In this blog we take a look at another industrial concern, not far from the former Broad Oaks or Derby Road Ironworks. Here we take a look at Storforth Lane colliery, which occupied most of the present trading estate of that name, although the pit top was a little further eastwards. This colliery was the …
Our 2022 AGM, held at Matlock’s Imperial Rooms on the 1 October, was able to review a successful year for VCH in Derbyshire. The meeting heard that highlights of the year included the successful launch of our latest spin-off book on Hasland and successful sales of both this publication and the earlier ‘Chesterfield and Streets …
Award winning buildings archaeologist James Wright is talking about ‘Late Mediaeval Great Houses in the East Midlands’ to our AGM on Saturday and anyone can turn up and hear what he has to say. This is also a new talk. Although our AGM starts with a business meeting at 2 pm, by around 2.30 pm …
James Wright to speak at our AGM on Saturday 1 October Read More »
In our last blog on this site at Storforth Lane we looked at the history of the Wingerworth and Broad Oaks ironworks, with their blast furnaces, on Storforth Lane. In this blog we bring the story up-to-date. In 1931 Tarmac acquired the site of Broad Oaks blast furnaces, which had closed in 1907, presumably with …
From Ironworks to concrete – the later history of the Storforth Lane ironworks site Read More »
We express our deepest sympathies at the passing of Her Majesty The Queen. We are truly grateful for her remarkable service. VCH has a long and deeply held relationship with the Royal Family, our sympathy is with them and the nation at this sad time.
In this blog we’ll take a look at the so-called Wingerworth ironworks, later known as the Broad Oaks ironworks. Both names are a bit confusing. The name Broad Oaks was for many years associated with Markham works in Spital, but the ironworks weren’t there. Nor were they at Wingerworth. The works were actually at Storforth …
In this blog we take another look at Hasland, from our recent book. This time it’s about a now disappeared 17th-century house, sometimes called Hasland Old Hall. Little seems to have been known about its history – the remains of the building finally disappearing in 1984. Its site is now housing. The property appears to …
The ghostly figures, in our first photograph in this blog, shed some light on a now forgotten aspect of coal mining – women’s work on the pit top. At first we thought that these rare photographs (published here for the first time) might have been taken in the north eastern part of Derbyshire, possibly at …
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Our sister organisation, the Derbyshire Record Society (DRS) is publishing a new book Church Goods in Derbyshire 1552-1553, edited by Richard Clark About the book The book is concerned with the national seizure of church goods in 1553, one of the major dispossession of ecclesiastical assets during the English Reformation. It contains the surviving documents relating to …
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The ‘Christ Church (Stonegravels) Workhouse and Pauper Grave Project’ will be the subject of a new book to be published in July. The publication is to be marked by an exhibition from Monday 11 to Monday 18 July in Chesterfield Library, 11 am to 3 pm (closed Sunday). Many hours of research have gone into …
