Formed in 1983 to record and promote interest in the history of the Derbyshire village of Sawley

Sawley Photograph & Image Gallery


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A Bartons bus crosses the Harrington Bridge in the 1930s


Tom Rossling driving cattle over Harrington Bridge


Solitary figure crosses the road outside the Nag's Head and the Manor House


East End


A thatched house in Back Street


The Earl of Harrington's Hounds pass Pimm's Pitt


Trent Lock


Horse ferry across the River Trent to the River Soar


The village pump and Front Street


A Church of England Sunday School procession in 1906


Cross Street around 1920


Sawley Church of England School around 1950


The ladies of the Sawley stirrup pump corps are ready to deal with any Luftwaffe incendiary bombs in WWII