9 | 10 | 11 - W W Winter Lecture – Photography and the Country House
19:30 -21:00 11/03/2025 Speaker: Jonathan Wallis Tuesday 11 March at 7.30pm Zoom only How did the owners of the country house engage with photography in the 19th and early 20th centuries? Mainly using the example of the Pennymans from Ormesby Hall in Teesside, and with some examples from W W Winter Heritage Trust collection, Jonathan will explore how photographers were employed, photographs used in the house and photography became a hobby for many including the Pennymans. Jonathan Wallis has worked in museums and heritage for over 30 years. He began his museum career as a conservator at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, later moving to a number of other museums before joining Derby Museums in 2001. After 17 years he left to work as a regional curator for the National Trust based in Yorkshire and the Northeast. Jonathan’s interests in collections are wide ranging – from British Bronze Age metalwork to Joseph Wright of Derby. His latest research explores the photographic history of a country house, Ormesby Hall, on the outskirts of Middlesbrough and Scarborough’s Victorian photographic studios. He has been the Chair of the W W Winter Heritage Trust for the past seven years. Booking is by donation via Eventbrite – proceeds will be shared between the W W Winter Heritage Trust and the Derbyshire Archaeological Society.
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13:30 -15:30 12/03/2025 Derby Road, Belper, Derbyshire, DE56 1UU Library open upstairs on the 1st floor.
| 13 | 14 - Investigating hillforts in Derbyshire and across the northern Midlands
19:30 -21:00 14/03/2025 Darley Lane, Derby, DE1 3AX Speaker: Graham Guilbert The aim will be to explore something of what we know of hillforts in this region, covering considerable variety in their form and density of distribution, and extending west from Derbyshire into the Welsh Marches. Only a few instances have been investigated sufficiently thoroughly and extensively to allow any confidence in interpretation, and those few can lead us into consideration of certain themes and issues having great influence upon general understanding of hillforts. Graeme’s first engagement with hillforts came in the late 60s, through excavating at Cadbury Castle in Somerset, thereafter focusing upon forts in Wales and its Marches, and more recently extending to those in Derbyshire. He is never more content than when trying to get to grips with the earthworks of a fort located on some remote hilltop.
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10:00 -12:00 29/03/2025 Derby Road, Belper, Derbyshire, DE56 1UU Library open upstairs on the 1st floor. - Derby and Ale
11:00 -12:30 29/03/2025 Derby Road, Belper, Derbyshire, DE56 1UU Speaker: John Arguile Derby was never a major force in brewing, its claim to fame was rather as a centre of malting and latterly the last stronghold of publican brewers in the UK. The book on which the talk is based grew out of a study of the Big Six brewers that once dominated UK brewing, currently being serialised by the Brewery History Society. The talk will deal with the rise and decline of the first common (wholesale) brewers namely Alton & Co; Stretton Brothers and Offiler’s Ltd; the smaller brewers they absorbed; the many publican (home brew pubs) brewers and lastly with their modern counterparts, spawned largely by Gordon Brown’s progressive beer tax regime. John Arguile was a founder member of what became the National Brewery Heritage Trust and has been a contributor to the Brewery History Society since 1986. Organised by the Industrial Archaeology Section
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