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March 2010
(Move to the
next section for a general introduction to the site.)
The Society's next meeting will be on
Tuesday 9 March. In a change to our published programme, the speaker will
be Ruth Gordon, the Local Studies Development Librarian of
Derbyshire County Council, who will present a talk called "Grabbing
the Headlines". Ruth will be looking at Derbyshire's local
newspaper publishing industry over the last 250 years, and comparing the
news of the day then and now. Everyone is welcome to come along
for the evening - 7.30pm start. We also have another late change to the
programme in May - see the full 2009/10 Programme
for full details of the revised list of meetings.
The most recent new page on the site is on the
subject of the
craft workshops at the
short-lived Britannia Park - and many thanks to Clive Quinn for
sending his memories and photos. Also, due to its continued popularity,
there is another photograph of the C9 bus
crash at the Eastwood and Langley Mill Railway Station in 1969, thanks
to Glyn Pickworth. And if you haven't yet seen the previous new page, have a
look at Stainsby House for a view, and
potted history, of two houses! There are also three new photos showing
the building of the Langley Mill
Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs
Witnesses taken in March 1985.
The Heritage Corner at the Heanor Antique Centre
has just been updated with new display panels - so, if you have never
visited, or if you came along any time before Christmas, you are bound to
find something new and interesting. The Heritage Corner
is open whenever the Antiques Centre is open
(daily, 10.30am - 4.30pm). We are grateful to Jane Richards for
allowing us this display. For more information about the
Heritage Corner, follow the link. And for
details of the Heanor
Antiques Centre, go to their website.
Our newest publication was
released in July. The Heanor and District
Omnibus Company is a 30 page booklet explaining the company's
short-lived existence (1934-1938) before it was taken over by names which
became far more well-known (Trent, Midland General and Barton). Just
£2.50, the booklet can be purchased at any of our meetings, via this website,
or at the usual stockists.
Our Publications Group is working on
a number of different projects at present, with timescales which vary from
a few months to several years. We know that not all of them will come to
fruition, but we are equally willing to listen to anyone who has a project
of their own and who is looking for someone to publish it. (As long as it
is to do with the history of Heanor!!!!)
We are currently working with the Shipley Park Visitor
Centre to gather recordings of reminiscences of Shipley, whether the mines
or the Hall. When this project comes to fruition, the recordings will be
available to buy.
The Society's eighth publication,
'Follow the Master': A History of
Heanor Grammar School, 1893 - 1976, was published in 2007.
The book details the 83 years of the life of the town's most prestigious
school, but, unlike some school histories, it is not aimed solely at
reawakening the memories of those who attended. The book is a warts and
all study of the school, from its earliest days as a District Technical
School, through to its closure under the comprehensive system. Orders will
normally be
processed within three
days of payment, Credit/debit card orders can be made via PayPal - follow the link above.
And our major publication of 2004, A Portrait of Heanor,
is also still available, but this is a book which is not likely to be
reprinted once it is sold out. Local History books often rise in value
once they are out of print (there is a paperback book on Codnor and Loscoe
which has been seen advertised on Amazon at £97.25!), so you can expect to
pay a lot more in the future if you want a copy.
In the five years that this site has been on the world
wide web, nearly 200,000 visits have been made, with a
total of over 400,000 page-views. Not bad for a site covering a small market
town in Derbyshire! A large number of emails are received each
month - some are dealt with very quickly, others need a bit of time to
think about! But please get in touch if there is anything that you feel
you can add.
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Welcome
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to the pages of the
Heanor
and District Local History Society.
Heanor
(in case you are just browsing and don't actually know)
is a market town in Derbyshire, England, very close to the border with
Nottinghamshire. Not a major tourist area, but we are here to
celebrate our history and heritage, which is as strong as anyone's!
We
hope you will find our site both interesting and informative. This site is
under constant change - most pages stay the same, but almost every month
there are new additions, and eventually some items will also disappear.
Please
keep coming back to see what changes we have made. If you've not visited
for a while, have a look at the What's New
page, where we keep a running log of changes made to the site.
The
British Library have included this website
in a national archive of "selected key UK websites - ensuring that
invaluable scholarly, cultural and scientific resources remain available
for future generations." There are currently only some 600
websites in their archive, so we are rather honoured at being asked!
In September 2006, research
was published into the "most English" places in the country,
based primarily on the analysis of names in the most recent census, which
split the country's population into 200 ethnic groups. Heanor was declared the second-most English town in the country,
after nearby Ripley, with almost 90% of the population being English in
origin. Third came Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, and Boston in Lincolnshire came
fourth. Whatever your views on what this means, at least it got the town's
name mentioned!
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This website has four main areas,
and now has over 60 pages.
The Local History Topics section includes
pages on many of the communities which surround the town of Heanor. There are
also pages on specific local subjects, such as coal mining and other local
industries, transport in the area, and local personalities. All of our pages
include historic photographs of the area, many taken from the Society's own
publications.
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Modern
day map showing Heanor, Langley Mill, Loscoe and Shipley. The Society's
interests extend well beyond this immediate area, and covers all the old
Heanor Urban District Council area, plus a bit more!
Image produced from the
Ordnance Survey
Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of
Ordnance Survey and
Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland. |
Society News includes details of our programme of
meetings, the Heanor Heritage Centre, and our publications and newsletters. The
Society has been around for 40 years, so we have quite a bit of history of
our own! See the Newsletters page to see what
we've been doing lately!
The
editor of the site would be extremely interested to receive your comments. We
are especially interested if you have any items relating to the history of the
area. Any articles or information submitted will be considered for publication
in the Society's newsletter as well as for the website; items published in the
newsletter will, of course, be fully
acknowledged. It is our intention that this website will keep changing and
growing - what you see today is just the start - please put the site in your
favourites, and keep visiting us. Major updates to the site will also be logged
at
www.Chatarea.com/HeanorDistrictLocalHistory, which includes a forum relating
to these pages, as well as many other items of interest. Please use the Contact Us page to
get in touch with the Society.
We also have a page setting out what
the future development of the site is likely to
include - after visiting it, let us know if there
is anything else you would like to see included.
Finally, the
Useful Links page is just that - the links listed
include not only links to local web sites, but anything which may be of interest
to readers of this site.
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©
Except where otherwise stated, the
contents of this website are copyright of the Heanor and District Local History.
Where items have not been prepared by the Society itself, we would like to thank
the owners of copyright of the images and items used on this site for granting
us the necessary permissions for their use. In some cases, despite our best
efforts we have not always been able to locate the copyright holders. If you
believe that any rights that are yours have inadvertently been infringed, we
would ask you to contact us and to accept our apologies.
If you want to use anything you find here, please
ask - the chances are we won't mind
Last modified on
27 February 2010 16:11
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