Does anyone have a map of Pleasley/Pleasley Hill circa 1800s or a knowledge of the geography of the area. I have a long line of HUMPHREYs and DUTTONs and some BULLASs from these places. I am specifically looking for the whereabouts of Market Square and Cock Street. My great Grandfather, Henry HUMPHREY, owned a grocers/bakers shop in Pleasley Hill until some time between 1892 and 1898 when he sold out and moved to Derby. I have recently found a newspaper report advertising the sale of his shop in Market Square. In the 1891 census, however, the shop is recorded as in Cock Street. Another great grandfather of mine Thomas DUTTON and later his son Spencer DUTTON were sub-postmasters there. I remember occasionally visiting the home of Spencer and his wife on Chesterfield Road (which was also the Post office at that time) when I was a child in the late 1940s. Spencer died in 1946 and we continued to frequently visit my great aunt who occupied the same house (although the post office was removed with the death of her husband) until her death in 1964. More recently in the 1990s during a holiday in the UK, I spent an hour or so in the vicinity of the old house in Chesterfield Road . At that stage I was unaware of the references I have since found to the location of my Great grandfather HUMPHREY’s shop and so I did not investigate that matter whilst I was there. The point to all this history is that I have some recollection of at least the immediate geography of the area around the home on Chesterfield Road but I have no idea about the location of the HUMPHREY shop. Furthermore, I have an old photograph of my HUMPHREY great grandparents standing in the doorway of their shop which is on a street corner. My great grandfather Henry HUMPHREY died in 1898 and he looks quite old in the photo so I suspect it would have been taken in the 1890s. The photo looks as though it was taken from across the other side of the street, so quite a bit of the adjacent properties are visible. I can’t really relate the photo to my memory of Pleasley Hill in the 1940s so I’m wondering whether someone perhaps of my vintage and/or with a better knowledge of the area might recognise the street from the photo. I would be happy to forward the photo to anyone who thinks they might be able to help. Martyn Peart Queensland, Australia

Martyn, Can't help with the location or map.You might Google Old Maps. But one of the things I've done is to use the 1881 census on old Family Search and use the previous or next household buttons to work out the nearest cross streets. It probably works much the same on Ancestry using the next image option. Peter