Ecclesburn Lane, Idridgehay
Elaine Partridge writes:
"....I have these two postcards. I believe I got the
postcards from Mr. & Mrs. Smith at the Post Office in
Idridgehay. They were always very substandard and dark,
and I have done my best to make them lighter.
The other picture is another postcard so dark as to be
almost useless. If you look very carefully you can
see what appears to be a very very old model car.
Your guess is as good as mine.
One little sweet anecdote about Idridgehay. There was
a train that used to go into Derby in time for the
morning office crowd, and out again at about 5:30p.m.
There was a dear old Colonel type who lived on the
road down to the station who traveled on the train.
One morning he did not board the train. The train
driver waited in the station until someone went from
the train to see why he was not there!
I just loved the months we were living in Idridgehay.
I have such happy memories
of there and Wirksworth. We lived there until 1946.
Barbara and John Marsden were special friends. They
had the ironmongers in the square. There was a cinema
which changed programs Monday and Thursday. You
always saw every movie, and seats were tacitly
reserved for certain people in the town. Our
neighbor, Tom Turner, had a special seat and people
always left it for him.
I had my 21st birthday while I was working at
Hatfield's farm. The telegraph boy with Happy
Birthday telegrams knew just where to find me in the
street, delivering milk from the farm.
On VE night we tore down all the blackout curtains in
Meadow House and turned on every light in the house
and went into the garden to marvel! There was dancing
to LOUD music outside the Cottage Hospital."Knees Up
Mother Brown" etc. (ask your aunt) I guess none of
the patients got much sleep that night. I know I did
not get home until 6 a.m.
Dates:
Photo taken:1930?
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Source:Elaine Partridge now living in Las Vegas, Nevada USA
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"....I have these two postcards. I believe I got the postcards from Mr. & Mrs. Smith at the Post Office in Idridgehay. They were always very substandard and dark, and I have done my best to make them lighter.
The other picture is another postcard so dark as to be almost useless. If you look very carefully you can see what appears to be a very very old model car. Your guess is as good as mine.
One little sweet anecdote about Idridgehay. There was a train that used to go into Derby in time for the morning office crowd, and out again at about 5:30p.m. There was a dear old Colonel type who lived on the road down to the station who traveled on the train. One morning he did not board the train. The train driver waited in the station until someone went from the train to see why he was not there!
I just loved the months we were living in Idridgehay. I have such happy memories of there and Wirksworth. We lived there until 1946. Barbara and John Marsden were special friends. They had the ironmongers in the square. There was a cinema which changed programs Monday and Thursday. You always saw every movie, and seats were tacitly reserved for certain people in the town. Our neighbor, Tom Turner, had a special seat and people always left it for him.
I had my 21st birthday while I was working at Hatfield's farm. The telegraph boy with Happy Birthday telegrams knew just where to find me in the street, delivering milk from the farm. On VE night we tore down all the blackout curtains in Meadow House and turned on every light in the house and went into the garden to marvel! There was dancing to LOUD music outside the Cottage Hospital."Knees Up Mother Brown" etc. (ask your aunt) I guess none of the patients got much sleep that night. I know I did not get home until 6 a.m.
Dates:
Photo taken:1930?
Size:
Source:Elaine Partridge now living in Las Vegas, Nevada USA
Click on photo for enlargement (on CD only)
Have any more information about this photo?
Please e-mail the author on: