Moorlands Old Times

The great Victorian artist, designer, poet, writer and socialist William Morris founder of the Arts and Crafts Movement, lived and worke...

With the New Year just hours around the corner, Bill Cawley looks towards 2012, the year of delivery. Its two years since John ...

 An event of major significance dominated the local newspapers in late February 1964. Two Leek mills were damaged by fire. The Cleme...

I was in a local school looking at a wall chart produced by pupils on the key events of the Second World War. Emphasis was rightly give...

What links a ginnel, a twitchell and a weint? Answer they are all dialect worlds for alley from Yorkshire, Nottingham and the Isle of Ma...

1981 was designated the Year of the Disabled, it was the intention of the organisers to raise the profile of people with disabilities a...

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a good wife”.  This is th...