Memory Lane Burton and South Derbyshire Humour Roger Osbourne and Mick Mills

Roger Osbourne and Mick Mills

Then came the dream of European glory

From busy coaching houses to sleepy village taverns

and a Dog" provides an antidote to the huge amounts of 'misery' literature inflicted upon us in its depiction of a happy childhood in Blackburn

gender and race

Memory Lane Burton and South Derbyshire Humour Roger Osbourne and Mick MillsIn the last years of the 20th Century Burton and South Derbyshire changed almost beyond recognition. There was hardly a street or road that has not been altered in some way or other. This is a record of that change. Long gone are the days when Burton was bedevilled by trains crossing and re crossing its roads, and the coal mines with which many outsiders still associate South Derbyshire are also now just part of the past. In fact the only memories of