Fancy dress chimney sweeps at Furness Vale fete in June 1966. Photo Buxton Advertiser Archiveplaceholder image
Fancy dress chimney sweeps at Furness Vale fete in June 1966. Photo Buxton Advertiser Archive

Archive photos of life in the High Peak 60 years ago

1966 – the year England won the world cup, the last ever Beatles concert but was life like in the High Peak six decades ago?

Take a walk down memory lane and relive the past with these great black and white pictures showing the busy borough as it was then.

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