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A Monument at Risk In 2012, 730 people crowded into two “Melandra Days”, held by the Archaeological Society (GLAS). The aim was to drum up

An Italian Job Architects’ pitches to their clients often border on fantasy, but Matthew Ellison Hadfield did actually deliver most of his 1837 proposal to

The Market Act This series could just as well be entitled “The Ellisons’ Legacy.” For 122 years from 1797, when Matthew Ellison was appointed as

Tongues, Trotters and Tripe In Glossop in 1845, shopping wasn’t easy for working families. What little they could afford was often hard to get, expensive

Taming The Wild High Street West Some early cotton towns were like the American frontier. People poured in looking for a better life but didn’t

Open All Hours In Victorian Glossop, excessive drinking was a major public order issue, and the police and magistrates spent much time on what the

A Clerical Error At 9 pm on Friday the 30th of August 1889, on his way back from Glossop the Reverend George Collins, Vicar of

Fair Game There was plenty of fresh meat available in the Duke’s Market Hall, but if you couldn’t afford it, or fancied something different, there

A Most Commodious Hall of Justice It’s almost certain that Matthew Ellison Hadfield originally designed the Town Hall with just one large room, but by

A Shot in The Arm Smallpox was a dreadful disease, which spread quickly in the overcrowded, insanitary conditions found in many industrial towns. It killed