Here i hope to record a few of the interesting snippets i have come across whilst researching for other things.
 

• The Sett Valley was known as Goitre Valley, because of the high prevalence of Goitre, a condition also known as Derbyshire neck. The condition caused a swelling of the thyroid gland in the neck, sometimes the neck would swell to extreme size. Women would often wear ribbon to disguise their necks. A cure was not found until around the time of the First World War, when doctors realised that the swelling was caused by a lack of Iodine in the diet.

•  1812 New Mills Old Prize Band was formed in 1812, by Timothy Beard, Choirmaster of the Brookbottom Methodist Chapel. Generations of the Beard family were prominent figures at New Mills Old Prize Band for over a century. 
   
• New Mills Old Prize Band is acknowledged as the worlds oldest Brass Band
   
• During the first World War the members of the band joined the Sherwood Forester and served in France as the Regimental Band. 
   
• Sometime before 1900 Band Leader Stephen Beard composed a tune called "Ransom". It may have been a rearrangment of the methodist hymn 'Thou Shepherd of Israel, and Mine', by Charles Wesley. The popular tune was known and loved throughout the district and played on request at many gatherings. It became in many ways the anthem of the town. It is referred to as a lovely broad flowing melody that many of the towns people had known since childhood. " The opening hymn was traditional: Thou Shepherd and Israel and mine..... Charles Wesley's fervid, artfully artless verses were sung to a tune - an excellent tune called "Ransom" - composed two or three generations ago by an organist belonging to an old local family. It had a broad, flowing melody, and everybody in the crowded chapel had known it since childhood. They sang it now with a sureness of rhythm, with a pressure of enthusiasm that made the nerves tingle, that provided, in a volume of exultant sound, a few moments of unique experience."  from A Derbyshire Childhood 1897-1913, by James Philip Bowden.
   

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• Falco chrysaetos, Golden Eagle – Dark brown with ferruginous variatond; bill deep blue; cere and feet yellow; legs clothed down to the toes with yellow ferruginous feathers, tail blackish, with grey undulations at the base. Length three feet;extent of wings seven feet four inches; weight twelve pounds. The Golden Eagle is the largest and most majestic of all the falcon tribe. Its strength is such, that it can with ease carry a lamb, and several instances are recorded of its carrying off children. Mr Willoughby says, that in the year 1668, an eagles nest was found in the Woodlands, near the river Derwent, in the Peak of Derbyshire. He describes the nest as being composed of large sticks, one end resting on the edge of a rock, the other on two birch trees, and covered with several layers of rushes and heath.
  In this nest lay one young one and an addled egg, and by them a lamb, a hare, and three heath poults. The nest was about two yards square, and unlike the nests of other birds, quite flat. The young eagle was black, of the shape of a Goshawk, and almost the weight of a goose, rough footed, or feathered down to the foot, having a white ring about the tail.
  About the year 1720, one was taken up in the parish of Glossop, upon the high mountain called Kinder-scout. This was found in a feeble state, said to be owing to the inclemency of the weather, as it afterward recovered, and was carried about the country, and shown as a natural curiosity. About seventy years ago, an eagle was seen in Hardwick Park. A full grown golden eagle was shot between Cromford and Lea wood, about six years ago (1825), which answers in every respect the description given by Pennant and others. This noble bird was presented to Peter Arkwright, esq. Of Rock House, Cromford, who had it finely preserved
  

• Kinder Printworks closed in October 1901.