148 JOTTINGS ABOUT OLD DERBY. 
S. Alkmund’s Well. There was also a spring, discharging from 
an iron lion’s mouth, at the bottom of Bradshaw Street. 
The old Grammar School still exists in S. Peter’s Church- 
yard. I cannot help thinking that it was originally built on a 
part of the churchyard, because, after the death of the Rev. J. 
Bligh, when the Corporation caused some repairs to be made to 
the flooring, many skeletons were discovered—feet to the east ; 
and still more recently, when the present owners, the Liversage 
Charity Trustees, were laying down a new wooden floor, several 
skeletons were found under a plaster floor lower down; one or 
more were in an upright position, with what appeared to be quick- 
lime spread around them; and very many bones, which I saw 
myself. What forms now the School Play-ground is, un- 
doubtedly, part of the old churchyard. JI remember very well, 
after the death of Mr. Bligh, the ground being taken in. It was 
an irregular transfer made between the parishioners of S. Peter’s 
and the Corporation of Derby for some buildings on Liversage 
property in S. Peter’s Churchyard, but there was no faculty 
obtained. When I first knew the School, a narrow passage was 
railed off on both sides leading from S. Peter’s Churchyard to the 
School-room. When the exchange was made, the churchyard 
~ now forming the play-ground was taken in, and buildings erected 
upon it, to do which bodies were removed; one body I 
particularly remember being removed, and also a grave being 
opened and a body discovered, which still rests there, and a 
head-stone still marks the spot. Before and since I have been 
vicar, several interments have taken place in this part. In fact, 
the Faculty Plan of what is called the New Ground shows it 
completely. 
The upper rooms, I have heard my father say, were occupied 
by the under master or masters. 
It is a curious fact, that for three years I was the only scholar 
of the Derby Grammar School, and the Rev. James Bligh the 
one master! The present condition of the School is happily 
different. 
I remember the old Town Hall, which stood nearly in the 
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