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Derby Town Trail

Derby. Thu 28 Dec 2017


 Franceys House built in 1695 for Alderman William Franceys in Market Place
     
 
     
 The Joseph Wright birthplace memorial and at right 'The Standing Order', an 1880 bank now a Wetherspoons, worth a visit to admire the interior
     
 24 Iron Gate , an 18th century house which had its roof removed to create a studio for Derby's pioneering photographer Richard Keane (1825-94)

 The blue plaque is for John Whitehurst FRS (1713-68)

 

 Queen St

 and Ye Olde Dolphin, which despite the name and was first licensed in 1530. The faced is 17th century.

 

 

 Court of Probate, St Mary's Gate

 

 

 Now a hotel

 

 'County Offices' at 29 St Mary's Gate - Middleton House (1912)

 

 Former Shire Hall, now Magistrates Court

 

 Jury St

 Derby College Joseph Wright Centre,

 Brook St
     
 Wesley Chapel is now a restuarant/ bar. It was Derby's first Baptist Chapel in 1802 before becoming Methodist. Rykneld Mill, Brook Street 1808 and later

 Banks & Sons, Bridge St - 1860s

 St John the Evangelist, Bridge Street

 Friar Gate

 

 Headless Cross, Friar Gate

 Friar Gate

  Former Gaol, Francis Goodwin 1823-27, South St

 Friar Gate

 

 

 

 Friar Gate Bridge - 1876 for the Great Northern Railway - line closed 1968.

PIckford's House, 1769 - now a museum


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