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100 Years Ago

Derbyshire Advertiser 22 June 1917

Although no-one would want to see cruelty to a duck it does seem surreal that while many young men were being slaughtered in France, a case of cruelty to a duck is being taken to court back home. Although James Twigge is not an uncommon name at that time, it is likely to be the James Twigge who later farmed with his brother Ernest at Station Road Farm.  George Slater was the postman (with one arm) who was living in Shaw Lane in 1911 and then lived in the one up one down house in The Square . Frank Gibbs is likely to be the uncle to Len Gibbs of Lenscliffe and Mary Ellen Rodgers the wife of George Herbert Rodgers who many will know kept the greengrocers at Mount Pleasant.

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Derbyshire Advertiser 30 June 1917

Another example of a Parwich farmer attending a military tribunal on behalf of his son Dennis Steel Fox. In 1917 the Foxes farmed at Hawkslow having moved there from the Chesterfield area. Many people will have heard the story of the early death of Dennis S Fox in 1953 as a result of being crushed by a tractor in the field at Hawkslow at the age of 54. The Foxes owned Retlendon for many years.

Derbyshire Advertiser 30 Jun 1917

This is possible John W Heathcote who later married Florence Chadwick and lived at Gibbons Bank until his death in 1951. Does anyone know which farm he was working on in 1917?

125 Years Ago

3 June 1892 Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal

I wonder whose privy was causing the nuisance?!

24 June 1892 Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal

In 1891 the landlord of The Crown was John Boden. I can find no record of The Crown ever being called The Rose and Crown. Interesting that the Oddfellows dinner was held in a tent in 1892 and that it required a special licence.

150 Years Ago 

5 June 1867 Derby Mercury

12 June 1867 Derby Mercury