This booklet was a Millennium project and lists all significant dates in Glossop history put into context by a list of world events. It was written by Peggy Davies, the manager of the Heritage Centre and can be purchased from there for £2.50.
Peggy has kindly allowed me to reproduce some of the key dates on my web page. (If you purchase a copy please mention that you saw it on my site.) I have given the dates of new churches, chapels and schools since family historians often want access these records; it hopefully gives people an idea of where a baptism could have taken place in a given year.
I have included a few other events which may affect people eg emigration effected by the cotton famine. The book itself has detail of many aspects of social change eg sanitation, law etc as well as the mills and important people of the area.
The dates of operation of all the mills in the area is given in the book.
1580 Nicholas Garlick of Dinting hanged as a martyr to the Catholic faith
1629 The Free School of Glossop founded by Thomas Howard in the Nave
1640 "Top Chapel" at Charlesworth re-opened having been abandoned since the Reformation (St. Mary's Independent Chapel was its then name.)
1680 About 50 houses in Glossop plus outlying farmsteads
1700 200 houses in the whole of the manor, about 40 of which were clustered around the parish church.
1760 Joseph Hague started a school
1765 35% of workers in textiles, 28% were farm workers
1800 First Catholic church built at Glossop Hall
1804 Wesleyan Chapel built (Chapel Lane, Hadfield)
1811 Littlemoor Chapel built by the Kershaw family
1829 Padfield Wesleyan Chapel built
1834 The workhouse was built, ending the Elizabethan system of Parish Relief and beginning a Poor Law Union with a board of Guardians responsible to Poor Law Commissioners in London
1835 Whitfield Church extended on its original foundations
1839 Down tunnel built at Woodhead
1842 40 mills in Glossop employing 5 139 people
1844 Dinting railway viaduct built
1847 Up tunnel built at Woodhead
1848 Whitfield C of E school built. Glossop became a postal town.
1854 Howard St Wesleyan Reform Chapel built
1857 Glossop Burial Board bought 6 acres at Allman's Heath for a cemetery
1860 The Cotton Famine (no raw cotton due to the American Civil War) 5998 people totally unemployed, 658 on short time, only 417 still worked in the cotton trade. Soup kitchens at Littlemoor serving 500 quarts of soup an hour at 1d a quart.
1861 221 people claiming poor relief
1863 Reservoirs built at Padfield and Swineshaw to supply mills and home and to employ the unemployed cotton workers
1864 first raw cotton in 5 years arrived
1870 7605 people claiming Poor Relief
1872 Waterside C of E school opened in Hadfield
1873 St Andrew's Church built at Hadfield
1875 Holy Trinity Church Vicarage and School built mainly financed by the Wood family
1880 St Luke's School built by Mrs KA Wood
1883 Zion Methodist School opened
1884 St Mary's RC church built in memory of Francis Sumner
1886 Littlemoor Independent School opened
1887 Padfield Methodist School opened
1895 Unitarian Church built in Fitzalan Street by the Partington family and Edmund Potter of Dinting
1899 Technical School built in Talbot St by Francis, 2nd Lord Howard of Glossop
1902 Technical School became more like a Grammar School
1905 St Luke's Church built by Mrs Anne Kershaw Wood
1913 Glossop Independent School built on Chadwick St, replacing Littlemoor School. Whitfield Infant School built by Mrs AK Wood
1920 Technical School became Glossop Grammar School
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Glossop Population from census returns |
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Year |
Population |
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1801 |
3 625 |
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1811 |
4 012 |
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1821 |
6 212 |
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1831 |
9 631 |
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1841 |
14 577 |
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1851 |
19 587 |
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1861 |
21 000 |
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1871 |
20 673 |
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1881 |
19 574 |
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1891 |
22 416 |
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1901 |
21 520 |
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1911 |
21 688 |
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1921 |
29 531 |
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1931 |
19 509 |
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1941 |
estimate 23 500 |
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1951 |
18 994 |
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1961 |
17 500 |
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1971 |
24 272 |