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.
She would love to hear from any readers who remember her dad.
"We lived in one of RB MacMillan's houses in Almond Street," she said.
"My father had moved to Derby to work at RB MacMillan's in 1954. He had...
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I WAS pleased to unearth a jug recently which, on first inspection, appeared Oriental. The jug, with its chrysanthemum pattern in iron red and blue enamel, is inspired by Japanese designs while the reptile...
IN the late 1940s, when people had little spending money for entertainment and motor vehicles were very much the province of the wealthy, walking and cycling clubs were all the rage. In 1946, David McIntos...
REPORTS in the Derby Telegraph recently about one of the uncertain future of one of the city's old pubs prompted reader Bill Dennis to get in touch. Bill, of Raynesway, was brought up in Normanton and...
WHEN Elwyn Williams worked at Bretby Hospital as a nurse in 1949-50, there was an ancient tree in the grounds which was held up by chains. The cedar of Lebanon had stood for almost 300 years when Elwyn,...
MR Siddon's recollections of St Alkmund's Church in Derby "Tastes and sights of days gone by" are slightly off course. The steps either side of the close led on to Bridge Gate, not King Street. My husband and I were married at the church 69 years ago and the...
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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.
