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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]
Detail of the facade of the library at No 1 Derby Gate. The Library was established in 1818 and a purpose-designed library was built for it by Sir John Soane and completed in 1828. This building, along with much of the medieval Palace of Westminster, to which it was added, was destroyed by fire in 1834.
It was established in 1879, along with Derby Central Library, in a new building designed by Richard Knill Freeman and given to Derby by Michael Thomas Bass. The collection includes a gallery displaying many paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby; there is also a large display of Royal Crown Derby and other porcelain from Derby and the surrounding ...
Etwall is located between the A516 bypass and the A50 in south Derbyshire. The A516 draws heavy traffic heading for the M1 north.. The village has its own public library, several schools including a state pre-school, [2] state primary, [3] an independent day school [4] and the large secondary school, John Port Spencer Academy.
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In 1928, the Technical College split into the Derby School of Art and the Derby Technical College. By 1955, the two had become the Derby and District College of Art (opened on 22 September 1966 by Paul Reilly, Director of the Council of Industrial Design), and the Derby and District College of Technology (opened by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on 15 May 1964), both situated on Kedleston ...
Sunny Hill (or Sunnyhill) is a southern suburb of the city of Derby, England, situated mainly along the Stenson Road (which goes out to the hamlet of Stenson, on the Trent and Mersey Canal). It lies between the Derby City districts of Normanton and Littleover, and, to the south, Sinfin, and the parish of Stenson Fields in South Derbyshire district.
1878 – April: Great Northern Railway opens its Derbyshire extension through Friargate railway station. [10] 1879 Derby Free Library and Museum opens. Derby Daily Telegraph and Reporter begins publication. [16] 1882 – Art gallery opens. [10] 1884 - Derby County F.C. established as an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club