We’ve made another of our yearly journals – Brimington and Tapton Miscellany – available to download. Find out what’s in it and how to obtain your free copy in this blog.
What volume is available?
Volume five of our yearly journal was for 2012 and was originally published in January 2013.
What does it contain?
It contains the following articles:
- What more can I say? Memories of Brimington – Sybil Jackson
- Bombs over Brimington and other wartime recollections – Peter Harrison
- What the paper said: The Derbyshire Times reports on the Brimington and Staveley (incendiary) bombs of August 1942– Philip Cousins
- Bombs over Brimington: an official story – Philip Cousins
- A notorious Brimington murder of 1881 – Elizabeth Pemberton
- Updates from previous Miscellany – including Brimington doctors
- Chronicle of local events for 2012 includes extended comments on sale of the former Apostolic Church, Trebor, Chesterfield local plan and Lynn Knight.
(though fairly rough) map produced at the time.
How do I get my copy?
Head to the page here. Scroll down to the heading ‘Free downloads from Brimington and Tapton Miscellany‘ and then head for the sub-heading ‘Brimington and Tapton Miscellany 5’. Click on the download bottom and your copy will start to download as a pdf. Please note that this is a picture heavy edition, of some 59Mb, and may take time to download.
We hope you enjoy this edition which looks in particular at when Brimington was visited by incendiary bombs in August 1942. It also contains the late Peter Harrison’s recollections of the war-time in Brimington alongside those of the late Sybil Jackson.
Editions 1 to 5 of … Miscellany are now available from the same page, plus other downloads on Brimington’s and Tapton’s history.
Brimington and Tapton Local History Group 
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