A brief glimpse into the past

Team, Place & City Details

Derbyshire Women cricket team

The Derbyshire Women's cricket team is the women's representative cricket team for the English historic county of Derbyshire. They play their home games at various grounds across the county, and are captained by Leah Kellogg.

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 2005

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 2005 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for one hundred and thirty-five years. They reached the semi-final in the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy.

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Derbyshire.

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 2004

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 2004 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for one hundred and thirty-four years. In the County Championship, they finished eighth in the second division and in the National League, they finished ninth in the second division.

Durham Wasps

The Durham Wasps were an ice hockey team located in Durham and was one of England's most well-known names in ice hockey. The team was bought by Sir John Hall and moved to the neighbouring city of Newcastle Upon Tyne in August 1996.

Durham Wildcats

The Durham Wildcats were a professional basketball team based in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. They were members of the British Basketball League, the top-level competition in the United Kingdom, and played their home games at the Newton Aycliffe Leisure Centre.

Durham West Jr. Lightning

The Durham West Jr. Lightning are a Canadian Junior women's ice hockey team based in Ajax, Ontario.

Durham W.F.C.

Durham Women Football Club is a women's football club based in Durham, North East England. The team has competed in the FA Women's Championship, the second tier of Women's football in England, since 2014 having been awarded a licence in its inaugural season.

Derbyshire Wildlife Trust

Derbyshire Wildlife Trust is one of 46 local Wildlife Trusts around the UK working to promote and protect local wildlife. It covers the whole of Derbyshire and was founded in 1962 in response to environmental threats to the local countryside, since when it has continued to grow.

Derbyshire lead mining history
Derbyshire lead mining history

This article details some of the history of lead mining in Derbyshire, England.

West Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)
West Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)

West Derbyshire was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1885, until it was replaced by the Derbyshire Dales constituency in the 2010 general election, it elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post voting system.

Derbyshire and Staffordshire extension

The Derbyshire and Staffordshire extension of the Great Northern Railway was an English railway network built by the GNR to get access to coal resources in the area to the north and west of Nottingham. The Midland Railway had obstructed the GNR in its attempts to secure a share of the lucrative business of transporting coal from the area, and in frustration the GNR built the line.

Derbyshire Yeomanry
Derbyshire Yeomanry

The Derbyshire Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1794, which served as a cavalry regiment and dismounted infantry regiment in the First World War and provided two reconnaissance regiments in the Second World War, before being amalgamated with the Leicestershire Yeomanry to form the Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry in 1957.