Local history in the making
Welcome to the Derby Evening Telegraph's new online nostalgia section, bygonederbyshire.co.uk. The site is packed full of fascinating articles about our county's heritage and the people who have made it so great.
Each day it will be updated with material created by Telegraph writers but one of the best things about bygonederbyshire.co.uk is that you can help it become the definitive archive of life in the county by adding your own stories and pictures or commenting on those contributed by others.
As regular readers will have noticed we've changed the site, moving away from the previous wiki format, and adding an improved search facility and easier navigation between articles.
So go on, add your memories and contribute to local history in the making, by going to the Send us Your Memories page.
And don't forget to buy the Telegraph each Monday for its eight-page Bygones pullout and every night for the very best that Derbyshire has to offer... past and present.
Fred, of Spondon, started off as a trolleybus conductor before becoming a driver for three years and then going on to work for Trent Buses.
"I remember driving the routes Tom mentioned," said...
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IT was 60 years ago, in April 1950, that husband and wife George and Vera Bryan, opened Drayton Manor to the public on land that was formerly the estate of the Peel family, including Sir Robert Peel II,...
WHEN I was about three, my parents and I went to live with my grandfather, William Hilliard, in Victoria Avenue, Ockbrook. He had been a borough policeman and was a very good swimmer. He played for the...
WHEN Enid Eccles appealed through Bygones for information about Mill House, Borrowash, where she was born in 1948, Alan Hunt knew he had a photograph that would interest her. Enid's grandparents, who...
NINKEY Coe has always been keen to get stuck in when things need to be done. Back in the 1940s, when she was a young mother with a small son and a husband in the Navy, Ninkey helped the war effort at home...
I KNEW Jefferies pie, chips and mushy peas emporium extremely well as my aunt, Nancy Barlow, was Mr Jefferies' resident housekeeper and general factotum. While "Jeff" made the pies in the back bake house,...
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See our readers lettersDerbyshire Then and Now
This bygone image of the Brunswick Inn, Railway Terrace, Derby, appears to have been taken in the late 1960s, early 1970s, if the car is anything to go by. Has there been any change to this view in the intervening years?
See this and other changing local scenes in Derbyshire then and now.
