| CHAP. I.- IN PRE-HISTORIC TIMES - WHEN MEN LIVED IN CAVES.
Discoveries in Hartle Dale Caves - Stone Circles Explored - Deposits
of the Flood found in a Lead Mine - Ancient Barrows
Explored - Grey Ditch, a Monnment of the First Century | 1 |
| CHAP. II.- THE ROMAN OCCUPATION OF BRADWELL.
The Roman Road, Batham Gate - Discoveries at the Roman Station
Anavio - Roman Pig of Lead - Ancient Baking Ovens - The Battle
of Edwin Tree | 4 |
| CHAP. III.- IN THE TIMES OF THE FORESTERS.
Earliest Foresters and First Settlers - Breaking the Bad Old Laws
- Those who first Enclosed the Land - The First Houses and who
built them - At the old Court Leet | 6 |
| CHAP. IV.- WHEN THE FOREST WAS CLEARING.
Landowners at Loggerheads | 8 |
| CHAP. V.- OLD CHARTERS FOR FIVE HUNDRED YEARS.
Landowners and Inhabitants in the Middle Ages and after -
Seventeenth Century Residents - When Voting was open | 10 |
| CHAP. VI.- WHEN KNIGHTS WERE BOLD.
Curious Tenure of Brough Mill - Hazlebadge Hall and the Vernon | 14 |
| CHAP. VII.- IN THE OLD FIGHTING DAYS.
Petitions for Pensions - When Militia Service was Compulsory -
- Drawing Lots in Church - When the Miners Rebelled | 16 |
| CHAP. VIII.- BRADWELL'S RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS.
The earliest Nonconformists - Chapel of the Apostle of the Peak -
First Nonconformist Chapel wrecked - An Eccentric Parson | 19 |
| CHAP. IX.- METHODISM'S EARLY STRUGGLES.
John Wesley and his Pioneers - Some Curious Items - Rise and Progress
of Primitive Methodism - The Baptists - Dipping in the Holmes | 22 |
| CHAP. X.- EARLY CHURCHWARDENS.
How St. Barnabas' Church was built - Educational History - First
Bradwell Schools - School Board History | 26 |
| CHAP. XI.- IN THE PARISH WORKHOUSE DAYS.
How the Poor Existed - Overseers' Old Records | 30 |
| CHAP. XII.- INDUSTRIES OF THE PAST.
Lead Mining Vicissitudes - Miners' Liberties and Customs - A Pre-
carious Occupation - Calamine - Sulphur and Petroleum - Barytus -
Fluor Spar - Lead Smelting - White Lead making | 33 |
| CHAP. XIII.- SOME TRAGEDIES OF THE LEAD MINES.
Rescued from a Living Tomb - The Magpie Mine Tragedy - Weaving
- Cotton Spinning - The Hat Trade - Opticians - Lime Burning | 39 |
| CHAP. XIV.- SOME ANCIENT CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS.
Funeral Customs - “Cucking” at Easter - Christmas Eve Mischief -
An Old Wedding Custom - The “Lumb Boggart” - The Lady on
Horseback - Well Dressing and Garland Day - Bull Baiting | 43 |
| CHAP. XV.- FAMILIES OF THE PAST.
Creswell - Trickett - Greaves - Padley - Wagstaffe - Worsley - Oliver -
Millward - Pearson - Pickford - The Dudden or Goodwin Family - An
Interesting Romance - The Parish Clerk's Recollections | 46 |
| CHAP. XVI.- BRADWELL'S BENEFACTORS.
Outram's Charity - Thomas Middleton - An old Weaver's Bequest -
- Thomas Hallam's Charity - A Friend to Poor Children - Mary
Hall's Charity - Built a School House for Poor Children - Endowed
and Buried in the Old Chapel - Samuel Fox - Bradwell Lad's
Distinguished Career - A World-wide Celebrity - Benefactor and
Benefactress | 50 |
| CHAP. XVII.- ANCIENT FAMILIES AND NOTABLE PEOPLE.
Distinguished Sons and Daughters - Jacob Morton - Joseph Hibbs -
John Hallam - George Birley - John Morton - Ealph Benjamin Somer-
set - George Middleton - Robert Middleton - Joseph Middleton - Adam
Morton - Edward Townson Churton - Jonn Child Becking - John
Edwy Bradwell - Adam Hill Cooper, a witty rhymester - Poems:
“My Little Son” - “Man” - “The Royal Wedding” - “The Free
Rangers” - “A Journey to Eyam and Back” - “To His Indigent
Cobbler” - “Shank Steaks” - “To an Abstainer from Drink
but an Inveterate Smoker” - “The Bradwell Convert” - Samuel
Cooper - George Bird - Horace E. Middleton - Thomas Fanshaw
Middleton, first Bishop of Calcutta | 54 |
| CHAP. XVIII.- FAMOUS SOLDIERS.
Thomas Morton - Charles Castle, Barnsley Family - William
Bocking - Benjamin Barber - Captain Benjamin Barber - John Barber -
Sir John Winfield Bonser - Family of Bradwell - John Bradwell -
Henry Bradwell - Darnley and others - Family of Marshall -
Middleton - Morton - Somerset | 63 |
| CHAP. XIX.- SOME REMARKABLE CHARACTERS.
Left his Bride to follow the Hounds - An Eccentric Worthy - Done
as many as had ever done him - Strange Character's Money Buys
Church Clock - Money all over the House - Putting the “Axins” in -
Little Martin Middleton, the Duke's Favourite | 69 |
| CHAP. XX.- SOME REMARKABLE ENTRIES.
Curious Epitaphs and Gretna Green Weddings - Body Snatching -
Some Curious Epitaphs of Bradwell Folk - Gretna Green Weddings | 71 |
| CHAP. XXI.- EIGHTY ODD YEARS AGO.
Leading Inhabitants in 1829 - When the Rivet was Forded - A
Community of Eighty Years ago - A Musical Community - When a Cattle
Fair was held - The Wakes | 75 |
| CHAP. XXII.- LONGEVITY AND TRAGICAL DEATHS.
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| CHAP. XXIII.- A TRAGIC VISITATION OF FORTY YEARS AGO.
Seventy Persons mysteriously cut off | 80 |
| CHAP. XXIV.- SOME PLACES OF INTEREST.
Robin Hood's Cross - The Batham Gate and Roman Camp - The
Bagshawe or Crystallized Cavern - Bradwell Dale - Medicinal Waters
of the Bath - The Echo | 81 |
| CHAP. XXV.- FAMOUS SOLDIER IN THIRTY-SIX BATTLES.
Career of Thomas Morton - Through the Afghan War - In the
Crimean War and Indian Mutiny - Marked for Promotion | 85 |
| CHAP. XXVI.- THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO AT HAZLEBADGE HALL.
Family Litigation of the Vernons | 92 |
| CHAP. XXVII.- HOW PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY ROSE IN THE PEAK.
The Ejected Clergymen of 1662 - Queen Parsons in Olden Times -
Bradwell Men Fight in Church - The Nonconforming Parsons - Bakewell,
Hope, Castleton, Edale, Tideswell, Hathersage, Eyam, The
Apostle of the Peak - Bradwell Churchwardens | 95 |
| CHAP. XXVIII.- WESLEYANISM'S ESTABLISHMENT IN BRADWELL CIRCUIT.
Early Local Preachers, Tideswell Methodists Horse-whipped - First
Chapel in a Farm House - Bradwell Preachers Mobbed at Castleton
- Hope Vicar's Wife at Wesleyan Class Meetings - Prayer Meetings
in the Snake Inn - A Bamford Centenarian Methodist - Persecuted
at Hathersage - Pelting the Methodists at Eyam - A Century's
Ministers | 101 |
| CHAP. XXIX.- EARLY PRIMITIVE METHODISM.
The Bradwell Pioneers - Travelling Preachers on Fourteen Shillings
a week - John Verity the Stonemason Preacher - Female Preachers
- Refractory Members - Some Comical Preachers - The First Pioneers
- Complete List of Ministers | 105 |
| CHAP. XXX.- FAMOUS VISITORS OF A CENTURY AGO.
Author's Amusing Experience - Historian on Early Marriages -
“Sterling Worth and Integrity” - James Montgomery's Equestrian
Feat - Hope Vicar's Wife at Wesleyan Class Meetings | 109 |
| CHAP. XXXI.- FRIENDLY SOCIETIES OF THE PAST AND PRESENT.
Some Curious Records - “Charitable and Brotherly” - Those Pints
of Ale - Bridling the Tongue - Football Unlawful - The Whitsuntide
Jollification - The United Society Disunited - Nutting Forbidden -
Beer and the Bible - Oddfellows | 110 |
| CHAP. XXXII.- SOME TRAGIC DEATHS - A REMARKABLE CHRONOLOGY.
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| CHAP. XXXIII.- SOME MEMORABLE SNOWSTORMS.
The Lost Lad - Starved to Death on Winhill - Perished on Sir
William - Starved to Death on Eyam Moor - Perished in the Snow
on Tideswell Moor - A Hathersage Hero - Houses Buried in
Snowstorms - Buried by an avalanche - Skeltons Found on the Moors -
Edale People washed away in Floods - Present Day Freeholders | 120 |
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