Out in Brushes Valley in 1910

Yesterday I confessed to never having been to St Paul’s Church in Stalybridge.*

And today I have admit to never having been to Brushes Valley which is a shame.

“Lying just over a mile to the north-east of Stalybridge, this country park centres on two areas. 

Firstly, the Brushes Valley, with its four reservoirs running up into the Pennine Moors, and secondly Carrbrook, lying in the shadow of Buckton Castle a 12th/13th century stronghold. 

Linking the two areas, although outside the Country Park boundaries, is a good rights of way network, which also takes visitors into the Tame Valley, Longdendale and the Peak District.”**

Now that would have been a fine day out for the two of us back in the 1970s when we lived on Raynham Street.

So I shall be content with another of those Tuck postcards, which now just as then offers up a stunning view of the landscape.

But what makes this one that little more interesting is that we know who it was sent to and when it arrived to be sorted, moreover we know it was sold by James W Chapman of 5 Portland Place, Mottram Road, Stalybridge.

Not that a search of the records turned up much about Mr Chapman.  He was listed as a Music Tacher in 1906 at the Mottram Road address and so far that is it.

But these people from the past have a habit of popping up so I shall bide my time.

Picture; Brushes Valley,  from the series Stalybridge, produced by Tuck & Sons, courtesy of Tuck DB, http://tuckdb.org/

*Stalybridge in the 1900s, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Stalybridge%20in%20the%201900s

** Stalybridge Country Park
http://www.tameside.gov.uk/countryside/stalybridge