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Derby Town Trail

Derby. Thu 28 Dec 2017



 Florence Nightingale on the 1912 former Boots the Chemists, St Peter's St
     
 at right, John Lombe (co-founder of the Silk Mill) and William Hutton, Historian of Derby & Birmingham (1723-1815)

 Jebidiah Strutt

 Derby Theatre

 The Eagle Market

 The White Horse, 1923 Morledge
     
 Savoy, Morledge and The City Bar, Albert St (formerly Exchange pub and Mongolia Bar) dating from around 1860

 Market Hall, 1866

 

 

 

 Below the Guildhall Theatre
     
 Market Place. and right, Iron Gate and Derby Cathedral

 Derby Cathedral interior

 
     
 The Silk Mill (again!) This was the first modern factory in the world.

 

 Riverside walkway - Bonny Prince Charlie stopped here and gave up going further south, retreating to defeat in Scotland

 Erasmus Darwin, foounder of The Derby Philosophical Society and member of the Lunar Society and grandfather of Charles Darwin

 is commemorated on the Derwent St Bridge

 Derby River Gardens

 

 Derby Cathedral and the River Derwent

 

 

 Alexandra Hotel, Siddals Rd - 1881

 Pride Parkway and Railway bridge

 Wyvern House, Railway Terrace dates from shortly before 1852

 Wyvern House and Brunswick Inn (1842) Railway Terrace

 
     
 pediment and clock from former 1893 extended station frontage

 Built in 1842, the railway cottages in this area are thought to be the oldest purpose built railway company cottages in the World.

 The Former Midland Railway Institute (189

 The Former Midland Railway Institute (189

 

The Former Midland Railway Institute (1894)

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