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Collapse D7340 - Richard Johnson and Nephew of Ambergate, wire works (also known as Alderwasley Iron Mills) - [late 19th-early 20th cent]

D7340 - Richard Johnson and Nephew of Ambergate, wire works (also known as Alderwasley Iron Mills) - [late 19th-early 20th cent]

1 - Ridgeway, with Ambergate wire works, farm buildings and other buildings in view - early 20th cent

2 - Wire works exterior - early 20th cent

3 - Wire works entrance gate, decorated with flags and flora, with sign reading "Life's Joys Be Yours" - early 20th cent

4 - Wire works canteen exterior, with bridge and river in view - early 20th cent

5 - Group photograph of over 100 workers on the bridge outside Ambergate wire works - early 20th cent

6-7 - Shots leading towards the reservoir, by the Derwent Valley Water Board - late 19th cent

8-9 - Photographs of young workmen standing beside a pipe leading to the reservoir - late 19th cent

10 - Workers on railway track, with "Steam Navvy" excavating machine - late 19th cent

11 - Workers and wagons near Ambergate reservoir - late 19th cent

12 - 3 young men in smart dress posing by wagons in front of the reservoir - late 19th cent

13-14 - Group photographs of [railway or construction] workers - late 19th cent

15 - Car (licence RA7825) in flooded street, with small crowd visible in background - early 20th cent

16 - "The Keeper's Cottage" [?near wire works], with wagon and engine in view at top of hill behind building - early 20th cent

17 - Damage to Holden and Sons Furniture Works, Belper, after a fire - 1905

18 - Holly Dene house, Ambergate - early 20th cent

19 - Group of smartly dressed young men by two coaches and horses outside a large country house - early 20th cent

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Local Studies Periodicals

Local Studies Periodicals

George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist

George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist

Harpur Crewe family of Calke

Harpur Crewe family of Calke

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