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| The Vernon Lamb Archive, Commercial |
| A Unique Photographic Record of Matlock & District, 1910-1915, and World War One Soldiers |
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| Place: | Darley Dale |
| Property / Street / Road: | Victoria Saw Mills, Old Road, Darley Dale (initially though to be Tansley Saw Mills) |
| Date: | 1910 - 1914 |
| Description/Historical Information: | The man in the bowler standing next to large pieces of wood cut from the length
of a tree trunk is Mr. John Gregory, who was born at Tansley. He was both an English Timber Merchant and
farmer, with Saw Mills at both Tansley and Darley Dale. He is first mentioned at the Darley Dale
Mill in 1902, when he seems to have stopped working at Tansley. Behind him are uncut, long tree trunks, stacked horizontally. After his death in 1934 members of the Darley Dale workforce attended his funeral, with some acting as bearers. He did not live to see what was described as a spectacular fire at his works in May 1938; villagers in Cubar and Froggatt stayed up because of the blaze being sent in their direction by the wind. The Gregory family lived on Nottingham Road in Tansley but later John and his wife Mary moved to Hackney Lane. Mr. Gregory is also shown alongside his wife in a pony and trap. See VLA4949. |
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| Image Reference: | VLA5028 |
| Copyright: | © The Vernon Lamb Archive and Robert White. See About the Archive and About Vernon Lamb, Photographer. |