Enjoy some full colour painstaking restorations of Drakelowe Hall of images taken around 1900 1910 Burton Leander Rowing Club assembled at Drakelowe Hall.
Rowing Burton Leander Rowing Club was established in 1847 with a clubhouse on the river bank near the corn mill in Winshill making it one…
EARLY HISTORY OF DRAKELOWE Drakelowe is first recorded as Dracan Hlawe in a grant of land made by King Edward in 942 A.D. The place-name…
DRAKELOW IN THE 17th & 18th CENTURIESSir Thomas was succeeded by his son, George, who continued in high favour with James I and was included…
The Picture Palace was a 900-seat cinema that opened on November 17, 1920, at the junction of Dallow Street and Horninglow Road, the Derby Turn…
Orton & Spooner was a famous British engineering and fairground manufacturing company based in Burton upon Trent that operated from 1875 until 1977. The company…
The Electric Theatre, generally known as simply ‘The Electric’, in High Street, was purpose-built on the site of the Empire Tea Store with its 750…
The Picturedrome opened in 1913. It was situated in Curzon Street, adjacent to the Railway Station. Like other cinemas to follow, the cinema was established…
The Ritz Cinema was built in 1935. It was, commissioned by Orton & Spooner, a company based in Burton which earlier in the century had made…
The Leet Hall was a medieval building in the market place of Burton-on-Trent, built between 1473 and 1493 by Abbot Thomas Feld primarily as a…