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Collapse D2389 - D P Battery Company, Bakewell; Sergeant Frank Squires, Second World War; Joseph Waterfall of Bakewell, writer - [20th cent]D2389 - D P Battery Company, Bakewell; Sergeant Frank Squires, Second World War; Joseph Waterfall of Bakewell, writer - [20th cent]
1 - Photograph of battery-driven truck - 1950s
2-3 - Photographs of mill wheels - 1950s
4 - Negatives of D2389/1-3 - 1950s
5 - Photocopy of detailed drawings of water wheels showing detail of driving shaft - 20th cent
6 - Photocopy of detailed drawings of water wheels showing detail of buckets on large wheel showing methods of fitting side spokes to shroud, i.e. section through buckets, section through cast iron shroud and details of spoke head - 20th cent
7 - Photocopy of detailed drawings of water wheels showing detail of machined faces on water wheel segment - 20th cent
8-9 - Photograph, with negative, of Sergeant Frank Squires in flying kit - c1940
10 - Photocopy of newspaper cutting headed “Thrilling Experiences of Bakewell Airman” and relating his account of his war-time service - c1940
11 - Photocopy of Frank Squires’ last letter, addressed to his sister Vera from Suffolk - [c1942]
12 - Photocopy of photographs of Frank Squires’ grave - c1950
13 - Photocopies of receipts given to Richard Bateman and Thomas Wilson, Mrs Elizabeth Bateman’s executors, for bequests of clothing, etc made in her will - Nov 1694
14-15 - Photocopies of letter, questions, and opinion of William Fitzherbert (6 January 1721/2) together with modern transcript of same - [18th cent & 20th cent]
16 - “The Tourists’ Introduction to Bakewell” Printed - [late 19th cent]
17 - “J Waterfall’s Penny Guide to Bakewell Church” Printed - [late 19th cent]
18 - “History of the Old Roman Cross and History of the Bakewell Almshouses” Printed - [late 19th cent]
19 - “A short sketch of Bakewell Church and Clergy from 922-1901”. A postscript says the author, being an invalid for 63 years and unable to write, cut the letters of this work from old papers and places them on a sheet for the printer - [c1901-1902]
20 - “The Merry Bells of Bakewell”, i.e. poetic inscriptions composed by a local poet, Michael Williams copied from the bells of Bakewell Church with a note on casting and hanging of the bells (1796-7), and verses about the bells by J Waterfall - [late 19th cent]
21 - “The Valley of Derbyshire Wye” Printed - [late 19th cent]
22 - “A Legend of Haddon in 1536” and “Lines on Bakewell, Haddon and Chatsworth. The Visitor’s Farewell” (Verses). Printed - [late 19th cent]
23 - “Haddon in a Nutshell from 1069” Printed - [c1897]
24 - “Ode on the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 22 Jun 1897” - 1897
25 - “Lines on Christmas, 1898. The Poet’s Dream of Fame” - 1898
26 - “The True Hero of the War” (Verse) Printed - [c1901-1902]
27 - “Ode on the Coronation of King Edward VII, 26 Jun 1902” - 1902
28 - Photocopy of “Haddon: A Shrine for Tourists” by The Wanderer illustrated. Apparently pages 335-8 of “The Tourist”. It includes an account of Joseph Waterfall with a photograph of him and another of his method of ‘writing’ (by cutting letters from old papers and books and pasting them on cardboard) - [late 19th cent]
Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

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