| Administrative History | D P Battery Company, Bakewell, industrial battery manufacturers
Lumford Cotton Mill was built by Richard Arkwright and Company in the late 1770s, on land leased from Philip Gell of Hopton in 1778. New water wheels were installed, one in 1827 and one in 1852. Cotton spinning ceased in the mid 1890s and in 1898 the premises were occupied by The Dujardin-Plante Battery Company, makers of industrial batteries. The Dujardin-Plante Battery Company had been founded in Charlton, London in 1888 by Walter Claude Johnson (1848-1928) and Bernard Mervyn Drake (1858-1931). Until 1955 the D P Battery Company made use of the two waterwheels for power generation. The business was ended in Bakewell in 1970.
Sergeant Frank Squires, Royal Air Force officer during the Second World War
Sergeant Frank Squires third son of Mr and Mrs Frank Squires of Lumford, Bakewell, who served in the Royal Air Force, took part in 1,000 bomber raids over Germany, was shot down in 1942 and buried in Holland.
Joseph Waterfall of Bakewell, writer
J Waterfall, who claims to have been an invalid for 57 years, never having walked in his life, and to have been born of humble parents and deprived of means of education. |
| Custodial History | Purchased by Derbyshire Record Office in 1981. |