Welcome to our website

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If you’re interested in the history of Brimington and Tapton you’ve found the right website! Here you can learn about our group and gain access to free resources about our area’s history. Use the menu to navigate to our growing resources about Brimington and Tapton’s history.

Click here to read about the history of our area.

See our latest local history blog by following the link here – Our Blog

To find out more about the images on our ’tile’ above visit our gallery page.

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Latest news

Next meeting – Thursday 22 January 2026 – 7.30pm Brimington Community Centre, High Street, Brimington, S43 1DB. A history of Trebor – Dave Gregg. Dave worked at Trebor for many years. He will be presenting this history of Trebor mainly from his own personal point-of-view. See our meetings page for further details.

Meetings programme. We’ve published our meetings programme for 2025-26. Visit our meetings page for further details.

Latest blog – Lockoford Colliery’s role in the invention of the steam gauge. This blog looks at the role George Stephenson’s Lockoford Colliery at Tapton had in promoting an important safety invention – the steam pressure gauge. Follow the link here.

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This website is paid for by one of the members of the Brimington & Tapton Local History Group, as a service to the community. If you are quoting information or using photographs from it please credit this site as the source. Please be aware that this does not imply that further copyright issues do not apply to images and information on this site. Thank you.

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Home page last updated: 2 January 2026.

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We do not and have not received any grants from National Lottery funds.