Glossop Victorian Architectural Heritage

The Glossop VAH Project

Glossop VAH Project

Glossop VAH

Railway Yard	B&M & Railway Station Railway Station	Howard Street
Pick a Card 8 - 10 Norfolk Street	Vacant 12 Norfolk Street	The Tan Bar 14 Norfolk Street

Summary
Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk built the spur line from Dinting Viaduct to Howard Town over his own land at his own expense. He then sold it to the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway for £15,244 10s 10d. The station was formaly opened on 30 June 1845, attended by some of the SA&MR Directors and passenger traffic began immediately afterward. The station buildings were constructed to the designs of John Grey Weightman.

1845	9 June 1845 - Opened as Glossop for goods only 30 June 1845 - Opened for all traffic

1850	Post Office Directory Brain Henry William, station master of Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire railway Siddall George, manager of goods departmnt. Railway station

1910	Glossop railway station with the sidings to the left, may be 1910s judging by the 4-wheeled railway carriages?

1912	Kelly’s Directory 1912 Smith W. H. & Son, booksellers & news agents, Railway station

1922	10 July 1922 - Renamed Glossop Central

1925	Kelly’s Directory Wyman & Sons Limited, news agents, Railway station

1926	Midland Counties of England Trades Directory of 1926-27 Wyman & Sons Ltd., Newsagent, Railway Station

1932	Kelly’s Directory 1932 Wyman & Sons Ltd. news agts. Railway station, Norfolk st

1941	Kelly’s Directory L. & N.E. Railway (E. Manning, station master). T N 16

1941	There have been two occasions when trains have gone through the buffers at Glossop station, one in 1949 and this one in 1941. Image from a digital collection by Bert Baker.

1954	Railway poster from 1954 introducing the new electrified line between Manchester Piccadilly and Glossop / Hadfield.

1958

English Heritage Grade II Listed Building
Railway station and former engine sheds, the latter now occupied by retail store. 1847, converted c1985. For the 13th Duke of Norfolk who brought the Sheffield and Manchester Railway line from Dinting to Glossop. Designed by ME Hadfield and TG Weightman. Millstone grit ashlar to end walls, coursed rubble to sides. Welsh slate and synthetic tile roofs.
PLAN: 4 parallel ranges, pair to left former engine sheds linked to station and offices range by curtain wall with entrance.
EXTERIOR: single storey. Norfolk Street front asymmetrical. Former sheds have pedimented gables with coping, rusticated and vermiculated quoins to left and projecting single storey block with hipped roof, 5 blind windows and off-centre doorway. To right large C20 access doorway. Main, central entrance to station has banded and vermiculated rustication, round headed archway surmounted by entablature supporting large carved lion statant with date in Roman numerals. Plain curtain wall links with office which has paired round headed doorways in recessed panel surrounds. Station block has deeply overhanging eaves with rusticated and vermiculated quoins, 2 glazing bar sashes in single moulded ashlar surround. Left return has 11-window range divided by pilasters, with round headed windows, some bays broken through in C20. Right return has 7-window range with overhanging eaves sill band and cornice. Third window bay gabled. Windows have margin light glazing.
INTERIOR: station has cast-iron columns and wooden canopy with pierced decoration.
© English Heritage 1958.
The National Heritage List Text Entries contained in this material were obtained on 31/12/2013. The most publicly available up to date National Heritage List Text Entries can be obtained from www.english-heritage.org.uk.

1960	Rooftops seen from Glossop railway station, the area is now the Coop car park. Photograph courtesy of Cliff Hales.

1960	Glossop (Central) railway station, sometime between 1954 (looks like as overhead power cables) and 1974 when the station reverted back to just Glossop.

1967	Glossop station October 1983, photo taken by Geoffrey Skelsey and reproduced under Wikimedia Creative Commons Licence. In the distance to the left is Glossop Conservative Club.

1970	Traction engine and carousel outside the train station in the 1970s. Photograph courtesy of Cliff Hales.

1974	6 May 1974 - Renamed Glossop

1978	Glossop Official Guide Railway Station - Glossop Central, Norfolk Street. Tel.: 2285 Regular daily train service to Manchester - journey time approximately 29 minutes.

1983	Glossop station October 1983, photo taken by Albert Bridge and reproduced under Wikimedia Creative Commons Licence. In the distance to the right is Glossop Conservative Club.

1985

Glossop station 1985, photo taken by Rcsprinter123 and reproduced under Wikimedia Creative Commons Licence. The trees have been cleared from the overgrown platform on the left, which would become the one and only main platform. The platform on the right closing and becoming an extension to the car park.

2013	The Howard Lion standing proud above the old entrance to Glossop railway station over the Roman numeral date A.D. MDCCCXLVII (1847). Photo taken by Mike Tomlinson.

2014	Photo taken in 2014 by Glossop VAH.

2018	B&M discount store opened it’s doors on Saturday 27 October 2018, after the Coop had moved out several months earlier.