Editing Glossop (section)

===Modern (20th and 21st centuries)===
[[File:Glossopmap1954.png|thumb|right|Map of Glossop from 1954]]
The decline of [[Cotton-spinning machinery|cotton spinning]] has resulted in the closure of many of the town's mills. The Howard family sold the Glossop Estate in 1925 and donated large areas to the people of Glossop. Manor Park was the location of the family's [[manor house]] and gardens. The [[Great Depression|recession of 1929]] hit Glossop very hard: in 1929 the unemployment rate was 14%, and in 1931 it was 55%. In Hadfield it reached 67%. National initiatives to improve housing and employment conditions largely failed, and mills fell empty and decayed. Unemployment remained at 36% in 1938. The [[World War II|Second World War]] changed this: military stores, metals, machine tools, munitions, rubber and essential industries moved into the empty factories and left Glossop with a more diverse range of industries.

In spite of the Barlow Report<ref name="Barlow Report">Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population (the Barlow Commission),1943</ref> and government intervention, no significant employer moved into Glossop.<ref name=birch>{{cite book|last=Birch|first=A.H.|title=Small Town Politics, A Study of Political Life in Glossop|url=https://archive.org/details/smalltownpolitic0000birc|url-access=registration|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1959|pages=[https://archive.org/details/smalltownpolitic0000birc/page/8 8–38]|chapter=2}}</ref>

[[Gamesley]] underwent considerable change in the 1960s, when a large [[council estate]] was built, mainly to house people from Manchester. These housing areas, called '[[Overspill estate]]s', were also built in other towns surrounding Manchester.