Above: Another image from the Whaley Bridge Photos website showing the bridge over the Goyt at Taxal. Judging by the hand colouring, and the ladies’ clothes, I’d have guessed it was taken in the early 1900s. But the bicycle looks closer to the 1930s....
Above: A group of travellers in a horse-drawn carriage cross Derbyshire Bridge on their way north through the Errwood Estate. The photo probably dates to around the end of the 19th century. This narrow road between Goyt’s Moss and Whaley Bridge was known as...
Above: The small suspension bridge at the southern end of Fernilee Reservoir was dismantled following the construction of Errwood Reservoir in the mid ’60s. Inset: The brick pillar that recently emerged during the drought of 2018. Another of my theories...
Above: Click the photo to view the full image. It was taken looking down the incline. Fernilee Reservoir, which was completed in 1937, lies in the valley behind. Above: Another photo of the Bunsal Incline before it was tarmacked in 1967 (click to enlarge)....
Above: Phillida being made ‘Lady of the May’. The poem was first performed for Elizabeth I in 1591. Something I read in Strephon’s 1880 report of a visit to Errwood Hall caught my eye. He describes the walk down from the Grimshawe’s...
Above: The article included a photo of Errwood Bridge I hadn’t seen before. The caption read; “Footpaths on both sides of the stream down to Fernilee Reservoir, a quarter of a mile of Shooter’s Clough, and Goyt’s Bridge will disappear when the...
Above: A postcard view of Errwood Bridge (click to enlarge.) The other two bridges in Goyt’s Bridge (click either to enlarge): The ancient Packhorse Bridge above, and Shooter’s Clough Bridge below. Some time back I received a message from Chris Belton...
Above: I think this photo was taken at the same time as the 1932 cine film of Goyt’s Bridge (click to view). Click on any of the photos below to enlarge. Above: This is the oldest photo I’ve seen of the bridge, with a footpath leading up to a gate into...
Click any image to enlarge. Above: This photo shows the suspension bridge being dismantled during the construction of Errwood Reservoir in the mid 1960s. From RS-S: This is quite an interesting old photograph taken before the flooding of the Valley. It...
Above: the small wooden footbridge was destroyed by a fallen tree. It was last year (2011) that a falling tree destroyed the small wooden bridge on the woodland walk above Fernillee Reservoir. It was due to be replaced in March, but it now looks like it’s been...
