Derby Business Association

Welcome to the Derby Business Association. We are an association made up of local businesses. Our aim is to promote all local companies in the Derby area to help each other grow organically. We provide support to many of our business partners in Derby in many different ways. These includes help and advice on items such as marketing and sales. The types of members in our Derby business association include businesses that have shop fronts as well as online only businesses. We promote good business practice and some of the latest marketing techniques.

History of Derby

Slum clearance in the 1920s and 1930s saw the central area of Derby become less heavily populated as families were rehoused on new council estates in the suburbs, where houses for private sale were also constructed. Rehousing, council house building and private housing developments continued on a large scale for some 30 years after the end of World War II in 1945.

Things to do in Derby

Haddon Hall is an English nation house on the River Wye close to Bakewell, Derbyshire, a previous seat of the Dukes of Rutland. It is presently the home of Lord Edward Manners and his family. In structure a middle age home, it has been depicted as "the most complete and most intriguing place of its period". The birthplaces of the corridor date to the eleventh century. The current middle age and Tudor lobby incorporates options added at different stages between the thirteenth and the seventeenth hundreds of years. The Vernon family gained the Manor of Haddon by a twelfth century marriage between Sir Richard de Vernon and Alice Avenell, girl of William Avenell II. After four centuries, in 1563, Dorothy Vernon, the girl and beneficiary of Sir George Vernon, wedded John Manners, the second child of Thomas Manners, first Earl of Rutland. A legend experienced childhood in the nineteenth century that Dorothy and Manners absconded. The legend has been made into books, performances and different works of fiction. She in any case acquired the Hall, and their grandson, additionally John Manners, acquired the Earldom in 1641 from a removed cousin. His child, another John Manners, was made first Duke of Rutland in 1703.

Member spotlight: Wedding Cars Derby

Wedding Cars Derby has more than 30 years' involvement with providing stunning wedding vehicles. Known in the wedding industry as a truly leader in innovation and service is the wedding car sector. We have developed a superb standing for our reputation when it comes to value for money and quality when it comes to offering wedding cars in Derby.

Wedding Cars Derby

19 St Christopher’s Way

Pride Park,

Derby

DE24 8JY

Tel: 01332 955 557

https://www.weddingcarsderby.com/