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- Genealogy and Local History Index
- Genealogy and Our Surnames Interests
- Our Own Genealogy: our research, with surname interests & research list links
- EXALL, EXCELL & EXELL Surnames,
Index
- SMITHIES Surname
- SMITHIES Births (Sep 1837 -
Dec 1841), the first
4½ years of Births, Marriages & Deaths registered in
England and Wales
- SMITHIES Marriages (Sep
1837 - Dec 1841), The first
4½ years of Births, Marriages & Deaths registered in
England and Wales
- SMITHIES Deaths (Sep 1837 -
Dec 1841), The first
4½ years of Births, Marriages & Deaths registered in
England and Wales
- General information
on the BMD data provided
- SMITHIES Casualties of War,
Boer War, WW1 & WW2 - ONS references
- SMITHIES Casualties
of War, Boer War, WW1 & WW2 - about those who died and
where they are commemorated
- SMITHIES Surname : Wills Index, probate information up to 1905
- Book Transcripts
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811. The parishes and chapelries as they were nearly 200 years ago.
Extracts from an early Derbyshire history ("History of Derbyshire" (1811), by Rev. David Peter Davies)
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Parishes A. Towns, villages, hamlets and settlements in the five
Deaneries and one Archdeaconry that existed in 1811
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Parishes B. Towns, villages, hamlets and settlements in the five
Deaneries and one Archdeaconry that existed in 1811
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Parishes C - D. Towns, villages, hamlets and settlements in the five
Deaneries and one Archdeaconry that existed in 1811 ››››
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Parishes E - G. Towns, villages, hamlets and settlements in the five
Deaneries and one Archdeaconry that existed in 1811 ››››
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Parishes H. Towns, villages, hamlets and settlements in the five
Deaneries and one Archdeaconry that existed in 1811
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Parishes I - O. Towns, villages, hamlets and settlements in the five
Deaneries and one Archdeaconry that existed in 1811
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Parishes P - S. Towns, villages, hamlets and settlements in the five
Deaneries and one Archdeaconry that existed in 1811
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Parishes T - Z. Towns, villages, hamlets and settlements in the five
Deaneries and one Archdeaconry that existed in 1811
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Derbyshire - its situation and boundaries, ancient
divisions, Roman roads, figure, extent, population, general appearance, ecclesiastical and civil divisions, courts, etc.
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Engraving of Derby, done especially for the book
by Henry Moore, the Derby engraver and Derby before 942.
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: The Town of Derby (2): Derby in 1040, Derby after 1066, Early Religious Houses,
Places of Public Worship in 1811, Charities in 1811, The Principal Buildings in 181, Trades of Derby, Derby in 1811.
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Derby (3) : Remarkable Occurrences (1514-1786) ; Entry of the Pretender.
Significant events in Derby and the Stuart rebellion, when the Pretender arrived in Derby. Eminent men
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Engraving of Belper, done especially for the book
by Henry Moore, the Derby engraver.
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Dovedale. Derbyshire's most beautiful dale is shared with Staffordshire.
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Derbyshire, Underground (1). Subterraneous Geography,
Minerals, &c. : Lead
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Derbyshire, Underground (2), Blende, or Black-jack, Copper,
Pyrites, Black-wad, Martial ochres, Coal, Sulphur, Limestone, Marble, Plater-stone, Gypsum, or Alabaster, Calcareous concretions, Fluor spar, or
Blue John, Quartz, Barytes, Porcelain clay, Pipe clay, Potters clay, Rotten stone, Marl, Slate, Flint, Chert, Moor stone, Free stone, Peat,
Fossils, Coralloids
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Notes on the text. Please read if you are a first time visitor.
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Mr. Davies' Sources.
- Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811: Glossary of Terms.
- Not Included : Communities that are not mentioned in 1811.
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, English Topography Part III, 1731-1868. Derbyshire - Dorsetshire.
A collection of articles submitted to the Gentleman's Magazine between 1731 and 1868 (all of Derbyshire and a selection from Devonshire)
- Gentleman's Magazine Library: Editor's Preface
- Gentleman's Magazine Library: Index of Names
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Derbyshire:
Ancient State and Remains p.3; Present State and Appearance pp.3-6
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Derbyshire:
History pp.7-8; Biography pp.8-9; Eminent Natives pp.9-11
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Derbyshire: Miscellaneous Remarks pp.11-17
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Derbyshire: Ashbourne pp.17-18; Ashover pp.18-20
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Derbyshire: Bakewell pp.20-22; Beauchief pp.22-25; Bolsover pp.25-26; Boylston
pp.26-28; Brampton p.28; Buxton pp.28-30
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Derbyshire: Chesterfield pp.31-36
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Derbyshire: Dovedale pp.36-39; Dronfield pp.39-40; Duffield pp.40-41;
Eckington p.41; Hardwicke Hall pp.41-42; Hault Hucknall pp.42-43; Kedleston p.43
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Derbyshire: Markeaton p.43; Matlock pp.44-47; Measham p.47; Norton pp.47-48
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Derbyshire: The Peak pp.48-55; Repton pp.55-58
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Derbyshire: Whittington pp.65-74
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Derbyshire: Plate II, the image of "The Revolution House"
at Whittington
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Derbyshire: Wirksworth pp.74-77; Ashbourne 77
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Devonshire: Ancient State and Remains p.81; Present State and Appearance
pp.81-82; History pp.82-83
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Devonshire: Biography pp.83-87
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Devonshire: Miscellaneous Remarks pp.87-90
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Devonshire: Ashburton p.127; Awliscombe pp.128-130; Axminster pp.131-132
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Devonshire: Barnstaple pp.132-133; Bideford pp.133-139
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Devonshire: Holne pp.175-177; Honiton pp.177-183
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Devonshire: Horwood pp.183-187
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Devonshire: Islington p.188; Kilworthy pp.188-192; Kingsbridge p.192; Kingsteignton
pp.192-193; Otterton p.193; p.Ottery St. Mary pp.193-195
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Devonshire: Plympton St. Maurice 195-199; Plympton St. Mary 199-207
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Devonshire: Plymouth p.207; Powderham pp.207-208; St. Pancras pp.209-210; Sidbury pp.210-211
- Gentleman's Magazine Library, Devonshire: Uffculme p.251; Widworthy pp.251-255; Bishopsteignton pp.255-256
- Derbyshire
- Derbyshire Miscellany, A collection of articles, deeds, miscellaneous documents,
and poetry about Derbyshire.
- Ashbourne Charters and Early Deeds. Documents from the Middle Ages relating to Ashbourne,
DBY. Extracted from "Derbyshire Charters in Public and Private Libraries and Muniment Rooms." Compiled by Isaac Herbert Jeayes.
- Ashbourne: List of the Vicars of the parish church, from before 1200 - to recent times.
- Ashbourne: Pupils attending the Old School in the 1860s, and an unplanned
trip to Dovedale.
- Ashbourne: Former Pupils Serving in the Armed Forces in late 1915
- Ashbourne: Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Roll of Honour, 1919-1922.
List of names on the school's memorial.
- Ashbourne: The Plague Visitation, 1605-6. The infected households and those who died.
- Ashbourne: Poems about a Derbyshire Town. Two rhyming epitaphs from the mid-seventeeth century
and two short pieces from the early nineteenth century.
- Birchover: The Will of Thomas Eyre of Rowtor, 1717 who owned extensive estates
in Derbyshire and elsewhere.
- Bonsall: Poems about the village. Three previously unpublished poems.
- Shirland: List of the Rectors of the parish church. The first Rector at Shirland was appointed
over a thousand years ago. Who they and their patrons were.
- South Wingfield Association, 1796, for the prosecution of felons. Included parishes or
townships of Southwingfield, Oakerthorpe, Alfreton, Shirland, Higham, Pentrich, Crich, Hucknall under Huthwaite, Ripley, Codnor and Codnor Park,
Hucknall under Huthwaite, Lea, Ford and Washington (Wessington) were part of the group.
- Derbyshire: Wolley Manuscripts - see Manuscripts (Wolley Manuscripts Derbyshire), below
- Directory Transcripts
- Derbyshire: Cromford, A collection of nineteenth century trades directory transcripts.
- Cromford: extract from Stephen Glover's Directory of Derbyshire,
1829. Transcript of Cromford names.
- Cromford: Gazetteer
and General Directory of Sheffield, and all the Townships,
Parishes and Villages Within the Distance of Twenty Miles
Round Sheffield by William White (1852) pp. 546-548
- Cromford: The Post
Office Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire
and Rutlandshire pub. Kelly and Co., London (1855).
- Cromford: Francis White's
Derbyshire Directory, 1857, transcript of Cromford section.
- Cromford: The Post Office
Directory of the Counties of Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire,
Leicestershire and Rutlandshire ed. E.R. Kelly, M.A. pub.
Kelly and Co., London (1864), transcript of Cromford section.
- Cromford: J Harrod & Co.'s
Postal and Commercial Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire,
Rutland and Staffordshire (1870).
- Cromford: Bulmer's Directory : History, Topography
and Directory of Derbyshire, printed Preston (1895). Transcript.
- Cromford: Kelly's Directory
of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Rutland
pub. London (1895), transcript of Cromford section.
- Cromford: Kelly's Directory
of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Rutland
pub. London (1899), transcript of Cromford section.
- Derbyshire, Shirland - Trade Directory extracts of Shirland names, including Higham,
Hallfeld Gate, Stretton, Stonebroom and Toadhole Furnace over the years
- Harrod's Directory, 1870
Kelly's 1891 Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland - index to
transcripts (Derbyshire only)
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Quick Guide to Finding Hamlets
- Kelly's Directory 1891: CLAY surname extracts for all counties
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Outside Derbyshire in 1891 but referenced: Packington,
Stapenhill, Winshill
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Alderwasley, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Alkmonton, Derbyshire - with Hungry Bentley
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Allestree, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Alsop-en-le-Dale, Derbyshire - with Cold Eaton
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Alvaston and Boulton, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Appleby, Derbyshire - Great Appleby and Little Appleby
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Ashford, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Ashover, Derbyshire - with Alton
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Aston-upon-Trent, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Atlow,
Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire - (includes Hardwick, Stainsby,
Hardstoft, Rowthorne and Astwith)
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Ballidon, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Bamford, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Barlborough, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Barlow
(Great Barlow), Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Barrow-upon-Trent, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Barton Blount, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Baslow,
Derbyshire - with Bubnell
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Beauchief, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Beeley,
Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Beighton, with Hackenthorpe
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Biggin,
Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Birchover, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Blackwell, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Bolsover, Derbyshire, with Glapwell and Whaley Thorns
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Bonsall, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Boundary, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Boylestone, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Brackenfield & Woolley, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Bradbourne, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Bradley, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Bradwell, Derbyshire - with Abney, Abney Grange, Hazlebadge
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Brailsford (with Ednaston), Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Brampton (New) - St. Thomas', Derbyshire - with Holymoorside
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Brampton (Old Brampton), Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Brassington, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Breadsall, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Breaston St. Michael with Risley, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Bretby,
Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Brimington, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Brushfield, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Burbage-on-the-Wye, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Calke,
Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Calow,
Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Carsington, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Cauldwell, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Chaddesden, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire - with Dove
Holes
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Charlesworth, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Chatsworth, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Chellaston, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Chelmorton, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Chilcote, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Chinley, Bugsworth & Brownside, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Church Broughton, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Church Gresley, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Clay Cross (with Stretton & Woodthorpe), Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Clifton-with-Compton, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Clown,
Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Codnor & Loscoe, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Codnor Park, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Crich,
Derbyshire - with Coddington, Crich Carr & Whatstandwell
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Cromford, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Croxall, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Cubley,
Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Curbar,
Derbyshire - with Calver and Froggatt
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Dalbury Lees (Dalbury and Lees), Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Dale Abbey, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Darley Abbey, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Darley
(North Darley), Derbyshire ››››
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Denby,
Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Derby Hills, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Derwent-Woodlands, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Dethick, Lea & Holloway, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Donisthorpe, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Dore
and Totley, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Doveridge, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Dronfield (with Unstone & Coal Aston), Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Duffield, Derbyshire - with Windley
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Earl Sterndale, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Little Eaton, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Eckington (with Mosborough, Renishaw & Troway), Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Edale,
Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Edensor, Derbyshire - with Pilsley
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Edlaston, Derbyshire - with Wyaston
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Eggington, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Elmton,
Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Elton,
Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Elvaston, Derbyshire - with Ambaston and Thulston
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Etwall,
Derbyshire - with Bearwardcote and Burnaston
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Eyam, Derbyshire - with Foolow, Eyam Woodland and Grindleford Bridge
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Fairfield, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Fenny Bentley, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Fernilee, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Foremark & Ingleby, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Glossop (part 1) - history, churches, schools, councils, etc.
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Glossop (part 2) - private residents and commercial
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Glossop (part) - the townships of Whitfield, Chunal,
Dinting, Gamesley, Hadfield, Padfield, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Haddon, Derbyshire - Nether Haddon, Over Haddon & Harthill
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: West Hallam, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Hartington, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Hartshorne, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Hasland, Derbyshire - with Grassmoor and Spital
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Hassop, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Hathersage, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Hayfield, Derbyshire - with Phoside, Little Hayfield,
Kinder, Birch Vale
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Hazlewood, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Heage, Derbyshire, with Ambergate, Cackleton, Toadmore, Boothgate,
Nether Heage
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Heanor (with Marlpool & Langley), Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Heath, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Hognaston, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Holbrooke, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Holmesfield, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Hope, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Horsley, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Great Hucklow, Little Hucklow and Grindlow, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Hulland, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Idridgehay, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Ironville, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Kedleston, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Kilburne, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Killamarsh, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Kingsterndale, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Kirk Ireton, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Kirk Langley, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Kniveton, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Langley Mill, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Langwith Bassett (Upper Langwith), Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Linton, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Longford, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Longstone (Great and Little), Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Lullington, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Mackworth, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Mapleton, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Mapperly, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Marston on Dove, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Marston Montgomery, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Measham, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Melbourne, Derbyshire - with King's Newton
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Mellor,
Derbyshire - with Compstall Road, Ludworth and Marple Bridge
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Mickleover, Derbyshire - with Findern and Littleover
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Middleton by Wirksworth, Derbyshire - with Ible and Ivonbrook
Grange (or Grange Mill)
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Milford, Derbyshire - with the hamlet of Makeney
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Monyash, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Morley,
Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Morton,
Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Muggington, Derbyshire (with Mercaston, Weston Underwood and
Ravensdale Park)
- Kelly's Directory 1891: New Mills, Derbyshire - with
Beard, Hague Bar, Low Leighton, Ollerset, Roworth,
Strines, Thornset, Whitle
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Newbold-cum-Dunston, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Newton Solney, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Norbury, Derbyshire (with Roston)
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Normanton (by Derby), Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Normanton, South, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Norton,
Derbyshire (with Norton Lees, Norton Woodseats, Back Moor,
Bradway, Greenhill and Maugerhay
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Ockbrook, Derbyshire - with Borrowash
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Osmaston (near Ashbourne), Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Osmaston (near Derby), Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Parwich, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Peak Forest, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Pentrich, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Pilsley, Derbyshire, formerly part of North Wingfield
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Pinxton, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Pleasley, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Quarndon, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Radbourne, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Repton,
Derbyshire, with Milton
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Riddings, Derbyshire (with Somercotes and Pye Bridge)
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Ridgeway, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Ripley (with Waingroves), Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Rosliston, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Rowsley (Great Rowsley), Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Sandiacre, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Sawley,
Derbyshire
- Kelly's
Directory 1891: Scarcliffe with Palterton, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Scropton, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Shardlow with Great Wilne, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Sheldon, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Shipley, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Shirebrook, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Shirland & Higham, Derbyshire - with Stonebroom
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Shirley, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Shottle and Postern, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Smalley, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Smisby,
Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Snelston, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Somersall Herbert, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Spondon, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Stanley, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Stanton and Newhall, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Stanton by Bridge, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Stanton by Dale, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Stanton in the Peak, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Staveley, Derbyshire - with Woodthorpe, West Inkersall,
Barrow Hill, Handley, Nether Handley, West Handley, Marsden
Moor, Norbriggs
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Stoney
Middleton, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Stretton-en-le-Field, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Sudbury, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Sutton cum Duckmanton, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Sutton on the Hill, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Swadlincote, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Swanwick, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Swarkston, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Taddington and Priestcliffe, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Tansley, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Temple Normanton, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Thorpe,
Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Tibshelf, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Ticknall, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Tideswell, Derbyshire, with Litton, Cressbrook, Miller's Dale,
Wheston
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Tissington, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Trusley, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Turnditch, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Twyford-with-Stenson, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Walton
(Chesterfield), Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Walton-Upon-Trent, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Wardlow, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Wensley (South Darley), Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Wessington, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory
1891: Weston-upon-Trent, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Whittington, Derbyshire, with New Whittington, Whittington
Moor & Sheepbridge
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Whitwell, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891:
Willesley, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Willington, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Wilne, Derbyshire - with Draycott
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Wingerworth, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Wingfield, North, Derbyshire - with Tupton and New Tupton
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Wingfield, South, Derbyshire - with Oakerthorpe
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Winster, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Wormhill, Derbyshire
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Yeaveley, Derbyshire - with Stydd
- Kelly's Directory 1891: Youlgrave, Derbyshire - with Middleton and Smerril
Lancashire: Burnage, Lancashire Directory, 1858 Volume III
Manuscripts
Wolley Manuscripts Derbyshire:
A major collection of pre 1828 manuscripts : Extracted from articles written by Rev. Charles J. Cox, LL.D., F.S.A. and published in
the Journals of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (DASJ)
There is a separate, much more detailed, section of the manuscripts that deals with the Matlocks in the Matlock
& Matlock Bath section of this website
Maps
Old Derbyshire Maps, Index
- Map of Derbyshire, 1824 - Mr. Rhodes' Excursions
- Chatsworth and Vicinity, 1864
- Map of Derbyshire, 1890
- The Railways of Derbyshire, 1903
- Bakewell and the Wye Valley, 1908
- Dovedale, from Hartington to Ashbourne, 1908
- Eyam & Hathersage, 1908
- South Derbyshire, 1908
- Derbyshire in Five Mile Squares, 1937, from Arthur Mee's "Derbyshire:
The Peak Country"
Picture Gallery.
Three sections of mostly our own photographs, prints and postcards of places that have family or personal connections covering Derbyshire
(but not Matlock or Matlock Bath), Godalming, Surrey and places of largely personal interest to us that do not have a sub-section of their own.
Picture Gallery - Index, with places and/or counties without a sub-section of their own.
- Picture Gallery : Berkshire - Shinfield, St. Mary's Parish Church. The original church at Shinfield was built in 1069.
This Norman Church was severely damaged by Cromwell's Ironsides in the Civil War and its tower was rebuilt at the Restoration of the Monarchy. 3 images
- Picture Gallery : Cheshire - Bowdon, St. Mary's Church. With description of Bowdon
from Charles Balshaw's Stranger's Guide & Complete Directory to Altrincham, 1855. Bowdon Church is today surrounded
by a paved area made up from the headstones of the very many graves in the churchyard that had been flattened in
1860.
- Picture Gallery : Cheshire, The Cat and Fiddle Inn, near Buxton - high on
the moors between Buxton and Macclesfield.
- Picture Gallery : Cumberland - Aspatria, King Street
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire - see below
- Picture Gallery : Devon - The Town of Ashburton. Engraving, about 1845, from Dugdale's "England
and Wales Delineated"
- Picture Gallery : Devon - Powderham Castle. Engraving, about 1845, from
Dugdale's "England and Wales Delineated"
- Picture Gallery : Gloucestershire - Painswick, GLS, a Cotswolds town. Four photographs and
quote from Pigot's Directory of 1844
- Picture Gallery : Hampshire - the Market Place, Petersfield. Engraving, about 1845,
from Dugdale's "England and Wales Delineated"
- Picture Gallery : Kent - Kitt's Cotty House, near Aylesford. Engraving,
about 1845, from Dugdale's "England and Wales Delineated"
- Picture Gallery : Lancashire - Jacob's Ladder, Nuttall Park, early twentieth
century.
- Picture Gallery : Lancashire - Broughton, Salford, Broughton High School
for Girls, 1931. With information about how and when the school was founded.
- Picture Gallery : Lancashire - Manchester, Market Street. Five early twentieth
century postcards.
- Piccadilly, Manchester and the Albion Hotel, 1820s-1926. Five early twentieth
century postcards
- Picture Gallery : Lancashire - Manchester, The Shambles, 1900.
- Picture Gallery : Leicestershire - Bradgate Park, Little Matlock.
Once owned by the Grey family. A reservoir was built here in 1860 and the park was given to Leicestershire, for public
use, in 1929. Three postcards.
- Picture Gallery : The Charterhouse, City of London. Built in 1371 for Carthusian
monks, taken by the Tudor King Henry who sold it on, turned into a home, then into Sutton's Hospital and was the first
home of Charterhouse School. 5 postcards.
- Picture Gallery : Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire) - Ardington, Holy Trinity Church
- 4 photographs and a 1903 postcard..
- Picture Gallery : Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire) - East Hagbourne & St.
Andrew's Church - 5 photographs.
- Picture Gallery : Oxfordshire - East Hagbourne, Whitechapel Road,
about 1912. Now known as Blewbury Road, the image shows a saddler's and harness maker's premises and Whitechapel
Cottage.
- Picture Gallery : [Didcot] North Hagbourne: South View, 1914. Recently
built houses on South View, later Wessex Road. With five young boys.
- Shropshire: Tong - St. Bartholemew's Parish Church. The burial place of the Vernons of
Haddon Hall, who lie in magnificent alabaster or marble tombs inside the church. Includes extract from Kelly's Directory, 1913. Three images
of the interior of the church.
- Picture Gallery : South London Cinemas - The Golden Domes Cinema, Streatham;
The Plaza Cinema, Catford: The Ritz Cinema, Balham; The Rex Cinema, Norbury
- Picture Gallery : Staffordshire : Ilam, Holy Cross Church. The church before and after
the 1856 restoration. More on its monuments, St. Bertram and the ancient font. Four images.
- Picture Gallery: Staffordshire: Ilam Hall. The hall, built in the Elizabethan Tudor style
in the reign of George IV, replaced an earlier house that had belonged to the Porte family. Later owners and how it became a youth hostel. Three images.
- Picture Gallery : Surrey, Godalming - see below
- Picture Gallery, Wales : - Aberystwith Castle, Cardiganshire (Ceredigion).
Engraving, about 1845, from Dugdale's "England and Wales Delineated". Information about the ancient castle, destroyed
in the Middle Ages, it being rebuilt and becoming a mint and local silver to support Charles I. And its fate - ordered to be blown up by Oliver Cromwell.
- Picture Gallery, Wales : Betws y Coed, Conwy: Miners' Bridge. Albumen
print and a postcard of a painting by HH. Hadfield Cubley. The wooden bridge, used by lead miners to get to work, spans the Afon Llugwy.
- Picture Gallery, Wales : Mochdre, Montgomeryshire, St. Asaph's parish church, with trades
directory quotes. With an amusing story about its ancient bell..
- Picture Gallery : War & War Graves : How He Won the Victoria Cross (the Zulu War).
Postcard of a painting showing one of the acts of bravery of Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, later General,
Redvers H. Buller
- Picture Gallery : War & War
Graves : War Graves - France Faubourg-D'Amiens Cemetery,
Arras; Etaples - a general view and the headstone for JH
Smithies; Poppies in Flanders Field; Belfast Tower, near
Albert; Honlon Cemetery nr St. Quentin; Terlincthun British
Cemetery, Wimille; Thiepval British Memorial, near Albert;
Wimereux Communal Cemetery; Belgium Dickebusch New Military
Cemetery Extension, south of Ypres
- Picture Gallery : War
and War Graves: Le Touquet. Paris Plage. La Gare des Tramways
(tram station) a World War One postcard
- Picture Gallery : War and War Graves : The Great War. - Estrées (Somme).
Entrance of the Village. A World War One postcard
- Picture Gallery : War and War Graves : Reginald Andrews' Franconia Adventure. One soldier's
small part in the Second World War and his trip to the Crimea.
- Picture Gallery : Yorkshire - West Riding : Tong - St. James' Parish
Church. There is archaeological evidence that a church was built here before the Norman Conquest. Inside the church are box
pews and a three-decker pulpit. Three images.
- Picture Gallery : Yorkshire - West Riding : Tong - Houses at Holme, 1910
or before. Two sixteenth century deeds link the Stead family to Holme in the Lordship of Tong.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire, Index. A selection
of mostly our own photographs, prints and postcards
- Picture Gallery: Derbyshire - Alfreton, St. Martin's Church,
1830s - 1899. Three nineteenth century images. The first is an engraving from about 1833, the second a
photograph from around 1875 and the third a postcard from 1899.
- Picture Gallery: Derbyshire : Alport Mill. The mill and its millers, with early
twentieth century image of the former water-powered corn mill.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire, Ashbourne, St. Oswald's Parish
Church - Exterior. Early English Church, known as "The Pride of the Peak". Its spire is magnificent and the
graveyard, which is slightly below the road, is filled with snowdrops and daffodiis in the Spring..
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire : Ashbourne, St. Oswald's Parish
Church - Interior. The chancel is mostly Early English in style. The Boothby chapel is "as full of monuments as
St. Denis Abbey". Here are the old tombs of the Cokaynes and Bradbourne. Here also is Thomas Banks's exquisite
monument to Penelope Boothby..
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire, Ashbourne: Church Avenue
or Church Walk. The lime avenue was planted over 170 years ago.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire, Ashbourne: Church Street,
about 1905. The houses and shops at the north eastern end of Church Street and who lived in the properties.
- Picture Gallery: Ashbourne - Church Street Almshouses, early
twentieth century. Three images of the buildings, and details of the various bequests made and other details
regarding Owfield's and Pegg's almshouses.
- Picture Gallery: Derbyshire : Ashbourne - Church Street, The
Mansion. A mostly eighteenth century house, with some earlier features. The home of Dr. Taylor in the reigns
of George II and George II, both Samuel Johnson and James Boswell were guests. Later inhabitants are also
identified and given their place in the history of the building. Four images.
- Picture Gallery: Derbyshire : Ashbourne : Queen Elizabeth's
Grammar - the Old School, Church Street. One of the oldest school buildings in the county. Its history and a list of headmasters
1611-1971. Four images.
- Picture Gallery : Ashbourne: Queen Elizabeth's Grammar
School, The Green Road - 1909-64. From the opening ceremony, with a description of the school's layout and its inter-war
staff, to the early 1960s. Six images.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire, Ashbourne Market Place,
early twentieth century. The shops and shopkeepers in the early 1900s and a reminder of the town's association
with the Forty-Five Rebellion (Jacobite Rising). Two images.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire: Ashbourne: the Station from the South. A small
branch line from Rocester, with the terminus at Ashbourne, opened in 1852. It was extended to link to Buxton in 1899 but there were
no passenger services after 1954 and it closed completely in 1963.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire: Ashbourne: St. John Street & The
Green Man. Georgian coaching inn, with one of the longest inn signs in the country. Includes list of known licensees
1756 - 1939. Five images.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire - Ashover House Hydro
(Ashover Hydro), Malthouse Lane. Ashover's larger hydro,
set in 6 acres, was said to be surrounded by lovely countryside.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Ashover Parish Church, All Saints'.
With a short description of what occurred during the
Civil War. Includes 19th century drawings of the lead
font and an early doorway.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire - Ault Hucknall Parish Church,
St. John the Baptist. A 1895 heliotype plate and two 19th century drawings.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire - The Bridge, Bakewell, 1920s.
Mediaeval sandstone bridge spanning the River Wye
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire - Bakewell Parish Church. Monuments
inside All Saints'. Ancient monuments within the church, especially in the Vernon Chapel, including those of the King of the Peak
and his daughter Dorothy. What happened when various tombs were opened in 1841.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire - Bakewell Parish Church - the
Ancient Stone Cross. Three Nineteenth Century images of the Saxon Cross in Bakewell Church Yard. An engraving from 1830,
a stereogram from the 1850s and a drawing from 1877.
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - Beauchief Prœmonstratensian
Abbey, 1727. Etching of the Abbey, founded in 1183,
with details of its Abbots. At Dissolution it was bought
by the Strelleys and remained in the family for generations,
albeit through the female line on occasion. There is
a short pedigree.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Birchover, Robin Hood's Stride.
A well known Derbyshire landmark. The distance between
the chimneys are said to indicate length of the outlaw/hero's
stride.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire: The Cross, Bonsall (1), four
postcards. The Cross from various angles, and includes
a Hadfield Cubley painting
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire: The Cross, Bonsall (2). Two more
images of the ancient Cross
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Bonsall, Church, dedicated to
St. James. Now includes an 1877
heliotype plate, two early postcards - one from 1892
- and a description of the restoration in 1863.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Bonsall, Nether Green,
about 1930
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Bonsall, the Water Fountains. The
village has several fountains, built in the 1870s.
Here are pictures of two of them - one opposite church
at the bottom of Ember Lane and the other, the largest
of them all, at Dale End.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Slaley, Bonsall, 1933-35. Three
family photographs of the hamlet
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - The Study, Bonsall. A mansion
house that became a boy's school, run by John Allen,
in the 1820s. With example of pupil's work.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - The Peak Hydro, Buxton: Canadian
Hospital. In 1914 the hydro was taken over by the Army
and in 1916 a Canadian Hospital was opened in the building ››››
- Picture
Gallery : The Crescent, Buxton, 1840. Lithograph, with
accompanying text, from William Adam's "The Gem
of the Peak"
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire, Buxton, The Empire Hotel. Headquarters
of the Reserve Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters,
Notts & Derby Regiment at the beginning
of World War One and described as being like a stately
old mansion of the time of Charles II
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - The Haddon Hall Hydro, Buxton.
Richard Freckingham moved from Matlock to Buxton and
set up Haddon House Hydropathic Establishment in 1882.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire - Castleton, Peak Cavern, 1811
- 1926. Extract from an 1811 history of Derbyshire, with some later comments and 4 images.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire - Castleton, The Winnats and Speedwell
Cavern. With an extract from an 1811 history of Derbyshire.
- Picture Gallery
: Derbyshire - Chatsworth House, 1880. A woodblock
print from a book by Rev. Morris, with accompanying
text.
- Picture Gallery
: Derbyshire - Chatsworth House, 1887. An albumen photograph
of the House and the River Derwent
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Chatsworth, the Grand Conservatory.
Late nineteenth century albumen photo and an early twentieth century postcard. Paxton's Grand
Conservatory at Chatsworth was a wonder to behold.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire : Chatsworth, The Italian Garden
- William Potter's CDVs. Two Cartes de Visites and
a postcard showing some of the statuary in the gardens
of Chatsworth House in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth century.
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - Chatsworth House, Queen Mary's
Bower. Mary Queen of Scots was frequently held as a
prisoner at Chatsworth House. The house has been rebuilt
but the Bower still survives.
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - Chatsworth House, Tapestry Room.
Early Twentieth Century Midland Railway postcard.
- Picture Gallery
: Derbyshire: Chee Dale and Chee Tor. One of the beautiful
dales in the Wye Valley, commented on by guide book
writers for over 200 years. Four images.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire: Crich Parish Church & Mr.
John Clay, Gentleman. St. Mary's Church, which was
begun in the reign of King Stephen, was the pre-Civil
War burial place of Mr. John Clay, a well known local
Gentleman. 4 images.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire : The Common, Crich (Crich
Common), before 1919. The road experienced the effects
of an earthquake in 1903.
- Crich From the Tors. A panoramic view, including the
Stand, the Church and the tramway.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire : Crich Market Place, before 1919.
Early twentieth century picture showing the tramway
archway and the old stone horse trough. A later card
highlights the arch.
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - Francis Hurt's Crich Stand &
the Sherwood Foresters War Memorial. A beacon war memorial
honouring the dead of the Sherwood Foresters from two
world wars replaced the former prospect tower. Nine
images, including six of an earlier Crich Stand.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Cromford, 1773. "A View
in Crumford near Matlock Bath in Derbyshire",
copper plate engraving.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire, Cromford : Black Rocks
(Stonnis), nineteenth century CDV. Carte de visite circa
1875, with various nineteenth century descriptions of
the rocks.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Cromford, Black Rocks (or Stonnis).
Rock climbing in Derbyshire developed as an outdoor
pursuit at the beginning of the twentieth century.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Cromford: Bridge over the Derwent
and Entrance to Willersley Castle. A Derbyshire curiosity.
A Derbyshire curiosity. In 1697 a man with the initials B.H., plus his horse, had a lucky escape.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Cromford, The Village. View
from the lower part of Cromford Hill looking towards
the Market Place.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Cromford Church and Bridge
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Cromford Church, Bridge, and
Rocks, by Henry Hadfield Cubley. Scarthin Rock and
the church opposite Willersley Castle.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire: Darley Dale, early twentieth
century. Unknown rural scene
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Darley Dale (Farley), Hurker
Hall. Hurker Hall is mentioned in every census between
1851 and 1891 as being a landmark on the boundary between
Darley and Matlock
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire : Darley Dale: Advertisement for
Darley Dale Hydropathic Establishment, 1891. William
Atkins' hydro at The Grove replaced the district's
very first hydro of 1848-1851.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Darley Dale, Oaker Hill (One
Tree Hill), 1900-10. With quotes from William Wordsworth,
William Adam, Timothy Spencer Hall and James Croston
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire: Darley Dale, Holly Tree Inn,
Over Hackney, about 1914. Pre First World War photo
of the Inn, with a party seated in a charabanc outside
the front door
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire: Darley Dale, Fundraising leaflet
for Over Hackney Church & Sunday School,
1910
- Picture Gallery :
Derbyshire: Darley Dale: Stancliffe Quarry and Saw Mill. The quarry's history, its link
to Sir Joseph Whitworth and four amazing old photos (plus an enlargement).
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire, The Rectory, Churchtown, Darley
Dale, about 1911. The Rectory was opposite the churchyard
in Church Road
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Darley Dale, St. Helen's Church.
Three images from the early twentieth century,
one a photo as a memento of home for a family who were
emigrating. Four engravings of ancient slabs and some
of the church history ››››
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Darley Dale, St. Helen's Church,
Interior. Mid twentieth century view of the chancel,
with drawings from cox's "Churches" of the
Rollesley monuments.››››
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Darley Dale, St. Helen's Church,
Ancient Yew Tree. In 1863 a letter was published in
the Times newspaper purporting to have been written
by the tree and protesting about the vandalism that had
occurred. ››››
- Darley
Dale, Two Dales Looking East. A view of Chesterfield
Road (the B5057) at the beginning of the twentieth century
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Darley Dale War Memorial ››››
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Darley Dale, The Warney Mill
Estate (1). One family had occupied the premises for
a little over one hundred years when it was put up
for auction in 1950.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Darley Dale, The Warney Mill
Estate (2). It became Cara Hols in the early 1950s and
then DFS.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire : Darley Dale: Stancliffe
Hall, early twentieth century. 17th century house with
19th century additions by Sir Joseph Whitworth. Later
a boys' school.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Darley Dale : The Whitworth
Hospital. Built by Lady Louisa Whitworth
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Darley
Dale, The Whitworth Institute. Built thanks to generous
endowments from the estate of Sir Joseph Whitworth.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Darley Dale, Whitworth Institute
Hospital. Staff & Soldiers
June 1915. Part of Whitworth Institute was converted
to deal with injured soldiers during the first World
War.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire : Darley Dale, Whitworth Park.
The park, which had a boating lake and sports facilities, first opened in 1892.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Derwent's Packhorse Bridge and
Derwent Hall. The Hall was to disappear under the waters
of the Ladybower reservoir whereas the packhorse bridge
was saved and reconstructed elsewhere.
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - Derwent, The Old Chapel, about
1867. Notes on the Chapelry of Derwent in Hathersage
by Francis Jourdain, M.A., first published in "The
Reliquary" (1869-70).
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - Dethick, St. John the Baptist
Chapel, 1875, and old Manor House. Early English church,
dating from about 1220-25, connected with the with
the Dethicks and then with the Babingtons. Manor Farm
is nearby. Five images.
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - Dethick, Manor Farm. The farm
building contains remains of the old mansion of the
Dethicks and Babingtons.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Drakelowe Hall, 1880. A woodblock
print from a book by Rev. Morris, with accompanying
text.
- Picture Gallery:
Derbyshire - Edensor, St. Peter's Church. The church,
designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, replaced an older structure.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Ednaston Lodge, 1880. A woodblock
print from a book by Rev. Morris, with accompanying
text.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Elvaston Castle, 1880. A woodblock
print from a book by Rev. Morris, with accompanying
text.
- Eyam
Church Interior - Mompesson's Chair. In 1887 a carved
oak chair was found by the brother of the then rector.
It had belonged to the Rev William Mompesson.
- Picture Gallery
: Derbyshire, Eyam Hall. Eyam Hall, built after the
plague visitation using material from Bradshaw Hall,
is at the heart of the village. It is owned by the
Wright family, who built the house.
- Picture Gallery
: Derbyshire - The Plague Cottages, Eyam.
- Picture Gallery
: Derbyshire - Friden, The Derbyshire Silica Firebrick
Co., 1946. Advertisement from Matlock and District
Industrial Exhibition Catalogue, 1946.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire, Froggatt Edge and Bridge, near
Grindleford. Pretty bridge spanning the River Derwent
below Froggatt Edge.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Haddon Hall (1), 1840. Lithograph,
with accompanying text, and sketch by S. Rayner, from
William Adam's "The Gem of the Peak".
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Haddon Hall (2): Visitors & Staff, the Terrace Steps and the Great Hall. A visit to
Haddon Hall was amongst the excursions on offer to the Victorian tourist. Read what happened to earlier
visitors who would not join in ...
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - Haddon Hall (3), Exterior & Distinguished Visitors. Many visitors,including royals,
have been to Haddon over the years. In the 1920s the charabanc visitors caused a problem for the Marquis of
Granby. Nine images.
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - Haddon Hall (4), Some of the Rooms. Although the Manners family did not live
at Haddon for over two hundred years, from the early seventeenth century (1703) until 1925, the
building was still used and kept in good repair. Nine images and map of the ground floor.
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - Haddon Hall (5), The Ancient Chapel. The chapel is
dedicated to St. Nicholas and is one of the oldest parts of this wonderful building. Nine images.
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - Haddon Hall (6), The Eagle Tower. It is also known
as St. John's or Peveril's Tower and was the grand entrance at the time of the Peverels. 5 images.
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - Haddon Hall (7), The Love Steps
of Dorothy Vernon. Woodcut by Jewitt, dating from about
1860, and a paper published in The Reliquary of this fabled story.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire, Hartington, Old Hall. A seventeenth
century manor house owned by the Bateman family for
several hundred years.
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - Hathersage, St. Michael's Church.
It is not only one of the most picturesquely situated
churches in Derbyshire, but is also one of the best
examples of ecclesiastical architecture that the county
possesses. Little John's Grave is in the Churchyard.
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - Hathersage, Hillside Houses.
Perhaps the village's most famous visitor was Charlotte
Bronte who stayed at Hathersage with her friend Ellen
Nussey in 1845.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire : Holloway, Church Street - with Lea
Bridge.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire, Lea and Holloway War Memorial,
1920s. Lea and Holloway's graceful obelisk formed a
landmark visible for miles around.
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - King's Newton Hall, 1859 & 1860.
One of the oldest and most interesting halls in Derbyshire
was destroyed by fire in 1859.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire - Melbourne Parish Church, St.
Michael and St. Mary. Built in the 11th century on the site of an earlier church, this is one of the finest Norman
churches in the country. It was TenEight images.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire - Melbourne Parish Church,
St. Michael and St. Mary, Interior. The interior of Melbourne Church is spectacular. It contains many Norman and Early
English architectural features. Here are several images from the 19th and 20th centuries, and a number of photographs.
Fifteen images.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire, Miller's Dale. The hamlet on
the banks of the Wye and the pretty valley were dramatically
changed by the coming of the railway in the 1860s.
A viaduct was built, and a second opened in 1904 because
of the volume of traffic.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire, Monsal Dale. Monsal Dale is a
beautiful valley on the banks of the Wye. A viaduct,
part of the Midland Railway, was built here in the 1860s.
Five images.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire, Monsal Dale, the Bridges and
River. Three CDVs from around 1890 or so and other
images of Upperdale and Netherdale bridges in the Wye
Valley. Eight images.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - North Wingfield Parish Church,
St. Lawrence. Includes 19th century drawings of the
ancient font and an early window, a photo and two postcard
images..
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Railway Cards of Derbyshire
Scenes ››››
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire, Rowsley Bridge. The narrow seventeenth
century Derwent Bridge was widened in the mid-1920s,
retaining the original Gothic arches on one side.
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - Rowsley, The Peacock Hotel. Jacobean
style building constructed at the time Oliver Cromwell
was Lord Protector. Originally a farm, it became an
hotel in the 1820s.
- Picture Gallery
: Derbyshire - Shirland, St. Leonard's Church - five
photographs, including a heliotype plate from 1870-5,
of the exterior of St. Leonard's, with information about
a few churchyard memorials5.
- Picture
Gallery, Derbyshire - Shirland Parish Church, St. Leonard's
interior. Some memorials found inside the church, including
a list of names of those who died in the First World
War.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire - Steetley Chapel. Careful nineteenth
century restoration saved this classic Norman church.
It had been without a roof for well over a century
and a half.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire - Tissington, St. Mary's
Church. Pre 1918 postcard of the Norman parish church,
with a little of its history.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire, Tissington Hall. Early twentieth
century view of the Jacobean Hall, home of the FitzHerbert
family.
- Picture Gallery
: Derbyshire - Thorpe and Thorpe Cloud. From celebrating
the recovery of George III to late nineteenth century
visitors, plus a teatime treat.
- Picture Gallery: Derbyshire - Weston-Upon-Trent Parish
Church, nineteenth century stereoview (about 1890). Mostly
13th century, with a tower built about 1360.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire, Whatstandwell: Chase
Bridge on the Cromford Canal, about 1900. On the right
are steep grassy slopes, diversified by patches of woodland.
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - Wingfield Manor (1), The Early
Years to Mary Stuart. Begun about 1440 by Ralph, Lord
Cromwell. It was later bought by the Earl of Shrewsbury
and remained as one of the principal seats of his successors
until not long before the English Civil War. Four views.
- Picture
Gallery: Derbyshire - Wingfield Manor (2), during and
after the Civil War. The sieges of the English Civil
War and what happened to the Manor afterwards. Seven
images.
- Picture
Gallery : Derbyshire, Wirksworth, Adam Bede's Cottage.
A thatched two storey cottage about a mile from the
centre of Wirksworth linked to the book "Adam
Bede"
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire - Wirksworth Parish Church - St.
Mary the Virgin, Exterior. St. Mary's is a fine, spacious building. Postcards, photographs and a drawing of the outside
of St. Mary's, reflecting the history and changes to the ancient building's external architecture over the centuries.
- Picture Gallery : Derbyshire - Wirksworth Parish Church - St.
Mary the Virgin, inside the Church. Gilbert Scott's major work to repair previous poor restorations, 19th century
images of some mediaeval tile fragments, ancient monuments, the two fonts, a photograph of a Saxon carving and
others of some of the windows in the church.
- Picture Gallery : Surrey, Godalming, Index. A
selection of photographs and postcards of a Surrey country town.
- Borough Road, Godalming, 1907. View of the plate girder
bridge on the London to Portsmouth line between Farncombe and Godalming stations.
- Boarden Bridge, Borough Road, Godalming, 1905-6. Until
1870 this was the only means of crossing the river on the western side of the town.
- Borough Road and Frith Hill, Godalming, Surrey, 1914. Rose
Lily Little was returning from delivering a sewing machine when a photographer asked her to pose for this
picture.
- The Bridge, Godalming, 1907. Attractive Edwardian postcards of
the Town Bridge and Bridge Road.
- Godalming Bridge & The Bridge, Godalming, Surrey.
Three early postcards of Godalming's Town Bridge, with the large house called "The Bridge" on the
river bank. This was the home of the Marshall family.
- Godalming Bridge & Congregational Church, Godalming, Surrey.
The Congregational Church beside the Town Bridge and the interior of its school room, that was added in 1884.
- Bridge Road, Godalming, 1903. The Wesleyan Chapel had
just been built. And who lived in the houses in 1911.
- Bridge Road Godalming - Wesleyan Church.
Early 20th century views of the exterior and interior of the church, which opened in 1903.
- Bridge Road - British School. Established in 1812,
the school was founded on the ideas of Joseph Lancaster and provided primary education for many, who
were taught using the monitorial system. The building was altered and improved in 1872.
- Picture Gallery : Godalming : Bridge Road - Technical
Institute and School of Science and Art. Early 20th century view of the institute, which opened in 1896.
It was run by Surrey County Council and the local Technical Education Committee, later Godalming Higher
Education Committee.
- Bridge Street, Godalming, 1907. The early days of the
Borough Hall (Municipal Buildings), with information about nearby buildings.
- Bridge Street, Godalming, 1950s. The buildings and
their occupants, including the former Brewer's Arms.
- Broadwater House, Godalming, 1853. A Victorian mansion beside
Broadwater Lake that was built for the Marshall family, who were wealthy merchants. It was later the home of
the Price family.
- St. John's Church, Busbridge, 1910. Busbridge Church is
of the Early English Gothic style and was consecrated in 1867.
- Crownpits, Brighton Road, Godalming, 1895. An attractive late
nineteenth century view of Crownpits looking downhill towards central Godalming. With a snow scene, possibly taken in 1900
- Busbridge Hall, Godalming, 1844. A steel engraving of Busbridge Hall from
an image by Thomas Allom. The hall was then owned by Francis Boyle Shannon Wilder.
- Busbridge Hall, Godalming, 1908. The Edwardian mansion replaced
an earlier house.
- Leroy's Boat House, Catteshall Road.
- Cemetery
Scroll down to Nightingale Cemetery, Deanery Road
- Charterhouse from Frith Hill, 1903.
- Charterhouse Bridge and Hindhead Road, Godalming, Surrey,
1900 - 1906, two postcards.
- Charterhouse Road, from Charterhouse Bridge. Three views taken from
the road on the top of Charterhouse Bridge. One image shows the original Hodgsonites.
- Bodeites, a Charterhouse School Boarding House, about
1906. It was the only house not to have retained the surname, or part of the surname, of its founder.
- Hodgsonites, the First Charterhouse Master's House, about 1906.
Built on Sandy Lane (Charterhouse Road today), this imposing house was built in 1873/4. The building was demolished in the early 1970s.
- Lockites, a Charterhouse School Boarding House on Charterhouse
Road, about 1908. Named after Sidney Wills Lock, a mathematics teacher who moved with the school to Godalming from London.
Replaced by Chapel Fields Flats.
- Charterhouse Road (2), looking uphill. Early Twentieth
Century. Three images, including one taken from the junction
with Peperharow Road.
- Charterhouse Road (3), Godalming, 1907. View of part of the road
from Frith Hill.
- Charterhouse
School, Godalming, 1900-07. The site chosen by Haig
Brown when Charterhouse School moved out of London
in 1872. More and more land in the surrounding area
was bought over the years. Football and cricket were
major sports.
- Picture Gallery : Godalming, Charterhouse School Armoury,
1915. The Armoury had been in two of the school's rooms
before it was given its own building.
- Charterhouse
School, Godalming, Founder's Court & Thomas Sutton's
Statue.
- War
Memorial Chapel, Charterhouse School, 1927. Designed
by Gilbert Scott, the chapel was built to commemorate
the lives of the Charterhouse boys who had died in WW1.
Further names were added after WW2, including that of
Major-General Orde Charles Wingate.
- War
Memorial Chapel and Weekites, Charterhouse School,
1927. Weekites, a former boarding house for Charterhouse
school pupils on Charterhouse Road, was named after the
Church of England clergyman and schoolmaster Charles
Hampton Weekes.
- Charterhouse
School, The Statue of William Haig Brown. William Haig
Brown, the Godalming school's first headmaster, was
unusually commemorated with a statue in his lifetime
to honour of all he had achieved.
- Charterhouse School, Godalming, Verites Boarding House.
When the school opened in 1872 it was not ready for its boarders. There was a disastrous roof fire here in 1918
and the school's brigade were initially involved in extinguishing the flames.
- SS. Peter & Paul Parish Church and Church House, Godalming, Surrey,
1907.
- SS. Peter & Paul Parish Church, 1912. A new porch and some anecdotes
about the church, including a nineteenth century wedding, suffragettes and striking bellringers. Two images.
- SS. Peter & Paul Parish Church, interior. Three images
of the early to mid twentieth century interior, with some memorials and various restorations, not all of them fit
for purpose. However, Sir Gilbert Scott's work in 1879 was carefully done and can be seen in the church today.
- SS. Peter & Paul Church from the River, 1907. The parish
church seen from across the Lammas Lands. Plus the story of a church bell in the river.
- Old Houses on Church Street, close to the Pepperpot, 1905 & 1910.
Late 16th and early to mid 17th century buildings.
With additional info about the former Corn Meter beerhouse.
- Church Street, Godalming, 1903. View of Church Street from
Cornmeter, looking towards the parish church
- Church Street, Godalming, 1937. Looking along Church
Street towards the Pepperpot and the High Street in the later 1930s.
- Church Street Shops and Parish Church, Godalming, 1951.
The street over seventy years ago, and a description of the jobs of the residents in 1841.
- Croft Road (formerly Croft Terrace) & St. Edmund's Church, 1908. The road was developed
in a number of stages towards the end of the nineteenth and early into the twentieth centuries.
- Nightingale Cemetery, Deanery Road. Opened in 1857 because the churchyard was
approaching full capacity, there have a number of notable burials here. A few examples of the headstones are provided.
- Eashing Bridge. Mediaeval stone
bridge spanning the River Wey at Eashing near Godalming. Three images.
- First Town in the World Illuminated by the Electric Light, 26 September
1881. A public and private electricity supply, generated by water power.
- Farncombe Cross, 1903. An old forge and lovely timber framed house used
to stand Where four roads meet.
- Farncombe, Street - early 1900s. The butcher's, a drapery, pub and post office/newsagents were all at the
heart of village life at the beginning of the twentieth century.
- Frith Hill, Godalming, 1895
- Frith
Hill and River Wey, Godalming, 1907
- Frith
Hill from the Air, 1920s. Also includes Charterhouse
School and some of the original boarding houses
- Hillside,
Frith Hill, Godalming: Hydro, Boy's School and Hotel.
In its about 110 year life time it was all three. The
small school produced a surprising number of distinguished
people. Includes two views of the school's sports field, which
was built on in the late 1970s-early 1980s..
- Frith Hill: Hillside Boy's School, 1879 & 1887. Five unique photograph's from the then headmaster's
daughter's personal album. Also and 1887 photo of the school's drawing room.
- Pageites, one of the original Charterhouse School Boarding Houses. Opened on Hindhead Road
by Thomas Ethelbert Page in 1875.
- Robinites, former Charterhouse School Boarding House on Hindhead Road. The first
housemaster of this Frith Hill property was George Henry Robinson. He taught music and was the school's organist.
- Godalming:
Hindhead Road and Water Tower. Opened in 1880 and now
converted to a private home.
- Godalming,
from Charterhouse, 1903. View of Frith Hill and the
town beyond, showing extensive flooding on the Lammas
Lands.
- View
from Holloway Hill, Godalming, 1896. The Oak
Bark Tannery, an extensive leather dressing factory,
was decimated by two fires.
- View from Holloway Hill, Godalming (2),
1906. A general view across the High Street's rooftops
towards Frith Hill and Charterhouse.
- Godalming
from New Way, 1907. View from Westbrook and New Way. The view shows Allden's Mill and its mill pond.
- From New Way (2), 1907. The industrial area on Mint
Street and near to Godalming Station, including the hosiery
factory, the Oak Bark Tannery and Allden's Mill and pond.
- General
View of Godalming, about 1905. View of Frith Hill and
beyond from Charterhouse.
- Old
Town Hall, High Street, Godalming, 1905. Two images.
The Pepperpot or Pepperbox, built in 1814 at the junction
of the High Street and Church Street, used to be the
Town Hall.
- Old
Town Hall, Godalming, 1907. The buildings around
the Pepperpot in the Edwardian era.
- The
Market House, High Street, 1903-14. The eastern side
of Godalming's Market House with Robertson's drapery,
Craddock's printers and Bennett's fishmonger. Plus the
Post Office.
- Godalming, Market House, 1935. The White Hart on the
High street was sold on in 1929 and faced the removal
of its licence in 1932.
- High
Street, Godalming, Surrey, 1900- 1922, High Street, Godalming,
view from the Pepperpot. Luxford's, later Eastmans,
was originally known as Griggs.
- The
White Hart, High Street, Godalming, about 1900. The
timber-framed White Hart was an old coaching inn and
there was an inn on the site in the sixteenth century.
- The White Hart & High Street, Godalming, before 1900.
The original photo was probably taken at the end of the nineteenth century.
- Godalming High Street, 1914. One relatively new business
and another moving into larger premises on the High Street (near the Pepperpot) in 1914.
- High Street, Godalming, Local Soldiers - Wednesday
5 August 1914. Men of the local Territorials were given a warm send off, despite inclement weather, as they marched
to the station.
- High Street, Godalming, about 1908. Showing some of the listed buildings,
including the former Edwards Pharmacy.
- High Street, Godalming, 1910 - an Edwardian postcard. View from
Burgess Stores to the Market Hall, with details of the shops and other properties.
- High Street,
Godalming (no date but possibly 1910). Looking broadly
west towards the Pepperpot.
- Godalming
High Street, early twentieth century. Looking broadly
west towards the Pepperpot.
- The
King's Arms, High Street, Godalming. The old coaching
inn, with a distinctive red and black brickwork frontage,
was visited by Peter the Great of Russia in 1698.
- High Street,
Godalming before WW1. View from the east end showing
Gammon Brothers drapery and other stores.
- High Street, Crown Court, 1950s. Before the Second
World War there was no public car park in the town. Three
images.
- Hurtmore Farm, Hurtmore, 1907.
- The Catteshall Coffee Tavern, Farncombe, 1905. This late Victorian building
was a temperance hotel.
- Meadrow - Railway Hotel, Godalming. Built shortly
after the first railway line arrived in Godalming. The first building was demolished following a fire
in 1933. It eventually became the Wey Inn.
- The Mint and
Mill Lane, Godalming.
- Mill Lane,
Godalming, 1907. Looking up Mill Lane, taken
from the side of Hatch Mill.
- Mill Lane, Fire at Rea and Fisher's Oak Bark Tannery,
7 March 1905. A fire destroyed a large part of the Oak
Bark tannery in the early hours.
- Mill Lane, Godalming: Leather Workers
and the Smith Family Connection. Rare photo of leather
workers at the Oak Bark Tannery on Mill Lane.
- New Way, 1907. A rural idyll. SS. Peter and Paul Parish
Church is the main focus, viewed from a quiet country
lane and framed by trees.
- Ockford
Road, Godalming. Early twentieth century view.
- Godalming, Ockford Road (2). Ockford Road, with its
old cottages and the Inn on the Lake Hotel. The former
Ockford House has been the home of some interesting and
distinguished people.
- Peperharow
Road, Godalming, 1903.
- Peperharow
Road, Godalming, from Frith Hill - before WW1.
- Frith
Hill from Peperharow Road. Early twentieth century
view of the eastern end of Peperharow Road and Frith
Hill.
- Peperharow
House & Park, near Godalming, early 1900s. Georgian
house, with "Capability" Brown park, and
home of the Midleton family for over 200 years. Two
images.
- Phillips
Memorial Cloister, Godalming. Arts and Crafts Memorial
to commemorate the selfless determination of the Godalming
wireless operator who was on board the Titanic when
it sank in 1912 and the bravery of all who were on
board. Four images.
- Poppies in
the fields above Binscombe, Godalming, 2010 & 2014.
- The
Old Forge, Pound Lane, Godalming, Surrey, about 1910.
- Prior's
Field School, Compton, Surrey. Providing education
for girls, it was founded by Mrs. Julia Huxley as a
place of intellectual opportunity and freedom of thought.
- Railway
Station, Godalming, Surrey, 1905. An Edwardian postcard
of Godalming New Station, opened in 1878.
- Farncombe
Railway Station, 1905. The station opened in May 1897,
replacing Old Godalming Station.
- Town End Street, 1910.
Building plots in the Town End Field were first advertised
in 1890.
- Godalming : Unstead Bridge / Trowers Bridge, 1898 and Today.
Curious 18th century bridge spanning the River Wey.
Possibly originally had 5 arches, but there has been
no central arch for over a century.
- Godalming,
View from Unstead Lock, about 1909-10.
- Westbrook Mills (Pullman's Mill). They provided employment
in the leather industry for around 300 years.
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