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Living in the same house in the same village all your life brings a desire to know what has gone before….

 

On the Track

On the Track

Unstone’s industrial archaeology provided places years ago for some of us to have childhood adventures.  You can explore this relict landscape along the Unstone Line from Unstone Junction to Crow Lane Bridge and beyond to coke ovens at Summerley Colliery....

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Church Centenary

Church Centenary

In August 2015 I was asked to help the church committee make preparations to commemorate the laying of the foundation stone for St Mary’s Church. The bookazine ‘CENTENARY’ was born from the exhibition using previously unseen parish magazine archives....

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On the Doorstep

On the Doorstep

After publishing ‘On the Track,’ I was offered many pieces of information, photographs, anecdotes and maps about Unstone’s history. The difficulty was hanging them all together. ‘On the Doorstep’ was created from this eclectic mix of recollections about Unstone’s past....

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