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Bonsall, Derbyshire
Bonsall maps
Historic maps of Bonsall and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Bonsall maps
Historic map of Bonsall
Illustrated Victorian map of Derbyshire
Historic Map of any Bonsall postcode
Bonsall books
Displaying 3 of 11 books about Bonsall and the local area. View all Bonsall books
Derbyshire Revisited Photographic Memories
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Derbyshire Dales Photographic Memories
Paperback
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Derbyshire Photographic Memories
Paperback
$28
6 Bonsall photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
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My Aunt Emma was born Emma Blood, she had two sisters Ivy and Lily all born in Middleton by Wirksworth. Emma was born circa 1903. In the 1920s she was a domestic at what she called the 'big house at Ashbourne'. She started courting Thomas Gould, he was born Wirksworth and every night he would walk from Wirksworth to Ashbourne, leaving... [more]
Shared on 20 June 2009
Matlock is a very pretty place, I remember stopping off at Matlock on our way to Nottingham when I was 8 years old. I remember so well how pretty the place was, the dales, hill sides the scenery, just beautiful.
Shared on 14 April 2008
My Great Grandfather Geo. B. Barton established a hydrotherapy business in Matlock Bank in the late 1800s. I believe the first was Jackson House, then he built Dalefield House(later Lilybank) His daughter, my Grandmother, emigrated to New Zealand. I am interedsted in any photos of the above, information etc. I believe he is buried in a local cemetery. If anyone has... [more]
Shared on 18 March 2008
My dad was born in Hackney, London in 1922. Named Arthur Lawrence Gibbs, son of William Arthur Gibbs. My grandad came to Australia in 1925 with my grandma and with 3 or 4 children pioneed a farm in Northcliffe in Western Australia. I myself have been to England but only once in my life(I was born in 1953). My son and... [more]
Shared on 04 November 2008
I lived in the house on the right (Hazel House) just before the bakery from 1958-1988. Many memories of there. Anyone with any memories of Two Dales, please don´t hesitate to contact.
Shared on 01 June 2006
I am interested in your scottish/brassington connection. Mygt gt gt gt grandfather is supposed to related to Rob Roy MacGregor and indeed our tartan was the MacGregor tartan. I know he was born according to the census in 1841 in Brassington in 1796 but cannot find any records of his birth in the parish records although the person in charge of... [more]
Shared on 23 January 2008
I recall staying in the youth hostel in Elton (Elton Hall was it?) when on a hostelling holiday in August 1967 with my girlfriend Angela Chapuis. We had a lovely time walking between Ilam Hall, Hartington and Elton youth hostels in idyllic summer weather.
Somewhere I still have some photos from that trip.
Shared on 11 January 2010
Extracts From Bonsall & Derbyshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Bonsall, inspired by Frith photos.
Derbyshire Revisited Photographic Memories
Tufa Cottage, on the Via Gellia road from Cromford to Bonsall, was constructed entirely from blocks of tufa, the stone deposited by lime-rich water in this limestone country. A woman poses in her horse-drawn trap. The road was named after Phillip Gell of Cromford, who had it built in the late 18th century.
This is an extract from Derbyshire Revisited Photographic Memories.
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Tufa Cottage, on the Via Gellia road from Cromford to Bonsall, was constructed entirely from blocks of tufa, the stone deposited by lime-rich water in this limestone country. A woman poses in her horse-drawn trap (foreground left). The road was named after Phillip Gell of Cromford, who had it built in the late 18th century.
This is an extract from Matlock Photographic Memories.
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Derbyshire Revisited Photographic Memories
Lead mining was still very much a local industry in Bonsall when this photograph was taken outside the Pig of Lead Inn. The people in the photograph are interesting, from the horse and cart and man carrying a basket and harness on the left, to the two boys, one dressed in a sailor suit, and a man who may be their... [more]
This is an extract from Derbyshire Revisited Photographic Memories.
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