Images include Deborah Cavendish feeding the chickens at Chatsworth House and Alice Boardman – the only passenger using Great Longstone railway station in 1962.
Not for the squeamish are photos of British circus performer Eddie Sinclair performing his act of endurance which included a masked woman hammering a six-inch nail into his tongue!
And did you know why one of the biggest rock bands in the world visited Derbyshire in the summer of 1968?
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9. Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, portrait at Swarkestone Pavlion, Derbyshire, 1968. Swarkestone locals were bemused and excited to discover the Rolling Stones in the local pub. The band had been driven up from London in limos to shoot the cover of their seventh album, Beggars Banquet. (Photo by Mark and Colleen Hayward/Getty Images) Photo: Mark and Colleen Hayward
10. Matlock
Matlock, circa 1955. (Photo by Brindley/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Photo: Fox Photos
11. Great Longstone railway station
Alice Boardman waiting for her train at Great Longstone railway station, September 1962. She was the only passenger using the station which closed in 1962. One train a day in each direction continued to stop to allow local resident Mrs Boardman, a hospital sister, to travel to work in Buxton. Mrs Boardman had her own key to the booking office and every night she telephoned the station master at Derby so that he could make arrangements for the train to stop. (Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Photo: Chris Ware
12. Cleaning staff
The cleaning staff of Chatsworth House in the 1990s. (Photo by Christopher Simon Sykes/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Photo: Christopher Simon Sykes