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Local history in the making

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The Queen opens Pride Park Stadium in 1997

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Brian Clough and Peter Taylor sign new contracts for the Rams in 1972, at the Baseball Ground.

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Collecting items by sledge in the severe winters of the 1940s was a regular occurrence in Derby.

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Mothers and children arriving in Railway Terrace, Derby, in 1944, and heading towards a fleet of buses that will take them to rural safety.

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US President John F. Kennedy visiting his sister Kathleen's grave at Edensor in 1963.

Welcome to the Derby Evening Telegraph’s new online nostalgia section, bygonederbyshire.co.uk.

The site is packed full of fascinating articles about our county’s heritage and the people who have made it so great.

Each day it will be updated with material created by Telegraph writers but one of the best things about bygonederbyshire.co.uk is that you can help it become the definitive archive of life in the county by adding your own stories and pictures or commenting on those contributed by others.

The site builds on the success of its predecessor youandyesterday.co.uk. We hope that you’ll agree that bygonederbyshire.co.uk is bigger, brighter, better and even easier to use.

So go on, add your memories and contribute to local history in the making, by going to the "create an article" section below, or see our quick guide' for more information.

And don’t forget to buy the Telegraph each Monday for its eight-page bygones pullout and every night for the very best that Derbyshire has to offer … past and present.

Keeping Your Memories Alive

Bygone Derbyshire lets you write about what you remember of growing up and living in Derbyshire in the 20th century and to publish those memories instantly with the help of today's technology.

Sign-up for free here to add stories and pictures in the editing box at the foot of this page. For more help see our quick guide.

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Be an editor... Choose images from the picture gallery to illustrate your stories on this site.

Not everyone has time to write an article in one go. Sometimes you may want to start a story and then come back later and finish it. Find out here how you can do that.

Derbyshire then and now

Brookside, Two Dales, Matlock, photographed in about 1913. The pub, cottages and even the walls are still there today but what, if anything, has changed?

See this and other changing local scenes in Derbyshire then and now.

Derbyshire then and now is also featured in the Evening Telegraph each Friday together with the weekly column by local historian Maxwell Craven.

Special pages

Derbyshire's literary heritage. Find out how the county has been featured in literature and on film.

Derbyshire in art. See how some of the county's people and places have been represented on canvas.

Derbyshire pubs. Tales of Derbyshire pubs past and present. If your favourite local is not on the list, why not write about it?

Derbyshire's England footballers. All the players born in the county who have worn the Three Lions on their shirt.

Any Answers? The place to go if you have a question about a local history matter - or maybe an answer to a question someone else has asked here.

Take me to a random article. If you just want to browse an article, then follow the link and see where it takes you.

Read All About It

As well as articles and pictures submitted by users, Bygone Derbyshire also contains a selection of stories and photographs from the Derby Evening Telegraph Bygones section, its monthly nostalgia publication YesterdayToday, and the Picture the Past website.

Latest Pictures

Eleanor Thornton with Lord Montagu's Silver Ghost Rolls-Royce in the spring of 1911. The car is sporting the firm's brand new Spirit of Ecstasy mascot for which she had been the inspiration. Read her life story here

The pattern shop at International Combustion in 1923. Read ex-employee Alan Gifford's fascinating history of ICL here

A poster advertising the 1899 production of Haddon Hall, the Arthur Sullivan comic operetta based on a real-life scandal at Haddon Hall.

Les Jackson (left) and Harold Rhodes pictured after their remarkable bowling against Hampshire at Burton, in August 1958. Read all about the cricketing summer of 1958 here