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Images of an Era

A motorcycle rider in Derby circa 1914

Coxbench Quarry. Circa 1910. William Slater (with beard), quarry owner, and his son, also William ,(centre standing with pipe).

Vernon Street, Derby. 1914. Wedding car starting problems.

This copy of a postcard shows St Peter’s Street in Derby, in around 1911, with St Peter’s Church on the left.

The dawn of a new century and the years leading up to the 1920s brought sweeping changes which dramatically changed the way people led their lives.

The motor car had already been invented but it wasn't until the 1900s that mass production of vehicles began. Another form of transport that made its debut was the aeroplane, with the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight in 1903.

On the political front, women, known as the Suffragettes, campaigned for the right to vote. Emily Davison died for the cause in 1913 after throwing herself in front of the king’s horse at the Epsom Derby. Emmeline Pankhurst, who had founded the movement, suspended her activities at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, to recruit women for war work, mainly in munitions factories.

The ‘war to end all wars’ finally came to a close in 1918, having claimed the lives of around eight million soldiers. In the same year most women over 30 were at last given the vote but they had to wait another 10 years before they finally got the same voting rights as men.

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• Derby's oldest travel agency organised trips on first trains, then boats and then planes
• Derby Midland Station
• Ecclesbourne Valley Railway : Idridgehay
• Greengrocer: Grandad ran grocery store
• Lounge bar of pub is now a bank
• Teachers and parents produce book to mark the opening of new primary school
• Trent and Mersey canal

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