Castleton

And that largest cave entrance is 100 metres long, 20 metres high and 35 metres wide.

The entrance was originally used from 1642 all the way up until 1880 by rope makers who were making rope for the lead mining industry around Castleton.

Rope making ended with the onset of the First World War, but Peak Cavern still contains the remains of a rope maker's village within it.

That's cool.

More specifically,

Castleton.

I came here with my family once, when I was five.

And again with Amber and Ryan about a year and a half ago.

His father, a hairdresser and subsequently an auctioneer, was a member of a respectable family in the vicinity of Rochdale, Lancashire.

His mother, whose maiden name was Hall, was the descendant of an ancient and highly respectable family for centuries located at the villages of Hope and Bradwell near Castleton in the Peak of Derbyshire.

The subject of this memoir was the youngest of thirteen children and was, unfortunately, deprived of both his parents when he was under six years of age.

A maiden aunt, the sister of his mother, who supplied the place of his deceased parents, nobly struggled by persevering industry in fustian cutting to keep him from want until he attained his ninth year.

He nevertheless is conscious that these poems contain many glaring faults, and that the critic will find subjects for the full exercise of his vocation, should he deem them worthy of his censure, or even of his notice.

they are however with all their imperfections on their heads the sincere aspirations of a heart overflowing with an enthusiastic love of liberty imbued with a devout admiration of the works of nature and an ardent adoration of nature's god under the inspiration of those glorious feelings have they been written in giving them to the world in a collected form the author takes this opportunity of thanking the various editors of periodical literature who have inserted them as detached pieces and also those kind friends who have given him their advice in bringing them through the press he would also inform the reader that they have been written more to gratify an innate love of poesy and of the subjects on which he treats than for publication hence their want of polish and the many errors that they may be found to contain but should the sentiments expressed in them meet with a response from the humblest disciple of truth and freedom the object of the author will be accomplished memoir benjamin stott the author of the following poems was born at manchester on the twenty fourth of november eighteen thirteen his father a hairdresser and subsequently an auctioneer was a member of a respectable family in the vicinity of rochdale lancashire His mother, whose maiden name was Hall, was the descendant of an ancient and highly respectable family, for centuries located at the villages of Hope and Bradwell, near Castleton, in the peak of Derbyshire.

The subject of this memoir was the youngest of thirteen children, and was, unfortunately, deprived of both his parents when he was under six years of age.

a maiden aunt the sister of his mother who supplied the place of his deceased parents nobly struggled by persevering industry in fustian cutting to keep him from want until he attained his ninth year at this period he was admitted through the exertions of the friends of his late father into chetham's hospital commonly called the manchester college previously to this he had however at the national free school granby row manchester received the simple rudiments of education namely being taught to read and to write these acquirements were of great advantage to him in gaining admission into the hospital during his stay at this excellent but much abused institution from the year eighteen twenty two to eighteen twenty seven he made little progress in learning from the education of the boys being so shamefully neglected on leaving the college he was apprenticed to a bookbinder to which business he served seven years and has since worked at it as a journeyman he was never out of his native town of manchester except on one occasion when the business of a society to which he belongs led him to the isle of man it may be truly said of him that he has had few opportunities of looking on the sublime and varied face of nature save through an atmosphere polluted with smoke belched from a thousand chimneys in this large manufacturing district He has, however, to counteract this disadvantage, had an opportunity from the business that he follows of cultivating his ardent love of literature.