Retro

Johnny Ray fans from Derbyshire are pictured waiting patiently at the London Airport. Johnny Ray, the famous American crooner, arrived at the airport and the teenage fan club presidents were there to meet him and returned to the Dorchester Hotel with him for a lemonade. The two lucky girls - Jill James (18) and Philippa Henderson (15) are seen wearing Johnny Ray picture earings.

19 rare black and white retro photos show interesting images from around Derbysh...

Wives of striking Derbyshire miners hand in a letter to the Coal Board in Hobart Place on 18th January 1972. With them is MP for Bolsover, Dennis Skinner (centre).

33 fascinating pictures showing life in Derbyshire over the last century

Andrew Pugh at Heights of Abraham cable car system in Matlock Bath in 1984.

35 cracking pics showing the beauty of Derbyshire from the 1950's to the 1980's

Retro Derbyshire pictures, showing life during the 60's and 70's.

20 fantastic pictures show what life was like during the 1960s and 1970s

Local schoolboys watch the West German team training at Ashbourne during the 1966 World Cup in July 1966.

19 rare pictures show the delights of Derbyshire over the last 100 years

Wives of striking Derbyshire miners hand in a letter to the Coal Board in Hobart Place on 18th January 1972. With them is MP for Bolsover, Dennis Skinner (centre).

21 cracking pics showing what life used to be like in Derbyshire

Garland Day At Castleton, Derbyshire.

25 fascinating historic pictures showing Derbyshire as you've never seen before

The snow-covered landscape in Bakewell on 20th January 1937.

Retro: It's snow fun in Derbyshire as winter weather blankets the county

Buxworth Primary School pupils Georgie Garner, Lucy Allott, Ethan Moore, Evie Wilde, Louis Ecob, Tom Pollard, Henry Batt, Cavan Bowden, Dylan Moore and Finlay Rodgers model the new sports kit whihc has been sponsored by J S Burgess Engineering of Whaley Bridge

Can you spot a familiar face in this school sport gallery?

A local is pictured Tobogganing in the snow at Buxton in around 1904..

Take a look at how Buxton has evolved down the decades

These stars have all filmed in Derbyshire

Blockbuster films you might not know were filmed in Derbyshire - as county named...

Costume tours of Cromford Mills will be running over the weekend of September 30. (Photo: Georgian Derbyshire Festival)

Georgian Derbyshire Festival returns with bumper line-up of heritage events

The Octagon Hall has been at the centre of Buxton's cultural life since the Victorian era. (Photo: John Phillips)

Buxton venues ready for Heritage Open Days event season starting next week

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, on Terrace Road will be closed for the foreseeable future. (Photo: Jason Chadwick/Buxton Advertiser)

Buxton Museum closure expected to be long-term, says Derbyshire County Council

Deacon's Bank is bringing a different flavour of dining experience to Chapel-en-le-Frith. (Photo: Sarah Louise Pickering)

Historic High Peak bank building transformed into fine dining restaurant

Children playing with goats at Chatsworth Farmyard. (Pic credit: Chatsworth House Trust)

Chatsworth Farmyard, Bakewell: Popular farm reflects on 50 years of business

Chatsworth is home to the Devonshire family, and has been passed down through 16 generations.

30 photos show Chatsworth House down the years - with the people, events and art...

It is nearly 80 years since two villages in the Peak District were flooded to create a new reservoir.

12 stunning photos reveal long-lost drowned Peak District villages that vanished...

A Lancaster bomber flies over Ladybower reservoir to mark the 70th anniversary of the World War II Dambusters mission on May 16, 2013. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Online campaign calls for new Dambusters museum at Peak District training site

Margaret Askew on her special visit to Buxton Opera House with daughters Sue and Margaret, holding the poster from her performance in 1951. (Photo: Jason Chadwick/National World)

1950s Buxton singer makes special return to opera house where she fell in love

There's lots to look forward to as Stoney Middleton prepares for its well dressing week. Photo: submitted

Peak District village prepares week of traditional well dressing festivities

Councillors are backing the £5m plans to restore crumbling Thornseat Lodge and turn it into holiday accommodation and wedding venue.

Green light for restoration of crumbling Peak District hunting lodge

Tomo Thompson, chief executive of CPRE Peak District and South Yorkshire said: “We’re very relieved that Severn Trent has finally realised how unacceptable their plans were to landscape, biodiversity, amenity and recreation."

Plans for huge Peak District reservoir have been ditched

Most Derbyshire towns can boast a history which stretches back hundreds, if not thousands, of years – leaving legacies on the landscape, built environment and local economies, and in the enduring names given to those places.

Derbyshire place names explained: from bees and deer to stones and streams

Howden dam, ancient woodland and wild moorland could be 'drowned'. Pic by Severn Trent Water.

National Park bosses slam Peak District reservoir plan

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, on Terrace Road.

Derbyshire County Council stresses support for Buxton Museum following closure

Few moments in sporting history have provoked such fierce debate as Geoff Hurst's second goal against West Germany in the 1966 final at Wembley. Fans all held their breath as referee Gottfried Dienst consulted with linesman Tofiq Bahramov before awarding the goal.

9 sporting moments which shocked the world

Campaigners fear loss of two historic dams if new reservoir gets go-ahead

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, on Terrace Road.

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery shut indefinitely after building risk discovered

Andy B. Barker posted: "Moulin Rouge - met the wife there 37 plus years ago." Photo shows two Moulin Rougers with the club's DJ Nick Jones.

Derbyshire's best ever nightclub is revealed

Lyme Park is reported to attract more than 330,000 visitors a year, posing major challenges for infrastructure and surrounding communities.

Critics slam plans for giant car park at Peak District National Trust estate

Members of the Castleton Historical Society have been out on the streets collecting support for their petition.

Peak District history group seeks public support to save national park museum

Derwent Dam was where the Dambusters of 617 Squadron trained ahead of a famous RAF raid in 1943.

Campaigners fight Peak District mega-dam project

This rare 1906 photo by FH Brindley shows the “nicking” of Greaves Croft mine, Moss Rake, as its ownership passes from the Bradwell family to the British Mineral Company, witnessed by members of the Barmote Court.

New Buxton Museum exhibition digs up history of Derbyshire quarries and mines

The presenters of 'Breakfast Time', first national breakfast television programme, UK, August 19, 1983; including Frank Bough (far left) (photo: Getty Images)

A look back at 40 years of early morning sleepy Breakfast television

My word, our language constantly changes!

Some of our staple sayings have seen better days.

The gallows were once a typical sight (photo: Adobe)

The gruesome business of public execution put under the microscope

King George VI who made a speech to the nation each Christmas from 1939 exxcept for one year following an operation (photo: Getty Images)

Monarch’s Christmas day speech carried on by our new King Charles III

We’ve dug into the archives to find some interesting images showing life across Derbyshire over the last century.

21 fascinating photos show life in Derbyshire during the last 100 years

Snow fall through the years in Derbyshire

Amazing photos show Derbyshire buried in snow when winters gripped in decades pa...

Thornbridge Hall owners Emma and Jim in the gardens.

Thornbridge Hall planning inquiry ends with arguments over harms and benefits

Dave Kelly's father showing his son his old stomping ground

The importance of oral history and family

Winston Churchill carrying out some brick work at his home in Chartwell, Kent, in 1928 (photo: Getty Images)

Chartwell: Where you get to know the man who is behind the myth

LNER Azuma train bearing its poppy livery (photo: Simon Williams LNER)

LNER thanks those who have served

War veterans David John Dade (Left) and Ken Sprowles at the launch of the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal in central London (photo: Getty Images)

Annual Poppy Appeal is launched across the UK

From left, Iain Barley of FOCS, Becky Styles from Northern Trains, Councillor Michael Chantler, Catherine Croney of the community rail partnership, FOCS' Sue Murdoch, Couns Kath Sizeland and Michael Barton, FOCS' Kathy Chantler and Judith Thurston, Coun Chris Sizeland, Richard Bagot of FOCS, artist Eamonn Murphy, Coun Alistair Beswick, FOCS chairman John Brook, display designer Simon Haddock and Christina Haddock.

Chapel rail group unveils new platform art and tribute to train crash victims