Stonebroom
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Stonebroom | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | ALFRETON | |
Postcode district | DE55 | |
Dialling code | 01773 | |
Police | Derbyshire | |
Fire | Derbyshire | |
Ambulance | East Midlands | |
UK Parliament | ||
Stonebroom is a village in the district of North East Derbyshire in Derbyshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Shirland and Higham.
Stonebroom lies to the east of the
In the mid-19th century, houses were built for colliery workers and were called 'the blocks'. These were blocks of eight terraced houses with 160 dwellings. They were condemned before 1939 but still there in 1947 and described by the Derbyshire Times as "The Black Hole of Derbyshire". In 1950 they were demolished but the area of wasteland was known as The Blocks by the locals. From the 1970s new housing and industrial estates were built on the land. Meanwhile, a massive housing estate had already been established in the "upper" area of Stonebroom.
The village is linear and was formed from two hamlets; early maps show them as Upper Stone and Lower Stone. The school playing field was once the site of a quarry, and is still called Quarry Lane. It is probable that the name Stonebroom was derived from this quarry which provided stone; it is said that the field behind the quarry was full of broom, which gave one possible explanation for the unusual village name. Another report states that the Roman Stan Brom means quarry.
Notable people
- footballer with Derby County and Blackpool
- Bill Copson – former cricketer who played for Derbyshire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team
- Joe Humphries – former cricketer who played for Derbyshire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team
See also
References
External links
Media related to Stonebroom at Wikimedia Commons
British Library Archive of the Stonebroom accent. Horace Brian, a retired miner, talks about coal mining. He mentions water and gas problems and methods of supporting the mineshafts and setting charges. Recorded in 1956