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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 Grange later became a children's hospital.

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

The Derby Chapel on the left, where he now rests, later became the Manchester Regiment Chapel in 1936, when the then Lord Derby gave it to the Regiment.

These low, half-timbered and thatched cottages at Repton probably date from Tudor times; they give an indication of the antiquity of this sleepy township, which lies eight miles to the south-west of Derby

On the left is the Home Office, and to the right is the Red Lion pub, built in 1898 on the corner of Derby's Gate.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

On becoming a first-class side in 1894, Derbyshire's home games were confined to the County Ground in Derby.

So important were the mines that in Edward I's reign 300 miners from Derby were brought down to work them.

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. In more recent years the famous Mill Reef took the title.