Local History Material (non-book) for reference

Microfilm

All the microfilm is held in New Mills Library, where readers are available. It is advisable to book a reader in advance to ensure one is available.

• Newspapers
• "Glossop Record", 1859-1871
• "Ashton Reporter"/"High Peak Reporter", 1887-1996
• “Buxton Advertiser", 1999-June 2000
• "Chapel-en-le-Frith, Whaley Bridge, New Mills and Hayfield Advertiser" , June 1877-Sept.1881
• “High Peak Advertiser”, Oct. 1881 - Jul., 1937
• Ordnance Survey Maps, Derbyshire 1880, Derbyshire 1898
• Tithe Commission Apportionment - Beard, Ollersett, Whitle, Thornsett (+map) 1841
• Plans in connection with Railway Bills
• Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway 1857
• Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway 1857
• Disley and Hayfield Railway 1860
• Marple, New Mills and Hayfield Junction Railway 1860
• Disley and Hayfield Railway 1861
• Midland Railway (Rowsley to Buxton) 1862
• Midland Railway (New Mills widening) 1891
• Midland Railway (Chinley and New Mills widening) 1900
• Midland Railway (New Mills and Heaton Mersey Railway) 1897
• Census Microfilm 1841-1901 (Various local area)
• 1992 Edition of the I.G.I. (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man, Channel Islands
• Church and Chapel Records
• New Mills Wesleyan Chapel, Baptisms 1794-1837
• New Mills Independent Chapel, Baptisms 1830-1837
• New Mills Independent Chapel, Burials 1832-1837
• Glossop Wesleyan Chapel, Baptisms 1813-1837
• Hayfield Chapelry and Parish Church Registers
• Bethal Chapel, Hayfield, Baptisms 1903-1955
• Brookbottom Methodist Church 1874-1931
• Low Leighton Quaker Meeting House, New Mills
• St.Georges Parish Church, New Mills
• Index of Burials
• Baptisms Jan.1888-Sept.1925
• Burials 1895-1949
• Marriages 1837-1947
• Coal Mining Account Book / New Mills and Bugsworth District 1711-1757
• Derbyshire Directories, 1808 - 1977 (New Mills entries are also available separately).

Other material

The material in these folders and boxes has been brought together and meticulously collated and labelled by Cath Bolton.

Left side of room

• Boxes:
• Local Historian Magazine, 1995-present
• Local History News, 1995-present
• Electoral Registers,1992-2002
• New Mills Hydro Electric Power installation
• The Parish magazine, 2004-present
• Folder:
• Bugsworth chapel. Graveyard survey and monumental inscriptions
• Boxes:
• Higginbottom family history (Disley, Marple, etc)
• Wilf Larkum - notes on the New Mills area and his work
• Chinley, a brief history
• Local steam trains photographs
• One Box:
• Co-op field, Aldersgate
• Quarry Bank Farm, plans
• Methodist Chapel:
  • Brook Bottom. Baptisms 21 Sept 1874-20 Dec 1931.
  • Free Methodist. Baptisms Sept 1902- Dec 1955
  • St Marys church. Graveyard inscriptions 1867-1980
  • St Georges Methodist. Graveyard survey with location map of graves and comparison with entries in the Owen ms.
• Hayfield Baptism
• Magistrates Court plans
• Kinder View: research notes by Marjorie Jones
• Marriages at Wirksworth
• Marriages at Cromford
• Some photographs of Cromford
• Bugsworth anecdotes
• New Mills Town Scheme
• Plain English Campaign
• One Box:
• Sir Martin Doughty
• New Mills Free Church
• New Mills waste sites
• The Buxton Project: Department of Librarianship, Manchester College of Commerce The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949
• Survey of the public rights of way 1954
• Ladshawe Bottom and Millfields - town or village green Newspaper cuttings - New Mills bypass
• New Mills House Clearances, 1934: Area 2 (Spring Bank), Area 5 Foundry Street and Midland Street, Area 1 Spring Bank, Area 4 Short Street.
• Brook Bottom Primitive Methodist School chapel. Jubilee celebrations
• Box:
• Birch Vale Quarry
• Folder:
• Planning application to restore mineral workings at Birch Vale Quarry
• Box :
• Derbyshire Local Transport Plan. Provisional Plan 2006-11
• Folder:
• Archaeology and Conservation in Derbyshire 2003-4 - 2008
• Folder:
• Kirke/Kyrke family history
• Hyde and Jackson family history
• Winterbottom and Lowe family history
• Folder: Wills
• Anthony Dakins (1662), Ralph Dakins (1719), Ralph Dakins (1731), Robert Bowden (1742) all of Ladyshaw.
• Richard Shalcross of Cote Bank, Brierley Green, Bugsworth
• Rev John Rigg, vicar of New Mills (1869) and wife Mary (1893)
• Box:
• Beard and Lomas families, New Mills
• Folder:
• Henshaw family, Chinley
• Box:
• Book Chat archive
• Goddard family history
• Descendants of Edward Hadfield of Mellor
• High Peak Isolation Hospital, Chinley
• Box:
• Art Theatre various programmes
• Box:
• Historical Commission: location of Derbyshire manuscripts
• Folders:
• The Barnes family and High Lea hall
• Carrington family, Bugsworth Hall, Chinley and Bugsworth
• Jodrell family, Whaley Bridge
• Handlist of the Bagshawe muniments in the John Rylands Library.
• A study of Chinley, Bugsworth and Brownside based on the 1841 and 1891 censuses by Keith Halford
• NMLHS various publications
• Box:
• The historic landscapes of Mellor (Ron Weston)
• A natural history of Ludworth and Mellor (Ron Weston and Tony Smith)
• New Mills 1894-1994
• Education in New Mills by J P Bowden
• New Mills development plans 1960 and 1967
• Blessing of High Lea War Memorial May 2009
• Folders:
• Census and CD ROM - manual
• Old OS maps 25 inch reduced (Alan Godfrey editions)
• Derbyshire local studies - family history information
• Family history on the internet
• Boxes:
• Strines calico printing CPA 'Star' magazine
• Strines printworks tour information
• Strines printworks
• Photographs of New Mills Library Centenary display
• Newtown Methodist Sunday School -anniversary
• Box:
• Thornsett Sunday School
• Death of Paul Mason (newspaper cutting)
• Ashworth family of Thornsett and Whitle Millennium Walkway
• St Georges Parish Church 1901
• Boxes:
• Low Leighton Quaker Meeting House: History, Deeds, photographs
• High Peak Community Arts
• New Mills Town Council - purchase of steam roller and Ollersett Waterworks
• The Bowers and the Newtons
• Edith Nesbit
• Ingham Almshouses and St James church
• Kinder Trespass photographs.

Right side of room

• Folders:
• Mellor baptisms 1874-1931
• St George's Road, Methodist chapel. Gravestones inscriptions
• St George's church monumental inscriptions, books 1-4
• St George's church burials 5 Mar 1895-4 Aug 1949
• Providence United Reformed church. Garden of Rest details
• Mt Pleasant Free Methodist chapel. Grave Book
• Folder:
• White Knowle church, Chinley. Memorial inscriptions
• Bugsworth Old Primitive Methodist chapel. Monumental inscriptions.
• Low Leighton Quaker Meeting House. Monumental inscriptions
• Folders in a Box:
• Hayfield St Matthews. Burials and some marriages - copied from Owen manuscripts
• Bethel chapel, Hayfield. Baptisms 1842-1955.
• St Matthews, Hayfield. Memorials
• St James Taxal. Baptisms 1610-1904, burials 1610-1875
• Fernilee Methodist chapel. Memorial inscriptions
• St Mary's church, New Mills. Baptisms March 1856-Dec 1876
• Confirmations Nov 1865-Nov 1925
• Marriages Nov 1856-Dec 1923
• Deaths Nov 1851-Sept 1883
• Folders:
• St Thomas a Becket church, Chapel en le Frith. Marriages 1621-1837
• Charlesworth Independent chapel. Baptisms 23 Jan 1948-15 July 1998.
• Pew Register, Collection Book 1917-1929.
• St Matthews Hayfield. Memorials New Cemetery, and copy of Owen ms.
• Box: Church records:
• St Matthews, Hayfield. Marriages 1837-1935
• St Thomas a Becket, Chapel. Marriages 1621-1837
• Mellor Marriages 1678-1775
• St Mary's Disley. Graveyard survey
• St George's, New Mills. Burials March 1962- 2 Aug 1991
• St Georges Methodist. Graveyard record. Copied from Owen manuscripts
• Folders:
• Chinley Independent chapel. Memorial inscriptions
• Roll of Honour Selected baptisms
• Bugsworth church. Memorial inscriptions
• Graveyard survey and index
• All Saints, Glossop. Marriages 1848-1878
• Derbyshire: Return of owners of land 1873
• Local and family history resources
• Shaw Farm: a passage of time.
• Marjorie Jones census transcriptions 1901-2002
• Folders:
• Market Street Vols 1 and 2
• Hall Street and South View
• Church Road
• Kinder View
• New Mills public houses
• Union Road
• Albion Road
• Longlands Road
• St Mary's Road
• Golf Club
• Hannah Thompson. New Mills air raid 3 July 1942
• Folders in a Box:
• New Mills newspaper extracts 1822-29
• Annual report of Thornsett Sunday School to 1 January 1797
• Halker Lea House, High Lea Road. Abstract of Title, 1949 (J Sumner Pollitt, deceased).
• Stafford Wills
• Various trade directories
• Folders:
• Abel Heywood's Penny guide to Disley, New Mills, Lyme Hall and neighbourhood
• Providence Congregational church and Sunday School. Japanese Floral Bazaar 1909
• New Mills Polling District 30 November 1860-1 Dec 1861. Register of people entitled to vote.
• Boxes:
• Taxal parish registers. Baptisms 1610-1912
• Burials 1610-1875
• Marriages 1611-1867
• New Mills parish registers 1831-1910. Baptisms, Marriages and Burials.
• The Dore and Chinley Railway
• Chapel-en-le-Frith. Memorial index and inscriptions with Town End Methodist, Chapel en le Frith and Dove Holes War Memorials
• New Mills Local History Society. Photographic survey July 1993 (109 photos).
• New Mills Masonic Hall and its lodges
• Hibbert Journals microfiche
• The Stafford papers: Wills and inventories
• Box:
• 1841 census: Glossop (Districts 1-5), and index
• Charlesworth (Districts 15 and 16) and index
• 1861 census: parishes of Abney, Bradwell,, Great Hucklow, Litton and Tideswell, and Bradwell
• 1881 census: New Mills and Furness Vale
• 1901 census: Index for New Mills and Hayfield
• 1851 census; Index for New Mills and Hayfield
• 1851: Yeardsley cum Whaley
• 1861: Indexes for Abney, Bradwell, Great Hucklow, Little Hucklow and Tideswell List of Cheshire parishes
• Box:
• St James church and St Lukes church New Mills. Papers.
• Three Boxes:
• St George's New Mills. Marriages 1837-1921, 1921-1947,
• Baptisms Jan 1880-Sept 1925
• Derbyshire Miscellany 1956-present
• Derbyshire Archaeological Journal. 1879 -present
• Coal mines abandonment plans
• Furness Vale. The Fallen of the Great War
• Glossop War Memorial
• Photos and aerial photos
• Newspaper cuttings
• New Mills Parade and Fete. Photos and programme
• The Crichton Porteous collection
• New Mills ephemera
• Plans for proposed Yellow Route A6 by pass with maps.