Raymund Dearn

Derbyshire painter Raymund Dearn left quiet records of industry and inns in oil. In 1886 he recorded the brick-and-mortar character of the Old Rising Sun Inn in Derby. Four years later he stood on the Great Northern Railway Bridge and framed the River Derwent’s slow curve under steam-age arches. Look through these two town-and-country scenes to see how late-19th-century Derby looked before the 20th century erased so much of it. Next, step inside “The River Derwent from the Great Northern Railway Bridge, Derby.”