Useful local history web links and resources

While we continue to build this website and add more and more information to it, you may find the following websites and other resources useful for sourcing information about the local history of Spondon and Derby:

Derby Local Studies library has all kinds of information about Derby and Derbyshire. You can check out Derby's past, present and future, look at old newspapers or photographs or trace your family's history.
www.derby.gov.uk/LeisureCulture/Libraries/LocalStudiesLibrary/

Derbyshire Record Office provides the archive service for Derbyshire, Derby City and Diocese of Derby. You can now search online for archive collections held at Derbyshire Record Office using their Record Office Guide.
www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/record_office/

Family History websites recommended by Derby City Libraries
www.lidnet.org/liblinks/linklist.asp?cat=9

Spondon Library holds books of local interest.
www.derby.gov.uk/LeisureCulture/Libraries/Findyourlocallibrary/About_Spondon_Library.htm

Spondon Online - read more about the history of Spondon here
www.spondononline.co.uk/local-history-weblinks.html

Spondon Online's photos of Spondon
www.spondononline.co.uk/photo-gallery/general-views-spondon

Ken Porter's Spondon: a Village Remembered

sites.google.com/site/denkporter2/spondon,avillageremembered/

Spondon Church Boys' Club

www.spondonchurchboysclub.com/

Domesday Book Extract for Spondon

http://www.domesdayextracts.co.uk/?de_affsrc=Domesdaybookcouk

Genuki entry for Spondon

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Spondon/index.html

National Archives for Spondon

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7581952

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7581875

Genealogical resources from Rootsweb