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The Cat and Fiddle was some distance beirind, aucl clr.tlitrg people of the valley in providing built near the end of the 18th the ninter of 1892 it lvas imp, ,r:ihi. employment. centtlry b;, Mr. J Ryle of to open the front dooq or 3n\ r rf 1l whose rvindolvs seven weeks. No one in those lovely early days, Macclesfield, a rich b:rnker for ice-bouncl were the\. could have possibly foreseen that it son became the Bishop of completely would all come to an end, with the Liverpooi. Mr. RyIe or'vnecl the Irr lact. rr'hert the tIoot rvas oper]rii moors at that on rvl-rich the inn constmction of Fernilee resen'oir time it r,,r'as only r,vith the aicl of an a\e after 1930. rvas built. When out shooting on the and pick. h.r the winter of 1880 a moors, a friend of Mr. Ryles u,ell knor'vn'packman' (traveller-). For visitors travelling by caq there suggested the newly erected inn are two main routes into the Goyt was lost in a snowstornl near the should be called "Kit Cat" after the "Cat arrd Fiddlc". 'I}amping alorrg Valley. The most popular one n-hich once famons "Kit Cat CIub" of reaches car the with his bag of srnallwares oler his all the parks in which he was a mernber. Or he valley is the A5004, the Lorrg Hill shoulcler, he became snorvblind and addecl, "as the place is high enough road between Buxton and !\rhaley altrost insensible. Still he marchecl for a cou' to.jump over the moon, Bridse. on thinking he rvas walking in a rvhy not call it the Cat :rnd Fiddle?" straight line, nhen in reality he u,as second the The main route into going in a circle. H:l,ing becorne valley is via the Cat and Fiddle road, perf-ectlv blincl, fiozen and the A537 between Macclesfield and speechless, he nas disccivered by a Buxton. Nowadays, owners of motor shcpht'r'd a[ter being t\^('nl\ six vehicles must leave cars etc in their hours on foot, rvith his circular the car parks provided. here. trzrck troclden qriite harcl. He 'rvas This is becanse of the very necessary taken to the "Cat ancl Fidclle", ancl ol]e wav s).stem now emploved due though he recovered, it was long to the very narrou,' roacl, u,inding its after before he rcgairred the use of \^a) throrrgh the rnorrntainorrs I'ris arms. The inn has alrvays been zr hillside, into the valley. rvelcome refirge, as I am sure many The Cat anci Fiddle inn is a lesend modern day rvalkers r,l''ill testifv. On itself, standins a{ 1,690 feet abovc calm Spring and Summer davs. 'The Cat tmd Fiddl.e Inn, the second highest in sea level one the wildest there is a woncierful panorarna to in of En,gland at 1,690 ;t'eet. The Ttuetnttn .farnill remote parts of the Pe:,rk l)istrict, stand'near lhe doonttny set: up hele. One of the ivilrlest the second highest pr-rblic hor.rse in views in England, ser,eral connties Ensland. In the winter time thc \{eather up can bc seen stretching onto the clim horizon. It is saicl that tire \\'elsh There has always been a difference here can be very severe indeed. and mounftrins ancl Snorvdon can be of opinion as to the origins of the over the years there have becn seen on clear days. Cat and Fiddle name, but the truth st'rt'ral tcrrible reporls. is, no one really knows. One is that About the year 1879 a terrible wind From these l'reights is found the it came from La Chatte Fidele, an carried the roof of the inn source of the Rir,cr Goyt, near old inn in Devon in memory of a completely away onto the moor Whetstone Riclge, which many THE G,OY'I \'ALLEY Af,T'IVA JAO' SHJ '049I punorE 1€ duEdtuol I€Aourar 'I68I pue plo Jarpo aerql lsesl lE aJe,{r aJaql sprollfrd er{t Jo uets 3r{t 'pro}lfrd 1pg1 srea,( aqt uee.4\teq 'ool eraq ,(a1pn /o3 sql Jo uels orlt sprenol wruoqJ ,(q paryom 1s-rrg d:olsrq Surag rq8uleaq.^4. pu€ uoseru euols pl?oJ plo aq] u,{\op elrur B lsoru[v Surleurcseg e seq 'peo; aqt eprs € s€,r\ 's-rea.( Jo areqJ &ua-nu ueql eroru 'puo.(eq pue alrsoddo aq] uo l:"runb q8nolost,(o3 roJ 'Uel uol3urqcre141 qleqr?zrlg 068I reue uerplrr{f e rJ -roq qll^^ uur reu€ asnoH ssotr ot ulrl aql '896I uI l aqt tdal ueluenra q}aqezrlg 'parp ruor; rrmop Sur.totu urer11 uqof puz JIoArsSer poo,rl.ilg erD roJ pepoou qdasof pueqsnq req reqry 's:ea,{ go 'ssotrX te spr€M aqt 'srze.( aqt se,tr .(s11e.r. aqt ueq,&\ ereq tlrnqer t{og requnu poo8 r roJ uur eql p€q oq,\4, JeAo serlrurq .(q perdncco se,&r pue 'a8pug u,(o3 go tapr?q aq] IeJeAas .(11ue3 u€uren{ eq} pue talce;zqc ged era,4r surr€J o,4l1 rettl aq; 'Surppnq ;o eruo sB^,!.'a8ppq anbsa:ntcrd e Surqleuros eq ot pr€s s€,4{ 'a8pr-rg -ra8ue6 aqr Lq ;o aptll srql esrorl{red aq} {rud IEad ^reu oq.41. 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'uol ,ua; e Suru,tro 'aurrl srql l€ sJeurJeJ o] tlnrgJrp sr tl teqt drauacs -8urqc:e;,n qleqezrlf raIP perul?u osle eJeM ruor{.lt Jo arxos 'poued uro4 sprolpulzl q)ns qlliv\ u,r\ou{ sr lr sE pua ,e8pr:g 'ur-rzg uolSurr{rrel{ s? ol poJJaJaJ slql uur aql ]e arrqs.(q.req, srqt ruo"r; uo 3uqp11 osl€ 'asnol{ ssotr{ 's8ur11e,up alqelou IeJeAes aJan oJaqJ 'ederspuel puupoour '0r,8I lnoqe urorg s8urplnq pue pul?l a.rreqsrurr3 {"alq sql uo eraq q}ruru.r\ pepeeu D sum als '61 pa?n 'uDudtul anluow aqt tq8noq qrnur B Surprao:d 'qrd leoc geurs Isnrres ueq.r uro4 sr l€ql (q papuno-uns eJe,tl. sa8elloo asaql stsrxg '"4r3 puelrooru {€alq srql 'moqs p,n deru pasolcue eql ry ur slsrxo teqt Sullla,up 3ur.r.r.t-rns p1o 3uo aql sr uur elpprc pu? 1"3 aqJ IIOAJESAJ poomrrg le spua d11eug ,(aurno[ s1r 'sroolu pEIl Jaql?aq uaa.rqeq 's1cor auolslr-r8 plo sarJnlual relo Lau-rnoI tq8nog preq slr -rs1gz '.{11en1uaaa uaq; 'qBnoID srelooqs ratel pue 'a{ols '.fu-reg;o sq8nolc ,61co-r daals aqf ,(q uello,{\s sr lr ur€ar}s Surqsm (suq e olur Sur.uor8 uaqa {aurnol sselpue slr uo sapl?ls"f InJrepuoM Surlea-rc 'isreplnoq ssellurlof -ra,ro Surcuep ueqt 'agcr,r1 3uruea13 z ]sn[ tsrg ]y 'god>1oo1g te suro[ .(Ilenlua.ta lI qlpl,4\'Lss:s1,n re^ry aql Jo errnos enrt ar{t se p-re8a-r aldoad The Goystclough Paint facton'rvas also here till about 1890, empiotine up to twenty people. Cmshed barytes were made into a Portder i'' be used in the manufacture c,- paint. This would have been packed in bags and taken by wagon dorm the valley to be loaded onto the High Peak Railway where it would reach companys further afieid. There is still evidence of the four cottages that were here, although small, and of Goytsclough Farm, high on the hillside on the left of the clough. The hillside now is shrouded with larch and spruce trees, but a walk uP the winding track leads directly to the ruined farrrr rvhich was quite substantial in its day. Walkers will know this track The Gatekeepers at Goyts Ckugh. , . leads on and upwards to Shining Tor. Several families occupied this The Pickford family came from the packhorses would carry back hillside farm over the years, the Adlington, south of Manchester goods for local towns and villages, Yeomans in 1861, the Lomas' in and later of nearby Poynton. After making Pickfords a carrier. The 1881, and the well known Braddock family after 1891 with their two sons the Civil War, Thomas Pickford had business progressed in the l8th and daughter. Thomas Braddock his lands sequestrated for co- century with one Pickford, He James was a gamekeeper on the Errwood operating with the cavaliers. the 'London to Manchester later bought the quarry and estate. waggoner' with headquarters at engaged in the business of rnending The route from the 'Long F{ill' road Blossoms Inn, and at the Bell Inn in roads about c.1695. A contract for leads directly onto the old GoYts General paving stones in Macclesfield and a Wood Street, Cheapside. Lane, although local people still ! one Government contract to suPPlY goods were carried at refer to it as 'Sandy Lane'. After a Regent Street and Oxford Street in halfpenny per hundredweight per i few yards opposite the cattle grid London expanded the business. mile in summer, and at three are the remains of 'Top of the lane' It was said that trains of up to fifty farthings per hundredweight in the farm, the Gregory family were one packhorses would transport these winter. Pick{brds are still in business of the last tenants here. Moving slabs in specially made panniers. today as one of the major removal further along the lane we pass the Then instead of returning empty, and storase companys in EuroPe. Catholic shrine, mounted in the THE GOYT VALLEY ATTTVA JAOO TH.I, 'aurl JroLIl uo se.u lerrrper aqa 'a8pr-rg ,(apq16 ,^4.olu?urpe'I pue a8eq;ng spr€,uol ss?dseJl luaaaJd oJ seJnslreru oJe^es pu" aurllur ssoJf,lleqs rallelus aql .,(e.u€ spzal r{llr{1vt. tueru{u€qtuo eI€t duEdtuoo ar{l pepuouurofa-r Surqcea-r aroJeq '.la^el aql uo ssel zk,rLle-r plo eql aes u€l a,lt JrolrasaJ
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'uorssJrdurr 8uqsz1 e qllm req uel s^(e,trp 'pres aqs urEaJf-3fl 'atuoq >1p.n 3uo1 eql e^es ot uolxng rrro4 elr aqt uo url e peq aqs uar{M BpueJg ralsrs prEs aulrl eql ser* Lu€tr J 'elr.(rrotow srq;o uoqpd eql uo uolxng tuo{ efl Jo $llolq a8nq .(r-rec o] p€q ar{ rueerl-err aq] a{€ru oJ 'rueer3-efl pue s{ulJp slee.{rs plos e{uruaurrulls ur pue a8ppg s./og eqt r€eu tnq aplrl e peq aof 'aurur I?ol aq1 Sun1-ro,tr lyls 'auz1 dpueg Jo ruouoq eqt te stuoor eel aql lE relBl pe^II sltu\eH eql Qamuel Grimshawe. ( 1768-1851) LJcame from a rich merchanting family in Manchester. He was the son of a Manchester merchant of the same name (Samuel i,.:fPry. ry$@:: !xwlo@;* "',,,. Grimshawe), and married to Anne the daughter of Otho Hume, a member of the Pitt Club. The son, Samuel a pupil of Manchester Grammar School, held the office of Borough Reeve, for which he was qualified by previous duty as Sidesman at the Collegiate Church and as a constable. ln 7824 he was living in Mosely Street. He was the member of the important conservative 'Shaws Club', and his entry in the membership list of 1825 reads; 'Grimshawe Samuel, Millbank, at T. Heywood's, Old Q.ruy. Merchant. Aged 55. Grammar School. Court Leet Juryman and Assessor. Sidesman. Natural History Society. Director of Manchester Assurance Company. Married with son and daughter.' THE GOYT VALLEY ASTTVA JAO{) gHJ aql Jo eprs ]€q] uo s3^\ eIppIJ pu? 13D aql 1"q1 pe8slle pu€ ']saroJ plogsalf,rel I Sururohz aqt ur spuel earsuetxe paul(o drqsp:o1 sr11 dq-req Jo Ir€f, er1r ruorg e8ualpqc e dq teu ,(pdruord szlrt a,r\€qsuuC Ianues ]nfl 'uul elpplJ puE te3 erp pepnlf,ur r{rlqr'r delpn pxe; aq] Jo sarre 790'A poseqcrnd pue 1e11 (elspree1 Jo Ilerpof uer1yq11 uqof qlpr suorlzrlo8au ue8eq aq ]eq] 9g8I raue s€,ry\ ]I 'tearts .(1asoy1 te asnoq srq tde>1 ilps aq q8noqr 'snurrurat slr se,r\,fuob ptO 'saq{I:)eJ s}rJo 3sn elqEJeprsuol epsru pu€ aallfiuruo3 uorle8rrreg IIaNI pu€ ,(as:atr41 eql uo suM Ianu€s luBg IIrw t€ ,{-rntuae qtuaatq8re eql ur araq IIur -raded € uaoq perl erarll '.eyqe8r,reu uleruer Ileqs ila.trrl pue desra;41 ralrx eqt se Suoy os, 'sreed 000'I roJ uorlz8r,reg ar11 ot paq ser* uodsuerl urof, s:ellrru eqt pue 'uone8uzN IIe.urI pu€ (es-ra141 eqt qtl^r ep€ru sezvr luaura8ue-rre Jgr.re1 e '.Ilrur uJol 3 ot ,(er* arre8 tuqr uarlM pu? uorr .Suq1or pue Sur1qs, roJ ereql $lro.&\ E uoaq p€q a-rsq1 l-rnluar qtuaatq8re-p1tu eqt aroJeg'serulnH aq] ro salvrEqsrurrc eqr Lq parrnbce dpua:edde 'fi-rado:d pue $Iro1( peqsrlqqse-plo uB Jo ged paur-rog qrlqrv\ 'uo18uqre4 1e .(os-rary oqt Jo $Iu?q erp uo asnoq 3 'luefl IIIru te e^{ o1 ]ue,^ e {€qsluuc Ienu€s tEql eruq srr{t tnoq" s€,{r tI Taers e8-roeg dqrzau ur pearl sJalsrs s,lenures Jo o,!q alrq,u 'tearts {lesoIAI ur s-rea,( fiuar'r1 auos pe.t.rl 'II IanurBS boundary therefore on his land. Grimshawe would have none of it. He brought the old men of Taxal together before a Master Extraordinary in Chancery and one Daniel Downes swore before the Master that he knew all about the boundaries. He was shown the boundaries as a young lad by a previous owner of the Taxal Moors, who had told him 'I'11 show thee where the boundary goes, it may be of use to thee some time. Thou art a young lad.' Dan's recollections were too much for his I-ordship of Derby and the Cat and Fiddle remained with the Grimshawes. Samuel Grimshawe II continued to live at Millbank, Partington, and still kept there, his house and business going IngerslE Hall tl* home of the Gaskell family. while his son Samuel III was living with his mother and sister Margaret The movement, also called the frequented the same Manchester at the old Errwood Farm in 1841. 'Tractorian ' movement because of club, John Shaw's'. Thomas They were probably living there the large number of 'Tracts' wrote Gaskell, John Upton's father being while Errwood Hall was being built, to the Times, advocating their president from 1824-1833. One of with no doubt Samuel supervising cause. Other leaders were Henry the mills at Ingersley Vale was said the work. Manning, John Keble, E.B. Pusey, to have the second largest water Samuel, the younger, was born in and R.H. Fraude. Newman, wheel in the British Isles, fifty six Manchester in 1811 and after Manning and others became life feet in diameter and ten feet six receiving an early private long friends and converted to inches across the buckets. It was a education, he entered Brasenose Catholicism, but not yet Samuel walk or fulling mill producing College, Oxford, at the age of Grimshawe. 'Fustian', a tl?e of hear'y corduroy eighteen. He graduated as B.A. in In 1843, Samuel's sister Margaret cloth. 1830 and M.A. in 1833 and it was Elizabeth, was married at Taxal Samuel was married in Edinburgh here he was influenced by .fohn Parish Church to John Upton inJrrne 1849 as the marriage nolice Henry Newman. eminent Gaskell of Ingersley Hall, near described in a Scottish newspaper:- theologian, of Oriel College, who Bollington. The Gaskells were 'At 5, Hillside Crescent, on the 1Sth was a founder of the Oxford friends of the Grimshawes and instant by the Right Rev. the Lord Movement. fellow mill owners and indeed Bishop of Madras, Samuel THE GOYT VAI,i,EY AS'I'IVA JAOC fHJ € se1( aJor{l qluap s,oJr,{\ srq IeJrpos 'III ato (pzruas) dax aW tV 'uqo[ tuot4yty yaqng 'Efusofp.ompg onua['fuo141 oqonnT {rwsJ alurs 'ra^a1!l.oH Ianu"s uos srq tap4 ut1toyy ptutltyg :1qZu w {a1 'uarypry ,.taqt qpn swunozsl1 pan uopuDltlog ntnflznA Wil aitl 01 elelsr eq] .]o rapurBruer eql qll^ 'eJ[,u sH JoJ pourulureur pu€ dn 1de1 eq {u€g il1ru te spunor8 pu€ esnoq srq l€q] palsanbar oslE aH 'lla{sec qleq"zrlg leru8rE] I relq8n?p pu€ Ianues uos srq uee,eqeq pap$p eq ol repursruer ar{l 'a.t{"qsurlrg uuv aJIm srrl Jo tgauaq eql o1 lsnr] ur ''rle spuoq '{)ols lualuure^o8 ur patse^ur aq ot 000'E5Jo runs eql lolrcryos ralseqluztr l st{ pue '
felsaqruEtr tr 'illu{n 'aadaq 'qcrnq3 s{reted 'tS te tnq 'lsaS8ns d# "rDdu sz 'azr4iu12 aqt 'aSqnpyJ wnqqyl puo stuDftDS poou"tg '0gg l ux fatnpxd ol srrraas snbeld eql ss '.I"xeJ ]E parrnq tou sr 1nq ta1e1 sqluoru ue^es euros pelp II Ienues teq]eJ Jeq JoJ 'slua-red Jer{ o1 ruerJorueru ur ':elq8nep aql aMeqsrurJC qlaqezrlu lar€8retr tr dq petfere enbeld e sr ereqt arerll. qrrnq3 Iex"I te porrnq sarl oqs 'euuv reqtour s,lenues Jo r{l"ep eq} Jo -reed arues aqtgo aunf ur pe::zru rnq '6991 dz6 (uos ur uJoq 'ado11 Jnqlrv IenruES e 3o .(o[tearg 'sseup?s pue ,(o[ qrpr,r pexru eJalrr sJ€o,( ateg 3ulno11o3 aqa ,''bsg'ue11y rapuexalv Jo retq8nep ]sepla telunH arssef o1 'arrr{ser{D '1ueg pyg pue IIeH pooMrrg 3o ''bsg 'a.ueqsurug 'S .Io uos Lluo ''bsg e.^ EqsrurJ, to the will dated Znd August 1850. Viscount Beresford. It was one of 'Whereas my wife Ann Crimshawe this gifted amateurs earliest has since departed this life and I buildings, being built from c.1840. have since given my daughter Beresford Hope, politician, Margaret Elizabeth Gaskell the sum ecclesiologist and amateur of f2,500, the bequests formerly architect, (like his father Thomas) made to them are hereby revoked. was chiefly remembered for ry# Furthermore my dwellinghouse, building in Gothic, though .aa- outbuildings, offices and premises Errwood was Italianate with in King Street, Manchester to go to Norman details. The Hall was a my daughter Margaret, in lieu of turreted, double winged structure the f,2,000 granted to her under her of millstone grit sandstone, of some marriage settlement'. The estate Italian style, with a central tower valued at about f14,000 went to his and a chapel, rvhich formed the son Samuel III. upper storey of an extension to the Captain Eduard I'rancis Prestan. The founder and builder of northern end. A French window Errwood Hall at the age of 83 had opened onto a terraced garden at servants. It was at this time that he had realised his the southern end, with wide steps now gone, but Samuel Grimshawe declared his ambition of a gentleman's country Ieading up to the main entrance. conversion to Catholicism, and had seat, in probably one of the most The Hall faced east towards Long upper storey the northern romantic locations in Cheshire. Hill on the Bttxton to Stockport the of road. extension of the Hall made into a Hardly had the family overcome the private Catholic Chapel. He was Over the front door was the crest of passing of old Samuel than the received into the Church as Samuel the Grimshawe's, a dragon and a young infant, Samuel Arthur Hope Dominic Grimshawe. Grimshawe died at the age of fifteen small coat of anns. In the garden months. He died on the 4th August stood a large ornamented stone Dedicated to St. Mary it was opened 1851 at the Hall, the cause of death arch surrnounted by a bird and a on the 8th October 1851 by the given as enteritis. One can only large G, its remains now long gone, Bishop of the Diocese in the guess of the pain of such a tragic where it stood among the small presence of about five hundred loss that must have been felt not fountain and flower beds. High in a persons from Macclesfield and the only in the family, but throughout window in the central tower there neighbourhood. The Bishop, James the whole of the Errwood estate. was always a crucifix with a lamp Brown, rvas the first Catholic Bishop shining before it. From here must of Shrewsbury and he preached to Errwood Hall, which in those early have been the best view of all the crowd in the open air. The first years layjust inside the boundary of looking over the trees and down to resident Chaplain at the Hall was Cheshire, was designed by Golt's Bridge. Henry Allcock. Alexander Beresford Hope, (Hon. PRIBA 1829-87) who inherited By now in 1851, the Grimshawe In the 1851 census Samue I Beresford Hall, Staffordshire from family were well established at the Grirnshawe gave his profession as his kinsman, Field Marshall Hall and had acquired nine 'Land Proprietor' and it is known THE GOYT VAI,I,EY AS'ITVA IAOC SHI eq ueqna 0ggl r"a.( eql ur lseol lou 'qcrnq3 )rIorIlED er{l ol sno-raua8 drerr. eurecaq'ervrzqsuruC Ienur"S '{Jo { lrurJod ur parryorrur ueeq eleq dzur oq,tr te,lrog 'H' { 'tsprt Suqrsrrr e osle selvt aJeIII 'Tool srlqse)ue-le pue 's-rauap-re8 'spreur qslrl 1eJeles tapnq qf,uerJ E szlvr areq] eltq { 'qcrun1,11 ruo{ sseurerto8 ueur:ag E pue pr€ru sarpel Suno,{ u1(o rrer! p"q 'e eueuaC pue fte6 s-ratq8nep aqJ 'ploqesnoq u€trlodoursof, elqeezrs e alrnb Sururelureur s?,r\ pue tatseq3 pue ,(q:aq :og a1e-4sr8ery &uno3 € aruoreq p€q e^{eqsurrg Ianues I9SI ,(g 'efuuJrr ol llq E uo aJa.AA {1ureg aql uaI{M 'sr.red ur 'aue141 elerleua9 eulrv'uJoq s31r,t -rarq8nzp puores E retel 'rua.( aug .ue1vl31s .(pe1 :aqtourpo8 sqr pue "srnoT3uruue141 'g'H se.r,r raqtegpo8 ^aU ar{J 'IIBH uqo[ (q 1gg1 l-reruqsg puz aqt uo plausapcel4l 'qc:nq3 su€qry tg te pezqdzq se,'t eqs 'IIEH poo,ry\rJg lB uJoq se r or{r* 'zstnol eunuef asorqurv &ey1 tarq8n"p z qtrl.r pesselq eraru. arssaf ag$ slq pu" Ienlu€s 'I98I reqruele( q14 oql uo dgruz; (qtleai* ltat e paapur ere.tr daqt ]Brp lqnop aptll q araql 'auo lsnf Bulaq .peol{ pooMJJg, 'eureu a,ry\el{slulr0 aql ot ftotsrr{ reeq qrrr{.^a arulnqsua e'I ur saeeld ere arer{J 'sqrnqns $I ptre relsaqru€tr [ Suunoqq8rau uI aur.B srqt t€ tq8noq sernr luedord ret1r Err-wood Hall by an absolute wealth the Mediterranean, visiting Spain of books. It was Anthony Powell who and Italy, leaving a skeleton staff at said 'books do furnish a room', and the Hall. They were after all, living this was certainly the case here, during an age of travel, invention books in the study, the upstairs and famous people. There were sitting room and eleven more musicians, composers, such as cupboards in other places. Volume Grieg, Brahms, Offenbach, the after volume, from Lewis Carroll, writers and poets, Kipling and Hans Christen Anderson to Bronte, Browning in this great Victorian Shakespeare and Ruskin, with many age. The family continued to travel language books, especially Spanish, and kept the yacht into the German, and French. There were eighteen eighties, sometimes driilq',&ralrnd'the Maakey T\9e .. ' " :Tho Punl.e , , lo lhe Hall, lhe lme now long gone. lots of Charles Dickens with many of bringing back f,oreign servants to them first editions, in fact books on work at Errwood. As previously gave f100 towards the cost of St. every subject. Travel books too were mentioned in an earlier chapter, Annes Church at Buxton. On the a great highlight of the library the the Grimshawe family loved parties 9th February it is recorded Mr & Nile, Africa, 'How I found and to entertain their guests, many Mrs Grimshawe subscribed S500 Livingstone', 'Round the World', of them titled. The following report towards the cost of a new Church at 'Cook's Voyages' and many more. from a local newspapeq dated 6th Then 4th August September 1873, included a treat to Stockport. on the In 1870 Samuel Grimshawe became their tenants:- 'Festival at Errwood 1860, the lapng of the foundation the owner of the yacht 'Mariquita', Hall. On Wednesday the coming of stone of St. Annes Church, Buxton, an ocean sailing ship, perhaps he age of the daughters of S. by Genevieve Grimshawe when had developed a thirst for travel, or Grimshawe, Esq., of Err-wood Hall, seven years old. The health of maybe he wished broaden his to was celebrated by giving a rreat to Samuel Grimshawe and his family horizons. There is litde doubt this was proposed during the dinner all their tenants and others. Prizes must have pleased his teenage were offered for the different that followed the ceremony, which daughters, who would have been games, such as donkey race, hurdle was at Errwood Hall. At this time eighteen and nineteen years old by the Catholic Church was hard race, foot race and sack race. Also a this time. chase, the become the pressed for funds to maintain its pig pig to They had already travelled person lucky services to a growing congregation, property of the previously to France as Samuel and enough to catch it. After the sports and the support of an eminent brother in law, Upton Gaskill a sumptuous spread was laid olrt in County Magistrate, with the wealth John had business interests in coal a marquee on the ground. Dancing and position of Samuel Grimshawe, mining there, near Paris, indeed was the principal attraction for the was no doubt most welcome. Genevieve Grimshawe was born rest of the evening.' This was a The young Crimshawe daughters there. So they were not strangers to period on the estate, when they had would have had a good education, overseas travel. In fact during 1871 shooting parties in the season, with for apart from the excellent they were on board the Mariquita, many of them titled guests of the governess, they were surrounded at with CaptainJohn Butler sailing on Grimshawes, so many guests that THE GOYT VALLEY AU'ITVA JAOC UHI
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7-f,-there seem.s little doubt that I Su-uel Dominics conversion to Catholicism was influenced from his Oxford days, when Newman, Manning and others were leading 'Tractarian' Movement there. the The priuateaCatholit Chape!, i.nside Errutoad, Halt, !.omtod.in the upqer storE of the wrthern. end,- Some of them became personal friends of Samuel and indeed are mentioned in his will. As stated in a There follows a list of eminent Manning, Cardinal Henry Edward later codical to the will in the event clergymen and the priests who (1808-92). Fellow of Merton of his death, without immediate served the St. Mary's ChaPel at College, Oxford, 1832. Anglican heirs, all his estates were to be Errwood HaIl. Minister 1833. Rector of a Sussex parish until 1850. Archdeacon of bequeathed to the Bishops of HenrY and their Newman, Cardinal John Chicester 1841. Convert to Shrewsbury and Salford (1801-90). Eminent Theologian successors in office. Catholicism 1851 and Ordained and Founder of the Oxford The clergymen mentioned in Priest. Appointed second Movement. Fellow of Oriel College, Archbishop of Westminster 1865. Samuel Dominic Grimshawe's wiil St. Oxford. Anglican Vicar of Cardinal 1875. were ail of great eminence and Mary's, Oxford 1828. Convert to importance in the Roman Catholic Catholicism and Ordained Priest Vaughan, Herbert, Cardinal (1832- hierarchy and contempories at 1848. Founded the Birmingham 1903). Bishop of Salford lB72-92. Oxford. Oratory 1848, which remained his Third Archbishop of Westminster 1892-1903. Samuel did not convert until 1851 base of operation (with the after his father had died as he exception of a period as Rector of Brown, James (1812-81). 1st R.C. would not have wished to upset the new Catholic UniversitY of Bishop of Shrewsbury 1851-81. him, his father being staunch Dublin, 185+8) till his death in Noted for his energy and zeal in the Church of England. 1890. 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Gosselin, Helier Robert HadsleY, died 3Ist March 1924. Gosselin, Mary Ambrose Louisa, died 23rd February 1930. Grimshawe, Arthur, died in infancY. Grimshawe, Jessie Mary Magdalen, died 6th December 1893. Grimshawe, Samuel Dominic, died 20th April 1883. Niorthe, Irma, died 19th December 1882, atErrwood, aged2T,born 7th July 1855 at Bayonne, France. Preston, Anne Genevieve Marie, died 26thJanuary 1929. Preston, Capt, the Hon. Edward Francis, died lst March 1901. Xr;a;,hinE to:,tAa nent *t'::fki reslinS'Pilab; 65.'X4qi'f'Ga-isclina,nd he1 lzu9,birnU, There are at least three unmarked ',1i4 graves. Over the years, there were many services given by the resident priest, some of them attended bY the Bishop of Shrewsbury. From this hill top is the most remarkable panorama of country the moors that climb over towards Buxton, three glorious valleYs, and the swift flowing brook through the wooded splendour of Errwood to join the Goyt, far below. There is something primitive and wild though ever beautiful that haunts this remote outpost. In SPring daffodils sprout among the rough grass and dance in the chill breeze, there to remind us of another miracle of it season and the glorious fWary (hi.*uhatqe.t? th,e Braddook :A Poitra,.rd, f.raru W"e' 7ro* fu'mt$. all. THE GOYT VALLET ATTTVA JAOI) ?HI
'15 'ap1j1l'!q 6puwt '4zta1q a',ua.tSfuE,:auw6 sq(esof Shrine. Just above the picture of St. the inscription along with the date Joseph is a smali marble siab with 1889. Miss Dolores, it is said of the carved inscription, 'Munca se le Spanish noble birth, 1\ras a Invoca evano a SanJose prueba de governess and companion to Mrs gratitud' (No one asks in vain of St. Jessie Grimshawe and it was on Sit. h's a token ofgratitude). Fresh Jose Joseph, Dolores instigation that the Shrine flowers are placed on the altar at was built here. Doiores could often regular intervals, though by whom Shrine the no one knows. be seen riding her horse to Shrine as this was one of irer The initiais DE de Y, are those of favourite places, a tranquil place Dolores, Sister Dolores, underneath rn'here she could rest and pral'. tTth. Shrine is situatt'd to the tear " 3l*sset! are tlle asciftl, fcr rtley shall tiliai* I of the Hall. some lhree quarters of a mile from the ruins of Castedge Of your CharitY" PraY for the Soul Farm. Those who make the trek up the steep winding track do not go OF unrewarded, for the Shrine is nble. €bxrxrb : |$r*sian glimpsed quite suddenly, hiding^ ( Latc Calfain gtlL Lz*ce*). few almost secretly among a Wha dePartod thia ti{e weather worn pine trees. A small illARCH rst, rgor' round stone building with a conical ON FR!DAY, stone roof, and a strong oak dooq Fortided vith all tte Rites af tbe Chutch' standing here quite alone to all the 'm. $. s. eler.nents. Perhaps sheltered a little flcare;l Jcsus, teackr me to be gencrous ; by the rough pasture of Foxlow leach tre t6 icve Thee as Thou rieierygst ; to Edse and the pine forest reaching give, *nd not to count the costs i to fight, ard up to Fym ci'iair. Here in the not to heed the waurds; ta toii, ard not to serrk reward, save to fec) that I do Thy Inost peaceful seciusion, the rvaiker may Holy Will, my God and mY Ali- pray among the freedom of the Iiealt of lave rrercy on him. surrounding hills. \Ahen the oak Slv€et !mus, St. ECsird, Pra.v lor hrm' door is opened, direct.ly in view is St. Fraocis, PraY for him. the small aitar with St. Joseph Suesull C0RUA. pictured holding Jesus as a baby. The coloured glazed tiles which Burrs & Oat*, Ltd,. London, W, origirrated [r om Spain. were sel here at Errwood in a wooden frame Souunir of (.tmnuniatt nnd Funtal Noliep before being assembled in the THE GOYT VAI,I-EY 4.tr'I'IVA IAOC 3H-
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men were killed. Their names were, JJ / Joseph Hill, aged 32, George Raven, aged 26, and Percy Southern, aged 18. Joseph Hill was killed instantly tT'h. Cunpowder Mill ceased and Raven and Southern died later -l- production in 1920 and rhe of their injuries in Buxton Hospital. ruins are in a watery grave beneath The inquest heard from an oflicial Fernilee reservoir, towards the dam that a possible piece of grit, or wall end. In times of drought some metallic object had caused the blast. of the ruins can tre glimpsed, as in its dry the works were quite substantial. The works were started by Thomas Williamson to serve mines and quarries in the area. Before this, mines in the area had to import their gunpowder for blasting by rail from other parts, and the cost was becoming prohibitive. Though the actual date is unknown, the land for the 'Powder Mill', as local people knew it, was acquired from Francis Jodrell Esq., in about 1800. Over the years it provided work for many people in the locality, but the mill was the scene of frequent accidents, although the dangers of working with gunpowder were well appreciated. A series of 'Firq, fi.ghiers' of the. Cunp owder \Vorks. THE GOYT VALLEY AS'ITYA JAOS f,HI tlgg:gL'y4:4a,p 'lq.' aEi iila}t"iasug)i66l}i1t91qo.;i7i11,,tr \apnol al# to ilaqpil
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