Local studies at Sandiacre Library

At Sandiacre Library the local collection includes books about the neighbouring parts of Nottinghamshire as well as Derbyshire.

Resources available at Sandiacre include:

• local books including a few theses and other unpublished works on the local area, for example D A Gore's History of Sandiacre in the 19th century and D Fielding's Geographical study of the parish of Sandiacre
• electoral registers for the town from 1976 to 1998
• a map collection giving coverage of the town and 2 to 3 miles around, with OS mapping at most dates and scales from 1880 to the 1980s - a guide to the collection is available
• around 400 photographs of Sandiacre and area
• a news cuttings file taken from a range of local papers recording local events from 1973 to the present
• a set of census returns for the immediate area
• microfilmed copies of the Ilkeston Pioneer from 1853 to 1950