Old Whittington One Place Study

The sentence seems to be a bit harsh for the theft of a shovel, I imagine it made the culprit think twice before doing it again!

Derbyshire Times Chesterfield Herald 23 November 1892

Posted on Old Chesterfield Pics, it shows Whittington Hill before some of the houses had been finished, Newbridge St is clearly visible as is the view to the Crooked Spire. Not sure of the year, possibly early 1900 as it featured in the Almanac for 1904.

T P Woods Almanac 1904

Taken from the Derby Mercury 4 December 1778. A guinea reward on top of any standard reward for informing on these two men must have seemed a great temptation to many people. Wonder if they were caught!

Sounds like a good time was had by all in May 1935 at this party on Newbridge St, renamed ‘Paradise Square’ for the occasion.Newbridge Street no longer looks like this but it still runs alongside Whittington Hill.Many families lived on this street and the Loomes family was one of them. Robert Loomes fought in WW1 and came home injured and lived on Newbridge Street for many years whilst his brother Christopher , who was awarded the DCM, was killed later in the war but his widow continued to live on Newbridge Street.

Newbridge St past (picture from Picture the Past)

Found this piece in the Derbyshire Courier 18 May 1912. Sad thing is by 1918 two of these lads had died in WW1. Arthur Booth and George Barker (16 and 15 respectively in 1912). Really makes you think they were just ‘boys’!

This newspaper cutting from the Derbyshire Times/Chesterfield Herald from November 17 1928 is reminiscent of the parades I remember as a young girl in the 60’s. My grandad was in the British Legion and Remembrance day was an important day to him and the rest of the family. I think this must be where my lifelong interest in WW1 originally came from!

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I found this piece from Sheffield Daily Telegraph 4h June 1892, especially interesting as my great grandfather Harry Parker was landlord of the White Horse Inn in 1892, in fact my grandfather Percy Parker was born there just a couple of weeks after this advert was placed.

The blacksmith shop was run by great grandfathers brother in law Walter Herbert Booth.

Would be interesting to find out who bought the property.

The picture below (from Old Chesterfield Pics) is a few years after my great grandfather lived there.

Found this in the Sheffield Register, Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Universal Advertiser 8 July 1791

Trepanning was a procedure to relieve pressure on the skull (or as some people believed to give a trapped demon a hole to escape from) a hole was drilled into the skull. I haven’t found any evidence yet whether the poor boy lived or died, but it must have been a horrific experience for the young boy.

The picture and information on trepanning was taken from https://www.historyextra.com/…/what-trepanning-ancient-sur…/

 

This entry in the Courier surprised me.  The sheep stealing appears to have more space in the paper than the Smallpox which was virulent in Whittington, with some children dead!

 

 

I found this excerpt in the Derbyshire Times 5 January 1887, it is a very sad account of the inquest for John Meakin.

Mr Meakin was  buried in Old Whittington churchyard, by order of the Coroner, as the parish register shows.