#PhotoFriday – January Digest

It's time once again for our monthly round up of #PhotoFriday tweets, where we look at images from the local studies collections across the county, which you can find on www.picturethepast.org.uk . January's theme for History Begins at Home was 'the 1960s', so for our first #PhotoFriday tweet of 2023, we travelled back to Buxton to 1965. … Continue reading #PhotoFriday – January Digest

Buffalo Bill and His Wild West Show in Derbyshire

If you mention the name of William Cody, aka Buffalo Bill, then it might conjure up images of America’s Old Wild West, rather than the rolling hills of Derbyshire. Whilst touring around Europe the famous Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show made many visits to Derbyshire, including Derby, Chesterfield, Glossop, and Ilkeston. With cowboys, stagecoaches, horses, … Continue reading Buffalo Bill and His Wild West Show in Derbyshire

Mary Vincent a friend to the World War One Soldiers of Belper

Today's post comes from Adrian Farmer, Heritage Coordinator at Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site and Chairman of the Belper Historical Society, who has been helping us to identify photographs in our D3638 collection for the English Sewing Cotton Company Limited. Whilst looking through some Belper-related photographs in the Record Office, we came across some … Continue reading Mary Vincent a friend to the World War One Soldiers of Belper

#PhotoFriday Digest – August

Once again it's time for our monthly round up of #PhotoFriday tweets, where we look at images from the local studies collections across the county, which you can find on www.picturethepast.org.uk . We started off our August tweets with the theme of Lazy Days for History Begins at Home. We joined John Brackenbury and the Berwick family … Continue reading #PhotoFriday Digest – August