Comments on: The Slums of Derby https://geneageek.com/the-slums-of-derby/ Genealogy, genealogy, genealogy. Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:06:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Dave Downing https://geneageek.com/the-slums-of-derby/#comment-8115 Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:06:47 +0000 http://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=857#comment-8115 In reply to Judith Hassall.

I though the Brooks run the Nap, I remember Mrs Brooks.

]]> By: Dave Downing https://geneageek.com/the-slums-of-derby/#comment-8114 Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:46:53 +0000 http://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=857#comment-8114 In reply to Ann Robinson.

There was another Upton on Parker St, small builder near I think Fred Ansel a paper shop.

]]> By: Dave Downing https://geneageek.com/the-slums-of-derby/#comment-8113 Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:35:57 +0000 http://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=857#comment-8113 In reply to Deborah Pointon.

I remember I think he was Polish guy had identical triplets lived in the top section of Quarn St, on the right.

]]> By: Dave Downing https://geneageek.com/the-slums-of-derby/#comment-8112 Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:30:13 +0000 http://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=857#comment-8112 In reply to Allan Storer.

Hi Al,

Did you know the Rides lived on the same side of the Street a bit lower than the Quarn pub, John, Billy, Ray, and David

]]> By: Dave Downing https://geneageek.com/the-slums-of-derby/#comment-8110 Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:29:28 +0000 http://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=857#comment-8110 In reply to Al Storer.

Hi Al,

Did you know the Rides lived on the same side of the Street a bit lower than the Quarn pub, John, Billy, Ray, and David

]]> By: Dave Downing https://geneageek.com/the-slums-of-derby/#comment-8109 Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:22:31 +0000 http://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=857#comment-8109 In reply to geneageek.

I know Norman, I went to school with his younger brother Roy, it wasn’t a difficult place to live it was great, I lived somewhere near the middle of Parker St, 119, the people of the West End knew me as Dave Downing but I had a double barrel name I never used.

]]> By: Anonymous https://geneageek.com/the-slums-of-derby/#comment-8108 Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:50:39 +0000 http://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=857#comment-8108 In reply to geneageek.

My Irish ancestors the Donovans lived in Goodwin Street in the 1860s and Walker Street

]]> By: Judith Hassall https://geneageek.com/the-slums-of-derby/#comment-6769 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:15:02 +0000 http://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=857#comment-6769 Hi, does anyone remember the Brooks family? My father was Reginald brooks my mother Maureen Brown ? Apparently my grandfather was a Brewer on the brooks side, my grandfather Brown was a painter decorator who died shortly after the second war, heavily involved with st Mary’s church any information would be amazing.

]]> By: Judith Hassall https://geneageek.com/the-slums-of-derby/#comment-6768 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:45:47 +0000 http://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=857#comment-6768 In reply to David Roberts-Downing.

Hi, Do you remember the Brooks family ? I believe my grandfather brewed beer there?

]]> By: Anonymous https://geneageek.com/the-slums-of-derby/#comment-6417 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:04:33 +0000 http://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=857#comment-6417 In reply to Anonymous.

I had Tyrell and Cockayne relatives on Goodwin St and Willow Row. One was a soldier and the others brickmaker. I’m not surprised it was rough but they must have been decent people as they married and brought up many children together.

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