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The Glossop Cabinet of Curiosities

Archaeology – History – Place

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Please contact me with any thoughts, recommendations, corrections, or general comments, particularly if you live in Glossop.

glossopcuriosities@gmail.com

Alternatively, follow me on Twitter – @RobertHamnett – I’m always tweeting something interesting.

 

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Welcome

This blog is intended as a whimsical exploration of the odd and often overlooked historical and archaeological aspects of Glossop town.

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Posts

  • What A Mug!
  • Ready, Sett…
  • Slate
  • Marking Time
  • A Fireplace Finds Frenzy
  • Whitfield Green Wondering
  • Gateposts
  • Torside Sherds & Walls
  • A Follow Up Bullet-in
  • Tired Pottery!
  • Glossop – A Town of, well… Towns
  • Vikings? In Simmondley? Hwaet? (Dark Age Glossop Part 1)
  • A New Year Quickie!
  • Where/When No.4 (The Melandra Meander) and More
  • Datestones – Part 2
  • The Rough Guide to Pottery Pt.10 – Black Glazed & Midland Purple Wares.
  • Updates: Cheese Town and Other Matters!
  • Pottery!
  • George Booth’s Trousers*
  • Where/When #2 (and other news)
  • A Box o’ Bits
  • Brrrrr… Glossop’s Ice Age History
  • The Rough Guide to Pottery Pt.9 – Stonewares.
  • A House, A Hive, and a Trueman
  • Friends… and Neighbours

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Archaeology Bench Marks Crosses of Glossop Dinting Domesday Book Folk Tales Graffiti Guide Stoop History Mason's Marks Mottram Nothing in particular! Oddities Placenames Postcards Pottery Pottery Guide Pubs Roads Roman Simmondley Standing Stones Stones of Glossop Towns of Glossop Waterways of Glossop Wells Where / When Whitfield Whitfield Cross Whitfield Well

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Links

Glossop Heritage Trust

Glossop & Longdendale Archaeological Society

Glossop Victorian Architectural Heritage

Marple Local History Society

Myself & Elizabeth Garner Discussing Objects

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