Recently, the Derbyshire Toy Libraries charity relocated and now operates from one of our ground floor rooms, with shelving and storage packed full of brightly coloured exciting things! Members pay a membership fee then hire any of the toys or equipment from the online database, including a wide variety of toys, instruments, indoor and outdoor…
Strutts Community Centre was again, one of the main venues for the hugely popular Arts Trail. This year was even more significant in terms of community involvement as a result of the many cancelled and postponed events due to covid. Artists and creative folk took over several rooms in the building with a wide range…
Memories from former pupil Bruce Townsend Places in the south east of England were uncomfortably close to enemy occupied Europe and especially vulnerable to attack by enemy aircraft and later, by unmanned missiles. It was therefore decided that children from these areas should be evacuated to safer areas. Belper was regarded as such a place…