by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | May 20, 2024 | Shipley
The five photographs on this page have been sent to us by John Bradley, a local photo-historian. They were taken around 1890 by Alfred Seaman, the well-known local photographer who opened his first studio in Chesterfield in the 1880s, and whose imprint can be seen on...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | May 20, 2024 | Shipley
Although it is on the edge of our area, Shipley is probably the most photographed part of the district. This page gives just a few of the many postcards which can be found of the Hall, the lake, and the wood. It is often listed as Shipley, Ilkeston – the...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | May 20, 2024 | Shipley
There had been a hall at Shipley since at least the 13th century. It is known that Sir Edward Leche, the Lord of the Manor, built a hall there in 1630s, a tall gabled house. In 1713 the Hall was passed to Sir Edward’s granddaughter, Hester Miller, who married...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | May 15, 2024 | Marlpool and Langley
The largest cemetery in the area by far is to be found on Ilkeston Road, Marlpool. Whilst Heanor Cemetery, as it is officially named, is administered by the local authority, prior to the mid-nineteenth century all burials took place at religious sites. But in 1856, a...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | May 15, 2024 | Marlpool and Langley
Did you know….? Langley is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, 700 years before Langley Mill existed! Other local places in the Domesday Book were Heanor, Codnor, and “Smithycotes.” Did you know….? Langley used to have its own...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | May 15, 2024 | History by Area
Aldercar is an old area of what is now a joint administrative parish with Langley Mill. The grandest building in Aldercar (and Langley Mill too, for that matter) was Aldercar Hall. Originally built in 1668, by the mid 1800s the Hall was occupied by the Wright family,...
