A few snaps as we leave the New Street building to make a start on arranging the creche building, our temporary home for the coming months of the exciting new project to extend and refurbish the former Ernest Bailey Grammar School and our home for the last 20 or so years
Month: September 2011
Jack Junk’s Opinion of the French Language
To mark European Day of Languages (http://edl.ecml.at/), here is a cartoon by Derbyshire-raised cartoonist George M. Woodward, taken from the large collection of his works held here: The sailor on the left asks: Why Jack! You was so long in a French Prison, I suppose you larnt to patter their Lingo a little? The sailor on … Continue reading Jack Junk’s Opinion of the French Language
Alfreton Local History Open Day
Two pictures of participants in the Local History Open Day at Alfreton Library last week. We had a fun day, and the event's organisers reckon we had sixty visitors, which means it was time well spent as well.
Archives of change
We are still closed to the public, so here's a flavour of what's going on around the Derbyshire Record Office site at New Street. Starting with something sad, but necessary: a large tree being taken down in the car park: Next, an unusual site at any archive repository: empty shelving. The records have largely been relocated … Continue reading Archives of change
Rusty Bacon
When the Bacon has been salted about a Fortnight putt it into a Box of the Size of the Bacon, covering the bottom of the Box [?]Hay, rap up each piece of Bacon with [?]Hay, + between every piece put a lare [layer] of [?]Hay, the Box must be kept shut, to prevent Rats or … Continue reading Rusty Bacon
More delights from the Strutt Library
For obvious reasons, afficionados of our county's history know a thing or two about mining. This book, part of the Strutt Library, is by Georgius Agricola (1494-1555), the "father of mineralogy", and goes into the subject in some considerable detail. It is illustrated too, as you can see from these pictures: [2018: Images of this … Continue reading More delights from the Strutt Library
A Disney Production
Yesterday, we posted pictures of the Melland Library being readied for transport to an outstore. Today is the turn of the Strutt Library, an extraordinary assemblage of books collected by the eponymous family of industrialists. The library contains a great wealth of sources of interest for the study of Derbyshire history, and a great deal besides. … Continue reading A Disney Production
Alfreton Local History Open Day
For anyone interested in local history, Alfreton Library would be worth a visit this coming Thursday. Two of us are going from Derbyshire Record Office, and we will be bringing a selection of archive material with us. For full details of the event, click here: http://www.artsderbyshire.org.uk/whats_on/details.asp?EventID=1410102
Moving time
It's all go here, yet eerily quiet at the same time. These pictures show the Melland Library being set out for checking and cleaning, before getting sent away to an outstore - to return when our searchroom is nicely refurbished. For more about the move, see http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/recordoffice, and click "expansion"
