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2017

 19 Dec 2016 - Brian Steele - My Aunty May Wint gave me a bible about 55 years ago. This document was in it

 16 Dec 2016 - We will be celebrating the 750th Anniversary of Charter Granted in 1267 - If you would like to be involved in these celebrations please contact me.

 16 Dec 2016 - Photo Album - Alan Davis AKA ‘Dallan’ Remembered

 14 Dec 2016 - St Wilfrid's Church Guide - By Alan Cooper and Roger Wood - 2016

  2 Dec 2016 - Information About Mr George Spencer. Manager of Mapperley Colliery

29 Nov 2016 - Photo Album, George Spencer, Manager of Mapperley Colliery, Remembered

29 Oct 2016 - Pitt Motty found by Tim Bennett belonged to Samuel Howitt was given to his great granddaughter

27 Oct 2016 - Ilkeston Pioneer, 10 May 1866 - Merry's Gout and Rheumatic Pills

27 Oct 2016 - Ilkeston Pioneer, 8 Nov 1866 - MR. HOPKINS to Sell the below with possession of the Wind Mill up to Lady Day next

27 Oct 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph, 01 Dec 1919 - Major Checkland's Marriage. Presentations at West Hallam Colliery

27 Oct 2016 - Ilkeston Pioneer, 25 Oct 1866 - MR PALING to Sell by AUCTION, the Under Mentioned

21 Oct 2016 - Photo Gallery - The Austerity NCB No. 32 @ Woodside Colliery in 1952 very kindly supplied by R Penman

21 Oct 2016 - Photo - Muriel with granddaughter Bethany Cook and Joyce Cook, Kevin's mum

17 Oct 2016 - Alan Davis AKA ‘Dallan’ Remembered - Ilkeston Life Article October 2016 by Dave Towers

12 Oct 2016 - Brenda Parker - Further Memories

10 Oct 2016 - Brenda Parker - My Uncle and Godfather, Denis Lloyd

  8 Oct 2016 - Photographs to go with Trevor Durow's Memories

  2 Oct 2016 - Trevor Durow's Memories

27 Sep 2016 - Richard Skinner's son Matthew (Matt) at his graduation in Lincoln September 2016

22 Sep 2016 - Off The Ration - Story Of West Hallam Pig Killing - 1943

22 Sep 2016 - Trouble Between Relatives. Ilkeston Woman Bound Over For Using Threats - 1910

14 Sep 2016 - Marriage of Gordon Haynes and Margaret Wilson at Derby 1949

14 Sep 2016 - Rev'd Frank Smith - died 30th August 2016, aged 76

13 Sep 2016 - Derby Mercury - Heanor Licensing Session refused Mapperley applications - 1894

13 Sep 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Six Bridesmaids - Mapperley Bride of Mr. Lewis Jackson - 1939

13 Sep 2016 - Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald - Presentation to Mr. E. M. Mundy, J.P., of Shipley Hall - 1883

13 Sep 2016 - Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald - Inquest, 4 year old Annie Birkin drowned at Mapperley Reservoir - 1883

13 Sep 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Plans For House Of Paralysed Man - 1950

12 Sep 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Postmistress 44 Years, West Hallam, Gifts to Miss Hobson - 1937

12 Sep 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Rev. W. R. Lloyd Jones, New Rector of West Hallam - 1938

12 Sep 2016 - Dartmouth & South Hams Chronicle - Sheffield Independent - Blind Girl Cured, Sight Restored After 21 Years - 1909

12 Sep 2016 - Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal - Church Restoration – The Rev. C. E. Little - 1886

12 Sep 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Squire Mundy's Body To Be Re-Interred - 1930

12 Sep 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - The Funeral of Mrs. Rosina Pleming - 1940

12 Sep 2016 - Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal - NOTICE Concerning a Bridleway and Footway Leading From Mapperley - 1880

12 Sep 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Piped Water For Villagers - 1946

12 Sep 2016 - Sheffield Independent - Derbyshire Miners Meeting at Mapperley - 1890

12 Sep 2016 - Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald - Colliers' Strike At Mapperley - 1877

12 Sep 2016 - Mapperley History Coffee Morning, Sept 2016, Shipley Hall and the Miller-Mundy Family

11 Sep 2016 - Ilkeston Pioneer - 1866 - Mapperley Thanksgivings Service - Mysterious Death

11 Sep 2016 - Ilkeston Pioneer - Mapperley - Amicable Sick Club - 1866

10 Sep 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - 1946 - Sweden's Timbered 'Prefabs' Go Up In Derbyshire

10 Sep 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - West Hallam Festival - 1933

10 Sep 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Unmistakable signs of spring's awakening - 1925

10 Sep 2016 - Nottingham Evening Post - 1946 - Key To Coal Problem

10 Sep 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - 1937 - Miss N. Hobson Mapperley Girl Chosen As West Hallam "Queen"

10 Sep 2016 - Double Pit Fatality. Heanor And Mapperley Victims Fall Down Kilburn Colliery Shaft - 1929

10 Sep 2016 - Evolution of the £ symbol

10 Sep 2016 - Opening Of A Memorial Organ At West Hallam - Derby Mercury - 19 October 1864

 6 Sep 2016 - Ilkeston Municipal Government 1887 - 1962

 4 Sep 2016 - Ilkeston Pioneer

29 Aug 2016 - Mapperley History Project warmly invites you to a Coffee Morning and talk, The Miller-Mundy Scandal of 1878 - The Old Black Horse, Wed 7 Sept, 10 till 12 noon - Click Here For More Details

22 Aug 2016 - Alan Sarson - Memories

22 Aug 2016 - It was a real pleasure to meet up with you and visit your lovely village - Alan Sarson

  14 Aug 2016 - Astra Warren (née Bancroft) now living in Western Australia

  12 Aug 2016 - Phone and Post Boxes of West Hallam and Mapperley

  09 Aug 2016 - Cert & mug presented to all recipients of the West Hallam Parish Council Community Awards 2000

  08 Aug 2016 - Mrs Irene Martin, Mr Luther Martin and Daughter Diane Martin Holding the Precious Candlestick

  08 Aug 2016 - Candlesticks Snuffed Out By Gas Hazard - October 1984

  04 Aug 2016 - West Hallam Parish Council Community Awards 2000

  29 Jul 2016 - Bill Ogden passed away in July 2016 - Rest in Peace Bill

  29 Jul 2016 - The Candlestick (Royal Oak) Park Hall Mapperley, Freda Underwood - July 2016

  03 Jul 2016 - Mapperley Celebrates Queen Elizabeth's 90th Birthday June 2016

  29 Jun 2016 - Tim Bennett - When I was metal detecting in Mapperley I found a pit motty belonging to a Mr Howitt,
  See Photo Gallery
 - See also Mapperley Colliery

  28 Jun 2016 - West Hallam Station Photographs, Before and After

  28 Jun 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Sat 30 Nov 1946 - In Case of Fire

  28 Jun 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Mon 03 June 1940 - Happy Evacuees Come To Derbyshire

  28 Jun 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - 4 June 1941 - Evacuees to be Moved From Mapperley

  28 Jun 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Derby Daily Telegraph - Sat 21 Jun 1941 - Seaman Gets 15 Months

  28 Jun 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Fri 24 Sep 1948 - Monster Beans At Mapperley.

  27 Jun 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Wed 29 Dec 1948 - Mapperley Has Outbreak Of Impetigo

  27 Jun 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Mon 30 Jun 1947 - Aluminium Houses For Mapperley.

  28 Jun 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - 1 Aug 1944 - Sale of Houses by auction at Smalley Common.

  27 Jun 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Mon 6 Nov 1944 - Son Debarred From Home.

  27 Jun 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Mon 6 Apr 1942 - For Sale, Head House Farm, Mapperley.

  27 Jun 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Fri 5 Feb 1937 - Earl Of Harrington's Hunt Will Meet.

  27 Jun 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Tue 10 Sept 1935 - Mapperley Show, proceeds For Elderly People's Tea.

  24 Jun 2016 - August 1931 - Mr. Percy Francis Pleming, second son of the Rev. John Pleming, Vicar of Mapperley.

  22 Jun 2016 - Derby Evening Telegraph Tuesday February 28, 1933 - FARM SOLD FOR £850

  22 Jun 2016 - Derby Evening Telegraph, Sep 1902 - Samuel Bell, a farm labourer, Tried To Hang Himself

  20 Jun 2016 - New Section - Mapperley and West Hallam Information

  19 Jun 2016 - Mr John Robinson with his Horse at Nibby Pit - Chapel Youth Club. 1960's - Photo Gallery 5

  18 Jun 2016 - Mark Bowley - West Hallam Junior School Photos - 1940s

  12 Jun 2016 - The Old Black Horse has now officially started doing meals

  12 Jun 2016 - Nick and Cara would like to welcome you to the The Old Black Horse

  02 Jun 2016 - Skating on the Frozen Shipley Lake (1920s) - Shipley and Hall Gallery 2

  01 Jun 2016 - Woodside Colliery 1906 - Photo Gallery 10

  01 Jun 2016 - Sinking of the Last Shaft (No.3) at Shipley 1926 - 2 Coppice Colliery Photos - Photo Gallery 10

  27 May 2016 - More Photos of Shipley Hall - Photo Gallery 3

  25 May 2016 - More Photos - Shipley Hall - Photo Gallery 1

  24 May 2016 - Parish Call for Sequel to New Book - Ray and Ann Wathey

  23 May 2016 - Scargill School Photos 1950s, Names - Ray and Ann Wathey

  21 May 2016 - Mapperley Pond. Photograph kindly donated by Ray Wathey of West Hallam

  21 May 2016 - Scargill School Photos 1950s - Ray and Ann Wathey

  19 May 2016 - C of E School Circa 1954 From June and Pete Hawley

  19 May 2016 - Queens Coronation 1953 - Mapperley - From June and Pete Hawley

  18 May 2016 - West Hallam by Ray and Ann Wathey, a new section in progress

    8 May 2016 - West Hallam and Mapperley Magazine Information

  26 Apr 2016 - Rene Hawley and Joyce Richardson

  26 Apr 2016 - Mapperley children during Queen Elizabeth II Coronation celebrations 1953? Can you help with names?

  25 Apr 2016 - New Colliery At Mapperley - Derby Mercury - 07 Sep 1870

  24 Apr 2016 - 1911 Census Analysis - Thanks to D. Curtis for this information

  23 Apr 2016 - Tales of a Pit Man Review by Roger Wood

  08 Apr 2016 - Photo Gallery 2 - Mapperley FC Kindly supplied by Gary Trueman. Can you help with the date?

  08 Apr 2016 - Photo Gallery 2 - Michael Davis, Alan Davis and Pete Hawley, Miners Holiday Camp Skegness

  29 Mar 2016 - Derbyshire Women Die in Hotel Duc de Brabant Fire

  24 Mar 2016 - More Photos of Irene and Alan Sarson - Gallery 3

  23 Mar 2016 - New Era For Mapperley - Newspaper Cutting, October 1969 - Kindly donated by Margaret Cooke

  19 Mar 2016 - The Ballad of Tom Severn Written and Sung by Quentin Hood

  17 Mar 2016 - George Pearson, Personality Profile, Parish Magazine of May 1994

  11 Mar 2016 - Mapperley Licensee and Wife Fined at Ilkeston Magistrate's Tribute to Conduct of House - 1934

  11 Mar 2016 - Dog And The Lambs – 1943

  11 Mar 2016 - Mapperley Colliery Director's Death - Col. Beaumont Checkland – 1928

  10 Mar 2016 - Gallery One - Some Photos from Margaret Cooke left to her by her mother in law, Mrs Flo Cooke

  10 Mar 2016 - New Section, Mapperley Brick Works

  8 Mar 2016 - Nottingham Evening Post - Attacked In Bed. The Love Affair of Son.                         Six Months' Sentence at Notts. Assizes - 1923

  7 Mar 2016 - Nottingham Evening Post - Romance Of Blind, To Day's Wedding At Langley Mill - 1937

  7 Mar 2016 - Nottingham Evening Post - 22 Years In Darkness. The Derbyshire "Miracle" - 1909

  7 Mar 2016 - The Mapperley Colliery Co. Opened A Depot At Spalding, Lincolnshire - 1895

  7 Mar 2016 - Nottingham Evening Post - Derbyshire Miner Kills Partridges - 1940

  4 Mar 2016 - Cambridge Independent Press - Preferments and Appointments - 1886

  4 Mar 2016 - Nottingham Review and General Advertiser - Henry Porter, and Miss Fletcher Married - 1827

  4 Mar 2016 - Cheltenham Looker - Preferments and Appointments - 1879

  4 Mar 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Mapperley Pit Tragedy Deputy's Story Of Inspection. "All In Order" - 1932

  4 Mar 2016 - Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Man Found Dead At Mapperley - 1888

  4 Mar 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph - Fatal Accident At Mapperley Colliery 1919

29 Feb 2016 - Western Daily Press - Preferments And Appointments - Thursday 25 July 1878

29 Feb 2016 - Joseph Bertram took over when insolvent - Simon Fields Farm, Mapperley - 1931

29 Feb 2016 - The Rev. Charles Edward Little, vicar of Mapperley, Derbyshire, has been preferred by the Bishop of Southwell - 1887

29 Feb 2016 - Annual Show of West Hallam Floral and Horticultural Society - Belper News 1911

26 Feb 2016 - Roger Wood - Shipley Colliery Ambulance Station

23 Feb 2016 - Mandy Kobylecki's West Hallam Photographs

17 Feb 2016 - Roger Wood - 16 Feb 2016 - The Lamps from the Shipley Colliery “Black Maria” Continued

17 Feb 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph, 1896 - Meeting Held at Official Receiver's Offices, Derby

17 Feb 2016 - Nottinghamshire Guardian 1866 - Suspected Murder Near Derby

17 Feb 2016 - Portsmouth Evening News 1932 - Mapperley Pit, Thomas Watson and Fred Harris killed

Feb 2016 - Derek Arnold - Comments - Astonished at the amount and quality of material

12 Feb 2016 - WAITING FOR FOLLOWERS - The Master and Huntsmen meet of the Harringtons at Mapperley Village, 1931

12 Feb 2016 - Magazines Archiving Held At Derbyshire County Council Matlock Records Office

5 Feb 2016 - Alan Lodge - My Memories

1 Feb 2016 - Mr. Ernest Mayfield, head surveyor and assistant estate agent of the Mapperley Colliery Co, Ltd., died suddenly 1937

31 Jan 2016 - New Vicar Of Upton Snodsbury, son of the Rev. John Pleming, vicar since 1912 of Mapperley, Derbyshire

31 Jan 2016 - Hounds fulfilled their fixtures today, 1933

31 Jan 2016 - Derby Daily Telegraph – 1937 - Mapperley Village's Cheery Sexton

31 Jan 2016 - Photo Gallery 2 - Eric Barsby, Mick Hutchinson, Ron Richardson (Landlord of The Old Black Horse 1947 - 1979

30 Jan 2016 - Photo Gallery 10 - Tom France and Jerry the Pit Pony

30 Jan 2016 - Photo, Interior of Stanley Church (not dated)

28 Jan 2016 - Trueman, Janet remembered

28 Jan 2016 - WHM Parish Magazine Information

21 Jan 2016 - Have just come across the website and it has kept me busy all morning, well done! - AL

21 Jan 2016 - We often look into your lovely, friendly, interesting, History Project; it is really good and a real credit to you and your team. Thank you also for the DVD . . Alan S

12 Jan 2016 - In Memory of Alf Shaw


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