This website is intended as an expression of the love and pride we have for our city. Some of the images which it contains (for example Aeric Kane's evocative photographs)  are subject to copyright restrictions - please respect the ownership rights of our contributors and don't use their work without seeking permission.

The historical images you'll find here have all been filtered, clarified and enhanced with the latest digital imaging technology. If you have visited the official archives and other Derby-themed sites, the chances are that you'll remember the most famous pictures as dark, soiled, indistinct, age-spotted or torn museum pieces. We have done our best to return these photographs to the way they would have looked when first created...or to improve them using techniques which weren't available to photographers before the days of computer-aided graphics. This approach will inevitably offend purists - but we believe that many more people will share our desire to clearly see details which have been hidden by the ravages of time or the limitations of early photographic processes. We aimed to give faces to our dead ancestors; to lift shadows which obscured buildings and street signs; to focus on aspects of Victorian and early 20th Century life which were previously cloaked in the murk of grime and under-exposure.

As Derby Photos expands and develops, we want to give our visitors opportunities to share their family photographs and personal memories. If you have stories to tell, pictures to show or corrections for our texts, please use the e-mail link below to get in touch with us.