1920s

Images of a Decade

Ladies take afternoon tea at a house in Little London, Holloway in the 1920s. Interior scenes from this period are unusual because not many people had cameras that could take pictures in low light.

The Wyld brothers, Percy, Fred, Ralph and Len, were well-known Derby cyclists in the 1920s. Fred won medals at the 1924 and 1928 Olympic Games.

Derby's Labour MP Jimmy Thomas, who was elected in 1922, with his wife and son. He was forced to resign for leaking details of the Budget to a friend and another MP.

Derby tourists on tour in Cornwall and Devon in a Trent Bus outside the Land’s End Hotel in te 1920s. The hotel is now a visitors complex.

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