WELCOME TO THE SOMERCOTES LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY WEBSITE
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The Somercotes Local History Society and this website are supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund
We are currently developing the site so that we cover as much historical information, memories and photographs as we can about the history of the Parish of Somercotes.
If you wish to follow the history through the centuries please click on the relevant links on this Somercotes History page.
We hope that you enjoy exploring your local history through this site and if you can provide any history, local historical facts, memories or photographs please contact the history society through our link info@somercoteshistory.co.uk
RECENT UPDATES TO THE WEBSITE
- 12.07.2023 Previous update notices archived
- 12.07.2023 UPDATE: The Empire Cinema (Cinema & Nightclubs - Sport & Leisure)
- 12.07.2023 UPDATE: The Roller Skating Rink (Cinema & Nightclubs - Sport & Leisure)
- 13.07.2023 UPDATE: The Salvation Army (Churches & Religion - Education & Religion)
- 14.07.2023 UPDATE: Small update to The Black Horse Inn to reflect the recent demolition of the building (Featured Pubs & Taverns)
- 14.07.2023 NEW: Celebration of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (Featured Articles - Misc Information)
- 15.07.2023 UPDATE: Thomas Henry Musgrove of Somercotes - Boer War Soldier - update to include transcripts of letters sent from Thomas to his parents during the war (Featured Articles - The War Years)
- 16.07.2023 UPDATE: WW1 Soldier, COOPER, Tom (WW1 Soldiers - The War Years)
- 17.07.2023 UPDATE: WW1 Soldier, JOHNSON, Joseph (WW1 Soldiers - The War Years)
- 17.07.2023 NEW: Article titled "The Derbyshire Collieries Owned by the Seely Family" (Featured Articles - Industry & Business)
- 19.07.2023 NEW: Article titled "Alfreton Steam Corn Mill, Mill Yard, Somercotes, 1845" (Featured Articles - Industry & Business)
- 20.07.2023 NEW: Article titled "William George Nettleship" (1929-1984) Photographer (Featured Articles - Misc Information)
- 22.07.2023 UPDATE: Deletion of the article "The Horse Shoes" (information added to "The Old English Gentleman") (Featured Pubs & Taverns)
- 22.07.2023 UPDATE: Public Houses list amended to show the names in alphabetical order (Featured Pubs & Taverns)
- 22.07.2023 UPDATE: Local History page generally updated and details of Tibshelf Local History & Civic Society added (Local History Events - Home Page)
- 22.07.2023 UPDATE: Previous articles used as holding titles removed from the Miscellaneous Home Page pending further updates.
- 22.07.2023 UPDATE: Listing of Publications available from the Society removed from this page and added to the Miscellaneous Home Page.
- 30.07.2023 UPDATE: WW2 Soldier, SWINSCOE, James (WW2 Soldiers - The War Years)
- 01.08.2023 NEW: Article titled "Letters From the Boer War From Local Soldiers" (Featured Articles - The War Years)
- 03.08.2023 NEW: Article titled "Boer War Soldier - Arthur Davis" (Featured Articles - The War Years)
- 06.08.2023 UPDATE: WW1 Soldier, WEIGHTMAN, George William (WW1 Soldiers - The War Years)
A full list of previous updates can be found on the Home Page Featured Articles section.
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The content of this website, including written articles, images, photographs and transcriptions has been collated by members of the Somercotes Local History Society from various sources, and is displayed on this website for the benefit of family history research or historians interested in the history of the Parish of Somercotes. It has been designed so that the content, whether or not written or image, can be copied.
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Whilst we have endeavoured to ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy. Should you identify any inaccuracies or have further information or photographs, we ask that you contact us by e-mail.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Personal Collections:
The following personal collections have been digitised by the Somercotes Local History Society at the request of the current owner and permission has been received to share the archive for the benifit of posterity. We thank the individuals concerned.
- The George Nettleship Collection of photographs
- The Gordon Fox Archive of documents and photographs
Local Societies & Public Bodies:
- Alfreton Heritage Centre
- Alfreton Library
- British Red Cross Society
- Cambridge University Library
- Coal Authority (The)
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission (The)
- Derbyshire Record Office
- Friends of the Cromford Canal
- Gloucester Record Office
- Heritage Lottery Fund
- Historic England
- Magic Attic, Swadlincote
- Northern Mine Research Society
- Parliamentary Archives
- Peak District Mines Historical Society
- Ripley Library
- Somercotes Parish Council
- The National Archives
Websites:
- Aircrewremembered,com
- Ancestry.co.uk
- Archive.org
- British History Online
- British Newspaper Archive
- Derbyshire Record Society
- Find My Past
- Free BMD
- HealyHero – A History of Mining
- Internet Bandsman's Everything Within (IBEW) (A history of Brass Bands)
- The Long Long Trail, The British Army in the Great War
Bibliography:
- Aertex - "The Sixty Years Journey of Aertex" Diamond Jubilee Booklet, 1948
- Alfreton Hospital Carnival Booklet, 1935
- Alfreton Urban District Council - Annual Reports, 1895-1971
- Alfreton Urban District Council - Coronation Celebrations Booklet, 1953
- Alfreton Urban District Council - Official Guide, c.1951
- Alfreton Urban District Council - Tenants Handbook, c.1953
- Amber Valley Borough Council - Housing Committee Minutes, June 1978
- Annual Register for 1802 [A View of the History, Politics and Literature], 1803
- Artizan Engineering Journal [The],[Edited by William Smith]1843
- Asclepiad Magazine [The], 1888
- Bailey, E. M - James Young Memorial Lecture & the Dawn of Petroleun Refining.- Institute of Petroleum Review, 1948
- Bankers Magazine and Railway Digest, Volume IV, Oct 1845 to Mar 1846
- Berly, J. A., Universal Electrical Directory and Advertiser, 1884
- Bowen, A.W. & Co. - "Progressive Men of the State of Wyoming", 1903
- Building News and Engineering Journal, 1869
- Bulmer, T & Co. “History, Topography and Directory of Derbyshire”, 1895
- Bunsen, Robert and Playfair, Lyon, Report on the Gases Evolved from Iron Furnaces with Reference to the Theory of Iron Smelting, 1845
- Burt, Herbert Leslie – “Tales of a Muckram Lad”
- Burt, Herbert Leslie – “Farewell to a Muckram Lad”
- Butt, John, "James Young: Scottish Industrialist and Philanthropist," PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1963
- Craven, Maxwell, "Lost Houses - Exeter House, Derby" Article published in the Country Life Magazine, 2016.
- Crockford’s Clerical Directories 1868-1932
- Cox, Reverend John Charles "Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals - the Records of the Quarter Sessions of the County of Derby", 1890
- Dearden’s “History, Directory and Topography of Nottingham”, 1834
- Derby, County of - "A Development Plan for the County - Amendment No.6 for Alfreton", 1954
- Derbyshire Times [Johnston Publishing Ltd, Chesterfield]
- Farey, John - Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire, 1811
- Fellowes, John Michael – “On the Employment of Children and Young Persons in the Mines & Collieries of Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire and on the State, Condition and Treatment of such Children and Young Persons”, 1842
- Fisher, Tony & Fitzgerald, Kelly "A Clearing in the Woods", A Channel 4 Documentary, 1983
- Fox, Reverend Charles [Compiler], "Calendar of the Records of the County of Derby", 1899
- Geological Society Special Publication 465 - "History of the European Oil and Gas Industry" edited by J Craig, F Gerali, F. MacAuley and R. Sorkhabi, 2018
- Geological Survey of Great Britain, “Special Reports on the Mineral Recourses of Great Britain”, 1915
- Glover, Stephen, Directory of Derbyshire, 1829
- Glover, Stephen, "The Peak Guide...", 1830
- Grace’s Guide, 1914
- Gruner, Louis, Studies of Blast Furnace Phenomema, 1874
- Haas, Ben, "Coal and Iron Industries of the United Kingdom", 1882
- Healey, R.M. "The Diary of George Mushet", published by the Derbyshire Archaeological Society, 1982
- Jewitt, LLewellynn, "Ballads & Songs of Derbyshire", 1867
- Johnson, Reginald – “A History of Alfreton”, 1968
- Kelly’s Derbyshire Directory, 1881
- Kelly’s Derbyshire Directory, 1895
- Kelly’s Derbyshire Directory, 1912
- Kelly’s Derbyshire Directory, 1925
- Kelly’s Derbyshire Directory, 1932
- Kelly’s Derbyshire Directory, 1941
- Kinematograph Year Book [Various Years]
- Law Journal [The], 1847
- Lewis, Dr. Cherry: David Mushet, John Farey & William Smith: Geologising in the Forest of Dean, 2015
- Lewis, Dr. Cherry: My Dear Pet, I am thine affectionate husband, David Mushet: Letters from David Mushet to his wife Agnes 1800-1809, The New Regard Publication, No.35, 2021
- Lewis, Samuel "A Topographical Dictionary of England", 7th Edition, 1848
- Lloyd, Alan – “The War in the Trenches”, 1976
- London Gazette [The], Official Public Record, various years
- Lysons, Daniel and Samuel, "Magna Britannia, Volume 5, Derbyshire", 1817
- Medical Registers 1859-1959
- Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum of Economic Geology in London, 1846
- Midland and Northern Coal & Iron Trades Gazette, 1881
- Mine Inspectors Annual Report, Appendix, 1894
- Mines Records Office Publication, 1854
- Mitchell, Ernest S - Auction Catalogue for Sheepbridge Iron & Coal Somercotes Estate, 1942
- Moran, James, "The Theatre of D. H. Lawrwence" [Bloomsbury], 2015
- Mushet, David, Papers on Iron & Steel, 1840
- Osborn, Fred M. "The Story of the Mushets", 1952
- Pegge, Rev. Samuel, “An Historical Account of Beauchief Abbey”, [Edited by J Nichols], 1801
- Philosophical Society Magazine, 1808
- Pigot’s Directory of Derbyshire, 1829
- Pigot’s Directory of Derbyshire, 1831
- Post Office Directory, 1876
- Post Office Telephone Directories, Various Years
- Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 1849
- Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Manchester, Volume VIII, 1860
- Railway Times, Volume 6, 1843
- Reid, Thomas Wemyss, Memoirs and Correspondence of Lyon Playfair, 1899
- Ripley & Heanor News [Johnston Publishing Ltd, Chesterfield]
- Shilton, Richard Phillips, "The History of Southwell in the County of Nottingham", 1818
- Smith, William, Artizan Engineering Journal [The], 1843
- Society of Engineers [Transactions for 1881], 1882
- Somercotes Parish Church, “Centenary Brochure”, 1954
- Somercotes Parish Church "150th Anniversary Brochure", 2004
- Somercotes Parish Magazine, 1920
- Somercotes Parish Magazine, 1925
- Somercotes Parish Magazine, 1926
- Somercotes Parish Magazine, 1928
- Stantonian [The], Various Editions
- Thomas, Alun Miles - University of Birmingham, Centre for War Studies, “British 8th Infantry Division on the Western Front”, 2005
- Trent Navigation Company Gauging Books
- United States Bureau of Mines [Technical Paper 390] "Occurence, Distribution and Significance of Alkali Cyanides in the Iron Blast Furnace", by S P Kinney & E W Guernsey, 1926
- Waller, Joseph Leonard "Growing Pains", 1985
- Waller, Joseph Leonard "My Drink was Water Bright", 1996
- Waller, Joseph Leonard "When Bugles Call", 1998
- Waller, Joseph Leonard "Twenty Poems", Undated
- Ward & Company, "Ward’s Miscellany & Family Magazine", 1837
- Wheeler, Matthew – “The Colliers Spurgeon or the Life of Matthew Hayes”, 1899
- White, F. – “History, Gazetteer & Directory of Derbyshire and Sheffield”, 1857
- Yeatman, John Pym - "Extracts from the Pipe Rolls for the Counties of Nottingham and Derby", 1886
- Yeatman, John Pym - "The Feudal History of the County of Derby", 1866
We also acknowledge the many individuals who have contributed histories, photographs and research for this website.