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Buxton Town and City Memories
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Derbyshire Living Memories
Paperback
Matlock Photographic Memories
Paperback
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Baslow memories
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Lady Of Baslow and Lost Friendship In Time
It was 12May1967 when I first received a beautiful letter from her. She was a high school student and I was in the 1st yr of Engineering. Her name was Miss Elizabeth Noton. She with her widow mother used to live at 13, West End, Baslow. She lost her father when she was a child. Her mother raised her. She was the only child of her parents. She was as natural as any element of mother nature. She was simple, pious and above all relegious. I remember her favourite pastime was Bell Ringing in a nearby church. We used to write each other perhaps once in a month as it was very difficult for both of us to afford postal costs ...read more here
Contributed by Sitanshu Mohan Banerjee
Whereabout of Lady of Baslow
My memory having title "Lady Of Baslow and Lost Friendship In Time" was published on 25.01.08 that describes my friendship with Ms Elizabeth Noton who used to reside at 13, West End, Baslow, Bakewell, Darbyshire, England in 1967. We were in touch up to 1973 but suddenly our contact snapped due to many obvious reasons. I shall be very glad if anyone can give me any information about her. After all we are human beings and any good friend will always search for his/her good friend if he/she is lost in the crowd of the world. In 1967 I was 20 yrs old and she probably was 15 yrs old and today I'm 61 yrs old and probably she will be ...read more here
Contributed by Sitanshu Mohan Banerjee
Derbyshire memories
Lady Of Baslow and Lost Friendship In Time
It was 12May1967 when I first received a beautiful letter from her. She was a high school student and I was in the 1st yr of Engineering. Her name was Miss Elizabeth Noton. She with her widow mother used to live at 13, West End, Baslow. She lost her father when she was a child. Her mother raised her. She was the only child of her parents. She was as natural as any element of mother nature. She was simple, pious and above all relegious. I remember her favourite pastime was Bell Ringing in a nearby church. We used to write each other perhaps once in a month as it was very difficult for both of us to afford postal costs ...read more here
A memory of Baslow contributed by Sitanshu Mohan Banerjee
Whereabout of Lady of Baslow
My memory having title "Lady Of Baslow and Lost Friendship In Time" was published on 25.01.08 that describes my friendship with Ms Elizabeth Noton who used to reside at 13, West End, Baslow, Bakewell, Darbyshire, England in 1967. We were in touch up to 1973 but suddenly our contact snapped due to many obvious reasons. I shall be very glad if anyone can give me any information about her. After all we are human beings and any good friend will always search for his/her good friend if he/she is lost in the crowd of the world. In 1967 I was 20 yrs old and she probably was 15 yrs old and today I'm 61 yrs old and probably she will be ...read more here
A memory of Baslow contributed by Sitanshu Mohan Banerjee
Extracts From Baslow & Derbyshire books
Guests were always welcome at hydropathic establishments, even when they were not taking water treatments.
In 1906 pensions (daily rate for room and meals) at The Grand started at 10s 6d and were on a par with similar
establishments at Buxton, where the rates varied between 9s and 16s.
An extract from from"Chesterfield Photographic Memories".
Riverside beeches frame Baslow's three-arched medieval bridge at Nether End, as it strides across the River Derwent with elegant ease. It is one of two bridges in the village - the other one at Bridge End dates from the 17th century, and features a tiny toll house with a 3½ ft (1m) high doorway.
An extract from from"Derbyshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
The eastern end of the village of Baslow is known as Nether End. This 50s view is from outside the Cavendish
Arms Hotel, looking west. Note the old-fashioned ‘beacon of learning’ school sign and AA logo near the sign
advertising the hotel, which takes its name from the ruling Dukes of Devonshire from nearby Chatsworth.
An extract from from"Derbyshire Living Memories".
Eastwood Grange c1955
This is Eastwood Grange, but on the
outskirts of Ashover are the remains of
Eastwood Old Hall, built by Sir Thomas
Reresby and blown up in 1646 by
Parliamentarian troops commanded by
that ‘licenced ruffian’ Sir John Gell.
An extract from from"Chesterfield Photographic Memories".
Frederick Barker was born at Baslow on 17 March 1808, and followed other members of his family by becoming a
churchman. Frederick rose through the ranks to become Bishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of Australia (1854-
1884). Following his death in San Remo he was brought back to Baslow, where he is interred.
An extract from from"Chesterfield Photographic Memories".