Researching the grander houses of Spondon has never been easy, simply because there have been more than a few: Spondon...
Researching the grander houses of Spondon has never been easy, simply because there have been more than a few: Spondon...
I realise that knowledgeable readers will read this heading and exclaim that Wheston Hall is not a lost house at all...
In its declining years, this suburban Regency Villa was known merely as 237 Osmaston Road, Derby on the thoroughfare of...
There is still a Littleover Old Hall standing in our leafy Derby suburb, as any member of the community would...
Of all the losses of large houses in Derbyshire one of the most grievous was the completely unnecessary – if...

Brian Spencer investigates the worst military disaster to occur on British Soil. The Ordnance Survey map for Derby and Burton...

Derbyshire has done more than any county in England to convert its disused railways into traffic-free greenways for cycling and...

Bonsall is tucked away in an upland bowl, high above the Derwent Valley and seems a place where time has...

In late 1914 the world was threatened by war. Shackleton volunteered to cancel his plans for an expedition and placed...

It seemed incredible to us that a settlement containing perhaps the finest miners’ cottages in the Midlands should have been...