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.
During this research, I came across your amazing website, Bygonederbyshire.co.uk, and discovered that, while visiting Derby, Franklin, Anthony Tissington, John Whitehurst and other local luminaries, came to know each other.
I understand that they...
Comment on this storyABOUT 60 years ago, when I was a little lad, my mother would take me to a toffee shop near the old Midland Drapery and Boots shops in Derby. I remember that the girl assistants all wore white overalls and matching white headscarves. The assistants used little...
THIS fabulous aerial photo of Derby's Loco Works was taken in about 1964. It was sent in by Len Smith, of Chaddesden, who was employed as a fitter in No 8 Shop after joining as an apprentice just after...
ABOUT 60 years ago, when I was a little lad, my mother would take me to a toffee shop near the old Midland Drapery and Boots shops in Derby. I remember that the girl assistants all wore white overalls and matching white headscarves. The assistants used little...
The Midland Co-op's decision to close its Royal Regency Suite at Ilkeston has been vehemently opposed by local people who say the loss of the banqueting and function rooms will rip the heart out of...
Denis Eardley calls in on the picturesque Dales village of Rowsley, which developed at the confluence of two major rivers, the Derwent and the Wye. THE village of Rowsley stands at the confluence of...
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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.
Derbyshire then and now is also featured in the Telegraph each Saturday.
