Bolsover
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Map of Derbyshire
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Bolsover books (9 available)
Buxton Town and City Memories
Paperback
Derbyshire Photographic Memories
Paperback
Peak District Photographic Memories
Paperback
- 3 photos on Bolsover appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Bolsover
- Read extracts and see photos from these books on Bolsover and Derbyshire
Bolsover memories
Read and share memories of Bolsover and Derbyshire inspired by Frith photos
school days in bolsover
Friday market coming home from welbeck road school through the market down castle lane to carr vale with a 1d hovis loaf in my hand
Contributed by brian spray
grannys house
my grandparents lived at 77 Old Hill, third house just behind tree, Mr and Mrs Thomas. I lived there till they built the Wimpy estate on fields behind my mum and dad, then got a council house. I loved living on the old hill, the family next door I am still friends with. That big tree in front of the houses used to have a tree swing, all the kids used to have a swing on it. A lot of children lived in the other houses you can see and nearly all still live in Bolsover.
Contributed by linda geraghty
Derbyshire memories
grannys house
my grandparents lived at 77 Old Hill, third house just behind tree, Mr and Mrs Thomas. I lived there till they built the Wimpy estate on fields behind my mum and dad, then got a council house. I loved living on the old hill, the family next door I am still friends with. That big tree in front of the houses used to have a tree swing, all the kids used to have a swing on it. A lot of children lived in the other houses you can see and nearly all still live in Bolsover.
A memory of Bolsover contributed by linda geraghty
school days in bolsover
Friday market coming home from welbeck road school through the market down castle lane to carr vale with a 1d hovis loaf in my hand
A memory of Bolsover contributed by brian spray
Extracts From Bolsover & Derbyshire books
This view shows Sir Charles Cavendish's 17th-century 'Little Castle', or keep, at Bolsover Castle. Recently extensively renovated by its current custodians, English Heritage, Bolsover Castle was originally built high on a limestone crag overlooking the town by William Peveril, illegitimate son of William the Conqueror.
An extract from from"Derbyshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
Here we see the ruins of the once luxurious state rooms of Bolsover Castle. It was probably in these rooms that the Duke of Newcastle lavished thousands of pounds on entertaining Charles I. One such three-day visit by the king in 1634 is said to have set the duke back £15,000, a phenomenal amount of money in 17th-century England.
An extract from from"English Castles".
The ivy-clad Western Terrace at Bolsover, built by Charles Cavendish's son, William, commands fine views over the valleys of the River Rother and Doe Lea. The roofless wing has been consolidated by English Heritage, but no longer sports the luxuriant growth of ivy we see here.
An extract from from"Derbyshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
This distant view was taken from the north of the linear
village of Darley Dale, which spreads along the A6
north of Matlock on the road to Bakewell. Riber Castle
can be seen on the distant horizon to the left.
An extract from from"Matlock Photographic Memories".
Another view from Cromford Bridge of Willersley Castle, this time seen peeping above the trees. A stone on the bridge
marks the spot where Benjamin Heywood went straight into the river as he returned home on horseback in 1697, and
emerged unscathed.
An extract from from"Matlock Photographic Memories".