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Stories

Pub name please?

Thursday, March 11, 2010

I AM trying to find out the name of a pub which was in Green Lane, Derby, in the 1870s.

My ancestor, Matthew Turner, was the landlord.

Wendy Cockroft, email terrance.cockroft

@tiscali.co.uk

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Instead of an alarm clock we had 5am 'knocker-up'

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

A REGULAR figure spotted on the streets of Derby during my childhood was the "knocker-up" who, at about 5am, would start to tap on windows and call...

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Sadness as 'lovely' old pub in ideal spot is bulldozed

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

WHAT a crying shame to see the Anglers Arms pub on Nottingham Road has been bulldozed. My late father, John Joyce, who lived in Spondon for most of...

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That's Peter in the Dale United photo

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

MY mate Mike Smith, from Derby, sent me the Bygones page from February 12 and I recognised one of the players from the Dale United football team...

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'How can starvation strike in such a town as Derby?'

Saturday, March 06, 2010

IN 1838, local businessman Herbert Mountford Holmes offered to help out with the running of St Peter's Sunday school following the resignation of its...

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Charity night mystery solved

Friday, March 05, 2010

LAST month, we asked if any of our readers recognised three well-known Derby women pictured together at a mystery event in the 1980s. As usual, our...

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THIS WAS DERBYSHIRE

Friday, March 05, 2010

BYGONES would love to be able to return these two fascinating photographs to their owner. The only information we have is that they were taken in the...

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Cooling off with Cleo at the Plaza

Friday, March 05, 2010

THE recent death of Sir John Dankworth brought back memories of my years in Derby. I recall seeing Johnny Dankworth and his orchestra and his wife...

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Joanna's photographic bid for Homelands memories

learning: Joanna Bradshaw, nee Dyer, is second from the right, on the front row, in this picture of prefects taken in 1966.

Thursday, March 04, 2010

I ATTENDED Firs Estate School in the 1950s before passing my 11-plus exam and going to Homelands Grammar School from 1959 until 1966. I have sent in...

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