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• New website launched

  

  New website for the heritage village of Stoney Middleton following Heritage Lottery Grant. Stoney Middleton Heritage Group has this week announced the launch of its new heritage website. The site has been specifically designed for the group to provide an easy, clear usable platform to showcase its growing archive of information, pictures, documents, and audio… Learn more

• Accounts to December 2014

  

  SMHCCG have produced accounts for the year ended December 2014 which can be viewed in full from the link below. Total spend to date was £5,580 which excludes VAT as this is reclaimable. The total includes all expenditure for the village heritage trail boards which will be erected shortly and the new website. We are very pleased to of achieved so… Learn more

• Boot Making

  

  Boot making in Stoney Middleton was first recorded in 1797 at Pine View, a small cottage off High Street. By the turn of the last century (1900) the tradition of boot making had expanded into family concerns, and became a major industry for the village. The Stoney Middleton factories only produced mens heavy duty working boots including boots for… Learn more

• Cave maps of Stoney Middleton Dale

  

  The caving systems in Stoney Middleton Dale are some of the most extensive in Derbyshire. This section contains various maps showing  the various routes. Each one can be downloaded by clicking on its link. The following links will open a PDF of maps showing the caving systems of Stoney Middleton Dale Drainage of the Stoney Middleton area… Learn more

• Lois Bekeris

  

  Lois Bekeris (nee Hall) is a lifelong resident of Stoney Middleton, born in one of the Cottages on High Street, opposite the school, home to the first boot factory in the village. Lois married Janis Bekeris, a Latvian man who was housed in the ex prisoner of war camp in the village as a displaced person… Learn more

• The Lords Cupola

  

  This picture is of the Lords Cupola. It stood on the site of the offices currently occupied by Hargreaves Roadstone Ltd in Stoney Middleton Dale. It is close to The Rock Mill Business Park site on the west side of the village heading towards Tideswell. The tall chimney provided the draft to create a high temperature in… Learn more

• Lime Burning

  

  This picture is taken in Stoney Middleton Dale in the direction of Tideswell. The distinctive form of Castle Rock can be seen clearly in the centre of the picture. Castle Rock is opposite Rock mill Business Park which is the last building on the left when leaving the village. It clearly shows a large lime burning kiln roughly on the… Learn more

• Charabanc – day out

  

  This picture shows a charabanc, a large old fashioned type bus outside the Lovers Leap Inn, on The Dale where Arthur Clarkson was the landlord at the time. They were mostly used by groups for visiting the coast, the races or other places of interest, although on this occasion it looks like a wedding party as one of the gentlemen… Learn more

• Middleton Lane

  

  The picture is taken as you approach the village from Middleton Lane which is beyond the High Street. The view is easily recognisable and little changed except for the tarmaced road and the cows which in the picture are in the road coming uphill. Learn more

• Former cottages on The Avenue

  

  The cottages shown here have long since gone. They were just after the Moon Inn on the same side but have now been demolished, perhaps to facilitate widening the road. It would today be unimaginable to have the doorway directly onto the street as in the picture. Learn more

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