop, September 21st, 1889."
September
25th, 1889 - Owing to the depression in the cotton trade, caused by
the Cotton Corner, Sumner's stopped until further notice, Woods'
working three days per week.
September 25th, 1889 - Rev. A. P.
Hamilton-Wilson, Vicar of Glossop, married Miss McCririch at
Peterborough Cathedral.
September
28th, 1889 - A first and final dividend of 2s. 6d. in the £
paid by the Glossop Coffee Palace Company, after a varied existence
of ten years.
September 29th, 1889 - Charles Davis, solicitor,
Glossop, entered upon his duties as the Coroner for the High Peak in
succession to Dr. Robert Bennett, who had resigned the
position.
October 7th, 1889 - Number 3 Duke Street, freehold, sold
to Henry Kenny for £205.
October 16th, 1889 -
Charles Turner, aged 62, stone mason, found dead in bed in Mill
Street, Glossop, lodging houses.
October
25th, 1889 - Fire at Milner Gibson's stables at the Hodge. A valuable
horse burned to death.
October 25th, 1889 - Ninth Annual Glossop
Dog, Poultry, and Pigeon Show in the Drill Hall. 1,160 entries. £200
in prizes.
October 25th, 1889 - A lurry, loaded with bottles of
vitrol accidently pitched with the horse into the brook at Dinting
Print Works. The horse had to be immediately destroyed.
October
29th, 1889 - Joseph Dearnley presented with a marble clock by the
Congregation of Holy Trinity Church, as a recognition of his long and
valued services in connection with St. Paul's Mission Room.
November
1st, 1889 - Boiler explosion at the Rope Works of George Booth and
Sons, Charlesworth. Robert Booth, partner, aged 60, and Geo. Harry
Booth, manager, aged 25, killed.
November 1st, 1889 - The Glossop
Conservative Association began to sell intoxicants.
November 5th,
1889 - Narrow escape of Moorfield Mansion being destroyed by
fire.
November 13th, 1889 - Mr. A. R. Hooper, Station Master,
Glossop, removed to Ashton; succeeded by Mr. Sutcliffe, from
Shireoaks.
November 14th, 1889 - Free dinner given to the members
of the Glossop Cricket Club by Abel Harrison, Station Inn, on the
occasion of his removing from the Station Inn, after being the
proprietor for 10 years, he was succeeded by Thomas Sturgeon.
November
16th, 1889 - Joseph Booth, corn factor, Broadbottom, died, aged 80.
He was a well-known Particular Baptist.
December 3rd, 1889 - Fire
at the house of Mr. R. Howton, evangelist.
December 4th, 1889 -
Fire in the shop window of Mr. Swire, boot and shoe maker, High
Street West.
December
6th, 1889 - The Memorial to Daniel and Samuel Wood in the Park
completed.
December,
9th, 1889 - The “Mart," No. 15, High Street West, sold to
Daniel Melia and Co., for £1,120, lease dates from September
29th, 1838.
December 9th, 1889 - Anthony Garlick, aged 8, scalded
to death by drinking out of a kettle of boiling water at Jackson's
Row, Gamesley.
December 22nd, 1889 - The Reading Room of Victoria
Hall opened.
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1890 to 1899.
January
9th, 1890 - Joseph Darwent, noted violin player and for many years
leader of the Glossop Harmonic Society, died, aged 86.
January
11th, 1890 - Rev. Samuel Stafford, Primitive Methodist Minister,
Glossop, died, aged 88.
February 2nd, 1890 - John Ford,
Auctioneer, and Licenced Victualler. Glossop, died, aged 51.
February
4th, 1890 - Grand Assault-at-Arms in the Victoria Hall in aid of the
Glossop Cricket Club.
February
12th, 1890 - Action in the Manchester County Court. Bonehill and Co.
v. The Executive Committee of the Wood's Memorial, for £33 due.
The committee had paid £388. The dispute was over two figures.
Plaintiffs lost their case.
February 15th, 1890 - New organ opened
at Dinting Church Schools.
February 20th, 1890 - Mr. Abel Dearnley
appointed manager of the Shepley Mill Spinning Co., in place of
Alderman Stafford, who dad resigned in consequence of ill health.
March
8th, 1890 - Key presented to Capt. E. Partington. "Presented to
Captain Partington, by the members of the Charlesworth and Chisworth
Liberal Club, on the occasion of his opening their new Club, March
8th, 1890."
March 8th, 1890 - Presentation of a Marble
Time-piece. " Presented to Alderman J. Stafford. J.P., by the
employees of the Shepley Mill Spinning Co., Glossop, as a token of
respect.
March 10th, 1890 - Sale of machinery at Arundel Mill,
owing to the bankruptcy of W. Alfred Booth.
March 18th, 1890 -
George Newton, North Road, ex-Town Councillor, 20 years treasurer to
the Parish Church Sunday School, 12 years the Vicar's Warden, and
Treasurer of Glossop Conservative Club, died, aged 70.
March 21st,
1890 - Presentation of an address and walking-stick to W. S. Rhodes,
Esq., by the employees of Mersey Mills, on the occasion of his
retirement from the management.
March
22nd, 1890 - Mrs. George Cooper, Charlesworth, fell downstairs with
her newly-born grandson and broke her wrist, child uninjured.
March
23rd, 1890 - Fire at Birch Vale Printworks. £200 damage.
March
27th, 1890 - Presentation of a walking stick to Kay Ogden on
completing his 15th years service with the Prudential Assurance
Company.
April 7th, 1890 - The Mayor, W. Dawson, Esq., cut the
first sod in connection with the enlargement of the Hadfield
Conservative Club.
May 24th, 1890 - Glossop Volunteers to South
Shore, 9th encampment.
June 21st, 1890 - Consecration of St. Mary
Magdalene's Church, Broadbottom; cost, £3,000.
June
28th, 1890 - Glossop Cricket Club Athletic Sports revived; 2,500
persons attended them.
June
30th, 1890 - Joseph Cooper, of Eaves Knowl, New Mills, the Derbyshire
poet, died; born November 11th, 1810.
June
30th, 1890 - Nos. 24-28, Hadfield Road and 2-6 Salisbury Street,
offered for sale; withdrawn at £900. Four houses on Kiln Lane
withdrawn at £510.
July
2nd, 1890 - The Drover's Arms and two cottages built in 1824 sold to
Messrs. Boddington's for £1040. A dwelling-house and shop and
Nos. 98-114 Charlestown, built in 1824, sold to John Bennett,
Simmondley, for £410.
July
2nd, 1890 - James Barnes, draper, High Street West, died, aged 64. He
was for 30 years the treasurer of the Widow and Orphans Fund of the
Independent Order of Oddfellows; a director and treasurer of the
Working-Men's Perpetual Building Society.
July
2nd, 1890 - Lieut. S. Hill-Wood, of the Glossop Volunteers, passed an
examination at Wellington Barracks for a Captain's certificate.
July
2nd, 1890 - At a meeting of the Masters Building Association it was
decided to pay stonemasons a uniform wage of 8d. per hour.
July
5th, 1890 - Hollingworth Amateur Athletic Sports. 200 entries, and
2,500 attendance.
July 5th, 1890 - Man poisoned himself at the
Snake Inn.
July 5th, 1890 - Presentation of a photo of the
Officers and Non-com. Officers of the Glossop Detachment 4th Cheshire
Rife Volunteers, and gold Albert, to Colour Sergeant-Instructor
George Brown on his retirement as the Instructor to the
Detachment.
July 7th, 1890 - Nos. 80 and 83 Brosscroft, Hadfield,
built. In 1852 sold to Mrs. Mary Jepson for £257.
July 9th,
1890 - Herbert Rhodes resigned as County Councillor for Hadfield
Ward.
July 12th, 1890 - Thomas Lindup, spinner, Hadfield, found
drowned in a lodge at Dinting.
July 18th, 1890 - An ancient sword
found in the stream near the Peak Cavern, Castleton.
July 21st,
1890 - Two houses, at the Ashes, built in 1878, sold to Samuel
Arnfield, Charlesworth, for £201.
July 25th, 1890 - S.
Hill-Wood, Esq., gave a dinner at the Station Inn to 100 persons
employed in the alterations and additions to, Moorfield Mansion and
grounds, originally erected in 1861 by Daniel Wood, Esq.
July
25th, 1890 – A Glossop tradesman, in High Street, hung
himself.
July 25th, 1890 - The alterations in connection with the
Broadbottom coal drops completed.
August
1st, 1890 - A boy named Wild met with fatal injuries at Padfield
Mill.
August 4th, 1890 - Derby County Rifle Association Meeting at
Derby. Lieut. S. Hill-Wood's team won the 2nd prize in Forman Cup,
but owing to great dissatisfaction amongst the Glossop competitors
about various arrangements made by the Derby-officials, it was
decided to sever; all connection with the Association, and this was
the last meeting that Glossop men competed at.
August 5th, 1890 -
Thomas Leach, aged 11, seriously injured by being knocked down with a
waggon at Hadfield Station.
August 9th, 1890 - Mersey Mills closed
owing to a dispute: with the spinners, who desired to be paid by
indicator instead of by weight. The mill was restarted on the 28th,
the men's demands being acceded to.
August 15th, 1890 - John
Wrigley's house in Edward Street was broken into and robbed.
August
16th, 1890 - Walter John Smith, employed by the Whitfield Brewery
Co., killed at Gamesley Bridge, and two men injured by the trap
overturning.
August 23rd, 1890 - A water main burst at the bottom
of St. Mary's Road, and caused great annoyance and trouble to the
neighbouring residents.
August 25th, 1890 - Norfolk Arms Hotel
offered for sale, withdrawn at £5,000.
August 26th, 1890 -
Old Hall and 380 acres of land sold for £10,510. Thorncliffe
Hall and 171 acres for £7,510, to Exors. of S. Wood, late of
Talbot House.
August 27th, 1890 - The State coaches formerly
belonging to the late Emperor Napoleon of France, removed from
Glossop to Manchester.
September
1st, 1890 - Ann Sidebottom, an infant, accidentally scalded to death
at Chisworth.
September 1st, 1890 - The Free Education Act came
into force, It had been adopted in most of the schools in the High
Peak.
September 2nd, 1890 - A child accidentally scalded to death
at Chisworth, by pulling a jug of hot coffee on to itself.
September
3rd, 1890 - Dr. Ralph Bennett Sidebottom married Miss Alice
Partington.
September 4th, 1890 - Beam of an engine at Bridge
Mills fell down and did serious damage.
September 6th, 1890 -
Football match at Thurlstone. Thurlstone 2, Glossop North End
2.
September 13th, 1890 - Athletic Sports at Whitfield, under the
auspices of the Glossop Old Brass Band
September 14th, 1890 - Fire
at George Hyde's Drapers Shop, High Street East, £800 damage
done.
September 14th, 1890 - Burglary at Josiah Wilson's house, at
Gamesley.
September 18th, 1890 - Fire on the farm premises of
James Sheppard, Ashes.
September 22nd, 1890 - Tintwistle Handbell
Ringers won the 5th prize at the 36th Annual Handbell Ringing Contest
at Belle Vue.
September 25th, 1890 - Marble clock presented to
Sergt - Instructor E. Sampson by the Hadfield Volunteers, on his
leaving Hadfeld to be the Instructor of the Glossop
Detachment.
October 4th, 1890 - Glossop and Hadfield Volunteers
had a sham fight at Ryecroft Hill, Old Glossop, when the use of a
furniture van to convey a portion of the Glossop force won the
battle.
October 6th, 1890 - No. 3 Shaw Street, offered for sale,
withdrawn at £200. Lease dates from 1854.
October 6th, 1890
- Attempted burglary at No. 6 Church Street, Hadfield.
October
17th, 1890 - Robert Archer, of Hollingworth, for over 50 years an
engraver at Hodge Printworks, died, aged 85.
October
18th, 1890 - Trombone solo competition at Glossop Old Brass Band
Room, Wood Street, 1st. A. Fish, Forestry Band; 2nd, S. Lomas,
Broadbottom; 3rd. D. Newton, Hadfield.
October
20th, 1890 - Slight fire at the Glossop Masonic Hall.
October
26th, 1890 - Nos. 50-56 Kershaw Street, offered for sale, withdrawn
at £380. Lease dated September 29th, 1860.
October 27th.
1890 - No. 91 Sheffield Road, sold to William Collier for £110.
Lease dated September 20th, 1830.
October 28th, 1890 - Silver
pocket Communion Service presented to the Rev. W. J. Canton (on the
completion of eight years labour) by the members of the congregation
of Holy Trinity Church, Dinting Vale, October 28th, 1890.
October
29th, 1890 - Now offices and other improvements at Sumner's
Mill.
November 5th, 1890 - Messrs. F. W. G. Moran and F. G.
Knowles placed upon the roll of solicitors of the Supreme Court of
Judicature by the Master of the Rolls.
November 6th, 1890 - Bazaar
at Padfield Wesleyan Chapel Schoolroom, opened by Mr. S. Hill-Wood,
realised £100.
November 7th, 1890 - Slight fire at Glossop
Corn Mill.
November 8th, 1890 - Fire at Mr. Ross's bedroom,
Shrewsbury Street, caused by firing the chimney.
November 8th,
1890 - Major Lingard's Wadding Mill closed at Chapel Milton, owing to
the premises having been taken by the Dore and Chinley Railway
Co.
November 11th, 1890 - Third Annual Swimming Gala at Woods'
Baths. The 150 yards' ladies amateur record of 2 minutes 48 seconds,
broken by Miss Maud Howard, of Leigh, by 8 seconds.
November
12th, 1890 - Arthur Bradshaw, aged 16, killed at Dinting Printworks,
by falling through a glass fan-light.
November 14th, 1890 -
Richard Bramhall, President of the Quispick Glee Club, Glossop, died,
aged 62.
November 15th, 1890 - The fire proof engine at Woods'
collapsed.
November 20th, 1890 - Chisworth Wesleyan Chapel
re-opened after being reconstructed at a cost of £800,
November
27th, 1890 - A boy had his leg broken by being thrown out of a milk
cart in High Street West, and a pony had its neck broken through the
horse taking fright by being hit with a snow ball.
November 27th,
1890 - Accident to a goods train at Hadfeld Station. The van and
several trucks pitched into the coal drops.
November 27th, 1890 -
Councillor Cyrus Garside died, aged 62. He came to Glossop in 1850
from Slaithwaite to work for Lord Howard.
November 28th, 1890 -
Rev. J. L. Knowles, M.A., St. George's Church, New Mills, read
himself in.
November 28th, 1890 - Rev. H. M. Sharples preached his
farewell sermon at Mount Pleasant Chapel.
November 30th, 1890 -
Robert Bowden, retired farmer, and a well-known pig dealer in
Glossop, died, aged 87.
December 7th, 1890 - Two memorial windows
in memory of John, Daniel, Samuel and Mrs. John Wood, dedicated-at
St. James's Church, Whitfield.
December 7th, 1890 - Robert Potts,
draper, aged 44, a native of Glossop, met his death through drinking
liquid ammonia in mistake for quinine wine at Oldham.
December
8th, 1890 - Henry Atkin injured with some rollers at Dinting
Printworks.
December 9th, 1890 - Sale of the furniture of the
Grand Protestant Association of Loyal Orangemen at the Palatine
Hotel, Hadfield.
December 10th, 1890 - Maggie Rainey, aged 3, died
through drinking hot tea from a teapot at Woolley Bridge.
December
12th, 1890 - Sale of work at Charlesworth Independent Schoolroom, £67
realised.
December 12th, 1890 - Sarah Oldham, aged 46, died
through falling down the stairs at 28 Brickfield Street,
Hadfield.
December 14th, 1890 - A boy, aged 15, starved to death
at his home in Back Derby Street, through want of sufficient bed
clothes.
December 14th, 1890 - The Peak Forest Canal burst its
banks at Furniss Vale.
December 26th, 1890 - Thirteen of the
work-people in the "New Shed" at Sumner's asphyxiated
through a gas leakage, all recovered.
December 27th, 1890 - Marble
clock presented to John Stafford, late foreman at Turn Lee Mill, on
the occasion of his leaving to take up a similar position near
Blackburn.
March
12th, 1891 - John Hollingworth, gent., Hollingworth, died, aged 85.
May
16th, 1891 - Glossop Volunteers went to Brigade Camp at Conway. 10th
encampment.
June 5th, 1891 - A presentation was made to John Wood
Bowden by the members of the Loyal Key Lodge. I.O. Oddfellows, as a
memento of their esteem.
June
27th, 1891 - Brass Band Contest and Cricket match promoted by Glossop
Old Prize Band. 14 bands competed; heavy showers fell at intervals.
1st prize, Thurlstone; 2nd, Audenshaw and Droylesden; 3rd, Eccles
Subscription; 4th, Ashton Rifles; 5th, Denton Original.
June
30th, 1891 - Important sale of chief rents, 23 lots in Hadfield and
Glossop sold.
July
2nd, 1891 - Alderman Joseph Middleton Stafford, J.P., died. He was
born July 17th 1826, at Mellor, and for some years assisted his
father, a cotton spinner at Charlesworth, he then became manager of
Botany Mills, and afterwards commenced business for himself as a
cotton waste dealer in the Arundel Mill, Edward Street, eventually
commencing spinning. he was thrice Mayor of Glossop, and for over 30
years a local Wesleyan
Preacher.
July
2nd, 1891 - Mrs. Edmund Potter died, aged 91.
July
4th, 1891 - Foresters Demonstration, Jubilee of Court "Conquering
Hero," No. 1979. Procession, and public meeting in Victoria
Hall. Charman, Bro. S. Hill-Wood, Esq.
July
6th, 1891 - Accident to the express train from Fleetwood to
Manchester, a man killed and several Tintwistle people injured.
July
8th, 1891 - Lord Howard of Glossop elected an Alderman of the Derby
County Council in place of Alderman Mackie, J.P., of New Mills,
deceased.
July 8th, 1891 - Isaac Goodwin, an old man, killed at
Furness Vale railway crossing.
July 11th, 1891 - A Cottage Home
for Manchester girls opened at New House Hill, Mellor.
July 11th.
1891 - Theodore Walter Ellison married Elisabeth Alice, second
daughter of Joseph Collier, Norfolk Arms Hotel.
July 12th, 1891 -
Samuel Thornley, coal merchant, Broadbottom,died, aged 61. He was a
well-known Wesleyan.
July 18th, 1891 - Sale of property: Nos.
1-17, Primrose Lane, built in 1838, offered for sale; withdrawn at
£420. Nos. 174-51, Primrose Lane, built in 1838; no bid for
them. Four houses, Primrose Lane, built in 1838; sold to Edmund
Buckley, plasterer, for £345. House, out-buildings and garden,
Primrose Lane, two houses and stable; no bid. Three houses and
workshop, Primrose Lane, built in 1851; sold to Edmund Buckley for
£280.
July 18th, 1891 - The Cowburn Tunnel on the Dore and
Chinley Railway pierced, the workers from both ends shook hands. The
length of the tunnel is 4,000 yards, and has one shaft near the Edale
end.
July 19th, 1891 - Lord Howard's Drawing Room at Rutland Gate,
London, destroyed by fire.
July 22nd, 1891 - Robert Hamnett
appointed steward of the Glossop Conservative Club, re Lewis
Woolliscroft resigned.
July
22nd, 1891 - Nos. 36-38, Hall Street, built by Robert Robinson in
1824, sold to the Glossop Co-operative Society for £504.
July
27th, 1891 - Peels Arms and Nos. 8-12 Temple Street, built in 1845,
sold to Mrs. Phair for £1,820. Nos. 35-47a, Platt Street, built
in 1872, sold to George Pratt for £1,105. Nos. 82-88 Platt
Street, built in 1851, sold to John Sargentson for £454.
July
29th, 1891 - Second annual outing of the Borough Police, the first
batch went to the Dukeries.
July 29th, 1891 - Charles Edward
Knowles married Beatrice, second daughter of Captain E.
Partington.
July 31st, 1891 - The Census published of the
population in the High Peek Division. 1891 there were 60,140
inhabitants, an increase of 7,266 since 1881.
July 31st, 1891 -
Presentation of a purse of gold, £22, to Father Korfer, who was
leaving Glossop for Cologne, after 10 gears ministry in
Glossop.
August 12th, 1891 - Matilda Robinson, aged 69, of 134
Victoria Street, widow of George Robinson, painter, died through
falling down stairs.
August 12th, 1891 - Second annual outing of
the Borough Police. The first portion went to the Dukeries.
August
21st, 1891 - Robert Lyne, aged 8, killed in Ellison Street by
accidentally pulling a van on the top of himself.
August 23rd,
1891 - The Rev. J. Nowell preached his farewell sermon on his
retirement from the ministry at Wesley Chapel, High Street West. The
rev. gentleman had been a minister 46 years and a local preacher for
6 years.
August 28th, 1891 - Charles Crompton, undertaker, High
Street West, died, born in High Street West 17-9-1835. The deceased
had a fall in the yard six weeks previous to his death and never
recovered consciousness.
August 31st, 1891 - The building of a
Conservative Club at Charlesworth commenced.
September 1st, 1891 -
The Glossop members of the Primrose League had a picnic in
waggonettes to Chapel-en-le-Frith.
September 5th, 1891 - Harry
Yates injured in a hoist accident at Platts' Middle Mill,
Padfield.
September 10th, 1891 - First Football match of the
season; Glossop North End 4, Denton Lads Club 3.
September
16th, 1891 - A building of the Buxton Lime Co., at the Duke's Drive,
Buxton, destroyed by fire, £1,000 damage done.
September
16th, 1891 - Public meeting at Little Hayfield over the inadequate
water supply.
September 18th, 1891 - Operations commenced for the
re-construction of the chancel of Chapel-en-le Frith Parish
Church.
September 20th, 1891 - New organ given by W. S. Rhodes,
Esq., opened at the Hollingworth Congregational Chapel, built by
Wadsworth Bros., Manchester, at a cost of £600. It contains
1,304 pipes.
September
23rd, 1891 - Josiah Redford, collier, aged 30, Chisworth, found
drowned in Potter's Fountain Lodge at Dinting Vale.
October
3rd, 1891 - Mrs. S. Wood laid the foundation stone of Charlesworth
and Chisworth Conservative Club.
October
6th, 1891 - Cookery Classes opened at the Victoria Hall under the
auspices of the Derby County Council Technical Education
Committee
October 20th, 1891 - Liberal Demonstration in Victoria
Hall. Principal speaker, Sir Charles Russell, Q.C., M.P.
October
23rd, 1891 - The Salvation Army registered a place in Edward Street
as a place of meeting for religions purposes.
October 23rd, 1891 -
A man named Tipping, of Guide Bridge, knocked down, at Dinting
Station by an express train and seriously injured.
October 27th,
1891 - The body of a man found in Rhodes' Wood reservoir.
November
6th, 1891 - Joshua Beaumont, aged 31, platform porter, a native of
Hadfield, killed at Staleybridge, during shunting
operations.
November 12th, 1891 - Miss Louie Collier made her
first appearance as a principal artiste in Turners' Opera Co. at the
New Opera House, Ashton-Under- Lyne, taking the part of Arline in
"The Bohemian Girl."
November 13th, 1891 - Robert
Harrison, of Corn Mill Bridge, an old musician and the father of 5
sons, all musicians, died, aged 66.
November 18th, 1891 - Grand
Ball at Glossop Hall.
November 23rd, 1891 - Alex Johnson, Glossop,
died, aged 84, and his widow, Betty, died two days after, aged
77.
December 11th, 1891 - Isaac Redfern, School Attendance
Officer, resigned his position.
December 11th, 1891 - Unionist
Demonstration in the Drill Hall, Glossop. Sir W. T. Marriott, Q.C.,
M.P., replied to Sir C. Russell.
December 17th, 1891 - Messrs.
Sumners, Wren Nest Mills, commenced working again after a stoppage of
five weeks for repairs.
December
19th, 1891 - Samuel Lewis, aged 4, killed by being run over by a cart
near Dinting Printworks.
December 27th, 1891 - Marble clock
presented to John Stafford, late foreman at Turn Lee Mill, on the
occasion of his leaving to take a similar position at Blackburn.
May
11th, 1892 - Direct Post established between Glossop and
Hadfield.
June 4th, 1892 - Glossop Volunteers to Conway - 11th
encampment.
June 6th, 1892 -
Samuel Higginbottom (Besom Sam), Charlesworth, died, aged 66.
June
19th, 1892 - Glossop Volunteers attended a Memorial Service to late
Chaplain Rev. C. B. Ward.
July
2nd, 1892 - A child accidentally poisoned at Hague Street.
July
4th, 1892 - A bedroom of a house on fire at Woolley Bridge Bond,
three children who were in bed were rescued.
July 19th, 1892 -
Enoch Fielding, watchmaker, died; born at Vale House in June, 1818.
Came to Glossop in 1846, and was appointed organist to the Wesleyan
Chapel, resigned after 34 years' service.
July 18th, 1892 - High
Peak Parliamentary Election, 15 constables from Ashton-under-Lyne and
10 from Stalybridge, on duty in Glossop. Result of the poll,
Lieut-Col. W. Sidebottom, 4,609; J. Cheetham, 4243. John Boyer,
Lieut-Col. Sidebottom's coachman, was thrown from the box of his
carriage at the corner of Norfolk Street, and was seriously
hurt.
July 23rd, 1892 - John Francis Hibbert, aged 8, died through
being knocked down by a dog on June 26th.
July 21st, 1892 - Robert
Cooper, Warhill, Mottram, a once famous runner, died, aged 70.
July
26th, 1892 – S. Hill-Wood, Esq., coachman whilst on horse back
was stopped by two men who threatened him with a knife, but a vehicle
with lights approaching they made off.
July
26th, 1892 - Cheshire Rifle Meeting at Altcar, Lt. S. Hill-Wood's
team won the 2nd prize in the volley firing competition.
Col.-Sergt.-Instructor G. Brown and Corporal Willis also won
prizes.
July 31st, 1892 - Novel cricket match at Glossop.
Conditions, immediately on the fall of a wicket the fielding side
become batters. A. Charlesworth's side 156, R. G. Hawke's 88. Mr. E.
Platt entertained the players to dinner at the Norfolk Arms Hotel,
where both sides made the highest possible scores.
August 2nd,
1892, - William Hollins, of Charles Street, a director of the Glossop
Working Men's Perpetual Building Club, died, aged 68.
August 6th,
1892 - Hadfield Cricket Club held their First Annual Athletic
Sports.
August 6th, 1892 - Francis Hawke, for 38 years one of the
trustees of the "Prince Regent" Lodge, Independent Order of
Oddfellows, M.U., presented with an address and silver pencil case on
his retirement from that office.
August 6th, 1892 - A Detachment
of the 11th Field Battery of Artillery arrived from Sheffield, en
route to Morecambe Bay, consisting of four officers 100 men, and 12
horses, under the command of Sir Godfrey Thomas Bart.
August: 7th,
1892 - Elisabeth, widow of Rev. Goodwin Purcell, died at Sandford,
County Dublin.
August 15th, 1892 - Six houses in Cottage Lane sold
to William James Clayton of Reddish, for £304. Lease dated
March 24th, 1851.
August 15th, 1892 - Whilst occupied with others
in pulling off the roof of the old Best Hill Mill, it gave way and
Mark Brooks, of Glossop, was seriously injured.
August 17th, 1892
- The Lighting Committee engaged an additional lamp lighter, and
ordered a large lamp to be erected at the junction of St. Mary's Road
and Victoria Street.
August 18th, 1892 - Fourteenth Annual Horse
Show at Buxton. The grand stand collapsed and several persons were
injured.
August 22nd, 1892 - Glossop Old Prize Band went to the
Isle of Man to fulfil a week's engagement, to play at the
International Exhibition, Douglas, where they gave great satisfaction
under the leadership of Mr. C. Hall.
September 10th, 1892 - High
Peak Parliamentary Election Expenses published by the High Sheriff.
J. F. Cheetham, £1,149 11s. 0d .; Lt. Col. Sidebottom, £1,376
13s. 0d.
September 3rd, 1892 - Football matches for medals at Hall
Street, promoted by Glossop North End. Garlick's team won the gold
centre medals, and Littler's team the silver medals.
September
6th, 1892 - A boy named John Robinson fell into the Brookfield Dam
and had a near escape of drowning.
September
7th, 1892 - Rev. E. T. Taylor, for 10 years curate at St. James's
Church, Whitfield, left to take the senior curacy of
Gainsborough.
September 11th, 1892 - A young man found drowned in
the river near Dinting Printworks.
September 12th, 1892 - A young
man committed to the Sessions for a burglary at Dinting Printworks.
September
12th, 1892 - Public Meeting at the Victoria Hall to consider the
question of forming a Board School for Glossop.
September 14th,
1892 - Plans passed by the Building Committee for an Iron Mission
Chapel in Princess Street.
September 17th, 1892 - Brass Band
Contest at Glossop. 1st prize, Shaw; 2nd, Bacup Change; 3rd, Barnsley
Rifles; 4th, Rawtenstall: 5th, Goodislaw.
September
20th, 1892 - Presentation of a photo group to James Johnson,
Hadfield, at the Glossop Conservative Club on his retirement as
sub-registration agent for All Saints' Ward, owing to being appointed
registrar at the Glossop Cemetery.
September
21st,1892 - Dr. R. Nelson, Norfolk Street, married Jessie Blanche,
third daughter of the late Rev. J. D. Knowles, R.D.
September
29th, 1892 - Mr. Haynes, Borough surveyor, salary raised from £150
to £180.
September 29th, 1892 - Plans pasted by the Building
Committee for a new weaving shed at Sumner's Mill.
October
2nd, 1892 - A man hung himself at his house in High Street East.
October
3rd, 1892 - John Mason, aged 54, killed by a hoist at Waterside
Mill.
October 8th, 1892 - An address and clock presented to Thomas
Harrison, of Hadfield, by choir, teachers and scholars of the
Primitive Methodist Sunday School, with which he had been connected
in various offices for over 30 years. Removing to Worksop.
October
15th, 1892 - Mary Bums, aged 52 of 88, Waterside, fell down stairs
and died in Woods' Hospital.
October
23rd, 1892 - George Booth, rope maker of Littlefield House,
Charlesworth, died, aged 88.
October 24th, 1892 - Nos. 66, 66b and
68, Station Road, Hadfeld, sold to G. F. Howarth for £400.
Lease from 1857.
October 26th, 1892 - Captain Partington's water
scheme considered in private by the Town Council sub committee.
October
28th, 1892 - Notice given at Mersey Mills of 5 per cent. reduction in
spinners wages.
October 29th, 1892 - A public fountain to the
memory of John Mackie, J.P., unveiled at New Mills.
November 2nd,
1892 - S. Hill-Wood, Esq. allowed his tenants 25 per cent reduction
in their rents for the half-year, owing to the bad times they had had
owing to bad weather.
November 5th, 1892 - Mills commenced working
short time owing to the dispute with the cotton spinners over a
reduction of 5 per cent. in their wages.
November 5th, 1892 - Mr.
E. Muir reported on his investigation of the Glossop water supply. He
estimated the cost of a new reservoir and necessary works at
£8,000,
November 10th, 1892 - The Infectious Disease
Prevention Act, 1800, came into operation in the Borough.
November
13th, 1892 - George S. Banks, for 18 years a spinners overlooker at
Rhodes' Mill, presented with a writing desk on his retirement. He bad
been hon. secretary to the Spinners Union for over 20 years.
November
12th, 1892 - New Mills Conservative Club Bazaar opened by Lord
Newton, of Lyme, realised £235.
November 17th, 1892 - Samuel
Oldkin's Mill burnt down at Mellor, erected 1790, enlarged
1815.
November 18th, 1892 - Spinners dispute, the following local
mills were affected: Woods' 221,000, Wren Nest 122,000, Mersey Mills
81,000, Hadfeld Mill 75,246, Platt's 66,000, Broadbottom 61,000,
Shepley Mill 43,000, Waterside and Bridge 29,300, Brookfield 23,246,
Kinder Lee 8,000 spindles.
November 19th, 1892 - Mrs. McCann,
Princess Street, fell and fractured her thigh whilst going along the
Sand-hole Road.
November 19th, 1892 - Ben Bowden, Simmondley, died
through a fall.
November 21st, 1892 - Nos. 54-56 Church Street,
Glossop, sold to Walter Dixon for £56.
November 23rd, 1892 -
Burglary at Charles Greaves, Rowlea, Woodlands, three Sheffield men
committed to the Assizes for it.
November
23rd, 1892 - Resolved to connect Glossop and Hadfield Police Stations
with telephonic communication.
November 25th, 1892 - Local papers
announced that the Rev. Henry Thornton, Dudley. M.A., Bradwell, had
been offered and had accepted the Vicariate of St. James's,
Whitfield.
November 28th, 1892 - John Clark, of "Partington's
Row," Charlestown, had his left hand lacerated by machinery at
Charlestown Bleachworks.
November 30th, 1892 - Sophia Boulden,
aged 68, found dead in her house at Lane Ends, Whitfield.
December
1st, 1892 - Presentation of a silver tea service to Superintendent
Hallam, on his retirement from the County Police Force.
December
5th, 1892 - Fire at W. A. Martin's Store Room, Station Road,
Hadfield.
December 9th, 1892 - Fire at Eversden's shop, Station
Road, Hadfield.
December
11th, 1892 - Hannah Ashton, relict of Robert Ashton, Esq., of
Woodseats, Charlesworth, died at Talbot House, aged 78.
December
15th, 1892 - John Slack, of Buxton, formerly of Oaklands, Hayfield,
died, aged 79. He was born at Slack House, his father, Robert Slack,
was a paper maker and tanner, of Little Hayfield, he died in
1857.
December 16th, 1892 - The Glossop Fire Brigade had their
first annual dinner at the Station Inn.
December 17th, 1892 -
Thomas Beeley, of the Howard Arms Inn, murdered at Siekoutsie, South
Africa, by Lewis Andries, a native of Holland. He was executed for
the crime.
December 17th, 1892 - The Glossop Co-operative
Society's new Branch Store opened at Hall Street. To celebrate the
event free teas were given to the members of the Society at the
Glossop National, Shrewsbury Street, St. James's, and Zion Schools.
December
19th, 1892 - Three inquests held. On John Clarke, died on 18th, from
injuries received on 28th November; Charles Piercy Devlin, a child,
found dead in bed in Arundel Street; Clara Higginbottom, aged 3, died
through drinking corrosive fluid out of a mineral water
bottle.
December 21st, 1892 - Ann Wylde, Duke Street, died through
falling down the stairs, aged 72.
December 24th, 1892 - Bazaar at
the Independant Sunday School, realised £100.
December.25th,
1892 - New Mills Free Church New Sunday School opened.
December
25th. 1892 - William Birchenough, aged 22, frozen to death in a Photo
Studio at Chapel-en-le- Frith.
December 29th, 1892 - Grand three
days' Naval Bazaar opened at Howard Town Wesleyan Chapel by Miss
Rhodes (Mayoress), Mrs. Wood, and Jacob Hadfield, Esq.
March 27th,
1893 - End of the 20 weeks Cotton Strike.
March 31st, 1893 -
Inspector Ernest Charlton retired from the Police Force with a
pension of £69 6s. 8d. per annum. Sergeant John Cooper promoted
to the vacancy.
April
22nd, 1893 - Fire, at W. H. Irlam's shop, High Street West.
May
20th, 1893 - Glossop Volunteers to South Shore. 12th encampment.
June
21st, 1893 - Memorial sent to the Post Master General requesting
Glossop to be a Head Post Office.
June
6th, 1893 - Meeting of ratepayers, resolved "That this meeting
of ratepayers of the Borough of Glossop urges upon the members of the
Town Council the advisability of taking immediate steps for the
possession of an additional supply of water, believing it would tend
to the greater convenience and health of the inhabitants, and to the
increased prosperity of the town."
July
2nd, 1893 - William Plant, plumber, Victoria Street, died, through
blood poisoning.
July
3rd, 1893 - House struck by lightning at Chisworth.
July
3rd, 1893 - Nos. 106, 108 and 112, Woolley Bridge, built 1824, sold
to Thomas Eastwood and Jonathan Kershaw, butcher, for £199
July
5th, 1893 - A sub-committee appointed to engage Sanitary Engineer to
prepare necessary plans and take levels, and submit a scheme of
draining the Borough, and to furnish an estimate of the cost.
July
6th, 1893 - Marriage of the Duke of York and Princess May. The school
children in the district had a holiday. The Glossop Old Prize Band
played selection of music in Norfolk Square, and the tradesmen put
out their flags.
July
6th, 1893 - Infant daughter of F. Pickering, plumber, Hollingworth,
died through drinking out of the tea pot containing boiling tea.
July
7th, 1893 - Edwin Booth, Simmondley Lane, 30 years a temperance
worker, died from cancer on the stomach, aged 61.
July 10th, 1893
- Trustees of the Primitive Methodist Mission Room, Princess Street
:- John Paulden, shoe maker; John Byrom, weaver; Joel Jarman, sawyer;
George Heywood Arnold, tailor: Herbert Holland, sorter at Printworks;
Joseph Henry Smith, weaver; John Berrisford, spinner; Joseph John
Shirt, spinner; Samuel Fletcher, railway clerk; John Beech, spinner;
Jonathan Hawkins, clerk.
July 11th, 1893 - Harriet Battey, aged
61, died through being burned by falling with a lighted paraffin lamp
at Tintwistle.
July 11th, 1893 - Arthur, child of J. T. Newton, of
19, Queen Street, Hadfield, drowned in a tub of soap suds.
July
15th, 1893 - Steeplechase from Greyhound Inn, Glossop, to the Culvert
Bridge and back, a distance of six miles; won by T. Knight in 40
minutes.
July 15th, 1893 - Alfred Hall, St. Mary's Road, seriously
hurt at Turn Lee Paper Mills whilst attending to the sawing of
timber.
July 17th, 1893 - J. Wood and Bros. Started working,
having been closed owing to a dispute with the spinners, who agreed
to terms offered.
July 26th, 1893 - Cheshire County Rifle Meeting
at Altcar. Lt. S. Hill-Wood's team won the third prize in the
Mullen's Cup Competition. Corporal L. Darwent, Lc-Corporal J. Booth,
Corporal W. H. Willis, and Corporal N. Willis won prizes.
July
28th, 1893 - Rev. T. O. Williams, of Oldham, accepted the call to
fill the pastorate of Brookfield Congregational Chapel.
July 29th,
1893 - Demonstration of Oddfellows.
August
8th, 1893 - Great meeting of Hadfield ratepayers in St. Andrew's
School to protest against Councillor E. Partington's proposed water
scheme.
August
8th, 1893 - The Officers of the 4th Vol. Batt. Cheshire Regiment
entertained to dinner at Harewood Lodge by Lt. Col. W. Sidebottom,
M.P.
August 16th, 1893 - Burglary at Gamesley. £55 stolen
from a box belonging to Richard Howarth
August 18th, 1893 - Great
scarcity of water. Water for the swimming baths discontinued for 14
days.
August
20th, 1893 - Fire at Arthur Eversden's shop. Station Road, Hadfield,
£40 damage done.
August
22nd, 1893 - A little girl of John Taylor's, Broadbottom, died
through falling down stairs.
August 30th, 1893 - Building
Committee passed the plans for a Branch Bank and Shop at
Hadfield.
August 30th, 1893 - The Waterworks Inspector reported
that there were only three weeks supply of water in the
reservoirs.
September 2nd, 1893 - Lewis Wooliscroft, Inn keeper,
Britannia Inn, died, aged 44. He worked 23 years at Dinting
Printworks, and for 8 years was the steward at the Glossop
Conservative Club.
September 2nd, 1893 - Football match. Glossop
North End 10 (Paton scored 5), Hyde and District League team
7.
September 2nd, 1893 - Rifle Volunteer Shooting Match at
Glossop, Lt. S. H. Wood's team 481; F. Co. 387; H. Co. 443.
September
2nd, 1893 - P. Brodrick had his collar bone broken whilst playing
Rugby football for Glossop against Barton.
September
4th, 1893 - Nos. 3, 5, and 7, Lambgates, Hadfield, sold to William
Newton, grocer, Glossop, for £503. Lease dates from September
29th, 1889. Nos. 116, 118, 116B, and 118B, Station Road, Hadfeld,
sold to James Harrison for £345, 99 years lease, dated
25-3-1851. Nos. 112, 114, and 114B, Station Road, Hadfield, sold to
E. Clayton for £480. 99 years lease, dated 25-3-1851. Nos. 104
and 106 Station Road, Hadfield, sold to Henry Walker, Hollingworth,
for £330. 999 years lease, dated 25-3-1899.
September 4th,
1893 - Commencement of preparing the ground for the building of a
Roman Catholic Chapel in the Spring Meadow, New York,
Charlesworth.
September 5th, 1893 - A railway guard, called Higgs,
killed at Hayfield Railway Station.
September 5th, 1893 - Robert
Shutt, wheelwright, Glossop, aged 47, found dead with his throat cut
in the brook at Lady Clough, near the "Cut throat
Bridge."
September 9th, 1893 - Return Volunteer Rifle Match
at Stockport. Lt. S. Hill-Wood's team 522; H. Co. 474; F. Co. 416.
September
10th, 1893 - New organ opened at the Primitive Methodist Chapel,
Shrewsbury Street.
September 13th, 1893 - News received that
Thomas Rhodes, brother of George, William and Herbert, and
half-brother of William Shepley Rhodes, had died in California. He
had been abroad 17 years.
September 22nd. 1893 - Lieut.-Col. W.
Sidebottom MP., Councillor Herbert Rhodes, and William Dawson
initiated as hon. members of the "Loyal Key" Lodge of
Oddfellows, M.U. at the Peel's Arms, Padfield.
September
23rd, 1893 - The Moors were covered with snow, the earliest fall of
snow known to any person in the district.
September
23rd. 1893 - Glossop Old Brass Band won the 4th prize, £20, at
the Blackpool Brass Band Contest.
September
25th, 1893 - Nos. 20-36, Woolley Bridge, offered for sale and
withdrawn at £450; 97 years' lease, dates from 1853. Nos.
39-43, Hadfield Road, offered for sale, withdrawn at £410; 999
years' lease from 1877.
September 25th, 1893 - The licence of the
Swan Inn, High Street East, transferred from John Pemberton to Lot
Pickford.
September
26th, 1893 - Complimentary Dinner at the Albion Inn, Manchester,
given by a few friends to Mr. T. M. Ellison, Town Clerk of Glossop,
on attaining his 70th birthday, given by his friends in appreciation
of his service to the public and his many sterling
qualities.
September 30th, 1893 - Mrs. T. H. Sidebottom thrown out
of her conveyance, one of the wheels passing over her arm but not
seriously injured.
October 1st. 1893 - Mrs Mason, Church View, New
Mills, accidentally drowned in the canal at Newtown.
October 2nd,
1893 - Numbers 17-21, Collier Street, sold to John Wood, grocer, for
£295, lease from 1853. No. 17-19, Hadfield Place, sold to David
Dawson for £273, lease from 1871.
October 2nd, 1893 - Notice
posted at Mersey Mills that the mills would be stopped in consequence
of the dearness of coal, unless the hands would accept a reduction
of 2½ per cent in their wages. On the 4th, at a meeting of
operatives it was unanimously agreed not to accept the
reduction.
October 7th, 1893 - Ernest Willis, Shoe maker,
Hadfield, won a gold medal by cycling from Hadfeld to Liverpool and
back in 13 minutes under 10 hours.
October 8th 1893 - Rev.
William John Canton, Holy Trinity Church, appointed Rector of St.
Margaret's, Whalley Range.
October
10th 1893 - Glossop Social Reform Council held their inaugural
meeting in Victoria Hall.
October
22nd, 1893 - Howard Street Wesleyan Reform New Sunday School
opened.
October 28th, 1893 - Ernest Willis, shoemaker, Hadfield,
won the gold medal of the Glossop and Hadfield Cycling Club by
cycling to Liverpool and back in 8 hours and 50 minutes.
October
28th, 1893 - Rev. T. O. Williams recognised as Pastor of Brookfield
Chapel.
October 30th, 1893 - No. 81, Dinting Lane, sold to C.
Hadfield for £310; lease dated September 29th 1846.
November
1st, 1893 - Joseph Lomax, Spring Bank, New Mills, Nuisance Inspector
and local preacher, died suddenly, aged 67.
November 2nd, 1893 -
Ada Ellison, Lees Row, Padfield, aged 19, burnt to death.
November
6th, 1893 - Dore and Chinley Railway opened.
November 7th, 1893 -
Canon Diggle, M.A., of Liverpool, lectured to the Glossop Social
Reform Council in the Victoria Hall, on the value and study of
history.
November 14th, 1893 - Rearing supper at the Globe Inn to
workmen employed on the new weaving shed (500 feet long) at Wren Nest
Mills.
November 13th, 1893 - A woman drowned herself in the "10
foot" at the Ashes.
November 14th, 1893 - James Blackburn,
aged 2, killed by a hoist at Bridge Mills.
November 20th, 1893 -
Nos. 32-40 Sheffield Road, sold to Samuel Jackson for £700.
Leased from 1854. Nos. 27-31 Surrey Street, sold to William Henry
Hadfield for £301. Leased from 1852.
November 20th, 1893 -
Meeting of the Glossop Weavers Association in the Glossop Town Hall
over alledged excessive fining and bad work at Sumner's
Mill.
November 22nd, 1893 - Charles Henry Hardman presented with
books on music, for services rendered in connection with the new
organ at the Glossop Primitive Methodist Chapel.
November 24th,
1893 - Municipal Election at Hadfeld. Joseph Bennett 708, Thomas
Barlow 646,
November 24th, 1893 - Fire at Shepley's Mill, Hawk
Green, Marple.
November
27th, 1893 - Bank Chambers, Station Road, Hadfield, offered for sale,
withdrawn at £522.
November
30th, 1893 - “Snow Carnival” opened by Mrs. S. Wood at
the Old Glossop Wesleyan School, realised £180.
December
11th, 1893 - Four shops, Station Road, Hadfield, sold to George Wood,
Wigan, for £1,045. Lease from 1854. Four houses in Jones Street
sold to James Pratt for £525, lease from 1878.
December
15th, 1893 - Two days' Sale of Work opened by Herbert Partington,
Esq. and J. Hall Brooks, Esq., at Fitzalan Street Unitarian Sunday
School. £200 realised.
December 18th, 1893 - Martha, relict
of William Platt, formerly of Greenfield Cottage, Padfield, died at
the residence of her nephew, Edward Platt, Talbot House, aged 89.
December
20th, 1893 - Bacon Square renamed Hadfield Square.
December 29th,
1893 - Edwin Shaw, music and piano dealer, chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Glossop Gas Works, died, aged 69.
March 28th,
1894 - Library Committee resolved "That Councillor W. Dawson be
requested to ascertain the rent of a house and shop in Station Road,
Hadfeld, for use as a Branch Library there."
May 12th, 1894 -
Glossop Volunteers went to Conway. Their 13th encampment.
June
6th, 1894 - Sewage Committee formed.
June
29th, 1894 - Scheme and plan of Sewage Works' Prize of 3160 awarded
to "Valves" Lomax and Lomax; and £50 to
"Gravitation," W. H. Radford.
June
30th, 1894 - Glossop Old Prize Band won first prize, £10, at
Lea Mills Brass Band contest.
July
11th, 1894 - A portion of the Borough Police went to Chester and
Eaton Hall for their annual outing.
July 18th, 1894 - Flag Field
Bridge ordered to be repaired.
July 21st, 1894 - First open-air
Musical Festival in the Park, in aid of Wood's Hospital Funds. Rain
spoiled the carrying out of the programme.
July 21st, 1894 - David
Shepley, shoemaker, Charlesworth, died, aged 65.
July 23rd, 1894 -
Glossop Borough Police inspected by Sir Herbert G. D. Croft, who
recommended an increase of the force.
July
25th, 1894 - Cheshire County Rifle Meeting at Altcar, Lt. S.
Hill-Wood's team won the 4th prize in the volley competition, and
Pte. J. Piton, Qr-Master Sergt, W. Booth, Sergt. J. Cullen, and
Sergt. L Darwent also won prizes.
July 26th, 1894 - Members of the
Glossop Town Council entertained by Coun. H. Rhodes to a banquet at
the Queen's Hotel, Manchester.
August 1st, 1894 - Plans for branch
Co-operative Store in Queen Street, Hadfield
August
1st, 1894 - A deputation from the Glossop and District Trades Council
attended on the Town Council. Councillor W. Oliver proposed and
Councillor John Barnes seconded, "That in letting contracts
preference shall be given to those persons or firms who pay their
workpeople the regular standard of wages obtaining at the time in the
Borough or district". The motion was not carried.
August
4th, 1894 - Glossop Cricket and Rugby Football Clubs fourth annual
Athletic Sports Festival had good attendance. Lady Howard distributed
the prizes.
August
6th, 1894 - James, son of the Rev. Goodwin Purcell, the first Vicar
of Charlesworth, died at New Brighton, aged 44.
August
9th, 1894 - Travelling case and a purse containing money, was
presented to James Shaw, of Gamesley, who for 15 years was the
organist at Brookfield Chapel, on the occasion of leaving England for
Russia.
August 15th, 1894 - A fire occurred in a house occupied by
Joseph Hyde of High Street East.
August 15th, 1894 - A detachment
of the 17th Lancers, consisting of six officers, 82 men, and 91
horses, arrived at Glossop from Buxton en route for Leeds.
August
15th, 1894 - The Watch Committee appointed four additional policemen,
vis :- Geo. Robinson, of Bradford; John Robert White, of Hadfield;
Albert Brooks, of Hayfield; and Arthur Mellor, of Dinting.
August
22nd, 1894 - George Winterbottom, aged 76, died at Marple. He was for
30 years the Toll Bar keeper of the Woodcock Road Toll Bar,
afterwards for many years the landlord of the Royal Oak Inn.
August
27th, 1894 - Glossop Borough Licensing Sessions. Full licence granted
to William Barber, Pear Tree Inn, Lower Barn, Hadfeld, and a wine
licence to Joseph Orme, Star Inn, Glossop.
September 1st, 1894 -
The Sewage Committee decided to purchase land for the site of the
Sewage Purification Works, at £100 per acre.
August 28th,
1894 - Special Vestry Meeting at St. James's Church, Whittield, to
approve of Church improvements, re-building and enlarging the
Chancel, re-seating body of Church, new Vestry, etc.
September
1st, 1894 - Football match on the new ground at Pye Grove, A. Berwick
engaged as trainer, Coun. W. Oliver kicked-off.
September 8th,
1894 - Glossop Old Prize Band won the 2nd prize, £20, at the
Blackpool Brass Band Contest, 17 bands competed.
September 8th,
1894 - A workingmen's club erected and presented by James Craven,
Esq., J.P., of Mellor Hall, opened at Mellor. Mr. Benjamin Armitage
gave a billiard table and fittings.
September 10th, 1894 -
Presentation of an address at the Gospel Union Mission Hall to Kay
Ogden, on the occasion of his jubilee amongst music and
singers.
September 14th, 1894 - Balance Sheet of the Hadfield
Relief Committee published. The total value received was £91 2s
1½d .; 6,792 loaves of bread, 17½
tons of coal, tea, groceries, soup, etc., were given away. Chas.
Davis, hon. secretary.
September 24th, 1894 - Full licence granted
to William Barlow of the Pear Tree Ian, Hadfield.
September 25th,
1894 - Alice Ann Hadfield, aged 5, 46, Kershaw Street, died in Wood's
Hospital through the effects of burns.
September 26th, 1894 - Mr.
and Mrs. John Warrington appointed Workhouse Master and Matron.
September
28th, 1894 - Maria Carr, aged 18, Castle Hill, burned to death
through her clothes catching fire.
October 1st, 1894
- Harry Preedy, aged 3, Slatelands Avenue, died through the effects
of barns.
October 2nd, 1894 - A man attempted to leap from a
passenger train over the Dinting Viaduct.
October 3rd, 1894 - The
boundaries of the Glossop-Dale Rural District approved of by the
Derby County Council. The number of Guardians were to be: Glossop,
18, Charlesworth, 3; Ludworth, 3; Chisworth, 1. The Rural District
Council was to have Charlesworth 3, Ludworth 3, and Chisworth 1,
Councillor. The Charlesworth Parish Council: Charlesworth 8, and
Chisworth 8 Councillors.
October
10th, 1884 - Police Constable William Scott promoted to Sergeant.
October
13th, 1894 - Additions to the Charlesworth Independent Day and Sunday
Schools. Memorial stones laid by John Marsland.
October
22nd, 1894 - Nos. 23-25, Charlestown Road, sold to Leah Rowbottom for
£250. 17-27, Whitheld Cross withdrawn at £270.
October
22nd, 1894 - Thomas R. Haigh appointed secretary to the Technical
Instruction Committee at a salary of £20 per annum.
November
1894 - Electric light installed at the Glossop Co-operative Stores.
November
3rd, 1894 - James Pollitt, Norfolk Street, retired mill manager,
died, aged 76.
November 4th, 1894 - Charlesworth Parish Council
discussed the question of naming the streets and numbering the houses
in the parish.
November 5th, 1894 - At a meeting of shop
assistants and others, at the Howard Arms Inn, it was decided to
start a Tuesday Football Club.
November 8th, 1894 - Complimentary
dinner to F. Hawke at the Albion Hotel, Manchester, and presentation
of a silver salver by Captain E. Partington, Presented to F. Hawke,
Esq., by his Glossop friends as a token of their respect in
appreciation of his services to the public of the district during the
past 17 years."
November
9th, 1894 - The Town Council resolved that application be made to The
Local Government Board for sanction to borrow the sum of £32,378,
for the purpose of carrying out sewage works in the Borough of
Glossop.
November
10th, 1894 - New Mills Old Band presented with new instruments,
costing £180. The old big drum is dated 1812.
November 12th,
1894 - Marble clock and bronze figures presented to F. Hawke, Esq.,
by the Glossop tradesmen.
November 14th, 1894 - Woods commenced
short time owing to bad trade and accumulation of cloth.
November
16th, 1894 - An Aid Committee, in connection with the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, formed at Glossop. Miss Bolton,
assistant secretary to the Society, addressed a meeting in the Town
Hall.
November 17th, 1894 - Ann Arnfield, widow, aged 74, burned
to death at Bankside, New Mills.
November 17th, 1894 -
Presentation in the Hayfield Wesleyan School of a marble clock:
"Presented to Joseph Turner by the employees of the Clough
Mills, Hayfield, November 17th, 1894 to which all the hands have
contributed.” He had worked 49 years at the mill and was their
late manager.
November 19th, 1894 - A mad dog shot in Cock Road "
(Sheffield Road), by Joshua Hambleton. It had been chased from
Bamford.
November 24th, 1894 - John Perkin Thompson, shunter,
killed at Old Dinting goods station by his head being crushed between
buffers.
November 26th, 1894 - Eleven houses, Nos. 56-62 Victoria
Street, 1-3 Waterhouse Place, 1-7 Park Terrace, offered for sale,
withdrawn at £1,010. Seventeen houses, Nos. 1-17, 26-32 Edward
Street, 6-12 Bernard Street, withdrawn at £1,235.
November
27th, 1894 - Joe Orme, Star Inn, died, aged 59, been the licencee
over 20 years.
November 27th, 1894 - Annual dinner at the Norfolk
Arms of the Glossop and District Farmers Association. Presentation of
a silver tea and coffee service to F. Hawke, Esq., by the tenants on
the Glossop Estate as a token of respect and esteem, on the occasion
of leaving Glossop for Bournemouth. Mr. Hawke came to Glossop in 1851
and became the Estate Agent in 1857.
November 30th, 1894 - Annual
General Meeting of John Wood and Brothers, Ltd. The report stated
that the result of the years' working had resulted in a considerable
loss. A shareholder said "they should have closed their works
instead of accumulating stock which they were unable to sell owing to
bad trade."
December
17th, 1894 - Elections in Glossop under the new Local Government
Act.
December 19th, 1894 - John Hadfield, J.P., Gladstone Street,
ex-Mayor, died, aged 80.
December 25th, 1894 - James Murgatroyd
F.R.J., B.A., Wardley, Didsbury, architect died, aged 65. He was the
architect for the Trinity Church, Woods' Hospital, Baths,
etc.
December 28th, 1894 - William Shepley Rhodes, Esq., J.P.,
Mersey Bank, died
March 27th, 1895 - The Baths conveyed to the
Corporation, and Councillors W. Dawson and Herbert Rhodes appointed
Aldermen to fill vacancies caused by the death of Alderman W. S.
Rhodes, and Alderman James Sidebottom.
April 10th, 1895 - The Town
Council made their first appointment of Overseers.
April 17th,
1895 - Bye-Election at Hadfield: A. Walker, 645; I. Warrington, 615;
T. Braddock, 554; T. Barlow, 542.
May 25th, 1895 - Glossop
Volunteers to Conway. 14th encampment.
June 19th, 1895 - Town
Council resolved that the signs showing the names of the streets be
painted black with white letters. Paving of the approach to Glossop
Railway Station completed.
June
28th, 1895 - Elizabeth Heywood, married woman, fell down stairs at
White Hall, Simmondley, and received fatal injuries.
June
28th, 1895 - Boiler explosion at New Mills Brass Foundry, three men
injured.
June
29th, 1895 - Sixth Annual Glossop Cricket and Football Athletic
Sports, 400 entries.
July
3rd, 1895 - Report to the Town Council that the water in Marlow Brow
Reservoir at Hadfield, was free from pollution, and could be used as
a drinking water.
July
7th, 1895 - Presentation to Miss Evelyn G. Platt, Talbot House. The
Mills decorated and general rejoicings amongst the workpeople at her
coming of age. On the 18th the workpeople were entertained at Belle
Vue, by Mr. Edward Platt.
July
13th, 1895 - Tenth Annual Brass Band Contest at Belle Vue, Glossop
Old Prize Band won the 5th prize.
July 23rd, 1895 - High Peak
Parliamentary Election, Lieut Col. W. Sidebottom, 4,671; Symonds,
4,164.
July 29th, 1895 - Nos. 6-10 George Street and Nos. 1 and 2
Wright's Court, built in 1844, sold to Mr. Burkhard for £600.
July
30th, 1895 - Alderman Luke Darwent, of Bettin Hill, died, aged
76.
August 1st, 1895 - First Annual Bras Band Contest at New
Mills.
August 2nd, 1895 - Musical Festival at Woodhead in aid of
the Woodhead School, over £50 raised.
August 7th, 1895 - Two
cottages, bakehouse, workshop, sugar boiling shop, Shrewsbury Street,
sold to John W. Eversden for £800. Lease dates from September
29th, 1877.
August 9th, 1895 - A girl named Brooke had part of her
scalp taken off by some shafting at Woods Mill.
August 12th, 1895
- A young man, named John Morton, fell down a hoist at Dinting
Printworks, broke two of his toes and otherwise injured
himself.
August 12th, 1895 - Joseph Collins, a well-known butcher
from Ashton, who attended Glossop Market, died, aged 49.
August
18th, 1895 - Golden Jubilee of the Roman Catholic Chapel at New
Mills.
August 19th, 1895 - Frank Kelley, for a wager, walked from
the Bull's Head, New Mills, to the Nag's Head, Charlestown Road, a
distance of 7¼ miles, in one hour and 11
minutes.
August 19th, 1895 - The Derby County Council held an
enquiry at Marple Bridge Congregational Schools. Should Ludworth and
Chisworth be two separate parishes for Parish Council
business.
August 21st, 1895 - The 64th Field Battery of Artillery
arrived at Glossop from Rochdale, en route for Sheffield.
August
21st, 1895 - The Town Council given power to appoint the Assistant
Overseer, but not to be effective until Mr. David Massey is no longer
the assistant overseer.
August 26th, 1895 - Lease of Roman
Catholic Chapel, New York.
August 27th, 1895 - Second Local
Government inquiry re the Glossop Sewage Scheme, and application to
borrow £44,000. Opposed by Messrs. Potters' of Dinting
Printworks.
September
3rd, 1895 - Glossop Primrose Leaguers to Worksop and
Dukeries.
September 7th, 1895 - Football match at East Ferry Road,
Millwall Athletic 2, Glossop North End 0.
September 15th, 1895 -
The winding up of the Glossop Rugby Football Club was celebrated by a
waggonette drive to Castleton, which, unfortunately, ended in a fatal
accident to Charles Skelton, who, on returning home, was thrown out
of the wagonette in Howard Street and killed, aged 59.
September
17th, 1895 - Tuesday, part of a squadron and the Regimental Band of
the 8th Hussars arrived from Leek en route to Leeds. The
remainder of the squadron came the day following.
September 23rd,
1895 - Hand-bell Ringing Contest at Belle Vue.
September
28th, 1895 - Alice Ann Preston, aged 17, a domestic servant, found
drowned in Chapel-en-le-Frith Reservoir.
October 7th,
1895 - Enoch Wood, aged 9, of Church Street, Hadfeld, injured by
being knocked down by a passenger train at the level crossing leading
to Mouslow.
October 7th, 1895 - Derbyshire County Council
approved of Chisworth and Ludworth being divided into two parishes.
October
11th 1895 - John Thomas Wild, aged 33, Shaw Lane, died through being
injured by his horse.
October
14th 1895 - At a special meeting of the Town Council it was decided
to enforce the “Muzzling Order for dogs” on account of
mad dogs having been in the neighbourhood. Compensation was ordered
to be paid to those owners whose dogs had been destroyed
October
19th, 1895 - Tea Party at St Luke's to welcome the Rev. L. F. Ward as
curate to the Mission.
October
19th, 1895 - Henry Bradshaw, aged 22 months, drowned in a well in a
garden near the Royal Oak Inn, Sheffield Road.
October
21st. 1895 - John France Ford, Surrey Arms Hotel, auctioneer and
valuer, died aged 29 years.
October
22nd, 1895 - Thomas Rhodes and Son, Ltd., registered £85,000
capital in £10 shares.
October 26th, 1895 - Grand Benevolent
Sacred Concert in the Victoria Hall for the benefit of Mrs. Sellars,
Old Glossop, at one time a leading soprano in the district. Realised
£30 10s 3d.
October 30th,1895 - Sumners' commenced working
short time, 35 hours per week.
November 2nd, 1895 - John Garth,
Moorfield Terrace, Hollingworth, retired machine printer, 30 years
choirmaster at the Hollingworth Congregational Chapel, president and
treasurer of the Woolley Bridge Burial Society, died, aged
51.
November 3rd, 1895 - John Dalton, Rose Bank, Hollingworth,
calico printer, bachelor, died, born February 7th, 1827, he was the
son of John and Hannah Dalton, his mother was an Ellison, of Glossop
her sister Mary, married Joseph Hadfield, of Lees Hall.
November
11th, 1895 - Four houses at Chew, Chisworth, sold to Fred Longson,
Rowarth, for £240. Leased from 1840.
November 16th, 1895 -
St. James' Sunday School Football Club played their first
game.
November 25th, 1895 - Nos. 224-248 High Street West, sold to
William Charlesworth for £510, leased from 1860. Nos. 19-21
Simmondley Lane, for £355, to J. W. Tweedale.
November 27th,
1895 - County Council enquiry at New Mills into an application by the
Urban District Council for the division of the Urban district into
Wards for election purposes.
November 27th, 1895 - No. 15 Lord
Street, offered for sale, withdrawn at £370. Lease from
1881.
November 28th, 1895 - James Hurst, farmer, Blackshaw Farm,
died, aged 56; Elizabeth, his wife, also died through the
shock.
December 2nd, 1895 - Nos. 18-24 Whitfield Cross sold to
John Bennett Plainstead, for £320. Lease from 1832. No. 58 Duke
Street, freehold, sold to P.C. Fish for £225.
December 6th,
1895 - Fire at T. P. Hunter's shop, High Street West.
December
16th, 1895 - Alfred Charlesworth appointed Hon. Secretary of the
Glossop Cricket Club, re Thomas R. Howarth, resigned.
December
18th, 1895 - Town Council received a letter from the Local Government
Board, sanctioning the borrowing of £44,000 for purposes of
sewage, and Sewage Disposal Works.
April 20th, 1896 -
Tender for the Sewage Works let to Mr. George Bell, 29, Corporation
Street, Manchester.
May 2nd, 1896 - Lt. Col. W. Sidebottom of the
4th Vol. Batt. Cheshire Regiment, resigned.
May 23rd, 1896 -
Glossop Volunteers to Blackpool South Shore.
June
17th, 1896 - The Mayor, H. Rhodes, Esq., presented a framed photo of
himself to the Corporation.
July
1st, 1896 - William Henry Hollingberry, treasurer to the Borough and
the Glossop Union resigned his position. Mr T.T. Kenyon appointed
borough treasurer.
July
4th, 1896 - Demonstration of the Glossop Independent Order of
Oddfellows, Manchester Unity.
July 6th, 1896 - Plans of extensive
alterations to the Norfolk Arms Hotel, removing the vaults to the
corner of Henry Street, passed by the Magistrates.
July 8th, 1896
- Presentation by Lt. Col. J. Wood of a portrait to John Newton, who
for 66 years had been employed at John Wood and Bros., Ltd.
July
8th, 1896 - Joseph Rose Bowden, of Little Hayfield, was married to
Miss Gertrude Orange Knowles, youngest daughter of the late Rev. J.
D. Knowles, at the Glossop Parish Church.
July 8th, 1896 - The
Derby County Council approved of the appointment of Coroner to the
High Peak at a salary of £165 per annum.
July 10th, 1896 -
105th Anniversary Sermons of the New Mills. Wesleyan Sunday School
preached by the Rev. R. T. Wardell, of Wilmslow. Collections amounted
to £60 3. 9d.
July 11th, 1896 - Waggonette accident at
Mottram, 2 killed and 9 injured.
July 13th, 1896 - Thomas Peach
Brown, aged 9, drowned whilst bathing in the Silk Mill Lodge.
July
15th, 1896 - J. H. Schofield, the newly- appointed station master,
Glossop, for five years at Wortley, presented with a gold watch and
chain by Wortley friends in token of their respect and esteem.
July
15th, 1896 - Joseph Winterbottom, 48, Princess Street, died suddenly;
born January 16th, 1820. He was for 25 years leader of the St.
James's Church Choir, Vicar's Warden, chairman of the Glossop
Conservative Association Committee.
July 15th, 1896 - Undedicated
portion of Edward Street named by the Town Council Edward Street
West.
July 18th, 1896 - Work commenced near the Commercial Inn,
Hall Street, of the new Sewage Scheme.
July 22nd, 1896 - Shop in
Peter Street, Hadfield, occupied by Peter Stafford, built in 1884,
sold to Mr. Hollingshead, Stockport, for £520.
July 23rd,
1896 - Memorial Stones laid of new Wesleyan Chapel at Ashopton.
July
24th, 1896 - Hayfield Wesleyan Day School closed owing to the small
number of scholars who attended.
July 28th. 1896 - Employees of
the Manchester, Liverpool, and District Bank presented an oak writing
desk to Mr. W. H. Hollingberry on his retirement as manager of the
Glossop Branch.
July 29th, 1896 - Town Council discussed the
question of purchasing the Town Hall, Market, Market Ground, and
Market rights for £10,500. Alderman Edward Woolley, Esq .;
Mayor, presented a framed portrait of himself to the
Corporation.
July 29th, 1896 - Mr. T. T. Kenyon appointed
Treasurer to the Glossop Union at a salary of £10 per annum.
July
29th, 1896 - Cheshire County Rifle Meeting at Altcar. Lt. S. Hill
Wood's team won the 3rd prize in the volley competition. Pte. S.
Ashton, Sergt. L. Darwent, Pte. F. Willis, and Corporal W. H. Willis
won prizes.
July 31st, 1896 - First Annual Brass Band Contest at
New Mills.
August 3rd, 1896 - William Fox injured at Turnlee Paper
Mills by a calender machine.
August 4th, 1896 - Glossop Tradesmen
had a picnic to the Dukeries.
August 6th, 1896 - A Vestry Meeting
was held at Glossop Parish Church to consider the Sewerage Scheme and
its relation to the Church Yard.
August 7th, 1896 - The Castleton
Waterworks completed, storage capacity 880,000 gallons.
August
9th, 1896 - Hollingworth Shilling Church closed.
August 10th, 1896
- Nos. 9-11 High Street East, offered for sale by auction, withdrawn
at £1,465. Lease dated September 29th, 1836.
August
11th, 1896 - The Kinder Scout footpath question settled with the
landowners.
August 13th, 1896 - Lively Vestry Meeting over the
Churchyard and the Sewerage Scheme.
August 16th, 1896 - Two
stained-glass windows to the memory of John and Emma Wood, dedicated
at St. James's Church, Whitfield.
August
24th, 1896 - Glossop Borough Brewster Sessions. Extensive alterations
to and enlargement of the Norfolk Arms Hotel, sanctioned. Chief
Constable reported that there were 34 licensed houses, 27 beerhouses,
and 23 off-licences; 67 males and 11 females had been convicted of
drunkenness during the past 12 months.
August 26th, 1896 - The
Roman Catholic Church at New York, opened by the Right Rev. Dr
Bagshawe. Bishop of Nottingham. Cost £2,500.
August 28th,
1896 - Hospital Saturday Cycle Parade and Cinderella Dance at
Victoria Hall. Nett profit £25 18s. 6½d.
for Woods' Hospital.
August 31st, 1896 - Glossop Primrose
Leaguers pic-nic to Liverpool.
September 2nd, 1896 - Football
match at Stockport; Glossop North End 0, Stockport County 0.
September
5th, 1896 - Football match at Grantham, first in the Midland League;
Grantham Rovers 2, Glossop North End 2.
September 9th, 1896 - The
Town Council decided not to purchase for £10,000 the Town Hall,
Market Memorial Rights, etc., from Lord Howard; 8 for, 11
against.
September 10th, 1896 - Hollingworth Spinning Co. stopped
working, failed.
September 12th, 1896 - Fitzalan Street Unitarian
Church dedicated, built by S. Robinson and Son, of Hyde, at a cost of
£3,500.
September 12th, 1896 - Dinting and Hadfield Cricket
Clubs played at Mottram to decide the Championship of the Glossop and
District League. Dinting had scored 107 for 7 wickets when rain
stopped play. The game was played out the following Saturday, when
Dinting scored 137, Hadfield 21. S. W. Cadman took the first prize
for batting averages in the League, average 28.1. I. Swindells took
the first prize for bowling averages in the League, average
5.12.
September 12th, 1896 - Whitfield Welldressing and Athletic
Sports, promoted by Glossop Old Band.
September
14th, 1896 - Monday. Football match on new ground; Derby County, 2;
Glossop North End, 2; both scored by J. Hill.
September 15th, 1896
- Thomas Bailey, formerly schoolmaster at Old Log Wood Mill School,
Dinting, died at Oldham, born at Knutsford 1816.
September 16th,
1896 - Matthew Thomas Moody, from 1845 to 1885 cashier at Dinting
Printworks, died at Heaton Moor, aged 86.
September 16th, 1896 -
Mrs. Hannah Pollitt, of 67, Norfolk Street, found dead at the bottom
of the stairs, aged 70.
September 17th, 1896 - Mrs. Whittaker,
formerly landlady of the Norfolk Arms, died at Blackpool, aged
65.
September 18th, 1896 - Charles Sykes of Charlesworth had his
hand crushed by some machinery at Dinting Printworks, his hand was
amputated at Wood's Hospital where he died on October 6th. He had
worked at Dinting 43 years.
September
19th. 1896 - A Conservative club opened at Mottram.
September
23rd, 1896 - The Town Council presented with oil paintings of
Alderman W. S and H. Rhodes.
September
25th, 1896 - Williams Bottoms, for 63 years in service at Hill End
House, died, aged 80. He was well known in connection with the rush
cart at Mottram Wakes.
September 26th, 1896 - Rifle Volunteer
Shooting Match at Glossop. Captain S. H. Wood's team, 490; L.C. 2nd
Manchester, 474.
September 26th, 1896 - Football match, Glossop
North End, 1; Burslem Port Vale, 0. Referee stopped the
game.
September 27th, 1896 - Samuel Camp, aged 39, of Oldham,
killed on Gallows Moor, Saltersbrook, by falling from the top of a
furniture van.
September 27th, 1896 - Burglary committed at Mr.
Ainsworth's, Brookfield.
September 29th, 1896 - Chief Constable
resigned his position as Inspector of Weights and Measures.
October
5th, 1896 - Cotton trade bad, Woods' stopped for 8 days, Sumners' on
short time.
October 7th, 1896 - The Derby County Council
recommended the Chunal Bridge to be rebuilt, the cost not to exceed
£275.
October 13th, 1896 - Henry Salisbury, aged 63,
The Rocks, New Mills, died through inhaling the fumes from nitric
acid at the Lactile Mill Engraving Works, Newtown, formerly at the
Dinting Printworks.
October
16th, 1896 - Severe storm, large cathedral glass window blown out at
the Hadfield Wesleyan Chapel.
October
16th, 1896 - Rifle Match at Mossy Lea range. N. Co. Glossop 425; F.
Co., Stockport, 439.
October
16th, 1896 - Glossop and District Cricket League dinner at the
Viaduct Inn. Presentation of champion cup, given by S. Hill-Wood, and
gold centre medals to the Dinting Cricket Club who were the highest
in the league and silver medals to Hadfield Cricket Club who came the
second. A gold medal to Tintwistle, for the best batting average and
medal to J. Swindells, Hadfield, for best bowling average.
October
16th, 1896 - Inquest at Wood's Hospital on Charles Sykes, aged 59,
who was hurt at Dinting Printworks on September 18th.
October
18th, 1896 - Thomas Nield, aged 52, landlord of the Quiet Shepherd,
Crowden, died from injuries received through falling from his trap on
the 16th.
October
22nd, 1896 - At a meeting of the Peak District and Northern Counties
Footpath Preservation Society, it was announced that the right of way
over Kinder Scout had been satisfactorily settled.
October 24th,
1896 - One of the engines at Hadfield Mill "ran away,"the
big driving wheel was smashed to pieces, portions went through the
roof of two cottages and over houses, no one hurt.
October 26th,
1896 - Jonathan Smith, Mount Pleasant, Victoria Street, poisoned with
carbolic acid.
October 31st, 1896 - Grand Bazaar opened by Lieut.
Col. W. Sidebottom, M.P. in the Public Hall, New Mills, to raise
funds to reduce the debt on the Primitive Methodist Chapel, built in
1786, at a cost of £2,800. £163 realised.
October
31st, 1896 - Rearing supper at the Globe Inn, to celebrate the
completion of Dr. Mackenzie's new residence in North Road.
November
1st, 1896 - Lilly Mellor, aged 8, King Street, died at Wood's
Hospital, through shock from burns received whilst lifting a kettle
from the fire.
November 4th, 1896 - Alma Pit, Sandy Lane,
Chisworth, closed.
November 8th, 1896 - Oak choir stalls and other
improvements dedicated at Glossop Parish Church.
November 8th,
1896 - Walter Oliver appointed by Lord Howard, the Lord of the Manor
of Glossop, Inspector of Weights and Measures.
November 9th, 1896
- No. 21, Brosscroft, Hadfield, sold to J. W. Tweedale for £161.
Leased from 1884. Nos. 5-11, Spring Gardens, or Back Lane, Hadfield,
withdrawn at £290. Leased from 1824.
November 11th, 1896 -
Jesse Rowbottom, farmer, Moorside Farm, Chisworth, died, aged 73. He
was born and lived all his life in this farmhouse, as his ancestors
had done for over 200 years.
November 12th, 1896 - Nos. 49-61
Platt Street, Hadfield, sold to John Goddard, Crescent Row,
Broadbottom, for £1,000. Leaned from 1877.
November 14th,
1896 - Thomas Woolley, grocer, High Street West, died suddenly, born
January 17th, 1847.
November 17th, 1896 - New organ at Mount
Pleasant Congregational Church opened. Built by Alex Young and Sons,
Manchester, cost £400.
November 27th, 1896 - Mrs. Robertson,
of the Hague Farm, found burned to death, formerly dairymaid to the
Queen at Balmoral.
November 27th, 1896 - Eliza Woolley, a widow,
aged 67, killed by falling down stairs at New Road,
Tintwistle.
November 27th, 1896 - Mary Sykes, aged 48, George and
Dragon Inn, Woodhead, burned to death.
November
27th, 1896 - All Saints Ward Bye Election, Brook Furniss 648, William
Walker 440.
November 29th, 1896 - T. M. Ellison, Town Clerk, died,
born September 24th, 1823, at Glossop Hall, son of Thomas and Esther
(nee Dalton) appointed in 1837 Clerk to the Glossop Reservoir
Commissioners, 1857 Clerk to Glossop Burial Board, 1867 Town Clerk,
1893 Registrar Glossop County Court. Left issue, Theodore Walter,
Thomas Michael, Francis Bede, Esther Mary, Ellen, Cyril, Noel, Edith,
and Eliza.
November 30th, 1896 - Roebuck Inn (beerhouse), shop and
two houses sold to the Openshaw Brewery Co. for £3,600! Lease
dates from 1851.
November 30th, 1896 - Plans for a new railway to
be called the New Mills and Heaton Mersey Railway deposited with the
New Mills Parish Authorities. The viaduct across the Goyt Valley was
to be 220 yards in length and 58 feet high.
December 3rd, 1896 -
Theo. W. Ellison appointed Clerk to the Borough Justices, also Clerk
to the Justices of the Division of Glossop.
December
3rd, 1896 - John Hyde, of Hayfield, aged 35, died through falling
over a wall on his head the Saturday previous at New Mills.
December
5th, 1896 - Hollingworth Brass Band won the 2nd prize at brass band
contest at Patricroft.
December 9th, 1896 - No. 12, Chunal Lane,
sold to Aaron Hurst, grocer, Charlestown, for £206. Lease from
March 25th, 1840.
December 9th, 1896 - Charles Davis elected the
Town Clerk at a salary of £200 per year.
December
12th, 1896 - Football match. English Cup Qualifying Round, Glossop 5,
Macclesfield 0.
December 13th, 1896 - Daniel Massey, High Street
East, the oldest inhabitant of Glossop, died, aged 92. He was
formerly in business as a grocer, publican etc.
December
19th, 1896 - New Organ Case given by Mrs. S. Wood and her Sunday
School Class, other improvements in the Chancel, the expenses of
which were defrayed by S. Hill, Wood, Mrs. Partington, and others,
dedicated at St. James's Church, Whitfield.
December 14th, 1896 -
The engine at Hadfield Mills that was smashed was started working
again.
December 15th,1896 - The Spread Eagle Inn, Woolley Bridge,
and two cottages freehold, 510 square yards, sold to Chesters Brewery
Co., for £5,500.
December 17th, 1896 – Slight
earthquake shock felt in Glossop and district.
December 17th, 1896
- Two days bazaar at the Padfield Wesleyan School, opened by Mrs. E.
Platt and Coun. W. Holdgate, realised £110.
December 19th,
1896 - Mr. Evelyn Frederic Cyril Eardley, B.A., was ordained deacon
and licenced to St. James's Church, Whitfield.
December 22nd, 1896
- Abel Harrop, aged 67, Old Road, Tintwistle, for 40 years a mule
overlooker at Bridge Mills, died.
December 24th, 1896 - Silver
watch presented to J. W. Smith, of Padfield, champion boy swimmer of
England.
December 25th, 1896 - Presentation of a carved oak
timepiece to the Rev. W. L. Parker, on the completion of 12 years
service as pastor of Littlemoor Chapel.
December
27th, 1896 - Presentation of an illuminated testimonial to Mr. Kay
Ogden, by the trustees of Howard Street Wesleyan Reform Chapel, on
his resignation of conductor after 24 years service.
December
31st, 1896 - Old Glossop Wesleyan Bazaar realised £220.
January
4th, 1897 - Lord Howard announced his intention of giving a Technical
School to the Borough of Glossop.
January 6th, 1897 - Joshua
Beeley, Derbyshire Level, died, aged 71.
January 8th, 1897 - Three
men injured by a fall of scaffolding at Furniss' Buildings.
January
23rd, 1897 - Presentation of Volunteer Long Service Medals in the
Norfolk Square to Quarter-Master-Sergt. W. Booth, Sergeants R.
Hamnett, M. Cooper, Corpl. N. Willis, and Private Fletcher.
January
24th, 1897 - Epidemic of measles, all Sunday schools closed.
February
18th, 1897 - Herbert Rhodes, Esq., J.P. Mayor of Glossop, died, aged
33.
April
9th. 1897 - Charles Edward Knowles appointed a Justice of the Peace.
May
5th, 1897 - Decided to erect a new bridge at Gnat Hole.
May 5th,
1897 - Lord Howard intimated his intention of providing a new clock
for the Town Hall, to celebrate the occasion of the Diamond
Jubilee.
May 12th, 1897 - Glossop Cricket and Football Bazaar
opened.
May 19th, 1897 - Fair Contracts Clause adopted by the Town
Council.
June 5th, 1897 - Glossop Volunteers to Conway. 16th
encampment.
June
20th, 1897 - Diamond Jubilee Thanksgiving Sunday: Special Service in
Parish Church.
June 30th, 1897
- A sub-Post Office established at Wellgate and Victoria Street.
July
6th, 1897 - Members of No. 1170 Habitation of the Primrose League
went to Alton Towers.
July
9th, 1897 - Hadfield Relief Committee published balance sheet which
showed that £487 had been collected and expended, exclusive of
free breakfasts to children.
July 11th, 1897 - Joseph Redfern,
aged 23, killed on the railway at Best Hill Viaduct.
July 14th,
1897 - The body of Wortley Chapman, aged 42, a gamekeeper, found in
the Torside Reservoir.
July
14th, 1897 - Martha Waterhouse, aged 65, of Brosscroft, died in
Wood's Hospital from burns.
July 16th, 1897 - Fire at Albert
Warrington's, High Street East.
July 19th, 1897 - J. Reid,
gardener, Broadbottom, died through fracturing his leg by a fall on
the 9th May.
July 23rd, 1897 - The Ebenezer Funeral Society,
Tintwistle, dissolved after an existence of over 60 years.
July
24th, 1897 - Centenary of Charlesworth Independent Chapel.
July
25th, 1897 - In honour of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria the
members of the Devonshire Lodge, No. 825, of the Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons of England, had a Church Parade at Holy Trinity
Church. Collection in aid of Wood's Hospital, £17 13s. 1d.
July
26th, 1897 - Non. 98-10 Stanyforth Street, built in 1887, offered for
sale and withdrawn at £100
July 28th, 1897 - The Primitive
Methodists of Hayfield opened their new organ, which had cost them
£210.
July 30th, 1897 - Thomas Brown, aged 28, Bernard
Street, died in the train, whilst being brought from Manchester to
his home.
July 31st, 1897- Presentations made to Charles Hall,
Henry Fielding, and Er Sidebottom for valuable services rendered in
preparing and rehearsing the united Chapel choirs for the Monstre
Festival at Crystal Palace.
August
16th, 1897 - No. 63, High Street West, sold to James Bamford, of
Hadfield, for £491. Lease dated 1834.
August 20th,1897 -
Woods' and Sumner's closed for a fortnight for the Wakes.
September
1st, 1897 - Electric Lighting Engine smashed at Mersey
Mills.
September 1st, 1897 - Football match at Leicester;
Leicester Fosse 5, Glossop North End 0.
September 13th, 1897 -
Nos. 113-119, Victoria Street, sold to J. Bennett, of Plainsteads,
for £965. 99 years lease, dated from 1846.
September
24th., 1897 - The engine house of the New Mills Spinning Co.,
destroyed by fire.
September
25th, 1897 - Robt. Moore, of the Pear Tree Inn, High .Street East,
died, aged 45. He was for many years connected with the Glossop Old
Prize Band, which played suitable music at his funeral.
September
25th, 1897 - Illuminated address presented to Rev. Monsignor H. J.
Canon Sabela on the completion of the 25th year of his priesthood, by
the congregation of St. Charles', Hadfield.
September 26th, 1897 -
Samuel Fielding, coal merchant, Gladstone Street, died, aged
46.
September 29th, 1897 - Wm. Henry Irlam, printer and stationer,
died at Aberdeen, whilst on a visit. For 30 years he was the local
correspondent of the "Ashton Reporter." He was a well known
Free Mason, Oddfellow, and Forester.
September 30th, 1897 - George
Cowley, butcher, Victoria Street, accidentally shot by George Wilson
(Buffalo Bill). Miss Jane Hill, of Hadfield Place, died through
fright at seeing Cowley bleeding.
October 2nd, 1897 -
Chisworth Recreation Ground opened by Mr. Percy Bayley Brown, the
Chairman of the Parish Council.
October 6th, 1897 - A pulpit given
by Mr. Thomas Bennett, of Birch Vale, in memory of his mother, was
unveiled at the Hayfield Parish Church.
October 9th. 1897 -
T. H. Sidebottom. Esq. M.P. received the Freedom of the Borough of
Stalybridge, which he had represented in Parliament for 30 years.
October
10th, 1897 - James Robinson, aged 57, of Coombs Lane, died in the
Chisworth Wesleyan Chapel during the service.
October
17th, 1897 - William Newton, grocer, Bernard Street, injured by being
kicked in the face by a young horse.
October 18th, 1897 - Nos.
73-75 Pikes Lane, sold to Miss Sarah Webster for £327. Lease
dates from 1879.
October 20th, 1897 - Storming of the Heights of
Dargai, Glossop lads of the 95th, Regt. Who took a part in it:
Privates H. Torkington, A. E. Waterhouse, R. Whitehead, G. Newton, B.
Taylor, and T. Dixon. There were also some Hayfield lads in the
affair.
October 21st, 1897- Joseph Collier, Norfolk Arms Hotel,
died, aged 68, proprietor of the Norfolk for 17 years, late of the
3rd King's Own Dragoon Guards and ex-Colour Sergeant in the Glossop
Rifle Volunteers
October 23rd, 1897 - Recreation Ground opened at
Hayfield by Mrs. F. J. Sumner, the gift of F. J. Sumner, Esq.,
J.P.
October 25th, 1897 - John Sykes, lamplighter, Thorpe Street,
died through a fall.
October 27th, 1897 - T. R. Haigh, Norfolk
Street, ex-schoolmaster and secretary of Technical Instruction class,
died, aged 59.
October
29th, 1897 - William Sheppard, Simmondley Lane, proprietor of the
"Glossop dale Chronicle," died. Born at Whitfield Barn Farm
in 1828. Retired grocer and ex-Town Councillor, for many years
secretary of the Glossop Conservative Association.
October, 29th,
1897 - Annual Dinner of the Glossop and District Cricket League at
the Grey Mare Inn, Charlesworth, champion cup and gold-centre medals
presented to Charlesworth Cricket Club, and silver medals to the
Mottram and Dinting Clubs, who tied for second place. Medal to George
Woolley, Hadfield, for best batting average, and medal to J.
Rowbottom, Charlesworth, for best bowling average.
October 30th,
1897 - Alice Hadfield Petschler, widow, died at Edenfield,
Withington, aged 67. She was the daughter of John Bennett, of Turn
Lee. She contributed occasional poems to the local papers.
November
2nd, 1897 - Second Annual Dinner of Glossop, Hadfield and District
Homing Society at the Star Inn, distribution of prizes won by the
members.
November 2nd, 1897 - George Haigh, aged 64, whilst taking
dinners to Waterside Mills, fell down some steps and received
injuries from which he died on the 19th.
November 3rd, 1897 - A
report to the Glossop Town Council from A. Carter Bell,
analyst.
Manchester, showed that the Swineshaw Reservoir water was
of high class quality.
November 4th, 1897 - Ryecroft House, Hall
Street, and two cottages, sold to Cyril Ellison for £635, built
by Samuel Taylor, contractor, in 1851.
November 5th, 1897 -
Foundation stone of new National Schools at Chapel-en-le-Frith laid
by W. H. G. Bagshawe, Esq., J.P., Ford Hall; Miss E. Goodman, Eccles
House, Chinley; and Dr. N. Bennett, Buxton.
November
5th, 1897 - Illuminated address and silver tray presented at the
Royal Hotel, Hayfield, to F. G. Sumner. Presented to Francis George
Sumner, Esq., J.P., upon the occasion of his marriage with Miss
Beatrice Frances Barrett, by, the tenants and workmen of Park Hall
and Beardwood and Ollersett Estates, as a token of regard and esteem.
Hayfield November 1897." The marriage took place on November
11th.
November
10th, 1897 - Grand three days Floral Fete and Bazaar at Hadfield
Wesleyan School, opened by Mrs. B. Platt, James Sargentson, Esq., and
Lt. Col. Sidebottom, M.P., realised £200.
November
13th, 1897 - New Grammar School, Mottram, opened by J. W. Sidebottom,
M.P., cost £2,311. Founded 1612 by Robt. Garsett, Esq.,
refounded 1858 by George Woodhead, Esq.
November 19th, 1897 -
Grand three days Floral Fete and Bazaar at Hadfield Wesleyan School,
opened by Mrs. E. Platt, James Sargentson, Esq., and Lt. Col.
Sidebottom, .MP., realised £200.
November 20th, 1897 -
Military funeral of Pte. H. Wilson, L. Co. 4th Vol. Batt. Cheshire
Regt. He had been a Volunteer 19 years.
November 22nd, 1897 - Miss
Dorothea Mary Couban, third daughter of Mrs. Couban, Rose Bank,
Hollingworth, married to James Reyonalds Gregory, of Cheetham Hill,
Manchester, at St. Charles, Hadfeld.
November
22nd, 1897 - The inaugural meeting of the Glossop and District
Council of Evangelical Free Churches held at Wesley Chapel, High
Street West.
November 25th, 1897 - A brass tablet, to the memory
of Robert Kershaw and his two sisters, erected by Clement Maguire
Kershaw and his wife, unveiled at St. James's Church, Whitfield, by
the Rev. H. T. Dudley.
November 27th, 1897 - Presentation at
Shrewsbury Street Schools of a gold watch: "Presented by the
"Sunday Companion” to the Rev. John Barnes, for the
largest ministerial record as a preacher. Mr. Barnes had been in the
ministry over 42 years and had preached over 14,000
sermons.”
November 30th, 1897 - Beatrice, wife of C. E.
Knowles, Esq., died from diphtheria, born October 22nd, 1864, left a
daughter aged 5 and a baby.
December 4th 1897 - Presentation of an
illuminated address and a case of cutlery and plate to the Rev. J.
Hadfield on the occasion of his 25 years ministry at St. Andrew's,
Hadfield, also China Tea Service and Silver Tea Pot to Mrs. Hadfield.
December
5th, 1897 - James Collier. & well-known fish dealer, High Street
West, died, aged 65.
December 7th, 1897 - Mrs. McConnell, second
daughter of the Rev. J. D. Knowles, died at Calgary, Canada, aged
32.
December 8th, 1897 - Joseph B. Downs, school attendance
officer, Hayfield, died, aged 67.
December 18th, 1897. Five houses
in Combs Lane, Charlesworth, erected in 1820, sold to Mr. Percy
Bailey Brown for £221.
December 23rd, 1897 – Rearing
supper at the Norfolk Arms Hotel to celebrate the erection of the
Manchester County Bank.
December 29th, 1897 - James Oliver, aged
14, died through the effects of a fall in Gladstone Street.
December
30th, 1897 - Rowland Jackson, retired tobacconist, died, aged
59.
January 1st, 1898 - Football Match, Chesterfield, 9; Glossop,
1.
January 8th, 1898 - Dedication of New Day and Sunday Schools at
Broadbottom, cost £1,700.
January 9th, 1898 - Robert
Trevitt, organist, Hayfield Wesley Chapel, died suddenly.
January
10th, 1898 - Luke Bramwell, late of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, an old
Crimean Veteran, died, aged 74.
January 12th, 1898 - The Municipal
Electric Supply Co. offer to supply electric lighting to Glossop.
January
22nd, 1898 - Presentation of a photo group of the Holy Trinity Church
Choir to Coun. Samuel Warhurst after 25 years' service as organist.
January
29th, 1898 - Benjamin Martin, aged 16, crushed to death at the Globe
Engineering Works, New Mills.
January 30th, 1898 - Robert
Bradbury, a well-known barber, Glossop, died, aged 58.
February
7th, 1898 - Seventy-seven applications for clerk to Hayfield and New
Mills Board of Guardians, reduced to two, vis., A. Walker and E. N.
Davenport, solicitors.
February 7th, 1898 - Resignation of Mr. H.
Barber as Superintendent Registrar of Births and Deaths after 33
years service.
February 8th, 1898 - Plans of the Technical School
passed by the Town Council.
February 8th, 1898 - John Shaw,
gamekeeper, shot a fox near to the Lantern Pike, Hayfield.
February
10th, 1898 - Presentation to Dr. W. White of a flower vase and book
by the Ambulance Class.
February
11th, 1898 - Glossop, Hadfield, and District Trades Council decide to
run three candidates at the Guardians Election, viz. : F. James,
president: James Langley, vice-president; and E. Waterhouse,
secretary.
February
14th, 1898 - Concert at Victoria Hall by Band of "The King's
Own," in aid of Wood's Hospital.
February 15th, 1898 - Irvin
Barlow, aged 23, porter at Hazel Head, residing at Hadfield Lane,
killed at Hazel Head by an express train.
February 18th, 1898 -
Glossop formed into a separate district for the Registration of
Marriages, Births, and Deaths.
February 18th, 1898 - Slight fire
at Howard Street Sunday School.
February 19th, 1898 –
Football, Manchester Cup-Re-played Tie: Glossop, 3; Halliwell Rovers,
2.
March
9th, 1898 - J. W. Tweedale, solicitor, appointed Superintendent
Registrar of Births and Deaths. Married the same day at the
Manchester Cathedral, to Emma Vaudrey, eldest daughter of the late J.
Collier.
March 9th, 1898 - It was stated at a Council Meeting that
the road from Arundel Street Railway Bridge to Spire Hollin, had cost
£578 16s. 8d.
March
19th, 1898 - Manchester Cup. Glossop 0, Stockport County 1.
March
23rd, 1898 - Mr. R. Proctor, chairman of the Board of Guardians,
retired after 85 years' service as a Guardian.
March 24th, 1898 -
William Smith, boot and shoe maker, High Street West, died, aged 70.
An ex-Town Councillor.
March 20th, 1898 - Great gale, Whitfield
Laundry chimney blown down, and the roof of Moorfield Billiard Room
damaged.
March 21st, 1898 - Local Government Board Enquiry re loan
of £28,917 for private streets improvement.
March 26th, 1898
- Fire at Wesley Chapel, High Street West.
March 28th, 1898 - The
Town Clerk, Charles Davis, Esq., commenced to build new offices in
Ellison Street,
March 31st, 1898 - Albert Bamforth, of
Hollingworth, had one of his arms fractured by a fall at the Glossop
Foundry.
April
8th, 1898 - Bazaar opened at Broadbottom Primitive Methodist School
by Thomas Beeley, Esq., J.P., of Gee Cross, realised £102.
April
8th and 9th, 1898 - An Easter Market opened at the Princess Street
Mission Chapel by Councillors W. Holdgate and S. Hill-Wood, realised
£115 5s. 6½d.
April
12th, 1898 - Sudden death of R. W. Sykes, auctioneer, at his office.
High Street West. Aged 62.
April
21st, 1898 - James Rhodes, M.D., Medical Officer of Health and Ex
Town Councillor, died, aged 68.
April
27th, 1898 - Special Meeting of the Town Council to consider the
question of Electric Lighting. Sub committee appointed.
May
1st, 1898 - George Wilson, baker, ex-town councillor, died, aged
66.
May 1st, 1898 - William Walton, for 27 years the secretary of
the Glossop Industrial Cooperative Society, died, aged 59.
May
2nd; 1898 - Horse Show Parade, 101 entries. Mr. James Thom kicked by
a horse.
May 3rd, 1898 - Adela Emily, the wife of John Barnes,
mayor, died, aged 44.
May 4th, 1898 - Town Council resolved to
allow the Cyclist Touring Club to erect danger notices at Nursery
Brow, Whitfield Cross, Redgate, Simmondley New Road, and Mouselow
Brow.
May 11th, 1898 - The Wellgate Well closed.
May
11th, 1898 - Machinery at Cowbrook Mill sold by auction.
May
14th, 1898 - Special service at the Fitzalan Unitarian Chapel to
welcome the Rev. A. Cunliffe Fox, B.A., the new minister.
May
15th, 1898 - New Wesleyan Reform Chapel, Howard Street, opened by the
Rev. J. Gascoigne, of Hyde.
May
18th, 1898 - Dr. Mackenzie appointed the Medical Officer of Health.
Salary £35 per annum.
May 18th, 1898 - Dr. B. Sidebottom
appointed the Public Vaccinator for the Glossop Poor Law Union.
May
18th, 1898 - Dr. W. J. Bowden appointed Medical Officer to the
Glossop Poor Law Union, salary £50 per annum.
May 18th, 1898
- Dr. B. Sidebottom appointed the Medical Officer of Health for the
Rural District of Charlesworth, salary £33 per annum.
May
18th, 1898 - Town Council passed a new bye law respecting the
lighting of vehicles. The Surveyor estimated the expenditure on Main
Roads for the year ending March, 1899, at £2,506 12s. 6d.
May
22nd,1898 - John Pye, gamekeeper. Heath, died, aged 73. Had been a
bell ringer for 56 years.
May 24th, 1898 - Joseph Mellor, aged 10,
died through the effects of falling into a kier of boiling lime at
the Bate Mill Bleachworks, New Mills.
May 25th, 1898 - Miss
Deborah Wood, eldest daughter of Mr. S. Wood, married to Mr. A.
Schofield. This was the first wedding at the new Howard Street
Chapel.
May 28th, 1898 - Presentation to John Potts by the Members
of the "Briton's Glory" Lodge Independent Order of
Oddfellows, on the occasion of retiring from the secretaryship after
18 years' service.
May 29th, 1898 - Sunday: Glossop Volunteers to
Conway - 17th encampment.
June
5th, 1898 - Memorial Window dedicated at Glossop Parish Church to the
memory of the Rev. J. D. Knowles, Mr. Harry Knowles, and Mrs.
McConnell.
June 2nd, 1898 - James Sargentson, ex-Town
Councillor, Padfield, died, aged 49.
June
6th, 1898 - Trap accident at Mottram Moor, three local publicans
hurt.
June 7th, 1898 - Glossop Police had a picnic to
Southport.
June 10th, 1898 - A well-known tradesman poisoned
himself in Glossop.
June 15th, 1898 - Important Council meeting
over electric lighting. Engineer's report.
June 20th, 1898 -
Manchester and County Bank's handsome new promises in Norfolk Square
opened for business .
June 21st, 1898. - "Moorbank,"
Victoria Street, offered for sale; withdrawn at £700. Lease
dated September 20th, 1851. Numbers 17-21 Victoria Street, sold to J.
W. Tweedale for £531.
June
21st, 1898 - Presentation of a purse of gold, silver-plated urn, and
an address to the Rev. and Mrs. Kirby, by members of Mount Pleasant
Congregational Chapel.
June 25th, 1898 - Brass Band Contest at
Hollingworth. Glossop Old Band got the third prize.
June
25th, 1898 - Brass band contest at Hollingworth, Glossop Old Prize
band won 3rd prize. Conductor Mr J. Barber.
June
28th, 1898 - Complimentary concert at the Howard Town Wesley Chapel,
to Mr. Chas. Hall, for many years conductor with the Glossopdale
Philharmonic Society.
June
28th, 1898 - Captain E. Partington, J.P., Rev. E.C. Collier, M.A.,
Rev. R. Bruce, M.A., and Mr. A.E. Schofield, initiated as honorary
members of the manor Lodge Grand United Order of Oddfellows.
June
29th, 1898 - Results of the canvas for electric lighting: Promises,
1689; conditional, 1092, if cost the same as gas; do. 118, if cost
less than gas. At Council meeting Provisional order to be applied
for, 11 for 9 against.
July
1st, 1898 - Dinting Church Club opened by S. Hill-Wood.
July
1st, 1898 - The Workmen's compensation Act came into force.
July
2nd, 1898 - Dinner at the Crown Inn, Whitfield, to celebrate the
Jubilee of the Manor Lodge and Centenary of the Grand United Order of
Oddfellows.
July
3rd, 1898 - Rev. J.K. Kirby, for 21 years Pastor at Mount Pleasant
Congregational Chapel, commenced his duties at the Victoria Street
Congregational Chapel, Derby.
July
6th, 1898 - Walter Pugh, of Simmondley Lane, died through the effects
of burns.
July 11th, 1898 - William Barker, a carter, aged 38, of
Broadbottom, got crushed by his cart and died on the 27th.
July
12th, 1898 - Glossop Members of No. 1170 Primrose Habitation went to
Rudyard Lake.
July 22nd, 1898 - John Marsden, of Hollingworth,
died through the effects of injuries received on the 19th at
Arrowscroft Mill.
July 23rd, 1898 - Brass Band Contest at New
Mills, 1st prize, Oldham Rifles; 2nd, Haywood Old; 3rd, Reddish; 4th;
Sutton Road; 5th, Altrincham.
July
26th, 1898 - Strike of Twisters at Glossop, Hadfield and Broadbottom
Mills.
July 27th, 1898. Cheshire County Rife Meeting at Altcar.
Capt. S. Hill-Wood's team won the first prize in the Mullens
competition. Corporal W. H. Willis, Sergt. L. Darwent, Pts. J. Paton,
and Pte. S. Ashton won prizes.
July 30th, 1898 - Nancy, relict of
Alderman France, died, aged 79.
July 31st, 1898 - Thomas Llewellyn
Littlewood, aged 34, died through falling over a wall in Kershaw
Street on the 22nd.
August 1st, 1898 - Arrowscroft Mill,
Hollingworth, restarted by J. H. Gartside and Co.
August 1st, 1898
- Twelve bales of cotton got on fire whilst being conveyed from
Staleybridge to Hollingworth Mill.
August 2nd, 1898 - Grand Trades
Exhibition opened in the Glossop Drill Hall.
August 2nd, 1898 -
Councillor James Downs, of Hayfield, met with an accident in Rock
Hall Quarry, died on the 4th through the effects.
August 3rd, 1898
- Messrs. John Wood Bros., Mersey Mills, Sumners, Shepley, and
Broadbottom Mill stopped work owing to a dispute with the twisters.
August
3rd, 1898 - Building Committee passed plans for a Technical School,
to be built by Lord Howard.
August 6th, 1898 - Mr. W. T. Howard,
late conductor of the Whittield Wesleyan Sunday School String Band,
presented with a walking stick by the members, on the occasion of
going to reside at Marple.
August 6th, 1898 - A purse of gold
presented to Mr. Alfred Walker, at St. Andrew's School, Hadfeld, in
recognition of 80 years of useful service rendered by him as lay
superintendent of the school.
August 6th, 1898 - Second Annual
Athletic Festival at Charlesworth, spoiled by rain.
August 8th,
1898 - The cotton mills restarted, having been stopped owing to the
twisters strike. 7,000 operatives had been affected by it.
August
8th, 1898 - John Sykes, for 20 years the landlord of the George and
Dragon Inn, Woodhead, died.
August 10th, 1898 - Dr. W. J. Bowden
appointed Medical Officer, to the Glossop Union re Dr. Andrew, who
had resigned through ill health.
August 19th, 1898 - Washington
Beaumont, for 20 years employed in the spinning department at. Mersey
Mills, presented by the directors with a pair of silver candlesticks
and a marble timepiece, by the spinners on his retiring from the
management.
August 19th, 1898 - A fire took place at Melias' shop
in High Street West.
August 21st, 1898 - A cow killed by lightning
at Hollingworth.
August 22nd, 1898 - Glossop Cricket Club's New
Pavilion opened by Captain H. Partington, who was presented with a
silver key bearing a suitable inscription.
August 22nd, 1898 -
Annual Licensing Sessions. James Biley granted temporary authority to
sell in place of Pownall Stagg. George Bradley, Fleece Inn, granted a
wine licence.
August 22nd, 1898 - A Stalybridge policeman was
stabbed at Mottram Wakes by some Hyde roughs.
August
23rd, 1898 - George Wild and Thomas Rhodes, colliers, killed at the
Waterloo Colliery, Whaley Bridge.
August 26th, 1898 - William
Henry Bottomley, Simmondley Lane, retired grocer, and late chairman
of the Glossop Gas Company, died, aged 57.
August 31st.
1898 - Benjamin Bailey, aged 15, of Adderley Place, killed by a hoist
at Dover Mill.
September
1st, 1898 - Football match at Bury; Bury 3, Glossop North End 0;
friendly game.
September 3rd, 1898 - Football match at Glossop;
first League match of the season; Glossop North End 4, Blackpool
1.
September 4th, 1898 - Rev. R. Smith preached his farewell
sermon at Tintwistle, where he had ministered for 25 years.
September
4th, 1898 - Church Parade of the Glossop Friendly Societies at Holy
Trinity Church, Dinting.
September
6th, 1898 - Social party at Old Glossop Wesleyan School, to welcome
the Rev. Campbell Jeffries.
September 6th, 1898 - Social party at
Victoria Hall, to celebrate Mr. Kay Ogden's, of Lord Street, golden
wedding.
September 10th, 1898 - Sham fight, Glossop Volunteers
slept in the Stalybridge Drill Hall.
September 16th, 1898 - Nine
hundred of the employees of Turn Lee Paper Mills were entertained at
the Victoria Hall by Capt. E. Partington, to celebrate his jubilee as
a millowner in Glossop. Capt. E. Partington came to Glossop on the
17th of August, 1873, and with Mr. Olive took over the business of
Messrs. Cassell, Potter, and Galpin, who were working Turnlee Mill as
a Paper Mill. A silver model of a wood pulp machine was presented by
the workpeople. " Presented to E. Partington, Esq., J.P., by the
employees of Turnlee and Dover Mills, Glossop, in recognition of his
25 years amongst them and of his services as the pioneer of the wood
pulp industry in England. 1873-1888."
September 19th,
1898 - Dr. W. E. S. Burnett removed from Mottram to Bowden.
September
20th, 1898 - Walking-stick presented to ex Colour-Sergt. R. Hamnett,
of the Glossop Volunteers, "Presented to Sergt. Hamnett by the
members of the Shooting Club, on his retiring from the Corps."
September
26th, 1898 - Nos. 9-29, Queen St. sold to Robert Nelson, Lord Street,
for £945. 99 years' lease, dated May. 11th, 1852.
September
26th, 1898 - Nos. 9-15, Dinting Vale, sold to James France for £310;
99 years' lease dated March 25th, 1851.
October
14th, 1898 - David Cottrill, aged 18 months, killed at Hayfield by
being run over by a cart.
October 15th, 1898 - Fire at Mrs.
Knowles, Holly Bank, Talbot Road.
October
20th, 1898 - A labourer, aged 68, hung himself at
Charlesworth.
October, 29th, 1898 - Annual Dinner of the Glossop
and District Cricket League at the Viaduct Inn. Presentation of
champion cup and, gold-centre medals to the Dinting Cricket Club, and
silver medals to Charlesworth Club. Medal to J. W. Ainsworth, Dinting
club, for the best batting average, and medal to H. Woolliscroft,
Charlesworth, for the best bowling average.
November
5th, 1898 - Foundation Stone laid of the Glossop Technical
School.
November 7th, 1898 - Charles Fielding, aged 19, a native
of Glossop, killed during shunting operations at Summers Iron Works,
Hawarden Bridge, near Chester.
November 9th 1898 - Four houses in
York Terrace, Charlestown Road, sold for £699 to James
Rose.
November 11th, 1898 - Robert Holdgate, aged 30, killed at
the Junction by the horse he was riding leaping over the brook
boundary wall.
November 13th,1898 - Councillor, Dr. A. Andrew died
at Hey, near Oldham, aged 46.
November 20th, 1898 - John William
Connolly, aged 9, St. Mary's Road, died at Wood's Hospital from burns
received the previous day whilst lifting a kettle of water off the
fire.
November 21st, 1898 - Nos. 9-11 High Street East sold to
George Ollerenshaw for £1,355, built in 1837, re-leased
1898.
November 23rd, 1898 - Lois Arnfield, aged 76, Sheffield
Road, fell and broke her wrist. She died on December 1st from the
shock.
November 30th, 1898 - Dedication of memorial font at the
Parish Church, "To the Glory of God and in sacred memory of
Beatrice Knowles, who died November 30th, 1897 – This font is
erected by her husband, C. E. Knowles, All Saints Day, 1898,
R.I.P."
December 5th, 1898 - Fire in the blowing hole at
Shepley Mill.
December 8th, 1898 - Three days bazaar opened at
Chisworth Wesleyan Sunday School by Oswald Partington, M.P.
December
19th, 1898 - Nos. 43-47 Green Lane Hadfield, sold to John Yates,
George Hotel, Hayfield, for £870. Lease from 1885.
May 20th,
1899 - Glossop Volunteers to Blackpool. 18th encampment.
June
5th, 1899 - Fire at Bridge Mills.
June 28th,
1899 - James Denton and Isaac Jones killed, Richard Holt injured but
died on July 6th, all of Rochdale, whilst taking down a dangerous
portion of Bridge Mill ruins.
July
4th, 1899 - Members of No. 1170 Habitation of the Primrose League
went to Knutsford and Rosthorne.
July 7th, 1899 - Manchester Field
Club visited Glossop.
July 8th, 1899 - Foundations laid of
Ebenezer New Sunday School by Coun. H. Partington, Mrs. S. Wood, and
Daniel Hindle.
July 18th, 1899 - First County Cricket Match at
Glossop. Lancashire, 188; 2nd innings, 1 wicket for 32. Derbyshire,
56.
July 21st, 1899 - Sergt. L. Darwent, Corpl. W. H. Willis, and
Pte. Frank Willis, won prizes at the National Rife Association
Meeting at Bisley.
July 22nd, 1899 - Winders, warpers and
twisters, of Mersey Mills presented Andrew Shaw with an ebony stick.
He had been employed there 45 years.
July 22nd, 1899 - Brass Band
Contest at Broadbottom. Glossop Old Prize Band won the 4th prize.
Conductor, Alex Owen.
July 22nd, 1899 - 150 Glossop Co-operators
paid visit to the Wholesale Society's premises at Manchester.
July
22nd, 1899 - Five Memorial stones laid of new premises for the New
Mills Co-operative Society.
July 26th, 1899 - Cheshire County Rife
Meeting at Altcar. Col. Sergt. J. Cullen, Pte. F. Willis, Pte. J.
Paton, and Pte. J. Willis won prizes.
July 27th, 1899 - Albert
Button, aged 29, railway-guard, killed near Chapel-en-le-Frith by
leaning out of his goods van window and striking against
something.
July 29th, 1899 - The Glossop and District Antiquarian
Society formed.
July 29th, 1899 - Recognition Meeting at
Shrewsbury Street Chapel to receive the Rev. S. Bates, the newly
appointed circuit minister.
August 1st, 1899 - Robert
Winterbottom, aged 78, for many years sexton at the Glossop Cemetery,
died.
August 5th, 1899 - Walter George Bagnall, Esq., J.P., of
Aspenshaw House, Birch Vale, seriously injured by being thrown off
his horse.
August 5th, 1899 - Brass Band Contest at Hollingworth.
Glossop Old Prize Band got 5th prize. Conductor, Alec
Owen.
August
6th, 1899 - Opening of Glossop Parish Church Organ, restored and
enlarged at a cost of over £200 by Mrs. Samuel Wood, in memory
of the late Daniel Wood.
August 7th, 1899 - Eight houses, Nos.
233-247 High Street West, offered for sale, withdrawn at £780.
August
8th, 1899 - Only five weeks supply of water in the Reservoirs.
August
9th, 1899 - Town Council affixed the Common Seal to a conveyance of
land from Lord Howard for a Town's Yard on Surrey Street. Cost £50.
Town Clerk's salary raised £50 per annum.
August
11th, 1899 - A man drowned himself in the Hollingworth District
Council Water Reservoir.
August 14th, 1899 - Town Council ordered
a new fire engine, to cost £534.
August 14th, 1899 - William
Wilson, spinner, Hadfeld, presented with £50 10s. by the Hyde
Operative Spinners Association, he being unable to follow his usual
employment owing to having had both his legs broken.
August 17th,
1899 - First case under the Workmen's Compensation Act, tried at
Glossop County Court, John Cryne, spinner, sued John Wood and Bros,
for injuries received during his work. Obtained 16s. 8d. for twelve
months.
August 18th, 1899 - Sylvester Whitehead appointed baths
superintendent.
August 24th, 1899 - The grouse moors of Park Hall
estate took fire and burned for several days, doing great
damage.
August 28th, 1899 - Four houses at Lee Vale, Charlesworth,
sold to William Cooper for £830. Lease dated 1888. Seven houses
at Lane Head, Charlesworth, sold to William Harrison, of Hargate
Hill, for £755. Lease dated 1880. Four houses at Gamesley, sold
to Miss Betty Cooper for £560. Lease dated 1888.
August
28th, 1899. The rebuilding of the "Cross" portion of Bridge
Mill commenced.
August 28th, 1899 - Glossop Borough Licencing
Session. Thomas Harrison, Victoria Inn, granted a wine
licence.
August 31st, 1899 - Benjamin Bailey, aged 15, of Adderley
Place, killed by a hoist at Dover Mill.
September
14th, 1899 - Nos. 9-39 Shepley Street, sold to T. S. Bowden for £400.
99 years lease, 9-9-1816.
September 14th, 1899 - Mossy Lee House
and No. 14 Wesley Street, sold to Samuel Rowbottom, Esq., J.P., for
£195. 99 years lease, dated 25-3-1811.
September
29th, 1899 - Wm. Henry Irlam, printer and stationer, died at
Aberdeen, whilst on a visit. For 30 years he was the local
correspondent of the "Ashton Reporter." He was a well known
Free Mason, Oddfellow, and Forester.
October
6th, 1899 - Aaron Hannan, a child, scalded to death at Torr Top, New
Mills.
October
9th, 1899 - Numbers 17-19 Fauvel Road, sold to Samuel Wragg,
Sheffield Road, for £476.
October 13th, 1899 - Smithfield
Mill, Town End, Chapel-en-le-Frith, used as a wadding mill by S. R.
Hyde, of Marple, burnt down, damage £1,800.
October 15th,
1899 - Serious fire at the house of James Marriott's, Shrewsbury
Street.
October 16th, 1899 - Freehold houses offered for sale: No.
31, Oak Cottage, Princess Street, withdrawn at £240; Nos.
22-28, John Street withdrawn at £590; Nos. 28-29, Princess
Street, withdrawn at £705; Nos. 31-35, Hadfield Street,
withdrawn at £420.
October 17th, 1899 - James Batty, aged
39, of Tintwistle, crushed to death by a fall of timber at Gorton
Tank Works.
October 17th, 1899 - Alfred Wardle, landlord of the
Palatine Inn, Hadfield, died very suddenly, one of his children had
died 5 hours previously.
October 20th, 1899 - Serious fire at the
Charlestown Bleach Mill.
October
21st, 1899 - Pte. John Hall, of the Manchester Regt., a native of
Woolley Bridge, wounded at the battle of "Elandslagte,"
South Africa.
October 24th, 1899 - Fire at Broadbottom Mills
damage £300.
October 26th, 1899 - William Townend appointed
foreman, and George Roberts secretary and manager of the Glossop
Carriage Company.
October 29th, 1899 - Stained-glass window to the
memory of James Ollerenshaw, dedicated at the Glossop Parish
Church.
November 1st 1899 - Alfred Wood, Ashton Street, aged 08,
killed by falling down the stairs.
November 4th, 1899 - Glossop
and District Cricket League Annual Dinner at the Grey Mare Inn,
Charlesworth. Presentation of champion cup and gold centre medals to
the Charlesworth Cricket Club. Gold medals to T. Driver,
Charlesworth, for best batting, and J. T. Booth, Charlesworth, for
best bowling averages.
November 7th, 1899 - John Cheetham, aged
20, Castle Hill, died through being knocked down by the engine of a
goods train at Penistone.
November 8th, 1899 - Joseph Barber,
Pikes Lane, died,aged 49, formerly the conductor of the Glossop Old
Prize Band.
November 8th, 1899 - A committee appointed to raise
funds for families of reservists who had gone to South Africa. The
Mayor, S. Hill-Wood, gave £50, Mrs. S. Wood £50, Captain
E. Partington £50, H. Partington Esq. £25. The fund to be
called “The Glossop, Hadfield and District Transvaal War Relief
Fund.
November 12th, 1899 - A married woman in Kershaw Street
poisoned herself.
November 18th, 1899 - Luke Dearnaley, Woolley
Lane, Hollingworth, formerly a brass vocalist, died, aged
90.
November 21st, 1899 - Overlookers strike at the local cotton
mills.
November 21st, 1899 - Great enthusiasm at Glossop on the
departure of Reservists Peter Turner and Edmund Morton, of the
Manchester Regt., for South Africa.
November
21st, 1899 - A local branch of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals formed at "Redcourt," Glossop.
November 23rd,
1899 - Col. Longton Coke, M.I.C.E., Local Government Board Inspector,
held an enquiry into the Glossop Town Council's application for a
loan of £550 for Fire Brigade purposes.
November 25th, 1899
- The long service medallists of the 4th Cheshire Volunteers
photographed at the Head Quarters, Stockport.
December 20th, 1899
- Railway accident at Broadbottom Viaduct, narrow escape of the Day
School.
December 20th, 1899 - Nos. 70-72 Princess Street, sold to
James Hyde for £295, lease from 1880. Nos. 9-13 Freetown, sold
to James Thornley, Bury. for £401. Nos. 49-57 Green Lane,
Hadfield, sold to J. W. Sykes for £506, lease from 1885.
Gamesley Farm sold to Lord Howard for £152, lease from
1876.
December 21st, 1899 - Drawing Room timepiece, presented by
the teachers and scholars of Littlemoor School to Mr. J. Walkden, who
was retiring after 14 years service.
December
29th, 1899 – Charles Hall, tailor, Leeds House, High Street
West, died aged 54. Conductor of choirs and bands for many years. A
great loss in musical circles.
Return to top
1900 to 1909.
March
25th, 1900 - Nightingale second-hand clog Exhibition opened in the
old clog shop adjoining the Howard Arms Inn.
May
9th, 1900 - Bennett Furnishing Co., Glasgow, engaged to furnish the
Technical School for the sum of £600.
May 14th, 1900 -
Slight fire at Wood's Mills.
May 26th, 1900 - Grand
Fete in the park in aid of the Indian Famine Fund.
June
2nd, 1900 - Glossop Volunteers to Blackpool - 19th encampment.
June
13th, 1900 - Powers of the Corporation re electric lighting
transferred to Urban Electric Supply Co., Ltd.
June
27th, 1900 - Town Council contracted to purchase Hague Farm.
July
2nd, 1900 - Edward Bowers, 48, Freetown, died. He was for 34 years
connected with the Whitfield Wesleyan Chapel, as treasurer, secretary
and Sunday School teacher.
July
4th, 1900 - Nos. 35, 37, Princess Street, offered for sale, withdrawn
at £295.
July 5th, 1900 - The body of a married woman, Mary
Edwards, aged 28, found in the Hague Auxiliary Reservoir.
July
5th, 1900 - Dinner at the Crown Inn to welcome home Sapper Len
Jackson, who had returned from South Africa, having been invalided
home.
July
6th, 1900 - Local papers reported that Captain E. Partington had
bought the Westwood Estate, Worcestershire, comprising over 80,000
acres of land, for £70,000.
July 7th: 1900 - The new
Recreation Ground at Charlesworth opened by Mr. Robt. Moss.
July
7th, 1900 - Edith Blomity, weaver, aged 20, killed at Marple Bridge,
by being run over by a waggonette.
July
11th, 1900 - Arthur Bethel had the middle toe of his left foot cut
off at Turn Lee Mills through an accident.
July 19th, 1900 - John
Samuel Higginbottom, Exchange, died, aged 47.
July
20th, 1900 - Benjamin Stretton, aged 18, a piecer, had his hand
ripped off at Arrowscroft Mill, his arm had to be amputated.
July
20th, 1900 - Mrs. Harriet Hill, Station Road, Hadfield, died, aged
98. She was a native of Rotherham, came to Glossop June 27, 1827, by
the stage coach, married Thomas Hill, hat manufacturer of
Charlesworth, who died in 1868.
July
23rd, 1900 - Nos, 53-55, High Street East sold to Walter Braddock for
£855: Nos. 57 – 65, High Street East, withdrawn; Nos.
67-75, High Street East, sold to John Hadfield for £870.
July
24th, 1900 - A travelling van on the Market Ground got on fire £100
damages done.
July
30th, 1900 - Nos. 118-120a Victoria Street offered for sale,
withdrawn at £390.
July 30th, 1900 - Second County Cricket
Match at Glossop. Lancashire 168. 2nd innings 362, Tyldesley 119, and
Hartley 100. Derbyshire 181. Chatterton 52, H. Bagshaw 52. 2nd
innings 125.
July
31st, 1900 - Coun. A. Garside, Messrs. J. G. Hodgson, J. H. Fielding,
Henry Kinder,Thomas Harrison, G. W. Eversden, R. Hennings, installed
as honorary members of the Pride of the Valley Court of the Ancient
Order of Foresters at the Globe Inn.
July
31st, 1900 - Nos. 118, 120, and 120a, Victoria Street, offered for
sale, withdrawn at £300. Lease dated March 25th, 1878, for
2,000 years.
August 2nd, 1900 - Capt. S. Hill-Wood's team won 1st
prize, £10, in volley firing at the Cheshire County Rifle
Association Meeting, at Altcar.
August 3rd, 1900 - Great storm at
Woodhead. Great block on the Great Central Railway. Passenger traffic
stopped two days, enormous damage. Passengers slept at Crowden. At
Derwent the flood was the largest known since August 15th,
1856.
August 4th, 1900 - Second Annual Cycle Parade and Carnival,
promoted by the Glossop Wheelers Cycling Club for the benefit of
Wood's Hospital, £47 15s. 9d. collected. 10,743 coppers and 322
pieces of silver.
August 5th, 1900 - Shrewsbury Street Primitive
Methodist Chapel re-opened after renovation. Sermons preached by Rev.
D. Nilson, M.A., B.D., of Manchester.
August
8th, 1900 - No. 61 High Street West, warehouse and stables, occupied
by Mrs. Mary Woolley, offered for sale, withdrawn at £880.
Lease dated 1884.
August 8th, 1900 - Glossop Town Council
consented to the Urban Electric Supply Co., Ltd., applying for a
Provisional Order to construct tramways in Glossop. The Council also
approved of the specifications and estimate of furnishing the
Technical School at a cost of £1,800.
August 9th, 1900 -
Eliza Milner, aged 75, died from shock, caused by a fall in a yard of
the Union Workhouse.
August 10th, 1900 - Local papers announced
that the Rev. J. Lionel Knowles, B.A., curate-in-charge of Scholes,
Cleckheaton, had accepted the living of New Mills Church.
August
16th, 1900 - John Hobson, self-actor minder, successfully claimed
damages in the Glossop County Court, under the Workmen's Compensation
Act, from Messrs. F. Sumner and Co., Ltd., for injuries received
daring his employment.
August
18th, 1900 - Presentation of a silver salver to Louis J. Couban, by
members of the Hollingworth Conservative Club, on the occasion of his
marriage on the 16th.
August
24th, 1900 - Hayfield Cricket Club won the medals for being at the
top of the North Derbyshire and East Cheshire Cricket League, by one
point.
August 25th, 1900 - Grand Fancy Dress Parade at Hayfield,
in aid of the Indian Famine Fund, £30 15s. 11¼d,
collected.
August 26th, 1900 - Opening of the new Roman
Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, at Whaley Bridge.
August
27th, 1900 - Glossop Brewster Sessions. Samuel Bamford granted a wine
licence for the Prince of Wales Inn, Padfield.
August
29th, 1900 - Joseph Bramhall, aged 32, a native of Charlesworth,
killed at the Duke Spinning Co. Mill, Shaw, near Oldham, by the
bursting of a boiler.
September
1st, 1900 - Hadfield Conservative Club received a "Roll of
Honour," the names of the following members of the Hadfield
Conservative Club are entered on this Roll of Honour as a record of
their patriotism in having fought for their Queen and Empire in the
South African Campaign of 1890 and 1900: Robert McCartney, Tom
Howbrook, Joseph Fish, James Livingstone, Harry Torkington, and James
Avison.
September
1st, 1900 - Football match at Glossop. Glossop North End 1, Newton
Heath 0. The Club were in the Second Division again and were without
the services of Mr. G. H. Dale as manager.
September 7th, 1900 -
Glossop Volunteers met the 5th Battalion of the Manchester Volunteers
at Hadfield, and were entertained at Mersey Bank.
September
15th, 1900 - Serious fire at C. Garside and Sons timber yard.
September
21st, 1900 - Samuel Roberts, of Sheffield, published his election
address, and Mr. Oswald Partington his on the day following.
October
2nd, 1900 - A Japanese Bazaar opened at the Charlesworth Independant
Sunday and Day Schools by Mr. Oswald Partington.
October 13th,
1900 - Charlesworth Pleasure Gardens sold by piecemeal.
October
16th, 1900 - Glossop and District Card and Blowing Room Operatives
Association presented Isaac Higginbottom with £50, he being
unable to follow his usual occupation as a stripper and grinder,
owing to an accident.
October 31st, 1900 - James Rose resigned as
caretaker of the Victoria Hall.
October
31st, 1900 - Mrs. Ward, Moorside, relict of Rev. C. B. Word, died,
aged 68.
November 9th, 1900 - Town Council accepted a photo of the
late F. J. Sumner, Esq., J.P., D.L., the first mayor of Glossop.
November
13th, 1900 - Fire at the Glossop Iron Works.
November 14th, 1900 -
Reported, the Glossop Wheelers Cycling Club had collected £52
13s. 2d. in aid of Wood's Hospital Funds.
November 16th, 1900 -
Rev. George Collins, Vicar of Charlesworth, died, aged 75. He was
appointed Vicar of Charlesworth in 1877.
November 23rd, 1900 -
Cost of the High Peak Parliamentary Election published. Samuel
Roberts £1,538 3s. 9d; Oswald Partington £1,229 13s.
9d.
November 24th, 1900 - Woodside Mill, New Mills, opened by the
Brunswick Mill Co., Ltd.
December
2nd, 1900 - Ralph Bernard Robinson, author of "Longdendale”
and a book of poems, a well-known contributor to the local papers on
local history, died at Arundel Street.
December
5th, 1900 - Edward Thompson appointed caretaker of Victoria
Hall.
December 7th, 1900 - Ex-police constable Jos. Hobson
presented with a marble clock by the members of the Glossop Police
Force on his retirement after 25 years service.
December
11th, 1900 - Marble clock presented to John Thorpe on his retirement,
after 19 years' service as secretary to the Queen Victoria Lodge,
Independent Order of Oddfellows.
December 17th, 1900 - Victoria
Inn (corner cupboard), Arundel Street, sold to the landlord, Tom
Harrison for £2,190. Nos. 74-76, High Street West, sold to Mrs.
Shepley, of Norfolk Street, for £620. Nos. 66-72, High Street
West, sold to Ald. Stafford, Hyde, for £820. All leases from
1833.
December 17th, 1900 - The Hollins, Glossop Road,
Charlesworth, sold to Mrs. Harrison for £255. Lease from 1835.
January
28th, 1901 - Joseph Hampson, formerly landlord of the Royal Oak Inn,
a well known Conservative, died aged 86.
February
22nd 1901 - Messrs, Olive and Partington's floated as a limited
company.
April
30th, 1901 - Return of the First Service Company of the Glossop
Volunteers from active service in South Africa.
May 11th, 1901 -
The first Company of Active Service Volunteers returned from South
Africa, entertained to dinner at the Drill Hall.
May 26th, 1901 -
Robin Hood's Picking Rods restoration completed.
June 20th, 1901 -
Members of the Council invited to visit the Shap Granite and Concrete
Company's Works.
October
9th, 1901 - Plans of Whitfield Branch Library pasted by Council
Building Committee.
October 16th, 1901 - Theodore Walter Ellison
appointed the Glossop Town Clerk at a salary of £200 per
annum.
October 23rd, 1901 - Sampson Bramhall appointed caretaker
of the Technical School.
April 30th, 1902 - Horse Ambulance
offered to the town. Proceeds of a football match, Licensed
Victuallers v. Butchers.
May 3rd, 1902 - New valuation for General
District Rate. Buildings, £80,222 10s 6d. Land, £503 12s.
6d.
May
18th, 1902 - Glossop Volunteers to Salisbury Plain. 21st
encampment.
May 28th, 1902 - Letter read to the Watch Committee
from the Glossop and District Council of Evangelical Free Churches,
with copy of resolution passed in reference to Sunday trading.
Ordered to lie on the table.
October
1st, 1902 - George Street foot bridge finished.
October 8th, 1902
- A deputation from the Hyde Town Council attended a meeting of the
Waterworks Committee re the Shelf Water Scheme.
November
5th, 1902 - Fire at Harold Fielding's farm buildings, Dinting.
May
31st, 1903 - Glossop Volunteers to Towyn, 22nd encampment.
October
18th, 1903 - Sacred concert in the Victoria Hall in aid of the
Distress Fund.
October 28th, 1903 - Er Sidebottom commenced his
duties as organist at Shaw Church, Near Oldham.
December 28th,
1903 - John Pye appointed Registrar to Burial Board Joint Committee.
May
13th, 1904 - Presentation of a marble timepiece to Mr Joseph James by
the members of the Glossop Conservative Association on his retirement
as Chairman of the Committee.
May
22nd, 1904 - Glossop Volunteers to Towyn, 23rd encampment.
June
8th, 1904 - Joseph Charlesworth's tender of £172-15s. 0d. for
building ambulance shed, coal places, etc., at Glossop Police Station
accepted. Council abandoned the scheme of joining Hyde Corporation in
New Waterworks at the Shelf Valley.
May 10th, 1905 - Edward Platt,
Esq., J.P., to give a Branch Library and Reading Room for
Hadfield.
May 10th, 1905 - Plans passed for a new church (St.
Luke's).
June 11th, 1905 - Glossop Volunteers to Deganwy, 24th
encampment.
October 4th, 1905 - The County Surveyor
requested to put finger posts at Primrose Lane, Drovers Arms, and
Glossop Hall Gates.
October
25th, 1905 - Mr. Hilton presented two marble lions for the Park.
May
10th, 1906 - Bernard Edward Fitzalan Howard came of age.
June 1st,
1906 - Glossop Volunteers to Towyn, 26th encampment.
October
27th, 1906 - Presentation of casket and address to Captain E.
Partington and E. Platt. Esq., opening of Hadfield Branch Library.
May
19th, 1907 - Glossop Volunteers to Abergavenny. 28th encampment.
June
5th, 1907 - Councillor Edward Partington elected an Alderman re
Alderman William Eversden, deceased.
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