This site is devoted to historic images of Winster, Derbyshire, England, and some of the people who have lived there. I hope you enjoy it.

 

The site celebrated its 9th birthday on 1st June 2017. I have been amazed and humbled at the interest shown by thousands of visitors to the site. One single image taken in 1947 had attracted 8946 hits by 6 July 2014 when the Flickr statistics were easier for me to understand than they are now in June 2017. If I identify the image here you'll probably want to have a look at it so I'll resist making it easy for you and leave you to have fun finding it if you are interested. It may have had more hits since 2014 . November 2009 was a record month for visitors - there were 2690 and in March 2013 there were 2678. You may have arrived here having seen me on Facebook or on Twitter as MickGreatorex. Please keep coming back to enjoy the site and to see if there is anything new and please tell other people about it.

 

The site is under continual review as the content grows. The rate of adding to the site has slowed down of late because of the other interests which I have but I'm always keen to add to it which is where you might be able to help me.

 

There are bound to be some errors of fact and identification: if you spot one (or more) please let me know and I'll correct them.

 

Indeed, if you have any images which you would like to see on this site then send me a jpeg scan with as much information about the images that you can muster and I'll be grateful to you.

 

I was born in Winster and, although I have not lived there for over 52 years I still regard it as "home."

 

If you are interested in Winster's local and family history then you should also look at these sites too:-

 

winster-ancestry.blogspot.com/ (maintained by Dawn Scotting)

 

Dawn has generously published some of my "Winster work" on her site viz

 

1. a 1977 partial Survey of the Memorial Inscriptions in Winster Churchyard. Click on this link to see it.

www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Winster/MIs.html

 

2. a review of membership records of the Winster Odd Fellows. Click on this link to see it.

winster-ancestry.blogspot.com/2009/05/oddfellows-members....

 

3. Indices of Winster Parish Magazines. These deal with the years 1888-1962 (but not a complete run) and are divided into births, burials, marriages, military and miscellaneous. The indices and Magazines are at the Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock.

 

I also acknowledge the generous help (and encouragement) of the following people and others (in alphabetical order) who have kindly provided images and background information with much of the material on this site:

 

The late John Andrews, (my cousin), the late Les Bacon, Joan Barnsley (nee Greatorex my sister), Christine Boswell (Roper), David Bramley, Jane Bradbury, Eric Brassington, Carolyn Brook (Boam), David Brown, Malcolm Byard, Joy Carter (Greatorex), Kath Cassy (Woof), Julia Cawton (Stone), Neil Collick,Roland Corfield, Roger Crowther, Eileen Crowder (Brassington), Rob. Davies, June Else (Hope), Cedric Ellis, Pat Ellis (Mayling), Ros Forster, Janer Gilbert, Chris Gillott, Rob Greatorex, the late Ron Greatorex (my brother), Tony Holmes, Ida Fermor Design, Phillip Jordan, Andrew Kreibich, Chris Laybourn, Brian Long, Rob MacGregor (and his parents), John Marsden, Ken Marshall, Matlock & Peak District Memories (Facebook page), the late Mick Mayling, John Merrill, Ally Nurre (Ware), Dave Nutt, Peak District Mines Historical Society, Peak District National Park Authority, National Trust, Anthea Rawlence, Marion Richardson, Mick Saxton, Judy Scott (Mather), Judith Sellers, John Fuller-Sessions, Sheffield Newspapers Ltd., Robert Shields (Longcliffe Quarry), Joann Shirley, Tommy Shirley, Stewart Simpson, Stephen Slater, Karen Stephens, Ken. Stinson, Mick Stone, Debbie Rea, Michael Siddall, Keith Taylor, Mandi Toplis, Eric Wagstaff, Ann & the late Roy Walters, Steven White, the late Roy Witham, Winster Local History Group, Andy Wood, Linda Woolley, Claire Wright.

 

Updated 24 November 2018