The Wardwick is, even today, one of Derby’s most elegant streets; in Georgian times it was the bees’ knees as...
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Ashover is a most interesting, beautiful and large parish in central Derbyshire, situated just south east of the main road...
The estate at Foremark, where once the invading Vikings over-wintered in 783-784, was granted to Nigel de Stafford,a (genuine) comrade-in-arms...
Thornbridge was once part of the estate of the Longsdon family of Little Longstone, who claim a descent (never securely...
The last lost house about which I wrote was Coney Green Hall, bought in 1774 for £4,000 by Thomas Wilson,...
The name Brailsford is a common one in Derbyshire (not to mention elsewhere), and received added lustre through the knighthood...
Most readers, on seeing the title of this piece, might instantly be tempted to pen a letter to the editor...
Alderman Thomas Rivett (1713-1763) was an example of the astonishing social mobility that was far more commonplace in the 17th...
When travelling to Buxton from Derby, as we did in May to visit the annual Buxton Antiques Fair, we usually...
Those familiar with the local photographic collections will perhaps be familiar with a photograph of this lost house’s south front...
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by Maxwell & Carole Craven Having basked in the remoteness and sequestered lanes of Harehill and Muselane, we were much...
by Brian Spencer Pennine Way walkers almost at the southern end of their epic trek from Edale to Kirk Yetholm...
by Maxwell Craven People often quite reasonably assume that Derby’s Market Place was the original historic core of the borough,...
A noticeable trend has emerged in recent years – the rise in popularity of outdoor living. To some extent the pandemic...
