by Robert Mee | Jun 10, 2025 | Latest News, Society News, Visits
This evening the Local History Society had a trip to Wingfield Station. The station, situated between South Wingfield and Oakerthorpe, is the oldest unaltered rural railway station in the world, and has been lovingly restored over the last few years. Around 30 members...
by Robert Mee | May 8, 2025 | Latest News, Uncategorized, War Memorials
2025 sees the 80th Anniversary of the end of the war in Europe on May 8th 1945. The war had a momentous effect on all communities, so the end of the war (at least in Europe) was a time for major celebrations, despite the enduring austerity of the time. In 2020 the...
by Robert Mee | May 6, 2025 | Latest News, Society News
It’s been several years since we held a major exhibition of local history, but come and join us on 28 June at the Wilmot Street Centre, from 10.00am till 3.00pm. As well as our own displays, we will be joined by other local groups and also a few individual...
by Robert Mee | Jan 21, 2025 | Latest News, Uncategorized
Our latest display at Heanor Library is on pubs which have disappeared – not just closed as a business, but where the building itself has gone. Many of these from the last 20 years, but some of them closed over 100 years ago. The display covers the whole of the...
by Robert Mee | Jan 9, 2025 | Latest News, Shipley
It’s amazing how we continue to receive photos relating to Britannia Park, even though the park itself only lasted for a few weeks in 1985. This group of photos, sent to us a few years ago by Andy Moon, show aspects that we’ve not seen documented before....
by Robert Mee | Dec 2, 2024 | Latest News, Marlpool and Langley
The Langley Methodist Church held a regular gala or carnival during the 1950s, and this photograph, taken on Ella Bank Road, shows the procession heading towards the gala site at the bottom of Breach Road. The Carnival Queen in 1954 was Marian Burford, of Aldercar....
