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Stories

Taking a trip down Memory Lane on board a trolleybus

ROUTES MASTERED: Bus No 234 at The Spot, Derby.

Monday, March 15, 2010

FORMER trolleybus driver Fred Lovelock was fascinated to read Tom Douce's memories of riding on the popular mode of transport round Derby when he was a lad (Bygones, March 8).

Fred, of Spondon, started off as a trolleybus conductor before becoming a driver for three...

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Park ready to swing into top action for its diamond jubilee

FAMILY DAY OUT: Top, George and Vera Bryan, founders of Drayton Manor Park, take their children for a ride to enjoy the sights. Right, the popular dodgem cars provided some crash, bang, wallop for visitors in the early days.

Monday, March 15, 2010

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...

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Grandfather arrested this 'notorious burglar' after following him into a brook

YOU'RE NICKED? George's grandfather, WIlliam Hilliard, in uniform, with a man who could be the "notorious burglar" who he arrested after jumping into Markeaton Brook.

Monday, March 15, 2010

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...

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Happy ending to mystery of story about a swimming trip with the gang in the 1940s

different strokes: A swimming gala for Markeaton Girls' School at Queen Street Baths, Derby, in 1958.

Monday, March 15, 2010

"LISTEN you two," my mum sometimes said to my brother and me in a morning before she left for work at the Council House. "Here is fourpence each for...

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Winners took seat for prized photos

Monday, March 15, 2010

I WRITE with reference to the photograph in Bygones of members of Derby Rowing Club (February 23). This was the crew which won the Maiden IV's event...

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Picture collector brings Mill House surprise for Enid

Monday, March 15, 2010

WHEN Enid Eccles appealed through Bygones for information about Mill House, Borrowash, where she was born in 1948, Alan Hunt knew he had a...

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Can readers help in the hunt for ex-PoW and long-lost friend who helped to get farms back on track?

POST-WAR VOLUNTEERS: Some of the workers who came from all over the country to the agricultural camp which Ninkey Coe helped to run at Ticknall after the Second World War. Ninkey is centre front, wearing a hair band.

Monday, March 15, 2010

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...

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Beret happy memories

Monday, March 15, 2010

SEEING the picture and stories of Boy Scout berets in Bygones recently encouraged me to look out my own, which has been stored away for years. It...

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Drapery work friends

MEMORY WOMAN: Muriel Ainsworth has named these six former colleagues, who knew her as 'Moses' Mosedale.

Monday, March 15, 2010

READER Muriel Ainsworth, who wrote to Bygones to say she remembers working at drapers AE Moult (March 1), has found this great old photograph of her...

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