Portal:Derbyshire/Fascinating Fact/14


 * ... that Joseph Wright of Derby's painting, The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus (detail pictured), was only sold after his death, when all of his possessions were auctioned at Christie's?
 * ... that the fashion designer Vivienne Westwood was born in Tintwistle in 1941?
 * ... that in 1855 three passengers, believing they had arrived at their destination, fell to their deaths when they stepped from a train that had halted on Dinting Viaduct?
 * ... that Joan Waste, blind since birth, was burnt to death in 1556 for being a Protestant in Derby during the reign of Bloody Mary?
 * ... that Stenson is home to the Stenson bubble?