The earliest organised Baptist preaching at Heanor commenced in 1822, when fortnightly meetings, led by Brother Purcell from the Smalley Baptist Church, were held at Tag Hill. Over the following few years, various houses were used for this purpose. By 1827, Smalley...
Although, for many, religion plays a less significant role in daily life nowadays, for centuries, the church had a major impact on everybody. As with many industrial areas, from the 18th century onwards, the Heanor area saw a dramatic swing away from the Established...
Heanor has existed for a millennium or more, but has changed much in its layout over the years – the focus on the town-centre is only a century old. In the nineteenth century, Heanor consisted of a number of groups of habitations, many of which had their...
Stainsby House is no more, though there is a modern building of that name (see below). Stainsby is actually in Horsley Woodhouse, rather than Smalley, but since the eventual occupiers of this mansion were major landowners in Smalley and were also the patrons of...
The Jacobites in Smalley Few people would readily associate the village of Smalley, situated about two miles west of Heanor, with Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 – but there is a clear link. During the winter of 1745, Charles Edward...
