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We have an extensive collection of photographs covering Somercotes and the surrounding area ranging up to the current day.

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Pupils at Somercotes Junior School circa late 1940s
Somercotes Junior School (SLHS SSA 064)
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 A play at Somercotes possibly, The Diocesan Players of St. Thomas Church date around the 1940's.
Somercotes Play (SLHS SE 030)
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 Map of Somercotes & Alfreton Area 1850 showing some of the industries at that time
Somercotes & Alfreton Map (SLHS SM 026)
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The Red Bridge crossing over the main Alfreton line, no longer painted red 2018.
Red Bridge (SLHS SVT 062)
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 Map of the Ironworks at Pye Bridge, shows the Canal, Canal Basin, Railways and Tramways
Ironworks Maps (SLHS IWM 009)
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 Left to Right Alfred Ralph Freeman father of Edith and Nora and Brother In Law Arthur Cowlishaw and a third unnamed man. Photograph taken at Crimea Pye Bridge circa 1912.
Samuel Andrews Family (SP 071)
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Members of the Bailey Family in 1889, the bailey family have run a printing works in Somercotes from this time and are still in business today. They are one of the oldest businesses that are still trading in Somercotes
The Bailey Family 1889 (SP 005)
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 Newspaper advertisement for Aertex products in 1966.
Aertex Factory, Somercotes (SLHS WHS 033)
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 Newspaper Article for the opening of the NHS Supplies HQ 17th July 1986.
Somercotes Industries (SIE 004)
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The D. S. Smith Recycling Plant (Severnside) on the Pye Bridge Industrial Estate once part of the Stanton Iron Works Complex.
Pye Bridge Industrial Estate (SLHS IWB 112)
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 Alfreton Rose Villa F.C, winners of the Erewash Armature Cup.
Alfreton Sport (SLHS ASS 002)
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 The roof being re-tiled after the fire in 1984.
Somercotes St. Thomas Church (SLHS ST 120)
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