SHEEPBRIDGE IRON WORKS Laying the foundation stone of the blast furnace

Found this report in the Derbyshire Courier 7 November 1857. It gives details of the laying of the foundation stone for the blast furnaces at Sheepbridge Iron works.

John Buxton

The sad story of John Buxton of Newbridge Street Old Whittington, taken from Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald 8 September 1900

The Inquest report was published the following week in the Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald

"At the inquest of the Whittington lad, who was killed by a trap accident last week, the Coroner commented on the danger of children being allowed to play in the streets".

WHITTINGTON CHURCH

Been to the Local Studies library today and found this engraving of Whittington Church in Fords History of Chesterfield. It is not dated and doesn't mention any information about it but the book was published in 1839 so that gives a rough idea of the date.

REV DR SAMUEL PEGGE

Taken from the Derby Mercury 7th April 1796.

The obituary for Rev Dr Samuel Pegge (1704-1796). Samuel Pegge was born in Chesterfield and served as Rector of Whittington for 45 years.

Rev Dr Samuel Pegge was a well known Old Whittington resident and was also a well respected Antiquarian and Archaeologist.
(Picture of Samuel Pegge taken from Wikipedia.org)

NEW PROJECT

I thought I would start a new chapter on the Old Whittington one Place study website https://oldwhittingtonops.com/newspaper-reports/

As I was researching the men on the war memorial I was coming across all sorts different newspaper reports concerning Old Whittington. I thought I would try and share a few on here and also on the webpage.

Todays offering is a celebration of the Centenary of the 'Glorious revolution' from the Derbyshire Mercury 2nd October 1788. From the sounds of it quite a big celebration - the cost 1 guinea! Checking the currency convertor website one guinea in 1790 would be the equivalent of £80 now, so the celebrations would only be open to the wealthy of the area!

End of the Research!

I have now finished the task I set myself 18 months ago of filling out the lives of the fallen men on the two memorials, 89 in total, who served in WW1. To make them become more than just a name etched on the memorials. Hopefully you have found the stories interesting and the men have now become real people to everyone who has followed the page. The research has been in turn interesting, sad, thought provoking but ultimately I feel immense pride for what these men did. Ordinary working men who answered the call when the country needed their help.
Unfortunately there are five men I cannot trace. I can find the names but not sufficient enough evidence to connect them with Whittington.
They are:
Norman Dennison
Charles Fearn
William Fisher
John Short
George Sims

I have found a Wilfred Fisher from Johnson Street who won the Military Medal and died on 21.3.18. This may be the correct man and I will post his story on the webpage anyway.

If anyone has any information on these missing men or is descended from them then please get in touch.

All information on the sources used can be found at
https://oldwhittingtonops.com/source-information/

In future I will be updating the page with other information on different aspects of Whittington lives from the past and hope that you will continue to find the information interesting.

FREDERICK MITCHELL

I have just finished researching Fred Mitchell who died 30th May 1918 after serving from the start of the war in 1914.

Fred served with the Royal Engineers Waterways and Railways Troops.  I have to admit I had never heard of these troops before.  It was hard to pin point where in France Fred was serving but he would certainly have been involved in some heavy fighting.