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...
by Steve Belasco Former newspaper photographer and Derby resident Steve Belasco resettled to the beautiful county of Dorset many years...

by Brian Spencer A quick look at the Ordnance Survey 1:25000 scale map of the White Peak shows that the...

Hardstoft and Astwith lie atop a pair of west-east ridges, with the Dawley stream rising in between and running down...

by Brian Spencer “What we see today is basically the unaltered fortified manor house developed between the late 12th century,...

by Brian Spencer It is wrong to suggest that the Industrial Revolution began in and around the Derwent Valley, but...
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