Derby ( , ) is a city in the East Midlands region of England
.
It lies
upon the banks of the River
Derwent and is located in the south of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire
. In the 2001 census, the population of the
city was 233,700, whilst that of the Derby Urban Area was 229,407.
According to the 2001 census, Derby was at that time the 18th
largest settlement in England, measured by urban area.
History
Origins
The city has
Roman,
Saxon and
Viking
connections.
The Roman camp of 'Derventio' was probably at Little
Chester/Chester Green ( );The site of the old Roman fort is at
Chester Green.
Later the town was one of the 'Five Boroughs' (fortified towns) of the Danelaw
.
The popular belief is that the name 'Derby' is a corruption of the
Danish and
Gaelic Djúra-bý (recorded in
Anglo-Saxon as
Deoraby) (Village of the Deer). However some assert that
it is a corruption of the original Roman name 'Derventio'. The town
was also named 'Darby' or 'Darbye' on some of the oldest maps, e.g.
Speed's 1610 map. Derby recently celebrated its 2,000th year as a
settlement.
Modern research (2004) into the history and
archaeology of Derby has provided evidence that
the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons probably co-existed, occupying two
areas of land surrounded by water. The
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c. 900) says
that "Derby is divided by water". These areas of land were known as
Norþworþig ("Northworthy", = "north enclosure") and
Deoraby, and were at the "Irongate" (north) side of Derby.
16th century - 18th century
During the
Civil War of 1642-1646,
Derby was garrisoned by
Parliamentary
troops commanded by
Sir
John Gell, 1st Baronet, who was appointed Governor of Derby in
1643.
These troops took part in the defence of
nearby Nottingham
, the Siege of Lichfield
, the Battle of Hopton Heath
and many other engagements in Nottinghamshire
, Staffordshire and
Cheshire
, as well as
successfully defending Derbyshire against Royalist armies.
Bonnie Prince Charlie set up
camp at Derby on 4 December 1745, whilst on his way south to seize
the British crown.
The prince called at The George
Inn
on Irongate, where the Duke of Devonshire had set up his
headquarters, and demanded billets for his
9,000 troops.
Statue of Bonnie Prince Charlie
located on Cathedral Green
stayed at
Exeter
House
, Exeter Street where he held his
"council of war".
A replica of the room
is on display at Derby Museum
in the city centre. He had received
misleading information about an army coming to meet him south of
Derby. Although he wished to continue with his quest, he was
overruled by his fellow officers.
He abandoned his invasion at Swarkestone
Bridge
on the River Trent just
a few miles south of Derby. As a testament to his belief in his cause,
the prince - who on the march from Scotland
had walked at the front of the column - made the
return journey on horseback at the rear of
the bedraggled and tired army.
Each year at the beginning of December, the Charles Edward Stuart
Society of Derby lead a weekend of activities culminating in a
parade through the city centre and a battle on Cathedral
Green.
Industrial Revolution
Derby and Derbyshire were centres of Britain's
Industrial Revolution.
In 1717, Derby was
the site of the first water powered silk mill
in Britain, built by John
Lombe and George Sorocold, after
Lombe had reputedly stolen the secrets of silk-throwing from
Piedmont in what is now Italy
(he is
alleged to have been poisoned by Piedmontese as revenge in
1722).
In 1759,
Jedediah Strutt patented
and built a machine called the Derby Rib Attachment that
revolutionised the manufacture of hose. This attachment was used on
the Rev. Lee's
Framework Knitting
Machine; it was placed in front of - and worked in unison with -
Lee's Frame, to produce ribbed hose (stockings). The partners were
Jedediah Strutt, William Woollatt (who had been joined in 1758 by)
John Bloodworth and
Thomas Stafford,
all leading
hosiers in Derby. The
patent was obtained in January 1759.
After three years,
Bloodworth and Stafford were paid off, and Samuel Need - a hosier
of Nottingham - joined the partnership. The firm was known
as Need, Strutt & Woollatt. The patent expired in 1773, though
the partnership continued until 1781 when Need died.
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Messrs. Wright, the
bankersof Nottingham,
recommended that
Richard
Arkwrightapply to Strutt & Need for finance for his cotton
spinningmill. The first mill
opened in Nottingham in 1770 and was driven by horses.
In 1771 Richard
Arkwright, Samuel Need and Jedediah Strutt built the world's first
water-powered cotton spinning mill at
Cromford
, Derbyshire, developing a form of power that was to be a
catalyst for the Industrial
Revolution.
This was
followed in Derbyshire by Jedediah Strutt's cotton spinning mills at
Belper
.They
were: South Mill, the first, 1775; North Mill, 1784, which was
destroyed by fire on 12 January 1803 and then rebuilt; it started
work again at the end of 1804; West Mill, 1792, commenced working
1796; Reeling Mill, 1897; Round Mill, which took 10 years to build,
from 1803 to 1813, and commenced working in 1816; and Milford
Mills, 1778.
The Belper and Milford
mills were not built in partnership with
Arkwright.These mills were all Strutt owned and
financed.
Other
famous 18th century figures with
connections to Derby include Dr
Johnson, the creator of the English dictionary, who
married Elizabeth Porter at St. Werburgh's Church, Derby
, Derby in 1735; the painter Joseph Wright, known as Wright of
Derby, who was famous for his revolutionary use of light in his
paintings and was an associate of the Royal Academy
; and John
Whitehurst, a famous clockmaker and
philosopher.Erasmus Darwin, doctor, scientist,
philosopher and grandfather of Charles
Darwin was also to be found in Derby and Derbyshire at much the
same time, though his practice was based in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
The
beginning of the next century saw Derby emerging as an engineering
centre with manufacturers such as James Fox, who exported machine tools
to Russia
.
In 1840, the
North Midland
Railwayset up
its works in Derbyand,
when it merged with the
Midland
Counties Railwayand the
Birmingham and Derby
Junction Railway, to form the
Midland Railway, Derby became its
headquarters.
The connection with the railway encouraged others, notably
Andrew Handyside,
Charles Foxand his
son
Francis Fox. A list of
the structures these three built reads like a
"Who's Who"of famous buildings.
Derby was one of the boroughs reformed by the
Municipal Corporations Act
1835, and it became a
county
boroughwith the
Local
Government Act 1888.
The borough expanded in 1877 to include
Little
Chester
and Litchurch
, and then in 1890 to include New Normanton and
Rowditch.The borough did not increase substantially
again until 1968, when under a recommendation of the Local
Government Boundary Commission it was expanded into large parts of
the rural district of Belper, Repton
and South East Derbyshire
.This vastly increased Derby's population
from 132,408 in the 1961 census to 219,578 in the 1971 census.
Despite being one of the areas of Britain furthest from the sea,
Derby holds a special place in the history of marine safety - it
was as MP for Derby that
Samuel
Plimsollintroduced his bills for a '
Plimsoll line' (and other marine safety
measures). This failed on first introduction, but was successful in
1876 and contributed to Plimsoll's re-election as a deservedly
popular MP.
20th century to present day
Derby was awarded city status on 7 June 1977 by
Queen Elizabeth IIto mark
the
25th anniversary of
her ascension to the throne. The Queen presented the "charter
scroll" in person on 28 July 1977. Until then, Derby had been one
of the few towns in England with a
cathedralbut not city status.
Derby has a number of public parks, many
Victorianin origin.
Darley
and Derwent
parks lie immediately north of the city centre and are home to owls, kingfishers and a wide
variety of other wildlife.Derby Rowing Club and Derwent
Rowing Club are located on the banks of the river. There is also an
attractive riverside walk and cycle path from Darley Park south to
two other parks.
West of the city centre is Markeaton Park
, while to the north is Allestree Park
and its lake.Derby also has the first public
recreational park in the country to have an arboretum (Derby Arboretum
), which lies to the south of the city
centre.The arboretum was set up by the
philanthropiclandownerand
industrialistJoseph Struttin 1840.
The
arboretum's website states that the arboretum's design was the
inspiration for the vision of great urban parks in the USA
, notably Central Park
in New York
City
.
Derby
holds an important position in the history of the Labour movement, because it was one of two
seats (the other being Keir Hardie's in
Merthyr
Tydfil
) gained by the recently formed Labour Representation
Committee at the 1900 general
election.The MP was
Richard Bell,
General Secretaryof the
Railway
Servants Union. Bell was succeeded in 1910 by
Jimmy Thomasand he in turn by the
distinguished
polymathand
Nobel LaureatePhilip Noel-Bakerin
1936.
Despite
its strategic industries (rail and aero-engine), Derby suffered comparatively
little damage in both world wars (contrast
Bristol
and Filton
).This may in part have been due to the
skilful jamming of the German radio-beam navigations systems
(X-Verfahren and Knickebein, camouflage
and decoy techniques ('Starfish
sites') were built, mainly south of the town, e.g. out in
fields near Foremark
(ref.Kirk, Felix & Bartnik, 2002, see
talk; see also
[696879]).
Derby has
also become a significant cultural
centre for the deaf community in
the UK
.Many
deaf people move to Derby because of its strong
sign language-using community. It is estimated
that the deaf population in Derby is at least three times higher
than the national average, and that only London has a larger deaf
population. The Royal School for the Deaf on Ashbourne Road
provides education in
British Sign
Languageand
English.
More recently Derby was granted the
Fairtrade Citystatus.
Governance
By
traditional definitions, Derby is the county
town of Derbyshire, although Derbyshire's administrative centre has in recent
years been Matlock
.On 1 April 1997 Derby City Council became
again a
unitary authority(a status
it had held, as a
county borough, up
until 1974), with the rest of Derbyshire administered from
Matlock.
Geography
Derby is split into 17 Wards.
Nearest settlements
Borrowash
,Ockbrook
,Draycott,
Melbourne
(Derbyshire, England, UK),Elvaston,
Coxbench
,Quarndon
,Little Eaton
,Morley(Derbyshire,
England, UK),
Duffield
,Belper,Heanor
,Ripley,
Ilkeston
,Ripley
(Derbyshire
Constabulary HQ),Langley Mill
,Alfreton
,Chesterfield
,Matlock (Derbyshire County Council is based
here),Bakewell
,Alfreton,Buxton
,Breaston
,Long
Eaton
,Sandiacre
,SawleyNottingham,Sandiacre,Beeston
,Coalville
,Loughborough
,Ashby-De-La-Zouch
,Measham
Castle Donington
,Leicester
,Burton-upon-Trent
.
Economy
This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Derby at
current basic prices
published(pp. 240–253) by
Office for
National Statisticswith figures in millions of
British Pounds Sterling.
includes hunting and forestry
includes energy and construction
includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured
Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
Industry
Derby's two biggest employers,
Rolls-Royce plc(commonly known in the area
as 'Royce's') and the
Toyota
Motor Corporation, are both in the engineering manufacturing
trade.
Egg, the Internet and
telephone bank, has its national base in Derby. Other companies of
note include
Bombardierwho
manufacture train systems and aircraft, and
Alstomwho manufacture large power plant
boilersand
heat
exchangers.
As already noted, Derby was for many years a significant railway
centre, being the former headquarters of the
Midland Railway, with both
British Railworkshops and research facilities
in the town.
Although much less important than in years
gone by, train manufacture continues in Derby and Derby
railway station
retains an important strategic role in the railway
network.Moreover many major railway manufacturers retain a
presence and, as reported in the
Derby Evening Telegraph, the city is
favoured as a possible site for a new national railway
centre.
Among a number of IT houses, Derby was the home of
Core Design, who developed the computer game
Tomb Raiderwith its heroine
Lara Croft.
Landmarks
Derby
Cathedral
has the
third-highest Anglican cathedral tower in
the country.In recent years, this has been home to a pair of
breeding
peregrine falcons. Webcams
monitor the falcons
here.
Derby Gaol
is a visitor attraction based in the dungeons of
the Derbyshire County Gaol which dates back to 1756.
Derby
Industrial Museum is situated in Derby Silk
Mill and shows the industrial heritage and technological
achievement of Derby, including Rolls-Royce aero
engines, railways, mining, quarrying and foundries.
Pickford's House Museum
was built by architect Joseph Pickford in 1770.It was his
home and business headquarters.
Derby Museum and Art Gallery shows paintings by Joseph Wright, as well as fine
Royal Crown Derby porcelain, local
regiments and archaeology.Pickford also designed St Helen's
House
in King Street.
Much of the skyline of the inner city changed radically in 1968
when the inner ring road with its two new crossings of the
River Derwentwas built.
The route
of the ring road went through the magnificent St.
Alkmund's Church
and its wonderful Georgian churchyard, the only Georgian square in
Derby.Both were demolished to make way for the road, a move
still criticised today. Thus the editor (Elizabeth Williamson) of
the 2nd edition of
Pevsnerfor
Derbyshire wrote:- '...the character and cohesion of the centre has
been completely altered by the replacement of a large number of C18
houses in the centre by a multi-lane road. As a traffic scheme this
road is said to be a triumph; as townscape it is a disaster.'
The newer buildings along Ford Street and St Alkmund's Way include
the Friargate Studios, Joseph Wright College and the Jurys Inn.
They can be seen below in the gallery. The jury is said to be out
with regard to the hotel which, as such an incongruously tall
structure for the centre of Derby, now dominates the skyline,
demoting nearby St Mary's and, indeed, the Cathedral - silhouettes
which formerly described the character of the city. The building of
the Jurys Inn in such proximity to the cathedral has forever
altered, in one fell swoop, quite familiar and well liked approach
views of the city such as those from the top of Green Lane,
Nottingham Road and from Darley Park.
Places of interest
Transport
Roads
Derby's central location in England means it has extensive
transport links with other areas of the country.
The M1 motorway passes about ten miles to the east
of the city, linking Derby southwards to the London
area and
northwards to Sheffield
and Leeds
.Other major roads passing through or near
Derby include the A6
(historically the main route from London to Carlisle
, also linking to Leicester and Manchester
), A38
(Bodmin
to Mansfield
via Bristol and Birmingham
), A50
(Warrington
to Leicester via Stoke-on-Trent
), A52
(Newcastle-under-Lyme
to Mablethorpe
, including Brian
Clough Way linking Derby to Nottingham) and A61
(Derby to Thirsk
via Sheffield and Leeds).
Railways
The completed work renovating the
platform canopies at Derby Station.
Derby has been served by railways since 1840 with the opening of
the
North Midland Railwayto
Leeds, with a route to London via Rugby provided by the
Birmingham and Derby
Junction Railway. At the same time, a route to Nottingham and
Leicester was opened by the
Midland Counties Railway.
In 1844,
these three companies merged to form the Midland Railway who subsequently opened a
direct route to London St Pancras station
.The present day station, Derby
Midland
on the same site as 1840 and the original platform
visibly forms the sub-structure of the modern Platform 1.The
Midland Railway frontage was replaced in 1985, and during 2008/9
the 1950s concrete platform canopies were replaced with steel and
glass structures.
Derby station is operated by
East
Midlands Trainsand the city is served by frequent expresses to
London, the North East and South West, provided by East Midlands
Trains and
CrossCountry.
There also remain
small local stations at Peartree
and Spondon
, although services are fairly limited, especially
at the former.
The
Great Northern
Railway's "Derbyshire and North Staffordshire Extension"
formerly ran through Derby
Friargate Station, from Colwick
and Nottingham to Egginton
Junction.After closure, part of the route
west of Derby was used by British Rail as a test track. Today, the
trackbed either side of Derby is blocked only by road development
and has been converted to a
Sustranscycle
track. The ornate cast iron bridge by
Andrew Handysideacross Friargate is still
in place, as is his bridge over the river.
As a consequence of the Midland Railway basing their headquarters
in Derby, along with their
Locomotive and
Carriage & Wagon Works, the railways has a very significant
influence on the development of the town during the Victorian
period. Derby's importance on the railway network was underlined by
the development of the
Railway
Technical Centre, which continues to house several railway
businesses.
Air
East
Midlands Airport
is situated about fifteen miles (24 km) from
Derby city centre.Its proximity to Derby, the fact that the
airport is in Leicestershire
, and the traditional rivalry between the three
cities (Derby, Leicester and Nottingham), meant that there was a
great deal of controversy locally about the airport's decision to
prefix its name with Nottingham in 2004.Later on, in 2006,
Nottingham East Midlands Airport reverted to its previous name,
seen by many to be a victory for both Derby and Leicester, and
promoting a more unified East Midlands. The airport is served by
several
budget airlines, including
Bmibaby(for which East Midlands is a main
base),
Ryanairand
EasyJet, with services to a variety of internal and
European destinations.
Bus and coach
A Derby Corporation trolleybus in
Victoria Street, Derby, 30 July, 1967.
The trolleybus system closed on 9 September, 1967.
(Photograph by Alan Murray-Rust).
Derby's
former
bus station
was an innovative art deco
design by borough architect C.H.Aslin. Originally built in
1933, it was closed in 2005, and subsequently demolished, despite
the protests of environmentalists and conservationists.
The
unique cafe building is planned to be rebuilt at Crich
Tramway Museum
.A new bus station is set to be built on the
site as part of the Riverlights development. As a result of this
work, services are currently using a number of temporary stops on
streets around the Morledge area.
Local bus services in and around Derby are run by a number of
companies, but principally
Trent
Bartonand
Arriva Midlands. The
city is not particularly well served by long distance coaches,
although it is on
National
Express's London to Manchester and Yorkshire to the South West
routes. Additionally a regional route between Manchester and
Nottingham is run by Trent Barton via its TransPeak and Red Arrow
services.
Between 1932 and 1967, Derby Corporation operated a
trolleybussystem. The last trolleybus ran on 9
September 1967.
Several Derby vehicles have been preserved
at Sandtoft
and the East Anglia Transport
Museum
.
Culture, entertainment and sport
Music
The
annual open-air concert at Darley Park
is one of the biggest free concerts of its
kind.It is one of many performances given throughout the
year by Sinfonia Viva, a professional chamber
orchestrabased in Derby. The Derby Jazz group
caters for the jazz interest in the city and is regarded as one of
the UK's leading live
jazzorganisations. There
is also a summer rock music festival
Prom in the Parkwhich
takes place in late July every year.
Theatre and arts
Derby
Playhouse
regularly received acclaim in the national press for its productions, particularly, in recent
years, for its staging of shows by Stephen Sondheim.After a lengthy
period of financial uncertainty, the theatre closed in February
2008. It was resurrected in September of that year after a new
financing package was put together but forced to close again just
two months later because of further financial problems.
QUADSee Derby QUAD
is a new centre for art and film which opened on
Friday 26 September, 2008.This new building has two cinema
screens showing both independent and mainstream cinema, two gallery
spaces housing contemporary
visual arts,
a digital studio, participation spaces, digital editing suites,
artists studio and the bfi Mediatheque.
The
Robert Ludlam Theatreis a 270 seat venue with a diverse
programme of entertainment including dance, drama, art, music,
theatre in the round,
comedy, films, family entertainment, rock and pop
events, workshops and provides a home for many of Derbyshire's
amateurproduction groups. You have to go
through St Benedict's School to get there, however.
John Dexterthe theatre director and the
actor
Alan Bateswere both from
Derby.
Sport
Derby is home to several high profile sports clubs.
Derby County, who were
FA Cupwinners in 1946,
Football Leaguechampions in 1972 and again
in 1975, and are currently members of the
Football League Championship.
They
have played at Pride
Park Stadium
since 1997, having been previously based at the
Baseball
Ground
, a stadium originally built in 1890 as a
baseball stadium.One notable
baseball player and famous footballer was the Derby legend
Steve Bloomer, the baseball was discontinued
when the sport failed to attract the expected support. Notable
former managers include
Brian Clough,
Arthur Cox,
Jim
Smith,
John Gregoryand
George Burley. Notable former players
include
Colin Todd,
Roy McFarland(who both later had brief and
unsuccessful stints as manager at the club),
Peter Shilton,
Dean
Saunders,
Craig Short,
Marco Gabbiadini,
Horacio Carbonari,
Nick Pickeringand
Tom Huddlestone.
There are currently three senior non-league football clubs based in
the city.
Mickleover Sports
play at Station Road, Mickleover
and are members of the UniBond League
Division One South (the eighth level of the English football league
system).Graham Street Prims
and Borrowash
Victoria are both members of the East Midlands Counties
League (level ten) and play on adjacent grounds at the
Asterdale complex in Spondon
.
Derbyshire County Cricket
Club are based at the County Ground
in Derby and play almost all home matches there,
although matches at Chesterfield were re-introduced in 2006.One of the
designated
first classcounty
sides, they have won the
County
Championshiponce, in 1936.
Derby also has clubs in both codes of rugby. In
rugby union, Derby RFC play in
Midlands Division Two East(the seventh level
of English rugby union) at their Haslams Lane ground.
Rugby leagueteam
Derby City RLFCwere formed in 1990 and
compete in the Midlands Premier Division of the National Rugby
League Conference. From 2008 they are ground sharing with Derby RFC
at Haslams Lane.
The city is also represented in the
English Basketball LeagueDivision
One by
Derby Trailblazers, who
play at the Moorways Sports Centre. They were formed in 2002
following the demise of
British Basketball Leagueside
Derby Storm.
Local industrialist
Francis
Leyintroduced
baseballto the town in
the late
19th century, and built a
stadium near the town centre. The attempt to establish baseball in
Derby was unsuccessful, but the stadium survived for some 100 years
afterwards as the home of Derby County Football Club.
It was finally
demolished in 2003, six years after County's move to Pride Park
.
Arthur Keilythe respected
marathonrunnerand
Olympianwas born in Derbyshire in
1921and has lived his whole life in Derby. In Rome in
1960he broke the English Olympic record,
recording a time of 2hours 27mins .
Recreation
The newly restored Grove Street Lodge
and "Grand Entrance" at the northern end of the arboretum
Although it suffered from neglect in the
1990s, it has recently undergone extensive
improvement and renovation.
Markeaton Park is Derby's most used leisure facility.
It is the venue for
the city council's annual Guy Fawkes
Night firework display and contains its own light
railway
.Other major parks in the city include
Allestree
Park, Darley
Park, Chaddesden
Park
, Alvaston
Park
, Normanton Park
and Osmaston Park
.
Shopping and nightlife
Shopping in Derby is divided into two main sections.
The first is a
recently opened Westfield
Shopping Centre, controlled by the Westfield Group.The second is the
older section known as the Cathedral Quarter. This area includes a
range of
boutiquesand
coffee shopand is focused around the cathedral and
the area around Irongate.
Westfield Derby (incorporating the former Eagle Centre) is the
city's main indoor shopping centre. It opened on 9 October 2007
after major extension work costing £340 million. It contains a
brand new food court and a 12-screen cinema (
Showcase - Cinema De Lux) which was opened
on 16 May, 2008. The development was controversial and local
opponents accuse it of drawing trade away from the older parts of
the city centre where independent shops have traditionally been
located. Some of these have experienced a downturn in trade and
some have ceased trading since the development opened. In Westfield
itself, a combination of relatively high rents and rising rates
have made things difficult for smaller traders.
The Friar Gate area contains a high number of clubs and bars,
making it the centre of Derby's
nightlife.
Derby is also well provided with pubs, many of which have been
applauded nationally for their support of
real ale.
Education
Like most of the UK, Derby operates a non-selective
primaryand
secondary educationsystem with no
middle schools.
Pupilsattend infant and junior school (often in a
combined primary school) before moving onto a
comprehensivesecondary school. Many secondaries also
have
sixth forms, allowing pupils to
optionally continue their education by taking
A Levelsafter the end of compulsory
education at age 16.
For those who want to stay in education but
leave school, the large Derby College
provides a number of post-16 courses.
Outside the state sector, there are four fee-paying
independent schools.
Derby
Grammar School
was founded in 1994 and was for boys only, until
2007, when they accepted girls into the sixth form for the first
time, who aim to continue the work and traditions of the former
Derby
School
, closed in 1989, one of the oldest schools in
England; Derby High School
is for girls-only at secondary level and for boys
at primary level; and Ockbrook School is an independent
school for girls aged 3–18) and boys aged
3–11).Lastly, Michael House Steiner School can be
found in Shipley, Heanor and caters for pupils from kindergarten age through to 16.
Derby
also has an academy,
Landau
Forte College
, partially state-funded, but also with business
backing.It was one of fifteen
City Technology Collegesset up in
the late
1980sand early
1990s, which was converted into a City Academy in
September 2006.
Derby also has a number of
special
needsestablishments including Ivy House School (which takes
pupils from nursery to sixth form) and the Light House which is a
respitefacility for children and
parents.
The
University of Derby
has its main campus on
Kedleston Road.There is another campus in north Derbyshire
at Buxton.A new building at the university was
recently opened by Sir
Richard
Branson.
In 2003
the University of Nottingham
opened a graduate entry medical
school
based at Derby City General Hospital
.
Media
The
Derby Evening
Telegraphis the city's daily newspaper. In addition, a free
newspaper, the Derby Express, is delivered to households weekly.
The former free Derby Trader weekly newspaper is no longer in
print. The daily freesheet 'Metro' is distributed in the city
centre every morning, although this only has a very small amount of
local content. Another local paper is the weekly
Derbyshire Timespublished every Thursday,
which mainly covers news from the north of the county.
BBC Radio Derby, the BBC's award-winning
local station for Derbyshire and East Staffordshire
, is based on St. Helen's Street in the city and
offers a mixture of local, national and international news,
features, music and sports commentaries.It has around
150,000 weekly listeners and is available locally on 104.5 FM and
1116 AM, on 95.3 FM in North and Mid Derbyshire and on 96.0 FM in
the Buxton area, as well as being streamed on the
internet.The
BBCin Derby also have their
own local
websitefor the area which provides news, travel and
weather information, as well as other features. From 1983 to 2008
Radio Derby organised the Money Mountain Appeal, an annual on-air
charity auction which raised more than £1 million for local causes.
Since
July 2007, the BBC has managed Big Screen Derby in the Market Place
in conjunction with Derby City Council and the University of Derby, as part of the BBC
Big Screen project.
RAM FM, the independent local radio station for
Derbyshire and East Staffordshire, is also based in the city and
offers a mixture of adult contemporary music and entertainment,
with regular news and traffic bulletins.It broadcasts on
102.8 FM, and is also streamed on the internet, and is listened to
by around 120,000 people each week.
RAM FMis
part of the Gcap One Network, and hosts many big local events, such
as the
Darley Park Concert, the city bonfire
and fireworks, the
Christmas
lightsswitch-on, and the
Race For Life, raising money
for
Cancer Research UK.
Trivia
Notable people
- Alan Bates (1934-2003), actor
- Henry Cavendish (1731-1810),
scientist
- William John Coffee (1774-1846),
artist and sculptor
- Daniel Parker Coke (1745-1825),
barrister and Member of
Parliament
- Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802),
physician
- John Flamsteed (1646-1719), first
Astronomer Royal
- James Fox (1780-1830),
engineer
- Andrew Handyside (1806-1887),
iron founder
- Geoff Hoon MP (born 1953), politician
- John Lombe (1693-1722), industrial pioneer
- Stephen Marley (born
1946), novelist
- Florence Nightingale
(1820-1910), pioneer of modern nursing
- Colin Osborne (born 1975),
PDC Darts
professional
- Samuel Richardson (1689–1761),
novellist
- Sir Henry Royce (1863-1933),
co-founder of Rolls-Royce
- Sir Nigel Rudd (Born 1946),
Industrialist
- George Sorocold (1668?-1738?),
engineer
- Herbert Spencer (1820–1903),
philosopher
- Jedediah Strutt (1726-1797),
industrial pioneer
- John Whitehurst (1713–1788),
clockmaker and scientist
- Sir Henry Wilmot
(1831-1901), recipient of the Victoria
Cross
- Joseph Wright
(1734-1797), painter
Twin cities
Twinning with Osnabrück
Derby is
twinned with Osnabrück
in Germany.The partnership treaty
between the two cities was signed on 17 February, 1976.
Osnabrück made contact with the British authorities as early as
1948, hoping to find an English twin town and therefore come to
understand their former enemies from the
Second World War. This attempt was
unsuccessful and Osnabrück did not consider an English twin town
again until 1972. The twinning agreement with Derby was signed four
years later in the historical
Hall of Peacein Osnabrück's
"rathaus"(town hall). Since then
the two towns have exchanged envoys.
Every year, Derby and Osnabrück each appoint an envoy who spends
twelve months in his or her twin city. The envoy's role is varied,
but encompasses areas such as promoting the exchange of ideas
between the two cities, as well as acting as an educational and
general information officer to promote awareness of the twinning
scheme. They can help in all sorts of ways by: translating, giving
talks to local societies and schools, finding
pen friendsand short term host families during
work placements, working in day-to-day contact to assist groups who
want to get involved in twinning by identifying and approaching
possible counterparts, planning the annual mayweek trip and a lot
more.
There is
an annual exchange between the wind bands of John
Port School
, Etwall and its twin school Gymnasium Melle in
Osnabrück, the two bands taking turns to visit each other and
participating in joint concerts.Beginning in 1977, the
exchange is one of the longest and most successful of its kind in
British history.
The exchange of envoys between two cities is very unusual. The team
of envoys in Osnabrück changes every year and Osnabrück also sends
envoys to Derby, Angers and Çanakkale.
No other city in
Germany participates in this exchange of envoys, and in Britain,
only one other town, Wigan
, receives and sends an envoy.
List of international links
Gallery
Image:GreenLnRH.jpg|The cathedral from Green
LaneImage:RRoyceRH.jpg|Part of the Rolls-Royce
WorksImage:NursesHomeRH.jpg|Nurses' HomeImage:OldCollegeRH.jpg|Old
CollegeImage:SureStartRH.jpg|Sure Start,
NormantonImage:StMathewsDarleyAbbeyRH.jpg|St Matthew's, Darley
AbbeyImage:StMaryBridgeRH.jpg|St
Mary's-on-the-BridgeImage:StLukesRH.jpg|St Luke's, Stockbrook
StreetImage:FalstaffRH.jpg|The Falstaff public house,
NormantonImage:StJohnRH.jpg|St John's, Bridge
StreetImage:WestfieldRH.JPG|Part of the Westfield
Centre
Image:Bloomer.JPG|Bust of Steve Bloomer at Pride Park StadiumImage:WestfieldsRH.JPG|Westfield from
Babington LaneImage:IslamCtRH.JPG|Islamic Centre, Wilmot
StreetImage:PrisonRH.JPG|Ex Prison., Ex Greyhound
StadiumImage:StMaryDerbyRH.JPG|St Mary's RC
ChurchImage:SpaRH.JPG|Spa Inn, Abbey StreetImage:CathRH.JPG|Derby
Cathederal and the Dolphin InnImage:GuruArjanDevGurdwaraRH.JPG|Guru
Arjan Dev GurdwaraImage:DerbySchool1RH.JPG|Derby Moor Community
Sports College & the Millennium Sixth Form CentreImage:Joseph
Wright Derby.JPG|Joseph Wright, St Alkmunds WayImage:Friar gate
Studios.JPG|Friar Gate Studios, Ford StreetImage:Jurys Inn
Derby.JPG|New Jury's Inn St Alkmond's WayImage:Roundhouse Derby
Near Completion.JPG|Roundhouse Derby Near Completion
References
- The Rivers of Time Ron McKeown, ISBN
0-9530603-7-3
-
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TPop&u_id=10109700&c_id=10001043&add=N
- The Times. July 29, 1977
- [1]
- Markeaton Today BBC.co.uk Accessed
-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/features/2004/02/bold_lane/index.shtml
External links
| Year |
Population |
|
| 1801 |
14,695 |
|
| 1851 |
48,506 |
|
| 1901 |
118,469 |
|
| 1921 |
142,824 |
|
| 1941 |
167,321 |
|
| 1951 |
181,423 |
|
| 1961 |
199,578 |
|
| 1971 |
219,558 |
|
| 1981 |
214,424 |
|
| 1991 |
225,296 |
|
| 2001 |
221,716 |
|
|
| Ward |
| Areas within the Ward |
|
| Abbey |
| St
Lukes and Normanton (part of) |
|
| Allestree |
Allestree and Markeaton Park |
|
| Alvaston |
Alvaston, Crewton, Litchurch, Pride
Park, Wilmorton and Allenton (Part
of) |
|
| Arboretum |
City
Centre, Pear
Tree and Rose Hill |
|
| Blagreaves |
Sunny
Hill and Littleover (part of) |
|
| Boulton |
Boulton and Allenton (part of) |
|
| Chaddesden |
| Chaddesden |
|
| Chellaston |
Chellaston and Shelton
Lock |
|
| Darley |
| Darley Abbey, Five Lamps, Little Chester (aka Chester Green), Strutt's Park and
West End |
|
| Derwent |
| Breadsall Hilltop and
Chaddesden Heights |
|
| Littleover |
Littleover (most of) and Heatherton Village |
|
| Mackworth |
Mackworth and Morley Estate |
|
| Mickleover |
| Mickleover |
|
| Normanton |
| Normanton (most of) and Austin Estate |
|
| Oakwood |
Oakwood and Chaddesden (part of) |
|
| Sinfin |
Sinfin , Osmaston and Stenson Fields (part of) |
|
| Spondon |
| Spondon |
|
|
|
| Year |
Regional Gross Value Added |
Agriculture |
Industry |
Services |
|
| 1995 |
2,509 |
2 |
1,130 |
1,377 |
|
| 2000 |
3,965 |
1 |
1,819 |
2,145 |
|
| 2003 |
4,421 |
1 |
1,806 |
2,614 |
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