Originally posted on Derbyshire Record Office:
We’re pleased to say that the Wellcome Trust funded cataloguing of the National Coal Board archive for the Derbyshire area is nearly complete. The archive contains more than 600 boxes of records, which relate to the miners who worked at the coalface as well as the management of the…
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The earliest picture of quarrying in Derbyshire? In February the museum bought a small eighteenth-century watercolour from Chiswick Auctions in London. We don’t know who painted it or when, and its title, ‘Limestone Quarry, Derbyshire’ is somewhat ambiguous. It is however, the earliest picture of limestone quarrying that the museum owns. It is perhaps the […]
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Volunteer archivist Ian Gregory ruminates on an old view of the Goyt Valley, a popular spot for a stroll just outside Buxton: To the north of Buxton lies the valley of the River Goyt. It lies in heather moorland that turns purple in late Summer. Pools and rivulets are black from surrounding peat. Selective burning […]
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Volunteer archivist Ian Gregory ruminates on an old view of the Goyt Valley, a popular spot for a stroll just outside Buxton: To the north of Buxton lies the valley of the River Goyt. It lies in heather moorland that turns purple in late Summer. Pools and rivulets are black from surrounding peat. Selective burning […]
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We now have our eighteenth-century watercolours and sketches available via an online catalogue – http://www.depictingderbyshire.uk The website, which has been funded by a grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, showcases art works of Derbyshire made between 1700-1820. These works are searchable via a map function, through keywords or through a […]
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Creeping Toad begins a series of events in celebration of the museum's 125th birthday.One field of grass,
rustling and bustling with life
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery is 125 this year and to mark that anniversary, the BM125 project will bring together experienced with new and emerging artists with 12 months of artistic initiatives (we were hoping for a cake but the weight of the candles and their collective fieriness might prove inhibiting: a cake barbecued by its own candles?) Over the next few weeks, these new artists will be introduced and the shapes of their work will unfoldRead his full blog here: https://creepingtoad.blogspot.com/2018/07/rustling-and-bustling-with-life.html
