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Tibshelf maps
Historic maps of Tibshelf and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Tibshelf maps
Tibshelf photos
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Tibshelf area books
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Derbyshire memories
I am The Boy on The Bike!
I am the lad on the bike in this photo. I remember the photographer standing in the road with a camera on a tripod. I know for def it was a Saturday morning because it was my job to fetch the bread from Stoppards the butchers/bakers every Saturday morning.
Stoppards Butchers
I remember pigs squealing as they arrived for slaughter. We lived on the street below.
My Gran
My gran was born on this street, she lived here till she married then moved to Huthwaite village where we grew up. I loved exploring Derbyshire. Most of my ancestors were born here including Sir Richard Arkwright (Inventor of the cotton mill)..Great memories...
Doe Lea in WW2
I arrived in Doe Lea in June 1940 with other evacuees from Lowestoft, Suffolk. I lived in Doe Lea untill 1944. At first we were not accepted by the local children, eventually we mingled and became friends, since the war have been back many times and visited various friends.
Sadly the village was razed to the ground and most of the villagers moved elsewhere. I strolled around this summer what is now called The Brambles but nothing is the same as it was and I think every thing is spoilt.
My war-time education was at Stainsby School which stood me in good stead all my working life.
I chuckle at times when I think what us kids got up to in the wartime black out.
I think that all us ex-evacuees left a bit of ourselves in Doe Lea when we left and came back to Lowestoft.
Incidents Remembered
Doe Lea was near to Hardwick which during the Second World War was an Airborne training camp, we could go into Hardwick and watch troops jump out of a balloon, they had to jump from a balloon a few times before jumping from a plane, I remember a lad had picked up some shrapnel which he had put into his pocket which burned a hole in his jacket. The incident I remember very clearly was when one evening a group of us children were playing on the top row of Doe Lea, it was during the evening, two lads came running towards us saying they had found a hand grenade, one of the lads had it in his hand. As he showed us, one of the lads grabbed the grenade and pulled the pin, it started smoking so it was dropped and we all scarpered, it exploded but no one was hurt, a piece of shrapnel went through a window of a house and smashed a picture on the wall. Another incident... Read more
Doe Lea
I remember playing in the streets when there was back to back houses before they knocked them down. I moved just before then, as far as I know I've still got relatives in Glapwell. I am related to the Blueits Blewits who lived there .
Wycliffe Congregational Church
My Grandfather, the Reverend Thomas Arthur Bairstow was the minister of this Church from 1924-30. This year (2007) we visited Alfreton for the first time. It was heartening to find that the church is still being used as such. New Life Church (NLC)now use the building and, although it was a weekday, we were able, courtesey of the Pastor, to enter the building and take some photographs. There are still several plaques remaining commemorating past members and events. The interior remains almost unaltered apart from the removal of the pews in favour of more versatile seating. The organ, although no longer in use, remains in situ.
