Draycott & Wilne - Part 04 - Both Sides of Derby Road
w/e 04 November 2012
All this week's pictures were taken
with a Kodak DX6490
We ended the previous part back in the village centre
at the end of Hopwell Road and for this fourth part we will turn
right into Derby Road after a brief look at "The City"
and then return to Market Street by a different route.
"The City" is the somewhat ambitious name sometimes
attributed to the village centre where the row of purpose-built
shops on Market Street are worthy of note. The plaque on the
corner of Market Street and The Green depicts Queen Victoria
and shows that the shops date from 1897.
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On a triangular island in front of the shops is a well preserved
cast iron lamp post originally from the same era although the
lanterns are from more recent times.
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1897 also saw the building of the Travellers Rest on Derby Road
which replaced an earlier pub on the same site. Again the additions
of satellite dishes, television aerials and probably even the
blackboards are from more recent times but stripped away, the
building is a fine period example.
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Just after the Travellers Rest is Gertude Road (above) and a
little further along Derby Road is Arthur Street. The two are
linked by Walter Street, the streets on this side of Derby Road
being named after children in the Skerritt family, owners of
an early mill in the village.
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Seen from Gertrude Road, the former mill is on the right hand
side of Walter Street. Burnet's factory now stands on the site
and manufactures hairnets and other hair care products. One of
their claims to fame is that they made the hairnets worn by actress
Violet Carson as Ena Sharples in the early years of the long
running TV soap Coronation Street.
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Between Gertrude Road and Arthur Street and fronting on to Derby
Road is the brightly coloured building we were able to pick out
from the railway bridge on Hopwell Road in the previous part
of this Village Trail. This is now the Little Treasures Daycare
Centre but in recent years was the Conservative Club although
in 1895 it was originally a two storey brick built factory probably
for the lace manufacturers Joseph and Arthur Bryan.
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Whilst the roads on the north side of Derby Road favour Skerritt
family names, those on the southern side are named after American
Presidents Garfield (Avenue) and the one pictured above, Cleveland
Avenue. The three flags flying on the houses on the left though
were staying staunchly British as they were all Union Flags.
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 By following
either Cleveland Avenue or Garfield Avenue and following footpaths
we can once again pick up the route we first followed in Part
3 of the Coffin Walk on Derwent Street and get just a glimpse
over the high wall of Draycott Hall. This is a three storey Regency
and Victorian house that incorporates parts of an earlier building.
At the end of Derwent Street we can renew our acquaintance with
the dual Methodist Chapels (right) that again we first saw on
the Coffin Walk. From here we will eventually follow the road
to Wilne but in the next part we will turn back towards the village
centre along Market Street.
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