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Derby: Art deco relief on former Gaumont Palace Cinema, London Road 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:33:00 +0000

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According to www.derbyphotos.co.uk/areas_city/londonrd.htm, built in 1934 as the Gaumont Palace cinema. Later the Odeon cinema and then the Canon cinema; subsequently the Zanzibar nightclub

Derby: Silk Mill (now Industrial Museum) 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:25:45 +0000

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On the site of the first silk mill in England, built in 1702, but rebuilt after a fire in 1826 and largely rebuilt after another fire in 1910. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1287508 .

Derby: 43-44 Friar Gate 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 19:01:37 +0000

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Possibly designed by Joseph Pickford, according to The buildings of England: Derbyshire (rev. edn., corrected reprint, 1979), p.181. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1216527 .

Derby: Cathedral (All Saints) 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:23:52 +0000

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From E. Derby's principal parish church until 1927, when raised to cathedral status. Early C16 west tower. The body of the church was rebuilt to the designs of James Gibbs, 1723-5. E extension, including retrochoir, 1967-72 to designs of Sebastian Comper. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1228277 .

Derby: Cathedral (All Saints), Chancel screen 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:44:49 +0000

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From E. By Robert Bakewell (d. 1752), installed after the church (then Derby's principal parish church) was rebuilt in 1723-5

Derby: Cathedral (All Saints) from St Mary's Gate 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:44:40 +0000

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Early C16 west tower seen from W. The body of the church, just visible, was rebuilt to the designs of James Gibbs, 1723-5. It was Derby's chief parish church until it was raised to cathedral status in 1927. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1228277 .

Derby: Gates to the Silk Mill 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:24:15 +0000

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By Robert Bakewell, c.1730, for Sir Thomas Lombe who, with his half brother, John, was a pioneer of silk manufacture in England. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1229981 .

Derby: 66 and 66A (and 66B) Friar Gate 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:44:44 +0000

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Late C18. List description (as 66 and 66A): list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1287557 . I at first thought that this might have been conceived as a pair of houses, but the listing (which dates from 1952) does not mention the right-hand door (above the bonnet of the parked car) - indeed, it doesn't quite match the one on the left; this could be because the door and fanlight have been replaced, but the arch looks slightly different too. There is a further door in the section on the far right; perhaps this was originally the main door to a single house, although the upper floor of this section looks like a later extension, since the brickwork does not match the main structure.

Derby: 66 and 66A (and 66B) Friar Gate, with Headless Cross 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:44:20 +0000

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Late C18. List description (as 66 and 66A): list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1287557 . For further comment, see www.flickr.com/photos/40878011@N07/8261728263/ .

In the foreground is the "Headless Cross", according to this page "also known as the Plague Stone or Vinegar Stone, because money was deposited in a trough of vinegar in the top of the stone in the belief that the vinegar would disinfect the coins and prevent the spread of the plague, this stone originally formed part of a medieval cross which stood at the upper end of Friargate. It was removed from the Arboretum park and replaced here near its original site in June 1979." List description (while still in the arboretum): list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1288049 .

Derby: Bridge Gate 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:27:58 +0000

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The remaining fragment of Bridge Gate seen from the bridge over the ring road. On the left is the side elevation of St Helen's House in King Street, built 1766-7 for Alderman John Gisborne to the designs of Joseph Pickford [Maxwell Craven in Georgian Group Journal, XVII (2009), p.78; list description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1228285 ]. To the right, 11 Bridge Gate (occupied by St Mary's Convent since 1862) is partly C19 with a C18 re-fronting of earlier (perhaps late C16) buildings on the right: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1215807 .

Derby: St Mary's Church 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:27:14 +0000

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From E (liturgical S). Roman Catholic parish church built at the expense of the earl of Shrewsbury and designed by A. W. Pugin, 1838. This is as good a photograph as I could manage of the nave and aisles, which are rather more austerely treated than the tower, which faced Bridge Gate. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1215808 .

Derby: Cathedral (All Saints), Consistory Court 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:30:29 +0000

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Inscription recording the rebuilding of the church.

Derby: Cathedral (All Saints), Consistory Court 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:30:54 +0000

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C17 according to The Buildings of England (2nd edn., reprinted with corrections, 1979), p.169, although to my eyes the panelling could be later.

Derby: Cathedral (All Saints), Monument to Bess of Hardwick 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:32:28 +0000

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Derby: Cathedral (All Saints), monument to Thomas Chambers (d. 1726) and his wife (d. 1735) 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:31:25 +0000

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Bust of Thomas Chambers by Roubiliac

Derby: Friar Gate 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:42:49 +0000

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View from W. looking towards the former Great Northern Railway bridge. When built in the C18, these houses constituted "ribbon development" along the road to Ashbourne.

Derby: Friar Gate transformer box 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:16:19 +0000

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Cast iron structure in Friar Gate, apparently a transformer box dating from 1893 ( www.derby.gov.uk/media/derbycitycouncil/contentassets/doc... ). According to this page it was for the electric tram service, but www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1705872 says it was for an electric lighting scheme, and this seems more likely to be correct if the dates given by www.oldderbyphotos.co.uk/derby-days-gone-by are to be trusted - this page says that Derby got its first electric street lights in 1894 but did not get its first electric tram until 1904.

Derby: County Hall (now Magistrates' Court), St Mary's Gate 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:26:43 +0000

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Dated 1659 on rainwater heads. The complete façade is symmetrical. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1279174 .

Drawing of the building, c.1800, before flanking wings were added: www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?action=printdetail... .

Derby: St Mary's Church 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:58:33 +0000

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From S (liturgical W). Roman Catholic parish church built at the expense of the earl of Shrewsbury and designed by A. W. Pugin, 1838. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1215808 . The list description refers to a "tall slender spire", but, although this was proposed, it was never built, according to The buildings of England: Derbyshire (corrected reprint of 2nd edn., 1979), p.171. The bridge in the foreground dates from 2007 and crosses the ring road; I suppose that the opening up of this view of St Mary's may have been one of the ring road's few benefits, from a townscape point of view.

Derby: the junction of Victoria Street, Wardwick and the Strand 2012-12-10

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:39:00 +0000

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From S. The Strand, the curving street entering from the NW, was laid out in 1878, when the Markeaton Brook was culverted. The buildings in the Strand date from 1881; list description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1279060 . The buildings on the left, on the corner of Wardwick and the Strand, date from c.1883: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1229611 . On the right is part of the former General Post Office of 1869: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1279012 .