Description: The former toll house (sometimes called The Lodge) at Kilburn Toll Bar looking north. This hexagonal cottage with its Gothic detailing stood on the north-west side of Derby Road (later the A61 and subsequently the B6179) at the crossroads with Rawson Green (Belper Road) and Bywell Lane (both later the A609). The road to Belper can be detected going off to the left immediately beyond the house with Derby Road - flanked by enormous GPO telegraph poles - continuing out of the picture towards Denby, Marehay and Ripley. The Douglas motorcycle parked against the kerb belongs to the photographer.
The road from Derby to Higham via Little Eaton, Kilburn, Ripley, Swanwick and Alfreton was turnpiked in 1802, effectively replacing an earlier and rather more hilly route that ran to the west through Duffield, Openwoodgate, Heage, Buckland Hollow and Oakerthorpe. It was disturnpiked in 1875 but the Kilburn toll house, which presumably dated from 1802, survived until the 1930s when it was demolished for road widening at what had by then become a busy road junction.
Derby-based postcard publisher F W Scarratt took this photo and allocated it the number 567 in his series. See DCAV001058 and DCHQ502586 for the published version of this view.