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Derby Central Library was the main public and reference library in Derby, England, between 1879 and 2018. It was established in 1879 along with Derby Museum and Art Gallery , with which it shared a red brick building designed in the Domestic Flemish Gothic style by Richard Knill Freeman and given to Derby by Michael Thomas Bass . [ 1 ]
The Derbyshire Church Notes of Sir Stephen Glynne 1825-1873; Derbyshire Directories 1781-1824; Derbyshire Feet of Fines 1323-1546; The Derbyshire Gentry in the Fifteenth Century; The Derbyshire Papist Returns of 1705-6; Derbyshire Pedigrees An Index to the holdings of Derby Local Studies Library; The Derbyshire Returns to the 1851 Religious Census
The Derbyshire Record Office, established in 1962, is the county record office for Derbyshire, England. It holds archives and local studies material for the County of Derbyshire and the City of Derby and Diocese of Derby. [1] It is situated in Matlock. The Record Office contains more than four miles of original Derbyshire records. [2]
Dust jacket from the 1951 Collins hardback edition of Jennings Follows a Clue. The Jennings series is a collection of novels written by Anthony Buckeridge (1912–2004) as children's literature about the humorous escapades of J. C. T. Jennings, a schoolboy at Linbury Court preparatory school, located near the fictional town of Dunhambury in Sussex, England.
Roger de Busli (c. 1038 - c. 1099), granted 86 manors in Nottinghamshire, 46 in Yorkshire, and others in Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Devon. They became the Honour of Blyth (later renamed the Honour of Tickhill). [15] King's Thanes; Individual records of places in Derbyshire identify these additional tenants-in-chief: [1]
Alison Jane Uttley (née Taylor; 17 December 1884 – 7 May 1976) was an English writer of over 100 books. She is best known for a children's series about Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig. She is also remembered for a pioneering time slip novel for children, A Traveller in Time , about the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots .
Holmewood is a village in the North East Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. Historically a coal mining village, it has close links to the villages of Heath, North Wingfield and Temple Normanton. It is in the civil parish of Heath and Holmewood.
In 2008 the leisure centre was expanded to include a much enlarged gym and a library opened. The school promised from early on in the development of Oakwood is a primary school (ages 3–11) that caters for some of the children living within the local community (although it is far too small to cater for all of them).