The BBC's recent documentary "When Coal was King" includes footage of a play being performed at the Civic during the 1950s. Apart from the obvious paint job, nothing has changed!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03gtg7g/Timeshift_Series_13_When_Coal_Was_King/

Mods - please move if it shouldn't be in here.

I am trying to trace the indirect family of Frank Harrison, tobacconist, who died in Chesterfield in 1920. He had two daughters: Mary Jane, who married a solicitor named George Thomas Short, and Mabel Florence, who married an architect & surveyor named Charles Herbert Wagstaff.

Short died in Sheffield in 1927 and may have had some connection with the family that had the shot-firing business on Sheffield Road.
Wagstaff died in Chesterfield in 1967.

My interest? I once saw an article in a well-old Derbyshire Times that said that Frank Harrison had been associated with the Chesterfield FC for a long time and had kept meticulous records of the club's history. I would very much like to know if such things still existed! Short was also, I think, the last financial secretary of  The Chesterfield Town FC, and the solicitor who presided over the voluntary liquidation of that club in 1915, and I want to find out if any records of that club - minute books, and the like - still exist.

Any remaining family will only be distant relatives, and not blood-related to Frank, since I believe both his daughters married so late as to die without issue (or at least, without any that I've found.) It's a long shot, but long shots often win "Goal of the Season!"

Cheers

Stuart

Have to say they're making a terrific job of the railings around the church in town. I'm impressed with their robustness and I'm certain they'll be especially resisitant to drunken men and women shagging against them when the nightime economy gets going. Good work!

Shouldn't be in "fun stuff" given the subject matter, but god bless the DT:

http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/local/perverts-who-paid-girls-for-sex-are-jailed-1-4975684?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Perhaps a mod might delete when they change the picture?

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/Mayor-Louth-s-sausage-costume-greet-Olympic-Torch/story-16471319-detail/story.html

In an age when many football clubs whack up prices and bleat about poverty, I had to do a bit of a double-take at this, as reported on the BBC:

Plans to reintroduce artificial pitches in English football will be discussed at the Football League's annual general meeting in Portugal this week.

Portugal? 

From Danny Baker  (‏@prodnose on Twitter)

Tradition. Go polling station. Enter booth. Pull curtain. Remove trousers. Wait 10 seconds. Then lean out & say "Do you have these in a 36?"