Pictures of the Past of Grindleford, Derbyshire - Padley Mill
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Old Postcard of Padley Mill, Grindleford

Grindleford, Padley Mill


This postcard has been artificially tinted, in a way which was common before colour photography. It's debatable whether it would have been more attractive retained as a sepia image, but I have also provided an alternative view which attempts to duplicate it as it might have appeared originally.

One of the ladies in the foreground is understood to have been Lily BRUNSDON. There is a lady of that name on the 1901 census in Hathersage, aged 8, a visitor at the house of Andrew GREEN. The only other BRUNSDONs in the village were Charles, his wife Juliette, and family. Charles was described as a Labourer on the Railway, and was born in Sapperton, Gloucestershire. Transferring from Sapperton Railway Tunnel, to Totley, I would imagine - another example (like my grandfather) of a tunnel worker travelling to where the next ‘big dig’ was taking place!

(Commentary provided by Rosemary Lockie)

This is one of the postcards in ‘The Reeves Collection’.
In other words, it belonged to my mother.
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