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Nowadays it is hard to imagine that Dronfield ever had any connection with the Derbyshire Lead Industry. It comes as a surprise to most people to hear that the oldest houses in the town and surrounding countryside were built through the profits of this trade.- Chapter One - The Derbyshire Lead Trade
- Chapter Two - The Burtons of Cartledge, Holmesfield and Dronfield
- Chapter Three - The Emergence of the Rotherhams of Dronfield
- Chapter Four - Dronfield Hall
- Chapter Five - John Rotherham II, The Entrepreneur
- Chapter Six - The End of an Era
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Issue 38 of Miscellany is available now! Usually published bi-annually, this issue is a special Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter 2021 edition priced at £3.50. Included inside are some of the following features:- The Old Dronfield Society Archive is on the Move! - Ann Brown & Research Group Members
- The Story of Church Crossing - John Harvey
- Colliers, Mines and Merchants around Dronfield - Robert Gratton
- A Notable Dronfeldian
- Cinder Lands - Ironstone Mining and Forging around Oxclose Lane - James Cartwright
- A Shocking ' Murder' in Coal Aston - Part 1 - Nick Wheat
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Issue 37 of Miscellany is available now! Usually published bi-annually, this issue is a special Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter 2020 edition priced at £3.50. Included inside are some of the following features:- The 'Unknown' Gosforth Collieries - James Cartwright
- Dronfield's Working River or the Valley of the River Drone - Ann Brown
- 150 years of Dronfield Station - The Past, The Present, and The Future - Judith Vernier
- St James' Retail Park - Jean Kendal
- What a Coincidence or a Mystery Solved! - Jean Kendal and Judith Vernier
- Oh Mr Poplar, what did you do? - Judith Vernier
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Issue No: 33 Article Page No.- 33.1 Editorial
- 33.2 Memories of a Fleeting 60s Dronfield Childhood by Roger Bradgate
- 33.3 How Green was My Valley – Gosforth Valley before the Estate by Ann Brown
- 33.4 Memories of Gosforth Colliery by James Cartwright
- 33.5 A Glimpse of a Dronfield Boyhood around 1920 by Jean Kendal
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Issue No: 32 Article Page No.- 32.1 Editorial
- 32.2 Obituary, Stanley Jones by Ann Brown
- 32.3 The Chatsworth Park Coal Pits by James Cartwright
- 32.4 Water-powered mills in Dronfield by Ann Brown
- 32.5 Cholera epidemic by Ann Brown
- 32.6 Dronfield’s Autumn Crocuses – A Mystery by Peter Shelton
- 32.7 Lady Alice Deincourt by Maureen Taylor
- 32.8 Dronfield’s Wooden Bridge by Judith Vernier
- 32.9 The Cinema in Wartime by Alan Littler
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Issue No: 31 Article Page No.- 31.1 Editorial
- 31.2 B.R. Hubbard (Printers) Ltd. by R.. Hubbard/J.A. Vernier
- 31.3 Dronfield Water Supply by John Harvey
- 31.4 The Hidden Coal Pit of Sindelfingen Park by James Cartwright
- 31.5 If only I had listened more... by Robert Gratton
- 31.6 Callywhite Lane through Dorothy’s Eyes by Dorothy Cooke/Jean Kendal
- 31.7 Reader’s Page by Keith Ward
- 31.8 Reviews: by Ann Brown
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Issue No: 30 Spring/Summer Society Activities Spring/Summer Article Page No.- 30.1 Editorial
- 30.2 Obituary – Professor David Hey
- 30.3 Dronfield’s Forgotten Coal Pits and Coke Ovens by James Cartwright
- 30.4 Dronfield Town Hall by John Harvey
- 30.5 The Diary of Doris Hall 1913-16: Part II Ann Brown
- 30.6 Mickley Colliery by Robert Gratton
- 30.7 Totley Orphanage by Judith Vernier
- 30.8 Coke Oven Dwelling
