Images include Deborah Cavendish feeding the chickens at Chatsworth House and Alice Boardman – the only passenger using Great Longstone railway station in 1962.
Not for the squeamish are photos of British circus performer Eddie Sinclair performing his act of endurance which included a masked woman hammering a six-inch nail into his tongue!
And did you know why one of the biggest rock bands in the world visited Derbyshire in the summer of 1968?
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17. Calke Abbey
Henry Harpur-Crewe (Henry Francis Jenney, 1921-1991) in the snowy grounds of Calke Abbey in Ticknall, November 14th 1985. Owned by the Harpur family for nearly 300 years the house was sold to the National Trust in 1985 in lieu of death duties. (Photo by Bryn Colton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Photo: Bryn Colton
18. Circus performer
Masked woman Paula uses a six-inch nail to hammer the tongue of British circus performer Eddie Sinclair to a table, at The Big Drum public house in Shirebrook, 5th June 1959. A telephone operator by day, Sinclair performs an act of Yogic endurance as 'Kahbulah, the English Fakir'. (Photo by John Pratt/Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Photo: John Pratt
19. Eddie Sinclair
Another image of British circus performer Eddie Sinclair, with a hatpin pushed through his neck and pins and needles pinned to his bare chest, at The Big Drum public house in Shirebrook, 5th June 1959. A telephone operator by day, Sinclair performs an act of Yogic endurance as 'Kahbulah, the English Fakir'. (Photo by John Pratt/Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Photo: John Pratt
20. Monsal Dale
Monsal Dale, 1959. A scenic view looking north-west along the River Wye in the valley from a high viewpoint at Monsal Head near Little Longstone. Ramblers walk on the path and rest on benches. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Photo: Heritage Images