Talk:Whaley Bridge
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- Perhaps someone who really knows local history could add to this, and anyone with nice pictures could add them.
[edit] Whaley Hall recent edits
I don't think they are specifically a gay community, they do have "relics" (I saw this in the local paper, the "Review"), probably not St Nic's pants(!) and they do have some bells. Relics and Bells were both mentioned in the bit above we deleted before. I think I'll just delete this again?Billlion (talk) 20:25, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Stories
I just deleted the following that are a claimed to be local legends. They were not sourced and I doubt they are suitable encylopedic if they were?
- On the 16th of July in 1823 there was a traveller named William Wood walking back from Manchester to Eyam via Whaley Bridge after selling some of his cloth. He was travelling over Buxton Old Road - locally known as 'Disley tops' - and he was robbed for his £60 by bill of exchange and £10 in notes and murdered. William Wood was 32 years of age and left a widow and three children. The murder weapon was a large stone which smashed his skull into two. When Wood's body was found it was observed that there was a considerable hole in the ground where his skull had landed. It is said that the hole remains in the ground and no plants are able to grow in it. A local resident tells his account of the story:
"In 1859, thirty-six years after the murder, a local resident filled the hole with stones on several occasions, but each time they were found to be missing when he later visited the site. He tried filling the hole in with soil, tufts of grass, anything that looked like it might serve the purpose, but to no avail. The hole was always found to be empty when he next visited it.
- "He reported strange happenings in the near vicinity of the hole. These included the sound of a large bird's flapping wings, even when there was no bird to be seen. Once he found a jacket draped over a wall near the hole, but it disappeared into thin air before he could touch it.
- "It is said that since that time many people have tried to cover the hole, but no-one has yet succeeded in doing so. Even Nature refuses to cast her green fingers over the troubled spot."
- As this occurance was so unusual there was a stone erected in memory of William Wood, it reads: WILLIAM WOOD, Eyam Derbyshire, Here MURDERED, July 16th, A.D. 1823, Prepare to meet Thy God. The murderers of William Wood were found, one, Charles Taylor was arrested on July 18th when he tried to pass the bill of exchange. He confessed the crime and named the other two murderers as Dale and Platt, Dale was arrested and executed on 21st April 1824. Platt was never caught. Charles Taylor attempted suicide but failed, in his attempt he injured himself so badly that he died later.
Billlion (talk) 09:56, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
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- The Murder Stone does of course exist, and is mentioned in several guide books. I am more inclined to include it than not, but agree that perhaps the length of the section about it was disproportionate and needs referencing. It would seem that http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Eyam/WmWood1791.html was the source.
WhaleyTim (talk) 10:37, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Prehistory
I have added a small paragraph on local prehistory - Some of the references are possibly a little 'flakey', but I hope to improve these later. Sorry about the multiple edits to get the links to format properly. WhaleyTim (talk) 18:46, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
