Stoney Middleton Heritage Centre Community Group

28/01/2022

The Cupola visitor centre now has a roof! 😊

12/01/2022

To the residents of Stoney Middleton.
SMHCCG have had some feedback from Bright White Heritage Consultants to let us know that they have had some very positive feedback from the questionnaire, albeit a small number.
They have asked if we could politely ask again if anybody can spare a few minutes to answer the 6 questions (literally a couple of words on each, link below in the article), they would be very grateful. Alternatively Bill Bevan, Heritage Interpreter will be at the Moon Inn tomorrow evening (13th Jan) from 6 to 8 pm where you can have a chat, ask any questions and/or fill the questionnaire out.

Residents of Stoney Middleton – we would really like to hear your views on what it’s like living in Stoney Middleton. What makes it special? Which stories do you tell visitors? We have a few questions and it’s an opportunity to get involved in the development of the new visitor centre planned ...

29/12/2021

Very simple questionnaire from Stoney Middleton heritage group, and an interesting newsletter.

Residents of Stoney Middleton – we would really like to hear your views on what it’s like living in Stoney Middleton. What makes it special? Which stories do you tell visitors? We have a few questions and it’s an opportunity to get involved in the development of the new visitor centre planned ...

30/03/2021

Another interesting image

The attached photograph kindly provided by Adrian foster provides an informative image of the railway system used to transport minerals from the mine. Sallet Hole Mine is a 19th-century fluorspar mine in the centre of Coombs Dale, which closed in 1998. In our post “Fluorspar Production” we provi...

27/03/2021

More local history, do you know more??

Teesdale LTD Fluorspar mine Stoney Middleton Derbyshire

12/02/2021

Please see below event being hosted by Eyam Museum
📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢 Save the date!

Please see link for our next online event, which will take place on Thursday 25 February 2021 at 7.30pm. This will be another joint event, including special guests, historian Rebecca Rideal and the Dr Jenner's House Museum, the former home of Edward Jenner, the birthplace of modern vaccination. We will be discussing what museums of quarantines and vaccines can contribute to our understanding of today's pandemic.
Please click here for more information and to book:

On this page, we upload our online series of monthly talks and other events

02/01/2021

HELP PLEASE! 🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘
The Stoney Middleton Heritage website has stopped working and cannot be accessed. There are no funds available to pay as all grant money has been spent on other various projects.
The website uses Wordpress, if anyone can possibly assist to fix it, or knows anyone who could, it would be greatly appreciated!

My email is [email protected] ...thanks in advance!
thanks in advance

06/07/2020

Wordpress help!!! Does anyone have any knowledge with Wordpress? The heritage website is in need of a little TLC but we have no income and are dependent on volunteers. If you know anyone who could help it would be very much appreciated.😊

17/06/2020

A local Stoney Middleton family have been very busy during lockdown… young budding Paleontologist and Petrologist Harper Renshaw, along with her Mum Jaeger and Dad Matt, have discovered some very rare fossils in the local quarries. They were found about 3 weeks ago, the first being what appears to...

22/05/2020

Its your chance to tell your story! Read this article and get writing.

Graham Armitage, author of the recent Discover Stoney Middleton ‘The History of a forgotten Village’ is working on his next offering, this time it’s all about you! He is asking for your contributions; they must either be about the village or from its residents. Fiction and non-fiction are welc...

05/05/2020

VE celebrations Stoney Middleton 1945.
Photo copyright of Tony Mason

This picture is taken outside the former Grouse Inn during the 1945 VE Day Celebration (victory in Europe WWII). The sign above the pub shows that the licence at this time was Alfred Edwin Hancock . The sign to its side advertises music, dancing and singing, upholding the opinion of village elders w...