Brick for a Day: Derby - Railways, Chapels, and Buildings for Entertainment

摘要

On Saturday 16 July 2016, approximately twenty-five members and guests assembled outside the entrance to the modern railway station at Derby, a less than ideal replacement for the historic stations which preceded it. The focus of the visit was to examine brick buildings constructed for railways, nonconformist chapels, and a variety of buildings erected as centres of entertainment. Derby was the headquarters of the Midland Railway, an amalgamation in 1842 of three lines: North Midland Railway connecting Derby with Sheffield and Leeds, the Midland Counties Railway which had lines to Nottingham and through Leicester to Rugby with running powers into London Euston, and the Derby Junction and Birmingham Railway which went on to Gloucester. Around the station are a group of brick buildings connected with the Midland Railway: housing for its workers, the Midland Hotel, the Roundhouse (on the other side of the tracks), office buildings, and, not brick, the company's memorial to those of its employees who died in the Great War.