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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Tibshelf, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.315-316 |
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| TIBSHELF is a parish, 4½ miles north-north-east from Alfreton, about l½ from Doe Hill
station on the Erewash Valley branch of the Midland railway,
half a mile from Tibshelf and Newton station on the Teversal branch
of the same line, 7 south-south-east from Chesterfield and 142 by
road and 139 by railway from London, in the Mid division of the county,
Scarsdale hundred, Mansfield union, Alfreton petty sessional division
and county court district, rural deanery of Alfreton, archdeaconry
of Derby and diocese of Southwell. Doe Hill station, on the Midland
railway, is in this parish. The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire
Railway Co. are (1891) making a line through the centre of the parish,
with a station, so as to perfect their communication between Sheffield
and Nottingham, and afterwards with London. The National Telephone
Company have carried their wires through the parish, thus connecting
it with Mansfield, Alfreton, Nottingham and all neighbouring towns.
The church of St. Peter is a building of stone, consisting of chancel,
nave of three bays, north aisle and an embattled western tower with
pinnacles and containing a clock and 5 bells, one being of early date
and the rest dating from 1848-68 : the tower is a Perpendicular work
of the 4th century:
within the communion rails, on a flagstone, is a brass inscription
to John Twentiman, vicar, ob. 1688, and there is a muraI monument
to Ann Clark (1699), and another to Thomas Hand (1726) : the chancel
was repaired in 1693 and the greater part of the church rebuilt in
1729 ; in 1887 the tower and nave were again rebuilt and the aisle
enlarged under the direction of Messrs. Bodley and Garner, architects,
of London, and there are now over 300 sittings : the churchyard has
been enlarged by an acre of land given by St. Thomas' Hospital, London,
and consecrated in 1878 by the Bishop of Lichfield. The registers
date from the year 1627. The Iiving is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £145, with residence and 40 acres of glebe, in the gift of the trustees of the late Mrs. Packman, of Tupton Hall, and held since 1880 by the Rev. Frederic Charles Long. There is a Colliery Club, with reading, library, billiard and smoking rooms, and a good cricket ground attached. There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist and Free Methodist chapels here. There are no charities proper to Tibshelf, but the parish participates in two, viz. : one left in 1818 by the Rev. Francis Gisborne, rector of Staveley, for clothing, the amount for Tibshelf being £7 5s. ; and another left by Mrs. Lydia Brocksepp of Chesterfield, the share amounting to £2 12s. 6d. for distribution. There is an extensive colliery in the parish, worked by the Babbington Coal Company, which gives employment to many hands. The governors of St. Thomas' Hospital. London, who are lords of the manor, and the Marquess of Hartington are the principal landowners. The soil is loamy and clay ; subsoil, chiefly clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, turnips and pasture. The area is 2,371 acres; rateable value, £11,509 ; the population in 1871 was 1,400, and in 1881, 2,243. Sexton, George Ringrose. POST & M. O. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- Francis Croft, postmaster. Letters arrive from Alfreton at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. The telegraph office is at Tibshelf & Newton station WALL LETTER BOXES :- st. Thomas' row, cleared at 4.55 p.m. : Lane End, cleared at 5.15 p.m. ; sunday, 10.15 a.m SCHOOLS :- Colliery, built in 1873 & supported by Charles Seeley esq. of Sherwood lodge, Arnold, Notts, for 150 boys, 150 girls & 150 infants; average attendance, 119 boys, 110 girls & 100 infants; Joseph Martin, master; Miss Hannah Bennett, girls' mistress; Miss Elizabeth Bennett, infants' mist National (mixed), erected about 1820, for 100 boys & girls & 60 infants ; average attendance, 110 boys & girls & 40 infants, chiefly supported by the governors of St. Thomas' Hospital, London; William Woodhouse Martin, master ; Mrs. Esther Jane Martin, mistress There are two Church and three Dissenting sunday schools, numbering altogether about 500 children Tibshelf & Newton Station, on the Teversal branch of the Midland railway, is half a mile distant; Edwin Morris, station master Doe Hill Station is I½ miles distant ; William George Saxton, station master. Morrell's omnibus meets most trains & conveys visitors to Hardwick Hall, 4 miles distant CARRIER.-John Thorpe, to Mansfield on thurs. & Chesterfield on sat Chambers Mrs. The Hurst Dutton George William, Heathfield Idg Long Rev. Frederic Charles, Vicarage Morgan Charles Rennie, Hurst lodge Sampson John Stephen, The Cedars Stamford William Ackrill, Heathfield Storer Richard Milward, Nethermoor ho Wardell Stuart Crawford, Doe Hill ho COMMERCIAL. Allen Lydia (Mrs.), butcher Alvey James, collector of taxes Alvey Samuel, ironmonger & blacksmth Ashmore Samuel, farmer Babbington Coal Co. (Stuart Crawford Wardell, general manager & mining engineer), Tibshelf collieries Bamford Edmund, farmer Bennett John, saddler Bettison William, shopkeeper Bingham George, grocer Brailsford John James, grocer Bryan John, farmer Clark Vincent, farmer Clay Samson, butcher Coates Joseph, grocer & beer retailer Coupe Edward, boot & shoe maker CROFT FRANCIS, farmer, dairyman &c. Post office Dore John, Wheatsheaf P.H. & seedsman & florist Draycott Henry, baker Dutton Geo. Wm. surgeon, Heathfield Idg Ferguson Sarah (Mrs.), beer retailer Freeman George, farmer Goodall Richard, farmer Goulden Thomas, draper Greaves Abraham, wholesale & retail druggist, grocery & provision stores, & dealer in british wines (Francis Croft, manager) Hall Edward, farmer Hallam James, butcher Harker George Byron, Crown P.H Haslam John, whitesmith Hill Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, The Farm Hubbard George, draper & grocer Jackson Henry, miller (steam) & farmer Kemp Charles, blacksmith Martin Jsph. master of Colliery school Merry John, draper Morgan Charles Rennie, colliery manager of Diminsdale Colliery Go. Hurst lodge Morrell Matthew, collector & surveyor of highways Morrell Matthew, jun. omnibus proprietor & farmer Partlow Joseph, White Hart P.H Pemberton Luke, bailiff to Charles Seely jun. esq. J.P. Doe Hill farm Raynes Thomas, farmer, Marl Pit's frm Redfern Richard, shoe maker & farmer Richards George, joiner Robinson Samuel, farmer Sampson George, butcher & farmer Sampson John Stephen, farmer & landowner, The Cedars Smith Charles, boot & shoe maker Smith Chas. Gregory, farmer, Biggin frm Smith Jacob, farmer, Marl Pits Smith John, builder & farmer Spencer Hannah (Mrs.), manageress of Colliery club Stamford William Ackrill, surgeon, & medical officer & public vaccinator, No.6 district, Mansfield union Storer Richard Milward, farmer & landowner, Nethermoor house Stringfellow James, farmer Thorpe John, carrier & farmer Tibshelf Colliery Club (Mrs. Hannah Spencer, stewardess) Tomlinson Andrew, grocer& beer retlr Truswell Walter, printer & draper Ward John, farmer Ward William, grocer & shoe maker Wardell Stuart Crawford, general manager & mining engineer to Babbington Coal Co Wass Charles, shopkeeper Wetton Edmund, farmer Wetton John, farmer, Banks farm White Samuel, cowkeeper Wood William, boot & shoe dealer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation are as they appear in the Directory.]
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