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Bateman was also responsible for laying out the Arboretum at Derby, the first public park in England.The Grange later became a children's hospital.

In 1828 the Earl of Derby presented the city with Stanley Palace.

This view north towards Forest Hill Station shows the junction with Derby Hill as it was before the church on the left gave way to the Heron House office block.

In 1828 the Earl of Derby presented the city with Stanley Palace.

Bateman was also responsible for laying out the Arboretum at Derby, the first public park in England.

The church is thought to have been restored by the local squire with the proceeds of a win on the Derby.

Built as a private residence in 1834, Derby Castle was converted into an entertainment centre in 1877, featuring variety shows, afternoon concerts and dancing in the ballroom.

Another view of Derby Road, Swanwick, a little further north, opposite Willgoose's newsagents shop, on the left.

The 'Western Morning News' is advertised for sale, and the newspaper headlines include a fire in Exeter and the announcement that Lemberg is this year's Derby winner.

Semi-detached houses like these would have been snapped up by house-buyers wanting to be in commuting distance from Derby, just six miles away on the A38.

Dating from 1926, the war memorial was opened by the Earl of Derby, though its cost was borne by Caleb Thornber, a cotton manufacturer and former Mayor of Burnley.

As well as being a market town, Ormskirk has a long association with the Earls of Derby who lived at Knowsley Hall.

In the 1970s Derbyshire CCC temporarily ceased playing at Derby and the club gave serious consideration to a permanent move to Chesterfield.

An almost complete lack of traffic is quite amazing, considering that this road is the main A6 trunk road between Derby and Manchester.

At the end of the 19th century John Porter's stables produced six Derby winners.

As well as being a market town, Ormskirk has a long association with the Earls of Derby who lived at Knowsley Hall.

Double-decker buses wait to take their passengers to Derby and Kirk Hallam, and parking was yet to become a problem in the 1950s.

As well as being a market town, Ormskirk has a long association with the Earls of Derby who lived at Knowsley Hall.

Other systems that closed down in 1934 were Colne, Derby, Middlesborough, Nelson, Northampton, Guernsey, Rhondda and Torquay.

Once utilised to deliver raw materials and to take away the finished products to Derby or to Leicester, the waterway is basically reduced to the status of a leisure facility.

cottages on the winding lanes remained the same except for the replacement of their wheat straw roofs by corrugated metal sheets; an instance is the old Reading Room between Carr's Green Common and the Derby

The development of this part of the town only really dates from the opening of the railway between Crewe and Derby in 1848.

The stately 212ft-high Perpendicular tower of Derby's Cathedral of All Saints, which dominates this view of Iron Gate, still exerts a powerful influence on the county's biggest city.

True to its name, it is on the former Roman road which linked Derby and Chesterfield, and its solidly-built parish church looks like a miniature Liverpool Cathedral.