Tag Archives: Derby Bygones

Burton Road to the southwest of Derby has been completely transformed during the last one hundred years or so, turning into what residents have described as the best entry road into the city. During the Victorian and Edwardian periods, cramped slums stood where residents now live in mostly large detached …

These photographs show the early days of operations at East Midlands Airport. They were taken by Glyn Foulkes-Williams, of Shepshed, not long after the airport first opened in 1965. He recalled: “The pictures were taken when I was 14 years old. We had heard about the airport opening, it was …