This blog, regrettably our first for sometime, looks at the role George Stephenson’s Lockoford Colliery had in promoting an important safety invention – the steam pressure gauge. Strange coincidence It’s strange on how different pieces of information can sometimes come together under the most diverse of coincidences. This particular ‘discovery’ occurred when I attended anContinue reading “Lockoford Colliery’s role in the invention of the steam gauge”
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What is the future for Tapton House?
You may have seen our blog about the jointly produced (and free) publication focussing on George Stephenson in Chesterfield (if not see below). But, in this blog, we focus on the present and future of his former residence at Tapton House. So, what is currently happening? In 2018 Chesterfield College, who had at one timeContinue reading “What is the future for Tapton House?”
A missing tribute to George Stephenson
Our friends at the Derbyshire Victoria County History Trust (VCH – of whom we are members) have recently been looking at Violet Markham’s somewhat controversial views on her town. Violet was born at Brimington Hall and for many years lived at Tapton House. You can find out more about her here and read the VCHContinue reading “A missing tribute to George Stephenson”
Brimington and Tapton Local History Group 