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The marble statue of John Bright, by A Bruce Joy, was unveiled in Albert Square on 12 October 1891 by Lord Derby.

The main body of the church is 14th-century, but the chancel was rebuilt in 1848 by H J Stevens, a prolific Derby architect.

It is also unique in that it is still today the home of Lord Derby (the title of the Stanley family).

The very distinctive square Tower Building was once the town house of the Stanley family and Lord Derby.

TODAY THE RUSHES seems just a busy stretch of road linking the town centre to the main road to Derby.

The School was declared open by the Countess of Derby in September 1897, and was an immediate success.

The great names of Liverpool's history (Bessie Braddock, Lord Derby, Johnnie Walker, King Edward VII, Brian Epstein) have all acknowledged the cheers of the crowd from here.

The Bank House was designed by Thomas Gardner of Uttoxeter, and is in fact a simpler copy of Joseph Pickford's house (now a museum) in Derby.

away from the course, to hold kitchens, dining-rooms and staff accommodation; no sooner had this been finished than it was requisitioned as a hospital for the wounded of the First World War; so the Derby

The 12th Earl of Derby had often stayed at his uncle’s house in Banstead, the Oaks; as he was a keen sportsman, there was talk of his funding a new stakes for horse racing.

During the sixty years of family business from 1880, the former coaching inn turned stables of Sam and Fred Darling have produced seven Derby winners, four St Leger winners and nine other winners

The Library, designed by Preston architect James Hibbert, was opened on 26 October 1893 by Lord Derby, but it was another two years before the Art Gallery was ready to open.

Silk ribbon was manufactured when the mill was taken over by Thomas Bridget & Co of Derby in the mid 19th century; the mill continued to operate under various owners, including Joseph Davenport & Sons

School - was built by public subscription on Derby Street.

It is a portrait of two racehorses, captured at the moment of victory; Diomed, the winner of the 1780 Derby, on the left, and on the right the 2001 winner, Galileo.

Bowden made them for Tom Walls, and for Geoff Lewis when he won the 1971 Derby on Mill Reef.

John Darby of High Park Farm operated a substantial milk delivery service, using a horse-drawn float.

John Darby of High Park Farm operated a substantial milk delivery service, using a horse-drawn float.

It was Abraham Darby's partners, Quaker merchants from Bristol, who put up most of the £3500 needed to establish Coalbrookdale Ironworks.

During the early part of the 18th century, a local parson named Jonathan Darby from the parish of East Dean unofficially displayed a candle-burning lantern hung in a hollow carved out of the chalk

Abraham Darby bought a furnace in 1706 and began experimenting with ways of smelting iron by using coke rather than charcoal In 1709 he mastered the technique and changed the world.

In 1779 Abraham Darby II's Coalbrookdale Ironworks cast the ribs of this, the world's first iron bridge.

It was built in 1879 to a design by J T Darby, with the intended purpose of providing 'a large concert room and other accessories, calculated to afford recreation and amusement to the upper classes.'

Water was also used for pumping and lifting in mines and for crushing ore, and Abraham Darby used vast amounts of water to work the bellows of his blast furnace at Coalbrookdale.