Local History

This piece is from a sketchbook by Mary Twopenny that captures her various trips around Derbyshire. It is a pencil drawing of Dove Dale depicting The Straights where the valley gets very narrow, on buff paper, dated 23rd August 1827.

This piece is from a sketchbook by Mary Twopenny that captures her various trips around Derbyshire. It is a pencil drawing of Dove Dale with Ilam rock and Pickering Tor, on buff paper, dated 23rd August 1827.

This piece is from a sketchbook by Mary Twopenny that captures her various trips around Derbyshire. It is a pencil drawing of the view of Monsal Dale (without the Headstone viaduct) with a travelling family struggling up the hill heavily laden with a donkey and small children. It is dated 12th June 1828.

This piece is from a sketchbook by Mary Twopenny that captures her various trips around Derbyshire. It is a pencil drawing of the rock formations above the River Wye including Ravenstor and Water cum Jolly Dale overhangs, dated 11th June 1828.

This piece is from a sketchbook by Mary Twopenny that captures her various trips around Derbyshire. It is a pencil and colour wash drawing of the remains of the water wheel (intact) at Litton Mill with a man to scale, and the ruins of the mill destroyed in a fire in 1811 in which it was seriously damaged. It is dated 12th June 1828.

This piece is from a sketchbook by Mary Twopenny that captures her various trips around Derbyshire. It is a pencil and colour wash drawing of the ruins (or the demolition process) of the apprentice house of Litton Mill after it was purchased by Taddington Parish in 1822. It is dated 12th June 1828.