The interesting pictures capture how people lived, the fashions and the issues that mattered to them.
We have pictures of industrial unrest, men queuing to sign up for the army in 1915, some footballers who wrote their name into Chesterfield FC’s history and village events such as a funfair in Riddings and carnival time in Sandiacre.
There is also Ripley folk celebrating the end of WW1 and travellers going about their day in Derby in 1922.
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Celebrating the end of World War I in Market Place, Ripley. Pictured in the background is the Thorn Tree Public House which is still there now. Houses to the right of the photo have been demolished. The Town Hall is off to the right of the photo. Photo: Heritage Images:d
3. Proctor's Bioscoped bBoer War pictures or Colliery disasters. Some showmen introduced sound effects to create a more realistic atmosphere and employed an effects worker who would work behind the screen. Between 1906-1908 some showmen introduced sound films, with equipment made by Gaumont Chronophone. The travelling cinemas began to go out of fashion with the erection of hundreds of permanent picture houses up and down the country. (Photo by NEMPR Picture the Past/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Proctor's Bioscope, sideshow at Chesterfield Races. The travelling Bioscope showmen visited fairs and events in the period 1890-1914 were the pioneers of the cinematographic world. Photo: Heritage Images:d
4. Sandiacre Carnival
Church Street Primitive Methodist Sunday School at Sandiacre Carnival, Derbyshire, c1910. Photo: Heritage Images