The Derby Remembers Digital Trail app is part of a season of cultural events and activities to commemorate the First World War. It is timed to coincide with Poppies: Weeping Window at The Silk Mill Museum.
There are eleven ‘stops’ on the Trail, most of which are sited within the Cathedral Quarter in Derby city-centre, starting at The Silk Mill Museum, although two ‘stops’ – the Midland Railway Memorial close to Derby train station, and Royal Crown Derby on Osmaston Road – are slightly further afield. The first nine stops based in the Cathedral Quarter will take approximately 30 minutes to walk (with time at each stop in addition to that). The walk to the Midland Railway Memorial, from The Silk Mill, will take approximately 15 minutes, and the walk to Royal Crown Derby approximately 20 minutes.
The Derby Remembers Digital Trail draws on just a small selection of the many stories, relating to the city and its inhabitants, that occurred during the war.
The app is designed to place those who use it at the physical site of a monument or place of interest, or the site where a specific event actually took place.
The stories selected are also intended to give a wide overview of a range of viewpoints and events relating to the war, including how businesses were effected, how a sporting hero became a POW, the story of a future mayor of the city turned spycatcher, the anti-war-activist allegedly framed in a plot to poison the Prime Minister, and – of course – the many tragic, poignant and uplifting stories of the men who served in the military and made the ultimate sacrifice, and how that sacrifice affected their families back home in Derby.
Please note this app requires a GPS enabled device.