Good afternoon My Lady and also to you Mrs C,
It’s very nice to have the two of you together.
The story of the flooding of the Goyt Valley brings together several topics that have been on here before:
There are, of course, the various construction projects which have been well covered and discussed on this thread.
But contained within it was also the loss of farms which have been highlighted by Shallcross and Gail.
There has been a separate thread about the suspension bridge and also two about the Chilworth Powder Mill that was purchased by the Water Board prior to construction.
Then there has been a very large thread on Errwood Hall which also, needlessly, fell foul of the Water Board and was quickly demolished.
By the way you didn’t happen to live there did you Lady M?
When Errwood Reservoir was constructed in the late 1960’s other buildings of note were also lost; particularly the hamlet of Goyt’s Bridge.
There were literally hundreds if not thousands of postcards produced of Goyt’s Bridge and the famous Stepping Stones.
George produced some photos a couple of years ago of the filling of Errwood and we need to have them reproduced on this thread.
I have put the traditional photos of Goyt’s Bridge and the Stepping Stones somewhere on the forum and again they need reproducing here.
I’ll have a word with Well Known Norm about doing this.
I also have some photos of Goyt’s Bridge that have not been on here and have not been used as postcards.
I shall put these on here later on.
In the meantime, all the best to you two ladies.
I hope you are both keeping well.
R. S-S